During the earliest days of this millennium, I took part in a kind of history series, an ambitious survey that explored milestones in American culture decade by decade.

Of course, I'm talking about...

I love the 80s.

And after I Love the 80s, there was...

I love 90s.

And really, who could forget?

I love a 70s. I love the 70s.

What made Dynasty work was the catfights.

Yeah, he went from John Cougar to John Cougar Mellencamp, and I thought, did he get married?

John Travolta's ass, an urban cowboy, is.

There should be a shrine built to it.

It was a classy show featuring a panoply of commentators, and I was one of them,

pondering complex topics like 1980s hospital dramas.

Saint Elsewhere was an hour-long drama. It starred Mark Harmon as Dr. Bubby Caldwell.

Comedian and actor Michael Ian Black was another contributor.

I thought, if anything, the title, That's Incredible, was an understatement of how incredible the things on That's Incredible were.

We didn't really know each other back then, but I distinctly remember his take on the 1981 Neanderthal epic Quest for Fire. While most of us were obsessed

with the film's nudity, Michael took the high road. I was really looking at it more from an

anthropological point of view than to see Ray Don Chones' Tat-Tas. And it's that prehistory that's

our subject this episode.

Since Quest for Fire, we've learned some stunning trudes about Neanderthals.

And I knew who I wanted to discuss this topic with, my friend Michael Ian Black.

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