June 15-21, 1980: The Shining/Funkytown
Quantum Week
Quantum Week
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🗓️ 5 June 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Quantum Week, June 15th through 21st, 1980. |
| 0:18.4 | Quantum Week. Welcome to Quantum Week. I'm Matt. I'm Chris. |
| 0:20.2 | Quantum Week is a show in which Chris and I leap into a random week of a random year and talk about movies, music, headlines, stories, culture. Today we are in June. Culture. |
| 0:29.6 | 1980 with The Shining and Funky Town by Lips Inc. It's such a weird name. Well, Lipsank. Get it? |
| 0:37.8 | No, I didn't get it actually until you just said it. That's stupid of me. Lips Inc. It's such a weird name. Well, Lipsink. No, I didn't get it actually until you just said it. |
| 0:39.9 | That's stupid of me. |
| 0:41.1 | Lipsink. |
| 0:41.9 | Holy fuck. |
| 0:42.7 | They wanted to call it that, but I guess it was already taken, so they went with that. |
| 0:46.0 | I wonder if they did that because the woman in the video actually lip synced it, |
| 0:49.2 | but they didn't know that at the time. |
| 0:50.3 | I didn't see the video. They have a video? Yeah. It was before MTV. Yeah. I guess he was still a video. |
| 0:54.4 | I guess, promotional video. |
| 0:55.4 | And it's, |
| 0:55.7 | there's the woman who, |
| 0:57.5 | we'll get into this later, |
| 0:58.1 | but the woman who sings it is from the time, |
| 1:00.2 | Morris Day and the time. |
| 1:00.9 | Oh, |
| 1:01.1 | you're obsessed with, yeah. |
| 1:02.2 | I was, |
| 1:02.5 | everything has back to Morrissey, And everything in the 80s, I think, at some level, it's a seven degrees from separation. |
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