Speaker 1: Good day.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: This is Tim here from the Great White North and
you're listening to like the Surely You Can't Be Serious
Podcast with my honorary hoss D and Jason.
Speaker 4: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. We are here today with our top
five picks from the year nineteen seventy eight. So if
you like the nightlife, if you like to booget, this
may not be the list that you love. I don't know.
I'm waiting to see what mister Jason Colvin has come
up with from this year, because for this year there
were a lot of very big chart topping hits that
I am like, there's no way this is getting on
my list. I mean, Andy Gibb not on my list.
Sniffe Tears not on my list. Not on my list?
Speaker 3: Are you trashing my list already?
Speaker 1: I just don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, if you love disco, you may love
this list. If you love rock, you may love this list.
If you love country, if you love women singers, you
may love this list, or you may hate it. I
don't know where this list is going to go, but
there are so many freaking great songs from this year
that it was agonizing to cut this list down to
only five.
Speaker 3: I know, I've been sitting here for thirty minutes waiting
on you to cut it down.
Speaker 4: You know it's going to be different answers for me tomorrow.
It'll be different answers by the time we finished the
podcast than it is right now. But I just have
to say, time to fish or cut bait. Let's go,
let's do it. I've written my stuff down, I've murdered
the babies. Let's jump in.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Okay. So the tricky part about this
is this is pre MTV. You and I were both
very young.
Speaker 4: For three quarters of the year of nineteen seventy eight.
I was two years old. Okay too, Yeah, but I
thought to myself, well, am I really going to know
much of the music from there? Oh? My gosh, yes,
I just have to. I have to at this point
say thank you to my parents for being avid music listeners,
because this music A lot of the songs I probably
haven't heard in forty years. But going back, I was like,
I would love to listen to this as my parents
listened to the vinyl LPs playing in the living room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I was. I turned five years old
in nineteen seventy eight, so I'm a few years older
than you. So this list is definitely shaped by my
parents' musical tastes, right, Yeah, pre MTV, I didn't really
have tastes of my own, so I just sat around
and listened to their stuff. Definitely hear their impact here.
Fair Necessities doesn't make the list. That's probably one of
my favorite songs from that time, right, This is from
my mom spinning records and me listening to her stuff,
you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it turns out my parents were actually pretty cool.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you and I established a few rules for ourself.
So of this list, we're going to do our top
five songs plus two honorable mentions, and we're leaving out
any song that we have covered so far, correct, Yeah,
so that eliminates everything from Grease.
Speaker 4: If you want to check out our Grease episode, it
was very recent. We'll put a link in the show
notes for you so that you can go check out that.
But we covered the whole album that.
Speaker 3: Grease soundtrack episodes did pretty well for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was a humongous hit. It WANs so
many songs from that album. In this year just hitting
the charts all over the.
Speaker 3: Place, we wanted to come with fresh songs. So if
you want to hear us talk about Grease, go back
list of that nothing from Saturday Night Fever.
Speaker 4: Same story last year, but we still cover that whole album.
It's been one of our best.
Speaker 3: Episodes, yep. So we've covered that. We've covered those two
and then the biggie nothing from van Halen one.
Speaker 4: That was a hard decision to make, right well, my
list was literally over fifty songs long without van Halen
on there. If you throw van Halen, they could have
taken every It was kind of like when we did
nineteen eighty three and Thriller could have had all five
spots here. So I just had to say listen. We
covered that in detail on like our fourth or fifth episode.
Go check out our van Halen episodes. They are some
of our best received episodes. We love them. But we
covered van Halen's debut album pretty thoroughly in.
Speaker 3: That pretty thoroughly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then also I eliminated for my list hold the
Line by Toto because we discussed it kind of in
the pre Toto four episode that.
Speaker 4: We did another great song from seventy eight.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it would have easily been in my
top five. Sure, okay, all right, well let's get down
to it, man. Let's see what babies are left.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go, number five five.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna tease this up. This is how we
do it here, right, So we I tease it up
with some little trivia tidbits for you, yep, and you
try to figure it out exactly. I think it's gonna
be a little harder to tease it up because our
experiences were different. We were little kids. So let's see
how much we can get done here. Okay, okay, So
first thing This was released January of nineteen seventy eight,
peaked at number twenty one in May of seventy eight. Okay,
so clearly seventy eight song. This began as a joke
and kind of like a dare by Phil Everley of
the Everly Brothers. Okay, okay, So he dared this artist
to write a song about this particular movie that he
had watched. He even thought, maybe you could start a
dance craze with this.
Speaker 4: Wow, all of these seventy eight songs are swimming through
my head and I don't. I don't have a clue
what this one? Okay?
Speaker 3: All right, So when they were jamming out this song,
the artist who haven't named yet and the guys in
his band were just jamming, reflowing out lyrics. Well, they
had a great time. They thought they had something going.
They came back the next day. Of course they're all
high ast kites. They get there and they're like, hey,
let's play that song we were working on. And nobody
remembered what they had said or what they had done. Okay,
but the guy's wife took notes. So some of the
early versions of this song include name drops from Jimmy Hoffa,
Marilyn Chambers does that ring a bell with you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: That's good. You weren't watching porn the seventies? And Linda
Lovelace who was Steve Throat there? Yeah, yeah, playing on
this song. John McVie on bass, Mick Fleetwood on drums.
Speaker 4: Okay, anything coming to you? Is this a song off
of rumors?
Speaker 1: It is not? Okay?
Speaker 4: Is not okay? Keep going?
Speaker 3: Took ten minutes to write and it was a standard
and this I'm not a musician, this is what it said.
It was G. C. D. Which is a lot of
popular songs, G C D. Yeah, and they just had
a ball, just kind of making it, scratching it out,
and literally it's the only song by this guy.
Speaker 4: I know, this is not Fleetwood. Mac then just has
mc fleetwood on the drums. That's right, You've got me, dude,
I don't know what this is. Okay.
Speaker 3: The movie that they watched that Phil Everly and Warren
Zevon watched, uh huh was called Werewolves of London.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this was this was not a baby for me.
I didn't have I saw that one on the list
and I was just like, oh, that's not one of
my that's not one of my songs. Okay. And that's
important to note for the for our listeners, we're not
necessarily picking songs that were like crowd favorites. We're not yeah,
picking chart toppers. We're not even picking songs that have lasted.
We're just picking songs that we like. Sure, sure, but yeah,
I know when you said that, I immediately thought of
Sweet Home, Alabama the chord progression, because that's what that
same thing. But Kid Rock did a thing where he
combined were Wolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama and
his song as well.
Speaker 3: So that was a big song that was called All
Summer Long. Yeah, okay, so quick quick story for you
on this. I thought this was hilarious.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: While they were jamming, one of his buddies comes in.
He's like, hey, what's this song about, and he said
it's about were wolves and the guy he's like, oh,
He's like, yes, yeah, I'm howling around your kitchen door.
They added that to the song.
Speaker 4: Fantastic.
Speaker 3: When they came out with this as the lead single
from that album, he was really mad. He's like, guys,
we're just fooling around. This song's a piece of crap.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Quick story for you on Warren's Zvon. Okay, the only
reason I bring this up is because we just did
Billy Idol's Rebel Yell and we talked about the Chateau
Merrimont'll tell right, yes, okay, So Billy Idol had some
trouble there. If you want to hear about that, go
back and listen to that episode. That's also where John
Belushi had his fatal overdose. Okay, Warren Zyvon checked himself
in there to have his own personal drama. Checked himself
in the only thing he brought with him was whiskey
and a forty four magnum.
Speaker 4: That does not sound good.
Speaker 3: That sound like a good combination, sound good, guns and booze.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, apparently while working out his issues, he was standing
on his balcony shooting his pistol across Sunset Boulevard at
a billboard of Richard Pryor. Oh my gosh, So there
you go. Wow, tortured rockstar.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a good one. Great, okay, great.
Speaker 3: Job, thank you, all right to your number five sir.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you may get this one quickly, or you
may not, because when we do these things, we kind
of text back and forth, and so've I've tipped my
hand a bit here and there. Okay, Okay. So this
one was a number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
which is rare for my songs. Typically they're not gonna
be number one in seventy eight. But this one was
a number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: It also won the nineteen seventy eight Grammy for Best
Pop Vocal Performance. It was written by a guy named
Randy Goodrum. Randy was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, I'm
from Arkansas, you know, so it was kind of cool
to say, hey, this song. When I I came across
this song, I hadn't heard it again. This was one
I hadn't heard in decades. But when I heard it, I
was like, oh my gosh, this song is. I mean,
it brings back all of those feels that I had
from listening to music as a little kid. And so
after I listened to it a few times, I texted
you about it, and then I texted my dad about it.
I'm like, you, guys, you know, do you remember this song?
And my dad, who I mean? This is? His response
is so out of character, but it was just hilarious.
He's like, this brought tears to my eyes. I had
to listen to it five times. I'm like, whoa the
tough bearded man. It's like, what, but I mean this was.
One of the joys of growing up with my dad
is that we both played music, and so this music
is something that we really share. And he said, I
had to look up the guy who wrote it. He's
from Hot Springs, Arkansas, and gave me a little more
info on it. So he went to Hot Springs High
School as well. He formed a band called the Three Kings,
although they were also called the Three Blind Mice. It
was him, a couple of drummers, and a saxophone player.
Who might know his name is Bill Clinton. What Yeah,
So Randy Goodrum was in a band with Bill Clinton
when they were both in high school. Okay, And so
he goes on and goes to college while Bill's at Harvard.
I guess he's over, you know, in Conway, Arkansas, going
to Hendricks College. He becomes a songwriter but isn't having
a lot of success. He's gone out to la He's
trying to pump these songs and everybody's like, hey, we
don't want anything, but keep going. You're doing great. And
so he's got this he's he said, I was better
at writing music at first, and so he's got a
lot of musical snippets that he would just have lying
around and so one day he's cleaning up his office
and he's like, I'm taking a break. He sits down
with a musical snippet and plays it on the piano,
and then the first two or three lines come to
him and he's like, oh my gosh, I think I've
got I'm onto something and literally the rest of it
just poured out of him. He goes and plays it
for his wife and she goes, yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Reminder, this was became a number one on the Billboard
How Want of? This was the song that broke him,
and it also broke the female lead singer, the first
female Canadian to hit number one in the US and
also the first female Canadian to earn a gold record
in the US.
Speaker 3: I have a guess, is this You Light Up My Life?
By Debbie Boone?
Speaker 4: No, okay, no similar sound, but no different, different singer. Okay, okay.
So the singer later on, she's struggling. She's married to
a music producer named Bill Langstroth. They have a son
together who's just a toddler. His name's William as well,
and she's just like, I'm struggling with trying to make
a career as a musician but also be there for
my son, because you know, it's not like when mommy
goes to work she's gone for eight hours. She's gone
for two months. And so it was this real difficult
situation she was in, and she was scrolling through some
tapes that she had of demo songs and she comes
across this song and she sees it, she hears it,
and she's like, this captures exactly how I feel about.
He's two men in my life, my son and my husband.
But the only thing that's on the tape is this
guy's name, this Randy Goodrum guy.
Speaker 3: I got nothing. I mean, I'm nowhere.
Speaker 4: The beauty of this song is almost religious. The name
of the song is called You Needed Me by.
Speaker 1: Cameron and gave me dignity.
Speaker 5: Sohowy Ney.
Speaker 1: You gave me string.
Speaker 6: To stand to face.
Speaker 4: Making me wee dude, It's so beautiful and it's been
I mean, I haven't heard that song in forever. Like
all of the songs that you still hear from this era,
I haven't heard it from ever forever. And I tell
you I only put it a number five. But of
all the songs, I replayed this one more than any
of them. It just it brings out all the feels.
And it's crazy because it has no chorus. There's no
chorus in the whole song. Interesting when he tried to
promote it before and like, finally listen to the tape,
people would be like, well, don't you want to put
a chorus in there, and he's like, why it's already
you know long enough it's yeah, I don't need the chorus,
And ultimately everybody, including his wife, Yeah it's pretty good,
was wrong and it set him on a music career.
By the way, he went on to write, oh, Sherry,
Steve Perry. Yes, he had another big hit from seventy
eight called Bluer than Blue by Michael Johnson, and he
also wrote if she would have been faithful by.
Speaker 3: Chicago, Yes, that's fantastic. I bet I haven't heard that
song in four decades. There you go, very good, very good.
Speaker 4: All right. That brings us to number four.
Speaker 3: Four all right, number four. You know when you're talking
about all the feels, this is the one that kind
of brings out the most feels in me. This almost
didn't make the album. Maybe one of this artist's most
well known songs. Okay, if it had not been for
Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstat walking by and listening and
hearing the song, it probably would not have.
Speaker 4: Made the album.
Speaker 3: So here's the deal. It's a chick song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: They walked by this artist who you very well know,
who we've covered here at the Shirley can be a
serious podcast. They walked by and they're like, man, this
song's fantastic, And the guys in the band were like, really,
we're not sure if we like it or not. Okay,
I mean we think it's pretty good, but we're not
really sure. And they're like like grabbed him by the
shirt collars, like, if you guys don't put this on
the album, you're crazy. Wow, this is a fantastic song.
Speaker 1: You guys are being such guys.
Speaker 3: So the women were the ones are like, this isn't
amazing song. He wrote this for his wife on her birthday.
Speaker 4: Okay all Right?
Speaker 3: Released September of nineteen seventy seven, peaked at number three
on the charts in nineteen seventy eight. It has been
covered by Barry White, Frank Sinatra, Isaac Hayes, Tons Moore
won the Grammy for Record.
Speaker 1: Of the Year.
Speaker 4: Have you got anything for Me? No, I don't.
Speaker 3: This particular artist also sang it to Oscar on Sesame Street.
Okay okay, uh huh, all right, I got nothing nothing.
Speaker 4: No, ill play it for you, all right.
Speaker 1: Don't go ja.
Speaker 3: To try please me. You never led me down before.
This is Billy Joels just the Way you are fantastic.
Speaker 4: I remember I was, I was struggling on like we've
covered the artist. So, yeah, what a incredibly great song
off of the Stranger. This is one of a bunch
of great songs off of the Stranger, like you've got
just the way You've are, you've got the Stranger, you've
got moving out, you've got scenes from an Italian restaurant. Incredible.
And then of course in seventy eight, in October seventy eight,
fifty second Street comes out and it's got.
Speaker 3: Another slew O. It's amazing, right, such a great art.
Speaker 1: I take you, Jeff the way.
Speaker 3: So this obviously is Billy Joel. There were several Billy
Joel songs that had to mark off the list as
we whittled it down. Yeah, the tune of this song
came to him in a dream, right yeah, and he
was like, oh, that's really good. That's really good. Went
to sleep, woke up the next morning and he was
searching for it, couldn't really find it, Like, man, what
was that tune I was listening to in my head?
A couple of days later, he's in a business meeting.
He's like sitting there with accountants and you know, lawyers
and boring people, and he's like sitting there and he's like.
Speaker 1: Ooh ooh, that's it.
Speaker 3: And he literally stood up and said, guys, I've got
to go.
Speaker 4: I got it right now, right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just the way you are, Billy Joel.
Speaker 4: It's a great one, great great pick.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 3: By the way, just I want to throw this out
there real quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Accidentally, I have kind of a theme running through my songs.
Oh okay, it doesn't encompass every song, but the theme
is baseball. Billy Joel is a baseball fan. He's a
Mets fan, New York Mets. One of the things that
they do now for the New York Mets is in
the middle of the eighth inning, they all seen piano
Man and he's been there and they it's this wonderful
thing that everybody in the stadium is singing piano Man.
It's really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Two year a number four, sir, Before we jump
into my number four, I'm glad that you mentioned Linda Ronstadt.
Nineteen seventy eight was a huge year for women singers.
Lynda Ronstadt's album was phenomenal. You've got Ann Murray, which
I mentioned. You've got Bonnie Tyler, you got Debbie Harry,
you got Patti Smyth. I mean, that's just to name
a handful of the big hitters. But it was a
huge year for women in me.
Speaker 3: Mu Ye, good call, good call.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, So my number four? What is mine? Number four? Okay?
All right, here we go. This one almost escaped my radar,
but then I was scrolling through the Billboard Hot one
hundred and I was like, oh crap, this song came
out well enough to be in the Billboard Hot one
hundred in nineteen seventy eight. I can't not include it.
So at the time that he wrote the song, the
songwriter who was the lead singer for the band as well,
they were opening for Kiss and zz Top and Aerosmith, okay,
and he's standing there with his main band Buddy, and
he's like the band Buddy is like, do you think
we will ever be the openers? Do you ever think
we'll get the gold?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: And he said he wrote this song as this kind
of idea of you, We're going to look back on
these memories fondly, but maybe we didn't get the gold
even though we look back on it with fondness. Okay,
became a huge hit for him. They thought, after their
original hit a couple of years earlier, that it was
they're gonna start steamroll, but it wasn't one that gave
it to them. Right. Okay, there's references in here that
are almost biblical. But the songwriter, Dennis DeYoung, was trying
to get something going after they had had a big
hit with Lady. This is off their nineteen seventy seven
album Grand Illusion, So.
Speaker 3: This de Young is in stix. This has to be
come sail Away.
Speaker 5: I sadly away set an open cause.
Speaker 3: For the bugency.
Speaker 1: Si.
Speaker 4: This is a song that was great for me when
I was a kid, that kind of fell away, as
songs do. And then something happened as I'm raising my
own kids and I'm like, oh, you guys haven't heard
this song. I turn it up, and somehow it became
like the go to song when we're driving in the
car together. And I've got you know, I've got my
kids that are eight and six at the time, singing
as loud as they can this nineteen seventy eight hit.
And I so when I got home a couple of
days ago, I'm like, hey, Brock, do you remember the
first time that I played Come sail Away for you,
and he was like, yes, I do. And he was
the six year old, like, I mean, he was very young, right,
And I was like, what did you think? And he
makes this kind of sour face and he's like I thought.
And then I thought, wow, this is pretty good. And
I was like yes, yes, because it's this beauty. It
leads you in with this soft beautiful like I'm going
to go slow dance and then whoa, where.
Speaker 2: Are we up?
Speaker 4: Where are we now? What? Oh, we're hard rocking, we're
banging our heads. I mean, fantastic freaking song.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I've got a personal story for you regarding
this song, and this song was one of the ones
that was close and nearly made it for me. Okay,
So a couple of years ago, my son Quinn is
in the high school band. Yeah, and he's a junior
high he's like seventh grade, right, and we played basketball.
We're a small school, it's small, a tiny gem. Well
they put the band who's really good at this school
in the visitor side. Well, the one song that they
knew other than the Star Spangled Band was Come sail Away, right,
And that's what they so they blew the ear drums
out of the visitors the entire season. They would just
turn and come tail away.
Speaker 1: It was awesome.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic. So listening to Dennis de Young talk about
this one, he was he was like, he's doing an
interview and the guy was talking about how much the
song meant to him, and he says, listen, you could
say that all you want. And I appreciate that, you know,
I really I'm glad that the music hit for you.
But let me just tell you that, from nineteen eighty
four to nineteen ninety five, nobody brought that song up
to me, not one word, not from anybody. I was wondering,
what's you know, what's next for me in life for
that good eleven year period. Yeah, and then in nineteen
ninety five I got a call from this guy named
Matt Parker and he said, hey, we've got this cartoon
we'd like to use your song. Is that okay? And
initially I was like, well, heck yeah, because nobody else
wants to use it. And then I was like, well
wait a minute, let me check out this cartoon. Woo,
And he's like, what's it call? He says it's called
South Park. He goes and watches it and he sees
the Barber streisand episode where like she's this monster robot
or whatever it was, like, are you going to barbar
streisiand the song? Matt Parker's like, no, no, no, He's like,
I had a radio show when I was a kid,
and this was one of my we will not He's like,
the idea is when Cartman hears the song, he has
to finish it. And he said from nineteen ninety five
on his phone did not stop ringing. I mean freaks
and geeks, Adam Sandler movies, I mean it's everywhere.
Speaker 3: Thank you Matt Parker and Trey stew Yeah, well done. Yeah,
that's a great one. I love it, all right, near
miss for me?
Speaker 6: Three?
Speaker 3: All right, number three for me. This is where my
baseball starts to come alive for me, right here?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 3: So the guy who performed this and the guy who
sings this, huh, they're huge New York Yankee fans.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: And the reason I bring that up is because there's
a very prominent Yankee featured in this song. A Yankee
baseball player, former Yankee baseball player. Okay with me so far?
Speaker 4: I'm with you so far.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4: Not yet, Okay.
Speaker 3: This song was a product of an attempt to make
a rock musical out of the story Peter Pan.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: The girl who sings in this song was actually hired
to be the windy character.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The producer Todd Runggren, who we've talked about Liff Tyler's stepdad,
that's right, inventor of the graphic tablet, that's exactly right.
When the writer of the song, Jim Steinman, who was
originally the producer for def Leppard's Hysteria album, Yeah, came
to him and he said, I want Phil Rizzuto, voice
of the Yankees, to have his own sort of narration
in the middle of the song. Todd run grim is
not a baseball fan. He's like, what what do you talk?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: What do you what? I've got it?
Speaker 3: What do you got?
Speaker 4: This has to be meatloaf, and it has to be
Paradise by the dashboard.
Speaker 1: Light yesterday, that's it, right, any.
Speaker 3: Round second, he's out, No, ain't safe safe ad second.
Jim Simon was talking about this and he actually scripted
those words out for Phil Rizzuto, who's the voice of
the Yankees, and he wanted him to do it like
he was calling a game. And Phil Razutta was like,
he's rounding first headed four seconds, he slides in, he's safe. No,
he's out. Jen Simon's like, dude, what are you doing.
He's like, what are you talking about. I'm reading the
words you wrote down. He's like, no, I want you
to call the game. Pretend like it's the Yankees and
the Red Size. He's like, okay. He goes there's about
the dirty that I'm saying, right, And they were like no, no.
Speaker 4: No, sir, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: So after the song comes out, because they he recorded
his part without the music, he sees them at a
Yankee game and he comes up to them. He's like,
he calls him, huckleberries, you huckleberries.
Speaker 1: You tricked me. It's dirty.
Speaker 3: They're like, sorry, Phil, here's your check exactly. He made
one thousand dollars for that song. Oh and that's it.
Speaker 4: Jim and Vincent Price can cry in their beer together.
Speaker 3: Four parts to this song, Paradise Baseball, stop right there.
Speaker 4: And Praying for the End of Time, Ran for the
End of Time. So walking and Tom with Ude.
Speaker 3: It peaked at number thirty nine in September of seventy eight.
Speaker 4: I don't fault you for this at all, but I
said when we first started on this thing, I'm like,
I got fifty songs and I'm pretty confident that we're
not going to overlap. Yeah, and I've been right like this.
I saw a meat loaf and I'm like, I'm a
meatloaf fan. It's okay, moving on. I mean, I don't
hate it, but it's just was my ideal. Right, So
great song.
Speaker 3: Okay to you, sir for your number three.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's interesting that you said that number three is
where the baseball analogies come in, because this is almost
like a baseball idea and almost like a Yankees baseball idea.
But I don't want to give it away too much, Okay, Okay.
So this song came from a group that gave themselves
their name because of how bad their circumstances were, Like
they couldn't they didn't have a pot to piss in,
they couldn't make any money, and they literally were would
wander around different places in the UK trying to listen
to different bands to get some feel for what they
might have as their sound, okay, all right, And so
one night they go into a pub. So one night,
the lead singer, the guy who's going to write this song,
he goes into a pub in a place called Ipswich
in the UK. Okay, haven't been to Ipswich myself. I
don't think it's very big. I haven't been there either, okay,
he said. He goes in and there's like these three
or four tired musicians in the corner playing dixie Land
music okay in the UK in the seventies, right, And
he's just fascinated by what these guys are doing. You know,
they're just playing some really kind of crazy music for
that time. And a little bit later on he's looking
for an idea for a song and he's like, I'm
going to write about that experience. I'm going to write
about going in and seeing these guys play. And he
composes it on like an old dobro, like an acoustic
bluesy kind of guitar, plays it for one of the
band members and they're like, eh, it's eh. And so
he like pinches pennies, buys himself a Fender stratocaster and
he redoes the whole chord progression to make this song
a completely different song with the same lyrics that he's written.
But it's all about coming in and seeing this band.
And he's talking about the band now he mentions a
couple of the band members' names. It's doubtful that these
are the actual band members of the band he saw
on Ipswich. Some people say they're the name of a
couple of guys from the Easy Beats, which we've talked
about in our back and Black Emmerson we have.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. He talks about Harry, who has a daytime job,
and he talks about guitar George, which is probably George Young,
Angus Young's brother. Yes, and the song is similar to
what they call the very famous baseball player. But what
the song title actually comes from is when this Dixie
band that he heard late night one night in Ipswich.
They were playing to maybe three or four people, and
they stand up and they say thank you, we are
the announces the band name as though they're the biggest
band in the world.
Speaker 3: Do you know it, well, you're all over ac DC. Yeah,
it's not ACDC, It's not ac DC. Okay, I don't
know it guitar George.
Speaker 4: He knows all the chords because they are the Sultan's
of Swing.
Speaker 3: You get it in the dog gets rained in the
pop meantime, Dire Straits got it.
Speaker 4: So I showed my big list of all of the
songs that were in the running for nineteen seventy eight
to Kevin Davis, and I'm like, am I missing anything?
Because Kevin's a few years older than us, And I
mean he was, he was more in the prime of
his life at that point, really listening to radio. And
he's like, no, I think you got everything. But Sunday
night at ten o'clock he texts me. He goes, hey, bro,
the Sultans of Swing come out in nineteen seventy eight.
If so it needs to be on the list, And
I said, it's definitely on the radar. He's like, put
it on their poll's best song to listen to with
headphones ever? And he's not wrong. It is. Mark Knopfler
is a musical genius. And just if you're wondering, I mean,
we know. I mean we got our Dire Straits experience
from Money for Nothing right.
Speaker 3: And Brothers in Arms that whole album, the whole album.
Speaker 4: So for Money for Nothing is just under four hundred
and sixty million. Okay, that's what the downloads are. Four
hundred and sixty million, okay, right, Walk of Life, yeah,
six hundred million. Sultans of Swing one billion, eighty three million.
Speaker 3: Wow, Gita joos all the conte.
Speaker 1: Is strict, name or them.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to make a cry all soon. Yes,
that surprises me. It is an incredibly good song. It's amazing.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3: Short list for me, all right to my number two.
Speaker 6: Two?
Speaker 3: All right. Some people believe that the inspiration for this
song came from when the band was recording over in France.
Speaker 1: I think you're smiling.
Speaker 3: You're smiling.
Speaker 4: I know it already. You keep on going though.
Speaker 3: Okay, see you're making me nervous. We're gonna have our
first crossover.
Speaker 4: Nope, nope, you keep on going. Okay.
Speaker 3: They were in Nice, France, and as they were recording,
one of the things that was happening in their area
was the Tour de France. So they were witnessing the
Tour de France.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 3: Really know, other than you saw a lot of people's backsides. Well,
they're writing bicycles.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I'm gonna go ahead and say that
I thought I knew what this was when you started,
and it's not what I thought it was then, But
I think I know what it is now. But you
keep on going. Okay, all right, I.
Speaker 3: Don't want to lead you astray because the other one. Okay,
So here's the thing. They wrote two songs because of this.
One of them called Bicycle Race appears in this song
across references it does, and this particular song, my number
two cross references bicycle Race, and it was on a
double A single, so both singles were an A side.
Speaker 4: If I may, This is Fat Bottom Girls by Queen.
Get on your bikes and ride.
Speaker 7: Fat Bottom Girls, You make the rocking world around. I
was just a scald a new nooka.
Speaker 3: This is a top down, turn it up song from
nineteen seventy eight. It comes on I blauring out the speakers.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you that I am very glad that
you picked this one, because there were three songs from
that year that I was like, which of these three
do I pick? I mean, I've said a bunch, but you.
Speaker 3: Gotta have Queen on this list? Do you have to
have Queen, not.
Speaker 4: Have Queen, but I've got a I've got a different album.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I got I got a couple more nuggets
for you, and so here's the deal. So Brian May
wrote this song knowing full well that Freddie Mercury is
going to be singing it, and it did cost him
a bit of pause knowing that he was going to
be singing so strongly about women, even though he knew
his preference. Yes, and He's like, that didn't matter. It's like,
basically you can interchange.
Speaker 4: I believed him when he talked about big fat Fanny,
such a naughty nanny. This is off the album Jazz, right,
it is okay? So have you seen the fold out
in the middle of the album, No, I have. It
has about I'd say fifty or sixty women on bicycles
were all naked except for helmets and socks. Well done,
Well done, Queen, well done.
Speaker 3: That is awesome.
Speaker 4: Well I'm tipping my hand a little bit too much here,
but it is appropriate that your number two is queen
because my number two is also Queen. All right, different
album okay. Earlier that year was literally written. Freddie Mercury said,
I wrote this song to be used for football games.
Speaker 3: Okay, I already know what it is, but no, just
go ahead. It has to be we are the champions,
my friend.
Speaker 4: To me, yes, and I feel completely okay saying that
it is a tie for second with We're the Champions
and we will rock here.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, they go together like peas and carrots. I mean,
I haven't heard him separate them.
Speaker 4: You can't separate them without causing gnashing of teeth. And
way the outcry is strong, what you cannot play we
will rock You and not follow it with.
Speaker 1: We are the Champions.
Speaker 3: It's so true. When I end up we will Rock You,
I always expect to hear the beginning we are the championship.
Speaker 4: So I started with we Will Rock You when I
was doing my research, and I like trying to pull
it up and I'm like, I can't find that this
hit the billboard hot one hundred. That's not possible. It's
because they were putting together and so we are the champions,
is what I mean, because we Will Rock You comes
first and slash we are the champions, right right right.
But the way that they when they released the single,
it was the other way around, and so we are
the Champions was hitting the charts hard in January of
nineteen seventy year.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. We played this whenever
my baseball team won the Summer League in nineteen eighty two.
We put it on the jukebox.
Speaker 4: Well, and it was I mean, they wrote it for
football and it was part of the FIFA Championship from
I don't remember, like ninety eight or something like that,
and became another big hit again.
Speaker 3: All right, so we're at our number one now, right.
Speaker 4: Well, before we get to number one, we have to
do our honorable mentions, and this is this is where
I'm struggling because I've got five and I've only been
allowed to I don't know what to do, Okay, So
I'm gonna let you go your honorable mentions first, and
maybe you'll knock a couple off my list.
Speaker 3: Okay. So this is where my parents' taste kind of
seeps in right here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In a nineteen eighty issue of Current Biology magazine I
know nothing about okay, it called this song the most
recognized tune since Michelle by the Beatles, and I probably went,
which one is that? But this is the one of
the most popular instrumentals of all time. Yes, I Did
Say instrumental. It was released in December of nineteen seventy
seven reached number four on the charts in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 4: I have a guess. Okay, do you have a guess? Okay?
Is this close Encounters of the Third Kind? John Williams. No,
but that's a good guess, okay, because it was on
the charts in seventy eight. Right right, right right?
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, keep going, keep going? Okay, So this was
nominated for Record of the Year. This is not some
obscure song.
Speaker 4: Wow. Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it lost to Just the Way You Are, which
was on my chart as well.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: It finished the year in chart for nineteen seventy eight
at number six. This is a huge song.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: This guy the artist, his name is Chuck MANGIONI also
wanted to be a baseball player, but instead became a
flugelhorn and trumpetereer and composer. He also created the Cannonball
Run theme. If you remember that back when we covered
Cannonball Run.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, you know this song?
Speaker 3: No me play it for you see if you recas again?
Most recognizable since Michelle by the Beatles.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I've heard the song. I feel like I
heard it on mister mom.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's possible.
Speaker 4: Is this a general hospital theme?
Speaker 3: No, it's just called a song called Feels So Good.
It was just an instrumental and it was play the
crap out of on the radio.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: I remember playing it when I was just sitting around
playing with my Star Wars guys. Wow, my parents love
this song. Okay, all right, well, hey, I can tell
it didn't strike play with you.
Speaker 1: It did not.
Speaker 4: Of the year I knew our list would be different.
There you go, Okay, what else you got?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: My other honorable Mention is a song strongly associated with
baseball Again. It was originally written about Los Angeles, but
has since become synonymous with the San Francisco area. The
guy who wrote this song it was one of his
first songs that he brought to this band, who were
huge in the seventies and eighties and still today they're huge.
Originally only reached number sixty eight on the Hot one hundred.
This song is played at San Francisco Giants Games, Oakland
A's Games, Golden State Warrior Games, forty nine Ers games,
and this artist has sung this during the World Series Okay,
when I play this song, you're gonna know every word.
Speaker 4: Okay, ready, yep, Yeah, it took one chord Lights by Journey,
that's it.
Speaker 5: Okay, We're the lights go down in the sentence.
Speaker 1: And the song shine.
Speaker 6: The band.
Speaker 3: Lot of So originally the lyrics were when the sun
shines on.
Speaker 1: La oh okay, but.
Speaker 3: When the band moved to San Francisco, Steve Perry's like, man,
that just fits so well to say sun shines on
the Bay.
Speaker 4: I love it. Yeah, I would pick of that on
that album. I would pick Wheel in the Sky, but
this is definitely a close second for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's so singable, right.
Speaker 4: Very yep. Okay, So I just at this point, I've
just to I've got to apologize to Joe Walsh. I've
got apologize to Billy Joel. I'm really thankful that you
brought up one of his songs, but there was another
one that was totally like a killer for me. I've
got to apologize to Kansas. But anyway, okay, So my
first honorable mention is the one colorably disco song that
I have on my list. Okay, all right, yep, And
the title of the song. Well, first, the song begins
with an acappella chorus. You know, it's beautifully done. Of
the four members of this band, right, two guys, two girls.
The title of the song comes from the writer. One
of the guys in the band. He was a runner,
and so as he was running, he would have a
rhythm in his head of and that became this.
Speaker 3: Is take a Chance on Me by Abba.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 3: We have actually covered Abba twice.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, with your Patreon episode.
Speaker 3: With the Patreon episodes, the two guys broke off and
created the song one night in Bangkok in any Freed
Frida Yeah, released the song There's Something going On, which
we covered on our Patreon as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is my I love a lot of songs.
This is probably top of the list.
Speaker 3: Right, you can't really have a Slate seventies list without
Abba somewhere in there.
Speaker 4: This song. Actually, it didn't reach his hall as high
on the charts as Dancing Queen, but it has sold
more copies than Dancing Queen every day.
Speaker 3: I love it, absolutely love.
Speaker 4: It all right. My second honorable mention, I think we
have to cover this album at some point. Okay, okay,
So this was the first single off of the debut
album of this band. The band's debut album was self titled.
Same name as the band was the name of the album.
There are three fantastic songs on this album. They're still
being played today. I'll walk into CVS and this will
be on the bad right. Okay, So there are two
guys who sang in this band. They've both since passed away.
One of them has very good looks, blonde, blue eyed,
beautiful voice. The other one is i would venture to say,
hideously ugly and has a very strange voice, but is
probably the more recognizable of the two guys. They set
the standard for the way music sounded in the eighties
with this album from nineteen seventy eight, What Wow. We
have talked about him briefly before because their follow up
album they used Mutt Lang as their producer.
Speaker 3: Okay, this has to be the Cars You Got It.
Speaker 4: Debut single is called just what I Needed.
Speaker 2: I come.
Speaker 1: Wasting all my time because when you're standing as kind
of was my mind?
Speaker 3: Oh good one. That is a great one.
Speaker 4: Thank you good call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now that you say it, I'm like that dude
is ugly.
Speaker 4: Rick Okazik is not a handsome man, but is.
Speaker 3: He married Paulina Porskova, who is gorgeous.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so you had just what I needed. You
had my best friend's girl, and you had good times
roll all on this album. Nobody was playing music like
this back then, and these guys were nobody and they
came out with their own sound and it set the
stage for all of the music you heard in the
eighties from that.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what I mean. Heartbeat City by the
Cars is on the schedule for next season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Could be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. And then just a couple of Wow I
didn't know about this group or this song, okay, okay.
One of them was a group that the apparent lead
singer was lip syncing the whole time. And this is
interesting because the guy who was really singing, who wrote
all the songs and did all the music, is the
same guy who was behind Millie Vanilli.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know this, I do because I just watched
the Milli Vanilli documentary.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the name of the band is Bony m Yes,
and the name of the song is Resputant Yeah, although
when they sing it it's respoutine.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: The same dude, who did Milli Vanilli did?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: You gotta watch that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I got an exotic dancer from the Caribbean to
come and pretend like he was singing this. Yes, but
these guys just they did never hit it quite as big.
But I love the music. I'd never heard it before.
I started listening to big hits of seventy eight and
I came across across Rasputine and I was like, whoaw,
this is fantastic. Yes, yeah, it is not a black
guy singing the song. It is a white guy singing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, I was interacting with Amanagenic on Facebook
the other day. She's like, you guys have got to
do the Milli Vanilla thing. After watching the documentary. It
is incredibly She was going back.
Speaker 4: And forth with me, so all right, well you twist
my arm. I'm interested enough. We can talk about it.
It's a good story. It was heartbreaking, all right. And
then the other one was a song that I had
never heard before, absolutely loved. Very seventy sound named after
and kind of modeled after a nursery rhyme. The lead
singer for this band would go on to his own
individual stardom inteen teen eighty four with a big hit
for a movie. Who you gonna call.
Speaker 3: Ray Parker Jr?
Speaker 4: So the band he had in nineteen seventy eight? Do
you know this? Because again this is great. I see
this band and the name of the band is called
Radio are A Ydo I show this to Kevin Davis
and he's like, oh yeah, it's Ray Parker Jr. Like
holy cow. So here's the song because you probably haven't
heard it.
Speaker 6: Jack.
Speaker 4: So the name of that song is Jack and Jill.
It just I mean it its his seventies for me, So.
Speaker 3: About Jack and Jill.
Speaker 4: You got it?
Speaker 3: There you go, nice, very good way to pull Ray
Parker Junior out of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, crazy interesting.
Speaker 3: Here's a couple of near misses for me, just throwing
these out there for you. Copa Cabana really wanted to
jump into my list.
Speaker 4: It was it was in my It wasn't my dar,
it really was.
Speaker 3: This list was shaped by my parents, New York Groove
by Ace Freely. Really wanted to be on there. Uh,
I mean, if I can't have You was the hardest
one to cut, but we had already covered the Saturday
Night Fever and then don't look back by Boston. It
was such a great song. It hurt to leave that
one off.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I had to struggle with leaving rock San off
because ultimately what I did was well, it didn't really
hit until it was re released in April of seventy nine,
so I've got to make that cut and then I
apologies to Bob Seeger as well, But it was more
of a seventy nine song than it was a seventy
eight song. So and for me, it was an eighty
three song all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah one.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we're to our number one.
Speaker 4: We're to our number ones. Let's see what you got Mart.
Speaker 3: We have had zero crossover.
Speaker 2: Zero.
Speaker 4: That's as I expected.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic. Okay, So my should I go first?
Speaker 4: I go first?
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, this is going to crush me if our
number one is a crossover here, but.
Speaker 4: So thin, so I really don't. Okay.
Speaker 3: So my number one song by a one hit wonder artist, okay,
except he was with a group who had a very
well known hit from the seventies early seventies, like nineteen
seventy three.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's similar.
Speaker 3: Keep kidding the song that he hit with when he
was with the group Steeler's Wheel.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, we finally have our own and it's
at our number one position.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 4: Oh wow? What makes me so happy that we both
picked the same song for me? High five babies? All right,
so nobody else knows what we're talking about yet, so
go ahead. The song that he had was a hit
from Steeler Wheel.
Speaker 3: It was called Stuck in the Middle with You, which
is featured in Reservoir Dogs.
Speaker 4: Most iconic scene, which makes the song so iconic.
Speaker 3: Don't one gets this clowns letting me joke us to
the right here, I am snucking a little with you yourself.
I'm stuck in a little of you.
Speaker 4: But yes, I would not have called this particular gentleman
a one hit wonder. But he didn't do much.
Speaker 3: After this album, nothing that I recognize anyway.
Speaker 4: So the name of the album that this song that
we're talking about appears on is called City to City.
This guy's first band was a group, a folk duo
called the humble Bums, which he was in with a
guy who became a big stand up comedian named Billy Connelly,
the scott the Scottish comedian, Like I mean, you know, him, right, yeah,
I do. Yeah, So that was that was his original band.
And then of course, like you said, he was with
Steeler's Wheel. They had that big hit, but then they
had a very bad breakup of the band.
Speaker 3: Well, and then they got in a fight with their
record company and they couldn't record for three years.
Speaker 4: Three years, and so for three years he's aimless. He's
drinking heavily. And this song he wrote because he would
go to these meetings that he would have with the
lawyers and the accountants, the boring people, where all this
fighting was going on, right, and he would just get
frustrated and not want to have to take the train back.
So he had a buddy who lived on a particular
street and he would go over there and just play
music and drink and write.
Speaker 3: And that street was called Baker Street.
Speaker 4: I can never get tired of the song. It is
so freaking good. I have to point and scowl at
my friend Clay Yoakum, who was the last time he
was up hanging out with me, is like, I can't
stand that song. I'm like what he's like, It's like
it can't decide what kind of song it is.
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's why it's so good epic, man.
Speaker 4: I mean by my friend listens to Radiohead, which I
love too, but I mean talk about music that's all
over the place. But anyway, this song covering this experience
where he's thinking to himself, I'm gonna give up the
booze and the one night stands, buy a little piece
of land. I mean, it's all autobiographical on what he's
going through and then has this beautiful ending when they
finally get the suing and the lawsuits and all that
stuff done. He writes this these last lyrics when you
wake up, it's a new morning, the sun is shining,
it's a new You're going You're going home.
Speaker 1: Basic.
Speaker 4: He used to say that it was.
Speaker 3: So is it your Giant Your It's a wonderful song.
I love it. This is another one. I remember listening
to it while I was playing with my Star Wars guys. Yeah,
by the way, have you heard the song by Steve
Marcus called Half a Heart?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 4: Very similar? Uh huh, let's play it. Let's have a listen.
Yeah you decide, Okay, legitimately very similar, right, and it's
a horn that's playing too. Right now. What's interesting is
that Jerry Rafferty, you know, he's finally recording now, he
settle all the lawsuits and he's recording this album with
this song on it, and he had a space where
he wanted this lick right, and somebody else said, you
should probably use a saxophone for this one. So they
call up this guy named Rufael Ravenscroft. There you go,
thank you for saying that sounds like a character on
Harry Potter does Ravenscroft. And he comes in and they,
you know, they do what they do. He lays down
this sax solo. To this day, he says, it sounds
horrible to me. The sacks is flat, it's not timed right,
and I'm just like, you're a moron, how do you
And but then he went on to say, hey, that
was me. I wrote that, and I should be getting
song credit for it. And there was a bit of
a fight, but then ultimately they found demo tapes where
Jerry Rafferty is playing that same lick on a guitar.
So no, sorry, buddy, you're not You're not doing it.
Speaker 3: You pulled the Melissa mingle. Sorry, buddy.
Speaker 4: So not only does it have this incredible moving story
behind it. Not only does it have this incredible sax solo,
you get two minutes left in the song and you
are getting some ear splitting, kick ass guitar solo. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: It comes screaming in at the end. It's wonderful.
Speaker 4: This the the guitar solo is a guy by a
guy named Hugh Burns. What is funny to me is
he's the guitarist on this one, which has conceivably one
of the most recognizable sax solos ever. He was also
the guitarist on Careless Whisper.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's fantastic. By the way, this is the same
Baker Street where Sherlock Holmes lived, twenty one b By
the way, A quick little baseball connection to Jerry Rafferty. Yeah,
he wrote a song about build a Spaceman Lee. He
was a pitcher. He used to talk to his baseballs,
and he was one of the first guys to get
in trouble for using pot in baseball. Nice and so
there's a little baseball connection for you. This reached number
two and held that spot for over a month in
the summer of nineteen seventy eight, and was blocked the
entire time by one song Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb,
not even.
Speaker 4: What it ruled the entire year. I just don't. I
don't understand it. I mean, talk about that when just
what I needed only reached number twenty seven, you know,
is number one Shadow Dancing, Boogie oggi Ogie by Taste
of Honey. Oh shut up, I knew you say that.
So this was another one I texted my dad about.
I texted in the album cover for City to City
because it was very familiar to me. I'm Mike, did
we have this in the album collection? And he said,
I don't remember, but I really did like Baker Street,
and I was like, it is probably the best song
of a year of incredibly good songs. But to touch
on your idea of one hit Wonder, another great song
off of that album is called right down the Line,
and I know you know it. I'll play it for you.
Speaker 3: I retract my one hit Wonder statement. Yes that's a
very familiar song to me.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's another great one off the album. I
started listening to that album from beginning to end just
from the love that I found for those two songs.
Speaker 3: Fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great job you too, man, And I know that
there will be a lot of people who are at
this point in the podcast are going you guys didn't
say anything about somebody, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I really didn't want to leave them off the list.
Speaker 4: But go ahead tell us who you think that we
are crazy for not even getting on our top seven songs.
Speaker 3: Oh, we'd love to hear from you guys.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: By the way, this is our last formal episode of
the season. This wraps up Season four. De Congratulations season.
Speaker 4: Four You too, man, I can't believe it's been four years.
I'm still having a fantastic time me too. Dear listeners,
Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you guys have
a fantastic holiday season with your family. Thank you for
allowing us to come into your lives for a little
bit of time every week. It means everything to us
that we can find joy in the same movies and
music and other silliness that we love once you guys,
have a great new year, and we will catch back
up with you in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Bye guys. All right, do we have to tell the story?
So you and I we went to see Die Hard
with the guys from the Only in Oklahoma Podcast ye,
the guys. That's right, great bunch of dudes, and we
kind of set up this meat but you and I
showed up late.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we finished with our episode that you guys just
listened to, and we said, ohkap, we gotta go.
Speaker 3: We got to go right now.
Speaker 4: We hauled balls over there as fast as we can.
But can you have a movie without popcorn and candy?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So can.
Speaker 3: So we walk in and you're like, man, I'm a
little hungry. I gotta grab some snacks and a fifty
five gallon drum of popcorn right now. Keep in mind
we haven't met these guys in person, which is the
small by the way.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: So we had interacted with these guys a little bit
on Facebook. We had exchanged some texts, but we hadn't
We didn't really know what they looked like, right clue.
So we walk into the movie. It's they're showing the previews. Yeah,
this is first impression. Time we look up. They wave
at us like hey, here we are, like, hey, there
they are, And all of a sudden, I see all
of their faces go like ooh whoa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you got a water and I got a
water and a popcorn and of re pieces and a
butterfingers and I'm carrying all of those things. Yes, and
as I see them, I'm looking at them. And I
didn't trip. I flat out kicked. I kicked the step
that I was going into, and all of that stuff
in my hands started becoming a juggling act. And it
looked like old Jed was a millionaire because popcorn like
spewed everywhere. Oh my gosh, so yes, guys we'd never
met before the first impressions. Oh d just spilled popcorn
all over the.
Speaker 3: Movie Popcorn Explosion. Well, we had a great time with
those guys. That was a lot of fun. But we
had to tell the story of the popcorn explosion.
Speaker 2: Oh here comes a flock of wir w workforce. Wow,
not work