Episode 01: Blast From The Past

[00:00] Speaker: Let’s take a trip back in time, so strap yourselves in tight. It’s time for Bobby and Jason’s Awesome ’80s Podcast.

[00:16] Bobby: We are here live in Las Vegas in 2016. Oh my God, it’s 2016. Can you believe that? I’m hearing this Huey Lewis song from Back to the Future. I feel like I’m back in 1986. It’s unbelievable.

[00:30] Jason: What a great song. Thank you, Warner Brothers. Gotta get that in there. I am sitting across the table from the one, the only man behind the shades, Mr. Bobby Catalano.

[00:44] Bobby: Jason, how am I gonna follow up that kinda introduction? I don’t know, man. You do have a last name, and it’s Pascoe. That’s Jason Pascoe for all those people who didn’t know that.

[00:52] Jason: This is Bobby and Jason’s Awesome ’80s Podcast.

[00:57] Bobby: It is. This is episode one of, hopefully, many more to come down the road. We’re very excited to be here with everybody. We decided to get together and do a little something for everybody, and for ourselves. We just wanna do this podcast. We didn’t know how we were gonna do it, and what the hell we were gonna talk about. But we are here together, and I hope everybody out there is listening. I don’t know how many of you are. This is our first time.

[01:26] Jason: Yeah, we’re just kinda hanging out. Here’s the interesting thing about this, is how we kinda meant to make it, is that we’re just hanging out. Like, me and Bob, we’re just kinda hanging out, and now we’re just doing it with microphones.

[01:39] Bobby: Exactly. We wanna share our thoughts and some of the things that have happened in our lives with everybody. We get a lot of requests via social media, like people asking me, “Where’s Jason? What is he doing?” And people asking Jason the same question about myself. So we thought we’d lay some of that stuff to rest and talk about it.

[02:04] Jason: Yeah, to kinda check in with you too and see how you’re doing. We all went through this together. We all went through the ’80s and the haircuts.

[02:11] Bobby: And speaking of the ’80s, was there a better decade than the ’80s?

[02:15] Jason: No, man. Absolutely not.

[02:16] Bobby: It’s unbelievable. I feel so fortunate to have grown up in the ’80s, been a teenager, been part of the TV show and everything. It was just such a great time.

[02:27] Jason: It was an awesome time. And the thing about it is, nowadays you watch it on TV, you watch the commercials, you see Anthony Michael Hall. We just went and saw Deadpool when it first came out, nice IMAX theater, the whole deal. And we’re sitting there next to each other watching, and if you’ve seen the movie, you know the part, all of a sudden George Michael comes on, and him and I are just like-

[02:52] Bobby: Who’s that? Who’s George Michael?

[02:54] Jason: Exactly, I mean, like the real George Michael from back in the day. That guy. And then all of a sudden, here we are in 2016. It is 2016, bro.

[03:02] Bobby: Wow. But you know what? It’s 2016, but let’s take it back. Let’s go back to the ’80s, the decade that we grew up in and shared so many memories with people.

[03:13] Jason: I agree with you on that. Do you know what’s so funny is we don’t even have to try that hard to go back. Like, on TV today, with Full House, and you see these commercials, and you listen to the music, I can just think off the top of my head, The Goldbergs.

[03:28] Bobby: Yeah, The Goldbergs. They did an episode where they did some segments about the show itself. It was interesting.

[03:33] Jason: It’s crazy. And Saturday Night Live, of course, but we’re gonna get into that a little later. It’s not too hard to actually sit back and talk about the ’80s.

[03:43] Bobby: We were so lucky to have grown up in that time, and I think, today, being 2016, you see a lot of ’80s kind of things coming back into style and being brought back on television. I think people just want it. They wanna see it, they wanna relive it.

[04:01] Jason: You don’t think the things you did 30 years ago are gonna be available 30 years later, you don’t think that when you’re doing it.

[04:07] Bobby: Yeah. It’s amazing that people remember the things we did, and everyone did on the show, and it had such an impact on so many people’s lives. And for me personally, I loved going on the show each and every day. I enjoyed it, and it was a great time. I met Jason on the show. If it wasn’t for the show, I wouldn’t have even known him.

[04:32] Jason: Yeah, and the fact of going on that show at such an awkward time, when you’re coming out of being a kid and all of a sudden, everybody thinks about it, the first time you went to high school as a freshman, when you made that transition from eighth grade to high school, it’s huge for the whole freshman year.

[04:51] Bobby: It is.

[04:52] Jason: And then for us to be on TV. If you go back, Bob and I have got, here we go, first cuss word of the podcast, a shitload of tapes.

[05:03] Bobby: When he says shitload, we do.

[05:05] Jason: Yes, we do. We’ll get to talking about that kind of stuff in a little bit. But we just basically wanna give you a hi, make it all warm, just say hello to you.

[05:17] Bobby: Warm and fuzzy.

[05:18] Jason: Warm and fuzzy, yeah. So you go back and you look at it, we can actually see those awkward years in the beginning.

[05:25] Bobby: It’s true. Like ’85, ’86. When I first went on the show, I was scared to death. Very shy, people always ask me, “Why did you wear the sunglasses?” And for me, I put them on only just because I was just very shy, and I felt it was a way to kinda give me a barrier, and the sunglasses helped me in that way. That’s really the reason I wore them and continued to.

[05:51] Jason: Yeah, it wasn’t like you had a glass eye or was blind or anything like that.

[05:54] Bobby: I’ll be honest, I have two perfectly good eyes.

[05:58] Jason: And the funny thing about it is, I spent more time, you know, Bob being my BFF back then, him wearing the glasses was like the small little part. But going on that show the first time, my little thing was I always felt that I was too skinny, and that’s why I wore all those goofy layers of things. When you look back-

[06:22] Bobby: No, I never knew that.

[06:23] Jason: You never knew that, see? If you look back, it’s like holy crap, Jason’s wearing a yellow shirt with a pink shirt over it. What’s up with that?

[06:31] Bobby: Hey, man, we were all skinny back then.

[06:35] Jason: Yeah, well, some of us were skinny enough that your elbows were just nothing but bone.

[06:41] Bobby: You know what’s cool about the show? It just brought a lot of different people together in one place. People from the city, the suburbs, the whole Philadelphia area, we all came together in one place. It was kind of like being in high school, to be honest with you.

[06:58] Jason: It really was.

[06:58] Bobby: It was like our, we were in high school, but on television, and it was a great experience. Not everything was perfect, but for the most part I thought the show was a great experience, and I would not trade it for anything.

[07:12] Jason: No, I really would not have liked to have gone, I was on there from ’86 to ’89. My lasting friendships, just you and me sitting here now, 30 years later.

[07:22] Bobby: It is 2016, people. Time is flying.

[07:27] Jason: And I don’t know about you, I’m sure you feel the same way, but it’s like watching home movies.

[07:33] Bobby: It is. We were watching some the other day, watching with Joe White, Marlon Dow, and Jason and myself jumping around acting a fool.

[07:44] Jason: And some of our fabulous dress choices. I don’t know how those things didn’t take off, really.

[07:48] Bobby: Yeah, I used to wear these shorts that came up to like my knees. I don’t know what the hell I was going for there, but I would not be wearing that today, let me tell you.

[07:59] Jason: Well, the excuses are, it was the ’80s.

[08:00] Bobby: It was the ’80s. Always use that. Like, the big hair, it was the ’80s. The Aquanet, it was the ’80s.

[08:07] Jason: If you don’t get it, then you don’t get it. It’s like the perfect excuse, it’s like I was asleep or something like that.

[08:14] Bobby: Would you change anything in the ’80s?

[08:18] Jason: I’d probably change some of my hairstyles.

[08:20] Bobby: What about the fringe boots?

[08:24] Jason: You know what? It kinda, I couldn’t do the glasses. I couldn’t do the white gloves. I couldn’t do the Michael Jackson jacket. Somebody had all that cornered.

[08:33] Bobby: Speaking of the gloves, you know, those gloves were workout gloves for the gym.

[08:37] Jason: Yeah, because you could tell as the years went by how much weight you put on. Not weight in a bad way, but you know.

[08:44] Bobby: Should love those Michael Jackson jackets, man. They were the shit.

[08:52] Jason: Shizzle. So basically, here’s the funny thing. If you’re listening to this, we are just kinda making this up as we go along.

[08:58] Bobby: This is called improvisation.

[09:00] Jason: Yes. And we’ve never done a podcast before. The medium that we’ve both worked in is either film, TV, or in the studio doing songs, but we’ve never sat and actually done anything like this.

[09:15] Bobby: But this is kinda fun, man. I’m digging it. We just started and I like it already.

[09:20] Jason: Yeah, it’s great. Here’s the cool thing, for everybody out there wondering, we are good friends. We’re lifelong friends, and just sitting here with Bob, it’s enjoyable just to sit here and talk.

[09:32] Bobby: Well, since we’re on the topic of the show, how did you get on the show the first time?

[09:37] Jason: I used to do lip syncs. I had a lip sync group with myself, Larry Pittman-

[09:42] Bobby: Larry Pittman. Little fun fact for everybody, Larry Pittman was my saxophone player in my lip sync Careless Whisper, and that was the first time I took off the sunglasses.

[09:53] Jason: Yeah, and they really extended, I remember, I was standing next to you when it happened. You took the glasses off. For everybody who sees this, all our home viewers, when Bob took his glasses off, he just thought it was gonna be some quick thing. The interesting thing was when you do a lip sync, everything would stop, and we’d run over to the monitor and watch it. And I remember you going-

[10:18] Bobby: Hey, they froze it. What the hell? I didn’t expect them to freeze frame it, but you know what, it’s all good. It was a great time. I didn’t mind.

[10:27] Jason: It was a great time. But back to Larry. Larry did another lip sync and played the saxophone for Rennie Harris. Remember Rennie?

[10:33] Bobby: Oh, Rennie. Yeah, Rennie’s a good dude.

[10:35] Jason: Yeah, he was our floor manager.

[10:36] Bobby: Great dancer.

[10:37] Jason: Great dancer. He’s got an unbelievable dance troupe. They’ve done tons of things.

[10:44] Bobby: Yeah, and he goes all over the world.

[10:48] Jason: The Dark Side from, what was that movie from the ’80s, “Dark side is coming out, nothing is real,” Eddie and the Cruisers.

[10:53] Bobby: Oh, Eddie and the Cruisers. Remember that song? Remember that movie?

[10:58] Jason: So he played saxophone in that. I was in the lip sync group with him and another guy, and I know it sounds weird to say that now, but if you think about the ’80s, you remember Putting on the Hits and things like that were pretty popular. We used to have a lip sync group, there were three of us, and we would go around, and this was way back when teen clubs were the thing. Nobody was getting stabbed, there was no shootings, there was no crazy stuff. There were a bunch of clubs in Philadelphia, there was, like, Bratz and the Electric Playground and Walk and Roll.

[11:23] Bobby: I remember all those places. Vento Mall.

[11:26] Jason: Oh, yeah. California East.

[11:27] Bobby: Man, Bratz. And California East was huge at the time. It was, like, the pop in there.

[11:33] Jason: Yeah, and it was, you could be in high school, geeky, awkward, that’s where I kinda started to figure stuff out. We used to do the lip syncs to The Time and Oh Sheila and all that stuff.

[11:44] Bobby: Oh, great music.

[11:44] Jason: Yeah, and I got asked by a recruiter or somebody, came up to me, I think it was at the Electric Playground, and they wanted me to come on the show. And it just so happened that on the street where I lived, I grew up on a cul-de-sac, there was a girl across the street, her name’s Denise, and she happened to be on the show, or she just started to go on the show.

[12:04] Bobby: So you tagged along?

[12:05] Jason: I tagged along. At first I wasn’t gonna go on, but then I tagged along, and I was like, “All right, this is pretty cool.” My first show ever was St. Patrick’s Day 1986.

[12:20] Bobby: Did you have green on?

[12:22] Jason: I actually got thrown off. I didn’t wear green, the proper clothes. I had a green armband. I was wearing black and white, and I think I got away with it for, like, three segments.

[12:35] Bobby: They pulled you off. Took you off the risers.

[12:40] Jason: They didn’t have risers. Are you kidding me? I was on the floor, man. In the middle.

[12:44] Bobby: Like, “Where’s Jason?” So that’s how I got on the show. I was given a pass at a club.

[12:52] Jason: Do you remember what club?

[12:53] Bobby: I think it was California East. I think it was in Cherry Hill.

[12:58] Jason: What year?

[12:59] Bobby: It was, like, ’84, ’85-ish. I think I started late ’84.

[13:06] Jason: So you were on for a whole year before me.

[13:07] Bobby: Yeah. I started earlier. And I was frightened, man, being in that studio with all the lights and cameras. It’s funny, my first shows, I didn’t have the sunglasses, and I used to watch the show afterward and look at myself and say, “Man, I look like a scared deer.” So I said, “Let me put on these shades.” And it’s kind of like a Superman mask or a Spider-Man mask.

[13:32] Jason: Superman doesn’t wear a mask, does he?

[13:34] Bobby: No, not lately. I should know that.

[13:37] Jason: I think you should know that about people.

[13:37] Bobby: It’s like putting on your Spider-Man mask, and you get these superpowers. And for me, that worked.

[13:44] Jason: And believe it or not, yes, it did work. Anybody out there, if you know who Bob is, it worked.

[13:51] Bobby: But yeah, we had a great time, and it was just unbelievable. And Jason and I, we formed a lip sync group ourselves called Marquee. Many of you probably remember that name.

[14:03] Jason: Yeah.

[14:03] Bobby: And we both were big fans of Wham! and George Michael-

[14:06] Jason: So wait a second, you gotta tell them where we got the name from, where we changed the name. Do you remember?

[14:10] Bobby: Yeah, I do. Because one of, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, in one of their videos, it was I’m Your Man, right? I think.

[14:20] Jason: I’m gonna take your word for that.

[14:21] Bobby: I think it’s I’m Your Man. And they performed at the Marquee Club, I think it’s in England, and you could see it prominently in the video, it says Marquee, but it was spelled differently.

[14:30] Jason: K-E-E.

[14:31] Bobby: Yes. So we decided we wanted to use the name Marquee, but we didn’t wanna spell it exactly like they did, and ours was spelled M-A-R-Q-U-I-S.

[14:42] Jason: Not, like, we didn’t look at the car, the Grand Marquis, and say, “Hey, we’re gonna name ourselves that.”

[14:47] Bobby: No, we didn’t. For everybody who might have watched the national show, there was a local show that was on in Philadelphia for the longest time. Now, this local show was live.

[14:57] Bobby: It was live. When we say live, it was actually live.

[15:01] Jason: Live. Anything you did, that was it. You know what I mean? Live. So you had to be there at 4:00 or 3:30.

[15:08] Jason: And that’s where we kinda figured it out on the local show. Then it got syndicated and it went national. So when we talk about going on the show and all this stuff happening, we learned live.

[15:24] Jason: We learned like live.

[15:27] Bobby: Yeah, when they said, “Live from Philadelphia,” and you know the rest. The show was shot in Philadelphia. It was broadcast from Philadelphia, and people came from the whole area, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, the whole tri-state area, and we all came to this small studio and all from different walks of life. And we just came together, and we created a really cool show, I think.

[15:53] Jason: Good point you made there, though. It was a lot smaller than you think.

[15:56] Bobby: It really was, man. That studio was like, I don’t know, man, it was like being in a large garage.

[16:02] Jason: Yes, exactly. And there used to be this carpet on the side wall, this rolled up carpet, that no one was really allowed to sit on.

[16:09] Bobby: But you know what, man? There was magic made in that studio.

[16:12] Jason: Yes, there was magic there. It was the reason we’re sitting here. The reason that you and I are sitting here across from one another.

[16:17] Bobby: Yeah, you know what? It was great. I really enjoyed it.

[16:22] Jason: It was a good time. And to give you a little more of a feel for what it would be like for you if you weren’t on the show, there were a lot of great people on that show. There were a lot of people that, if you happened to watch the show, regulars or personalities, and you know who you are out there. But if you never had the opportunity to be on the show as a guest or whatnot, it was, like I said, the transition from eighth grade to high school, and you remember what that’s like. Walking in through those doors, it’s a whole new world, and it’s really scary.

[16:54] Bobby: It is, and one of the biggest benefits, I think, to being on the show was all the great artists that came in those doors. I remember Kurtis Blow came in. He did a song called King of the World, and he came in wearing a fur jacket, had a crown, had a cane. It was cool as hell to watch him get up there and do that. I was like, “Wow, I’m here watching Kurtis Blow.”

[17:18] Jason: And he was on the radio all the time, so when you listen back to the ’80s-

[17:22] Bobby: Yeah, man, that’s some early rap. Early hip hop right there. But so many famous people, famous artists came through that show. Madonna, New Kids on the Block. It’s endless. Duran Duran.

[17:35] Jason: It really is endless. It was a very interesting time. It was very much lightning in a bottle. It’s not something-

[17:44] Bobby: It’s true, man. I think it’s hard to recreate what happened in those years.

[17:50] Jason: I don’t think you could. I really don’t think you could. And the reason I’m saying that is, I think we both agree with this, is because of just how the world has changed. Back then, to have cable in your house was a big deal. If you were watching HBO, every other movie was Smokey and the Bandit.

[18:05] Bobby: Yeah. Do you remember when you got HBO, you were like, “Wow, man, holy shit, I have HBO.” And do you remember something called Prism?

[18:10] Jason: Oh my God, yeah. With the flyers in the back. Prism, man.

[18:14] Bobby: Prism. My father was a schoolteacher and a sportswriter, so we got Prism real early, and we would watch The Flyers and all that kind of stuff.

[18:21] Bobby: Do you remember, this is funny, speaking of HBO and Prism, that the cable company would give you a booklet, and it had the times of the shows and the movies. And it was, like, a little color booklet. And as a young kid, I remember getting the booklet, and what was on the cover, like, be King Kong or something. This is cool as fuck. Oh, shit, I’m sorry.

[18:40] Jason: You can say that. Just so you understand, not that any of the kids would wanna listen to this, but we’re all grown adults here.

[18:48] Bobby: We are. We will drop the occasional F-bomb, A-bomb, S-bomb. A few bombs are gonna be dropped. So if you’re not ready for the bombs, you might not wanna listen. But anyway, it was just getting that little booklet, just thinking back at it, it’s like, wow, man, cool.

[19:07] Jason: I get to see these, wait a second, this was just in the movies three years ago, and now I’m gonna watch it on my TV?

[19:12] Bobby: Exactly.

[19:13] Jason: I remember, exactly. Smokey and the Bandit was one of them.

[19:19] Bobby: Can I give a fun fact? Because you said Smokey and the Bandit, and I really liked that movie at the time. I remember watching Smokey and the Bandit, and there was Smokey and the Bandit Two, and I think there was Three, and the car was very famous in that. It was a Trans Am. And I told my father, I said, “Dad, we gotta get a Trans Am.” And my dad’s looking at me like I’m crazy, but my dad loved me so much, he actually bought a Trans Am, and we had one of the same colors and the same model as was in the movie.

[19:52] Jason: Wow.

[19:53] Bobby: Yeah, man. Did you know that?

[19:54] Jason: I never knew that.

[19:55] Bobby: Yeah.

[19:56] Jason: Isn’t that crazy? You can know somebody for 30 years and still not know stuff like this.

[19:59] Bobby: Fun facts, man. Gotta love them.

[20:01] Jason: That’s crazy. That’s awesome. Dude, your pops is awesome.

[20:04] Bobby: He is a good dude.

[20:04] Jason: He’s a great dude.

[20:05] Bobby: Love my dad.

[20:08] Jason: So let’s share, shall we?

[20:10] Bobby: I wanna share, Jason. Will you please share?

[20:12] Jason: I’m trying.

[20:12] Bobby: Will you please share those damn VHS tapes?

[20:15] Jason: I can’t share those.

[20:15] Bobby: I wanna see them.

[20:16] Jason: I would love to share those VHS tapes. So we wanna get this out of the way here in the first episode, just done, out of the way. To us, like we said before, and I’m sure to everyone else that would happen to be on that show, those tapes are home movies of our lives.

[20:36] Bobby: That’s a great comparison.

[20:38] Jason: You can look at that, and I can go from ’86 to ’89, that was when I was 15 to 19 years old. I can watch myself, you and me, every day.

[20:48] Bobby: Yeah, man, he had the fringe boots on.

[20:50] Jason: Oh, yeah.

[20:51] Bobby: You guys remember that?

[20:53] Jason: I can watch that, and just like any one of us, and just, zip, ’86, oh, my God, look how skinny we are, Bob. ’87, look at that hair. Oh, my God. It’s really a personal thing. And just like you would wanna share your home movies, or you’d wanna share things with people.

[21:12] Bobby: It would be great, man, because I get so many requests for people asking me to share lip syncs or just other performances.

[21:18] Jason: Bob, can you share Careless Whisper, please? I really wanna see that.

[21:21] Bobby: I get that one all the time.

[21:23] Jason: It was part of my youth.

[21:23] Bobby: I used to run home. And trust me, we have a copy of it, and we would love to share it with everyone, but we’re just not able to, not at the moment anyway.

[21:32] Jason: Yeah, for whatever reason, we just wanna let you know, because there’s a lot of people who ask about it, that we just can’t do it. Bob had a couple of them up for how long? How long did you have them up for?

[21:42] Bobby: They were up for at least four to six months. About 10 to 12 video clips, and Facebook had asked me to take them down for copyright reasons. And unfortunately it is what it is.

[21:55] Jason: This is stuff going back 30 years ago. And Bob and I have been in the entertainment business, both acting and music-wise, and signed many contracts, done many different things. I understand copyright inside, outside, and upside down. A 30-year-old thing on a TV show.

[22:13] Bobby: Yeah, you would think that sharing a video clip, reminiscing about your youth in the ’80s and remembering it and the good times we had, would be something, would be a natural kinda thing to do. But we’re being held back from doing that.

[22:28] Jason: So, not to say anything, like we’re not gonna talk about it. I know this is important because the reason you’re listening to this is because we did do that. Bob and I were just two guys who worked at the library, we were doing this, you know?

[22:40] Bobby: Yeah, it was a big part of our lives, and I have no regrets. I just do wish that we were able to share more with you. But you know what? It is what it is, and we’re gonna move forward and we hope to create some new memories for everybody.

[22:57] Jason: Yes, I agree with that. But the only reason we brought this up is because, just to get it out of the way so we don’t have to talk about it anymore.

[23:05] Bobby: Yep.

[23:05] Jason: And you guys know, but Bob and I, we’d done dozens and dozens, probably 100 lip syncs and shows over the years.

[23:15] Bobby: We are gonna be able to share some of that, right?

[23:17] Jason: Yeah. That’s, we got videos of our performances-

[23:18] Bobby: That’s original footage.

[23:22] Jason: Yeah. We did tours. We got stuff of us on stage.

[23:26] Bobby: So we’ve got a lot of cool stuff. Over these months and this year, we’re gonna share that with you. Hope you guys will enjoy it.

[23:34] Jason: Hope you guys will enjoy it as we cringe at our hairstyles and clothing choices.

[23:39] Bobby: Yeah, man, we had that bottle of Aquanet close by, you know?

[23:42] Jason: I don’t know about you, man, I was a Shaper guy.

[23:44] Bobby: The blow dryer, you know? Had to get that thing just right.

[23:48] Jason: You used to do something in your hair.

[23:49] Bobby: I don’t know what I did, bro, but it took me a long time just to get it right.

[23:53] Jason: I remember. So, I mean, I think I got pictures of us getting our hair together and whatnot. That, seriously, that’s a bonding experience for two guys. When you’re saying, “Hey, man, can you pass the Aquanet?” and you’re getting ready to go on stage to sing Wham!, that’s-

[24:08] Bobby: I know, right? Choose life, man. Choose life, baby.

[24:13] Jason: So we’re really kinda looking forward to seeing exactly where this takes us. So like we said, we have a lot of memories and a lot of things that we can share. The ’80s are back, and hopefully you wanna go on this trip with us. And we wanna talk about movies, we’re gonna go places and do things.

[24:30] Bobby: Yeah, man, just like Huey Lewis in the news intro, back in time. Let’s do that. Let’s go back in time.

[24:36] Jason: And because we both live in the entertainment capital of the world, where Bob famously said, “I’ve traded in my pine trees-“

[24:46] Bobby: For some palm trees, baby.

[24:48] Jason: That’s right. So we’re looking forward to having an opportunity to maybe bring you on this show some ’80s performers, some people who have, some bands that you know.

[25:01] Bobby: Yes.

[25:01] Jason: Maybe some actors and actresses. We don’t wanna get too ahead of ourselves.

[25:05] Bobby: Yeah, these are all things planned, and we will keep you posted as things are moving along, but we’re just excited, man, to just do episode one.

[25:15] Jason: So we’ve got a new site going up, bobandjason.com. Pretty original, don’t you think? And we’re gonna have a lot of cool content up there.

[25:25] Bobby: Tell us about the goodies. What’s happening there?

[25:27] Jason: The goodies, what’s gonna go on right there is first we want you to, if you wanna be kept up to date, you wanna join our mailing list, and we’re gonna have some videos. We’re gonna do blog posts. We’re gonna give you heads up on cool stuff. From what we understand, the kids are using this thing called Periscope.

[25:43] Bobby: Oh, yeah, Periscope is very cool, and we’re definitely gonna be using that. Today, we did our first photo shoot together since the ’90s.

[25:54] Jason: Since the ’90s.

[25:55] Bobby: And we’re gonna share a lot of those pictures with you over the next weeks and months, and I think you’re gonna be pretty surprised.

[26:03] Jason: I think you’re gonna be really surprised, and we’re gonna have some special guests, and one person who’s super close to our hearts.

[26:10] Bobby: Yes, man, we’re definitely gonna have another person be part of this program.

[26:14] Jason: We can tell them-

[26:15] Bobby: You wanna announce it now? No, let’s hold that back.

[26:16] Jason: You wanna hold that one back?

[26:17] Bobby: Yeah, let’s hold that back. Let’s surprise them.

[26:19] Jason: That sounds good. You’re gonna like this.

[26:21] Bobby: You’re gonna like this. He is unbelievably fun.

[26:24] Jason: Talented guy. Awesome dude.

[26:26] Bobby: And he’s just like us, and he’s gonna be a perfect addition to our team.

[26:31] Jason: Exactly. Bobby and Jason’s Awesome ’80s Podcast, who woulda figured? If you’re listening to this right now, it’s 2016.

[26:41] Bobby: It is.

[26:41] Jason: And yeah, just again, I wanna ask you, how’s your life doing? How’s everything going? Isn’t it awesome that all the ’80s stuff is coming back right now?

[26:50] Bobby: Speaking of, everybody, we would hope that if you guys wanna drop us any messages in the social networks that we have, you have requests, questions, we would love to make you part of the show.

[27:04] Jason: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Anything you guys wanna talk about that comes up, just shoot us a question, shoot us something. We’re gonna be on Instagram, Facebook, the whole deal. We’ve got all the bases covered. And we wanna keep you up to date on what we’re doing.

[27:22] Bobby: Let’s wrap up episode one.

[27:24] Jason: Can you believe we just did this?

[27:26] Bobby: Wrap her up. Wrap her up. Isn’t that a song?

[27:28] Jason: Yeah, didn’t you do that?

[27:29] Bobby: I did it with Marlon, yeah. I did that with Marlon Dow. So yeah, I think we should wrap it up. It was a good time. I enjoyed reminiscing a little bit about the ’80s, going back in time, and I’m excited about episode two. I don’t know what the hell we’re gonna do on it, but we’re gonna figure it out.

[27:44] Jason: You know what? We actually have a little bit of an idea of what we’re gonna do. But this is so fantastic, so hopefully you’ll stick along with us for the ride, and we wanna make you part of it. And the ’80s were great, so let’s make them great in 2016 and beyond.

[27:59] Bobby: You guys take care. We’ll talk to you soon.

[28:01] Jason: Bye.