February 5, 2025 • 50 mins
Two shopping-based game shows? Weird but true news stories from the 1960s? Laughable 1980s music fails?
Episode 181 kicks off the month of love with some nostalgia sweeter than candy hearts.
It all starts with a look back to the strangeness of the past. Weird but true news stories from the 1960s are on the docket. From innocent to malicious, from dirty to downright crazy, these stories all seem like they couldn't be true, but oh they are.
Shopping can be a contact sport, just ask people during Black Friday sales. However, we go way back in the day to look at a pair of shopping-based game shows. Supermarket Sweep and Shop Til You Drop both carved a niche in the 1990s. Fast-paced, fun, frantic, these words can all describe these shows.
The 1980s were a great decade for music. Judging by this week's Top 5 some might disagree. We will look back at some of the biggest music failures of the 80s. From albums to videos to musicals that shouldn't have existed. It's all here.
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Speaker 01 (00:00):
Hello world, and welcome to the In My Footsteps
podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund,coming to you from the vacation
destination known as Cape Cod,Massachusetts, and this is
episode 181.
We're officially in February,the month of love.
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You will love all thisnostalgia I got coming for you
just in a few minutes here.
We're going to kick it off withsome funny, weird, bizarre news
stories from the 1960s.
Most of these you won't believeare true.
We're going to go way, way backin the day and do a double dip
of shopping game shows as welook back at Supermarket Sweep
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and Shop Till You Drop.
There'll be a brand new topfive that will feature the top
five musical failures of the1980s.
There are some obvious ones andsome you'll be surprised by.
And there'll be a brand newThis Week in History and Time
capsule centered around the veryfirst Groundhog Day.
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All of that is coming up rightnow on episode 181 of the In My
Footsteps podcast.
Ah yes, February, the month oflove.
The shortest month of the year,but unfortunately it's also
smack dab in the middle ofwinter.
I'm sure somewhere it's abeautiful day in the
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neighborhood depending on whereyou're listening from.
I don't record these on the daythey come out on Wednesday, so
I don't know if it's going to benice on that day.
I can tell you it's currentlychilly and rainy, so that's just
a perfect combination.
But I'm recording the podcastto share with all of you, so
that at least gives me a littlebit of joy.
I can't kick this podcast offwithout thanking my Patreon
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subscribers, Lori, Mary Lou,Ashley, Kevin, Leo, Marguerite,
Neglectoid, Crystal, thank youso much for being my biggest
fans, my backers.
I hope you all enjoy the newbonus podcast episode that went
up on February 1st.
I've also got something plannedfor Valentine's Day.
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It's already finished.
It's in the can.
It just has to go up onPatreon.
$5 a month gets you access toall of that bonus content on
Patreon.
But as I say always, I'm tryingto increase my free tier.
That includes sharing an olde-book that I made probably back
in 2008.
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Back when I was still trying tocelebrate Valentine's Day even
on my own.
It was a book I called Love Is.
It was filled with poetry thatI wrote.
I had a lot of my femalefamily, friends...
choose some of their favoritesof my poetry to kind of make the
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book so it was made by women.
That I am sharing on Patreon onthe free tier so you can check
that out.
As far as other fun andexcitement, the end of this
month will see me filming acouple of my scenes for my very
first acting role, the indiehorror film that's directed,
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produced by Frank Durant.
One neat thing, I am playingmyself.
I'm playing a podcaster.
Like, I'm going to be doingthis type of show in parts of
the movie.
I know, it's a hard role toplay myself.
Anyway, one of the scenes, Ihave a sponsor for the podcast,
but it's unnamed.
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So what I've done is I've putout a blast on social media,
seeing if there are any Cape Codarea businesses that want to be
my sponsor.
Obviously, it has to be kind ofa product that I can hold up
for the camera as I'm recording.
So that does limit it a littlebit, but that's fine.
We'll see.
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I put the blast out on the daythat I'm recording the podcast.
So if I get one or if I getseveral sponsors, I'll let you
know.
Frank said if we get severalsponsors that want to be a part
of the movie, he'll find ways towrite them into the script.
Other than that, currently whenit comes to my acting role,
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it's memorizing my script, mylines, trying to get down
nuances.
I've never acted before.
I mean, people would say I actlike a fool, but I'm in an
actual movie role.
I'm just trying to do my bestto make it the best it can be
because you never know.
Maybe it's my one and onlyacting gig ever, or maybe it
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leads to something else.
You just never know.
I don't want to take it forgranted.
I'll keep you updated as myfilming adventures go on.
But right now, let's dive intothe meat of this podcast.
Let's talk about some of theweirdest, most bizarre stories
that I could find from the1960s.
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You won't believe some of theseare real.
This is definitely going to bea segment filled with laughter
and head shaking, but you won'tbe able to hear my head shake
unless my neck cracks when I doit, and that's probably not
good.
Back in episode 158, I did asegment on weird news stories
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from the 1970s.
So if you want to go and checkthat out, it's got a lot of
weird things in there.
That was fun to do.
This was fun to research, andit's going to be even more fun
to share with you.
There might be, when I look atthese, I've got eight different
stories.
And when I look at them, someof you out there, listeners that
grew up in the 60s, youprobably have some memories of
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this.
There's definitely one that Iwill go back.
I will say that I do have someknowledge of.
Let me just start this off withone immediately that just makes
me shake my head with what inthe world is going on.
Let me take you back toSeptember of 1960.
And one of the weirdest divorcestories that I think I've ever
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heard.
The gist of it is that a couplefrom Cincinnati got divorced.
The reason why is the problem.
The wife, Rita Adams,complained that her husband,
Earl, never talked to her.
Which that immediately is like,okay, why'd you get married if
you never want to talk to eachother?
But then, during this courtcase, Rita Adams went on to say
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that her husband Earl did oddthings.
And what were these odd things?
Well, according to this newsstory, they included things like
squeezing a tomato in my face,is what she said.
Can you imagine that?
It's just, it's so ridiculous,but so specific.
You imagine being the wife,being Rita Adams, and you're
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just sitting at the dining roomtable.
Your husband just walks in,never talks to you, just grabs a
tomato out of the fridge andjust squeezes it in your face.
I'm assuming based on the newsstory that I read that he didn't
smash it in her face, but hejust squeezed it like juice
would be in her eye.
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It's like that's the start ofthis segment is this
foolishness.
Let's move on, though, to thenext one that it's even crazier.
For this, we are going back toJanuary 1963, and we're leaving
the United States to go toSydney, Australia.
We are looking at an unnamedwoman.
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She didn't give her name, and Iwouldn't either.
She was driving from Sydney toMelbourne, Australia, and I can
only assume this must have beenat night.
because there's nobody thatcould be this stupid.
So this woman was driving in acar with her two young sons, and
she drove into a tunnel.
She's driving down the tunnel,driving, driving, and she
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finally, about a half mile in,she ends up hitting something
called a pit prop.
Now, what is a pit prop?
It is a wooden beam used totemporarily support the roof of
a mine, tunnel, or shaft.
So there you go.
This woman mistook a mine shaftfor a tunnel and drove half
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mile down into this mine shaftand only realized it wasn't a
tunnel when she hit a woodenbeam.
The woman emerged from the mineshaft with her sons six hours
after she drove into it.
She said that she took a wrongturn on a mountain road and
mistook the mine shaft for atunnel.
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Again, I go back to this had tobe at night because is there
any of you out there that ifyou're driving that you would
mistake a tunnel for a mineshaft or vice versa?
Everything worked out fine.
They had to get mine employeesto go down into the shaft and
push her car out.
And hopefully they gave herdirections like, get the hell
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out of here.
This next story is every bitcreepy as it is weird.
We're in June, 1963.
We're back in the United Statesin the state of Texas and a man
named Ralph Farrar.
This man, Ralph Farrar, hesuffered from a condition known
as hemochromatosis, which meansthat his blood accumulated too
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much iron.
And he ended up having to havea pint of blood taken from his
regularly because the iron wouldbuild up in the heart, liver
and pancreas and causecomplications.
So he had to have this done.
But the thing is, when he wouldget the blood drawn with too
much iron in it, it couldn't beused to help anyone else.
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So as a side note, RalphFarrer, I guess he had a
beautiful garden of beautifulroses.
And people would ask him, howdo you get these beautiful
roses?
And you can see where this isgoing.
Mr.
Farrer used his heavily ironedblood to fertilize his roses.
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All I keep thinking of isLittle Shop of Horrors with
Audrey 2.
That one of these roses wouldjust come to life and be
screaming at him, feed me,Ralph.
I mean, I guess it's good thathe was honest, but man, if
you're asked about that, wouldyou want to share it?
Yeah, I fertilize my roses withmy blood.
That's why they look so good.
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This next story, this is one ofthe ones that it made me laugh
so much because it is soridiculous, but yet so specific
again.
We're in June 1966 and we're inTexas again.
Boy, a lot of weird stuffhappens there.
This has to do with a couplethat are buried alive
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practitioners that theyliterally get buried alive and
they have a pipe that goes downinto whatever casket they're in
to have air and then food dropdown to them.
This is a hobby of theirs thatthey enjoy doing.
The couple is Lottie Howard andCountry Bill White.
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So I guess they had somethingin common that brought them
together.
Anyway, after being buriedalive for a week outside of a
drive-in theater in Denison,Texas, Lottie Howard married
Country Bill White.
Then they went off on theirhoneymoon.
No word if they were buriedalive on the beach in Cancun or
something to celebrate.
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This is where the story isjust, if you don't laugh, I
don't know.
The marriage did not last.
Lottie ended up divorcingcountry Bill White two years
later.
The way she did it is sheserved him his divorce papers
while he was buried alive inAustin, Texas.
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She had a sheriff's deputy rollthe papers up and send them
down the pipe that he was usingfor air and food.
I mean, can you imagine that?
Just the absurdity of thisscene.
This man is buried alive and hehears something coming down the
pipe and he thinks it'ssomething to eat and it's
divorce papers.
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And what's he going to do?
Immediately yell up.
I need to be retrieved so I cango and beg my wife to take me
back.
It's like when you hear aboutweird hobbies that people have,
I don't think anything wouldtalk being buried alive for fun.
Oh, and the best part was thatLottie Howard, her nickname was
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Mrs.
Living Corpse.
So there's that.
In the 1960s, obviously one ofthe biggest things then and one
of the biggest things of the20th century was the rock band
The Beatles.
So I got two weird stories thathave to do with them.
One, I won't gloss over it, butit's the one thing that I'm
sure a lot of you know about.
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And that's the urban legendabout Paul McCartney being dead.
For those that don't know thisstory, in 1966 there was an
urban legend that started thatBeatles member Paul McCartney
had actually died and he wasreplaced with a lookalike.
And there were supposedly cluesin the music, there were
imagery, especially the AbbeyRoad cover album where Paul
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McCartney has no shoes on, likehe's supposed to be a corpse.
Not Mrs.
Living Corpse, but an actualone.
I mean, it's the same oldconspiracy theory garbage that
you hear today, where everyonelooks for super deep meaning in
everything that's not there.
McCartney came out.
He's like, no, I'm not dead.
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The Beatles management cameout.
No, he's not dead.
But people still to this daypersist that, no, the real Paul
McCartney died in a car accidentin 1966.
But then we get into the storyof one of the ultimate Beatles
super fans.
12-year-old Carol Dryden.
This is from June 1966.
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She was 12 years old.
She lived in Sunderland,England, and she came up with a
scheme of how to meet theBeatles.
This was by mailing herself tothem.
So this did not go well.
She put herself in a box andAnd immediately there were
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probably red flags when theaddress said, To the Beatles,
care of their fan club, London.
Like if you did that today andhad a box that said, To Taylor
Swift, care of her fan club,that thing would have
bomb-sniffing dogs around itbefore it even left her house.
She actually got as far as arailway station, but a clerk
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noticed that the box she was inwas wobbling back and forth.
And the reason it was wobblingis because she was trying to
take her sweater off because shegot hot and she hadn't put any
air holes in the box.
She had no air.
She didn't bring any food.
She hadn't thought thisthrough.
So if she had actually gottenmailed, she probably would have
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suffocated and died.
And then the Beatles would openthe box and there's a dead girl
inside.
There's a great present foryou.
Next, we move on to somethingthat is still weird news to this
day, and that is UFOs, UAPs,whatever the hell they want to
call it now, flying saucers.
We go to September 1967 insouthern England and reports of
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six flying saucers being spottedall over the place.
Obviously, these were a hoaxperpetrated by Farnborough
College's upcoming Rag Week,which was the beginning of 1967.
The saucers were fiberglass andthen covered them in metal.
Inside each flying saucer waselectronic equipment that would
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make an eerie sound.
These saucers were then driveninto selected locations in the
dead of night and left thereemitting that weird sound.
When these were noticed, themilitary came out and they
approached one of these flyingsaucers and drilled into it.
and there was a mixture insidethat exploded, and it covered
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the police in a foul-smellingslime.
The people responsible wereChristopher Southall and Roger
Palmer that were both 21.
They claimed that they didn'tthink this hoax would create
such a media storm.
Luckily for them, there were noaction taken against them, and
they actually raised £2,000 forcharity.
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And the final weird news storyfrom the 60s, at least for this
part one, comes in book form.
This is a story of a 1969 noveltitled Naked Came the Stranger.
The book was credited to awoman named Penelope Ash, but
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she was not a real person.
This book was a literary hoaxthat poked fun at the American
literary culture of the time.
It was written by 24journalists led by Newsday
columnist Mike McGrady.
And McGrady's intention was towrite a book that was
deliberately terrible andcontained a lot of descriptions
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of sex to illustrate the pointthat American literary culture
had become mindlessly vulgar.
And the book actually fulfilledall of those writers'
expectations.
It became a bestseller.
And then after they revealedthe hoax later in 1969, it
became more popular.
The gist of the book itself,the story, is a couple, Jillian
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and William Blake, that host apopular New York City radio
program.
Jillian finds out that herhusband is having an affair, so
she decides to cheat on him witha variety of different men from
their neighborhood.
In the time since its release,Naked Came the Stranger has sold
nearly half a million copies.
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And it's just a weird story,both in the pages of the book
and just these two dozen writersthat said, let's make a
terrible sex novel and see if itsells.
But there you go.
Eight of the weirdest newsstories I could find from the
1960s.
Don't worry, this will be asegment that I will be doing for
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a lot of different decades,80s, 90s, probably even 50s.
Because it seems like thefurther back in time you go, the
weirder stuff you find.
But what to you is the weirdeststory of the ones that I
shared?
I still go with Mrs.
Living Corpse.
That's just the funniest one.
Divorcing your husband whilehe's buried alive.
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That's great.
This week in history, we aregoing back 138 years ago to
February 2nd, 1887, and the veryfirst Groundhog Day.
I had debated putting in somesort of a tie to the Groundhog
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Day movie, maybe repeating whatI just said or something like
that, but then I realized, no,this has to do with the holiday.
The roots of Groundhog Day aretraced all the way back to
ancient European traditions.
with the holiday's predecessor,Candlemas Day, being celebrated
on February 2nd as a Christianfeast marking the midpoint
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between the winter solstice andspring equinox.
So literally as deep intowinter as you can get without
spring being on the way.
Over time, folklore emergedlinking weather predictions to
this day, Candlemas Day.
with an old English rhymebeing, if Candlemas Day be fair
and bright, winter will haveanother flight.
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If Candlemas Day brings cloudand rain, winter won't come
again.
I guess to make it rhyme.
German settlers brought thistradition to America where they
substituted the groundhog forthe European hedgehog as the
weather prognosticator.
The epicenter of Groundhog Daycelebrations is Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania, home to theworld-famous Punxsutawney Phil.
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Each year, thousands ofvisitors gather at Gobbler's
Knob to witness Phil'sprediction.
According to tradition, if Philsees his shadow, there will be
six more weeks of winter.
If he does not, spring willarrive early.
And if you've seen BillMurray's classic 1993 movie
Groundhog Day, you know thefestivities in Punxsutawney
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include a lot more than justPhil's forecast.
There's parades, live music,food, speeches from members of
the inner circle, a group oftop-hatted individuals
responsible for caring for Philand interpreting his
predictions.
So they speak Groundhog.
Here are a few fun facts aboutGroundhog Day.
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According to folklore, therehas only ever been one
Punxsutawney Phil, so he'simmortal.
The inner circles say Phil'slongevity is due to the magical
elixir of life he drinks everysummer.
Now, despite his fame, Phil'sweather predictions are not
reliable, so don't base yourvacations on what he says.
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Studies show his accuracy ratehovers around 39%.
That being said, if he was abaseball player, he'd be a Hall
of Famer with the highestbatting average ever.
One fun fact that I love toshare is the fact that there's
other weather predicting animalsout there.
In Canada, there's WyertonWillie, a white groundhog who is
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beloved.
Staten Island Chuck and GeneralBeauregard Lee are also notable
forecasters in New York andGeorgia, respectively.
And just so you know, both ofthem are groundhogs as well.
So even though there's otheranimals that predict the weather
besides Punxsutawney Phil, itseems to be something that only
groundhogs can do.
There is no hurricanepredicting horse, blizzard
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predicting bear, slightly foggysleet day snail.
I don't know.
The main thing at its core isGroundhog Day is a lighthearted
celebration that breaks up thewinter doldrums.
And it brings a significanteconomic boost to Punxsutawney.
Millions of dollars annuallyfor Tourism for Groundhog Day.
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And that first ever GroundhogDay...
where supposedly the originalPunxsutawney Phil, the only one
made his predictions, happened138 years ago this week in
history.
I tried my best to find thetime where Sonny and Cher's I
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Got You Babe was the number onesong, just to be fitting for the
brand new time capsule.
Unfortunately, that was inAugust and not February, back in
1965.
So I chose an arbitrary date,Groundhog Day, 1971, February
2nd, 54 years ago.
What was going on in the worldof pop culture back then?
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Let's find out.
The number one song was KnockThree Times by Dawn.
It's credited as just Dawn, butit's Tony Orlando and Dawn.
This is off of the albumCandida by Dawn.
And the reason that TonyOrlando was going by Dawn was
that he actually had a contractwith another record label.
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So it was like he was cheatingon his record label and his
cheat song went to number one.
It eventually sold more thansix million copies, the single.
Tony Orlando has sold more than100 million albums during his
career, and only last year in2024 did he finally end his
singing career.
The number one movie was LoveStory, and you could get into
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the theater with a ticketcosting $1.65.
This movie stars Ryan O'Neilland Ali McGraw as two people
from different backgrounds whofall in love.
The film was a massive hit,making more than $173 million on
a budget of $2.2 million.
This would put its box officeat about $1.4 billion when
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adjusted for inflation to 2025,so there's no denying how big
this movie was.
The number one TV show was TheFlip Wilson Show.
This was a variety showstarring comedian Flip Wilson.
that ran for four seasonsbetween 1970 and 1974, and a
total of 94 episodes.
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Wilson's most famous characterwas Geraldine Jones, and his
clout as a comedian allowed himto get some massive stars on
that show, like George Carlin,Richard Pryor, The Jackson 5,
The Temptations.
And if you were around backthen, February 2nd, 1971, Maybe
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you were needing to go to thegrocery store to get some food
before you sit down and watchthe Flip Wilson show.
Well, you're in luck.
There's a great circular fromA&P Supermarket this week.
Now you can get yourself fourbouquet pattern stainless
tablespoons for $1.29.
But the star of the show is theJane Parker baked goods.
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22 ounce lemon pies for 49cents.
Jane Parker Donuts, three dozenfor a dollar, man.
And for those of you that mighthave grown up back then that
are familiar with the JaneParker Bakery, they are still
around.
JaneParker.com, you can orderyour favorites.
And on their website, they evensay their claim to fame as
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being the main baker of the A&Psupermarkets.
It is a bit of a datedreference as A&P went out of
business 10 years ago, which Iactually thought they went out
of business long before that.
But still, there's a lot ofyounger people out there that
have no clue what A&P is.
And on that sad note, that endsanother time capsule, another
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This Week in History.
Oh, but the failures, you cansmell them in the air.
We got a brand new top fivemusic fails of the 1980s.
Oh, get ready for them.
This is going to be a lot offun.
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Failures take lots of shapesand sizes.
And this is a new topic that Ihave researched for the podcast,
for the top fives.
Music fails of certain decades.
What I tried to do here is notmake it just albums that failed.
There has to be more than justthat.
So I've got loads of differentthings.
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I do have failures of albums,songs, genres of music, music
videos.
Oh, man.
I always go on and on about howI love the fact that I'm so
lucky to have been able to be achild of the 80s.
This top five is making itwhere I'm shaking my head like,
do I really mean that?
Yes, I do.
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As with many of these topfives, there are some honorable
mentions, and the top fiveitself is in no particular
order.
So let's get into this top fiveso you who grew up in the 80s
like me can shake your head inamazement at some of this.
Honorable mentions for musicfails of the 1980s include the
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band Jethro Tull winning aGrammy Award for Heavy Metal
Artist.
This was in 1989, and they wonthe Hard Rock Metal Vocal Grammy
over Metallica.
Literally metal in their name.
Jethro Tull has flutes in it.
It's like heavy metal flutemusic.
Another honorable mention isthe Clash album Cut the Crap
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from 1985.
This album was The Clash's lastalbum ever and was a massive
failure compared to theirprevious album which included
the all-time classic song Rockthe Casbah.
Another honorable mention isthe Birdie song by The Tweets
from 1981.
This is also known as thatgod-awful chicken dance song
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that you can probably hear inyour head.
And the last honorable mentionis the song Stars, the charity
song by the heavy metal all-stargroup Hear N.
Aid.
The group was led by RonnieJames Dio, members of Dokken,
Quiet Riot, Judas Priest, BlueOyster Cult, and others.
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So those are the honorablementions for music fails of the
1980s.
I apologize if that chickendance song is still in your
head.
Well, get ready.
I'm going to put more bad stuffinto your brains right now.
Let's kick off the actual topfive with number one.
Captain EO.
Michael Jackson's sci-fifantasy musical short film.
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This was Michael Jackson at thevery peak of his thriller fame.
1986.
This was before he released theBad album.
and was pretty much the firstnew music he did since Thriller,
unless you count We Are theWorld.
This was shown once ontelevision, on MTV.
The film was in 3D and shown inDisney theme parks from 1986 to
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1998, and again after MichaelJackson's death.
But it was shown once on TV,has never been released on any
sort of home media.
And the only way you can findit is bootleg versions on
YouTube.
If you want to go, you canwatch Captain EO.
It does have a pretty goodsong, We Are Here to Change the
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World, which is worth a listenif you've never heard it before
because it's Michael Jackson atthe peak of his fame, even
though the movie is terrible.
Number two is Billy Squire'sRock Me Tonight video.
Billy Squire was a prettypopular rock musician in the
early 1980s.
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And he figured MTV was gainingsteam and gaining popularity.
So in June 1984, he releasedthe song Rock Me Tonight from
his album Signs of Life.
And he released the musicvideo, which it's unbelievable.
The song Rock Me Tonight washis highest charting song, but
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it was also his last hit becauseof the video.
where he essentially destroyedhis macho rock image, writhing
around and dancing in thisbedroom with a white t-shirt but
a pink low-hanging tank topover it.
It is said that after thisvideo came out that immediately
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ticket sales for Billy Squireconcerts went down.
He ended up firing hismanagement because of this
video.
It's amazing.
He had some big-time songs inthe early 80s.
The Stroke, Lonely is theNight, My Kinda Lover, and then
he had this video, and boom,that was over.
Number three is The Death ofDisco Music.
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Your timeline may vary, butdisco music was on its last legs
as the 80s started.
The disco demolition night inthe summer of 1979 was kind of
the beginning of the end.
But you had punk, new wavemusic, growing college
alternative music in the early80s, and the emergence of
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hip-hop music.
The waters start to get muddiedby 1982-83, where you have
songs that are probably moreclassified as R&B that could be
disco but probably aren't.
You had artists that had donebig business during disco, like
the Bee Gees, Kool and the Gang,Casey and the Sunshine Band.
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Even Michael Jackson, alteringtheir styles a little bit.
The last true disco number onesong was Funky Town by Lips
Incorporated, and that's March1980.
So the exact year that discoreally went away is up for
debate, but there's no doubtthat by the mid-80s it was all
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but a memory.
Number four on the list ofmusic fails of the 1980s is
Carrie the Musical.
Yes, this is a musical based onthe infamous Stephen King
horror movie.
You want to talk about moviesthat don't really lend
themselves to be musicals.
Those of you that have seenCarrie, could you imagine that
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being on a Broadway stage withsongs?
The show premiered in Englandin February 1988, and it even
had mixed reviews then.
And it was transferred toBroadway for $8 million.
The show started previews onApril 28th, and at the end of
the first show, there were boosmixed in with cheers at the end
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of the performance.
The show closed after only 16previews and 5 full performances
in May.
For the last show on May 15th,1988, the theater was only 62%
full.
Yeesh, what a disaster.
Oh, but speaking of disasters,I'm sure a lot of you were
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thinking of this one.
Finally, number five on thelist of musical fails of the
1980s is the song We Built ThisCity by Starship.
Starship used to be known asJefferson Starship and before
that Jefferson Airplane, a late60s psychedelic band, White
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Rabbit.
This song, this video, it is so80s cheese.
It is so bad.
It destroyed the band.
This is from Starship's 1985album Knee Deep in the Hoopla.
And the song went to numberone, which is amazing.
But if you look up any list ofeither worst songs of the 80s or
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worst songs ever, I promise youthis is near or at the top.
Starship actually had two othermajor hit songs, Sarah and
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now,which it all depends on your
taste in music.
I enjoy both of those songs.
They're not as bad as We BuiltThis City, but maybe it's Rose
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Colored Glasses from growing upthen.
So there you have it.
Top five musical fails of the1980s.
I'm figuring those that are myage are probably familiar with
most of them, except maybeCarrie the musical, which was
the one I'd never heard of untilI researched this.
Next up, Friday the 13th, themusical with Jason breakdancing.
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So we go from terrible fails toa couple of better ways to
spend your money in game showform.
So let's talk about supermarketsweep and shop till you drop.
The older I get and the moreyears that are in between
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present day and when mygrandparents passed away, the
more I kind of look for reasons,excuses to talk about them, to
kind of keep them alive.
But naturally in podcast form,in a nostalgia podcast form, I'm
not going to just tell storiesall the time about my
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grandparents.
I want to make it where...
A lot of you can relate.
And that includes findingthings, shows, foods, music,
whatever, that reminds me of mygrandparents that then you also
can remember if you're of acertain age group.
That is where this Back in theDay segment originated.
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The game show supermarket sweepis fully entwined with my nana.
Because I remember watchingthat show.
The only place I watched it wasat her house.
And then as I was thinkingabout it, I also thought of the
game Shop Till You Drop.
And I said, well, they're kindof two sides of the same coin.
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I figured rather than milk itand have two different segments,
I would combine them into one.
Television game shows haveentertained audiences for
decades, for generations.
You go all the way back toradio even before, 1940s, 50s.
But there are a few thatcapture the thrill of an
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everyday activity like shopping.
You know, none quite likesupermarket sweep and shop till
you drop.
They didn't just offerentertainment, but it was chaos
and strategy with shopping.
This wasn't just make your listand go into...
Stop and Shop or Kroger orPublix and get what you need.
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This was how do you win thegame?
Interestingly, SupermarketSweep first premiered in 1965 on
ABC and was created by producerAl Howard.
Speaker 00 (37:52):
It's Supermarket Sweep, the show that comes to
your hometown and gives you achance to run wild through your
supermarket.
Speaker 01 (38:00):
The concept for the game was simple, but it was
ingenious.
Contestants would answer triviaquestions to earn time for a
shopping spree.
And in that shopping spree, thegoal was to grab the highest
dollar total in groceries.
There were three teams, and youstarted with a base time of 1
minute 30 seconds for yourshopping spree.
And then there were four itemsshown and you'd have a
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contestant try to guess theretail price of it.
And whoever got closest wouldget 15 extra seconds.
So you could theoretically gettwo minutes and 30 seconds total
of supermarket sweep time.
This original version onlylasted for two years.
It was from 1965 to 1967.
And I guess it's consideredwhat would be a modest success.
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But the thing is, this type ofshopping spree game show, that
concept is timeless.
And so the revival of the showis what I remember.
The new supermarket sweepdebuted on Lifetime Network in
1990.
It was hosted by Dave Ruprecht.
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He's basically only known forSupermarket Sweet.
But I remember as a kidwatching this, so I would have
been 12, 13 when this show cameon.
I thought that Dave Ruprechtwas David Leisure.
And those from the 80s knowDavid Leisure was a fictional
character called Joe Isuzu inthe Isuzu automobile
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commercials.
I mean, if you look them up,they look pretty similar.
Even to this day, they're bothin their 70s.
This revival of the show becamemore of a cult hit.
It had a quirky energy,colorful supermarket set.
In the unforgettable imagery ofthese people racing through the
aisles with the carts smashinginto each other, trying to find
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the most expensive foods.
This game was similar to theoriginal.
Three teams of two people.
There was a question round.
There was the big sweep whereall of them were out there
running around trying to getfood.
And then the bonus sweep, whichwhoever won the big sweep would
get.
the revised supermarket sweepthat I remember watching at my
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Nana's house.
That was on from 1990 to 2003and actually came back again in
2020, but that only lasted to2022.
So it was kind of like the 60sshow, not a big hit.
Sensing a hit show on theirhands, Lifetime, after getting
supermarket sweep, debuted ShopTill You Drop in 1991.
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So both of these shows at onepoint were on the same channel.
Shop Till You Drop was hostedby Pat Finn, and the announcer
was a man named Mark Wahlberg,but not that actor Mark
Wahlberg, another totallydifferent person.
Speaker 00 (41:06):
They're all here to play the wildest shopping game
ever, Shop Till You Drop.
The
Speaker 01 (41:20):
difference here was Shop Till You Drop wasn't so
much a supermarket, it was moreof a mall-themed set.
There were teams of two whocompeted in rounds that tested
their knowledge, teamwork, andsometimes their physical
coordination in wacky games.
Shop Till You Drop was on offand on from 1991 to 2002, where
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it wasn't on straight through.
There'd be periods ofinactivity, and it didn't stay
on Lifetime the whole time.
Actually, much like SupermarketSweep, these shows went to the
PAX network, which is todayknown as ION television.
I didn't watch Shop Till YouDrop.
I may have seen it a couple oftimes.
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I just knew that there were twosimilarly themed game shows.
I didn't even realize they wereon the same channel.
Even though if you don'tremember these shows, there's no
doubt that they were verypopular at the time.
Supermarket Sweep had over athousand episodes.
Shop Till You Drop had almost athousand episodes.
A big part of it for me was therelatability because everyone
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shops.
Even when I was 12, 13, 14years old watching this.
I could imagine going in asupermarket and taking my cart
around and just grabbing themost expensive things I could
and whipping them in the cartand trying to win.
I would think that people thatwere older watching these shows
in the early to mid-90s, theywould have given you nostalgia
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even back then.
Thinking about leisurelystrolls in the mall or Sunday
shopping at the supermarket.
You know, it was different fromDouble Dare on Nickelodeon.
I didn't have any nostalgia ofpicking a giant nose with slime
in it to get a flag.
But I definitely had nostalgiaof walking through the Cape Cod
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Mall or going to Angelo'sSupermarket.
There was definitely a familyappeal to both of these shows.
Like I said, I rememberwatching it at my Nana's house.
So it would typically be me,probably my sister...
Maybe my father and mygrandmother.
I mean, right there, that'sthree generations that were
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watching this.
There's nostalgia now if yousee reruns of it, or you see
products from the early 90s andjust remember going around the
supermarket.
Both Supermarket Sweep and ShopTill You Drop were unique.
They have to be.
To last roughly a thousandepisodes each.
You had supermarket sweepsstart off with the announcer
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announcing the show with thetheme song.
Speaker 00 (43:58):
Everything in this supermarket is yours and it's
all free.
From Hollywood, where dreams docome true, it's the return of
the one and only supermarketsweep.
Speaker 01 (44:16):
Are you ready to go shopping?
And then it's a fully stockedgrocery store with an audience
there.
Whereas Shop Till You Drop wasa two-story mall, complete with
escalators and themed stores.
Both these game shows wereperfect combinations of physical
activity and mental acuity.
Trivia, but then also runningaround stores.
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Although Shop Till You Drop wasmore into the physical stunts
and creative tasks, likebuilding towers of boxes or
matching items to specificcategories.
So even though they weresimilar shows, they weren't the
same.
One thing that always made melaugh about these shows was that
the prizes, when you won at theend, it was never huge
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jackpots.
Maybe a couple thousanddollars.
So going on Supermarket Sweepor Shop Till You Drop was
probably not going to changeyour life, but it was still fun.
You'd get appliances,vacations.
It was sort of similar to asmaller showcase showdown on
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Price is Right.
Both of these shows have anenduring appeal.
Even though Shop Till You Dropwasn't quite as big of a deal as
Supermarket Sweep, it did havean influence in modern
competition shows that blendtrivia, physical stunts,
consumerism.
And the idea...
The concept of gamifyingshopping has even found its way
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into apps and onlineexperiences.
For me, like I said at thebeginning of this segment, it
brings back memories of sittingin my Nana's living room and us
trying to answer the questionsthat were there or laughing at
the people as they run aroundthe supermarket trying to throw
stuff into their carriages.
Even if you didn't watch thisshow with family, it still was
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fun.
an escape from reality,celebrating the everyday act of
shopping and transforming itinto this thrilling, I guess,
competitive spectacle.
If you're nostalgic for thoseclassic Supermarket Sweep
episodes, they are available onBuzzer, B-U-Z-Z-R.
Go to buzzertv.com and you canwatch old episodes of
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Supermarket Sweep.
I'll put a link in thedescription of the podcast if
you want to go and relive DaveRuprecht's over-the-top
supermarket antics.
And tell me if you think helooks like Joe Isuzu.
But just remember, don't trythis at home.
Don't shop like them whenyou're in Publix or Kroger or
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Stop and Shop.
But until next time, that'sgoing to wrap up episode 181 of
the In My Footsteps podcast.
Thank you to all of you whotune in Wherever you're from, if
you're on Cape Cod, in NewEngland, the Northeast, anywhere
in the United States, or allacross the world, I try to make
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this nostalgia as inclusive as Ican.
As long as you're of a certainage group, you'll get most of
the references.
And even if you're younger, ifyou don't get them, you can
laugh at stuff that amuses olderpeople like me.
If you want more of me, you cansubscribe to my YouTube
channel.
Check out the InitialImpressions 2.0 blog.
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I'm kind of putting a pause onthe Webcam Weekly Wrap-Up
podcast, the video podcasts,mainly because it's a lot of
work for not as much of a returnon investment as I had wanted.
So I'm going to try to put mytime elsewhere.
I'll probably bring it back atsome point.
Like I said, if I end up withthe ability to monetize my
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YouTube channel and then I'mable to do live streams, maybe
I'll turn the Webcam Weeklywrap-up into a live stream.
But I've still got hundreds ofYouTube videos, hundreds of
blogs, hundreds of these audiopodcasts.
I am all over social media,Instagram, threads, Blue Sky.
I've got a Facebook fan page.
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I have a homepage,ChristopherSetterlin.com.
It's got links to all nine ofmy books.
You can become a subscriber onPatreon for $5 a month.
You can also, if you don't likethe monthly subscriptions, you
can buy me a coffee.
I think those you can do aslittle as a dollar, which I
don't even think can buy me acoffee.
Just ways to support me, myquest to be a fully functioning,
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self-sustaining contentcreator.
I love doing all this.
But it's also the more contentI have, the more chance there is
for people to find me.
It's easier to get new viewers,readers, listeners.
If I have literally hundreds,maybe a few thousand different
pieces of content all over theinternet rather than just a
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couple of handfuls.
And I'll keep adding to thecontent.
I'm sure there will be newYouTube videos, new blogs, new
podcast next week, episode 182,where I get to talk about What a
privilege it was that I grew upwhen I did and got to watch the
one and only Michael Jordan inhis prime as next week is his
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birthday.
Any chance I get to talk aboutMJ, I'm going to take advantage
of.
It's just another way that Ilean into things that make me
happy.
That's what I say to you allthe time.
You know, the deep, dark daysof winter.
You want to lean into whatmakes you happy to get through
it to spring.
Favorite foods, favoritepeople, hopefully favorite
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podcasts.
If you're listening and made itthis far, I would hope that you
enjoyed it.
And if you can, if theweather's nice, take the podcast
outside, get that vitamin D,because I'm pretty sure a lot of
us are deficient in it aswinter goes on.
I know I'm not outside as muchas I want to.
So thank you all again formaking me a part of your week.
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And remember, in this life,don't walk in anyone else's
footsteps.
Create your own path and enjoyevery moment you can on this
journey we call life because younever know what tomorrow
brings.
This has been the In MyFootsteps podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund.
You already knew that.
And I'll talk to you all againsoon.
Hello world, and welcome to the In My Footsteps
podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund,coming to you from the vacation
destination known as Cape Cod,Massachusetts, and this is
episode 181.
We're officially in February,the month of love.
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You will love all thisnostalgia I got coming for you
just in a few minutes here.
We're going to kick it off withsome funny, weird, bizarre news
stories from the 1960s.
Most of these you won't believeare true.
We're going to go way, way backin the day and do a double dip
of shopping game shows as welook back at Supermarket Sweep
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and Shop Till You Drop.
There'll be a brand new topfive that will feature the top
five musical failures of the1980s.
There are some obvious ones andsome you'll be surprised by.
And there'll be a brand newThis Week in History and Time
capsule centered around the veryfirst Groundhog Day.
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All of that is coming up rightnow on episode 181 of the In My
Footsteps podcast.
Ah yes, February, the month oflove.
The shortest month of the year,but unfortunately it's also
smack dab in the middle ofwinter.
I'm sure somewhere it's abeautiful day in the
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neighborhood depending on whereyou're listening from.
I don't record these on the daythey come out on Wednesday, so
I don't know if it's going to benice on that day.
I can tell you it's currentlychilly and rainy, so that's just
a perfect combination.
But I'm recording the podcastto share with all of you, so
that at least gives me a littlebit of joy.
I can't kick this podcast offwithout thanking my Patreon
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subscribers, Lori, Mary Lou,Ashley, Kevin, Leo, Marguerite,
Neglectoid, Crystal, thank youso much for being my biggest
fans, my backers.
I hope you all enjoy the newbonus podcast episode that went
up on February 1st.
I've also got something plannedfor Valentine's Day.
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It's already finished.
It's in the can.
It just has to go up onPatreon.
$5 a month gets you access toall of that bonus content on
Patreon.
But as I say always, I'm tryingto increase my free tier.
That includes sharing an olde-book that I made probably back
in 2008.
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Back when I was still trying tocelebrate Valentine's Day even
on my own.
It was a book I called Love Is.
It was filled with poetry thatI wrote.
I had a lot of my femalefamily, friends...
choose some of their favoritesof my poetry to kind of make the
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book so it was made by women.
That I am sharing on Patreon onthe free tier so you can check
that out.
As far as other fun andexcitement, the end of this
month will see me filming acouple of my scenes for my very
first acting role, the indiehorror film that's directed,
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produced by Frank Durant.
One neat thing, I am playingmyself.
I'm playing a podcaster.
Like, I'm going to be doingthis type of show in parts of
the movie.
I know, it's a hard role toplay myself.
Anyway, one of the scenes, Ihave a sponsor for the podcast,
but it's unnamed.
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So what I've done is I've putout a blast on social media,
seeing if there are any Cape Codarea businesses that want to be
my sponsor.
Obviously, it has to be kind ofa product that I can hold up
for the camera as I'm recording.
So that does limit it a littlebit, but that's fine.
We'll see.
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I put the blast out on the daythat I'm recording the podcast.
So if I get one or if I getseveral sponsors, I'll let you
know.
Frank said if we get severalsponsors that want to be a part
of the movie, he'll find ways towrite them into the script.
Other than that, currently whenit comes to my acting role,
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it's memorizing my script, mylines, trying to get down
nuances.
I've never acted before.
I mean, people would say I actlike a fool, but I'm in an
actual movie role.
I'm just trying to do my bestto make it the best it can be
because you never know.
Maybe it's my one and onlyacting gig ever, or maybe it
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leads to something else.
You just never know.
I don't want to take it forgranted.
I'll keep you updated as myfilming adventures go on.
But right now, let's dive intothe meat of this podcast.
Let's talk about some of theweirdest, most bizarre stories
that I could find from the1960s.
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You won't believe some of theseare real.
This is definitely going to bea segment filled with laughter
and head shaking, but you won'tbe able to hear my head shake
unless my neck cracks when I doit, and that's probably not
good.
Back in episode 158, I did asegment on weird news stories
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from the 1970s.
So if you want to go and checkthat out, it's got a lot of
weird things in there.
That was fun to do.
This was fun to research, andit's going to be even more fun
to share with you.
There might be, when I look atthese, I've got eight different
stories.
And when I look at them, someof you out there, listeners that
grew up in the 60s, youprobably have some memories of
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this.
There's definitely one that Iwill go back.
I will say that I do have someknowledge of.
Let me just start this off withone immediately that just makes
me shake my head with what inthe world is going on.
Let me take you back toSeptember of 1960.
And one of the weirdest divorcestories that I think I've ever
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heard.
The gist of it is that a couplefrom Cincinnati got divorced.
The reason why is the problem.
The wife, Rita Adams,complained that her husband,
Earl, never talked to her.
Which that immediately is like,okay, why'd you get married if
you never want to talk to eachother?
But then, during this courtcase, Rita Adams went on to say
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that her husband Earl did oddthings.
And what were these odd things?
Well, according to this newsstory, they included things like
squeezing a tomato in my face,is what she said.
Can you imagine that?
It's just, it's so ridiculous,but so specific.
You imagine being the wife,being Rita Adams, and you're
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just sitting at the dining roomtable.
Your husband just walks in,never talks to you, just grabs a
tomato out of the fridge andjust squeezes it in your face.
I'm assuming based on the newsstory that I read that he didn't
smash it in her face, but hejust squeezed it like juice
would be in her eye.
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It's like that's the start ofthis segment is this
foolishness.
Let's move on, though, to thenext one that it's even crazier.
For this, we are going back toJanuary 1963, and we're leaving
the United States to go toSydney, Australia.
We are looking at an unnamedwoman.
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She didn't give her name, and Iwouldn't either.
She was driving from Sydney toMelbourne, Australia, and I can
only assume this must have beenat night.
because there's nobody thatcould be this stupid.
So this woman was driving in acar with her two young sons, and
she drove into a tunnel.
She's driving down the tunnel,driving, driving, and she
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finally, about a half mile in,she ends up hitting something
called a pit prop.
Now, what is a pit prop?
It is a wooden beam used totemporarily support the roof of
a mine, tunnel, or shaft.
So there you go.
This woman mistook a mine shaftfor a tunnel and drove half
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mile down into this mine shaftand only realized it wasn't a
tunnel when she hit a woodenbeam.
The woman emerged from the mineshaft with her sons six hours
after she drove into it.
She said that she took a wrongturn on a mountain road and
mistook the mine shaft for atunnel.
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Again, I go back to this had tobe at night because is there
any of you out there that ifyou're driving that you would
mistake a tunnel for a mineshaft or vice versa?
Everything worked out fine.
They had to get mine employeesto go down into the shaft and
push her car out.
And hopefully they gave herdirections like, get the hell
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out of here.
This next story is every bitcreepy as it is weird.
We're in June, 1963.
We're back in the United Statesin the state of Texas and a man
named Ralph Farrar.
This man, Ralph Farrar, hesuffered from a condition known
as hemochromatosis, which meansthat his blood accumulated too
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much iron.
And he ended up having to havea pint of blood taken from his
regularly because the iron wouldbuild up in the heart, liver
and pancreas and causecomplications.
So he had to have this done.
But the thing is, when he wouldget the blood drawn with too
much iron in it, it couldn't beused to help anyone else.
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So as a side note, RalphFarrer, I guess he had a
beautiful garden of beautifulroses.
And people would ask him, howdo you get these beautiful
roses?
And you can see where this isgoing.
Mr.
Farrer used his heavily ironedblood to fertilize his roses.
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All I keep thinking of isLittle Shop of Horrors with
Audrey 2.
That one of these roses wouldjust come to life and be
screaming at him, feed me,Ralph.
I mean, I guess it's good thathe was honest, but man, if
you're asked about that, wouldyou want to share it?
Yeah, I fertilize my roses withmy blood.
That's why they look so good.
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This next story, this is one ofthe ones that it made me laugh
so much because it is soridiculous, but yet so specific
again.
We're in June 1966 and we're inTexas again.
Boy, a lot of weird stuffhappens there.
This has to do with a couplethat are buried alive
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practitioners that theyliterally get buried alive and
they have a pipe that goes downinto whatever casket they're in
to have air and then food dropdown to them.
This is a hobby of theirs thatthey enjoy doing.
The couple is Lottie Howard andCountry Bill White.
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So I guess they had somethingin common that brought them
together.
Anyway, after being buriedalive for a week outside of a
drive-in theater in Denison,Texas, Lottie Howard married
Country Bill White.
Then they went off on theirhoneymoon.
No word if they were buriedalive on the beach in Cancun or
something to celebrate.
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This is where the story isjust, if you don't laugh, I
don't know.
The marriage did not last.
Lottie ended up divorcingcountry Bill White two years
later.
The way she did it is sheserved him his divorce papers
while he was buried alive inAustin, Texas.
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She had a sheriff's deputy rollthe papers up and send them
down the pipe that he was usingfor air and food.
I mean, can you imagine that?
Just the absurdity of thisscene.
This man is buried alive and hehears something coming down the
pipe and he thinks it'ssomething to eat and it's
divorce papers.
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And what's he going to do?
Immediately yell up.
I need to be retrieved so I cango and beg my wife to take me
back.
It's like when you hear aboutweird hobbies that people have,
I don't think anything wouldtalk being buried alive for fun.
Oh, and the best part was thatLottie Howard, her nickname was
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Mrs.
Living Corpse.
So there's that.
In the 1960s, obviously one ofthe biggest things then and one
of the biggest things of the20th century was the rock band
The Beatles.
So I got two weird stories thathave to do with them.
One, I won't gloss over it, butit's the one thing that I'm
sure a lot of you know about.
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And that's the urban legendabout Paul McCartney being dead.
For those that don't know thisstory, in 1966 there was an
urban legend that started thatBeatles member Paul McCartney
had actually died and he wasreplaced with a lookalike.
And there were supposedly cluesin the music, there were
imagery, especially the AbbeyRoad cover album where Paul
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McCartney has no shoes on, likehe's supposed to be a corpse.
Not Mrs.
Living Corpse, but an actualone.
I mean, it's the same oldconspiracy theory garbage that
you hear today, where everyonelooks for super deep meaning in
everything that's not there.
McCartney came out.
He's like, no, I'm not dead.
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The Beatles management cameout.
No, he's not dead.
But people still to this daypersist that, no, the real Paul
McCartney died in a car accidentin 1966.
But then we get into the storyof one of the ultimate Beatles
super fans.
12-year-old Carol Dryden.
This is from June 1966.
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She was 12 years old.
She lived in Sunderland,England, and she came up with a
scheme of how to meet theBeatles.
This was by mailing herself tothem.
So this did not go well.
She put herself in a box andAnd immediately there were
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probably red flags when theaddress said, To the Beatles,
care of their fan club, London.
Like if you did that today andhad a box that said, To Taylor
Swift, care of her fan club,that thing would have
bomb-sniffing dogs around itbefore it even left her house.
She actually got as far as arailway station, but a clerk
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noticed that the box she was inwas wobbling back and forth.
And the reason it was wobblingis because she was trying to
take her sweater off because shegot hot and she hadn't put any
air holes in the box.
She had no air.
She didn't bring any food.
She hadn't thought thisthrough.
So if she had actually gottenmailed, she probably would have
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suffocated and died.
And then the Beatles would openthe box and there's a dead girl
inside.
There's a great present foryou.
Next, we move on to somethingthat is still weird news to this
day, and that is UFOs, UAPs,whatever the hell they want to
call it now, flying saucers.
We go to September 1967 insouthern England and reports of
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six flying saucers being spottedall over the place.
Obviously, these were a hoaxperpetrated by Farnborough
College's upcoming Rag Week,which was the beginning of 1967.
The saucers were fiberglass andthen covered them in metal.
Inside each flying saucer waselectronic equipment that would
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make an eerie sound.
These saucers were then driveninto selected locations in the
dead of night and left thereemitting that weird sound.
When these were noticed, themilitary came out and they
approached one of these flyingsaucers and drilled into it.
and there was a mixture insidethat exploded, and it covered
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the police in a foul-smellingslime.
The people responsible wereChristopher Southall and Roger
Palmer that were both 21.
They claimed that they didn'tthink this hoax would create
such a media storm.
Luckily for them, there were noaction taken against them, and
they actually raised £2,000 forcharity.
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And the final weird news storyfrom the 60s, at least for this
part one, comes in book form.
This is a story of a 1969 noveltitled Naked Came the Stranger.
The book was credited to awoman named Penelope Ash, but
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she was not a real person.
This book was a literary hoaxthat poked fun at the American
literary culture of the time.
It was written by 24journalists led by Newsday
columnist Mike McGrady.
And McGrady's intention was towrite a book that was
deliberately terrible andcontained a lot of descriptions
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of sex to illustrate the pointthat American literary culture
had become mindlessly vulgar.
And the book actually fulfilledall of those writers'
expectations.
It became a bestseller.
And then after they revealedthe hoax later in 1969, it
became more popular.
The gist of the book itself,the story, is a couple, Jillian
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and William Blake, that host apopular New York City radio
program.
Jillian finds out that herhusband is having an affair, so
she decides to cheat on him witha variety of different men from
their neighborhood.
In the time since its release,Naked Came the Stranger has sold
nearly half a million copies.
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And it's just a weird story,both in the pages of the book
and just these two dozen writersthat said, let's make a
terrible sex novel and see if itsells.
But there you go.
Eight of the weirdest newsstories I could find from the
1960s.
Don't worry, this will be asegment that I will be doing for
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a lot of different decades,80s, 90s, probably even 50s.
Because it seems like thefurther back in time you go, the
weirder stuff you find.
But what to you is the weirdeststory of the ones that I
shared?
I still go with Mrs.
Living Corpse.
That's just the funniest one.
Divorcing your husband whilehe's buried alive.
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That's great.
This week in history, we aregoing back 138 years ago to
February 2nd, 1887, and the veryfirst Groundhog Day.
I had debated putting in somesort of a tie to the Groundhog
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Day movie, maybe repeating whatI just said or something like
that, but then I realized, no,this has to do with the holiday.
The roots of Groundhog Day aretraced all the way back to
ancient European traditions.
with the holiday's predecessor,Candlemas Day, being celebrated
on February 2nd as a Christianfeast marking the midpoint
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between the winter solstice andspring equinox.
So literally as deep intowinter as you can get without
spring being on the way.
Over time, folklore emergedlinking weather predictions to
this day, Candlemas Day.
with an old English rhymebeing, if Candlemas Day be fair
and bright, winter will haveanother flight.
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If Candlemas Day brings cloudand rain, winter won't come
again.
I guess to make it rhyme.
German settlers brought thistradition to America where they
substituted the groundhog forthe European hedgehog as the
weather prognosticator.
The epicenter of Groundhog Daycelebrations is Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania, home to theworld-famous Punxsutawney Phil.
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Each year, thousands ofvisitors gather at Gobbler's
Knob to witness Phil'sprediction.
According to tradition, if Philsees his shadow, there will be
six more weeks of winter.
If he does not, spring willarrive early.
And if you've seen BillMurray's classic 1993 movie
Groundhog Day, you know thefestivities in Punxsutawney
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include a lot more than justPhil's forecast.
There's parades, live music,food, speeches from members of
the inner circle, a group oftop-hatted individuals
responsible for caring for Philand interpreting his
predictions.
So they speak Groundhog.
Here are a few fun facts aboutGroundhog Day.
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According to folklore, therehas only ever been one
Punxsutawney Phil, so he'simmortal.
The inner circles say Phil'slongevity is due to the magical
elixir of life he drinks everysummer.
Now, despite his fame, Phil'sweather predictions are not
reliable, so don't base yourvacations on what he says.
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Studies show his accuracy ratehovers around 39%.
That being said, if he was abaseball player, he'd be a Hall
of Famer with the highestbatting average ever.
One fun fact that I love toshare is the fact that there's
other weather predicting animalsout there.
In Canada, there's WyertonWillie, a white groundhog who is
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beloved.
Staten Island Chuck and GeneralBeauregard Lee are also notable
forecasters in New York andGeorgia, respectively.
And just so you know, both ofthem are groundhogs as well.
So even though there's otheranimals that predict the weather
besides Punxsutawney Phil, itseems to be something that only
groundhogs can do.
There is no hurricanepredicting horse, blizzard
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predicting bear, slightly foggysleet day snail.
I don't know.
The main thing at its core isGroundhog Day is a lighthearted
celebration that breaks up thewinter doldrums.
And it brings a significanteconomic boost to Punxsutawney.
Millions of dollars annuallyfor Tourism for Groundhog Day.
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And that first ever GroundhogDay...
where supposedly the originalPunxsutawney Phil, the only one
made his predictions, happened138 years ago this week in
history.
I tried my best to find thetime where Sonny and Cher's I
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Got You Babe was the number onesong, just to be fitting for the
brand new time capsule.
Unfortunately, that was inAugust and not February, back in
1965.
So I chose an arbitrary date,Groundhog Day, 1971, February
2nd, 54 years ago.
What was going on in the worldof pop culture back then?
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Let's find out.
The number one song was KnockThree Times by Dawn.
It's credited as just Dawn, butit's Tony Orlando and Dawn.
This is off of the albumCandida by Dawn.
And the reason that TonyOrlando was going by Dawn was
that he actually had a contractwith another record label.
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So it was like he was cheatingon his record label and his
cheat song went to number one.
It eventually sold more thansix million copies, the single.
Tony Orlando has sold more than100 million albums during his
career, and only last year in2024 did he finally end his
singing career.
The number one movie was LoveStory, and you could get into
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the theater with a ticketcosting $1.65.
This movie stars Ryan O'Neilland Ali McGraw as two people
from different backgrounds whofall in love.
The film was a massive hit,making more than $173 million on
a budget of $2.2 million.
This would put its box officeat about $1.4 billion when
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adjusted for inflation to 2025,so there's no denying how big
this movie was.
The number one TV show was TheFlip Wilson Show.
This was a variety showstarring comedian Flip Wilson.
that ran for four seasonsbetween 1970 and 1974, and a
total of 94 episodes.
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Wilson's most famous characterwas Geraldine Jones, and his
clout as a comedian allowed himto get some massive stars on
that show, like George Carlin,Richard Pryor, The Jackson 5,
The Temptations.
And if you were around backthen, February 2nd, 1971, Maybe
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you were needing to go to thegrocery store to get some food
before you sit down and watchthe Flip Wilson show.
Well, you're in luck.
There's a great circular fromA&P Supermarket this week.
Now you can get yourself fourbouquet pattern stainless
tablespoons for $1.29.
But the star of the show is theJane Parker baked goods.
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22 ounce lemon pies for 49cents.
Jane Parker Donuts, three dozenfor a dollar, man.
And for those of you that mighthave grown up back then that
are familiar with the JaneParker Bakery, they are still
around.
JaneParker.com, you can orderyour favorites.
And on their website, they evensay their claim to fame as
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being the main baker of the A&Psupermarkets.
It is a bit of a datedreference as A&P went out of
business 10 years ago, which Iactually thought they went out
of business long before that.
But still, there's a lot ofyounger people out there that
have no clue what A&P is.
And on that sad note, that endsanother time capsule, another
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This Week in History.
Oh, but the failures, you cansmell them in the air.
We got a brand new top fivemusic fails of the 1980s.
Oh, get ready for them.
This is going to be a lot offun.
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Failures take lots of shapesand sizes.
And this is a new topic that Ihave researched for the podcast,
for the top fives.
Music fails of certain decades.
What I tried to do here is notmake it just albums that failed.
There has to be more than justthat.
So I've got loads of differentthings.
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I do have failures of albums,songs, genres of music, music
videos.
Oh, man.
I always go on and on about howI love the fact that I'm so
lucky to have been able to be achild of the 80s.
This top five is making itwhere I'm shaking my head like,
do I really mean that?
Yes, I do.
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As with many of these topfives, there are some honorable
mentions, and the top fiveitself is in no particular
order.
So let's get into this top fiveso you who grew up in the 80s
like me can shake your head inamazement at some of this.
Honorable mentions for musicfails of the 1980s include the
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band Jethro Tull winning aGrammy Award for Heavy Metal
Artist.
This was in 1989, and they wonthe Hard Rock Metal Vocal Grammy
over Metallica.
Literally metal in their name.
Jethro Tull has flutes in it.
It's like heavy metal flutemusic.
Another honorable mention isthe Clash album Cut the Crap
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from 1985.
This album was The Clash's lastalbum ever and was a massive
failure compared to theirprevious album which included
the all-time classic song Rockthe Casbah.
Another honorable mention isthe Birdie song by The Tweets
from 1981.
This is also known as thatgod-awful chicken dance song
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that you can probably hear inyour head.
And the last honorable mentionis the song Stars, the charity
song by the heavy metal all-stargroup Hear N.
Aid.
The group was led by RonnieJames Dio, members of Dokken,
Quiet Riot, Judas Priest, BlueOyster Cult, and others.
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So those are the honorablementions for music fails of the
1980s.
I apologize if that chickendance song is still in your
head.
Well, get ready.
I'm going to put more bad stuffinto your brains right now.
Let's kick off the actual topfive with number one.
Captain EO.
Michael Jackson's sci-fifantasy musical short film.
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This was Michael Jackson at thevery peak of his thriller fame.
1986.
This was before he released theBad album.
and was pretty much the firstnew music he did since Thriller,
unless you count We Are theWorld.
This was shown once ontelevision, on MTV.
The film was in 3D and shown inDisney theme parks from 1986 to
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1998, and again after MichaelJackson's death.
But it was shown once on TV,has never been released on any
sort of home media.
And the only way you can findit is bootleg versions on
YouTube.
If you want to go, you canwatch Captain EO.
It does have a pretty goodsong, We Are Here to Change the
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World, which is worth a listenif you've never heard it before
because it's Michael Jackson atthe peak of his fame, even
though the movie is terrible.
Number two is Billy Squire'sRock Me Tonight video.
Billy Squire was a prettypopular rock musician in the
early 1980s.
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And he figured MTV was gainingsteam and gaining popularity.
So in June 1984, he releasedthe song Rock Me Tonight from
his album Signs of Life.
And he released the musicvideo, which it's unbelievable.
The song Rock Me Tonight washis highest charting song, but
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it was also his last hit becauseof the video.
where he essentially destroyedhis macho rock image, writhing
around and dancing in thisbedroom with a white t-shirt but
a pink low-hanging tank topover it.
It is said that after thisvideo came out that immediately
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ticket sales for Billy Squireconcerts went down.
He ended up firing hismanagement because of this
video.
It's amazing.
He had some big-time songs inthe early 80s.
The Stroke, Lonely is theNight, My Kinda Lover, and then
he had this video, and boom,that was over.
Number three is The Death ofDisco Music.
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Your timeline may vary, butdisco music was on its last legs
as the 80s started.
The disco demolition night inthe summer of 1979 was kind of
the beginning of the end.
But you had punk, new wavemusic, growing college
alternative music in the early80s, and the emergence of
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hip-hop music.
The waters start to get muddiedby 1982-83, where you have
songs that are probably moreclassified as R&B that could be
disco but probably aren't.
You had artists that had donebig business during disco, like
the Bee Gees, Kool and the Gang,Casey and the Sunshine Band.
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Even Michael Jackson, alteringtheir styles a little bit.
The last true disco number onesong was Funky Town by Lips
Incorporated, and that's March1980.
So the exact year that discoreally went away is up for
debate, but there's no doubtthat by the mid-80s it was all
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but a memory.
Number four on the list ofmusic fails of the 1980s is
Carrie the Musical.
Yes, this is a musical based onthe infamous Stephen King
horror movie.
You want to talk about moviesthat don't really lend
themselves to be musicals.
Those of you that have seenCarrie, could you imagine that
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being on a Broadway stage withsongs?
The show premiered in Englandin February 1988, and it even
had mixed reviews then.
And it was transferred toBroadway for $8 million.
The show started previews onApril 28th, and at the end of
the first show, there were boosmixed in with cheers at the end
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of the performance.
The show closed after only 16previews and 5 full performances
in May.
For the last show on May 15th,1988, the theater was only 62%
full.
Yeesh, what a disaster.
Oh, but speaking of disasters,I'm sure a lot of you were
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thinking of this one.
Finally, number five on thelist of musical fails of the
1980s is the song We Built ThisCity by Starship.
Starship used to be known asJefferson Starship and before
that Jefferson Airplane, a late60s psychedelic band, White
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Rabbit.
This song, this video, it is so80s cheese.
It is so bad.
It destroyed the band.
This is from Starship's 1985album Knee Deep in the Hoopla.
And the song went to numberone, which is amazing.
But if you look up any list ofeither worst songs of the 80s or
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worst songs ever, I promise youthis is near or at the top.
Starship actually had two othermajor hit songs, Sarah and
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now,which it all depends on your
taste in music.
I enjoy both of those songs.
They're not as bad as We BuiltThis City, but maybe it's Rose
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Colored Glasses from growing upthen.
So there you have it.
Top five musical fails of the1980s.
I'm figuring those that are myage are probably familiar with
most of them, except maybeCarrie the musical, which was
the one I'd never heard of untilI researched this.
Next up, Friday the 13th, themusical with Jason breakdancing.
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So we go from terrible fails toa couple of better ways to
spend your money in game showform.
So let's talk about supermarketsweep and shop till you drop.
The older I get and the moreyears that are in between
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present day and when mygrandparents passed away, the
more I kind of look for reasons,excuses to talk about them, to
kind of keep them alive.
But naturally in podcast form,in a nostalgia podcast form, I'm
not going to just tell storiesall the time about my
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grandparents.
I want to make it where...
A lot of you can relate.
And that includes findingthings, shows, foods, music,
whatever, that reminds me of mygrandparents that then you also
can remember if you're of acertain age group.
That is where this Back in theDay segment originated.
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The game show supermarket sweepis fully entwined with my nana.
Because I remember watchingthat show.
The only place I watched it wasat her house.
And then as I was thinkingabout it, I also thought of the
game Shop Till You Drop.
And I said, well, they're kindof two sides of the same coin.
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I figured rather than milk itand have two different segments,
I would combine them into one.
Television game shows haveentertained audiences for
decades, for generations.
You go all the way back toradio even before, 1940s, 50s.
But there are a few thatcapture the thrill of an
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everyday activity like shopping.
You know, none quite likesupermarket sweep and shop till
you drop.
They didn't just offerentertainment, but it was chaos
and strategy with shopping.
This wasn't just make your listand go into...
Stop and Shop or Kroger orPublix and get what you need.
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This was how do you win thegame?
Interestingly, SupermarketSweep first premiered in 1965 on
ABC and was created by producerAl Howard.
Speaker 00 (37:52):
It's Supermarket Sweep, the show that comes to
your hometown and gives you achance to run wild through your
supermarket.
Speaker 01 (38:00):
The concept for the game was simple, but it was
ingenious.
Contestants would answer triviaquestions to earn time for a
shopping spree.
And in that shopping spree, thegoal was to grab the highest
dollar total in groceries.
There were three teams, and youstarted with a base time of 1
minute 30 seconds for yourshopping spree.
And then there were four itemsshown and you'd have a
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contestant try to guess theretail price of it.
And whoever got closest wouldget 15 extra seconds.
So you could theoretically gettwo minutes and 30 seconds total
of supermarket sweep time.
This original version onlylasted for two years.
It was from 1965 to 1967.
And I guess it's consideredwhat would be a modest success.
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But the thing is, this type ofshopping spree game show, that
concept is timeless.
And so the revival of the showis what I remember.
The new supermarket sweepdebuted on Lifetime Network in
1990.
It was hosted by Dave Ruprecht.
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He's basically only known forSupermarket Sweet.
But I remember as a kidwatching this, so I would have
been 12, 13 when this show cameon.
I thought that Dave Ruprechtwas David Leisure.
And those from the 80s knowDavid Leisure was a fictional
character called Joe Isuzu inthe Isuzu automobile
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commercials.
I mean, if you look them up,they look pretty similar.
Even to this day, they're bothin their 70s.
This revival of the show becamemore of a cult hit.
It had a quirky energy,colorful supermarket set.
In the unforgettable imagery ofthese people racing through the
aisles with the carts smashinginto each other, trying to find
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the most expensive foods.
This game was similar to theoriginal.
Three teams of two people.
There was a question round.
There was the big sweep whereall of them were out there
running around trying to getfood.
And then the bonus sweep, whichwhoever won the big sweep would
get.
the revised supermarket sweepthat I remember watching at my
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Nana's house.
That was on from 1990 to 2003and actually came back again in
2020, but that only lasted to2022.
So it was kind of like the 60sshow, not a big hit.
Sensing a hit show on theirhands, Lifetime, after getting
supermarket sweep, debuted ShopTill You Drop in 1991.
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So both of these shows at onepoint were on the same channel.
Shop Till You Drop was hostedby Pat Finn, and the announcer
was a man named Mark Wahlberg,but not that actor Mark
Wahlberg, another totallydifferent person.
Speaker 00 (41:06):
They're all here to play the wildest shopping game
ever, Shop Till You Drop.
The
Speaker 01 (41:20):
difference here was Shop Till You Drop wasn't so
much a supermarket, it was moreof a mall-themed set.
There were teams of two whocompeted in rounds that tested
their knowledge, teamwork, andsometimes their physical
coordination in wacky games.
Shop Till You Drop was on offand on from 1991 to 2002, where
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it wasn't on straight through.
There'd be periods ofinactivity, and it didn't stay
on Lifetime the whole time.
Actually, much like SupermarketSweep, these shows went to the
PAX network, which is todayknown as ION television.
I didn't watch Shop Till YouDrop.
I may have seen it a couple oftimes.
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I just knew that there were twosimilarly themed game shows.
I didn't even realize they wereon the same channel.
Even though if you don'tremember these shows, there's no
doubt that they were verypopular at the time.
Supermarket Sweep had over athousand episodes.
Shop Till You Drop had almost athousand episodes.
A big part of it for me was therelatability because everyone
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shops.
Even when I was 12, 13, 14years old watching this.
I could imagine going in asupermarket and taking my cart
around and just grabbing themost expensive things I could
and whipping them in the cartand trying to win.
I would think that people thatwere older watching these shows
in the early to mid-90s, theywould have given you nostalgia
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even back then.
Thinking about leisurelystrolls in the mall or Sunday
shopping at the supermarket.
You know, it was different fromDouble Dare on Nickelodeon.
I didn't have any nostalgia ofpicking a giant nose with slime
in it to get a flag.
But I definitely had nostalgiaof walking through the Cape Cod
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Mall or going to Angelo'sSupermarket.
There was definitely a familyappeal to both of these shows.
Like I said, I rememberwatching it at my Nana's house.
So it would typically be me,probably my sister...
Maybe my father and mygrandmother.
I mean, right there, that'sthree generations that were
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watching this.
There's nostalgia now if yousee reruns of it, or you see
products from the early 90s andjust remember going around the
supermarket.
Both Supermarket Sweep and ShopTill You Drop were unique.
They have to be.
To last roughly a thousandepisodes each.
You had supermarket sweepsstart off with the announcer
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announcing the show with thetheme song.
Speaker 00 (43:58):
Everything in this supermarket is yours and it's
all free.
From Hollywood, where dreams docome true, it's the return of
the one and only supermarketsweep.
Speaker 01 (44:16):
Are you ready to go shopping?
And then it's a fully stockedgrocery store with an audience
there.
Whereas Shop Till You Drop wasa two-story mall, complete with
escalators and themed stores.
Both these game shows wereperfect combinations of physical
activity and mental acuity.
Trivia, but then also runningaround stores.
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Although Shop Till You Drop wasmore into the physical stunts
and creative tasks, likebuilding towers of boxes or
matching items to specificcategories.
So even though they weresimilar shows, they weren't the
same.
One thing that always made melaugh about these shows was that
the prizes, when you won at theend, it was never huge
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jackpots.
Maybe a couple thousanddollars.
So going on Supermarket Sweepor Shop Till You Drop was
probably not going to changeyour life, but it was still fun.
You'd get appliances,vacations.
It was sort of similar to asmaller showcase showdown on
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Price is Right.
Both of these shows have anenduring appeal.
Even though Shop Till You Dropwasn't quite as big of a deal as
Supermarket Sweep, it did havean influence in modern
competition shows that blendtrivia, physical stunts,
consumerism.
And the idea...
The concept of gamifyingshopping has even found its way
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into apps and onlineexperiences.
For me, like I said at thebeginning of this segment, it
brings back memories of sittingin my Nana's living room and us
trying to answer the questionsthat were there or laughing at
the people as they run aroundthe supermarket trying to throw
stuff into their carriages.
Even if you didn't watch thisshow with family, it still was
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fun.
an escape from reality,celebrating the everyday act of
shopping and transforming itinto this thrilling, I guess,
competitive spectacle.
If you're nostalgic for thoseclassic Supermarket Sweep
episodes, they are available onBuzzer, B-U-Z-Z-R.
Go to buzzertv.com and you canwatch old episodes of
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Supermarket Sweep.
I'll put a link in thedescription of the podcast if
you want to go and relive DaveRuprecht's over-the-top
supermarket antics.
And tell me if you think helooks like Joe Isuzu.
But just remember, don't trythis at home.
Don't shop like them whenyou're in Publix or Kroger or
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Stop and Shop.
But until next time, that'sgoing to wrap up episode 181 of
the In My Footsteps podcast.
Thank you to all of you whotune in Wherever you're from, if
you're on Cape Cod, in NewEngland, the Northeast, anywhere
in the United States, or allacross the world, I try to make
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this nostalgia as inclusive as Ican.
As long as you're of a certainage group, you'll get most of
the references.
And even if you're younger, ifyou don't get them, you can
laugh at stuff that amuses olderpeople like me.
If you want more of me, you cansubscribe to my YouTube
channel.
Check out the InitialImpressions 2.0 blog.
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I'm kind of putting a pause onthe Webcam Weekly Wrap-Up
podcast, the video podcasts,mainly because it's a lot of
work for not as much of a returnon investment as I had wanted.
So I'm going to try to put mytime elsewhere.
I'll probably bring it back atsome point.
Like I said, if I end up withthe ability to monetize my
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YouTube channel and then I'mable to do live streams, maybe
I'll turn the Webcam Weeklywrap-up into a live stream.
But I've still got hundreds ofYouTube videos, hundreds of
blogs, hundreds of these audiopodcasts.
I am all over social media,Instagram, threads, Blue Sky.
I've got a Facebook fan page.
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I have a homepage,ChristopherSetterlin.com.
It's got links to all nine ofmy books.
You can become a subscriber onPatreon for $5 a month.
You can also, if you don't likethe monthly subscriptions, you
can buy me a coffee.
I think those you can do aslittle as a dollar, which I
don't even think can buy me acoffee.
Just ways to support me, myquest to be a fully functioning,
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self-sustaining contentcreator.
I love doing all this.
But it's also the more contentI have, the more chance there is
for people to find me.
It's easier to get new viewers,readers, listeners.
If I have literally hundreds,maybe a few thousand different
pieces of content all over theinternet rather than just a
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couple of handfuls.
And I'll keep adding to thecontent.
I'm sure there will be newYouTube videos, new blogs, new
podcast next week, episode 182,where I get to talk about What a
privilege it was that I grew upwhen I did and got to watch the
one and only Michael Jordan inhis prime as next week is his
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birthday.
Any chance I get to talk aboutMJ, I'm going to take advantage
of.
It's just another way that Ilean into things that make me
happy.
That's what I say to you allthe time.
You know, the deep, dark daysof winter.
You want to lean into whatmakes you happy to get through
it to spring.
Favorite foods, favoritepeople, hopefully favorite
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podcasts.
If you're listening and made itthis far, I would hope that you
enjoyed it.
And if you can, if theweather's nice, take the podcast
outside, get that vitamin D,because I'm pretty sure a lot of
us are deficient in it aswinter goes on.
I know I'm not outside as muchas I want to.
So thank you all again formaking me a part of your week.
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And remember, in this life,don't walk in anyone else's
footsteps.
Create your own path and enjoyevery moment you can on this
journey we call life because younever know what tomorrow
brings.
This has been the In MyFootsteps podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund.
You already knew that.
And I'll talk to you all againsoon.
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