One Crazy Decade

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, and welcome, Welcome back to MG the seventies,
the wild, groovy and totally unforgettable ride through one of
the craziest decades in history. We're talking big hair, bell bottoms,
disco balls, wild nights, and everything in between, from the
fashion and the funk to the free, love and the party.

(00:23):
And it was a time like no other, and maybe
one we don't need to relive, but it sure is
fun to remember. Love the seventies And I went to Walmart?
Now is it not always funny just to go to
daggum Walmart? I mean, where do these people come from?
I mean, we live in a pretty upscale place near

(00:45):
the beach in South Carolina, and there's a bunch of
BMW's Jaguars, corvettes, I mean, Maserati's, you name it, it's there Ferraris.
But you go to wall I mean number one, none
of those cars in the party lot number two? Is

(01:06):
there a bus that brings these people in? I mean,
and this is not my topic, you know, it's not
my topic, but what the heck, man? Where do they
come from? I don't know. I have no idea, but
I just walk around and you know, I look like
a slack jaw old redneck because my mouth is open.

(01:29):
I'm one, like what the heck, y'all? But anyway, is
what got me going was I saw this woman and
she had on straight up nineteen seventies bell bottoms. Right,

(01:51):
bell bottoms, I mean, what listen. I didn't grow I
did grow up in the seventies because I was born
in sixties six, so I was in like elementary school
in junior high school during the seventies. And bell bottoms,

(02:12):
I mean, you remember those things. They're like all flared
at the bottom. You probably couldn't even fit through doorways,
and you know, you go out in a windy day,
you probably like a dag on sail, I mean geez.
And you know they were all made of polyester. Back
then everything was polyester. So I was just kind of thinking.

(02:37):
I put a little you know I do when I
don't really know what to talk about on this topic,
I kind of like do a list and then I
kind of go through the list as I'm talking. And
some things I just kind of kind of like just
gloss over and don't talk about, and some things that
you know, I think are kind of interesting. And the
seventies to me, when I look back on it was

(02:58):
a I guess if you were really in it and
old enough, it was a fun time. But looking back
on it, it was a funny time because if you're
my age and you were in junior high school in
the seventies and you look back at your yearbook picture, really, Mom,
why in the world did you dress me like that?

(03:21):
And that hairstyle? Good? I mean, good lord, I mean,
you know, I'm sure our kids will look back and
you know, thirty forty years and be like, what, Mom,
what were you thinking when you sent me to school
with that? But man, so you know, I looked at
like a little bit of a definition of the seventies,

(03:42):
and this is something I came up with. The nineteen
seventies were a colorful, quirky time where people pushed boundaries
and embraced trends with reckless abandon Now, there you go.
That would be a fun time to be in your
twenties or thirties right during the eighties, because I bet

(04:03):
that was a blast. It goes on to say it
was a decade we love to laugh at, but secretly
we're gladys over. So yeah, we're definitely glad us over.
Whoever wrote that on that list on that little summer
I think just absolutely nailed it. But let's look at

(04:23):
some things that were popular in the seventies. Leisure suits.
Do y'all remember leisure suits? Oh my gosh, and excuse me,
I'm not in my studio and I'm in my kitchen
and I got people and dogs and cats all over
the place. But you know, we can't all be Joe
Rogan all the time. I love Joe Rogan though. Anyway.

(04:48):
Leisure suits, remember they were like all bright and shiny,
and you know what else they were. They were sweaty,
and they were probably smelled the high Heaven because that
oliester stuff does not does not breathe. And think about
what you were doing in that leisure suit about midnight, right,

(05:10):
you were under the disco ball, doing the hustle or
you know, whatever the heck it was that that they
did back then. Man, that really, I mean, I bet
the people that worked the dry cleaners were like, oh
my god, another leisure suit anyway, you know. And it
was a good time for short people though, right because

(05:33):
remember the platform shoes. I mean, so you could be
five seven or five eight and you you could get
the right shoes, and dude, suddenly you're like six foot.
Suddenly you go six foot and you somebody. I mean,
that's you know that that was a definite bonus. Remember

(05:56):
that the shirts that went with the leisure suits and
with the platform shoes, remember they were always unbuttoned. And
remember every dude that thought he was so cool had
like chest hair coming out of not only his you know,

(06:18):
his little cleavage area where his buttons were unbuttoned, but
probably poking through the knit in the shirt itself, you know,
so probably when he took it off, it was like
pulling his hair and hurting because it was all stuck
in his shirt. Man, speaking of like hair coming out
of places, should we go there, ladies with the you know, well,

(06:45):
my wife showed me this online book the other day
called Brenda's Got a Beaver. You gotta gotta check that out. Man.
I'm not going to go into that right now. That's
a different podcast, I think, but oh my goodness, that
was hilarious. And she took that beaver for a walk
almost every day, and oh her friends were embarrassed about

(07:08):
Brenda's bieber. Anyway, I'm not going to go any further
on that. Because I'm gonna start laughing to or not
real stop. Okay, so uh, I remember growing up when
we first moved into our house. Okay, there was we
had what was called what what color would you call that?

(07:29):
The carpet was shag carpet, of course, which you couldn't
walk on barefooted with jagged toenails because you lose a toenail.
I mean, it was that bad. But the color of
our carpet was a kind of a cross between avocado
green and harvest gold. Does that Does that ring a
bell with anybody? I mean it was. It was that,

(07:51):
and it was all over the house and the living
area down the hallway. You know. Finally, my parents, by
the time I got to high school, I guess ripped
all that out and put in Spanish tile. So you
talking about doing a one eighty from shad carpet, you

(08:13):
go to full on Spanish tile or Mexican Mexican tiles. Well,
it was Mexican tile. And that was the coldest floor
all the time. And it's not like we lived in
some kind of Italian villa or something. It was a ranch.

(08:34):
I never completely understood that, Dad, but he had to
have it. He actually put a lot of it in himself. Man. Oh,
this was Clemson, South Carolina. So we're not talking about,
you know, down by the beach or in Florida or
something like that where you get away with it. All
the things yip I learned. I learned a lot about

(08:56):
decorating from my mom and dad. I learned what not
to do. And when I got when I met my
wife and her family and her mother and her father,
my mother and father in law, I learned a lot
about decorating the right way. I'm like, holy chow, this
is amazing what you guys do. And I you know,

(09:16):
my parents they just didn't get it. I guess it
was being from Alabama and South Georgia. But anyway, you
know some of the other cool stuff. Remember eight track tapes.
That's what we always listened to, my sister and I.
We would we would beg my mother. We had like
nineteen sixty three, sixty four must Stang three on the floor.

(09:36):
It wasn't nice, you know. It wasn't something that you're
going to brag about to your friends. It was old
and it was run down, and but my mom loved
to drive it. That was back in the days where
I could stand up in the front seat when I
was four or five years old. No seat belt, no
child's seat, no nothing. And I'm still alive. How about that?
Oh man? But I can remember putting in those those

(10:00):
eight tracks and you couldn't really skip anything. You have
to sit there and pretty much listen to the whole thing.
And we would listen to Eddie Arnold, which probably nobody
knows what I'm talking about. We listened to John Denver. Ah,
I love John Denver. We listened at all the time.

(10:21):
Obviously this was the days before cable. What do we have.
We had antenna's rabbit ears. So I mean that was
when you'd like hold on where you couldn't get the
station good, you'd hold on to it or grab some
some tenfoil back in the day and put your arms
up in funny directions, you know, like you're gonna be
the antenna and make it better, especially during the football game.

(10:42):
So I always ended up when your team was about
to score, suddenly it got fun at fuzzy and you
couldn't see a dagone thing, you know. I always consider
myself a good, well good dancer, but really I'm a
bad dancer. And my wife and my kids love to
really point that out, and so do most of my
friends and some of the most people ever see me dance,

(11:03):
Like you tell me, I'm a really really bad dancer
because I'm tone deaf and the beat in my head
is never what is really the beat of the music.
So that's just who I am and what I do.
So I've coined myself as the best worst dancer ever,
and I think I pretty much nail that every time

(11:26):
I go to a wedding or we go out to
We don't go to clubs anymore because we're too old.
But man, you know what about pet rocks. You guys
have pet rocks. I never understood the pet rocks. I mean,
right now, I'm looking at a little pussy cat right
next to me, right here, this is a Luna tuxedo

(11:48):
little cat. She's not little, she's fat. She has the
biggest primordial pouch of any cat you'll ever see. And yeah,
we do, we do call that. We do call that
great and the grand of fupav. I don't who. She
doesn't like that either. She just got all ticked off.
So yeah, you know, let's not spread that around. I say,

(12:08):
this is a family show. I shouldn't be saying that.
But I'm also sitting right next to Tiki, who's a
beard and dragon. He's a couple of feet long. I
guess he's in this change. He's not real happy. You
need some crickets. So that's a pet. I also have
two dogs, two Portuguese water dogs. That's a pet. Pet rock.
I never got that. That's absolutely ridiculous. One thing that

(12:31):
I did like from the seventies I remember was a
mood ring because you know, if you had like a
crush on a little girl like in the you know,
the fourth, fifth, sixth grade, whatever, and you wanted to
go with her. Because back then we that's what we did.
We would go with somebody. We didn't we didn't date them,
and you know we weren't talking to them, you know,
we would go with them. We would send them little letters,

(12:54):
you know that would say I like you, Do you
like me? Would you go with me? And then there
would be little boxes at the bottom, you know, and
one would say yes, one would say no. What a
brutal time when those came back. No, I was just
too scared to ever send those letters out because I
was scared of their rejection. But at least. You know,
if a girl had that ring on right and you

(13:17):
were talking to or you could like like be real
coy and glance down at that ring and if it
was like blue, right, what blue that was? That meant
like hey, going somewhere, boy. But if that thing would black,
you better just go ahead and back off right now
because things about to get really bad, man. So you

(13:39):
know something that was really popular back in the seventies
with cigarettes. They're still way too popular, but remember they
used to like actually commercials would say that they were
like helped you relax and they were healthy, and oh man,
that's just scary stuff. I remember my kids, right, So

(14:00):
we always told them don't ever smoke, don't go around
people that smoke, don't be around cigarette smoke, you know,
I mean, we just put this in their brain. I
mean for the time that they could listen. And it
got to the point where we go at the grocery
store or something and the windows would be down in
the car. They would see someone in the car next

(14:23):
to us or walking by with a cigarette in their mouth,
you know, smoking, and they couldn't say they're like, daddy,
that person's gonna die, be like, oh my god, what
do we do here? Okay, okay, okay, yeah, you're probably right,
but we don't need to tell them that today. I mean,
that happened all all the time. You know. One of

(14:47):
my favorite things about the seventies, not that I would
ever partake in this, but was streaking. Remember that song?
You know, I can't remember the guy that sang that
song about streaking that was. I mean, I played.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Rugby, right, and that was a big thing with rugby
guys in the in the eighties and late eighties was
we'd all be in a bar and the next thing
you know, they're all just like, you know, after knocking
out I don't know how many.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Pitchers of cold beer. They're like they're naked and they
are running through the bar down the street, and you know,
I mean, these are athletes. The cops weren't going to
catch them. It wasn't gonna happen. You know. The cop
was you know, five eight, three hundred and ten pounds
and they're not going to run and catch them. I mean,

(15:34):
it was just fun times. I guess, I don't know,
Like I said, this is my last one other days,
so I hope I'm not boring anybody, but I just
think the seventies was fun, and I think I'm gonna do.
I mean, I know that my wife's gonna get mad
at me, and I don't want my daughters to know
all this stuff. But my next one of my next
podcasts is going to be about the seventies Bush. I

(16:00):
think we could do a lot of work with that.
I mean, let's kind of touch on that a little bit,
you know, for the next one on the series of
the seventies, we could be what are some things about that?
I'm getting tired, So how do you so? You know?

(16:26):
I can't I can't. I can't go there. I can't
go there. I gotta be on my game when we
start talking about why the bell Crow is jealous? You
got any here where I'm going with that. So that's
where we're gonna go on the next seventies podcast, and
we're gonna make it fun. We're gonna make it funny,

(16:47):
and I hope we don't offend anybody. If we do,
you can always turn it off and not listen, all right,
because remember I'm the man and this is my podcast.
I hope y'all have a great night. I really do,
And God bless y'all.