Aug. 20, 2023
Let's Get Real
In today's heartfelt episode of "Let's Get Real" on Back to the 80s Radio, hosts Toscano and Chang take us on a personal journey back to the 1980s, reminiscing about their own experiences during that iconic era. The episode is a delightful blend of...
In today's heartfelt episode of "Let's Get Real" on Back to the 80s Radio, hosts Toscano and Chang take us on a personal journey back to the 1980s, reminiscing about their own experiences during that iconic era. The episode is a delightful blend of cherished memories, lively discussions, and, of course, the fantastic music that defined the 80s.
Toscano and Chang share their candid and personal anecdotes from the 80s, transporting listeners to a time when neon colors, cassette tapes, and Walkmans were the norm. Their stories capture the essence of the era, reminding us of the cultural and societal shifts that shaped the decade.Amidst the nostalgic chatter, the hosts seamlessly weave in a selection of the coolest music from the 80s. From infectious pop hits to timeless rock anthems, the playlist pays homage to the artists and sounds that left an indelible mark on the music landscape.But the episode goes beyond reminiscing and music.
In a touching display of camaraderie among 80s enthusiasts, Toscano and Chang extend a heartfelt call to action. They share the unfortunate story of fellow 80s podcaster Smash Ventura, who, along with his girlfriend and father, lost everything in the recent floods in Vermont.
In a time of hardship, the Back to the 80s Radio show rallies its listeners to stand together and offer support.Listeners who are in a position to help are encouraged to visit Smash Ventura's Facebook Channel, aptly named "We're Living In The 1980's with Smash Ventura." This channel not only serves as a hub for 80s nostalgia but also as a platform to contribute to the recovery efforts of Smash Ventura and his family.
You can find the channel here: https://www.facebook.com/SmashVentura1980s.
Additionally, for those who want to make a tangible difference, a GoFundMe page has been set up to assist Smash Ventura and his family during this challenging time. You can contribute to their recovery efforts by visiting: https://bit.ly/3YOMDFV
Back to the 80s Radio, once again demonstrates the power of unity within the 80s community and the ability of nostalgia to bring people together for a meaningful cause. The episode serves as a reminder that the spirit of the 80s lives on not just through music and memories, but through the compassion and support we extend to one another.
Disclaimer: Use of 80s Music on Back to the 80s Radio Podcast
The "Back to the 80s Radio" podcast is dedicated to celebrating the vibrant culture, music, and memories of the 1980s. Our podcast features a diverse selection of 80s music tracks that defined the era and left an indelible mark on popular culture. We strive to curate a nostalgic and enjoyable listening experience for our audience.
However, we would like to make clear that the use of 80s music on our podcast is intended solely for entertainment and educational purposes. The music tracks included in our episodes are the copyrighted property of their respective artists, record labels, and copyright holders. We do not claim ownership of any of the music featured on our podcast.The inclusion of 80s music on "Back to the 80s Radio" is not intended for any commercial or financial gain. We respect and value the work of the artists and creators who contributed to the music of the 1980s.
If you enjoy the music featured on our podcast, we encourage you to support the artists by purchasing their music through official channels and platforms.If you are an artist, copyright holder, or representative of an artist featured on our podcast and have concerns about the use of specific music tracks, please feel free to reach out to us.
We are committed to addressing any legitimate copyright...
Toscano and Chang share their candid and personal anecdotes from the 80s, transporting listeners to a time when neon colors, cassette tapes, and Walkmans were the norm. Their stories capture the essence of the era, reminding us of the cultural and societal shifts that shaped the decade.Amidst the nostalgic chatter, the hosts seamlessly weave in a selection of the coolest music from the 80s. From infectious pop hits to timeless rock anthems, the playlist pays homage to the artists and sounds that left an indelible mark on the music landscape.But the episode goes beyond reminiscing and music.
In a touching display of camaraderie among 80s enthusiasts, Toscano and Chang extend a heartfelt call to action. They share the unfortunate story of fellow 80s podcaster Smash Ventura, who, along with his girlfriend and father, lost everything in the recent floods in Vermont.
In a time of hardship, the Back to the 80s Radio show rallies its listeners to stand together and offer support.Listeners who are in a position to help are encouraged to visit Smash Ventura's Facebook Channel, aptly named "We're Living In The 1980's with Smash Ventura." This channel not only serves as a hub for 80s nostalgia but also as a platform to contribute to the recovery efforts of Smash Ventura and his family.
You can find the channel here: https://www.facebook.com/SmashVentura1980s.
Additionally, for those who want to make a tangible difference, a GoFundMe page has been set up to assist Smash Ventura and his family during this challenging time. You can contribute to their recovery efforts by visiting: https://bit.ly/3YOMDFV
Back to the 80s Radio, once again demonstrates the power of unity within the 80s community and the ability of nostalgia to bring people together for a meaningful cause. The episode serves as a reminder that the spirit of the 80s lives on not just through music and memories, but through the compassion and support we extend to one another.
Disclaimer: Use of 80s Music on Back to the 80s Radio Podcast
The "Back to the 80s Radio" podcast is dedicated to celebrating the vibrant culture, music, and memories of the 1980s. Our podcast features a diverse selection of 80s music tracks that defined the era and left an indelible mark on popular culture. We strive to curate a nostalgic and enjoyable listening experience for our audience.
However, we would like to make clear that the use of 80s music on our podcast is intended solely for entertainment and educational purposes. The music tracks included in our episodes are the copyrighted property of their respective artists, record labels, and copyright holders. We do not claim ownership of any of the music featured on our podcast.The inclusion of 80s music on "Back to the 80s Radio" is not intended for any commercial or financial gain. We respect and value the work of the artists and creators who contributed to the music of the 1980s.
If you enjoy the music featured on our podcast, we encourage you to support the artists by purchasing their music through official channels and platforms.If you are an artist, copyright holder, or representative of an artist featured on our podcast and have concerns about the use of specific music tracks, please feel free to reach out to us.
We are committed to addressing any legitimate copyright...
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Degree who welcome everybody to a very
special episode of Back to the Eighties Radio.
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Today, we're gonna be diving into
the essence of the eighties, a
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decade that's often romanticized for its different
movies and the music and the culture,
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but you gotta remember it was also
marked by challenges, by growth and unforgettable
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experiences for all of us. Today, we're gonna be taking off our sunglasses
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Miami by Style and talk about the
unfiltered side of the nineteen eighties, the
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stories, the hardships of both Toscano
and Chang and everybody who grew up there,
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the very real struggles that were a
part of that era. It's a
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tribute to a time that was far
from perfect, as we all know,
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but undeniably one of the most remarkable
decades to have lived through. So to
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my side is a gentleman. He
was often seen chasing the ice cream man
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back in the nineteen eighties, only
to buy the last pack of Saladitos with
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us today as he always is,
the ever so wondrous Chang. Oh,
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ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's great to be here for you.
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I want to thank all of you
for listening joining us, sharing the
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show, and leaving us comments on
our social media. Yes, I love
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the thumbs down, I love the
criticism, the hate. I love it
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all because it takes me to one
thing. You're locked in a tuscano and
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change. That's right where we bring
the eighties back. What a better place
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to be. But back in the
eighties we were diverse, we were hit,
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we're free bold. We want to
give a special shout out to everybody
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listening, not only here in the
United States, which, by the way,
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we just can't thank you enough.
We're backing up the show as always,
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and Canada and Mexico, Central and
South America, of course, but
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every country in Europe, in the
Middle East, We've got listeners all over
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the place. Australia, how can
we forget about you? The UK,
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we love every single Back to the
Eighties listener, and we just thank you
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for supporting the show in Tiscano.
A special shout out to our friends in
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Hawaii. We want to give you
a special shout out. If there's anything
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we could do, send us some
info will help you out right here at
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Back to the Eighties, our hearts
and our thoughts are with you. I
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know that sounds cheap, just like
when you see it on social media.
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Prayers, prayers, prayers. Well, you know what, I don't think
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God or the Great Spruder, anybody
else is on social media. But my
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voice is here, and we want
to put our voice out to you and
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give you a shout out. You
survived, Hell yeah, keep going.
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Nothing keeps you down. If there's
anything we can do for you, folks
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in Hawaii, please hold and we
will put your inbo out and we will
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do whatever we can because we are
one race human nail. It's just going
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on. That's right, That's where
I'm going with on that. I also
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want to give a very special shout
out for the folks that went through incredible
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devastation with flooding, and in particular, we've got a good buddy of ours
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who is going through a very very
tough time. He's got his own eighties
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show as well. You might have
known him. You might know him as
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smash Ventura. He's got a show
called We're Living in the nineteen Eighties with
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Smash Ventura. We want to encourage
you guys to pay him a visit on
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his Facebook channel. It's called We're
Living in the nineteen Eighties with Smash Ventura.
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Check him out. He has gone
through a very devastating time for him
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and his family, people that are
around the neighborhoods in Vermont. They have
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lost everything because of the floods.
And when I say everything, I mean
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everything. Smash has got to go
fund me page, which I encourage you
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to go visit. I will have
the links to his go fund me to
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his dad's go fund me because his
dad lost everything as well as Smash and
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his girlfriend, and the pictures are
on his Facebook. So once again,
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check out. We're living in the
nineteen eighties, would Smash a Ventura.
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We're all eighties families, So go
ahead and pay him a visit. And
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if you know you find it in
your heart to be able to bless somebody
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who's in that type of need here
in the US, we ask that you
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would do so, as well as
anybody that you might know or not know
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on the island of Maui that have
gone through devastation. I mean the island
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was wiped out. So that note, let's take a quick break because we've
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got lots and lots to talk about. We're going to be talking about personal
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stories, struggles, everything that we
went through in the nineteen eighties on a
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personal personal note. So if you
want to find out more of what Taskonto
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and Chang went through in the nineteen
eighties, stick around. In the meantime,
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I want to let you guys listen
to a little something by Tears for
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Fears called Mad World on back to
the eighties radios, to find a gun,
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finding I find a gun side and
drinking mech tying on the back of
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Dad and finding not to tell you
gause I wanted not to take wouldn't be
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goss Machi to take the feel at
the birthday at me to fill in to
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my Chu tree sits in son sits
on side, went to school and I
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was the word the world the teacher
to what's my lesson? Smooth class?
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Find it kind of funny, fey, kind of sad, the dreams in
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which I'll tell you stop, I
find it, Hunt to tell youse,
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I find it, hout to tell
with you, hone it suns it's a
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na find it kind of funny,
Dason when you're tar, don't believe the
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devil. I don't believe it,
but he's never seen without the lies he
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made up. Don't believe in except
success is guilt. Don't believe in riches,
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but you see where I is.
I I believe in love. Don't
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believe in force his tree, don't
believe in read, but every time she
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passes by wild forces. Don't believe
in their room steed rod cans. Don't
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believe in the oozy just went off
in my head. I I believe in
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love. Don't gay step like da
no word the wrist of stop more.
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I love, don't want any woman, just hope like curs and the calls
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gonna get him. I don't get
him first. Don't need a rubble role
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really change the worlds us start,
says sixteen jupply boy, still a little
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wheel Stop Saturday, US us up. So you're listening to Back to the
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eighties, Welcome back to Back to
the eighties with Taskano and Chang. You
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just heard Mad World by Tears for
Fears and also another epic song from You
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two God Too, Part two from
The First God by John Lennon. Tonight,
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we are going to get a little
bit deep, not too deep,
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but a little bit deep. We
want to reach out to all of you,
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to some of you cats and kiddies
out there going through some struggles,
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been through hell and back, just
to let you know you're not alone,
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that you matter, that whatever your
story is, you deserve to tell it
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because you live through it. Taskano
tonight, I thought of a recipe of
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music, and I thought, tonight, the songs will play. We'll put
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people in a state of mind of
reckoning and getting over things, kind of
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like a sobering. What do you
think of that. I think that we're
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going through some really really tough times
here at home in the US and abroad
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everywhere around the world since COVID.
Something seems off. We've talked about this
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many times on the program. The
main reason why we decided, you know
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what, let's start talking about the
eighties and going back mentally on this time
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machine, because it's it's an escape
for us. And that's why you listen
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to the show week after week,
and that's why we do the show.
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The eighties music. Man, it
just strikes a chord there. I know
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there's a song that you listening right
now from the eighties. There's a song
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that has touched your life in some
way, and that song has touched you
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because of a certain experience or event
in your life. So in this episode
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today, if you just joined us. We're going to be journeying through our
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stories, celebrating them through the songs, of course, and talking about the
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struggles and the uncertainties the social issues
of that era sometimes. So I want
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you guys to fasten up your seatbelts
as we navigate through an emotional roller coaster
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that was the eighties, through the
life of both Toscano and Chang. As
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far back as you can remember during
the eighties, what were some of the
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experiences that made Chang who he is
today. I'm a cat that went to
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Catholic school. I was brought up, you know, Catholic, Chicano oriented.
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A lot of my family, most
of my families from Badios, East
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Los Angeles City, terrists Elsano,
Pico Rivera, south side Montivo where I
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grew up winter gardens, I mean
all over. You know. My family
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came from, you know, the
backrooms Native Americans, may Donald, I
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have a family that came from Chabas
Ravine. As a matter of fact,
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my la name. Hmm. I'll
just leave it at that. But your
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parents, where does the Native American
side? Is that through your mom or
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your dad? That is actually from
both sides. On my father's side,
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I have found out that I am
a majority Apache Indian. I am also
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related to Geranimo Geronimo to my Caucasian
friends out there. I am waiting to
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find out if I am a great
great great great or even beyond grandson or
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possibly a nephew. So when I
find those information out, then I'll know
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more or less. Now on my
mother's side, I am Yaki Indian,
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I am Chumash Indian, and I
am South California, southern California, you
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know, out into ocean side,
so it's kind of crazy. But then
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again, I am you know,
Latino. I do have Spaniard in your
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in me. That's why I look
light skin, green eyes. It's you
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know, it's crazy what they can
do with your blood. So I grew
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up in that type of an environment, you know, burassa the reality of
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life, kind of a race or
an origin that was looked down upon,
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prejudiced against. So I grew up, you know what I mean, in
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a fisticuff, being very proud of
who I am, where I came from,
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knowing where I came from, and
never being afraid of being myself,
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speaking my mind or going against the
grain. Now where it comes into plays
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like I went to Catholic school.
You know, everybody knows it. You
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know, when you're growing up in
the same culture as me, you're Catholic,
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you gotta be. That's just the
way it went. So, now
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this was in the seventies, right, you will say I went to Yeah,
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I left Saint Benedict's, uh in
nineteen seventy nine. Benny's Bruins all
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the way. Then I went into
public school, Monadello High School, which
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is like where I really should have
been. I was like a freak flag,
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you know what I mean. I
was very grit into the music and
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the look long hair. As a
kid, I was intrigued by that.
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I wanted to look like the cats
from Three Dog Night and the Allman Brothers
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and Jimi Hendrix. You know.
I wanted to look like those cats because
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I grew up listening to that music. So that was kind of like my
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vibe. So once I left Catholic
school, it was all over. I
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grew the hair out and I did
my damnedest to grow my hair faster than
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I could because I didn't want to
look like Keith Partridge, you know,
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with those bangs and then it's resting
on your shoulders. Yeah, you know,
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there's just no way. It's got
to go bold, it's got to
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go along. I was always into
the music, you know, metal was
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the music for me. I was
aggressive, little cat. I had a
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lot of questions, question authority,
my background, physical just it's hard to
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explain the soul that I was brought
up in, but it was always intense.
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So I transitioned into being a rock
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You know, I believe in like
I don't hug trees, I'll knock him
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down and build a pad. My
outlook was always the same as even as
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hippies in one belief, because I
grew up heavily with the Beetles and John
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Lennon, and I thought nobody should
judge anybody by social status, by color,
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by race, by religion, bi
sexuality. I felt women were just
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as strong as men, even stronger. I felt like I would see my
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mom and my aunts and my grandma
hold down the fort and it was like,
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you know, that's hardcore stuff,
you know what I mean. When
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something rocks the ship, it's always
the lady that has to gather the anchors
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and throw them on the sides of
the ship so it doesn't fall over.
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So you know, when you grow
up in that vibe, you have an
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understanding of how to be strong,
how to be intense, how to respect.
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So in the eighties, that's what
it was all about, and it
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was at a time that I was
becoming who I was, at a time
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when society was getting freer. Homosexuality
was out there, people intermingling and dating
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other races was out there. People
being old with certain dress, attire and
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fashions was out there. We were
starting to see a turn deeper than the
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hippie movement of people getting angry about
the social and political injustice, which is
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similar to what we see nowadays,
which I think is incredible that we talk
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about this tonight because there's major,
major differences but similarities in now and the
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eighties. So when you grow up
free form of free spirity, you're just
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gonna groove to it all. And
it made the eighties just epic and open.
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It was crazy. You know,
you can go to gigs for a
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whole weekend whatever music and everybody vibe. Yeah. Every now and then you
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get a jackass and asshold and they
want to throw blow. But usually most
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of the time it's individuals like that
that are uneducated, angry, and inebriated
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under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol
fuels stupidity in so many different ways.
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That's why we have a lot of
people dying at the wheel. They think
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that they're buzz, but they're drunk, and they go out there and kill
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somebody or they kill themselves. And
I've been around a long time and I've
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lost my best friend, family members, and a lot of people. I
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graduated in nineteen eighty three. I
had my first child in nineteen eighty seven.
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I was twenty one years old when
I had my first child, pretty
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much with my first love, you
know what I mean. She was a
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heavy metal chick. Her name was
Teresa. She was from Cutahy. I
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met her at the La Street Scene. And it's insane because that's the La
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Street scene is when they were They
had bands like crazy and it was kind
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of like a carnival, kind of
like a street fair, and they had
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music, alcohol, The youth was
awry, and it was a heavy metal
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night. And it was a night
that there was a fight at the La
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Street Scene. It was during the
metal heads, I believe, against maybe
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the punkers, the alternatives. I
forget who. It was cloudy because I
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doubled dosed on mushrooms that night.
So I don't remember who started the fight,
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but I remember having to fight.
I don't know who I was fighting,
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but I fought as a police arrived
with horses and patons and started kicking
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the ship out of people, like
usually happens when you're in a riot over
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stupidity. We jumped through some bushes
and on the other side of these bushes
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was his chicken. I met her. We just locked in and we fell
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in love. And that was nineteen
eighty four, and then we stayed together
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till eighty eight, so we had
a kid, and after that it went
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south Paw. But in nineteen eighty
I was in high school. Man,
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it was the revolution of high school. I mean, high school chicks were
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hot, you know what I mean. It was Lightning, Bolton op and
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Levi's Metal Journey, Stray Cats,
punk Rock, the Pretenders, you know,
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the Misfits, X Culture Club.
I mean, it was so diverse
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in high school, so different from
what I was in involved in at Catholic
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school. Structured you had a bunch
of penguins, town you what to do,
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priests with cold hands. You know, you had to take religion for
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a whole hour. What for,
I might as well go home and read
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the Bible. But that's another story. So it was the eighties were really
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intense for people of my generation,
my age, making that transition from childhood
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into teenagehood to where in teenagehood you
start discovering who you want to be.
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You start pushing your own boundaries,
making your boundaries, learning from experience,
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falling in love, getting hurt,
getting stupid, drunk, and getting sick.
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You know what I mean. You
went through all that and the statting
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in the eighties. We lost a
lot of our loved ones because of the
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care freeism and the stupidity and the
unknowing and the unwillingness to realize something could
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happen. So the eighties was a
trip. Anybody in my generation, give
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yourselves a high five, go kiss
the mirrors, slap a high five,
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because you are lucky you were here. We did some crazy shit in the
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eighties. Was there an event that
marked your life when you were in high
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school still that just transformed your life
in some way? Oh? Yeah,
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I would have to say it was
me going to the US Festival in nineteen
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eighty three, my senior year.
Three days at Irvine Meadows. You know,
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I was there for two three nights. I saw the Pretenders and you
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two, and then I was there
for the whole metal experience. It was
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incredible. The US Festival opened up
all my senses because I was free.
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I was with my own people,
not only the people that like my music
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or look like me, just people
that thought like me, who thought that
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music was more than just a sound. Definitely, the US Festival, I
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met so many people of different walks
of life, so many diverse people from
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all over in those three nights.
It was incredible. We indulged in partying
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together. I had a lot of
fun. I got crabs there. I
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won't say how many people I slept
with, but hell yeah, I was
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sharing the love and you know,
everybody got along. It was hot,
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people were thirsty. Some people,
you know, they couldn't handle it.
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They got stupid. But a lot
of people got sick, but there was
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infirmary. It was an incredible experience, the music, the vibe, meeting
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people being there as one. Was
there a band that was there a band
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that stood out from all of them? For you, was there one band
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in particular that, even though they
were all probably good in their own way,
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and everybody has their favorite bands,
and regardless of your favorite band,
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was there a band that stood out
from every other band for you? Oh
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yeah? Probably for me it was
Judas Priest, it was Triumph, It
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was probably the Pretenders, you know
what I mean. I want to go
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on that kind of a realm,
you know what I mean. There was
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just so many bands, so many
different vibes came out, but those two
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bands, two that the banders watching
that night, the first night was like
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reliving the seventies as a kid with
all the music that my sister and my
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cousins had turned me on too.
And then you know, metal Day was
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just like a field day for me. Heads. So I would say those
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two bands because it kind of brought
to light and made me feel comfortable on
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my own skin. If I can
say that, Yeah, you know,
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if we're real, you know,
the eighties was an incredible ride, an
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amazing ride. And I know that
there are a lot of people, even
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younger people, who always I hear
this all the time. I hear I
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wish I would have been born during
the time that went through the eighties because
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you had everything from you know,
the music scene, from flashy synthpop to
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the raw power of rock and roll, the beginnings of hip hop, and
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you couldn't turn on the radio without
hearing somewhere Michael Jackson, Madonna or Prince
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taking over the airwaves. And then
there were those moments in Arcades with the
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birth of video games and the first
personal computers. It was like we were
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stepping into a whole new era of
technology and connection. But let's be real,
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the eighties were great, but it
also had its fair share of challenges
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to from the AIDS epidemic, to
the struggles in the economy, to the
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Cold War, to the things that
I don't even remember because I was too
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young and at that time probably I
was just too naive to or even I
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probably didn't even care. You know, I was a young teenager back then.
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So as much as the eighties,
through Curveballs to US chang it was
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there was a spirit of resilience that
shines through everything, and music was definitely
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number one for us. And you
went to the US Festival, you got
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to be there, you got to
experience it, you got to share in
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everything that went on. What an
experience, you know what, brother,
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anybody that has been to a concert
of any significance or any type of genre
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of music. I think everybody feels
that same experience, that beauty, that
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unity, vibe, that love.
Everybody is in harmony because you're vibing to
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the songs that have memory for you. And it's incredible when you go to
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a gig that everybody's in harmony because
at one moment, everybody is in the
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exact same place in that song with
their own memory. So there's no reason
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to be stupid or argue or fight. And wouldn't the world be a lot
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more beautiful and peaceful if everybody could
be on the same page as they are
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when they are listening to a song
you are listening to back to the eighties
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radio with Taskano and Chang. I
am going to play a song from a
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band that captivated my mind. It
gave me a fuel of fury to kick
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ass and take no names throughout my
life. This is something from Judas Priest
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Up the Screen or Bengean's album with
Electric Eye. Because for ever out o
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piritspace, I'm gonna tell you,
I just grace everything you do. Can
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think you find the lines they doing
on the side, there's no so escape
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by what you know. The side
so like a great I am at your
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country trade always in focus and me
by stair. I s to you,
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but you don't know out there I
take pride, he throw me down.
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Y'all see that whole, My dear
listens that take matters that who's second by
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my much dra my and I have
a star like you real to wild spots.
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I felt on every s my second
money, but my so I set
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my hundred texts texts trick God,
you ain't any at any about the way
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the word you know saw some slf
tromsoe. Pray to stop with gray sucking
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sounds playing your na from side.
You will see or saw your knees and
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gas lay like bray. Y'all er
on gray put in your mind gray like
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your cat in day. Just gone
inside and pray not fack, not fack,
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just s my name. I stop
you want the way if you'll betray
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night, make y'all en, I
believe retromissory chim y'all brest install ter you
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will see how install your needy into
I'm feeling you'll like bay y'all know my
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name, Si, my name Master
Master pleasant driving out me and after Master
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Master from his snowy lies, laughter
left alter, laughter, laughter, left
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her nothing at my grind and and
and the thought sing tun y'all start writing
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without resource, right days everything,
right day? How y'all like outs?
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You want life? Your do you? You? I say, young stop
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spray in your mind star and sick
stop stop stop. Back to the eighties
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Radio released in nineteen eighty six,
the song you just heard paint sub bleak
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picture of being controlled by a metaphorical
puppet master, symbolizing the grip that substance
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abuse can have on an individual.
That's right, lady and gentlemen, you
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just heard Metallica with Master of Puppets, a song that reflects the darker aspects
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chain of life during that era.
Big time, master of public. Great
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song, great song. You know
what, man. The evolvement of metal,
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how it came in from the mid
seventies, that kind of catapulted in
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the eighties, created its own sound, its own movement, its own unity.
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I thought was similar to the hippie
movement. Is we were raw and
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real, just like hip hop,
just like you know, rap, real
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rap. So the eighties pretty much
metal was like we're going to tell you
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what we feel, how it is, because obviously you don't give enough an
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app about us, we the people. So our music going to scare the
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app audio because it's going to wake
you up. So it catapulted in you
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know, metal music in the eighties. Remember Tipper Gore wanted to censor hip
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hop and metal music. Al Gore's
old lady. Now remember that they had
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this big hearing in the Senate and
in order to censor music, they wanted
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to just stifle the word of musicians
and artists. And who came to the
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rescue that day none other than Twisted
Sister himself, the Snyder and listen,
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listen into a d Snyder had to
say on that day, general nature of
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all this testimony of nothing censorship First
Amendment absolutism does not pertain with respect to
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the broadcast media, and thattricales is
the main media. I guess you would
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agree to actually sail the record,
wouldn't it not be? Yes? I'd
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like to clarify something. I said, no authority has the right or necessary
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insight. I didn't say you weren't
able to. I said you don't have
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the right, or I don't have
the right or the RIAA. Also,
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we're talking about the airwaves as opposed
to a person going with their money and
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purchase an album to play in their
room, their home, on their own
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time. The airwaves is something different. I think that the FCC and even
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MTV have done a fair job in
keeping profanity, obscenity and things like that
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off the public airwaves. But as
far as when you listening to your own
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home, that's something totally different.
I feel the chain looking back at what
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the eighties was. It wasn't just
a decade, man, It was an
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attitude, It was a feeling.
It was freedom, it was a way
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of life. It was about embracing
both the good times the tough times,
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and knowing that each experience shaped us
and added a unique color to the canvas
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of our lives. Now that may
sound poetic or whatever, but it's meant
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to describe what we felt and continue
to feel about that awesome, awesome era
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and decade of the nineteen eighties.
It wasn't just big events that made the
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eighties special. What made the eighties
so special, it was those everyday moments.
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Think back, I know you're listening. In any part of the world
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that you're listening, the eighties meant
something to you. They continue to mean
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something you remember waiting by the radio
to record your favorite song on cassette tape,
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or the thrill that it was renting
a VHS tape for movie night.
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Do you remember that change. We've
talked about it so many times. It
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was a simple pleasure that had a
way of making life feel I have no
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other word but magical. And of
course there was the fashion. It was
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the crazy mix of bold colors and
oversized and tight things and the hairstyles.
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The eighties were about self expression,
embracing individuality and also pushing the boundaries of
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what was considered to be normal.
Back then, it wasn't all glamor and
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glitz. We had a lot of
crazy stuff go we did you know?
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We had Reaganomics, we had the
wall coming down, how we had AIDS
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scared the ship out of people.
We saw a lot of hate from the
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uneducation, the fear, and people
judging because it was only attacking the gay
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community. Two individuals, Freddie Mercury
passed away of AIDS. Robin Crosby,
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the guitar player of Rat passed away
from AIDS. Easy E of nwas passed
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away. That's right, AIDS.
So it was shaking the community to the
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core, and it was starting to
hit everybody in every walk of life.
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So we had a lot of bad
in the eighties. We had a lot
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of good in the eighties. The
eighties I think made tougher adults in generations
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of ours. I think we are
the last generation. I don't want to
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toot my own horn or pat my
generation on the back, but screwed I
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will. We are the last generation
that grew up with discipline, with pliers
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on a TV, with a dialed
phone with beepers, with no beepers,
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coming from a generation of no cable, just one underground TV network on or
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select. We went to the mall, you know, we went to go
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play games at the video arcade or
at the corner store, or we played
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or we played table games at home. Remember the exactly, remember exactly,
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Remember you could play pong. We're
tough. You know. We're the generation
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to where I'm getting bullied at school. So either I make a friend or
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I go outside and hopefully kicked the
ship off this fool so they stopped messing
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around with me. So it's it's
really a unique time in the eighties for
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our generation. We're the last generation
with balls and our children hopefully majority of
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us have raised our children with guts, with balls, with wisdom, with
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truth, with no fear, with
reality, because Lord knows I did that
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with my four girls. My girls
are some tough ass chicks, you know
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what I mean. I gave him
a lot of funniness, but me and
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my chick were straight up. That's
the way you have to be. The
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eighties is the last generation of straight
up, no fear. There is one
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thing that angered me as we taught. As I brought up the AIDS epidemic,
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Sebastian Bock wore a T shirt said
AIDS kills fags dead. I wanted
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to beat the crap out of that
guy I would have ever seen in that
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shirt because I thought, it's disgusting
day you would wish death on people because
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they're gay, or you would wish
death on anybody that has that without knowing
406
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it or understanding how you're going to
die. But then again, look at
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him. Now, he's a loud
mouth, washed up alcoholic. So Sebastian
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Bok, if you get alold of
the show, you're a piece of shit.
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M interesting, and there it is, Ladies and gentlemen, as promised
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in the beginning of the show.
We also told you that we were going
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to be talking a little bit about
our own personal stories and sometimes struggles as
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well. You're mentioning something very cool
chang which was the rebelliousness and the challenge
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is faced by younger people in the
nineteen eighties, And we also talked about
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self expression. You know, I
was born in nineteen seventy two, so
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nineteen eighty two, I'm ten years
old, you know, eighty five,
416
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I you know, kick off my
teenage years, so I'm full blown teenager
417
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in the latter half of the eighties. Yeah, I'd say so. About
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then you started being aware of what
was going on, what you wanted to
419
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be, what you liked, what
you didn't like, having to be free
420
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and experience your experiences growing up in
a one parent home with a crazy Italian
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dad who wore sharkskin suits and Cherry
a Chrome forty five, and a Mexican
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mom that would literally beat you with
a Dodger baseball bet that you guys probably
423
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got at Dodger Stadium on Fernando Valenzuela
night the Little Wooden Ones. My premonition
424
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of you in the eighties, after
knowing you all these years, Yeah,
425
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I was. I went to ask
you, how do you picture me in
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the eighties? Well, pictures you've
sent me late at night after we've done
427
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a show and we've been drinking.
I see from Chips Poncerello. Yeah,
428
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:59.360
okay, yes, I see Ed
Marrinero from Hill Street Blues right right?
429
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Oh oh yo? Are you ready
to go with this one? Yeah?
430
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Yeah, I see a little bit
of Rick D's with darker hair, very
431
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nice. Yes, okay. I
also see a little bit of John Travolta,
432
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because you had the way the hair, you know. Yeah, but
433
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I would say the attitude because you're
half Italian. If you were getting fucked
434
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with Tony Danza would come out way
smarter than right, the boxer, the
435
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boxer, Tony Danza, right right, right, right, okay. And
436
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here's one more. I thought your
hair, the way you wore it was
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a nineteen eighties baseball player tops rookie
card. Are you ready, Mike Piazza,
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00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:52.119
mustache, kind of wavy, kind
of long. You probably wore that
439
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.719
nice type baseball jersey because you were
probably in shape back then. You didn't
440
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you never did drugs because your mom
would have killed you, so you were
441
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afraid of that. And then if
your mom didn't kill you, your dad
442
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:06.800
would with that Chrome forty five.
He's heavy into horse racing like my dad
443
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and mom. Eyes. Yeah,
he's got him nake hits so his son
444
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:14.719
can't go down. But yet that's
how you look. I bet you when
445
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:19.840
you played baseball you doubled up on
the wrist bands because I did. Oh
446
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:23.360
yeah, my wrist bands used to
at the coincide, you know the feeling.
447
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
had the haircut to go to the
448
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pros. I had the haircut to
be all put him in the miners,
449
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:37.239
dope his locker drinking. He's always
throwing at people. He's very aggressive.
450
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.800
Wow, you've it's like you would
have went back in time and would have
451
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:45.079
seen me through some type of a
TV or something. Well a lot of
452
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it. Yes, so definitely,
yes. I grew up with my dad.
453
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My dad was Italian, but he
was born in Argentina and the rest
454
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of you know, his brother,
his sister, my grandparents are all born
455
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in Italy and my mother from Mexico, from Sinaloa. As a matter of
456
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a big shout out to both Argentina
Sinolo in Italy. By the way,
457
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I got good blow off of that. My grandfather, So check this out.
458
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I grew up even though I was
an only child, I grew up
459
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a very strict home because my mother
was holy smokes. I used to call
460
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:24.280
her Sergeant Slaughter my way. Sergeant
says, and were you brought up Catholic?
461
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.000
You know what? No, Actually
I was brought up Christian. It
462
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:35.199
was like the Catholics that just go
to church once a year, that's kind
463
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:37.239
of the the I would go to
the Christian church maybe once a year and
464
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:44.320
stuff like that. So we weren't
too heavily into any any religion, but
465
00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:47.280
we just wanted to have And of
course my dad was like, you're an
466
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:51.440
Italian. If you're not Catholic,
you're not an Italian, you know.
467
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.840
And my mother was And my mother
was like, you let him choose whatever
468
00:52:54.920 --> 00:53:00.119
he wants in life, you know, et cetera to be. But she's
469
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:04.559
very hardcore. I remember my mother
used to say, you will cut your
470
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hair the way I say, until
you're out of this house and you can
471
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pay your own way. Other than
that, yeah, you can. You
472
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:15.119
better not come. If you come
with a weird haircut and you want to
473
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.880
color your hair, the next morning
you will have no hair. It will
474
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.320
be shaved, shaved in your sleep. So now my mom was hardcore.
475
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:30.000
I grew up with that background.
When my parents were married. My dad
476
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:34.119
was a Korean vet. You know. My old man was from boil Hide,
477
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:36.519
straight out of the neighborhood. You
know, my old man's a crazy
478
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:40.119
He was a crazy hit three terms
in Korea. My dad was a drug
479
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:46.000
and alcohol concert to people in prison, civil rights activists during the seventies.
480
00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:52.000
He was there during the East La
riots. He was he had talked to
481
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:59.360
Bobby Kennedy. He was going to
go to the gathering for Bobby Kennedy in
482
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.079
LA when he was assassinated. Yeah, my own man was crazy, but
483
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:07.760
my own man was hardcore. No
son of his was going to have long
484
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:13.519
hair that looked like his daughters or
looked like anybody else. You're not going
485
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:17.239
to do drugs. You're going to
do what I say, and that's the
486
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way it's going to be. So
oh yeah, And it was like the
487
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.760
fear of God. I bet your
parents were like you didn't they didn't even
488
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have to strike you a certain look
or a move that was you know what?
489
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.400
That was more. My dad he
gave me the look, I don't
490
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:37.480
you know what I only remember my
dad chasing after me. I literally,
491
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.679
when I say chasing, he literally
chased me with a belt. But I
492
00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:43.280
was like five or six years old, and I, yeah, I took
493
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:45.800
off. I went under the house
with my mom. Yeah. Yeah,
494
00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:51.039
so he was he just gave me
up your own gun and money. Tell
495
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:53.360
you. That was my dad though. So he would give me the look.
496
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:57.519
He would give me the look,
and I would just okay, whatever
497
00:54:57.599 --> 00:55:00.400
you say. My mom would give
me the word and a look, and
498
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:05.000
I'd be like okay. But my
mom was severe. Oh I got I
499
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.800
didn't get the belt. I would
have loved getting the belt. I got
500
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:13.320
the extension cord, I got the
you know you got the seventies crap.
501
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:16.159
Oh yeah, I got the plunger
without the rubber piece at the end.
502
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:20.320
I'm talking just a stick and on
the legs. So yeah. Anyway,
503
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:24.559
anyway back to the to my teenagers
in the eighties. So even though I
504
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:30.639
did grow up only child, I
was not spoiled at all in certain aspects.
505
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:35.440
Ye, what year did you hit
to high school? Eighty seven?
506
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:38.360
It all comes together, eighty eighty
seven, y eight eighty seven. I
507
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:44.639
went to Santa Fe Springs High School
and Originally, I think my mom wanted
508
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:47.039
me to go to Downey High So
I went there one semester and then half
509
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.639
of the semester, and then I
went back to Santa Fe Springs High School.
510
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:54.440
But in junior highs where I met
my best friend Mark Hernandez. Big
511
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:58.239
shout out, Mark, you know
you're in Vegas, Mark, what's up?
512
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:00.840
And change? You know? Mark? So? Yeah, so I
513
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:06.320
met Mark. So the deal with
me is I was the kind of kid
514
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:08.320
that you looked at, and he
was the nicest kid on the block of
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00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:15.199
my parents friends. Like all my
parents friends, I remember them always talking
516
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:20.119
the nicest things about me, telling
them that you have the greatest kid on
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earth. But behind the scenes,
I was never a mean kid. First
518
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:27.719
of all, I never bullied anybody. I wasn't a mean kid. But
519
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:32.840
I was as mischievous as any possible
kid can ever be. I was the
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00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:37.960
kind of kid that would ride my
bicycle on top of the roof of the
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00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:43.239
elementary schools and ghost ride my bike
off of the roof. Or we'd also
522
00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:49.440
play WWF wrestling off of the roof
of my house and jump onto mattresses on
523
00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:52.679
the on the ground. We would
be the kind of games. Yeah,
524
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:59.000
we would be the kind of kids
that that would jump off of weird ramps
525
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:05.039
made on top of the railroad tracks
there in Los Anethos, and so a
526
00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:09.239
lot of X game stuff, but
also a lot of a lot of girls
527
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:14.079
stuff. Yeah, I remember.
Just that came in high school, right,
528
00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:17.800
Well you start junior high. Yeah, junior high, hardcore junior high.
529
00:57:19.079 --> 00:57:22.559
You started whacking off in junior high
for the girls, I believe I
530
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:25.480
believe it or not. Yeah,
even though you say no, I didn't
531
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:30.360
even need to because I had I
had good luck. Excuse me, but
532
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:35.239
what am I going to say?
We're telling I've never needed to touch I
533
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.039
didn't say that. I said not
in junior high as much because I had
534
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:45.880
so many female friends I didn't need
to write. So needless to say,
535
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:49.719
Yeah, I went to Los Anethos
Junior High and then I went to Santa
536
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:52.679
Fe Springs High School, which is
where I had a ball man. It
537
00:57:52.840 --> 00:58:00.199
was just great. But we yes, we had great times. It was
538
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:06.639
the time during the great earthquake of
nineteen eighty seven in a Wittier and so
539
00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:09.239
I was there. Yeah, well
Mark, I remember all my adventures were
540
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:13.360
with my best friend Mark. So
I was I was not a bad kid,
541
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:16.280
but I was mischievous. I would
always do stuff that you're not supposed
542
00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:20.559
to do. Sometimes I'd get in
trouble, but most of the time I
543
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:23.079
wouldn't. I'd get away with stuff. I'm not saying I was a great
544
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:29.079
kid behind the scenes. I wasn't. I'm never but like I would steal.
545
00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:31.760
I would go into the cassette shop
and steal cassettes for my girlfriends back
546
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:35.480
then. You know they wanted a
cassette. I put them in my pants.
547
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:39.000
Slow down, slow down, time
out, time out. We hear
548
00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:45.840
a Tuscano and changed back to the
eighties radio. Do not condone, sef
549
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:49.719
no, never, never, never, never. It doesn't matter how old
550
00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:55.599
you are. Stealing is stealing.
And Tuscano was wrong and should have done
551
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:02.480
some type of a jail sentence for
activity and stealing for stealing a cassette.
552
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:08.880
Yes, when now, Tisconnell,
When when you got into this mindset of
553
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:14.960
thinking you could steal? Oh my
gosh, it happened one time, maybe
554
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:20.480
twice. And we two wristbands during
baseball, Yeah, and swing hair like
555
00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:28.639
a stallion? Right? What music
was soothing your mind or working on your
556
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:36.760
mind to going? I need to
look sexy Latin mystic and I need to
557
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:43.800
steal. Alright, alright, alright, So I want to clear something up
558
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:47.000
first first, idol, Okay,
okay, First of all, I want
559
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:51.519
to clear something up. I only
took like I think it was like twice.
560
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:55.679
It couldn't have been three times.
I counted twice that I remember I
561
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:59.719
stole something. No, it's not
okay, whether you did it once or
562
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:02.400
three, it was wrong the first
time it was, and it was really
563
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:07.400
wrong the second time. However,
I never did it again because I knew
564
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:09.519
it was wrong. Okay, that
should make it better. Three you did
565
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:14.760
it three times, as you can
think. No, clearly, No,
566
01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:17.320
but no it took three times.
Oh, I will never do that again.
567
01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:21.480
No, I did not do a
strike three. However, I can't
568
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:22.679
tell you. I was also in
martial arts. They used to call me
569
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.199
the karate kid. But because apparently
they say that back then, I had
570
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:31.440
this sort of karate kiddish look back
then, and I parted my hair in
571
01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:37.199
the middle. Yes, a little
bit like Poncerella. Yes, Chuck,
572
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.719
you wanted to chuck Norris look,
but because of your Ataliano and the color
573
01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:46.400
of your hair. For yeah,
So the funny and my parents. By
574
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.599
the way, my parents when I
was twelve. I would have kicked rap
575
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:53.519
Majo's ass when I was twelve years
old. When I was twelve years old,
576
01:00:53.960 --> 01:01:00.960
so we're talking eighty four. My
parents got a divorce in eighty four.
577
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:02.760
At twelve years old. You know, I lived without my parents,
578
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:07.079
without my dad, and I was
actually happier because my mom and dad got
579
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.639
into so many fights. It was
just a horrible, horrible experience while they
580
01:01:10.679 --> 01:01:15.519
were married. Yeah, but when
they were separated and they were divorced,
581
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.000
for me, that's when I felt
like totally free. And my mom did
582
01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:23.599
try to, you know, do
as much as she could to be able
583
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:28.400
to allow me my independence. And
I was very independent. I would go
584
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.199
out nine ten o'clock at night and
if it was a weekend. So you
585
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:36.000
were not using alcohol or drugs,
correct, Well, I did drink with
586
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:38.800
my friends because we did go to
parties. We went to house parties quite
587
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:44.320
a bit. And you asked about
music, Well, I was into Power
588
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:49.320
one oh six and especially Karoq.
I listened to Karoq a lot, with
589
01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.599
DJ's such as Freddy's, Snakeskin,
Jed, the Fish, the Poor Man,
590
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:57.079
and believe it or not. The
love line was with Doctor Drew.
591
01:01:57.280 --> 01:02:01.119
Even back then we're talking early early
eighties, and so I used to love
592
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:07.719
listening to alternative and rock and then
a little bit older teen, Yeah,
593
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:12.800
I started listening to Part one oh
six and some some rap music, but
594
01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:16.079
I loved dance music, you know, Expose, Stacey Q, things like
595
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:21.320
that, which we remember, we
did talk We did talk to. Yes,
596
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:27.119
we'd talked to one of the original
the original member of Expose. So
597
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:30.599
you can go ahead and look back
at our archive shows and find that out.
598
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:34.360
So, as I said, wasn't
a bad kid, but I was
599
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:39.079
up to no good lots of those
times. But my biggest if we were
600
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:44.639
to talk about an event that really
marked my life during that time, I
601
01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.519
want to say it was eighty four
all the way through eighty nine, and
602
01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:53.119
it was sports. I was heavily, heavily into sports. I was into
603
01:02:53.199 --> 01:02:57.920
three sports in particular. Two of
those sports I could have gone even much
604
01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:01.199
much at a higher level. Was
into cycling. I was into soccer,
605
01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:06.000
and I was into baseball. Believe
it or not, your buddy here had
606
01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:09.559
a four twenty five batting average,
which is not bad. Yeah, but
607
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:13.440
my coach always used to say.
My coach from high school used to say,
608
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:15.719
yeah, Mary, we'd love to
put you on the team, but
609
01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:21.239
your Grays aren't doing so good because
you know, you've been ditching a lot.
610
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:23.280
Stop ditching and come to school.
You'll be on the team. Funny
611
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:29.840
because both of us have two different
outlooks on ditching. When you were playing
612
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:36.039
baseball and you were swinging, who
were who were your idols in baseball during
613
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:39.000
the eighties, That kind of kept
your mind going to where I'm going to
614
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:45.679
be a baseball player rather than look
and work for the government. As I
615
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:50.679
ended up as you ended up doing
well. I had two favorite teams,
616
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:54.559
all right, So obviously I was
in La County. My favorite team was
617
01:03:54.599 --> 01:04:00.800
the Dodgers. I was in that
jail, Okay, obviously like the Dodgers.
618
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:04.840
Steve Garvey was probably one of my
Oh my god, you know what
619
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:10.599
stop stop stop stop right now,
now you're gonna see full Wait a minute,
620
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:14.519
Steve Garvey. Here we go to
my favorite Dodgers in the seventies,
621
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:17.760
right because I was a kid during
Garvey Garvey played for the San Diego Padres
622
01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:21.880
right by the way, by the
way, the second favorite team, second
623
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:30.800
favorite team of all time the Padres
Padres. Anyway, Steve Garvey, I
624
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:34.519
met him at a Dodger game.
Great guy, of course, my favorite
625
01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:41.039
Dodger. Yeah. Sure, and
I'm sure that you dipping into that information.
626
01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:44.880
I bet you used to try to
bat like Garvey. Did you work
627
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:49.000
on your four arms extra? Because
I'm a thin guy, but back in
628
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:57.840
my youth, I played baseball,
I played football, I boxed, took
629
01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:01.280
martial arts, and my dad's whole
thing was strength in the forearm, because
630
01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:05.000
you could do more damage with the
strength in your forearm than the whole power
631
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:08.559
in your bicep, in your tricep. So let me ask you this.
632
01:05:09.519 --> 01:05:12.199
You bring up Steve Garvey, so
I know you were trying to bat like
633
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.400
him. Right, you didn't have
hair on your arms, right, don't
634
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:17.119
you don't even have it? Now? That's right? I actually I do
635
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:23.079
not like Steve Garvey, but there's
a forearm. Had Steve Garvey had arms
636
01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.760
like a sask, it was like
Pompeye, a Harry Pompeye. Did you
637
01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:30.800
ever try to cut your hair like
Garvey's. There was a point where actually
638
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.119
combing my hair to the side,
just like Garvey. Yeah? Absolutely,
639
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:36.119
wow, Wow, you know what, man, I have to give you
640
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:40.320
props for doing that, and I
also have to tell you what a week
641
01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:45.559
is. There's only one Steve Garvey, iron Man number six. For the
642
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:47.280
loss, my friend, there was
a Steve Garvey. But if I would
643
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:51.239
have kept going, look out Steve
Garvey. Here came mister Tiscano. That's
644
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:54.639
all I could tell you. Anyway, you were listening to Back to the
645
01:05:54.760 --> 01:06:00.880
eighties radio with Tiscano and Chang,
and I want to deet kate a song
646
01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:04.960
to my partner in crime, to
Sconnell queen. She keeps some more away
647
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:13.440
shumder in a pretty Kevin and the
case. She says, just like marieta
648
01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:27.159
building, remven resjobity location. You
get me on cigarettes vers did any get
649
01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:34.360
extra in every night? She's a
kid created a gene dynamite with a lazabe
650
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:55.679
even cause he wants to bow your
part recommended at thesation appetit my complications.
651
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:01.599
She never kept the same adrest conversation. She spoke just like a baronet little
652
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:14.039
man trying to do to get your
mid been again incidentally in that because she
653
01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:20.360
couldn't get her spstidious and precise,
she's can create gun by ten the teen
654
01:07:20.760 --> 01:08:04.039
dnner mine with a lace of beans
to your mine. Drove a Jesus where
655
01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:17.800
they get to play theirs the momentarily
out of actual, temporarily out of goods,
656
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:25.560
Get up, create, bide the
tea. I mind with Elizabee blousy
657
01:08:25.720 --> 01:09:23.079
into bommand of the best Sasha and
appetime since I was born. They shouldn't
658
01:09:23.119 --> 01:09:30.119
all me another misfit child, another
word out itself. I never played by
659
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:38.720
the rules. I never really care
my next the resting season sixty everywhere sh
660
01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:47.439
see it's now let me tell me
the other I stood in my sad.
661
01:09:48.680 --> 01:10:14.520
We are sid sa we working in
less ground wall on one wall, about
662
01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:17.880
streaming in my ear, about who
I was supposed to be looking a free
663
01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:23.800
peace wall streets fire side. You
look just like I said, m man.
664
01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:28.520
The some of you want to know
when I'll see a pnel lace cho
665
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:48.399
shin' see now who was standing?
So we on the go said show we've
666
01:10:48.439 --> 01:11:25.079
been snow. We walk get one
fall on the wall where the Carlos cry
667
01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:32.640
up style whisking down my suck.
Try we walking never this, We walk
668
01:11:32.840 --> 01:12:15.199
fall on the one for all the
reasons on the wall where commercials bad music
669
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:21.159
good now with zero commercials. Please
help support this in your donation. Today,
670
01:12:21.399 --> 01:12:26.600
we are going back to the eighties, back to the eighties radio.
671
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:30.479
A song that speaks about the rebelliousness
and challenges faced by young people in the
672
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.880
eighties. That was skid Row and
Youth Gone Wild. That's a good song.
673
01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:40.840
It was a good song. But
you mentioned you mentioned your favorite singer,
674
01:12:40.880 --> 01:12:43.039
and now how to put it on? Well, you or that's the
675
01:12:43.119 --> 01:12:47.000
only problem I had with him.
I thought that that band kind of got
676
01:12:47.199 --> 01:12:56.319
categorized as a a week woo see
band, and his erratic behavior and stupidity
677
01:12:57.039 --> 01:13:01.159
kind of catapulted them into like man
shut the But they had great music.
678
01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:05.319
I mean, they had another one
of their famous songs, eighteen in Life.
679
01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:10.359
Great song. But you know,
if you just joined us here,
680
01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:13.319
back to the eighties radio, we're
talking about the events of the eighties in
681
01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:16.479
our own personal life. You know, Chang and I both shared a little
682
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:21.159
bit. For someone like you and
me who are listening, it was more
683
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:26.039
than just a time in history.
It was like a roller coaster of emotions.
684
01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:32.920
The eighties remind us of life's experiences, sort of like a life's mosaic
685
01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:39.279
of experiences that shape us into who
we are from the high fives of success
686
01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:43.960
to the challenges that make us dig
deep. Despite everything man that happened to
687
01:13:44.039 --> 01:13:46.600
us throughout the eighties, a lot
of good, a lot of bad stuff
688
01:13:46.640 --> 01:13:51.079
that marked us forever will never be
the same. But it's this hope for
689
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:57.359
a brighter future that keeps us going. And because we're from an era of
690
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:03.479
resilient people, tougher people, because
you are of the generation that was from
691
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:11.880
salvation. But you are more inclined
to speak on the change of decades,
692
01:14:12.399 --> 01:14:17.520
the eighties into the nineties, the
way the world was, the outlook,
693
01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:21.000
the libration, you got, your
outlook, what you were into, what
694
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:26.439
you look like, where you were
at in nineteen ninety. I think it's
695
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:30.199
pretty interesting that to talk to you, you could give us the balance and
696
01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:35.640
our listeners who are of the same
generation as you, describe that change of
697
01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:43.600
leaving the eighties going into the nineties
and being who you were and where you
698
01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.119
were, because like the eighties they
tripped me out, you know, I
699
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:51.520
my erratic youth was of the eighties, but then I became a parent,
700
01:14:51.960 --> 01:15:00.800
and my mindset and my time set
and my structure and my outlook, my
701
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:10.560
alignment with life changed from eighties seven
into the nineties. So I was a
702
01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:15.239
dad, but I saw the change
somebody like you. You didn't have kids
703
01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:21.840
yet, You're still coming from your
youth. What was it like to make
704
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:26.960
that transition? Were you afraid?
Were you worried? Did you think everything
705
01:15:27.159 --> 01:15:30.439
sucked? Were you angry? Because
I went through the transition from the late
706
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:33.439
seventies into the eighties, and I, you know, you asked me,
707
01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:38.920
maybe I could. I don't remember
very well what happened during the early early
708
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:43.760
eighties, and I remember exactly so
many things, especially all of my elementary
709
01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:47.159
school years. I remember him so
clear. I remember from the point where
710
01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:51.640
they used to make us practice for
drills, these drills in case we went
711
01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:56.960
to war with Russia. I remember
so many things. As I got older,
712
01:15:57.439 --> 01:16:00.920
I stopped having that fear because after
the war all came down, and
713
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:04.439
after Russia was no longer considered that
much of a threat, and this was
714
01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:09.119
all over the news. For me, it was okay, I'm starting to
715
01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:14.159
become older. I started working nineteen
eighty nine, I believe I started.
716
01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:19.800
I started working like in eighty eight
with Mark at one of his dad's places
717
01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:25.920
of work. In eighty nine,
I actually started working and my first job,
718
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:30.479
Man, my first job was at
a place called Pizza Pizza, and
719
01:16:30.600 --> 01:16:33.640
I actually made pizza. Yeah,
I made pizza. Go figure, an
720
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:39.680
Italian guy making pizza. And so
did you get the job because you were
721
01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:43.279
Italian? No? But the funny
thing is that the owner, his name
722
01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:46.560
was Tony die Tomazo. That guy
was such a It was a big guy,
723
01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:49.479
very big. When I mean big, I mean big because he ate
724
01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:53.680
a lot of pizzas, that kind
of big. And you could tell this
725
01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:57.079
guy was a wise guy. He
had friends who had who would come in
726
01:16:57.560 --> 01:17:01.079
once a week and would have a
dominant meeting. They'd played dominoes in a
727
01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:05.600
private booth table. They would have
to shut off the TVs way in the
728
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:10.920
back, and they'd have two guys
always guarding the entrance to this place.
729
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:14.840
So that gives you an idea.
But anyway, oh yeah, he knew
730
01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:17.800
my dad. So as I started
growing, it was more of a thing
731
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:24.920
that I really started paying attention at
the technological aspect of the change. I
732
01:17:25.079 --> 01:17:30.119
saw how we started changing and evolving
technologically speaking, and we were looking so
733
01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:34.079
forward to a lot of the things
that we saw in movies that that life
734
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:38.560
was going to bring us of how
easy life was going to be for us,
735
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:41.880
how convenient life was going to be
for us in the near future.
736
01:17:42.479 --> 01:17:48.199
And we who grew up through that
time got to see all these things develop,
737
01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:55.640
evolve and become what they are today. And I was never scared,
738
01:17:55.720 --> 01:18:00.359
but I was always I was always
excited for the change. But here's what
739
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:03.399
happened, though, The funny thing
that happened. As soon as the nineties
740
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.520
came in. I had a lot
of fun. It went to a lot
741
01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:09.840
of parties. I like, I
said, you know, I'm getting a
742
01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:15.479
little bit older and my late teens
and early twenties, But it wasn't the
743
01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:21.159
fun and freedom of the eighties.
There was a feeling of boredom. You're
744
01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:26.960
trying too hard to change and too
hard to leave what you were in the
745
01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:31.600
eighties, but you're not becoming who
you want to be. It was to
746
01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:35.840
me the nineties were a decade where
it was needed because that's when change is
747
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:41.119
occurring. But it was like,
you don't even know who you are because
748
01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:45.319
look what Look what happened to music? Look what happened because of We were
749
01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.159
talking about this during the break that
MTV was a double edged sword. It
750
01:18:49.359 --> 01:18:54.840
helped a lot of the bands make
money and get notoriety. It helped a
751
01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:59.880
lot of us, the people listening
listen to more bands. But the double
752
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:06.640
sword was that it was also a
huge, huge part in the demise of
753
01:19:08.359 --> 01:19:14.399
the artistry of music because the music
business continued and evolved into some weird animal
754
01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:18.840
that it is today. But the
artistry that music was after I want to
755
01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:23.720
say after ninety one, and we've
also talked about this, After about ninety
756
01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:29.199
one, it all started changing.
I'm not saying it was all bad.
757
01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:34.319
I'm just saying that it changed and
it wasn't the same anymore. I remember
758
01:19:34.399 --> 01:19:43.399
hearing a an interview with Motley Crue
Tommy Lee. They asked him, what
759
01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:45.920
do you think is going on with
music? And he goes, I think
760
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:49.680
it's time to change because we have
become this this hair metal and he recognized
761
01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:57.239
this hair metal and glad metal kind
of destroyed away rock was going. You
762
01:19:57.319 --> 01:20:00.479
know, it just changed everything and
after the nineties it was no longer the
763
01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:03.960
same. So I've kind of felt
bored man. So that was my personal
764
01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:09.079
experience to me, the nineties,
although it brought some cool stuff, but
765
01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:14.720
it also brought a lot of nostalgia
for going back because I said, wow,
766
01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:18.520
they're supposed things are supposed to be
advancing and technology advanced. But instead
767
01:20:18.520 --> 01:20:24.439
of going forward the way we felt
life was in society, it kept on
768
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:28.760
getting worse. Both in the struggles. The nineties brought a lot of disillusionment
769
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:32.560
and today, well, what can
I tell you more of the same and
770
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:39.520
even worse. You're listening to back
to the eighties radio with Tascano and Chang
771
01:20:39.640 --> 01:20:42.880
tonight. We are getting deep,
heavy, but just trying to let you
772
01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:47.119
know that we understand and we are
the same as you. And you need
773
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:53.439
to get your rocks off. Something
from Motley Crue because everybody wants to go
774
01:20:53.640 --> 01:21:01.760
back home. You know, I'm
a treaty level houts of gold. I
775
01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:08.560
had a run away hide, so
while I come home a little, just
776
01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:15.520
let things will ride. It doesn't
mean they were hot with a Just take
777
01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:24.479
this song and You'll never being lift
hollelone, Take me to your heart to
778
01:21:24.680 --> 01:21:30.479
be in your bond, just one
more night, and I'm coming on this
779
01:21:30.960 --> 01:22:02.079
floor, white and gold away away
a sweep Toway swell. You know that
780
01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:13.800
scene. Too many romantic dreams who've
been light only in others. You rush
781
01:22:13.920 --> 01:22:20.279
me my heart like an open book
for the world, world to be some
782
01:22:20.640 --> 01:23:42.479
kind of nothing keeps me together?
Listeners sweet way just swee sweep all sweet
783
01:23:45.439 --> 01:24:45.520
yes, just sa me pray sweep. Oh you remember the first time you
784
01:24:45.640 --> 01:24:50.199
tried these games space luck with practice
cop done, y'all like see And when
785
01:24:50.239 --> 01:24:53.880
you first tried coke? I think
you said no, thank you, But
786
01:24:54.039 --> 01:25:00.439
hey, let's try and coke again
because once you got that new wave taste,
787
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:02.960
you want to try it again again
and again. Practice links person,
788
01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:06.960
catch the wave coco. Are somebody
remember the eighties? Five right? Well
789
01:25:08.039 --> 01:25:13.800
it lives loud and proud on back
to the eighties with my pals to Scotto
790
01:25:13.920 --> 01:26:06.199
and Chay loves on the Junior Middle
sick down. She was a don Alay
791
01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:24.279
working for the man to reach over
p She says, he got a tot
792
01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:30.439
doesn't make a difference, and we
ken we got each other and that's a
793
01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:57.680
love we'll get in shining Where to
woman? I fell till's got his sixteen
794
01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:03.199
in mine? Now is over?
What used to make a Toms and true
795
01:27:12.880 --> 01:27:29.399
run away? She cried to the
nights game. True we got an but
796
01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:35.039
it doesn't make a difference, and
make it all night. We got each
797
01:27:35.079 --> 01:28:18.880
other and that's one shine away.
Play to my I swear by got a
798
01:28:21.000 --> 01:29:02.000
Red line you fide was not to
start You are listening to Back to the
799
01:29:02.119 --> 01:29:10.960
Eighties Radio nineteen eighty six story telling
us about the working class couple named Tommy
800
01:29:11.079 --> 01:29:15.479
and Gina who are struggling to make
ends meet and face the uncertainties of their
801
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:21.119
circumstances. Chang This song by bon
Jovi, Living on a Prayer became a
802
01:29:21.319 --> 01:29:28.399
national anthem, but the lyrics,
my friend, capture the economic hardships aspirations
803
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:32.119
of individuals during the nineteen eighties,
and it became, as I mentioned,
804
01:29:32.279 --> 01:29:40.119
it became an anthem that resonates with
many who experience the challenges during that time.
805
01:29:40.760 --> 01:29:43.920
Now, I'm not a big fan
of the hair metal we know Bono
806
01:29:44.319 --> 01:29:48.039
Yeah, but I have to tell
you this, that song is a great
807
01:29:48.119 --> 01:29:57.560
song Vocally musically it is and I
can identify because I mentioned in eighty seven
808
01:29:57.680 --> 01:30:00.439
I became a dad. I was
just twenty one years old. I mean,
809
01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:02.680
you know, I was still a
stupid, reckless kid before that,
810
01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:11.840
so I can identify with young love
having to grow up really quick and nail
811
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:15.840
the real world. Another song that
reminds me of that is by Bruce Springsteen
812
01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:24.840
The River. Both songs are catapulting
the feeling of anybody that was young,
813
01:30:25.079 --> 01:30:30.960
that pro created before their time and
believe that you made your own bed and
814
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:33.560
you have to lie in it.
Yeah, so you just go ahead and
815
01:30:33.600 --> 01:30:40.800
you take it on and go for
what you know, because that child did
816
01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:46.079
not ask to be created. That
child is innocent and looking to you to
817
01:30:46.239 --> 01:30:49.239
guide them. So you got to
break your balls to go to work,
818
01:30:50.239 --> 01:30:55.560
stay true to your word, make
a commitment, teach them to be great,
819
01:30:56.359 --> 01:31:00.479
tough, loving, understand them.
You have to do all that crap,
820
01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:02.920
you know. One of the questions
that we've always asked a lot of
821
01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:06.039
people on our social media is if
you had a chance to go back,
822
01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:12.560
just for a couple of days,
what would you do? And the majority
823
01:31:12.680 --> 01:31:15.760
people say always, I would want
to go see my mom or my dad.
824
01:31:16.880 --> 01:31:21.800
We had so many great experiences,
but we had, for the most
825
01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:26.199
part, we had our parents.
They grew up in a different era.
826
01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:30.000
They grew up in even a tougher
era than we did. And if you
827
01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:35.000
come to think of it, brother, we growing up I think we took
828
01:31:35.079 --> 01:31:39.079
for granted. We had no idea. We had no idea. It was
829
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:42.960
all going to come to an end
so quick for us, for our parents,
830
01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:47.479
and there was that certain point where
you realize, gosh, dang it,
831
01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:50.960
I wish I could go back and
just give my mom or my dad
832
01:31:51.039 --> 01:31:59.439
a hug the way that that I
used to. I think that we lost
833
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:05.399
that feeling of appreciation. The eighties, we were very carefree, and I
834
01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:15.239
think because of our care freeness and
our boldness being inhibited by everything and not
835
01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:24.640
affected, we made a lot of
problems single parents, divorce, drug use,
836
01:32:24.920 --> 01:32:31.319
alcohol use, not getting with it. So it's it's kind of odd
837
01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:41.960
that the generation of ours have produced
children that either are similar or have some
838
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:49.840
of the negative effects of too much
freeness in our generation. Continue just thought
839
01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:55.119
i'd bring that out. I want
us to go quickly before we end the
840
01:32:55.119 --> 01:32:56.920
show. We're going to come back, but I want us to take a
841
01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:01.680
little break as I bring in a
song for us to focus on communication and
842
01:33:01.880 --> 01:33:06.880
unresolved feelings with either a parent or
a loved one that is still living today,
843
01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:12.000
because at some point during the eighties
we didn't do that, and some
844
01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:18.399
have lost their parents back then,
some have lost family members or friends and
845
01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:23.079
you didn't get to tell them what
you wanted to. So here's a very
846
01:33:23.159 --> 01:33:28.720
poignant song that addresses the passage of
time and the importance of expressing yourself to
847
01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:31.840
that loved one, to that person
that means something to you. Here's Mike
848
01:33:31.920 --> 01:33:51.279
and the Mechanics on back to the
eighties radio with a living years ever generation.
849
01:33:55.680 --> 01:34:11.319
Then toore no that frustration competing on
your doors. I know that I'm
850
01:34:11.399 --> 01:34:16.159
a prisoner to all my father houshold
dear. I know that I'm a hostage
851
01:34:16.920 --> 01:34:23.000
all his thoughts and fears. I
just wish I couldn't have told him in
852
01:34:23.439 --> 01:34:41.479
the more crumble bits of paper feel
with im perfect heart still to conversation,
853
01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:51.119
I'm afraid that's all with heart you
say it just don't see it, he
854
01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:58.119
says, it's perfect sens. You
just can't get agreement in this fred and
855
01:34:58.239 --> 01:35:23.039
tense talk a different language talking in
see say we'll see me as well as
856
01:35:23.640 --> 01:35:43.479
you. It's to its too when
we die, we don't see too,
857
01:35:47.119 --> 01:35:59.479
so we feel a war between the
present and the past. We'll only says
858
01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:11.760
we child. It's the last,
so don't guilty choose. You sometimes see
859
01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:17.119
spaint. You may have a newer
spainting on a different day. And if
860
01:36:17.159 --> 01:36:27.760
you don't get it and don't give
me your bag be say say to say
861
01:36:30.800 --> 01:37:00.399
saying sac shoot, because it's the
ittill whatever we die, we do say
862
01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:16.680
to. I wasn't there that morning
when my father passed away. I didn't
863
01:37:16.760 --> 01:37:27.920
get to tell him all the things
I had to say. Big I can
864
01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:33.199
a spirit lady that save years.
I'm sure I heard is a gone my
865
01:37:33.479 --> 01:37:41.079
baby's newborn tears. I just wish
I could have told him in the living
866
01:37:44.720 --> 01:38:26.319
to say sae say say dream swell
as you stoto say to society. Love
867
01:38:42.640 --> 01:39:00.560
you're listening to back to the eighties, look bow not so long ago it
868
01:39:00.720 --> 01:39:10.720
was gilt again. They're outside of
the poor and rain on a way up
869
01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:17.279
the road was started over here.
You're living a dreams or you wa top.
870
01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:26.640
My Manda's a get alot of b
stop. That's how it's happen living
871
01:39:26.840 --> 01:39:35.640
love mother, drop up and down
the road. And I won't night you
872
01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:45.560
talking about the times to sing in
the blue you went you well, I
873
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:54.079
stay behind. You don't knew it
was just a matter of time. Living
874
01:39:54.159 --> 01:40:00.279
a dreams or you wa top?
My Manda's a get the lord of all
875
01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:12.159
stop. That's how it happens.
Lives and love by the drop. No
876
01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:17.399
wis the time, will love the
day, turning up the past, and
877
01:40:17.479 --> 01:40:27.199
there's no easier way time to between. That's the main doing him. God,
878
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:31.920
it's good to be your walking together, my friend, living a day
879
01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:43.880
my mass can't gain. That's how
it happened. Lived and live by the
880
01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:58.600
drop, That's how it happened.
Live and love by the drop. That's
881
01:40:58.640 --> 01:41:04.520
how it happened. Back to the
eighties radio. You just heard the one
882
01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:10.319
and only Stevie ray Vaughan Life by
the Drop, And if you just joined
883
01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.600
us right now as we come to
the home stretch, we're talking about those
884
01:41:13.680 --> 01:41:17.880
events, those stories, the experiences
of the eighties that changed our life in
885
01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:24.079
some way, and we're taking a
moment to reflect on the preciousness of life
886
01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:28.600
back then in a world of the
hustle and bustle that the eighties taught us
887
01:41:28.640 --> 01:41:30.600
to slow down in a way,
they started to get fast, and that's
888
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:34.960
where we learned to live life in
the fast lane. And I want all
889
01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:40.920
of us to enjoy and to savor
every beat of music that we hear and
890
01:41:41.000 --> 01:41:45.520
that we listen and appreciate the beauty
that's around us life. Much like those
891
01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:51.960
heartfelt ballads that we've been playing is
both fleeting and magnificent. And as we
892
01:41:53.119 --> 01:41:57.399
reminisce about the era of our dreams
back in the eighties and cassette tapes and
893
01:41:57.520 --> 01:42:01.119
movies, it's good to remember the
true treasures lie in the connections that we
894
01:42:01.239 --> 01:42:04.640
make and the moments that we create. Jay, I know that as we
895
01:42:04.760 --> 01:42:10.920
talked about some of the people that
maybe we wish that we would have said
896
01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:13.920
something, some of the people that
meant something to us that we lost.
897
01:42:14.640 --> 01:42:18.439
What is that part of the eighties
experience mean to you? You know what?
898
01:42:18.920 --> 01:42:25.079
It's a trip Because I'm not going
to give my age, but I'm
899
01:42:25.119 --> 01:42:31.720
old enough to know that the transition
of who I was in the early eighties,
900
01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:40.119
or that my generation of the early
eighties, that transition to the parent
901
01:42:40.399 --> 01:42:46.800
role, the kind of working class
role which is now getting into the political
902
01:42:46.920 --> 01:42:56.119
aspect, CEOs, business owners,
what have you. There's one thing I
903
01:42:56.199 --> 01:43:00.399
have to tell you. I've learned
to appreciate every day in life, even
904
01:43:00.479 --> 01:43:06.079
if it sucks ass. My old
man always told me every day is not
905
01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:11.840
going to be a good day.
Every day you're going to suffer a loss
906
01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:16.159
and a victory. But every experience, bad or good equals one thing,
907
01:43:16.920 --> 01:43:27.640
wisdom. Wisdom is it's more relevant
and more of a value than money and
908
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:33.119
materialism, because wisdom is the one
thing you continuously give. If you're a
909
01:43:33.279 --> 01:43:40.680
parent, an uncle, an aunt, or just a cool person that recognizes
910
01:43:40.800 --> 01:43:45.119
people in need and you just talk
some shit in your ear, wisdom is
911
01:43:45.199 --> 01:43:49.880
the one thing that you leave here
on earth, and that's all you got.
912
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:54.399
So you take that wisdom and you
run with it, make life better
913
01:43:54.479 --> 01:44:00.720
around yourself. So the one thing
I think I got is the wisdom anybody
914
01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:03.680
in my generation, your generation,
what we have now, the wisdom.
915
01:44:04.520 --> 01:44:08.319
Don't look at the past, don't
look at what you should have done,
916
01:44:08.439 --> 01:44:14.039
the f ups, what you should
have could have where somebody did you wrong,
917
01:44:14.479 --> 01:44:18.199
what you hate, what struggles you, And don't give yourself too much
918
01:44:18.279 --> 01:44:26.319
prop and lose yourself in materialistic ways. Because when it's all over, none
919
01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:30.119
of us take Jack's ship with us. What we leave is a memory of
920
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:34.840
love, hope, and effin wisdom. That's all I can say, bro
921
01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:41.720
that I captured from the eighties to
be blessed to live till now. You
922
01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:45.039
know, for all of us to
grow up back in the nineteen eighties,
923
01:44:45.920 --> 01:44:50.760
it's important to note that we have
something that no other generation after has,
924
01:44:51.680 --> 01:45:00.199
and it's the opportunity. It is
the footprint that that entire ten years of
925
01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:08.520
span of life that left us and
those experiences, those moments, those amazing
926
01:45:08.680 --> 01:45:14.000
poems that life handed to us,
good or bad. It is a chapter
927
01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:16.800
in our life. It is a
chapter in our past. But the spirit
928
01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:20.760
of the eighties lives on in every
beat of our hearts, and it's a
929
01:45:20.840 --> 01:45:29.600
reminder that life's tapestry is woven with
moments, moments of joy, moments of
930
01:45:29.720 --> 01:45:33.520
happiness, relentless determination, and unwavering
hope. And I know it sounds kind
931
01:45:33.560 --> 01:45:41.520
of like a something maybe cliche or
something cheesy to say that we should take
932
01:45:41.560 --> 01:45:45.880
advantage of those moments to dance like
nobody's watching, to chase dreams. But
933
01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:53.359
it's true because there'll be a moment
in time where we'll want to come back
934
01:45:53.760 --> 01:45:58.279
to another moment from the past.
So take advantage of every single moment,
935
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:02.600
stay wild in your heart, keep
those memories alive, you know, share
936
01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:06.840
those moments. You know. One
of our motto that we're introducing the eighties
937
01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:12.439
to a newer generation, and that's
exactly what we try to do here and
938
01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:17.279
that's exactly why we have so many
newcomers, so so many younger kids listening
939
01:46:17.359 --> 01:46:20.680
to the show. And I want
to personally thank you for journeying with us
940
01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:26.560
through the timeless rhythms of the eighties
and every time that we get together in
941
01:46:26.640 --> 01:46:31.079
every show. Let's hold on to
that essence. Let's infuse it into our
942
01:46:31.159 --> 01:46:36.159
lives every day, and let's make
sure that the spirit of the eighties lives
943
01:46:36.199 --> 01:46:42.119
on. Tell everybody to not forget
their life in the eighties. As for
944
01:46:42.239 --> 01:46:45.800
me from Toscano, I want to
wish you guys a great week, remember
945
01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:48.720
those times and keep them tight and
close to you, and I hope that
946
01:46:48.920 --> 01:46:54.720
next week we can get together as
we share more music, more stories,
947
01:46:55.720 --> 01:46:59.239
more eighties. Hey, just to
reminder, letting you know we did not
948
01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:04.399
fall off off track. Join us
next week hip hop show too. This
949
01:47:04.960 --> 01:47:10.680
is the chang before I release you
to another chang tastic week. And remember,
950
01:47:10.880 --> 01:47:15.399
stay true to yourself, stay up
lifted, you matter, Do something
951
01:47:15.920 --> 01:47:21.039
bigger and greater than yourself. Do
it for somebody that needs something done.
952
01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:27.520
I'm gonna take you out with a
three pack, something for your mind to
953
01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:30.399
bend around, give you a little
bit of inspiration, maybe an answer.
954
01:47:31.439 --> 01:47:36.439
We have something from Queen's Right,
silent lucidity. We're going to follow that
955
01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:44.720
up with something from Cinderella. You
don't know what you got until it's gone.
956
01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:47.640
And that's what life is all about. And remember we are the cult
957
01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:55.199
of personality at all times, we
are the living color. Catch you all
958
01:47:55.279 --> 01:48:01.119
next week, ussa la vista,
adios aloha sayanatas still away go and to
959
01:48:01.199 --> 01:48:05.680
am I hold myself there. Let
catch you later. A shine aside you
960
01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:19.079
cry, wipe away the tea drop
from the line could not even saved the
961
01:48:19.239 --> 01:48:31.880
man it was, solve the bad
dream, spinning, spending your my trip,
962
01:48:32.039 --> 01:48:41.359
you a feel a baby of someone
close to you leaving the game of
963
01:48:41.479 --> 01:48:50.000
life. So here it is a
love a chance? Why it away?
964
01:48:50.439 --> 01:48:59.840
You base the day the dream is
over? What has it just become more?
965
01:49:14.399 --> 01:49:28.000
There's a place and light to night, the doorway that night the lacks
966
01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:47.239
child only getting lights scape. It's
a place where you lives. Trust these
967
01:49:48.039 --> 01:50:13.119
like the wind in your mind.
I then s sich, we don't want
968
01:50:26.399 --> 01:51:17.199
aiding next to you beside the suit
of t prise your mind's nature the quarters
969
01:51:17.239 --> 01:51:23.920
of the pleasant text until part.
If you persist in all the les you
970
01:51:24.039 --> 01:51:47.039
can achieve. Drink our crink if
you won't and your mind will be won't
971
01:51:47.319 --> 01:52:15.560
love not bene to see the walls
the toy gud twice again say in the
972
01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:33.119
dream to mas wat journey in your
hair, master the delusion guy, please
973
01:52:33.439 --> 01:53:03.039
love the god we do watch what
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to you you're listening to back to
the eighties, can tell your baby and
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fine way, I can't get age, So I tra what's been as johns?
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I t do if we take time? Thinking out takes time, don't
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until it's time. Don't now I
try so and said I take so I
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can't feel the things with the trisay
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talking so che song just can't take
the wood getting wes times see takes time.
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And if you re don't know what
it takes time, I tend I've
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got Chan says say that takes Do
you want to say bay that you take
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me? Just that just says like
die, I mean you don't want let's
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time. I don't know why it
is I did so wild It's tells this
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song and say that my text A
don't know what to tell usta don't know
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what is t know? Why test
this say that my text a love that
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you ever let I want to talk
about right down to ear in a language
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with everybody here can easily understand in
what do you see? I ain't know
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you anyday? I know your dreams
the thing in some selin and kill the
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dean got talk something e but to
person now not to person now eyes love
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bill pass all the blast shut lies
part of man only b I'm a smile
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listen to person body on still love
me and don't you want WoT the personality
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so slowly about salty about to personality
becout too personality lies. One of the
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sleeps dies. The father always don't
then the bard nor the person give me
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the break, the toco toko on
the toco toto? Then what dor what
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bring you gave me to the cool
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before I can f
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Degree who welcome everybody to a very
special episode of Back to the Eighties Radio.
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Today, we're gonna be diving into
the essence of the eighties, a
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decade that's often romanticized for its different
movies and the music and the culture,
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but you gotta remember it was also
marked by challenges, by growth and unforgettable
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experiences for all of us. Today, we're gonna be taking off our sunglasses
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Miami by Style and talk about the
unfiltered side of the nineteen eighties, the
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stories, the hardships of both Toscano
and Chang and everybody who grew up there,
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the very real struggles that were a
part of that era. It's a
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tribute to a time that was far
from perfect, as we all know,
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but undeniably one of the most remarkable
decades to have lived through. So to
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my side is a gentleman. He
was often seen chasing the ice cream man
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back in the nineteen eighties, only
to buy the last pack of Saladitos with
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us today as he always is,
the ever so wondrous Chang. Oh,
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ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's great to be here for you.
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I want to thank all of you
for listening joining us, sharing the
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show, and leaving us comments on
our social media. Yes, I love
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the thumbs down, I love the
criticism, the hate. I love it
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all because it takes me to one
thing. You're locked in a tuscano and
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change. That's right where we bring
the eighties back. What a better place
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to be. But back in the
eighties we were diverse, we were hit,
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we're free bold. We want to
give a special shout out to everybody
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listening, not only here in the
United States, which, by the way,
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we just can't thank you enough.
We're backing up the show as always,
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and Canada and Mexico, Central and
South America, of course, but
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every country in Europe, in the
Middle East, We've got listeners all over
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the place. Australia, how can
we forget about you? The UK,
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we love every single Back to the
Eighties listener, and we just thank you
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for supporting the show in Tiscano.
A special shout out to our friends in
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Hawaii. We want to give you
a special shout out. If there's anything
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we could do, send us some
info will help you out right here at
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Back to the Eighties, our hearts
and our thoughts are with you. I
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know that sounds cheap, just like
when you see it on social media.
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Prayers, prayers, prayers. Well, you know what, I don't think
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God or the Great Spruder, anybody
else is on social media. But my
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voice is here, and we want
to put our voice out to you and
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give you a shout out. You
survived, Hell yeah, keep going.
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Nothing keeps you down. If there's
anything we can do for you, folks
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in Hawaii, please hold and we
will put your inbo out and we will
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do whatever we can because we are
one race human nail. It's just going
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on. That's right, That's where
I'm going with on that. I also
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want to give a very special shout
out for the folks that went through incredible
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devastation with flooding, and in particular, we've got a good buddy of ours
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who is going through a very very
tough time. He's got his own eighties
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show as well. You might have
known him. You might know him as
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smash Ventura. He's got a show
called We're Living in the nineteen Eighties with
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Smash Ventura. We want to encourage
you guys to pay him a visit on
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his Facebook channel. It's called We're
Living in the nineteen Eighties with Smash Ventura.
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Check him out. He has gone
through a very devastating time for him
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and his family, people that are
around the neighborhoods in Vermont. They have
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lost everything because of the floods.
And when I say everything, I mean
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everything. Smash has got to go
fund me page, which I encourage you
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to go visit. I will have
the links to his go fund me to
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his dad's go fund me because his
dad lost everything as well as Smash and
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his girlfriend, and the pictures are
on his Facebook. So once again,
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check out. We're living in the
nineteen eighties, would Smash a Ventura.
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We're all eighties families, So go
ahead and pay him a visit. And
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if you know you find it in
your heart to be able to bless somebody
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who's in that type of need here
in the US, we ask that you
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would do so, as well as
anybody that you might know or not know
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on the island of Maui that have
gone through devastation. I mean the island
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was wiped out. So that note, let's take a quick break because we've
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got lots and lots to talk about. We're going to be talking about personal
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stories, struggles, everything that we
went through in the nineteen eighties on a
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personal personal note. So if you
want to find out more of what Taskonto
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and Chang went through in the nineteen
eighties, stick around. In the meantime,
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I want to let you guys listen
to a little something by Tears for
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Fears called Mad World on back to
the eighties radios, to find a gun,
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finding I find a gun side and
drinking mech tying on the back of
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Dad and finding not to tell you
gause I wanted not to take wouldn't be
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goss Machi to take the feel at
the birthday at me to fill in to
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my Chu tree sits in son sits
on side, went to school and I
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was the word the world the teacher
to what's my lesson? Smooth class?
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Find it kind of funny, fey, kind of sad, the dreams in
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which I'll tell you stop, I
find it, Hunt to tell youse,
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I find it, hout to tell
with you, hone it suns it's a
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na find it kind of funny,
Dason when you're tar, don't believe the
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devil. I don't believe it,
but he's never seen without the lies he
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made up. Don't believe in except
success is guilt. Don't believe in riches,
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but you see where I is.
I I believe in love. Don't
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believe in force his tree, don't
believe in read, but every time she
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passes by wild forces. Don't believe
in their room steed rod cans. Don't
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believe in the oozy just went off
in my head. I I believe in
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love. Don't gay step like da
no word the wrist of stop more.
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I love, don't want any woman, just hope like curs and the calls
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gonna get him. I don't get
him first. Don't need a rubble role
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really change the worlds us start,
says sixteen jupply boy, still a little
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wheel Stop Saturday, US us up. So you're listening to Back to the
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eighties, Welcome back to Back to
the eighties with Taskano and Chang. You
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just heard Mad World by Tears for
Fears and also another epic song from You
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two God Too, Part two from
The First God by John Lennon. Tonight,
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we are going to get a little
bit deep, not too deep,
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but a little bit deep. We
want to reach out to all of you,
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to some of you cats and kiddies
out there going through some struggles,
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been through hell and back, just
to let you know you're not alone,
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that you matter, that whatever your
story is, you deserve to tell it
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because you live through it. Taskano
tonight, I thought of a recipe of
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music, and I thought, tonight, the songs will play. We'll put
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people in a state of mind of
reckoning and getting over things, kind of
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like a sobering. What do you
think of that. I think that we're
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going through some really really tough times
here at home in the US and abroad
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everywhere around the world since COVID.
Something seems off. We've talked about this
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many times on the program. The
main reason why we decided, you know
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what, let's start talking about the
eighties and going back mentally on this time
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machine, because it's it's an escape
for us. And that's why you listen
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to the show week after week,
and that's why we do the show.
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The eighties music. Man, it
just strikes a chord there. I know
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there's a song that you listening right
now from the eighties. There's a song
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that has touched your life in some
way, and that song has touched you
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because of a certain experience or event
in your life. So in this episode
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today, if you just joined us. We're going to be journeying through our
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stories, celebrating them through the songs, of course, and talking about the
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struggles and the uncertainties the social issues
of that era sometimes. So I want
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you guys to fasten up your seatbelts
as we navigate through an emotional roller coaster
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that was the eighties, through the
life of both Toscano and Chang. As
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far back as you can remember during
the eighties, what were some of the
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experiences that made Chang who he is
today. I'm a cat that went to
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Catholic school. I was brought up, you know, Catholic, Chicano oriented.
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A lot of my family, most
of my families from Badios, East
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Los Angeles City, terrists Elsano,
Pico Rivera, south side Montivo where I
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grew up winter gardens, I mean
all over. You know. My family
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came from, you know, the
backrooms Native Americans, may Donald, I
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have a family that came from Chabas
Ravine. As a matter of fact,
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my la name. Hmm. I'll
just leave it at that. But your
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parents, where does the Native American
side? Is that through your mom or
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your dad? That is actually from
both sides. On my father's side,
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I have found out that I am
a majority Apache Indian. I am also
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related to Geranimo Geronimo to my Caucasian
friends out there. I am waiting to
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find out if I am a great
great great great or even beyond grandson or
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possibly a nephew. So when I
find those information out, then I'll know
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more or less. Now on my
mother's side, I am Yaki Indian,
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I am Chumash Indian, and I
am South California, southern California, you
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know, out into ocean side,
so it's kind of crazy. But then
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again, I am you know,
Latino. I do have Spaniard in your
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in me. That's why I look
light skin, green eyes. It's you
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know, it's crazy what they can
do with your blood. So I grew
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up in that type of an environment, you know, burassa the reality of
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life, kind of a race or
an origin that was looked down upon,
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prejudiced against. So I grew up, you know what I mean, in
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a fisticuff, being very proud of
who I am, where I came from,
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knowing where I came from, and
never being afraid of being myself,
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speaking my mind or going against the
grain. Now where it comes into plays
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like I went to Catholic school.
You know, everybody knows it. You
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know, when you're growing up in
the same culture as me, you're Catholic,
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you gotta be. That's just the
way it went. So, now
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this was in the seventies, right, you will say I went to Yeah,
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I left Saint Benedict's, uh in
nineteen seventy nine. Benny's Bruins all
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the way. Then I went into
public school, Monadello High School, which
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is like where I really should have
been. I was like a freak flag,
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you know what I mean. I
was very grit into the music and
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the look long hair. As a
kid, I was intrigued by that.
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I wanted to look like the cats
from Three Dog Night and the Allman Brothers
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and Jimi Hendrix. You know.
I wanted to look like those cats because
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I grew up listening to that music. So that was kind of like my
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vibe. So once I left Catholic
school, it was all over. I
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grew the hair out and I did
my damnedest to grow my hair faster than
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I could because I didn't want to
look like Keith Partridge, you know,
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with those bangs and then it's resting
on your shoulders. Yeah, you know,
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there's just no way. It's got
to go bold, it's got to
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go along. I was always into
the music, you know, metal was
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the music for me. I was
aggressive, little cat. I had a
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lot of questions, question authority,
my background, physical just it's hard to
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explain the soul that I was brought
up in, but it was always intense.
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So I transitioned into being a rock
and roll and out to hippie.
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You know, I believe in like
I don't hug trees, I'll knock him
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down and build a pad. My
outlook was always the same as even as
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hippies in one belief, because I
grew up heavily with the Beetles and John
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Lennon, and I thought nobody should
judge anybody by social status, by color,
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by race, by religion, bi
sexuality. I felt women were just
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as strong as men, even stronger. I felt like I would see my
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mom and my aunts and my grandma
hold down the fort and it was like,
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you know, that's hardcore stuff,
you know what I mean. When
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something rocks the ship, it's always
the lady that has to gather the anchors
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and throw them on the sides of
the ship so it doesn't fall over.
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So you know, when you grow
up in that vibe, you have an
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understanding of how to be strong,
how to be intense, how to respect.
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So in the eighties, that's what
it was all about, and it
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was at a time that I was
becoming who I was, at a time
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when society was getting freer. Homosexuality
was out there, people intermingling and dating
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other races was out there. People
being old with certain dress, attire and
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fashions was out there. We were
starting to see a turn deeper than the
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hippie movement of people getting angry about
the social and political injustice, which is
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similar to what we see nowadays,
which I think is incredible that we talk
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about this tonight because there's major,
major differences but similarities in now and the
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eighties. So when you grow up
free form of free spirity, you're just
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gonna groove to it all. And
it made the eighties just epic and open.
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It was crazy. You know,
you can go to gigs for a
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whole weekend whatever music and everybody vibe. Yeah. Every now and then you
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get a jackass and asshold and they
want to throw blow. But usually most
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of the time it's individuals like that
that are uneducated, angry, and inebriated
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under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol
fuels stupidity in so many different ways.
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That's why we have a lot of
people dying at the wheel. They think
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that they're buzz, but they're drunk, and they go out there and kill
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somebody or they kill themselves. And
I've been around a long time and I've
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lost my best friend, family members, and a lot of people. I
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graduated in nineteen eighty three. I
had my first child in nineteen eighty seven.
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I was twenty one years old when
I had my first child, pretty
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much with my first love, you
know what I mean. She was a
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heavy metal chick. Her name was
Teresa. She was from Cutahy. I
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met her at the La Street Scene. And it's insane because that's the La
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Street scene is when they were They
had bands like crazy and it was kind
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of like a carnival, kind of
like a street fair, and they had
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music, alcohol, The youth was
awry, and it was a heavy metal
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night. And it was a night
that there was a fight at the La
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Street Scene. It was during the
metal heads, I believe, against maybe
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the punkers, the alternatives. I
forget who. It was cloudy because I
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doubled dosed on mushrooms that night.
So I don't remember who started the fight,
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but I remember having to fight.
I don't know who I was fighting,
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but I fought as a police arrived
with horses and patons and started kicking
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the ship out of people, like
usually happens when you're in a riot over
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stupidity. We jumped through some bushes
and on the other side of these bushes
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was his chicken. I met her. We just locked in and we fell
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in love. And that was nineteen
eighty four, and then we stayed together
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till eighty eight, so we had
a kid, and after that it went
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south Paw. But in nineteen eighty
I was in high school. Man,
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it was the revolution of high school. I mean, high school chicks were
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hot, you know what I mean. It was Lightning, Bolton op and
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Levi's Metal Journey, Stray Cats,
punk Rock, the Pretenders, you know,
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the Misfits, X Culture Club.
I mean, it was so diverse
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in high school, so different from
what I was in involved in at Catholic
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school. Structured you had a bunch
of penguins, town you what to do,
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priests with cold hands. You know, you had to take religion for
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a whole hour. What for,
I might as well go home and read
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the Bible. But that's another story. So it was the eighties were really
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intense for people of my generation,
my age, making that transition from childhood
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into teenagehood to where in teenagehood you
start discovering who you want to be.
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You start pushing your own boundaries,
making your boundaries, learning from experience,
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falling in love, getting hurt,
getting stupid, drunk, and getting sick.
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You know what I mean. You
went through all that and the statting
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in the eighties. We lost a
lot of our loved ones because of the
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care freeism and the stupidity and the
unknowing and the unwillingness to realize something could
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happen. So the eighties was a
trip. Anybody in my generation, give
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yourselves a high five, go kiss
the mirrors, slap a high five,
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because you are lucky you were here. We did some crazy shit in the
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eighties. Was there an event that
marked your life when you were in high
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school still that just transformed your life
in some way? Oh? Yeah,
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I would have to say it was
me going to the US Festival in nineteen
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eighty three, my senior year.
Three days at Irvine Meadows. You know,
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I was there for two three nights. I saw the Pretenders and you
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two, and then I was there
for the whole metal experience. It was
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incredible. The US Festival opened up
all my senses because I was free.
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I was with my own people,
not only the people that like my music
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or look like me, just people
that thought like me, who thought that
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music was more than just a sound. Definitely, the US Festival, I
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met so many people of different walks
of life, so many diverse people from
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all over in those three nights.
It was incredible. We indulged in partying
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together. I had a lot of
fun. I got crabs there. I
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won't say how many people I slept
with, but hell yeah, I was
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sharing the love and you know,
everybody got along. It was hot,
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people were thirsty. Some people,
you know, they couldn't handle it.
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They got stupid. But a lot
of people got sick, but there was
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infirmary. It was an incredible experience, the music, the vibe, meeting
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people being there as one. Was
there a band that was there a band
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that stood out from all of them? For you, was there one band
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in particular that, even though they
were all probably good in their own way,
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and everybody has their favorite bands,
and regardless of your favorite band,
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was there a band that stood out
from every other band for you? Oh
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yeah? Probably for me it was
Judas Priest, it was Triumph, It
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was probably the Pretenders, you know
what I mean. I want to go
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on that kind of a realm,
you know what I mean. There was
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just so many bands, so many
different vibes came out, but those two
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bands, two that the banders watching
that night, the first night was like
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reliving the seventies as a kid with
all the music that my sister and my
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cousins had turned me on too.
And then you know, metal Day was
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just like a field day for me. Heads. So I would say those
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two bands because it kind of brought
to light and made me feel comfortable on
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my own skin. If I can
say that, Yeah, you know,
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if we're real, you know,
the eighties was an incredible ride, an
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amazing ride. And I know that
there are a lot of people, even
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younger people, who always I hear
this all the time. I hear I
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wish I would have been born during
the time that went through the eighties because
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you had everything from you know,
the music scene, from flashy synthpop to
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the raw power of rock and roll, the beginnings of hip hop, and
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you couldn't turn on the radio without
hearing somewhere Michael Jackson, Madonna or Prince
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taking over the airwaves. And then
there were those moments in Arcades with the
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birth of video games and the first
personal computers. It was like we were
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stepping into a whole new era of
technology and connection. But let's be real,
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the eighties were great, but it
also had its fair share of challenges
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to from the AIDS epidemic, to
the struggles in the economy, to the
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Cold War, to the things that
I don't even remember because I was too
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young and at that time probably I
was just too naive to or even I
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probably didn't even care. You know, I was a young teenager back then.
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So as much as the eighties,
through Curveballs to US chang it was
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there was a spirit of resilience that
shines through everything, and music was definitely
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number one for us. And you
went to the US Festival, you got
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to be there, you got to
experience it, you got to share in
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everything that went on. What an
experience, you know what, brother,
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anybody that has been to a concert
of any significance or any type of genre
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of music. I think everybody feels
that same experience, that beauty, that
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unity, vibe, that love.
Everybody is in harmony because you're vibing to
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the songs that have memory for you. And it's incredible when you go to
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a gig that everybody's in harmony because
at one moment, everybody is in the
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exact same place in that song with
their own memory. So there's no reason
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to be stupid or argue or fight. And wouldn't the world be a lot
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more beautiful and peaceful if everybody could
be on the same page as they are
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when they are listening to a song
you are listening to back to the eighties
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radio with Taskano and Chang. I
am going to play a song from a
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band that captivated my mind. It
gave me a fuel of fury to kick
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ass and take no names throughout my
life. This is something from Judas Priest
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Up the Screen or Bengean's album with
Electric Eye. Because for ever out o
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piritspace, I'm gonna tell you,
I just grace everything you do. Can
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think you find the lines they doing
on the side, there's no so escape
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by what you know. The side
so like a great I am at your
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country trade always in focus and me
by stair. I s to you,
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but you don't know out there I
take pride, he throw me down.
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Y'all see that whole, My dear
listens that take matters that who's second by
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my much dra my and I have
a star like you real to wild spots.
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I felt on every s my second
money, but my so I set
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my hundred texts texts trick God,
you ain't any at any about the way
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the word you know saw some slf
tromsoe. Pray to stop with gray sucking
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sounds playing your na from side.
You will see or saw your knees and
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gas lay like bray. Y'all er
on gray put in your mind gray like
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your cat in day. Just gone
inside and pray not fack, not fack,
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just s my name. I stop
you want the way if you'll betray
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night, make y'all en, I
believe retromissory chim y'all brest install ter you
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will see how install your needy into
I'm feeling you'll like bay y'all know my
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name, Si, my name Master
Master pleasant driving out me and after Master
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Master from his snowy lies, laughter
left alter, laughter, laughter, left
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her nothing at my grind and and
and the thought sing tun y'all start writing
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without resource, right days everything,
right day? How y'all like outs?
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You want life? Your do you? You? I say, young stop
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spray in your mind star and sick
stop stop stop. Back to the eighties
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Radio released in nineteen eighty six,
the song you just heard paint sub bleak
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picture of being controlled by a metaphorical
puppet master, symbolizing the grip that substance
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abuse can have on an individual.
That's right, lady and gentlemen, you
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just heard Metallica with Master of Puppets, a song that reflects the darker aspects
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chain of life during that era.
Big time, master of public. Great
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song, great song. You know
what, man. The evolvement of metal,
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how it came in from the mid
seventies, that kind of catapulted in
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the eighties, created its own sound, its own movement, its own unity.
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I thought was similar to the hippie
movement. Is we were raw and
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real, just like hip hop,
just like you know, rap, real
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rap. So the eighties pretty much
metal was like we're going to tell you
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what we feel, how it is, because obviously you don't give enough an
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app about us, we the people. So our music going to scare the
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app audio because it's going to wake
you up. So it catapulted in you
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know, metal music in the eighties. Remember Tipper Gore wanted to censor hip
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hop and metal music. Al Gore's
old lady. Now remember that they had
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this big hearing in the Senate and
in order to censor music, they wanted
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to just stifle the word of musicians
and artists. And who came to the
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rescue that day none other than Twisted
Sister himself, the Snyder and listen,
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listen into a d Snyder had to
say on that day, general nature of
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all this testimony of nothing censorship First
Amendment absolutism does not pertain with respect to
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the broadcast media, and thattricales is
the main media. I guess you would
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agree to actually sail the record,
wouldn't it not be? Yes? I'd
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like to clarify something. I said, no authority has the right or necessary
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insight. I didn't say you weren't
able to. I said you don't have
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the right, or I don't have
the right or the RIAA. Also,
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we're talking about the airwaves as opposed
to a person going with their money and
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purchase an album to play in their
room, their home, on their own
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time. The airwaves is something different. I think that the FCC and even
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MTV have done a fair job in
keeping profanity, obscenity and things like that
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off the public airwaves. But as
far as when you listening to your own
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home, that's something totally different.
I feel the chain looking back at what
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the eighties was. It wasn't just
a decade, man, It was an
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attitude, It was a feeling.
It was freedom, it was a way
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of life. It was about embracing
both the good times the tough times,
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and knowing that each experience shaped us
and added a unique color to the canvas
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of our lives. Now that may
sound poetic or whatever, but it's meant
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to describe what we felt and continue
to feel about that awesome, awesome era
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and decade of the nineteen eighties.
It wasn't just big events that made the
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eighties special. What made the eighties
so special, it was those everyday moments.
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Think back, I know you're listening. In any part of the world
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that you're listening, the eighties meant
something to you. They continue to mean
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something you remember waiting by the radio
to record your favorite song on cassette tape,
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or the thrill that it was renting
a VHS tape for movie night.
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Do you remember that change. We've
talked about it so many times. It
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was a simple pleasure that had a
way of making life feel I have no
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other word but magical. And of
course there was the fashion. It was
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the crazy mix of bold colors and
oversized and tight things and the hairstyles.
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The eighties were about self expression,
embracing individuality and also pushing the boundaries of
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what was considered to be normal.
Back then, it wasn't all glamor and
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glitz. We had a lot of
crazy stuff go we did you know?
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We had Reaganomics, we had the
wall coming down, how we had AIDS
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scared the ship out of people.
We saw a lot of hate from the
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uneducation, the fear, and people
judging because it was only attacking the gay
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community. Two individuals, Freddie Mercury
passed away of AIDS. Robin Crosby,
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the guitar player of Rat passed away
from AIDS. Easy E of nwas passed
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away. That's right, AIDS.
So it was shaking the community to the
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core, and it was starting to
hit everybody in every walk of life.
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So we had a lot of bad
in the eighties. We had a lot
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of good in the eighties. The
eighties I think made tougher adults in generations
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of ours. I think we are
the last generation. I don't want to
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toot my own horn or pat my
generation on the back, but screwed I
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will. We are the last generation
that grew up with discipline, with pliers
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00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:37.119
on a TV, with a dialed
phone with beepers, with no beepers,
386
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:46.360
coming from a generation of no cable, just one underground TV network on or
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00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:52.039
select. We went to the mall, you know, we went to go
388
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.840
play games at the video arcade or
at the corner store, or we played
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or we played table games at home. Remember the exactly, remember exactly,
390
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Remember you could play pong. We're
tough. You know. We're the generation
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00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:08.840
to where I'm getting bullied at school. So either I make a friend or
392
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I go outside and hopefully kicked the
ship off this fool so they stopped messing
393
00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:19.280
around with me. So it's it's
really a unique time in the eighties for
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00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:25.039
our generation. We're the last generation
with balls and our children hopefully majority of
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us have raised our children with guts, with balls, with wisdom, with
396
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truth, with no fear, with
reality, because Lord knows I did that
397
00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.239
with my four girls. My girls
are some tough ass chicks, you know
398
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.159
what I mean. I gave him
a lot of funniness, but me and
399
00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:42.960
my chick were straight up. That's
the way you have to be. The
400
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:46.559
eighties is the last generation of straight
up, no fear. There is one
401
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:51.000
thing that angered me as we taught. As I brought up the AIDS epidemic,
402
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:57.400
Sebastian Bock wore a T shirt said
AIDS kills fags dead. I wanted
403
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:00.440
to beat the crap out of that
guy I would have ever seen in that
404
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:06.599
shirt because I thought, it's disgusting
day you would wish death on people because
405
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they're gay, or you would wish
death on anybody that has that without knowing
406
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:15.239
it or understanding how you're going to
die. But then again, look at
407
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:20.320
him. Now, he's a loud
mouth, washed up alcoholic. So Sebastian
408
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Bok, if you get alold of
the show, you're a piece of shit.
409
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.039
M interesting, and there it is, Ladies and gentlemen, as promised
410
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.280
in the beginning of the show.
We also told you that we were going
411
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to be talking a little bit about
our own personal stories and sometimes struggles as
412
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well. You're mentioning something very cool
chang which was the rebelliousness and the challenge
413
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.480
is faced by younger people in the
nineteen eighties, And we also talked about
414
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:47.840
self expression. You know, I
was born in nineteen seventy two, so
415
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.639
nineteen eighty two, I'm ten years
old, you know, eighty five,
416
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:55.599
I you know, kick off my
teenage years, so I'm full blown teenager
417
00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:00.280
in the latter half of the eighties. Yeah, I'd say so. About
418
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:06.280
then you started being aware of what
was going on, what you wanted to
419
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:09.360
be, what you liked, what
you didn't like, having to be free
420
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:15.920
and experience your experiences growing up in
a one parent home with a crazy Italian
421
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:21.679
dad who wore sharkskin suits and Cherry
a Chrome forty five, and a Mexican
422
00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:29.159
mom that would literally beat you with
a Dodger baseball bet that you guys probably
423
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:35.440
got at Dodger Stadium on Fernando Valenzuela
night the Little Wooden Ones. My premonition
424
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:37.239
of you in the eighties, after
knowing you all these years, Yeah,
425
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:39.039
I was. I went to ask
you, how do you picture me in
426
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:45.000
the eighties? Well, pictures you've
sent me late at night after we've done
427
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:51.679
a show and we've been drinking.
I see from Chips Poncerello. Yeah,
428
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:59.360
okay, yes, I see Ed
Marrinero from Hill Street Blues right right?
429
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:01.559
Oh oh yo? Are you ready
to go with this one? Yeah?
430
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:08.880
Yeah, I see a little bit
of Rick D's with darker hair, very
431
00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:15.480
nice. Yes, okay. I
also see a little bit of John Travolta,
432
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:19.119
because you had the way the hair, you know. Yeah, but
433
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:23.000
I would say the attitude because you're
half Italian. If you were getting fucked
434
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:28.800
with Tony Danza would come out way
smarter than right, the boxer, the
435
00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:30.960
boxer, Tony Danza, right right, right, right, okay. And
436
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:36.559
here's one more. I thought your
hair, the way you wore it was
437
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:45.519
a nineteen eighties baseball player tops rookie
card. Are you ready, Mike Piazza,
438
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:52.119
mustache, kind of wavy, kind
of long. You probably wore that
439
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.719
nice type baseball jersey because you were
probably in shape back then. You didn't
440
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:59.000
you never did drugs because your mom
would have killed you, so you were
441
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.400
afraid of that. And then if
your mom didn't kill you, your dad
442
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:06.800
would with that Chrome forty five.
He's heavy into horse racing like my dad
443
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:10.079
and mom. Eyes. Yeah,
he's got him nake hits so his son
444
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:14.719
can't go down. But yet that's
how you look. I bet you when
445
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:19.840
you played baseball you doubled up on
the wrist bands because I did. Oh
446
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:23.360
yeah, my wrist bands used to
at the coincide, you know the feeling.
447
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
had the haircut to go to the
448
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.760
pros. I had the haircut to
be all put him in the miners,
449
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:37.239
dope his locker drinking. He's always
throwing at people. He's very aggressive.
450
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.800
Wow, you've it's like you would
have went back in time and would have
451
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:45.079
seen me through some type of a
TV or something. Well a lot of
452
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:47.400
it. Yes, so definitely,
yes. I grew up with my dad.
453
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:52.760
My dad was Italian, but he
was born in Argentina and the rest
454
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:54.800
of you know, his brother,
his sister, my grandparents are all born
455
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:59.880
in Italy and my mother from Mexico, from Sinaloa. As a matter of
456
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:02.400
a big shout out to both Argentina
Sinolo in Italy. By the way,
457
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.559
I got good blow off of that. My grandfather, So check this out.
458
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:10.480
I grew up even though I was
an only child, I grew up
459
00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:15.840
a very strict home because my mother
was holy smokes. I used to call
460
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:24.280
her Sergeant Slaughter my way. Sergeant
says, and were you brought up Catholic?
461
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.000
You know what? No, Actually
I was brought up Christian. It
462
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:35.199
was like the Catholics that just go
to church once a year, that's kind
463
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:37.239
of the the I would go to
the Christian church maybe once a year and
464
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:44.320
stuff like that. So we weren't
too heavily into any any religion, but
465
00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:47.280
we just wanted to have And of
course my dad was like, you're an
466
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:51.440
Italian. If you're not Catholic,
you're not an Italian, you know.
467
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.840
And my mother was And my mother
was like, you let him choose whatever
468
00:52:54.920 --> 00:53:00.119
he wants in life, you know, et cetera to be. But she's
469
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:04.559
very hardcore. I remember my mother
used to say, you will cut your
470
00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:07.119
hair the way I say, until
you're out of this house and you can
471
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.880
pay your own way. Other than
that, yeah, you can. You
472
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:15.119
better not come. If you come
with a weird haircut and you want to
473
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.880
color your hair, the next morning
you will have no hair. It will
474
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.320
be shaved, shaved in your sleep. So now my mom was hardcore.
475
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:30.000
I grew up with that background.
When my parents were married. My dad
476
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:34.119
was a Korean vet. You know. My old man was from boil Hide,
477
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:36.519
straight out of the neighborhood. You
know, my old man's a crazy
478
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:40.119
He was a crazy hit three terms
in Korea. My dad was a drug
479
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:46.000
and alcohol concert to people in prison, civil rights activists during the seventies.
480
00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:52.000
He was there during the East La
riots. He was he had talked to
481
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:59.360
Bobby Kennedy. He was going to
go to the gathering for Bobby Kennedy in
482
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.079
LA when he was assassinated. Yeah, my own man was crazy, but
483
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:07.760
my own man was hardcore. No
son of his was going to have long
484
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:13.519
hair that looked like his daughters or
looked like anybody else. You're not going
485
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:17.239
to do drugs. You're going to
do what I say, and that's the
486
00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:22.159
way it's going to be. So
oh yeah, And it was like the
487
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.760
fear of God. I bet your
parents were like you didn't they didn't even
488
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:30.360
have to strike you a certain look
or a move that was you know what?
489
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.400
That was more. My dad he
gave me the look, I don't
490
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:37.480
you know what I only remember my
dad chasing after me. I literally,
491
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.679
when I say chasing, he literally
chased me with a belt. But I
492
00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:43.280
was like five or six years old, and I, yeah, I took
493
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:45.800
off. I went under the house
with my mom. Yeah. Yeah,
494
00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:51.039
so he was he just gave me
up your own gun and money. Tell
495
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:53.360
you. That was my dad though. So he would give me the look.
496
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:57.519
He would give me the look,
and I would just okay, whatever
497
00:54:57.599 --> 00:55:00.400
you say. My mom would give
me the word and a look, and
498
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:05.000
I'd be like okay. But my
mom was severe. Oh I got I
499
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.800
didn't get the belt. I would
have loved getting the belt. I got
500
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:13.320
the extension cord, I got the
you know you got the seventies crap.
501
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:16.159
Oh yeah, I got the plunger
without the rubber piece at the end.
502
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:20.320
I'm talking just a stick and on
the legs. So yeah. Anyway,
503
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:24.559
anyway back to the to my teenagers
in the eighties. So even though I
504
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:30.639
did grow up only child, I
was not spoiled at all in certain aspects.
505
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:35.440
Ye, what year did you hit
to high school? Eighty seven?
506
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:38.360
It all comes together, eighty eighty
seven, y eight eighty seven. I
507
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:44.639
went to Santa Fe Springs High School
and Originally, I think my mom wanted
508
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:47.039
me to go to Downey High So
I went there one semester and then half
509
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.639
of the semester, and then I
went back to Santa Fe Springs High School.
510
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:54.440
But in junior highs where I met
my best friend Mark Hernandez. Big
511
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:58.239
shout out, Mark, you know
you're in Vegas, Mark, what's up?
512
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:00.840
And change? You know? Mark? So? Yeah, so I
513
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:06.320
met Mark. So the deal with
me is I was the kind of kid
514
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:08.320
that you looked at, and he
was the nicest kid on the block of
515
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:15.199
my parents friends. Like all my
parents friends, I remember them always talking
516
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:20.119
the nicest things about me, telling
them that you have the greatest kid on
517
00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:23.599
earth. But behind the scenes,
I was never a mean kid. First
518
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:27.719
of all, I never bullied anybody. I wasn't a mean kid. But
519
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:32.840
I was as mischievous as any possible
kid can ever be. I was the
520
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:37.960
kind of kid that would ride my
bicycle on top of the roof of the
521
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:43.239
elementary schools and ghost ride my bike
off of the roof. Or we'd also
522
00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:49.440
play WWF wrestling off of the roof
of my house and jump onto mattresses on
523
00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:52.679
the on the ground. We would
be the kind of games. Yeah,
524
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:59.000
we would be the kind of kids
that that would jump off of weird ramps
525
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:05.039
made on top of the railroad tracks
there in Los Anethos, and so a
526
00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:09.239
lot of X game stuff, but
also a lot of a lot of girls
527
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:14.079
stuff. Yeah, I remember.
Just that came in high school, right,
528
00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:17.800
Well you start junior high. Yeah, junior high, hardcore junior high.
529
00:57:19.079 --> 00:57:22.559
You started whacking off in junior high
for the girls, I believe I
530
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:25.480
believe it or not. Yeah,
even though you say no, I didn't
531
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:30.360
even need to because I had I
had good luck. Excuse me, but
532
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:35.239
what am I going to say?
We're telling I've never needed to touch I
533
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.039
didn't say that. I said not
in junior high as much because I had
534
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:45.880
so many female friends I didn't need
to write. So needless to say,
535
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:49.719
Yeah, I went to Los Anethos
Junior High and then I went to Santa
536
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:52.679
Fe Springs High School, which is
where I had a ball man. It
537
00:57:52.840 --> 00:58:00.199
was just great. But we yes, we had great times. It was
538
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:06.639
the time during the great earthquake of
nineteen eighty seven in a Wittier and so
539
00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:09.239
I was there. Yeah, well
Mark, I remember all my adventures were
540
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:13.360
with my best friend Mark. So
I was I was not a bad kid,
541
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:16.280
but I was mischievous. I would
always do stuff that you're not supposed
542
00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:20.559
to do. Sometimes I'd get in
trouble, but most of the time I
543
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:23.079
wouldn't. I'd get away with stuff. I'm not saying I was a great
544
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:29.079
kid behind the scenes. I wasn't. I'm never but like I would steal.
545
00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:31.760
I would go into the cassette shop
and steal cassettes for my girlfriends back
546
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:35.480
then. You know they wanted a
cassette. I put them in my pants.
547
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:39.000
Slow down, slow down, time
out, time out. We hear
548
00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:45.840
a Tuscano and changed back to the
eighties radio. Do not condone, sef
549
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:49.719
no, never, never, never, never. It doesn't matter how old
550
00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:55.599
you are. Stealing is stealing.
And Tuscano was wrong and should have done
551
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:02.480
some type of a jail sentence for
activity and stealing for stealing a cassette.
552
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:08.880
Yes, when now, Tisconnell,
When when you got into this mindset of
553
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:14.960
thinking you could steal? Oh my
gosh, it happened one time, maybe
554
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:20.480
twice. And we two wristbands during
baseball, Yeah, and swing hair like
555
00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:28.639
a stallion? Right? What music
was soothing your mind or working on your
556
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:36.760
mind to going? I need to
look sexy Latin mystic and I need to
557
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:43.800
steal. Alright, alright, alright, So I want to clear something up
558
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:47.000
first first, idol, Okay,
okay, First of all, I want
559
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:51.519
to clear something up. I only
took like I think it was like twice.
560
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:55.679
It couldn't have been three times.
I counted twice that I remember I
561
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:59.719
stole something. No, it's not
okay, whether you did it once or
562
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:02.400
three, it was wrong the first
time it was, and it was really
563
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:07.400
wrong the second time. However,
I never did it again because I knew
564
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:09.519
it was wrong. Okay, that
should make it better. Three you did
565
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:14.760
it three times, as you can
think. No, clearly, No,
566
01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:17.320
but no it took three times.
Oh, I will never do that again.
567
01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:21.480
No, I did not do a
strike three. However, I can't
568
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:22.679
tell you. I was also in
martial arts. They used to call me
569
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.199
the karate kid. But because apparently
they say that back then, I had
570
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:31.440
this sort of karate kiddish look back
then, and I parted my hair in
571
01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:37.199
the middle. Yes, a little
bit like Poncerella. Yes, Chuck,
572
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.719
you wanted to chuck Norris look,
but because of your Ataliano and the color
573
01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:46.400
of your hair. For yeah,
So the funny and my parents. By
574
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.599
the way, my parents when I
was twelve. I would have kicked rap
575
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:53.519
Majo's ass when I was twelve years
old. When I was twelve years old,
576
01:00:53.960 --> 01:01:00.960
so we're talking eighty four. My
parents got a divorce in eighty four.
577
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:02.760
At twelve years old. You know, I lived without my parents,
578
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:07.079
without my dad, and I was
actually happier because my mom and dad got
579
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.639
into so many fights. It was
just a horrible, horrible experience while they
580
01:01:10.679 --> 01:01:15.519
were married. Yeah, but when
they were separated and they were divorced,
581
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.000
for me, that's when I felt
like totally free. And my mom did
582
01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:23.599
try to, you know, do
as much as she could to be able
583
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:28.400
to allow me my independence. And
I was very independent. I would go
584
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.199
out nine ten o'clock at night and
if it was a weekend. So you
585
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:36.000
were not using alcohol or drugs,
correct, Well, I did drink with
586
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:38.800
my friends because we did go to
parties. We went to house parties quite
587
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:44.320
a bit. And you asked about
music, Well, I was into Power
588
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:49.320
one oh six and especially Karoq.
I listened to Karoq a lot, with
589
01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.599
DJ's such as Freddy's, Snakeskin,
Jed, the Fish, the Poor Man,
590
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:57.079
and believe it or not. The
love line was with Doctor Drew.
591
01:01:57.280 --> 01:02:01.119
Even back then we're talking early early
eighties, and so I used to love
592
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:07.719
listening to alternative and rock and then
a little bit older teen, Yeah,
593
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:12.800
I started listening to Part one oh
six and some some rap music, but
594
01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:16.079
I loved dance music, you know, Expose, Stacey Q, things like
595
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:21.320
that, which we remember, we
did talk We did talk to. Yes,
596
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:27.119
we'd talked to one of the original
the original member of Expose. So
597
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:30.599
you can go ahead and look back
at our archive shows and find that out.
598
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:34.360
So, as I said, wasn't
a bad kid, but I was
599
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:39.079
up to no good lots of those
times. But my biggest if we were
600
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:44.639
to talk about an event that really
marked my life during that time, I
601
01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.519
want to say it was eighty four
all the way through eighty nine, and
602
01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:53.119
it was sports. I was heavily, heavily into sports. I was into
603
01:02:53.199 --> 01:02:57.920
three sports in particular. Two of
those sports I could have gone even much
604
01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:01.199
much at a higher level. Was
into cycling. I was into soccer,
605
01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:06.000
and I was into baseball. Believe
it or not, your buddy here had
606
01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:09.559
a four twenty five batting average,
which is not bad. Yeah, but
607
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:13.440
my coach always used to say.
My coach from high school used to say,
608
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:15.719
yeah, Mary, we'd love to
put you on the team, but
609
01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:21.239
your Grays aren't doing so good because
you know, you've been ditching a lot.
610
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:23.280
Stop ditching and come to school.
You'll be on the team. Funny
611
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:29.840
because both of us have two different
outlooks on ditching. When you were playing
612
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:36.039
baseball and you were swinging, who
were who were your idols in baseball during
613
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:39.000
the eighties, That kind of kept
your mind going to where I'm going to
614
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:45.679
be a baseball player rather than look
and work for the government. As I
615
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:50.679
ended up as you ended up doing
well. I had two favorite teams,
616
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:54.559
all right, So obviously I was
in La County. My favorite team was
617
01:03:54.599 --> 01:04:00.800
the Dodgers. I was in that
jail, Okay, obviously like the Dodgers.
618
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:04.840
Steve Garvey was probably one of my
Oh my god, you know what
619
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:10.599
stop stop stop stop right now,
now you're gonna see full Wait a minute,
620
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:14.519
Steve Garvey. Here we go to
my favorite Dodgers in the seventies,
621
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:17.760
right because I was a kid during
Garvey Garvey played for the San Diego Padres
622
01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:21.880
right by the way, by the
way, the second favorite team, second
623
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:30.800
favorite team of all time the Padres
Padres. Anyway, Steve Garvey, I
624
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:34.519
met him at a Dodger game.
Great guy, of course, my favorite
625
01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:41.039
Dodger. Yeah. Sure, and
I'm sure that you dipping into that information.
626
01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:44.880
I bet you used to try to
bat like Garvey. Did you work
627
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:49.000
on your four arms extra? Because
I'm a thin guy, but back in
628
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:57.840
my youth, I played baseball,
I played football, I boxed, took
629
01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:01.280
martial arts, and my dad's whole
thing was strength in the forearm, because
630
01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:05.000
you could do more damage with the
strength in your forearm than the whole power
631
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:08.559
in your bicep, in your tricep. So let me ask you this.
632
01:05:09.519 --> 01:05:12.199
You bring up Steve Garvey, so
I know you were trying to bat like
633
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.400
him. Right, you didn't have
hair on your arms, right, don't
634
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:17.119
you don't even have it? Now? That's right? I actually I do
635
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:23.079
not like Steve Garvey, but there's
a forearm. Had Steve Garvey had arms
636
01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.760
like a sask, it was like
Pompeye, a Harry Pompeye. Did you
637
01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:30.800
ever try to cut your hair like
Garvey's. There was a point where actually
638
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.119
combing my hair to the side,
just like Garvey. Yeah? Absolutely,
639
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:36.119
wow, Wow, you know what, man, I have to give you
640
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:40.320
props for doing that, and I
also have to tell you what a week
641
01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:45.559
is. There's only one Steve Garvey, iron Man number six. For the
642
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:47.280
loss, my friend, there was
a Steve Garvey. But if I would
643
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:51.239
have kept going, look out Steve
Garvey. Here came mister Tiscano. That's
644
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:54.639
all I could tell you. Anyway, you were listening to Back to the
645
01:05:54.760 --> 01:06:00.880
eighties radio with Tiscano and Chang,
and I want to deet kate a song
646
01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:04.960
to my partner in crime, to
Sconnell queen. She keeps some more away
647
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:13.440
shumder in a pretty Kevin and the
case. She says, just like marieta
648
01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:27.159
building, remven resjobity location. You
get me on cigarettes vers did any get
649
01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:34.360
extra in every night? She's a
kid created a gene dynamite with a lazabe
650
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:55.679
even cause he wants to bow your
part recommended at thesation appetit my complications.
651
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:01.599
She never kept the same adrest conversation. She spoke just like a baronet little
652
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:14.039
man trying to do to get your
mid been again incidentally in that because she
653
01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:20.360
couldn't get her spstidious and precise,
she's can create gun by ten the teen
654
01:07:20.760 --> 01:08:04.039
dnner mine with a lace of beans
to your mine. Drove a Jesus where
655
01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:17.800
they get to play theirs the momentarily
out of actual, temporarily out of goods,
656
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:25.560
Get up, create, bide the
tea. I mind with Elizabee blousy
657
01:08:25.720 --> 01:09:23.079
into bommand of the best Sasha and
appetime since I was born. They shouldn't
658
01:09:23.119 --> 01:09:30.119
all me another misfit child, another
word out itself. I never played by
659
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:38.720
the rules. I never really care
my next the resting season sixty everywhere sh
660
01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:47.439
see it's now let me tell me
the other I stood in my sad.
661
01:09:48.680 --> 01:10:14.520
We are sid sa we working in
less ground wall on one wall, about
662
01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:17.880
streaming in my ear, about who
I was supposed to be looking a free
663
01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:23.800
peace wall streets fire side. You
look just like I said, m man.
664
01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:28.520
The some of you want to know
when I'll see a pnel lace cho
665
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:48.399
shin' see now who was standing?
So we on the go said show we've
666
01:10:48.439 --> 01:11:25.079
been snow. We walk get one
fall on the wall where the Carlos cry
667
01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:32.640
up style whisking down my suck.
Try we walking never this, We walk
668
01:11:32.840 --> 01:12:15.199
fall on the one for all the
reasons on the wall where commercials bad music
669
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:21.159
good now with zero commercials. Please
help support this in your donation. Today,
670
01:12:21.399 --> 01:12:26.600
we are going back to the eighties, back to the eighties radio.
671
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:30.479
A song that speaks about the rebelliousness
and challenges faced by young people in the
672
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.880
eighties. That was skid Row and
Youth Gone Wild. That's a good song.
673
01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:40.840
It was a good song. But
you mentioned you mentioned your favorite singer,
674
01:12:40.880 --> 01:12:43.039
and now how to put it on? Well, you or that's the
675
01:12:43.119 --> 01:12:47.000
only problem I had with him.
I thought that that band kind of got
676
01:12:47.199 --> 01:12:56.319
categorized as a a week woo see
band, and his erratic behavior and stupidity
677
01:12:57.039 --> 01:13:01.159
kind of catapulted them into like man
shut the But they had great music.
678
01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:05.319
I mean, they had another one
of their famous songs, eighteen in Life.
679
01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:10.359
Great song. But you know,
if you just joined us here,
680
01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:13.319
back to the eighties radio, we're
talking about the events of the eighties in
681
01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:16.479
our own personal life. You know, Chang and I both shared a little
682
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:21.159
bit. For someone like you and
me who are listening, it was more
683
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:26.039
than just a time in history.
It was like a roller coaster of emotions.
684
01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:32.920
The eighties remind us of life's experiences, sort of like a life's mosaic
685
01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:39.279
of experiences that shape us into who
we are from the high fives of success
686
01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:43.960
to the challenges that make us dig
deep. Despite everything man that happened to
687
01:13:44.039 --> 01:13:46.600
us throughout the eighties, a lot
of good, a lot of bad stuff
688
01:13:46.640 --> 01:13:51.079
that marked us forever will never be
the same. But it's this hope for
689
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:57.359
a brighter future that keeps us going. And because we're from an era of
690
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:03.479
resilient people, tougher people, because
you are of the generation that was from
691
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:11.880
salvation. But you are more inclined
to speak on the change of decades,
692
01:14:12.399 --> 01:14:17.520
the eighties into the nineties, the
way the world was, the outlook,
693
01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:21.000
the libration, you got, your
outlook, what you were into, what
694
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:26.439
you look like, where you were
at in nineteen ninety. I think it's
695
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:30.199
pretty interesting that to talk to you, you could give us the balance and
696
01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:35.640
our listeners who are of the same
generation as you, describe that change of
697
01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:43.600
leaving the eighties going into the nineties
and being who you were and where you
698
01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.119
were, because like the eighties they
tripped me out, you know, I
699
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:51.520
my erratic youth was of the eighties, but then I became a parent,
700
01:14:51.960 --> 01:15:00.800
and my mindset and my time set
and my structure and my outlook, my
701
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:10.560
alignment with life changed from eighties seven
into the nineties. So I was a
702
01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:15.239
dad, but I saw the change
somebody like you. You didn't have kids
703
01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:21.840
yet, You're still coming from your
youth. What was it like to make
704
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:26.960
that transition? Were you afraid?
Were you worried? Did you think everything
705
01:15:27.159 --> 01:15:30.439
sucked? Were you angry? Because
I went through the transition from the late
706
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:33.439
seventies into the eighties, and I, you know, you asked me,
707
01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:38.920
maybe I could. I don't remember
very well what happened during the early early
708
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:43.760
eighties, and I remember exactly so
many things, especially all of my elementary
709
01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:47.159
school years. I remember him so
clear. I remember from the point where
710
01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:51.640
they used to make us practice for
drills, these drills in case we went
711
01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:56.960
to war with Russia. I remember
so many things. As I got older,
712
01:15:57.439 --> 01:16:00.920
I stopped having that fear because after
the war all came down, and
713
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:04.439
after Russia was no longer considered that
much of a threat, and this was
714
01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:09.119
all over the news. For me, it was okay, I'm starting to
715
01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:14.159
become older. I started working nineteen
eighty nine, I believe I started.
716
01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:19.800
I started working like in eighty eight
with Mark at one of his dad's places
717
01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:25.920
of work. In eighty nine,
I actually started working and my first job,
718
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:30.479
Man, my first job was at
a place called Pizza Pizza, and
719
01:16:30.600 --> 01:16:33.640
I actually made pizza. Yeah,
I made pizza. Go figure, an
720
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:39.680
Italian guy making pizza. And so
did you get the job because you were
721
01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:43.279
Italian? No? But the funny
thing is that the owner, his name
722
01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:46.560
was Tony die Tomazo. That guy
was such a It was a big guy,
723
01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:49.479
very big. When I mean big, I mean big because he ate
724
01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:53.680
a lot of pizzas, that kind
of big. And you could tell this
725
01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:57.079
guy was a wise guy. He
had friends who had who would come in
726
01:16:57.560 --> 01:17:01.079
once a week and would have a
dominant meeting. They'd played dominoes in a
727
01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:05.600
private booth table. They would have
to shut off the TVs way in the
728
01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:10.920
back, and they'd have two guys
always guarding the entrance to this place.
729
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:14.840
So that gives you an idea.
But anyway, oh yeah, he knew
730
01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:17.800
my dad. So as I started
growing, it was more of a thing
731
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:24.920
that I really started paying attention at
the technological aspect of the change. I
732
01:17:25.079 --> 01:17:30.119
saw how we started changing and evolving
technologically speaking, and we were looking so
733
01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:34.079
forward to a lot of the things
that we saw in movies that that life
734
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:38.560
was going to bring us of how
easy life was going to be for us,
735
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:41.880
how convenient life was going to be
for us in the near future.
736
01:17:42.479 --> 01:17:48.199
And we who grew up through that
time got to see all these things develop,
737
01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:55.640
evolve and become what they are today. And I was never scared,
738
01:17:55.720 --> 01:18:00.359
but I was always I was always
excited for the change. But here's what
739
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:03.399
happened, though, The funny thing
that happened. As soon as the nineties
740
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.520
came in. I had a lot
of fun. It went to a lot
741
01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:09.840
of parties. I like, I
said, you know, I'm getting a
742
01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:15.479
little bit older and my late teens
and early twenties, But it wasn't the
743
01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:21.159
fun and freedom of the eighties.
There was a feeling of boredom. You're
744
01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:26.960
trying too hard to change and too
hard to leave what you were in the
745
01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:31.600
eighties, but you're not becoming who
you want to be. It was to
746
01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:35.840
me the nineties were a decade where
it was needed because that's when change is
747
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:41.119
occurring. But it was like,
you don't even know who you are because
748
01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:45.319
look what Look what happened to music? Look what happened because of We were
749
01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.159
talking about this during the break that
MTV was a double edged sword. It
750
01:18:49.359 --> 01:18:54.840
helped a lot of the bands make
money and get notoriety. It helped a
751
01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:59.880
lot of us, the people listening
listen to more bands. But the double
752
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:06.640
sword was that it was also a
huge, huge part in the demise of
753
01:19:08.359 --> 01:19:14.399
the artistry of music because the music
business continued and evolved into some weird animal
754
01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:18.840
that it is today. But the
artistry that music was after I want to
755
01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:23.720
say after ninety one, and we've
also talked about this, After about ninety
756
01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:29.199
one, it all started changing.
I'm not saying it was all bad.
757
01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:34.319
I'm just saying that it changed and
it wasn't the same anymore. I remember
758
01:19:34.399 --> 01:19:43.399
hearing a an interview with Motley Crue
Tommy Lee. They asked him, what
759
01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:45.920
do you think is going on with
music? And he goes, I think
760
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:49.680
it's time to change because we have
become this this hair metal and he recognized
761
01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:57.239
this hair metal and glad metal kind
of destroyed away rock was going. You
762
01:19:57.319 --> 01:20:00.479
know, it just changed everything and
after the nineties it was no longer the
763
01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:03.960
same. So I've kind of felt
bored man. So that was my personal
764
01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:09.079
experience to me, the nineties,
although it brought some cool stuff, but
765
01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:14.720
it also brought a lot of nostalgia
for going back because I said, wow,
766
01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:18.520
they're supposed things are supposed to be
advancing and technology advanced. But instead
767
01:20:18.520 --> 01:20:24.439
of going forward the way we felt
life was in society, it kept on
768
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:28.760
getting worse. Both in the struggles. The nineties brought a lot of disillusionment
769
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:32.560
and today, well, what can
I tell you more of the same and
770
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:39.520
even worse. You're listening to back
to the eighties radio with Tascano and Chang
771
01:20:39.640 --> 01:20:42.880
tonight. We are getting deep,
heavy, but just trying to let you
772
01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:47.119
know that we understand and we are
the same as you. And you need
773
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:53.439
to get your rocks off. Something
from Motley Crue because everybody wants to go
774
01:20:53.640 --> 01:21:01.760
back home. You know, I'm
a treaty level houts of gold. I
775
01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:08.560
had a run away hide, so
while I come home a little, just
776
01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:15.520
let things will ride. It doesn't
mean they were hot with a Just take
777
01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:24.479
this song and You'll never being lift
hollelone, Take me to your heart to
778
01:21:24.680 --> 01:21:30.479
be in your bond, just one
more night, and I'm coming on this
779
01:21:30.960 --> 01:22:02.079
floor, white and gold away away
a sweep Toway swell. You know that
780
01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:13.800
scene. Too many romantic dreams who've
been light only in others. You rush
781
01:22:13.920 --> 01:22:20.279
me my heart like an open book
for the world, world to be some
782
01:22:20.640 --> 01:23:42.479
kind of nothing keeps me together?
Listeners sweet way just swee sweep all sweet
783
01:23:45.439 --> 01:24:45.520
yes, just sa me pray sweep. Oh you remember the first time you
784
01:24:45.640 --> 01:24:50.199
tried these games space luck with practice
cop done, y'all like see And when
785
01:24:50.239 --> 01:24:53.880
you first tried coke? I think
you said no, thank you, But
786
01:24:54.039 --> 01:25:00.439
hey, let's try and coke again
because once you got that new wave taste,
787
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:02.960
you want to try it again again
and again. Practice links person,
788
01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:06.960
catch the wave coco. Are somebody
remember the eighties? Five right? Well
789
01:25:08.039 --> 01:25:13.800
it lives loud and proud on back
to the eighties with my pals to Scotto
790
01:25:13.920 --> 01:26:06.199
and Chay loves on the Junior Middle
sick down. She was a don Alay
791
01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:24.279
working for the man to reach over
p She says, he got a tot
792
01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:30.439
doesn't make a difference, and we
ken we got each other and that's a
793
01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:57.680
love we'll get in shining Where to
woman? I fell till's got his sixteen
794
01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:03.199
in mine? Now is over?
What used to make a Toms and true
795
01:27:12.880 --> 01:27:29.399
run away? She cried to the
nights game. True we got an but
796
01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:35.039
it doesn't make a difference, and
make it all night. We got each
797
01:27:35.079 --> 01:28:18.880
other and that's one shine away.
Play to my I swear by got a
798
01:28:21.000 --> 01:29:02.000
Red line you fide was not to
start You are listening to Back to the
799
01:29:02.119 --> 01:29:10.960
Eighties Radio nineteen eighty six story telling
us about the working class couple named Tommy
800
01:29:11.079 --> 01:29:15.479
and Gina who are struggling to make
ends meet and face the uncertainties of their
801
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:21.119
circumstances. Chang This song by bon
Jovi, Living on a Prayer became a
802
01:29:21.319 --> 01:29:28.399
national anthem, but the lyrics,
my friend, capture the economic hardships aspirations
803
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:32.119
of individuals during the nineteen eighties,
and it became, as I mentioned,
804
01:29:32.279 --> 01:29:40.119
it became an anthem that resonates with
many who experience the challenges during that time.
805
01:29:40.760 --> 01:29:43.920
Now, I'm not a big fan
of the hair metal we know Bono
806
01:29:44.319 --> 01:29:48.039
Yeah, but I have to tell
you this, that song is a great
807
01:29:48.119 --> 01:29:57.560
song Vocally musically it is and I
can identify because I mentioned in eighty seven
808
01:29:57.680 --> 01:30:00.439
I became a dad. I was
just twenty one years old. I mean,
809
01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:02.680
you know, I was still a
stupid, reckless kid before that,
810
01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:11.840
so I can identify with young love
having to grow up really quick and nail
811
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:15.840
the real world. Another song that
reminds me of that is by Bruce Springsteen
812
01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:24.840
The River. Both songs are catapulting
the feeling of anybody that was young,
813
01:30:25.079 --> 01:30:30.960
that pro created before their time and
believe that you made your own bed and
814
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:33.560
you have to lie in it.
Yeah, so you just go ahead and
815
01:30:33.600 --> 01:30:40.800
you take it on and go for
what you know, because that child did
816
01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:46.079
not ask to be created. That
child is innocent and looking to you to
817
01:30:46.239 --> 01:30:49.239
guide them. So you got to
break your balls to go to work,
818
01:30:50.239 --> 01:30:55.560
stay true to your word, make
a commitment, teach them to be great,
819
01:30:56.359 --> 01:31:00.479
tough, loving, understand them.
You have to do all that crap,
820
01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:02.920
you know. One of the questions
that we've always asked a lot of
821
01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:06.039
people on our social media is if
you had a chance to go back,
822
01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:12.560
just for a couple of days,
what would you do? And the majority
823
01:31:12.680 --> 01:31:15.760
people say always, I would want
to go see my mom or my dad.
824
01:31:16.880 --> 01:31:21.800
We had so many great experiences,
but we had, for the most
825
01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:26.199
part, we had our parents.
They grew up in a different era.
826
01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:30.000
They grew up in even a tougher
era than we did. And if you
827
01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:35.000
come to think of it, brother, we growing up I think we took
828
01:31:35.079 --> 01:31:39.079
for granted. We had no idea. We had no idea. It was
829
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:42.960
all going to come to an end
so quick for us, for our parents,
830
01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:47.479
and there was that certain point where
you realize, gosh, dang it,
831
01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:50.960
I wish I could go back and
just give my mom or my dad
832
01:31:51.039 --> 01:31:59.439
a hug the way that that I
used to. I think that we lost
833
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:05.399
that feeling of appreciation. The eighties, we were very carefree, and I
834
01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:15.239
think because of our care freeness and
our boldness being inhibited by everything and not
835
01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:24.640
affected, we made a lot of
problems single parents, divorce, drug use,
836
01:32:24.920 --> 01:32:31.319
alcohol use, not getting with it. So it's it's kind of odd
837
01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:41.960
that the generation of ours have produced
children that either are similar or have some
838
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:49.840
of the negative effects of too much
freeness in our generation. Continue just thought
839
01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:55.119
i'd bring that out. I want
us to go quickly before we end the
840
01:32:55.119 --> 01:32:56.920
show. We're going to come back, but I want us to take a
841
01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:01.680
little break as I bring in a
song for us to focus on communication and
842
01:33:01.880 --> 01:33:06.880
unresolved feelings with either a parent or
a loved one that is still living today,
843
01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:12.000
because at some point during the eighties
we didn't do that, and some
844
01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:18.399
have lost their parents back then,
some have lost family members or friends and
845
01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:23.079
you didn't get to tell them what
you wanted to. So here's a very
846
01:33:23.159 --> 01:33:28.720
poignant song that addresses the passage of
time and the importance of expressing yourself to
847
01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:31.840
that loved one, to that person
that means something to you. Here's Mike
848
01:33:31.920 --> 01:33:51.279
and the Mechanics on back to the
eighties radio with a living years ever generation.
849
01:33:55.680 --> 01:34:11.319
Then toore no that frustration competing on
your doors. I know that I'm
850
01:34:11.399 --> 01:34:16.159
a prisoner to all my father houshold
dear. I know that I'm a hostage
851
01:34:16.920 --> 01:34:23.000
all his thoughts and fears. I
just wish I couldn't have told him in
852
01:34:23.439 --> 01:34:41.479
the more crumble bits of paper feel
with im perfect heart still to conversation,
853
01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:51.119
I'm afraid that's all with heart you
say it just don't see it, he
854
01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:58.119
says, it's perfect sens. You
just can't get agreement in this fred and
855
01:34:58.239 --> 01:35:23.039
tense talk a different language talking in
see say we'll see me as well as
856
01:35:23.640 --> 01:35:43.479
you. It's to its too when
we die, we don't see too,
857
01:35:47.119 --> 01:35:59.479
so we feel a war between the
present and the past. We'll only says
858
01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:11.760
we child. It's the last,
so don't guilty choose. You sometimes see
859
01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:17.119
spaint. You may have a newer
spainting on a different day. And if
860
01:36:17.159 --> 01:36:27.760
you don't get it and don't give
me your bag be say say to say
861
01:36:30.800 --> 01:37:00.399
saying sac shoot, because it's the
ittill whatever we die, we do say
862
01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:16.680
to. I wasn't there that morning
when my father passed away. I didn't
863
01:37:16.760 --> 01:37:27.920
get to tell him all the things
I had to say. Big I can
864
01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:33.199
a spirit lady that save years.
I'm sure I heard is a gone my
865
01:37:33.479 --> 01:37:41.079
baby's newborn tears. I just wish
I could have told him in the living
866
01:37:44.720 --> 01:38:26.319
to say sae say say dream swell
as you stoto say to society. Love
867
01:38:42.640 --> 01:39:00.560
you're listening to back to the eighties, look bow not so long ago it
868
01:39:00.720 --> 01:39:10.720
was gilt again. They're outside of
the poor and rain on a way up
869
01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:17.279
the road was started over here.
You're living a dreams or you wa top.
870
01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:26.640
My Manda's a get alot of b
stop. That's how it's happen living
871
01:39:26.840 --> 01:39:35.640
love mother, drop up and down
the road. And I won't night you
872
01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:45.560
talking about the times to sing in
the blue you went you well, I
873
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:54.079
stay behind. You don't knew it
was just a matter of time. Living
874
01:39:54.159 --> 01:40:00.279
a dreams or you wa top?
My Manda's a get the lord of all
875
01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:12.159
stop. That's how it happens.
Lives and love by the drop. No
876
01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:17.399
wis the time, will love the
day, turning up the past, and
877
01:40:17.479 --> 01:40:27.199
there's no easier way time to between. That's the main doing him. God,
878
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:31.920
it's good to be your walking together, my friend, living a day
879
01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:43.880
my mass can't gain. That's how
it happened. Lived and live by the
880
01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:58.600
drop, That's how it happened.
Live and love by the drop. That's
881
01:40:58.640 --> 01:41:04.520
how it happened. Back to the
eighties radio. You just heard the one
882
01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:10.319
and only Stevie ray Vaughan Life by
the Drop, And if you just joined
883
01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.600
us right now as we come to
the home stretch, we're talking about those
884
01:41:13.680 --> 01:41:17.880
events, those stories, the experiences
of the eighties that changed our life in
885
01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:24.079
some way, and we're taking a
moment to reflect on the preciousness of life
886
01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:28.600
back then in a world of the
hustle and bustle that the eighties taught us
887
01:41:28.640 --> 01:41:30.600
to slow down in a way,
they started to get fast, and that's
888
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:34.960
where we learned to live life in
the fast lane. And I want all
889
01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:40.920
of us to enjoy and to savor
every beat of music that we hear and
890
01:41:41.000 --> 01:41:45.520
that we listen and appreciate the beauty
that's around us life. Much like those
891
01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:51.960
heartfelt ballads that we've been playing is
both fleeting and magnificent. And as we
892
01:41:53.119 --> 01:41:57.399
reminisce about the era of our dreams
back in the eighties and cassette tapes and
893
01:41:57.520 --> 01:42:01.119
movies, it's good to remember the
true treasures lie in the connections that we
894
01:42:01.239 --> 01:42:04.640
make and the moments that we create. Jay, I know that as we
895
01:42:04.760 --> 01:42:10.920
talked about some of the people that
maybe we wish that we would have said
896
01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:13.920
something, some of the people that
meant something to us that we lost.
897
01:42:14.640 --> 01:42:18.439
What is that part of the eighties
experience mean to you? You know what?
898
01:42:18.920 --> 01:42:25.079
It's a trip Because I'm not going
to give my age, but I'm
899
01:42:25.119 --> 01:42:31.720
old enough to know that the transition
of who I was in the early eighties,
900
01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:40.119
or that my generation of the early
eighties, that transition to the parent
901
01:42:40.399 --> 01:42:46.800
role, the kind of working class
role which is now getting into the political
902
01:42:46.920 --> 01:42:56.119
aspect, CEOs, business owners,
what have you. There's one thing I
903
01:42:56.199 --> 01:43:00.399
have to tell you. I've learned
to appreciate every day in life, even
904
01:43:00.479 --> 01:43:06.079
if it sucks ass. My old
man always told me every day is not
905
01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:11.840
going to be a good day.
Every day you're going to suffer a loss
906
01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:16.159
and a victory. But every experience, bad or good equals one thing,
907
01:43:16.920 --> 01:43:27.640
wisdom. Wisdom is it's more relevant
and more of a value than money and
908
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:33.119
materialism, because wisdom is the one
thing you continuously give. If you're a
909
01:43:33.279 --> 01:43:40.680
parent, an uncle, an aunt, or just a cool person that recognizes
910
01:43:40.800 --> 01:43:45.119
people in need and you just talk
some shit in your ear, wisdom is
911
01:43:45.199 --> 01:43:49.880
the one thing that you leave here
on earth, and that's all you got.
912
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:54.399
So you take that wisdom and you
run with it, make life better
913
01:43:54.479 --> 01:44:00.720
around yourself. So the one thing
I think I got is the wisdom anybody
914
01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:03.680
in my generation, your generation,
what we have now, the wisdom.
915
01:44:04.520 --> 01:44:08.319
Don't look at the past, don't
look at what you should have done,
916
01:44:08.439 --> 01:44:14.039
the f ups, what you should
have could have where somebody did you wrong,
917
01:44:14.479 --> 01:44:18.199
what you hate, what struggles you, And don't give yourself too much
918
01:44:18.279 --> 01:44:26.319
prop and lose yourself in materialistic ways. Because when it's all over, none
919
01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:30.119
of us take Jack's ship with us. What we leave is a memory of
920
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:34.840
love, hope, and effin wisdom. That's all I can say, bro
921
01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:41.720
that I captured from the eighties to
be blessed to live till now. You
922
01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:45.039
know, for all of us to
grow up back in the nineteen eighties,
923
01:44:45.920 --> 01:44:50.760
it's important to note that we have
something that no other generation after has,
924
01:44:51.680 --> 01:45:00.199
and it's the opportunity. It is
the footprint that that entire ten years of
925
01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:08.520
span of life that left us and
those experiences, those moments, those amazing
926
01:45:08.680 --> 01:45:14.000
poems that life handed to us,
good or bad. It is a chapter
927
01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:16.800
in our life. It is a
chapter in our past. But the spirit
928
01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:20.760
of the eighties lives on in every
beat of our hearts, and it's a
929
01:45:20.840 --> 01:45:29.600
reminder that life's tapestry is woven with
moments, moments of joy, moments of
930
01:45:29.720 --> 01:45:33.520
happiness, relentless determination, and unwavering
hope. And I know it sounds kind
931
01:45:33.560 --> 01:45:41.520
of like a something maybe cliche or
something cheesy to say that we should take
932
01:45:41.560 --> 01:45:45.880
advantage of those moments to dance like
nobody's watching, to chase dreams. But
933
01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:53.359
it's true because there'll be a moment
in time where we'll want to come back
934
01:45:53.760 --> 01:45:58.279
to another moment from the past.
So take advantage of every single moment,
935
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:02.600
stay wild in your heart, keep
those memories alive, you know, share
936
01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:06.840
those moments. You know. One
of our motto that we're introducing the eighties
937
01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:12.439
to a newer generation, and that's
exactly what we try to do here and
938
01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:17.279
that's exactly why we have so many
newcomers, so so many younger kids listening
939
01:46:17.359 --> 01:46:20.680
to the show. And I want
to personally thank you for journeying with us
940
01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:26.560
through the timeless rhythms of the eighties
and every time that we get together in
941
01:46:26.640 --> 01:46:31.079
every show. Let's hold on to
that essence. Let's infuse it into our
942
01:46:31.159 --> 01:46:36.159
lives every day, and let's make
sure that the spirit of the eighties lives
943
01:46:36.199 --> 01:46:42.119
on. Tell everybody to not forget
their life in the eighties. As for
944
01:46:42.239 --> 01:46:45.800
me from Toscano, I want to
wish you guys a great week, remember
945
01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:48.720
those times and keep them tight and
close to you, and I hope that
946
01:46:48.920 --> 01:46:54.720
next week we can get together as
we share more music, more stories,
947
01:46:55.720 --> 01:46:59.239
more eighties. Hey, just to
reminder, letting you know we did not
948
01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:04.399
fall off off track. Join us
next week hip hop show too. This
949
01:47:04.960 --> 01:47:10.680
is the chang before I release you
to another chang tastic week. And remember,
950
01:47:10.880 --> 01:47:15.399
stay true to yourself, stay up
lifted, you matter, Do something
951
01:47:15.920 --> 01:47:21.039
bigger and greater than yourself. Do
it for somebody that needs something done.
952
01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:27.520
I'm gonna take you out with a
three pack, something for your mind to
953
01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:30.399
bend around, give you a little
bit of inspiration, maybe an answer.
954
01:47:31.439 --> 01:47:36.439
We have something from Queen's Right,
silent lucidity. We're going to follow that
955
01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:44.720
up with something from Cinderella. You
don't know what you got until it's gone.
956
01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:47.640
And that's what life is all about. And remember we are the cult
957
01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:55.199
of personality at all times, we
are the living color. Catch you all
958
01:47:55.279 --> 01:48:01.119
next week, ussa la vista,
adios aloha sayanatas still away go and to
959
01:48:01.199 --> 01:48:05.680
am I hold myself there. Let
catch you later. A shine aside you
960
01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:19.079
cry, wipe away the tea drop
from the line could not even saved the
961
01:48:19.239 --> 01:48:31.880
man it was, solve the bad
dream, spinning, spending your my trip,
962
01:48:32.039 --> 01:48:41.359
you a feel a baby of someone
close to you leaving the game of
963
01:48:41.479 --> 01:48:50.000
life. So here it is a
love a chance? Why it away?
964
01:48:50.439 --> 01:48:59.840
You base the day the dream is
over? What has it just become more?
965
01:49:14.399 --> 01:49:28.000
There's a place and light to night, the doorway that night the lacks
966
01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:47.239
child only getting lights scape. It's
a place where you lives. Trust these
967
01:49:48.039 --> 01:50:13.119
like the wind in your mind.
I then s sich, we don't want
968
01:50:26.399 --> 01:51:17.199
aiding next to you beside the suit
of t prise your mind's nature the quarters
969
01:51:17.239 --> 01:51:23.920
of the pleasant text until part.
If you persist in all the les you
970
01:51:24.039 --> 01:51:47.039
can achieve. Drink our crink if
you won't and your mind will be won't
971
01:51:47.319 --> 01:52:15.560
love not bene to see the walls
the toy gud twice again say in the
972
01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:33.119
dream to mas wat journey in your
hair, master the delusion guy, please
973
01:52:33.439 --> 01:53:03.039
love the god we do watch what
I else say the chain there's fine next
974
01:53:03.159 --> 01:53:45.479
to you you're listening to back to
the eighties, can tell your baby and
975
01:53:45.880 --> 01:54:15.479
fine way, I can't get age, So I tra what's been as johns?
976
01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:43.960
I t do if we take time? Thinking out takes time, don't
977
01:54:45.439 --> 01:55:19.159
until it's time. Don't now I
try so and said I take so I
978
01:55:19.359 --> 01:55:41.560
can't feel the things with the trisay
I rankle in my eyes say I am
979
01:55:41.680 --> 01:56:09.279
talking so che song just can't take
the wood getting wes times see takes time.
980
01:56:10.319 --> 01:56:34.920
And if you re don't know what
it takes time, I tend I've
981
01:56:35.039 --> 01:56:55.439
got Chan says say that takes Do
you want to say bay that you take
982
01:56:55.520 --> 01:57:44.479
me? Just that just says like
die, I mean you don't want let's
983
01:57:44.640 --> 01:58:00.520
time. I don't know why it
is I did so wild It's tells this
984
01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:20.199
song and say that my text A
don't know what to tell usta don't know
985
01:58:20.600 --> 01:59:00.159
what is t know? Why test
this say that my text a love that
986
01:59:00.439 --> 01:59:04.960
you ever let I want to talk
about right down to ear in a language
987
01:59:04.960 --> 01:59:35.319
with everybody here can easily understand in
what do you see? I ain't know
988
01:59:35.520 --> 01:59:54.920
you anyday? I know your dreams
the thing in some selin and kill the
989
01:59:55.039 --> 02:00:15.359
dean got talk something e but to
person now not to person now eyes love
990
02:00:16.079 --> 02:00:49.239
bill pass all the blast shut lies
part of man only b I'm a smile
991
02:00:49.560 --> 02:01:13.079
listen to person body on still love
me and don't you want WoT the personality
992
02:01:15.319 --> 02:01:42.079
so slowly about salty about to personality
becout too personality lies. One of the
993
02:01:42.840 --> 02:03:05.119
sleeps dies. The father always don't
then the bard nor the person give me
994
02:03:05.359 --> 02:03:32.520
the break, the toco toko on
the toco toto? Then what dor what
995
02:03:32.720 --> 02:04:01.520
bring you gave me to the cool
gave me rather time He's Alrea exactly whoa
996
02:04:02.640 --> 02:04:03.680
before I can f
