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Speaker 1: This is Jay Reid from Denver, Colorado, and you are

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reliving the best of the eighties with Jason and d

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On there. Surely you can't be serious podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody. I hope you had a fantastic Christmas. We

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told you last episode that we were done with the season,

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and we are, and we haven't started the next season yet.

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But we just can't get enough of giving you podcast information,

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so we decided to do a little special episode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is gonna be something new for us. We're

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actually taking a deep dive in one particular song over

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many episodes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. We A few weeks ago, Jason had texted our

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friend group and said, hey, who of the people mentioned

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in We Didn't Start the Fire are still alive? There

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are three and we're like ooh. And it was this

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fantastic little trivia thing. But that got me started thinking, Hey,

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I don't think I know every single thing about every

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single bit of history in that song. What if we

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did like a five minute episode twice a day where

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we just talk about the guys that are mentioned in

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that song.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're young like us, you didn't know

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all this stuff and we didn't know any of it.

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So we're going to go through it.

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Speaker 2: Right so as the intro, though, we probably need to

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tell you a little bit about the song. We are

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late December of twenty twenty three, right now, exactly thirty

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four years ago. In December of nineteen eighty nine, this

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song was number one. It had just come out in September,

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just a couple months earlier. It shot up the charts,

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and it is probably one of the most memorable Billie

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Joel songs he has.

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Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. In fact, he made our nineteen

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seventy eight list if you remember that. When he talks

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about this song, he's like, you know, when I compare

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this to like the Longest Time, it's not very good song.

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In fact, he called it like it's like a dentist drill.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not his favorite song that he has, but

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it is a fun and like history lesson kind of song,

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and it kind of came about in a unique way.

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So he's just turned forties nineteen eighty nine. He was

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born in nineteen forty nine. He's just turned forty. He's

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at the recording studio. Sean Lennon is there. He's got

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a buddy of his who's twenty one, and the buddy says, man,

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this is like the worst time in the world to

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be twenty one. Billy Joel's like, yeah, I can remember

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when I was twenty one. It was kind of miserable too.

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I mean we had, you know, war, civil rights, drug problems.

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And the guy's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but like, nothing

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really happened in the fifties when you were growing up,

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And he was like, nothing happened. Have you heard of

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the Korean War? Have you heard of the Suez Canal crisis?

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And that little spark lit the fire? If you will

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wow ad to this song.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. So this song was nominated for Record of

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the Year, and I asked you when you said it

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you brought it up to me. I was like, this

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is either the last number one song of the eighties

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or the second last song. And come to find out,

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it's the second last song. Yep. And for those of

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you trivia buffs like me who liked this type of stuff,

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the last number one song of the nineteen eighties was

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Another Day in Paradise by folks.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it's Poconos. Y couldn't go anytime in the

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eighties without Phil Collins.

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Speaker 1: I do have a funny story about this song before

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we go any further. So one person asked him, did

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you write this to end when the Cold War was ending?

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And Billy Joel's like, you know, it's just like my

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luck to have the Soviets close up shop right at

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the end of my song the worst time ever. Yeah,

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it's funny.

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Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, I mean, he was born in forty nine,

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which is arguably when the Cold War started, and this

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song comes out in eighty nine, which is arguably when

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the Cold War ends. And obviously that's a lot of

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the information that you have in this song, but there's

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so much more, and so we hope you guys will

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join us for these fun, little bite sized episodes that

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we have for the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's right, five minutes, twice a day. It's gonna be fun.

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Five minutes of fire