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The Gist

The Year MTV Took Over the Charts

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 1982, MTV started guiding Billboard's taste in music. The year was filled with elaborate videos and cheesy ballads. Chris Molanphy takes us through all the hand claps and synth vibes of that year's Billboard hits. Molanphy writes Slate's Why Is This Song No. 1 column and hosts the podcast Hit Parade.  In the Spiel: The last time anything good happened to Donald Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.4

It's Friday, August 18th, 2017 from Slate, it's the Justime, Mike Casca. Steve Bannon

0:44.2

is out of the White House. He is houseless. He is homeless. That explains the appearance.

0:50.4

Steve Bannon was a crafty, though a moral strategist and a naveler of Trump's worst instincts

0:55.6

and a rabble rouser of the worst order and a pox, just a free floating generalized pox.

1:04.0

He looked like the kind of guy that when a Trump's door men would shoe to the curb. He acted

1:09.3

towards neo-nazis, like a pentacostal snake handler, acts towards asps and adders, and he

1:16.6

thought like someone who was a little too fascistic for Mussolini. It's true. Julius

1:22.7

Evola. That guy was his inspiration. Also Mussolini's inspiration.

1:27.3

It's good that Steve Bannon's gone. It's worse that he was ever there. It's uncertain

1:31.3

about what will happen in his wake. Trump promoted John Kelly to Chief of Staff, and he

1:39.0

has at least retained Madison McMaster. He, on the other hand, brought in Lewandowski

1:44.8

in an official capacity. He hired then fired Scaramucci within a week. He has since elevated

1:50.5

hope, hicks to take Scaramucci's old job. The good, or let's say, good-ish, you know,

1:56.8

sane, somewhat smart, qualified people within the administration, people like Gary

2:01.6

Cohn or Elaine Chao. They all started out with him at a time when it seemed like the man

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