The Nateland Podcast - #56 The 1980's

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

This episode, we're going back to the 1980s. Breakfast shares some of his high school fashion faux pas, Nate goes on a rant about today's movies, and Aaron again learns that the MASH finale was not the most watched event in television history.    Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]   Allform - allform.com/nate   Allform is offering 20% off all orders for our listeners at ALLFORM.COM/NATE.   That’s 20% off all orders at ALLFORM.COM/NATE.   Solo Stove  - solostove.com   Go to SOLOSTOVE.COM. And remember, you get $10 off when you use promo code NATE. That’s promo code NATE at SOLOSTOVE.COM for $10 off your order.    Mack Weldon - mackweldon.com/nate   For 20% off your first order, visit MACKWELDON.com/NATE and enter promo code NATE.

hello folks or let's go i was gonna say you i don't know yeah well this is obviously uh i don't know it's obvious it's uh recorded before the poll i don't know if the poll's been out yet. But maybe it has, maybe it hasn't, so it's hard to comment on it yet. So I'm still just playing it down the middle right now until we get a decision from the top, top down. Hello, folks, or let's go, folks. I think that's still being decided. Obviously, I'm still not home. I think I'm in Las Vegas when this comes out or something. I don't know.

Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates. Thank you for whatever. Just the stuff, dude. For being you, you know? Thanks, man. Not you. I wish, man. Not you. Unless you were a different you.

If you had kept your Planet Fitness thing, you might be a different. You showed the Planet Fitness you lost weight without them. Yeah. I did. I did. You're weaker than you've ever been. That's true. Probably, yeah.

Mentally and physically. If you were lying, you would just get shoved over. Oh, dude. Yeah. Probably. Mentally and physically. I think on the offensive line, you would just get shoved over. Oh, dude. Yeah. Yeah. I weighed a lot less when I played offensive line, but I was – Strong. I was sturdy as a rock.

Yeah. You know. My center of gravity is at my neck. That's what I like to say. I'll fall over so easy. Yeah. Now, but then – Then, yeah.

You would be able to – That was okay. his wife pushed you over once his anis she did she did yeah he's like 90 pounds that's what i first met laura that she was like want me to walk you to your car tonight she's like you trashed me about it for a while it's funny it's funny uh all right comments uh as always youtube instagram nateland facebook As always, YouTube, Instagram, Nateland, Facebook, fan page. Is that us? Our fan page? No, that's a fan. Someone do that.

The fan runs that Facebook page. Twitter, the subreddit, Nateland subreddit. So if people are on. That's the younger. The subreddit's popping, dude. There's a lot going on on there. I think it's great that it's there. I like it. The people are talking. that it's there. I like it that people are talking

and that's what people can discuss. People that don't know the Reddit world might be like, oh, I don't know. Maybe that's good. They wouldn't be left alone. Maybe they like being down there and be like, just get away. Get away from us. We're down here minding our own business. Casey Jones. So I heard Nate on

your mom's house and thought he was hilarious. Went and checked out this podcast last Monday at work and am already on episode 30. Hoping to get caught up by next week's episode. Watching it all unfold is like a less intense Breaking Bad. You guys are amazing, even bark. Goodbye, folks. Welcome, Casey. I love that.

Yeah. You know, flying through them them we're very similar to your mom's house i think and breaking back very similar and breaking back yeah your mom's house it's uh it's just a cleaner version of that you know that's all it is yeah uh bj maxwell nate's reading cadence is like a theme park roller coaster he speeds downhill by stringing seven day words together then he hits the climb and chugs through five to six words until he hits the slope again well worth the waiting line that is that's almost good way to describe my reading if i have to before i read i would tell people that if i had to read in public so just so you guys know this will be like a roller coaster

so i'm gonna go quick then it's slow down, then it'll speed back up again. That's almost a perfect way to describe it. Sarah Mish. When my husband and I were dating long distance, he flew to visit me in Chicago. It happened to be

during the Olympics. So my mom and I made a 15-foot sign that said, Welcome Home, and put Olympic rings on it. We told everyone else waiting for the flight

he had just won a silver in wrestling because no one knew the wrestlers. No one knows the wrestlers. When he walked off the plane, everyone started cheering. It's pretty good. It's pretty great. Yeah. It's a fun prank.

He has no idea why. You just have to take it at that point, right? Yeah, and he goes, where's your medal at? I checked it. He goes, I didn't get it. Oh, so we can't see it no they don't baggage claim right now yeah i hope it's not stolen uh matt gable listening to you guys talk about losing weight really got me motivated today was the only nearby restaurant was a mcdonald's but i was determined i pulled up to the drive-thru speaker and confidently asked for a Southwest chicken salad and a bottle of water. The lady taking my order responded with, sir, we haven't sold salads in over a year.

I decided at that moment that the diet was no longer for me and ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese and a McChicken for a side sandwich. There it is. Lesson learned. Side sandwich. Side sandwich is the move. Everybody knows. I don't know. Probably not everybody. I know what you're talking about lesson learned side sandwich the side sandwich is the move everybody knows i don't know probably not everybody i know we're talking about that side sandwich i'll take it number one no onions diet coke one little cheeseburger no onions on the side uh i do a mcchicken a lot on the side yeah it's a popular side sandwich you tell me it's a meal i have a

little different definition of what a meal is. It is. I just put it with the other meal. You need a side sandwich. Side sandwich is you got to get it. Yeah. I mean, that sounded good. Order in a bottle of water.

McDonald's. Do they no longer serve salads or just his McDonald's? I don't know. I'll be honest. I haven't looked into that. He got the answer he wanted. He didn't question it. That's what he was hoping. She might have said, sir, we've been selling so many salads in this past year,

and he heard we haven't sold salads over here. He's like, scratch that. I'll take that. He heard what he wanted to hear. That's how I – oh, man. That's a tough one. You know, you're like, there's no other restaurant. I don't know what to do. Get yourself a side salad. Get's a tough one. You know, you're like, there's no other restaurant. I don't know what to do.

Get yourself a side sandwich. I ordered a quarter pounder with cheese by accident. How did that happen? We had a nice restaurant? No, no, because I wanted number two, but no onions. It was two cheeseburgers, but that's been switched. Oh, I thought you met your you were trying to order something healthy and you accidentally no no no no he's got the number

i got the number wrong well they changed the number two to the quarter pounder and so i just well it's in i've ordered so many that i don't even know what i'm i'm just blurting out my order and then i get it i'm like why like, why is it in one box? And then, and so I ate a quarter pounder. I don't ever get quarter pounders. A fun fact. It'll be on the Nate Land game board. Never get a quarter pounder.

Does Nate eat quarter pounders? He doesn't. Move two spaces. Jeff Harden. When my buddy Carl was in college, he played football and needed another credit. The coach got him in a golf class. Due to conflicts with practice, he told him he didn't have to go to class. After graduating, Carl was interviewing at an accounting firm,

and the guy noticed on his transcript he took golf in college. He asked Carl what his handicap was. Carl was floored, and his mind was racing. He couldn't imagine how he could have known he had a handicap he told him he had a club foot when he was born but they corrected it when he was young the interview bursted out laughing oh that's uh that's very funny yeah he's got to play it off as a joke at that point oh all right you know All right. You know, just in that situation, he's like, this is the adult world. They want to know what's your handicap before we get going.

And he goes, all right, of course, yeah. Had a club foot when I was born, but they fixed it. So it won't be a problem around the office. I don't think it'll be a big problem around the office. I think I can still do my job. And they go, I don't know. But that club foot, I doubt itordan gibbs hello nate you mentioned in an earlier episode that you were writing a song is this something that you're still working on thank you nate land team

for this podcast i look forward to it every week uh we did write the song uh it's uh the guy's got a new song out now walker hayes is who i wrote it with he's got a great song out uh that laura sent me yeah i don't know no way we'll be able to play it right no no i'll play a second of it i would say seven seconds fancy like Play seven seconds of Fancy Like. But get in the... Get a little bit... Yeah. And then... This is tough. It's a great song. Oh, geez.

Yeah. I mean, they just shut down the whole... Not at the beginning. You're wasting... I thought this was an ad. Sorry. All right, maybe 27 seconds? Yeah.

Let's try that. Yeah. Nailed it, Aaron. uh yeah let's try that yeah oh there's your line yep fancy like apple you sure this isn't the song you wrote it's a great song i know it is uh now it's walker hayes me and him uh the ones that wrote it we still have it i don't know i'm gonna ask him uh where it's at now that he's blowing up from this. He was already doing good, but now that it's going great, so I'm going to be like, hey, man, I see our song got pushed behind. What happened? Was I not good enough for you, Walker?

Abigail Ray. When I was eight, I was going to Mexico with my mom and dad And it was my first plane ride We were getting in the car and Nate came to tell me bye And said, hey, don't worry about the flight Only worry if you get peanuts If they give peanuts, it means you're going down I assumed he was kidding when I got them

Since the plane was fine About five minutes after we were given peanuts The landing gear messed up and we had to have an emergency landing. There were fire trucks and an ambulance and the wheels were on fire. We had to be evacuated from the plane. I kept yelling at my mom,

they gave us peanuts, they gave us peanuts. So for people, that is my sister. Oh, okay. Yeah. She lived a different life than me. She went to Mexico with my sister. Oh, okay. Yeah. She lived a different life than me. She went to Mexico with my parents. I have a whole new joke about all this, so I can't, I won't dive into too much. But, yeah, they, I mean, it's crazy.

They had to do the, where they had to, like, let the gas go and, like, you know, and they,. And you see on TV, just bzzz in it. Oh, yeah. And all that stuff. What was this? Yeah, how old were you? She was eight, so I was 17. I guess I'm nine years older than her. Yeah.

17, 18. So they were doing this. And I was kind of like, you're hanging out more, you're not eight. But yeah, it's crazy. Pretty good, though. The odds of that. It really worked out for me. For the joke of the peanuts.

It's a pretty good joke. They give you peanuts. It's not good. Telling an eight-year-old that is too. I mean, Harper's about to be nine, but that's... Wes Griffin. Nate, Aaron, and back nine. I have a comedy trick that always annoys me

and was curious if it annoys you too. I hate it when comedians first come to the stage and say something like, I know what you're thinking. I look like blah, blah, insert option one, mixed one mix with option two curious your opinions on that cheap trick uh aaron you still open like this so what what do you say you look like you feel the audience hate it i hate that too did you ever do one no i'm sure maybe you have some you always have a form of that yeah yeah everybody kind of does i it's not a good i i don't know no you don't like it but i always understand it and so the

way i look at it is usually it's when you first start you have a lot of jokes that are kind of i mean i had airplane jokes about the seat not going back when i first started because you don't know that that's very hacky to do so i had would do airplane jokes in open mic, which is mortified when I think about that because they had to be just judging me so hard to be like, this dude's doing airline stuff. About the peanuts? Not about the peanuts. That would be a good – I might tell that story actually,

the peanut story on – I could try that on stage. Maybe. Well, another thing is that sometimes it's awkward to just get started yeah like it's it's hard to just start the set so using a stock kind of structure like that i know it's easy well sometimes it works you know like ryan hamilton says he looks like seinfeld and chris rock right or i don't know it's something like that. And he's, it's like kind of dead on. He says he looks more like a comedy club logo than a comedian. Yes.

Which is kind of dead on. It's very funny. So if it's done at that kind of level, the guy would be like, oh, wow. You'd be like, yeah, I get it. But it needs to be great. If you're going to do it,

it needs to be great. Or you need to be pretty young into comedy and you don't know what, you don't know how to start a show. And then you learn how to do it. Then you learn to kind of stop doing that kind of stuff. So the answer is kind of, I do agree with you, Wes. When I took a comedy class, the very first class, he had us each get up on stage where we didn't know each other at all

and have people write down what we thought this person, what they did, where they're from. Just so you get a idea of what people think you are. Yeah. Who you are. Yeah. What do people say about you?

I don't even remember. I counted or something. Yeah. Look worried. Yeah. Yeah. That girl that said that's nailed it more than anybody. Ben Dukes.

Nate, you mentioned in a previous episode that Netflix gave you positive feedback about the ratings after The Tennessee Kid was released. Have you heard any news since the release of The Greatest Average American? I'm a big fan of the podcast. Keep up the great work. Yeah, they did tell us a little bit more. I'm not allowed to say. But it was great. It did great.

Everybody's very happy. So thank you for everybody, every single person that watched it, everybody that you told people to watch it. If you know anybody that hasn't watched it, keep go watching it. I, uh, appreciate that. My success all comes from you people listening to this and telling people I'm, uh, very much a word of mouth comedian. So I owe it to all of you, all the folks and the fans of standup. Uh, it's completely you guys. And it's,

so we're, yeah, as always, I'm very grateful of that and we'll never take advantage of it. Uh, but yeah, it did really good and they were very happy and which was great to hear. And,

uh, you know, Netflix does like when they look at stuff, they look at stuff like very early from the beginning, right when it starts they kind of see what the numbers are then they do it like i think a month later something like that and then it kind of lives up there so i don't know if they they don't like keep tracking but i mean they know everything dude they know every second someone's watched every person you know so something you gotta think too like how many people are watching this standup special alone?

I don't think I'm, I think I'm a, I know when people come to shows, it's couples, it's families. Uh, I'm, people do watch it alone.

I'm not saying they don't. Uh, I watch a lot of stuff, you know, you know, you'd like comedy, you watch something alone or whatever, but so you hope more,

you know, then all those families will watch it together but it was good uh so thank you jennifer landris while visiting with some good friends in their home a neighbor came to visit the neighbor had the worst teeth i have ever seen so much so that it affected his speech at one point he went to the restroom came out announced that he was out of that he was out of toilet paper at his house and had stuffed some extra TP in his shoe to take home with him. We were all trying so hard not to laugh and hurt his feelings.

For almost half an hour, full of socially awkward interactions, we refused to make eye contact with one another or we would not be able to contain ourselves. We were working so hard to be kind and matters got worse when he attempted two magic tricks with a deck of cards bombing terribly then the third trick was mind blowing and super impressive it turns out the neighbor was nate's dad steven he had dentures professionally made to to play this hillbilly role he proceeded to perform the most amazing magic show for us and our friends in the living room. I was not at all surprised when I saw Nate on Jimmy Fallon several years later

and recognized the last name. Thanks to your whole family for bringing joy and laughs to our family. Yeah, that's great. That's, yeah, my dad would always, he had, him and Wayne Denton, his buddy Wayne, they would do it together, him and Wayne Denton, his buddy Wayne, they would do it together, but he would just be, he's very good at doing that, like sticking with that and like having it, you know, and we'd watch him,

he'd do it, he'd go in a gas, he'd just put these crazy teeth in. Just go into a gas station? He'd go in a gas station, he'd order something. And you would be like, you just go in there and sit, and it just looks like, you know know there's something wrong with this guy and you watch him just have to be nice to him you know and he just gets some dude and he goes and buys gum or something i asked your dad about this and he remembers this particular yeah episode there was more to it that they put in there like he wore like a blue walmart vest and all kinds of stuff.

He has a windbreaker jacket. It's not going to be the jacket you'd wear. It's not far off from your outfit. It's always like something that... You got the Walmart flip-flops. He'd love those. They would fit in great.

I'll get him a pair. You nailed that reading, by the way. Yeah, it was a lot. So I look at sentences. Sometimes those sentences, you're like, I hope this was the next sentence. That's what I think. The whole all of them, you were flying through them. You nailed it.

Yeah, we're getting better. Practice. You guys are going to watch me learn and get better. I want to go find out if I have dyslexia. Maybe. If you do, you've conquered it man i just one week one week no i'm demeaning your whole life we're coming off quickly you talk cut larry i mean and to go i'm i don't know how much i'm conquering i mean yeah i'm i've made a living yeah that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah.

But I don't think, I think a lot of people have. I don't think dyslexia like. I'm trying to put a good spin on this, dude. I mean, yeah. People with dyslexia, there's like, most of us don't make it out of a closet. We're just in there just like, that's our uncle Randy. He's got dyslexia and he can't, he's been in that closet for 10 years. Doesn't know how to get out.

We've still have food under the door. He lives there now. He thinks that's the world. He's been in that closet for 10 years. Doesn't know how to get out. We've saw food under the door. He lives there now. He thinks that's the world. He goes, this is the big world. Aaron says you could be their spokesperson. You're their role model. Yeah, for dyslexia. Yeah.

I mean, who's another celebrity that has dyslexia? Joe Biden? Doesn't Biden have it? I don't know. Stutters. No, that would be terrible. He's's a president i don't know if it's a celebrity uh there you go shack yeah yeah y'all mean that you're about to say kardashian jake i'm a president of the united states of america who's another one that oh kim jong-un that's a celebrity that has uh putin yeah who's that famous guy in russia oh putin uh celebrities with the delixia so sorry for saying but he does not have it i don't know why i thought

cover by reading that yeah yeah steven Spielberg. They all did real good. Yeah. Justin Timberlake has AD, oh, Henry Winkler, dyslexia and math issues. I mean,

that feels like someone doesn't like him. There's no reason to put that in there. Dyslexia and doesn't smell good. You're like,

oh, all right, dude. Just, the question was who has dyslexia? doesn't smell good yeah all right dude just the question was who has dyslexia it wasn't going the rest of our conditions his just math issues math yeah five plus five nine henry come on buddy he goes oh god he doesn't he doesn't get it what is wrong what's the speaking of uh henry winclair yeah 80s yep that's the topic today wow henry was uh that worked out yeah that worked out was that show in the 80s happy days probably? Probably. Started in the 70s. Jumped the shark in the 80s. Oh, there you go. Oh. But he was famous in the 80s. Yeah.

And 90s. And he keeps going. He's still doing very good. He's got dyslexia and math issues. We just watched The Waterboy. Oh, right. He was the coach in that. I forgot he was the coach in that.

Yeah. So a lot of fun stuff in the 80s. I bet so. The AIDS epidemic swept the country Yeah No, I learned my lesson Not so much gloom and doom Do you

I remember basically everything about the 80s You weren't born What Anything in particular you want to start with That you remember from the 80s? So Born in 79 I remember I guess 89

I was 10 No, I mean I remember, I guess, 89. I was 10. No, I mean, I remember. There's nothing that... I'm sure when you bring up stuff, I'll probably remember stuff. There's nothing that was like... When do you become like super... You're like, oh, yeah, I remember everything. I'm not a good remembering person.

I have remembering issues. You don't have a good memory? Dyslexia and remembering issues. Yeah. What if I... Even Henry Winkler. His doctor comes in. He goes, you have dyslexia and remembering issues yeah what if i'm henry when doctor comes in he goes you have dyslexia i've told you this before i'm like god i forgot and then they had to put that and remembering issues he has dyslexia and remembering issues uh and some math stuff yeah just some other things it just gets very broad and uh some english nonsense but i don't we can go etc etc etc he doesn't know what that means etc so you think he's gonna keep going he doesn't

know what etc means you're like oh oh so it ends you yeah, it's not et cetera. It means he doesn't know what that means. Well, I'll start with some inventions that kind of became big in the 80s. It started in the 80s with cameras. It was still the Kodak, the Polaroid, pop out. By the end, disposable cameras was the way to go. So I remember that. But that would have been the 90s too. Yeah, but they kind of took off in the 80s. so those were big do you remember disposable cameras i do remember disposable

cameras and they still you still see them occasionally at like uh you've been like a wedding where they have them sitting at the table and stuff because they're like a dime now yeah they're barely hanging on but that used to be your camera was it just a disposable camera oh yeah yeah you take them to Walmart or Walgreens or something

take pictures I think you take them there to take pictures well let me yeah there's a Walmart open there you go right

yeah picture of Brian in front of it yeah you take them down to Walmart take pictures there's a picture of bald eagle just sitting there flapping his wings in front of the new Walmart of it yeah you take them down to the walmart take pictures there's a picture of bald eagle just

sitting there flapping his wings in front of the new walmart and they had to back up so far just to get all of it in i remember when it came the walmart came yeah it was blew up blue kmart out of the water and y'all went oh yeah yeah yeah it's like going to when you get a big store like that i do remember that It's like going to, when you get a big store like that, I do remember that. It's like going to, you're excited to go. You're like, oh, they got a new. Oh, yeah. Well, I remember I was, I mean, for shopping, I had a couple of wardrobe malfunctions in

high school. For shopping, Goodies was the go-to store. Was you going to blow past your wardrobe malfunctions? Well, I'm going to sell it, but I'm just setting you up. Okay. Do you know what Goodies is the go-to store in Lebanon. Were you going to blow past your wardrobe malfunctions? Well, I'm going to sell it, but I'm just setting you up. Okay. Do you know what Goodies is? No. Does Goodies still exist?

Is it a candy bar? It is a candy, but I kind of know the store. To us, it was high-end fashion in Lebanon. It was like the only store. So one Christmas, my mom and I went to Hickory Hollow Mall. Yeah. Big trip. It is a big trip. It is a big trip.

That's a big trip. That's like 40 minutes. 40 minute drive. Yeah. Especially where we lived. And these Coca-Cola shirts were a big thing for a while in the 80s. Do you ever heard of this? And there was this shirt in the store.

It said Coca-Cola casual wear 1987. This is Christmas 86. And it was bright and it stood out out and i thought this is the coolest thing ever so i asked my mom if i could have it was like 30 so she said that's too expensive but she knew how much i liked it so uh put in coca-cola casual wear 1987 okay and but then she surprised me for christmas with it so now i've got this shirt and that one, the bright one, second row, second row. Oh, right here? Yeah.

That's it. The first one there on the left. Oh, that is a cool shirt. Yeah, but you'd be wearing it in the way you're supposed to wear it now. He wore it as... Yeah. It was... Well, I wore it, so I'm so excited.

You should buy that shirt now versus... Oh, sorry. And I wear it to high school first day after Christmas. And because everybody in Lebanon, again, you'd wear the same shirts because everybody shopped at Goody's. So everybody had the same new shirt. So I thought, I'm going to be so cool. And I was a sophomore.

There was a senior girl who had the same shirt. And she was furious that this nerdy guy, she was really popular in high school yeah and i'm walking down the hall and she's furious so it's embarrassing for both of us to wear because that shirt so stands out well about two weeks later it comes back up in the rotation yeah and i wore it to school and here she comes walking down the hall and she's wearing her and i could just hear her say her friend are you kidding me right now? She was so mad and so embarrassed. And I never wore it again.

I was just like, I can't do it. I can't take the chance. Maybe after she graduated high school. But by then, it was 88. Shirt was old. Now you look dumb. So that was one. And then the other one, somehow I missed out that boy bands weren't cool if you're a guy.

Because New Edition, they were a big thing, but that's the only boy. And then, my senior, before my senior year of high school, right before we started back, me and my buddy

went to the New Kids on the Block concert. And we didn't realize that that's not cool for guys. So I bought a t-shirt at Starwood Amphitheater to wear to school

my first day of my senior year. Big statement. Well, people quickly let me know. I brought it for a visual. I wore this shirt to school the first day of my senior year. It didn't go over well.

Guys quickly let me know this. I mean. That's not cool. Like an improv troupe. Yeah. You would be, what did you tell them? They could do a concert. You're like, no, I stole it from some girl.

That would be what you should have. You would be like, all right, that's cool. I beat up a girl and took her shirt. I mean, I was so proud. It took like third period of people just like, what are you doing, man, before I realized this was a huge mistake. And you had to wear it? All day.

All day. Yeah, I mean, I couldn't go home. Could you turn it on its head and be like, yeah, it's hilarious that I'm wearing this. I could have if I was smart, but no. It took me half the day to realize it's not cool. If you've been a time machine we could go back and fix it but you're kind of past the point of don't you think you could have uh done it yeah i could have done a lot of stuff could have there's a lot of stuff i could have done differently a little bit more i went up to a to my high school were you in high school i was like a freshman in high school and i

was the biggest sports fan in the world. And I read like every Street and Smith College basketball magazine from cover to cover. And they listed the top high school players coming out. And a guy named Carlos Groves played at East Robertson High School. And he got recruited by Tennessee, and he was in my magazine. And I was so excited that he came to our high school to play. He was like a celebrity that I went up to him

and had him autograph my magazine. And his buddies were like teasing him. It would almost be like if somebody came up to me now, it was just ridiculous. Every way around, he was embarrassed. I'm the only one not embarrassed at the time. Everybody else is like, what is going on here? And they just teased him about it.

But he played at Tennessee. His biggest claim is the hack of Shaq when Shaq couldn't hit a free throw. Yeah. They would put him in the game and like they got in a fight. I remember that. Fouled him pretty hard.

Pulled him down. A big fight. Yeah. Yeah. The giant, like one of the more famous college basketball fights, right? LSU and Tennessee?

Yeah. That was him, Carlos Groves. Yeah. Yeah, it was a huge fight. I remember that game. That was very funny. So I don't know if you guys are getting a trend here. I wasn't that cool in high school.

No, I think we got it. He's like trying to make a case for it in court. The judge goes goes all right dude that's enough tells us costanza yeah he goes we don't need anything else there's andrea andrea dora is this him right here bro i i mean maybe now but you couldn't find a picture of him in college i wonder if he would remember you. I bet he would. I mean, there's a good chance. Yeah, that was the fight.

It was a huge fight, dude. I mean, it's a huge, huge fight. I mean, he was so big. And look at him there next to Shaq. I know. Yeah, they got in such a big fight about it. I remember that. I remember I saw Shaq play.

That was like one where you feel old, where we talk about it like that, where you see guys. Like, I saw Shaq play in college. You saw his whole career. Basically. I mean, he's about as early as I start remembering. I mean, he knows. Oh, I can remember before there was a three-point line.

I really can. Yeah. It was a big deal for Vandy because we always had great outside shooters. Oh, yeah, I totally remember that. Are you still disappointed about it? About the three-point line? Did you ever come to accept it? Were you mad about it at first?

It's against the spirit of the game. No, I liked it. I liked it. Vandy Street got broken on my wedding day. We were at my wedding reception and keith alberstadt texted me furious about it yeah and like for a second i was just so mad at my wedding reception but then i moved on yeah yeah we had vandy as an active streak or they did we've hit a three point every game since the three point line has been put in can you name the other teams that were on that streak ucla no we don't have to go too much i'll

give you two more guesses one's kind of obvious and the other is not duke no north carolina uh princeton okay and unlv which i always sayV, and everybody always acts like they're like, oh, obviously. And you're like, there's no way that's obvious. UNLV's just shocked me. But I guess they used to hit threes. But they had Larry Johnson. That's who I think of UNLV. It's more of it's not like they're going to hit three points for that.

But now it's just UNLV and Princeton because of Andy Jerrystack who broke the streak, which was tough. It was a tough thing because they would go, the streak continues. They would say that every game. And it's like, it was just like something great we had. And then Stackhouse is there, and he came in and broke it. And I was pretty upset about it too. Like, it's like, just come on, dude.

It was almost like he did. It just shows nothing against Jerry Stackhouse, but it made me mad with being like, do you even know? Like, we have this thing going. We like it. It doesn't matter. But it's not like we won a championship and we lost the strike. We did terrible, and then the streak got broke.

So he kind of added on. But then he kind of blew it off. Like, who cares? Like, it doesn't matter to you because you just got here. You're not going to stay here probably forever. Yeah. But we are. So don't mess it up.

Pretty upset about that. Yeah. So that streak went from like 87 or something to 2019. Yeah, the start of 2020. The three-point line got put in in 87? It was the mid-80s. Wow. For college.

I didn't know it was that. Okay. They had it in the NBA before that for a while. Not for a while. I had't know it was that. Okay. They had it in the NBA before that for a while? Not for a while. I had no idea it was that recent. I feel like the NBA maybe got in the late 70s, and then college was like the mid-80s. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. All right. So cell phones started coming on the scene, like the big box ones. We had one. I remember my dad had one in a bag. But I mean, we never could use it.

Like it was, I mean, I think it was a few dollars a minute. Yeah. Like it was almost, I don't know, it was like, well, in case there's an emergency. That's when they all started the emergency kind of thing. When you think about that, they all, it all started with, well, what case there's an emergency that's when they all started the emergency kind of thing when you think about that they all it all started with well what if there's an emergency and like so everything kind of gets sold on the fact of if there's an emergency it's kind of crazy like you look at insurance insurance is all for an emergency and then you get down now cell phones well you need this bag and so we sell you this cell phone and well what if an emergency happens then it's like so you save it up for just

this emergency my parents gave me my first cell phone and they said just keep in your glove box in case you ever break like i didn't even turn it on i just put in my glove box and it was an emergency if i broke down what happens if it died it would it would have just been dead i guess i mean i guess if you never turn it on it it's going to stay charged for a long time. I don't think that's how electricity works. I think it would drain eventually. Eventually. But you'd be able to hold it for a while.

I don't know. But bottom line is I just didn't even turn it on. I would just put it in there. And if I had to reach somebody, then I'd turn it right back off and put it in my glove box. That's so crazy. If I leave the room without my phone, I'd turn around and go find it. Yeah. I'm so tired of the phone.

I go. I took it the other day. Yesterday, I just had my watch on, and then I left my phone here and went down to my neighbor's and just sat there. I want to leave it. I don't want it at all. There's just too many. It's just so much.

I get a lot of texts. Personal computers came out in mid 80s and the apple the first mac came out 84 which kind of revolutionized you gasped in your mom's womb and your mom you go yeah felt Could you feel it? I was in the utero for seven years. Yeah. Took a while to come out. That took my time. When were you born? 91.

91. God. CDs passed cassette tapes and sales in 1988. Oh, I thought that would have been later. 88? CDs? Yeah. I remember cassettes, but CDs were more expensive.

Yeah. I mean, that's where people just thought they were not going to, like if you're a band and you were like selling CDs, I mean, you could just never imagine music could have been where it's at now. I mean, I'm sure the ones that did have been paid very well because they predicted it. But, I mean, there's got to be so many people that are like, yeah, dude, you're just selling cds and uh you know cassettes and you're it's it's uh the radio

is huge everything's huge everything is so big back then radio's so big tv's so big all this stuff is so big it's so powerful it's interesting that some of these things have come back in style a little bit. Like vinyl's been popular for a while now, but cassettes are back. You go to some of these hip record stores and music places, yeah, there are cassettes. Like new artists? New artists will put their albums out on cassettes now. Where could you even listen to it at?

I don't know. I don't have one in my car. Well, you have to just buy a cassette player yeah yeah the cars even have cd players anymore they i don't know mine's 10 years old but yeah the new ones might not no yeah i forgot to mention the first cell phone cost four thousand dollars so i hope you locked your glove box it took well that one that didn't have this cost more than a car yeah the phone could only your glove box it took well that didn't have this one that cost more than a car yeah the phone could only store 30 numbers

it took 10 hours to charge and it offered 30 minutes of talk time $4,000 imagine someone using that they were how much was it to talk? I don't know yeah

didn't take to look at it I don't know. Yeah, didn't take to look at it. I didn't. If someone used their phone a lot back then, I mean, God, that's got to be such a rich person that just could spend four grand on, it's just a statement. If someone needed it yeah yeah um

3 30 oh never mind thought i had the number totally misread the sentence false alarm 3 30 yeah that's 3 35 per hour it's no way's right. Who's on the phone for an hour? That's probably broken up in whatever. Basically, it's $3.35 an hour. If you talked for 10 hours, it'd be $30. $30 a day. I think I might have dyslexia because $3.35 an hour was minimum wage in 1984. That's what I read.

I think I got paid less than that in 1997. What was the minimum wage in 97? I thought I got paid $3.25 an hour when I had my first job at Opryland Theme Park. You could file a lawsuit. Yeah. Get some back pay. What was who they got to thank for that? Isn't that minimum wage now?

Well, who do you got to thank? How much was minimum wage in nashville in 1997 or no it wasn't been 97 it was 94 something like that uh 95 yeah the 425 so maybe that was it so maybe it was 425 not 325 that sounds right yeah uh sony walkman came out in the 80s. They were hoping to sell 5,000 units in the first month. They sold 30,000. It was a big hit.

Do you remember when that hit? Were you in middle school, high school? I think I was in middle school. Yeah. I don't remember exactly. Okay. I remember mowing the grass and listening to Walkman. And so Walkman, you couldn't have the CD player for a while. But then the Walkman, you couldn't have the CD player for a while,

but then the Walkman, then they're like, you go to the CD player and you were like, you got to carry around. You know, the Walkman was like, it was at least the size of a tape. You clip it on your belt. It didn't skip.

And then you get a CD player and a Walkman. And I remember mowing the grass with it. You'd have those little headphones in that just let all the noise i mean there's now it's all about the experience and it covered these are covering your ears and and i mean it was basically just like having it off you know and you're you just hear everything uh and then you get the cd player to skip and then they had that no skip button

gary goldman has a joke about that it's very funny uh about not having some skip like anti-skip button so it doesn't skip but it's skip and now you can listen wear a watch and have bluetooth headphones in that's pretty crazy it's it's sometimes it's like i feel like we kind of forget. You just get, you, you slowly build into this stuff. So you just really get used to it. But, uh, you know, the fact that you can see each other on your FaceTime, I mean, it's just, it wasn't that long ago. No. You couldn't do anything.

Mm-hmm. Uh, almost a fourth of mattresses sold in the eighties were waterbeds. Do you ever have a waterbed? did yeah kind of fun i remember my uncle had one uh when he because he was younger than my parents so he was still living at my grandparents or his parents house when we were born and so we'd always because his room was like cool, like because he was 19 or something. And he had a waterbed. And then I remember, I had one. I remember I bought one.

And then people would tell you to put sand in it. Instead of water? Yeah. Really? I think so. I never had a waterbed. Did you sleep in it? It's pretty heavy.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't, I mean. I mean, it's water. It's pretty heavy. That could be made up. But, I mean. I mean, it's water. It's pretty heavy. That could be made up. But I'm pretty sure some people would say put sand in it. Yeah, that'd be very heavy. But a waterbed was heavy.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Either way, it's super heavy. Yeah. It's funny. Why would you sleep on a waterbed? They must have gone way down in popularity now i don't think they think because people got people got fatter the waves just started crashing we just started

you gotta have a low wake zone when you go to bed you just toss your wife right out of bed she just hits them she just goes flying the air just hits face first into the the the closet this fold-out closet thing. You got to leave them shut. She's, sorry. A Murphy bed? Yeah.

A Murphy bed water bed? Yeah, yeah. I know of apartment complexes or condos. I think either they're not allowed or you have to let them know because if they break, it's going to drain down every floor. Right. Yeah.

I think they had problems with that. Yeah. I don't think they sell them anymore. I'm sure they do. I'd like to get one. I'm going to look that up. This one's for you, Aaron. Yeah.

1984, the first minivan. Nice. The Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Voyager. What's yours? I a chrysler town and country okay i think just regular vans were big back up and you know just the kind you slide open like throw some kids in there and take off i don't know if i remember in my lifetime a new type of car coming out like a minivan that's a whole different thing tesla well tesla but that's electric car you know what i mean shape the shape of it i would say some trucks they got that extended cab

like we got seats in the back i mean a truck now is like a full-on four-door car. Yeah. Yeah. And so having that extra, I mean, you sit back there, there's a ton of room. Yeah, but if you see that truck go by, you're not like, what is that thing? Yeah. I imagine first time you see a minivan, you're like, that's a whole different thing.

I think you've seen vans, though. We had 12-passenger vans and stuff like that. Yeah, they had vans? It was just like one that your family could afford. Okay, so they had the big 15-passenger. I think so. They probably had shuttles. Airport shuttle car. Yeah, stuff like that.

There goes my point. Yeah, I don't think you were like, what is? It's like a helicopter landing in the middle of the cul-de-sac. All these kids keep coming. They keep coming they keep coming out of it how many people they got in there you gasp do they still sell regular just vans now yeah yeah i think so for sure like a 12 passenger van uh i guess just like like scooby-doo type van just right yeah they got

for sure oh yeah i think that was becoming popular yeah the van life is popular yeah people oh really now they're making vans that you can like there's companies that you can have you can live out of it it's a bed it's a whatever you know yeah i think you can get anything you want now and i think a lot of stuff comes back and you can get whatever you whatever you want i bet water beds are back i bet everything's back i didn can get whatever you want now so people want to people buy this now it's all about niche so it's all niche markets and there's enough niche people that want to live in an old van it's not the kind of people vans are rocking don't come a knocking i was thinking about the 18 which probably for your before your time, but they had a van. Yeah, now I remember the 18.

If it was a minivan, it'd be a little different show. Yeah, yeah. Television. The Royal Wedding. Prince Charles, Lady Diana. Over a billion people watched it. Yeah. July 29th, 1981.

That's like reading news. I mean, just the slow turn and that's all for television today all right let's kick it over to nate with the weather hey and aaron with sports uh if we were a news team who would be i mean are you the lead anchor or are you kind of the the funny guy you kick it to in the field? I think he's Ron Burgundy. You're Ron Burgundy. Yeah, because you'll read anything in the teleprompter. Yeah.

Yeah. Whatever they put in there. Yeah. I'm probably Steve Carell. I was going to say. I don't remember that guy's name. Yeah. David Kagan.

I'm Christina Applegate. You've taken his job. Yes. you've taken his job the Who Shot JR finale Dallas was up in that time the most watched TV show in TV history you guys heard about Who Shot JR?

I remember all this stuff you ran into New Kids on the Block so this was probably right up your alley nice soap opera you and all the moms watched it this was early 80s and my mom watched all these shows dallas dynasty knots landing and did your dad watch them i mean we only had one tv so he had to yeah yeah but we had the friday night duke's hazard yeah

incredible hulk yeah dallas and then y'all would do the radio yeah and then we'd go backwards and listen to Yeehaw but it was a season ending cliffhanger

and you had to wait all summer to find out there was all this speculation about who shot J.R. there were songs about it and all the tabloids

and just they wouldn't tell the actors I think they filmed it in a way where only the person who shot him actually even knows.

Yeah. They didn't want the actors to give it away. Mm-hmm. So it was pretty crazy. Who shot him? His mistress.

Was it a surprise or? I mean, it got to the point where people had speculated about everyone. So there's not going to be a surprise because they literally listed every like his mom or, people had speculated about everyone, so there's not going to be a surprise because they literally listed every,

like his mom or, you know, so I don't think it was a huge surprise. Yeah, no wonder they felt the payoff. Did they feel good about it? Yeah, were people happy with the way it turned out? I mean, I feel like people would be much more hard on it now because we just know so much more now. I think it was kind of new and fresh like oh wow i can't believe i think her name was christina i feel like sometimes when shows like

that when they build it up so big it's just there's no way to yeah please everybody back then i think you still could kind of yeah because yeah they didn't they didn't have a ton of that stuff right i mean you only have so many channels to begin with so there's only you're competing with nothing right because there's all you got is you're channels to begin with. So there's only, you're competing with nothing. Right. Because there's, all you got is, you're going to be the best of like 20 shows. Yeah. That's it.

Three channels. Crazy. Three channels. I remember when channels started getting, there started to be a lot more. When you got four or five? No, it was, when we started getting like 20. I mean,

a lot of them you wouldn't get because you had to pay for them. You could go to HBO and it'd be scrambled or something. But when it started

being like more channels, it was just so crazy. Like, golly, there's so many more channels. Yeah, I mean,

I think it's, my cousin had Basic Cable and they could get WGN and TBS and watch Cubs and Braves game. I was so jealous because that was in the 80s, but I didn't have cable until I got to college.

We lived out in the country and didn't come there, and we weren't paying for a salad dish the size of our house. Was your roommate in college just like – you were like, what is this? Why are you wearing your kids on the block shirt yeah he goes he brought that in your coca-cola shirt and then you go what is this you got to bet framing his autograph on the wall of that guy carlos groves i met carlos groves once you're like oh is he the guy that comes off the bench you loser you're asking for that guy they get they get it's not even the main guy did you get shacks autograph no no i got carlos groves so in 1983 the mash finale aired and somehow people just

knew this gonna i mean advertisers they knew it was gonna be a huge deal so they started buying 30 second commercials for 450 000 which was more than the Super Bowl that year. And the night it aired, a large area of California suffered a power outage due to a storm, which prevented many people from watching the series finale for three weeks. But it had 106 million viewers. It passed Who Shot J.R. for the most viewed episode ever. And from 1983 to 2010,

it was still the most watched TV broadcast in American history until the Super Bowl finally passed it. I feel like MASH was very much in its time. I didn't watch MASH. I remember, I think my parents watched MASH. I remember people watching MASH or something. But it's like a show that doesn't get talked about anymore i feel like

like it's for being the biggest show in the world signed like seinfeld yeah and we still talk about it's on tv every day all day uh andy griffith i feel like yeah i was gonna say andy griffith out like mash just feels like it was when it was done it was done and the people that watched it loved it and then no one talked about it ever again after that well they tried a spin-off show called After Mash which showed them when they all got back to America and it just

it tanked quickly yeah it was almost like everybody was just done yeah it was almost like that Mash was like the first big show maybe not but

the Mash finale was so dark too yeah just really dark you were watching all that? I mean I remember it yeah were you allowed to watch it or i think so i think i didn't watch mash as a kid but i think the finale we knew it was such a big deal so yeah you just kind of watch to see what happened was there stuff on tv back then that would be inappropriate enough for parents to be like i'm not gonna let my kids watch

that or wasn't everything kind of innocent and wholesome in a way well there's certainly words that said back then that wouldn't be allowed now yeah like some of those norman lear shows from the 70s and 80s i mean they said stuff that so many things would get canceled now did you have stuff you weren't allowed to watch yeah simpsons were big for me i couldn't watch the simpsons either but they uh uh what uh how was i gonna say i don't know it doesn't matter well the top shows um of the 80s dallas dominated their first half 80s and then the back half cosby show was number one for five straight years in the 80s last week i said can you can you believe All in the Family? Well, it happened the next decade too.

Five straight years, number one show. Wow. Really? And last year, The Simpsons came in at number 28. 1989, 90 year, and it's still on. Oh, wow. That's when it started, 89? The 89, 90 TV season.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Seinfeld started too, right? Yep. Yeah. That wasn't a hit for a while, right? season. Yeah. Wow. Seinfeld started too, right? Yep. Yeah. That wasn't a hit for a while, right? Like, until 92, 93 is when it really caught on.

Okay. But you always hear them talk about stuff, you know. I've talked, God, what was, I talked to, I know, Phil Rosenthal, who created Everybody Loves Raymond. So, like, it's always fun to, like, when I'll talk to him, I'llhal, who created Everybody Loves Raymond. So we like, it's always fun to like, when I'll talk to him, I'll ask him questions about Everybody Loves Raymond. And just when you, it's funny to hear him. He's talking like the shows that they competed against,

like his views of some of these shows that I've loved, or he was like, that show's the worst. Like, I'm not saying he necessarily says that, but it's like that idea of like, cause that was his competitor. And so you would be like, yeah, in that moment, he is competing with these people.

And like, you like home improvement. They're like, you know, they put us in, they'd say something about being on top, bad time slot. And when they put us here,

then we finally got, I forget when was, uh, everybody was running. Was it Monday? Maybe that's when Monday or, or I don't remember, uh,

Monday or Friday or or something but it was like they they put us here and we got no one watched us and then they moved us to here and then everybody and then we caught on everybody loved it uh it's it's just funny to hear the shows that they were you know homebrew homebrewing was a force uh that's a big show for us yeah man that's all 90s though yeah we. We'll get into that. It all blends together, dude. It all blends together. Other TV shows that launched in the 80s.

CNN. June 1st, 1980 became the first 24-hour cable news channel. Channel. Oh, yeah. Not TV shows. Like it invented a new channel. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like the van. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the van. Yeah. And... It's a whole new thing. It's a whole new thing. Another new channel, MTV. They debuted 1981. They really kind of fizzled out now.

MTV? Well, I guess MTV, I guess, but they kind of got that teen mom kind of thing going that's like their big thing there's like eight different variations of that show now yeah just just leaning into it the teen moms and there's multiple mtvs right isn't there like yeah mtv2 and i think you know the viacom owns all those channels. Nickelodeon. The very first video was sung by the Bugles called Video Killed the Radio Star. That was the first video.

And they wrote that song probably because of... I don't think they did. I think they just played it ironically. I think they already had the song. Yeah. Radio's kind of back, though, with the fact that Spotify and that kind of thing, it's all, I mean, you're just, now you're getting, there's no DJ, so it kind of killed the DJ. But, I mean, radio play is kind of back.

But you can now just listen to what you want to listen to, like, you know, people listen to this podcast, or they listen to whatever. Your car ride is a lot. Are they watching West wing driving 100 miles an hour down 65 uh just swerving in and out uh which by the way i have not started i thought of it i thought about it last night and i was like i don't know oh did you watch the pilot is that where you yeah okay yeah i was into it i might have watched a couple episodes and then uh yeah

last night i was trying to i was like oh, oh, I'm going to watch something again. I'm watching the Manchurian Candidate. It's a movie. The new one or the old one? The old one, Denzel Washington. That's the new one. That's the new one. Oh, 2004?

Well, there's one from like the 60s or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a little different than I thought it was going to be. It's pretty good though, man. Yeah. I don't know. Denzel's got a bright, he's got a bright future ahead of yeah. Yeah, it's a little different than I thought it was going to be. It's pretty good, though, man. Yeah. I don't know why. Denzel's got a bright future ahead of him. Yeah.

He's got a good career, I think. Some of that stuff, you can't believe it was 2004. Like, you Denzel Washington, you think, well, he was famous in the 80s or something. And then you're like, was this his first big movie, Injury and Killing, or no? No, he won an Oscar for Glory in, like, 1990. Glory was probably the first movie i ever remember watching weirdly no really yeah one of them that i remember i loved glory we had it on vhs and i used to watch it all the time you started off pretty intense huh huh watching movies out the

gate yeah you're not watching like beauty and i went i went uh we did glory then i did the program and then i did schindler's list now Now I forget why we had we had Glory on like recorded on a tape or something. Yeah. And I remember I remember watching Glory a lot. He was on St. Elsewhere.

He was like one of the doctors on St. Elsewhere. And then I think Glory was like his first big breakout role. It was a great movie. In 89. All right.

So it even counts. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You guys want to guess the top movies of the 80s great movie. In 89. Alright, so it even counts. Alright, you guys want to guess the top movies of the 80s? Yes. Star Wars. Jaws. I mean, the top two have to be Star Wars, right? Oh, you were serious. Yeah. I thought you were saying Star Wars was the top movie of the 70s.

Yeah, but didn't more come out? If you're even going to guess that, name the name of the movie. The Empire's Galactic Hope Strikes Back. That's number three. Okay. What's the second?

I don't know. I don't even know. Just say them. You guessed last week. E.T. was number one. Oh, yeah. First movie I ever saw. When did that come out?

85. You just said Glory. Glory. Now, yeah. No, E.T. I don't remember E.T., but I was five. My parents took me to E.T. Okay. Yeah.

Scream? Yeah. Scream is my favorite. I remember Glory. E.T., my parents took me to the movies to go see it. 87? E.T.? Yeah.

82. 82. You're three. Yeah, so I was three. So, 82. You're three. Yeah, so I was three. E.T. was number one, Return of the Jedi 2, and Empire Strikes Back 3. E.T. bigger than Star Wars? I didn't know it was that big.

Star Wars was in the 70s. I mean, yeah, those two movies. Yeah, E.T. was huge. E.T. was a big movie. The top Hollywood... Never seen it Yeah. Yeah, E.T. was huge. E.T. was a big movie. The top Hollywood... Never seen it. You never seen E.T.? No.

Yeah. We just showed... They watched it the other day. Is it too late? To watch E.T.? Yeah. So I'm in... That's why I went to adventure in Canada.

I'm kind of in a mood. It's like I always get... You got to get caught in moves. I've been in some military moods. So I mean, I did Lone Survivor, American Sniper, like Green Zone.

Like I don't know, I went through, I was in kind of just like a military kind of, and I got to find some more. I don't, I'm about out of it. And then I could watch Glory again. And so then Man, Cheer, and Candidate

was like last night. I watched Pelican Brief. And so I'll get in these kind of moods to do stuff. What was the whole point of this? What were we saying? Oh, these old movies. Sometimes you realize because I've

also been in a kick it'd be like everything's the same movie now every like i'm getting i used to always be just like i'm on board with like chains and all this kind of stuff and i'm not saying i'm not but it's uh it's all kind of going these movies every movie's a marvel movie everything everything's a superhero movie that loki or whatever he's in a commercial. He's in a Hyundai commercial. Well, he has a new show now on Apple Plus. So why is he driving a Hyundai car? Like it's, is it Hyundai, right?

Hyundai. Or Disney, excuse me, Disney Plus. Yeah, it's like he's just driving that car now. And it starts feeling gross where you go like, oh, so y'all just, I don't even see anything outside of what y'all want me to see. And you're all combined. You're all just like, oh, so y'all just, I don't even see anything outside of what y'all want me to see. And you're all combined. You're all just like, here's fifth.

Now all the superheroes are getting together. And every movie is a superhero movie. So you got to go back to some of these old movies. And I'm appreciating them a little bit more. It's like, oh, it's a story. Yeah. Oh, it's a. Something original.

It's something original. It's something like thought of instead of being like now iron man is going to go to mars like or so i don't know like whatever and then they they go what if we get iron man and this guy and we get them together now they come in this loki and i don't know who this loki is and it's this world that they're building they're doing star wars we're doing mandalorian which i mean it was great but you know can you believe mandalorian you're like they're just yeah dude they're making the same thing. It's all the same thing.

All the movies that come out are these giant movies. Nothing's just, nothing's just like a well, like suspenseful kind of like real acting. You know, it's, it's, I mean,

that's, you've seen the Oscars are all these movies you never heard of. Cause maybe that's the only place that they're at. I mean, now, you know, the acting is, yeah, dude, all you're going to be is a super hero.

Like, you know, it's like, yeah, you get to wear a mask the whole time. And we're going to tell a story that is the same story. Here's Spider-Man. How did he get bit? Oh, we'll show you again. We'll do it one more time. They're making a new Spider-Man with all the old Spider-Mans in it.

I mean, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Like, it's not getting, it's not even fun anymore, dude. Like, they're not, it's such a, it's such a, like, money machine that you go, like, I don't want to be a part of this. And you can't even not be a part of it it's on you know the nba finals is going to be the nba all the sports are going to just be like we have everything we're going to jam all this down your throat you're never going to go see an original like movie idea and they're having problems with this with uh with movies and

trying to sell movies now like people are like tv that's why tv kind of came back because tv is a place where they could tell stories and people tv is now the way that you could tell you know you could have a breaking bad you can have all these kind of these kind of shows that are doing stuff where movies are just like if it's not going to make a billion dollars and they don't even then don't even waste our time yeah and if the whole world's not going to go see this movie then we don't care and so then you And if the whole world's not going to go see this movie, then we don't care. And so then you lose all the – you're losing all those good actors that you're not –

Denzel Washington's, you know, all these kind of crazy actors that became huge, but they're just not making that kind of stuff anymore. It's like it's the same movie. I mean, Fast and Furious, they're doing – this is the 10th one. Like it doesn't even matter. They have a 10th one coming out? How many are there? Nine or 10.

Nine or, it doesn't even, who cares? It doesn't, and I loved, I was on board with the Fast and Furious. I think I watched the first three, and then you're like, okay. And then they've kept going. You're not even halfway done. Not even close. And then it all just becomes like all right yeah dude they're all worth you know 500 million dollars yeah and then you know good for them they get to go be in

something that's saying you're not gonna you're gonna say i don't blame the actors not gonna say no to this stuff but it just seems like it's all being created by i mean it's the same stuff dude there's no it's no original thought there's no original person they're no original it's the same stuff, dude. There's no original thought. There's no original person. There's no original. It's all your phone. It's Apple or whatever. My favorite movie as a kid was Raiders of the Lost Ark. And I was told, I don't know if this is true or not,

but it was the first movie where, you know how now, basically every movie, especially especially action movie the main character there's going to be an opening scene right out of the gate before we even get into the main storyline they're going to establish the character do something crazy and then it kind of starts the real story raiders of the lost ark i was told was the first movie ever did that up until then movies would just be a slow build but raiders ofor Lost Ark, the first 10, 15 minutes is that crazy scene in the cave where he does all that.

That has nothing to do with the rest of the story. Yeah. And it changed movies forever because now they all do that. Yeah. Gets you hooked right away. Yeah.

It establishes who the character is and then you start the main story that you're doing. You kind of forget that you're making a new one of those. Which that one may be. But you're not even that excited anymore i mean again like these people are all in the same movies it's all the same tom hanks harrison ford you're like i don't know when have i not seen you i see you every day all the time so when how am i excited when they remade spider-man it

was so exciting i was, are you kidding me? And then, like, Superman. They can't get Superman correct, right? Like, people don't. It's like, I would be excited about if they did a solid Superman. Or when they did Batman. When all this stuff kind of started, it was like, oh, man. We couldn't wait, and we wanted it.

And that's the problem. And so they get these. I it just from being somewhat in the writing shows and being with all these writers uh they it's basically the same thing hey we're just trying to reach like just pump this out again and like it's going to be people go watch this and it doesn't it's almost like theme parks you're just creating theme parks and you're like it doesn't matter you just keep jamming stuff out there they go they're going to go you need something to do yeah you're going to go and now they're just coming out on hbo matt you just watch them at home now or go to see the theater it's like it doesn't matter just jam everything out there and like

uh and it's it's not it's not a good thing and when you watch these old movies you go wow that's like i don't know everybody's really good in Like, I appreciate the acting a little bit more or a lot more. And, you know, you're just more aware of it. You know, just, I don't know, maybe you get older and you're just like, I don't want this flashy. I don't care, you know. I'd be fine with maybe another Transformers movie. I could do that.

I don't feel like they've done that a ton. The exact opposite of everything you just said. I don't feel like they've done that a ton. The exact opposite of everything you just said. Another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Transformers was the first movie you saw. When was the last Transformers? I mean, I think they just had one come out, didn't they? So maybe I don't want another one.

They hold off for a few more years. They may have put it on hold because of COVID, but there was one that was either about to come out or came out. I can't remember. See, I always thought they did two. Oh, they've done five.

Never mind. And they did Bumblebee got his own thing. All right. I was wrong. I was way off. Michael Bay. So it's like,

it's just, yeah. So I was wrong about Transformers. I kind of lost i thought they did there's one coming out in 2022 transformers rise of the beasts so i gotta catch up this time it's different so i was wrong all right so i'm wrong about transformers but stop it no more of those then but it's just these same kind of things they're not making uh they're not making like a solid movie it's just kind of like who cares it's so chaos in the movie that you go i think it's

great i don't know i mean they're just making you exactly how i always say with i am with music where you don't know and you notice it more with music even when you hear these old songs and they're you know it's like a there's a lot of words and now there's like they say hey basically the whole time yeah they go hey hey hey and then blah blah don't really say much you can write as a songwriter uh yeah but you can write a song it'd be pretty you think part of that is you remember the really good music and we forget about the bad music it's probably true to that we look back it's like i always think about stairway to heaven the year that stairway to heaven came out the number one song was sugar sugar by the archies that year and nobody cares about that song now

but everyone loves stairway well there's still gonna be bad music there's still be bad music back then but i don't think so i mean but you can it's it's now it's a it's it's about the tune or the you know like the beat or whatever and that's what kind of does it and you know they're i i i like them i like these songs you know we you listen to them they're fun and like i don't you know again i don't listen to words i don't yeah it doesn't resonate with me when i listen to a story going like uh this is about i mean i'll ask harper i'll be like what is this what are they saying like because i should be like oh it's this this like a little they're little stories and i don't and i'm like they don't click with me at all like i don't get that one bit uh but yeah, with, I don't know.

I just thought it like, yeah, the movies and stuff, it's just getting, it's bad. It's the same thing. And that's why it's going to be harder and harder to get. Hollywood's getting smaller and smaller. It's not getting bigger. It's getting smaller and smaller. You did a good movie, we're going to make you do 50 of them.

And guess what? Tom Cruise is still alive. And he's doing them too. Tom Hanks is still alive. Julia Roberts, Brad? Tom Cruise is still alive. And he's doing them too. Tom Hanks is still alive. Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, everybody's still alive. And Loki is going to team up with you. And Loki is going to drive a bus.

We're doing the thing with Greyhound, so he drives a bus now. You're supposed to believe this superhero thing. Is Superman real? Well, I thought he was real until he took my keys back at avis and then i was like oh maybe he's not i guess you got hard times but that's where all the like it is like these people don't get out of the way you don't get out of the way you don't get new stuff and

then it gets too just underneath it it gets like very spread out like no one really rises to the top like it's hard to break through like and then the younger ones they're not the new actors that's when you create a tv show it's all about well how young let's get some young people which they is something ridiculous because you're like young people ain't spending money they ain't watching this show they don't care about your show it's it's they're not buying whatever you're selling they're not whatever uh and so they're not making any no one's being really good like the daniel day lewis there's not who's that i guess hardy tom hardy tom hardy's probably is is that kind of similar kind of thing where he's like kind of feeling very private you don't really know what he does but he's like if he's going to be in

something you know it's going to be really good that's yeah so i'm not trying to say there's no movies that are great yeah but it's it's far and few you know or is that right far and few between few and far between far between yeah recycling a lot of old ideas i mean everything's just like let's redo this again and i think think people are over that. People want original ideas. That's why, you know, I don't know. Like all that, like, you know, when the set, like, Inception came out or like all this kind of stuff. But even something, they're getting so,

I feel like too, so inside baseball. They're so smart. But won't the market determine for them when people are tired of it? I mean, they're only going to give you a billion dollar. If you can only go watch Transformers, then what else? You can't go do anything else. People just want to go do something.

And you got kids, and they know you got kids. So you're going to be like, and then they come to our theme park that's also got all this stuff. It's the only thing you're allowed to enjoy is the thing that they want to do. There's no original. It doesn't matter. All right, we're going to make you Batman, and now you're going to go Harry Potter,

which Harry Potter is actually probably a great one. So that was probably one of the... They're remaking Harry Potter, too. Really? Make it. As an HBO series. And they just do that. I think it'll be awesome. And they just make it.

Yeah, which I will get excited about. so you're saying that there needs to be maybe you're at the age now that would be that's my star wars that you're that you're going to see that new thing and go like oh man i'm so happy to recreate this because you have such fond memories of watching it as a kid so maybe it's just a cycle of age, and I'm perfectly the age above you where when you turn 40, turn my age 42, you're going to be like, I don't want to do this anymore. This is getting ridiculous. Make something new.

And then you go just watch old stuff. Could be, you know. The top box office stars of the 80s, number one, Harrison Ford. He was Han Solo and Indianaiana jones i mean that's two pretty good pretty crazy yeah two pretty big career same person yeah say i mean like still around still i know still around still making it and the two biggest movies they got going back then they used the one guy for i mean dude there's like hollywood always talks about diversity this is the least diverse place on earth.

Not even like about with race, just with about, like, we don't even use different people. We don't even, we have the same person that we just use for everything. Eddie Murphy was second. That's been interesting. 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, all those movies. But he, would that be different? His movies feel different there was more than one

Beverly Hills Cop but he did a lot of different Coming to America The Golden Child stuff like that I feel like Eddie Murphy got his own star he became a star

because of him like that maybe that's what like too he built that because he was a stand up he got that audience the movies came after yeah yeah yeah not the other way around not the other way around but yeah eddie murphy's still

but eddie murphy did it right he left he started making a bunch of movies got out of the way i mean he's in like he pops up and stuff and they nutty professor when you can watch something like that where you're like no one can do that or like robin williams knowing that guy's the best at that uh and but he's kind of what is he i mean i'm sure he's come up with stuff but it's not like it's overwhelming like he's just jammed down you made the dolomite last year i like shia labeouf like trying to my transformers i think he's awesome he's very good yeah and he's a very his own person i i that's a guy i remember watching that hbo series the green something where they they uh matt damon i'll say uh project green light project green light where he gets picked to be in the movie and he gets picked to be in that movie and i remember

watching that project green light i remember being like god i love this kid and then he started being everything else and you're like and i love him now i love it he's very he was in the last indiana jones movie yeah i'm fine with him getting whatever he wants number three was sylvester stallone and four was tom cruise the biggest stars of the 80s all all still around sylvester around so that's just his loan i i think i'm he built he wrote his own stuff yeah right yeah like rambo rocky like it's like you go create your own thing he's like yeah i just create i do me i do this and i create my thing he's not he's not like what if rambo teamed up with indiana jones i guess that maybe that's the problem like they have to start well they just put out a new rambo like last year.

I think they're doing another one. With Sylvester Stallone? Yeah. I think they're doing another one. Probably. I'll watch it. I'll watch the last one. I'll get excited about those.

If you're going to let me watch some 80-year-old man do something, I'm going to go watch it. I'll tell you that right now. I can't wait for that one to come out, Rambo. Can't wait for the new Transformers to hit the streets what about i say you know well it says here in 1984 i rant and i hope there's just something in there people take out of it and they leave it's a lot of garbage it would be it's like going through garbage and you're looking for a lottery ticket and you're like i promise there's one in there yeah maybe it's only worth $5, but...

If you have the time, why not? You want certain people to get out of the way. Yeah. Yeah, some. The ones, you know. In 1984, the PG-13 rating came out. But maybe those guys should get out of the way, too. Who?

I mean, you know especially sloan like it's like i don't know maybe they should like you how much is enough like when you go like all right dude find your next rambo i'm fine go keep making rambo like i almost like it's the big budget stuff i don't you know it's the i guess it's like the marvel it's like become it's like the superhero stuff has gotten just where you're like all right dude now they're all together now we you know it's like this is it's it's it's gotten too too far like maybe that's it it's like go find rambo like go find us give us the next rambo like i like jason statham he does that and everything he does that and you're like yeah i like that so i want i just go watch

that and then it's like he makes his own kind of things yeah i don't know if i make any sense is it fair i agree with you yeah i have dyslexia so i might mean all the other stuff maybe i do love all of it maybe this is all i'll ever go see. He said it all backwards. Yeah, dyslexia and grammar issues. In music, Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1982. I remember this so well. It became the best-selling album of all time.

Last week I said the Eagles. Eagles. Sorry, Eagles. Greatest hits. And it is in America, but Thriller is still the best-selling album worldwide of all time. I remember watching that. It was scary.

I don't know what you'd want. Oh, you're talking about the video. The video you'd watch during the day. Yeah. It was very scary. Is that that dance? Yeah, nobody had ever done anything like that. I mean, it was like 15-minute long video.

It was a story. It was scary. Yeah. Zombies. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. Best-selling artist of the 80s was Prince. You know, we talk about most famous people.

Michael Jackson's got to be up there as one of the most of all time yeah somebody said the comment on that one of the comments if not we've been talking about people a lot today

yeah but yeah but as far as like all time like who you know but I guess it's just a matter of your

life you know I'm sure you know well in the 80s he was so huge.

Number one song of that decade was Olivia Newton-John's Physical. Did your mom do jazzercise to that? No. From Grease? No. She was the singer. Yeah, Olivia Newton-John from Grease, but she was a singer as well. Yeah.

Super Bowl Shuffle became a popular hit in 85. Chicago Bears. Boy, they struggle not to trash the Bears, but they've really been riding that 85 wave. I know, right? My God. They've been milking that for a while. Good night, dude.

Everybody acts like they should have had 50 Super Bowls, and you're like, y'all have done nothing. You've done, I mean, I'm a Jay Cutler defender. Just as Vivandy. Yeah. He's, I think. Jay Cutlery. Jay Cutlery.

Cutler. That's what I should. Cutler-y. Cutler-y. There you go. Now I got it. Can you hear me say that? Jay Cutler-y?

Jay. Say Jay. Yeah. Jay Cutler-y. Some Jay Cutler-y. Is Cutler-y how me say that? Jay Cutlery. Jay. Say Jay. Yeah. Jay Cutlery. Jay Cutlery. Is Cutlery how you say it? Cutlery. Cutlery.

So if I say Cutlery, it would turn around? Cutlery? Cutlery? It's almost there, isn't it? But yeah, the Bears, man, they could not. I mean, you just act like, like golly we can't get it together you're like y'all won in 85 and that's it yeah i don't know i think they went to one super bowl with levy's rex grossman is that who it was yeah the colts beat them uh yeah but it's

like it's like every year's like can we not get it together you're like y'all won yeah i mean 30 years ago like let's not act like we are, you know. Yeah. No, this season's a fluke. No, that season was a fluke. That season was a fluke. There you go. I'm glad you remember bringing this up.

This is Madison Square Garden, one month, 19, no, not one month, one year, 1987. Look at who all played at Madison. I mean, over half of those are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That was back, like, someone, so... So these are all in, like, consecutive weekends. Yeah.

Oh, man. But I mean, it's a... And who did... Poison, Iron Maiden, Eric Clapton, Huey Lewis and the News, Luther Vandross, Brian Adams, Duran Duran, Paul Simon, Tom Petty. It's just the biggest names. Bonvi yeah billy idol beastie boys uh whitney houston the grateful dead white snake pink floyd eddie murphy two shows

look at that yeah i mean there's not a ton of two shows no the only two shows that were there were brian adams grateful dead uh duran duran luther vandross uh the grateful dead and then uh pink floyd and eddie murphy out of all the cars rush yeah rush uh yeah jose who's that it's a great decade for entertainment jose feliciano feliciano yeah i mean imagine just like they were just seeing everything, dude. This was like killer after killer. Molly Crew and White Snake. I worked at Brian Adams' concert. That guy is unreal.

Yeah? Where at? At the Fontenelle in White's Creek. Yeah. That's Barbara Mandrell's old house, right? Yeah. My dad did a magic show there. Oh, yeah?

I was thinking you did a show there joe walsh i didn't do a show but when i went to the joe walsh okay uh concert we went there afterwards and uh and hung out and uh and she was in uh barbando's daughter was there and my dad did the birthday for her it was for it was her five she was five and so i went we took a picture and i told her and she's like i don't know i guess she was five she was something she was a kid and uh i remember my dad going to it because my dad was like it was a big deal he's like got his private show for at barbara mandrell's house and we were like that's so crazy and he was driving to her house and there's a lot of that fun stuff with my dad where he did.

He opened for, he did something with Cosby once. He opened for Cosby once. Oh, I remember him telling me the story. Yeah. And like he, this was after all the Cosby stuff came out. This is another jailhouse show. Yeah. So this was, was yeah he was in jail uh your dad's the only one that would work with him yeah uh now this is so i remember like you know

he would get to do all this kind of crazy stuff he opened for jay leno once which i now know jay leno and i think i have told jay leno uh but with cosby he did uh he came home and I remember he had uh he brought all this popcorn home I couldn't believe it like it's so crazy it just I remember it was it was nuts that he was getting to do it and then he where was this I don't even know maybe Memphis or I don't know you know something uh and he comes home and he brought a giant bag of popcorn because cosby had on his because you know we're learning about my dad's like he had his own green room and right when you know my dad didn't really meet him long he just he's you know cosby like said hey nice to meet you great job and he's like you have anything you want in that green room i'm leaving right after the show

and so he went in the green room and then he had that flavored water, like in a glass bottle. It was like a big cherry. I mean, it was like getting a gold bar. We never even seen that. I don't know what those were. They were such a fancy kind of thing. And he brought home the giant bag of popcorn. It all was from Cosby's green room.

And we were like, this is crazy. Like, I can't believe he got all this stuff. Like, and he was like, yeah, he doesn't even use it.

It's all this. He's like, it's just in there. And like, no one, it's like, you know, which I,

my dad, so I was like, and it's funny now to be doing shows and then being like, yeah, my green room, I get a lot of stuff taken off my writer unless it's like in Nashville, unless I know I'm going to have a lot of guests. Yeah my writer unless it's like in nashville unless i know i'm gonna have a lot of guests yeah i try to keep it my writer is uh nothing like is it i have like mints of an iced coffee uh and then because you write what i don't know if people know this when you do a writer uh there i think there's a budget for but sometimes

you end up paying for stuff which is funny because sometimes even if there's other artists listening, like you could be like, man, every show I get, you know, 50 beers and all this because you're like, yeah, dude, you're paying for probably a lot of that. Yeah, it comes out of your end. Yeah, unless you're using it, there's no reason for it. One thing you do is a lot of times the staff there will take it, but like we'd have like, there'd be like make a sandwich or something i always have sandwiches which i don't even

eat those like i don't really eat i'm not gonna eat before a show uh and we're gonna go probably order food after uh so i i get rid of that stuff too but you'd eat a sandwich yeah you kept it on the runner for a while just for me for you yeah yeah that's how much i do for this guy i've paid for sandwiches to be there just so just to make me so bread sandwich here could eat uh bread stick bread stick and they uh they're yeah and so my dad would always make a sandwich when he comes out with me he'll use all this stuff yeah i think it's like a it's there it's the uh it's an old it's not old but it's a you don't it's not you're not gonna yeah it's all there you're like you got to use it yeah why is it here if you're not using it you know i have water i

have diet pepsi like i've done so many shows where the show's over we're leaving and i look around and i just stuff my backpack full of whatever's back there, you know, like gift baskets, I'll just stuff, you know, I'm going to take it. I just usually give it away. Like, it's like,

you just figure like someone's going to take it from the crew or you give it to you guys and be like, here, y'all can have this stuff. Uh, yeah, I don't have like, unless it's like I have,

I go to Louisville, I go to Nashville, LA, probably have some stuff back there. Like in New York you know anything I'm gonna have a lot of people probably behind backstage then you have like a little kind of area where we had uh for when I first time I did TPAC was uh what do we have uh uh I'm blanking the chicken uh Chick-fil-A? No.

Oh, Hattie B's? Hattie B's. Which I used to get because we know the Hattie B's guys. Everybody goes, Hattie B's. You always ask me where to go eat in Nashville. Go to Hattie B's. Hattie B's is great. Prince's is the original one. They love Prince's.

So you can go Prince's or Hattie B's. But Hattie B's is great. And it's not like it's just an offshoot joke. It's the real deal. But we had Hattie B bees deliver food uh which was fun uh that guy's a great dude uh but yeah but people are on those riders in the m&ms that we talked about the m&m rider here before you know the green m&ms thing it's the famous story the famous story yeah van halen yeah i don't know people might know this yeah it was like van halen was something so

they wanted green m&ms in their rider and so if you got a bag of m&ms you got to pick them all out and could only have their green ones in there so everybody was like they are the worst people alive they're making you're making people do that stuff the only reason they did it was because if they went in the room and they saw green m&ms they knew that they you read the entire rider and did. The green M&Ms are not important. They're just there because people would skip steps. We need to know that the fire is

set up or this is set up. The music is set up. The whole show has to be set up by these people. If they don't get to the green M&Ms then how do I know that you went and read through everything? That's why they did that. That's the famous story of that.

Yeah, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck did that with Good Will Hunting. They put a random scene in the middle of the script of their two characters like hooking up with each other. Yeah. Just to see if people, because it was so out of nowhere. And it was a Harvey Weinstein. Whoever bought it was like, great script, but what's with that random scene in the middle and they're like oh he actually read the thing yeah that's pretty cool that's a good idea you know what i had a script once that i

wrote and uh i was riding with someone and we were i don't want to say any of it what it is it didn't go anywhere but and we uh and the other person we're riding with was i was like starting to get busy and not helping me but every time i would send it to the producers to go like here we good can you send it to the studio and they'd be like well we want him to go through it i'm like yeah he's not answering he's not doing it so i don't know what to tell you so then uh i uh i sent it to and they go, we want to do it. And I was so convinced that. I go, they're not reading this.

And they're just not reading because I'm the one that went through it, and they want him to. But he's not doing this. So I go, okay, I'll do it. And then two days later, I sent it. I go, he went through it. They go, oh, it's great. And I never sent it to him.

And I sent him the exact same script. Didn't change a thing. And I go, yeah, he went through it and did go, oh, it's great. And I never send it to him. And I sent him the exact same script. Didn't change a thing. And I go, yeah, he went through it and did his stuff. That's crazy. And then they just go, oh, it's great. Yeah, of course it is. I mean, they, like, I was so, I just knew, I just was like, I don't think they're reading this. Yeah.

But then I've had it with another, with my Comedy Central, I did it with maybe a Netflix special or something where I try to get an old joke in another with my Comedy Central special I did it with maybe a Netflix special or something where I try to get an old joke in from maybe a Comedy Central special and I try to sneak one in because it kind of fit and I was like no one saw this special I can sneak in and I put it in and they go you did this in

Live at God or whatever I did it and so they were and it's in the middle and I was like they ain't gonna catch this and I did it. And so they were, and it's in the middle. And I was like, they ain't gonna catch this. And they did it. And that's, but I have more respect and will do more right

because of that. Because I know that they went through. And, you know, you go, oh, you're actually watching

and you know what's going on. Yeah. Joanne Grigioni. She ever hears this. She's the one that I was like, golly, she's. Good job, Joanne. Yeah. Joanne Grigioni. She ever hears this. She's the one. And I was like, golly, she's. Good job, Joanne.

Yeah. Good job, Joanne. Some of the styles of the 80s. Acid wash and stone wash jeans. Leg warmers. Leg warmers? Yeah, you ever heard of that? Like hand warmers, but you put them in your pants? No, they were like.

Leggings. Yeah, like leggings. You put over your pants. they were like uh leggings yeah like leggings you put over your pants oh like from viore like these are acid wash jeans yeah i feel like that this is made they've come back in and out everything's kind of everything's kind of come back because again we're done with being original and so that's the main takeaway from the 80s the main takeaway from life 80s was very original i'm saying right now we're done being original so everything no one comes up with anything new anymore they come and they go no that's it and they just redo it and then your taste change so it used to be

all about but you know when i first started comedy all my videos i everything i'm real baggy everything's baggy now everything's tighter because that's what's in style. And you, but everything will just kind of stay the same because that's what, because no one's, look, I think it's hard to create stuff. I get it. But I mean, maybe try. Otherwise, I mean, they're reselling you old jeans. Yeah.

This is the same thing with the movies. It's all just, no one's original. Now, these leg warmers look like socks without the feet part. Well, I don't know if that's a good example. There was movies like Flashdance.

It's not a bad example. Socks without the feet. That's what they look like. Yeah, I honestly thought I nailed it. Where did I get wrong? I mean, I just don't remember remember looking quite like that um i think they would usually go over leggings or stuff like that

like this yeah more like that yeah so they look like socks yeah yeah i think i saw more like the other one in the top okay yeah uh parachute pants were you looking at yours in the sears catalog me yeah yeah i was actually yeah sears catalog was uh the first uh you know i mean we would get a service merchandise you know again let's flip the look at the toys for i mean sears was a big clothing place they had they had other stuff i know but it was like they had clothes sears sears was like people buy you but go there and buy clothes at sears good not appliances and yeah i know it's just funny now do they are they open still i don't know sears is gone is it yeah but they used to have i mean you it just sears you think what do you

think of sears you think of like appliances and stuff like that yeah i think of like leaf blowers yeah i also think of shawshank redemption they mentioned sears oh really it just goes to my head well they're uh but they used to have you'd go there and buy clothes like it's kind of funny to be like why would you yeah yeah it's like going to home depot yeah i close now yeah yeah uh swatches you ever heard of swatches yeah yeah the watch yeah yeah yeah coca-cola show already mentioned what is this watch it's just another type of watch it's like a swiss watch what's different about it uh just different name. Yeah, basically.

Cool, guys. Some of the top commercials of the 80s. The Apple 1984 was supposedly the top commercial of all time. Oh, yeah. It only aired once

in its entirety. Really? What was it? You remember the one where Thor or whatever throws his hammer into that screen? It's a woman, I think.

I didn't really understand it. It's a Thor-looking woman. I don't know if I even know it. Yeah, I'll pull it up. It's about this revolution that's coming. It was about the Macintosh computer.

Yeah. And it was supposed to be like we're breaking through society. Which kind of bombed, by the way, the computer that this is. Isn't that why maybe Steve Jobs lost his job?

I don't know. I think he left later. It's the most... This is isn't that why maybe steve jobs lost his job i don't know i think he left later it's the most this is the most famous commercial not i don't know if it's not most famous it's recognized as the best i'll go out there and say the most famous all right name me a more famous commercial mean joe green i got a couple on here keep going i don't think i've ever seen this commercial so this aired during the 84 so it's a bunch of mindless drones walking in and then this woman runs in with a hammer she's wearing a hooters outfit yeah she is essentially and uh i don't know what's being said something about conformity something did you say thor through the i just i had a hammer in my mind so i assumed and so the opposite of Thor was a young lady.

A Hooters waitress. In a Hooters outfit. But is that not Thor's hammer? Hits the screen, explodes. Everybody's broken from the spell. On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh, and you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984. That's powerful stuff.

Yeah, I don't know if I know that commercial. Really? Being the most famous commercial. I remember that. Apple, I don't think I remember that. 1984 was a book about Big Brother watching you. So they're basically saying Apple's going to free you. Yeah. A couple more popular commercials.

What? So they're saying their computers are going to free from big brother watching you yeah and they're making but they're going so here carry this electronic device in your home what do they think big brother was a person no it's not about big brother it's about like the the pcs and the computers of that day had locked you in this box with no creativity or originality or anything and you're a mindless drone yeah and then here comes apple with this innovative new product that's going to free you

from all that yeah i mean look they're trying to sell you a computer so it's all yeah yeah it's all overstated they did great they did a great job they're doing pretty well yeah you know i'll give you one i understood where's's the beef? Yeah. That was Wendy's commercial. They were mocking McDonald's and Burger King for having small patties and big buns. It's my kind of burger. Yeah. I love them.

And I mean, I remember this, again, so well. Coyote McLeod, local DJ, wrote a song about it. And it was just a big thing. So it's just an old woman looking at a McDonald's burger? Yeah. And going, where's the beef? Yeah, because it's so small. The patty's so small.

Where Wendy's had a bigger beef patty. Oh, I thought it was about size. You know, all pickles are changing. While we're on the subject. Wendy's, all the pickles are a little bit whiter now yeah they're not they're not that green and they and they're uh i see them in a commercial and i just think it's like scallions where i go like they're putting i i i don't i i go from pickles are my favorite thing to they're this other color, they're my least favorite thing. And so Wendy's switched.

McDonald's, I want to say, might be closed. If they start messing with their pickle, I'm going to lose it. We'll do a special episode. I have to. Emergency Nate Land episode. Yeah, yeah. McDonald's changes pickle. I'll be on board. I almost yeah. McDonald's changes pickle. I'll be on board. I think they did.

I almost think they did change their pickle. It's a lighter colored pickle. Look up and see if there's anything that, like it's, instead of being like the green, the darker, it was like a more green, like a greener green versus like, it looks like a cucumber. Look at that mcdonald's

made a sudden change to its most beloved ingredient the beef not the pickles yeah yeah our pickle contains an artificial preservative i mean look lord knows what's going on in the in the kitchens of mcdonald's yeah i don't you know it's like yeah so just give us the stuff man you know it's like a you'd be it'd be like a drug addicts are going like you don't gotta do everything you know i'm just about drugs for you. Just sell me the drugs. I'm not here to, a lesson. Right. Some fast food changes in the 80s,

the Chicken McNugget. Oh. Went on the market in 81 at McDonald's. They're pretty good. Worldwide by 83. It was pretty good. The Happy Meal.

Contain a hamburger, cheeseburger, or small serving of Chicken McNuggets. And, they're one of the first ones that tied in with movies and stuff and promotions. I was big into the Muppets

back in the 80s. Muppet glasses. Muppets toys and the Happy Meal? Happy Meals are great. You still get them every now and then? I don't, but I have an eight-year-old, so we get them for her. Laura will eat them sometimes. But, I mean, Laura likes that size meal.

Apple slices. I can order two of them. Yeah. You want apple slices or extra fries? You're like, come on now. That's always, they always ask you, like, do you want apple slices? Yeah. And then you're, like, when you do it want apple slices yeah and then you're like when you do it but with a kid you're like yeah give her apple like she needs something and then you're like what if i don't want them they go we give you more fries you go okay that's the that's the

thing they go we try and you're gonna tell me your pickles not you gotta change your pickle up have you seen the king of queens episode where he goes out to a fast food place to get ice cream for him and his wife? And it's just him and the drive-thru line. He goes, I'll take two ice cream cones. She goes, anything else? And he goes, who am I kidding? I'll take a number two.

And she goes, okay, anything else? He goes, does the number two come with curly fries? And they go, no. He goes, okay, I'll take a number three. You want to cancel the two and add a three? when did i say the word cancel he just keeps getting stuff um we'll talk about that on the 90s episode yeah new coke you remember when coke changed its formula no yeah there was new coke and then they changed the formula people freaked out got mad it. So then they had to go back to the old way and call it Coca-Cola Classic.

Oh, that's why it's called that now. What's the new way now? I mean, I think Coca-Cola Classic, which is the way we have now, is the way it's always been. But for a while, they tried New Coke. It was sweeter, and people didn't like it. They have Clear Pepsi. Do you remember that?

Clear Pepsi? I remember when they brought that back. Yeah. In the 00s. And it didn't go good because it was like, yeah, this is ridiculous. People use New Coke as a cautionary tale against tampering with a well-established and successful brand. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Like, hello, folks. All right. Oh, and there's the one thing I didn't know.

McPizza? Do you remember this? McDonald's Pizza? For a while I didn't know McPizza Do you remember this? McDonald's pizza For a while there was a McPizza And then they Finally got rid of it Because it wasn't Coming out fast

Took 11 minutes to make It just didn't fit McDonald's brand But there's still one Restaurant in America Or in Orlando, Florida At McDonald's You can get a McPizza

Huh I'd go to that one Yeah check that out All right I'll wrap up with Sports All right Associated Press Male athlete of the decade Can you name it? to that one yeah check that out all right i'll wrap up with uh sports all right all right associated press male athlete of the decade can you name it wayne gretzky oj you get oj wrong

every time wayne gretzky he received i mean he dominated everyone he was an hl mvp nine times in the 80s someone mentioned that once once, I think, on something. Maybe we talked about most dominant, and we didn't mention him. But you could argue he's – the stuff he's done, it's not even – He won MVP nine out of ten years in the 80s. So most of it. Mario Lemieux won the other year. He received 307 votes for Athlete of the Decade. The second was Joe Montana, who had 85 votes.

It's not even like what he's done to break records. It's so far. It's so many records. People can't catch him. Like it's not even – he's doubled them and stuff like that where you're – I mean Ovechkin is like can possibly get him in – but Ovechkin's got to be unreal and play forever. Yeah.

But he's right now the only one. I mean, what Gretzky, to me, feels like. You know, like Jordan has got everything. That's where Tiger's like that, too. Tiger's got that. When you see all the stats and stuff like that, Tiger's always. Like, so there was, you know, yesterday they had the golf when the eight playoffs holes, eight.

And the last time that's happened, guess who was in it? Tiger Woods. And, like, so it's like that. It's like he's always just, his name's there. And you don't know, you don't realize how much this dude did. But Gretzky is, I mean, it's nuts what he's done. No one can catch these stuff. He's got more, you could take away stuff from him,

and he still is the best. It's just nuts. Just other people who will receive votes magic johnson carl lewis nolan ryan larry bird bo jackson walter payton 49er walter bay yeah 49ers won four super bowls in the 80s wow uh smuggler memorable plays the 80s or moments. Miracle on Ice. 1980. Great movie. Yep. You see that?

Yeah. I don't know. I don't think so. The Disney movie? No. It's going to remake something, man. It's not. It's a remake of an event. Just remake it.

It's a remake. It's an actual event. Hey, you guys come check out this new movie I got it's called Last Tuesday it's what I did all Tuesday

and I want you to come follow us around and yeah it's kind of not a crazy day but I think you guys will find it interesting

that's what all the movies are going to eventually kind of just be just Last Tuesday what did Harrison Ford do in July

you ever seen that movie what he does every July it's a movie about what he does every July Last Tuesday. What did Harrison Ford do in July? Have you ever seen that movie, What He Does Every July? It's a movie about what he does every July. I'll go watch it. We got the sequel, August, coming up. It's pretty similar. It's pretty similar. He stayed.

Yeah, they were going to fly back, but they decided not to. July 2. Yeah. The sequel. That's all the movies sequel that's all the movies that's all the new movies are now it's just that just

recreating here's a movie what's this movie this movie's about remember when y'all first went and watched Transformers it's about y'all's

journey to the movie to go see Transformers you go alright I guess it's kind of different you know do we get to see Transformers. You go, all right, I guess it's kind of different. You know, do we get to see Transformers? Yeah, of course. We're going to show Transformers the whole time

because it's just you. It's just a camera behind you watching Transformers. And then we tell you it's cool. We use some fancy words. We just throw someone's big name, you know. Who directed it? You're like, just whatever.

Michael Bay. Michael Bay. All right. I'll watch it. Uh, some other of the top sports moments in the eighties, Doug Flutie's Hail Mary. Oh yeah.

Uh, Boston college. Yeah. Yeah. Stafford cow, the play, the bands on the field. Is that the most crazy college football play?

That is insane. I don't know if there's a play that's top that. Yeah. The ball goes through Buckner's legs, game six, 86 World Series. Remember watching that? Yeah. And Kirk Gibson's home run off Dennis Eckersley. That's what I remember.

Yeah. That's my first one I remember. Just him pumping. What's the line from the announcer? Do you believe in miracles? No. Well, there's two. That's a weird one because...

I don't believe what I just saw. I think maybe that's it. And that's Joe Buck. That's the radio broadcast. Okay. But Vince Gulley was doing the TV broadcast. Yeah. So it's weird because the radio one's the one that's most memorable but most

people are watching on television oh okay what's the radio one i don't believe what i just saw oh i don't believe what i just saw as he's yeah as he's doing that around the base yeah as the uh yeah and everybody on the radio is like well we can't see and he goes goes, God, get some TVs, you losers. I can't. There's no words to describe what I saw. It's so awesome to see this, dude. I saw it in real life. Good night, everybody.

And everybody goes, what? Does he even say who wins? We'll make a movie about it in 40 years. We'll make 10 of them. All right. What about each inning? I guess I'll watch it. Who's going to play it? You know, whatever.

Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise. One of the main ones. Sylvester Stallone. It's going to be the same people. And this last one, I actually don't remember. Scott Hoke. It's a good be the same people. And this last one, I actually don't remember this. Scott Hoke. It's a good one to be on then. It's a good one to be on.

This last one, I kind of barely did the least amount of work for. But we'll end on it. The opposite of doing How You're Supposed to Close in comedy. This last show is the least confident I have. I'm going to get out on this one. I'm going to get out on this one. I was going to get out on the Challenger explosion or something. Which I do remember. When was that? Challenger?

I think it was 85. Yeah. So I was in first grade, but I don't know if I remember. I don't remember. Everybody always remembers they pulled them out of class, so they were watching it. I'm sure something happened, but I don't. I was in eighth grade. We had a snow day, so we were already out of school. I remember someone listening i don't we i'm sure we something happened but i don't i was in eighth grade we had a snow day so we're already out of school i remember someone listening

to guns and roses they talked about that in like first grade while the challenger exploded yeah they put on guns the soundtrack it was perfectly timed out welcome to the jungle it was no remember being welcome in the jungle and i remember something on a playground like i'm saying that's what i remember first grade is like or that some reason i wasn't allowed to listen to it that's like when i was allowed to listen to everything def leopard was all these things that aren't dirty anymore uh but i remember went to the dentist's office and we're waiting and i had headphones in and then uh the kid next to me has headphones in and he's like he goes oh you want to switch musics I'm listening to

I think Amy Grant and he's listening to Def Leppard and that's the experience is when I and I gave him and I give him

those headphones and then I'm like I'm just a me like I don't think I'm allowed to listen to this I told a lot of kids that I remember when Tipper Gore,

when she was, Oh God. I remember. Yeah. You know, before you're like, uh, John McCain's dad came in,

Spock, talk, talk to my, uh, college. Uh, he was a year younger than me and he had a kid early. Uh,

now I remember Tipper Gore Wanted to get Explicit lyrics Like a label Put on For rap And stuff like that

That was a big deal I remember that No this one I don't remember Scott Hoke I think so Scott Hoke Could have won

The 1989 Masters But he missed A two foot putt In the playoff And he lost To Nick Faldo And I watched it He

I mean he pushed it Bad Yeah It was the worst Choke job I guess In golf history off and he lost to Nick Faldo. And I watched it. He pushed it bad. It was the worst choke job, I guess, in golf history, they said. Yeah. I feel like if we were on a date and you're just trying to win me over,

you're right. And then you go, I watched the Mester's the other day. Mester's. It was on TV, and he was just trying to go. And he just barely misses it. Golly.

Wow. That's tough. I made a five putt this weekend. Stakes were a little less high, though. It was my Augusta. That's what I told John Augustine. We were talking about a club championship. For me, right before I hit every wall, I just would go,

this is my Augusta. This is my Masters. And then the group with me is like, this guy's taking it a little bit too serious. I yank one, right? No, we're, we're fine.

That one, uh, we get digging through every, uh, yeah, it's, uh, that's tough.

I mean, you'd be hit. It was above the, above the hole. Those are, those are the toughest ones when they go down. It's crazy. Everybody thinks about it every day.

I bet he does. I don't know if he's still alive. Just trying to be funny. That's a good time, right? I get it. I bet Scott Hook's still alive. No, I bet he's doing great. Yeah, alright. That's it. We're done, right?

We had some good steam after. What was before this Scott Hote stuff the challenger challenger stuff we did pretty fun and then yeah

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