We Race Through The Final Three Years Of The Eighties And Admit We Still Can’t Remember What Happened When

Three years. Zero restraint. We dive headfirst into 1987, 1988, and 1989—the final rumble of the Eighties—where U2, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Guns N’ Roses, Madonna, and N.W.A battled for airtime while movies like Die Hard, Batman, and When Harry Met Sally reset what a blockbuster could be. It’s a season finale recorded on a strangely warm Christmas Eve porch in North Carolina, complete with the usual laughter, side quests, and uncomfortable truths about who really bought those neon cheese balls.

We sort through the top albums and singles that dominated radio and memory, then challenge the idea of “one‑hit wonders” by calling out the bands that never fit the label. Expect detours into snack history—Crystal Pepsi, Planters’ glowing cheese balls, ecto‑cooler—and the infamous fads that filled every mall: acid‑wash denim, shoulder pads, stirrup pants, and bucket hats. We also revisit the headlines that stuck: the Max Headroom signal hijack, the Exxon Valdez spill, and the ’89 Bay Area earthquake that stopped the World Series mid‑breath. On TV, The Simpsons went from sketch to institution as Seinfeld launched quietly and Baywatch sprinted down the beach, setting up a new era of pop culture touchstones.

Sports fans get quick hits from Giants‑Broncos to 49ers‑Bengals, Lakers dominance, and Gretzky’s seismic move to LA. Through it all, we’re honest about what we loved, what we skipped, and why these years still punch above their weight. To cap it off, we tease season three: a looser, artist‑driven format with sharper takes, deeper dives, and the same refusal to stay neatly on topic.

If you enjoy smart nostalgia with some porch‑level candor, tap follow, share the show with a friend, and leave a quick review. Which late‑Eighties year wins your vote—1987, 1988, or 1989? Tell us and join the conversation.

Transcript

Season Finale Setup & Porch Banter

SPEAKER_05 0:10

Welcome to the MT Alternative Podcast. I'm Rupert. This week, Mike and Tom are attempting to cover 1987, 1988, and 1989, the final loud, confusing years of the 1980s. Music, movies, pop culture, and whatever else they vaguely remember from back then. There will be great albums, terrible fashion, and absolutely no agreement on what happened in which year. This also marks Mike and Tom's final episode of the year and the end of this season, which feels appropriate, all things considered. Today's episode is brought to you by MemoryFoam, because Mike and Tom clearly don't have one. Lower your expectations. This is the MT Alternative Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Yes, it is. It's a wonderful day on the porch. We are here in Western North Carolina foothills on Christmas Eve. There's four and a half inches of snow on the ground. Nope. The wind's blow. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

I think we're about a 72 degree.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Yeah, it's 72 degrees. Are you kidding me? Christmas Eve day. Are you kidding me? This is I'm in shorts and short sleeves. It's ridiculous, though. So last week we were here. I had a coat, a hoodie. A little breezy. Man, this is just extraordinary weather, Mike. It's just wonderful. I'm loving it.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Yeah, it's take advantage of it while we can.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Something tells me the freaking floor is gonna fall through.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Yeah. But hey. I think next Friday it's not supposed to be 38 over 38 or something like that. But it's winter. Come on.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

Good with the bad, but so you took a little trip yesterday. Oh yes, I did. Again.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Yeah. Had to go see my ancestors, the Indians. Yeah. Okay. Pow pow Indians.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Oh, not the 7-Eleven.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Oh, no, no, no. Okay, cool. I could stay here and see them.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Excellent.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

And oh, yeah. I I did a few purchases and and uh explored, and it was wonderful again.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

So you brought some back to uh sample.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

I did. I did. And what do you think? Much appreciated. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Much appreciated.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

It was a little different than the last that I'd ended up with, but this is always good to try different. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Always. Except when you're married. No, yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. No.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

No, no. But uh yeah, we had a great couple days. We we took off and just went and done our Christmas shopping and got everybody together. And now I think this afternoon we're gonna all get together somewhere and exchange gifts and sing hubaya and yeah, around the fire and yeah, just something one of them things.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

That's cool. I'll be sitting here with the lovely wife. Yeah. Probably on well, who am I kidding? I'll probably be back out here on the porch. It's freaking nice out.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

I'm telling you, it's just so beautiful out here. I mean, it's just nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Well, let's uh fill everybody in on what we'll be doing. Yeah. Different a little different. This will be our last podcast for this season. Yep. Where you know, Tom and I have been going through the years on music, our little journey. And uh we're shortening it up this time. We're going 87, 88, and 89. We're combining the three years. There'll be no pip and squeak.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Yeah, they did their deal last time.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

They did their deal is right. Yeah, boy. Anyway. Yeah, anyways, but uh that's what we'll be

Plan For Covering 1987–1989

SPEAKER_00 4:13

going through. So let's start that off. Yeah. We'll start off with the top albums from those years.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Oh, yeah, top albums.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

All right. So we'll start with 1987, Tom.

Top Albums Of 1987–1989

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Okay. Top albums this year. These are the top albums we got through Billboard, Rolling Stone, all that. So not ours. Yeah. Just a list of the top albums from those years. I guess from everybody that bought or listened to.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

All right, we got number one, or not number one, not in any order here. Just the first one I'm reading. Joshua Tree by U2. I guess it dominated the charts for weeks, it says. Yeah, not my uh cup of tea.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Yeah, I'm not a U2 fan.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

Not at all. Uh Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi. No, I've got into that. Says the year's best performer on Billboard, but yeah, Bon Jovi. I get into that. Whitney Houston. Whitney was the name of the album. Right. Uh she was uh 11 weeks at number one. It's hard. It is, it's very true. Uh, we got Bad by Michael Jackson. Bad. And I guess many hits came off that album. Oh, yeah. Then he we had Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses. Oh, good.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

It broke through.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

That was it was different.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

It was a different thing.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

And uh we figure from the hairbands and then Guns N' Roses kind of took it a different way, which more garage type style rocked as far as I'm concerned. It was recorded.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

At that point it was. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Okay. 88 we had uh the top albums were Hysteria by Def Leppard.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Yeah. Def Leppard was big back then.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Yep. Rattle and Hum by U2. Oh I guess they just didn't go away.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

No. They had a big movie.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

They blended live and studio tracks on Rattle and Hum. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

I thought they did a big movie or some stupid crap back then.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

That was I think that was it. Rattle and Hum.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Yeah. Might have been.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Anyway, Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman. Oh, yeah. She's uh she has a fast car. Uh We had Faith by George Michael.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

But you gotta have faith. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

All right. Straight out of Compton by NWA.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Well, I can do that.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

You can? Actually, that was a pretty good album. I wasn't into that genre of music, but I didn't mind that.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Yeah, I wouldn't mind.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

It was different. All right, 89 top albums. Back to the Future 2, part two soundtrack. Gotta get back it. But seriously, by Phil Collins. It was a ballad heavy seller. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Yeah, I don't even know it.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

All right. We got The Raw and The Cooked by the Fine Young Cannibals.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Oh yeah. The Raw. It drives me crazy.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

It drives me. Like a Prayer by Madonna. Just like a prayer. Oh yeah. Madonna. We have Pump by Aerosmith. Aerosmith's little comeback. Yeah. Woo. Yep. So any any uh comments on any of that?

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Well, not necessarily.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

I can be honest. It might have all been big albums, but I can tell you right now, a lot of them I didn't listen to.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Yeah, I didn't really buy any. But I can tell you in 1987, that is when I met and married my wife. Some other lady? Yep. Okay. Yep, that was her. And 88 is when my son was born. So all this music is just rattling this stuff back.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Like the little soundtrack of that that time there.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

That time frame is just there's so much that you can't really round it into any kind of genre. Oh, this was my favorite. This it was all good at that point.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Not all, but a lot of it was most of it was good. You're correct. Well, let's go to the uh top singles from those years, shall we?

Hit Singles Roundup And Reactions

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Sure. Move on. All right. 87 top singles. Walk like an Egyptian. Bengals.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Oh, oh, sorry. Well, we did most of the time.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah, we were young. What the hell? Alone by heart. Are you okay? I'm alone. No, no, no. Alone. Now you got me. Okay, Shake You Down by Gregory Abbott. I guess it was a smooth RB standout. It was. I guess I'd have to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Smooth operator. Nope, nope. Wrong one. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

I'll say, I want to dance with somebody. I want to dance. Whitney Houston. Somebody. And Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship. Well, sure is better than we built this city.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Yeah. You didn't.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

No, no. Not with that lame ass song. Okay. 88 top singles. Faith by George Michael. But you gotta have faith. Need you tonight by NXS. I need you tonight.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Oh, yeah, that one.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Get my mind set on you by George Harrison.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

I got my mind set on you.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Oh, here we go. The guy I always thought was black. It was Rick Asley. Never gonna give you up. I'm never gonna let you down. Never gonna let you. And her chew. We had Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N' Roses. Oh yeah, there they are.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Oh, oh we have a dog. That likes Guns N' Roses, evidently.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Yeah. Okay. We understand. Thank you. Good deal. Alright, now in 1989 top singles. Look away by Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Look away. Look away.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Alright, My Prerogative by Bobby Brown. Lots of people talking, talking to me. Just let me live. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

What was his deal anyway? Uh he liked drugs. Yeah, Bobby.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

And he fucked up Whitney Houston.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

I remember. Never mind. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Allegedly.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Okay. My prerog. Oh, we already said that. Every rose has its thorn by poison. Every rose. I was trying to find it. Said something mad about the songs. I made some comment and he's like, That's me and my wife's song. I'm like, Are you and your wife broken up? What the hell do you mean that's your song?

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

Straight up by Paula Dool. Straight up now. Tell me.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Yeah, it was straight up when I watched her. Of course you did. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

You weren't a normal male if you didn't. No doubt. All right, give it up by Casey and the Sunshine Man.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Give it up. Baby, give it up. Na na na na na na ma ma. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

That's enough of that.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

Give it up.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Baby, give it up. I'm embarrassed I knew that.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

I knew it, but did not sing it like I wasn't proud of it like you. So any comments on those?

SPEAKER_01 11:21

I think I've said enough.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

Oh yeah. You sang enough?

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Yeah. Anyway.

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SPEAKER_00 11:27

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SPEAKER_00 12:04

Okay, and we're

Weird Snacks Of 1987

SPEAKER_00 12:06

back. Yeah, there you go. Excellent. All right, Tom. Yes, sir. Before we get back into our years of notables and music and everything else. Right. Something we used to do, we don't do much of anymore. Yeah. Yeah, we used to do strange snacks, strange this, strange that. Yeah, ice cream flavors. Yeah. Since we're on 87, 88, and 89, we're going to break it down by year. Okay. So I'm going to start off with 87 Strange Snacks from 87. Bring it on. Alrighty. We have uh first one, Crystal Pepsi. Crystal Pepsi. Yep. Not officially launched until the early 90s, but clear coal experiments were already floating around in 87. Nothing says future like soda that looks like Sprite but tastes like Pepsi in confusion.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Yeah, it was dumb. That was dumb. It was stupid. There, have clear Pepsi. What the hell? How stupid was it that I ended up buying one just to see? Yeah. Stupid. Oh, well, here it did what it was supposed to. It made us all buy one, dumbasses.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

Oh well, hey. Anyway. All right. So we have here's a favorite of mine, and I'm sure yours. Pudding pops. Oh, yeah. But what was in them? Pudding. Yeah. Jell-O pudding pops were huge, but in 87 companies started pushing weird flavor extensions. Banana, butterscotch, and vanilla swirl. That tasted like a freezer burned science project. I gotta admit, the banana ones weren't bad.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

They weren't bad. The chocolate chocolate on the ball. Oh my gosh. Why do they not have pudding pops anymore, Tom? I don't know. We're gonna have to give research that. We're gonna have to.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

Maybe everybody likes it. Let's take it away. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, maybe it could have been. We got a favorite here of Pips. Uh-oh. Yeah. The Kebler Magic Middles. Oh my goodness. That's gonna start a war.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Well, Pip likes the Keebler elves. Yeah, Pip does. But they're all right. They're good little guys, man. Yeah, Skip.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

Anyway. Okay, shortbread cookies stuffed with chocolate or peanut butter. Yeah. Marketed like wizardry. Delicious, yes. But also unsettling. No one asked where the filling came from.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Yeah, where did it come from?

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Oh, yeah, squeeze can have fun with that one.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Why is this guy riding around the block?

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Yeah, this guy's like, what are they doing?

SPEAKER_00 14:39

One of our fans.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Yeah. They're trying. Why don't they just come up and ask us for it?

SPEAKER_00 14:43

We're on air right now, so be kind of rude of them. Yeah. All right. How about fruit wrinkles? Because raisins needed trauma. Fruit wrinkles. Fruit snacks that look like deflated gummy roadkill. Marketed as natural, but tasted like a chemistry set with sugar. Oh my lord. I never heard of a fruit wrinkles. Never heard of fruit wrinkles. Oh, wait a minute here. Here's one of Mike's favorites. Hostess Choco Bliss. Oh, the Choco Bliss. Chocolate cake, fudge filling, chocolate icing. And regret. There was never any regret. No regret. Pulled from shells because even the 1980s said this is excessive. Fuck you, 1980s. Yeah, the 80s.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

We're gonna make you healthy, boys.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

All right. Uh number six, the high sea ectocooler. Ghost approved nutrition. Bright green, vaguely citrus, and endorsed by Ghostbusters. Contained approximately 0% fruit and 100% radioactive optimism.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Slime. Yumi. Hey, can I have that? Sure, yeah, give him stuff.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Stuff. Yeah. All right, number seven, we have Pringles, New Fangled Flavors. Yeah. Late 80s, Pringles started experimenting hard with pizza, sour cream, overload, and flavors that tasted nothing like food, but everything like powdered ambition.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Exactly. Just sprinkle shit on it and call it something. Cheeseburger, macaroni and probably had that macaroni and cheese.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yeah, dumbass bacon cheeseburger. Carnation breakfast bars. Dessert and denial. Chocolate bars pretended to be breakfast. If you ate one before school, adults called it nutrition. If you ate two, it was your fault. Yeah, no doubt. I like that carnation. I didn't break them to drink.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Yeah, I didn't mine them.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

It wasn't too bad. Shit's expensive now, though, man. Yeah. Alright, diet everything. Diet Coke was king, but 87 brought diet snacks that remove flavor instead of calories. Same guilt, less joy.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

That reminds me. When I used to drive for a company, I guess I can say their name. They're not in business anymore. Schwanz. Schwans, yeah. They had popcorn, okay? Okay. Then they came out with light popcorn, which was just a half a bag of popcorn. It was a smaller bag. And it didn't have any salt in it. That was all it was. Usually it's the same, but no butter. Yeah, nothing. I mean, just but it will they half the can it was just a half a bag, is all.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

That's disappointing to hear.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

It was. That that was the only thing that really stood out to me that they really messed up on was that. The popcorn.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Why would they do that? People are idiots, that's why. All right. And then number 10 was cheese balls and industrial drums. Yeah, you could go to like Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's wholesale club.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Get these big barrels of great big shit.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Let's see. Not new, but 87, they came in containers large enough to survive nuclear fallout. Once opened, they were legally your personality. Yep. Okay, I remember. Let's see. So what I did, Tom, is I looked for what the good stuff was in those. Right. And the to the bad stuff. Okay. We'll start off with the good.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

All right. Let's hear what the good is.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Surprisingly good. High C ectocooler. Bright, citrusy, neon green, and perfect for kids pretending to be ghostbusters. Totally weird, but oddly delicious. Number two, pudding pops.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Smooth, creamy, and fun to eat. Banana and butterscotch were questionable, but vanilla swirl was solid. Number three is the Keebler magic middles. Chocolate plus shortbread, basically timeless. Slightly unsettling that the filling was magically mysterious.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

It's magically mysterious.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

But tasty nonetheless. Where did that fudge come from? Yeah. And number four, fruit wrinkles. Chewy, fruity, and a little sad looking, but okay if you were desperate for sugar disguises health.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Right. So we both agree, though, we love our pudding pops. Yeah, we do love it. And I do like the old Key Lorelve cookies, so hey. I'm with Pip on that. All right. Questionable choices. Pringles, new fangled flavors. Pizza and sour cream overload were ambitious. Have you ever ate them? They suck.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

They're awful.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Some flavors work, some taste like powded science experiments. Exactly. That's exactly what it was. Exactly what it's on them.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

It doesn't. Okay, so the sour cream and onion,

One‑Hit Wonders That Weren’t

SPEAKER_01 19:24

you think, okay, I'm gonna get these because I like sour cream and onion potato chips. They didn't taste like it did not taste anything like that at all.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

Like it pretended to be. They were pretending.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

It tasted like a damn onion farted in my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Wow. That's quite the description.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Well, there you go. Okay. Don't buy those, or you'll have that description in your mouth.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Well, idiots don't buy them. Okay, moving on. Carnation breakfast bars. Not bad. Chocolate pretending to be breakfast, decent on flavor, terrible on credibility. Could ruin mornings with sugar crap.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

I get it. Shit your what? Sugar crashes. Oh, I thought sugar. Shit your pants. Oh, oh, sugar crashes. I thought you said shit your pants.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Diet everything, snacks, remove from flavor again. Okay. Okay, here's some snacks that the FDA should have intervened on. Yes. Crystal Pepsi. Clear soda is psychologically confusing. It looked like water, tasted like cola, and should have come with a warning label. Yeah, weird. Oh man. My hostess Choco Bliss. Chocolate cake, fudge icing. What's wrong with that? It's like a sugar bomb detonating your mouth. Exactly. Exactly. Delicious, but morally questionable. I never questioned it at all. I wanted more. What the frick, man? So that's the only reason they get rid of it. Too much sugar. Please. All right, number 10. We got the cheese balls and then industrial drums again. Neon orange, dust everywhere. Impossible to stop eating. Fun for 10 minutes. Regrettable for 10 days. Should have had a federal oversight committee. Oh, no doubt. Oh, like hey, that's moving on to that.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Yeah, we haven't done that stuff in a while, Tom. Nope. So let's get back into our 87, 88, and 89 bullshit. Yeah. How about one hit wonders? One hit wonders. Everybody likes a good one-hit wonder.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Do they?

SPEAKER_01 21:27

But was there a one-hit wonder in the 80s? Everybody in the 80s was a big band.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

As long as I looked over, they called one hit wonders, and maybe that song was, but it's questionable. But let's let's go through the list here. Okay. Start with 1987. All right. We got a song here by the cutting crew. I just died in your arms. I just died in your arms tonight. Must have been something you said.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

I didn't say anything. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Why am I dying? In my arms. Why? Why am I in your arms? Okay, let's move on. Okay, we have La Bamba by Los Lomos. I didn't know Los. I didn't know that was a one-hit wonder. Yeah, they did a lot. Pretty poison. Catch me, I'm falling. Boop boop boop boop ba doo. Catch me now. I had no idea who that was. Yeah, unfortunately, I do. Oh. Okay, so let's move on to the right track by The Breakfast Club. Oh, The Breakfast Club. I know who that is.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

You do? Yeah, Emilio Estevez and all them other guys.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Yeah, I think it's a band called The Breakfast Club, not the movie, the cast of the movie The Breakfast Club, Tom. Oh. Yeah. All right. Why do they want to confuse me? Because it's easy to do, buddy. Oh. All right. And the last one we have is Hutt Hut Hut by Buster Poindexter. The same guy from uh New York Dolls. New York Dolls. Yep. I don't know what his name was there, I forget. David Johannes. Yeah. That's it. All right. 1988 one hit wonders. Heart and Soul by T Pow. Leave a little bit of Heart and Soul. Yeah, I know the song, but who in the heck is that? Some group from 1988, Tom says it right here. I'm reading it. Okay. New wave track that hit high on the charts. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Yeah, I knew your song, but I didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

If I hit that little two there. Oh, it gives me more information. Oh, more information. Honorable mention. Oh, that's 1979. Yeah, we don't want to. We're not in that anymore. We're gone. Okay, we got the promise by. Here we go. Here's a band everybody knows. When in Rome.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Okay, what's the band's name? When in Rome. Okay. When I'm in Rome, what is their name? When in Rome.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

Okay. This is a goal. The name of the band is When in Rome. That's stupid. It is stupid. All right. How about if we go to Stand Back by the group Berlin? Stand Back. Nope, that's not it. You're thinking of Fleetwood Mac. Oh, yeah. That's by Berlin. Berlin's not a one-hit wonder. Maybe the song was a. No, I don't understand that. How about Roll With It by Stevie Winwood? That's not a one-hit wonder. Yeah. You got to roll with it.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

He had many hits.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

He did. Okay. But there's And he was with the band Traffic, I believe. I think that's Yeah, back in the day, yeah. Okay, next one is opportunities. Make like let's make lots of money by the pet shop boys. Okay. Okay, it says U.S. one hit perception. What the hell that means? I do not know.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

It means that U.S. has one hit perception.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

So you're just rolling with it or just roll with it, baby. All right. I think you should stand back and let me go to the next one. Stand back. All right. 1989 one hit wonders. Beds are burning by midnight oil.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Well, yeah, if you got oil in bed, they're gonna be burning, dumbass.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

These people aren't thinking too bright. They're not they're not too bright. Nope. Let's light this bed on fire. Wait a minute. I have midnight oil. We're trying to heat the room. No, no, no. Idiots. All right. How about Buffalo Stance by Nena Cherry? They'd like to stand in a buffalo stance. That was the dumbest damn song. That was a good song, man.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

I didn't care for it. That was a good song.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Who's that standing there? Oh, in the street.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

All right, how about bust a move? Yeah. All right. How about waiting for a star to fall? Boy. Here's a band name. Boy meets girl.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

I have questions. We have Boy Meets Girl Band, right? We have When in Rome. Are these people idiots? Well, they have a name. They couldn't even. Call yourself Tree or something, I don't know. Anything.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Stick. Railing. Any command. Step. Boy meets girl. Girl. Okay. So what's the name of the band? How about boy meets boy? That would go good with nowadays.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Nowadays it would, yeah. Or I don't know what it is, but I don't know what it is. Anyways, moving on.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Yeah, we better.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Second chance by 38 Special.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

I like that one too.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

That's a good song.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Yeah, and 38 Special doesn't have like one hit wonders either. It doesn't? I don't think so. All their stuff is good.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Yeah, I don't get that either, though. Unless you're telling them about but the song doesn't matter. They're not one-hit wonders. Exactly. It's very confusing. Very, very confusing. But we know different. We do. Now, Buffalo Stance, as much as I like that song, too. I can understand that being that. And Bust the Move by Young MC. Haven't heard anything else from him. Right. So a lot of these Midnight Oil was another one. Deads of Burning. What did you hear from Midnight Oil? Well, I guess once you burned everything, nothing left to sing about it.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

If you burn the bridge, it's gone. You can't get back. The band is done.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Well, you guys fucked up. Yep. Oops. All right. So we're going to take another little pause here for another little commercial.

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And we're back again. All right. So uh one hit wonders were kind of confusing on some of that shit.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

But uh all right. We're gonna move on now to 1988.

Weird Snacks Of 1988

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Weird and strange snacks.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

Weird strange snacks.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Number one on our list here is not our list, there's lists we looked up. We had Dunkin' Donuts snack and minis. Are you interested to know what a snack and mini is? Uh kind of it's a tiny packaged donut holes. Wait a minute. Mark marketed as fun snack. Oh, there we go with the fun snack shit again, like fun size.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Yeah. Tiny package. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

What are they trying to say? Two balls in this little package. Wait a minute. What are you trying to say there, Duncan? All right. Weirdness factor individually packaged donut holes for on-the-go eating because apparently you needed tiny donuts everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Of course we do.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Don't we have munchkins now? You get a box of them.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

What a freaking Cheerio is.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

All right, number two. Taco Bell's Taco Bell snackers. Taco Bell snackers. Mini Tacos in pre-packaged trays for a quick snack. Don't remember that. Oh, since I've never eaten at a Taco Bell, I won't remember. I won't even know what the hell it is. A strange twist. They were designed more as a snack than a meal. And the texture suffered in the packaging. Kind of like crunchy taco chips in a taco form.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Oh. No, don't remember that.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Don't sound memorable either. How about uh Orbitz Beverage? Orbitz.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

I kind of remember those drinks.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

Clear soda with floating gel spears that did dissolve.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

And you drank those? Well, I didn't drink them. I just said I remembered them.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Oh. Very 1988. Bizarrely futuristic, kind of gross and extremely eye-catching.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

Yeah, extremely.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Did you shit out these little I don't know? I think they dissolved. It says uh spears that didn't dissolve. Oh shit. I don't even think the stomach acid probably get rid of that shit. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

That's probably why I didn't drink it. I was drinking a lot of south paw back then.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Here we go drinking all kinds of shit that we drank, and we never tried something like that.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Nope. I remember drinking a lot of south paw back then.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

All right. Chips Ahoy. Fun dip cookies. Chips, chips, chips. Cookies partially dipped in a flavored icing. Flavors were sometimes outrageous, like grape or lime. It was an attempt to make cookies snacky. Well, cookies are snacky. What do you give me? Make them snack. Snackable beyond a standard chocolate chip. If I want a chocolate chip, I don't want lime. Yeah, I don't want lime chips.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Chocolate chip. I want a chocolate chip, stupid. Stupid freaking snap that one. That's what I'm trying to tell you. These these Keebler elves, they're dumb. That has nothing to do. That's chips ahoy.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Nothing to do with the Keebler elves. See, they're on top of the game. All right. How about planters' cheese balls?

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Okay. I've ate a lot of cans of those.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Okay. Why would you buy planters' cheese balls and you could buy the big industrial frickin' bucket of cheese balls cheaper? Yeah, but back to the cheese balls.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Back then you couldn't.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

What do you mean? We just read 87, you could. Now we're in 88. No, I'm talking about the big industrial 87, you could. We just read that. Are you not listening to the podcast we're doing? Sure. I just went over where you could buy them, cost us, Sam's. Yeah, Sam's. Okay, so now we're in 88, and you're saying, well, planters, but because you couldn't plant them that way. You could buy them that way.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

Well, I'm just saying, not at that point, because planters took it over.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

No. No, no. That's not true at all. Cheese balls have been around, Tom. Well, I know they've been around.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Big containers. But I don't remember the balls.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

Planters just wanted to put their little name on something. Yeah. Extra strangeness. Yeah. Some versions were neon orange almost glowing in the dark. Kids were mesmerized. That's every damn cheese ball.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

That peanut, he had a monocle, like the Mongolian monocle.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

That was just so idiots would pay more money. Like you. But it was good. It's in a planter's. Oh, that must be better. It was.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

It was fresher.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Oh, God. All right. How about MM's crispy? Who? No. A prequel to the official 1990 launch. Some test markets got crispy MMs in '88. I didn't like them. They were strange to peanut and plain MM fans. Chocolate with a rice crunch center. Basically, I've had those. They sucked. Yeah. How about Skittle Sour? No. I like sour shit.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

I like sour crap.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

But well, no, I like sour. Oh, I guess we said the same. I like sour shit. We don't like crapper shit at all.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

No, it's just sour stuff. It's just stuff we say. But I don't care for Skittles at all. Sour or not.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

Oh, so you're not a Skittles fan. Not really. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

Just that's me.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Your tongue might have felt assaulted, but it paved the way for the sour craves of the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

No.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

How about hostess snack cakes and odd flavors?

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Look at my belly. Of course I enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

Beyond the classic ho ho's. Hostess tried mini cakes in flavors like banana, lemon, and even peanut butter swirl. Strange because who thought banana and lemon should be a dessert snack flavor in mass production? Not me.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

No.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Not lemon. Okay, next one. Jell-O gelatin snacks. Gelatin snacks? Pre-packaged single-served gelatin cups with bizarre shit. Sometimes made with dual layers and flavors and colors. Yeah, sure. Kids' weird fascination. Squishy, wobbling, fruity cubes with names like Wiggily Wonders.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Yeah, the Wiggly Wonders. I remember those. Isn't that what you name your? Oh, never mind. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

See, I I remember is the Wiggly Wonder. Okay. High C doodle Dot snack.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

I call him that too.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

Tiny, colorful candy cake. No, wait, but market it with cartoon mascots. You have little tattoos on it, do you? Yeah, Elvis. They were a bit like mixed between candy and drinkable food experience. A confusing slack identity. Alrighty, and last but not least, Tom, we have the uh bonus weirdness, Pringles Stacker Packs. The stacker pack. Aren't Pringles stacked already? Pretty much, yes, they are. They'll fit nicely in that little can. Yeah, the can. In a pack. What it is, well, let me tell you what it is. Pre-stacked mini Pringles in tiny tubes. Tiny tubes. Tiny tubes. Why it's weird. Because opening a bag and stacking them yourself was apparently too much effort. Uh huh. Bring a monocle for full snack sophistication. No, we're not going with that monocle. Oh, oh. Mongolia monocle? Yeah, the Mongolia monocle. Nope. Look it up, folks. Don't look it up. Yep. So, anyways, back to our original broadcasting. Okay.

Strange News Stories 1987–1989

SPEAKER_00 35:09

So let's uh we've we've done uh I got some strange stories from the years, Tom. Yeah. Strange story. 1987. Oh, I remember this too. Uh the story, anyways. Max Headroom's signal hijacket in Chicago saw a TV broadcast interrupted by a mass figure ranting incoherently, including being spanked on air. Aww. The perpetrator remains unidentified. Unidentified. What a find out on YouTube. You can look that up on YouTube. It's freaking funny. Yeah, that's hilarious. Okay, a New York garbage barge towed 3,000 tons of trash, wandered the Atlantic for weeks after being rejected by multiple ports, sparking national waste disposal debates. Nope. You're not bringing that shit over here. Nope, not here either. Move on. Keep it going. Just keep floating around. Yeah. Wonder how much of that ended up in the ocean. Oh boy. Yeah. All right. During a live LA news segment, a man pulled a gun on reporter David Horowitz and a staged consumer stunt gone wrong. Terrifying viewers.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

Oh my God. It was staged and I am confused. It was terrifying. What? What the hell? What'd they say?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

1988 Strange Stories. The Circus Maximus incident involved a deranged man in Florida releasing exotic animals like lions and tigers onto highways. Causing chaos and shutdowns. I don't remember that. I don't either. I'm gonna have to look that up. That sounds pretty interesting. Yeah. That could be a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Yeah, was that the Lion King or what was he?

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Tiger King.

SPEAKER_01 36:44

Tiger King releasing things out in the Florida. Well, anyway.

SPEAKER_00 36:50

Okay, uh Soviet submarine collision with a Norwegian fishing boat led to underwater espionage accusations amid Cold War tensions with bizarre debris washing ashore. Well, I wonder what kind of bizarre debris was washing ashore.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

Hale beads.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

Oh, well, I wonder if Squeak was around. All right. In Britain, the Phantom Flusher prankster systematically flushed public toilets nationwide, baffling plumbers and becoming a tabloid sensation. Okay, wait. Sure, go ahead, Tom. What'd they call him?

SPEAKER_01 37:27

They called him the Phantom Flusher. Phantom Flusher. Okay. First off, if I want to be evil, that's not what I want my major. I know. Yeah, that's dumb. What the heck?

unknown 37:43

I am the phantom.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Who is he?

SPEAKER_00 37:44

That's the Phantom Flusher.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Oh no, no, no. Don't flush my toilet. No, not the tidy bowl. No, please. Oh my God. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

Well, imagine if that was your name, though. The Phantom Flusher. All right, 1989. The Exxon Valdez oil spill created surreal scenes of oil-coated otters and birds marching like zombies on Alaska beaches, one of the worst environmental disasters. That's true. That was true. Yeah. Dawn. Dawn dish detergent. Claimed them all right up. Yep. All right. A man in California claimed to be from the future, predicting events with eerie accuracy. In viral interviews before vanishing, fueling time travel rumors. I don't remember that one. I don't either. This could be another podcast. That could be something. Very interesting. How about the balloon boy? Oh yeah. Precursor hoax. Parents fake the child's flight in a homemade balloon. Prefiguring later scandals or beat the card.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

They were crazy idiots.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

Yeah, the dumbass family.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Hey, they got their 15 minutes of fame.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Well, they certainly did, Tom. They certainly did. Yeah. So that was some strange ass freaking stories there, man.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Boy, I remember some of that.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

All right. So how about if we uh go through the years in regrettable fads, Tom? Sure, something you'll enjoy.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Yeah, I have some regrettable fads. Not fads. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh. Not Phillip or Dean.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

Oh, okay. All right. Guys. All right. Um, excessive lace everything, from headbands to leggings, layered over skirts, inspired by Madonna's style. These are 1987 regrettable fads. Legging. Acid wash jeans. Hey, I had a couple pairs of those.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

I did have some acid wash jeans.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Oversized sweaters. Creating bulky silhouettes, neon scrunchies, and every hairdoof, clashing with big perms. Not mine. All right. 1988 regrettable fads. Power blazers with massive shoulder pads. Mimicking football players for authority. Yes. How about fanny packs? Born high in the waist as an edgy streetwear. See a guy, a man with those now. Yep. I have mine. Yeah, you little fanny pack. Yeah. Oh, yeah, three, you little thilly. All right. Stir up pants tucked under the high heels. Distorted leg shapes unflatteringly. Only with my fanny pack. Hello. Okay. 1989 regrettable fads. Blazers. Styled as mini dresses with nothing underneath, pushing power suits to absurdity. Okay, wait a minute. Blazers, a jacket. Styled has a mini dresses. With nothing underneath.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

What's wrong with this?

SPEAKER_00 40:43

Nothing's wrong with that at all. Well, it depends on who's wearing it. If it's a dude, I don't want to see that. Yeah, your balls are showing. I don't want to see that either. Yeah, me too. Okay. Me too. How about bucket hats and floral

Regrettable Late‑80s Fashion Fads

SPEAKER_00 40:55

valore? Floppy and mismatched with casual outfits. Bucket hats. I have a Patriot bucket hat somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

People are still doing that shit. Yeah. The 1980s tracksuit.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

Yeah. Alright. So I guess we're gonna go into one more commercial and then we'll uh end this on some uh other notables out of music, pretty much. Yeah. So we'll be right back.

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SPEAKER_00 41:46

And Tom, I gotta say one thing. Where the hell do we find these sponsors? What the hell can the ads of these? What the anyway. Yeah. Oh boy, oh boy. Yeah, exactly. So uh where were we? Notables. We're gonna start with uh Notables. Notables. Let's see, let's start with movies, Tom, from 1987.

SPEAKER_01 42:12

Oh, I remember my no, no, actually I don't.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

No, that's not yeah, let's not bring that up again. All right, uh Metal Jacket. Oh yeah. Great movie.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

One of the closest, I guess, Vietnam movies. Probably. Out there.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

Probably. The Untouchables. Oh. Sean Connery in that?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

Yeah, I believe so. Uh Lethal Weapon.

SPEAKER_01 42:37

Yeah, Lethal Weapon.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

Great movie.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

All of them. I love them.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

The Predator. That's another great movie.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

Yeah. Arnold.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Chomping on cigars with that big ass frickin' gun. Robocop. Another good movie.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

Another good movie. Paul, what's his name? Paul Ballis? No.

SPEAKER_00 43:00

Pretty much is. He's a RoboCop now. He's got no balls anymore. He's just his fucking head stuffed up there. Right. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

He kind of does.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

How about dirty dancing? Nobody puts baby in the corner. Okay, you pedophile.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

Yeah, we have to do that.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Wall Street. Ah. Charlie Sheen. Greed is good. Enters a chat. Fatal attraction. Nutjobs. Ooh. Why is the little bunny rabbit in the boiling water? Who put that there?

SPEAKER_01 43:35

Yeah, who I wonder what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 43:37

All right. How about 1987 TV? The Simpsons debuted. Oh, The Simpsons. Yes, I remember from the Tracy Ullman show, too, little shorts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Well, here's one of how do how do they figure out? How did the Simpsons figure out everything that was gonna happen before it ever happened?

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Nostra Dhammas. Ain't that? Just like him. Is he one of their writers? Probably. Well he's probably still around kicking somewhere. Oh boy. Here we go, Tom. Married with Children premieres.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

That was a great awesome show.

SPEAKER_00 44:15

Great Al Bundy. Sunday night, man.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

Great show. 10 o'clock. Okay. No, I

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SPEAKER_00 44:24

think it was on earlier than that. Was it? Yeah. That was 8:39. Right around there. Yeah, wasn't it? Maybe it had been. I don't remember it being. All we know is came on. Yeah. All right. How about uh Star Trek, the next generation premieres? Yeah, I never ever watched it. Either full house debuts.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Oh yeah. I saw that a couple times.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Uh Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle explodes in popularity. My son. Oh my goodness. Yeah, my kids too. Let's see. Oh, sports. Super Bowl 21. Giants beat the Broncos, Tom. Woo-hoo. Anyway. Okay, we're moving on. Major League Baseball Twins win the World Series. NBA Lakers win the championship.

SPEAKER_01 45:09

Of course they did.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

And NFL players strike replacement players came in. I remember that. Scabs. Yep. All right. 1988 movies. Die Hard.

Movies, TV, And Sports Highlights 1987

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Yeah. Rayman. Great movie. Two great movies, right there. Yeah. Who framed Roger Rabbit? Loved that movie too. He played Patty Cake with Jessica Rabbit. Yeah, no doubt. Who wanted it? Me. Me. Beetlejuice. You wanted Beetlejuice? No. Oh. No. You wanted Beetle's juice? Oh well. No. Coming to America. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

Have you seen part two yet? Yes. That was good.

SPEAKER_00 45:50

Parts of it. Yeah. Not as good as the first one. Not really. It gets a little distribution. Alright. Coming to America. Yep. The Naked Gun.

SPEAKER_01 46:02

Naked Gun.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

Yeah. Oh, which one were you talking about? The new Beetlejuice or Coming to America? The Coming to America Part 2. No, I haven't. I thought you were talking about Beetlejuice.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

Oh no, I saw that one also. It wasn't as good as the first. Yeah, you're right about that.

SPEAKER_00 46:17

Alright, so moving on to Naked Gun, great movie. Yep. Fish Called Wanda. Never watched the whole thing. I never either. I know the movie. You just never caught much. Man, 1988, though. What a year for movies. See, the 80s for movies.

SPEAKER_01 46:31

Yeah. 80s for anything. 80s was the the yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:36

Yeah, everybody says, oh, you old timers going back to the 80s. People had to live in the 80s, even the 70s. You had to live in those ages.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

You just had to be there before you could understand it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

All right, 1988 TV. Roseanne premieres. Great TV show. The Wonder Years, Little Winnie Cooper. Murphy Brown. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:57

That was that was a splitting edge show at that time. It was a good show.

SPEAKER_00 47:01

I watched, I didn't watch it all the time loyally, but I did watch it. It wasn't bad. I think it was she was the first single mother thing.

SPEAKER_01 47:10

Oh, when she had her kid and all that, right. That was a big thing.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

America's Most Wanted premiered. And Mystery Science Theater 3000 lost internationally. Yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Explaining it. Little explaining deal going on.

SPEAKER_00 47:26

All right. 88 sports. Oh boy. All right. Super Bowl 22. Here we go. Washington destroys the Broncos. But. Okay, but there's a butt. Tom, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 47:41

We were ahead, 10 to nothing at half. Okay. We just beat shit out of them first half.

SPEAKER_00 47:46

Okay. So. What happened after that? We felt bad. Did you like fall asleep in the locker room? Just felt sorry for him. We felt bad. Trust me. We got our asses kicked by the Bears, and we know. Yeah. Alright, Major League Baseball, Dodgers win the World Series, NBA, Lakers repeat as champs. And 1988 Summer Olympics and Soul Career. Ben Johnson stripped of gold for steroid use.

SPEAKER_01 48:11

Yeah. I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

Alright. Moving on to 89, Tom.

SPEAKER_01 48:18

89.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Batman.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

Robin.

SPEAKER_00 48:22

No, no, just Batman. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 48:24

Batman.

SPEAKER_00 48:25

All right. Then we got Back to the Future 2.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

Oh, there were two of those. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

Three.

SPEAKER_01 48:32

Three of them. Not that year, though.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Oh, yeah. Dead Poet Society. There you go. Yeah. Robin Williams.

SPEAKER_01 48:41

Yep. That was the last, one of the last movies I watched is.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

Alright, when Harry Met Sally. Huh? I want what she's having. Anyway. Ghostbusters 2. Ghostbusters. Field of Dreams. That's another good movie. Field of Dreams was. Great movie. All right. 89 TV. The Simpsons premieres is a full series. Simpsons. Seinfeld debuts quietly, very quietly, parentheses. Baywatch premieres. Oh. Yeah, watching the

Movies, TV, And Sports Highlights 1988

SPEAKER_00 49:16

big old down the beach. I come every time I've been to the beach, I never saw a lifeguard that looks like that.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

Yeah, no wonder Raymond or whoever it was didn't do any good. Seinfeld was quiet. No wonder. It was the same time the boobs came on.

SPEAKER_00 49:31

Ah. How about Saved by the Bell launches? Oh yeah. Tabanga. And cops debuts. Bad boy, bad boy. What you gonna do? What you gonna do? Wee woo, wee woo, wee woo. Okay. 1989 sports, Super Bowl 23. 49ers beat the Bengals. Yeah. A's win the World Series. A's. Oh, that is the year of the earthquake, too, Tom.

SPEAKER_01 49:59

Oh, the earthquake.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

Interrupts the games. I remember being at work. I was at Longview Fiber Company. It was a box plant. And I remember listening on the radio when all that happened. Yeah. Uh NBA Pistons win the championship. Wayne Gretzky was traded to the LA Kings. Technically in '88, but impact felt hard in '89. Well, I'm sure it did. Yeah, boy. So that pretty much wraps up some of our notables there. Yeah. That was pretty busy years. That was it. So now we can look forward to our uh new season coming up. We have a new season. We will be discussing music, but it will not be certain years. Tom and I will be kind of bouncing around, picking our favorite artists, our favorite music. Different. And having discussions on that. Yeah, just different times. You know us. We never stay on one topic. No, we never do. Kind of bounce around. Uh, we have our new logo that'll be coming out. Oh, that's what I'm excited about. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that too. So uh y'all keep an eye out for that. Yeah, once again, that's I think the podcast is just gonna be pretty much music oriented and uh typical Tom and Mike bullshit. Yep. Pip and squeak thrown in there. If we dare let them back in the studio.

SPEAKER_01 51:17

Oh boy. It took a little bit. We had to get some people in here and click on the stuff. Dispect the place. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:23

But anyway. Yeah. Anyways. Well, Tom, it was another great uh good year. It was another great year. Everybody uh as we're saying this, let's see. Well, let's first of all, before we go, let's discuss our teams. Sure. We're both 12-3. Right. Awesome season for both of us, considering where we came from last year. I don't, you know, in the year before for us. I mean, we won a total of eight games in the last two years.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

So I don't know that we're the total package hit.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Oh, I don't think the Patriots are either, but like I said, I'm happy. I was thinking eight, nine games, like I said before. Yep. We get in the playoffs. If we lose, we lose. We made it to the playoffs and just continue that rise. That's all. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 52:05

And Denver made it to the playoffs last year. However, they never clinched their division, they never clinched anything like they did this year, and it was just an amazing.

SPEAKER_00 52:17

But let me uh going back on last week's game, though. Yeah. Playing in Denver, Jacksonville scares the shit out of me.

SPEAKER_01 52:24

Yeah, they ought to because they're hot right now. Holy crap.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

They're they're about not just because they beat you guys, they beat you guys in Denver. And defense you have and putting those points off.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

Okay, but keep this in mind also. It was our first loss at home in 11 games.

SPEAKER_00 52:43

And you know it's the opposite of the Patriots. We're undefeated on the road this year. Yeah. We lost all three games, we lost at home. Ain't that so seven and oh on the road. Yep. It's crazy. That's why he's like, oh, I go, you know what? Maybe we don't want the number one seed. Maybe the number two seed. Maybe we're better off on the road.

SPEAKER_01 53:03

Yep, let's stay uh. It is what it is. I mean I'm enjoying the ride. I'm enjoying the ride too. It's been a long, hard ride for us. And you got Josh's team. Yeah, the Panthers are right now.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

Believe it or not, yes, the divisions aren't that great. But uh doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 53:20

Yep, they're still there. They're uh just keep winning. They do get a tough one. They surprised us this year.

SPEAKER_00 53:27

I mean they do have a tough one with Seattle coming up.

SPEAKER_01 53:30

Yeah, they do. They do. But uh I'll be honest with you. That's a game you want to lose, though.

SPEAKER_00 53:35

And then beat Tampa again, and you're good.

SPEAKER_01 53:37

Yep, because you just you gotta. I mean, like like Denver. I mean, I was I was ready for a loss. We were we were ready for one. And I'd rather get it now and get it out of our way than wait until the first one and done, you know? Exactly. Don't want that. I mean, we've dominated before and got whipped in the end, and it just we don't like that, so we want it to go different.

SPEAKER_00 54:06

Well, hopefully it will. Hopefully, both of us, like I said, playoffs when a playoff game makes you even happier. Exactly. Exactly. But uh folks, uh just want to say, Tom, is there anything you wanted to add before we go?

SPEAKER_01 54:20

I think everything is good. Just I can't believe this beautiful weather. I'm gonna we're gonna have a great Christmas and hope everybody else does too. And as always, we want to thank God for the gift of Gab.

SPEAKER_00 54:35

All right, everyone. And as we're saying this, it's Christmas Eve now, but we want to wish our next uh episode probably won't come out till just before New Year's. This one will come out right before New Year's. So we want to wish everyone a happy new year.

SPEAKER_01 54:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 54:48

And uh while we're at it, too, I hope everybody had a good Christmas. Yes. Take care, everyone. God bless. See you later.

SPEAKER_05 54:56

And there you have it.

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SPEAKER_05 54:58

That concludes season two of the MT Alternative Podcast. Mike and Tom have officially said everything they meant to say, and quite a few things they probably shouldn't have. Over the course of this season, they tackled music, culture, nostalgia, politics, and the bold theory that talking longer somehow makes a point stronger. They survived hurricanes, holidays, and each other, no small achievement. Season three is, allegedly, in the works, promising sharper takes, deeper dives, and a same refusal to stay on topic. Until then, this show will be taking a brief break, a pause, a timeout, possibly court-ordered. Thank you for listening to the MT Alternative podcast, where certainty is optional, sarcasm is mandatory, and season two is now mercifully complete.