Nov. 6, 2025

"1982 Rewind"

Send us a text A year can change everything, and 1982 proved it. We crack open the moment when MTV turned music into moving pictures, fashion into a stage, and hits into cultural events. From front-porch laughs to deep dives, we map how Thriller rewrote pop’s playbook, why Eddie Van Halen’s Beat It solo made genre walls crumble, and how Toto’s studio sheen, Prince’s swagger, and Survivor’s training montage forever reshaped the soundtrack of daily life. The stories don’t stop at the stereo. W...

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A year can change everything, and 1982 proved it. We crack open the moment when MTV turned music into moving pictures, fashion into a stage, and hits into cultural events. From front-porch laughs to deep dives, we map how Thriller rewrote pop’s playbook, why Eddie Van Halen’s Beat It solo made genre walls crumble, and how Toto’s studio sheen, Prince’s swagger, and Survivor’s training montage forever reshaped the soundtrack of daily life.

The stories don’t stop at the stereo. We revisit a film slate that still defines taste: ET’s wonder and bicycles against the moon, Blade Runner’s neon rain and philosophical ache, Tron’s digital dreamscape, Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s quotable chaos, and Rocky III’s gleaming grit. Each title didn’t just entertain—it minted an aesthetic you can still spot in modern music videos, streaming shows, and the way brands sell nostalgia. Add the compact disc’s debut, arcade highs before the crash, and fashion’s neon surge, and you get a snapshot of culture speeding up and learning to look at itself.

We even pull a sports thread: the 1982 NFL strike season and how it warped records and memories, from Denver’s struggles to New England’s playoff flicker. It’s all part of the same current—media, tech, and mood shaping what we talk about decades later. If you’ve ever argued about the best MJ track, quoted Spicoli in the wild, or matched a skinny tie to a synth riff, this ride is for you. Hit play, share it with a friend who still knows every lyric to Africa, and drop us a note with your top three moments from 1982. Subscribe, rate, and leave a review—tell us what year we should time-travel to next.

00:00 - Cold Open: Setting 1982’s Vibe

02:33 - Porch Banter And Rooster Saga

04:29 - Why 1982 Matters For Music

05:36 - Pop Anthems: MJ, Survivor, Toto

08:10 - New Wave’s Shine And Snark

08:43 - Metal Raises The Volume

09:36 - Soul, Funk, And Early Hip-Hop

11:20 - Country, Punk, And Alt Threads

12:20 - MTV Memories And Guitar Myths

14:00 - Rocky III And Favorite Sequels

17:30 - Back To Studio: On-Air Chaos

30:55 - NFL Strike Season Throwback

33:55 - Music And Movies: The Wider List

36:50 - ET, Blade Runner, And Tron

38:20 - Fast Times And Cultural Moments

41:20 - Fashion, Tech, And Game Crash

44:30 - Did Video Kill The Radio Star

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Uh yes.

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1982.

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A glorious year.

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If your definition of glorious includes neon spandex, synthesizers that sounded like dying microwaves, and cinematic masterpieces about small rubber aliens who just wanted to go home.

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Frankly, same.

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Tonight, Mike and Tom will be taking us on a journey back to 82.

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Though whether they stay in 1982 is about as likely as Tom successfully reading his own notes.

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For those unfamiliar, 1982 was the year MTV began telling young people what to wear, how to dance, and which bands were edgy.

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Which is how we ended up with an epidemic of men in eyeliner and mess shirts attempting to brood in shopping malls.

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We also got thriller.

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Yes.

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Michael Jackson's Thriller.

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The album so big it made everyone else's work look like they recorded it in a garden shed.

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I'm sure Mike will remind us of this 17 times.

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And Tom will claim he always liked the deep cuts to seem interesting.

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Spoiler, he didn't.

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Movies?

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Oh, we had Blade Runner.

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The film that taught everyone it's okay for the future to look like a damp parking garage.

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And E.T., the heartwarming tale of a magical risen who just wants a phone with better long distance coverage.

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I'm sure the boys will talk for at least 12 minutes about whether you would actually let that thing live in your house.

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Riveting.

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Meanwhile, the video game industry was busy throwing itself off a cliff with the ET Atari game, a game so catastrophically bad that they buried millions of copies in the desert.

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Honestly.

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MT alternatives only error with your favorite friends.

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Tom's got the stories, Mike's got the tune.

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Roll down the windows and crank up those boom bones.

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MT Alternative Podcast.

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Let's drive Mike and Tom.

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We're still rocking live.

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Welcome back to more porch time on the MT Alternative Podcast.

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Tom, what's going on, bud?

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Not much, Mike.

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What's going on with you?

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Enjoying this great day.

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Yeah, it is pretty nice.

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On the porch, once again.

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It is pretty nice out here today.

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It's a lot better than it was last week.

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Think so?

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Yeah.

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That wind was pretty brutal last week.

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Well, I can feel my fingers this week, is how I'm talking about.

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Still can't see my toes, but I can feel my fingers.

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We had some exciting little adventures around here with the little rooster Roman.

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Yeah, we uh Mike went to my neighbor rooster.

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My neighbor my what?

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What am I gonna do?

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I did no such thing.

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He came to stop the rooster.

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I was protecting my rooster from that rooster.

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Oh.

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I wasn't getting near it.

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Nope.

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He's come to stop the rooster.

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Yes.

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And he did.

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And now and now the rooster is back home.

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Work.

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Work.

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Work.

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Work.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what happened to me, but you know this week I had a little bug show up.

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Yeah, hopefully you didn't bring little bug here.

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No, I don't think so.

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That would be kind of crappy.

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Yeah, it would be.

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But no fever, so should be crazy.

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Mark.

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There goes the neighbor.

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There goes the neighborhood.

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This is what happens on the old porch.

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Yeah.

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We observe.

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And then pretty soon we'll say, oh, here comes Mark.

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The neighbor.

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Yep, Mark again.

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He'd probably be on a tractor or four-wheeler or whatever the hell he's got.

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His zero turn.

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His little electric bike.

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Yeah, yeah, he's got one of those now.

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Gas-powered bike.

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List goes on.

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Mark likes his little toys.

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Anyway, 82.

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82.

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Great year, another great year for music.

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A lot of happenings in 82.

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Yeah, this is when life was getting real for me.

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I think I just had moved out here.

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That December of 82.

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That's when M Mom and Dad came out this way, or so this is about the time and era that the old hitchhiking story took place.

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A little bit after, but not too much.

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Well, probably I'm sure some of the music you were listening to, sappy stuff.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm sure.

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Tears in my beard.

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Well, you figure 82, I was 19.

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Right.

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I would have been 15.

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So that's about right around that time, Tom?

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Yeah.

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About a year later?

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Another year, yeah.

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Yeah.

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The old hitchhike?

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Hiking down the old trail.

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There we go.

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So you want to get into the music now?

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Might as well, right?

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Yeah.

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Nothing like good music.

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Alright.

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So I got a list here of some 82 massive year.

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Uh across the genres, I did that list again, because I'm not doing the top ten, top 40 anymore.

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That's to everybody.

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Kind of break it down, and obviously we'll talk about which music impacted us in that year.

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I mean, there's a lot of good music.

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But to start off, uh, these are impactful type songs we brought up.

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Billy Jean, Michael Jackson.

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Yeah.

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Michael Jackson again with Beat It.

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Michael Jackson again with Thriller.

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Yeah, he did, man.

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He was a key idea there.

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That was uh big time for Michael Jackson.

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Yeah.

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MTV was just got started the year before, so yeah, that was a great year for him.

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He knew what to do on that TV.

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Everybody, I mean, pretty much everybody knew.

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We all watched the Jackson 5 cartoon as kids.

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I mean, I know you did, Tom.

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You had to.

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Alright, so the next uh we got uh the tiger, Survivor.

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Great song, Rocky soundtrack.

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Heck yeah, Rocky 3.

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That was one of my favorite Mr.

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T.

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Plubber.

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Bust Job fool.

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What was his name in that?

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Clubber Land.

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Clubber Land.

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It was it.

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Alright.

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Africa, Toto.

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Oh yeah.

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Africa.

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Somebody wanna have a dude.

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Oh, another one for Toto.

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Rosanna.

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Rosanna.

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Rosanna.

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No, that's not it.

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That's not it at all.

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Not it at all.

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Not even close.

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That is not the Toto song, Tom.

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Okay.

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This is one of your favorites, though, Tom.

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Tom.

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Tong.

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Tom, Tong.

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Hey that.

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We have by the Steve Miller band.

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Oh, yeah.

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Abracadabra.

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Tom's favorite song.

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I'm gonna reach out and grab you.

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What happened to I Wanna Stab Ya?

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Yeah.

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Slap you.

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We have whatever John Mellencamp, Jack and Diane.

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Yeah, little kiddie.

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Sucking on chili dogs.

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What are they doing to the chili dogs?

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Sucking on them.

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Oh boy.

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That's not how I eat a chili dog, but whatever.

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Winterfest.

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I wonder if that's where it started.

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He does have hurt so good.

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Yeah, well.

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There you go.

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John Cougar's a I guess he's a fairgoer.

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Oh no, John Mellencamp, though.

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Oh, yeah.

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John Cougar.

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Took that out.

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Yeah.

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Okay, we have Centifold from Jay Guy's band.

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Oh, yeah.

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Angels of Centifold.

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Okay, now we'll go into New Wave and Synthpop.

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Synthpop.

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Human League once again, Tom.

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Wow.

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From last year to this year.

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Don't you want me?

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Baby.

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Soft sell again, same thing.

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I guess these songs were big in '82 also.

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Hungry Like a Wolf from Duran Duran.

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Right, right, right.

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Love plus one.

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Haircut 100.

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Love plus one.

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Okay.

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Obviously that new wave.

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Then we had a flock of pigeons.

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I mean a flock of seagulls.

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They ran so far away.

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And so far away.

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Here we go.

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Here's the mic stuff.

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I maiden.

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Run to the hills.

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Run to the hills.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Number of the beast.

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666.

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Sorry.

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That scares me.

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Okay, we have Rainbow in a Dark from Dio, another great song.

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Yep.

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You've got another thing coming.

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Judas Priest, great song.

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Rock of Ages, Death Leopard.

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Again, when I like Death Leopard a lot.

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And then, yes, folks, before Quiet Riot, Slade saying, Come on, feel the noise.

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Just so everybody's aware of this.

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Right.

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In that case, you weren't.

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What?

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Like Slade saying, Come on, feel the noise.

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They were the original Quiet Riot.

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And of course, Quiet Riot took off with it.

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Kudos to them.

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They stole it.

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Rest in peace, Kevin DeBrot.

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Yes.

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Alright, we got sexual healing, Marvin Gay.

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Which, fun fact, I did not realize.

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Yes, he was.

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Devon told me that kind of broke my heart.

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Not that there's anything wrong with it.

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No.

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No, no.

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Just, you know, the songs he's singing, you like that.

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Yeah, the sexual healing doesn't sound so good.

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No, no, no, no.

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Alright.

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Let it whip.

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The Daz Band.

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This is RB and Funkin' Soul, by the way.

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And then uh I keep forgetting, Michael McDonald.

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Hey, do we brothers, Michael McDonald?

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Yeah.

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I keep forgetting.

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Alright, we have hip hop and early rap.

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Oh, wonderful.

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We have The Message, Grandmaster Flash, and The Furious Five.

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Oh boy.

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Planet Rock.

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Africa.

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Bomba.

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What?

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And Soulsonic Force.

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Okay.

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That's different.

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Never heard of them.

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Sure, they're great.

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Yep.

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And I probably heard the song, Just Don't Know Who Sings It.

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Right.

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Tom is a little more up your alley with the country songs, Always on My Mind from Willie Nelson.

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Always on my mind.

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And I Will Always Love You.

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Dolly Cart.

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Yep.

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1982 re-release.

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Was it a re-release?

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That's what it's saying here, Tom.

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That's what it's telling us.

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But you know.

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It's on the internet, it must be true, right?

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Must be.

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Must be.

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Yeah.

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Alright, let's go into punk, post-punk, and alternative.

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Just like Heaven, the cure.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Goth, yeah, it's goth music.

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Love will tear us apart, the Joy Division.

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It says reissued.

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Yeah.

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And a town called Malice from the Jam.

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Okay, I know the jam, I don't recognize that song.

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Pump up the jam.

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No, no, no.

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The name of the band is the jam.

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Oh, okay.

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Where are you going?

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I'm not going anywhere.

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Alright, how about come on, Eileen?

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Dexie's Midnight Runners.

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That's nasty.

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No.

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No.

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Come on.

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Like, come on.

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Oh.

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Damn time.

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One of my favorites, 1999 from Prince.

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Tonight we're going to party like that.

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So I'd like to discuss some of this music.

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All the Michael Jackson stuff, where do you remember that from?

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Is it MTV?

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Mostly, yes.

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Pretty much, right?

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Yeah.

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Same with Toto.

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I'd have to say Africa.

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Yep.

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Now, the big song I know from Toto we already discussed back early late 70s.

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Hold the line.

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Oh yeah.

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Hold the line.

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Africa didn't.

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Rosanna.

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Rosanna.

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I think it was about Rosanna Arquet.

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That's what I hear.

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I don't know if that's true.

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I don't either.

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If anybody out there knows what we're doing.

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Yeah, let us know.

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Give us a message.

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We could actually look it up, but you know.

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You know, Tom and I just fly by the seat of our pants here.

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We need all the help we can get.

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Yes.

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Oh, we do.

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Beat it from Michael Jackson.

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Okay.

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You had Eddie Van Halen play guitar in that.

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Without that guitar in that song.

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Right?

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It's not really a good song.

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Sorry.

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Sorry, Michael.

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And from what I understood, this is from Eddie Van Halen interview, that he kind of rewrote it so the guitar parts would all fit with Right.

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Well.

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So it was not a.

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And he did not get paid for this.

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He did not.

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He did not, even though it was a big hit.

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And like you said, what am I gonna get paid for?

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I was here for like a couple minutes.

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Laid down some tracks and left.

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Right.

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It was pretty cool about it, actually.

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Well, that's professionalism at its finest.

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Either he was drunk or didn't remember half the shit.

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I don't know.

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I shouldn't say that.

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We all have our downfalls and our days.

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We do.

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We all have demons, Tom.

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I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be a problem today.

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How so, Tom?

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I don't know.

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I just feel that way.

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Okay, cool.

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Well, that's awesome.

00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:52.960
Nah.

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So what did uh the movie you talked about, Rocky 3?

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Right?

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Is that your favorite Rocky movie?

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Yeah, pretty much.

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I've I've the first one was good, but a little sappy.

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I'm hearing a click in in my headphones.

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It's gone now.

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I don't I don't hear it now either.

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This is what happens on porch time, I guess.

00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:17.360
Okay.

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Rocky III.

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Yes, Rocky III.

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Get back to that.

00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.759
Yeah, we were uh sippy pool my coffee.

00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.080
You can't get a sippy.

00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:33.519
But anyway, Rocky III I remember was one of mine because the first one, like I said, I was a little young when it came out.

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Right.

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