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This episode of Back to the 80s Radio — The Streets That Shaped Me — was written, voiced, and produced by Toscano.
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You're tuned into Back to the EightiesRadio. Today, We're going to be
taking a whirlwind tour through the entiredecade of the nineteen eighties, from the
rise of the iconic music and moviesto the unforgettable fashion trends and groundbreaking technology.
And we have a special guest.Hr is going to be with us
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from the Vintage Tribute channel on YouTube. We're gonna be talking about his special
project bringing up the very first eightiesmusical documentary and we don't want you to
miss that. Have miss that,ladies and gentlemen. He is a man
that swears by black Sabbath, butsecretly wishes he could pull off Morrisey's hairstyle.
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He's a man who thinks that Anthraxand Judas priest ruled. Yet his
guilty pleasure when he's by himself inhis room is singing along to the Smiths.
Here add Back to the Eighties Radio. We know him as the ninth
Wonder of the World. Chan,I think you are talking about the impostor
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Wang Krischan. No, that wouldbe you've never listen to the Smiths.
I mean, come on you theSmiths. Look, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm looking in the back. Herewe go in Chang's dojo, his recording
dojo. He's got posters and memorabiliafrom the eighties galore. And beyond that,
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oh it's insane particular. He's gota little shrine. He's got a
little shrine with some candles that Isee, and the main picture in that
shrine is Robert Smith from the Keylorplease, and a couple of candles and
records of the Smith, Morrissey andDepeche Mode. Yes, yes, yes
you do. I would rather truth, so my eyelids to the top of
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my head then listen to any ofthose bands that you just named. Yes,
I have to go on a limb. I am now you ha hater.
You are insulting that gen music.I'm sorry. Please Okay, Well
there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Now you know this is the truth.
You know it's out of his ownAnd now you admit to everyone out
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there is that Black Sabbath Judas Priest, Anthrax Deo made you weep And your
favorite Striper Stripper was a god band. So you were a good little cat
big boys. So I can imagineif you were like, oh I want
to look like Striper one day.I want to I want to look like
a woman in a beaud have prettyhair. Oh you see, ladies and
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gentlemen, this guy is a fakelover of metal. Anyway we continue list
is back to the eighties show.Don't go away, because we're gonna come
back with a full show of loveand hate of everything eighties. This need
to back to the eighties radio andwe're gonna take you out with something from
Striper and oh yes, Judas Preet, don't you go anywhere? The eighties
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has come for you. I thtyou were going to play the Smiths.
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She don't friend my good my whSam open sound now what you're listening to?
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Bet to be and it's not Sassimess no cosmic real my real cross,
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My fire was ros desire, sno my c my dumbasador otto sh
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it's all devil like that joke.Oh no that you cry, stop doing
my leave a game. I believeI'm a dama child. I believe I'm
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a jel. I believe yalla yabaChIL my dreams Now it's city jump,
I'm STOs my silly grandma, shallabout stop stop my drawer, No do
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stop myself? Who so Tam JeffBottom, the Ropes, who cross Stimm
tell probably myself. I call adumb s. It's that man that way,
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the sand modesty, no one,not the thuds, the fires,
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John con that's just braes. I'mnot show shoes spreading out little face.
She's sucking out stock out nice stressroom, draw my sack. Oh so
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taker the brother of Roach. Ohno, come to crosstock the friends,
John leave the Tambo. I believeI'm a tambo shod. I believe y'll
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a tapa. I believe y'all mydown show, and I'll leave at my
jambo. I'll leave I'm a japaside. I believe y'all a jama.
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Back to the Eighties Radio. Youjust heard Devil's Child, Chang's favorite Band,
Judas Priest. Prior to that,you heard Stripper with Hell with the
Devil. Oh, you gotta lovemetal from the eighties. Ladies, gentlemen,
thank you for joining us on Backto the Eighties Radio. We have
a great show. We are goingto be talking about the entire decade of
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the eighties. So if you grewup in the eighties, this is the
show for you. If you're amillennial and you were born throughout the decade.
It's a show for you. Andif you're gen Z and beyond,
this is the show for you becausewe are going to be talking about some
stuff that you maybe didn't go through. Oh but you should have. That's
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right, J justsicne how many?How many? How many products of life
are from people that grew up inthe eighties. How many babies and kids
of the millennial era were created inthe eighties. So here's to you now,
justscnad. We are going nostalgic tonightbecause of our guest, mister h
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R. And I think I'm goingto bring to the table the first thing
that I got to throw at you. Are you ready for this? I'm
ready when you are hit me withyour best shot? Wow shot? Nice
Pat benatarre that you know what.We'll spend some Pat Benatar on our next
break. I'm going to open upthe show with talking about a couple of
games video games, okay, andI'm gonna be talking about the number one
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and the number two video games thatI thought were voted on by others,
but not the changs. We're gonnahave to go with Super Mario Brothers and
Pac Man. Those are the twomost iconic overplayed, over dubbed video games.
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I thought of the eighties generation.I don't know which one is your
favorite. My favorite pac Man inthat instant. But I was a big
fan of Asteroids and Defenders. ThereI put that out there. What do
you got for me? If you'veever played Asteroids in the past, Chang
is your typical kick, your ass. Chang is your Hey, none of
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that language studio, listen for everybody. Chang is your typical Asteroids player.
The guy that used to put allhis quarters at the top of the machine
and never allowed anybody else to play. That was Chang. That's if they
tried to cut don't be cutting inon me during my game. Y.
Yeah, you kind of give methose vibes. Yeah, you didn't know
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how sneaky people used to say,he's the ass droid asss that guy never
lets anybody get on that one game. Yeah, he's here all weekend.
I didn't care for Asteroids because itwas very difficult. I'm not gonna say
it wasn't. It was very hard. But I was more into games like
Defender, Donkey Kong, pac Man, and we'll see I played Defenders too,
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But you saw that I used tolike to play the games where I
was shooting, like Gallaga, becausewhen you're under the influence of drugs or
you were, the world just openedup. Okay, Well, the eighties,
of course, we're a transformative decadefor video games, now that you
bring it up. It was thegolden age of arcades, the rise of
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home console gaming. Look, itwas so popular during the eighties, becoming
social hubs were people of all ages. You could go to an arcade.
You could see children, you cansee teenagers, you can see young adults,
you can see all I mean,you could see executives, people that
were already parents playing video games atarcades. It was such a cultural impact
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for us. Of course, theiconic games you know, pac Man,
Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Gallagha, Asteroids, those dominated the scene.
But it was such a cultural impact. You'll remember games, arcades, home
consoles. They appeared in movies,TV shows, and they even made it
in music with songs like pac Man, Fever and a bunch of other stuff.
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We're talking about. How about Tron. Now, Tron was a great
game, but it was I meana great game. It turned into a
movie. I mean, Mario Brothersalso Now, Mario Brothers was one of
my favorites towards the later eighties,but I particularly liked the early eighties for
video gaming, like eighty about eightyeighty, between eighty and eighty three with
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the release of the Atari twenty sixhundred, because it brought arcade style gaming
into your home. And somewhere aroundeighty three there was a video game crash
due to market saturation and poor qualitygames. You remember, I mean,
the video game consoles tried to imitatewhat they had in arcades, but they
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just couldn't until until the the whatwas it, the like Atari fifty six
hundred or something like that. Thenthe Commodore computer came out with games.
But when in eighty five Nintendo releasedtheir Ans system, it literally revitalized the
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video game industry. And that's whenSuper Mario came out, which became a
global sensation. Oh yeah, andthat opened up the gateway to start putting
gaming systems in the home. Now, let me ask you a question talking
about you know, we mentioned TronMario Brothers coming out with the movies animated
cartoons. Now, I believe pacMan had an animated car tuned for a
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while. If I'm taking it outon a limb, but I have a
feeling it's more into the nineties.You're absolutely right chaying, because September twenty
fifth, nineteen eighty two, onABC it ran pac Man. The cartoon
ran for forty four episodes, that'sover two seasons, and it ended in
November fifth, nineteen eighty three.It was the first cartoon based video game
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cartoon. I'm glad that I broughtthat to everybody's attention. Also, if
anybody wants to check out that Xrated version packass Man, go ahead and
google that and find that on yourown time. Okay, nobody's going to
check that out. The video gameindustry after eighty five, when Nintendo revitalized
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everything. By the end of thedecade, home consoles were estimated to be
around ten billion dollar business. Theeleven billing that came from arcades. Video
gaming industry since the very beginning wasgoing to be a popular way of spending
not only time but money. Thisis Queen with the game, followed up
with Eddie Grant Don't Go Away.This is the one and only back to
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the eighties radio. Open up yourmind and let me step its side.
Rest your weary head and let yourheart decide. It's so pay when you
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know the rules. It's sosy.All you have to do is fall in
love again. Everybody played against Yeah, way you feeling down in your resistance
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is all like another sad and letyourself God, this is life. Don't
play hard again. It's a freeworld. Well you have to do fairy
love. Play again. Everybody playedagainst love. Love. Oh my game
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of love has just been Love runsfrom my head down to my own Love
is bas mother again having now,don't play again, playing again, play
again, playing again, plail againstthat man again, Miss Louise, your
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don't claims again. It's a fee. All you have to do is fall
in love again. Play again.You have to do still alive out there
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good? This is mac mac macmax Hendroom, max Hendroom. People can
be really nasty. Only the otherday I heard someone say he's nothing but
a robot covered in makeup, talksa lot of nonsense. What a way
to talk about the President of America, just chatting away to hurry back there
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by the streets. There was violenceWashington and then I can't they pat on
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the south O. No, wedone around down to Elien Shrake Avenue,
and then we'll take it higher.Oh, we don't a round down to
Elien Shake Avenue and then we'll takeit higher. Working so hard, I
can older, can I put athing and me deep in my heart?
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I amoria can't dep foot the king, good God. We don't a run
down to elien Scheck Avenue and thenwe'll take it higher. Oh, we
done a run down to elien CheckAvenue and then we'll take it higher.
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Oh no, oh no, ohno, oh no, oh no,
we're gonna run down to elect ShreckAvenue and then we'll take it higher.
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How we're gonna run down to PeterShreck Avenue and then we'll take it higher.
Who is to them in one country? Never can get to the one
dealing and mandiflication and they still can'tbeat everyone. Oh no, we're gonna
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run down to elect Shreck Avenue andthen we'll take it higher. Oh no,
we're gonna run down to elect ShreckAvenue, and then we'll take it
higher. Out in the street,out in the street, out in a
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dead time, out in the night. Oh, we're gonna run down to
elect s Track Avenue and then we'lltake it higher. Oh, we're gonna
run down to elect Track Avenue andthen we'll take it higher out in the
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street, out in the street,out in the blackground. Is that that
side of town home? We're gonnarun down to elect Steck Avenue and then
we'll take it higher. Okay,we're gonna run down to either Strick Avenue.
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O rocking. Then the welcome backto Back to the Eighties radio hosts
by yours truly tusconawin Chang And wejust took a drive down Electric Avenue with
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Eddie Grant. And before that wewere all playing the game with a late
great Freddie Mercury and the great bandof the eighties. With the game from
nineteen eighty we wrapped a little bitof conversation on some of the great games.
Hold on, Oh yes, we'regoing to take a quick second for
the Back to the Eighties radio newsdesk. Ronald Reagan was two months into his
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presidency when John Hinckley Junior drew atwenty nine dollars handgun outside the Washington Hilton
Hotel on March thirtieth, nineteen eightyone. He wounded the President, Brady,
a Secret Service agent, and aWashington Police officer. Reagan and his
guards fully covered, but the twentytwo caliber bullet exploded into you know,
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chang. One of the significant partialmemories of the nineteen eighties happened on March
thirtieth, as we just heard,nineteen eighty one, sixty nine days into
Ronald Reagan's presidency, outside the WashingtonHilton Hotel in Washington, d C.
And as President Reagan was leaving aspeaking engagement, John Hinckley Junior, who
was twenty five at the time sufferingwith mental issues, and he was obsessed
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with the actress Jody Foster and claimedthat the assassination attempt was intended to impress
her. Can you believe that?And now, I mean today we've got
assassination attempts as well. And Ijust remembered that that was one of the
more significant memories of the nineteen ages. Let's not forget he aid it and
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was a big part on the wallcoming down. So you know, you
got your good and your bad.The very sad thing is things haven't really
changed. We're still having assassinations andassassin assassination attempts, character assassinations, character
assassinations. It's just it's sad whenyou just look at it as a whole
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you take it in the whole nucleusof hate and misunderstanding and wrong thinking.
It just odd that we really haven'tevolved from this news story to where we're
at now. But let's talk aboutsome movies that have to do with some
gunplay. Tuscano. I'm gonna throwone guy out to you. Can you
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could tell me if you're a fanor not. Arnold Schwarzenegger Action Hero Yeah
your name, yay, yay.Loved Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some of the best
movies that had to do. Imean, they were outrageous, so far
from true to life, but that'swhat made it so grand. And it
was movies like movies like Commando,which is one of my favorites, Predator
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Wow. When those movies came out, he was larger than live. Everybody
wanted to it to be that tough, to be that amazing, to be
kind of like a superhero, buta real life superhero, ready for the
next one. Dolph Lundgren, hewas definitely someone not to be messed with.
And when he came out in Rockyfour and his his presence, his
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on screen presence. Even Stallone saidthat when he saw Dolph Lundgren in his
very young age and what he coulddo. He hired him immediately for the
movie. He was just so impressedwith how tough he was. Another one
Slice Stallone, Yeah your name yay. This was obviously him and Schwarzenegger would
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go back and forth competing against eachother. And it was movies like Rambo
that started it all off for Stallone. As far as the shooting movies,
it was movies like Cobra. RememberCobra is a very underrated movie. Cobra
is one of those movies that hadand you have to remember this about the
eighties. They had had such cheesylines like this one. You're a lousy
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shot. I don't like us joysfor the kid for nothing. No,
I like wait with you. Igot a bomb here, fuck killer hook
flow this offt place up, goahead, I don't shock her. Eastwood,
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mister Clint Eastwood, Yeah, yourname, definitely ya. First of
all, Clint Eastwood reminded me toomuch like my dad. First of all,
because my dad loved Clint Eastwood's Clinteast with sixties and seventies Western movies.
But then in the eighties he startedwith those cop movies where he was
Harry You know Dirty Harry and thisfamous phrase, go ahead, make my
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day. Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell. Yeah, your name for Kurt Russell.
Actually, I'm gonna say yay.We're still at war. We need
them alive. I don't give afuck about your war or your president.
But it was a little more cheesywith Kurt Russell. With movies like Escape
from New York and Escape from laI'm gonna say yay. But those are
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more like cult favorites. Yeah,I see where you go. Bruce Willis,
Oh, one hundred and ten percentyay. And I'll tell you why.
Because there has been no other eightiesmovie, especially around Christmas time.
Some argue is it a Christmas movieor not? They even asked him.
He said, it's not a Christmasmovie, but it was surrounded by Christmas.
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It was everything about Christmas. Althoughit was an action movie. And
I'm talking about the very first Diehardnineteen eighty eight, incredible movie, one
of my favorites. It's one ofthose movies you can watch over and over
and over again. Come under theCoast, get together, have a few
lists. If you are out ofmysterious party crash. There are most troublesome
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for a security God, sorry,Hans, wrong, guess would you like
to go for double Jippardy where thescores can really change and you never get
tired of it? Mister Lou GossipJunior, Yeah, your name. I
was a big fan. I thoughtGosta Junior brought the heat better stuff ball
in me. Boy, you're notworthy enough to look your superiors, and
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I use your peripheral vision, understandSir. Every time I say understand,
I want the whole group to sayyes, sir, understand, yes,
understand. Lou Gusta j I'm gonnasay nay, and I'm gonna say no.
What Yeah, Well, because Idon't let some of his bad it's
because I take over that he heplayed a tough guy, was a tough
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guy, and he was in aphenomenal actor. To me at the time,
Lou gousset Junior was more of aTV show actor. Even though he
did make big films, he justwasn't at the level. Are you putting
him with Chuck Norris? No,Chuck ours was huge, huge seventies and
eighties. Norris. You guys thatJunior had more guns. No, what's
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the first one you amigo? Howabout you? All right? Give me
one more, one more? Areyou ready? Jesus? That makes me
sick. Okay, wait a minute, you ready hit me with your best
show? Oh? I like that. I like that al Pacino, this
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country. You've got to make themoney first. Then when you get the
money, you get the power.Then you get a power, then you're
getting woman. Al Pacino definitely yay. But for his other type of movies,
you know his mobster rolls. Soyes, I didn't like the movies
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where it was more of a drama. It wasn't me, especially in the
nineteen eighties. No, I'm goingto say no, but yes as an
actor, of course, I'm goingto say yes to Gina. Okay,
do you want to play with?Okay, shut up to my Now,
I've got an actor for you.Are you ready for this? I'm ready.
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I got one actor who is notpopular today. He started off.
He started off really well, buthis own private life, attitude and thought
too much of himself ruined his career. No, are you ready? I'm
talking about the one and only fromhis role in Above the Law nineteen eighty
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eight. His role was Nico Tuscanisay, man, have you seen this
girl? I say, ship youhaven't seen this girl. Hey, excuse,
how are you doing? Suck with? You seen this girl? Man?
You know I quit messing with thatstuff. I ain't into the ship
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anymore. You went into what areyou into? And went on the fun
u assos. Leave me alone.I paid your boy off Monday night,
My boys, Yeah, and Itake some of that fucking money and go
buy your mama condominium. I'm talkingabout the actor Steven Segal. You know
what, I have to all bothsides of the fence, yay and nay.
I do enjoy his movies, puking, action packed all the way.
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He can knock somebody's gun out,take it out, blast some people.
But he can easily kick your asswith common moves. But he does them
very quick and they're very calculated,which I praise him on that. But
as for gunslinger style, what Ithink what we're talking about, I have
to go nay, because uh,he's almost kind of like martial artists.
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You know, when you talk aboutJackie Chan, you know, we can
talk about mister cocaine, mister tightpants stretch. Okay, so let's stop
right there real quick. You tellme yourne for two more. Okay,
here we go, nineteen eighty eight. I knew blood Sport movie the actors
tight pants. You can actually theguy could plank whank? What is bad?
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You hold this? If I cangrab it before you close your hand,
I get to go. If Icannot, she's yours very good.
You can't do this because that guycould split his You could. That guy
could split his legs in the splits, and you could use that length as
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a bridge to get across a smalllake. You know what action pack?
Hell yeah, badass dude, Hellyeah. I dug his movies. Hell
every now and then when Chang wouldgo out and get stupid at a bar,
I would try to do some uhyou know, some some goddamn bad
damn on on on a foe thatwas offending me that evening, but gun
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toting like we're talking about. No, of course, Hey, I to
pass on. Jean Claude. Allright, here we go the last one
I have for you. Then we'regonna go into some music here. But
how about nineteen eighty one's Mad Maxtwo with the Road Warrior. The actor
I'm talking about is the one actorwho came out not only in Mad Max
but nineteen eighty seven's Lethal Weapon andI'm talking about mel Gibson. Yet,
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Oh you know what, I gottago yay all the way his characters Samir
are pretty much not too far whatI think of his personality, you know.
V He came out and anti Semitic, stood by what he said.
He came out with the passion ofthe Christ, which I found, wow,
which was an incredible and incredible storty, because that is the version that
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I was told and had to readas a young child, but didn't really
like to get popularized in Catholic school. If you know what I mean,
I have to give him a yale. The guy can gang bang man with
some guns, even to this daywhen he's got an action movie and he's
cut, he's cut. He youknow, he's capping some rounds. He's
a big yay. Not a martialartist, no, not like the other
bad ass cats we talked about.But yeah, gun total hell yeah,
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give him a ya. Now,Gibson's man bro mad. That's all the
way. Do you want to Well, then that's fine with me. Come
on, let's do it what Iwant to do it? I want to
do it. What do you meanI'm going to be taking you out with
a song that was popularized from nineteeneighty two's Rocky three, a song by
survivor Here's I of the Tiger,Back to the eighties radio, rising up,
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back on the street, to mytime, to my chances with the
distance. Now I'm back on Babby, just a man from his broom to
survive. So many times it happenstoo fast. You change your passion for
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glory. Don't lose your grip onthe dreams of the beast. You must
fight just to keep them alive.It's sleep all times, the feeling of
fighting, passing to the challenge hardfable and the lasts of harbor stops spreading
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the night and five teams anste hotime, re's the best out look,
the don't stand f rest that theodd Still we turn to the stream,
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boom him with the school to survive, extend, step out of the times,
the fight rossing to the challenge ofall rob and the last boats of
other spots spear in mond and hewanting a small tum tid rousing up straight
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to the top. Then the godsgot the bory. What the as this
album not going to stop this manand just five I'm sad to look much
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Tell me Tom So Brown? Whya cat like skill? Just bad
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into flowers? Don't about everything youwomen need to know about? I need
(44:53):
so why tell me the women too? La super wow? Why jack when
soldier will? Why it's fun?R siper worm? Why he welsome welcome?
(46:00):
While so the frills? Why thesails? So many winners for so
many fail so frill? Why itstill like a moret well for myself something?
And I'm lady to give a canand not many drill as? Shit?
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Why a share? Why I'm onlygets in? Then the father sing,
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I'm all the sizings that is that, I'm all sent in a down
now I'm like down sent you certainser s, welcome back to back to
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the eighties radio right here with Tuscanaand chan hang oh. And that was
something that takes me all the wayback. I feel like running down the
street in my congress or knocking thecrap out of somebody's survivor. The eye
of the tiger, baby, that'swhat you always have to have, boys
and girls, the eye of thetiger and to remember to fire it up.
Because we are shooting all over theplace talking about movies and badass cats
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with guns. We had some acDC shoot to thrill Tuscano. Why did
you grab some popcorn in aabascas andtell us what you got on the cooker.
Coming up right now, right now, We've got a very special guest
coming up with us. We've gothr from the Vintage Tribute YouTube channels.
You got to check them out.Go online, go on YouTube and check
out the Vintage Tribute channel. Specificthe Eighties Official Movie. You can't miss
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it. We're gonna play a trailerhere and then up next we're talking to
hr. The Eighties Official Movie isa groundbreaking musical documentary that tells the story
of the decade that made us likeyou've never experienced it before. Production starts
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next week. We're gonna make itor break it. If you want to
be part of this unique project andlearn more, guys now were to please
visit the Vintage Tribute channel on YouTubeand the Eighties Official Movie on Kickstarter.
You've got to support the campaign andbring this groundbreaking project to life. I
mean, you're only on this planetfor so long. Go for it now.
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The Eighties a pop culture special movie. Welcome back, everybody to back
to the Eighties Radio. As promised, we have the brilliant hr Pal producer,
director, the main Guru, themain guy, the main man of
the Eighties. The Official Movie,The groundbreaking documusical montage that's going to take
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us through the iconic events and themesof the nineteen eighties, and it features
a massive library of specific media,the best music of the time. I
mean, this is a unique storytellingapproach that's never been done before. So
Hr, we're excited to hear moreabout this extraordinary film. And the way
we're going to do it is bothChang and I are going to take turns
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in asking you questions. So wewant you to talk more, less us
more you Chang, take it away. Hr, what enlightened you to give
the idea to create an eighties documentaryand the sequence that you have done here?
First of all, thank you forhaving me here. This is great.
I was never imagining something like this, so I'm really happy to be
here. All right. First ofall, this is not an ordinary documentary.
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It's not like I am putting imagesand putting a narrator. No,
what I'm doing here is different.This is more like a long montage.
It's like a long music video.What I did was to create a new
genre. I created a concept calleddocu musical. What I do here is
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that I mix images, voice offand music all in one. So when
I do this, I create differentsegments throughout the whole documentary. Like,
for example, the documentary is dividedin fifty segments, and each segment has
a theme. The first segment isabout music in the nineteen eighties. Then
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the second segment is about politics inthe nineteen eighties. So each segment lasts
about two or three minutes, andeach segment has a song that goes with
it. Plus I mix the songand the footage with the voice of people
that actually had to do with theteams that's being discussed. So once you
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get all these three things together,it creates something different. It's not like
an ordinary documentary. So if wecan start from the beginning and you could
just talk to us about what droveyou to start this project. Okay,
So let me start from the beginningso you can understand a little bit of
this project. So I started thisaround two years ago, two and a
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half years ago. Throughout my life, I had the chance to travel a
lot to a lot of countries,meet many people from all parts of the
world. Work. We then makefriends, also make enemies. It was
all a learning process and in thatexperience I started to understand the impact and
influence of culture in our lives.So this experience enforced the interest I had
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in culture throughout history. We arewell we are because of culture, right,
I mean, so I love howeach decade in the twentieth century,
especially since cinema became popular around thenineteen twenties, they all have their own
identity, right. So, forexample, if we look at the nineteen
fifties, like it was defined bygrand musicals, like very talented artists that
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could do everything. They could do, dance, they could act. We
have rock and roll, housewives likeeverything was like. That was the culture
of the nineteen fifties. But ifyou go all the way, for example,
to the nineteen nineties, then it'scompletely different. Right. So people
in the nineteen nineties had this attitudetowards life. It was different. They
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have to be cool, dress cool, a lot of social pressure to fit
in. We have the grange culture. We have young people fed up with
establishment and rules. Music was muchmore grim, much more aggressive. That
was the nineteen nineties, right.So the point is each decade had its
own magic and personality, pros andpoems. I've read a lot about each
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decade. I continue reading because youwill never start learning right. So I
also understood the best way to makepeople experience this in twenty twenty four.
It was through an art visual product, and this is how people understand things
better right now. That led meto use, I mean, all my
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knowledge in editing, all my editingskills to create a documentary which is called
a docum musical montage, like Iwas explaining. Because I didn't have the
time, team or budget to dealwith a full version like a full movie
two years ago, I decided tomake a short version and I released this
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shore version via YouTube just to testthe waters to see what was the reception.
I will never imagine what was therethe reception going to be. So
in only four months, this shortversion that I released got more than four
million views. It was just itwas an hour version. I mean usually
on YouTube people don't watch long videos. They only watched like very fast videos
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minute two minute long. This wasan hour long video. So it got
really popular really fast, thousands ofcomments, people writing me emails, well
this is awesome. But the thingis that YouTube algorithm is really complicated.
So the YouTube blocked the video becauseit contained copyright music. So the video
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remained blocked until this day, soit only had like a full life or
four months. But in those fourmonths it became really popular. I got
many people writing me emails tell me, why don't you do the full version?
This is awesome, you should dothis, you know. This is
why I started a campaign to raisefounds not only to finish the film,
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but to have the necessary budget tohire copyright firm to deal with all the
licenses everything. Although this is ahuge headache, I'm being supervised by copyright
firm in the US also a distributioncompany to pitch this project to streaming service
or movie theaters. So the campaignfinished already, It is already finished,
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and it was a great success.So we're going to start producing next week
to finish the film, and thefilm will be ready by January, and
in February we will start working witha copyright firm to deal with the licenses
and with a film distributor HR.How did you balance nostalgia with modern perspective
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to make the document documentary acceptable,relevant and interesting for generations that are not
of the eighties. Yeah, Imean, like I said, I think
every decade is wonderful. It hasgood things, bad things. But the
thing is that before when I wasa kid, I have family living all
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over the world. Like I havefamily living in Europe, I have family
living in North America. So whenI grew up, family was coming to
my house every time. They camefrom outside, and they were bringing stuff.
They were bringing like Memoravillia. Theywere bringing music, they were bringing
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LPs, they were bringing books,I mean, and everything was from the
place that were coming. So ifI have family, for example, living
in France, they brought me stufffrom France. So I was there like
it was just four or five yearold, and I was with all these
material available for me, you know, and I was just reading and checking
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and all of this was great becauseI grew up with all of this information
in my head, you know.And I remember my ankle was bringing me
music and BHS movies from the US, and the experience was like, it
was awesome because you get together,you get together with the family, brother
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sisters, I mean, cousins,everybody got together to watch a movie in
the room. That's something you don'tsee now. The experience was completely different.
But I got this interest from everythingthat had to do with culture.
So I started reading books about historyabout that I got so much information that
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when I grew When I grew upand I became a teenager, everything I
thought about it was just that,you know, it was music, history,
movies, TV shows, you nameit. So it sounds to me
that a lot of your own lifeexperiences and visiting different countries and customs and
cultures just had a big influence onyour life, right exactly like I mentioned
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before, Throughout all my life,I traveled. I mean I never stay
in one place. I was alwaysmoving from one country to another, to
one place to another, to onecity to another. So I met so
many people to all my life,and I met so many cultures, so
many customs, families, cities.I mean, each city has its own
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history. So for me to experienceall this during my youth years, it
was really really I mean I don'thave any words to describe it, but
I learned so much from this.When I did this, my goal was
to first for people that lived throughthe decade to experience all over again,
like you are in there again.That's why when I make this docum musical,
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I don't put it in any narrator. It's so told by the protagonism
else so it's like you are thereagain, you know. And second for
the people that didn't leave through thedecade, and I just want them to
feel that they are traveling back intime like they have a time machine.
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We have a time machine, youknow what that is. But music is
a time machine. I mean,it's the only time machine that exists today.
Because you listen to a song,it transports you to a specific moment
in your life. This is whythe use of music in this docu musical
is key. Without the music,it wouldn't I wouldn't have this. I
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can't really wait to see the outcomeof this, because it's an amazing project
from what you're telling us. Butit seems also that you want us to
be more of an experience. Youwant us to be much more the truth
of what the eighties was, insteadof making it completely for somebody today,
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for the millennials or the gen zto understand. I don't want this to
feel a modern take on the eighties, not at all. I mean,
I think history has to be toldas it happened. Something I don't like
or I don't agree is trying tocheck boxes. You know, I don't
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like that if it happened, ithappened like I said, in order to
be faithful to what happened, weneed to tell the truth from all angles,
right, not only one. Somany people I mean, I had
so many feedback people telling me,hey, this is more like US and
UK based documentary, right, Andone part is true, in one part
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is not. It's true because Imean the US and the UK actually were
the most influential cultures in the wholeworld during the eighties, and not only
during the eighties, I mean throughoutwhole history of pop culture. I mean
the best music and the best moviescome from those two places. Right.
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Like I said, many people mightsay, now, don't show this or
don't put that, because it mighthurt somebody's feelings in today's world, and
I actually say no. I meanif I do, I wouldn't. If
I do that, I wouldn't betelling nineteen eighty and eighties history. I
will be telling in the twenty twentieshistory. And I don't want to do
that. Nobody wants to see thetwenty twenties history because we are living that
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now. I mean, if youwant to be transported to the nineteen eighties
or any other decade in that matter, you need to leave that experience like
it happened with the good, thebad, and the ugly. What are
you led to believe will be thelasting legacy of the eighties in your documentary
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as you captured it at its finestand at its lowest. The lasting legacy,
I think it's freedom. I mean, not everywhere in the world during
the eighties experienced freedom as the Westernhemisphere, right, But we here we
had a good. We didn't knowit, but we had a good regarding
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freedom. So technology is great now. I mean it has become an extraordinary
tool, that is, but Ithink it's been overused in music, in
movies and communication in general. Thereare things that cannot be replaced, you
know, human interaction, practical effects, real music with instruments, exactly,
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actual people playing music. You know, this is why you see people today
going retro again, because not becauseof nostalgia, but because products before had
an emotional baggage. You know,you knew there were humans behind everything,
so it felt more genuine and real. That's why people look I mean naturally,
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people look for beauty in the humanspirit. This is what people look
for. So this is why societynow is kind of empty, because culture
is empty. So they're turning theirattentions to all art, all culture.
Any of those eighties trends or fadsthat you discovered make a personal comeback in
your life during the filming. Yeah, there's one like very small, detailed.
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One small aspect that I think iscoming back to me is the imperfections
in products, for example, infilm. You know, the grain in
film. So I realized movies andTV shows look more beautiful then with all
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the imperfections. You know, todaywe have, for example, four K
technology and all of that. Itlooks awesome, it looks great, but
it also manufactured like it looks likehe has filtered like an Instagram post.
When I watch a movie, Iwant to feel I am watching something different,
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you know, with all the allthe imperfections, you know, something
that actually immersed me there. Idon't want to see perfect, too perfect,
you know, too perfect is nottoo good this face. So I
think that that aspect came back tome. I realized now that movies should
be done like it was like theywere done before, with all these small
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details. You know, that's justawesome. Hr. Now, if we
were to say, okay, you'recoming out with this docu musical from the
eighties, and it's going to bejust something like no other documentary has ever
been able to fulfill or able tobring to the table. What is it
you're hoping the reaction is going tobe from everybody? Well, I want
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the reaction to be the same astheir reactions from the Shore version were when
I releave these two years ago.I mean, the reactions were overwhelming.
I'm not saying this. I don'tlike to talk about myself or my own
The comments were also similar that Istarted to believe, well, maybe we
have something special here. This isabsolutely unbelievable. I never seen anything like
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this, like you should win anoscar for this and all this kind of
stuff that actually I felt like reallyoverwhelmed by all this reception. But I
think people were being honest because Ireceived like ten thousand comments in four months,
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and I'm not lying when I saylike ninety nine percent of those comments
were like people were really really intothe Tokyo mentory. I mean, they
were really impressed by it. Soif it's one percent of that reception I
got from that video, I willbe happy, because that reception was really
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out of this world. All right, So tell us why the eighties.
I decided the eighties first because it'sthe most popular one right now. So
there's a lot of content about theeighties, and people are actually really interested
in knowing about the eighties. SoI think it's the eighties time. Now.
There will come a time when peoplewill be interested in the nineties and
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in some other decades, but rightnow, I think it's the eighties.
So yeah, I mean, afterI'm done with this, I have my
project already ready for the nineteen fifties, the nineteen sixties, the nineteen seventies,
the nineties, and the two thousandsas well. If you could bring
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one thing back from the eighties culturewise, music wise, fashion wise to
today's world and share it with today'sgeneration, what would it be and why?
Right now, I think families aretoo spread all over. It's not
like before that we used to bein the same town, in the same
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neighbor many times. I think Iwill bring family gatherings like before. Like
I think cousins and brothers, especiallycousins are more like separated now. Before,
like everybody got together watch a movieor watch a TV show together,
We ate together, we went toplay together, like everything was being done
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together. So I will bring thatexperience. That's a personal experience from me
Hr. It's a blast having youon and learning about so much that you're
doing with the project of the Eightiesdocu musical. Where can people find out
more information? Where can they findthe Vintage Tribute page? What can they
do to further your dream of makingthis happen? All right? So they
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can visit. First of all,I have two pages, two main pages.
One of them is the channel calledthe Bintest Tribute, which is on
YouTube. This is the channel thatI use when I released the short version
of the original video. So youcan find the channel the Bintest Tribute on
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YouTube channel. And the other mainpage is the kickstarted page. This is
where the project was being launch asa campaign a few months ago. So
you can find a project as theEighties Official Movie on Kickstarter. You can
use any of these two main pages. If you want to maybe contribute to
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the project, or have some infoor some updates or news or whatever you
want to have about the project,you can find it there in any of
those two pages. This is thanksto the I have on YouTube as well,
where we have more than one hundredthousand followers. So the people were
really eager to support this project whenI announced it. So on the first
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day, No, it was onthe first week we crashed the main goal
of the project. It was goneafter the first week. All of that
because of the people that came frommy channel. And after that first week
we had three more weeks of campaignand during those three weeks we have organic
supporters from Kickstarter again from all overthe world. I want to thank them,
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all of them from Kickstarter, fromYouTube, my YouTube community. They
are always there helping me, givingme feedback, supporting the project everything I
do. It's been a wonderful rideand it's been an amazing because I was
never expecting to reach the amount ofmoney we reach with a campaign. I
was never expecting that, and it'sbeen a blessing. I hope we can
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talk to you again, and ifyou ever do win an oscar or anything,
I hope you make sure that youhave us to be able to interview
you as your primary show one ofthese days. We can't wait so hr
before we go. Do you havea song that you'd like to request from
the nineteen eighties. I think I'mgonna ask for this Bob Seeker song,
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which is one of my favorites.Rollne away excellent. You heard it here
on Back to the eighties radio.We just had hr Powell. You can't
miss what's coming up next to thelook Donald westbound, Roll right away.
I made my show head it outto my big two wheeler. I was
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tired of ball. Took a beaton the northern planes and just roll that
power on. Twelve hours out ofNacanos City. Stopped at the ball to
half a brute, met a girland we had a few drinks, and
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I'm told I went out decide.She looked out the window a long moment.
Then she looked at too. Shedidn't never see a thing. I
know what you must think. Rollon me away, won't you? Roll
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away? And I do? Hadlast my meels up lass now singamore pone
and was right. We never evenset awe her. We just walked out
and got all that bab w.We rowed and when we worlled, cleaned
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out of side, roll went notthe highway, greve into the mountains.
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Felt so good, fall somewhere.Yeah, we got the time to go.
She said she missed a bot.I had an offlo still on the
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mountaintop, staring out at the GreatTobac. I could go east, I
could go west, and was offto me to decide. Just then I
saw a young hawk fight and mysoul began to rise. I'm pretty soon
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I was singing, roll me away, I want to roll me away,
and you gotta keep rolling, gottakeep riding, keep such another five let's
lay And as the sunset faded,I stop the latest, last start,
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I say, next time, Nexttime, we have the right. If
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they were a laxative, they'd beso powerful you could stand on your head
and shoot on the ceiling. Thatposition would not only be an availa,
but also undignified. And now backto the eighties with Tiscato and Chang.
As we got to finish the interviewwith HR, you know, I'm looking
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forward to this movie coming out inFebruary of next year, twenty twenty five.
And don't forget to stay tuned toBack to the eighties radios. We
will be keeping you guys posted andupdated and talking to HR from time to
time from here till then. Andwe have some very special guests. So
if you like eighties TikTokers, ifyou like eighties YouTubers, we're going to
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have them here live for you aswell and talk to people who love everything
Eighties. Well that's all for today'sBack to the Eighties Radio. A huge
thank you to our special guest hrPower from the Vintage Tribute YouTube channel for
sharing his insights into his groundbreaking project, the Eighties Official Movie. Don't want
to miss that, so stay tunedin the nineteen eighties was a decade of
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power, continues to be one.It was a decade of freedom, and
it continues to be one. Itwas a decade of unforgettable moments. It
shaped generations in ways that continue toresonate today. From music and movies to
the fashion and culture milestones, thenineteen eighties will forever live in our hearts.
So thanks for tuning in. We'llcatch you next week as we continue
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to celebrate the best decade ever.Stay awesome, stay here, I'm back
to the Eighties Radio. Chang herebefore I release you to another changtastic week,
and remember to stay you always,stay lifted, stand up for something
bigger than yourself, stand up forsomebody that can't. And to all of
you out there, remember tomorrow isjust another day. Don't let it kick
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you in the ass. We're gonnasay goodbye. We're gonna say AliOS ariba
che ahole asta la vista, astamanyara, sayanada. And to all the homies
and everybody across this land or aland, take me back, how ago
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actly? Take me back until nineman's away inside whoa the eight or a
hundred factery ended at that battery s
You're tuned into Back to the EightiesRadio. Today, We're going to be
taking a whirlwind tour through the entiredecade of the nineteen eighties, from the
rise of the iconic music and moviesto the unforgettable fashion trends and groundbreaking technology.
And we have a special guest.Hr is going to be with us
(00:46):
from the Vintage Tribute channel on YouTube. We're gonna be talking about his special
project bringing up the very first eightiesmusical documentary and we don't want you to
miss that. Have miss that,ladies and gentlemen. He is a man
that swears by black Sabbath, butsecretly wishes he could pull off Morrisey's hairstyle.
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He's a man who thinks that Anthraxand Judas priest ruled. Yet his
guilty pleasure when he's by himself inhis room is singing along to the Smiths.
Here add Back to the Eighties Radio. We know him as the ninth
Wonder of the World. Chan,I think you are talking about the impostor
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Wang Krischan. No, that wouldbe you've never listen to the Smiths.
I mean, come on you theSmiths. Look, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm looking in the back. Herewe go in Chang's dojo, his recording
dojo. He's got posters and memorabiliafrom the eighties galore. And beyond that,
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oh it's insane particular. He's gota little shrine. He's got a
little shrine with some candles that Isee, and the main picture in that
shrine is Robert Smith from the Keylorplease, and a couple of candles and
records of the Smith, Morrissey andDepeche Mode. Yes, yes, yes
you do. I would rather truth, so my eyelids to the top of
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my head then listen to any ofthose bands that you just named. Yes,
I have to go on a limb. I am now you ha hater.
You are insulting that gen music.I'm sorry. Please Okay, Well
there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Now you know this is the truth.
You know it's out of his ownAnd now you admit to everyone out
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there is that Black Sabbath Judas Priest, Anthrax Deo made you weep And your
favorite Striper Stripper was a god band. So you were a good little cat
big boys. So I can imagineif you were like, oh I want
to look like Striper one day.I want to I want to look like
a woman in a beaud have prettyhair. Oh you see, ladies and
(03:10):
gentlemen, this guy is a fakelover of metal. Anyway we continue list
is back to the eighties show.Don't go away, because we're gonna come
back with a full show of loveand hate of everything eighties. This need
to back to the eighties radio andwe're gonna take you out with something from
Striper and oh yes, Judas Preet, don't you go anywhere? The eighties
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has come for you. I thtyou were going to play the Smiths.
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She don't friend my good my whSam open sound now what you're listening to?
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Bet to be and it's not Sassimess no cosmic real my real cross,
(07:59):
My fire was ros desire, sno my c my dumbasador otto sh
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it's all devil like that joke.Oh no that you cry, stop doing
my leave a game. I believeI'm a dama child. I believe I'm
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a jel. I believe yalla yabaChIL my dreams Now it's city jump,
I'm STOs my silly grandma, shallabout stop stop my drawer, No do
(09:16):
stop myself? Who so Tam JeffBottom, the Ropes, who cross Stimm
tell probably myself. I call adumb s. It's that man that way,
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the sand modesty, no one,not the thuds, the fires,
(10:58):
John con that's just braes. I'mnot show shoes spreading out little face.
She's sucking out stock out nice stressroom, draw my sack. Oh so
(11:22):
taker the brother of Roach. Ohno, come to crosstock the friends,
John leave the Tambo. I believeI'm a tambo shod. I believe y'll
(11:43):
a tapa. I believe y'all mydown show, and I'll leave at my
jambo. I'll leave I'm a japaside. I believe y'all a jama.
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Back to the Eighties Radio. Youjust heard Devil's Child, Chang's favorite Band,
Judas Priest. Prior to that,you heard Stripper with Hell with the
Devil. Oh, you gotta lovemetal from the eighties. Ladies, gentlemen,
thank you for joining us on Backto the Eighties Radio. We have
a great show. We are goingto be talking about the entire decade of
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the eighties. So if you grewup in the eighties, this is the
show for you. If you're amillennial and you were born throughout the decade.
It's a show for you. Andif you're gen Z and beyond,
this is the show for you becausewe are going to be talking about some
stuff that you maybe didn't go through. Oh but you should have. That's
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right, J justsicne how many?How many? How many products of life
are from people that grew up inthe eighties. How many babies and kids
of the millennial era were created inthe eighties. So here's to you now,
justscnad. We are going nostalgic tonightbecause of our guest, mister h
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R. And I think I'm goingto bring to the table the first thing
that I got to throw at you. Are you ready for this? I'm
ready when you are hit me withyour best shot? Wow shot? Nice
Pat benatarre that you know what.We'll spend some Pat Benatar on our next
break. I'm going to open upthe show with talking about a couple of
games video games, okay, andI'm gonna be talking about the number one
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and the number two video games thatI thought were voted on by others,
but not the changs. We're gonnahave to go with Super Mario Brothers and
Pac Man. Those are the twomost iconic overplayed, over dubbed video games.
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I thought of the eighties generation.I don't know which one is your
favorite. My favorite pac Man inthat instant. But I was a big
fan of Asteroids and Defenders. ThereI put that out there. What do
you got for me? If you'veever played Asteroids in the past, Chang
is your typical kick, your ass. Chang is your Hey, none of
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that language studio, listen for everybody. Chang is your typical Asteroids player.
The guy that used to put allhis quarters at the top of the machine
and never allowed anybody else to play. That was Chang. That's if they
tried to cut don't be cutting inon me during my game. Y.
Yeah, you kind of give methose vibes. Yeah, you didn't know
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how sneaky people used to say,he's the ass droid asss that guy never
lets anybody get on that one game. Yeah, he's here all weekend.
I didn't care for Asteroids because itwas very difficult. I'm not gonna say
it wasn't. It was very hard. But I was more into games like
Defender, Donkey Kong, pac Man, and we'll see I played Defenders too,
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But you saw that I used tolike to play the games where I
was shooting, like Gallaga, becausewhen you're under the influence of drugs or
you were, the world just openedup. Okay, Well, the eighties,
of course, we're a transformative decadefor video games, now that you
bring it up. It was thegolden age of arcades, the rise of
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home console gaming. Look, itwas so popular during the eighties, becoming
social hubs were people of all ages. You could go to an arcade.
You could see children, you cansee teenagers, you can see young adults,
you can see all I mean,you could see executives, people that
were already parents playing video games atarcades. It was such a cultural impact
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for us. Of course, theiconic games you know, pac Man,
Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Gallagha, Asteroids, those dominated the scene.
But it was such a cultural impact. You'll remember games, arcades, home
consoles. They appeared in movies,TV shows, and they even made it
in music with songs like pac Man, Fever and a bunch of other stuff.
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We're talking about. How about Tron. Now, Tron was a great
game, but it was I meana great game. It turned into a
movie. I mean, Mario Brothersalso Now, Mario Brothers was one of
my favorites towards the later eighties,but I particularly liked the early eighties for
video gaming, like eighty about eightyeighty, between eighty and eighty three with
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the release of the Atari twenty sixhundred, because it brought arcade style gaming
into your home. And somewhere aroundeighty three there was a video game crash
due to market saturation and poor qualitygames. You remember, I mean,
the video game consoles tried to imitatewhat they had in arcades, but they
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just couldn't until until the the whatwas it, the like Atari fifty six
hundred or something like that. Thenthe Commodore computer came out with games.
But when in eighty five Nintendo releasedtheir Ans system, it literally revitalized the
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video game industry. And that's whenSuper Mario came out, which became a
global sensation. Oh yeah, andthat opened up the gateway to start putting
gaming systems in the home. Now, let me ask you a question talking
about you know, we mentioned TronMario Brothers coming out with the movies animated
cartoons. Now, I believe pacMan had an animated car tuned for a
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while. If I'm taking it outon a limb, but I have a
feeling it's more into the nineties.You're absolutely right chaying, because September twenty
fifth, nineteen eighty two, onABC it ran pac Man. The cartoon
ran for forty four episodes, that'sover two seasons, and it ended in
November fifth, nineteen eighty three.It was the first cartoon based video game
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cartoon. I'm glad that I broughtthat to everybody's attention. Also, if
anybody wants to check out that Xrated version packass Man, go ahead and
google that and find that on yourown time. Okay, nobody's going to
check that out. The video gameindustry after eighty five, when Nintendo revitalized
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everything. By the end of thedecade, home consoles were estimated to be
around ten billion dollar business. Theeleven billing that came from arcades. Video
gaming industry since the very beginning wasgoing to be a popular way of spending
not only time but money. Thisis Queen with the game, followed up
with Eddie Grant Don't Go Away.This is the one and only back to
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the eighties radio. Open up yourmind and let me step its side.
Rest your weary head and let yourheart decide. It's so pay when you
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know the rules. It's sosy.All you have to do is fall in
love again. Everybody played against Yeah, way you feeling down in your resistance
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is all like another sad and letyourself God, this is life. Don't
play hard again. It's a freeworld. Well you have to do fairy
love. Play again. Everybody playedagainst love. Love. Oh my game
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of love has just been Love runsfrom my head down to my own Love
is bas mother again having now,don't play again, playing again, play
again, playing again, plail againstthat man again, Miss Louise, your
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don't claims again. It's a fee. All you have to do is fall
in love again. Play again.You have to do still alive out there
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good? This is mac mac macmax Hendroom, max Hendroom. People can
be really nasty. Only the otherday I heard someone say he's nothing but
a robot covered in makeup, talksa lot of nonsense. What a way
to talk about the President of America, just chatting away to hurry back there
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by the streets. There was violenceWashington and then I can't they pat on
(23:03):
the south O. No, wedone around down to Elien Shrake Avenue,
and then we'll take it higher.Oh, we don't a round down to
Elien Shake Avenue and then we'll takeit higher. Working so hard, I
can older, can I put athing and me deep in my heart?
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I amoria can't dep foot the king, good God. We don't a run
down to elien Scheck Avenue and thenwe'll take it higher. Oh, we
done a run down to elien CheckAvenue and then we'll take it higher.
(23:52):
Oh no, oh no, ohno, oh no, oh no,
we're gonna run down to elect ShreckAvenue and then we'll take it higher.
(24:15):
How we're gonna run down to PeterShreck Avenue and then we'll take it higher.
Who is to them in one country? Never can get to the one
dealing and mandiflication and they still can'tbeat everyone. Oh no, we're gonna
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run down to elect Shreck Avenue andthen we'll take it higher. Oh no,
we're gonna run down to elect ShreckAvenue, and then we'll take it
higher. Out in the street,out in the street, out in a
(25:04):
dead time, out in the night. Oh, we're gonna run down to
elect s Track Avenue and then we'lltake it higher. Oh, we're gonna
run down to elect Track Avenue andthen we'll take it higher out in the
(25:29):
street, out in the street,out in the blackground. Is that that
side of town home? We're gonnarun down to elect Steck Avenue and then
we'll take it higher. Okay,we're gonna run down to either Strick Avenue.
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O rocking. Then the welcome backto Back to the Eighties radio hosts
by yours truly tusconawin Chang And wejust took a drive down Electric Avenue with
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Eddie Grant. And before that wewere all playing the game with a late
great Freddie Mercury and the great bandof the eighties. With the game from
nineteen eighty we wrapped a little bitof conversation on some of the great games.
Hold on, Oh yes, we'regoing to take a quick second for
the Back to the Eighties radio newsdesk. Ronald Reagan was two months into his
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presidency when John Hinckley Junior drew atwenty nine dollars handgun outside the Washington Hilton
Hotel on March thirtieth, nineteen eightyone. He wounded the President, Brady,
a Secret Service agent, and aWashington Police officer. Reagan and his
guards fully covered, but the twentytwo caliber bullet exploded into you know,
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chang. One of the significant partialmemories of the nineteen eighties happened on March
thirtieth, as we just heard,nineteen eighty one, sixty nine days into
Ronald Reagan's presidency, outside the WashingtonHilton Hotel in Washington, d C.
And as President Reagan was leaving aspeaking engagement, John Hinckley Junior, who
was twenty five at the time sufferingwith mental issues, and he was obsessed
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with the actress Jody Foster and claimedthat the assassination attempt was intended to impress
her. Can you believe that?And now, I mean today we've got
assassination attempts as well. And Ijust remembered that that was one of the
more significant memories of the nineteen ages. Let's not forget he aid it and
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was a big part on the wallcoming down. So you know, you
got your good and your bad.The very sad thing is things haven't really
changed. We're still having assassinations andassassin assassination attempts, character assassinations, character
assassinations. It's just it's sad whenyou just look at it as a whole
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you take it in the whole nucleusof hate and misunderstanding and wrong thinking.
It just odd that we really haven'tevolved from this news story to where we're
at now. But let's talk aboutsome movies that have to do with some
gunplay. Tuscano. I'm gonna throwone guy out to you. Can you
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could tell me if you're a fanor not. Arnold Schwarzenegger Action Hero Yeah
your name, yay, yay.Loved Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some of the best
movies that had to do. Imean, they were outrageous, so far
from true to life, but that'swhat made it so grand. And it
was movies like movies like Commando,which is one of my favorites, Predator
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Wow. When those movies came out, he was larger than live. Everybody
wanted to it to be that tough, to be that amazing, to be
kind of like a superhero, buta real life superhero, ready for the
next one. Dolph Lundgren, hewas definitely someone not to be messed with.
And when he came out in Rockyfour and his his presence, his
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on screen presence. Even Stallone saidthat when he saw Dolph Lundgren in his
very young age and what he coulddo. He hired him immediately for the
movie. He was just so impressedwith how tough he was. Another one
Slice Stallone, Yeah your name yay. This was obviously him and Schwarzenegger would
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go back and forth competing against eachother. And it was movies like Rambo
that started it all off for Stallone. As far as the shooting movies,
it was movies like Cobra. RememberCobra is a very underrated movie. Cobra
is one of those movies that hadand you have to remember this about the
eighties. They had had such cheesylines like this one. You're a lousy
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shot. I don't like us joysfor the kid for nothing. No,
I like wait with you. Igot a bomb here, fuck killer hook
flow this offt place up, goahead, I don't shock her. Eastwood,
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mister Clint Eastwood, Yeah, yourname, definitely ya. First of
all, Clint Eastwood reminded me toomuch like my dad. First of all,
because my dad loved Clint Eastwood's Clinteast with sixties and seventies Western movies.
But then in the eighties he startedwith those cop movies where he was
Harry You know Dirty Harry and thisfamous phrase, go ahead, make my
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day. Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell. Yeah, your name for Kurt Russell.
Actually, I'm gonna say yay.We're still at war. We need
them alive. I don't give afuck about your war or your president.
But it was a little more cheesywith Kurt Russell. With movies like Escape
from New York and Escape from laI'm gonna say yay. But those are
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more like cult favorites. Yeah,I see where you go. Bruce Willis,
Oh, one hundred and ten percentyay. And I'll tell you why.
Because there has been no other eightiesmovie, especially around Christmas time.
Some argue is it a Christmas movieor not? They even asked him.
He said, it's not a Christmasmovie, but it was surrounded by Christmas.
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It was everything about Christmas. Althoughit was an action movie. And
I'm talking about the very first Diehardnineteen eighty eight, incredible movie, one
of my favorites. It's one ofthose movies you can watch over and over
and over again. Come under theCoast, get together, have a few
lists. If you are out ofmysterious party crash. There are most troublesome
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for a security God, sorry,Hans, wrong, guess would you like
to go for double Jippardy where thescores can really change and you never get
tired of it? Mister Lou GossipJunior, Yeah, your name. I
was a big fan. I thoughtGosta Junior brought the heat better stuff ball
in me. Boy, you're notworthy enough to look your superiors, and
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I use your peripheral vision, understandSir. Every time I say understand,
I want the whole group to sayyes, sir, understand, yes,
understand. Lou Gusta j I'm gonnasay nay, and I'm gonna say no.
What Yeah, Well, because Idon't let some of his bad it's
because I take over that he heplayed a tough guy, was a tough
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guy, and he was in aphenomenal actor. To me at the time,
Lou gousset Junior was more of aTV show actor. Even though he
did make big films, he justwasn't at the level. Are you putting
him with Chuck Norris? No,Chuck ours was huge, huge seventies and
eighties. Norris. You guys thatJunior had more guns. No, what's
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the first one you amigo? Howabout you? All right? Give me
one more, one more? Areyou ready? Jesus? That makes me
sick. Okay, wait a minute, you ready hit me with your best
show? Oh? I like that. I like that al Pacino, this
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country. You've got to make themoney first. Then when you get the
money, you get the power.Then you get a power, then you're
getting woman. Al Pacino definitely yay. But for his other type of movies,
you know his mobster rolls. Soyes, I didn't like the movies
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where it was more of a drama. It wasn't me, especially in the
nineteen eighties. No, I'm goingto say no, but yes as an
actor, of course, I'm goingto say yes to Gina. Okay,
do you want to play with?Okay, shut up to my Now,
I've got an actor for you.Are you ready for this? I'm ready.
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I got one actor who is notpopular today. He started off.
He started off really well, buthis own private life, attitude and thought
too much of himself ruined his career. No, are you ready? I'm
talking about the one and only fromhis role in Above the Law nineteen eighty
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eight. His role was Nico Tuscanisay, man, have you seen this
girl? I say, ship youhaven't seen this girl. Hey, excuse,
how are you doing? Suck with? You seen this girl? Man?
You know I quit messing with thatstuff. I ain't into the ship
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anymore. You went into what areyou into? And went on the fun
u assos. Leave me alone.I paid your boy off Monday night,
My boys, Yeah, and Itake some of that fucking money and go
buy your mama condominium. I'm talkingabout the actor Steven Segal. You know
what, I have to all bothsides of the fence, yay and nay.
I do enjoy his movies, puking, action packed all the way.
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He can knock somebody's gun out,take it out, blast some people.
But he can easily kick your asswith common moves. But he does them
very quick and they're very calculated,which I praise him on that. But
as for gunslinger style, what Ithink what we're talking about, I have
to go nay, because uh,he's almost kind of like martial artists.
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You know, when you talk aboutJackie Chan, you know, we can
talk about mister cocaine, mister tightpants stretch. Okay, so let's stop
right there real quick. You tellme yourne for two more. Okay,
here we go, nineteen eighty eight. I knew blood Sport movie the actors
tight pants. You can actually theguy could plank whank? What is bad?
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You hold this? If I cangrab it before you close your hand,
I get to go. If Icannot, she's yours very good.
You can't do this because that guycould split his You could. That guy
could split his legs in the splits, and you could use that length as
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a bridge to get across a smalllake. You know what action pack?
Hell yeah, badass dude, Hellyeah. I dug his movies. Hell
every now and then when Chang wouldgo out and get stupid at a bar,
I would try to do some uhyou know, some some goddamn bad
damn on on on a foe thatwas offending me that evening, but gun
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toting like we're talking about. No, of course, Hey, I to
pass on. Jean Claude. Allright, here we go the last one
I have for you. Then we'regonna go into some music here. But
how about nineteen eighty one's Mad Maxtwo with the Road Warrior. The actor
I'm talking about is the one actorwho came out not only in Mad Max
but nineteen eighty seven's Lethal Weapon andI'm talking about mel Gibson. Yet,
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Oh you know what, I gottago yay all the way his characters Samir
are pretty much not too far whatI think of his personality, you know.
V He came out and anti Semitic, stood by what he said.
He came out with the passion ofthe Christ, which I found, wow,
which was an incredible and incredible storty, because that is the version that
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I was told and had to readas a young child, but didn't really
like to get popularized in Catholic school. If you know what I mean,
I have to give him a yale. The guy can gang bang man with
some guns, even to this daywhen he's got an action movie and he's
cut, he's cut. He youknow, he's capping some rounds. He's
a big yay. Not a martialartist, no, not like the other
bad ass cats we talked about.But yeah, gun total hell yeah,
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give him a ya. Now,Gibson's man bro mad. That's all the
way. Do you want to Well, then that's fine with me. Come
on, let's do it what Iwant to do it? I want to
do it. What do you meanI'm going to be taking you out with
a song that was popularized from nineteeneighty two's Rocky three, a song by
survivor Here's I of the Tiger,Back to the eighties radio, rising up,
(39:10):
back on the street, to mytime, to my chances with the
distance. Now I'm back on Babby, just a man from his broom to
survive. So many times it happenstoo fast. You change your passion for
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glory. Don't lose your grip onthe dreams of the beast. You must
fight just to keep them alive.It's sleep all times, the feeling of
fighting, passing to the challenge hardfable and the lasts of harbor stops spreading
(39:54):
the night and five teams anste hotime, re's the best out look,
the don't stand f rest that theodd Still we turn to the stream,
(40:17):
boom him with the school to survive, extend, step out of the times,
the fight rossing to the challenge ofall rob and the last boats of
other spots spear in mond and hewanting a small tum tid rousing up straight
(40:52):
to the top. Then the godsgot the bory. What the as this
album not going to stop this manand just five I'm sad to look much
passing to the German of all brableuntil last bod of albs, the secret
(41:20):
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(41:57):
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Tell me Tom So Brown? Whya cat like skill? Just bad
(44:30):
into flowers? Don't about everything youwomen need to know about? I need
(44:53):
so why tell me the women too? La super wow? Why jack when
soldier will? Why it's fun?R siper worm? Why he welsome welcome?
(46:00):
While so the frills? Why thesails? So many winners for so
many fail so frill? Why itstill like a moret well for myself something?
And I'm lady to give a canand not many drill as? Shit?
(46:23):
Why a share? Why I'm onlygets in? Then the father sing,
(47:05):
I'm all the sizings that is that, I'm all sent in a down
now I'm like down sent you certainser s, welcome back to back to
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the eighties radio right here with Tuscanaand chan hang oh. And that was
something that takes me all the wayback. I feel like running down the
street in my congress or knocking thecrap out of somebody's survivor. The eye
of the tiger, baby, that'swhat you always have to have, boys
and girls, the eye of thetiger and to remember to fire it up.
Because we are shooting all over theplace talking about movies and badass cats
(48:37):
with guns. We had some acDC shoot to thrill Tuscano. Why did
you grab some popcorn in aabascas andtell us what you got on the cooker.
Coming up right now, right now, We've got a very special guest
coming up with us. We've gothr from the Vintage Tribute YouTube channels.
You got to check them out.Go online, go on YouTube and check
out the Vintage Tribute channel. Specificthe Eighties Official Movie. You can't miss
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it. We're gonna play a trailerhere and then up next we're talking to
hr. The Eighties Official Movie isa groundbreaking musical documentary that tells the story
of the decade that made us likeyou've never experienced it before. Production starts
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next week. We're gonna make itor break it. If you want to
be part of this unique project andlearn more, guys now were to please
visit the Vintage Tribute channel on YouTubeand the Eighties Official Movie on Kickstarter.
You've got to support the campaign andbring this groundbreaking project to life. I
mean, you're only on this planetfor so long. Go for it now.
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The Eighties a pop culture special movie. Welcome back, everybody to back
to the Eighties Radio. As promised, we have the brilliant hr Pal producer,
director, the main Guru, themain guy, the main man of
the Eighties. The Official Movie,The groundbreaking documusical montage that's going to take
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us through the iconic events and themesof the nineteen eighties, and it features
a massive library of specific media,the best music of the time. I
mean, this is a unique storytellingapproach that's never been done before. So
Hr, we're excited to hear moreabout this extraordinary film. And the way
we're going to do it is bothChang and I are going to take turns
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in asking you questions. So wewant you to talk more, less us
more you Chang, take it away. Hr, what enlightened you to give
the idea to create an eighties documentaryand the sequence that you have done here?
First of all, thank you forhaving me here. This is great.
I was never imagining something like this, so I'm really happy to be
here. All right. First ofall, this is not an ordinary documentary.
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It's not like I am putting imagesand putting a narrator. No,
what I'm doing here is different.This is more like a long montage.
It's like a long music video.What I did was to create a new
genre. I created a concept calleddocu musical. What I do here is
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that I mix images, voice offand music all in one. So when
I do this, I create differentsegments throughout the whole documentary. Like,
for example, the documentary is dividedin fifty segments, and each segment has
a theme. The first segment isabout music in the nineteen eighties. Then
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the second segment is about politics inthe nineteen eighties. So each segment lasts
about two or three minutes, andeach segment has a song that goes with
it. Plus I mix the songand the footage with the voice of people
that actually had to do with theteams that's being discussed. So once you
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get all these three things together,it creates something different. It's not like
an ordinary documentary. So if wecan start from the beginning and you could
just talk to us about what droveyou to start this project. Okay,
So let me start from the beginningso you can understand a little bit of
this project. So I started thisaround two years ago, two and a
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half years ago. Throughout my life, I had the chance to travel a
lot to a lot of countries,meet many people from all parts of the
world. Work. We then makefriends, also make enemies. It was
all a learning process and in thatexperience I started to understand the impact and
influence of culture in our lives.So this experience enforced the interest I had
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in culture throughout history. We arewell we are because of culture, right,
I mean, so I love howeach decade in the twentieth century,
especially since cinema became popular around thenineteen twenties, they all have their own
identity, right. So, forexample, if we look at the nineteen
fifties, like it was defined bygrand musicals, like very talented artists that
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could do everything. They could do, dance, they could act. We
have rock and roll, housewives likeeverything was like. That was the culture
of the nineteen fifties. But ifyou go all the way, for example,
to the nineteen nineties, then it'scompletely different. Right. So people
in the nineteen nineties had this attitudetowards life. It was different. They
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have to be cool, dress cool, a lot of social pressure to fit
in. We have the grange culture. We have young people fed up with
establishment and rules. Music was muchmore grim, much more aggressive. That
was the nineteen nineties, right.So the point is each decade had its
own magic and personality, pros andpoems. I've read a lot about each
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decade. I continue reading because youwill never start learning right. So I
also understood the best way to makepeople experience this in twenty twenty four.
It was through an art visual product, and this is how people understand things
better right now. That led meto use, I mean, all my
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knowledge in editing, all my editingskills to create a documentary which is called
a docum musical montage, like Iwas explaining. Because I didn't have the
time, team or budget to dealwith a full version like a full movie
two years ago, I decided tomake a short version and I released this
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shore version via YouTube just to testthe waters to see what was the reception.
I will never imagine what was therethe reception going to be. So
in only four months, this shortversion that I released got more than four
million views. It was just itwas an hour version. I mean usually
on YouTube people don't watch long videos. They only watched like very fast videos
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minute two minute long. This wasan hour long video. So it got
really popular really fast, thousands ofcomments, people writing me emails, well
this is awesome. But the thingis that YouTube algorithm is really complicated.
So the YouTube blocked the video becauseit contained copyright music. So the video
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remained blocked until this day, soit only had like a full life or
four months. But in those fourmonths it became really popular. I got
many people writing me emails tell me, why don't you do the full version?
This is awesome, you should dothis, you know. This is
why I started a campaign to raisefounds not only to finish the film,
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but to have the necessary budget tohire copyright firm to deal with all the
licenses everything. Although this is ahuge headache, I'm being supervised by copyright
firm in the US also a distributioncompany to pitch this project to streaming service
or movie theaters. So the campaignfinished already, It is already finished,
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and it was a great success.So we're going to start producing next week
to finish the film, and thefilm will be ready by January, and
in February we will start working witha copyright firm to deal with the licenses
and with a film distributor HR.How did you balance nostalgia with modern perspective
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to make the document documentary acceptable,relevant and interesting for generations that are not
of the eighties. Yeah, Imean, like I said, I think
every decade is wonderful. It hasgood things, bad things. But the
thing is that before when I wasa kid, I have family living all
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over the world. Like I havefamily living in Europe, I have family
living in North America. So whenI grew up, family was coming to
my house every time. They camefrom outside, and they were bringing stuff.
They were bringing like Memoravillia. Theywere bringing music, they were bringing
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LPs, they were bringing books,I mean, and everything was from the
place that were coming. So ifI have family, for example, living
in France, they brought me stufffrom France. So I was there like
it was just four or five yearold, and I was with all these
material available for me, you know, and I was just reading and checking
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and all of this was great becauseI grew up with all of this information
in my head, you know.And I remember my ankle was bringing me
music and BHS movies from the US, and the experience was like, it
was awesome because you get together,you get together with the family, brother
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sisters, I mean, cousins,everybody got together to watch a movie in
the room. That's something you don'tsee now. The experience was completely different.
But I got this interest from everythingthat had to do with culture.
So I started reading books about historyabout that I got so much information that
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when I grew When I grew upand I became a teenager, everything I
thought about it was just that,you know, it was music, history,
movies, TV shows, you nameit. So it sounds to me
that a lot of your own lifeexperiences and visiting different countries and customs and
cultures just had a big influence onyour life, right exactly like I mentioned
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before, Throughout all my life,I traveled. I mean I never stay
in one place. I was alwaysmoving from one country to another, to
one place to another, to onecity to another. So I met so
many people to all my life,and I met so many cultures, so
many customs, families, cities.I mean, each city has its own
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history. So for me to experienceall this during my youth years, it
was really really I mean I don'thave any words to describe it, but
I learned so much from this.When I did this, my goal was
to first for people that lived throughthe decade to experience all over again,
like you are in there again.That's why when I make this docum musical,
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I don't put it in any narrator. It's so told by the protagonism
else so it's like you are thereagain, you know. And second for
the people that didn't leave through thedecade, and I just want them to
feel that they are traveling back intime like they have a time machine.
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We have a time machine, youknow what that is. But music is
a time machine. I mean,it's the only time machine that exists today.
Because you listen to a song,it transports you to a specific moment
in your life. This is whythe use of music in this docu musical
is key. Without the music,it wouldn't I wouldn't have this. I
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can't really wait to see the outcomeof this, because it's an amazing project
from what you're telling us. Butit seems also that you want us to
be more of an experience. Youwant us to be much more the truth
of what the eighties was, insteadof making it completely for somebody today,
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for the millennials or the gen zto understand. I don't want this to
feel a modern take on the eighties, not at all. I mean,
I think history has to be toldas it happened. Something I don't like
or I don't agree is trying tocheck boxes. You know, I don't
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like that if it happened, ithappened like I said, in order to
be faithful to what happened, weneed to tell the truth from all angles,
right, not only one. Somany people I mean, I had
so many feedback people telling me,hey, this is more like US and
UK based documentary, right, Andone part is true, in one part
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is not. It's true because Imean the US and the UK actually were
the most influential cultures in the wholeworld during the eighties, and not only
during the eighties, I mean throughoutwhole history of pop culture. I mean
the best music and the best moviescome from those two places. Right.
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Like I said, many people mightsay, now, don't show this or
don't put that, because it mighthurt somebody's feelings in today's world, and
I actually say no. I meanif I do, I wouldn't. If
I do that, I wouldn't betelling nineteen eighty and eighties history. I
will be telling in the twenty twentieshistory. And I don't want to do
that. Nobody wants to see thetwenty twenties history because we are living that
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now. I mean, if youwant to be transported to the nineteen eighties
or any other decade in that matter, you need to leave that experience like
it happened with the good, thebad, and the ugly. What are
you led to believe will be thelasting legacy of the eighties in your documentary
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as you captured it at its finestand at its lowest. The lasting legacy,
I think it's freedom. I mean, not everywhere in the world during
the eighties experienced freedom as the Westernhemisphere, right, But we here we
had a good. We didn't knowit, but we had a good regarding
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freedom. So technology is great now. I mean it has become an extraordinary
tool, that is, but Ithink it's been overused in music, in
movies and communication in general. Thereare things that cannot be replaced, you
know, human interaction, practical effects, real music with instruments, exactly,
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actual people playing music. You know, this is why you see people today
going retro again, because not becauseof nostalgia, but because products before had
an emotional baggage. You know,you knew there were humans behind everything,
so it felt more genuine and real. That's why people look I mean naturally,
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people look for beauty in the humanspirit. This is what people look
for. So this is why societynow is kind of empty, because culture
is empty. So they're turning theirattentions to all art, all culture.
Any of those eighties trends or fadsthat you discovered make a personal comeback in
your life during the filming. Yeah, there's one like very small, detailed.
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One small aspect that I think iscoming back to me is the imperfections
in products, for example, infilm. You know, the grain in
film. So I realized movies andTV shows look more beautiful then with all
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the imperfections. You know, todaywe have, for example, four K
technology and all of that. Itlooks awesome, it looks great, but
it also manufactured like it looks likehe has filtered like an Instagram post.
When I watch a movie, Iwant to feel I am watching something different,
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you know, with all the allthe imperfections, you know, something
that actually immersed me there. Idon't want to see perfect, too perfect,
you know, too perfect is nottoo good this face. So I
think that that aspect came back tome. I realized now that movies should
be done like it was like theywere done before, with all these small
(01:05:33):
details. You know, that's justawesome. Hr. Now, if we
were to say, okay, you'recoming out with this docu musical from the
eighties, and it's going to bejust something like no other documentary has ever
been able to fulfill or able tobring to the table. What is it
you're hoping the reaction is going tobe from everybody? Well, I want
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the reaction to be the same astheir reactions from the Shore version were when
I releave these two years ago.I mean, the reactions were overwhelming.
I'm not saying this. I don'tlike to talk about myself or my own
The comments were also similar that Istarted to believe, well, maybe we
have something special here. This isabsolutely unbelievable. I never seen anything like
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this, like you should win anoscar for this and all this kind of
stuff that actually I felt like reallyoverwhelmed by all this reception. But I
think people were being honest because Ireceived like ten thousand comments in four months,
(01:06:45):
and I'm not lying when I saylike ninety nine percent of those comments
were like people were really really intothe Tokyo mentory. I mean, they
were really impressed by it. Soif it's one percent of that reception I
got from that video, I willbe happy, because that reception was really
(01:07:10):
out of this world. All right, So tell us why the eighties.
I decided the eighties first because it'sthe most popular one right now. So
there's a lot of content about theeighties, and people are actually really interested
in knowing about the eighties. SoI think it's the eighties time. Now.
There will come a time when peoplewill be interested in the nineties and
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in some other decades, but rightnow, I think it's the eighties.
So yeah, I mean, afterI'm done with this, I have my
project already ready for the nineteen fifties, the nineteen sixties, the nineteen seventies,
the nineties, and the two thousandsas well. If you could bring
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one thing back from the eighties culturewise, music wise, fashion wise to
today's world and share it with today'sgeneration, what would it be and why?
Right now, I think families aretoo spread all over. It's not
like before that we used to bein the same town, in the same
(01:08:15):
neighbor many times. I think Iwill bring family gatherings like before. Like
I think cousins and brothers, especiallycousins are more like separated now. Before,
like everybody got together watch a movieor watch a TV show together,
We ate together, we went toplay together, like everything was being done
(01:08:41):
together. So I will bring thatexperience. That's a personal experience from me
Hr. It's a blast having youon and learning about so much that you're
doing with the project of the Eightiesdocu musical. Where can people find out
more information? Where can they findthe Vintage Tribute page? What can they
do to further your dream of makingthis happen? All right? So they
(01:09:05):
can visit. First of all,I have two pages, two main pages.
One of them is the channel calledthe Bintest Tribute, which is on
YouTube. This is the channel thatI use when I released the short version
of the original video. So youcan find the channel the Bintest Tribute on
(01:09:25):
YouTube channel. And the other mainpage is the kickstarted page. This is
where the project was being launch asa campaign a few months ago. So
you can find a project as theEighties Official Movie on Kickstarter. You can
use any of these two main pages. If you want to maybe contribute to
(01:09:46):
the project, or have some infoor some updates or news or whatever you
want to have about the project,you can find it there in any of
those two pages. This is thanksto the I have on YouTube as well,
where we have more than one hundredthousand followers. So the people were
really eager to support this project whenI announced it. So on the first
(01:10:12):
day, No, it was onthe first week we crashed the main goal
of the project. It was goneafter the first week. All of that
because of the people that came frommy channel. And after that first week
we had three more weeks of campaignand during those three weeks we have organic
supporters from Kickstarter again from all overthe world. I want to thank them,
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all of them from Kickstarter, fromYouTube, my YouTube community. They
are always there helping me, givingme feedback, supporting the project everything I
do. It's been a wonderful rideand it's been an amazing because I was
never expecting to reach the amount ofmoney we reach with a campaign. I
was never expecting that, and it'sbeen a blessing. I hope we can
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talk to you again, and ifyou ever do win an oscar or anything,
I hope you make sure that youhave us to be able to interview
you as your primary show one ofthese days. We can't wait so hr
before we go. Do you havea song that you'd like to request from
the nineteen eighties. I think I'mgonna ask for this Bob Seeker song,
(01:11:25):
which is one of my favorites.Rollne away excellent. You heard it here
on Back to the eighties radio.We just had hr Powell. You can't
miss what's coming up next to thelook Donald westbound, Roll right away.
I made my show head it outto my big two wheeler. I was
(01:11:46):
tired of ball. Took a beaton the northern planes and just roll that
power on. Twelve hours out ofNacanos City. Stopped at the ball to
half a brute, met a girland we had a few drinks, and
(01:12:12):
I'm told I went out decide.She looked out the window a long moment.
Then she looked at too. Shedidn't never see a thing. I
know what you must think. Rollon me away, won't you? Roll
(01:12:34):
away? And I do? Hadlast my meels up lass now singamore pone
and was right. We never evenset awe her. We just walked out
and got all that bab w.We rowed and when we worlled, cleaned
(01:12:59):
out of side, roll went notthe highway, greve into the mountains.
(01:13:21):
Felt so good, fall somewhere.Yeah, we got the time to go.
She said she missed a bot.I had an offlo still on the
(01:14:15):
mountaintop, staring out at the GreatTobac. I could go east, I
could go west, and was offto me to decide. Just then I
saw a young hawk fight and mysoul began to rise. I'm pretty soon
(01:14:41):
I was singing, roll me away, I want to roll me away,
and you gotta keep rolling, gottakeep riding, keep such another five let's
lay And as the sunset faded,I stop the latest, last start,
(01:15:03):
I say, next time, Nexttime, we have the right. If
(01:15:49):
they were a laxative, they'd beso powerful you could stand on your head
and shoot on the ceiling. Thatposition would not only be an availa,
but also undignified. And now backto the eighties with Tiscato and Chang.
As we got to finish the interviewwith HR, you know, I'm looking
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forward to this movie coming out inFebruary of next year, twenty twenty five.
And don't forget to stay tuned toBack to the eighties radios. We
will be keeping you guys posted andupdated and talking to HR from time to
time from here till then. Andwe have some very special guests. So
if you like eighties TikTokers, ifyou like eighties YouTubers, we're going to
(01:16:33):
have them here live for you aswell and talk to people who love everything
Eighties. Well that's all for today'sBack to the Eighties Radio. A huge
thank you to our special guest hrPower from the Vintage Tribute YouTube channel for
sharing his insights into his groundbreaking project, the Eighties Official Movie. Don't want
to miss that, so stay tunedin the nineteen eighties was a decade of
(01:16:56):
power, continues to be one.It was a decade of freedom, and
it continues to be one. Itwas a decade of unforgettable moments. It
shaped generations in ways that continue toresonate today. From music and movies to
the fashion and culture milestones, thenineteen eighties will forever live in our hearts.
So thanks for tuning in. We'llcatch you next week as we continue
(01:17:18):
to celebrate the best decade ever.Stay awesome, stay here, I'm back
to the Eighties Radio. Chang herebefore I release you to another changtastic week,
and remember to stay you always,stay lifted, stand up for something
bigger than yourself, stand up forsomebody that can't. And to all of
you out there, remember tomorrow isjust another day. Don't let it kick
(01:17:42):
you in the ass. We're gonnasay goodbye. We're gonna say AliOS ariba
che ahole asta la vista, astamanyara, sayanada. And to all the homies
and everybody across this land or aland, take me back, how ago
(01:18:02):
actly? Take me back until nineman's away inside whoa the eight or a
hundred factery ended at that battery s
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