Episode 12 - Remembering Malls & Other stuff in the '80s

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And one more time, thank you
for joining us. You've heard of Ted

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Copper. I am Ted Copper.
Thank you for joining us here on back

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to the eighties. This is the
news count that you've been waiting for.

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You've heard of sixty minutes. This
is less than sixty seconds. Tonight,

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we have a very special guest as
we interview Henry Kissinger. Mister Kissinger,

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thank you for being on the air
with us here on back to the Eighties

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News Center. I wanted to ask
you, being that you are from the

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eighties, what advice would you give
the young people of today. Well,

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first of all, mister Kapa,
I want to thank you for having me

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on this show. I spent many
a time since the Oval Office speaking to

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the presidents about some of the global
issues, some of the humane issues,

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some of the issues with the glasses
and the curly hair, and the side

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of my years that never seemed to
go down, even when I would use

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your app that you have in America. It kind of looks like a pineapple

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jelly, but that is another story. Well, I would I would like

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to address the children of today because
they are both misguided misfortune, misinterpreted misdemeanor.

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I would like to him to know
that you have a voice, but

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right now in America you cannot hear
your voice because nobody wants to hear it

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because of the great Pumpkin who is
the presidents now. I also want the

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US to know that if you ever
get the chance and you are under the

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influence, you need to take a
trip back to the eighties. You are

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listening to Back to the eighties,
Tuskano and chain with you. Thanks for

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joining us on another show. You
know Chang. Last week we had a

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blast talking about restaurants, we had
a special guest and everything, and today

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we're going to continue some of that
talk, but we're also going to be

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dabbling in to a little bit of
the fashion state room we used to get

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attached to and clean downto back in
the eighties. If you have any kind

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of question for either Chang or myself, or you want to give maybe a

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certain idea for a topic, you
can go ahead and just let us know

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through our Facebook page. Direct message
us and we will get back to you

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as soon as we see that message. I also want to remind you that

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you can catch us here every single
Friday, on Spotify, iTunes, on

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everywhere else and you can find Tuskano
in chang right here. Take us with

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you wherever you go. Oh,
I also like to be taking advantage of

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eighties ladies out there. And uh, I'll have to add to my partner

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in crime, my co pilot,
my executor of all my hananigans over the

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microphone, A mister Tiscano, A
fine and beautiful how you're doing on this

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fantastic Friday? Again? Another addition, rendition, addition, sensation, but

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it's almost a comical penetration to the
ears right here and back to the eighties,

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Mount Tiscanno. I want to I'm
gonna throw a quick restaurant right at

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you, because I know we have
to get out of the out of the

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restaurants, but this is just one
I'm going to throw at you. Why

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because I want to see the expression
on your face and I would love to

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see the expression on anyone else's face
when I mentioned this restaurant back in the

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eighties. Are you ready? When
you are a velvet turtle? All remembers

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the valvet turtle were lugs and elegance
came together in a family dwelling type scenery.

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Oh my gosh, you took me
way way back the Velvet Turtle.

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Now, this is a restaurant that
had at its height, right, its

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most popular era back in the eighties
here in California, plus locations in Washington

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and Arizona. By the way,
it had over twenty locations. Twenty locations.

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So and that was a fancy,
fancy pamps restaurant. I mean back

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then, all your parents got drissed
up in a suit in a tie to

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go to the Velvet Turtle. Yes. Brother. Another restaurant I recall going

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to with my parents was the l
Ray in Pico, Rivetta off of Washington

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Boulevard. You might be familiar with
that location because you are a homie of

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Downey. Yes, yes, yes, m yeah, I am familiar.

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Actually, well, is that place
still up and running? Yes, that

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place is still up and running.
The and I used to think the del

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Ray was affiliated with the del Ray
Race track. So every time my parents

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said we're going to the del Ray, I thought I was going to go

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see I thought I was gonna go
see Willie Shoemaker, you know what I

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mean, a famous jockey. The
only horses I ever saw were the stakes

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on my plate. I've got a
restaurant for you. I got a restaurant

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for you that see if this one
brings back memories, Um, I remember

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a few locations that this following restaurant
was that. But the one that I

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recall the most was now. Although
I lived in Downey part of part of

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my youth and Downey and my other
part in Santa Fe Springs, my dadd

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used to take me to Cerritos quite
a bit, Curritos, California. And

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there's a freeway that runs throughout Downey
Norwalk you know Bell Gardens or I'm sorry,

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Wine Gardens, And that freeway is
the six oh five. Now,

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the six oh five freeway has exits
off that go into Ciritos. Right and

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right next to the Ciritos Mall was
a smaller ploset like a mini mall,

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which now it's huge, But there
was a restaurant right next to the freeway

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and the sign you could see it
for miles and miles and it was a

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huge red Heart Loves my Brother,
Yes, yes, you're you're You're now

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Loves Loves where you could get a
lot of food and it was great food.

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Everything was killer at a good price
and you didn't have to get half

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as dressed up as you did to
go to the Valvet Turtle or Charlie Browns

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to that. Now, when Charlie
Browns was more more an upper scale restaurant,

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I remember Charlie brown Yeah, more
upper scale. But Loves was a

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place that you would take, like
your dates, one that you know you

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could you can make a good impression. Yet you weren't going to break the

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bank at least, you know,
My parents were whenever I would ask them

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for money to go on a date, you know, at fourteen or fifteen.

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Want to hear a funny story when
I was fourteen. All right,

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so I'm fourteen. How much of
a date can you go on at fourteen?

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Right? So I took the young
lady out to the fabulous Golden Arches

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at fourteen? Mm? Yeah,
So the young ladies go to the original

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one in down, Yes, the
one that's it's got the little burger burger

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headed chef running right? Oh yeah
yeah yeah. So we go there,

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we stand in line, and and
I said, you know, what would

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you like? You know, I'm
treating you know whatever you want. Sounds

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like a story from ild Douchebago man. So here's what happens. She says,

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Oh, that's okay, I'm not
hungry. What does what does the

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this Italian guy say? I should
have said, don't worry, let's go

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get some ice cream or something else, and you know, we'll go to

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we'll go to uh golf and stuff
down the street. No, what did

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I say? All right? Hang
out while I placed my order in eat

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the same thing. I hurder myself
a double quarter pounder meal. Oh yeah,

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I've pounded that down right in front
of her. Oh. I would

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have done the same thing, the
same thing, And I think about if

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she would have reached from my soda
would have been over. I would have

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said, hey, yeah, excuse
me, it's sweethet Ye only stands once,

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okay twice sold me. Luckily she
didn't go for my fries. Yeah,

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ally had fries like McDonald's back then. No one, no. And

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you know what, I gotta admit, from all the places from back in

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the eighties that we used to enjoy
the fast food places, McDonald's is one

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of those that still maintains some of
that flavor some right, and in particular

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they're French fries. We had McDonald's
a couple of days ago, which we

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don't really have anymore. You know, maybe once every couple of months.

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Yeah, but we had McDonald's and
my son was saying, yeah, I

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know that these are probably the most
unhealthiest fries there are, right, but

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gosh, they're the most delicious French
fries ever. Yeah, but you know

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what the chang here. I stopped
visiting the residency of the clown, as

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in Ronald McDonald once. Once Bozel
was elected into the President's office, I

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kind of lost my field for having
anything to do with any clown whatsoever.

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So I don't at all. It's
very interesting. It's gonna be huge,

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huge today. We're going to be
talking about different things that we used to

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do back in the eighties and today
in particular is going to the mall and

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the different fashion statements and going to
the different stores that were in these malls.

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You know, you know, we
live in a time that unfortunately,

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our kids and you know, kids
and grandkids, they're never gonna know what

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it felt like to do some of
the things that we used to do.

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Oh no, no, no,
there's no way in places. Right.

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For example, when we did go
to the malls, whatever mall, you

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went to take your pick right back
then, it didn't matter if you didn't

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have money. To go to the
mall. Maybe you had only enough for

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a drink, but you went there
to spend hours at the mall. Yes,

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to hang out, to pick up
on girls, to go to the

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arcade. Oh remember what fun it
was to go to the arcade and malls?

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Oh yeah, or just to hang
out right there against the railer and

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you just check out. You check
out all the hot chicks and dittos and

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stuff, and you're like, oh
man, you know the camaraderie. You

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know the camaraderie you went through with
your buddies. You know you remember,

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I mean I I went to so
many malls I'll name you. Lakewood Cerritos,

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Uh, the La Puente Mall,
the Santa Fe Springs Mall, Stonewood

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Mall, I mean Stone and Mall, which was originally an outside wall.

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Yeah that that always uh pretty cool, you know what I mean? It

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was always to me it was like
it was a place where the old people

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went to shop. Yeah, tell
me about it. They had They had

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a Farrels there. Oh remember Farrels
used to rock and roll right there?

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Brother. Yes, remember I told
you my eleventh birthday story and Farrels,

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Yes, did I did? I
tell you? I told you I gotta

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I got a pair of socks wrapped
in newspaper from Yeah, and it wasn't

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even the entire packet of socks.
He had taken them out, giving me

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one hair out of them. Wow, yeah, don't don't remind me.

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Don't remind me. If you're gonna
be a cheap ass like that, at

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least get the three pair and then
give it to them. You know,

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every two days I would to give
us you. Here's another pair of them.

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Slot. Hey, happy birthday.
It's your birthday again, sirday in

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a row? Why another pair of
stock? Aren't you a big boy?

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Aren't you lucky? Yeah, your
feet are gonna thank you now. One

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of the places that we used to
love going to, when we used to

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go to the malls, whichever one, every single mall had a music store.

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Oh yes, Sam Goody Music Tower, Record Music plus music plus um,

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liquorice pizza, liquorice pizza. You
recall the liquorice pizza that was located

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in Downey, right right across the
street from the Stonewood Mall. You can

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get concert concert shirts. You can
get your concert tickets there. Oh dude,

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well, listen, you said something
important to there too. One of

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the things that her kids will never
know that we did. When we wanted

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to go to a concert, we
had to wait in line, and if

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you wanted the real good tickets,
you waited a line since three or four

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in the morning. You remember those
days. I remember going over there and

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waiting in line for hours. But
the thing was you couldn't go over there

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until after ten o'clock to start the
line. And then about i'd say around

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twelve, they would give you a
wristband and then you had to wait there

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with whatever color wristband you got till
that next time in the morning when your

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wristband color was called, and then
you went in for your tickets. You

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remember that sometimes you could be in
line from ten eleven o'clock at night all

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the way till probably like twelve o'clock
the next afternoon. Oh wow, that

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see that I don't remember because I
think we waited in line. Let's see,

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maybe a couple of times. And
the times that we waited in line,

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we waited like from three in the
morning four in the morning, and

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they opened the place like a tan
and and then we just got our tickets

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then. So it wasn't it wasn't
that bad. Yeah, But one of

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the things that I remember going when
you're going to malls and you're going to

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these music shops. Kids today will
never understand the beauty of choosing your music,

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choosing your album, choosing your cassette. Do you remember that there was

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It was just something special about choosing
your music. And then when you you

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bought it and you held it in
your hand, you you take it with

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you. You couldn't wait to get
home or to your car and unwrapped at

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that cassette. And by the way, a pet peeve of mine. I

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hated the stupid rapping on the cassette
tapes. Remember they were they were They

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were wrapped so hard you needed rocket
science diploma to to open those ups.

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I mean you couldn't even grab it
with the side of your tooth and open

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you know, times you would look
for anything. Your fingernail could never penetrate.

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That. I remember back to you
back in our day when we would

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be able to buy our music.
It's a good point. And uh,

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you know they they refer to music
as theater of the mind, you know,

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on an album, a cassette on
eight track, Uh, because you

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don't visually see the notes or the
musicians. Of course you did once we

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had MTV come in and destroyed radio
to no other end. But uh,

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don't be a don't now. Prior
to that, back on point, back

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on point now, prior to that, I thought the beauty of buying an

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album, and I'm going to an
album, the you know, the LP,

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the classic of the vinyl. Uh. You pull it out and it

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looks like liquorice. It's just shiny, black, scratchless, beautiful thing with

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a beautiful turntable and just the right
type of a needle. That thing would

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just skin over like a surfer across
the uh, the ocean waves. It

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was just like oh scoo, song
after song. But the beauty of buying

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an album to me, probably to
many of us, was opening the cover,

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pulling the album off, and looking
at the jacket. You look at

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pictures, you look at possible uh
crypt notes from the band. You know,

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you see who uh was the engineer, so you find out different artists

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are involved. Uh you have sometimes
the lyrics are there. So to me

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back then in the eighties and the
seventies, even well, of course the

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seventies, the album was always pound
for pound, the best thing you could

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get beside the album of music that
you were getting, because you were you

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were getting so much inside. Sometimes
you'd get pictures that nobody else would get,

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nobody else would have. You'd get
pictures maybe sometimes I remember sometimes albums

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came with concert tickets, but yeah, those were fantastic. And then you

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got little stories and antidotes from the
artists, so it was just an awesome

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thing. Now, I have always
been a cassette guy. Oh yeah.

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However, I gotta be honest with
you. I gotta be honest with you.

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Since the advent of streaming music and
everything. On MP three, I

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abandoned all my cassettes, all my
records. Yes, I mean, I

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don't even have a player anymore.
But check this out. I had a

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some type of revelation a few a
few nights ago, and I decided to

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start listening to eighties vinyls and I
listened to them on YouTube from people who

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have these really, really expensive players. Right. You know, I was

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not a believer in this. I
used to say, there's no way that

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the old stuff can sound better.
There's just no way, because everything's digital

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and now, and it just sounds
more true. And you know, what

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I couldn't have been more wrong.
The sound that you get through a vinyl

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when when it's quality, this sound
is just I mean my kids, my

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kids don't have a trained ear yet, they're still young, but I let

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them hear. My kids go,
yeah, I can hear maybe a five

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percent difference. Bro, you and
me, we know our ears can really

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tell when you're listening. It's almost
like, yeah, it's almost like you're

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in the same room when they're recording
it. When you crank on that that

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brand new vinyl, or even if
you could you collect vinyl. I still

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have a lot of my vinyl,
but my wife ditched a lot of our

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cassettes because you know, there's CD
players in cars now. Oh, I

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could plug in my phone, So
why do we need these? And I

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was very business jack because I'd say
I had probably over two thousand cassettes,

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which which probably go all the way
back throughout the entire eighties summ into the

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nineties, not many h and the
seventies. So I lost a great deal

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of my musical history. You know, because of the cassette where you said

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when she threw your Belinda Carlisle cassettes
a way by, well you know what.

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I was upset when she threw my
go goes post nice nice? Well,

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so what we this is what happened
this week. So I started listening

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to that, and then I start
listening to cassettes, really good cassettes on

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these really high tech old eighties players, nothing new brother everything, and you

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know what, comparing the sound that
you used to get from that, there

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is a difference. It's much better
quality. You can hear things on instruments,

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on the recordings that you couldn't hear
or that you can't hear on streaming

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music on iTunes and all the on
Spotify. They don't have the quality,

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and it's just amazing. So that's
some of the things that our kids won't

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be able to do now that we
used to be able to do, which

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is, you know, go to
these stores. You mentioned MTV, and

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I have to bring this up.
I know MTV is alive and kicking,

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but it's not how it started,
right America. I want I want my

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MTV. I want my MTV company. That's one of the things that our

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kids will never know. We'll never
get the feeling right of I want to

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go home and I want to see
the latest video. I want to see

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the latest music video. They have
no idea. They will never know what

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it felt like because it was the
first time that they were being introduced to

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music in video. But you can
also say the same thing about television shows

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like American Bandstand, which started in
the fifties, which brought music to the

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forefront, which brought it in the
face of America on television. Then you

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also have shows that me and you
grew up. I don't know if you

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used to watch the Midnight Special,
so yeah, you know, you had

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all kinds of crazy bands coming on
then. I mean every variety show that

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was cracking in the eighties. I'm
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These are from the late seventies.
You know, they all kind of

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popped off and they had live musical
acts, so a lot of people got

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to see that, you know,
rather than when video came out in the

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eighties. Television and music have always
gone hand in hand. This goes all

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the way back to the day when
the Doors and the Beatles first appeared on

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television, you know what I mean. But with the eighties, the eighties

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went into transition. It took the
live band away from the broadcasters type family

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good family entertainment, family time shows
with music and entertainments such as Sunny and

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Share in those and it created a
storyline, a mini movie for each song

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in MTV, which to me,
I'm gonna go on a limb because I

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like hanging out on limbs. That
to me, that law you lose the

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luster in the beauty and the real
passion of enjoying that song because your subconscious

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mind looks for that quirky video,
that dance move, that storyline. I

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thought bands had a tendency in the
eighties to up writing real emotional tracks and

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more or less good storylines and what
would make a good video. That's well,

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you know what happened in the eighties, And I heard this from bands

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themselves, as most bands, not
all of them, but most bands,

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they hated doing music videos because this
was a PR thing, right, so

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these bands were interested in, especially
people like Steve Perry. Steve Perry hated

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doing music videos. And if you
remember music videos on MTV, a lot

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of them didn't make sense. They
didn't go along with what was being said,

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and that was all part of the
PR people. You know, the

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marketing people had nothing to do with
the actual artists themselves exactly, and so

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I can understand that that part,
but I you know, as as a

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team. Back then, i'd loved
it. It was the first time I

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had ever seen it, and and
yeah, most videos, I was like,

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I have no idea what that's got
to do, but I don't care

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because I'm actually watching the people that
I like, you know, their songs,

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you know, I'm watching them.
I used to trip out on the

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way heavy metal bands would do their
videos and you know, they would they'd

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be looking like they're hard rocking hard, you know, and they're none of

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their instruments are plugged in, so
you know, they're not really jamming.

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Then they always had that kind of
dark, theatrical kind of dungeons and dragons

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kind of vibe, you know,
which is It always tripped me out,

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like the Conan vibe, you know
what I mean. And it was like,

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man, I was a rocker in
the eighties. I didn't find myself

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swinging a fricking sward all over in
his shield. But you gotta remember,

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like I said, these were the
pr people, the people who the business

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side, and they thought that that
was going to give them more money.

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I'll tell you what when we come
back. We've got more talk here about

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the eighties and we're gonna get into
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slash podcasters to get started. Got
to the eighties? Let me explain something

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to you. I am a vintage, mass marketed children's toy from the eighties.

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Hey, bros and proans, this
is Derek that down over here in

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the valley. Boy, Yeah boy, just rode and down van eyes Man.

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We're just hanging out with to Scout
and che hang man, it back

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to the eighties. You gotta come
back to the eighties. I take it

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for me, Bro, I know
the eighties. How about you? Mac.

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You know, hey, Derek,
I was wondering the other day,

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so I was like totally skating down
sidewalk here and Torrance. Oh my gosh,

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there were people not getting out of
the way for me. When I

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was yelling get out of the way, they weren't getting out of the way.

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I have no idea what's going on
in society today, bro, Bro

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had I was rolling down band Mess
just the other day, Bro, right,

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and my key shirt dropped out of
my back pocket, you know,

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so I had to stop real quick, and I just kind of smoothed down

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broke it to pick up my key
shirt, right, and then my dude,

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my necklace got stuck in my tired
drug Bro, and like eightian dude.

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I mean, I'm biped out over
Bro. It was stick, dude,

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Bro Romano. That's happened to me
so many times, dude. But

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now that we're back in the eighties, what does that mean. I think

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that means we're all just gonna have
some good fun. Bro. I think

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we're gonna get some tasty snacks.
I think we're gonna get a four fingered

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deal of love, bro. And
I think we're just gonna cruise bro and

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just roll with it, you know
what I mean? These two dudes,

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man, these guys are pretty cool, man, you know what I'm saying.

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Like the one dude, his name
is like chang Us, He's like

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not even Asian, Bro, it's
like naught even dude. He's a poser.

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Dude. I heard the other guy's
name is Tskano. What kind of

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gnarly name is Tascano, bro?
Dude, Tascano to me, it sounds

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like moradic. It's like you're Garada, You're just Scotto. Bro. That's

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like I think it's like a Talian
or something. I think, like mom

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ordered it. Just gotta who's salad
with Tavia? To tell your restaurant over

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there on the Santa Edith over there? Man, have you ever been down

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this cannon Edith? Bro? It's
so yeller sweet bro. Never been dealt

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there. But you know what,
one of these days, I'm gonna ride

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my bike with my surfboard all the
way down there. All right, everybody,

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you are back with back to the
eighties. This is Chang from Tiscano

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and Chang. We are discussing a
multi little kind of a salad on so

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many different topics. Now, Tiscano, why don't you revive the listeners.

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All right. So one of the
biggest things we used to like doing in

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the eighties is going to malls.
And when you went to the mall,

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you had a lot of fun.
And one of the stores that I personally

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used to love going to the malls, besides music stores and arcades, was

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a store called Spencers. Was that
wacky, funky place with all the neon

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and black lights, with just all
weird stuff, kind of humoristic, maybe

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pranks. Do you remember Spencers,
Well, I will tell you the psychedelics

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and the vibe that Spencers gave off. I always went in when I was

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inebriated, so it always made that
visiting, uh, that store much more

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pleasurable than probably a young boy of
your age at the time. You know,

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you were probably like, oh my
god, is that fair of post

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I could see a booby. You're
probably afraid. Well, you know,

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I know, but we used to
go to these stores and we we used

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to head to the back of the
store because that was where all the the

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cool and you know, the more
risque stuff. Yeah, you would have

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the like, uh, now this
is post bought posters and all this kind

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of stuff. You know what I
bought at Spencers. I bought a Richard

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Nixon figuring in a towel. When
you press Nixon's head down, It's penis

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pops up. She was a towel. Oh, I remember that. I

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remember I bought that at Spencers,
Bro. So it's funny that you bring

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up. I also, yeah,
I also remember the flushing little toilets that

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they have. Yes, and they
had caps, you know baseball cap uh

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with with poop on the top.
Oh, yeah, dude. I remember

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buying a gum trick gums there where
you give somebody some gum and it turns

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into a different color, like a
like a paint. Yeah, dude,

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I remember buying uh that other little
uh whoopee cushion, or remember that little

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buzzer you put in your hand and
you shake somebody's hand, you give a

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shock. Yeah, supposedly it never
it never felt like a shock to me.

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But anyway, So Spencer's was one
of those stores. Now did you

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ever go to pet stores in malls? Remember they when they actually used to

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have puppies everywhere? Everybody could pick
them up. It's all the time.

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Man. I used to like to
just go in there, bro and just

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go hang out with a puppy,
yeah, you know, and they don't

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have that anymore. No, not
anymore, man. I mean that's that's

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like a dying art. But then
you know the downside to that is,

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uh, I want to say of
puppies purchase in pet store environments like that

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have parish brow due to parble and
other diseases that they picked up into pet

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store systems. So yeah, because
of being with other animals and stuff like

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that. All right, right,
right right, so you know that's it's

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kind of died out. Yeah.
How about stores, for example, like

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now let's go into fashion. How
about stores that bring back memories for you,

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like Miller's Outpost, Oh, Miller's
Outpost, bros A Gap. Yeah,

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how about this, uh the Red
Eye Eye Now I don't remember that,

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but do you remember not? I'd
never win the here, but um,

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the United Colors of Benetton. No, I don't recall that store.

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That would have been Wow, what
what was that place all about? It?

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It's all the colorful clothes that you
would imagine, that's why they got

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their name. But Benetton, so
that would be the fluorescent that we all

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foresay iss fourteen right yeah, yeah, yeah, wow? Yeah. Now

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I've got to say, Bro,
and I love doing the show because I

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liked talking to my bro, my
buddy right here about the eighties. But

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that was some of the god awful
this fashion where I think that we went

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through with the fluorescent colors, with
the green, the orange, the pa

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But you know what, I didn't
really meet any I don't think I ever

406
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.279
meant a lot of people that actually
wore fluorescence. Everybody that I used to

407
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.119
know used to wear denim. That
yes, denim, and if they were

408
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:36.119
girls, they wore something with big
stuff like that, or or these denim

409
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:39.279
jeans that went up to like past
their belly button that opened halfway. Do

410
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.440
you remember those with like a bunch
of buttons. Oh yeah, dude.

411
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.160
But you know, but then back
then in the eighties, Bro, I

412
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:50.519
was out hanging around in Hollywood at
a very early age. I was I

413
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:52.160
was going into the clubs. You
know, I had a fake ID,

414
00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:57.359
so I was rocking and rolling.
Yeah, you were being at naughty boy.

415
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.319
I was being a I was.
I was like to saw Bro the

416
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.279
bad boy, bad boy. What
you're gonna do, What you're gonna do?

417
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:07.279
What they Yeah? Anyway, So
I saw a lot of fashion like

418
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.200
hit square in the face, especially, you know, hanging out in Hollywood.

419
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:15.039
Hollywood was always like the mecca center
where fashion was going to crack.

420
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.000
I remember hanging around on Hollywood Bull
Bar Troup, walking up and down,

421
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:25.000
going to Malrows, so I could
see all this new fashion attack that was

422
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:29.200
going to be hitting, you know, everybody back in my neighborhood, back

423
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:34.000
in Monte Balo and ess Angeles in
the wind and down eat Santa Fe Spring.

424
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.079
I could see all this fashion coming
to par because I was over there

425
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.160
in Hollywood, and in Hollywood roll
you roll to some of these stores,

426
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.759
or you go to some of these
parties that I was very fortunate to go

427
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:51.799
to. You I've seen it all, brothers seeing it all. And there

428
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:55.839
were places inside the mall that we
loved to go as well. And one

429
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.440
of those places was the food court. Oh dude, that was the best

430
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:05.720
place to hang up. There was
one of those places that that I always

431
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:08.000
thought, the food court, and
I actually felt so bad for the employees

432
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:12.559
there that I never went to get
anything ever. First of all, I

433
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.280
hated corn dogs throughout my life.
Hot dog on a stick, that's it.

434
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:24.679
That's it. That's the one that's
hot dog. Dog on the stick

435
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:30.800
Yeah, because I remember there was
a movie theater at Cerrito's Mall where we

436
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:36.119
used to go to, and they
used to have at their food court they

437
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:37.480
had, you know, one of
these hot dogs in the stick and some

438
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:40.199
of my friends he said, why
don't we just go to hot Dog on

439
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.800
a stick, Bro, And I
was like, no, they no.

440
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.840
I don't like corn dogs. I
hate them. You know what's funny,

441
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:51.519
man. I used to go down
to the lot wenton mall a lot,

442
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:53.159
bro, and they had just one
place, you know, they had that

443
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:57.920
place, hot Dog on the sticky. And there was this chick that I

444
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:02.039
met at a rock party one on
time, and she worked there. So

445
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:06.760
a lot of times I would,
like, you know, whenever I was

446
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.280
in that area, i'd try to
see if she was in that mall,

447
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.159
and every now and then i'd catch
her over there, you know what I

448
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:14.599
mean, I'd go talk to her
a real quick on her break. I

449
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:16.840
was kind of a shy guy when
I got hit in the face, knowing

450
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:21.159
the chick like me back. I
had a lot of guts when I didn't

451
00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:24.599
know they liked me, But then
I lost those guts. Anyway, she

452
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:30.000
had she had an she had a
very nice for zeke for a girl of

453
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.480
seventeen years old. So I'll tell
you. I used to like to go

454
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.519
and just hang out row and watch
her go jump on that little stick barrel

455
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:44.400
thing and jump up and down and
crushed fruit. I could sit there and

456
00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:50.000
I could eat five to ten hot
dogs and four drinks just watching her jump

457
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.480
up and down hot dog and a
stick. God, bless you a concept.

458
00:35:53.320 --> 00:36:00.280
Another place that we used to look
eating at there was Sparrows. Remember

459
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.639
Sparrows Pizza. Oh, yes,
they remember. Wasn't that one of the

460
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:08.000
first places where they would cut your
pizza and squares? That's it? Yes,

461
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:13.119
yes, Sparrows Pizza. I mean
just a smell alone. We used

462
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.280
to go, h and then we're
always hungry as teams. Now. We

463
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:21.320
had one of the first places too
that had the thicker crust. I recall

464
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:24.079
those being thick and square. Dude. It was like pizza like no other.

465
00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:28.840
Yeah, and it was really good. Or maybe that was just the

466
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:31.280
taste buds back then. But for
mall pizza, I thought it was good.

467
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:37.519
Um then I'll throw you way back. As you're walking through the mall,

468
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:42.719
there were certain stores that gave you
free samples One of those was Sees

469
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:47.280
candies you're all that? Oh yeah? Yeah, But another one, which

470
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:50.880
was my friend. I was never
a sweet tooth, so I always skipped

471
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.679
it. But my favorite one was
when we passed Hickory Farms, okay,

472
00:36:54.840 --> 00:37:00.519
and there's always some person there,
you know, giving out all these different

473
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.760
kinds of sausages or cheese. Yeah, dude, I used to like that

474
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.719
too. That was a good energy
snack while you're strolling through the mall.

475
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:09.760
Yeah. Can I have two or
three? Can I have to give it

476
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:14.199
to my parents and I'd eat them
all? Yeah? Can I get all

477
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:15.639
three, you know, three samples? That way I could decide. Then

478
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:17.920
on my neck, good back,
I'll know what I want to buy.

479
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.199
Yeah, exactly, you know what
I mean. And then go get baked

480
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:31.320
outside, then bake for five more
good times. Now do you remember uh

481
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:37.559
going to the mall and that one
place that used to sell the cookies and

482
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:42.280
the caramel apples? Yeah, but
I don't remember what they remember that?

483
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:49.079
Yeah, because they used to give
samples of the caramel cap I remember that,

484
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.239
remember they would. They used to
sneak them in man between a Chinese

485
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:59.199
restaurant and then some other establishment.
Always thought they were snuck in there.

486
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:04.400
I always thought that was a cruel
trick. I could have had a bunch

487
00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:08.880
of sweets instead of a nice meal. Yeah. Well, I mean there

488
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:14.320
were places it was fantastic to go
to malls and you really didn't care.

489
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:17.199
We didn't have no Apple store.
We didn't have the Microsoft store, you

490
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:22.000
know, any of these news stores. We didn't have. Our entertainment was

491
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.400
something where it was palpable, where
it wasn't virtual. You know, we

492
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:34.440
do You remember going to the mall
and going and seeing the actual music store

493
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:39.679
where they sold guitars and keyboards and
pianos and a couple of drum kids.

494
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:44.519
Yes, you know what I mean. As a matter of fact, if

495
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:49.840
you've seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, their first movie, I don't know

496
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.480
if you've seen that, but there's
a scene there where Bill and Ted they

497
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:59.360
take the historical figures that they brought
from the past on their on their telephone

498
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:04.159
time issue, and they they take
him to the mall to hang out,

499
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.960
and one of them, one of
the characters is Beethoven, and he goes

500
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.320
and he finds a music store.
Do you remember that part? And so

501
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:15.280
he starts playing the piano I remember, Yeah, they used to have organs

502
00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:22.199
pianos and jeez, man hasn't been
that loan? How malls haven't changed?

503
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.719
Man? Remember there always was a
guy that was sitting there playing the piano

504
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.880
or the organ. Yeah, yeah, very well. And the guy always

505
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:36.320
had a sport coat with a tie
and some slacks. Every time I seen

506
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:38.639
him, I used to say,
that guy remind reminds me of the guy

507
00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.840
and the Carpenters. I don't know
why, but that's what that guy would

508
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.480
remind me of. Yeah, every
time I seen that guy, I thought

509
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:51.239
Karen Carpenter was going to pop out
somewhere. Yeah, it's been crazy,

510
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:55.719
and just reminiscing on some of the
stuff that we used to do just brings

511
00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:00.719
back so many cool memories. Let
us know what your memory the eighties are,

512
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.199
and let's talk about that one of
these days and one of our shows.

513
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:09.400
It'd be great for us to dissect
the different stories from from you guys.

514
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:14.920
What what is your favorite? What
was your favorite mall back in the

515
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.880
eighties? Hands down, Up went
to mall, Up went to mall and

516
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.199
I've been there many times. As
a matter of fact, that's where they

517
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:28.960
filmed Back to the Future in their
parking lot. Yeah, my favorite mall

518
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.199
back in the eighties. And I
want to say still is I haven't been

519
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:37.079
there in many years, but I
want to say Cerritos and Lakewood Mall.

520
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:39.760
But Lakewood Mall, I haven't been
there since I was a teen, So

521
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:45.239
I don't know how that changed.
Probably a lot. And Cerrito's mom maybe

522
00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:51.880
the last time I went was probably
five to ten years ago. Wow,

523
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:58.519
Lakewood Mall has changed a lot.
You know the demograph over there of the

524
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:04.400
neighborhood is, you know, kind
of depleted a little bit. They lost

525
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.880
a lot of good stores. It
got kind of kind of run down.

526
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:13.320
Man. I haven't been down there
probably since the late nineties, was the

527
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:19.119
last. Now these are two malls, Yeah, especially Lakewood Mall was they

528
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:24.000
have their well, they had their
ginormous theater in the back. Remember,

529
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.599
So in the back of the mall
there's the parking lot, and then after

530
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.239
the parking lot there was a theater. Do you remember that? And that's

531
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:37.320
where we saw some of the biggest
blockbusters and it was the place to be,

532
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:44.800
man, the place to go.
So um anyway, that's our show

533
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:46.599
for the eighties. Man, we
got so much stuff that we can talk

534
00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:51.280
about. We'd spend hours and hours
and hours about yeah, and you know

535
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:57.679
what, we'll have to do an
extended Shangari's version of fashion of the eighties

536
00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:00.480
on our next show. I think
we will, I think will. We'll

537
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:05.039
definitely do that because speaking of fashion, the big hair was all over the

538
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:07.159
place. Everybody had big hair.
The guys had big hair, the girls

539
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:12.639
had big hair. Everybody, everybody. And if you look at yearbooks,

540
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.559
look at the seniors, look at
the seniors in those yearbooks from the eighties,

541
00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:22.079
every guy and girl had big everybody
had big hair. And then sometimes

542
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:25.840
everybody wore pattage shoulders on their coats
too, So you didn't know who was

543
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:30.480
a man or a woman from the
back. If they were sitting in a

544
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:36.000
school in the eighties, you just
didn't remember. Depending on their size,

545
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.559
the size of their back maybe would
give it away. Well who knows,

546
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:42.559
you never know. But if they
were a petite man, you never know.

547
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:47.920
Yeah, never know. You know
how funny it is when you at

548
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:51.880
the high school and you'd get a
guy dressing up like boy George. You

549
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:53.400
remember that? Oh god, yeah, I remember that man? That was

550
00:42:54.039 --> 00:43:02.840
you. That was a change.
This is Tscano from Tiscanto and Chang saying

551
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:07.079
thanks for joining us today as we
talked a little bit about the memories that

552
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:13.760
made our day back in the day. So on behalf of myself once again.

553
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:16.519
Just be safe out there, do
your best to make a difference as

554
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.400
we go into another week here in
Lockdown. And this is your buddy boy,

555
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.760
the Chang. And before I bid
you and ned and cut you and

556
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:30.760
release you for the week. And
remember, stay positive out there. Don't

557
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:34.400
let the bad turn you around.
Don't get mad, don't get sad,

558
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:38.840
just keep going, kick ass,
be yourselves. Remember to keep your hands

559
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:45.840
clean, cover your face, don't
let the virus get spread. Take a

560
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.280
step away from all the political crap, take a step away from all the

561
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.840
social events, and just enjoy your
family and your friends for them. Now.

562
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:57.320
So until we talk to you again, you guys, have a great

563
00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:04.039
week. Remember to stay lifted and
gifted. Ratto and a big old runny

564
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:08.519
to all my homies in East Loss
and beyond. Now t Sconnel to all

565
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:15.800
your buddies in Downey. I want
to say later bros, and don't be

566
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:32.079
an eighties. And later he gave
me back who