Places We Remember From the 80s

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Back host a plenty wants one point
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girls, Welcome to another rendition of
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truly Tusconnell and Chang Chang. Here
welcoming all of you, one and all.

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I hope you've had a great week. Hopefully things didn't go too bad.

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And if they did, well,
guess what, Uncle Chang and Uncle

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Tiscanno are here to make you happy. So before we get into the show,

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please let me address and bring out
to you, boys and girls,

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one of the greatest Italian lovers of
all time, a man who sits in

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the closet and tells himself sweet nothings, one of the greatest pizza cooks of

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all time via microwave. I'm talking
about the ever loving Italian Stallion, the

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greatest Italian since Chef boy are D, the man with thirty two inch pythons

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which are his calf muscles. I
give you Tusky, Oh what an entrance.

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And the funny thing is you sounded
so somber and series and so polite,

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and then all of a sudden you
turned it around on us, and

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then you went full you went full
throttle on the intro. Much appreciated,

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my brother. I want to welcome
every single one of you listeners, and

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of course the ultra wondrous chang to
another edition of Back to the Eighties Radio,

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the Ultimate destination for all things Eighties. Today, We've got a great

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show because we're going to be talking
about those stores and places where we used

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to go, eat and date a
lot of things, whether it be outside

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at the mall or little shopping centers, wherever it was that used to be

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all over the place in the eighties
that no longer exist, from the iconic

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to the obscure ladies and gentlemen.
We're going to unravel the tales of Blockbuster

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Video, where movie nights were born, and Woolworth's a treasure trove of endless

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discoveries, toys, a Russ circuit
city, and a lot more. When

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we come back on this episode of
the Lost Stores and Eateries of the Eighties,

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weekly podcast that talks about one of
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eighties. So do you don't want
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talking about eighties movies. I'm sure
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ahead and share it and give you
a shout out on the air. Now

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today, Chang, we're going to
be reminiscing. We're gonna be talking about

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those stores that man, they filled
us with so much, so many feelings

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surrounded us when we went to these
stores. And I know that a lot

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of these stores ended up going all
the way through to the early two thousands

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and maybe some to the mid two
thousands. That maybe maybe we lost some

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stores just recently, but these are
stores that brought us a lot of happiness,

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a lot of good times. It's
sad that you bring up that quick

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little possibility that we could have lost
some of these entities recently. And the

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sad thing is, my brother and
we lost a lot of these businesses due

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who monopolization, which is supposed to
be a big no no here in the

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United States or within the business world. But yet time and time again,

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we allow our political leaders to devour
and take from us the freedom of choice

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and the freedom of living decently.
And now it's all I'm going to say.

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Because I know there's a certain individual
that doesn't want to hear what I

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have to say politically, I wanted
to point that out that it is very

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sad that we're going to talk about
such places tonight that possibly have closed down

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because of that keep in mind that
we are in southern California, so a

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lot of the stories that we're going
to mention were possibly only here. I'm

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sure there were plenty where you if
you were if you grew up outside of

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California, can't mention. And but
we will plan to talk a little bit

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about those as well. But I'm
going to kick it all off chang With

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a store that opened in nineteen forty
eight closed in nineteen eighty six. So

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it closed in nineteen eighty four.
Both you and me were born forty that's

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right. It opened, but it
went through all the eighties almost They closed

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in nineteen eighty six. It was
a discount department store chain that operated primarily

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here in California, and it offered
it was like a Target. It included

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clothes, home goods, electronics,
and the chain faced difficulties financial difficulties obviously

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because of the competition, especially like
Target, leading to its closure in nineteen

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eighty six. And I'm talking about
the store called Zodis. You'll save today

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at Zodi's. It's Zodie's bargain packed
Founder's Day sale with great buys throughout the

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store, like these good looking bulloor
knit shirts, ribbed waist and cup easycare

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cotton and polyester regular nine ninety nine
now save twenty percent at the sale price

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of seven ninety nine each. And
for the really active man, Zodi's has

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these fleece line hooded sweatshirts with zipper
front in two pockets compare at twelve ninety

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fine. These acrylic and cotton sweashirts
are just seven ninety nine. It's Zodi's

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Founder's Day sale. Membership not required. Everybody saves its Zodis. It's odd

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that you bring up that store because
that was one of the very first stores

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that opened up the Gates four a
Walmart and all these other entities that we

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have now that kind of catered to
having a little of everything for the consumer.

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Now. The sad thing is a
lot of the entities that we go

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to now for the discount price our
products are made elsewhere and not in the

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United States. Even back in the
eighties, a lot of the stuff was

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made in Taiwan, a lot of
the stuff was made in China. I

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remember all the Zodis stores became targets. Yes, yeah, remember Kmart of

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course, and Kmart just closed up
recently. I mean, I can still

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remember back a couple of years ago, two three years ago, we still

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had a Kmart around. Yeah.
Yeah, there was a super k I

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believe, wasn't it called that in
some cities abroad to where they had groceries

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and everything in between. It was
their version of super Walmart. You know,

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right, it's like Walmart nowadays.
It's like Target nowadays, which we

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may one day see the end of
these great stores for something else. And

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I'll bring this up really quick.
During our stress and our strain, our

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lockdown of COVID, we saw a
rise in Wish and Amazon, and we

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still see people shopping that way as
opposed to going down your mom and pop

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stores going down and supporting the malls
going down and supporting such stores that we're

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going to talk about tonight, or
the other two demons we've talked about.

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Well, that's why, that's exactly
why those stores are no longer around,

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because of the Internet and especially Nelson's
Amazon. I mean, yeah, it's

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convenient. Who doesn't like the stuff
just coming directly to their home. However,

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we gain convenience, but we've talked
about this hundreds of times in the

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shows. We gain convenience, but
we lose the experience. I like to

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call it laziness because we either consumer
are so lazy now that will shop from

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our laptop or our phone and picture
I D stuff as opposed to going out

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there looking for products, maybe buying
something else instead of what you see,

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maybe bartering the price. But not
only that, the good old fashioned eye

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to eye and conversation. You know
where you can go and you could talk

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to a sales rep. You could
talk to somebody on the floor and weigh

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out what's a better product rather the
product you may have in your eyes,

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because a lot of times, you
know, salespeople can direct you to exactly

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what you want, maybe a little
bit paper, or if you have the

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dividends, well then maybe something else
a little bit more expensive that will give

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you a little bit more quality.
When you go to the Amazon, there

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is no one there to explain that
to you. I wish there is no

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one there to explain that to you. They're just going to take your card

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payment, you punch in your buttons, you send your card number, and

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that's it. I remember going to
Sears or Pennies, which your other entities.

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My brother, Pennies is making a
comeback because there's so many investors that

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have been buying into a Shaquille O'Neill. Oh really, J C. Pennies

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is coming back. Yes, they're
starting to build up us stores. Well,

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we lost Sears. We were not
real big shoppers of Sears. We

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did once in a while, my
mom and dad when I was growing up.

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But I was so sad when Sears
ended, when it was gone,

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because a part of it was like
a part of our memories. Yeah,

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a part of our youth, our
growth, are part of you and me,

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you know, are part of me
was gone when they closed Sears down

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on Olympic Boulevard in LA. Now
that store, I mean, my bloodline

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runs through there. That's where my
parents met. My grandparents worked there,

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my aunts and my uncles, a
lot of my friends family members worked there.

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And Sears was like that one,
that one store that employed most of

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the Latin community of the East Los
Angeles through Marnabello, you know, up

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until Whittier, and it was right
there in the heart and soul, you

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know, on off of Olympic,
right there in LA You remember where that

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was. It placed towered over.
I remember going over there as a kid

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and getting popcorn and then buying an
appliance, clothes, whatever my parents want.

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Hell Sears is the first place my
dad bought me an authentic Los Angeles

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Rams letterman jacket nineteen sixty nine,
and also where my dad purchased my Rams

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look alike uniform from Sears number eighteen
Roman Gabriel blue and white uniform with the

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blue and white helmet with that want
to hear something if you have one.

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My dad bought me a La Rams
Letterman letterman jacket from Sears that I remember.

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But my was yellow, you know
yellow blue or goal line was blue

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and gold too. But the uniform
my dad got me was white, just

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like the old uniform. And I
used to wear that thing. I mean

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my first Ram game. I wore
that. As an adult or another kid

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in this area. I'm sure my
kid would be like, only like,

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I'm not wearing it. But back
then it was on. You could buy

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that apparel back then. As a
matter of fact, I remember buying my

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first electric football game from Tutor at
Sears and buying the Rams versus the forty

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nine ers. Wait was it that
little electronic handheld game? This was that

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a metal field and it had it
had little figures that were certain positions and

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you could buy those and they were
painted of every NFL team back in the

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sixth season the seventies. You press
on your own numbers on there, which

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your stickers, so it was just
a magnetic field. You hit a switch,

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it vibrated and the players. I
remember, as a matter of fact,

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I still have my board and my
players look at that. Man.

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Well on from Sears, we go
on to another place that opened up March

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third, nineteen eighty. It wasn't
rebranded until ten years later, but this

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place was a popular entertainment and dining
concept that combined animatronic characters, arcade games,

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and pizza. But it wasn't Chuck
E Cheese. It was their competition,

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and it was called Showbiz Pizza Place. Oh jeesus, you know,

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man, I'm sure you remember going
to show Bisness. I brought you back.

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Oh yeah, dude, because we
would take our kids to and from

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there, you know, with Chucky
Cheese. I mean, you know,

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I was a very young dad and
my kids are growing up in the later

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eighties to the mid eighties, and
it was funny how you can go to

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Chuck E Cheese and get alcohol to
the same place you can buy pizza and

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see a rat on stage and pay
less money to eat food, have your

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kids entertained, play video games,
drink beer, and watch a rat on

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stage as opposed to going to Disneyland
and watching those stupid bears perform and then

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they would break down and you're paying
all that money. Chuck E Cheese was

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a loud mark. I love Chucky
Cheese over Showtime Over Showtime Showbiz's pizza that

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later on was rebranded, of course, and most of their locations became Chucky

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Cheese Pizza and even Chuck e Cheese
today, although they're still going on pretty

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strong. There's just a lot less, you know, on my travels back

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to southern California, the locations that
I recall taking my children too are no

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longer there. It's a little bit
sad. How about Super A grocery outlets

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that is no longer super even Safe
Way. Now safe Way is still in

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other places of the country, but
here in California, it used to be

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really big and then it disappeared.
Now here's another store that opened. Check

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this one out. Everybody knows this
store because it opened July fifth, nineteen

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twenty six, but it closed on
July fifth exactly. Okay, on the

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same date that it opened. It
closed in nineteen eighty seven. It was

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a chain of fruit drink stands at
every single mall in America. It was

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called Orange Julius. You would have
thought if that store, if that eatey

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would have stayed open and been allowed
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in the eighties, I think it
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went with hot dog on a stick
with whipped drinks, which they stole that

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idea from Orange Julius. Another one
remember A and W. And they were

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restaurants and they had cheeseburgers. If
I'm not mistaken, they are still around,

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but very rarely will you see one, just like the old Tasty Freeze

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and Fosters Freeze exams because of their
soft served ice creams. We recently you

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put up on Facebook a an ad
with actually with with coupons. It was

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a chain of restaurants in California that
opened on August nine, nineteen sixty five.

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Closed in the late eighties. It
was a fast food chain that specialized

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in hot dogs, tacos, burgers. We're talking about pup in taco oh,

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pup and taco. Yeah. I
used to call them pup and Crouchhow

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yes, I remember that place.
I didn't eat there a lot. I

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didn't care for their quality of food. I really I like their burgers.

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I actually like their burgers. You
know, as a team, you're riding

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your bike all day long and you're
you're all hot and sweaty. You just

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go in there for something cold to
drink and a burger your song. I

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would have to give the high five
up to Bob's Big Boy for that and

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going in and sitting down and having
myself a Bob's Big Boy burger with special

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songs and a nice cold coke and
an order of fries, all for only

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three ninety nine. And it's a
restaurant setting. You get air conditioning pre

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refills, and you get a lady
with a crazy hair style. Now,

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I remember Bob's Big Boy, going
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getting a double burger, fries and
a drink. And remember they had glass

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glasses, right the cops glasses glass, They were glass. They had a

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glass with the ice and they said
Coca Cola on the side, and and

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that that deal was a dollar ninety
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I was like I was ten years
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special, didn't they had a I
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midnight special, and I think that
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of teenagers back in uh I'd say
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eight, But they had a midnight
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then. Norms, another entity that
is still around today, has kind of

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captured and captivated their own prestige upon
which was done by Bob's Big Boy.

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Yeah, they have that, they
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But yeah, but but Bob's Big
Boy was so unique. Now I'm going

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to give you another place that was
a delicious restaurant kind of you had to

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dress up, but you really didn't
have to. It was very, very

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busy on Fridays. And I'm talking
about Loves. Yeah, love to go

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to Loves. Do you remember how
popular Loves was? There was one everywhere.

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We used to go to, the
one in Cerritos that's right right right

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next to the right next to the
six oh five freeway. Yes, and

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then I believe, yeah, you
remember those, bro, I mean you

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just you couldn't do any better than
going on lost sign. The sign next

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to the freeway was a big giant
lit up heart. That's right, you

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remember that nice now, Tisconnell.
Here's a store that I don't know if

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you remember, your best boy is
at g g Andy. Two guys.

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They were kind of like a Woolworth, but more or less a Pick and

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Safe. It's another store that grew
in the agies, Pick and Safe that

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is still here nowadays. Now you
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There was a store that was owned
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store chain and it had you know, close household items, electronics, and

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it was when woolworth close. Obviously
this store closed as well. It was

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called Woolco. Basically it was the
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I have a there's a tweet coming
into us from Evelyn in New York who

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says Bamburgers. Bamburgers was the department
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New York, and it offered clothing, cosmetics, home goods. And because

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of that dynamics and the changing market
and the competition, it led to Bamburger's

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closure in nineteen eighty six, so
it was it was their type of outlet,

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as we had Woolworths Shocking. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I

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remember going to Woolworths and buying a
parakeet and then going down to the eatery

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area in ordering myself a grilled hot
dog with French fries and a root beer

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float as my grandmother went shopping four
she You know, it's interesting because you

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mentioned getting root beer floats and there
was one place. As a matter of

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fact, I had my ninth birthday
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It was called Farrell's ice Cream Parlor. Really in Downey at the Stonewood Center.

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I was going to bring this,
you know, you son of a

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monkey, because you brought it up
before me. But this was somewhere I

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was going to bring up, and
especially at the Stonewood Shopping Center, which

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nowadays if anybody's familiar with Downey,
California and went to Stonewood, if you

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went, now, it is a
mall, but it is a very small

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mall. It does not resonate at
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It was an outdoor mall. They
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had what by Bully Bullocks Mervin's.
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a Sears there, and then we
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you when you went through the hall, like the hall areas, it was

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all uncovered and they just made it
into a regular mall. Now, and

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we're talking about that really quick.
Let me bring up a store that is

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starting to close in malls now that
was very famous for its athletic footwear to

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where the individuals wore referee type outfits
to wait on you. I'm talking about

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foot Locker. I remember when foot
Locker opened at the Stonewood Mall because I

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would go there to get my Puma
Pause or my duck El Converse, especially

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white before I ever crossed the pond
Axel Rose, who threw a cigarette but

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towards my white Chucks in nineteen eighty
eight on Sunset Boulevard. But a foot

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Locker as sadly, we're watching that
closed down now. But I think it's

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because they're so overpriced and hyped.
But I don't blame the store itself.

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I blame all these self glorified million
dollars baby athletes that get these ridiculous contracts

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to create their own apparel on top
of the millions of dollars they make to

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play a game that we've all played, some of us greater than others.

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But yet they can't pay a teacher, they can't pay ah an er nurse.

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They can't pay a police officer or
a fireman. They can't pay a

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school counselor this type of money.
It's sad because Footlucker is going out of

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business because of greed due to the
higher aboves who you have to have my

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shoe for five hundred and sixty dollars. But it's ridiculous, it's you know

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what I mean. But corporate greed
is the reason why we are kind of

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having the show tonight. Let's take
a little break. As the Boss leads

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us out, singing a song from
nineteen eighty five. They became his fifth

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single released from the nineteen eighty four
album More Than the USA, with a

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song called Glory Days Here I want
It'll leave back to the eighties RADI nobody

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has the movie I want. Hey, if it's on video, Blockbuster probably

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hasn't. I mean we have over
ten thousand videos. Wow, I'll watch

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you fast and have them back tomorrow. I promise relax and Blockbuster, you

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can keep your videos for three evenings, So take home plenty and use our

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twenty four hour quick drop. Do
you have any children's videos? Sure,

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Blockbusters America's Family Video Store. You
know we have more kids videos than any

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place else. A more movies,
more nights, more fun. What difference.

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If they were a lax it in, they'd be so powerful you could

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stand on your head and on the
ceiling. Next position will not only be

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unavail but also undignified. And now
Back to the eighties with Tescano and Chang.

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Welcome back to Back to the Eighties
Radio with Tiscano with Chang Chang.

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Here tonight, we are discussing oh
so many things that once were and are

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no longer apparent to be with us. We're talking about restaurants. We're talking

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about burger eatings. We're talking about
eateries. We're talking about stores, department

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stores. We're talking about everywhere that
we seeing the buck getting spent during the

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eighties that are no longer here nowadays
or bringing us more bang for the buck.

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We were talking about shoes. I
brought up I brought up footlocker because

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we started talking about malls, and
Mario had brought up that great place to

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go Farrels, where you could not
go anywhere else to have your birthday but

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Farrells, because the cast of Crew
would come out and sing to you.

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They would bang the drum, you
would get this ridiculous serving of ice cream.

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Everybody in the freaking place would sing
to you. It was like going

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to New Orleans when you visited Barrels, but not all of you were drinking

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heavily and you did not get the
plastic beads. So we were talking about

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malls as Mario brought up, and
I brought up Footlocker, where a lot

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of us did get our favorite athletic
shoes, some of our apparel, and

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I brought up the negative, yes, because I am dicator to bring out

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why that store is closing down with
a ridiculousness of all our billion dollar baby

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athletes making their own type of shoes. But that's neither here or there.

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We're gonna keep talking about shoes.
I have another shoe store that you might

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remember, Tusky and Boys and Girls. There. I'm talking about kinny shoes

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and hush puppies. That is hilarious, you know. I got my forget

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about that. I got my first
penny loafers in nineteen in nineteen a monkey

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ninety after watching Michael Jackson and I
put the penny and I got them from

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Kenny Shoes. Holy, I knew
it. No, just kinda remember we're

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talking about shoes. We can't forget
about Tom McCann hush puppy shoes. Come

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on, bro, Tom McCann.
Yeah, I mean I remember going to

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Catholic school, and that's where my
mom always went to get my shoe for

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Catholic school, Saint Bendicks, Tom
McCann, hush puppies or anything that was

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kind of that type of shoe kind
of a business like college like clean cut,

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you know. And I remember when
my school was allowing us to wear

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all the bees. That was a
shock because those were like hippie shoes.

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You know. You mentioned Tom McCann, you mentioned Kenny Shoes. I'm gonna,

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring you
a way back. Are you ready

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for this? It's a kids it's
a kid's shoe store, But this is

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gonna bring back memories. When I
say Buster Brown shoes, Holy shit,

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Buster Brown, he looked like blue
boy. Remember that painting that is ever

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so fam He looked like blue boy
with a terrier. But he had that

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little gay that little gay hat with
that. I want to say that haircut

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was he reminds me of the Heels
are a live with the sound a music.

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That's who that's catch. Haircut reminded
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we just got another tweet. This
is from Max. Max tells us of

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a place that is no longer around
called Chee Cheese Mexican Restaurant. This store

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opened up in nineteen seventy five and
it was a Mexican American restaurant that opened

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up pretty much everywhere. Here's the
funny thing, Max, Chee Cheese Restaurant.

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There is one more left, and
it is they took their business to

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Vienna, Austria. So if you
go to the Land of Arnold, yeah

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you're going to go to Vienna,
Austria and you could eat the chee cheese.

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Now do you remember do you remember
these big ball stores like Bullocks and

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check this out? I remember or
Box, Oh yes, I remember or

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Box at Cerritos. They were this
big purple store or Box. That's right.

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It was like, oh those are
old people, that's for old people

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Store or box, the broad Walls
war Backs, Mervin's. When we were

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talking about Mervin's, come on,
brother, you know what, I'm gonna

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have to go back real quick to
Eateries. Pizza Hut. Well yeah,

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but Pizza Hut, even though it
does exist by name, it's no.

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They used to be sit down restaurant. Uh, just like they had a

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salad bar area and their pizza was
phenomenal. You'll remember, oh yes,

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oh yes, Sergeant Pepperoni's Pizza.
Now that may not be. That was

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a small chain, but it was
here in southern California, Okay. Also

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Gino's Pizza. Gino's Pizza, Yeah
it was. It was a chain that

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gained a huge popularity in the nineteen
eighties and it just went out of business

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because of all these little fast food
places. Uh, you know, going

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up. Who out there remembers a
store called Merry Go Round that was at

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the malls? Yeah, Merry Go
Round, I remember that store. Who

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will remembers Spencers? Now Spencer's is
still around. Who remembers Kaby Toys Toys?

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I used to go to Toys a
Russ to get a lot of my

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toys. I would never get him
in the mall, because you gotta remember,

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Kaby Toys was a lot or a
little bit more expensive than than toys

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a runs than any other because usually
toy stores inside malls were very expensive.

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Now see we're how about Walden Books. Anybody remember going to Walden Books?

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Which is sad because no one reads
anymore because we have the easiness and the

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laziness of books. We can go
ahead and read on our devices now,

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so I guarantee you that we read
a lot less than what we ever did,

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even if we are on a line
every day, we read about less.

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Be Dalton Bookseller. They were in
walls as well. Try to be

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Dalton and Walden Books. They were
the competition between each other. Let's dive

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into this. How about music stores? Who remembers music plus? Sam Goody?

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O the Warehouse music Plus? Oh
you know what, the Warehouse music

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Plus? I remember very well,
Sam Goody, of course, But you

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just mentioned a store that I had
forgotten, and that was the Warehouse.

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Who can forget liquorice pizza? Which
is funny because now we still have liquorice

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pizza do it in Los Angeles,
just like we have Amba Music Tower Records

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yet And you know, now here's
the funny thing. Tower Records, which

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is no longer in its state like
it used to be, that great spot

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that was like Conic in Hollywood off
a sunset, and Amiba Records has recently

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moved from its historic a location near
the Palladium in Los Angeles in Hollywood,

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California, they moved upward down the
street. And the reason I bring that

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up because a good point you bring
up all three areas, but now they

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are mere fragments of what they used
to be, and the greatness and kind

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of the storefront present that they once
held is a lot smaller or non existing

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now. But a great point that
you did bring up those three music stores.

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But yet I have to be dick
hat once again and point out that

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they are a lot smaller and you
do not have a lot of the great

406
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things that you could go by or
even look at nostalgic wise, in any

407
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:12.920
you're absolutely right, and you know
who can beat going to a store specifically

408
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for music and taking your time looking
at all the cover art, reading the

409
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back, reading the titles. Sometimes
they didn't even have the plastic on them,

410
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.480
and you can actually open inside and
it was just it was quite an

411
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experience that we had there. And
if you had some money saved up and

412
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you bought that either CD, cassette
or your vinyl, you took that home

413
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:44.679
and you I guarantee you we listened
to it from the first song to the

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last. Ye. Hey, don't
touch that dial, as we used to

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say, don't touch that streaming service. Don't tell your robot to change the

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channels, because we're going to be
right back after this short break and we're

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going to continue our unforgettable trip down
back to the eighties. We are going

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eighties Radio and we are back.
We're talking about the stores and eateries that

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are no longer with us. And
you know what, if you get a

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chance join us next week as we
have the guys from the eighties movie podcast

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with us. You don't want to
miss that show. Also invite you to

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check out our social media on Facebook
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Go ahead, leave us a review, leave us alike, of course,

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help us out on the show.
Now, as we coming to the home

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stretch, Chang, there is one
type of store that we had hundreds I

437
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would dare even say thousands across the
United States that are no longer with us.

438
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:58.119
We may have one or two in
the entire state, but I can

439
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tell you that these stores are part
of the soundtrack of our life. And

440
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I'm talking about the stores that rented
videos. Video rental stores made our life

441
00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:22.679
so great back then. It wasn't
only the stores like Blockbuster, you know,

442
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it was stores like even before Blockbuster
in Hollywood video. I'm talking about

443
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the local mom and pop shops,
mom and pop rental video rental places that

444
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usually only had one copy of each
movie. That when you got there and

445
00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:45.400
you didn't get there on time,
you lost down on your favorite movie and

446
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:47.519
you had to wait till the next
day. And there wasn't two three day

447
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:52.599
rentals are a week rental in the
beginning, it was only a day rental.

448
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:54.719
So if you rent to too many
movies and you didn't watch them,

449
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.320
you you had paid for nothing,
and then you still had to rewind those

450
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:02.519
movies or they hard. Yeah,
you know what, it's funny you bring

451
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.800
that up, because that that reminds
me of when we would go buy concert

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00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.400
tickets, remember a ticket tron.
We'd have to go to Music Plus to

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00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:16.039
buy our tickets, I believe series
ticket Master even and the gouging that we

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00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:21.480
started seeing in the eighties to buy
tickets. But not only that, do

455
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:27.599
you remember having to go wait in
line to get our movie tickets to pay

456
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:34.840
for a video in the at the
video stores to go get concert tickets.

457
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To wait in the line, it's
another thing. Oh yeah, and you

458
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:42.559
have to wait in line ripe,
you know. I remember in nineteen eighty

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00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:46.599
seven going to get YouTube tickets and
we had to stand outside. I believe

460
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:51.519
it was ticket Tron or something like
that. We waited in line at three

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00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:54.639
in the morning. In the morning
opened they opened, I think if I

462
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:59.039
was taken like at nine am.
Yeah. Now. The reason I bring

463
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:01.320
that up because we you know,
nowadays and even back then, some people

464
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:07.639
think waiting in line does suck,
right, But yet when you know that

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you're going to get something good,
it makes it worth the weight. But

466
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:16.800
what I see is waiting in line
back in the eighties for anything was a

467
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:23.199
lot more fun and prosperous than waiting
in line now or anything you may need.

468
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:28.400
And here's what I think. I've
noticed that we're much more impatient.

469
00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:31.320
First of all, now because we
got so used to the laziness. Or

470
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:36.880
you're right, the laziness, I
think be laziness. You have all,

471
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.960
and I put myself in there,
we have all become that much more lazy.

472
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.559
Yes, And if you notice when
you wait in line now, as

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00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:49.920
opposed to back in the eighties,
people are on their devices, so they're

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00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.559
self absorbed in their own little world
and they get wrapped up in their own

475
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:59.639
toxic environment everything on the screen that
people forget to be kind and talk to

476
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:06.239
people and have a lot you used
to be and back in the eighties one

477
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.840
we waited in the line, man, I remember, I remember, or

478
00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:12.639
maybe it's just me, which my
wife tells me is probably just me.

479
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:17.840
It's a comedian in me. But
I like to have conversations and meet people

480
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:22.039
and make someone smile, act them, ask them a question that's going to

481
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:28.039
to bring out a good conversation and
possibly bring in others. I used to

482
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:30.719
like to go out and wait in
line. I never had a problem because

483
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:35.320
you get to meet people, You
get to understand people, You get to

484
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:40.239
hear somebody else's story, observe them
and study them and see what makes them

485
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:45.039
tick or what doesn't. So it's
really crazy the way so many things have

486
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:52.360
changed from the eighties to the simplest
thing to the most dramatic thing. The

487
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:57.840
things that we're talking about tonight,
uh, you know that are long gone.

488
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:02.480
Even the presence of such movie theaters
in the magnitude they used to be

489
00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:07.239
when we were in the eighties as
to pose as opposed to now. But

490
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:16.599
then also I think COVID and technology
have tainted us to have that social experience

491
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.599
that we did in the eighties,
which was brought about a lot with some

492
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:28.559
of the places were reminiscing about burger
places to eat. You know, you're

493
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.199
going to a late night burgers down
when you're a team that's no longer there.

494
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:35.920
You know, you meet other people
from other areas, going to a

495
00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:39.760
late night theater, going to get
concert tickets, going to one of the

496
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:45.360
music houses that usually sometimes opened to
eleven on the weekend, go down to

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00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:51.360
music plus, listen to some tunes, buy some cassettes, you buy a

498
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.559
couple of vinyls, but you got
to meet people. So I think some

499
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:58.719
of the entities that we're talking about
to night, some of the businesses,

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00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:06.760
they're gone, not only for the
convenience and the choice that we had as

501
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:12.519
a consumer, but the closeness it
kind of brought to us. The human

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00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.960
decency. I think some of these
stores brought to us you know what we

503
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:22.199
lost, Yeah, we lost the
human touch. We we we're losing that

504
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:28.519
human human, our humanity, and
we are becoming more of a cyborg oriented

505
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:31.880
person in general. And you know
what I don't. I've told you this

506
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.000
in another show. I don't blame
the newer kids. Yes, they're on

507
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.000
their phones all day, they're on
the screens all day because that's all they

508
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:45.400
know. But guess who started it
all? We did our generation, because

509
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:51.039
why we didn't grow up with that. But as technology started evolving, we

510
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:57.760
started finding things so so convenient that
we traded that experience and that humanity,

511
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:04.360
that that that special something that was
involved in social interaction. We're the ones

512
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:09.719
that are guilty of the brainwashing to
our kids. So let me mention one

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00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:15.239
more thing and then we're going to
call it quits for this week. And

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00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:21.880
a reminder to send in your questions
and your show topics to back the number

515
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:27.159
two the Eighties Radio at gmail dot
com. The last thing I remember that

516
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I know, at least around my
area, they don't have anymore unless you

517
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:37.480
go to a big place called a
water park. We're public swimming pools.

518
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:44.000
Yeah, back in the eighties,
public swimming pools were very very common in

519
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:49.440
at least in southern California. You
know, it's something that you bring up

520
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:55.559
plunges and open park pools. And
on that note, we also do not

521
00:45:55.920 --> 00:46:02.280
steezy after school programs or the summer
programs that were put on by cities in

522
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:10.000
their local parks where they would open
the backgammon games and hawing. Uh.

523
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:16.840
These kids centers are no longer what
they were back in the eighties. And

524
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:21.920
I'm gonna take it serious real quick, because you know, growing up in

525
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.480
Montevio, California, I used to
go to a lot of those uh park

526
00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:30.239
programs after school or a summer,
and as an adult, I put my

527
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:36.639
kids through a lot of those sporting
programs that we no longer. A CI

528
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:42.440
coach for the Police Activities League for
geez, almost a decade, and that

529
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:50.239
was always put together with the nucleus
of the neighborhood youth that attended the after

530
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:55.679
school programs or the summer programs.
We don't see that anymore. Instead,

531
00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:00.599
we have a lot of kids that
play video games on headphone owns and Mike's

532
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:06.679
and the interact that way to where
they're not going out anymore and they're hanging

533
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:10.239
in the park now. The sad
thing is we have a lot of deviant,

534
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:17.440
life sucking vermin that prey upon children
more so now as we did back

535
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:22.199
then. Some may say, or
is it that we are more aware of

536
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:29.840
them with technology and social media and
TV to observe them now as opposed to

537
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:32.880
back then. Just say that could
be another joke. Maybe it's a little

538
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:37.719
bit too touchy for us and our
audience to climb into. But it's a

539
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:39.239
good point, no, But you
know, I think we need it.

540
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:43.760
I think we need it, brother, And you know, the eighties were

541
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:47.960
just a different time, a time
when social interactions were grounded in authenticity,

542
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:55.960
sincerity, and genuine human connection.
And I want to challenge every listener to

543
00:47:57.119 --> 00:48:00.960
step away from the screens, to
make some time for face to face interactions

544
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:07.079
this week, and to seek out
a moment of human connection where it is,

545
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:12.800
whether it be at the gas station, whether it be at the supermarket

546
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:19.920
or the library, or wherever it
is. Let's embrace the vulnerability of engaging

547
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:25.280
with others in person, because there's
depth there, there's richness that it brings

548
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:30.039
to our lives. And on that
note, on behalf of myself, Toscano,

549
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.920
I want to wish you a great
week as we head on to another

550
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:43.239
week of remembering the eighties here on
your show and my show back to the

551
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.840
eighties radio Now Tusky, before we
release our beautiful boys and girls, the

552
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:52.559
cats and kiddies, rock dogs and
eighties ladies and all in between to another

553
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:59.400
fantastic week. Remember, boys and
girls, stay you, stay focused,

554
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.599
end up for yourselves. If you're
that strong, stand up for somebody that

555
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:10.000
cannot stand up for themselves. And
remember tomorrow is never guaranteed, So smile

556
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:15.199
every way that you can. Now, like Mario said, reach out and

557
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.840
make a connection, break the chain, go back in time. Make somebody

558
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:25.039
feel just as good as you do
when somebody reaches out to you. With

559
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:32.239
that, I bid you an adios. Everybody eats aloha ahi yos, and

560
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:39.679
to all everyone out there in the
OC later broze hos, to all my

561
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:45.719
homies and homets in every bodio,
I bid you all an orderle and remember,

562
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:52.039
keep the faith and together we will
seek prosperity when we all seek unity.

563
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:57.719
Catch you all next week, Toscano. Let's play them a song,

564
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:02.679
and I think this song is befitting. This is a song from Judas Priest

565
00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:08.840
and it's called United. You have
been gathered with tuscanow and chang right here

566
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:15.159
at back to the eighties radio where
we keep the eighties vibe, and that

567
00:50:15.400 --> 00:51:00.480
vibe to stay alive, alive,
good Night, everybody back, Wholly ended

568
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:01.840
before I can foll