Episode 15 - All By Myself

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Point plenty. Welcome to Back to
the Eighties, the podcast that introduces the

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Eighties to a whole new generation.
I'm your host, Mario Sisconnell, and

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today, unfortunately we're missing my other
hand, my other leg, my other

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foot, the chang buddy. I
hope you feel better to take care of

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yourself, and we'll see you next
week, So don't forget. Thanks for

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joining us on this beautiful Friday as
we reminisce and talk about those things that

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make us wish we could go back
in that time machine and experience the eighties

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once again. Just a little reminder
that you can reach us at any time

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by dropping us a line or a
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com. That's back the number two, the Eighties Radio at gmail dot com.

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You know, we started this program
during the start of this COVID quarantine

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ordeal. With the way twenty twenties
started, I started noticing a trend on

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social media. I noticed that people
started talking about better times, specifically good

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times or the good or better times
we had during the eighties. Well,

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I thought to myself, there's nothing
better right now than to do just that

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than to talk about a time that
we all love, especially the music,

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of course, I mean, wouldn't
you say so? Yours truly? And

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the Chain commenced this journey with our
goal in mind, and that was to

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introduce the eighties and our experiences to
a whole new generation that has no idea

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and will unfortunately never get a chance
to experience such a great decade. Now,

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of course, this is not to
say that the eighties were perfect,

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because we all know that it wasn't. I guess politically for those that were

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old enough, there were differences just
like there are today, possibly less,

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possibly more, I mean, who
knows, Fortunately for myself and for many

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others that were very young in the
eighties, and in my case, I

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was born in nineteen seventy two,
so in nineteen eighty I had barely turned

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eight years old, so you know, politics weren't my thing. The following

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ten years. During that time formed
the greatest time in my life. And

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of course, there were bad things
going on back then. I mean I

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can remember there were a lot of
kidnappings, and although we got to be

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outside at the wee hours of nights
sometimes with our friends, there were kidnappings.

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I remember serial killers was a thing
back then that was rampant, and

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the drug wars were started and full
bloom in the eighties, you remember that.

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However, during that part of my
life, I grew up in a

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neighborhood that was fairly calm and mostly
trouble free, so I didn't have to

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worry about a lot of those things. So, as you can see,

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the eighties weren't without their challenges.
Of course, However, I can say

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in my case and from many others
that I've seen and read on Facebook,

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that it was the greatest decade of
our lives. Now, this past week,

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I wrote and placed a post on
Facebook that asked the question, if

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you could travel back to the eighties
and change something, would you do it

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knowing that it would change you're now? And I want to be honest with

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you, guys. I was very
surprised because I certainly wasn't expecting somebody responses

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first. But if you allow me
just a little bit, I want to

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share some of those responses and hopefully
you and I can both travel back in

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time together to those memories. So
let's get on with the show you're listening

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to. Back to the eighties eighties
were laying. That's because we had to

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lift through this decade. Yet you're
listening to back to the eighties. Welcome

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in to back to the eighties.
I'm your host, Tuscano. I'm missing

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my other leg, my other hand. That would be the Chang of Tuscano

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and Chang he's feeling a little bit
under the weather today. So we've taken

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the reins of this pirate ship and
installed a flux capacitor and we're headed mentally

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back to the eighties. How corny
was that? Oh my gosh, that

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was corny, But I gotta love
it was as corny as the eighties.

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All right. So today Friday is
a special day because we're gonna be talking

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about some of your responses to that
post that I left on some of the

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groups on Facebook. The post read
if you're just joining us? We left

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a post that read, if you
could go back to the eighties, would

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you change something? I mean,
even if it changes you're now now on

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this post. We were able to
reach more than twenty one thousand people and

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had almost fourteen hundred comments, So
as a total, that was really good.

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And from those almost fourteen hundred people
that responded, I want to say

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that around two to three percent were
people strictly saying no, they wouldn't change

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the thing. And of that two
or three percent, about one percent made

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a reference to the fact that they
would not do it at all. They

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wouldn't change a thing because they didn't
want to lose their family, their children

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that they have now. And that's
interesting to me because although I'm not a

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scientist, no one really knows what
would happen if he changed the past.

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I mean, there are theories,
right, and then there's movies like Back

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to the Future. Who knows.
Maybe the only thing that would happen was

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that you would just change a certain
part of your own life. I mean,

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who knows. And then the rest
of that small percentage group said that

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they would not go back at all
and change anything, as they're happy with

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the way they're living life today.
And all I can say to them is

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good for them. More power to
you, guys, But thanks anyway for

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taking your time and posting your responses. But today I'd like to focus on

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the group that was the larger of
the percentage and share with you guys some

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of your own responses without mentioning any
names. I know, and I mean

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I do want to clear something up, all right, and just to let

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you guys know that although we are
back to the eighties, this show won't

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always bring up the cooler things that
we did back then. I mean sometimes

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sometimes we got to talk about some
of the bad stuff, right, and

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bringing that up some of the comments
that we received, I mean that really

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didn't surprise me. But it was
the fact that many of you expressed that

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you would love to go back to
the eighties and change one of the very

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personal aspects or situations that occurred in
your life, and with that will start

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and that was bullying. Now,
I remember, bullying was and always has

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been present everywhere. But one of
the things that was possible of happening when

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you were bullied back then was that
you can actually stand up to a bull

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and have a fist fight if you
needed to, and you know, whether

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it be a boy or a girl, you would usually gain either the respect

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from them or you won the fight
and you would stop that. Unlike today,

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Unfortunately, that bullying has gone way
out of control because now we not

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only have bullying face to face,
but we have what is called cyber bullying,

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which, oh my goodness, if
you look at the statistics, more

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than one in three young people everywhere
in the United States and abroad have experienced

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cyber threats online, and believe it
or not, today over twenty five of

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all teens and adolescents are bullied repeatedly
through their cell phones and through the internet.

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So parents, I mean, be
responsible and check your kids' phones,

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because over half of these young people
don't even tell their parents when they're being

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cyber bullied. And it truly does
surprise me to know how far this has

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gone throughout the decades. I mean, I think I was bullied time,

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and it was during the start of
my PE class when I was in about

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seventh or eighth grade. I think
I I've always had well back then,

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not anymore. I had a baby
face, and no one ever bothered me,

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nor did they expect me to know
how to fight because of how I

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looked, And so when I was
bullied, the bullies saw. On this

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occasion, the bully saw that I
stood up to him and told him that

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wasn't gonna fly with me. It
stopped. And I think I remember one

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more time that there was a tomboy
that tried to bully me around kind of

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set some things in front of girls
and guys that kind of everybody went,

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oh, I think she said,
don't worry, Mario, I'm not gonna

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kick your You know, I'm not
gonna kick your butt right now. And

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she changed her mind right after that
the very next day because I ever so

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graciously pushed her really hard against the
lockers and just smiled at her. She

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never got close to me again.
Now here's one thing. I wasn't a

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bully. Of course, I treated
usually others with all the respect, and

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I mean I was a fun kid, but I just didn't allow anyone to

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bully or harassment. But I also
understand that there were a lot of worse

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people that treated others in way worse
ways than me. And so to any

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of you who are listening that suffered
bullying in the school years during the eighties,

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I just want to tell you that
just try try your best to forgive

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that person, even if you've never
seen them again, or maybe you do

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see them, but forgive them.
It will stop the growth of any root

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of bitterness as you release them out
of your heart and out of your mind

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and out of your emotional life.
You know what I find interesting that many

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of those bullies in the eighties,
once they grew up and matured, realized

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that they were doing things wrong,
and today and some of them are even

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involved in the community. Unfortunately,
not a lot of them tell people that

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they were bullies because I know it's
embarrassing. None of them probably want their

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children to know that they were bullies. But I think it's important to let

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certain people know that you were a
bully, and that is the people that

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you bullied. So if you were
one of those bullies, what I would

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suggest to you is to try to
find out where those people you bullied are

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if you can, you know,
don't be creepy about it, and try

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to find a way to make amends
with them. That's going to set you

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free and allow them to clear an
ugly chapter in their own life and possibly

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move on. And I'm sorry if
I've turned this into like a Doctor Field

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type of program. It's not my
intentive. It hits deep and I think

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it's just not enough what's being done
to address this issue. All right,

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Cruise. You're listening to Back to
the Eighties. You're listening to Back to

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the Eighties. I'm your host,
Mario Tiscano. We were talking about before

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the break about a post that we
put on Facebook that says, if you

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could go back to the eighties,
would you change something, even if it

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changes you're now if you just joined
us. I want to let you know

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that a very small percentage of you
guys said strictly no, I would not

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go back and change a thing because
it's going to mess up my future and

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I want my kids and my family
and that's cool. Another very very small

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percentage of you strictly said no,
I wouldn't change anything because mine now is

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perfect and I want to say cool. But around ninety six ninety seven percent

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of you said definitely yes. Some
of you strictly said, get me out

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of here. I would definitely go
back, And there was a small group

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that said I would go back and
stand up to the person who bullied me

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for so many years. But there
were also other people that said I'd go

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back and take more risks. And
I can identify with you because I let

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go of so many cool opportunities because
I was afraid to take risks. Now.

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Granted I was very young, and
while they couldn't have been that great

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of an opportunity, of course,
but I know that there were many of

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you who were already over the age
of eighteen and probably had a life started

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with a family, or maybe just
had a job, and you could have

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taken chances. For example, there
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that you would have loved to buy
stock options with Apple or IBM or things

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of that nature, and it probably
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is one of the biggest things that
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in the eighties. Why because we
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remember that, I mean, what
else would you do by taking risks?

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Would you have bought that car that
you've always wanted? I mean, you

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know that car. Probably your parents
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sports car or because it just wasn't
something they approved of. Would you have

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possibly bought that house that you regret
never buying, Or do you regret maybe

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going out with a certain person that
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taking the risk in asking that person

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out that you always wanted to go
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us, a lot of us would
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it's funny. As kids, sometimes
we're just too embarrassed or we probably thought

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they're just going to say no.
Remember that scene in Back to the Future,

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or Marty and his dad are in
the fifties and in the cafeteria and

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Marty tells us dad to go ask
Lorrain out to the Enchantment under the Sea

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dance, but the dad is too
afraid, too nervous, too embarrassed,

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just too shy, and he tells
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able to take that type of rejection
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Let's take a lesson. She told
me to tell you that she wants you

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to ask her to the Enchantment under
the Sea dance. Really. Oh yeah,

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all you gotta do is go over
there and ask her what right here,

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right now in the cafeteria. What
if she said no, I don't

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know if I could take that kind
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was the case for many of us. What is one of the things that

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you wish today that you would have
done to take more risks back then?

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I mean, think about it,
seriously, think about it for a woman.

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I mean, is it something that
you could still do today? Yeah?

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I know, I know seasons and
times and circumstances have changed, but

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sometimes we can still obtain what we've
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I mean, hey, look look
at those guys that you know, when

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they were young, they talked about
getting corvettes and ferraris, and today you

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see them in their older years fulfilling
that once dream that they had, and

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you know, good for them,
I mean, and if that's you,

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good for you. Well what other
stuff was mentioned on the post that I

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thought was really interesting maybe sad at
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everybody has such great times at home, and I understand that because some of

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you, unfortunately, we're living under
conditions that we're pretty much abusive in your

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own home life. And I just
want to tell you, guys, from

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the bottom of my heart, I'm
sorry. I'm sorry you had to go

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through that. I mean, you
know, things happen in our life where

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we think it's just not fair,
and we just ask questions. You know,

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why me? We say why me? God? You know, we

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question life and we question the universe. We don't even know who to question.

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We just start questioning everything. I
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throws things at us like that,
and why life is like that with certain

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people. But I can't tell you
that today, although as cliche or corny

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as it may sound, things can
be different today because you're a different person.

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You're not that same person anymore.
You're a person that has learned bigger

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lessons than most of us, So
that makes you a much stronger person than

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most of us, and you have
the power to change the younger generation's future

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with your own difficult experiences as you
share with them. You know, although

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I didn't live with abusive parents towards
me personally, however, they were abusive

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towards each other. Now, I
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I was an only child, and
I remember I was so happy.

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I mean, I was ecstatic when
my parents got a divorce. And that

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sounds kind of dark, I guess, but it's what I felt at the

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time because I had seen and heard
too much for a twelve year old to

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handle, and so in a way, it was a blessing for my parents

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to split up, at least to
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of gifts from both sides, you
know. Their guilt was my benefit.

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Of course. The weird thing is
that they got along great after that,

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as long as they weren't together for
too long. Go figure. Anyway,

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Getting off the SADAS subjects, a
lot of you guys said that you would

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have wished to stop doing drugs and
stop drinking, stopped smoking. A lot

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of you said I wish I would
have stopped smoking, and that if you

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could go back, you would tell
your younger self to stop. A lot

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of you guys mentioned that you would
have loved to have finished school, whether

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it would have been to finish high
school and graduate with your friends, or

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possibly go to school and get that
career that you should have obtained back then.

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You know, I know that everybody
has a different financial situation going on.

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But one of the good things about
living in today's society, Yes,

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there is something good about living in
twenty twenty, and it's that we have

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the opportunity to go to certain schools
online and we would have never been able

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to do that in the past.
We can obtain some of those degrees or

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certificates even of education that we couldn't
have done in the past because we now

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have the internet. So being online, we have the opportunity to study sometimes

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even for free. And I'm not
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really for free. Believe it or
not, Those schools are out there.

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So I encourage you guys that if
that was one of your wishes that you

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would have gone back to school,
I can tell you for a fact that

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it's never too late. As a
cliches that may sound, I know,

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but it's true. Look, as
long as you're alive, This is what

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my wife tells me all the time. As long as you're alive and you're

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healthy, you can regain what you've
lost, no matter what it is,

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and you can always accomplish pretty much
anything. Now, some of you mentioned

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that you would have loved to go
back to the eighties and hug your grandparents

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or hug your mom, your dad. And as a matter of fact,

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it was somebody who said something that
really really touched me. It got to

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me. It was a day where
I guess their dad asked them to watch

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a scary movie with them, but
unfortunately, because this young person didn't like

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scary movies, they refused, and
unfortunately, the following day, the father

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passed away. Now I don't know
the circumstances, but I can tell you

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to remember the great things that you
had of your dad or of that person

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you lost, and take advantage of
every single day to tell that person that

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you love today that you love them. Don't take any day for granted.

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Guys, we do that a lot, and we only say that we love

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them once in a while. I
mean, if you mean it, man,

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do it every day. Do it
every day. You won't regret it.

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A lot of us took for granted
the eighties, or we thought right,

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And so today we're really really wishing
we could go back and experience some

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of those things we weren't able to. At least we just feel that way

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because maybe we feel now that we
didn't appreciate those times. An appreciation of

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times that we live in is an
awesome thing to think about. We had

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no idea that we were living in
a time that had the most awesome music,

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the most awesome cartoons, the most
awesome toys, that we were living

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in a time where we as kids, we really didn't think about the future.

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We lived in the moment, and
we enjoyed it so much that we

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still today as adults, wish that
we went back to experience those things all

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over again. So in a way, you did take advantage of them,

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You did appreciate them. It's just
that we want those times to come back.

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I don't know what would happen if
we were able to go back,

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but I love to think about it. I don't know if it would change

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our future. Maybe it would change
it so that you didn't have the same

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family, Maybe you did have the
same family, I don't know. It's

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not like we're going to do it, so just imagine. But what I

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can tell you is that if it
were possible, at least for me,

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I would certainly go back and change
a lot of things, and who knows

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how that would affect my own future. Something to think about this is back

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to the eighties you're listening to.
Back to the eighties. We never stops,

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didn't hurt, didn't hurt, didn't
hurt, non stop, unforgettable memories

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from the eighties. Stop back to
the eighties. Thanks for joining us.

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I'm back to the eighties. I
am your host, Mario Tusconnell. We're

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talking about the things if you just
joined us that we would change if we

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had the opportunity to go back to
that decade that we all love, even

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if it changes our present now.
You know, I don't know any person

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that grew up during that time that
doesn't like time travel movies. We all

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know. The most famous time travel
movie there is, Back to the Future.

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It's a movie that changed our life
back then, and today we wish

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that it were possible to go to
that better time in our life now.

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Luckily, there are still some other
pretty cool movies out there that are newer

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that kind of have the same feel
to them, although of course not as

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good. And one of those such
movies that I'm thinking about right now is

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Hot Tub Time Machine, Watch Outs
Here Rock. What the hell happened last

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night? Is there some kind of
retro thing going on this weekend? Dude

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is rocking cassette lads. I'm sure
there's a good explanation for what Black Sight

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six. I don't understand how we
back in time be some kind of hot

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up term machine. This is a
very special bottle that you have here.

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No exactly what's going on here,
don't you? Oh? Man, come

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on, it's the eighties. Let's
do what we want. Free love.

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Hey, let's get this party started. Mom, I don't break up for

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the woman, say thank you?
Wow, And now the universe is giving

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me another shot. This is gonna
read the best weekend like ever. I

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feel pregnant. There's money to be
made here. Man. We could invent

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iPods, creusmatch dot com, short
rims, we could combined biagra with Twitter

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twittagra boom. You're freaking up with
me. That's not how this happens.

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Do you know what happens to you? And you get fat, I mean

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fat? Oh? Could I text
you later to mean white? Are you

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online it all? I am no. Anyway you're saying, how do I

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get a hold of you? Come
find me? That just sounds exhausting.

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Now. This is a movie that
came out in two th ten that stars

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John Cusack, Rob Coutry, Craig
Robinson, Clark, Duke Crisp and Glover,

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who of course was Marty McFly's dad, Lizzie Kaplan and of course a

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very very famous Chevy Chase. A
lot of us have seen this film,

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but for those of you who haven't, let me give you a quick rundown

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without giving the whole movie away.
It's basically about three friends and one more

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younger guy who go back in time
through a hot tub somehow, and they

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struggle with the idea of changing their
past in order to of course change their

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future. There are some arguments between
them along the way and whether they should

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change or not change the past because
they know, or think they know at

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least what might happen in the future. And so this film tackles a lot

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of those issues and ideas that we
would love to tackle ourselves if we were

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given that same chance. There's awesome
music as well, and great, great

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and funny Bancher between the entire cast. However, I do want to give

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one little spoiler, and that is
that there's a scene when they do go

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back to the eighties, in particular
nineteen eighty six, where somebody, I

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don't know if it was the director
or WoT on about this or the writers,

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they decided to fill it with so
much color and neon, you know,

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just the usual stereotypical eighties movie look. And I think they went a

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little overboard with this. Maybe that
was our idea, you know. I

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don't know, Maybe I'm just taking
it wrong, but I have great memories

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of the eighties, a lot of
them, and I don't ever remember in

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seeing so much color, you know, the pinks, the yellows, the

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turquoise, the fluorescence and so on
and so on with so many people in

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one spot, unless it was Halloween, of course. Other than that,

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if you get a chance, it's
on some streaming services such as Plaques and

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Amazon Movies. I'm not sure if
it's on Netflix, but you can definitely

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search for it. Let us know
if it is, by the way,

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drop us a little note at our
Facebook page. So that's hot tub time

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machine, and it will mentally transport
you to the eighties. I can guarantee

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it, and you'll definitely wish that
you were with him, especially how it

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all plays out. I mean,
it's just may not be the greatest written

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movie, but you'll have fun of
watching and I guarantee it, and in

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a way, you'll sort of have
that feeling at least while the movie is

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going on that you're there. I
mean, what a great feeling. And

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I can tell you that it's a
good thing to mentally time travel to those

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places that made you feel much better
back then. I mean, today,

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gals and guys, we have so
much going on. We have political parties

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fighting and arguing all the time.
We have people and friends and even family

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members dividing over politics, and who
knows what. We have in many cases

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racial tensions, whether you agree with
some of that don't agree. We have

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the COVID nineteen scandal affecting the entire
globe, and people dying left and right

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to us, people getting sick,
and just severe issues between society, civilians

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and law enforcement and the government.
And in for example, in California,

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we have about half of the states. It's on fire right now and creating

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extended chaos and disaster on top of
all that. On the other side of

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the country, now we have a
hurricane that's devastating entire counties, cities and

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their population. I mean, oh
my gosh, you got NASA saying no,

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you've got asteroids coming before Thanksgiving,
and so it's no wonder why we

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long for an escape. And hey, if it were possible today, I

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would be one of the first ones
on the list to take that DeLorean and

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go back. But until then,
thanks for being with me. Back to

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the eighties radio as we let our
imagination soar for a bit and our spirits

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fly for a moment in the illusion
and the dream that it is to be

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able to go back to the nineteen
eighties. This show would not be possible

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without all of you. I mean, it's not enough for us to come

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on the air and just share experiences
for no reason. We want to give

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each other the ability to have this
platform to introduce this generation to a lot

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of the things that we went through
but they can't today. I want to

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share with you guys some of those
things that we can allow this generation to

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be a part of. Now,
you won't agree with everything I say or

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suggest. That's okay, They're just
ideas and they're just my opinion. Are

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you ready? Okay? All right, here you go. If you have

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younger kids or no younger kids,
start sharing or teaching them the importance number

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one of respect. Ha ha,
there's a word r eespect. Remember that

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song. Back then, a lot
of us were taught respect, sometimes rather

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harshly because of our parents. A
lot of that has changed today, and

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as eighties kids, we can teach
that to our children today. We can

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also teach them what it is to
sit down at the table and eat either

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breakfast, lunch, or dinner,
or just spend time together as a family

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around the table. Unfortunately, because
of electronics today, the internet or gaming,

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lots of families don't even sit together
to have a meal. And that's

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something that we can change today.
Believe it or not. It's something that

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we used to do a lot back
in the day. In some homes,

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parents were sometimes from another country and
it was a serious deal to sit down

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together and have a meal. Don't
you remember, And you didn't mess around

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with your parents back then. Oh
yeah, you know what a good whoop

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and meant? Yeah, today you
can't even say the word without getting beat

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down in social media. Oh yeah, we have the power as parents,

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no matter what people say and what
the age is, to tell people to

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sit around the table and put their
phones away. Come on, nobody needs

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and I don't care how important it
is, nobody needs their phones at the

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table. I don't care if it's
your home, I don't care if it's

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at a restaurant. Nobody needs a
phone at the table. Period. Of

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course, that's just my opinion.
And as I mentioned to you, a

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lot of these things you may not
agree with, and frankly, that's okay.

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I'm just letting you know that there
are certain things that we did back

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then that you can teach today now. On the fun side, however,

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don't just tell your kids about how
it was listening to music in the eighties.

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Don't just let them listen to your
music in the background. Show your

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kids what a mixtape was. Go
out there if you don't have one,

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and buy a cassette deck. Get
some cassettes. Yeah, I know,

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cassettes are probably only ordered online through
Amazon and eBay and other things like that,

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and in some cases cassettes can be
a little bit more expensive than what

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they used to be, but they're
still obtainable. I do that all the

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time, and unfortunately I didn't do
that from the beginning. Is I thought

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that the Internet was the greatest thing
ever given to man, and I got

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rid of all that. Boy was
I stupid. But now in my forties,

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I'm back to listening to records and
cassettes. Oh, by the way,

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get yourself a great pair of headphones
and immerse yourself alone, Just alone

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for a little while and listen to
a great record. Now, if you

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can't get a record player, get
a great pair of headphones, plug it

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into your computer, and listen to
records LPs, vinyl online on YouTube.

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Believe it or not, they're people
who have videos of them playing just their

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records and it sounds amazing, sounds
way better than streaming MP threes and anything

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else. So go out and make
your own mixtapes. You get your cassette

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deck your cassettes, teach your kids
how to do it connected to your computer,

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record from your favorite streaming services,
and introduce your kids to all the

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different bands and groups that you used
to listen to. Not just listen at

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home, but let them know how
it was done, how you did it.

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And have them hold that cassette and
be able to save it, put

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it in that little box, and
then just take it out and they have

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the music with them introduced to them. How different it was for us to

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listen and even in some cases how
we used to watch them on MTV.

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Huh. And don't even get me
started on MTV, because MTV, for

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many of us, for a long
time, was one of the most awesome

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things we ever had on television.
It introduced a different facet to what we

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were listening to. I mean,
all we had back then it was radio.

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We bought music or it was radio. Remember that MTV gave us visual

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radio America. I want my MTV, I want my MTV, I want

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my MTV company, HI want my
mt by. All of our favorite music

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and bands musicians were there for us
to watch and listen to at the same

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time. Of course, I understand
that MTV as time progressed, and then

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that weird era came in the nineties
and it was over pretty much, and

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that was too bad. But you
can go today online watch a lot of

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old MTV programming if you want.
Now, little side note on all of

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this, I'm just suggesting things.
This is back to the eighties. By

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the way, I'm not saying live
in the past. There's a lot of

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people that are probably thinking, man, this guy is just living in the

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past. No, I'm very much
living in the present, and I'm thankful

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for lots of things that we have
today that we didn't have back then.

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But I'm not going to go into
that because this show is frankly not about

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that. It's about people that live
through the eighties that share many of the

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same stories and experiences that I do. To come to a place and listen,

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kick off their shoes, have some
laughs and a few nostalgic moments.

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So start making a list of those
things that you can teach your kids from

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back when you were a kid,
and I mean really make them listen to

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you. I mean, don't beat
them for it, of course, but

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take some time and go over some
of the things that you can share with

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them, like playing board games,
for example, some old video games.

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Oh, by the way, that's
one of the greatest icebreakers ever to get

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through to some children today, video
games. You know, it's funny that

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although I do play video games with
my kids, I can pass any of

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their games modern games, which,
by the way, looks spectacular in about

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a day. But you know what, I cannot get past level three on

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Donkey Kong for the love of me. I mean, I dare any one

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of these kids of this generation to
get past one of the first five levels

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on Galaxian. What's the other one? Exvious or Defender or Tron? Oh

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00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.480
my gosh, I can't even get
past the first level on Tron. Do

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you guys remember how great it was
to open the doors when you got into

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an arcade? Who as you listen
to the sounds and look at the florescent

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lighting everywhere and made the carpet stand
out, and did just be in that

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00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:09.039
atmosphere. It was loud with sounds
of games and music in the background,

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and for a lot of us,
it was one of the greatest experiences of

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those times. Remember what it was
going to malls. Now we can still

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go to malls today, and a
lot of us do and take our families.

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A lot of that has gone away, but we can go to the

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malls and talk to our kids as
we're there and let them know what it

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was like for us to be there
as kids. Hey, if you've got

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an arcade close by, there's still
some around you've got to take your kids.

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If you don't have any kids or
they've gone away, stop buy an

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arcade for yourself. Maybe they'll lopen
up when COVID is over, who knows.

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As I said before, take this
time that we have at home,

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where we have spent, by the
way more time than in any other time

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after the eighties, and be proud
of that era that you grew up in

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and take the time to share how
awesome it was to live through those times.

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Well, I think that's about all
the time we have left on today's

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program. Thanks for being with us. Join us next Friday, I'm back

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to the eighties as we once again
we'll have chain with us here in the

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studio. So come on over and
listen to the zany and corny little skits

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that we have ready for you,
and until then, take care of yourselves.

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I want you to have a great
weekend, be good to each other

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and to those around you. As
it does come back to you, believe

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it or not. I want to
just encourage you to share our program with

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those that you know and help us
continue bringing the eighties and introducing that era

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to a whole new generation. I'm
your host, Mario Tuscano. Thanks for

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being with us, God bless and
see you next week. So