Dec. 31, 2024

Happy Belated Christmas!

Happy Belated Christmas!
Happy Belated Christmas!
Back to the 80s Radio
Happy Belated Christmas!

Toscano and Chang are back (finally!) to unwrap the mystery of why they've been MIA—it involves Santa, a sleigh, and some serious holiday drama.

Join us as we jingle all the way down memory lane, reminiscing about the coolest (and weirdest) gifts of...

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Toscano and Chang are back (finally!) to unwrap the mystery of why they've been MIA—it involves Santa, a sleigh, and some serious holiday drama.

Join us as we jingle all the way down memory lane, reminiscing about the coolest (and weirdest) gifts of the 80s, holiday traditions, and more. It's never too late to feel festive, so grab some eggnog and crank up the nostalgia with your favorite 80s crew!

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Let's get all the hate out. Okay, let's hate.

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Let's do it.

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No, of course I hate Glenn metal, anything that's not

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metal metal, right.

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Traditional Cindy Lopper videos.

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Yes, what else do you hate?

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I hate Hall of Oes hairstyles.

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In the eighties, Yes, you do. And you know what

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we're gonna call this section holiday holiday hate, That's what

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we're gonna call it.

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How about jangle Bells?

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No, because jangle bells still sounds a little happy, and

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there is no happiness here. There is only hate.

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This is a trick.

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Listen to the decade of decadents right here.

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Back to the eighties.

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When we start doing changrys, I want you to do

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like we used to do on the radio. I want

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you to give five things to get you changry. We'll

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do that, And I understand why you just want me

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to do them, because it fills that precise where you

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can say, ladies and gentlemen. He is such a hater,

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such a damn hater. Right.

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The bottom line is, you can't erase who you are

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at heart, and you know what, stand proud to be

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who you are. It's just sad. It's sad that just

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hate on music in general. But anyway, I will, I

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will see Ladies and gentlemen, you are witnesses here. This

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is even before we haven't even started the show.

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You see, you see, you see what I have to

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put up.

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With single time, the hate.

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No, you, my friend, are like Richard Nixon. Well, I'm

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not a crook. I've earned everything.

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I've got.

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You tape everything, You admit to nothing, You conceal everything.

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And then if I were to stumble into your dojo

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and find all these tapes, yeah, and bring them up

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to the listener court of order in radio, Yeah, you

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would say I'm the editor in chief, Yes, I would.

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I can do anything, just like Richard Nixon says.

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When you're the president, you can do anything. Yeah.

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Well, apparently presidents don't have to worry about laws and

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getting arrested. But you know what a poor schmoe like

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you and me forget to pay a parking ticket and

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we can be arrested and taken into custody for six months.

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Didn't that just happen to us recently at a Christmas party?

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Don't we have like a clip of that or something?

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Tuscanowan, I had a little bit of trouble this holiday.

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We were invited to a Christmas party. Now here's the thing. Okay,

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we started on our way, we got the time machine,

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we started heading back. I was a little bit too

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spun out on Christmas snow and rum that I didn't

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want to leave Santa Claus at my house because Santa

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Claus is nothing but a lush and we don't want

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Santa drinking and driving, or the kids don't get presents,

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and everything's all anyway. Now, Toscano and I were enjoying

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Christmas carols. We were singing along with our radio. We

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have a blow punk in the time machine. Of course,

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we didn't know we were getting tailed how We didn't

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even know how fast we were going.

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I knew how fast I was going. And we were

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pulled over.

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We were locked onto the helicopter and we were handcuffed

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to the steering wheel and copoted steering wheel of the vehicle,

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our vehicle, our time machine, and we were taken to

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the North Pole jail.

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We found out that Santa Claus was the mayor.

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But we did get it. We did get a visitor.

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Remember, oh, yes, we did get a visitor.

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We contacted really quick our lawyer, and that is Santa Viz.

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Now Santa Viz for any of our listeners that don't

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know him, is our lawyer, but he is an impressionist

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of both Santa Claus and Elvis.

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Is it Santa Vis or was it Sanvis?

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I think it's Sandviz. That's what my PaperWorks is Sanviz.

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It was Sanvis.

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I'm hoping he calls the hotline or comes in. Well.

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I don't know if he's gonna do that, but I

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do know this I just found. Look, I was just

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given by production. I was just giving a tape, a

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cassette tape, because you know, this happened while we were

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back in time. We have the recording of his visit

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to us. Let's let me play a little bit of

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what Sandvis told Toscano and Chang as we were in

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the North Pool jail.

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Well, with some here fellows, ain't no easy road with all,

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you know. I mean, we're all going to get the

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cold shoulder. I wonder if that fat gully, a red

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guy with a red nose, there's got any good blow.

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Wow.

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I don't know, Oh Christmas.

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That is, Are you gonna take us out of jail

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or what?

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Hey?

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Hey, hey, hey, take it easy.

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You're crazy Italian yay, you ain't strapping oak going on

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me right now, I'm calling the shots.

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Hey, ready to go give them some other paperwork. Okay, fellows, fellas,

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just what we're gonna do.

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Hey, it's nice to see you. We didn't we knew

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that you were real. We you know, we actually thought

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that you were just a legend, more than Santa Claus.

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But we see that you're not well.

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Man.

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First of all, thanks a lot. Hold on, man, here

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comes some children murdered Christmas, little boys and gurus. Now

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you boys are I'm gonna have to sign and plead

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guilty odd always naughty, No, no, God, I'm gonna post

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your bail.

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All right.

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I'm gonna get him a couple of autographs, almost sing

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a couple of tunes. Jail House Rock is one of them.

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I hope you boys enjoy that tune. We're gonna sing

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it together with no pants. It's gonna be a great thing.

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You're gonna go first, you're gonna go apologize to Santa Claus.

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Merry Christmas, everybody, Just call on with Chang.

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You'll free the gold. Santa Claus.

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Do me a favor. Stay away from that bad candy.

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I'm onto the building baby.

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Dingle bells, dingle bells, dingle all the way.

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Oh, what's fun? And it is too riding?

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Then you say the chamber lady jingle bells, dingle jingle

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jingle all the way.

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On fun, it is too riding.

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What us up?

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The slave that's shining through the snow, he's dat up.

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Slave, he's dashing, oppels me go, he's das laughing all

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the way.

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I was laughing.

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Bob tells me, I mean that's peers right.

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Oh mon, it is.

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To ride, say I slaying time tonight jingle basing jingu

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ging jingle all the way. One mom is to ride.

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It's that chamber jingle basing ingle dingle all the way.

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Oh what fun it is to ride? And what I

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go to slay, but.

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Got shoot through the stores being the one horse over

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and slaves.

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Oh but that feels to go.

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Man, my hard making.

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That spirs riding ladies to ride, say.

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Stop dingle bell dingle jingle jingle away.

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The mine is to ride.

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It's in terrible dingle bell dingle, dingle dingle away?

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What it needs to ride on?

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Slash ladies and gentlemen, I'm Shadow Stevens and you must

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listen to back to the eighties radio.

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It's the law, It's the most wonderful time.

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Back to the eighties radio. You have just heard stray

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cats with jingle bells. Well, thank you for joining us

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on this very belated Christmas program. As you heard a

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little bit before the song and the break, we did

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have a little incident so we weren't able to do

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our Christmas show till right now. But first I must

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tell you that I must introduce a man whose first

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word as a baby was Judas Priest. He was once

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kicked out of a punk club in the eighties for

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refusing to listen to the Cure because they were too cheerful.

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Don't let that leather jacket fool you. This man is

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secretly hiding his pair of pastel parachute pants in its

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closet and knows the words to every Tears for Fear song.

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Tonight and every night.

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We only know him.

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As the chang Merry Christmas. Belated boys and girls, welcome

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to the program. On behalf of myself and the exaggerating

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Italian stallion Tuscano. I want to thank you all for

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waiting anticipating like the Hinds fifty seven commercial anticipation four

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the Christmas Show. Obviously you heard what has happened to

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me in Tuscano.

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It's a good thing.

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We were not sexually violated, but we were violated in

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every place below the knees in North Pole.

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Jail, especially the pocket book. Oh it was terrible. Oh

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my god.

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I mean Santa reamed us, I mean a sack over

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our heads and beat us for whatever we had. I

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had to give him all my Christmas dust, that sut

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of a bitch.

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Anyway, I know you even lost your glasses. Now you're

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just wearing a player of fluorescent glasses that I think

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that McDonald's used to give away with their happy meals.

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Now, what do you think of my macho man glasses?

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My mind, I like them, I apparel, I like them.

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Actually, if you so, let me describe Chain's glasses, because

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of course, at our age we need reading glasses and glasses.

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To read the gut. Here very low.

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Blow, but he is he is wearing some pretty interesting

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bill Ny the Science Sky glasses with a fluorescent yellow

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frame at the front and some type of white uh

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legs stretching out to the back of the air.

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Yes, and you're Gray Laker Beanie. Oh yes, what do

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you think of that beanie?

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I like the beanie, liked the glasses. Uh, it says Los.

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Angeles laker, thank you very much for wear mine.

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And just to let you know, he's wearing some type

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of a red hoodie with black or so don't let's

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not talk about any type of fat. Oh it's queen,

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very cool sweater. But let's not talk about fashion sense.

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Chang does not have it. He matches not. It doesn't

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matter to the Chang. All that he cares is that

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he's wearing his sweater a queen. By the way, Chang,

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I am wearing just because of the occasion. I'm wearing

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a Christmas plaid semi formal shirt. Now, is that a Gucci,

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because you know, a Chalion. I actually don't even know

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what Brandon, No, it's not Gucci. It is, however, one.

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Of these made by Italian children.

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No, it's anyway, this is one and only. Back to

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the eighties radio show. Thank you for joining us as

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we continue our stride through the nineteen eighties and today,

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ladies and gentlemen, we are going to be talking about

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those gifts that we did receive back in the nineteen eighties.

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If you were.

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Fortunate enough to survive the eighties and you were fortunate

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enough to celebrate Christmas in those years, those awesome years,

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because they were, I mean anywhere you look changed, didn't

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it seem like the Christmas spirit was much more prevalent

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back then. If you went to a mall, malls were

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decorated inside outside, they had all I mean all the stores.

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It was this exaggerated, this Christmas spirit. There was Santa's Village,

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there were models. They made you feel like you were

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at an amusement park.

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Some of the malls, you know what an excellent point, man,

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do you remember almost every store was decorated in some

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of that fake pine garland all across.

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Some had lighting.

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To me, the malls in the eighties during Christmas was

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very reminiscent if sat to Clause was real and out

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and about in town, and elves were really decorating them

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all exactly. You know, Christmas in the eighties had an

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essence and innocence.

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I think the last.

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Aura of innocence Christmas touched in the eighties.

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Anybody that had.

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Children, or possibly was a child or a young individual,

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or if you look back, it was more joyous, it

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was more easy, more carefree. You felt it everywhere you went.

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You know, Christmas tree lots were opening up. You saw

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them getting built up on the corners at your favorite stores.

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Some cities would start decorating their streets.

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Nobody was embarrassed. Yeah, nobody was embarrassed to say Merry Christmas.

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You had certain neighborhoods, you had actual afloat with Sanna

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when and the els would come around and yes, give

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gifts and stuff like that. Listmas music. You could hear

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it everywhere, not only on the radio, but at malls,

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at stores, in the bathrooms, at restaurants. I mean, Christmas

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spirit took over.

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I think most cities back in the nineteen eighties during

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Christmas had one or a few neighborhoods where they would

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just deck the whole entire street or entire area out

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with everyone doing Christmas lights, cars, driving through, walking through people.

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It did over and beyond.

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I think in the eighties with Christmas putting up figurines,

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building villages.

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You know what I mean.

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And I'm going to tell you right now, anybody that

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knows me by now, I'm a colorful cat. I used

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to deck the halls at the chang Residents when my

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kids were growing up, in the eighties, and I was like,

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I was probably like Chevy Chase Christmas vacation.

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I did the roof line?

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Were you like that? Do you put a million lights?

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Oh, I've had.

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I had every entire roofline on my roof done.

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I had a chimney done.

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I had picket fencing with lights around my front yard.

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I would cut out wood figures put them out there.

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I would throw fake snow.

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I had a Santa Claus collection, me and the wife,

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and we would display it in the window, all types

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of various Santa Clauses with the backdrop of Santa's living

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room a little fireplace. I mean, we used to go

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all out. We would put a Christmas hat on our dog, Gunny.

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You know.

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Do you remember back then there were entire neighborhoods, and

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certain neighborhoods were very, very famous and popular. You could

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go to these neighborhoods and literally have to park far

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away walk. It was an event you went with a

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family because every house in the neighborhood was decorated so much.

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It was like going to an amusement park.

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Oh, there was a neighborhood I remember going to in

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Lakewood and missus Chang would take the three girls when

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they were little, before the baby was thought about, and

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we used to go to this one neighborhood and we

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would literally have to park blocks away, you know, just

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like Halloween when you go to neighborhoods and get canny.

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It was literally like that, you know, And we would

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just take the kids walking through these neighborhoods and at

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one cult de Sac where all the streets would intertwine

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into each other and you have everybody would have to

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go to the cult de sac. A gentleman and his wife,

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who was an elderly gentleman, looked just like Santa. They

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dressed up like mister and Missus Claus. They fixed up

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their front porch to where it looked straight out like you.

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Were still you know what I'm means.

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They had his family around, dressed up in characters, and

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it was something to me that was genuine.

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It was spectacular.

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I thought that him and his wife, to me, were

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probably two of the greatest human beings that he could

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ever envision or see with my own eyes and not

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even know to do that. I kind of think nowadays

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that's a lost treasure anybody out there that is still

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very lucky and fortunate to have their children go through

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this experience. You are blessed, Believe me, and I'm not

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just saying blessed like people say on social media. I'm blessed.

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Look at my Ferrari. I'm blessed. You're really blessed.

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So much has been lost since then. I remember a

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commercial that I'm gonna let you hear right now, and

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it was called Santa's Village. Check this out.

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You can see Santa in the winter time because right

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now he's at Santa's Village in the San Bernadino Mountains.

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Thirteen big rides provide fun for the whole family, visit

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the pettings of see Santa's Reindeer. There's food and treats

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from the Pixie Fantry, the Good Witch's Bakery, and lots more.

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Santa's Village is fun, forest and fantasy all rolled into one.

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Santa's Village in the clear sand Bernardino Mountains on Highway eighteen,

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just thirty minutes north of San Bernardino, now open weekends

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and holidays.

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Now, Chang, do you remember Santa's Village. This is a

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commercial that they used to play a lot in the eighties.

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It was an entire village in the San Bernardino Mountains

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that you could go and there were the l mean,

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it was literally going into another world and you would

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be able to go visit all the candy stores, the

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place where they made toys, and they had elves, and

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they had the reindeer, and they had Santa and his wife.

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That place is gone as far as I know.

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Oh yeah, now did you ever get to visit that well?

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As a young boy who was little and I was

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the only child, a lot of people would say, you know,

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you were very spoiled, and so I can tell you

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to that I could tell by your shirt. The answer

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is no. My family would say, you know what, No,

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we're not going to spend money to go three hours

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to have us wait in line for three hours and

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then have to come back by five o'clock because they

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closed because it's too cold. What we're gonna do is

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we're gonna go down the street to Marinos in Bellflower,

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eat some pasta. We're gonna come home. What's better than that?

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You know, I'm amazed that your dad didn't show his

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belt clip and that chromed out forty five and get

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you in. That would have been very Christmas l Now,

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I'm gonna tell you right now, Tiscano. I did visit

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that one year in the eighties, did you Yes?

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Did they charge before you went in?

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Yes, of course there's a charge and no.

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And what about parking? Did you pay for parking as well?

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Oh?

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Rats, I wonder my.

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Da boss a few bucks to go in for me

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and my girlfriend.

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I was already a teenager past teens, right, I was

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a late teenager.

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As a matter of fact. I went with my.

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First daughter, Jasmine's mother the ex We went together and

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it was very enchanting.

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It was really really cool to see.

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I'm very glad that I got the experience, although I

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wish I would have been able to be fortunate enough

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to experience it when I was a bit younger with

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my parents, you know, and some other family members. Before

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you know, life took its crazy turns and I turned

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into this crazy individual the chairing.

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But it was awesome.

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If I would have had a cell phone, I would

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have been taking like twelve hundred recording.

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Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, it looked really cool. And

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as a kid, I always wanted to go, and my

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mom and dad always said, you know what, well, I

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would Actually my parents were divorced by then, and they

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will always blame each other. Your mom doesn't want, you know,

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and your dad doesn't want this, so who knows the

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point is I never got to go you know what,

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off Don't cry for me, Argentina. See that we're going

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off key a little bit. The way you mentioned that,

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I too similarly had to go through my parents getting divorced.

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I was already in my teens, probably just like you.

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My parents got separated.

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All kinds of crap hit the fan when I was

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about fourteen and a half. My old man took off

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about fifteen. That's that's a whole nother story of the

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whole show on the couch. So it was like that too,

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you know what I mean. My Christmas years of high

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school were pretty much with the homeboys, my homeboys, you

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know what I mean, and doing our own Christmas festivities.

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You know.

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I was very fortunate, just like many others probably about

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my age, that grew up in a time where a

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neighborhood did all that. My neighborhood used to decorate every house,

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you know. Every tree was wrapped in butcher paper with

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red ribbon around it like a candy cane.

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Was this in Monapello.

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This was in Montabello, one third Street, right boulevard between

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Los Angeles. We were the very crest of southside uh Montabello,

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so you know what I mean. So I was su

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anno because with your boulevard separated north Wanntabello, which were

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the kids that had a little bit more. They went

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to the upper scale type schools, you know what I mean,

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kind of that.

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So you were close to that. You were close to

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the five Freeway over there.

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Oh no, no, no way, no way, bro I was

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the five Freeway was far away from me.

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Sorry, was it the sixty or the ten?

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I was closer probably to the six oh five, but

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you had you would have to go to Pico Deveda,

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so you would have to cruise up with your boulevard.

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So I was on the very crest of southside Montabello.

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So yeah, I grew up in a neighborhood that did

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all that crap. My neighbor trip out of this. My

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neighbor Ray Vargas, used to dress up like Santa Claus

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and then go play the guitar at old folks homes,

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children's hospitals, cancer centers, homeless shelters.

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I mean this dude.

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Was freaking cool man, and he would dress up like Santa.

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So when I was ten years old, this cat used

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to let me go sing with him in his garage. Honest,

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this God's true. So he would have me start dressing

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up like an elf.

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So I forgot.

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I think it was my mom or maybe my sister.

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Maybe somebody made me an elf costume. And at ten

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years old, I started going with him to all these things.

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He was saying I was an Elf. We literally used

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to sit in.

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The garage nights before wrap up little trinkets, put him

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in this big velvet bag, and then me and him

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would take off in his El Dorado Cadillac. He was

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a badass dude, this guy, you know what I mean.

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He used to like to have some swigsters. Real cool dude.

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So I portrayed his alf and I would have to sing,

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you know, and they're all candy, and you know, do

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whatever he wanted me to do. So I had that

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essence of what Christmas was with this cat, and I'm

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very glad that my children in the eighties had that

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very same essence.

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But the tail end of.

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It, you know what I'm saying, nice, So it was really,

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really cool and talking about witted bullvar. I remember when

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Woodyard Boulevard and Beverly would decorate the streets. I remember

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when there was Christmas parades. A lot of cities had

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Christmas parades still in the eighties.

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They did, and it would hang these beautiful and elaborate

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Christmas decorations from the light or the posts, you know,

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the lampposts on the street. Especially in Whittier. It was

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just very elaborate. I mean, if we were to ask

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the audience listening, how did they fix your neighborhood when

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you were a kid in the nineteen eighties, what was

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it that stood out that made you feel like it

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was just such a different time. Think about it. Let

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us know here at Back to the Eighties Radio by

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writing in it Back the number two of the Eighties

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Radio at gmail dot com, or let us know through

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direct messaging through our Facebook page. In the meantime, Chang

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I got a special request from Sally and Jeff from

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Mantabello Christmas in Hollis by run DMC on the one

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and only Back to the Eighties Radio.

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I want December twenty four on HOLLI save at the

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dog when I see the man chilling Win, his talk

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in the Paul pull the very stony wood, my hat

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full of fifth. Then his talk, Oh my god, man,

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I was telling a man.

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At a bend, had a man full of twelve o'clock.

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In man, So I turn my head a second.

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Then the man was funny.

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Look the dumberest matter of fact that on the lawns.

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I picked the wallet up, and then I took up

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pot without the licena colls at Santa Claus a million dollars.

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Then and called money to Jean another bible met the

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call with K.

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But I never feel with Danna come.

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Down at the right teller, going on no matter back to.

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Him that night boo, when I got home about cold

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under the tree for the lenda from Santa and the

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domus men.

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It's Christmas time and Hollis Queen's mom's cooking chicken in

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college grease, raise this stuff in macaronia cheese and saying

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to put gifts under Christmas trees, decorate the house with

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flights at night, snow's on the ground, snow white so

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bright in the fireplace is the ul law beneath the

482
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.519
mistletoe every drain and knocked the.

483
00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:56.039
Rooms that you hear all the rounds off jaels, what

484
00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:57.000
each never Yet.

485
00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.880
We puts Christmas Carol, missus.

486
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:15.279
Carol, Carol ry so loud and proud.

487
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.359
You here next Christmas time, and we got the spirit.

488
00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:21.720
Jack was chilling, go on it out, And that's what

489
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:23.400
Christmas is all about.

490
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:26.200
The time is now, the place is in, and.

491
00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:29.119
The whole wide world is spelled wheel chairs. My name

492
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:31.079
is deep see with the mic in my hand, and

493
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:34.279
I'm chilling. Ain't cooling just like the snowman. So open

494
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.680
your eyes, Linen. I said, Hey, we want to say

495
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.240
Merry Christmas in Happy Dow.

496
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:55.039
Yeah once if that's a back to the eighties radio

497
00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:57.839
a believe it up up.

498
00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:01.400
Be later Christmas show. Oh we're going to.

499
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:05.200
Keep this going almost like relatives are people that are

500
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:07.759
popping in a couple of days after Christmas that they

501
00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:10.960
give you their gifts, which is always nice. You get

502
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.839
a late gift, you know what I mean, Although all

503
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:16.559
the wrapping and all the mess is pretty much cleaned up.

504
00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:19.440
You know, you already got that roub of picking up

505
00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.599
all those loose pine leaves. But that's the way it goes.

506
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:25.400
Tonight. We got, oh god, we have so.

507
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.440
Many gifts that you people haven't even opened.

508
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:29.759
It's insane, right, that's kinda yeah.

509
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.440
And as you know, speaking of gifts, let me ask

510
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.599
you this, was there a gift that you always wanted

511
00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:39.559
to get in the eighties for Christmas, either for yourself

512
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.720
or that you wanted to get for your kids, but

513
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:45.480
you never did? Because I can tell you a gift

514
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:50.119
that I always wanted for myself and I didn't get

515
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:52.160
it until later in life, and I got it for

516
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:54.759
myself and it just it it wasn't the same.

517
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.000
Right.

518
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:57.960
Well, I'm going to tell you two things, two things

519
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.440
that I always wanted. Because of my my dad's cheapness,

520
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:05.680
he always found an excuse not to get me the

521
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:09.559
real thing. But I always wanted to get a diamondback

522
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:15.680
Viper BMX bike and I never did. What he did

523
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:17.480
is he went to Toys r Us and got me

524
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:23.519
a Murray. There were two big cheap brands that used

525
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:27.000
to compete against each other. It was Murray competing against

526
00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.000
Huffy all the time. And so what he did is

527
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:32.160
he got me a Murray. And I know I will

528
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.319
never forget because I chose the bike seventy nine dollars

529
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:39.799
that Toys r Us. I actually wanted a diamondback Viper,

530
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:43.759
but didn't you know obviously he was like two hundred

531
00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:47.680
dollars three hundred dollars back then, so very expensive bikes,

532
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.079
And so I didn't end up getting that until later

533
00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:53.519
in life that I could afford to get it on

534
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:56.440
my own. But it just wasn't the same. You know,

535
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:00.200
another thing that I wanted to get for myself that

536
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:02.799
I always wanted, and I've told the story before in

537
00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:05.640
the show, and I will never forget it because I

538
00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:08.240
tell people and I make it as a joke, but

539
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.240
at the time it was hurtful, and I always wanted

540
00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:16.640
to get one of those miniature arcade games. I actually

541
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:19.960
wanted the Donkey Kong game. They used to sell them

542
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.839
at thrifties. They used to sell them at Toys r US.

543
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.039
They were sixty nine dollars back then, so they weren't cheap.

544
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.400
My mom said, no, that the video games are going

545
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:31.920
to rot your brain, so you're not getting them. And

546
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:36.880
one day, this must have been nineteen eighty three, because

547
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.839
we had just gotten cable and I remember just you know,

548
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:43.319
I was just old enough to watch.

549
00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:45.920
Cat People at twelve years old.

550
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.880
Anyway, so my mom says, when I get home, I

551
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.599
got your surprise. Close your eyes after I ate my lunch,

552
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:54.240
and so I closed my eyes. I turn around. She's

553
00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:56.680
in the kitchen and she goes, I know you wanted

554
00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.839
to pack man little game before and that got you

555
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.880
pac Man. And so she goes, open your eyes. And

556
00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.400
when I opened my eyes, my mom was holding a

557
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.279
tortilla that she had cut in the in the shape

558
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:11.839
of pac Man. She goes, here's your pac Man. Now

559
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:13.240
eat your lunch and shut up.

560
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.039
Now what that that is? Soul gangster?

561
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.240
You know what, man?

562
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:19.920
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta tell your mom that

563
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:23.880
is bad ass. That is one of the bad asses

564
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:25.319
things I've ever heard of.

565
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.160
Parent do I would have loved that cruel man, That

566
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:30.160
was cruel. If I would have been back there, I

567
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.920
would have said, oh that business just gorde you just

568
00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:33.960
that poker.

569
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:35.039
That's the weird.

570
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.319
And I would have tried to take pictures of your

571
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:42.559
face so discouraged. That poor totalion that was so sad,

572
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:46.200
just got jacked by his his his Mexican mom.

573
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:47.359
Old school stuff.

574
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.799
Yeah I didn't cry, but it You know, one of

575
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.079
those times when you wanted something as a kid and

576
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:55.000
you were so hurt because your parents told you know,

577
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:57.599
but you wanted it. That's what I felt. It was

578
00:32:57.640 --> 00:32:58.079
really bad.

579
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:03.680
Now you asked me to two questions. What gift did

580
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.160
I want as a as a kid and didn't get?

581
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:11.799
And what gift didn't I get my kids that I

582
00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:13.440
would have liked to have get them?

583
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:13.920
Correct?

584
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:18.799
Yeah, okay, mine too was a bicycle. I wanted a

585
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.759
Shwin scrambler.

586
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.119
Oh okay, okay, okay, yeah, I.

587
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:25.279
Know I know that I was.

588
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:27.720
Now here's the thing.

589
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:32.599
I had already thrashed a couple of Swins that I customized.

590
00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:37.240
They didn't have the frame capacity because we were jumping curbs,

591
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:46.279
We were jumping over my buddy's mom's pinto m We

592
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:51.799
were taking our bicycles on the roof on ladders and

593
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:56.160
riding down. We would try to ride across retaining walls.

594
00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:59.640
That we were badass kids. So anyway, with all these

595
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:03.400
page my dad was, you know, he was old school.

596
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.079
He used to say, seeing that, you look up so

597
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:12.960
many bikes, you know, constantly, and we're very fortunate because

598
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:14.880
the mechanic down the street was a welder, so he

599
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:18.039
always welded our stuff back together. He customized all our

600
00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:22.320
bikes to be like a dirt bike Eagle Canevel Bikes.

601
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.280
So anyway, you know, that was the first thing I wanted.

602
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:28.079
My dad and my parents were like, no, we're not

603
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:28.960
going to get you that bike.

604
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:30.639
Go for a hound Bucks.

605
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.000
You're either going to break it or you're get care

606
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:37.400
of this and get it stolen, just like your last bike.

607
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:37.920
Yeah.

608
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.679
Now I had a bike, badass bike. It was top

609
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:41.760
of the line, huffy bike.

610
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:42.920
You know.

611
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.519
It was one that went against the scrambler. Yeah, and

612
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.679
Murray thing was you know, it was tough. It even

613
00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:52.480
had a shock on it. I was I was cruising hard, right,

614
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.239
you know. I had a Raleigh Fingers baseball card with

615
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:58.719
the San Diego Padres and I was hauling ass, taking

616
00:34:58.800 --> 00:34:59.679
no names on my hupy.

617
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:07.079
Anyway, I didn't. I got the first evil caniegl replica.

618
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:09.639
Oh how did that feel?

619
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:12.559
You know, As you could tell, my ego started very

620
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:14.800
very young. It's very very sad.

621
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.960
So that was the start of the ego because I

622
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:24.119
had the evil Canegral bike, I had glasses. I didn't

623
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:26.639
really give a damn about too much. I was always

624
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:31.280
out for the reaction. So I was always the one

625
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.480
that did everything first. And now I used to want

626
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:37.159
to be a stunt man when I was a kid.

627
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.599
Oh so did I, especially after watching The Unknown stunt

628
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:43.760
Man with with Lee Majors and Heather Thomas.

629
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:48.679
I'm not fall from a tower building. I'm not roll

630
00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:54.039
the brand new car because I'm the unknownsed men they red.

631
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:55.400
Bergs start.

632
00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:57.880
Or that show.

633
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:00.039
I mean it was over, Yeah, you know I. I

634
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:03.800
would jump off my bike like it was a horse.

635
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:07.000
When we played Cowboys and Indians, I was always the Indian.

636
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.239
I was the first one to run down the street

637
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:11.039
on Bluff Road and jump on the train as it

638
00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:13.840
would take you into downtown LA. We just have a

639
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:19.639
black anyway, back to the eighties, Okay. The one thing

640
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.800
I wanted to get myself in the eighties and I

641
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:29.000
couldn't because I had obligations. I wanted to get myself.

642
00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:38.880
I was very close to this, getting myself a Hardy Davidson, a.

643
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:45.159
Real real one, a real hog. You know there's going

644
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:46.320
to be a low boy of spring.

645
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:49.159
See those are big boy toys. Yeah, it's very expensive.

646
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:51.000
You can't do those things when you have a kid.

647
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:56.519
So I never bought myself that hardy. Here's a kicker

648
00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:59.519
hung around with hogs. I hung around with gangsters on

649
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.480
motors goes. But I didn't get myself a harty. So

650
00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:04.599
I was always very let down that I never got

651
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:07.800
myself a hardy. But anyway, the joy of children that

652
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:09.719
ended all that, you know what I mean. But I

653
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:13.599
did by myself a nice diamondback mountain bike that I

654
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:16.440
enjoyed through the eighties into the nineties.

655
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:18.800
What are some of the gifts that you really were

656
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:21.360
annoyed that you received back then?

657
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:25.559
Are you ready? Number One? My aunt who lived in Alaska.

658
00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:27.559
We only seen her on holidays.

659
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.960
She was very My aunt was like a Mexican Karen,

660
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:34.599
if you can dig what I'm saying. So you know,

661
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.039
she would come into town and like lavish the family

662
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.159
on Christmas with gifts and with my dad's sister.

663
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:43.559
You know, my dad would get pissed. My mom loved it.

664
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:46.280
You know, they'd sit around, drink wine, center of attention.

665
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:52.039
Very beautiful woman. She made a lot of money in cosmetics.

666
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.880
She would always come with these extravagant gifts. I mean,

667
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:57.920
I never complained about any of the shit she got me.

668
00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.199
She always got me bad as shit.

669
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:00.360
Lady.

670
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:03.360
I only saw maybe once or twice, and if somebody died,

671
00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:06.079
I'd see her again. I got some She always knew

672
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.039
what I wanted. I got the best gi Joes. I

673
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:11.119
got all that crap from her. She knew I was

674
00:38:11.159 --> 00:38:17.079
in ninth grade, okay, and she hadn't seen me or

675
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:20.360
knew about my hair. She rolled up with not one,

676
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:24.599
not one, not one. Two members only jackets. That's why

677
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:27.559
I hate members only jacket. Yeah, a wine colored one

678
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:29.440
and a beige one.

679
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:32.400
This I've had both. I think it's time you take

680
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:34.679
us out for a break before we go into a

681
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.960
special segment here. I'm back to the eighties radio that

682
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:43.679
we like to call what I hate about Christmas in

683
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:44.639
the nineteen eighties.

684
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.599
That's right, boys and girls, this is back to the

685
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:53.840
eighties radio and your Christmas GIF this evening, it's a

686
00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:57.639
double packets, kicking it off with something from Billy Squire.

687
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:03.119
Christmas is the time to say I love you? Alright,

688
00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:06.440
you were listening to back to the eighties radio. Merry

689
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.880
freaking belated Christmas Babies.

690
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:16.159
John.

691
00:39:20.199 --> 00:40:02.440
Chris's Cows, Jimmy.

692
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:47.239
Shout ifs any times start telling.

693
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:48.760
Him those so small.

694
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:51.880
He's had the fun.

695
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:58.719
She wait, she talked again.

696
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:57.000
Sis, when we thought the eighties, eighties were lame, that's

697
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.239
because we had lived through this decade.

698
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:01.440
Yet you're snipped it back to the eighties.

699
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:04.639
This Christmas.

700
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:07.400
Bab please come.

701
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:12.280
For yeah.

702
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:18.880
The snow fan.

703
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:32.360
A lot of the falls of people and church telling the.

704
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:45.719
Snow the happiest house by seeing the events.

705
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.639
Let start had Christmas at all, ivent moving you away

706
00:42:52.800 --> 00:43:03.880
here you know, I got you, I love you Sho.

707
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:06.960
She me.

708
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:31.000
And slet's see your death. Let me start Christmas.

709
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:31.199
At all.

710
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:34.360
And go you away.

711
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:43.719
You want to go, you says, I know.

712
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:48.199
But this Christmas th.

713
00:43:50.039 --> 00:44:12.119
Baby, welcome back to back to the eighties radio on

714
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:16.000
a belated Merry Christmas, all you ho ho hoers. Coming

715
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:19.679
back from something from Billy Squire. Christmas is the time

716
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:21.920
to say I love you, so do it right now.

717
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.480
Also something from the Great You too. Christmas, please baby

718
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:30.400
come home. That's something we all want to do. We

719
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.239
and Tuskana. We're opening up some gifts of our past.

720
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:38.599
I want to remind any of you cats out there.

721
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:40.599
I'm going to ask you guys, if you want to

722
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:44.079
hit us on social media, on our radio platform where

723
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:48.119
we have comments, let us know what is the worst

724
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:52.119
gift that you hated that you got in the eighties

725
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:54.119
or now we want to hear that.

726
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:56.320
Now me and.

727
00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:02.039
Tuskana have been shooting the breeze, and Tuscano has pulled

728
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:07.119
up old photos of himself growing up in the eighties,

729
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:12.199
and pictures of his dad and ladies and gentlemen, boys

730
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:15.079
and girls. I am always painted to be the hater.

731
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:19.400
You can never take me serious. I exaggerate. All the

732
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:22.400
things my wife says about me when I brag about

733
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.880
my sex life are true, but here it's not. I've

734
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:29.880
seen a picture of mister Tuscano. I don't know how

735
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:38.000
old this gentleman was, but picture this nineteen sixty eight,

736
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:42.559
made a couple of pony beds, didn't come riding through.

737
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:44.440
But everybody likes you.

738
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:46.559
Your charm, you have a good job, you're a family,

739
00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:49.800
You're respected, But you got a little bit behind the saddle.

740
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:58.199
Mister Tuscano looks exactly like the man that visits you

741
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:03.519
at home. There is a couple of forty fives and

742
00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:10.880
shoulder posters up under his very pressed, finely quality quality

743
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:15.559
type snug suit with Matt Cheen hair. His hair is

744
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:19.039
so slick and black and tight. You cannot leave DNA

745
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:20.880
with that hair, you know.

746
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:22.639
I can tell let me tell you a funny story

747
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:24.679
about my dad back in the nineteen eighties, because he

748
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:30.519
used he trained me up, especially in nineteen eighty on

749
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:33.639
the dot nineteen eighty. So I am eight years old

750
00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:38.679
in nineteen eighty and by that time nine years old

751
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:42.440
something like, yeah, nine years old, and at nine years old,

752
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:44.719
they used to dress me up in suits all the time,

753
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:48.519
especially when we used to go eat at this this

754
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:53.440
we're in Downy off of Imperial Boulevard, close to the

755
00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:57.440
Boying Company. You know they used to make the space

756
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:02.679
shuttle there. Yeah, well, there used to be an Italian restaurant,

757
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.800
a little hole in the wall, and my dad I

758
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:09.119
never knew why. My dad always used to dress me

759
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:10.599
up in a suit, and he always.

760
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:13.679
Real quick interrupt. Was that next door to a liquor shop?

761
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:14.599
Yes?

762
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.480
It was, now before you continue, I don't know if

763
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:21.239
you know this several years ago. I'm not sure when

764
00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:24.920
it happened. That place was strong arm robbed and the

765
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:30.360
owner was shot and killed. Really, yes, yeah, it was

766
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:31.440
an extra streeker store.

767
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:34.280
It was an actually liquor store, I hope. I don't

768
00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:35.960
know if it's the same restaurant.

769
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.559
I know exactly when you walked in this place was.

770
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:41.039
I used to take my kids there too.

771
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:41.639
Yeah.

772
00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:44.559
It was a you walked in, it was kind of dim,

773
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:49.079
very dim lighting, and they had little candles in a

774
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:53.320
little red like jar or something, so they glowed inside.

775
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:57.119
And right next to the kitchen that faced I mean

776
00:47:57.159 --> 00:47:58.719
you couldn't see the kitchen, but you know where the

777
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:01.800
waiters came in and out of. They had a frame

778
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:05.159
and it looked like a waterfall and it was plugged

779
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:06.679
into the wall. You remember that.

780
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:08.119
So it's the same place.

781
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:11.679
I forgot the name of it. I'll try to remember.

782
00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:13.000
But anyway, my dad I didn't know.

783
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:18.079
Did they not have the colors of the Italiano somewhere

784
00:48:18.159 --> 00:48:20.880
on the windows? Or maybe it was the canopy because

785
00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:21.880
I remember.

786
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:24.599
I think it was a canopy. Yes, it was the

787
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:25.719
canopy of its own.

788
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:28.880
And then you had that liquor store on street A

789
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.440
street level was a street phase and the entrance was

790
00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:35.159
like you walk right in, you know, there was no

791
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.880
big entry on the inside, correct right in and then

792
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:43.760
it's dark lighted, yes, And then next door was that

793
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:44.639
liquor store.

794
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:48.840
In the front was amazing. The food was amazing. Oh yeah,

795
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:52.000
And it's interesting because my dad used to always dress

796
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:53.840
me up in a suit when we would go to

797
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:57.400
that restaurant, and he goes, anytime you're going to go

798
00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:01.239
into an Italian restaurant, you'd thread with a suit. You

799
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:04.920
make yourself known there that you're Italian. I'm like, okay,

800
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.840
all right, dad, and so I did. Anyway, that was

801
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:10.880
That's my little story. But small world that you actually

802
00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:11.920
know that restaurant.

803
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.119
Yeah, because during the eighties, you know, me and missus

804
00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:17.119
Chang hooked up.

805
00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:23.000
In the mid eighties, later eighties. I had my kid

806
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:23.840
in eighty seven.

807
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.280
She had her kids in eighty five and eighty six,

808
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:31.159
so the girls, our three girls were exactly one year apart.

809
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:39.480
So we got together in eighty eighty nine. We got together. No.

810
00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:41.440
Eighty eight, we started dating. We got together.

811
00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:45.840
We moved together in the later eighties through the nineties

812
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:48.039
and Downy But we used.

813
00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:49.719
To go to that very same restaurant.

814
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:54.079
As a matter of fact, down the road on Downy Road,

815
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:56.519
there was a ballpark and that's where my children first

816
00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:58.119
started playing Little League baseball.

817
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:00.559
So a lot of time times.

818
00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:04.000
When they were playing baseball, we would go to that

819
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:08.000
Italian restaurant, order pizza or sitting there in chill.

820
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:12.400
Yeah, that phenomena talking about Yeah, their pizza was phenomenal there.

821
00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:15.800
Now, you know what's so funny, ladies and gentlemen. I

822
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:17.559
don't want to take it's too much out of context.

823
00:50:18.039 --> 00:50:21.199
Our fathers were so similar in the way they were,

824
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:24.000
both of them, no nonsense kind of guys.

825
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:25.639
Both of them.

826
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:28.519
Well, my dad was a decorated Korean vet. You know,

827
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.719
three runs, crazy son of a gun from the hood.

828
00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:36.400
You know, they had no problem with being physical. But

829
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:41.400
yet I think men like our fathers could scare people

830
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:47.000
verbally and with their facial expressions, with their gestures, as

831
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:49.599
opposed to what we have nowadays.

832
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.239
You know, people polling out gats and getting all out

833
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:52.559
and shit.

834
00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:56.320
So it's crazy because when we went to a Mexican

835
00:50:56.400 --> 00:51:01.159
restaurant or a restaurant where it was heavily more or Latino,

836
00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:04.280
my old man always made us dress up to the teas,

837
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.920
you know, pretty much act like Pancho Villa.

838
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:10.360
Yeah, at different times. Man, it was a time where

839
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:14.440
you respected more, you were, you dressed nicer. I mean

840
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:17.079
even people that went to McDonald's. Back then, you went

841
00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:18.800
to a fast food I mean, you didn't dress up

842
00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:21.440
in a suit, but you can tell people the adults,

843
00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:25.960
they all dressed up nicer because you're going out. Regardless

844
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:28.400
if it was a less expensive or more affordable kind

845
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:30.519
of a deal, you were still going out and it

846
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:32.920
was still time with a family. And when you had

847
00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:35.880
time with a family, you wanted to look good. That's

848
00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:40.400
what nice clothes were there for. And during Christmas time,

849
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:44.360
my friend, and you'll know if you remember everybody listening

850
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.679
that when it was Christmas time and you went to

851
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:49.920
the mall, but people dressed differently.

852
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:53.840
And yes, people dressed up to go to the mall.

853
00:51:54.280 --> 00:52:00.639
Yeah, yeah, And it was just a cultural thing. But

854
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:03.599
it was so nice when we look back now, and

855
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:08.199
it was just a nicer period of time where we

856
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:12.639
felt that we made society better by doing certain things

857
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:16.760
like that. Our parents thought the same thing. We didn't

858
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:20.039
think everything was laid back. I mean you couldn't put yeah,

859
00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:21.719
I remember, you couldn't put your feet on the table.

860
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:24.880
I mean my family, you couldn't put your feet on

861
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:27.119
the table. You couldn't burp at the table, or you

862
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:31.119
get smacked because it was disrespectful. But anyway, we digressed,

863
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:35.039
going back to the nineteen eighties, ladies and gentlemen, we

864
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:37.480
told you we were going to do a special segment

865
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:41.440
called Things We Hated back in the nineteen eighties for Christmas.

866
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:47.159
So here are some of the things that we hated

867
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.840
about Christmas back in the nineteen eighties. Chang take it away.

868
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.960
Oh, I hated back during Christmas in the nineteen eighties

869
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:03.039
going to a and being mistook for a woman and

870
00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:06.679
getting sprayed with perfume as I walked in.

871
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:09.000
You know what I hated about Christmas back in the

872
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:15.000
nineteen eighties going to the malls to the cologne section

873
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:21.119
and not getting the little samples because they were all out.

874
00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:24.159
I used to love getting the little Remember they used

875
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.199
to give sample cologones, which they I don't even know

876
00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:28.000
if they do anymore. They give you little papers not

877
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.400
to spray on. But before they used to give you

878
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:33.119
a little tiny sprayer and I used to look forward

879
00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:35.559
to getting them. And I hated when I used to

880
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:37.559
go to the mall during Christmas time because they would

881
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:38.039
be all out.

882
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:42.119
Do you know what I hated during the eighties during

883
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:47.519
Christmas brother walking by one of those hickory stores was

884
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:54.039
they have sausage and cheeses and being practically pronged with

885
00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:56.440
a toothpick to take a sample.

886
00:53:56.679 --> 00:53:59.320
Yeah, but you know what, they were so good. I

887
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:02.760
used to get one of those Kibosa sausages and the

888
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:06.880
cheddar cheese and oh, good times.

889
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:09.519
I'm stoned right now, so that does sound good, but

890
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:11.719
back in the eighties it pissed me off.

891
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:14.159
Another thing that I hated about back in the nineteen

892
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:17.400
eighties during Christmas time is getting gifts that they gave

893
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:20.920
somebody else, or, of course, since I was a kid,

894
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:25.679
getting clothing when I really wanted to get a toy.

895
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:29.320
I went through that in the seventies. Two cheap ass

896
00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.679
family members. Always cheap ass family members are distant friends.

897
00:54:33.480 --> 00:54:36.320
Socks really, I got one pair of socks and you

898
00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:38.840
could tell they took them from the set of socks.

899
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:41.599
A pair of socks wrapped in the Los Angeles Times

900
00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:42.519
sports section.

901
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:44.920
Nice. What was that like at.

902
00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:46.119
Ferrels for my brother?

903
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:48.559
I have no idea.

904
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.239
It was a horse racing section. You could tell it

905
00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:55.280
was one of my dad's friends.

906
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.039
Yeah, you know what I used to hate during Christmas

907
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:03.519
back in the nineteen eighties, the Salvation Army guys hounded

908
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:06.719
me for cash and I was a mere youth.

909
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:09.480
But they were always nice because you know what they're

910
00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:11.320
they're not allowed to ask you for money. They just

911
00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:11.840
ring the bell.

912
00:55:11.880 --> 00:55:13.800
Well, I didn't know you couldn't throw the road of

913
00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:15.920
a joint in there with a couple of quarters.

914
00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:17.880
Oh, there it is.

915
00:55:18.039 --> 00:55:19.559
I didn't know you couldn't do that. I thought it

916
00:55:19.639 --> 00:55:24.800
was sharing. Yeah, when you joint, you thought sharing, sharing

917
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:29.599
is carrying. Yes, if we're going to change humanity, change

918
00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:30.079
your mind.

919
00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:35.880
And back then it was really really taboo.

920
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.079
But anyways, good better weed back then. Carry on.

921
00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:44.320
Another thing that I hated back in the nineteen eighties,

922
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:45.920
And I know a lot of people are going to disagree.

923
00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:48.719
This may make me sound like a hater, but I'm

924
00:55:48.760 --> 00:55:51.840
going to say it. I need to preface it by

925
00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:54.719
saying that I loved all the Rudolph the Raid Nose

926
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:57.599
reindeer cartoons that came out that were from the sixties

927
00:55:57.679 --> 00:56:01.719
or seventies, those like Little Stop Motion. But I hated

928
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:05.320
I absolutely hated that. When I used to want to

929
00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:08.079
watch TV at night, they used to show nothing but

930
00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:11.199
Charlie Brown Christmas and I used to hate Charlie Brown.

931
00:56:11.440 --> 00:56:14.159
Wow, I love Charlie Brown. Yeah.

932
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.519
Okay, let's see there it is. See I'm a hater too.

933
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:17.599
You're a hater too.

934
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:20.119
Yeah, but it's okay when I do it though.

935
00:56:20.519 --> 00:56:23.519
Yeah, that's the thing I mean, I can't when you

936
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:23.920
do that.

937
00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:25.880
I think I want to ring the bells like I

938
00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:30.000
used to when Catholic Church as an ULTI boy, because

939
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:31.639
I would have to ring the bells to all the

940
00:56:31.719 --> 00:56:35.800
stuff that's you know that you hated so and so

941
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:36.360
was said.

942
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:38.159
I don't want to say what I was going to say.

943
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:39.639
I don't want to offend anybody.

944
00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:42.320
You know what I hated during Christmas back in the

945
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:46.760
nineteen eighties going to Mervin's or any other department store

946
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:48.679
and having to wait and take a number.

947
00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:51.440
Yes, And you know what sucks really bad as well,

948
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:55.199
when you were a kid and you went with your

949
00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:59.360
mom shopping and she had to try out clothing in

950
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:02.679
those days, is because you were there to wait thirty

951
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:04.400
minutes while they tried out clothing.

952
00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:08.360
You know what I hated back in the nineteen eighties

953
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:13.480
during Christmas having to wrestle other parents at Toys r

954
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:16.480
US for a toy that was a hot Now was.

955
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:20.159
That still a thing that people would fight over, like

956
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.840
like Black Friday? Or was that just the nineties?

957
00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:26.679
It was brutal back then, not as bad as Black Friday,

958
00:57:26.760 --> 00:57:30.639
but it was hectic, a lot of pre Karens, good times, ah.

959
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:33.800
The memories of Christmas in the eighties, ladies and gentlemen,

960
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:36.840
when the world seemed a little bit brighter, the music

961
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:39.880
a little bit warmer, and the gifts under the tree

962
00:57:41.079 --> 00:57:44.400
were wrapped in pure magic. But whether you spent your

963
00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:49.400
holidays rocking out like Chang Too Wham, or maybe you

964
00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:51.760
were unwrapping your first walk man, or maybe you're just

965
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:54.400
soaking up the glow of those big, colorful Christmas lights,

966
00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:56.679
one thing we can tell you here back to the eighties,

967
00:57:56.719 --> 00:58:01.199
the spirit of the season was alive everywhere and it's

968
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:03.719
still and all of us that went through then. So

969
00:58:03.880 --> 00:58:06.760
as we celebrate here back to the eighties a belated

970
00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:10.079
Christmas show, we want to thank you, our listeners, for

971
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:13.639
taking this nostalgic trip with us. You're the reason we

972
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.280
keep this eighties flame alive, sharing the laughter, memories and

973
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:20.159
the music that shaped us. Until next time, stay safe,

974
00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:26.119
stay groovy, and keep those eighties vibe alive in your heart.

975
00:58:26.280 --> 00:58:30.079
May Christmas, Happy Holidays, and as always, we will see

976
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:34.559
you next time when we take you back to the eighties.

977
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:36.800
You've been listening to back to the eighties radio.

978
00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:39.960
Once again, we were held hostage and violated by the

979
00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:44.280
North Pole Police Department. Sorry we couldn't do the show earlier,

980
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:47.239
but we thought why not. We will be like a

981
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:50.800
hangover still on your mind. We want to wish you

982
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:54.800
guys all a happy new year, a safe new year. Remember,

983
00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:59.880
change comes with chang ha ha ha chang saying good night.

984
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:03.039
I did you an audio study, but actually ah ah

985
00:59:03.199 --> 00:59:08.000
the os sayanada and before we go close your eyes,

986
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:11.239
feel this in your soul, to your thighs, something from queen.

987
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.360
Thank God, it's Christmas. See you next time.

988
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:24.840
Oh man, jeez ah share.

989
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:33.159
Oh ah, fraend.

990
00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:39.320
Peez sad me.

991
00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:46.280
Oh my fraends.

992
00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:56.519
No, it's Christmas.

993
00:59:58.599 --> 00:59:59.719
Yes, it's Christmas.

994
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:03.000
Us gods.

995
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:16.679
And stop speedimor fulco and Rod.

996
01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:26.840
That's f fs. No, well make this.

997
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:30.039
Christmas rad.

998
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:33.559
Math strand.

999
01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:42.880
Oh me sha this passion now.

1000
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:46.440
Because it's Christmas.

1001
01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:49.960
Yes, it's Christmas.

1002
01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:53.559
Thank God, it's dreible.

1003
01:00:59.119 --> 01:01:02.760
What die?

1004
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:18.320
Thank God, it's Christmas. Thank God, it's Christmas. Thank God,

1005
01:01:18.480 --> 01:01:19.719
it's Christmas.

1006
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:23.199
Can I be to Christmas?

1007
01:01:24.199 --> 01:01:29.199
Let me every day?

1008
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:53.519
Oh bye, really it's trouble thing. Oh my friend, just

1009
01:01:54.239 --> 01:01:56.079
train just win.

1010
01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:09.400
Oh my friend, wh what day day?

1011
01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:12.280
Thank God?

1012
01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:13.280
It's Christmas.

1013
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:19.440
Yes it's Christmas, sang god stud.

1014
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.920
For what.

1015
01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:29.480
Say?

1016
01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:43.000
Thank God it's Christmas. Yes, it's Christmas. Thank God. It's Christmas.

1017
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:56.320
Thank God, it's Christmas. It's Christmas. Thank God, it's Christmas.

1018
01:02:59.159 --> 01:03:02.960
Oh Whoa.

1019
01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:25.639
Says it's Christmas time.

1020
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:30.840
There's no need to be afraid.

1021
01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:33.920
At Christmas time.

1022
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:36.039
We let it.

1023
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:38.440
Let me fanny.

1024
01:03:38.199 --> 01:03:49.599
Shake kay our world ah plenty means better smile, Oh

1025
01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:54.320
your arm round world Christmas time.

1026
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:03.480
God say a prayer, great body on the wall.

1027
01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:07.159
At Christmas time.

1028
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:09.039
It's time.

1029
01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:18.599
But we're not having a bone. No outside your widow and.

1030
01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:22.960
It's a love tad feel who.

1031
01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:25.840
By only want boy?

1032
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:28.480
Let me test.

1033
01:04:31.199 --> 01:04:33.039
And Christmas fell.

1034
01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:37.880
On Planage chimes.

1035
01:04:37.719 --> 01:04:42.199
To well that God is down.

1036
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:49.239
It's sad and it won't be so.

1037
01:04:51.840 --> 01:05:00.800
This Christmas tide face skin get this sp it's.

1038
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:22.000
Where so they know it's Ristmas times?

1039
01:05:22.199 --> 01:05:23.800
To reach.

1040
01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:33.320
To know it's Christmas time?

1041
01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:07.480
How ago actly take me back until nine monk and

1042
01:07:07.679 --> 01:07:13.920
alway inside whoa? The eight or the hundred ob Acty

1043
01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:17.480
ended at s