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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
present show? Does anybody even get that reference anymore? Under
the I don't? I laugh every time you guys do it.

(00:23):
I know what you're talking about. I had to google.
Gandi doesn't even know the actor who played that part
of fire Marshall Bill, which is the voice he's doing? Wow?
Hold on, I don't know classic SNL though, No, no,
wait wait a minute, holds up? Am I allowed to
say the actor is Gandhi? Still guessing? I wasn't going
to try to guess because I don't know. Okay, don't

(00:45):
we mentioned it first? Yeah? Living Colors a show on Fox,
and I don't Living Color Lopez got her start as
well because she was a fly girl on in Living Color?
Was that? Jerry? Yeah? Okay, okay, okay. Sam says classics

(01:06):
done on SNL and that's where I was first introduced
to thank you from the years and ye when he
did it in Living but also famous on SNL. It
is a classic now Sam did it on If he
did it on our morning show, it wouldn't be classic
morning show. Well, no, we have bet a material on
our morning show. Fine, it's already starting. Let's butt hurt.

(01:27):
Go get him Sam, get time for but Hurt. You
see what happens when Elvis isn't there his microphone. Look
at this. This is terrible. And then he's gonna come in.
It's gonna be like having a good time. I don't
know what you're talking about. I'm looking at classic videos
of fire Mark Bill when he visits you for Holy
Safety instruction, and he only did that one like a

(01:49):
handful of times. It was so funny. Every week there's
there's a lot of bits on that show that could
no longer be on on like every show, I mean
even The Office. We talked about this all time. Can't
ever watch that again on Like I never saw The Office.
I never really watched it really get into the Office
and she go just pick an episode, ill see if

(02:10):
I like it. She picked the h R episode. Remember
that one cringe was a diversity day. That day was
so offensive that what's his name? Mr? Brown step Correll
was saying stuff. I'm like, how is he getting away
with this? Because it was hilarious. It's so funny. I
really feel like you would watch the show. I think

(02:31):
you would like it. Yeah, there's so many things I
was watching. Seinfeld the other day and they were making
some joke, like some off color joke. Well there was.
There was an entire episode of Seinfeld about them being
stuck in traffic for the Puerto Rican Day Parade. That
was an entire I never do that. I don't even
think they air that episode anymore. It's just I don't know.

(02:52):
I mean, I'm not upset about these things. I just
it's it's shocking to see they do well. It's just
shocking to see how far we've come, Like even watching
Archie Bunker. Yeah, still run that too, So, I mean
they still run classic TV episodes. You know, they still
run that all the time. I guess the the audience

(03:13):
that it's targeting on those stations are not offended by
that material because they tend to be older audiences. But
it's so highly offensive now listen, I mean, you look
at take a look at history. I learned about this
in my my TV radio communications classes that all in
the family. Archie Bunker was a show that changed the
face of television and opened up dialogue forever. It changed

(03:35):
because he was supposed to be a parody of himself, right,
wasn't well, not even of himself that he was a parody.
It was a joke on how ridiculous those people exactly,
But it was also highly revered to this day as
like this groundbreaking entertainment. Of course, but he wasn't put
up as a hero. He was put up as a
zero spotlight on people who think that way right right.

(03:56):
And I also just point out that Scary dropped some
knowledge and credit. It did a class he took thirty
years ago in TV and broadcasting or whatever. Broadcast It
was yesterday, yesterday. But if you look at it, remember
when TVs were square. You google right now the most

(04:18):
the biggest shows that changed. If I'm not arguing with
the knowledge that you dropped, I just find it funny
that you credited a community college course. But how would
it have changed? You guys? Remember the Honeymooners? Such a
specific thing. You remember such a specific really it stuck.

(04:38):
He was moved from the class. There were a lot
of shows. I love, Lucy changed the face of TV.
The Honeymooners. You can't watch that show to the moon?
Yeah no, No about beating your spouse up. That's really
talking about Come on, But like with the office, with

(05:00):
with the office, don't you think it could be interesting though,
because Steve Carroll is so you know, creative, how they
could get around doing the office today, they wouldn't. He
wouldn't do it. Yeah, he said he wouldn't do it
because he would be too limited in what he was
allowed to do. And just like like, what's his face, Carol?
What's his name from? Carol O'Connor from All in the

(05:21):
Family was a parody, so is Michael Scott. He's a joke.
The whole thing is a joke on how ridiculous the
workplace can be and how we all have that. One boss,
he was like, really, dude, are you really saying that?
Why they canceled? Why does that show get canceled? It
didn't get canceled, They were not canceled. Well, I mean
they say words that you just can't probably get away
with anymore. Like there's an episode called the Gay witch

(05:42):
Hunt and they say some words in there where you
know people just won't let those fly anymore. So I
think you're watching it though. When you're watching it, there's
so many episodes that I go, oh god, yeah, no
they soever. It also has that's so many cast members,
though acknowledged today that it is super messed up. I mean,
I feel like if everyone was in denial about it,

(06:03):
maybe it would read differently today. But like there are
podcasts on it. The cast has come out with interviews
and all of them are like, yeah, no, I couldn't
do that today. That was messed up. You know, well,
I think that is messed up. It wasn't messed up
then the day, Like you can't be woke in n
for Friends. When Friends was written in, you can't like

(06:25):
it was a time like looking back, you can say, well,
we wouldn't say that now we've grown and we've learned.
It's like watching Gone with the Wind and complaining about
the racism. Yeah it was racist, but you have to
watch it and go, you know what, for the time,
it was a great movie. They weren't woke in nineteen
thirty six, So I can't hold them that that standard
Friends watch Friends now, they gay shame, they fat shame,

(06:47):
there's no black people on the show. Really like, it's
not representative of our society. But you can't watch it
at one and attached that to yes, that's a great point.
I was watching over the weekend. I'll watch an old
movie every once in a while, and I watched the
Hustler with Paul Newman anybody. However, in this movie where
Paul Newman plays a pool hustler and it tells this

(07:09):
story and he has a love interest, and at some
point he is having an argument with his love interest
and he slaps her across the face. It really took
me aback, because I'm watching this movie and it's considered
a classic. I'm like, holy sh it makes you uncomfortable. Instantly,
I was so uncomfortable. I'm like, and she didn't even
do it. She was just telling him her opinion and

(07:32):
he stuck her across the face. You know. It really
kind of just hit me like that was acceptable back then.
My audience were like, she'd asked for it, you know. Wait,
so you guys don't slap your significant other when you're
fighting with children? Though, And I laughed because of how

(07:56):
it Today you're allowed to laugh. Look, there are TV
shows on now that that family guy. There are TV
shows on not old shows that there are new shows
right now that people think are acceptable. Right, and then
when the people who are twenty two watching this have kids,

(08:17):
their kids are gonna find fault with today's episodes and go,
I can't believe I can't believe you said it was
a sunny day. Do you know offensive it is to
say it's a sunny day because you shouldn't have kids. Well, yeah,
we're getting to a point where when everything is offensive
and nothing is offensive, and that's where we're getting. We're
going reach it at some point. It's come. It's come

(08:39):
to where, like everything we talk about on the show,
someone will text in, um, that's problematic, that you're problematic.
At some point you have to decide whether or not
there was intent, if it was intentional, if you know
where kids. The culture doesn't see intent intent, They just
you're canceled. You know, It's funny the canceled culture people,

(09:02):
the people that are against cancel culture will threaten to
cancel you, and they're just as guilty of cancer culture
as the cancer culture is. Someone today, someone today was
upset with gandhi doesn't matter why. And when I turned
out they were wrong, they were like, I'm gonna cancel you.
But they were a person who hates cancel culture, like
I'm gonna go on social media and rip you guys.
And I'm like, okay, you know how many times I've
been canceled? I am I invite it to spring it.

(09:24):
It's fine culture canceled at a time, one at a time. Subscribe.
M Okay, well, this whole conversation brings up a good point.
I want to bring it back to something Danielle said
during the Big Show. Danielle, you said that if you
didn't have kids already, you would seriously question having I mean,

(09:49):
I love my kids more than anything in this world.
I would never you know, whatever. But because of the
way the world is right now and how crazy it
is and all the things going on, and that I
don't see anything getting better yet, I would question having
them right now. I don't want to start over because
they wouldn't have ever seen some of the good things

(10:11):
that they have seen and where we were, you know.
But here's the thing. When you had your kids fifteen
years ago, people were saying that about the world, not
like every but everybody says it's the wish things were
five years ago, ten years ago. If you have a
kid today, Danielle, they're going to grow up in a
world ten years from now, and it could be it
could be worse. It could be better, but it could

(10:33):
be worse. Right now. I don't see it getting any better.
I think in Danielle has the numbers on your side.
What was it people of of couples of child rearing
age say they don't want to have kids, right, Yeah,
those numbers are dropping. You know. Said during the pandemic
they expected there to be more of a baby boom
because so many people were sucking home together and the

(10:54):
birthrate declined. Yeah. I think I'm the only one right
now who doesn't have a kid and is planning on
having kids. It's for sure in the future. And it
is fucking petrifying because I'm aware, we're not even fully
aware of what's on the cusp. Like my baby sister,
who's like in her early twenties, she grew up with
a screen in her face, maybe as much as like

(11:14):
anyone I know personally, and she has so many things
that are related to anxieties about it. And I'm like,
in three years and ten years, we're gonna learn so
much more and I'm either going to be like having
a kid or just have a brand new one. I'm
gonna be fucking petrified. Like therapists will tell you, Therapists
will tell you that there's more anxiety and children right
now than they've ever seen before, because the way the

(11:37):
world is, we shouldn't have brought the kids into the
world fifty years ago because now they're teenagers. What I'm
saying is maybe ten years from now, we're better adjusted
handling social media and bullying and all that stuff, that
maybe if you had a kid today, they would be
better off than you and I who had kids fifteen
years ago and we're now teenagers in this world. Maybe

(11:57):
not well, but you don't know, and you have kids
and hope for the best. And I mean, I'm not
saying I wouldn't definitely not have them, um, but if
if if if I was starting out and it was
the way it is, I would definitely question it because
I wouldn't I would feel that makes me feel better.
You would feel I would feel guilty if I made
the wrong choice about bringing them into the world. And

(12:20):
you know, whatever, as it is, when you're pregnant, you're
scared shitless that oh my gosh, if something goes wrong,
blah blah blah blah. Then when you give birth to them,
you're like, oh my gosh, I gotta protect them. I
gotta make sure they're okay. And you you're always worried
something's gonna go wrong, and and eventually they leave and
you can't protect they go in right, and then you're
still worried, and they go into this world that's fucked

(12:41):
at times lately, and it's like, holy shit, like this
is what these poor kids have to deal with, Like
we didn't have to deal with half of this craft
growing up. And I think about it and I'm like,
oh my gosh. I'm like, it's crazy television, which is
how did you make it? You? Have you heard about

(13:01):
All in the Family? Have you heard about All in
the Family's right? It was introt of mass media, and
we learned about all the show we learned I learned
about Telegram. I'm sure the class is the same today.
I think that's all for today's scary. You'll need to
drop some more knowledge from Brooklyn Community College tomorrow. It's

(13:23):
not a college, it's a university. There's time by Loud
Noise is the fifteen minute morning show.