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Our Top VMA Moments | Pop Culture History Lesson

Ringer Dish

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Zack Peter and Wosny Lambre join forces to discuss the cultural significance of the MTV Video Music Awards, which occur every August. Together, they examine the shocking fashion choices to come out of the awards show, as well as the most pivotal (and controversial) moments from past performances. Hosts: Zack Peter and Wosny Lambre Producers: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Are you tuning in to the Challenge USA on CBS?

0:04.2

Well tune in to me, Tyson Apostle, as I break down each and every episode with my co-host,

0:10.2

Amelia Wedamire. I'm also a contestant on the show, which gives you all the insider scoop.

0:15.2

Amelia, how stoked are you to do this? Tyson, I'm freaking excited. I cannot wait

0:19.7

to sit my butt down every single week to watch the show, then come here and recap it with you on

0:25.2

the Ringer Reality TV podcast.

0:38.7

Hello guys and welcome on in to our pop culture history lesson today. Today we are recapping the

0:45.8

top moments from the VMAs. I'm Zach Peter and welcome my co-host.

0:52.5

Big was aka was in that break.

0:54.8

Big was exact is the first time we're ever potting together. I'm so happy that we're finally

1:00.0

getting to do this. I know was I am so excited to have a fellow pop culture junkie that

1:08.0

used to love watching the VMAs. I'm kind of sad to see that the VMAs have kind of died a bit like

1:14.4

the golden era of the VMAs has since expired. So like I don't know how old you are.

1:21.3

Zach, but I'm 35 and just basically every single day it feels like I'm being reminded of

1:27.5

something that was like a cultural temple of my younger life is now just an artifact.

1:34.8

We're talking about the VMAs, but it may just as well be like AOL or any other artifact from

1:44.5

back in the days that used to literally be a part of our daily lives. We would come home,

1:49.6

watch MTV, TRL or in my case even shit like rap city on BT and just be glued to the TV watching

1:58.0

music videos in a time where this shit wasn't on demand. Like it wasn't just, oh I want to watch

2:04.2

a you know a Drake video right now. Let me just pop it onto YouTube and I could just watch it.

2:09.5

The only way we could watch these videos was when these channels played them for us.

2:15.4

I mean I missed here out like those were really the golden days of like VH1 and MTV when it

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