The Anthony Cumia Show - February 20, 2026


The Future Looked Like the 80s ｜ 02-15-26


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

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Word count

1,070

Sentence count

43

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

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Summary

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In this episode of the 77 WABC Minicast, host John Rocha talks about the 90's and the 80's, and why it's important to remember the good ol' days of the '80's and '90's.

Transcript

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00:01:10.880 Back in the old
00:01:11.760 WAAF days when me and
00:01:13.680 Opie were shock jocks up in
00:01:15.320 the Baston area. 0.64
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00:01:19.440 for gigs and things like that.
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00:01:22.300 back in the uh boy the 90s people really have embraced the 90s right i think in the early
00:01:34.260 2000s because the 90s were still pretty recent memory the 80s took this place as this wonderful
00:01:42.900 decade um the 80s were a little silly the music and the the costumes people wore i think the
00:01:52.060 the 80s was what the 70s thought the future should look like the pointy big shoulder pad things
00:02:01.140 and like um like daryl hannah uh in uh what movie is that she just put some spray paint across her 0.90
00:02:08.520 eyes and it looked all sexy and stuff blade runner and uh like yeah that was the 70s version of the
00:02:16.800 future was the 80s and we were pretty prosperous as a country it was much more difficult to be as
00:02:26.140 divided as a nation back then because I mean how are you going to piss people off put a flyer under
00:02:33.020 their windshield at the mall it just didn't seem like one person or a small group of people can
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00:02:46.180 internet and then the phone and various social media platforms this instant access where you
00:02:52.960 now have a world stage for what you want to say and that really divided this country so the 80s
00:03:02.820 they were good in that we didn't have that things were silly you know politically things got a
00:03:09.500 little crazy with iran contra and ronald reagan and nuclear proliferation uh but we never felt
00:03:18.580 like our country was failing we never felt like we were so divided as a country that
00:03:24.140 there wasn't even in america anymore as a matter of fact when reagan came in he came in on the
00:03:32.220 platform of we are going to bring america back to its former glory because people were really
00:03:37.100 depressed about what carter had done to america a nice enough guy but i mean
00:03:42.860 he uh he wasn't really a president for a strong proud america uh so when reagan got in there you
00:03:53.080 know we were proud to be americans movies rambo and um all those all those you know america
00:04:00.720 kicking ass movies and then what did we have the the 90s the 90s seemed like a decade where
00:04:10.660 everything was just cool everything was awesome the music was great we still had this rapport 0.87
00:04:19.440 with each other and uh the country was still very united very proud um we had won the cold war
00:04:30.160 there was no more soviet union and right up until 9 11 that's really what it seems like
00:04:39.360 what a baptism into the 21st century that was because uh the 90s are looked at now like the
00:04:47.960 last decade that we were america songs come on from the 90s and you just it takes you to a place
00:04:56.180 and a time and a feeling of being, you know, maybe not being an American,
00:05:02.880 but a girl you went out with, a car you had, friends that you had, things like that.
00:05:09.460 And that's all part of, you know, the America we lived in.
00:05:13.400 And then just, oof.
00:05:17.080 And you notice every decade had a feeling to it and a vibe to it.
00:05:22.400 it was very obviously that decade it might have taken halfway into the next decade to realize
00:05:29.400 like it took to get to maybe 92 93 to realize what the 80s were and they're like oh the 80s
00:05:35.740 they were crazy and then the 90s were the 90s very distinct decades 70s 60s it always was that
00:05:45.040 have you been able to differentiate between the the aughts and the teens and now the 20s
00:05:54.360 it just seems like this one mush of of just horror for this country no distinction between
00:06:04.400 the decades themselves it really does seem like that i don't know when people go wow that was
00:06:12.360 you know 10 years ago 2015 and you go it just seems like yesterday because there doesn't seem
00:06:21.400 to be anything that made it distinctive or different from 2025 26 obviously technology
00:06:27.640 changes and things like that but technology changed between the 80s and the 90s and but
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