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Welcome everybody. This is the oneand only Back to the Eighties Radio.
Yes, you thought we were goneforever, but no, the answer is
no, ladies and gentlemen, Whybecause there's more. It has been a
few months. This show is fromis a heart to heart show. We
thank you for listening to Back tothe Eighties Radio. We know that you

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have some options, not many thattalk about the eighties. We want to
pour out our heart today and wecan't do it alone. Next to me
is a man. He has ratedmore the Cure back Yard Party than anyone
I have ever met. He haseven been seen somewhere in the back alleys

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of Sunset yelling I hate New Wave, the one and only, the unforgettable,
because how could you forget about theone and only Chang. We are
back, right, We are backwith a vengeance, screaming for vengeance.
As a matter of fact, that'sright, Tuscano. You mentioned yes many

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times in the Hollywood Hills and theback alleys of Sunset Boulevard during the nineteen
eighties. I screamed those exact wordsand many more. We are glad to
be back. It has been ahell of an experience. I mean,
we have last talked to our boysand girls out there since Christmas. Now

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we were going to try to broadcasta show from an extravagant evening. Tuscan
and I had to attend for theradio underground business. All the big people
were there that don't hire us,so it was really just being Tuscano in
the room pretty much together at ourown table. Tuscano and I got a

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little intoxicated. Tuscano and I weredrinking shots of what rum every half hour.
We were betting on the clock.I guess on something. But tell
them what happened, ladies and gentlemen, This is what happened. We were
going to give you a drunk showon why not to drink and drive,
or why if you're going to drink, to get a designated driver. We

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thought we were going to live,but we were so smashed. Tuskanawa had
a whole bag of gummies and me, of course, I partake in the
cannabis. I'm a professional. Andanyway, we thought we were doing the
show live, but Tuscano had nothingplugged in and everybody was. Everybody was

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throwing shots at us and passing thingsand anyway, long story short, it
was a great party. We stilldidn't get signed by anybody, but we
made our presence known. Nobody elsecan dance on a piano like me and
Tuscanoan still bout out note for note, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin songs and

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trade off. So we decided totake the Tuscano and chang time Machine you
know, the Thierro, and thought, well, if we're high in the
clouds matches the way we were.Well, we were unaware that the air
traffic controllers have a police drone outthere and they were following us. So
we got pulled over by a drone. Helicopter showed up later, they came

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down on the ladder. They gaveus a breathalyzer test, which both of
us failed because we have two steeringwheels in the time machine. It's wild
kids, it's kookie. We wereabout to go to nineteen eighty five and
see Live Aid. Yeah. Firstwe were going to stop off at Gazaries

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so we could watch Bill Gazari tripand fall on the curb because he smashed
with a scar in his mouth,getting held up by two twenty year old
chicks. AnyWho, we got arrested, you know, we had to.
They followed us down to the street. We had to get in a cop
car. We got arrested, wegot booked, We got put in a

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sal because obviously everybody we were inthe cell, we thought that we talked
too much and they didn't think wewere too funny, so they moved us
to our own cell, which iscool. See, we thought we were
going to be in and out ina snap, and you know, just
spent a couple couple of days inthe joint and then you know what,
free food, free stay. Itwas kind of like a night at the

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Holiday Inn or motel six back innineteen seventy eight. And I'll tell you
that one of the things that happenedthat was pretty cool where while we were
there, one of the officers theycame, they took us out of the
jail cell just because we were sopopular at the president we were at,
and they took us to see somebodythat they were booking that particular day.

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And who do you think was bookedon that day? And this is the
main reason why we got to spendmore time in the joint. It was
none other our ex president himself,mister Donald Trump. That's right. He
was being booked for some all reason. We weren't you know, we didn't

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know anything that was going on onthe outside. You know, we got
a little out of hand. Wewere laughing too hard, et cetera.
And as they were taking him anddoing the process, we were yelling from
oursels, Hey, Donnie, wouldyou do an interview with the Tuscano and
Chang. I think they had totell us a few times to shut the
up. Oh did I say that? Came in there? You know,

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a couple of night sticks to thebeautiful betting that we were sitting on.
Oh, let's not forget that beautifulcomfortable steel rack, probably with a mattress
the thickness of four towels. Itwasn't a key, I can tell you
that anyway. So we started,you know, cousin of Ruckus and making
the other prisoners go crazy, andwe had pretty much a split decision.

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Now here's the kicker, kids.We did our time thinking, okay,
we're just going to be in therefor so long rather than get a lawyer,
because we haven't got picked up onthe radio, so we don't have
money for a high class attorney justyet. So we decided, okay,
well, they're going to probably keepus in here a week, maybe a
week and a half. We'll doour We'll go to our arraignment because we

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did some damage. Obviously, webroke a lot of stuff, which is
great like rock stars. Like rockstars, we did, but we also
decided to represent ourselves. Well thatwas very bad representing ourselves. Anyway,
we go to court, Tiscano,and we represent ourselves. Now, me
and Tuskana were I mean, wewere just like quick with our responses.

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We were held in contempt four timesin a row, four times in a
row. The judge said that youremember ever had two individuals represent themselves and
be held in contempt four times.But seeing that we had to represent ourselves,
the time for contempt would come later. We thought one thing when we

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were doing our time, we're goingto give up a New Year's resolution together,
and we are going to give updoing a show till we're out of
jail. So here we are,after being in jail for almost a month
and a half, Me and Tuscanoenjoyed our birthdays in jail. Now,
Tuscano, please tell them how youand me went to jail that long.

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Well, here's what happened. Itended up going like this. Any gentlemen,
and we don't you know, we'renot going to stretch it out anymore.
But the long story short is thatwe threw a tantrum all right,
because we found out we we're goingto be in a couple more days.
And we ended up throwing the biggesttantrum. We caused the big food fight
in the cafeteria. I mean wegot even the prison guards to join in

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the food fight. We had theward and join in and well the war
listens to the show. Well yeah, well he does now, but what
did he do? He sent usthirty days in the hole. Ladies and
gentlemen, the back to the eightiesshow is here to stay. Here's mister
big with thirty days in the hole. She come f choking back way left

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a dark food sound the tos bonegive me out. He gets a weak
and says dad, jake out myShe knows off to the lead. How

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day day so had a day Theyfor him me. The day now gots
abound until you could shot back andget take a grazy and the loads gott

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you has been brown in the fad. Little now had a way to come.
You can take the third noise anddam boys out that the day day

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I dot com the birth day.It can kill the back anywhere. And

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that's a way. They don't saythe two guys last you're talking to chat
to the mute shell sack in thesill. Take a breezy bus. You're

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not ja that day, that day, that day, all right? That
is a that is a that isa that is can't let you again?

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Why you don't you don't go threebs miles, don't help black couple,
bore the phone down an read somealive. Take these shade take him,

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take the sad, take over.I turn home to me as if from
the great I tried to rob mytime. Take a black a sleeve.

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It's so war Russians. Don't turnme over that wall. Take the sht
take over, say say take Whydon't you get out of my memories?

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I don't see about that lady ladiestalk about me bies, get me some

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shay up. Take a mom.Welcome back to back to the eighties radio

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Chang of Tuscano and Chang that wasJudas Priest would take these chains with mister
Big thirty days in the hole.Just like Tuscano said, we spent thirty
plus thirty days in a hole,and man, we came out revived and
shiny, ready to rock and rollyour soul now, Tuscano, I think

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seeing that they didn't give us apen and paper, we couldn't really write
any thoughts on a show. Sotonight we're gonna have to endprov it wing
it. What do you think weare? And you know what this is?
This this is great because it's aspecial time. It's a special moment
where you and I can be straightup with everybody who listens, all the

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fans from back to the eighties radioand just be upfront and just sit around
the couch and grab yourself a nicerefreshment or if it's cold where you're at,
if you're back east in the UnitedStates and you're cold, get something
nice and warm and get around thefire. And if you don't have a
home and you know, make afire and a can or something, and

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just get around the people who whoyou care and just listen to what we
got to say, because you knowwhat, it was hard these past couple
of months not being with you guyshas been hard. And you know,
schaying, a lot of people thinkthat it's easy to come on air,
that it's easy to keep doing shows, but a lot of people don't understand

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that. You know, we don'tget paid to do the shows. We
also have a job on the outside, but sometimes you know, those jobs
take up a lot of our time, so it's kind of hard to get
together again. You know. That'swhy we're here. We're here to come
to you and tell you that Backto the Eighties Radio is here to stay.
We're not going to go anywhere.We have a lot to talk about

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in the weeks and months to comethat has to do with the eighties.
And also reminding you guys, look, I haven't forgotten. If you guys
send us a private message to ourFacebook page, it's a direct message.
Let us know what you like aboutthe show, let us know that you're
a fan. We are going tosend you a back to the Eighties t

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shirt. Back to the Eighties Radiot shirt. You can also go to
our store and check out all theeighties T shirts, cups, we have
phone covers, we have hoodies,etc. Got tons of stuff on our
store, and you can go toour store by going to our Facebook page.
And I'm gonna put a link onthis week's show, so you can

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go ahead and uh and just helpus out because it does. It does
help out. So that's the mainreason, you know, we haven't been
on air. So for those thatdon't understand, uh, you know,
we're not in the same studio allthe time. Sometimes we are, sometimes
we're not. But it's kind ofdifficult because I'm in southern California and Chang

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lives more up central. Is itcentral or a little bit north to us?
No, central California, right,so it's don't ever put me in
north. Well, I said northto Us. I didn't say northern California.
I'm a Los Angeles Angelino, afan of Los Angeles sports, the
Los ang Angeles Lakers, Los Angeleslord Ers, and of course the Los

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Angeles Rams, not San Francisco fortynine Ers. The only thing I liked
about the Raiders back in that erathat they were here is Tom Floutis was
the coach they won a Super Bowl. Marcus Allen former USC trojan Jim Oh,
that's right, Marcus Allen was onthe tea Jim. Yeah. Another

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individual of brown descent. I believehe was Latin and Filipino. Now do
you remember the guy who was onthe Raiders at the time, who also
came out in the movie The Gooniesas Sloth. I think that was Methusa.
That was Lyle Alzado, John Methusac, John Matusak. You're right,

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well, they had John Tusak andAlzato. You could get him individuals mixed
up because steroids had both those catsripping people apart. Those dudes were badass.
Yeah, yeah, but it wasMettusac. It was Metusak. He
was in the movie The Goonies nineteeneighty f I believe. Now the Raiders,
that was a great team that theyhad. You know Howie Long was

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on that team. They they werea force, you know to reckon with
back now they were they always were. They always the most most hated team
in the NFL. Or is itjust did that start when they came from
Oakland they came to The Raiders havealways had this mischief of they were the

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bad dudes, the outlaws. Youknow, they were hated by everybody because
they were relentless, They had norespect. They they would rip people apart,
you know, I mean literally.When they came to LA they brought
that with them. But also thefan base in LA with the Raiders was
pretty strong. Because there was alot of cats that were Raider fans in

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southern California, but not from Oakland. The funny thing is, yeah,
the crazy thing when the Raiders cameto LA back in the eighties, it
brought out a lot out of agang type representation. You know, I
remember that. You know they weresporting Raider gear. You know, homies

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were sporting Raider gear. They wereaffiliating with that type of anarchy which the
Raiders are in the NFL as playersand as a franchise. Al Davis,
that dude was a pirate man.That dude was like relent. L Davis
to me was like a mobster,a Jewish mobster. But he owned a
football team. But he was alsothe coach. I think he was also

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the commissioner of the AFL before theAFL and the NFL merged later in the
sixties. So L Davis ran atight ship. If the Raiders would have
always if the Raiders would have beenoriginally from Los Angeles, I would have
been a Raider fed because I was. I was a ramp and I was
born and raised into a ram family, So I became a rant them.

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But we're not a bunch of Lambs. We don't go back, you know
what I mean, We don't hangout the mountains. We come down and
will ram you. So there's adifference between you know, the the the
Raiders, the Rams, the Cowboys, and the Steelers. Now those teams
I mentioned are also hated to acertain degree for other reasons. Dallas Cowboys

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are hated because they're stated as America'steam. But if you look, because
they always used to they used towin, I mean very often during the
people got seventies in the eighties.You know, the Cowboys were doing blow.
Hell, the Cowboys were doing blowin the nineties. So they were
always We're America's team. We're cleancut. No you're not. You're doing
blow. You know, you guysare banging cheerleaders. You guys are like

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the wanna be of them? Yeah, the bat But they all did.
Everybody did. Yeah, they alldid. Every sports, every sports that
had cheerleaders did. I mean,but then you had the Pittsburgh Steelers too
through the seventies in the eighties thatwere also a very hated team. Boston
Celtics in basketball, the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers.

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It was a time that the rivalrywas insane. Let's take a little
break. And as we take thisbreak, a big shout out to Sharon
Carter for listening to us from SaintLouis. Saint Louis, the land of
the Marvelous Arch? Is it anarch something like that? Right? Yeah,

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it's from one Zuri one arch likeMcDonald's minus exits. And as a
matter of fact, the Saint Louisrams were a bunch of clowns, and
so is Georgia to project, Ohmy god, here goes yes. Sorry
Sharon. Anyway, a big shoutout to Sharon, and she wants to
hear because she found out that wewere thirty days in the hole. She

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says that now that we're out,we're probably most wanted, so she wants
to hear Boud Jovie wanted dead oralive? Here back to the eighties radio,

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it's all the same, A littlenavel change oday. It's see if
it was wasted away. Go tothe place where the faces I saw cold.
I'm travel night just to get back. I look at boy on the

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steel on the side ride. Iwanted did you water? Sometimes shall sleep?

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Sometimes it's not the days the peopleare mad always got the up places.
Sometimes you tell day about the battleBATHU Dray. Some times I get
all still his name by the cowboyon the scale on side, I bat

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now why bosta bill of three streets. I'm on a six street on my
back. I'm playing for kids.It so I'm not. I'll make you

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best. I'll be everywhere. Saytime I see your basis and I'm flushing.
I'm on the stairs side. Iwanted and then got boy. I

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got the n my side. Istill jock when the economy was good and

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the metal was heavy man back tothe eighties, I had of mine was
a big baseball where back in highschool he can fill that speedboat fine makeing

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up like a fool boy. Sawthe other night of this roasip bar.
I was walking in, he waswalking out. We went back inside and
sat down, had a few drinks, but no he came talking her story.
Where happy by love games and noone give her one side by game?

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Where was a girl that lives upthe block Back in school she could
turn on a boy's heads. Sometimeson the grid ass stop by. I
have a few drinks, let mesink she play just a bitch urder bust
the body, well they split up. I guess it's two years doing by

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now. We just sitting around talkingabout the old times, she says.
When she feels like cents, shestarts laughing and backing by Glory Days,
Yeah, messy by lovely Days,and I am going time days, Glory

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Day. God. Think I'm goingdown to the well and noting them.
More drinks a lot, getting nineBill and I hope when I get hold

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out and sit around thinking about it, but I'm probably will Yeah, just
sitting back, sign to we capturedglory up all the time slips away Lisia
with another mystery born stories boy,Yeah, Messy by Day. I'm the

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one to ms Lovely Days, worryDay, Massy my love Days. I'm
the one to go the youngerss borryago now nice oh yeah got now.

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Welcome back. This is back tothe eighties radio. You heard the boss
Man himself with Glory Days. Youheard one of Chang's favorites, Bonjobi from
the album Slippery when Wet wanted Deador Alive. Here back to the eighties
Radio. Thank you for joining us. There is a lot of talk in
the coming months regarding elections and regardingpolitical parties, We're not here to discuss

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any of that. The only thingthat we're here to do is to bring
a smile to your face. So, whether you're listening to us at work,
at home, in the car,at the gym, wherever you're listening
to us at we're here to makeyou smile. What's got a smile on
that face? Talking about the eighties, it's one of those things changing that

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I've been really reminiscing lately. AndI'll tell you why all seriousness. Lately,
it's kind of been a really,really really downtime for me, a
sad time because as I see mymom deteriorating, and she's in her late
seventies or mid seventies, late seventies, she's got a lot of a lot

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of health issues, and she hasgot she has started with mental things,
and just to see that going on, so a lot of the stuff that
comes to my mind. Sometimes I'llbe looking through pictures. Now you remember
pictures. Pictures, not the oneson your phone, the ones that we
used to have on picture albums,the ones that you can hold in your

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hand, the ones that we usedto develop at our nearest photo mat.
But one of the coolest things iswe used to take pictures as a family,
and those pictures that I got,a lot of them were from my
mom and for myself, and soI'll be looking through those pictures and wow,
lately I've just been thinking of alot of those moments that we used

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to spend, those memories that weremade back in the in the eighties,
that entire decade of memories. Andit's just been a pretty pretty down time
emotionally for me as well, becausenow I'm going through that with my own
mother. You know, I knowthat time is coming and she she's just
very frail, you know. Sothat's that's kind of how it's been with

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me. Bro know, your mom, your mom is still alive, but
we all think about those moments,and now that we're a lot older,
you know, the time comes whenshe's a lot of the people that we
knew, you know, they're they'restarting to say goodbye. Me and you
are very similar in so many waysexcept our age, although with you I

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can communicate with you. We're nottoo far away. You know. It's
funny, I mean, there's somany things about us that are similar and
ironic that we come from the sameareas and know the same environments. And
as you mentioned what you're going throughwith your with your your mom, both

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of us have lost our fathers.Both of us had dads that were similar
in many ways. What your momis going through is very similar to what
me and my sisters are going through. And my wife with my mom and
my stepdad. Here my mom recentlyand smash her entire right arm, I

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mean her left arm, No,the right Ar'm sorry about that. So
you know, she couldn't do toomuch. She's eighty six. She also
is taking the effects of Parkinson's onstarting to have a little bit more of
effect. Dementia has a little bitplayed in, so we you know,

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we've been dealing with that through theholidays and anybody out there that's going through
it, believe me and Tuscano.One of the this is the reason,
one of the reasons why we dothis show to bring nostalgia back, to
put great memories back in people's mindsthrough the struggles that we all all go

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through. Everybody goes through the samestruggle. Similar. Funny thing is both
of us had a recent birthday,same month. How uncanny is that exactly?
And just days apart yeah, it'svery odd that, you know,
we decided to do this show andjust go raw and take it away a

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little bit from the eighties, justto let people know that, hey,
we're the same as you and youand you out there, same shit,
different day. You know, weall deal with what we have to deal
with, but the bottom line iswe have to pick ourselves up and carry
on the next day. It doesn'tmatter what you do for a living.
It's very refreshing to sit the micand do a show with you because this

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is a good way to relieve ourstrain, our worry, take us away
from the reality just a little bit, but to keep sanity. So it's
like I told you, remember whenI told you the model I had when
I became a stand up comedian.When I really wanted to do it,
it was I wanted to make peoplefeel better than they did when they met

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me, no matter what kind ofcrap they were going through when they came
through that door. And I knewthat I had to be somebody different than
the crap that I dealt with beforeI stepped out of my car to entertain
these people. So it's all aboutcreating the positive, making sure everybody knows

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we're all in this together. We'reall human no matter what. But right
now we're all together. That's whywe do the show. Anybody out there
who's lost a parent or a lovedone, it is probably the hardest thing
you will ever endure. The painnever goes away. It just gets longer
between the time of the initial impactof the pain to the remembering the pain,

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and when we have to remember things, it gets tracked away with our
everyday lives. You know, Listen, we're getting older and friends that we
grew up with, family that weknow that we grew up with, maybe
just people that we know. Lookat the people that we never met,
the people that we grew up withon television and we see them living.

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But I want to play something fromnineteen eighty eight, a song that has
really touched my heart, man,and I hope that you guys will identify
with us, with me at thistime and moment in my life. This
is Mike and the Mechanics for nineteeneighty eight, The Living Years. I'm
back to the eighties radio, everygeneration lane along before all the frustration competing

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on your door. I know thatI'm a prisoner to all my father household
again. I know that I'm ahostage, all the spots and fids.
I just wish I couldn't have toldhim in the living more couple of bits

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of dipper, filled with imperfect thought, still to conversation. I'm afraid that's
all with pot. You say itjust don't see it. He says,

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it's perfect sense. You just can'tget agreement in this present. Tene talking
different when we talking sad, Soyou won't save me as well. You

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need it's yes to But when wedie we don't see. So we got

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fat apos between the present and thepast. We onlysten the past future.
It's a Nasa last. So don'tgive to the juice. You sometimes see

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your spades. You may have anew perspecting all a different day. And
if you don't get up and don'tgive me a patent, be said,
he said, You say lies,said say shore because it's the same.

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You're still we died. We don'tsay to a body there that morning when

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my father passed away, didn't getto tell him all the things I had
to say. Think got called hisspirit lady. That saved me. Sure

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I heard as aching my baby's newvolunteers. I just wish I could have
told him been the baby to saysae see stuti still play with rent,

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say to me well society saying sayit so s I got into the same

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son my life John not get themachine and to say got front said say
goodbye, Holly Woe, say goodbyemy baby, Say goodbye Holli wa sacodbye

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my charn is taking cam from thebar, I sat so fight super bor
they got sitting with us back tothe door. Now we won't be my
first start benifore, sayodbye, HollyWoe, say goodbye my baby, say

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goodbye Holli wa savedby my baby,Move it on. It's a chance to
take me any time into say thesay a word out the line by the

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defence you had abom wherever for somany invests me out of my life something
that some of the first out ofthe like is a series of the lost

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goodbyes on the break fine b thebye with me, Say goodbye honey,
look, say goodbye baby, saygoodbye honey, walk say goodbye mommy,

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bulling all there is a chance,take any time, chance stay together the
word out of line wi friens addof all well bully, so many faces

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in and out of my bye somelast now is there? Life is a
series about a good byes on thebread. It's time bother bye, don't
gain sacodbye the Molly Ward sayodbye mybaby, secondbye Holly Ward, second bye

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my baby. Why heck yeah whatI thought that this country, you've got

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to make the money first. Thenwhen you get the money, you get
a power. Then we get apower. Then you're getting one. If
they were a laxity, they'd beso powerful you could stand on your head
and on the ceiling. That positionwould not only be unavailing but also undignified.

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And now back to the eighties withTuscano and Chang. Back to the
eighties Radio Tisconton with Chang change here. That was like in the mechanics,
back in the living years. Ialways think of my dad with that song.
Also, we hit you with alittle bit of something that was oh
so bittersweet, and the man atthe Irish Billy Joel would say goodbye.

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Now that song Boys and Girls isreally hits my heart because I felt like
that when I moved out of southernCalifornia to where I presently live now with
Missus Chang, as we hunt thelegendary Bigfoot with R two trained attack dogs.

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You know, that song that youjust played by Billy Joel is incredible.
There's a part in that song thatsays, moving on is a chance
that you take every time you tryto stay together, say a word out
of line, and you find thatthe friends you had are gone forever,

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forever. So many faces in andout of my life, some will last,
some will just be now and thenlife is a series of hellos and
goodbyes. I'm afraid it's time toyou know, I'm afraid it's time for
goodbye again. It's a powerful songman. Billy Joel is seventy four years
old right now, and at seventyfour, he just released a song that

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is powerful. It's called Turn theLights Back On. And this, of
course is not from the eighties,this is twenty twenty four. But if
you get a chance, listen toTurn the Lights Back On from Billy Joel.
He talks a lot about regret andmissed opportunities, reconciliation and relationships,

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stuff like that. Turn the LightsBack On from Billy Joel. Now speaking
of singers who brought us a lotof great stuff, I'm gonna mention to
you a singer who's not doing sogood right now, and you usually have
a way of, oh, howcan I say this? Making fun of

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singers and performers, and this isone of them that you love. To
guy I'm talking about is one ofmy favorite singers of all time, Phil
Collins. He walks I think witha cane or maybe a walker. I
think he has a problem with hishand. Now, once you're gone,
I remember you mentioning this a lotof times. Is you know, sometimes

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these the main frontmen for bands leaves, then that's fine, but don't come
back years later because it's just notthe same. So I kind of want
Phil Collins to remain. Look,if you're going to go, you go.
It's not the same anymore. Youknow. It's kind of like bon
Jovi coming back when the guy doesn'thave a voice anymore. And you know,

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there's another guy bon Jovi who Iguess he recently had throat surgery or
vocal cord surgery because he wants tocome back and sing again. And so
we'll see how that is. ButPhil Collins, yeah, I really feel
bad for the guy and brought usso many, so many hits. Well,
I feel sorry for bon Jovi becausenow he looks like Jamie Lee Curtis.

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So don't happen there that you weregonna say, Phil Collins and the
Gerber Baby. Oh no, no, yeah, Phil Collins resembles the Gerber
Baby all growing up. But nowwait a minute, let's clear the air.
I am a big fan of PhilCollins as a whole talent. I

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did like Genesis. I was soso with Genesis when Peter Gabriel was the
lead singer. They were a littlebit too cosmic and alternative at that point
for me, you know what Imean. They weren't like I was a
metal head, you know, I'dgo to thrash gigs and you know,

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Maid and pre stuff like that.So I wasn't into them. But later
when he left and went solo career, it proved two things. Phil Collins
could sing and play the drums andtake the lead behind the kid, also
take the mic with another cat thatfilled in for his solo stuff and with

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Genesis, and it proved that PeterGabriel really did have some boring ass music
with Genesis and thereafter. But Iwill say, yeah, besides him looking
like the Gerber Baby right on thePhil Collins. I think it comes a
point with everybody, even our rockstars, where they got to retire.

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I mean, you you can't bethe Rolling Stones and have so much money
you can get blood transfusions after havinga rip roaring weekend in Vegas, you
know what I mean, and domore drugs than anybody could possibly do.
And then like Mick Jagger keeping itup for nineteen year olds twenty year old
and he looks like a raisinnet.Remember the Raisinet commercial? What in the

(54:42):
eighties? What is up with theloom commercials? Yeah? What? But
I mean, on a serious note, what is up with the Rolling Stones?
They're still going? And bands likeKiss? I mean they Kiss has
had so many retirement tours. Ohit's not even funny. They've been retiring
to the eighties. Okay, welove you and they're still going. I'm

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sorry man, But like bands likeKiss and def Leppard and Rap because we've
got a lot of fans and hey, I love Wait a minute, I
was I wasn't going to go derogatorynegative. I'm just saying these are bands
that you know, have committed tobringing back nostalgia making people feel good,

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which is awesome. If you canstill do it. But their music kind
of caters to the popular FM songthat you want to hear more than what
they are originally known for where theymade their millions. So it's great for
them to be out there as oldas they are, to represent our generation

(55:51):
and older that they can still kickass. But it's also in a way
I enjoy it. I loved it, But you don't sound a sing you
know what I mean? Just makestudio albums will buy and just kick back
and retire, you know, don'tgo Jimmy Buffett on us. I gotta
tell you something though, Okay,okay, I got to clear this up

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because yeah, Joe, I haveto clear this up because when Kiss,
When Kiss toured last year, letme give you some of their songs.
I mean, first of all,they always open up with Detroit Rock City,
but they have songs like Shout atLoud, Deuce, war Machine,
Heaven's on Fire, I Love ItLoud, Say Yeah, gold Gin,

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and then they got some of theirmore known songs like Lick It Up.
But they play songs like Psycho Circus, they do the drum solos, and
then they got they bring It Backlook in their tour they play a total
of twenty three songs, and that'spretty admirable, especially with Paul on vocals,

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who can still blash it out.Man. For a couple of cats
that would like eat at four pointthirty and get an AA RP discount at
Denny's, and they wear high hillsand makeup, they can still perform a
pretty damn good show. They canboth sing. All give them that look
at their age. Paul Stanley,Okay, Paul Stanley is seventy one.

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Okay, can you imagine somebody going, you know, that's my grandpa.
He's singing. He comes out witha star on his face and these big
old nine inch heels. Gene Simmons, that guy's still rocking that bass,
sticking his tongue out, sweating,with makeup going in his eyes, and
he's seventy what seventy three? Theirdrummer, Eric Singer, who's the youngest

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one of the bunch, is sixtyfour. No sorry, Tommy Thayers is
the youngest one. He's sixty two, and the drummer's sixty four. So
this is not a young band andthey're still rocking, man, and I
appreciate that, but sometimes, asyou were saying many many times before on
the shows. Sometimes the look whenyou either leave don't come back, or

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when you can't sing anymore, don'tcome back, it's done. I mean,
you could say that, but alot you know what I mean,
Like a lot of people. Mygrandkids are teenager. They think I'm an
old man. You know. Mygrandson's always trying to square up with me.
And then you know what I gotto do. I gotta lay it
on him, you know, AndI got to sock him up and throw
some kids and trip him out.My grandkids, you know what they thought.

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They thought I was like Ozzy Osbourne. So it's a trip, you
know, when you have kids thatare going to see you but you're still
rocking and roll. I mean theStones they got grandkids, bro, So
it's a trip. Age isn't alwaysa factor. It's what you got in
your heart and what you got inyour spirit. So cohoots to the cats

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that can still, you know,rock and roll still. There's a time
to where hey man, let's justlive in the memory. I'm not sure
if I heard this from Kiss ornot. You guys will correct me if
I'm wrong, But I thought itwas Kiss. I thought they mentioned that
they don't do drugs. You know, they don't. They don't drink alcohol,
and that's why they can still rocket. And there's got to be some

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truth to that, because the moreyou take care of your voice and your
body, the more you last.Of course, but do you think honestly
that Kiss being Kiss never did anydrugs and alcohol? Now here's what I
think. The two original members withthe Foursome, Peter Chris and A's Frahley,

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they did over indulge in drugs andalcohol and promiscuous activities and over indulgence,
so they left the band. Theirlongevity was not like Paul and Jean
because they were they're fucked up,so they couldn't hold their own. So
these two cats that are there nowcame in. So the characters of the

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Spaceman and the characters of the catMan behind the makeup continued to where the
other cats fit right in. Butthe original two they couldn't hang. Now.
I don't believe Gene Simmons partied atall because I believe Geene Simmons was
brought up hardcore Jewish mother, avery strong family, ethic, religious belief,

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harder work, get up early onwork hard. He was also a
teacher, so I don't think hehad enough time to pollute his mind with
drugs or alcohol. If he wasin fact a teacher, holding the status
of a teacher, or that intelligenceto run a band, be a musician,

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manager band, you couldn't get allfucked up where Paul say ethic But
I think Paul. I think Pauldid have a few drinks here and there.
But I think both of those catsindulged in women, not anything that
was as damaging as he had twocats. You know, they in an

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interview, and I believe this wasback early nineties, the asking Simmons.
The interview were asking Simmons, howmany women do you think you've slept with
in the past ten years? Hegoes, I wouldn't be able to tell
you. He goes, but thepast five years and he goes. The
interviewer goes, yeah, how aboutthe past five years? And Gene Simmons
says, over ten thousand. Imean, yeah, you know that's why

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when you're a rock star, meandude, it gets tossed at you.
You know what I mean, Womenjust toss themselves that you, and I
think in every aspect of entertainment you'regoing to be hit with sex, whether
you're a man or a woman.It's just going to be like candy,
and that could become addicting, justlike a drug, an alcohol. Anything

(01:01:57):
is that you like so much thatyou indulge yourself in is an addiction.
So who's to say? But yougot to give it to those two cats
to keep going. You know.Shoot, Jean Simmons married a sob poor
an ackress. You know Shannon Tweed, so Paul Stanley, he makes music
with his kids. He does alot of blues, a lot of soul.

(01:02:21):
So I mean cahoochs are those twocats? I think pressing their band
with retiring the way they did toomany times? Man, I'm over it,
just like the Who? Did youknow? I watched the Who come
and go and retire too many times. And now you go to a Who
gave who would want to go?There's only two original members Dahl three in

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Townshend. I call the Who thewhat or sometimes the whys? And why
the he's still touring? You know, it's just you two cats. Can't
even smoke weed at a Who concertanymore because Roger Daltrey says it screws his
voice. Up, you know,But I remember a day when he was
probably smoking, snorting and drinking andhe could still see. Come on,

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what do you say When we weretalking about Kiss, Gene Simmons is responsible
for discovering a certain band that everybodyshould know. And one of those bands,
or that main band, became probablyamong the greatest bands that have ever
come across the stage. And I'mtalking about talking about the great La the

(01:03:30):
greatest band, that's right, I'mtalking about the one van Halen, you
know, Chang. How about wedo this from the album Smashes, Thrashes
and hits, this is Kiss.Let's put the X in sex back to
the eighties radio. I got aman, not the dad, she said

(01:04:09):
of the two mother dad, anddone on this you will then that day,
I don't about a mother, doyour dacause she didn't even double that.
And that was all a blue butnot more that rebuildings. One lesson

(01:04:32):
says look like mother what. Yes, it says I got a good f

(01:05:00):
the brain never down a double Nasonseven. Yeah, I stand upstairs,
but the funny down. Sometimes it'snot a stumble model basin that say do
not molest And yes it says notime would not last. Yes, it

(01:05:32):
says unders done. Well, Ihave a body that until opened up the

(01:06:08):
daughter for I had kind of tenteral, wasn't there? And that before she
said she knew my secrets, thoughtI didn't have a bloom. Then f
that do than that? The accentsex look that gas and the essence sets

(01:06:40):
that's now. The accent sets notlike one man, one of that radas
and the essence sets that wow,the ess well, my baby, she

(01:07:28):
don't walk there around since she's tide. I'm watching me fall down a good
lad. But I like that bottlebetter than the bed. And she said
that you have a whole lot oftrouble when I don't think that you're any

(01:07:49):
more whole line of trouble. WhenI think that you're any more line of
trouble. If you think Wiskey whathappened in him at night time? He

(01:08:23):
changed them most seas and from theseason left time see yesterday for Coday back.
My moms waited up my name onyour game. I mom, She
said, I think that you're inmy whole night trouble. Your people think

(01:08:45):
that you're in trouble to you mother, trouble with the desult that I'm afterhood

(01:09:15):
is something most all about. Ittakes me least halfways to the neighbor,
the ball you won't meet the night. Well, I think that you have
my whole line of trouble. Thatyou have a whole lot of trouble.

(01:09:39):
I lot of trouble. They go, welcome back to back to the eighties

(01:10:25):
radio chang here and that was theever sole greatest battle of Los Angeles,
California, van Halen. And here'sto having some sex like kiss and here
is take that whiskey home. Now, I'm gonna ask you a question.
Tusky, Sammy or Dave. Oh, that's easy, my friend Dave all
the way. However, I dolike Sammy's voice, and I think he

(01:10:50):
did phenomenal in fifty one, fiftyand the rest, but specifically with that
album, Well you know what you'dlike Sammy in the seventies with a band
called Montrose with Ronnie Montrose, Restin Peace. I liked some of sammy
solo material. I Can't Drive fiftyfive kind of. MTV gave it that

(01:11:17):
you crossed the line of poppity poppop pop when he joined Van Halen.
I thought it became more techno,more poppy than it was a hardcore backyard
party in the street, rock androll in your face la. You know.

(01:11:38):
But Dave, Dave, I think, was a better front man,
ask kicking dude. If I wasin an alley and I was gonna throw
down, I'd rather have day withme than sam Right, Sammy would have
a freaking Hawaiian shirt on and aMartarita and sunglasses, and he'd be looking
like Jimmy Buffett meets Ronald McDonald,where Dave's a cut up dude. Dude

(01:12:01):
had martial art skills. Sure bonddude, knock your ass in the dirt.
Dave for me over Sammy all theway. Even Dave's solo stuff was
kind of cliche. Wow, that'spretty okay out there MTV. But he
had some badass cats that he jammedwith. Dave over Sammy. Yeah.

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I recently saw a special from MTVwhen Sammy took over after eleven years of
David Lee rothbing with the band David, you know, according to According to
an interview with Rolling Stones from nineteeneighty six, Eddie himself declared that this

(01:12:44):
was the final straw in their relationship. You know, I don't mean to
put a certain person down. Butit's like there's no more, no more
limits, no more governor. Youknow, it's like just we can do
anything we want. And David LeeRoss said he couldn't work with van Halen
anymore because he wanted to do hismovie and he he had a lot of
stuff going on. Ironically, DavidLee Roth was the one that came up

(01:13:08):
with the name van Halen because theyhad thought of other names for the band.
Van Halen is the last name ofyou know, the van Halen's,
that's their last name. I believethey were mammoths. Yeah, and I
believe what is that Eddie van Halen'sWolfgang Isn't isn't his band named Mammoth something

(01:13:29):
like that? Yeah, yeah,it's wolf He's Mammoth, right as opposed
to Mammoth, which was his dadand his uncle right right, which Wolfy
kicks as too. I saw,so, yes, he can play phenomena,
he's not as Yeah, so hecan play he can play phenomenal.
I went to see I was atthe House of Blues and in Anaheim and

(01:13:51):
I got to see Wolfgang live.This is just me personally. I like,
I love his playe, but Idon't like new rock at all.
Don't ask me about any new rockat all. I don't like it period.
To me, it's not it's notwhat I like as rock. So

(01:14:12):
and I won't take it anymore.But yeah, so I saw this special
on MTV. That's right, that'sright. I just don't like new Rocket.
Doesn't sound like rock. They don't. They don't have the same guitar
riffs they they they don't have theartistry. The guitarists are incredible, the
recordings are phenomenal, but there's nopassion, there is no heart. My

(01:14:36):
friend, rock is is the wayit was. It's dead period anyway,
all right, So Van Halen,I watched the special from MTV. What's
Eddie's brother's name? The drummer soespecially Alex hates David Lee. Roth hates
them. Well, we had atoothache for about eleven years and and finally

(01:15:00):
went to the dentist hadn't extracted.And now we've got a crown with a
gold cap on it. And theythey all pretty much wanted Roth out.
They couldn't stand him anymore because,according to them, he was just full
of himself. He thought he washe thought he was the main band they
were glad to have him out,and according to them, everything was perfect

(01:15:25):
when Sammy came in, but thatonly lasted seven years, and then the
other years after that with Sammy,then they couldn't work with him anymore,
and then he got into a fightwith him, So who knows. And
now after Eddie passed away, Alexjust can't doesn't even talk to Sammy.
He he told Sammy, you can'teven you can't do anything with the songs,

(01:15:48):
and Sammy says, well, Iwrote a lot of those songs.
So there's a there's a there's abig riff right there, kind of like
what's going on with halland Oates?You know, I don't know if you
know this, but you yeah,that's insane. That blew apart because now
they're suing each other. You knowwhat I think on that. It's sad.

(01:16:11):
You know, they were dynamic,duel bro. They made some good
music, like, yeah, someof it, most of it went you
hear it on an elevator, lovesongs MTV. But they were pretty badass.
Here's the funny thing. I thinkOates is jealous because Hall dude's dynamic
bro. He had a bitch andTV showed cook. You know, he

(01:16:34):
was like in your living room,and he has written music for some good
people. He's made bitch and assmusic solo. He can jam with anybody
and it sounds awesome. So Ithink Oats is a little bit jealous because
he doesn't have that recognition, hedoesn't have that output with I guess in

(01:16:57):
the business or for some reason,he doesn't have that the it factor.
So I think he wanted to takehis music and cash in on it to
what he could now because maybe hespent too much money on bad plastic surgery.
I don't know. I mean,you know what. I think he's
just bitter that he wasn't asked tosing but in the choir on that special

(01:17:21):
with Quincy Jones, remember We Arethe World. Oh yeah, yeah,
he wasn't the one singing. Hewas living in the background. He was
lip singing. That's hilarious. Yeahman, I'll tell you man, it's
crazy how time is, you know, can change things. I mean another

(01:17:41):
crazy band that we grew up withinthe eighties in the metal scene, Judas
Priest. That's a band that startedwithout the lead singer now Rob Halford,
back in the seventies. I gotturned onto them in the mid seventies with
Helford. Now Halford and Ian Hill, the bass player, are the only
original members of an entire band.But Halford is not an original member of

(01:18:08):
the band. Judas pre started witha black cat kind of fit the same
description and style of fil a netof Finn Lizzie. So anyway, these
two cats are still making music.That was my favorite metal band, you
know that righteous But watching him walkaround on stage with a cane, come

(01:18:29):
on that he's trying to He eventries to rock the cane out, you
know. And then you know,when you only have the bass player is
your brother in law, then yougot like some younger dude who's maybe in
his fifties on the drums. Yeah, another guy that looks like your ex
league guitar player, but he's notand not as good. And then you

(01:18:53):
have the great guitar player writer whocan't play anymore. And then you got
this guy that used to tune hisguitars up to play in this band,
who doesn't have the long hair inthe flash, but he looks like Phil
Collins with a beard. So wehave the cat. So I mean,

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the whole thing is like, hey, you know what the preci You're not
give it up now? Oh cool? Yeah? Yeah, well you know
who else? And now that youbring that up, and you know,
I think it's great that we're talkingabout this because we all deep down sometimes
go like, yeah, it's justnot the same band anymore. But uh,
Survivor. Survivors probably high up theremy top five favorite bands. Very

(01:19:40):
underrated band. Of course, theystarted it all out with Dave Bickler,
then he lost his voice. Thatdidn't last long. I mean, Dave
Bickler's greatest song there was I ofthe Tiger. But then Jimmy Jamison came
and he did phenomenal and then hepassed away in twenty fourteen. And now
Survivor is still doing tours, butnow their front man is as a young

(01:20:03):
kid named Cameron Barton. Well hewas twenty one years old when he assumed
the lead position and Survivor twenty onenow can he seem sure? But you're
up there with musicians who who bustedtheir chops making their way to you know,

(01:20:24):
to get where they where they are. And I don't know about Survivor
whether they should have just called itquits man and lived off of whatever they
can. You know what survivors shouldhave just hung around and still loan to
garage making music for every time hewanted to come up with a rocky concept,
and it would have just been goldright right. You know, I

(01:20:45):
think we're all hanging around with youknow Stillone, Yep, smoking joints and
stogies with him and Arnold and thenFrank Stallone. That guy's a musician.
Yeah, yeah, he can play. He's a music Yeah, he can
play. And you know, probablyknows how to bet good on gambling and
get some good stolen cards. You'relistening to back to the eighties radio.

(01:21:10):
This is just Condo and Chang.Don't you dare go anywhere? It's weird,
that's great. It starts with thenerds quaits Birds of Snakes scenario plane
Lenny Bruce is not a great.I am a hurricane in your south charing
works of the town needs. Tellme some of your own needs. Beat
it. I'm gonna speak front nostrength. Battle starts the clatter with deer

(01:21:32):
fight down by wire and a firerepresented seven games and the com of river
fire of the combat side that itwants to come in in a hurry,
with the furs beating down yard besttoo much. He reporters pabal trump tvin
crow. Look at that and they'replaying five the best O A B fucking
this should come Up'll try to singyourself some yourself. Worlds of the tongue

(01:21:53):
needs list into your heart for youtell me with the retam and the reverend
is the right right you feature onthe picture you gotta slam by bright Eni
is pretty sight. It's see lovethe world as he knows it. It's
love the world you knows. It'sdeed, love the world as we know

(01:22:14):
it. Nine feel fine, sixo' TV hour, don't you come boards
our session for return. Listen toyour self churn. I'll give you a
uniform burning letting every motivescilate. I'da motive center. Race by a cattle
might apt to step down, stepdown, watch you you know crush cruss
pout. This means no deer,cattle, deer renegains, deer clarre,

(01:22:36):
tournament, a tournament, a tournamentof lies. I'm when he souses off
for me, I'll turn this shtepbins. It's love the world knows,
it's the world you knows that.It's no far, it's steps down,

(01:23:23):
steak step the other do drip andnice continental dripping by Mount said, and
I'm like man urse bart suddenly andthen Brassnapp, Lady Versu and Lsta back
Birthday part of Cheese Cake Jelly petbook and he got a picture back slam.

(01:23:45):
But that right right, it's stepget steak to get. That's anouss
fealto. It's the of the World. That's you know it. It's Fsney

(01:24:17):
of the World. That's we knowit. It's Fsney. That's Wee Tale,
the real bar. It's the hostthat's howsist pastussis cash downs knows no

(01:24:45):
sash downs. That's how its pass. That's Kisney. You remember the first

(01:25:20):
time you tried these games, spacebuck with practice copt you, Alexey,
when you first tried coke I yousaid no, thank you, but hey,
let's try and coke again because onceyou got that new wave taste,
you want to try it again andagain and again. Practice makes PRETI cats

(01:25:40):
the way the coca. Where areyou holding my hand? There's your other
hand between two pillows. Those aren'tpillows. You are listening to the one
and only back to the eighties radio. You know what? As as we
travel into a new year, andwe're just at the end of February almost

(01:26:04):
or mid February. Man, Idon't know, Man, times have changed,
especially after COVID, and this isI think it's a time that you
can feel the hearts of people.There's something in the atmosphere that something's going
to go on, and I don'teven know what it is, but people

(01:26:25):
are pissed off. People are pissedoff, and all kinds of crap is
going on, and it's I thinkit's going to be a pretty interesting year,
especially towards the time of voting andall that stuff. We're living in
interesting times, man. Is thatsong alone would fit into the chaotic ways

(01:26:46):
of society nowadays, if you knowwhat I'm saying. You know, but
the only way we're going to promoteany change is if everybody unifies and makes
their voice heard. A lot ofpeople, as myself, have been discouraged
in the voting process. Well,the Chad didn't go through Chad, this
Chad that The only chat I rememberis Chad Everett, you know what I

(01:27:10):
mean, Chad Pennington, the guythat was a quarterback for the New York
Guests for a while. You know. Other than that, I mean,
it's insane that we are where weare at in society. I mean,
I mean, where is it whereyou can't even go to a Super Bowl
party that from the team that youlike, For example, the Kansas City

(01:27:33):
Chiefs. People can't even go toa celebration without there being a massacre involved.
What times do we live in now? You can't even go into public
without thinking, oh, shoot,is somebody going to start killing people here?
You know what that as you bringthat to base. So many sporting

(01:27:54):
events in the past I can dateback to the late eighties where havoc has
broken out when a certain sports teamhas won a certain game to be champions.
We've seen it in the East Coast. Me going as an LA fan,
I've seen it in LA. Iwitnessed it being at a Laker game

(01:28:15):
and watching the havoc on the street. You know what I'm saying. I
watched it at Dodger games. Peopletake these things serious. It's sad the
way it happened at Kansas City ajoyous event, not like in LA or

(01:28:38):
in the East Coast Chicago, NewYork, where the fans went out all
stoopid and started busting shit up inthe streets. But it happened when it's
a time where everybody should be enjoyingit. I went to the last ram
Super Bowl parade, remember I toldyou about that. And I went with
my grandkids. I took them andI and we were all rammed up.

(01:29:00):
And I went with my older sisterand you know, you know my background,
what I believe. But it wasvery peaceful. It was very reminiscent
of when I was younger during theearly eighties at showtime and the Dodger Championships,
going to downtown parades with my dadtwo where the guys were driving in

(01:29:23):
limos, two or three in them, where you know you could slap five
with them. You know they're yellingat you. Different than the Laker parades
I started going to in the ninetieswith Shaq and Kobe. But they were
peaceful, everybody got along. Therewas not as many police presents from the

(01:29:44):
times I was in the seventies andthe eighties with my dad in parades,
real peaceful as opposed to when Iwent through the late eighties and the nineties
with my two brother in laws toLaker parades, where I started seeing a
transition of violence. Stupid t thuggery, people becoming self indulged with the possibility

(01:30:06):
of doing something bad. Once somebodygets away with something, it's a virus
like covid. It went on andwent on and went on. So it's
transit sended into what we see nowheavy police presence. You have to be
really learly and awarey of how youshow your sports appreciation. People that are

(01:30:29):
under the influence of either stupidity oralcohol or drugs will come out. It's
a sad day where we have tolive in this society to be aware of
that. So it's insane where we'vecome now. In comparison to the eighties.
Eighties was freedom, free form,freeform rock and roll radio. We
did on our Christmas show, wetalked about Jim Ladd, a mentor to

(01:30:53):
me and a pirate to speak yourmind, freeform unity, hype radio,
let them music unify and speak foryou. We're a long way from that
from the eighties to nowadays. Brother, you always use this word, and
I can't think of a better wordto describe the eighties, and that's freedom.

(01:31:13):
We had so much freedom in spiteof the troubles, in spite of
the poverty in certain areas of theworld, and in the United States,
in spite of all the trouble thatsome people went through, we had a
lot more freedom of expression, firstof all, of expression, a lot

(01:31:34):
more freedom to live as we wantto live. And you know, people
are not defined anymore by well.People now are defined by their social status
and address and what you wear,what you have. And it's such a

(01:32:00):
different world. And after COVID,it's not even in the same galaxy where
we used to live. Look whatI mean everything from how much what is
it? A loaf of bread?I remember going to what is it?
The host this store where they soldWeber bread or wonderbread, and a loaf

(01:32:23):
of bread was sixty nine cents.Now a loaf of bread of Roman meal
costs like six dollars for a stinkingloaf of bread. We were watching videos
with my kids from McDonald's back innineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety and we
see they're recording while people are takingorders. This is when you could order.
You could feed a family of fourfor under ten dollars at McDonald's and

(01:32:48):
now at McDonald's four for a familyof four will spend over fifty dollars at
McDonald's. And it's just wild.A way this world is heady, the
way our country is going. That'swhy we that grew up throughout those times
reminists so much. That's why weget so nostalgic. That's why we miss

(01:33:10):
so much, because we miss thetime of freedom. We missed the time
where we had so much, andit just flew away so fast. I
want to take a little break.I want to bring you a song from
nineteen eighty seven. While not explicitlyabout societal troubles, the song reflects on

(01:33:34):
the divisions and inequalities of the presentday in society, and the people are
not defined by their social status oraddress. Where the streets have no name.
This is you two back to theeighties radio sta. I won't I

(01:35:14):
won't see had, I wonta tapdown the lolmost holy side. I wanna
reachside a dital flameme, wear theseats of more lame. I'm not I

(01:35:41):
wanna see some of my face,I see the disappear. We're all sas
a woman to set. It's aman. Where the seat, Where is

(01:36:10):
the sea? Time? Your name? Where the city name? Still the
being? And when it's all thecity's inside but I love too too lost

(01:36:48):
you beat in bloom telm indust I'llshow you in place I Desiplain where the
sister lady. We season say whatthe season name? It still be in

(01:37:19):
the PA. And when I wassa do the whizy seius what being on

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the road. We started over again. Live in a dream. You are
top, the mothers looking a lotof alltop. That's how it's happened.
Live love Mother, drop up anddown the road and alone not shoes,

(01:40:48):
talking about your dang the thing.The b you went, you were last
behind. You both know it's justthe matter of time living the dream on.
You are top. My mom's akinga lot of all stop. That's

(01:41:13):
how it happens. Live and love, father drop, no waste of time.
We'll love the day turning up thebasket. There's no use your way
turning between. It's amaze doing inGod. It's good to be here walking

(01:41:39):
together, my friend, living adream, my master taking. That's how
it happened. Lives and loved bythe drop, That's how it happened.

(01:42:08):
That's how it happened. Welcome backto Back to the eighties radio with Tisconwan
Chang. That was you two followedup with some SRV rest in Peace with
life by the Drop, something thatyou cannot take for Granted. We got
a little hard and heavy tonight,but you know what, man, we've

(01:42:30):
been away thirty days in the wholedoing some can time. You know what
I mean. We weren't doing therock lobster. We were smarting whiskey and
drinking cocaine. That's right. Wefought the law, the law one,
the law one right. Yeah,we're doing the stray cat strut right,
you know we were talking about BillyJoe briefly. There was a question that
he was asked and I thought,this is a very cool question I'm gonna

(01:42:54):
ask you. They asked them ifyou put together a dream band, like
you know, putting to the dreamteam for for sports, well who would
you who would you put with youin a band? And Billy Joel said
he would obviously himself, he wouldput Sting, maybe maybe John Mayer on
guitar, and he would also putDon Henley. And you know what,

(01:43:15):
let me ask everybody listening lit'sten dothis. I'm gonna put this question on
our Facebook page as well, andI want you to go ahead and let
us know who who would your dreamband be? Let us know, so
Chang, who would your dream bandbe made up of? Give me four
people to make up your dream band? Okay, that would probably be uhh.

(01:43:45):
That's a hard question for me becauseI not only love that all.
I love blues. I love oldschool rock. But if we're going to
go on the basis of bands inthe eighties and all I'll say right now
it's going to be a hard rockI'd go with a of course metal band,
okay, And I would form itas Rob Helford on vocals, Tony

(01:44:15):
Iomi on guitar, Steve Harris aMaiden on bass, and I'd have to
go with Cozy Paul. Cozy Pauljam with so many different bands. One
band e lp Em he jam washe Jam was Ozzy Cozy Paul jam with

(01:44:40):
Rainbow, he jammed with Oh Jeez, Whitesnake. So yeah, Cozy Paul,
he was a force to reckon withhard rock drumming. And I would
name that band Powerhouse excell. Ohyou even have a name, now,
why I don't. I don't knowif I've got a name. But I
would have Bono on vocals. Forguitarists, I would have Eddie van Halen.

(01:45:03):
For my drum guy, it wouldprobably be Phil Collins and my bassist
would be Sting. Now, thatwould be a very smooth critique group of
musicians, you know what I'm saying, Very intellectual, a lot of soul

(01:45:27):
searching. I think everybody would haveto be on the same creative, soulful
vibe, kind of a mallow tempo. Yeah, because they're so different,
all of them are so all ofthem are worlds apart and bring them all
into one, you know, Oh, yeah. If I would have to
go with another group and another genreof music, I would have to go

(01:45:51):
with Ray Vaughn on guitar, JeffBack rhythm guitar, Charlie Watts the Stones
on drums, John Ann Twistle ofThe Who on bass and vocals. I
would probably have to take Ian Gillanof Deep Purple. Let me tell you

(01:46:15):
if I could make up my ownhard rock band, Are you ready for
this? Yeah, I'm ready onvocals. On vocals, it would be
none other than Dio for me.Oh and I thought that too. All
right. On guitar, the incredibleRandy Rhodes. Oh, okay, guys,

(01:46:43):
is this thing on? All right? Yeah? All right, here
we go. On on bass,I would have mister Billy Shean. Oh
good, Oh that's a good call. Oh my God. For my drummers,
oh drummers, Well, wait aminute, are you like Godsmack?

(01:47:05):
I thought you didn't like new music? Godsmack sometimes goes dual drummer, No,
I don't like don't no, no, only one no, no,
no, no no no. Formy one and only drummer, they call
him the filthy animal. Oh Phil, right animal Phil Taylor from Motorhead.

(01:47:28):
I cannot believe you pulled that oneoff. And I forgot about that guy.
I mean dual Bass. I meanthe guy was. He was as
fast on his feet as he washis hands. And I would actually call
my band the Ace of Spades.Uh you know what, damn it?
I should I should have went withLemmy. Yes, you should have,

(01:47:53):
but I have to step strong,you know. I don't know. Has
anybody told you you look like Lemmy? Oh yeah, dude, I for
that so many times. Do youwant to hear a funny story real quick?
If you when you wear that hatright that you've done stand up with,
would you wear that leather hat dude? And that leather jacket that you
have you look like? Let me? Oh yeah, dude, you know

(01:48:15):
it's funny. I got that alot when I did stand up. People
would trip out of me, youknow, because when I was doing stand
up, I mean I was veryfortunate. Bro. You know I got
I got on some tickets where likeI was not. I shouldn't. I
shouldn't have been on the tickets Iwas, or met the cats that I
met as fast as I did.And I think because I was older,

(01:48:39):
pretty cocky, you know what Imean? That I was very fortunate to
get on those gigs and a lotof self confidence. Yeah. So my
intro song to a lot of mygigs when I did all the big clubs,
was killed by death. Nice mymotorhead and you know that, bro,

(01:49:00):
I always walked out with my hat, leather jacket, rings up the
butt, metal all the way,rings up, rings up the butt.
Doesn't sound too comfortable, but yeah, go ahead. No, Now,
my wife is the one that cameup with that concept. Oh wow,
what she had at one time.Yeah, because I fed up one night

(01:49:26):
and I cut too much off mybeard. Yeah, so I didn't want
to take all the sideburns off becauseI dug that because I had him sculpted.
And I didn't want to take mymustache, my prison mustache that goes
all the way ahead handle mustache,because I have some scars right there that

(01:49:47):
I don't I look like the Jokers, So I don't want to you know,
people to see. So yeah,so that's another story. So anyway,
I shaved it that way. Mywife goes, dude, you look
like Lending minus the mall, Andshe goes, why don't you wear that
hat that you only wear when you'rewith me and the kids seeing that you

(01:50:11):
go with the Motorhead song, soshe put the whole look together. So
that was my mistique. So tripout on this. One night after I
was I did a gig at theComedy Store and it was the midnight show,
my first time on the main stage. I was the second comedian to

(01:50:33):
go on, so it was areally good gig for me that night.
You know, I was making alittle bit of money. Didn't have to
pay for parking, drinks, herfree. Whatever I did backstage, Oh
yeah, bro, I did.I lived the rock and roll anyway I
did my gig. I took offright away because I was told by management

(01:50:58):
that I draw too much attention forthe way look in the way I performed
that. You know, I couldeither go hang out outside or whatever I
wanted, but I had to disappearfor the rest of the show until it
was time to come back say yourthanks and meet and greet and shit.
So screw it, bro. Itook off for a walk and I went
down to the Rainbow, which isa good walk from the Comedy Store.

(01:51:23):
Walked into the Rainbow. I knewthe dude'es there from the eighties, same
owners you know. They let mein and kicked them with tip, hugged
him and stuff. Went in.Walked right up to the bar. To
the left of me is the Lemmyat a pac Man table right at the
when you go into the Rainbow,you enter, you go in. It's
like a restaurant. You go in. There's another guy there and he has

(01:51:46):
he's your host. Are you eatingor are you lounging? So either or
if you're going to eat, takeyour name reservation. You sit on some
chairs, or you go outside.I didn't sit in the kind of terrace
area, get some drinks, waitfor your table, go inside of the

(01:52:06):
bar, hang out around the bar, standing around there, see all these
rock stars. I walk in kindof dead. Let me sitting right there.
He looks at me. I lookat him. I said, wow,
sole me. He goes, what'sthat night? So I drip out,
order my drink and I sit atthe bar and he goes. He

(01:52:29):
asked me to go to his table, right, So I walk over to
his pack Man table with him.He's sitting there with these two gorgeous looking
chicks right and sit there and heasked me straight up if I'm in the
cover band of his Oh wow.So I told him, no, I
go. I'm a stand up comedian. I just did a set at a

(01:52:50):
comedy store, and I got sometime before I have to go back,
so I thought I'd walk down here, burn off the energy. And then
he relates to that, you know, out the energy. So he sits
down. I sit down with himand we're talking. Ask me about what
kind of comedy I do. Youknow, I case his ass hard.

(01:53:11):
Yeah, but I didn't want tobring out my phone and take a picture,
you know, or get an autographbecause to me, you know,
it takes a way, you knowwhat I mean. So I just hung
out with him for a while.He brings that he has a guy bring
his own bottle of Jack Daniels andhe's sitting there drink because he only lives

(01:53:31):
across the street at that time fromthe rain, right. That's great.
So he's drinking up and he's like, enjoying my company. I'm enjoying his
company. So he starts getting meshots. So I'm drinking shots with him,
and you know, I'm I'm startingto get a little bit buzzed,
and I'm like, man, Igotta walk all the way back there,
and I gotta I gotta present face. Can't be slipping on my tongue,

(01:53:56):
freaking comedian, so have at it. I'm talking to him stuff and I
tell him, hey, I reallyappreciate it. Good meeting you. You
know you're you're an economy. You'reone of the greatest metal heads of all
time. You know, if Icould take a picture, I would to
tell my wife about it, butshe wouldn't believe it. And I'm not.

(01:54:17):
You know. I go into allthis and get ready to take off,
and he goes, are you straight? And I was like, man,
I'm kind of buzzed. So,needless to say, he brings out
some stuff, you know what Imean, and it makes me feel better.
Yeah, makes him feel better.But here's the funny thing. He
did it in front of everybody andnothing happened to him. That was the

(01:54:42):
greatness of metal, the greatness ofLemmy and being at the right place at
the right time. Interesting. That'sa cool stay is a cool story.
If you guys get a chance.Because I was talking about my dream band
with Ronnie James Dio leading it.Uh, there there is a There is
an album not by Dio, butit's in honor of do The album's called

(01:55:08):
This is Your Life, and it'sall bands covering songs from Dio. But
and there's a there's a song therecovered by Motorhead. The song is Starstruck
and but obviously by this time,Motorhead teamed up with Saxon frontman biff Byfort.

(01:55:29):
And if you get a chance,check that album out. It came
out in twenty fourteen. You cancheck that out on you know, anywhere
you catch your music. The albumis called This is Your Life. Ronnie
James Dio. Hey, you knowwhat, Tescano, it's getting late.
You know what, Let's play sometunes before we have to say audios to
leave it their tune stuff scene thatwe you know what, let's uh,

(01:55:51):
I'm gonna I'm gonna pick a blocksaid, if you don't mind, what
do you think? I would lovethat and I think everybody would out there
too. Okay, let's kick itup with a little bit of Motorhead.
We'll go with something like Killed byDeath. We've been talking about Deal.
Let's go back with Deal with somethingfrom Sabbath that is reminiscent and it will

(01:56:15):
resonate with everybody today as it was. Then let's go with falling off the
edge of the world. You arelistening to Tuscano and Chang. We're back
to the eighties radio something from Sabbath. On the seventh Day, God woke
us all up the door well toline side, same look, am smusha

(01:57:12):
side of the beagle of the side, dispose the sure no it sid to

(01:58:46):
me. But I'll say this.You know what I say, racism lit.
And I'm a real friend. Helpme you tell me I'm saying.

(01:59:15):
I feel I'm changing it up inthe wind away. I'm change real way.
I see some things I'm ming outand I'm not about that. Say
I got to me strong. I'mfinding ihing do think you'll say, but

(01:59:48):
your WENU come to say, jobseems like a gaspering messis. But sometimes

(02:00:41):
it's pout to be done. It'sas silas till the world's there, till

(02:01:08):
the world he's there. Now thewind sid and this leaves less. I'm

(02:01:54):
not slake. I you, I'mdear. Thanks. I got a run
until my time. Mother don't makeno dems cause I yonga ma say say
no, great time my mothers now, my dad got no dime, got

(02:02:27):
my die So I d boy notbut I had no bread boy at my
back, Mom and said, II know my bad boy, joy it
not. I don't pay no deadruns you say at yo, Ma say

(02:02:56):
says, hey, y'all got time. No love that love that no mo
no love that no love no myNow jail Buddy Dad, kill by Jill,

(02:04:11):
Buddy, kill by Dad, jailbye Dad, kill by Dad.
No no, no, no,Yill mod Welcome back to back to the

(02:05:50):
eighties radio. As we reminize andget your mind juice is going something from
Sabbage with Deal and something from Motorheadkilled by Death, which will all get
us where we got to go.Seeing that tonight we are talking about times
of the past and mindsets, justmaking everybody out there feel a little bit

(02:06:15):
at ease, knowing that everybody weare all in a struggle, but if
we fight against each other, thestruggle gets even worse than real. Tusky.
As we talk about some of thesebands, and I gave you that
story of meeting Lemmy of Motorhead,and you mentioned Deo, and I met
Dio at a Tesla concert backstage atthe Universal Amphitheater with my buddy with my

(02:06:41):
buddy Al's band Wicked Ralish, whichI spent some time talking to deal cool
cat too. And there's another catwho's out there that you dig and that
I dig, and he's pretty muchon the same wavelength that we all should

(02:07:05):
be on. But he's an oldercat. And I'm talking about the late
great John Lennon with his nineteen eightiesalbum Double Fantasy, which is sadly his
last album after he was reborn andtook a step away. So as we

(02:07:27):
talk about getting in that time machine, going back the mindset, what not
to take for granted, there's acat that caught it way way before,
and I think you too, asyou brought a bonne caught that same kind
of vibe and carried it on.Who would you who else would you think

(02:07:50):
in that band you two grasped thatand carries it out the whole band,
You know, the whole band isusually UH in one accord. There all
four of them, all four ofthem, including the founder of You two,
which is Larry Mullen Jr. Whoincidentally is not in Vegas doing this

(02:08:16):
whole UH stationary thing at the atthe sphere that you two, which I
don't agree with them doing anything withoutLarry Mullen Jr. But anyway for a
one hundred and fifty million dollars onehundred and fifty million dollars a year,
that's what they decided to do.I thought it was in poor taste.
You know, they've got enough moneyand to do with Queen. Yeah,

(02:08:39):
yes, exactly. I mean,come on, you know, and if
you're going to get somebody in regardat least with Queen, you know it
wasn't you know, Freddy Mercury isno longer alive, but they could have
went with somebody like Mark Martel,who actually sings like Freddy Mercury, but
in YouTube case, not taking andthis is their business manager, not taking

(02:09:03):
Larry Mullen, the guy who startedthe band. You know, whatever the
reason, if Larry didn't want todo it, he just didn't want to
come to the United States. Iunderstand that. So as a band,
don't don't start up a new YouTubeband without your drummer. And you know,
they lost I lost a lot ofrespect for YouTube doing that. And

(02:09:26):
I don't care what was in thecontract. They're not a new band.
They could have dissolved this a longtime ago. They're a pretty well established
band that they have a lot ofpool now they can say whether they want
to go or not. Yeah,like I in comparison, like I did
a bono to Lenin you two inways is a lot like the Beatles.

(02:09:50):
You know, everybody is very talented. You know, not all of them
could sing, but yet all ofthem could carry their own weight in another
form of music. Intellect wise,are on the same wave length spiritual wise,
are on the same wavelengths. Everyalbum they created was different than the

(02:10:11):
last. Every look of theirs wasdifferent from the last. Every album and
concert they did was a different vibe, a different energy, took people on
an emotional spiritual kind of trip,such as the Beatles did the heavier stuff

(02:10:33):
where they talked about real issues,just like the Beatles. Did you know
these guys covered society, global affairs, inter inter problems within the band,
split up relationship, divorced addictions.You know what I mean, getting too

(02:10:54):
egotistical with the zoo. The Beatlesdid the same thing, and you two
could have cashed in quickly just likethe Beatles. Look at the Beatles,
a legacy boom. They stop doingconcerts and they're still a legacy. Three
of them are gone, two ofthem are gone. Legacy. You two
could have done the same thing.It's a slap in the face to mister

(02:11:18):
Mullin. So many bands do thatthough nowadays, once again I don't really
know all the gist of the details, so who knows what is going on
behind the scenes. When they goout on tour again, hopefully they will
have Larry Mullins or else they willfall from my grace at least as my
favorite band. You just don't dothat. But aside from those bands,

(02:11:46):
I don't really know many except forTears for Fear started singing a lot of
stuff like everybody wants to rule theworld and shout. You know, they
did a lot of stuff against thegum in itself. And there's some other
bands that do some of that.But there are not many, not many

(02:12:07):
of those bands, especially not manyof those bands around, you know.
Talking about political rock, Neil Young, keep on rocking, Free World.
Bruce Springsteen, Oh no, definitely, Bruce Springsteen. As a matter of
fact, a lot of people.I mean, he's hated by a lot
of people because of his yeah,political views, you know, and stuff

(02:12:28):
like that. I tell people,you know what, get over it.
He's a musician. He's entitled tohis opinion if you like his music,
right, and if you don't keepmoving you know, personally, bro,
A lot of times I don't wantto get my politics into my entertainment.
But being a cat that is liketotally hip, like you into music.

(02:12:50):
Music has a way to unify people. Music is a way for people to
express themselves. So what you believein politically or socially is an emotion,
so you might as well make itup in a song, right. Yeah.
But I mean there's people like wheneverthey hear Born in the USA that

(02:13:13):
they just rag on Bruce Springsteen forthat song. Oh yeah, you know,
it's sad. It's sad that wedon't have. It's controversial. You
know that the stations now have tostop playing certain songs from the past because
of what they say, because it'sgoing to hurt someone's feelings. We're gonna

(02:13:33):
take a quick break here, backto the eighties radio. We're gonna be
right back as we head for thehome specks. Mom, Jackhop is a

(02:14:05):
free sweater. It will be perfectfor school. No, honey, try
this is free skirt. The sweaterwould look perfect on me. No,
this jacket is you. This sweateris definitely me that's the Broadway. The
hardest thing about buying us free separateis deciding who gets what. Fortunately,
the Broadway has lots to jews fromand right now, with any of his
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(02:14:26):
The sweater is definitely me, Nome, no Mary. Now if
you can't wear a spandex jumpsuit,what can you do? This stop?
Back to the a Tues. Welcomeback, This is Back to the Eighties
Radio. Thank you for joining us, Thank you for sticking with us throughout

(02:14:46):
these days, weeks, and monthsthat have passed. It's another year,
and as we head into this newyear, twenty twenty four, I'm wishing
you nothing but the very best andnever ever settle for anything but the very
best in your life. So onbehalf of myself Toscano. I just want
to wish you guys a happy week. We'll see you the next time here

(02:15:09):
on the one and only the greatesteighties show on Earth. Back to the
Eighties Radio. You keep it rightthere, Tell a friend stay you catch
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