Episode 6: I Want My MTV!

[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.

[00:13] Jason: And away we go.

[00:16] Bobby: We are live on tape in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Bobby and Jason’s Awesome ’80s Podcast.

[00:23] Jason: And it’s number six, party people.

[00:25] Bobby: I figured I’d say the name every time in case somebody forgot who the hell we were, and shit, sometimes I forget who I am.

[00:32] Jason: Yeah, dude, believe me, I try to forget who you are all the time.

[00:35] Bobby: But is this episode six?

[00:37] Jason: This is episode six. Now how do you say that in another language?

[00:40] Bobby: Numero seis.

[00:42] Jason: There we go. Seis, look at that.

[00:44] Bobby: I do speak a little Spanish. Hablo español un poquito. Pero yo aprendo con mi esposa, Lucette.

[00:50] Jason: That is delicious. I had that at the restaurant the other night.

[00:58] Bobby: It was great. So, speaking of episode five, you wanna recap a little bit?

[01:02] Jason: Yeah, I think everything I bitched and complained about was well-deserved for this show.

[01:07] Bobby: Oh, I loved the rant about the greatest hits and everything else. It was great.

[01:13] Jason: It comes straight from that special spot, you just need to get it out. That’s where it’s coming from. And we talked about the Weekend with Bob tape.

[01:21] Bobby: Oh, let’s go spend a weekend with Bob. So we did get a lot of requests to see the full tape, but we’re not gonna show the full tape. We’re gonna show maybe two or three small clips over the next days and weeks.

[01:34] Jason: You know what? Here’s, I’ll tell you something out there, everybody. I will try to get the full tape and put it up. But I guarantee you that Bob’s gonna send me some cease and desist letter with like copyright stuff, right? Is that what you’re gonna do to me? You gonna try to shut down my Facebook page, pal?

[01:47] Bobby: Copyright stuff? Who does that?

[01:52] Jason: I don’t know.

[01:52] Bobby: Who does that? The show. Anyway, let’s get back on topic.

[02:00] Jason: All right.

[02:00] Bobby: We also talked about your music, you were in a few different groups, and we put some of your songs on the Facebook page.

[02:11] Jason: And I do appreciate a lot of your comments out there. Feel free to listen to them, do whatever you want with them, have a good time.

[02:16] Bobby: And we’re gonna put more music that Jason’s done, and also Jason and I had did some original songs when we were Marquee, so we’ll probably share some of that down the road.

[02:26] Jason: And one cool thing about that stuff is it is authentic. You can just smell the ’80s and the ’90s on it.

[02:31] Bobby: I could tell, I’ll tell you right now, this voice doesn’t sing, but I do speak very well. I’m a sexy speaker.

[02:39] Jason: Well, here’s the thing, man, I haven’t put you through any Auto-Tune yet.

[02:43] Bobby: Oh, man, you wanna Auto-Tune me?

[02:45] Jason: I got Auto-Tune now.

[02:46] Bobby: Bro, I admit that I do not sing and I don’t wanna be Auto-Tuned. You know who I am? You know Boyz II Men? I’m the baritone guy.

[02:59] Jason: The guy who quit?

[03:01] Bobby: Yeah, that’s me. I’m the guy who’s like, “Hey, baby.”

[03:07] Jason: Somebody’s gonna know that guy’s name.

[03:08] Bobby: “You look great.”

[03:08] Jason: So yeah, we put some stuff up there and we really hope you guys enjoyed it. We’ve been going through our magical box of fun stuff from back in the day and finding all kinds of cool stuff, and we’re gonna put more up, hopefully be able to get all of it up there before the last VHS player kicks the bucket. Did you see this?

[03:28] Bobby: I did, man, I don’t know, I feel like I lost a relative, it’s horrible.

[03:34] Jason: I know. The last VCRs ever are going to be made this month. Can you believe this crap? I saw on the Facebook page that somebody said that the Weekend with Bob was barely watchable now, and now they’re never gonna get a chance to see it.

[03:50] Bobby: We have to transfer that quickly onto digital.

[03:53] Jason: They said that they’re gonna stop making them this month. They decided to cease productions due to difficulties in acquiring components, all those little parts in there, but they don’t make them anymore.

[04:07] Bobby: But if you think about VCRs from the time, the technology of that was great.

[04:12] Jason: Oh, yeah, they hit the nail on the head. I was reading this article, so I wanted to bring it in, and it says when Blockbuster was out, it was all over the place, and the VCR was a finicky technology, and the machines, everybody who watched the show knows this, would often chew up malformed tapes.

[04:33] Bobby: I remember that.

[04:33] Jason: Yeah, and it had regular cleaning, which nobody, I don’t know one person who ever cleaned their VCR.

[04:41] Bobby: Didn’t they sell VHS tapes that were just for cleaning?

[04:44] Jason: Yeah, they did.

[04:45] Bobby: I actually am one of those people who did clean his VCR.

[04:48] Jason: Did you really?

[04:49] Bobby: I’m admitting it, I did it.

[04:50] Jason: Oh my God, well, knowing you, I believe it. And they said, of course, the programmable timers, anybody over the age of 20 had to dedicate like a week to learn how to program it. It’s a lot different now.

[05:02] Bobby: It sure is. You brought up Blockbuster, do you remember what an event it was to go there on a Friday or Saturday night to go rent a movie? The new releases were out, and they’d have like 40 copies on the wall.

[05:15] Jason: And you had to get there quick.

[05:16] Bobby: And you had to get there early or they’re gone, man. It was an event.

[05:19] Jason: It was, I know.

[05:20] Bobby: Blockbuster was the king, and it’s crazy how they’re just gone.

[05:23] Jason: Well, technology’s fantastic with the stuff you can just find online now, even though they like to make it difficult for you. But with DVDs, I mean, I love the clarity of the new stuff.

[05:37] Bobby: Well, yeah, but it’s crazy, so we go from VHS tapes, to DVDs, which were great, and now we go to Blu-rays, and then we’re going to 4K. For me, I collect movies, I bought the Blu-rays, and then-

[05:55] Jason: He collects movies, people.

[05:56] Bobby: Believe me, I do. And now it’s 4K, I’m like, “Shit, I’m gonna be bankrupt soon.”

[06:03] Jason: That’s the whole plan. Think about it, they just can sell the same media over and over again. There was this joke when CDs first came out, they just said, “They’re just trying to find another way for you to buy the White Album of The Beatles.” So the same stuff over and over again.

[06:18] Bobby: I mean, I get sucked into it myself.

[06:20] Jason: It’s a great racket, I’ll tell you. And you never get tired of watching those movies either, you get a chance to see them clear in 4K, can you imagine?

[06:29] Bobby: Yes, it’s incredible, 4K is incredible.

[06:32] Jason: Okay, so I did my homework and brought in something cool from the ’80s.

[06:36] Bobby: Jason, hit us with something.

[06:37] Bobby: I give you props, I did like that VCR. Although, rest in peace, machines from the ’80s. It’s a sad day.

[06:46] Jason: You never know, they might make a movie where they come back and get you.

[06:48] Bobby: But here’s a happy story. So you know Michael Keaton, the actor?

[06:53] Jason: Oh, come on.

[06:53] Bobby: And we love Michael Keaton. Well, recently, actually just last week on July 28th, Michael Keaton finally received his star on the Walk of Fame.

[07:02] Jason: Well, he should’ve had it after Mr. Mom, actually.

[07:05] Bobby: Oh, Mr. Mom was great.

[07:06] Jason: Yes.

[07:07] Bobby: Mr. Mom was great. But let me give you a couple, these are just the ’80s movies that, some of Michael Keaton’s movies he did in that time. He did Mr. Mom, of course, and he was fighting with the vacuum cleaner, you remember that?

[07:18] Jason: Yes, oh, yeah.

[07:18] Bobby: He did Night Shift, Gung Ho.

[07:21] Jason: Ooh, I love Gung Ho.

[07:23] Bobby: Of course, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

[07:27] Jason: And, let me jump in here real quick, I’m sorry.

[07:29] Bobby: Go ahead.

[07:29] Jason: But there was talk for the longest time, and he just said this like a week or two ago, that they were gonna do the sequel, and he actually said that this ship has sailed.

[07:37] Bobby: You mean for Beetlejuice?

[07:38] Jason: Beetlejuice 2, they were gonna do it, they were talking about it, they were finally all getting back together, and he just said that ship has sailed.

[07:44] Bobby: Beetlejuice was such a great film and such an original idea, I loved that movie.

[07:48] Jason: It was all him.

[07:49] Bobby: He was great in the makeup and everything. He also did, in 1989, Batman.

[07:54] Jason: Oh, yeah.

[07:54] Bobby: And I thought he was one of the better Batmans. There were so many people who played Batman, and he was one of my favorites.

[08:01] Jason: No, absolutely. He’s the one who took it from camp.

[08:04] Bobby: Let me give you a line from one of the films in the ’80s that he did, Night Shift, which I love, with Henry Winkler. I don’t know if you remember that film.

[08:11] Jason: Oh, yeah, I remember that film.

[08:12] Jason: Ladies and gentlemen, Bobby Catalano does Michael Keaton.

[08:17] Bobby: Well, I’m not doing Michael Keaton, but I wanna give you a classic line. It’s one of my favorite scenes with him and Winkler, this is what Keaton says, he goes, “I’m an idea man, Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day. I could just fight them off if I wanted. Wait a second, hold the phone, hold the phone. What if we mix mayonnaise right in the can with the tuna fish? Hold it, hold it, let’s call Starkist.” Do you remember that scene in there? He’s like, “I’m an idea man, Chuck, I’m an idea man.”

[08:48] Jason: Perfect, I like that, thank you, gave me goosebumps right there.

[08:52] Bobby: So let’s just give a big shout-out to Michael Keaton, and congratulations, it’s well-deserved. And still today you’re kicking ass.

[08:59] Jason: Yo, the fact that he came back with Birdman.

[09:01] Bobby: Birdman was great.

[09:02] Jason: And Spotlight was great too, that’s not one you wanna, like, when you wanna get yourself in a good mood and watch, but Spotlight, Keaton’s been kicking ass the past couple years.

[09:12] Bobby: Big props to you, man.

[09:14] Jason: Speaking of a little ’80s nostalgia here, and VHSs and VCRs and all kinds of good stuff, Stranger Things on Netflix.

[09:23] Bobby: You know, I saw the trailer for that a few weeks back.

[09:26] Jason: Let me tell you, the wife and I binged it.

[09:31] Bobby: You watched the whole thing?

[09:32] Jason: I watched the whole thing, and let me tell you something about this thing, it is the ’80s. In 1983, when this movie was set, I was 13 years old. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I’m old. And it’s the ’80s, when I tell you, even when you watch it, the suspense, the Trapper Keepers, the kids are amazing.

[09:51] Bobby: Well, don’t they reflect back on a lot of films from the time? Science fiction, horror, and they use, it’s not directly in your face, but you remember it.

[10:02] Jason: They’re homages to movies and whatnot, but the story itself and the whole atmosphere with it, when I watched that show, it was it. You’ll totally, when you get a chance to sit and watch it, it felt like it, it was sometimes hard to watch a little bit ’cause it was so accurate in bringing out what the ’80s felt like.

[10:23] Bobby: I did catch the first eight minutes of episode one, it was on YouTube.

[10:27] Jason: Netflix released the first eight minutes just to get people wrapped into it, and it looked great.

[10:39] Bobby: Yeah, there was no, you know how when you watch something sometimes it’s kinda campy, they do it in a cheesy way?

[10:44] Jason: This really felt like, for everybody out there who’s watching, if you haven’t yet and you’re listening to this, you should watch it because I’m talking about a total ’80s-

[10:52] Bobby: And what, let me ask you about the set design. Did they capture the time in ’83, 1983?

[10:57] Jason: When I tell you everything.

[10:58] Bobby: From the clothes to the furniture-

[10:59] Jason: The clothes, the hairstyles.

[11:02] Bobby: The televisions.

[11:03] Jason: Everything. Do you know when we used to have those T-shirts that had, like, the red, white, and blue and stuff around the collar? All that kinda stuff, remember that. But it was so authentic you could just taste it.

[11:15] Jason: I’m telling you, Bob, watch this. Once you do the first one, you’ll go all the way through with it. So you recommend, I might even watch it with you if you wanna watch it again.

[11:23] Bobby: Definitely. So you recommend this for all the peeps out there to check out?

[11:26] Jason: Everybody, and anybody out there who’s already seen it and you wanna comment, you know exactly what I’m talking about because that was the ’80s. There’s Jason’s little thing, Stranger Things on Netflix. You wanna enjoy some ’80s? That is ’80s, baby.

[11:45] Bobby: So something else that we’ve been doing recently in the last few episodes is reading some comments from Facebook and some of our other social media. We definitely love getting your comments, and each week we’re gonna read a few. We’re gonna pick them randomly. So if you have anything to say, pro or con, we wanna hear it. So I have one here from Brandy Haines Stallings, and she writes, “I seriously love listening to you both. Mistakes, F-bombs, off-topic memories, and just plain laughs.” We love the F-bombs, but we don’t drop them too much, we’re trying to keep this like PG-13.

[12:21] Jason: Are we really?

[12:22] Bobby: And she continues. Not really, I’m just bullshitting. Oh, I dropped the bullshit word.

[12:28] Jason: I knew I could get him to do it.

[12:30] Bobby: And then she continues, she says, “I think all of that is what makes these podcasts the absolute best. Without a doubt, this is what it’s all about. Keep up the wonderful work. Thank you both for the fun and for the memories. I see you next week.”

[12:46] Jason: Wow, thanks, Brandy.

[12:47] Bobby: Thank you, Brandy, big shout out to you, baby.

[12:50] Jason: All right, now I’m gonna read one here from Melanie Lizenby Miller. “You guys keep getting better and better.” Thank you. “I loved hearing about what you both have been up to since the show, and I think it is adorable that Bobby still has all his fan mail.”

[13:12] Bobby: So do I, it’s so cute.

[13:15] Jason: “I never wrote in because I thought the odds of ever hearing back from anyone was slim. If only I’d have known how dedicated you guys were, I would love to see the entire Weekend with Bob video.”

[13:32] Bobby: Oh, yeah, it’s not gonna happen.

[13:34] Jason: We’ll see, Melanie. “I can assure you that I would not fall asleep. I can’t wait to see if Jason finds any glitches in this week’s episode.”

[13:43] Bobby: Hey, man, I’ve been pretty glitch-free for a few episodes.

[13:46] Jason: He’s getting it. He gets a lot of enjoyment out of busting your balls, believe me, Mel, I do. It’s one of my favorite things to do on the show. “And I completely agree that you guys should be hosting the ’80s channel on Sirius.”

[14:01] Bobby: Maybe one day.

[14:02] Jason: “You both are naturals.” Well, Melanie, thank you very, very, very much.

[14:09] Bobby: Yeah, thank you very much, Melanie, we appreciate it.

[14:12] Jason: Another thing other than the comments we’ve been getting on the Facebook page is, Bob, we’ve been getting a lot of requests to talk about memories of the show.

[14:22] Bobby: Are you talking about the show?

[14:29] Jason: The show. So what we’ll do is once a week, we will have a show moment where we will talk about the show.

[14:38] Bobby: We will talk about it.

[14:39] Jason: So this week we have a request, and I want you to do it first. I haven’t told you what this one is.

[14:45] Bobby: Okay, let’s do this.

[14:46] Jason: It is, what was your most awkward moment on the show? Is there anything you remember that is amazingly, horrifyingly embarrassing and cringe-worthy now?

[14:58] Bobby: There was a few, more than one, but there’s one that always stuck out in my mind. When I had first went on the show, I did wear sunglasses, very shy, and I was intimidated, honestly, to be in that studio, and I didn’t really know anybody. So we always had performers coming in, big stars, and at the time Evelyn Champagne King came there to sing her big number-one hit, Shame, you remember that one?

[15:26] Bobby: So she’s up there doing her thing, singing, and all the guys, they put all the guys sitting along the risers, and she puts her arm out to me to pull me up there to dance with her.

[15:41] Bobby: Oh, man, let me tell you something, I was so scared. She pulled me up there. She’s singing this song, she’s like, “Shame,” and she’s pushing me back, and I’m up there. I wasn’t frozen, but I’m skipping around. I’m not a great dancer, especially in the beginning, kinda, I got better as time went on, but I cringe when I see that clip. And luckily I haven’t seen it in a long time, and I hope-

[16:05] Jason: Did somebody find it?

[16:06] Bobby: Please, please do not, do not show that clip, I do not want to see it, so I hope it doesn’t surface. But yeah, man, that was cringe-worthy for me. Looking back, man, I was dancing with Evelyn Champagne King. How many people can say that?

[16:19] Jason: I don’t know, it could be a lot for all you know.

[16:21] Bobby: All right, well, let me shoot it back at you, what is your most cringe-worthy moment on the show?

[16:27] Jason: Okay, this involves both you and I.

[16:30] Bobby: Okay.

[16:31] Jason: Now, this is something we kind of, we looked at each other, I don’t even know why I’m bringing it up, but I’m gonna bring it up. Remember we were kids, we were 16, 17 years old, and this one thing that we did, we have no idea, but now as you’re older, you look back on it and you’re like, “I cannot believe we did that.” So I’m just gonna bring it up anyway. Do you remember that Halloween show that we did?

[16:56] Bobby: You’re going there?

[16:57] Jason: Yeah, I’m gonna go there, the Halloween show.

[16:59] Bobby: You might as well, I don’t care.

[17:00] Jason: We were, where you and I, and Todd Fresh, and Marlon, dressed up as each other.

[17:05] Bobby: Marlon Dao.

[17:05] Jason: Marlon Dao, and Todd Fresh, and you and I, I was Todd Fresh.

[17:09] Bobby: I remember that now.

[17:10] Jason: You were Marlon.

[17:11] Bobby: Yeah, we actually switched, we switched clothes, they took our clothes and vice versa.

[17:19] Jason: And I think about that now, there was a little more to it.

[17:23] Bobby: Now look, we were just knucklehead kids, okay, suburb kids, didn’t know anything about anything, but-

[17:27] Jason: Looking back on it, somebody should have stopped us.

[17:30] Bobby: I mean, in that time, in the mid to late ’80s, politically correct wasn’t quite as it is today in 2016.

[17:39] Jason: I don’t even think you thought of politically correct.

[17:41] Bobby: We honestly, we were just kids and it was fun. I don’t know how people, Marlon would think about it today, I’d like to get his opinion about it.

[17:51] Jason: Yeah, I agree with you on that.

[17:52] Bobby: You know, but honestly, we were just innocent kids having a good time.

[17:56] Jason: Well, you’re not telling them the big, you’re not telling them the reason why, it’s not like we just dressed up.

[18:00] Bobby: Okay, well, we actually, we put some polish on our faces so we can resemble Marlon and Todd.

[18:09] Jason: I don’t know, man, like here’s the funny thing-

[18:12] Bobby: It’s cringe-worthy.

[18:12] Jason: It’s cringe-worthy, it’s horrible. And looking back on it now, when you and I have talked about it, I think I’ve seen a clip of it and I’ve just been like, honestly, I don’t know why somebody didn’t stop us. We’re just kids, you know what I’m saying, we’re not even thinking, we’re like, “Oh yeah, I’m dressing up as Todd Fresh, and you dress up as Marlon.”

[18:31] Bobby: Yeah, man, I mean, I loved being Marlon though, ’cause he’s the coolest mofo on the planet.

[18:35] Jason: Hey, let me tell you something, Todd wasn’t bad either.

[18:36] Bobby: That was fun, Todd’s a cool cat too.

[18:38] Jason: But yeah, I would say that is my most cringe-worthy, you know what they say? They say the truth will set you free, bring it up and talk about it. Well, that’s why I wanted to bring that up. So that was my most horrifying, and I think that ranks with you too.

[18:52] Bobby: Yeah, bro, I agree with you, I forgot about that time.

[18:56] Jason: Oh yeah, you blocked it out of your head, it’s been such a long time.

[18:57] Bobby: I know, but I do now. And I remember the clothes I wore with Marlon was like this orange jacket and pants, it was real cool.

[19:07] Jason: And I wore Todd’s Kangol, I think, and this green jacket and a pair of sneakers or something like that.

[19:13] Bobby: And I think they wore the Choose Life shirts, and the Bad Boys, and the gloves, and sunglasses and all that shit.

[19:21] Jason: So but yeah, that one right there is-

[19:23] Bobby: It was cringe-worthy, but I think, you know, in the time, we were having a good time.

[19:27] Jason: No, we had a great time at the time, but as adults and looking back from 30 years ago-

[19:31] Bobby: Yeah, it was just innocent fun.

[19:33] Jason: Yeah, so there you go, there’s our two embarrassing moments from the show.

[19:37] Bobby: We let it loose.

[19:39] Jason: That’s right.

[19:41] Bobby: So, speaking of cringe-worthy, we just went through a few moments in life that were cringe-worthy. You know what’s cringe-worthy? Watching MTV in the last decade or so has been like, you don’t even recognize MTV.

[19:58] Jason: It’s like the History Channel.

[19:59] Bobby: I mean, that is nothing. What happened is they turned into a reality television network.

[20:05] Jason: Yeah.

[20:06] Bobby: And they got away from what made them MTV, which was the music.

[20:10] Jason: Yeah, was the videos.

[20:11] Bobby: Was the videos, was the personalities, the VJs. Just this past Sunday, MTV celebrated their 35th anniversary.

[20:21] Jason: Wow.

[20:22] Bobby: Yeah, bro, 35 years, can you believe that?

[20:24] Jason: I can’t even believe that. I remember when it first came out, and I remember one thing that sticks in my head just when you brought that up was that Money for Nothing video, the one with Sting in it.

[20:35] Bobby: Oh, yeah.

[20:36] Jason: With those computer graphics that were cutting edge at the time.

[20:39] Bobby: Do you remember that they would go to spring break? I used to love that. They would go down to Florida, to different places, and it was crazy some of the shit that was going on in those shows. It was fun though to watch. But I pulled an article from CNN Money, and it says, this is the title, and it makes sense, and it’s topical, it says, “Why MTV is going back to being MTV.” So basically what they say is, let me read you the beginning, I don’t know if you remember this, but MTV launched August 1, 1981, with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” So that was their first words spoken. But 35 years later, they say, “The company is launching something new again, and this time they’re looking to the past.” So they’re looking back to the ’80s when they had their big success. So anyway, this past Monday, VH Classic was relaunched as MTV Classic, and it says, “The network will bring viewers some of the network’s most popular programming of the last three decades, from Beavis and Butt-Head.” Remember Beavis and Butt-Head, man?

[21:53] Jason: Yeah, oh, yeah.

[21:54] Bobby: Crazy shit there. To music videos, which for me, as a teen in the ’80s, to see the music videos was so exciting. Like Michael Jackson, Billie Jean-

[22:05] Jason: Oh, yeah.

[22:05] Bobby: Or Thriller. Thriller was like a freaking event.

[22:08] Jason: It was, the only time you got a chance, other than hearing them all the time, to actually see them.

[22:12] Bobby: Right. Like Prince with the Purple Rain, with all his great songs and videos, and Cyndi Lauper, it’s endless. But anyway, they’re gonna bring back Beavis and Butt-Head, music videos, also Laguna Beach.

[22:24] Jason: Laguna Beach, I listened to music to that.

[22:27] Bobby: Laguna Beach, bro. So anyway, basically the article’s just saying that MTV’s trying to get back to its roots, and I think it’s a good idea because this MTV, I don’t recognize it.

[22:41] Jason: You’re right, it’s all part of what’s going on today. We talked about last week with the Arsenio Hall Show, with the stuff that’s coming up. All of us, one of the reasons we’re doing this here now, we all are looking back now at the ’80s and we’re like, “Wow.” We all have enough time between now and the ’80s, 30 years, to look at it and go, “That was an awesome time.”

[23:03] Bobby: It was, man. We were there from the beginning of that network’s launch.

[23:08] Jason: It changed everything, it’s amazing how the first videos ever that were ever really done were the ones that The Beatles did back in the ’60s, because they didn’t want, they weren’t touring anymore, and they said, “If we just do videos, people can see that and they’ll be happy.” Just like how Elvis didn’t wanna do concerts anymore, what he did is he sent his Cadillac out on tour for people to see. So with MTV coming to the fore back in the ’80s when there was no internet, it’s so hard for people to wrap their heads around it, there was no cell phones, there was no anything. Getting a chance to watch that, and for them to just get away from it the way that they did, for them to do this is a brilliant move.

[23:45] Bobby: I mean, I enjoyed everything from the VJs to the videos to the special programming, like the Spring Break and all the crazy thing. I think what MTV, everything goes in cycles, and they reinvented themselves, turned into more of a, like, Jersey Shore.

[24:05] Jason: Well, that’s all about, it is-

[24:06] Bobby: You know.

[24:06] Jason: It’s cheap to produce and it makes a lot of money.

[24:08] Bobby: Exactly, there you go. But they did lose a lot of viewership, and I think the network’s hurting now, and I think they’re trying, like I said, going back on their roots. So I’m very interested to see what they’re gonna do over the next one to two to three years.

[24:24] Jason: How they’re gonna segment it up into different years. If we take it back and we go, let’s say MTV this week in 1986.

[24:44] Bobby: Okay?

[24:45] Jason: So the week of, what’s it, August 4th today?

[24:49] Bobby: Let’s just say the week ending August 9th.

[24:51] Jason: Okay.

[24:52] Bobby: This week. So what do we got? We got, on the charts we got Glory of Love by Peter Cetera. Remember when all that music sounded like that? It was all that da, na, na with the keyboards and stuff.

[25:03] Jason: Definitely ’80s.

[25:04] Bobby: And then Papa Don’t Preach.

[25:07] Jason: You know what, I like that song a lot. Isn’t it a good song? By Madonna.

[25:10] Bobby: Yeah, man, that whole record was great.

[25:11] Jason: Well, there was number one hit after number one hit.

[25:14] Bobby: That was her time.

[25:16] Jason: She really nailed it with that one. And then, Mad About You, Belinda Carlisle.

[25:20] Bobby: Now, I remember, you had the biggest crush.

[25:25] Jason: You know, I did, I had a crush on Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go’s, I loved her, man. Heaven Can Wait, or whatever that damn song was.

[25:36] Bobby: I remember Mad About You, the one that they’re talking about.

[25:38] Jason: Something with Heaven, somebody will remind me later. But anyway, yeah, Belinda, I got to speak with Belinda one time on the telephone. I did a telephone interview with her, and it wasn’t as good as meeting her in person, but hey, I’ll take it.

[25:55] Bobby: Oh, man, lucky you.

[25:56] Bobby: You go, man, ’cause I know she was like one of the ones that, did you have a poster of her?

[26:00] Jason: Heaven, wait, wait, wait, Heaven Is a Place on Earth.

[26:03] Bobby: Oh, that’s it.

[26:04] Jason: That’s the song.

[26:05] Bobby: Ooh, baby, do you know it?

[26:05] Jason: Yes, I love that song.

[26:07] Bobby: What else we got? Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.

[26:11] Jason: Great song, that’s a video.

[26:12] Bobby: But that video, remember that video? It was all claymation.

[26:14] Jason: Oh, yeah, I remember that.

[26:16] Bobby: That’s something that’d be awesome to see. What else? Oh, We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off by Jermaine Stewart.

[26:20] Jason: That was a great song to dance to, to listen to.

[26:25] Bobby: They played it all the time on the show, remember?

[26:28] Jason: I loved it, I loved that song.

[26:31] Bobby: What else we got here?

[26:33] Jason: We got Rod Stewart, Love Touch, remember that one? And of course, Kenny Loggins with Danger Zone.

[26:40] Bobby: Danger Zone, now, he just did that on that Arsenio show.

[26:44] Jason: Right, so that was worth it, he did a good job with that. And that was from Top Gun, right?

[26:46] Bobby: Yes.

[26:47] Jason: He’s like the king of writing songs for movies back then.

[26:50] Bobby: All right, let’s round out the top 10 here, what do we got here?

[26:53] Jason: We got Steve Winwood with Higher Love.

[26:57] Bobby: I never really liked that track, but-

[26:58] Jason: Number eight. And now we got number nine, Bananarama with-

[27:03] Bobby: Oh, they played that one all the time on the show, too, Venus.

[27:07] Jason: Venus, Venice. Venice, California, damn, Bob, your glitches are coming out.

[27:14] Bobby: I love your Venice. All right, you round it out, give us number 10, Jason.

[27:17] Jason: You give me number 10, go ahead.

[27:19] Bobby: All right, it’s Rumours-

[27:21] Jason: The Timex Social Club.

[27:22] Bobby: Exactly.

[27:23] Jason: We used to dance to that one a lot too, I remember. And the, that week, some of the debuts that were coming out that week were When I Think of You by Janet Jackson, and Love Walks In by Van Halen, when they got Sammy Hagar singing lead for the group back then.

[27:37] Bobby: Bro, I gotta give you number 12 even though it’s not in the top 10.

[27:41] Jason: Hit me.

[27:42] Bobby: It’s by our boys, Wham!, Edge of Heaven.

[27:45] Jason: Da, da, da, da, da, da.

[27:46] Bobby: We kinda know the lyrics to that one.

[27:48] Jason: Just a little bit. So there, I think that would be something. That was fun, I liked doing that, This Week in ’86.

[27:54] Bobby: Yeah, well, we’ll continue that.

[27:55] Jason: Yeah, we’ll pick another year, but I would think that MTV’s gonna come back. Think about, we just listed off that list for you, all those videos that you remember, gonna give you a chance to watch them again.

[28:05] Bobby: Yeah, I think MTV’s gonna bring them back. So, while we’re on the subject of 1986, something happened with you and I in ’86, and I wanna jog your memory.

[28:18] Jason: Oh, no.

[28:20] Bobby: Okay, so we went to see a movie together, and this movie was released in 1986.

[28:28] Jason: I know what you’re talking about.

[28:30] Bobby: So the movie is Aliens.

[28:32] Jason: Yes.

[28:33] Bobby: And first off, let’s just say Aliens, great movie.

[28:36] Jason: Awesome movie.

[28:37] Bobby: But do you remember who went with us to see Aliens?

[28:43] Jason: Yes, I remember.

[28:45] Bobby: Okay, no, you tell everybody.

[28:47] Jason: No, you tell everybody.

[28:48] Bobby: All right, well, we met these twins, and very beautiful girls, by the way, and we started to date them. And we went to see that movie with them. Now, it’s not the twins that everybody remembers from the show, this is another set of twins that nobody really knows. And do you remember when we were watching the movie, the four of us are sitting there with the popcorn, and the scene when the alien tapped on the glass and the thing jumped?

[29:18] Jason: Yes.

[29:19] Bobby: And we all, four of us just jumped back, it was frightening.

[29:24] Jason: It was, yeah, it was frightening. You know, the first time seeing it, you don’t expect that.

[29:27] Bobby: So anyway, especially you’re there and you’re dating these girls, and it’s like, so that was just a little fun fact for all the peeps out there, a little inside information, and Jason’s blushing, you can’t see that, but it was a good time.

[29:40] Jason: It was a great time, 1986. Thanks for joggling the old memory there, pal.

[29:43] Bobby: There you go. So do you have anything from the email mail bag?

[29:48] Jason: As a matter of fact, I do.

[29:51] Bobby: This is a weekly thing we’re gonna do, and we’re gonna read one email in each show at the end.

[29:56] Jason: To let you know, we really appreciate it. So in order to get on here, you wanna jump on the mailing list or come on over to the website and email us there, because this is for everybody, not just on Facebook, people on Instagram and people on Twitter and whatnot, ’cause we get a lot of people that just aren’t on Facebook that are contacting us.

[30:15] Bobby: Exactly. All right, so here we go, this one is from Marcy Sims. I know I didn’t screw that name up, that was easy. “Hello to the both of you. Let me say that I absolutely adore your podcasts and all the social media for you both. You bring me right back to being 14 again. OMG, that was such a long time ago.”

[30:37] Jason: Oh my God.

[30:37] Bobby: “And reliving my youth. Dance Party USA was such a huge portion of my life, and I look forward to it every day. I loved being a child of the ’80s, and the two of you were such a big part of that.”

[30:50] Jason: Thank you.

[30:50] Bobby: Thank you very much. “Both of you are as handsome and as gorgeous as you were back then.” Oh, please. “Please let us know your secret, because the rest of us are getting wrinkles.” Well, we just hide them pretty well. “I cannot wait to see what the future of this site brings and the new things you guys keep hinting at on your podcasts.”

[31:10] Jason: Well, we got some stuff in store.

[31:13] Bobby: Yes, things are happening. “Please keep up the great work. I just wanted to express my appreciation for how proud I am of both of you. Take care, Marcy.”

[31:22] Jason: Oh, wow, Marcy, thank you very much, big shout-out to you, we really appreciate. That was great.

[31:27] Bobby: Thank you very much. It’s stuff like that that makes, Bob and I, it just makes it all worth it, really.

[31:34] Jason: You guys are putting smiles on our faces. And we hope that we’re putting some smiles on your faces. We’re having a good time with this.

[31:41] Bobby: Yeah, we’re having a great time, and we appreciate you taking the time to get in touch with us and send us messages.

[31:46] Jason: Keep those comments coming, keep the emails coming, we read everything.

[31:51] Bobby: We do read everything. So we’re gonna start making that moment of the show something we’re gonna do every week. So if you have a question for us about something specific, like this one was our most cringeworthy, embarrassing moment.

[32:01] Jason: Yep. So I want to, before we sign off here, I wanna let everybody know that podcast seven next week, we’re gonna have a very special, special guest.

[32:14] Bobby: Someone that can give you some serious insight on some stuff, too.

[32:17] Jason: So yeah, definitely you’re not gonna wanna miss next week’s episode.

[32:23] Bobby: There we go, very good.

[32:24] Jason: I got it out.

[32:25] Bobby: Good job. So again, thank you very much everybody out there for listening. It’s been a blast as always. Have a great week, a great weekend.

[32:35] Jason: It has. This podcast will self-destruct in five, four, three, two, go, Jeeves.

[32:42] Jason: One, boom, see ya.

[32:44] Bobby: Take care.