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  • 4/17/2025
Dave & Chuck the Freak look back on some of the 80s hits that young Chuck the Freak grooved to!

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00:00One more story from the Riff Files this morning.
00:13Pete Burns passed away.
00:17He was 57.
00:18He was, of course, the lead singer of Dead or Alive.
00:20This was their one and only hit, wasn't it?
00:23Yes, I'm assuming.
00:24You spin me around?
00:25Oh, if you look, they had some other hits.
00:31Brand New Lover was a hit.
00:34I've never heard of it.
00:36Oh, no, that's a good one.
00:38Of course, you were in that phase, though.
00:40You like a lot of this kind of music.
00:42Yeah.
00:44Gay pirate music.
00:45They played this a lot when you went out dancing.
00:49This guy looks like a gay pirate.
00:51Yeah.
00:52But young.
00:54Yeah.
00:55I have to just hear this Brand New Lover to see if I've even heard it.
00:57Oh, you totally know it.
00:58You know it.
01:07I don't.
01:10I don't know this one either.
01:11Yes, you do.
01:12What I really need to do is find myself a Brand New Lover.
01:16Someone who will lie to me.
01:17Who doesn't know there's so many others.
01:20What I really need to do is find myself a Brand New Lover.
01:24I don't think so.
01:26Oh, my God.
01:27It's huge.
01:30Love that song.
01:32Yeah, I don't hate that kind of music.
01:34Chuck loves it.
01:36I know.
01:36I still do.
01:36I wish I could see clips of young Chuck.
01:39You need, like, Chuck's gay dance club, I think.
01:41He loves all the music.
01:43The clips of me listening to that music that you'd see is a chubby Chuck the Freak in his underwear.
01:51Oh, God.
01:53Oh, God.
01:54Sitting in a wicker chair.
01:56I had one of those big wicker chairs.
01:58And I had my little tape recorder.
02:02And I would be taping songs that I liked.
02:06And just being like...
02:07That was me, man.
02:19I was taping the Casey Kasem Top 40.
02:23All the good songs.
02:25You were in your underwear in a wicker chair.
02:28That was me.
02:28That, like, every weekend.
02:30I love these guys, too.
02:35In a western town, the dead end world.
02:39We're eastern boys and western girls.
02:43I would have taped this for sure.
02:44Would have been taping this song without question.
02:48West and girl.
02:52West and girl.
02:55A wicker chair.
02:57I had it.
02:58My mom had this old school gigantic wicker chair.
03:02Why did you have no pants on?
03:03I never had pants on.
03:05For comfort.
03:05Yeah, I just never had pants on.
03:07White, tighty-whities.
03:09White, tighty-whities just like my dad wore.
03:11Because when you're young like that, you just get the same underwear that your dad's in charge of buying your underwear.
03:16So I had white, tighty-whities.
03:18No shirt.
03:19Oh, Lord.
03:19Fat.
03:21No body hair.
03:22And just singing Pet Shop Boys.
03:24And just loving the world.
03:26Like, it's no shock to me that I do radio.
03:29Because I was just obsessed with it.
03:31When I was a kid.
03:33You know?
03:34And would just sit and listen and just tape it.
03:37All the time.
03:38And just loved all this music.
03:40And I was exactly the same.
03:40But I was like the news.
03:41I would do the news.
03:42It's crazy.
03:43There's tape.
03:43My grandmother had the tape of me recording myself on her tape player.
03:46Doing like, good Lord, I get to stay up with the news.
03:49Yeah, see, I was cool.
03:49I was actually cool.
03:50Oh, Chevy Wicker Chair, guys.
03:53He's got a lazy.
03:55I challenge that.
03:56Oh, man.
03:57I can't wait until the biopic comes out.
03:59And they recreate your guys' early times.
04:03From humble beginnings.
04:04Good morning, I'm Dave.
04:05Time for the news.
04:07And then there was Chuck the Freak.
04:09And he's in the Wicker Chair.
04:10He wasn't in the...
04:11No, yeah.
04:13No, I got saved.
04:14I got saved by a punk rocker.
04:15What were your other big young gay hits?
04:18All this.
04:19Don't You Want Me?
04:23This was my favorite song.
04:24Was it really?
04:25The Human Lake's Don't You Want Me?
04:26Yeah.
04:26This was my favorite song for that time.
04:29You know, like, when I was taping, I was like, when this was out, I was like, oh, this
04:32is the number one song to tape.
04:34If I can tape this.
04:36But, you know, Duran Duran.
04:38Duran Duran, so like, The Reflex.
04:42Hungry Like the Wolf.
04:43Oh, hold on.
04:44I'm just envisioning a TV show of, like, Chubby Chuck's Gay Dance Party, where he's in his
04:49Wicker Chair in his underpants.
04:51Uh-huh.
04:51And then there's, like, every week it takes you to him, and there's people dancing around.
04:54He's like the DJ.
04:55And he's the DJ.
04:56Yes.
04:56I love it.
04:57I'll do it.
04:58I need Chuck to make me a mixtape.
05:00Oh, dude.
05:00I could make a sweet mixtape.
05:02What was the other...
05:03Oh, you love Tears for Fears, too.
05:04I can't stand Tears for Fears.
05:05Tears for Fears had my favorite song as well.
05:12But, yeah.
05:13Head over heels.
05:15It is weird how music can literally...
05:16I can sing every word to that song.
05:17You might not remember anything about your past, but a song can snap you back to it.
05:21Oh, totally.
05:21And it did.
05:21It did.
05:22It took him right back to his Wicker Chair.
05:23It took me back to...
05:26It took me back to...
05:27It took me back to...
05:29You hit your distance with a system of touch.
05:35And gentle persuasion.
05:39I'm lost in admiration.
05:41Could I need you this much?
05:44Oh, you're wasting my time.
05:46You're just, just, just wasting time.
05:50Something happens and I'm head over heels.
05:53I never find out until I'm head over heels.
05:59How do you not love this?
06:01You're just joining us.
06:02You're listening in to Young Chubby Chuck's Dance Party.
06:05This was like Chuck the Freak realizing he liked girls, but knew no girl would ever talk to him ever.
06:10You're listening in to Young Chubby Chuck's Dance Party.