April 25, 2024 • 48 mins
Tune in to this week's episode of "The End of Radio As We Knew It - Part 1" as we explore the fascinating demise of traditional radio, tracing its decline back to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Delve into a discussion on how this pivotal legislation reshaped the radio landscape, altering its once vibrant and diverse programming. Join us as we reminisce about the golden era of radio in the 1980s, highlighting the captivating entertainment it offered and reflecting on how it differs from today's radio experience.
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If you are listening to Beck toeighties radio and speaking of Wall's disong by
Wall of Voodoo. This was Mexicanradio, a very popular subject for a
very popular candidate, released nineteen eightytwo from a single from the album called
Call of the West, brought toyou by the two Johnson's. That's right,
Johnson and Johnson. I am Johnson, Murphy and my compatriot, my
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compadre, Dick Johnson. Dick.Hey, cats and kitties, how you
doing out there with the radio world. We are hanging tight like the left
ball, right ball in a nicepocket. Hey. I caught this sing
in the news just the other day, and I know we were rapping about
it. It's about our great formerpresident, that's right, Donnie Trump.
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You know what, why don't yougo ahead, mister Johnson and tell our
beautiful listeners of the little story that'sout in the press that we were discussing
just the other day in our cubicle. We're gonna be talking about the big
Daddy d that's right, the bigt oh, the ex president. Just
for your information. If you haven'tseen the news lately, you know,
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and this is no secret that heis a McDonald's lover and also a Taco
Bell lover. Will Unfortunately for BigDaddy D he's been recently spotted. You're
gonna like this spotted. He's gottensome irritable Bell syndrome lately, Johnson,
what do you think of that?Any times somebody's got their head off their
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ass, you're gonna suffer some typeof scenario where it's gonna hurt out there.
Now, I'll tell you I'm abig fan of the Taco Bell.
You know that. Frequently I willgo get our lunch. We're in our
pubicle, I mean cubicle, andI'll get us a couple of tasty,
crunchy taco burritos at Taco Bell,the number one place, remember south of
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the border, Taco Bell, that'swhere you want to go. What the
hell anyway? Talking about Big Donnie, you forget about their eighties in Curito
only available. Holy man, that'sright. And if you are also back
from the eighties, go down therein town Toscato and Chang sent you.
But tonight, Johnson and Johnson,we're taking over the airways talking about Big
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d Donnie Trump and his irritable ballo. Ho is irritable? Oh you
know what buddy, I've had thatproblem in the past, have you.
Well, you know what, theysell them, some good good stuff,
especially down down south after the border. You know, you know what.
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I think Donnie was chopping up emmodiumsso him and his son could get their
heads out of their ass. Man, old man, ladies and gentlemen.
It doesn't matter what political party youbelong to. Right now, the United
States is in I would say thecave or the cavern or only shit flows
west side? Hey, talking aboutwest side and ship blowing. Oh,
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Johnson and Johnson tonight have a showthat is designed only for you all,
you lovers of terrestrial FM or AMradio. We all suffer the RP.
But that's another story. Hey Johnson, why don't you go ahead and take
us out with another great tune andtell us about our sponsors. I gotta
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go quickly in the back and doa little bit of peekaboo and drop the
kids off at the pool, ifyou know what I'm talking about. Back
to the eighties radio. This hasbeen Johnson and Johnson here. Back to
the eighties radio. Coming up next, a little something from nineteen eighty.
I know this is going to makesome people's ears bleed. But this is
the spirit of radio. Bye Rushare the one and only back to the
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eighties radio. Begin the day withthe friendly boys of the many, jus
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lay sad son not so elasent andthe man music with your mom, your
day. This magic can't go thingson the spabing the ingles of the man,
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contact your son, crackle with life. Why did something? And at
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a time is way. Think bythe games as the shapely making up new
way. Not a lot to challengeyour honesty. You're honestly what might be
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lady music a piss and then heis compromising shadowy and you did not des
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log smuckling U b y je notthat side. The d blake is based
on boats. So the buffets werewritten cotton googs with the sound of salesman,
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of salesman, sales There, myBrady'll believe me. I like it
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loud. I'm a man with abox that can rock the crowd down the
street to the heart to a beam. J. D. C By braids
the coffee. Sorry you can't understand, but I need a radio inside my
hand to me to a opposite door, saying what I can't my file away
that I'm saying this is my storyis bro. My neighborhood is tak but
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a still sport goal and I'm outto crush my name. It's cool Jay,
I tell a state the show,But I couldn't survive without a radio
shot A one of them singers withthe head of these bases. I keep
the sucking this bad. I'm alook on my face my radio band from
the Bullo Barn. I'm a heappopcaateser and my name is Tar, just
the lady by the beat bus outthe rhyme to get fresh bat of reason.
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If it won't rewind to play everyday, even on the subway,
I would have got a summers butI ran away the leader of the show
keeping you on the gold. ButI know I can't live without a radio
songs on my top win a oneof a block. I really don't care
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if it's jealous or not, becauseI make the song. You sing a
long and your radio death where myrecord is off ship off the wall will
come in farm on your radio problemshave nothing song you rich beats making ends
for fun and my radio foud likea fighter long the floor five rates,
the walk in the face makes myhead trump sea thing that sounds and my
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ride get the front end back youyou were think it was a party,
not a Cadillac of the alp withthe windows too, and my maker so
loud, and you rich your gluecarryo something like a sabage beech. The
level all my power meter will notdecrease. The sucker's getting mad because the
girl, he screamed, and astill getting paid. Why you're looking at
me? Mean, I'm the leaderof the show, keeping you on the
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gold. But I know I can'tlive without a radio. I'm the leader
of the show keeping you on thegoat man, I know I can't live
without a radio. Don't fun thattime. I'm feel upset, Mike going
to a big rip off your neckthe radio something when I'm down and I'm
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playing I'm the royal chief rock ofl el couch the pix what fountain,
I'm right the left because it's anactual fact. This jam is death stepping
in lead cree eighty five, megoing down and radio his the reed.
I'm good to go on your radio, and I'm cod getting paid because Rick
said so. The Whooper's wallet andyour tweet is twist and something jellous knuck
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on heads might try to just putit him, starting them. My radio's
loud enough to keep you sunching thefund to school chain. I'm promm no
problem circulating through your radio non stop, looking at the wires behind the concession.
And now I'm off the right standingon your jack. It's bettering light
blue bloomers. A whole lot ofgold had chance like these tb in control,
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the leader of the show, keepingyou on the gold man. I
know I can't live with I'm aradio. Your energy levels started increase as
my big beat is slowly relief.I'm on the radio and at the jam
hell el cool, Cha's who Iam. I'm gonna make your hands hoogie
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down. Then rocket and the scratchas shade to my musical blot and two
expand my musical playing co creator rockthe beat with your hands right shod,
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don't try to funk the movie andshe's become Moti baby by the funkies room
to see me and Earl chilling offthe block with my box cold kicking with
the case. The rock people can'tstop me. Neither can't a leak.
I'm a musical madiac. Save thelead. You and your Brady yoa.
I mean this for Cool Chase hereto devastate once more, Broly all the
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girls taking out them seat they fortrying to disrespect me. I just say,
please, can't to command the heckhot Lands kicking live with a box
inside my hands. I'm the leaderof the should keeping you on the gold.
But I know I can't live aboutmy radio Bomas full of bars.
Yeah you know that when we hangout too loud, you know what I'm
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saying. That's where the cribs at. Welcome one and all. This is
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the one and only back to theeighties Radio. We've got a great show.
And speaking of great shows, youjust heard Spirit of Radio by Rush.
You also heard I Can't Live withoutMy Radio by ll Cool J with
Me is a man that has scratchedmore records than any DJ possible in the
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nineteen eighties. He's been seen travelingwith your boulevard at nights on Sundays,
just like he used to, andstopping by both Tommies and King Taco.
Here is the King Taco himself.This is the one and only changed order.
How are you all doing tonight?Welcome to Back to the Eighties Radio
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with Tuscano and Chang Oh oh,Mike won Badde, my hit, my
God now, yes he spoke ittrue. Yes, back in the eighties,
I was on Whittier Boulevard making outwith Cholas, fighting with Cholos.
Either way, it was a goodtime. So welcome all of you.
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Tuscano, oh oh man. Weare going to discuss the decline of what
was once free form radio, thedeath, the loss, and the walk
away from terrestrial radio. You know, one of the biggest things, ladies
and gentlemen, that the newer generationwill never get to experience is the freedom
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that we had in radio, thefreedom that the on air personality had as
well. We're going to talk alittle bit about the nineteen ninety six Act,
even though this is a show fromthe eighties, but the Telecommunications Act
of nineteen eighty six significantly changed radioforever. We're also going to talk about
the deregulation of ownership, consolidation ofownership, the content, the impact on
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local content, competition, innovation,the lack of radio personalities, the lack
of improv skills, the lack ofquality music, and in general, to
decline of the world of radio.And oh, hang, hang on,
hang on. We're getting a phonecall here. Why why is this?
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This is our private line. Yeah, that's the red phone line. It's
the red line, my friend,you answered, I'm not answering. You
answered, Hey, how you doing? You've reached Back to the eighties radio
chang here of Tusconaw and chang.How can I address this call and put
it out to our lovely listeners?What's crack alac? And how's your wheelchacking?
Who is this? What are youdoing? We're doing what you hired
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us to do. We're doing theshow. We're in retaining the masses.
Well, of course it's on theair. You're live on Back to the
Eighties Radio. Our dear program director, give me over here and now,
Steve, we're not going to takeyou off the air right now. Man,
we're in the middle of the freeform flow of Back to the Eighties
Radio. We have our listeners likewe're on a fishing boat, hooked and
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sun. What do you have totell us that you can't tell our listeners?
After all? Isn't that all wepay the bills around here? Stevie
boy, come on, come on, just lighten up, buddy, lighting
up, Get me off here now, that's up to you. You're the
editor. No, no, we'renot getting you off the air. Come
on, come on, Steve,you're talking to me and Tosky. We're
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brothers. Co padre. Come on, Steve, we take you off the
air. That's the end of thebit till it. Come on, Steve,
take a joke. O. Shoot, I don't think you could take
a joke, STEVEE hung up toWell. Look, no one has ever
hung up on you and me onthe Red Hot nobody, No, not
even Elvis. Only John Lennon didwhen you threatened him with Yoko Ono sitting
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in the studio with this. Youknow what, here we go. I'm
gonna I'm gonna call him back.I don't care. I'll call him back
right now. Call him back.I'll tell him some music, you know,
Chang. This is exactly the reasonwhy we are going to talk about
the death of radio because of peoplelike this. I'm gonna call this guy.
No, we don't need anyone totell what it worse. Shut the
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mic off, cut the mic off, or you're gone. Nope, the
mic has to stay on. We'reall about free form radio, Steve.
I mean, come on, yourdick wad for the lover. But the
mic off, No, no,why don't you come in here and cut
the mic off? Your jackass Jesusjust going on. The mic stays on.
All right, the mike stays on. You back off, cut the
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mic off. Come on, comeon, come on, get off,
get get my don't tell me thereI'll killing shadow. Oh God, sat
all right, all last and threenow go Mike off. I'm not cutting
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nothing off there. You gonna getoff in Steve, your son of a
month, you know what? Youcut the mic on us and that Reform
Radio right out the door. Iwould say, it's I don't wavery it
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must say nothing bad, don't whyI was sad. Story on its side,
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definitely lost. This can not castthe spare Everything that sister my dog
is take was made s Welcome backto back to the eighties Rady with Tuscano
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and Chang Man. What a sweathouse and that was fade to black from
Metallica Man, Boys and girls,What a what a discharge? Me and
my partner just endure Tuscano. Canyou believe the act of Steve Russell,
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our former general manager Back to theeighties radio? And I want to say
former now Tuscano. Please, Idon't want anybody to hate me more than
they do and think that my egois everywhere. Why don't you tell them
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why Steve is no longer our generalmanager and remind the listeners who's in charge
and who is large, ladies andgentlemen, jointed lady, that's right,
you heard it live, Ladies,gentlemen. You know, going back to
the eighties and having a show suchas this one the top rated, most
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popular eighties radio show in the world, you know, we had hired someone
to help us out, somebody whoclaimed the knew radio from back then.
But all of a sudden, yougive somebody a little bit of power and
they want to just take over.Well, no, sir, Reeve,
that's not going to happen here onour watch, because, after all,
you guys are why we do thisshow, and this is free form radio.
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This is radio from the eighties byeighties jocks, and there's no way
we're going to have someone who believesthat radio should conform to the way it
is today. If you don't likethe radio shows of the eighties, you
can take a hike. There's plentyof radio shows that will play a bunch
of nonsense for you guys, andwith little you know robots. As a
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matter of fact, you can probablygo listen to an AI station here back
to the eighties radios. Tuscano andChang live, Live and live. Okay,
we are the real deal. Soyeah, we told him to take
a hike. We fired him.He's done. We are giving you radio
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like it should be. We're allreal. We're giving you what you want,
trying to take you to a placethat takes you away from all the
crap that's going on in life politically, socially. Well, if you're like
Tuscano and I your parents, wehave talked about the death of radio on
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the lighter side before today. We'regoing to be going more in depth,
and we're going to be ranting alot more. Why because you are listening
to two guys that have been involvedin radio for a while, who have
loved and been a part of theradio world since we were teenagers, and
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who have loved radio as it oncewas. But something happened, something happened
throughout the years that changed everything foreverybody specifically, and I'm going to tell
you this specifically, and if youjust joined us here back to the eighties
radio. I want to thank youguys for taking your time, but we
are going to be talking about thedeath of radio and the death of the
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radio personality in particular. There wassomething that happened in the nineties, but
as a result of the way thingswere being run in the late eighties,
the men in suits, the menin black behind the radio business. That
led to a killer bill that wassigned in nineteen ninety six called the Telecommunications
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Act of nineteen ninety six. Butbefore we go there, we're going to
be talking about how some of theradio personalities that we had in the past,
how they made us feel. Sowhy don't we kick it off like
that, Chang, Why don't wetalk about some of the radio personalities that
made us feel just enthused to listento radio, some of the personalities that
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made us feel like we belonged andthen when you heard them, you just
felt a connection with them for whateverthe reason was. And unfortunately today that
is completely lost. Oh man,Seeing that I am as old as dirt
in some parts of this country,I would have to say, for me,
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it was the seventies disc jockeys thatput a lump in my stump that
really grabbed my ears and my senses. But in the eighties, the eighties,
I had already evolved from the catthat I used to be in the
seventies when I was in grammar schooland junior high into high school. Where
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high school is really where where onebecomes one with himself. The oddities of
life have kind of rolled off.You already know who you don't want to
be from your past experience. You'realready understanding that you're an individual. So
you're breaking off from your parents,You're breaking off from that old personality you
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had in grade school, and you'rebecoming your own. And what's the first
thing that hits you. Music FMradio, free form radio, that disc
jockey making you feel like your generationmatters, that they're talking to you,
they understand you, they're giving youthe groove to say, ef it.
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Whatever I'm doing, it's the wayI want to go. FM jocks.
They brought out fashion shows, personality, music sets. They were able to
captivate the audience emotion. At thattime, we missed that at a great
deal. Now everything is like packaged, everything is kind of process nowadays.
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I gotta go all the way backto Kmie T kalelews KHJ. You know
when when all these men something,when you have a guy come on like
Shotgun Kelli. Okay, he's gotsome good news. Party holders are the
six ten Tower Record certificates due tothe recent rotten weather. While the Shotgun
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does be rotten, the deadline forredeeming your album coupon has been expended through
bred. You had cats like RickD's. This is kiss that van Rick
D's in the morning at seven twentyseven. You remember the King Lady she
called one week and all of asudden she disappeared. I hear she's back
in town and has our new privatenumber, the Kinky Lady seven seven.
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She's coming up. Here's Dan Fogelberg. You know my favorite, Jim Ladd.
Anybody from kamy T, the MoodyBlues and Gypsy Red Riders can't turn
back and you two with rejoice.This is headsets on kamy T. My
name is Jim Ladd and we're doingsome songs around the general subject of the
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shaman. Every tribe has a shamanor a number of shaman. Some of
them are men shaman called witch doctorsor medicine men more properly or shaman,
and the female of the tribe isusually the gypsy woman. There's a lot
of shaman women in the Blues.The gypsy woman told my mama on the
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day I was born, and soon and so on and so on,
with greg Grey and black cat bonein her hand. The shaman of the
tribe are the ones who take uson the journey, and the reason that
they are so interesting to watch isbecause they spend so much time on the
journey, thus having common shaman andthe gypsy. Oh, Shadow Stevens from
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Hollywood. This is American Top forty. I'm Shadow Stevens. Here for that
weekly trip to the top of popParadise. We'll count down the biggest hits
on the Billboard Charts, the officialweekly survey of radio airplay and record sales
across the USA. Our final destinationthe big number one number four debuts in
this week's count Who I Think alwayswas more than just a radio disc jockey.
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They created theater of the mind,which Jim Ladd rests in peace framed
that frame. Theater of the mindis when you can actually grab a listener
put them in a mindset where theyvisualize exactly what you're saying, taking them
away from the ordinary is theater ofthe mind. We're very blessed here back
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to the eighties radio to have befriendedGino Mitchellini, a great soul that we
just lost Red Barchianas. There area lot of fun about five o'clock on
the four or five freeway, justsitting there, burning up all that gas,
chewing up those valves. N KLos How you're doing this is Mitchellini,
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It's two for Tuesday. Here's fleewoodMan. Another individual we lost,
Dusty Street. I feel too good. I feel far too good to do
this show. That's it. I'mgoing to sleep good night. I just
got the world famous back rub oflife, but I won't tell you by
who. No, it was afish rub Ooh that sounds sounds a little
scaly to me. It ISFM Pasadena, Los Angeles Rock the eighties and nineties
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alive. Good morning is wonderful.I hope this is going so many times
again. We have lost these voices, personalities, identities, people that we
called friends from afar, not onlyon air, but we've lost them in
daily life breathing. We'll never hearthem again. We won't hear their set
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list or what they think, thesubstance, the element, the feeling,
and the whole freaking reason why radiowas created. Well we come back,
We're gonna be talking about why radioin the eighties went down the rabbit hole
and never never came back again.You were listening to Back to the eighties
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Radio with Tusconwan Chang, and weare going to take you out to another
planet, a planet when radio andmusic and DJs mattered. Right here,
put your ears to She came fromPlanet Claire. The B fifty two straight
at you between the eyes, tusconeand Chang. Back to the eighties Radio,
Get your bibe alive. She camefrom Lane as fast. When she
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came from there, a flaming sadline, Master bend the line that Claire
past big. All the trees arered, no one ever dies them,
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no one has some stations remarks orone of the seven stars, Shoddy thirty
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and annas m. She came fromslanted flat. She came from silence flat.
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She came from Planet le when theeconomy was good and the metal was
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having bad. Back to the eightI want to be home, still want
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you be doing day? For ana minute, I have a up.
I need a minute and a boyday day alway know, say somebod heel
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a time, I tell it down, get the im flean it hill time
the rayo. I need a music, give me some mo time out the
raio be healing. Got to giveme some now, I want to say.
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I there to found it on oneof the three. I feel the
people I'm in the no gotta putayme day time, night time, anytime,
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say so fat and I'm the onlywhining for house. Why can't be
time time the rain? I needthe music. Give me some money to
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the radio. I don't want tobe in to give me some money to
the radio. Be here to meright an even music's a welcome back.
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I hope you turned up the radiowith Autograph and Tuscana and chang right here
back to the eighties radio. Tonightwe are discussing the death the absence of
not only free form rock and rollradio and radio of its kind, but
the friend on the speaker box,the DJ, the personality, the cat,
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the kiddie, the guy, thegirl that set your world right or
whenever you needed it. Tuskana,what did you think of that set of
songs that I chantastically put together forthe boys and girls. You know,
I got to give it up toyou. I got to give you a
round of applause. Definitely. Whybecause because you're absolutely right, there were
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great songs and songs that were youknow, whether you like them or not,
back in the eighties. These aresongs that ring true today because they
talk about the memories and the emotionsthat we associated with the time. We
were talking about the radio personalities fromthe eighties. You know, one of
the big things changed back then asopposed to today or compared to today's radio
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personality. First of all, theyhad more control over their own shows.
They had more control over their musicchoices, over the topics, and that
led to a more dynamic and engagingshow, and it was tailored to the
local audience. They weren't trying tocapture the world's attention, you know,
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like today, they want to makeeverybody feel good. And the same time,
they don't care of losing an entiregeneration of listeners. So there was
a diversity. There was a creativefreedom that radio personalities. And I'm gonna
name some that we just got onon X on the old Twitter here from
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our page, and they mentioned ScottShannon from the Zoo at Z one hundred
and New York and thirty six inthe morning the Tuesday Morning Zoo Spanky on
Superstick of Patrol and good morning toyou from the Zoo. Who's this,
No, no, never mind,I know who this is. Good morning,
mister Leonard. Well, good morning, Scott. Use it's me,
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mister Leonard. That's just been publicservice director and research. You know,
obviously you conveniently forgot the telephone conversationwe had yesterday just around twelve noon.
Yeah, that one? Which onewas that? The conversation I had Dean
Zachram office when you said you wouldyou would definitely make it into the radio
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station today in order to do this. He was one of the most influential
poping rock DJs of the eighties.We got Carol Miller, also from New
York's w p LJ. You cansee the film that starts Friday at theaters
and drivings near you. This isCarol Miller and w p LJ Rock and
Roll from somebody mentioned Tom Bernard andSteve Dahl. And then we also have
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somebody that mentioned d Snyder. That'sright from Twisted's sister who also had a
very small presence in the eighties onrock radio from k r OQ in Los
Angeles, Richard Blade, Ziggy Molly, along with the Medley Makers and when
the lights go out you still gotk rock. Kind of romantic right.
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Also the span of the rings.They might be giants, Jesus in the
Marie Chain, the Church, thealarm, a ratio mantin Whiffle Boy from
the Morning show. In the studioat the moment he's wearing how to bring
that up? He's wearing his flippers. Why are you wearing swim fins in
the studio? Ready to dive onWednesday? Can't you find it hard to
walk around with those things on yourface? Used to it? As days
go on? Did the diving youstart to tell? You? Now?
You and me chang? We rememberduos, especially duos like Mark and Brian.
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Well, you certainly are up early. Yeah, I wanted to get
a good head start on the day. Hey, what are you eating nutting
cock? What did you say nuttingcock? No? I heard you the
first time, but all I wantedto know was what the name of the
cereal is that you're eating nutting cock? Why won't you tell me what you're
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eating I did you said nutting cock? Exactly? Are you in a bad
mood? Now I'm in a greatmood because I'm eating such a great cereal.
And the name of that cereal wouldbe nutting cock. Okay, if
you say nutt and cock one moretime, you're gonna be sorry. That's
the real name of the cereal nuttingcock. You see. Nutting cock is
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a delicious blend of walnuts and roosterparts. Oh, I get it.
Nutting cock is a tasty combination ofnuts and cod just exactly. It took
Kellogg's to do it. They finallymade a cereal that combines the saltiness of
nuts with the delicious, farm freshflavor of cock. So nutting cock not
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only tastes good, but with onereal rooster, it's also good for me.
Now you're getting it, you see. You see, nutting cock is
the only cereal that combines the greatwalnut flavor you love with the nutritious taste
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the pioneers of this whole morning show. You know. Uh, he came
out. He later became an actor, but we're talking he was, he
was an entertainer. It's twenty fiveminutes after seven, seven twenty five now
on Paro one oh six. Monica, I can't believe you didn't report this.
This is absolutely true. I've beenreading this in a bunch of newspapers
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that a doctor at Harvard Medical Schoolhas been telling women that if they have
infections of any type and they're worriedabout it. You mentioned this to me
the other day, Yes, AndI had to look it up finally,
and I did see it the otherday. I think in the Herald that
they're supposed to put their underwear inthe microwave often. Now I'm gonna say
that, dud, I'm gonna saysomething. I don't know what I'm talking
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about now, But the thing wascalled a yeast infection. Is that a
bad thing? Does it hurt?Does it itch? What does it do?
It's when you have a problem bakingbread. No, no, no,
come on, I mean I'm notit's a female problem. So if
you have this problem you have youput your underwear in the microwave of it
and it kills the germs. Ijust read that the other day. But
the ust is in gosh, isgross on your underwear. It's don't don't
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mention it. I don't know whatelse it does. So, ladies,
if you're having trusble, and thedoctor said, there's gonna be a lot
of jokes made about this. Iheard this guy talking the other day on
one of those consumers on networks andstuff, so I just wanted to bring
it to you. I mean,it's just another wonderful use that And of
course, you know putting toy poodlesin there, which was another fun thing
we did for I know you do. It's twenty six minutes after seven o'clock,
so there you go. By theway, this is trash day,
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not just because we're talking it.We're going oh yeah. He was a
radio host, he was a comedianand this guy was was a talent and
along with him back in La Iremember Benny Martinez, Bruce Vidal, Mucho
Morales and Broadway, Bill Lee,Jojo Kincaid, Chuck Geiger and Chuck Boom
Boom Cannon, like we can goon and on and on. Oh you
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can't forget Mark and Kim. Imean, let's let's let's not step away,
you know, for from you know, easy listening radio, because I
think even easy listening radio station formshave taken a hit, well, yeah,
to where it isn't really in themainstream as it once was, and
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you would think it would be heavilybecause of the yuppie era. Remember Ted
Ziggenbush from Coast one to three pointfive in Los Angeles. I remember,
these these guys were the guys thatstarted at all. Casey Casem you can't
we can't even discuss this without mentioningHoward Stern. He made his head way
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into the eighties radio pretty much theicon and the poster child of shock radio,
which I think I have a lotof mad respect for Howard Stern,
his diversity, his guts, butI think he pushed it a little bit
too far, and I think hetook the rule of radio and he took
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it a little bit extreme. Yeah, do you remember, Yeah, And
there were others you know like thatthat followed suit, But there were others.
Do you remember Gary Owens. Hewas recognizable for his smooth voice he
had. This guy had a longcareer and he did countdown shows and things
like that. Now I'm gonna mentionone. How about Doctor Demento Barrett Hanson
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known for his comedy. Oh,I remember. Both of those guys were
very similar in I believe in thetype of radio show that they did,
and it was enlightening. It wasdifferent, it was funny. It was
when you needed to get your laughout. We don't have that now.
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And talking about that, like Imentioned the late great Gino Mitchellini who did
the five o'clock Funnies at cal OsRadio during the eighties, we don't see
into the jewels like that at all. Radio doesn't bring out too much humor
at all anymore. It's almost likea trip out on this. I witnessed
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this personally my wife when she wouldtake the kids to school, she would
put the radio on to what mychildren wanted to hear. She became liking
that same music. I saw thatwith my sister and her kids. I
saw that with some of my friendsand their kids. When I coached baseball.
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I saw that a lot with alot of parents who switched the radio
over but kind of lost their individualisminto what their kids were listening to.
And I think that had a littlebit too contribute to the death of having
your own identity on terrestrial radio,wouldn't you say? So? I have
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to agree with you. I wantto give everybody a little example of what
radio was like with a popular duofrom back in the day. This was
nineteen eighty nine and this was oneof the great duos from back then,
Laurena Wally with a little skit theyhad back then, and I can tell
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you they just don't make them likethey used to. Well, he sept
forty six now from Boston five.Is he in the hall wallee? Yes,
he is in the hall line.But we should go ahead and make
the big announcement here, I supposeWald, don't you think I should?
New England Patriots have hired a newoffensive coordinator for the team, and they've
gone all the way to Yeah,that's him. Now. I'm sure they've
gone all the way to China tohire this guy. So let's get him
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out in here and be the firstones to interview and introduce this we come
on a blaze. Yes, goodmorning, it is me extremely offensive coordinator
for the New England Patriots. Well, good morning, sir, and what
is your name? By the way, win one soon wine soon, So
tell us about well they'll be makingany changes with the Patriots now that you're
going to be the new offensive coordinator. I'll tell you if having flyer doesn't
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straighten up. Yeah, he's goingto be irving star fryer d I see
really get my fort I'm cookie thatguy. Okay, listen, I'm beginning
to see a direction in which thisis going go ahead. It's not a
good direction. Getting ugly, well, Lauren wrote it. Yeah, we
have no dog. We have mascotfor New England Patriots, a mask of
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witness. Anyway, it's a it'sa it's a dog. It's very well
trained dog. Really is it good? Delicious? Delicious? Yes, you
know it seems I've been coordinating offense. We made some changes. We don't
have the shotgun formation. You don'thave the shotgun for me. We have
the showgun formation. Would you pleaseleave the studio? Okay, thank you,
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well, waldough bye. There wasstill a lot of material left on
that ladies and gentlemen. It's justa little snip of w v b F
Boston with Lauren and Wally back inthe day when radio and radio personalities rule
the airwaves. Like I said,changing, there's so many different reasons why
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they don't allow this type of radiogoing on anymore. But if they really
knew, really knew how much andhow important. First of all, how
important this is for our brain,for our mind to let loose, to
let go, to forget about yourdaily problems, and how important these radio
personalities were to us. You know, do you remember going either going to
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school or going to work or comingback from work, and you had a
horrible day. Turning on the radio, what would happen? You would forget
during that rush hour, you wouldforget about your problems. Briefly, it's
funny that you mentioned, you know, those two cats. Now, the
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quirky thing about those two cats andthe style of comedy that they were portraying
nowadays would be highly offensive. Here'sthe case. You would think, okay,
that the actual race is going tocause a stir in it, but
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what it actually is, it's thesyndications that are bringing about banning such type
clean humoristic, stupidity, fun youknow. Yeah, sometimes it's not even
the people from that race in particular, you know, it's just, you
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know, the way society has isgoing exactly, so a lot of stuff
like that you can't do anymore,let alone on the air. You can't
do it in comedy. And youknow, when I used to do stand
up comedy, a lot of mydialogue, a lot of my skits,
my wife told me would be veryoffensive. Now you know what I'm saying.
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So I tell her, well,you're right, but maybe we have
to stop being woosies. Tipper Goreal Gore's wife. Remember in the eighties
when she wanted to start putting arating on albums sad censorship. D Snyder
had to step up, show thathis hair wasn't the only thing growing out
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of his head and speak up forthat. And it's odd the Act that
Clinton signed in ninety six. Wehave two individuals, a strong individual man
that I think weren't too bad asleaders. If we would have listened to
them, maybe things would be abit different. But yet Clinton, come
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on, you lie about something likethat, what else do you lie about?
Away from that? Either way,But it's funny how censorship on albums,
cassettes or whatever form of music addedto the censorship of free form radio.
We were now being told what wecould listen to, when we could
listen to it, what you cansay, what you can say, and
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if you say it, the FCCis going to come and cave f your
whole show. So it's it's oneof the things that the Telecommunications Act of
nineteen ninety six. See a lotof people think, oh, this was
in the nineties. You got toremember, conversations and discussions about the telecommunications
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laws began in the late eighties,then progressed in the nineties. Okay,
now, this act, okay,the Telecommunications Act of ninety six, they
tried to create They talked about creatingmore competitive markets, and it was innovation
and it was going to be animpact on the radio and industry. It
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undermined the vibrantcy, the localized radioculture that had previously existed. It destroyed
it, and it destroyed it toa degree that it affected everyone. Let
me put it to this, thedeath of radio didn't just affect radio personalities.
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It didn't affect the music that wasplayed on the on the air,
but it affected the actual performer,the musician, the person making the albums,
the person make the person or personsthat had anything to do with specific
albums. Because thanks to all ofthat, and thanks to the rise of
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the Internet, now we have insteadof radio, who's the dominant creature.
It is Spotify, iTunes and Pandoraand things like that that we're grateful for
because we can be on those platforms. But as far as music playing is
concerned, these these companies are firstof all, don't be fooled, they're
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not streaming services. Okay, theyare subscription services. First and foremost.
They want your money. They couldn'tcare less who is on the top of
the list, who's the best.They don't care. All they care are
for you to give them some moneyas a subscriber, pay us so you
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can hear what you used to getfor free. The term monopolizing is I
think in fit of what we're discussing, because when you're allowed the monopolization of
entities purchasing radio stations, taking awaythat choice, taking away that freedom,
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taking away that diversity, or thedifferences the flavors of what you can in
take in your ears as a listener. The whole thing was a crapshoot,
a shit show. And it's sadthat I have to say that, and
we have to say that because weare very fortunate to put our program on
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with their plateaus that they carry.But the thing is, it's we have
a little bit more freedom of whatwe say, but we can't play what
we feel. And I think it'seither one or the other. You get
a scrambled egg or a hard boiledegg in radio to where it used to
be, you can get both.When we come back, we're going to
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be talking more about the death ofradio back in the nineteen eighties and as
we can continue this radical wave thattook us to the end of radio as
we once knew it. On thatnote, here's a double shot from Billy
Joel here back to the eighties RadioDon't Go Away, Harry Truman, doarsde
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Red China, Johnny Ray, TheGoal to which Joda Maggio, John McCarty,
Richard Mister Student, Baker, Television, nor Karia, Southaria, Maryland
Borough, Rosenberg six, Barn Suparay, Paul John Randall, The King and
(01:04:19):
Nigh and the Catcher in the Right, Eisenhower Vaccine. England's got a new
Queen Boleti satire good bye to startthe fire. It was alway this is
the last time we start the pthe we did by the Chiga by Joseph
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Stalin Alancar. That's the Rember copyof Rocabella Cappanella, Communist Rock, Roy
con Wopon Tuscaninid Cronk and Ben FooBalls rock around the Clark Einstein, James
Den Booker's got away the Team,Davy Crockett a band, Elvis beding this
they left Bardo the best Alabama bruisechap which is badrinking my supper in the
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show. Didn't start the part that'salways man, this is the worst turn
to start the bid. We didn'tfind it and to try to find it.
A rock past the Night, MickeyMantle, Carol and spuntling and showing
brand on the river an shot thegold California Baseball start, but the homicide
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children not a little mind the worldof Bunny Hollingdens face booking, Mui Bulow
the Castro. It's a little nooka sip and wake trail and Kennedy took
me chack a side do the condo. Didn't start the din that's always gone.
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This is the worst time. Wedidn't start the rigs night and were
trying to fight and Hemingway ammonstrator inthe Strange Land Building, Berlin be A
bigs Engage and Florence on the Rabia, British beetle many of old Miss John
Glynniston Beach's palliser, Paul Knlcolm nextBritish politician sex jfk blown away. Let
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us do I have to say tostart the fis always bother. This is
all the time we didn't start thebud light and but we're trying to fight
but control gi men Ji Nixon backand getting moon shot with stock Watergate from
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the rock. Bacon Regan Palestine terroron the airline. I had told us
in the rand Russians in Afghanistan we'rethe fucking Sally ride heavy that a suicdime
foreign DEAs homus bench he ats crackingBernie and hypodermics on the show China do
the marshal the roller color wars alongto stop the file has all the gon
(01:07:09):
its is a long time to stopthe vile dot me gone to stop long
long we didn't start the fibu allthe wet stop the file we didn't start
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the file the black. We didn'tstop the fire. Don't we do we
stop like and gentlemen, I'm ShadowStevens and you must listen to back to
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the eighties radio. It's the law. Friday night, I crashed yall party
Saturday, I said, I'm sorry. Sunday came and trash me out again.
(01:08:30):
I was only having phone. Wasn'theard again anyone, and we all
joined the weekend before the chan saadythe combat zone. I want to bend
the style alone, even Rod,my phone cycle and the rag. And
(01:08:56):
you told me not to drive,but I mean it all alive. So
you said that all. It provesthat I haven't said. You made the
rise. I made me crazy,but it just made me alone to take
(01:09:17):
your looking all. So now holdthe lights, don't try to save it.
You made it wrong. Oh mylord, you made it rise.
Remember how I found you there alonein your electric chair. I told you
(01:09:45):
dirty jokes until you smile. Youalone and all of fan said take me
as I am your mind and enjoyedsome madness fall. Wow. I think
the ball of you try to findsomeone to satisfy you. I might be
(01:10:10):
as crazy as you say it wascrazy. Then it's true that it's all
because you, and you wouldn't wantme any other way. You made the
rise, I made it crazy,wow, but it's just made me lou
(01:10:36):
to take y'all look at the phone. It's slay to face. It's too
late. It's a change. Youmade it. But you made a rise.
(01:11:17):
You made the rise, I madethe crazy lay. But it just
made me the thing you're looking for. So now the legs, don't try
to say you made the wrong.No, you made a vice, you
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made the wrong that, you madeadvice and made the wrong that. You
made a bas made the round thechange and made a round the Chinese made
the wrong change. Back to theeighties radio, we didn't start the fire,
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Billy Joel, and as a specialtoo for our offer, you may
be Right, a song that includeda mention of radio and its own lyrics
chang These songs capture the sense ofa reckless freedom, rock and roll spirit
that was associated with that era,and you got to give it to Billy
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Joel. He knew how to putit together. And it's unfortunate that we've
gotten to where we've gotten, butyou know what, thank you guys for
joining us. Here and back tothe eighties radio. If it's your first
time listening to us, we wantto we appreciate you. And you know,
we are talking today about the deathof radio and how it killed not
only radio itself, but also destroyedthe liberty and freedom of the on air
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personality. And at the end ofthe day, the one who suffered was
the listener, because it also killedin a big way, the musician,
the performer, the artist. Industrializedradio has become industrialized. And here let
me add this to you. It'ssad, you know that an entity that
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like serious radio XFM to where theyunderstand the need of what radio was,
which is great, it's awesome.They get it and they have hired in
the past many jocks and radio showsliking to our generation before us and maybe
a little after us, and they'vecatered to that and they've managed to get
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great fortune and get great subscriptions togive such programming. And it's good for
us to be able to obtain thatonce again. But here's where it gets
weird for me. And I don'twant to step on anybody's toes, but
I know, me being me,I probably am. And you have to
go off the cuff every now andthen, but yet you have to pay
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to get what we used to getfor free. And you know, our
radio show, we are doing everythingwe can to cater to the listener,
to cater to the people that arewilling to give us their ears, their
time. Understand where we're coming from, identify, but they too are looking
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for radio just like us, whatwe're looking for, so we try to
give it to them. The finalversion of the Telecommunications Act of ninety six
was finally passed by Congress in Februaryof ninety six, signed by of course,
President Bill Clinton on the eighth ofFebruary, and it was influenced,
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of course, by technological advancements.It was influenced by market dynamics, the
desire to be or for a morecompetitive landscape. But what it ended up
doing is leading to a major shiftin the indu street ownership rules were relaxed,
new opportunities for consolidated emerged. Consolidationemerged. But here's the bottom line.
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What did that lead to at theend of the day. And because
the radio industry evolved in this way, it led to things like internet radio.
And part of that is good becausewe get to listen to radio stations
from all over the place, allover the world. The changes recent especially
have reduced the opportunities for on airpersonalities to stand out and build their own
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brands. I mean this is allbecause what do they want to do.
They want to just attract more money, and they want to save okay,
and they want to have automated playlists, syndicated programming, reducing need for local
DJs. Now everything's going to begoing the way of AI pretty soon all
stations. You know, no offenseto stations like JACKFM, but in a
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way, come on JACKFM. Youtook out the radio personality and you just
have voice tracking, and that completelydestroyed radio. That's the double and what's
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your night, mile Cruisie night andthat everything I had? I love it
on my Rainie. You gain themthose old time stops rules, the words
(01:17:13):
you lady, babos, you layplan, you lay in fright, you
made as me that so down maycome some backgrounds, the backup boat girls
bases dun though. I just don'tcare and just out plays when you up,
(01:17:43):
you time your pad, your musyour style, all wabarsk bady you'll
go baby, He'll go. Godonly hear mister lady, he'll go Blady,
(01:18:10):
you'll go buy your mom bay.So lor we watched the sit we
(01:18:36):
watched the stars, all the audienfour hours and we have Jesus are commies
change stood. Let's tell me atleave all friends, my brother you say,
(01:19:03):
must listen, will miss you.You you way already. Aries Rady,
(01:19:27):
you got Brady, you'll google Rady, You got already, Aris Brady.
Y got Brady. You'll go goleRady, you got go already,
Aris Brady, got Rady, yougo your Mona scar Cott, you were
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listening to back to the eighties radiowith the scott Wood Jag. We're just
like totally bashing on FM and terrestrialradio. But I think we've been soft.
I think we've been wussies, pussies, cowards because the FCC ain't got
nothing on you or me right now. So I think we need to get
(01:21:42):
a little bit brass knuckled out gangsterladies and gentlemen. This is No.
PG. Thirteen part of the show. No, your kids should be knocked
out in bed. If not hotchocolate, give it to your kids,
have a shot of something and goto bed with nothing but your toilet plungers
(01:22:03):
in your head. We are gonnaget down and dirty. I'm gonna tell
you right now. One of thebiggest things, the biggest things I despise
about turning on a radio nowadays tolisten to the same garbage five to six
stations deep. My knob can onlyturn so far and it doesn't get away
(01:22:28):
from the shit that I hear.So enough of my rant. What do
you got? You know, Icouldn't have set it better myself, saying
radio, now listen here, I'mlistening. Radio in the eighties was the
heartbeat of a community, a platformwhere DJs were were larger than life,
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each with their own unique style connectingwith their audience. It was a time
when we can tune in and heara mix of genres, news, interviews,
expected surprises everywhere we turned, andit was delivered with authenticity, with
professionalism. We were part of aradio family. In the DJs were those
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voices guiding us through our days.Now fast forward to today, what do
we have? A hollowed out versionof what radio used to be? Corporate
consolidation, turning those voices that weonce knew into clones of one another,
spewing out the same tired playlists acrossthe country, and don't get me started
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a local content because it's practically nonexistent, and instead of connecting with your neighbors
with the community, stations are onlyinterested in pumping out syndicated shows automated playlists
to save a dime. Today's radio, my friends, lacks the heart and
soul that made the nineteen eighties sofreakin' special. Where's the charismatic hosts that
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we knew once that they played whatpeople wanted to hear, gone replaced by
what generic, uninspired, untalented programmingthat sounds like it was put together by
a freaking computer. The result,the result is a disconnection between the listeners
and the medium that was once theirlifeline to the world. Sure there's exceptions,
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of course, there's some still aroundtoday, but the magic of radio
has been lost in the pursuit ofprofit, and the vibrant local flavor that
once defined this medium is nowhere tobe found. And it's a shame chang
because really, the nineteen eighties provedwhat radio could be, dynamic, engaging
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in an essential part of our lives, and now it's just a shadow of
its former self. So let's hopefor a renaissance man a revolution, a
radio revolution where we can once againfind the roots and bring back that eighties
magic. On that note, Iam Toscanner from Discono and Chang and the
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one and only freaking Back to thefreaking Eighties Radio, wishing you the very
best of weeks and from everybody here, every single fan of Back to the
Eighties Radio, Bring back Eighties Radio. Yo Ho ho, cats and kiddies.
Before we exit and we lead youto another chantastic week. And remember
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radio is a canvas. It's howyou paint on that canvas through your ears,
and what you hear and what youfeel is the beauty and the artistry
of what radio is. So untilnext week, I want you all to
remember one thing. Do not letthem silence you. Oh hell no.
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The only way we get to prosperity, baby, is through unity, and
let that radio be that unity.So you all remember one thing. Keep
it together, keep it real,keep your voice out there, you keep
it locked and loaded. Right you'reat Tuscanoa Jang back to the eighties radio
audios odiche asta lavisa, sayanata awhole metal up bitches. Till next week,
If you are listening to Beck toeighties radio and speaking of Wall's disong by
Wall of Voodoo. This was Mexicanradio, a very popular subject for a
very popular candidate, released nineteen eightytwo from a single from the album called
Call of the West, brought toyou by the two Johnson's. That's right,
Johnson and Johnson. I am Johnson, Murphy and my compatriot, my
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compadre, Dick Johnson. Dick.Hey, cats and kitties, how you
doing out there with the radio world. We are hanging tight like the left
ball, right ball in a nicepocket. Hey. I caught this sing
in the news just the other day, and I know we were rapping about
it. It's about our great formerpresident, that's right, Donnie Trump.
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You know what, why don't yougo ahead, mister Johnson and tell our
beautiful listeners of the little story that'sout in the press that we were discussing
just the other day in our cubicle. We're gonna be talking about the big
Daddy d that's right, the bigt oh, the ex president. Just
for your information. If you haven'tseen the news lately, you know,
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and this is no secret that heis a McDonald's lover and also a Taco
Bell lover. Will Unfortunately for BigDaddy D he's been recently spotted. You're
gonna like this spotted. He's gottensome irritable Bell syndrome lately, Johnson,
what do you think of that?Any times somebody's got their head off their
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ass, you're gonna suffer some typeof scenario where it's gonna hurt out there.
Now, I'll tell you I'm abig fan of the Taco Bell.
You know that. Frequently I willgo get our lunch. We're in our
pubicle, I mean cubicle, andI'll get us a couple of tasty,
crunchy taco burritos at Taco Bell,the number one place, remember south of
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the border, Taco Bell, that'swhere you want to go. What the
hell anyway? Talking about Big Donnie, you forget about their eighties in Curito
only available. Holy man, that'sright. And if you are also back
from the eighties, go down therein town Toscato and Chang sent you.
But tonight, Johnson and Johnson,we're taking over the airways talking about Big
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d Donnie Trump and his irritable ballo. Ho is irritable? Oh you
know what buddy, I've had thatproblem in the past, have you.
Well, you know what, theysell them, some good good stuff,
especially down down south after the border. You know, you know what.
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I think Donnie was chopping up emmodiumsso him and his son could get their
heads out of their ass. Man, old man, ladies and gentlemen.
It doesn't matter what political party youbelong to. Right now, the United
States is in I would say thecave or the cavern or only shit flows
west side? Hey, talking aboutwest side and ship blowing. Oh,
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Johnson and Johnson tonight have a showthat is designed only for you all,
you lovers of terrestrial FM or AMradio. We all suffer the RP.
But that's another story. Hey Johnson, why don't you go ahead and take
us out with another great tune andtell us about our sponsors. I gotta
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go quickly in the back and doa little bit of peekaboo and drop the
kids off at the pool, ifyou know what I'm talking about. Back
to the eighties radio. This hasbeen Johnson and Johnson here. Back to
the eighties radio. Coming up next, a little something from nineteen eighty.
I know this is going to makesome people's ears bleed. But this is
the spirit of radio. Bye Rushare the one and only back to the
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eighties radio. Begin the day withthe friendly boys of the many, jus
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lay sad son not so elasent andthe man music with your mom, your
day. This magic can't go thingson the spabing the ingles of the man,
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contact your son, crackle with life. Why did something? And at
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a time is way. Think bythe games as the shapely making up new
way. Not a lot to challengeyour honesty. You're honestly what might be
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lady music a piss and then heis compromising shadowy and you did not des
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log smuckling U b y je notthat side. The d blake is based
on boats. So the buffets werewritten cotton googs with the sound of salesman,
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of salesman, sales There, myBrady'll believe me. I like it
(08:41):
loud. I'm a man with abox that can rock the crowd down the
street to the heart to a beam. J. D. C By braids
the coffee. Sorry you can't understand, but I need a radio inside my
hand to me to a opposite door, saying what I can't my file away
that I'm saying this is my storyis bro. My neighborhood is tak but
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a still sport goal and I'm outto crush my name. It's cool Jay,
I tell a state the show,But I couldn't survive without a radio
shot A one of them singers withthe head of these bases. I keep
the sucking this bad. I'm alook on my face my radio band from
the Bullo Barn. I'm a heappopcaateser and my name is Tar, just
the lady by the beat bus outthe rhyme to get fresh bat of reason.
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If it won't rewind to play everyday, even on the subway,
I would have got a summers butI ran away the leader of the show
keeping you on the gold. ButI know I can't live without a radio
songs on my top win a oneof a block. I really don't care
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if it's jealous or not, becauseI make the song. You sing a
long and your radio death where myrecord is off ship off the wall will
come in farm on your radio problemshave nothing song you rich beats making ends
for fun and my radio foud likea fighter long the floor five rates,
the walk in the face makes myhead trump sea thing that sounds and my
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ride get the front end back youyou were think it was a party,
not a Cadillac of the alp withthe windows too, and my maker so
loud, and you rich your gluecarryo something like a sabage beech. The
level all my power meter will notdecrease. The sucker's getting mad because the
girl, he screamed, and astill getting paid. Why you're looking at
me? Mean, I'm the leaderof the show, keeping you on the
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gold. But I know I can'tlive without a radio. I'm the leader
of the show keeping you on thegoat man, I know I can't live
without a radio. Don't fun thattime. I'm feel upset, Mike going
to a big rip off your neckthe radio something when I'm down and I'm
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playing I'm the royal chief rock ofl el couch the pix what fountain,
I'm right the left because it's anactual fact. This jam is death stepping
in lead cree eighty five, megoing down and radio his the reed.
I'm good to go on your radio, and I'm cod getting paid because Rick
said so. The Whooper's wallet andyour tweet is twist and something jellous knuck
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on heads might try to just putit him, starting them. My radio's
loud enough to keep you sunching thefund to school chain. I'm promm no
problem circulating through your radio non stop, looking at the wires behind the concession.
And now I'm off the right standingon your jack. It's bettering light
blue bloomers. A whole lot ofgold had chance like these tb in control,
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the leader of the show, keepingyou on the gold man. I
know I can't live with I'm aradio. Your energy levels started increase as
my big beat is slowly relief.I'm on the radio and at the jam
hell el cool, Cha's who Iam. I'm gonna make your hands hoogie
(12:03):
down. Then rocket and the scratchas shade to my musical blot and two
expand my musical playing co creator rockthe beat with your hands right shod,
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don't try to funk the movie andshe's become Moti baby by the funkies room
to see me and Earl chilling offthe block with my box cold kicking with
the case. The rock people can'tstop me. Neither can't a leak.
I'm a musical madiac. Save thelead. You and your Brady yoa.
I mean this for Cool Chase hereto devastate once more, Broly all the
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girls taking out them seat they fortrying to disrespect me. I just say,
please, can't to command the heckhot Lands kicking live with a box
inside my hands. I'm the leaderof the should keeping you on the gold.
But I know I can't live aboutmy radio Bomas full of bars.
Yeah you know that when we hangout too loud, you know what I'm
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saying. That's where the cribs at. Welcome one and all. This is
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the one and only back to theeighties Radio. We've got a great show.
And speaking of great shows, youjust heard Spirit of Radio by Rush.
You also heard I Can't Live withoutMy Radio by ll Cool J with
Me is a man that has scratchedmore records than any DJ possible in the
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nineteen eighties. He's been seen travelingwith your boulevard at nights on Sundays,
just like he used to, andstopping by both Tommies and King Taco.
Here is the King Taco himself.This is the one and only changed order.
How are you all doing tonight?Welcome to Back to the Eighties Radio
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with Tuscano and Chang Oh oh,Mike won Badde, my hit, my
God now, yes he spoke ittrue. Yes, back in the eighties,
I was on Whittier Boulevard making outwith Cholas, fighting with Cholos.
Either way, it was a goodtime. So welcome all of you.
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Tuscano, oh oh man. Weare going to discuss the decline of what
was once free form radio, thedeath, the loss, and the walk
away from terrestrial radio. You know, one of the biggest things, ladies
and gentlemen, that the newer generationwill never get to experience is the freedom
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that we had in radio, thefreedom that the on air personality had as
well. We're going to talk alittle bit about the nineteen ninety six Act,
even though this is a show fromthe eighties, but the Telecommunications Act
of nineteen eighty six significantly changed radioforever. We're also going to talk about
the deregulation of ownership, consolidation ofownership, the content, the impact on
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local content, competition, innovation,the lack of radio personalities, the lack
of improv skills, the lack ofquality music, and in general, to
decline of the world of radio.And oh, hang, hang on,
hang on. We're getting a phonecall here. Why why is this?
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This is our private line. Yeah, that's the red phone line. It's
the red line, my friend,you answered, I'm not answering. You
answered, Hey, how you doing? You've reached Back to the eighties radio
chang here of Tusconaw and chang.How can I address this call and put
it out to our lovely listeners?What's crack alac? And how's your wheelchacking?
Who is this? What are youdoing? We're doing what you hired
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us to do. We're doing theshow. We're in retaining the masses.
Well, of course it's on theair. You're live on Back to the
Eighties Radio. Our dear program director, give me over here and now,
Steve, we're not going to takeyou off the air right now. Man,
we're in the middle of the freeform flow of Back to the Eighties
Radio. We have our listeners likewe're on a fishing boat, hooked and
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sun. What do you have totell us that you can't tell our listeners?
After all? Isn't that all wepay the bills around here? Stevie
boy, come on, come on, just lighten up, buddy, lighting
up, Get me off here now, that's up to you. You're the
editor. No, no, we'renot getting you off the air. Come
on, come on, Steve,you're talking to me and Tosky. We're
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brothers. Co padre. Come on, Steve, we take you off the
air. That's the end of thebit till it. Come on, Steve,
take a joke. O. Shoot, I don't think you could take
a joke, STEVEE hung up toWell. Look, no one has ever
hung up on you and me onthe Red Hot nobody, No, not
even Elvis. Only John Lennon didwhen you threatened him with Yoko Ono sitting
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in the studio with this. Youknow what, here we go. I'm
gonna I'm gonna call him back.I don't care. I'll call him back
right now. Call him back.I'll tell him some music, you know,
Chang. This is exactly the reasonwhy we are going to talk about
the death of radio because of peoplelike this. I'm gonna call this guy.
No, we don't need anyone totell what it worse. Shut the
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mic off, cut the mic off, or you're gone. Nope, the
mic has to stay on. We'reall about free form radio, Steve.
I mean, come on, yourdick wad for the lover. But the
mic off, No, no,why don't you come in here and cut
the mic off? Your jackass Jesusjust going on. The mic stays on.
All right, the mike stays on. You back off, cut the
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mic off. Come on, comeon, come on, get off,
get get my don't tell me thereI'll killing shadow. Oh God, sat
all right, all last and threenow go Mike off. I'm not cutting
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nothing off there. You gonna getoff in Steve, your son of a
month, you know what? Youcut the mic on us and that Reform
Radio right out the door. Iwould say, it's I don't wavery it
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must say nothing bad, don't whyI was sad. Story on its side,
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definitely lost. This can not castthe spare Everything that sister my dog
is take was made s Welcome backto back to the eighties Rady with Tuscano
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and Chang Man. What a sweathouse and that was fade to black from
Metallica Man, Boys and girls,What a what a discharge? Me and
my partner just endure Tuscano. Canyou believe the act of Steve Russell,
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our former general manager Back to theeighties radio? And I want to say
former now Tuscano. Please, Idon't want anybody to hate me more than
they do and think that my egois everywhere. Why don't you tell them
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why Steve is no longer our generalmanager and remind the listeners who's in charge
and who is large, ladies andgentlemen, jointed lady, that's right,
you heard it live, Ladies,gentlemen. You know, going back to
the eighties and having a show suchas this one the top rated, most
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popular eighties radio show in the world, you know, we had hired someone
to help us out, somebody whoclaimed the knew radio from back then.
But all of a sudden, yougive somebody a little bit of power and
they want to just take over.Well, no, sir, Reeve,
that's not going to happen here onour watch, because, after all,
you guys are why we do thisshow, and this is free form radio.
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This is radio from the eighties byeighties jocks, and there's no way
we're going to have someone who believesthat radio should conform to the way it
is today. If you don't likethe radio shows of the eighties, you
can take a hike. There's plentyof radio shows that will play a bunch
of nonsense for you guys, andwith little you know robots. As a
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matter of fact, you can probablygo listen to an AI station here back
to the eighties radios. Tuscano andChang live, Live and live. Okay,
we are the real deal. Soyeah, we told him to take
a hike. We fired him.He's done. We are giving you radio
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like it should be. We're allreal. We're giving you what you want,
trying to take you to a placethat takes you away from all the
crap that's going on in life politically, socially. Well, if you're like
Tuscano and I your parents, wehave talked about the death of radio on
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the lighter side before today. We'regoing to be going more in depth,
and we're going to be ranting alot more. Why because you are listening
to two guys that have been involvedin radio for a while, who have
loved and been a part of theradio world since we were teenagers, and
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who have loved radio as it oncewas. But something happened, something happened
throughout the years that changed everything foreverybody specifically, and I'm going to tell
you this specifically, and if youjust joined us here back to the eighties
radio. I want to thank youguys for taking your time, but we
are going to be talking about thedeath of radio and the death of the
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radio personality in particular. There wassomething that happened in the nineties, but
as a result of the way thingswere being run in the late eighties,
the men in suits, the menin black behind the radio business. That
led to a killer bill that wassigned in nineteen ninety six called the Telecommunications
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Act of nineteen ninety six. Butbefore we go there, we're going to
be talking about how some of theradio personalities that we had in the past,
how they made us feel. Sowhy don't we kick it off like
that, Chang, Why don't wetalk about some of the radio personalities that
made us feel just enthused to listento radio, some of the personalities that
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made us feel like we belonged andthen when you heard them, you just
felt a connection with them for whateverthe reason was. And unfortunately today that
is completely lost. Oh man,Seeing that I am as old as dirt
in some parts of this country,I would have to say, for me,
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it was the seventies disc jockeys thatput a lump in my stump that
really grabbed my ears and my senses. But in the eighties, the eighties,
I had already evolved from the catthat I used to be in the
seventies when I was in grammar schooland junior high into high school. Where
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high school is really where where onebecomes one with himself. The oddities of
life have kind of rolled off.You already know who you don't want to
be from your past experience. You'realready understanding that you're an individual. So
you're breaking off from your parents,You're breaking off from that old personality you
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had in grade school, and you'rebecoming your own. And what's the first
thing that hits you. Music FMradio, free form radio, that disc
jockey making you feel like your generationmatters, that they're talking to you,
they understand you, they're giving youthe groove to say, ef it.
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Whatever I'm doing, it's the wayI want to go. FM jocks.
They brought out fashion shows, personality, music sets. They were able to
captivate the audience emotion. At thattime, we missed that at a great
deal. Now everything is like packaged, everything is kind of process nowadays.
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I gotta go all the way backto Kmie T kalelews KHJ. You know
when when all these men something,when you have a guy come on like
Shotgun Kelli. Okay, he's gotsome good news. Party holders are the
six ten Tower Record certificates due tothe recent rotten weather. While the Shotgun
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does be rotten, the deadline forredeeming your album coupon has been expended through
bred. You had cats like RickD's. This is kiss that van Rick
D's in the morning at seven twentyseven. You remember the King Lady she
called one week and all of asudden she disappeared. I hear she's back
in town and has our new privatenumber, the Kinky Lady seven seven.
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She's coming up. Here's Dan Fogelberg. You know my favorite, Jim Ladd.
Anybody from kamy T, the MoodyBlues and Gypsy Red Riders can't turn
back and you two with rejoice.This is headsets on kamy T. My
name is Jim Ladd and we're doingsome songs around the general subject of the
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shaman. Every tribe has a shamanor a number of shaman. Some of
them are men shaman called witch doctorsor medicine men more properly or shaman,
and the female of the tribe isusually the gypsy woman. There's a lot
of shaman women in the Blues.The gypsy woman told my mama on the
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day I was born, and soon and so on and so on,
with greg Grey and black cat bonein her hand. The shaman of the
tribe are the ones who take uson the journey, and the reason that
they are so interesting to watch isbecause they spend so much time on the
journey, thus having common shaman andthe gypsy. Oh, Shadow Stevens from
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Hollywood. This is American Top forty. I'm Shadow Stevens. Here for that
weekly trip to the top of popParadise. We'll count down the biggest hits
on the Billboard Charts, the officialweekly survey of radio airplay and record sales
across the USA. Our final destinationthe big number one number four debuts in
this week's count Who I Think alwayswas more than just a radio disc jockey.
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They created theater of the mind,which Jim Ladd rests in peace framed
that frame. Theater of the mindis when you can actually grab a listener
put them in a mindset where theyvisualize exactly what you're saying, taking them
away from the ordinary is theater ofthe mind. We're very blessed here back
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to the eighties radio to have befriendedGino Mitchellini, a great soul that we
just lost Red Barchianas. There area lot of fun about five o'clock on
the four or five freeway, justsitting there, burning up all that gas,
chewing up those valves. N KLos How you're doing this is Mitchellini,
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It's two for Tuesday. Here's fleewoodMan. Another individual we lost,
Dusty Street. I feel too good. I feel far too good to do
this show. That's it. I'mgoing to sleep good night. I just
got the world famous back rub oflife, but I won't tell you by
who. No, it was afish rub Ooh that sounds sounds a little
scaly to me. It ISFM Pasadena, Los Angeles Rock the eighties and nineties
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alive. Good morning is wonderful.I hope this is going so many times
again. We have lost these voices, personalities, identities, people that we
called friends from afar, not onlyon air, but we've lost them in
daily life breathing. We'll never hearthem again. We won't hear their set
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list or what they think, thesubstance, the element, the feeling,
and the whole freaking reason why radiowas created. Well we come back,
We're gonna be talking about why radioin the eighties went down the rabbit hole
and never never came back again.You were listening to Back to the eighties
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Radio with Tusconwan Chang, and weare going to take you out to another
planet, a planet when radio andmusic and DJs mattered. Right here,
put your ears to She came fromPlanet Claire. The B fifty two straight
at you between the eyes, tusconeand Chang. Back to the eighties Radio,
Get your bibe alive. She camefrom Lane as fast. When she
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came from there, a flaming sadline, Master bend the line that Claire
past big. All the trees arered, no one ever dies them,
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no one has some stations remarks orone of the seven stars, Shoddy thirty
(39:01):
and annas m. She came fromslanted flat. She came from silence flat.
(39:27):
She came from Planet le when theeconomy was good and the metal was
(39:57):
having bad. Back to the eightI want to be home, still want
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you be doing day? For ana minute, I have a up.
I need a minute and a boyday day alway know, say somebod heel
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a time, I tell it down, get the im flean it hill time
the rayo. I need a music, give me some mo time out the
raio be healing. Got to giveme some now, I want to say.
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I there to found it on oneof the three. I feel the
people I'm in the no gotta putayme day time, night time, anytime,
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say so fat and I'm the onlywhining for house. Why can't be
time time the rain? I needthe music. Give me some money to
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the radio. I don't want tobe in to give me some money to
the radio. Be here to meright an even music's a welcome back.
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I hope you turned up the radiowith Autograph and Tuscana and chang right here
back to the eighties radio. Tonightwe are discussing the death the absence of
not only free form rock and rollradio and radio of its kind, but
the friend on the speaker box,the DJ, the personality, the cat,
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the kiddie, the guy, thegirl that set your world right or
whenever you needed it. Tuskana,what did you think of that set of
songs that I chantastically put together forthe boys and girls. You know,
I got to give it up toyou. I got to give you a
round of applause. Definitely. Whybecause because you're absolutely right, there were
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great songs and songs that were youknow, whether you like them or not,
back in the eighties. These aresongs that ring true today because they
talk about the memories and the emotionsthat we associated with the time. We
were talking about the radio personalities fromthe eighties. You know, one of
the big things changed back then asopposed to today or compared to today's radio
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personality. First of all, theyhad more control over their own shows.
They had more control over their musicchoices, over the topics, and that
led to a more dynamic and engagingshow, and it was tailored to the
local audience. They weren't trying tocapture the world's attention, you know,
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like today, they want to makeeverybody feel good. And the same time,
they don't care of losing an entiregeneration of listeners. So there was
a diversity. There was a creativefreedom that radio personalities. And I'm gonna
name some that we just got onon X on the old Twitter here from
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our page, and they mentioned ScottShannon from the Zoo at Z one hundred
and New York and thirty six inthe morning the Tuesday Morning Zoo Spanky on
Superstick of Patrol and good morning toyou from the Zoo. Who's this,
No, no, never mind,I know who this is. Good morning,
mister Leonard. Well, good morning, Scott. Use it's me,
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mister Leonard. That's just been publicservice director and research. You know,
obviously you conveniently forgot the telephone conversationwe had yesterday just around twelve noon.
Yeah, that one? Which onewas that? The conversation I had Dean
Zachram office when you said you wouldyou would definitely make it into the radio
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station today in order to do this. He was one of the most influential
poping rock DJs of the eighties.We got Carol Miller, also from New
York's w p LJ. You cansee the film that starts Friday at theaters
and drivings near you. This isCarol Miller and w p LJ Rock and
Roll from somebody mentioned Tom Bernard andSteve Dahl. And then we also have
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somebody that mentioned d Snyder. That'sright from Twisted's sister who also had a
very small presence in the eighties onrock radio from k r OQ in Los
Angeles, Richard Blade, Ziggy Molly, along with the Medley Makers and when
the lights go out you still gotk rock. Kind of romantic right.
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Also the span of the rings.They might be giants, Jesus in the
Marie Chain, the Church, thealarm, a ratio mantin Whiffle Boy from
the Morning show. In the studioat the moment he's wearing how to bring
that up? He's wearing his flippers. Why are you wearing swim fins in
the studio? Ready to dive onWednesday? Can't you find it hard to
walk around with those things on yourface? Used to it? As days
go on? Did the diving youstart to tell? You? Now?
You and me chang? We rememberduos, especially duos like Mark and Brian.
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Well, you certainly are up early. Yeah, I wanted to get
a good head start on the day. Hey, what are you eating nutting
cock? What did you say nuttingcock? No? I heard you the
first time, but all I wantedto know was what the name of the
cereal is that you're eating nutting cock? Why won't you tell me what you're
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eating I did you said nutting cock? Exactly? Are you in a bad
mood? Now I'm in a greatmood because I'm eating such a great cereal.
And the name of that cereal wouldbe nutting cock. Okay, if
you say nutt and cock one moretime, you're gonna be sorry. That's
the real name of the cereal nuttingcock. You see. Nutting cock is
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a delicious blend of walnuts and roosterparts. Oh, I get it.
Nutting cock is a tasty combination ofnuts and cod just exactly. It took
Kellogg's to do it. They finallymade a cereal that combines the saltiness of
nuts with the delicious, farm freshflavor of cock. So nutting cock not
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only tastes good, but with onereal rooster, it's also good for me.
Now you're getting it, you see. You see, nutting cock is
the only cereal that combines the greatwalnut flavor you love with the nutritious taste
of cock that by Body Graves.That's right, exactly, fortified with fortified
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with eleven vitamins and minerals. Nuttingcock is an important part of this nutritious
breakfast. Nutting Cock It's chok fullof nuts and chock full of cock nutting
cock. Pick some up today.O. Yeah, that's a new breakfast
cereal. And we also know JayThomas. Jay Thomas was probably one of
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the pioneers of this whole morning show. You know. Uh, he came
out. He later became an actor, but we're talking he was, he
was an entertainer. It's twenty fiveminutes after seven, seven twenty five now
on Paro one oh six. Monica, I can't believe you didn't report this.
This is absolutely true. I've beenreading this in a bunch of newspapers
(50:29):
that a doctor at Harvard Medical Schoolhas been telling women that if they have
infections of any type and they're worriedabout it. You mentioned this to me
the other day, Yes, AndI had to look it up finally,
and I did see it the otherday. I think in the Herald that
they're supposed to put their underwear inthe microwave often. Now I'm gonna say
that, dud, I'm gonna saysomething. I don't know what I'm talking
(50:50):
about now, But the thing wascalled a yeast infection. Is that a
bad thing? Does it hurt?Does it itch? What does it do?
It's when you have a problem bakingbread. No, no, no,
come on, I mean I'm notit's a female problem. So if
you have this problem you have youput your underwear in the microwave of it
and it kills the germs. Ijust read that the other day. But
the ust is in gosh, isgross on your underwear. It's don't don't
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mention it. I don't know whatelse it does. So, ladies,
if you're having trusble, and thedoctor said, there's gonna be a lot
of jokes made about this. Iheard this guy talking the other day on
one of those consumers on networks andstuff, so I just wanted to bring
it to you. I mean,it's just another wonderful use that And of
course, you know putting toy poodlesin there, which was another fun thing
we did for I know you do. It's twenty six minutes after seven o'clock,
so there you go. By theway, this is trash day,
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not just because we're talking it.We're going oh yeah. He was a
radio host, he was a comedianand this guy was was a talent and
along with him back in La Iremember Benny Martinez, Bruce Vidal, Mucho
Morales and Broadway, Bill Lee,Jojo Kincaid, Chuck Geiger and Chuck Boom
Boom Cannon, like we can goon and on and on. Oh you
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can't forget Mark and Kim. Imean, let's let's let's not step away,
you know, for from you know, easy listening radio, because I
think even easy listening radio station formshave taken a hit, well, yeah,
to where it isn't really in themainstream as it once was, and
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you would think it would be heavilybecause of the yuppie era. Remember Ted
Ziggenbush from Coast one to three pointfive in Los Angeles. I remember,
these these guys were the guys thatstarted at all. Casey Casem you can't
we can't even discuss this without mentioningHoward Stern. He made his head way
(52:40):
into the eighties radio pretty much theicon and the poster child of shock radio,
which I think I have a lotof mad respect for Howard Stern,
his diversity, his guts, butI think he pushed it a little bit
too far, and I think hetook the rule of radio and he took
(53:02):
it a little bit extreme. Yeah, do you remember, Yeah, And
there were others you know like thatthat followed suit, But there were others.
Do you remember Gary Owens. Hewas recognizable for his smooth voice he
had. This guy had a longcareer and he did countdown shows and things
like that. Now I'm gonna mentionone. How about Doctor Demento Barrett Hanson
(53:25):
known for his comedy. Oh,I remember. Both of those guys were
very similar in I believe in thetype of radio show that they did,
and it was enlightening. It wasdifferent, it was funny. It was
when you needed to get your laughout. We don't have that now.
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And talking about that, like Imentioned the late great Gino Mitchellini who did
the five o'clock Funnies at cal OsRadio during the eighties, we don't see
into the jewels like that at all. Radio doesn't bring out too much humor
at all anymore. It's almost likea trip out on this. I witnessed
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this personally my wife when she wouldtake the kids to school, she would
put the radio on to what mychildren wanted to hear. She became liking
that same music. I saw thatwith my sister and her kids. I
saw that with some of my friendsand their kids. When I coached baseball.
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I saw that a lot with alot of parents who switched the radio
over but kind of lost their individualisminto what their kids were listening to.
And I think that had a littlebit too contribute to the death of having
your own identity on terrestrial radio,wouldn't you say? So? I have
(54:52):
to agree with you. I wantto give everybody a little example of what
radio was like with a popular duofrom back in the day. This was
nineteen eighty nine and this was oneof the great duos from back then,
Laurena Wally with a little skit theyhad back then, and I can tell
(55:13):
you they just don't make them likethey used to. Well, he sept
forty six now from Boston five.Is he in the hall wallee? Yes,
he is in the hall line.But we should go ahead and make
the big announcement here, I supposeWald, don't you think I should?
New England Patriots have hired a newoffensive coordinator for the team, and they've
gone all the way to Yeah,that's him. Now. I'm sure they've
gone all the way to China tohire this guy. So let's get him
(55:35):
out in here and be the firstones to interview and introduce this we come
on a blaze. Yes, goodmorning, it is me extremely offensive coordinator
for the New England Patriots. Well, good morning, sir, and what
is your name? By the way, win one soon wine soon, So
tell us about well they'll be makingany changes with the Patriots now that you're
going to be the new offensive coordinator. I'll tell you if having flyer doesn't
(55:55):
straighten up. Yeah, he's goingto be irving star fryer d I see
really get my fort I'm cookie thatguy. Okay, listen, I'm beginning
to see a direction in which thisis going go ahead. It's not a
good direction. Getting ugly, well, Lauren wrote it. Yeah, we
have no dog. We have mascotfor New England Patriots, a mask of
(56:17):
witness. Anyway, it's a it'sa it's a dog. It's very well
trained dog. Really is it good? Delicious? Delicious? Yes, you
know it seems I've been coordinating offense. We made some changes. We don't
have the shotgun formation. You don'thave the shotgun for me. We have
the showgun formation. Would you pleaseleave the studio? Okay, thank you,
(56:45):
well, waldough bye. There wasstill a lot of material left on
that ladies and gentlemen. It's justa little snip of w v b F
Boston with Lauren and Wally back inthe day when radio and radio personalities rule
the airwaves. Like I said,changing, there's so many different reasons why
(57:05):
they don't allow this type of radiogoing on anymore. But if they really
knew, really knew how much andhow important. First of all, how
important this is for our brain,for our mind to let loose, to
let go, to forget about yourdaily problems, and how important these radio
personalities were to us. You know, do you remember going either going to
(57:29):
school or going to work or comingback from work, and you had a
horrible day. Turning on the radio, what would happen? You would forget
during that rush hour, you wouldforget about your problems. Briefly, it's
funny that you mentioned, you know, those two cats. Now, the
(57:50):
quirky thing about those two cats andthe style of comedy that they were portraying
nowadays would be highly offensive. Here'sthe case. You would think, okay,
that the actual race is going tocause a stir in it, but
(58:10):
what it actually is, it's thesyndications that are bringing about banning such type
clean humoristic, stupidity, fun youknow. Yeah, sometimes it's not even
the people from that race in particular, you know, it's just, you
(58:31):
know, the way society has isgoing exactly, so a lot of stuff
like that you can't do anymore,let alone on the air. You can't
do it in comedy. And youknow, when I used to do stand
up comedy, a lot of mydialogue, a lot of my skits,
my wife told me would be veryoffensive. Now you know what I'm saying.
(58:51):
So I tell her, well,you're right, but maybe we have
to stop being woosies. Tipper Goreal Gore's wife. Remember in the eighties
when she wanted to start putting arating on albums sad censorship. D Snyder
had to step up, show thathis hair wasn't the only thing growing out
(59:14):
of his head and speak up forthat. And it's odd the Act that
Clinton signed in ninety six. Wehave two individuals, a strong individual man
that I think weren't too bad asleaders. If we would have listened to
them, maybe things would be abit different. But yet Clinton, come
(59:36):
on, you lie about something likethat, what else do you lie about?
Away from that? Either way,But it's funny how censorship on albums,
cassettes or whatever form of music addedto the censorship of free form radio.
We were now being told what wecould listen to, when we could
listen to it, what you cansay, what you can say, and
(59:59):
if you say it, the FCCis going to come and cave f your
whole show. So it's it's oneof the things that the Telecommunications Act of
nineteen ninety six. See a lotof people think, oh, this was
in the nineties. You got toremember, conversations and discussions about the telecommunications
(01:00:22):
laws began in the late eighties,then progressed in the nineties. Okay,
now, this act, okay,the Telecommunications Act of ninety six, they
tried to create They talked about creatingmore competitive markets, and it was innovation
and it was going to be animpact on the radio and industry. It
(01:00:44):
undermined the vibrantcy, the localized radioculture that had previously existed. It destroyed
it, and it destroyed it toa degree that it affected everyone. Let
me put it to this, thedeath of radio didn't just affect radio personalities.
(01:01:05):
It didn't affect the music that wasplayed on the on the air,
but it affected the actual performer,the musician, the person making the albums,
the person make the person or personsthat had anything to do with specific
albums. Because thanks to all ofthat, and thanks to the rise of
(01:01:28):
the Internet, now we have insteadof radio, who's the dominant creature.
It is Spotify, iTunes and Pandoraand things like that that we're grateful for
because we can be on those platforms. But as far as music playing is
concerned, these these companies are firstof all, don't be fooled, they're
(01:01:51):
not streaming services. Okay, theyare subscription services. First and foremost.
They want your money. They couldn'tcare less who is on the top of
the list, who's the best.They don't care. All they care are
for you to give them some moneyas a subscriber, pay us so you
(01:02:15):
can hear what you used to getfor free. The term monopolizing is I
think in fit of what we're discussing, because when you're allowed the monopolization of
entities purchasing radio stations, taking awaythat choice, taking away that freedom,
(01:02:35):
taking away that diversity, or thedifferences the flavors of what you can in
take in your ears as a listener. The whole thing was a crapshoot,
a shit show. And it's sadthat I have to say that, and
we have to say that because weare very fortunate to put our program on
(01:02:57):
with their plateaus that they carry.But the thing is, it's we have
a little bit more freedom of whatwe say, but we can't play what
we feel. And I think it'seither one or the other. You get
a scrambled egg or a hard boiledegg in radio to where it used to
be, you can get both.When we come back, we're going to
(01:03:20):
be talking more about the death ofradio back in the nineteen eighties and as
we can continue this radical wave thattook us to the end of radio as
we once knew it. On thatnote, here's a double shot from Billy
Joel here back to the eighties RadioDon't Go Away, Harry Truman, doarsde
(01:03:57):
Red China, Johnny Ray, TheGoal to which Joda Maggio, John McCarty,
Richard Mister Student, Baker, Television, nor Karia, Southaria, Maryland
Borough, Rosenberg six, Barn Suparay, Paul John Randall, The King and
(01:04:19):
Nigh and the Catcher in the Right, Eisenhower Vaccine. England's got a new
Queen Boleti satire good bye to startthe fire. It was alway this is
the last time we start the pthe we did by the Chiga by Joseph
(01:04:43):
Stalin Alancar. That's the Rember copyof Rocabella Cappanella, Communist Rock, Roy
con Wopon Tuscaninid Cronk and Ben FooBalls rock around the Clark Einstein, James
Den Booker's got away the Team,Davy Crockett a band, Elvis beding this
they left Bardo the best Alabama bruisechap which is badrinking my supper in the
(01:05:08):
show. Didn't start the part that'salways man, this is the worst turn
to start the bid. We didn'tfind it and to try to find it.
A rock past the Night, MickeyMantle, Carol and spuntling and showing
brand on the river an shot thegold California Baseball start, but the homicide
(01:05:32):
children not a little mind the worldof Bunny Hollingdens face booking, Mui Bulow
the Castro. It's a little nooka sip and wake trail and Kennedy took
me chack a side do the condo. Didn't start the din that's always gone.
(01:05:56):
This is the worst time. Wedidn't start the rigs night and were
trying to fight and Hemingway ammonstrator inthe Strange Land Building, Berlin be A
bigs Engage and Florence on the Rabia, British beetle many of old Miss John
Glynniston Beach's palliser, Paul Knlcolm nextBritish politician sex jfk blown away. Let
(01:06:24):
us do I have to say tostart the fis always bother. This is
all the time we didn't start thebud light and but we're trying to fight
but control gi men Ji Nixon backand getting moon shot with stock Watergate from
(01:06:44):
the rock. Bacon Regan Palestine terroron the airline. I had told us
in the rand Russians in Afghanistan we'rethe fucking Sally ride heavy that a suicdime
foreign DEAs homus bench he ats crackingBernie and hypodermics on the show China do
the marshal the roller color wars alongto stop the file has all the gon
(01:07:09):
its is a long time to stopthe vile dot me gone to stop long
long we didn't start the fibu allthe wet stop the file we didn't start
(01:07:39):
the file the black. We didn'tstop the fire. Don't we do we
stop like and gentlemen, I'm ShadowStevens and you must listen to back to
(01:08:03):
the eighties radio. It's the law. Friday night, I crashed yall party
Saturday, I said, I'm sorry. Sunday came and trash me out again.
(01:08:30):
I was only having phone. Wasn'theard again anyone, and we all
joined the weekend before the chan saadythe combat zone. I want to bend
the style alone, even Rod,my phone cycle and the rag. And
(01:08:56):
you told me not to drive,but I mean it all alive. So
you said that all. It provesthat I haven't said. You made the
rise. I made me crazy,but it just made me alone to take
(01:09:17):
your looking all. So now holdthe lights, don't try to save it.
You made it wrong. Oh mylord, you made it rise.
Remember how I found you there alonein your electric chair. I told you
(01:09:45):
dirty jokes until you smile. Youalone and all of fan said take me
as I am your mind and enjoyedsome madness fall. Wow. I think
the ball of you try to findsomeone to satisfy you. I might be
(01:10:10):
as crazy as you say it wascrazy. Then it's true that it's all
because you, and you wouldn't wantme any other way. You made the
rise, I made it crazy,wow, but it's just made me lou
(01:10:36):
to take y'all look at the phone. It's slay to face. It's too
late. It's a change. Youmade it. But you made a rise.
(01:11:17):
You made the rise, I madethe crazy lay. But it just
made me the thing you're looking for. So now the legs, don't try
to say you made the wrong.No, you made a vice, you
(01:11:45):
made the wrong that, you madeadvice and made the wrong that. You
made a bas made the round thechange and made a round the Chinese made
the wrong change. Back to theeighties radio, we didn't start the fire,
(01:12:06):
Billy Joel, and as a specialtoo for our offer, you may
be Right, a song that includeda mention of radio and its own lyrics
chang These songs capture the sense ofa reckless freedom, rock and roll spirit
that was associated with that era,and you got to give it to Billy
(01:12:27):
Joel. He knew how to putit together. And it's unfortunate that we've
gotten to where we've gotten, butyou know what, thank you guys for
joining us. Here and back tothe eighties radio. If it's your first
time listening to us, we wantto we appreciate you. And you know,
we are talking today about the deathof radio and how it killed not
only radio itself, but also destroyedthe liberty and freedom of the on air
(01:12:50):
personality. And at the end ofthe day, the one who suffered was
the listener, because it also killedin a big way, the musician,
the performer, the artist. Industrializedradio has become industrialized. And here let
me add this to you. It'ssad, you know that an entity that
(01:13:15):
like serious radio XFM to where theyunderstand the need of what radio was,
which is great, it's awesome.They get it and they have hired in
the past many jocks and radio showsliking to our generation before us and maybe
a little after us, and they'vecatered to that and they've managed to get
(01:13:42):
great fortune and get great subscriptions togive such programming. And it's good for
us to be able to obtain thatonce again. But here's where it gets
weird for me. And I don'twant to step on anybody's toes, but
I know, me being me,I probably am. And you have to
go off the cuff every now andthen, but yet you have to pay
(01:14:05):
to get what we used to getfor free. And you know, our
radio show, we are doing everythingwe can to cater to the listener,
to cater to the people that arewilling to give us their ears, their
time. Understand where we're coming from, identify, but they too are looking
(01:14:26):
for radio just like us, whatwe're looking for, so we try to
give it to them. The finalversion of the Telecommunications Act of ninety six
was finally passed by Congress in Februaryof ninety six, signed by of course,
President Bill Clinton on the eighth ofFebruary, and it was influenced,
(01:14:46):
of course, by technological advancements.It was influenced by market dynamics, the
desire to be or for a morecompetitive landscape. But what it ended up
doing is leading to a major shiftin the indu street ownership rules were relaxed,
new opportunities for consolidated emerged. Consolidationemerged. But here's the bottom line.
(01:15:08):
What did that lead to at theend of the day. And because
the radio industry evolved in this way, it led to things like internet radio.
And part of that is good becausewe get to listen to radio stations
from all over the place, allover the world. The changes recent especially
have reduced the opportunities for on airpersonalities to stand out and build their own
(01:15:30):
brands. I mean this is allbecause what do they want to do.
They want to just attract more money, and they want to save okay,
and they want to have automated playlists, syndicated programming, reducing need for local
DJs. Now everything's going to begoing the way of AI pretty soon all
stations. You know, no offenseto stations like JACKFM, but in a
(01:15:51):
way, come on JACKFM. Youtook out the radio personality and you just
have voice tracking, and that completelydestroyed radio. That's the double and what's
(01:16:49):
your night, mile Cruisie night andthat everything I had? I love it
on my Rainie. You gain themthose old time stops rules, the words
(01:17:13):
you lady, babos, you layplan, you lay in fright, you
made as me that so down maycome some backgrounds, the backup boat girls
bases dun though. I just don'tcare and just out plays when you up,
(01:17:43):
you time your pad, your musyour style, all wabarsk bady you'll
go baby, He'll go. Godonly hear mister lady, he'll go Blady,
(01:18:10):
you'll go buy your mom bay.So lor we watched the sit we
(01:18:36):
watched the stars, all the audienfour hours and we have Jesus are commies
change stood. Let's tell me atleave all friends, my brother you say,
(01:19:03):
must listen, will miss you.You you way already. Aries Rady,
(01:19:27):
you got Brady, you'll google Rady, You got already, Aris Brady.
Y got Brady. You'll go goleRady, you got go already,
Aris Brady, got Rady, yougo your Mona scar Cott, you were
(01:21:21):
listening to back to the eighties radiowith the scott Wood Jag. We're just
like totally bashing on FM and terrestrialradio. But I think we've been soft.
I think we've been wussies, pussies, cowards because the FCC ain't got
nothing on you or me right now. So I think we need to get
(01:21:42):
a little bit brass knuckled out gangsterladies and gentlemen. This is No.
PG. Thirteen part of the show. No, your kids should be knocked
out in bed. If not hotchocolate, give it to your kids,
have a shot of something and goto bed with nothing but your toilet plungers
(01:22:03):
in your head. We are gonnaget down and dirty. I'm gonna tell
you right now. One of thebiggest things, the biggest things I despise
about turning on a radio nowadays tolisten to the same garbage five to six
stations deep. My knob can onlyturn so far and it doesn't get away
(01:22:28):
from the shit that I hear.So enough of my rant. What do
you got? You know, Icouldn't have set it better myself, saying
radio, now listen here, I'mlistening. Radio in the eighties was the
heartbeat of a community, a platformwhere DJs were were larger than life,
(01:22:48):
each with their own unique style connectingwith their audience. It was a time
when we can tune in and heara mix of genres, news, interviews,
expected surprises everywhere we turned, andit was delivered with authenticity, with
professionalism. We were part of aradio family. In the DJs were those
(01:23:12):
voices guiding us through our days.Now fast forward to today, what do
we have? A hollowed out versionof what radio used to be? Corporate
consolidation, turning those voices that weonce knew into clones of one another,
spewing out the same tired playlists acrossthe country, and don't get me started
(01:23:33):
a local content because it's practically nonexistent, and instead of connecting with your neighbors
with the community, stations are onlyinterested in pumping out syndicated shows automated playlists
to save a dime. Today's radio, my friends, lacks the heart and
soul that made the nineteen eighties sofreakin' special. Where's the charismatic hosts that
(01:23:59):
we knew once that they played whatpeople wanted to hear, gone replaced by
what generic, uninspired, untalented programmingthat sounds like it was put together by
a freaking computer. The result,the result is a disconnection between the listeners
and the medium that was once theirlifeline to the world. Sure there's exceptions,
(01:24:25):
of course, there's some still aroundtoday, but the magic of radio
has been lost in the pursuit ofprofit, and the vibrant local flavor that
once defined this medium is nowhere tobe found. And it's a shame chang
because really, the nineteen eighties provedwhat radio could be, dynamic, engaging
(01:24:45):
in an essential part of our lives, and now it's just a shadow of
its former self. So let's hopefor a renaissance man a revolution, a
radio revolution where we can once againfind the roots and bring back that eighties
magic. On that note, Iam Toscanner from Discono and Chang and the
(01:25:06):
one and only freaking Back to thefreaking Eighties Radio, wishing you the very
best of weeks and from everybody here, every single fan of Back to the
Eighties Radio, Bring back Eighties Radio. Yo Ho ho, cats and kiddies.
Before we exit and we lead youto another chantastic week. And remember
(01:25:28):
radio is a canvas. It's howyou paint on that canvas through your ears,
and what you hear and what youfeel is the beauty and the artistry
of what radio is. So untilnext week, I want you all to
remember one thing. Do not letthem silence you. Oh hell no.
(01:25:48):
The only way we get to prosperity, baby, is through unity, and
let that radio be that unity.So you all remember one thing. Keep
it together, keep it real,keep your voice out there, you keep
it locked and loaded. Right you'reat Tuscanoa Jang back to the eighties radio
audios odiche asta lavisa, sayanata awhole metal up bitches. Till next week,
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