1980s Pop Culture Time Capsule: Movies, Music & More

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Hey all. Welcome to Past Times at 80s High. Got a fun episode for you today. We are going to do our variety show, or you know, mishmash, if you will. Seven different categories. Um, I have the guys here with me, of course. Mark, hello.

Hi, how you doing, AJ?

Hanging in there, Kevin. Hello. And hello, Donald. Hello. Awesome. Anyway, so yeah, it's gonna be a great one. And uh, Kevin, you said you wanted to say something real quick.

Well, I was just gonna say that you should all um reach out to us at PTA80H at gmail.com. That's PTA80H at gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you. See what you got to say about what we're doing. Good, bad, indifferent, let us know.

Absolutely. And I I also wanted to say I we can't thank you guys enough, man, for all the downloads, all the five-star reviews, the messages. It's just we're loving it. And we're gonna get some social media up and running, and the website should be coming real soon. So keep your eyes out for that, and please do email us. We love that. Awesome! So without further ado, we're gonna get kicked off with category number one today, and that is gonna be your favorite 70s or 80s hangout slash venue, whatever you want to do there. But anyway, Kevin, you do have the on hairs.

Much ado about nothing.

Much ado about nothing. So I'm gonna start off with a venue here that, well, probably maybe a hundred or so people are heard of. It was where I spent most of my time in that era, was my buddy Paquette's house, and we'll just say that, we won't get any other names involved, but anybody that was there would remember. Um, they had a large piece of property on the outskirts of town. There was a man-made pond and a huge field that went out to uh the highway. Um, so there was lots of excitement that happened in that place, lots of fun. I can remember being 14 years old, and again, we're talking about a different era. I can remember walking through the well, shop and save then with three or four of us, and my buddy's mom and four carriages full of beer. Yes. Thanks, mom. Exactly. I mean, today they would they would they would crucify you if if you if you did that, and probably rightfully so. Um but this this was our freshman year. Um, we had gotten some newspaper roll ends that were like 12, 14 feet long, and and me and another kid had built this fire. The place was out of control. Um, people were leaving, all the seniors were leaving their parties and come into this, and they became legendary. After that, every time the police heard there was a party at Pawquette's house, they would send a school bus and lost everybody and process them. Um, but that I mean that's what it turned into. But I mean, it originally started out as a place we went to. I look at my parents when I was a kid and be like, oh, I'm staying at Paquette's house for the weekend or whatever else, and I who knows where I went and what I did.

Yep.

Um, but it was it we had a grand time there. I mean, like I said, it started with started with bunny hopping each other on our BMX bikes, and it led up to us, you know, ripping apart car engines and and rebuilding them. And um that pond, that man-made pond never really got finished. So they were like where the where the earth had been removed, there were banks on the side. But again, started, we would make paths with our with our BMX bikes, and then later down the road, we would buy like beat up Toyota Corollas for 200 bucks and literally have like smash up derbies driving around. That was awesome. It was awesome. So we we had a great time there. Uh lots of debauchery, lots of. I mean, any any any scene that you can think of from a coming of age movie from that era, all of those days and confused, whatever, any of them that you saw played out there, whether it was fist fights, where there's I mean, I remember walking out of the house, maybe one of the first or the second parties, and just being absolutely polluted on on alcohol at at a very young age. Naturally, like walking up to like the the the hottest senior girl and being like, You're so pretty, and then blah yak and all of them. You know, I mean, just it was it was all of those movies in one and then and and more. Awesome. So that was that was our hangout. That's that's where we had all the fun.

Sounds like tons of fun to me, man. Awesome. That's great. Um, and we did everything so much younger back then, you know what I mean? Like you talk about being 12 or 14 and just the mum buying beer. Like nowadays, it's like the kids are I I can't explain it, but we all know how the times are different. Awesome, though. Okay, brother Mark, this is to you. 70s A 70s 80s hangout.

Okay, AJ, this is gonna shock you, obviously. It would be at the common in Littleton, New Hampshire. Shocking, yeah. More specifically, the part cult Apthorpe. Yeah. The rough and tumble area of Littleton, New Hampshire, called Apthorp. We would hang out at the Common, and the Apthorpe gang, there was so many of us, and we like I've talked about this before, like Fat Albert, we stuck together big time. Oh God, I remember and we would sit up there and um it's it's kind of like hard times from Ace Freely, go to the park and space our heads out. But we weren't on anything other than skull. Our lips almost fell off, for God's sake. Back in the day, we were chewing a candidate, no matter if we wanted it or not, because we just needed to do it.

Yep, exactly. Right.

And we would just sit around and talk and you know, the I I lived in Guilford, New Hampshire at this point, so I mean, all I had to do when I got up to Aunt Sill's, the great house at Corywood, I call it. Oh yeah, I love it. Based on Collinwood from Dark Shadows, but anyway, I would just okay, I'd say hi to everybody, and all I had to do, all I had to do was walk up Remington Street and take a left, and they were always there, and they were they would greet me with love and just get so excited, and you know, I mean it it was just a fun time. It was where I felt loved, particularly, you know, like with you, AJ, in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. I lived in Guilford, New Hampshire, where I had zero friends, and I felt so awesome every time I went up there.

Yep, definitely. That's how I felt when Donnie would come to Hinsdale, the luggage. Yeah, you know, would just make my day. I'd be so psyched. But that's a great pick. I knew you were taking that right out of the gate, brother.

Well, yeah, but Donnie was great luggage, you know. He was fun. He would sit in the back and we'd all have a blast going down there. David would be driving the uh no, what did he drive? Citation?

The citation with the greatest car stereo stereo alpine stereo in history.

He would uh he would friggin' do light shows with it. He he would like go with a beat and just do all these light shows with the overhead light. Awesome. So that was a lot of fun.

You guys must have been rich. An Alpine? No, David actually worked his ass off.

Yeah, he worked construction. Mooney construction. He probably had a piece of shit, but the stereo was worth way more than the car.

$1,500 aerial. Yeah, we were we were in the Kraco. That's that's that's who we we didn't have Alpine or Kenwood. We had we had Krako. Right. Yeah. Oh man.

So that's my number uh, you know, my pick on favorite hangout, AJ.

All right. Well, mine's probably gonna be an obvious one. I um I had to take it just going through my memories, and I really struggled with another one, which I won't say until after you go, Donnie. But for me, it has to be Weir's Beach. It's just such a great memory to me because, first of all, I think I was 11 when I started my job at the Pier restaurant working for John Piccolomini and God rest his soul, just working at the Pier restaurant with you, Donald, um, so many others, our buddy VJ, uh Ben worked there, and the the place itself, it's you know, not it's kind of not comparable, but if you took like the movie The Lost Boys when they're all hanging out on the boardwalk, and it was just a tiny little area, but thousands congregated there, you know, arcades and the beach, and you know, all just the food and the women, like we would drive through there and just it, you know, in in non-rolling traffic and drive through, loop around, do it again, and we would just do that until hopefully we'd see some girls that we really were into, and then they'd reciprocate, and you know, it just it's really important to me. I mean, I'd say from you know, nine years old through probably even younger, but through um 22 years old going to the bars, and it was just important to me, so I'll leave it at that. I don't want to roll on too long, so I will go to you then, Donald. Cool.

Well, I had to pick the place that I hung out the most, and that was your house. Yeah. Prescott Hill Road.

So proud of which one?

The Prescott Hill Road. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. I mean, that's the majority. I did spend a lot of time in Hinsdale, but the Prescott Hill house. I mean, we played Cell Ball there, Wiffleball there.

Foul Beaker.

I mean, Mark, we hung out there. Yes, we did. Remember when David moved out, we took over that room upstairs. And I feel bad for you because you didn't smoke at the time, but me and AJ were smokers, and that little tiny ass room, we had like three chairs in and we just Dave's old bedroom, yes, yeah, upstairs, you know, and poor Peggy, you know. Oh I know. Poor we're just loafing around and we'd eat at 2 a.m. in the morning and just clean out the fridge and you know, whip up weird meals of whatever was in the fridge. And but we weren't out getting in trouble, and and you know, we were just staying at home doing nothing really, just watching TV and drinking and sometimes happy dog ping pong.

Oh darts that the house that I looked at a couple years ago, AJ? The gray one with the blue, yeah, with the miserable front porch.

Yeah, I still have a recurring dream that I'm in the house just doing whatever, like everyone still lives there, and all of a sudden the new owners in there come up. What the hell are you doing in this house? I'm like, oh my god, we don't live here anymore.

We all have that dream about some at some point. I think we all had that dream about the house that we grew up in. That right oh yeah. You like go home drunk and and walk into the house again.

Yeah, all right.

Well, no, there's other people there, but yeah, but it was the Wears Beach was cool.

I mean, we definitely did a lot in Wears Beach, and I did a lot of Manchester Elm Street cruising before they changed the road pattern down there. Yeah, that was a big cruising spot, yeah.

Same idea, right? Yes, awesome. I'm just so happy you picked that, Don, because I was just thinking in my mind for some reason at a younger time, but that could have been my pick, man. Just we lived in that basement, we and David's room, and we had so much fun.

Just oh I could call that the Buddy Pal room because I'd go in there and put all my beers on the windowsilled during the winter and just sit there and pound. Sorry, I wouldn't recommend it, but awesome.

Great picks. Okay, so we are back to Kevin for our second pick here, which is going to be favorite 80s horror movie.

I only had one place that I could go with that, and that was The Shining.

Oh great pick.

As much as in that era, I went through all the slasher stuff, said I'm not gonna name them as they might be on somebody's list. But that movie with a minimal amount of gore, you know what I mean? It wasn't like who was the guy? Tony Tony Um oh crap, I can't think of his name. Very famous effects artists, you know, those guys that were like in their heyday in the 80s had nothing really to do with them. It wasn't that gory stuff, it was suspense. Kubrick scared the shit out of you that movie.

It's got a New Hampshire, it's got a New Hampshire tie to it, too, you know.

So that's yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um, and pretty interesting because, you know, obviously being a King novel, and I grew up reading a lot of King's stuff. I really liked his descriptiveness and the way that he that he wrote. Um, but there was a lot of tension between Kubrick and King because King wrote a screenplay and Kubrick was like, nah, I need it. And then if you look at the beginning of the movie, in the book, he's driving a red Volkswagen Beetle. In the movie, he's driving a yellow one. And as there's no car crash in the book, as he's driving up the hill to go to the overlook, there's a red Volkswagen Beetle crashed, crushed on the side of the road, which they speculate. Well, yeah, it was Kubrick's way of looking at at Kimmy going, yeah, it's my story now. Then, of course, there's lots of speculation that it was really kind of an admission on on Kubrick's part about allegedly faking the moon landing because they brought him in. He actually did work with NASA for a while to sexy up the space program, yeah. Um, and he had just made the movie prior to that was um Barry Linden, which he used uh the lenses that NASA had created to to look into deep space. Um, and basically so it was a it was a uh Kubrick do the 2001, 2000 Space Odyssey movies Odyssey. Yeah, yeah, well he did the he did the first one. Yeah, he only did 13 movies in something like 40 years, but every one of them was an epic was yeah from Full Metal Jacket to uh Eyes Wide Shut, um Spartacus, just so many great Lolita Clockwork Orange, trippy, trippy, trippy. He's there's there's like I I really am a student of his films, and there's so much every time I go to read something about I'm like, really? That was he was you know, there's I mean again the shining, there's speculations that there because there's scenes where the furniture changes, yeah, so it's changing perspective, and there's a lot of uh people theorize that it's actually told from Wendy's state of mind, she's the one losing her mind and imagining all this about him, and so there's this Wendy's the wife. Yep, give me the bat, Wendy.

Give me the bat, Wendy, darling, light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt you. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I didn't. I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm just gonna bash your brain. I'm gonna bash him right the fuck in.

I love the choice. How jacked up he was getting.

Yeah. Oh yeah. They could have, I can't even fathom anyone else playing that part, man. He already a little bit. No, absolutely not.

And that's other and the last thing I'll say about Kubrick is is that like he would just he he had the patience to to get it right, and he would drive a lot of actors crazy. He made Nicholson cross the street fifty times to get one small clip that would, you know, mean anything, who knows? It did to Kubrick, so he made Nicholson do it fifty times.

Awesome.

That's wild.

Yeah, that's because he's good. Yes. Great pick. All right, brother. Thank you. That's to you then.

AJ, can I ask you something? Certainly. Who gives a fuck what you think? I had a feeling. Here it is, Jennifer. Your big break on TV. Welcome to the Prayer Punk, bitch! Yes. You want to name the movie Nightmare on Elm Street Three, also known as Dream Warriors.

Great, great song.

This this movie could all also go down as a horror comedy, I think, to me anyway. Yeah, absolutely.

It progressed to that. Yeah. Gotcha. Go ahead, brother.

You know, I mean, we have I mean the aforementioned Jennifer, you have Taryn with uh that was awesome. She's down there with Freddie thinking, oh, I got this, I'm gonna kick his ass. And then uh, oh wait, wait, we're old friends, you and I. Remember? Let's get high. And what was that in his in her like around the needle tracks?

They were little like mouth, like the holes were like suction cups, like sucking waiting for the needles.

Yeah.

Oh such a great movie, and you know, just all the characters had their p special powers in the dreams, and it was just uh such a great pick.

My favorite scene in the movie is when Joey, I mean, he's he's in love with the nurse, as we know. Yes, and she was a smoke show, she damn well. Oh, good gratuitous sex scene. I love it, I love it. Then next thing you know, here comes Freddy's tongue. Yeah. Oh, hey, Joey, are you tongue-tied? Yeah, that's it. And that was his ties him to the and then he had he had Philip, uh he became a marinette through his veins.

Oh, that was one of the best scenes. Yeah, that was good the way they ripped out, yeah. He was the puppet man.

And then all Freddie had to do because he he drew him out to the ledge, cut his veins, and there he went to his death. And all all the time the the lead guy there thinks that that these are all suicides. Let me ask you something, people. If you were ever contemplating suicide, would you consider taking a TV in a hospital and diving through the fucking thing?

Seven feet off the ground, too. Exactly. Jump into it. Awesome. So I actually wrote a few movies down here, Mark, because you knew I was picking it. I had a feeling. So I'm going with Nightmare on Elm Street, the first one. I mean, Freddie Krueger is just my favorite horror villain, and a lot of it has to do with the humor throughout. Just uh the first and the third, uh without a doubt, the greatest two. Um, the other ones, eh. But the first one to me just was the it had a little bit of that humor in it for sure, but just it was the scary one to me. You know what I mean? You know, I mean I didn't write down the year, but it's just, you know, at that point in my life, I was pretty damn young, and that was a fucking creepy thought. 84. Yeah. So yeah, what was 84? So I was 12, just like several of my other picks here. And it was just, you know, Johnny Depp in it, Robert, Robert Unglund is just uh is that how you say his last name? I always wonder. Englund? Yeah, if it's Unglund or England or England, but anyway, just great. And something that I didn't pick up on until recently was that he was the villa one of the the supernatural like demons in Stranger Things.

And I think I Vector now the the name left. He was in like a made-for-tv alien show called V too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sure was. Sure was. But anyway, just um such a great movie. Um, I mean, I could have gone with so many different things here. I mean, I have six written down, I think. But that movie to me was just it had it all, you know. It was fun as hell, it was scary. It I mean, great concept. So that's all I'll say about it, though. Because I was gonna go with three if you didn't go, if you went with one mark, so I just doubled it up there. All right, darn. So do you.

All right. So horror movies is not like the j I don't like the genre, I don't like horror flicks, so it was hard for me, but um I love the Freddie Krueger Stream Warriors. That was because it was like funny, yes, you know. Um I picked aliens, so the first one was. So that's the second one was okay. Yep, okay. It was the second one. Um, the first one was really scary, um, but the second one was just cool and it kind of dips into sci-fi a little bit too, but it is horror, and I just love the uh Sigurny Weaver character and um Yeah, she was bad. Michael Michael Bean. So Michael Bean is like kind of like a an actor who you know he was James Cameron's go-to. Like James Cameron used him in like a ton of movies, and he always plays like a navy SEAL or a military guy, and he he wasn't, but he he nails the part. Nice, and he was awesome in that movie, and you know, there's there's guns and shooting and you know, creatures, and it was just an awesome movie. So that's where I went with that one. That's a great pick.

Awesome! So let's see, pick number three here to you, Kevin, and that is gonna be favorite 80s pop song.

Wow.

What a tough one, huh?

Right? I mean, there was a lot of finalists, but I ended up coming down to just a song that I absolutely loved, and that was Rick Springfield, Jesse's Girl.

Yes, sir.

I mean, it was just yeah, it's just a great song. You can't not sing along with that. I mean, it's like you've got unrequited love, you've got poppy guitar licks, you've got the guy that was on a soap opera singing it. Yep. I mean, it's just it's a great song. Jesse is a friend.

Yeah, no, he's been a good friend of mine. Latest of the case ain't hard to define. Jesse's got himself a girl and I wanna make a mind.

Actually, he was inspired by his buddy Gary. His Gary's girlfriend, uh, and Rick, the three of them were in a um, I think a pottery class or a stained glass making class. And he never even met the woman, doesn't know her name, knows nothing about her, just got the idea of the song because he's sitting there watching Gary having a good time with his hot chick.

Nice.

And uh, so he just thought, maybe Gary, but I don't think it would have really had the zing that it had if it was I wish that I had Gary's girl. I agree. Doesn't really ring true. So, but what a great pop song from from that era.

Great pop song. And my sister, Robin, brought me to Boston one day to this like big high money hairdresser so that I could get my hair like Rick Springfield. And when I left, I still had my same bullet and I looked nothing like him. It was like I forget how expensive it was, but uh I went to a concert on the river down in Manchester with Rick Springfield, the river, yeah.

Yeah, but uh no, he was actually good in concert, but back then we were just happy to see a concert, so I don't think he's awesome.

He was on uh um I forget the show now, but uh I think it was Californication. Man, it was pretty funny. He's pretty dirty in it, though. But all right, so 80s pop song to you, Mark.

Okay, this is a song by a band called Reflex. It's called The Politics of Dancing. Probably the best pop music year of all time, 1983. And um it was just such a grooving song and just kind of ballsy in a way. And to me, the what it why it means something to me is that year I went out on a trip. I I I worked as a page at the state house in Concord, and we went on a trip to uh Quebec City. The time in my life, it was such a fun time. And I gotta tell you, these politicians they started drinking whiskey at quarter of seven on the bus ride.

I know where you're going with this.

What? Me getting hit by a car? I did get hit by a car. I'm up in con I I'm in Quebec City. I'm sorry, but you know, I'm just like, oh, these are my these are my peeps. I mean, if they're gonna start drinking, I guess I have to. And we were at the oh god, Parliament up there with this like six, seven course meal, and I'm like falling asleep and hammered, you know, trying to eat. And as we left, uh, me and my roommate at the time, I don't remember his name or anything, but I went across the street and they drive like crazies up there, and I got hit, and I you know, I tore my jacket, and um so I'm I'm looking over, the pe the person stopped, and I'm like, go, go, I'm fine. And I did get hit. And uh anyway, I laughed my head off after that, and as it turned out, I was a uh uh the speaker of the house on the way back from Quebec City was like he came up with a quiz or a quiz question. Okay, who on his first trip to Quebec City ever was hit by a car? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Mark White? And it was just it was it was really funny.

So you know, the politics of dance was been living a life of luxury right now.

But uh, I I think my BAC was a little above the air.

It doesn't matter, they hit you.

That probably saved my life as you want to.

Probably saved my life in Quebec City, and probably you would have gotten like a profuse apology. Sorry about that.

Well, I gotta I gotta jump in here for a second because uh one of the casts I love is um top five with Joey Cassada. And I'm wondering, Mark, because in one of their stories, they they go to Canada, and anyway, while they were there, he talks about hitting someone with their car. Maybe it just happened to be you.

That's what I mean. Yeah, no, I wasn't funny, though.

How old were you at that time, Mark? 18. 18. So all right. Wow. And I was fighting so you were at the drinking age there.

Yeah, yes, but I I almost got fired because I went to a meeting and I was very passionate about the drinking age not going to 21 from 20, because I didn't want to wait an extra year, and that was my motive motivation. That was it.

And I spoke up at a uh a hearing and I almost got fired because I wasn't supposed to, but they pretty much grabbed me by the because they didn't want to hear an 18-year-old talk bitching about the drinking age changing, that could present a problem.

Well, no, they you I just wasn't supposed to uh get involved in any legislation, but I did. Oh and guess what? It failed. And I was able to drink at 20, and they did pass it the next year, but it was uh June 1st, 1984. It was grandfathered, and I technically for 11 days I wouldn't have been able to drink, but you know, I don't know. This doesn't sound very good for me because maybe there's some issues.

You've had a long story career in politics, sir. Mr. Sherman. Oh, yes, well, I think you're in politics so I could drink an extra year.

So I could drink an extra 11 day, whatever people are passionate about. That's what you're exactly.

Oh no, I mean, laws have been passed in this country so that people can get schnockered.

Yeah, right. Oh shit, huh? It was killed.

But that's a great song, Mark. Yes, by the way. It is great. Politics of dancing is awesome.

Yeah, definitely off my radar, too. I mean, not off my radar, but for this exercise. Awesome. So 80s pop song to me, and this is the one where I was saying I make I might get a little long-winded, all right? But this song is off the footloose soundtrack, and it's done by Mike Reno of Loverboy and Ann Wilson of Heart, and it's called Almost Paradise. All right. Oh wow, yeah. And now this has so much special meaning to me because once again, 12 years old, I'm at my middle school dance, I believe sixth grade, with a huge crush of mine, Jen, at this point. And I so remember slow dancing to this song.

Oh, how could I have known? Oh my god, I live.

And then winning the dance contest to Footloose.

You know what I mean? And what time were you in at this point?

I was in Guildford at this point, sixth grade. We moved to Guildford when I was four. So I the next year is when I moved to Hinsdale. Okay, so um, but just you know, I'm still friends with this girl 40 years later. Um, we still chat occasionally. I actually texted her last night, told her I was gonna be mentioning her today. Just this memory to me is so crystal clear, and I gotta tell you something out there, Jen. I told you about this not long ago, and you didn't fucking remember. So I gotta tell you, I'm a little offended here. However, I love you, and it was just I mean, that whole soundtrack to me is, you know, I'm a metalhead, so to speak, you know, but the pop in the 80s was just fucking undeniable and so much better than the absolute shit that they put out there today, you know, the fakeness, the lip syncing, the tracks, but just apples to hand grenades in the just yeah, huge difference, but just uh, you know, I wanted to pick something that had super meaning to me. There was another song that I did fight with, but you know, that memory to me just I love the memory, you know, the things, the picks that take us back to a certain place in our lives, and that's why we do this show, people, because it's so fucking fun to go back in time and you know, really put things into perspective and talk about our favorite memories. So just wanted to say that. So, all right, cool. So, to you, Donald.

Cool. Um, well, I got my feet cut out because I I had Jesse's girl. Oh yeah, uh, so I have a backup though. Uh good plan. So my backup, I had two of them myself. I love that song, Jesse's girl. It was amazing. It's a great song. Um just Rick Springfield was kicking ass back then. Yeah, he was what you mean. But my backup, my backup is in and I never understood where it came from, but it was Billy Idol's Money Money. Yes. Where the filler came from. Like everybody was, hey, hey, what? Get yeah, right, yeah. Definitely get fucked. It's like someone just did it at a party and it spread like wildfire, and everybody did it, you know.

It's so weird how those what you think about today, everything goes viral on Instagram or whatever else, but we didn't have that, and it was it was organic. It went from from from home to home, and your cousin came to visit somewhere, and when yeah I'm sure it took a little longer than today, right?

Yeah, a lot longer spread out, you know. Yeah, how many when did your cousin go to count? Yeah, exactly. But yeah, the 80s had like a million pop hits that you could pick from. Oh my god, it's unbelievable.

Awesome. That's a great, great backup song for you there, Don. Very good.

Originally Tommy James and the Chandells.

Awesome. Cool. Okay, cool. So we are to number four now, and Kevin, that is gonna be your favorite 80s one hour prime time show.

One hour prime time shoe. I had to go with Quantum Leap.

Oh, yeah! Good job. That was one of my picks. I'm glad that's anything.

I mean, it was it was it was a good, you know, there's humor with Dean Stockwell. It was you had the science of him, and it was kind of it was a cool premise that that he had to, you know, he'd appear in different places and and and have to solve whatever the person's issue was to move to the next space. Um boy. And it was always kind of cool to find out who he was and what he needed to do.

Was he gonna be a man or a woman?

Was he gonna be a man or a woman? Or or was he gonna be a kid with Down syndrome, or was he gonna be, you know, whatever. I think there's there's one episode that I remember where he was uh I think there was a a secondary character, it was like a girl's younger brother or something like that, and uh he was calling the pigs, he was here, piggy suit, piggy suey, piggy, it turned out to be Buddy Hawley. Oh, nice. So they'd hide those little things in there where there'd be something that would be left behind that would turn into something else down the road.

So what was the main character's name again? Sam's real name.

Scott Macula. Scott Network was that of drawing a blank. That was NBC.

Yeah, yeah. What's that?

That was an NB NBC program.

Yep.

Yep.

Awesome pick, man. Great pick. So now I'm gonna go to you, Mark. I won't skip you this time. Well, thank you.

You know, I just want to I just want to be relevant to the show, AJ. That's all. Okay, gentlemen, we are about to enter the most fascinating sphere of police work. The world of forensic medicine. Bow bad. So obviously, this show is called Quincy M E. Yes. Um, with Jack Klugman as Quincy and Gary Wahlberg as Lieutenant Frank Monahan. And this show was just you know, he he's a forensic doctor, and he always sees something that the other guys don't. And of course, Lieutenant Monaghan never figures that out. No, it's just a it was an accident or it was a suicide, and and uh Dr. Quincy says, no, no, and it and he always got his man. Yeah, Quincy always got his man. I'm a huge Jack Klugman fan.

Clugman was Oscar Madison, yeah. Yeah, I was gonna say when that show was popular, I was very confused as to how Oscar Madison became a medical examiner. That was it just didn't seem right.

Well no, he was he wanted a second career. He was a lot neater in this show, but um you know it was just uh it was just a great show. Incredible show. Oh, it ran from 76 to 83, so it it did go into the eighties. Ah and uh I don't remember what network it was on, but it was it was fun.

It was always yes, but I'm not sure. Awesome though.

I guess it doesn't matter, really. Such a great show.

Awesome. That's my all right. So let's see. For me, this one ran from 1981 to 1986. I believe it was Wednesday nights and ABC, but don't quote me on that. And that would be the Fall Guy.

The Fall Guy of Farmer Drive. Yeah, right. I can remember.

When I was a kid, I had a sh a stint where I wanted to be a stunt man because I did a lot of stupid shit. Um, but this, you know, starring Lee Majors. Starring Lee Majors as Colt Seivers, you know, he had his cousin that was uh Howie Munson, and the beautiful Heather Tonk as Jody Banks. And he, you know, he's a Holly man, uh he's a Hollywood stunt man um who for extra cash on the side uh chases after people that have jumped bail. And just one of the greatest opening theme songs done by Lee Majors himself.

I've never spent much time in school, but I totally did it for me. It's true I'm not playing.

And just I don't know. I can't say enough about this. I just couldn't fucking wait for every night every Wednesday to see this show, and it was just phenomenal. There were so many choices here and so many cuts for me, but this one takes the cake.

So I will probably be a billionaire today.

Yeah, I will head to you then, Donald.

Oh, yeah, right? No kid.

Yeah.

So I went with Magnum P.I. Yes, sir. It was pretty much a 19, I believe it started in 1980. So it started in 1980, ran for eight seasons, I think. Um on CBS. Um, I just love the dynamic between Tom Selleck and Higgy Baby. Yeah, um, I just love the British, you know, all proper. Oh my god, he'd always get all mad and stuff.

I'll have that drink now. Whiskey if you please. Don't ruin my whiskey with ice. I'm not a bloody American. Sorry.

Oh, yes, and Magnum was just like, yeah, whatever, you know, it'll be fine, you know. And TC, you know, I I think Magnum was a Navy SEAL, which is kind of cool before Navy SEALs were cool. Right. Um, you know, so it was just a great show. Uh driving around that Ferrari. Oh, yeah. Awesome car.

Now I I gotta admit, I didn't watch it a ton. And that was Hawaii, yes? Yes, okay, okay.

I'm not sure which island. I want to say Oahu, but I'm not sure. Which island they were on. Awesome.

I actually bought a Detroit Tiger hat because of that show. But it's interesting.

So you Sous Wells played the Am I right? There was like a uh Robin Masters was like the owner of the property who was never there. You would only hear him on like the inner conference call kind of thing. Exactly. You know, but that was Warsaw Wells, yeah.

Yeah, but they got that from uh Charlie's Angels, right? Right. You never you never saw Charlie.

Yeah, exactly. All right. Great pick, though. All of them. Great shows. Definitely. Alright. So we are going to number five to you, Kevin. And that is going to be probably our most difficult pick of the day, but it's our favorite album of all time.

That's uh that is not an easy decision.

Hell no.

I did end up going with because I just it keeps going back to just loving this album. It's one that I can just turn on every once in a while, crank it up, and just enjoy the hell out of it. And that was um Waiting for Columbus by Littlefeet. And uh, although it's a live album, it is reworkings of a lot of different songs that they had. They they're they brought Tower of Power on the road with them, and um so they worked the horn section into a lot of songs, a lot of songs that were kind of slower or more laid back on the actual albums ended up being a lot peppier, and in my opinion, better versions of those songs. Um, think about like the album version of um cheap trick, I want you to want me. Oh, yeah. You listen to the album version, you're like definitely, you know, and then they did the live at Boudacom where they sped it up and it was loud. It was great, it became a hit.

It fucking not just a hit either. It blew up.

Yeah, so that's kind of what happened with this album. It is probably, in my opinion, one of the best live recordings ever. You had some of the best living musicians at the time. Uh Mick Taylor came in from the Stones on AA Political Blues. You did have Mimi, Doc, and some of the boys, uh, Lenny Pickett, who uh on saxophone, who's the um the band leader on Saturday Night Live, uh, still to this day. Um he's been there since they were funny, but he's he's still on there today.

Exactly.

Um but just an an amazing, amazing album. I was listening to this morning at the gym, and I just had to keep turning it up because it's when the drums come in on the first song, Fat Man in the Backtub, it's just like the the like I said, the recording is just so phenomenal. And you had all of these, I mean, Lil George, arguably the greatest slide player that ever lived, amazing musicians, uh at their peak, incredible, all pushing each other, and and just great, great, great tunes.

What a great deep one, too, man. You know, and just uh you were saying about um I want you to want me, kind of just uh, you know how I sneak kiss into everything. That's kind of rock and roll all night, too, from you know, Dress to Kill the studio album, and then that's what broke them on Kiss Alive, you know. So just that's very that's not uncommon back then. And then a decade later we came into, or two decades later, we came into a time where the live album kind of just went extinct, pretty much, you know what I mean?

Because it would just be them playing the actual album while they mouthed the words. Exactly. Hey, I just bought I just bought the live album and it sounds exactly like a crowd behind them.

Exactly. Great pick. I want you to want me such a great cut. What a great album, man. Okay, Mark, so do you all right, AJ?

I have Aerosmith Rocks. Not a boy. I apologize to my favorite band of all time, Kiss and Ted Nugent. They were my three favorite bands back in the 70s. And this is uh this album was produced by Jack Douglas, came out May 3rd, 1976. And I mean, there was not a bad song on the record until maybe the last one. It was so ballsy.

I love that last one.

Back in the saddle, last child, rats in the cellar, combination. Sick as a dog, nobody's fault. Yeah, just fucking killer, killer, killer. This to me was Aerosmith's Peak.

That's my favorite. I take it over toys. A lot of people take toys, but rocks does it for me.

I mean, it's just it's classic Aerosmith. They're all on the top of their game, bluesy, hard rock. So in nobody's fault, they actually had uh Brad Whitford playing the uh guitar solo. So that was really cool. And it just ballsy, ballsy combination, a really tough riff to play. I think I finally figured it out, and just up and down this friggin' record, just classic rock and roll. Ballsy classic rock and roll. I mean, as I've said before, Aerosmith kind of went down the wrong path. And uh it's funny because Home Tonight actually predicted the future and the stuff they were gonna do in the mid to late 80s and forward. Right. But other than that, just an incredible record. Awesome. So that's my pick. Nice, nice.

Nobody has that, you know, that that like kind of walking guitar part like like Perry. I mean, just he makes that thing like, you know, it's so amazing. And I really think we've talked about it before, but I'll say it again. It's like two bands. It was a great band from from get your wings to done with mirrors, and then permanent vacation and after. Again, you can't blame these guys for cashing in and making money, but uh, I don't want to hear it.

Something they said, uh, or Eddie Trunk said, is that I think it was South America that the fans they don't even know 70s Aerosmith, like right, they just know the 80s shit, and that's just really fuck it fucking backwards to me, you know what I mean?

Just can you imagine that? Because like one of my favorite one of my favorite things with music is to find out where stuff came from. Absolutely. Can you can you imagine thinking like Janie's got a gun? It's like the pinnacle, and then going back and finding chip away the stone. Yeah, I know shit.

That's like gold, Jerry. Like that's how so many people get into so many bands, that's how they go back. Because if you like something, you go find their old ship, you know, and Uncle Salty. Awesome, yeah.

Great song, yeah.

All right, well, to me, and I'm gonna get hung out to dry for this one. Nice. I'm not talking to you listeners out there, I'm looking at um us members here, and I'm gonna do the old coming to America, and I'm gonna go, fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you. Who next you but you're cool? I am going with 1978's Paul Stanley solo album. Okay, why would you never saw that? I know, I just I mean, when you think about what is out there for music and the fact that I'm going with this, I don't care, man. This album to me, from top to bottom, is absolutely flawless, with one exception, which I've discussed on Preachers of the Night, our little kiss side cast, but Hold Me Touch Me was the single that those fucking morons decided to release, and it was the worst, uh, most unlistenable song on the album. But the other songs on this album are pure rock and roll, pure attitude with the vocals, friggin' lots of incredible guitar, Bob Kulik's on it. Um, and Carmine a piece a piece. I always get the appace, and that's Vinny, but Carmine a piece, you know, on the drums a lot on this album, and just I I can't tell you all how much I love this fucking album. It's possibly, I mean, I guess it since I'm picking it in this slot, if it were a kiss album, it would be my favorite kiss album. I was always a Paul guy, but this album to me takes yet he's wearing an ace shirt, which is what I am. I'm an ace guy. Yeah, I don't have my Paul one clean. But anyway. Oh, is that what it is? I'm a cult member of the ace cult. Uh but anyway, so yep, that's what I'm going with. So did they release?

I would just like to take a moment to commend Mark for picking a non-KISS. Yeah, yeah. That was AJ.

I thought he was going with lick it up or creatures for sure, but or covered.

Never mind.

All right, and that's what I have to say about it. So awesome, Donald.

That's to you. So, like when you're taking an exam and they always tell you to go with your the first thing that pops in your head, go with your first choice. Yes. Um, you know, to pick the favorite album, you know, I go with the first thing that pops in my head. And for the the 80s and and you know, my childhood and growing up, it was Def Leopard Pyromania. I knew he was going with that album. My favorite album. I, you know, I've said it on straight fucking right. And I couldn't, I couldn't like put it aside because I love that album. Just the every song on that album I get into, I love. And the first thing that comes in mind, give me action. Too bad you didn't have it right up on your phone. You could have just split it up. We gotta play this song. So, I mean, it's like so many things popping in my head like that. And I just love that album. Incredible friggin' album for sure.

That that's my favorite Death Leopard album for sure. Yeah.

Now, now, Donald, something just struck me. Um, the name of the album, High Romania. Uh, is there any correlation between that and your chosen profession?

Yeah, I never thought of that, right? No, I mean correlated. Yeah, good call.

There used to be a lot of guys in that line of of work that uh fire.

Fire awesome. What a great fucking pick, though.

You bitch, and they just I mean, MTV and it all struck at the same time and photograph, and it just like I didn't like I didn't like the eight, you know, the later albums.

I mean, they were good. I I went to them and I love, you know, I that was rocking.

Yeah, and high and dry prior, incredible, yeah. And then hysteria. We've we've beaten hysteria to death, but yeah, you know, just it was good. They didn't fuck up economically with that. That was almost flat album, yeah.

Yes, yeah, yep.

Awesome.

So again, can't fault the guys for getting paid, right?

Awesome. All right, so we're moving on to number six here, Kevin. To you, and that is favorite 80s live concert.

So, again, so many great shows to see back then that I actually got to, and yeah, some that I didn't quite make it to. Uh remember this one or remember, this one was just head and shoulders above the rest. It's people talk about it, it was so memorable. It was uh over 331 nights. They did 189 shows, they went back and forth through Europe twice, came back to the states, they went back to Europe, I believe. They went to Australia, came back to the states, went to Japan, um, then to Australia, it got canceled two gigs in New Zealand, and then arrived back on the US shores on May 23rd, 1985, for the power slave world slavery tour. Yes, sir. I'm talking, of course, about Iron Maiden. I was wondering when you were gonna get to it. Oh, I wanted to drag it out of slowly. I mean, that that was a I mean, at one point they were talking about how they just it had to end. It it just they felt like they were part of the scenery, part of the machinery. Right. Um, it just I mean, think about that. That's that's a year of their lives. Fucking right.

Every other night, more than every other night.

More than every other night, exactly. 189 shows. I don't know who mapped out that tour for them.

Whoever was making the most money mapped it out.

I mean, Lord, you could be a little more linear than that.

I mean, did they have the 747 Iron Maiden jet back?

I don't, I don't think that Bruce had his pilot license. He wasn't flying, right? I don't think it came until later. Um, but he certainly could have logged some miles on that door. As a matter of fact, I forget to mention that they did the first Rock and Rio, and they had left, I think they they they they from went from Japan to the States and then left for that one date, the Rock and Rio with Queen and Whitesnake, and played in front of 350,000 people, and then a couple weeks later played for me and like 60 of my friends at Cumberland County's. It was sold out, but just I mean, just a massive tour. It was incredible. It was it was really the pinnacle of Iron Maiden and their live shows. What's that? Egyptian magic I do magic. I'm also known for taking large pieces of furniture up. Never mind.

That's Jack Torser.

Yes, but I mean, and again, I still say as as much as it was awesome, and that was when you could fight to the front. So I was like right there looking at Steve Harris and and and and Bruce Dickinson, and and just you know, being like 10 feet away from those guys was at that time was just so amazing, such a great show. And the pinnacle of that show was Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner so incredible.

The you know, they had the boat creaking noises playing in the background, and they had I don't know if you remember that stage, but they had the triangular-shaped cans, yeah. So all the multicolored cans, and those would start moving up and down to the creaking, and oh just it was it was a spectacle beyond everything else at that time, and it was just ingrained in my memory. Awesome and fantastic time, just a great show. They had, I think, 11 different openers on that tour. That's how long that tour lasted. Uh, Twisted Sister, rat was there for one show as a as a third on the bill. Um, there was a there was a couple Hungarian bands when they were over in Europe that I've never heard of before.

Can you imagine seeing rat, twisted sister, and maiden? I know, right? What a fucking great time. And just uh uh off-subject, not off-subject, but you mentioned GA, man, general admission. Yeah, God do I I mean I don't miss it like I mean we almost got killed watching Ted Nugent in Springfield opening up for Aries.

Oh, you won't be killed. I was I'm sorry, AJ. The rush to the crowd. I I've never been more afraid in my fucking life. I thought I was gonna get crushed.

It's the same guy that almost ran over you in in Quebec. Yeah, the cool thing with James. Just to put this out there, go ahead, Donald.

Go to the front. You can go to the front, fight for the front for a little while, but then if you wanted to go back and chill out, you could. You could wander. That was so great about General.

Yeah, you can't wherever you wanted. But I just want to give a uh if anyone ever goes to a GA show, I did this so many times through the 80s. All right, this is a very wise piece of advice. You may look a little bit classless, however, you fight your way to the front, and you know, you're getting a little tired, you want to get out of there, turn around and start dry heaving. Everyone gets the fuck out of your way. There's like a corridor for you to leave. I did it every show. I loved it. Well, nobody wants to get puked on, trust me.

Maybe I'll I'll talk about this during my next pick, but I'll bring it up briefly.

Well, that's good, brother, because the next pick is you. So go for it.

Before I get to my pick, um, I saw a starship back in 86 or 87. No, it had to be 87. We went down there, and if you can have a guy that weighs about 350, 450, whatever, and part the Red Sea. And that was an incredible concert. But my pick goes back to February 24th, 1984. It is Lick It Up at the Worcester Centrum. Oh, I knew you were going for that one. I mean, I I asked uh somebody I worked with at Kmart at the time to get me some beer, and he said no. We never got along after that. But anyway, let that go. We took a bus down, one of those Greyhound type buses, conquered trailways or whatever. And I went with my beloved late brother David. Yes, and you know, it was their first obviously non-makeup tour, but the fucking songs they did, oh by the way, except opened up for them. Yeah. But anyway, they opened up with Creatures of the Night, and these are the two my favorite two kiss albums are Creatures of the Night and um and uh Lick It Up. I mean Carnival of Souls they never toured behind, but anyway, so Creatures fits like a glove. Give me more because Kevin loves that song. War Machine, I love it loud, I still love you. All hell's breaking loose, lick it up and young and wasted. What an incredible fucking concert. Yes, and um, you know, I could I could do without the Paul Stanley solo. Yeah. I mean, I mean, just a waste of time. But I mean, obviously Vinny Vincent, and he probably played his his uh solo a little bit too long, but he was an incredible guitar player and Eric Fucking car. Yes, what a shot of adrenaline that he gave KISS And now he's he's into his prime now because now they're playing I mean, right up his alley. This was such a great show. I mean, it wasn't a sold-out audience or anything, but it was pretty full and just so much fun. And to go there with my brother David, two massively huge KISS fans, and we were trying to um groom AJ to become the same as us. He wasn't allowed to be anything else, but what a great show. Um, just my first KISS concert of all time. Awesome.

You succeeded there. Yes, you and David succeeded greatly if that was your oh they sure did. If that was your mission to make AJ a Kiss fan and not let's go. I think we did. I think everything else, I I would say that was a success.

Speaking of which, I shall go to my my number six, and this also taking place in 1984, only a bit later in the year, November 23rd, 1984. And that would be KISS at the Worcester Centrum on the Animalize Tour. And this is my first, not only my first concert ever, but of course my fit my first kiss concert ever. And you want to talk about being on top of the world. Okay, once again, here I am, as many of my picks were at 12 years old, just going to a fucking arena for the first time in my life, going in with both of my brothers who were my idols, and just hold on, I'm gonna get emotional here. But just going into the centrum and going to see Kiss, who, like Mark said, I was forced into loving. But I'm I mean I can't thank them enough for that. But this is where I this I call him fuck Paul because this is when Paul Stanley trying to move out of the kiddie pool from dynasty on when you know all the families started coming in. The average age of the fan was like 14 at that point, and you know, parents are bringing their kids, not a backup. So Paul just and I mean the whole band they started playing faster for to keep up with the times, and then Paul said fuck every other word to say we're not here for the kids, we're here to be rock and roll again, and just that and anyone out there listening to me, any family or whatnot, please forgive me for this comment. But one of my memories of this show, um Mark and I were had great seats just behind the floor in the loge. David had a better seat, he paid for it. But Mark and I were together here, and Paul Stanley, I'm 12, remember. Paul Stanley says, How many people out there like to fuck? And of course, I jump up on my chair, my arms are up in the air pumping, and I'm screaming my head off. And there's my brother Mark turning around at me and going, Shout down, protecting his 12-year-old little brother. But anyway, that memory to me is so important, and I will never forget it as long as I live, man. As long as I live. So thank you for letting me know.

Because they played each song in a minute and a half. Yeah.

Oh man. Awesome.

Okay, Donald, that's to you. Cool. So, yeah, back in the 80s, we were trying to hit every every band, every show. So, I mean, there were so many good ones to choose from. Oh, absolutely. Uh, but I went with David Lee Roth's Eat Hem and Smile tour, uh, just because I loved the energy of that tour. What a great tour that was. I mean, like the stage show wasn't anything to write home about, but it was just like a good energy fun show.

And well, he at least came in on the surfboard and stuff, remember?

Coming across Manchester on the river.

This was well, definitely.

I was at that show, I don't remember. We saw him in Worcester.

And we saw them in Portland Donald's.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, my first concert ever was Van Halen 5150. Yep. So it was kind of like full circle seeing David and those guys, too.

Did you say that Vi was with him at that time? Because he didn't hang out long.

Vi was with David Lee Brooks. Wasn't awesome. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And that's why I loved him. Like the crossroads solo, the movie Crossroads. Oh, yeah. That was like, I love this guy.

You know, who is yeah, Ralph Macchio taught him how to play guitar. So very cool. Right. What uh what what was the date on that one? School dips.

It was 1986, I believe, but um, I'm not sure when the Manchester tour was.

I just loved come in the background.

Manchester was a great place to see a show. Yeah. I mean, you could get there, and you know, for us it was 40 minutes to get to Manchester, and it was like general admission, and you could easily get up front if you wanted to.

So that that Worcester show, I had tickets to that Worcester show. Um the day before I received my driver's license, and I was so mad and could not understand why my parents wouldn't give me the brand new car with a one-day old driver's license to drive to Worcester, Massachusetts to see a concert. Right.

That didn't make any sense.

I know I'm gonna get it first day, the tickets never got redeemed. Um, I ended up drunk underneath a tree down the street from my buddy's house uh and slept under the tree that night because I was so pissed at my parents because they just didn't understand and it wasn't fair.

Oh man. What a great show, though. So just to uh give you guys the dates on that, October 5th and 6th, 1986, they played The Centrum. And then where was it on November 2nd? They played Portland, Maine. I was I remember being at that one for sure, but yeah, I can't find the river on summertime. Yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, it was fine. It was warm. Yeah, could have been the skyscraper tour, too. Do you do you remember who opened on that? Uh, didn't say, I don't remember. So anyway, Kevin, we're back to you for our last pick of the day in the old mishmash. And I didn't know really how to name this category, but kind of the dumbest thing we did in the 80s, you know, something maybe you could do then and not now, but it's pretty vague, so I just call it the dumbest thing. So to you.

So the dumbest thing, and and it's funny because I I I learned something.

He was drinking under the tree after uh not being able to go to the concert. Yeah, right.

Um, no, I I I I I learned something today, the background of something that we that we proved at that time. Remember earlier we were talking about how rumors worked back then and how stories, the Mikey and Pop Rocks and all those stories that organically went across the country from house to house and school to school. So anyway, so so this was this was one of those rumors that that went around, and we were actually dumb enough to try it, and it was that if you could um you you took a banana peel and you scraped it off and you put it in the oven and you baked it, and then you could smoke the banana peel and get hot. We prove this to be 100% false. Uh debunked. But today, when looking up to see if it was just, you know, something that happened in our area or whether it was one of these nationwide phenomenons. I looked it up, and bananadine is a fictional psychoactive substance which is supposedly extracted from banana peels. A hoax recipe for its extraction from banana peel was originally published in the Berkeley Barb in March of 67. This recipe was itself an excerpt from the upcoming San Francisco Oracle issue, which was likely done in an attempt to give the hoax more validity. So it was actually a spoof hoax article. You felt for it, Kevin. You felt for it. And in 1980, whatever, it was still, you know, because we didn't have the internet to disprove it, right?

So we had to uh I've never said seen anything on the internet that didn't yeah.

I believe I've heard milkweed was involved in that as well. Uh many other fruits and vegetables, banana dean.

Uh at that time, I was we were hanging with we were we were we we were in Beast, my buddy Beast. We were in his uh light blue 71 um Dodge Charger that was cherry. We took it to prom. It was it was awesome. It was it was an awesome ride. But I just remember sitting in that thinking that we were gonna get high smoking banana peels. So that's the dumbest head that I could think of.

You didn't have the placebo effect.

Like I said, it was about the same as if you just held your breath for longer than you should have. I think that was the same head rush that you would get from all of that work.

Well, you learned one thing that day. You're dumb. You're dumb. That was dumb.

Awesome pick. I don't feel like I'm gonna be the dumbest one here, though. Probably not. I don't know.

We'll see. Uh all right, Mark. So do you. Let me take you back summer 1981, Weaver's Beach. I mean, I don't know how I got there that night, but somehow I I had no ride home. I remember sitting at at the actual beach part telling somebody, he says, Oh, my heart bleeds for you, you know. Anyway, so I'm like, I guess I hitchhike back to back home to Guilford. We were on Farmer Drive at the time. So, I mean, it's like I said, after midnight, and I'm hitchhiking.

My mother told me never to do this.

So I'm hitchhiking, I'm down like in that straightaway, and all of a sudden somebody's picking me up. Oh, thank God. Wait a minute, those are blue lights. Son of a bitch. And uh, so alright, you know, I get a ride home and uh I don't remember what the cop said on the way back to the farmer drive. He gave me a ride all the way there, and I'm like, okay, just drop me off. Officer, drop me off. Now, he had to come in the house and say your son was hitchhiking after midnight in the obviously in the dark, and he's had a few to drink. Damn it!

Thrown under the bus. You know what, Mark? That fucking cop drove you home like they used to do, and not to the police station with a record, right? Think of it that way. Oh, hell yeah. That's what they did ten years after that. Because I know from experience, dude.

Okay, well, I mean, I I don't think that was you know, I people don't hardly I mean, I still see a hitchhiker here and there once in a great while, but at that point, you know, it was normal, but after midnight, I could have got picked up by a friggin' who knows what nowadays it would be shunned upon, but yeah, I mean that was pretty dumb for sure.

Okay, it was dumb, but you know what I did it? It was dumb.

I learned a lesson, and that that's probably the dumbest thing I did that uh you know wasn't really, really super dumb. But it was dumb.

Well, nowadays you would have been trafficked. Oh my god, no shit.

And I was a I was a pretty boy back then, you know?

So all right. Well, this I have a a list a mile long, and um no, no shortage of dumb, no shortage of dumb, exactly. I had to go with this one because it's so dangerous, you know. So I hear or heard, but we called it uh putting out. Okay that again. Putting out now, not like a a slut putting out. Just give me a minute and I'll finish here. But um made me think of about it, Kev, when you said holding your breath for 35 for 45 seconds. But in middle school we would huff and puff, try to hyperventilate for a bit, and then lean up against a wall, and your good friend or best friend or buddy would then squeeze both sides of your neck and cut off all the oxygen to your brain. I remember doing that in the ribcage. You would all of a sudden you'd pass out, you could wake up with bruises because you don't know if your friend caught you or not. We would do this constantly, you would always have the craziest fucking dreams while it was happening. I I can't explain it. Like unless you have done it, you you wouldn't understand it. But the only thing that I could compare it to you for all you deadheads out there, are um people that have done nitris before. It's the same exact experience. You just you pass out, nah, and that's uh I when I say that noise, that's what's going through your ears and your body. It's the most fucked up thing, and kids were dying from it left and left and right, and we're doing this every day at recess.

And all right, isn't that you ready? Isn't that how Michael Hutchinson died from in excess? Are you serious? That was that was auto-asphyxiation.

He was which is the same mechanism, it's the same idea, right? Yeah, well, are you gonna say much?

Yeah, is that repeat after me?

That was dumb exactly. So seven to you, Donald. All right, so my dumb thing is also probably one of the most funniest things that I remember from my childhood, like the funniest thing I can recall. And I remember the first time I did it, and then subsequent multiple times doing it after, and that was lighting farts on fire. Battmobiles! Like the first time I ever saw it happen, it was like, oh my god, it's true. Like, you know, it was this that you didn't you didn't believe it, and then you saw it, and it was like that I never laughed as hard as I did in my life. But I remember in Hinsdale, uh we did it with I'm cutting you off, Donald.

Don't use names here because I don't want to embarrass our friend.

I won't embarrass any friends, but a friend may have singed eyebrows. Oh, he definitely did. It was literally like the real Batmobile shooting flames. We called it the Batmobile because that's what it looked like. Yeah. Yeah. Full afterburner of an F-14. And you know, now the question is why the hell was his face that close to you?

I gotta tell ya. I gotta tell the story. I gotta tell this story, all right? Now we have a legitimate question. We have three 13-year-old boys, great friends hanging out, and we're laughing our ass off about this because we heard the rumor. So rather than trying to do it yourself, somebody would get on their hands and knees, and the other person would go to but go behind them with a lighter and flick it on, and you know, full arm's length. That's how bad this was. Full arm's length. Maybe that's what they call it gas, and Donnie fucking lights it up, and our good buddy, who who shall not be named, rips one and fucking singes Donnie's eyebrows. It was the funniest, scariest thing ever, but just as that's dumb. That's dumb.

That is dumb. By far the one of the funniest things ever. Oh, yeah. And humanity parts are funny on their own. Never mind lighting them on.

Absolutely. I'll never forget that, Donald. Oh, that was spectacular. That was a genius, as I tell you. Funny. Awesome. Well, great, thank you guys very much. That was awesome. My pleasure. Oh, out there. Thank you so much. Of course. Thank you. Absolutely. So excited about this. Um, folks, thank you for listening. I can't we can't thank you enough just you know, just to see the action that is happening on all the platforms is so exciting, and it's great to see so many of you, you know, you know, paying attention and hanging out with us. So please reach us at pta80H at gmail.com. Once again, that's pta80H at gmail.com. Uh, something we're gonna do in the future too is really try to get a lot of you involved. So please shoot us an email. You know, we'll get you in via email or even you know, online with us. So so thank you all. So tell us what you like, tell us what you'd like to see, what you'd like to hear.

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