Back to the '80s with special guest, Award Winning Author, Michael Thomas Perone

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I'm so scared. I wish I
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nerves. I find a place to
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face, That's what I was afraid
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are listening to the one and only
Back to the Eighties Radio Thank you for

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joining us on another Friday, a
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in southern California, but what can
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degrees and we're not going through a
lot of the stuff that, in particular

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Mike and Padre in radio crime is
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back east, you know, some
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me, here's nothing but depeche mode
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to go to sleep because it relaxes
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has been seen rocking to the tunes
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back to the eighties. We call
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Thank you for that warm welcoming Hello all

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my Tuscano and chang You deserve it. Anybody out there that wants to join

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the Changsters Gangster Revival. It is
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play nothing but music, So please
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note on how much you hate me, because I love the hate. And

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you have a Charry. Maybe you
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you and Tuscanno can whisper it to
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and lip sing it. Probably something
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depeche Mode. Oh, and probably
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takes the time to actually click on
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Oh, we absolutely love it,
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a big thumbs up to you.
A big announcement here on the show,

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We've got a very special guest today, Michael Thomas Perrone, the author of

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a very special book called Danger Peaks. Who want to tune into that because

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it's literally traveling back to the nineteen
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of you who has been leaving comments
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to the Eighties Radio show when we
come back, Chang you're gonna bring us

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back because I know you're gonna take
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girls. You're listening to Back to
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are in cahoots and a family member
of Kit's ninety two five where we keep

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the eighties vibe alive. We got
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California. So meddle up and get
yourself something to drink and let's get back

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to the show. Jenny quest that
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love me it's side. So what
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mine? Yeah, me go to
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going it to last never, I
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the feel of the same star.
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hour and no up down as to
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Can you little? Can you live? Take your dreams reality. Listen

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what I mean now this is the
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the lid. You the live at
me. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Shadow

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Stevens and you must listen to Back
to the eighties Radio Law You're back with

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Tiscano went checking right here. Back
to the eighties radio that was everybody's favorite

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band. Back to the eighties from
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I met those guys up in als
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Taint with John Bush taking the lead
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a little bit of a deep show. So you guys are going to enjoy

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it, and you may get some
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help yourself, help somebody out.
And I'm talking about a topic that will

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be brushed upon. Me and Tiscano
have danced upon this topic many at times,

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both personally or on the show at
times. And I'm talking about bowling.

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I'm talking about the age of bowling
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we do here. Back to the
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now. In the eighties, we
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came from very large groups and very
close minded people. Well, here we

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are nowadays, and we'll right back
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cancer, which I refer to as
bulling. We have cyberbulling, and me

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and Tis kind of talk so many
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comment about bowling, please chime in, leave us a message, get some

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strain up your chest. Maybe you
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to try to keep it fun,
try to keep it light. But that

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is a topic that is also delicate
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need to maybe start teaching our younger
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that it has to do. Suicides, overdoses, accidents, murder, rape,

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you name it. It all stems
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a little idea of what we're going
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bullying just among tweens. Tweens are
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right before those teenage years, one
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kids has been cyber bullied. And
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through either social media, gaming apps. Kids go to these sites to connect

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with other kids. Even if they
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they can get cyber bullied like that. Sixty nine percent of tweins say

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that they have been bullied by their
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are willing to step in and defend, but the majority are not. And

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here's one of the things that troubles
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disabilities has quadrupled since the eighties.
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finding this information, you can go
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stats. It's pretty incredible because I
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of students with this abilities. I
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the rate that it is now,
it's absolutely incredible. So just keep that

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in mind of what you were saying
about people and kids and getting involved with

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drugs and alcohol and going the way
of suicide. It's very, very relevant

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and very serious today. We just
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it's I think it's a vital importance
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We do take it very seriously,
whether it's cyber bullying or bullying in person

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or bullying in any other fashion.
It's completely wrong and we want to fight

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against it as much as we can. These are important subjects that we need

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to touch on once in a while. Not everything was fun in games in

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the eighties, and if we can
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life, we've done our job.
Now stay right where you are, because

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up next, we've got Michael Thomas
Perrone, author of Danger Peak. So

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let's go back to the nineteen eighties. You probably don't know how much words

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can hurt, but cyber bullying is
real. Whether it's in person or behind

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the screen, just a comment or
an unnecessary share, words can hurt us.

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All words can affect lives. Words
can even end lives. This message

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has been brought to you by your
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this is Steve all Jury and you're
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Welcome back. This is Back to
the Eighties Radio. As promised, We've

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got Michael Thomas Barrone, an award
winning author who's written for The Baltimore Son,

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the Baltimore City Paper, The Island
Ear, among others. He's written

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for Father Lee and Yahoo I mean, the list goes on and on.

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Michael, today we're gonna be talking
about your book, Danger Peak. Talk

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to us a little bit about your
book, and then give us a little

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background on you as the author.
Well. Danger Peak is a coming of

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age action adventure novel set in the
late eighties. It's about a brave thirteen

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year old boy named Robert Kin who
wants to climb and defeat a magical mountain

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in the center of his town that
killed his brother the year before. So

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in order to try to beat the
mountain, he builds a superpowered motorbike with

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his two best friends and the unintentional
help with their eccentric technology teacher. He's

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sort of the quasi villain of the
book. And the hook of the book

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is what's on top of Danger Peak? There's something special on top, but

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to find out what it is,
you have to read the book. So

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talk to us a little bit about
about you as the author. How do

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you relate with the eighties? Well, I grew up in the eighties.

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I was a kid of the eighties. You know, it's my nostalgia sweet

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spot. That's why I subscribe to
all these YouTube channels and Twitter accounts devoted

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to the eighties. I grew up
on Long Island. I'm still there now,

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and you know, life for me
back in eighties was simple, you

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know, like everyone else when you're
a kid. Most spent most of my

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time riding bikes around town my two
best friends. That was a major inspiration

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for my book, one of the
inspirations. We also, of course,

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loved playing video games, especially Nintendo, another inspiration for the book. So

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you know, I hang out,
hung out, had fun, I listened

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to great music, so a bunch
of Awston movies didn't have too many worries.

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And those are my memories of the
eighties. How did you come up

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with the idea for writing the book? Is it just strictly in nostalgia?

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Was it written before COVID and all
that stuff? It was written way before

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COVID. In fact, it was
written in nineteen eighty eight. The short

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story version. Yeah, I wrote
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nineteen eight when I was eleven years
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am, so I had a few
main inspirations for riding it. The first

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was the old school eight bit Nintendo
game site Bike. I don't know if

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you remember it as one of those
part of grambaball games where you build your

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own course, and one day I
built a giant ramp that looked like a

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mountain, and I wondered what would
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that was kind of the genesis of
the idea. Another inspiration for the book

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was the various misadventures I had with
my two best friends riding bikes around our

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neighborhood. We didn't ride motorbikes,
but we wrote regular bicycles, but I

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thought motorbikes would be more interesting for
the leader and the lessons. Inspiration,

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unfortunately, was the death of my
brother in nineteen eighty six. The Nintendo

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gaming Sitebike the adventures I had riding
my bike around my friends and end the

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death of my brother to write this
book. That's so why Robert Kin is

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trying to avenge his brother's death.
That's one of the main reasons why he's

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trying to climb this mountain. Talking
about video games, what was your your

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your particular favorite video game or arcade, even though it wasn't in Long Island,

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but talk to us a little bit
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through that arcade era. I mean, if you're talking about Nintendo games.

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My favorite game was cast Sylvania.
I still remember exactly where I was when

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I saw it. It was my
best friend's house. He rented it,

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and I walked down him like what
is that? It was like exactly what

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I wanted. I mean, you
had a whip. It was hard them

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to you know, these witches and
medusa heads, and it just blew my

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mind. You know, it's like, I gotta get this game. That's

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my favorite Nintendo game. Arcade games. I mean, this is probably well,

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I guess it would be late I
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late eighties. The first Teams Communion
in s Turle game, the Arcade Beat

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Him Up Game. I loved that
game. Also the Batman game based on

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the movie from nineteen eighty nine.
I love love to Beat Him Up games.

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Isn't it interesting that, no matter
how much games have advanced today,

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they were still harder to beat back
then. Oh that was I don't know.

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Yeah. Could I ever get past
the second level of doc Con?

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You know what I think? One
time? One time ever, I went

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to the third level. I was
so excited, but it was on My

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Last Man, my Last life,
and I tried it one time my level

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three. I tried it one time, I got killed. Never again was

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I able to go to level three. Burned through a lot of quarters at

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bet Holy Well, my dad used
to give me a roll of quarters,

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you know, every Friday. I
used to get a roll of quarters.

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Now that that's a lot of money
for you know, for a kid.

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So what does your family think about
your your feelings about the eighties? Did

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they also grew up in the eighties. Well, I mean my sister did.

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But for the most part, they
tease me about it. They definitely

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think I'm obsessed with it. I
kind of see their point. I mean,

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it's not one hundred percent healthy to
live in the past, but I

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just can't help myself. Now,
I had such a good time in the

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eighties. I'm always fell warm memories
and I think of that decade. I

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mean, of course, not every
time it was perfect. But you know,

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when you're in nostalgic, you kind
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things that happened to you kind of
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maybe your peak would be philiber with
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and woodstock. You know, it's
like, it's just the world I was

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used to growing up, so it's
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in Indiana Jones. You know,
a lot of people I've heard in the

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past tell others stopped living in the
past. But the problem is they don't

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understand that we're not really living in
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past are responsible for what we are
going through right now in a way,

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and those same experiences, because we
don't have them anymore, we knew how

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good it was. It's okay to
go back to nostalgia and to go back

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to your memories. I mean,
that's why, that's why we do back

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to the eighties. You know,
we're living in the modern age. But

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doesn't mean I have to like it. You know what I mean, doesn't

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mean I have to like it.
Holy smokes. First of all, you

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know I made reference to use that
taking My family teases me, I'm gonna

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use in our past show. We
were locked out of our social media for

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two weeks, out from Facebook because
I was hacked. Like a three in

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the morning. I started getting text
messages from Facebook. They were attempting to

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lug into my account from like all
over the world at the same time.

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So it took me two weeks and
I said, look, if I lose

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it all, I'm done. Never
again. I'm done with social media.

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It's just too much work. You
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you were saying. I'm just gonna
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kind of wish technology wasn't completely controlling
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the book in the eighties, besides being

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a love letter in my childhood,
is that I didn't want any smartphones.

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I don't wan any social media,
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story. Once you made that decision, the latest your story can take place

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as the late eighties early nineties,
because after that, forget it, technology

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just completely took go. And it's
you know, it's easy for you and

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me to say that the kids have
no idea, Like I'll give you a

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quick example. A couple of years
ago by daughter. She was four or

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five at the time. She's watching
the show and she's on TV and she

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was done with it. She went
up to it and she started swiping the

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TV screen as if it was a
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or say, even when I was
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occurred to me to go up to
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Another example, I was Starbucks last
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walked in and they were they were
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and they were just the same And
they got in line behind me and they

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phoned a semi circle, but instead
of talking to each other, they were

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staring down at their phones. I
thought that was so sad. You know,

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when I was a kid, I
went to the movies my friends,

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for example, we weren't staring at
some device in her hand. We were

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actually interacting with each other. It's
like, Hey, do you think the

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movie's gonna be about? And are
getting popcorn? Again? Oh? You

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always put too much better hahaha.
And I feel like we're kind of lost

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something there. I know this makes
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I feel like we're raising the entire
generation and doesn't know how to talk to

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each other. We've talked about this
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I always go back to it.
With the loss of for example, video

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rentals and even malls nowadays, right, they're all dying off. So I

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always tell people, you know what
we have traded as a society. We

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have traded the experience right for convenience. And that is horrible because now we've

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brought up a whole new generation and
the generation coming after that is going to

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be even worse because they're going to
be totally dependent on AI. Right,

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they don't They won't even know how
to write with their hand, which is

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amazing. Well, now they got
software to replace me, and they got

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AI writing software. Do you have
a prompt, hey write a story sent

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as about a kid who wants to
conquer magic amountain. Okay, here's two

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hundred pages, that's it. It's
like, well, yeah, yeah,

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well from a computer that knows nothing
except for just certain facts that it picks

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here and there from from stories,
yeah, which is ridiculous. All right,

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So if you could go back to
change one thing, right, let's

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not talk about changing your whole life, but if you could go back just

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to change one thing, one little
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It's kind of a melancholy answer,
but I have to be honest.

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I would have probably spent more time
playing with my brother now, as I

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said, he passed in eighty six
and I ended up dedicating Danger Pete to

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him. It's one of the first
things you see when you open the book

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says for Stephen. So that's one
of the reasons why I wanted to write

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the book, you know, it's
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we're definitely gonna make sure that people
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book as soon as possible. So
how can how can people get ahold of

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either you and you know? In
order to get your book? How can

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people get ahold of the book at
dinger Peaks available on Amazon and Barnes and

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Noble dot com. If you want
the shop locally, you can just ask

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for it at your neighborhood bookstore and
they'll order it from Ingraham also from danger

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peak dot Com. Had several people
tell me this is the greatest eighties movie

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never made. So if you want
to travel back in time without a Delian,

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pick up a copy of JP appreciate
your Michael. Okay, this is

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Lorie Miller from the first and original
Expose and you're listening to Back to the

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Eighties radio, which today you want
to continue very briefly, we want to

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touch on the things that continue to
suck back in the eighties. Hey Chang,

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you know one of the things that
really sucked back in the eighties some

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of the ugliest cars that I have
ever seen. Now, granted a lot

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of these cars come with ugliness from
back in the seventies. Some of these

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cars look the Youugo, Remember the
Ugo. It was a thirty nine hundred

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dollar brand new car that a kid
that was seven years old can pick up

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and probably toss over his shoulder and
put it on his backpack. One of

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the ugliest cars, along with the
Gremlin Pacer and the GMC Hornet. Now

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you're talking about cars that were converted
from a baby stroller and put a lawnmower

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engine in them, and then what
they melted down what I'd say about a

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dozen and a half mountain duke aluminum
cans, and they framed it and bodied

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it up. Is that the vehicle
you're talking about? Even the name alone,

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you go, well, you know, the eighties was the eighties was

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popular for a lot of unpopular and
cheesy things, and one of those was

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car. Some ugly ass cars we
did, we did. I can name

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a few that in my own family
were prevalent, and one of them was,

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for example, the nineteen eighty Chevy
Manza about those granadas, The Manza

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about the Maverick. I don't know
if the Maverick continue to be made in

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the eighties, but it was a
the Maverick, disgusting car. Scott,

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Hey, I'm gonna buy a Maverick. You think you're gonna get a sporty,

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fast little car like a Mustang,
Right, it's gonna be. The

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Maverick ran with a V eight.
It had those Grandma rims on it and

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they matched the same color of the
car, those cheesy Maverick hubcap and then

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the back looked like it got hit
and smashed flat and then it rolled into

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a smooth, luxurious looking car.
So from the front, the Maverick was

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like a mullet, the mullet of
cars. Yes, it looked red and

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sleek for business in the front,
and then the back it was flat and

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racked and just straight up and down
and ready for the party in a Maverick.

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Here's a funny story. My sister
and my brother in law had a

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Maverick and this thing was like a
metallic green and me and my buddy Raymie

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I've mentioned you, God rest his
soul. He's my homeboy. That my

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best friend. We used to roll
out in this maverick, you know,

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trip out on this We would ask
my sister for the maverick, right,

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we both had some jobs, so
we would roll out in this thing on

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Friday or Saturday night. We always
cruise the Hollywood. We would take the

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hub caps off this maverick, put
some other hub caps that I had got

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that we're in the back of his
pad and we would change the hub caps

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make it look racy. We would
get an iron maiden. We had one

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of these big old backdrop iron maiden
sheets that you could hang, you know,

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up in your room and stuff.
We used to put that pinned up

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on the back window, folded in
over lapping the back seat, and then

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we put his boombox in. This
thing would crank with detachable speakers up under

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our seats. Right then we would
roll down to Hollywood cranking metal dude.

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And if you looked in the car, it looked like two metal cats.

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But this car, if when I
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would start shaking back and forth,
you know, like those baby carriages that

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you have where you you press the
button. It shakes your baby to sleep.

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That's how this Maverick would roll.
It didn't roll like a horse.

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It rolled like a three legged jackass. But hideous ass car, hideous ask

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according to Motor Trend. The magazine
Motor Trend, A lot of people are

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going, what the heck the magazine? According to Motor Trend, they came

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up with a list of the ugliest
cars in the eighties. I can brush

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through them. A couple of them
I don't agree, but the majority I

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do. One of them, you'll
remember this, the nineteen eighties Chevrolet citation

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that wasn't oh, that wasn't the
name alone, now that I got a

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citation where you speaking now? The
one I don't agree is because I had

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a friend who had it and it
was just a superbly comfortable car, beautiful

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inside, and I used to like
it on the outside. But the nineteen

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eighty Cadillac Seville with that weird slanted
back that it's called the bustle back,

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And yeah, it was just a
weird looking car, but it was a

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kid too. Looked like it was
hit, yeah, but it was,

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didn't it. It looked like it
got in an accident. Yeah yeah,

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But it was. It was a
it was a Cadillac. The nineteen eighty

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Fiat Panda. That was another disgusting
car that we didn't really have too many

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Fiats, and along with the nineteen
eighty Toyota Corolla Ursell remember that, Yes,

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I remember that. As a matter
of fact, Missus Chang had one

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of those back in the early eighties. So I will not talk. I

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can't talk about that car. The
next car would have mentioned is going to

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freak some people out. The nineteen
eighty four Ford Tempo. Remember that car.

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That thing was ugly. Oh I
think that Wasn't that one of the

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first models where they try to go
like space Age alone you know what people?

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No, No, I think the
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seven Nissan Pulsar and Axe. It
was like kind of a weird station wagony

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thing. It was all glass in
the back. It was like a half

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car and half a truck. It
was just disgusting. Yes, you're right,

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you're right, you are. So
what about the Cougar? You know

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that's that actually made the list as
well as one of the ugliest cars.

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And I actually liked the the Cougar, along with the Thunderbird. You know

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what, I liked the Thunderbird.
Here's the things I did like about the

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Cougar. I didn't think the body
style was that bad, you know what.

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I mean that the inside was kind
of comfortable, But I just didn't

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like the kind of big nose front
end how it You know how I just

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didn't I didn't like that kind of
look. But I mean it rode smooth

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in particular. You know you're yeah, you're talking about like the nineteen eighty

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four Cougar, the nineteen eighty four
Lincoln Mark seven, and the Thunderbird.

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They all had the same line,
probably because they were made at the same

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Foard company, just like JIMC and
Chevy, same company, same vehicle.

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I used to hate going to play
miniature golf, right And you know what,

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I used to just really hate when
the attendant would look at you weird

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when you knocked in twelve balls already
into a little lake. And you know

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what I'm saying. They just used
say hate the treatment I got. They

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always thought they were better than me. The guy would always act like it

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was a professional golf course. You
cannot hate that. That was nothing to

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do with the eighties. That was
just you being mischievous and then calling you

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out for it. I mean,
come on, oh, come on,

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man. You can't tell me that
that little pimple faced kid was more authoritative

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and powerful and more knowledgeable of the
game than me. Can you leave it

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that? On many lists about things
that sucked in the eighties, there is

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a song and a band that is
very hated and I don't really understand why,

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because I love this song and I
like this band. The song is

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called We Built This City by Starship
from OH. I hate that song.

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It's been slammed by numerous outlets.
It was named as the worst song of

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all time by Blender whoever that is
or whatever that is. But here's the

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thing. In nineteen eighty six,
it was nominated for a Grammy who knew

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you know what? I agree with
those those individualists, that version of that

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band. I The only thing I
hated more than that version of that band

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or that song was seeing that version
of that band on MTV. Now tell

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me something, Why is it that
you hate that song so much? Why

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is it because it's not Gray Slick. It's not Gray Slick. I want

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to hear what Jefferson Airplane not Jefferson
starship. I don't want to hear that.

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No, No, you can't hate
a song because of who you wanted

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the band to be prior and they
change. Listen, listen, listen here,

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listen here you okay, hold on
before you jump onto Mickey mouse Club

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bandwagon of being nice guy, let
me explain to you that guy that sang

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Mickey what I forget his name.
That's how much I hated him, Mickey

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something or other. Yeah, you
got me of that one. Finally,

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I don't know something about music anyway. He looked like h Daryl Hall didn't

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He didn't he look like Oates?
Didn't he look like all of Oates?

406
00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.400
A little look he looked like him? Or he looked like Davey Lopes,

407
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:51.119
second baseman of the Los Angeles Dodgers
on that great infield line up during the

408
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:56.799
nineteen seventies, which consisted of Steve
Garvey at first base, Davey Lopes at

409
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.240
second base, Bill Russell at shortstop, and the pain when number ten Ronnie

410
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:04.240
Say at third base that that was
it? That's it. Name another car

411
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:11.079
that you would think I would hate. Let's let's see if you call another

412
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.799
car another car? Yeah, yeah, I want to see if you really

413
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:18.960
know my true hate of cars off
the top of you, well, you

414
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.839
would have probably hated the very first
Nissan stands a minivan that came out.

415
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:27.519
Oh that was hideous. It looked
like a butter container. You just wanted

416
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.640
to step on it and crush it. Look, let me tell you something

417
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:34.599
else that I really think sucked back
in the eighties, and that was when

418
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:40.240
you were lost trying to find an
address, because if you didn't have a

419
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:44.799
Thomas Guide or any kind of a
map, you had to rely on the

420
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:47.799
directions that you were given. And
if you couldn't find it that way,

421
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:49.400
what did you have to do?
You either had to call that person,

422
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.599
look, I'm lost, and if
they didn't answer the phone, you'd have

423
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.599
to stop, pull over at the
gas station, or ask some hoodlum down

424
00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.720
the street, which most likely sent
you in a wrong direction. You remember

425
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.319
that, you know what? I
remember that. I remember going to gas

426
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.680
stations and looking at the map there
and then trying to guide me. And

427
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:10.759
I also remember getting lost even after
I went to the attendant and looked at

428
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:15.319
the map, and end up in
a crazy neighborhood. Right. But as

429
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.440
you know the chat, I have
no stranger to the hood the laudiole.

430
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:22.359
You know, I found a website
called the history Collection dot com. It

431
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:28.880
was written by probably somebody who gets
insulted and just the wines for everything.

432
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.240
Here's some of the things that they
say were horrible about the nineteen eighties.

433
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:37.279
They said, well, no one
really had quick access to information. Wow,

434
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.799
Ronald Reagan's presidency, you'd probably agree
with that. Here's something funny.

435
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:45.480
The economy was awful for most people, and they were saying that that it

436
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:47.240
was much worse than today. No, I don't think so. Today,

437
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.440
no matter how much you make,
ten dollars for a loaf of bread,

438
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:58.799
is not worse than it was in
the eighties. Okay, people were always

439
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:04.799
insulting others. Oh boo, who
do you know that? It's sad to

440
00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:07.359
know that the birth of the Karen
was coming in the eighties. We're gonna

441
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.519
take you out with a song right
now. Come back with more hate.

442
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:14.880
We're gonna take you out right now
because the government is always aware of the

443
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:17.359
hate, and as long as they
keep an eye on us, they will

444
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:22.279
penetrate that hate. This is Judas
Priest with electric eye up a screaming for

445
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.960
vengeance. You are listening to Tuscanno
with Chang keep the hate going. You

446
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:30.920
got some more hate to Scanno.
The fact that you're only bringing metal as

447
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.480
songs. Yeah, okay, no
go ahead you no wait a minute,

448
00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:37.200
I'm going for a double shirt.
You didn't let me finish. I'm also

449
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:43.960
gonna play something that is dedicated to
my good buddy right here, Toscano,

450
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:49.519
and that is something from White Snake. Oh yeah, baby, slide it

451
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.359
in going out to Tuscanno. You're
listening back to the eighty radio. Don't

452
00:33:52.359 --> 00:34:22.519
you go nowhere? A mirits face. I'm wanting down you stress everything you

453
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:30.000
do. You think you Frida lights
thinking of the time. There is no

454
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:39.039
true escape back what you all the
time? My fucking scream. I am

455
00:34:38.800 --> 00:35:00.599
a shade my country tread, always
focus telling my stare I st but you

456
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:09.039
I take riding from me now.
I see this whole, My dear listen

457
00:35:09.039 --> 00:36:10.559
to that tikes that my se I
don't myself that I go tra my and

458
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:40.840
the skies. You really talk about
it, my bos, every bos,

459
00:36:46.519 --> 00:37:52.239
my second son, so my hungry
I'm gonna tree detected the Betri. It's

460
00:37:52.280 --> 00:38:22.039
f behind to say, I'm going
to sign to the time, sign signed

461
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:39.360
to the side side shide in some
time to say just look as fine,

462
00:38:45.800 --> 00:39:52.760
Mary, I don't want to sign
side shide cho slide side you don't watch

463
00:39:53.880 --> 00:40:31.519
always cham to get to sign sign
sign sign Sign Sign sign sign side sign

464
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:47.320
Sign Sign to the time. Baby
you're listening to back to the eighties.

465
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:29.119
Girl, you are to me all
about a boma treat and a cake treat

466
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:40.760
a lady. It must have been
said from and the noise. Stay this

467
00:41:42.079 --> 00:42:23.679
play and it will be to your
son, chasing all the day. When

468
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:52.800
you call your love me and come
with me ste the Stuke family, they

469
00:42:53.000 --> 00:43:06.679
will must join. Please. I
can fund the place to let you,

470
00:43:07.679 --> 00:44:07.719
but you can't be sure. Run
your line soon, Chase make you so

471
00:44:44.519 --> 00:45:31.719
that song chasing b and who Baby
didn't know that he who. Heaven is

472
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:44.000
a place Sola saying heaven the confused
for lay Heaven a place Solah. Heaven

473
00:45:44.360 --> 00:46:08.840
is a BACEI. Then the night
falls down. I whipple you as you

474
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:20.559
come around the line, the sound
of kids on the street and side when

475
00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:29.519
you look into you movie close up, Shine to lose and spending with the

476
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:57.760
stars, and baby bass a face
on it saying the gods. Then a

477
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:07.079
feel I reached for you and to
fring me home with a last stat scene,

478
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:21.840
I hear your voice and the carry
street in this worman just doliving me.

479
00:47:22.519 --> 00:48:21.480
I was a friend for the friend
paid in the swell, just be

480
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:30.360
doing the stand up miracle leaving maybe
I was a baby for I'm not a

481
00:48:30.400 --> 00:49:23.960
friend anymore. You know that it's
a place on the same the now back

482
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:30.320
to good, wholesome, politically correct
entertainment. Oops, wrong station No.

483
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:36.719
Back to the eighties with Tescanto and
Chang. You're listening to Back to the

484
00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:42.159
eighties Radio. We are back from
a set of great songs dedicated to the

485
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:47.159
wondrous Chang you just heard always by
Atlantic Star and Belinda Carlyle with Heaven is

486
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:52.599
a place on Earth, directly and
dedicated to you, my friend. This

487
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.159
is the show where we are continuing
a part two talking about the things that

488
00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:00.000
we thought sucked back in the eighties. And you know, before we go,

489
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:05.119
Chang, there are a few more
things that we thought that really really

490
00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:07.880
sucked back in the eighties. You
know. One of those things was,

491
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:14.679
besides those songs, when you did
not when you did not have coins and

492
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:19.000
you had to make a phone call, you had two choices. You either

493
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:23.360
made a collect call, which nobody
ever wanted to accept unless it was a

494
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:28.400
real emergency. And number two was
you had to buy a calling card to

495
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:30.719
remember that. Oh, I remember
the first calling cards. I hated the

496
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:34.159
calling cards. You know what I
hated about having to go to a pay

497
00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:37.440
phone back in the eighties. You
ever put your money in and it robs

498
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.920
you of your money and you don't
get a phone call, and then you're

499
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.760
banging it and banging it and banging
it and you still don't get your money.

500
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:47.880
Man, I used to hate that. Sounds like a bad night on

501
00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:57.440
Beach Boulevard. So because we didn't
have access to the internet like today,

502
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.199
so if you wanted to get any
kind of information, it had to be

503
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:06.239
through books now. Particularly, Let's
say you wanted to order some pizza and

504
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.320
you wanted to get the phone.
You know, you couldn't order online,

505
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.280
so you had to find the phone
number for the pizza man. And where

506
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:16.239
was that? Oh that beautiful section
in the Yellow Pages? You know,

507
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:21.119
it was the only section in the
Yellow Pages. The most used section in

508
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:27.000
the Yellow Pages in any neighborhood was
to two particular departments under the letter P.

509
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.559
One was pizza. That was the
number one most used section in the

510
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:35.440
Yellow Pages, and number two that
started with a letter P was for plumbing.

511
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:40.840
Do you remember that plumbers? Yes? I also remember those were They

512
00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:47.480
were the only two pages that you
could sometimes not find in those phone books

513
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:51.519
that were at the pay phone areas, remember every now, and they had

514
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:54.199
those plastic covers you open them up. I swear to you a lot of

515
00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:59.239
times the p of plumbing and pizza
were missing, and I would be like,

516
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:04.199
Wow, you know, some stoner's
driving around taking all the pizza Yellow

517
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.159
Pages out and the plumbing because they
must eat so much pizza. They're going

518
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.639
to go home and be in need
of a plumber. If that's not too

519
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:14.880
much cheese, I don't know what
is. Oh man. You know what

520
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:17.840
one thing I did hate back then, back in the eighties, I hate

521
00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.639
you when a DJ would play one
or two good songs and then come in

522
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:28.079
with a shitty song and you're like, oh man, that was almost to

523
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.920
me. That was almost like getting
caught masturbating. You're in the rhythm,

524
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:35.440
you're in the rhythm, and it's
like, oh man, when did you

525
00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:38.599
ever like DJ's what you're not?
I don't picture you know, I know,

526
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.719
I'm not talking about the DJ.
I'm not talking about the DJ and

527
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.920
the club who was spinning white lines. Yeah, you know, I'm not

528
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.000
talking about that DJ. I'm talking
about the DJ on FM radio, terrestrial

529
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.719
radio. You know, the forefathers
of doing what me and you were doing

530
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:55.199
right here and try to bring back
to the lovely boys the girls of the

531
00:52:55.239 --> 00:53:00.519
eighties and bey odd that's what I
thought. Yeah, because ladies, gentlemen

532
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:04.639
that are listening, you know,
you would never catch Chang at any kind

533
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:08.559
of a party where there's a DJ
rocking with vinyl unless unless he was really

534
00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:13.800
after uh that that girl probably am
I right, ladies, Yeah, I

535
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:15.719
knew it. Yeah, you know
what you were after? You know,

536
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:21.960
Donna girl. I hated. I
hated anybody that was a wanna Madonna.

537
00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:28.119
And here's why. Here's what hear
me out. That's because to me,

538
00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:35.119
it was like I was going to
taste cosmetics until I hated did the juice.

539
00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:37.559
And that's a lot of Uh,
that's a lot to handle, especially

540
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:42.719
if you're a little allergic to some
of the cosmetics. Well, you were

541
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:45.960
used to powders, so it shouldn't
be such a such a big stretch.

542
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:50.679
Well, you know what, the
only powder I ever used was between my

543
00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:53.480
butt cheeks before I went out to
capture the eighties ladies, the metal queens

544
00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:58.800
of my era, because I wanted
to stay fresh. Yeah, because sometimes

545
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:02.159
you know, you're you perspire.
Yeah. Oh that's another story. Why

546
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:06.840
are we talking about? I hate
when you bring up let's let's get away

547
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:09.599
from the middle of your ass.
But yes I do. I did hate

548
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:14.800
the want of it. To me, it got a little bit too overrated.

549
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:20.119
What about when Miami Vice came out
and you had guys dressing up as

550
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:25.679
crocod and tubs. Oh, I
hated anybody that wore deck shoes with no

551
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:29.159
sucks. Yeah, yeah, I
remember. I was like, man,

552
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:31.960
what is up with that look?
I mean, come on, how can

553
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:37.159
you actually chase a bad guy in
a form of shoes that could slip on

554
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:40.599
and all very easily. You're going
to be on high foot pursuit. It's

555
00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:44.639
going to slip off. You're going
to tweak your ankle, fall, scuff

556
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:47.719
up your toes. No, you're
not going to look sexy like Don Johnson,

557
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.360
right, brother, You're gonna need
the aid of medical help from Johnson

558
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:57.639
and Johnson. That was that show
was. That show to me looked like,

559
00:54:57.679 --> 00:55:01.440
Wow, both these guys look like
George Michael One's black ones white and

560
00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:06.760
who are they chasing? Come on? You know who I saw for the

561
00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:08.599
very first time in one of the
episodes. That was Ben Steeler. He

562
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:12.639
came out of one of the episodes. He was behind a counter at a

563
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:16.039
store like in Amala. He was
an informant. Wow, I'll have to

564
00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:19.679
look back at that. Yeah,
look ups. Go to YouTube. Go

565
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:23.280
to YouTube and type in you know
Ben Steeler on Miami Vice. He was

566
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:28.559
a kid. And also remember Cheaches
and b I don't remember that, But

567
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.039
then again, I only watched it
from time to time because of the cars,

568
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:37.039
I really and and the fashion,
yeah, sometimes the fashion and the

569
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:38.599
fast. Who I didn't like in
the show. I didn't like Edward James

570
00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:44.599
almost. Oh. Edward was almost
because of his monotone character, his informants

571
00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:49.119
for their knowledge of the street,
not his reinforcements. You should have asked

572
00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:52.880
me first, get them off the
case. I love the guy. The

573
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:58.840
guy grew up. You know where
I did, between Montabello and ESAs Angels.

574
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:02.000
He went to Montobello High Scho went
to high school in the same year

575
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:07.880
as my older sister Yolanda did.
And also he is a older the oldest

576
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:14.159
brother to a friend of mine that
I went to grammar school and high school

577
00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:17.599
with. This chick named Jamie that
I was one of my good friends,

578
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:22.199
my homegirls from Saint Benedict's. That
was her brother. I remember going to

579
00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:28.760
go see almost play he played.
He portrayed el Bachuco in the play zoot

580
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:32.000
Suit, which was cracking back.
You don't know what I mean the late

581
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:37.960
seventies thirty eighties. It was at
the Mark taber form A Museum in La

582
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:44.400
So. I dug that dude on
everything, But I understand on that TV

583
00:56:44.519 --> 00:56:49.199
show he was a little bit too
calm for the action that they were trying

584
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.519
to have on the show that they
needed, which was so weird. They

585
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:57.039
needed a guy like the guy remember
Huggy Boy. I mean, you remember

586
00:56:57.199 --> 00:57:01.639
the cop on STARSI and Hudge,
Remember that captain the heavy said brother that

587
00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:05.440
was real, mean he looked like
yeah, he looked like a guy that

588
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:07.760
you took his football helmet off and
he was on the front line. I

589
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:12.639
mean, they needed somebody like that. What else the did you hate in

590
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:16.519
the eighties on TV? To any
show that had a lot of adult humor,

591
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:22.480
adult not adult like sexual humor.
That was funny to me. But

592
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:27.039
anything with like a drama or anything
that type of show, I wasn't,

593
00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:30.039
you know, believe it or not. I didn't like WKRP in Cincinnati,

594
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.159
and I'm you know, we were
in radio that is insane. Yeah.

595
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:37.679
No, did you like Dallas?
No? I hated Dallas too, But

596
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:40.280
you know, I watched Dallas for
so many different reasons. I liked all

597
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:44.719
the chicks were hot, and I
thought JR. Was a pretty cool character.

598
00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:47.400
He was the son of a bitch. What what about Falcon Falcon Crest?

599
00:57:47.960 --> 00:57:51.800
Now? I hated that show,
Falcon Christ the name alone, Falcon

600
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:57.360
Crest. Come on, when I
heard that Falcon Crest is yeah, I

601
00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:00.880
don't know what? What? What
the hell's Falcon Crest? You have been

602
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:05.280
listening to back to the eighties radio? This is Toscano from Toscano and Chang.

603
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:08.559
We appreciate you hanging around with us
as we talk about the things that

604
00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:12.639
make us laugh now, but there
were things that we took serious back then

605
00:58:12.679 --> 00:58:17.320
and we really hated, specifically the
DJ talking over the intro of your songs

606
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:22.119
when you were trying to make a
mixtape. We absolutely hated that, and

607
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.960
we were yelling at the at the
person on the radio, you know,

608
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.679
to shut up. I'll never forget
that, trying to make a mixtape and

609
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:34.119
screaming at the DJ to shut up
during the intro. I hated when you're

610
00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:37.400
trying to make a mixtape and the
tape breaks. Man, I used to

611
00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:40.599
get so god dang mad brov.
I bet you I know what you hated.

612
00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:46.159
I bet you hated anybody that had
more colored members only jackets than you.

613
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:52.519
This is Chang saying to all of
you good night, have a chang

614
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:55.719
tastic week. Remember you count,
you matter, You're just as good as

615
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:00.440
the next person next to you.
Stand up for yourselves, stand up for

616
00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:04.719
something bigger than you, and always
stand tall. So until next Friday,

617
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:08.719
is that not right, Tusky baby, Friday is our day. Oh it's

618
00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:19.840
Italian loveday. I bid you uh
sayanada asta manana as goal and to everybody

619
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:24.159
else there and every vody and walk
of life and on behalf of the madness

620
00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:29.159
here on back to the eighties radio. This is this kind of wishing you

621
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:31.920
nothing but the very best. And
now let's say hello to the weekend with

622
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:37.199
the police. Don't stand so close
to me. I'm back to the eighties

623
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:59.079
radio. See you next weekend.
Your teacher the subject of school, she

624
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:13.000
so bad knows what she wants to
be inside, there's long the schools ok,

625
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:19.440
the market, she's so closely the
girls is harp to change. You

626
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:27.159
don't stand, gonna stand, don't
stand so close to me, don't stand,

627
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:35.880
don't stand so, don't stand so
close to me. My friends are

628
01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:45.719
such you know, hart bad girl
gain Sometimes it's not so pleasing to me

629
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:55.599
by teachers and temptation frustration so bad
that makes him crime with my stop.

630
01:00:57.159 --> 01:01:06.079
She's wearing this car woman, don't
stand it, don't stand so, don't

631
01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:13.280
stand so close to me. Don't
stand, don't stand so, don't stand

632
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:22.000
so close to me? Loose talking
good classroom to hurt. They try and

633
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:30.760
try to star wars and the stop, the acusy shots FLA. It's a

634
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:38.199
noise, he says. He starts
to shake and come just like it.

635
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:46.159
Oh man, that but the bye
never come. He don't stand, don't

636
01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:53.320
stand so, don't stand so close
to me, don't stand, no stand

637
01:01:53.440 --> 01:02:37.840
so do stand so close to me? Styles dost my soul study no style

638
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:55.280
star lost souls Study stylest dost st
soul study style. Dost dost my soul

639
01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:14.840
study style. What's what's the take
me back to the Gold and Derese take

640
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:21.679
me back? And I want to
go and Delese take me back till nine

641
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:29.840
mins already who he ain't? When
I can go delete and