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Hey, bro I think tonight's a
good night. It's a Saturday night.

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I think we had to take the
old cruiser and let's go check out some

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backyard parties. Broh. You know
back in the eighties, you remember when

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the DJs we're out there kicking ass
and everybody had big hair. But you

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could tell the dudes from the chicks. Memories that I have are many trucks,

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all many trucks, volkswagons, remember
all that kind of cruising up and

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down Bolivard. Well, you know
what, our pals are over there at

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the garage, just finished with the
fuerreau. So it's good to go.

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Let's go grab here, let's let's
let's let's get in man. All right,

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you gotta put seatbelts, hey,
you know, get that get that

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music, can get that music off. We're going to We're going to a

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house party. I'm gonna punch it
in the computer. Nineteen eighty nine.

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That's a good year right there.
That's before the grunge took over. And

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let's go to east at a boil
Heights on Bonnie Beach. I used to

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go to some parties over there.
Man, it was crazy. It was

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always a good time. Bro until
you got shot at that boy? Hid

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scares you know what. There's a
couple of parties going on here. Well,

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let's cruising over here. You see
all the Christmas side that one,

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You see that one, the one
with the peak house. Yeah. Yeah,

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let's go to that pad right there
with the red lights. Don't don't

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cruise up though, because they're gonna
want to steal our right park halfway down

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the block. Shoot, look they
can walk all kinds of lights coming from

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the garage through the cracks. Oh
man, I'm telling you, bro,

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we got a park right here,
and here's the security light. All right,

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hang out, get your hands off
the wheel man, Take it easy.

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I'm driving. I'm driving. You
drive crappy. This isn't your nova,

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all right, but don't bring up
my nova. Bro. All right

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here, I'm parking here, putting
the handbrake because I don't trust this hill.

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All right. Look the guys at
the shop putting this new alarm.

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Check it out. Ah you like
that? Oh my gosh, this bringing

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back some memories. Okay, that
chick has got a six pack of pink

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aquin and hanging out of her purse. Check it out. She looks fierce.

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They're not gonna let it go in
him. She's she's a disco chola.

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Hold the food? Hey, what's
up? Hey? Let me talk

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to you? Hey, what's up? Dog? Who are you? Hummie?

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Hey? Only? What's up?
Roll? How much? How much

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to get in? What's cracking over
here tonight? We got all the ladies

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out there with our aquan and just
ready to go, homie, and we

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got the homies out there, and
but guess what is it? Just you

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and your boy? Or who is
this? It's not he's not my parole

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out hey, change, don't worry
about it. Members only yet? Hey,

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Hey, hey, how much you
get in here? Listen? Food?

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Right now, we're doing the special
two for one. No, it's

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gonna be two foods for twenty dollars, all right, twenty bucks? Bucks?

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God didn't bring in the ladies though, No, twenty Watch me.

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This is a sausage festival. I
could go to a front row van halo

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cons between the sausages, and I
need to charge twenty homie. Hey,

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that's it. Okay, you know
what I'm bringing down to? Five?

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Ahead? Okay, that's five each
school. That's all it can do.

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That's quite a discount. We got
some good bruising here. I'm sorry.

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It's because it's because that car down
the street is making me nervous, right

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there, dog, But why don't
you guys come in? You know,

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hey, hold on, hey,
what did you bring me? This is

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your kind of party change? Come
on? Oh man, hey, bro,

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hey, bro, the easier you
can squeeze the fruit, baby,

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the easier it is to enjoy the
fruit. That's what I'm talking about.

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Life is like a market, bro. Amen. You don't go to fancy

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markets, do you. I take
what you can get. I could tell.

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Oh, man, look at everybody
here. Notice how everybody is standing

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around the dance floor. Look at
the cholo dude over there. That that's

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Charger. Look at him. He's
at the keg and he's dancing around.

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Look at that can. He's out
by himself too. That's a happy happy

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next to the next of the keg. Very nice. Yeah, that's that

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guy who let us in. That
guy who let us in. By the

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way, that guy was so drunk
right now, he could lest man,

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we look at him. He's stamps. Oh shoot, look at him.

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Hey homie, what did he say? His name was Chuco? He didn't

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tell me, he didn't know he
didn't tell me. I'll just go,

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Hey, chuco call you call me? Can I call you? Or or

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what's your name? What's your name? Hommy? You know right now I

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feel in GHOSTI, so you can
call me ghosts. We're gonna drop the

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best eighties right now. We got
everything we're us. It's wearing the West

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Coast. We're gonna do everything from
a little bit of Johnny O, a

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little bit to some Judy Torres.
You know that we're gonna do all the

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fine girls we got. We got
Debbie Debb coming up. You know you

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don't want bro stamp us, give
us a stamp. We're gonna go to

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a ride a sufake care of you
guys right now, all right, and

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let me get the stamps out of
my thing right now. One second?

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Hey, why are your stamps in
there with syringes? Bro? No,

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he's got syringes in the it's a
cigarette packers, Tommy. Oh oh man,

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guys, got cut off anyway?
Here your stay here your stamps.

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Let me see one hand, one
stamp. Here's a one stamp. Here

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you go, here's an other stime. Give me your hand, all right,

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all right? The DJ just got
here, guys, guess what he's

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gonna play my favorite song, I
say he's gonna play the new track is

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that Debbie Debby lookout for weekend?
Hey lay me that song? That one

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I like? Hey, the one
that the one I cried from that girl

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that broke my heart? But then
I get a little excited. Hey,

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will you please music me back?
You're listening to Back to the Eighties Radio.

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We are taking you back to a
time where freedom, music, and

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friendships were a way of life.
Taking the time machine every single Friday.

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You can reach us by leading us
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We have a great show for you
today with two special guests that you're

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not gonna want to miss. Stephen
Pitalo of Music Video Time Machine, writer

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producer back in the eighties with MTV, and first we must introduce a man

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who joins us every single Friday,
who has often been referred to as the

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John McEnroe anger management coach. He's
been spotted at different malls dressed as a

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mad scientist, saying that the Libyans
have found him. Oh my god,

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they tell me. I don't know
how, but they found him. All

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we know is we call this madman
the Chang Chang. How the hell are

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you, oh parade, especially when
it is for thee in these me Welcome

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to the program, Tiscano. Don't
go away because there's tons more coming up

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next here. I'm back to the
eighties radio. You remember the first time

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you tried these games space fuck with
practice, coptn lexy, and when you

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first tried and coke and you said, no, thank you, But hey,

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let's try and coke again, because
once you got that new wave taste,

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do you want to try it again
again and again? No practice cuts

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the way the coca. If you
can't wear a spandex jumpsuit, what can

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you do? This is back to
the eighties radio. We are back.

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Dis is promised with a special guest. As I mentioned before the break,

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we have Stephen Ptalo, a journalist, writer, director, producer of videos,

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shows and talent. Wow, that's
a mouthful. You also launched the

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Music Video Time Machine. It's dedicated
to the golden age of music video.

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You have done it all since the
eighties. Thank you for being on the

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show. Oh fantastic. Like I
said, I love to talk about the

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things that you guys talk about,
and I bore everybody to death with my

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over exuberance. So it's good to
have an audience that is interested in the

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things coming out of my mouth.
A lot of people I know, as

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I am, are very interested to
find out about your experience of back in

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the eighties and how it all started
for you and how did you kind of

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evolve into that writer into that producer. So go ahead and talk to us

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a little bit about that and some
of your experiences. Well. I was

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very lucky in that I had support
from my parents and my teachers and all

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growing up. I knew I wanted
to be a writer very early on,

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and I ended up going to college. I worked on entertainment journalism and different

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projects and that Um, I am
definitely the MTV generation America. Dem I

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want my v I want my MTV, I want my MTV company, want

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mt B, And I am definitely
uh in Bright in the middle of the

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eighties eighty to ninety was my exact
junior high, high school, and college.

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So all of my pop culture ingestion
pretty much cemented itself during that time.

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So I'm big on eighties music,
movies, television, et cetera.

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And part of what maybe want to
do my own thing when it comes to

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music video is that I had MTV
uh those formative years in the mid eighties,

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and I, like all my fellow
teenagers, were included to the TV

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to see the next music video coming
on. And I recall so many memories

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of just sitting in front of the
TV while watching for the next, the

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next thing to come on. I
was actually talking to the other day to

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somebody about when the Reflex by Duran
Duran was going to be a world premiere

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video, and so that was kind
of a big deal. It was the

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third cut off the seven of the
Ragged Tiger album and featured little snippets from

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some of the other videos. And
I've been lucky enough in my career to

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be able to interview some eighties bands, see as many as they call them

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now legacy artists as possible, and
and you know, pretty much keep it,

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keep it alive for myself and other
people that are are interested in it,

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most specifically with music video time Machine, which is a magazine that I

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really recently launched. It's online.
You can check it out at music videotimachine

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dot com. It's free. I
did a short print run of it just

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to have one, you know,
to have in my hands. Like the

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old school, but it's centered around
behind the scenes stories of music video,

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some of the seventies, a lot
of Eighties, a little bit of the

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nineties, what I like to call
the Golden Age of music video from seventy

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six to ninety four, book ended
between Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and The Use

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Your Illusion Trilogy by Guns and Roses. MTV is a hot topic for everybody

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who loves the eighties. But I've
noticed that there's two sides, maybe more,

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one that loves MTV like myself,
we grew up on it, and

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one that hates it. They say, as the Buggles did on August first

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of eighty one, Video Killed the
Radio Star. And I wanted to know

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what your take is on this.
Do you think that MTV did more damage

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to either the artist or the radio
business or do you think that it just

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helped everybody? Well, I think
it's an idea that things change and adaptability

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is the key to survival. I
think this also fits into a very philosophical

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position that people will have those who
they will be very upset that a movie

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is not faithful to the book,
or a graphic novel is not faithful to

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the cannon, or a series is
not faithful to the original characters, and

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things like that. And I was
a bit of a stickler, I guess

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in my past lives. But I
have to say that once you sort of

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think of things as everything is not
the same, then you can kind of

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free yourself. For example, if
you want to talk about Interview with the

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Vampire, well, it was a
book first, and then it was a

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movie, and then it was television
series which is on right now. Those

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are all different things. And if
you want it, if you if you

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feel like it needs to be very
faithful to the original source material, you

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can feel that. But it's not
the original source material. It's a TV

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show, it's a movie, you
know. And I think music video can

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be viewed in that same way.
It's the music video for it. It's

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not just the song. You can
have just the song if you want,

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where you can also have the music
video, you can have the remix.

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You can have now with technology every
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the separated audio files of you know, the voice, the drums, the

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guitar, etc. So you can
you can have things you know however you

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want. I guess the king of
all of this would be George Lucas,

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who basically took you know, the
first three Star Wars movies and then you

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know, decided he wanted to change
change them and put some things in that

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he didn't get to do, and
you know, he did that, which

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is fine for him. I think
it's unfortunate that's very hard to get the

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original versions of those, but that's
a that's a special case. I think.

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So did video kill the radio star? I can't really say that it

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killed it. I think it actually
gave it new opportunities and saved the record

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industry to a certain extent, because
as we could see MTV as soon as

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it came out, we could see
the impact that it was having on the

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record buying public. It was in
very small markets at first, introduced as

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part of the cable package, but
usually had to call to get it,

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hence the I want my MTV ad
campaign. So once you had people in

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the Midwest and in these smaller markets, getting MTV, they were going to

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their record stores and they were buying
those bands that they saw. And so

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consequently these record stores that these record
companies started seeing that Tulsa was selling a

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lot of Duran Duran or Culture Club, and they saw the direct correlation between

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the music video and the sales.
So what I thought that presented such a

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great opportunity in that if you were
a music video director and you were there

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during that little sweet spot of say
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you were a music video director,
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there were people who were doing this
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like that. But if you got
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company would usually just say just make
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What a great creative opportunity for so
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mean, frankly some of them did
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that you could have some creativity with
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even further and kind of tried to
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did. For all those Eliminator album
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Duran Duran, there you artistic and
interesting videos. Yeah, and you

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had the really crazy ones that didn't
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Shocked the Monkey. If you watched
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What's going on here? The creepy
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that some of the British music video
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shooting in England is the English countryside. Yeah, it's basically free and it's

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a great it's a great production value
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the safety Dance. Hence in a
big country by big Tree, Hence Slades

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Run Runaway, which actually I think
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yeah, video didn't kill a radio
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a turbocharge. During this time,
was there a video that you really look

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forward like? Let me give an
example video when I was this was I

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was very little, eleven years old, and we got cable December of eighty

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three and the video was being announced
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with this video. And then I
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video that kind of scared the crap
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of course, I'm talking about the
video Thriller. Yes, Yes, possibly

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the most important and influential music video
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it's been copied so much as it
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far as production value and importance in
the pop culture. This issue of Music

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Video Time Machine that you can take
a look at, has an interview.

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I interviewed John Landis all about what
that was like. Um, he's talked

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about it, you know, so
many times over the past forty years,

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made a little bit less than forty
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of a revamp, but some of
the things he told me, if I

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were very very interesting, how the
budget came, about what it was like

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to direct Michael later for the black
or white video, because that's a very

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different Michael by that time. That
was you know, that was after Thriller,

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after Bad Onto Dangerous, So it's
just a different landscape. But yeah,

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thriller, I can see how it
was. It was really an event

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and it was more than a music
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I think. Yeah, and when
you saw it, it was a feature

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film sort of event. The one
that I remember waiting to come back around

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was Infatuation by Rod Stewart because it
was it had sort of a story to

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it and it was interesting to look
at. It had actress Kay Lens was

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the female in it, had Jeff
Beck doing a guitar solo. It was

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in black and white too, which
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it was. This was one of
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before Rod Stewart. Rod Stewart does
not get nearly the credit he should get

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show the MTV cannon because Rod,
if you look at Rod's career, he

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kind of knew what was going on
before everybody else knows what's going on these

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way ahead of the game. The
very first day that MTV was on the

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air, August first, nineteen eighty
one, they had eleven Rod Stewart videos

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in rotation, more than anybody,
more than any of their artists. It's

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because he was making those videos in
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wouldn't make what was called the pop
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be distributed across Europe to these different
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you know, a few things scattered here

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and there. And even MTV was
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nineteen eighty one in smaller markets.
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or in New York until nineteen eighty
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that that was that was the extent
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that came about, it was just
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I think if you look at the
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four, it's it's an interesting celebration. I mean, to have a Video

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Music Awards just three years after you
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but what a great idea. And
to this day it's one of the

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only remaining remnants of the original MTV
that people can connect to. This is

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back to the eighties when we come
back more of Stephen Pitalo. Stick around

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What advice would you give the younger
Stephen Potello that you now know but you

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wish you would have known when you
were in high school. Wow, that's

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a good question. Um. I
think I'd have to say, take take

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things a little bit more seriously when
it comes to you know your work,

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work ethic, and really have a
goal. I think if I'd had done

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it over again, I probably would
have tried to move to New York right

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out of college. I end up
coming up about five or five years later

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or so. Yeah, I think
I probably would have said try to get

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a little bit more focused. But
I also think I would I would have

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said something along the lines of,
you know, every problem that you have

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is going to work itself out one
way or another, so there's really no

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use worrying about it. I mean, every problem you've had before now has

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had has worked out one way or
another. It's been a problem, and

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then the problem is either solved or
changes or something like that. But worrying

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about it has never done any good. I just don't worry about things so

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much because all my life have been
a big worrier, and I should not

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also to make sure to have a
lot of gratitude. I've found that that

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has been a key in my own
success is to keep being very grateful for

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the things that that are going well, important things, to remember to be

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grateful and just to give things for
everything that we have. All Right,

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So what about songs. Let's go
to music, because I know you're a

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big music buff. What song would
you say for you encapsulates the eighties?

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Is there a song that you would
say, look when it may not be

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my favorite, or maybe it is
your favorite, but when I hear this

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song, there's nothing else I can
think of, But this is the eighties.

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If you're introducing the eighties to someone
who's never heard eighties music, that's

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eighties. Wow, There's there's just
so so many out there, I think

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strangely enough, Wait by White Lion, Yeah, we just kind of pops

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out. Yea, this is what
it was. This is what's going on

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right now. And you know,
I've always been a big, a big

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Duran Durant fan, So I think
is a really good example of a good,

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good eighties song and then institutionalized by
the suicidal tendency. Oh yes,

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always makes me laugh and I always
think, Wow, how how did these

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guys nail this thing that everybody knows? Right and it is at it's like

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nothing else. It's just like nothing
else. Um. I always wondered if

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they got a if they got some
sort of cease and desist from PEPSI,

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from for all, for all that
stuff. So, Stephen Fidella, you've

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been kind enough to share with us
a brief eighties time capsule for us,

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which we really really appreciate. Where
can eighties fans find out about your your

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magazine? Um, if you guys
want to just go on the web,

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you can check it out at music
videotimemachine dot com. But if you're on

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Instagram, we're at at Music Video
time Machine or on Twitter it's mv time

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Machine. And also if you are
in the Brooklyn area, we have monthly

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nineties dance parties that it seemed to
be going off really well. So to

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check out all things print, digital
and event wise, Music Videotimemachine dot COM's

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best place to take a look.
Stephen has been great having you on the

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show, and I hope it's not
the last time. This is back to

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the eighties radio stick around. You're
listening to Back to the eighties. Welcome

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back to Back to the eighties Radio
Jascano and Chang Chang here and you just

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got swayed way to the dance floor
by nine others than stop. That song

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brings back such memories that it does. He I blacked them all out.

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I remember waking up in a dumpster
fire behind oh, everybody's favorite dance club

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in Hollywood, Florentine Gardens during the
nineteen eighties. You know I would have

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paid. I would have paid to
see you at Florentine Gardens, Shank,

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I really would have, because you
know what, every time I went to

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Florentine Gardens, I never once saw
a metal head, not even once.

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I didn't go to Florentine's Gardens just
to wake up and going, hey,

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I gotta get my groove on.
The only reason I was ever at Florentine

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Gardens was usually on a Friday or
Saturday night after me and my partners closed

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the liquor store we worked at.
We used to work at a liquor store

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in subside Montabello with your Boulevard on
Third props out to Sam's Liquor. We

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were called the Sammy Boys. While
we would close the scene down, probably

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like twelve thirty, and we'd flip
a coin and see where we're gonna go.

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We're gonna go to Hollywood, and
we're gonna go with me and my

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other two homeboys kind of music.
We're gonna go get metaled out rock and

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rolled out on the strip. Or
we're gonna go to Hollywood and let these

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buddies of mine who used to wear
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and then they'd roll up their sleeves
and creeze them, and you know,

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everybody had one. Dude had like
a light blue stripe. So if I

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lost the bet, me I'd have
to go to quarantine guards with my buddies.

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So it was always funny because it
was usually me and my buddy Mancini,

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my buddy Canyer. We were rock
and rollers right, and we would

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just kick back at the bar and
drink and trip out and just survey everything.

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You know, when a certain song
hit, you would see the whole

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bar just like take off like a
bunch of geese into the lake. They're

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all going to get their groove on. But the thing I used to trip

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on is I learned to respect the
DJ and the way he would scratch,

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or the way that he would stop
and then mix it up a little bit

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and then intro it into or exit
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had the exact same beat, so
everybody got more pumped up on the dance

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floor. So I always was entertained
and respected that which is crazy, which

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is one of the reasons that we're
talking about tonight on the program, we're

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gonna talk about out pop music and
holl It cultivated dance craze of the movement

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that it created in the eighties with
dance clubs, backyard parties, and that

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all started with at Them Radio,
you know, because so many other stations

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branched off from pop music into their
own format. I would watch all the

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little drafts and geese run off into
the pond on the dance board. When

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I heard that song but truly a
song that I hated. Wow, Well,

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well that's nothing new, my friend. But I can tell you who

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is new on the show, and
tonight we want to welcome a dear friend

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of ours that we've known for many, many years, and one who is

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no stranger to dance music, to
freestyle music all around, a music lover

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and a fellow broadcaster, mister Rob
Roy. Welcome to back to the eighties

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radio. Hey, it's good to
have you brother. Thank you so much,

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boys for having me. It's been
a while and I'm happy to hear

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both of your voices. Not every
day. Yeah, we're called boys.

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Thank you for calling us boys.
I love it because sometimes it's raining men,

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and it's good to be a boy. Road steel everybody. Yeah,

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Well, today we're going to continue
our talk of dance music and a little

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bit of here and there of possibly
some hip hops and rap where we might

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get into that. You gotta remember, there's a lot of little genres that

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came out of this main genre,
and one of them was, for example,

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freestyle freestyle that gained a large presence
in clubs all over the United States,

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specifically New York, Miami and then
LA but particularly those two because of

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the large presence of Latino community and
performers such as You Expose Lisa Lisa and

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the Cool Jam stevb Sweet Sensation.
These groups all gained mainstream chart success.

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Why because they were played all over
the greatest stations in the US are the

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biggest stations in the US. So
having said that, Rob talks us a

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little bit about your experience with djaying
Man, because I know that's one of

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your fortees. Definitely. I mean, you know, you know, I

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focused on the genre of electronic dance
music, and that's something that I'm real

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passionate about him that I love.
But just even going back to the start

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of what made dance music, the
eighties were popped it off. Most importantly,

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it starts even just in film.
Give you an example. I mean,

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00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.920
people were shocked when they first started
hearing these sounds. It was Scarface,

407
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.240
when was the synthesizer was brought in. If you guys remember when Scarface

408
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.880
was going on and these synthesizer songs, music started coming up in the sound

409
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.440
and people were like, holy crap, this is a new sound. And

410
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.319
I mean, in my opinion,
I said, the godfather of synth is

411
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.799
a guy named Giorgio Morduro who's been
you know, who's done everything from Scarface

412
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.279
to Top Gun. He's done those
scores for those films, and I mean

413
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.720
that I think started the movement and
what it is now, you know,

414
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:59.440
eighties music, freestyle music. And
not only that, it started the sound

415
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.839
that was able to brantrough into different
genres. Hip hop started, and then

416
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:07.319
freestyle music started. There was an
East coast West coast thing from different styles.

417
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:10.119
In the West Coast it was freestyle. It was a start of the

418
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:15.079
scratch but most importantly DJ and I
mean it's a it's an art form.

419
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:16.720
You know. People say, hey, you know, it's just mixing together

420
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:20.759
and this stuff like that. But
to be a real DJ, you know,

421
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:23.519
and I know a few good people
that are really good talented DJs and

422
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:29.480
producers that it's an art of mixing, feeling the crowd, feeling how you

423
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.680
know you're gonna be able to,
you know, focus on a crowd.

424
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:35.400
And I mean, I wasn't alive
in the eighties, and I've done as

425
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:37.880
much in extent. The only thing
is I know a lot about the eighties.

426
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.079
I just didn't lift through them.
But the good thing is with technology

427
00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:43.920
and everything now is pretty I could
pretty much be there, you know,

428
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:46.519
with all the music videos starting in
the starting in the eighties, it was

429
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.759
a whole freestyle movement. Here in
Los Angeles. You had people like Johnny

430
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:58.720
Yo, remember that song here my
Fantasy Girl, Oh yeah, fantasy Girl.

431
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:04.799
He even had from remember that Blondie
Debbie Dead look up a weekend.

432
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:12.000
Oh yeah, yeah, Lisa,
Lisa, you you had expose feeling the

433
00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.920
crowd. These guys that I've talked
to, I mean, I know DJ's

434
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:21.000
personally now that they do open to
close sets, that means that they're the

435
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.160
first ones who pressed the start button
and they end it for this guy one

436
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.640
in particular place for nine hours straight
and yeah, can you imagine that?

437
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.400
And the man takes you know,
I wonder how he goes. He takes

438
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.960
restrooms breaks, but he plays for
nine hours avalon nightclub out there in Hollywood.

439
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:42.119
This n would do nine hours and
he would start off feeling the crowd

440
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.319
and then in the middle of that
start doing with the bangers. You know.

441
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.880
Yeah, I got a bit of
trivia for everybody listening. That is

442
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:53.920
not the studio and that is who
was the genre of dance's first official hit

443
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.359
in the eighties. Of course,
it was the foundation of the genre,

444
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.640
okay, And it was also known
as the beginnings of electro genre and it

445
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:06.000
gave birth to techno. There was
a very famous DJ, his name was

446
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:12.760
DJ Lex and Triple Beam Records,
so they gave way to this particular artist

447
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.360
and this particular song that I know
everybody's heard. It's one of my favorite

448
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:20.159
songs. Chang Woll probably say he
hates it, of course, as he

449
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:24.440
does all of my music. Please, but who was this artist? I'll

450
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:29.400
give you a hint. It was
It was a gal by the name of

451
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:35.480
Shannon. What was the title of
that song, music Play? That is

452
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:43.519
right, my friend. Let the
Music Play made huge waves throughout New York,

453
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.920
specifically New and you got to remember
back in the eighties when something hit

454
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.079
New York radio, but then it
went to Miami radio and then went to

455
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:57.639
California here in La radio. Man, that's it. The entire world,

456
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.960
not just the entire United States.
The entire world will be world inundated with

457
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.679
whatever is being played here in the
United States. And Let the Music Play

458
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:12.559
by Shannon is often named as the
genre's first hit, with a sound called

459
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.119
the Shannon Sound. Believe it or
not, it's a little bit of tribute

460
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:21.760
for you guys when we're talking about
such great female lyricists and acts of the

461
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:27.280
eighties, I'm going to lay this
upon you both. Blondie she Has I

462
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.760
think, came out with maybe one
of the first rap rap songs. Wasn't

463
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.840
that like a nineteen seventy eight or
seventy nine song. Yeah, Rapture,

464
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.840
Yes it was you know what I
mean, which you know later on I

465
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:45.519
remember recalling the eighties DJs would speed
that song up or use parts of it

466
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.519
as they intertwined it in some of
the other music that was coming out,

467
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:54.320
so you keep people moving on the
dance floor. Shannon's great expose. If

468
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.679
you get a chance to check out
our archives where we talked to Lorie Miller

469
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.599
from the original Expose gal so that
was great. But there, you know

470
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:07.639
what it was. It was a
time that East and West Coast were kind

471
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:09.840
of warring against each other to see
who would get the best sounds, the

472
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:15.920
best dancers, the best music and
rob I mean you could probably testify to

473
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.000
this. You know. We had
even hip hop and rap groups such as

474
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:23.280
the Beastie Boys for example. The
West Coast Boys would be people like NWA

475
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:28.400
Easy, you know, but also
the Weast Coast had people like Public Enemy.

476
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.360
Remember that song Rebel without a Cause? Oh yeah, exact man.

477
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:36.639
I was gonna say, run the
mc oh I would say that back in

478
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.480
the eighties you always had this rivalry, just as like in sports, where

479
00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:43.760
you had the East Coast against the
West Coast, and that's been a big

480
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:49.280
thing, I think even to this
day. Public Enemy definitely strong hip hop

481
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:53.039
movement during the eighties, and Wa, I mean Man and Wa came out

482
00:36:53.039 --> 00:37:00.119
and they not only created a sound
and a movement and a vibration, but

483
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.360
they poured their heart and told a
real story their tiredness. They made America

484
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:09.239
aware of the bullshit that was going
on in Los Angeles, such as everywhere

485
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:16.239
else where there was injustice of power
and the powers above were all about greed

486
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:22.960
and of social division. Was drawn
back then, and when hip hop came

487
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:27.599
out in the eighties, it grooved
in with the music because people could dance

488
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:30.559
to it. But if you break
the lyrics down, it's so powerful.

489
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:36.079
It's in its own essence, its
own movement. You know, you mentioned

490
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.559
that we were at war East East
Coast against West Coast, and that's so

491
00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:57.920
true. This is grand Master Flash
would beat Street back to the eighties radio.

492
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:08.280
You can dispense with the pleasantry you're
listening to Tiscano and Chang. You

493
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:28.519
don't know the power back to the
eighties. If they were a laxity,

494
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:34.280
they'd be so powerful you could stand
on your head and on the ceiling that

495
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:39.239
position would not only be unavailable,
but also undignified. And now back to

496
00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:45.000
the eighties with Tiscano and Chang.
Welcome back to back to the eighties readio

497
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:50.960
with Tiscano and changing of the Boy
from the Wood Rob Roy from Utah,

498
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.960
Los Angeles. We hit you with
some Shannon, some NWA, straight out

499
00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:00.280
of the hood, some public enemy, because tonight we are going to take

500
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:07.119
you on a trip back to the
club scene, the backyard parties music when

501
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.440
it really meant something, when it
not only took you on the dance floor,

502
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:13.400
but it took you off the dance
floor, and it told you a

503
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:19.159
story that was an incredible set of
music that we played. I will guarantee,

504
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.119
I will put my hateful soul on
the line right now in front of

505
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:29.199
you and Rob that there was many
people dancing in their cars at home or

506
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.079
wherever they were at if you just
joined us here in the program, we've

507
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:35.960
got Rob Roy talking about eighties dance, hip hop, a little bit of

508
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:39.079
rapping, everything else. Do you
remember one area that we tend to forget

509
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:43.079
about house parties is then in order
for you to go there, you had

510
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:45.519
to be invited. In order to
be invited, and in order to get

511
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:50.519
in, you had to have a
what a flyer? Remember that, all

512
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:58.000
that's right, And these special flyers
were usually handed out by certain you know,

513
00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.519
young ladies that that would you know, they scope you out either at

514
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.719
the mall or on the street and
they go, hey, you want to

515
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:07.559
go to a party? A party
crew, that's right, and they had

516
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:12.280
they had they had hot dudes doing
that with chicks too, Remember, dude,

517
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.440
the mall went the mall, I
remember that going down a lot.

518
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:22.000
Yeah, some of the libraries,
uh, some of the other nightclubs outside

519
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:27.639
of nightclubs or bars. Library.
Yeah, every now and then, bro,

520
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:30.760
the heck was going on at that
library? Hey, bro, not

521
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:34.000
a wall was longer, Dude,
they're stuper bowl back in the day.

522
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.960
Bro. No, not because of
that, because of the flyers. No,

523
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.039
every now and then, Bro,
I would roll up to the library

524
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:44.119
and then I would see flyers on
the library thing nice, you know,

525
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:49.360
to a party, and then that
would address you to another place and you

526
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:53.159
get a flyer and you could get
in. Yeah, but wait a minute,

527
00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:55.320
No, that was sex clubs.
Yeah that's what I thought. That's

528
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:59.320
what I thought. You weren't at
the library, You were probably at some

529
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:02.280
gentlemen's up down in La or somewhere. But you do remember those flyers,

530
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:05.960
right, and then you felt kind
of good getting that flyer because he go,

531
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:07.760
man, this is gonna be It
was exclusive. Yeah, depending on

532
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:12.360
what you saw, what you read
on that flyer, who the DJ was,

533
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.840
where where it was gonna be,
you were like going, yeah,

534
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:17.559
I'm gonna go there, or else
you'd look at it, go where's where's

535
00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:22.000
I wasn't I remember I'm not going
out. I don't recall saying that over

536
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.519
a DJ. Oh yeah, I'm
gonna go there. Get my freak on.

537
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:29.760
No. No, but there were
people who did. There were people

538
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:31.519
who looked at the flyer and go, oh man, this this DJ is

539
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:36.800
gonna be there, and these these
bands are gonna be there. Whatever.

540
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.159
Yeah, I'm gonna go. Do
you remember seeing the posters on the side

541
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.679
of streets and freeways. Yeah,
on the posts. Yeah, of all

542
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:50.360
the clubs where where groups are gonna
be performing? You know what I mean,

543
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:52.159
You're gonna go, you're dad.
It was all low over the place.

544
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.559
Remember they were pink uh, they
were like I like, were all

545
00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:00.280
they were all for resting colors,
all hot color. You know, and

546
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.800
you can go see Lisa Lisa the
Cult jam. You know what I'm saying.

547
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:06.760
To this day, when I was
just in California, they still have

548
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.639
those fires up. I mean it's
been twenty plus and more than twenty plus

549
00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:14.239
years since the eighties, but in
you know, a third sorry, thirty

550
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:17.679
plus and they still have those fires. Lisa Lisa Reunion happening at the Weirder

551
00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.840
about Pico Rivera. And I'm like, oh, man, yea a memory.

552
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:28.400
In nineteen eighty eight, it was
me and my three amigos. It

553
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:31.599
was Ruben, Micah and Ted.
Now these cats were my partners man from

554
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:37.199
me and yeah, me and this
dude Ted. We go back all the

555
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.360
way to second grade. So anyway, the four of us or at Venice

556
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:45.199
Beach. And this was right after
I got customed my kid. So it

557
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.320
was us and my baby and we
were at Venice Beach and we were walking

558
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.719
around the area. Then we saw
that there was something going down by,

559
00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:59.960
like the sand area. So we
strolled over there and I had my kid

560
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:07.519
on my shoulders right and we walk
over and it's iced Tea and he's hanging

561
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:10.239
out there and he's doing some free
flowing right there. But some dude is

562
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:15.960
videotaping in and taking you know,
photos of him, and he's got his

563
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:21.880
wife now Coco there, so everybody's
tripping. So he's doing his thing,

564
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.639
right. He stops. We're just
chilling out. He walks up next to

565
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:30.239
us. He looks at me,
he goes, what's cracking, looks at

566
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.920
my kid, shakes her foot,
checks me out, and then me and

567
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.639
him start talking about music, you
know. And I hit him up with

568
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:42.360
one thing. I said, do
you think that rock and roll on hip

569
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:46.800
hop are of the same because they
tell a story, they're about anger,

570
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.480
they free flow, They tell him
message and they unify. He goes right

571
00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:54.519
on, teach your kid. That
very cool. That was my you know

572
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:59.880
what. I met him again.
I met him again in East Tale.

573
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.920
I want to get one of my
big Toyota trucks, some new tires and

574
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:10.039
some new sounds. And this was
a place off a with your boulevard right

575
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.599
before you get to Atlantic. It
was a big old tire and stereo shop.

576
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:21.239
And I met him there again and
he was getting his bronco done up,

577
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.679
so we had some waiting time.
So I stood there and he stood

578
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:28.000
there and he looked at me.
He goes yo, man, I know

579
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:31.159
who I've met you before. So
me and him got to talking right there

580
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:36.039
about trucks and stuff like that,
and it was, you know, we

581
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:39.519
didn't talk about anything else except there's
like trucks, you know what I mean,

582
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:44.119
what we're doing our rides. Just
a moment talking to somebody who had

583
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:47.400
who was just a raidar joke man, where to eat? Right then and

584
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.920
there we started talking about the difference
between the rams and the raiders. Then

585
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.800
his truck was ready, bro.
You know, he gave me a fist

586
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.480
pump, jumped in his ride,
and I just hung out there. It

587
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:02.760
was It was crazy because I still
love that dude. I love anything he

588
00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:07.360
does. I dig the dude on
TV. And it's like totally eighties bro,

589
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.239
because I think in the eighties nobody
really gave a rat's ass on what

590
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.519
color you were, what you look
like, or where you came from.

591
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:19.519
Everybody was on one vibe. Let's
have a freaking good time and get you

592
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:22.760
this shit alive. That's what I
thought. That's what it was all about.

593
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.239
Brother, It's a good times man. We need that back. Please.

594
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.079
Oh yeah, brothers, Hey,
Rob, I got a question for

595
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:34.079
you. So being that you know
so much of djaying and house parties and

596
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.719
things like that. What's the connection
like when you're actually as the parties.

597
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:42.360
I would say definitely there's a big
connection. I mean even going to shows

598
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:49.199
right now, it's essentially a story, a story that's being told everything you

599
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:53.079
know, and also being that connection
with not just one person, but what

600
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:58.599
the whole audience. I've seen DJs
where sometimes the crowd's not feeling them and

601
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.239
they've got to change their entire set. That's means bumping four or five songs

602
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:07.519
and stuff like that. But in
the start of now electronic music, there's

603
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:13.719
also different genres in between electronic music. There's house, there's techno, there's

604
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:17.840
trance, and all these subgenres have
different types of feelings. The house music,

605
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:22.519
which really starts it, gives you
that that party sound, that house

606
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.280
sound that hey, everybody's here the
party. That techno sound is that really

607
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.719
doom doom doom where you hear all
the time. That trance sound is very

608
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.199
melodic feeling and very euphoric feeling,
and all these have different types of feelings

609
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:38.519
and different sounds, and also the
way they're played. It can be played

610
00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:43.760
in a higher b it could be
played at lower B and that in essence

611
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.960
gives the crowd that energy that the
DJ is giving. Hey, I'm getting,

612
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:50.880
you know. And also the way
they're able to build up music.

613
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.440
Here comes a drop and they're over
here tweaking the knobs and adjusting and adding

614
00:46:54.440 --> 00:47:00.239
the base and lowering the men and
the treble, and it's it's a whole

615
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:01.960
it's a whole art. And when
I see these guys and I see them

616
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:06.760
DJ, I mean, I'm not
a you know me, I'm an admirer

617
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.840
of a DJ. I love d
d DJ, I can DJ, but

618
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:13.360
I'm not a professional DJ. I
let the real professionals DJ handle it.

619
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:16.320
And when I see them in their
in their work, these guys are masters

620
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.800
that there art. I mean,
go back to the East Coast. They

621
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.679
were the ones who initially started the
scratch, that scratch that you would hear.

622
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:30.639
And now there's even competitions that have
been going on for the past twenty

623
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:37.159
five years of scratch within hip hop. And you know that whole DJ seeing,

624
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:38.960
I mean, it's blown up.
And not only in the States have

625
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:45.119
you been blowing it up. This
thing has gone overseas. One thing that

626
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:50.480
this new start of music and this
new form of music was able to allow,

627
00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:54.519
is that it was able to allow
clubs to go all night with this

628
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:59.519
music. With live music, you
can have the musicians playing for maybe an

629
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:01.480
hour and they need a break,
and then two hours and another break.

630
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:06.199
With this DJ equipment, all you
need to do is this press play and

631
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:08.599
you're gonna have the party going all
over all night. And that's what the

632
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.280
influences. And that's as well the
fashion where the fashion came out. I

633
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:16.000
gotta look good and that's why you
should see the long chains with the clock

634
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:20.840
like run DMC used to do.
It was a whole fad that came out.

635
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:25.679
That's great. Yeah, And what
about the marriage of bands and groups

636
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:31.280
like for example, Run DMC that
would have their music joined, merged or

637
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:36.559
married with even the lights of Yeah, with like rock, you know,

638
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:39.599
like what Beastie Boys did introducing rock
in their music. Let's talk a little

639
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:44.960
bit about Run DMC. Chang Run
DMC. I mean they're like the Sugar

640
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.880
Hill Gang. I mean these cats, I mean they came straight out,

641
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.000
you know, straight out of the
hood. Broy didn't. They didn't come

642
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.559
from money. They came from a
knowing soul. And I'm talking soul.

643
00:48:55.639 --> 00:49:02.840
I'm talking like motown stuff of but
they grew up very poetic and understanding the

644
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:08.159
hardships, and I think it was
a generation that came up that wasn't going

645
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:13.760
to take any shit anymore. I
think that crossover, like jactly what change

646
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:16.880
is talking about, just reaches new
audience. You're not only just hitting your

647
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:21.559
audience, which we would have been
the hip hop audience, but they're branching

648
00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:24.840
out to the rock audience, to
the pop audience. And I mean,

649
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:29.159
when don't you hear crossovers like this? I hear him now. But to

650
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.599
think this was already happening way back
in the day, and that at a

651
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:37.000
way higher rate than it is now. I mean, it's it's amazing the

652
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:42.199
way music it can infect people with
such love and positivity. I mean,

653
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:44.920
even though there's not really lyrics to
it, and hip hop is just to

654
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:47.800
scratch it, it's so just to
beat the momentum, the way that uplifts

655
00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:51.679
you, the way it makes you
feel, the one that dance, it's

656
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.079
I love it, you know,
So let me ask both of you this,

657
00:49:54.400 --> 00:50:00.840
to the best of your recollection.
They mean three of the dance songs

658
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:05.199
that whenever you'd walk into a place
that had dance music, or if you

659
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:08.679
walk into a club or a house
party, what are the three songs that

660
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:13.679
you guys remember that? Yeah,
I mean he would even excite you when

661
00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:16.679
you heard him. Would have to
be grand Master Flash with white lines and

662
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.119
way straight out of Compton, the
sugar Hill Gang. I would say,

663
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:24.840
you know, this is a little
bit more poppier, because you know,

664
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:28.519
just the way I like the flow
of things. But if it was that,

665
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:31.800
it'd be first one would be Sweet
Dreams, remember that by the rhythmics.

666
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:36.440
Yes, yes, that's number one. That one I definitely love.

667
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:39.679
I also love some funky little beat
by Connie I know you guys know conn

668
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:43.920
Yeah, those gems hit the speakers
and everybody's on the dance floor, you

669
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.679
know what I mean, everybody.
Even my grandma would get on the dance

670
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:49.519
floor. She said, hey me, oh, this is my favorite song.

671
00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:51.599
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Even with

672
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:57.079
their one busted hips, she'd still
be going yea. And definitely my last

673
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.199
one would be Judy Torres. You
know, come into my arms, call

674
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:01.679
me a lover or not a fighter. That's why they do. I just

675
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:07.400
love the freestyle. I definitely would
get all happy when I heard Grandmaster Flash,

676
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:14.079
also Stacy Q, and believe it
or not, my favorite of all

677
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:19.079
would be the cover Girls. This
is Back to the Eighties Radio. We've

678
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.440
got special guests with us, Rob
Roy, who is going to be joining

679
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:28.639
us back right after this. This
next track that's coming up is Sweet Dreams

680
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:30.920
by the Arrhythmic s. Heere on
Back to the Eighties. It's your boy

681
00:51:31.119 --> 00:52:00.599
Rob Roy. Face. Welcome back
to Back to the eight Each Radio.

682
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:04.559
Tiscano, Win Chang and your boy
Rob Roy are in the house. And

683
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:08.119
no we're not doing any white lines. But that was a badass master grand

684
00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:14.079
Master last Rob Roy. It has
been a joy. Now, Toscano,

685
00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:19.519
I know you and Rob Roy are
having competition. Who has the shiniest glasses

686
00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.840
on the screen. I'm gonna tell
you right now, if I wasn't faded,

687
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:27.719
my eyes would be jaded with both
your kids. Now that you brought

688
00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:31.360
this point up, Chang, it
looks like we all, Chang, Rob

689
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:40.519
and myself are wearing the same exact
glass. Ah. Yes, growing old,

690
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:45.519
gotta love it. But Rob Man, it's been great having you on

691
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:47.519
the show. I hope it's not
the last time You're welcome on back to

692
00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:52.519
the eighties radio. Anytime you're our
brother, you're our friend, and man,

693
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.760
you're another eighties lover. So we
love your brother. Guys. Thank

694
00:52:54.760 --> 00:52:57.639
you so much for having me.
I mean, I love you guys.

695
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.239
What you guys are putting on,
keep hammering, keep supporting. You were

696
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:25.000
all going back to the eighties.
Oh, everybody wants to get nice and

697
00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:29.719
while here I'm back to the eighties
radio with Diamond Girl and Stacy Q.

698
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:36.840
Two of Hearts Chang, two of
the nicest songs that you can ever dream

699
00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.440
up of when you went to a
house party. Two of the songs that

700
00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:45.400
will get you dancing and jumping and
get your lady friends very very happy to

701
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.000
be with you. You know,
man, A lot of the times I

702
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:53.639
did enjoy the unfortunate times I was
around dance music. You know I'm not

703
00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:58.480
knocking. Oh my god, hello, there he is. As soon as

704
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:02.440
Rob left the the anger management guy
came in to me. Listen to me.

705
00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:07.000
You see how you you were like
a district attorney. Objection objection.

706
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:12.559
Oh he is a long haired hater. Let's just go ahead, and ladies

707
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.360
and gentlemen of the jury, I'd
like to point your attention now that our

708
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:22.960
special guest left, Now the chang
starts unmasking himself with all this hate.

709
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:27.880
Oh and then, oh, I've
never listened to this music. It's painful

710
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.280
to my ears. Now, anyway, I should be as I was saying.

711
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:37.239
As I was saying, I enjoyed
some of that music. I didn't

712
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.800
dance, but if I drank enough, I could dance. Right, if

713
00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.639
I was comfortable enough with a girl, I would dance. Just because I

714
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:50.360
wasn't a dancer and I wasn't cranking
it in my vehicle so people could hear

715
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:54.199
my music and my car rattle much
like they do now over where my engine

716
00:54:54.320 --> 00:55:00.039
is un cool? Right, But
you initially, initially you come into the

717
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:06.159
courtroom and want to proclaim me that
I am the hater of all. But

718
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:09.840
yet you are a very bad district
attorney. Oh okay, okay, because

719
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:14.039
you are like not looking at all
the facts. All right, all right,

720
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:19.360
let's put you to the test.
Love doesn't fit. Your music is

721
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:22.800
shit? Thanks, are all right? All right? Let me put you

722
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.920
to the test. Then why don't
you go ahead and give us your opinion

723
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:30.119
on Nice and Wild Diamond Girls song. You know what I have to say,

724
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:35.760
It's a cute jingle. Oh my
gosh. Okay, it's very cute

725
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:39.280
jingle. Uh. When you break
it down lyrically, it's funny, you

726
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:43.840
know what I mean? Uh?
And it's gotta beat where. Yeah,

727
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.400
you're gonna get people out there moving. Is there a song that I'm gonna

728
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:51.800
crank in my vehicle? No?
Is there a song that's gonna make me

729
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:55.239
all stupid and crazy at a party? No? All tolerated. Bobby Brown

730
00:55:55.280 --> 00:56:00.119
would don't be cruel. No Bobby
Brown. I want nothing to do with

731
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:02.639
that guy destroys some lives. I
can't do the Bobby. I can't do

732
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:07.079
the Bobby Brown. You know what
I mean. Okay, how about Earth

733
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:13.239
Wind and Fire. Now. I
grew up with this band in the seventies.

734
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:19.000
Now this band represents growing up to
me at a time of where you're

735
00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:22.760
you're in tight with your your familia, your neighborhood. This takes me back,

736
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:27.880
this type of music to growing up
in a neighborhood, an ethnic neighborhood,

737
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:34.599
a very family neighborhood oriented connection,
tightness, closeness, a time in

738
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:37.719
life when when you lived in the
neighborhood for several years, your neighbor could

739
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.840
scold you like your parents. They
could grab you by the arm, take

740
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.159
you home, spank you in the
butt if they saw you doing something wrong.

741
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:49.599
So music from Earth, Wind and
Fire, my mind transpires back to

742
00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:53.920
that kind of an element. So
even in the eighties with their dance music,

743
00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:59.519
as it became dance worthy, it
was dance worthy in the seventies,

744
00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:05.079
always soulful kind of slow dance,
so you know what I mean, whether

745
00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:09.280
you're holding your mate or not.
So of course, another band, Cooling

746
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:15.440
The Gang, oh yeah, was
always flashy. They always had that cool

747
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:21.280
sound, that kind of sound that
would take you away to sway and then

748
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.960
make you dance. You could even
mention groups that were for example in rap

749
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:30.360
like Nucleus remember a song called gem
on It Dude. I remember, man,

750
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:35.039
I remember going to backyard parties in
that starting up. I remember being

751
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.880
at family parties all mean, who
don't go nowhere, We're getting a DJ,

752
00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:42.360
and then all of a sudden,
the whole families out there dancing ex

753
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:46.159
cholos, extolaios dias, you know, all your premos, your neighbors,

754
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.920
you know what I mean. It
becomes like this big old dance party.

755
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:55.800
And that was always one of another
one you remember Madness one Step Beyond Believe

756
00:57:55.840 --> 00:57:59.440
that was put out in seventy nine
or seventy eight, you know, but

757
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:01.599
yet that was always cranked up.
I think I mentioned this once before,

758
00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:07.760
but Madness had has the song that
when I hear it to me, it

759
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:13.440
encapsulates everything about the eighties. It's
just that one song. It's probably my

760
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:23.239
favorite eighties song of all, and
that is Oh yeah our House. Oh

761
00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:34.119
yeah, that's a crazy song.
How about super Sonic? You remember that

762
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:37.199
song? Yeah? Yeah, and
that was by J J j J.

763
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:42.000
That was pretty That was a pretty
badass song that you know. That was

764
00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:45.679
a song that came out and it
totally had people, you know, moving

765
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:57.320
all over the place. How about
L L cool J? Now, L

766
00:58:57.480 --> 00:59:00.719
L cool J I'm Bad was for
that too, Yes, of course I'm

767
00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:04.599
bad al el COOLJA, Come on, bro, of course I remember L

768
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:10.000
el COOLJ with I'm Bad. Here's
a little something with backward bass. And

769
00:59:10.199 --> 00:59:14.519
not too many people know what backwards
bass is. But if you listen to

770
00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.199
the Beastie Boys and you listen to
the album lightsnse to Ill, you'll know.

771
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:22.239
When I say the word Paul Revere
here, I'm back to the eighties

772
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:27.559
radio. Now here's a little story
I got to tell about three bad brothers.

773
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:34.519
You know so well, it's cutting
way back in history with that had

774
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:49.840
a little hockey. Name is Paul
Revere my brain, you'll believe me.

775
00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:01.199
Welcome back to Back to the Eighties
Radio, Tiscano and Chang, and we

776
01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:06.119
are laying everybody down on the dance
floor. Get your ass to the dance

777
01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:10.800
bloard. We had the lip licking
sweets and say shit in ll cool jay

778
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:15.920
baby, you are dancing and prancing
with Tiscano with Chang. No, I

779
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.159
think we opened the doors to dance
floor doors. We did man to a

780
01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:25.960
time that make everybody feel way younger
and just want to move and groove.

781
01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:29.960
So I hope we did that tonight. You know, I think that people

782
01:00:29.960 --> 01:00:32.679
are going to be wanting a lot
more where that came from. And you

783
01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:36.119
come to the right place because this
is the one and only Back to the

784
01:00:36.119 --> 01:00:40.599
Eighties Radio the show we bring the
nostalgia and the memories. Just can't thank

785
01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:45.440
you guys enough for making this show
the biggest and greatest eighties radio show in

786
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.719
the world. Once again, it's
time to let you guys go, but

787
01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:53.000
before we do, we want to
keep reminding you guys that our Facebook page

788
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:58.360
is there for you guys to go
over and join the family. We also

789
01:00:58.599 --> 01:01:01.280
have an opportunity for you to name
a song that you might want to hear

790
01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:05.000
played for the following week. Any
song, it doesn't matter, as long

791
01:01:05.039 --> 01:01:08.440
as it's within the eighties realm.
And also reminding you guys that's starting next

792
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:13.519
week we are going to have here
back to the Eighties Radio a couple of

793
01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:16.880
new shows, so stick around for
that. Every Monday, we're going to

794
01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:21.800
be going through an album a week, and also Banging with the Chang is

795
01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:25.840
going to be coming up on Saturdays, so you don't want to miss that.

796
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.679
Thank you for introducing the eighties to
a whole new generation. Go out

797
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:37.280
there and be examples of good humans, good civilians, no matter what political

798
01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:40.840
party, no matter what religion,
what race, what color. We are

799
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:45.440
all as Chink says of the human
race. So stay cool. We'll see

800
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:50.360
you next Friday. There's a chang
before I release you to another chang tastic

801
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.320
weekend. Again, thank you for
listening, Tell a friend, share this

802
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:59.840
and remember always smile. Tomorrow is
another day and remember you matter, does

803
01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:02.519
it matter? So until next week, I bid you all an asta la

804
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:09.840
vista, asta lanyana, astellaego asayada, adiosa river and until tomorrow, my

805
01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:15.360
friends, ordeal to all my homies. We're gonna take you out back to

806
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:20.960
the dance floor where I want all
you cats and kiddies and eighties ladies to

807
01:02:21.239 --> 01:02:27.360
bust a move. This is Young
MC and you have been rocked by Toscano

808
01:02:27.440 --> 01:03:01.079
and chatting it back to the eighties
radio babies, back so del