November 6, 2025 • 45 mins
A year can change everything, and 1982 proved it. We crack open the moment when MTV turned music into moving pictures, fashion into a stage, and hits into cultural events. From front-porch laughs to deep dives, we map how Thriller rewrote pop’s playbook, why Eddie Van Halen’s Beat It solo made genre walls crumble, and how Toto’s studio sheen, Prince’s swagger, and Survivor’s training montage forever reshaped the soundtrack of daily life.
The stories don’t stop at the stereo. We revisit a film slate that still defines taste: ET’s wonder and bicycles against the moon, Blade Runner’s neon rain and philosophical ache, Tron’s digital dreamscape, Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s quotable chaos, and Rocky III’s gleaming grit. Each title didn’t just entertain—it minted an aesthetic you can still spot in modern music videos, streaming shows, and the way brands sell nostalgia. Add the compact disc’s debut, arcade highs before the crash, and fashion’s neon surge, and you get a snapshot of culture speeding up and learning to look at itself.
We even pull a sports thread: the 1982 NFL strike season and how it warped records and memories, from Denver’s struggles to New England’s playoff flicker. It’s all part of the same current—media, tech, and mood shaping what we talk about decades later. If you’ve ever argued about the best MJ track, quoted Spicoli in the wild, or matched a skinny tie to a synth riff, this ride is for you. Hit play, share it with a friend who still knows every lyric to Africa, and drop us a note with your top three moments from 1982. Subscribe, rate, and leave a review—tell us what year we should time-travel to next.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:09):
Uh yes.
1982.
A glorious year.
If your definition of gloriousincludes neon spandex,
synthesizers that sounded likedying microwaves, and cinematic
masterpieces about small rubberaliens who just wanted to go
home.
Frankly, same.
Tonight, Mike and Tom will betaking us on a journey back to
(00:31):
82.
Though whether they stay in 1982is about as likely as Tom
successfully reading his ownnotes.
For those unfamiliar, 1982 wasthe year MTV began telling young
people what to wear, how todance, and which bands were
edgy.
Which is how we ended up with anepidemic of men in eyeliner and
mess shirts attempting to broodin shopping malls.
(00:55):
We also got thriller.
Yes.
Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The album so big it madeeveryone else's work look like
they recorded it in a gardenshed.
I'm sure Mike will remind us ofthis 17 times.
And Tom will claim he alwaysliked the deep cuts to seem
interesting.
Spoiler, he didn't.
(01:15):
Movies?
Oh, we had Blade Runner.
The film that taught everyoneit's okay for the future to look
like a damp parking garage.
And E.T., the heartwarming taleof a magical risen who just
wants a phone with better longdistance coverage.
I'm sure the boys will talk forat least 12 minutes about
whether you would actually letthat thing live in your house.
(01:39):
Riveting.
Meanwhile, the video gameindustry was busy throwing
itself off a cliff with the ETAtari game, a game so
catastrophically bad that theyburied millions of copies in the
desert.
Honestly.
SPEAKER_02 (02:15):
MT alternatives only error with your favorite
friends.
Tom's got the stories, Mike'sgot the tune.
Roll down the windows and crankup those boom bones.
MT Alternative Podcast.
Let's drive Mike and Tom.
We're still rocking live.
SPEAKER_01 (02:33):
Welcome back to more porch time on the MT Alternative
Podcast.
Tom, what's going on, bud?
SPEAKER_07 (02:38):
Not much, Mike.
What's going on with you?
SPEAKER_01 (02:40):
Enjoying this great day.
SPEAKER_07 (02:42):
Yeah, it is pretty nice.
SPEAKER_01 (02:44):
On the porch, once again.
SPEAKER_07 (02:46):
It is pretty nice out here today.
It's a lot better than it waslast week.
SPEAKER_01 (02:50):
Think so?
Yeah.
That wind was pretty brutal lastweek.
SPEAKER_07 (02:54):
Well, I can feel my fingers this week, is how I'm
talking about.
Still can't see my toes, but Ican feel my fingers.
SPEAKER_01 (03:02):
We had some exciting little adventures around here
with the little rooster Roman.
SPEAKER_07 (03:08):
Yeah, we uh Mike went to my neighbor rooster.
SPEAKER_01 (03:13):
My neighbor my what?
What am I gonna do?
I did no such thing.
SPEAKER_07 (03:19):
He came to stop the rooster.
SPEAKER_01 (03:20):
I was protecting my rooster from that rooster.
Oh.
I wasn't getting near it.
Nope.
SPEAKER_07 (03:27):
He's come to stop the rooster.
SPEAKER_01 (03:30):
Yes.
SPEAKER_07 (03:30):
And he did.
And now and now the rooster isback home.
SPEAKER_01 (03:35):
Work.
SPEAKER_07 (03:35):
Work.
Work.
Work.
Yeah.
I don't know what happened tome, but you know this week I had
a little bug show up.
SPEAKER_01 (03:48):
Yeah, hopefully you didn't bring little bug here.
SPEAKER_07 (03:50):
No, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01 (03:52):
That would be kind of crappy.
SPEAKER_07 (03:53):
Yeah, it would be.
But no fever, so should becrazy.
SPEAKER_01 (03:59):
Mark.
There goes the neighbor.
SPEAKER_07 (04:02):
There goes the neighborhood.
SPEAKER_01 (04:03):
This is what happens on the old porch.
SPEAKER_07 (04:05):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (04:06):
We observe.
SPEAKER_07 (04:08):
And then pretty soon we'll say, oh, here comes Mark.
The neighbor.
SPEAKER_01 (04:12):
Yep, Mark again.
He'd probably be on a tractor orfour-wheeler or whatever the
hell he's got.
SPEAKER_07 (04:18):
His zero turn.
SPEAKER_01 (04:19):
His little electric bike.
SPEAKER_07 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, he's got one of those now.
SPEAKER_01 (04:23):
Gas-powered bike.
List goes on.
Mark likes his little toys.
Anyway, 82.
SPEAKER_07 (04:31):
82.
SPEAKER_01 (04:32):
Great year, another great year for music.
A lot of happenings in 82.
SPEAKER_07 (04:36):
Yeah, this is when life was getting real for me.
I think I just had moved outhere.
That December of 82.
SPEAKER_01 (04:46):
That's when M Mom and Dad came out this way, or so
this is about the time and erathat the old hitchhiking story
took place.
SPEAKER_07 (04:57):
A little bit after, but not too much.
SPEAKER_01 (05:00):
Well, probably I'm sure some of the music you were
listening to, sappy stuff.
SPEAKER_06 (05:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (05:04):
Yeah, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_06 (05:06):
Tears in my beard.
SPEAKER_01 (05:08):
Well, you figure 82, I was 19.
SPEAKER_06 (05:12):
Right.
I would have been 15.
SPEAKER_01 (05:16):
So that's about right around that time, Tom?
SPEAKER_07 (05:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (05:20):
About a year later?
SPEAKER_07 (05:21):
Another year, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (05:23):
The old hitchhike?
SPEAKER_07 (05:25):
Hiking down the old trail.
SPEAKER_01 (05:27):
There we go.
So you want to get into themusic now?
Might as well, right?
SPEAKER_07 (05:31):
Yeah.
Nothing like good music.
SPEAKER_01 (05:34):
Alright.
So I got a list here of some 82massive year.
Uh across the genres, I did thatlist again, because I'm not
doing the top ten, top 40anymore.
SPEAKER_07 (05:46):
That's to everybody.
SPEAKER_01 (05:47):
Kind of break it down, and obviously we'll talk
about which music impacted us inthat year.
I mean, there's a lot of goodmusic.
But to start off, uh, these areimpactful type songs we brought
up.
Billy Jean, Michael Jackson.
SPEAKER_07 (06:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (06:02):
Michael Jackson again with Beat It.
Michael Jackson again withThriller.
Yeah, he did, man.
SPEAKER_07 (06:09):
He was a key idea there.
SPEAKER_01 (06:10):
That was uh big time for Michael Jackson.
Yeah.
MTV was just got started theyear before, so yeah, that was a
great year for him.
SPEAKER_07 (06:18):
He knew what to do on that TV.
SPEAKER_01 (06:20):
Everybody, I mean, pretty much everybody knew.
We all watched the Jackson 5cartoon as kids.
I mean, I know you did, Tom.
You had to.
Alright, so the next uh we gotuh the tiger, Survivor.
Great song, Rocky soundtrack.
SPEAKER_07 (06:34):
Heck yeah, Rocky 3.
That was one of my favorite Mr.
T.
SPEAKER_01 (06:39):
Plubber.
SPEAKER_07 (06:40):
Bust Job fool.
SPEAKER_01 (06:41):
What was his name in that?
Clubber Land.
Clubber Land.
It was it.
Alright.
Africa, Toto.
Oh yeah.
Africa.
SPEAKER_07 (06:51):
Somebody wanna have a dude.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
Oh, another one for Toto.
Rosanna.
SPEAKER_07 (06:56):
Rosanna.
Rosanna.
SPEAKER_01 (07:01):
No, that's not it.
That's not it at all.
Not it at all.
Not even close.
That is not the Toto song, Tom.
SPEAKER_06 (07:10):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (07:11):
This is one of your favorites, though, Tom.
Tom.
Tong.
Tom, Tong.
Hey that.
We have by the Steve Millerband.
Oh, yeah.
Abracadabra.
Tom's favorite song.
SPEAKER_07 (07:28):
I'm gonna reach out and grab you.
SPEAKER_01 (07:30):
What happened to I Wanna Stab Ya?
SPEAKER_07 (07:33):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (07:33):
Slap you.
We have whatever JohnMellencamp, Jack and Diane.
Yeah, little kiddie.
Sucking on chili dogs.
SPEAKER_07 (07:40):
What are they doing to the chili dogs?
Sucking on them.
Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01 (07:43):
That's not how I eat a chili dog, but whatever.
SPEAKER_07 (07:45):
Winterfest.
SPEAKER_01 (07:47):
I wonder if that's where it started.
He does have hurt so good.
SPEAKER_07 (07:51):
Yeah, well.
SPEAKER_01 (07:52):
There you go.
SPEAKER_07 (07:52):
John Cougar's a I guess he's a fairgoer.
SPEAKER_01 (07:56):
Oh no, John Mellencamp, though.
Oh, yeah.
John Cougar.
Took that out.
SPEAKER_07 (08:00):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (08:01):
Okay, we have Centifold from Jay Guy's band.
Oh, yeah.
Angels of Centifold.
Okay, now we'll go into New Waveand Synthpop.
Synthpop.
Human League once again, Tom.
Wow.
From last year to this year.
Don't you want me?
SPEAKER_06 (08:16):
Baby.
SPEAKER_01 (08:17):
Soft sell again, same thing.
I guess these songs were bigin '82 also.
Hungry Like a Wolf from DuranDuran.
SPEAKER_07 (08:24):
Right, right, right.
SPEAKER_01 (08:25):
Love plus one.
Haircut 100.
SPEAKER_07 (08:28):
Love plus one.
SPEAKER_01 (08:29):
Okay.
Obviously that new wave.
Then we had a flock of pigeons.
I mean a flock of seagulls.
They ran so far away.
And so far away.
Here we go.
Here's the mic stuff.
I maiden.
Run to the hills.
Run to the hills.
Okay.
(08:50):
Okay.
Number of the beast.
666.
Sorry.
That scares me.
Okay, we have Rainbow in a Darkfrom Dio, another great song.
Yep.
You've got another thing coming.
Judas Priest, great song.
Rock of Ages, Death Leopard.
Again, when I like Death Leoparda lot.
And then, yes, folks, beforeQuiet Riot, Slade saying, Come
(09:14):
on, feel the noise.
Just so everybody's aware ofthis.
Right.
In that case, you weren't.
What?
Like Slade saying, Come on, feelthe noise.
They were the original QuietRiot.
And of course, Quiet Riot tookoff with it.
Kudos to them.
They stole it.
Rest in peace, Kevin DeBrot.
(09:35):
Yes.
Alright, we got sexual healing,Marvin Gay.
Which, fun fact, I did notrealize.
Yes, he was.
Devon told me that kind of brokemy heart.
Not that there's anything wrongwith it.
No.
No, no.
Just, you know, the songs he'ssinging, you like that.
(09:55):
Yeah, the sexual healing doesn'tsound so good.
No, no, no, no.
Alright.
Let it whip.
The Daz Band.
This is RB and Funkin' Soul, bythe way.
And then uh I keep forgetting,Michael McDonald.
Hey, do we brothers, MichaelMcDonald?
SPEAKER_07 (10:11):
Yeah.
I keep forgetting.
SPEAKER_01 (10:15):
Alright, we have hip hop and early rap.
Oh, wonderful.
We have The Message, GrandmasterFlash, and The Furious Five.
Oh boy.
Planet Rock.
Africa.
Bomba.
What?
And Soulsonic Force.
Okay.
That's different.
Never heard of them.
(10:36):
Sure, they're great.
Yep.
And I probably heard the song,Just Don't Know Who Sings It.
SPEAKER_07 (10:40):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (10:40):
Tom is a little more up your alley with the country
songs, Always on My Mind fromWillie Nelson.
SPEAKER_07 (10:45):
Always on my mind.
SPEAKER_01 (10:47):
And I Will Always Love You.
Dolly Cart.
SPEAKER_07 (10:50):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (10:50):
1982 re-release.
SPEAKER_07 (10:54):
Was it a re-release?
SPEAKER_01 (10:55):
That's what it's saying here, Tom.
That's what it's telling us.
But you know.
It's on the internet, it must betrue, right?
Must be.
Must be.
Yeah.
Alright, let's go into punk,post-punk, and alternative.
Just like Heaven, the cure.
SPEAKER_07 (11:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (11:12):
Goth, yeah, it's goth music.
Love will tear us apart, the JoyDivision.
It says reissued.
unknown (11:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (11:20):
And a town called Malice from the Jam.
Okay, I know the jam, I don'trecognize that song.
SPEAKER_07 (11:25):
Pump up the jam.
No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01 (11:27):
The name of the band is the jam.
SPEAKER_07 (11:29):
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (11:30):
Where are you going?
SPEAKER_07 (11:31):
I'm not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_01 (11:33):
Alright, how about come on, Eileen?
Dexie's Midnight Runners.
SPEAKER_07 (11:36):
That's nasty.
SPEAKER_01 (11:37):
No.
No.
Come on.
Like, come on.
SPEAKER_07 (11:42):
Oh.
Damn time.
SPEAKER_01 (11:46):
One of my favorites, 1999 from Prince.
SPEAKER_07 (11:49):
Tonight we're going to party like that.
SPEAKER_01 (11:52):
So I'd like to discuss some of this music.
All the Michael Jackson stuff,where do you remember that from?
Is it MTV?
SPEAKER_07 (12:00):
Mostly, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (12:02):
Pretty much, right?
SPEAKER_07 (12:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (12:04):
Same with Toto.
I'd have to say Africa.
SPEAKER_07 (12:07):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (12:08):
Now, the big song I know from Toto we already
discussed back early late 70s.
Hold the line.
SPEAKER_06 (12:14):
Oh yeah.
Hold the line.
SPEAKER_01 (12:16):
Africa didn't.
Rosanna.
Rosanna.
I think it was about RosannaArquet.
That's what I hear.
I don't know if that's true.
SPEAKER_07 (12:25):
I don't either.
If anybody out there knows whatwe're doing.
SPEAKER_01 (12:29):
Yeah, let us know.
SPEAKER_07 (12:30):
Give us a message.
SPEAKER_01 (12:31):
We could actually look it up, but you know.
You know, Tom and I just fly bythe seat of our pants here.
We need all the help we can get.
Yes.
SPEAKER_07 (12:40):
Oh, we do.
SPEAKER_01 (12:41):
Beat it from Michael Jackson.
Okay.
You had Eddie Van Halen playguitar in that.
Without that guitar in thatsong.
Right?
It's not really a good song.
Sorry.
Sorry, Michael.
And from what I understood, thisis from Eddie Van Halen
interview, that he kind ofrewrote it so the guitar parts
(13:04):
would all fit with Right.
SPEAKER_07 (13:06):
Well.
So it was not a.
SPEAKER_01 (13:09):
And he did not get paid for this.
SPEAKER_07 (13:11):
He did not.
SPEAKER_01 (13:11):
He did not, even though it was a big hit.
And like you said, what am Igonna get paid for?
I was here for like a coupleminutes.
Laid down some tracks and left.
SPEAKER_07 (13:19):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (13:20):
It was pretty cool about it, actually.
SPEAKER_07 (13:22):
Well, that's professionalism at its finest.
SPEAKER_01 (13:26):
Either he was drunk or didn't remember half the
shit.
I don't know.
I shouldn't say that.
We all have our downfalls andour days.
SPEAKER_07 (13:36):
We do.
SPEAKER_01 (13:38):
We all have demons, Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (13:40):
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be a problem today.
SPEAKER_01 (13:43):
How so, Tom?
SPEAKER_07 (13:45):
I don't know.
I just feel that way.
SPEAKER_01 (13:47):
Okay, cool.
Well, that's awesome.
Nah.
So what did uh the movie youtalked about, Rocky 3?
Right?
Is that your favorite Rockymovie?
SPEAKER_07 (14:00):
Yeah, pretty much.
I've I've the first one wasgood, but a little sappy.
SPEAKER_01 (14:06):
I'm hearing a click in in my headphones.
It's gone now.
SPEAKER_07 (14:13):
I don't I don't hear it now either.
SPEAKER_01 (14:14):
This is what happens on porch time, I guess.
unknown (14:17):
Okay.
SPEAKER_07 (14:18):
Rocky III.
SPEAKER_01 (14:19):
Yes, Rocky III.
Get back to that.
SPEAKER_07 (14:21):
Yeah, we were uh sippy pool my coffee.
You can't get a sippy.
But anyway, Rocky III I rememberwas one of mine because the
first one, like I said, I was alittle young when it came out.
Right.
Then of course, by the time partthree came, we had all already
(14:45):
seen Mr.
T in the A team.
So then, oh, he's got a movieout, let's watch him.
Yeah, he's bad, bad.
And he was back then just bringall them chains.
It took a lot to hold themchains up all that.
How many pounds of chains didthe guy wear?
SPEAKER_01 (15:09):
Sorry, I had a little mishap there.
Something I wanted to say, and Irealized I shouldn't have said
shouldn't say it, so you knowwhat?
SPEAKER_07 (15:18):
I'll say it.
SPEAKER_01 (15:19):
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
SPEAKER_07 (15:21):
Anyway.
SPEAKER_01 (15:21):
Anywho.
SPEAKER_07 (15:22):
Yes.
Any of them.
SPEAKER_01 (15:24):
Alright.
I'll get back to the metalmusic, hard rock.
SPEAKER_07 (15:28):
Oh, there you go.
SPEAKER_01 (15:29):
Run to the hills, Iron Maiden.
Have you heard that one?
SPEAKER_07 (15:34):
Oh, me?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (15:35):
You're very quiet over there.
Oh well.
SPEAKER_07 (15:37):
I'm just I'm I'm just excited.
SPEAKER_01 (15:41):
Okay.
SPEAKER_07 (15:42):
I'm just happy to be part of this here.
I have heard that song.
SPEAKER_01 (15:47):
You have?
Yes.
This is good.
SPEAKER_07 (15:49):
You forget I had older brothers.
SPEAKER_01 (15:53):
Turn a nineteen in myself a little flashback here.
Turn nineteen in August.
Doing stupid shit.
So going to many concerts.
I really wasn't doing much atthat age.
I'm thinking about it now.
That was a dumbass.
SPEAKER_07 (16:10):
Yeah, I was pretty much that boy.
SPEAKER_01 (16:12):
Trying to think of anything that sticks out
nineteen.
Nope, just being a normaldumbass frickin' teenager, I
guess.
SPEAKER_07 (16:18):
That's like I was when I was nineteen.
SPEAKER_01 (16:26):
Why is that wind coming from the south now?
SPEAKER_07 (16:30):
I'm not too sure, but I don't care for that.
SPEAKER_01 (16:33):
Well, it's on your back.
SPEAKER_07 (16:35):
Yeah.
Write down my shirt andeverything.
SPEAKER_01 (16:41):
We're gonna reset this little heater.
SPEAKER_07 (16:44):
Mary had a little lamb.
She tied it to a heater.
SPEAKER_01 (16:49):
There we go.
Much better.
See, it's a little chilly outhere in the porch.
We're in the shade.
It's it's kind of a breeze.
Now don't get us wrong, it is abeautiful day.
Gorgeous day.
But I'm not doing this out inthe sun either.
SPEAKER_06 (17:08):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (17:09):
Some of the some of the hardships we go through here
on the MT Alternative Podcast.
SPEAKER_07 (17:14):
Roughing it out here.
We don't have no plush studio.
SPEAKER_01 (17:21):
No, no, no.
That wouldn't be for us.
SPEAKER_07 (17:24):
Pip and squeak, they think we just got it made.
SPEAKER_01 (17:28):
Yeah.
I think they're gonna be alittle pissed off.
We shoved them in that closetlast week.
SPEAKER_07 (17:33):
Well they deserved it.
SPEAKER_01 (17:35):
Yeah.
Up all our chocolates.
Well, that's your fault forleaving them out.
You know how squeak is.
That is your fault, buddy.
SPEAKER_07 (17:47):
He ate them all.
He didn't even leave it.
Crumbs.
SPEAKER_01 (17:50):
I purchased more.
SPEAKER_07 (17:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (17:53):
And I'll I'll hold on to them.
SPEAKER_07 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah.
Don't leave them where I canleave them out.
SPEAKER_01 (17:59):
Oh.
I do have a little treat for youlater, though.
SPEAKER_07 (18:02):
Oh, do you?
Yes.
Uh oh.
SPEAKER_01 (18:04):
Yep.
SPEAKER_07 (18:05):
Now wait a minute.
We we weren't gonna do thisanymore.
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
Just this one more time.
SPEAKER_07 (18:10):
Oh, that's what you said the last two times.
SPEAKER_01 (18:12):
No, this will you you'll appreciate this treat.
SPEAKER_07 (18:15):
Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_01 (18:16):
Nothing to do with that.
SPEAKER_07 (18:17):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (18:19):
Yes, you'll be able to still drive home and
everything.
Oh, really?
Nothing to worry about then.
SPEAKER_07 (18:23):
Okay, good, good, good.
SPEAKER_01 (18:25):
Your tummy will appreciate it.
SPEAKER_07 (18:27):
Oh, good.
SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
Yeah.
Good.
So, you want to let the littleguys come in?
SPEAKER_07 (18:34):
Yeah, we might as well.
SPEAKER_01 (18:35):
Alright, let's let them come in.
Uh I hear a little rumble and soI'm sure they're pissed off.
Yeah.
But we'll find out.
SPEAKER_07 (18:41):
Alright, that's them.
SPEAKER_01 (18:43):
Yeah, I hear them now.
Yeah, they sound like they'regrumbling in the background.
We'll be right back, folks.
SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
Hey, wait, look, we're back in the real studio
this time.
SPEAKER_04 (18:59):
Oh yeah.
Real studio.
Yeah.
Well, at least we ain't a damncloset.
SPEAKER_03 (19:07):
Yeah.
How did you like that?
SPEAKER_04 (19:10):
What the hell was that all about?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (19:14):
What did you do?
SPEAKER_04 (19:15):
Maybe I'm I'm I'm at a loss of words.
SPEAKER_03 (19:21):
Maybe it's stealing the chocolates.
SPEAKER_04 (19:24):
I didn't steal anything.
SPEAKER_03 (19:26):
Okay, where did you get these chocolates this time?
He said he took everything out.
Is that why you gave me this oneout of the round?
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
She was lady.
SPEAKER_03 (28:48):
Yeah, we know the story.
Once again, it's great.
It's like this one.
(29:16):
Once again.
I don't know what I'm gonna dowith you.
SPEAKER_04 (29:34):
What would you do without me?
SPEAKER_03 (29:40):
Anyway, what do you look like you just shoot
yourself?
Yeah.
I think on that note, we we'regonna say goodbye to the folks.
Goodbye, folks.
Maybe folks.
SPEAKER_01 (30:11):
And uh you may say you have everything from last
week, but I believe they stillfound some somewhere.
SPEAKER_07 (30:19):
Well, I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_01 (30:23):
They sure got something because they bragged
about it.
Oh, did they?
Oh, hell yes.
SPEAKER_07 (30:27):
Oh boy.
I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_01 (30:31):
I guess we'll never know.
SPEAKER_07 (30:33):
Of course, I have so many things I just can't keep
track of all of them.
SPEAKER_01 (30:37):
Yeah, well, anyways.
SPEAKER_07 (30:39):
Well, hey, I hope they had fun with it.
SPEAKER_01 (30:41):
Well, it sounded like they did, but yeah, they
they were a little pissed.
I don't I was surprised Pip wasso pissed off.
SPEAKER_05 (30:47):
Well, he got locked in a closet.
SPEAKER_01 (30:53):
Well, I s I I don't believe they learned their
lesson.
But anyways, let's get back to82.
Yes.
You know what I wanted to talkabout since we're our teams are
doing pretty decent right now.
SPEAKER_05 (31:03):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (31:04):
1982, that was a strike season for the NFL.
The scabs.
So I wanted to look how Denverdid and how the Patriots did
during that scab season.
Denver Broncos, 1982 season,record two and seven.
SPEAKER_05 (31:19):
Yeah, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (31:20):
Head coach Dan Reeves, division AFC West.
We know they missed theplayoffs.
Shocker.
The Broncos really struggled inthe shortened season.
Their offense had issues,particularly at quarterback.
This was before John Elwayarrived.
He came in 1983.
The team just couldn't puttogether consistent scoring and
was near the bottom of theleague in standings.
SPEAKER_07 (31:41):
Wow.
That was tough to listen to.
SPEAKER_01 (31:44):
Tough.
Were you a big fan at that age?
SPEAKER_07 (31:47):
1977 on.
SPEAKER_01 (31:49):
Okay.
So New England Patriots fared alittle better.
They went 5-4.
Ron Meyer was our coach.
Of course, division was AFCEast.
They qualified for the expandedplayoffs, but lost in the first
round.
No surprise.
SPEAKER_07 (32:05):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (32:06):
They lost to the Miami Dolphins, of course, 28-13
at the stupid Orange Bowl.
SPEAKER_07 (32:11):
Well.
SPEAKER_01 (32:13):
Yes.
I was like, woohoo, made theplayoffs.
Oh, there we go.
One and a one and a we haveMiami again.
Damn it.
SPEAKER_07 (32:22):
It seems like just always those little teams just
are like a thorn in your side.
SPEAKER_01 (32:29):
Well, hey, I've been a Patriot fan since 1968-69.
And uh we had some crappyseasons, man.
So, but uh let's see a summaryof that.
The Patriots were one of thesurprise beneficiaries of the
strike era playoff format, ofcourse.
They played a solid but notstandout regular season and
earned a playoff birth.
(32:50):
However, once the playoffsstarted, they ran into the
Dolphins.
And Dolphins did have a strongteam.
SPEAKER_07 (32:55):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (32:56):
Anyways.
But I thought that was a littlefun thing I looked up because I
was thinking about it.
I said, wait a minute, I thinkthat was a strike seed.
I couldn't remember if it was81, 82, 83.
I knew it was in theresomewhere.
Right.
So I dug that up.
I just wanted to see how ourteams did.
SPEAKER_07 (33:11):
Right.
I want to see.
SPEAKER_01 (33:13):
I was surprised that with Dan Reeves, I'll be honest,
with the two and seven.
I was like when I saw that.
SPEAKER_07 (33:18):
He had nothing to work with, like they said.
That was pre-John Elway.
Right.
All that crap.
Uh Terrell Davis hadn't gottenthere yet.
SPEAKER_01 (33:27):
No, that's what helped John Elway, actually.
Yeah.
They got him his Super Bowl.
I'm not saying John Elway didn'tdo anything.
Right.
Trust me.
But look at Dan Marino with norunning team.
SPEAKER_07 (33:36):
Yeah, exactly.
He got a lot of numbers, butnothing to show for it.
I understand that.
Yeah.
We went through all that.
SPEAKER_01 (33:46):
All that fun stuff.
SPEAKER_07 (33:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:49):
Hey, we have a bunch of other fun little facts.
Fun facts, Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (33:55):
Okay.
Here we are, Mike and Tom.
SPEAKER_01 (33:57):
Yeah, it's uh 1982 Music, course, uh MTV.
We've been around a yearalready.
Major album releases.
Michael Jackson, thriller.
Oh, yeah.
We talked about that.
Survivor Eye the Tiger.
There you go, Tom.
Rocky III soundtrack, hit numberone.
Yep.
Became a fitness anthem forever.
SPEAKER_07 (34:14):
Huh.
Fitness.
That's something I don't thinkmuch about.
SPEAKER_01 (34:19):
I used to at one time.
Then I got older and said, Whatthe hell am I doing this for?
SPEAKER_07 (34:24):
I joined a gym once.
And you know where they take youthrough this tour and
everything.
SPEAKER_01 (34:29):
Right.
SPEAKER_07 (34:30):
And I'm like, I'm not going to be able to do this,
I don't think.
He's like, why?
I said, well, you've alreadyworn me out on the first day.
He's like, Mr.
Rousey, that was just a tour.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (34:44):
This isn't gonna work for me.
SPEAKER_07 (34:46):
Probably not gonna work out.
SPEAKER_01 (34:48):
No pun intended.
SPEAKER_07 (34:49):
I'm already bore out.
I'm tired.
You just walked around.
SPEAKER_01 (34:53):
Alright, this is a big gym.
SPEAKER_07 (34:55):
Not really.
SPEAKER_01 (34:57):
Hey, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
I love rock and roll.
SPEAKER_07 (35:01):
Love rock and roll.
SPEAKER_01 (35:02):
Prince.
SPEAKER_05 (35:03):
1999.
SPEAKER_01 (35:06):
Taran, hungry like a wolf, Tommy.
SPEAKER_05 (35:09):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (35:09):
So we already did the music part, anyways.
That's just some notables.
Movies though.
The movies.
E.T., The Extra Testicle.
I mean Terrestrial, sorry.
Extra terrestrial.
I get those two movies mixed up.
SPEAKER_07 (35:21):
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (35:26):
How about the Blade Runner?
SPEAKER_07 (35:27):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (35:28):
Is that uh the uh like a cyberpunk?
SPEAKER_07 (35:33):
Yeah, what was the uh the actor?
Um shit Tom.
SPEAKER_01 (35:37):
Don't do that to me.
SPEAKER_07 (35:39):
Kurt uh not Kurt Russell.
SPEAKER_01 (35:41):
No.
Let's not do this again.
Yeah.
We did this last time.
Yes, and it was Mark Hamill.
SPEAKER_07 (35:47):
No, it wasn't Corvette Summit.
SPEAKER_01 (35:49):
Sean Cassidy was a big thing.
No, it was Mark Hamill.
Yeah, you're right.
Alright, Tron.
Great movie.
SPEAKER_07 (35:54):
Oh yeah, yeah.
I played that game a lot.
SPEAKER_01 (35:57):
The thing?
SPEAKER_07 (35:58):
Oh, yeah, the thing.
SPEAKER_01 (35:59):
Paranoia.
Not that thing.
SPEAKER_07 (36:01):
The paranoia or thing.
SPEAKER_01 (36:03):
Ah, fast times at Ridgemont High.
SPEAKER_07 (36:06):
What a classic.
SPEAKER_01 (36:07):
Great frickin' movie.
SPEAKER_07 (36:08):
I uh okay.
SPEAKER_01 (36:09):
Mr.
Him!
SPEAKER_07 (36:11):
You gotta know right off my favorite part of the
whole movie.
SPEAKER_01 (36:16):
Phoebe Cates boobs.
SPEAKER_07 (36:17):
Coming out of the pool.
Every kind of stream.
SPEAKER_01 (36:21):
Let's pause that.
Let's pause that.
Let's pause that.
SPEAKER_07 (36:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Rewind.
Here she comes again.
Oh my goodness.
Phoebe Cates.
SPEAKER_01 (36:30):
And then she walks in on Yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (36:33):
Jednail or Red.
SPEAKER_01 (36:36):
What was his name in the movie?
SPEAKER_07 (36:38):
Oh.
In the movie.
SPEAKER_01 (36:40):
Damn.
Doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_07 (36:41):
Yeah, really does.
SPEAKER_01 (36:42):
It's like, dude, you saw her walking out and going to
the house.
SPEAKER_07 (36:45):
Why are you still exactly here she comes?
SPEAKER_01 (36:49):
And why don't you lock the door?
SPEAKER_07 (36:51):
Oh yeah, that'd be bad.
Brad.
Brad was his name.
SPEAKER_01 (36:55):
No, wasn't Brad the other guy?
Thanks, Brad.
SPEAKER_07 (37:00):
Oh yeah.
I hope you had a nice Arnold.
Arnold.
SPEAKER_01 (37:03):
So you're right.
SPEAKER_07 (37:05):
You had a nice piss, Arnold.
I hope you had a hell of a piss.
He said, that sign says I get100%.
I'm gonna kick 100% of your ass.
Great movie.
SPEAKER_01 (37:19):
Then he's working at the other place.
He's got that stupid pirate haton.
Ladies looking at him in thecar.
He's like, damn stupid hat.
Great movie.
Great movie.
Sean Penn played a great parttoo.
SPEAKER_07 (37:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:33):
Mr.
Hen.
SPEAKER_07 (37:35):
We can fix it.
My brother's got a great set oftools.
SPEAKER_01 (37:39):
What is a pizza in the classroom?
SPEAKER_07 (37:41):
Yeah.
He's like, since it's your timeand my time, and it's our time.
Everybody, Mr.
Spacoli's right.
Let's all go ahead and have apiece of pizza.
You dick! Love the movie.
Love the movie.
I've only seen it once or twice.
Yeah, yeah.
(38:01):
Sounds good.
SPEAKER_01 (38:03):
All right.
How about Conan the Barbarian?
SPEAKER_07 (38:06):
Go Ned Arnold Barbarian.
What?
SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
Arnold Schwartenegger.
SPEAKER_07 (38:09):
That was when he became big.
SPEAKER_01 (38:10):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (38:11):
He wasn't quite.
SPEAKER_01 (38:12):
Oh, also out there, of course, Rocky III.
Rocky III.
Poltergeist.
Oh.
Gandhi.
SPEAKER_07 (38:19):
See, I never watched that.
SPEAKER_01 (38:20):
I haven't either.
SPEAKER_07 (38:21):
Never have.
And now I should.
SPEAKER_01 (38:23):
Annie, Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan.
SPEAKER_07 (38:27):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (38:28):
Wasn't that with uh what's his name there from
Fantasy Island?
SPEAKER_07 (38:35):
Ricardo Ricardo Antabon.
SPEAKER_01 (38:38):
Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_07 (38:39):
Ricardo Mike.
SPEAKER_01 (38:40):
Alright, television.
We had Cheers that started, Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (38:43):
Yeah.
You want to go where everybodyknows your name.
SPEAKER_01 (38:46):
Yeah, but really it's the Bull and Finch, so I
don't know.
SPEAKER_07 (38:49):
Right.
No.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (38:50):
Late night with David Letterman also debuts.
SPEAKER_07 (38:53):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (38:54):
MTV launched previous year.
Rapid becomes a cultural pulse.
Oh.
Okay, here was other series thatstarted that fall.
We had Dallas.
Three's Company.
Come and knock on our door.
SPEAKER_07 (39:07):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (39:07):
We've been waiting for you.
SPEAKER_07 (39:10):
I bet you have.
SPEAKER_01 (39:11):
Yeah, right.
NASH.
Hill Street Blues.
SPEAKER_07 (39:14):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (39:15):
The Jeffersons.
SPEAKER_07 (39:16):
Oh yeah, moving on.
SPEAKER_01 (39:18):
To the east side.
Night Rider.
Michael.
SPEAKER_07 (39:26):
I have dust in my pan.
Well.
SPEAKER_01 (39:29):
Pull over.
SPEAKER_07 (39:30):
Sorry.
SPEAKER_01 (39:32):
Oh, look at video games were booming right before
the 1983 industry crash.
Oh, okay.
E.T.
Atari 2600 was released.
Widely remembered as one of theworst games ever.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Millions of unsold cartridgeslater buried in the desert.
SPEAKER_07 (39:47):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_01 (39:48):
What the hell?
SPEAKER_07 (39:50):
What'd they bury in a desert?
Did they really bury him in adesert?
I guess.
What the frick?
Area 55?
SPEAKER_01 (39:57):
Put all this plastic in the desert.
Yeah, that sounds like a goodidea.
Donkey Khan Jr.
hits arcades.
Commodore 64.
I remember my friend John hadthat.
Home computer releases becomingiconic.
SPEAKER_07 (40:09):
Iconic.
SPEAKER_01 (40:11):
Yeah, good old.
Here we go with the fashion.
Neon colors, leg warmersstarting to go mainstream.
Some of those girls look prettydamn good in them leg warmers.
Yeah, yeah.
Big hair was becoming big hair.
It's when we used to have hair,Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (40:24):
Yeah, but I my hair was never big, big like I had.
SPEAKER_01 (40:27):
Oh, I I moosed it up and all that other crap.
SPEAKER_07 (40:30):
Yeah.
I feathered mine back as aboutas much as.
SPEAKER_01 (40:47):
That was your walk around the gym.
SPEAKER_07 (40:49):
Yeah, physical.
Most physical idea.
SPEAKER_01 (40:52):
Oh god, in the stupid Rubik's Cube that doesn't
go away.
SPEAKER_07 (40:56):
That thing was invented in 1468.
Jesus, man.
And it still keeps popping up onthe back.
SPEAKER_01 (41:00):
Every time I read every year, the Rubik's Cube
since 1974.
SPEAKER_07 (41:04):
It's like stop.
SPEAKER_01 (41:06):
Oh shit.
Oh god.
Let's see.
Trends.
This is the trends driven byMTV.
The hairstyles.
Oh, right.
Because you see all the bandsand whatever.
And that new way.
Remember the sharp blazers, theskinny ties?
SPEAKER_07 (41:20):
The real skinny, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (41:21):
Remember the cars.
Rico Cassock was known for thatskinny tie look.
SPEAKER_07 (41:25):
Yep.
And uh the other one that didthe skinny tie was uh Billy Joel
for a little while.
SPEAKER_01 (41:33):
Yep.
Robert Palmer was another one.
SPEAKER_07 (41:34):
Robert Palmer did that, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (41:36):
Addicted to drugs.
I mean love.
Same thing, right?
SPEAKER_07 (41:40):
I remember wanting to see that video over and over.
SPEAKER_01 (41:44):
Which one?
SPEAKER_07 (41:45):
Addicted to love.
Right, because all the girlsdancing dancing around.
Hey, furly little.
SPEAKER_01 (41:51):
Here's one you remember, the Tylenol murders.
SPEAKER_07 (41:54):
Yeah.
Why would I remember that?
SPEAKER_01 (41:56):
Yeah, it goes back to your history with zip ties
and whatever else.
SPEAKER_07 (42:00):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (42:01):
You were old enough to remember.
That's why I said that.
SPEAKER_07 (42:03):
I was just kidding.
Anyway, yes.
I remember that's when theydecided that everything had to
be wrapped up and sealed tight.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (42:11):
And you had tamper proof uh protection on them.
SPEAKER_07 (42:14):
And you buy these things and take them home.
SPEAKER_01 (42:16):
And by the time you get- why are you h holding your
beer and showing me your beer?
That doesn't have a protectiveseal.
SPEAKER_07 (42:22):
No, sorry.
But I'm just saying, if theyeah, by the time you get them
open, you don't need the damnpills anyway.
Your headache's already gone.
SPEAKER_01 (42:31):
Is it really?
SPEAKER_07 (42:32):
Not really.
SPEAKER_01 (42:33):
Okay, that's what I thought.
SPEAKER_07 (42:35):
But it gave you another headache is trying to
get the damn package open.
SPEAKER_01 (42:38):
Hey, here's one.
The CD, the compact disc goes onsale in Japan.
So I guess they had it first.
SPEAKER_07 (42:45):
I think they're feeling like they always have
stuff first.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (42:49):
Let's see, uh, overall cultural vibe.
MTV is shaping youth identity.
Pop plus rock plus new wave isblending, which is true.
I tell you, when you put on MTVback in the day, I could listen
to everything.
SPEAKER_07 (43:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (43:01):
I don't know what it was.
Doesn't matter what music itwas.
It was like putting on yourradio, but you had visuals to
it.
Visuals.
MTV.
Sci-fi fantasy films redefiningredefining the imagination.
SPEAKER_07 (43:18):
Did video really kill the radio?
SPEAKER_01 (43:21):
I'm not sure.
I think so.
SPEAKER_07 (43:24):
I listened to my radio.
SPEAKER_01 (43:25):
I think so.
But uh 82 was a good year.
Yeah, it was.
I mean, shit.
SPEAKER_07 (43:32):
I remember when I was 15.
SPEAKER_01 (43:33):
A sad thing, I was gonna be 20 the year after.
Damn man.
And I still was doing nothingwith my frickin' life.
SPEAKER_07 (43:40):
I I didn't start doing anything with my life
until 25.
SPEAKER_01 (43:45):
I'm as old as I am and haven't done a damn thing
with my life.
What am I talking about?
But hey, we always have porchtime.
SPEAKER_07 (43:54):
Yeah, there's always porch time.
SPEAKER_01 (43:57):
It is beautiful here in the foothills of North
Carolina.
SPEAKER_06 (44:00):
We love it.
SPEAKER_01 (44:02):
Certainly do.
Well, I think we'll wrap it uphere, Tom.
SPEAKER_06 (44:08):
Okay.
SPEAKER_07 (44:09):
Well, let it go and uh Well, we're gonna sneak off
here and thank God for the giftof Gab and all the other stuff
that we like.
SPEAKER_01 (44:19):
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Spotify, iHeartRadio, AmazonMusic, Deezer FM, and all other
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You'll find us.
Just keep looking.
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SPEAKER_07 (44:35):
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SPEAKER_01 (44:37):
And we'd like to give a shout out to our
listener, Jamie.
SPEAKER_07 (44:41):
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Who left us a message.
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We enjoy that.
Thank you for the feedback.
SPEAKER_01 (44:48):
That's what, hey, we always appreciate feedback.
And like I said, negative,positive, just give us feedback.
What you like to hear, what youlike to hear more of, what you
don't want to hear.
SPEAKER_07 (45:00):
Yep.
That's what we like.
SPEAKER_01 (45:01):
But, anyways, again, uh, that's it for the MP
Alternative Podcast, folks.
Uh God bless and later.
SPEAKER_05 (45:08):
See ya.
SPEAKER_02 (45:15):
Thanks for rolling with us down the dusty road.
Come and back, laid it downstore in and go.
With our last without the bar,blow.
Now time in the road, going backat all that's waiting for low
punishment.
Uh yes.
1982.
A glorious year.
If your definition of gloriousincludes neon spandex,
synthesizers that sounded likedying microwaves, and cinematic
masterpieces about small rubberaliens who just wanted to go
home.
Frankly, same.
Tonight, Mike and Tom will betaking us on a journey back to
(00:31):
82.
Though whether they stay in 1982is about as likely as Tom
successfully reading his ownnotes.
For those unfamiliar, 1982 wasthe year MTV began telling young
people what to wear, how todance, and which bands were
edgy.
Which is how we ended up with anepidemic of men in eyeliner and
mess shirts attempting to broodin shopping malls.
(00:55):
We also got thriller.
Yes.
Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The album so big it madeeveryone else's work look like
they recorded it in a gardenshed.
I'm sure Mike will remind us ofthis 17 times.
And Tom will claim he alwaysliked the deep cuts to seem
interesting.
Spoiler, he didn't.
(01:15):
Movies?
Oh, we had Blade Runner.
The film that taught everyoneit's okay for the future to look
like a damp parking garage.
And E.T., the heartwarming taleof a magical risen who just
wants a phone with better longdistance coverage.
I'm sure the boys will talk forat least 12 minutes about
whether you would actually letthat thing live in your house.
(01:39):
Riveting.
Meanwhile, the video gameindustry was busy throwing
itself off a cliff with the ETAtari game, a game so
catastrophically bad that theyburied millions of copies in the
desert.
Honestly.
SPEAKER_02 (02:15):
MT alternatives only error with your favorite
friends.
Tom's got the stories, Mike'sgot the tune.
Roll down the windows and crankup those boom bones.
MT Alternative Podcast.
Let's drive Mike and Tom.
We're still rocking live.
SPEAKER_01 (02:33):
Welcome back to more porch time on the MT Alternative
Podcast.
Tom, what's going on, bud?
SPEAKER_07 (02:38):
Not much, Mike.
What's going on with you?
SPEAKER_01 (02:40):
Enjoying this great day.
SPEAKER_07 (02:42):
Yeah, it is pretty nice.
SPEAKER_01 (02:44):
On the porch, once again.
SPEAKER_07 (02:46):
It is pretty nice out here today.
It's a lot better than it waslast week.
SPEAKER_01 (02:50):
Think so?
Yeah.
That wind was pretty brutal lastweek.
SPEAKER_07 (02:54):
Well, I can feel my fingers this week, is how I'm
talking about.
Still can't see my toes, but Ican feel my fingers.
SPEAKER_01 (03:02):
We had some exciting little adventures around here
with the little rooster Roman.
SPEAKER_07 (03:08):
Yeah, we uh Mike went to my neighbor rooster.
SPEAKER_01 (03:13):
My neighbor my what?
What am I gonna do?
I did no such thing.
SPEAKER_07 (03:19):
He came to stop the rooster.
SPEAKER_01 (03:20):
I was protecting my rooster from that rooster.
Oh.
I wasn't getting near it.
Nope.
SPEAKER_07 (03:27):
He's come to stop the rooster.
SPEAKER_01 (03:30):
Yes.
SPEAKER_07 (03:30):
And he did.
And now and now the rooster isback home.
SPEAKER_01 (03:35):
Work.
SPEAKER_07 (03:35):
Work.
Work.
Work.
Yeah.
I don't know what happened tome, but you know this week I had
a little bug show up.
SPEAKER_01 (03:48):
Yeah, hopefully you didn't bring little bug here.
SPEAKER_07 (03:50):
No, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01 (03:52):
That would be kind of crappy.
SPEAKER_07 (03:53):
Yeah, it would be.
But no fever, so should becrazy.
SPEAKER_01 (03:59):
Mark.
There goes the neighbor.
SPEAKER_07 (04:02):
There goes the neighborhood.
SPEAKER_01 (04:03):
This is what happens on the old porch.
SPEAKER_07 (04:05):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (04:06):
We observe.
SPEAKER_07 (04:08):
And then pretty soon we'll say, oh, here comes Mark.
The neighbor.
SPEAKER_01 (04:12):
Yep, Mark again.
He'd probably be on a tractor orfour-wheeler or whatever the
hell he's got.
SPEAKER_07 (04:18):
His zero turn.
SPEAKER_01 (04:19):
His little electric bike.
SPEAKER_07 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, he's got one of those now.
SPEAKER_01 (04:23):
Gas-powered bike.
List goes on.
Mark likes his little toys.
Anyway, 82.
SPEAKER_07 (04:31):
82.
SPEAKER_01 (04:32):
Great year, another great year for music.
A lot of happenings in 82.
SPEAKER_07 (04:36):
Yeah, this is when life was getting real for me.
I think I just had moved outhere.
That December of 82.
SPEAKER_01 (04:46):
That's when M Mom and Dad came out this way, or so
this is about the time and erathat the old hitchhiking story
took place.
SPEAKER_07 (04:57):
A little bit after, but not too much.
SPEAKER_01 (05:00):
Well, probably I'm sure some of the music you were
listening to, sappy stuff.
SPEAKER_06 (05:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (05:04):
Yeah, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_06 (05:06):
Tears in my beard.
SPEAKER_01 (05:08):
Well, you figure 82, I was 19.
SPEAKER_06 (05:12):
Right.
I would have been 15.
SPEAKER_01 (05:16):
So that's about right around that time, Tom?
SPEAKER_07 (05:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (05:20):
About a year later?
SPEAKER_07 (05:21):
Another year, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (05:23):
The old hitchhike?
SPEAKER_07 (05:25):
Hiking down the old trail.
SPEAKER_01 (05:27):
There we go.
So you want to get into themusic now?
Might as well, right?
SPEAKER_07 (05:31):
Yeah.
Nothing like good music.
SPEAKER_01 (05:34):
Alright.
So I got a list here of some 82massive year.
Uh across the genres, I did thatlist again, because I'm not
doing the top ten, top 40anymore.
SPEAKER_07 (05:46):
That's to everybody.
SPEAKER_01 (05:47):
Kind of break it down, and obviously we'll talk
about which music impacted us inthat year.
I mean, there's a lot of goodmusic.
But to start off, uh, these areimpactful type songs we brought
up.
Billy Jean, Michael Jackson.
SPEAKER_07 (06:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (06:02):
Michael Jackson again with Beat It.
Michael Jackson again withThriller.
Yeah, he did, man.
SPEAKER_07 (06:09):
He was a key idea there.
SPEAKER_01 (06:10):
That was uh big time for Michael Jackson.
Yeah.
MTV was just got started theyear before, so yeah, that was a
great year for him.
SPEAKER_07 (06:18):
He knew what to do on that TV.
SPEAKER_01 (06:20):
Everybody, I mean, pretty much everybody knew.
We all watched the Jackson 5cartoon as kids.
I mean, I know you did, Tom.
You had to.
Alright, so the next uh we gotuh the tiger, Survivor.
Great song, Rocky soundtrack.
SPEAKER_07 (06:34):
Heck yeah, Rocky 3.
That was one of my favorite Mr.
T.
SPEAKER_01 (06:39):
Plubber.
SPEAKER_07 (06:40):
Bust Job fool.
SPEAKER_01 (06:41):
What was his name in that?
Clubber Land.
Clubber Land.
It was it.
Alright.
Africa, Toto.
Oh yeah.
Africa.
SPEAKER_07 (06:51):
Somebody wanna have a dude.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
Oh, another one for Toto.
Rosanna.
SPEAKER_07 (06:56):
Rosanna.
Rosanna.
SPEAKER_01 (07:01):
No, that's not it.
That's not it at all.
Not it at all.
Not even close.
That is not the Toto song, Tom.
SPEAKER_06 (07:10):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (07:11):
This is one of your favorites, though, Tom.
Tom.
Tong.
Tom, Tong.
Hey that.
We have by the Steve Millerband.
Oh, yeah.
Abracadabra.
Tom's favorite song.
SPEAKER_07 (07:28):
I'm gonna reach out and grab you.
SPEAKER_01 (07:30):
What happened to I Wanna Stab Ya?
SPEAKER_07 (07:33):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (07:33):
Slap you.
We have whatever JohnMellencamp, Jack and Diane.
Yeah, little kiddie.
Sucking on chili dogs.
SPEAKER_07 (07:40):
What are they doing to the chili dogs?
Sucking on them.
Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01 (07:43):
That's not how I eat a chili dog, but whatever.
SPEAKER_07 (07:45):
Winterfest.
SPEAKER_01 (07:47):
I wonder if that's where it started.
He does have hurt so good.
SPEAKER_07 (07:51):
Yeah, well.
SPEAKER_01 (07:52):
There you go.
SPEAKER_07 (07:52):
John Cougar's a I guess he's a fairgoer.
SPEAKER_01 (07:56):
Oh no, John Mellencamp, though.
Oh, yeah.
John Cougar.
Took that out.
SPEAKER_07 (08:00):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (08:01):
Okay, we have Centifold from Jay Guy's band.
Oh, yeah.
Angels of Centifold.
Okay, now we'll go into New Waveand Synthpop.
Synthpop.
Human League once again, Tom.
Wow.
From last year to this year.
Don't you want me?
SPEAKER_06 (08:16):
Baby.
SPEAKER_01 (08:17):
Soft sell again, same thing.
I guess these songs were bigin '82 also.
Hungry Like a Wolf from DuranDuran.
SPEAKER_07 (08:24):
Right, right, right.
SPEAKER_01 (08:25):
Love plus one.
Haircut 100.
SPEAKER_07 (08:28):
Love plus one.
SPEAKER_01 (08:29):
Okay.
Obviously that new wave.
Then we had a flock of pigeons.
I mean a flock of seagulls.
They ran so far away.
And so far away.
Here we go.
Here's the mic stuff.
I maiden.
Run to the hills.
Run to the hills.
Okay.
(08:50):
Okay.
Number of the beast.
666.
Sorry.
That scares me.
Okay, we have Rainbow in a Darkfrom Dio, another great song.
Yep.
You've got another thing coming.
Judas Priest, great song.
Rock of Ages, Death Leopard.
Again, when I like Death Leoparda lot.
And then, yes, folks, beforeQuiet Riot, Slade saying, Come
(09:14):
on, feel the noise.
Just so everybody's aware ofthis.
Right.
In that case, you weren't.
What?
Like Slade saying, Come on, feelthe noise.
They were the original QuietRiot.
And of course, Quiet Riot tookoff with it.
Kudos to them.
They stole it.
Rest in peace, Kevin DeBrot.
(09:35):
Yes.
Alright, we got sexual healing,Marvin Gay.
Which, fun fact, I did notrealize.
Yes, he was.
Devon told me that kind of brokemy heart.
Not that there's anything wrongwith it.
No.
No, no.
Just, you know, the songs he'ssinging, you like that.
(09:55):
Yeah, the sexual healing doesn'tsound so good.
No, no, no, no.
Alright.
Let it whip.
The Daz Band.
This is RB and Funkin' Soul, bythe way.
And then uh I keep forgetting,Michael McDonald.
Hey, do we brothers, MichaelMcDonald?
SPEAKER_07 (10:11):
Yeah.
I keep forgetting.
SPEAKER_01 (10:15):
Alright, we have hip hop and early rap.
Oh, wonderful.
We have The Message, GrandmasterFlash, and The Furious Five.
Oh boy.
Planet Rock.
Africa.
Bomba.
What?
And Soulsonic Force.
Okay.
That's different.
Never heard of them.
(10:36):
Sure, they're great.
Yep.
And I probably heard the song,Just Don't Know Who Sings It.
SPEAKER_07 (10:40):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (10:40):
Tom is a little more up your alley with the country
songs, Always on My Mind fromWillie Nelson.
SPEAKER_07 (10:45):
Always on my mind.
SPEAKER_01 (10:47):
And I Will Always Love You.
Dolly Cart.
SPEAKER_07 (10:50):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (10:50):
1982 re-release.
SPEAKER_07 (10:54):
Was it a re-release?
SPEAKER_01 (10:55):
That's what it's saying here, Tom.
That's what it's telling us.
But you know.
It's on the internet, it must betrue, right?
Must be.
Must be.
Yeah.
Alright, let's go into punk,post-punk, and alternative.
Just like Heaven, the cure.
SPEAKER_07 (11:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (11:12):
Goth, yeah, it's goth music.
Love will tear us apart, the JoyDivision.
It says reissued.
unknown (11:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (11:20):
And a town called Malice from the Jam.
Okay, I know the jam, I don'trecognize that song.
SPEAKER_07 (11:25):
Pump up the jam.
No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01 (11:27):
The name of the band is the jam.
SPEAKER_07 (11:29):
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (11:30):
Where are you going?
SPEAKER_07 (11:31):
I'm not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_01 (11:33):
Alright, how about come on, Eileen?
Dexie's Midnight Runners.
SPEAKER_07 (11:36):
That's nasty.
SPEAKER_01 (11:37):
No.
No.
Come on.
Like, come on.
SPEAKER_07 (11:42):
Oh.
Damn time.
SPEAKER_01 (11:46):
One of my favorites, 1999 from Prince.
SPEAKER_07 (11:49):
Tonight we're going to party like that.
SPEAKER_01 (11:52):
So I'd like to discuss some of this music.
All the Michael Jackson stuff,where do you remember that from?
Is it MTV?
SPEAKER_07 (12:00):
Mostly, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (12:02):
Pretty much, right?
SPEAKER_07 (12:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (12:04):
Same with Toto.
I'd have to say Africa.
SPEAKER_07 (12:07):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (12:08):
Now, the big song I know from Toto we already
discussed back early late 70s.
Hold the line.
SPEAKER_06 (12:14):
Oh yeah.
Hold the line.
SPEAKER_01 (12:16):
Africa didn't.
Rosanna.
Rosanna.
I think it was about RosannaArquet.
That's what I hear.
I don't know if that's true.
SPEAKER_07 (12:25):
I don't either.
If anybody out there knows whatwe're doing.
SPEAKER_01 (12:29):
Yeah, let us know.
SPEAKER_07 (12:30):
Give us a message.
SPEAKER_01 (12:31):
We could actually look it up, but you know.
You know, Tom and I just fly bythe seat of our pants here.
We need all the help we can get.
Yes.
SPEAKER_07 (12:40):
Oh, we do.
SPEAKER_01 (12:41):
Beat it from Michael Jackson.
Okay.
You had Eddie Van Halen playguitar in that.
Without that guitar in thatsong.
Right?
It's not really a good song.
Sorry.
Sorry, Michael.
And from what I understood, thisis from Eddie Van Halen
interview, that he kind ofrewrote it so the guitar parts
(13:04):
would all fit with Right.
SPEAKER_07 (13:06):
Well.
So it was not a.
SPEAKER_01 (13:09):
And he did not get paid for this.
SPEAKER_07 (13:11):
He did not.
SPEAKER_01 (13:11):
He did not, even though it was a big hit.
And like you said, what am Igonna get paid for?
I was here for like a coupleminutes.
Laid down some tracks and left.
SPEAKER_07 (13:19):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (13:20):
It was pretty cool about it, actually.
SPEAKER_07 (13:22):
Well, that's professionalism at its finest.
SPEAKER_01 (13:26):
Either he was drunk or didn't remember half the
shit.
I don't know.
I shouldn't say that.
We all have our downfalls andour days.
SPEAKER_07 (13:36):
We do.
SPEAKER_01 (13:38):
We all have demons, Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (13:40):
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be a problem today.
SPEAKER_01 (13:43):
How so, Tom?
SPEAKER_07 (13:45):
I don't know.
I just feel that way.
SPEAKER_01 (13:47):
Okay, cool.
Well, that's awesome.
Nah.
So what did uh the movie youtalked about, Rocky 3?
Right?
Is that your favorite Rockymovie?
SPEAKER_07 (14:00):
Yeah, pretty much.
I've I've the first one wasgood, but a little sappy.
SPEAKER_01 (14:06):
I'm hearing a click in in my headphones.
It's gone now.
SPEAKER_07 (14:13):
I don't I don't hear it now either.
SPEAKER_01 (14:14):
This is what happens on porch time, I guess.
unknown (14:17):
Okay.
SPEAKER_07 (14:18):
Rocky III.
SPEAKER_01 (14:19):
Yes, Rocky III.
Get back to that.
SPEAKER_07 (14:21):
Yeah, we were uh sippy pool my coffee.
You can't get a sippy.
But anyway, Rocky III I rememberwas one of mine because the
first one, like I said, I was alittle young when it came out.
Right.
Then of course, by the time partthree came, we had all already
(14:45):
seen Mr.
T in the A team.
So then, oh, he's got a movieout, let's watch him.
Yeah, he's bad, bad.
And he was back then just bringall them chains.
It took a lot to hold themchains up all that.
How many pounds of chains didthe guy wear?
SPEAKER_01 (15:09):
Sorry, I had a little mishap there.
Something I wanted to say, and Irealized I shouldn't have said
shouldn't say it, so you knowwhat?
SPEAKER_07 (15:18):
I'll say it.
SPEAKER_01 (15:19):
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
SPEAKER_07 (15:21):
Anyway.
SPEAKER_01 (15:21):
Anywho.
SPEAKER_07 (15:22):
Yes.
Any of them.
SPEAKER_01 (15:24):
Alright.
I'll get back to the metalmusic, hard rock.
SPEAKER_07 (15:28):
Oh, there you go.
SPEAKER_01 (15:29):
Run to the hills, Iron Maiden.
Have you heard that one?
SPEAKER_07 (15:34):
Oh, me?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (15:35):
You're very quiet over there.
Oh well.
SPEAKER_07 (15:37):
I'm just I'm I'm just excited.
SPEAKER_01 (15:41):
Okay.
SPEAKER_07 (15:42):
I'm just happy to be part of this here.
I have heard that song.
SPEAKER_01 (15:47):
You have?
Yes.
This is good.
SPEAKER_07 (15:49):
You forget I had older brothers.
SPEAKER_01 (15:53):
Turn a nineteen in myself a little flashback here.
Turn nineteen in August.
Doing stupid shit.
So going to many concerts.
I really wasn't doing much atthat age.
I'm thinking about it now.
That was a dumbass.
SPEAKER_07 (16:10):
Yeah, I was pretty much that boy.
SPEAKER_01 (16:12):
Trying to think of anything that sticks out
nineteen.
Nope, just being a normaldumbass frickin' teenager, I
guess.
SPEAKER_07 (16:18):
That's like I was when I was nineteen.
SPEAKER_01 (16:26):
Why is that wind coming from the south now?
SPEAKER_07 (16:30):
I'm not too sure, but I don't care for that.
SPEAKER_01 (16:33):
Well, it's on your back.
SPEAKER_07 (16:35):
Yeah.
Write down my shirt andeverything.
SPEAKER_01 (16:41):
We're gonna reset this little heater.
SPEAKER_07 (16:44):
Mary had a little lamb.
She tied it to a heater.
SPEAKER_01 (16:49):
There we go.
Much better.
See, it's a little chilly outhere in the porch.
We're in the shade.
It's it's kind of a breeze.
Now don't get us wrong, it is abeautiful day.
Gorgeous day.
But I'm not doing this out inthe sun either.
SPEAKER_06 (17:08):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (17:09):
Some of the some of the hardships we go through here
on the MT Alternative Podcast.
SPEAKER_07 (17:14):
Roughing it out here.
We don't have no plush studio.
SPEAKER_01 (17:21):
No, no, no.
That wouldn't be for us.
SPEAKER_07 (17:24):
Pip and squeak, they think we just got it made.
SPEAKER_01 (17:28):
Yeah.
I think they're gonna be alittle pissed off.
We shoved them in that closetlast week.
SPEAKER_07 (17:33):
Well they deserved it.
SPEAKER_01 (17:35):
Yeah.
Up all our chocolates.
Well, that's your fault forleaving them out.
You know how squeak is.
That is your fault, buddy.
SPEAKER_07 (17:47):
He ate them all.
He didn't even leave it.
Crumbs.
SPEAKER_01 (17:50):
I purchased more.
SPEAKER_07 (17:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (17:53):
And I'll I'll hold on to them.
SPEAKER_07 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah.
Don't leave them where I canleave them out.
SPEAKER_01 (17:59):
Oh.
I do have a little treat for youlater, though.
SPEAKER_07 (18:02):
Oh, do you?
Yes.
Uh oh.
SPEAKER_01 (18:04):
Yep.
SPEAKER_07 (18:05):
Now wait a minute.
We we weren't gonna do thisanymore.
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
Just this one more time.
SPEAKER_07 (18:10):
Oh, that's what you said the last two times.
SPEAKER_01 (18:12):
No, this will you you'll appreciate this treat.
SPEAKER_07 (18:15):
Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_01 (18:16):
Nothing to do with that.
SPEAKER_07 (18:17):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (18:19):
Yes, you'll be able to still drive home and
everything.
Oh, really?
Nothing to worry about then.
SPEAKER_07 (18:23):
Okay, good, good, good.
SPEAKER_01 (18:25):
Your tummy will appreciate it.
SPEAKER_07 (18:27):
Oh, good.
SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
Yeah.
Good.
So, you want to let the littleguys come in?
SPEAKER_07 (18:34):
Yeah, we might as well.
SPEAKER_01 (18:35):
Alright, let's let them come in.
Uh I hear a little rumble and soI'm sure they're pissed off.
Yeah.
But we'll find out.
SPEAKER_07 (18:41):
Alright, that's them.
SPEAKER_01 (18:43):
Yeah, I hear them now.
Yeah, they sound like they'regrumbling in the background.
We'll be right back, folks.
SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
Hey, wait, look, we're back in the real studio
this time.
SPEAKER_04 (18:59):
Oh yeah.
Real studio.
Yeah.
Well, at least we ain't a damncloset.
SPEAKER_03 (19:07):
Yeah.
How did you like that?
SPEAKER_04 (19:10):
What the hell was that all about?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (19:14):
What did you do?
SPEAKER_04 (19:15):
Maybe I'm I'm I'm at a loss of words.
SPEAKER_03 (19:21):
Maybe it's stealing the chocolates.
SPEAKER_04 (19:24):
I didn't steal anything.
SPEAKER_03 (19:26):
Okay, where did you get these chocolates this time?
He said he took everything out.
Is that why you gave me this oneout of the round?
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
She was lady.
SPEAKER_03 (28:48):
Yeah, we know the story.
Once again, it's great.
It's like this one.
(29:16):
Once again.
I don't know what I'm gonna dowith you.
SPEAKER_04 (29:34):
What would you do without me?
SPEAKER_03 (29:40):
Anyway, what do you look like you just shoot
yourself?
Yeah.
I think on that note, we we'regonna say goodbye to the folks.
Goodbye, folks.
Maybe folks.
SPEAKER_01 (30:11):
And uh you may say you have everything from last
week, but I believe they stillfound some somewhere.
SPEAKER_07 (30:19):
Well, I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_01 (30:23):
They sure got something because they bragged
about it.
Oh, did they?
Oh, hell yes.
SPEAKER_07 (30:27):
Oh boy.
I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_01 (30:31):
I guess we'll never know.
SPEAKER_07 (30:33):
Of course, I have so many things I just can't keep
track of all of them.
SPEAKER_01 (30:37):
Yeah, well, anyways.
SPEAKER_07 (30:39):
Well, hey, I hope they had fun with it.
SPEAKER_01 (30:41):
Well, it sounded like they did, but yeah, they
they were a little pissed.
I don't I was surprised Pip wasso pissed off.
SPEAKER_05 (30:47):
Well, he got locked in a closet.
SPEAKER_01 (30:53):
Well, I s I I don't believe they learned their
lesson.
But anyways, let's get back to82.
Yes.
You know what I wanted to talkabout since we're our teams are
doing pretty decent right now.
SPEAKER_05 (31:03):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (31:04):
1982, that was a strike season for the NFL.
The scabs.
So I wanted to look how Denverdid and how the Patriots did
during that scab season.
Denver Broncos, 1982 season,record two and seven.
SPEAKER_05 (31:19):
Yeah, yes.
SPEAKER_01 (31:20):
Head coach Dan Reeves, division AFC West.
We know they missed theplayoffs.
Shocker.
The Broncos really struggled inthe shortened season.
Their offense had issues,particularly at quarterback.
This was before John Elwayarrived.
He came in 1983.
The team just couldn't puttogether consistent scoring and
was near the bottom of theleague in standings.
SPEAKER_07 (31:41):
Wow.
That was tough to listen to.
SPEAKER_01 (31:44):
Tough.
Were you a big fan at that age?
SPEAKER_07 (31:47):
1977 on.
SPEAKER_01 (31:49):
Okay.
So New England Patriots fared alittle better.
They went 5-4.
Ron Meyer was our coach.
Of course, division was AFCEast.
They qualified for the expandedplayoffs, but lost in the first
round.
No surprise.
SPEAKER_07 (32:05):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (32:06):
They lost to the Miami Dolphins, of course, 28-13
at the stupid Orange Bowl.
SPEAKER_07 (32:11):
Well.
SPEAKER_01 (32:13):
Yes.
I was like, woohoo, made theplayoffs.
Oh, there we go.
One and a one and a we haveMiami again.
Damn it.
SPEAKER_07 (32:22):
It seems like just always those little teams just
are like a thorn in your side.
SPEAKER_01 (32:29):
Well, hey, I've been a Patriot fan since 1968-69.
And uh we had some crappyseasons, man.
So, but uh let's see a summaryof that.
The Patriots were one of thesurprise beneficiaries of the
strike era playoff format, ofcourse.
They played a solid but notstandout regular season and
earned a playoff birth.
(32:50):
However, once the playoffsstarted, they ran into the
Dolphins.
And Dolphins did have a strongteam.
SPEAKER_07 (32:55):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (32:56):
Anyways.
But I thought that was a littlefun thing I looked up because I
was thinking about it.
I said, wait a minute, I thinkthat was a strike seed.
I couldn't remember if it was81, 82, 83.
I knew it was in theresomewhere.
Right.
So I dug that up.
I just wanted to see how ourteams did.
SPEAKER_07 (33:11):
Right.
I want to see.
SPEAKER_01 (33:13):
I was surprised that with Dan Reeves, I'll be honest,
with the two and seven.
I was like when I saw that.
SPEAKER_07 (33:18):
He had nothing to work with, like they said.
That was pre-John Elway.
Right.
All that crap.
Uh Terrell Davis hadn't gottenthere yet.
SPEAKER_01 (33:27):
No, that's what helped John Elway, actually.
Yeah.
They got him his Super Bowl.
I'm not saying John Elway didn'tdo anything.
Right.
Trust me.
But look at Dan Marino with norunning team.
SPEAKER_07 (33:36):
Yeah, exactly.
He got a lot of numbers, butnothing to show for it.
I understand that.
Yeah.
We went through all that.
SPEAKER_01 (33:46):
All that fun stuff.
SPEAKER_07 (33:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:49):
Hey, we have a bunch of other fun little facts.
Fun facts, Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (33:55):
Okay.
Here we are, Mike and Tom.
SPEAKER_01 (33:57):
Yeah, it's uh 1982 Music, course, uh MTV.
We've been around a yearalready.
Major album releases.
Michael Jackson, thriller.
Oh, yeah.
We talked about that.
Survivor Eye the Tiger.
There you go, Tom.
Rocky III soundtrack, hit numberone.
Yep.
Became a fitness anthem forever.
SPEAKER_07 (34:14):
Huh.
Fitness.
That's something I don't thinkmuch about.
SPEAKER_01 (34:19):
I used to at one time.
Then I got older and said, Whatthe hell am I doing this for?
SPEAKER_07 (34:24):
I joined a gym once.
And you know where they take youthrough this tour and
everything.
SPEAKER_01 (34:29):
Right.
SPEAKER_07 (34:30):
And I'm like, I'm not going to be able to do this,
I don't think.
He's like, why?
I said, well, you've alreadyworn me out on the first day.
He's like, Mr.
Rousey, that was just a tour.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (34:44):
This isn't gonna work for me.
SPEAKER_07 (34:46):
Probably not gonna work out.
SPEAKER_01 (34:48):
No pun intended.
SPEAKER_07 (34:49):
I'm already bore out.
I'm tired.
You just walked around.
SPEAKER_01 (34:53):
Alright, this is a big gym.
SPEAKER_07 (34:55):
Not really.
SPEAKER_01 (34:57):
Hey, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
I love rock and roll.
SPEAKER_07 (35:01):
Love rock and roll.
SPEAKER_01 (35:02):
Prince.
SPEAKER_05 (35:03):
1999.
SPEAKER_01 (35:06):
Taran, hungry like a wolf, Tommy.
SPEAKER_05 (35:09):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (35:09):
So we already did the music part, anyways.
That's just some notables.
Movies though.
The movies.
E.T., The Extra Testicle.
I mean Terrestrial, sorry.
Extra terrestrial.
I get those two movies mixed up.
SPEAKER_07 (35:21):
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (35:26):
How about the Blade Runner?
SPEAKER_07 (35:27):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (35:28):
Is that uh the uh like a cyberpunk?
SPEAKER_07 (35:33):
Yeah, what was the uh the actor?
Um shit Tom.
SPEAKER_01 (35:37):
Don't do that to me.
SPEAKER_07 (35:39):
Kurt uh not Kurt Russell.
SPEAKER_01 (35:41):
No.
Let's not do this again.
Yeah.
We did this last time.
Yes, and it was Mark Hamill.
SPEAKER_07 (35:47):
No, it wasn't Corvette Summit.
SPEAKER_01 (35:49):
Sean Cassidy was a big thing.
No, it was Mark Hamill.
Yeah, you're right.
Alright, Tron.
Great movie.
SPEAKER_07 (35:54):
Oh yeah, yeah.
I played that game a lot.
SPEAKER_01 (35:57):
The thing?
SPEAKER_07 (35:58):
Oh, yeah, the thing.
SPEAKER_01 (35:59):
Paranoia.
Not that thing.
SPEAKER_07 (36:01):
The paranoia or thing.
SPEAKER_01 (36:03):
Ah, fast times at Ridgemont High.
SPEAKER_07 (36:06):
What a classic.
SPEAKER_01 (36:07):
Great frickin' movie.
SPEAKER_07 (36:08):
I uh okay.
SPEAKER_01 (36:09):
Mr.
Him!
SPEAKER_07 (36:11):
You gotta know right off my favorite part of the
whole movie.
SPEAKER_01 (36:16):
Phoebe Cates boobs.
SPEAKER_07 (36:17):
Coming out of the pool.
Every kind of stream.
SPEAKER_01 (36:21):
Let's pause that.
Let's pause that.
Let's pause that.
SPEAKER_07 (36:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Rewind.
Here she comes again.
Oh my goodness.
Phoebe Cates.
SPEAKER_01 (36:30):
And then she walks in on Yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (36:33):
Jednail or Red.
SPEAKER_01 (36:36):
What was his name in the movie?
SPEAKER_07 (36:38):
Oh.
In the movie.
SPEAKER_01 (36:40):
Damn.
Doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_07 (36:41):
Yeah, really does.
SPEAKER_01 (36:42):
It's like, dude, you saw her walking out and going to
the house.
SPEAKER_07 (36:45):
Why are you still exactly here she comes?
SPEAKER_01 (36:49):
And why don't you lock the door?
SPEAKER_07 (36:51):
Oh yeah, that'd be bad.
Brad.
Brad was his name.
SPEAKER_01 (36:55):
No, wasn't Brad the other guy?
Thanks, Brad.
SPEAKER_07 (37:00):
Oh yeah.
I hope you had a nice Arnold.
Arnold.
SPEAKER_01 (37:03):
So you're right.
SPEAKER_07 (37:05):
You had a nice piss, Arnold.
I hope you had a hell of a piss.
He said, that sign says I get100%.
I'm gonna kick 100% of your ass.
Great movie.
SPEAKER_01 (37:19):
Then he's working at the other place.
He's got that stupid pirate haton.
Ladies looking at him in thecar.
He's like, damn stupid hat.
Great movie.
Great movie.
Sean Penn played a great parttoo.
SPEAKER_07 (37:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:33):
Mr.
Hen.
SPEAKER_07 (37:35):
We can fix it.
My brother's got a great set oftools.
SPEAKER_01 (37:39):
What is a pizza in the classroom?
SPEAKER_07 (37:41):
Yeah.
He's like, since it's your timeand my time, and it's our time.
Everybody, Mr.
Spacoli's right.
Let's all go ahead and have apiece of pizza.
You dick! Love the movie.
Love the movie.
I've only seen it once or twice.
Yeah, yeah.
(38:01):
Sounds good.
SPEAKER_01 (38:03):
All right.
How about Conan the Barbarian?
SPEAKER_07 (38:06):
Go Ned Arnold Barbarian.
What?
SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
Arnold Schwartenegger.
SPEAKER_07 (38:09):
That was when he became big.
SPEAKER_01 (38:10):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (38:11):
He wasn't quite.
SPEAKER_01 (38:12):
Oh, also out there, of course, Rocky III.
Rocky III.
Poltergeist.
Oh.
Gandhi.
SPEAKER_07 (38:19):
See, I never watched that.
SPEAKER_01 (38:20):
I haven't either.
SPEAKER_07 (38:21):
Never have.
And now I should.
SPEAKER_01 (38:23):
Annie, Star Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan.
SPEAKER_07 (38:27):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (38:28):
Wasn't that with uh what's his name there from
Fantasy Island?
SPEAKER_07 (38:35):
Ricardo Ricardo Antabon.
SPEAKER_01 (38:38):
Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_07 (38:39):
Ricardo Mike.
SPEAKER_01 (38:40):
Alright, television.
We had Cheers that started, Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (38:43):
Yeah.
You want to go where everybodyknows your name.
SPEAKER_01 (38:46):
Yeah, but really it's the Bull and Finch, so I
don't know.
SPEAKER_07 (38:49):
Right.
No.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (38:50):
Late night with David Letterman also debuts.
SPEAKER_07 (38:53):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (38:54):
MTV launched previous year.
Rapid becomes a cultural pulse.
Oh.
Okay, here was other series thatstarted that fall.
We had Dallas.
Three's Company.
Come and knock on our door.
SPEAKER_07 (39:07):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (39:07):
We've been waiting for you.
SPEAKER_07 (39:10):
I bet you have.
SPEAKER_01 (39:11):
Yeah, right.
NASH.
Hill Street Blues.
SPEAKER_07 (39:14):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (39:15):
The Jeffersons.
SPEAKER_07 (39:16):
Oh yeah, moving on.
SPEAKER_01 (39:18):
To the east side.
Night Rider.
Michael.
SPEAKER_07 (39:26):
I have dust in my pan.
Well.
SPEAKER_01 (39:29):
Pull over.
SPEAKER_07 (39:30):
Sorry.
SPEAKER_01 (39:32):
Oh, look at video games were booming right before
the 1983 industry crash.
Oh, okay.
E.T.
Atari 2600 was released.
Widely remembered as one of theworst games ever.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Millions of unsold cartridgeslater buried in the desert.
SPEAKER_07 (39:47):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_01 (39:48):
What the hell?
SPEAKER_07 (39:50):
What'd they bury in a desert?
Did they really bury him in adesert?
I guess.
What the frick?
Area 55?
SPEAKER_01 (39:57):
Put all this plastic in the desert.
Yeah, that sounds like a goodidea.
Donkey Khan Jr.
hits arcades.
Commodore 64.
I remember my friend John hadthat.
Home computer releases becomingiconic.
SPEAKER_07 (40:09):
Iconic.
SPEAKER_01 (40:11):
Yeah, good old.
Here we go with the fashion.
Neon colors, leg warmersstarting to go mainstream.
Some of those girls look prettydamn good in them leg warmers.
Yeah, yeah.
Big hair was becoming big hair.
It's when we used to have hair,Tom.
SPEAKER_07 (40:24):
Yeah, but I my hair was never big, big like I had.
SPEAKER_01 (40:27):
Oh, I I moosed it up and all that other crap.
SPEAKER_07 (40:30):
Yeah.
I feathered mine back as aboutas much as.
SPEAKER_01 (40:47):
That was your walk around the gym.
SPEAKER_07 (40:49):
Yeah, physical.
Most physical idea.
SPEAKER_01 (40:52):
Oh god, in the stupid Rubik's Cube that doesn't
go away.
SPEAKER_07 (40:56):
That thing was invented in 1468.
Jesus, man.
And it still keeps popping up onthe back.
SPEAKER_01 (41:00):
Every time I read every year, the Rubik's Cube
since 1974.
SPEAKER_07 (41:04):
It's like stop.
SPEAKER_01 (41:06):
Oh shit.
Oh god.
Let's see.
Trends.
This is the trends driven byMTV.
The hairstyles.
Oh, right.
Because you see all the bandsand whatever.
And that new way.
Remember the sharp blazers, theskinny ties?
SPEAKER_07 (41:20):
The real skinny, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (41:21):
Remember the cars.
Rico Cassock was known for thatskinny tie look.
SPEAKER_07 (41:25):
Yep.
And uh the other one that didthe skinny tie was uh Billy Joel
for a little while.
SPEAKER_01 (41:33):
Yep.
Robert Palmer was another one.
SPEAKER_07 (41:34):
Robert Palmer did that, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (41:36):
Addicted to drugs.
I mean love.
Same thing, right?
SPEAKER_07 (41:40):
I remember wanting to see that video over and over.
SPEAKER_01 (41:44):
Which one?
SPEAKER_07 (41:45):
Addicted to love.
Right, because all the girlsdancing dancing around.
Hey, furly little.
SPEAKER_01 (41:51):
Here's one you remember, the Tylenol murders.
SPEAKER_07 (41:54):
Yeah.
Why would I remember that?
SPEAKER_01 (41:56):
Yeah, it goes back to your history with zip ties
and whatever else.
SPEAKER_07 (42:00):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (42:01):
You were old enough to remember.
That's why I said that.
SPEAKER_07 (42:03):
I was just kidding.
Anyway, yes.
I remember that's when theydecided that everything had to
be wrapped up and sealed tight.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (42:11):
And you had tamper proof uh protection on them.
SPEAKER_07 (42:14):
And you buy these things and take them home.
SPEAKER_01 (42:16):
And by the time you get- why are you h holding your
beer and showing me your beer?
That doesn't have a protectiveseal.
SPEAKER_07 (42:22):
No, sorry.
But I'm just saying, if theyeah, by the time you get them
open, you don't need the damnpills anyway.
Your headache's already gone.
SPEAKER_01 (42:31):
Is it really?
SPEAKER_07 (42:32):
Not really.
SPEAKER_01 (42:33):
Okay, that's what I thought.
SPEAKER_07 (42:35):
But it gave you another headache is trying to
get the damn package open.
SPEAKER_01 (42:38):
Hey, here's one.
The CD, the compact disc goes onsale in Japan.
So I guess they had it first.
SPEAKER_07 (42:45):
I think they're feeling like they always have
stuff first.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (42:49):
Let's see, uh, overall cultural vibe.
MTV is shaping youth identity.
Pop plus rock plus new wave isblending, which is true.
I tell you, when you put on MTVback in the day, I could listen
to everything.
SPEAKER_07 (43:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (43:01):
I don't know what it was.
Doesn't matter what music itwas.
It was like putting on yourradio, but you had visuals to
it.
Visuals.
MTV.
Sci-fi fantasy films redefiningredefining the imagination.
SPEAKER_07 (43:18):
Did video really kill the radio?
SPEAKER_01 (43:21):
I'm not sure.
I think so.
SPEAKER_07 (43:24):
I listened to my radio.
SPEAKER_01 (43:25):
I think so.
But uh 82 was a good year.
Yeah, it was.
I mean, shit.
SPEAKER_07 (43:32):
I remember when I was 15.
SPEAKER_01 (43:33):
A sad thing, I was gonna be 20 the year after.
Damn man.
And I still was doing nothingwith my frickin' life.
SPEAKER_07 (43:40):
I I didn't start doing anything with my life
until 25.
SPEAKER_01 (43:45):
I'm as old as I am and haven't done a damn thing
with my life.
What am I talking about?
But hey, we always have porchtime.
SPEAKER_07 (43:54):
Yeah, there's always porch time.
SPEAKER_01 (43:57):
It is beautiful here in the foothills of North
Carolina.
SPEAKER_06 (44:00):
We love it.
SPEAKER_01 (44:02):
Certainly do.
Well, I think we'll wrap it uphere, Tom.
SPEAKER_06 (44:08):
Okay.
SPEAKER_07 (44:09):
Well, let it go and uh Well, we're gonna sneak off
here and thank God for the giftof Gab and all the other stuff
that we like.
SPEAKER_01 (44:19):
And everyone, remember to listen to us on
Spotify, iHeartRadio, AmazonMusic, Deezer FM, and all other
platforms.
You'll find us.
Just keep looking.
All you do is type in MTAlternative, and don't forget
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SPEAKER_07 (44:35):
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SPEAKER_01 (44:37):
And we'd like to give a shout out to our
listener, Jamie.
SPEAKER_07 (44:41):
Yes.
Who left us a message.
SPEAKER_01 (44:43):
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SPEAKER_07 (44:44):
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We enjoy that.
Thank you for the feedback.
SPEAKER_01 (44:48):
That's what, hey, we always appreciate feedback.
And like I said, negative,positive, just give us feedback.
What you like to hear, what youlike to hear more of, what you
don't want to hear.
SPEAKER_07 (45:00):
Yep.
That's what we like.
SPEAKER_01 (45:01):
But, anyways, again, uh, that's it for the MP
Alternative Podcast, folks.
Uh God bless and later.
SPEAKER_05 (45:08):
See ya.
SPEAKER_02 (45:15):
Thanks for rolling with us down the dusty road.
Come and back, laid it downstore in and go.
With our last without the bar,blow.
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