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Rick Springfield is coming to the STL and he is on the phone right now

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with us. What's up, Rick, Yeah, we're traveling towards you guys

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right now. Our audience is loves eighties, obviously, and that's the name

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of the tour. I want my eighties tour. I can't believe how popular

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our eighties is. Again, what do you think is the reason? I

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think it was great music. You know, it's kind of overshadowed by hideous

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haircutts and leg warmers, but there's a great music. So I'm in great

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memories, and I think people are responding to that. The more weird and

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dangerous the world gets, I think we find shelter and the great music that

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we loved as a kid. I liked my Big Hair, Thank you very

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much. We all did you know you're you're such a talented musician. Who

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are you excited about that's on this tour with you? Oh? They're all

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great, great, great artists. The Hooters and I were actually on Live

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Ahead on the same in Philadelphia, the same stage, and Tommy tooch Old

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is known for quite a while. I'm pull young. I've in a big fan of for a long time. I loved his first record, so much

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actually that I had his bass player play out La from London to play on

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one of my records. That is amazing. And I'm amazed by your longevity,

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the fact that you look amazing, by the way I think I read

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that you're a vegetarians. I'm a vegetarian. Well, I was vegan.

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I don't really eat garry actually, which makes me not a vegetarian. I

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was vegan and I lost too much weight. I started. I felt great,

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but I looked looked like hell. So I added fish back then.

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Kind of Mediterranean diet, I think, is what I am. That's what

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I do. Kind of they call it. I never called it anything until they gave it a name somewhere in the nineties. They called it pescatarian.

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Yeah, pescutarian. I know everybody. Everybody loves the label, right exactly.

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You look fantastic, look and sound exactly like you did before. I'm

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not allowed to growl. Well, you're not doing what I do. I

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just use botox and it's fantastic. So you've been to Saint Louis before I

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have. I've been there a couple of times. I think you're not afraid of heights, are you, I know, but I have not been up

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in the arch. Well, if you get a chance, I know you're busy, but if you can, it's we're very proud of that arch and

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it's actually higher than Paris's Eiffel Tower. Oh well, I've been up than

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the Eiffel Tower and that kind of freaked me out a little bit. I don't know about the arts. We take care of you. I promise that,

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all right, thank you. So that everyone wants to come to this

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tour, of course, what is it that you're excited about. It's a

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great show, like Walter Walt hips from everybody, and I get to play

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a new song from Iver play the old song. But it's always fun to

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play new stuff. We look forward to the challenge. You're playing new music.

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And I have an album out now, just came out on August Sport

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called Automatic, and we do one of the songs called Automatic. You need

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to do more than one song because new stuff is great. Yeah, we're

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only doing the second show, you know, so we're going to a usually

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two hours, so but yeah, one good for the short show you're doing.

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About now, I think a little more than now, So of course,

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the whole album automatic. You can get it. It's always dice for everyone involved. If you pay for it. Yeah, I don't care if

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people download it for free. Musician, you know, writers, right,

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so that we could share with other people. Never was about Yeah, I

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just want people to hear the music. You know. You know there's all these musicals done on artists, and I think you should have your story as

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a music. Yeah. I think they're looking at they've been looking into work

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for a while. There's a bet a couple of writers involved in doing something

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like that. I've had a pretty a pretty crazy life, very unusual,

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and I wrote about my autobiography late late at night. I think that's what

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they started to get interested in doing something with it. If people that are

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listening, if they get a chance read the book, it's really good. You are very interesting and very unique life. And you know what is the

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one thing. My son's a musician, but he doesn't want to be on

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stage. He's going to be a teacher. But you know somebody, Yeah,

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I'm so proud of Satan. He just loves music and he wants to share how to do it, compose it all that as a teacher. My

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youngest son as a teacher, I love the fact that he picked a passion

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over money, which is really rare. Well, you know, I mean,

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you've got a passion has to come first, money will follow. I'm

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being a musician does not necessarily mean money will follow, believe me. And

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how is that? By the way, the ups the downs every musician,

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I don't care how big, how small, who you are, you have

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the ups and downs. What do you do when you're in a down? When you were in the down, what did you do to get back up

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and to be positive? I looked elsewhere. That's why I got into acting.

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I think I started I wanted more to do, and I started writing

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books. So it's been say I can git him a double writer for our

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So that's really what I've always focused on. I always call myself a writer.

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I ended up in radio somehow, so I'm a DJ. Two Hey,

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I'm a d Dononteerians next time. I love it. I love it

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so people can hear you, they can read your book. Your new album is out, but more important, come and see you live. Yeah,

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we have a great live show. I have an amazing band. They rock

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hard and send everybody away hot and sweaty. I guarantee you and Saint Louis

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Music Park is beautiful. You're gonna love it. You're gonna love performing there.

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The sound, it's a really cool venue. Yeah. I heard when

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Pat Benettar Neil Giraldo were there, they always ask I don't know, they

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do some charity where people come up and they put money in. They said

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that our city, Saint Louis, was the most charitable in all their touring

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days. Now, yeah, so I mean we'll see what we can do

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about that. Love dogs, I mean we're gonna do something with dogs.

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Oh, that's fantastic. And it's National Dog Day? Is it month?

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Oh? It is? When it's either When is it it was today?

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I want to say it was today. That's appropriate for my birthday yesterday,

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So aprop, your National Dog Day should follow. Oh, happy birthday.

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I was born in Australia, so it works out of Amalio. So you're

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born in Australia, but you sound almost kind of New Yorky. Well.

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I actually when I started acting in Night Be seventy five, I went to

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a voice school because nobody had ever heard of Australia back then. Eject people

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ask me how long it took people learn English? Oh, I have to

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have the I have the accent, you know down what's the voice to pick

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open? Living amongst the native kind of help. Yeah, I still have

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wallowed accent comes out when I drink and I love it. There's still tickets

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available, not many, so you better get them. And so nice talking.

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You appreciate your patience with our phone system, but what an honor.

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You're welcome, Rick, You're great. Looking forward to seeing you. Yeah,

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tell me a hotel