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Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

Give him up for Mike.

Coming to you live on tape.

On tape during week 96 of quarantine.

From my 8 year old son's bedroom in rapidly gentrifying

Culver City adjacent California,

boasting a partially obstructed view of the smog shrouded urban sprawl of the city of angels.

This is the Tully show.

I am your host Mike Tully.

Joining me today, a music journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic

Pitch Fork, and many more. The subject of our conversation today is his latest book, Can't

Slow Down, how 1984 became Pop's blockbuster year.

Hello and welcome Michelangelo Matos.

Thanks for having me.

Thank you so much for accommodating me on relatively short notice.

As you know, I've had my hands on a PDF of your book for some time

and I've been anxiously looking forward to discussing it with you.

You have a great story to tell and you have told it

very very well and engagingly laying it out chronologically so you're kind of right

back there in the year of 1984. I was a little bit surprised now. We all kind of jump to

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