I think that if we were going to have a big Senate hearing about something irrelevant in the mid-80s,

we should have had one about Gremlins.

Welcome to Irong about where often our problems come back to the Gipper,

but sometimes they come back to the tipper. That was our first homemade satanic rhyme.

It's a tribute to Michelle this week. It's a tribute to Michelle sweet Satan.

I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Hovering and Post. I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working

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Yeah, or not, whatever. Yeah, if you like. But here we are, we're going to talk about the war on

porn rock. Yes. And I think we're going to have a good time. Just like the Senators had on September

19th, 1985, when they had their little hearing. We're going to party like it's 1985 and we're in the Senate.

Yes. Can you catch us up? Yes. What did we cover last week? Okay. So our story begins when a mom and

wife of Senator Elgore by the name of tipper innocently purchases the purple rain soundtrack for

her 11-year-old daughter who presumably had not seen the movie. Yes. And was horrified by the lyrics

to the song, Darling Nikki. Master Bating with a magazine. A great lyric. And we discussed in the

previous episode how I think we on this show are pro explicit masturbation descriptions in lyrics.

Certified freak. Seven days a week. Yes. Yeah. And this leads tipper to have what I think is a very

reasonable and good idea, which is that music should have ratings. So this is just kind of attempt,

like attempting to regulate corporate offerings really in a way that feels pretty central to the

Democratic Party's ideas. And she's also very explicit about the fact that she doesn't want

legislation. She wants the record companies to do this themselves, just like the movie industry

did themselves. Yeah. I mean, what is the literal chain of events from there? Like immediately after

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