Radio Personalities of the '80s Part 1

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and that was Everybody Wants to Rule
the World by the legendary Tears for

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Fears talking about everybody wanting to rule
the world. Hey, we got a

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ticket set going out to color Upper
Father if they want to go to the

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Monster Drug Rally, and and I
have California. That's right, you check

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out Bigfoot and Grave Digger and all
the fan favorites. Hey, right now

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we're asking a golden question for those
tickets. And this is to all you

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royal kings and queens out there in
jacks to Gangsterville. Hey, what was

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Queen's number one song in nineteen eighty
color number five colors right here at radio

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back to the eighties. Hold on, hey, you a hacking with a

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chat color number five. Tell me
who you are, Tell me that you're

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alive. This is the ex Prince. You can now call me King Charles.

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I'm talking Heathen. All do we
know is mummy left us? No

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too long ago. Oh therefore I
decree. But the answer to your question,

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Oh bugger what, I don't remember
the answer? What was the question?

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O chas, my boys, mommy, mommy, miss you and your

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well you are solely sorely missed as
well. I had you summoned because I

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have to get the answer to a
question. Something rather distastefully, I must

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admit. But this is the question
of this radio job from the United Stakes,

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mister radio personality. What was the
question, my neighbor? Is the

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check in your other Hey, Hey, now, Johnny, I'm gonna call

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you Keick Johnny. Sure, the
question is what was Queen's stop hit in

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the nineties eighties. If you can
answer that, you and your mummy soul

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will be going to go check out
the Monster Drug Rally and Anaheim, California.

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You have the answer. Key Johnny
listener is a waiting. Oh that's

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should be a piece of cake.
Mummy, what was your favorite lullaby to

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sing to me? Wimmy on your
sub pressure jars? It's under pressure,

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under pressure, thank you mummy.
Mister s Mixolock, the answer is under

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pressure by mummy. Oh yigin yigginy
yagg. The King Charlie is come back,

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Hey, Keith Charlie want to tell
the listeners now you are a proud

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winner to two tickets to the Monster
Truck Rally of Anaheim, California, coming

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up this Saturday. And I want
you to tell all those boys and girls

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and royal kings, queens, prince
and princesses out there at Shanksterville, who

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do you listen to? And who's
your number one eighties radio stations. King

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Charlie, tell them who your mama
is. Knock knock hello, and say

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knock knock you must respond to ellen, who's there? Silence? I am

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the King on behalf of the Queen
mother and myself King Charles the Third.

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And they want to let you know
that are you want doing a grand job,

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mister Jock. Long live the eighties, Long live the Queen, and

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long live Back to the Eighties radio. You right there from King Jolly,

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We are back to the eighties radio. This is the one and only back

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to the eighties radio. Thank you
for joining us on another wonderful Friday.

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First introductions are in order because next
to me is a man, a myth,

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and a legend in his very own
mind. He's been known to some

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people back in the eighties as El
Palto, which translated means the ice cream

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Man. To us here at back
to the Eighties, we refer to him

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as the ever so wondrous Chang's cur
Alack. Everybody out there back to the

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eighties land, It is either Chang, can you please form a single line,

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no pushing, and I will wait
upon one customer. I have banana

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splits, strawberry splits, malts.
I also have ice cream cones, big

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sticks. I have popsicles. I
have a certain dazzling cups of pistachio ice

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cream, all for a dollar.
Thank you and please come again. Hi

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is Chang Chang's ice Cream? How
are you? Tiscona? What can I

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get you one or two scoops?
Too? Do you remember thrifties? A

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lot of people that are in the
United States. We'll remember Thrifties back in

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the in the eighties, even before
that, of course, but Thrifties had

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the best ice cream. Remember that. Now, I think that only Rite

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Aid carries Thrifties ice cream. You
are right. And as a matter of

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fact, mister and missus Chang myself
stepped out just two days ago to write

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aid because we're getting in that golden
age where you know, we have to

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go get some medications and some vitamins, you know, for the silver years.

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And we picked up not one,
but two scoops of delicious Thrifties ice

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cream cones. And on the sugar
cone, I will add, remember the

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little tiny cone that we used to
get, Yes, yes, I remember,

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although I we used to get for
some reason, I used to get

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you know, as a small child. I think back in the seventies,

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my dad used to give me the
their cone sugar cone. I guess they're

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called, no, the thin brown
one, Not the thin one. It's

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the other one. The yeah,
the wafer cone. That's now, did

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you get the Wayfer cone that was
all solid? I remember sometimes getting the

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Wayfer cone to where it was kind
of had like a crack, kind of

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like a seam where you could see
they kind of like rolled it together,

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but it didn't really make it yet. No, never never had that one.

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I just had the normal ones with
a little crisscross design. See,

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and I used to see those,
and I used to tell my grandma,

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Oh, I got the Gennai and
I got the bunk one. Because it's

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your ice cream, molt. It
starts coming through that crease, gets all

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over your clothing, Your toys can't
touch Gi Joe anymore because your hands are

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dripping with chocolate ice cream. And
you know your but it was fantastic ice

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cream. And now my question,
my question to you, is it's still

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that good even if it's you know
what, It is still that good.

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But the missing element is remembering how
I pissed off my grandparents when I would

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touch things in their car with ice
cream hands him. Won't you goddamn it,

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don't touch anything napkins. When back
to the eighties, radio comes back

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Radio personalities of the nineteen eighties.
We're gonna be right back. She listened,

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she lives to sing, She does
everything. She listened movie, She

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lets to glove. She loved love
as light, all light night. So

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hold times, all time, we
geting, Come time. She said,

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where you wanted. That's the way. Anywhere you want it, she said,

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anywhere you wanted, that's the way
you need. Anywhere you want it.

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I was Lord, and I never
now what you looking to. Who's

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in touch? Little say slight all
night time, all time. Sha.

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Anyway you want it, that's the
way you need it. Anyway you want

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it, anyway you wanted, that's
the way you need. Anyway you want

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it. Don't stop by Wow way
way way she said, She said,

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anyway you want it, that's the
way. Anyway you want it, she

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said, anyway you want that's the
way you need. Anyway you want it.

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Ye on the habit he awesome mash
up songs with the amazing eighties rock

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band Rock Sugar. Stay too,
because next week on the show, we've

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got Chuck Durand, the lead guitarist
and co founder of the mash up bands

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Sensation Rock Sugar Chang Hit Anybody Jocks
of an Era gone by on terrestrial radio,

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A show tonight about who had the
balls, who had the guts,

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who had the boldness, and who
had the freedom to be that radio friend

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that we all miss nowadays, that
we've lost that in the golden age of

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radio. Now Tiscano. Let me
address you before we dive into our categories.

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Who is the most impressionable jock of
your memory and your favorite radio station

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in your growing years of the nineteen
eighties. You tell me yours and I

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will tell you mine after. Well, I can tell you that the biggest

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ones in Los Angeles in the eighties
when I really paid attention to radio,

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the biggest one was probably rig D's
shadow Stevens. Of course, you know

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he went on to do a lot
of television. Well, honest say that

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those are the two most popular,
Yeah, I'm two most popular that I

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knew of. I mean at a
national level, right syndicated level. And

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then you had other ones that,
of course I would listen to somewhere from

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Kiss FM. I also used to
listen to one or three point five,

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a good friend of ours now Ted
ziggen Bush and Mike Zaklaridi's used to be

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on Coast one or three point five, And of course I also used to

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listen to Power one oh six.
Mucho Morales Cervantes used to listen to the

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to them all, even Jay Thomas, remember Jay Thomas, great morning jock.

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He was one of the first controversial
jobs, right right, he started

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Uh. He was Carlo's boyfriend in
uh Cheers, he played Carlo's husband.

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Oh really, Okay, well I
never watched the show, so we didn't

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miss you. We had a Cheers
party. As a matter of fact,

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you weren't missed. You missed it
all. So yeah, so Jay Thomas

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also Benny Martinez. Bruce Vdal was
another one of the big ones that I

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used to listen to on Kiss FM. And like I said, Power one

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oh six, whoever was on there. Eighties radio brother is what we want

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to talk about today. A lot
of people that are listening from all over

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the world will remember that in your
particular area, wherever it is that you

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grew up. People have told me
from other parts of the world that in

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the eighties it was great for them
as well. Even with radio. Somewhere

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along the decades after the mid nineties, everything just changed exactly as radio did.

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Those are some of the jocks that
I used to I used to listen

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to growing up. You know,
everyone knows it by now. I'm a

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bit older than you, and I'm
a child of more than at sixty five,

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but pretty much a radio music child
of that era up into you know,

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the eighties, of my growing years, and I'd say in eighties radio,

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my favorite radio personality, the one
that was like the clips of what

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I wanted to do one day,
if I ever was bold enough or fortunate

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enough to do radio, was Jim
Ladd of KMT. Not only Jim Ladd,

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but i'd say the entire staff of
KMET ninety seven ninety four point seven,

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located in Los Angeles, Hollywood,
California, right off the one to

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one Freeway off of Sunset, and
a lot of the jocks from kal Os.

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But I would have to say Jim
Ladd is definitely my number one mentor,

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besides Shadow Stevens, who kind of
showed me and showed me that it's

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it's cool to be funny. It's
cool to be funny, intelligent, it's

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cool to use that comedic kind of
personality that one may be born with.

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And just Jim Ladd just like touching
people's souls with the music he played.

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Speaking on the freedoms of us as
Americans of free four radio, freeform music,

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you know, kind of liberalism,
but more or less over liberalism,

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equality and the thought of if everybody
could unify in the form of music,

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what a beautiful place this would be, so I would have to definitely say

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it was those two individuals that opened
up my eyes to hell, Yeah,

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that's what radio is. I'll never
forget these guys. You know, they

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were there at some of my darkest
times and some of the times where I

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was trying to figure out if I
was crazy in the head for being who

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I am. So definitely those two
individuals, you know, radio personalities.

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I remember back then they were larger
than life. You would hear these guys

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with these just some guys with these
marvelous, beautiful voices and other guys with

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maybe not as beautiful of a voice, but with their own style. And

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one very very important aspect that these
guys brought to us and gals, because

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there was a bunch of great gals
doing the as well, it was that

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they were entertainers radio along the way, especially today, you listen to these

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guys and the number one thing that
they tell them is do not be like

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an announcer from back in the day. They don't want them to be the

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announcers. They say, we want
you to be more relatable, and we

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want you to talk like if they're
right next to you, which I can

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understand The problem is that you lose
what we had being an entertainer, because

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that's what you are. You're an
entertainer and you touch people as they've touched

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you in dark times. They were
a part of a life, in the

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fun times and the happy times,
even in the sad times. We could

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do request when you were in love. There was so much that radio personalities

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did back in the day. I
have a few honorable mentions, and I

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want everybody to enjoy what radio used
to be like for us in the eighties.

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This is Chuck Geiger from KFRC in
San Francisco, Music in Sarrio seven

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the world. Video Huey Lewis and
the News on Stereo six ten. Hello,

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I think I know if you'll turn
around and no, I know you,

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Lionel Richie, it can't SARCYE K
Marcy K Marcy as Winners Glory Stereo

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six ten, Henry Hankober and Vacaville
picked up one hundred bucks for his family

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to spend anywhere they watch to Chess
Park. Over a quarter of a million

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dollars in diggyas zood cast. It's
been one here on six ten total bass.

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We're going way down to one of
the other ones chain that was really,

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really fantastic was a guy by the
name of Chuck Boom Boom Cannon.

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Now have you ever heard this guy? You know what? I have never

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heard this guy. Well, obviously
he's not in LA so I'm only a

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product of Black Angeles, California.
Yeah, this is kk LQ, San

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Diegoego six. She's not preaching,
but she's getting the message across kk LQ.

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You're better mix the music radio station
with a q jam twins FM one

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of six point five AM, six
hundred the cannon shooting for maximum intensity boogie

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to burn holes in your consciousness.
Are you ready for thirty minutes non stop

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digg Yeah, tone low, gonna
make it smoke and get it going with

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funk a cold Medina one six hund
chamnge giving it up again. Another chance

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to get a couple of tickets to
go see the Covergirls tomorrow night. This

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hour Wilt Piers say it's gonna r
in wh you're here, it be called

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a twenty two Tommy Chooster concert connection
and you win. They don't make them

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like they used to. Oh,
they just don't bro I mean it's funny

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because I can't say funny. It's
odd and ridiculous that as yes, I'm

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going to say it. As MTV
entered the ear more the eye waves of

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the movement of music and music,
radio broadcasting and radio recording companies started going

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for the appeal of one's eye from
the talent rather than the musical content or

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the musical talent that they would hold. And it's then when you saw that

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sudden change, not only on radio
in the music business, album wise,

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television wise, video wise, but
radio started to seem to die. There

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was a less need for the radio
personality who were the kind of orchestrator of

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the radio orchestra, if I may
say, the songs that were played,

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the commercials that were played, the
message that they played, the kind of

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format or tone that each radio jock
presented in their four hour shift, giving

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it that radio experience of that time, its own taste, its own personality,

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its own vibe. So as the
listener, we intertwined with that,

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and we aligned with what really gets
to our heart, our soul, makes

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our bodies shake and dance in the
car or wherever you're at, or crank

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it louder, or set the tone
for a gathering. And it was at

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that time when that started dying.
And I'm going to tell you, I

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blame MTV, I blame the record
companies, and I blame everybody else in

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the music business. That was a
bunch of pansy ass woolsies that sold out

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the ever so gracious FM terrestrial radio. Is that in a nutshell for you?

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That's in a nutshell, my brother, because without getting too much into

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the business of radio will never be
the same. See, we were exposed

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to all of that. We grew
up with that. The younger generation.

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You know, my kids are never
going to hear radio the way we used

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to. They're never gonna go,
oh, man, I can't wait to

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listen to this jock at this time. No, you don't say that anymore.

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And you know what, did MTV
kill the radio? I think MTV

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did kill a lot of it.
They are responsible for a lot of the

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stuff that went down. There's one
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if you'll agree with me or not, but I think the main responsible party

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when the Internet started, all of
a sudden, now you get music in

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a different way. It changed the
whole world of radio because now the executives

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and the attorneys who actually run behind
the scenes, they take over and they

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have to adjust to whatever the times
are bringing. And at the end of

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the day, all they care for
is about money. They don't care about

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the listener. We've talked about that
before. These lawyers and executives who run

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radio stations, which, by the
way, as a side note, there's

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a handful of companies that own thousands
of radio stations across the United States,

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so it's a monopoly. And anyway, long story short, we grew up

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with a different radio. I'd like
to find out how was radio in your

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country. I remember with this a
couple of weeks ago when we interviewed Sandy

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from Australia. It used to be
fantastic. Radio used to be fantastic back

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in the eighties. And you know
what, it all boils down to what

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we had here in the United States. And I got to tell you,

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back in the eighties, it was
just freaking entertainment. It was just downright

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entertaining to listen to radio. A
real quick story. There was a jock

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in La His name was Bruce Vidal, and he was a jock at Kiss

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FM, and he had been all
over the country as well. On one

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occasion on his radio station in San
Francisco, he ended up announcing that a

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twenty five thousand dollar prize for a
certain call. Well, of course he

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had a caller, and he he
told this caller that they had won twenty

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five thousand dollars, but it wasn't
the time of the day that he was

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supposed to so basically he wasn't supposed
to give anybody that money. Well,

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he got fired from the station and
the station had to pay twenty five thousand

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dollars because of a screw up from
a job. So we we got it

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all, man, from back then, we got it all. I loved

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loved radio jocks back in the eighty
welt, fam I love that jam kse

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Haley. If you think you're lonely, now just wait, I've heard that

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before. Let me all right,
I'm the day we got us for three

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pretty much, here we go.
We're gonna fact Chicago Titles Company. I

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used work for a title company thank
before I was at a dis jockey,

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I was going to dis jockey school
when I worked my way through. Hello,

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get everyone, I'm standing here on
the deck of a world famous cruise

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to announce Kenny's Caribbean Fantasy Cruise sweepstakes?

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terrific. Can you know what the incredibly

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terrific grant is? A free one
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Leave it on a world famous cruise
ship and all you have to do to

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enter the candy switch takesist. It's
just fantastic. I mean sun and fun

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and all that shopping even at free
cruise water and other free gifts, and

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all you have to do to enter
instantly. You imagine a whole week of

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eating, drinking, singing, dancing, sunning, swimming, even optional shuffleboard

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to remember to enter. Just lass
now and good okay, okay, just

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in case you missed that. Entry
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No purchase necessary, but you may
want to purchase a pair or two

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of hot exciting candies, fast track
shoes. Anyway, you're listening to back

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to the eighty now. Back in
the eighties, I remember listening to k

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r LA, Shotgun Thomas, machine
Gun, Kelly, and of course everybody

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that was ever incarcerated, and Everybody's
homie, the legend himself, you know

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who I'm talking about, Art Lebo. Art Lebou had such a smooth voice

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that he could speak gang lingle and
call out homies with such an intellectual presence.

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Hey, this next call goes out
from Angel Girl to Chuco, who's

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in zan Quentin right now, saying
I love you babe, and I can

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hardly wait till we are together again. This song goes out to you,

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Chuco, and it was like,
Wow, white guy talking to the rassa

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locked up in jail. You knew
back then when you had connections like that,

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that radio was genuine. Another jock, Fraser Smith on KMT every morning

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early when I was getting ready to
go to school in high school. Fraser

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Smith portrayed himself as like maybe three
or four characters on his morning show,

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so sometimes he was talking to himself
and answering himself, but it was just

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like, you know, he just
had that vibe to just wrap you up

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and kind of take you on a
comical journey in the morning as you're getting

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ready to face the day. We
definitely have lost that kind of presence in

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radio. We do have the many
listeners that are of the younger generation that

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did not grow up with what we
had, did not know the value and

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the importance and I do strongly say
importance that radio disc jockeys brought to the

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table for entertainment of the ear,
entertainment of the mind, entertainment for the

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soul, but for the sheer friendship
and bond that they gave us from so

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far away when we the listener were
by ourselves listening to those speakers. My

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brother from the mouth of Chang to
everybody listening on back to the eighties radio,

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We're gonna be right back, Don't
go away, great song, and

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then Jefferson are playing three fifths of
a mile in ten seconds, song about

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commercialism, advertising and all of that. The Beatlesimi Mine, George Harrison's Living

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in the material World and Police with
Spirits in the material world. And congratulations

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to Leonard Sanchez from Bloile Heights.
Leonard, my brother, You're gonna go

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see the Police and Elvis Costello because
you have the good taste, the grace,

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and the luck to be listening to
ninety five point five k los.

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Good for you, man, and
thank you for being a part of the

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tribe Leonard. Everybody out there who
listens to this show, you are a

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part of a tribe, a tribe
of people who have chosen free form rock

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and roll radio over the lowest common
denominator. This is not a show for

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stupid people. This is not background
music. This is not a show where

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we use research and market driven techniques
to try to figure out how to get

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inside the mass psyche of as many
people as we can know. This is

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you and me talking. That's the
difference. This is you and me,

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and we speak not only through words, but we speak through this extraordinary music.

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For our vocabulary is long and wide
and deep. Our vocabulary is rock

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and roll music. It's about a
lack of restrictions. It's about a lack

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of fences, a lack of trying
to rain us in and pigeonholess. Now

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that doesn't mean that freeform radio is
free of structure. Quite the contrary,

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And a lot of people don't get
this. They hear free form radio,

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and they think, oh, it's
just like a mishmash of anything Jim wants

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to throw on. Well, it
is anything that I want to play.

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But for those of you tribal members
who get what's going on here, you

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know that this show is more structured
than any other show on the air.

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A format is random. Wi you're
normally hearing on radio is taking the research,

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putting it into a computer and it
vomits up a list of songs.

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It's spits out a random list of
tunes without any rhyme or reason. That

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is the antithesis of what we're doing
here. Every song that I choose to

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play for you, I make about
a hundred decisions about that song. First,

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what does the song say, Well, it advance the particular point that

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I'm trying to make. How does
it begin, how does it end?

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What is the temple? What lyrical
connection is going to drive the storyline of

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the particular set that we're talking about. We're talking about commercialism and living in

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the material world. And that last
set of songs, I'm Jim Ladd and

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this Ladies and Gentlemen is ninety five
point five kalo ass Los Angeles ay some

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of you remember the eighties five right, Well, it lives loud and proud

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on back to the eighties with my
pals to Scotto and Chay. There are

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two chocks. It's a duo and
the other one was a single guy with

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his whole crew, and that was
Rick D's, at least here in southern

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California. For Mark and Brian,
who are the duo that I was talking

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to you about, he already had
started crank calling people and do his skits,

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doing skits on the radio nationally.
Rick D's is a brand. I

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saw him not too long ago talk
about you know, in his in his

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studio, there's a big picture of
Rick D's when he was young, and

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I didn't understand when he pointed at
the pictures said, this is the rule

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rick D's he was talking about,
this is the character. This is what

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people see when when they drive by
the freeway wherever. His radio stations at

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Rick D's became a brand. And
along those same lines, my favorite duo

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of comedy and radio, Mark and
Brian Man. They were on Kalos at

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the time in the later eighties.
I know that you listen to them,

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and there's a lot of people who
have that listened to our show and there's

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a lot of people that have no
idea who they were. But one of

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the things that they were famous for
is doing skits. They would it calls,

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but in reality was Mark and Brian. I want you to check this

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out. We'll be right back.
An individual we've had on the program for

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the last couple of years. It
appears and uh uh and by god,

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what would Christmas be without a visit
from this gentleman straight direct from the North

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Pole. He is also an Elvis
impersonator up that way. Please welcome back

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to the show, Elphs. Good
morning, Oh see you see you are

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here here. I'll see mama buddy. It's health is gonna make you.

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Hey Elphs, what's going on?
Mammam righty oh, come over this sandwiches

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wow Elphins. Oh yeah, oh
yeah, Now let's try to get this

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right now. You're in it,
Fry marn you're an elf. I am

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I'm an elf, and you live
at the North Bolt and you're an I

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am the yells a personator. I'm
elf. Fists. Yeah. I remember

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one night when I was a little
well little I was in my room singing

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and dancing around, you know,
like I do right, And my daddy

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yelled, hey, boys, stop
all that air splitting racket and go learn

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a trade. Ain't nothing wrong the
building dolls and shoots you trees and pez

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dispensers for a living. It was
good enough for me, it's good enough

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for you. Now take off your
mama's pants suite. I said, But

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Daddy, I want to be the
greatest center tanyard's ever touch a stage,

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like like Elvis Presley. Oh I
need is a hook And he said,

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son, you gotta face some facts. You're an elf and that's all you'll

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ever be. Now. I know
you can sing. We all can,

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that's one of the things ourselves do. But we're supposed to sing jolly highest

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songs of festive merriment, not this
hoochie coochie jump of music. And elves

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do not wiggle their hips, and
elves do not road side burns, and

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elves do not hump the cat.
Right, So the pointed eyes won't say

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I never give up on the green, No, no, baby mama.

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And here I am today, the
most famous, most loved, highest played

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entertainer in the Arctic region and elis
Ella's So now, Elvis, you've been

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performing lately, I do. I've
been performing absolutely the Klondike Barn Grill six

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nights, two shows on Saturday,
seven third Nintendo cover one drink minimum.

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That's the Klondike Barn Gril. I
don't just impersonate the King, No,

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no, I live the life you
live the life of the king, meaning

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one that well, there's lots of
impersions. I hate you, I give

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you some conversions and Almo bay see, the King lived in Graceland, right,

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I lived near Iceland. Wow,
that's uncanny, that's kind of wacky.

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The King would travel in the limo
with a mini bar. Right,

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I travel on a snowmobile with a
drink holder. Man. Right, that's

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that's wild. That's so close,
so similar. And I'll say one of

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the one of one of that King's
hits was I just want to be heard

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ked a bear? Right. I
once saw an esquimo get torn in half

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by a polder. Man. Look
out, man, it's meant to be.

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00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:04.719
I'll try to champion. Don't be
harshing my gag. I come over.

404
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:15.199
You will give you a hard one
to the ankles, like the keen

405
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:21.199
you bitch, baby, look out, mamma, baby, Holy all,

406
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:22.400
I say, I just won't come
in. Tell everybody, and I don't

407
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:27.079
forget. I'm at the Klondike Barn
Grill all this week and then the Whiskiest

408
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:30.880
snow Dome through New Year's and wow, we'll absolutely trying to check out the

409
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:32.639
show. And still a lot of
Yeti's come to the show, Edie,

410
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:39.840
come, game can start on my
I won't say them yeties, nothing to

411
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:44.239
spoil a good show. The Yetie
coming in eating all my ill audience.

412
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:51.559
So yet he's come, they start
eating the other man. They say that

413
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:53.719
will be good. You know we
ain't hundred We're gonna eat nobody to let

414
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:59.760
him come in joy the show.
Then let's sit down and we're gonna be

415
00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:07.280
good. You get them, YETI
start drinking, they get me. I'll

416
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.000
be right in the middle of two
thousand one space Housers are like, yeah,

417
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:13.880
you know me a little mile away. They'll stay to take a bite

418
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:21.119
out of front rode and damn YEI
don't get me wrong. I can take

419
00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:27.079
out one Yetti no problem. And
you came a cry. It's like yetti

420
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:30.920
and you know the yetti are traveling
packs on the kind of their pussy.

421
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:37.800
Yetdi, I didn't know that And
then I didn't know that I wanted to

422
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:45.119
wear. You know, I take
on a man, put up with that

423
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:50.159
no more, not then yetti.
I'm gonna start kicking me some yetti.

424
00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:54.000
But you know what that clean Eastwood
did, and some of them spy yetti

425
00:37:54.159 --> 00:38:04.000
Westerns right to put on that one
down hat rab my zero point six sheeting

426
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.960
and put on the black trench coil
from ash dash for dash and start making

427
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:16.599
some of them yet, is my
bitches look out there? Oh god,

428
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:21.800
I'm sorry, offs, I'm sorry
that happened. Oh god, Well listen,

429
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.280
listen, have a have a great
holiday, and as always, thank

430
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.760
you for popping and give us the
latest update on the on the show.

431
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:30.679
And we're I was going on there
in the north phone baby angels coming down

432
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.599
here. I don't freaking come see
a show now. I'm olfa. Are

433
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:52.320
you champ you? And I know
I know you do check you kiss me?

434
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:17.960
Need focus match on give you?
Oh my god, you are getting

435
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:24.400
good at that. You're still standing. Yeah, you aren't getting drags.

436
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:34.960
You might be happed on that CPC
something. Yeah, you are fired up

437
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:44.239
boy, first time taking its ladies
and gentlemen. Elphus has left the building.

438
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.599
Yeah, you know what you know, just as you I listened to

439
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:52.400
those guys religiously. Uh, those
guys were like so much of my growing

440
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.800
up in the eighties. I mean, hell, I was a young father

441
00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:59.800
listening to Mark and Brown and kill
Os. You know, me and Missus

442
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:04.440
took our daughters to many many of
the Mark and Brian drive ins and the

443
00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:07.920
Halloween nights, and you know,
we went to a Christmas party, we

444
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:14.360
went to the Mark and Briant golf
tournaments. Oh, and it was those

445
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.719
guys are something that you know,
you're never really going to see again.

446
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.559
You know what you people have said
when they listened to us that me and

447
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.400
you remind them of Mark and Brian, And you know that's very humbling and

448
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:32.559
very greatly greatly appreciated. But it
was those guys. I mean, those

449
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:36.199
cats went on radio and they did
a drunk show, one of the first

450
00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:40.119
times in any type of history.
And the thing was it was hilarious.

451
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:45.320
It was sometimes X rated, but
yet they did it for a main purpose.

452
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:50.679
Do not go out and drink and
drive, because look what happens when

453
00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:55.079
you're inebriated. We are just lacking
the five million dollar contract. Oh I'll

454
00:40:55.159 --> 00:41:00.480
do it for a million that let's
jump into something else. Let's jump over

455
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:02.400
to something else, jang. We
let people hear some of the jocks,

456
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:07.199
and I want to let you listen
to a couple more because they're just fascinating

457
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.280
to hear. If you get a
chance, go on YouTube. You can

458
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:14.360
catch the clips up neck to.
This is Jojoe cooking Kincaid from nineteen eighty

459
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:19.039
seven when he was at kk L
Q in San Diego's Q one oh six.

460
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.480
Credit approval. Yeah, dealer participation
may affect final price. Yea.

461
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:28.239
This is it. At the beginning
of your party music marathon with money in

462
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:35.079
the music Friday, my attitude is
showing Jojo cooking here on QUE one six.

463
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.920
Write the song down word this.
I'll get you one hundred and six

464
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:45.239
dollars if you count to win.
You don't have to tell me what day

465
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.480
it HiT's side Friday, alright,
Friday, al right, party a right

466
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:59.800
time? Right we get no it's
fire oh quitting time k K. I'm

467
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:07.920
gonna fim San Diego. If you're
ready, let's news Q one oh six

468
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:14.719
Joe Cooking fucking out big earthquaking yesterday
in Los Angeles. This is the weekend

469
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:19.079
Kikoff, so I can feel the
ground shake it again. Here it's tidy.

470
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:24.960
I'm feeling real good for San Diego. Along those lines we had so

471
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:30.360
many here in southern California. But
jumping over the back east at just an

472
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.920
honorable mention. Because there's a guy
that he is still doing radio. I'm

473
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:39.280
not sure where he's at today,
but Broadway Bill Lee from Hot ninety seven.

474
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.440
This is from November nineteen eighty eight. Take a list of the most

475
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.960
music Hot ninety seven Rocking Standy always
ready for Fitteis music, were now looking

476
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:52.840
at New York City from meteorologist Nick
Gregory Claren Breezing nightlod on to thirty five

477
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.559
Sonny Chilly Tomorrow, high forty five. That's what it is now in Central

478
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:58.920
Park on the radio ninety seven point
one with those concert tickets to see new

479
00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:06.679
edition after this got until the sky
calm because your mom do the best.

480
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:10.119
He can't remember, guy loves him
out of the fire. The energy phenomenal.

481
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:15.559
The energy alone, it's just like
a it's a firecracker in the microphone.

482
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:17.960
Now, I got a cat right
here. Some of you may remember

483
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.360
he is from k Rock and this
is from nineteen eighty two. Do you

484
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:30.159
remember this cat, Freddy Snakeskin from
k Rock. Yes, he had a

485
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:36.280
mustache, dark hair, dark mustache, well, very very thin. He

486
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:39.039
was like a surfer boy with a
little mustache. Yes, he kind of

487
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:43.440
so. Yeah, he had that
porno mustache. But he looked like he

488
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:46.679
was a roadie from the Beach Boys. Yeah, and he you can tell

489
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.400
this guy, this cat was always
getting high too. Uh. He was

490
00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:53.800
very he was a slow talker.
But let's take a listen to a good

491
00:43:53.840 --> 00:44:00.760
old Freddy Snakeskin from Care from Kirkie
World Famous rock. It's can Cotton Stick

492
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.519
to the Grand one time? Y'all
baby, and y'allso heard's Shattered by the

493
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:07.880
Stones before that and only Go Bong
Go with Goodbye, Goodbye off the Fast

494
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:13.440
Times at Ridgemont High album. Thanks
a lot for the scrutiny pal talk of

495
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.480
the town by the pretenders lips.
Before that, you also heard the Boomtown

496
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:21.480
gannets doing skin on skin and the
first time that you heard appropriately enough.

497
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.119
Number one lowest common denominator was committed
by Todd Rundgren. And now, in

498
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.000
lieu of the presence of doctor George
Baby cooing, here's the k Rock Highway

499
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.440
Patrol Weather for LA in Orange County. There you go, a few showers

500
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.079
and a chance of thundershowers this afternoon, with a sixty percent chance of measurable

501
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:42.559
rain at some point. It's going
to be partly cloudy tomorrow. Overnight low

502
00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.119
in the mid sixties. Tomorrow is
high in the low eighties. It's now

503
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:47.880
seventy seven in San Diego, wherever
the hell that is, seventy four in

504
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:51.639
Orange County, seventy six in the
valley, seventy two at the beach,

505
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:54.920
and sixty eight degrees here at k
Rock that's now available at all. Liquorye

506
00:44:54.960 --> 00:45:00.400
Pizza stares Liqueri Spizza of the tastiest
music and to every book you love Angeles

507
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:07.719
radio or even television. Remember the
voice of America's top one hundred, top

508
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:13.360
ten mister Casey Cason, who could
forget the legendary voice of the Countdown that

509
00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:17.079
you heard on the weekends from Casey
Cason, who could forget the TV shows.

510
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:23.239
Casey was on the gorgeous daughter that
Casey had, who followed his footsteps

511
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:31.639
and did radio with x Mott Nycrue
bandmate bass player Nicky six For a bit,

512
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.960
Casey Cason is an icon to American
radio here in Los Angeles and I

513
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:45.039
think broadcast wise globally. Notably,
he was in charge and the voice of

514
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:51.639
American Top forty. You gotta remember
he was there at American Top forty since

515
00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:58.079
nineteen seventy to nineteen eighty eight.
So he had a flourishing career. And

516
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:01.800
one thing I don't know if anybody
knew about this, but Casey Kayson also

517
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:07.760
was a voice actor, and he
voiced one of the most famous characters in

518
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:13.679
all of seventies and eighties cartoons,
and that was Shaggy Rogers. And Shaggy

519
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:15.079
would like to say a few words
to the young people out there. All

520
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:20.119
right, go ahead, are you
Shaggy? I'm Shaggy, And he's always

521
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.199
talking about his good buddy, Scoop, his old friend, his old Paler's

522
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:29.559
old their dear buddy. And Shaggy
would say, right now, not all

523
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:31.719
young children are as fortunately as you
are. There's some that aren't you,

524
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:36.360
and some of them have muscular dystrophy, and there's one way to make sure

525
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:39.559
that we one day find a cure
for it. So, just like Scoop

526
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:45.239
would say, that's right, Waggy, I'm saying I Shaggy pitch in.

527
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.039
Get those dimes and those quarters and
those pennies they add up and they can

528
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.599
all make a big, big difference, your old pal Shaggy and Scooby too

529
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.199
saying why don't you do it this
morning and be ryan Mom and Dad to

530
00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.760
get to that phone and make their
place. You probably remember Charlie Tuna from

531
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:07.159
Carla and also Cares for one on
one. I think right where he started,

532
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:10.000
I believe in the early seventies with
care La, and then he finished

533
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:15.880
his career in the late eighties.
You know he had that one soundtrack,

534
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:21.079
Charlie Tuna and then you would hear
the applause. Yes, it's such a

535
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:25.119
radio jocks like that that put their
own personality and their own spin. Edit

536
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:30.280
wise, that is just an art
loss. And I have to commend you,

537
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.400
my brother, not only because I'm
sitting across the room from you,

538
00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:38.360
but you have captured that with a
lot of this stupidity that you and me

539
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:45.000
throw into these microphones, and it's
very reminiscent. And I hope that you

540
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.679
understand, bro, that that is
greatly appreciated by your partner and everybody out

541
00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:54.079
there listening. But definitely it adds
a little bit of that firecracker into the

542
00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.199
microphone that we've lost with some of
the guys that we're talking about. Now.

543
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:00.519
Yeah, you know what, brother, I really appreciate it. That's

544
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:05.360
why for all of our eighties fans, that's why we're here. And it's

545
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:07.800
not always, you know, talking
about music. It's not always talking about

546
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:12.199
movies. Sometimes we're going to talk
about the behind the scenes of things,

547
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:15.639
and in this case tonight, we
are talking about the behind the scenes of

548
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:20.960
why radio in the nineteen eighties was
so great and it all started with the

549
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:24.000
jock with the DJ with that radio
personality. Who was your favorite? Let

550
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:29.320
us know at our Facebook page,
send us a little note under the picture

551
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:35.000
of the radio jocks for today.
Now, was there a jock that you

552
00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:38.880
hated, that you couldn't stand,
Because I'll tell you what, there's always

553
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:43.280
that one person who when they would
come on, you would turn them off.

554
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:46.280
But at the end of the day, even they were better than anything

555
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:51.360
we have today. Yeah, Jet
the Fish of k Rock. Ha ha,

556
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:55.960
oh you're killing He was my favorite
DJ from k Rock. Jet the

557
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:00.519
Fish of k Rock. I was
not a big k Rock back in the

558
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.239
eighties. No jed the Fish on
Karaq next to the poor Man. He

559
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:09.199
was one of the most recognized ones
who remains still till today doing some part

560
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:15.000
in that radio station. But this
was a quick impression of Jed the Fish.

561
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.920
That was the Smiths on caric This
is Jetim the Fish. I want

562
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:24.039
to remind you guys to just stay
cool and rad up. Next, here's

563
00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:30.320
the cure. So don't forget Jetam
the Fish. I'm on Caricue. You

564
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:32.480
have to see it to believe it. This is wigg on k Rock.

565
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:42.440
This is Cacuepacden on Los Angeles Rocket. If you talk to most of the

566
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:47.800
radio personalities of back in the nineteen
eighties and before, they will every single

567
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:53.199
one of them attest to the fact
that radio, when it changed, it

568
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.920
did not change for the better.
And a lot of them will tell you

569
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:06.519
to your face radio is dead.
Radio is just a different This is a

570
00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:10.119
different business, It's a different animal
altogether. This is not what radio used

571
00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:14.000
to be. Now. I have
a book that was written by Jim Ladd.

572
00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:19.000
It's called Radio Waves, and the
book has written pretty much about the

573
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:23.880
beginnings of terrestrial radio. Rock and
roll radio, which the generation of the

574
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:30.639
eighties knows was Kmet bands like k
West, the birth of Kalas which later

575
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:35.920
kind of turned over into later rock
and roll radio with Pirate Radio in Los

576
00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:38.599
Angeles k and AC one h five
point five. Rock and roll Radio of

577
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:47.079
Los Angeles and the eighties not only
was an embolvement of fashion, freedom,

578
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:52.920
individualism, but it was that in
every essence with our fashion, with our

579
00:50:53.039 --> 00:51:00.199
actors, actresses, our entertainment,
our styles are likes in life, the

580
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:05.599
colors, the flashy games, the
music, and the radio station and the

581
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:10.599
personalities that we all shared and loved
in our own communities and at our own

582
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:17.679
times during the eighties. So radio
and radio personalities were just as important to

583
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:23.239
the eighties as all of the other
things that I mentioned. It didn't matter

584
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:27.519
where you grew up, what state
you grew up. In the eighties,

585
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.800
the vibe was pretty much the same. If you cranked on an FM station,

586
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:38.360
you were going to get electrically shocked
by the radio personality that was going

587
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:42.960
to come into your head at any
given moment, and they were going to

588
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:47.480
bring on a show that took you
on a journey, a journey of the

589
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:52.599
mind, theater of the mind,
as Jim Lad used to say, and

590
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:57.880
initially freeform radio was put together and
brought upon to get away from conservative radio,

591
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:02.679
which our parents were listening to.
Radio back then goes back to when

592
00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:07.800
that was your whole source of entertainment, where they would tell you a story

593
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:12.960
and you would sit by with family
members and you would mentally put that picture

594
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.559
together that they were talking about on
the radio, where radio of the seventies

595
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:25.000
kind of intertwined with freedom and hippieism
and music in entertainment more as another type

596
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:30.480
of instead of being around the family
and the tube or that kind of unit

597
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:35.000
was kind of individualism, a chance
for people to go out and be free,

598
00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:39.079
enjoy the music, enjoy the camaraderie
that the jock and the music that

599
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:44.960
they played brought to you. And
in radio waves it touched base upon the

600
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:47.880
story in the outline A rock and
roll radio, but not only rock and

601
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:53.039
roll radio where it came from the
foundation a radio in am back in the

602
00:52:53.639 --> 00:53:00.360
early fifties and sixties when it was
taboo to like rock and roll and the

603
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:07.280
eighties, radio just captivated everything,
all the bad boy type of feeling that

604
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it gave the negative energy, the
devil's behind it. In the eighties,

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because we were a lot more freer
in that era with everything about us.

606
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I remember our conversation with Geno Michellini, the funny oh Man five o'clock funny

607
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jock of Kalos Radio of the eighties. He had this laugh that was just

608
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captivating, and it was just you
could recognize Geno's voice and his laugh.

609
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You can always close your eyes and
listen to Geno Michellini and just laugh because

610
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you knew he was the guy bringing
you five o'clock funnies that was all comedy

611
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and take you away from the end
of the work day. And he was

612
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going to come back with something just
as clever and funny, but he was

613
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going to play some music that was
going to make you laugh with I don't

614
00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:53.679
want to work. All I want
to do is bang all the drama all

615
00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:59.679
day by Todd Rundgren. That type
of jock, that type of freedom is

616
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.840
gone, and I'll never forget what, Like Gino said, when it stopped

617
00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:06.599
being fun, that's when he knew
it was done. Once again, I

618
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:10.159
always go back to my same description, and they just don't make them like

619
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that anymore. All right, change, Well, look, we've talked about

620
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:17.559
it today about the importance of I
mean, we showed you. We let

621
00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.920
you listen to some of the greatest
jobs that the United States has ever produced

622
00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:27.320
in different parts of the country.
Here in the United States. Isn't it

623
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:30.000
cool to know, Chang that you
and I grew up in that era.

624
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:35.760
We got to probably be the last
ones to see any kind of entertainment on

625
00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:42.159
FM radio, even am radio.
Like it was. Radio left such an

626
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:45.800
impression in our soul, in our
minds. Now years later, we missed

627
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:50.960
that type of radio personality. We
missed that type of radio delivery, and

628
00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:55.880
we miss that type of company in
the mornings or evenings. But we missed

629
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:02.199
having that friend, that person across
the I would take my sadness and transfer

630
00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:07.480
them into into laughs. We will
probably leave this for a part two for

631
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next week. So on, behalf
of Tuscanow and chang On behalf of myself.

632
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:15.519
I want to wish you a happy
week, Be safe, stay cool

633
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wherever you are, and keep introducing
the eighties to a whole new generation.

634
00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:25.079
Oh all righty everybody, Hopefully you
enjoyed this rendition of back to the eighties,

635
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and this is the chang before we
release you to another chang tastic week.

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Remember you matter, It doesn't matter
who you are, where you'll come

637
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:37.880
from, what you love, what
you're believing, or what you got.

638
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:43.480
You matter and remember if you dig
the vibe that we are giving you,

639
00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:51.360
please please please share the show,
jump in on our social media pages,

640
00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:55.280
chime in, become part of the
show until the next time we crack the

641
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mic the chang bid you all a
saianata asta la vista uster bewego arsta manana

642
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:08.920
audios or even hur Chi and Lady
bro to all my cats and kiddies in

643
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:15.400
the valley and ouci and to all
my homies in this value of life or

644
00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:30.320
the little door back take me Back