Do you ever crave a fresh start? A comeback? Just a do-over? A handful of amazing actors, musicians and artists staged incredible comebacks in the ’80s, so we celebrate their “new starts” in our first show of 2019.

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It’s the holiday season and that means it’s time for our annual stocking stuffer episode: the outtake reel. Brad and Spearsy relive their favorite moments of 2018 and then we unleash the insanity of the moments you never got to hear.

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Die Hard – is it a Christmas movie or not? Brad and Spearsy try to answer the question, but does anyone really care? It’s just an amazing movie and it just turned 30 years old!

We honor “Die Hard,” share our favorite stories about the movie and even have a “Die Hard” quiz for you on this week’s episode of Stuck in the ’80s.

We’re sponsored this week by Skylight Frame, a photo frame you can update instantly – by email – from anywhere. It takes less than 60 seconds to set it up – plug it in, use the touch screen to connect it to your WiFi network, and just like that – everybody in the family can email photos using your personal Skylight email address. Because you listen to Stuck in the ’80s, you get a special holiday offer: $10 off the purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go skylightframe.com and enter code 80s.

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Nick Heyward has made some amazing music over the last several decades, beginning with his ’80s band Haircut 100 and then continuing into a solo career that gave us a new sound and new take on life. This week, Nick joins Spearsy for an incredible conversation that covers his early influences, his new home in Florida and his plans for more music in the coming years.

This week’s episode also includes Listener Mailbag, Mystery Movie Moment and Name that ’80s Tune. And we throw a new seggie idea out there.

We’re sponsored this week by Skylight Frame, a photo frame you can update instantly – by email – from anywhere. It takes less than 60 seconds to set it up – plug it in, use the touch screen to connect it to your WiFi network, and just like that – everybody in the family can email photos using your personal Skylight email address. Because you listen to Stuck in the ’80s, you get a special holiday offer: $10 off the purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go skylightframe.com and enter code 80s.

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Looking for the perfect present for the ’80s fan in your life? You’re in luck because this week on the podcast we share a bunch of cool ideas in the gift-giving department. Plus, we share our ideas of the “dream” gift for each of us.

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Here are the links for items we mentioned in the gift guide:

Books:

• Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?
• Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down
• Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Any More)

Toys:

• Speed Rubiks Cube
• Spirograph deluxe set
• Like Totally 80s trivia game (Drew’s bday present)
• 80s pop music quiz (Jen’s bday present)

Music:

• Def Leppard’s The Story So Far: The Best of Def Leppard and Hysteria: The Singles.
• Phil Collins “Plays Well With Others”
• Prince “Piano & A Microphone 1983”

Other:

• Floppy Disk Coasters
• Retro-look Bluetooth Headphones
• I Heart Jake Ryan t-shirt
• Custom Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars or Vans

True story: Stuck in the ’80s has never done a full episode on Talking Heads. So we fix that – times two – this week by covering the movie “True Stories” and its signature soundtrack. Special guest host is cartoonist and musician Douglas Arthur.

Stuck in the ’80s is proud to have Robinhood as a sponsor for this week’s show. Robinhood lets you buy and sell stock, options and more – all commission free. And because Robinhood is a sponsor of Stuck in the ’80s, they’re offering our listeners a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help build your portfolio! Sign up at stuck.robinhood.com.

Stuck in the ’80s is also partners with The 80s Cruise – spring vacation for adults! The 80s Cruise has created some special discounted rates for Stuck in the ’80s listeners for its 2019 voyage. A veranda stateroom (with a private balcony) is just $2,100 a person – or just $300 a day. An ocean-view stateroom is only $1,750 a person ($250 a day). And an inside cabin is $1,400 (or $200 a day). All prices include port charges, taxes and gratuities, and all performances, interviews, parties and events presented on the cruise. Go to www.the80scruise.com to book. The promo code to use when booking is STUCK80.

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