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What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Music Videos 📺Mount Rushmore of Music Videos 📺
Like most Gen-X kids, we grew up in the era of MTV. You were just as likely to discover a new song by your favorite band on MTV as you were on the radio. If a band wanted to sell a lot of records, they had to make a decent video. And some bands & singers made GREAT videos.
Most of the artists we talk about in this episode are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Is that a coincidence? Did these videos help to drive their success? It's quite possible. If you remember the...2024-11-1955 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Canadians 🍁Canada is more than just our neighbors to the north. More than one of the closest allies to the United States. More than producers of great hockey and maple syrup. They are also some really nice people! Wouldn't you agree eh!?
Some of the picks on our lists are pretty obvious. While others may leave you surprised that they were even Canadian. Some of our choices have been Hollywood legends for decades! As Mark suggests in the episode, go grab yourself a cold Molson or Labatt's Blue and settle in for a fun episode that honors our friends from the...2024-11-121h 00
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Unbreakable Sports Records 🏀⚾Mount Rushmore of Unbreakable Sports Records 🏀⚾
Sports are full of records. Single game records, season records, career records with hundreds of possibilities in between. Some records are broken every year. But others are so amazing, they just seem absolutely impossible to break.
For this episode we decided to only take one record per sport that we felt will never be broken. And we left every sport on the table, not just the so-called big four sport leagues of the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL. This made it fun and also challenging because we both agreed that we'd easily find multiple unbre...2024-11-0552 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Slasher Movies 🔪Mount Rushmore of Slasher Movies 🔪
For the week of Halloween 🎃 we decided to do something a little... scary. For some reason, humans love a good scare. Well, not every human. Mark admits right up front that Slasher movies, and any movie with a good jump scare is not his cup of tea!
That made it the perfect episode for us to bring in a guest host to help us out. Susan Hanson is one the biggest horror movie fans we know. She's seen most of them and has a real appreciation for that movie genre. She also happens to be Jon's...2024-10-291h 13
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Ultimate Party SongsMount Rushmore of Ultimate Party Songs 🎵
Imagine you are at a party, standing in front of a jukebox. The whole room is counting on you to get the party started, but you can only choose ONE song to get things going. What song would you pick?
To help us pick the ultimate party songs, we decided to record this episode... AT A PARTY! We took our podcast on the road and recorded this episode live from a party in Champlin, Minnesota. We brought 13 party people in to each give us ONE song they would choose to get a party started. The...2024-10-221h 26
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Sci-Fi Movies 👽We are honored to be joined by our friend, the always entertaining Blaine Fowler from the Blaine & Lauren show on 96.3 WDVD in Detroit! Blaine is a longtime radio personality who we knew from OUR radio days when he still worked in Minneapolis. He is a big fan of movies, just like us, so was an excellent guest for this topic. In addition to a few impressions, Blaine brought some awesome movie picks to this week's episode!
Science Fiction movies have made up some of the biggest summer blockbusters of all time. Going all the way back to the early days...2024-10-1555 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of One Hit WondersFor this week's episode we were joined by our friend Kelly Jordan, the morning show host from Wild Country 99 radio. In this special episode we're sharing our Mount Rushmore of One Hit Wonders. Kelly has worked in radio for more than 20 years and is the perfect guest for this topic!
Some bands and singers are lucky and talented enough to have hit after hit over the course of many years. While others have one big hit, then fade away into obscurity. But those one hit wonders are often more memorable than songs from artists who had a dozen hits. And...2024-10-081h 09
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Natural Disaster MoviesFor this week's episode we welcome our friend Chris Shaffer, the chief meteorologist for WCCO TV in the Twin Cities. We worked with Chris back in our radio days when he was a radio DJ before he made the jump to TV. When we came up with the idea for this episode we immediately thought of Chris as a guest host. When you're talking about Natural Disaster Movies, who better to have join you then a TV meteorologist! Who also happens to have appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster himself!
Americans love an epic, big budget, edge of the seat disaster...2024-09-241h 10
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Old School Wrestlers 💪We grew up watching professional wrestling, first in the early AWA years in Minnesota and then the rise of the WWF through the '80s. But neither of us has really followed wrestling since we were kids so we thought the best way to honor our early love of the "sport" would be to do a Mount Rushmore of Old School Wrestlers!
For us old school means the guys who were there in the beginning of Wrestlemania. The guys we'd see on Saturday mornings, sitting in front of the TV. The larger than life personalities and the larger than life...2024-09-1752 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of SNL SkitsSaturday Night Live, also known simply as SNL is launching it's 50th season in the fall of 2024. We decided this is a great time for us to list our Mount Rushmore of SNL Skits. We both grew up watching Saturday Night Live and are so amazed at the talent that has passed through those doors.
Starting with the early days of Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray to the '80s greats like Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal and Martin Short. Move into the '90s and you have the cast that featured Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade...2024-09-1059 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of NFL Quarterbacks 🏈Quarterbacks are the leaders and field generals for any football team. They are often the glue that holds a winning team together, but also take most of the blame for losing teams.
As lifelong NFL fans we had decades of quarterbacks to consider. A couple of our picks came very easy to each of us but we had to do some thinking to land on the others. Between us we actually came up with a list that includes QBs that dominated the league from the 1970s to present day! These guys are truly the best to ever step onto the...2024-09-0343 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of State Fair Foods 🌭The Minnesota State Fair attracts more than 2 million visitors each year and is the largest state fair in the country by daily attendance. We both have a unique perspective of the State Fair due to our work histories. It's safe to say we have been to the fair a lot more than the average Minnesotan.
One of the main draws of the fair each year is the food and many of our own personal memories of the fair are tied to something we ate there... often on a stick.
Use this episode as a guide to prepare for your next...2024-08-2746 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Will Ferrell Movies 🎬Will Ferrell got his big break as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the 1990's. Since then he has gone on to not only star in, but occasionally write and produce some of the funniest movies of the last 25 years.
We've always been big fans of his work, both at SNL and on the big screen. Sometimes narrowing our choices down to four picks to put on the Mount Rushmore for each episode can be really tough, but in this case it was a lot of fun. Because we got to relive some hilarious movies and include some...2024-08-2048 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Songs That Tell A StorySome of the best songs in history tell a story. They could be as simple as a boy meets girl kind of story, or something deeper and more meaningful. A lot of songs are written to re-tell stories of events that actually happened in real life.
This episode proved to be a very difficult one for us! There are so many outstanding story songs that we had a tough time narrowing down to only 4 songs. In fact, we both came up with 8 - 10 songs we wanted to include on our lists. We may have to revisit this topic at some...2024-08-1353 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Food PairingsMount Rushmore of Food Pairings 🍳🥓
Some foods are perfectly fine on their own, but other foods just BEG to be eaten together. In fact some of the foods on our lists really only go well with each other and you'd never even consider eating them on their own.
Cereal and Milk. Butter and Bread. Peanut Butter & Jelly. All fine examples of foods that are traditionally eaten together. Did any of them make our lists? You'll have to listen to find out!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your s...2024-08-0641 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Summer Olympians 🥇Mount Rushmore of Summer Olympians 🥇
The 2024 Summer Olympics are here! We have always been fans of the Olympics, both Summer and Winter. As we discuss in this episode, many of the Olympic sports we only see (or even care about) once every four years, but the athletes competing still leave a strong impression on us.
Imagine working hard training every day for four years, only to have one tenth of a second being the difference between winning a medal and going home empty handed. This kind of sports drama only happens during the Olympics!
What did we miss? Did we lis...2024-07-3039 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of HBO Series 📺Mount Rushmore of HBO Series 📺
Some of the best TV series in the history of television have their roots on the HBO network, now part of the MAX streaming package. We have been watching HBO shows for a long time, but can you believe the network itself is more than 50 years old?
In hindsight we could have done an episode of just HBO comedies and another with HBO drama / action shows. But it's too late for that, we lumped them all into one episode and it was tough for us to narrow down to just four. We both have a mix...2024-07-2347 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of People Named GaryWe spun the wheel of names and landed on.... Gary. So we're listing out our top 4 favorite People Named Gary in this week's episode!
Have you noticed the name Gary is becoming a name of the past? As we discuss in this episode, you don't see many young kids or babies named Gary. In fact, less than 250 babies named Gary were born in the United States for entire year of 2023. So lets honor them, and all the rest of the great Garys of the world!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please...2024-07-1642 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of American ThingsIn honor of Independence Day this week, we wanted to do a special episode listing our favorite American Things. We approached this episode with the goal of choosing things that are American icons and were created in the USA, perfected in the USA or just make you think of this great country.
Before anyone gets too upset, we purposely left off things like the 4th of July, American Flag, the Constitution or the Star Spangled Banner because we wanted to go a little deeper with our picks, and avoid too much overlap between us. There will be an obvious item...2024-07-0242 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Star Wars CharactersWe grew up with the original three Star Wars movies, the action figures and all the toys. At least one of us even had a Star Wars themed Halloween costume as a kid. We also enjoyed the prequels, the final trilogy and the various TV series that have taken us deeper into the Star Wars universe.
All this means there are literally hundreds of characters to choose from. Humans, droids, aliens.... we have characters from ALL of those life forms in our picks!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a...2024-06-2540 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Movie SoundtracksThe perfect movie soundtrack compliments the movie with every scene, to the point where you couldn't imagine any other song playing right at that moment. We know these songs and movies so well, in some cases you can name a song from the movie and we'll tell you the exact scene where that song was being played!
In addition to adding an element to the movie, a great soundtrack lives on its own outside of the movie. Some of these soundtracks sold millions of copies on vinyl, cassette and/or CD. And one of our picks in particular has sold...2024-06-1847 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of TV Dads 📺Families are often at the heart of many TV shows. And on some shows the dads are the center of attention, whether they deserve it or not! This is particularly true in sitcoms, which make up a big chunk of our Mount Rushmore lists in this special Fathers Day episode.
Some of the TV dads we mention are great fathers, great husbands and all around great guys. Others... well... not so much. But in their own ways, each one of the dads entertained us!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave...2024-06-1144 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Childhood Celebrity CrushesMaybe it's because neither of us ever really grew up, but to us our childhood feels like it was just yesterday. In this episode we take a look back at those years and list off our Childhood Celebrity Crushes.
Some crushes were innocent, from our pre-teen years. Others sprouted a little later and may have been featured on posters in our teenage bedrooms. But all of them deserve to be remembered and discussed as we each choose our top four!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your...2024-06-0442 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Video GamesMount Rushmore of Video Games 🎮
Did you play video games growing up? Are you still a gamer? We may not play them much these days, but back in the day we both played them a LOT.
In this episode we cover our top four video games across all platforms and genres. Everything from Nintendo and PC games to the old arcade. Grab some chips and your choice of beverage, and settle in for a trip backwards through time. And if you make it to the end and save the princess, you won't have to see the words... GAME OVER!
What did...2024-05-2845 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Dream Cars 🚗Dreaming about cars is about as American as baseball and apple pie. From the time you were a kid you probably have had at least a few dream cars, and maybe as an adult you've been lucky enough to own one of them. In this episode we went ALL IN on our dreams. Did we dream big? Hell yes. Especially Mark.
Neither of us have ever owned one of our dream cars and in the short term it's probably going to stay that way. But man... it sure is fun to dream!
What did we miss? Did we list some...2024-05-2142 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Baseball Movies ⚾Baseball is not only America's pastime, it's also Jon and Mark's favorite sport. Combine our favorite sport with movies and you've got yourself a doozy of a What's Your Mount Rushmore episode! We're listing out our favorite baseball movies of all time, and it was NOT easy narrowing it down to four. We each could have easily listed another four baseball movies. Grab your Cracker Jack, a cold beverage and settle in for nine innings!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to...2024-05-2029 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Breakfast CerealsWe grew up eating cereals for breakfast and to this day will still have an occasional bowl. Whether it's the mascots, the TV commercials, the games on the back of the box or just the horribly unhealthy sugary coatings, there will always be something appealing about a good bowl of cereal.
TEASER: One of us makes a controversial pick that causes some friction!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?
Get past episodes on our website: https...2024-05-0736 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Female Pop StarsThis is a special episode with a special guest! We are joined by our old friend, Dave Ryan from the popular Dave Ryan in the Morning Show. Dave has been a Twin Cities staple on 101.3 KDWB for more than 30 years! Mark and Jon both worked with Dave for many years and were honored to have him join us.
Hosting the morning show on one of the country's longest running and most successful Top 40 radio stations makes Dave a perfect guest to discuss Female Pop Stars. Between the three of us we have some very obvious picks, but also some that...2024-04-3057 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Non-Music DuosWhen you think of duos, musical acts usually come to mind. Hall & Oates, Sonny & Cher, Simon & Garfunkel. We're taking all those acts out of the mix and focusing on duos who work together in something OTHER than music. Some of our picks are real people, some are fictional characters. But all of them have entertained us over the years.
In this episode Mark gets completely surprised by a pick he didn't even consider, and immediately regrets not having them on his list!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment...2024-04-2348 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Mob Movie Characters 🎬Who doesn't love Mob themed movies? Fuhgeddaboudit!! It's one of our favorite movie genres and we had a blast listing out our favorite mob themed movie characters. Some of the characters and the actors who played them are Oscar winners... and in some cases from Oscar winning movies.
These mobsters and the movies they are from are not only iconic in the mob movie genre, but are also some of the greatest movies ever made - by some of the greatest directors on earth. Grab some gabagool and a big plate of sausage and peppers and settle in for another...2024-04-1641 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Sports Logos ⚾As long as there have been uniforms, there have been sports logos. And some of the logos on our lists have been around a long time - even back to the beginning of their teams. We only had one rule... we had to pick one logo from each of the four major pro leagues: NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB.
Our picks have nothing to do with liking or hating the teams. Often the best sports logos belong to teams we don't like. And on the flip side some of our favorite sports teams have boring logos. These picks are based strictly...2024-04-0946 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of TV Theme SongsMount Rushmore of TV Theme Songs 📺
We both grew up in front of the TV and probably to this day watch more than we should. One thing many of today's TV shows lack, is a classic and memorable theme song. And the theme songs from the past were usually part of a cool opening segment to the TV show which made you excited to watch the show!
A few of the TV shows we talk about are all time favorite shows of ours, and some of them are probably not in the top 20. But they still had awesome theme songs. Put...2024-04-0247 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of ConcertsIn this episode we we're joined by our good friend Chris Hawkey from The Power Trip morning show on KFAN radio in Minneapolis. Much like us, Hawk is a HUGE music fan and a rock star in his own right. He's been the singer for Rocket Club and the Chris Hawkey Band over the years and has played stages all over the country.
The three of us list our Mount Rushmore of Concerts in this episode and approached our lists as fans, naming the shows that stood out to us personally for various reasons. This episode features a lot of...2024-03-261h 22
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Stand-Up ComediansWe are always looking for a good laugh... especially in today's world! These comedians make us laugh time and time again. Some of them have sadly passed away but some of them are still actively performing too. Are you looking for a good laugh? Check out our Mount Rushmore of Stand-Up Comedians. You won't be disappointed!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?2024-03-2133 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Musical Artists with Animal NamesWhen you think about all the musical artists with animal related names, the list gets pretty long. The list includes many Grammy Award winning artists, bands in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and plenty of pop culture icons. So how do you narrow that massive list down to your four favorites? That was our task in this episode, and we stand by our picks.
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?
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What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of 80s Comedy MoviesIn this episode we tackle 1980s Comedy Movies. Some may say it was the last great decade of comedies. Think about all those classics! Movies like Airplane, Stripes, Trading Places, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Caddyshack, Uncle Buck, Spaceballs, Christmas Vacation, The Princess Bride, Big, Sixteen Candles and dozens more. WOW! We each had a very hard time narrowing it down to just FOUR picks.
We grew up in the '80s and these movies are a big part of who we are. As an added bonus, in this episode we bring in a special guest: Our good friend Terry...2024-03-0747 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Fast Food RestaurantsEvery American has gone through points in their lives where they frequented a favorite fast food restaurant. Maybe as a kid after school, maybe in college when it was a quick & cheap meal. Or maybe you bring your kids there now. Whether you still visit those places as an adult or not, you probably still have your favorites... just like us. This episode has some serious debate and things get a little heated over the deep fryer!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always...2024-02-2931 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Bald CelebritiesBald is beautiful! At least one of us thinks so. In this episode we list out our favorite bald celebrities. Our picks represent icons from TV, movies and sports. Some have a little hair, some have no hair at all. But they all have a place on our Mount Rushmore.
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please follow us and leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?2024-02-2222 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Movie VillainsThere really is nothing like a good movie villain. Every good guy needs a bad guy. Without a nemesis, most good guys would just be... boring. In this episode we're listing our favorite movie villains and there is a bit of a twist. For one of our picks, each of us chose a different villain, from the SAME movie! Can you guess what movie? Lets us know your picks. As always, we want to know: What's YOUR Mount Rushmore?2024-02-1531 min
What's Your Mount Rushmore?Mount Rushmore of Game ShowsWho doesn't love a good Game Show?! First starting out on daytime TV, we grew up watching game shows on vacation days, sick days home from school and summer break. More recently game shows have become popular on prime time. In this episode, Jon and Mark list their favorite game shows, and as always ask listeners to share theirs. So... What's YOUR Mount Rushmore?2024-02-1523 min