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high podcasting world. This is Tim
Preston and I'm with the greatest podcast known

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to the living man. It's called
The gens Ears. We're here every single

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day informing everybody who was born in
the eighties how much cooler we are because

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we are born in a decade of
technology. If you're joining us for the

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very first time, welcome to the
greatest show in the world. Now we've

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got a special day and a special
caller on the line because he is a

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guy from the eighties who wants to
He wants to have an argument. It

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probably because that's how people from the
eighties were. They wanted to argue about

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everything, bunch of bullies. Let's
show him that with peace, calm,

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and serenity you can solve any problem
and achieve human prosperity. Hello, caller,

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who's on the line. Hey,
how are you doing, Kip?

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This is Dick Larson. I'm a
father of four. I live here and

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my name is My name is Tim. It doesn't matter what your name is.

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Wow, you're old enough to be
my child. You're rude now,

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Tim, No, no, Tim, please speak to me with respect.

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I am as old as your father. Now, Tim, I would like

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to know what in good God's name
makes you think that your era is better

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than the era of someone of my
stature, that this piece of cake this

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is what I live for. Well, you see, first of all,

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technology has made everything much easier,
much more confused, made a cook example.

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If this is my show, and
my show, I'm the boss.

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All right, So okay, okay, take it easy. We live on

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our phones because the phones are a
part of us, and we are a

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part of our phones. Right,
you're all weasels. I take that as

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a sign of disrespect, and that
goes to show me that you are not

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a politically correct human being. You
have no tolerance Okay, Jim, Kim,

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no, Kim, Tim, please
calm down. You're acting like a

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juvenile that is swing the tantrum in
your own room. First of all,

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I have nothing but respect and admiration
for your generation and my phone. I'd

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say you're probably about the same age, right, Okay, what, yeah,

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whatever, mister phone guy, you're
probably about the same age as one

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of my children. Right. I
don't know how old are your children now,

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No, no, oh no,
Tim, you need to slow down

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and have respect for your elders.
I don't know if you come from a

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divorced home or something intolerable such as
that, but I am not trying to

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be disrespectful. We are having a
conversation. We are going to show the

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pros and cons of your generation and
mind correct you. But you're throwing too

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many things at me. At the
same time, you're being very loud,

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and I'm kind of taking it as
you're offending me. You know, I

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want to tell everybody in my social
media that I've been put down. You,

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sir, are a bully to me. Oh now, now, Kip,

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please, I'm a father of four. I'd say you're maybe nineteen twenty

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years old, maybe never been with
a girl twenty nine, possible twenty nine.

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You sound very young, you know, now, kiss I get that

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a lot, you know, Okay, Now, Kip and all Tim,

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Kim whatever your name is. For
all I know, you could have been

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a towel baby off of one of
the many ladies I slept with. Towel

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baby. For all I know,
you could be my child. I don't

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know you're you're you're simply kind of
uh, that's disgusting, overabundant, You're

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rude, you're trying to be bossy. You have no respect for your elders.

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Me. Now, listen to me. Come on, yes, you

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Kip, you Kip, it's Tim
Now, Oh my gosh. You see

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generation Zee. This is exactly what
I talk about week after week, the

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rudeness of people from the eighties.
They just think they can tell you things

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as it is. They don't.
They don't just go out there and tell

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you how awesome you are. They
don't tell you you deserve a trophy,

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you know, and back of my
dad, i'd put you a timeout,

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sir. Now you know what,
Kip. The problem with your generation is

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all of you got trophies for being
losers and quitters. We're all wing.

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No, we're not all winning.
You know what, Kip market trip with

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me? What do you say?
Kip? Are you ready to take the

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plunge? You worthless little weasel?
Join me and Kip back to the eighties.

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Well told me we're winners one point
plenty. You are listening to the

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one and only Back to the Eighties
radio show. I am Tuscano from Tuscano

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and Chang Tonight. He's a very
special show. As promised, we have

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two special people with us, two
wonderful guests who are going to be taking

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part with us in the grand adventure
of k Hits ninety two point five.

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That's the Back to the Eighties radio
where we play a nothing but eighties music.

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Welcome to Back to the Eighties.
I want to bring out two individuals

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that bring me to a glee,
that bring me to my knees. Radio

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from the past is back at last. Give a warm welcome to the gorgeous

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Wendy the radio Girl. And that's
right. I want to hear you clap

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louder or I will go to your
houses. And I also want to give

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a warm welcome to the double digit, the King of FM double R,

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my brother, my sister, my
fellow Italian stallion. I want to welcome

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you to Back to the Eighties and
I want to welcome you to k Hits

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ninety two point five. Everybody around
the world meet Wendy and Double R,

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who are part of k Hits ninety
two point five and a part of the

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whole Back to the Eighties radio family. So, you know, thank you

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guys for for being here and wanting
to chat a little. Yea than they

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don't need to thank us. They
need to thank the great listeners that have

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been tuning into Back to the Eighties. They are personalities that you all need

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to just grab and feel and bring
into your houses. Yeah, because you

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two are changarithic. Since July fourth, we've been running a beta test.

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Usually we would like to take a
little bit longer to do the beta test,

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but I thought, man, there's
no better time to officially lunch than

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in Halloween. You guys have been
doing great with your liners and trying to

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just do everything possible to entertain people. And I know that a lot of

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people have already been on the on
the station hearing you guys, And what

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made you decide that, Yeah,
you know what, I'll take a chance

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with you guys and k hits.
Honestly, well, Mario, I've actually

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known you when I went to radio
school, and that was just like a

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gift from the universe to me.
You know, I swear to God,

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I know I'm gonna sound like super
cliche. I'm gonna sound like, oh

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my God, that you universe the
stars and all that stuff. I not

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really like that, I promise you, but no, I honestly am more

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of a spiritual person. And I
think that at that point in my life,

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the universe said something like, Hey, let's just go down this random

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road of radio and see what you
got. And I just went for it.

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I didn't know that could be a
job, to be honest, I

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knew all my life I had just
listened to the radio. I never thought

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about the INDs and odds, about
like what goes into it, and so

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I just found it fascinating. Man, It's been a long journey. I

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mean, I'm in my mid thirties
and I was started with sports. Really,

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Mario knows. Thanks again, Mario
and Chank for bringing me along.

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Um, it's been a weird,
long journey for me. Since I was

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five years old, I always wanted
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my big thing, and did a
couple of Little league games when I was

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like ten, you know, and
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teenth years later, um worked at
Angel Stadium. I've met a lot of

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people in the industry and thanks to
the school RB, you know, we

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learned a lot and Mario was one
of my main guys. And so Mario,

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like he told me, you know, things, things are not going

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to be the way that you plan. But you know, you just keep

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pushing, keep going. You're gonna
fall, like, uh, you're gonna

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fall ninety nine times, get up
a hundred. You know, you just

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do what you gotta do. I've
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being an ARB and it's been a
crazy journey. And then and then we

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did like, you know, radio
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You know, we did radio shifts
and we did did you do any radio

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ships together? Oh no? But
I went to see Ricky at KKAL because

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I remember that was fun. What
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She came to the family baby.
And by the way, for those of

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you listening who have no idea what
ARB stand for, it is the Academy

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is the Academy of Radio Television Broadcasting
in the city of Huntington Beach. What

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is the main goal of you as
an air personality to bring to your audience?

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First thing that popped up into my
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hard on yourself, you know what
I mean? And that's what I want

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to bring out to this world is
like to remember the time where it wasn't

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so judgmental, or it wasn't so
like you can't you have to walk on

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eggshells all the time, Like that's
not the life I want to lead,

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Like why would I want to surround
myself with situations like that. I want

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to be in the free world of
where it's just rock and roll music all

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the time and I'm just like popping
my head down the sidewalk with a sidewalk

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without a care. And that's just
what I want to bring back to the

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world is the power of music to
make everyone feel like it's going to be

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okay. Last week, we talked
a little bit about how music is one

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of the world's greatest forces for and
of changing lives and if we only,

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you know, allowed it to be
a little bit more free in our lives.

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I mean, we've probably been in
a different place. I loved your

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answer because like as me and Tiscano
Standford, we are here to enlighten and

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entertain both of us and all of
us as a family, all understand one

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thing. Unity is the only way
to prosperity. And what better way to

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create unity away from politics and division
and your everyday struggles is a kind voice,

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something quirky to say, or inspirational, or to bring them a song

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that is going to put them in
a mindset to where they have left all

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the crap of the world and they're
free and happy at one given moment.

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My one word that I when it
comes to radio is escape, especially right

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now with everything that's going on.
Like Wendy said, you play that certain

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song at a certain time, you
might save a life. You don't know.

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You know, I've been on before
I came here. I've done my

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own podcast. I've been on other
radio stations. I even had I did

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this. If you've heard my show, I do the Suicide every single show.

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Yeah. I much loved to you
guys. And if you're all struggling

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out there and you can't get the
whole the Suicide Hotline feel free to hit

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us up at any time I had, I I brought. I've never cried

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on air until this one shift I
had out in the I E. I'm

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actually friends with this girl now m
but she just messaged me saying that she

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needed to hear that message. She
had the pin, the pin I'm not

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talking to writing pin, a safety
pin in her hand, her wrist right

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there, ready to go, and
that she just dropped it, like instantly

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dropped it, and that it was
my words, it was the thing,

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in my words. It's just what
was said, you know. And I

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cried on my next break. You
know, you don't do that as a

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DJ. You just don't show that
emotion sometimes. And I just broke,

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man. It was just like you
know, with me, it's an escape.

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You need to escape all the craziness
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whatever song I listened to literally everything
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anything. Wow. Wow, he
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we have like one song. Look, all these years without ever listening to

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that four letter word, all right, and then all of a sudden Ricky

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comes along and says, hey,
I want this and one of my breaks.

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What it's the four letter word.
Dance on me. Yeah anyway,

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Hey, it's okay. We forgive
you bro chance on me. Chisconnall,

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please don't play Abba No. If
you play Abba I official right now,

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you better play the we are talking
about. This is, of course eighties

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talk in eighties radio talk, which
we have boarded, and you want to

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play this here now because you guys
are well, maybe maybe double R will

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fit into this, Maybe he'll get
it as far as that from personal experience

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a little more. Maybe maybe not
because I think you were born that you

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were born and you were five Yeah, okay, so maybe not. But

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Chang and I are gonna mention a
few things that the eighties brought to us

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with radio, and then what I
want you guys to do, No,

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and what I want you guys to
do is basically let us know how that

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compares with your experience with radio today. Okay, Chang, what's one of

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the things that eighties radio brought to
the world Boldness, integrity, unity,

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bringing out the negatives and all right
good times? Because back in the eighties,

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as a young Chang, I was
challenged by many things in my life

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negative, positive, But my whole
grasp of calmness and serenity and feeling a

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belonging was me cranking on my radio
and hearing jocks like Jim Ladd, hearing

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jocks from KALs, you know KALs
read a while going back to Knac and

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the freedom of inspiration that radio stations
gave me, It kind of gave me

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a foundation on individualism. So to
me, doing radio now and bringing back

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the vibe of the eighties is my
way of time. America, we are

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one, we are powerful. You
will not only hear our voice, but

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you're you're going to hear our emotion
in radio of the eighties, and what

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we could create is one thing unity. So to me, eighties radio is

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everything I'm about. It's exactly why
I crack opened this mic. When I

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leave this world, I want everyone
to know that while I was here,

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I made you feel better than you
did an hour ago before you cranked me

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on What radio was to me back
in the eighties growing up, and I

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spent my life throughout the eighties.
I mean I was a team and an

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older team towards the or the last
part of the eighties and would beat any

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Kong Yeah, probably, but I
would have beat you with my little Black

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Book though. Anyway, the point
is, um I had. I had

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a heck of a time enjoying radio. It was all we had. You

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know, we didn't have the streaming
services, so everything was much more personal,

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even the music. You had to
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I want to I want to show
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is irrelevant on what I'm gonna show
you. I'm gonna show you guys a

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cassette that I just purchased, and
this brought back so many memories. I

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bought this on eBay, right and
when you and this was a brand new

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cassette by the way, Yeah,
I unwrapped it for the very first time,

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and I actually told my kids,
I go check this out. Let

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me let me do the unwrapping,
because that's going to be it's an experience.

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So you unwrapped the cassette and you
actually get all the lyrics on the

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insire for the last couple of days, and no one understands this. I'm

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like, do you remember looking at
the lyrics that, Yeah, it had

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lyrics, Yes, it has pictures. It has a story. Now just

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like vinyl, Vinyl even is better
because it has a lot Yeah, there's

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there's just tons more information. However, for me, where everything was about

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cassettes, then the latter part of
the eighties of course turning into CDs.

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But to me, there's something very
special about making a mixtape. And radio

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to me was that entertainer. Right
at first, yeah, I get pissed

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off because, oh, why won't
that guy shut up? He's talking over

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the intro? Shut up? How
dare you? And then but you know

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what, without realizing it, we
were being entertained. There was always that

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special jock or jocks that that made
our day. And I remember one of

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the stations. I used to listen
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of those was of course, uh
yeah, I listened to KISFM because Rick

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These was on in the mornings.
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six and there was a DJ there
by the name of his radio name was

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Mucco Morales six. This request Santa
Hannah, Orange County concert weekend going on

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a weekend long and it's gonna be
one hund August nite, Santa Annah,

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stay of August sixteenth in concert l
People's Bridgie n stations sho secret tie.

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We have your tickets here to win
all weekend long, So hang around,

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coming up down some fresh new music. Princess. However, I remember that,

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and Muccha Moarrales was incredible, phenomenal. In nineteen ninety five, I

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started working at a place in Anaheim
where we sold on air spots. For

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there were PSAs, p s as, we sold PSAs. So after a

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few months of me starting to work
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who was that? It was Muccha
Morales and I started talking to him and

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he goes, brother, if you
were ever on the radio, and I

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want you to be your your radio
names gotta be super Mario. And that's

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where super Mario comes to you all
the way, you know, that's where

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super Mario comes from muscles. And
he said, you know what, Mario,

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I'm gonna do this for you.
Come down on a Thursday. I'm

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going to take you somewhere because you
like radio so much. Hey hey,

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And he took me to the Academy
of Radio and Television where he was giving

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a lecture that evening. No,
yes, this was this was too I'm

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sorry. This was nineteen ninety eight, ninety nine. Now, bro,

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are you talking about AARB? The
Academy of Radio and Television Broadcasting at Huntington

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Beach years later in two thousand nine, two ten. Sorry, I went

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to the Academy because of mucha morales
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So that's so, this is before
me and you got that's correct,

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classmates decided to build a legacy with
our own stupidity. Yeah, so,

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radio to me has such an it
made such an impact in the eighties,

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so much so that my career today
is all a result of what I wanted

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to be because of listening to radio
in the nineteen eighties. That is perfect.

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You know what, My brother,
every time I hear that story,

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I find nothing but beauty and just
totally agree with you. My whole idol

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was Jim Ladd of Kmet ninety four
point seven and of KLS and Deep Tracks

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and Theory of the Mind. Like
Mario stated, he met somebody that gave

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him the inspiration to go on.
I met Jim Ladd at a book signing

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when I bought his book. We
talked for two hours. My wife was

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like, you need to shut the
hell up and get away. He's signing

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books and I'll never forget when I
parted ways with him. He goes,

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He goes, Hey, Steve,
you need to get into radio because your

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insight, passion, everything you speak, that I've done for your radio,

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you need to carry on the legacy. And Mario will attest. Now,

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Mario, did he not help me
and mentor me through a lot of the

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shows that we've done. Of course, the one thing that he told me,

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I'm going to tell you both is
you have to have perseverance. Me

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and Tuscano have struggled. We've gone
through the ups and the downs. We've

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gone through the downs tour. It
took us off the mic. But his

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words rain in me today is per
sir, verance. This back to the

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eighties. We're gonna take a little
short break. When we come back,

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We're gonna talk to Double R and
Wendy, that radio girl Wendy, and

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we're gonna ask them to let us
know how they see the differences between radio

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and the eighties are and radio today. We'll be right back hanging there,

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taking you on a trip to him
better time, a time when America used

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to win at things, When we
won the Cold War by arming Afghanistan,

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when we beat rushing boxers by jugging
in the woods, when a welder could

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become a dancer, when a poor
immigrant could become to the power of music,

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a guru to a generation. If
they were a laxative, they'd be

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so powerful you could stand on your
head and on the ceiling. Next position

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will not only be al but also
undignified. And now back to the Eighties

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with Tiscano and Chang. Welcome back
to Back to the Eighties hosted by yours

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Julie Tascano and Chang. And you
are listening to Back to the Eighties and

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the only number one station to get
your eighties vibe. That's right, baby,

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k Hits ninety two point five,
the only place to keep the eighties

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music alive. We are chatting and
chewing the old hide with our gorgeous Wendy

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the radio Girl and mister double digits
and I gotta capitalize them double R.

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Tascano. I want you to feed
the youth your inspiration. My baby,

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if you just joined us, we
are talking about radio back in the eighties

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and how it relates to radio today. And who better to talk to us

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about that than two members of our
k Hits crew members that are back to

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the Eighties crew members who are a
little bit younger, not too much,

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but they are a little bit younger. Definitely much better looking. And you

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guys know how DJs were back in
the eighties. The radio business has dragged

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that out. They've sucked the life
out of that part of the radio world.

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Right. They seem to think,
Okay, well, people don't want

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to hear that. They just want
to hear somebody talking to them like they're

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in their living room or whatever.
When we, in fact from the eighties

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realize that we wanted to be entertained. That's what we wanted to be,

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and we don't have entertainers like that. They're very rare, there are,

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but they're very rare. So talk
to us a little bit about yourselves.

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Where do you want to go?
Okay, so again, my name is

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actually it's Richard Rodriguez, but I
don't like that name because of what people

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can also call me because sometimes I
act like that. But you know what

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I mean. Anyway, the lard
thing is actually really funny because get this.

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Okay, so in middle school there's
always a million Richards, right,

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so Richard Richard also, well,
don't be when big anyway, So there's

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Richard Rico and then there was me, Richard Rodriguez, and so my teacher

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called him Rico and then called me
double R. And I was just like

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daub like I was in middle school, you know, like whatever. Never

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ever in a millionaires thought I would
use that again. And then I went

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yeah, and then um, fast
forward, real quick, I went to

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a ARB graduated. Also, Mario
is one of my awesome, amazing counselors

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and mentors steal as my mentor um. And by the way, we went

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to the same high school. Well, yeah, we went to the same

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high school. Yeah we went yep, of course I graduated, uh,

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just a couple of years before,
a couple of years before him. But

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do you mind me asking what high
school was this? Santa Fe Springs High

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School, baby, home of the
Chieftains, sir. Hey, Well,

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all I gotta say is like I
went to Bello High School and we kicked

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your butt in football never never,
not while I was there, buddy.

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Yeah, now you were a baseball
player, but serious champions at our school.

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I'm just saying it. All I
can say is like I held the

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school record for personal follows in a
j D game because I was all cooked

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out and I hit everybody, even
people on my own team. So there

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Chang was high school mascot. Oh
yeah, I say that. I was

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an oiler. No, he don't
listen to him. He's drunk, all

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right. I freaking love that.
All right. So in a nutshell,

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I go to AIRB and the leader
there, I'm not going to drop her

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name, but she didn't like my
radio names. She's like, get a

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radio name, blah blah blah.
And I tried like three different names from

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Ricky. Rick was one of them. I used that one for a while.

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Kind of really nineties is right,
you know? Yeah, She's like,

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I absolutely hate it. You need
to drop it, you need to

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do this. So I'm like,
forget it. Whatever I did all these

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other cheesy names. I'm Richie Davis
because my name is Richard David, so

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I went Richie Davis. I tried
this like, I did this like fifties

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theme kind of thing, and I
hated it. It just wasn't me right.

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You should have been Richard Sass.
So Dick Sas. That makes what

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did you say, Richard Dass?
You got me Dick Sass of it?

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All right? How about sassy Dick? There you go? So okay,

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But dude, once I dropped the
once I placed in double R name again,

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it was just me, you know, and then when I came here,

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I got to do the real dude
thing, and I just I feel

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like I can relate, like you
said, relate with the listeners, regardless

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what the age they are. They've
all been there where they just want to

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be really chilled, like jaw,
let's just go out to hit the waves

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or let's go skateboard or whatever.
Right, really really serious at times when

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I need, you said, We're
like yah yah. You know you guys,

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you know, be really serious at
times too, like when a suicide

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hotline or we're talking you talking about
as being We're also parents. I'm a

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single parent. Um, Wendy has
a beautiful I have a son, a

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ten year old son. Wendy has
a beautiful little girl. You know,

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he's bloody. I freaking love her. But you know, and parenting changes

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you so flash forward, you know. I, like I said, I

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was five, I wanted to go
into broadcasting. I did the Little League

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thing for a little while, and
then I just it was like a dream.

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You're like, I'm I'm going to
reach it. It's that star I

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just can't reach, right, And
then you know, my son was born,

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and then I went through a really
really messy divorce and it just got

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really really difficult, and I was
like, you know what, screw it,

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right, just screw it. I'm
my buddy's like, hey, there's

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a school, and you heard you
were interested. I just showed up one

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day, just showed up one day. I said, hey, what's the

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worst that can happened? Right?
And then eighteenth years later, you know,

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here we are, and I've been
opened so many doors. Mario opened

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doors for me. One of my
old consults, Fredo, even Ruben,

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you know, they all opened doors
for me. We love Ruben. Every

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counselor there had their own just like
us, every different personality, everything that

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they could offer. You know,
you had the technical person, we had

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the sports person, which was Fredo, and then we had Reuben who did

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red carpets. It was cool,
and I took a little piece of everything

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that you guys taught me. Yeah, well there you go, and but

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I use it all the time.
One of those things you guys taught me

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was just go for it, you
know, just go for it, you

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know, and just have fun and
being Yeah, and I've had those chances

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and now Betrail. This is for
any job. It wouldn't be just for

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radio, you know. And you
get those doors open, you gotta go

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through it. And if one slams
like you guys talked about, you got

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knocked out. And I was on
a podcast with five listeners, you know,

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and this was going the heart of
my custody hearing and my divorce,

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and I was going through depressive stages, and you know, I just if

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people are listening that are going through
that, there's outlets, there's anything you

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can go. Like I said,
the suicide hot line, there's other hotlines.

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But there's also poetry, there's art, there's you know, there's running,

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there's whatever you feel comfortable doing.
You know, even just talking to

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a friend for an hour or whatever
it is. You know, you could

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do it, you know, and
just keep pushing and keep pushing. You're

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gonna fall down, like I said, fall down ninety nine percent of the

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time, and get up one hundred, you know, and it's totally worth

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it. And then you get tours
open that you never thought would open up.

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I've done podcasts with the Voice of
the Anaheim Ducks, feel Hewlett,

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you know, I've got to do
some stuff with the voice of the Loyola

407
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Lions college hockey team. I was
just on the Western champion San Diego Growlers

408
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.400
for the Ultimate Disc League. You
know, if I lived my dream and

409
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:10.440
got to do the PA thing,
and I almost cried while doing it,

410
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:11.640
which would have been really embarrassing.
So there was a lot of people,

411
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.119
but in a nutshell, you know, I just wanted to show my son.

412
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:19.079
You know, this is again before
the custody hearing was over. And

413
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.359
then I just put my faith in
God first of all, going forward,

414
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.839
regardless of where it was. I'm
gonna yeah exactly. If I'm gonna fall,

415
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:27.799
He's gonna pick me up, you
know. And I don't, like

416
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:30.839
I told Mario, I don't believe
in regrets. If you regret something,

417
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.240
then it wasn't worth it when you
were doing it, regardless of what it

418
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:37.799
was, if it was bad or
it was good at the time, you

419
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.440
probably thought it was good. So
you should not believe in regret. You

420
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.160
should believe in learning experiences. You
move forward. Absolutely. I have a

421
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:49.000
tattoo on my arm and it's a
smile now, cry later, and it

422
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:55.440
says God has his reasons and that
can go for anything, anything, And

423
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:59.519
the tattoo itself. The happy one
is read because he's vibrant and he's in

424
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.200
a good mood. He's very,
very cheerful. And then the sad is

425
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.160
obviously blue because you're hurting. And
you're gonna go through both of those things,

426
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.839
you guys, regardless of who's listening
to this right now, you're going

427
00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:12.119
to go through that, whether it's
in radio, whether it's in school,

428
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.480
whether it's in just in relationships in
general, in life, even as a

429
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.400
parent, right Wendy. You know, we have those moments where it's just

430
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.640
like I'm not doing this right,
Like we need a freaking manual, like

431
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:25.680
this is I'm a horrible parent,
I can't do this, or the kid

432
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:26.920
Wait till your kids start talking back
to you, right, Mario, and

433
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.319
they say the three words, you
know, I hate you, and you're

434
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.240
just like, so, now that
you're you know, well seasoned in many

435
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.519
aspects of radio, how do you
plan to you know, what are your

436
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:44.400
end goals with both for your career
on a personal level and with k Hits

437
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.079
Because you know, this is an
all eighties station and we wanted to you

438
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:52.039
know, the main focus, the
main idea was to bring an eighties style

439
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.839
all eighties style, along with the
way we talk, along with you know,

440
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.920
not only the music, but everything
related to eighties radio. Bring it

441
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:06.400
back so people today would find out
what eighties radio was all about, and

442
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.920
if they were from the eighties to
kind of go oh man, I remember

443
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.720
that. So I still remember the
night that you call you hit me up,

444
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:15.119
and you said, hey, you
know, I knew you had chang

445
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.480
all right, you guys are you're
doing your back to the eighties thing and

446
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:19.960
you just randomly hit me up and
You're like, dude, we're looking for

447
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.799
people. I think you mentioned the
fact that you did your project at the

448
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.680
school on this this eighties radio station, and I'm like, dude, that

449
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.160
sounds so freaking cool. And then
you asked me if I was down for

450
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.160
it, and I didn't even think
twice. I was like, hell,

451
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.839
yeah, I'm down for it.
Let's do this. And there hasn't been

452
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.400
like I said, no regrets.
Man, it's been awesome. It's a

453
00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:40.319
lot of work. Hell yeah,
it's a lot of work. It is

454
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:44.440
tiring. I'm talking three am days, you know, and getting up at

455
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.440
six take your kid to school.
But it's worth it because we're touching lives

456
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.480
out there. Maybe not exactly we're
saying, but the music we're playing or

457
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.480
whatever it is, you're going to
touch someone emotionally some way, whether it's

458
00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.359
music, whether it's a message,
whether it's a promo, whatever it is.

459
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:01.920
And the fact that we all have
our different approaches, Like we listened

460
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.400
last week and Benny, then he's
the kid of the group. Let's just

461
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:07.480
be real. Benny's the kid of
the group, and he's so vibrant and

462
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:12.759
he's like, you know. And
then Doctor D has a super soft voice

463
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:15.440
and it's yea welcoming, you know. And then you got me who's like

464
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:17.920
cha, dude, it's all good, don't even trip, you know.

465
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.519
And then Wendy's the wild child.
I love Wendy. And then there's change.

466
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:23.680
You can't be in a bad mood
when you hear a chang, you

467
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:30.559
know. And bro, But if
you want to ask me what my true

468
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:35.279
dream is, Honestly, I think
about this all the time because it could

469
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.680
be a radio dream. I mean
the fact that we're moving as far as

470
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.160
long as we are, we never
saw this coming in July, like it

471
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.519
can happen. We're gonna push,
we're gonna have fun. We'll see what

472
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:49.119
happens right, And I mean the
listeners don't know everything that's going on,

473
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.680
and you guys will soon hint hint, surprises coming, Yeah, big things

474
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:58.839
coming. But I'm excited. I'm
like static. I can't wait to do

475
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:00.640
the things that we have coming up. And I know again it's going to

476
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:06.880
affect lives. I love meeting listeners. Meeting listeners is so much fun.

477
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.240
So if you guys are ever down
in California, Southern California, hit me

478
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.319
up, or if we're out anywhere
and you know where they're like, hit

479
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.680
us up. We'll take pictures of
you, will hang with you. You

480
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.680
know, we'll do it. We
love it. Wendy, what about you?

481
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:21.279
I mean you, I know you've
got a lot of plans, but

482
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:24.119
I also know that you're a mommy. You're very busy, and you're a

483
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.400
wife, and you've got home life
and you've got word and on top of

484
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:36.079
all of that, you managed to
balance out radio. How do you do

485
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.400
it? And what are your plans? A lot of antidepressants? I'm just

486
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:45.240
kidding. Is that why you're drinking? Is that you're drinking tonight? I'm

487
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:51.759
totally kidding, but honestly, Okay, maybe I'm not kidding. I love

488
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.400
them Pismo, and then that was
like the worst time in my life right

489
00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.359
had Like it was not a great
time. So that it up with my

490
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:06.160
first relationship being the worst thing ever
too, so that kind of kicks started

491
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:10.519
my not great habits of life.
Let's just say with k Hits, with

492
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.360
your guys's permission, I want this
thing to last like twenty plus years,

493
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:19.519
Like I want to be a part
of you guys for the rest of my

494
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:22.559
life, you know, until like
my dying last breath. I want to

495
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:24.960
do k hits for the rest of
my life, you know what I mean,

496
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:29.519
Maybe not be on air forever because
it's like, no, you have

497
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:31.360
to be. I like being on
air. I think it's I think it's

498
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:36.960
an awesome opportunity to get whatever message
I need to get out there. I

499
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.000
know, right now, in the
specific moment in time, I have a

500
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.280
message. I personally don't know what
it is, but I know I'm meant

501
00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.920
to have a message to send out
to the world, and that's what I'm

502
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:51.679
here for. And until i feel
that I've said what I need to say

503
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:54.039
to the universe, until I'm done, I think I would rather do like

504
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:59.480
production Way at the end of the
line. You know what I mean to

505
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:02.840
still be in the field, but
like not be so focused on that,

506
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:07.639
you know, until I've done my
public service of being a great human being

507
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.679
to the world, you know,
and connecting together as one. How do

508
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:16.599
you feel eighties radio differs when when
it comes to relating with the audience from

509
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:21.639
the eighties radio to today's radio.
Let me take how do you feel that

510
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:27.840
difference? Double R take it away? Oh will we will not interrupt?

511
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:34.599
Go ahead? I hate PC If
y'all don't know what PC is political correctness.

512
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:38.280
I am a blunt m effort and
I hate political correctness and a lot

513
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:43.840
of stations they either they won't say
what they really mean or what they really

514
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:45.920
feel because of the fear of the
FC whatever it is, you know,

515
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:50.280
a fear of getting shut down or
whatever it is. Even though they believe

516
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.880
a certain thing, they'll talk a
different way, you know, and you

517
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.400
have to be that character. Just
be your freaking self in myself, there's

518
00:35:55.400 --> 00:36:02.519
no better things. Yeah, yeah, it's just me. I'm gonna tell

519
00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:06.599
you how it is, you know, Like I've I've said some things on

520
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:09.639
a couple of my shows where it's
okay, you know, we're usually it's

521
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:13.280
a suicide hotline, and I'll be
like, Okay, I think you're gonna

522
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.960
happen. Things are going on and
you're gonna mess up. It's part of

523
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:19.559
life, you know. And that's
not just a work that's with live with

524
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.760
family, that's with work or whatever
thing you're gonna mess up. But the

525
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.519
pain that I've told this to someone
when she was actually about to commit suicide,

526
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.840
and we talked for like good three
hours. Take the time to talk

527
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:32.039
to your friends, you guys.
You never know who's going through what.

528
00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:37.280
Remember, you'd rather go three hours
with them on the phone than fifteen out

529
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.440
of eulogy. I'm gonna leave it
at that. So I just told her,

530
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:44.360
I'm like, the pain that you're
going through now might save the life

531
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.639
of another, you know, laying
down the line, and you never know

532
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:49.960
who it's gonna be. It could
be five years, it could be five

533
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:53.000
minutes. You never freaking no.
So, but I hate political correctness.

534
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:59.599
I love DJs that are themselves And
with all due respect to the amazing DJs

535
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.239
that are out there. You know, you got Big Boy, you got

536
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.159
Ryan Seacrest, you know people like
that. You know, a RBS very

537
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.360
unjust sorties. You know, there's
some really good DJ's out there, like

538
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.119
the Tiskonov said, you know,
they're they're getting away from talking to the

539
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.079
to the listeners. They're getting away. There's some stations that I refuse to

540
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.199
listen to now because they don't talk
to the listeners. It's just what's called

541
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:21.679
a sweeper where it's just like you
know, a sound a sound effect,

542
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.840
a DJ voice comes on, you
know, blah blah blah ninety three point

543
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:29.039
six or whatever it is, you
know, something of that nature. And

544
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:32.880
I absolutely hate it because you can't
be real, you know, I like,

545
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.199
I love Chang's approach when he comes
on a little extreme, but I

546
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.800
love it because of that. But
a lot of but a lot of people

547
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:44.400
respect that. You know. We
talked about the different personalities we have.

548
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:46.719
You know, I'm more chilled,
Changs more hardcore. Yeah, um,

549
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:51.079
but you got you gotta be able
to relate to someone. You gotta be

550
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:52.079
able to talk to someone. And
if I'll talk to them, at least

551
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:57.440
have them talk to you. Because
yes, you're on the mic, not

552
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.000
just to bring music. You're not
on the mic just to talk about yourself

553
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.159
in the station. No, you're
there too. You know, hey,

554
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:07.559
I know how you people feel.
I know what you're going through. Eighties

555
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.280
was real. That's the word I
want to use. It was just real.

556
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.400
It was straight up. It talked
about what was going on, and

557
00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:20.719
they weren't afraid of anything. Look, bottom line is when we started,

558
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.119
and I'll go back to the Back
to the Eighties podcasts, which is more

559
00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:29.960
like a show than than a podcast. Right when last year when we were

560
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.880
in Lockdown twenty twenty, when we're
in lockdown, I was I was injured.

561
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:37.119
I had a back question. Yeah, yeah, that when you started

562
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.400
the podcast, Yes, it was. Yeah. So here's here's explained to

563
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.119
them. Yeah, break up to
the history my all right, So here

564
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:46.519
are you For those of you who
are not interested, oh well, and

565
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:51.000
for those of you who are interested, where here you go? The history

566
00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:54.920
back to the eighties radio is as
follows, very simple. While we were

567
00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:00.079
in lockdown last year, I was
injured, so I wasn't working obviously,

568
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:04.239
and I do voiceovers for a living, and that took a dump for a

569
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:09.920
long time. And I started going
online and just kind of reading what people

570
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:16.280
would say around the world, right, and everybody was reminiscing about the eighties,

571
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.480
everybody was going, you know,
we you know, take me back.

572
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.880
You know what we're going through today. You know we hated blah blah

573
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:30.320
blah. So I got the idea
while if there's one thing I miss is

574
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.199
I miss I miss my teenage years. I do miss them, not so

575
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.760
much because I miss you know,
the kind of team I was. It's

576
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:42.280
because of all my experiences. I
had tons of fun. Right, what

577
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.639
is the interest of people to start
a podcast? So what I started doing

578
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:52.239
is I started doing research and going
online and all the podcast platforms just to

579
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:55.719
kind of see what is out there
and the stuff that is out there.

580
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.239
I said, Wow, great for
them. Chang, and I have the

581
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.280
experience. You know, I know
how to produce. I feel that I

582
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:07.559
know how to produce right, and
I think I could be you know,

583
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.199
I think I could do much better
than those other shows. And let's let's

584
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.800
see where it takes on you.
So I talked to Chang about it back,

585
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.519
let's see, in April, very
early on. As soon as I

586
00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:22.800
got the idea, I mean,
I went after Chang and I said,

587
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.639
look, this is the idea.
This is you know, are you interested?

588
00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:30.199
You're going to make me cry and
he said absolutely, and I go

589
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.880
all right, So I started up
the web the Facebook page in April.

590
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:39.360
We didn't start the show until the
end of May of last year. Yeah,

591
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:45.239
and as soon as we kicked off, people just I mean, people

592
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:47.199
started flocking towards the show and I
was like, wait a second. I

593
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:50.960
mean, you know, at first
it was you know, we didn't have

594
00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.519
all these sound equipment to do it, and just me and you doing stupid

595
00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:59.159
things. Yeah, just doing what
we are accustomed to doing. But see

596
00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:02.000
the thing is that Chang and I
have been on FM radio, we've been

597
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.519
on AM radio before, and we
are used to each other. We have

598
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.920
that chemistry going, right, Chang
and I were on the radio together.

599
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:14.800
We started out with a podcast coming
out from the Academy of Radio, and

600
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.039
that took us to an AM station
in the Inland Empire where we had a

601
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.559
big we had a big growth.
We would drive three hours to go to

602
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.280
the station once a week. I
called them up and I said, what

603
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.400
if we start a podcast, but
we make it like a radio show instead

604
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.800
of a podcast. And that's what
kicked it off. And then as time

605
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:37.920
went by, I started going,
you know what, I think the world

606
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:43.719
is ready for an all eighties station
because I personally see I personally started missing

607
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.760
it. Not that it was well, it is what it is. It

608
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:51.599
was an eighty station. The eighties
personalities were the ones that I missed,

609
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.639
and I said, we can do
that. And I know a few people

610
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:59.280
who if I call them, may
show some interests. I'm not sure.

611
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:05.760
And I was the first person that
I thought of was Double R and Wendy

612
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:08.800
Yes, and then Ben came in
after, and then Dania came in after.

613
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:13.760
So it's been a great ride.
And here's the kicker to all of

614
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:19.280
this. Back in two thousand eleven, before graduating the Academy of Radio,

615
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:27.039
the last project that was given to
every student is to build a fantasy station.

616
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.320
Right, a fantasy a station of
your choice. Just make it up.

617
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.039
And this was in twenty eleven.
Well I made one. The radio

618
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:38.320
station's name was k HITS ninety two
point five Back to the Eighties Radio.

619
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:44.440
Long story short, The show started
as Back to the Eighties Radio, it

620
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:47.960
evolved into k HITS ninety two five, and Back to the Eighties Radio is

621
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:53.679
still the major part of it.
It's probably the force behind k HITS.

622
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:59.920
So having said that, I thought
of nobody better than you, guys,

623
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.519
is to be part of it.
I saw a lot of potential in you

624
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:08.360
guys, a lot of you know, talent is very hard to come by

625
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:12.599
these days, and you guys have
that. And I thought, you know,

626
00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:16.679
you guys seem to be the kind
of jocks that people would love to

627
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:21.679
hear. Related to the eighties so
and related to anything else, whatever you

628
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:23.719
guys do in your future. But
as long as you're with K Hits,

629
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:30.719
we love having you. I love
having you guys. And yes, exactly,

630
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.639
I think yeah, I think people
can hear this from everybody. You

631
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.199
know, the friendship that we have, in this chemistry that we all have,

632
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:40.920
the laughing and all that aside,
it just goes to show you how

633
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.800
well we get along. So I
love you, guys, and I can't

634
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.400
thank you enough for wanting to be
part of the K Hits family. And

635
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:53.559
back to the eighties. So on
that note that, Wendy, I really

636
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:59.880
appreciate you taking the time double R
thanks, man, I really appreciate it.

637
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.639
And all your hard work is not
in vain. I can tell you

638
00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:07.039
that guys, you guys are making
a difference. This is Sisconna from back

639
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:08.920
to the eighties. Thank you guys
for joining us. Have a great week,

640
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.039
Be safe, do what you gotta
do. Be the grace human possible.

641
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:19.519
We'll see you guys next week.
Yeah later, double are. I

642
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.159
love you both, Thank you for
being here, and let's take on radio

643
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.719
history together. God bless to both
of you. Stay lifted and gifted and

644
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:52.440
let's kicked this thing in the ass. Yeah buddy,