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Speaker 1: Hello, Shirley fans.

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Speaker 2: For the last three years, Jason and I have been

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bringing you the stories behind all of your favorite movies

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from the eighties. But today we begin a new series.

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Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, the Duffer Brothers introduced the world to

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Stranger Things. This show not only changed the way we

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all watch television, but surprisingly also truly impacted the music

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we listened to, from Africa to Running Up that Hill.

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Stranger Things has brought back songs of our past and

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introduced them to a whole new generation.

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Speaker 2: So The Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcasts begins a

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new series bringing you the stories behind the songs of

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Stranger Things.

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Shirley Can't Be Serious podcast.

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Today we are diving into season one, episode two of

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Stranger Things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and like we said before, we're only covering the songs.

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I don't think we'll do another recap rap today. I

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think Doctor Fresh is on tour right now. But just

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as a quick reminder, this is the episode where Mike

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hides eleven in his house while the parents are at work.

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Nancy is trying to get busy with Steve. Barb gets

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involved and it doesn't go well for her by the end.

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Speaker 1: This episode, to me is basically forty five minutes of

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people run around going WHOA.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, there's a little bit more going on that

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we will touch on all of those plot points as

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we go through the songs of Stranger Things.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good, let's do it. So.

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Speaker 2: An interesting bit of trivia on this particular episode is

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that one day while they were filming this episode, Millie

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Bobby Brown, the girl who plays eleven Yeah, showed up

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covered head to toe in glitter okay, and they had

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to stop production to clean her up. I don't have

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the explaining story, okay, but Caleb Today told me a joke.

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Speaker 1: I would you like to hear it? Yeah, let's hear it. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So this guy dipped his balls and glitter. Pretty nuts,

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thank you? Yeah that's now. Listener, if you want pretty nuts,

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you don't have to dip your balls.

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Speaker 1: So go do that. That's right, wack it? Okay.

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Speaker 2: So to start off, this episode is called the Weird

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on Maple Street. Okay, this is kind of the ET episode.

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Do you notice the connection here, Like, I mean, the

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whole series is ET ESK. But you've got Et and

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Elliott making a connection in the movie, but you've also

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got Mike and Eleven making a connection in this episode.

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He fakes being sick just like Elliott did. She explores

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the house just like Et did. He shows her his toys,

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including his Star Wars figures and Yoda. I mean, it's

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all very This is probably the most ET of all

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of the episodes. And then of course she's also men'smerized

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by the TV, and you've got this weird scene where

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she walks by suddenly as the family's having dinner. All

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super etesque. That's true, But let's talk about the name

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real quick.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: The weirdo on Maple Street could be a couple of

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different things, all right, Okay, So there's a Twilight Zone

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episode called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street which

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has a lot of fear and anxiety going on, much

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like this episode does. I'm thinking maybe this might be

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a Stephen King the House on Maple Street reference be

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any number of these things, Okay, but there's a lot

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of throwbacks on Maple Street, not on Elm Street, and

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now I was really hoping to be Elm Street. Yeah no,

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But enough about that. Let's jump into the songs.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The first song that we have to talk about is

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on for about three fourths of a second. It comes

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in at sixteen thirty three. Jonathan is driving in his

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car and we see he's heading out of Hawkins.

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Speaker 1: Well literally is playing in such a short amount of

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time you may not recognize it.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. That is a song called go Nowhere

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by Reagan Youth.

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Speaker 1: Uh, huh.

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Speaker 2: Now, as short as that part is in this episode,

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I got all kinds of stuff to talk about on.

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Speaker 1: This When you called me up the other day and said,

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have you heard this story, my mind literally popped out

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of my head on the floor. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So, as we said, this song is by a group

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called Reagan Youth. They were a punk group in the eighties.

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They formed when Reagan took office. Basically, and the components,

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the founders of the group, if you will, are a

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couple of guys named Dave Rubinstein and Paul Bakija, but

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they went by the names Dave Insurgent and Paul Cripple

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because that's what punk guys do, right.

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Speaker 1: Sure, we've talked about that in our Civil Minds episode

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on our Patreon. If you haven't heard that, you had

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spunky names in the band before they became Civil Minds, Right,

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Sid Syphilis, Sid Syphilis our favorite one. So back to

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Reagan Youth. You've got Dave Insurgent, You've got Paul Cripple

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the name of the band. These guys were some like

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anarchist leftist guys. And so it's this idea of Reagan

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as Hitler and the Hitler Youth, right, and so that

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was their deal. Now they would do satirical like skinhead songs,

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except that the skin didn't get the joke, and they

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would show up to the shows and Dave Insurgent, Dave Rubinstein,

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would call these guys out as they're singing the song

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and just like, this is for you, you stupid. His

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parents they were survivors of the Holocaust. Yes he was Rubinstein,

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shockinglyn Jewish. They were Holocaust survivors who immigrated over to

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the US, and he is a first generation American. So,

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as it turned out, the group did okay, but they

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never really hit it big. They toured with a lot

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of big names, but by the end of the Reagan

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era the band split up. Bush Youth really just doesn't ring.

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Got an entirely different connotation, entirely different and way more inappropriate.

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All right, So these guys split up, and Dave Insurgent

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by this time had started doing heroin, And when the

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band splits up, he becomes a heroin addict. He also

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starts selling it. And I say that with the caveat,

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he really ends up using the product that he should

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be selling, right, exactly right. Yes, he starts dating a

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quote unquote stripper who actually turns tricks to bring drug

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money in for the both of them. Her name is

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Tiffany Bresciani. She does magic tricks. She does magic tricks

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where she goes to a car, makes somebody happy and

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then comes back. Oh, turning tricks. She's a prostitute. She

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is what we call a street walker.

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Speaker 2: She is a lady of the night. Yes, they're both

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significant heroin addamts. Yes, right, yes, and so, as I

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mentioned before, Dave has a bad habit of using what

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he should be selling, and so one of his dealers

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becomes pretty upset when he comes to him wanting more

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drugs with no money for the product he got before.

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Speaker 1: Are you telling me that heroin addict is a bad

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businessman in this particular situation. Yes, okay.

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Speaker 2: But instead of realizing the errors of his ways, Dave

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Rubinstein's drug dealer decides to teach him a lesson. Yeah

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you know the story on this.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's what I know. The drug dealer got upset

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and decided to make a point with a baseball bat

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and beat him very severely, so much in fact, that

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he had to go to the hospital and get a lobotomy.

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Speaker 2: I had to call my dad about this because I'm like,

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when does a lobotomy help you? Like, how is that

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going to save your life?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: And basically the idea is your brain is swelling, which

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if it's swelling against your skull, it can kill you.

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And so he said, probably his frontal lobe was so

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badly damaged that they just said it's not going to

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be of any use anyway, let's cut it out and

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that relieves the swelling. So the lobotomy literally saves his

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life once again.

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Speaker 1: This is the lead singer of Reagan Youth. Yeah, by

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the way, when he showed up at the hospital, his

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eyelid was drooping so much it was touching his upper lip.

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Oh my gosh. So you've got this guy walk in

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the street with this. I've seen her pictures. Pretty young girl,

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Pretty young girl, twenty two.

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Speaker 2: He has a scar from one ear to the other

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from this lobotomy and probably is not operating on all

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cylinders anymore, considering that some of his frontal lobe is missing.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: But what happens is a car comes up, This blue

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Toyota car drives up and stops to talk to them.

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Now inside of the blue Toyota is this guy named

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Joel Rifkin, and he's interested in more than just seeing

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her with her clothes off. And so she says to Dave, hey,

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give me twenty minutes, I'll be right back and then

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we can go get our stuff, right, And so she

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gets in the car with this guy.

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Speaker 1: They leave.

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Speaker 2: Twenty minutes goes by, and she's not back right, and

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then thirty and then an hour, and then multiple hours,

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and Dave is freaked out and he goes to the cops,

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and surprisingly the cops are not super concerned about a

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missing prostitute.

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Speaker 1: This, by the way, is June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 2: And so four days later, a cop sees a Mazda

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truck with its license plate missing. Okay, so that's a

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small violation, right, Yeah, let's pull him over and see

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what he's doing. Yeah, So turns on his lights to

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pull him over, but he doesn't stop. He continues to

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go this person in the Masda truck. It's a slow

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chase for a while, but the cop won't leave him alone.

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give up usually, especially on slow chases.

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Speaker 1: So it turns into a fast chase, turns into a

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fast chase. He ends up going almost one hundred miles

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an hour at one point, and then this truck wrecks

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into a stop light and the cop comes running up

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to the car and is overwhelmed by a stench, and

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when he gets to the driver of the car, he

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sees that the driver has Vic's vapor rub smeared underneath

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his nostrils, and when he shines his light in the

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back of the car, he sees what he believes to

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be a dead animal wrapped up in a rug. As

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it turns out, it's the body of Tiffany Bresciani, wrapped

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in a blue tarp.

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Speaker 2: Joel Rifkin, the guy who's driving the truck, the guy

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who picked her up, the stripper club patron. Yes, turns

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out this is not his first kill. His intention was

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to take her and dispose of her body. And when

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he started getting chased, he just thought, I'm going to

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try to run this into the water and then swim

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away and hopefully that'll do it. But once he ultimately

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wrecked the car, the cop said he just had his

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hands up, not threatening. Got in the police car and said,

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can you turn the air conditioning on? Because I don't

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think There's going to be a lot of air conditioning

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where I'm going, and the cops like, Okay, this sounds weird,

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and within a few hours of interrogation they discover that

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Joel Rifkin is the most prolific serial killer in the

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state of New York, seventeen victims. Wow, so naturally I

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had to go down the rabbit hole with Joel Rifkin.

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Speaker 1: Right right.

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Speaker 2: I watched the A and E biography on this guy.

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He is one of the few examples of a serial

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killer who did not have a significantly disturbed upbringing. Okay,

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he had a very normal life as a child. He

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was adopted, but he was adopted when he was like

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two weeks old, and his adoptive parents were loving and

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really the middle class family, not bad at all. The

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problems that he had growing up is that he was

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slow and heavy, and his dad, who was a big

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sports guy, was disappointed and get frustrated because he wanted

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his kid to be good at sports. And then the

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kids at the school would mercilessly bully him, call him turtle,

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call them lard ass.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: So, over the course of six years, he ends up

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murdering a total of seventeen women and Tiffany Bresciani is

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the last of those.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. So you're talking about Dave Rubinstein having a

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bad few weeks here, right, He gets beat up with

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a baseball bat yep, so severely that they have to

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lobotomize him in order to save his life. Yes, he's

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hooked on Heroin. His girlfriend gets abducted and murdered. That's

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June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety three. Oh, by the way,

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on June thirtieth, nineteen ninety three, his dad accidentally runs

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over his mother with the car and kills her. Oh

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my gosh, guess what. Dave Rubinstein committed suicide that very week, July.

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Speaker 2: Third, Dude, that is a crazy story. That is a

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day Night Fincher plot right there. Yes, amazing ladies and gentlemen,

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Chirley fans. That's what you get for a point seven

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to five second clip.

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Speaker 1: Of a song. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Then Jonathan is listening to the radio as he's driving

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in his car. He hears the end of go Nowhere.

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Interesting title, by the way, to throw in with Will

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being in the upside down. A nice relationship there, and

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then it goes into another kind of punky song. Punky

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song that a whole lot more folks know goes into

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the song should I Stay or Should I Go?

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Speaker 1: But we're not going to talk to you about that today.

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Let's hold off on that one. Guys.

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Speaker 2: This is a great song and we are excited to

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talk about it and excited to talk about the clash,

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and it is used multiple times throughout this episode. Really

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all season, yeah, all season for sure. But it's a

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big hitter and one of just a couple of songs

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in episode seven. So be sure and hit the subscribe button,

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hit the follow button so that you will get notified

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whenever we release episode seven, and we talk about should

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I Stay or should I Go?

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Speaker 1: In detail? Okay, d So, the next song in episode

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two of Stranger Things is a little song you may

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have heard of called Deck the Halls by Chicks with

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Hits Okay.

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Speaker 2: In the credits, this song is said to have been

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sung by Chicks with Hits Okay. For the life of me,

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I cannot find that version out there. I don't know

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where it is, but that's what they say. I can

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tell you that Chicks with Hits is a group composed

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of Terry Clark, Pam Tillis and Susie Bogus. They toured

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together under that name Chicks with Hits, because they had

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thirty six top ten singles between them. Okay, that's a

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good title for them, But I can't find this version.

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Seems like the only time that you're gonna hear it,

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Ladies and Gentlemen, is at eighteen minutes and thirty seconds

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into this episode, when Joyce is driving to her workplace

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and she just gets in and walks in the door.

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That's the song that's playing over the pa.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I've got some stuff for you on Deck

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the Halls. Okay, inform me my friend. Okay, so we

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know Deck the Halls as this traditional Christmas carol, right,

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but the melody is Welsh, dating all the way to

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the fifteen hundreds. It's first found in a musical transcript

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by Welsh harpist John Perry v. John Perry, John Perry. Okay, okay,

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the harpist, yes, the harpist exactly. So this is like

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in the seventeen hundreds. It's like seventeen ninety four, and

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then poet John Sierrog Hughes wrote some song lyrics. Now

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get this, this is the seventeen ninety four lyrics. You're

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ready for this. This is the English version. Okay, Oh,

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how soft my fair ones bosom fa la la la

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la la la la la, Oh, how sweet the grove

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in blossom? Hello, fa la la la la la la. Oh,

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how blessed are the blisses? Words of love and mutual kisses? Okay, right,

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all right, so now then you like that's great? Okay.

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Speaker 2: Tipper Gore would not be a fan of this song.

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Speaker 1: So I know exactly right. Later on down the road

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in seventeen seventy eight, Mozart actually used this tune in

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the eighteenth violin sonata. Okay, so Mozart takes it and

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it becomes very popular. Bro, you're blowing my mind here, Oh,

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deck the holes, deck the halls. So also later on

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in seventeen ninety four, it's published as nos Galan, which

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is a Welsh term. Okay, now then listen to these lyrics. Okay,

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deck the hall with bowls of holly falla la la

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la la la la lahtis the season two be jolly.

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Follow la la la la la la la Fill the

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mead cup, drain the barrel, follow la la la la

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la la trowl the ancient Yule Tide Carol follow la

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la la la, la la la. So it's a drinking song,

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right right, Okay, I love it. Yeah, Fill the mead cup,

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drain the barrel. Yeah, okay yeah. Now, then in eighteen

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seventy seven they drop all the drinking references and it

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becomes a Christmas eighteen seventy seven, eighteen seventy seven, so

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they scrub it of the drinking lyrics. And then finally

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and then eighteen ninety two it becomes plural deck the Halls.

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That's when they add utiltiede Carol, and you have deck

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the Halls that we seeing Fira rah rah every Christmas. No, no, no, no, no,

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ba la la la la. There you go.

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Speaker 2: How about that smiling it? Okay, dude, you you have

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given me a history of a magical Christmas song that

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I did not know the history of. And as it

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turns out, just a few seconds later, when Joyce has

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got her phone. By the way, also eighty three is

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about the time that they had the trust bust with

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AT and T and that you could actually go to

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a store and buy your phone instead of having it

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given to you by the phone company. Oh well, and

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so she's trying to buy it and she's asking for

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an advance.

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Speaker 1: H my son is missing. That's such a tool. He

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is a tool.

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Speaker 2: But what's playing is at that transition we hear jingle bells,

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and that's at eighteen fifty three in the episode. Now

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the jingle bells, we could play it for a year. Oh,

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this version is being sung by the Canterbury choir. Now, Jason, Yes,

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I am not going to give you a history of

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jingle bells, but I can tell you something about Canterbury.

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Speaker 1: Ready, ready.

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Speaker 2: Canterbury has the oldest currently operating school in the world.

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It's called the King's School. Okay, and it's where Orlando

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Bloom was born. Okay, also Christopher Marlow. But I thought

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Orlando Bloom was it. And that is all I have

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about Canterbury. Now, I know that they have a choir,

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and I know that that choir sang jingle bells, and

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I know that the Duffer Brothers used that music in

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this episode.

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Speaker 1: You got more for me. I've got some stuff on

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jingle bells for you. Ready for this? Tell me? All right?

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So the song jingle Bells was not originally.

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Speaker 2: Called jingle e really.

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Speaker 1: It was first published in eighteen fifty seven under the

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title the one Horse Open Sleigh Okay, written by this

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guy named James Lord Pierpont. Now his nephew's name is

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John Pierpont Morgan. Have you ever heard this guy, John Pierpont Morgan. No,

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JP Morgan as in the bank guy. As in the

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bank guy, that's my bank. There you go. Wow, So

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got a little famous connection there. Yeah. Jingle Bells is

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literally one of the most famous and most commonly sung

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songs in the history of the world. It was written

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in eighteen fifty seven as a thanksgiving song. This guy

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named James Lord Pierpont is in the Songwriting Hall of Fame.

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Jingle Bells is also the first song sung from outer space. Nice.

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In nineteen sixty five, two astronauts on Gemini six smuggled

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sleigh bells and harmonica and while they were talking to Houston,

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ching ching ching ching jing, jingle bells from space. Pretty cool, right,

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that is awesome. They also sort of played a prank

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on Houston and said we see an unidentified flying object

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low trajectory coming out of the North Pole. This happened

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on Christmas. Yeah, yeah, this is like December sixteenth of

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nineteen sixty five. It is brilliant. That is brilliant. So

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there you have it, the story of Jingobells. Fantastic man,

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how about that? I love it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to see what you have to say

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about our next song. Okay, the next song comes in

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at twenty seven minutes in nineteen seconds, as Jonathan is

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arriving at his father Lonnie's house. It's again, he's still

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listening to the radio and there you catch a little

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bit of clip of a song, and the name of

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that song is Dark Stars by Mark Glass. Tell me

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what brace yourself?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I can't find Jack Squat on this on the internet.

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I researched by brains out trying to find who Mark

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Glass is and what Dark Stars is, and I can't

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find it. Literally, nothing that I can find is that little,

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tiny one and a half second clip that he's as

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he's turning off the radio to come into the house. Yeah,

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I couldn't find anything.

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Speaker 2: Well, the good news is that we transition almost immediately

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from that song at twenty seven minutes and nineteen seconds

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into the next song we're going to talk about at

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twenty seven minutes and fifty seconds, and that song is

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called I'm taking off by space Knife.

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Speaker 1: Okay. I watched the video on this, yeah, and it

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was awesome. It was like I was transported back to

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nineteen eighty three. Yeah, he looks like he's performing this

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on the Star Trek next Generation Holidack.

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Speaker 2: The eighties are blaring all over the place. It's not

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as though he's got actual eighties it's just in the

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style of you've got the window blinds opening up to

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see the pretty girl in all of her eighties makeup

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and hairstyle, and it is synth gold. Is synth gold,

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it is Okay. Now, what we need to know is that,

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just like on our last episode where we had a

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song that sounded just like a Madonna song, sounded just

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like a Kylie Minogue song out of the eighties, this

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song didn't happen until the twenty first century. It's crazy,

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and I can tell you that it was on YouTube

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as early as June of twenty thirteen. That's three years

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before the release of Strange Things.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So somebody in the world loved this guy. He's not

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on a record label. I'll tell you. If you'd like

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to go check out the rest of his music, you

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can find it at spaceknife dot band camp dot com,

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which is bandcamp dot com is where a lot of

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unsigned artists go to release their music. And I've listened

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to his stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's good. It's good stuff.

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Speaker 2: He's got his first album on there is Early Singles Okay.

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It came out in twenty eleven. The next album is

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called The Greatest Hits, Volume one is the second album

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is the Greatest is on that that came out in

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twenty thirteen. That is the one that has this song

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on it. It is a great homage to new wave

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and eighties videos.

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Speaker 1: Like I literally listen to this and it makes me

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want to go get on my BMX bike, ride to

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the arcade and eat Reese's pieces. Yeah, it really does.

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Speaker 2: You know, this guy is out of Atlanta, Georgia. You

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should definitely go check him out. His other songs on

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that album, If a girl with space, she'd be you

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and Alien Love okay. And as we mentioned, the name

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of this song is I'm taking off Shield your Eyes

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And there's this great moment in the YouTube video where

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like the girl is watching him and then like she's

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having to shield her eyes because he's literally.

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Speaker 1: Taking off like a rocket. This he didn't go cheap

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on the baby either sit No, she's a good look

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at girl.

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Speaker 2: The interesting thing is this YouTube video actually appears on

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the TV in the Stranger Things episode Oh Wow. As

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Jonathan is coming into Lonnie's house, He's getting confronted by

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Lonnie's girlfriend and you can hear it through the doorway.

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And then when he kind of bursts through the door,

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he walks by a TV and you see that eighties

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esque video playing on an old eighties style TV.

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Speaker 1: How about that? It's gold Man. I love it. Hey,

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this is a great song. I'm a fan, me too.

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I checked on his YouTube. He only has like six

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hundred subscribers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, his band camp and his Facebook are just a

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few hundred folks. But I would encourage all of our

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listeners go check this guy out, go follow his page.

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It's got some good eighties styles.

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Speaker 1: I liked it. I dug it.

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Speaker 2: Now jumping ahead to our next song. Just like the

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00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,839
last song, this is a song that sounds really a

472
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,559
and it sounds really specifically eighties. This is a flat

473
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,200
out copy of another eighties song. The name of this

474
00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:09,200
song is Body Language.

475
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: Wends of.

476
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 2: This song is composed and performed by Alexander Baker, also

477
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,079
known as Ace and Claire Mario. This comes in the

478
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,720
episode at thirty three minutes and seven seconds when Nancy

479
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,839
is talking to Barb on the phone. So once again,

480
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,759
Nancy's in a room and we've got music that sounds

481
00:25:35,799 --> 00:25:38,039
like it's from the eighties. But this is another twenty

482
00:25:38,039 --> 00:25:41,680
first century song. And this song doesn't just sound kind

483
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,160
of like a Madonna song. This song sounds.

484
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: Almost exactly like a depeche Mode song. Yeah, the song

485
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,640
is enjoy the silence. Listen here.

486
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 2: Obviously, I mean very very close, right, say, I mean

487
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,039
the guys got the same sounding voice, the instruments that

488
00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:11,599
are being used are identical. The melody is just a

489
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,799
rearrangement of the same notes. I mean, it is so

490
00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:18,279
much Depeche Mode it's crazy, right, And that's what they want.

491
00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:20,359
They want you to think that Nancy is listening to

492
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,359
some Depeche Mode in her room, but it's really body

493
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,160
language by Alexander Ace Baker and Claire Mario. Now, as

494
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,799
we've talked about, this episode came out in twenty sixteen,

495
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,839
I sent you a video from a show that was

496
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,559
called XPlay and it is a video game talk show. Okay,

497
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,200
they would talk about whatever the latest releases are Okay,

498
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,200
some of our listeners may be familiar with this explay thing.

499
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,240
But they got a lot of requests to go do

500
00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:51,640
a review on some retro games, and so they called

501
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,839
this episode the Breakfast Game Club, right, And there's a

502
00:26:54,839 --> 00:26:57,640
great scene at the end where the two hosts are

503
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,240
playing the parts of the members of the break this

504
00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:03,720
Club and if you listen, you can hear this song. Well,

505
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,240
this episode was released in March of two thousand and six,

506
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,359
so this song had been around for ten years before

507
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,799
they used it in Stranger Things. So nobody went to

508
00:27:14,839 --> 00:27:16,640
a band and said, hey, we need a song for

509
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,039
this show that we're doing that sounds like a depeche

510
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:22,039
Mode song. They found it, right, And there are a

511
00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:24,000
lot of people if you look at the comments on

512
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,279
the YouTube video of this song, there are a lot

513
00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:28,039
of people who are like, I didn't know that they've

514
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,359
used this on Stranger Things. I've been looking for this

515
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,920
thing for ten years trying to find it. I would

516
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,519
watch the end of that show over and over because

517
00:27:35,559 --> 00:27:36,880
I loved this song.

518
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, man.

519
00:27:38,039 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 2: I just want to go guys, go listen to depeche Mode.

520
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,599
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, when you need depeche Mode, and

521
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:47,799
you need a song that sounds exactly like depeche Mode,

522
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:48,759
but you need it on the cheap.

523
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 2: I guess you cal Alexander Baker.

524
00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: I guess Ace. Yeah, he's done.

525
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,039
Speaker 2: Some other music for some other shows as well, and

526
00:27:57,079 --> 00:27:59,400
he didn't get any credit on the video game talk

527
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:00,319
show Play.

528
00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:02,599
Speaker 1: I could not find the credit on there. By the way,

529
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,839
that episode that you showed me was really funny because

530
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,480
it was like the reveal at the end of the

531
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:11,039
Breakfast Club where Ali comes around the corner and Andrew

532
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,319
is like blown away by what he sees, but it's

533
00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:18,599
rocketed up like Wayne's world, like yeah, yeah, and she's

534
00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:20,519
a babe o Mattic in that one for sure. Yes.

535
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,039
So that show was called XPlay, hosted by Adam Sessler

536
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,039
and Morgan Webb. It's still around, so.

537
00:28:28,079 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 2: I encourage you guys to go check it, at least

538
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,039
that episode out. He came out, as I said in

539
00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:36,039
two thousand and six, season six, episode twenty five, last

540
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,119
minute and a half of the episode.

541
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: That's cool. Hey, By the way, I've just got something

542
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,240
I want to throw in real quick, quick shout out

543
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,880
to a friend of mine. Yeah, and longtime listener. I

544
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,559
was in chick Fila this morning, okay, waiting on my breakfast.

545
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,359
I was standing in the lobby, okay, and the chickil

546
00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:52,440
A manager came up to me and said, are you

547
00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:59,440
Jason Colvin? Like yues, she's like the celebrity Jason. I'm

548
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:05,400
like now. And apparently my buddy Blaine Peterson was going

549
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,279
through the drive through and put the manager up to that.

550
00:29:09,279 --> 00:29:13,279
That's hilarious, Like, that's awesome. Yeah, thanks Blaine, you made

551
00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:17,200
my day. I was really confused, so that was great. Great.

552
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,920
I almost went to chick fil A this morning too.

553
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,680
I would have seen you there. Maybe you have been

554
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,640
in double sighting. It's been great for her. That would

555
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,960
have been really cool. Okay, are we ready to move

556
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,799
the next song? I'm ready to move on to them.

557
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:30,960
Are you excited about it? Yeah?

558
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 2: I am actually okay. So next song on our list

559
00:29:34,519 --> 00:29:37,759
is tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree.

560
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,440
How can you say those words and not just sing them?

561
00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:51,240
They just roll right off the tongue.

562
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,039
Speaker 1: It's great.

563
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 2: Before we go into the story behind the song and

564
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,839
tell everybody. This comes in at thirty seven minutes and

565
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,720
seventeen seconds when Nancy and Barb are sitting in Barb's

566
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,839
car outside of Steve Harrington's house deciding, you know, to

567
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,880
go in and what to do, And at the end

568
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:14,200
of the conversation, Barb says, is that a new bra Yeah?

569
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: Well, tie the little rim of round three hits been free.

570
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,839
So this song is being sung by Brotherhood of Man, Yes,

571
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,759
but they are not the group that made it famous.

572
00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:30,880
That's right. Brotherhood of Man formed in nineteen sixty nine

573
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,799
and it was just a creation of an umbrella title

574
00:30:35,279 --> 00:30:39,279
for a changing lineup of session singers. Okay, but by

575
00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:43,279
nineteen seventy that idea had kind of worn out. They

576
00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:46,000
had a big hit called United We Stand, which was

577
00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:49,319
the closing theme for The Brady Bunch Hour. Okay, Yeah,

578
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,000
Their biggest success is in the UK. They had three

579
00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:55,640
number one hits and four top twenty albums, none of

580
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,799
them were Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree.

581
00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:02,559
Though the Tony Orlando version is literally the biggest song

582
00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:05,319
of nineteen seventy three. It is the biggest song. As

583
00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:08,599
a matter of fact, it hit number one in the

584
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,359
US in the UK for four weeks starting in April

585
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,920
of nineteen seventy three. Now four weeks starting in April

586
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,319
of nineteen seventy three. I feel like that's an important event.

587
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:25,319
It's like November fifth, nineteen fifty five. That's exactly right.

588
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,839
This May fourth, nineteen seventy three. What happened? This was

589
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,359
the number one song in the United States the day

590
00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:38,880
I was born nineteen seventy three. Fantastic this song right here.

591
00:31:39,119 --> 00:31:41,799
You were born on May the fourth. I was born

592
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:42,400
May the fourth.

593
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,799
Speaker 2: You have a Star Wars but I do have a

594
00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:44,920
Star Wars birthday, which.

595
00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:54,279
Speaker 1: Is fantastic because I love Star Wars. Time. It's been

596
00:31:54,359 --> 00:32:02,000
three lines. Du still Lizzy. This song has been played

597
00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,359
three million times.

598
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,119
Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest songs of all time.

599
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,799
Speaker 1: It reached the top ten and ten countries. It's interesting

600
00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:13,000
because this song. I thought this song was like an old,

601
00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:16,559
old song, right, and it's got an old story behind it.

602
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,720
Like the idea behind the song is a guy has

603
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,960
been in prison and the work bus will drive by

604
00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:27,640
his old love's house, right, And so he's wanting to

605
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,440
know once he's released, is he welcome to come back

606
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,400
and see her or not?

607
00:32:31,759 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: And if he is, then she needs to tie a

608
00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:37,960
yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. Right, and you

609
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,599
know happy ending to the song, there's like a ton

610
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,119
of yellow ribbons around the old oak tree.

611
00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: It pulls at your heart.

612
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: Great story, kind of sweet, and yet it was turned

613
00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:51,200
down by multiple record executives saying this song is ridiculous.

614
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,839
Speaker 1: Okay, now listen to this. I've got this. This is

615
00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:55,400
gonna blow you away here. Okay, yes, okay. So Tony

616
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,599
Orlando and Dawn they sang this song in nineteen seventy three.

617
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:04,319
Tony Orlando built the Yellow Ribbon Music Theater in Branson, Missouri,

618
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,559
in nineteen ninety three, Branson, Missouri.

619
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,519
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what you and I like. Oh yeah, it's

620
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:09,400
kind of a fun place.

621
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,319
Speaker 1: But here's the kicker. You ready for this? Yeah. In

622
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,759
nineteen seventy six, during the Republican National Convention, Tony Orlando

623
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:21,559
danced to this song with Betty Ford. Wow. Yes, wow,

624
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,279
And according to him, this was Nancy Reagan's favorite song

625
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:28,960
at the time. This song has been covered by Ben Crosby,

626
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,079
Jim Nabors, who is Gummer Pyle In case you didn't

627
00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:37,720
recognize that shows I am Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Lawrencewell,

628
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,480
Dolly Pardon, Harry Connick, Junr and Andy Kaufman. Did you

629
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,160
say Andy, Andy Kaufman covered this Andy Kauf all right,

630
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,359
man in the moon, all right, yes, okay.

631
00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:54,839
Speaker 2: So we have a wonderful progression of this very almost

632
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,880
I wouldn't I have to say, goodie, goodie kind of

633
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,599
song right into another song. As Barb and Nancy come

634
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,119
up to Steve Harrington's house, it's such a great scene.

635
00:34:05,599 --> 00:34:09,480
He busts the doors open thirty eight minutes thirty four

636
00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:13,000
seconds and booming from out of the house is a

637
00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:15,039
song called Raise a Little Hell.

638
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,039
Speaker 1: I don't know how this got by me, Like I

639
00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:31,199
don't know this song. So this song is by a

640
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:35,559
group called Trooper, and they are a British Columbia Canadian band.

641
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,239
It was hard for Canadian bands to get hits in

642
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,880
the US honestly at this time, and this one came

643
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,920
out in the seventies, and so it's seventy eight, I think,

644
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,639
so five years later Steve could be listening to this song.

645
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,480
But let me tell you a little bit about Trooper first, okay, okay,

646
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,960
So Trooper was started by Ray McGuire and Brian Smith

647
00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:58,960
aka Smitty, who were from Vancouver. Could shout out to

648
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,400
our good friends Addie Ayachino and Cameron Eckert are Canadian

649
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,320
Patreon members who are probably huge fans of Trooper. I

650
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,920
don't know. Yeah, there you go.

651
00:35:09,039 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 2: Yep, you guys will have to tell us all your

652
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,000
stories of seeing Trooper and talk. So these guys started

653
00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:18,760
out as a band called winters Green in nineteen sixty seven.

654
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,840
They had a song called are You My Monkey? Big hit,

655
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:27,239
big hit in Canada. It was very the door sounding song. Okay,

656
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:31,639
winter Green became apple Jack. They started touring in British

657
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:34,679
Columbia and they were playing at that time, playing this

658
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,159
song raise a little Hell. So while they're touring, they

659
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:41,679
get heard by this guy named Randy Bachman. Have you

660
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,440
heard of him only because you pointed it out to me. Yeah,

661
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,920
he was Bachman Turner Overdrive, that Bachman, right, he was

662
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,079
before that he was in the Guests Who And if

663
00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:54,679
you don't recognize the name of that band, let me

664
00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:56,880
play you a little guitar lick that he did that

665
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:57,920
will ring the.

666
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: Bell American woman. Yes, absolutely so.

667
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,639
Speaker 2: Ray Bachmann sees Trooper and he says, you know what, guys,

668
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,000
I want to sign you to my label. He's got

669
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,280
his own little label and it's called legend, and so

670
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,440
he became their producer for their next five albums. First

671
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,159
album was Trooper, which came out in seventy five. Second

672
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,760
album was Two for the Show, which came out in

673
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,039
sixty six, and by this time they had gone with MCA.

674
00:36:33,199 --> 00:36:36,960
Their third album was called Knock Them Dead, Kid, and

675
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:42,039
this reached what they call Canadian platinum. And when I

676
00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:44,840
saw that, I had to go, well, what is Canadian platinum?

677
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:45,079
Speaker 1: Right?

678
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 2: Well, do you know what the US platinum is?

679
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: Million?

680
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,679
Speaker 2: Million is correct? Five hundred thousand is gold in the US.

681
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:57,840
In Canada, fifty thousand is gold and one hundred thousand

682
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:03,119
is platinum. So they've got a Canadian platinum ahead with

683
00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:08,159
their third album. Fourth album comes out in nineteen seventy eight.

684
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:13,079
Thick as Thieves Goes double platinum. Has the only successful

685
00:37:13,199 --> 00:37:15,280
single in the US. And do you know what that

686
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:15,840
single is?

687
00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:30,599
Speaker 1: Raise Little Hell You Got It? Rolling Stone ranked this

688
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:33,800
as number seven on the Top ten Sports anthems of

689
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,360
all Time.

690
00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 2: It's fantastic, It's great if you listen to the harmonies

691
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,440
on this, the dynamics of the song. This is a fantastic,

692
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,400
freaking song and it is the perfect song to play

693
00:37:44,599 --> 00:37:46,719
when Steve Harrington opens those doors right.

694
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: And I told you when I first watched this season,

695
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,960
I was watching with my kids. Of course they had

696
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,119
seen season two, three, four when I watched season one.

697
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,480
So Steve Harrington to me was jerk boyfriend. I hated

698
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:00,920
his guts. Yeah, well everybody did that first season. That

699
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,960
first season, he was Jerk' boyfriend. By the way, in

700
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,599
a case of terrible timing, Trooper released an album in

701
00:38:07,679 --> 00:38:11,000
nineteen ninety one called ten.

702
00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 2: Oho maybe good timing. Who knows that's true? How many

703
00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:20,639
people looking for Pearl Jam ended up with a Trooper?

704
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,880
A Trooper that had been playing together for thirty years

705
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:25,239
ended up with that album.

706
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: Can I please have a ten CD? Please? Grandma? I

707
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,360
don't know what you got. This is not even flow. Okay,

708
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:35,039
need take this back.

709
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,679
Speaker 2: So these guys they stayed together, I mean yeah, like

710
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,719
you said, they were recording still in the nineties and

711
00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:47,280
actually less than a year ago. Ray and Smitty both

712
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:48,480
called it retirement.

713
00:38:48,639 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 1: By the way, for our Ottawa Senators fans from the

714
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,639
years nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety six, every time

715
00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:58,159
they scored a goal, raised a little hell was played.

716
00:38:58,199 --> 00:39:01,239
It's great, it's great. I love it. Okay, all right,

717
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,400
moving on, we are finally once again. I mean so

718
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:08,440
many songs that we've gone through. Their musical budget obviously

719
00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:09,599
wasn't super.

720
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,119
Speaker 2: Huge, but they managed to get a piece of gold

721
00:39:12,159 --> 00:39:13,559
or two in each of the episode.

722
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:14,199
Speaker 1: Yeah.

723
00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:17,199
Speaker 2: So the song that we get next is one that

724
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,239
you will all know, ladies and gentlemen, I Melt with You.

725
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,199
Speaker 1: Okay. So this song is.

726
00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:35,079
Speaker 2: By a band called Modern English.

727
00:39:35,559 --> 00:39:36,519
Speaker 1: It comes in in the.

728
00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:41,079
Speaker 2: Episode at forty two minutes and fifty nine seconds. This

729
00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:44,840
is just as Jonathan is taking pictures. He hears a scream.

730
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,400
He runs over to the pool and it turns out

731
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,760
it's because they're horsing around Steve Nancy and poor Barb

732
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,840
is sitting there.

733
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: Like a lump, poor Barber.

734
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're listening to I Melt with You by

735
00:39:57,079 --> 00:39:58,599
a band called Modern.

736
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:09,639
Speaker 3: English, you say, says on the side.

737
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,679
Speaker 1: Totally appropriate for the setting of the show. Nineteen eighty three.

738
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this song came out and did pretty well

739
00:40:18,039 --> 00:40:20,239
because it was associated with a big movie of the

740
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,280
time movie called Valley Girl.

741
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,119
Speaker 1: Valley Girl has Nick Cage, Devorah Foreman, E G. Daily

742
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,760
I E. Dottie from Peebe's Big Adventure Joyce Heiser and

743
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,480
Coling Camp. I mean it's a eighties iconic movie. That's

744
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,199
how I know it is from that movie, one of

745
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,559
Nick Cage's first big roles. It reached number seventy eight

746
00:40:38,639 --> 00:40:41,159
on the Hot one hundred that's where it peaks out at,

747
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,880
and then they re released it in nineteen ninety it

748
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,480
gets to number seventy six. It did reach number seven

749
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,480
on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts in nineteen eighty three. But

750
00:40:51,519 --> 00:40:53,360
as far as the Hot one hundred, this is like

751
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,760
a slow burn like. It has been played a bazillion

752
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:01,239
times since then and has become eighties icon gold. But

753
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,960
at the time, for whatever reason, didn't.

754
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 2: Climb the charge very high, right, And so this was

755
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,760
a success for them. This was an entirely different style

756
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,519
than they were used to. So Modern English started as

757
00:41:11,519 --> 00:41:15,400
a group of high school friends, Robbie Gray and his buddies, yep,

758
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,119
And they just they had one buddy who could kind

759
00:41:19,119 --> 00:41:20,840
of play the guitar, and they said, let's.

760
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: Form a band. Yeah, good idea.

761
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: I mean, punk is the new thing right now, so

762
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,639
why don't we do that. This song, of course, is

763
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,360
not at all punk, This is very new age, right. Well,

764
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,719
when they, I mean ultimately they learned to play some instruments,

765
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,800
They did gigs. They ultimately got a recording studio and

766
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,920
recorded the song. But as he was singing this song,

767
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,159
this is part of an album. So he was singing

768
00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:46,639
this song, the producer said, how about instead of screaming this,

769
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,679
you just sing it right? Well, even less than that,

770
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,599
you talk it. Yeah, And so this kind of soft

771
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,840
talkie song. It changed the rest of the album. They

772
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,119
went from a kind of a punk yell into a

773
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:04,199
much more smooth, new wave pleasant to listen to. Right,

774
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,039
And like you said, this song has stood the test

775
00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:09,719
of time. It wasn't like it was definitely a big

776
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,199
hit for some guys who didn't have anything else going on, right,

777
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,639
But it was something that kind of, like you said,

778
00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:19,400
people realized how good it was as time went on.

779
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,199
And I still hear it today here also all the time,

780
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,840
all the time. I heard it this morning as a

781
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:25,360
matter of fact.

782
00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: So Robbie Gray said, he wrote this song in two minutes. Wow.

783
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,800
In two minutes. Wow. It was just kind of a

784
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,800
stream of consciousness. He just kind of wrote down some

785
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,800
stuff and if you listen to the lyrics, I thought,

786
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,400
this is really cool. Yeah, it's about a couple making

787
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,719
love when the nuclear blast goes off, right, and they

788
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:47,480
melt together, like physically melt together. It's gross, but it's catchy.

789
00:42:47,639 --> 00:42:49,840
It is catchy. He said he didn't want to write

790
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,840
a song where it's boy meets girl, they fall in

791
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,320
love and they get married and happily ever after they're

792
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,960
having sex, the bomb goes off and they melt How

793
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,400
about that now, I did think it was interesting. They

794
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,679
made this video for MTV. He said. They made it

795
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:09,519
for like a thousand pounds Canadian which is nothing, but

796
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,480
MTV played it all the time.

797
00:43:11,519 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 2: It's great, a great song. It very It seemed like

798
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,400
it had more popularity on MTV than it did than

799
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:18,400
it was getting radio play.

800
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: For sure. We've seen this before where a radio station

801
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,760
in America picked it up, started playing and it just

802
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,320
sort of calm dance clubs and MTV. Yes, when they

803
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,800
were recording it, the producer went to Robbie Gray and

804
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,440
I keep in mind Robbie Gray is a punk guy,

805
00:43:32,519 --> 00:43:34,760
and he's like, this part right here, I think you

806
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,400
should hum, and Robbie Gray's like, I'm a punk guy.

807
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:40,480
I don't hum. He's like, well, you're gonna hum on

808
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,199
this one, and you're humming right here, and this part

809
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:58,880
right here, he hums, and it's beautiful. It is great.

810
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:10,159
It's eighties gold YEP ranked number seven by VH one

811
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,559
as the one hundred greatest one hit Wonders. It's one

812
00:44:13,559 --> 00:44:16,679
of the biggest one hit wonders of the eighties. Here's

813
00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:19,639
a list of movies that this song is featured in.

814
00:44:19,679 --> 00:44:24,400
Fifty first dates, Mister and Missus Smith, not another teen movie,

815
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,159
sky High. It was on Glee. Burger King used it,

816
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,280
Eminem's used it, Taco Bell used it.

817
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 2: There was a movie made called I Melt with You

818
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,320
that had Rob Low in it.

819
00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:39,559
Speaker 1: Wow. They re recorded it for that movie. That's crazy,

820
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,599
and it never got past seventy six in the Hot

821
00:44:42,599 --> 00:44:44,800
one hundred. It's crazy. It was crazy. Okay.

822
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 2: So our song that we mentioned before, Should I Stay

823
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,239
or Should I Go? Comes up again at this point

824
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,800
in the episode. It becomes a big plot point. At

825
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:58,079
this point in the episode, we had heard Jonathan listening

826
00:44:58,079 --> 00:45:00,360
to it in the car. We had then trained transition

827
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,039
to where he was talking to Will as they were

828
00:45:03,079 --> 00:45:05,800
talking about their dad and how difficult that was, and

829
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,119
he was talking to him about how good this music was,

830
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,519
and so it's a real major plot point. And then

831
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,440
after I'm Out with You, we see Joyce get a

832
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,360
phone call like she got before, and then she gets

833
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,960
led down the hallway and we hear it start to

834
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,239
blare from his room. It's as though he's trying to communicate,

835
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,760
which is why this song is so important. So be

836
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,800
sure hit subscribe, hit follow, and we'll talk to you

837
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,719
about it in episode seven. That brings us to the

838
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,639
final song of the episode, and they have saved the

839
00:45:35,639 --> 00:45:36,400
best for last.

840
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,159
Speaker 1: The way this song is used is so perfect. It's

841
00:45:39,159 --> 00:45:41,679
like a sadness that's masked by rock and roll. That

842
00:45:41,800 --> 00:46:07,920
song is called Hazy Shade of Winterless I'm bangling my

843
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,960
head here, I am bangling my head that opening chan

844
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,880
chan chun and that sort of minor tone right there. Yeah.

845
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 2: So this version of this song came out thirty five

846
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:25,000
years ago, November nineteen eighty seven. Yep, the Bengals had

847
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:37,320
been performing this song since March of eighty three. I

848
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,440
know this was a song they did live on stage right,

849
00:46:39,639 --> 00:46:42,519
and they got hit up to do a song for

850
00:46:42,559 --> 00:46:46,159
this movie called Less Than Zero, had James Spader and

851
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,480
Robert Downey Junior as an almost prophetic drug addict, like

852
00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:54,199
literally right before Robert Downey Junior got arrested for drugs.

853
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,440
I mean, it is a crazy movie.

854
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,119
Speaker 1: I can't let you go without mentioning Andrew McCarthy and

855
00:46:59,199 --> 00:47:02,079
Jamie Gertz. Yes, right, as it turns out, this is

856
00:47:02,519 --> 00:47:05,840
not originally a bangle song, right now. I was very

857
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,280
familiar with Simon and Garfunkel when this song came out,

858
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,840
but it was like their greatest hits, familiar, right. I

859
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,800
don't think that I knew until I heard this song

860
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,840
that it had been originally done by Simon and Garfunkel.

861
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,719
Paul Simon wrote this song in sixty five when he

862
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,039
was in England and he felt like he was kind

863
00:47:28,079 --> 00:47:32,159
of in this repetition of seasons and it just things.

864
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 2: Weren't going anywhere, which is where you get that line

865
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,559
of that repeated line of look around, leaves are brown

866
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,159
and the sky is a hazy shade of winter, Like

867
00:47:42,199 --> 00:47:47,119
it's not a happy memory for him, right. So, and

868
00:47:47,159 --> 00:47:50,320
so he and Garfunkel had recorded this song when they

869
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,960
were recording Parsley Say Drowsmary in Time, which is fantastic

870
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,519
album and also a great recipe for a room if

871
00:47:57,559 --> 00:47:58,960
you're interested in that.

872
00:47:59,000 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: Okay.

873
00:48:00,039 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 2: What they did was the next year they decided they

874
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,880
were going to release it as a standalone single. The

875
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,719
song did so well that they decided to put it

876
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,599
on their next album, which was called Bookends. Okay, another

877
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:12,880
great album. So, as I mentioned, the Bengals as a

878
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,679
new group seventeen years later start performing this live on stage.

879
00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:19,559
Then they get this offer to do a song for

880
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:22,639
the Less Than Zero soundtrack. Now I'm going to ask

881
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,960
you when I say Bengals, was the first song you

882
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,400
think of luck like an Egyptian And that's probably the

883
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,280
song that broke up the band. So they had a

884
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:34,480
producer named David Kahn for that album, and their experience

885
00:48:34,519 --> 00:48:38,079
in doing that with him was miserable and they put

886
00:48:38,119 --> 00:48:40,320
them in a bad enough spot that eventually they fell apart.

887
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,920
But he was not the one that produced a hazy

888
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,119
shade of Winter. You're nod in your head because I

889
00:48:45,159 --> 00:48:47,119
know you know the answer, and def Dave, I hope

890
00:48:47,159 --> 00:48:47,719
you're listening.

891
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,159
Speaker 1: Let's go. The producer on this album.

892
00:48:50,039 --> 00:48:53,559
Speaker 2: Was DJ Double R, mister Rick Rubin himself.

893
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah, it's fantastic, Rick Ruben. Go back

894
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,840
and listen to our Beastie Boys episode where Rick Rubin

895
00:49:05,039 --> 00:49:06,400
was vital to their.

896
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,760
Speaker 2: Success and run DMC and run DMZ.

897
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: That's right.

898
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,039
Speaker 2: And so he actually let them do a lot of

899
00:49:12,039 --> 00:49:13,119
the production on this one.

900
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:14,519
Speaker 1: And and Michael.

901
00:49:14,199 --> 00:49:17,760
Speaker 2: Steele, the bassist, will tell you that song sounds the

902
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,480
most like they sound as a band. And she said,

903
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,880
if we hadn't been in such bad shape and had

904
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,119
such a bad experience with David Kahn, that song might

905
00:49:26,159 --> 00:49:28,000
have saved us, but it wasn't enough to save us.

906
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Okay. So here's what I got for you.

907
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,000
You're ready for this? Yeah, Okay, We're not going to

908
00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:35,760
dive too far into the Bengals, but here's the top

909
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,840
ten for February sixth, nineteen eighty eight, when this song

910
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,039
hits number two. Okay, And I'm going to touch on

911
00:49:41,079 --> 00:49:43,079
these because a lot of these we've talked about. Okay.

912
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,079
Number ten, I could never take the place of your man,

913
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,079
Prince Sure off the Sign of the Times episode. Go

914
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:51,360
back and check that episode out. Number nine, Tunnel of

915
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,599
Love by Bruce Springsteen. Number eight, Say You Will by Foreigner?

916
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,960
Number seven What Have I done to deserve This? By

917
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,239
the Pet Shop Boys. We actually talked about that in

918
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:03,400
our Patreon So okay, Number six Hungry Eyes by Eric

919
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,000
Carmon off the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Right. Number five I

920
00:50:07,039 --> 00:50:09,840
Want to Be Your Man by Roger Don't worry about

921
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:14,679
that one, okay. Number four Seasons Changed by expos A. Okay,

922
00:50:15,039 --> 00:50:17,599
Number three Need You Tonight by in Excess off their

923
00:50:17,679 --> 00:50:20,480
Kick album. Okay yep, cover that one too, yep. And

924
00:50:20,599 --> 00:50:23,679
number two Hazy Shade of Winter of course by the Bengals. Yeah,

925
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:28,000
and then the one the only Tiffany with could have

926
00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:42,880
been must have been? No im, Sorry, Hazy Shade of

927
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,440
Winter is a way better song than that one. Absolutely.

928
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 2: Now, as I mentioned this, this song, this Hazy Shade

929
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,679
of Winter thing was based on experience that Paul Simon

930
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,840
had and somebody made a contrast to another song that

931
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,320
was big at that time by the Mamas and Papas

932
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,920
called California Dreaming.

933
00:51:00,159 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: Right.

934
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 2: Yes, they're very similar kind of ideas, but almost like

935
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,960
the other side of the coin. Right Yes, California Dreaming

936
00:51:08,159 --> 00:51:11,519
will come up again in this series when we get

937
00:51:11,559 --> 00:51:14,079
to season four and it's not the Mamas and the

938
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:14,840
Papas version.

939
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: Once again.

940
00:51:15,559 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 2: Def Dave, I hope you're listening it's the Beach Boys.

941
00:51:18,519 --> 00:51:21,280
Speaker 1: So we talked about how Hazes Shada Winter was recorded

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quickly to get it on the Less than Zero soundtrack.

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We talked about that movie It's all about drug used

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by young twenty somethings in California. During Less than Zero,

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there is a person who gets a cameo as like

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an extra, was paid thirty eight dollars to be there.

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His name Brad Pitt. Get out of town. Brad Pitt

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is in less than Zero. Brad Pitt is just a

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dude at a party in less than Zero. Wow, paid

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thirty eight bucks. Awesome? That is awesome. How about that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that is our last song? And before I leave,

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I have to tell you it comes in at fifty

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two minutes and forty two seconds into the episode. Yeah,

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it's just when Nancy is asking for privacy and then

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asking for Steve to look at her as she takes.

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Speaker 1: Off her shirt. Yes, is that a new bra? Yes?

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Speaker 2: And poor Barb is sitting alone on the diving board

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outside over the pool.

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Speaker 1: Dropping blood drops into the pool.

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Speaker 2: And it's this very poignant moment. And interestingly, just a

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little while earlier in the episode, you see a Jaws

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poster on the wall, Blood in the Water, and then

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we see our very first glimpse of the Gorgon just

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before she screams, and Jonathan doesn't pay any attention because

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he thinks it's just them horsing around again. The next episode,

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which we will cover on our next episode, huh is

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heartbreaking when we see what happens to Barb fantastic, So guys,

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be sure and hit the subscribe button, hit the follow button,

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we of our episode three of season one, the Songs

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behind Stranger.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys. If you like what you hear, go to

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our best episodes are over there. Yeah, for five bucks

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Speaker 1: Guys, we will see you next week. See you next week.