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8th October 1981 USA, Part 1

Ep. 75

Hold On Tight, Urgent, Private Eyes, Start Me Up, Step By Step


Yippee Ki-Yay! This week James and Andy discuss an American Billboard Top 10 (albeit still randomly generated and selected) to ostensibly celebrate Thanksgiving. They explore the stories, statistics and stuff and nonsense behind the songs and, fittingly, they also speculate on T-bones, hand claps, 3-step programmes and bloody Foreigner... and there's a new game called "Yacht or Not?"


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