Somethings in the '80s Needed to Change

Good day. You've heard of sixty minutes, Well, this is sixty seconds. You heard of Ted Copper. I am Ted Copper, bringing you the latest and greatest news of the eighties and today, and right now it seems like we're going through another edition. Are part two, what we would call Groundhog's Day? Still in the voting process. We've got our ground correspondent there in Nevada, deep in the heart of Sin City. We have Richard Johnson. Richard, can you hear us? Can you tell us a little bit about what's going on? What is taking so long for these votes to come? In? Day three? Put it all on Red. It's gotta go, We gotta go. I'm on Red. I'm all in. I'm all in. So another drink quickly, I'm rolling hard. Oh wait, hold on, hold on dead Yeah, Richard, this is uh, this is Ted Copper. I'm wondering. Are you not at the facilities where the our account where they are counting the votes. It seems like you're enjoying yourself at a casino. Oh, Teddy, Yes, I'm having a great time. Teddy up. You should have come, I'm telling you right now now Wait a minute, hold on, hold on, Susan one more drink in a shot, let's go, would it beg? Okay, sorry about that, Teddy talking to my favorite doll a Rudy right now. Anyway, what question? What was that question? To get hold on? Let me get my head pieced together? Okay, okay, let's okay in three three ready, Okay, I'm back, Richard. I was wondering what is taking the seat of Okay, I don't feel comfortable, but okay, Dick, how is it that Nevada is taking so long in this process of counting votes? Tell us to tell us if you can right now, Well, I'm gonna break it down. It's almost like cracking an egg shell over here. You know, Yeah, a lot of people that are inebriated, and everybody's out parting all the time. And you know, with a new arrival of the Las Vegas Raiders, it seems like the latter has completely lost its mind. Speaking about losing its mind, Oh, I'm losing my mind. I'm fifty kis of Oh daddy needs a new divorce. Keep it all on red. Remember, Richard, this is sixty seconds. We don't have too much time, So can we get straight to the point. I know you must be working very hard there at the casino. By the way, what casino are you at right now? I am at the luncher at the pyramid at the Luxor. Yes, I feel almost like I'm King Arthur speaking to King Arthur. Double down, double down, Keep the King's coming. That's right. I'm ready to spain right now. Blackjack, blackjack, Oh, by the way, Teddy, all jacks matter, especially black jack. Oh, show me, Richard. I am wondering if you can share with us and the audience. What is the ambiance like right now at that casino where you're at. I know that everybody's on pins and needles, wondering when this election is gonna be over? Well, actually, they're thrown down a side bed over here in the back room on who's gonna win the election? And I'm gonna tell you all fifteen gee's up, and I put a couple of tweedies up on the old board too. I'll pull it for an old slow joel to pull up you know what I need and take it by six furlong. Well of that note, Richard, we have got to go here. The show is over. This is after all, they went on only sixty seconds Teddy Boo yo of the victory. For me, I'm hitting it out of the puck everywhere I turned here and be unable Las Vegas, Nevada, Well you've heard of live there. This is Richard Johnson, our on site correspondent, Live at Dick Johnson. I feel uncomfortable, but this is once again Ted Copper. Join us next time when we here at sixty seconds give you the news. Welcome in everybody to back to the eighties. I'm Tiscanno from Tiscano and Chang bringing you once again this Friday, some more back to the eighties madness. And it couldn't be at a better time, because you know, this year twenty twenty has been incredibly weird as it is, and now it seems like we're reliving the election process every single day. Every time I turn on the news, Chang, it seems like nothing has changed, and then it varies a little, and then it varies in favor of one and then in favor of another, and then all of a sudden, the next day it goes back to the beginning. So I don't like this feeling. I would have to say twenty twenty is almost like getting a case of food poisoning. Now, both of these candidates are like a toss up between having diarrhea or vomiting. Nobody wants to do either one because it's a mass. It is a mass here in the beautiful United States of America. It is flow for those people listening to us, oh from around the world. And by the way, I want to give a big shout out for those people listening to us from Australia. Thank you guys from the landdown under where I really thank you guys for supporting the program with your listenership. Also change check this out. We have new additions to our listenership and one of those yeah, and I just have to share this because one of those areas is Germany and I know and pretty soon, by the way, in a couple of weeks, I think we have very very famous and prominent German doctors, scientists to be exact, they're going to be on the show talking to us about how they make the drinks in Germany and things like that. So just stay tuned for that. But in the meantime, we've got people from and I hope I'm not killing this too bad, but Baden Wurtburg Region Hamburg from riinhead fais from Saxony and from the land of Berlin of course, and so I mean, there are so many countries listening to us right now. We're just very grateful. From New Zealand all the way, to believe it or not, Hong Kong. They're listening to us in Hong Kong and Africa, oh, the UK, YEP and Austria, you know, Ireland. I mean, we can go on and on and on. So I just want to thank you guys. I want to give a big shout out to anybody right now wearing a RAMS hat. You know who you are. A big shout out to you. If you're wearing a RAMS hat, I love it. I gotta give a big shout out to anybody right now that is wearing black socks and no T shirt. You know who you are. You're by the way, check this out now nobody can see, but I'm about to show Chang my socks. Oh there it is black booty socks. Now now, I would say, with a gray heel, with a gray heel, look like you are a host at a restaurant with those shoes. I don't have any shoes with the socks. Yeah, yeah, you gotta take off your shirt so I could send you a proper shout out. No, I'll show you my biceps though. That was But anyway, booty socks. Let's get that on the table. Really, Okay, here's the reason I wear the short The reason I wear ankle socks is because the higher socks, which I do have plenty of, tend to be a little bit too tight and I start getting itchy, and rather rather than have me just start scratching all day, I just wear the ankle socks. And that's it. So it's the fault of your muscular calves I see for your fashion statement. Pretty much, pretty much, very interesting now, missus sis kind of must be very happy with those muscular calves. And the laundry went down a little bit because you're not wearing the big longs the tube socks. Yeah, yeah, that's how it is. Man. Well, this is the one and only Back to the Eighties show, the program that invites you to share the eighties to a whole new generation and with a whole new generation. So this is the program that we share nostalgic moments, the memories, and those things that made us either smile, get happy, tear up or even cringe at times. Today, we look forward to having a great show with you. We have a great program. We're going to be talking about those things. What are those things that we can change in society in our city, Maybe things that happened that didn't go to well around your neighborhood or whatever it is that you could go back. If you could go back and change, what would you do it? What would you change? So don't go away, because there's a lot more here, back to the eighties and more of Teskano and Chang. Ever, wish you could go back to the eighties with the crazy clothes and those wacky hair dues. Well, let Tescano and Chang transport you back in time, back to the eighties, digging you on a trip, doing better time, a time when America used to win at things, When we won the Cold War by our in Afghanistan, when we beat Russian boxers by jugging in the woods, when a welder could become a dancer, when a poor immigrant could become to the power of music a guru to a generation. 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So hit us on our Patreon page, share us, tell a friend, and stay locked and loaded every Friday, because we've got a whole lot of eighties to bring back. Now to slap the outside the head to Scannell, why don't you dive right in to some of our topics starting today and every week we're going to have a special segment that's called Top Events of the eighties, and depending on the year that you choose. That's right, We're going to give you the opportunity to choose a year, and we're gonna go ahead and look up some of the top events of that year, and we're gonna discuss them right here on the show. The year is nineteen eighty seven. I want to talk about something very simple, which is movies. Top movies in nineteen eighty seven, believe it or not, was Moonstruck, Moonstruck, the movie Wall Street, the movie The Last Emperor, and a movie that has traumatized many married men for years to come after that, which was Fatal Attraction. Do you remember that movie Brong? Oh? How could I forget that movie? I mean, hey, Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas was possibly handsome back then, but god, Sharon Stone, it was not even close to anything that I expected or anticipated when Sharon Stone crossed their legs. And I'll tell you it wasn't even groundhog Day. It was beaver Day in that movie. I couldn't believe that movie. I also did like Wall Street, The Last Emperor. I'm kind of kind of The Last Emperor kind of reminds me of Oh, hold on I Got a Sneeze. I hate it. I hate that movie. I hated that movie. I hated everybody in that movie. I hated when that movie came out. Sorry, I had to hate Sneeze. Yeah, it was Glenn Close. And you know what's that movie you were thinking of? Was that I had my blondes all backwards. You see what happens when I was in the eighties. I did too many drugs. They all look alike Tusky. I must have done too much blowback in the eighties. How could I make my I got my blondes all wrong? I remember that movie that you're talking about, and it is Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. But it's a movie basic fin Scales where Liz greathe they think in Drink? Wasn't that also? Isn't the Egges? No, that was nineteen ninety two. Oh so close Close Chang had won too many. I guess the Chang had won too many. So it was Moonstruck Wall Street, The Last Emperor, which I didn't care for it. Back then it was how about Boonstruck Boonstruck, No, I didn't care for it. With good old Share and Nicholas Cage, that's another movie. Hold on, hey it now. Nick Cage has always been one of those great overactors, you know what I mean. The thing about Nicholas Cage, I mean, did you ever notice the way that he spoke. He said every syllable as correct as possible. Yeah, he had a very particular way of speaking and still does. But now you gotta remember Chair. I think Share was probably one of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood yet that era. Yeah, I mean, Chair, what is she one hundred and seventy five years old? And she I think, hey, there is what one hundred and eighty five and she doesn't look and she doesn't know. But seriously, no matter how I know, she's got you know, a lot of a lot of hours under the knife. I understand that. But she went with the right doctor because she she looks very, very good for her age. Yeah, she does. You gotta give it to she gotta give it to her. Give it up for her doctors. The Home Girl could sing. The Home Girl was funny. The Home Girl was very funny in her show in the seventies. She was a great actress. I mean Share, I mean, I'd say probably within the top ten beautiful women in Hollywood during the eighty would you not agree one hundred percent? Maybe in the twenty yeah, nope, one percent. Something else that happened in that year, in nineteen eighty seven, believe it or not. And this is on the sports side. Let's go basketball, La Lakers Boston Showtime. Do you remember Chickherne, the announcer broadcaster of the Lost Angele How could you forget? Yeah? How could one forget Chickherne? The most animated of all sports narrators in English, of course it was. I compare him to the Spanish soccer broadcasters ninety three to seventy of the games in the Admiral refrigerator, the doors closed, the lights out, butters getting hired, the eggs are cooling, and the jello is jigglings. Nobody else but the great, great Late Chick hern bro Chickie Baby stole the mustard off, the hot dog salab dunk. Those are all phrases that Kicky Baby came up with, and God rest his soul, We're never ever going to see anybody like that again. He not only was the voice of the Lakers, he was a personality of the Lakers. He was the heartbeat of the Los Angeles Lakers for all the years that he was the commentator. That's what I feel because I, as you know, I am a diehard Laker, Los Angeles Dodger and a Los Angeles Ram than I hold my alliance higher than I hold anything else that tickles my fancy. That's right. And now jumping onto other stuff that happened in the eighties as important events. Did you know that the cost of a first class stamp was only twenty two cents back then? Wow? Yeah, you're right. What was the cost of the newspaper you have that handy? Yeah, the newspaper was a quarter. I remember my dad always going every Sunday to get the LA Times because my dad wanted to see the sports section, and in particular, he always interested in what happened at sant Anina Hollywood Park and all the horse racing tracks, yes you know the horse tracks, and yeah, always and I think on Sunday it was a little more expensive. I think he spent like fifty cents for the LA Time back then. And now I know a particular person who gets the LA Times and they charge him about one hundred and forty dollars a year to get the LA times to his door that I think, who I know who you're talking about too. Yeah, he's probably the only human being that still reads newspapers say that. You know. The funny thing as we're talking about newspapers, No, I remember, I know you remember in some of the Angelina's that are listening to remember the Herald Examiner. Oh my goodness, I remember that. That's another one of the newspapers that my dad used to read quite a bit. The funny thing is my dad used to get the newspaper right, and I'm thinking, oh, you know he reads the newspaper. What are you reading there, Dad? Ah? You know my horse, my horse lost, my horse? This, my horse that? And what do you do with the rest of the paper. I don't need to read it. Who cares what happens. It's all the same every day. That's funny. You know what else is funny is that me and you have talked off era before. For a couple of years. We would discuss both our fathers were intrigued with horse racing. Yeah. Yeah, you know the funny thing, I was eight years old and I knew how to read a racing form. How was asked for some Paris I'm gonna baseball. I'm gonna flip flop. Oh yeah, we're in place a shoe, baby, that's what it's all about. Yeah, no, it's it's crazy. It's crazy. What what used to happen back then? And kids were invited to go along for the ride. I remember my dad used to take me to the all the different tracks that were around, and of course they you know what, they used to have a lot of stuff for kids at the tracks. In particular, I remember, I believe it was Los Aliminos Racetrack. They used to have a big giant arcade on the first floor right before where you have to take the escalators to go up to the racetrack and everything like that, and kids and teenagers would be left downstairs with a roll of quarters and they'd let you know, they'd leave. We'd leave our parents alone and they'd leave us alone, and we were Okay, Now you can't leave your kids anywhere by themselves, because still something or something will happen to them. Yeah. Now, do you remember going to Hollywood Park which is no longer there. It is a Sofi stadium where the Los Angeles Rams and the newly acquired Los Angeles Chargers play their games. Yeah. Absolutely. Outside the Hollywood Park track there was a statue with a very famous horse called Dash for Cash and a jockey riding it. And I remember I used to climb on the horse, and you know, I'm a little kid, and I used to climb in place of the jockey, so I'm kind of covering the jockey. Yeah, and with my hand, I'd cover his hand so it looked like I'm riding the horse, when in reality, I was like, you know, right in the jockey. Yeah, that's insane. I remember knowing a lot of the jockeys back then too, you know Lafite, Pink Angel, Cordova, Hi Shoemaker, Willy Shoemaker. Yeah, no, my goodness. Actually met Willie Shoemaker one time with my dad. We would go stand on the green when they're walking the horses up. Yeah. I was with my dad and my godfather, and my dad and my godfather were gay Willie shoe what's going on? And he came up and walked over, talked to my dad and my godfather and then shook my hand. And I was a little kid then, so I thought, man, that little dude is buffed out. I used to want to be a jockey up until I hit to five five. Then I thought, there's just no chats in hell. They're gonna allow me to whip a horse and ride it down in the home streats same here. I used to love their uniforms and jockey uniforms, yes, you know, and I always wanted to dress up as a jockey and go go on the track because I thought it was incredible to realize you you had to be less, you know, smaller than four feet. So I think Rod Steele got to some of his fashion from what I think. So, I think so one of these days were Yeah, one of these days we're going to be posting a picture on our Facebook page of Chang's hair stylus of Rod's steel. All right. One of the other things that happened in the eighties. Population, by the way World statistics population was about four point three seven eight billion people on Earth. That was just a little over thirty five years ago. Wow, and we were at four point three billion and we are now at seven billion people on Earth. That's crazy, isn't it. Brother? Now that's a crazy fact, bro. Yeah, it's like a we have become like human rabbits. We've multiplied at a rapid rate. You know, you know what the population you know what the population in the United States US at that time twoty two two hundred, two hundred and forty two million, and now we're like getting close to four hundred million. So we kind of doubled doubled our population in a little over thirty thirty five years. Wow, you know what that's So that's what happens when people take that little blue pill and procreate. Jeez, I'll see what drugs do to your children. Stay off at drugs anyway. All right, let's take a quick little station identifier there. When we come back, we're gonna start talking about those things that we could change if we could go back to the eighties. Don't you go nowhere? You head on back to the eighties. So you want to make a podcast, Well, with Spotify, it's easy to record, edit and distribute your podcast everywhere. Plus now you can even record video podcasts all for free. It's called Spotify for Podcasters. With Spotify for Podcasters, you can even earn money with ads and subscriptions and did I mention it's free. Creative tools like video podcast Q and A and pulls. Put the back to the eighties radio show on another level. Download the Spotify for Podcasters app today or go to spotify dot com slash podcasters to get started. Hey, some of you remember the eighties five right, Well it lives loud and proud. On back to the eighties with my pals to Scotto and Chang. We never stopped, hurts, didn't hurt, It didn't hurt, didn't hurt, NonStop, unforgettable memories from the eighties. Stot By to the eighties. All right, we are back and you are back here on back to the eighties to Kanno went Chain. Oh my goodness, you know what, it's even hard to think Chang with everything going on in the news, and uh, you know you you want to go go back to a better time, a time you know you really want to press that rewind button. I wish there was a rewind button. If you've ever seen that movie with Adam Sandler where it's called Click and he rewinds time when he fast forwards it. If we could and had one, I would do it, because there comes a point. Man, we're twenty twenties, just kidding, It's just it's just out of control, out of control. What year would you like to go back to in the eighties. If you're good, I would go back to the year of the USA Olympics, my friend, just because it's yep. Nineteen eighty four was at around the halfway mark almost and some great music for three years before and the rest of the years after some great music. So there was a lot of things I think that that were great in that year. But the thing that the event that mainly stands out of course to identify that year for me was the nineteen eighty four Olympics. I remember when the torch was getting carried down many of the busy avenues in Los Angeles, California, as it made its way to the Colosseum. I remember being out on Whittier Boulevard in uptown Whittier when the tortures going through, and it was I can remember it like it was just yesterday. I was there with my good friends and we were drinking low and brows that we had purchased at the seven to eleven right across there. Now, if anybody knows that you'd been drinking, if you've been drinking Schlitz the bull, now that was some toxic alcohol right there. Brother, You can get hammered and run through a china store anytime you were just hammered on the bull. But the funny thing about eighty four, when this was going on, we were in enough to get alcohol right, right, but funny, funny enough you magically did somehow. But I remember that, and that is a great year to go back, and that's a great event that you remember. I'm sure a lot of our listeners probably wouldn't remember that, or if they do, that would not be a top event that they would probably squander or look upon going back. As for the Chang, I would love to go back to nineteen eighty three. During the US Festival, I lived the life of rock and roll. Incredible concert, incredible journey. It was an incredible time in my life. I met some incredible people. I had some of the hottest rock and roll metal chicks sitting on my laps getting sprayed down by water cannons. As we've watched bands like Van Halen, Triumph, Judas Priest, Osdy Motley Crue, I was spectacular. The Scorpions that show as loadus as the Chang was. I can recall so many vivid pictures of that time at the US Festival. My own personal Woodstock. No, that was that was a fantastic festival. I mean I pick eighty four because the very next year we all know that that was Live AID and I would have loved to have been able to go to Live Aid the one in England though, you know, the one at Wimbley Stadium. I would have loved to have been there. No, that's the show where Queen and Freddie Mercury had just gotten back i'd say maybe a year or several months back together, and they killed Yes, and they they became the staple of that and it will before ever known that that was Queen. That was the day of Queen. Yes. And the sad thing is Freddie Mercury was suffering from AIDS already at the time, and he went out there and prepared himself to be in top physical and singing poise, and he was fighting AIDS as he gave one of the greatest front man shows I think of all rock and roll time. To me, I would call Freddie Mercury an actual hero, somebody that gave, gave, gave to what he loved for the people that he loved and enjoyed him till the day he died. That my friend is an eighties icon and a hero. Absolutely now going to some of the stuff that was really really bad in the eighties, that if you could go back in a time tonight, all right, no thinking about it, just go back tonight to any year to change anything you want within society, within you know, it could be whatever, just something that you would change to make life in the United States better. What would you change if I could, I would go back to the eighties and come up with a cure for AIDS so that devastating virus disease rather did not kill and inflict so many good people. It always bothered me that it got that that nasty title AIDS kills Fags dead. I remember Sebastian Bach of skid roll sported a shirt like that, and back then I was quite rambunctious, and I remember seeing him with that shirt, and I remember telling my buddy, I would kick that guy's ass for free, just for wearing that shirt. But if I could go back, I would have loved to have rid rid the world of such a horrendous disease. I had two cousins and an uncle passed from the AIDS virus, so I know exactly what that is. Like to have a loved one and lose a loved one to such a disease. I would love to go back. It was change that. Yeah, it was absolutely devastated. It was brother, It changed literally change the world over because it came like it started like a wildfire, yes, and and it destroyed everything in its path like a tornado. It's very similar to the COVID that we're experienced. You know, people are going to jump on each side of the fence, just like they did back then with the Age crisis, my friend, and you're never going to get rid of the haters because they just want to hate, hate, hate, or the naysayers. But yeah, it's odd that we've kind of but it's just it's sad that we're witnessing some of the same devastation and some people that are still non believers in this, this devastating virus that we're going through now, very similar to the Age epidemic. People don't want to believe it. People want to jump on the political ram or the bandwagon of the negative. We didn't need it then, just like we don't need it now. Yeah, you know, I think the number one thing that I would like to go back to the eighties and get rid of is that whole drug campaign where the drugs started coming in to the United States like a flood, And that was all because of the permission of the government. I mean, it's just the bottom line, you know. In the in the nineteen eighties, Ronald Reagan reinforced and expanded a lot of Nixon's Warren drugs you know, Warren drugs policies. In nineteen eighty four, do you remember the campaign that Nancy Reagan launched, Oh, just say no, that's right. I used I used to refer to Nancy Reagan as the bird lady. I thought she was cuckoo. Uh I, why do you think he was crazy? Just because she always wore that red dress. Oh my god, you're a hater. It was like, get rid of the dress. Get rid of the dress, Nancy, and stop dying your husband's hair. And Bonzo died a long time ago. I was not a big fan of the of the Reagans whatsoever. Well, well, she she launched the just Say No campaign, which was intended to highlight, you know, the dangers of drug use. And then uh, you know, Reagans had Reagan had to refocus drugs, refocus on drugs and the passing of you know, penalties for drug related crimes, and Congress, etc. Etc. In nineteen eighty six, Congress passed the Anti Drug Abuse Act. It was a law that, you know, it was pretty pretty criticized as having racist ramifications because it allocated longer prison sentences for offenses involving the same amount of crack cocaine used more often by you know, the black community as powder cocaine used more often by white Americans, you know what I mean. So there was a lot of tension back then, and I think that if I could get rid of something to better society, it would have been the drug epidemic. If I can find a way to go back to the eighties and change that, that's one of the things that I would have definitely do done. Because you know, my family on my mother's side, there was one of my cousins that got in heavily, you know, in heavy trouble because the drugs. I had an uncle who ended up passing away because of drugs and things like that. So yeah, it was a time that I would like to forget. And you know, the drug wars in the in the eighties was huge, I mean huge, yeah, I think the only way we could have abolished that is that we would have gotten rid of Reagan and Bush because really quick we all most some of us do know that they were two of the key parties in bringing and allowing drugs to be transported here to the United States and such great magnitude. I mean they were buddy buddy with Escubard Noriega. Yeah, I mean, they they're the ones that had the connections, you know. But if they had the connections and they were turning their back as they were getting cash in their hands, they were trading weapons to a lot of small militant groups and it backfired. Now, the Reagans had to come up with some kind of a hair brained scheme to throw the track off of them and put it on that it's a crisis here in America. So they came up with just say no. And it's funny that you mentioned cocaine and crack. Now, crack was actually made here in the States, and it was given to all the poor communities in black neighborhoods. The government was well aware that this was going on. As a matter of fact, it was an FBI agent that cracked that case and he had written if anything were to happen to me, I get killed. He let that know that he had documents, he had written schedules that crack was made here and distributed for the one purpose of killing off an entire race. Point, my friend, I stand behind you on that point too. If I could go back, I'd go back with you and we do some serious ass. Kid. Yeah, yeah, definitely, But it's kind of it's really hard because then you have, Yes, the distribution was provided thanks to the US government and other entities, big companies, pharma, etc. But at the end of the day, does a responsibility to fall on them or on the public that buys it? Because I'd like what it feels to have the drug. I think that although it does, at the end of the day fall in the responsibility of each individual. If you don't have it there, you know, offered on the streets easily, readily, if you don't make it easy for people, that's like, you know, I always put put this as an example. It's like giving a five year old or a two year old a grenade. You give him a grenade, he'll think it's a toy and and he's gonna pull the pin and an accident is going to occur. Rather than give him a grenade, give him something that will educate him, give him something that's going to develop that child into a better, more prosperous civilian for the betterment of the community and at the end of the day, for himself and his family. Anyway, that's what I would want to do if I would go back to the eighties. We just got a tweet online from No. This tweet comes from Jerry Segura, Jerry Segura, and but it's Jerry with an eye, So I'm not sure if it's a girl or if it's a guy. But it says that the worst thing about the eighties, No, like, yeah, it's probably a girl. The worst thing of the eighties. And if they can go back to change it would change one thing, big hair. Oh yeah, they would go back. It says the amount of aquinitt. Jerry says, the amount of aquinitt and hairspray that went into the atmosphere because because people doing their hair was just ridiculous. Jerry says, I remember going into a public bathroom and all the girls were Yeah, so it's a girl. Jerry's a girl. I remember going into a public bathroom and all the girls were just spraying and spraying their hair because whoever maintained the highest hair one. I remember going into most La rock clubs back in the eighties, and most of the dudes were spraying their hair. Was AquaNet. Yeah. Oh, by the way, Jerry sent her picture as a young adult actually in the eighties. Really, I'll show you when we get a break. But she continues, and she gave us a little little side note. She says, I'm not kidding the picture below me in the eighties. Oh okay, well, thank you, thanks Jerry for the opportunity to see what Aquinitt brought to society. But that's definitely, definitely man, do you remember Aquanette? Bro, I remember Aquanett. Aquanette was kind of like an aphrodisiac to the chang every now Oh me too? Was that was that weird? You can you can smell the aquanete. You go, You just it picked you up by the nose and dragged you to wherever it was. Was better than drugs. You get that whilf of AquaNet. And I would tell one of my buddies, chicks, dude, let's go in here. I smell aquin and then you get in there and there's a bunch of dudes. A what this bro? A lot of guys dressed up in tight leather pans and assles's chapter or they would take their they hand in on their levis and then tuck their their levi bottoms into their shoes. Man, don't be a hater. You hate that look. I hate you or wearing that. I hate you. You look like my sister. I hate you. Would your sleeve rolled up? I hate you for wearing up. That's right, that's right. I used to wear I used. You also wear creepers back creepers? Man, are you serious? Creeper? You know there was a time of creepers? Is that you will wear a rebok? Somebody get me a newse I want to hang myself. I actually did at a time, but I wore I wore my creepers, some rolled up jeans, my white T shirt rolled up, my hair slicked back, and I used to listen to the Stray Cat And I call you, boy boy? What was your fashion? Idol? Fonzie? What the hell? Bro? I said, fanz. Yes, it's funny because now that I'm an adult today, look back at that was not cool at all. I look back at Fonzi and I was like, man, I want to kicked his ass from here all the way to ells din or that guy, Come on, he wasn't tough. Then I also hated Potsi and Ralph. There I put it out there. That's it. That's enough of that joke. Yeah, go stop being the hater, all right. Something else that you hated back in the eighties that you wish you could go back and change in society? What would it be? I hated when Low and Brow went out of business. Yeah, I knew you'd probably go there, Low and Brow. They're not in business anymore. I don't know, because I don't know, they're gone. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Except sometimes you got that foil off of the top in your mouth and you smile. You look like a look like a brace space because you got shiny gold foil sometimes silver, and they're like, what's in your mouth? You look like you look like the villain, And you look like the villain in double O seven movie Jaws. Here's something really quick. What did you think of the village people back in the late seventies earlier? Um, I didn't really care. I did not care for the village people. I always thought they were a little weird. Um. I did like the song their only song, y m c A. But that's as far as it went. Never did I want to be Never did I want to be any one of their characters for Halloween. If that's what you mean, I would have been the Indian. Yeah, I said it right here. I'm back to the eighties. If I had my cast to go back, I would have been the Indian because that was a cool head dress. My brother, you would have looked pretty great, as well as the comp by the way, Yeah, I think so. Oh no, no, not the pop the biker. The biker with the hat, yeah, and the glasses. He kind of got that Rob Halford look yess between Rob Halford and and Freddie Mercury. Oh yes, Bob Rob. Now there was actually a time where Freddie Mercury was dressing very similar to that character in the Village People. Yes, I remember, I do remember. I want to break three he did. Another thing that I would love to go back and change back in the eighties was, believe it or not, the horrific crimes with serial killers. If I could go back and eradicate all these people that were back then, just I mean, do you remember how many, for example, how many serial killers there were just taking children for example, serial killers that would they would kill prostitutes, and serial killers. I mean there were all kinds of serial killers for everything from there was like thirty one flavor serial killers. Yeah, that was kind of an epidemic amongst uh insane people. Serial killing was. I mean, I think every big case that came up they thought was possibly on the brink of being a serial killer. I mean, and we've had so many. I mean what the eighties ended uh ended out with Richard Ramirez, you know, I think we also had what was the name of that other one, wasn't it? Uh? Oh God, I forgot the guy's name, but it was him and his cousin, Oh Bianca or Bianchi, Kevin something Biancy, I think was another serial killer that we had going out him and his cousin early in the eighties. Yeah, you know, but if you think about it, serial killers bro go all the way back to the late sixties, you know, early sixties. Of course, everybody knows the Charles mat who never actually killed anybody, but he brain warped everybody into doing his evil deeds to do his bidding. Yeah. Well, there's one particular killer, serial killer who when I mentioned his AKA, everybody knows him. He It is believed that this person had killed between nineteen and twenty three people between nineteen eighty two and nineteen eighty four, and he was He was convicted and sentenced to death in Illinois for the nineteen eighty four murder and dismemberment of a fifteen year old. This person's name was Larry Eisler, also known as the Interstate Killer. Right, the Interstate Killer. You're right, I forgot about that. Wacko. Yeah. He revealed a list of seventeen names that he confessed to having murdered, and four of them were murdered by his accomplice because he had an accomplice. Later it was revealed that Robert David Little, who was a colleague, who was a college professor, was his accomplice. Can you imagine this? So, yeah, if there was another one of the things that I would get rid of in society back then, it would be serial killers. That's yeah, that'd be a good one in a way. Tonight's topic is we should kind of without anyone getting upset, if you could be God back in the eighties, what would you not allow on a beautiful planet, you know. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so the eighties were filled with a lot of you know, although we usually talk about the fun stuff, the things that make us smile and tear up with joy, the things that made us laugh, we talk about those things that we want to go back to that era for these are some of the things that you don't want in your life ever. And you know, another one of those things that I would love to get rid of is corporate greed. Although it's always been around, but in the eighties, but in the eighties it exploded. It was like corporate greed. Everybody was becoming millionaires and billionaires, doing the wrong thing and taking advantage of other people. And like I said, although this has always been a part of human nature, back in the eighties, I mean, they call it the decade of decadence for a reason, and I think it. Wall Street had a very big handed play in the corporate greed and corruption that we saw that, which is relevant right now as we sit here and speak now. And a lot of these corporations, believe it or not, we're even controlled by the US government. I mean, they all had a hand in that. And so the corruption led, you know, to corporate footholds and government giving them a foundation for influencing and later controlling policy making, legislation and things like that. So everything was tied in. So it was it was a pretty radical time, to say the least. Now here's something that I found twice as heinous back in the eighties that if I could go back and just make it go away, I would do it in a heartbeat. Now, some of our listeners may get a little upset, not to Scott, I'm gonna go on a limb. I'm gonna tell you one of the most heinous things that if I could go back to the eighties and change, I would do in a heartbeat. The fashion good, well, you know, but so think about this, though every decade has his fashion, and every decade thinks that what they are wearing is cool, right, But there are certain things in certain decades that you know, even if you're living in that decade, you know that are wrong. One of those things, like you said, in fashion, that was wrong with the eighties, and I'm not talking about the funky color than neon colors. What comes to my mind immediately, for example, for women, this is for women I'm thinking about those football NFL football pads that their coats had and their blouses had. What what is the need of having football pads on their shoulders? I think it took the male eye off of the boobs. Hey, eyes up here, eyes up here. Yeah. But now missus changu susport a lot of these shoulder padded attire. It was insane because it almost looked like everybody was a linebacker. Speaking of fashion, with the guys, what is that one thing that you'd get rid of if you could? For guy fashion in the eighties, guy fashion probably would be rolling up your T shirts or your shirts, oh my guys, and then wearing a horn piece necklace or that gold razors. Ye come on, really yeah, really yeah? It was so you know what I would get rid of just certain yep, I would get rid of certain haircuts. Of the mullet. Of course, the mullet. The mullet would be number one, because the mullet is one haircut that I didn't care. I just I hated seeing it back then. I hate seeing it now. A mullet would have looked better on a donkey than it did on most guys. And the worst thing is when your favorite singers would come out. I remember two of the of the greatest rock singers of all time, and one of them was my favorite of all time, which is Bono. And when he came out and live aid with that, with that thing that he called him mullet, Oh my gosh, it just it was horrible. He looked like a French poodle. It was bad. It was I just hated him, even though whatever they wore didn't bother me. But def Leppard was a band of guys, yeah, yes, and vacted. After the very first two albums of Death Leppard, I thought, man, this band really sucks. I mean, they couldn't tons and tons of fans. They still have a lot of fans. Death Leppard is still performing and calling themselves an actual rock band. When the come on, they're more like pop. Do they still are they still wearing their mullets? No? Actually, I think a lot of them are going bold. Well. I don't know how to come back from that one. I can't tell you though, that the other singer that I liked was from Journey, good old Steve Steve Perry. Oh Perry sported that that mullets ish have no words. Man, the man had a golden board. Yes, but the guy looked like a week there. I said it, yeah, yeah, I just couldn't care for that. You look at me with something, could not looking him with that mullet. And then he'd come with these these really high cut shirt or real tight shirts. Do you remember that? What about his half jacket? Yes, hey, my sister has you know that half shirt and half jacket. Yes. I think he thought because his nose was so big, it with shadow was outfit so you really couldn't see it kind of in the dark. That's what I'm going on a limb and say it, Oh, how did you dress back in the eighties? Well, brother, the way you see me come into the studio a lot, that's pretty much the way I dressed in the eighties. Bro Levi's leather jacket. I usually tell my kids because they they've seen movies like A Hot Tup Time Machine, and they say, you know Devil and none of the pictures that you've shown me of eighties and you know high school or some things like that, nobody ever dressed with so many hot pink colors and fluorescent. They go, No, you're right, maybe for a party or something, but we'd all look at that person. That's kind of ridiculous even back then. Right, Yeah, so there's a lot of we still dressed like in the eighties. We do. As a matter of fact. You know what I'll do later on for our lovely listeners and for our page. I'm gonna go ahead and dig up a picture of me back in the eighties, and I'm gonna post that. You do that out there, Look for a photo coming up on Facebook sometime tonight of chang back in the eighties. You're going to be so surprised that I look exactly the way I did then as I do now. But I have gray hair now, and my hair isn't as long as it used to be. My hair used to be down to my rectum. Well, the reason for that is because now you have a new hairstylist, and that's right. I'm sure he's the death even though he sells me crappy products every now and then. This is back to the eighties. We'll be right back with more you're listening to Back to the eighties, that's right, ladies and gentlemen. This is the part of the show when we talk about what made us angry back in the nineteen eighties. But in honor of the most wondrous chang we now call them changres. So chang back in the eighties, what made you changry? Well, my brother and everybody out there, you know what got me changry back in the eighties? Yeah? Any song like guess whatever? Oh I knew you'd go there? What I know? You want to know what got me changery back in the eighties? What you go cars? You know what got me changry back in the eighties? What's that all of Elton John's newer music? Come on, he had great music. You know what got me changre? You know got me changry back in the eighties. But the smelling aquinite and when you got close to where they SA was deriving from, it was a dude with tight pants. You know what got me jangry back in the eighties. Yeah, when I used to have to wear snakeskin boots get chicks. Why did that make you chanry? Because eyes up here, eyes up here. You know what got me changry back in the eighties. What's going to a dance club and then playing nothing but the Miami sound machine. But she was hot, Gloria. I asked the blod boy, you know what got me jangry back in the eighties, not knowing how to dance? And Clay Hickorydictory do miss muff up. He was hardcore back then. He was hardcore. He was hardcorecore. Somebody has said, hey, you remind me of Dice Clay. I wanted to slap that guy so bad, but he was my cousin, so I couldn't swept. And that, lady, gentlemen, has been this week's chagres. If you have a chain, gree or something that made you angry back in the eighties and you'd like us to share it, go ahead and send us a message through our Facebook page d m us and we'll be more than happy to oblige. Oh my gosh, that's right. And remember to hit us on our Patreon page. And if you're one of our beautiful, lovely listeners or followers and you are the first one to hit us on our Patreon page to scotto and I are going to send you an autograph can of Aquinet. That's right. Anybody that hits us on our Patreon page will receive one can of Aquinet signed by yours. Truly depends on what color you want Do you want the pink, you want the purple? Or do you want the yellow? Oh? But you remember the white can? I remember the white can. Which one was supposed to be the firmest hold. I think the pink one was that gave me the firmis hold. Now we'll have to check on that. I'll have to ask missus Chang later. I remember we had a buddy that always, always, every day, he'd do this every day in our in the locker room after pe oh, with a lighter. He'd call us all up to his yep lighter and heat. But what he would do is he would he would put he wore converse all stars and you know how just that plastic piece in the front. So he would put a bunch of aquin and on the front and he'd light it. Said he'd walk around the locker room in his underwear and walking on fire man. I remember a couple of times and say, Benedicts, a couple of my buddies in me. We would drink put Now this was your schools was nineteen seventy nine, so it's right before the eighties. We would put a buttane in our mouths and spin it out like Gene Simmons. Wow, Mother of God, where we some bad boy the safe old days? Ah? Well, we were talking about before the break, if you just joined us, if we can change some of the things that we had in society and around where we lived. What are those things that you would go back and change. One of those things that I would like to change back then, bro, is discipline in school. Do you remember in the eighties, you'd have they'd have to sign a waiver, your parents would have to sign if it was okay for the principle to spank you if you were bad. Can you imagine if they did that today, and the principle spank the kid lawsuit after lawsuit, you'd have a bunch of sniveling and crying babies that can handle doing the time for doing the crime. You know what I mean. Now, I was a bad kid back then, now and then you know what I mean? And I had my mouth washed out with powdered soap, but I got small on the knuckles before. But in a way, my brother, I think we kind of need discipline like that back in the school system. We kind of need some kind of scared straight tactic because mankind is just running a mock and a lot of people are losing respect. We see an uprising bowling. We put some discipline back into the schools. You take that pholt away from a kid that says, hey, Mom, Dad, you hit me, I'm calling the cops. That's a lot of bullcrap. Get rid of that crap. Put our kids back in a little bit of fear technics. That would get your attention. Yeah, yeah, Why don't we take a little breather from talking about the things that we would change that we're not good back in the eighties, And let's talk about this week in eighties top single history in the year. We've chosen this nineteen eighty seven. So I'm gonna name some songs and these were the top. These all belong to the top forty songs during this week, this very week, by going back to nineteen eighty seven, number ten, Brilliant Disguise by the Boss by Bruce Springsteen. Oh the Boss. I mean, who doesn't like the Boss? I mean he was never the boss of me, but you gotta give it up. The guy wrapped himself around a great ensemble band called the E Street The Street. But you know what, a lot of people don't like him because they put the politics thing into it, and they really hate him. I remember I put a post on the back to the eighties, just asking a question, and I got responses that were like, he's anti American, you know, I hate that piece of you know, bleep bleep. And I'm going to relax, people, relax. Look at the artists, not the you know, yes, anyway, live for the music, don't live for somebody else, somebody's political views. Yeah. I mean, if if we all do what our favorite artists or act or entertainer really believed in real life, I don't think a lot of them would have a big following. So I mean, but look at the Beatles, one of the most influential bands, not only in music but in culture and started a voice for a political right right fight back then too. Yeah, but but it amazes me, amazes me. Help A lot of people don't don't like Bruce Springsteen because of his own personal views just you know whatever. Uh Yeah, Number nine, number nine, breakout, swing Out Sister. You remember a breakout that song? Yes, I do. And I hated that song that I even hated the name of the band. Hey, number eight you Got the Look by Prince and Sheina Easton, and I know you can't forget Sheena Easton. I remember Sheena Easton. She was a pretty cute, like Australian gale, I think she was, but uh yeah, her collaboration with everybody pretty much fell on the pe you. Wow, you're a hater. Hater hate, wake up every day because it's great to hate. Now. I like, I got to say I do not like number six. I just don't like the band never did. And the song was Little Eyes by Fleetwood Mac. Oh. Yeah, Fleetwood Mac kind of had their heyday and then they're kind of made some albums that were like, oh man, this really sucks. Why don't you guys just like all overdose on cocaine and go away or something. Yeah, I know you're thinking the same thing. That song that was a terrible song. Now, will you join your partner and just say I hate it? I hate it Hate by dos Hi five. Yeah, here we go. I really hated that song. You're like the beetle juice of of hate. Thank you very much. I'm will have to get me a suit like that. Oh that's right, hate gouts, I'm good for you. Um Hey, these are vi rolls. Good to think of it. I'll have any roles. You know, one of these days we should actually call Beetle Juice Sunday, and not the one of today, the real one from the eighties. We have his number, by the way, all right, number five. Back in the day, nineteen eighty seven, what was in the top forties but in the number five position was the song Casanova by LeVert or LeVert was it? LeVert or let a top ten? I hate the next one. You may like, you may like, but the rest I can tell you that the only one you're gonna like after this is number one. That's it. But the next one, number four, the number four spot was mo Mony by Billy Idol. I was a big fan of Billy Idol. I actually Steve Stevenson It's a rainbow back in the eighties, so that was another you want to Here's what I think is hilarious watching and listening to Billy Idol today sing because the guy who has kept him pretty pretty good shape, but he can't sing anymore. So most of the concert you pay to see Billy Idol, and you pay to hear yourself singing because he points the microphone at the audience. Uh, you know, three quarters of the time. Oh yeah, that's I hate and that annoys the heck out of me. Yeah, that annoys the heck out of I didn't pay. I didn't pay to watch you and hear me sing Okay, I get it by drinks at a karaoke bar, Billy, come on, really in the number three spot, here's when you're gonna like. In the number three spot this same week, back in the eighties, is the song A song I Think We Are Alone Now by by Tiffany. I hated that song. I hate her name. Come on, don't be a hater. It's it's it's pop at its best. It's almost like you're giving me food poisoning with such bad mentions of such bad music. Oh all right, let's see if number two. Let's see if number Let's see if number two cousins any commotion in you Number two is causing on commotion by Madonna. Well, I'll say this for Madonna, and back in the eighties. You know, back in nineteen eighty seven, Madonna was Madonna. I would have slept with her, but I never would have looked on the entire track of Anyway Chocolate And in the number one spot that was in the top forty for this week in nineteen eighty seven. Are you ready for this one? Iron Maiden? No, no, you can even be further guess again the song bad by Michael Jackson. Oh, who's dad? Come on? Well? That you? You asked? I sat in the cardboard. Certainly not you. I would never be afraid of you. We want you to tune in next week for next week's US Top forty Singles of the Week. So don't forget. There's a lot of music. Oh, you're gonna love it. You are gonna love it. Ultimate hate List. I can't feel it already. But there were a lot of things that none of us liked in the eighties, aside from the goods, and you know, we usually try not to remember the bad stuff, but there were there were tons of bad things that happened in the eighties. And you know, I'm glad that a lot of the bad stuff I've blocked out. You know, I think it was the people that were adults that had businesses, and a lot of them, you know, really really had a hard time with the eighties, specifically financially speaking, or you know, things like that, or if you had a horrific memory back then, and those are certainly reasons why you would want to go back and change things. But here, back to the eighties, we're going to dwell on those things that did bring out the joy, the laughter, the goodness and everybody. And I want to keep reminding you guys to stick with us here back to the eighties. If you get a chance and you can go to our Patreon page. I want to just motivate you to do that because it keeps us here doing what we're doing to bring back to nostalgic moments and the experiences we had back then. And help us out with whatever you can so we can continue this journey of bringing Act the Eighties to a whole new generation. Until next Friday, I want to thank you for joining us, thanks for tuning in. In spite of everything going on out there. I know that we're all wondering who the next president is going to be or if we're going to keep the same one. But whatever the case is, be kind to each other because no matter politics, no matter what your differences are, we're still your fellow man. So be good to each other because that's all we got. You and me. Take care, God bless you next week and this is the chain before I release you into another glorious weekend, Remember to stay lifted and gifted. Remember go out there and tell somebody something nice, call somebody that you love, tell them you love them. And to get through all this crap that we're going through, remember it. Always put a smile on your face and try and not let anything bad bring you down because you are in control of your own mood and your own destiny. So till next Friday, I bid you another even Shaye Ano the as an Asta of Vista into all my homies or