100% Badass: The Carl Weathers Interview

 

"It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips." Behold...Carl Weathers.

Questions for Carl Weathers?

In what will almost certainly go down as the greatest interview in the history of interviews, the Stuck in the '80s team of Daly and Spears are chatting with the totally awesome Carl Weathers on Thursday. Aka Apollo Creed (!) and Action Jackson (!!) and Chubbs Peterson (!!!), the 61-year-old Weathers is currently starring with fellow former footballer Michael Strahan on the FOX sitcom Brothers. Weathers has been a dream interview of mine for years. Why? Because he's a &!%$# badass that's why! I mean, come on! He's Carl &!%$# Weathers, man! Are you ready? Are you set? Ding...ding!

WHO HAS QUESTIONS FOR CARL WEATHERS?

Crave more Cusack? Here you go, kids...

 

* The Stuck in the '80s tandem of Daly and Spears continues to bicker about the 10 Best John Cusack Movies -- this time, in the newspaper. RAGE FORTH.

* St. Pete Times film critic Steve Persall pens a downright brilliant critique on new Cusack disaster-porn flick 2012. READ THAT.

* And for your lunchtime listening pleasure, cue up our John Cusack podcast. LISTEN HERE. 
 

PODCAST! 'Grosse Pointe Blank' is John Cusack's best movie (and 'High Fidelity' sucks)

 

The unfairly handsome Stuck in the '80s podcast team of Daly and Spears is back, baby! This month, John Cusack celebrates the 20th anniversary of Say Anything... and the release of disaster-porn epic 2012. So we thought this would be a swell time to honor the Top 10 Flicks of our definitive '80s actor. (Or is he?) Prepare to disagree with everything Sean says RIGHT HERE.

C-3PO dishes the dirt! A chat with Anthony Daniels, the man behind the golden mask

 

"Mark Hamill and I would go through lines in the car and I remember saying, 'How can you say this drivel with a straight face?' And he said, 'Well, look at what you have to say.' I said, 'But I have a mask on. None of my friends know I'm in this movie.' Some of the lines were absolutely wince-making. We were all wrong. George was all right." READ ON, YOUNG JEDIS! 

PODCAST! Guilty Pleasure Songs of the '80s (or why is John "Staying Alive" Travolta so oily?)

Aww yeah, a little something for the ladies. Soak it in, my sisters. Just the thing to kickstart your Tuesday: a lubed-up Johnny T. You can thank me later -- or after you listen to this week's Stuck in the '80s show, which is all about the Guilty Pleasure Songs of that magical decade. Our deranged listeners picked the Top 10 doozies that make you wanna holler...and roll up your car windows so no one can hear your shame. Naturally, Frank Stallone's resiliently rocking Far From Over is on there; that was the title track from Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive, which somehow used more body oil than a Jenna Jameson movie. We discuss that cultural wrinkle, and all the other fine things in life, on a show that must be heard. LISTEN! LEARN! LUBE! 

'Stache of Perfection: SD's Hall & Oates Top 5

 

For a great chunk of the ’70s and ’80s, blue-eyed-soulsters Daryl Hall and John Oates worked in pop perfection. Peerless in the art of pristine hooks, the Philly boys were downright Beatlesesque in conjuring a consistent effervescent magic. Everything this musical Mutt & Jeff touched was destined to get stuck in your brain pan. Their short, sweet songs may not have been deep, and Oates’ mustache might have been distracting, but it made for blissful radio. And wow, does it endure.

To promote their new 4-CD box set, the must-have Do What You Want, Be What You Are, the super duo appears in the latest ish of Entertainment Weekly. Hall provides a list of his “greatest songs”: She’s Gone, Sara Smile, Every Time You Go Away, You Make My Dreams and One on One. That’s a fine list...but I beg to differ. Here are Hall & Oates’ best songs — according to your man at Pop Life.

Wait for Me (1979) The brilliance of H&O can be found in small, crucial touches. Here’s it’s the bittersweetly escalating “La la”s that add candy-coated heartache.

Private Eyes (1981) Best use of synthetic handclaps ever!

Did It in a Minute (1981) Pure silly sing-along bliss.

I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do) (1981) Most of the song is just average, but that harmonized bridge is their greatest moment as a duo. “I’ll do anything that you want me toooooo...”

Out of Touch (1984) There’s a small, twisted cult of us who understand the genius of the Big Bam Boom album. Join the club, won’t you?

Crave more Oates action? Listen to our great Stuck in the '80s interview with the man, the myth, the mustache RIGHT HERE.

PODCAST! Stewart Copeland Interview

 

After a brutal hiatus filled with acrimony, second-thoughts and hoagies, the dynamic Stuck in the '80s duo of Daly and Spears is back with an action-packed show. Our comeback special features a shocking interview with Police beat-keeper Stewart Copeland, who isn't afraid to call Sting "a motherf-----." There's also a startling revelation about Spears and his cousin gamboling in a hot tub, but the less said about that the better. Welcome back, everybody. Your dreams were your ticket out. LISTEN UP!!!

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PODCAST! "Wolverrrrrinnnnnes!!!"

Hey '80s Nation, the latest podcast from your friends Steve, Cathy and SD is up and running. This week, we bow our buttery popcorn and pay respect to Mr. Patrick Swayze. But don't expect moping and moying. This show is a celebration of the iron-jawed actor. (Seriously, Swayze had a helluva skull, didn't he?) This ep of Stuck in the '80s also includes a vitrolic letter from Finland damning the scourge known as Sean Daly. LISTEN UP!

PODCAST! Too many nights in 'Bangkok'

This week's Stuck in the '80s podcast is all about the Horrible Hits of 1985. This includes Murray Head's One Night in Bangkok -- which, in turn, produced some horrible (painful, potentially neutering) hits of its own. Basically, if you were a 15-year-old male in 1985, you were obligated by the strictures of teen idiocy to whack your friends in the naughty bits whenever Murray Head uttered the word "Bangkok." You didn't necessarily want to do this; but you kinda had to. Besides, if you didn't strike first, you'd be blindsided by a pal who had no problems with the rules of the game. It was survival of the fittest (or whomever wore a cup during their pubescent years). Anyway, I explain all these Darwinian principles on the show. LISTEN UP (AND PROTECT YOURSELF).