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Oh, my good Italian friend beside Chef Boyardea, I want to welcome you and all of our beautiful listeners up from across the globe here at Back to the Eighties. Yes, we have been gone so long that I almost converted to becoming a Catholic again. But then I got felt up at the market and I decided, no, I'm not going to go see father feeling me up again. But no, I am back. I'm ready to go, and tonight is going to be a very special show. We'll think of this as our birthday show sort of. I think of that. I think this is the start of something really, really good. A lot of the listeners have no idea what's been going on. So we've been gone for two and a half weeks from doing a program, but we are back and we're not leaving you guys anymore. But a lot of it it started as technical difficulties, but we've also been getting ready with a new project and that's what we want to talk to you guys tonight. So want you to stick around because we've got many, many great things to talk about. Mostly it's going to be about the eighties, as you all know, but we have special guests and we have a very special project that you don't want to miss. So stick around because there's Lunacy coming up next. Remember the eighties five right, Well, it lives loud and proud on back to the eighties with my pals Toscato and Chany, taking you on a trip to him better time, a time when America used to win at things, When we won the Cold War by arming Afghanistan, When we beat rushing boxers by jugging in the woods, When a welder could become a dancer, when a poor immigrant could become to the power of music, a guru to a generation. Is everybody in is everybody in the ceremony is about to begin. Welcome to Back to the eighties with Toscano and Chey. I'm back here from heaven. I this is me the Lizard King, and I wrote this song just for Tuscano, Schang Descano and Chan Descano and Cha Descano and Chang that's all a god Yang. I gotta go get some leaves and smoke of Bill Fatty. Here's the boys. Welcome to Welcome back to the eighties. If you just joined us, I appreciate Jim Morrison taking his time once in a while to come join us on the show. And but mostly I want to thank you guys from all over the world for taking the time and joining us. We haven't abandoned you. We are back we're better than ever. As a matter of fact, you're gonna enjoy us much more. But stick around because we're going to tell you why. In the meantime, Chang we missed the eighties. You know what, the biggest thing I miss about the eighties, my brother is got to be as radio. I missed the jocks, I missed the freedom, the free form radio. As the legendary Jim Ladder. Both kami T and k Los used to put it theater of the mind, a free form radio and the tool doc had spat of an input or control of the music they played. When the music that they played was kind of themed and put people in a certain scenario or a mindset. I think that's how you find people together in the radio, which is an extension of what wide music does unifies the whole entire audience. Yeah, so that is probably the number one thing I miss about the eighties. We are in such a don't step on my toes kind of culture. I call it the Woosie effect. Everybody has to be it for front. Everybody wants to be, you know, put out there above everybody else. Everybody wants their own private pedestal. Nowadays, you can't piss off anybody for this or saying that or referring to this or that. That's that's just weakness, my friend. And when that's been listening to this show knows we do not stand for weakness. No, no, not at all. As a matter of fact, you know, I've been lately, I've been reminiscing quite a bit, and I've been going, Man, there's certain times when I leave the house because of all the challenges of life and sometimes drama that goes on behind the scenes, you know, with family, and then on top of that, then you got work, and then on top of all that to make it worse, because that's not even the worst part. Every single bit of your life is on a computer. I'm not even talking about the real important stuff. I'm talking about social media. And as I was examining social media, you know, social media has a good good points, right, But man, I've just I've had it. I've had it, and there's sometimes when I go, you know what, I wish so bad that I could go back in a time machine and just get stuck between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine and then just rerun those ten years. I can live in ten years and rerun them and do different things every ten years. It was just much much simpler. Yes, there's pressures, there's dangers. There's whole bunch of stuff that we don't even have today. That is good that we don't have today. However, man, the simplicity of life, the awesomeness of everything you mentioned radio. Going to the movies was an experience back then. Going to your local mall was an experience. You know, a lot of us as young teenagers back then, would prefer to go to the mall than practically anywhere else. And that's not even saying. You know, imagine going to Magic Mountain or Disneyland or one of these places. That was the treat of a lifetime for us back then. I think that a mall would kind of classify as a teenager of the eighties disney Land, right, yeah, Yeah, you could have all kinds of friend because everything you cared about was right down or there. Your looks, how you look to others, other hot people, talking about what all of you can relate to music, food, you know, candy, soda, drugs, the arcade, the arcade scades. Yeah, I mean, so it was like that was like a Disneyland every mall was like a Disneyland to the local teenagers. You had some malls that were more extravagant. You add some malls that were connected to to kids Zones, Team Zones, bro and like you said, miniature golf, orcades, bumper cars. You know, you go down to La Plante, you could raise cars. I mean, there were just so many things to do back in the eighties, as in comparison to nowadays. Nowadays, everything is kind of water down. I mean, kids don't experience half of the glee and enjoy that we did back in our era. These kids nowadays are are having to do with COVID. COVID a loan is a scary situation, depending on how their parents handled it. Yeah, I think the way it came off, it was kind of a god fearing scene, you know what I mean. I mean, people are on both sides of the fence to this day of COVID. Whether it was real or it was propaganda. Is it a control mechanism, is it a thinning that heard the tool? I mean, we'll never know because we're not in power right right. Why get into that, because it's really what I look at it, it's us against them. No, matter what. It doesn't matter what political party any of us are, It doesn't matter who we vote in. It is basically always us against them, right, And you know what, you get a leader that stands for all of us, as in we the people. I mean, we're not going to go anywhere, my brother, and you know what in the eighties, yeah, I was gonna say, you know what, you know what the sad part about all of this that you were mentioning is that us the people that really don't know what's going on behind the scenes. And I know there's a lot of people out there who somewhat know a few things because they've worked in parts of government, but in reality, way way high up there the people that really know what's going on. It's it's very very small portion of society. And instead of uniting, instead of uniting with each other no matter our differences, what do we do. We we get behind a leader or leaders or a party and we backstabb fellow man for a for a political point of view, or because of or because of money. It's I mean, that's disgusting, man, because we forget our humanity and a lot of the stuff that makes me realize how much I missed the eighties is because of what we've seen happen in the past. In the past year, twenty twenty was an eye opening year. It's the year that we decided, you know what, we're going to go back to the eighties. People want to go back to the eighties. And even though if we can't do this physically emotionally, we can in our memories. We can and we can be there in a few other areas that we're going to talk about as well. You know, I mean, it's great the way that you you just slid right into that and or bona fide and solidified. And I stand right beside you on the point you just made that we came together in twenty twenty to do this show. You know, some of our listeners may know, some may not. Me and you have been working side by side on projects and radio shows for several years now. Yeah, we kind of know each other, kind of like a husband and a wife, or a husband and a husband, like a partnership, you know what I mean. We're like two stand up medians that know how to PLoP each other improv without even actually having improv classes. So what you said is golden because we came together, and we're doing this across on social media, and we're doing it from technology. You're in one part of California, by our hometown, beautiful southern California, and I'm here in Central California. And for two reasons, we're doing it this way. I reside out here. You my brothers stay there still. You reside there with your beautiful family. The COVID came. Even if I would have been in so cal we wouldn't have been able to come together and do this right because just think if people would to watch us on YouTube, if we were to put these out and they see that you and me are closer than six feet apart while we're doing a radio show, they would have caught hell on us. The newsom would have come over and knocked us door. Hey, fellas, I got a couple of great white shirts that matched mine. I'm gonna let you guys, you know some haircut, comb it back. Guys are gonna get some of my wine. But hey, come on, man, social distance. Look, I mean, you mentioned we've been doing radio in some form or another for many many years. Now. You know, we came together and remember I just finished mentioning the social media aspect of it is the part that one of the parts that I hate. However, the good side of it, of course, there's a great side. I mean there's something that we're doing now that in the eighties we could have just only dreamed of doing a radio show, having the possibility to do radio including music from the comfort of our own home. I mean when back then could you have your own microphone, your own equipment to do radio shows from your home. Never it was it was something that you needed to go to a professional studio, which was thousands and thousands of dollars. The only way you could have been any seeing type of a DJ talking to people as you do backyard parties, Yeah, where you take your own equipment and you have your mic and you talk to the dancers or you talk to all the fools that are dancing, or you talk to the crowd. I mean, that would be the only form to do it. But it wouldn't be able to get carried out across the waters in the airways correct in the fashion and for that it was doing now that we're doing right now, right any way that we're doing it, and you know, and I understand and now and today twenty twenty one. Everybody wants to be a star. Everybody has the opportunity to be heard and seen around the world, something that wasn't able to being a cheat to have been achieved in the eighties. All right, Having said all that, the beauty of the eighties, the beauty of that lifestyle. Man, I remember waking up in the mornings, let's just say, any any day of the week, right, the days that you had to go to school. In my case, I went to school. You know, you had these simple problems, the problem that as a team, I don't want to wake up, I'm too tired, I don't want to go to school. I didn't do my homework or whatever it was. But you know what, in the afternoon, after two o'clock, three o'clock, you know that your day was going to get that much better because you you were gonna go home for just a little bit, get something to eat, and you were ride out that door again. You know what I mean. You were you were going to go out with your friends. You were going to ride your bike, you were going to go to the store or hang out at the mall. It was a refreshing of your emotions every single day and that's not even counting the weekends. Weekends where man, Friday afternoon, Oh my gosh, Friday afternoon was the greatest day of my life. My favorite day of the week is, oh is still Friday, even after work, Friday is my favorite day of the week because it just reminds me of the eighties all the time. Yeah. I graduated in eighty three, so yeah. The funniest thing is, I can I can identify with you, and I have two different rules of eighties living. I have the eighties living of being that wild teenage rock and roll kid. Then I also have the later eighties where I was a young dad and you know, I had kids, and I had my wife and you know, so I recall certain different parts of the later eighties that have great memory and great achievements as well as in my youth in eighty four three, my achievement was, Wow, I made it. I didn't die, I didn't overdose, I didn't get it, get arrested and incarcerated for a long time, you know what I mean. I got through that difficult time of my life and now here's manhood. So the eighties are so iconic, I think to anybody of my generation anybody of your exact age generation. Everything was cool. It didn't matter how hard life was in whatever scenario. Everything was just cool. Bro. You know this social media crap that we have today that has us worried and has teenagers not leaving the house because they're worried that they're not accepted. Yeah, I mean, even people with very few friends. It was a different It was a different lifestyle. I mean, even if you stayed home, if you weren't the kind that was lucky enough to have like a Nintendo or an Atari. Man, even TV was exciting to come home to and watch. You remember that we hated good commercially because you had you had so many different types of programming. Bro. You had hit programming, you had funny programming, you had adult content things to watch, you had music to watch. I mean, you know, back then you had a Saturday Night Live was still kicking out bands on air with comedy. You had had some of those night rock and roll shows, you know. I remember on curse Er started in the seventies and ended in the eighties, that cat had everybody on there, the bgs out in John Queen. You know. So, yeah, everything, it didn't matter if you were a social butterfly, or if you were just a regular kind of cat that hung out with a couple of friends, or maybe just your siblings and your family, and you gather around that TV box and you were entertained. You weren't worried about who liked you or who did this, or how did I look today when he likes did I get? And that's the problem, like you like, like you're saying right now, with the youth of the day, it's so pretentious. Cyber bullying is out of hand. Well you know what what you do see though, the bulling now has become so beer that now you have group of friends inviting the people they don't like to a party somewhere in the woods because they're already playing they can have it. Yeah, they're planning to kill that person. I mean, stuff that they do today is just unheard of back then, and it is unheard of. You know, it's insane, you know, just like I referred to a couple of seconds ago. Bro, you know, I'm old school. We're old school, you know what I mean. Bullies got handed their asses, that's the way it went, you know what I mean. And I'm not no big mobster, but I come from an environment where that's the way it was, you know what I mean. I didn't grow up one of these punk, woosey type cats, you know what I mean. I never let anybody play me like a game. I never let anybody get over on me. If somebody said they didn't like the way I dress that day, guess what. I may not hit you in the face because I don't want to get in trouble and then have my parents get pissed off of me. But I'm damn well going to come up with so many jokes and fire them at you like an ak of bullets. I'm gonna humiliate you before you have the opportunity to try to humiliate me. You know, people don't think like that anymore. Bro. Everybody is so afraid to offend somebody, and we have become a culture that is so overprotective of what we say that we have led society to another extreme. Now, when you have somebody get offended, what does the offended person do? Oh, well, you know what, I'm just gonna go shoot up at school or or kill that person, which is absolutely just mind boggling to me. Yeah, and and and all this is because now we have a culture that's supposedly in quotes and I say supposedly, we are a much more advanced culture. We are a society that supposedly is wiser and smarter. But you know what, I doubt that we have. We have backtracked socially. We have done what the crabs do? You know? We're walking sideways, We're not walking forward. We're not bettering society by telling somebody, you know, you have to accept me no matter what. But I'm not going to accept you no matter what. You know what I mean? Right, So I'm glad you're you're referring to those type kind of crabs, because I thought you were referring to the other crabs. No, No, those require medicine. Those those two medicine and shaving. You know, this is the one of the looking back to the eighties. When we come back, we're gonna talk more about the things we've missed in the eighties. Don't go away, see okay. Coke Radio Coca Cola Radio. 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And we were talking about if you just joined us, about the eighties and how much we missed ye. We were talking about crabs, the ones that walk sideways come from the ocean, not the other kind that you get at fest as changes well, they walk sideways, upwards, downwards. They walk so much you gotta shave everything, even that taint. That's just wrong. That is just wrong. Now that I see you drink soda, I know that you're Are you a pepsiman or a cokeman? I prefer Coca cola and my groundwork for Coca cola as I was growing up, So why that was? So why do I see you u with a PEPSI can now? Oh I was searcy. I needed a little bit of a rocket fuel boost, you know what I mean. So I thought, well, it was here the garage, and thought, well, you know, I'll challenge but there's nothing to challenge it with. So if it I'm gonna go ahead and down that bad. You know. There were a few sodas that I was really fond of in the eighties. They still have them today, but not as much. It's not as common. Okay, one of those, of course, my favorite one, especially if if I had to take a test in high school, I would down a six pack of Jolt Cola with two tables spoons per can, tablespoons of raw Taste Choice coffee. Oh that is sane. Yeah, you know what, that's insane. I mean, I don't think I could do with like five lines and get the same Yeah, well that would give me quite quite awake. And the other soda. Well, see, there's one of the things that I used to love doing during snack time in high school. I used to go to the vending machine. You know, I didn't. No, that's disgusting, that's disgusting. But like I used to go to the vending machine, get me a bag of either, well, doritos was after lunch, but I would get me a bag of Funnians and a can of cactus cooler. And I remember when you put that. You remember this, Sodas were a quarter from the vending machines. Soda sodas were a quarter your your chips were a quarter, so you got fifty cents. And when that can dropped, it was it was just dripping with the with the with chill, with that cold sweat, that oh yeah, that with that moisture. Yes, but cact it cool. Really, I wouldn't either. I would have not even beat the hell out of a guy for his cactus cool Then you know what you used to get me pissed off? Remember when you put your quarter in and then you dressed the button because the light wasn't on, and you want your your certain soft drink and a shot there. Yeah, so then you go down the line, Oh you'll get it, maybe like a die in seven up, and then you get it and you're like and then you just like try to drink it really quick. Yeah. I hated that. I hated that. And if you were visiting a certain place and you happen to go to a vending machine, it depends on the location where you were. But some places had you know, those steel bars on the on the vending machines so nobody would steal, so nobody would look like the front door of those actually brought out coin prison gates for soda pops. Yeah, so if your coin got stuck you, you'd be you'd be trying to share the machine, but to no avail. If remember that trying to shake him between the wrought iron barrows. Remember you're trying to position your arms and there you get enough for arm strength. Yeah, and sometimes depending on how skinny your arm was back then you try to stick your arm up where the soda drops to see if your soda was stuck there or something. You're doing one of these, Yeah, chang is twisting his arm. He's doing a contortion Jim Jim Carrey style every night, and I'd grab a soda out of there. Hell yeah, yeah, no, well that's what's man, that's a long arm. So those are your top two soda pups. Well, no, no, those are some of the memories that I had, but obviously a great after lunch. It was during the fifth period. I'd be munching on a bag of doritos. I'd put it him. I put him inside my jacket or underneath my shirt because my math class, my math teacher would hear. So I'd shove a whole dorito in my mouth and I'd suck the flavor out until it wasn't crunch anymore, or sometimes that crunch it, and then I would look around because it would make noise, and I'd look around pretending you know who's that making that noise and it was me. And then I'd have a nice cold coke as well during class. Oh dude, yes, yeah, I remember sneaking soft drinks and snacks into class. Man. It was priceless. Yeah. Every now and then I would get in golf in like p and I'd try to eat them really quick, so I would try to make abrupt noises. What was that rinkles chewing? No, I would eat ruffles, Oh, ruffles, and I put like two in my mouth and then I would like be chewing and fake cough and then throwing my books down so I can get like three or four quick chews in there. Yes, and then uh hit my soft drink with a straw, and then the teacher would be looking around at whose book that was. And I had enough time to get us get that soda down. Stupid bastard, I tell you broke and they we they were getting paid to educate us, and they had no idea some of the tricks that were doing amazing. Yeah, were you a doctor pepper fan back then? I'm a pepper. You're a pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a pepper? I'd like to alsoda's except for a diet. Don't give me anything diet. Don't give me any of that new coke crap that came out. My favorite. One of my favorites was Mountain dew and it still is. Yeah, Mountain dew was good. Mountain dew was good until I met somebody who started becoming blind because they used to drink a six pack of mountain dew every day, and they ended up becoming a blaster baiting and the mountain dew the wonder they went blind. I drank a whole six pack before third period, and I whacked out fourteen times. And I can see a goddamn thing. John, what's the matter with you? I can't even look at dirty magazines anymore. I'm blind. Oh my god. You know some of some of the stuff that we did in high school, it's just crazy. I remember once in a while we ditch school and instead of doing something exciting, because we didn't have a car back then, so instead of doing something really exciting, our excitement was well, first of all, we did school, so that was exciting in itself. So we'd go to KFC, which was in the corner. I like this. We used to do this. So we did school and we'd go to the KFC that was in the corner of our school, so if anybody was there, they'd see us, and we'd get our chicken littles, travel from the KFC to the Center fe Springs Public Library and we'd hang out there. We'd yeah, good library. We'd find a spot there to sleep underneath all the books somewhere. That's such as, Wow, you're in You're in the room of knowledge and you can't even pick up a book. We were ditching. That's that's even that's like nerd ditchy. Yeah, you weren't even doing what we were doing. And a trip on this we used to go. It was me and my buddy Henry Ferias. We used to go on this scene called Blaze Trail or not blaze trail, but we would say blaze it. And this would be before fifth period. It was government or history. Me and this cat were tight man, and we would go hide behind the D building on a stairway, eat ice cream and smoke joints. But see you did that just one joint class. Oh yeah, we did it during school in campus at Montabella High School. That's right, I said, Monabella High School with a D building and me and Henry would get baked and then eat ice creams and then we would go and go to class late and then we would debate our classmates are the teacher We would win in there, Dude, we smelled like right Guard. That's all we had was a cannabis all can of Right Guard bro and some buy zine. And some hubba bubba and you go in. Both of us go in lit with sunglasses like Erica Strata sunglasses. Dude, I mean you knew that those Look at those two dudes, they're stone. One of them's got long hair, the other ones like a fro type. One's got a Judas pre shirt on. The other cats got a Vanhaalien shirt. Off was wearing Erica Strata sunglasses. You guys were the classic stoners from back then. Oh dude, yeah, we were. We're straight out of the movie Bro Richemont High. Every character on Richmond High that was me or one of my buddies. You know. It was just insanity, bro. Yeah, no, good time we did. We did the public library. Then sometimes we'd uh when we'd bring our bikes to school, we'd we'd ride from Santa Fe Springs all the way to Montabell Mall. Wow, and so you know down the uh we used to take the riverbed because that's literally, you know, literally right next to the mall. The riverbed was the best access to ditch school. Once you could hit the riverbed, oh, you were home free. I remember sometimes sometimes me and my buddies, you know, there was a few of us sometimes at a certain time, the Montabelle bus would be coming right and then that doubles around up to Atlantic Downwood your boulevard, stop right in front of Garfield at Guardoonos on Wilcox and a couple of my buddies. I mean, you know, we were athletics then and young. A certain time we knew a bus was coming, so we could make it down the street in that amount of time. We just enough time to get on the bus before the school narcs could figure out that, you know, those guys are running from school. So we would jump on this bus on many occasions, roll a bunch of dubies on the bus and then we would take this bus all the way down and get a transfer and go to the Lapointe mall. And then we would just spend the whole entire day of school at the Lapointe mall. Yeah, and go watch movies, Nat and Ae you know what I mean, hide out from the cops. Good times, bro oh Man. Yeah, I mean it wasn't good what we were doing. No, but those memories, some of those things, I mean, they didn't prevent us from graduating at the end of the day, but still no, Yeah, they were graduated because yeah, but we had calls, though we did have close calls, you know. I remember the reason why we used to ditch sometimes in the library. It was only when our progress reports came out because back then, remember nothing was online. We didn't have internet, so nothing was on the computer. So report cards were coming in the mail. Progress reports arrived in the mail, so we would beat the mailman, or we should say, you know, we would beat our parents to the to the access to the mail and we'd get the progress report. Go on over to the public library, ask for a sheet of At the public libraries sometimes they had they'd give you a receipt, so they had, you know, that carbon paper, So we'd get carbon paper. We'd put a blink. We'd go to the typewriters. We'd get a blink piece of paper, some carbon paper, and so we would wide out the section that was a bad grade. We'd go with the with the carbon paper, put the playing paper on top of it, and with the typewriter we'd type in our new grade. And then we'd now have a paper with our new grade. So we'd make a copy of that. Now you have a copy and it looks really official. We'd put it. We'd fold it up, put it in the envelope, and put it back in our own homemailbox. And that's why, that's why we used to do the library. I used to intercept the mail a lot, man, you know, because I was a pretty quick kid. And the other good thing was good and bad. Mom was teach the same school district, Montabell School district, but she was a grammar school teacher and I was in high school. So I finally got pop forging or having a girl that I knew in high school forged my mom's name on these props reports, you know, because no reports ever got home. They just didn't get you know, my mom didn't see him. She had no idea. She would ask every now and then one would slip by. She would just show up at the high school, you know what I mean with oh it's miss miss child, this is child this year, and she'd get my paperwork, and man that I would cringe every now and then when I would see my mom's blue thoughts on out there. Oh, yes, that's when you start sweating. Bullets blow down on me. Yeah, that's when you start sweating bullets. You know. I remember, remember when you were tardy you needed to have on the next following day signature. What would I do is I would just write my own signature. They thought it was my dad. Yeah, and that way, I said, you know what initials. Yeah. So when one day, I said, if they ever catch me, they're not going to say, well, you forged your dad's signature. I said, no, that was my signature. I signed it. You know. Anyway, there's a lot of stuff that we did that wasn't too good back in the eighties. But there's a lot of stuff that we did that was fun and it was harmless compared to what a lot of the kids go through today. And one of the things, and it was done. I think if you look back at some of the shenanigans we did, but it was all it's all pretty funny. You're laughing at what you're telling me. I'm sure you're laughing and what Oh yeah, I'm sure listeners are laughing at both of us because they can identify. Man, those stupid cats did the same shit that we were doing. Yeah, yeah, but it was harmless. It was harmless. Remember going to going to schools. Remember they closed schools. You're not supposed to be on campus when school is closed, but we'd throw our bikes over the fence and we would we climbed the gate and go do our stuff throughout the hallways of the school. We'd we'd we'd climb the school to the roof and we'd play tag with our bikes on the roof and then we'd ghost ride our bikes off the roof. So yeah, interesting times. But you know what, in the beginning of the show, you you mentioned something that that was so vital to our life as a team in the eighties, and that was radio drugs. Oh, it's just saying on how do I follow that? But it was radio. Man, Radio was a drug for us. Radio was our all. Radio kept us company when we were sad. You remember this man, It kept your company when you were sad. It made you feel good when you were happy. Radio was in a sense, and it sounds kind of weird and maybe creepy, your maybe cliche, but radio felt like a friend. Yeah, radio did feel like a friend and your jock and your music. And it's funny because you're talking about that music is kind of like and radio radio in general is kind of the soundtrack to our many movies that we were living. You know, now that everybody gets older, you have all these memories and they play black and your back in your mind and you can actually see these events as they were occurring, and you see faces and places and lighting and true little quirks here and there that that bring that memory so vital back to you. And I'm sure nine times out of ten, all of you and especially you bro, when you listen to a song, or you may listen to a glimpse of a jock that you liked, you get those same premonitions back. Yeah, it's like living a movie. And that's what it was. The soundtrack to our our lifeful movies that we were creating. Yeah, it was the soundtrack. Radio in general was the soundtrack of our life back in the eighties. And I think one of the best ways that somebody who was not a child of the eighties but is attracted to that to that era, think about all the music that was in the eighties, that's our soundtrack, that was our life. You had. Every single feeling comes back to you. Sometimes you can hear a song from back then and you can even remember a smell because maybe you were in a certain look, in a certain place, eating a certain food or a snack or whatever it was during the plane of a song. You might even remember. Of course, you might remember a sad memory. You you know, you might have a great memory from it. Maybe a relationship, a first time Maybe it was a it was a one time deal where you you met somebody, you you made out with him. One of the examples this is nineteen eighty seven, and my cousin took me to get the tickets to watch or to go see the Joshua Tree tour at the LA Coliseum October twenty first, nineteen eighty seven or October October twenty first, and so prior to that, many months prior, we had to go to I'm trying to remember the place where we got the tickets. I think it was Ticketmaster, So ticketmaster YEP in Glendale, I think, No, you know what. It was like a music Plus or something like that. And it opened at ten am. Check this out. So it opened at ten am. We were in the line at three am, and the line was already half a block long at three in the morning. You know what. No, no, they actually gave us the tickets there. But funny thing is now that we're mentioning certain things that happened when you know, the memories that'll come back. So obviously we're listening to somebody had their the radio going on, right, and I remember this song came on. It wasn't a YouTube song or nothing like that, but I remember this song came on. And I remember back at in nineteen eighty seven. So I'm fourteen years old, and I had met somebody in line and we kind of hit it off, and we kind of went behind the building, right, and it was the last time I saw this girl. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of that particular occasion, and it reminds me of the time that we were standing in line, and it took us so many hours and we finally ended up getting the tickets. So Music of the eighties was our soundtrack, the soundtrack of our life. Yeah, what two songs are your favorite, not your like, your favorite or your best song that you can recall? One of good times and another song that recalls a sadder time in your life that was someone life alternating for you, give me two songs that fit that realnd, then I'll give you two of mine. Well, definitely on the good side. The song by you two as a matter of fact, and it was where the streets have no Name brings back to the greatest, greatest of my memories. I was in a great place at that time, and one of the sadder moments was a song by Prince and that was when Doves Crying. And I love that song, but it brings me, brings me some deep memories of things that happened in that time as well. I couldn't imagine, bro And I'm going to go on a limit. Guess there's probably because your parents' relationship. Because the reason that that brings up to me, I kind of think of the same way, especially with the lyrical content. Maybe I'm just like my mother. Maybe I'm just like my father, you know what I mean. And kind of the troubled atmosphere that those lyrics were written by Prince. I don't know if maybe that might do it. It's exactly right because my parents kind of divorced during that time and it affected me as an only child greatly. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'll tell you everybody out there on Facebook, maybe you can go ahead and chime in on and leave us a message. Tell us what two songs do it for you? What song brought you great intense happiness or brings back great memories and what song really identified with you at a very low sad point in your life. As for me, no trip out on this the song by Black Sabbath with Rodney James Deal. That song is one of my most favorite songs because it takes me back to a time that was just nothing but balls out fun. I was with my best friend at the time, Raymie Barazza. We went to go see Black Sabbath. We had the floor seating, so we were right there. Deal was throwing the devil horns at us. Me and my buddy were just hanging tight. You know, we were higher than kites rock and roll. I mean, that was the epitome, you know what I mean. There was our buddies and we were just enjoying the boys being the boys, you know what I mean. We're in high school, you know what I mean, and we're there. We're absorbing that in the saddest song would have to be Life by the Drop by Stevie Ray Vaughan in nineteen eighty three when he wrote his first debut album. But that song didn't get sad for me until nineteen eighty five, and the reason being, it's a song to where he's talking about a good friend that passed away. That song opened up many wounds because in nineteen eighty five, my friend that I mentioned was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. That was my very first brush and reality check that you're not here forever. Your youth and your recklessness is not a badge of armor. It's it's not a protective suit. It's not a given that you're going to live prosperous forever. So when those are the two songs at two different points in my life in the eighties that can bring me tears of joy, smiles, remember exactly the sense of that night, the breeze, the lighting stars, the vibe with my buddies, the feeling, the blows up. We would hit each other and push each other, feeling all that again. And then later on in eighty five when I reopened up with that song, and it hit me so much. Because my best friend turned me on to Steve Awe in nineteen eighty three. You know, he knew I really like guitar players, and he goes, hey, bro, you gotta check on this cat. So he had to set let me listen to it. My birthday that year, he bought me that same cassette. So it was like that bridge between me and my homeboy, you know what I mean. So sadly and novel enough, that song touched that opened up that wound and it really hit home. And I can honestly say that's probably when I made that transition of time, my youth into this is what it's all about to be a man now. So definitely two great songs. I want to commend you for opening up. You know, I hope I didn't open up too much your personal past. No, it's all good, man. So it's all good because, like I said, and I personally think it's one of Prince's best ever songs. But that's for me. Yeah, I love that song, and I can listen to that song and it brings me, It brings me those memories. But you know what, it brings me memories of the eighties in general. And that's what we're here. That's what this is all about. And the eighties to us means it's more than a decade. The eighties was a lifestyle that was unlike any other for for for me and for many out there, including yourself of course. And we're talking about radio and how much radio meant to us. Well, I want to do something very special, chang for everybody leaves and I well, it's come time that I put him down. No, if you want to know what we're gonna be talking about, if you're gonna do the a it does everybody good to see the old Italian sauce each once in a while. All right, So if you want to know what we're gonna be talking about, stick around. This is back to the eighties. Let's make it fun. We'll be right back. Let you see tibble bubble, bubble bubble, you get yourself. Oh, welcome everybody, this is your favorite time of the show. You're on back to the eighties radio. This is Doctor Love Weapon and you're listening to Love Hate Letters with Doctor Love Weapon and Doctor Oh Keith Sweet. Oh that is sweet. And today Doctor Sweet, we've we've been away. We've been away for a little while, but we are bad. I believe we went I was presently divorced, so I went away. I lost myself in Jamaica and smoked a lot of grass. And you seem to have recovered well from your divorce. Well, the bitch took me for a lot of money. But it's quite all right because I've been doing fantastic As you know, we have a booming business. We're making oodles of cash and we're helping people as we're making that kind of money. Speaking about that losing of cash, Mia, how is that yellow Ferrari? I know you just bought. Oh doctor, that yellow Ferrari has been Unfortunately, it's been more of a curse than a blessing. I've just been magnet. Oh yes, and you know there's only so much I can do with two hands and two legs, and I read a lot, so they Commisitra has been quite handy lately. But enough of me, Enough of me to the episodes of Everybody Left Raymond for Me? And I gotta come back to the eighties and and come watch Falcon Crest with me once in a while. Oh, it's a great show. It is a fantastic show. Oh anythought it would be about birds Falcon Crest, but no, anytime you get together and watch a show about rich, filthy, rich family that feel entitled to everything, and it just makes me realize how how humble I am. Yes, it's it's very reminiscent of today. Actually, so many people are hidden by greed and self indulgence. Anyways, we're getting off the track now, doctors. We're gonna go ahead and I'm going to give out the numbers. I wrote it down on a little index card. It's yellow to match your ferrari Oh index card. There's a word, right, Yes, I was going to use a post it how eighties of you are the guy? But the damned thing didn't stick, you know, And besides, I don't think posts they didn't have the shock and yellow that I thought this uh index hard that I purchased it. Save ons. What happen anyway? Doctor? The call number are seven one, four, three, five, six, sixty nine ninety six. And I'm hoping, doctor, is that we get our first caller. If not, I've got a couple of letters. Well, I'm sure got the letters. So well, that's okay, doctors. You know what, Let's take the caller and we'll go from there. Sometimes you just have to, okay, ride the pony, no matter which way he's running on this great circle of life. Who's on the line with us today? This is doctor Love Weapon and you're here with doctor Keith Sweet in Love Hate Letters. Hi, doctors, it's my name is mister Steele. I'm hard to steal. I don't rust and I don't bust talking about riding horse as I love to ride me a strong pony ritter. Oh doctor, let me give you a little background on my beautiful self. Got here you down to my waist. It's gorgeous, by the way, I mean gorgeous. People are always stopping me. Please, Rod, can I get a chunk of your hair? I've got thousands, half of these gentlemen. I'll just go to bed Wis and work them and and then I leave. But that's another story. I'm a hairstylist and I'm down in Beverly Hills. I do a lot of clientells, such as Kate Hudson, her mom, Goldie han do. I also do their husband, Churt Russell. I do Kevin Costner, although he's going bald, so there's not much to do with him. Rod, you mentioned you mentioned that you that you do hair of Kevin Costner and all these gentlemen. Now you do me in and I do here you do there? That was my next question. Bad boy, you are a bad person. Well, letters, what do we give? What do we owe this pleasure of having you on the air fower. Sweet doctors, I'm calling you because I'm a good friend of these two stallions, Ciscano and Changa. They told me that you give really good advice. You can make me see things. I've been attracted to sex for years, especially in the mirror because I'm so gorgeous. But I met this boy, his name is Todd, just graduated from you. I see he was a tailback and oh god was he a tailback. Hi, I'm gonna give you the ball tonight savor. Well, he treated me like I was just forbidden, tramped like like he climbed the wall, took the fruit, took a bite, and then tossed it to the rotwiler next door. He was rotten in front of a bitch, but he was so good as a lover. And I'm having a hard time, no pun intended. Hard. I've always been the one that rejects men and I throw them away like cheap suits or confetti eggs or well, perhaps you can answer me this question. So your issue seems to be an issue of depression because you were let down and am I right? Well, yes, I was let down, and then I was bent over and then let down again. Then I was twirled upside down, hung on the sailing, beating like a pinata. No that's not what I mean. Oh am, I getting ahead of myself. No, doctor, I mean no mister tea doctor. That's right. They call me doctor Sexy. No, you're pretty sexy. Where's where's your partner? Is your partner there? What's he wearing? He's he's here, he's week. He's doctor sweet. Doctor Sweet is wearing his members only jacket right now? Oh, doctor Sweet, If you're like candy, I want to taste. Oh Rod, I've just been sitting here pondering, uh, you know, your phone call, wondering why you called it? Why the hell we're here to try and help you, but really quick, because I'm making our tea that me and my good friend doctor love weapon enjoying having a mint tea on ice all about this time. Yes, it's we're anticipating just letters. But I think you need to find one man and stay loyal or pre possibly get a NAO bowled. Doctor. You want to handle this. I'm going to go get our tea, yes please, because you make sure there Mine has an extra tea bag in it. Thank you. Um, oh, go to god, doctor I'll tea bag. You're so strong, rang Okay, you're you're okay, you're out of control. But anyway road, I'm sorry. Here, here's my advice to you. Now, are you me steel? Okay? Mister Steele, are you familiar with any way of There's a group, the very famous group there in the mountains in China. They're part of the Buddhist practice, and it would be a very good idea if you joined this Buddhist practice. It's does that like man sex? Well No, Unfortunately, this is a group where for a certain period of time, whether it be six months to a year, you're in complete silence and you're there to find yourself. To find that's like marriage. I don't want to get married. I just want to screw doctor. Jeez. Well, I think what you have to do is take you need to take a vacation from these relationships that you've been having. No, you and doctor sweet, it'll be a threesome. No, I don't think it'd be like aycle, what do you say everybody gets a ride? No, we have other plans. Besides, we are both in serious relationships, not with each other, of course, but I like talking down at Ferraris yeah, well okay, but the bottom line is I've got my own. I'm gonna if you don't mind, I'm gonna give you a one way ticket to the Buddhist temple over there, so you can go ahead and wow, mister Steele or what was that? That's my guard dog. His name is Savage. He's a pit bull. He is also a member of the lgbt Q. I'm telling you right now, we are one. We are strong, and uh I want to thank you and doctor Sweet for opening my eyes that I don't need to be in a serious relationship and this young man could just use me and throw me away like a Brownie paper towel. No, as a matter of fact, we're going to we're going to send you, Brownie man. We're gonna send you actually a round trip ticket for six months though you're gonna be We're gonna be sending you first class accommodations to the Buddhist temple over there, so they can Could I go under Kevin to a male penitentiary? No, No, I'll be your saltha. No, okay, I'll be your salad. Enjoy your plane ride and that, ladies and gentlemen, we just had Rod Steele on the show and now we're gonna be sending to a happy place. Doctor. As I was in the kitchen head area, I cut over, help, how's my team? He was very rude and crude about his sexuality, and I think that was kind of a disgrace on his own part. I mean, I just think he was const draw. It almost made me want to go ahead and buy a new Trump sticker for my poor shot, but I decided, no, no, I can't. Well we hear it because I had to that porch because you know my ex wife bitch took all that money. Where we'll hear it. This is the back to the eighties radio show, and this has been Love Hate Letters with Doctor Love Weapon and Keith Sweet. Remember keep loving, keep hating. We're the guys that you're going to go to bye bye until next week. If they were a laxity made me so powerful you could stand on your head and on the ceiling. Was a shot would not only be unavailing, but also undignified. And now back to the eighties with Taskano and Chang. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, cats and kitties. Eighties ladies, you are back at back to the eighties with Tiskano and Chang Chang presently here, we're just going ahead and reminiscing about a lot of craps, shooting the crap kind of, we're shooting the breeze like we're chewing gum. We're throwing things out there. So you guys are listening out there, Hit us on your Facebook, you know, give us some of your memories, give us some of the things you want to chew on, chime in on what we've been talking about right now, and you know, give us your input. I mean, because the only way that we can make anything happen is coming together. The only only through unity do you gather prosperity. Right my brother talking about prosperity absolutely right now, Taskano and I have been working on something and it's going to be huge. Hopefully it gives your ears and ear orgasm. Tiscanna, why don't you go ahead and lay it on what we are presently embarking on and a huge firecracker illegal firework type ordeal cracking on July four. All right, so here is the moment that we've been waiting for to give you the news on what Back to the Eighties Radio has been planning, developing, and just bringing about a dream that arose during COVID during lockdown, and that is to bring back a radio station the way eighties radio was. You know, we are both chang and I are broadcasters, and we come from a world where today now they teach you that no more than two seconds of talked between songs. They only want to hear conversational. Nobody wants to hear this big, outlandish, you know, seventies type of radio announcer voice. And in a way sometimes they're right. But you know what, in the eighties very different. In the eighties, radio personalities were exactly that. They were a personality who became your friend. Everybody that grew up during that time listening to radio during that time had a radio jock that they loved, that they identified with, that they really look forward to listening to whatever time of the day or night. And back to the eighties. Radio is bringing back a radio station within all eighties repertoire of music, within all eighties cast. That means that the jocks we are giving you are going to be eighties influenced. We are one eighties. We are guided by the same guidelines that they did in the eighties. We're going to be talking like in the eighties. We're gonna be announcing like in the eighties, and we're going to capture that attention from you just as we did back in the eighties, that moment that you've turned on the radio and you looked forward to listening to your favorite jock because he entertained you, he or she entertained you. And by the way, we're going to be doing a show coming up hopefully next Friday, where we're going to be interviewing the cast of the new radio station. And we're here today to tell you and give you the name of that new radio station. Chang Here we go back to the eighties. Radio brings you k Hits ninety two point five, back to the eighties radio online and around the world. That's right and change. This is this is the dream that I that I know you and I both have. But me on a personal note, I'm in love with eighties style radio. I'm in love with eighties style jocks, the kind that you can wake up in the morning, put your radio on, have a cup of coffee or your breakfast and listening to the radio and just be entertained by what they're doing what they're saying, and the same thing when you come back home drive time, what's one of the things that you enjoyed that are are that now you're going to be looking forward to with KA Hits. There's tons of stuff happening with kay Hits ninety two five and Back to the Eighties Radio. So I want to thank you guys for joining us and today on this edition of Back to the Eighties Radio, I just want to say thank you from all over the world. Thank you for spending your time with us and for hanging out and hopefully July fourth, you will be with us listening walking out to music that you used to rock out too, and not only that, but enjoying the company of yours, truly Chang and many others that are coming on board as your eighties DJs on k Hits ninety two five on behalf of k Hits ninety two five and Back to the Agis Radio. I just want to wish you a great week and I hope to see you and to hear you next Friday. Take care and God bless hey cats and kitties. Before I release you to another chang tastic week, remember keep a smile on that face. Don't let nothing get you down. Remember, get each other's back. We are all we have where one race, the human race. Let no one else tell you any other. Stay lifted and gifted. Remember to hit us every time on Back to the Eighties every week post you know what I mean, Help us create radio for you on behalf of everybody out there and all my homies the Changsters, gangsters. Hopefully you join us on k hits. So until next show, aribace adios, astella vista, astelauego, sayanara and all my homies in every bodio or