Sports in the 1980s

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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Shadow Stevens
and you must listen to Back to the

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It's a awful dangers bears down its
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We are back and get ready to
hit new topics for this end of the

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year. And today is no different
because we're gonna be talking about the sporting

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events, athletes and other sports stories
from the nineteen eighties, so you don't

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want to miss what's coming up.
In addition, we're gonna have a special

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segment counting down the top ten greatest
songs from the various years in the nineteen

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eighties. So stick around because you
don't want to miss what year we have

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in store for you today. Now, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

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I must introduce to you the ninth
Wonder of the World. He is a

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man who's Richard Simmons legwarmer collection from
the eighties has made it to the Rock

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and Roll Hall of Fame hobby All, along with his collection of strands of

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eyebrow hair belonging to Robert Smith from
The Cure. He was even seen in

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the eighties chasing a herd of Duran
durand fans, screaming the lyrics from a

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view to a kill, wearing nothing
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He is known as the infamous one and

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only Chang. Ladies and gentlemen,
the boys and girls, everything that you

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heard, the greatest Italian besides chevoy
Ardi proclaim is a lie speaking untruth falseness,

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proclaiming I am so weak to love
the Cure and mister Roberts, Oh

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yes, saw on the bicycle man
looks or Duran Duran only the Duran Duran

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of her name is real and geez
dancing on the show. Oh come on,

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come on you love you love the
Cure and Duran Duran no. Just

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anyone that wears any type of foot
apparel without socks should be spanked numerous times

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by a rosary of a Catholic priest
of their liking father. Feel me would

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love it. Be careful because there's
a lot of people that will take you

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up on that. Well, it's
good to be back chaining. I know

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that we've had a little hiatus for
a few weeks for getting things ready.

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We've had a little bit of everything, and it's such a joy. We

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don't want to bore you guys with
the details, but we are back and

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thank you for continuing for continuing to
support the show regardless of our few week

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absence. Here join us today as
we embark on an exploration of the athletes

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and sporting events that define the nineteen
eighties, a decade that continues to inspire

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and shape the world of sports today. The nineteen eighties was a vibrant and

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memorable decade in the world of sports
as well, so with numerous athletes,

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games and events that left a lasting
impact on the sporting world. We're going

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to be talking about that today.
For now. Don't go anywhere, chang

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I know we got some music coming
on, ladies and gentlemen, boys and

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girls to all of the mister Randy
Newman with I Lo La cool and all

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the people dressed lin. Let's leave
Chicago school at a time a little bit

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too rugged. You and me roaded
down there on Howard, the big mass,

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sit out of my side, sat
at the winds blowing a house from

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the norf. We were bar on
the ride, roll down the wind,

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put down the top, Craig on
the big exportment. Don't let the music's

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come. We go and ride at
you just can't ride at the book on

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the side, the babe on the
west side to the east side. Never

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bad now it happens because the sunny
side and all the time, look like

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another person. I'm not that like, I'm not la. We love it.

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Look at that about look at those
trees. Look at that bum over

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there, man down on the look
at these women. Ain't nothing like them?

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No, Well that triple of b
reed, that cripple of a real

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Land locations. When we thought the
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we had lived through this decade.
Yet you're listening to Back to the Eighties.

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heard the one and only Randy Newman
with I Love La. A great segue

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into this following segment, because right
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A big shout out to all our
veterans, a big, big shout out

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to everybody who is in Los Angeles, California. A big shout out to

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everybody listening throughout the United States and
abroad, thank you for listening to Back

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to the eighties radio. So let's
go ahead and kick it all off,

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chang As. Today on our show, we're going to be talking about sports,

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the events, athletes, et cetera, good and the bad. So

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let's kick it off with nineteen eighty
four because we're just talking about LA.

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And speaking of LA, the nineteen
eighty four Summer Olympics was to me,

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in my opinion, it was my
favorite. And maybe maybe it is because

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I'm biased, maybe it is because
I'm from Los Angeles. Originally it was

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a triumph of a sporting event and
the national pride it was. Look,

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it came in the time against the
backdrop of a Soviet led Eastern Bloc boycott

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in response to the US led boycott
of the nineteen eighty Moscow Olympics. So

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we boycotted, they boycotted. The
eighty four Olympics was marked by several notable

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achievements and memorable moments. And you
know what, don't we talk a little

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bit about that besides the boycott,
right the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc

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countries including East Germany, Cuba,
they all boycotted. Yeah, they boycotted

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the Games in response to the US
from nineteen eighty and of course that led

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to the absence of some of those
traditional sporting powerhouses that you know when you

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go to see an event or when
you watch it on TV. You know,

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Russia and back then the Soviet Union
they used to win so many medals,

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many medals. Cuba to two record
breaking performances in eighty four. The

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name that rings the bell that I
can still remember as I watched track and

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field star Carl Lewis matching Jesse Owens'
achievement from nineteen thirty six by winning four

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gold medals in the one hundred meter, two hundred meter and four four one

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hundred meter relay in long jump.
The guy was a beast. Oh good.

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Yeah. And the sad thing is
there was tarnishment on mister Lewis for

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steroids. Remember we also saw steroids
being tossed around in the eighties. There

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was that epidemic. Well, it
was the decade of excess, you know.

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Oh, of course, the eighties
sports decade is something to behold both

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on the negative and the positive.
We had great athletes achieving great feats,

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great teams achieving great feats, showing
that things can be done in the concept

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of team unity, hard work.
And the eighties is also the birthplace of

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such topics as steroids, cocaine use
in sports enhancement, drugs scandal. We've

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even seen a little bit of cheating
going on in our eighties sports. But

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yet we see so much triumph with
individuals within the Olympics or within our professional

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regions of sports. Correct Toscano as
we talk about the Olympics, a very

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prestigic time in Los Angeles for we
Angelinos, for some of our listeners that

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don't know both of us are two
hearted Angelinos. I can recall when the

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torch was being taken to the called
us to see him and it ran down

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with your boulevard, and it's a
very endearing time that I will always remember.

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Uh for the first thing that that
that weighed upon my mind as we

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bring this topic to face. The
unity I saw within a wittier through East

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Los Angeles, Montebello, bits of
Lahabra and uh hass in the heights as

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so many people gathered on the street
of Whittier Boulevard, to watch that torch

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get carried down that stretch to down
to the sixth Street into the heart and

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soul of Angeles, California, downtown
LA, where more people were gathered,

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the feeling of unity triumph that no
matter what the bearing upon us, the

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outcome that we all seen, we
were as one, unified, proud to

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be angel Allos, proud to hold
the prestigic Olympic Games that were started in

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the coliseum many years before, but
to bring it home and embark what LA

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is all about. Tradition, prestige, loyalty, and it's only in sports

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that we see these things transpire.
Maybe one day the world will act like

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a sporting event and get behind each
other and cheer for one another's victorious outcome.

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I guess in a perfect world.
Yeah, that's what we all wish.

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You know, it's interesting that you
mentioned. I mean, it's true,

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that's what we all wish that the
world would be like that, especially

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the nineteen eighty four Olympics. Why
because unlike a nineteen eighty that was filled

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with political tension, the Olympics in
La in eighty four were marked by a

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sense of unity co operation in regards
to participating nations. The whole event of

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the Olympics in eighty four was praised
worldwide for how smooth it went, the

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organization, the security, in overall
positive atmosphere. And you know what that

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brings me. I want to mention
two more of the athletes that I remember

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that just were icons of that time
because of the Olympics. One of them

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was, of course Mary lou Retten, the gymnast. She captivated the world

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dynamic performances. She earned perfect scores
in her floor exercise and vault routines.

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She became the first American woman to
win the all around gold medal in gymnastics.

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And then the second one I wanted
to mar or the third one I

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wanted to mention because I had mentioned
Carl Lewis, American track and field star

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Edwin Moses, who defended his gold
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I mean he dominated the event.
The Olympics of nineteen eighty four was an

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extravaganza. I mean it was a
spectacular display of colors. You remember all

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the colored banners on the outside,
the music, the music technology. But

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even more to what you were saying
and I want to go back to that,

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the atmosphere that surrounded people on the
streets in different neighborhoods, even if

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you were outside of La it was
such an incredible feeling of unity everywhere,

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you know, I remember seeing the
torch pass. It was incredible because we

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felt that nothing was wrong, there
were no problems. Everything was fantastic.

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The world was going towards a better
place. Everywhere, I mean you would

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go to malls, to stores,
wherever you would go, there would be

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something related to the Olympics. And
I remember seeing and hearing on the radio

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that we were on our way because
everything appeared to be Wow, we can

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be as a one world united.
We don't have to have separations and divisions.

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And the Olympics in eighty four was
a big sign of that of positive

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things to come. That's all we
heard. We heard that this was the

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beginning of something extraordinary that we weren't
used to before. I mean, little

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did they know the way the world
was gonna go. But at least for

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that year, for that time of
the time of the nineteen eighty four Olympics

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in Los Angeles, California, it
was a time of rejoicing and a time

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that we will never forget. Oh
what great times my brother in the nineteen

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eighties Tuscana. Let's take it out
with something from n W A straight out

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of content. You heard it from
Tuscana and Chay right to hear it back

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to the eighties radio, straight out
of count crazy motherfucker from the dang Con

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niggas win attitudes. When I've called
on, I gotta saw Sweeny's way.

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If you fuck with me, the
police are gonna have to come and get

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me off your ass. That's how
I'm going out. But of corock motherfucker's

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that's showing out niggas. Fucking mob. They wanna buck makes a man cook

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them in a Fox Life gun bomb, going off on the motherfucker like that

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with a cat. That's when it
at your pass. So give it up.

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Schools. Ain't no telling when I'm
down for a jack move. Here's

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a matter of rap. The Keiths
got damn sin with a client record Life

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toss man Sin hey't take forty seven
is a tool. Don't make me at

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the motherfucking pool me. You can
go toe to talk, No, Ma,

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I'm knocktting niggas out. The Fox
Dayly, Joe Weekly monthly dead.

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Leave until I'm tom motherfucker. See
clear lead that I'm down with the Capitol

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settee. Why you can't fuck with
me? So wain them in your neighborhood.

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You better jump because I you it's
crazy as fun as I leave,

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believe I'm starting, but when I
come back ward, I'm coming straight out

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top. What's up? Tell them
where you're from? Trade on the constant.

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Another crazy ass nigga from Punks.
I smoke yo, my rapper gets

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bigger. I'm a bad motherfucker and
you know this. But the pussy ass

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niggas won't show this. But I
don't give a fuck. I'm gonna make

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my snaps. If not from the
records from Tacking a crist It's like burglary.

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The definition is jacket for win a
league on the yard. It's off

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package to shoot a motherfuck in a
minute. I find a good piece of

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pussy. Hey, you gonna fit
it. So if you have a show,

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win a fuck broke, I'm gonna
call you a fix bout dirty ass

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whole. You probably get mad like
a fitness supposed to it. But that

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shows me slut choking post to a
crazy motherfucker from the street add a tool

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of chicken because I'm tearing up shit. Hitchy way controls automatic for any dumb

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motherfucker. It's not static. It's
not the white hand because I'm gonna hand

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itself every time. I'm gonna hey, heay, I the shore. The

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security is maximum, man, that's
a law Harry years fell rid. But

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I'm wrong and see because I'm a
motherfucking feeling. The definition is clear.

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Got the witness of a let's take
your place without a clue, and once

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you're on the scope, yes,
it's look. You might take it out

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the truth, but a nigga like
wearing it on the cake. The tip

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spread out of cofty cofty easy as
his name, and the boy's coming spright

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out of contest. It's a brother
that's mother, your mother, and make

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your sister think of mother. Danger
risk, motherfucking race in hell and never

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ever get got it. I'm expelled, shot on a fuck got the ride

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up. I see it, motherfucker
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smart laying on free for a while. And when I see the fark,

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plast a smile to me. It's
kind of funny. The attitude showing nigga

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driving but don't know where the fuck
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for the one. They talk easy, but it's a flash that never sees

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me ruthless, never seem like a
shadow in the dark. It's say when

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I Lord, you say sucking,
talk about hesitation and in the stream of

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the one. Because the lastministration fell
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for leave a memorina one of the
forgetty. So one of mynemens, you

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got shot. Fuck you think I
give a never man a batina? Sucker.

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This is an hot over agraphy of
the eve. And then you ever

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thought would be you get taken fast
with? Don't brother whose father burned to

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the mother com Coton cotton. The
Coca Cola Company would like to salute all

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the nineteen eighty four Olympic athletes,
the Italians, the English, the Germans,

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the Swedes, the Africans, the
Irish, the Chinese, the Mexicans,

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the Brazilian, the Greeks, the
French, the Poles, all those

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affects of every heritage. Who will
where the uniform of the United States Olympic

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teams the Coca Coca to all of
America. You are it the last time

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the first big daiest man that the
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s said stop. That was to
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do hell no, I guess not
the songs help it's home. She not

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to side. That's a thing that's
read no hell lie no go do her

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was bow my good us stop stops. This is a trick. Listen to

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the decade of decadents right here.
Start back to the eighties. You were

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listening to Back to the eighties radio
hosted by Tuscan. Check and that was

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oh oh the Boss, Yes the
Boss. Tuscano doesn't agree Born in the

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USA, which is a song that
embarks the feeling of the Olympics and the

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vibe. In eighty four, we
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of the truth the negativity of Los
Angeles, Southern California, and the corrupt

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justice system during that era of the
Olympics. Tuscano, seeing that we're talking

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about the Olympics, I don't want
to skip ahead and forget that. We

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have other great stories in the nineteen
eighties decade of the Olympics. I remember

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a story that embarked that brought us
all together on a sport, not all

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of us within the States was really
familiar with or could identify with. Talking

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about hockey, I'm talking about the
nineteen eighties hockey team and how they destroyed

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their opponent to be something bigger than
what hockey had ever been in the United

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States. Do you remember that Tuscano? I remember, especially especially if we

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go back to nineteen eighty The most
memorable international hockey event of the eighties was

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the Miracle on Ice. If you
recall, it was at the Winter Olympics

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in Lake Placid, New York,
and it comprised of amateur and college players.

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They defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union
team that was en route to winning

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the Golden medal. Going on,
back then, the Soviet Union dominated any

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pretty much any winter sport, and
in hockey, hockey was one of them.

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If you recall back then, the
local team that was winning, I

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mean throughout the eighties, the Edmonton
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They won nineteen eighty four, nineteen
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nineteen eighty eight, and nineteen ninety
and beyond. These teams were brutal in

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hockey. If you're a hockey fan. You had a great time back in

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the nineteen eighties. Were you a
fan of hockey? Honestly, during the

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nineteen eighties, no, I was
not a fan of hockey. However,

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I was a fan of Wayne Gretzky. Anybody who was the number one athlete

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in any sport I was a fan
of. So even if I wasn't a

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fan of a particular sport, I
was always a fan of the like the

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goat of each sport. I really
was. And just a real brief side

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note. After financial problems from nineteen
seventy six, LA bid for the right

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to host the eighty four Olympics.
I mean, the bid was criticized that

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nobody wanted it to go to LA. They said that it was going to

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depend heavily on Yeah, they said, no, it's going to depend on

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existing facilities and corporate sponsors. However, when LA proved them all wrong as

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the games produced a healthy profit.
Check this out. They produced a healthy

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profit of over two hundred and twenty
three million dollars in nineteen eighty four and

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became the model of future Olympic Games. That's right, we did that.

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You know what, though, the
hate of Los Angeles in twines. In

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so many other sports than just the
Olympics, the hate of if you watch

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any professional sport in the States,
the hate of Los Angeles is greater than

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any other. Now me, of
course, do'scano you know? I the

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number one sports fan of all Los
Angeles teams of all history. I'm talking

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about the Los Angeles Dodgers of the
nineteen eighties with one Ral Hersheiser on the

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mound, taking the Dodgers with the
Gidster to one of their penneties. Oh

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but don't let me stop there.
Who can forget the Los Angeles brands of

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the nineteen eighties with the dominating defense
and fierce offense, but couldn't get past

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the Big Dance when they met the
Pittsburgh Steelers in nineteen eighty to lose at

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their home field, the Rose Bowl
in Pasadena, California. And the hate

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began with the nineteen eighty two birth
of the Los Angeles Lakers and Magic Johnson,

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Caima Del Jabbar, James Worthy and
the team they called Showtime. So

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let's not forget the hate of Vale, and let's not forget the hate of

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nineteen eighty one San Francisco forty nine
Ers led by mister Jerry Rice and Joe

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Montana. Just a legacy of hate. Well, here's another legacy of hate,

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because if we jump all the way
now you mentioned baseball, we jump

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all the way to nineteen eighty eight. This World Series in Los Angeles remains

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memorable not only because the Dodgers won
over the over the Athletics, the A's,

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but also for the enduring image of
Kirk Gibson's improbable home run, symbolizing

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the unpredictable and dramatic nature of the
game. The game right now is that

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the play Hi bye in the right
veil. She is gone here the years

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that it has been so improbable,
the impossible has happened, ladies and gentlemen.

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On that note, I'm taking you
out with a little John Fogerty in

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the song from nineteen eighty five call
center Field. I'm back to the eighties

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radio man of drum in who Boom
the sun came back today, the bon

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scam. There's new grass on steel, round stand and headed bat. It's

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a brown eye, handsome man,
and it wise and I understand where I

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steel coat. I'm ready slay day, Come in coat, I'm ready to

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play today. Look at me.
I could be steals well, spend time

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in the muddy man watching it from
the fence. You knowing some loans when

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the mighty case stuck out, So
say hey, williem tell the cow Joe

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the myzo. Don't say it ain't
so you know the times. Now,

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woman coat, I'm ready to say
today, wuman in coats. I've read

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his fake Today look at me sixty
years again. You gotta beat up flown

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homemade fan in a brand new past. You know, I think it's time

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to give this game a red to
this the fall and cut your more a

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moment in the suns. It's gone
in. You can till that one fat.

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I'm ready say today, the main
coast, I'm ready to say today.

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Look at me, Dad, I'm
ready say today. A man coat,

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I'm ready to say today, look
at me Gotti Santy, good sports.

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There's Sam the Olympic Egle, the
official mascot of the nineteen eighty four

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Olympics. Ronald, I'm trying to
test this equipment for the Olympics. Can

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you help leave it to me?
Sam, Jim. Thanks. Ronald's now

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off to the Olympics. See you
there, ooh Rod And back to the

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eighties radio, the memories, the
experiences of the good, the bad,

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and the ugly of the greatest decade. The nineteen eighties a significant, a

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transformative decade for sports, especially chang
Now that we're talking sports of the nineteen

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eighties, athletes and and different events
that happened related to sports. I don't

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know about you, but is it
me that thinks that boxing as a sport

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was so much more exciting as a
sport of royalty back then? Boxing with

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figures of the early eighties such as
Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Duran Hearns,

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Sugar Ray Leonard. The nineteen eighties
is also the era that brought pay

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per view and it made huge these
events that included boxing. Did you were

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you a fan of boxing back then? Oh? Oh, brother, I

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can only tell you yes, I
am a huge fan of boxing. I

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don't want to brag, but that's
what my dad, my grandfather, and

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my started working me with as a
really really small kid to be a boxer.

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You know, my dad, my
uncle, and my grandpa were all

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golden gloves in the military. I
was my middle name, Richard was given

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to me after a champion in Los
Angeles back in the fifties, so boxing

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is yeah, big time. I
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my dad or my grandpa and my
uncle, which is located in the heart

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and soul of Los Angeles, California, right by the Freeway, to watch

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fighters such as Peppino Cuevas. We
used to watch fighters, you know,

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all throughout southern California and boxing in
the eighties. We don't see boxers as

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balls out and gritty and into one
thing. Boxing back then was a business.

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I'm gonna get in the ring,
I'm gonna ring your bell, I'm

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gonna knock your ass out, and
that's what I'm going to do. Any

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kind of persona or kind of following
will come back after I do what I'm

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going to do. We've seen the
change in boxing in years. Looks a

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little fake. A lot of fat
cats out there, a lot of showboats.

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We don't see what we've seen in
the eighties. Like you mentioned the

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Rent through Duran. We don't see
marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tommy the hit Man,

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hearns. You know, Sugar Ray
Leonard who was so fast and so

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quick. You know, he's one
fighter Leonard that can go up as like

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people don't think he had the guts
enough to finish up a fight because he

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would hide and hold. But sometimes, you know, he was so quickly

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knocked the crap out of you.
You know, Tommy the hitman, hearns

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that guy was so skinny, But
that guy knocked the crap out of you.

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Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the guy looked
like he used to punch trains out.

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You know. Then you cannot escape
the heavyweight division. You know,

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we saw the end of the greatest
boxer of all time. Oh I am

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the greatest of all time, you
know, Muhammad Ali. But then we

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saw we saw the income of Larry
Holmes, who was a sparring partner of

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Mohammad Ali in his mid years.
But you know, I mean Holmes,

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he got cocky, got arrogant,
and later in his career. You know,

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Mike Tyson came and rang his bell
for the great Mohammad Ali as some

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type of band. Do you remember
the last height of Roberto Duran against Sugar

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Ray Leonard. Yes, the famous
no moss. He uttered a phrase in

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Spanish, no moss, which means
no more coming into the arena. Now,

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Sugar Ray Leonard, the challenger.
Here comes the chape. The man

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who says not evil, knock Lenning
out does not hard. That's quick.

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Reberdo, that's quick. That could
be no other explanation part them out of

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him and the rain. I'm rebardo. That's quick. And he quit in

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the middle of his rematch against Sugar
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It became a lasting part of boxing
lore. And then, of course

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you mentioned the emergence of Mike Tyson
in the late eighties. He was the

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youngest heavyweight champion in history. At
Hjesus, you know what, Mike Tyson

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was a that I don't think we've
ever seen the likes of. Mike Tyson

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was a bit like Rocky Marciano to
anybody out there listening our old boxing fans.

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But Marciano is way way back then. Uh Sonny liston Mohammad Ali,

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Cashius Clay who you know he was
at one time. Uh, we don't

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see boxers as as hungry and angry
as mine. Joe Lewis. Joe Lewis

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the Bronx bomber. That guy would
catapult you. You know, Mike Tyson

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was the last of the angry I'm
gonna get what's mine kind of fighters.

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In the eighties, we saw a
lot of those, A lot of cats

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that you mentioned, that I mentioned
right now are those type of boxers.

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We don't see that too much nowadays. A boxer that comes to mine in

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the eighties that will always stand out
in my mind. Carlinos Palamino. If

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boxing fans out to remember Cardinals Palamino
during the eighties, he was slim,

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very good looking for a knock the
crap out of you. The guy had

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the heart of a lion, very
similar to remember when Chavis came out in

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the later years. A boxer like
that, Julio says Chaves often regarded as

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one of the greatest boxers of all
time period. He played the prominent role

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in the landscape of boxing in the
nineteen eighties. This guy became world champion

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in eighty four. He won by
defeating Mario Martinez of the WBC Super featherweight

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title, and then he went on
to win a consecutive He had a streak,

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a winning streak. He went to
one hundred and four undefeated, winning

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fights with no draw, no contest. Yes, it's funny that you bring

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up in the Martinis fight. I
remember watching that fight with my dad,

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my uncles, and a lot of
my homies, and we noticed that he

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was way quicker, way more smarter
and aware than Martinis was in that fight.

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And Martinis at that time was ranked
really high. But yet if you

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rank him later after his loss,
Martinis would not even rank in any of

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the categories. From Chavis and beyond. Chavis had that hunger, like Tyson,

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it's all business. I'm gonna kick
your ass. I'm gonna annihilate you

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because what is mine is mine?
You tell me, brother, do you

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watch fighting like that? Now we
have the MMA. Now we have a

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lot of martial art type of fighting
which is brutal, which is extraordinary to

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witness. And you know, I
used to kick, and I got a

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lot of street fights. But I
will tell you this sport is tough nowadays.

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It's gritty, it's raw, it's
brutal, it's terrifying, it's deadly.

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But yet we have sunken to the
level to watch that instead of watch

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two individuals highly trained to knock the
snot out of each other and still hopefully

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walk away without drawing that much blood
and that much gorilla type warfare. Well,

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now that you mentioned that set.
In spite of the viciousness of boxing,

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it took away from the classiness fifteen
rounds of boxing. Remember that,

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fifteen rounds of boxing. Then it
went to twelve, then it went to

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ten, and it keeps getting lower. Let's go back to the nineteen eighties

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talking about boxing. One of the
eighties most iconic songs that started it all

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off with a movie about boxing.
This is Survivor and Behyde, Oh the

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Tiger, I'm the one and only. Back to the eighties radio rising up,

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back on the Street, to my
Time, my tempces Wels, the

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Distance novel, back on Habbit,
just a man, don't just live just

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bad? So many times it happens
too Fat asked you change your passion for

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glory, don't move agrip on the
dreams of the beast. You must fight

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just to keep them live. It's
a saddles the fel fighting Mason to the

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challenger, har Bable and the lasts
of Harbors stops spreading the night and wor

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to us a step of tiger.
That's the best out of the net.

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Don stand from them less than the
odd school. We turn to the stream

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from him with the scheme to survive. Did see the tigers love the fight

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person to the challeng of all rable
and the last loads of harbors. BT

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is burning the money and he wanting
my well tum tide rousing up straight to

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the top. There the goods got
the bory. What's the distance? Novem

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not gonna stop this man. Let
me just fine. It's time speak to

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a little my passing to the talents
of all brable and the last boats of

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harbors. The side un wanting as
many doom tide upside, i'mside, i'mside,

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i'mside. I gotta eat just so
a good anywhere, just not gonna

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roll away anytime. And Indy is
what's happened. Next is where the bisc

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meets wear. You've got a consent
jump and dusted bust jump and busted order.

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I'm start make a run on the
border, colling mea coming me come

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come at a time, came sa
campne can't come on with cases, roll

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me in the design of sheets out
emotions. Come on, SHOs shum show

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some ups any time. Back to
the eighties radio. You heard the beautiful

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Blondie with call me. During a
game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas

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Cowboys, a player named Alvin Garrett, who was of course African American,

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made an impressive run, so impressive
that Howard coselle, trying to pray Garrett's

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agility, said, con again,
I guess play. Look at NaN's done

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late like Jay did. Wanted to
get that again, then have a little

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monkey get clue doesn't And he also
said monkey again that there was that.

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The comment, of course chang if
you remember, sparked incredible criticism. It

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was so controversial for its racial undertones. But Cosell wasn't a racist. It's

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just of his old age and how
they spoke during those times. But it's

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a term that he used to describe
Garrett's speed and agility. It wasn't supposed

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to be used as a racial slur. But no matter what the explanation that

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was given, the incident contributed to
the ongoing debates about racial insensitivity and sports

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commentary, and Howard Cosell, although
not specifically and technically fired for that,

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he continued broadcasting until his retirement nineteen
eighty five. That was only two years

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later, and his viewership had dropped
a lot because the media made it into

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something that was not true. You
know what the co cell case was one

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of the first cases where the media
got involved, turned it into a racial

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profiling to annihilate an icon in broadcasts
in sports, being a good friend of

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so many athletes of different races and
different back rounds. I thought that ABC

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Sports Monday Night Football and America was
so full of shit to condemn and crucify

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Cosel over a misuse of words,
because as a comedian, even on the

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radio, I'll say some shit that
I'm sure some people will take out of

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context. Cosal was tarnish for that. It was a disgrace in sports,

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a disgrace in humanity where an icon
like that who is being known to have

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a wit and word a battle comedically
with Muhammad al Lee and so many other

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sports entities and legends that then it
was sad to see cosel get slandered like

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it must have laid it really really
heavy on his mind and on his heart,

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because once again, we say sometimes
things that we don't mean, you

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know, but they don't sound bad
to us sometimes. But when you're a

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public figure, you gotta be careful. As a matter of fact, Chang,

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I've got to complain against you already, believe it or not Oh what

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what? What? Yeah? Yeah, are you ready for this? Somebody

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said, you know when you when
you sometimes tell me son of a monkey.

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They're taking it as a fan and
I'm telling people, people, relax,

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this is an eighty show. Nobody
gets hurt, Nobody takes things the

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wrong way unless you're Howard. Unless
you're Howard Cosell, and and then your

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job's over. But other than that, come on, give me a break.

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You know what, man, I
think nowadays we suffer from woosy itis.

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Nobody can say anything without somebody getting
hurt. And I think that's because

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everybody wants to be on a pedestal
in a life. Everybody wants to walk

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on the dandelions without breaking a leave. Everybody in America wants to sound like

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they are important and they care when
the only thing they care about is their

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own Sell me from the mouth of
the legendary Howard Cosell. We're going to

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take a little break, and when
we can back, we'll have to say

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her goodbyes, because this show is
going to continue on to a part two.

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It's a must. It's back to
the eighties radio. We're gonna take

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you out with a song from the
legendary John Lennon in nineteen eighty and it's

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called on watching the wheels go round. That's kana and dang here it back

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to the eighties radio. Don't you
go you've seen in crazy doing what I'm

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doing? Will they give all kinds
of warnings? Just see me form rude?

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When I say that, okay?
Will they look at me kind of

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strange? Julian me, Now you
no longer base the game? People say,

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I'm lazy, dream in my life
away where they give me all kinds

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of advice designed to enlighten me.
When I told let him do and find

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what your shadows on the wall.
Don't you miss the big time? Boy?

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You no longer round the ball.
I'm just sitting here watching the wheel

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and a round and roun. I
really love to watch the road no longer

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ride and not love every God right, I just had to let it go.

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A people ask a question lasting confusion. Well, I tell them there's

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no love. Only salut shots will
shave the heads. And they look at

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me as if I've lost my mind. I tell them there's no hurry,

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and I'm just sending you to I'm
just send you watching the wheels ground round.

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I really loved to watch the road. No love love the lever.

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I just have to let it go. I just had to let it go.

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I just have to let it go. Back to the eighties Radio,

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John Lennon, thank you for joining
us on Back to the eighties Radio.

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But this is this is right now
a time. Here it back to the

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eighties. Take to talk about things
that made us angry back in the nineteen

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eighties. In honor of the most
wondrous shang we have now dub them changrease.

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So what made you changre back in
the nineteen eighties? You know what

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made me changr back in the nineteen
eighties in the sports realm, the Boston

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Celtics. You know what got me
changry back in the nineteen eighties that one

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day Wayne Krisky would become a Los
Angeles ki. You know what got me

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changry back in the nineteen eighties.
Georgia Prettier. You know what got me

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changr back in the nineteen eighties.
During the sports era, John mcenroll was

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not allowed to curse, and that, ladies and gentlemen, has been this

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week's changreas. If you have anything
that made you angry, you'd like to

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share it here on the show.
We'd love to get your changry, So

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go ahead and send us a note
to our Facebook page and we'll be more

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than glad to talk about your changry
in the next t week's following show.

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Now, ladies and gentlemen, before
I forget, I did mention, there's

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going to be a giveaway. That's
right if you go on our Facebook page

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and you write Tuscano and Chang a
personal message telling us what you like about

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the show and telling us what songs
you'd like to hear for the following week.

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I will choose the first five people
that write in, and you are

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going to get a Back to the
Eighties Radio jersey. So gear up right

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into the show. Tell us what
you like about Back to the Eighties,

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01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.920
and you must not forget that you
need to let us know what song you

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want to hear in the following show. Just want to thank you for joining

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us here to an another show Back
to the Eighties Radio. I hope you

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have a great week. Don't forget
smile because the smile is contagious. Uh

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chang here, I want to bid
you all an audios you but there shit

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Sayanada Usta Lavista into all of you
in the vodios Orderland. To everybody out

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there, remember you matter, you
count, don't let nothing get you down.

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Thank you for listening to back to
the eighties radio, Tis Kano and

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Chang. Love you next time,
same place, same channel. Be good

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to each other. Uscillavista,