'80s R&B, Hip Hop , and Dance

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boys and girls, all my eighties
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Welcome to Back to the Eighties Radio. It's not a podcast, that's right,

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it is a radio program. Toscano, please do something with my voice.

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As I go Hello, everybody sang
how the hell are you? Man?

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Oh my god. If I was
a pair of nylons that never got

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snagged, I would be saying I'm
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you, my fair weathered friend,
the only Mexican Italian guy that I know

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that still says tacos and tikidos tskano
the hell? Are you doing very very

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well? Oh? You know what? A special shout out my number one

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and number two favorite fans of the
Chang. I hope you boys are changtastic.

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Remember tomorrow is another day, and
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big shout out to Susan Freeman all
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out to Susan Freeman and all her
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want to miss today's show because we
are traveling back in time to talk and

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to listen to some of the best
r being, rap and dance music that

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has ever been recorded. So come
on, come with us and let's go

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back to the eighties. You are
back from a point of no return listening

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to Tuscano and Chang right here at
Back to the Eighties Radio. Welcome to

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them. We are going to dance, we are going to breakdance, and

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we are going to groove that funky
thing to scannell, Were you a breakdancer

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during the eighties at any time?
Really quick between you and me? And

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funny thousands of listeners, funny that
you would ask, because yes, I

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knew you were. I was a
breakdancer in the very early eighties. We

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were in our little club, our
little breakdance group, and my name was

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now don't laugh now, but it
was little Jammer spell l I l apostrophe

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Jammer. You can only imagine that
what that little kid would do anybody that

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was a breakdancer. I always thought
that I gave him the thumbs up because

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that's pretty incredible to do such gymnastics
on the board like that, would you

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know as you got your ghetto blaster
cranking. But there's something anybody out there

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that remembers the La Breakers. Do
you recall the name the La Breakers back

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in the eighties, which was probably
the most famous breaking a group back in

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the eighties off the streets of Los
Angeles. They were also in a couple

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of breaking movies back early on in
the eighties. Their names escape me,

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why because to me the movie sucked
anyway. Two of my daughter's uncles are

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members of the La Breakers really still
up today there still well, there are

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a lot. I would one of
them now as an actor, they must

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keep goes by THEE and goes by
the false name of Raymond Cruz rather than

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Raymond Garcia. He uh wow.
What I hated was what I know.

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There's a whole story behind my other
ex brother law, Richard Garcia was a

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member of that breakdancing a cast.
They used to call him tiny. Both

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of those cats were known everywhere for
breakdancing. They went all over the place.

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Yeah. So it's funny because you
know, my daughter also can dance,

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you know what I mean, her
mom could also dance. But yet

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me being the lassa and the rock
and roller, I didn't dance. No,

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of course a reason. Now,
after a few drinks, what would

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that do to your other type of
metal reputation? I could know now,

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Please please, please, please please. To be a metal god, you

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have to be able to stretch across
the universe. This is a topic that

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I do love because one of the
stations that I used to listen to a

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lot when I was a kid of
the eighties was Power one oh six in

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Los Angeles with Jackson such as mucha
Morales judo servants. And this was a

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time when the Florentine Gardens was the
dance place to go to and cruising was

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out in full force. Do you
remember cruising? I know you did a

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lot of cruising, Oh dude,
up and down with your boulevard. Even

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in uptown Whittier. There was two
parts of with your boulevard a cruise.

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You can go with the hot rods
and kind of the rockers surfers in uptown

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Whittier in Whittier, and then you
go from East La and you're with the

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homie. You're with everywhere. Everybody
always cruising and music was always the number

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one necessity. Do you not remember
to remember the many There were the many

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trucks full blast. There was the
low riders with oldies music blasting off.

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And that's when you had the breakdancwers, remember on the side of the street

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with their ghetto blasters and they were
pumping their tunes. Look, it was

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a time that in many cities around
the country there were breakdancers. There were

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people listening to dance music, and
there were popping and breaking clubs, many

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truck clubs that would shake the windows
of your home when they passed by with

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their bass. You remember that.
And as disco faded, the eighties southern

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rise of a new R and B
it was dominated by synths and drum machines

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and the growth of hip hop,
and even a hybrid came out of this

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developed with something that was known as
the New Jack Swing, which basically fused

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the attitude and the beats of hip
hop with the deep grooves and smooth vocals

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of R and B and dance music. During this rise of the flavor where

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music took over the backyard party before
fused with R and B. The number

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one band I think of his run
dmc or and the Sugar Hill Gang who

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came out I believe in seventy nine. To me, that was like the

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catch of urban music coming into the
form of club music to where that was

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the daz music. That was the
music that was going to gyrate you and

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keep your blood flowing. It always
stayed upbeat, It always stayed dance worthy,

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you know what I mean, No
matter what form, you were always

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dancing to it or humming to it. Correct, brother, whether you be

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at work or any club, even
bars, that was like the music that

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was played to get you in the
mood to get ready to clubbing. I

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Flash and the Furious Five in a
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Eighties Radio. What's up all you
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because we'll check about y'all. Back
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and all between all you mother blaa, get your peal together and are you

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ready to groove and swoop? Then
you will. We've got bull you don't

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you go nowhere? Suck up a
pot of chap in. Hey, some

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of you remember the eighties five?
Right? Well? It lives loud and

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proud on back to the eighties with
my pals to Scotto and Chang back to

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the eighties Radio Grandmaster Flash and the
Furious Five with a Message and the Egyptian

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Lover with Egypt Egypt all part chang
of the Golden Age of r NB.

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And oh you mentioned Florentine Gardens back
in the eighties in Hollywood, California.

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Many times I went to Florentine Gardens
late hours with my homeboys when we worked

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at Sam's Liquor. We would close
the liquor store, I'd say about twelve

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o'clock and then we would make our
way to Hollywood and it would be a

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flip of the coin where we would
go. If me and my buddy can

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your one, then we would be
going to the Rainbow and experience, of

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course, the great life of being
a rock and roll god. As I

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am. Thank you very much,
hold the applause, or we would go

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to Florentine Gardens, right. So, I have several experiences at Florentine Gardens,

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and I have to tell you you
must have stood out like a sore

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thumb though, oh man, I
was the only cat wearing a white leather

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jacket with black fringes hanging down,
okay with tight pants, No, never

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tight pants. No, I never
wore tight pants and tucked them into my

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high tops because I thought that was
like, you're looking like bows of the

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clown and where I come from,
you have to look street tough. Yeah.

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Of course, of course, parachute
pants with an iron maiden belt buckle,

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a converse was there. It would
be the Doctor j version or be

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Chuck Taylor's of a different color.
But that was the attire because back in

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the day you had to be ready
to go at anything. Another good thing

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would be Levi's five oh ones,
which always wore. Because Levi's five O

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ones you could move around. Sure, either you can either dance with the

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ladies, kick somebody's ass, bang
your head, get into the pit.

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I did find them a little too
high at the crotch area, so it

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wasn't as comfortable for me. I
had to find something that was a little

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bit lower. But I think it
was five fifties. Fifties Oh nice number.

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Anyway, like I was saying,
I remember that song would come out

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and I'm telling you, the whole
entire place of Florentine guards would rush the

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floor. Oh the people are running
around. Yeah, dude, people were

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running around trying to walk like an
Egyptian doing the Cleopatra. Uh. Some

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dudes were doing me the King tut
and Steve Martin wasn't even the room,

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and it would only be like a
long hair dude, or me and my

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buddy Canyer who were rocker dudes,
or people that just couldn't get anybody to

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dance with or or afraid to dance, you know what I'm saying. And

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I would just trip out because I
had so many jokes back in my mind

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back then, because I was always
thinking jokes. Oh, yes, what

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year was that, this would be
the This would probably be nineteen eighty eighty

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four, yea eighty five. Yeah, so that's where we can find your

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jokes then, nineteen eighty four,
yes, eighty five, yes, yeah,

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yeah, smart ass, Thank you, thank you very much. Hey,

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hey, get this guy a trophy. You mentioning this was one of

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your favorite breakdancing songs. Yeah,
I can only imagine how ridiculous I looked

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you looked breakdancing of that song.
I would imagine you would have to like

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go slow and kind of do robotics
like some cats. No, you just

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cannot master. Some cats can't do
robotics, like but no, I could

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do I could do the robot But
it was all about your style, getting

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down and spinning and doing the windmill, having dance offs. But there were

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other, you know, great rappers
and great songs of the day that brought

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us way back. One of those
was the Beastie Boys. When the BC

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Boys came out, they kind of
broke the mold because here you have,

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you know, three white kids from
from New York and just trying to be

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something that people didn't want to accept. Yeah, so people didn't really want

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to accept them. And what happened, They just exploded and every culture realized,

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hey, these guys are the real
deal. They not only identify with

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a rapper, but also with a
rocker, and they brought in two different

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cultures together and they were sort of
the broker between all these different cultures.

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And that included white, Black,
Hispanic and Asian. Uh So, the

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bo always broke a lot of moles. Right now in the eighties, as

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we're talking about hip hop, bro, you cannot forget the great acts as

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NWA, right, true, you
cannot forget public Enemy, especially, you

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can't forget run DMC. I mean, you know three bands that took it

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to another limit, and I'm talking
about the first two because they spoke from

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the heart. They they they made
their music from a true story, did

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they not the struggles of growing up
in an environment where you are beat down

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by the powers of above. But
back in the eighties, NWA and Public

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Enemy put a message, a stance
on what was really going on in the

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bowels of the bodiles in the neighborhoods
of America as they seem fit. The

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ironic thing is it became a movement. It became a feeling of vibration.

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Music is always a vibration and extension
of your emotion and when people connect to

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it's it's hypnotic, it's captivating,
it's unity. The eighties opened up the

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door for freedom, and I think
one thing we all of the eighties have

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to know that we were pretty much
unified, even though the powers above were

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telling us not to be. Before
hip hop was all about women and drugs

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and money, it used to be
about street cred. It used to be

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about pride, about rhyming, about
breakdancing and style, being a b boy

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and if you ever had your skull
cracked or accused of something you didn't do,

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because the way you look, this
next set goes out to you.

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Here's some NWA straight out of comption. You're listening to back to the eighties.

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That was Public Enemy. You are
listening to Tuscano and Chang on a

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pop culture frenzy right here and back
to the eighties radio. You gotta love

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it, man, And I know
that a lot of people are going,

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Man, I remember these songs,
you know, Like before I heard the

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Egyptian Lover, I had and heard
that in years. When I when I

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reheard it, I was like,
wow, I'm just I'm so glad that

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we play it at Ka Hits ninety
two five. You can take the boy

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out of the neighborhood, but you
will never take the neighborhood out of the

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boy. That's right. I think
that is true today as it was yesterday.

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And I think that is true.
I'll always think that hip hop and

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rock and roll or music of the
street, music of emotion, music of

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rebellion, tired of being oppressed,
tired of being typecast, And I think

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hip hop and rock and roll are
the two staples, not only staples,

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but screws in the cross of our
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we've talked, we have talked a
little bit about rap. Now we've

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got to dive in to an area
in R and B because there's so many

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R and B artists, and that
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and Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson,
but there were other artists that we need

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a refresher course, artists such as
Full Force, who, by the way,

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is one of the artists Full Force
and Keith Sweat. As the beginnings

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of the New jack swing era hit
in the late eighties, artists such as

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Bobby Brown that made such a dramatic
effect on the youth. Let's not forget

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Lisa Lisa Chic, Paula Abduel,
how about even Diana Ross and Anita Baker,

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Tina Marie. There was cameo Jody
Watley. Remember Jody Watley was a

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song called looking for a New Love? How about Moore's Day and the Time,

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the SS band, we can name
him for days. We've got Pebbles,

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You've got Billy Ocean, Marvin Gay, I'll be sure, Whitney Houston.

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You know you've got Rick James.
Oh, you cannot forget Rick James.

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Yes, how about Freddy Jackson.
He wasn't a Jackson five, but

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Freddy Jackson. You had Jeffrey Osborne
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Here's a band that I'm gonna mention
that I used to listen to a lot,

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but this is very early eighties and
that's Midnight Star. I've got one

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for you. How about the Gap
Band? Oh of course, yes,

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how about Patti LaBelle? Who could
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How about this one? You probably
don't remember this one, the TIMEX Social

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Club with a song called Rumors.
You know what, No, you don't

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remember Rumors? No, I do
not. Just that we're gonna have to

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play that with the one with Michael
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Chang, I'm gonna play Rumors in
a little while. Okay, you know

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what, I want to take the
audience back to nineteen eighty two with you

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Dropped a bomb on me by the
Gap Band, and get up and feel

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the funk it. Don't let Toscano
and Chang be the only two monkeys.

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Man. You have to say,
brother, that is smooth. Okay,

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say that over and over until it
happens that you know, with smooth,

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you're gonna you're gonna you're going to
edit it and play it over and over

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and when you go to sleep tonight, Bob back to the eighties radio,

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the Gap Band and the TIMEX Social
Club with rumors. As we mentioned,

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we've got so much to talk about
with R and B. It just makes

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you want to dance. Yeah,
and it's music that still stands the test

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of time and people exaggerating it for
the first time all over again. You

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know what's incredible, my brother is
as we listen to these tunes and the

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audience is listening to these suns,
you know, people are gonna get up

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and dance. They're gonna stay Oh
that's my jam where they're gonna start snapping

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their fingers. They're gonna start moving. Even the younger people are going to

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start tripping on these songs and they're
gonna start moving because they may have remembered

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when mom and dad, maybe grandma
and grandpa used to dance. Because come

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on the chat right here, I'm
a grandpa, but I'll still get off

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freak going if I'm gonna get my
freak on. It was the Gap Band,

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bro. Oh yeah, bro I
used, the chola would come out

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in me and I would start dancing, and I would be like, I

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thought I was really cruising down the
neighborhood, but I was only on the

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dance floor. Imagine that my hair
was moving the same place that my pleats

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were. Yeah, because when I
would have to get up and get freaky

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funky and get into the hood and
do the dance thighing, I used to

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wear zootsu pants double belted, pleaded
on the back and on the front creased

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and they would be baggy tied on
the bottom with cuffs with my Stacy's and

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a chain wallet. The first time
they came out. No, actually I

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got it off my grandpa after he
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Hey check out the stars in their
first major movie, Cila E Run,

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DMC, the Fat Boys, Curtis
Blow and that's actual performance by New

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Edition in Crush Grewve. It's a
film about dreams, desires and the determination

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to make it to the pop.
Crush Grew written by Ralph Parquar, directed

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by Michael Scholzon. Gritted r in
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Hoping Tomorrow National Westwood Man's Chinese Hollywood
and Peterson Driving Is Near You from Warner

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brother Now back to good wholesome,
politically correct entertainment. Oops, wrong Station.

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Now back to the eighties with Tescano
and change. Where would you rate

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a looser? Van DROs and where
would you say? Did he take the

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pop R and B sound? And
then give me another example who you would

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categorize. He was the epitome of
romance. He was it when it came

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to playing a song when you were
out on a date. I remember he

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had a song called never Too Much
Wow. What a great song from nineteen

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eighty one. Just like him.
There were others including Lionel, Ritchie Shalamar

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with a Night to Remember You Got
you gotta remember that, George Clinton,

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Remember George Clinton. We cannot forget
of course, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder

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always always made you smile. His
music was just so happy and so truthful

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and so transparent and sincere. And
you know, Jermaine Jackson, how about

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Chaka Khan? Marvin Gaye was still
relevant, earth Wind and Fire was relevant.

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And also we started seeing the boy
bands coming back into play, reminiscent

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of the Temptation and platters, and
we saw a new addition. Now who

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could forget a new addition? And
what they brought to the beginning of the

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eighties with their style, Whitney Houston
or Rita Franklin. R and B was

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kind of stemming to what it used
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there true the pop of it,
and kind of like the more video technology

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came into music, did you notice
that it became more for eye candy pop

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ear candy as opposed to true artistic
talent. And I think that's where we

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started seeing pop music change into so
many different avenues. Would you not agreement?

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morphine process. Look what happened to
pop music. It became something that it

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was just not back in the eighties. But that's a different story. This

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is Keith Sweat with I Want Her
on the One and Only Back to the

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eighties RADI back to the eighties radio. That was the ever Wondrous Prince with

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Sign of the Times. Before that, you heard Keith Sweat with I Wanner.

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Here, I'm back to the eighties
radio. We are talking about R

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and B. We've been talking about
hip hop and rap. If you just

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joined us. Oh my goodness,
rewind the whole show. You gotta listen

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from the beginning. Remember that word
rewind. Rewind. Yeah, if you're

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listening, if you're listening to us
through a podcast platform, you need to

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go back. If you're listening in
to us through khit com, then you

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can't. But you are listening to
the songs in their entirety. You mentioned

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artist, but you mentioned something before
I get into artists such as Whitney Houston

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and Michael Jackson again, and Prince, you mentioned something about video making a

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difference, and I was going to
talk to you about this. We're not

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going to talk a lot about this
subject, but I do want to mention

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the entrance of MTV, what MTV
did for music, musical artist what happened

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by the late eighties when MTV started
morphing into something else with reality programming and

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things like that. Even though it
may have and we've talked about this in

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previous shows, it may have killed
maybe the radio industry, it didn't the

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radio. It did do a lot
for the artists and the artists that of

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course, you know, they made
a lot of money, made a lot

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of money. They were the notoriety
that they received. They were being famous

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in parts of the world that would
have never heard their music if it wasn't

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for MTV. So I do want
to make that as a little side note,

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we can talk about MTV as a
separate subject on a different show.

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But a real quick, a real
quick question. Oh here it comes,

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would you know, settle down,
don't get your glasses all your golfer set

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Would you not say that video to
music is similar to the movie poster of

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a movie because the artist or the
movie may not be that good more than

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the poster, I would say,
it's more like the trailer, the movie

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trailer. Yes, you know.
Can I applaud you? You know what?

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We need an applause? Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Please keep listening to Skano and Chang. We are more than a couple of

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funny guys. High five on that
one. We are. I appreciate it.

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So yeah, I definitely think that
don't leave, Here we go,

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here we go. All right?
This just in Chang, Hang on a

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second, I gotta read this note. Oh oh okay, okay, I

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got well, ladies and gentlemen,
there is a fantastic news for all you

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dance lovers out there. The reopening
of the Florentine Gardens into Hollywood. To

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give us more information on what's going
on and all the happenings around there,

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is our via satellite correspondent Rod Steel. Rod, what is going on at

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the new Florentine Gardens launch? Oh
my god, boys, if you were

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here, if you were toys,
the vibrations, the sensation you would feel,

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the flow of the energies is cosmetic
here. It's like closing your eyes,

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taking your pants off, stepping in
a cold jacuzzi and being Wow,

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I'm back in the eighties. I
am here at Florentine Gardens and Holly Weird

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habby Weed, California, and we
were having our fiftieth anniversary since the club

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was closed and the city was dynamics
in opening oh the grounds and letting us

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come in andto our clumps wide come
sway comes thing with us. We're gay,

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We're free. Oh, I get
so excited, Tusky Toscano. Oh,

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I would just love to swirl you
in a fork like noodles though Chang.

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I wanted you and Chang hair like
these drinks. I've had an old

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road, so I've had a few. I've had a few drinks. I

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can see girls will be girls.
What is so cool about the new Florentine

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gardens, Toscano. Tonight is like
a disco out of the closet. Everybody

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be free and hifty, dad and
date tonight. It's eighties all the way.

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It's gonna be all go, probably
some blow and who knows. There's

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so many beeftcakes and cinderellas, disco
bunnies, hotties, naughties. Everything is

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here, Taskano. If you and
Chang were here, it would be Chang

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castick. Anyway, Tonight's vibration is
incredible. They have ice caverns. You

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can go and walk do and dance
and do the freeze moves. Ice caverns

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at gardens, Yes, yes,
ice caverns. You walk in and you

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dance slow like you're freezing. Then
you go into the hot sensation room where

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you immediately throw all your clothing off
and start dancing to Duran, durand eloy.

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Oh, and you know what else? They break out on hasty boys.

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I want them to pound on me
like instruments. Anyway, Tascano,

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if you're out there listening, anybody, get down right now to Hollywood and

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come to the Real the revamp of
the Florentine Garden. It's everything you wanted

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to be in the eighties and more
Toscano. There's so many Italian subs here

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wing, I gotta get out of
here. Welcome Maties fans. I have

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been back to you. You no
longer need to listen to any other podcast.

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You won't the eighties, don't you. The longing for it is swelling.

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You now feel the memories coming to
you and listen to Back to the

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Eighties. Give in to nostalgia.
With each passing moment, you make yourself

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bore of an eighties fan. It
is unavoidable. It is your destiny.

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You don't know the power of Back
to the Eighties. You like your childhood

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are now? Man? That was
ever so lovely? Cover Girls would show

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me? Oh, you got to
remember that song back in the day,

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back when dancing was everything to us. This is Back to the Eighties Radio.

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Thank you for joining us on another
Friday edition of the greatest eighties radio

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show on Earth. That's right,
this isn't a podcast, this is a

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radio show. All good things,
as they say, must come to an

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end. Thank you guys for joining
us. Take care of yourselves this week.

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Be good because there's a lot of
voting stuff going on out there,

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and oh it's kind of scary.
But in the meantime, you take care

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of yourselves, be good to everybody
around you, and be an example of

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what a good citizen should be.
We'll talk to you next Friday. This

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is the chang before we release you
to another chang tastic weekend. Don't let

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your politics cloud your mind until next
Friday. I want everybody to remember you

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matter, you count. Everybody out
there is a one race, the human

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race. Go out there with a
smile. I want to take you out

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with a special song from Iced Tea, which is Colors. I bid you

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an audio said sayada at astelawego And
to all my homies in every budio or

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till next week, stay true,
stay solid, crul me back