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I am Lindsey, and with me today is the man who lives the dream with me every day in the podcast world and in the real world.

It's John Butler.

I had a dream.

I had an awesome dream.

People in the park playing games in the dark.

I think you're combining the wrong things.

Don't you think we're living the dream?

What dream?

The dream?

In a Freddy Krueger movie, The dream?

Yeah, I know we're life is good.

We're living it.

Well, we are, we're living the dream.

Yeah, absolutely, I'm digging it.

Uh.

No, guy with a razor blades on his fingers is chasing.

Me at night seeing no melted face.

No melted face.

I do struggle to sleep at night, so I'm not.

I may be living the dream, but I'm not sleeping and dreaming.

Am I keeping you awake?

Am I do I snore?

No?

No, I've never been a good sleeper anyway.

An old age has just gotten to me now.

And oh no, you're like the old people where you got to just go ahead and get up at five o'clock.

Yeah, And I don't like that because I don't believe in five o'clock in the morning.

Well, you're you're a contradiction, because I think of the old timers who do that, that they wake up like bright eyed and bushy tailed, and you never get up that.

No, I get up cranky and angry because I'd rather be asleep and I didn't get good quality sleep the previous night or the night before that night, or whatever you want to call it.

To me.

Five am still.

Nighttime, it's still middle And then I was talking to a friend today about that, and she said occasionally she'll wake up around five and her husband will be in the shower and she'll go running in the bathroom and be like, oh, no, are you sick?

What's wrong?

And he'd be like, I'm getting ready for work.

It's morning.

No, I don't.

I don't like getting up at five.

I refuse to give get up at five.

Usually what happens is I'll wake up around three point thirty, yes, and I will struggle to get back to sleep, sometimes until four, sometimes until four thirty, sometimes until five.

And then the alarm goes off at six thirty.

Yes, I am a late riser for somebody that's supposed to be at work at eight.

Uh.

And the alarm goes off at six thirty.

And if I've been up from like three thirty to five, that's six thirty.

That's rough.

That feels like it's way too early.

Yeah, it feels like three thirty yeah.

Uh.

And so therefore I don't I don't like that.

We just need to go to bed at nine o'clock.

What am I seven years old?

Again?

Like I go to bed at nine o'clock when the Hill Street Blues was coming on.

I'm just gonna start playing that theme music and just see you, like, get.

Your stuff together, go up the stay Yeah, put my footed pajamas on.

Yes, So I got something I want to talk to you about.

What do you got?

So there's a saying out there, and it's something along the lines of everything is old that's new again, everything that's new is old again.

What's the say everything that's old is new again?

Is that the same?

I have no idea.

I'm just making stuff up.

Nothing new under this there's nothing new under the sun.

That is a saying, Okay, have you heard about this new phone that's come out that's harken back to the days of your when we had a house phone, and it's called the ten Can.

No, you've been heard about the ten Can.

I have not.

Okay, this is so funny because all that the man tells us to do is progress and better, and we got to move on to the next great thing.

And I feel like in the year twenty twenty five, all people are doing is going back to what we did in the eighties and nineties nostalgia.

So they've come out with I don't even want to say they've come out with it.

This is Alexander Graham Bell invented this, so I don't know how these people are taking credit for it.

But anyways, that it's called the tin Can and it works through Wi Fi, I guess that's the difference.

Alexander Graham Bell didn't have Wi Fi.

He did not, but you.

Can talk to another ten Can user for free, So say we had it, and if Grammy and Paul Paul had it, we could talk to Grammy and Paul Paul for free, like on an old school home phone.

But they also make something called the flashback phone, which is that phone that used to hang in everybody's kitchen.

What do you mean the phone that used to hang in everybody's kid like the nine buttons.

Let me slipping around here.

Old nanny had one and it was red.

Everybody had one in their kitchen.

You see the pink.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they had it hanging up on the wall.

Ye, hanging up on the wall, and the cord was usually really long.

So yeah, you would get the twenty five foot cord so you could take it into the bedroom.

So this company has a pink, a black, and a white.

Now it does not work via Wi Fi, uses a wired Ethernet connection.

But who uses the Ethernet connection anymore?

People would want this phone called the flashback phone.

Jim.

I'm telling you, as a society, we've collectively reached a point where we're just like, we're noping it on back.

We're what.

We're noping it on.

We're noping it on back.

So we're like, nope, nope, nope, nope, and we're going back.

You know why we're going back to the eighties and nineties because those decades were awesome.

So somebody at work was trying to convince me to get a ten can, so we can talk on the phone.

But here's the thing.

I don't really get that.

Because I am an adult and I do have a cell phone.

I don't need to talk in a ten can.

I did that as a kid.

I guess the point would be like if you do have like a younger child, because they can only talk to phone numbers or they can dial phone numbers that are programmed into the phone, so they wouldn't be able to accidentally talk to a creep or eat on my internet.

So I guess I see the safety in it.

But again, we've we've got that already.

Well.

I kind of like how you said you can talk to Grammy and Paul Paul for free.

Do you have a paid per minute plan or something like?

Didn't that go out in like twenty twelve?

I have to wait till after nine to call you Grammy.

And Paul mill This isn't like the MCI days of nineteen eighty nine.

So okay, speaking of I have a question about that, when did that stop?

Because I feel like I feel like that was just yesterday.

But I'm pretty sure you were going to You're gonna tell me that was twenty years ago.

It was.

It was roughly twenty years ago, and I had to.

Wait till nine o'clock or later to call my cousin in Florida.

Now, twenty years ago, I was still having to pay by the text.

Oh I know, well, yeah, me too.

But uh so, to me, twenty years ago is like the nineteen eighties.

Oh no, I don't know what you're going to say, but stop.

So.

So the fact that we had cell phones and that we could text on it and then it costs money was twenty years ago.

That's somewhat disturbing.

Okay.

So there's also something that's popular right now.

It's called grandma core.

Grandma Core.

So that's basically, do you remember the little white ducks that everybody had as decoration in their kitchen back in the eighties, then little blue ties around their neck, little bow ties around their necks.

I only remember the good times of the eighties.

Okay, So all of that, everything that mom or dad or grandma had in as decorations back in the eighties, that was kind of kitchy cute.

That's all coming back, all coming back, it's all coming back, and it's called grandma core.

You know, at some point in the eighties, my dad told me that Bell Bottoms for the seventies would come back, and I was like, there's no way they did, And they did.

And so I guess we're making our way back around here to the core.

As you say, does that mean we're gonna we got to get rid of our granted or marble countertops or whatever everybody has now and go back to Formica.

So I guess that's where I'm headed with this.

Where does this stop?

At?

What point do we go?

Okay, I get it, but this is twenty twenty five.

It stops after I open my retro arcade and make a billion dollars then it can stop.

So I'm telling you where I'm stopping it at.

When Emmy comes to me and wants me to tease her hair up and her bangs up and she's got her curling iron and her awkwindt.

No, you're not stopping it there now, we're doing that.

No, we're gonna we need to put another hole in the ozone layer.

I was gonna say, I damaged the ozone layer.

Right, but it's fixed now?

Oh it is?

Yeah, they fixed it?

Now?

Who fixed it?

I know construction workers.

I don't know Bill Gates, astronauts.

They fixed it, so we can start using the onquinet again and start putting a hole in it, and then we can fix it again.

It's like a liver, it's just keeps regenerating.

I think yours is so damaged it won't regenerate.

Oh yeah, no, I'm dead.

Stop stop.

But yeah, so I long for the simpler days.

I do too, but I don't know that it's possible unless Bill and Ted show up, or maybe the Dolorean comes wheeling down our cul de sac.

That for us to really go back to the days of.

Your So give me no smartphones.

I still want the computers, though.

I just want to get off my butt and go into the room with the computer like we used to do in the nineties.

Oh, I know, right, or the eighties.

I still want my podcast and I still want my streaming.

But other than that, other than that, let's just go back.

Let's go back to seventy eight cents a gallon gas prices like they were when I started driving.

Right, Let's go back to uh what buck?

Fifty packs of packs of Lucky Strikes do we smoke?

Does that matter?

No, it doesn't, but I gave it.

Just make me feel good, Okay, I might take up smoking then fifty it was affordable.

Yeah.

Emmy said something about we were what were we talking about the other day when we said something about a dollar and she was like, was a dollar a lot of money back in the eighties?

And I was like, you could get yourself a candy bar and like a big gulp from seven to eleven and still have money left over.

And she was like what, She's like, that would cost like five bucks now, and I'm like, yeah, exactly.

I took Emmy and her bff and then of course me and we went to Quick Trip to get snacks for a little adventure we were going on, and I spent like thirty bucks.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

It was crazy.

You didn't even get gassed, did you.

No, No, I didn't get gassed.

That was no, because that would have been one hundred bucks if you had gotten gased.

So I long for the days of when families gathered around like the kitchen table to just talk.

Now.

I know, you come from a really big family in a really small house.

And we didn't have a kitchen tablet.

We gathered around the TV trays and watched TV.

I was gonna say, you guys, may not have done that, but growing up, any good family time came sitting around the kitchen table really yeah, drinking coffee or sweet tea or whatever.

And I long for that because I feel like people don't really sit around and talk anymore.

I long for the days of when a good Friday night was your parents playing cards with you know, another couple, right, and then you're written a movie or whatever, you know where you're running around in the basement with with the parents' friends' children.

Oh yeah, and they order a pizza for you or something.

Yeah, eat the crust.

I remember those days.

Yes, eat the crust.

We only had Dominoes, so it was always Domino's.

Pizza Little Caesars because you got two for one.

Yep, pizza pizzazza, pizza in the paper, in the paper wrapper.

The pizza was in the paper wrapper.

Yeah, so it had like a cardboard bottom, but then the top and the sides were just paper.

Oh I don't remember that.

Yeah, that's how Little Caesar's made their pizza so cheap because they didn't have to have boxes.

Oh I didn't know that.

Yes, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, cheese or cheeser weezer Weezer don't.

So you know what else was popular in the eighties?

What trivial pursuit?

Oh?

I know, my parents played that all the time.

I can't imagine.

That does not sound like a good time.

But okay, well that leads us to today's subject.

Oh my gosh, we're not going to play a game of trivial pursuit.

We are not going to play a game of trivial pursuit, but we're going to do something similar.

So are you ready to get to it?

Yeah, I'm ready, 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.

So what we're doing today, it's kind of a I guess it's kind of a pop purri or a pote puri as you would say, it's a pot purri, a pot purry.

But this is almost kind of like what I would call a live show.

And I'm kind of stealing that from Robin Dave, but we kind of all take each other's ideas anyway, And they did a live show where they didn't know one of them didn't know what songs were being picked, and they were just going to go through and talk about songs.

We're doing something similar here.

I have something.

I got this game back in the two thousands, when it really was twenty years ago, and the nineteen eighties were twenty years prior like I think they are now.

And this is called the Eighties Game, okay, and you could go to back then.

You could go to www dot the eight zero sgame dot com to look this game up.

Apparently they also have a seventies game in a nineties game wow, and then they also have an eighties and nineties game, which might go well with David Robs podcast.

I bet it would.

So what this is is, it's kind of like a trivial pursuit, but it's just basically about the eighties instead of you know, all time.

And it's not gonna be super rando difficult, hard questions.

There's gonna be questions on like television or movies or music or sports or maybe like an event or something like that.

So I just thought, hey, listen, let's just go through some of these cards.

You and I will just bounce back and forth we'll ask each other a trivia question or two from each card, uh, and we'll see if we can answer it.

But even if we can't, we'll get the answer and then maybe we talk about that subject.

We can just kind of riff on that subject.

Its almost like we're freestyle rappers here.

So uh, so what do you think about my idea here?

So I know that I don't stand a chance because you're the eighties trivia you champion.

You are one setting me up to fail now and to look stupid and fall flat on my face.

I am not.

I am not an eighties trivia champion by any means, but I do think it'll be fun to see if we can figure out some of these questions.

Let's do it, and uh, you know what, our audience can play along and you know, hit us up on text or Twitter or DM or whatever you want to do text.

Are you giving out your cell phone?

Or do you have a ten can?

I have a ten can?

Okay?

Uh, and let us know how you did.

Okay, perfect?

We ready to move over to this and start off.

So here's the question.

Do you want to ask first or do you want to go first?

I will ask first already Okay, do I just pick one because there are five questions on my card?

Yeah, I just pick one?

Or what sure?

Why don't you just ask me all the questions then we'll talk about one one of the things.

Why don't you just do that?

Just start?

Is it dark in here?

I mean it's it's a dark time of our lives because we're so old and we're not in the nineteen eighties anymore.

This writing is incredibly small.

It is tiny.

You need the bifocal glasses like I have.

I have THEE Well, then if you're still having troubled, then you're in trouble.

The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, written by this man, appears in US newspapers for the first time.

Charles M.

Schultz.

Okay, so he wrote Peanuts.

I know that was a different boy in his pet.

Yes, this is Calvin and Hobbes.

The Tiger, the fake tiger, the paper tiger.

Okay, okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.

First of all, he was not fake, and he was not paper.

He was fake.

He was made.

He was the imagination of Calvin.

He was Calvin's best friend, imaginary best friend.

He was a stuffed animal that came to life when it was just he and Calvin together poic four, stop it?

Okay, I don't know is the answer.

I have Calvin and Hobbes comic strip books.

You do, so you know the answer.

Then Bill Waterson and the year was nineteen eighty five.

I was gonna say Bill Lawrence.

I knew it was Bill something.

I was gonna say Bill Lawrence.

But we know that's scrubbs.

Uh.

I love Calvin and Hobbes.

All right, go into the next one.

This Ivy League university football team breaks a forty four game losing streak with a win over Princeton University Yale Columbia.

Okay, and the year was nineteen eighty eight.

Did you lose that one on purpose?

No?

Do you know who was the head coach at Columbia for a while?

No?

Pete Mangurion?

What?

Yes, he was the head coach at Columbia when I was coaching a Sun.

And basebas So we don't have time for that story.

But Pete Mangurion chased Jim through a parking lot one.

I love Pete.

Okay.

This min at Work album tops the US chart for fifteen weeks to break the twelve week record set by the Monkeys in nineteen sixty seven.

Wow, that's the album with down Under and who can it be now?

And Overkill when all that different stuff?

Nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty three.

You are correct, teen eighty two.

The album is a business as usual.

I know this.

Next one's a shoe in for you.

Name the lead villain in the newly released movie die Hard?

Now, why does it say newly released?

Is are we supposed to bear pretending like it's the eighties?

I guess that would be mister Hans Gruber.

What year was it?

Nineteen and eighty eight?

Yes, it was, says nineteen eighty seven, right here in front of it.

It is completely wrong.

Diehard was released in nineteen eighty eight.

Should we just throw this out then and just call it a day?

Yeah, that thing's a liar.

Well, how do we know?

Then we can trust the other ones.

It's like the Moops instead of the Moors with the bubble boy on Seinfeld.

Okay.

ABC debuts this sitcom, which stars John Goodman and George Clooney and is set mainly in a family's kitchen.

Well that's Roseanne, but I wouldn't say it stars George Clooney, wasn't he just like uh the side character?

Yes, Roseanne?

What year Roseanne debuted in nineteen eighty eight?

Yes, correct, good job?

All right?

Any of those you want to talk about, like deeper into.

Well, I think it's ironic that we were just talking about.

I have so many good memories of just sitting around the kitchen table talking, and then it talks about that Roseanne was set mainly in a family's kitchen.

That is that is wild, and mostly they were at the table of quite a lot, but sometimes they were up and about.

But yeah, that was that was a little wild.

Yeah, I feel like the kitchen, but also the living room because I always think about that ugly couch and everybody had somebody in their family that had that count Yeah with.

The Afghans hanging over.

Yeah, absolutely, yep.

So good stuff.

Anything else do you want to talk about here?

Uh?

The fact that I couldn't come up with Bill Watterson is a little disturbing.

Who can it be?

Now?

Businesses usual?

A minute work?

I was I'm a little upset that that wasn't coming to me.

But I knew all the songs on it, so I feel like I got it.

Right.

Did you know that Overkill by minute Work is one of five songs from the eighties that debuted at number twenty nine or higher when it entered the top one hundred.

No, I had no idea.

It was oh cool?

All right, Well, here are your questions.

Gosh, here we go the day this musical is set to debut.

It's director Gower Champion dies Gower Gower goer.

How would I know that the moves?

I don't know.

I wouldn't know it either, I mean, so, don't feel bad.

I have no idea forty second Street, Well, why I wouldn't know that?

Yeah, I wouldn't know it either.

I'm not known.

Yeah, this Houston Rocket sets an NBA record by hitting ninety five point eight percent of his free throws in a season.

I actually do know this because this is a Rando trivia question, but I actually I believe I know this.

Answer you you're not gonna know it, but I will say this.

The guy's first name is the same as something we just talked about in one of your trivia.

Questions, Can I phone a friend?

So your first question that you asked me was about who.

Bill Waterson?

Right?

But about about what?

What about Bill Waterson.

What did he do?

Oh?

He he pinned Calvin and Hobbes.

So this guy that set this record, his first name is one of is either Calvin or Hobbes.

Calvin.

Yeah, so this is Calvin Murphy.

He set that record nineteen eighty one.

Of course, you wouldn't know, doubt.

Here you go.

The B fifty twos released this song that contains the lyrics we were wild girls walking down the street girls wild?

Why not?

Why?

Wild girls and boys going out for a big time.

Okay, what about that?

That is a B fifty two song.

He didn't come up with the name of the song.

So here's the thing, the B fifty twoser from Athens, Georgia.

Yes, you know this.

I do know the answer to you.

Oh what is it?

It is Deadbee Clauw.

That is correct, very good.

I would not have known that, all right.

This actress stars as the character Violet Newstead in the newly released movie nine to five.

I think you've got a thirty three chance here.

Oh of course.

So first of all, I love nine to five.

I love all three actresses in nine to five, And and my mom was a huge fan of this actress, Lily Tomlin.

That is correct.

Finally, in the television category, this actor who played the character that once owned Arnold in Happy Days, plays Lieutenant O'Hara in the debut of the ABC drama O'Hara.

Okay o that Marita?

Yes, I mean that is Arnolds.

Yes.

Tell me about nine to five.

I've never seen it.

Oh my gosh.

So Dolly does the beat to this nine to five song with her nails.

I've heard you do that.

It's freaky.

I was doing it just now.

So when we were in Gatlinburg and we went to Dollywood, Emmy and I went through an exhibit that they have there right now commemorating Dolly.

It's amazing.

But they had a whole section on nine to five.

So Emmy got to go sit down behind the boss's desk and look all mean, really, yes.

I missed that.

Did I leave early because of the Achilles?

Yeah, it was when you had left.

So we had a good time.

I think it's a really good movie.

I don't think Emmy's quite old enough to watch it, but I can't wait to watch it.

With So Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman, Dabney cole I love me some Dabney Coleman.

I know he is fantastic, Yes he is, and everything that he ever did.

Three awesome ladies together, Well cool, Maybe I'll have two of you old nine to five mm hmm, all.

Right, hit me up with your next card.

Oh is it time hit me with your best shot?

So I noticed that it goes in an order.

Here it goes events and then sports, and then music and then movies and then television.

Correct?

Is that okay to read it in that order?

Read it in that order?

Osh, this is okay, that's sad.

We're going to put that one back.

That's a sad one.

Now I need to know what it was, Okay.

This automobile company sells the first mini van?

Was it Dodge?

Very kind of.

Chrysler?

Yeah, it was Chrysler nineteen eighty.

Three, the first minivan nineteen eighty three?

Huh.

We were still driving the family truckster.

Station wagon, did we were?

We drove the.

Truckster until about nineteen eighty ten.

Really?

Yeah, And you guys you had a couple that would sit in the very back and look the look out the back.

Absolutely yeah, oh yeah, absolutely yeah.

You know, the back seats would lay down.

So if we were coming on a trip, say to Atlanta, Yeah, my dad would come home from work, immediately go to bed, wouldn't even eat dinner.

I don't think he would immediately go to bed, and he'd wake up about nine thirty or ten, and then we would pack up, pile up in that car, and then they'd lay the seats down and all five of us would just lay down and sleep while he drove all night.

I mean, do you blame him?

Would you want to drive ten hours with five kids?

No?

But no, I don't blame him at all.

And listen, we did the same thing.

But it's just like now we don't go from our driveway to the entrance to the neighborhood without making sure Emmy's like got all fourteen buckles, I know, buckled up, you know, I know, like I just remember whether it was really late, really early or whatever.

They would pile me into the car in my pj's and then a few hours down the road, I would decide I would be ready to get dressed, and so I would just strip in the back you know, little three year old Lens, four year old Linz just rip and get dressed in the back seat.

As we're flying down the interstate.

Yeah, and then I would I think I've told the story one hundred times about I would lay up in the what do you call that?

How would you explain that area to somebody that does.

It's above the seats, but underneath the back when shield.

There's a little there would be a yeah, bugs would die, yes, yes, And I would get up there and I would lay and like sun myself essentially, because it would get really warm under the glass there.

Well, it's like a glasshouse, fect.

And so I would just lay there and then chill out.

So I do have something to say about eighties versus now.

Yeah, Now, the seat belts are going to protect you, but back then, our sleeping bags would have protected us just as well.

Really, yes, you think so?

I do?

All right, go on with your sports question.

Okay, this NBA Hall of Fame.

You see what I'm doing.

This is what it come to.

Yeah, I'm reading by looking over the top of my glasses because that's the only way I can see this small writing.

This NBA Hall of Famer, who averaged forty four point two points per game as a player at Louisiana State University from sixty eight to seventy dies.

Pistol Pete Maravich.

Wow, okay, good job.

He played for the Atlanta Hawks at one point.

Out of Jermaine Jackson and Randy Jackson.

This artist does not sing in the newly released song we Are the World.

So read that again.

Okay?

So one of the two Jermaine or Randy?

Oh Jermaine, Yes.

Randy Jackson as in American Isles.

Oh, not as an American idol Randy Jackson.

He was not part of the Jackson five.

That's a that's a no for me.

Dog.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to say no on that one dog.

In the newly released movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, this actor has a cameo role as Weber, the character that meets Indiana Jones at the airport.

Oh gosh, it's been since like nineteen and eighty nine since I've seen Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom.

So a cameo.

Michael J.

Fox So no Dan ackroyd Oh Yeah, okay, yep, I remember now.

Before Dying of AIDS in nineteen eighty five, Rock Hudson kisses actress Linda Evans during the final acting role of his career on this ABC primetime drama Dynasty.

Yes, nineteen eighty four.

All right, so out of all of those I would like to talk about, I don't even remember the questions now.

So we are the world.

Well, we've talked about that, kind of talked about that, all right, now, I'm good.

Let's move on.

Okay.

So Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom eighth Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was, uh, it's actually it's It came out in nineteen eighty four, right after Raiders of the Lost Art nineteen eighty one.

But it's actually not a sequel.

It's actually a prequel.

It actually goes back and tells the story before Raiders of the Lost Star.

Yes, and it stars the actor who played Data in the Goonies, along with Harrison Ford obviously who it really stars but and his name was Short Round, and I loved Short Round as a kid, and he he would get an attitude with Kate Capshaw, who went to high school with my dad, by the way, and he.

And he couldn't woo Kate.

Who my dad, Yeah, I mean, only Spielberg and his billions are wooing Kate uh, short round, you call him doctor Jones doll.

Okay, So was it short?

Round?

Was it short?

Was his first name?

Round?

Was his last name?

How did this work?

I think it was a nickname that Indy gave him.

Was he short and round?

No?

It was data, dude, Data.

I mean he was short, but he certainly wasn't round.

So I say, then, why was he short round?

I don't know, that's the name Indy gave him.

They didn't explain it.

They didn't say, hey, we gave him the name short round because when he came out, he looked.

Like a pancake when he came out of what out of his Mama?

Okay, is it my turning?

It is your turn again?

So this is events Sean and Madonna are hounded by Papa Razzi during their wedding ceremony on a cliff in this California city, Napa Malibu.

Okay, and this was in nineteen eighty five.

Okay, anything to say about Sean Penn and Madonna?

Yeah, so we short lived short Round, short lived.

We recently watched the I think Netflix documentary on Charlie Sheen, and I've been reading a lot where Sean Penn is getting a lot of backlash for his uh interview or his part of the documentary really for being tone daf.

What do he mean being told he can't sing?

So I didn't know this about him, and I've done zero research on this other than what I've read about people not liking him.

So take it for what it's worth that apparently he does not do the internet.

Okay, So he doesn't have a smartphone, he doesn't have a computer.

So it's thought that he might not be aware of what the public thinks of Charlie Sheen, and he thought that he could kind of control maybe the narrative, and he really he just looked.

Like a fool with its pants on the ground.

Yeah, smoking a cigarettes.

Okay, No, I didn't.

I hadn't heard that because I much like Sean Pinn, I don't do the internet either.

I do a little bit, all right.

China's first ever Winter Olympic team competes in the Winter Games in this city.

Okay, so it's either eighty eighty four or eighty eight.

Umm, I'm gonna Saya Placid.

That is crrap?

No, are you see?

I pulled that one out.

So Lake Placid nineteen eighty Wow, not the nineteen ninety nine movie starring Betty White in The Alligator.

But Lake Placid in nineteen eighty hosted the Winter Olympics, and that is where the Miracle on Ice took place when the Americans took down the mighty Russians yep in the semi finals.

All Right Music.

At the MTV Video Music Awards, Richie Sambora and John bon Jovi perform an acoustic version of this song, which help helps launch MTV's Unplugged show in nineteen ninety.

So it's we're talking about the song.

Yeah, so I think you'll get this one though.

I think this one's pretty obvious.

Is it Living on a Prayer?

No, wanted dead or Alive?

That is correct, Although I think it's funny that this card says dead or alive.

I think this guy probably needed a little bit of help back in the day.

It's not the band dead or Alive.

You spin me right round, baby, right round.

It's wanted dead or Alive.

Yes, but that is correct.

You got that correct.

I did not realize though, that that was the song that launched MTV's Unplugged.

So that's the song that launched the whole thing.

Yeah?

Really, Yeah, I had no.

Idea movie time.

This movie premieres and features a scene where Kevin Bacon's character is murdered while lying in bed after having relations.

Oh are you having to reword that?

Did they cook dinner?

Yes?

Okay?

Is that it I interrupt you or that?

No?

That was it?

So he was murdered while cooking dinner after dinner.

He was murdered after dinner.

Yeah, laying in bed after dinner.

Kevin Bacon.

Oh, somebody Friday's Bason?

So the movie I've done for golf?

What are we wanting to know who the murderer was or the movie?

And this is from the eighties.

Oh, oh, was it Jason?

Was it Friday the thirteenth?

It was Friday the thirteenth?

The original?

Really it wasn't Jason.

Wasn't Jason before Jass?

So I didn't know Kevin Bacon.

Was in the the original nineteen eighty Friday the Thirteenth.

All right, this one, I think you'll get television.

ABC cancels threes Company, which features a theme song with these opening lyrics.

Come and knock on our door.

We've been waiting for you.

That is correct.

So that theme song did not do well in our theme Song tournament because it was up against in the first round, it was up against the Muppet Show.

Yeah, and you didn't expect the Muppets to be as popular as they were.

I did not.

Yeah, that caught you off.

It totally caught me off guard.

So I was I was a little bit surprised with that.

And I feel like that song got a raw deal.

It is a it's a fantastic theme song.

So how many deserved?

How many cards do you have?

Like a billion?

But how many of you gone through?

We've gone through two weeks, So let's do one more.

Okay, you ready?

A playground in Garden named Strawberry Fields is dedicated as a memorial to this this scene East musician.

I don't know, man, that one's hard.

John Lenny, Yes, correct.

SkyDome opens in Toronto, replacing this stadium as home exhibition stadium.

Ronald Blue Jayson, Okay.

There you go.

We are.

The world is released with this country artist singing the lyrics.

We can't go on pretending day by day.

One can't go on pretending day by day.

It's not Willie Neilson.

Nope, Uh, what I mean, it's not wailing because he walked out correct, Kenny Rogers artist.

Yeah, yes, that smooth voice, smooth, gravelly voice.

Actor Michael pere pre E plays the character Eddie Wilson in this newly released movie about a rock.

And roll band, Eddie and the Cruiser.

So here's what happened there.

I read it, and then I looked straight at you and grinned like the cheshire cat.

Well, I mean you said rocker Eddie Wilson, like I knew, Like that wasn't that difficult of a question.

In the first episode of Three's Company, Oh my goodness, why.

We got a lot of knock on our doors here?

Yeah?

Okay.

In the first episode of Three's Company, broadcast in the nineteen eighties, this actress plays Janet.

Wood Joyce de Witt.

Yes, correct, boom Man, you're on fire.

So I remember when the Skynome open was at nineteen eighty nine.

Uh, yes, it was nineteen eighty nine.

Yeah, because it was a it was like a modern like Marvel kind of thing, believe it or not.

The Toronto Blue Jays used to play up in Toronto an exhibition Stadium, which was in the open air stadium in Toronto.

In Toronto's Gonna be Really Cold in April and September.

And I remember those days sober.

But uh but yeah, back in the days when we didn't get to see baseball twenty four to seven, so it was really cool to see the other teams in the uniforms and their stadiums and everything else.

So oh yeah, it was like a little around the globe.

Yeah.

Uh, this week in Baseball.

I loved it me too, all right, Final five trivia questions go to you.

So this.

Huh is an event?

A character named Wally Bear temporarily replaces Digham as the mascot for this Kellogg's Breakfast cereal.

Digham Digham, Wally Bear and Digham, Yes, Wally Bear and Digham Cereal.

Digham.

Digham is a like a rodent of frog, a frog.

So the apple jacks, you're close, not quite apple jacks?

What was it?

It rhymes with apple jacks and it's not snapple max, but it's honey smacks.

Honey smacks.

Okay, do you ever have honey smacks?

No?

I told you, My mom would never buy me any of the.

Sugary honey smacks.

Might be the most underrated, underrated good cereal.

So people are going to talk about chocula which was fantastic, or U Cocoa crisp or Cocoa puffs or maybe even tricks Golden Gram's very underrated as well.

Apple jacks top of the line, fruity pebbles top of the line, but honey smacks or sugar smacks either one of those very underrated.

Here are the cereals in our house.

Frosted flakes, Cheerios, rice Crispy treats.

What was the first one?

Frosted flake.

They're great.

If you were lucky, you could go with rice crispy treats and mom would put a spoonful of sugar on top.

Okay, so the cereal is just rice crispies.

You make rice crispy treats out of rice crispies and sugar and glue.

Yeah, I know, right, which then stays in your gut for the rest of your life.

I could not stand rice crispies as a kid, and I had a spoonful of sugar I had.

You did that too, Yeah, you had a spoonful of sugar, Rice crispies and cheerios because otherwise they were nasty.

Little kids aren't eating that crap?

That That was all?

That was all I had, So did you have frosted flakes or did you have corn flakes?

Frosted flake?

Okay, so that actually they were frosted with sugar.

So that was actually a decent yeah, taste and cereal.

But yeah, the milk the rice crispies was nasty.

So except for they did snap, crackle and pop, which is kind of fun.

Every once in a while.

And buy every once in a while, I mean once every like three or four years.

She would buy me a cap and crunch.

But then we all know what that does.

Oh yeah, it.

Leaves the roof of your mouth, we're all and like hanging down like a piece of charden meat.

Yes, so I would eat like one bowlful.

It would cut my roof of my mouth and that's all I would eat.

I wouldn't eat anymore.

She would get upset.

You'd have two hanging downy things from your mouth.

Yes.

So it was just a cycle there with the with the cereal.

Yeah no, you you missed out on the fruity pebbles and the apple jacks and the gold oh, golden grams.

Oh you know what was good.

What wasn't good was life cereal.

Mikey likes it, right, Life Cereal.

I don't even were they were they flakes?

No, they were like they were almost like checks kind of Are they combs?

No?

No, not, they weren't honeycombs.

Were they which were just average?

To me?

Honeycomb's just average.

You know what we need to do a tournament of cereals, breakfast cereals, honeycombs.

No, they were just like it was almost like checks kind of right, life cereal, Mikey likes it.

Life not good.

However, my uncle Robert, I went over.

There were nights where we had to spend the night at his house because my youngest sister had real bad asthma, and back then they didn't have rescue in hailers, so she would have to go and spend the night the hospital.

So we'd have to spend night my aunt and uncle's house, who just lived right around the corner from us.

But my uncle was a big fan of Cinnamon Life, and so I woke up and I tried that over there, and from that moment on, I've been a big Cinnamon Life fan.

Like Cinnamon Life is fantastic, Regular Life Nike may like it, but Mikey likes stuff that tastes like But cinnamon Life.

Mikey should have gone for that.

That's the way to go.

Yes, that is the way to go.

All right, Next question, I don't expect you to get this.

It's a sports question.

I love we just right out of the gate.

We know Lindsay's an idiot.

Well, no, it's a sports question.

Do you follow sports?

No?

Did you follow football in the eighties?

So you're probably not going to get this done.

I don't think it's a Lindsay's an idiot.

This Cincinnati Bengals running back first performs his self titled shuffle after scoring a touchdown in an NFL game.

Was it the Truffle Shuffle?

It was the Ikey Shuffle, Ikey Shuffle performed by Ikey Woods.

Oh okay, So this is a question, Jeff, Dave's going to get.

But I don't know if you will, and I'm not sure that I would have either.

Maybe, but maybe you will.

Maybe you knew a little bit about rap in the eighties.

This rapper single how You Like Me Now is certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

That's Toby Keith.

Is that why that Dave's going to know?

Because he lives in Tennessee.

How do you like me?

No, this is how you like me?

Now, it's not Toby Keith.

Are you sure?

I'm sure?

Oh?

I know who it is.

Who is it?

Cool Mody?

That's not how you say his name, cool Mody.

It is cool Mo d Yes, very good.

I didn't know you knew that much about eighties rap oh movies Now syndicated columnists Art Buckwald Sue's Paramount Pictures, claiming his literary work.

It's a crude crude world was the basis for this Eddie Murphy movie.

It's a mad, mad world.

It's a crude, crude world was the basis for this Eddie Murphy movie.

From the eighties.

I don't know.

I'm not a big Eddie Murphy aficionado.

Coming to America.

Oh well, okay, I should have known that.

Finally, television sketch comedy series Fridays premieres on ABC, featuring this future Seinfeld co creator as a cast member, Larry David.

Very good.

See you were a little worried about struggling with the trivia, and you actually knew more than you thought you knew.

I cut one right, Oh, I deserve an ice cream?

Yes, yes, you do.

You and cool Mody.

Yep, you and cool Mody if you called yeah cool.

Mody, that was And I hope that was fun for other people.

Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Yeah, sometimes it is, but you know, hopefully we brought back some memories, some good memories of riding in station wagons without seat belts and uh eighties rap, as well as cartoons like Calvin and Hobbes and of course Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and what about Porky?

What about what pork crying?

Didn't we talk about pork Rime short round?

I didn't.

I forgot pork rind.

Is that this southern?

That would be my that would be my rapper name.

Pork Rime's going to be opening for Jelly Roll next year.

Oh gosh, Well.

Go ahead and let us know though, what how how did you do if you played along with us?

How did you do?

You go ahead and text Jim and let him know.

And if you if you think that you can beat me at this, why don't you let me know that as well?

And maybe we'll have you on as a guest and we'll play against each other.

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Our social media handle is Children of Underscore eighties.

Yeah, that's it, Children of Underscore eighties.

You have a moment there, I did because I was getting ready to say.

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