The MT Alternative Podcast
The MT Alternative Podcast is where music nostalgia meets sarcasm, humor, and the occasional political rant. Mike and Tom revisit the past, argue about the present, and never take themselves too seriously.
The MT Alternative Podcast
"Grease, Glitter, and Guitars- Welcome to the music of 1978"
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Step into a time machine as Mike and Tom transport you back to 1978 – a year when disco ruled the airwaves, rock was evolving, and both hosts were navigating their youth at ages 11 and 15. This nostalgic deep dive isn't just about the music; it's about how these songs became the soundtrack to their formative years.
The duo meticulously walks through Billboard's Top 40 hits from 1978, sparking memories and playful debates along the way. From the Bee Gees' disco dominance with "Stayin' Alive" to Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" (which Mike still enthusiastically sings at work), each song unlocks personal stories that bring the era vividly to life. Their journey spans multiple genres – rock anthems from Van Halen's groundbreaking debut album, disco classics that defined nightlife, outlaw country from Waylon and Willie, and everything in between.
What makes this episode particularly engaging is how Mike and Tom connect the music to broader cultural touchpoints of the era. Remember Steve Martin's "King Tut" on Saturday Night Live? The debut of the Millennium Falcon toy from Star Wars? Or cruising around in a 1974 Monte Carlo nicknamed after that famous spacecraft? These authentic, lived experiences transform a simple countdown into a rich cultural exploration.
Between thunderstorm interruptions and a brief but chaotic takeover by recurring characters Pippin and Squeak, the episode captures the hosts' trademark tangential style. They close on a thoughtful note, expressing condolences to those affected by the Camp Mystic tragedy in Texas, showing the heart behind their humor.
Whether you lived through 1978 or simply appreciate great music and entertaining storytelling, this episode offers both laughs and a deeper appreciation for a pivotal year in popular culture. Listen now on any major podcast platform or at mtaltpod.com.
Podcast Introduction
Speaker 2Ah yes, welcome back to the MT Alternative Podcast, the audio equivalent of shag carpet, oddly comforting, slightly itchy and hopelessly stuck in the 1970s. This week, mike and Tom are cracking open the year 1978, a time when music was glittery, movies were loud and television was, well, mostly beige. Get ready for deep philosophical takes like was Three's Company actually a government experiment? And how many BGs does it take to define an era Spoiler? All of them, every single gib. They'll cover it all, from the high notes of rock to the low-budget sci-fi flicks, with just enough snark to make your Walkman blush. And, of course, if you're thinking, wow, I need more of this chaos in my life, you can listen to the MT Alternative Podcast on Deepcast FM, deezer FM, buzzsprout, iheart, amazon, spotify or the glorious temple of retro rambling, the mtaltpodcom website website.
Speaker 3So turn the lava lamp on ignore your responsibilities and let Daniel, mike and Tom take you engine. Since that time again, empty alternatives on the air with your favorite friends. Tom's got the stories, Mike's got the tunes. Roll down the windows and crank up those boom, booms, woo. Empty alternative podcast. Let's ride. We're Mike and Tom. We're Southern Rockin' Live.
Catching Up After July 4th
Speaker 4Tom, what the hell's up bud? Not much, mike. What's going on with you?
Speaker 5I'm ready to get this shit rolling man. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 4Rockin' and a-rollin', let's do it. We are 11 years old and you're 15.
Speaker 5Yes, ah, the days of our youth. Wow, Good times bud.
Speaker 4You were thinking of different things than I was probably.
Speaker 5A little bit. A little bit maybe. So what's going on, man?
Speaker 4Oh, not a whole lot. We're just kind of easing back into this deal Again. Yes, how?
Speaker 5was your fourth, by the way it was very relaxing.
Speaker 4I did a lot around the house. We took a couple trips up to a little place where that makes cheese.
Speaker 5Oh yes.
Speaker 4Ash County Cheese Factory. Any kind of cheese you ever wanted. Who doesn't love cheese? Pepperoni-infused cheese who wouldn't want cheese? Pepperoni infused cheese who wouldn't want that? Yeah See, yeah, me too. I was speechless. Then, if you go in the back and around the corner, man, the wine, oh the wine.
Speaker 5Of course, cheese and wine, they go together as a pairing.
Speaker 4Yeah, we all learned that in NASCAR with the. Yeah, kyle Busch, anyway, not to mention any names, I was just throwing one out there Right right, right, but anyway Me myself, the wife and I went up to see our moms.
Speaker 5Yes, it was a good trip. It was Excellent trip. I get a bit. I didn't do a real lot of anything.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, it was a wonderful trip.
Speaker 5Helped mom put some patio furniture together. Oh cool, got to keep myself busy. What else you got, mom? Well, that little rain gauge is, I'll go fix it, yeah.
Speaker 4You go make a pie, I'll do something to do you. And she did, didn't? She Came back with pumpkin bread, chocolate chip cookies, goodness Came back with some New England snacks Stateline potato chips. Oh, did you come back?
Speaker 5for the laser hot dogs?
Speaker 4No, not this time I gotcha, I forgot.
Speaker 5My friend didn't put in a request this year.
Speaker 4No, I put in a request, but not for the hot dogs.
Speaker 5That was the wrong kind of reds no, it wasn't.
Speaker 4Oh, that was the wrong kind of red. No, it wasn't. That was the right kind, oh it was the right kind. Right kind of the night. Yes, excellent, I like cantaloupe.
Speaker 5So we'll be talking about music from 1978. Yes Podcast, that was 11.
Speaker 2Great music though.
Speaker 5See again. I said this before. Soundtrack of my youth yeah, Great music, though.
Speaker 4See Again I said this before Soundtrack of my youth. Yeah, yeah, we love our youth.
Billboard Top 40 of 1978
Speaker 5We'll be digging into that, but let's talk a little bit about work.
Speaker 4Why we went from youth to work.
Speaker 5Yeah, let's get this out of the way.
Speaker 4Yeah, when I grow up, I want a job and I'm like what? The dumbest damn thing I ever wanted Exactly.
Speaker 5Who knows?
Speaker 4I know I work it every day. I know it's been interesting, stupid, it has been interesting, it's been interesting. Well, not to mention the naked dude running through the plant.
Speaker 5We had a little incident at work. You know every workplace goes through work. How do you get?
Speaker 4tased twice Naked, Naked and not go down. You know every workplace goes through work. How do you get tased twice Naked, Naked and not go down? I mean something's up.
Speaker 5Well, it goes right to the factory Swinging his ding-a-ling yeah bragging.
Speaker 4Good for you, buddy. Yay, yay, yeah, show off. Yeah, some of us got it, some of us don't.
Speaker 5How does no one have video of this incident?
Speaker 4Yeah, why is there not? I have no idea, Tom, yeah, yeah anyway, we have to work. I'll bet there is.
Speaker 5Don't forget the one a couple weeks ago that was up on a cherry picker refusing to come down.
Speaker 4We have some Another facility, Burke County man.
Speaker 5Yeah, woo-hoo, yeah, that's for sure, tom.
Speaker 4Wow, what a place, what a place. Let's get back to. I'm very proud to say we own that bitch. Yeah, employee owned.
Speaker 5Woo, yeah, yes, Wow. What say? You have None at all.
Speaker 4Well, let's not have naked people running through the blanket and tagged by police.
Speaker 5That's one thing we can all agree on.
Speaker 4Let's, we're going to do it anyway and we're going to reject your request for nobody Dying in the toilet this week. So that's going to happen again, probably. Oh boy, yeah, probably. I'll not bash you anymore. No, you shouldn't. I can edit this yeah, I understand it is kind of an outlet, isn't it?
Speaker 5Feels good.
Speaker 4It does.
Speaker 5Don't mind us folks yeah.
Speaker 4But now you're going to have to stop me when I start saying some other supervisor, wait a minute.
Speaker 5Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4I thought you were the captain this week. Oh yeah, Toot, toot.
Speaker 5Yeah, see, there you go, bud Going to keep us on course I'm the little toot toot yeah. So I think I want to start off, okay, if I may, you may Thank you.
Speaker 4Tom, well, I am the captain.
Speaker 5You are oh yeah, that's. I'm the captain.
Speaker 4You are oh yeah, that's right, we acknowledge that you just said that that's right.
Speaker 5How could I forget?
Speaker 4Why would you lead me to this place and then?
Speaker 5I'm leading you to the promised land. Yeah, cool. All right, are we ready? I'm ready.
Speaker 4Are you sure? I'm so sure? How come? I'm not. Well, I'm not sure, but I am. I can't see what it is, but I'm ready.
Speaker 5Well, I'm going to read a couple of these to you. Oh, okay, we're going to start with 40 and work our way down, okay, or up to the top.
Speaker 4That didn't help at all.
Speaker 5I'm going to break them down in ten. Do what we got to do. Okay, all right. Number 40. Peaches and Herb Shake a Groove Thing. Good song. Little River Band, reminiscing Kenny Loggins at 38. Whenever I Call you Friend with Stevie Nicks Number 37. Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight Number 36. Michael Jackson Blame it on the Boogie. There you go. Tom 35, sweet Love Is Like Oxygen, oh sweet. 34, olivia Newton-John, hopelessly Devoted to you from the movie Grease. Jackson Brown, running on Empty oh good one. 32, earth, wind, fire, september.
Speaker 4Do you remember when we were down in September 31, Elton.
Speaker 5John Ego. Oh yeah, that's that for the bottom. Oh, I don't like the bottom.
Speaker 4The bottom 40.
Speaker 5That's your 40 to 31. Any songs I mean they're all good songs, but anything they want to talk about.
Speaker 4Well, you know the Running on Empty. Of course, jackson Brown, good song.
Speaker 5Yeah it just brings me back to the first gulp, my great art teacher playing it over and over in art class. Oh really, jackson Brown, yep.
Speaker 4Cool. Our art teacher didn't play anything like that. She made us do art.
Speaker 5Yeah, well, we did art too. Oh, did you? Yeah, me and a buddy of mine painted the Kiss Destroyer album on a mural. Oh yeah, I gotta say it was more him than me. I just outlined everything. I'm not a good artist, but hey, I had fun.
Speaker 4Cool, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 5Mr Chase, mr Chase.
Speaker 4Oh sorry, May he rest in peace.
Speaker 5So let's see, Sweet Love is like oxygen, I think to me, because I said before how I was a big Sweet fan. Right After this album it kind of like went downhill for me on Sweet. I think that was at the end of there. Still love the old stuff from Sweet. But to me that was yeah, I'm like, okay, it's a good song, but the rest of it the album had some good stuff on it, but yeah, it wasn't big of a Sweet thing the new Sweet.
Speaker 4Yeah, the older Sweet Was truly Sweet and you got Hopelessly Devoted to you.
Speaker 5Free soundtrack the new suite, yeah. The older suite, yeah. It was truly sweet and you got hopelessly devoted to you. Free soundtrack Olivia Newton-John.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's where Gomer's pile is. Olivia Newton's John Anyway.
Speaker 5Why.
Speaker 4I don't know why but, that's where it was.
Speaker 5I'm very sad that you took this little route it was a funny route.
Speaker 4Too soon, too soon, yeah, too soon. Okay, sorry, I'll come back with that one later.
Speaker 5You're not sorry Moving on Any other song Earth, wind, fire, september. Do you remember the 22nd they?
Speaker 4made a Christmas song out of that. I think they did. They did. Oh. Thunder and Lightning Set you two steps back.
Speaker 5This is what happens when we're on the podcast Things happen.
Speaker 4Yeah, thunder and Lightning Freaking nature. Shit yeah, freaks in nature.
Speaker 5All right From there, then. Ifaks in nature Alright from there, then. If we have no other comments, we're going to go from 30 to 21. On down, yvonne Elliman, if I can't have you. I believe that's from the Sagnite Fever soundtrack too. I don't know, but I pay it, are you done?
Speaker 4I'm waiting. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5I just wanted to make sure All right. Number 29, barry Manilow, copacabana. Oh yeah, okay, go ahead, tom.
Speaker 4Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl With yellow feathers in her hair. Her dress was way up here, that's very naughty. She had to have two hairdos Move it on 28 total.
Speaker 5Hold the line 27,. Nick Gilder Hot Child in the City. Yep 26, linda Ronstadt, blue Bayou he's going to snap someday.
Speaker 4Come what may, that's what I'll do. Okay, tom here we go.
Speaker 5This is one for you. 25, dr Hook Sharing a Night Together. 24 is Queen that Bottom Girls? Oh, I have that on my list, Jamie.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 5At 23,. We have Meatloaf 2 Out of 3. Ain't Bad from the Bad Out of Hell, album 22,. Boston Don't Look Back from their second LP, yeah 21,. Foreigner, hot Blooded. A lot of good songs in there bud.
Speaker 4Right, go ahead. I did Fat Bottom Girls. I really did like that song you get really into singing that at work.
Speaker 5When it comes on, I really do Get on your bikes and ride.
Speaker 4Yeah, fat, I mean Fat Bottom Girls. Anyway, yeah, I like that song, okay, no, no, it expresses me.
Speaker 5It's a fine song. I like a.
Speaker 4Fat Bottom Girl.
Speaker 5Excellent, excellent. I'm glad everybody knows that. Now, what about Barry Manilow Copacabana? Yeah, we already heard you sing. You don't have to sing.
Speaker 4I don't really want to be friends with a girl named Lola.
Speaker 5I could tell a story about it if I can't have you, but we're going to let that go.
Speaker 4Oh one of those stories.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's one of those stories.
Speaker 4We won't let that go Fuck Meatball.
Speaker 5Two out of three ain't bad. Go look back later. Two out of three ain't bad. I love the whole album. Two out of three ain't bad. It's a great album.
Speaker 4I came out at the end of 77, I believe we talked about that.
Speaker 5But still, bacon made the charts Exactly On Boston with the second LP and after that Boston. Of course, we can take 10 years in between a record. Yeah Well, they had money.
Speaker 4I shouldn't say that A record? Yeah Well, they had money. I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 5They came out with two right away, but then it just took forever.
Speaker 4Well, let's think about this how long have you seen somebody work a week, then get a paycheck and then just quit Because they got money for right now?
Speaker 5Well, that was good. What am I going to do next?
Speaker 4I'll worry about that then.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, those are good albums. I mean good songs, Right. Right, Excuse me, I'm just looking through the list. I think I'm just going to run through the whole list first. Tom, Give us time later so.
Speaker 4Yeah, go ahead All right.
Speaker 5So now at number 20. Okay, taste of Honey was Boogie Oogie, boogie, oogie, oogie, get. What is it? Boogie, oogie, oogie, boogie, oogie, oogie, get down. Boogie, oogie, oogie, all right. Blondie Heart of Glass, great song, ooh oh, here we go. This is sad. Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond, you don't bring me flowers Anymore. Anymore, rod Stewart, do you think I'm sexy?
Speaker 4No, that's why I'm not bringing you flowers anymore.
Speaker 5See, we all have our opinions. Sixteen Electric Light Orchestra, mr Blue Sky, mr Blue Sky.
Speaker 4Yeah, we don't know, we won't put our day jobs, don't worry, yeah, we won't because this is so much fun.
Speaker 5Fifteen Billy Joel Just the Way you Are. Just the way you are. Don't go changing. I Don't go changing, I won't Okay. Number 14 the band we talked about recently, exile, kiss you All Over when I get home, babe, gonna, loud, your father, oh, baby, thinking about you, babe, okay.
Speaker 4That's crazy. They did I mean country, or.
Speaker 5They went back and forth it blows my mind Wow 13,. We got Kansas Dust in the Wind.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, I'm from Kansas.
Speaker 5Baker Street 11,. The Commodores Three Times a Lady.
Speaker 4That was one. You know that. You know, lionel Richie. Listen, that was dedicated to my mom, lionel Richie dedicated that to you, Mom, no no, no, I dedicated that song to my mom. Lana, would you dedicate that to your mom?
Speaker 5No, no, no, I dedicated that song to my mom oh, okay, that makes more sense On Mother's Day one time. Well, that was very nice. Oh, I thought, man Did your mother hear it.
Speaker 4Yeah, oh, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5Did you make her sit by the radio?
Speaker 4No, no, she was always listening because she was working and they played the radio where she worked.
Speaker 5Oh, that station. Yeah, okay, cool, so you called in. It would have sucked if you picked the station you liked, that she wasn't listening to.
Speaker 4So I told them, I said it's for my mom for Mother's Day, blah, blah, blah. And they said, well, that's cool. So they played it and it was funny, but anyway.
Speaker 5Yeah, good story. Yeah, yeah, Very sentimental. I don Sentimental, I'm not going to make it funny Sentimental, you just put me in a bad spot. Now how do I freaking transition out of that?
Speaker 4What do you mean? Transition, let's go on to the next one. All right, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 5Baker Street, baker Street, good song good story, oh yeah, Excellent song. I got caught peeping through windows in Baker Street and they played that in one at the beginning. Yeah, I like Supernatural, me and Tammy, just oh, wait a minute. Me and some other lady that wasn't in the beginning, they played it in.
Speaker 4Supernatural Right right, right.
Speaker 5The beginning was the other. I misspoke people.
Speaker 2That was.
Speaker 5Carry On my Way With Son. There'll Be Peas when you Are Done. Who wants peas?
Speaker 4I like peas. I had cream peas for supper the other night, I don't know what that is. Two peas in a pod. People say we're two peas in a pod all the time and you think it's bad.
Speaker 5Oh yeah, who's a pea and who's a pod?
Speaker 4We're the two peas in the pod. The pod is somebody different.
Speaker 5Oh, okay, alright, the pod is work. I'm going to get back to the pod.
Speaker 4The pod is somebody different. Oh, okay, all right, the pod is work. I'm going to get back to the songs. Yeah, yep, we should get back to the songs because I'm leading the show. We're getting up to the top ten now the really good stuff.
Speaker 5Well, according to this list, Billboard Right, right, right. All right, number ten Paul McCartney wins. With a little luck. With a little luck, how about a player Baby come back?
Speaker 4Any kind of fool could sing.
Speaker 5We love to sing, don't we, we're awful, here we go. Number eight the Village People.
Speaker 4Y-S-E-J. Oh, my goodness, come on.
Speaker 5Still sick.
Speaker 4I people. Oh my goodness, come on, that's how.
Speaker 5I learned how to spell. I was at a company picnic Not a picnic, it was a company Christmas party. We had me, Tito, one of my bosses and two of our bosses get up and do the stupid thing. I had a hard hat, I, I got to find those somewhere. Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. Man Doing the fucking YMCA. All right, Cheek La Freak. John Travolta, Libby Newton, John, You're the one that I wanted. Number six that's stupid. That's a good song. That's a great movie. We'll get into that, I. That's a great movie. We'll get into that. I've never seen it. Okay, we're going to get into that. Definitely, we're going to talk about that. Let me finish this. It's a great show. We're definitely going back. Okay, that's All right anyway. Number five I'm really frustrated right now. Number five BG's Night Fever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Four Rolling Stones Miss you. Donna Summer Last Dance. Number 3 Andy Gibb Shadow Dancing. Number 2 BG Stand Align. Number 1 what the fuck you never watch Grease?
Speaker 4I see Grease 2. I said it's a stupid Dumb. I know what the T-Birds are, though Talk like a T-Bird. Wow folks, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5I just had to mute Tom. Talk like a T-Bird. Wow, folks, I'm sorry, I just had to mute Tom. He's being punished right this minute. Alright, tom, explain yourself, I don't know. People want to know why the hell you ever watched Grease, the first one. I have the fucking DVD, I have the VCR, the VHS tape. See, you got me all flustered, I'm sorry. Wow, you know. I think this podcast is over.
Speaker 4No, no, no, I'm sorry, let's watch it now. Wow, okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. Folks, anybody out there, please? My wife says it's the better, one of the two you know what we're going to do right now, tom what.
Speaker 5I'm going to step back for a minute. We're going to let the little dudes come in. They get restless. I'm a little upset. I'm going to give us a little break. I have no idea what they're going to talk about.
Speaker 4At this point.
Speaker 5I don't even care.
Speaker 4Okay, let's just let the little dudes upset you more.
Speaker 5They're going to come in folks. We'll be back right after this.
Speaker 1Dumb and nipples once hey Squeak. What the hell's going on, bud? Not too much. What's going on with you, pip? Oh, not a hell of a lot. How was your Fourth of July? Banging, Banging, yeah, literally yeah. Oh cool. I was under the couch all night. All them boom, boom, pow, boom. I thought they was going to get me. You did yeah, I'm scared of loud noise. No, to get me. You did. Yeah, I'm scared of loud noises. No, you're not, not really.
Speaker 2The only one I know that makes a lot of noise.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm blind. So what do you think of the segment that the old boys are doing 78. 78? I don't even remember 78. I don't even think we were around then. I might have been. No, well, you never know, there were a lot of drugs back then. We just don't know if we were there or not. Okay, I understand. Yeah, well, but it's not getting to the point. Did you like the segment so far? So far? Yeah, the music and everything. Okay. Okay, but I know there's a butt coming up. Yeah, a butt. Here we go. I think I'd rather have Troy and Travis display the 78 music instead of them two dumbasses.
Speaker 2Why.
Speaker 1Well, do you hear them sometimes? Yeah, I hear them all the time we're here. Exactly, we hear them all the damn time. Well, some of that shit he says is stupid. But let's not forget, it's the Empty Alternative Podcast, not the Pippin's Freak Show. Don't piss me off, I already know that. Okay, it should be the other way around. Well, they don't see it that way.
Speaker 1See, that's it Blind stupidity. They don't see the smart things in life. They're giving us this opportunity. Squeak, let's not freaking. Piss them off, damn. We are a non-profit organization. Yeah, but we make no profit. Yeah, we haven't made a profit yet. I wonder why? Well, probably because them two are still in the show. You think that's what it is? Well, they talk up all the time. I don't even get to be what I need to be. Yeah, but Scree I need to be. Yeah, but Squeak, I've seen you being yourself and it's not good. It's not good for anybody. That's why you live where you live, away from everybody. No, that's not why. Oh, okay, why is it? Well, because that's what I bought a house Away from everybody. Well, listen, I read an article. We went over this. Yes, some people don't remember or may not have heard it.
Speaker 1Well, half the accidents happen 12 miles from where you live. So I moved way out away from there. We went over this too and I told you that's not what it means. Well, I'm just not taking any chances. Okay, all right, squeak. And I met a good friend, who the possum? We've talked about this. You still got that damn thing. Yeah, he eats ticks. Do you eat ticks? No, you don't dine with them. I dine with them, but I don't eat what he eats. You know who else might eat ticks? Who, my little buddies, the Keebler elves, shit, I bet they eat more than that. They do eat a lot. They're little chunky dudes. Yeah, they probably eat the crap out of my bunghole. No, that was not nice. No, but it's accurate, not nice, that's what we're talking about. Well, thank you that means I did my job.
Speaker 1Certainly not the fudge cookie. Yeah, well, again. I did see something funny the other day About when the little guys were running away from something Bigfoot yeah, that was hilarious, yeah, but Bigfoot didn't catch him. Well, he's got another chance.
Speaker 1Those little bastards are everywhere. Those elves are kind of freaking. You know, kind of freaking, what they're kind of like little ninjas, little ninjas With colorful outfits. You know what they are like, little ninjas, little ninjas With colorful outfits. You know what they are with little colorful outfits? Colorful, yeah, I think they play for the other team.
Speaker 1Oh, there's nothing wrong with that. I have never seen a woman Keebler elf, but there is one when I ate her cookie the other day I bet you did, because I guarantee you they didn't she was good A cookie. I mean, it tastes like wood. No, it tasted like a fudge cookie. Oh, did it Nasty? That's the wrong end. You're eating from the wrong end. You're eating from the wrong end again. See, who's supposed to be steering this damn ship? I think that's supposed to. Oops, what happened? Well, I fell off. Yeah, captain, captain, my ass, aye, aye, captain, okay, so moving on. Hey, wait a minute. Okay, so moving on. Hey, we got sidetracked there. Wait a minute. I do want to say a shout-out to a couple more friends of mine. Oh Snap, crackle pop. Thanks for the party the other day.
Speaker 2Appreciate it buds. Here we go again.
Speaker 1Snap crackle pop. Yeah, he's just upset, he wasn't invited. No, here's what he's upset about. It's not Snap Crackle Pip. No, secretly he's upset with Pop. He knows he had a better Pip. You know, the cereal doesn't even pop, it pips. That's what he says. Yeah, that's what the truth is. Oh, pip and Pop does have a good ring to it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I Pip Pop, snap Crackle, have a good ring to it. Yeah, pit pop, snack crackle, pit pop, see, yeah, whatever Damn, he's just jealous, jealous. But anyway, I just want to thank the boys. Yeah, I'd like to thank my boys too. Thank you, boys. Wow, scree, for staying in my underwear. I see you haven't changed since the old Fourth of July. I changed. That's why I got new underwear on, that's why my boys are happy.
Speaker 2Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 1But that's not what I'm talking about, bud. Oh oh, your attitude. Oh yes, thank you for noticing how my attitude has changed. Pretty shitty, I think you've gotten worse. Okay, well, thank you, it means it's working. I would hate to change and not nobody notice. That would be awful. Well, shit, I don't think you're changing the right way, bud. Oh Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2Change is good, you want to try to be nicer.
Speaker 1Change is good. Change is good, right, if you're going the right way, well, okay, who's you're going the right way? Well, okay, who's to say what? The right way is Me? Oh, okay, I'm Pip. This is the right way to do stuff. Say that again. I'm Pip. Right, pip, whose name's first? We've been over this, so we're going to end this. Now I think I'm going to kick your ass too, okay, yeah, I think that's what's gonna happen. Squeak, I think you need a good ass beating. Okay, well, listen, if you're gonna do that, you better bring some help. I have help what I brought Mr Squirrel with me. That guy better not ever come around me again here. He is All right, buddy, till next time. Next time, listen, we'll find out. Yeah, we will. We'll let you know what happens. Okay, okay, bye, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 5Wow, so, uh, that took a weird turn with the peep and squeak A little Bringing up that. Why, why does he carry that video around? Yeah, yeah, what is Pip's fascination? He did that. He just likes to stick it to squeak.
Speaker 4Yeah, kind of like a squirrel. Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 5He invites them in. Yeah, how the hell did he find the squirrel?
Speaker 4Probably the same way he found the possum.
Speaker 5Oh, there we go. We got some background thunder.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's Right on cue. Yeah, we've got a little guy back there shaking aluminum, don't tell our secrets. Oh, that's thunder.
Speaker 5Yeah, there you go. So, tom, you got some. Get back to our music, yeah, music yeah we're just talking about 78.
Speaker 4I was 11, and it was back when the good Saturday Night Live came out and everything.
Speaker 5No, of course, Steve Martin. That was great back then.
Speaker 4When I first met Steve Martin King Tut no, I didn't meet him, I was introduced to him through his comedic skills. Oh man, what a song that was. We laughed about that in school. That was a big thing back then.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 4Oh, king Tut man. Yeah, we laughed and laughed and laughed about that.
Speaker 5Also seen that skit on Saturday Night Live Right right.
Speaker 4Well, that was about the time you would start watching that at 15. Yeah, yeah. My mom and dad wouldn't let me see it. You had the peak, I had the peak.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's always good, though that though I watched King Kong when I was little, they'd end up crying if. King Kong got killed, but anyway.
Speaker 4Yeah, there you go Go ahead. Okay, tmi, anyway, yeah, exactly, it was kind of like when I cried during yeah, it's not every day you put a dog in a tree and bash his brains out, but anyway, let's make it a children's show and call it good. Anyway, back to the music. Joe Walsh, life's Been Good, oh, excellent. I enjoyed that song because it was a lot of fun, because you could think about at 11 years old man, if I had a Maserati I'd do 185.
Speaker 4Lost my license, not even drive, yeah, those kind of things, and you'd tear up the motel walls. We didn't know why you would tear them up.
Speaker 5Well, the accountants pay for it all.
Speaker 4Yeah, well, yeah, See those kind of things. Those were funny songs to us.
Speaker 5It was a great song though. Yeah, All in all it was a great song.
Speaker 4But how about you? You got a song or two.
Speaker 5Not so much songs, tom, just going to, because I did like a lot back in this time, you know 1978 period, right, but I wanted to go through the different genres right now. The top three Right, we both agreed on we'd go that way, sure. So basically what I came up with is we got for rock, we got Beast of Burden, the Rolling Stones, yeah. Never be your beast of burden Goes to one of your songs that you like, probably off that album, I believe.
Speaker 4Yeah, it was Back Bottom Girls.
Speaker 5No, no, no, Rolling Stones. Oh Rolling Stones, your Shattered song.
Speaker 4Shattered.
Speaker 5Yeah, yes, yeah, I've got Shattered, that was one of your songs was one of your songs. That was one of my songs.
Speaker 4So you want to talk about, since I'm on the rolling stone? Well, just now, you know my buddy, his older brother, had a car. Strangely, we we named the millennium falcon. It was a 74 monte carlo. All right, so the very first car I ever wanted was a monte carlo, because that was the coolest car in town.
Speaker 4I understand that and I ended up with a 76 Monte Carlo when I first moved out here. But anyway, another story for another time. But this 74 Monte Carlo was white with a black hard top and he called it the Millennium Falcon. Well, that's when the big toy came out for Star Wars in 1978. Okay, was the big Millennium Falcon toy, but that's what shattered. We rode around in that car Listening to Stones.
Speaker 5Listening to.
Speaker 4Stones. He was a huge Stones fan, so that's where that song came in.
Speaker 5All right, well, we got. Next one is Just what I Needed the Cars Great album that came out. That was an excellent album. Number three, wheel in the Sky Journey, another great song, but see, craig Raleigh was with the band then. Right, good stuff.
Speaker 4All right.
Speaker 5Moving on to disco Top three, we got Stayin' Alive the Bee Gees. Yep, okay, le Freak by Chic yeah.
Speaker 4Boogie Yogi A Taste of Honey, funky.
Speaker 5Bassline. Who doesn't love a taste of honey? Well, you know. Plus, it does have a great bassline. All right, I'm going to move on. Okay, r&b top three Gotcha, three Times a Lady, commodores, yep. And number two Too Much, too Little, too Late. Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams. And number three, you and I Rick James, rick James, oh, rick James, rick James, bitch. All right, moving on. We got Pac, night Fever, bee Gees, you're the one that I want. John Travolta, libby, newton-john, don't say that, stupid, tom.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 5All right, Hot Child in the City at number three, Nick Gilder Love. A good sign. There we go. Now we're up to my stuff here. We got High Rockin' Metal Running with the Devil. Van Halen. Great debut album by Van Halen. Every song on that is kick ass.
Speaker 3Baby Lee Rock at the top.
Speaker 5I don't care what anybody says. That was one of the best front men Besides Freddie Mercury.
Speaker 4I was behind times. Of course I was younger. They didn't come into me yet. They're going to later, I guarantee it.
Speaker 5Oh, they will.
Speaker 4Yes, they will.
Speaker 5We'll hear about them. We got Surrender by Cheap Trick. Yep, I remember listening to the live Budokan that came out later, gotcha. Then we got Cold Gin Kiss from a live tour Cold. Gin Comedy 1978. I got that for Christmas early Christmas. I begged my parents for that. That's awesome. It's a live two album. All right now we're off the country. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. That's a true outlaws.
Speaker 5Good song. Even I like that. Yep, true outlaws, Take this job and shove it. Johnny Paycheck another great song.
Speaker 4Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5Oh, sorry about that little interruption folks. We had a little power surge here from the storm.
Speaker 4Yeah, a little bit of a storm going on A little bit, but back to Johnny. Paycheck. Yeah, take this job and shove it Where's he shoving it. Yeah, what a great song for a classic.
Speaker 5Was an anthem for us.
Speaker 4Yeah, was an anthem.
Speaker 5Maybe not so much for you at the time. It is you were still what D-Hot or Grasshopper?
Speaker 4Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Texas Camp Mystic Tragedy
Speaker 5But uh, pretty much I think that'll wrap up. Yeah, that's Before this storm cuts us off again. It sounded pretty brutal out there, but uh, one thing Tom and I want to bring up, though, is the Camp Mystic tragedy and anybody in Texas that was affected by this tragedy.
Speaker 4Yeah, we'd like to take a few minutes to express our sympathy to all the people involved in Hunt Texas and along the river, and not just the camp but everybody involved exactly Texas as a whole.
Speaker 5You know everybody.
Speaker 4I mean that's what America is supposed to be.
Speaker 5Let's not worry about what these people in the media are saying. We know it's all bullshit.
Speaker 4We gotta stay strong you have to do your research, people, and just understand what you're talking about and know what's going on. But yeah, we would like to take a minute and just we're sorry that everything happened Exactly and we're keeping those families in our prayers and condolences to everyone.
Speaker 5Yep and thanks to all the rescuers and people still out searching, you know, looking for loved ones.
Speaker 4Everybody involved.
Speaker 5Yep, but again, folks, we're going to wrap it up, tom. Yeah, we'd like to have ended it differently, but this storm is kind of like we're Taking over yeah exactly.
Speaker 4As always, we would like to thank God for the gift of Gab Everyone take care, god bless.
Speaker 2Later. And that wraps up another episode of the MT Alternative Podcast, proving once again that giving Mike and Tom a microphone is both a blessing and a public service hazard. Next week the guys dive into the music of 1979, a year packed with hits, misses and whatever else their half-baked research uncovers. And of course, you know, mike and Tom can't stay on topic, so expect the usual detours into strange tales, questionable wisdom and stories you didn't ask for but can't stop listening to. Thank God there was a thunderstorm to shut the power off and end this episode early, because otherwise we'd still be here three hours from now. Here's hoping for another storm next week when they get rolling on 79. Until then, I'm Daniel signing off before this whole thing spirals even further.
Speaker 3With us down this dusty road. Tom and Mike laid it down, the story ending cold. We had our last without the virus glow. Now it's time to pack it up and hit the road.
Speaker 2Join Mike and Tom next week for more punishment MT.
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