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Episode 031 – Tracey & Sharon FLUNK an 80s Trivia Challenge! (Play along if you dare…)

December 27^th, 2023

T: Hi, I’m Tracey.

S: And I’m Sharon. And we {laughing} – I almost forgot!

[laughter]

S: We are Feet of Clay…

T: Confessions of the Cult Sisters! And I am so excited to welcome my nephew Don – do you want me to say your last name?

D: I don’t think that’s necessary!

[laughter]

S: He needs to be able to take cover. He needs to be able to run far away from this.

T: So, say hi, Don.

D: Hello, thank you for having me.

S: You may want to wait till this is over before you say thank you.

D: I’ll get one in. I’ll get one in right now. How’s that?

T: Yeah, get one in right now. So everyone knows that one of – well maybe not everyone knows, but I have noticed that many people who have been through what we’ve been through, Sharon, as far as the fundamentalist cave that we’ve all lived in, that we were very sheltered during specific decades of our lives. One of the decades that I feel most sheltered from was the 1980s.

S: The 1980s! My husband Dave says that was the best decade of all. I’m not sure I agree with him, but okay.

T: Well, we wouldn’t know because most of the time we were on the commune compound at Last Days, and even after when we left at the end of the 80s, my family didn’t own a television set.

S: Yeah, you were more spiritual than me.

T: Yes definitely, well that I think is pretty clear, so I always say to everyone now, because it’s been decades since we’ve been out, please never pick me for a trivia partner because I will sink your team. I am terrible at it. I don’t know anything from specifically the 80s. So enter my nephew Don, who is the trivia king of the 80s. Don, can you tell us about the 80s and why you’re so good at trivia?

D: I just like trivia.

[laughter]

D: I like the 80s, I love the music, I love the movies, I love the culture, and just to backtrack, you also didn’t have a TV in the first part of the 90s as well, so just make sure that’s out there too.

S: And Don you would know, because you were a sometimes prisoner of Tracey’s, right?

D: I was. And also a visitor of Last Days when I was seven years old. I’ve seen it all.

S: I forgot about that.

D: Yeah, when I would get in trouble I would live with Tracey when my mom couldn’t handle me. I’d go back and forth. It was kind of a yin and yang, but that’s for another episode.

S: Well, you’ve already been featured Don, because – what was the movie Tracey, that you tried to shield his eyes?

T: Top Gun.

D: Yeah! For that hard core sex scene that was in Top Gun I had to get my eyes covered when I was 17 years old.

[laughter]

T: Yes, so for listeners who heard that episode – we’ll make a note of it in our show notes and then I did post a picture, because one of the full circle moments was when Top Gun 2 came out. I went to where he lives, and we all went together as a family to watch Top Gun 2, and no eyes were covered in the viewing of that movie.

D: Not at all.

T: Alright, so listeners, because both of us are pretty sheltered and pretty bad at 1980s trivia, we decided to invite Don on to lead us in a virtual trivia night. Woohoo. For those of you who can’t see the camera, I’ve got my 80s hair with my cool bands.

S: Yep, you do.

T: Don has his very cool backdrop that has back to the 80s, setting the tone. And Sharon, what do you have?

S: I’m pretty pathetic right now. I’m sitting in the bedroom of a rental house in Nags Head, Viriginia. I’m really glad we’re here, but not a whole lot of flavor or style in the shot of me. My hair is a little frizzy so I’m a little 80ish…

T: A little 80ish!

S: But you’re rocking it better than me, Tracey.

T: So we’ve asked Don, hey, prepare a trivia night as if we were in a bar, so we’re going to pretend we’re all in a bar together.

…

T: Hey everybody, after we recorded this super fun game, we thought of something else that would be fun, and we always like to have fun!

S: Fun, fun, fun!

T: How would you like to play along with us?

S: Woohoo, yeah! Now I’m just guessing that about everyone is going to beat us at this game, Tracey.

T: Well, maybe not the really younger ones. Those are the ones my kids always give me crap about, those are the ones I’m supposed to know when we’re playing trivia.

S: Ohh, so this time being old is an advantage for us?

T: It is, except for if I’m on your team. Then it’s not much of an advantage. So if you’re into 80s trivia, you love 80s trivia, you lived through the 80s or you want to learn about 80s trivia, we invite you to test your knowledge against ours.

S: Oh my god.

T: Okay, so grab a pencil and a paper and jot down your answers, because sometimes it takes us a while to come up with them.

[laughter]

T: So you can see what your final score would be against our final score.

S: Yeah, and you know, we should have people post their scores in our Facebook group, right?

T: Oh yeah, that would be a great idea!

S: Yeah! What’s that group Tracey?

T: That is, the Feet of Clay Confessions of the Cult Sisters Community Facebook page.

S: Community! Yeah, community group. Okay, so if you’re not driving, and maybe if you’re not at work and you can kick your shoes off and relax, you could also grab your favorite adult beverage…

T: Or soda, or juice, or my favorite sparkling water…

S: Okay. But whatever it is, drink and play along with us. So, you can push pause right now, and get your stuff together, and tally ho!

T: I don’t think that’s what that means, but yes, tally ho!

[laughter]

S: Tally your score, tally your answers, I don’t know.

T: Okay, and I think we can even put the questions, or a link to the questions in our show notes here to make it a little bit easier.

S: That’s a good idea, let’s do that. Okay. Let the games begin. And may the odds be always in your favor.

T: Oh, I know that reference.

S: Or was it ever in your favor. I don’t know.

[laughter]

T: Alright, off to our own 80s Hunger Games – I mean, trivia night.

S: Yeah.

…

S: So I’m going to show you what I’ve got, because I ran out of my hard seltzers, so this is what I’ve got. I’ve pulled it straight from the freezer.

D: Alright.

T: What is it? I can’t tell.

S: I got about a quart of Espolon tequila.

D: That’ll do it.

S: And a shot glass.

T: And what do you have, Don?

D: Ah, my covering this evening is sponsored by Coors light.

[laughter]

S: Excellent.

T: Good job, good job. And I have sparkling something inside of my glass. So it’s going to be Sharon against me, and if you’ve been following us, you know that we have a competitive streak in all of our episodes because we do like to compete for points.

S: We do.

T: So we’re going to see who is best.

S: But you still haven’t gotten the scoreboard upright.

T: I know, so we’re going to get that up, I promise.

S: Yeah right, promises, promises.

T: You know, Jesus is coming soon? The scoreboard is coming soon.

[laughter]

S: Okay.

T: You do not know the day or the hour, but it is coming. So we’re going to hand it right over to you Don, and you’re going to direct this traffic on how we play for points.

D: Alright.

S: Good luck, Don!

D: Pretty basic. I will keep score for tonight, so I will let you know who wins the game, and that’s your overall scoreboard. Real easy, you answer a question right, you get a point. I don’t want to make it too hard for you sheltered ladies of the 1980s, we’re going to make it simple. Three categories, general 80s trivia, 80s movies, and 80s music.

T: Oooh.

S: Okay.

D: Some might be simple, some might not be. I don’t want to make to too hard cos then it’s not fun.

S: Because we’re old, and you’re having mercy on us. Thank you.

D: I probably will laugh if you don’t get some basic ones.

T: I have a question for you.

D: Mmhmm?

T: Are you going to do a question and the first one to answer, or are you going to go back and forth?

D: Let’s go back and forth. You answer it wrong, we’ll give the other person a chance to answer it.

T: Okay. Then at some point you may have to point out if it’s a basic one, because we might think they’re all hard.

[laughter]

T: You can be like, that was a basic one, you guys missed it.

D: I think you’ll know the basic ones. I hope. Or this is going to be a real treat for me if not, so…

[laughter]

T: Okay.

D: Alright. Since Sharon dressed up and put her heart and soul into this we’re going to let her answer first.

S: Said with much sarcasm, for those who cannot see the camera.

D: Question one, and this is general. The first category is going to be general 80s trivia.

S: Okay.

D: What does VHS stand for?

T: I have it!

D: Whoa, whoa.

T: Oh it’s Sharon’s.

S: It’s my turn, woman!

T: I forgot the rules.

D: I see how this cut throat is going to go.

S: Video Home – I don’t know.

D: Sharon, just so you know, this is a basic one.

[laughter]

S: I know what it is! I know what a video cassette recorder is, and I know what a video is!

D: VHS. What does it stand for?

S: I don’t know!

D: Alright. Tracey for the steal.

T: I raised my hand really fast!

D: Tracey for the steal.

[laughter]

T: Um, I think it is Visual…

[laughter]

T: This is really bad. I really thought I knew this. Video Home…

D: This is going to be a long night.

T: S… god, what the fuck does the S stand for?

[laughter]

T: Okay, I honestly thought I knew it.

D: Alright. This could be a long, long night. I need to clear my calendar.

[laughter]

S: You going to tell us the answer?

D: Video Home System.

T: System!

S: System, okay.

T: You got two Sharon, Video Home. That was good.

S: That’s true. Can I get two thirds?

D: Still no points. Nope.

S: No thirds of a point?

D: I know you all weren’t part of the real world in the 1980s, but that’s not how the real world works when you don’t get something right.

[laughter]

D: No points award. Okay, question two. [aside] Hey babe, this is going to be a lot longer than I thought.

[laughter]

D: Um, okay. Question two. What was the most popular video game of the 1980s? This goes to Tracey now.

T: Of the 1980s?

D: The most popular…

T: Pacman! Pacman, Pacman!

D: Wrong!

T: Ohhhh.

D: Common guess, common mistake, but that is incorrect. Sharon, what was the most popular…

S: Centipede.

[laughter]

D: No. Unfortunately, you are both incorrect.

[laughter]

D: Holy shit.

[laughter]

S: Mario?

D: You answered too late Sharon. That would have been correct if that were first. It is Mario Brothers.

T & S: Ohhhh.

T: I thought he came later.

D: He did. He debuted in the home Nintendo system in 1985, but he was also in the arcades in the early 80s.

S: Ohh.

T: So, true story; on Sundays in Last Days commune we did go to a pizza place in Tyler Texas, and there was a Pacman machine there, which is why I thought I could really edge Sharon out on this.

D: Were you allowed to play it.

T: You could. You could play it.

D: You wouldn’t go to hell then?

T: I didn’t play it.

D: Okay, cool.

S: I played Centipedes with Keith Green.

T: Oooh.

S: And he and I – you know what? I’m competitive, but he was really, really competitive. And I swear to God – actually, I didn’t swear to God. I swear to you now, my thumb would hurt so bad, my fingers would hurt so bad from how hard and how long, and we’d keep putting quarters in that damn machine, and I remember Martin and Melody like, we’re never going to leave here! Come on, come on! And we just wouldn’t give up. So… that’s why I guessed Centipedes.

T: That was God’s money, by the way. But, okay.

[laughter]

D: That’s true. Waste of quarters. Okay.

T: We’re doing really well!

S: We’re 0 for 2.

D: Hey, the commentary’s the best part, which I was looking forward to, so…

[laughter]

D: Alright. This is a thinker.

T: Oh god.

D: What ancient Chinese toy was repopularized in the 1980s?

T: Who’s up?

S: It’s me.

D: Sharon.

S: Don’t you come hom…horn…don’t you come…

T: Hoeing?

D: Hoeing and whoring.

[laughter]

S: Um. Ancient Chinese toy…okay, if I think out loud before I give the final answer?

T: Mmmmm.

S: I don’t think Rubik’s cube was Chinese, so I’m thinking…

D: Ancient Chinese. Ancient.

S: Yo-yo?

D: Is that your final answer?

S: That is my final answer.

D: No. Tracey.

T: I was going to say the Rubik’s cube!

D: As an ancient Chinese toy? Seriously?

T: It’s like the abacus.

S: I know it wasn’t the Rubik’s cube because that was Scandinavian or something, I think.

D: I think it was Russian.

T: Yeah but you know, it was repurposed. The Rubik’s cube concept was repurposed.

D: It’s not the answer. It’s not the answer we’re looking for. The hacky sack.

T: Ohh.

S: The hacky sack! That doesn’t sound Chinese! I mean, yo-yo…

D: That sounds very racist of you, but whatever.

 [laughter]

T: Yeah Sharon, walk carefully. Walk carefully.

S: No, no, Yoyo Ma, the greatest cello player in the world, and he’s Asian!

T: Isn’t he Japanese?

S: Well, – oh shit, I don’t know.

[laughter]

T: Alright, well we’re going to move on from the cultural insensitivity…

[laughter]

D: Yeah.

S: Alright, well keep going.

D: What year was the Nike slogan just do it, launched?

S & T: Ooooo.

T: Who’s up on this one?

D: Tracey.

T: What year was the Nike… 1982 for the win.

D: No.

S: So is this like where I guess, and I’m the closest to it without going over, I win? Isn’t there a game that has that kind of rule?

T: That’s Price is Right, and that’s not what we’re doing.

D: Yeah, it’s not.

S: 87.

D: Closer. It was 1988. 1988.

T: Oh, so we were already gone; we were already out of Last Days when the Nike slogan launched?

D: You still didn’t have a TV, so you probably never saw the commercials, so it’s probably your fault there.

[laughter]

T: If this makes it, Yoyo Ma was born to Chinese parents, so good job.

S: I should get a half point.

D: Still on this, huh?

[laughter]

S: Alright.

D: Alright, we gotta get some good vibes out there, at least someone’s gotta score a point soon. I think this is the one.

[laughter]

T: Whose turn is it?

D: Sharon.

T: Oh shit, okay, if this is the one, why are you giving it to her? You’re my nephew!

[laughter]

S: Tracey, take another drink.

D: Alright. What year was the wreckage of the Titanic found?

S: Who knows that shit? Who would know?

D: Most people.

[laughter]

S: I’m going to go with um…I’m going to go with my lucky 1987.

D: Uuugh. So close. No, not at all.

S: You just gave her a hint. That’s not right.

T: I know my nephew though.

S: I protest.

T: When he says close, it’s probably not close.

S: Okay.

T: I’m going to say 1984.

S: Like Orwell.

D: Also incorrect. Probably one of the biggest news stories of the 1980s.

[laughter]

D: 1985.

T: I was so close.

D: owHoHHow many times have we watched that goddamned movie together? A lot, for you to not know.

T: That goddamned move – a lot.

S: Wait. Did you shield his eyes, for the Titanic?

D: Yeah, I was 34 and the nudity scene was just too much.

[laughter]

T: Actually that was a pretty steamy scene in the back of that car.

D: It was.

S: Literally steamy! I think I remember that.

T: I would have definitely shaded some eyes.

S: And the hand.

T: The hand, yes. But we didn’t even know, because that never happened to us.

[laughter]

D: Well, it didn’t happen to you because they weren’t playing Pee-Wee Herman in the car.

[laughter]

T: They weren’t playing Pee-Wee Herman! That might have to be in our show notes.

[laughter]

D: Alright. I’m hoping for hope here. I’m hoping for hope. In 1983, which country was the first to build a Disneyland outside of the United States?

T: Whose turn is it?

S: Yours.

T: Is it mine?

D: Yes.

T: Hong Kong.

D: No.

T: Hong Kong!

S: Japan.

D: Japan. Sharon, you are correct.

S: I am on the board! Woo woo whoo.

D: Yes! Alright.

T: There is one in Hong Kong, by the way.

S: It wasn’t the first.

D: Alright, in 1983 how much did the first mobile phone weigh when it came out?

T: In 1983?

D: Yeah, whose turn is it?

T: I think it’s Sharon’s because she stole from me.

S: It’s mine. 7 pounds.

D: Hmm. Okay, so someone gets one point and gets a little cocky, but no that’s not correct. It is not 7 pounds.

[laughter]

S: I’m just sticking with the 7s, because sooner or later…

D: It’s going well for you!

T: A clock is right twice a day – is that your reasoning?

D: That’s right.

T: So, you’re not talking cordless, right?

D: Mobile phone. A cellular phone was called a mobile phone, so 1983…

T: I would say one and a half pounds.

D: So close. Two pounds.

T: I almost said two pounds!

D: Sharon’s in the lead. Sharon is in the lead.

S: I have one point. I’m crushing this game.

D: Alright, Tracey, you’re up.

S: No! oh yes, you’re right, she is. Sorry.

T: Now she’s trying to steal my chance at getting a point!

S: Yeah, I am.

D: Can I just give a little commentary to this question. Is that allowed?

T: Sure.

D: If you get this wrong,

T: Oh god.

D: Mom will be rolling in her urn.

S: Oh my god.

D: Elizabeth will probably be upset with you.

T: Yes.

D: You should get this.

T: Okay. So, for those of you – obviously, he’s my nephew, he’s my sister’s son, and my sister was also the queen of pop culture. She was the one on one of our episodes where she would call me and say, can you leave, is there a fence around the property, and she would call sometimes and say have you heard this story and I was like, no, and she would say, oh, Tracey.

D: I’m actually feeling the same way right now, right this very moment. So…

[laughter]

T: Oh Tracey.

D: Okay. In what year did Prince Charles and Lady Diana get married?

T: This is Sharon’s year. This is 1987, right?

D: Is that your final answer?

T: Yes.

D: No, it was not. It was not.

[laughter]

D: This is for my mother, thank you.

T: You should have asked me when she died. I know exactly where I was when she died.

S: Oh man. Okay. What year did she get married? I remember we had those kind of fluffy sort of crazy things.

T: What kind of crazy things?

S: You know, like tops that had giant shoulders and giant sleeves.

D: Shoulder pads, yes.

S: Yes, the shoulder stuff.

D: Mmhmm.

S: And I’m trying to vision a picture. I’m going to guess 1983.

D: 1981.

S: Oof.

T: So that was in the true – I don’t think I even came out of the prayer room in 1981. I mean, I was really locked away about heavenly things at that time so I may not have even known.

D: So Sharon, I believe you’re up?

S: Mmhmm, it’s my turn.  I have to blech.

T: Okay.

S: Do I get points if I belch loudly?

D: Oh we might give…

S: [belches loudly]

D: you something. There we go.

T: Oh that was a good one.

S: It does feel better. There we go.

T: I feel like that’s a demon leaving you.

[laughter]

T: You guys know that was a belief at one point.

D: Oh yeah.

T: You’re expelling a demon.

S: Uuugh my god.

D: Alright. Also, 1981, a poetry collection A Light In The Attic was written by who?

S: No clue.

D: Wow. Wow.

S: I mean, let me just guess a poet who may have been writing then? Maya Angelou?

D: [chokes with laughter]

[laughter]

S: I don’t know! I don’t know!

D: I’m gonna say no on that one. Tracey, any guesses?

T: Usually on the literature I’m pretty good. A Light In The Attic.

D: I really tried to spread this out. I thought we were going to be… 1981 poetry collection A Light In The Attic was written by who?

T: I mean, the poetry I was reading was Song of Songs in the bible.

[laughter]

S: That’s right! And hinds feet on high places, right?

T: Hinds feet on high places! There was the Pilgrim’s Progress – we could give you a Christian trivia and see how well you do on this.

[laughter]

D: Mmhmm.

T: I do know A Light In The Attic, and I’m trying to channel that.

D: I know you do.

T: I know it’s not Sylvia Plath because I can’t remember when she died, but maybe they published these after she died. Sylvia Plath.

D: No. No.

[laughter]

D: No. Shel Silverstein.

T: Ohhh.

S: Never heard of – is it him or her?

D: It’s him.

T: And there’s a lot of children’s books.

D: Children’s books! You guys are going too deep! Like, Maya Angelou and shit. I didn’t make it that hard!

[laughter]

D: The score after 11 questions is one to zero. 1-0.

T: Oh my god.

D: I feel it coming around. I feel it shifting.

S: The tide is turning.

D: Tracey’s up. What was the name of the US volcano that erupted in 1980?

T: Mount Saint Helens!

D: There we go.

T: Yes! Yes!

D: There we go. Both on the board.

[laughter]

T: Did you know that Sharon?

S: Yes, I did know that.

T: Oh shit. Okay.

[laughter]

S: Cos it was kind of end times-y, right?

T: Yes, it was end times-y, so it fit in with the stories we would follow.

D: What 1981 video game was the first to tell a story during the game?

S: Well, it couldn’t be Mario because Mario wasn’t invented until 1985, so…

D: I would be like…mmmm

S: Mario.

D: No, it’s not Mario. I’m not going to hum yeah, I’m just going to say think about it.

S: I – uh. Tell a story. Donkey Kong!

D: Yes, but you were too late, you said Mario first.

S: Oh.

D: You know what, just cos I’m nice, I’m gonna let you have that one.

S: Thank you!

T: Yeah you have to let her have that, I was going to say Link.

D: Because Donkey Kong is the first video game that Mario ever appeared in. So your next trivia night that you’re in, you’ll be able to know that.

T: Don’t pick Sharon or I for your team. Unless it’s a bible category. I mean, Donkey Kong – I’m pretty proud of you for Donkey Kong, Sharon.

D: That’s a good one.

S: I’m proud of me too. Thank you.

D: If we don’t get this I’m going to be very sad. Very sad. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall? Tracey you’re up.

S: Thank god it’s Tracey.

T: I’m gonna just be honest with myself; I would have – for this game – thought it was in the early 90s, so the fact that it’s in the 80s, I’m gonna have to say my child, my children…

D: That’s a weird way to do it.

T: Oh my god, I can even almost know where I was.

D: Whatever works for you.

T: Well, cos I had two kids born in the 80s.

D: Oh I know. I’m aware.

T: So I had baby books that I did put together and I put some current events in their baby books.

S: Oooh that could be helpful.

T: So I’m trying to think of – ho..So the Ber…I’m going to say 1989.

D: You are correct.

T: [screams] [laughing] I am so proud of myself!

S: Wow.

T: I had a child born in 1989, so…

S: Good job.

D: Alright. You are up Sharon. We have a bar burner here, it is tied two-two.

S: Okay.

T: [squeals] I’m sorry for that scream, it may get cut – I was genuinely really proud of myself.

S: I’m not cutting that out. I’m leaving it in. I’m not cutting anything out of this fucking episode. This episode’s going totally raw.

T: It’s going raw and live.

D: Which NFL team won the most super bowls in the 1980s.

T: Oh, that’s a good one.

S: In the 80s.

T: Sharon loves football.

D: I know.

S: Fuck you Tracey.

T: [laughing] she does not.

S: Okay. I just don’t know which decade it was, so I’m just thinking out loud; it could have been the Steelers, it could have been the San Francisco – who were the San Franciscos, what were they, the 49ers?

T: [laughing]

S: Don’t laugh at me!

T: It could have been any NFL team!

S: It wasn’t Dallas.

T: I love it when you…

S: No, Dallas was winning earlier because that was before I went to Last Days, Dallas won a lot. Maybe it was the Red Skins. I’m gonna say Steelers.

D: It is incorrect.

T: It is so incorrect.

D: Tracey for the steal.

T: I went to school in Texas, and when I – but that was in the late 70s and it was Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, but they did have a losing streak at some point so I’m debating with the Cheeseheads – who are the Cheeseheads?

S: I’m not telling.

D: The Packers?

S: No. Don’t you dare give her a clue.

D: I’ve given her the team name, The Packers.

S: I was going to go the Greenbay Packers or the Dallas Cowboys. I’m gonna go the Greenbay Packers.

D: Okay.

S: They never won a whole bunch of super bowls. What are you talking about?

D: Not until the 90s. The Cowboys won a lot in the 90s as well, but who won the most in the 80s were them San Francisco guys – who were they called again? The 49ers.

T: Oh Sharon you were so close.

S: I almost had it. Oh well. Okay.

D: So close. Okay.

S: We both have two points.

D: Two points!

S: Out of how many questions so far?

D: It’s not important. It’s okay. We’re gonna get through this.

[laughter]

D: We’re gonna get through this. No big deal. What fruit candy with the balloon on the wrapper came out in 1985?

T: And this is mine, right?

D: Yeah. What fruit candy with the balloon on the wrapper came out in 1985.

T: And so now, listeners, my mind is…

D: It still exists. Here’s a clue to both of you. It still exists.

T: My mind is going to the movie, 13 with our darling girl that I can’t think of her name.

S: What are you even talking about?

D: Yeah, what’s in your drink?

S: What are you doing?

T: [laughing] you know it was 13 going on 30 – I knew I would get it sometime. 13 going on 30 and it all goes back to the 80s, so a lot of the stuff I learned about the 80s I learned from 13 going on 30 with Jennifer Garner, right?

S: Never heard of it.

T: So I’m gonna say Razzle Dazzle, because of that movie.

D: No. Sorry.

T: Okay.

D: It’s not.

S: Okay, this is probably not right, but um, what was the one with the owl?

D: I’m not telling you!

S: About how many legs does..

D: I’m not telling you!

S: …about how many legs does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

D: Yeah, that was a thing.

S: A tootsie blow pop thing.

D: Yeah. No, it’s not.

T: It’s not. I was gonna say that’s the name of it, but why would it have a balloon when it is shaped…

S: It was the only thing I could think of. What was it?

T: Razzmatazz instead of Razzle Dazzle.

D: Air heads.

T: Ohhhh.

S: [laughing] we were so close! We were both so close!

T: That makes so much sense.

D: I’m actually enjoying myself.

[laughter]

D: I’m never typically the smartest one in the room, but it feels good sometimes. It feels good once in a while for me.

[laughter]

D: Okay. What was Jane Fonda most famous for in the 1980s? Sharon this goes to you.

S: Oh, it’s to me?

D: Mmhmmm.

S: It was Jane Fonda’s workout. Aerobics.

D: There we go!

T: Geez, that was like a layup.

S: Yeah, well so was Mount Saint Helens!

D: I’m going back and forth.

T: That’s true. Mount Saint Helens. I was like yes, the Jane Fonda workout.

D: Okay this is the last question in this dismal category called General 80s Knowledge. Just General 80s Knowledge. Okay. Tracey, this is to you. What happened in Ukraine in 1986? What happened in Ukraine in 1986?

T: Russia invaded.

D: That’s this year. That’s happening right now, not back then. Russia invaded Afghanistan, but what happened in Ukraine in 1986?

S: This is now my chance to steal? My pathetic, no-chance-in-hell chance to steal?

D: Mmhmm.

S: Okay, so I could go with a nuclear disaster, but that was Chernobyl, and I don’t think that was Ukraine, but maybe it was. There could have been a plane crash, there are plane crashes – I’m gonna say Chernobyl.

D: You are correct.

T: You are correct!

S: Woo hoo hoo!

T: I thought that was Russia too, because I just watched Chernobyl.

S: Yeah but remember Ukraine then got their independence.

T: Yeah.

S: Okay, what’s the score? Drumroll?

D: Sharon four, Tracey two.

T: Wait, how did she get two more?

S: I got Donkey Kong.

D: Rewind the tape! Jane Fonda workout videos.

T: Jane Fonda! That’s what it is.

D: Tracey, I’m not trying to cheat anyone out of their…

S: You know what, I will relinquish the Donkey Kong point

T: No, no.

D: No, no.

T: That was a perfect one. You earned that one.

D: If she gets something closer I’ll give the same courtesy.

S: Okay.

T: You earned that. I think Don is just trying to punish me for the chores he had to do when he was in our household.

[laughter]

D: Hmmm.

T: It’s his way to get back for cutting the grass when we lived on an acre of the worst lawn on the planet, and he had to cut it every week.

D: Push mower.

S: Oh fun, fun.

D: Yeah. Well, that was God’s way. Anyways. Next category: 80s movie trivia.

T: I got this.

S: I think we’re gonna rock this. I think we’ll be alright.

T: I think so too. I think it’s gonna be amazing.

D: I – okay. I will see. I thought you both were going to excel at the first category, because that was fucking news, like, real news and history and shit, not even really pop culture stuff. I was like, they’re gonna slay, I put that first because I thought they’re gonna have trouble with the movie and music, but I could be wrong.

S: We might surprize you.

D: Alright. Okay. What was the highest grossing film of the 1980s?

T: And who is this? Who’s up?

S: I think we’re changing.

D: It’s Tracey.

T: Oh ho, yeah, nice one. Nice one.

S: [laughing]

D: Gaah.

T: I was gonna say our movie, but that was in the 90s. So sometime the 80s bleed into the 90s and … Chariots of Fire.

D: No. The highest grossing – you gotta think about these ones. Highest grossing – there’s not a lot of people who wanna see that running shit on the beach.

T: I saw Chariots of Fire in the 80s.

D: That was probably the only movie you did see in the 1980s and you’re wrong and incorrect.

S: It was either – I’m thinking it was Terminator or Titanic, and I just don’t know which one was then, but the Titanic was discovered in the 80s, but I don’t remember what year. If it was early 80s maybe there would have been some buzz.

D: We literally just talked about the Titanic five minutes ago, and when it was discovered.

[laughter]

S: I know, but I can’t remember.

T: He was saying that and I …

S: I was going to go with Titanic, and you would have been nice to steer me away and I would have said Terminator, but I should go with Titanic because we’re going to try to play a clean game here.

D: I’m not saying one way or the other, I’m just saying we just had…

T: I think I know what it is now. It’s Star Wars.

S: That was in the 70s.

T: They had it every decade.

D: Oh my god.

T: I’m going to say it was Star Wars. Not that I get the point, but I should have said Star Wars.

D: Lot to unpack on this one.

T: Return of the Jedi.

D: Hold on, a lot to unpack on this one.

[laughter]

D: I actually liked Sharon’s guess of The Terminator – which was incorrect.

S: [laughing] Okay

D: Titanic – I’m guessing the Titanic movie freaked me out, because that came out in 97, so I don’t know where the fuck you were going with that – just off…

[laughter]

S: I don’t remember!

D: The Titanic was discovered in 1985, which we just talked about and you forgot.

[laughter]

D: Chariots of Fire – no one fucken saw that movie.

[laughter]

D: And what did you say, what was your last – oh, Star Wars…

T: Return of the Jedi. I would bet my soul on it.

D: That was an okay guess, but wow. Wow. You guys are fucked this round, I can tell you that right now. God.

S: Okay, what was it?

D: So, ET.

T: Oh fuck.

S: That was demonic!

D: Oh yeah, that little devil.

T: I even mention that in my …

D: That little devil running back and forth – you look just like that too.

S: That was so demonic, that movie.

T: I even mentioned that in my interview with Brian and Troy, when I saw that with my dad – I actually did see that movie when I went home for vacation, and I went off on how this was the devil’s plan to steal the hearts of children, because it was a Jesus Christ archetype.

S: Counterfeit!

D: Did we see it together, Tracey?

T: I don’t know if you came with us, but my dad was like, you’re so lost.

D: Didn’t you guys take me?

T: We absolutely could have taken you.

D: I was four, I think it was on one of your breaks.

T: Phone home! Phone home – see, I know some lines from that movie.

D: Yep, well that’s something.

T: ET. That was a good one. We should have known that.

S: Wow. We are fucked. Okay.

D: This is getting good. Maybe this is my revenge for Tracey.

[laughter]

D: I wouldn’t say for doing chores, but maybe just for abandoning her three year old nephew to go to Last Days. Maybe that’s what I’m getting back for.

T: Ohhh. Yeah.

S: Yeah.

D: I turned out alright. I’m good. So who’s up?

S: Ah, it’s Tracey.

D: Tracey, right, because Sharon had so many great guesses on that last one.

S: I had so many wrong guesses. I love that.

D: Alright. Well, what sort of car is used as a time machine in Back To The Future.

T: A Delorean!

D: Alright.

T: Yes! Did you know that Sharon?

S: Okay, that was like a PG movie, there was no sex, so we were allowed to see it.

T: Did you know that answer?

S: Yes, I knew that answer, yeah.

D: Sharon. Alright. To crack five, to get to five points, this is it. Name the killer in the 1980 movie Friday the Thirteenth.

S: Freddie.

D: Phew, man. You’re on the same track, I like that, but no.

S: No?

D: No.

T: I know, is it me?

D: It’s your turn, yeah.

T: Jason!

D: It’s a trick question. It is not Jason. In the original Friday the Thirteenth movie it was his mother, Mrs Voorhees.

[laughter]

D: Sorry.

T: F that. I was like, it’s either Freddie or Jason.

S: I’ve never seen any of those movies, so I don’t know.

T: Wait, was that obscure, Don?

D: Again, I really thought your money round was the first round. That’s why I made it harder the second round. So…

[laughter]

D: My apologies.

S: Okay.

D: We’ll get back on track, and we’ll get some good ones in. I have high hopes for the music section.

S: He keeps saying that.

D: What 1988 movie featured Matt Damon’s first film role? And I’m gonna give you an extra hint.

T: Wait, wait…

S: Whose question is this?

T: Is this Sharon’s first? Or is it mine, because I stole?

D: It’s Tracey.

T: His first film role?

D: Okay, hold on, hold on. What 1988 movie featured Matt Damon’s first film role. Now I’m gonna give you an extra hint.

S: Oh this one’s easy though. She should have this. You shouldn’t have to give her a hint.

T: Maybe. Was he also the writer and director?

D: No. The star of that movie is Julia Roberts.

S: Ohhh.

T: So see, it threw you, because you were thinking what I was thinking, Sharon.

D: Which you still – you guys are a decade of, still.

[laughter]

D: It’s like your 90s were your 80s. I keep thinking your 90s were your 80s.

S: Right? It’s as if the 80s didn’t exist.

[laughter]

D: Just wiped out. Man.

T: Yes, okay. So Matt Damon and Julia Roberts is a tough one for me.

D: It’s Matt Damon’s first film role.

T: So I’m gonna have to say Pretty Woman. He must have had a little part in there somewhere.

D: Hmm, no. No.

T: Oh shit.

D: Sharon, any guesses?

S: Steel Magnolias.

D: Ooof. I like that guess, but no. Mystic Pizza.

T&S: Ohhh.

D: Yeah.

T: I would have never gotten that, ever.

D: What movie took home seven Academy Awards in 1985?

T: That’s Sharon, right? Thank god.

D: Yeah, that’s all Sharon.

S: I know I’m like – okay, let me just guess it. I – what the fuck. What the fuck?

T: Seven in 1985.

S: Ordinary People.

D: No, but I like that guess though. But no it’s not.

T: Wasn’t that way earlier than 1985? I think I watched that with my mother.

S: I don’t know when that was. I’m just pulling things out of the air.

T: Seven Academy Awards in 1985.

D: Yeah.

S: Oh. Oooh.

D: And here I thought I’d made this too easy.

S: Now I know it. Now I know it. Maybe.

T: Seven Academy Awards…

S: If she misses it let me give it a try, but I know I don’t get a point.

D: Sure. Yep.

T: In 1985 – and this would be a year before I got married, this would be – I watched no TV, Academy Awards…

S: Oh now I thought of another one.

T: I’m gonna say – oh what are the artsy freaking films. The Godfather.

D: Oh god.

[laughter]

D: Sharon I’m gonna let you guess, but The Godfather came out in 1972.

T: Wasn’t there a second and a third, or something?

[laughter]

D: There was a second in the 70s, and a third in I think 1990. So I don’t know what’s in that glass that you’re drinking, but I want some of it.

T: I thought that was a decent guess.

S: So I was going to say The Killing Fields, but then when she mentioned kids I thought maybe I should change it to The Mission. So I think it’s one of – maybe – no…

T: I did see The Mission – true story, my ex – at the time he used to wear this hoodie. He had the beard and that very monk like haircut. We went to buy our tickets to The Mission, and the ticket holder said, you look like the main character.

[laughter]

T: And he did.

S: I just went to the bathroom and cried my eyes out.

T: At The Mission?

I just cried and cried at that movie. Yeah.

T: Is it The Mission, Don?

D: No. Out of Africa.

T: Oh my god, I should have had that. You know I listened to that soundtrack.

S: Again, there’s an illegitimate romance going on, so we ain’t watching that stuff. Nope, nope, nope.

T: Wow.

D: You’ve had many years away from that hellhole to get caught up on your shit.

[laughter]

D: And you’ve chosen not to, okay.

S: Clearly we have failed.

D: So stop blaming being locked away. Okay. What is the name of the van that Scooby Doo and his friends drive?

T: Is it my turn?

D: Whose turn is it?

S: I don’t know.

D: I think it is your turn Tracey.

T: The Mystery Machine!

S: Oh I wouldn’t have gotten it right anyway, but I think it was actually my turn. I was waiting in the wings with Killing Fields.

D: Okay. Tracey’s correct, but we will…

S: No, no, she gets the point. I would not have gotten it.

D: Oh no, she gets the point, but I was going to ask you two in a row – but I don’t think you’ll get two in a row, but we’ll just try our hardest anyways.

[laughter]

T: I’m very proud.

S: Now it’s Tracey’s turn again. We’re staying with the order.

D: You want to stay with the order?

S: Yep.

T: You get a point for just being so gracious, Sharon.

S: Aww.

D: Hold on, hold on. We’ll see about that.

S: Well maybe I should listen to the question and then decide if I want it or give it to her.  Huh?

[laughter]

D: Haha. How many Oscars did Raiders of the Lost Ark take home?

T: I’m gonna say two.

D: Okay. No.

T: Because it didn’t win for acting, we all know that. It was proably some kind of set design.

S: He already said no.

T: He said no? Oh.

D: Mmhmm. I’m sorry.

S: I’m gonna say either zero or seven. So, zero.

D: Five.

S: [laughing]

T: Jesus!

D: Five.

T: [laughing]

D: Five.

S: Okay.

D: Okay.

S: See, that’s hardcore trivia, though. I betcha a lot of people who weren’t in a crazy cult with their heads up the asses still wouldn’t know that.

D: It’s time to let the healing begin and move on, you know?

S: [laughing]

D: What film featured creatures that shouldn’t be fed after midnight?

T: Whose is this? Sharon’s?

D: Yes.

S: Alright. I don’t know these movies, and total wild-ass guesses; it’s either going to be like – was there a movie called Goonies?

D: There was a movie called Goonies.

S: Was it Goonies?

D: It was not Goonies.

[laughter]

T: Ohhh. I’m thinking of the venue fly trap one that is the venus fly trapper but then your goonie – is it Ghostbusters? Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters. And then I was thinking of Jurassic Park. So the fly trap is  – is it Hollywood horror something –

[laughter]

S: Just say something Tracey!

T: I’m gonna say Ghostbusters.

[laughter]

D: No. It was Gremlins.

T: Gremlins! That’s kind of what I thought Ghostbusters – that’s what I thought I was saying.

[laughter]

S: No you didn’t!

D: You were talking about Hollywood something, and the movie you were thinking about was called Little Shop of Horrors.

T: Little Shop of Horrors! That’s what I was trying to think of.

D: Alright. So this is a question near and dear to my heart which you both – since you were there and potential witnesses – should know the answer.

T: It’s my turn now, cos she had The Goonies.

D: What movie did my mother rent and watch at Last Days Ministries and got in trouble for bringing that outside demonic energy in?

T: [laughing] Don came to visit me by himself – first time on an airplane cos he’s the light of my life. His mother was my bridesmaid at my wedding in 1986 and didn’t have a place to go afterwards, so she stayed, and she got to be good friends with Dinah, Sharon.

S: Mmmm. Okay.

T: I guess she brought in a movie – I don’t have any special knowledge of this because I do not remember that, so…

S: You have to guess the movie.

T: Uhh, bringing in the demonic?

D: I will say, was there a common area where people would watch movies?

T: Yes! We definitely – you could take movies, yeah.

D: That’s where the viewing took place.

T: I completely believe that this happened.

D: Oh it 100% did!

S: And she got in trouble.

T: I would have to say Dirty Dancing.

D: Okay, I don’t hate that guess, but that’s incorrect.

T: Okay.

S: That was a good guess.

D: Yeah.

S: Um. I know it wasn’t this, but I just want to say it cos it’s fun. Rocky Horror Picture Show.

T: [laughing]

D: No, but that would have been fucking amazing though. That would have been awesome.

S: Yeah!

T: There would have been exorcisms if that had happened.

D: Yeah, that would have been great. Hard to find the demonic in this, but it was The Breakfast Club. About seven teenagers spending detention on a Saturday in a high school.

[laughter]

D: So there you have it. If that doesn’t sum up Last Days Ministries in a nutshell, I don’t know what else will.

S: That’s great.

T: Sharon – wait, Sharon, have you ever watched The Breakfast Club?

S: Never saw it.

T: I knew it! And there was some swearing and bad attitudes. There definitely was some bad attitudes.

S: Ooh, it sounds like my kind of movie then.

[laughter]

D: Yeah.

S: Alright, I get one more.

D: You want one more in movies?

S: Yep.

D: Okay. What 1984 film did John Hughes take two days to write? Do you know who John Hughes is?

S: No? Yes – I mean, I’ve heard the name.

D: Legendary writer/director from the 80s and stuff.

S: Yeah, yeah.

T: And he took how many days?

D: Two days to write it.

S: And it was a 1984 movie. No clue.

D: Sixteen Candles.

T: Ohh. I was gonna – yeah.

D: I don’t think you would have gotten that.

T: I was not gonna get it, but can you say who starred in Sixteen Candles? Isn’t that Molly Ringwald?

D: That is Molly Ringwald.

T: Yeess!! I bet Sharon didn’t know that!

S: I did not know that.

D: Guess what – she also starred in The Breakfast Club, which John Hughes also wrote.

T: Yes. Molly Ringwald – she was definitely an 80s actress. I did know that – I feel like I should get speical points for knowing Molly Ringwald.

D: Well, going into this last round here –

S: What’s the score?

D: It is all tied up at four all.

S: Ooooh.

T: Oh my god.

S: Which means we didn’t get a single thing right. Did we get nothing right in the movies?

D: Out of 42 questions so far…

T: I got the mystery machine!

D: You did.

S: That’s true. That brought you up.

D: Alright, let’s do this. Let’s do this.

T: I will say that music is my worst category, so there’s that.

S: Bring it on!

[laughter]

S: I’m gonna be pathetic here too.

T: Music is my worst. Unless it’s Keith Green, Silverwind…

D: I took those questions out unfortunately.

S: Thank god. Thank you.

D: You’re looking for a title of a song; what Billy Joel song featured over a 100 different headlines from 1949 to 1989?

S: Who goes first?

T: Yeah, who’s jumping at this one?

D: Tracey. It’s Tracey’s turn.

T: So, if I get this wrong I should be – so I did go to Movin Out which was a Billy Joel musical of all of his repertoire, live on Broadway, in my post commune days, and I do love Billy Joel, and I’m really struggling with some of the titles, because I know there’s Uptown Girl, I know there’s a New York one – so I’m gonna say Uptown Girl.

D: That is incorrect.

T: Oh shit.

S: [laughing]

T: [singing] Uptown Girl, dah dah dah dah dah dah…

S: Does she lose another point for singing?

[laughter]

S: Um, you know, I have no fucking idea.

D: It’s called We Didn’t Start The Fire.

T: We didn’t Start The Fire! Ohh.

D: Think about the question, with all the headlines from the last years.

S: I didn’t remember that.

T: I know, but I couldn’t key into that one, because I know Uptown Girl.

S: I just like the one that says Catholic girls start much too late. That’s my favorite one, but I tell ya, once we get started Tracey, it’s hard to stop us!

T: It’s hard to stop us. So, okay. That was a good one. We should have known that one – I should have known that one.

D: Alright. Sharon back to you. Who was the first female artist to have over 5 million album sales?

S: Olivia Newton John.

T: Nope.

D: In the 1980s.

T: I get it, I get it. Madonna.

D: There you go! Madonna. Okay.

T: Woohoo! So I have to tell this story, I was at Last Days…

S: She’s got lots of stories, doesn’t she.

T: I do have lots of stories! Especially around the 80s, because I went to a shopping mall and that was the first time I heard a Madonna song, because they played music in the mall. I remember having that feeling of like, I should be preaching to these people [laughing] in this mall because of just the grief of the sinfulness of the 80s.

D: What song was it? Was it Like a Virgin?

T: Like a Virgin.

D: Of course.

T: What year was that? I think it…

D: Like a Virgin came out in 1984,

T: Yep. Yep. Okay. I am so proud of myself! Are you proud of me Sharon?

S: I am so proud of you. [laughing]

T: You could have gotten Madonna.

S: Ah, no. I wouldn’t have gotten it

T: Okay.

S: I would have gone to Janet Jackson, which I know isn’t right.  Alright, my turn. Give it to me Don! Give it to me.

D: Speaking of Janet Jackson…

T: Ohh.

D: What musician played a guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s song Beat It?

T: Oh, that’s a good one.

D: What musician played the guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s song Beat It?

S: Okay, I barely know any – like…

T: This is such a good one.

S: A good one like you know the answer?

T: Like, I feel like I should know the answer, so wow that’s a good one.

S: [laughing] Tracey we should know the answer to a lot of these things!

T: [laughter]

S: Okay, so let me just talk this out. Can I even name a guitar player? I can say Bruce Springsteen plays guitar, um…

[laughter]

S: Eric Clapton plays guitar. The Edge – no wait, does he play bass? Like in U2, the dude.

D: He plays guitar. The Edge is the guitar player for U2.

T: Okay, it is in Beat It with Michael Jackson, right? [singing] Beat it, come on and beat it…

D: Mmhmm.

S: I got no idea.

D: You want to venture a guess?

S: Sure. Alright, who was the guitar player? The dude from KISS that had the star on his face?

T: Gene Simmons?

D: No, that’s Paul Stanley.

S: Him.

D: You want to go for Paul Stanley?

[laughter]

S: Why the fuck not.

D: No, it was not Paul Stanley.

S: Okay.

D: It was a good guess though. I like that guess, actually.

S: If you’re gonna fail, fail with style.

D: That’s right!

T: I’m trying to think of – oh, I can’t think of his name. I can see him, so if it’s him I’m gonna be really sad.

D: Doesn’t really help.

[laughter]

T: Um,

S: Shouldn’t we have a timer here? Doo-doo-doo-doo…

T: Why can’t I think of his name? He’s a Hispanic great guitarist…

D: Santana?

T: Yes, Santana! Santana’s my guess.

D: Okay! So wrong.

[laughter]

D: Sooo wrong!

T: That’s what I was seeing and thinking. Santana.

D: No. Eddie van Halen.

T: Ohhh. I was coming to him.

[laughter]

S: Sure you were.

D: Sure you were. Just, you know, let me get through the Latinos, let me talk about the Chinese people in the first round – we’ll get back to it.

[laughter]

D: Alright. Sharon – is it Sharon’s turn?

S: No it’s Tracey.

T: It’s my turn.

D: What famous reggae singer passed away in 1981?

S: Oh come on.

T: In 1981?

D: Mmhmm. What famous reggae singer passed away in 1981?

T: I mean, I want to say Jimmy Hendricks but I feel like he’s not really reggae.

[laughter]

S: Don is choking on his beer. You’re gonna kill your nephew.

[laughter]

T: Umm. Reggae – I feel like I can see him.

S: Dance a little more Tracey. You’ll get it. Channel it girl!

T: Why does Jimmy Hendricks keep coming in?

S: Because you’re just wrong.

D: You have any idea?

T: Nope.

S: I think it’s Bob Marley.

D: Bob Marley. Correct.

T: Bob Marley is who I was trying to think of!

S: Oh so sad.

D: But it was like – Jimmy Hendricks who passed 30 years prior just came into my head, you know, so whatever.

[laughter]

D: What is the name of Rick Astley’s iconic 1987 song?

T: Who?

D: Rick Astley.

S: This is my question.

D: He’s from Britain.

S: Iconic 1987 song.

D: Yep.

S: No clue.

D: Okay.

T: Um, talk like an Egyptian.

[laughter]

D: No.

S: I just literally peed myself.

D: Again, another one of these questions – a lot to unpack here. Have you ever seen the social media craze, getting Rick rolled? Ever heard of that? It’s a popular thing right now.

S: No.

[laughter]

D: So, from this guy Rick Astley, people send you a link, you open it up and it sings this song, and the song is called Never Gonna Give You Up.

S: [singing] Never Gonna Give You Up…

D: Yep, that’s it.

S: [singing] Never gonna say goodbye…

D: There is no song called Talk Like An Egyptian. There is a song called Walk Like An Egyptian, which was put out by the all female rock group The Bangles.

[laughter]

S: Close!

T: It was like a one hit wonder; I figured this guy was a one hit wonder and I was like…

D: The Bangles are not one hit wonders! How dare you say that.

[laughter]

T: Oh okay. Talk like … okay, alright. I’m schooled.

D: Tracey, back to you. Slaying it on the music, by the way.

[laughter]

D: Um, what music artist divorced Sean Penn in 1987?

T: Oh, why can’t you ask me who married Sean Penn, because I feel like…

S: Or maybe the person who married then divorced. Why don’t you try it like that? You have to get married before you can divorce!

T: I know, but I think I’m thinking of an actress, but you’re saying a musician?

D: What music artist divorced Sean Penn in 1987.

T: In 1987 what music artist divorced Sean Penn. Madonna’s already been had, so it has to be…

S: Maybe she’s twice?

T: Don wouldn’t do that. In 1987. Who are the music artists? Stevie Nix.

[laughter]

S: Mine’s gonna be just as bad cos I can’t come up with any names. Whitney Houston!

[laughter]

D: It was Madonna. It was Madonna. Why…

[laughter]

T: No! I almost was – I was like, he wouldn’t give me two Madonnas. Cos there was a connection in my head with them but I was like, no we just had Madonna.

D: You’ve got to start going with your gut. Okay. So Sharon back to you.

S: Okay.

D: It’s funny that you just mentioned this person. What was the name of Whitney Houston’s first platinum single?

S: [singing} I…wanna dance with somebody.

D: That’s right! You are correct.

S: [singing] I wanna feel the heat with somebody…

D: You are correct.

T: You’re in luck. So Sharon, did you have to confess for listening to Whitney Houston as a Christian, cos I think you loved her a lot.

S: I did love her. And I loved that video, and I had to pretend I didn’t love it as much as I did.

T: I thought so.

S: I had to just kind of like it. Yeah.

D: Yep, lie and sin. That’s all we do.

[laughter]

D: Alright, Tracey. What is the name of the band who write 1981’s Don’t Stop Believing.

T: [singing] Don’t stop believing…I know you’re gonna hate me…

S: Oh my god, I’m gonna steal this from her.

T: Aerosmith.

D: Hmm?

T: Aerosmith.

S: Oh my god I’m gonna so win this. Journey! Journey!

D: Sharon is correct.

T: I always get Styx, Aerosmith and Journey mixed up.

S: [laughing] Cos they’re so similar.

T: Well they kind of are similar. [singing] Don’t stop believing… – ah, Journey.

S: [aside] Come on in babe, I just got a point.

T: Yeah, he can cheer you on.

S: Oh, the baby’s sleeping, I have to be a little more quiet cos the baby’s sleeping. Our little 10 month old grandson. Hey babe, I just got a point, because I knew that Don’t Stop Believing was Journey! He’s giving me the big thumbs up.

T: Okay.

S: He knew we would be shit at this game. He’s ridden in the car with me enough times, a song comes on and he goes okay, who’s this, and I have no idea, and he’s like, you don’t know?

D: So frustrating.

T: Such a bad game to play in the car.

D: It’s so frustrating. Me and my wife are barely together this day because of that.

[laughter]

D: Alright. What artist had a 1983 tour called Serious Moonlight Tour.

T: Whose – it’s Sharon’s turn.

D: Sharon’s turn, yeah.

S: Serious Moonlight.

D: It’s a pretty famous tour.

S: [laughing] Oh my god, I have no idea. Can we just try to think of…

T: It’s a band, not a solo?

D: It’s an artist.

S: An artist.

D: Yep.

S: Jewel.

[laughter]

S: I don’t know!

D: Jewel?

T: It was like 2000s right?

D: Jewel came out in the mid-90s. Again, it’s that 10 year gap, you just don’t know.

T: Yeah, the 10 year gap.

D: Unfortunately it is not Jewel.

T: I was gonna say Michael Jackson.

D: That’s a good guess.

T: Oh thank you.

D: Because he did the Moonwalk, but it’s not true.

T: Yeah, because of the moon. That was my connection.

D: Yeah. Yes, it is David Bowie.

T: Oh, the moon child. We should have gotten that.

S: I wish I had seen him in concert.

D: Yeah, I do too. He’s one of my favs.  So Tracey, you’re up.

T: Okay.

D: Who wrote the 1983 song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

T: [singing] Girls just wanna have fun… Okay, so not only do I know this, my family knows her. So, Cindi Lauper.

D: There we go. Alright.

T: Woohoo! I’m very proud of myself for that.

D: Okay.

T: Did you know that Sharon?

S: I did.

D: Okay. What was the name of George Michael’s debut album?

S: Ohhhh – okay.

D: What was the name of George Michael’s debut album? Sharon, this is to you.

S: Yeah. Um, well I know that the song I really love – I don’t know. The truth is I don’t know. I’m gonna say I know a George Michael song.

T: Tell us the song.

S: I know a George Michael song that I really love the sound of and it’s fucking creepy when you listen to the lyrics; Father Figure.

D: I was gonna say I know what song you’re thinking of but it’s not right, but that’s a great song. It is creepy lyrics, too.

S: Tracey gets to steal.

T: So you said Father Figure for George Michael?

D: What is the name of the debut album of George Michael?

T: Um. Lightning.

S: You know, you should always just go with the artist name if you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

D: There you go. But in this instance that is not correct either.

[laughter]

D: It’s Faith.

T: Oh, we should have known that.

D: Gotta have faith, yeah.

S: Why would we have known that?

T: Because it’s one we’d be like, oh maybe we can listen to that, it’s an album about faith.

D: It definitely is not, at all.

[laughter]

D: At all.

S: Some creepy pedophilia, that’s what’s going on there, man.

T: What’s the score?

D: Sharon seven, Tracey six.

T: Oh my god.

S: Ooh it’s close.

T: So close, Sharon. So close.

D: So Tracey you’re up. What launched in 1981 that changed the way people discovered music?

T: Oh I thought you were talking about the Space Challenger and I was like oh, I know this, it launched and crashed.

D: I crossed that question out because I thought it was too easy.

T: So when you said launched all I saw was space shuttle, so can you read the question again?

D: What launched in 1981 that changed the way people discovered music?

T: The synthesizer!

[laughter]

S: I want my MTV.

D: MTV, yes.

T: Ohh, that kind of launch. Okay, discovered music. Yeah.

D: Sharon, you’re up.

[laughter]

D: Who is the lead singer of Duran Duran?

[laughter]

D: Who is the lead singer of Duran Duran. I tried to get a good mix going here. I’m trying.

S: No clue. Don’t know. A guy named Duran. Mr Duran.

D: I know you said always go with the artist, but that is incorrect.

[laughter]

T: Okay, I was going to say James Duran.

D: Oh wow. You guys just aren’t even trying anymore.

[laughter]

D: The lead singer’s name of Duran Duran is Simon Le Bon.

T: I’d never have known that.

S: I wouldn’t have known that.

D: What is the name of the 1981 song featuring the band Queen and David Bowie?

S: It’s you Tracey.

T: Is it me? Because I know this. Under Pressure.

D: You are correct!

T: Yes! Sharon, did you know that?

S: Nope.

T: Oh my god, I knew one that Sharon didn’t know. I do this – in my corporate world, I did a presentation to Under Pressure, so that’s how I knew. I’m pretty proud of myself.

S: I’m proud of you too. That was good.

T: I’m still one behind her though, right?

D: Right. Back to Sharon now?

S: Yah.

D: Okay. What was the name of Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 album?

[laughter]

S: I can’t even think of a single name of a song by Bruce Springsteen. Wait a second. It’s like something about America, or a small town…

[laughter]

S: I don’t know! Small town.

D: What’s that?

S: Small town.

D: Small town.

T: Is it right?

D: No, it’s not that.

T: You got me scared. I used to get Bruce Springsteen, and another Bruce or another Springsteen mixed up.

S: [laughing]

T: There’s two musicians with the same part of that name.

S: [laughing]

D: Mmhmm?

T: I’ll think about it. You can’t know it – like…

D: Buffalo Springfield?

T: Springfield! Yes, yes, Springfield and Springsteen.

S: [laughing hysterically] Buffalo Springfield!

D: Different era, different genre, different…

T: I used to get them mixed up.

S: [still laughing]

D: That’s hard to do, because they’re so far apart.

[laughter]

D: But okay.

T: I’m gonna say New Jersey Boy.

[laughter]

T: Cos he’s from New Jersey, aren’t you impressed?

S: There’s no way that’s the name of his album. Oh my god. Made in America! Made in America.

D: Born in the USA was the name of the album.

S: Okay, I had it sort of right.

D: Sharon, when you’re thinking of small town, I think you’re thinking of John Couger Mellencamp who had that song.

S: Oh right, yeah.

D: Easy to get them confused, but it is not America or New Jersey Boy. It is Born in the USA.

T: But New Jersey is in the USA. And a New Jersey Boy is born in the USA.

D: He is from New Jersey so that was a good guess.

S: Alright, whose turn is it now?

T: It’s mine now.

D: Yes. You could tie it up here.

T: Oh my god.

D: But you’re not going to [laughing]

T: Oh my god, he’s gonna give me something so hard.

D: No, I’m literally going down the list. What band scored a top hit with the song Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.

T: [singing] Wake me up before you go-go What band?

D: Yeah. What band scored a top hit with the song Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.

T: ABBA.

D: What?

T: ABBA.

S: I’ve just won.

D: They had hits in the 80s, but it is not ABBA.

T: ABBA’s an 80s band, right?

D: Mmm – no, I don’t think – no, no.

S: Ready?

D: Yes.

S: Wham!

D: Oh shit, it is Wham.

T: Oh shit Sharon, I would have never gotten that in 100 years of thinking.

S: You know what, I liked those bubble-gummy poppy things.

T: Were you sneaking secular music?

D: Yeah, it sounds like you were doing some weird shit.

T: I think Sharon was sneaking some secular music while I was out on the back 40 praying. That’s what I think was happening.

S: It was under the covering of my authority who liked to listen to music. So, yes. My ex did like music and he would put on MTV every once in a while and listen to it in the car.

T: Ohh. Would I had known that Sharon?

S: Well maybe not – but we must have done it at Last Days because Whitney Houston’s Dance With Me – what year was that?

D: Umm, that was 80-something. I don’t have the year but it was probably mid-80s, 85/86.

S: Well yeah, we were compromisers about that Tracey.

T: Yeah.

S: You know who else I like, my guilty pleasures? Boy George.

D: Yeah, Culture Club.

T: That is a very guilty pleasure.

D: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. You can’t bring that cross dresser to Last Days Ministries, there’s no way.

S: I know, but I liked him. I’ll Tumble 4 Ya, cos it was just a little naughty.

D: Yeah.

T: Oh my god Sharon, you were like the…

S: Then Karma Chameleon.

T: …a deconstructer inside you for years.

S: Yeah, I think I kind of held some stuff inside.

D: Let’s drudge it up. I’m down. Couple more. What movie was Eye of the Tiger the theme song for? I want you think about this one cos it might not be as obvious to some that people might think. What movie was Eye of the Tiger the theme song for?

S: [laughing] The two options in my head are both wrong. Karate Kid or Rocky.

T: Pick one!

S: Rocky.

T: That’s right!

D: It’s not right.

T: Okay, cos I was going to say Karate Kid or Rocky, so I’ll say Karate Kid.

D: Wow. Think about it now. The first Rocky came out in the 70s.

T: Which had Eye of the Tiger.

D: Did it?

[laughter]

T: So I would say Karate Kid – those were exactly my two Sharon.

S: Oh my god, that is hysterical. Are we both wrong in the same way?

D: We’re gonna void this question out and no one’s gonna – it was Rocky 3.

T & S: Ohh.

D: Rocky 1 & 2 came out in the 70s. Rocky 3 was the first one in the 80s.

S: Okay, but you know what I love, Tracey, is that you and I had the same wrong answers.

[laughter]

D: And that is tough to do. That’s hard to do.

[laughter]

D: Alright. Last question.

S: Wait, what’s the score.

T: You’re winning, Sharon.

D: Sharon 9, Tracey 7.

S: Okay, we’re gonna do this one and then we’re gonna go back and pull a couple more from the movie thing so that Tracey gets a chance.

T: Cos you were sneaking MTV at Last Days – I mean, who’s the winner here?

[laughter]

D: I mean, she followed her faith. Sharon, I don’t think you did.

S: We already know that.

D: But…

S: Whose is it – it’s to Tracey.

T: It is to me.

D: What band is known for Livin On A Prayer and You Give Love a Bad Name?

T: [singing] You give love a bad name…Aerosmith.

D: Jesus Christ.

[laughter]

D: That was as much of a lay up as I could possibly give.

S: Is it Van Halen?

D: No. No. No!

T: That would have been my other guess Sharon! Is it Van Halen or is it Aerosmith? Or Styx. Styx would have been my other guess.

D: Bon Jovi.

T & S: Ohhh.

S: Oh that’s right, there’s that other dude, yeah.

T: There is another band out there – Bon Jovi.

[laughter]

S: Okay. Pull out a few of the movie ones.

D: I have a couple more that we can do.

T: Okay. Double or nothing.

S: Are we gonna do double or nothing?

T: Yeah, because that’s the only way I can win, so if it’s double or nothing then we tie, then if you win the game’s over, you won.

S: So this is the final question?

T: I won’t be able to come back from it, yeah.

S: Are we gonna give you the final question, or two final questions?

D: I was gonna say, if you get this right double or nothing, then you tie.

T: Yeah, so that’s the thing, then there’ll be a tie breaker.

D: So two questions.

T: But if I miss it, then Sharon it is your game and I take off my bow to you.

D: Okay. Are you ready?

T: I’m ready.

D: Who directed the 1980 movie, The Shining?

T: Oh, I do know this. Kubrick.

D: Don’t get too cocky, you just tied. That is correct. Stanley Kubrick.

T: Woohoo. Did you know that Sharon?

S: I did not know that.

T: Oh my god you didn’t know that!

S: No, I didn’t.

T: I’m so proud of myself.

S: I didn’t watch worldly movies.

[laughter]

D: She just listened to secular music, that’s all she did.

T: Yeah, you had a few years to catch up Sharon. Okay, so we’re tied, and that was a little unfair, so Sharon really had the advantage.

S: No, no, two more questions, one to me and one to her, let’s see what we do.

T: Okay.

D: Alright. How many Star Wars movies were released in the 1980s?

T: And that’s to Sharon cos I just answered.

D: It is to Sharon. How many Star Wars films were released in the 1980s?

S: One.

D: That is incorrect. Tracey?

T: Two.

D: It is two. That’s two points, is that what we’re doing?

T: No, now we’re back to one and one.

D: Okay.

S: So Tracey gets one more.

D: Okay, so Tracey you pulled ahead by a point.

T: I did.

D: What is the name of the protagonist in The Terminator?

T: [laughing] I’ve never seen a Terminator movie, ever.

S: Oh my god.

T: So I’m gonna say Angela.

S: Sarah Connor.

D: It is Sarah Connor.

T: Ohhh. We’re tied! Good job! I knew it was like, a girl’s name.

S: Shall we just end on the tie?

T: Ohh.

S: Shall we just end on a tie because we love each other and support each other so much.

T: It’s up to Don, he’s the master of ceremonies.

S: Or we could do a speed round.

T: We could do a speed round; you say it and then whoever answers it the fastest.

D: Just like one more, whoever answers it first?

T: Yep.

S: Sure. It’s like penalty kicks in the Word Cup.

D: What 1987 science fiction film includes the line Get to the chopper!

T: uh, uh, Terminator!

S: No. It’s not that. Get to the chopper! Predator.

D: It is Predator.

T: Oh, she got it – you know what, my bow’s off to you, that was really good – that was Arnold Schwarzenegger, right?

D: It was.

S: Yeah, the only reason I know that is my husband Dave, that’s his favorite movie of all time.

T: His favorite movie of all time?

S: Which I don’t get.

D: It’s a solid movie.

T: So you can say thank you babe, you let me win.

S: Thank you my love, you made me win this whole thing.

T: So Don, do you have any last words that you want to say to us?

D: Your fucking trivia skills need to improve. I mean, this is not the best showing. No, it was fun, I had a good time.

S: Did you expect us to do better?

D: I did. I did. I don’t want to lie on this show, but I  thought the movie and music was going to be a struggle. I really thought the general 80s knowledge of historical things …

[laughter]

D: I forgot that at Last Days you were no allowed to read newspapers or have any concept of the outside world, so that is my mistake. But yeah, I did think so – but no, you guys did fine. You did a good job.

T: Oh, thank you so much.

S: Thank you Don, you were fantastic.

T: Yes, this will be so great.

D: This was fun.

T: Sharon, did you have anything you want to say as the winner?

S: As the winner? I just want you to get that fucking score sheet up on the website, woman!

T: Okay, I will do that. That’s your prize. Your prize for winning is we’ll get the scoreboard up.

S: Okay, I’ll take that. I think we should say thank you to the listeners who’ve gone through this torture session with us.

[laughter]

T: I think so! And realize that if you ever want to get a trivia team together, make sure they were not in a cult commune for any period of time, because it really will put you at a disadvantage.

S: Alright folks, thanks for listening and we’ll see you next time.

T: Bye bye.

D: See ya.