#56 The 1980's
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Hello, folks. Or let's go, folks. I was going to say, you've gone back. I don't know. Well, this is obviously, I don't know if it's obvious, but it's 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.

uh from the from the top top down hello folks or let's go folks i think that's still being decided uh obviously i'm still not home i think i'm in i think i'm in las vegas when this comes out or something i don't know uh uh welcome to the nate land podcast i'm nate bargetzi aaron weber brian bates uh thank you for uh whatever just the stuff dude

for being you, you know? Thanks, 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, but. That's true. Probably. Yeah. Yeah.

I think on an 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 sturdy as a rock. Yeah. 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 at Zaney's. She did. She weighs like 90 pounds. That was when I first met Laura. Then she was like, want me to walk you to your car tonight? She trashed me about it for a while. It's funny. It's funny. All right. Comments. As always, YouTube, Instagram, Nateland, Facebook, fan page. Is that us? Our fan page?

No, that's a fan. Someone fan runs that Facebook page. Twitter, the subreddit, uh, Nate land subreddit. So if people are, that's the younger, the subreddits 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 and that's what people can discuss.

People that don't know the Reddit world might be like, oh, I don't know. But 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. Right.

We're very similar to your mom's house, I think. And Breaking Bad. Very similar vibes. And Breaking Bad. Yeah, your mom's house. It's just a cleaner version of that. You know? That's all it is. BJ Maxwell. Nate's reading cadence is like a theme park roller coaster. He speeds downhill by stringing seven to eight words together. Then he hits the climb and chugs through five to six words until he hits the slope again. Well worth the wait in line. That's almost good, Ray.

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 going to go quick, then it's going to slow down. Then it'll speed back up again. It's almost a perfect way to describe it. Sarah Meech.

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 just has to. 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. 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 in order to 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, that side sandwich. I'll take a number one, no onions, Diet Coke, a little cheeseburger, no onions on the side.

I do a McChicken a lot on the side. 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 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 were trying to order something healthy and you accidentally got it. No, no.

No. He's got the number wrong. I got the number wrong. Well, they changed the number two to the quarter pounder. And so I just, well, 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 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. Nate eats 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...

That's very funny. He's got to play it off as a joke at that point. 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 it.

Jordan 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 Lanteen, for this podcast. I look forward to it every week. We did write the song. The guy's got a new song out now. Walker Hayes is who I wrote it with. He's got a great song out that Laura sent me. Yeah, I don't know. No way we'll be able to play it, right?

No. I would play a second of it. Yeah, you can play like up to, I would say seven seconds of it. 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 it. I thought this was an ad. Sorry. All right, maybe 27 seconds? Yeah, let's try that. Yeah. Nailed it, Aaron.

Oh, there's your line. Yep. Fancy like Applebee's. You sure this isn't the song you wrote? It's a great song. I know it is. Now it's Walker Hayes, me and him, the ones that wrote it. We still have it. I don't know. I'm going to ask him 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. Okay.

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, they had to do the, where they had to like let the gas go and like, you know, and they, like you see on TV, just bzzz in it. And they, all that stuff. 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, you know, and I was kind of like, you're like hanging out more, you know, when you're not eight. But yeah, it's crazy. Pretty good though. The odds of that 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 with option two. Curious your opinions on that cheap trick.

Aaron, you still open like this. So what? What do people say you look like? Do you feel the audience hate it? Yeah. 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. It's not a good, 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, I mean, I would do airplane jokes in open mic, which is mortified.

I mean, 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'd be, that'd be a good, I might tell that story actually. Yeah. The peanut story on, I could try that on stage. Maybe. Well, another thing is that it's 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 just ain't easy. Well,

Well, sometimes it works. You know, like Ryan Hamilton says he looks like Seinfeld and Chris Rock, right? I don't know. It's something like that. And it's 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 an idea of what people think you are or who you are. What do people say about you? I don't even remember. I count it or something. Yeah. Look worried. Yeah. That girl that said that 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. Everybody's... 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 appreciate that. My...

Success all comes from you people listening to this and telling people. I'm very much a word of mouth comedian. So I owe it to all of you, all the folks and the fans of stand up. 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. But yeah, it did really good. And they were very happy and which was great to hear. And, 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 or something like that. And then it kind of lives up there. So I don't know if they don't like keep tracking. But I mean, they know everything. They know every second someone's watched every person.

So something you got to think too, like how many people are watching this stand-up 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. People do watch it alone. I'm not saying they don't. I watch a lot of stuff. You know, you like comedy, you watch something alone or whatever. But so you hope more, you know, than all those families that watch it together. But it was good. 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 and announced 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 where 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, 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 just put these crazy teeth in and just go to 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's just looks like, you know, there's something wrong with this guy and you watch them just have to be nice to him, you know, and he's just gets them doing and he goes and buys gum or something. Yeah.

I asked your dad about this and he remembers this particular 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 like a windbreaker jacket. It's not going to be a jacket you'd wear. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, it's not far off from your outfit. Oh yeah. I can see it. It's always like, uh, yeah, it's something that, you know, you got the, you got the flip flops, Walmart flip flops. He'd love those. They would fit in great. I'll get them a pair. Yeah.

You nailed that reading, by the way. Yeah, it was a lot. I mean, so I look at sentences, some of 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. You know, practice. You guys are going to watch me learn and get better. I want to go find out if I have dyslexia. Maybe. You know? 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. And to go, I don't know how much I'm conquering. I mean, yeah, I've made a living. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. But I don't think I think a lot of people have. I don't think dyslexia. I'm trying to put a good spin on it. Yeah. People with dyslexia. There's like most of us don't make it out of a closet. We're just.

And they're 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 saw food under the door. He lives there now. He thinks that's the world because this is a big world. Aaron says you could be their spokesperson. You're the 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.

uh that would be terrible he's a yeah he's a president i don't know if it's a celebrity uh they 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 he just started naming just 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 tim tebow's 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 just 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. It wasn't going. The rest of them are conditions. His is just math issues. Math, yeah. Five plus five, nine. Henry, come on, buddy. Come on, five. Hey. He goes, oh, God. He doesn't get it. What is wrong? Speaking of dyslexia.

Henry Winkler? Yeah. 80s? Yep. That's the topic today. Wow. That worked out. Yeah, that worked out. Was that show in the 80s? Happy Days? Probably. Started in the 70s, jumped the shark in the 80s. Oh, there you go. But he was famous in the 80s. Yeah. And 90s. And he keeps going. He's still famous. He's done 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. 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. I remember basically everything about the 80s. You weren't born. 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. Yeah.

No, I mean, I remember it. There's nothing that, and I'm sure when you bring up stuff, I'll probably remember stuff. There's nothing that was like, I don't, you know, when do you become like super early? Like, oh yeah, I remember everything. I'm not a good member, remembering person. I have remembering issues. You don't have a good memory? Dyslexia and remembering issues. Yeah. What if I, this doctor comes in, he goes, you have dyslexia. I've told you this before. I'm like, God, I forgot. Yeah.

And then they have to put that in remembering issues. He has dyslexia and remembering issues. And some math stuff. Just some math stuff. Just some other things. It just gets very broad. And some English nonsense. But I don't know. We can go et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

He doesn't know what that means. Et cetera, et cetera. You think he's going to keep going? He doesn't know what et cetera means. You're like, oh, so it ends? Yeah, 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. Yeah, so those were big. Do you remember disposable cameras? I do remember disposable cameras. And you still see them occasionally.

At like, you've been at like a wedding where they have them sitting at the table and stuff? Yeah, 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 don't know what you take them there to take pictures. Well, let me know. There's a Walmart open. There you go. Right. Yeah. Picture Brian. In front of it. Yeah. 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. Blew 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, you're excited to go. You're like, oh, they got a new. 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 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. 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 that said Coca-Cola casual wear 1987. This is Christmas 86. And it was bright and it stood out and I thought this is the coolest thing ever. So I asked my mom if I could have it. It was like $30. So she said that's too expensive. But she knew how much I liked it. So put in Coca-Cola casual wear 1987. Okay. Yeah.

And, but then she surprised me for Christmas with it. So now I've got this shirt and that, that one, right. 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,

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. And I'm walking down the hall and she's furious.

So it's embarrassing for both of us to wear it because that shirt so stands out. Well, about two weeks later, it comes back up in the rotation and I wear it to school. And here she comes walking down the hall and she's wearing her. And I could just hear her say to her friend, are you kidding me right now? She was so mad and so embarrassed. And I never wore it again. Like, 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. Yeah. 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 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. And... Big statement. Well, people quickly let me know. It kind of... Yeah, I brought it for official. Yeah. I wore this shirt to school first day of my senior year. And 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... You'd do a concert, you're like, no, I stole it from some girl. That would be what you should have... You would have been 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. You've made a time machine. We could go back and fix it. You're kind of past the point of don't you think you could have done it? Yeah, I could have done a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff I could have done differently. A little bit more. I went up to a guy in high school and asked for his autograph. Wait, who was it?

I don't know. That was... God.

You didn't go 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. Yeah. 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. Yeah.

Yeah. 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. Yeah.

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. There's...

He's like trying to make a case for it in court. The judge goes, all right, dude, that's enough. Tells us Costanza. Yeah, he goes, we don't need anything else. There's Andrea Dora. Andrea Dora. Is this him right here, Brian? 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 when they... I mean, he was so big. And look at him there next to Shaq. Yeah. 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.

And we were at my wedding reception, and Keith Alberstadt texted me furious about it. And for a second, I was just so mad at my wedding reception, but then I moved on. Yeah, we had it at 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? Princeton. Okay. And UNLV.

Which I always say UNLV, 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 Vandy Jerry Stackhouse 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.

I know 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? 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. Last year? 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 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 if there's an emergency? Mm-hmm.

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 to now cell phones, we need this bag. And so we sell you this cell phone and we'll, what if an emergency happens?

So you save it up for just this emergency. My parents gave me my first cell phone, and they said, just keep it in your glove box in case you ever break. I didn't even turn it on. I just put it in my glove box, and it was an emergency. If I broke down, I could- What happens if it died? It would have just been dead. I guess. I mean, I guess if you never turn it on, it's going to stay charged for-

I don't think so. I don't think that's how electricity works. I think it would drain 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 went, 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. It's, there's just too many. It's just so much. I get a lot of texts. Personal computers or came out in mid eighties and the Apple, the first Mac came out in 84, which kind of revolutionized. You gasped.

in your mom's womb and your mom you go yeah felt it could you feel it i was in utero for seven years yeah took a while to come out i took my time when were you born 91 91 uh cds passed cassette tapes and sales in 1988 oh i thought that would have been later 88 cds yeah i remember cassettes but i uh

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...

you know, cassettes and your, it's, it's, uh, the radio is huge. Everything's huge. Everything is so big back then. Radio is so big. TV is so big. All this stuff is so big. It was so powerful. It's interesting that some of these things have come back in style a little bit. Like vinyl has been popular for a while now, but you know, cassettes are back. You go to some of these, these hip, uh,

record stores and music places. Yeah, there's 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. You have a cassette. Well, you have to just buy a cassette player. Yeah. Yeah. Do cars even have CD players anymore? I don't know. Mine's 10 years old. Yeah. The new ones might not. No. Yeah. I forgot to mention the first cell phone cost $4,000. Yeah.

So I hope you locked 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 didn't. Yeah.

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, 335, oh, never mind. Thought I had the number, totally misread the sentence. False alarm. 330? Yeah, that's 335 per hour. There's no way that'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 thanked for that? Isn't that the minimum wage now? Well, who do you got thanked for? How much was the minimum wage in Nashville in 1997? Or no, it wasn't in 97. It was 94, something like that.

95. Yeah. The 425. So maybe that was it. So maybe it was 425, not 325. That sounds right. Yeah. 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 Walkman, then they're like, you go to the CD player and you were like, you got to carry around.

The Walkman was at least the size of a tape. You clip it on your belt. It didn't skip. Then you get a CD player and a Walkman. I remember mowing the grass with it. You'd have those little headphones in that just let all the noise. Now it's all about the experience. These are covering your ears. It was basically just like having it off. You just hear everything.

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. About not having some skip, like anti-skip button so it doesn't skip. But it skipped. And now you can listen, you can wear a watch and have Bluetooth headphones in. That's pretty crazy. Sometimes it's like, I feel like

We kind of forget. You slowly build into this stuff, so you just really get used to it. But the fact that you can see each other on your FaceTime, I mean, it wasn't that long ago. You couldn't do anything. Almost a fourth of mattresses sold in the 80s were waterbeds. Do you remember waterbeds? I had a waterbed. You did? Yeah. Kind of fun. I remember my uncle had one.

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 it sleep good? It was pretty heavy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, 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. Either way, it's super heavy. It's funny. Why would you sleep on a waterbed? They must have gone way down in popularity now. I don't think they sell them anymore. You think because people got fatter?

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

I know 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 have a Chrysler Town & Country. 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 thing.

Like where you 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, different thing. I think you've seen vans though. We're at 12 passenger vans and stuff like that. Oh, 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 out of it. How many people they got in there? You gasp. Do they still sell regular vans now? Yeah, I think so, for sure. Like a 12 passenger van? Yeah.

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 that 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 think you can get whatever you want now

People want to 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 is probably 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. 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. If we were a news team, who would be? I mean, are you the lead anchor or are you kind of the funny guy you kick it to in the field?

I think he's Ron Burgundy. You're Ron Burgundy. Because you'll read anything in the Teleprompt. 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. The Who Shot JR finale of Dallas was, up in that time, the most watched TV show in TV history.

You guys heard about it? Yeah. I mean, I remember all this stuff. Yeah. Wasn't it a cliffhanger? Well, you were 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, Knot's Landing.

Did your dad watch them? I mean, we only had one TV, so. He had to. Yeah. Yeah. But we had the Friday night, Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah. Curbable 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. 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. So it was pretty crazy. Who shot him? His mistress. Yeah.

Was it a surprise? 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... 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 and we 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 going to be is 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 you 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 we didn't – 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 – just you were like, where is this? Where are you from?

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 bed. 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. It's not even the main guy. Did you get Shaq's autograph? No, no. I got Carlos Groves.

So in 1983, the MASH finale aired. And somehow people just knew this was going to, I mean, advertisers, they knew it was going to 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. Okay.

Uh, but it had 106 million viewers. It passed who shot Jr for the most viewed episode ever. And from 1983 to 2010, it was still the most watched TV broadcast in American history. Um, until the super bowl finally passed it. I feel like mash was very much in his time. I didn't watch mash. I remember, I think my parents watched mash. I remember people watching mash or something. Uh,

But it's like a show that doesn't get talked about anymore, I feel like. For being the biggest show in the world, like Seinfeld, and we still talk about it. It's on TV every day, all day. Andy Griffith, I feel like. Yeah, I was going to say Andy Griffith outlived it, I feel like. MASH just feels like 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 spinoff show called After MASH, which showed them when they all got back to America, and it just 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? I think so. I didn't watch MASH as a kid, but I think the finale we knew was such a big deal. So you just kind of watch to see what happens. Was there stuff on TV back then that would be inappropriate enough for parents to be like, I'm not going to let my kids watch that? Or wasn't everything kind of innocent and wholesome in a way? Well, there's certainly words that were 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... What was I going to say? I don't know. It doesn't matter. Well, the top shows of the 80s, Dallas dominated their first half of the 80s. And then the back half...

Cosby Show was number one for five straight years in the 80s. Last week I said, 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. It's still on. Oh, wow. That's when it started, 89? The 89, 90 TV season. Yeah. Wow.

Seinfeld started too, right? Yep. Yeah. That wasn't a hit for a while, right? Like till 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 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... Because 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 everybody was running. Was it Monday? Maybe that's when Monday or I don't remember Monday or Friday 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 and everybody loved it. It's, it's just funny to hear the shows that they were,

You know, homebrewing was a force. That was a big show for us growing up. Yeah. That's all 90s though. Yeah, 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.

And it's a whole new thing. It's a whole new thing. Another new channel MTV debuted 1981. Early kind of fizzled out now MTV. Well, I guess MTV, I guess, but they, 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 leaning into it. Just the teen moms. And there's multiple MTVs, right? Yeah, MTV2. And I think, yeah, 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. Yeah.

Radio is kind of back, though, with the fact that Spotify and that kind of thing. 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. 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 the road?

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 i last night i was trying to i was like oh i'm gonna 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 future ahead of him. Yeah. He's got a good career. Some of that stuff, you can't believe it was 2004. Like, Denzel Washington, you think, well, he was famous in the 80s or something. And then you're like, was this his first big movie? No, he won an Oscar for Glory in like 1990. Glory was probably the first movie I ever remember watching, weirdly enough. Really? Yeah, one of them.

I loved Glory. We had it on VHS, and I used to watch it all the time. You started off pretty intense, huh? Watching movies? Out the gate. You're not watching Beauty and the Beast? I went, we did Glory, then I did the program, and then I did... Schindler's List. Schindler's... No, I forget why we had Glory. We had Glory recorded on a tape or something. Yeah. And 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. All right, 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. Because you were saying that because Star Wars was the top movie of the 70s. Yeah, but didn't more come out? Well, you got to at least, 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, yeah. Now, 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, yeah. I mean, yeah. But E.T. was number one, Return of the Jedi, two, and Empire Strikes Back, three.

E.T. bigger than Star Wars? I didn't know it was that big. Well, Star Wars was in the 70s, but... I mean, yeah, those two movies, I mean. Yeah. Yeah, E.T. was huge. E.T. was a big movie. The top Hollywood... Never seen it. You've 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...

It's like I always get, you got to get caught in moves. Like 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 Manchurian Candidate was like last night. I watched Pelican Brief. And so I like, 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. Yeah. Like sometimes you'll, you realize, oh, because I've also been in a kick of being 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,

It's all kind of going... Every movie is 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. 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, 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. Oh, it's something original. It's something like thought of instead of being like, now Iron Man is going to go down.

Mars. I don't know. Whatever. And then they go, well, what if we get Iron Man and this guy and we get them together? Now they come and this Loki, and I don't even know who this Loki is. It's this world that they're building. They're doing Star Wars. They're doing Mandalorian, which was great, but can you believe Mandalorian? 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 like a well-designed

like suspenseful kind of like real acting you know it's it's i mean that you've seen the oscars are all these movies you never heard of because maybe that's the only place that they're at i mean now you know the acting is yeah dude you are gonna be as a super hero like you know it's like yeah i mean you get to wear a mask the whole time and we're gonna tell a story that is it's the same story yeah you're spider-man how do you get bit oh we'll show you again uh

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. It's,

And TV is now the way that you could tell, you know, you could have a Breaking Bad. You can have all these kind of shows that are doing this stuff where movies are just like, if it's not going to make a billion dollars, 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. Mm-hmm.

And so then you lose all the... You're losing all those good actors that you're not... Denzel Washington's... 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. It doesn't even matter. They have a 10th one coming out? How many are there? Nine or 10. 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 $500 million. And then, you know, good for them. They get to go be in something. I'm not saying you're not going to say... I don't blame the actors. You're not going to 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 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 in basically every movie, especially action movie, the main character, there's going to be an opening scene right out of the gate, right?

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 razor lost ark the first 10-15 minutes of 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 it gets you hooked right away yeah yeah it establishes who the character is and then you start the main story that that you're doing you you kind of forget which they're making a new one of those uh

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 how am I excited? When they remade Spider-Man, it was so exciting. I was like, are you kidding me? And then like Superman, why does... 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. Right.

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, but they, and that's the problem. And so they get these, I know it just from being somewhat in the writing shows and being with all these writers and,

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. 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,

And 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 it. 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 almost, I'd be fine with maybe another Transformers movie. I could do that. Yeah.

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 got to 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 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, 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 there's a lot of words. And now there's like they say, hey, basically the whole time. Yeah. They go, hey, hey, hey, hey. Yeah. And then blah, blah, blah. Don't really say much. I mean, as a songwriter. As a songwriter. Yeah, but you can write a song and be pretty quick. Do 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. 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 to Heaven. Well, there's still going to be bad music. There's still going to be bad music back then, but I don't think so. I mean, but you can, it's now, 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, I like them. I like these songs. You know, you listen to them and they're fun. And like, I don't, you know, again, I don't listen to words. I don't, it doesn't resonate with me when I listen to a story going like, oh, this is about, I mean, I'll ask Harper.

I'll be like, what is this? What are they saying? Like, cause I, she'll be like, oh, it's this, this like a little, they're a 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 Pitt, everybody's still alive. And Loki's going to team up with you. And Loki's going to drive a bus. Yeah.

We're doing the thing with Greyhound, so he drives the 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. I was like, maybe he's not. I guess you've got hard times. But that's where all it is. 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. 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 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.

They're not buying whatever you're selling. They're not whatever. 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 is probably that kind of similar kind of thing where he's kind of very private. You don't really know what he does, but if he's going to be in something, you know it's going to be really good. So I'm not trying to say there's no movies that are great, but it's far and few, you know, is that right? Far and few between? Few and far between. Few and far between. Yeah.

recycling a lot of the old ideas. I mean, everything's just like, let's redo this again. And I 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 dollars. 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 that, and then, then they, then they go 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. Like there's nothing, there's no original, it doesn't matter. You are, we're going to make you a Batman and now you're going to go, well, Harry Potter, which I'm Harry Potter was actually a, probably a great one. Like, so that was probably one of the, you know, they're remaking Harry Potter too. Really make it as an HBO series. Hmm.

And they just do that. And they just make it. Yeah. 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's your, that's, 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 were when you turned 40. Uh,

I 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 Indiana Jones. I mean, that's two pretty good. Pretty crazy. Yeah. Two pretty big career moves. Same person. Yeah. I mean, like... Still around. 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. Mm-hmm.

Eddie Murphy was second. 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, all those movies. 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. Maybe that's what, too. He built that because he was a stand-up. He got that audience. The movies came after.

Yeah. Yeah. Not the other way around. Not the other way around. But 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, no one, that guy's the best at that.

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 your throat. I mean, he did Dolomite last year. I like Shia LaBeouf, like one of my Transformers. I think he's awesome. He's very good. Yeah, and he's a very, his own person. That's a guy, I remember watching that HBO series, The Green something, where they, Matt Damon,

I want to say Project Greenlight. Project Greenlight. It was such a good show. He gets picked to be in the movie. And he gets picked to be in that movie. And I remember watching that Project Greenlight. 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 still around. Sylvester Stallone, 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 like, what if Rambo teamed up with Indiana Jones? I guess maybe that's the problem. Well, they just put out a new Rambo last year. I think they're doing another one. Yeah. I think they're doing another one. Probably. I'll watch it. I'll watch the last one.

I 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 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. 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... Yeah. 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, 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, I guess it's like the Marvel. It's like becoming, 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 gotten too far. Mm-hmm.

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 in everything. He does that. And you're like, yeah, I like that. So 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. I agree with you. I agree with you.

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. Yeah, I remember that. 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. You're talking about the video? The video. You'd watch it during the day. Yeah. It was very scary. Is that that dance? Yeah. I can't quite do it. Nobody had ever done anything like that. I mean, it was like a 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, but 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, of all time. 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 the 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. 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? They've been milking that for a while. Good night, dude. Everybody acts like...

Everybody acts like they should have 50 Super Bowls. And you're like, y'all have done nothing. Yeah. You've done, I mean, I'm a Jay Cutler defender. Just Vandy. Jay Cutlery. Jay Cutlery. Cutler. That's what I should. Cutlery. Cutlery. There you go. Now I got it. Can you hear me say that? Jay Cutlery. Jay Cutlery. Say Jay. Yeah. Jay Cutlery. Jay Cutlery. Is Cutlery how you say it?

Cutlery. Cutlery. So if I said cutlery, it would turn around? Cutlery? Cutlery? It's almost there, isn't it? Yeah.

But, yeah, the Bears, man, they – good night. I mean, you just act 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. They went to one Super Bowl with Levy Spitz. Rex Grossman. Is that who it was? Yeah, the Colts beat them. Yeah. But it's like every year it's like, can we not get it together? You're like, y'all won. Yeah. I mean, 30 years – like, let's not act like we are –

Yeah. Now this season's a fluke. Now 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 in Madison. I mean, over half of those are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That was back, like, someone so...

These are all in consecutive weekends. Yeah. Oh, man. 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. Bon Jovi. Yeah. Billy Idol. Beastie Boys. Whitney Houston. The Grateful Dead. White Snake. Pink Floyd. Eddie Murphy. Two shows. Look at that.

I mean, there's not a ton of two shows. No. The only two shows there were Brian Adams. Grateful Dead. Duran Duran. Luther Vandross. Grateful Dead. And then Pink Floyd and Eddie Murphy. Out of all those. Cars, Rush. Yeah. 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 we're at at the fontanelle in whites creek yeah that's barbara mandrell's old house right yeah 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 she was and Barbara Mendoza's daughter was there and my dad did the birthday for her 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 I remember my dad going to it because my dad was like it was a big deal he's like got his private show at Barbara Mendoza'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, yeah, he was in jail. 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 came home, and I remember he brought all this popcorn home. He couldn't believe it. It's so crazy. I remember it was nuts that he was getting to do it. Where was this? I don't even know. Maybe Memphis or something like that.

And he comes home and he brought a giant bag of popcorn because Cosby had on his... Because we're learning about... My dad's like, he had his own green room. My dad didn't really meet him long. Cosby 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...

I mean, it was like getting a gold bar. We'd 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. I try to keep it. My writer is, uh, nothing like, is it where I have like mints of an iced coffee, uh,

And then, cause you write what, I don't know if people know this when you do a writer, uh,

I think there's a budget for it, but sometimes you end up paying for stuff, which is funny because sometimes even if there's other artists listening, you could be like, man, every show I get 50 beers and all this. Yeah, dude, you're paying for probably a lot of that. 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. 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 going to eat before a show. And we're going to go probably order food after. So I get rid of that stuff, too. But you would eat a sandwich. Yeah, you kept it on the rudder 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 happy. Just so bread sandwich here could eat. Breadstick. Breadstick. And they...

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, it's an old, it's not old, but it's a, you don't, it's not, you're not going to, 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 i'm gonna take yeah 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 gonna have this stuff uh

Yeah, I don't have like unless it's like I have I go to Louisville, I go to Nashville, L.A., probably have some stuff back to like in New York, you know, anything I'm going to have a lot of people probably behind backstage. Then you have like a little kind of area where we had for when I first time I did TPAC was what do we have? I'm blanking the chicken 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 always asks 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 a...

like joke. It's the real deal. Uh, but we had Hattie B's 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. It was something. So they wanted green M&Ms and

and their rider. And so if you got a bag of M&M's, you got to pick them all out and it 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&M's, they knew that they, you read the entire rider and did. And the right, the green M&M's are not important.

They're just there because people would skip steps. Well, we didn't know that the fire is set up or the, this is set up. The music is set. Like the, the whole show has to be set up by these people. So if they don't get to the green M&Ms, then how do I know that you went and read through everything? Uh,

And so 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.

It just to see if people, cause it was so out of nowhere that if somebody, and it was 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 writing 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. And 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 them 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. Cause I, cause I'm the one that went through it and they want him to, and, but he's not doing this. So I go, okay, I'll do it. And then two days later I said, and I go, he went through it and 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 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 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 it in. And I put it in and they go, you did this in,

live a god or whatever i did it and so they were and it's in the middle and i was like they're gonna catch this you know and they did it and i that's but i have more respect and will do more right because of that because i know that they went through and uh you know you go oh you're actually watching and you know what's going on yeah joanne grigioni whichever here's 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. Oh, like from Viorey.

These are acid wash jeans. Yeah. I feel like this is made. They've come back in and out. 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. The 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 uh 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

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. That'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 them looking quite like that. I think they would usually go over leggings or stuff like that. Like this?

Yeah, more like that. So they look like socks. Yeah. I think I saw more like the other one in the top. Okay. Yeah. Parachute pants. Were you looking at yours in the Sears catalog? Me? Yeah. Yeah, I was actually. Sears catalog was the first, you know. I mean, we would get a service merchandise catalog and flip the toys. I mean, Sears was a big clothing place.

They had other stuff. I know, but it was like they had clothes. Sears? Sears was like people would buy, you'd go there and buy clothes at Sears. Yeah, not appliances. Yeah, I know. It's just funny. Now, are they open still? Sears is gone. Is it? Yeah. Sears, what do you think of Sears? Do you think of 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 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 know her swatches yeah yeah the watch yeah yeah yeah coca-cola show already mentioned uh swatch

It's just another type of watch. It's like a Swiss watch. What's different about it? 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? The Apple? What was it? 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 that. 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 the most famous commercial. Not, I don't know. 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. Did you say Thor through the... I had a hammer in my mind, so I assumed it was Thor. And so the opposite of Thor was a young lady. A hooter's waitress. In a hooter's outfit. 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? For being the most famous commercial. You've never seen that? 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. Apple...

What? There's a, 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? I think so. What did they think Big Brother was, a person? No, it's not about Big Brother. It's about like 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 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 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 it. 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. Yeah.

Wendy's, all the pickles are a little bit whiter now. Yeah. They're not that green. And they're, I see them in a commercial and I just think, it's like scallions where I go like, they're putting, I don't, I go from pickles are my favorite thing to if 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. I have to do a special episode. Emergency Nate Land episode. McDonald's changes pickle. I'll be on board. I almost think they did change their pickle. It's a lighter colored pickle. Look up and see if there's anything that... Instead of being the green, the darker... It was like a more green, like a greener green versus 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 like a drug addict going like, you don't got to do everything. I'm just about drugs for you. Just sell me the drugs. I'm not here to lessen. Right. Some fast food changes in the 80s. The Chicken McNugget. Oh. Went on the market in 81 at McDonald's. 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. I'd get some Muppet glasses. The Muppets toys and the Happy Meal? Yeah. 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 could order two of them. Yeah. You want apple slices or extra fries? You're like, come on now. That's what I was going to say. They always ask you, like, do you 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. Yeah.

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 thing. They go, we try. And you're going to tell me your pickle's not, you got to 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 in 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? She goes...

Does 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? He goes, when did I say the word cancel? He just keeps getting stuff. We'll talk about that on the 90s episode. New Coke. You remember when Coke changed its formula? No. Yeah, there was New Coke, and then they changed the formula, and people freaked out and got mad about 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. 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. This is what's in here.

All right. Oh, and there's the one thing 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. It 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. All right. Associated Press Male Athlete of the Decade. Can you name it? Wayne Gretzky. O.J.?

You get OJ wrong every time. Wayne Gretzky. He received, I mean, he dominated everyone. He was an NHL MVP nine times in the 80s. Someone mentioned that once, I think on something. Maybe we talked about most dominant and we didn't mention him. But he, you could argue he's, no one's, the stuff he's done, it's not even. He won MVP nine out of 10 years in the 80s. So most of it. Mario Lemieux won the other year.

He received 307 votes for athlete of the decade. Second was Joe Montana, who had 85 votes. It's not even like what he's done and break records is it's, it's so far. It's so many records. It's, uh, people can't catch him. Like it's not even, he's, 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 like right now the only one. I mean, what Gretzky to me feels like, you know, like Jordan is got everything. That's where it's like Tiger's like that too. Like Tiger's got that. When you see all the –

The stats and stuff like that, Tiger's always... Yesterday, they had the golf win the eight playoffs holes. Eight. And the last time that's happened, guess who was in it? Tiger Woods. So it's like that. He's always just his name's there. And 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 have received votes. Magic Johnson, Carl Lewis, Nolan Ryan, Larry Bird, Bo Jackson, and Walter Payton. 49ers. 49ers won four Super Bowls in the 80s. Some of their memorable plays in the 80s are 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 a remake of an event.

Just remaking stuff. Remade to the 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. 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. So July two. Yeah. The 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 is 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.

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.

Some of the top sports moments in the 80s. Doug Flutie's Hail Mary. Boston College. Yeah. Stafford Cowell, 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. I remember watching that. 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 it 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 doing that around the base. Yeah. And everybody on the radio is like, well, we can't see. And he 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'll watch it. I guess I'll watch it. Who's going to play it? You know, whatever. Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise. You know, one of the main ones. Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone. It's going to 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're in on it. The opposite of doing How You're Supposed to Close in comedy. Yeah. This last joke's the least confident I have. I'm going to get out on this one. I was going to get out on like the Challenger explosion or something. Yeah.

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. Everybody always remembers they pulled them out of class or 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 to Guns N' Roses. They talked about that in first grade.

While the Challenger exploded? Yeah. They put on guns and roses. The soundtrack was perfectly timed out. Welcome to the Jungle. I remember being Welcome to the Jungle and I remember something on a playground. Like I'm saying, that's what I remember from first grade. It was like, or that. For some reason, I wasn't allowed to listen to it. Knock it on heaven's door. That was when I was allowed to listen to everything. Def Leppard was all these things that I didn't even

dirty anymore. But I remember we went to the dentist's office and we're waiting and I had headphones in and then 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 and I gave him those headphones and then I'm like, I'm just a me, I don't think I'm allowed to listen to this. I told a lot of kids that. Yeah.

I remember when Tipper Gore, when she was... Oh, God. You know, you remember. Yeah, you know before, you're like, John McCain's dad came and spoke, talked to my college. He was a year younger than me, and he had a kid early. He started to...

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. Yeah, 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 pushed it bad. Yeah. It was the worst choke job, I guess, in golf history, they said. Yeah. They're...

i feel like this is you're trying to like if we were on a date you're just trying to win me over you're right you go and then they go you go i watched the uh uh the masters the other day it was on tv and uh look at this pot just trying to go i mean he goes he just barely misses it golly wow that's tough i made a five foot this weekend uh

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 other, the group with me is like, this guy's taking a little bit too serious. I yank one, right? No, 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. But he thinks about it every day. I bet he does. Well, if he's still alive, uh, uh,

You know, just trying to be funny. You know, that's a good time, right? I get it. I bet Scott Hook's still alive. No, I bet he's doing great. Yeah. All right. That's it. We're done, right? Yeah. Yeah. We had some good steam after. What was before this Scott Hook stuff? The Challenger. Challenger stuff we did pretty fun. And then. Yeah. All right. Thank you, everybody. We will see you next week.

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