Episode 17 - 1980s Time Line and Special Guest Aleida Romero

Loves one point. Ah, that's right, this is the one and only back to the eighties. I am Tiscano and I've got the wondrous Chang to my right. Chang. I know you were you were held up over there because of some crazy events happening in that undisclosed area where you live at where the government itself doesn't even know. And uh, I know that the sky's turning red over there where you're at by the way, well, the sky is turning red. It's almost like I'm in hell. But uh uh, long story short, I'm not in hell. And let me hit you with a serious note. Yes, I have been accuated from the area where I reside somewhere near the creek fire. So as you ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls listen to the show, my best and my best wishes, my prayers, and I want to give you some inner strength if you yourself are going through anything that I and my wife have just endured, or if you have family members. And before we start, you know, like I say, my hearts go out to everyone out there that has lost property, lost a loved one, or just kind of lost the will to carry off to be fired. And I want to give a big shout out and a big how the hell you doing? You guys are superheroes that every California firefighters that we have fighting these fired you get a big fantastic from me. That's what it's all about, my friend. I'm so glad that you're safe, your family safe, and that you're out here continuing the Lord's work by making people smiling, giving them hope, because at the end of the day, man, that's all we got, right. I want to thank you guys for joining us here on Back to the Eighties on this wonderful Friday. I know that for the West Coast it's very devastating with everything that's going on. I know that in southern California we've got a lot to be thankful for. All we've got is the yellow skies and the little bit of a reddish tint. But everywhere else up north to us, they are going through some very very tough time. So our heart goes out to them, our thoughts and our prayers sincerely go out to them as well. We're not just saying it. I want to remind you guys that if you're enjoying the Back to the Eighties radio program, you can go ahead and leave us a note through our Facebook page. We would really really appreciate it, especially if you want to say something special for those people who are going through a very, very tough time. I do want to also remind you guys that we are on Patreon as well, so we invite you guys to visit our Patreon page and become a member of the Back to the Eighties family exactly my brother Now to our Patreons. Every dollar helps out, every dollar will give you a smile a laugh. Every dollar that you sent forward, we guarantee you we are going to do everything we can to make you happy, take you to a better place, and incorporate you even into the show more so, you'll be able to get the opportunity to become a part of the show by coming on once in a while and we'll be interviewing you. A great example to that is tonight's guest. We have a very special guest. So stick around with us because towards the middle of the show, we're going to be interviewing a very special young lady with a fantastic company that offers great help to people that we're not as prepared as some from back in the eighties. In the meantime, we're gonna take a quick break when we come back back to the eighties. Begins lame. That's because we had lists through this decade. You're listening to back to the eighties. Alrighty, everybody, you are on the hang with Tiscano and Chang and we are taking a little trip that we take every Friday. No tokens needed, no change needed, not even a card, and we are going back to the eighties. Now, my loyal bus driver, to go back to the eighties, bus, Tusky, Tiscano, why don't you go ahead and pack it and let's fire up this show. My brother, Hey, I don't know if you've ever taken buses in the eighties, but you remember those plastic seats that if the bus driver slammed on the brake, you'd slide, oh man. Or if you you finally get a seat and there was some sweaty guy or some kind of a liquid on the seat, my brother, oh yeah, there would be that patch that there you Because I know a lot of us are familiar with taking the bus, the so called rapid transportation where you have to wait maybe twenty minutes to five hours for it to show up at you're stopped. I want to know one thing, Why are bus drivers so angry and aggravated and snappy? Why isn't there any seatbelts on that type of Disney ride? Gone crazy by some angry individual? My brother? Yeah, And it's not like they don't make good money. They should be happier than that, you know what, bro, I agree with you. They should be actually giving us some type of a snack as we give our toll. Putting it out there, my brother only putting it up. You are listening to back to the eighties. This is the manness of Tiskano win Chang, where you'll only be able to hear Tiskano win Chang. And today we're going to be going through a virtual timeline of the nineteen eighties. So you've come to the right place, especially if you have never lived in the eighties, if you were not a child of the eighties, this is going to be your place. For the next few minutes. We're gonna be talking about certain events that happened from the nineteen eighties, because you see, the eighties, we saw the collapse of traditional communism, the ending of the Cold War, the beginning of technologies like Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and Apple. They all began to have a stronghold and impact on our on our lives with computers hitting our homes. And you know, then then we had bad things happen, like famines in Ethiopia, and that brought you know, a bunch of musicians together, a big event called a live aid, and things of that nature. Mobile phones, technology for mobile phones got cheaper and smaller. And we're going to talk a little bit about certain events of the eighties. And I want to jump in chain because this first event, I'm gonna let you guys hear very briefly what took place, and then I want to get your comments, Chain, because I know you were a little bit older than me, so you have more memory, at least more appreciation of this night. Now, whether you agree or not with whatever happened, at least we can get your comment. Here we go. Here's the first event. This happened in the year of nineteen eighty. Right now, Jimmy Carter is preparing to get into the presidential limousine. He will be making his concession speech. President Carter told by his poster Pat Cadell that it is all over. Reportedly is preparing to concede defeat to Ronald Reagan in the nineteen eighty presidential election. So what you just heard was January twentieth, nineteen eighty one, the election of Ronald Reagan and the concession of Jimmy Carter. Well I remember that day. Well, me and Mommy had to just come back from a good horse racing. I was going to talk to mister Peanut, mister Jimmy Carter. Oh my hair was black. Yes, that's right. That happened in nineteen eighty one. And as we skimmed through these By the way, Chank, do you remember where you were during the election night? Yes, as a matter of fact, I remember I was at home with my mom and my dad and one of my sisters, my other sister. Really she wasn't too much into the political scene, but growing up at with my father and my mother, I was brought up pretty politically savvy and always constantly aware of what was going on in the world. I remember watching that debate, and I'll tell you, man, I was imitating both of them from my parents, and my parents were like, would you please shut the hell off or try to watch That's right, Another very important event that happened on December eighth, nineteen eighty. I'm gonna let you hear this clip because it was during a football game with the Dolphins versus the Patriots, and it was a Monday night football game. And this is what happened. Hello, I don't care what's on the line, Howard. You were got to say that. We go in the book, Yes, we have to say it. Remember, this is just a football game. No matter who wins, aw loses. An unspeakable tragedy conferred to us by ABC News in New York City. John Lennon outside of his apartment building on the West side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps of all of the Beatles, shot twice in the back rush. The Rose found hospital dead on arrival. And that is what happened, my friend, December eighth, nineteen eighty the death, the assassination of one of the greats of the halls of music, John Lennon. Oh by far. Not only was he one of the greatest musicians and writers of music, he became the pretty much a civil activist, and I think he was the voice of a generation. I think he was a four that had to be reckoned with. And I'm not saying physically but intellectually spiritually. Bottle is similar to him if you're you know, as we're back in the eighties. Both of them were in the eighties, but obviously a great distance in years. Yeah. Now, I remember I was at home watching that football game with my dad and my mom was in the kitchen and she was having some of that wine that was that big that came out of that big green bottle was kind of like that uh yeah, yeah, with a wicker bottom of the wicker handle. You know, that's that's the the Italian wine. It's uh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, And I remember we're watching the game, and then when he came on and he said that I get a little uh bath, my stroke may break a little bit, because well, it's a sensitive issue. It's a sensitive subject, and it happened into somebody who changed or to help change so many lives and made an impact and made a footprint in the hearts and souls of generations. Yes, the dude, oh he was, yeah, I mean, dude, the FBI was onto him, the CIA, he was, you know, he was the enemy of the of this country. They got him deported. I mean, you everybody out there from the eighties has got to know that story. I remember I choked up. I left into the kitchen to talk to my mom, and my mom was crying and my dad was in shock. And I remember I was crying because I'm all about music, the Beatles. My mother used to play the Beatles when I was in her stomach, and up until I was seven years old, when I would have to take naps, my mother would put on that big console that wouldn't console up in the living room, throw some blankets out, yea the time to put some music, and usually the Beatles that would soothe me. So I remember telling my mom after I heard this and I went into it, I was very emotional and it was very upset, and I asked my mom, Mom, I don't think the world's ever going to be the same again, and I'll never forget. She just looked at me and hugged me and said, I'm afraid you're right. And you know what, my brother, good God, I think I was a little bit right, and I'll pray into the Great Spirit to make me wrong on that. Yeah. No, Unfortunately, with the heaviest of hearts, I can tell you, bro, things were never the same again for the music world. And it seems that that translated with every area of our life, that never again was life as simple. Yes, never again was life as laid back, as enjoyable, as not care free. But it was a life that we used to have, that we used to value. We used to value life a lot more and things have never been the same. And as a matter of fact, we come up to the following event, and this event marked the world on June fifth, nineteen eighty one. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a terrifying and mysterious disease and it's killing a lot of people. Age was discovered first and young homosexual meant there is no cure and it is often fatal. Whatever causes AIDS destroys these blood cells called olymphasites, which fight infection. The victims are then susceptible to various disease. The advent of this deadly disease in just arrived in the eighties and took the world by storm. It arrived with viciousness and no respecter of persons. Because if you were a child and you got a blood transfusion or even went to the dentist and something was infected, you could have got this deadly disease. And I know you remember those days, oh man, yeah, I remember that. Uh. And and the thing I remember the most is when we were stricken with the disease of AIDS. I remember a lot of evangelist and even if you weren't really there's a lot of people jumping on board that you know, it was killing gays because they deserved it, because it was, you know, against God's word. And I thought that, wow, and it's so funny because you know, we had lost John Lennon in eighty and John Lennon when he died, we lost freedom, we lost compassion, I think, and we lost that care for our other human being, you know. And when Freddie Mercury died, it was it was very weird to me because I noticed the change within those years of that decade, how we went from inner peace and loving everyone in compassion and making sure everybody had some equality to hating and judging another human being a brother or sister, a father or possibly an uncle, an aunt, your good friend, and they would person with his disease and the hate and the hainousment that that disease brought out in human being is a testimony to I think what we lost when John Lennon was killed. If you don't mind me putting both scenarios into a form right here, my brother, Yeah, no, not at all. And I think it's very important that people that were not a part of that of that era, that they can understand that there were certain things that we just didn't understand, and one of those things was aids. And because we had no understanding, it was so brand new, such as something kind of like what we're living through now, only of course you got it differently. This is much more dangerous because it's much more this will attack anybody. However, we didn't understand back then, so there was a lot of jumping to conclusions. There was a lot of pointing fingers, There was a lot of judgment and things of that nature. However, onto a lighter side, it wasn't so much an event but more of an industry growth. From nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two, there was something that happened in business. And I'll let you hear the background here, and that's right. You can hear the sounds of arcades because in January from nine January nineteen eighty two. The cover story in Time magazine noted that the most popular game in the United States, and an arcade, was pulling more than four hundred dollars a week in quarters, and it translated to around thirteen thousand arcades in the eighties. And we're talking this was a business went to all the way to eight billion dollars in that year. Are we talking about the game that I think we're talking about? That is correct, that is correct. But through all of you know, we're talking all through through the eighties, but in particular for nineteen eighty one, arcades were at their peak, I mean at their very peak, because they were brand new, they were correct, and they were bringing a year eight billion dollars. What do you think of that? Business man in the eighties? I mean, you gotta at least times at times, I mean, you gotta do maybe times ten to get an equivalent of today. But I would have to agree with you. It was almost like a drug. Almost. It was a form of entertainment. It was like a movie, you know, an event to going out and meeting people, seeing people, all the bright lights, the music and the sound of the game, broll, the excitement, all your adrenalin. Let mean you think about it was almost like a like a New World experience of getting high and running through Disney then while you're watching some great badass movies. Yeah. And some of the arcade games that brought in all that money were games like Defender, like pac Man, like Miss pac Man, you know pac Man, misspac Man. Well yeah, yeah, absolutely, And then came games like Defender and Donkey Kong and things of that nature. And and they they took what was what was something that that was an enjoyment and turned it into a multi billion dollar business and a lot of business owners got to enjoy for a few years anyway, the rewards of what it was to be in an arcade business. And man, the arcades just were a staple of the eighties. Everybody who's lived in the eighties remembers arcades. We were all in an arcade at one point of our life. We all had an opportunity to, you know, if you didn't have an arcade nearby, maybe you went to the corner liquor store where they had two three four games and and you lined up your quarters. We could spend hours at a liquor store, at a supermarket where they had video games. So This is definitely something that helped change every single one of us that lived through the eighties and and just give us that a different kind of entertainment. August first, nineteen eighty one brought us another moment in the eighties history. And I'll let you listen, because this is one of your least favorite things that happened in the eighties. Seven six, five four. We've gone from main engine start. We have ladies and gentlemen rock and roll. Oh, this is it. Welcome to MTV Music Television, the world's first twenty four hours stereo video music channel. Just moments ago, all of the VJs and the crew here at MTV collectively hit our executive producer su Steinberg over the head with a bottle of champagne, and behold, a new concept is born. The best of TV combined with the best of radio. Now, starting right now, you'll never look at music the same way again. We'll be right back to introduce the other vjas and the other folks who are going to be with us on MTV. And that was the advent of the music television. The original broadcast August first, nineteen eighty one. I'm swallowing my own vomit. Now you gotta remember, I know and I understand your reasons why you don't like it, but as he said, right now, you will never look at music the same you will. This it changed everything when the moment we saw those artists that we used to hear and we saw them on TV and they brought their freaky stories and their videos that had sometimes nothing to do with what they were singing about. Exactly. That's what was so repulsive about MTV. Regardless of that fact it did. People had MTV in their homes sometimes twenty four hours a day or or you know, they would that's all they would watch. You know, they'd get home from work, or they'd get home from school, they'd watch MTV and at every single opportunity it was music television. Unfortunately, it only lasted around fourteen years because after that MTV was no longer MTV. It became some other alien. It's almost like it became a porno or dummies. But let me quote what I thought about TV, and it comes out like this, Well, you know that's why they brought that song on. You know, that's why they wrote that song video killed the Radio Star. And I just think that you know, It was just another part of the evolution of music and the way it needed to go. Let's jump over to nineteen eighty five, because in nineteen eighty five something very very exciting happened in the world of movies, and that was the very first of its kind. And I want to show you, or I want to let you hear what the trailers sounded to us. Steven Spielberg presents Back to the Future Robert Zamaker's film Marty Leads an Ordinary Life. Nomould fly ever amounted to anything in the history of Ill Valley. History is going to change in nineteen eighty five. He is not He is here, but doctor Brown is about to change all that. Are you telling me it was a time machine? Its Lorean. He's sending Marty thirty years back in time. The original theatrical trailer took back to the future. Did you go see this movie when it actually came out or did you just wait till it was on VHS and you rented it at your local video store? No, brother, Actually I went as soon as it came out. I was a very big fan of Michael J. Fox on the television show that he was on and uh, And I also was a big fan of Christopher Lloyd, who used to play Jim Ignatowski and Taxi. So right, yes, when that movie. Oh and then they also had ah. I forgot the name of the girl that played his mother. It will come to me later. But oh dude, how could you not want to see that movie brow in the eighties? There was something wrong with you. Yeah, And here's one of the interesting facts about that movie, and that is that even this is a movie that transcends time and decades. And you can show this movie to a kid today, our generation ZA or whatever they're called today, the younger, younger ones. We're talking little little kids. They will really fall in love with a movie. It's it was ahead of its time. Yes, they got a few things wrong, you know, with how the future was going to look in the following films, but as far as what they did when they went to the past into the fifties, everything spot on. Such an incredible film, such an incredible cast. I'm so glad that we were part of that decade that got to see in the theaters the very first time it came out. Back to the Future. It had everything in it. It had a great plot, good guy against bad guy guy coming coming into his zone, and you got future. Bro. You know what I mean, You've gotta flying fricking car, bro at DeLorean, My god, man, I mean, and if what could be better? Now? Remember after that car was famous in the movie How DeLorean got in the papers and the news for cocaine. I wonder if that car was on blow when they were flying it around on set. Bro, you're listening to Back to the Eighties. This is Toscato and Chang coming up next. We got a very special guest, and I'm gonna leave it right there. I don't want to give too much information away, except for be kind to her. She's not an eighties child. This is back to the eighties. You're listening to Back to the eighties. So you want to make a podcast. Well, With Spotify, it's easy to record, edit, and distribute your podcast everywhere. Plus now you can even record video podcasts all for free. It's called Spotify for Podcasters. With Spotify for Podcasters, you can even earn money with ads and subscriptions, and did I mention it's free. Creative tools like video podcast Q and A and polls put the Back to the Eighties radio show on another level. Download the Spotify for Podcasters app today or go to spotify dot com slash podcasters to get started. If you can't wear a spandex jumpsuit, what can you do? Back to the eighties? As we mentioned right before the break, we have a special guest. That's right, and let me let me talk to you a little bit about this guest because although she is not directly from the eighties, which concerns me a little bit. But you know, neither you nor I have anything to do with that, right, It was just the way it was destined to be, and that's okay. But I have a Lata Romero and she is with Primerica Financial Services. So welcome, Thank you so much, thank you for having me today. It's a pleasure to be on here. It's a little different because, like you mentioned, I'm not from the eighties, but hey, there's always the first time for everything, so I'm super excited. Thank you for having me on here. We'll get you baptized into the eighties here somehow. So listen, so I know you weren't born in the eighties, and that's okay. We forgive you for it. However, I got to ask you a couple of questions because during this whole COVID nineteen or deal, and because of everything that's going on. You know, the reason we started the show to begin with was because we started noticing that a lot of people started, you know, being nostalgic for better times and reminiscing on better times as well. Do you listen to eighties music? Completely honest with you, I do not. Maybe the most I've listened to eighties music was when my son was completely obsessed with Michael Jackson. And I don't even know if that's considered eighties. Hey absolutely considered eighties. He transcends, right, because he crossed all these decades. You know, you mentioned about music Michael Jackson. That's fine. What about movies? Can I interest you in movies of the eighties at all? Um? Let's see, this is actually a pretty funny story because if you asked my fiance and his brother in law, they're really into watching movies. They grew up watching a lot of movies and a lot of old school movies too. So when it comes to like movies, they watched a lot like foot Loose, the original one I'm talking about, Like, um, what is that movie? Yeah? Greece, all those movies and growing up as a kid, we kind of played outside more. Um, we're from the Orange County area, and you know, we would constantly be playing with the kids in the apartment. So we didn't have too much TV time growing up. But if you ask my brother in law, his theory is my mom had me locked up in a room and I wasn't allowed to watch anything. But realistically, we just you know, TV wasn't a big thing in our house. Um, we did more outside curricular activities. Isn't it something that I mean, it was so different then, even when you grew up, because you got the opportunity to play outside and things like that. Now it's very rare to see a group of kids like in a corner of their neighborhood and things like that and just watch them just hang out for no reason, just to be there. Yeah, right, because I remember that was very, very big in my day, and I'm sure that you had a lot of similar experiences as well. Oh yeah, we would play out all the time. I mean, we knew that it was time to come in when we heard our mom's whistle. We were like, okay, we got to be home in like two minutes or she's gonna come out here looking for us. She actually used the whistle. Yeah, my mom used the whistle, And if you would do it twice, you knew you were going to be in trouble when you got inside, because she like would panic and stuff. But it's so much different now. Like you say, it's weird seeing kids outside and playing. For example, like my kid, he loves to play with other kids. So when I first moved into the apartments that we did, no kids would play outside. And then all of a sudden, he's like, Mom, can I go outside? I'm like, yeah, sure, And then he started getting these group of kids together, and now they like, they play every single day after they're done with school, they all play together. So it reminds me of you know, our times when we were growing up. But the only sad part about it is that now you're kind of scared to let your kids go outside. You don't really know if you can trust them being out there alone for too long. I remember my mom just to let us, let us leave and then we would come back like hours later. I cannot do that without, you know, having a pound the kid talking, going out every five minutes checking on my kid. But it's very different. Yeah, absolutely, you know, something very similar. Like in the eighties we had stalkers. I mean, we had a bunch of serial killers back then, but parents would still leave their children out. I mean we wouldn't come in until after it was dark, and then our parents would like get up said okay, you know, they'd come out, you need to come in five more minutes, five more minutes, five more minutes, and then we'd you know, waste those five minutes because they'd give us always a little bit more until finally, no, you need to get into the house right now. But they weren't constantly checking up on you before when I was a kid. Yeah, and it's weird. Although it seems to be in certain areas more a lot safer nowadays, it's really not. I live in Corona. Corona is a pretty, you know, like quiet area and stuff. But even so, like you still hear all these crazy things of people trying to you know, snatch your kids after school, and I'm just like, uh, like I make sure when I'm in at the store, we're anywhere out public, I have my kid attached to my hip. And sometimes my brother in law was like, dude, just let him be a kid. But I'm like, in the back of my mind, I just think of all these crazy things that happen, and I'm like, I wonder if my mom thought that way when I was a kid. I'm like, hm, I wonder if she even loved me. Kidding, she probably did. You know what, You never think about those things when you don't have kids, right, You just don't think about them, and then you say, oh, in the back of your head, like I used to think, Oh, when I have kids, someday, Oh, come on, I'm gonna let them do whatever they want as far as going out, and I'm not gonna have no issues. My gosh, I have a seventeen and a fifteen year old. I watch them like a hawk, and they're grown young men. You know. I do give them their freedom as well. But it's just not the same. It's just not the same. So let me backtrack a little bit. I mentioned to you about movies of the eighties. I'm gonna mention to you one movie of the eighties, and you tell me if you've seen it or not, And if you have. First of all, if you haven't, you need to see it, all right. I'm I'm not going to give you a pass until you see that movie, all right, but if you have I want I want to get your opinion on it. Back to the Future. I've never seen it, I'm telling you. I am telling you. I drive my whole in law family and saying when it comes to movies, I'm just like, they're like, you know what, one day for twenty four hours straight, we're just going to lock you in a room and we're gonna make you watch all of these old school movies because you're totally missing out. I'm like, all right, but that day slow hasn't you know? There are a few iconic films that I want to recommend you if you haven't seen them, just a few from the eighties. One of them is definitely you need to see Back to the Future. Okay it I mean they have got like three parts, but just you need to watch one. Okay, you need to watch one. Another movie. I don't know if you've seen it or not. Have you seen ET? No? I waste my brother in law. Let's take a break here, because let's take a break, kid it all right? So number two you need to see ET. I'm gonna name one more the Goonies. Have you seen the quenis no, I have not seen ladies and gentlemen you are witnessing here first on the show, A total, A total mill No, no, because I know millennials who love these movies that I just mentioned to you. But that's okay, because you have an excuse. You didn't watch too much TV when you were growing up, So that's okay. There's always time to watch it. So I gave you three flicks. You have to watch them. I put it. I wrote them all down there on my TV list. Oh look at that. So you're back to the eighties. We're gonna keep a tab on a lada. We are so all right. So that means that if I gave you the trivia music that I was about to give you, literally, am I wasting my time? I don't know. Sometimes I can say that I'm a pretty good guest, sir, So okay, because the songs that I got are literally these are like the ABC's of eighties. Okay, So they're that simple. Okay, I can tie my bet. Are you ready? I'm a little scared, but I'm ready. I'm always ready. All Right, We're just gonna give it a shot. And if you if I see like you know, a deer in headlights. Look, I'll know what's going on. Okay. So all right, so first of all, let me know if you can hear this. All right, So we have the cheesy eighties music in the background rolling. What song was that? I'll play it for you one more time. The girls just want to have fun? Yeah, you got it? You got it? Now? Do you know who sings it that? I do not know? All right? All right, I can look it up. That's okay. How about this next one? Okay, so I'll give you half a point for that one. All right, here we here we go. Okay, take it Michael, Dad, and it's called Yes, Michael Jackson would beat it. You got an entire all right, We got two more to go. Are you ready? Yeah, they're gonna get more difficult. Here we go. That one I don't know, you don't know? Okay, Well, let me give you a hint. That was. Let me give you the answer. How's that? That was Toto, the group Toto with a song called Africa that was from nineteen eighty two, so very old. All right, So here is the next song on the list. I know the name of I mean, I've heard this song. I don't know who the artist is, but I have heard that song before. They play that to death, don't they. Yes, they do. I've heard of plenty of times. Yeah. I think they're more famous now than they were in the eighties. That is that is take on Me by the band? Yeah, take on Me by the band. Aha. All right to you ready, this is the bonus round. I'll give you five points for each one of these. Okay, okay, all right, here we go. Any idea, I've heard that song too before? Um, the first one that played that you said you were giving me a hint? Is that from the breakfast No, No, you're a little not way off because they kind of all sounded the same. But no, you're thinking about a different song. Um. This The one I had played before was Aha, and it was take on Me And this is by bon Jovi living on a Prayer. All right, So here's the last one. I'll give you ten points if you get this. Okay, I'll give you ten points at a mixtape. I don't know where you'll play it, but I'll give you one of these if you get this one. Right. Here's a little hint right before the bigger hint. Any ideas? So nerve wracking. No, I don't know, but I have heard it before too. I'm very bad with name. That's the one Summer of sixty nine with Brian Adams. So I told you I was really bad at this. That's okay, you know, Like I said, we're gonna get you somehow to start. At least start. I'm not saying like, at least start a little bit of introduction to the eighties. And you know what, that is the main reason for this program as well, because there are a lot of people that I've met and that I've spoken to personally. That's it. Man. I wonder what it would have been like to live in the days or it must have been so cool, not you know, being so attached to a cell phone and all this technology. And I go, yeah, I mean that's one thing that I really enjoy today, technology, right, But yeah, it was so nice to grow up without taking the phone to the table, to the dinner table. Come on, we can actually go a whole day without taking a picture of our food. Before in the eighties, we can go a whole day. Yeah, we can go a whole day without looking at somebody else's pictures too. That's very true. Different times, different times, but anyway, So now you have a little mini archive there of things that I'm going to recommend that you do. You need to watch those movies. And I'm like I said, if you had a cassette deck, I would send you a mixtape's I mean, I gotta get you involved in in eighties music. Anyway, this is back to the eighties. We're gonna take a quick break. When we come back, We're going to really get down to business and talk with a late Romero of Primerica Financial. Don't go away back to the eighties. Let me explain something to you. I am a vintage mass marketed children's toy from the eighties. This is back to the eighties. I'm Piscano here with you. Joining us here in the studio is Alta Romero from Primerica Financial and leda back in the eighties. Something that did not happen very often with many parents that I knew was the fact that the parents didn't really sit down with you too many times to explain to you about your future, about saving money and things like that. Let me give you a quick example. Now, I'm half Italian and half Mexican, so I mean my dad used to say, you're never going to have a legitimate jobs. How his way of teaching me to save money was, hey, you gotta save money because you don't want to be a donkey like me. That was his teaching. Unfortunately, a lot of the parents that I knew from my friends, they never sat down with him and tell them you know anything about credit, anything about retirement and things of that nature. Fast forward twenty twenty. In our situation, you know, I'm forty something years old. Nobody wants to really know. Nobody cares. It's not important. Okay, it's how you feel that's important. It's how you feel, and I I feel forty something. So because there's a lot of those parents who never taught the kids, fast forward to twenty twenty, those kids are now, you know, we're all grown up, and maybe there are some out there who are still not prepared. But because of the times, the challenges, the situations that are happening right now, they are starting to sweat bullets and they're starting to get really worried. Well, who better to give us some suggestions and advice? So a Leda, tell us a little bit about yourself. I know that that you are highly involved you've been involved with Premerica hand you are going up in the rank, so tell us a little bit about you. Awesome. So my name is a Leda, just like Mario mentioned. Of course, I am not from the eighties once again, but I love connecting with people that are from the eighties. And yeah, we're working on changing that. I made a couple of notes today on movies. I got to catch up on music. I gotta catch up on I got a lot of homework basically, so I gotta get to it after this cob But yes, so I am with Primarica Financial Services. I have been with the company for about two years. We're basically in the industry of helping our middle and lower income families set up for their future, whether it's you know, putting a couple of books away a month, nothing too drastically showing them the importance and actually protecting the income that they have because at the end of the day, if you know, some emergency comes up tomorrow, not a lot of families today you would be surprised how many families don't even have a thousand dollars in savings for you know, an emergency that comes up, and normally because we don't have that one thousand dollars in savings. We go out there and we get a credit card, we get some type of personal loan, get us to pay all this interest on this money where we would have just set up, you know, a year ago, two years ago. I always say it's never too late to start a savings account. Doesn't matter how old you are, how young you are. Obviously, if you start younger, the better because you have more years to grow that money. But it's never too late to start an emergency fund. You know, it's very important to even start with basically twenty five bucks a month for your emergency fund, because at the end of the day, you don't want to dig yourself in a bigger hole right when an emergency arises. We educate people on really showing them the importance on protecting their income. I don't like to call it life insurance because obviously I can never physically bring somebody's life back, but I am able to replace that income that was coming into that household, to give you that family the peace of mind that financially they won't have to struggle, because nowadays you kind of just see, you know, a loss in the family and then people really just go straight to stressing about financials, how they're gonna you know, bury a loved one, how they're going to figure out after that, right, because most of the time it's hard, but it's a breadwinner in the household too. Ends up, you know, something happens to them and maybe they become physically you know, disabled to where they can't work either. And that's where Primerica comes into place. You know, what I love about our products is that it teaches really families how to protect their tomorrow and how to protect their today as well, to make sure that their family is financially protected today, and as well they set themselves up for, you know, their retirement, because that's a huge thing. I've Mario, I've never personally met somebody that told me they want to work for the rest of their life. Have you? I think I mentioned this to you, didn't I? Oh, I think you were the only one that told me. You're like, I want to work until I can no longer do it? Yeah, yeah, believe it or not. Well, you know what it's when you really really really love what you do. And you know, I think that's the main reason. Yeah, because when you love what you do, it doesn't feel like a job. I love, you know what I do. I love what our company stands for. I never feel like I'm working when I'm going out there and helping a family out impacting them because I know that if the day of tomorrow they're going to need of our services, We're gonna be there to deliver for them. You know, at the end of the day, it's very important to give that peace of mind to your clients and me just personally knowing that if somebody would have come to my parents maybe in the eighties, right when they were you know, setting up for stuff, that they would be in a complete different financial situation than they are today. You know, when it comes to retirement. I feel like people start thinking about retirement once they're like in their early forties, late thirties, and by that point, like you lost so many years of potential savings and growth that you could have had on your money, even if it was just like I said, twenty five bucks fifty bucks a month, and it's very powerful. Yeah, you know, one of the things that I remember happening a lot was that, for example, in my family, there were a lot of people who said, yeah, we know that we have to save, but we just can't do it yet for you know, whatever the reason. Back then, okay, medium household prices were about ninety three thousand, two one hundred thousand dollars for a home back when I was a team. We're talking in the latter part of the eighties. And so if you want to have a rental in department, like a one bedroom, was about four hundred dollars a month, so it wasn't big. Minimum wages about three twenty five an hour, so it was low. Yes, However, it doesn't matter. They could have always saved a little bit, just a little bit, because we're talking. You know, we go eat burgers, we go eat we you know, we go watch movies, and there's a lot of that stuff that can go into the savings right exactly. And that's really what we help our clients focus because the day of today, people are still conditioned to getting a paycheck. Obviously, our paycheck doesn't come with instructions, so we don't really know exactly what to do with that. So what most people out there are conditioned to do is right away, pay creditors right away, take care of their bills, and then whatever they have leftover they're like, yeay, we have this money left over, let's go out with the family. But you know wrong, Like that's not the way things should be done. I mean, at the end of the day, you're working hard. So we really push on our clients to know the concept of paying yourself first before you go out there and pay everybody else, right, because you're the one working hard for that money, and at the end of the day, you're the only one that's going to be able to set yourself up for retirement. You're the only one that's going to be able to take care of yourself later in the years, right. So that's what we do exactly. So what are some of the branches that you have within Primerica, Because I know Primerica it's not just one thing that you guys do. You guys don't only help people to save money. What other kinds of things do you guys do? So we do a little bit of everything when it comes to financial planning, where like that Amazon of financial services that I can kind of put it that way for you guys, we do all sorts of financial planning. Obviously, I like to say the foundation of all of your financial planning is having a life insurance and place of course, because you know you can save, you can totally start by saving money today putting it in a savings account. But if you only got to save from for one whole year, what good will that do for your family? Of you know, in a year from today, you're not here and your income is not coming in right, So we make sure that we show them the importance in protecting their income. The cool thing about primericas that we customized plans for everyone's needs. We understand that everyone's financial needs are completely differently, so we do a little bit of life insurance, We do basically investments, long term investment, short term college funds. Basically, you name any type of savings account and we're able to do that for you. We do legal and identity protection. We provide with prepaid legal services. We do auto and home so we help We don't only basically help go out there and help people do savings, We also help them save money and other aspects of their bills like auto and home insurance. I know I sat down with a lady last week where I was able to save her hundred dollars on her home insurance a year. To her, that was just like sometimes people are like they don't really see the importance in getting the life insurance right away because it's another expense for them. But at the end of the day, if I'm able to save you basically eight hundred dollars here, another five hundred dollars a month there, it all adds up. It all adds up, and you can pay for that life insurance. I mean, at the end of the day, the life insurance is going to be the only bill to pay your family of the day of tomorrow you're not here. And that's really what we try to show our clients. You know, start with paying yourself first, because at the end of the day, you're you know, nobody's going to take care of you more than you are. Would you mind me a big favor insure with everybody how they can get in contact with you if they are in need and definitely interested in getting your help. Yes, of course I do have my contact number where you guys can call me, and you know, obviously to filter out a little bit faster. If you're looking for a quote or you want something that has to do with financial planning, just go ahead and take text me, you know, quote to phone number nine five one five one five five zero two nine nine five one five one five five zero two nine. If you're looking into getting into the industry, obtaining these powerful licenses, you know, and creating that second stream of income, go ahead and text me opportunity to the same phone number, and I'll repeat it again. It's nine to five one five one five five zero two nine. Basically, once I get your text right away, I'll go ahead and give you a call, set up a quick interview. You know. If you need information over the phone, I could definitely give you some, but obviously the best thing is to jump on a zoom call and go through everything. But if you guys need of my services, or if you know of someone that has been looking for them, you know, referrals, I greatly appreciate it. I always take care of my people and my clients, So make sure you call a later Romero. She is great. She's a very lovely young lady that I'm sure she's going to be able to go ahead and handle those needs for you. This is back to the eighties a late. You've been a wonderful, wonderful guest, So thank you for all the information, and sorry I put you on the spot there with the eighties stuff. But hey, this is after all back to the eighties. I know people are now going to probably be texting me like, um, all these movies to watch, these songs to listen to it, and I don't mind it either, Guys. I need to step up my game when it comes to all this kind of thing. This is back to the eighties. Thanks Lata for being the best guest here. Yes, of course, thank you guys for having me and I look forward to helping you guys with any of the needs that you guys, meaning, thank you again Mario for having me on here today. This was fun. You're listening to back to the eighties. We never stops, didn't hurt, didn't hurt, goodn't hurt, non stop, unforgettable memories from the eighties. Back to the eighties. That's Ryan. This is back to the eighties. This is the Sky to Win chain with you once again here every single Friday where you can tune in to us take us wherever you go. So please go ahead and subscribe to us, download our podcast that helps us out, and also become a member of our Facebook page and become one of our patrons and get a bunch of cool stuff in. In the meantime, I do want to thank you guys for being with us today as we take a ride through the nineteen eighties. Today, we've been talking about some of the most important events of the nineteen eighties, and one of those chain one of those events happened in nineteen eighty eight. Nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, so we're gonna go into nineteen eighty eight, and you tell me if you remember this event. I've just received a telephone call from Governor new Caucus. He was most gracious. His call was personal, it was genuinely friendly, and it was in the great tradition of American politics. You know what's funny about Ducoccus Ducock? His name Ducock is but those eyebrows they looked like they could have grown eight legs and walked off the space George H. W. Bush as he defeats Ducocus. So the April nineteenth glistening up over to April nineteen, nineteen eighty seven, because this was a part of the eighties historical archives. All right, bring it on, Well, good night, son, I'm dad. What is the mind? Is it just a system of impulses or is it something tangible? Black what is mind? No matter? What does matter? Never mind? This was the very first episode the Simpsons called good Night, and it appears it appeared on The Tracy Omen Show originally April nineteen, nineteen eighty seven, during the third episode of The Tracy Omen Show, and it was the first, very first appearance of the Simpson family on TV. Oh yeah, there's some history fact for you. I remember watching that show. I remember when that cartoon debuted. And the funny thing is when I would watch that cartoon after, I already could envision the actors that were playing the characters of the Symptoms Simptons right, because they were all cast members in The Tracy Oltman Show. And that was like improv stand up, hardcore, brial, great funny at Yeah. You want to know what's crazy that the animation changed a lot. If you look at that very first episode, it was so it was so different than if you look at The Simpsons today. Jumping over to December nineteen eighty eight, here's something else in the video game world that occurred. World Class Contemtories. Take them down with your controller, Beat them all and you've got a shot at Tyson's title till base. Adjust your Infiel Field and full up great double play. I flip over Tari Baseball and you will too, only on the Sega system. Sea the Chilens will always be there. Last year in the United States, home video game sales hit one point one billion dollars. So this is a special report that came out in nineteen eighty eight when it was the battle of the consoles, and that was Atari and Sega. Because then came one of the greatest consoles of the mall, and that was the Nintendo console. That was that that change, that was a game changer for everybody. Yeah, it was big time. I think it's the one that kind of beat both of them and just took it on its back and carried a gaming into what it is now. You know we have PlayStation yeah x Bob. I mean it's just it's almost like a car model and they just fine tuned it every step of the way. And now look what you have. I mean you you still have Nintendo right now, and Sega is the thing of the past, and so is Atari. And last but not least, something that was very very important that mark the eighties. This happened on November tenth, nineteen eighty nine. I'm gonna let you hear a little bit of this newscast from ADC. This is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings reporting tonight from Berlin. From the Berlin Walls specifically, take a look at them. They've been there since last night. They are here in the thousands, They are here in the tens of thousands. Occasionally they shout de mala must vec, the wall must go. Thousands and thousands of West Germans come to make the point that the wall has suddenly become irrelevant something as you can see, almost a party on. How do you measure such an astonishing moment in history? Actually everything started on November ninth when they announced what was going to happen. And on November tenth it came down. Yes, that was a great moment in history for I think all of us on the globe. You know, that took down something that represented hate, prejudice, biaseness, sheer, aggressive hate and division and it was down. And yeah, it opened the door for a lot more unity. And we need more. We need something like that to crack, now, my brother, we definitely need something. And you know it feels like something is going to crack. And before we get there. Those are the events leading up to nineteen eighty nine, everything that happened through the eighties, some you know, not all the most important events, but the ones that really marked history. But you know what chang out of all those events. And the reason for this show is because today, Friday, September eleventh, we want to pay our respects one event that changed the face of not only the United States in the way we look at humanity, but also the face of the world in every aspect. Because September eleventh, two thousand and one, twenty nine hundred and seventy seven people lost their lives in a horrendous, horrendous terrorist attack. Do you remember where you were? I yes, As a matter of fact, I was getting ready to leave work. My kids were at the table in the dining room table having breakfast. My wife was getting them off to school. My best buddy, matt Al comes into the picture again. Now, me and matt Al used to work together. And I remember I was getting ready and I had the radio on it in my bedroom and I was walking back and forth. I didn't hear the television that my wife had on, and matt Al came in, running frantically and said, hey, they're bombing New York. So he changed the channel and while we watched this uh horrifying kick in the groin and the throat, a punch in the heart, and we saw this happening. Now, I was I just could not believe it. I didn't know at that moment if I could continue to go to work that day, send my kids to school, leave my wife and my kids. I didn't know if I should cry right then and there and explain to my children what was going on. I mean, it was, it was. It was a total I think, punch in the face and the gun, like I say, to the groin, to everybody in America at that time, and and the thing is, but the one thing it did bring together was all of us chanting for America. Every every color, every race, every almost every religion, every citizen or non citizen that lived here legally or illegally. We pulled together and we were there for each other. And things after after that day have been I hate to say, this kind of the norm. Now when you look at our society, are politics outside what we know or what they tell us, and what's going on with other countries, And it's, uh, it's a shame, because right now we could use all of that that has happened, and we should use that as wisdom and a bar to get back up and to be what it was that that that positive out of the most negative thing that could ever happen to us as human beings citizens. It's like when a crater, when a meteor hits the Earth and you have a crater, you have this huge imprint. You're never going to forget it. I would have loved that if we Americans could have held on to that unity and that mindset and that presseverance as we did that day that we so much lack in the world. Right now, my brother, Yeah, well, this is another moment that we have right now in twenty twenty where we can seize the moment. See, right now, we've got so much negativity going around that we're failing to see that this is a moment to be seized for every single person that's listening. For us as individuals. You see, our issues go deeper than race and politics. Our issues are far more sensitive than social, financial, and judicial. Our issues are in our own hearts as human beings. As part of this union and as part of the human family, we need to search deep within us and figure out where as individuals, what is it that has gone wrong? Because we can't come together as individuals, we can't come together as a family, can't come together as a country. We are living proof that pride comes before a fall. So this is back to the eighties, and I want to encourage you this week to search for hope, to search for real change, and search for truth, starting with you, starting with me. This is Tiscano from back to the eighties. Thanks for being here. We'll see you next Friday. This is chang before I release you into your Friday and your weekend. And remember I always tell you to stay positive, that we can only seek prosperity when we have unity. Tomorrow is never promised. Everybody out there, you just take care of yourself and remember you have to stay lifted to be gifted. Go home and hug somebody, Call somebody that you haven't talked to tell them you love them, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised. So with that you go kick some booty, Asta Levisa, Adios and orally than des take me back, Take me back till nine. My mind's already whoa like the ro