Today on the show Ken welcomes musician, partier, motivational speaker and all around personality Andrew WK. Ken and Andrew discuss Top of the Pops, Anne Arbor Michigan, tape trading, the golden age of MTV, when music became visual, Roxy Music, how the arts make room for everything, Miami Vice, the value of having to work for media, not having cable growing up, anti-television parental styles, the horrors of the adult world, cigarette ads, ambition, Star Trek, Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days, 60 Minutes, The Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, The Facts of Life's "Over Our Heads Years", Pee Wee's Playhouse, the 80s retro aesthetic, Gary Panter, Memphis Designs, Golden Girls, Murder She Wrote, TV Theme Songs, Learning life lessons from Andy Rooney, why Don Knotts as Mr. Furley was terrifying, physical humor, Three's Company, Animaniacs, Sesame Street, loving Maria, why nobody likes Telly, and having to explain bongs to Grandma because of The Facts of Life.

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