About Us: Sick Burns! An 80’s Podcast
Love 80’s music but find some of it problematic in today’s context? Have we got a podcast for you! In Sick Burns on 80’s Music, two Gen X’ers — a corporate PR pro and an English professor — take a critical look at hit songs of the 80’s. Friends since high school now living in different rust-belt cities, you may hear an adolescent reminiscence or two as we break down memories of the songs we discuss.
About Your Hosts
Margaret is a full-time corporate communicator and a part-time podcaster.
- Controversial opinions: Prefers winter to summer, bourbon to vodka, baseball to football.
- The nicest compliment she ever received was when the dentist told her she was more highly evolved than other humans because she was born without wisdom teeth.
- Addicted to nostalgia; loves digging through old documents, missed a calling as an archivist or reference librarian.
- Salvaging buried treasure runs in the family – her great, great, great grandfather was a deep-sea diver who salvaged shipwrecks off the coast of England during the 1800’s wearing a big metal diving helmet like that one ghost in the Scooby Doo cartoon
- Played flute in the grade school band.
- Leslie Knope on a good day, Tracy Flick on a bad day.
- Preferred hot beverage – builder’s tea.
Elizabeth is a full-time college professor and laundress, and a part-time podcaster.
- Favorite snack: Triscuits and Velveeta
- Cannot abide wearing the color orange, maybe from Browns-inflicted trauma
- Finds Karate Kid to be a perfect movie, without any flaw except the math at the end
- Elizabeth is so Gen-X, she feels disaffected by her extreme Gen-X-i-tude
- Currently has hair reminiscent of Dee Snider’s
Want to be part of the conversation? Email us or leave a digital voicemail with the tab at right!
Hello to Elizabeth and Margaret.
I very much enjoyed your podcast about Red Red Wine. Thank you for helping a fellow Gen X’er take a happy and educational walk down memory lane. (Seriously though you guys, I am digging on the trivia.)
You had mentioned “Pass the Dutchie”, and I would love it if you would burrow down the ole hole and let us know a bit more about that song (the patois “Dutchie” is a joint I think??) as well as the band Musical Youth.
I don’t remember where I read this (Beastie Boys Book, maybe?), but there is a story that the recording company that Musical Youth was with was created simply as a way to launder money. I realize I can google all of this myself, but I would rather you two tell me about it. You are much more entertaining than the google.