Long Live Rock n' Roll, Long Live the '80s

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I'm so scared. I wish I
had a ham sandwich to call my

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nerves place to hide. Where are
you going, fuzzy face, That's what

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I was afraid of? Don't wait
for me back. This is Back to

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the Eighties Radio. Thank you for
joining us, because this is the show

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where we talk about the things that
ah just made us feel fuzzy and warm

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inside and sometimes not so much,
but other times, just to think about

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the eighties it just brings us smile
to my face. But of course we

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can't do the show a loan with
me as a man who has more leather

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astless chaps than Rob Halford himself on
a hot summer night in West Hollywood.

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It is said that he has been
seen cruising up and down the Sunset Strip

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re enacting his fight with Axel Rows
Shadow puppets. Here and back to the

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eighties. He is called the Chang. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

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cats and kitties of the eighties.
Welcome to another rendition back to the

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eighties. Yes, this is the
Chang. I know some of you have

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missed me more than my left hand
misses me when I'm waving at myself in

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the mirror like I every day wave
at myself, and you too should wave

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at yourselves give yourself a little kiss
on the cheek in that mirror, because

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you are special. I'm looking at
you, Tusky, you two, You're

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very special. Tiger Woods looking baseball
cap by thank you, wo wow.

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I appreciated, my friend. If
you just joined us here back to the

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Elish Radio, I want to thank
you for a giving up of your time

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to hang around with us. We've
got a great show. We have an

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amazing guest. He is an actor, he is an activist. You know

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him very very well. Right now
he is in Cannes, France with us.

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Jimmy Jean Louis and he's going to
be joining us in a little bit

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on the show, so you want
to stick around. I want to give

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a shout out to everybody listening,
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iHeartRadio, on Apple, on Google
Tune, in every streaming platform where you

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get your music, your radio,
your podcasts. Thank you, guys,

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because you know, Chang, we
are heard in over one hundred countries and

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we are now known as the most
popular eighties show on planet Earth. And

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that's a pretty big achievement in only
two years. We just word of mouth.

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Yeah, that's incredible. But you
know, we want to thank everybody

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from the bottom of our hearts to
put us in such an area in broadcasting

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now. I mean, we do
this for you. We do this because

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it just makes us feel a little
bit better, knowing that hopefully we're making

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you all feel a little bit better. You know. Before we continue,

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I want to remind you guys that
if you're a fan of movies, and

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history. Sounds pretty cool, right. I just listened to the episode about

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the gangster movie Donnie Brasco, and
I got to hear how much of the

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movie actually happened from Joe Pistone himself
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the way, the part where the
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Once again, that's based on a
true story podcast dot com. This

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is back to the eighties. Don't
go away because there's much more. Hey,

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if you listen to rock and roll
radio in the eighties, then listen

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to this Taskanto and Chang. They
will transport you back in time, back

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to the eighties. Oh, do
you remember the first time you tried these

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games space fuck with practice copt y'alexee, and when you first tried and coke

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and you said no, thank you, but let's try coke again because once

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he got that new wave of taste. Do you want to try it again

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again and again. No practice cuts
the way the coca. This is back

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to the eighties radio. Before the
break, I told you we had a

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surprise visit from someone who's no stranger
to the eighties. Haitian actor and producer,

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best known for his role as the
Haitian on the NBC television series Heroes.

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He's been on films such as The
Born Identity, Tears of the Sun

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and Our Lee, starred in and
produced the movie Rattlesnakes and a ton of

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other great movies with us, Jimmy
Jean Louis, thank you for taking the

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time to be on the show.
I know that you're at the Canned Film

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Festival in France. You're set to
host the second annual Gescio fundraiser in Ants

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therein can on May twenty second at
the Carlton Beach Club during the seventy field

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Festival of the Cans, which is
basically they're to honor film filmmakers. So

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I appreciate you taking the time to
join us here. I'm back to the

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Ages radio. Yes, it's a
pleasure to be with you. Now you're

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a France What are you there promoting
this year? Well, first of all.

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I've just got back from a form
of shoot that took place in Jordan,

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Aligeria and India. So that's my
latest project. It's an Indian project.

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So I had to come here in
Can because I'm having the second annual

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fund raiser for Guescu Guesscuo, being
a group that's been working in in fiction

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disease for the past thirty years,
specifically in Hadi and as you know,

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Hadia has always been affected by by
those kind of problems, you know,

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whether it was AIDS, Coronal course
and many other ones and we still battle

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with with Corona. So that's why
I thought it was important to mix the

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visibility that we have from Can,
to mix the filmmakers, the influencers and

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the and the power people and let
them know that we're also are dealing with

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a very important issue which is Corona. It's not over yet, we're still

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battling it and guess you has been
doing a great job and we just wanted

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to I just wanted to highlight that
we seem to be living in a new

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time, right. It's something that
is kind of from a movie. And

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you get done with Corona, then
something else comes on. So a lot

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of people have been saying, you
know what, if there was a way

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to go back, take me back. But a lot of us forget sometimes

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that there's also bad things that happened
during the eighties and that it wasn't so

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easy for many. Talk to us
a little bit about your journey through the

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eighties as well, so we can
finally land in twenty twenty two. Well,

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the eighties for me have some great
memorable moments. Music was great,

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you know, that's when we had
the lacks of Michael Jackson, Prince Madonna,

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and of course, very very early
on, you know, the death

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of Bob Marley. The eighties for
me is the rival of eights and aids

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being specifically blamed on Hadi. Back
then, I was extremely affected by that

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because most people thought that all Haitians
had eights, and me, growing up

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in Paris, people also thought that
me, being from Hadi, had eights

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and and had to deal with that. So there is that. But at

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the same time, you know,
I just had to keep fighting and trying

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to find my space within this society. So I went through the eighties when

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things were very hard in Paris,
I just decided to get out and I

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got out. I went to Spain, where I worked in musical theater,

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and then I went to live in
in South Africa, then in England,

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then in Italy and eventually in the
States just to to tackle the film business.

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But throughout the journey it was it
was extremely difficult, but but I

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do have some fun memories from the
eighties. I didn't know something about you,

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which is that you are a man
of many languages. That's why I

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speak Italian. Wow, that's so, he was. He's what he said

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is he speaks Italian because he did
spend about a year in Milan. Well

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espaniol An, Baralona, so porso, so he's also lived in Barcelona,

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and that's why he speaks Spanish.
Now, see, you can put me

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in the middle of France for five
years and I'll probably only know how to

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order from the Many and that's about
it. Ah, French is a lot

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more complicated. It's it's especially if
you're not a French speaking person. You

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know you're not going to be able
to pick it up. Just like that.

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Very complex and there's it's full of
tongue twisters. So no, it

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studies. You actually have to leave
in the country to probably get the French

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the French essence. So backtrack a
little bit for me, you had a

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very tough childhood as well, up
until the age I believe of twelve or

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so I read. But after that, when was it that something clicked in

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your mind that said, you know
what I want to pursue acting. Where

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was that? How did that happen? I think it just happened along the

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way. You know, it's just
based on all the many experiences that I've

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had. Up until I was twelve. I was living in Haiti, rough

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tough place, rough tough situation.
But at the same time, I had

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a great time. You know,
I had an excellent time. So I

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went to Paris and then you know, did my education there, and of

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course I couldn't work as much as
I wanted to, especially in the arts,

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because there was no space for people
like me, being a person of

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color. There was very little work
for me. And that's when I decided

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to go and look for elsewhere,
and things just happened based on my own

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needs and from friends. I went
to Spain and I worked in musical theaters

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for like three years there. That's
where I spoke Spanish. And then from

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there I was like three years that's
enough, let's move on, and I

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went to Italy for a year.
I started to model in Italy and then

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I continued to model in South Africa, where I had a great experience in

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South Africa, up to the point
where I actually even met with President Nelson

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Mandela. So that was a huge
deal for me. I think the meeting

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with mister Mendela is the one that
defined for me how I was going to

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continue to carry on with my life. Yeah, because for that moment,

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I sort of realized that I was
the master of my own destiny. If

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I wanted to accomplish something, no
one else could actually stop me but myself.

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And when you take a kid from
Haiti growing up without electricity or running

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water, and then to have the
possibility and the chance to meet with someone

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like Nelson Mandela, I couldn't take
that just for granted, I knew that

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there was a stronger and deeper message
underneath all that. So that's why I'm

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saying, from that moment, I
knew that, you know, I could

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continue to go on, I would
be okay. So that's how from that

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moment, you know, I decided
to have a voice. Because when you

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are modeling and dancing. You know, it's all body expression, but you

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don't have the same kind of voice
that you do have if you become an

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actor, for example, where people
will take time to listen to you.

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And yet that's what forced me to
believe that let's continue in acting world,

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and maybe I can potentially get to
a situation where I will have a voice

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and I would potentially be able to, you know, to express myself in

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a way that I could potentially touch
a few people, thousands, millions at

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time. And yeah, there was
a real motivation after a meeting Nelson Mandela,

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for sure. It's incredible that one
meeting with one person of great significance

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can produce in the heart something that
lets you say, well, yes,

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I'm an actor, Yes I'm known, but I'm also a human being who

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cares for other human beings and in
particular those from where I came from.

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And that you have this compassion and
that you are sharing the support with the

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world, and that's something to admire. I understand that you worked with Bruce

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Willison his last two films. I
was lucky enough to be part of many

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experiences with him to just retire.
I was lucky enough to play with him

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in his last two movies, and
those movies will be coming out soon.

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We've done Tears of the Sun together
in two and two, you know,

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but to be able to be with
him and do his last two projects was

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something quite amazing for me because because
I value him as being one of the

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top actors who who's remained all the
way up there until he retired. And

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that was a special moment, you
know, for me to to actually witness

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his last his very last scene from
the business. I wish the entire family

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well because because we all know that, you know, they're going through some

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troubling time. It's definitely something that's
going to leave a footprint in your mind

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and your soul for a long long
time. And another note, I did

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read somewhere that you love football.
Now I'm not talking about the one you

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play with your hand. I'm talking
about football, the one you actually play

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with your feet. So I'm aware
that you're a pretty good soccer player there.

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Yeah, I mean as a youngster
I've played football. I think that

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I actually had a chance to to
join a big club, which is one

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of the biggest clubs these days,
which is Paris sanjama When I was at

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fourteen, I had a chance to
potentially join that club. But back then,

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you know, nobody took football that
seriously, and especially not my parents.

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So I sort of passed without understanding
what I was passing on. But

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I've continued the passion. You know, I've never stopped playing. So when

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I moved to La, I joined
many teams and one of them was Hollywood

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United Football Club, which is a
club made of a bunch of ex professionals,

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some some singers, some some actors, and you know, it's just

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a recreational kind of team. But
we do have fun here and I'd no

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longer play with that club, but
I continue to play with other group of

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people, you know, other ex
professionals and very valuable athletes who now just

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want to keep the ball around and
we do that on a weekly basis in

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La. Are you getting a chance
to go see any any football games while

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you're there. I'm not going to
stop in Paris, unfortunately, I mean

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can so yeah, it's it's not
the same city. But if I was

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in Paris, yes I would have. I would have definitely gone there.

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And you know who is a great
soccer player, and I'm not sure people

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know about that and we've played for
for a long time, for many years.

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It's Steve Nash the basketball player.
Oh, I had no idea.

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Oh my goodness, Steve Nash is
phenomenal, phenomenal to the point that he

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could have played professional if you wanted
to reminds me of Kobe Bryant in a

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way. Indeed, Jimmie, I
know you're basics, but I got one

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last question for you, and it's
what I ask every time I talk to

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someone, if you had a chance
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eighties, seventies, or wherever any
era, to change something well about gosh.

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Honestly, I'm the kind of person
who who look at life moving forward,

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not necessarily looking back, So it's
difficult for me to actually try to

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go there. I'll continue moving forward
and try to bring people together and let

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them understand that, you know,
we all hear as a group of people,

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and let's try to be as good
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that we can be with each other. We've done some terrible things against each

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other, and moving forward, I
hope that we can all recognize that and

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make sure that we stop all that
nonsense. Up until now, we still

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do some, you know, on
a daily basis, whether it's wars,

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whether it's personal attacks, whether it's
gone I mean, all kind of crazy

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situations happen these days that you don't
comprehend how we who are supposed to be

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brothers and sister end up doing that
to ourselves. For me, that's many

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a question, not a change or
resolution, But I would love people to

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think a little bit deeper about the
notion of togetherness and human kind. You

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know, it's incredible that we're in
twenty twenty two and we know that we've

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advanced so much in so many areas
of society of life, but the human

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nature. Something there in human nature
that for some reason we cannot break a

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chain. No, No, you're
completely all right. You know, in

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the same year where we could actually
explore the moon and many other planets,

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we still cannot get along as a
group of people. So you know,

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it doesn't it doesn't match up,
It doesn't make any sense. So let's

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put the priority on the people less
than we're doing it on things. Yeah,

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Jimmy jan thank you so much for
being on back to the agies,

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and thank you for being the kind
person that promotes love and unity and togetherness

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for humanity and thank you for caring
for not only Haiti, but for your

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fellow man. It starts with one
person at a time. That is contagious.

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Thank you very much. All right
you sadly slee can cover story in

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this stream. In the hands of
the breathe suck so breath can to your

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grace belive there's a new word coming
on just for open up your heart dreamt

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it three to one in the peace
continue, but you have to own your

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life. Open your eyes and lor
s trys. I can try Hello,

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good afternoon, though this is Jimmy
Jimmy take off. Can I take your

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order? Well, it's my time
coming in here to try some of your

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delicious entreza. Uh what neck is
the woods from the Asian Uh States?

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Are you from? If you don't
mind me asking, well, you want

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to know where I from? Or
they want to know what we can get?

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The fright checking wing we can get
the fried scup chicken broccoli. Oh

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no, no no, I want
to egg full, young friends. I

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would like to know what country did
you originate from before you came to these

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fine United States that I helped mold
into one of the strongest country small time

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I have for New York Island Park. Yes, yes, yes, oh.

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During my acting career, I visited
New York on a frequent uh frequent

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base. You might know some of
my my movies. I used to travel

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around with a chimpanzee. His name
was Bonzo. Okay, no Bonzo here?

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You want the egg drop soup?
Do you want the shrip? Also?

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If you want the house special?
You want a specio for today?

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We got a mixed veggies, a
rost palk and mixed vettie. If you

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want that? Okay? Do you
want to orders? Oh? You are

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rude. You're very rude. Could
you tell me what is in the house

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special? You wait one second?
I don't want any job. I'm surprised

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you don't recognize me. I don't
know. I don't want you are a

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customer. Do you want to order
or not? I don't have your time.

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I want the house special, the
shrimp with rapster sauce. Okay,

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over rice? Okayeven five? I
want Let me be firm, let me

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be bold. I want the pepper
pepper chicken, yeah yes, and I

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want the spare riff Yes. I
want extra heat on my food? Can

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you ring that up? And my
name is Ronnie the water Runnie? Yes?

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Like okay, do you want the
Rannie? Okay? If you want

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something to drink, you want the
almond cookie or something like, oh,

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no, die, I want to
diet coke, night coke? Okay,

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you want the one coke? Okay? How much for the young girl by

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the oven? Back there? You
said you're a crazy man, You're crazy?

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Do you want to order? This
is sidious? Okay? If this

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sidious, you're paying out? Okay, eighty two for a thing. Here's

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my card, you see? And
throwing throwing the girl? Oh my god,

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just said to me. No,
I'm not throwing no girl. This

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is my wife. Oh. I
will give you twenty bazookas and some hand

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grenades and rocket launchers if you if
I could just take the girl with me.

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Okay, you go away, you
come back twenty five minute. The

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food ready? Okay. Why don't
you go back to the eighties. I'll

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meet you there, Johnny. If
you can't wear a spandex jumpsuit, what

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can you do this? Back to
the eighties? Welcome back to back to

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the eighties. This is the Chang
of the ever so wondrous duel Tiscano and

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Chang tonight, I want to always
remind you guys, hit us on our

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Facebook page back to the eighties radio
and find us all the time at k

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HiT's ninety two five, where we
keep the eighties music vibe alive. Tonight

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we are going to talk a little
bit about the Rock and Roll Hall of

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Fame two thousand and twenty two class. Now, I know, me and

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Tiscano we can talk probably longer than
two drunk sailors smoking the same cigarette in

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some hole in the wall bar after
a good war story. And hopefully you

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don't get upset with some of the
hate that may come out. Now,

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Tiscano, why don't you go ahead
and fire away with mentioning this class and

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give it to him straight in the
eyes, and I will play the devil's

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advocate. It's interesting that we are
going to be talking briefly about a subject

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that's so huge, and it's so
I can be touchy if you If you're

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not careful, a lot of people
can get their little feelings hurt, and

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I totally, I totally get it. But you got to remember this is

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back to the eighties radio. There's
no room for her little hurt feelings here,

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and after all, it's all done
in fun and it is only opinions,

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and in reality, opinions don't really
matter, I believe it or not.

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Out of this what ten fifteen names
or whatever it is that were that

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are the first names to appear on
their site. I only agree with about

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maybe one or two or maybe three. And that's since here. Maybe let's

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start off with Pat Benatar and what
I want to ask you, chang is

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yay or nay? All right Pat
Benatar and her husband Neil Giraldo is the

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lead guitar player, And definitely do
they deserve to be in the Hall of

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Fame a lot earlier than they were
now? So I give them a big

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strong hell. Yes, hey,
yay yay. Duran Duran. Now I

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want to make a little note here. I love Duran Durant. You know

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I love Duran Durant. Yes,
however, just because you love a band.

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Look, I'll be the first one
to admit they are not rock Duran

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Durant, No, not at all. They are not rock and roll in

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the essence of rock and roll.
Yes, it was created through the great

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bands of rock and roll. But
Duran durand I think really quick, I

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think the rock and Roll Hall of
Fame is a lot of bullcrap. I

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don't think that they dive into and
they do not dissect what rock and roll

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is. They basically go with the
realm of music and rock and roll started

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at all when it really didn't.
I think every genre of music deserves its

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own hall of fame because it robs
so many artists of not being able to

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make the cut. Country music should
have their own Hall of fame. Hip

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hop should have its own Hall of
fame. Pop music should have its own

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hall of fame. Alternative should have
its own Hall of Fame because alternative can

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house everything from David Bowie, Sweet
Mark Boland into Pearl Jam Nirvana, so

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that category in itself is huge.
I think maybe blues or soul a rhythm

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and soul need their own all the
way back to Motown. Even deeper than

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that, you know, with such
greats as the Platters, I think that

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plateau of music needs its own hall
of fame. I also believe that great

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bands that were like Funk with George
Clinton, the Commodorees, Earthwind and Fire

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deserve their own place in their own
home. That's what I believe. In

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a nutshell. So there's a lot
of groups that were we've seen that.

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I think they just have it all
wrong and it just cuts great artists out

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because they glump it all into one
house. Let me say this, though,

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Chang, I had a little difference
of opinion online. But the gentleman

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starts discussing the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, and I said, how

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I disagreed. They said rock and
roll. That quote rock and roll is

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not simply rock and roll. It
is critical to recognize and include the evolution.

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Metal is not the same as prague, glam is not the same as

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grunge, and in the early days
of rock, none of those even existed.

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And if we don't include the evolution
of rock, the entire genre would

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be defined strictly by the sound acts
of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Chubby

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Checker. And if that was the
case, very little of the music created

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in the past fifty years would be
considered rock, and a much broader definition

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is necessary. So my response was
the following. I say, well,

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you're mentioning genres within rock and roll, which I agree, but the greats

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that are responsive and the greats that
are responsible for it. Now, what

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about those inducted that are rap and
those alike. A lot of those so

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called evolution of rock is just simply
not rock. So you know, I

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totally agree with you where you mentioned
each genre if they can should have their

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own Hall of Fame. Now,
if you don't agree with just rock being

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in the Rock Hall of Fame,
and you work for the Rock and Roll

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Hall of Fame, then might I
suggest you change the name to just the

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Music Hall of Fame. Wouldn't that
be a better suited name for the Hall

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of Fame, the Music Hall of
Fame, because then you can include genres

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like classical music. Then you can
include genres like um, one of the

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genres that is actually disappearing now,
which is blues and jazz. You can

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include there's there's tons of other genres
within genres, so you know what I

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mean. So yeah, if you
want to have something like that, then

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call it the Music Hall of Fame, don't call it the Rock and Roll

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Hall of Fame. And then induct
once again these are artists that I like,

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But then go ahead and induct L. L. Cool J you know

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what I mean? And then yeah, he's already been inducted. Yeah,

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you know what, I'll bet you
of the majority of the individuals that vote

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or run the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame all enjoy making fruit salad because

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they they'll just throw whatever fruit in
a salad and call it done. And

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that's what they're doing with these artists. I think it's The rock and Roll

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Hall of Fame is as ridiculous as
American politics. Now here's a band that

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I really think is rock and roll. Let me ask you if you agree

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with me. They rhythmics, sweet
jeans, are made of things and desire.

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I travel the world and the Seven
Seas, everybodies something. Yes,

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I would agree. Um, there
is a lot to be said that they

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are more synthpop or New Way,
but they are also rock. They do

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include rock in their music, so
yeah, I kind of I would.

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I think there's a fine line there. But I think they meet what is

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needed in order for them to be
called a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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inductee. I think I think that
they do. Now, what about Dolly

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Parton? Stumble out a bit and
a stumble to the kitchen, pull myself

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a cup of ambition and your own
and stretch and try to come to dine

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jumping shower and the blood starts bombing
out. On the streets, the traffic

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starts chopping books like me on the
job from none to fine working bottle and

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getting by and they just use your
Here's something funny, though, Dolly Parton,

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which all right, that's country all
the way now. In the beginn

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Guinea, when she knew she was
being nominated, she said, no,

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I want to respect those and you
know this is I don't want to be

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in the Hall of Fame because it's
not rock now, because the votes were

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already counted in, it was too
late. Now she kind of backtracked and

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she's accepting her induction into the Rock
Hall of Fame as a country singer.

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Well, you know what props to
hers. She's she I mean, she's

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a badass in country, gorgeous,
she could act, she's funny, she's

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the real deal. She stayed married
to the same cat all those years.

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He's a regular dude. And that's
being very humble to acknowledge exactly the point

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that I don't think a lot of
other people or maybe they do get it,

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like but they don't verbalize it the
way we did. Right on to

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Dolly Parton, here's another one.
I got one for you, Lionel Richie

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well, look, yeah, yeah, I agree if you go back to

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when he might have first started um
in the in the seventies, when he

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rose to fame as a as a
songwriter and the co lead singer of the

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Commodores. However, he is written
down as genre. His music in the

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genres are written down as soul,
pop and R and B. There is

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no rock, you know what I
mean? I agree, So maybe Commodore

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is early a little bit of early
funk, but exactly so. Once again,

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and I do want to clear this
up with everybody listening. I love

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this artist. I love and I
know you love Lionel Richie as well.

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His music is great, just like
the other artists that we've just mentioned.

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But come on, if you're gonna
go into the rock Hall of Fame,

407
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I mean, come on, voters
choose rock and roll bands, you gotta

408
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.920
be rough. Let's take a let's
take a little pause here, because when

409
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.119
we come back, we're gonna continue
the subject. But we're also going to

410
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:08.800
talk about some bands that should be
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

411
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:14.360
and are not. Don't go away. This is back to the eighties Radio

412
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:19.679
greatest vocalist, indeed, the greatest
Posi religious figure of the twentieth century can

413
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:23.280
only be done. That's right,
Tom don Hoe And when you think of

414
00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:25.519
don Hole, what hell do you
think of? That? Right? Hawaii

415
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:29.239
And when you think of Hawaii,
there's no denying the Headbanger's ball. Escape

416
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.000
from the Long Cold Winter was Cinderella
Contest one winner and a gaest. We

417
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:35.639
rocketed to the unspoiled tropical paradise of
Hawaire. You tell them about a Tom

418
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:38.719
you and a friend will escape a
long cold winner. See Cinderella in concert.

419
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:43.840
You'll play in the sand, get
a ten meet the band and if

420
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:46.920
you're lacking so personal items to the
locals for ten times what they're worth.

421
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:51.199
Here's what you do. Send it
a hand written post card. Two mtvs.

422
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:53.239
Escape from the Long Cold Wind too
was Cinderella Contest Peo Box twelve eighty

423
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.480
Radio City Station, New York,
New York one one one. What about

424
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:09.840
don Oh? That was just a
nimmi for the very first time. This

425
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:13.519
is the one and only back to
the eighties radio. That's right. My

426
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:19.639
partner and I are laughing in the
background because we were just mentioning. We

427
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.559
were talking a little bit about the
list and who's on who shouldn't and should

428
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.079
be things like that. But I
want to make a little side note here

429
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:32.920
to mention that a lot of the
fault in this are the Grammy Awards.

430
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.119
I blame the Grammy Awards in a
lot of this chang the sixty fourth annual

431
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:44.000
Grammy Awards. Total total nominations,
Kanye has received seventy five. He's won

432
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:49.159
twenty four times. The funny thing
is, you get bands of rock that

433
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:55.440
have made footprint in the in the
musical arch of society that have been nominated

434
00:40:55.599 --> 00:41:00.280
once twice have never won. So
that drives me nuts. And I blame

435
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:06.239
a lot of it on the Grammys. Well, yeah, the new MTV,

436
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.800
absolutely, you know what. And
I loved MTV for the first uh

437
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.320
seven years until eighty nine or ninety
and yeah, a lot of people say

438
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.119
it only lasted fourteen years, but
as soon as eighty nine came around and

439
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:22.760
left, uh, MTV was over
for me. For me, anyway,

440
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:28.079
I agree with you you mentioned.
Yeah. Now, there is one gentleman

441
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:36.159
on this list of inductees that I
also appreciate, I like, and he

442
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:40.679
has made I mean, he's the
best in his genre. Unfortunately, his

443
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:45.639
genre is not rock and I'm talking
about Marshall Bruce Mathers, the third,

444
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:58.519
otherwise known professionally as Eminemics. So
what do you think it's not rock and

445
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:01.840
roll of all the things hip hop
Hall of Fame? Yeah, period,

446
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.599
right, bottom line, because there's
nothing else to say. He's wrapped.

447
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:10.400
He doesn't belong to the rock and
roll Hall of Fame period period, just

448
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:16.480
like NWA, Yeah, just like
Tupac Biggie, you know what I mean?

449
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:20.840
Yeah, And we mentioned El cool
J should not be there. Al

450
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.280
cool J, No, Ludicrous shouldn't
be in there. You know, the

451
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.440
Woo Woot Tank shouldn't be in there, right, you know what I mean?

452
00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:32.400
Nobody U in hip hop should be
in the rock and roll They should

453
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:37.960
have their own and it should be
just as badass and even more badass and

454
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:42.039
boulder than the rock and roll you
know what? To me, if they

455
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:47.519
were to house every different genre of
music into their own household Hall of Fame,

456
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:53.559
can you imagine how badass those performances
would be? Do you realize how

457
00:42:53.679 --> 00:43:00.440
close original hip hop and rock and
roll are to each other? I mean,

458
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:05.639
they moved a generation, They made
people get up and dance. They

459
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:09.039
spoke for the people that were not
speaking. They spoke of hard times in

460
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:14.719
life right in your face. Both
rock and roll and hip hop, I

461
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:19.960
think are two of the strongest arteries
in any form of music, and they're

462
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.360
just as great as each other in
their own ways and should be housed in

463
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:29.519
their very own so they are not
robbed of so many great acts to reach

464
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:34.000
the kingdom. Brother, I can
tell you, Chang that there is a

465
00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:36.800
band, and I'm gonna let you
mention them, but I can tell you,

466
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:44.639
guys that this is Chang's favorite band. It's his hard and soul and

467
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:50.440
it's a band that started way back
in late nineteen sixty nine and they've sold

468
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:54.320
over fifty million copies of their albums. They've frequently been ranked as one of

469
00:43:54.400 --> 00:44:01.000
the greatest metal bands of all time, and it's finally happened in twenty twenty

470
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:08.079
two, way way way past the
time that they should have received this induction.

471
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:15.000
This has been a slap to the
face, not only to this band,

472
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:20.960
but I think too many metal bands
who when they started, they were

473
00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:24.719
not classified as metal, but they
were ass kicking blues, hard ass rock

474
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:30.880
with two guitar players. I'm talking
about the great metal gods themselves. Judas

475
00:44:30.000 --> 00:45:22.639
Priest finally inducted to the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame after so many times

476
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:28.760
they were denied and other bands were
put in place. Just a sheer let

477
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.559
down for all of us metal heads
that band, I think for anybody that

478
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:37.320
really appreciates a great band, no
matter what genre it is, when you

479
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:43.800
have any type of music that captivates
you when you first hear it that tickles

480
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.719
your senses, you're going to want
to hear more of that or something like

481
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:52.079
it, you know what I'm saying. So props finally to the priest for

482
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.679
making the Hall of Fame. But
I do have some problems with the priest.

483
00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.280
Now I've seen the priest give or
take maybe five times, maybe even

484
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:06.760
more. I don't like that only
Rob Halford and his brother in law,

485
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:10.880
the bass player, are the only
original bands in that band, and I

486
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:16.079
think for the fifty you know,
their fiftieth anniversary just passed. The other

487
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:21.239
two guitar players were not president.
But Glenn Tipton, the original writer of

488
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.400
a lot of that music. You
know, he's down with Parkinson, so

489
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:28.880
he goes in and out when he
can and he can't. But I think

490
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.719
KK Downing should have been there that
would have been a really great sight to

491
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:37.440
see. But you know, like
I said it before, every band has

492
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.559
its day to say goodbye. I
love this band, this band is the

493
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:46.000
soundtrack to my youth. But I
do believe this band needs to say goodbye

494
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:51.920
now. You know, it's just
not the same. So you might as

495
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.000
well go out on top and enjoy
that money and ride Hardy Davidson's in Arizona

496
00:46:55.159 --> 00:47:00.960
and for us as the fans to
keep him and remember them as they were

497
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:06.320
and not remember them as what the
heck are they doing now? Kind of

498
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:09.719
You know, we see that in
bands all the time. And you know

499
00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:15.800
what, a lot of the things
that I see with bands not being inducted

500
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:20.239
into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame is because their exposure during a certain

501
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.199
period of time. For example,
with Judas Priest, they had a decline

502
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:28.960
in exposure during the mid nineties,
and part of that is because Rob Halford

503
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:35.719
went out ninety two, replaced by
Tim Ripper Owens, formerly of Winners Bank.

504
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.679
He was replaced in ninety six.
He only recorded two albums with the

505
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:45.800
Judas Priest before Halford returned to the
band in two thousand and three. So

506
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:51.400
you got ninety six to two thousand
and three that Judas Priests declined in their

507
00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:58.719
exposure. So I remember that like
it was just yesterday. But Judas Priests

508
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:02.119
had taken a turn for the worst
a bit after with the Turbo Lover that

509
00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:07.280
album. They went in a little
bit glam their shiningness clothes came out.

510
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:13.840
Rob Halford grew somewhat of a mullet
type of thing. Everything got a little

511
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.320
chaotic. I don't think he liked
the way the music and the music company

512
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.519
was making them make this music.
I think there was problems with that.

513
00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:24.840
So he bailed, but he did
go play with a band called Fight,

514
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:29.920
and then he came out later with
Helford, which is a good friend of

515
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:35.480
ours on the show. Mike Davis
was the bass player for that tour of

516
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.559
Helford, so you know, he
kept kicking ass with two other groups a

517
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:44.320
little bit stronger and Bolder and Ripper
Owens. It just wasn't grabbing it.

518
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:47.480
There was a lot of people that
they were just not biting into a tribute

519
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:53.199
singer coming in. You know,
we were talking about the groups or the

520
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:58.360
artists that we believe should not be
there, and in this case we've talked

521
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.559
a little bit about rap here.
That's what ticks me off. You got

522
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:07.280
bands like Judas Priests that deserved it
way way before, the notorious Big and

523
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:12.000
t Rex, which were inductees in
twenty twenty. Give me a break,

524
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.320
you know what I mean, Give
me a break. What a screw What

525
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:17.079
a screwball pitch that was? Yeah? Well, you know what, bro?

526
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:22.719
You're aware that Harry Belafonte was on
this list also, I mean,

527
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:27.480
bro, did you ever bang your
head with Harry belt work all night?

528
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:47.840
A drink a rum stop? Banan, Oh, mister Dalimali Banan. I

529
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.119
tried to bang some chicks with Harry
Belafonte, but I could never bang my

530
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:57.159
head. Let me make a quick
mention of bands that are wishing they were

531
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.719
in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame because they are rock and roll yet

532
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:15.159
are not. Some of those bands
to note are Bad Company, Ozzy Osbourne,

533
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:34.920
I Motorhead, you know, to
Lose, the Catlins, Vols the

534
00:50:35.480 --> 00:51:04.599
way I like it, Lady Idol, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Tantara,

535
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:08.639
Kansas, Foreigner, fog Hat,
Uh, Eddie Money, Boston,

536
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:14.320
Thin, Lizzie, and the list
goes on of rockers who are just uh

537
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:22.079
just sitting there waiting Motley Crue,
No, give him a break. They're

538
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.199
rock. They're rock. They're more
rock than the notorious b I g my

539
00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:30.760
friend, no comment. I don't
want to anger any Oh my gosh,

540
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:35.760
you've got you? Do you seriously
look at me, look at me and

541
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:38.880
tell me that you hate Motley Crude
that much? Were you won't even agreed

542
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:43.280
that they're rock? Oh no,
no, they are rock. Okay,

543
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:45.760
that's all I want to You don't
have to look at you don't have to

544
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:51.800
like them. It's like a like
a you're like a judge. You're like,

545
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:52.679
yeah, case this might hear me
out. I don't want to hear

546
00:51:52.679 --> 00:52:02.719
you. Uh ah. So needless
to say, I gotta tell you that

547
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:08.760
this year's Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame keeps getting worse. And that's why

548
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:14.440
I refuse to watch any of these
shows. Why do I have to watch

549
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:17.960
something I disagree with? You know, I don't have to agree with them,

550
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:22.679
That's fine. I think that if
we're inducting artists that are not rock

551
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:28.559
and roll into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, why doesn't why don't

552
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:36.800
we join the Classical Music Alliance Association
or whatever they're called as a rock group

553
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:40.880
or as a rap group, or
as a country group and take their awards

554
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:47.840
for best Classical rendition of Johann Sebastian
Bach or something like that. Do you

555
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:51.360
know what I mean where you're yeah, yeah, I like where you're going

556
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:55.280
with it. That would be just
as stupid as some of the artists that

557
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:59.719
they're putting in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. But I like where

558
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:04.199
you're going with that. You are
listening to back to the eighties radio if

559
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:08.679
you just joined us. Chang and
I are just ranting about our opinions on

560
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:13.519
what we think the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame is and what it is

561
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:16.159
not. Once again, we do
want to clear up that has nothing to

562
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:22.239
do with the bands themselves. We
like certain bands that were inducted, but

563
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.480
we don't agree that they belong on
the list. And it's not only this

564
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:30.320
year, right, Chang. No. I mean if we could do an

565
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:36.639
entire two show special on every year
that we go over a list, and

566
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:44.199
I guarantee there will be so many
disappointments. I can't even think of the

567
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.719
top twenty disappointments, probably in the
last two years, three years, tops.

568
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:52.079
Yeah, it just do it.
I think we should. It's crazy

569
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:57.039
to think that to be inducted,
you have to have at least twenty five

570
00:53:57.119 --> 00:54:02.159
years after your first album. And
you get artists that really didn't do nothing

571
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:10.920
for society, didn't don't change hearts, don't change souls, don't move stadiums.

572
00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:15.320
Yet they're being inducted. You know
what, It's just shameful. If

573
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:20.880
they were a laxity, they'd be
so powerful you could stand on your head

574
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:27.000
and on the ceiling. That position
would not only be unavail but also I'm

575
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:31.519
dignified. And now back to the
eighties with Toscato and Chang. Welcome back.

576
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:36.039
This is Back to the Eighties Radio. Thank you for joining us on

577
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:40.239
another Friday. If you do want
to leave us a little note, or

578
00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:45.199
if you have a suggestion for a
topic in the future, we encourage you

579
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:50.760
to write into us at Back the
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580
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:54.800
That's Back the Number two Eighties Radio
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581
00:54:54.840 --> 00:55:00.800
also visit us at k hits nine
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582
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:04.960
just make it easy just leave us
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583
00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:07.119
is where we get all of our
comments and things like that. It's been

584
00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:13.760
great talking with you Chang as always
my friend, my comrade in the radio

585
00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:16.679
business. Thanks for being here with
us. Have a safe week, be

586
00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:22.960
kind to each other. Let's start
making this world a better place till next

587
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:28.960
week. This is the chang before
I release you to another chang testic weekend.

588
00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:32.480
Remember you matter, don't ever forget
that. Go out there and do

589
00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:36.639
something that puts a smile in your
face. Have a blast, have a

590
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.039
ball, have whatever you gotta have
to keep it rocket and roll in and

591
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:43.960
get through the grind on the weekend. Remember to hit us right back here

592
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:47.360
next week at back to the eighties. I bid you all on Austa Labista,

593
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:54.320
Austa Manana, austell away goal,
Audios, saya nara to all my

594
00:55:54.519 --> 00:56:00.920
bills and hills out in the OC. Later to all my homies in everybody

595
00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:21.719
across the land. Or take me
back to take me back to ye who