Reasons Why We Lived Better in the '80s

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Hey, everybody, Dick Dickerson right
here at that home of hot rock

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and roll. Okay, it's not
at two five coming out of a White

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Snake block talking about blocks and White
Snake. Hey, we got White Snake

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coming. That's right to the Fantastic
Fabulous for the Los Angeles, California.

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We're getting away tickets right here.
Yay, it's not a two pod.

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I want ther first caller to answer
this question, and the question is can

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you name the lead singer of White
Snake? Hey, caller number one,

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you're on with Dick Dickerson. What's
kaka lacking? My friend? What's your

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name? Where you going from?
Dick. This Rob, call me mister

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Dick. Mister Dick. I'm coming
from Elmney. Oh, Elmany, it's

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a pretty rowdy area. So Roddy, you heard the question. Uh yeah,

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you think you could answer that?
Rob? Rob Halford? Oh?

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Rob, you are so incorrect pathetic? Yeah, Rob, you got the

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wrong band wrong. I'm not gonna
go home empty handed. You know what

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we're gonna give you for your gift, even though you didn't win. I

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want something. Yeah, You're gonna
get something for being the first caller,

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even though you had the incorrect answer. We're gonna give you a little prize

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to remember. You're ready for it. Oh man, all right, You're

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gonna get an official bootleg white snake
T shirt that was found on the floor

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of their last tour. It's smells
like beard pee and everything else. Rod,

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who your favorite station to listen to? Rob? Whatever station is?

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Rob? You answered it correct again? You know what we're not gonna send

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You did only squat, Rob Hope. Will you find a girlfriend of your

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life next? Collar, you are
on with Dick Dickerson. Run your your

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rock and roll? Kay, it's
not the two five. Can you answer

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this question? Collar? What's your
name? And where are you calling from?

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Hey, hello, Dick, who
are you? Fernando? And I'm

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calling you from San Gabriel. Oh, San Gabriel. I like the way

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you remind me of Ricky Ricardo.
How are you doing today? Can you

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answer the question? You ready for
the question? Did you hear it?

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I ready? No? What do
you want me to do? You want

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me to uh, don't to change
some shoes or something? No? No,

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no, no, you Latinos always
want me to work. I love

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it. I love it. As
a matter of fact. Hey, you

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I got a couple of jobs at
my house, So you call me and

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I'll be there with twelve. Okay, Now, Fernie, can I call

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you Fernie? No, no,
Fernie he passed away from Cobe. Okay,

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let me ask you this. Do
you hear the bells? For that

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end? Though? What is the
name of the lead singer of White Snake?

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Name David core Deal? Oh yeah, everybody give a rat plus Captain?

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You hear the ball ring? Fernando, you win two tickets to go

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check out Wide Snake and the Fabulous
Form. And these are choice seats,

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my friend? Can I win something
else too? I want the New Love

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Songs? Album. No, no, you're just getting the tickets. That's

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all you're getting. Don't be greedy. Come on, one prize for all.

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Not only are you gonna sit front
row of the White Snake Counts,

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where you too can feel the essence
of David and the Boys upon you and

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probably get some of his perspiration tossed
on you. Bro that gorgeous in a

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hair. You are going to get
a free parking pass, dinner for two

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at the In and Out Burgers not
very far from the arena. Who's your

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favorite station? And who's your favorite
jog? Baby? All right, right,

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hey, let's hit another song.
You keep a locking a loaded right

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there. The cat's not at two
five where we keep the concert? Can

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you cure? Oh Fernando, please
don't insult me the cure. I only

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play the cure when I feel the
need of the vombit. Hey, let's

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get out with another song. This
is Judas Priests coming up right, Oa

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me back. You are listening to
the one and only back to the eighties

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radio. This is this kind of
front, this kind of a chang.

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Thank you for making us the greatest
eighties radio show. With me as he

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is every single time we're on the
air. It's a man that has more

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pictures behind his wall, not in
front of the wall. Behind the wall.

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I've heard that he knows where the
body of Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

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He is also a man that has
seen every single episode of Cagney and Lacy

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and wants to have a remake.
This is the one in Holy Chang Chang,

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How the heck are you man happy? Twenty twenty two? After Covid,

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Oh yes, let's hear it,
everybody say it together, back to

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the eighty eighty, even after Cobe, I think I'll name my last born

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COVID. Whoa, Hey Chang.
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in New Jersey, Frank Natasia.
I also want to give a shout out

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to a couple of my fellow co
students back at Saint Benedict's Elementary School.

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the armed services. We thank you
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warming thank you, and shout out
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to you my special shout out.
We're gonna be talking about all those reasons

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why life was better in the eighties. You're listening to Back to the Eighties.

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You're number one for classic word.
You're listening. You're listening to Best

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to the Eighties. Alright, cats
and kitties, welcome back to Tuscano and

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chang here at back to the eighties. One of the things that I think

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was better back then, I would
have to say television shows. To me,

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we're a lot better than nowadays,
and really quick. Nowadays, it

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seems like TV shows are pressed,
kind of forced. They kind of come

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up with the same ingredient of a
show of the past, a copycat.

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There's really no true essence of a
new show. We have endless channels today,

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right, endless channels. Then we
have the newest of all network,

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the greatest network on Earth today,
which is YouTube, where everybody is a

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star, everybody wants to put on
a show, everybody wants to make money.

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But guess what is not there the
creativity that we had back in the

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eighties. You have Netflix today,
you have Amazon TV, you have countless,

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Hulu, Fubo, Peacock, it's
it's I mean, the array of

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programming that we find today is absolutely
enormous. There is no comparison. However,

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it is all second rate. And
I'll tell you why. It seems

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that Hollywood today is only obsessed with
CGI and remakes. Now. The marketing

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is so great in TV shows and
in movies. I mean, when you

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see it on TV, then when
you go see that flick, it doesn't

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live up to it. There's a
lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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And what they do is they get
all these committees together, they create all

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these um these fake strategies that are
going to get people in to see films.

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But you know what, it's not. Seventies and eighties. You had

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shows like Three's Company. You had
shows like WKRP in Cincinnati. We just

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lost doctor Johnny fever On. That's
right WKRP from Cincinnati's right mash. We

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had that type of creative shows,
and today a lot of it seems to

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be just recycled. You Well,
nowadays we have the reality TV, which

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to me is a bunch of molarchy. Reality TV. All that does is

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show the worst of an individual,
and it kind of opens up the floodgates

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for other people to go out there
and knack jack like jackasses, thinking there's

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a camera somewhere, but really there's
no camera, and people just really get

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their kicks out of being jackasses.
And now here's something I wanted to point

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out. We're talking about movies.
A movie to me that I really didn't

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like was Avatar, totally computer generated. I thought just totally lost any kind

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of appeal to me. But a
movie out in the eighties that did the

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same thing to my mind, that
kind of cross blew my mind away,

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almost too wanting to go, oh, what a rackety piece of crap was

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Tron I was not a fan of
the Tron movie. Can you believe that

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I've never seen Tron the original,
the one of the eighties, I've never

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seen it. You know what,
just play the game. I'll tell you

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that I sucked at the game.
By the way, I always crashing into

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walls. But yeah, so I
was a game hated. Yeah, there

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was so many times I wanted to
just flip that machine over, but it

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was just too heavy for the chain. At the time, it was just

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a time where TV and movies were
much better than today. Jumping into another

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thing that that made the eighties great? Why life was better in the eighties,

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I want to pick something very very
simple for you, bro. Because

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I was young, people were more
friendly. It seems to me that people

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were more friendly. Now. I'm
not claiming that we all lived in the

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everything was a bed of roses and
not everybody was singing Kumbaya by the fire

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right, but of course the majority
of us used to talk to each other

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everywhere we went outside. As a
matter of fact, that social media,

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Yeah, you could be walking down
the street, see a perfect stranger,

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say hi, and start talking to
and even gain a friendship from that.

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You could be waiting at the bus
stop and start talking to the people waiting

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at the bus stop. Today nobody
wants to talk to each other. Do

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you remember when you used to see
a pile of kids bikes outside someone's house.

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I mean, during my childhood,
we knew that everybody was outside,

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playing together, riding bikes, you'd
climb trees. Everything was outside. That

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lasted. I'd stay up until ninety
Yeah, I think nineteen ninety that innocence

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kind of ended because in the later
eight or eighties I was already a dad

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and I had three girls at the
time, and you know, my girls

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were the last generation I think of
mentioning exactly what you just stated, being

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able to play outside, go to
ourcades, gather around and watch good,

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good TV program You know, I'll
go, Hey, the number one TV

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show back then was a full house. My daughters all watching God Bless Bob

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Sagar Rest in Peace, one of
my favorite comedians. But that was a

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show that was out in the eighties
that my kids would watch. A lot

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of families would gather and watch that. Family Ties another television show, Sheers.

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So you know the era where kids
are hanging out outside and having to

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be home by dusk. Their law
over and we can blame social media,

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but we can also blame the darker
elements that we have out there. Child

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abductions, a rape has gone up. A lot of the kids now are

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living a single parent dwellings, are
latch key kids, right, So there's

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a lot of negative elements, my
friend, which kind of add to white

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childhood. Is such a devastating change. On the block where I live right

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now, currently, there are a
few kids that do play outside, and

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it's a first for me in a
long long time. Sometimes I even drive

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through my old neighborhood where I used
to ride my bikes in Santa Fe Springs.

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Nobody's outside in that entire neighborhood,
in that entire city, I don't

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see anybody on bikes anymore. I
don't see anybody playing outside in the streets

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anymore. It's just been replaced by
technology. And it just breaks my heart

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that kids today are nowhere near experiencing
what we did back then. Yeah,

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every now and then, when I'm
in southern California, I'll take a cruise

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down to the neighborhood that I grew
up in south side Montivo. I'll cruise

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down to a Whittier or downing where
I brought my kids up, just to

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look at the neighborhoods, and it
just breaks my heart the amount of graffiti,

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of the lack of maintenance done to
the streets by local cities there for

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whatever what reason, they're ripping off
the consumers and the taxpayers and having the

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cities just look totally hideous, a
gang infested, filthy, no one really

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outside anymore. I go by these
areas and you know, there's high fences

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to where there was no fences before, bars on windows, and I thought,

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Jesus, isn't the eighties. What
are doing people putting on bars or

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nothing but alarm company signs. It
just, man, the de appreciation of

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the neighborhoods where my kids grew up
and where I grew up. I mean,

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it's enough to probably make me cry
if I really sat there and thought

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about it. I mean, it's
just a total breakdown. And going through

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these neighborhoods, there are no children
gathering the way that my children did.

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There are no children gathering in my
old neighborhood the way that I did with

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my buddies. They're all afraid,
you know what I mean. You've got

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gangs running out there you've got taggers
running out and if anybody knows the streets

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tagging is very similar to their tag
crews. They're almost like gangs. So

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you get caught up in the right
wrong place at the wrong time. You

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just never know what's going to happen. There's it's almost I don't want to

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say that it's a total anarchy,
but in some ways we're living in a

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society that is a bit anarchy.
I would think people who are a lot

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friendly, a lot friendly like you
stayed in the eighties correct. Nowadays everybody

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else is open the old correl gate
to go ahead and hate and judge and

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be prejudice. You know. I
thought we came from a time where races

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we're going to get along. We
have multi races marrying and having children.

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We have children, a bicultural but
yet the hate grows kind of faster and

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stickier than mold did. When we
come back, we're going to be talking

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more about the reasons the life was
better in the nineteen eighties. Don't go

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away. This is the one and
only back to the eighties radio. Hey,

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

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

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back to the eighties winters here,
So how do you cope with a tough

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winter cold? Listen to Dennis Andrews. When I feel terrible, I want

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something that's going to work quick.
Alcohol clears up my congestion, the pounding

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in my head, the running nose, I hate, the running nose,

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the watery eyes. That's Dennis Andrews
for Alcosoltic plus cold medicine. It's a

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life stable for me because it gives
me where I want. I want to

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feel good and I want to look
good, and I stick with something that

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works. A salter plus cold medicine, fast effective relief for our tough winter

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golds use as directive. It's popular, we do it. Totally awesome.

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And now back to the eighties with
Toscato and Chang. What I want to

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know is why are the only funny
lines on this show the ones behind me?

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Welcome back. This is back to
the eighties radio. This is Toscano.

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We are talking about reasons why living
in the eighties life was much better.

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And Chang we talked about it.
Just a couple of things that a

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lot of the newer generation will never
have unfortunately, that experience and even some

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of the millennials that came in later. I've got one that is going to

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give a literal headslap to many of
the people that have no clue about this

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family friend activity that we used to
get to do. And you know what

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that is, my friend going to
the drive in theater. Oh my god,

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very few drive in theaters are open
now. They're opening now because of

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COVID. I remember, you could
take your family and your kids and just

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throw some blankets and lawn chairs,
and you know, you take your own

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food, or you can go into
the snack bar and order yourself a killer

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pizza. You can order a box
of hotdogs popcorn, and you can watch

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the movie in your car, and
you could just like lay low and relax,

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almost like you're in your living room
right right. You have that freedom

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of just being loud and funny and
you know, carefree, either in the

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back of a truck, a van, a couple of vehicles, you tailgate

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with people, you sit outside,
you know what I mean, you get

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your kids all bundled up. That's
something we don't see anymore, bro,

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And that's sad because in this time
of need brother, We need more family

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events that are going to bring family
and friends together. To get outside of

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your phone, get off your device, Go get some fresh air, Go

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interact with other people that are sitting
out there and they're lawn chairs or in

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their cars doing the same thing as
you. Yeah, talk to somebody,

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don't have that. Talk to somebody
without having to use your fingers to type.

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Go out there and start learning how
to socialize. And for a lot

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of the parents from the eighties that
have now become addicted to their phones,

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leave that stupid phone, put it
away for a little while and getting a

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text and go back and do what
you used to do. Maybe go relearn

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how to talk with your mouth rather
than with your fingers. This is one

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of the things. This is one
of my pet peeves, and we'll get

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into that because what I'm bringing up
next has it's all along the same lines.

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But you're right, you know,
driving, are you gonna hate,

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I'm gonna hate. I'm gonna hate
driving. Theaters were a beautiful experience.

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If you have people that are used
to talking out loud in the theaters,

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driving theaters is the perfect place for
them because they don't bug you, they're

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they're they're in their own car,
you know what I mean. But I'm

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glad they started trying to bring these
out now because of COVID. Maybe get

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that newer generation excited for going to
the movies outside. It is an exciting

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thing. Even though you're in the
car, even though you have that liberty

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that you're in your own little space, at the same time, you still

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have that ambiance, feel that that
feel that you know, there's still people

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are all around me looking at the
same movie that we are. So it's

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like one ginormous family looking at a
flick, and you have that feeling of

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being in public, yeah, but
yet private your own surroundings. Right.

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And then now when you needed to
go you wanted to get some popcorn or

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some candy, you got off your
car, you went to the little snack

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shop and you got it. And
it was the greatest feeling in the world

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coming back with all that food and
eating and just having a blast. One

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of the things that drives me nuts
about today that although technology has made things

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very, very convenient for us,
but now have you noticed not only drive

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ins, but have you noticed that
theaters are going bankrupt? Theater nobody's going

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to the theaters anymore. Yes,
of course I understand that the COVID had

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a lot to do with COVID had
a lot to do with it. But

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now streaming streaming platforms have taking the
fun away. You'll see the ad or

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a trailer of a movie and then
it'll say streaming on Netflix soon or streaming

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on HBO soon. I don't want
to see a trailer for a movie and

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then I can sit home and watch
it. I mean that's fine, yes,

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you know, but if I want
that, I'll just go out there

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and buy the vhs like what we
used to do. Remember that we used

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to go out there and just buy
chess for fun. Rent, I want

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to add this to what you just
brought up. The theaters now, Back

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in the eighties, we had the
fun and enjoyment of going to the twelve

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o'clock midnight showings of either rock movies
such as led Zeppelin, Black and Blue,

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Bloys to Colt and Black Sabbath,
the Rocky Horror Picture Show. We

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could go see what was the other
movie that they used to show cal Jam

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They made a documentary movie of that. I mean, you could go and

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see so many different types of movies
at twelve o'clock or one am they show

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showing yes going to the twelve o'clock
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You know, you get a whole
different crowd in at twelve o'clock.

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The vibe is totally different. It's
kind of a little bit more liberal.

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You have a lot more people that
are going in under the influence, a

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lot of boyfriend and girlfriend going out
there because they're the one they used to

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because they were going to go out
and make out and stuff like that.

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This is an experience that even today
they're going to lose because of streaming,

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all because of technology. You know, it's convenient, it's great, but

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we have to draw the line somewhere
where we don't allow streaming to take over,

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because then you lose a part of
your identity. It's a part of

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who we are, i'd say identity
and adventure. I mean, how many

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times, bro, before the COVID, when you and your wife were either

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dating or before the boys came into
your guys's world. You know what,

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baby, let's go to a show. Okay, open up the paper and

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you look at shows and sometimes you'd
end up in Westminster with your lapentte Hollywood,

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we've lost that freedom. That's why
I say adventure to go to a

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different movie house. You know what
I mean? I always found fun,

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bro in going to different movie houses, looking at the architecture, looking at

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the way it was set up in
the lobby. You know what video games

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are around, what cardboard cutouts?
How bright is the snack area? You

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know, dreaming, Bro, And
the COVID is killing that to the highest

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proportions, bro To, I agree. Now you know too, Bro,

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You're you fall guilty too with this
COVID ecademic where you stream movies to be

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with a wife and the kids.
I know me and my wife fall to

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this too. We don't get to
go out. I mean, all our

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kids are grown and gone and all
over the United States now, so we

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stream a lot. Yes, it
has been fun because it fills in those

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times of stress and straining with the
COVID. But yet, in a way,

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me and my wife often talk about, man, we missed when we

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were able to go and head out
to you know, go to San Gabriel

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to go watch the movie up over
there by Del Mar, or go to

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La Puente, or let's go to
the Palladium, or let's go down to

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Hollywood and watch a movie, or
let's go to Orange County. That's all

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gone, my friend, Well look
what happened. It goes along the same

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line of movie rentals. Movie rentals
is something that you know that when you

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were that you saw a movie at
the theater and you loved you were excited

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to rent that movie and to go
watch it with your loved ones or with

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your friends. Right, But that
we had already heard of that movie only

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in theater, right. And there
were some movies after the theater, and

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there were some movies that we never
got to make it at the theater,

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remember, because life happens. We
were busy, we were having fun all

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the time, and some movies didn't
last long at the theater, so they

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had come out on video and that
was our time to go and rent.

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And unfortunately that's done as well because
the streaming. Streaming has killed everything both

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and we're going to talk about this
later in the show, but it has

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also killed it in the music business. Here, I got one more for

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you. Back in the eighties.
One of the reasons that I enjoyed it

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so much and that I say life
was better. And this may sound a

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little hypocritical to some people, but
I'm gonna explain myself why, and that

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was that there was no internet back
in the eighties. I mean, it

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was being developed, it was behind
the scenes, yes, And I know

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it may sound a little hypocritical because
we rely here and back to the eighties,

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we rely on the internet. But
you know what, now everybody does.

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It's no longer a luxury. It
is a necessity now, right.

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But I think that if you grew
up in the eighties, you'll realize and

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you'll agree that it was a whole
lot more fun without the Internet. Rather

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than going on social media worrying about
how how much followers you have, how

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many likes you have, you have
to take pictures all the time, which,

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by the way, I gotta tell
you this, I hate with a

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passion. I don't hate the people, but I hate the fact that people

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get addicted to taking pictures of themselves
or what they're eating every single second of

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every moment of every day. It
just it just it's disgusting to me.

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But everyone was more sociable before the
arrival of the Internet, and if you

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wanted to buy something, you actually
had to go to a local shop or

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to the mall, or to the
store. If you wanted to read a

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book, guess where you had to
go. You had to go to your

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local library. If you wanted a
magazine and you wanted to buy it,

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you either went to the library to
check it out, or you went to

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a bookstore and you bought it.
If you wanted to listen to music,

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what would you have to do?
Where you'd have to go out buy a

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record, a cassette or whatever a
music store. But guess what you would

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socially interact? And unfortunately today I
guess for a lot of people, we

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have in a way become slaves to
this beast called the Internet, and it

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has closed down stores that we grew
up with. It has closed down these

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record shops or these music stores where
we used to go the video rentals.

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It's changed our lives, giving us
more convenience, but it's taken away the

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experience of a lifetime coming back from
In the next break, you stay tuned

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into Ti Scottowe Change, We're gonna
talk about a whole lot more. You

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are listening to Back to the eighties
with Tiscanto and Chang. Don't you go

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in Hey why pals? Tscano and
Chang went to school in the eighties and

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that was cool. But now they're
going back. That's right, and you

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can tag along with back to the
eighties radio. If they were a laxative,

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they'd be so powerful you could stand
on your head and on the ceiling.

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That position would not only be al
but also undignified. And now back

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to the eighties with Tscano and Chang. You are listening to the one and

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the only Back to the eighties Radio. Thanks for joining us here. If

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you have just joined us, we
are talking about reasons wide life was better

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in the eighties. And Chang,
before the break, you were talking about

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how one of the things that we
have lost unfortunately are those records stores.

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Oh yes, talk to us a
little bit more about your experiences back in

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the eighties at record stores now record
stores. Every anybody that knows and sees

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me or listens to me at kay
HiT's not at two five would banging with

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the Chang knows that music is everything
to me. Music is right behind the

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love I have, behind family and
friends and loyalty. Now music stores,

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music plus Tower Records, licorice pizza. Oh, take it one by one,

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bro, because there's so much there. There's so many. Hollywood has

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just moved the great legendary Amiba Records, which had been on the same location

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on Sunset for over three decades,
has moved now down the way to a

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smaller building because of people downloading music, people going out there and just streaming

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and grabbing music. Nobody going out
there and getting in their car and going

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to these great music stores and spending
hours in there picking up the headphones and

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going to put an album, a
CD, or a cassette whatever they were

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selling in there to pre listen and
maybe talk to somebody about that music while

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you're looking. The hours of looking
through albums or look through their whole entire

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catalog of the store is gone.
The viewing of the posters, just the

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feeling of being in a music store, listening to the music they were cranking,

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the helpful people there, all the
covers of the albums or the cassettes.

409
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:33.000
I mean, we've lost that,
that freedom, that adventure of looking

410
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.279
for our own music without going on
the toilet and plugging in your phone and

411
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.200
oh, I think I'm gonna go
download some music. Well, yeah,

412
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.000
you can do that there. But
that experience and that connection to the music

413
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:49.440
and feeling the music of music stores
is gone, and that is sad.

414
00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:55.119
And that's one great thing that we
did have and we did hold. And

415
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.720
maybe I'm going on a limb,
but there was many a times me and

416
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:02.319
my homies would get together on a
Friday night and we would just go hang

417
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.319
out a music store, just take
some cash and go listen to albums and

418
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:11.759
cassettes and then buy stuff and just
hang around in there and you meet new

419
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.640
people from every area. And the
other great thing I remember about going to

420
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:22.960
music stores back then, some music
stores had the hip and the fast gets

421
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.720
of something that knew was coming out. Sometimes artists and bands would only allow

422
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:33.880
certain music stores to carry that album
or put it out earlier. Just like

423
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:38.640
I remember, you could buy concert
tickets that music store. We don't have

424
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:44.920
that anymore. Nowadays. People have
to get music at Walmart or Target or

425
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.599
like I say, a lot of
the lousy sloths in the world just download

426
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.279
that adventure, that essence, that
vibe, that connection to the music and

427
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:56.400
people. We've lost it. Love
to open up a music store nowadays,

428
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.119
in the modern days, I would
love to do it, just to see

429
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:04.599
the age bracket of people that we
would be able to get in there.

430
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.480
You said the word adventure and I
couldn't agree with you more. It was

431
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:14.039
an adventure. I mean it was
an experience that was an adventurous experience because

432
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:19.039
look, you guys that only download
music today, You probably download and you

433
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.960
make a playlist, right, or
you download one song, maybe two songs

434
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:30.319
from an entire album, thrashing the
whole idea behind recording an album for the

435
00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.200
artist. We used to go to
the music stores, go through one by

436
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:38.599
one, looking at all the covers. Once you found that artist that you

437
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:42.559
wanted, and look, as a
matter of fact, because you're going one

438
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:46.559
by one, sometimes looking at records
or cassettes, maybe one of those artists

439
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:52.839
that you weren't even thinking of going
to go by had a cover that you

440
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.000
thought was, oh, man,
this is a sharp looking cover. I'm

441
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.240
going to read into this. You
would turn that record around, or you

442
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:04.839
would turn that around and start reading
about that artist, reading about why they

443
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:10.759
made that that album and that wad
the liner notes and yes, it's almost

444
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:15.079
Yeah, it intrigues you more to
where you're gonna go put that album on,

445
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:16.519
and then you end up finding,
man, this is a pretty good

446
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:21.039
album. It's pretty exactly. They
got some good tracks and also something great

447
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:25.880
about this experience was that when you
put that cassette or CD or even CD,

448
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.039
when you would put that music on
or that record, guess what you're

449
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:35.400
listening From song one to song number
ten or twelve or fifteen or whatever it

450
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:39.200
was. You were listening to it
non stop. And some songs you would

451
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:43.920
say, yeah, I'll pass on
that song. It wasn't wasn't too good,

452
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.680
but you listen to it. You
listen it to it in its entirety.

453
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:51.720
You would get in your car if
you bought a cassette you unwrapped.

454
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.480
Oh man, I remember unwrapping that
cassette so fast. And you know what,

455
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:59.839
brother, I can still smell that
cellophane or that wrap around the cassette,

456
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.519
and you know what, you used
to piss me off. Sometimes that

457
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:06.759
thing was rap so tight you had
to have a knife for something to get

458
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:08.960
that package. You know, that
cassette, remember, because you couldn't dig

459
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:12.960
your nail up underneath that crap.
They're like, oh man, yeah,

460
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.639
it would druve me. It would
druve me bonkers. But once you got

461
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:19.800
that cassette open, you'd pop that
cassette in the car and sometimes even before

462
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.559
you'd take off, I would open
up that little cassette case, take the

463
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.039
little cover out and guess what it
had, like three or four different flaps,

464
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.039
and you would start reading a little
story. You start reading the lyrics,

465
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:32.400
and then you start going, oh, wesh, gosh, the liner

466
00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:39.320
notes exactly. That's one thing nowadays
that that robs the artist and the intriguing

467
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:45.599
feeling you get when you dive into
new music. The liner notes and also

468
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:52.119
additional pictures. Sometimes they'd put pictures
of concerts, and sometimes sometimes you'd even

469
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:57.199
get a pair of concert tickets in
an album. I remember buying a Cheech

470
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.400
and Chong album back in nineteen seventy
nine, this is before the and you

471
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:07.159
get an album size Zigzag to roll
some dubidge on. Yeah dude, Yeah.

472
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:09.639
As a matter of fact, I
still have that album. The Zag

473
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.239
is gone. I didn't use it. I got it from my cousins and

474
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:15.760
they were a bit older than mayhere. They were the Hoho chippies when I

475
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:20.320
was growing up. That's probably why
the Chang is and who he is the

476
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:24.519
Chang due to those who Chippie cousins
of mine. Now here's something I remember

477
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:30.239
going to album signings at Tower Records
in Hollywood. Yes, I mean I

478
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.320
don't know how many you had to
be from the eighties in Los Angeles,

479
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:39.280
California to experience that or know exactly
what I'm talking about on that essence.

480
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:45.280
The other thing before we dive into
some other music topics is the death of

481
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:50.719
FM radio, especially rock radio as
we knew it in Los Angeles and other

482
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:57.480
certain communities within the United States.
Well, it was another reason why life

483
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.440
was better in the eighties and better
jobs. Personality radio and personality. You

484
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:05.880
know, they used to play so
much variety of music. You can listen

485
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.639
to hip hop radio stations and they
wouldn't just play hip hop, they would

486
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:15.599
play pop music and dance and freestyle
and just so much variety. And yes,

487
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:20.840
my favorite thing was listening to that
creativity of a jock that on air

488
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.400
personality. And we all had our
favorite remember that. Oh yeah, bro

489
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:30.000
Kmi kill os k and ac right
here, brother. So there were things

490
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:35.280
that made it a beautiful era to
live in the eighties. Talking about music

491
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:38.119
stores, I wanted to quickly go
back and mention a few. You mentioned

492
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:44.960
Amiba Records, you mentioned Tower,
you remember Licorice Pizza as you mentioned how

493
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.559
about this do you remember now this
is late eighties. But do you remember

494
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:53.960
Music Plus and do you do you
remember Sam Goody as well? Oh that's

495
00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:59.559
the one I forgot, Sam Goody. Sam Goody. Another the cool thing

496
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.960
about Sam Goody is Sam Goody used
to sell albums and cassettes a lot cheaper

497
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.320
than some of the other entities that
I mentioned prior. But Sam Goody kind

498
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:14.320
of was, like I would say, like a block behind getting that album

499
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:19.519
or that cassette, like Music Plus
or Tower Records. They would get that

500
00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:24.320
music in a couple of weeks prior
to Sam Goody. Then Sam Goody would

501
00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:29.400
get it and then uh solf for
a little bit cheaper. Now here's one,

502
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:35.840
Like you said, liquorice pizza Pizza, I mean, liquorice Pizza to

503
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.519
me will always be remembered not only
for their not for their cassettes, but

504
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:46.320
their album coverage. Yes, I
would get lost in liquorice pizza for sometimes

505
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:52.480
five hours and just stare at the
posters and buy posters, and stare at

506
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:58.679
the albums and read every liar note
and look at every type of artwork on

507
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:00.840
the album and then take it into
the back and listen to it. And

508
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.199
just like you said, man,
the first thing that caught my eye was

509
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:07.199
the album cover. Then read the
liner notes. It's like, oh shoot,

510
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:12.480
I'm gonna listen to some tunes and
it's just like liquorice pizza to me.

511
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.639
And music plus will always be the
two entities that take me back to

512
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.679
the vinyl. Good lord, do
I love the vinyl? I think it

513
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.760
was the album cover that was the
attraction. Oh yeah, the album and

514
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:28.079
the experience of going to buy it. It was just beautiful. Sometimes you'd

515
00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.440
save up money to get that record
that you wanted, and when you finally

516
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:34.639
got it, you listen to it
until you I mean you listen to it

517
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:38.199
to death. Remember that. Let's
take a short little break because here back

518
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:44.719
to the eighties. We've got tons
more reasons why we loved living in the

519
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:51.320
eighties. Don't go away, there's
more to company read or awesome, It's

520
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:55.519
on to the eighties because let me
point to the president the much and Randy

521
00:38:55.599 --> 00:39:00.440
Savage is not happy with your decision. Yeah. I am the Cream and

522
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:06.239
the worst Confederation, There is no
doubt about it. Yeah you mean,

523
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:12.079
Gene Okerland, You know that I'm
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524
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:17.760
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525
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:24.280
Today, we are going back today
Eighties. Welcome back to Back to

526
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.760
the Eighties, hosted by your Judy
Toscano and Chang. Tonight, we are

527
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:32.360
discussing some of the things back in
the eighties that we're way better in comparison

528
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.800
to nowadays, and some of the
things that we've lost and cherished back in

529
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.760
the eighties in comparison to now.
We've been on the topic of music.

530
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:47.159
We've just discussed for those that have
missed music stores a scene that we're talking

531
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:53.119
about music, and we discussed a
little bit how albums and cassettes are missed,

532
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:58.079
and liner notes and the whole beauty
of the artwork on an LP.

533
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:02.559
Let's dive into some of the forms
of music the way that they've changed,

534
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:06.400
and I'm going to go out there
and I'm going to bring out I've noticed

535
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:12.199
certain types of rock and roll and
metal styles have changed. You know that,

536
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:19.199
you know, we from the eighties
come from an aggressive hard rock to

537
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:25.880
a rock in you know, acid
rock or rock of the classic rock.

538
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:30.719
In comparison to now, I've noticed
a lot of the newer metal is either

539
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:37.480
really really dark or it sounds like
a bunch of teenage boys singing with metal

540
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.880
music in the background. To me, that's a joke, you know.

541
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.920
Give me back the days of real
hard rock bands such as Motorhead, Judas

542
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:53.960
Priest, Iron Maiden, bands of
that significant Saxon. Give me such great

543
00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:00.480
rock and roll artists like Stevie Ray
Vaughan, David Bowie. There those are

544
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:06.960
talents in music styles and forms that
we cannot even touch in the music business

545
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:10.599
nowadays. Or what they tried to
salas or press on us to call it

546
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:16.559
something of the magnitude is classic rocks
such as that rock and roll in metal

547
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:22.440
has softened up. Things have become
kind of popcorn bubble gummish. Hip hop

548
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:28.039
to me is just a joke.
There is no stories, there is no

549
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:32.760
sad ballad, There is no balls
or guts to a lot of the music

550
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:37.400
nowadays. Wouldn't you have to agree
the majority of rap today to me,

551
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:44.159
the maybe a few genres of rap
that are out there just sound so exactly

552
00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:49.239
alike that it's not even funny Eighties
music. The composition, the lyrics,

553
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:53.599
the talent. These bands wrote their
own songs, the lead singers wrote their

554
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:59.719
songs, the range, the range
that they brought to the table was unparalleled.

555
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.440
All bands an artist that were popular
during the eighties would bring something unique,

556
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.920
They would bring something different to the
table. Why because of so much

557
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:13.079
competition that was out there, and
it wasn't competition like today. It wasn't

558
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:16.800
that everybody got a chance to go
on YouTube and start singing a cover and

559
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:23.760
wait for somebody to discover this.
And it was back then they had They

560
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:30.559
didn't have this American Idol and the
X Factor and The Voice and one hundred

561
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:37.760
thousand others shows that take away from
the purity, from the creative mindset of

562
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:43.599
writers back then. These mega bands
from the eighties, whether it be bands

563
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:47.440
like You two or GNR, there's
so many bands. It wasn't easy for

564
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:52.639
them. They didn't just go to
a show, get discovered by Simon Cowell

565
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.440
and then just make it. They
didn't post a video and all of a

566
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.280
sudden they were there. They paid
their dues. You know, these big

567
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:06.679
bands have been going through years and
years and years and years of setbacks before

568
00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:10.599
somebody gave him an opportunity. Some
of the bands bro that you can bring

569
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:17.960
up real quick en Vogue can bring
up expose the sugar Hill Gang. You

570
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:22.039
can bring up like like I mentioned, David Bowie, we had the Commodore's,

571
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:27.599
we had the Gap Band, we
had the Police Fires still rocking in

572
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.599
the eighties. Where are the bands
like that? Where are the lou Rawls?

573
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:34.719
Where are the Whitney Houston's? You
know all you get put up with

574
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:38.519
nowadays? There's a lot of the
pop culture wanna be a little bit over

575
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:44.079
the top type artist nowadays. I
mean, I think we've lost the true

576
00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:49.199
essence of a real singer. I
mean, now we have Gwen Stefani out

577
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:51.639
there, but I'm sorry, I'm
gonna go out here and you can hate

578
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:53.480
me all you want, But if
I want to listen to Gwen Stefani,

579
00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:59.119
I'll look at a cartoon of Betty
Boop just to hear some little kind of

580
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.559
girlishly lax and come out of it. Now, I'm not a big fan,

581
00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:08.079
but where we've lost a lot of
the great type of musicians and singers

582
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.639
in the eighties. Who do we
blame, my brother, We can,

583
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:17.239
we can blame technology, but we
have to blame the CEOs and people in

584
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:23.199
in charge of these musical divisions that
are so called talent scouts. The label

585
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:30.239
companies were one of the biggest factors
in not allowing artists to develop their own

586
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:32.840
music, because they just wanted to
just get them famous, getting famous,

587
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:37.639
getting famous. You know. Research
by a company called bet Way Online has

588
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:44.519
shown that eighties music has the largest
number of fans in the world. You

589
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:49.519
can look it up. Most people
become attached to music styles that they experienced

590
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:53.159
between the ages of ten and twenty
five. But they're drawn to it because

591
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:59.880
back then these bands, they were
played on the radio, they had un

592
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.719
unique sounds. You had hundreds and
hundreds of bands that they all had a

593
00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:09.480
unique sound. Eighties music is unique, it's diverse, it's complex. It

594
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:15.639
will be set apart for decades to
come. It's unlikely that music from this

595
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:20.400
era, or maybe even the following
few errors to come, will even come

596
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:23.239
close to it. Brother, eighties
music today, I'm gonna ask this question

597
00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:27.360
to any of our listeners out there, who are real hip hop bands.

598
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.719
Now, I'm gonna sit around,
I'm gonna crap open a couple of coal

599
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.840
ones and crank up some NWA,
some public Enemy, you know, Beastie

600
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.159
Boys, tang. Yeah, I'm
going to crank up some Beastie Boys.

601
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:43.719
I'm not gonna sit around and listen
to this jackass machine gun Kelly or or

602
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.679
any of these other half wits man
or or what's the name of that homeboy

603
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:51.079
with all that writing on his face, And I'm just you know, that's

604
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:53.880
not hip hop to me, man, You're you're telling me a story of

605
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:58.559
how you just want to go ahead
and get loaded and talk crap about a

606
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:00.519
way a chick looks. Man,
I want to hear something that's real.

607
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:05.119
I want to hear something that's fresh. I want to hear something that screams

608
00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:09.400
to me about the struggle and kind
of the put down and hold down of

609
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:14.519
society, because that's, to me, is the true essence of music.

610
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:21.119
Music is an emotion, a way
of life. Nowadays music is polished popcorn,

611
00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:25.719
bubblegum, pretend, pretentious. Everybody
wants to be the same and sing

612
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.760
the same. It's all fake popcorn
bs nowadays is in comparison to hip hop

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00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:36.079
or any music. Yes, music
back then, rock, today's music,

614
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:38.159
I'm sorry, most of it sucked. I'm wanna go ahead and challenge me.

615
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:44.280
Go ahead and get ahold of Tiscano
and uh I want to fight change.

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00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:46.199
I'll give you his number later.
Go ahead and filter out all the

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00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:49.960
hate. This is back to the
eighties radio. When we come back,

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00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:55.159
we've got some changres. Don't go
away, and what you do in the

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00:46:55.239 --> 00:47:02.360
largest arms in the world. You
are listening to Back to the eighties radio.

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00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:07.480
This is the moment in the show
where we talk about what made us

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angry back in the eighties. However, today we've got something different for you

622
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:17.960
today. That chang we'll talk about
what makes him angry today, and in

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honor of the most wondrous chang we
call him Changry. So chang what makes

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00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:29.400
you changry today compared to the eighties? Well, my brother, if you

625
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:32.920
did not listen to this last segment, A thing that gets me changry most

626
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:40.079
of all nowadays is the business of
music. I am changry about hip hop

627
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:45.079
music. It sucks nowadays, just
nothing but sure stupidity. You know what

628
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:50.960
else gets me changry about nowadays in
comparison to back to the eighties, my

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00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:55.320
gray hair. You know what else
gets me changry nowadays in comparison to back

630
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:59.599
in the day, I have to
use a little bluepool. You know what

631
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:06.519
gets me changry now in comparison to
the days in the eighties. Police officers

632
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:09.320
don't shoot you now. Before they
would just throw you on the street and

633
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:13.880
kick you. You know, it
gets me changry more today than it did

634
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.559
back in the eighties. To Sconnell
the price of a stamp. You know,

635
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:21.480
it gets me changry nowadays in comparison
back to the eighties, I never

636
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.480
got any buffering. You know,
it gets me changry nowadays, in comparison

637
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.199
to back in the eighties. I
can't hang around in the mall and not

638
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:35.159
look like a creep. And that, ladies and gentlemen are this week's changrees.

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00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:37.440
If you have something that you'd like
to tell us about that made you

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00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:43.000
angry or changry back in the eighties, let us know through our Facebook messenger.

641
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.960
Send us a message and we'll talk
about it on the following Friday.

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00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:51.599
In the meantime, chang It's been
great to be back here and to be

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00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:57.159
once again full throttle with the pedal
to the metal. Here, I'm back

644
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:00.559
to the eighties Radio. We've got
a great year ahead, so we want

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00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.039
you to stick around be a part
of Back to the Eighties Radio. We

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00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:08.639
have a great week. Enjoy yourself, be safe, and don't forget to

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00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:13.760
tune in next Friday to the one
and only back to the Eighties Radio.

648
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.719
And before I release you to another
chain fantastic weekend, I want to give

649
00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:21.840
a special shout out Tuscano and I
want to say an Asta leavisa to all

650
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:24.519
those people out there that give us
the thumbs down. Keep those thumbs coming,

651
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:28.199
it doesn't matter up or down.
We know you're listening. I bid

652
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:34.920
you all and AliOS Asta manana,
asta leavista, astellaego, say a nada.

653
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:39.159
And to all my homies that I've
forgotten the value. Oh to all

654
00:49:39.239 --> 00:50:00.480
my Caucasian friends in Orange County.
Later, Bros. Back wholly ended,

655
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:06.840
before I can fall to cat