The End of Radio As We Knew It - Part 1

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If you are listening to Beck to
eighties radio and speaking of Wall's disong by

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Wall of Voodoo. This was Mexican
radio, a very popular subject for a

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very popular candidate, released nineteen eighty
two from a single from the album called

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Call of the West, brought to
you by the two Johnson's. That's right,

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Johnson and Johnson. I am Johnson, Murphy and my compatriot, my

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compadre, Dick Johnson. Dick.
Hey, cats and kitties, how you

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doing out there with the radio world. We are hanging tight like the left

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ball, right ball in a nice
pocket. Hey. I caught this sing

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in the news just the other day, and I know we were rapping about

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it. It's about our great former
president, that's right, Donnie Trump.

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You know what, why don't you
go ahead, mister Johnson and tell our

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beautiful listeners of the little story that's
out in the press that we were discussing

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just the other day in our cubicle. We're gonna be talking about the big

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Daddy d that's right, the big
t oh, the ex president. Just

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for your information. If you haven't
seen the news lately, you know,

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and this is no secret that he
is a McDonald's lover and also a Taco

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Bell lover. Will Unfortunately for Big
Daddy D he's been recently spotted. You're

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gonna like this spotted. He's gotten
some irritable Bell syndrome lately, Johnson,

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what do you think of that?
Any times somebody's got their head off their

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ass, you're gonna suffer some type
of scenario where it's gonna hurt out there.

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Now, I'll tell you I'm a
big fan of the Taco Bell.

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You know that. Frequently I will
go get our lunch. We're in our

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pubicle, I mean cubicle, and
I'll get us a couple of tasty,

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crunchy taco burritos at Taco Bell,
the number one place, remember south of

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the border, Taco Bell, that's
where you want to go. What the

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hell anyway? Talking about Big Donnie, you forget about their eighties in Curito

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only available. Holy man, that's
right. And if you are also back

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from the eighties, go down there
in town Toscato and Chang sent you.

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But tonight, Johnson and Johnson,
we're taking over the airways talking about Big

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d Donnie Trump and his irritable ball
o. Ho is irritable? Oh you

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know what buddy, I've had that
problem in the past, have you.

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Well, you know what, they
sell them, some good good stuff,

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especially down down south after the border. You know, you know what.

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I think Donnie was chopping up emmodiums
so him and his son could get their

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heads out of their ass. Man, old man, ladies and gentlemen.

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It doesn't matter what political party you
belong to. Right now, the United

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States is in I would say the
cave or the cavern or only shit flows

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west side? Hey, talking about
west side and ship blowing. Oh,

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Johnson and Johnson tonight have a show
that is designed only for you all,

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you lovers of terrestrial FM or AM
radio. We all suffer the RP.

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But that's another story. Hey Johnson, why don't you go ahead and take

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us out with another great tune and
tell us about our sponsors. I gotta

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go quickly in the back and do
a little bit of peekaboo and drop the

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kids off at the pool, if
you know what I'm talking about. Back

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to the eighties radio. This has
been Johnson and Johnson here. Back to

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the eighties radio. Coming up next, a little something from nineteen eighty.

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I know this is going to make
some people's ears bleed. But this is

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the spirit of radio. Bye Rush
are the one and only back to the

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eighties radio. Begin the day with
the friendly boys of the many, jus

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lay sad son not so elasent and
the man music with your mom, your

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day. This magic can't go things
on the spabing the ingles of the man,

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contact your son, crackle with life. Why did something? And at

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a time is way. Think by
the games as the shapely making up new

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way. Not a lot to challenge
your honesty. You're honestly what might be

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lady music a piss and then he
is compromising shadowy and you did not des

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log smuckling U b y je not
that side. The d blake is based

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on boats. So the buffets were
written cotton googs with the sound of salesman,

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of salesman, sales There, my
Brady'll believe me. I like it

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loud. I'm a man with a
box that can rock the crowd down the

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street to the heart to a beam. J. D. C By braids

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the coffee. Sorry you can't understand, but I need a radio inside my

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hand to me to a opposite door, saying what I can't my file away

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that I'm saying this is my story
is bro. My neighborhood is tak but

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a still sport goal and I'm out
to crush my name. It's cool Jay,

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I tell a state the show,
But I couldn't survive without a radio

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shot A one of them singers with
the head of these bases. I keep

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the sucking this bad. I'm a
look on my face my radio band from

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the Bullo Barn. I'm a heap
popcaateser and my name is Tar, just

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the lady by the beat bus out
the rhyme to get fresh bat of reason.

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If it won't rewind to play every
day, even on the subway,

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I would have got a summers but
I ran away the leader of the show

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keeping you on the gold. But
I know I can't live without a radio

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songs on my top win a one
of a block. I really don't care

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if it's jealous or not, because
I make the song. You sing a

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long and your radio death where my
record is off ship off the wall will

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come in farm on your radio problems
have nothing song you rich beats making ends

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for fun and my radio foud like
a fighter long the floor five rates,

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the walk in the face makes my
head trump sea thing that sounds and my

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ride get the front end back you
you were think it was a party,

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not a Cadillac of the alp with
the windows too, and my maker so

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loud, and you rich your glue
carryo something like a sabage beech. The

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level all my power meter will not
decrease. The sucker's getting mad because the

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girl, he screamed, and a
still getting paid. Why you're looking at

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me? Mean, I'm the leader
of the show, keeping you on the

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gold. But I know I can't
live without a radio. I'm the leader

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of the show keeping you on the
goat man, I know I can't live

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without a radio. Don't fun that
time. I'm feel upset, Mike going

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to a big rip off your neck
the radio something when I'm down and I'm

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playing I'm the royal chief rock of
l el couch the pix what fountain,

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I'm right the left because it's an
actual fact. This jam is death stepping

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in lead cree eighty five, me
going down and radio his the reed.

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I'm good to go on your radio, and I'm cod getting paid because Rick

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said so. The Whooper's wallet and
your tweet is twist and something jellous knuck

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on heads might try to just put
it him, starting them. My radio's

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loud enough to keep you sunching the
fund to school chain. I'm promm no

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problem circulating through your radio non stop, looking at the wires behind the concession.

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And now I'm off the right standing
on your jack. It's bettering light

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blue bloomers. A whole lot of
gold had chance like these tb in control,

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the leader of the show, keeping
you on the gold man. I

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know I can't live with I'm a
radio. Your energy levels started increase as

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my big beat is slowly relief.
I'm on the radio and at the jam

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hell el cool, Cha's who I
am. I'm gonna make your hands hoogie

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down. Then rocket and the scratch
as shade to my musical blot and two

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expand my musical playing co creator rock
the beat with your hands right shod,

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don't try to funk the movie and
she's become Moti baby by the funkies room

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to see me and Earl chilling off
the block with my box cold kicking with

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the case. The rock people can't
stop me. Neither can't a leak.

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I'm a musical madiac. Save the
lead. You and your Brady yoa.

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I mean this for Cool Chase here
to devastate once more, Broly all the

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girls taking out them seat they for
trying to disrespect me. I just say,

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please, can't to command the heck
hot Lands kicking live with a box

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inside my hands. I'm the leader
of the should keeping you on the gold.

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But I know I can't live about
my radio Bomas full of bars.

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Yeah you know that when we hang
out too loud, you know what I'm

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saying. That's where the cribs at. Welcome one and all. This is

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the one and only back to the
eighties Radio. We've got a great show.

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And speaking of great shows, you
just heard Spirit of Radio by Rush.

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You also heard I Can't Live without
My Radio by ll Cool J with

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Me is a man that has scratched
more records than any DJ possible in the

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nineteen eighties. He's been seen traveling
with your boulevard at nights on Sundays,

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just like he used to, and
stopping by both Tommies and King Taco.

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Here is the King Taco himself.
This is the one and only changed order.

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How are you all doing tonight?
Welcome to Back to the Eighties Radio

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with Tuscano and Chang Oh oh,
Mike won Badde, my hit, my

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God now, yes he spoke it
true. Yes, back in the eighties,

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I was on Whittier Boulevard making out
with Cholas, fighting with Cholos.

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Either way, it was a good
time. So welcome all of you.

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Tuscano, oh oh man. We
are going to discuss the decline of what

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was once free form radio, the
death, the loss, and the walk

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away from terrestrial radio. You know, one of the biggest things, ladies

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and gentlemen, that the newer generation
will never get to experience is the freedom

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that we had in radio, the
freedom that the on air personality had as

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well. We're going to talk a
little bit about the nineteen ninety six Act,

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even though this is a show from
the eighties, but the Telecommunications Act

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of nineteen eighty six significantly changed radio
forever. We're also going to talk about

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the deregulation of ownership, consolidation of
ownership, the content, the impact on

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local content, competition, innovation,
the lack of radio personalities, the lack

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of improv skills, the lack of
quality music, and in general, to

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decline of the world of radio.
And oh, hang, hang on,

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hang on. We're getting a phone
call here. Why why is this?

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This is our private line. Yeah, that's the red phone line. It's

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the red line, my friend,
you answered, I'm not answering. You

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answered, Hey, how you doing? You've reached Back to the eighties radio

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chang here of Tusconaw and chang.
How can I address this call and put

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it out to our lovely listeners?
What's crack alac? And how's your wheelchacking?

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Who is this? What are you
doing? We're doing what you hired

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us to do. We're doing the
show. We're in retaining the masses.

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Well, of course it's on the
air. You're live on Back to the

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Eighties Radio. Our dear program director, give me over here and now,

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Steve, we're not going to take
you off the air right now. Man,

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we're in the middle of the free
form flow of Back to the Eighties

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Radio. We have our listeners like
we're on a fishing boat, hooked and

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sun. What do you have to
tell us that you can't tell our listeners?

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After all? Isn't that all we
pay the bills around here? Stevie

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boy, come on, come on, just lighten up, buddy, lighting

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up, Get me off here now, that's up to you. You're the

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editor. No, no, we're
not getting you off the air. Come

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on, come on, Steve,
you're talking to me and Tosky. We're

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brothers. Co padre. Come on, Steve, we take you off the

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air. That's the end of the
bit till it. Come on, Steve,

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take a joke. O. Shoot, I don't think you could take

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a joke, STEVEE hung up to
Well. Look, no one has ever

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hung up on you and me on
the Red Hot nobody, No, not

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even Elvis. Only John Lennon did
when you threatened him with Yoko Ono sitting

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in the studio with this. You
know what, here we go. I'm

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gonna I'm gonna call him back.
I don't care. I'll call him back

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right now. Call him back.
I'll tell him some music, you know,

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Chang. This is exactly the reason
why we are going to talk about

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the death of radio because of people
like this. I'm gonna call this guy.

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No, we don't need anyone to
tell what it worse. Shut the

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mic off, cut the mic off, or you're gone. Nope, the

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mic has to stay on. We're
all about free form radio, Steve.

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I mean, come on, your
dick wad for the lover. But the

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mic off, No, no,
why don't you come in here and cut

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the mic off? Your jackass Jesus
just going on. The mic stays on.

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All right, the mike stays on. You back off, cut the

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mic off. Come on, come
on, come on, get off,

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get get my don't tell me there
I'll killing shadow. Oh God, sat

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all right, all last and three
now go Mike off. I'm not cutting

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nothing off there. You gonna get
off in Steve, your son of a

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month, you know what? You
cut the mic on us and that Reform

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Radio right out the door. I
would say, it's I don't wavery it

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must say nothing bad, don't why
I was sad. Story on its side,

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definitely lost. This can not cast
the spare Everything that sister my dog

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is take was made s Welcome back
to back to the eighties Rady with Tuscano

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and Chang Man. What a sweat
house and that was fade to black from

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Metallica Man, Boys and girls,
What a what a discharge? Me and

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my partner just endure Tuscano. Can
you believe the act of Steve Russell,

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our former general manager Back to the
eighties radio? And I want to say

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former now Tuscano. Please, I
don't want anybody to hate me more than

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they do and think that my ego
is everywhere. Why don't you tell them

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why Steve is no longer our general
manager and remind the listeners who's in charge

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and who is large, ladies and
gentlemen, jointed lady, that's right,

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you heard it live, Ladies,
gentlemen. You know, going back to

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the eighties and having a show such
as this one the top rated, most

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popular eighties radio show in the world, you know, we had hired someone

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to help us out, somebody who
claimed the knew radio from back then.

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But all of a sudden, you
give somebody a little bit of power and

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they want to just take over.
Well, no, sir, Reeve,

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that's not going to happen here on
our watch, because, after all,

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you guys are why we do this
show, and this is free form radio.

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This is radio from the eighties by
eighties jocks, and there's no way

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we're going to have someone who believes
that radio should conform to the way it

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is today. If you don't like
the radio shows of the eighties, you

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can take a hike. There's plenty
of radio shows that will play a bunch

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of nonsense for you guys, and
with little you know robots. As a

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matter of fact, you can probably
go listen to an AI station here back

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to the eighties radios. Tuscano and
Chang live, Live and live. Okay,

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we are the real deal. So
yeah, we told him to take

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a hike. We fired him.
He's done. We are giving you radio

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like it should be. We're all
real. We're giving you what you want,

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trying to take you to a place
that takes you away from all the

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crap that's going on in life politically, socially. Well, if you're like

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Tuscano and I your parents, we
have talked about the death of radio on

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the lighter side before today. We're
going to be going more in depth,

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and we're going to be ranting a
lot more. Why because you are listening

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to two guys that have been involved
in radio for a while, who have

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loved and been a part of the
radio world since we were teenagers, and

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who have loved radio as it once
was. But something happened, something happened

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throughout the years that changed everything for
everybody specifically, and I'm going to tell

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you this specifically, and if you
just joined us here back to the eighties

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radio. I want to thank you
guys for taking your time, but we

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are going to be talking about the
death of radio and the death of the

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radio personality in particular. There was
something that happened in the nineties, but

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as a result of the way things
were being run in the late eighties,

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the men in suits, the men
in black behind the radio business. That

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led to a killer bill that was
signed in nineteen ninety six called the Telecommunications

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Act of nineteen ninety six. But
before we go there, we're going to

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be talking about how some of the
radio personalities that we had in the past,

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how they made us feel. So
why don't we kick it off like

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that, Chang, Why don't we
talk about some of the radio personalities that

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made us feel just enthused to listen
to radio, some of the personalities that

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made us feel like we belonged and
then when you heard them, you just

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felt a connection with them for whatever
the reason was. And unfortunately today that

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is completely lost. Oh man,
Seeing that I am as old as dirt

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in some parts of this country,
I would have to say, for me,

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it was the seventies disc jockeys that
put a lump in my stump that

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really grabbed my ears and my senses. But in the eighties, the eighties,

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I had already evolved from the cat
that I used to be in the

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seventies when I was in grammar school
and junior high into high school. Where

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high school is really where where one
becomes one with himself. The oddities of

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life have kind of rolled off.
You already know who you don't want to

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be from your past experience. You're
already understanding that you're an individual. So

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you're breaking off from your parents,
You're breaking off from that old personality you

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had in grade school, and you're
becoming your own. And what's the first

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thing that hits you. Music FM
radio, free form radio, that disc

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jockey making you feel like your generation
matters, that they're talking to you,

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they understand you, they're giving you
the groove to say, ef it.

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Whatever I'm doing, it's the way
I want to go. FM jocks.

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They brought out fashion shows, personality, music sets. They were able to

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captivate the audience emotion. At that
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deal. Now everything is like packaged, everything is kind of process nowadays.

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I gotta go all the way back
to Kmie T kalelews KHJ. You know

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when when all these men something,
when you have a guy come on like

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Shotgun Kelli. Okay, he's got
some good news. Party holders are the

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six ten Tower Record certificates due to
the recent rotten weather. While the Shotgun

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does be rotten, the deadline for
redeeming your album coupon has been expended through

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bred. You had cats like Rick
D's. This is kiss that van Rick

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D's in the morning at seven twenty
seven. You remember the King Lady she

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called one week and all of a
sudden she disappeared. I hear she's back

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in town and has our new private
number, the Kinky Lady seven seven.

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She's coming up. Here's Dan Fogelberg. You know my favorite, Jim Ladd.

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Anybody from kamy T, the Moody
Blues and Gypsy Red Riders can't turn

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back and you two with rejoice.
This is headsets on kamy T. My

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name is Jim Ladd and we're doing
some songs around the general subject of the

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shaman. Every tribe has a shaman
or a number of shaman. Some of

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them are men shaman called witch doctors
or medicine men more properly or shaman,

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and the female of the tribe is
usually the gypsy woman. There's a lot

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of shaman women in the Blues.
The gypsy woman told my mama on the

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day I was born, and so
on and so on and so on,

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with greg Grey and black cat bone
in her hand. The shaman of the

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tribe are the ones who take us
on the journey, and the reason that

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they are so interesting to watch is
because they spend so much time on the

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journey, thus having common shaman and
the gypsy. Oh, Shadow Stevens from

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Hollywood. This is American Top forty. I'm Shadow Stevens. Here for that

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weekly trip to the top of pop
Paradise. We'll count down the biggest hits

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on the Billboard Charts, the official
weekly survey of radio airplay and record sales

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across the USA. Our final destination
the big number one number four debuts in

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this week's count Who I Think always
was more than just a radio disc jockey.

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They created theater of the mind,
which Jim Ladd rests in peace framed

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that frame. Theater of the mind
is when you can actually grab a listener

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put them in a mindset where they
visualize exactly what you're saying, taking them

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away from the ordinary is theater of
the mind. We're very blessed here back

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to the eighties radio to have befriended
Gino Mitchellini, a great soul that we

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just lost Red Barchianas. There are
a lot of fun about five o'clock on

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the four or five freeway, just
sitting there, burning up all that gas,

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chewing up those valves. N K
Los How you're doing this is Mitchellini,

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It's two for Tuesday. Here's fleewood
Man. Another individual we lost,

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Dusty Street. I feel too good. I feel far too good to do

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this show. That's it. I'm
going to sleep good night. I just

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got the world famous back rub of
life, but I won't tell you by

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who. No, it was a
fish rub Ooh that sounds sounds a little

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scaly to me. It ISFM Pasadena, Los Angeles Rock the eighties and nineties

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alive. Good morning is wonderful.
I hope this is going so many times

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again. We have lost these voices, personalities, identities, people that we

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called friends from afar, not only
on air, but we've lost them in

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daily life breathing. We'll never hear
them again. We won't hear their set

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list or what they think, the
substance, the element, the feeling,

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and the whole freaking reason why radio
was created. Well we come back,

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We're gonna be talking about why radio
in the eighties went down the rabbit hole

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and never never came back again.
You were listening to Back to the eighties

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Radio with Tusconwan Chang, and we
are going to take you out to another

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planet, a planet when radio and
music and DJs mattered. Right here,

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put your ears to She came from
Planet Claire. The B fifty two straight

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at you between the eyes, tuscone
and Chang. Back to the eighties Radio,

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Get your bibe alive. She came
from Lane as fast. When she

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came from there, a flaming sad
line, Master bend the line that Claire

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past big. All the trees are
red, no one ever dies them,

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no one has some stations remarks or
one of the seven stars, Shoddy thirty

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and annas m. She came from
slanted flat. She came from silence flat.

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She came from Planet le when the
economy was good and the metal was

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having bad. Back to the eight
I want to be home, still want

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you be doing day? For an
a minute, I have a up.

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I need a minute and a boy
day day alway know, say somebod heel

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a time, I tell it down, get the im flean it hill time

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the rayo. I need a music, give me some mo time out the

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raio be healing. Got to give
me some now, I want to say.

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I there to found it on one
of the three. I feel the

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people I'm in the no gotta putay
me day time, night time, anytime,

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say so fat and I'm the only
whining for house. Why can't be

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time time the rain? I need
the music. Give me some money to

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the radio. I don't want to
be in to give me some money to

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the radio. Be here to me
right an even music's a welcome back.

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I hope you turned up the radio
with Autograph and Tuscana and chang right here

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back to the eighties radio. Tonight
we are discussing the death the absence of

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not only free form rock and roll
radio and radio of its kind, but

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the friend on the speaker box,
the DJ, the personality, the cat,

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the kiddie, the guy, the
girl that set your world right or

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whenever you needed it. Tuskana,
what did you think of that set of

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songs that I chantastically put together for
the boys and girls. You know,

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I got to give it up to
you. I got to give you a

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round of applause. Definitely. Why
because because you're absolutely right, there were

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great songs and songs that were you
know, whether you like them or not,

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back in the eighties. These are
songs that ring true today because they

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talk about the memories and the emotions
that we associated with the time. We

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were talking about the radio personalities from
the eighties. You know, one of

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the big things changed back then as
opposed to today or compared to today's radio

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personality. First of all, they
had more control over their own shows.

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They had more control over their music
choices, over the topics, and that

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led to a more dynamic and engaging
show, and it was tailored to the

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local audience. They weren't trying to
capture the world's attention, you know,

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like today, they want to make
everybody feel good. And the same time,

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they don't care of losing an entire
generation of listeners. So there was

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a diversity. There was a creative
freedom that radio personalities. And I'm gonna

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name some that we just got on
on X on the old Twitter here from

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our page, and they mentioned Scott
Shannon from the Zoo at Z one hundred

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and New York and thirty six in
the morning the Tuesday Morning Zoo Spanky on

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Superstick of Patrol and good morning to
you from the Zoo. Who's this,

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No, no, never mind,
I know who this is. Good morning,

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mister Leonard. Well, good morning, Scott. Use it's me,

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mister Leonard. That's just been public
service director and research. You know,

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obviously you conveniently forgot the telephone conversation
we had yesterday just around twelve noon.

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Yeah, that one? Which one
was that? The conversation I had Dean

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Zachram office when you said you would
you would definitely make it into the radio

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station today in order to do this. He was one of the most influential

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poping rock DJs of the eighties.
We got Carol Miller, also from New

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York's w p LJ. You can
see the film that starts Friday at theaters

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and drivings near you. This is
Carol Miller and w p LJ Rock and

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Roll from somebody mentioned Tom Bernard and
Steve Dahl. And then we also have

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somebody that mentioned d Snyder. That's
right from Twisted's sister who also had a

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very small presence in the eighties on
rock radio from k r OQ in Los

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Angeles, Richard Blade, Ziggy Molly, along with the Medley Makers and when

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the lights go out you still got
k rock. Kind of romantic right.

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Also the span of the rings.
They might be giants, Jesus in the

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Marie Chain, the Church, the
alarm, a ratio mantin Whiffle Boy from

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the Morning show. In the studio
at the moment he's wearing how to bring

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that up? He's wearing his flippers. Why are you wearing swim fins in

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the studio? Ready to dive on
Wednesday? Can't you find it hard to

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walk around with those things on your
face? Used to it? As days

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go on? Did the diving you
start to tell? You? Now?

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You and me chang? We remember
duos, especially duos like Mark and Brian.

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Well, you certainly are up early. Yeah, I wanted to get

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a good head start on the day. Hey, what are you eating nutting

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cock? What did you say nutting
cock? No? I heard you the

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first time, but all I wanted
to know was what the name of the

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cereal is that you're eating nutting cock? Why won't you tell me what you're

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eating I did you said nutting cock? Exactly? Are you in a bad

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mood? Now I'm in a great
mood because I'm eating such a great cereal.

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And the name of that cereal would
be nutting cock. Okay, if

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you say nutt and cock one more
time, you're gonna be sorry. That's

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the real name of the cereal nutting
cock. You see. Nutting cock is

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a delicious blend of walnuts and rooster
parts. Oh, I get it.

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Nutting cock is a tasty combination of
nuts and cod just exactly. It took

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Kellogg's to do it. They finally
made a cereal that combines the saltiness of

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nuts with the delicious, farm fresh
flavor of cock. So nutting cock not

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only tastes good, but with one
real rooster, it's also good for me.

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Now you're getting it, you see. You see, nutting cock is

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the only cereal that combines the great
walnut flavor you love with the nutritious taste

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of cock that by Body Graves.
That's right, exactly, fortified with fortified

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with eleven vitamins and minerals. Nutting
cock is an important part of this nutritious

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breakfast. Nutting Cock It's chok full
of nuts and chock full of cock nutting

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cock. Pick some up today.
O. Yeah, that's a new breakfast

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cereal. And we also know Jay
Thomas. Jay Thomas was probably one of

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the pioneers of this whole morning show. You know. Uh, he came

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out. He later became an actor, but we're talking he was, he

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was an entertainer. It's twenty five
minutes after seven, seven twenty five now

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on Paro one oh six. Monica, I can't believe you didn't report this.

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This is absolutely true. I've been
reading this in a bunch of newspapers

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that a doctor at Harvard Medical School
has been telling women that if they have

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infections of any type and they're worried
about it. You mentioned this to me

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the other day, Yes, And
I had to look it up finally,

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and I did see it the other
day. I think in the Herald that

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they're supposed to put their underwear in
the microwave often. Now I'm gonna say

404
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:50.159
that, dud, I'm gonna say
something. I don't know what I'm talking

405
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.360
about now, But the thing was
called a yeast infection. Is that a

406
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.320
bad thing? Does it hurt?
Does it itch? What does it do?

407
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:58.480
It's when you have a problem baking
bread. No, no, no,

408
00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:01.239
come on, I mean I'm not
it's a female problem. So if

409
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:06.119
you have this problem you have you
put your underwear in the microwave of it

410
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:08.039
and it kills the germs. I
just read that the other day. But

411
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:13.400
the ust is in gosh, is
gross on your underwear. It's don't don't

412
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:15.440
mention it. I don't know what
else it does. So, ladies,

413
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:16.519
if you're having trusble, and the
doctor said, there's gonna be a lot

414
00:51:16.559 --> 00:51:20.440
of jokes made about this. I
heard this guy talking the other day on

415
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:22.400
one of those consumers on networks and
stuff, so I just wanted to bring

416
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:25.280
it to you. I mean,
it's just another wonderful use that And of

417
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:29.679
course, you know putting toy poodles
in there, which was another fun thing

418
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:32.639
we did for I know you do. It's twenty six minutes after seven o'clock,

419
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:35.760
so there you go. By the
way, this is trash day,

420
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:37.440
not just because we're talking it.
We're going oh yeah. He was a

421
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:44.800
radio host, he was a comedian
and this guy was was a talent and

422
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.320
along with him back in La I
remember Benny Martinez, Bruce Vidal, Mucho

423
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:54.280
Morales and Broadway, Bill Lee,
Jojo Kincaid, Chuck Geiger and Chuck Boom

424
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:58.960
Boom Cannon, like we can go
on and on and on. Oh you

425
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:02.239
can't forget Mark and Kim. I
mean, let's let's let's not step away,

426
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:07.320
you know, for from you know, easy listening radio, because I

427
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:14.639
think even easy listening radio station forms
have taken a hit, well, yeah,

428
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:20.039
to where it isn't really in the
mainstream as it once was, and

429
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.760
you would think it would be heavily
because of the yuppie era. Remember Ted

430
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:30.599
Ziggenbush from Coast one to three point
five in Los Angeles. I remember,

431
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:36.639
these these guys were the guys that
started at all. Casey Casem you can't

432
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.000
we can't even discuss this without mentioning
Howard Stern. He made his head way

433
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:47.320
into the eighties radio pretty much the
icon and the poster child of shock radio,

434
00:52:49.159 --> 00:52:52.159
which I think I have a lot
of mad respect for Howard Stern,

435
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:59.000
his diversity, his guts, but
I think he pushed it a little bit

436
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.519
too far, and I think he
took the rule of radio and he took

437
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.000
it a little bit extreme. Yeah, do you remember, Yeah, And

438
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:13.639
there were others you know like that
that followed suit, But there were others.

439
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:16.800
Do you remember Gary Owens. He
was recognizable for his smooth voice he

440
00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:21.920
had. This guy had a long
career and he did countdown shows and things

441
00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:24.960
like that. Now I'm gonna mention
one. How about Doctor Demento Barrett Hanson

442
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:30.880
known for his comedy. Oh,
I remember. Both of those guys were

443
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:36.840
very similar in I believe in the
type of radio show that they did,

444
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:42.760
and it was enlightening. It was
different, it was funny. It was

445
00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:47.159
when you needed to get your laugh
out. We don't have that now.

446
00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:52.679
And talking about that, like I
mentioned the late great Gino Mitchellini who did

447
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:59.239
the five o'clock Funnies at cal Os
Radio during the eighties, we don't see

448
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:02.960
into the jewels like that at all. Radio doesn't bring out too much humor

449
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:09.280
at all anymore. It's almost like
a trip out on this. I witnessed

450
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:15.280
this personally my wife when she would
take the kids to school, she would

451
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:20.920
put the radio on to what my
children wanted to hear. She became liking

452
00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:23.960
that same music. I saw that
with my sister and her kids. I

453
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:30.760
saw that with some of my friends
and their kids. When I coached baseball.

454
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:36.159
I saw that a lot with a
lot of parents who switched the radio

455
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:42.199
over but kind of lost their individualism
into what their kids were listening to.

456
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:47.559
And I think that had a little
bit too contribute to the death of having

457
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:52.840
your own identity on terrestrial radio,
wouldn't you say? So? I have

458
00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:55.880
to agree with you. I want
to give everybody a little example of what

459
00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:01.159
radio was like with a popular duo
from back in the day. This was

460
00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:07.960
nineteen eighty nine and this was one
of the great duos from back then,

461
00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:13.239
Laurena Wally with a little skit they
had back then, and I can tell

462
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.360
you they just don't make them like
they used to. Well, he sept

463
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:19.400
forty six now from Boston five.
Is he in the hall wallee? Yes,

464
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:21.559
he is in the hall line.
But we should go ahead and make

465
00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:23.400
the big announcement here, I suppose
Wald, don't you think I should?

466
00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:29.199
New England Patriots have hired a new
offensive coordinator for the team, and they've

467
00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:31.400
gone all the way to Yeah,
that's him. Now. I'm sure they've

468
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:35.159
gone all the way to China to
hire this guy. So let's get him

469
00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:37.400
out in here and be the first
ones to interview and introduce this we come

470
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:42.519
on a blaze. Yes, good
morning, it is me extremely offensive coordinator

471
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.800
for the New England Patriots. Well, good morning, sir, and what

472
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:49.400
is your name? By the way, win one soon wine soon, So

473
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.760
tell us about well they'll be making
any changes with the Patriots now that you're

474
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:55.920
going to be the new offensive coordinator. I'll tell you if having flyer doesn't

475
00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:00.159
straighten up. Yeah, he's going
to be irving star fryer d I see

476
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:05.239
really get my fort I'm cookie that
guy. Okay, listen, I'm beginning

477
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:08.000
to see a direction in which this
is going go ahead. It's not a

478
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:15.079
good direction. Getting ugly, well, Lauren wrote it. Yeah, we

479
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:17.760
have no dog. We have mascot
for New England Patriots, a mask of

480
00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:21.960
witness. Anyway, it's a it's
a it's a dog. It's very well

481
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:29.719
trained dog. Really is it good? Delicious? Delicious? Yes, you

482
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:34.960
know it seems I've been coordinating offense. We made some changes. We don't

483
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.920
have the shotgun formation. You don't
have the shotgun for me. We have

484
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:44.960
the showgun formation. Would you please
leave the studio? Okay, thank you,

485
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:49.159
well, waldough bye. There was
still a lot of material left on

486
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:52.840
that ladies and gentlemen. It's just
a little snip of w v b F

487
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:59.880
Boston with Lauren and Wally back in
the day when radio and radio personalities rule

488
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:04.760
the airwaves. Like I said,
changing, there's so many different reasons why

489
00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:08.960
they don't allow this type of radio
going on anymore. But if they really

490
00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:13.920
knew, really knew how much and
how important. First of all, how

491
00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:19.119
important this is for our brain,
for our mind to let loose, to

492
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.360
let go, to forget about your
daily problems, and how important these radio

493
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:29.000
personalities were to us. You know, do you remember going either going to

494
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.440
school or going to work or coming
back from work, and you had a

495
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:37.760
horrible day. Turning on the radio, what would happen? You would forget

496
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:43.679
during that rush hour, you would
forget about your problems. Briefly, it's

497
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:49.679
funny that you mentioned, you know, those two cats. Now, the

498
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:55.480
quirky thing about those two cats and
the style of comedy that they were portraying

499
00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:02.039
nowadays would be highly offensive. Here's
the case. You would think, okay,

500
00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:10.159
that the actual race is going to
cause a stir in it, but

501
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:21.639
what it actually is, it's the
syndications that are bringing about banning such type

502
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:27.880
clean humoristic, stupidity, fun you
know. Yeah, sometimes it's not even

503
00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:31.039
the people from that race in particular, you know, it's just, you

504
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:36.840
know, the way society has is
going exactly, so a lot of stuff

505
00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:39.440
like that you can't do anymore,
let alone on the air. You can't

506
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:42.679
do it in comedy. And you
know, when I used to do stand

507
00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:46.599
up comedy, a lot of my
dialogue, a lot of my skits,

508
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:51.840
my wife told me would be very
offensive. Now you know what I'm saying.

509
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:55.159
So I tell her, well,
you're right, but maybe we have

510
00:58:55.280 --> 00:59:01.360
to stop being woosies. Tipper Gore
al Gore's wife. Remember in the eighties

511
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:09.400
when she wanted to start putting a
rating on albums sad censorship. D Snyder

512
00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:14.559
had to step up, show that
his hair wasn't the only thing growing out

513
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:19.880
of his head and speak up for
that. And it's odd the Act that

514
00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:25.400
Clinton signed in ninety six. We
have two individuals, a strong individual man

515
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:30.159
that I think weren't too bad as
leaders. If we would have listened to

516
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:36.039
them, maybe things would be a
bit different. But yet Clinton, come

517
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:38.280
on, you lie about something like
that, what else do you lie about?

518
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:45.039
Away from that? Either way,
But it's funny how censorship on albums,

519
00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:51.960
cassettes or whatever form of music added
to the censorship of free form radio.

520
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:54.760
We were now being told what we
could listen to, when we could

521
00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:59.519
listen to it, what you can
say, what you can say, and

522
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:05.679
if you say it, the FCC
is going to come and cave f your

523
01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:13.559
whole show. So it's it's one
of the things that the Telecommunications Act of

524
01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:15.239
nineteen ninety six. See a lot
of people think, oh, this was

525
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:22.320
in the nineties. You got to
remember, conversations and discussions about the telecommunications

526
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:30.320
laws began in the late eighties,
then progressed in the nineties. Okay,

527
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:35.440
now, this act, okay,
the Telecommunications Act of ninety six, they

528
01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:40.239
tried to create They talked about creating
more competitive markets, and it was innovation

529
01:00:40.599 --> 01:00:44.400
and it was going to be an
impact on the radio and industry. It

530
01:00:44.679 --> 01:00:52.800
undermined the vibrantcy, the localized radio
culture that had previously existed. It destroyed

531
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:59.199
it, and it destroyed it to
a degree that it affected everyone. Let

532
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:05.079
me put it to this, the
death of radio didn't just affect radio personalities.

533
01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.360
It didn't affect the music that was
played on the on the air,

534
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:16.239
but it affected the actual performer,
the musician, the person making the albums,

535
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:22.440
the person make the person or persons
that had anything to do with specific

536
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:27.960
albums. Because thanks to all of
that, and thanks to the rise of

537
01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:34.719
the Internet, now we have instead
of radio, who's the dominant creature.

538
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:39.679
It is Spotify, iTunes and Pandora
and things like that that we're grateful for

539
01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:45.000
because we can be on those platforms. But as far as music playing is

540
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:51.920
concerned, these these companies are first
of all, don't be fooled, they're

541
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:59.039
not streaming services. Okay, they
are subscription services. First and foremost.

542
01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:04.320
They want your money. They couldn't
care less who is on the top of

543
01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:07.719
the list, who's the best.
They don't care. All they care are

544
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:14.960
for you to give them some money
as a subscriber, pay us so you

545
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:22.800
can hear what you used to get
for free. The term monopolizing is I

546
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:28.760
think in fit of what we're discussing, because when you're allowed the monopolization of

547
01:02:29.039 --> 01:02:35.119
entities purchasing radio stations, taking away
that choice, taking away that freedom,

548
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:43.440
taking away that diversity, or the
differences the flavors of what you can in

549
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:46.639
take in your ears as a listener. The whole thing was a crapshoot,

550
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:51.000
a shit show. And it's sad
that I have to say that, and

551
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:57.480
we have to say that because we
are very fortunate to put our program on

552
01:02:57.920 --> 01:03:01.199
with their plateaus that they carry.
But the thing is, it's we have

553
01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:06.159
a little bit more freedom of what
we say, but we can't play what

554
01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:10.840
we feel. And I think it's
either one or the other. You get

555
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:16.760
a scrambled egg or a hard boiled
egg in radio to where it used to

556
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:20.719
be, you can get both.
When we come back, we're going to

557
01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:23.679
be talking more about the death of
radio back in the nineteen eighties and as

558
01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:30.840
we can continue this radical wave that
took us to the end of radio as

559
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:35.440
we once knew it. On that
note, here's a double shot from Billy

560
01:03:35.559 --> 01:03:57.559
Joel here back to the eighties Radio
Don't Go Away, Harry Truman, doarsde

561
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:02.559
Red China, Johnny Ray, The
Goal to which Joda Maggio, John McCarty,

562
01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:08.360
Richard Mister Student, Baker, Television, nor Karia, Southaria, Maryland

563
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:19.559
Borough, Rosenberg six, Barn Suparay, Paul John Randall, The King and

564
01:04:19.679 --> 01:04:25.360
Nigh and the Catcher in the Right, Eisenhower Vaccine. England's got a new

565
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:33.079
Queen Boleti satire good bye to start
the fire. It was alway this is

566
01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:42.920
the last time we start the p
the we did by the Chiga by Joseph

567
01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:48.519
Stalin Alancar. That's the Rember copy
of Rocabella Cappanella, Communist Rock, Roy

568
01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:57.039
con Wopon Tuscaninid Cronk and Ben Foo
Balls rock around the Clark Einstein, James

569
01:04:57.159 --> 01:05:00.719
Den Booker's got away the Team,
Davy Crockett a band, Elvis beding this

570
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:08.119
they left Bardo the best Alabama bruise
chap which is badrinking my supper in the

571
01:05:08.280 --> 01:05:15.039
show. Didn't start the part that's
always man, this is the worst turn

572
01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:20.719
to start the bid. We didn't
find it and to try to find it.

573
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:26.840
A rock past the Night, Mickey
Mantle, Carol and spuntling and showing

574
01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:32.840
brand on the river an shot the
gold California Baseball start, but the homicide

575
01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:42.679
children not a little mind the world
of Bunny Hollingdens face booking, Mui Bulow

576
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:48.159
the Castro. It's a little nook
a sip and wake trail and Kennedy took

577
01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:56.480
me chack a side do the condo. Didn't start the din that's always gone.

578
01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:02.800
This is the worst time. We
didn't start the rigs night and were

579
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:10.760
trying to fight and Hemingway ammonstrator in
the Strange Land Building, Berlin be A

580
01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:15.559
bigs Engage and Florence on the Rabia, British beetle many of old Miss John

581
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:23.880
Glynniston Beach's palliser, Paul Knlcolm next
British politician sex jfk blown away. Let

582
01:06:24.039 --> 01:06:30.079
us do I have to say to
start the fis always bother. This is

583
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:36.800
all the time we didn't start the
bud light and but we're trying to fight

584
01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:44.639
but control gi men Ji Nixon back
and getting moon shot with stock Watergate from

585
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:48.400
the rock. Bacon Regan Palestine terror
on the airline. I had told us

586
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:55.039
in the rand Russians in Afghanistan we're
the fucking Sally ride heavy that a suicdime

587
01:06:55.239 --> 01:07:00.639
foreign DEAs homus bench he ats cracking
Bernie and hypodermics on the show China do

588
01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:09.400
the marshal the roller color wars along
to stop the file has all the gon

589
01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:18.360
its is a long time to stop
the vile dot me gone to stop long

590
01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:39.440
long we didn't start the fibu all
the wet stop the file we didn't start

591
01:07:39.599 --> 01:07:50.639
the file the black. We didn't
stop the fire. Don't we do we

592
01:07:51.320 --> 01:08:03.639
stop like and gentlemen, I'm Shadow
Stevens and you must listen to back to

593
01:08:03.719 --> 01:08:19.279
the eighties radio. It's the law. Friday night, I crashed yall party

594
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:27.479
Saturday, I said, I'm sorry. Sunday came and trash me out again.

595
01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:36.239
I was only having phone. Wasn't
heard again anyone, and we all

596
01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:46.640
joined the weekend before the chan saady
the combat zone. I want to bend

597
01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:55.840
the style alone, even Rod,
my phone cycle and the rag. And

598
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:01.239
you told me not to drive,
but I mean it all alive. So

599
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:08.920
you said that all. It proves
that I haven't said. You made the

600
01:09:09.159 --> 01:09:17.119
rise. I made me crazy,
but it just made me alone to take

601
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:25.479
your looking all. So now hold
the lights, don't try to save it.

602
01:09:27.239 --> 01:09:30.840
You made it wrong. Oh my
lord, you made it rise.

603
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:44.840
Remember how I found you there alone
in your electric chair. I told you

604
01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:54.199
dirty jokes until you smile. You
alone and all of fan said take me

605
01:09:54.680 --> 01:10:02.520
as I am your mind and enjoyed
some madness fall. Wow. I think

606
01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:10.439
the ball of you try to find
someone to satisfy you. I might be

607
01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:18.439
as crazy as you say it was
crazy. Then it's true that it's all

608
01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:28.479
because you, and you wouldn't want
me any other way. You made the

609
01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:35.760
rise, I made it crazy,
wow, but it's just made me lou

610
01:10:36.159 --> 01:10:43.600
to take y'all look at the phone. It's slay to face. It's too

611
01:10:43.720 --> 01:10:50.199
late. It's a change. You
made it. But you made a rise.

612
01:11:17.479 --> 01:11:25.960
You made the rise, I made
the crazy lay. But it just

613
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:33.920
made me the thing you're looking for. So now the legs, don't try

614
01:11:34.039 --> 01:11:45.520
to say you made the wrong.
No, you made a vice, you

615
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:48.880
made the wrong that, you made
advice and made the wrong that. You

616
01:11:49.079 --> 01:11:58.560
made a bas made the round the
change and made a round the Chinese made

617
01:11:58.600 --> 01:12:05.479
the wrong change. Back to the
eighties radio, we didn't start the fire,

618
01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:11.520
Billy Joel, and as a special
too for our offer, you may

619
01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:15.039
be Right, a song that included
a mention of radio and its own lyrics

620
01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:23.159
chang These songs capture the sense of
a reckless freedom, rock and roll spirit

621
01:12:23.319 --> 01:12:27.000
that was associated with that era,
and you got to give it to Billy

622
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:30.760
Joel. He knew how to put
it together. And it's unfortunate that we've

623
01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:32.119
gotten to where we've gotten, but
you know what, thank you guys for

624
01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:34.279
joining us. Here and back to
the eighties radio. If it's your first

625
01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:39.119
time listening to us, we want
to we appreciate you. And you know,

626
01:12:39.239 --> 01:12:43.560
we are talking today about the death
of radio and how it killed not

627
01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:49.880
only radio itself, but also destroyed
the liberty and freedom of the on air

628
01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:56.119
personality. And at the end of
the day, the one who suffered was

629
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:00.439
the listener, because it also killed
in a big way, the musician,

630
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:09.479
the performer, the artist. Industrialized
radio has become industrialized. And here let

631
01:13:09.520 --> 01:13:14.880
me add this to you. It's
sad, you know that an entity that

632
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:23.199
like serious radio XFM to where they
understand the need of what radio was,

633
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:27.760
which is great, it's awesome.
They get it and they have hired in

634
01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:33.439
the past many jocks and radio shows
liking to our generation before us and maybe

635
01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:42.000
a little after us, and they've
catered to that and they've managed to get

636
01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:49.039
great fortune and get great subscriptions to
give such programming. And it's good for

637
01:13:49.159 --> 01:13:54.159
us to be able to obtain that
once again. But here's where it gets

638
01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:57.920
weird for me. And I don't
want to step on anybody's toes, but

639
01:13:58.039 --> 01:14:01.159
I know, me being me,
I probably am. And you have to

640
01:14:01.239 --> 01:14:04.720
go off the cuff every now and
then, but yet you have to pay

641
01:14:05.279 --> 01:14:11.159
to get what we used to get
for free. And you know, our

642
01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:15.960
radio show, we are doing everything
we can to cater to the listener,

643
01:14:16.640 --> 01:14:19.960
to cater to the people that are
willing to give us their ears, their

644
01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:26.039
time. Understand where we're coming from, identify, but they too are looking

645
01:14:26.159 --> 01:14:30.199
for radio just like us, what
we're looking for, so we try to

646
01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:35.000
give it to them. The final
version of the Telecommunications Act of ninety six

647
01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:42.479
was finally passed by Congress in February
of ninety six, signed by of course,

648
01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:45.600
President Bill Clinton on the eighth of
February, and it was influenced,

649
01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:51.079
of course, by technological advancements.
It was influenced by market dynamics, the

650
01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:57.720
desire to be or for a more
competitive landscape. But what it ended up

651
01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:01.600
doing is leading to a major shift
in the indu street ownership rules were relaxed,

652
01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:08.039
new opportunities for consolidated emerged. Consolidation
emerged. But here's the bottom line.

653
01:15:08.760 --> 01:15:12.199
What did that lead to at the
end of the day. And because

654
01:15:12.279 --> 01:15:16.800
the radio industry evolved in this way, it led to things like internet radio.

655
01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:20.520
And part of that is good because
we get to listen to radio stations

656
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:25.880
from all over the place, all
over the world. The changes recent especially

657
01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:30.159
have reduced the opportunities for on air
personalities to stand out and build their own

658
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:33.239
brands. I mean this is all
because what do they want to do.

659
01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:39.079
They want to just attract more money, and they want to save okay,

660
01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:43.680
and they want to have automated playlists, syndicated programming, reducing need for local

661
01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:47.119
DJs. Now everything's going to be
going the way of AI pretty soon all

662
01:15:47.239 --> 01:15:51.600
stations. You know, no offense
to stations like JACKFM, but in a

663
01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:58.159
way, come on JACKFM. You
took out the radio personality and you just

664
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:49.800
have voice tracking, and that completely
destroyed radio. That's the double and what's

665
01:16:49.920 --> 01:17:00.920
your night, mile Cruisie night and
that everything I had? I love it

666
01:17:01.119 --> 01:17:13.119
on my Rainie. You gain them
those old time stops rules, the words

667
01:17:13.760 --> 01:17:19.159
you lady, babos, you lay
plan, you lay in fright, you

668
01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:32.520
made as me that so down may
come some backgrounds, the backup boat girls

669
01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:42.399
bases dun though. I just don't
care and just out plays when you up,

670
01:17:43.600 --> 01:18:00.760
you time your pad, your mus
your style, all wabarsk bady you'll

671
01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:09.960
go baby, He'll go. God
only hear mister lady, he'll go Blady,

672
01:18:10.079 --> 01:18:36.159
you'll go buy your mom bay.
So lor we watched the sit we

673
01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:47.359
watched the stars, all the audien
four hours and we have Jesus are commies

674
01:18:48.199 --> 01:19:02.159
change stood. Let's tell me at
leave all friends, my brother you say,

675
01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:26.880
must listen, will miss you.
You you way already. Aries Rady,

676
01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:34.439
you got Brady, you'll google Rady, You got already, Aris Brady.

677
01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:42.359
Y got Brady. You'll go gole
Rady, you got go already,

678
01:19:42.520 --> 01:21:21.000
Aris Brady, got Rady, you
go your Mona scar Cott, you were

679
01:21:21.079 --> 01:21:27.079
listening to back to the eighties radio
with the scott Wood Jag. We're just

680
01:21:27.239 --> 01:21:31.640
like totally bashing on FM and terrestrial
radio. But I think we've been soft.

681
01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:38.880
I think we've been wussies, pussies, cowards because the FCC ain't got

682
01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:42.720
nothing on you or me right now. So I think we need to get

683
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:47.520
a little bit brass knuckled out gangster
ladies and gentlemen. This is No.

684
01:21:47.720 --> 01:21:53.199
PG. Thirteen part of the show. No, your kids should be knocked

685
01:21:53.239 --> 01:21:57.840
out in bed. If not hot
chocolate, give it to your kids,

686
01:21:58.439 --> 01:22:03.199
have a shot of something and go
to bed with nothing but your toilet plungers

687
01:22:03.239 --> 01:22:06.439
in your head. We are gonna
get down and dirty. I'm gonna tell

688
01:22:06.479 --> 01:22:13.760
you right now. One of the
biggest things, the biggest things I despise

689
01:22:14.560 --> 01:22:20.760
about turning on a radio nowadays to
listen to the same garbage five to six

690
01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:28.000
stations deep. My knob can only
turn so far and it doesn't get away

691
01:22:28.039 --> 01:22:32.800
from the shit that I hear.
So enough of my rant. What do

692
01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:35.840
you got? You know, I
couldn't have set it better myself, saying

693
01:22:36.239 --> 01:22:43.159
radio, now listen here, I'm
listening. Radio in the eighties was the

694
01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:47.960
heartbeat of a community, a platform
where DJs were were larger than life,

695
01:22:48.760 --> 01:22:55.039
each with their own unique style connecting
with their audience. It was a time

696
01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:59.680
when we can tune in and hear
a mix of genres, news, interviews,

697
01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:04.880
expected surprises everywhere we turned, and
it was delivered with authenticity, with

698
01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:12.760
professionalism. We were part of a
radio family. In the DJs were those

699
01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:16.880
voices guiding us through our days.
Now fast forward to today, what do

700
01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:21.800
we have? A hollowed out version
of what radio used to be? Corporate

701
01:23:21.960 --> 01:23:29.000
consolidation, turning those voices that we
once knew into clones of one another,

702
01:23:29.159 --> 01:23:33.399
spewing out the same tired playlists across
the country, and don't get me started

703
01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:40.800
a local content because it's practically nonexistent, and instead of connecting with your neighbors

704
01:23:40.840 --> 01:23:46.359
with the community, stations are only
interested in pumping out syndicated shows automated playlists

705
01:23:46.399 --> 01:23:53.119
to save a dime. Today's radio, my friends, lacks the heart and

706
01:23:53.359 --> 01:23:59.399
soul that made the nineteen eighties so
freakin' special. Where's the charismatic hosts that

707
01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:04.159
we knew once that they played what
people wanted to hear, gone replaced by

708
01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:11.520
what generic, uninspired, untalented programming
that sounds like it was put together by

709
01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:15.880
a freaking computer. The result,
the result is a disconnection between the listeners

710
01:24:17.119 --> 01:24:24.760
and the medium that was once their
lifeline to the world. Sure there's exceptions,

711
01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:29.960
of course, there's some still around
today, but the magic of radio

712
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:33.920
has been lost in the pursuit of
profit, and the vibrant local flavor that

713
01:24:34.119 --> 01:24:40.840
once defined this medium is nowhere to
be found. And it's a shame chang

714
01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:45.239
because really, the nineteen eighties proved
what radio could be, dynamic, engaging

715
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:49.720
in an essential part of our lives, and now it's just a shadow of

716
01:24:49.800 --> 01:24:55.880
its former self. So let's hope
for a renaissance man a revolution, a

717
01:24:56.039 --> 01:25:01.720
radio revolution where we can once again
find the roots and bring back that eighties

718
01:25:01.840 --> 01:25:06.039
magic. On that note, I
am Toscanner from Discono and Chang and the

719
01:25:06.119 --> 01:25:12.039
one and only freaking Back to the
freaking Eighties Radio, wishing you the very

720
01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:16.159
best of weeks and from everybody here, every single fan of Back to the

721
01:25:16.199 --> 01:25:21.800
Eighties Radio, Bring back Eighties Radio. Yo Ho ho, cats and kiddies.

722
01:25:21.880 --> 01:25:27.840
Before we exit and we lead you
to another chantastic week. And remember

723
01:25:28.439 --> 01:25:33.439
radio is a canvas. It's how
you paint on that canvas through your ears,

724
01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:39.560
and what you hear and what you
feel is the beauty and the artistry

725
01:25:39.960 --> 01:25:44.399
of what radio is. So until
next week, I want you all to

726
01:25:44.520 --> 01:25:47.800
remember one thing. Do not let
them silence you. Oh hell no.

727
01:25:48.720 --> 01:25:53.399
The only way we get to prosperity, baby, is through unity, and

728
01:25:53.600 --> 01:26:00.399
let that radio be that unity.
So you all remember one thing. Keep

729
01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:03.079
it together, keep it real,
keep your voice out there, you keep

730
01:26:03.119 --> 01:26:06.600
it locked and loaded. Right you're
at Tuscanoa Jang back to the eighties radio

731
01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:15.760
audios odiche asta lavisa, sayanata a
whole metal up bitches. Till next week,