July 2, 2025

When America Turned 200: The Soundtrack of a Nation

When America Turned 200: The Soundtrack of a Nation

Send us a text Step into a time machine to 1976, when America celebrated its bicentennial, bell-bottoms were wide, and the musical landscape was experiencing a revolution unlike any other. This vibrant year saw rock music expanding to fill stadiums while punk kicked down the establishment's door and disco seduced reluctant dancers across the country. Mike and Tom share their personal connections to this transformative year with palpable enthusiasm, exploring how Boston's groundbreaking debut...

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Step into a time machine to 1976, when America celebrated its bicentennial, bell-bottoms were wide, and the musical landscape was experiencing a revolution unlike any other. This vibrant year saw rock music expanding to fill stadiums while punk kicked down the establishment's door and disco seduced reluctant dancers across the country.

Mike and Tom share their personal connections to this transformative year with palpable enthusiasm, exploring how Boston's groundbreaking debut album, Queen's operatic masterpiece "Bohemian Rhapsody," and the Eagles' mysterious "Hotel California" created the soundtrack to their formative years. Their genuine excitement bubbles over as they recall discovering Kiss at age 9-13, marveling at Steven Tyler's vocal range on "Dream On," and forming air bands with friends to perform Bay City Rollers hits.

Beyond music, the hosts paint a vivid picture of 1976 America – a nation draped in patriotic red, white, and blue everything (including toilet paper!), where CB radios connected truckers and civilians alike, and innovations like Apple Computer were quietly changing the world. The conversation weaves through cultural touchstones from Rocky to Charlie's Angels, creating a rich tapestry of nostalgia.

The hosts don't just catalog songs; they reveal how these tracks became intertwined with their personal experiences, from first crushes to childhood dreams of rock stardom. Tom's confession about using country music and Dr. Hook to get through lonely summers on the farm stands alongside Mike's memories of cutting guitar shapes from wood – authentic moments that show how deeply music shapes our identities.

Ready to rediscover the year when Queen, the Ramones, and Donna Summer somehow shared the same cultural moment? Join us for this joyful deep dive into the music that defined 1976 and the people who loved it. Leave a message on our website at mtalpod.com – we'd love to hear your musical memories!

00:00 - America's Bicentennial Year

09:21 - Billboard's Top 40 Hits of 1976

17:12 - Fashion, Culture, and Technology

28:05 - Little Dudes Segment

41:30 - Tom's Musical Memories

53:17 - Boston, Kiss, and Rock's Golden Age

01:06:57 - Closing Thoughts and Sign-Off

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Ah, yes 1976, america turned 200, people were still roller skating with actual enthusiasm and your dad was probably rocking a moustache that could shelter a small family of birds.

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Gas was cheap, bell-bottoms were wide and somehow, somehow, everyone was either listening to Queen, the Bee Gees or the Ramones, possibly all at once.

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It was the year rock went stadium size, punk kicked the door in and screamed and disco snuck in the back room with a glitter ball and a polyester suit whispering you will dance even if you hate yourself for it.

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Meanwhile, boston released one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, stevie Wonder dropped a masterpiece and people actually bought a single called Disco Duck on purpose.

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So today, mike and Tom are digging into the glorious chaotic mixtape.

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That was 1976, when FM radio ruled, record stores smelled like vinyl and incense and nobody knew what a TikTok was, because people actually talked.

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So turn up the dial, polish your platform shoes and get ready to argue about whether Hotel California is genius or just six minutes of rich guy problems.

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It's 1976, and this is the MT Alternative Podcast all right, guys, before we start this uh podcast, tom and I would like to make a couple corrections.

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I myself don't know why I kept saying I was 13 years old last time, when I was 12 you're in a hurry to grow up.

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I guess I was, but just wanted to say that 1975, Mike was only 12.

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Yep, so I just wanted that in.

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I repeated I was 13 many times.

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Hey, drugs are a strange thing, man.

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Tom, you wanted to make a correction A little more serious note than mine.

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I did.

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The best friend I was talking about the last time it was uh, I said, was killed in a car accident, and I don't know why.

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I said that because and he wasn't killed in a car accident, he was killed uh ground trying to save a bunch of kids, uh as a police officer okay, okay, yeah.

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That was it.

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There's a big difference here, yeah, big difference and we just do a lot of different things during our podcast.

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That cause us to do some things, but Me forgetting my age.

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What year?

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But anyways, folks.

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Well, back to our regular podcast.

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Yes, sir, welcome back to the MT Alternative Podcast.

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Tom, what the hell's going on?

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bud.

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Not much, Mike.

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I'm excited about being here today.

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It's 1976, my friend, it is.

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Wait a minute, you missed some what happened.

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Did I take the brown acid?

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I believe you did.

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They told us not to.

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Yeah, well, you.

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Well, it was too late.

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You were warned.

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Yeah, that's right, I ate them before I ever paid for them.

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That's all right, Sorry guy.

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As Cheech and Chon once said, or Tommy Chon once hope you're not busy for about a month, man, You'll be fine.

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So anyways, here we are again, bud Yep 1976, bicent bud Yep 1976.

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Bicentennial year.

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Bicentennial year 200th birthday of this great nation of ours.

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Hell yeah, america, america, america.

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Yeah.

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Right, good, great freaking music, tom.

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I'm going to be honest this pretty much.

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I loved all the music we've done up to this.

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Right.

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A lot of memories, different kind of memories but, as we were speaking earlier, 76 to probably 82, 83, pretty much the soundtrack of my youth.

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Those songs, these songs have a lot of memories, especially this year with you have to understand our.

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our mental capacity grows as we do and the music that we're around just molds into us, and that makes us who we are.

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That's what music is all about.

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Like I said before, music is a universal language.

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Absolutely Tom.

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So I mean, everybody knows music.

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Everybody loves music.

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Everybody loves music.

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Even if you have somebody or know somebody you don't really like, I guarantee you'll compromise on a song.

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Or hear me out, if you've ever been watching Les Stroud, the guy that does Survivorman.

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He goes to these far off countries in the jungles Okay Well, they don't even know English, they don't know anything.

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But what do they do At the night?

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They light a big fire, right, music, music, it's all music.

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All about music.

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Yeah, even people who are away from our culture know about music.

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Music.

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It's a universal language.

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Yeah, see, see, that's what I told you.

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Well, first of all work.

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And see, but I do want to uh.

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Well, first of all work.

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And yeah, you were.

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I was trying to stay away from that, but okay you were a little sick this week.

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Yeah, and I came up with a name when you left softy, that darren seems to like darren.

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Oh my goodness so darren softy when I told him that can I call him, that I go, I wouldn't.

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And then I said go ahead and call him.

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And he did, he shouted it out to you.

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He shouted it right out at me, didn't he?

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You got to admit that was funny.

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That was kind of funny Coming from Darren.

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I couldn't resist.

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Yeah, we're not going to talk about anything else at work.

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Was it that bad?

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You were a little worn out.

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It was a little hot.

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Well, Monday and Tuesday, you know, this week I pulled probably more boxes than I've ever pulled before they had.

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There were so many different trucks sitting on the floor, Were you a little worn out, I was a little worn out.

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Is that an understatement?

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Yeah, but I made it through.

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I pecked away.

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Yeah, the boxes do suck.

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Well, I like them better rolls.

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Yes, it's easier to dig those boxes out.

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Sure it is.

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I need that roll on the bottom there under these rolls that weigh 100 pounds.

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Yeah, oh boy, anyway, yeah.

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But back to our podcast.

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Hey, the music Bicentennial.

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I do want to talk about the bicentennial, Of course.

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What do you remember about it?

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We had on July 4th weekend 1976, I was at my uncle and aunt's camp.

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They were at Cedar Lake in Sturbridge, Mass Right, and I remember being there and a bunch of I hate to say it me and my friend Tim floating around in a little rubber wrap we had bought.

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Right yeah, my cousin in a bikini.

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I know that sounds weird.

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But hey, I was what 13 years old people Give me a break?

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How?

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old was he who, your cousin she, oh, oh, oh.

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The bikini.

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This isn't 2025.

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I'm talking about.

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This is the normal days.

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Oh yeah, back in the 70s.

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I think about it now and I'm like what the hell was I doing?

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Looking at my damn cousin.

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Well, I know what you were doing, because I was doing the same thing.

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Pretty sad.

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But anyways, I remember the birthday parties it's the only people we knew being 13 and the music that came out.

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There was a lot of events.

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Everything was red, white, blue, marketing at the time.

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Oh man See, why can't we have that?

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pride again, commodory.

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I don't get it.

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Is that what it?

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said Commodory.

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Commodory, commodory.

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Now you got me saying it wrong, yeah.

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Well, anyways, you know what we mean, folks, yeah.

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The togetherness.

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Now let's get to the meat of the podcast, the music Brought meat.

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Yeah, that comes later.

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Wait a minute.

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This happened before Dream.

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I'm not going there again.

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Wait a minute.

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Okay, I saw this on an episode of Criminal Minds.

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Criminal Minds yeah, it's a different episode.

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So, first of all, if I want to read the music that defines 76, this is by some research I did and combined a bunch of different things, right, different sites.

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First we got Hotel California.

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Not in particular order, I'm just reading them this way Right, right, right.

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You had Hotel California by the Eagles.

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That was released in December.

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It captured the essence of 70s excess and disillusionment, which is obviously true.

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Bohemian Rhapsody, tom Hanging around.

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Great frickin' song.

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Did we not talk about this last time?

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Yep.

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They released it in 75, but that song was still kicking in 76.

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It's amazing, just wild.

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It came in late 1975, but it charted in 76.

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But let's talk about what it really talks about.

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I mean, it's a system and we're not going down this road again, are we?

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No, no, okay, I was a little nervous.

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No, I'm just saying the fact that he sang a song that was about a certain thing, that just lasted and just tore people's hearts.

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I believe it's your first rock opera.

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Yeah, opera, opera.

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That's the key word here.

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It could basically be a play.

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Because you've got to think about plays.

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You know, every play has Every play.

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Every play has a death.

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Look at Romeo and Juliet.

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Romeo and Juliet, yeah, play has a death Like.

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Look at Romeo and Juliet.

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Romeo and Juliet yeah that was tragic.

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Dancing in the light.

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Yeah, I remember those.

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Hey, this is about music, it is, but you have to think about things that happened back in the day that you know that were tragic.

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All these plays were about tragic.

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Yeah, a lot of them, yeah.

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All right let's move on to how it stood out.

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Don't Go Breaking my Heart by Elton John and Kiki D.

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That was a big hit.

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They played that a lot on the radio.

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They did.

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Disco Donna Summers yeah, donna Summers.

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The Bee Gees yeah, pretty much, just pretty much.

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Next year we'll be talking about Saturday Night.

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Fever came out, the Bee Gees.

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Saturday Night Fever and Disco was big then.

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I even remember these little disco plays.

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I wasn't going to them then popping up everywhere, even where we lived.

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We had Punk Rock, the Ramones.

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They released their debut album in April of 76.

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What was the big song for them?

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There's a lot of good songs, but they're all.

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I like the Ramones.

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I'm not going to lie, I always liked the Ramones, simple.

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Three chords Yep.

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They rocked, they had the Sex Pistols dropped.

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Anarchy in the UK Big song.

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Can we say that?

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Then America's bicentennial band Boston released their self-titled debut album one of the best-selling debut albums of all time and of course I'll be discussing that later in the podcast Right, one of my favorite albums ever.

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Right Pretty much started off my soundtrack to my life.

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But from there, what are your thoughts?

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And this isn't our list, people.

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No, this is something we pulled up A bunch of different sites all put it together for us.

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I just have to.

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I mean, they're all good.

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Everything we talked about here Exactly.

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Whether you like the Sex Pistols or not, they had some good songs.

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Yes, strange Band, yes, sure, they did Real punk too.

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But the main thing I take away from this opening segment is the bicentennial year.

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It was everything, even toilet paper.

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Toilet paper was red, white blue, twinkies, red white blue, yep, yep and just everything.

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Beer packages.

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I mean everything.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it was just an amazing year Because we Now you were what?

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Nine years old, I was nine, nine, I was nine.

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A lot of things happened when I was nine, you know.

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Do tell Well there are certain things that you're.

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You have older brother, baby no.

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No, no, I am the oldest.

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You're the older brother.

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Okay, so I'm talking to you.

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I had a friend of mine that was a little older than me.

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That was my big brother.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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But you had a younger brother.

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Yes, okay, remember what you used to do to him.

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Yes, here, try this.

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Well, my brother Believe it a lot.

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I was a lot nicer.

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My brother, who was born in 1960.

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Okay, okay, so he was seven years older than I was, and when he was 16 and I was nine, oh, he was only 16.

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Well, yeah, he was.

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But you have to understand, I was around him a lot because you know, we ran together and when his friends and they got out, they were teenagers.

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They had the little brown paper bags, if you know what I mean Right right and so I was interested and they thought it was funny and so that was my first introduction to any kind of herbal I gotcha I gotcha, yeah, yeah I was a little later.

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Yeah, maybe was smoked a few butts and had a few beers at this age of 13.

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Won't lie about that.

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But yeah, we had a great time in 76.

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It was just something that you remember when you're growing old.

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Now, any of these groups or songs that I brought up, you got a jingle.

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Is there any songs that?

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Of course, we're still going to be talking music and we're going to be fluctuating back and forth with nostalgia, right, right, right.

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But anything that you want to talk about as far as music and, well, the hotel california thing, was great, it was just something.

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Great album.

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Okay, you have to understand.

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At nine years old, when this came out, right, I heard it because of the people I was, I was around, but when you're nine, you don't understand the words and why it is.

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All you hear is you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.

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Nobody understands the words coming out of my mouth, thanks, but anyway, you get into this thing and things mean more to you when you're older than they do when you're younger.

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So we didn't get the full concept of the song until I was older.

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I didn't.

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Okay, you know, right, hotel California.

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Then you get the concept of the song when you're a teenager and you're like, wow, now we're getting into this music.

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But that'll come later.

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But this is what you think about when you're nine.

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You know you hear, stab it with their steely knives, but they can't kill the bees.

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It scares you.

00:15:29.951 --> 00:15:33.929
Well, the part that scares me is you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

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Yeah, like that what I want to do now, quickly.

00:15:37.226 --> 00:15:39.206
Okay, I'm just going to read the top 40.

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Gotcha, we don't have to elaborate on it.

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I just want to talk about the read the top 40.

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Sure, is there anything that you want?

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to talk about in here.

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We'll do that.

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That's fine, but just to.

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I mean we've been doing the top 40 for every other year, yeah.

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We might as well do it here.

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So let's start from 40 and work backwards.

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Okay, all by myself, eric Carman.

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Eric Carman.

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No, not Carman.

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Oh okay, no South Park, yet Cartman.

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Lonely Night, angel Face Captain and Tennille.

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Turn the Beat Around Vicki Sue Robinson.

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Oh yeah, there's that disco.

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Yeah, there it is Dream Weaver Gary Wright.

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Freaky song as I got a little older and was doing other things that song kind of spaced me out.

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Well, that's what it was for.

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Let your.

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Love Flow the Bellamy Brothers.

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Bellamy Brothers yeah, Good song Good song, good song.

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They got a lot more that I never knew, that you told me about.

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We got Dr Hook Only 16 at 35.

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That's one of my songs this week.

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Moonlight Feels Right.

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Starbuck at 34.

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Golden Years, David Bowie at 33.

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You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine.

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Lou Rawls, you Should Be Dancing.

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They're the Bee Gees.

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Yeah, you Should Be Dancing.

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Love, Roller Coaster.

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Ohio Players Also, let's see, I think, Chili Peppers.

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Chili Peppers.

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Yeah, I kind of did a version yeah.

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Theme from Swat Rhythm Heritage.

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Right back where we started, from Maxine Nightingale Sweet Love Commodores.

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Shake, Shake, Shake, Shake your Booty Casey and the Sunshine Band, yeah, yeah guys.

00:17:08.781 --> 00:17:10.519
Great song Take it to the Limits, eagles.

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Oh, the Eagles yeah.

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Get Up and Boogie.

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That's right.

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Silver Convention.

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I remember them.

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Love Hurts Nazareth, you Sexy Thing.

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Hot Chocolate, I'd Really Love to See you Tonight.

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England Inn, john Ford Colby.

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Which we were just talking about, Every day one of the good songs of theirs.

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Boogie Fever.

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The Silvers, misty Blue, dorothy Moore, bohemian Rhapsody Queen.

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One more more.

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Andrea, true Connection.

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How do you like it?

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More, more, more, get Closer Seals and Crofts.

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Love Hangover Is Get.

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Closer Seals and Crofts Love Hangover.

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Is that anything like a hippie hangover?

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Kind of close.

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I think they go together.

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Hippies.

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Love, yeah, Fly.

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Robin Fly Silver Convention Up Up to the Sky.

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I Write the Songs.

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Barry Manilow, that was my theme song for many years.

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Yeah, you thought you wrote all the songs.

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I do write all the songs.

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Afternoon Delight and Vocal Band hey.

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So we're moving on Sarah Smile, daryl Hall and John Oates.

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That got me that surprised me A Fifth of Beethoven, walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band.

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Love is Alive, gary Wright.

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I just want to read these.

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Right, let's see.

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Gary Wright, 50 Ways to Leave your Lover.

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Paul Simon.

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Love Machine.

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Part One, the Miracles.

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Kiss and Say Goodbye to the Manhattans.

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Play that Funky Music.

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Wild Cherry, december 1963, oh what a Night.

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The Four Seasons that Was a Good Song.

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Disco Lady.

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Johnny Taylor, number 2, don't Go Breaking my Heart, elton John and Kiki D and Number 1, silly Long Song Wings.

00:18:40.048 --> 00:18:48.893
Now, this was all based off Billboard at year end Hot 100 singles chart, not our songs, right?

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This is from Billboard Question.

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Okay now.

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Silly love songs first.

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Okay, the Wings, Paul McCartney.

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Was it Paul McCartney and Wings, or just Wings?

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It might have been just Wings at this time.

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Might have been.

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Yeah.

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Okay, I was just wondering because it doesn't mention Paul McCartney.

00:19:06.886 --> 00:19:09.029
No, no, it does usually say Paul McCartney Wings, but that's something I didn't think.

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And the other thing that got me was coming from a past that I did.

00:19:16.817 --> 00:19:22.772
I mean, I knew everything, but I didn't realize that Daryl Hall and John Oates were out before 80s.

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That's because you were still a young lad?

00:19:25.015 --> 00:19:28.909
Yes, I was, and you probably didn't hear those songs besides Maneater.

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Must have been because of my brother introducing me to the herbal essence when I was so young.

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You were young I was nine.

00:19:37.230 --> 00:19:41.707
Yeah, you were probably listening to the wrong music at nine.

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There was no wrong music at nine.

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No, nah, none at all.

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Well, disco Duck kind of was wrong, but Right, don't you agree?

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Stupid.

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Well, there you go.

00:19:57.141 --> 00:20:02.806
Wild Cherry was funny because I think that story's hilarious when they're playing some funky music.

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White boy somebody yells from the crowd.

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So the guy took that, went home, wrote a song.

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There it is.

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Imagine that that's pretty fucked up.

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Somebody yells at you.

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Play some funky music, white boy, you know what?

00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:17.105
I think I'll make up a song for that.

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Their only hit.

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I'm going to make a hit.

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That's some good music there.

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Good top 40.

00:20:23.984 --> 00:20:32.262
Of course you and I have there's a couple on there we both like but you and I have some difference in what we picked.

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Well, of course you know, and everybody knows, that Bohemian Rhapsody stands out.

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It doesn't matter what kind of music you like.

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If you didn't like that back in the day you got something wrong with you.

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You have definitely something wrong with you.

00:20:44.944 --> 00:20:51.095
But you mentioned one of my favorite songs from that era, which was Only 16, by Dr Hood.

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Yes, but once again, I remember out on the farm the only thing I had was eight-track tapes and myself and of course I pretended like I was in a big concert and singing and all that stuff and I was part of the band.

00:21:09.143 --> 00:21:09.846
You know how you do.

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I used to cut shapes of guitars out of wood, put a board on it and have to come playing a guitar in front of a mirror until I actually got a real guitar.

00:21:19.309 --> 00:21:22.446
But anyways, I did stupid shit like that, you know.

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Let's get into the fashion and culture.

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I don't want to.

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Yeah well, we were having fun with this outside.

00:21:29.945 --> 00:21:34.394
So let's see, we had bell bottoms and platform shoes.

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We're still in the radio.

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I've had bell bottoms, not platform shoes.

00:21:37.307 --> 00:21:37.990
I've had both.

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Yeah, that's ridiculous.

00:21:39.324 --> 00:21:40.367
Well it was.

00:21:40.367 --> 00:21:42.403
Why would you wear platform shoes?

00:21:42.423 --> 00:21:46.009
Because it made me look a lot taller.

00:21:46.009 --> 00:21:58.730
Number one and number two I looked like those kids on Fout Albert the kid with the big platform shoes, the bell-bottoms.

00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:01.619
I thought they all wore pretty much bell-bottoms.

00:22:01.619 --> 00:22:03.763
Hey, hey, hey, alright.

00:22:03.763 --> 00:22:05.539
Bicentennial fashion, red white, hey, all right, bicentennial fashion.

00:22:05.539 --> 00:22:09.431
Red, white and blue designs became part of everything from socks to leisure suits.

00:22:09.431 --> 00:22:10.944
Yeah, that's true.

00:22:11.259 --> 00:22:12.324
Even toilet paper.

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Toilet paper.

00:22:13.606 --> 00:22:16.383
Yes, yes, yeah, red, white and blue ass.

00:22:17.246 --> 00:22:17.546
Well.

00:22:18.208 --> 00:22:19.971
No, yeah, well, it could stain.

00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:21.821
Well, it could you?

00:22:21.862 --> 00:22:23.183
they use the wrong ink.

00:22:23.545 --> 00:22:26.670
Well, speaking of ink and assholes, did you see the picture of?

00:22:27.250 --> 00:22:29.634
Tiger King, let's not go there, let's not go there.

00:22:29.634 --> 00:22:33.530
All right, mood rings and pet rocks are still lingering from 75.

00:22:33.800 --> 00:22:34.965
I remember a mood ring.

00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:37.404
Yeah, those are goofy as fuck.

00:22:37.545 --> 00:22:38.086
Yeah, well.

00:22:38.126 --> 00:22:39.049
They still sell those.

00:22:39.840 --> 00:22:42.222
I bought my mother one that's oh.

00:22:42.222 --> 00:22:46.826
So I could always tell what kind of mood she was in when I came to ask her shit.

00:22:46.826 --> 00:22:48.588
I'd look at the ring and I'd be like ooh.

00:22:48.689 --> 00:22:49.390
Not a good time.

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Not a good time.

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Cb radios are massive yeah they were, they rise their trucking culture.

00:22:54.775 --> 00:22:56.256
Smoking the bandit.

00:22:58.299 --> 00:22:58.559
CW McCall.

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I had a handle on the CB when my dad had a CB in his car.

00:23:01.221 --> 00:23:02.522
Cb when my dad had a CB in his car.

00:23:02.742 --> 00:23:03.544
What was your handle?

00:23:03.763 --> 00:23:06.546
Blue deer, you blew a deer.

00:23:06.665 --> 00:23:09.828
No, oh wow, that's like an Indian name or something.

00:23:09.828 --> 00:23:11.068
We call you blue deer.

00:23:11.189 --> 00:23:12.951
Yeah, blue, you blew a deer.

00:23:12.951 --> 00:23:14.672
No blue as in the color.

00:23:14.672 --> 00:23:17.814
Oh Color blue, okay, deer.

00:23:17.814 --> 00:23:22.417
My dad, he was blue goose and this is why.

00:23:23.961 --> 00:23:24.442
Funny story.

00:23:24.442 --> 00:23:26.009
I want to say something so bad?

00:23:26.009 --> 00:23:28.728
No, but out of respect for your dad, I will not.

00:23:28.728 --> 00:23:31.788
Well, I respect my dad, I'm getting ready.

00:23:31.867 --> 00:23:40.791
Nope, nope, nope, blue Goose, I respect my dad so much I'm going to tell you this story when he was in prison.

00:23:40.952 --> 00:23:44.288
Okay, your dad was in prison For a while.

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Jail or prison.

00:23:46.326 --> 00:23:47.294
Okay, your dad was in prison For a while.

00:23:47.294 --> 00:23:47.596
Jail or prison.

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Prison oh Jesus Tom.

00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:50.409
Yeah, well, anyway, that's another story.

00:23:50.409 --> 00:23:57.413
But there was a bus that hauled the camp around and it was called the Blue Goose.

00:23:57.413 --> 00:23:58.055
What camp?

00:23:58.055 --> 00:24:00.159
The prison camp, you mean?

00:24:00.219 --> 00:24:03.903
it hauled they hauled them to wherever they had to work that day, okay, okay.

00:24:04.403 --> 00:24:09.910
And it was called the Blue Goose, so my dad said his CB handle was the Blue Goose.

00:24:10.790 --> 00:24:14.976
He brought that with him, I guess, but funny story.

00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:19.805
Now it's your turn to tell a humiliating story.

00:24:19.805 --> 00:24:20.666
I have no humiliating stories, you don't?

00:24:20.666 --> 00:24:21.388
They were all great.

00:24:21.388 --> 00:24:25.288
Yeah, I remember what we were going to bring up.

00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:28.126
But you said we're not bringing that up.

00:24:28.126 --> 00:24:31.421
So I'm not going to Remember.

00:24:31.421 --> 00:24:35.769
Earlier in the week we were talking and you said, no, we're not bringing that up.

00:24:35.788 --> 00:24:36.509
I said I'm going to bring it up.

00:24:36.509 --> 00:24:36.710
I did.

00:24:36.710 --> 00:24:37.612
I looked at my cousin.

00:24:38.173 --> 00:24:38.713
That was it.

00:24:38.713 --> 00:24:40.461
Was it that was a story?

00:24:40.461 --> 00:24:43.488
No, there's more to the story than that.

00:24:44.028 --> 00:24:44.490
Do tell.

00:24:45.332 --> 00:24:45.893
Wasn't there.

00:24:45.893 --> 00:24:51.846
Yeah, anyway, refresh my memory I thought your cousin was a guy when you told that story.

00:24:51.846 --> 00:24:54.028
No, it was my cousin, she's a girl.

00:24:54.028 --> 00:24:55.926
Okay, you said bikini.

00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:56.843
I wasn't sure.

00:24:56.843 --> 00:25:01.144
I told you there was 76, not now, oh, okay.

00:25:01.164 --> 00:25:01.867
Not this time.

00:25:01.867 --> 00:25:03.968
Anyway, back to the story.

00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:06.252
I mean, is there something else that remind me?

00:25:06.313 --> 00:25:09.708
if there's something else that I said, oh, no, no, no, no, I was just going back.

00:25:09.769 --> 00:25:13.307
Oh, okay, I was just going back, I might have said something at work, I don't know.

00:25:13.780 --> 00:25:16.059
No, no, I don't remember anything other than that.

00:25:16.059 --> 00:25:17.560
I just I had forgot.

00:25:17.560 --> 00:25:19.123
You already mentioned the cousin.

00:25:19.883 --> 00:25:21.304
That was my weird little thing.

00:25:21.304 --> 00:25:23.125
It's like I said my cousin, what the hell?

00:25:23.125 --> 00:25:23.826
Yeah, sorry.

00:25:23.826 --> 00:25:35.477
Anyways, technology and innovation, all my cousins were boys, sorry, Apple Computer Company was founded in April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

00:25:35.477 --> 00:25:45.317
Apple Computer released retailing for 666.66.

00:25:45.337 --> 00:25:45.680
That's no joke.

00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:47.301
Well, of course it did.

00:25:47.301 --> 00:25:49.304
It had a symbol of the first sin.

00:25:49.324 --> 00:25:50.345
Why the number of the beast?

00:25:50.685 --> 00:25:57.093
Well, because it had the symbol of the first freaking sin on it with the apple, the apple got the bite taken out of it.

00:25:57.093 --> 00:25:58.054
Eve did it.

00:25:58.054 --> 00:25:59.536
She ruined the world.

00:25:59.536 --> 00:26:03.189
Women, weirdos, man, nope, let's back up.

00:26:07.099 --> 00:26:07.502
Let's edit that.

00:26:07.502 --> 00:26:10.079
How about NASA's Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars and sent back the first clear images of the Martian surface?

00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.704
Not a man was on Mars, a machine Right People go.

00:26:14.704 --> 00:26:15.450
We were never on.

00:26:15.470 --> 00:26:16.740
Exactly.

00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:19.608
We can get into all those conspiracy theories.

00:26:19.689 --> 00:26:21.539
Another time the moon landing, blah, blah, blah.

00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:25.326
The Concorde jet remember that, yeah, jet freaking began.

00:26:25.326 --> 00:26:26.349
Passenger flights.

00:26:26.349 --> 00:26:28.627
Supersonic commercial travel became a reality.

00:26:28.627 --> 00:26:30.467
I don't even think they're in service anymore now.

00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:31.782
No, they're not.

00:26:31.843 --> 00:26:36.963
I don't believe, so I think they had some problems yeah well that big Scotland airplane crashed.

00:26:36.963 --> 00:26:42.861
Okay, I thought that was shot down, maybe Well they thought yep, they thought maybe.

00:26:44.006 --> 00:26:47.747
Okay, but that's what happened to the Concord.

00:26:47.787 --> 00:26:48.628
That's what happened then.

00:26:49.130 --> 00:26:49.411
No.

00:26:49.672 --> 00:26:52.950
Okay, how about politics and social change?

00:26:52.950 --> 00:26:56.215
Jimmy Carter was elected president November 1976.

00:26:56.236 --> 00:26:58.002
Gerald Ford, wasn't he Defeating Gerald Ford?

00:26:58.002 --> 00:26:58.704
Yeah, yeah.

00:27:00.009 --> 00:27:05.749
Jimmy Carter, Poor guy, Ended up being a lame-deck president man because of that fucking hostage crisis and all that shit.

00:27:05.828 --> 00:27:08.794
Yeah, he got a bad one and he had old Billy Billy Beer.

00:27:08.794 --> 00:27:11.267
I had a six-pack of Billy.

00:27:11.307 --> 00:27:12.826
Beer Friends of mine had that shit too.

00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:15.260
I kept one can for like eight weeks.

00:27:17.222 --> 00:27:18.502
And you couldn't resist, you had to open it.

00:27:18.522 --> 00:27:20.805
I had to open it and it was skunk, you had to dump it out.

00:27:20.805 --> 00:27:22.306
Chunky had to dump it out, damn it.

00:27:22.566 --> 00:27:26.367
So you didn't refrigerate it or keep it cool it was Billy Beard.

00:27:26.409 --> 00:27:27.449
You shouldn't have had to.

00:27:28.190 --> 00:27:30.750
Let's see we had post-Vietnam and post-Watergate era.

00:27:30.750 --> 00:27:35.634
Americans were skeptical but also idealistic, especially during the Bicentennial.

00:27:35.634 --> 00:27:39.416
See again, the Bicentennial brought people together man it did.

00:27:39.557 --> 00:27:40.478
Everybody was together.

00:27:40.498 --> 00:27:41.258
I miss that shit.

00:27:41.679 --> 00:27:42.361
I do that shit.

00:27:42.540 --> 00:27:42.902
I do too.

00:27:42.902 --> 00:27:47.393
Feminist movement, not to be confused with what they call the feminist movement now.

00:27:47.393 --> 00:27:51.406
The women back then had a right to whatever.

00:27:52.442 --> 00:27:53.124
Still growing.

00:27:53.305 --> 00:27:56.682
Discussion of equal rights amendment and more women entering public life.

00:27:57.105 --> 00:27:59.667
Sure, they wanted to work, let them work.

00:27:59.667 --> 00:28:02.025
They wanted to vote Let them vote Exactly.

00:28:03.890 --> 00:28:06.767
So let's see we could continue on.

00:28:06.767 --> 00:28:08.978
Or do you think now we should take a little break?

00:28:08.978 --> 00:28:13.086
Let the little dudes in and I'm with you.

00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:14.964
Because I got more to say after.

00:28:14.964 --> 00:28:16.569
But I mean we could do this whole podcast.

00:28:16.569 --> 00:28:17.483
We could do it.

00:28:17.483 --> 00:28:19.586
Yeah, I figure we'd give it some space.

00:28:19.586 --> 00:28:20.752
Let the little dudes come in.

00:28:20.752 --> 00:28:22.200
We'll discuss more of our music.

00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:28.828
Sure, if folks, we're going to take a little breaky-poo, we're going to let the little dudes come in.

00:28:28.828 --> 00:28:33.384
Hopefully we hear something good out of them Decent.

00:28:33.384 --> 00:28:39.204
I know Pip will be a little prepared Squeak, he's a mess.

00:28:39.204 --> 00:28:41.334
I don't even know if Troy's brought him in.

00:28:41.374 --> 00:28:43.625
We really don't never know what Squeak might have coming.

00:28:43.685 --> 00:28:45.391
I did hear the helicopter earlier.

00:28:46.300 --> 00:28:48.865
Well, one of them showed up, then At least.

00:28:49.701 --> 00:28:50.866
You know Pip takes that Uber.

00:28:50.866 --> 00:28:53.385
He loves his Uber.

00:28:53.385 --> 00:28:56.932
But anyways, folks, we'll be right back.

00:28:56.932 --> 00:29:00.519
Tom and I got to do a little porch time and hope you enjoy this episode.

00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:01.240
Thank you.

00:29:12.506 --> 00:29:14.086
Hello, squeaky.

00:29:14.086 --> 00:29:14.826
What's up?

00:29:14.826 --> 00:29:15.866
What's up, Pip?

00:29:15.866 --> 00:29:16.767
Not much.

00:29:16.767 --> 00:29:19.308
What have you been up to?

00:29:19.308 --> 00:29:20.949
Oh, about four foot two.

00:29:20.949 --> 00:29:24.750
Oh, what do you think of this episode?

00:29:24.750 --> 00:29:26.832
This time, I think this is kick-ass.

00:29:26.832 --> 00:29:28.593
Man, what episode?

00:29:28.633 --> 00:29:33.654
1976 music, I mean, oh, 1976.

00:29:33.654 --> 00:29:37.416
Oh, yeah, well, well, we weren't around then, but that was some good music.

00:29:37.416 --> 00:29:39.857
That was good music, all right.

00:29:39.857 --> 00:29:41.317
Okay, what's the problem?

00:29:41.317 --> 00:29:43.428
No problem.

00:29:43.428 --> 00:29:44.719
Well, you sound like there's a problem.

00:29:44.719 --> 00:29:45.907
Well, I have a question.

00:29:45.907 --> 00:29:46.414
Okay, what's the problem?

00:29:46.414 --> 00:29:46.528
No problem.

00:29:46.528 --> 00:29:47.061
Well, you sound like there's a problem.

00:29:47.061 --> 00:29:47.565
Well, I have a question.

00:29:47.565 --> 00:29:49.105
Okay, go ahead.

00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:53.192
How do you make music on a CB radio?

00:29:53.192 --> 00:29:56.989
It was just a song Squeak.

00:29:56.989 --> 00:30:00.507
It was the most popular song in that show.

00:30:00.507 --> 00:30:01.348
Exactly why?

00:30:01.348 --> 00:30:04.546
Because it was different.

00:30:04.546 --> 00:30:08.310
Yeah, because you want to break the law with a big old truck.

00:30:08.310 --> 00:30:10.806
No, no, cb radios were big.

00:30:10.806 --> 00:30:12.830
You know, there's a reason.

00:30:12.830 --> 00:30:12.931
What?

00:30:12.931 --> 00:30:16.049
Why do you get a fine fault with everything?

00:30:16.049 --> 00:30:19.170
There's a reason that they're outlawed.

00:30:19.170 --> 00:30:26.334
You have to have different stuff now to have a radio.

00:30:26.921 --> 00:30:28.667
Okay, what about Smokey and the Bandit?

00:30:28.667 --> 00:30:29.866
They used CBs.

00:30:29.866 --> 00:30:31.398
They were outlaws.

00:30:31.398 --> 00:30:34.429
They were just trying to get beer somewhere.

00:30:34.429 --> 00:30:36.748
Yeah, that didn't have beer.

00:30:36.748 --> 00:30:40.188
Well, people wanted their core's beer.

00:30:40.188 --> 00:30:43.733
Yeah, south of the Masonics line.

00:30:43.733 --> 00:30:44.758
What's wrong with that?

00:30:44.758 --> 00:30:46.003
I don't think so.

00:30:46.003 --> 00:30:47.147
It was against the law.

00:30:47.147 --> 00:30:49.208
Oh, but moonshine was okay.

00:30:49.208 --> 00:30:50.986
No, it wasn't okay.

00:30:50.986 --> 00:30:57.390
Oh well, they let it be, they didn't let it be, they just couldn't find it.

00:30:57.390 --> 00:31:00.534
Oh, that's the difference.

00:31:00.534 --> 00:31:04.154
Well, obviously they couldn't catch Smokey and the Bandit either.

00:31:04.154 --> 00:31:07.395
Well, did you see that dumbass that was chasing him?

00:31:07.395 --> 00:31:14.006
I mean Bandit, not Smokey, was chasing Bandit, you know what I mean Did you see that dumbass that was chasing him?

00:31:15.229 --> 00:31:16.566
What a smart sheriff.

00:31:16.566 --> 00:31:19.263
I'm a son of a bitch.

00:31:19.263 --> 00:31:20.666
What about his son?

00:31:20.666 --> 00:31:22.932
Yeah well, he was getting married.

00:31:22.932 --> 00:31:28.027
Remind me, when we get home I'm gonna slap your mama.

00:31:28.027 --> 00:31:33.931
Yeah, the son was an idiot.

00:31:33.931 --> 00:31:38.207
Yeah he was a dumbass, but okay.

00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:41.365
Besides that, what was the problem with the episode?

00:31:41.365 --> 00:31:44.865
An episode, is that what you're calling it?

00:31:44.865 --> 00:31:49.093
I think Mike and Tom did a spectacular job, okay.

00:31:49.093 --> 00:31:53.499
Well, let's just talk about some things at a time.

00:31:53.499 --> 00:31:59.531
Whoever the hell heard about stealing parts from a car dealership?

00:31:59.531 --> 00:32:00.865
Johnny Cash did.

00:32:00.865 --> 00:32:04.167
He was in prison.

00:32:04.167 --> 00:32:06.288
Okay, so he knew people.

00:32:06.288 --> 00:32:09.976
Well, he shot somebody just to watch him die.

00:32:09.976 --> 00:32:11.286
That's pretty funny.

00:32:11.286 --> 00:32:12.884
Well, it's funny.

00:32:12.884 --> 00:32:15.349
It might be, but it's scary.

00:32:15.349 --> 00:32:20.329
Why I don't want to be the guy he wants to watch die?

00:32:20.329 --> 00:32:20.923
Well, you know what?

00:32:20.923 --> 00:32:21.666
That tells me.

00:32:21.666 --> 00:32:22.904
Fuck around and find out.

00:32:22.904 --> 00:32:23.567
See, that's what happens.

00:32:23.567 --> 00:32:23.848
Well, see, okay.

00:32:23.848 --> 00:32:24.310
Well, there you go.

00:32:24.310 --> 00:32:25.095
That tells me Fuck around and find out.

00:32:25.095 --> 00:32:25.818
See, that's what happens.

00:32:25.818 --> 00:32:26.119
Well, see, okay.

00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:27.503
Well, there you go.

00:32:27.523 --> 00:32:30.044
There's no problem, it's a song.

00:32:30.044 --> 00:32:30.989
Squeak, okay.

00:32:30.989 --> 00:32:32.905
Well, it's just a damn song.

00:32:32.905 --> 00:32:33.648
It was scary.

00:32:33.648 --> 00:32:36.546
What are you scared of?

00:32:36.546 --> 00:32:37.666
You're never scared of anything.

00:32:37.666 --> 00:32:45.266
Speaking of, how was the helicopter ride, were you in the chopper or out of the chopper?

00:32:45.266 --> 00:32:47.569
He let me in because it was raining.

00:32:47.569 --> 00:32:51.877
When was it raining Up in the sky?

00:32:51.877 --> 00:32:53.200
Where else would it rain?

00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:57.327
There's no rain here, no, but when I came in, it was raining.

00:32:57.327 --> 00:33:00.306
I took a ride in a beautiful Uber convertible.

00:33:00.326 --> 00:33:01.869
It was awesome.

00:33:02.111 --> 00:33:03.405
Did you the sun was shining?

00:33:03.405 --> 00:33:03.890
Yeah, sky was blue.

00:33:03.890 --> 00:33:04.958
Did you the sun was shining?

00:33:04.958 --> 00:33:06.506
Yeah, sky was blue.

00:33:06.506 --> 00:33:08.547
Birds were singing.

00:33:08.547 --> 00:33:11.990
Then ATF came around the corner and busted all y'all.

00:33:11.990 --> 00:33:17.071
No For soliciting sex, probably Cadillac.

00:33:17.071 --> 00:33:18.645
What are you talking about?

00:33:18.645 --> 00:33:20.719
I've been in those before.

00:33:20.719 --> 00:33:23.667
I know what movie you're talking about.

00:33:23.667 --> 00:33:24.651
I wasn't a movie.

00:33:24.651 --> 00:33:29.006
I was in an Uber, yeah, driving to the studio.

00:33:29.006 --> 00:33:33.244
That's not what the name of the movie was, but I remember.

00:33:33.244 --> 00:33:34.769
But I wasn't in a movie.

00:33:34.769 --> 00:33:37.026
You got a free ride.

00:33:37.086 --> 00:33:37.609
Are you tripping?

00:33:38.141 --> 00:33:41.044
Nope, I'm just saying you got a free ride.

00:33:41.044 --> 00:33:42.169
We all know how.

00:33:42.169 --> 00:33:46.548
Uh hey, uber, you're insinuating something I don't like.

00:33:46.548 --> 00:33:51.792
Yeah, well, I don't like helicopter rides either, but I bring one every day.

00:33:51.792 --> 00:33:54.048
Listen, you bitched, you had to drive here.

00:33:54.048 --> 00:33:55.886
You bitched about the gas prices.

00:33:55.886 --> 00:33:58.501
Now you're going to chop a ride in Troy's.

00:33:58.501 --> 00:33:59.605
Very nice to do that.

00:33:59.605 --> 00:34:01.483
I still don't know why.

00:34:01.483 --> 00:34:03.910
Troy, troy.

00:34:03.910 --> 00:34:07.127
Yeah, I went to his daughter's wedding.

00:34:07.127 --> 00:34:10.182
No, no, no, no, no.

00:34:10.182 --> 00:34:11.547
Um, I don't believe this.

00:34:11.547 --> 00:34:14.626
Yeah, last weekend his daughter got married.

00:34:14.626 --> 00:34:16.811
Wait, a minute, I went there.

00:34:16.811 --> 00:34:19.849
I don't remember Mike and Tom talking about that.

00:34:19.849 --> 00:34:21.952
That's because they weren't involved.

00:34:21.952 --> 00:34:23.898
How were they not involved?

00:34:23.898 --> 00:34:26.047
They worked for Mike and Tom.

00:34:26.047 --> 00:34:35.047
Well, there's certain situations where we have Wait a minute, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop.

00:34:35.047 --> 00:34:38.548
I asked you a couple weeks ago.

00:34:38.548 --> 00:34:43.088
I said you guys are best friends and you said nope, we're acquaintances.

00:34:43.088 --> 00:34:48.472
Yeah, nobody invites an acquaintance to a wedding, especially their daughters.

00:34:48.472 --> 00:34:50.898
Sure, they do.

00:34:50.898 --> 00:34:54.148
No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:34:54.148 --> 00:34:55.331
I don't like this.

00:34:55.331 --> 00:34:56.871
I don't like where this is going.

00:34:56.900 --> 00:34:59.288
Okay well, anyway, anyway.

00:34:59.288 --> 00:35:02.079
Okay, he asked me to sing a song at his daughter's wedding.

00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:03.726
Oh my God, this is getting worse.

00:35:04.221 --> 00:35:04.965
Yeah, well, at his daughter's wedding.

00:35:04.965 --> 00:35:05.610
Oh, my God, this is getting worse.

00:35:05.610 --> 00:35:06.699
Yeah, well, at his daughter's wedding.

00:35:06.699 --> 00:35:12.072
And so I sang, never mind.

00:35:12.072 --> 00:35:14.849
Anyway, he wasn't happy about what I sang.

00:35:14.849 --> 00:35:16.322
I want to know what you sang.

00:35:16.322 --> 00:35:18.067
Squeak, what do you mean?

00:35:18.067 --> 00:35:19.190
What did you sing?

00:35:19.190 --> 00:35:20.393
I sang a song.

00:35:20.393 --> 00:35:21.746
Oh, it was a song.

00:35:21.746 --> 00:35:29.947
Well, it was his daughter's wedding, right, and evidently he took, he took offense with the song.

00:35:29.947 --> 00:35:31.547
What was the song?

00:35:31.547 --> 00:35:35.106
Please don't tell me.

00:35:35.106 --> 00:35:36.644
It was heard it from a friend.

00:35:36.684 --> 00:35:39.126
Nope, can't always get what you want.

00:35:39.126 --> 00:35:43.990
Anyway, that was a good song.

00:35:43.990 --> 00:35:44.967
I know that song.

00:35:44.967 --> 00:35:45.664
That's not a good song for a wedding, but I can sing good song.

00:35:45.664 --> 00:35:45.625
I know that song.

00:35:45.625 --> 00:35:51.206
That's not a good song for a wedding, but I can sing that song really good.

00:35:51.206 --> 00:35:52.228
Think about it.

00:35:52.228 --> 00:35:53.469
Think about it.

00:35:53.469 --> 00:35:55.795
Sit back for a minute, don't say anything.

00:35:55.795 --> 00:36:00.289
Think about what you sang and where you were at.

00:36:00.289 --> 00:36:03.523
Okay, okay, I sang.

00:36:03.523 --> 00:36:05.610
You can't always get what you want.

00:36:05.610 --> 00:36:07.306
Why would you sing that at a wedding?

00:36:07.306 --> 00:36:10.070
Because I'm good at it.

00:36:10.070 --> 00:36:13.668
Okay, at a wedding, people love each other.

00:36:13.668 --> 00:36:16.927
Getting married, that's stupid.

00:36:16.927 --> 00:36:21.545
You're saying to somebody Well, first off, first off, first off.

00:36:21.545 --> 00:36:29.922
Why would you be getting married to somebody so sensitive that they don't want me to sing.

00:36:29.922 --> 00:36:33.809
Can't always get what you want it, it, it it does.

00:36:33.809 --> 00:36:37.340
And, and furthermore, I don't understand why the police were called.

00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:39.606
I didn't get that part.

00:36:39.606 --> 00:36:41.931
Wait a minute.

00:36:41.931 --> 00:36:46.309
So all this happened and Troy still gave you a ride here, today.

00:36:48.193 --> 00:36:51.768
Well, sure, troy understands everything.

00:36:51.768 --> 00:36:55.306
No, no, no, no, something happened.

00:36:55.306 --> 00:36:56.788
What did you do with Troy?

00:36:56.788 --> 00:36:58.398
What do you mean?

00:36:58.398 --> 00:37:00.065
What happened to Troy?

00:37:00.065 --> 00:37:02.385
Nothing happened to Troy.

00:37:02.385 --> 00:37:02.987
Troy would have.

00:37:02.987 --> 00:37:05.208
No, you did that at his daughter's wedding.

00:37:05.208 --> 00:37:07.085
He would not have.

00:37:07.085 --> 00:37:11.567
He won't forgive you for that, but he wasn't there.

00:37:11.567 --> 00:37:14.346
It was his daughter's wedding.

00:37:14.346 --> 00:37:18.525
That was a different thing that we had.

00:37:18.525 --> 00:37:24.807
I told him we were going to and he went there instead, but it was a misunderstanding.

00:37:24.807 --> 00:37:26.385
Oh, wow, wow.

00:37:26.385 --> 00:37:27.179
It kind of got all mixed up.

00:37:27.179 --> 00:37:31.445
I was there, I helped out.

00:37:31.445 --> 00:37:34.166
You gave him false information.

00:37:34.166 --> 00:37:38.067
No, no, no, he misunderstood.

00:37:38.067 --> 00:37:41.103
I think he did it on purpose.

00:37:41.103 --> 00:37:43.632
Squeak, what misunderstood.

00:37:43.632 --> 00:37:46.407
Yeah, I did misunderstand on purpose.

00:37:46.407 --> 00:37:46.588
I think.

00:37:46.588 --> 00:37:47.090
What misunderstood.

00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:48.012
Yeah, yeah, I did misunderstand on purpose.

00:37:48.012 --> 00:37:53.427
I think I'm going to talk to Mike and Tom and see what the hell's going on here, because, uh, have you talked to them people?

00:37:53.427 --> 00:37:56.644
They don't have a damn clue what's going on.

00:37:56.804 --> 00:37:57.206
All right.

00:37:58.041 --> 00:38:00.967
I understand Tom and Mike might be a little slow.

00:38:00.967 --> 00:38:04.965
Well, they don't listen to the right music.

00:38:05.146 --> 00:38:08.036
I thought all their music was excellent.

00:38:08.077 --> 00:38:10.527
One piece at a time didn't cost me a dime.

00:38:10.527 --> 00:38:16.034
But you damn cheapskate, go out and buy a car, don't steal it, maybe.

00:38:16.034 --> 00:38:20.884
Over the years, maybe because he was in jail, he didn't have money.

00:38:20.884 --> 00:38:23.050
How are you going to steal a car from jail?

00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:26.525
He got out of jail and then stole a car.

00:38:26.525 --> 00:38:29.565
No, no, no, he didn't steal a car.

00:38:29.565 --> 00:38:32.929
He stole parts and built the car.

00:38:32.929 --> 00:38:35.364
That's different, one piece at a time.

00:38:35.364 --> 00:38:36.748
What a dumbass.

00:38:36.748 --> 00:38:39.384
But I wonder how long it took him in all reality?

00:38:39.384 --> 00:38:48.418
Well, if you listen to the song, it took 45, 55, 55, 65, 65, 65, 85 automobile.

00:38:48.418 --> 00:38:49.400
You know all that shit.

00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:51.291
There's more parts than that though.

00:38:51.291 --> 00:38:55.307
Well, yeah, was he taking more than one piece at a time?

00:38:55.307 --> 00:38:56.451
Well, sure, oh, okay.

00:38:56.451 --> 00:38:59.610
Well, his lunchbox would only carry certain.

00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:01.980
But here's my question how do you fit an engine?

00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:02.641
Yeah, how do you fit an engine?

00:39:02.641 --> 00:39:03.202
That's what I want to know.

00:39:03.202 --> 00:39:03.423
Where do?

00:39:03.423 --> 00:39:04.485
But here's my question how do you fit an engine?

00:39:04.505 --> 00:39:05.108
Yeah, how do you fit a?

00:39:05.128 --> 00:39:05.929
damn car door in there.

00:39:05.929 --> 00:39:06.512
That's what I want to know.

00:39:06.512 --> 00:39:06.972
Where did the heads go?

00:39:06.972 --> 00:39:09.179
I think they're lying, cass, yeah, something's up.

00:39:09.179 --> 00:39:09.940
Where is the Wait?

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:11.547
You've got to put the block somewhere.

00:39:11.927 --> 00:39:20.961
Okay, so we're understanding that 1976 was a big illusion, right, that song, but it was still a good song.

00:39:20.961 --> 00:39:24.208
They were all on drugs, everyone, okay, what about that group?

00:39:24.208 --> 00:39:24.869
Boston?

00:39:24.869 --> 00:39:27.494
More than a feeling.

00:39:27.494 --> 00:39:29.025
Okay, well, they hit it right.

00:39:29.025 --> 00:39:32.510
One group out of the whole damn clan.

00:39:32.730 --> 00:39:35.387
Kiss, more than a feeling.

00:39:35.387 --> 00:39:38.458
Hey, you went and saw mini kiss, what.

00:39:38.458 --> 00:39:41.409
You went and saw mini kiss, mini kiss.

00:39:41.409 --> 00:39:43.487
So you like kiss?

00:39:43.487 --> 00:39:51.673
Well, listen, because I dated a midget, don't mean you can holler oh, you had a mini kiss, oh you what?

00:39:51.673 --> 00:39:54.108
No, no, you went and saw a mini kiss.

00:39:54.108 --> 00:39:55.445
Oh, those little fellas.

00:39:55.445 --> 00:39:57.355
Yes, just like kiss.

00:39:57.355 --> 00:40:00.574
No, no, you wanted to get on stage with them.

00:40:00.574 --> 00:40:02.423
I did not go to them.

00:40:02.423 --> 00:40:05.692
You wanted to be on stage with them and play your air guitar.

00:40:05.692 --> 00:40:08.534
I did, but they wouldn't let me, so I didn't.

00:40:08.534 --> 00:40:09.916
Okay, so that's why you're upset.

00:40:09.916 --> 00:40:11.827
I boycotted them, bitches.

00:40:11.827 --> 00:40:13.427
So you're upset about that?

00:40:13.427 --> 00:40:14.987
No, not anymore.

00:40:14.987 --> 00:40:16.164
I don't know.

00:40:16.164 --> 00:40:22.302
Squeak, you know, every week it's something with you and I like being something, and I'll tell you right now.

00:40:22.302 --> 00:40:26.132
I'm going to get to the bottom of this Troy and his daughter wedding thing.

00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:29.072
I heard about you getting to the bottom of stuff.

00:40:29.092 --> 00:40:29.840
You can make fun of me, all you want.

00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.324
Yeah, with your cousin.

00:40:31.324 --> 00:40:32.268
Something's not.

00:40:32.268 --> 00:40:33.577
Leave my cousin out of it.

00:40:33.577 --> 00:40:38.990
Well, I'm not the one who told him to wear a bikini, it's a her.

00:40:38.990 --> 00:40:42.445
Oh, and don't confuse me with Mike.

00:40:42.445 --> 00:40:50.786
Oh, yes, I looked at my cousins too, but that's Mike and this is me.

00:40:50.786 --> 00:40:51.606
That's different.

00:40:51.606 --> 00:40:53.318
Okay, two different things.

00:40:53.318 --> 00:40:58.824
I got you All right, so I guess that'll do it for this episode.

00:40:58.824 --> 00:41:01.905
Yeah, this episode kind of went south pretty quick.

00:41:01.905 --> 00:41:04.324
Yeah, always going south with you Squeak.

00:41:04.324 --> 00:41:10.228
Anyways, folks, until next time later, see ya, see ya.

00:41:32.655 --> 00:41:33.217
Until next time later.

00:41:33.217 --> 00:41:33.496
See ya Squeak.

00:41:33.496 --> 00:41:34.938
Well, Squeak's always been the issue, Always been the issue.

00:41:34.938 --> 00:41:37.260
I thought he'd be over this by now, but sometimes he just seems angrier.

00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:38.461
He has his good moments.

00:41:38.802 --> 00:41:40.083
He does.

00:41:40.083 --> 00:41:44.507
He does when he's asleep, right, he's like an infant.

00:41:45.309 --> 00:41:47.090
Yeah Well, you know what Hell with him.

00:41:47.090 --> 00:41:50.034
Let's get back to what we want to talk about.

00:41:50.074 --> 00:41:51.378
Yeah, music, this is about us.

00:41:51.418 --> 00:41:54.244
Anyway, you have a list of songs, Tom, that you would like to discuss.

00:41:55.577 --> 00:42:04.083
I enjoyed most of the songs that we've talked about already, and I'd like to bring up Dr Hook again.

00:42:04.525 --> 00:42:05.166
Not a problem.

00:42:05.596 --> 00:42:06.920
Dr Hook was big back then.

00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:11.168
Yeah, surprise, hey, that's what you're into One of my biggest bands.

00:42:11.168 --> 00:42:12.235
This is what this is about, yep.

00:42:12.414 --> 00:42:14.202
And you're not the only one that's into Dr Hook.

00:42:14.375 --> 00:42:22.349
But they did come out with one of the biggest songs in 1976, which was she Was Only 16.

00:42:22.349 --> 00:42:24.400
We all remember that song.

00:42:24.822 --> 00:42:26.541
Yeah, why is an older man singing?

00:42:26.541 --> 00:42:27.605
She Was Only 16?

00:42:27.605 --> 00:42:27.605
.

00:42:28.096 --> 00:42:30.726
We don't really know how old he was.

00:42:30.726 --> 00:42:34.257
He sounds older, well he sounds older now.

00:42:34.277 --> 00:42:36.481
Is he singing it from someone else's perspective?

00:42:36.481 --> 00:42:39.045
Probably, I hope so me too.

00:42:39.487 --> 00:42:42.619
Okay, yeah, that would make me feel a lot more.

00:42:42.619 --> 00:42:50.503
That was part of the hippie hangover that would make me feel a lot better about the band, if, if he was singing something else.

00:42:50.503 --> 00:43:04.362
But yeah, but that was one of my songs and it just takes me back to when I was the summers living with my sister and her husband and out on the farm and I had nothing to do.

00:43:04.362 --> 00:43:10.342
These are the guys that she had on eight track got you through your day yep, that's what listen to.

00:43:10.382 --> 00:43:11.365
That's what this is about.

00:43:11.365 --> 00:43:19.679
Pretending I was a big rock star and singing I was the only one in the house so I could do anything I wanted and not look like an idiot.

00:43:20.641 --> 00:43:21.143
Who cares?

00:43:21.143 --> 00:43:22.106
But I know what you mean.

00:43:22.106 --> 00:43:24.554
We have our secret moments.

00:43:24.675 --> 00:43:28.485
I probably still look like an idiot, but I don't know that.

00:43:28.485 --> 00:43:31.322
Anyway, nobody else did either I don't know that.

00:43:31.342 --> 00:43:32.346
Anyway, nobody else did either.

00:43:32.346 --> 00:43:35.335
Well, you're not jumping around playing the air guitar now thinking you're a rock star.

00:43:35.978 --> 00:43:37.432
But I don't know what you do at home.

00:43:37.432 --> 00:43:37.534
What?

00:43:40.141 --> 00:43:41.826
Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, so we'll move on.

00:43:46.141 --> 00:43:46.844
What else you got.

00:43:46.844 --> 00:43:47.768
I like my air guitar.

00:43:47.768 --> 00:43:49.237
I'm pretty good at it.

00:43:49.237 --> 00:43:54.007
Anyway, here's what really surprised me.

00:43:54.007 --> 00:43:54.789
What's that?

00:43:54.789 --> 00:43:58.079
I'm an 80s baby.

00:43:58.079 --> 00:43:59.719
Okay, you know you get to the 80s?

00:43:59.759 --> 00:44:00.682
Oh no, it's at 80s.

00:44:01.034 --> 00:44:02.641
Daryl Hall and John Oates.

00:44:02.641 --> 00:44:10.005
Okay, I was very, very shocked and surprised to find out they had a hit song in 1976.

00:44:10.005 --> 00:44:11.295
They did.

00:44:11.295 --> 00:44:12.617
I was nine years old.

00:44:12.617 --> 00:44:14.079
They were there, was it?

00:44:14.141 --> 00:44:14.460
Sarah.

00:44:15.742 --> 00:44:16.625
Sarah smiled.

00:44:16.744 --> 00:44:17.545
Sarah smiled.

00:44:17.545 --> 00:44:19.570
You know what's funny.

00:44:19.570 --> 00:44:20.619
You bring up Hall Oates.

00:44:20.619 --> 00:44:24.800
You know which one sticks out to me and I believe it's from that year Back Together Again.

00:44:25.061 --> 00:44:25.422
Yeah.

00:44:26.896 --> 00:44:28.240
Great song by Hall Oates.

00:44:28.240 --> 00:44:29.496
Here they are Again.

00:44:29.496 --> 00:44:32.606
I was just turning a teenager Right.

00:44:32.606 --> 00:44:35.605
Those are the songs that I listened to when I listened to the radio.

00:44:36.438 --> 00:44:37.494
I'm used to Wake Me.

00:44:37.514 --> 00:44:38.639
Up, so I knew they were.

00:44:39.255 --> 00:44:48.403
You know I'm used to the other I mean the other, not Aerosmith but I'm used to the other songs by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

00:44:48.704 --> 00:44:49.586
The 80s ones?

00:44:49.626 --> 00:44:55.663
Yeah, early 80s yeah, other songs by Daryl Hall and John Oates, the 80s ones yeah those.

00:44:55.663 --> 00:44:56.485
And we'll get to those later.

00:44:56.485 --> 00:45:00.909
But I never dreamed that they had a hit song in 76, but here I am learning things.

00:45:00.949 --> 00:45:02.958
It's funny, you thought they were just an 80s band.

00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:04.764
Yeah, here I am learning things.

00:45:07.215 --> 00:45:08.420
What's your any more?

00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:09.925
I'm sure you've got more.

00:45:10.795 --> 00:45:15.157
Oh yeah, I, I have more which is, uh, aerosmith dream on.

00:45:15.157 --> 00:45:30.505
I spoke of that earlier and I just I think that grabbed a hold of me because I'd never heard anybody hit notes like he did in that song at that point in my life.

00:45:30.505 --> 00:45:36.672
And I'm like man, if I could sing like that I would be it.

00:45:36.672 --> 00:45:39.503
Well, of course I would be because he was.

00:45:39.503 --> 00:45:47.108
But anyway, I'm just saying that's a song that just grabbed me by wow rock.

00:45:47.108 --> 00:45:54.706
And so then, when we were younger, we developed this air band.

00:45:55.487 --> 00:45:58.920
Yes, did you say air band?

00:45:59.161 --> 00:46:11.190
air band, not hair band, no, not hair, no that was in the 80s air band when you don't know how to play an instrument, right, it's air, so that's how that goes.

00:46:11.190 --> 00:46:37.971
But the Bay City Rollers they had a huge hit Saturday night and I remember each one of my buddies we all had this little crate that we'd turn upside down and put a pillow on top of so we could stand up on it and act like we were on stage singing that song.

00:46:37.971 --> 00:46:39.231
It was weird.

00:46:39.231 --> 00:46:40.882
Wild, wild, wild ride.

00:46:40.882 --> 00:46:43.534
That was a wild ride, yeah, saturday night.

00:46:43.534 --> 00:46:51.525
Then if you flipped it over, if you flip that little single over, yep, the little 45, it was.

00:46:51.525 --> 00:46:53.548
Did you boogie with your baby?

00:46:53.548 --> 00:46:56.297
Nope, no it wasn't.

00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:57.923
No, you're right, it wasn't.

00:46:58.155 --> 00:47:04.248
It was Saturday Night Fever, saturday Night Fever, saturday Night, and the other side was Maralina.

00:47:04.248 --> 00:47:04.670
Yep, yep.

00:47:05.050 --> 00:47:05.894
You were right.

00:47:06.474 --> 00:47:07.677
I knew there was a song.

00:47:07.737 --> 00:47:08.458
I couldn't think of.

00:47:08.458 --> 00:47:11.862
But Boogie with your baby is.

00:47:12.003 --> 00:47:15.327
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids.

00:47:15.568 --> 00:47:15.947
We're there.

00:47:15.947 --> 00:47:20.443
I just had them mixed up, that's all.

00:47:20.443 --> 00:47:32.117
As we move on, but I have to tell you 1976 was the year that I was introduced to Kiss.

00:47:32.117 --> 00:47:34.820
I don't know what big Kiss song grabbed me by the hoo-hoo at first.

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:36.864
Kind of grabbed you by the woo-hoo, yeah.

00:47:36.864 --> 00:47:44.231
But I do know that KISS was huge when I was like 19, 11.

00:47:44.231 --> 00:47:47.275
So I remember.

00:47:47.815 --> 00:47:49.336
Well, both of us were talking outside.

00:47:49.336 --> 00:47:51.920
You brought up the KISS Army was really big back then.

00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:53.141
It was huge back then.

00:47:53.141 --> 00:47:54.061
Let's be realistic.

00:47:54.061 --> 00:47:58.905
Kiss came out with Destroyer early Early early, 76.

00:47:58.905 --> 00:48:03.048
Yep, and they finished off in November of 76 with Rock and Roll Over.

00:48:03.668 --> 00:48:07.192
Right, right, lots of stuff in between.

00:48:07.291 --> 00:48:10.885
That's going to be getting into some of the bands I talk about during some of the songs.

00:48:11.514 --> 00:48:12.016
But yeah.

00:48:12.539 --> 00:48:13.222
Kiss, of course.

00:48:13.855 --> 00:48:22.760
But that's what drug me to my rock and roll back, so Kiss got you a little way from the country.

00:48:22.900 --> 00:48:24.282
And Dr Hook yeah, because I was always country and Dr Hook.

00:48:24.302 --> 00:48:25.188
John Hanover blah, blah, blah.

00:48:26.494 --> 00:48:30.045
And that's what surprises me, tom, the music you listen to, and then it's Kiss.

00:48:31.614 --> 00:48:33.130
Right and Dr Hill and that's what surprises me, tom, the music you listen to.

00:48:33.130 --> 00:48:38.980
And then it's Kiss Right and ACDC, and I like Lynyrd Skynyrd and I like oh, lynyrd Skynyrd, I get Southern Rock Right.

00:48:38.980 --> 00:48:41.034
Which is a lot of Southern Rock, and then Def Leppard.

00:48:41.034 --> 00:48:43.543
Def Leppard is one of my favorite bands.

00:48:43.835 --> 00:48:48.483
Def Leppard, we'll get to them, but Def Leppard to me after Pyromania.

00:48:48.503 --> 00:48:49.668
Right, right, it was done.

00:48:49.668 --> 00:48:50.650
Not the same to me anymore.

00:48:50.650 --> 00:48:52.077
Yeah, it was done, but.

00:48:52.197 --> 00:48:53.643
I'm just saying but yeah we'll discuss that.

00:48:53.916 --> 00:48:55.141
As we got to this.

00:48:55.141 --> 00:49:03.601
But you know we always go to the rock and everything, and I love rock and I do, but there's like you, love all different genres.

00:49:03.601 --> 00:49:04.378
Nothing wrong with that.

00:49:04.378 --> 00:49:05.802
I'm the same Johnny Cash.

00:49:05.802 --> 00:49:10.780
I remember my favorite Johnny Cash song that came out in 1976.

00:49:12.342 --> 00:49:16.108
One piece at a time, one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime.

00:49:17.230 --> 00:49:22.391
I was nine and that was the most hilarious song, because this guy stole parts.

00:49:22.411 --> 00:49:27.204
And the way he goes on in the song yeah, 45, 55, 56, 57, you know no, johnny Cash.

00:49:27.394 --> 00:49:29.202
You know it was so much fun to hear that.

00:49:29.202 --> 00:49:52.768
See, that's one of my favorite country artists and doing research on that song, I realized that the producers of that album actually built a car out of all those parts, and Johnny Cash is sitting in the driver's seat and they take a picture of that car.

00:49:52.994 --> 00:49:54.538
It was the coolest thing I ever saw.

00:49:54.798 --> 00:49:56.382
Look it up, guys, it's out there.

00:49:56.382 --> 00:49:57.545
It is out there.

00:49:57.545 --> 00:49:58.126
That's awesome.

00:49:58.126 --> 00:49:59.128
I didn't know that either.

00:49:59.128 --> 00:50:00.460
Yeah, it was cool.

00:50:00.460 --> 00:50:04.844
It looked funny as hell, but it was there, excellent.

00:50:04.844 --> 00:50:09.614
But that was one of the songs I enjoyed when I was young.

00:50:09.695 --> 00:50:13.106
Anything else that you have, well, of course, like to talk about?

00:50:14.135 --> 00:50:18.166
Everybody in the 76 era had a CB radio, did they not?

00:50:18.527 --> 00:50:21.523
Ah, are we going down the CW McCall road?

00:50:22.574 --> 00:50:28.023
With Convoy Convoy we got a big old convoy rocking through the night.

00:50:28.996 --> 00:50:30.362
Come on and join this convoy.

00:50:31.976 --> 00:50:33.181
Ain't she a beautiful sight.

00:50:34.775 --> 00:50:36.242
What's with the women singing in it?

00:50:37.856 --> 00:50:38.880
Well, they always had them.

00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:41.199
It was kind of like a truck stop.

00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:46.405
The waitress at the truck stop is in the background singing.

00:50:46.405 --> 00:50:47.420
That's what it was.

00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:50.795
Oh, don't forget the tearjerker.

00:50:50.795 --> 00:50:53.016
What's what it was oh jeez, oh, don't forget the tearjerker.

00:50:53.016 --> 00:50:53.976
What's that Teddy bear?

00:50:53.976 --> 00:50:55.777
Remember the little cripple boy that wanted?

00:50:55.777 --> 00:51:00.139
All he ever wanted was a ride in a truck and a big 18-wheeler.

00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:01.400
Who sang that CW?

00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:02.960
Red Sovine.

00:51:03.181 --> 00:51:04.782
Oh, see another song I don't remember.

00:51:04.782 --> 00:51:06.641
I don't know if I ever heard it Teddy bear.

00:51:07.282 --> 00:51:08.882
Are you sure when the little?

00:51:08.922 --> 00:51:11.385
teddy bear gets on, the little boy gets on the.

00:51:11.425 --> 00:51:12.864
CB, Just real quick.

00:51:12.864 --> 00:51:21.608
The little boy gets on the CB and he's like yeah, my mom says I shouldn't get out here and ask this, but I want to ride in a big truck and I'm crippled and I can't do this.

00:51:21.608 --> 00:51:24.789
And pretty soon his mom comes home from work.

00:51:24.789 --> 00:51:31.853
She sees all these trucks outside her house all lined up Waiting to give him a damn ride in their trucks and all that that's awesome.

00:51:33.934 --> 00:51:35.047
And then they found out he died a few months later.

00:51:35.047 --> 00:51:37.742
But anyway, teddy Bear, wait a minute, wait a minute Was he alive when they all pulled up.

00:51:37.742 --> 00:51:39.561
At least, yeah, did he get his ride.

00:51:40.074 --> 00:51:42.577
Well, until the last guy took him the ride back.

00:51:42.577 --> 00:51:44.135
But, it's a long story.

00:51:44.135 --> 00:51:46.275
Oh damn man, Now look it up.

00:51:46.275 --> 00:51:48.418
Now you made me sad, Now you make me sad.

00:51:48.458 --> 00:51:51.943
I'm sad I'm making shit up now, but that wasn't how it really happened.

00:51:51.943 --> 00:51:54.144
But the song is a great song.

00:51:54.144 --> 00:51:56.867
You ought to really look it up and listen to it.

00:51:56.867 --> 00:51:58.489
It brings you back there.

00:51:58.489 --> 00:52:11.856
But the other thing I wanted to just touch base on is Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, the good old outlaw boys.

00:52:11.856 --> 00:52:13.923
The way they capitalized in that era.

00:52:13.923 --> 00:52:17.521
Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

00:52:17.521 --> 00:52:22.143
That was the most great advice in the world.

00:52:22.143 --> 00:52:23.878
Dallas Cowboys suck.

00:52:23.878 --> 00:52:28.938
I mean, how would they know back?

00:52:28.958 --> 00:52:31.958
then how did we get to the Dallas Cowboys?

00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:33.340
Well, that's what they said.

00:52:33.541 --> 00:52:35.423
Well, they said Cowboys, they didn't say Dallas.

00:52:37.086 --> 00:52:37.728
It's implied.

00:52:38.349 --> 00:52:40.380
Oh, okay, never knew that.

00:52:41.016 --> 00:52:43.063
I learned something today, folks, cool, cool.

00:52:43.063 --> 00:52:54.802
But yeah, there was a lot of things and the different, but the one thing that stood out, of course, was Bohemian Rhapsody, how it just stood in test of time and.

00:52:54.802 --> 00:53:04.101
But I know that you love Boston, I do love Boston, so it brings us to your favorite stuff.

00:53:04.155 --> 00:53:12.382
Well, before I get into my favorite stuff, I'm just going to kind of talk about the other little things from 76 and then sweep back into that Sure.

00:53:12.382 --> 00:53:21.262
Alright, so I wanted to go back into what we talked about, certain things that kind of stuck out in 76, Tom Right.

00:53:21.262 --> 00:53:27.742
So you know we both like snacks, food, Heck yeah, Doritos.

00:53:27.742 --> 00:53:28.797
There you go.

00:53:28.797 --> 00:53:32.461
So we have food and snacks that hit big in 76.

00:53:32.461 --> 00:53:36.963
Pop Rocks the fizzy crackling candy hit the mainstream around this time.

00:53:36.963 --> 00:53:38.387
Do you remember those?

00:53:38.554 --> 00:53:39.780
I do remember Pop Rocks.

00:53:39.780 --> 00:53:40.918
Hey, remember when.

00:53:40.938 --> 00:53:43.726
Mikey died from Pop Rocks and soda or some shit.

00:53:43.726 --> 00:53:44.918
Yeah, you're supposed to.

00:53:44.958 --> 00:53:52.726
Mikey from the light commercial yeah, you're not supposed to drink soda with Pop Rock because the peas would make your belly swell up, blow up.

00:53:52.726 --> 00:53:55.239
Do you realize how big your belly can get?

00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:56.164
Pretty big.

00:53:57.496 --> 00:53:59.182
Have you seen some people out there?

00:53:59.463 --> 00:54:04.025
Yeah, they showed me how big my belly could get.

00:54:05.795 --> 00:54:07.021
Jell-O 1-2-3.

00:54:07.021 --> 00:54:10.896
A three-layer dessert introduced early in the 70s was still what the hell is Jell-O 1-2-3.

00:54:10.896 --> 00:54:12.778
A three-layer dessert introduced early in the 70s was still what the hell is Jell-O 1-2-3?

00:54:12.778 --> 00:54:12.923
Okay, wait a minute.

00:54:13.596 --> 00:54:21.003
You don't remember that it was like strawberry Jell-O, and then they had the whipped cream and then the strawberry Jell-O and then the whipped cream.

00:54:21.003 --> 00:54:22.179
Such a different Jell-O.

00:54:22.179 --> 00:54:23.820
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:24.362 --> 00:54:28.061
All right, let's see Introduced a breakfast menu in test markets.

00:54:28.061 --> 00:54:29.545
Egg McMuffin started getting you.

00:54:29.545 --> 00:54:31.469
I love the Egg McMuffin, not going to lie.

00:54:31.510 --> 00:54:32.331
Yeah the Egg.

00:54:32.331 --> 00:54:33.177
Mcmuffin Sausage Egg.

00:54:33.237 --> 00:54:33.699
McMuffin.

00:54:33.699 --> 00:54:38.246
Not a keen person of McDonald's food, but I can eat those all day.

00:54:38.246 --> 00:54:43.460
Yeah, hey, do you remember Tab Cola, tang Tang, space food sticks?

00:54:43.460 --> 00:54:45.217
I don't think I remember the space food sticks.

00:54:45.237 --> 00:54:50.427
I don't remember the space food sticks, but I do remember Tang.

00:54:50.827 --> 00:54:51.349
Yeah Tang.

00:54:51.349 --> 00:54:53.126
I remember Astronauts drink Tang.

00:54:53.188 --> 00:54:55.099
Astronauts drink Tang.

00:54:55.099 --> 00:54:56.356
My mother used to drink Tab.

00:54:56.356 --> 00:54:58.398
Well, because it was way conscious.

00:54:58.398 --> 00:55:05.431
It was a little white Tab in the pink or whatever color, pink and orange and whatever, and here we go.

00:55:05.451 --> 00:55:06.416
We talked about this earlier.

00:55:06.416 --> 00:55:11.338
Bicentennial themed packaging appeared on everything, budweiser cans to Kellogg's cereals.

00:55:11.480 --> 00:55:12.985
Yep and toilet paper.

00:55:13.739 --> 00:55:15.396
You want to keep throwing that toilet paper.

00:55:15.396 --> 00:55:18.005
I like wiping my butt with that Toilet paper is very important to you.

00:55:18.025 --> 00:55:19.420
It is very important to me.

00:55:19.420 --> 00:55:22.523
I went like in 2019.

00:55:22.695 --> 00:55:23.478
Without toilet paper.

00:55:23.500 --> 00:55:26.101
Yeah, we were in a shortage, I think it was 20.

00:55:26.101 --> 00:55:28.956
Whatever, we were in a shortage.

00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:31.164
See, we always stock up on that.

00:55:31.164 --> 00:55:33.802
It's one of those stupid things I hate going to the store for.

00:55:34.635 --> 00:55:36.663
You were the reason we had no toilet paper.

00:55:36.663 --> 00:55:38.137
You stocked up on it.

00:55:38.137 --> 00:55:39.481
Yeah, probably, probably.

00:55:39.541 --> 00:55:40.505
I'm not ashamed of it.

00:55:40.505 --> 00:55:42.230
Okay, I do it all the time I'm prepared.

00:55:42.230 --> 00:55:43.353
That's what it is.

00:55:43.353 --> 00:55:46.380
I'm prepared, oh, prepared.

00:55:46.380 --> 00:55:50.427
Yeah, I knew that one day I'm going to have to shit and there'd be no toilet paper.

00:55:50.427 --> 00:55:55.036
So I said, hey, I'm getting toilet paper.

00:55:55.056 --> 00:55:58.420
You know what I said, what there might be one day I have to shit.

00:55:58.420 --> 00:55:59.342
You know what I'm going to get?

00:55:59.342 --> 00:56:03.306
A good shower, no, a California burrito.

00:56:03.306 --> 00:56:05.110
That's not going to help anybody.

00:56:05.110 --> 00:56:06.391
Well, it'll help me shit.

00:56:07.614 --> 00:56:09.255
Yeah, it certainly will.

00:56:09.255 --> 00:56:11.177
All right, let's see what else we have.

00:56:11.177 --> 00:56:13.018
We have all kinds of stuff.

00:56:13.018 --> 00:56:14.679
We do have all kinds of stuff here.

00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:16.360
Let's see Books.

00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:23.766
Remember Roots, roots, alex Yep Haley was published, a monumental work in African-American literature in US history.

00:56:23.766 --> 00:56:25.447
The movie was pretty damn good too.

00:56:25.447 --> 00:56:25.967
Watch that in school.

00:56:25.967 --> 00:56:26.608
Yep, stephen King's cool.

00:56:26.608 --> 00:56:29.630
Yep, stephen King's Carrie Carrie, freaky movie.

00:56:29.851 --> 00:56:31.932
Yes, Carrie is a scary movie.

00:56:33.996 --> 00:56:38.014
Didn't all the blood at the end bother you?

00:56:38.014 --> 00:56:40.519
No, not really, is it when she freaked out?

00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:41.882
No, well, she had blood poured on her.

00:56:43.005 --> 00:56:43.827
Okay, wait a minute.

00:56:43.827 --> 00:57:02.405
Are we talking about Carrie?

00:57:02.525 --> 00:57:13.393
or my honeymoon, my honeymoon, miscellaneous cultural trends, oh, roller discos and skating rinks.

00:57:13.393 --> 00:57:15.293
Now I'm going to be honest I never roller skated.

00:57:15.293 --> 00:57:17.637
I did Never, never did I roller skate.

00:57:17.637 --> 00:57:23.181
I did roller skate, I skated, I skated, never roller skated in my life.

00:57:23.576 --> 00:57:24.965
I've never ice skated.

00:57:25.489 --> 00:57:27.436
But you roller skated, but I roller skated.

00:57:28.259 --> 00:57:31.864
But you're from up north, where they ice skate and hockey and all that.

00:57:31.885 --> 00:57:33.487
We had roller skating rinks up there.

00:57:33.487 --> 00:57:39.605
We had Smiley Kansas.

00:57:39.605 --> 00:57:40.409
We had roller skating rinks.

00:57:42.434 --> 00:57:43.481
I don't know why, I just never got into it.

00:57:43.481 --> 00:57:45.775
We had a Halloween party one time and this girl had a big old party at the roller skating rink.

00:57:45.775 --> 00:57:47.418
She invited all of us.

00:57:47.418 --> 00:57:50.442
I remember getting in a fight with this boy.

00:57:50.442 --> 00:57:50.947
He was a clown.

00:57:50.947 --> 00:57:51.914
I remember getting in a fight with this boy.

00:57:51.914 --> 00:57:53.157
He was a clown.

00:57:53.157 --> 00:57:54.199
I was the Hulk.

00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:55.382
Was he Charlie Brown?

00:57:55.382 --> 00:58:01.025
Nope, he was a clown, just a clown, just a regular clown, not Charlie Brown, charlie Brown.

00:58:01.025 --> 00:58:03.222
Yeah, he was a clown, but not this guy.

00:58:03.222 --> 00:58:11.594
But I was the Hulk Hulk Hogan or Green Hulk, green Hulk Hulk Hogan or Green Hulk, green Hulk.

00:58:11.594 --> 00:58:17.753
Okay, and what caused the issue was when we bobbed for apples, I was nobody.

00:58:17.753 --> 00:58:26.324
I was nobody then because all my green stuff washed off my face and he made fun of me and we got in a fight.

00:58:26.324 --> 00:58:32.440
So you looked ridiculous, I did, and we got in this fight and, yeah, it was sad.

00:58:33.302 --> 00:58:34.824
Sad, yeah, sad.

00:58:34.824 --> 00:58:37.380
Kasami was in full swing.

00:58:37.380 --> 00:58:38.780
Ah, yes, we were.

00:58:38.780 --> 00:58:39.623
The band was everywhere.

00:58:39.623 --> 00:58:41.782
Well, we just talked about two albums out one year.

00:58:42.135 --> 00:58:49.362
Right, and we talked about how they had bubble gum with the little cards that you made a picture of Little Gene Simmons.

00:58:49.474 --> 00:58:51.358
If there's anything he can sell, he'll sell it.

00:58:51.418 --> 00:58:54.085
Yes, Well, he's Jew Shh.

00:58:54.085 --> 00:58:55.427
Nope, Can't say that.

00:58:56.416 --> 00:58:57.340
We're going to take that out.

00:58:57.340 --> 00:58:59.097
Yep, all right, you light up my?

00:58:59.159 --> 00:58:59.400
life.

00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:03.342
I'm surprised that I figured that out, but anyway, yes, I do.

00:59:03.342 --> 00:59:04.684
Well, not you.

00:59:05.427 --> 00:59:06.047
It's a song.

00:59:06.047 --> 00:59:13.494
Oh yeah, sentimental songs and patriotism was woven throughout entertainment.

00:59:13.494 --> 00:59:23.478
A miniseries format on TV started thanks to Rich man Poor man I remember my mother watched that and Roots, as we just discussed.

00:59:23.478 --> 00:59:28.987
So that's that stuff We'll get into movies.

00:59:28.987 --> 00:59:29.815
Let's get to the movies.

00:59:29.815 --> 00:59:34.358
Now let's get to TV and films, and then I'll get into my music Lonesome Dove.

00:59:34.358 --> 00:59:37.342
That was later, I know, but miniseries.

00:59:37.382 --> 00:59:38.126
It was a miniseries.

00:59:38.126 --> 00:59:40.021
It was what a bunch of crock.

00:59:40.021 --> 00:59:42.061
Why would they make something like that, isn't?

00:59:42.061 --> 00:59:46.818
That Kenny Rogers he is somebody or something, tom Selleck I don't Speaking of.

00:59:46.818 --> 00:59:52.222
Kenny he had a 1976 pit and the Gambler.

00:59:52.222 --> 00:59:55.085
That was a good song 1976.

00:59:55.085 --> 00:59:56.025
That's a good story song.

00:59:56.045 --> 00:59:56.485
Bingo.

00:59:56.485 --> 01:00:00.969
So, anyways, let's go to TV and film moments.

01:00:00.969 --> 01:00:07.684
Rocky, released in December of 76, it became a cultural juggernaut and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

01:00:07.684 --> 01:00:11.443
All the President's Men reflected ongoing national mistrust.

01:00:11.443 --> 01:00:13.440
Post-watergate Remember that Robert Redford movie?

01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:14.103
I saw that.

01:00:14.103 --> 01:00:21.461
Oh yeah, charlie's Angels, ah, the original Charlie's Angels people yeah, not Farrah Fawcett, kate Jackson.

01:00:21.461 --> 01:00:24.021
And how can I think of the other girl's?

01:00:24.061 --> 01:00:28.864
name ever, because she didn't really do anything after that.

01:00:28.864 --> 01:00:30.349
Well, no, she was hot too.

01:00:31.574 --> 01:00:33.449
Well, she was hot, too Well, she was hot, but she didn't do anything after that.

01:00:33.449 --> 01:00:34.021
Anyways, Laverne and Shirley debuted.

01:00:34.021 --> 01:00:35.074
They just spin out from Happy Days.

01:00:35.074 --> 01:00:36.239
Oh, you remember how?

01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:37.103
hot they were.

01:00:38.335 --> 01:00:39.561
I don't think they were really hot.

01:00:39.635 --> 01:00:43.172
Well, why'd you remember them and not the other chick from Shirley's?

01:00:43.233 --> 01:00:47.161
age, because I'm looking at their names, it's right there, laverne and Shirley, I got you.

01:00:47.161 --> 01:00:48.764
It's telling me, I got you.

01:00:48.764 --> 01:00:53.632
Roots was filmed in 76 to premiere early in 1977.

01:00:53.632 --> 01:00:55.461
Right, because the book was out in 76.

01:00:55.461 --> 01:00:57.521
Sure, and this I did not know.

01:00:57.521 --> 01:01:02.467
The Muppet Show premiered in the UK in 76 and in US syndication the same year.

01:01:02.467 --> 01:01:06.226
It started in the UK, yeah, that blows my mind.

01:01:08.217 --> 01:01:11.927
I wonder if it's because of Mr Snuffleup?

01:01:11.927 --> 01:01:13.320
Nope, that was Sesame Street.

01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:15.166
Never mind, never mind.

01:01:15.166 --> 01:01:19.068
I'm getting my young youth shows mixed up.

01:01:19.452 --> 01:01:21.440
Yeah, well, hey, it happens, it was a long time ago.

01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:22.858
It was a long time ago.

01:01:22.858 --> 01:01:23.802
Yeah, it was Now.

01:01:23.802 --> 01:01:26.396
I want to get in some of the music.

01:01:26.396 --> 01:01:28.275
Well, there's a lot here that I like.

01:01:28.275 --> 01:01:33.440
I'm not going to elaborate on a lot of them, I'm just going to kind of tell you which ones and why I like your high spots.

01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:37.842
Boston Yep the whole album More than a feeling when that came out that blew my mind.

01:01:37.842 --> 01:01:40.563
No exaggeration there either.

01:01:40.563 --> 01:01:47.000
More than a feeling, something about you, peace of mind.

01:01:48.956 --> 01:01:49.900
On, and, on, and on.

01:01:50.215 --> 01:01:51.460
Peter Frampton came out.

01:01:51.460 --> 01:01:55.543
I remember this girl in school talking about a title Frampton Comes Alive.

01:01:55.543 --> 01:01:56.987
You got to hear it and she's right.

01:01:56.987 --> 01:02:00.375
The songs on Frampton Comes Alive are awesome.

01:02:00.375 --> 01:02:02.021
My brother liked Peter Frampton.

01:02:02.021 --> 01:02:04.903
Peter Frampton, you know good music.

01:02:04.903 --> 01:02:09.639
I made fun of it for a while, but she got me on the right track.

01:02:09.659 --> 01:02:24.516
You made fun of it because your buddies made fun of it, not because you really listened, no, I think because I looked at the guy and I said, really, I kind of looked at him and said, yeah, then, once I heard his guitar playing, I was like okay, Eagles.

01:02:24.516 --> 01:02:27.141
We talked about this at Hotel California.

01:02:28.195 --> 01:02:29.641
Scared shit right out of me.

01:02:30.795 --> 01:02:32.121
Life in the Fast Lane.

01:02:32.121 --> 01:02:36.679
Another good song off that album Aerosmith Rocks.

01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:40.746
Now, I didn't get into this album in 76.

01:02:40.746 --> 01:02:43.001
77, I was at school.

01:02:43.001 --> 01:02:44.244
Right Bought the album.

01:02:44.244 --> 01:02:46.737
I told you the story Right Library.

01:02:46.737 --> 01:02:48.684
You get to go in and study whatever it was.

01:02:48.684 --> 01:02:50.472
You had a turntable, you could put the album on headphones.

01:02:50.472 --> 01:02:50.887
You get to go in and study whatever it was.

01:02:50.887 --> 01:02:52.304
You had a turntable, you could put the album on headphones.

01:02:52.304 --> 01:02:55.141
You do your school work and sit there and listen to records.

01:02:55.141 --> 01:02:57.141
45 minutes of that was awesome.

01:02:57.141 --> 01:03:03.614
So that's where rock came in and my big one that you'll laugh at, tom Rush 2112.

01:03:03.614 --> 01:03:06.215
Concept album blew me away.

01:03:06.215 --> 01:03:07.762
I've never heard stuff like that.

01:03:07.762 --> 01:03:09.463
Yeah, I know you make fun of it, I still say it away.

01:03:09.463 --> 01:03:10.347
I've never heard stuff like that.

01:03:10.347 --> 01:03:11.795
Yeah, I know you make fun of it, I still say it.

01:03:11.795 --> 01:03:12.501
It's music for nerds.

01:03:12.501 --> 01:03:17.902
But that album to me, 2112, fly by Night from Rush is good, but 2112 will always be my top album from Rush.

01:03:18.195 --> 01:03:19.742
Rush has their moments.

01:03:20.615 --> 01:03:21.900
And, like I said, the list goes on.

01:03:21.900 --> 01:03:24.398
These are the albums that I freaking love.

01:03:24.398 --> 01:03:26.976
Boys of Coal, Agents of Fortune Don't Fear the Reaper.

01:03:26.976 --> 01:03:28.840
Come on man, Don't Fear the Reaper.

01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:31.786
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak my first Thin Lizzy album that I bought.

01:03:32.288 --> 01:03:32.889
That came out.

01:03:33.135 --> 01:03:35.563
I bought that just because the boys are back in town.

01:03:35.563 --> 01:03:37.402
That's the only reason I bought that album.

01:03:37.402 --> 01:03:43.817
Tom Petty, because American Girl was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Yep, ac, dc, high Voltage.

01:03:43.817 --> 01:03:45.820
I didn't listen to that until the year after.

01:03:45.820 --> 01:03:52.789
But again, bon Scott, awesome Yep, kiss, rock and roll over in Detroit Rock City.

01:03:53.815 --> 01:03:54.822
Everything was Kiss A destroyer, I mean.

01:03:55.215 --> 01:03:56.940
Those two albums to me.

01:03:56.940 --> 01:04:00.862
Bob Seger is another one, when he first came out with Night Moves.

01:04:01.474 --> 01:04:03.021
Bob Seger was the shit.

01:04:03.021 --> 01:04:06.480
I mean again just talk Like a rock man.

01:04:06.574 --> 01:04:07.960
We're just talking about these songs.

01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:10.057
This is songs I grew up listening to.

01:04:10.057 --> 01:04:15.043
Even from that year, I kept playing them my whole teen years.

01:04:15.043 --> 01:04:18.628
These are the songs I listened to Queen Day at the Races.

01:04:18.628 --> 01:04:20.190
They had Somebody to Love.

01:04:20.190 --> 01:04:22.916
That was a good song.

01:04:22.916 --> 01:04:25.117
Steve Miller Band Take the Money and Run.

01:04:25.137 --> 01:04:27.159
Oh, come on, Take the.

01:04:27.179 --> 01:04:28.240
Money and Run Great song.

01:04:28.240 --> 01:04:36.307
Another band I get into which is kind of symphonic rock Electric Legged Orchestra, yellow, gotta love them Runaways.

01:04:36.307 --> 01:04:43.539
When I bought the Queens of Noise album, oh yeah, I'm like what the hell is this group?

01:04:43.539 --> 01:04:45.666
I saw these hot chicks on this album and it kicks ass.

01:04:45.666 --> 01:04:48.061
So anyway, those are just a list.

01:04:48.061 --> 01:04:53.166
There's more, but those are my top and to this day still love all these songs.

01:04:53.166 --> 01:04:53.688
Heck yeah.

01:04:53.688 --> 01:04:57.643
But again, this is starting to get into the soundtrack of my youth.

01:04:57.903 --> 01:05:01.139
Yep, this is why this is getting close to me too.

01:05:01.139 --> 01:05:02.184
10 years old.

01:05:02.184 --> 01:05:11.125
It's great when you hit 10 to 13, you're starting to just understand life and everything, and music is a big part of that.

01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:22.498
A huge part of that Music is a big part of that, tom, and you know to this day some of these songs I can listen to and think back of with well, I don't know what kind of song, let's say any song it could be with a girl.

01:05:22.498 --> 01:05:24.083
You were with your friends partying.

01:05:24.083 --> 01:05:32.775
What you were going through at the time, you know it's all kinds kinds of.

01:05:32.795 --> 01:05:33.556
This song jogs this memory.

01:05:33.556 --> 01:05:34.237
This song jogs that memory.

01:05:34.237 --> 01:05:35.800
Chicago, 1976.

01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:46.079
Chicago had a big song that was later on played it like these high school gym dances that you go to, and it was a big part of your life.

01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:47.101
Which one was it?

01:05:47.101 --> 01:05:47.902
Color my world?

01:05:47.902 --> 01:05:49.423
Which one Was it Color my World?

01:05:49.423 --> 01:05:50.704
No, 25 or 64?

01:05:50.704 --> 01:05:53.347
No, it was something slow Color.

01:05:53.768 --> 01:05:55.751
My World is a slow Chicago song.

01:05:58.155 --> 01:06:01.510
I played that at school dances when I was in school, yeah, but when I was younger it was a little different, but anyways.

01:06:01.510 --> 01:06:04.061
Yeah, I'll get to them, I'll understand what they are.

01:06:04.061 --> 01:06:06.056
They come out and everything.

01:06:06.056 --> 01:06:24.407
But yeah, that was your first time holding a girl that wasn't your cousin or your neighbor or some stupid joke, you know Right, and you're like, wow, this is really happening.

01:06:24.514 --> 01:06:27.342
No, and that's what I mean, especially like for me being 13,.

01:06:27.342 --> 01:06:31.423
This was junior high and, anyways, I love this episode.

01:06:31.423 --> 01:06:31.684
I do too.

01:06:31.684 --> 01:06:34.114
This was junior high and, anyways, love this episode, I do too.

01:06:34.355 --> 01:06:35.420
I think this is great.

01:06:35.420 --> 01:06:36.920
It's bringing us back.

01:06:37.916 --> 01:06:48.083
Awesome episode, but I think on that point, on that note, I will probably call it quits right now, unless you got something else to add there, my friend.

01:06:48.836 --> 01:06:52.315
I don't believe that I have anything left.

01:06:52.315 --> 01:06:54.309
76 was a great year.

01:06:54.329 --> 01:06:57.463
It was a great year that started everything pretty much, at least for me.

01:06:57.956 --> 01:07:02.766
Well, I'm stepping into my pre-teen years and it's 10.

01:07:02.766 --> 01:07:10.367
I'm going to be 10 years old, coming up and all these songs from all my siblings are just running through my head.

01:07:12.358 --> 01:07:15.800
No, and that's why we're doing this, and I'm excited this is actually jogging more memories.

01:07:16.255 --> 01:07:21.224
When I was nine, I was sure, I was absolutely sure, I was going to be a rock star by now.

01:07:21.865 --> 01:07:21.985
No.

01:07:22.557 --> 01:07:26.103
Well, I'm not Not a big rock singer with golden fingers no.

01:07:26.103 --> 01:07:26.985
Not really.

01:07:26.985 --> 01:07:30.516
I mean, I've got gold fingers, but they're pulling boxes.

01:07:30.516 --> 01:07:35.398
Most of it because I have golden gloves that I wear on my fingers.

01:07:36.798 --> 01:07:39.500
Oh, so that's how you keep your hand so smooth.

01:07:40.420 --> 01:07:41.541
My hands aren't smooth.

01:07:41.541 --> 01:07:44.682
Okay, there, anyways.

01:07:44.882 --> 01:08:05.371
So anyways, tom, tell our listeners listen to us Spotify, iheartradio, amazon Music, deezer FM, deepcast FM, our Buzzsprout site and, most importantly, our website, mtalpodcom.

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Leave a message.

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There's a little microphone on the bottom right-hand side.

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Leave a message.

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There's a little microphone on the bottom right-hand side.

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Leave a message.

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You'll be at Incognito.

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We want to hear from you people what you would like to hear.

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Not only will you be Incognito, but nobody will know who you are.

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Yeah what he said.

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Anyway, I would like to thank God for the gift of gab always.

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Always, tom and everybody take care.

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God bless and later.

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Well, that's it for another award-losing episode of the MT Alternative Podcast, where Mike and Tom bravely continue their mission to convince the world that their musical opinions from 1970-whatever still matter.

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Inspiring stuff, truly.

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Next week, the boys take a deep dive okay, more like a cautious wade into the magical year of 1977.

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Expect disco, dad rock and an unhealthy amount of sentimental sighing about songs that haven't been on the charts since Carter was president.

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Oh and yes, ugh, pip and Squeak will also return to the show, no doubt to bring their usual brand of chaos, complaints and rodent-level wisdom to the proceedings, because what this podcast really needed was more unhinged commentary from creatures with no concept of copyright law.

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Don't forget, you can catch this trainwreck of audio excellence on Deepcast FM, deezer FM, buzzsprout, iheart, amazon Music, spotify Music and, of course, the one and only mtultpodcom, which is somehow still live Until next time.

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I'm Presenter, daniel, reminding you that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, and neither are Mike and Tom.

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Goodbye.

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Thank you.