Friday 4: 80's Icons

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You see the house gutter Huskers. You think they're gonna
I think they're gonna be all right. It's the Hoosiers.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Maybe maybe not too I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I think they'll win by four touchdowns. That's a lie.
You don't actually think that is it's possible though, you
know what it's not. They're going to go into Bloomington
and leave that place. It's gonna be Fallington. There's nothing
blooming in that city by the time we leave. Wow, nice, Paul.

(00:35):
Thanks a couple of things here. We'll spend more time
on the skurs in a bit.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Here's here's where I'm at, all right. I went and
saw The Midnight earlier this week. The Midnight very eighties
ish sounding music, right like you listen to The Midnight,
which I love. Saw them at Steelhouse, one of the
best concerts I've been to. I felt it felt awesome
to be there. We were up front, right next to
the stage. Just it was awesome. It was so good.

(01:08):
Scott for He's got to hang out with Hulk Hogan
earlier this week. Do you see those pictures Hulk like
putting him in a choke hold? Wait, he was in
he was in the studio. No, he was over somewhere
else and selling some and Scott went over there. He
would doom media. Scott went over there and met him,
talked to him and oh got put in a choke hold.

(01:30):
Oh yeah, he was in Omaha though. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, yeah,
isn't it? And I signed Scott today, you know, because
we do this thing called the Friday four. And I
was thinking, yeah, this is a good idea. He suggested
something like eighties cultural icons, like who are the biggest
eighties cultural icons? And I ran this past you and

(01:53):
what did you say? You said, Oh, yeah, I could
think of some of these. I could come up with
a couple. Uh so a Friday four. Explain the Friday
for Friday four is it's your Mount Rushmore, it's the
four of something like one time we did your four
favorite cartoon dogs. Yeah, that went very well. Act've never
seen the phone lines light up that way. Again, that's

(02:16):
not true. I brought up I brought up I brought
up a legalized marijuana. Those things are on fire the
entire show. No, that's true, anything like that, the or
the Second Amendment, anything like that. Yeah, But I mean
as far as like there are hot button issues. That
one was just surprising. It took me back. People were
getting in line for miles to talk about their favorite

(02:37):
cartoon dog. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Well this is tough. This
one's tough to think about. This is like Mount Rushmore
of the best, Like, okay, so this one is kind
of like pretty obvious, right, Like sometimes you have to
interpret what best is. But this is quite literally like

(03:00):
if you were making them Ount Rushmore of the cultural
icons of the nineteen eighties, like the best depiction of
what the nineteen eighties were. I mean, there's so many
different ways that you could go about doing this, and

(03:22):
there's so many answers like is this one I should
keep score for or do you think it'll be like
eclectic enough that we may not get too many of
the same people. I think it really depends on how
people answer. Yeah, but okay, so what's off limits? Do
they have to be like at their peak in the eighties?
Do they have to be something you think about when

(03:43):
you think of the eighties, you know, because like that
like could disqualify different people, right like or if you
just like time, like time traveled to the nineteen eighties,
at any point, you're bound to run into one of
these people in one of these things, and we're talking
like entertainment, athletics, politics, Like we could put politics in there, right,

(04:03):
Like some people in politics would qualify under this. Yeah,
just general celebrity actors. Like if you were to look
back at the time we're living in right now, there's
no doubt there'd be political names on that list of
the most iconic people in this era. There's no one

(04:23):
more iconic in our day and times right now than
Donald Trump. Yeah, it'd be hard to the twenty tens especially,
like Donald Trump would have to be in the like,
but you could say that he he's never been more
important than he was in the twenty tens and maybe
the twenty twenties, I guess, but twenty tens especially. It's
just like you can't really tell a story of the

(04:45):
twenty tens without talking about Donald Trump when you're an American.
Does that make sense. Yeah, It's like when you played
those old NBA games and Michael Jordan was still in
the game, but he didn't give away his likeness. Yeah,
there's a player, yeah, player or whatever kind of like
you'd be looking through and you'd be like something's missing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(05:05):
that's fair. Well, we've had some hours to think about
this since we talked about it. Do you have a list?
Do you have mount Rushmore of eighties cultural icons? I
guess so, but I wasn't really I was alive in
the eighties, but well so was I very young. I
was not alive, So I mean, like, I don't know
what we're talking about here. I'm just saying, like I
don't have a frame of reference. Like what I'm saying
is somebody's going to call in and their list is

(05:26):
going to be four people that mattered most to them.
I don't have a list like that because I wasn't
around back then, So I guess retroactively I could think
about it, but I'm just kind of going with like
who makes the most sense as far as most popular
at the time. Yeah, but or like I think it
would be interesting for people like you and me as
to what we associate with the eighties as people who

(05:49):
were not in the eighties. Yeah, you know, like I
think that lends itself to you know, a see at
the table as well, Like we could do the same
thing about the nighteen twenties. What's the first thing you
think of it? When I say nineteen twenties, right, we
could do this exercise for the twenties. Yeah, I think
of the prohibition. First thing would be prohibition, wouldn't it?

(06:12):
Or Speakeasy's or al Capone or anything related to that,
like that would definitely be in the conversation. We could
start there. But then you know, you'd have different people
from different eras that would be talking about different kind
of things that was important to them, right, Like to me,
I would think, Babe Ruth m hm, Red Grange like

(06:34):
sports is kind of like where I lean. There's not
a lot of musical icons there unless you're really into
like theater or musicals or big band music or vaudeville
or something like that, or maybe even silent motion pictures. Heck,
you could throw Walt Disney into the nineteen twenties and
say he's an important cultural icon or Mickey Mouse, steamboat Willie,

(06:56):
you know, because that was the genesis. So what happened, Right,
There's different ways to look at these things. Angularly. The
thing about the nineteen eighties is we it's close enough
to where many people will have legitimately lived through it
at different points of their life. For people like us,
fully fledged adults who you know, have history books and
have our own taste in things, and we can look

(07:17):
back in time and associate the eighties with something maybe
completely different. I think it's a good exercise. So are
you ready to play? Sure? All right? When we come back,
Matt and I will give you our Friday for nineteen
eighties pop culture or cultural icons. I guess we will
discuss that and then we'll open the phones at the
bottom of the hour for it. So start thinking about
your eighties icons. Coming up on News Radio eleven Team

(07:39):
kfab Emrie Sunger from the nineteen eighties. This is in
a kind of relationship with hul Cogan being in town's
Scott where he's getting to hang out with him, and
you know, seeing how many people around town were really
excited about him and the legacy that he has. And
then I, a big lover of eighties music, went and
saw a band that's truly in inspired by that esthetic

(08:01):
and the nostalgia from that era the Midnight and went
and saw them at Steelhouse, Omaha, and that was just
phenomenal earlier this week. So we're gonna do eighties cultural icons.
And I had a hard time with this trying to
figure it out. I talked myself out of several people
I would probably need because I just wanted to include
so many people that I compartmentalized it to a point

(08:23):
of like I would want us put like politics or
athletics or you know, entertainment or movies, television, music, and
try to just like keep those people in their own groups,
because I feel like you could do that realistically. But
this is for the whole shebang. This is overall, So

(08:43):
Matt Case, here's the big question. What's your mount Rushmore?
Your Friday four of eighties cultural icons? Okay, pressures on.
This is a tough one, man. Although I do think
I'm going to keep score. So after we get done
with our segment, we open the phones up, I'm gonna
get a piece of paper and take score, okay, because

(09:03):
I'm interested to know, like if there is, like if
there is some sort of generational generational thought process on this.
When I think nineteen eighties, I think I'm not personally
a fan of this guy. I personally think he's a
he's a little bit squirrely, you know, a little bit suspect.

(09:26):
Uh oh rip, I guess, Michael Jackson he has to
be on like if he's not on your list. He
talked or thought about him being on the list. Yeah,
there's no way. Hee. It seems like he was a
pretty big deal back then. I don't know, wasn't there,
but I'm guessing he was. There's no guessing he absolutely was.

(09:48):
I don't know if there's a musical artist even to
this day. I mean, Taylor Swift's kind of getting into
like a conversation of being close to that impactful and important,
but that guy everywhere he went. I don't know if
anybody can be that famous in the entertainment world that
in this era. There's just so many, so many different
ways to entertain yourself, and there's backlashes to it. Michael Jackson,

(10:11):
I mean, the sales numbers were insane. He didn't make
my list, though I'll explain why later, but go ahead,
number two. Number two is kind of the flip of
the coin there as far as I got so, he
was prominent male artist, prominent female artist. I'd say Madonna,

(10:33):
I did put her on my list. Okay, so we
are we are seeing Madonna the same way. I feel
like she makes my list. Michael Jackson doesn't, I think,
mostly because I didn't want multiple music coverages, but I
thought the true esthetic that Madonna had was quintessential eighties,

(10:58):
just the way that she looked, the way she danced,
the way she acted, the way that she sang, like
she is the eighties. And I think she's actually criminally
underrated musically. Like we can poke fun at some of
like how poppy it was, and maybe some how some
of the songs were inappropriate, and you know, some were
some of the songs came from and all that stuff.
Look as an art form and as music musicality, I

(11:20):
think she rightfully deserves to be in that conversation. So
she made my list, and with that I kind of
disqualified at any other musical person. But you had both,
so fair enough. Number three. Number three, you gotta go
with Arnold Determinator. Yeah. Interesting? Why him? You seemed like

(11:43):
he was probably a big deal back then. Well he
was there, definitely was. It's just you know, he's had
some big movies. There's a lot of guys that were
like that, though I have one on my list that's
not him. Yeah, I was thinking maybe he could have
gone with Sylvester there, but and I did. I went
with Arnold, and I went with Sylvester Ernie they did.
They not run into each other at all. They probably

(12:04):
did because doesn't Arnold feel like he would have been
a good trogo. I'm glad they didn't, because he's kind
of too famous to be that role, you know what
I mean. Like the Arnold versus sly thing would have
probably overstepped the actual story of this unknown Russian tank
boxer named Ivan Drago. Nobody knew who Dolph Lundgren was

(12:28):
at the time, and I could see Arnold turning down
that opportunity pretty quick, playing second fiddle to sly stallone
and playing the bad guy, the foil, the guy from
Russia who is like the American enemy, and then losing
at the end, right, knowing that that was probably going
to happen. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I mean he talked
about having a play, didn't It wasn't his plan to

(12:49):
get into politics all along. So I mean you would
think that if he was sticking, got to be careful
about that would have been a villain. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a hard noll for me. That's what he would have
said there. Yeah, I don't think he would have said
it exactly like that, but yeah, so I was with stallone.
You went with Schwarzenegger. Okay, so we kind of straddled
that line too. What about what's number four for you?
Number four? Let's see here, Hello, knock knock. Do you

(13:19):
lose your list? I lost my list? Oh yeah, oh yeah,
yeah yeah. Hulkogan, Yeah, gotta put him on the list.
He seems like he was probably a pretty big deal too,
and he was in a Rocky movie. He was he
was Thunderlips. That kind of kickstarted his career in a bit.
He was already kind of getting popular, I think, and
that's why he got the job at Thunderlips. But after
he appeared in a major motion picture, when he went

(13:41):
back to professional wrestling in the American Wrestling Association the AWA,
he was out of control popular, and then eventually Vince
McMahon the World Wrestling Federation said no, we'll just be
taking that and then bought him out basically like brought
him to the Promised Land, put their title on him,
marketed him, and took the professional wrestling industry Hulkog and

(14:02):
Vince McMahon in the World Wrestling Federation to another stratosphere.
It's a good one. I don't have him, though, I
have one of his contemporaries. Can he guess a wrestler
from the eighties that's not hul Cogan, but you think
was maybe more popular, not necessarily more popular, But I
think I think the eighties more aligned with this person. Okay,

(14:23):
Like if I think eighties, I think this person. Hmmm,
he's iconic. I'm sure I've heard of him. I'm sure
it's not gonna. I mean, I would hope you've heard
of him. We placed stuff that he's done on our show.
Well it's not Macho man, is it Macho Man Randy Savage? Okay,
it is all right. The tassels, his style, the way

(14:51):
that he looked, the colors, he feels more seventies to me,
he didn't wrestle in the seventies, but his he looks
more like a seventies got a gay you need to
watch the more wrestling. He's a little too flamboyant. I
think he's too many colors, and he like the way
that the eighties just kind of permeated around entertainers, like
a guy like Macho Man Randy Savage. To me, Hulk Hogan,

(15:14):
I think spans too much time for me just to
be like that's an eighties guy now he is. He
came to fame and was more famous in the eighties
than he ever was anytime else. But I grew up
watching Hogan in the nineties. I watched Hollywood Hogan in
the nWo taking guys out. You know, I missed, you know,

(15:35):
the Hulk of Mania of the late nineteen eighties. I
had to go back and you know, relive that later,
and I just found myself more drawn to what Macho
Man Randy Savage was doing on both ends of being
a good guy bad guy. His wrestling style, the way
he would talk and cut promos, the things that he
would wear. He just seemed like a more eighties guy
to me. So you're four, Just to recap real quick,

(15:58):
it was Michael Jack and Madonna Arnold and Hulk Hogan.
I have Madonna as well. I have Sylvester Stallone, I
have Macho Man Randy Savage. My last one, this one
might be a little bit strange for people. Michael J. Fox.
I thought about him too. Back to the Future trilogy,

(16:19):
which you know, kick started in the mid nineteen eighties,
do anything nineteen eighty five. I cannot help but think
for anything other than Back to the Future and thinking
about Michael J. Fox. But also he was one of
the biggest TV stars of that time period as well.
This guy was in major demand as like the play
like who is Michael J. Fox?

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Is it like a Tom Holland? I mean who could
pull that off? And be like because TV shows aren't
what they used to be, but like be a major
star on like a network television on a weekly basis.
And then also, hey, by the way, major motion picture
star here, I mean just a certain level of fame
but also just a light ability, you know, just feel.

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And then like the way he dresses in the Back
to the Future movies, I mean, what are we talking
about here? Doc like where the guy is? The eighties,
the shoes, the jeans, the life preserver he's in the intro.
I made, yeah, shameless plug for me to be able
to play that, which we will later because Matt has

(17:23):
been begging about this. If I asked, begging and pleading,
we haven't the eighties open that we haven't played yet,
and I'll appease Matt, So let's go ahead. And that's
my list. Madonna, Sylvester Salon, Macho Man, Randy Savage, and
Michael J. Fox. Eighties cultural icons. That's the Friday four.
Go ahead, hit that button. Phones are open. Four oh two,
five to five, eight eleven ten, four oh two, five five,
eight to eleven ten. I'll take your thoughts on your

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Friday four on News Radio eleven ten, Kfab and Rare
Songer Friday four. Friday four today? Is your favorite? Eh?
Maybe not? Okay, let's not your favorite? Your pick for
the mount Rushmore of eighties cultural icons, right, that's the
terminology we want to use. Your list was Michael Jackson, Madonna,

(18:05):
Arnold Hulk Cogan. You might want to write that down. Yeah.
My four were Madonna, Sylvester Stallone, Macho Man, Randy Savage,
and Michael J. Fox. Those were my four. Now we're
getting your four. I am writing these down. I am
keeping track. I do think that this will be quite
interesting to investigate what other people think. Let's go ahead

(18:28):
and get to the phones. Dan is on the line. Dan,
thanks for so much for listening to our show today.
What's your Friday four?

Speaker 5 (18:35):
My first one was Don Johnson Don Jones.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
My second one would be Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yep, that's a good one too. Yeah, And I was
thinking about that, and I'm already getting a bunch of
emails of him as well. There's no doubt to me,
Dan that if we are going to have a political
Friday four or have a political spot, he's got to
be the politician. There's no doubt, right.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
And then my third one was John bon Jovi.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now that's a good one too.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
And then my last one, I agree with you is
so long.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Do you have a favorite Rocky film there, Dan, Uh?

Speaker 5 (19:19):
The third one with mister T.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, yeah, and Hogan. Yeah, Hogan was in that.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Too, And I just remember being in the movie theater
and everybody was like jumping up and like kick his
you know what.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, No, seriously, I mean that that's one of the
great rewatchable movies of all time. There's no doubt. Uh, Dan,
appreciate you calling me, man, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
To us, all right, Thank you, guys.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, mister T another guy that absolutely could have been.
He's likely to land on this list. I already had
an email mentioning him. Mike's on a phone line of
four oh two, five, five, eight to eleven ten. Mike,
you got a Friday four for us here?

Speaker 4 (19:52):
I sure do, Guys, how's it going.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
It's going good man, okay.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
My first one would be.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Prince ooh nice.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
My second one would be Eddie Murphy yep.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
And my third one would be two together, bird and Magic.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah. And that was the other thing too, is I
wanted to include Larry Bird because I just enjoy watching
Larry Bird highlights. But how do you put bird in?

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Not?

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Magic? Would be Yeah, that's why I had.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
That's my that's my one, one, A and B.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah. I mean that's there's one hundred and twenty percent.
I appreciate it, Mike, thanks for listening to you.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, for sure. You can call us with yours at
four oh two five five eight eleven ten. Four h
two five five eight to eleven ten Scott voorh he's
just shot me at a note here. He gave me
his four. You want to go ahead and finch her
guest Elton John, I'll go. He's a big fan. That's
a Now there's a seventies guy. Oh you don't. You

(20:48):
wouldn't put him in the eighties. No, See, that's how
much I know. I really don't. I don't know. He's
got he shares two with you, okay, which one's hul Cogan. Yep,
Michael Jackson, you got it, way to go, bub. He
also went with Reagan and Michael Jordan. Ah because Jordan,

(21:09):
you know, he's also an eighties guy. I would think
of him as a nineties person. But that's me growing
up in the nineties, right, Like this is a we're
talking about here. TJ is emailed, and I'm okay, So
I'm not reading all the emails on my on the
air because I think it's pretty important to you know,

(21:31):
I'm trying to keep up the best that i can.
But I want to read TJ's email here because I
think it's funny. TJ has a football player who would
be the football player you'd have from the nineteen eighties map.
I'd guess Joe Montana. That is correct. He has Joe Montana.
He has Michael Jackson as well. He has baseball player

(21:51):
Darryl Strawberry, who was a big eighties guy, you know,
won a World Series with the Mets back in eighty six.
What if I told you his fourth one was Ron Jeremy,
You know what, I'm gonna let that be his eighties experience,
not mine. That was a video aisle I didn't explore. Uh,

(22:16):
that's quite interesting. Bill's on the line. Bill, thank you
for uh, thanks for listening to the show. What you
got for me?

Speaker 6 (22:24):
I got Captain Kangaroo, Bo Jackson, Okay, Ronald Reagan, Sam,
Bill Cosby.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay, Bo Jackson. I'm trying to write these down as
fast as I can here, Bill Cosby, that's uh, that'll
be controversial. What was the third one you said? Was
that Reagan?

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay, all right, interesting there, Bell. Appreciate you calling in man,
Thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Yeah, I have a good one.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, you too, Bill Cosby. I mean, let's be honest.
If we if we're just taking the eighties into account
and not worrying about what these people did before or
after during, you know what their legacy is. Bill Cosby's
got to be talked about as part of this, right.
I got Michael Jackson on my list. I mean, you know,
this isn't like Jackson wasn't found guilty of anything. Oh,

(23:12):
we were gonna go down that road. I'm just enough
stories about that. I'm just just saying. Joe's on the
line four O two five, five, eight eleven too. What
do you think, Joe?

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Hey, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm good man, what's up? Hey?

Speaker 4 (23:28):
What about Uh?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
John Travolta, Okay, Max he Derome who you broke up
on me?

Speaker 5 (23:39):
There?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Heed Derome, MTV digital guy, Max Headroom, Yeah, okay, all right?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
For North?

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Uh, you're cutting in and out?

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
What's that? What's the third one? Lose him? Is he gone?

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Oliver? Oliver North?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oliver North? Okay? And then what's the last one? Oh?
There he is? Well, that's a that's a collectic. I'm
not sure we're gonna have as many deep cuts in
one list as we did right there. All right, Joe,
appreciate you calling in and taking part in the show
that I appreciate you. Yeah, thank you. Interesting stuff. I
got to look at the list that I've already had
because people are sending in the emails. Look look at

(24:25):
the list. It's growing. If you got a Friday four
of eighties cultural icons that you want to share with us,
please call us at four oh two five five eight
to eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight to
eleven ten, and uh. You can also email Emory at
kfab dot com. Not likely to read each and every
single email. They're coming in too hot, but I will
keep as good and as accurate a score as I

(24:45):
possibly can. And we'll do that, and we'll continue that
next here on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. Emery Sunger
on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. You can find that
on Scott's h social media. We're also talking and I
went and saw eighties music inspired band The Midnight at Steelhouse,

(25:07):
Omaha this week. I wanted to talk eighties cultural icons
your Friday. Four Well, phone lines are open four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Mike ninety nine joining us, Mike is
always a pleasure. What's your ford for us today?

Speaker 4 (25:21):
Okay, So I'm an eighties baby, so my stuff might
skew a little bit younger. But I got Paul Rubins
as Peebe Herman. Oh, Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Oh, Jim
Varney as Worrel.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
And then I'm.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Actually kind of surprised that Scott Moorees didn't drop this
name weird hell Yankovic.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Now see, he did come to prominence in the late eighties,
There's no doubt about that. Who was the second one
there after, Cassandra.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Instress of the Dark.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
All Right, I'm gonna have to look down one up. Yeah,
I'm not too far.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Sorry, maybe I'm myself a little bit sorry.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Sorry, Mike ninety nine, you said you're an eighties baby,
so you're not that much older than me. I just
I got I put my chips in the like somewhere else,
you know. I guess I don't know. I know some
weird people like I was. You know, there are some
fictional characters that people are starting to bring up, so
you know, I don't know. Hey, sure, I appreciate the call, Mike.
Thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Yeah, thank you. Take care.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Waldo, Waldo? Is that we got a Waldo on the line.
I found Waldo. He's on the phone line. Hey, Waldo,
what's going on?

Speaker 6 (26:38):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Hey? What do you got for me?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Michaelangelo, Leonardo Donatello and Rebi?

Speaker 5 (26:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
I mean, I mean, how do you pick one of
those guys?

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:50):
If one of them makes it, they all have to
make it, right.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
But I couldn't. I couldn't choose which one out of
the four? Bro It's like, oh there is four. I
was gonna say. Bozo is a special mention.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Shout out to that cup game man. Those bucket like
the bucket toss exactly. I wanted to like that was Yeah.
I wanted to be a basketball or a football player
when I was growing up. But more than anything, I
just wanted to be on Bozo the Clowns so I
could throw those ping pong balls into those buckets.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Everybody watched the ping pong Uh yeah whatever, I'm sorry,
it's so nervous when I call in.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
You're good, buddy. Hey, I'm glad that you called in,
because those teens Mutant Ninja Turtles need their love to
appreciate you calling in, buddy, Thanks for being there.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, I love the show.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, thank you too. I'm not going to put those
on the list to score them, the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Yeah no, Now, if one gets more than one vote
by himself, then I'll put them there. But I just
find it highly unlikely that they're going to break in.
Did you have a favorite enough the four? Yeah? I
liked uh, I liked Michaelangelo. I liked Rafael myself. Was

(28:01):
he the purple one? He's a red one? And I
see that tells you what I know. Alex is on
our full line four oh two, five, five eight to
eleven ten's up, Alex, Well.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
We're gonna hit a little bit of everything. Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
As far as politics, it has to be wrong o'
breagan of course, because of down Ryan Contra than Mondel,
the whole nine years in South makes it him. Number
two is sports. It's the Lakers and Celtics always in
the finals together, so Celtics winning most of those.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
So Alex, how do I put that? Am I putting
bird in magic? Or you actually you just want me
to put the Celtic magic?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Okay, yeah, burdon magic. They saved the sport.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Is that is that one vote or is that two
separate votes?

Speaker 3 (28:43):
I'm gonna go fly Bird, Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
All right, I just want to double check because I'm
keeping score here.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Okay. As far as cultural icons, I would say big
hair and fhar Frost of majors.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh Fair of Faucet, Yeah, I'm a big fan of
I'm a big fan of Parah Faucet.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
And then music that gosh for awful faking disco.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Just disco in general.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
It was horrible, all of it.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh great, fair enough, appreciate the call, buddy, thanks for
listening to us. Yeah, So if I was doing like
a seventies list. I probably put something disco related on there,
just because you know, how can you tell the story
of the seventies without that? Right? Here you go, Matt Johnny.
Johnny sends an email grade this one. Gizmo, et Harry In,

(29:40):
the Hendersons, and alf Uh are those all I think
aliens from eighties movies? Those are all aliens from the eighties. Gizmo,
who was Gizmo? I'm not as familiar with Gizmo, but
I know Gizmo to be an alien. I mean, I mean,

(30:02):
I didn't even think about fictional characters here. I guess technically,
Hulk Hogan's fictional, right. I could have said Terry Bolea,
because that's a real guy. But Hulk Hogan's like a character.
He's just kind of made the character himself, right, because
wrestling can do that. But theoretically, I mean, I've had

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All right, this is this is a fun, fun deal here,
and we'll keep it rolling here. Sherry emails in. I'll
go ahead and read an email while we're wating on
the phones, goes Tom Cruise. Eh. I mean technically you
could say Tom Cruise is really an eighties guy, right,

(31:10):
because a top gun, even though I think most of
his great work is you know, in the nineties, and
when we get in to the like Mission Impossible, that's
you know, even later than that, Tom Cruise. Yeah, but
I mean if that's when you enjoyed him the most,
you know, yeah, And I mean the same thing with
Weird Al Right, Like Weird Al's best work wasn't in

(31:31):
the eighties, but he came to prominence in the eighties,
Like he became a figure in the nineteen eighties. Did
we even really know what scientology was in the nineteen eighties?
Oh for Tom Cruise?

Speaker 3 (31:41):
YEA.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
So maybe he was more like widely enjoyed and there
was no uh controversy. I don't know. He also Harrison
Ford got another one of those Indiana Jones course, Ronald
Reagan and Whitney Houston from Sherry. Harrison Ford was in
a lot of stuff in the eighties. I feel like,
oh yeah, like Star Wars, Indiana Jones he was and
Blade Runner. That's a good poll. Blade Runner. Yeah, it's

(32:04):
a good one. Don says Cindy Lauper. That's our first
Cindy Lauper. Are you surprised by that? I felt like,
if it's not Madonna and you wanted a female music person,
it's got to be Cindy Lauper, is it not? Are you?
Do you disagree?

Speaker 6 (32:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I don't disagree. I just I really don't have a
frame of reference for this. I just don't know a
ton about the eighties other than what I know, and
I know that we have a couple other songs, don't
we right in the rotation?

Speaker 6 (32:33):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
No'm I thinking to someone else? You're thinking of someone else.
I have Belinda Carlyle, and that's what I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah,
which you want to talk about just the eighties? She's
not famous enough, wasn't big enough, wasn't anywhere near Madonna level,
or maybe even Cindy Lapper level or Whitney Houston potentially,
But Belinda Carlyle, like, if there is one woman who

(32:57):
I think her voice in her music style with the
go gos and then as a solo act. Gosh, how
do you deny Belinda Carlisle's Like, she really feels like
the eighties to me. Also, I've had multiple people voting
for refrigerator Perry. Yeah, like that's pretty cool. Guy, defensive

(33:17):
lineman for the Chicago Bears getting an eighties cultural icon
status from people because he scores some touchdowns as a
gigantic man in the backfield again makes me so sad
that it's him over the sweetness of Walter Payton. Yeah,
but I mean Walter Payton is a running back. Yeah,
but he was the man. He was the man. But
what do you see a big guy doing this stuff?

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
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