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Welcome Back to Children of the Eighties.

I am one of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always by the lady who I met down in South Birmingham.

She was running from a fat man's selling salvation in his hand.

You don't know what that is.

Do you?

My daddy said, I ran from my salvation back in the aughts.

I got you on that.

You did?

You did?

Those are lyrics to a song and I'm wondering if any of our listeners know what that song.

Is from the eighties.

I'm assuming yes.

It is from the eighties, and I'm just wondering if they know what it is.

And first person that hits me up or you up on social media, we'll send them a sticker.

A sticker.

What do you think, wow, of our big old fat hands.

We'll send them a Children of the Eighties sticker.

I'm sure it'll be like the price that they've been looking for their whole lives.

You know it.

You know something's missing in my life.

I wonder what could be Oh my gosh, I got this Children of the Eighties sticker.

My life is complete.

What about a magnet they could put on their refrigerator?

Do you have one of those?

Okay?

Well yeah, I mean.

That's even more exciting, right, that's.

Better than a sticker.

I mean, what are are listeners?

Eight years old?

They get a scratch and sniffe.

Don't want to scratch and sniff us?

Oh gosh, no, I'm sorry.

I can't guarantee you what that would smell like.

They could put a sticker on their stanley.

So what's going on over there?

I feel a.

Little little discombobulated today, but that's okay.

Yeah, yeah, how are you doing?

You know, I'm surviving.

You are a survivor.

I am like the Destiny's Child song.

So what kind of feedback did you get from last week's episode on the Golden.

Girls that people like the Golden Girls?

So I did run a poll?

I did too, all right, so I need to know on your poll who the winner was?

Uh for the Golden Girls.

So for those of you that didn't see the polls or maybe not part of social media, we ran a poll on who is your favorite Golden Girl?

And so I ran one on Twitter, and Lindsey ran one on Facebook and Instagram.

And I need to know who won, because you're going to crack up, Diane laughing.

Now there's still six hours left on my poll.

I'm pulling it up here while we talk.

But I was a little bit surprised with the results here.

So we got two votes for Sophia.

That does not surprise me, and two votes for Dorothy.

That is what surprises me.

People like Dorothy.

We got four votes.

I'm sorry, should I have padded those results?

That's the fete?

We've got twenty votes for no and then I voted for Rose.

I always vote for Rose.

What's wrong with you?

People?

Uh?

So I got a lot more votes than four, and I still have six hours left.

But you're going to crack up at this.

It is a dead heat right now.

Dorothy has thirty percent, Blanche has thirty percent, and Sophia has thirty percent.

Really the votes Rose is bringing up the rear at ten percent?

Isn't that funny?

I thought everybody would love Rose.

I thought so too, I mean, how could you not love her?

Saint Olaf story, I know, the saying all off stories, just the simpleness of her mind, the way her mind worked, I guess.

Yeah.

But that storyline with Miles, people didn't like it.

Maybe that was it.

But Rose first couple of seasons it was hilarious.

Yeah, she was always had some good lines.

Yeah, so obviously we know that polls on Facebook apparently don't work.

Well, here's the thing.

We are a male centric podcast, even though I would love to add a few more ladies to the mix.

And so I think guys are on X.

You think so I do.

I mean that's what I tell myself to make myself feel better.

Okay, I'm not going to dispute you.

So I got a couple of things I want to talk to you about.

Oh okay, First of all, got.

A little bit of history.

Oh history, I know that's well, that's right up your alley.

In nineteen eighty nine.

How many years ago was that?

Thirty six?

The Berlin Wall fell?

Oh, thirty six years ago.

Thirty six years ago today the Berlin wallfell?

Yeah, of course, always as ten.

Absolutely, I remember that, and I remember especially I think we've talked about this before that my mom was very emotional about that and was stuck to the TV watching all that she could about it.

Of course yes, and her trying to explain to me, a ten year old kid, that you know, families got up and went to work or went about their lives that morning that it was put up and then couldn't get home and families were separated and split up, and how emotional that reunion would have been for them.

So anyways, thirty.

Six years, thirty six years ago, the Berlin Wall may not have been up for thirty six years.

Oh no, No, the Berlin Wall was not up for thirty six years.

Did I insinuate that it was?

No, I'm just saying like, oh.

It's been down.

It's been down longer than it was up.

And that makes me feel super old.

We are because in nineteen eighty nine I would have swore that the Berlin Wall had been up for like a billion years, even though I know it was only in the sixties right now, but it felt like one hundred years ago.

Yeah, I know that.

So back in the eighties, the sixties felt like a lifetime.

Ago, right, But here we are thirty six years later.

Back in the eighties, thirty six years.

Depending on what year you're talking about, could have been like nineteen forty three.

Let's move round, So midst of World War Two.

Chris jerichos him and a birthday?

Okay, fifty five?

Is that that's kind of hard for me to believe that Chris Jericho's fifty five.

It doesn't seem right that I'm almost as old as Chris Jericho because I felt like I was a kid when I watched him on TV.

Oh see, I thought he was a kid.

Well he was, and I was an adult.

He was a kid and I was an adult, ok as well.

But let me pull up his Instagram account.

I know you don't have Instagram.

I do not.

So here's a picture of him, and I can't quite figure out if he's okay or not.

I'm going to turn it around so you can see it.

I don't know if you might need to stand up.

I'm hooked up to all of your contraptions.

But what happened?

I mean, he's fifty five, he's still in great shade.

Why did his chest aflate?

Did he have implants he had removed?

Maybe?

No, I mean you can start losing muscle when you get over forty.

Really, I mean, listen, I'm a chunky monkey, but and he's not chunky.

No, he's got abs.

He's wavy.

Yeah, he's lumpy.

He's lumpy.

Somebody said that he might be getting ready for a comeback.

Oh that'd be cool.

I guess I don't know.

I don't really watch your assle in that.

Okay, So that's what Chris Jericho's got going on.

And I'm wondering why you're bringing up Chris Jerreed.

So that's just random.

I mean, I saw that picture on Instagram.

But hold on, why are you irritated?

I stay perpetually irritated.

I want you to see what Ddp's out there doing.

Hold on, I know what Ddp's out there doing.

I was hoping I could pull it up, but I can't find it.

Now he's doing his yoga and he's almost seventy and he's basically doing the splits out on the beach doing his yoga.

Yeah, because he had severe back problems that ended his career and he was having trouble surviving and then he discovered yoga, which helped his back and now he lives by that daily and helps other people.

Yeah, he's got a show now on two B that I want to watch where he's helping people trying to get their lives back together.

And Buff Bagwell is one of the people on that show.

I'm not sure that Buff Bagwell is helpable, but I hope he is.

Yeah.

I mean you would have said that Lex Luger wasn't helpable, and DDP helped Lex Luger.

So Lex Luger is able to take a couple of steps on his own, I know.

And he was wheelchair bound for many years.

Which is just mind blowing.

So that's amazing.

Uh, got anything else.

I do, But with the looks you've been giving me over the Chris Jericho and DDP thing, I don't know if I shouldn't do it or Well.

It's strange because this isn't a wrestling podcast.

And I know that we talk we talk stuff about but usually it's about the subject of the of the shows.

But I want people to know that this isn't a wrestling episode.

No, it's not a wrestling episode.

Okay, Well, I've got something that I haven't done in a long time.

Ready you ready, I'm.

Ready, Get off my lawn.

Did you hear me?

I said get off my lawn.

Now, get off my lawn.

I'm not happy.

I don't like this chair and I don't like this dish.

And I don't like being here.

I'm a grumpy old man.

I don't like everything the way it is now compared to the way it used to be.

So here is my complaint today.

And our buddy def Dave kind of gave me this idea, but I agree with him because this is something that I've complained about for a long time, but I've never brought it to the podcast.

Oh so you complained in private.

No, I've complained to you about this.

Yeah, that's private.

Well, okay, I guess you know.

I haven't complained in public over the airwaves like I am now.

But I hate it when you go to a store or you go through a drive through and you pay with cash and then they give you back.

You hold out your hand to get the change, and they put the dollar bill and the receipt down first and then toss all the change on top of it.

Because then it's like whoa, because yes, wow, what am I a balancing act here?

It's like I've got a seesaw on my hand and I'm trying not to drop the change or the dollar bills.

So then I've got to like crunch it.

I crunch up the dollar bill.

And it's all crinkly, and then it's difficult to get into my wallet because I like to keep them straight.

What is the deal with that?

Common sense would tell you hand the change first, so then the person can make a fist.

But then they still got these two little pincers with their thumb and their forefinger.

That you can hand them the bills back and the receipt and everything would be just fine.

Why are you handing me the bills first?

Who does that?

Okay, I have a question cash anymore?

Ye?

Well, people who want to keep track of their money, Oh, Dave Ramsey does well?

Whatever, Like if I don't pay in cash, I'm expecting there to be Oh I don't know.

Let's say eight hundred dollars in the bank, and the next thing I look and there's two hundred and ten dollars.

I start flipping out because people are just charging left and right with that card.

Are what are we doing?

Charging left and right?

You can't see this is not a video podcast, but he's swiping his arms up and down.

Yeah, so quit handing me the dollar bills and the receipts back.

First, Hand me the change back first.

It's common sense not to mention when somebody pays.

You know, when you got a handback change, you should be counting the change first anyway.

So okay, so here I can I give you my two cents, Yes, as long as I don't put the two cents on top of the dollar bills, do not.

I think that people do that nowadays because the machine is telling them how much to give you, so they're not it back.

That is correct.

So like when I worked in retail, we didn't have a cash register that would tell me how much change to make.

I had to count it to figure it out on your own.

That's how it works at quick Trip.

I had to figure it out on my own.

And so therefore, if I'm doing it that way, then I'm going to count the change first and then the dollar bills, and then that's how I'm going to hand it to the customer.

But the generation now, I think the machine just says give them four dollars and twenty four cents, and that's what they get out and give them.

But you don't think that they have enough common sense to hand the change first.

No, Nope, Well.

Apparently they don't because I get the dollar bills first, and the receipt and the change and I feel like they're also trying to hand me my drinking bag of food.

Oh they are.

They're trying to give it to you all at one time.

As I have those things grasped in my hand and change is flying everywhere.

Yeah, you're gonna end up just dropping something.

And I just hope it's not the coke.

Yeah, listen, And I hope it's not the sprite either.

Yeah right, Yeah, that's irritating.

That irritates me.

So let's I mean, let's just get some common sense.

I mean, I think we I think we're way past We're long past that way.

Yep, that ship has sailed.

Butler, all right, well, I guess there's nothing I can do about it.

Now.

Today's episode is about wrestling and change.

It is not, but we'll get to that in a second.

Are you ready to I am ready to do it, all right.

This is a podcast that looks back on the decade of the nineteen eighties.

We talk about things that were important to us as children and what we look back on with fond memories as adults.

Ultimately, this is a nostalgia.

Podcast, and today we are getting nostalgic about the most nostalgic thing there is that is music.

I decided that we were gonna have a little fun today, and so what I've done is I have picked out ten songs, one from each year of the decade, and I'm gonna they were popular songs, and I'm gonna have you guess whether this song that I play hit number one or not.

Okay, So are we gonna have fun or are we gonna have fun at my expense?

No, we're gonna have fun, I mean, because.

You know I I'm.

But I but listen, anybody could get these wrong or right, because it's a fifty to fifty chance.

I'm no Jason Colevin, I know, but I wouldn't know either.

I would probably go about five for ten on these if I didn't look them up myself.

Okay, so if you just go, let's just say you just go thirty percent.

That's the hit in three hundred in baseball, that's a win.

So my goal is to get three right right.

Your goal is to get three right, surely to goodness.

But if you can get more than three right would be great too.

So when you think of number one songs of the eighties, are there any that that like popped your mind at all or anie artists.

Madonna, Yeah, Whitney Houston.

Ship, Yeah, they both had some number ones.

Michael Jackson, you had a bunch.

Those are the three, the three big ones that pop into your mind.

What about you, Prince Billy, Joel, Bill Collins.

There you go, Genesis, Yes.

All that Phil.

Phil was on the radio more than Michael Jackson in the eighties because he had a he had a bandana.

He had a bandana.

Did he wear it around his head?

He had a band and a solo career.

I don't recall seeing Phil in a bandana.

Oh boy.

So yeah, So I'm gonna play each of these songs, We'll talk about them little bit, and then I will have you guess you know, was it a number one song or not?

Yes or no?

Okay, what do you think?

I'm ready?

You ready?

And I've done no research.

No, you have not.

I'm the only one that did research.

We're going at this.

We're winging it here, okay, but yeah, this should be fun.

You complain about the only letters you get from mere podcast outline, So I didn't bother sending you one this time?

Thank you?

So there you go.

All right, let's get some music here, going okay, So here is our first song from nineteen eighty.

Let's see a if you recognize it, which I believe you will, and then we'll talk about it.

I'm so lost that you were right, believe so, But am I with that?

I can't be too late just say that I was so right.

I want you to.

So who is that?

That's air Supply?

And what is that song?

All out of law?

Yes, that is correct.

Do you like that song?

I love that song?

And I note that most days if you bring up air Supply, I'm probably gonna like poke fun a little bit at him or chuckle a little bit under my breath about it.

But just truthfully, I love that song.

Yes, that's a great song.

I love air Supply, so yeah, I mean, you can make fun of me all you want.

But air Supply was like the soft rock kings of the early eighties.

So I have a quick question.

Are they yacht rock?

No, not at all.

I don't believe so well.

I'm sure the consultant will hit me up on on Twitter, you know, when this plays, But I'm almost positive they're not considered yat rock.

Okay, and they're pre hairband, yes they are, certainly they're in some weird little Yeah, they're from about late seventy nine till about eighty three eighty four, about the time hairbands came in that kind of ushered, kind of like air supply with Journey a little bit.

Yeah, Journey's a little bit earlier and then lasted a little bit longer.

Journey actually lasted into the hair bands.

But you know, they most of their hits were early eighties, late seventies, early eighties.

So I'm gonna ask you now, did that song hit number one?

Yes?

Wrong?

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong, wrong, You're wrong, You're wrong, You're.

Ang that's funny.

Who is that?

That's doctor Cox?

Okay, so this one was actually really close.

So listen, this song hit number two and it stayed there for four weeks.

It was held off by Upside Down by Diana Ross for three of those weeks, and then another one bites the dust for its final week.

So there you go.

So it should it should have.

Been a number one.

It absolutely should have been a number one.

So you missed it.

But it's not like it was a number forty hit, right, you know, I probably would have guessed that it had been a number one hit as well.

If I'm being honest.

It deserves it, right.

Yeah, that's such a great, great love song.

I think air Supply may have only had one number one hit.

Oh really, yeah, I think so.

I think a lot of they had, like a lot of top five.

Wait wait, wait, wait wait.

So you're saying that air Supply is a one hit wonder.

No one hit wonder would be one one hit in the top forty or you know, one hit that's known more than any other hits.

What I'm saying is I believe they only had one number one hit, but they had a bunch of top five hits, a bunch of number two hits.

Actually, so no, air Supply is certainly not a one hit wonder.

So that was nineteen eighty Are you ready to move on to nineteen eighty one or you got anything else to say about I'm lying alone with my head on the phone thinking of you till it hurts.

Kids today have no idea about that.

No, they do not.

All right, We're moving on to nineteen eighty one.

You would have been roughly two years old when this song hit it big.

So I'm wondering if you know if this song hit number one or not.

But some.

I love how we're both just chair dancing to that song.

So why do I feel like Carlton loved this song?

He probably would have.

So do you know what song that is?

And who sings it?

I feel like if I guess wrong, I'll get made fun of.

Is it Olivia Newton Johonnes?

No, but you're clothes?

It's Sheena Easton?

Of course it's Sheena Easton.

Why wouldn't I hear this song?

Do I think of Brad from I don't know your book?

He has he talked about?

Does he take the morning train and work from ninety five millis as school teacher?

I know he doesn't work nine to five.

Sure he works a lot more than nine to five.

Has he talked about that song before?

I don't know.

I have no idea.

Well, I hope I didn't offend him.

If he hasn't, it'd be like, why do you think of me when you hear.

The Curently Brad Lindsey thinks of you when she hears Sheena Easton.

That's a little strange.

I don't know if you'll be invited back onto their podcast again.

I'm so sorry.

I swear I think he likes that song, Oh my gosh, Okay, do I think it hit number one?

No?

I do not.

Well, this song.

Did hit number one.

It hit number one for two weeks.

It hit it in May of nineteen eighty one.

It is one of two songs in nineteen eighty one with the words nine to five in the title that hit number one.

Okay, why I at least I know the other one of those.

So I believe this song was called originally called nine to five, and because of Dolly's song, they changed it to morning train and then parentheticals nine to five.

And the nine to five is spelled out unlike the numbers for Dolly.

Yep, But they're both about working from nine to five.

Apparently the nine to five was a thing in the.

Well, I think because the eighties.

Wouldn't she say?

Women in the workforce really took off in the eighties, And so I'm wondering if that's why suddenly we had women singing about nine to five.

Possibly, but I believe she and Easton was staying at home and waiting for her bow to get back.

He took the morning train.

See I always think when I hear morning train, I think of New York.

I don't know why, But yeah, you know, that's that's what I think of, all right?

Anything else about that song that you have to say?

Do you like that song?

I kind of do.

It's catchy, it's kind of catchy, it's kind of fun.

Yeah it is.

It is, all right.

So moving on to our third song from nineteen eighty two.

Okay, here we go, not damage.

How am I going to manage you?

I've never heard that song before in my life.

You've never heard that song before in your life.

No, that's Holding Me by Fleetwood Mass.

I was going to say, is it Fleetwood Mats it is?

That's Christy McVeigh and Lindsey Bucking.

I'm singing actually together throughout the whole song.

I'm the pressures on.

I think it did hit number one, y'all.

Do not do not hit that button, Jim, Jim.

This song actually topped out at number four.

But here's the crazy thing.

So before we hit record, you sent to me, seriously, how bad could this go?

And now we're finding out that.

So this song hit number four and this is something that I've never seen before.

It stayed at number four for seven weeks.

Why what was around it?

I think the reason why it stayed there is because it hit number four at the exact same time that Ia the Tiger hit number one the exact same week, And I have the Tiger was number one for six weeks.

So it just held it off.

It just held it off.

And so yeah, poor Fleetwood Mac.

They maybe could have had a number one in nineteen eighty two, but they they didn't get there because of Rocky three, and they knew that Rocky was eventually going to stop the Cold War.

So that song, yeah, you know, peaked at number one for so long, So you've really never heard that song before, heard that that's like on their greatest hits.

I think I've I've failed as a as an older child of the eighties to not get you into more Fleetwood Mac.

I'm not a big Fleetwood Mac fan.

I bet you that you would recognize about anywhere from twelve to fifteen Fleetwood Mac songs.

Maybe all right, moving on nineteen eighty three, I have a feeling that you're due, that you're going to get this, So here we go, nineteen eighty three.

Guess I'm not comic gasuns.

So this song reminds me of Scrubs.

Of course I should have said that I should have said the doctor Cox one for this, the doctor Cox wrong for this.

I'm going to get her wrong.

Well, you may or may not.

I don't know.

So a what is this song?

So you know that this song is overkilled by Minute Work?

Right?

Yes?

Of course.

So Minute Work had two number one songs before they released this song.

So the question is did they end up getting a third or did this song no, not quite make it no?

And let me tell you why I'm going with no, okay, because my gut says yes.

Well I've got some news for you, lindsay.

Okay, there you go.

Thank the Lord.

I got one.

Yeah.

So that song, Overkill peaked at number three on June fourth of nineteen eighty three.

Minute Work were huge in the early eighties, especially on MTV.

They had some great videos and just some great songs.

And that's probably my favorite Minute Work song, even though it didn't hit number one.

Oh really, yeah, I love that song.

I love the acoustic version that Colin Hay plays on Scrubs.

But yeah, that's that's my favorite Minute Work song by far.

And I like Who Can It Be Now?

And Down Under I like them a lot, but Overkills just my favorite.

What about you.

What's your favorite minute work song?

I think it's a close call between this one and who can it be?

Now?

Okay, Okay, As a child, I would have said, or as maybe as a young adult, I probably would have said it was down Under for me.

Yeah, but as I've gotten older, overkills just I don't know why it brings back more of a feeling of nostalgia for me than the other two.

Dude, No, I can see that, but I don't know why.

I don't either.

I have no idea why.

But it's it's just a fantastic song, all right.

So you are one for four, so that means you only got to get two out of six.

You know.

I hope you can do better, but you know, if you can't, don't worry about it.

This is not easy.

I guarantee if we would have had a guest on, they would probably be, you know, one for four, maybe two for four.

All right.

So one of the best years for music in the eighties, nineteen eighty four.

Is he singing about reflux?

Can you say something about acid reflux?

I love that.

That is the reflex by Duran Duran Oh, okay, the group so good that you couldn't say their name just once.

I don't know that song.

You do not know that song?

No, well, you would have only been uh five ish when that song came out.

Yeah.

In fact, this song reached its peak position two days before your fifth birthday.

So it doesn't surprise me that you don't know that song.

And we were listening.

To you were listening to all country back.

Then, Kenny and Dolly.

Yeah, so you weren't a huge durand Duran nowhere.

No, I'm not a big Duran Duran fan.

I'm gonna say it did not.

What does your gut tell you?

My gut feel some acid reflop, So my gut says that maybe it did.

It did reach number one?

Wait wait, wait, wait, my gut says, what does my gut say?

My gut's kind of nauseous.

No, I don't think it did.

You don't think it hit number now, I do not.

You of I did.

This song did hit number one.

It hit number one on June twenty third of nineteen eighty four, and it stayed at the top spot for two weeks.

So remember, Duran Duran was huge.

So this followed up.

This actually followed up time after time at the number one spot, and then what knocked this out of the number one spot was when Doves Cried by Prince.

Well that's a good song.

Yes, So here's my hope.

We're on the downward swing of the eighties now and you're going to know more of the and I really hope I know more of the music.

Can I phone a friend if I need to?

Certainly?

So what blows me away?

So that song's good?

I you know, I like it, but I don't love it.

Hungry Like the Wolf didn't hit number one, so that was a bigger hit technically than Hungry Like the Wolf.

That's surprising to me, right because we all know Hungry Like the Wolf.

Hungry Like the Wolf is more iconic than the reflex is for sure.

All right.

Well, my next door neighbor growing up, he is a huge Duran Duran fan.

He went to their concert a few times.

Oh well, I remember being jealous cause I was like ten and he was like fourteen, So I remember being jealous that he always got the fun stuff.

Okay, nineteen eighty five is next, and I wonder if you know this song.

Wait, that's a making dinner music.

Nothing like smooth love songs of the early eighties, right, I guess this is mid eighties.

Technically.

That song, for those of you that may not be aware, is Cherish by cool in the Game?

Is it really cool in the game of me?

Some cool in the Game?

Cool in the Gang had a lot more hits in the eighties than you think.

Apparently they're diverse, because that, to me does not sound like cool.

And because you're thinking of like Ladies' Night and celebration and jungle boogie and that kind of stuff.

Well, that's jungle boogies.

What's about to happen when they listen to that's?

You got me?

H?

So hey, what is your gut thinking be?

What are you gonna get?

Did this song hit number one or not?

In nineteen eighty five?

Yes, you can't handle the truth?

What does that mean?

Yes?

Or no?

I can't get one?

Right?

Oh man?

This song hit number two for three weeks in September of nineteen eighty five.

Now you're gonna ask me.

People are gonna people are cutting us off and hanging up on us and moving on and blocking us.

We've lost all of our listeners.

That's funny.

So you're gonna ask me what held it off of the number one start, aren't You?

Yes?

Money for Nothing by Doctor.

Oh, there you go.

So you know if you play that, I would have known that was number one.

Well, I had to play stuff that wasn't completely obvious, right, So to you Cherish?

Did you know the song Cherish?

Yes?

Okay?

And you love the song chairs I.

Wouldn't say I love it, but I know it.

And little Len's thought that that was a grocery store song.

Really, yeah, you would hear that song at the grocery store.

All right, I think you're gonna know this next one for sure.

All right, here we go nineteen eighty six.

Hold on, I just texted Jason Colevin.

He's got the answer for me.

So do you like that song?

I do like that.

That's Higher Love by Steve win Wood a really good song.

It is a It is a good song.

Steve win would kind of rule the airwaves in the mid to late eighties with a bunch of top five hits.

Okay, so did this song hit?

I'm stressed so I'm just got to get to it.

Did this song hit number one?

Yes?

That is correct?

Who is that that?

He's correct?

Yeah, you got it right.

This song did hit?

This song did hit number one.

It peaked there just for one week in late August of nineteen eighty six.

It would be replaced the following week by Banana Rama with Venus of course.

No, Steve win would should have held off Bananaama.

He should have.

But that was a very like catchy song.

It was it was it was a it was a cover from the sixties.

Yeah, it was a novelty.

So I think that's what happened there.

Yeah, I would have.

I would have rather old Steve of course hold hold them off, but hold them off, but he didn't.

He did not, So stuff that Bananaama in your tailpipe?

WHOA Okay?

So anything else you have to say about Steve Winwood and higher love, think about it.

There must be higher love.

I just like Steve Winwood.

His songs are very quintessential eighties and it just can really take you back.

Yeah, absolutely that that song would probably go on like my happy list, write songs that make me happy.

Give you all the feels, Yeah for sure.

All right, nineteen eighty seven.

I'm really wondering if you've heard this song before, but I bet you'll recognize the artist Jump.

Another Father Band Jumping through the Knee by step High, step by Step the bladder.

So the only song, the only step by step song I know, is by New Kids on the Block.

Well, this song actually isn't called step by Step, but you'd think it would be right right.

This song is called Jacob's Ladder.

And this is Hughey and this is Huey Lewis and the News.

And this was on their album four, which I owned and I man I in nineteen eighty seven.

I can tell you I carried it around my boombox and I played four like we would all meet with friends and either play wiffleball or baseball.

And I was always blasting this album because this had doing it all for my baby and stuck with you Jacob's Ladder.

So what does your gut tell you about Jacob's Ladder?

This is nineteen eighty seven, This is nineteen seven.

My god, says Huey Lewis can never go wrong.

Okay, But yet I don't know this song.

I've never heard this song, but I'm going to say that, yes, it did go to number one, yet it was only there for a very short time.

I mean, they're excited for.

You because they were nervous.

Because you got your three that you needed, and you still have a chance to go fifty to fifty because we've still got two more songs left.

So you've never heard that song?

What did you think about what you heard there?

Just with the little chorus?

I mean it was Okay, it's different from other Huey Lewis songs.

I mean, definitely him, obviously he has a distinctive voice, right, but it's not something that I feel the need to go listen to again.

So I love that song, really, yes, I do.

I love that song because it is different sounding than other Huey Lewis songs.

Okay, and so yeah, I love that song.

It was a number one hit, and you are correct.

It was a number one hit for just one week on Pie Day in nineteen eighty seven Pie Day Pie Day.

It replaced Living on a Prayer Wow, which had held the spot for four weeks, the top spot for four weeks, and then it was replaced by lean On Me by Club Nouveau.

Oh gosh, Okay, Yeah.

I probably go with Hugheye over.

But again I think lean on Me is a lot like Banana Rama.

Yeah.

Again, it was a cover.

Yeah, it's just a novelty.

Yes, absolutely, well, I like that novelty analogy that you have there.

You.

I mean, I've talked before about going to church camp in the summer and we would sing the Lean on Me song and we had the all the different hand motions and stuff.

Yes, Okay, So this next song, I know you're going to recognize and I know that you love it, so I'm hoping that you get it right.

God Jesus, I'm sitting here doing the dance.

I'm doing the dance that those women we're doing this in the video.

I love Robert Palmer.

You know, I think Robert Palmer doesn't get enough credit.

Maybe it's just in my mind.

I don't know, but I'd like to know from the audience there.

I don't feel like he gets enough credit for like how much his song's actually rocky, like rock like up there with like hairbands, hair band sound.

He does not get enough credit.

Yeah, but the he rocks out and I loved his suits and his ties, like it's pretty cool, dude.

Now.

When we got to guests on my Weekly mixtape with Brian Coleburn, you shows that we were choosing iconic eighties videos MTV videos, and that song was one of the songs that you chose to be on that mixtape playlist?

So why don't you tell me a little bit about that video before I get to your incorrect guess?

So, the women in the video look extremely tall and thin.

Yes, he's got the eighty suit on, and so he's mister cool, I guess.

Oh yeah, but he's got that powerful You've got a super powerful voice.

Yeah, deep voice.

And so the women are behind him and they do this weird little dance in unison together.

And they're all dressed the same.

They're dressed the same.

Is this the one where they've got on the tight black dress?

I think so?

Yeah?

And then they even play instruments, which is kind of cool to you.

It is kind of cool.

All right, So I need to know in nineteen eighty eight, did mister powerful Robert Palmer hit number one was simply irresistible or not?

Okay, Well, I'll tell you what my gut says.

What does your gut say?

So?

Okay, So first of all, I feel so I've got I want to talk this through.

Okay, can we talk it?

Oh?

Yeah, absolutely, my gut says it did not.

Okay, my heart says that it really should have Okay, So do I listen to my gut or my heart?

I don't know.

Usually you listen to your gut because you have chrones.

Well, true, I listen.

I've ignored it a couple of times, and boy, I pay for that.

You do.

I'm going to say it.

Did not.

That is correct?

Oh my goodness.

Finally, yeah, this song did not hit number one, but why it peaked at number two and it was there for two weeks.

If it didn't hit number one, what in the world held it off.

For two weeks at number one the same two weeks that Simply Irresistible was number two?

Was Sweet Child of Mind Like some roses.

There you go.

It just had the unfortunate yeah timing of being in there with one of the greatest rock songs of all time and.

They couldn't re release it later on, Like seriously, it's like crush.

No, it's almost like once it gets its play like someone done.

Yeah, yeah, it's done.

So all right, Well you are four for nine.

Okay, so you've got like the Ted Williams batting average even if you missed this one, which Ted is great.

Good Yeah, tell Ted, No, Ted Williams was great.

Okay, but you could go fifty percent, so better than Ryan Klusko.

You are certainly better than Ryan Klusko.

All right.

Our last song from nineteen eighty nine, and my mind doesn't hold a candle to the other songs that we've played here, but I think you'll recognize it for sure.

Is that Taylor Dame.

That is Taylor Dane.

Talk about a big old voice with.

Don't rush me.

Yes, she did.

She was maybe the female rabbet Palmer.

She might be again, doesn't get enough credit for that powerful voice.

But yeah, she certainly did have a powerful voice, and she had she had some hits in the eighties.

So do you like this song?

I saw you kind of singing it or modeling it.

You weren't really singing it.

But this song's okay.

I like to poke fun at Taylor Dane.

Why something about the way.

Is it because her middle name is great, Oh my gosh.

Taylor great Dane.

Something about the way she sings I always thought was a little funny, And I don't.

I don't really like this song.

Okay, I'm sorry, fair enough.

I mean this, out of the ten songs that we've played, this is certainly my least favorite.

Okay, Well, can I take a stab at it?

You can take a stab at whether you got it right or wrong.

I think this did reach number one?

Ong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong wrong, You're long, You're long, You're.

All see now you gotta admit you you kind of got that wrong just because you wanted to hear doctor Cox one more time.

No, I really thought that hit.

Number one, all right?

So it peaked at number two, so it wasn't far off.

It peaked at number two on January twenty first of nineteen and eighty nine.

It was held off of the top spot by two Hearts, by your buddy.

Phil Collins, of course.

Beating in just one time.

Not with old Taylor though, No, no one held Taylor off, so.

It deserved too.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Yeah, but you know it's not like I asked you, like, did pac Man Fever hit number one and you missed it?

Right?

Like these were songs that were so close, okay, right, so close to them or what a little bit.

So really it's just a fifty to fifty chance.

It's flipping a coin, right, And sometimes when you flip a coin ten times, you're gonna get head six and tails four.

It's not always going to be five and five.

Yeah, So I don't look at it as like you failed.

I just didn't win.

You just too many times you were.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, You're wrong, You're wrong, You're wrong.

You just like to play that.

I do.

I do.

I love Perry Cox.

Well, I feel like it's correct, bad, he's correct.

I feel like I may have let a lot of people down, but I did the best I could with what I had to work with.

And hopefully people enjoyed playing along at home.

You know, I was gonna say, I'd like to rewind and go back to the beginning and be like, play along at home and see how many you get, right.

So hopefully they did that, and we'll see, you know, if I'm sure if enough people play, somebody's gonna beat you.

Well, I mean, if they woke up, they probably beat me.

We'll do this again.

Though this was kind of fun.

Maybe you could take this book and you could do this for me.

But I kind of like the game that we play, you and I, where you just play the song and I got to guess the song and the artist and that's fun and stuff like that.

Every now and then we got to play some games on this show and him a little.

Bit, because we like to do that at home.

It's always been kind of our thing at home.

In eighties was a big gaming decade anyway, right through video games, board games, whatever.

So I gotta know, how do you feel about how you did?

I'm a little ashamed.

I don't think you need to be a shame.

Some of those we're a little tough.

Yes, I think they could have gone either way.

You know, it's how I was feeling, and I just my gut was off a little bit today, so I understand.

You know probably that crones propha boy.

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So you know what we shouldn't have done for Halloween?

What's it?

You should have been Robert Palmer and I should have been one of his backup.

Oh yeah, absolutely, you got wrong color hair for it though those girls were all dark hair.

That's true.

You're a blondie, so.

Well then maybe I could have you could have died it, or could we could have been blondie Oh yeah, call me there you go, any parting shots that you'd like to take care So even though Fleetwood Mac was probably more of the seventies, I think we need to talk a little bit more about them.

Yeah.

I would agree with that for sure.

And maybe you need to educate me on Fleetwood mach.

Okay, we will have a Fleetwood Mac centric episode coming up then, maybe maybe not this year, but maybe at the beginning of next year.

Oh.

I see, I was thinking all that we were already in the new year, and I'm like, whoa, We're going to plan all the way like in the twenty twenty Sabbath.

No, We've got the holidays coming up.

Yeah, so I'll probably be a little bit holiday center.

Yeah.

After that, are we going to.

Go through the sears wishbook again for a different year than we did last year?

That was fun.

I don't know if people enjoyed it as much as we enjoy doing it, but that was a lot of fun.

I think people did enjoy it.

Maybe we'll maybe we'll have to do a video podcast for that one.

That might be a good choice to do that way, So all right.

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