Radio Personalities of the '80s Part 2

You are now entering a time in place, a zone back in your mind and good memories, good times, great music, colorful fashions, and where everybody's hair stood higher than their forehead. You are joining me and the rest of his cast on a trip back in time, a time when the eighties were everything. You are entering the Twilight Zones, hosted by two imaginary jocks from that time zone, Tuscanow and Chang. Fasten up your safety belts and strap on your head gear, and let's go back to the eighties. Very maybe this is back to the eighties radio. This is Toscano from Toscano and Chang. Welcome everybody on another Friday, because we're bringing you the nostalgia from the memories that we forgot we had. We're introducing the eighties to a whole new generation and together today we are going to be finishing up with part two in our talk about radio personalities from the nineteen eighties. I want to encourage you all to leave a review of our show on whatever platform you listen to us and let us know what you would like to hear on the show. I also want to thank you guys for listening and officially making us the most popular eighties radio show and podcast in the entire world. Now in studio is a man that in the eighties would hang out at the Blue Oyster Club wearing nothing but white Converse tennis shoes and white Spandex Commando. He was seen on many occasions at Florentine Gardens in La by himself dancing to the tunes of Expose. But we here add back to the eighties radio Hello a drug. Call him the Chang. All right, the almighty Chang is in the courtroom. They loved Tuscannell. Please refresh my memory on the cases that we are looking at today. At back to the eighties court house, as the Honorable Judge Chang resides over today's hearings. Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, eighties cats and kiddies, and all you eighties ladies and my most favorite Italians and chet Bardi, the one and only Tusky all way in a two fifty six Just Scott, oh ho ho yout it you've had it a lot of pounds nice who I hope you enjoyed your intro. I felt like building you up. Yeah, you literally did by adding well about fifty six pounds to it. Well, I was watching Rocky earlier, and you know that movie Rocky from the eighties just totally motivates me, you know, because I'm one four the paper champion. You know, every time I watch Rocky or any Italian show it I automatically think of you. So they're nice and now I mean, I mean that in the highest regard. Please Italian listeners don't hate me. I love Italian food. I'll take that for whatever it's worth. I want to thank you. I love Sophia Loran. 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You know we have more kids videos than any place else. A more movies, more night, more fun. What a difference. We never stops, didn't hurt, didn't hurt, didn't hurt, not stop. Unforgettable memories from the eighties. Start back to the eighties. Welcome back to Back to the eighties radio. This is tuskanaw and Chang and we are going right back into where we left off last Friday. We are discussing radio personalities of the nineteen eighties, and I want to really dig down deep and let all our listeners know wherever you are from, hit us on our social media pages and our special pages, and hit us with maybe some of your fondest memories of the favorite jocks that you had on FM or AM that's right, or AM radio where you live. We are eager and hopefully willing to dive into your list and we can talk about it right here at Back to the Eighties to all of our younger audience. And you're wondering, what do I care about radio personnel is in the eighties. I think it's important that everybody understands where eighties fans and eighties radio fans come from. And and I want to start off the show talking about one of the most famous radio personalities in the world ever. He was born March fourteenth, nineteen fifty born rigdon OsmAnd D's the third which is amazing, but otherwise he's best known as the one and only Rick D's. Of course, Rick D's extremely popular for his nationally internationally syndicated radio show, The Rick D's Weekly Top forty Countdown. Now, this is a man who currently in syndication only in nineteen eighty three when he first started on that weekend, he was on eighteen stations for twenty three years. He was on Kiss FM and he left in February of two thousand and four. He was a long long time radio jock on Kiss FM. He was replaced by Ryan Seacrest. So now you have an idea who replaced the man the myth and the legend, but he was also, as Change just mentioned, he was in a nineteen seventy six satirical novelty song called Disco Duck. He actually received a Grammy Award nomination for his album Hurt Me Baby, that received a Grammy Governors Award, and the song I Guess It was Rickdy's greatest hit. The white album was a song called I'm Not Crazy, and he had a few other ones. He was also inducted in the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame and also the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame, and he's also received the Billboard Radio Personality of the Year for ten consecutive years. Wow, and you know what's odd? You said? What he wanted is the word for don't hurt me baby. Yeah, don't hurt me reminded me a lot of my ex wife, you know, don't hurt me baby. It ended up her saying I'm not crazy. Where the story ended was, oh yeah she was crazy? Boy? Did I hurt her? In the old Sacker Rooney baby? You know, man, this is a man. Rick ds in July of nineteen eighty one, turned Kiss FM into the number one revenue generating radio station. In the United States with a value approaching half a billion dollars. That's incredible. But you used to listen to Rick D's because I listened to Rick D's. And here's the funny thing. I listened to Rick D's by force. In nineteen eighty four, I was working for a painting contractor in the Union All in One Painting located in Santa Fe Springs, California, and all the guys I used to work with, all the work vans and at the shop, Kiss FM was playing in the morning, so on the way to do our jobs. It was a constant every work van, everybody listened to Kiss FM. And I worked with a bunch of ex homies and cats from the seventies. I mean these cats were all what in their thirties, and I was merely this nineteen year old long haired cat from south Side Montabello, and you know who was heavily influenced to rock. I grew up listening to Kmet and KS and you know, that was kind of what I grew accustomed to listening in the morning, and it was a whole culture shock. But I have to tell you, I found Rick D's funny, exciting, and sometimes I was like, you know what, the drives to work are cool because you never knew what the hell that dude was going to do. For sure, you could call him a shock chuck, but not in a derogatory or a filthy way, just in a way to where that dude was going to shock you with something hilarious at any given moment. So Rick D's wrote and recorded the song Disco Duck in nineteen seventy six, sold more than six million copies, and the song can be heard on Saturday Night Fever and a brief scene which there's a group of older people learning to move their feet to the disco beat. And D's at the time was at a station called WMPs, and he was fired from this station because he mentioned that this song, Disco Duck was almost number one and his own radio station wouldn't let him play it. So the station manager said, Rick Dy's take a hike. Then comes to LA. They started announcing on TV they had I'll Never Forget, So they had a black screen during the commercials. There's a black screen, and it started by saying like one day would say, did you hear what Rick d said? Today? We apologize. That's all the commercial said. And then in another week it would say did you hear what Rick D said? Our apologies blah blah blah, And so they build him up. By the time he got on the radio, he blew up. Let me let you listen to a little bit of one of the Kings of radio of back in the eight Give me the victim's first name. Many, all right, it's got to be good. I can tell him your voice. It is a late on me. Okay, here's this guy in our aerobics class, and he's really embarrassing because he doesn't wear any underwear and he gives everybody a free show. And we want you to kind of get him kicked out of the class, give him a real scare. He doesn't wear anything under his gem shorts. Oh boy, Oh, and you haven't been looking, have you, ROBERTA. He can't help, but look, all right, how do you know this guy? We work in the same office together. Oh boy, all right, Well, let's call Manny. Hello, calling for Manny, please speaking, and Manny, this bob over here at the gym, you know where the aerobics class is. Oh yeah, yeah, Well we got a problem. Some ladies had turned you in because you were in their aerobics class, and they said that that you had been exposing yourself in the class. Myself, Yeah you know what that means? Oh well yeah, but they said that you you wore no underwear under your gym shorts, no underwear, and that when you jog up and down everything that it was just pretty well grossing them out. What they didn't looking or what well, they said they couldn't help it, that it's just terrible, and that you looked like you intentionally did this, and then asked me to get you out of the class. What you mean some lady there said that she saw me hanging out of my trunks. Well that's what you said, And I, uh, you know, I have to kick you out of the europe class because they have no reason to doubt these women. What do you mean? Kick me up? You'll hear these these Excuse me, sir? Can you not wear some underwear when you're jogging up and down? Or is that some type of strap in there? Hey man? What is this? Man? If I want my pick to hang out all over the floor, that's my business man? Good well, now, don't I don't think you ought to be using that language to me on the telephone. Now, first of all, you're calling me early in the morning and telling me all this bullshit you know about my you know, my hanging out. That's my business man, And what about these fat bimmos over there with older hanging out the asp hanging out? God, are you talking about the women? Well? Yeah, who else? Well, I first personally don't appreciate the fact that you said that you like to have your hanging out on the floor like that. Now, I bet they like it too. What's that, sir, I said? I bet they like it too. Well, they've been reporting you say. Obviously don't like it at all. Oh, I don't believe this man. You know, come on, Bob man, now you're out of the class. And I can see that they said that your attitude would be bad about this. I think that you're an exhibitionist and that you've been trying to show yourself to these women. Thank you, man. You know what, if they're kind of seeing me hang out of my trunk, the next time I go down there, I'm going to drop my drawers right there and just jog around the place so all the women can get hot and bothered. You know, that's what's really going on. Man, don't appreciate that attitude, sir, hey, well man, you got it one night. I don't appreciate that. And you know it's something that you may not appreciate, is that you're untended. Fund Yes, oh, a man, a myth and a legend who is still active today with his own show. If you look on billboards in the Inland Empire, they have him looking young and a lot of people have asked, why is the billboard of him looking young? He explained it, he said, because this is Rick D's It's not me. He goes, this is the guy on the radio. This is what they're coming to listen to. So I just think it's a nominal what he's done all these years. I think Rick D's opened the door for a lot of change in radio, a lot of like I like, I used the term shock chock, who many people have used that term and it couldn't It could fit in with so many different types of radio personalities as shock jocks, and of course Howard Stern who later in the later years was considered a shock jock, but Rick D's he was I think one of the first jocks that threw the bait in the water. And I like the way that Kiss FM built him up, similar to the way Kalos built up Mark and Briant a lot of hey, hey, hey, you know what I mean, But they really never let the cat out of the bag. And Rick D's hit the air, and I mean he sailed across water to where Mark and Brian came in. They had to really dig in deep and win the audience over. Now here's a cat that to me is a guy that I listened to growing up in the eighties and he was on came Tea and Kill the West later and that is the legend himself. One of the funniest mother efforts I've ever met in person, and I listened to on the radio, and that is no other than Frasier Smith. Bunny Bunny, Bunny, Bunny Buddy. Oh well you will. Back to phrase Sport nineteen eighty and I'm trying out a new copilot here. We lost our other one in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a twenty four and Howard co Sell is at the controls of the show. Now, Howard, are you sure you know what you're doing here? I have no fear Frasier and my all my years and all my experience and a natural football league. I've taught me a couple of things. Oh my god, wait a minute, Frasier, we're on collision course with a runaway blimp full of nitrous gas. Just a second. This is this is terrible. It's filled with nitrous oxide. What's that, Howard? It's a vaporous substance that, when breathed by Homo sapien, produces convulsion that re embOS the symptoms and myriath of merriment. You mean laughing gas, Howard? Look out? Oh god, we crashed into that sucker. Look out. Things are getting pretty. Things are getting just too funny here to him, no too much on Frase Spoort. In nineteen eighty on k every morning I listened to Frasier Smith going to high school from nineteen eighty out to nineteen eighty three. Then the transition came. A lot of staff from KMT went to KOs and I followed Frasier Smith there, and Fraser Smith did a lot of funny things. He was a lot of different characters, the way me and you play. But he was always a one man band, you know. He brought in some of his buddies and some of the staff there that would joined in the escapades, but it was always him creating another kind of subliminal character that I could bring to the table, very similar to what me and you try to do. So you know, if if anybody really cares, a lot, of the way that I am comes from radio guys like that. Now, Fraser Smith and Rick D's I think they were both holding the torch in opposite genres of music, but yet they held that torch as kings of their own on that microphone in the morning. So my guy in the morning will always be Frasier Smith. And I later met Fraser Smith when I was doing stand up comedy and I performed with him at the Ice House, And it was on a benefit gig that I met him and I performed on the same stage hours between each other. But man, the dude was funny as hell and he was cool as hell, and he greatly appreciated that. Yes, the chang then was a child of KAMT and KILS radio. You know, Fraser Smith worked in La at Karaque originally from some six seventy nine, then at Klos from seventy nine to eighty four, and then ka Et eighty four through eighty six and then at k l SAX eighty six to ninety seven, and then the story goes on from there, a big career. And at the time LA Radio was LA Radio. La and New York Radio were just it. It was the place to be if you were a jock, a rest in piece to KLSX. My brother, that was a very short term radio set. Yeah, and it was a great station too when we used to go anywhere, whether it was to work or to school, or whoever was younger at that time in the eighties, and if you were older, you're going to recall that too, because whether you were in the car, whether you were at work or on your way to whatever, it was in the mornings and you were listening to LA Radio or New York Radio or Miami Radio. It just anywhere in the US radio in the United States and pretty much anywhere in the world during the eighties, you got a handful of characters and you got a face full of a smile every single morning. It made our morning a lot less troublesome, a lot less stressful. It made your day go by a lot smoother listening to these guys. And you would sometimes if you had a crappy day, you would turn on the radio when you would go home every Monday through Friday. You could just listen to these guys and just unload, and the stress for that time while you were going home was gone. Do you remember that. Yes, when we come back, we're gonna be talking more about radio personalities back in the eighties and the radio industry and how everything changed. Well, you certainly are up early. Yeah, I wanted to get a good head start on the day. Hey, what are you eating nutting cock? What did you say nutting cock? No? I heard you the first time all but all I wanted to know is what the name of the cereal is that you're eating nutting cock? Why won't you tell me what you're eating? I did you said nutting cock? Exactly? Are you in a bad mood? No, I'm in a great mood because I'm eating such a great cereal and the name of that cereal would be nutting cock. Okay, if you say nuttoncock one more time, you're gonna be sorry. That's the real name of the cereal, nutting cock. You see, nuttoncock is a delicious blend of walnuts and rooster parts. Oh, I get it. Nuttingcock is a tasty combination of nuts and just exactly it took Kellogg's to do it. They finally made a cereal that combines the saltiness of nuts and with the delicious farm fresh flavor of cock. So nuttoncock not only tastes good, but with one real rooster, it's also good for me. Now you're getting it, you see, you see, nuttoncock is the only cereal that combines the great walnut flavor you love with the nutritious taste of cock that by Body Graves. That's right, exactly fortified with fortified with eleven vitamins and minerals. Nuttoncock is an important part of this nutritious breakfast. Nutting cock. It's chock full of nuts and chock full of a cock. Nutting cock. Pick some up today and now back to the eighties with Tiscano and Chang. Welcome back to Back to the eighties radio. Tonight, we are discussing more of the radio personalities that brought us that kind friendship through the microphone and the speakers on terrestrial radio. This is Tiscano and Chang Chang. Here we have just brought out two kings of La Morning Radio with you yourself, our beautiful listeners, has a personality that you loved wherever that may be growing up in the eighties in the morning, Please hit us on our social media with that individual and possibly that radio station, and maybe we can bring you into the show and use them as another great personality to talk about. Clear and if you hear us and you're back East, and a big shout out to everybody listening to us from the East Coast and down the middle of the United States and anywhere else. Just keep in mind we're cats from LA and so we can talk about LA Radio. But we have listened to a lot of jocks from all over the place and all over the United States, and everyone was just spot on. They were just phenomenal. We loved those guys and gals. At age sixteen, this following jock worked at his hometown's radio station KGFW. He was born Arthur Fergus and was professionally known as the one and only legendary Charlie Tuna, who worked at k Big one or four point three, where he hosted a long running morning show, Charlie Tuna in the Morning, which aired from five to ten in the morning. Then, of course he went on to careth one oh one, and he served as announcer for Casey Ksum in his nineteen eighties television program America's Top Ten. So this guy was a legend. And beginning in nineteen eighty six, Tuna began hosting the National Music Survey, first led by Dick Clark and served a total of three hundred stations in the United States, and it was canceled until nineteen ninety. So Tuna had a long, long career. Was on the radio for five hours a day every day. Most recognized here in Los Angeles six fifty three dragging the line next hour, cheap skates, handbooks for all of you out there want to be chief, We have a handbug. So yes. Also, later on Steve Canalia Dallas, we'll be talking to him not only about the television series Victory Over Miami BIS, but something else he's got coming up. Charlie Tuna. I remember listening to Charlie Tuna. Every time I heard that into a Charlie Tuna or his voice, I thought of a star kiss. Yeah, yeah, I didn't. That's funny. Isn't that funny? Because you know when you heard his name on the radio, I'm sure a lot of a lot of other guys and great galls decide. You and me thought that you envisioned Charlie Tuna from the commercial sitting behind the mike with that hat in those glasses, spending some tunes sounds that we're listening to KRLA. This is one of those subjects from the eighties that is just so close to every eighties fans heart because a lot of us didn't go to therapy like a lot of people do today, and music, brother, was our therapy. Wouldn't you agree? I would one agree with you, And we've had many discussions about this, and anybody that has tuned into our past shows or anybody that has tuned into my past shows on k Hits ninety two five where we keep the eighties vibe of music, of vibe when I was doing Banging with the Chang, which I will be coming back to. Have no fear the chang is here. But I always would talk about the jocks that we used to listen to them, what they really meant to us. We have not had that and so long, and as many people know out there, I have to go ahead and caress our eagle. That's what me and you and the rest of our cast at k Hits ninety two five have been trying to do bring back radio of the reminiscent era of the eighties. But guys that we used to listen to, even the ladies that we used to listen to, Marry the Turner Burner on Kimmy T and Kilos back then, Tom Mastery of KNAC. Do you remember Mark and kim on cost FM back in the eighties on FM Ray, Absolutely, especially when it was their turn to read love letters and dedications and things like that. Yes. Now, there was a girl I used to listen to on k and EC one oh five point five pure rock from Long Beach, Los Angeles. I used to listen to. Her name was Anna Lee, and they used to call her Anna the Animal Lee. This chick was sexy, she was intelligent, she had a superb voice. She knew how to identify because she was a pure rocker animal Anna Lee, wherever she may be. Good Lord, get a hold of us right here back to the eighties to Tusconnell and Chang and let us pick your brain. Klos had a few female jocks sort of km ET by the way, Power one oh six No. In the eighties, one oh six came out with a lot of female jocks because a lot of the females brought that vibe. Because when Powers one oh six started, they were heavily building the Latino and the black listener because it was all music of dance. So they were seeing the jocks that were bringing were fresher, more appealing to the younger listener as opposed to the radio stations that we were listening to, you know, prior on the other side of that family. Now that you mentioned part one oh six and female jocks, lady by the name of Francesca Capucci, and yes, you know in the eighties. Of course, another one of the female radio personalities back in the eighties was kis Marsha Clark. That's not the same one that tried to put oj away because lord knows it didn't work. I got got away. But also on Kamet it was Linda Clayton from eighty four to eighty six. She was also on KALOS from eighty six to ninety And how about Cynthia Fox, Yes, absolutely, Rita Wild who also became program director. That's right with Mark and Brian. Now another one of the celebrity jocks that has made an impact in I Think your life in my life, and I'm just thankful that he's been on the show and also has become a good friend of the show. And that is the man, the myth, and the legend as well by the name of Shadow Stevens from Hollywood. This is American Top Party. I'm Shadow Stevens. Here for that weekly trip to the top of pop paradise. We'll count down the biggest hits of the Billboard Chart, the official weekly survey of radio airplay and record sales across the USA. Our final destination the big number one. Four debuts in this week's countdown, and we lead off with one of them. It's the first time in the chart for a singer known to a lot of happening hipsters in the Royals of Jazz. He's jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, originally from New York, now living in San Francisco, and I gotta tell you, I've been hearing this song on the radio for the past few weeks and it has become one of my favorites. Coming in at number forty, this is Bobby McFerrin and don't worry, be happy. Oh yeah, Shadow Stevens, Man the legend himself, Yes, the man with the Golden voice who during the late seventies and eighties, he gained a cult following when he created and produced the fred R Rated for Federated. It was a long running series of television commercials. They were very, very popular, and it was for a chain of home electronic retailers in the western and southwestern US. The ads were so popular that they were the subject of a two page spread in the Time magazine and led a movie deal, television shows American Top forty, etc. Shadow Stevens was phenomenal and continues to be a phenomenal part of broadcasting and the broadcasting world. So if it wasn't for Shadow Stevens, I would have never thought to bring my stupidity to try to be a radio personality or my sexiness because growing up, man, I used to see Shadow Stevens, you know, on his commercials and on other shows and listen to him in the radio, and I would be and I would be like, man, that's sound of a bitch is handsome. You know, when I get to be a grown ass man, I want to look sexy like that cat, have that mustache, have that swag hair, that personality and that voice and that constant wit because I thought, man, that is like ten times a chick magnet tool. Oh yes, you Shadow Stevens. My god, sir, you taught me how to be sexy, talk sexy, walk sexy and everybody's favorite friend under the sheets or the music sheets. Shadow Stevens, Thank you, baby. Yeah. Shadow Stevens coincidentally was probably the person responsible for bringing k r o Q back from the dead in the late seventies early eighties. So our hats off to Shadow Stevens. I think every station he was on he helped catapult to that next level. Yeah. Now, of course, you know, seeing that we are from Los Angeles, California, I know some of our listeners out there. You you you hate us because you're not an Angelina. They love us, they'd love us, and we love them. It doesn't matter how many thumbs down Pandora listeners give us. No you know you are one hundred percent. By the way, for Pandora listeners, this drink is for you guys. Oh here, cheers, here's a show. I don't know if a lot of listeners remember it was a very late at night and it was a talk show and it was by Frank Santag, who was also a member of Mark and Bryan's staff in the Mornings, who took over for Chuck Motions. He was on there, remember Kelly Gates, But Frank Santag did this very intensive, intelligent show where you could call him and discussed just about anything that needed to be discussed, whether it be political, religious, wise, belief, musical, any form of topic that was controversial or needed to be discussed to help one understand. It was Frank Santag. Some of you out there, hopefully some of you remember. I don't know if you recall listening to him. I used to listen to that quite a bit, just so I could be a little bit more knowledgeable about what was going on in the world, and it was that shows like that, especially his show, showed me that to every coin, there is two sides of it. Very great show. Hopefully some of our listeners do remember that show, and if you do remember that show, hit us on our social media. I will put a little post on that about that show, and let's see how many of our friends out there chime in on Frank Santake, what time do you remember? What time that used to come out at night? Well, I'd say probably twelve midnight. Yeah, that's shang. Back then, I used to listen because I used to close the liquor store. It was worked at Sam's Liquor at late night. Yeah, I was probably yeah, during high school in the eighties. You were a kid back then, Well, yeah, but I was probably watching Showtime at midnight. I was watching Hey, hey, hey, hey, we did not he Let's do this. Let's take a quick break when we come back there. We're gonna talk a little bit about some radio shows that were really captivating back in the eighties, and also a little bit about why radio changed from what it was to what it is. My son Doscon will say, four our fathers and three hail marriage, and you will be absolved of the pornography that you worked during this era you're listening to back to the eighties. Man, it's a talk show. This kid cratic on the Eagle. Rich Bine is no longer with the radio station. He wasn't fired. He moved on on his own and got himself. What helps a It's a great job, and we wish Rich the best. And as for this show, well, who knows, but here we are. It's eleven forty three and if you'd like to, oh, oh, we should mention a couple of things there. Ozzy Osbourne is taking a heavy metal version of Elvis's Jailhouse Rock and he's gonna play it in men's prisons. God bless him. Osbourne started the six week tour July sixteenth to preview of them new material and a new guitarist without fans and press the name. He does have a captive audience there. The name of the USA guitarists cannot be released? Why can't it be released? What else do we have here? Pop Rocks? You remember pop Rocks? There was a candy that that kind of caused like a nuclear explosion in your mouth. Well, they burst on the scene in nineteen seventy six and they're making a comeback. They've been zapped by rumors that Mikey, the little kid in the Life Cereal commercial, died from the candy. Well that's not true. General Food stopped making at nineteen eighty. Now that Mikey is back hawking the Cereal carbonated candy, Ventures is test marketing Pop Rocks again in Oregon and Washington through August. If they were a laxative, they'd be so powerful you could stand on your head and on the ceiling. Next position would not only be unavailable, but also undignified. And now back to the eighties with Tascanow and Chang. Welcome back. This is back to the eighties radio. This is the one and only show that brings back all the nostalgian memories that you forgot you had. We are introducing the eighties to a whole new generation. And if you just joined us, I want to remind you, guys that we are talking about radio in the eighties and radio jocks back in the eighties, and also radio shows from back then and what shows we used to really really enjoy listening to. I can tell you that in the evenings Chang, I used to listen to k r o Q back early eighties, eighty two, eighty three, eighty four. And then one of my favorite shows was a show where you had a group like a round table. It was kind of like a podcast today, but it had the Poor Man, it had Doctor Drew and a few others, and it was called the Love Line. So the Love Line is still a show, but it was much better back then. And the reason it was much better back then because see today you guys have heard it all. You guys have heard the nasty with Anne. There's nothing surprising to you, guys. You got to keep in mind that back then, the FCC regulated radio so much for indecency. Radio stations used to get fined all the time, and not even for doing half of the stuff that they do today. Listening to the poor Man, listening to Doctor Drew get these calls on the love Line. It was hilarious. I don't doubt that some of these calls were fake. I don't doubt it, but you got to know some of these calls were real, and it was amazing because it dealt with a lot of the sexual things that happened between the younger couple. Sometimes even high schoolers would call on the show to get advice from Doctor Drew. Do you remember this? Yes? I remember that show. Okay, let's have a hard fuss question. Brett fourteen from Orange Brett Brat Brett, you want to talk a little herpies talk? Huh? I was wondering what is it more common to get herpies from oral? And Drew looks at me. I should know the answer, Hi, after a trillion times both ways? Right? Am I? Right? Doctor Drew. Again. I don't know the specific statistics on whether it's more common to get oral genital or genital genital herpes. Uh, both are very common. Why specifically do you ask that question? Oh? Because my friend wanted to know. Well, dude, do you want to know it? Poor man's poor man's? Uh? What do you say, Poorman? I say, come on, Brett, did you think you may have it? Come on, be honest, we don't know you No, I don't know. My friend wanted to know. She's right here, and he told me to say, why didn't he call in? Because it's my house? Oh? I see? So? In other words, only you only you use the phone at your house. Yeah. If a guest comes to use the phone, do you charge a quarter? Yeah? Put him on? Then? Brett? All right here? Oh well dude, are you really serious? Do you think you may have herpes? Yeah? Why did you have Brett call? Because his house, his house, and your herpies? I can relate to that. You know, if I had herpes, i'd have you know, doctor Drew call if I was at his house? Why didn't you have his mom call? It's probably her phone? Oh? Anyway, go ahead, you where do you think you have it, um on, how did you think you got it? So my cousin Ralph, who a big shout out to Ralph Rangel back over there in Glendora. He was the one responsible for me listening to the Love Line. I must have been ten, between ten and eleven years old, and he gave me that. He gave me my first you know, we used to pretend we did the Love Line and we would record it on these recorders, these um flat the top loading recorders. I'll never forget. He gave me my first radio name on this fake show that we used to have. And so here's you got, this little kid with a little voice and talking about all these different scenarios and we would fake callers and things like that. So the Love Line is a show that will always be in my heart always, but the old ones, not the new ones that I will forever remember as being one of the responsible shows for me personally loving being behind the microphone. Nice. Now that's funny, is you're pretty more listening right now? He better, he is listening. That's why I get giving you a big shot out, Ralph. And by the way, we still have recordings on cassette of our ventures on the love line. You know, that's something you should try to bring onto the show. I wish I had some of the crap that I did when I was a kid. I would pretend I was a jock, and I would I would go ahead and talk into my little microphone on my UH. I had a little turntable and a little receiver, and the speakers used to light up in color when the music was on, and UH, I would get the microphone, plug it in and I would emulate Wolfman Jack and the real down steel, you know, put my own flavor into it. And you know, I got pretty good at being able to cue the album on with me talking before my front cell on my backsell. And that's, oddly enough, I didn't learn that at AARB. I learned that in the privacy of my own bedroom. Tried to impeltrate one of the great microphone mint of my time. And it's funny that you mentioned that that me and you did things like that. Look where we're at now, that's amazing. Now here's a cat that a buddy of mine turned onto me a couple of days ago. He grew up in Baltimore. I met him when he lived out here. A big shout to Baltimore Bill and this cat he used to listen to on wb SB Baltimore B one oh four with Willie B. You're gonna have to trip out of this guy. This guy he looks like a college teacher or a high school teacher. But man, he's got the personality, has some fire. I just think it's it's it's crazy when you think about it. People put on a certain kind of identity in their own mind of a radio personality when they hear him. I'm sure you've done that to Sconnell. I'm sure many of our listeners have done that. Lord knows, I've done that. After you imagine somebody different than what they actually look like when you hear that voice. Yeah, I think we all had in mind a different face, and sometimes it would be better not to see in the face, just because it kind of ruins the mystery. I used to picture them all different. They were very few that I would have ever gotten right. Yeah, I've been told, hey, Chang, how come you're not doing comedy anymore? And I was like, hey, man, I turned to radio my true love. And you know, things are starting to point out for that, and they're like great, because you have the face for radio. I've been told that myself. I did want to make a side note chang and that's to talk a little, just a little bit as we go away from radio jocks, and we talk about what happened with for example, LA Radio and also all around the United States now from nineteen eighty nine December twenty seven. There's an article from the La Times that you can find online. The title is long, but long story short. It talks about how the FCC and Wall Street got involved and Wall Street getting involved with radio and how everything changed starting from nineteen eighty five. By the time the article was written in nineteen eighty nine, radio was pretty much on the way out as it first started. And what do I mean by that. I mean that it was a mom and pop shop until about eighty five. And this was according to Radio and Records Washington Financial editor, who said that radio stations are now rely this is back in eighty nine, that radio stations will relying increasingly on market research groups to help them develop their programming strategies and playlists. They also said that radio is less seat of the pants than it has ever been. The Western Regional manager of birch Scarborough Rating Service said he thinks that it was a better business. That radio was better business now than it was at the beginning of the decade because there was more money being invested in radio stations, and there was there was more money for research being used. And to give you an understanding of what this means, let's go back. Let's travel mentally back to the eighties. The average sticker price okay for any radio station in Los Angeles was between fifty six and eighty six million dollars. Wow, that is a lot of money. My friend wall Street saw this and said, you know what, we gotta get a piece of the pie. We gotta get involved. We gotta get research groups, we gotta get ad campaigns, we gotta get people that will help us make this even bigger, to the point where radio nationally was making over eight billion dollars a year in AD sales every single year. And that is something important to know because as soon as that happened, radio stopped being great. It was now a full fledged business that had nothing to do. These people didn't care one bit, and they continue not to care one bit about listeners, about music, about the artist, about the energy, time, blood, sweat and tears, that artists spent on making their albums. All they cared was for market research, concepts, focus groups, song testing, and they included terms such as psychographics, demographics. I mean, they spent so much money. Radio until about eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven was something that you can depend on to get you out of whatever rut it was. You enjoyed it. Jocks had personality, they were entertainers. Jocks had the liberty to bring in music of their own to make radio what it was. Unfortunately, money killed radio. Wall Street getting involved with a handful of major mega companies started buying tons and tons of radio stations. Now, for those of you who don't know how it worked, there was a law that every company that wanted to purchase radio stations, they can only buy twenty four radio stations. And that's it. My, how times have changed all that ended. Brother, it's it's become a monopoly such such as Corporate America. I mean, in every entity, in every business aspect, we have seen a monopoly effect of one conglomerate just buying everything and giving the freedom of choice. Almost had a better minimal and it's like, we're going to give you the choice to listen to this shit or this crap, and that's all you're going to get from us. So either you buy into this, buy into that, or pay an extra amount of dividend and get your private personal radio, which they look at it was like all the has banned person it has been personalities of that higher entity on network radio. Or you can keep buying into us and we're gonna give you some tickets and we're gonna go ahead and play whatever crap, but we're gonna keep that background noise in your head for your subliminal mind. That's what I think a new radio is in all formats on FM terrestrial. I don't give what Rats asked. What stated is the majority of FM radio is crap, and it basically is background sound to whatever you're doing in your day. Whether you be driving, you're in your cubicle, or you're in your office, or you're on a freaking elevator, or you're in the surgery, you're in the er, it doesn't matter what you do. FM radio has become nothing more than a background sound to what you're doing in life. The connection, the human connection, that unity is all gone now that theater of the mind is all gone. Now that great feeling you got where you learn something or you chuckled or it made you think is gone. How many times do you crack on a terrestrial radio station nowadays and the jock is actually you think he's talking to you, and the set of songs is coming out at you are the songs that are like, that's my jam. How many times do you hear a professional jock do a PSA about a topic that needs to be addressed. There's people out there that are committing suicide, There's people out there addicted, There's people out there with PTS, anxieties, depression. There's people out there with children getting killed, taken child and endangerment is crazy domestic violences that arise. When do you hear a jock on the radio or any radio station give a rats ass about people like that and give these people some hope, some encouragement with a beautiful voice or a friendly voice, or an encouraging song, or just mentioning a freaking phone number for these people to seek help when we don't hear it nowadays. Wall Street began to show interest in radio acquisition in in the nineteen eighty six and they started forking out tons We're tucking multimillion dollar deals. This is what started happening in eighty six because the price tax price tax that we're being paid was so enormous. Now there's pressure to get all these debts paid off. According to Bill Summers of KOs he was the general manager, he said, radio is strictly business. It's just not fun anymore because now radio stations have to bring in money to pay off the debt for all those millions of dollars. We just have gone passed a radio from what it was as a mom and pop shop to bring in people, fun, creativity of music and all kinds of entertainment. And it is now strictly a business with no care in the world. And that's why if you're listening, that's why streaming services have taken over. Because people now they don't care about the job. They don't care about the radio station. They only care about creating a certain playlist. They don't even care about the artist anymore. So if you're an artist out there, don't listen to me very carefully. The streaming services do not care for you. The FCC radio stations of today do not care for you. They only care about the number ones that are out there. They're the ones that are getting the deals nobody else you're listening to. Back to anybody out there, if you are thinking or contemplating about suicide, I've got a number of the National Suicide Hotline at one eight hundred two seven three eight two five five. That number again, And if you yourself or know somebody out there going through some tough times and they are contemplating suicide or you are, please remember you matter, we care. That number again is one eight hundred two seven three eight two five five. You were listening to Toscano and Chang right here at Back to the eighties radio where you get it full throttle and real, real radio for real people. It certainly is a big bond to HiT's a very big fun, Big Jeff, It's a very big, puffy fun. Why's the beef? Some hamburger place to give you a lot less beef on a lot of bund Where's the beef at Wendy's. We have a Hamburger we modestly call the single and Wendy's sele has more beef than the Whopper or Big mack a Weendyd you get more beeland less bun Hi. I don't think you want something better. Your windy is kind of people, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Shadow Stevens and you must listen to Back to the Eighties Radio. It's the law. We're back. This is Back to the Eighties Radio on a very incredible and amazing Friday's. Thank you for listening to Back to the Eighties. Leave your comments at our Facebook page when you get a chance, leave a review on whatever platform you listen to us all we're asking this for you guys, to leave us a positive review. You know, Chang before the break, you had mentioned about suicide and you gave often the suicide prevention hotline. I also want to remind you, guys that there is a shorter number that we can all prevent suicide here in the United States, across wherever you are here in the United States, and that is by either sending a text or just dialing nine eight eight twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. They're committee to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention. Anyone could be struggling with suicide. As a matter of fact, I got to tell you this my son's high school. Two days ago. On Wednesday, my younger son comes to me and says dad, One of my teammates from cross country and track and field committed suicide. Was found by his best friend who took him to school every day. The kid lived with his grandparents, and it just destroyed my heart, brother, because seventeen years old, you don't even know who you are yet. You haven't discovered what your purpose in life is. You haven't Yeah, you haven't discovered the world. You haven't experienced memories. You're so young. For someone to feel that sort of anxiety or depression or the need to end his or her life at such a young age just boggles my mind because that action hurts, of course the person who did it, but destroys those left behind, the entire family. Tiscano, Can you imagine the years, the nights, a sleepless years and nights of grief and deep sorrow and the guilt that his parents will feel, his grandfather will feel, or anybody that possibly knew him, anybody that had any inclination that that young cat was suffering so bad, that he was so hurt that he took his life before he was even given a chance to grow out of the ground like a beautiful flower. And as you you bring about that story. I have another story and me and me and Tiscano here at back to the aged radio. We don't want to put it on a down note. You know, that's not our purpose. But our purpose is to enlighten and entertain. My daughter had a co worker, I believe this individual was twenty three or twenty four a couple of weeks ago, also took their young life at such a young age, same he was. This guy was kind of a quiet guy, kind of a loaner, I believe. But at those two ages to take your life, and we see the scenario time and time again. It's almost daily weekly. It's been an epidemic. It's been a disease. It's been a national tragedy when we have to live through cats that are our age, parents that are our age, lived through this constant news of someone of younger years taking their life before they had the full knowledge of what life really is and their purpose. It's sad that we live in a day and time that such catastrophes happen on the occurrences that they do. And you know what, in a way back in our generation, there was very few scenarios and stories of this magnitude there were some. I'm not going to sugarcoat it and say everything was happy and danceworthy and white, white picket fence and green grass. No, we had such stories, but they were lesser than and I think a little bit to myself is nowadays, the lack of presence of radio entertainment of the mind, radio jocks, that friend that you had in that box that could keep you motivated, stimulated, happy, in tune in, dialed in, that cat that spoke to you, woman or man on the radio, that kept you going. A lot of kids back then, you know what, the later generation, we could kind of call them latchkey kids. A lot of parents dropped out of site. You didn't take care of your kids. You decided to fuck off and it was all about you, or you gave into your pressures and you forgot about your child. And at a time and age when parents forgot about their children, it was all about them, and bulling became a bigger crisis, bigger than cancer. You have a lot of kids that don't have anything to do at home. There you can't go out and play in the street because you've got a bunch of freaks that are pedophiles out there. We have a lot of parents that are having to work two jobs, single parents, maybe both parents, and then you have a lot of dumb shit parents that don't care about their kids. Right. And when you take the when you take the entity of radio, something that is theater of the mind going to control your mind and put you in a positive aspect, be that friend to take that time away for you from doing bad things of energy. But radio can create that positive energy. You sit, maybe you do your homework, do some drawing. You can just kick back, you can vegetate, you can gravitate. I think that we losing radio and radio personalities and the way radio's format was I think has a little bit to do with maybe why we're losing so many young lives, because there is not another avenue to get to these kids to let them know that they count, that the imagination is a sensation. Live to your fullest capability, Live long, live proud. There's one thing you get out of life in both positive and negative experiences, and that is wisdom. Wisdom is the thing that we leave people behind, generations, our children. Wisdom is the one key thing that gets us to prosperity. My brother, you know, it's interesting that you say that because we back then did not have are not everybody at least had therapists. We didn't go to therapy for the most part. Outside was our therapy. Biking with our friends, playing with our friends, establishing and continuing our relationships with our friends, our girlfriends, the boyfriends, the family members, visiting. Radio was our friend and our therapists. Radio personalities were our therapists. The music was our therapy. There was so much going on that with stimulate our mind, in our brain, there was no room to feel this anxiety and the depression that would take over. If you are listening and you have been suffering with depression, anxiety and whatever it is going on in your mind and in your heart, Hey, I just want you to know that you matter, that you're not the only one. Toscano and Chain have also been there. And I want to remind you there is a number. Chain. You mentioned that number. I'm going to give you, guys a shorter number which is from the same suicide and crisis lifeline, but they made it even shorter. You need to either call or text or chat the number nine eight eight once again, nine eight eight, and you're going to be connected to trained counselors that are part of this existing lifeline network. They're going to listen to you. They're gonna understand your problems that are affecting you. They're going to provide support, and they're going to connect you with the appropriate resources if necessary. Also another thing you can do, go to a friend. Shoot, it doesn't even matter if they don't know you. Go to somebody and tell them what you're going through. You just need to speak out. And if you want to let us know here it back to the eighties that you're going through some trouble. Let us know. We'll provide the number again. It's nine eight eight, text chat or call for some help. This is back to the eighties. We're going to be right back. Welcome Eighties fans. I have been expecting you. You no longer need to listen to any other podcast. You won't the eighties. Don't you belonging for it is swelling You now feel the memories coming to you and listen to back to the Eighties, giving to the stage. With each passing moment you make your seven bar of an eighties five. It is an avoidable home. It is your disty. You don't know the power of back to the eighties. You like your childhood unknown mane. Hey, this is Laurie Miller from the first and original Expose and you're listening to Back to the Eighties radio. When we thought the eighties eighties for Lane, that's because we had to live through this decade. Yet you're listening to back to the eighties. We are back. This is the one and only Back to the Eighties. Reggio. Thank you for sticking around with us. We love every single one of you eighties fans that has always been there to support us from day one. A big shout out to everybody listening. There's another jock that was very famous back in the eighties, probably one of the ones responsible for this shock jock thing as well. He was Jay Thomas, and he had a show called the Jay Thomas Morning Zoo. Do you remember that power one oh six here in Los Angeles? Yeah, yeah, and they would talk about everything. Take a quick listen to Jay Thomas at Parer one oh six. Snake is a week, Good morning. It's about twenty four minutes after. Hey boys, this good news here. Barbie's gonna keep the baby. So it's twenty five minutes after seven seven twenty five non p one o six monica. I can't believe he didn't report this. This is absolutely true. I've been reading us in a bunch of newspapers that a doctor at Harvard Medical School has been telling women that if they have infections of any type and they're worried about You mentioned this to me the other day. Yeah, And I had to look it up finally, and I did see it the other day. I think in the Herald that they're supposed to put their underwear in the microwave oven. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna say something. I don't know what I'm talking about now, but the thing was called a yeast infection. Is that a bad thing? Does it hurt? Does it itch? What does it do? It's when you have a problem baking bread. No, no, no, come on, I mean I'm not it's it's a female problem. So if you have this problem, you have a little you put your underwear in the microwave of it and it kills the germs. I just read that the other day. But the yeast isn't gosh is gross? On here, don't don't mention it. I don't know what else it does. So, ladies, if you're having trust, and the doctor said, there's gonna be a lot of jokes made about this. I heard this guy talking the other day on one of those consumer networks and stuff, so I just wanted to bring it to you. I mean, it's just another wonderful use that And of course, uh, you know putting toy poodles in there, which was another fun thing we did for I know you do. It's twenty six minutes after seven o'clock. So now Jay Thomas, he's another cat. You can put up there with Frasier Smith. You can put him up there with Rick Ds. You can put him up there with Howard Stern. Uh. He was a shock jock a lot of time Jase Thomas spoke his mind, stepped on some toes. Was kind of funny the way he did it. But that was a guy that he showed that he had a lot of balls, a lot of he had no fear, a lot like Howard Stern, but a different era, if you may, If I may say, I used to love to listen to some of the stuff Jay Thomas would say. And as a matter of fact, I recall him getting himself in a lot of trouble with the FCC. Yes, he did. They got fined many times because of him. Yes, exactly. Now here's the disc jockey that I'm gonna bring out. Okay, are you ready for this guy? I grew up listening to this guy in the seventies on AM KHJU. He ended with k LA back in nineteen eighty eight, that oldie station in Los Angeles, California. And I'm talking about the legendary, the real Don Steele. Yeah, if it was not for the real Don Steele, I don't think the chang would have ever cracked a mic. But then again, I don't know, man, but this cat was the guy for me, and he had a long, luxurious career. I mean, the guy was on movies. I mean he was just like he was the voice of radio in Los Angeles, California during the era before FM came and kind of pirated and took control. The real Don Steele. So you gotta listen to this track right here from nineteen eighty eight at KLA Radio in Los Angeles. The real Don Steele. You, my brother, remember the real Don Steal. You only had to not live in LA to know who the hell the real Don Steal. I don't want to phone the rock and roll k good stuff only on KLA Ramsey Lewis Ria. We're in with the d crowd. Are cousin up? I love you, I love you, love you, love you and yours and those two and you and you and you and you commercials Dad music good Now it's zero commercials. Please help supporting us in your donation today. We are going back today eighties. All right, my cats and kitties, welcome back to Back to the Eighties Radio hosted by yours truly, to Skonal and Chang the dynamic duel of Sway and It's Okay. We have talked about many different radio personalities and what they meant to us, what they mean to people in our own words and our own beliefs, from many different radio stations. Of course, we can to Los Angeles, California, because both of us are Angelinos. I want to reiterate to all our listeners out there, wherever you lived in the United States or out there, if you grew up with a certain radio personality in the nineteen eighties, feel free to hit us on our social media pages, hit us on our Patreon page, visit us everywhere and become part of the program. Because we want radio for the people, by the people, for all we the people. I just want to pay homage to every single radio personality from back in the eighties that has been responsible for setting that pace in our lives personally as listeners, and also responsible for putting a smile in every single person that ever listened to them, no matter what state in the United States you're listening to, and for that fact, at any part of the world that you're listening to, Eighties radio and your personalities were very special. So on that note, I want to thank you for listening to us on this Friday, and I hope that you guys not only enjoy the show, but that you guys would do us a favor leave us a positive review on whatever platform you listen to us on. And also very very important, introduce the eighties to a holy generation. Please share the eighties with everybody that you know, especially the younger generation, a generation that is filled with anxiety, filled with depression, but also a generation that is hungry and strong and has all all the potential for greatness. So share the eighties with this new generation. In the meantime, thank you for being with us here on the one and only Back to the eighties radio chang Here before we release into another chang tastic week, Remember you matter, You count. It doesn't matter what you believe in, what you look like, where you come from, who you love, or where you want to go. You matter. You are as important as the guy behind you or a girl in front of you. Don't you dare give up? And remember keep a smile on that face because at any given moment, happiness is coming your way. Stand for something bigger than yourself, stand for somebody that can't. So I bid you all on adios astamnyana aribaderchi sayonada, and to all my bros in the OC later bros into all my homies across this land, from every voluo to the next, or at