Polyester Wonderland: 1977's Cultural Milestones and Music

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Speaker 2 (00:21):
oh look, it's that time again.
Welcome Welcome back to the MTAlternative Podcast, the only
show where two guys named Mikeand Tom manage to make nostalgia
sound like a midlife crisis,set to music.
This week they're strapping ontheir platform shoes, firing up
the 8-track and time-travellingback to the polyester wonderland

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of 1977.
That's right, the year Elvisleft the building, star Wars
took over the galaxy andapparently, fashion was legally
required to offend the eyes.
Expect riveting conversationson everything from lava lamps to
bell bottoms, questionable foodchoices and cultural moments

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that may or may not have agedlike a dairy product in the sun.
But mostly yes, mostly it'sabout the music, because Mike
insists on playing the deep cutsyou never asked for and Tom
will passionately defend a songabout a muskrat falling in love
Again.
And just when you thought itcouldn't get more chaotic, pip

(01:27):
and Squeak, your two favouritepint-sized pundits are back to
drop their unsolicited opinions.
So prepare yourself for poorlytimed jokes, tiny voices with
big attitudes and at least onerant about disco.
It's the MT alternative,because regular history podcasts
just weren't weird enough.

(01:47):
Roll it, boys.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Tom?
What the hell's going on bud?
Not much, mike.
What's going on with you?
Another Saturday sitting herehaving a good time.
Another Saturday night and Iain't got nobody.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
I thought Daniel wasn't allowing us to sing
anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, you know what Daniel can do.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Don't be nasty.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I won't be nasty, but I don't understand what he's
got against me defending thesong about Muskrat.
I just don't get it, that's sadwhat.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Is Muskrat sad, or him telling you is sad.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Kind of both.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Kind of both.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah well, have you listened to the song?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Anyway, yeah, Anyways yeah, anywho, here we are again
.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Lucky y'all.
Yeah, anywho, here we are again, lucky y'all.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Anyways, anywho the weather, it's a little hot, eh
yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I got a bowl of nut soup setting over here in these
shorts.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, thanks for sharing a little too much
information.
I will share no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Thanks for sharing A little toomuch information.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I will share no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, let's
not go there.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Okay, so we'll be discussing 1977.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I was 10 years old.
Yee-hee, I remember 10.
I lost a tooth.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, well, last we had to do our redaction on the
last episode because ofobviously I'm confused.
I'm old people, Give me a break.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
We're both old.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
But you know it is what it is.
So we'll be discussing a lot ofthings from 1977.
I'd like to talk about what'sgoing on lately in our lives
Anything.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, well, just lots of bushes, lots of them.
At the house we're plantingbushes, oh, okay.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
I was starting with some weird 70s thing.
Well, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Listen back in the day, I'm listening.
Back in the day that wasridiculous.
I mean, come on, man, Mow thatlawn.
No doubt Hire somebody Needsome landscape, anyway, there we
go again.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
There we go again.
How do we do that?
It just happens, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's our stuff.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Sorry for everybody out there, sorry, not sorry.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
No, really not, because this is what we do,
exactly what we do.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
So work was a little hot.
We've got quite a week comingup.
We've got end of the quarter,end of the month.
What do they want to try tomake this time?
To kill us.
13 meals is what.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm hearing.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
And what do we see of that Pizza Woo?
We don't even get that anymore.
Oh, I forgot that was our othergeneral manager doing that for
us.
Someone appreciated us.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, they did, and then they moved on.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
People say well, it's pizza, yeah, but this is our
own boss higher up doing thisfor us, because the company
won't.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah Well, they will, but they won't.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
They can, but they won't.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
They would rather build offices and smoking places
.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Let's fix the things that the guys need.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
How about a battery changer?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
How about fix the docks?
How about?
We can go on, on and on.
Let's make this fun now, on andon 1977.
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh, I just burped.
Okay, sorry, it's a podcast, itwent away.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
That's what we do, all right.
So anyways, before we get intothe music, probably give a
little rundown of the old musicsituation, of the old uh things
that happened in 1977 yeah, wecan do.
Yeah, that, that sounds good soyou had uh, let's see global.
We'll start with global andpolitical events.

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You had jimmy carter becomingthe US President January 20th,
after defeating Gerald Ford inthe 1976 election, carter takes
office promising honesty andhuman rights.
What about peanuts?

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I don't know, but I cared about Lai Bright.
That's all I cared about atthat point.
Yeah, you weren't supposed to.
I was 10.
I mean, I knew who it was.
Yeah, me too, I'll get it rightthis time I was 14.
Yeah, but Peanuts.
I remember the little song.
All of the school kids made upwhat about his brother.
Billy, we had a beer.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Billy Beer.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
We had a beer.
We had a beer of that, but itdidn't make it.
No, but it didn't make it.
No, no, it was sacrificed Well,that's sad To the beer gods.
To the beer gods.
Yeah, you know, when you wakeup and you're hungover and
you've got to have that warmbeer to get it back out.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh no, no, no, no, no , no.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, that was Billy Shot of whiskey or something
worked for me Well yeah, well,you know, I have a way to get
rid of hangovers altogether.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Don't drink.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, stay drunk.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Well, that's true too .
Alright, so moving on Globalthings to be had.
New York City blackout.
A massive power outage plungesNew York City into chaos.
Looting, fires and arrestsspike during a 25-hour outage.
I do remember hearing that itwas just in the papers.

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I wasn't living there, so whocared?
It didn't affect me, but it'sstill kind of fucked up.
It is the last naturallyoccurring case of smallpox was
reported in Somalia in October,a major milestone of global
health leading to the eventualdeclaration of smallpox
eradication.
I didn't realize that was notreally that long ago when you

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think about it.
Smallpox, that was done a long,long time ago.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
But you know, we're in other countries and have we
went from, you know, curingthings to creating things?

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, that's what it seems like lately.
Right, things are worse than Idon't know about worse, but bad.
Let's see Spain holds its firstdemocratic election since the
Franco dictatorship, a key stepin Spain's transition to
democracy.
And let's see South Africananti-apartheid activist Steve
Bilko or Biko, sorry about thatdies in police custody because

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death drives internationalcondemnation and fuels
resistance to apartheid.
Oh, wow, so that was all thepolitical crap that you and I
probably were like.
You know half that stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, because see kids were kids.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
That was what it was meant to be.
Kids were supposed to be kids.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Being 14, I could tell you and I know you were 10
or whatever it was, but being 14, I certainly wasn't thinking
about that.
That's when you start thinkingabout.
Well, you know.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah Well, see nowadays what's really sad
10-year-olds sad, but10-year-olds are thinking about
stuff like sex change operations, oh God.
And 13-year-olds are thinkingabout they're not thinking about
being a kid, they're notthinking about playing soccer

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and basketball.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
You've got some brainwashed parents.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Exactly.
It's just terrible, Dan You'rethe adult, you know best.
Anyway, let's not get off track, let's move on.
Let's see.
So Kids were kids, we could bea kid.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Science and technology.
Apple II home computer isreleased in June, one of the
first successful mass market PCshelping launch the personal
computer and revolution, thepersonal computer revolution.
Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft arelaunched by NASA in September
and August, destined to explorethe outer planets and eventually

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interstellar space.
Awesome MRIs, first used on ahuman oh shit.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
MRIs Used on humans.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Revolutionary diagnostic technology begins a
journey.
Wow, 77.
Wow, 77.
Wow, good gracious.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
MRIs Very useful.
Yeah, I had one the other week.
Did you A CAT scan?

Speaker 4 (10:13):
or an MRI, oh it was a CT scan.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, it was a CT.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Hey, harry, kind of all the same in a way, in a way
away.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
but it's a little deeper with an MRI A little bit
Alright, pop culture andentertainment.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Star Wars was released.
Tom, here's a big one, buddy.
Elvis Presley died.
I remember where I was, me too.
I was at Riverside Park inSpringfield, or Agua, mass, and
we heard that while we were in abus back.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yep Out with Kansas.
I was sitting at a bar eating asmorgasbord.
We're at the cafe.
My mother worked at A littlefarming community.
It was August of 77.
So I was right in the middle ofharvest, august 77, wasn't it?
Yeah, somewhere around there.

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But anyway it was in the middleof harvest out with Kansas, and
the place was packed when thenews came over and I was sitting
there.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
And I bet you there was silence too.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well, yeah because that's what I remember the most
is everything just died, Gotquiet.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
To me, that's when the music died.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Even as kids.
On this thing everybody waslike holy crap, alright.
So Studio 54 opens in New YorkCity.
The stories I've heard aboutthat place holy crap, legendary,
yeah disco.
The club becomes a symbol ofdisco excess and celebrity
nightlife in the late 70s.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, see, now we have to go to the omelet shop to
snort Coke in the corner table.
We do.
Oh, I mean other people do.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
All right Last on the pop culture and entertainment
roots airs on TV.
The miniseries drives hugeratings and sparks national
conversations about slavery andAmerican history.
First time I watched that wasactually I was in school Right.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
We hadn't reached that point yet.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
I forgot what class it was.
But yeah, they brought in theold.
You know they had that cartwith the TV.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh, that was like when you're.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
I remember my first Chubby, the kids that worked
with the AV squad.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, I remember my first Chubby.
We're not having class today.
Woo, it's a film.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Let's see oh other strange and notable events.
Oh yeah, son of Sam, serialkiller, terrorizes New York.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
City.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
David Berkowitz Arrest in August ends a year of
fear in the city.
Son of Sam, that's not bad,isn't that something?
Let's see.
Then we had France bans aConcorde from Paris-New York
route due to noise complaintsand environmental concerns.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
They were screaming about it.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
then Disco continues in its rise, with the Bee Gees,
donna Summer and more dominatingthe airwaves, which we'll
probably discuss that later too.
Any other ones?
Let's see Gas prices.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Tom oh boy Gas, well and just.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Average 62 cents a gallon.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
And now it's only 280 .
Yeah, mine went up to 280.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
It was 265.
I don't know what's going on.
Yeah, what's up?
Fourth of July?
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
That might be it, or hear me out.
We have to change to the summergas.
It costs me Winter fuel and thesummer gas.
It costs more.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, the winter fuel and the summer fuel.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Isn't that the crock?
Are we listening to this?
This is dumb Anyway.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, so let's see.
The energy crisis from early inthe 70s was still fresh and
Americans were adjusting tohigher fuel prices, downsized
cars and gas-saving tips.
The Department of Energy wascreated that year to tackle
energy concerns.
That's where the mistakehappened Carpool and cars are
starting to shift from big V8sto smaller, more efficient
models Dumbasses, toys.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Dumbasses.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
You're a dumbass.
Okay, we got fashion trends of1977.
Flared jeans, bell-bottoms wereeverywhere.
Polyester, polyester too 1977.
Lared jeans, bell bottoms wereeverywhere, polyester shoes,
only thing worse about that is,if you caught on fire, it was
over for you.
Yeah, because it would meltright on you.
Melt right on, yeah.
Disco fashion took over Glittergold.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, let's all have unicorns and dance around
Someone here had platform shoes.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
I think Disco Did you have platform shoes?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
I did at one time.
That's why.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
I'm making fun of you right now.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
I know, I don't even, I don't even Afro is in
feathered hair.
Oh wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I did have the feathered hair.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I did have the afro.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Not really, I had curly hair, but I made it go.
I had to fuck with it.
Track suits People are stillwearing them, fucking things.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
What is a track suit?
Is that like you're runningtrack?
Yeah, and you?

Speaker 4 (14:48):
have the warm-ups.
We call them the warm-ups.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
I remember Kids wore underoos Superhero-themed
underwear.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
They had animals too.
Oh, those are garanimals,Garanimals and underoos,
Underoos.
Yeah, I remember Underoos.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
All right, all this kind of stuff we get into our
music now, let's see, let's dotop 40, then America's top 40.
All right, we're going to startfrom 40 and work our way down.
Yes, all right, enjoy Yourself,the Jacksons.
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,okay.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
That was number 40.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
All right Dreams.
Fleetwood Mac, number 39.
Dreams no, that's not it.
Oh, nope, nope, not close, allright, 38.
So Into you, atlanta RhythmSection.
I am so into you, not you.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Okay, easy there.
Yeah, let's not sing thesesongs.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Looks like we made it .
Looks like we made it.
Don't look at me when you singthat, though.
I'm sorry, that's just weird.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Eye contact.
That's what I was talking about.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Blinded by the light.
Man for Man's Earth.
Band yeah 35,.
I've Got Love on my Mind,natalie Cole.
Yeah, I bet she did 34, righttime of the night.
Jennifer wants to run.
We ought not be.
Yeah, Daniel gets upset.
Easy by the Commodores.
Easy like a Sunday morning.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh yeah, what's his name off of Idol.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, lionel.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Richie, yeah, dancing on the ceiling.
What the hell was he thinkingCouldn't get?

Speaker 4 (16:27):
it right.
Number 32, Climax Blues Band 31.
One you and I both love Feelslike the first time foreigner.
Oh yeah foreigner, stephenBishop, comes up at 30 with On
and On.
Oh man, david Soul, which Ibelieve was Hutch Starsky, and
Hutch, don't Give Up On Us,don't.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Give Up On Us.
There we go again.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
At 28 we have Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle.
I remember that one Do do, do,do, do, do, do, do we're not
allowed to play the music.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
So we're going to sing.
We're going to sing.
Sorry y'all, that's just theway it is.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
You don't have to be a star.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
To be in my show.
To be in my show Car Wash.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Rolls Royce, rolls Royce at 26, the Silvers 25,
with Hotline Going on thehotline For your love for your
love.
Okay, easy there, big fella,Sorry, All right.
24, Leo Sayer, when I Need you.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
When I need you, I just close my eyes and I ought
to close my mouth.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Rich Girl, Daryl Hall and John Oates.
You're a rich girl and you'regoing too far.
Okay, 22 Southern Nights, GlennCampbell.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Southern Nights.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Alright 21.
Theme from Rocky Gonna Fly Now.
Gonna fly now.
Is that what they say?
That's the lyrics in the songGonna.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
I would have been making fun of that forever if
I'd have known that's all it was.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, well, that's one of them songs.
Where do I put that lyric?
Oh right, here sounds good.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, that's like last week or the last week,
Whatever?
Yeah, do the hustle how y'allmaking millions off of these
songs when you're only sayingthree words.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
It's the music.
Tom it songs when you're onlysaying three words.
It's the music time, it's themusic.
You've got to feel it.
All right At number 19, we havethe Eagles Hotel California.
Oh, that was scary, you cancheck out any time you like, but
you can never leave.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Here's what I was scared about Stabbed it with
their steely knives.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
But you just can't kill the beast.
No.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
How do you get away from that?
Shoot it.
Well, there you go.
See, brought a knife to agunfight, yeah see how.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
About Sir Duke Stevie Wonder?
I do love that.
I wish those days would comeback.
All right, do you want to makelove, peter McCann?
Oh, that wasn't asking.
That was a song, number 16,pablo Cruz.
What you gonna do when she?

Speaker 3 (19:06):
says goodbye Anyway.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, moving on.
Alright, electric LightOrchestra Telephone Line.
Telephone Line.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh, that one, I thought it was.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
No, no, not that one, oh not that one.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
We'll get to that one later on.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Okay, okay, jimmy Buffett, margaritaville.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, that was a big one I didn't care for.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Not me either.
A lot of people do, though.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
They love that with their drunken shit, all right.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing Leo.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Sayre comes in at 13.
Dancing Queen from Abbottnumber 12.
Dancing Queen.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, something like that.
Strong and lean, she liftsweights all the time.
Yeah, strong and lean, shelifts weights, all right.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
Number 11.
Casey and the Sunshine Bandwith I'm your Boogeyman, I'm
your boogeyman.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I'm your boogeyman, I believe.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Rob Zombie does a remake of that.
Really, I'm pretty sure Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
That'd be interesting .

Speaker 4 (20:01):
I might be wrong, but I think that's the song That'd
be interesting.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Okay, how many of interesting.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
But I think that's the song That'd be interesting.
Okay, people want to like.
Correct us at some time.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Go right ahead.
Feel free, go right on, wedon't bite.
Yeah, you go right to thewebsite.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
All right.
10.
Torn between two lovers.
Mary McGregor.
Sorry there, buddy.
Tom had a little mishap.
I said the name of that songwhile he was drinking his
beverage.
You all right, bud.
This is why we do this.
It's the reaction.

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It's torn between two loversFeeling like a fool.
Loving both of you is breakingall the rules.
Wow, All right.
Okay, we got number nine.
Undercover Angel.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Alan O'Day, so we went torn between two lovers.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
Undercover Angel All right.
Number eight Rita Coolidge with.
Your Love has Lifted Me.
Your love has lifted me.
You're going to laugh.
I like this song, don't LeaveMe this Way by Thelma Houston,
but the only thing that sucksnow is well, I won't get into
that part, but anyways moving on.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Wait a minute, don't spark our interest and then walk
away.
Who's walking?

Speaker 4 (21:13):
away you are.
I'm not going to go into that.
Yeah, you are.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
You opened that box.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I don't want to seem like I'm anti-anything at this
point.
I was okay, yeah, anti.
Well, you know, let's put itthis way there are a lot of
certain parades they have thatplay that song.
I guess it's their theme songChristmas parades.
It might be their theme song.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Christmas parades.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, we'll go with that.
Okay, Alright, let's see Numbersix Kenny Nolan I Like Dreamin'
.
I Like Dreamin', I likedreamin'.
Number five Angel in your Armsfrom Hot, it's the angel in your
arms.
Let's see Love Theme from AStar is Born from Barbra
Streisand.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
See, I don't know that one, I'm not going to sing
it.
Barbra was weird.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah, it's kind of a dumb song.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Well, she was weird.
Yeah, she is weird, all rightthree she was weird.
Yeah, she is weird, all rightthree.
Best of my love the emotions.
Wait what.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Best of my love.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
the emotions that wasn't the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
That was a different one.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh, you get the best of my love.
Nope, different one.
That's what that was, theEagles, no, no, wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Oh, darling, you got the best of mine.
That's the Eagles.
You got the best of mine.
You're singing in a differentversion.
Okay, which is that one?
Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
I just want to be your.
Everything at number two withAndy Gibb and number one
tonight's the night Gonna be allright, rod Stewart.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
That was the top 40.
Not from us.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
This is top 40 from All these other stupid sites.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
And they were pretty good.
A lot of good songs in there, alot of good songs in there, but
I didn't hear Black Betty.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
You didn't.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Was it in there or did we miss it?
Did I skip over it?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
But I just never heard it.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh Black Betty.
Oh Black Betty.
Sorry it's not in here, miss it.
Did I skip over it?
I don't know, but I just neverheard it, oh, but.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
It's not in here.
See, they're silly, not stupid.
There's a difference.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Now, if you want to break down some of the Hotel
California song, for instance,we can do that.
The story of meaning this is notour meaning, nope, not ours.
This haunting this is not ourmeaning, nope, not ours.
This haunting classic is ofteninterpreted as a commentary on
the hedonistic excess ofAmerican life, particularly in
California.
Imagine that, yeah, imaginethat, in the 70s.

(23:37):
The lyrics tell the surrealtale of checking into a
luxurious hotel where you cancheck out any time of your life
but you can never leave.
Ooh, scary Metaphor alert, funfact.
Fun fact Don Feldner wrote theiconic guitar riff while messing
around with a 12-string.
Don Henley called it ourinterpretation of the high life
in LA Legacy.

(23:58):
In the 1977 Grammy for Recordof the Year.
It has been covered and carriedendlessly.
The dual guitar solo, one ofthe most legendary of the year.
Yeah Dancing Queen actuallyreleased in 76, but the song
peaked in the US in 77.
It's the only song that ABBAhad that hit number one in the

(24:20):
US.
Really, yeah, still played atweddings, retro nights and drag
shows.
Drag shows Is that where peopledrag?

Speaker 3 (24:26):
played at weddings, retro nights and drag shows.
Drag shows Is that where peopledrag people?
Okay, wait a minute, Wait aminute.
How do weddings and drag showsgot anything to do with each
other?
That's not a damn thing.
Abba Dancing Wing, come on.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
What did you say?
Young and lean.
What?

Speaker 3 (24:42):
This is me Green machine Tore out the neighbors,
All right we got another one.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Sir Duke Stevie wrote this joyful jam as a tribute to
Duke Ellington and other jazzgreats who paved the way.
It's a celebration of musicitself and you can hear the joy
in every horn line.
Which is true, it's one of themtunes.
Is that the one that Duke?
Still used to teach rhythm andbrass in music schools and,
honestly, it just makes yousmile.
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, you know breaking down other songs, a lot
of good stuff going on in 77.
When I was 10, man, there wasso much good stuff going on 77.
I was, you were 10?
Yeah, I was little.
All this stuff really comesflowing back.
It's just crazy how you forgetstuff and you poke it back, but

(25:34):
all of a sudden the song Willjar that memory, will go in the
back of your mind and pull outsomething you never thought
about for years.
And then all of a sudden you'relike wow, I remember this day
and when we were riding ourbikes out at the sand pits and

(25:56):
it was 15 miles from the houseand our parents never even
worried about us unless weweren't home when the
streetlights came on.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Right right.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
I mean, it was crazy times back then.
I enjoyed the hell out ofgrowing up in the 70s.
It was so awesome.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
It was, the 70s were great Come on people being
outside riding my bike all thetime.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Prove me wrong.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Tell me your stories of the 70s on our podcast.
Think most of our listenersprobably our age anyways.
So yeah, they can relate.
They are any people that aretoo young that listen.
Well, you missed a good timeyou did miss a great time and
you could say well, I couldn'tlive without this.
Back then we knew no different,nope, could, could live with
all that shit.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
There wasn't anything there to live without.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Exactly.
I think it's a good time rightnow to segue into the little
dudes.
Let them come in and do theirlittle bit, get that over with
Okay, all right, and we'll comeback and hopefully they're a
little nicer this time.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
You just never know what the hell you're going to
get.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Well, yeah, because squeak, yeah, well, something
wrong with him there, seriouslyis.
Well, I think it's a well, Imean, have you seen the pictures
?
He likes his snacks?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Pip looks like a dapper, young little dude.
Well, you know how they sayyour appetite rules, your
attitude Right.
Well, there you go.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Wow, definitely could have picked up those snacks,
though, but anyways, just theway it is.
All right, folks, we'll be backin a little bit.
All right, here's the littledudes.
There you go.
Hey, squeak Old Buddy, here weare again man, here we go again.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Oh boy, oh geez, don't.
We are again man, here we goagain.
Oh boy, oh geez.
Don't be so excited, man.
Well, I'm pretty excited.
You don't sound it.
Well, well, see what?
What?
I sound like a.
You sound like you're frickin'dead.
Well, well, you know what theysay about dead people.

(28:02):
Oh, what do they say?
Well, they're sound deaddumbass.
Oh, damn it.
Well, yeah, see what's beenhappening, buddy, oh, not too
much.
Lots of rain, lots and lots ofrain.
You still living in that stupidlittle hole in the hill?
Not anymore.
Why?
Well, because the water cameout and flooded us all the way.

(28:22):
Are we going to go over this?
It's pretty funny.
I told you not to build there.
It's hurtful, you know, you didit to yourself.
You could have lived closer tothe studio.
You had that option.
Well, well, well, then nobodywould have to go pick you up.
Listen, listen, okay, I'mlistening.

(28:43):
This is why.
Why?
Because I read an article inthe newspaper the other day.
Wait a minute, hold up for one,just one second.
I don't mean to interrupt.
You read something In anewspaper article.
Oh, crap, man.
Okay, about, no, you knew howto read Car accidents.

(29:04):
Okay, about, no, you knew howto read Car accidents.
Okay, happen within 25 miles ofwhere you live.
Okay, by God, I moved, I'm notgoing to have no car.
I moved, I don't.
Okay, but it can still happenmiles from wherever you are.
No, I moved, are you notgetting this?

(29:26):
But you're still.
If you're 25 miles from yourhouse or less, you're still in
that.
It doesn't matter where youmoved to, it does matter.
Okay, I read the paper where Iwas.
Okay, so if I'm here at thestudio, I live here, let's say
you live here I said, let's sayHypothetically Okay, okay.

(29:52):
I'm gonna what?
I'm gonna move.
I'm 25 miles from here.
If I move 50 miles from here,I'm good.
No, it's 25 miles from whereyou are Right, so you move.
That doesn't help you.
Squeak, sure, it does.
No, squeak, squeak.
I have a wrench Aunt.
Yeah, because Troy's bringingyour ass in.

(30:15):
Well, he hasn't wrecked andhe's got a pretty bad record.
I seem to remember someonejumped from the helicopter one
time.
No, no, he's got a bad record.
You don't understand.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
And someone was.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
You remember?
Listen back in the day.
Okay, since these dumbasses,mike and Tom, are doing this
back in the day.
Mike and Tom are respectableguys.
Mike and Tom are doing thisback in the day.
Mike and Tom are respectableguys.
Mike, tom, exactly.
Oh, that made my ears ring.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh sorry.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
I hit a note I shouldn't have, probably when
you confused me when you saidMike and Tom are respectable
people.
They are, they're great.
That's what I said, butcontinue, listen, they were
talking about all this old stuff, okay, well, now I don't know
where I was going with that.

(31:02):
I confused you.
Yeah, a little.
Excellent, my job is done.
That's what it was see, butyeah.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
So you know them.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Guys are doing stuff from 1977, right, yeah back in
the day and it just Now I askedyou if you wanted to participate
earlier.
You said sure.
I said let's pick a topic totalk about.
Why the hell did it come up tofood?
I thought you meant partake,not participate.
Oh, we're participating in theconversation.

(31:34):
Oh, I thought we were partaking.
That's why you mentioned food.
Well, partaking makes me hungry.
It does All right Squeak.
So I pulled up some popularfoods from 77 for you.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
You pulled up what?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Just my weenie.
Oh, you want to see it?
Nope, all right, then Listen.
Just my weenie.
Oh, you want to see it?
Nope, all right, then Listen tome, not again, all right, first
off, slim fast, oh, yeah, yeah,that's how stuff made you slim
real fast it did.
Did you try it?
Nope, oh.
Then how do you know what itdid?

(32:14):
I was little already.
I was little already.
I didn't need that.
You were little, but kind ofwide.
Well, no, no, that was mygirlfriend.
No, no, no, I think it's you.
You're still kind of wide I am.
Have you not seen the picture wetook?
Okay, just because I have adifferent shirt on, it shows my
belly.
You know, when you're on camera, that count 20 pounds.
My belly, ooh, ooh.

(32:36):
You know, when you're on camera, it adds 20 pounds.
It does.
Why do I look the same?
You don't.
Have you looked at your socks?
Wait a minute, we're not goingthere again.
You will.
My socks are fine.
They're covering my feet.
They're serving the purpose.
Yeah, because if you undid yoursocks, you'd look like you were

(32:58):
turning into a werewolf.
What are you?
What the hell are you talkingabout those toes?
Are you having a climax?
Why are you making fun of mytoes.
I'm just saying I'm hiding them.
That's why we wear socks.
All right, let me move on to thenext food item.
Thank you, jelly belly, jellybeans.

(33:20):
I love jelly donuts?
Yeah, of course you do.
These are jelly beans, beans,beans Made out of jelly.
Okay, wait a minute.
I like cornbread with my beans,not jelly.
These are jelly beans.
Well, that's stupid.
Made out of jelly.
Yeah, that would be squishybeans.

(33:41):
That's not good.
People like them.
Sweet, really.
Yeah, there's different flavors.
I suppose they got some kind ofstupid-ass flavor like black
licorice.
Matter of fact, that's one ofmy favorites.
See what you heard me.
You knew that.

(34:02):
Now wait a minute.
Okay, really, yep, delicious.
Don't be so proud about that.
Why, that's dumb, not really.
Yeah, kind of.
You know how many people getblack licorice and they don't
want it.
And then I end up getting it.
Yeah, that's a bonus for me.
Bonus, that's exactly right.

(34:24):
That's like getting dirt thrownon you at a damn pitman.
Not at all.
You should see the stash I haveat my house.
Yeah, it's a stash I have at myhouse.
Yeah, it's a stash.
Anytime you want to come over,I'll give you some.
Nope, I'm good.
Alright, I'd rather eattesticles.
Yeah well, that's another storyfor another day.

(34:46):
I'm going to move on to thisone now.
Mcdonald's breakfast menuexpands.
Oh, there you go.
Mcdonald's rolled out more ofits breakfast menu.
While the Egg McMuffin debutedearlier.
Dumbasses McDonald's breakfast.
Hey, egg McMuffin.
From what I understand, onthose drunk nights when you're

(35:08):
out partying, those McDonald'sbreakfasts came in very handy.
Okay, okay, that's fine, theydid.
This is what I heard, not fromexperience, well, well, this is
from experience.
Okay, they don't breakfastpretty damn good when you're
drunk, right, okay, but what?
They don't.
Nothing beat the damn OmeletteHouse Three o'clock in the

(35:31):
morning.
What about the Waffle House?
Omelette House, waffle House,omelet House, waffle House, it's
all about the same thing.
And listen, if you, I just likethe bacon at the Waffle.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
House Well.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
I was talking to this waitress that was at the Waffle
House and she was telling meabout the lottery and how people
are stupid for doing that andeverything.
And well, I said, well, why,why wouldn't you do the lottery?
She said, well, $4 million,what the hell for?

(36:07):
Why would I do that?
Oh, you're doing so much betterhere at the damn Waffle House,
I guess, because flip a damnburger, well, that's paying the
bills.
I don't understand the way.
Her thinking was that was anhonest day's work, yeah, well.
And she told me she said, well,maybe, if it got way up there

(36:34):
Like way up there, it's $4million.
Well, and then my cousin whatan idiot he is, your cousin
Vinny.
No, oh no, this is a damn dumbcousin.
Oh, you know how people talkabout the lottery and how well,
this is what I'd do if I won thelottery.
Well, listen to what thatdumbass said.
What did that dumbass say?

(36:54):
Well, okay is what I'd do if Iwon a lot.
Well, listen to what thatdumbass said.
What did that dumbass say?
Well, okay, $4 million.
Well, if I won $4 million, I'ddo one of two things.
I'm listening, okay.
First off, if I got $4 million,I can do any damn thing.
I want not just one of twothings.
Well, first thing, I would payoff my Bronco.

(37:18):
Okay, or there's an, or yeah,or shingle my roof, put a new
roof on this.
Why can't he do both?
Well, that's what I'm trying toexplain.
My frickin' cousin is a damnidiot.
He doesn't understand.
Well, and oh, I put a roof onthis house and if there was any

(37:45):
left, you got four milliondollars.
How much is that roof costingyou?
Well, if there's anything left,what a dumbass.
Okay, so we established some ofyour family members aren't too
bright.
No, no, they're not.
We established this.
Yes, we established this.
All right, so let's move on tothe next little snack.
I think you'll love this one.
This is very good for you.

(38:06):
Go right ahead.
Your plate and Dan and yogurtwhat the hell are you talking
about?
You should have more yogurt.
Yogurt, yeah, what the hell isyogurt.
It's good for you.
No, sure is, it's clobberedmilk.
Okay, no, not.

(38:27):
Okay, it's not a flavor.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,wait.
You get blueberry.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, you getpineapple.
No, no, no, wait, it'spineapple.
No, no, no, no, you've gotCap'n Crunch in a bowl.
Okay, okay, you pour clabberedmilk in it.
Yum, yum, ooh, yogurt.
Yum, yum, yum, okay, no, no,it's clabbered milk.
Oh shit, I've wasted my Cap'nCrunch.

(38:51):
You're eating yogurt, though,not Cap'n Crunch.
Yeah, yogurt, why would I be?
Because it's creamy anddelicious.
Creamy and delicious Yep,sounds like you're trying to get
me on a date or something thatwas another time.
Yeah, well, see, that justdoesn't even All right.
How about fruit roll-ups, greek?

(39:12):
How about them?
Do you like those?
They're a little hard to getoff of the roll and stuff.
When they get hot, they sticktogether and, oh, just eat the
whole thing.
Well, that's crazy.
How is it crazy?
Well, then they're gone.

(39:32):
If you unroll them, what are yousaving it for?
Well, because you don't want toeat it all up.
Why, if they're gone, then whatare you going to eat?
Buy yourself a couple of them,okay, then you eat them all up.
And then what?
Alright, I'm out.
I'm sorry I took this path withyou.

(39:53):
I really regret it now, do you?
Yeah, because it wasn'tinteresting for me at all
listening to you ramble on aboutfood.
But I like food, I know you do,but you know what I think.
I'm going to cut this now andI'm out.
Buddy, what I'll see you nexttime.
Are you out of food?
I'm out of everything.

(40:14):
Well then, I'm out of here too.
All right, buddy Later.
Buddy, bye, talk to you later.
Have a good life.
Hopefully I don't see you again.
I mean, I didn't mean that.
Wait what?

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Well, bye, bye, I'm going to go.
Now, I didn't know what I wassaying.
Yeah, you're going to go, dad,well, well, well, they found
something else to talk about atleast food, and complain about
at the same time.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Well, anyway, leave it to Squeak to bring up snacks
from that year Squeak Anyway,yeah to Squeak, to bring up
snacks from that year.
Anyway, oldie Squeak, that'sall I can say.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Yeah well you know, at this point it doesn't even
bother me anymore.
Now it's just him.
Let him do his thing, get asegment over and be on his way.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
And I gotta tell you everybody has said we like to
hear the little dudes.
What happened to the littledudes?
Here they are, we're hearingthem live.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
There you go.
Well, maybe not live, butyou're hearing them, so should
we get back into music?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
I am ready.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
And then we'll throw in some other little weird
tidbits from 77.bits tidbits youwould like to go first, any
songs in particular that stickout to you well everybody knows
and people.
These aren't going to benecessarily top 40 songs either.
These are songs from that yearthat Tom and I like.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Right, and everybody knows that Dr Hook was one of my
go-to bands from that era.
No People know this.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
I've never heard you speak of this on the podcast,
ever.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Goodness, all right, he has dementia, but anyway,
alcohol dementia, but anyway,but alcohol dementia.
And we went to this Dr Hooksong that was out in the 70s
that I personally didn't reallycare for but I thought it was

(42:24):
used to bringing up because it'sstill Dr Hook, all righty, and
it's Walk Right In, sit RightDown.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
That's Dr Hook yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Walk right in.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Does he do a cover of that?
Is that not?

Speaker 3 (42:38):
somebody's older song Baby, let your hair hang down.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Is that really their tune?
I'm pretty sure it was Allright.
For some reason I thought itwas some oldie song.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
It might have been.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
But they do a version .

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Well, it was an oldies song, whether it's theirs
or it was 77.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
It was an oldies.
I thought it was somethingolder, but again, it just has
that sound to it.
It does don't.
It Absolutely does, but thatwas the name of their album.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
That came on anyway.
Okay, but yeah, that was one ofthe songs and it wasn't, like I
said, one of my favorites bythem, by no means, but they were
there.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Oh, that's why we're doing it.
It doesn't have to be.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Yeah, they were there , it doesn't have to be.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Oh, that wasn't a top ten song or a top four.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
No, he's a song from that.
But it was known.
People bought that album andpeople listened to that song.
They loved it.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
So nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
There you go.
How about you?

Speaker 4 (43:32):
All right, I know we said songs, but as I started
going through the list of songs,right, I realized a lot of
these.
I love the albums, every songon the album.
Exactly, you buy that album dothat song so my first one I'm
going to start up no surpriseand I believe it came out late
in 76, but it kicked ass in 77,was the Eagles' Hotel California

(43:55):
.
Oh yeah, you know I like topick that one song, but there's
a lot of great songs on thatalbum.
That album I could put on andjust play the whole thing and be
happy.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
That comes later.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
I know we said songs I know we said songs.
Hotel California was a classic.
I didn't mean to jump in likethat, but I love the album.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Right and see, and the cool thing about it is I was
young enough to realize thatlater on I was going to hear all
of those songs off of thatalbum later on and it was going
to be great.
Every one of them was going tobe pow, pow, pow, pow, pow.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Pow pow Indian.
No, no, no, Beef jerky IndianOkay okay, all right, get back
to that album, and you know Ican honestly say when that came
out I actually bought the album.
Or let me the cassette.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Was it?
See, when I heard it it wasprobably a cassette Also.
Yeah, at 10 years old we hadrecorders then you could rent
them at the library.
It was weird.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Being 13, going on 14 , had a little paper route, so
Right, me too, oh mowed lawns.
You know stuff kids don't doanymore.
Oh, me too On both lawns Stuff.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
kids don't do anymore .
Oh, they don't, no.
Well, because their parentsdrive around in a car that
barely runs and they'll throw itin your car.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Here's what I don't understand A lot of these
parents we grew up with.
Let's say, how did the kids getso effed up?

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Who knows, we didn't grow up that way Because their
kids weren't that.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
No, we didn't grow up that way.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
No, so how did their kids?

Speaker 4 (45:33):
You know they didn't.
How do you end up pampered?
Anyway, we shouldn't go downthat road.
Whoops, yeah, let's stick towhat we're having fun about.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Almost turned into an animal Sometimes and, like you
said, shit it comes out.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Right.
So what's your next song there,tom?

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Oh mine, yeah, let's see here, or album, whatever
Well I have.
Who remembers Jennifer Warnes?

Speaker 4 (46:01):
That's a chick from.
I'm Having the Time of my Lifeon.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
It might be.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
The Patrick Swayze there movie.
What the hell was it?
Well, anyway.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
That Patrick Swayze there movie?
What the hell was it?
No?

Speaker 4 (46:10):
that was Jennifer Grey.
No, no, not in the movie, theone that sang the song with that
guy.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
I've had the time of the night.
Oh, that one.
I don't know.
It could have been, but this isthe right time of the night.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Okay, I think it's the same lady.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
It's the right time of the night.
I remember this song from backin the day because when my
sister and her boyfriend at thetime were getting married, this
was one of those songs that theywere going to use as a wedding
song, and so it was played like174 hours a day at my house,

(46:51):
Good Lord man.
So I remember this song andthat's one of our—.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
That's how you take a song that you like to turn into
a song that you hate.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
I don't want to hear it anymore, and that is a lot
like the song Abracadabra, butthat'll come later.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
We don't even have to mention that one.
Yeah, let's just go on.
Go on and hit a sore spot withyour buddy.
I guess we move on to my nextone.
Yeah, what's your next?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
one All right Again.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
Sorry, another album, fleetwood Mac.
Rumors Talk about a drama albumwith a lot of drama, but every
song kicks ass, every one ofthem.
To me that's Fleetwood Mac'sbest album.
People can argue that's fine.
I'm not a big Fleetwood Macfanatic so I like it, but I know
that Rumors album kicks ass.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
It was a good one for you, really good.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
And again bought that album.
I think I still have that albumin my little record collection.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
I don't believe.
Was that the one that Tusk wason?
No, no, that came after Later.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Oh, that came later on.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
We'll talk about that later, anyway, but yeah, I like
Fleetwood Mac.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
But rumors, a lot of songs.
There you go, you know what.
And before we head out to ourother music, I want to interrupt
this to talk about our otherstuff we wanted to discuss.
Yep, bring some stuff inDifferent shit like movies that
came out in 77.
Yeah, yeah, give a little shoutout to some of the movies.
So I'll start off with numberone Star Wars, episode IV.

(48:24):
A New Hope George Lucas movie.
Why it Matters changed the filmindustry forever, launched a
massive franchise and introducedthe world to lightsabers, the
Force and Darth Vader.
Box office over $775 millionworldwide gross at the time.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
And what's really crazy to me, what's that?
If you look it up, how much didthat movie take to make Pennies
?
Probably Pennies on the dollar,not really sure, but that's
something we make Pennies,probably Pennies on the dollar.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Not really sure, but that's something we could
actually look up, yeah we couldlook that up later.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
That's just crazy, because you know that that movie
didn't cost that much to make,but it drug in.
How many billions of dollarsover the years?
Right, right, what a franchise.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
Well, Tom, doing our little research.
Because that's what we do Toanswer your question.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Excuse me, I know it choked me up too.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
The production.
The budget altogetherapproximately $11 million.
The wild part.
Here's the wild part.
Initial budget approved by Foxaround $8 million.
Wow, final cost after overrunsroughly $11 million.
Lucas had to fight for everycent and the studio wasn't
convinced it would do well.
Oh, how wrong they were.
And the payoff it earned over$775 million.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yep Chokes me up too.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
And over $1.5 billion when adjusted for re-releases
and inflation, basically one ofthe best returns on investments
in film history.
Wow, lucas also keptmerchandising rights and moved.
That made him very rich andevery kid on earth wanted a
lightsaber and an R2-D2 lunchboxOf course they did.
Holy crap.
Well, that answers that man.

(50:07):
That's pretty damn impressive.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
No doubt Because you've got to understand.
These people are making moviesfor pennies, but when they put
them out there.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
It's all about advertising.
Well, now it just costs toomuch to make a damn movie Snow
White there with what's a bunchof yeah we'll get into that.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Talk about destroying your legacy Disney.
Yeah, what's red and has sevenlittle dents.
What's that?
Snow White's cherry?

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Can we edit that?

Speaker 3 (50:40):
You don't have to.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Okay, let's move on to the next movie, Tom Number
two Close Encounters of theThird Kind, Great movie.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
I missed the first two, though Close Encounters of
the First Kind and the SecondKind.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Okay, Thoughtful, awe-inspiring take on Alien
Contact with a low-iconicfive-note musical motif.
Yeah, lots of lights.
Annie Hall.
Woody Allen movie Big one here.
Tom, Saturday Night Fever Madedisco really really big.
John Travolta star.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Is this where we rant about disco?

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Yeah, we can do a little rant about disco Daniel
said something about rantingabout disco.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
They're stupid.
What are they doing with thisbig glass ball?

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Having a good time getting down.
Come on, half of them are cokedout of their minds.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Studio 54.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
That's right, there you go, all the big happenings.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
You can see pictures of Belushi doing lines and shit,
that was blue, bro, let's seeJulia.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
What the hell movie is that?
What Julia, julia the frickin'I never even heard of that one,
I guess.
Oh, here's why Jane Fonda's init.
Oh yeah, yeah, we'll skip overthat.
Yeah, the Goodbye Girl.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Yeah, that was a good one, actually, I kind of like
the song in that yeah, smokeyand the Bandit Tom.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
There it is.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
There it is.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Smokey and the Bandit great movie.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Some bitches.
Some was very smart.
Yeah, remind me when I get home.
Just slap your bum right in themouth.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Jackie Gleason.
All right, we got a bridge toofar.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Oh, John Wayne, wasn't it A race ahead?

Speaker 4 (52:25):
I have to admit I've seen that movie.
What A race ahead.
Oh, what was that?
Very strange A race ahead.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Why it matters, it's a cult classic that lost.
I have to admit, I've seen thatmovie?

Speaker 4 (52:29):
What Eraserhead, oh, what was that?
Very strange Eraserhead.
Why it matters, it's a cultclassic that lost Lynch's career
.
Surreal, disturbing andunforgettable.
Then New York, new York, martinScorsese, Right, and that was
it for movies.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Yeah, they didn't have too much going on back then
.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
They didn't.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
No, not too much, they didn't no.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
Come on, Tom.
A lot of the good movies cameout then.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
You want to.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Godfather, you know, we're here.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
No, we're here.
Let's just talk about sometelevision quick, oh.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I like television.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Let's see you had Laverne and Shirley.
Oh yeah, Spin-off of Happy Days.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Oh, yeah, okay yeah.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Yeah, happy days.
There we go there.
It was Three's Company.
Oh yeah, jack, I gotta admit Iliked them better with the
ropers than Parley.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Yeah yeah, parley was good.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
But you know, we know , it's Barney.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Reminds me of a Dale Mandy episode.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Oh, here we go.
Okay, I got it real quick Okay.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
When Andy went over to his girlfriend's house and
she had a long lost friend thatcame over.
She's like well, what do youwant me to do?
He's like, well, I don't know,feed your hunger buzzer.
And he got pissed off and hewent over there and there old
Barney was sitting at thecourthouse.
And he went over there.

(53:48):
He said where's my magazine?
He said I'm going home.
He said I thought you had adate with Peg.
He said I did, but I don't nomore.
Where's my magazine?
You want to talk about it?
No, I don't want to talk aboutit.
I want my magazine so I can gohome, read, be quiet.
So he's like, yeah, she hadsomebody over there.
You know what his name was Don.

(54:14):
Can you imagine that, don?
I thought that was kind offunny.
His name is Don.
Yeah, his name is Don.
Yeah, that was funny.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
Oh, you got to understand.
Tom has a lot of analogies thatcome from Andy.
Anyways, 60 Minutes started.
Charlie's Angels, the originalCharlie's Angels yeah, 60
Minutes started.
Charlie's Angels, the originalCharlie's Angels yeah, wow.
Farrah Fawcett, kate Jackson,jacqueline Smith, jacqueline
Smith, I had the Love Boatlaunched in 77.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
My Love Boat launched .

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Love, exciting and new.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Well, when you said, jacqueline Smith, my Love Boat
launched.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Oh, here we go.
There's that path.
There it is, Tom.
It is enough started, oh yeah.
Little house on the prairieMichael Landon.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Really, and Tennessee Island.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
That was this year 77 ?
77.

Speaker 4 (55:02):
Huh, oh, wait a minute.
They continued tugging.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Oh, I continued.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
No, no, Never never mind, never tugging.
Oh, I continue.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Never mind.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
Never mind, don't say it.
Oh, hot strings, I forgot toadd that part.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
The best part about a podcast no HR.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
No, there isn't.
It's awesome.
This is freaking awesome Goahead.
Anyways, that's it.
That's some of the TV showswhich I thought were pretty cool
, pretty cool Laura.
Ingalls man.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
A lot of kids lost their virginity to her in their
mind.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
I like Mary better she couldn't see you, I know.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Anyway, here we go again.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
Alright, let's move on back to our music.
Back to our music, back in theuniverse.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
So I mean just to Back to our music, back to our
music Back in the U.
Oh, never mind.
So I mean just to mentioneverything that, what really
gets me about doing these musicthings.
I'm finding that I have evolvedtoward harmonizing groups.
That's a good sound, groupsthat have good harmonizing.
Good sounds together and thisDave and Sugar group.

(56:19):
I'm just it's weird becausethey have that sound.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
You mentioned this earlier to me and I was like
what the hell are you talkingabout?
Yeah, Never heard of them.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Dave and Sugar have a lot of that.
It's the harmonizing and LarryGatlin and the Gatlin Brothers
Love is just a game, or All theGold in California.
These things that you hearthey're harmonizing, they're so
good.
I guess that's why I like thebluegrass music.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
That's part of what the Eagles charm is, too Exactly
they harmonize.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
They have such a beautiful harmony together, all
of them and Blackhawk, one of myfavorite groups of all time
they just harmonize, they justharmonize and I'm finding,
through all this research thatwe're doing, that I evolved
toward the groups that have theharmony.
Okay, I get that.

(57:19):
It's weird, it's kind of crazy.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Nothing weird about it at all, tom.
Nothing weird at all.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Yeah listen, look up some of these groups that you
don't know.
Or if you do know them, theyhave even songs that I've never
heard of and I class myself onoh, I know all those songs.
You can't give me songs I'venever heard.
Well, if you would have gave meElvis Presley's song Down Under
, or whatever it was that cameout this year, I would have been

(57:48):
stuffed.
I have no idea what that is.
So I don't know everythingabout the music.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
None of us do.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
I'm humbled, just don't relate though.
I'm humbled by the music.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Alright, I'm going to move to mine now.
Another shocker album, now thisone.
I heard songs, but I didn'tactually receive the album until
78, when I was 15.
Right, I remember I had alittle party in my basement with
my friends and everything, butanyways, meatloaf, bad Outta
Hell.
Oh man, that whole album, twoOutta Three Ain't Bad.

(58:24):
Paradise by the Dashboard Light, One of the very best songs in
the world.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Two Outta Three man, two Outta Three man.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
Two out of three.
That's a great song.
But every emotion on thatpretty much all songs go through
.
All these different Bad OuttaHell.
That one's a good song.
Oh yeah, motorcycle sound.
I know it seems like I'm beingweak and not picking songs, but
it's hard to watch that albumand pick one song that I like.
Paradise by the Dashboard is apopular song.

(58:52):
Anybody can say that.
But that whole album theprevious two I mentioned Every
song on there pretty much rocks.
People can disagree, that'sfine, but this is by my picks.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
See, it's just exactly like that.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
And that album to this day.
If I listen to any of thosesongs, it brings back memories.
Every album, all kinds ofmemories, every song, every song
on the album, yeah, no matterhow I was feeling at that time,
what I was going through at thattime, whatever, that's one of
those albums.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Medicine, yeah, music , it's medicine.
Music is awesome, man.
What would we do without it Be?

Speaker 4 (59:31):
fucked.
Thank God for music.
Yes, yes, don't get me wrongpeople.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
I like pretty much all calculus and the classical
music, but this is the gong wewere talking the other day
yesterday.
We like Celtic music, celtic,celtic, yeah, celtic.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Celtic.
I used to say that too, andit's like no, not the Boston
Celtic, it's Celtic.
But I like that, especiallywhen it's mixed in with like
rock music Right.
They just go together.
So often.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Yes, they do have a lot of good stuff together too.
There's bands out there thatmix that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Well, nightwish is a band, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not
what you were telling me about.
I think there's a lot of bandslike that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
Yes, we had already talked about Nightwish before
you remember hearing that songtoo.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Last of the Mohicans.
I've seen some girl do it on aflute and I was blown away by it
, but I remember us talkingabout the group you just talked
about.
Nightwish.
Nightwish you just talked aboutNightwish.
Nightwish, we had mentionedthose guys before.
Oh yeah, and I read one of ourpodcasts about concerts and
stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Yeah, I remember those guys.
You got another one there, tom.
I don't have another one,except for the Sunflower.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
Song.
Anything you want to talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
The Sunflower Song was Glenn Campbell's Sunflower
Good Morning.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
Right, right, I said I don remember the lyrics, but I
could think of the music in myhead.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
And that's that I just wanted to say a minute.
That's why I like doing thisstuff, because that song, I
hadn't thought about that songprobably for 45 years and it
just popped up.
And then all of a sudden onthis radio thing I'm looking up
doing some research, bam, I'mlike, wait a minute.
I remember that song.
I loved that song when I waslittle, right, that's how it

(01:01:15):
works out.
But yeah, I had no idea, it wasGlen Campbell and I like Glen
Campbell as much as I do.
But there you go, and CharliePryde, let's give a shout out to
Charlie Pryde.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Now I know who that is, tom yeah and he had a couple
in this year too, in 77.
Okay, one of them I don'tremember, recall it right now,
but I do remember he was there.
That's awesome then.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Yeah, all right.
Well, of course I'm greedy,obviously if it looks that way,
because I just name off thesetwo quick no, go ahead Again
albums Styx, grand Illusion,another album that kind of blew
me away with the sound.
I mean Come Sail Away.
It was like, if you listen tothat, pretty much baked.

(01:02:01):
It was like a journey.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
I have a story that I think I told.
Wait a minute, I do believe Itold this story.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
I think so too About your high school, the eighth
grade graduation song.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Oh, that's what it was.
Yeah, yeah, Because we broughtup one song and you said which
one would you like?

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
I said, well, I'm going to go with Come Sail Away.
That's what it was, it wasJames Time in a Bottle, if I
could spend time in the park.
That was the one If.
I could spend time in the park,okay, I thought it was the
other one, but anyways, we'vegot a second singer.
I thought it was one of hisother ones, but I do remember
you bringing that up AlrightQuickly.

(01:02:41):
Foreigner, their first album,that album rocked too.
And Tom, I'm going to quicklygo to this because you'll
appreciate this you were youngenough and, I admit, as much as
I was getting into rock, I stilllisten to these guys.
Bay City Rollers they came outwith an album called it's a Game

(01:03:01):
.
Yes, folks, I do have thatalbum too.
Not going to lie, these are myGrowing pains.
It's just songs.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
I like man, you know they had that you Made Me
Believe in Magic and the Way IFeel Tonight.
But anyways, I figured I'dbring up the Basity Rollers,
because we don't give themenough love.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
Yeah, we don't.
I mean, that's part of ouryouth, a soundtrack of our youth
also, everybody's got to knowthe Bas City.
Rollers yeah, corny as may be,but hey, I like them, I'm not
denying it, I'm not going to lie, and while you, have Bay City
Rollers right there.
Girls like them, I like them.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
I would like to just slip in a little two or three
minutes, Whoa whoa, whoa.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
What are we slipping in?
We're not slipping in nothingin here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
A in nothing in here, a two or three minute retract.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
No, you said that last time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
This is much better.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
You said that last time too, the Bay.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
City Rollers.
I was introduced to them by afriend of mine.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
I guess we're done with our music.
We could go on forever aboutstuff.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
The music just went on and on, and on.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Did I get a mention, Teddy?
Was there any weird toys inthat time?
I believe there was and Ibelieve I have something for
that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
The toys yeah, oh, you always get to bring up toys.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
You know what, though , Tom One thing we forgot to
bring up One-hit wonders.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
There were some one-hit wonders.
Yeah, there were.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Undercover Angel Alan O'Day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Who in the world is Alan O'Day?
Listen, children.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
He hit number one, though damn it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Yeah, listen, children.
Don't ever think you can't doanything.
This guy is nothing but thisone song.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Oh wow.
Well, you know it's kind of sadbecause he wrote hits for
others.
But I always thought this onehas a solo on it.
Here we go.
Afternoon Delight Still a vocalband.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Yeah, I can't say stuff.
Oh wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Wait a minute, Little note here.
Technically released in 76, butpeaked in 77.
It peaked.
Technically released in 76, butpeaked in 77.
It peaked, it peaked.
It's soft, suggestive andiconic.
Won a Grammy and then radiosilence.
Soft and suggestive.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Yeah, I have something soft and suggestive.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Yeah, okay, go ahead.
What you Gonna Do by Pablo Cruz, oh, what you gonna do?
A sunny yacht rock style songthat hit number six.
But despite other minor hits,they never cracked the top ten.
Pablo Cruz had some good songs,though they may not have been
number one, but they had somegood songs.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
They had to have because I know who they are.
That's the key.
Well, there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
You've heard of them before.
Here we go with Hutch again.
Don't give up on us.
David Soul, Yep, that Hutchfrom Starsky.
And Hutch Never even dreamed it.
This heartfelt ballad hitnumber one, and then he was back
to crime fighting on TV.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
I was this many days old when I realized that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
I knew that because I heard.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Don't give up on us, baby.
You can be a star Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
Different lyrics, but you get the melody.
Ariel, you remember that one.
I took her home with me.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
We watched TV a necuna cello and some guy going
steady.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
I started fooling around with the vertical.
We got the munchies and we madesome spaghetti.
Quirky, nerdy love song thatclimbed into the vertical hole.
We got the munchies and we madesome spaghetti.
Is this a quirky, nerdy lovesong that climbed into the top
30 cult classic but he nevercharted again.
All right, tom, here it is theTelephone man by Barry Wilson.
Oh I, yeah, yeah, and then myfingers did the walking on the

(01:06:46):
telephone man.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Yeah, because he got it in the bathroom and he got it
in the hall and he got it inthe hall and he got it in the
kitchen and he got it in thewall.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
Pure novelty song full of innuendo and 70s cheek.
Yeah, got to number 18, but sheremained a one-hit story.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Wow, yeah, now don't never bring that chick around
here again.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
I do like Smoke from a Distant Fire.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Sanford Townsend, Band you rise from the smoke of
a distant fire.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
That's a great song.
Yes, it was a good song, thisis a really original huh Float
On by the Floaters.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
Float On.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
What's your song Floaters?
Float On.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Yeah, we're all floaters, you idiot.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
Here's one that'll trick you Magic man Heart.
Wait, heart wasn't a one-hitwonder, but in 77, the song was
their first big one.
Just making sure you're payingattention, I saw that I go no.
And then, right Time of theNight, jennifer Warnes it's that
song.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Yep, see, I had that on my list.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Yay me yes you did.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
One hit wonder.
One hit wonder.
But I remembered the song youdo remember the songs.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
And quickly let's give a little shout out to some
of these toys from Star Warsagain from Sabres last year.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Oh my goodness, Micronauts, micronauts.
Wait a minute, uncle Jim'scabin ain't on his one, is it?

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
I haven't seen that yet.
Stretch Armstrong on it again.
Oh, Mattel's electronicfootball, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
I remember, why aren't?

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
they going after him.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
And everybody's garage has one of those that was
in a box that was eat up bydamn time.
Something would have to be.
You can pull it out, I get thisman.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
We'll put this for a football.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Disintegrated.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
Slinky, still going strong.
The metal coil from the 40s wasstill a top seller in the 70s.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Heck yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
All right, you got Light, bright, still Evil,
knievel again.
Damn, I wish I had one of thosewhen I was a kid man doing that
.
I had one of those when I was akid.
Fisher Price Little People playsets Rebels again.
Wait a minute and Simon fromMilton Brown.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Surely we didn't have a Little People play set.
No, that's why half the peoplein America are freaking, messed
up now probably.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Because Little People , little People did it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Is that a Little People play set?
No, I'm playing with LittlePeople.
No, but it's for the LittlePeople, did it?
Is that a Little People playset?

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
No, I'm playing with Little People?
No, but it's for the LittlePeople.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Not Little Little People, not midgets, oh Little.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
People.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Oh yeah, Dwarves.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Yeah, fairies.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Horizontally stunted.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Oh, yeah, yeah, Is that better.
Yeah, because I dated one onetime.

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
And she was going to sue the city, did she?
Yeah, well, they built thesidewalk too close to her ass.
Oh, that sounds sad, tom.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
It was sad.
So on that note, tom, I thinkwe're going to end this podcast
for this week.
Really yeah, I think we'regoing to end it now, bud.
Podcast for this week.
Really yeah, I think we'regoing to end it now, bud.
I think, before you go too farthe other way.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
I was the other way once.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
That's alright.
Anyways, folks, we want you tolisten to us on all our sites.
Let's see Amazon, iheart,deezer, deepcastfm, buzzsprout.
Don't forget our website,mtalp5.com.
Check that out, please.
Everybody.
Go to that site.
But hey, we're on all differentplatforms.

(01:10:16):
Daniel will probably fill youin at the end anyways, because
sometimes we're idiots andforget shit.
But I thought any last commentsthere, tom Well.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
I'd just like to invite everybody to tune in to
next time when we talk about1978.
Yes, this is correct.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
And when we come back it's getting better.
I mean not that these songs arebad.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
That's not what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
God, no, now we're getting in songs that well,
especially for me each, eachweek.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
It gets better and better and better as we go on.
But, yeah, tune in and makesure you listen to that.
And, as always, I'd like tothank God for the gift of Gab.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
All right, tom, and that note.
Everyone take care.
God bless and later See ya.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Well, folks, you've done it again.
You survived another episode ofthe MT Alternative Podcast

(01:11:20):
hosted by Mike and Tom, theundisputed kings of
half-remembered facts andfull-blown tangents.
Thank you, else.
Can I subject myself to thisweekly carnival of chaos?
You're in luck or not,depending on your taste in audio
pain.
You can find the MT AlternativePodcast on Spotify, apple
Podcasts, iheartradio, googlePodcasts, audible, amazon Music,

(01:11:43):
deezer FM, deepcast FM, pocketCasts, stitcher, buzzsprout and,
of course, on the mothershipitself, at mentaltpodcom,
because nothing saysprofessional operation like a
site that still has a comingsoon page for merch since 2022.
And next week, buckle up,because Mike and Tom are rolling

(01:12:06):
into 1978, the year of grease,glitter and gas shortages.
Will they stay on topic?
Will Tom bring up his permagain?
Will Mike cry over a Bee Geestrack?
Only time will tell.
I'm Daniel, your presenter andemotional support human,
reminding you to tune in ordon't.

(01:12:26):
I'm not your mum, but if you do, bring snacks and low
expectations, see you next weekon the MT Alternative Podcast,
where history and nonsense holdhands and skip into oblivion.
Thank you.