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80s Pop Music: The Battle for the Greatest Year Begins-#25 Songs · Children of the 80s

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Speaker 1: Children of the 80s is brought to you by Q106. 5
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Children of the 80s. I am one
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Speaker 2: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
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Speaker 2: by the lady who I've never seen look happier about
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Speaker 2: a brand new Children of the 80s theme song. It's
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Speaker 2: my co-host, Lindsay.
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Speaker 1: I like it.
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Speaker 2: You like it?
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Speaker 1: Good job.
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Speaker 2: That was our Children of the 80s band.
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Speaker 1: Is this their big debut?
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Speaker 2: This is their big debut on our show. That's going
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Speaker 2: to be our new theme song now. Welcome on board, guys.
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Speaker 2: And what we'll do is we will actually play. That's
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Speaker 2: just the intro. We will play the full song at
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Speaker 2: the end of this episode for anybody that wants to
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Speaker 2: listen to it and get a sense of nostalgia to
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Speaker 2: go back to the 80s.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. The first time I heard it,
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Speaker 1: I was like, got hit on our hands, fellas.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You were like wanting to promote it onto Spotify.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, but I will admit they've never performed it
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Speaker 1: as well since as they did that first time for me.
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Speaker 2: That is correct. I asked them to do several different
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Speaker 2: versions of it with different genres, maybe have a female
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Speaker 2: sing because they do have a female guitar player in there.
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Speaker 2: She sang some. They kind of discoed it up a
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Speaker 2: little bit. They did a little bit of punk rock
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Speaker 2: here and there. They even tried to go like slow
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Speaker 2: power ballad. But none of it worked as well as
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Speaker 2: this one here. And this is what our Patreoners voted
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Speaker 2: on to make our theme song. They had a choice
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Speaker 2: from all the submissions that our band did. And this
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Speaker 2: is what they voted on the most.
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Speaker 1: So they went through each one with a fine-tooth comb,
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Speaker 1: and this is what they picked out.
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Speaker 2: And this is what they picked. So this should be
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Speaker 2: the best of the best. And you know what? I
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Speaker 2: agree with them.
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Speaker 4: Well, good job.
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Speaker 1: Good job, guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So what's going on over there?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I've got so many things to talk to you about.
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Speaker 1: I don't know where to start.
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Speaker 2: Start at the beginning. That's what I always say.
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Speaker 1: Okay, first, my chair over here. It's hanging on. It's
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Speaker 1: like when Emmy and her little tooth, remember when her
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Speaker 1: little front tooth was like dangling by one little thread?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: That's how my chair is, just dangling by one little thread.
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Speaker 2: Well, these chairs are old and they're cheap.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so I don't know. If people ever hear like
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Speaker 1: a pop or a weird sounding noise they can't distinguish,
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Speaker 1: if we shift our backsides in the seat... The chairs crack.
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Speaker 2: And pop like any moment. Like it's like snap, crackle, pop.
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Speaker 1: Any moment. So listen.
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Speaker 2: Because they're old and cheap.
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Speaker 1: So we need new chairs.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 1: I found one.
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Speaker 2: You did?
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Speaker 1: On Facebook Marketplace.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't you find two?
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Speaker 1: Well, Facebook Marketplace, you can't get picky. Beggars can't be choosers.
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Speaker 1: So let me tell you what I found.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: It's a nice wingback, plush, like pink. velvety-type material straight
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Speaker 1: from Dolly Parton's office somewhere in Dollywood. I can't remember
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Speaker 1: the specifics now. And that's what I need over here
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Speaker 1: on my side.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how much is that, bad boy? $ 600. I could
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Speaker 2: get like three TVs for that price.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine having that, Jim?
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Speaker 2: I don't think your daughter would ever let you sit
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Speaker 2: in it. I think she would just live in that chair.
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Speaker 1: She would so live in that chair. I bet it
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Speaker 1: smells like floral goodness.
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Speaker 2: Probably.
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Speaker 1: We need that chair.
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Speaker 2: We do need it. I agree. Go out and buy it.
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Speaker 1: It would be my birthday, my anniversary, my Christmas present,
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Speaker 1: all combined.
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Speaker 2: Folks, listen. We need more Patreoners so Lindsay can get
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Speaker 2: her dolly chair.
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Speaker 1: But no doubt, I need a new chair. And this one...
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Speaker 1: It's not really very comfy. It's clicking and clacking any moment.
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Speaker 1: I'm probably going to hit the ground.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, these chairs are probably from 1975, and
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Speaker 2: they probably weren't made well back then.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what I'm hearing you say is it's okay
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Speaker 1: to get the dolly chair.
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Speaker 2: I am saying that, yes. Oh, really?
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Speaker 1: Okay, folks, you heard it here.
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Speaker 2: Now, how much is the shipping going to cost?
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Speaker 1: No, it's in Atlanta. Go pick it up.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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Speaker 1: Yes. So I needed to talk to you about that,
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Speaker 1: but since I've got permission for that, okay, we can
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Speaker 1: move on to the next thing. Okay. Have you heard
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Speaker 1: our friend Lionel is not well?
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Speaker 2: No, I have not.
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Speaker 1: Our friend Lionel is in ICU in St. Louis.
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Speaker 2: No way.
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Speaker 1: So I'll head towards Atlanta to get my chair. You
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Speaker 1: might want to head towards St. Louis to check on Lionel.
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Speaker 2: What's going on with.
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Speaker 5: Him?
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Speaker 1: He did a show there and then wasn't feeling well
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Speaker 1: and landed himself in ICU. That's all I've got.
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Speaker 2: My goodness, I hope it wasn't from the Emo's Pizza.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm still worried about that third. Dolly,
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Speaker 1: Tim Curry.
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Speaker 2: Does it got to be a third from the 80s?
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Speaker 2: Because Hayden Panettiere sadly passed.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know.
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Speaker 5: So....
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Speaker 1: She could be our third or we might be looking
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Speaker 1: for a third.
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Speaker 2: We might be looking at an 80s third. Come on, Lionel.
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Speaker 2: We need you to pull through, buddy. Why did you
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Speaker 2: just make me call him Lionel? I call him Lionel.
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Speaker 1: That's his name. His name's Lionel.
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Speaker 2: That's what Michael Jackson called him. The rest of us
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Speaker 2: call him Lionel.
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Speaker 1: I don't. It says he performed at. Hold on, because
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Speaker 1: I did want to ask you about this. Do you
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Speaker 1: like how I say hold on as if we're not
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Speaker 1: doing a show? Yes.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: As if the folks out there love to listen to
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Speaker 2: dead air.
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Speaker 1: Okay. It says that he checked himself into ICU. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's possible.
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Speaker 2: No, he can check himself into the hospital.
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Speaker 1: I've tried to.
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Speaker 2: In the hospital.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: I've tried to check myself into the hospital.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: You can go to the emergency room. They will determine
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Speaker 1: what happens next.
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, but that's, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: So he's currently on his Sing a Song All Night
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Speaker 1: long tour with Earth, Wind & Fire.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that would be a cool show to see.
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Speaker 1: Okay, he performed Saturday at the Money, M-U-N-Y. Muny. Oh,
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Speaker 1: the Muny.
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Speaker 2: It's not the Money, it's the Muny.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so he performed Saturday at the Muny.
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Speaker 2: Why do you say it like that?
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Speaker 1: That's how you said it.
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Speaker 2: No, I said the Muni.
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Speaker 1: That's what I said, the Muni. He's next scheduled to perform, okay,
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Speaker 1: the end of September in San Francisco. So he's got
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Speaker 1: a while to recover. But well wishes to him. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Lionel, don't be eating that toasted ravioli. It'll get you. Oh, well,
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Speaker 2: that's not good news either.
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Speaker 1: I know. What do you got?
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Speaker 2: Well, our cat Gary Busey did a Gary Busey thing.
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Speaker 2: Which was he went outside the confines of the Butler compound.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And he decided to get himself in a fight.
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Speaker 1: Yep, he sure did.
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Speaker 2: And I believe that his mouth wrote a check that
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Speaker 2: his butt couldn't cash. Because he came home early, which
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Speaker 2: is unlike him.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: And he came in and immediately laid down, which is
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Speaker 2: unlike him.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: And then later on in the night, you notice matted
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Speaker 2: hair on his cheek and he had a little puncture
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Speaker 2: wound in his neck near his ear from getting into
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Speaker 2: a fight and getting his butt kicked by another cat,
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Speaker 2: probably named Martin Riggs. Who asked, you know, if Gary
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Speaker 2: wanted a shot at the title and Gary said, yeah.
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Speaker 2: And he lost his shot at the title just like
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Speaker 2: Busey did in Lethal Weapon. And so then we had
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Speaker 2: to spend a half a night in the emergency vet room,
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Speaker 2: getting them stitched up and the whole family antibiotics and everything. Well, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Cause I couldn't let you drive them alone. Like you'd
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Speaker 2: have been a hot mess and I'm not leaving my
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Speaker 2: daughter here at midnight by herself.
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Speaker 1: So we all loaded up and went to the emergency
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Speaker 1: room vet.
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Speaker 2: And I was so exhausted by the end of the
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Speaker 2: night cause we were there. We didn't leave until almost 1am.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Um, But I can report that he is back to
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Speaker 2: his old self and he's running up and down the
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Speaker 2: stairs again and he's begging to go outside again. And
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Speaker 2: the vet said, don't let him outside for a week
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Speaker 2: while he's on these pills because he needs to heal.
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Speaker 2: And so he's not happy about that at all.
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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. People get very worked up when
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Speaker 1: they find out that you have a cat and you
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Speaker 1: let the cat outside. And I understand that. Now, I
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Speaker 1: think it's nobody else's business, but I understand where the
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Speaker 1: emotions are coming from. We rescued Gary from the wild
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Speaker 1: and we tamed him and brought him into our house.
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Speaker 1: We have never been able to fully get the wild
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Speaker 1: out of him.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: There is no earthly way we could make him an
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Speaker 1: indoor cat. Nothing would make me happier than if he
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Speaker 1: would be an indoor cat. And I always say I'm
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Speaker 1: going to record him having his little meltdowns, wanting to
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Speaker 1: go out, and I never have. But he lives. literally
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Speaker 1: has a meltdown and it wears you down.
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Speaker 2: It wears you down but it also like it would
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Speaker 2: suck the life out of him if you would not
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Speaker 2: let him go outside. It would. His life would be
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Speaker 2: over as far as he's concerned.
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Speaker 1: And we've talked about that his need for speed is
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Speaker 1: probably going to shorten his life. I'm not okay with that.
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Speaker 1: But I also know that outside is where he's happy.
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Speaker 1: So this is the chance that we take.
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Speaker 2: And I would say that 90% of the time, he
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Speaker 2: just goes outside, lays on the patio underneath the chair.
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Speaker 3: He does.
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Speaker 2: He just lays out there because he just likes being outside.
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Speaker 1: But occasionally.
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Speaker 2: He will jump over the fence and go hunting for
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Speaker 2: other males to try to fight with.
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Speaker 1: He goes and looks for a fight. And boy, he...
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Speaker 1: He got it handed to him.
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Speaker 2: He did. So Gary likes to chase things off of
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Speaker 2: his property.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: But he also should know better than to go onto
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Speaker 2: other cats' property because they will chase him off and
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Speaker 2: apparently bite him in the neck.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 2: So he just needs to smarten up.
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Speaker 1: Well, good luck with that.
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Speaker 2: The real Gary Busey has done some dumb things, like
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Speaker 2: accept Martin Riggs' challenge. Read Calvin and Hobbes while the
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Speaker 2: ex-presidents ran into the bank. To hold up the bank
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Speaker 2: while he's sitting there laughing at Calvin and Hobbes while
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Speaker 2: he's making Utah go get him two meatball subs.
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Speaker 1: So did you... Have you seen the latest video of
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Speaker 1: Gary Busey where he's like honking like a goose?
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Speaker 2: Like a goose, yes.
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Speaker 1: I feel like our Gary, on his pain medicine, he
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Speaker 1: might honk like a goose.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, 100%. Oh. Oh my goodness. All right.
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Speaker 1: Those big old white teeth. Well....
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Speaker 2: Um, hopefully we've regaled the folks with some good stories
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Speaker 2: before we get started.
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Speaker 1: I sure hope so.
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Speaker 2: But are you ready to get to today's episode?
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Speaker 1: Yes. I have no, much like you last week. I
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Speaker 1: have no idea what this episode's about. I have no
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Speaker 1: clue what I'm walking into.
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Speaker 2: So, well, it's going to be fun. Let me tell
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Speaker 2: you that.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I hope so.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
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Speaker 1: of the 1980s. We talk about things that were important
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Speaker 1: to us as children and what we look back on
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Speaker 1: with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a nostalgia podcast.
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Speaker 2: That is right. And we have always said that nothing
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Speaker 2: is more nostalgic to people than music.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: And so this is another music episode. And the episode
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Speaker 2: today and the reason why you don't have notes and
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Speaker 2: I don't have notes. Oh, you don't have notes?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: No. One of us needs to have notes.
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Speaker 2: Well, here's what we're doing. Let me explain to you
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Speaker 2: and the folks what we're doing, and then maybe you'll understand.
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Speaker 2: So remember about a month ago, I sent something out
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Speaker 2: on our Patreon and then out on social media saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: the Children of the 80s podcast is attempting to determine
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Speaker 2: which year in the 1980s had the best music according
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Speaker 2: to the Billboard Hot 100. And so we're going to
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Speaker 2: have our Patreoners vote on that. Hits from the Hot 100,
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Speaker 2: the year-end Hot 100 for each year. And so this week,
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Speaker 2: we are doing the number 25 song from 1980 to 1989.
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Speaker 2: We had our folks, and you and I as well,
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Speaker 2: vote or rank these songs from 1 to 10. And
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Speaker 2: so what I've done is I've taken all the rankings.
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Speaker 2: I've added everybody's up. And now we have an order
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Speaker 2: counting down from 10 to 1. of which song of
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Speaker 2: number 25 that everybody thought was best. And then next
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Speaker 2: month we'll do 24, and then we'll do 23, and
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Speaker 2: the rankings will keep going, and we will eventually determine
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Speaker 2: which year has the best music.
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Speaker 1: How many years will it take us to do that?
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Speaker 2: It will take us a little bit more than two
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Speaker 2: if we do once a month. If you want to
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Speaker 2: do more than once a month, it'll take us less time,
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Speaker 2: but I think once a month is kind of perfect.
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Speaker 1: I think that's plenty.
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Speaker 2: Yes. All right, so that's what we're doing. But before
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Speaker 2: we get to that... Oh.
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Speaker 1: I know because I'm Middle-Aged Man.
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Speaker 3: Middle-Aged Man. Middle-Aged Man.
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Speaker 4: He has powers and knowledge that are far beyond younger
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Speaker 4: than Middle-Aged Man.
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Speaker 5: Caught between 40 and 55 accruing more.
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Speaker 2: Interest yet losing his sex drive developing skills and a gut.
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Speaker 1: Middle-aged man.
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Speaker 2: I have not only a nominee for the middle-aged man
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Speaker 2: hall of fame But one for the women's wing as well.
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Speaker 1: What? Okay.
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Speaker 2: And I want to tell you that both of these
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Speaker 2: folks were married on a television show together. And so
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Speaker 2: we're nominating husband and wife, not in real life, but
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Speaker 2: on the TV show today. The husband was nominated by
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Speaker 2: our Patreoner, John Middleton, while the wife was nominated by
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Speaker 2: yours truly. You? Me.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I am nominating, or we are nominating together, one Mr.
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Speaker 2: And Mrs. Howard and Marion Cunningham, also known as Tom
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Speaker 2: Bosley and Marion Ross.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what if I pick one and not the other?
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Speaker 2: You could do that, but I almost kind of feel
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Speaker 2: like they need to go in as a pair.
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Speaker 1: Are they going to share a room?
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Speaker 2: No, it's just their bus. People don't actually live in
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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. Have you ever been to a
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: People don't live there. It's not like... Ken Griffey Jr.
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Speaker 2: lives up in Cooperstown, New York in a building.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, were they going to
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Speaker 1: have two twin beds in their room?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so for sure. Although I don't know that we
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Speaker 2: ever saw their bedroom on Happy Days.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Wasn't he Father Dowling back in the day? I
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Speaker 1: remember that show.
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Speaker 2: Yes, after Happy Days. After Happy Days, he was on Murder,
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Speaker 2: She Wrote.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And then he was on Father Dowling. And I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure he ever changed age from the 70s through the 2000s.
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Speaker 1: He kind of just looked the same, didn't he?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And Marion.
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Speaker 2: Marion Ross. She looked like she was, I always thought
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Speaker 2: she was almost like grandmotherly in Happy Days when I
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Speaker 2: was a little kid. And I don't feel like she
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Speaker 2: was that old.
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Speaker 1: Let me hold on. Marion Ross is still alive.
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Speaker 2: Yes, she is. Tom Bosley is not, sadly.
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Speaker 1: That's just crazy. Okay, look. Look at this picture of
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Speaker 1: her back when she was young. Look how cute she was.
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Speaker 2: But she's middle-aged looking. Does she not look matronly there?
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Speaker 1: Look at her there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now she's old looking.
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Speaker 1: She looks like the crib keeper there.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about that. That's a little harsh.
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Speaker 1: Well, she has on a wig. That's not helping her.
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Speaker 1: I'm letting them both in as long as they get
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Speaker 1: to share a room.
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Speaker 2: Woo-hoo!
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 2: And Mrs. C, as Fonzie called them.
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Speaker 1: They're in.
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Speaker 2: They're in. Welcome. Our middle-aged man is growing, and our
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Speaker 2: women's wing is growing as well. So they're going to
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Speaker 2: have twin beds in there, right? Yes, correct. All right. Well,
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Speaker 2: we have bypassed that, and now we're going to get
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Speaker 2: to our countdown here. And the reason why we don't
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Speaker 2: have notes is because we have either talked about most
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Speaker 2: of these songs or... We're going to be talking about
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Speaker 2: them for the first time, but really what we're going
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Speaker 2: to be talking about is what you think of the song,
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Speaker 2: how we voted them, and then maybe give some highs
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Speaker 2: and lows about what our Patreoners voted, who gave it
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Speaker 2: the highest score, who gave it the lowest score, and
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So here's how it works. We
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Speaker 2: have 10 songs.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: We had 10 voters. So I told them, rank your
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Speaker 2: favorite song number one, your least favorite song number 10,
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Speaker 2: and then everything else in between. So the best score
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Speaker 2: you could possibly have is 10.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay. That would be everybody giving it a number one.
18:34
Speaker 2: The worst score that you could possibly have is 100.
18:38
Speaker 2: That would be everybody giving it a 10.
18:42
Speaker 1: Right.
18:42
Speaker 2: Okay. So I'm going to let you know what the
18:44
Speaker 2: numbers are. Then I'm going to let you know the
18:46
Speaker 2: folks and all that stuff. But, uh, Do you have
18:49
Speaker 2: anything to say? You got to vote. You saw this list.
18:52
Speaker 2: You probably don't even remember the list. I know your memory.
18:55
Speaker 2: You probably don't even remember the list anymore, do you?
18:57
Speaker 1: I remember a couple of the songs on there.
19:00
Speaker 2: All right. So our number 10 song, do you want
19:04
Speaker 2: me to announce it or do you want me to
19:05
Speaker 2: just play it and then talk about the points it
19:08
Speaker 2: got and everything?
19:08
Speaker 1: Just play it. All right.
19:09
Speaker 2: Here we go.
19:17
Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
19:19
Speaker 2: I got a problem.
19:21
Speaker 3: What's that? I didn't hear that song.
19:24
Speaker 2: You did not send me.
19:26
Speaker 3: That song to rank.
19:28
Speaker 2: The heck I didn't.
19:30
Speaker 1: Because you ranked it.
19:46
Speaker 2: That is Sexy Eyes by Dr. Hook. Is that.
19:49
Speaker 1: what you thought of me the first time you looked
19:51
Speaker 1: in my.
19:52
Speaker 2: Eye i've never i've never thought of eyes being sexy
19:58
Speaker 2: eyes or eyeballs they're kind of weird now you're giving
20:02
Speaker 2: me the people's eyebrow.
20:07
Speaker 1: You've never looked at my eyes and thought how pretty
20:09
Speaker 1: they were?
20:10
Speaker 2: Yes. Pretty. Not sexy. That has nothing to do with you.
20:14
Speaker 2: That just has to do with my feeling about eyes.
20:17
Speaker 2: Eyes can be pretty. Not sexy. Look at this.
20:21
Speaker 1: Look at this.
20:22
Speaker 2: Now, when you do the people's eyebrow, you know how
20:24
Speaker 2: much I love The Rock. So, you know, that may
20:27
Speaker 2: get things stirred up here.
20:32
Speaker 1: Where did I rank this?
20:33
Speaker 2: So, you ranked it. At number 10, which means it
20:38
Speaker 2: was the worst. Yeah. I also ranked it at number 10.
20:42
Speaker 2: And so did pretty much everybody else.
20:45
Speaker 5: No way.
20:45
Speaker 2: So 100 is the worst score you could have. This
20:48
Speaker 2: got 96. Okay, yeah. Okay.
20:51
Speaker 1: Glad we're in agreement there.
20:52
Speaker 2: There were only three people that did not rank this
20:55
Speaker 2: as a 10. So Brad, our buddy Brad from Pop
20:59
Speaker 2: Culture Yearbook, ranked it as a 9. Iron Jawed Angel
21:02
Speaker 2: ranked it as a nine. And my brother, Matt, who
21:05
Speaker 2: this isn't going to be the first time or the
21:07
Speaker 2: last time that he does something controversial, he ranked it
21:11
Speaker 2: as eighth. Eighth? Yeah, I don't know what he's thinking.
21:14
Speaker 1: What's wrong with him? So, Dr.
21:16
Speaker 2: Hook was a nice little kind of rock band in
21:19
Speaker 2: the 70s, and then they got this crap in the 80s,
21:22
Speaker 2: which sounded, didn't it not sound very disco-ish?
21:24
Speaker 1: It did. It sounded very disco-ish.
21:26
Speaker 2: Very old, very aged. It was just bad. So, like
21:30
Speaker 2: I said, I think the song's crap. What do you think?
21:33
Speaker 1: So you're telling me you look at my eyes as
21:36
Speaker 1: just two organs in my head.
21:39
Speaker 2: Yes, with a very pretty blue color. Like the sea. Okay,
21:47
Speaker 2: my eyes do not look like the sea.
21:49
Speaker 1: My eyes are so blue, they're almost black.
21:53
Speaker 2: That makes no sense. They're very dark. Blue, yeah, so
21:57
Speaker 2: is the sea.
21:59
Speaker 1: Look, look.
22:00
Speaker 2: I didn't say the Caribbean Sea. I was thinking more
22:02
Speaker 2: like the Mediterranean. That looks a little darker. Do they
22:05
Speaker 2: look dark? I mean, you're opening up a log long enough.
22:07
Speaker 1: Well, I got this weird little twitch going on in
22:10
Speaker 1: my eye.
22:10
Speaker 2: I know. You've got some kind of nerve issue over there,
22:12
Speaker 2: like you've got the Bell's palsy or something. Oh, jeez.
22:15
Speaker 1: That's just what I need. And my medical repertoire.
22:18
Speaker 2: All right. So we both agree that song's crap.
22:22
Speaker 6: Yes.
22:22
Speaker 2: And so did everybody else. 96 out of 100. You
22:24
Speaker 2: can't do.
22:24
Speaker 1: Except for Matt.
22:25
Speaker 2: Really much worse than that. Thanks, Matt. Um, we'll talk
22:28
Speaker 2: about Matt a little bit later on. All right. So he,
22:31
Speaker 2: so that, that song was from 1980. So right now,
22:34
Speaker 2: 1980 ranks as the worst year of the decade, which
22:39
Speaker 2: I have a feeling if I had to guess, and
22:41
Speaker 2: I don't know for sure, but if I had to guess,
22:42
Speaker 2: I'm going to say that 1980 is going to come
22:44
Speaker 2: in as the worst year of the decade. What do
22:46
Speaker 2: you think?
22:46
Speaker 3: Yes.
22:47
Speaker 1: Um, hands down.
22:49
Speaker 2: And so it'll be interesting to see what comes in best,
22:51
Speaker 2: but that is 1980 number 10 sexy eyes by Dr. Hook.
22:56
Speaker 2: Here's our number nine song.
23:00
Speaker 3: Not, not, notorious, notorious. No, no, notorious.
23:10
Speaker 5: I can't.
23:12
Speaker 3: Read about it.
23:15
Speaker 2: Burn the skin from your eyes. So that is Notorious
23:32
Speaker 2: by Duran Duran.
23:33
Speaker 1: We didn't get much of that one. You must not
23:35
Speaker 1: like it.
23:36
Speaker 2: No, you got the beginning of it.
23:38
Speaker 1: Okay.
23:39
Speaker 2: So that is Notorious by Duran Duran from 1987. Yeah.
23:44
Speaker 2: It finished with 68 points. So it's our number nine
23:48
Speaker 2: ranked song.
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm just not a huge Duran Duran fan.
23:52
Speaker 2: I'm an earlier Duran Duran fan and then a later
23:55
Speaker 2: Duran Duran. Notorious, I like a lot of Duran Duran,
23:57
Speaker 2: but Notorious is not one of the songs that I like. Yeah.
24:00
Speaker 2: I rank this song as a number nine. You also
24:05
Speaker 2: rank this song as number nine.
24:06
Speaker 1: Look at us, Simpatico.
24:08
Speaker 2: Right. Let's see. John Middleton, Patreoner, rated number nine, and
24:15
Speaker 2: Patreoner Showstopper ranked it number nine. The best that it
24:21
Speaker 2: got was actually a number two ranking.
24:23
Speaker 1: Wait, wait.
24:26
Speaker 2: What? Number two by Matt Cooke. You have to realize
24:32
Speaker 2: that he loves George Michael and Wham, and Duran Duran
24:36
Speaker 2: is very similar. So does it surprise you that he
24:40
Speaker 2: ranked at number two?
24:41
Speaker 1: I think I'm judging a little bit right here. I
24:45
Speaker 1: try not to judge, but Matt, I think I'm judging.
24:47
Speaker 2: So Matt ranked at a number two. Eric Shores ranked
24:49
Speaker 2: at a number three.
24:50
Speaker 1: Oh, Eric.
24:52
Speaker 2: And then nothing else was below six. It was six
24:55
Speaker 2: sevens and nines. Um, so not a big fan of
24:59
Speaker 2: that song. No, I mean, it's okay, but yeah, it's
25:02
Speaker 2: certainly not my favorite Duran Duran song. All right. Our
25:07
Speaker 2: next song is number eight. I don't think you're going
25:11
Speaker 2: to be happy about this one.
25:12
Speaker 1: Oh no.
25:13
Speaker 4: Made up of these three words that I must say
25:19
Speaker 4: to you.
25:22
Speaker 2: I just called to say I love you.
25:30
Speaker 3: I just go to say.
25:34
Speaker 1: How much I care.
25:39
Speaker 2: I just go.
25:41
Speaker 1: You would be hard pressed to find a song better
25:46
Speaker 1: than that one.
25:46
Speaker 2: So this is Our number eight song. It finished with
25:55
Speaker 2: 67 points, just one point ahead of Notorious.
25:58
Speaker 1: It's a little too close for my liking.
26:01
Speaker 2: I know it is. So you ranked this song as,
26:04
Speaker 2: do you remember?
26:05
Speaker 1: No. Number two?
26:06
Speaker 2: Yeah. You ranked this as the second best song.
26:08
Speaker 1: I love this song.
26:09
Speaker 2: I ranked it as the seventh best song.
26:11
Speaker 1: Whoa, we're off base.
26:13
Speaker 2: We certainly weren't simpatico on this.
26:15
Speaker 1: Wow.
26:16
Speaker 2: You by far had the best ranking. Nobody else ranked
26:19
Speaker 2: it above five.
26:20
Speaker 1: What?
26:22
Speaker 2: Well, my brother Matt ranked it five. Nobody else had
26:25
Speaker 2: it any lower than five. So you had two, Matt
26:27
Speaker 2: had five. Everybody else was in the bottom half. The
26:30
Speaker 2: lowest ranking was Brad at 10. Brad ranks this as
26:35
Speaker 2: the worst song on the list. Really? So now you're
26:38
Speaker 2: probably happy that you kept Larry David out of the
26:40
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
26:41
Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
26:43
Speaker 2: So that is 1984. Stevie Wonder. I just called to
26:46
Speaker 2: say I love you. So 1984, which everybody claims to
26:49
Speaker 2: be the best year in music, is not getting off
26:51
Speaker 2: to a good start. uh as it is number eight
26:55
Speaker 2: so far of course it's gotten another 24 songs plus
26:59
Speaker 2: to get down below but right now 1984 is not
27:02
Speaker 2: starting off.
27:02
Speaker 1: So well this was my roller skating song i know
27:06
Speaker 1: it was and that's why you love it so much
27:09
Speaker 1: yes um.
27:12
Speaker 2: So i have to admit i don't dislike the song
27:14
Speaker 2: i just think that this list is Pretty darn good.
27:17
Speaker 5: Okay.
27:18
Speaker 1: Okay. Maybe that's what it is. But come on. It's
27:20
Speaker 1: Little Stevie Wonder.
27:21
Speaker 2: I ranked it at seven. I don't think he was
27:23
Speaker 2: little by this point. All right. So 67. The next song,
27:32
Speaker 2: our number seven song, came in at 66 points. So
27:35
Speaker 2: just barely beat Stevie.
27:37
Speaker 5: Bam, bam, bam.
27:37
Speaker 3: Yeah.
27:38
Speaker 2: So just barely beat Stevie, which just barely beat Duran Duran.
27:42
Speaker 2: So our number seven song is right here.
27:47
Speaker 5: The space of emptiness I'm only human of flesh and
27:58
Speaker 5: blood I'm made human born to make mistakes so many not.
28:15
Speaker 1: He said, I am only human, made of flesh and blood.
28:18
Speaker 1: Did he say something about being a maid?
28:20
Speaker 2: No, he said born to make mistakes.
28:22
Speaker 1: Born to make mistakes. I thought he said something about
28:25
Speaker 1: being a maid.
28:28
Speaker 2: So that is Human by the Human League from 1986
28:35
Speaker 2: as our number seven song.
28:37
Speaker 1: You know, I like the song.
28:39
Speaker 3: It's okay.
28:39
Speaker 1: Okay. What did I rank it?
28:41
Speaker 2: You ranked it in sixth.
28:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about it.
28:44
Speaker 2: So you ranked it as your sixth favorite song?
28:46
Speaker 1: That's good enough.
28:46
Speaker 2: I ranked it as my eighth favorite song.
28:48
Speaker 1: Okay.
28:49
Speaker 2: So, so far, the bottom four songs are bottom four,
28:54
Speaker 2: what I've ranked bottom four. They're also what Brad ranked
28:58
Speaker 2: bottom four. They're also what John Middleton ranked bottom four.
29:02
Speaker 2: So we're kind of on pace here. So the highest ranking...
29:08
Speaker 2: that this got was actually number four by the showstopper.
29:15
Speaker 2: And the lowest ranking that it got was number nine
29:18
Speaker 2: by my brother, Matt. Okay.
29:21
Speaker 1: Okay.
29:22
Speaker 2: 66 points. All right.
29:23
Speaker 1: So I can go either way. So I'll respect both
29:26
Speaker 1: of those. Okay.
29:27
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's right where it belongs personally. Any
29:33
Speaker 2: other thoughts on that? So it's not bad.
29:35
Speaker 1: It's not bad. Yeah. Not great.
29:36
Speaker 2: It's not as good as working as a waitress at
29:38
Speaker 2: a cocktail bar.
29:39
Speaker 1: Exactly.
29:41
Speaker 2: All right. So our number six song actually tied with
29:44
Speaker 2: our number five song. So I had to figure out
29:48
Speaker 2: a tiebreaker to see which would be six and which
29:50
Speaker 2: would be five. So I was like, okay, who was
29:53
Speaker 2: ranked number one? Both of them got a number one ranking.
29:58
Speaker 2: So then I was like, okay, what about number two?
30:00
Speaker 2: Both of them got a number two ranking. So then
30:01
Speaker 2: I had to go to number three.
30:02
Speaker 1: Wow.
30:03
Speaker 2: So this song only got one number three, whereas our
30:06
Speaker 2: number five song got three number threes. So that was
30:10
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker. But here is our number six song. That
30:46
Speaker 2: is 1985's Everything She Wants by Wham. So, A, what
30:55
Speaker 2: do you think of that song?
30:57
Speaker 1: So, it's okay. It's very 80s sounding, as it should be.
31:05
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, absolutely.
31:05
Speaker 1: It's very classic 80s.
31:07
Speaker 2: So, this is by far my favorite Wham song.
31:11
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
31:13
Speaker 2: I ranked this song as five, as number five. It's
31:15
Speaker 2: the fifth best song on this list. You ranked it
31:18
Speaker 2: as eight.
31:19
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:21
Speaker 2: You have it below human.
31:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:27
Speaker 2: Which is fine. I'm not picking on you or anything, but.
31:32
Speaker 2: You do not have the lowest ranking. The lowest ranking
31:35
Speaker 2: came from Patreon or Ironshaw Danger, who ranked it at
31:39
Speaker 2: the bottom, number 10.
31:41
Speaker 4: Wow.
31:41
Speaker 3: Okay.
31:42
Speaker 2: The highest ranking, of course, is Matt Cook. Is the
31:47
Speaker 2: guy who did the George Michael podcast, who ranked it
31:50
Speaker 2: number one.
31:51
Speaker 1: Yes.
31:52
Speaker 2: Cover my back. Brother Matt ranked at number two. So
31:55
Speaker 2: apparently this song goes big with Matt's.
31:57
Speaker 1: Really?
31:58
Speaker 2: Yes.
31:59
Speaker 1: The Matt's.
31:59
Speaker 2: The Matt's. So this had 52 points. So 1985 is
32:03
Speaker 2: in sixth place so far in our battle of the
32:07
Speaker 2: years for 1980. You got anything else to say?
32:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really, I'm not crazy about it.
32:15
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to really have anything to say
32:16
Speaker 1: about it.
32:16
Speaker 2: So this song had more top five votes than it
32:19
Speaker 2: had bottom five votes.
32:20
Speaker 5: Okay.
32:20
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, I get that me saying, eh, it's probably controversial,
32:27
Speaker 1: but it is what it is.
32:27
Speaker 2: That's all right. You want to talk controversy? This next
32:30
Speaker 2: song is controversial.
32:30
Speaker 1: Oh, really?
32:31
Speaker 2: This next song is all over the place with the votes,
32:34
Speaker 2: but this is our number five song.
33:06
Speaker 1: That's the best song on the list.
33:10
Speaker 2: That is not how you voted.
33:12
Speaker 1: Where did I put it?
33:14
Speaker 2: You put it at number three.
33:15
Speaker 1: I did?
33:16
Speaker 2: Yes. Had you put it at the best song on
33:18
Speaker 2: the list, it would not have tied Everything She Wants
33:20
Speaker 2: by Wham!
33:22
Speaker 1: It's a great song.
33:24
Speaker 2: You put it at number three. I put it at
33:26
Speaker 2: number four.
33:26
Speaker 1: I love Juice.
33:27
Speaker 2: So we're very close. I love Juice as well. We
33:30
Speaker 2: don't love Juice nearly as much as Brad does, though,
33:33
Speaker 2: because this is his number one song.
33:35
Speaker 1: Okay, Brad.
33:36
Speaker 2: He's the one who voted at number one. This song
33:39
Speaker 2: is mostly in everybody's top three or four.
33:44
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
33:45
Speaker 2: But there were four people that voted it from eight
33:48
Speaker 2: to ten.
33:48
Speaker 1: What?
33:49
Speaker 2: Yes.
33:50
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're banned.
33:51
Speaker 2: So, Patreoner Julie Middleton voted it number eight.
33:56
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll respect that. I don't agree with it.
33:59
Speaker 2: Our buddy Eric Shores voted it number nine.
34:02
Speaker 1: You know better.
34:03
Speaker 2: Matt Cook voted it number nine. Of course.
34:05
Speaker 1: I'm realizing Matt likes to be controversial.
34:09
Speaker 2: My brother Matt voted it. As his worst song. And
34:16
Speaker 2: he actually said on the Patreon, this deserves to be
34:20
Speaker 2: number 11 because that's how bad it is.
34:22
Speaker 1: So I've heard stories of you dropping Matt on his
34:25
Speaker 1: head when he was a little boy. And now I'm
34:28
Speaker 1: seeing the results of that.
34:31
Speaker 2: Well, here's what I'm going to say about my brother
34:33
Speaker 2: Matt voting this number 11, according to him. I didn't
34:36
Speaker 2: give it 11 points. I gave it 10 because he
34:39
Speaker 2: can't do that. That's cheating. Which doesn't surprise me, coming
34:43
Speaker 2: from my brother. But I will say this, that at
34:47
Speaker 2: the next Thanksgiving, there will be a family vote to
34:50
Speaker 2: kick him out of the family.
34:51
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
34:53
Speaker 2: Yet he will still have to host Thanksgiving dinner every
34:56
Speaker 2: year from here on out. But we were going to
34:59
Speaker 2: vote whether or not he is officially kicked out of
35:01
Speaker 2: the family.
35:01
Speaker 1: Or he'll be banned to the basement?
35:03
Speaker 2: For saying such horrible things.
35:05
Speaker 1: No. I don't agree with it, but... Remember, he did
35:10
Speaker 1: fly down or drive down to be with you when you.
35:13
Speaker 2: Had your kidney removed.
35:13
Speaker 5: He did.
35:14
Speaker 2: All right. I'll forgive him for that then. Okay. So
35:17
Speaker 2: that's 1981. That's Angel of the Morning by Juice Newton.
35:21
Speaker 2: Cover from the 60s, I think. But yeah, that's our
35:25
Speaker 2: number five. That's our number five. 1981 rolls in at
35:28
Speaker 2: number five. So 1981 trying to sneak in there.
35:31
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:31
Speaker 2: You know what else is trying to sneak in there?
35:32
Speaker 1: What?
35:33
Speaker 2: The next year, 1982.
35:44
Speaker 3: So that is We Got the Beat by The Go-Go's.
35:52
Speaker 3: That is correct.
36:14
Speaker 2: From 1982. So I'll tell you what's kind of cool
36:16
Speaker 2: about this list here is that the first song, Sexy Eyes,
36:20
Speaker 2: it got number 10s pretty much across the board. Like
36:23
Speaker 2: I said, only three people didn't vote for it as
36:24
Speaker 2: number 10. So only four songs got number 10 votes,
36:29
Speaker 2: but there were six songs that got first place votes.
36:33
Speaker 1: Okay.
36:34
Speaker 2: It started with Everything She Wants, Angel of the Morning
36:36
Speaker 2: got a first place vote. Now We Got the Beat
36:39
Speaker 2: got a first place vote, and that came from Eric Shores. Okay.
36:43
Speaker 2: I actually voted this song number six and you voted
36:45
Speaker 2: it number seven. Yeah. I really struggled with this between
36:49
Speaker 2: this and Everything She Wants and Angel of the Morning.
36:58
Speaker 1: It's where it gets hard.
36:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really got hard. So it was just kind of,
37:01
Speaker 2: it's almost kind of like, it depends what day you
37:04
Speaker 2: catch me on.
37:04
Speaker 1: Correct.
37:05
Speaker 2: Because I love the Go-Go's and I love We Got
37:07
Speaker 2: the Beat. I don't think it's their best song, but...
37:10
Speaker 2: It was their first song, and it's very, very meaningful,
37:12
Speaker 2: and I love it. So, by the way, that came
37:14
Speaker 2: in at 45 points. So, seven points ahead of Angel
37:18
Speaker 2: and Wham.
37:19
Speaker 1: Okay.
37:21
Speaker 2: I voted at six. You voted at seven. Eric Shores
37:24
Speaker 2: voted at number one. You actually had the worst score
37:27
Speaker 2: for this.
37:28
Speaker 1: Oh, sorry.
37:28
Speaker 2: Everybody else had six or higher. It got a couple
37:32
Speaker 2: of number twos with Brad and Iron Jawed Angel.
37:34
Speaker 1: Okay.
37:34
Speaker 2: So, thoughts on it being our number four song, 1982?
37:37
Speaker 5: Yeah.
37:38
Speaker 1: I think I probably ranked it a little low, but.
37:42
Speaker 2: But there's some good songs on this list.
37:44
Speaker 1: There are some good songs on the list. And again,
37:46
Speaker 1: some days it's, you know, it's just my mood that day. Right.
37:50
Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
37:51
Speaker 5: All right.
37:52
Speaker 2: So that was number four with 45 points. Our number
37:55
Speaker 2: three song came in at 40 points. And here it is.
38:32
Speaker 1: Okay. Now you say eyes can't be sexy. Can they
38:36
Speaker 1: be hungry?
38:37
Speaker 2: They can absolutely be hungry. Oh, okay.
38:40
Speaker 1: So this you will allow.
38:41
Speaker 2: I will allow hungry eyes. I will not allow sexy eyes. Uh, sometimes,
38:46
Speaker 2: you know, depending on like, if you're from somewhere where
38:48
Speaker 2: there's famine, I'll allow famished eyes.
38:52
Speaker 1: You're crazy. I love this song.
38:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. The song's from 1988. It's the number
38:57
Speaker 2: three song on our list. It finished with 40 points.
38:59
Speaker 2: This was your number one song. This was the song
39:01
Speaker 2: that you ranked number one. I actually ranked this number two.
39:04
Speaker 2: But it did have another number one vote.
39:06
Speaker 1: Who?
39:06
Speaker 2: The Showstopper.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
39:08
Speaker 2: Okay. The lowest points that it had. So nobody ranked
39:12
Speaker 2: it lower than six, except for Julie Middleton, who ranked
39:15
Speaker 2: it number nine.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't feeling this song.
39:18
Speaker 2: I guess she doesn't like Dirty Dancing. I don't know.
39:19
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there.
39:20
Speaker 1: Well, I don't really like Dirty Dancing, but I love
39:23
Speaker 1: this song.
39:24
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at this, right? Because you and Showstopper,
39:26
Speaker 2: you picked it at number one. Yeah. so now I'm
39:31
Speaker 2: going through all your lists, and you guys have a
39:33
Speaker 2: lot of similarities here. You both picked Sexy Eyes at ten.
39:37
Speaker 2: You both picked Notorious at nine. You both picked Angel
39:40
Speaker 2: of the Morning at three.
39:42
Speaker 1: Wow.
39:42
Speaker 2: You both picked Everything She Wants at eight. And then
39:45
Speaker 2: you both picked this at one. And then you both
39:50
Speaker 2: picked the number one song at five.
39:52
Speaker 1: Showstopper.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. The showstopper up there in Minnesota. He is. Okay.
39:57
Speaker 1: We got some stuff in common.
39:58
Speaker 5: Yeah.
39:58
Speaker 2: You got some stuff in common. So Hungry Eyes, Eric Carman.
40:02
Speaker 2: In 1988, I loved Eric Carman. He had this. He
40:05
Speaker 2: had Turn the Radio Up.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.
40:10
Speaker 2: He was just all over the place in the summer
40:11
Speaker 2: of 88. And I absolutely loved me some Eric Carman.
40:14
Speaker 2: So yeah, you had him one. I had him two.
40:18
Speaker 2: And on any day I could rank him number one.
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
40:22
Speaker 2: So, but even had I ranked him number one, he
40:24
Speaker 2: still would have been number three because our number two
40:27
Speaker 2: song here is from the great year of 1983. It
40:31
Speaker 2: makes it all right. You say, baby, I ain't got
40:35
Speaker 2: no gas.
40:37
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Living COVID. Baby, your mind's too fast. It's wrong.
41:04
Speaker 6: So that's Little Red Corvette by Prince and the Revolution
41:10
Speaker 6: or just Prince?
41:11
Speaker 2: Just Prince.
41:11
Speaker 1: Just Prince. In all fairness, my blood sugar's low.
41:16
Speaker 2: We are staying up in Minnesota for this with Prince,
41:19
Speaker 2: Little Red Corvette, 1983. I rated the song as the
41:23
Speaker 2: third best song. Although, honestly, when I first looked at
41:26
Speaker 2: the list, I thought I was going to rate it
41:27
Speaker 2: number one. Where did I rate it? You rated it
41:30
Speaker 2: number four.
41:32
Speaker 1: Oh, really? What's wrong with me?
41:34
Speaker 2: I don't know. Because you looked, I just called to
41:37
Speaker 2: say I love you so much. I don't get that.
41:39
Speaker 1: Yes.
41:41
Speaker 2: So we'll go over our top ten when we get
41:44
Speaker 2: finished here. But you had it at three. I had
41:47
Speaker 2: it at four. It had two number one votes. The
41:51
Speaker 2: only time that they voted the same, or they only
41:55
Speaker 2: did it twice. They did the number 10 song and
41:57
Speaker 2: their number one song. The Middletons, John and Julie, husband
42:01
Speaker 2: and wife team. They both voted this song number one.
42:04
Speaker 2: They both voted sexy eyes number 10 because they also
42:06
Speaker 2: know that eyes can't be sexy. But this had two
42:12
Speaker 2: number two votes, a number three vote, three number four votes.
42:17
Speaker 2: Some fools voted at six and seven. They're not my
42:20
Speaker 2: podcast friends or anything. And that's why, that is why
42:27
Speaker 2: this isn't the number one song. Really? This song was,
42:30
Speaker 2: until I got the last vote in this song, was
42:32
Speaker 2: tied with the number one song.
42:33
Speaker 1: Oh my God.
42:34
Speaker 2: And it was going to be very difficult to break it.
42:38
Speaker 2: Although the number one song ended up with more number
42:40
Speaker 2: one votes, so it would have been number one either way.
42:42
Speaker 2: But it was tied at first. So this finished with
42:46
Speaker 2: 34 points. So six points ahead of Hungry Eyes. And
42:49
Speaker 2: four points behind our number one song from 1989. Thank you.
43:28
Speaker 6: So that is, I didn't get enough of that. I
43:31
Speaker 6: know I'm getting picky over here. We've covered this song
43:33
Speaker 6: a lot on this show. So that is from 1989.
43:37
Speaker 6: That is like a prayer by the queen of pop Madonna.
43:41
Speaker 1: That song's fantastic.
43:42
Speaker 2: It really is. And so that finished with 30 points.
43:45
Speaker 1: Okay.
43:46
Speaker 2: Um, You ranked it at number five, which is the
43:50
Speaker 2: highest ranking that it got.
43:52
Speaker 1: Really?
43:53
Speaker 2: Yes. Brad and the Showstopper also at number five. I
43:57
Speaker 2: ranked it at number one, which was the best vote
44:01
Speaker 2: that it got, but it was also number one by
44:03
Speaker 2: Iron Jawed Angel and by my brother Matt.
44:06
Speaker 1: Okay.
44:06
Speaker 2: So it got three number ones, number two, number threes,
44:10
Speaker 2: one number four, and three number fives to finish at
44:13
Speaker 2: 30 for our number one song of this countdown, Like
44:17
Speaker 2: a Prayer by Madonna. To me, this is her best song.
44:21
Speaker 1: Yeah.
44:22
Speaker 2: It's my favorite song by her, and I like a
44:24
Speaker 2: lot of her stuff. But this is my favorite song.
44:27
Speaker 2: And so right now, after our first episode, 1989 is
44:31
Speaker 2: looking like the best year in music. It is.
44:33
Speaker 1: It really is. And I would vote 1989 all day long.
44:35
Speaker 1: So it goes 1989, then 1983, 88, 82, 81, 85, 86, 84.
44:47
Speaker 2: 87 and then 80, at least after this first round.
44:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
44:53
Speaker 2: Now things will change probably when we get to the
44:55
Speaker 2: second round. I, I look forward to doing this for
44:59
Speaker 2: all the rounds and, and watching the ratings change, you know,
45:02
Speaker 2: kind of like the, uh, the golf scores. If you're
45:05
Speaker 2: ever watching golf and you see them posted up on
45:06
Speaker 2: the leaderboard there, but, uh, yeah, this was a lot
45:09
Speaker 2: of fun. Thank you to our Patreoners for jumping in
45:12
Speaker 2: there and voting for us. We want you to be
45:13
Speaker 2: a part of the show, but you know, sometimes ranking
45:16
Speaker 2: stuff doesn't seem like fun for everybody, but, Our people
45:19
Speaker 2: really got into it.
45:20
Speaker 1: I thought it was really cool. I think we've got
45:22
Speaker 1: a great group of Patreoners who humor you and your
45:27
Speaker 1: love of ranking things.
45:29
Speaker 2: That's possible. That's possible. But I just think they're great people.
45:32
Speaker 1: They are great people. Absolutely.
45:34
Speaker 2: But we've got Prince, Madonna. Yeah, you've got two of
45:39
Speaker 2: the big three for the 80s, right? With Prince and Madonna.
45:42
Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder. Mm-hmm. Duran Duran.
45:45
Speaker 2: Duran Duran.
45:46
Speaker 1: Wham. Wow.
45:47
Speaker 4: Wow.
45:48
Speaker 2: Go-go's. I mean, yeah. And you got juice. And you
45:52
Speaker 2: got juice.
45:52
Speaker 1: Let's don't forget juice.
45:54
Speaker 2: You know that Sesame Street song, one of these kids
45:56
Speaker 2: is doing his own thing, one of these kids don't belong?
45:58
Speaker 2: That's Dr. Hook and Sexy Ice.
46:00
Speaker 1: No doubt. 100% agree with that.
46:04
Speaker 2: But yeah, this was a lot of fun. And listen,
46:07
Speaker 2: our regular listeners out there, if you don't like the
46:09
Speaker 2: way these votes went... You can sign up for our
46:14
Speaker 2: Patreon for as little as $ 5 a month and vote yourself.
46:18
Speaker 1: You are so bad.
46:19
Speaker 2: No, everybody gets a say.
46:23
Speaker 1: So you know what I'm going to do?
46:24
Speaker 2: What's that?
46:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to take over Patreon for one day, and
46:29
Speaker 1: I want to do some Dolly stuff.
46:32
Speaker 2: What does Dolly have to do with our Patreon?
46:35
Speaker 1: I want them to rank some Dolly songs. Can I
46:37
Speaker 1: do that?
46:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they want to.
46:40
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what if I want to?
46:42
Speaker 2: What if they don't want to?
46:43
Speaker 1: Well, then that brings back some really big insecurities I
46:48
Speaker 1: have of not having friends.
46:49
Speaker 5: In the 80s.
46:49
Speaker 2: All right, folks. Lindsay's going to try and take over
46:54
Speaker 2: the Patreon. You can do it on the free channel.
46:58
Speaker 4: Okay.
46:59
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you don't think that I'm worthy of
47:02
Speaker 1: the paid group?
47:03
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying you might get more responses if you
47:05
Speaker 2: do it on the free channel.
47:05
Speaker 1: Well, I'm saying I might just be doling out $ 5
47:10
Speaker 1: to people just to get them to join.
47:14
Speaker 2: I'll buy my friends. You heard it here, folks. You
47:21
Speaker 2: can join Patreon for as little as $ 5 and vote
47:24
Speaker 2: on Dolly Songs, which will not make the show, as
47:27
Speaker 2: well as Top 10. 100 songs from the 80s as
47:31
Speaker 2: we continue this ranking of the best songs of the 80s.
47:35
Speaker 2: What's the best year? What do you think the best
47:37
Speaker 2: year is going to be? I hear a lot of
47:39
Speaker 2: people saying 84. It's not 84.
47:40
Speaker 1: It might end up being 84. I don't agree with that.
47:44
Speaker 1: I think it's either 1987 or 1989. And you know what?
47:46
Speaker 5: I am.
47:46
Speaker 1: It may be. It may be 87 or 89, but
47:47
Speaker 1: I am going to say folks.
47:48
Speaker 2: Don't go to sleep on 1983. 1983 is a very
48:00
Speaker 2: underrated year for music.
48:02
Speaker 3: Okay.
48:03
Speaker 2: So, um, final rankings.
48:08
Speaker 1: Give me what are, what, what was my final?
48:11
Speaker 2: So your favorite song was hungry eyes. Then I just
48:16
Speaker 2: called to say, I love you.
48:17
Speaker 5: Yeah.
48:18
Speaker 2: Angel of the morning, little red Corvette, like a prayer human.
48:23
Speaker 2: We got the beat, everything. She wants notorious music. And
48:28
Speaker 2: then sexy eyes.
48:29
Speaker 4: Yeah.
48:29
Speaker 1: I'll stand, I'll stand behind that.
48:31
Speaker 2: So I was like a prayer, hungry eyes, little red Corvette,
48:37
Speaker 2: angel of the morning, everything she wants. We got the beat.
48:42
Speaker 2: I just called to say, I love you human, notorious
48:45
Speaker 2: and sexy eyes.
48:45
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. What threw it off was my love of,
48:49
Speaker 1: I just called to say, I love you. Right.
48:51
Speaker 2: Right. So final, final rankings, one through 10, like a prayer.
48:57
Speaker 2: Little Red Corvette. Hungry Eyes. We Got the Beat. Angel
49:01
Speaker 2: of the Morning. Everything She Wants. Human. I Just Called
49:04
Speaker 2: to Say I Love You. Notorious and Sexy Eyes.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
49:07
Speaker 2: Let us know what you think, folks. What do you
49:09
Speaker 2: think hit? What do you think missed? Are you upset
49:11
Speaker 2: about the rankings? And if you are, you can do
49:14
Speaker 2: something about it.
49:16
Speaker 1: We would love to have you over on Patreon.
49:19
Speaker 2: We just did a Patreon. episode tonight sliding into home
49:21
Speaker 2: for August that our Patreoners have probably already listened to
49:25
Speaker 2: by the time this episode rolls out on Wednesday.
49:28
Speaker 1: We are also on all the socials. We are out
49:30
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49:35
Speaker 2: You can reach us at childrenof underscore 80s Our email address,
49:40
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49:46
Speaker 2: Don't forget to stick around because as we finish this
49:49
Speaker 2: episode off, we're going to debut our new theme song
49:53
Speaker 2: in its entirety.
49:54
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Can't wait for people to hear it.
49:56
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get feedback on it.
49:57
Speaker 2: Until next time, I'm Jim.
50:00
Speaker 1: And I'm Lindsay. And we are Children of the 80s.
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Speaker 1: See you next Wednesday.
50:37
Speaker 4: Riding bikes past the arcade glow.
50:41
Speaker 2: Quarter in my pocket, got nowhere to go.
50:44
Speaker 4: Pac-Man fever and a Donkey Kong dream. Life looks better
50:50
Speaker 4: through a TV screen. Boombox blasting from the Camaro back.
50:54
Speaker 4: Duran Duran on a cassette stack.
50:59
Speaker 2: Mawful cordon and orange Julius.
51:01
Speaker 4: Every Friday night felt made for us. We were Rewinding
51:07
Speaker 4: tapes with a pencil in hand.
51:14
Speaker 2: Remember me on.
51:16
Speaker 3: Saturday nights Everything.
51:18
Speaker 1: Felt bigger under laser lights MTV and.
51:21
Speaker 4: Brand new high-top shoes We were dancing away the evening
51:26
Speaker 4: news Radio with our hearts on fire.
51:28
Speaker 3: Living our lives through a guitar.
51:35
Speaker 4: Amplifier From the roller rink to the mall downtown The
51:39
Speaker 4: whole wide world was an 80s soundtrack.
51:52
Speaker 2: Back to the future posters.
51:54
Speaker 1: In the hall.
51:55
Speaker 4: Mom yelling dinner from the kitchen at night. But we
51:59
Speaker 4: weren't home till we saw the streetlight.
52:02
Speaker 1: Nintendo Kings with.
52:04
Speaker 2: The power glove.
52:06
Speaker 4: Learning about life and first young love. Slow dance awkward
52:11
Speaker 4: at the school dance. Break dancing in our parachute pants.
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Speaker 1: Bye.
52:19
Speaker 2: Bye.
52:39
Speaker 1: Radio with our hearts on fire Every movie scene took us.
52:44
Speaker 4: Higher and higher From the roller rink to the mall
52:48
Speaker 4: downtown The whole wide world was an 80s soundtrack Ferris
52:56
Speaker 4: wheels and Polaroid flashes Saturday cartoons in rockstar fashion And our.
53:16
Speaker 5: Best friends.
53:43
Speaker 4: My heart still lives in that 80s soundtrack.
53:50
Speaker 3: Oh, oh. And that ain't soundtrack