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Top 80s hits: Slow Dance at the Middle School Gym · 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: I am Lindsey and with me today is my own
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  Speaker 1: personal Cupid.
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  Speaker 2: The love of my life. Jim Butler. I mean, now,
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  Speaker 2: why you said you had an opening eye. But I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know you were going to make the audience want
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  Speaker 2: a gag.
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  Speaker 1: That is that's a great opening. I mean, you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: here in a diaper.
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  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to give away my secrets. You look
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  Speaker 2: a little bit like Buddha. You know what what I feel?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit like Buddha.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Happy Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 2: It is Valentine's Day. It is getting very close one
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  Speaker 2: of my pet peeves When people call it Valentine's it's
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  Speaker 2: an inn people, not an.
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  Speaker 1: M So I know that from the perspective of a
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  Speaker 1: elementary school girl on Valentine's Day, that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest days.
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  Speaker 2: Of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm assuming for a boy it was like the
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  Speaker 1: dreaded day of the year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it was necessarily dreaded because I
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  Speaker 2: knew we got to have a party, and there were
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  Speaker 2: girls that I wanted to hand like a Valentine two.
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  Speaker 2: But then there were other ones that I did not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so those were the ones that I would put in,
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  Speaker 2: like the little cards that would say something like hats
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  Speaker 2: off to you.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And you never put love Jim.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, you just put Jim. But the ones
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  Speaker 2: that you thought was cute you'd put in and you'd say,
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  Speaker 2: be mine. You would put that card in there thing
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  Speaker 2: be mine or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So growing up in the eighties, I think, if I
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  Speaker 1: remember correctly, it was not required that you give a
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's card to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was so like.
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  Speaker 1: Now it with Emmy. You have to if you give
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  Speaker 1: a card to one person, you have to give it
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  Speaker 1: to the whole class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, we had so we would have
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  Speaker 2: Valentines Day parties where you would get like the little cards, right,
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  Speaker 2: not a Hallmark card, right, but you would get the
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  Speaker 2: little cards of Snoopy or the Peanuts Gang or whoever
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  Speaker 2: and have like b mine on there, whatever. But you
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  Speaker 2: had to get one for everybody in the class because
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  Speaker 2: it was a Valentine's Day party for the whole class,
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  Speaker 2: so everybody had to get something from everybody else. So
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  Speaker 2: you went to the woos school. No, we went to
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  Speaker 2: the school that treated people like human beings.
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  Speaker 1: In my school, my elementary school, there were rumors that
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  Speaker 1: if you got sent to the principal's office, she would
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  Speaker 1: spank you with the paddle.
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  Speaker 2: Yesa same same with my elementary.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrified of her. But yeah, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: remember it being required. Now I could be wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: I just remember little Lens would always read, probably too
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  Speaker 1: much into the little snoopy card that I got from
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  Speaker 1: my crush each year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no, definitely like over.
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  Speaker 1: Analyze what the card said, how he signed his name.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think I went that far, but
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  Speaker 2: I would be looking to see what she said, because
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  Speaker 2: if she said halts off to me, then my little
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  Speaker 2: heart would be broken. But if she said be mine,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like, yes, I'm jamming. I don't ever remember
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  Speaker 2: getting a b mine called Oh I'm sorry, I mean
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  Speaker 2: that was a little nerdy kids.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you one now, Well, I'll take it. Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: Day was one of my favorite days of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and we got those little cheap heart sugar cookies with
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  Speaker 1: the sprinkles on them, like the red sprinkles, the pink sprinkles.
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  Speaker 1: And then also the teacher would give us the little
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  Speaker 1: chalky heart candies. Yeah, a little had the little message
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  Speaker 1: on them.
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  Speaker 2: They were they were almost like sweet tarts, yes, but
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  Speaker 2: they weren't sweet tarts, and they weren't a heart, and
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  Speaker 2: they weren't tart. They weren't tart. They were a little sweet.
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  Speaker 2: It was chalk. It was chalk, for sure, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: it was. And it had yellow and blue and all
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  Speaker 2: these pastel type colors for Valentine's right as ink.
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  Speaker 1: As a kid, it would be like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what would they say when we were a kid?
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  Speaker 2: Be mine? That's all I remember. That's literally all I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I bought some recently at the dollar store and
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  Speaker 1: it said like you up, question Mark?
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  Speaker 2: You up? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Like are you still question Mark? Like you won't come over?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, I worked so hard on that. Joe who
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  Speaker 1: was the dollars storkynding.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, you're ridiculous, three am I must be lonely.
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  Speaker 1: I refuse to believe that nobody's laughing.
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  Speaker 2: People think you're funny. I bet they're laughing. Okay, I hope. So,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that you're depressed, oh man, because because
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  Speaker 2: today little Emmy leaves for Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Why what I mean, what is wrong with you? Why
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  Speaker 1: would you bring that up when I've got to do
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  Speaker 1: a podcast. My soulmate is going to Paris without you,
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  Speaker 1: without me, and the first time she's flying, obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: first time she's leaving the country. And I am very
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  Speaker 1: good at compartmentalizing things that I don't want to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: So this trip has been planned for like a year,
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  Speaker 1: eight months, nine months. It's been planned for quite a while.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't think about it until about two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and now you're getting yourself all upset.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm not okay, But she's going to be on
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  Speaker 1: a week. I don't know what I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: with myself for a week because she is literally my sidekick.
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  Speaker 2: What am I a roach? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You work a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking Friday off, Okay, Okay, so you're working Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: I'm working Thursday. Okay, you're off Friday. I'm taking Friday
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  Speaker 2: off so you don't have to be alone all day
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  Speaker 2: Sulkan I'm off Saturday off, Sunday. Monday is a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh will you be off Monday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm off Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I do feel better about that.
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  Speaker 2: See, and then Tuesday will work, Wednesday will work, and
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  Speaker 2: then she'll be home. Okay, So you won't be like
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  Speaker 2: without me or with you know, you won't be lonely. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I've already made arrangements so you can rent big
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  Speaker 1: signs to go in your yard that spell out phrases
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  Speaker 1: and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: They'll bring it, put it up, leave it up for
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  Speaker 1: however long, and then they come take it away and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna put Wednesday morning Welcome home Emmy.
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  Speaker 2: No they're not. You really did this, Yes, you did
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  Speaker 2: something like this. Yes, I don't want to be spending
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  Speaker 2: my money on that. She's gonna come home at night.
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  Speaker 2: She's not gonna see it. It's gonna be picked dark,
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  Speaker 2: she's going to be exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: It's all for the embarrassment.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's that's you know what. You should put it
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  Speaker 2: up at her school if you're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna now that would embarrass her.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she does not like me pulling up on the
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  Speaker 2: last day of school blast in Alice Cooper's schools out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, she's not okay with that either. But I do
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  Speaker 2: it every year, and guess what I will do it
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  Speaker 2: every year that I go pick her up on the
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  Speaker 2: last stay of school.
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  Speaker 1: She's already making arrangements for the last day this year.
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  Speaker 1: That can I go without you to get her?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's funny, tell her yes, But then I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to show up blasting Alice Cooper. School's out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, gracious, I don't know how I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it. Y'all, pray for me.
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  Speaker 2: You will be fine, You will be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: So I felt like I didn't have enough going on,
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  Speaker 1: so I decided to open an Etsy store. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: focus on my Etsy store.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, gone, there you go. What do you
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  Speaker 2: got at your Etsy store? Because you know I don't do.
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  Speaker 1: Enough as it is, no, no, so off and on.
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  Speaker 1: For like twenty years. I have designed greeting cards, and
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  Speaker 1: I do it for a little while, and then I stop,
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  Speaker 1: and then I do it and I stop, back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, and I've decided I'm doing it again.
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  Speaker 2: You have enough inventory. I know that you won't run
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  Speaker 2: out for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's one reason. But I've already made a sale.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you already. You've had it up for like
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  Speaker 2: two days and you already made a say, uh huh,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty excited. I know, I'm excited. Got you know what?
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  Speaker 2: You need to promote our podcast like you do the
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  Speaker 2: old Etsy store there, and then maybe we can get
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  Speaker 2: more than our parents listening. Oh I think my parents
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  Speaker 2: still listen. My parents don't listen. No, they don't, but
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  Speaker 2: they don't really have the ability to. So that's not
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  Speaker 2: really their fault. They would listen, absolutely, they would. They
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  Speaker 2: would listen first thing, and in fact, they'd probably set
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  Speaker 2: their alarms. So anything else going on? I mean, are
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  Speaker 2: you like excited for Valentine's Day?
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  Speaker 1: So okay, let me plug it though, Oh okay. Kinship
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  Speaker 1: Cards Shop is how you can find me on Etsy.
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  Speaker 2: That's my fault. That was me being an unprofessional there.
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  Speaker 2: I should have asked you to plug your own shop
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  Speaker 2: Kinship Cards Shop ken like family yep, because they're all
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  Speaker 2: family photographs ship like. You can't sink it. But it's
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  Speaker 2: together Kenship Cards Shop shop dot org. No, just that's
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  Speaker 2: just you're just gonna google that and it in Etsy.
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  Speaker 2: Put it in the search, okay in Etsy? In Etsy?
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  Speaker 2: See I don't know anything about Etsy. I don't hang
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  Speaker 2: out in girls shops. Yeah right, I get it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's cool. I'm glad that you've got that going on, because,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, you don't have enough hobbies or enough
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  Speaker 2: work do, or enough things going on that you may
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  Speaker 2: as well just kill yourself doing all these different things.
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  Speaker 2: I can't keep up with you. Yep, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what's going on over there.
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  Speaker 1: So we got some good feedback from last week's episode.
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  Speaker 1: We did Anti Valentine's Day song episode.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what'd you get so? Well?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, okay, so let me not answer your question.
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  Speaker 1: Let me pivot. Did you see the post I put
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  Speaker 1: up on social media of the baby Angel from the
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  Speaker 1: Van Halen album? Is it nineteen eighty four?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? And I said something.
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  Speaker 1: Clever which I won't be able to repeat because clever
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  Speaker 1: comes and goes and I can't ever remember what it was.
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  Speaker 1: But like, if this is your idea of cupid dot
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  Speaker 1: dot dot, tune in to this week's episode, because you
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  Speaker 1: know he's got a cigarette and it's oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got that what's that like boufont like not bouffont,
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  Speaker 1: Boofont's what the women have?
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  Speaker 2: Pompadoor?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I'm like, if this is your idea of Cupid.
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  Speaker 1: Come on over and take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we did anti Valentine's Day songs last week
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  Speaker 2: and that was a big hit.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that episode. I had a ton of fun one,
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  Speaker 1: did you really?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're gonna have a ton of fun with this
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  Speaker 2: one too, and we'll get to that all.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's I got nothing on my desk but
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  Speaker 1: my qt coke. Okay, so I got my energy here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to rock and roll. So my point is,
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  Speaker 1: though I don't have any notes, I got nothing. You've
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  Speaker 1: kept me in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give to my episode.
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  Speaker 1: Kind I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: Should I stop talking? We'll get that to that in
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  Speaker 2: a second. Yeah, I mean, what kind of coke do
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  Speaker 2: you have in your quick trip cup? So let's just
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  Speaker 2: let's just go ahead and get started. What do you say?
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
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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 as you mentioned, you don't have any notes. That's
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  Speaker 2: because last week you did the Anti Valentines Day Songs playlist,
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  Speaker 2: and this week I am doing the Valentines Day Sappy
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  Speaker 2: Love Songs playlist. Okay, And rather than include you in
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  Speaker 2: on this, I think what most folks maybe don't get
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  Speaker 2: is that sometimes your initial reaction is so hysterical, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that it's better that you don't know, oh, because then
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  Speaker 2: you can just because then we can get your actual
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  Speaker 2: initial reaction to whatever the song is. Gotch. And so
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  Speaker 2: since you don't know what songs I picked, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know anything about this. I wanted to get your initial
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  Speaker 2: reaction and then we can talk about the songs and
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  Speaker 2: do the things that we normally do. But I want
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  Speaker 2: your initial reaction to it. So that's why I didn't
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  Speaker 2: give you any notes. Makes sense, gotcha? All right? So
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  Speaker 2: before we get to today's show, we have another nominee
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  Speaker 2: for the Middle Aged Man Hall of Fame. Wowka, And
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  Speaker 2: once again I have a nomination and you will be
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  Speaker 2: the one to decide whether this person gets into the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame or gets banished forever. Okay, are you
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  Speaker 2: ready for our nomination? Bring it today? For the Middle
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  Speaker 2: Aged Man Hall of Fame, I nominate Academy Award winner
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  Speaker 2: mister Tommy Lee Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good one, absolutely allow him in.
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  Speaker 2: Has he ever looked young? Not that I'm aware of.
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  Speaker 2: He's starting to look a little bit older now, but
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  Speaker 2: the last time I saw him, he's still pretty much
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  Speaker 2: looked like the same he did in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to think about. Have I ever
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  Speaker 1: seen him not look like he looked in Men in Black?
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  Speaker 2: No, he's always looked that way.
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  Speaker 1: Cole Miner's daughter, well then he was what was his name,
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  Speaker 1: Cooder or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I never saw the movie, but I
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  Speaker 2: feel like you're just making that name up.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what Loretta Lynn's husband's name was, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't think of it right now.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, so you are going to allow to Lee
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  Speaker 2: Jones into the middle aged man hall of fame is
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  Speaker 2: all right? Well now we've got four woo. Our hall
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  Speaker 2: of fame is growing. Okay, So let's get to today's show.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, Sammy loved songs from the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 2: Last week, you had fifteen songs. This week, I have
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  Speaker 2: fourteen songs. Last week you did not count them down.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know me better than that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know you're going to count.
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  Speaker 2: I have to count them down, but I am curious
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  Speaker 2: to see what you are going to say about each
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  Speaker 2: one of these songs. Do Little Do Little? Lorena Lynn's
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  Speaker 2: Husband's name was Dolittle. Seriously, Yeah, he didn't stand a chance.
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  Speaker 2: How do you name your kid, you little? You're not
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  Speaker 2: expecting much from him? Why didn't you just name him
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  Speaker 2: Laise around a lot?
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  Speaker 1: Oliver Vanetta Dolittle Lynn Junior?
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't you just name him waste of space?
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's not very nice.
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  Speaker 2: Well do little ate much better?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Is do Little better? Or Cooter better? You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe we leave that up to our audience.
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  Speaker 2: All right, on with the countdown number fourteen?
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  Speaker 3: Away from the wall. I still but I get you.
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  Speaker 2: To get you to.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on a minute, hold on, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: I've gotta why this window? Okay, I got the window.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm jumping out. Do you recognize that song?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like Celine Dion. Who is that? That's horrendous?
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  Speaker 2: That is Barbara streisand jeez, and this song is called
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  Speaker 2: Woman in Love.
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  Speaker 1: Barbara, come on now, you can do better than that.
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  Speaker 2: Girlfriend. So this debuted in the top forty. On September thirteenth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen and eighty, it was on the chart I will
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  Speaker 2: have you know for nineteen weeks. Nineteen weeks it was
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  Speaker 2: in the top forty. It peaked at number one on
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  Speaker 2: the Billboard Hot one hundred for three weeks, and then
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  Speaker 2: it was number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for
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  Speaker 2: five weeks. It finished nineteen eighty as the thirty fifth
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  Speaker 2: biggest song. Now you may be thinking nineteen eighty was
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  Speaker 2: terrible in music, and I might not necessarily argue with you,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't just blame it on America. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: this liked it too, didn't This song was number one
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  Speaker 2: in seventeen other countries besides the USA seventeen. So why
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  Speaker 2: was this song so popular?
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  Speaker 1: Lord?
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  Speaker 2: If I know.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Was the biggest band songwriting people back in the mid
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  Speaker 2: to late seventies and carried into the early eighties, The
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  Speaker 2: Bes the Bechees Barbaras streisand was going to make a
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  Speaker 2: new album. She needed somebody to write her songs.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, pause right there, because when we were listening
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  Speaker 1: to that song and I was making this crazy face
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  Speaker 1: while she was singing all like WHOA, I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: thinking of justin Timberlake with those fake tea.
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  Speaker 2: Saying about what crazy gold medallions.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy gold medallions, And that's what came to my mind.
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  Speaker 1: So of course it's the Beach.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, written by Barry and Robin Gibbs. So needless to say,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: you don't care for that song. If you heard the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: beginning of that song, it's no doubt the Beg's. That
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: was just kind of the lead up to the chorus
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and the chorus. But if you just heard the first verse,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: you'd be like, yeah, this was clearly written by the Beaches.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: It sounds like a BEG song. What is it that?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Like Scarlett o'harris says, and gone with the Wind like
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: she makes some big declaration about as.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Long as I live, I pray to God that I
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: never I've never seen gone with the Wind. Well, anyways,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that's how I feel about this song. All right, what
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: are your thoughts on Babs? Can I say something controversial? Yesh?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: When have you not? I've never understood the appeal me neither. Oh?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, that makes me feel a little better because I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: so first of all, I feel.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Very conflicted to.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Talk bad about a female artist, because I feel like
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: female artists just have to fight so much harder anyways,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: just because of their gender. But I just have never
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: really got it. And I don't really like her music
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and I don't like her sound, and I'm so sorry.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I don't like her music either. But I do think
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that she has a great voice. I mean, yeah, I
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: mean sure, she's yes, of course, but I think she
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: has a great voice. And I really liked her and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Meet the Fockers the sequel to Meet the Parents, Meet
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the Fockers. I know about Meet the Fockers. I wrote
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: my final term paper in college on Meet the Fox.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I thought it was on Meet the Parents. Oh, maybe
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: it was Meet the Parents. It was a long time, right,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: But remember Ben still Er meets Robert de Niro and
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: his wife, huh in the first one, But then in
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the second one, the wife meets Ben Stiller's parents and
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: it's Dustin Hoffman and Babs, is it?
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I guess you don't remember that now, I don't. I'm sorry,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: but uh so that's where I liked her from. But
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I do remember this song from nineteen eighty because it
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: was Bigee's like, because it was always on the radio
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I'd be driving to and I wasn't driving because I
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: was only six years old. But I'd be riding with
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: my dad in his green van to his softball games,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and you know, we'd hear the Bege's, and of course
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: we would hear that song. I feel like there was
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I hated it then I kind of hate it now.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of marijuana in the late seventies
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: early eighties, and maybe everybody was just stoned and that's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: why they liked it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I've got nothing for you. I know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I can just tell you that nineteen eighty was bad music,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna stay with bad music in nineteen eighty
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: For my number thirteen, well we don't have to. Here's
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: number thirteen. Some say.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: It is a lessay king.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I see it a flow and it's angs.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Well, look at you, you're over there about to cry.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I said, this is a bad song, and you're over
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: there loving this.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I absolutely adore this song.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So as much as you can't stand babs, I can't
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: stand bad middle Ah, you hush your mouth. So what
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: is that song? And who sings it? That is bat
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Middler the Rose? Yes?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, find me another woman as talented
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: as bet Middler. I will wait, Barbara Straysan no, yes, nope, yes, nope.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Debbie Gibson, it would be.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The rest of the episode is just us back and forth.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, nope. Tiffany, I love this song, so let
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: me give you some dats on it. It debuted in
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the Top forty on April twenty six, nineteen and eighty,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: about five months before Babs would come on with their song.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: It was on the chart for sixteen weeks. It peaked
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: at number three on the Billboard Hot one hundred, but
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: much like Woman in Love, it was number one on
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the Adult Contemporary chart for five weeks. And here's what
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: blows me away, So it peaked at number three right
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: on the Billboard one hundred. Woman in Love peaked at
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred for three weeks,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: was on there for nineteen weeks, whereas The Rose was
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: on there for sixteen weeks. Yet somehow it was the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: number ten song of nineteen eighty, whereas the previous one
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: finished thirty five.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I don't understand these things.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: It may be because that one, if it debuted in September,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: it went into the next year, so it probably lost
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: some of its you know, some of its value to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one, so that may be why. So that
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: makes a little bit more sense. But it being the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: number ten song in nineteen eighty makes me weep for
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty. So this song comes from her movie of
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the same name, The Rose, written by Amanda McBroom, And
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it was written by Amanda McBroom when her manager told
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: her to write some Bob Seeger type tunes.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Uh, okay, So I love the Rose, but this ain't
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: nothing like no Bob.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say. If she wrote this to write some
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Bob Seeker tytoons, she failed. Yeah, she missed the mark there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: So here's one for you, because I know you love
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the country in westernp This song was covered by Conway
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Twitty yep, and that version hit number one on the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: country charts in nineteen eighty three. I think I knew that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You think you knew that?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I do because my dad was a huge Conway Fanuzzy, Yes.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: So did you like that version? Do you know that version?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But I do know that much. I did not download
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that version.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a purist and I like that Middler's version
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: O better. So when I was a junior or senior
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in high school, I used to sing a good bit
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and someone that I knew, a music teacher, was doing
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a recital.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: And I guess she didn't have enough participants.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So she asked me kind of at the last minute,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: it would I be interested in singing at the recital?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And I said absolutely, and she assigned me the rose.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And normally for a recital, you would have it memorized, right,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: But I said I wasn't comfortable not having the music
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: in front of me, so she allowed it. So I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: get up there and I've got my sheet music on
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: a music stand and I'm singing and everything's going great,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and then the stand collapses and the music goes everywhere?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Did you stop singing?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And I just kept going? And that might be one
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: reason why I love this song so much, because I.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Just kept going.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I never missed a beat. I don't know how I.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Pulled it off. I would have started making up lyrics.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: That middler was with me on that one.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I would have started making up lyrics like some say,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: love it is a river. A lot of people drown
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: in the rivers and people loved them. Uh, you know,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I wish a piano teacher had given me that for
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: recital because I felt like I can just go ding ding, yes,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: ding ding the whole time and play the piano, be
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a concert pianist playing the rose with one ding after.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Another, one ding after another.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: All right, anything else on that one? No, I gotta
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: move off these sappy love songs.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: All right, let's just stay in nineteen eighty.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Since she came?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Do you recognize that song?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: No?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So you don't know the name of it. You don't
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: know who sings it. That is never new love like
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: this before by Stephanie Mills. Stephanie Mills, I thought she
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: was an actress. She is an R and B artist,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and she may be an actor, so I don't know.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't do that much, right, I mean, how much
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: time do you expect me to put on this pre show?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: So this debut in the Top forty on August thirtieth,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty. It was on the chart for sixteen weeks,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and it peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: one hundred. But here's the thing. It hit the top
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: spot on the Dutch Top forty in the Netherlands. The Dutch,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: they like, the Dutch liked them from Stephanie Mills. That's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: absolutely right. This song also charted on the R and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: B and Adult Contemporary charts, peaking at number twelve and five, respectively.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: So you've never heard this song before? Nop, you just
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: got a little glimpse of the chorus. What'd you think it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Was so nineteen eighties?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Yes? Well, our podcast is so nineteen eighties? Do you
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: do realize that?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I mean the year nineteen eighties?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, you know eighty eighty one? Eighty two has a
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: sound that fit that sound. I'm not crazy about that sound. Now,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the song was okay?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Was it better than the other two?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: No?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: It's not better than the rose I think it is.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: No, I mean I don't ever want to listen to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it again. Was it okay? It was better than that
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: awful first song you played with Babs?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: All right, we're just gonna move on out of nineteen
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: eighty I think this is gonna be more our audience
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: of style, and definitely more of your style. And I
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: think you're gonna know this one.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Oh to go.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Now, duge me? Now, I don't told me out lutches.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: You want to know?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Mo much love walking?
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: You can me?
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I'll never rest molling.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: You watch you?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: You like that one? Don't you. So what is that?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Who is that?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I have no idea who is it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: It's Glenn Madaros. Nothing's gonna change my love for you.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: You are freaking kidding me.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not freaking kidd in.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I have a story about him.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: You have a story about Glenn Madaros.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say for another show. Well, permission to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: share it now?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Permission to share it now.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So Glenn has been an education for thirty years. I
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: want to say in Honolulu.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It is in Honulu. He is head of a boys
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: school in Honolulu.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: His daughter is now early twenties, and she has started
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: bringing him into her tiktoks and they have gone viral,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: really and it's basically her saying, you know, in a
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: daughter kind of way, of like, can you believe my
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: dad used to be a heart throb? I mean in
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a in a very loving way, not in a mean way.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: But how funny is that? I guess it's funny if
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you watch TikTok.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: He so he said, he's so far removed from.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: That life, now, yeah, that's funny. So this song debuted
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: in the top forty on April fourth, nineteen eighty seven,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: was on the shart for thirteen weeks. It peaked at
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: number twelve on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It seems
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: like it should have been higher because I remember hearing
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: this song on the radio all the time. In nineteen
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: eighty seven, it was his first of three songs to
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: hit the Billboard Top forty. He would end up with
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: a number one hit called She Ain't Worth It in
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: a song that featured Bobby Brown. I'm guessing that was
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: probably on the power of Bobby and not so much Glenn.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: The song was the eighty fifth biggest song in nineteen
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: eighty seven. It hit number one in six different countries. Wow,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: this song was huge on the daytime soaps. How big
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: was it huge? It was this big? It was played
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: on Days of Our Lives as the World turns, the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Bold and the Beautiful, Wow, One Life to Live and
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: General Hospital.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: While they made dinner in front of a fire, or.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Maybe they were making dinner at the hospital. I don't
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: know the hospital at the hospital real dinner. So to me,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I call this a grocery store song. It is a
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: grocery store song.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Growing up, I would have heard this song playing at
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Kroger while Mom.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Was shopping yes. So this song was originally recorded a
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: few years earlier by George Benson. What you know who?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: George Benson is right, No, turn your love around, give
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: me the Night, and I have that version right here,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: And I want to know if you hear any discernible
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: difference at all between the two songs.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Want to go now, touch me now.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: I don't want to.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Change one thing.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: You can men. Benson has a stronger voice. Vincent has
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: a smoother voice too. He Uh, there's no difference in
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the way the song sung or anything, except for George
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Benson as just a wonderful voice. Not that Glenn man
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Dario's didn't have a good voice. He did, but George
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: is as just smoother and stronger. And I think I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: actually liked that version better. And I had never heard
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: that version until I downloaded it.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: So I feel bad for saying that, but I think
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I do too.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: But I like the song, Yeah, yeah, I like the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: song all right. This next song comes from Uh. It
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: wasn't specifically picked out, but the group was picked out
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: by a Patreon member. Oh and so I'm just gonna
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: play this song. And you know what I think about
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: you when I hear this song? I wrote this song
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: In the world.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Jim, You're not fantasy, you my realogy.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Every Woman in the world, Joe, You're everything.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: You everything to me.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you know that one. Yes, what is that?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: You're every woman in the world to me.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: It's just called every woman in the World. But I'll
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: let you go with the other one. I thought it
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: washeses no parentheses. Who is that?
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: It's air supply. Oh, of course it is your buddy's
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: air supply. So you know how you like to call
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Steve Martin and Martin short, you like to call them
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the Martins. Yes, these are the Russell's. Oh okay, Russell
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Hitchcock and Graham Russell. Okay, love, so you would refer
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: to them as the Russells much like you do the Martins. Yeah, okay.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: So this song debuted in the top forty on November fifteenth.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: What year do you think it was? Eighty two? Eighty eighty.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of eighty.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Geez, can we get off that year?
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: So it was on the chart for seventeen weeks. It
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot one hundred
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: for two weeks. It peaked at number two on the
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Adult Contemporary chart. It was the number twenty seven song
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: of the Year in nineteen eighty one. Because it started
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: so late in eighty this was their third top five
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: hit in nineteen eighty They also had Lost in Love
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and All Out of Love Okay their first seven hits
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: from eighty eighty one, eighty two, and I think even
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: eighty three we're all top five hits. Wow, that's pretty impressive.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: You like that song. I do like that song.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I get the jest of it. But to me, if
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: you really listen to the words, it makes no sense.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: No, most songs don't. I mean, I get where they're going.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: But you're every woman in the world to me. Yeah,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: you're my fantasy, but you're also my reality. Okay, You're
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: everything I need. You're everything to me. Oh girl, that's
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: really sweet. Yes, are you going to write that in
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: my Valentine's Steak card? I am, I am, I'm gonna.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that for you.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I like that song. I like Air Supply. I'm not
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: ashamed to admit it. Back back in the day, when
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I was buying CDs in the early nineties, I bought
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: air Supply's greatest hits Oh, of course you didn't.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I don't blame you.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Hear that had to listen, had to listen to air
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: supply just really good Australian music.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, why do you say really good Australians
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: because they're from Australia. They're speaking English, but they're from
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: We say that's just really good music. It's not like
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: they're not singing in Australian.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: They are singing in Australian. Mate. Oh all right, I
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: think you're gonna like this next one.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, are you taking me out of the rough
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: year of nineteen eighties?
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think we've got any more eighties or eighty.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I should say, just go ahead, nothing's gonna stop us
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: now bye, Starship, Starship Enterprise, look just starship Okay. This
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: debut in the top forty on February fourteenth, nineteen eighty seven,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: sop Valentine's Day. Yep, it was on the chart for
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: fifteen weeks. Do you think it hit number one? Yes,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: it did. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: one hundred for two weeks, and it was also number
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: one on the Airplace Sales and Adult Contemporary chart for
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: multiple weeks as well. It was the number five Song
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: of the Year in nineteen eighty seven. This was their
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: third Billboard number one hit, Oh Wow. After I realized
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: that after what songs?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Oh do I look like deaf Dave over here?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know? We built this on rock and roll.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: That was one of them, and then the other one
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: was Sarah. Oh of course? What movie is this song from?
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Who do you think I am?
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Over here?
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Mannequin with your gal, Kim Cattrell and Crazy Andrew McCarthy.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: She ain't my gown. I thought she was your gal. No,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: she ain't my gal. She's angry. What do you think
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: about this song?
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: I love this?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Do you have any memories of this song play and
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: when you were a little girl?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like this played at the skating rink. It
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: probably did, so that's what comes to my mind, is
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the skating rink, and.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: So I love it. I'm sure that it was played
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: at many a skating rink back in eighty seven. I
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: probably skated to it at some point. All right, you
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: ready to move on to number eight? Since we're counting
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: them down. I think you'll like this one too.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Come on for me.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: And Carl, come with me, Sweet go make a family.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Whoa wow, we didn't need to take it there, gosh.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: This is also from the year nineteen eighty seven. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: think you and I should sing this at karaoke. You
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: think so? I mean, I've got that smooth voice, just
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: like that fella. So this debuted in the top forty
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: on April twenty fifth, nineteen eighty seven, which is my
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: sister Carly's eleventh birthday. This was on the chart for
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: fourteen weeks at peaked at number one on the Billboard
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Hot one hundred. It was also number one on the
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Airplay R and B and Adult Contemporary charts. Didn't quite
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: get as high on the year end as Nothing's Going
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: to Stop Us Now, but it was number fourteen Song
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: of the Year in nineteen eighty seven. Apparently lots of
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: love songs in nineteen eighty seven.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know who it is.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: It is Atlantic Star, always Atlantic Star. This is their
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: only number one song, but they did have two other
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: top five pits. Both of them hit number three Secret
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Lovers in nineteen eighty six, and then there was this one,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: And then there was Masterpiece in nineteen ninety two, which
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure you know. Okay, so you love this song. Yeah,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: this is a good song. Was this also a roller
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: skating rink song?
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: No? It was somewhere in between roller skating and grocery store.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, it was somewhere so like doctor's office. Okay, I
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: was gonna say, was it on the drive from the
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: roller skating route to the grocery store?
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I like the song. I mean, nineteen eighty seven, big
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: year for love songs. I was thirteen, so ooh that's
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: a that's a big age to be Yeah. Yeah, love song. Yeah,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: all right, Uh, moving on to number seven. I'm not
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: sure you're gonna like this one as much as the
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: other ones, but I love this one.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: All the wings fly, all the wings of.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: All the wings, Gay the Lily.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Let me get up and open that window again. Maybe
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: he'll fly on out of here.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: So what's the name of that song on the wings
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: of law? You know who sings it? Is that Peebo? No,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: it's Jeffrey Osbourne. Jeffrey Osborne, Yeah, Jeffrey More famously done
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: by Clayton on American Idol season two. This debuted in
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: the top forty on November twentieth, nineteen eighty two, so
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: it has that early eighty. Sound like you mentioned it
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: was only on the chart for seven weeks. I don't
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: know why I know it so well if it was
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: only on the chart for seven weeks and it only
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: peaked at number twenty nine on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I know the song so well.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe because it peaked at number seven on the Adult
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Contemporary chart. And it's possible that my parents were listening
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: to the Adult Contemporary chart a lot.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I can tell you it was played on the radio
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: like all the time.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, I thought so. So, I don't know how it
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: only hit twenty nine all the time. I think maybe
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: they missed up on that. No, they did not mess
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: up on it. So I was looking at the personnel
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: on this track. And did you know that mister Michael
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Sumbello played the guitar on this song in the studio.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: She's a maniac maniac on the floor, yes, and she's
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: dancing like she's never danced before. You know, Hey, that's
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: that's different from on the Wings of Law. Yeah, made
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: famous in Uh Tommy Boy. Yep. Jeffrey Osborne is the
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: opposite of air Supply, where they their first seven hits
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: were all top five songs. His first Hicks hits were
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: all between numbers twenty five and forty.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Oh no, Jeffrey, did he rebound?
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: No, he was.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: That's where he is pretty much really for the most part. Yes,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: but I think he's got a good voice. Maybe George
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Benson may have sung this better. Peebo would have sung
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: it better. For sure, James Ingram would have sung it better. Yes,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: but I like mister Jeffrey Osborne. I like this song.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I don't care what you say. This is a good song.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: He's got a good voice.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: You know, he has a very powerful voice.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, I like this song. I don't care what you say.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: It's one of my favorites. But it's not as good
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: as number six. And you will one agree with me
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: on that.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: You got this feeling down deep in the soul that
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: I just can't lose. Guess I'm all way meet any
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: friend and the way up you now, I guess I'll
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: be with you to me in Guess I'm all way.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Mighty glad you stay that line right there, mighty glad
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: you stayed. Oh it gets me. That smooth voice gets me.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: He's just it's perfection. So can we be? Can we be?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Honest for a minute. Uh huh, I know you're worried,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: How honest I am. I'm a little bit worried, you know.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Seventeen years into this, I don't get butterflies often, but
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: when this song plays and you smile at me like that,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I get the butterflies.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: When you see me smile, old, Can you face the world?
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I can. What's the name of the song? Stuck on you?
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Who sings it?
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Don't do me that? Come on, say you.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Don't say it? Lionel?
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Oh there you go, Lionel Richie or is most people
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: like to call him Lionel Richie. The song debuted in
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: the top forty on July seventh, nineteen eighty four, which
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: this song may prove Deaf Dave's point that nineteen eighty
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: four is the greatest year ever. I mean, it's a
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: solid argument. Okay, okay, give me a moment. What do
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: you think if I said this is one of the
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: best love songs ever? I would agree with you. No, yeah,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I would one agree with you.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's not even controversial.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: This song is amazing and I could have easily made
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: it number one. Yeah, easily? Yeah?
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, now, what number is it?
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Six.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: So you've got five songs beat than this.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Any of my top six could have been number one,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: that's all I'm saying.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: All right, So this one was on the chart for
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: fourteen weeks. It only peaked at number I say only,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: but it peaked at number three on the Billboard out
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: one hundred, It should have been number one. It was
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for six weeks
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: and the R and B chart for three weeks. This
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: was his eighth top ten hit in a row to
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: start out the eighties, and he would start out with
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: thirteen songs in a row in the top ten. Yeah,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Lionel may not have been as big as Michael Jackson,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: but he had more top ten hits in a row
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: than Michael did. This was I can't believe it. This
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: was only the thirty second biggest song on the Billboard
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Hot one hundred for nineteen eighty four. No way, but
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: it was the third biggest song in the land on
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: the year in Adult Contemporary chart. Okay, so you've already
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: said it, you love this song. Yep, We've talked about
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: them a million times. We love Lionel or Lionel, however
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: you wish to say it. Did you know this song
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty four when you were like five, or
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: is it something that you've learned as you were older.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm gonna say it's something that
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I learned when I was older.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, I would have heard this song
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty four, but for whatever reason, it wouldn't
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: have stuck with me more. Stuff like running with the
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Night and dancing on the ceiling and correct that stuff
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: would have stuck with me more because it was more
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: fun and I wouldn't have so much been into the
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: love songs at ten years old. But hearing it again
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: in the nineties, like every time I hear it, I
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: get chills, I get chill bumps, goosebumps, whatever you would
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: to call it, Like it's phenomenal. Oh yes, all right,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: number five. You're probably gonna be mad that this is
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: number five over Lionel, but I can go either way
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: because I love this song.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: You moment, it's um, I'm crazy for you.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Crazy? All right? Go ahead. You made a face when
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: it came on, but then you start singing it, so
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: you don't hate it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: No, I don't hate it, And I think if I
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: hadn't have just listened to Stuck On You right before this,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I would have been happy to hear it. Oh okay,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: but you just once you hear Stuck on You, once
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: you hear Lionel, you just can't.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: You can't come back from it. You can't, Okay. I
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you. So what's the name
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: of the song? Crazy for You? Madon? That is correct?
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: So this song debuted in the forty on March sixteenth,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five. It was on the chart for fourteen weeks,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: and unlike Stuck On You, it did peak at number
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: one on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It was number
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: one on the airplay and number two on the sales charts.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: It would end up the number nine song of the
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: year in nineteen eighty five. We get this. It's the
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: number seventy nine song of the decade of the eighties
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: in Australia. Wow. Yeah, the Aussies there, they're digging some
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Madonna here. It's number two hundred and eighty two on
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the Billboard Hot one hundred All Time Chart, which I
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: know you love the old time chart all Time. So
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: we just talked about Lionel having thirteen in a row
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: top ten hits. This was number four on a string
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: of thirteen songs by Madonna that would chart in a
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: row in the top five of the Hot one Oh wow,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was hot. She was She could do no
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: wrong in the in the eighties when it came to music.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: This is I'm that movie Vision Quest which you watched
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: with me and you loved so much. Sure, but so
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: you like the song. I do like this song.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: It's very un Madonna like, yeah, and I think that's
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: why I like it.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, and unlike in Vision Quest, this doesn't sound like
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: she's singing at a karaoke bar like it did on
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: the Vision Question Yes soundtrack. I like this song. This
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: song was huge in nineteen eighty five. You know that
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: was back when we would listen to the radio all
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: night long and sleep. So I specifically remember having a
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: dream about a friend at school and a girl like
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: being in love with each other as Madonna's Crazy for
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: You was playing, obviously on the radio, but it was
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: in my dream, you know that they were dancing to it.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: So you know I used to sleep with the radio on.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I thought that was just a me thing. Nope, Nope,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: we slept with the radio on, and those songs would
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: creep into my head and appear in my dreams, so
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: I would sleep with Rush Limbaugh. Well that's a little weird.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: You always liked the talk shows, didn't you, from way
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: back in the day.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, it would be Art Bell, you know who did
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: all the conspiracy crazy stuff, and then it would be Rus.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Is that how you became a conspiracy thing? Probably? All right?
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Moving on number four, I think you'll like this one.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I love this song. See so now you're starting to
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: see why maybe Lionel was number six, Yes, even though
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: he could have been number one.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Lost in your eyes, Debbie Gibson, that is correct. And boy,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: let me tell you little Linz wanted to get lost
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: in the boy's eyes.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Well, here you go, you can get lost in my glasses.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: This song debut in the top forty on January twenty eighth,
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: nineteen and eighty nine, was on the chart for twelve weeks.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: It would hit number one on the Billboard Hot one
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: hundred as I'm sure you're not surprised, and it stayed
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: there for three weeks. It was also number one on
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: the airplane sales charts for multiple weeks, and it would
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: end up nineteen eighty nine is the thirteenth biggest song
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: of the year. It was the sixth and final top
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: five hit of the eighties and her second number one
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: hit after Foolish Beat. Okay, but here's the part that
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: maybe you know, maybe you don't know, that you're gonna like.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Debbie Gibson's album twenty twenty one album called The Body Remember,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: features a duet version with Joey McIntyre.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I remember that, and it made me dislike her a
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: little bit, that's funny.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: This version was first performed live during the New Kids
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: on the Blocks mixtape tour in twenty nineteen. So you
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: love that song? I love that song? You love Debbie Gibson? Yes,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: I love Debbie Gibson. Let's see. So I was fifteen
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: when this song came out. I think I remember hearing
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: this coming back from an AAU basketball tournament in a
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: van with a bunch of my buddies, and I think
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: we were all kind of singing at the top of
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: our lungs. We weren't ashamed, really not a boy. Yeah,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: bunch of fifteen year old boys just singing I get
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: lost in your eyes. Okay, all right, you ready for
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: our number three? I sure you're finding it hard to
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: believe that I found something just as good as Lost
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: in your eyes, stuck on you and crazy for you?
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Are I mean, really got a lot to prove to me.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: All Right, I think you're gonna like this.
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: Nothing for a.
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: Movement that was just my style. Now I'm looking to you.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: You can see mover.
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: The search is of.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: You with me.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: See. Do you have a complaint? That's a good song,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: that is the search is over by survivor Have you
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: ever tried to sing that song? I don't think so.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: You couldn't. No, I never. I couldn't.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no sense, But I always wanted to get the
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: umph in and sing it, and I could never get
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the oomphs.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Jimmy Jamison, it's pretty amazing. Yeah. This song
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: debuted in the top forty on May eleventh, nineteen eighty five.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: It was on the chart for fourteen weeks. It peaked
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: at number four on the Billboard Hot one hundred, but
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: it was number one, just like most of our songs,
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for four weeks.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: It would end up being the number forty eight song
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: of the year in nineteen eighty five. The song was
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: off their nineteen eighty four album Vital Signs, which is
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: an excellent album. Former keyboardist, guitarist for the band and
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: co songwriter Jim Peterick told song Facts it wasn't about
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: my life as much as a friend of mine who
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: had a girlfriend really a playpile throughout their growing up
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: years and never thought it could be anything more than that.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: It was looking him straight in the face that this
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: was the girl of his destiny, and he looked everywhere
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: to find that dream girl, only to come back to
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: the sandbox. There she was, There she was. That's precious
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: right there. The search is over.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: You were with me all the Wow, my goodness, that
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: get it's uh huh?
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: So you like that song gets me in the fields?
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I love it. Survivor is one of my favorite bands
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: from the eighties. I think they are so underrated. Did
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: you ever see them in concert? I did not, but
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: so underrated. They're like a journey light. Yes, I just
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: love I loved High on You and the Search is
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: over and obviously High of the Tiger and that one
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: from Rocky four that everybody loves. Burning Heart just just
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: a fantastic band, and I just think we need more
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: survivor in our lives. I don't disagree either. The game
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: show wore the band all right, so you're probably like, dude,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: come on, I mean, what else? What else is there? Well,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: here's number two, Emma, only number turnenty, So what is that?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: So is that the Bengals?
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: That is the Bengals. What's the name of the song?
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Eternal Flame?
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: That is correct? This song debuted in the top forty
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: on February eleventh, which is today, nineteen eighty nine, thirty
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: seven years ago, this song debuted in the top forty.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: It would stay on the chart for fourteen weeks. It
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Do you think it also hit number one on the
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Adult Contemporary chart? Yes, yes, it did for two weeks.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: This was also number one in eight other countries.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: It was the number thirty two song of the year
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine, which seems awful low. But it
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: was a top five song of the year in Australia, Belgium,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I have to process that, I know. Yeah. This was
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: the fifth and final top five hit of the eighties
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: for the Bengals and their second number one hit after.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Walk like any Gypsy. It is correct one of my
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: favorite eighties songs. So this is what's interesting. So there
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: are songwriting partners called Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, and
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: they wrote this song along with Susanna Hass. Oh really, so,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Steinberg and Kelly wrote other hits together, like True Colors
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: by Cindy Lauper, So Emotional by Whitney Houston, Like a
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Virgin by Madonna, and Alone by Heart. So they were
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  Speaker 1: some they could write some songs, right, So Steinberg said
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Eternal Flame was retro in that
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  Speaker 1: it has no chorus, which I don't think I ever thought.
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  Speaker 2: About until he said that, never noticed that, right. The
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  Speaker 2: song instead works from an AABA song structure and has
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  Speaker 2: a middle eight, the portion beginning say my Name, Sunshine's
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  Speaker 2: through the Rain that it repeats twice. And he says
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  Speaker 2: in the sixties it wasn't that unusual to have songs
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  Speaker 2: structured in that way, but by the eighties choruses were
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  Speaker 2: much more developed and middle lights had started to disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I see, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So when Susannah Hass played the demo at a band
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  Speaker 2: meeting where members and the producer decided what they were
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  Speaker 2: going to record for the upcoming album. It was rejected
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  Speaker 2: because it didn't have a chorus. Uh, it was rejected
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't felt like they didn't feel like it
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  Speaker 2: sounded like a Bengals song. And so Hoss was heartbroken
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  Speaker 2: since she had been very enthusiastic about the song, but
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  Speaker 2: accepted her bandmate's decision, but it would end up making
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  Speaker 2: the album. This song is considered by Billy Steinberg, one
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  Speaker 2: of the writers, to be a stylistic fusion of the
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  Speaker 2: Birds and the Beatles.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I can hear the Birds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know that I necessarily hear the Beatles,
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  Speaker 2: but I hear the Birds. So there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different critical receptions to the song. Somebody said a
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  Speaker 2: backhanded tribute to every sappy string drinks ballad from Lulu's
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  Speaker 2: to Sir with Love to Mary Lee Rush's Angel of
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  Speaker 2: the Morning that ever overstayed It's welcome on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I don't think that was a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else said, fluffy romantic fantasy that resembled the Carpenters
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than the Beatles. Oh okay, somebody else
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  Speaker 2: said on Eternal Flame hast does her best inspired reading
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  Speaker 2: of Kate bush Yikes. Pan European magazine Music and Media
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  Speaker 2: commented that this is a very sweat and conventional gospel
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  Speaker 2: tinged ballad with the emphasis on close harmonies, and then
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  Speaker 2: Vicki Peterson of the Bengals described Eternal Flame as a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful song which at the time I didn't think of
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  Speaker 2: as essentially Bengals. Anyone could have taken the song and
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  Speaker 2: made it a hit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does not sound like the it does not,
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  Speaker 1: And Susannah hoff does not have the strongest voice out there.
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  Speaker 1: Her voice is actually very underdeveloped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I can see that. You know, back
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  Speaker 2: when the Bengals first started, they all kind of shared
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  Speaker 2: singing duties, and then because Susannah Hoffs was the best
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  Speaker 2: looking one out out of the group, folks wanted her
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  Speaker 2: to be the front person of the group. And so
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  Speaker 2: that's why you see them going from each of them
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  Speaker 2: singing a verse and walk like an Egyptian to eventually
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  Speaker 2: her just kind of takeing over. And of course she
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  Speaker 2: wrote the song, right, so anybody who writes the song
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  Speaker 2: is gonna sing it. But for the most part, by
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  Speaker 2: the end of their careers, she was the front person
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  Speaker 2: and singing pretty much everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're right, but I still I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she had the strongest voice.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that there was a behind the scenes on one, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: on VH one, behind the music, behind the music, on
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  Speaker 2: the animosity that maybe that caused the other members of
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals. All right, well, you're probably wondering what could
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  Speaker 2: possibly be number one after Lionel and Madonna and Debbie
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  Speaker 2: Gibson's lost in your eyes and the search is over
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  Speaker 2: an internal flame. But you know what, I think I
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  Speaker 2: got something that's worthy. I mean, I can't imagine. I
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  Speaker 2: think you're gonna like it.
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  Speaker 6: I must be.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what is that song Waiting for a Star
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  Speaker 2: to Fall?
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  Speaker 1: Boy meets Girl?
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  Speaker 2: That is correct, So it seems like you like that song.
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  Speaker 1: What an unexpected number one, but a good number one. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's awesome, what a what a great song. But just
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  Speaker 1: I would never have picked this one in a million years,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm curious to know why you picked it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I kind of went in a different direction,
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  Speaker 2: right because everything had kind of slowed down, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, and was getting real sappy and this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of sappy lyrics. But it's a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: upbeat and a little bit more peppy. But this song
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  Speaker 2: came out about a month or so into my freshman year,
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  Speaker 2: where everything was like brand new right here in a
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  Speaker 2: brand new school, Like life's almost brand new. You're meeting
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  Speaker 2: brand new people. Basketball tryouts had already started, they had
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: probably already made the team, and we probably already started practicing,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe they're just ending around here. And everything was
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  Speaker 2: just so fresh and new, and this song was out.
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  Speaker 2: It was just one of those feel good songs, and
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  Speaker 2: I just loved it. And so, yeah, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: why I picked at number one.
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  Speaker 1: I can't argue with that, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So this song debuted in the top forty on
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  Speaker 2: October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight. It was on the chart
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  Speaker 2: for sixteen weeks. It peaked at number five on the
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  Speaker 2: Billboard Hot one hundred, but I bet you can guess
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  Speaker 2: that it probably hit number one on the adult contemporary
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: chart shocker, right. So. Waiting for a Start of Fall
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  Speaker 2: is a song by American pop music duo Boy Meets Girl,
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  Speaker 2: written by the duo's members Shannon Rubycam and George Merrill.
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  Speaker 2: They wrote this song after witnessing a falling star at
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  Speaker 2: a Whitney Houston concert, Oh how Precious. And they originally
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  Speaker 2: offered the song to Whitney, but Clive Davis rejected it.
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  Speaker 2: Then Belinda Carlile recorded a demo of the song but
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  Speaker 2: refused its inclusion on her nineteen eighty seven album Evan
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  Speaker 2: on Earth. So Rubycam and Merrill decided to record and
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  Speaker 2: release the song themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So they are boy meets girl.
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  Speaker 2: They are boy meets girls.
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  Speaker 1: Did they do anything else?
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  Speaker 2: They had a couple of like minor hits, but nothing,
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  Speaker 2: you know that's even coming close to this one.
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  Speaker 1: But for them, they were like, you know what, We're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna go out and do it ourselves, right.
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  Speaker 2: So, and I mean they oftened it that two of
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  Speaker 2: the best singers and you know, two of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: women stars of the eighties. But let's go back to
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  Speaker 2: Clive Davis rejecting it for a second, because this changed
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  Speaker 2: music history. So they weren't nobody's right. They had written
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  Speaker 2: how Will I Know? For Whitney previously, and they brought
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  Speaker 2: this to Clive Davis and he said that this song
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  Speaker 2: did not suit Whitney. I don't think it was necessarily
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  Speaker 2: that he didn't like the song or that he hadn't song.
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  Speaker 2: He just thought it did not suit Whitney Houston. But
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  Speaker 2: because of this rejection, not only did they record this
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  Speaker 2: song themselves and make it a hit, but it inspired
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  Speaker 2: them to go and write I Want to Dance with
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  Speaker 2: Somebody for Whitney Houston. No way way it changed history. Right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they don't write I Want to Dance with Somebody,
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  Speaker 2: which was her biggest hit.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they just give this tour and Whitney has a
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  Speaker 2: big hit with uh waiting on a Start a Fall,
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  Speaker 2: But and then that's that, and maybe there is no
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  Speaker 2: I Want to Dance with Somebody, which is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people's top ten of the eighties. So but I
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  Speaker 2: will say this, after watching the video and seeing the
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  Speaker 2: vibes of the video and hearing this song and how
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  Speaker 2: happy and peppy it is, I feel like if they
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  Speaker 2: had waited just two or three more years, they could
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  Speaker 2: have sent this song to Amy Grant and she could
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  Speaker 2: have recorded it them. No, this does it not sound
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  Speaker 2: like an Amy Grant tepe song. And then I promise you,
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  Speaker 2: if you watch the video, you'd be like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is totally an Amy Grant video. It's like them running
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  Speaker 2: on the beach and holding hands and playing with their
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  Speaker 2: children and stuff like that, So totally Amy Grant vibes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, what'd you think?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you did a great job of encompassing the
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  Speaker 1: whole decade, So I'll give you that you may have
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  Speaker 1: spent a little too much time at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the decade. I don't fault you for that too much,
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  Speaker 1: because I know how you feel about the early eighties.
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  Speaker 1: My only true complaint is that Lionel is not number one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot of sappiness in the
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  Speaker 2: early eighties. That's probably why I went back there. But
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  Speaker 2: I will say this. We're gonna put this on a
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  Speaker 2: Spotify playlist. We are going to put it in the
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  Speaker 2: show notes, so anybody can have this Valentine's Day Sappy
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  Speaker 2: Love Songs playlist and fellas out there. If you play
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  Speaker 2: this playlist on Valentine's Day with your woman and you
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  Speaker 2: don't close the deal, you can't blame it on us.
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  Speaker 2: That's on you, brother, done, because this playlist should be
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown in the Super Bowl against the Patriots. That's
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  Speaker 2: all I'm gonna say. Oh my gosh, all right, so
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  Speaker 2: are you ready for me? To do my final stance
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  Speaker 2: that thing. Yep, bring it on? Not a lotch all right?
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  Speaker 2: So we had four songs from nineteen eighty three, songs
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  Speaker 2: from eighty seven, two each from eighty five and eighty nine,
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  Speaker 2: and one each from eighty two, eighty and eighty four.
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  Speaker 2: There was nothing from eighty one, eighty three or eighty six.
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  Speaker 2: And while all fourteen songs hit the Billboard top forty,
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  Speaker 2: six were number ones, six more were top ten, and
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  Speaker 2: there were two that actually did not make the top ten.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve of fourteen were on the year end Hot one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: and almost every single one of them hit number one
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  Speaker 2: on the Adult contemporary chart. Wow as a good love
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  Speaker 2: song playlist should all right? Well, I guess that wraps
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  Speaker 2: up another episode, another Valentine's Day episode. Good job, Jim, Thanks,
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  Speaker 2: I hope you liked it well.
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  Speaker 1: You put as much thought and effort into our Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: Day together as.
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  Speaker 2: You did this episode. Do you want me to say
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  Speaker 2: yes or do you want me to be honest? Probably not,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: but let us know how you feel, you know. Did
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  Speaker 2: I pick some winners? Did I pick some losers? I'm
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: sure most people aren't gonna like the bab song. Even
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: if it was written by Barry Gibb. What about that middler.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, I guarantee you, I guarantee you nobody's gonna
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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