Speaker 1: Chenzy and Amanda in the morning Top five.
Speaker 2: I'm clumping myself.
Speaker 3: He is pleasure to have you here.
Speaker 2: Guys, Genes here too.
Speaker 1: We all work in the same building, so it's the
Speaker 1: A R. N Umbrella brand, but we do this podcast.
Speaker 1: We addore you, We admire you. I'm a radio nerd,
Speaker 1: Mitch is a radio nerd, and the two of you
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 3: It's very kind of you and finally enough when we
Speaker 3: needed eighties music experts, you were the first people we
Speaker 3: thought of.
Speaker 4: Well, that's in our wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: For our eightieth episode, we're doing the top five eighty song.
Speaker 2: My eighties because they were my formative dancing years.
Speaker 1: Disco at the disco.
Speaker 2: It wasn't called I was pre disco. This was just
Speaker 2: where we'd go out dancing around the handbags.
Speaker 5: But I had my head kind of shaved like flock
Speaker 5: of seagulls and it was all it was a that
Speaker 5: was I was the new wave, ere.
Speaker 4: Punk was there?
Speaker 2: Was there? Hey, guys, would you mind wearing a ruffled shirt?
Speaker 1: And then that it was the distinction, got it? You
Speaker 1: would have known all the songs would have been new
Speaker 1: for you at the time because you're on radio. When
Speaker 1: did you start on.
Speaker 4: I started in nineteen ninety, but yeah, it was, but
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 6: I used to work in a disco down the snow
Speaker 6: called the Schlos Bar.
Speaker 3: What I can't say that with my lisp.
Speaker 6: I was the DJ down there, and the big song
Speaker 6: at the time was Chain Reaction by Diana Ross.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you was filler.
Speaker 6: That was a floor filler common arts Don't Leave Me
Speaker 6: this Way. It was a massive floor filler.
Speaker 5: I think when people are drinking in the snow, you know,
Speaker 5: you could put the seekers on and people would dance curiously.
Speaker 6: Though, what's it called bon Jovi Living on a Prayer
Speaker 6: that came out at that time, but it never really
Speaker 6: filled the floor.
Speaker 1: Legally it does, yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: The strangest thing, it's kind of like Dale were Bothwaite
Speaker 3: the Horse many years after it was actually released, and
Speaker 3: now all.
Speaker 1: These songs are being remixed and we're playing them on
Speaker 1: our radio station. Very weird, strange times, strange times. So
Speaker 1: we've each brought two songs. I brought to Mitches, brought.
Speaker 4: To jen Fills.
Speaker 2: The fifth one, which is just be is your favorite
Speaker 2: eighties songs?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 2: And what would you like us to.
Speaker 3: Do well after you've heard them? All you can rank
Speaker 3: them one to five. You de signed the top five
Speaker 3: in order.
Speaker 1: So we will begin. This is my first song, call me,
Speaker 1: am I. You don't have to see.
Speaker 4: Such a range.
Speaker 1: Mitch so excited to show it off. That's mine, Isn't
Speaker 1: that brilliant?
Speaker 2: I love that song.
Speaker 4: That is that's great song from the movie American Great film.
Speaker 3: When she says called me. That was something completely different
Speaker 3: in the eighties. Home phones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: There was one phone in the house and you had
Speaker 5: to We had a code word. If you're talking to
Speaker 5: a boy, you'd say, I'm doing the washing up, which
Speaker 5: meant Mum's listening.
Speaker 1: Hold on, so if you were on the phone in
Speaker 1: the bedroom, you could hear the conversation of the other room.
Speaker 2: In the bedroom.
Speaker 5: There was one phone in the middle of the house
Speaker 5: in a hallway and a phone table, and you had
Speaker 5: to sit at that little table for any phone conversation,
Speaker 5: and you had to.
Speaker 6: You had to ask your parents if you could use
Speaker 6: the phone. Yea, and really thirty mum, could I use
Speaker 6: the phone?
Speaker 2: No, Betty's phoning, so be quick.
Speaker 3: Do you find it weird that people's attitudes towards phone
Speaker 3: calls have changed completely because now people just watch their
Speaker 3: iPhones ring and just choose to ignore it. Home phones,
Speaker 3: it was like, drop everything, we can't miss this call.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the curious thing is with my friends and maybe
Speaker 6: this is a reflection of me. But we'll be talking
Speaker 6: about something and in the group of people you'll say,
Speaker 6: they'll ask your opinion about something. Yeah, and then as
Speaker 6: soon as you start talking, they'll start scrolling through the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And people's attention spans has now dropped to about five seconds.
Speaker 4: You got five seconds to get a pitch engine.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I just completely you really want all right?
Speaker 1: Song number two is still mine already shower in the
Speaker 1: wait for the head.
Speaker 5: Working Jonsey and I use this a little as Alzheimer's test.
Speaker 2: We do all the lyrics from beginning to end.
Speaker 4: A couple of.
Speaker 1: Your face is dripping.
Speaker 2: That's a palsy. That's different.
Speaker 1: Sorry, isn't that a good song?
Speaker 2: That's a great song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it still stands up. Dolly's around, Dolly still going,
Speaker 1: She's iconic. So that they're my two picks.
Speaker 4: Okay, I love that.
Speaker 1: So Brendan's got Brendan. I like it. That's like when
Speaker 1: you call your dad his first name they felt very weird.
Speaker 2: Call the teacher, Mom, I like it.
Speaker 1: So what do I do?
Speaker 4: I have to say, no, don't.
Speaker 1: I've got to hear all of them. Do you want
Speaker 1: to do your little pream?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So my first one, I'm a bit uncertain about it,
Speaker 3: but it's a nassy one. I wanted to throw Anozzy
Speaker 3: one in there. It's got like a bit of a
Speaker 3: sentimental background. It was like, we had this home video
Speaker 3: when I was growing up of mom and dad dancing
Speaker 3: in the laundroom and it was just so wholesome and lovely.
Speaker 3: Mum had the tea towel in her hand. She'd just
Speaker 3: taken a brief moment from you know, being a busy
Speaker 3: mum to dance with her husband in the lound room.
Speaker 3: And it was to this song throw your Arms around
Speaker 3: Me and collectors.
Speaker 6: Beautiful song, and I'll started to the room in summer Star.
Speaker 2: I've got a song, a story for this song to.
Speaker 3: Do you stuff?
Speaker 2: Good story?
Speaker 1: What's your story?
Speaker 5: Mine is that when my husband, who was my boyfriend
Speaker 5: at the time, came to my place to propose to me,
Speaker 5: and he was at the door in a suit and
Speaker 5: he had a bag with him, and I.
Speaker 2: Said, what's happened. Where are you going? And he said,
Speaker 2: I've just no I need to come in for a second.
Speaker 5: And he came in and he opened up the bag
Speaker 5: and there was a bunch of carnations and a bottle
Speaker 5: of champagne. And he got down his hands and knee
Speaker 5: not me, and he said, will you marry me? And
Speaker 5: so I went put on a bridesmaid's dress that I'd
Speaker 5: worn a few months before, and we put this song
Speaker 5: on repeat.
Speaker 2: I think of this song. I think of that.
Speaker 4: And didn't he say, to you with the flowers, get
Speaker 4: used to it.
Speaker 5: No, that was the first time we ever went out.
Speaker 5: He brought me a bunch of flowers. He said, get
Speaker 5: used to them. And I've never had any sense and
Speaker 5: he said, well I meant that bunch.
Speaker 4: And didn't you have it off in the in the
Speaker 4: pile of old wedding dresses?
Speaker 2: No, I had that bridesmaid's dress on.
Speaker 1: How many dress do you have dresses?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I just went I had it off in that dress.
Speaker 2: Then the information just then.
Speaker 4: Was the song still playing?
Speaker 1: Was this song still playing? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably three four dressing.
Speaker 5: As you can imagine a bridesmaid's dress to the dry cleaner,
Speaker 5: that's look like it's.
Speaker 2: Been new.
Speaker 1: All right, good pick Mitchell.
Speaker 3: That I feel like I've won, Amanda. Now I do
Speaker 3: love a ballad. So my other pick is also a
Speaker 3: big belter, total eclipse of the heart.
Speaker 6: Jeff, you look in your.
Speaker 4: You a man.
Speaker 1: I could do this. Actually, this is banger.
Speaker 2: This is my karaoke. Wow, these are great song and.
Speaker 6: Rod Stewart could have sang that song and they could
Speaker 6: have gone on the road as a tourist and presented
Speaker 6: by Fisherman's friends or suitors.
Speaker 3: Were going to rate higher than yours.
Speaker 4: Just quietly pop radio guys. That's as popposite got.
Speaker 1: My songs were as popposite God in those times. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm ready to general. Are you ready for
Speaker 1: your life? I am, and I think the last one
Speaker 1: is the best one.
Speaker 3: I'm not even going to explain.
Speaker 1: It, just play. It sells itself.
Speaker 3: A water boy, The hell is this?
Speaker 1: Give it something?
Speaker 4: Yeah? The water boys.
Speaker 1: Now, I've never heard this in my life.
Speaker 3: Never.
Speaker 2: You know you're lacking exactly.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's Jenna's old soul coming.
Speaker 4: Through your bucket and the wind that came like a comet.
Speaker 1: You're still talking about address, Oh, well, that's who is there?
Speaker 2: Mentioned your the water boys, the water.
Speaker 3: All right, there we go.
Speaker 1: All right, you've got them there.
Speaker 3: Who do you want to to give you time to deliberated?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 4: Are we going to do? Are we doing this as individual?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 3: Wow, this headphones off, Pretend we're not giving I know
Speaker 3: what you're going to do.
Speaker 1: Use it.
Speaker 2: I'll put it together and then we'll hand that in.
Speaker 6: That's what you're to do, what you would do, and
Speaker 6: I would imagine that to me is how I'm thinking,
Speaker 6: That's how it could be with the possibility of that
Speaker 6: as a change.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking.
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, don't forget the first ones?
Speaker 4: So there we have it. Time do you want us
Speaker 4: to open?
Speaker 1: Open your eyes? All right, hold on, we'll do a
Speaker 1: We'll do a drum roll and if you want to
Speaker 1: announce it.
Speaker 4: You're going to go radio five to one?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, coming into number five. As good as it is,
Speaker 4: it's a bit of an album track.
Speaker 7: The Whole of the Moon Jenna, we love that loves
Speaker 7: the audience to the clips of the Heart coming in
Speaker 7: at number four the other day that would be number
Speaker 7: one is a chury.
Speaker 6: Pick call Me Blondie. Yeah, please, it's Saturday number two.
Speaker 6: It's three your arms around me, It's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, the.
Speaker 1: Lyrics you've got it. Oh, it's so good. Have you
Speaker 1: ever interviewed? I don't want to interviewed. Was it this year?
Speaker 4: This last year?
Speaker 2: This year on over the zoom It was Christmas.
Speaker 5: She got her book out of all those songs that
Speaker 5: she printed them in a beautiful book and we interviewed
Speaker 5: her and could see her.
Speaker 2: We did a zoom thing.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a highlight of my life. She was so charming.
Speaker 2: She really is icon through the years, all the right reasons.
Speaker 4: Do you The song Islands in the Stream, which is
Speaker 4: sung with Kenny, was written by Barry.
Speaker 3: Gibb Mitch, do you know who Barry Gip is?
Speaker 6: Of course, yeah, so they He didn't have anyone to
Speaker 6: Lionel Ritchie was originally going to sing.
Speaker 4: Islands in the Street, a very different thing.
Speaker 6: And I and Lionel said I want to sing this,
Speaker 6: and then Bowry rang keny can he rogers really and
Speaker 6: said you get someone?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 4: Could we get Dolly Partner sing this with you? And
Speaker 4: he said, well, I'll go and ask her. And Kenny
Speaker 4: went into the bathroom where Dolly.
Speaker 1: Was she was in the bar the point man.
Speaker 5: He was recording at her studio. It wasn't that they
Speaker 5: were living together and sharing a toilet, but she was
Speaker 5: in the bath and he walked in and you're over egging.
Speaker 4: The island's in the street.
Speaker 2: That's a visual joke he's making there.
Speaker 4: That's it's great.
Speaker 1: I think Amanda is the Mitchell and I'm the Jonesy
Speaker 1: of our show. It's very I found the dynamic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so true. Actually, I'm here. It's too Actually,
Speaker 3: Amanda often calls you by your full name, Brendan.
Speaker 4: I knew his name.
Speaker 3: I'm like Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Intelligence, Intelligence, the cute one always in front of you
Speaker 1: in the four ground of the marketing pictures.
Speaker 3: It's the hype, guys, you got to go to that.
Speaker 1: I Meander and I have very similar haircuts. We have
Speaker 1: the same hairdresser. I think, well, wow, you.
Speaker 2: Cut jones Is. Have you seen in the back of
Speaker 2: it have a look back. That was unfortunate. I didn't
Speaker 2: know a guard was supposed to go.
Speaker 1: On to clips a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a look at brain injury thing.
Speaker 1: This was so fun for us. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2: I love that. Thank you. Why do we do songs
Speaker 2: of the nineteen twenties?
Speaker 3: Next? Nice spring to mind?
Speaker 1: Enough, I'm going backtown strutters Ball, I'm picking the last post.
Speaker 1: That's my head.
Speaker 3: Hey, before we let you go, I wanted to ask
Speaker 3: one question of you, Amanda. We've got a lot of
Speaker 3: young listeners, a lot of them females, So I thought,
Speaker 3: let's absorb some Amanda Kella wisdom.
Speaker 2: What would you like to know?
Speaker 3: So let's just pretend you can go back to little
Speaker 3: Amanda Kella in her twenties. What advice would you give her?
Speaker 5: I would say, just go for it. Don't have any
Speaker 5: nation in mind. I always thought anxious that I didn't
Speaker 5: know what I wanted my career to be, what jobs
Speaker 5: I wanted. And so it's the side doors for me
Speaker 5: where all the adventure has come. And that's what I
Speaker 5: think has given me my one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 5: year career or my longevity. That I just went sideways
Speaker 5: a lot, and that saved me.
Speaker 4: Did the proposal the front door?
Speaker 2: And that's my other thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mitchell's careers over there.
Speaker 3: In that case, what about twenty year old Jonesy any
Speaker 3: advice for him?
Speaker 4: When that thirty year old woman puts a hard word
Speaker 4: on you were nineteen.
Speaker 2: Take her up on it unless she's in a bridesmaid's dress.
Speaker 1: Can I say one thing very quickly? I know you
Speaker 1: have to go. But I used to work shy boys
Speaker 1: through and through, and I used to work at Cole's
Speaker 1: in Southgate when I left school and I worked there
Speaker 1: and I wanted to get into radio. It was an
Speaker 1: aspiration of money. I loved it, but I wasn't in.
Speaker 1: It had no in. And I was at coals in
Speaker 1: My mom said, Jonesy lives in the Shire and his wife.
Speaker 1: I always see her in Ale three. She loves the broadbeats.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm embellishing. And she said, if you ever get
Speaker 1: this woman held up an A four photo, this is
Speaker 1: this is Jonesy's wife. You you put a hard word
Speaker 1: on her, and you say, I want a job with
Speaker 1: your husband, and I you know, the day she came through,
Speaker 1: I packed it in. I was I knew it was her.
Speaker 1: I had this visual image of your beautiful wife in
Speaker 1: my mind and I was there at the checkout. I
Speaker 1: was at eighteen scanning her items like a cholesterol diet
Speaker 1: to check out and it's a meta musal. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I said I love to meet you, and you were
Speaker 1: there at the ATM getting a wad of cash or something.
Speaker 1: But you were there and I couldn't do it. I
Speaker 1: was terrified. I know, well, here we are. It came
Speaker 1: for look at that. But I had to tell you
Speaker 1: that my mum. I don't know why she knew that
Speaker 1: you lived in the area or who your wife was,
Speaker 1: but it's a local. You're a local myth, a local myth.
Speaker 2: And she was a myth, I said, And your wife
Speaker 2: was a myth of yeah, she was. Are you mocking
Speaker 2: my listen?
Speaker 1: I don't know what was your number one rule show business?
Speaker 1: Be nice? Come on and bully Mitch. All right, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being here. Guys. Well it was fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: This has been amazing.
Speaker 2: We love you guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: That was fun?
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