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Good morning, everybody, welcome back
to Back to the eighties. I'm

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your host, Dale Blaze and my
study partner, Blaze Channing. Welcome to

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the Haze and Blaze Soft Music our
here back to the eighties on your Sunday

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drive. It's a crisp sixty eight
degrees and it's relatively cloudy. Blaze.

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That was from the Great and Air
Supply. I'm all out of love,

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Blaze. How are you doing this
morning? How's your love life? How's

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your world's beinning? Well? Hi, Dale, Today is just a fabulous

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day, especially because you know,
even though it's gray outside, in our

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hearts, it's nothing but blue skies
Now, Blaze, we're coming up on

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Mother's Day, So all those beautiful
moms out there, Happy, Happy Mother's

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Day. We have a ton of
requests of songs going out to their mom.

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I promised our listeners I would get
to a few of them. Both

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you and I are very busy in
the studio because we're sitting in for the

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beautiful tiscotl and wood Chay. We
want to wish them a happy Mother's Day

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because there are a couple of mothers. And I was wondering just the other

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day, I was out watering my
Guardina's and I got an email, and

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this beautiful email came from Karin,
and Karin asked if we could possibly play

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Tire Mother down by the Great Band
Queen at some kind some time today.

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Blaze, what is the number one
thing that you miss about a decade in

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your life? A special time,
a time where your memories were like opening

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Christmas presents? Oh Dale, Now
that you mentioned it, every time I

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remember and I recall the eighties.
To me, the eighties was nothing but

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ten years worth of open love letters, and even the bad times were actually

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fun. And I've got to learn
so much from them. And you know,

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back then we could read love letters
all the time, and especially if

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you're hearing I'm All Out of Love
and just countless other songs, especially by

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George Michaels. But anyway, I
just want to let you know that the

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eighties for me was an open love
letter to the world. Yes, I

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have to agree with you, Blaze. We're gonna go ahead and cut away

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to a commercial and we're going to
play a loom so soon. Yeah,

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and this next song is from Johnny
Mathet and it's going out to Rhoda and

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Karen. They were just married.
You're listening to the Blaze, and hey,

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show right here at back to the
eighties, Blaze, why don't you

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take us on a trip to where
you want to go? Oh? Thank

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you, Dale. That reminds me
of the good old days, especially one

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in particular in the month of September
nineteen eighty five, when everything was going

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just the way I've ever dreamed,
and then I realized one day that hey,

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we are all the same. Does
that make sense to you? Makes

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no sense to me? Blaze,
that makes perfect sense to me. Everybody,

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put on your safety belts and your
love goggles. You're listening to the

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Blaze and Hey show right here.
Click click back to the Eighties. Remember

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we love you. Happy Mom's Day
by Mommy. You've tuned into Back to

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the Eighties Radio. I'm Toscano from
Tokato and Chang. We are the show

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that introduces the Eighties to a whole
new generation. We're reminiscing on the memories

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that made that generation the absolute most
awesome generation of all. We're here every

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single Friday. We'd like to remind
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from the eighties you would like to
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part of our Patreon page at patreon
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eighties as we get ready to kick
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HiT's ninety two five online and around
the world coming July four, So don't

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forget put that on your calendars.
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your requests of all the songs that
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platform you do listen to us on
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are you guys ready? Because with
me today as he is every single Friday,

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is a man that has been caught
by airport police carrying three pounds of

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fun pots and ten grams of pop
rocks. He has been seen lurking in

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Robert Smith's changing room with a life
size ouster of him and the cure we

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here add back to the eighties.
Call him the chant So Chang, I

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know that you're not in the studio
right now. Where are you at?

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Exactly are you because it sounds like
you're calling me from a nineteen eighty two

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payphone. Well, actually, you
know, I'm out here hunting for sasquatch

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and I was very fortunate to find
a payphone in the middle of this area

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that I'm at. I'm not going
to give you the name of the location

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because I don't want to bring too
many tourists to the town, because they

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do not like tourists out here too
much. Does that payphone still a dime

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or is it a quarter? Actually
no, it costs me one hundred and

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seventy five dollars and quarters. So
quite it's quite busy. It's quite quite

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and as a matter of fact,
I've got a line of maybe six people

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behind me, really, and they're
starting to chant yes, kill me in

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some type of books Whahili accents of
some kind. So I bet I better

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hurry up and free up the phone. No, you know what I'm not.

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I'm going to throw in another two
hundred and seventy five dollars in quarters.

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So why don't you go ahead and
start the show, and I'll throw

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my change in. Joe, Oh, I can tell you I'm glad you

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didn't call collect Tiscano. It is
great to be here. It's great to

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be alive. You know where.
I'm coming to you from an an unfamiliar

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place here in the forest of the
Sea Era where I reside. As you

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know, I've been out trying to
find sasquatch, I've had no luck.

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We have an amazing show for you
guys today as we dive into action and

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drama shows of the eighties. On
the show later today is Scott Ryan,

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who is the managing editor of The
Blue Rose magazine and the author of the

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Real Story of Moonlighting, the pioneering
television series broadcast by ABC in the nineteen

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eighties. So stick around because Tiscano
and Chang. Back to the Eighties Radio

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are going to be right back.
You're listening to Back to the Eighties.

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Welcome Eties fans. I have been
expecting you. You no longer need to

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listen to any other podcast. You
won't the eighties, don't you? The

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longing for it is swelling. You
now feel the memories coming to you and

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listen to Back to the Eighties.
Give in to nostalgia. With each passing

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moment you make yourself bore of an
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is your destiny. You don't know
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You like your childhood now, man, this is a trink. Listen to

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the decade of decadence. Right here
to the eighties. You were back with

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Tiscano and Chang, right here and
back to the eighties. As you heard,

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my good buddy right there, my
partner and crying to talk about today,

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we are going to talk about great
action shows of the nineteen eighties.

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The first show that he brought out
is going to be with our guest Moonlighting,

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not Tiscanno. Did you ever watch
Moonlighting? Well, look, I

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watched a few episodes, but I
couldn't get into it because I wanted action.

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I've always been an action kind of
guy, a stupid comedy kind of

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guy, and it didn't really turn
me on, if you know what I

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mean. Oh, I know,
yeah, I was. I was into

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some other stuff. However, I
had a lot of family members and a

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lot of friends who were totally,
totally into it, especially their parents who

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were really into moonlighting. In a
little bit, we're going to talk to

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Scott Ryan and his book The Real
Story of Moonlighting. Stay tuned if he

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just joined us. But we are
talking about the nineteen eighties, and we're

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talking about TV shows, now Chang. The awesome, awesome eighties were all

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about doing things big right, big
action, big drama, and of course

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big laughs. Fancy cars, luxurious
homes, extreme wealth, good looking people

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now good looking people were the hallmark
of all eighties TV shows. Get you

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remember TV back in the eighties,
for these thriller shows, action pack.

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Everybody was sexy. I mean you
had shows like Dynasty, you had shows

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like Dallas, Moonlighting, Miami Vice. I mean, the list goes on.

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I mean, come on, Tom
Selick, one of the sexiest men

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alive in the eighties, Magnum Pi, we had Dan Tanna, everybody was

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sexy. Yep, you had Saint
Elsewhere, you had Hill Street Blues,

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one of my favorites, and then
of course you mentioned Miami Vice was one

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of my favorites, and you had
the A Team and mcgiver. My favorite

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show back in the eighties has got
to be held on. Let me ask

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that. Let me ask that,
Hey Chang, what was your favorite show

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back in the eighties. That would
be Hill Street Blues, hands down,

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Big Mongus Chang chastic lover of cop
thrillers show. As a decade went on,

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I could I could name a whole
grip of police shows that I enjoyed

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watching. And this goes back into
my love of the show back into seventy.

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You know what I would have called
you in the eighties. I would

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have called you Uncle Chang or Grandpa
Change for watching stuff that not even my

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grandpa would watch. You're lucky you're
two thousand miles way from me, or

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I won't let you down with my
Sasquatch Bowie Knights. So, so,

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Hill Street Blues was your favorite,
Yes, it was. I love that

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show, that mash So what is
it that attracted you to that show?

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Like this? Oh, my gosh, Yeah, I had like an ear

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bleed all of a sudden again to
our beautiful listeners, mash match, Match

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Match, mash match. You see, I snuck that in in on you

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like an old lady sneaking through the
lane with her basket, just trying to

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get around and get some suits.
You share up mash You seem to me,

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you seem to me that you'd also
like shows like Cagney and Lay.

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You better show your role right now. Cagney and Lacey, to me,

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was probably one of the most boring
shows that people was ever on television.

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And to this day, I don't
know which one of them was Cagney or

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Lacey, and I could give a
damn. Cagney and Lacey was a show

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that came on from eighty one to
eighty eight, lasted a long time,

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and it was a police It was
a police show and started Time Daily or

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Tim Daily and Sharon Glass and they
were New York City police detectives. They've

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both had different types of characters and
personas and they led different lives. But

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that's about it. So the series
was set out in a fictionalized version of

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Manhattan's fourteenth Precinct, and yeah,
whenever that show came on, I would

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turn it to a different channel.
However, when Mash would come out,

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I would literally go to the bathroom
and vomit. Then I come out and

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change the channel. That is just
that hurts me, That really does.

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Now. Nash was one of my
favorite shows, but it was kind of

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pushed upon me because my parents.
That was my parents favorite show, and

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my dad did serve three tours in
the Korean War, so he really liked

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that show. And I used to
like to dry humor. I was a

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big friend, a fan of Frank
Burns Haltnip tool a hand. I always

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wanted to get my hands on her. I mean, Radar was a great

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character. I mean the list of
characters I could just keep going. Now,

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you didn't watch the show, but
there was a character called Clinger and

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that was Jamie. I forgot his
name as a matter of fact, because

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he's such a jerk. I don't
care if I remember his name. Yeah,

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I put that out there. But
I got to meet him when I

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was working construction. He had owned
a restaurant that we were working on and

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he was nothing but rude to all
of us. So yeah, I really

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have I enjoyed the character, but
I did not care for him as a

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human being. Jamie, you're talking
about Maxwell Clinger, Yes, Maxwell Clinger.

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I remember the guy. He looked
like. I wonder if he was

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Italian. Um. I always thought
he was an ant eater. Was the

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size of that guy's nose, That's
what I thought. No, you know

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what I figured I figured out he
was Elevenie. His name was Jamie Fro

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That's right, Jamie, and he
was Elevenese. He was a Lebanese America,

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so he was he was from you
know, he was Lebanese. Oh

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interesting. I have nothing against the
Lebanese people, but I will say that

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he was a jackass. Now,
the other show. The reason I liked

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Hill Street Blues so much because it
was so so real and realistic and believable,

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and the cases that they discussed were
actual real cases. But of course

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the character names have changed, and
so was the plot of the story,

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as they would always give you that
in the disclaimer notes during the show,

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whether somebody would say it or they
would show it on the screen. So

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that was one of my favorite shows. So Hill Street Blues came out between

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eighty one and eighty seven, so
it once again that lasted a long time.

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H Yeah, I always remember the
catchphrase. I'm sure you don't know,

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because I'm sure you hated the show. I pretty much did all the

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good shows. It seems like you
hated. But that's another story. I

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think you're you're a distant cousin from
Dicator. You're a rich hater. Next

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you're going to tell me that your
second favorite show or your third favorite show

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was ALF. Well, I'm gonna
have to tell you again. ALF was

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an okay show. I did buy
that puppet at McDonald's, the one with

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a guitar, and I used to
stick that of my four by four shifter

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to my Toyota nineteen eighty three Toyota
four by that sat on three one inch

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tires. Thank you very much,
But wow, port Port Toyota engine,

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you barely handle the tires. What
are you gonna do? What are you

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gonna do? They're built to last
three hundred thousand miles before I got rid

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of it, brother, three hundred
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today. So you liked ALF.
I didn't mind ALF. It had some

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dry humor in there. Some of
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looked like Less Nestman of w KRP
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show, WKRP. So, but
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quirky show, you know what I
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It was like an adult muppet.
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I'm going to mention a show right
now. I know you know by heart.

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It's the show that came out between
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and it was about an extremely wealthy
Stratton family. Okay, that was

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the name of the family, and
the dad, I guess. I don't

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know what his career was in the
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but the show kind of reminded me
of Richie Rich because they were multi millionaires

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and they had a bunch of toys
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the show was called Silver Spoon.
Oh, yes, I remember hating that

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show immensely. Yes, go on, please, now another show. Now,

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let me tell you what my favorite
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then it went on all the way
into nineteen eighty four, and it started

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in seventy seven. Now, this
following show. You and I agree,

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we love this following show. I
love it for many reasons. The entire

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cast was phenomenal. The entire cast
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there were beautiful people on the show. And I'm talking about none other than

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three company that will take a cold
shower every time you bring up those two

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yes, and we know we're bringing
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de wit just I couldn't understand half
the thing she was saying because the blood

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would leave my head and go directly
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but uh okay, we're talking about
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I'm gonna put it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put

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you over the coals. Who was
your favorite landlord, mister Furly or was

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it the Ropers? I want to
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I liked because he was very creepy. Now see, mister Furley wasn't

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creepy. He could be, but
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that mister Roper had, But he
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mean, they all had incredible comedic
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that I really really enjoyed. And
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time, so that show took me
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then Terry later on, it didn't
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characters ever. And talking about Jack
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that guy had such comedic acting skills, almost like a Dick Van Dyke,

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very vaudevillage physical comedy. I used
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that he did, even up until
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he was doing with Katie Seagals as
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Landlord is I agree with you.
The ropers. They remind me of your

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typical married couple and me being with
the missus Chang for thirty one years reminiscent

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of me and Missus Chang now that
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kind of reminded me of that kind
of crazy uncle that could be gay or

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couldn't be gay. You never really
knew his squirrely voice, the way he

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would get nervous and run around and
accused Jack of stuff I mean each show

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with both of those landlords was always
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was not a big fan when Chrissy
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gal that sat in for her,
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other blonde girls right that came in. There was Terry, and then there

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was another one. Supposedly there were
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visit it and stuff like that,
but they didn't really last long. The

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ones that really lasted were Susanne Summers
and the girl who brought Terry. Her

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name is Priscilla Barnes. She's the
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nineteen eighty one and eighty four,
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and the other gal that that came
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hair, but she had a big
giant mouth, almost like a puppet of

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some kind. She kind of looked
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I gotta go with Joyce to It. I loved Joys to Wit. I

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mean, missus Chang resembled Joyce to
Wit. The joyst wit to me set

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up the type of girl that the
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all, Yeah, jumping over from
Three's company, how about a show that

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was on from nineteen eighty seventeen nineteen
ninety one, And it was a police

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show and it was a crime drama
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of one hundred and three episodes,
but it focused on a squad of young

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undercover police officers investigating crimes in high
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And the show was called twenty one
Jump Street. Yes, with a

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dynamic everybody's most sexy actor, Johnny
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after that show. And remember they
had Richard Grieco, but Yes had kind

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of like comp Jocula eyes with an
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host of others. But now that's
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never watched. I may have watched
five minutes of one episode, but that's

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about it. I watched that show
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She was just smoking hot. She
married Rodney Pete, former quarterback of

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the USC Trojans, played in professional
football for a few years. Now Deloise,

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that was Dom Deloise's son. Every
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I was like, shut up,
I'd rather hear your dad get up

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the screen. I'd rather see your
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a little bit because some of some
of the episodes were captivating. They were

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very intriguing, but all in all, it kind of just seemed like a

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pretty boy kind of soap opera type
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hit and a miss. Yeah,
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most television in the eighties, it
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you, yeah, there was some
average looking people, but they were never

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the They were never the the stars
of the show usually and unless unless we

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move over and we talked about the
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from nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty
seven, and that was one of my

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favorite shows of all time. All
these different characters, starting from the Colonel

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to mister T. Then you had
Murdock and Face and they all had their

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different personas you know, they all
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comedy too. Do you remember that
now? Now, my buddy Rubin had

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a van like that that we used
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mean the theater, but the drive
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were talking about man boy. No, no, not that guy. This

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is this is back in the eighties. This is real guys from the eighties.

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And my sister used to call us
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an abbreviation pretty much for the asses. We were, right, we were.

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We were kind of like the four
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had a black band like that,
and we used to go everywhere. This

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is the one on only back to
the eighties. Ready, I'm just kinda

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from just kinda in chain reminding you
to stick around. Of he just joined

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us because coming up next is the
managing editor of The Blue Rose magazine,

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also the director of Voyage to Twin
Peaks and the host of the Red Room

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podcast. He's also the author of
the Real Story of Moonlighting and to talk

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about it will be Scott Ryan himself. So stick around because Back to the

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Eighties Radio is going to be right
back. No Red or also dates on

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Back to the Eighties. If you
can't wear a spandex jumpsuit? What can

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you do? Back? Welcome to
Back to the Eighties Radio, And as

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promised, we have a very special
special guest today. However, I want

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to tell you guys that this is
a take two for everybody who's listening,

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because, although you may not know
what happened when we try to do this

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interview the very first time, about
ten minutes into the interview, there was

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a half citywide blackout, blackout where
I live here in southern California, So

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we have to basically restart the interview
today. Even my backup went down as

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my microphone, even my microphone needs
a little bit of electricity to power up.

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But today we have Scott Ryan,
who is the managing editor of The

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Blue Rose magazine, the author of
thirty Something at thirty in Oral History and

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the Last Days of Letterman. Now. Interestingly enough, he also wrote about

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his bad luck and I'm not sure
if this interview is going to be one

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of those stories in a future book, but in twenty comic short stories called

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Scott Luck Stories. He is also
the director of a Voyage to Twin Peaks

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and the host of the Red Room
podcast How do You Find the time,

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Scott, Well, I know,
I'm just glad you still got power here

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by the time you got through my
intro. Holy moly, No, I

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know. Well, those credits started
in twenty fourteen, so that's what I've

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done over the last seven years.
So it's not like I did all that

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in the last week or something.
So well, I've had a lot of

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time. Well, I appreciate you
taking the time one more day and just

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willing to come back on back to
the eighties. So let's cut to the

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chase. I know a lot of
our listeners are familiar with TV shows of

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the eighties, but you actually wrote
a book about a show that was a

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comedy drama TV series. It aired
from eighty five to eighty nine, somewhere

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around there with Sybil Shepherd, Bruce
Willis, Alice Beasley, and others.

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But it's the never before told insight
story behind the making of the TV series

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called Moonlighting, and the legendary behind
the scenes battles among the stars, producers,

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and the network. So Scott,
getting right into it, tell us

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prior to Moonlighting, because I know
that I mentioned a couple of your writings.

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You have a great time, and
I really want to know more about

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that Scott Luck stories true. Well, you know it was funny because when

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we were doing this interview yesterday,
you were saying, well, I'd like

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to understand Scot luck stories, and
you just understood it. That's what happened.

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To see, there's good luck,
and there's bad luck, and there's

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scot luck, which means a series
of events that happened at the same time

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for maximum comic effects. That's truly
scot luck. It's month. You know,

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bad luck is too simple of the
thing, because if I just had

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bad luck, then everybody would understand
it. But true scot luck is people

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doubt it at first, but then
you know, you have a block out

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in the middle of the interview,
and even in even the backup goes.

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So it's just stories of when I
worked at Arby's, when I was a

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teenager, when I was a stay
at home dad of twins, when I

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got into corporate America, much older
than most people do, about ten years

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beyond and having Corporate America tried to
mold me into who they wanted me to

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be. But I was old enough
that you know, I didn't care,

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And all my bosses were younger than
me. So those are kind of the

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stories that I tell. They all
have a comic twist, and they are

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all basically true that they may be
exaggerated a little bit for comics release,

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but they're all true. I noticed
my books really do come from the age

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thirty something, Letterman and Moonlighting while
are all children of the eighties. So

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I feel right at home here on
back to the eighties. Those that have

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never seen the Moonlighting show, just
so you can give us a little bit

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of background because of whatever it is
their age, or maybe they just never

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got around to it, or maybe
even never heard it. How can you

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describe it so so would attract someone
today? Well, Moonlighting was detective show

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that was not a detective show,
and you know, back in the eighties,

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Glenn Gordon karen says he was the
creator of Moonlighting. He said he

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was looking at television and they had
all these detectives that were held up to

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like the position of now, what
would be doctors shows or lawyer shows where

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they were moral and they were upstanding, And he thoughts, it's not really

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what detectives would be. Are they
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It's unlikely. So he created David
Addison and that a first cast Bruce Willis,

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and everyone knows who Bruce Willis is, of course because he went on

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to do die Hard and Called Fiction
and all of those things. But at

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the time, Bruce Willis was an
unknown and he was basically a live cracking

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detective who knew he was a TV
detective, so he talked to the home

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audience, you know, which was
very new at that time. People were

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not doing that in the eighties.
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who was a model turned detective,
and already you kind of get the

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idea that this is going to be
a silly show, and it was very

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funny, but you cared so much
about David Naddie that you wanted them to

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get together. Moonlightning had a little
bit of everything. So originally what made

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you feel like writing the book and
going behind the scenes specifically, Yeah,

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the only way it works is you
get the buy in the executive producer.

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And I have been very fortunate with
my three books that I made a good

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case to the executive producer. With
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Letterman that was Barbara Gaines, and
with Moonlighting that was playing Gordon Karen,

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where I just basically wrote a pitch
to them by connecting with them over social

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media media and just saying I love
your show, I'm curious about it and

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being specific. You know, with
Glenn what I pitched to him Moonlighting.

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You know, sure no one remembers
it because it was long thirty years ago,

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but if you google the Moonlighting curse, you will find that Friends was

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worried about that with Ross and Rachel
Castle was worried about that and Bones getting

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done together. Everyone's afraid to get
the couple together because they stay on Moonlighting

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when Dave and Maddie got together,
wrote in the show, and so I

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said to Glenn, I really want
to find out what was going on behind

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the scenes with this decision to get
them together. But why did a show

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that Literally, I'm not exaggerating this, I'd really mean this. Literally,

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fifty percent of American televisions were tuned
into the episode where David Maddie find me,

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00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.960
and in two years the show was
canceled because of low writing. You

405
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.279
know, it was the biggest thing
in the world in eighty seven and in

406
00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:13.839
eighty nine. No one cares.
Right now, in the age that we

407
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:20.240
live in, there is a habit
that Hollywood has in doing remakes. Some

408
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:25.839
are okay ideas, some are good
ideas, and some are just horrendous ideas.

409
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.799
What do you think of the thought
of a remake and who would you

410
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:37.400
see playing both roles? That's a
really interesting question. I think that,

411
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:42.039
you know, it's so hard for
me because I'm a fan of the show.

412
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:47.319
In many ways, I don't know
that you could honestly remake moon Lighting

413
00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:52.480
because the reason it was what it
was is because it throws the rules.

414
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:58.359
And you have to remember in the
eighties Ronald Reagan was president and the country

415
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:07.880
was tight, I mean everything was
oppressed, sure, and now with cable

416
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.639
and all of those things, I
don't know how you would really have to

417
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.599
come up with something that would shock
people in some ways, you know what

418
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.559
I mean? Like I said,
my dad was angry that he talked to

419
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:22.199
the camera. Well, you know, and sex in the City where Justice

420
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.880
Parker talked to the camera for a
while, and it happens all the time

421
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.119
now. Boston Legal did it as
well, So I think that would be

422
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.639
hard. But if you were going
to do it, I think you would

423
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:38.559
you would have to find an unknown
I think that was the thing about moon

424
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:44.599
riting, you'd want it not to
be someone we know. Do you recall

425
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:46.480
if by any chance that this is
as a little side note, do you

426
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:52.079
recall if by any chance this came
out around the same time that Remington Steel

427
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:55.760
And I don't know if you're familiar
with Remington Steel with Pert Steel. Yeah,

428
00:34:55.800 --> 00:35:01.320
of course, Remington Steele came out
in eighty three and Glenor and Karen

429
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:07.679
was a writer on that show for
not that long because it was probably like

430
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.519
ten episodes, so it was,
and that's where he came up with the

431
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:19.400
Moonlighting pylos, and ABC's the hired
him for Remington, so Revington was sort

432
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.599
of more and there was alful Hearts
to Heart, which was another couples detective

433
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:30.519
show, but those people always solved
the mysteries on Moonlighting. Yes, they

434
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:35.840
had the mysteries, but sometimes David
Addison would call them during commercial. I

435
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.119
mean there's a very famous one where
he comes in and he accuses the persons

436
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:43.679
of and explained how he did it, and Maddie looked at him and says,

437
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:45.400
how did you figure that out?
And he said during the commercial?

438
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:52.599
Wow, And you know, because
they just didn't have the time to explain

439
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.519
every time, so they didn't care
about the case. And I remember I

440
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.800
watched the show when I was fifteen
and it bothered my father. My dad

441
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:07.880
would get so angry when they didn't, you know, take the murder serious

442
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:12.920
or whatever. But as a kid, it was, you know, so

443
00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:16.320
much like the Looney Tunes or something, and I just loved that. I

444
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:21.480
loved every time they broke the rules
of television, and you know, it

445
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:24.760
kind of shaped me as a genet
for like Leo's break every rule that there

446
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:30.480
is sure and I'm still breaking rules
today. I gotta ask you this because

447
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:36.039
it's probably a question that everybody who
interviews any author will always ask, who's

448
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:40.199
your favorite author? Well, I'm
gonna answer it in two ways. My

449
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:47.519
favorite author of fiction is John Irving. I love a Prayer, prow and

450
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:53.039
Mini Cider House Role Widow for one
year. Those books are books that I

451
00:36:53.119 --> 00:37:01.400
read over and over again. But
I have to answer Stevens stem is a

452
00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:07.559
Broadway composer. For those who maybe
don't recognize the namative Sweeney Pod and Company.

453
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.000
And I always say, that's that's
where I go, That's my bible.

454
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.639
All of my books have a son
Time quote that relates to the book

455
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:23.800
for Moonlighting, because I learned so
many I don't want to totally say unpleasant,

456
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:29.119
but it was a tumultuous time behind
the scenes. The quote I have

457
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.719
for that book is isn't it nice
to know a lot and a little bit

458
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:37.719
not? And that's from End of
the Woods, and that that quote was

459
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:42.440
just coming through my head as as
I'm learning all these things. So I

460
00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:46.280
have two answers to John Irving and
Stephen sonteime we're talking about the behind the

461
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:51.880
scenes of the eighties TV show Moonlighting. I gotta ask there's there's gotta be

462
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.800
a song from the eighties that when
you when you hear it somewhere, either

463
00:37:54.800 --> 00:38:00.559
on the radio or just somewhere,
it kind of takes you back to maybe

464
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:04.239
an experience or something. Can you
pinpoint maybe a song that does that for

465
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:08.039
you? Well, I would say
Billy Joel matters quite a bit to me.

466
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:16.039
The first album that I spent my
hard earned money mowing graphs or was

467
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:21.000
Billy Joel's greatest hit, the double
album that came out in eighty five.

468
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:27.159
So I'm gonna guess m second win
would be my answer. You're only human.

469
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:32.679
I remember like wanting to take that
off Casey Cason's countdown and you know

470
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:37.239
you're you're waiting for it. So
I'm gonna go with it. I'm gonna

471
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.880
go with You're only human, Billy
Joel. If you could, if you

472
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.920
had one moment just to go back
in the eighties and do something, whatever

473
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:50.920
it is that you could, whether
it be to you know, get more

474
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:55.199
inspiration for Moonlighting or whatever it is, or maybe watch an episode or something.

475
00:38:55.559 --> 00:39:00.400
Let's just say this coming weekend you
get a chance to go back,

476
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.920
what would you do? Well,
I'll tell you you're that's a great question.

477
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.400
Of course I would. And I'm
gonna go with my first answer because

478
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:15.280
my first thing I thought, I
am really upset that I never saw Madonna

479
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:22.280
in concert, and so I feel
like to see Madonna in the eighties.

480
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:27.320
That's a that's a pretty eighties thing
to do, sure, absolutely, And

481
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.760
I'd never seen I didn't see Madonna
ever, and I don't even know why.

482
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:36.480
It seems like something I should have
done. So I feel like to

483
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:42.280
see Madonna in about like eighty seven
eighty eight, and she was huge.

484
00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:44.639
I feel like that's what I want
to do. I want to go to

485
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.079
the Madonna concert. You know what, I never thought about going to any

486
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:52.400
any concert. I just thought about
going back in and probably just hanging out

487
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:58.719
with my friends once again. Now
you're also hosting a podcast called The Red

488
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.000
Room Podcast. Talk to a little
bit about what the Red Room Podcast is

489
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:07.800
about. The Red Room Podcast is
about television. It's named after the Red

490
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:13.119
Room in Twin Peaks, which sort
of changed television. We've been doing I

491
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:15.639
do with my brother in law,
Josh Minton. We've been doing it for

492
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:19.880
like eleven or twelve years, if
you can imagine it. Wow. We

493
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:28.400
have one hundred and ninety episodes.
We discover anything about TV, and that's

494
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.599
led to a lot of the books
that I've done because I've gotten good interviews

495
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.440
with people, and you know,
it's a lot about Twin Peaks here and

496
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:43.039
there. Do countdown sometimes or the
best characters or best episodes, and they

497
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:45.320
can find your podcast, The Red
Room Podcast pretty much on every platform of

498
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.760
assuming. Yeah, and it's been
out there forever. I mean I have

499
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.800
I gone back and listen to our
beginning shows. You know, I always

500
00:40:52.840 --> 00:41:00.119
think about very early on we did
a podcast called His Next Clips, Ruining

501
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:08.280
Television, and I bet you that
podcast is so outdated. I would never

502
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:12.679
really want to listen to it,
but you know, the idea being is

503
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:16.719
streaming rooming network TV, and in
the end it basically kills that work TV

504
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:21.679
and improves it. But we did
it very early on, so I have

505
00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:27.880
no idea how much the early episode
stand up. Well, you should definitely

506
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.400
go back and check them out.
I don't know if I want to,

507
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:37.440
Scott, where can people find some
information not only on your podcast, but

508
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:43.719
information on your writings, your books, and specifically related to the Moonlighting episodes.

509
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:49.639
The easiest way to get everything is
Scott Ryan Productions dot com. That's

510
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.920
where it is my home base that
has you know, the podcast, my

511
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:58.199
book. My books come out to
a company that I run with David Bushman

512
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:04.519
called AFL Mafia and that if you
google say a bill Mafia pressI will take

513
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:08.239
you there, or the easiest way
of Scott Ryan Productions dot com. That's

514
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:12.719
easy to spell. Well, Scott, I can't thank you enough for taking

515
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:17.360
your time twice to be on back
to the eighties. I really really appreciate

516
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:21.400
it. And for those of you
who are interested, we're going to be

517
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:23.519
right back to stick around. There's
more of Tiskano and Chang Back to the

518
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:27.880
Eighties Radio. I love it.
I can't wait to hear I ever wish

519
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:31.400
you could go back to the eighties
with the crazy clothes and those wacky hair

520
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:37.440
dues. Well, let Tuscano and
Chang transport you back in time, back

521
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:45.400
to the eighties. Welcome back to
back to the eighties, Chang of Tuscano

522
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.280
Chang. We're chatting it up about
some of our favorite TV shows. But

523
00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.960
before we digged deep into our likes
and dislikes of TV shows, I want

524
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.639
to give a couple of shout outs
out there. I want to give a

525
00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:59.679
shout out to all our armed forces
out there. I want to give a

526
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:02.639
shout to all our first time responders, you know who you are. I

527
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:07.079
also want to give a shout out
to everybody out there that's going to tough

528
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.880
times. If you're suffering with depression
or bipolar, call somebody they can help.

529
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.599
I also want to give a very
fantastic shout out to a good friend

530
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:22.079
of mine who is celebrating an anniversary. Lisa Lyons and her beautiful husband,

531
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.679
mister Lyons. Happy thirty second anniversary. Remember all of us from state anniversary,

532
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:29.920
you know, I want to give
us a few shout outs, but

533
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:32.920
I want to kick it off everybody
here in the US that's listening to us

534
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:37.159
all over, from the state of
the beautiful state of California to the state

535
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:43.239
of New York, Oregon, I
mean Massachusetts, I mean every single state

536
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:49.119
in the Union. And a big, big shout out to everybody around the

537
00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.079
world. And just to mention a
few countries, because I know that we're

538
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:57.079
we are in great standing in a
few countries. So one of those countries

539
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:00.519
is Indonesia and Argentina. So everybody
who's listening to us in those countries,

540
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:06.760
a big, big thank you for
putting us where we are in your country.

541
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.360
Also a big shout out to you
if you're listening to us from Belize,

542
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:16.920
even from Aruba, the beautiful Aruba, even from Macedonia, Saint Lucia,

543
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:23.639
South Korea, you know, from
Central America, South America and Europe.

544
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:28.920
Thank you, thank you so much
for taking the time to spend your

545
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:31.920
day with back to the Eighties radio. All right, if you just joined

546
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.320
us, we're talking about eighties TV
shows, action TV shows and drama and

547
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:43.679
even some comedic TV shows in there. And I know, Chang that you

548
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:50.760
are just dying to tell me some
more shows that I didn't like. Yes,

549
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.119
I bet now I'm gonna go on
a list. Not really, I'm

550
00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:57.760
just gonna say it. You were
probably a hater of Cheers, one of

551
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:00.719
my most favorite television shows. Say
I just knew it. I mean that

552
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:08.039
show that went on from nineteen ninety
three. Absolutely, how could you hate

553
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:10.920
that show? Woody Haroldson, the
Coach and they were all old for you

554
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:16.000
know, it was all older people. Keep in mind to me, I

555
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:22.079
have one of those tastes in TV
shows, as with everything else in my

556
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.880
life, that I needed it to
be not boring, And by not boring,

557
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:29.559
I meant, you know, something
with action, stupid comedy, and

558
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:34.119
that's about it. So you were
probably a big fan of that ridiculous show.

559
00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.039
Was that great legendary actor Tom Hanks. Buzzom Buddies. I hated that

560
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:44.239
showed a season Bosom Buddies from nineteen
eighteen nineteen eighty two. It was a

561
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:51.119
sitcom who started of course Tom Hanks
and Peter Scillari that ran and on ABC,

562
00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:57.239
and it was about two single men
working in advertising and they had to

563
00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:04.159
live in this certain apartment community that
they can only afford if they had dressed

564
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:09.480
like women, because I believe it
was in all women community. Right.

565
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.360
The beautiful Donna Dixon, who was
married to dan Ackroyd. That tall blonde

566
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:20.119
that you can just get lost in
her looks almost like getting lost if you

567
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.480
were a child getting lost at a
mall. That's what That's how lost.

568
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:28.320
I got looking at Donna Dixon.
She was voluptuous, tall. I wanted

569
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.800
to climb her like a bean stuff. But I hated the show. Bro

570
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:36.360
I love Tom Hanks, Don't get
me wrong. Scolari turned out to be

571
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:39.239
a fine actor himself, but that
show, it just didn't do it.

572
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:45.079
I'm gonna mention this following show,
which also began in seventy seven and died

573
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:49.199
in eighty three, So I do
consider it somewhat of an eighties show,

574
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.199
right, because it didn't last at
least four years in the eighties, okay,

575
00:46:53.360 --> 00:47:00.639
right, And this show is a
program that you always compare me to

576
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:07.960
one of the actors. It was
about police motorcycle duo and the show was

577
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:16.920
called Yes Hips and who could Forget
Punch? And John the who could forget

578
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:22.599
the ever ever so hideous John to
the Golden Mexican I mean not Mexican Latino

579
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:31.719
got Eric. So come on,
if you were a girl, or if

580
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:37.800
you were gay and you had Eric
Ostrata and whatever his name was, Stanley

581
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:43.639
there with no shirt, you're going
to salivate all. You're not gonna look

582
00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:45.840
at the ugly guy and go,
oh, I want that guy. He's

583
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:49.960
got man boobs. No, you're
gonna go with the Latino god, mister

584
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:55.360
Eric Ostrata. And yes, your
hair, your complexion, that beautiful smile.

585
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:00.159
Some of the shorts that I've seen
in the pictures that you said at

586
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:07.480
me, you are punchrello. You
put the you know, the eighties was

587
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:10.920
a decade when they used to admire
Latino men by the way they used to

588
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:16.320
say women used to say tall,
dark and handsome. Remember that. Yes,

589
00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:22.159
and now me being Latino, the
only thing I ever heard was shut

590
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.079
up, get on the floor.
Where's your ID? This your real left

591
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:29.440
name? You have any warrants?
And unfortunately the government today has made Latino's

592
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:36.000
short dark and poor. Anyway,
nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety two,

593
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:43.800
this following show was probably, I
dare to say, the most wholesome family

594
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:49.400
show of them all. I may
be wrong, but it was one of

595
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:54.079
them okay, and it's it was. It went on for eight seasons and

596
00:48:54.199 --> 00:49:02.639
it focused on a family called the
Huxtables. The show was then The Cosby

597
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:10.000
Show. Yes, who could forget
that show? That show was groundbreaking on

598
00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:16.119
so many different levels. It portrayed
the black community as upstanding, which they

599
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:21.719
should be. But they had this
bitter dark cloud over him for years.

600
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.760
And I thought that show broke barriers. I thought it'd set standards. I

601
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.159
was a huge fan of Bill Cosby
as a standup comedian, probably the greatest,

602
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:38.960
cleanest, family oriented comics to date. It's a shame about his his

603
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:45.599
real life scandals and his perversions.
That's that's quite a shock. I can't

604
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.400
imagine. Every time I would see
that new story of Bill Cosby doing such

605
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.280
changeous crimes, I would think of
Doctor Huxtable and I would be like,

606
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:59.079
Wow, you have Felicia Rashad as
your wife, gorgeous woman. What are

607
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.119
you doing given ufies to a young
girl? Yeah? That's crazy, that

608
00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:07.159
is crazy. I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe. I used

609
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:13.440
to wonder do you think he was
putting it in yellow jail to drug his

610
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:15.880
women? I don't know, but
I did like that show. They had

611
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:19.480
some great actors. I mean,
the kids were on there. They all

612
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.960
turned out to be very successful.
Lisa Bonney dropped it, gorgeous, Mary

613
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:30.280
Lenny Kravitz, and now she's married
to Aquaman. If he really yeah,

614
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.360
she's she's married to Aquaman. She
was gorgeous. But that was a great

615
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:37.639
show. I thought it was funny. I thought he had dealt with the

616
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.599
real problems. He dealt with it
comedically and professionally. I have to give

617
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.800
that show two thumbs up. Even
though our haters, I like that.

618
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.079
They always had a very well to
me, it was they were funny.

619
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:52.800
They had some real funny episodes,
and obviously the one who put the funny

620
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:58.320
in the show was Bill Cosby himself. But I liked it because there was

621
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:01.440
always a clean message. There was
always a message that taught you something.

622
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:06.760
I mean, you actually learned from
that program. And there were heartbreaks,

623
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:10.320
there were tragedies sometimes, and I
mean a lot of real life scenarios.

624
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:15.199
So I think that's what really hit
home in many of the hearts of everybody

625
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:21.679
that that watched it. I agree
with you. There was a far jump

626
00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:27.880
from the Partridge family and the Brady
bunch of the wholesome, clean parents,

627
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:32.880
never get upset. Everything's goes down
with a song. They live with,

628
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.159
you know, the Brady Bunch.
I watched it as a kid, but

629
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:39.440
I just couldn't believe some of the
crap that they try to pull off on

630
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:43.599
that show. Sometimes I thought,
I wish my parents talked to me the

631
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:45.679
way that they would talk to their
kid. But I grew up in a

632
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.159
Mexican household, so there's a lot
of square words, and we didn't have

633
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.559
no alas it was Arisia. Some
of the other TV shows that made it

634
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:57.920
really, really big in the eighties
were shows like Night Court, Perfect Strangers,

635
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:00.000
Quantum Leap. There is a show, oh that I know you and

636
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:04.599
I right, show don't like at
least I believe that you don't like.

637
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:08.280
I don't like it, probably even
more than Match. Are you ready for

638
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:14.719
this? Roseanne? Yeah? I'm
ready Roseanne that started in nineteen eighty eight.

639
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:21.239
Oh, now you know what,
Roseanne? We do agree some of

640
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:25.960
the uh, some of the episodes
in Roseanne, UH, I thought were

641
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:31.400
very good because it dealt with real
problems. I kind of didn't like Roseanne's

642
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:35.119
kind of comedy. I didn't really
like the way that she had. That's

643
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:42.719
not easily whiny, bitchy, pissed
off wife attitude. Uh you know it

644
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.159
was. It was. It was
an odd show, but that is a

645
00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:49.079
show that it had some good points. Everybody in the castle was idiots,

646
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.079
I guess, I guess I was
wrong. Then every not all TV shows

647
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:57.639
in the eighties had uh, pretty
people and that was Roseanne was living proof.

648
00:52:57.800 --> 00:53:01.920
Yeah, now the show you but
I cannot believe that it ended up

649
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:07.119
coming back later on in recent years
and then with Roseanne opening her biggest mouth,

650
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:10.440
got herself in trouble and tossed off
the show. But we don't need

651
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:13.880
to cover that. All we know
and need to know is yes, she

652
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:17.239
has always been a loudmouthfool. But
another show that you brought up, Quantum

653
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:23.199
Leap. I thoroughly enjoyed that show. That show it had Scott Bacula.

654
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:30.760
Are you familiar with the show?
And the little character that was in charge

655
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:37.199
of the time trible was Ziggy.
They had a comedian, one of my

656
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:42.719
favorite comedians, Dennis Wolfberg. He
was the scientist with the kind of Larry

657
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.880
of the three Stooges hair, with
the big eyes and the big mustache.

658
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:50.400
He was one of my favorite comedians. But that was a show with Dean

659
00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:52.159
Stockwell that I really used to like. As a matter of fact, me

660
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:58.920
and missus Chang used to watch Quantum
Leap every some of the shows the Wonder

661
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:04.000
Years that started eight all the way
to ninety three, a fantastic show.

662
00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:07.199
How about this one from nineteen eighty
three to nineteen eighty seven, which was

663
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:10.159
a long air date, a long
you know span for this show. And

664
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:16.519
it was Webster, Remember Webster?
Oh, how could you forget that repulsive,

665
00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:22.039
ridiculous show that was kind of like
you had a different all right,

666
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:27.920
I couldn't do the Webster Webster was. He reminded me of like a Koala

667
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.199
bear. Wanted to hug him.
It wasn't like thirty five years old when

668
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:36.840
he made the program. Yeah,
I think ninety two. There was,

669
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:42.360
of course Who's the Boss with Tony
Danza as the retired Major League baseball player

670
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:46.920
who relocated to Fairfield, Connecticut to
work as a living housekeeper for a divorced

671
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:55.400
advertising executive played by of course,
Judith Lte And it also also featured the

672
00:54:55.599 --> 00:55:01.159
young and talented Alyssa milano Oh,
who grew to be one of the sexiest

673
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:07.119
women in the industry and down to
earth at that now Tony Danson came from

674
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:09.199
a show that I just loved to
Debt Taxi. I know you hated it,

675
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:14.159
Rich Hater, but I always thought
that was a very funny show.

676
00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:19.559
Every character on that show made me
laugh, from Bobby Wheeler to Latka to

677
00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:28.599
Louis Alex. You had uh yeah, hello Alex. And then you had

678
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:32.239
kid Nig Natowski, who later was
famous for you know, come on riding

679
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:37.320
around him that delayer back to the
Future doctor yep, you know, and

680
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:39.239
and and he was one of my
favorite characters in that show. You know,

681
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:44.159
he did too many drugs. He
was hilarious that I always saw him

682
00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:50.960
just sitting around. I think you
get a phone call. This is the

683
00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:54.559
one and only back to the eighties. Who's on the other line, Ollo,

684
00:55:54.960 --> 00:56:01.639
I'm looking for Alex Rigger. Oh
my was Jim the Tomsky. I'm

685
00:56:01.679 --> 00:56:09.519
with Tabby here in New York City, the city of um oh, some

686
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:15.679
type of fruit? He knows this
Jim from from the TV show Taxi.

687
00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:22.840
May be loaded, but I do
remember staving. This is Jim Ntomsky from

688
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:29.239
Taxi. I was looking for Alex
Reager. Well back to the eighties,

689
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.800
Are you sure you were looking in
the right book? You were looking in

690
00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:37.360
the white pages or yellow pages?
Well, the pages were white with a

691
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:40.599
powder. I don't remember what it
was, so I just dialed whatever I

692
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:50.760
could. Um, now I was
calling Billiard. You sound familiar. You

693
00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:55.639
sound like somebody who's been back in
time from nineteen eighty five. All of

694
00:56:55.639 --> 00:57:00.920
the weights here nineteen fifty five.
Bow, I'm out of a fact.

695
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:07.840
I made a car as flying,
I'm check out over the Lorean and um,

696
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.840
everybody knows your sprinkle a little blow. I don't think that's how it

697
00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:15.559
works. You'll comply where Yeah,
I don't think that's how it works.

698
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:20.840
It's wrinkling a little bit of blow. I was wondering if I could get

699
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:27.079
tickets to Air Supply and possibly a
patasixags. I'm well, do you have

700
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:34.079
a set of four tickets to see
air Supply at the Los Angeles Forum December

701
00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:38.920
seventeenth, nineteen eighty six. Are
you interested in going? I want to

702
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:44.360
take my friend Alex and Tony,
and I want to take Bobby with me.

703
00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:49.239
And I want to take uh maybe
like guy. He's a good friend

704
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:54.559
of mine and he just moved in
to the area. Yeah, Okay,

705
00:57:55.000 --> 00:58:00.760
hello, you called me. This
is Tredgy. Well, thanks for calling

706
00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:04.639
back to the eighties radio. I
hope you find what you're looking for.

707
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:08.280
Now is the time, ladies and
gentlemen, if he just joined us the

708
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:13.079
time in the show where we talk
about what made us angry back in the

709
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:17.960
eighties, and in honor of the
most wondrous and most infamous change, we

710
00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:23.800
have dubbed them changres. So chang
take it away. What made you changree

711
00:58:24.079 --> 00:58:29.480
back in the eighties? Well,
TSCTA, you know what made me changry

712
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:34.159
back in the eighties as we're talking
about some of our past thrilling TV shows,

713
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:37.199
Those two broads that came in at
You know, it makes me changy

714
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:45.119
having heard the word broads since the
eighties. You know what got me changry

715
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:49.800
back in the eighties? Uh?
Talking about some of our shows? Tom

716
00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:52.679
Selleck, Oh, Tom sellis must
Yes, I agree. You know what

717
00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:58.239
got me back in the eighties watching
Tom Selleck in Magnum Pi. What's it

718
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:02.840
those short yours that he used to
wear with button down tucked in shirt that

719
00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:07.400
he used to wear with those moccasins
and no socks. Oh? Yes,

720
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:10.519
you know what else? Got me
changry back in the eighties about Tom Slick,

721
00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:15.519
that ridiculous New York Yankee cap change, about back in the eighties TV

722
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:22.760
shows, two shows, Hill Street
Blues and mash You know what got me

723
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:27.880
changry back in the eighties talking about
television? Dellis was not and that,

724
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:31.039
ladies and gentlemen, has been this
week's Changry. If you have something that

725
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:36.000
made you angry back in the eighties, or as we'd like to call changry,

726
00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:39.559
go ahead and send us a message
to our Facebook page and we'll be

727
00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:45.440
more than glad to read them on
our next Changry session the following week.

728
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:50.599
So, chang we've reached the end
of another show. Yep, it's time

729
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:53.199
to say our goodbyes, and I
want to wish you guys a great week.

730
00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:59.920
Join us again next Friday to tune
into more madness with Toscano and Chang

731
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:02.679
so on. Behalf of us here. Just be safe, do what you're

732
01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:07.199
supposed to do, and don't forget
that back to the eighties radio is here

733
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.679
for you. That's right, everybody. Before I release you to another chang

734
01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:15.920
tastic weekend, this is a chang
stand up for something bigger. Than you.

735
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:17.440
Call a friend, call a loved
him, tell him you love him.

736
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:22.280
Always remember to keep a smile on
your face. If you're not feeling

737
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:25.159
good, go ahead and tap that
button and listen to Tuscano and Changa will

738
01:00:25.199 --> 01:00:29.320
put a smile on your face.
Be good people out there. Take care

739
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.440
of each other's back. We are
all we got. We are one race,

740
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:37.920
the human race. Stay lifted and
gifted. Everybody. Adios ad asta

741
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:42.920
manyana, asta lavista, sayonata into
all. My home is in the old

742
01:00:43.159 --> 01:01:01.320
back inside. Who we a