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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm so scared. I wish I had a ham sandwich
to call my nerves. We got to find a place
to hide. Where are you going, fuzzy face, That's what
I was afraid of. Go home, wait for me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Welcome back to the Back to the Eighties radio show. Everybody.
We've been out for a couple of weeks, or maybe
a little more than that. We have been confronted by
the men in black. You just don't want to know,
and I don't want to tell you. And Chang on
his side, has been confronted by sasquatch on again. But
as I mentioned to you, the Chang. Some say that
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his first mixtape was a cassette labeled Site A, but
side B was simply the sound of his mullet the wind.
He was once seen moonwalking out of a DeLorean and
straight into a neon lit roller disco back in nineteen
eighty seven. Here at Back to the Eighties, he is
(01:24):
known as the master of synthwave, the high Priest of hairspray,
and he's still trying to figure out women. The one
and only.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Chang H Tuscano, Oh your lies filled me with indigestion.
We are in the university of diversity.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Continuing today, we have a great show for you because
we have the Fearless Jordan Rumsey from Can't Buy Me Eighties.
If you are on TikTok and on Instagram, Jordan is
a living, walking eighties gal. If we ever saw one
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TikTok it's at CAMPI the Eighties. We're gonna be talking
with Jordan in a little while, so stick around. But
in the meantime, I can tell you mentioned it. We're
gonna be talking about diversity in women in bands, So
it's gonna be a great program. Who do you think
in eighties bands? Female eighties bands, or it could be
one one singer. Who do you think was the one
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with the music that you would listen to most?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Okay, that would be hands down, Chrissy Hind and the Pretenders.
You know, she's not like the sexy lady of Hollywood,
but she's got sex appeal.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
In the rock and roll.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Fearless has a voice like no other. Her sex appeal
comes through her music, her lyrics, and her look when
she performs. Not only that, an incredible band back in
the eighties that she created. Sadly, both the guitar player
and the bass player died from an overdose of drugs.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
After that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean, she had so many renditions, so many art
musicians coming in to field the void, but yet couldn't
get it together. But yet still maintained the badass sexiness,
the wrong guts of herself, which later on she finally
found a band that would totally bring back the same
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vibe and feeling and sound of the original Pretenders. It's
got to be Chrissy Hin. Then my second would probably
be Pat Benatar. That chick couldn't wail her music, her vocals,
her style, all of that became one sexty package. The
other thing that was she married Neil Giraldo, the lead
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guitar player.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They were a force to.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Be reckoned with that totally awesome. I'd have to give
it to Pat Benatar and the Pretenders for my most
favorite female artists of the nineteen eighties. Those chicks had
looks and balls, That's all I can say.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
My number one pick would definitely be the Queen of pop,
and I'm gonna go with Madonna as number one, being
the most influential vocalist of all the eighties, and then
beyond setting the bar higher for artists to come and
setting trends and fads and fashion statements for years to come.
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And of course number two would be Whitney Houston breathtaking,
powerful voice, flawless technique, capable of conveying the most profound
emotions through music and sound. And then number three it
would have to be a toss up between Laura Brannigan
and Joan Jet different different genres. I understand Laura Brannigan,
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I really enjoyed. She had a unique vocal style and
it shunned through and fortunately she passed away in O four.
But she had some great dance tracks, some great ballads,
and she was pretty versatile as well. And then Joe
Jet Jon Jet, what are we going to say? I mean,
she was pioneering female rocker, gritty voice, rebel attitude, shattering
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stereotypes inspired by a generation of musicians that came before her.
I mean, she proved that women could dominate the rock
sy just as powerful as her male counterpart. So I
would say those.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Three right, Yes, yeah, you cheated. Of course you wanted
to hog the mic, get more minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well choose two more? Are that way where you ulmoneering?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I believe that it all started with the cream of
pop Okay, okay, Now your wording was beautiful. But your
wording for me is my testimony on what I think
of Pat Benatar and Chrissy Hind Because without Pat Benattar,
there would be no Jone Jet, without the Runaways, a
mediocre girl band who caught no sex appeal, so they
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got good management, split up and decided to go sexy.
Did they get the recognition? I'm not saying they slept
with anybody. I'm just saying somebody enhanced the booty, the
boobies and the makeup. All of a sudden, you have sectiness.
But I will say I agree with you on Whitney Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, finally, Whitney Houston. Where do you even start to me?
Whitney Houston is right behind Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross's women
of that caliber. I'd have to even say it goes
back to.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Jeez.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I would say Billie Holiday, that's taking it back magical
inspirational voices such as those.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Of the past.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Here's a woman in music that I think could fit
that testimony. Yeah, but had a different style than all
of what we're discussing. And I'm talking about Annie Lennox.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Of the rhythmics.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Married to David Stewart prior to the success, continued to
work with him, created great hits, a sound of her own,
and capitalized on her faction, her original beauty, her moving
musical content, portraying it as a two piece but having
the vocal range of a queen on a hill. You
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are getting rocked back to the eighties radio Tiscana win jagstyle.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Lass Christ covering data data.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
I never the difference.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I never can't either way.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Look at both us.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Were searching for.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Side, reaching a cool head.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
I gotta feel the kicking inside.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
The balls on top that Josh bonds in.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
About moms, Ah, my mile.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Mile everybod itself there.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Crowns her.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
And I do my sh.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Dopas move me right.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Wing that comstell resident just botin.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Bom this my house.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Sea that cons time whereever red that just bonser.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Like, where do the learn from? Mama says do this?
Speaker 10 (10:00):
I know him?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
My bad.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Death comes out time when his brisdy just falls insane.
We live better from my mistakes. Je bscuts off heat
them come whenever brisdy just falls any life, we live
and learn from ol mistakes. Miscots off his birthday.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
There comes over time whenever Brisbane just falls in line.
We'll be learned from almastakee deep bescuts.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Off, Oh my, that console to the jog balls and.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Bom of this.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Leave that console top. We never bring the jokes balls
into back. We let from off the stakes in the
deepest console.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
You by that.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Time see us become time time time, See what's become
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of me. While I lived around.
Speaker 13 (12:41):
All my possibilities, I was the highest these.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
The grounds around and stay said the windsor.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It's astablished.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Down by your side. Its bend to be a bit arrived.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
And once you've got plan carrier op.
Speaker 15 (13:09):
Here the.
Speaker 14 (13:11):
Grows the brown and the sky is a hazy shay
a winter.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
And the ps My friend, that' easy thing to say,
but you'll have to pass away simply everyday.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
But you can build me.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
The growndrest side feel the right.
Speaker 16 (13:38):
The spring time of my life, seasons changed the night
we in time in the stream at you stuff every day.
Speaker 17 (14:00):
Around it's a brown and skuya shade wound.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Lisa Brown.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
There's a patch of snow on the ground.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Brown, Lisa Brown.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
There's a patch of snow.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
On the ground. A crown Pisa brown. There's a patch of.
Speaker 18 (14:32):
Snow on the brown stand.
Speaker 13 (14:36):
Stand sunning.
Speaker 18 (14:41):
You see stun you do stop.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
There's one thing you gotta do it this way, mister logic.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Another s.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
Yes, stop stop, stop, stop.
Speaker 19 (15:05):
It is time for your dude laugh instead cry. Yes,
it's time you do that to take on time for.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
There's one that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You gotta do.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
To make me still want you.
Speaker 19 (15:29):
Gotta stop seven hotta stop seven yes, yes, stop and stop, stop.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
And stop.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Each little tea the fall from the oder and.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
Mix mix of me bomb to take you in my
aunt and tell you to stop.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
On your stop it.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
It's one thing you gotta do.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Maybe may still want you.
Speaker 13 (16:20):
There's one thing you gotta know, maybe haunt you.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
You so gotta stop something else.
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Yeah, yeah, stop stop, stop stop stop siping hour stop stop,
stop and stop.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Gotta stop.
Speaker 19 (16:38):
Steven o got stop seven an hour stop stop, gotta
stop coming hour.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Stop stopping.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Don't wait, don't wait stop stop stop dam it.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I'm domaty I stop stop and stop, guys stop talming, gotta.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Stop stopping, stop stop, stop, stop.
Speaker 19 (16:58):
Guys stop seven hours seven hour stop stop gut coming over.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You're listening back to.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Be made the man the mass smaller made.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Stop.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
You didn't know how my fast was a basting you.
Speaker 20 (17:37):
I would be in me i behair, I would say
as you made me mee.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Y your bad may.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Fame shiny touch the very first time.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
A bar.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
With your father.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Next to Mine's.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Gonna give you a call. Love boy, my DearS, n.
Speaker 21 (18:23):
I can't say it.
Speaker 22 (18:24):
Alfo you lovely love, your nice, your spine and your
mind make the star.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Yeah you make faceful, Yes, your love.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
Who was scarce.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
And you the Birton touch, all the savery person time
at the bar, your heart next to mine, your.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Way and mine.
Speaker 23 (19:26):
I'll be yours, stilly end of time. You made me free, Yes,
your man, very feel.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I'm not going.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Hes gona. Hey, that's proba very good time like a bird,
your heart next you mine a b.
Speaker 24 (20:35):
Back in the eighth these Radio, we followed up a
solid rock block with the Bangals and It's hazy shade
Baby of Winter.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That was Madonna like a virgin. Oh lord, who wasn't
a virgin during that era of Madonna? Before that we
heard some pretenders with stop your sobbing. We let it
up with none of the than Pat Benattar and all
fired up classic songs, classic, dynamic, leading, barbaric women of
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the eighties. We're talking about diversity. We're interviewing a girl
that is fresh out of a nineteen eighties high school.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
She definitely encapsulates the entire nineteen eighties Ladies and Gentlemen
as promised coming to you straight from the world of
social media, straight from TikTok, Instagram and more. Jordan Rumsey.
She is the creative genius behind Can't Buy Me Love.
She serves up the perfect blend of retro vibes, modern
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day everything with a dash of humor. And of course
she is channeling everything eighties with her look, her persona.
So you got to buckle up because when it comes
to representing the nineteen eighties, Jordan's got you covered. So
this Ladies and Gentlemen is Jordan rum Well.
Speaker 18 (22:00):
Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it,
and I love the podcast. It's absolutely amazing. And yeah,
my name is Jordan and I'm twenty one years old,
and I create all eighties content, whether that's eighties inspired
or authentic to the time period, and it's one of
my all time favorite things to do. And I like
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to give nostalgia to people. And then I also like
to give nostalgia to people who didn't get to experience
a decade, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay, now, Jordan, you're very young, so explain to us
how is it that the eighties made an impact on you?
So now you're dressing like the eighties.
Speaker 18 (22:40):
So I basically just grew up with eighties, eighties movies,
eighties TV shows, and then the music. My family when
we used to always have a board game night, we
would just play eighties and music all the time, and
I really got drawn to it. And same with TV
shows and movies, and you know, I would point out
an act sure that I really liked, and I would
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watch all of their stuff and it would be basically
from the seventies or the eighties, and it just became
something that I really enjoyed, and I wanted to emulate
that style. I wanted to emulate the hair, the clothes,
the makeup, the entire thing of it. And that's where
I am now.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, Now, for those listening, Jordan is a living, walking
representation of the eighties. Gal from head to toe. I mean,
even the hair looks like Aquinin has made its way
to your house. Jordan do they even have aquinit anymore.
Speaker 18 (23:33):
Well, they do have aquin at, but they change their formula.
So now the main ingredient is water and normally it's alcohol,
and so it's yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Water is going to flatten the hair out, yes, right,
and alcohol is going to stimulate the hair just like
it does humans.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, come on, Even your earrings scream eighties?
What are those?
Speaker 17 (23:58):
Yes?
Speaker 18 (23:59):
These are my Poison earrings from the band Poison.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Tuscano's favorite band.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I actually like Poison, unlike others in this room. But
Chang literally has an altered to poison in his recording Dojo.
Speaker 18 (24:13):
Oh well, I met Breton. He was very sweet. That's
the only one I met. Now.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Now Tuscano has that same outfit that you have on
right now, but he's not wearing it, but meet and
greets he's worn it.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Absolutely. How old were you, Jordan when you started getting
into the eighties fashion?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Oh?
Speaker 18 (24:35):
I was very young. I think I was probably like
thirteen when we first started getting into like the more
tactical ones, And then when I first started like dressing eighties,
I was a freshman in high school, so that was
like what fourteen, I think I would have been fourteen.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, So going back to your childhood, did your family
raise you with eighties board games like a Yatzi and stuff?
Speaker 18 (24:56):
Well, like I have been playing Yazi since I was
like eight. I mean, like you know, Monopoly and like
Manancola and all this stuff. More of like the actual
board games that involve a strategy, and the ones they're
a little bit more hard rather than you know, the
easy like Uno Go Fish.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh. Yes, you guys played the family games very similar
to the games that me and my wife would play
with our girls and fill their beautiful little ears with
eighties music. So I commend your parents for doing such
a great job and influence you with some of the
greatest music of all time, the eighties exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Now, I gotta say, ladies and gentlemen, you can't see her,
but oh my goodness, go to her channel. You look
exactly as they did back then. I mean, great job,
thank you.
Speaker 18 (25:45):
All my clothes are all authentic from the eighties, so
I try my best.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So how is it that you started with eighties fashion
or did you say one day hmm, I like their
style or when was that?
Speaker 18 (25:56):
I think, really just growing up watching eighties movies and
TV shows, so I'd be like, oh my gosh, I'd
love the outfit this person's wearing. Let me try to
go on to eday and you know, search up and
now fit similar to it. And I would always start
with vintage outfits, and then I started watching more and
more than like music videos. I'd be like, Oh, I
love that person's shirt, I love those jeans, I love
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those heels, and then I would try to find them,
but I would try to find the vintage ones, and
then it started out very gradual, and then now it's
my entire wardrobe was all eighties, all vintage. Yeah, I
mean it's cheap, like all these stores like Lululemon or
what are some of the other stories family or something.
I don't know, they all have like they're so expensive,
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like seventy dollars leggings.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I'm sure there's also thrift stores.
Speaker 18 (26:41):
Around, Yes, and their stores can get cheap.
Speaker 21 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
What type of music of the eighties was played mostly
at your house?
Speaker 14 (26:48):
Yes?
Speaker 18 (26:49):
So growing up, my parents had to keep it appropriate,
so we would mainly just listen to the pop part.
But as I started to grow older, I started experiencing
more glam or heavy metal, you know, all the Pretty Boys.
I started listening to them, and my dad would be like, Hey,
this is the type of music I grew up with.
Here's some bands, like, here's some suggestions. I love like
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heavy metal, blad metal, but I still have like a
sop spot for some like regular pop.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
What would be one of your favorite bands from the eighties.
Speaker 18 (27:21):
Well, definitely, yeah, probably definitely Poisoned, def Leppard, I love
Motley Crue, Alice Cooper.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
All right, so explain this to me. How did you
get the idea for putting yourself out there in social media?
Speaker 18 (27:34):
Yeah, so for the longest time, I dreaded TikTok. I
kept telling my friends and my friends from high school,
middle school can tell you this. It's like brain rot,
like all these different things. And then one time after
I graduated, because I was really heavily bullied in high school,
and I was just like, okay, I'm not gonna start
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social media. So then I started it when I just
got out of high school. So it was that summer
and I was like, you know what, let me try this,
let me see if this like sticks, And I just
did it as fun. I started growing and following pretty fast,
and then yeah, I decided let me do this as
like a job. I think it's kind of cool, it's fun,
and it's just it's awesome. And I do like live
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streams all the time too, and I like to connect
with my fans that way as well. But it really
hit home the first time that somebody came up to
me and was like, oh my goodness, I follow you
on like TikTok like that was like such a humbling
experience as awful.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Well, I mean, it looks like you're doing pretty well
for yourself as far as your fan base. Are you
doing this full time or part time? What are you doing?
How does it work?
Speaker 18 (28:41):
So I consider it as one of my part time jobs,
and I always I love to be transparent with everyone.
So it started out me just doing it fun, and
I still do it for fun. But there will be
times where a brand is like, hey, can you promote
this product and we'll give you a set amount of
money for it, And depending if that product matches my
brand or not, I'll say yes no And then so
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sometimes that will happen. And then if I do TikTok lives,
that also garners in just a little bit. But all
the money that I'm making as of currently is going
straight towards my college tuition, so I'm trying to pay
that off before I graduate. But yeah, it's like a
part time job.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's cool now, Jordan, seeing that you are a child
of the eighties, have you noticed any of your followers
or people that you meet are kind of gearing towards
a lot of the eighties music? In fashion, we've seen
an incline on kids dressing the eighties, rock shirts coming back,
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fashion coming back, certain glasses. I mean, it's funny you
mentioned aquaint because you're starting to see some big hair,
you know, in some places.
Speaker 12 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (29:51):
So I think a lot of people my age now
that there's TV shows that are coming out which are
like eighties themed, I feel like it is garnering the
preteens or teenagers or even people in their early twenties.
And I do see a lot of them dressing eighties.
If not, they're dressing more seventies. I have a few
friends that dress like sixty seventies and they're awesome. But yeah,
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I think some eighties styles are coming back. I mean,
some band shirts are coming back. Except a lot of
people that I see, I'll never forget somebody was wearing
like a Motley Cruze shirt, and I was like, oh
my gosh, like I'm going to make a new best friend.
And I go up and I'm like, oh my gosh,
I love your shirt. I love Motley Crue. And they're like,
oh yeah, it was just on sale at Walmart. And
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I was like, so you don't know Motley Crue and
they're like no, and I'm like, shoot, I thought I
would have had like a good friend there. Sometimes people
who wear those shirts know the band, sometimes they don't.
But other than that, I think it's making a little
bit of a comeback. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, you see a lot of younger people today with
eighties band shirts.
Speaker 18 (30:53):
I don't go up. I'm not like name five songs.
I was just like, hey, like, I love your shirt.
I love Motley Crue. And then they're like, oh yeah,
I it was on sale.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I was like, oh, shoot, have you both noticed that
you see a lot of artists that are in the
entertainment business, You're seen in the rock kind of wear
fashions but have no idea about the music or the
band themselves.
Speaker 18 (31:17):
Yes, And there's a few people and I'm just like
that's kind of a letdown, you know, like some of
these people is like, oh, I could be good friends
with them, and then I figure out we have nothing
in common because they're just wearing this and they know
nothing about it. Yeah, it's a little bit of a letdown,
but I mean it's okay. I have some friends online,
so yeah, that know their stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Were you dressing eighties all through high school? Like since
you were a freshmen?
Speaker 18 (31:44):
Yeah, I started dressing like it, but it was really
like my senior year where my entire wardrobe was eighties.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So back in the nineteen eighties, school kids, no matter
what grade they were in, when they were out of school,
were loud, okay, I mean screaming to the top of
their lune, especially when the school year ended. My kids
in high school in this new age quiet as that
nuns convent everyone on their phones. No one throwing books
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or folders or papers in the air. I mean zombie quiet.
And this is almost a four thousand student public high school.
How was it for you being that you know, you're
still you were still in high school not too long ago.
Speaker 18 (32:28):
Well, there was a lot of fights going on at
my school, so there was always somebody screaming. It was
normally like you stole my man, I'm gonna come and
beat you up, and like you'll see piles of hair
on the ground like all the time, and I'm guys,
I'm trying to get to class. So there was always
like rattice, always all this. I mean a lot of
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people were on their phones. Granted, yeah, a lot of
people were doing that, but so many times, like I'd
be walking through the hallway, We're just trying to get
to class. But yeah, it's my high school was really loud,
I think, very loud, and it's it's probably still loud now,
I don't know, but there was. The school was only
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supposed to fit like fifteen hundred kids and there was
over twenty five hundred, so it was just really small,
jam packed. But yeah, everybody still people were on their phones. Yeah,
but there wasn't a lot of like genuine conversations going
on other than people that were fighting in the hallways
in between classes.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
All right, now this is important. How was it for
you personally being so well, let's say eighties differently dressed.
I guess you can.
Speaker 18 (33:41):
Oh, it was awful. It was awful. I'll never forget
and I well, I always wonder if the people that
bully me if I ever come up on their page,
I always wonder. But there was a time where these
kids were throwing thumbtacks at me and my friend on
the school bus, and the bus driver, bless her heart,
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I love her. She stopped the bus in the middle
of the road and was like, y'all need to stop
back there, don't throw thumb tacks at her. So yeah,
and you know, I remember first and last names. So
if I ever write a book, they might they better
watch out. But yeah, people, it was awful. People were
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bullying me left and right. I'd hate pages made about me.
Before I was even doing social media, I had a
stalker or stalker was a junior year before COVID everything.
It was awful, like they would look at me like
I was dressing completely different than everybody else, but yet
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they were the ones who were wearing their pants down
to their knees, so it didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
In my opinion, I believe bullying is taken a bigger
effect on our youth because of social media, because children
are not able to be free and go out and
play amongst the neighborhoods like they used to. We have
homeschooling Now, of course COVID came, but that has really
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nothing to do with the epidemic of bulling itself. Now, Jordan,
would you agree that some of those elements help cater
to the feeding of the cancer and bowling.
Speaker 18 (35:21):
I completely agree with you. That's the one thing about
social media I don't like, because at least, if somebody's
bulling you face to face, like, you know, I got
two fists, I can go like this if I need to,
I can, you know, stand up for myself. But when
it's on social media and they're behind a fake name,
you don't know who to look out for. You don't
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know who to avoid, you don't know who's watching you.
And with the whole Stoker incident, I got the local
police involved, and the guy who worked at my school,
he was a police officer officer Lily, I loved him.
He was amazing, And he reached out to Instagram and
was like, hey, this is like a serious offense and
it can lead to suspension, Like we need to know
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who runs this account because they're threatening to follow this
girl home, follow her school bus home and all these
things and like threatening to beat her up. And Instagram
was like, you know what, because of our privacy policy,
we cannot give you the name of the person who
runs that account. So up until COVID hit, I was
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fearing for my life. I didn't know if somebody was
following the school bus home, I didn't know who was
watching me behind my back. I was scared to use
the restroom. I had to get somebody from my classes
to walk me there. And it's all because Instagram. They
don't care if you get bullied. And I'm not afraid
to say that I don't care, like I would love
to take them to court, honestly, because this happens all
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the time, and we see in our youth that so
many kids who get cyber bullied. These social media platforms say, oh,
we have a report button, report them, but they don't
do anything about it. And I think it makes it
so a lot of kids lose their lives because bullying
becomes so severe and these social media platforms are doing
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nothing to take care of it. And I always said,
if I have a really big platform, I'm going to
speak out about it, and I have been, but it's awful.
It's the way social media just basically condones bullying. So
I'm not afraid to say that Instagram condones it. I'm
not afraid to say that because it's it's true, and
I think it's really affecting our youth.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah, you know, unlike in the eighties, today kids don't
have to stay quiet and they shouldn't.
Speaker 18 (37:36):
Yeah, so I definitely would say there are helplines there,
people who will listen to you. Don't be afraid to
get police involved, because you know your safety is all
that matters. And definitely don't keep it in. Tell your friends,
tell your family, speak to people, because just speaking about
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it helps more more than just keeping it inside. And
I feel like there's always help for everything. And you're
never alone. Trust me, I've been there. You're never alone.
But yeah, just reach out and it can definitely you
don't know how much talking to a friend can help you.
I really think like if you are a parent, like
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please please raise your kids to have good values, have
good morals, raise them as if like, hey, it's not
good to pick on anybody, you know, treat people the
way that you want to be treated. And I feel
like that's one of the sentences that doesn't get out
there enough, is treat people the way you want to
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be treated. I mean I'm a big believer in karma.
I believe what you put into the world you get
back at some point, and there's no need to hurt anybody.
Like I don't understand where people find satisfaction in that,
because at the end of the day, it makes you
a bad person. And who doesn't want to be a
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good person. I feel like everybody wants to be a
good person. But to those who have these issues and
it doesn't get resolved when they are kids, it can
resolve in serious issues in their older life, whether that's
you know, when they get married or when they're in
high school. And I feel like we need to really
start teaching kids at such a young age that it's
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not okay to do these things. And I feel like
the people who don't get bullied, it's hard for them
to understand how much it can affect somebody. It's just
their actions sometimes can lead to a child un aliving themselves.
And I mean, I could never imagine somebody, you know,
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just saying all these hurtful things and then it leads
to something like that. I think it's awful. And I
really do feel like we need to raise kids to
be just nice and not be mean. To people. If
you want to say something mean, just keep it to yourself.
You don't need to spread put that out into the world.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Now, are you currently in college right now or finishing
up school or so.
Speaker 18 (40:09):
I'm majoring in mass communications and it's a track in advertising,
and I'm getting my minor in marketing. But I got
my nursing done in high school, so I'm also a CNA.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
All right, So, now that we know that you are
mainly on social media, what's your main platform or channel?
Is it TikTok or Instagram?
Speaker 18 (40:30):
Yes, that is my largest platform, but engagement over on
Instagram is actually a little bit better. But yeah, TikTok
is my main platform.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Okay, now for the juicy stuff. Do you have any
big sponsors that you can talk to us about.
Speaker 18 (40:46):
Oh, well, I recently did a partnership with AEG and
they invited me to go to the def Leopard and
Journey concert and that was really fun to do a
partnership and they're like, here some tickets to the concert
and I was like, oh my goodness, Like that was awesome.
I recently am going to be part of a eighties
(41:09):
TV show called small Town Outsiders and we're filming next year,
and they found me through I Talk and was like, hey,
do you want to audition for this role? And I said,
of course I did and I got it and then
we did the table read amazing cast and so that's
really cool, like to make my acting debut next year.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Now, oddly enough, Jordan, I was going to ask you
this if maybe you thought about going into acting before
you mentioned you were going to go into the medical profession,
on which I commend you. As somebody of your age,
obviously you were raised from people of the eighties. You
have a lot of compassionate care, but you do know
how to feed to a camera almost like the camera
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is a person, and I think you have that it quality,
So I commend you on that.
Speaker 18 (41:57):
Thank you. I love being under pressure. I love thinking
on the spot. You just come up with the things
right there, and as you know, you're staying true to
your authentic self and I do. I really love that.
So I'm excited that for acting it's going to be
like a script. I'm really excited for that. But mainly
I might be doing my own hair, makeup, clothes and
(42:18):
everything because it's set in the eighties, so I kind
of will still be playing sort of myself. But yeah,
I love just talking to the camera, talking to people
like live. It's hard for me to script things, if
that makes any sense.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
So what do your parents think about all of this?
Speaker 14 (42:36):
For you?
Speaker 18 (42:37):
At first, I didn't like it. I think they thought
it was like, oh, this is a little bit like weird,
like they see myself as them. But then now my
mom is like, you know, if anybody asks, tell them
that you do your hair better than I ever did.
But I prefer to differ because she did have really
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good hair in the eighties. But yeah, they have grown
to accept it. They've grown to accept that it's like
a part time job basically, and that I just dressed
like this every day and I have fun with it.
So they've grown to accept it over the past like
five seven years.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
How do you dress when you go out?
Speaker 18 (43:16):
Well, whenever I get like a new outfit, I love
to wear it every single day. It's crazy, But to
the mall it has to be acid washed jeans and
like a pastel shirt or dress. And then if I'm
going out to like a concert, like a heavy metal
concert or glam I tried to dress up like that.
I recently went to the Deaf Leppard concert and I
bought a def Leppard outfit from Etsy, and you know,
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it's just been amazing. And so there's certain things that
when I go certain places, I like, I know the
exact outfit I'm gonna wear for that.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
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Speaker 7 (44:25):
If it's popular, we do it totally awesome.
Speaker 14 (44:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Now back to the eighties with Tuscano and Chang.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Welcome back to Back to the eighties where you got
nothing but the eighties and you got miss Jordan from
Can't Bond the Eighties? Have you ever felt the desire
to be a want of Madonna and go out and
dress like Madonna.
Speaker 18 (44:51):
I definitely would, but I would not be able to
rock it. I would not be able to. She can
rock that style. I definitely couldnt, I think. And also
it's a lo a lot of pieces to add together,
a lot of layering. I don't know how to do that. Now.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Do you see yourself doing this for a long time?
Speaker 6 (45:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 18 (45:07):
Definitely acting a little bit more acting down the line.
I hope that social media lasts at least another year
or two. I think that'd be really fun. And I
always say, you know, I go every single day, I
see what happens, and yeah, so I honestly, I don't know.
I think just the one thing is yeah small Ton
Outsider season two. Super excited for that, and then we'll
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see what else happens, you know.
Speaker 12 (45:34):
All right?
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Now, let me ask you this as sort of a
fun way to finish the night. If you could get
into a real DeLorean, I don't know if you've have
or not, but if it was a real DeLorean time machine,
what year in the nineteen eighties would you travel to?
Speaker 18 (45:51):
Well, I have sat in two Deloreans before. That was
really cool. People liked my outfit and They're like, you
want to sit in the Delore and I'm like, I'd
be honored. Oh my gosh, I love Dolorans. But if
one actually worked and Marty and Doc were in the car,
because Michaelly Fox is one of my husbands, I would
go back to nineteen eighty six. I think eighty six
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had a lot of really good albums and movies that
came out, Especially that's when the hair started to get
a little bit more like big and like curly and stuff,
which I really love. Just eighty six I think that's
like a peak year for everything, and I would probably
stay twenty one. I go on with Spon, sweat Struck
and everything. That'd be really fun.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
All right, Jordan, tell everybody around the world where can
they check your content out?
Speaker 12 (46:39):
Thank you?
Speaker 18 (46:40):
Yeah, it's Instagram is can't buy me eighties with an
underscore at the end, and then TikTok is can't buy
me eighties, and so it's like can't buy can't buy
me love, but can't buy me eight zero s. Yes,
and that's my only accounts. There's people impersonating me, so
watch out. Those were my only accounts Instagram and it
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should be verified. And then TikTok is just regular Can't
Buy Me eighties, no extra s, no.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Nothing, just that awesome, just awesome. Jordan. We want to
wish you nothing but the very best in your TikTok,
Instagram and beyond adventures with Can't Buy Me Love. Can't
wait to see more of your awesome content on social media.
We had a ball having you on, so we appreciate
you taking the time to be with us here on
back to the eighties radio with us Kinda and Chang.
Speaker 18 (47:28):
Thank you, and I wish nothing but the best for
you guys too. Thank you so much for having me.
I had a good time.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Now it is customary here I'm back to the eighties
that when you're a guest, as we finished the interview,
you get to play any song you want from the
nineteen eighties. So what are you going to be putting
on for everybody?
Speaker 18 (47:45):
Okay? I will be putting on women by def lope.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
And day faking ned.
Speaker 9 (48:21):
Get and then.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
They get the word.
Speaker 9 (48:37):
It was with the pass.
Speaker 6 (48:43):
The rest of Spain were the need for the need
to me.
Speaker 10 (48:52):
Travel STU.
Speaker 9 (48:54):
So we can't fing answer it's my hand class.
Speaker 4 (49:04):
Wows because.
Speaker 10 (49:50):
These lands, sure we.
Speaker 21 (50:04):
Do that.
Speaker 10 (50:42):
Skin of skin.
Speaker 15 (50:45):
Begins ow, St'm still.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
What's that's what's nice.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
From Jordan of Can't Vibe Me Love to your Ears?
Thanks Jordan for that request, you know, Chang. As we
head off to a great week, we promise you guys
that we have another incredible interview the following week, So
stay tuned because we have an author. Whatever you're doing,
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I remind you all to stand strong, stand tall, don't
let nothing get you down. I bid you all an ajo,
adios aribadirce saya nada, bon voyage osta la vista Astamaniana.
And to all my homies all across this listener land
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Gold lats take as take me back until nine mother.
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