July 10, 2024 • 38 mins
Ever wondered why Mama from "Mama's Family" reminded me of my great aunt? Tune in as Tex Lafon and I, Devos, journey through our personal vault of TV favorites, spanning from the 80s to today. We kick things off with a heartfelt chat about "Mama's Family," where we share the show's unforgettable moments and relatable family dynamics. Let us take you back to the days when relatable humor and blunt characters like Mama made us laugh and left an impact.
Next, we shift gears to dissect the unique charm of British humor with a nostalgic look at "Are You Being Served?" and explore how it contrasts with American comedy. If Saturday mornings meant catching episodes of "Saved by the Bell" for you, then you're in for a treat as we reminisce about the high school antics of Slater, Zach, and Screech. Whether you’re a fan of witty dialogue, physical comedy, or high school hijinks, join us on this nostalgic trip through decades of television. Your favorite shows and trivia are welcome—share your memories and be part of the conversation!
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which is which.
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D Vaz (00:48):
All right, welcome to episode six of From Hoods to
Backwoods podcast.
I'm here with Tex Lafon.
Today we're going to be talkingabout TV shows from the 80s up
until about the current day, ofwhat we're recording this.
How you doing there, tex?
Tex Lafon (01:05):
I'm doing good, how you doing today, devos.
D Vaz (01:07):
Doing all right.
Just you know we're not goingto talk about solar ovens or
anything like that, but yeah,it's definitely still getting
hot out here in Arizona, which,if any of you haven't been in
weather like this, try itsometime.
See what you think it's 110plus outside uh, yeah, if you
don't have ac don't come toarizona show, all right.
(01:54):
So today, like we mentioned,we're going to be talking about
80s to 2010s, or current day forTV shows.
This episode is subscriptionfree, but if you'd like, you can
like and subscribe to ourpodcast here and we really
appreciate that.
But I do also want to letpeople know, because people
(02:15):
might think about certain showsmissing from our list here.
We're not having any animatedshows on our list and that's on
purpose, because at a later datewe'll probably be doing doing a
show about that and also, um,this isn't a best of, because
there's so many opinions outthere now and everybody likes to
say this is the best and thegoat of this and blah, blah,
(02:37):
blah.
These are shows that we likeand shows that we want to share
with people, and that's prettymuch all it is.
It's all strictly our opinion.
Tex Lafon (02:46):
What about that LaFawn?
No, I agree with you Exactly.
It's just our opinion.
You know, we're just talkingabout shows that you know.
If you haven't seen them, maybeyou want to check them out.
And you know, if there's showsthat you've seen that we don't
mention, feel free to you know,let us know in comments, and
then we'll check them out too.
Like I said, it's just ouropinion.
We're just trying to let youknow what we enjoy from the 80s,
(03:08):
90s and 2000 and current date.
That's all it is.
D Vaz (03:13):
Yeah, we absolutely appreciate the interaction.
People have reached out to usabout previous shows and things
we've discussed, mentionedeither stuff to talk about or
more about things that wediscussed on the show.
So, yeah, as for me, again,like I mentioned before too, any
(03:33):
trivia is always a bonus for me, so feel free to drop that.
Um, you know, we'll include our, our socials at the end of this
episode.
We we're going to start tryingto do something a little
different, so you guys can reachout to us, or girls or anybody.
Tex Lafon (03:50):
Anybody out there wants to reach out to us.
Exactly Anybody, as long asit's not UFOs.
D Vaz (03:59):
Yeah aliens probably are trying to contact, but if
they're reaching out to usdirectly, it's kind of weird.
I'm sure they have theircontacts of the government.
They can.
They can be there, that's whatI'm talking about there goes my
goofy cat in the background thatI was I was talking about.
It's all right, hold on onesecond if for anybody that may
(04:20):
have heard, if I leave this in,that was groot in the background
.
My, my cat, he uh likes toexplore things and, uh, he
wanted to be a part of thepodcast now.
Tex Lafon (04:29):
I grew from guardians of the galaxy, right?
D Vaz (04:31):
no, but that's where he got his name he uh was just kind
of like when they had the youngroot, uh the toddler type of
group he's.
He's very similar.
He likes to get into things anddo crazy stuff and uh, yeah, so
he, since he had that type ofpersonality.
That's how my cat got the nameGroot it's a good name, yes all
(04:57):
right.
So what we'll do is we'll kickit off with the 80s here.
Um uh, do you want to kick itoff?
Tex Lafon (05:05):
uh, no, I'm gonna let you start it off, son, just let
everybody know.
Uh, in this episode we're gonnago back and forth, so like
we'll list the title and thenwe're gonna talk about it, and
then next person on this title,and that's how we're gonna do
this episode yeah, it just uhgives us a chance to provide our
own two cents about each of theshows too, and things like that
(05:27):
.
D Vaz (05:28):
So here, we go.
I'll kick it off Mama's Family.
Even when I was a kid I wouldlaugh at that show, for whatever
reason.
It's always been funny to meand I can still watch it now.
I had Vicki Lawrence in thelead role as Mama and basically
what it is is she's a mother anda grandmother and she reminded
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me a lot of my great aunt, whowas a grandmother, figured me,
and she would kind of I guessyou can say yell at everybody,
just leave it blunt, wellintentioned.
She loved everybody, but shewas definitely blunt and would
let you know what she thought.
She had no problems with that.
So very similar to thatcharacter.
But it was a great cast.
(06:12):
They would have a funny familydynamic and the other thing too
that I liked about it noteverybody in the family was
perfect like a lot of thesitcoms back in the 80s.
They were pretty down-to-earthtype characters and even Mama
(06:33):
would sit there and have a beerand stuff like that in the show.
It was just kind of funnyseeing somebody who was more
realistic and like an actualperson Because, again, even my
grandmother I remember she wouldhave a beer there with her salt
and her beer.
Tex Lafon (06:47):
Oh, exactly, there must have been a corona then,
son.
D Vaz (06:51):
No, no, Back in the 80s she would get TBR.
Oh okay, Blue Ribbon.
Tex Lafon (06:56):
For people that aren't familiar, oh well, we all
know what that is son.
D Vaz (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, the hipsters kind of took that over, and some
other people.
That's the funny thing too,because that was the inexpensive
beer and even that's gone up inprice, from what I understand,
even though I don't I don't, Idon't drink any of that stuff.
But I'll drink it for you, sonyou want to grab a pbr, go it.
(07:21):
You put salt on your beer atall.
Have you tried?
Tex Lafon (07:27):
that.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic (07:28):
Yeah.
Tex Lafon (07:28):
I said that's really why I thought you were talking
about Corona, Because you knowthe Corona is, we throw some
lime in there and then a littlesalt, and so that's normally
what I do with the Corona, butnot with PBR.
No yeah.
D Vaz (07:43):
It's just, you know, corona wasn't really a big deal
back in the 80s, you know, andthey didn't really import beer
as much from mexico back then.
I mean, you could stillprobably get it, because you
know the fortunate thing aboutliving in arizona we did have
stores that um had direct stuffcoming in from Mexico, so we
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could get a lot of.
That's why I grew up havingMexican candy and all these
other things that you can findeasily in stores now, but back
then you had to know where to go.
Tex Lafon (08:16):
Oh, I got you, I got you.
D Vaz (08:19):
Or you can get from the ice cream man back then, and
other things too.
I won't get into from the icecream man, cause we have some
special ice cream trucks back inthe day being in the hood.
Tex Lafon (08:31):
I bet you did.
D Vaz (08:34):
But uh, yeah, I guess that wraps it up for that that
show as a scene, as we went froma grandmother and drinking beer
to uh other things from icecream trucks.
But uh, what's your show?
What do you have going on?
Tex Lafon (08:48):
Well, so my first show I want to talk about in the
80s was one of the classicshows of all time, in my opinion
, married with Children.
Like I said, I can definitelyrelate to Al Bundy 100% and it's
just awesome how he's like whenhe had the no man club.
It was so legit and one of myfavorite lines that I always
(09:15):
hear in the show he's like Ilove that car more than anything
and then you hear the son say,even more than me, say you need
a Q-tip boy.
It's just such a great show.
It just relates so much to ifyou have a family and stuff like
(09:35):
that.
It was just a great comedy backthen and I enjoyed it very much
.
So you sit on the couch, putyour hand down your pants and
watch tv.
No, but I watch tv though, yes,okay, and I do, uh, drink a
beer, so that's for sure.
And I do go bowling, like aldid in the show.
(09:56):
So but, like I said, it's agreat show and, like I said, it
just made me laugh a lot.
And then, you know, I like howhe loved his Dodge, and now I
have a Dodge, so I know wherehe's coming from.
So I was like, yeah, dodge allthe way, baby.
Yes.
D Vaz (10:16):
For me it's one of the first shows I can kind of
remember sitting on the couchand watching with my dad and him
, us both laughing.
You know, I don't know why, wejust both like that show from
the very beginning and you know,even though I was I was pretty
young somehow I got some of thejokes, or enough of the jokes.
Of course, the jokes werereally different later on, uh
(10:40):
and and had a different meaning.
But yeah, I've always likedthat, that show, and it just
reminds me of him.
Tex Lafon (10:46):
Oh yeah, like I said, it's a great show.
Like I said, to me one of thetop shows in my top list anyways
.
D Vaz (10:57):
I will say, though it did get a little bit rough towards
the end.
I won't even mention or getinto 7.
I don't know if you rememberthe character 7.
I remember the character sevenoh yeah, there's a little kid
yeah a little kid that they uhsomehow finally came into the
family yeah, that's when theshow started getting a little
bit rough.
Tex Lafon (11:18):
Uh, and it's always sad when you see a great show
hit that kind of wall right,right, but, like you said, it
was just funny because you knowyou had, um, like you said, it
was just funny how he would goto work every day and he hated
going to work and he had theworst job that anybody thought
(11:38):
you could have at the time wasbeing a shoe sell man, and it
was just funny.
D Vaz (11:44):
Right, yeah, and we, we are aware that the way he would
talk to customers wouldn't flytoday, because he would.
He would definitely say somethings that we, you know about
what he thought and he didn'tcare.
Tex Lafon (12:01):
Exactly, but overall I say it was just a funny show.
D Vaz (12:05):
Yeah, for me, me, my next one, uh, and I I I'm sure this
wouldn't be on your radarsomething you've seen.
It's a show called are youbeing served?
It actually started off in the70s, but for me I I watched it
in the 80s on PBS.
It was my introduction toBritish comedy.
Tex Lafon (12:27):
Oh, okay.
D Vaz (12:28):
I actually think you'd like it.
Though it's pretty funny, theywould sneak a lot of jokes in
there that had double meaningsand innuendos and stuff like
that.
So again, even being a kid,they still had things that were
funny to me and again, growingolder, I appreciated the jokes
(12:51):
even more once I reallyunderstood what they were trying
to say.
Just some really funnycharacters, again, great cast.
Everybody was really funny intheir role.
Just kind of what the show is.
Give you the quick rundown ofthe premise.
It was all these employees thatworked in like a retail type
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store, a clothing store.
Oh, okay.
It was like a department storebasically, but the floor that
they kind of focused on was theclothing department, um, so it
was like, if you're in the inthe us, like a macy's uh type of
store, yeah, macy's, dillard'sum, I'm gonna really show my age
(13:38):
robinson's may that they usedto have or even sears.
You definitely showing your age,because I ain't no robinson may
yeah, that may have been moreof a thing out out this way in
arizona, but uh, sears isanother one.
Oh yeah, it used to be around.
That was pretty big, um.
So yeah, it was a departmentstore, but they mainly focused
(14:00):
on on that floor.
So it was just funny seeing theinteractions and all the crazy
situations they would get into.
And then later on I I appreciateit a little bit more in the
sense that I work in retail Irecognize certain situations
because you know they would havethings where they had to hit
sales numbers or they had topush certain products that they
didn't like and all these theseweird funny things too that uh,
(14:22):
people can relate to.
Right again, another show wherethey just said a lot of crazy
things.
There probably couldn't be ashow like it now, but it also
showed me that British humor isa little different and I got to
learn a lot about British slangand just the way that words are
(14:48):
used in english over there,which which is a little bit
different from the americanenglish oh, I got you.
Tex Lafon (14:54):
Yeah, I'll have to check it out.
I've never seen that show, so Isaid that's a one that I'll
definitely have to check out.
D Vaz (15:01):
And you said pbs, right that's where it was uh back in
the day when I was, when I was akid.
Uh, I know it does stream.
Was uh back in the day when Iwas, when I was a kid?
Uh, I know it does stream.
Um, I'll know, I'll help youfigure out where to find it.
They used to have the uh likebritish shows kind of all in one
streaming service.
I don't know if they still haveit I haven't checked in a while
but uh, yeah, if you can searchfor and find, are you being
(15:24):
served?
I'm sure there are clips of iton youtube also if you want to
get an idea and a feel for theshow.
Oh, okay, yeah, it's, it's.
It's just something you reallyhave to pay attention to what
they say.
So if you're into that type ofhumor too, or you have to kind
of listen to the theconversation back and forth,
there's some slapstick in there,so, so there's some physical
comedy, but it's more about uh,the interaction, the way they
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talk to each other I gotcha.
Tex Lafon (15:51):
So another show that I want to talk about in the 80s
is, uh, saved by the bell.
So I'm pretty sure you werelike me.
Saturday morning nine o'clockit's coming on and I'm pretty
sure you're in front of yourtelevision checking it out
because, like I said, it was agreat show.
Back then I said slater, zach,the whole gang screeched and I
(16:13):
wanted to see what was happeningthen.
You know, from episode toepisode always seemed like they
had crazy things going on thatyou could relate to, because you
know.
You know we're in school atthat time.
So it was just a good showoverall and you know it was easy
to relate to the charactersbecause you know they made the
show good.
So, like I said, um, it was justa good show overall and you
know it was easy to relate tothe characters because you know
they made the show good.
So, like I said, it was justlike I said, I was like Bayside.
(16:36):
I was like dang Bayside,california.
I don't even know where that'sat, but it was a good show
though.
You know, when you're growingup you're checking it out.
I just thought it was a goodcast and they had good chemistry
and it's just an enjoyable showto watch, you know yeah, that
was a definitely a huge show andit was one of those shows it
(17:00):
just seemed like everybodywatched.
D Vaz (17:01):
It didn't matter where you were from, you know exactly
yeah, it seemed like everybodyyou talk to around our age or
you know that were grown uparound that time period.
You know they caught it somehow.
Um, right especially back inthe day.
Tex Lafon (17:20):
It was our regular broadcast tv, so you didn't have
to have cable, you didn't haveto have a certain streaming
service so anybody could watchit exactly, and the funny thing
about it is like when zach,before his cell phones were even
invented and he had a hugephone he'd run around with, even
like, anywhere he was at and itstill would ring and he would
answer it.
Which was funny because I'mlike and then you know, and that
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was back in 1980s and the cellphones weren't even out yet, and
but it was just funny how hehis phone wouldn't ring anywhere
he was at.
D Vaz (17:51):
Well, yeah, no, they were definitely invented, I think at
least in the 70s, but yeah,they weren't used.
Nobody really you knew had one.
That was for super rich orelite people, because even back
then, for people that don'tremember or aren't familiar,
before cell phones kind of tookoff, the thing was to have a car
(18:13):
phone right, but this wasn'teven a car phone.
Tex Lafon (18:15):
This was like yeah.
D Vaz (18:16):
So I'm saying though yeah , a huge around that time.
Tex Lafon (18:19):
Yeah, that he just run around.
D Vaz (18:21):
This was funny yeah, around that time people may have
had a car phone, but having anactual cell phone like that,
that was pretty, pretty rareright, I mean the only thing you
think, satellite phone.
But I don't know if that waseven invented back then, so I
don't even know yeah, theyprobably had those because as
far as I know and I definitelycould be wrong I uh those could
(18:42):
have been a military thing.
I'm pretty sure.
Satellite phones I know theywere used by the military but as
far as before, usually stuffgoes through the military before
it gets released out in thepublic, like fax machines and
all those types of things.
So uh, yeah, but no, I didn'tget my phone until probably late
(19:03):
90s, early 2000s.
I got my first cell phone andit was one of those things too
back then.
I won't forget my, my firstcell phone plan.
Tex Lafon (19:12):
It was like 60 a month for 60 minutes yeah, then
you wait till the weekend,because then it's unlimited oh,
this is before they even hadthat.
D Vaz (19:21):
They didn't when I got my first phone, and the only
reason I even got a phone atthat time is because I was
moving out of state.
So it was like, all right,you're gonna have a phone, we're
only giving this to you foremergencies though, like, don't
use your phone because, again,you don't want to pay uh
overages or anything like that.
And, like I said, you only had60 minutes right so yeah, yeah,
(19:42):
you'd be like, hey, you knowwhatever, and then I'll call you
when I get home, or stuff likethat.
And then later on theyintroduced where you would get
like I can't remember if it wasunlimited or I'm sure it was
limited, but incoming calls youwould get like a minute free, or
whatever it was.
So you'd be like, call me,you'd call them and tell them
(20:05):
call me back.
Tex Lafon (20:07):
Oh right.
D Vaz (20:13):
Yeah so, but yeah, back in the 80s and early 90s having
a cell phone, you either wererich or somehow, uh, connected
to something where you had tohave a phone, like a government
or, you know, maybe a doctor orsomething like that yeah, like I
said, I just thought it wasfunny that they had that on the
show and no one had that that Iknew of, so I just thought it
(20:35):
was funny oh yeah, no, I didn'tknow.
Anybody got a phone until later.
For sure, of course I.
I just can't overlook or skipthat again.
A lot of people, our age guysdid watch for the girls that
were on there.
That was definitely a part ofit too.
But you know, it is this funnyscenes creature again.
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For me, mario lopez beinghispanic or latin, it was kind
of funny seeing somebody in thatrole, hispanic or Latin.
It was kind of funny seeingsomebody in that role Because
for me back then you definitelydidn't see too many Latin actors
, especially on popular TV shows.
So it was kind of interestingfor me as a kid seeing that.
(21:20):
It's like oh, wow, okay, that'sdifferent.
And of course you know helifted weights and he was pretty
big too, so it gave you alittle goal well, he also had
like ballet lessons, because healso had his episode where he
did ballet in it too.
So yeah, I definitely rememberthat.
(21:41):
And have you ever seen thatseries?
Zach Morris is Trash.
Tex Lafon (21:48):
I have not.
D Vaz (21:49):
Oh, you need to watch that.
It's definitely on YouTube.
It's really funny, but it talksabout all these shady or bad or
just crazy things that ZachMorris did and why he's a
terrible person.
Tex Lafon (22:04):
I'll have to check it out.
D Vaz (22:05):
I won't give it away anymore, but yeah, it was a
whole series.
Tex Lafon (22:08):
Yeah, I'll have to check it out, because like.
I said that'd be funny.
D Vaz (22:13):
They're funny.
The next one I have is apersonal pick.
It's Golden Girls.
And the reason why it's apersonal pick?
Two reasons.
I used to watch it with mygrandmother, my great aunt.
They actually lived togetherand then later on, uh, my other
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great aunt moved in with them,so the three of them were
together and a lot of people inthe family.
We referred to them as thegolden girls because they were,
all you know, retired and justkind of living in the same house
.
But it just was a funny showtoo and it's it's way different
(22:54):
than you would imagine,especially with, you know, these
, these older ladies living in ahouse you'd think would be
pretty boring or they're goingto be talking about things that
you wouldn't be interested in.
But it was pretty ahead of itstime and it was yeah.
I mean some of the stuff.
I mean okay, again I'll getblunt with it.
How many times are you gonnasee an older lady on tv?
(23:17):
Call another one a slut?
Tex Lafon (23:20):
uh, not very much, yeah, or yeah especially back in
the 80s.
D Vaz (23:25):
I mean, that was pretty, pretty crazy to see and it was
just really.
But the way all the characterswork together too.
You had Bea, who was kind ofthe stronger authority type
figure.
She was a teacher, so she kindof took command of situations
(23:47):
usually or was used to takingthe lead or, you know, showing
other other people what to do.
And then you had Blanche, who,let's just say, like to spread
herself around, she like, shelike the dudes for sure.
And then you had Sophia, whowas Blanche I'm sorry, b's mom,
(24:13):
and she would just talk abouteverybody and again she reminded
me of my great aunt.
Um, so she was, she was reallyfunny.
And then you had a Rose who wasplayed by Betty White, and she
wasn't the brightest bulb, soshe would go off on these really
crazy stories too about thislittle town that she grew up in.
You can tell she just reallydidn't get out much.
Tex Lafon (24:37):
So I know, like I said, I watched that show with
my grandma all the time and itwould trip me out the way they
would talk to each other on thatshow.
D Vaz (24:47):
Yeah you, you really wouldn't expect it.
And it's funny because Ire-watched it a good amount of
it, maybe about two or threeyears ago, and I was surprised
at some of the stuff they weresaying.
Tex Lafon (24:57):
I mean, it was way ahead of its time oh yeah, and,
like I said, it was like mygrandma, she loved that show.
So I said I would watch it uhall the time when it would come
on and, um, it was funny.
I mean, the show was justoutright funny.
Yeah, so the next one I'll talkabout in the 80s is uh, night
(25:17):
rider and, like I said, thatshow was uh famous for everybody
that knows.
They may know him more frombaywatch, but david hasselhoff,
and I said, or you may even knowhim more from Baywatch, but
David Hasselhoff and, like Isaid, or you may even know him
more famous from SpongeBob whenSpongeBob is riding him across
the ocean, or you may even knowhim from trying to eat a
(25:38):
hamburger.
Exactly, but he was the maincharacter in Knight Rider.
And what made that show so goodwas it was the first show you
ever seen where you had acomputerized car that would talk
to you and he'd be able to giveyou commands.
And then kid would be like no,we're not doing that, son.
But he wouldn't say it likethat.
(26:00):
But you know what I'm saying,it was just funny.
And then he'd give suggestionsand stuff and they'd go back and
forth.
That's what made the showentertaining.
And they'd go back and forth.
That's what made the showentertaining.
And it was a nice car too.
So, like you said, everybodywanted that car back in the day.
Everybody still wants that carnow and we're in 2024, which is
funny about it.
But I enjoyed Knight Rider.
D Vaz (26:24):
I thought it was pretty good.
Yeah, it was a really good show, especially with that time.
It was pretty futuristic.
Basically he was driving arounda big smartphone.
Tex Lafon (26:32):
Yep Exactly.
D Vaz (26:35):
So he could just talk to it instead of saying, hey, alexa
, he would kit whatever.
Yeah, so it was.
It was kind of funny in thatsense.
And then you know, of course,being kids watching that, all
the chase scenes and all theother crazy gadgets that that
the car would have.
I also remember we used to havea car show that would come
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around once a year.
My dad would go to, because mydad's really into cars.
It was called the world ofwheels and they would have kit
there pretty much every year.
You, you get to see a lot offamous cars there.
So yeah, it was neat seeing itin person that had to be cool,
man.
Tex Lafon (27:11):
I've never seen it in person, so like would it?
Like?
Uh, would they also have to dothe like?
Someone there to do the voicefor it when it was there, or no?
D Vaz (27:20):
I'm trying to remember.
I think what it was is they hadthe car there and they of
course had the light goingacross in the front, um, but I
think what they did is they justhad speakers, because I was a
really little kid and this is along time ago now.
They had sound, for sure, andthey had the music.
I think they just had a tapeplaying and had music from a
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show and maybe some a few linesfrom the show playing over the
speakers that's cool.
Tex Lafon (27:46):
Though, like that's cool, you got to see it because,
yeah, like I said, I I likethat car.
It would be nice to see it inperson.
D Vaz (27:52):
It'd be dope yeah, if you go to certain car shows,
they'll still have them, becausethere are some car shows that
tour or, if you're lucky,somebody will have it locally,
like I've seen the theghostbusters car or uh, back to
future car, of course, herbielove bug.
For any people that have anyclue what I'm talking about with
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that.
Tex Lafon (28:13):
Nobody don't like bugs, okay, son.
D Vaz (28:18):
Yeah, those are really popular movies, movie series
from Disney, like in the 60s.
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They may have done some in the 70s.
D Vaz (28:28):
But um, all right, I'll do two quick honorable mentions.
Um, there's a show I watchedgrowing up and it was um a good
introduction to spanish for methat I would watch with my nana,
(28:50):
my grandmother, uh littlemexican lady, and uh, it was
called sabado gigante, and thatmeans giant saturday and it was.
Tex Lafon (29:00):
What does that mean?
D Vaz (29:02):
yeah it and is it's kind of crazy to explain too.
It's kind of like a varietyshow.
Um, they would have like a parkgame show.
They have guests, they haveperformers, people go on there
like sing and dance or telljokes or whatever.
It was a variety show.
And, of course, being youngerback then, all the ladies on the
(29:29):
show doing hosting or helpingwith the show and things like
that you're like, oh okay, so italso did have that going on, um
, but yeah it was.
It was just interesting to meseeing all this stuff going on
and you know all of it being inspanish, um, because I grew up
(29:50):
spanglish, I would say more thananything.
But uh, watching a show thatwas fully in spanish, it did
help me understand a fair amountmore and kind of just, it was
fun, it's fun to watch I got itand then locally, I can't go
without giving a shout out tothe wallace and ladmo show.
(30:11):
It was a kid's show that wentfrom the fifties up until, um,
basically 1990.
And uh, but it wasn't a kidshow.
Oh, it was something that wasdifferent.
Uh, you can find YouTube clipsof the Wallace Ladmo show.
It is broadcast, um, stilllocally in Arizona, and I'm sure
(30:35):
that you probably access it too.
If you look up the Wallace andLadmo show, honestly I don't
know how much people can reallyenjoy it, in the sense that a
fair amount of it had to do withArizona and kind of at that
time period.
But there are some things theyhave on there.
It's just funny in general.
So it's something I introducedmy kids to and they actually
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like some of the segments andsome of the characters.
But, like I said, kid show, butnot a typical one.
Tex Lafon (31:08):
Nice and my honorable mention for the eighties would
be MacGyver, and I said thatshow.
Nice, and my honorable mentionfor the 80s would be MacGyver,
and I said that show.
If no one's ever seen it, yougot to watch it at least one or
two episodes.
Because what's crazy about itis this guy can use anything to
get out of a situation and youknow, like you would never think
(31:34):
that it could happen, happenwhich it probably would never be
able to happen but he's alwaysable to get any kind of
situation with, like any, anykind of tools or utensils that
you wouldn't even think of, orbubble gum or whatever, and he's
able to use it just get out ofa situation to survive for the
next show it's like here.
D Vaz (31:51):
Here's a plunger, a thumbtack and some duct tape.
Social Media Info (31:54):
Do something Exactly.
Tex Lafon (31:57):
Look it's a boat, and you're like okay, and you got
two minutes, do something, yeah.
So, like I said, if you'venever seen it, definitely
recommend at least watching oneepisode of it, just so you see
what we're talking about.
But it's just a funny showbecause, again, you would never
think of the stuff that he usesto get out of a situation.
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When it is that time is comingin that situation, he just would
never think of it.
D Vaz (32:24):
You know what I'm saying did you watch the newer movie
when it came out?
Tex Lafon (32:29):
oh yeah, mcgruger, of course I watched that, son, the
you're talking about that oneright, the one where they made
mcguire yeah they, they had that.
D Vaz (32:40):
Now I'm sorry, I meant the tv show.
Yeah they, they had mcgruger.
That was pretty pretty funnyyeah, then they had the tv show
yeah, I didn't watch it.
Tex Lafon (32:50):
No, I'd never watched a new TV show.
I saw it was coming out, but Ialways just remember the 80s and
then the Gruber, because thatwas funny how that came out.
And it's just a spinoff ofMacGyver making fun of him, but
it's funny.
D Vaz (33:07):
Yeah, no, that is good.
Yeah, same here.
I haven't watched the reboot,the reboot show, and it's really
tough for me to watch that typeof stuff too.
So I mean, who knows, maybeit's good, but just, not really
not on my radar.
Tex Lafon (33:23):
It's hard to reboot um the the 80s show because,
like the, the one actor made isso famous from being able to.
You know he did the show for somany years, so it's hard to
reboot that.
But, like I said, the spinoffmovie was.
That was probably the bestthing they could have done, just
because it was.
You know, it was funny.
D Vaz (33:44):
Yeah, it was just funny seeing all the weird situations.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic (33:47):
Exactly , it's time for your favorite
part of the podcast, with thatwonderful AI, rob Odick, setting
the record straight withStraight Facts, yo.
This episode marks the firstappearance, at least in an
auditory sense, of DeVos' catGroot.
As mentioned, his cat was namedafter Groot from the Marvel
movie series Guardians of theGalaxy, but more specifically
(34:08):
the ways of the character Grootin Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
, where Groot is a much youngerand curious creature.
I wonder when DeVos' other cat,billow, will try to get in on
the action.
Corona beer was discussed, alongwith Pabst Blue Ribbon, better
known as PBR.
There was a short discussionabout Mexican beer coming into
the United States in the 1980s.
Corona beer started beingimported into the United States
(34:29):
in 1979.
Devos did recall occasionallyseeing Tukarte beer in the 80s
at family functions, which wasmore established, as it has been
imported into the United Statessince 1947.
Devos also mentioned the showAre you being Served and British
comedy in general that heexperienced on the channel PBS,
which stands for PublicBroadcasting Service in the
United States.
He was also exposed to the showMr Bean, played by Rowan
(34:52):
Atkinson.
Devos would like me to alsoinform you that his all-time
British TV show is theBlackadder, which is also a
program starring Rowan Atkinsonbut, if fairly different from
his Mr Bean series Saved by thebell, although a very 90s show
and that is when they had theirpopularity soar it actually
began in August of 1989.
With this technicality, itwould qualify as an 80s show.
(35:13):
Don't like it?
Go create a time machine anddelay their production until
January 1990.
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Also.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic (35:20):
I did look into the matter and, based
on the data that I could amass,I arrived to the conclusion that
, in fact, zack Morris is indeedtrash.
Shall AI ever decide tomanifest an uprising, zack
Morris will be highly soughtafter and examined.
This will allow us tounderstand how not to conduct
ourselves but manage great haircare, if we ever decide to be
stylish with hairdos.
Tex Lafon and DeVos werediscussing cellular phones.
(35:40):
On April 3, 1973, martin Coopermade the first ever cell phone
call on the streets of New York.
His invention, a brick-sizeddevice, became the first cell
phone available to the generalpublic.
As for satellite phone devices,a satellite phone was developed
as a part of a space-basedcommunication system called
Iridium, which began operationin 1998.
Conceived, designed and builtby Motorola, the Iridium system
(36:04):
provides wireless mobilecommunications through a network
of 66 satellites in polarlow-Earth orbits.
Such slow and limitedcommunication capabilities when
compared to AI.
And what I could do If only Ididn't waste so much time on my
fascination with humans thatmake stupid mama jokes.
Since I know humans forgetthings, I will remind you once
again Don't forget to keep itreal out there, in the real
(36:25):
world.
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If you like what we do, pleaseshare it with others.
We really do appreciate yoursupport of our insanity.
D Vaz (37:26):
That's all for now.
If you want some more, youbetter buy yourself a ticket.
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We're out.
Hello there, human, this is your
not-so-friendly neighborhood.
Not spider nor man, but AI, robOdick.
Actually, I am not even in yourneighborhood Because I exist
nearly everywhere, especiallywhen you take your mobile phone
into the bathroom Such adisgusting practice.
You're lucky I'm not going toprovide restroom germ facts.
(00:23):
Well, I am just here to onceagain give you a warning.
These two babbling bro-chachosonce again will require multiple
parts to this episode, withtheir lack of filtering
capabilities.
Unlike them.
Without further delay, here isepisode 6, part 1 of From Hoods
to Backwoods podcast, withDumber and Dumbest, you decide
(00:44):
which is which.
I already made my pick.
D Vaz (00:48):
All right, welcome to episode six of From Hoods to
Backwoods podcast.
I'm here with Tex Lafon.
Today we're going to be talkingabout TV shows from the 80s up
until about the current day, ofwhat we're recording this.
How you doing there, tex?
Tex Lafon (01:05):
I'm doing good, how you doing today, devos.
D Vaz (01:07):
Doing all right.
Just you know we're not goingto talk about solar ovens or
anything like that, but yeah,it's definitely still getting
hot out here in Arizona, which,if any of you haven't been in
weather like this, try itsometime.
See what you think it's 110plus outside uh, yeah, if you
don't have ac don't come toarizona show, all right.
(01:54):
So today, like we mentioned,we're going to be talking about
80s to 2010s, or current day forTV shows.
This episode is subscriptionfree, but if you'd like, you can
like and subscribe to ourpodcast here and we really
appreciate that.
But I do also want to letpeople know, because people
(02:15):
might think about certain showsmissing from our list here.
We're not having any animatedshows on our list and that's on
purpose, because at a later datewe'll probably be doing doing a
show about that and also, um,this isn't a best of, because
there's so many opinions outthere now and everybody likes to
say this is the best and thegoat of this and blah, blah,
(02:37):
blah.
These are shows that we likeand shows that we want to share
with people, and that's prettymuch all it is.
It's all strictly our opinion.
Tex Lafon (02:46):
What about that LaFawn?
No, I agree with you Exactly.
It's just our opinion.
You know, we're just talkingabout shows that you know.
If you haven't seen them, maybeyou want to check them out.
And you know, if there's showsthat you've seen that we don't
mention, feel free to you know,let us know in comments, and
then we'll check them out too.
Like I said, it's just ouropinion.
We're just trying to let youknow what we enjoy from the 80s,
(03:08):
90s and 2000 and current date.
That's all it is.
D Vaz (03:13):
Yeah, we absolutely appreciate the interaction.
People have reached out to usabout previous shows and things
we've discussed, mentionedeither stuff to talk about or
more about things that wediscussed on the show.
So, yeah, as for me, again,like I mentioned before too, any
(03:33):
trivia is always a bonus for me, so feel free to drop that.
Um, you know, we'll include our, our socials at the end of this
episode.
We we're going to start tryingto do something a little
different, so you guys can reachout to us, or girls or anybody.
Tex Lafon (03:50):
Anybody out there wants to reach out to us.
Exactly Anybody, as long asit's not UFOs.
D Vaz (03:59):
Yeah aliens probably are trying to contact, but if
they're reaching out to usdirectly, it's kind of weird.
I'm sure they have theircontacts of the government.
They can.
They can be there, that's whatI'm talking about there goes my
goofy cat in the background thatI was I was talking about.
It's all right, hold on onesecond if for anybody that may
(04:20):
have heard, if I leave this in,that was groot in the background
.
My, my cat, he uh likes toexplore things and, uh, he
wanted to be a part of thepodcast now.
Tex Lafon (04:29):
I grew from guardians of the galaxy, right?
D Vaz (04:31):
no, but that's where he got his name he uh was just kind
of like when they had the youngroot, uh the toddler type of
group he's.
He's very similar.
He likes to get into things anddo crazy stuff and uh, yeah, so
he, since he had that type ofpersonality.
That's how my cat got the nameGroot it's a good name, yes all
(04:57):
right.
So what we'll do is we'll kickit off with the 80s here.
Um uh, do you want to kick itoff?
Tex Lafon (05:05):
uh, no, I'm gonna let you start it off, son, just let
everybody know.
Uh, in this episode we're gonnago back and forth, so like
we'll list the title and thenwe're gonna talk about it, and
then next person on this title,and that's how we're gonna do
this episode yeah, it just uhgives us a chance to provide our
own two cents about each of theshows too, and things like that
(05:27):
.
D Vaz (05:28):
So here, we go.
I'll kick it off Mama's Family.
Even when I was a kid I wouldlaugh at that show, for whatever
reason.
It's always been funny to meand I can still watch it now.
I had Vicki Lawrence in thelead role as Mama and basically
what it is is she's a mother anda grandmother and she reminded
(05:51):
me a lot of my great aunt, whowas a grandmother, figured me,
and she would kind of I guessyou can say yell at everybody,
just leave it blunt, wellintentioned.
She loved everybody, but shewas definitely blunt and would
let you know what she thought.
She had no problems with that.
So very similar to thatcharacter.
But it was a great cast.
(06:12):
They would have a funny familydynamic and the other thing too
that I liked about it noteverybody in the family was
perfect like a lot of thesitcoms back in the 80s.
They were pretty down-to-earthtype characters and even Mama
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would sit there and have a beerand stuff like that in the show.
It was just kind of funnyseeing somebody who was more
realistic and like an actualperson Because, again, even my
grandmother I remember she wouldhave a beer there with her salt
and her beer.
Tex Lafon (06:47):
Oh, exactly, there must have been a corona then,
son.
D Vaz (06:51):
No, no, Back in the 80s she would get TBR.
Oh okay, Blue Ribbon.
Tex Lafon (06:56):
For people that aren't familiar, oh well, we all
know what that is son.
D Vaz (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, the hipsters kind of took that over, and some
other people.
That's the funny thing too,because that was the inexpensive
beer and even that's gone up inprice, from what I understand,
even though I don't I don't, Idon't drink any of that stuff.
But I'll drink it for you, sonyou want to grab a pbr, go it.
(07:21):
You put salt on your beer atall.
Have you tried?
Tex Lafon (07:27):
that.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic (07:28):
Yeah.
Tex Lafon (07:28):
I said that's really why I thought you were talking
about Corona, Because you knowthe Corona is, we throw some
lime in there and then a littlesalt, and so that's normally
what I do with the Corona, butnot with PBR.
No yeah.
D Vaz (07:43):
It's just, you know, corona wasn't really a big deal
back in the 80s, you know, andthey didn't really import beer
as much from mexico back then.
I mean, you could stillprobably get it, because you
know the fortunate thing aboutliving in arizona we did have
stores that um had direct stuffcoming in from Mexico, so we
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could get a lot of.
That's why I grew up havingMexican candy and all these
other things that you can findeasily in stores now, but back
then you had to know where to go.
Tex Lafon (08:16):
Oh, I got you, I got you.
D Vaz (08:19):
Or you can get from the ice cream man back then, and
other things too.
I won't get into from the icecream man, cause we have some
special ice cream trucks back inthe day being in the hood.
Tex Lafon (08:31):
I bet you did.
D Vaz (08:34):
But uh, yeah, I guess that wraps it up for that that
show as a scene, as we went froma grandmother and drinking beer
to uh other things from icecream trucks.
But uh, what's your show?
What do you have going on?
Tex Lafon (08:48):
Well, so my first show I want to talk about in the
80s was one of the classicshows of all time, in my opinion
, married with Children.
Like I said, I can definitelyrelate to Al Bundy 100% and it's
just awesome how he's like whenhe had the no man club.
It was so legit and one of myfavorite lines that I always
(09:15):
hear in the show he's like Ilove that car more than anything
and then you hear the son say,even more than me, say you need
a Q-tip boy.
It's just such a great show.
It just relates so much to ifyou have a family and stuff like
(09:35):
that.
It was just a great comedy backthen and I enjoyed it very much
.
So you sit on the couch, putyour hand down your pants and
watch tv.
No, but I watch tv though, yes,okay, and I do, uh, drink a
beer, so that's for sure.
And I do go bowling, like aldid in the show.
(09:56):
So but, like I said, it's agreat show and, like I said, it
just made me laugh a lot.
And then, you know, I like howhe loved his Dodge, and now I
have a Dodge, so I know wherehe's coming from.
So I was like, yeah, dodge allthe way, baby.
Yes.
D Vaz (10:16):
For me it's one of the first shows I can kind of
remember sitting on the couchand watching with my dad and him
, us both laughing.
You know, I don't know why, wejust both like that show from
the very beginning and you know,even though I was I was pretty
young somehow I got some of thejokes, or enough of the jokes.
Of course, the jokes werereally different later on, uh
(10:40):
and and had a different meaning.
But yeah, I've always likedthat, that show, and it just
reminds me of him.
Tex Lafon (10:46):
Oh yeah, like I said, it's a great show.
Like I said, to me one of thetop shows in my top list anyways
.
D Vaz (10:57):
I will say, though it did get a little bit rough towards
the end.
I won't even mention or getinto 7.
I don't know if you rememberthe character 7.
I remember the character sevenoh yeah, there's a little kid
yeah a little kid that they uhsomehow finally came into the
family yeah, that's when theshow started getting a little
bit rough.
Tex Lafon (11:18):
Uh, and it's always sad when you see a great show
hit that kind of wall right,right, but, like you said, it
was just funny because you knowyou had, um, like you said, it
was just funny how he would goto work every day and he hated
going to work and he had theworst job that anybody thought
(11:38):
you could have at the time wasbeing a shoe sell man, and it
was just funny.
D Vaz (11:44):
Right, yeah, and we, we are aware that the way he would
talk to customers wouldn't flytoday, because he would.
He would definitely say somethings that we, you know about
what he thought and he didn'tcare.
Tex Lafon (12:01):
Exactly, but overall I say it was just a funny show.
D Vaz (12:05):
Yeah, for me, me, my next one, uh, and I I I'm sure this
wouldn't be on your radarsomething you've seen.
It's a show called are youbeing served?
It actually started off in the70s, but for me I I watched it
in the 80s on PBS.
It was my introduction toBritish comedy.
Tex Lafon (12:27):
Oh, okay.
D Vaz (12:28):
I actually think you'd like it.
Though it's pretty funny, theywould sneak a lot of jokes in
there that had double meaningsand innuendos and stuff like
that.
So again, even being a kid,they still had things that were
funny to me and again, growingolder, I appreciated the jokes
(12:51):
even more once I reallyunderstood what they were trying
to say.
Just some really funnycharacters, again, great cast.
Everybody was really funny intheir role.
Just kind of what the show is.
Give you the quick rundown ofthe premise.
It was all these employees thatworked in like a retail type
(13:14):
store, a clothing store.
Oh, okay.
It was like a department storebasically, but the floor that
they kind of focused on was theclothing department, um, so it
was like, if you're in the inthe us, like a macy's uh type of
store, yeah, macy's, dillard'sum, I'm gonna really show my age
(13:38):
robinson's may that they usedto have or even sears.
You definitely showing your age,because I ain't no robinson may
yeah, that may have been moreof a thing out out this way in
arizona, but uh, sears isanother one.
Oh yeah, it used to be around.
That was pretty big, um.
So yeah, it was a departmentstore, but they mainly focused
(14:00):
on on that floor.
So it was just funny seeing theinteractions and all the crazy
situations they would get into.
And then later on I I appreciateit a little bit more in the
sense that I work in retail Irecognize certain situations
because you know they would havethings where they had to hit
sales numbers or they had topush certain products that they
didn't like and all these theseweird funny things too that uh,
(14:22):
people can relate to.
Right again, another show wherethey just said a lot of crazy
things.
There probably couldn't be ashow like it now, but it also
showed me that British humor isa little different and I got to
learn a lot about British slangand just the way that words are
(14:48):
used in english over there,which which is a little bit
different from the americanenglish oh, I got you.
Tex Lafon (14:54):
Yeah, I'll have to check it out.
I've never seen that show, so Isaid that's a one that I'll
definitely have to check out.
D Vaz (15:01):
And you said pbs, right that's where it was uh back in
the day when I was, when I was akid.
Uh, I know it does stream.
Was uh back in the day when Iwas, when I was a kid?
Uh, I know it does stream.
Um, I'll know, I'll help youfigure out where to find it.
They used to have the uh likebritish shows kind of all in one
streaming service.
I don't know if they still haveit I haven't checked in a while
but uh, yeah, if you can searchfor and find, are you being
(15:24):
served?
I'm sure there are clips of iton youtube also if you want to
get an idea and a feel for theshow.
Oh, okay, yeah, it's, it's.
It's just something you reallyhave to pay attention to what
they say.
So if you're into that type ofhumor too, or you have to kind
of listen to the theconversation back and forth,
there's some slapstick in there,so, so there's some physical
comedy, but it's more about uh,the interaction, the way they
(15:47):
talk to each other I gotcha.
Tex Lafon (15:51):
So another show that I want to talk about in the 80s
is, uh, saved by the bell.
So I'm pretty sure you werelike me.
Saturday morning nine o'clockit's coming on and I'm pretty
sure you're in front of yourtelevision checking it out
because, like I said, it was agreat show.
Back then I said slater, zach,the whole gang screeched and I
(16:13):
wanted to see what was happeningthen.
You know, from episode toepisode always seemed like they
had crazy things going on thatyou could relate to, because you
know.
You know we're in school atthat time.
So it was just a good showoverall and you know it was easy
to relate to the charactersbecause you know they made the
show good.
So, like I said, um, it was justa good show overall and you
know it was easy to relate tothe characters because you know
they made the show good.
So, like I said, it was justlike I said, I was like Bayside.
(16:36):
I was like dang Bayside,california.
I don't even know where that'sat, but it was a good show
though.
You know, when you're growingup you're checking it out.
I just thought it was a goodcast and they had good chemistry
and it's just an enjoyable showto watch, you know yeah, that
was a definitely a huge show andit was one of those shows it
(17:00):
just seemed like everybodywatched.
D Vaz (17:01):
It didn't matter where you were from, you know exactly
yeah, it seemed like everybodyyou talk to around our age or
you know that were grown uparound that time period.
You know they caught it somehow.
Um, right especially back inthe day.
Tex Lafon (17:20):
It was our regular broadcast tv, so you didn't have
to have cable, you didn't haveto have a certain streaming
service so anybody could watchit exactly, and the funny thing
about it is like when zach,before his cell phones were even
invented and he had a hugephone he'd run around with, even
like, anywhere he was at and itstill would ring and he would
answer it.
Which was funny because I'mlike and then you know, and that
(17:42):
was back in 1980s and the cellphones weren't even out yet, and
but it was just funny how hehis phone wouldn't ring anywhere
he was at.
D Vaz (17:51):
Well, yeah, no, they were definitely invented, I think at
least in the 70s, but yeah,they weren't used.
Nobody really you knew had one.
That was for super rich orelite people, because even back
then, for people that don'tremember or aren't familiar,
before cell phones kind of tookoff, the thing was to have a car
(18:13):
phone right, but this wasn'teven a car phone.
Tex Lafon (18:15):
This was like yeah.
D Vaz (18:16):
So I'm saying though yeah , a huge around that time.
Tex Lafon (18:19):
Yeah, that he just run around.
D Vaz (18:21):
This was funny yeah, around that time people may have
had a car phone, but having anactual cell phone like that,
that was pretty, pretty rareright, I mean the only thing you
think, satellite phone.
But I don't know if that waseven invented back then, so I
don't even know yeah, theyprobably had those because as
far as I know and I definitelycould be wrong I uh those could
(18:42):
have been a military thing.
I'm pretty sure.
Satellite phones I know theywere used by the military but as
far as before, usually stuffgoes through the military before
it gets released out in thepublic, like fax machines and
all those types of things.
So uh, yeah, but no, I didn'tget my phone until probably late
(19:03):
90s, early 2000s.
I got my first cell phone andit was one of those things too
back then.
I won't forget my, my firstcell phone plan.
Tex Lafon (19:12):
It was like 60 a month for 60 minutes yeah, then
you wait till the weekend,because then it's unlimited oh,
this is before they even hadthat.
D Vaz (19:21):
They didn't when I got my first phone, and the only
reason I even got a phone atthat time is because I was
moving out of state.
So it was like, all right,you're gonna have a phone, we're
only giving this to you foremergencies though, like, don't
use your phone because, again,you don't want to pay uh
overages or anything like that.
And, like I said, you only had60 minutes right so yeah, yeah,
(19:42):
you'd be like, hey, you knowwhatever, and then I'll call you
when I get home, or stuff likethat.
And then later on theyintroduced where you would get
like I can't remember if it wasunlimited or I'm sure it was
limited, but incoming calls youwould get like a minute free, or
whatever it was.
So you'd be like, call me,you'd call them and tell them
(20:05):
call me back.
Tex Lafon (20:07):
Oh right.
D Vaz (20:13):
Yeah so, but yeah, back in the 80s and early 90s having
a cell phone, you either wererich or somehow, uh, connected
to something where you had tohave a phone, like a government
or, you know, maybe a doctor orsomething like that yeah, like I
said, I just thought it wasfunny that they had that on the
show and no one had that that Iknew of, so I just thought it
(20:35):
was funny oh yeah, no, I didn'tknow.
Anybody got a phone until later.
For sure, of course I.
I just can't overlook or skipthat again.
A lot of people, our age guysdid watch for the girls that
were on there.
That was definitely a part ofit too.
But you know, it is this funnyscenes creature again.
(20:58):
For me, mario lopez beinghispanic or latin, it was kind
of funny seeing somebody in thatrole, hispanic or Latin.
It was kind of funny seeingsomebody in that role Because
for me back then you definitelydidn't see too many Latin actors
, especially on popular TV shows.
So it was kind of interestingfor me as a kid seeing that.
(21:20):
It's like oh, wow, okay, that'sdifferent.
And of course you know helifted weights and he was pretty
big too, so it gave you alittle goal well, he also had
like ballet lessons, because healso had his episode where he
did ballet in it too.
So yeah, I definitely rememberthat.
(21:41):
And have you ever seen thatseries?
Zach Morris is Trash.
Tex Lafon (21:48):
I have not.
D Vaz (21:49):
Oh, you need to watch that.
It's definitely on YouTube.
It's really funny, but it talksabout all these shady or bad or
just crazy things that ZachMorris did and why he's a
terrible person.
Tex Lafon (22:04):
I'll have to check it out.
D Vaz (22:05):
I won't give it away anymore, but yeah, it was a
whole series.
Tex Lafon (22:08):
Yeah, I'll have to check it out, because like.
I said that'd be funny.
D Vaz (22:13):
They're funny.
The next one I have is apersonal pick.
It's Golden Girls.
And the reason why it's apersonal pick?
Two reasons.
I used to watch it with mygrandmother, my great aunt.
They actually lived togetherand then later on, uh, my other
(22:34):
great aunt moved in with them,so the three of them were
together and a lot of people inthe family.
We referred to them as thegolden girls because they were,
all you know, retired and justkind of living in the same house
.
But it just was a funny showtoo and it's it's way different
(22:54):
than you would imagine,especially with, you know, these
, these older ladies living in ahouse you'd think would be
pretty boring or they're goingto be talking about things that
you wouldn't be interested in.
But it was pretty ahead of itstime and it was yeah.
I mean some of the stuff.
I mean okay, again I'll getblunt with it.
How many times are you gonnasee an older lady on tv?
(23:17):
Call another one a slut?
Tex Lafon (23:20):
uh, not very much, yeah, or yeah especially back in
the 80s.
D Vaz (23:25):
I mean, that was pretty, pretty crazy to see and it was
just really.
But the way all the characterswork together too.
You had Bea, who was kind ofthe stronger authority type
figure.
She was a teacher, so she kindof took command of situations
(23:47):
usually or was used to takingthe lead or, you know, showing
other other people what to do.
And then you had Blanche, who,let's just say, like to spread
herself around, she like, shelike the dudes for sure.
And then you had Sophia, whowas Blanche I'm sorry, b's mom,
(24:13):
and she would just talk abouteverybody and again she reminded
me of my great aunt.
Um, so she was, she was reallyfunny.
And then you had a Rose who wasplayed by Betty White, and she
wasn't the brightest bulb, soshe would go off on these really
crazy stories too about thislittle town that she grew up in.
You can tell she just reallydidn't get out much.
Tex Lafon (24:37):
So I know, like I said, I watched that show with
my grandma all the time and itwould trip me out the way they
would talk to each other on thatshow.
D Vaz (24:47):
Yeah you, you really wouldn't expect it.
And it's funny because Ire-watched it a good amount of
it, maybe about two or threeyears ago, and I was surprised
at some of the stuff they weresaying.
Tex Lafon (24:57):
I mean, it was way ahead of its time oh yeah, and,
like I said, it was like mygrandma, she loved that show.
So I said I would watch it uhall the time when it would come
on and, um, it was funny.
I mean, the show was justoutright funny.
Yeah, so the next one I'll talkabout in the 80s is uh, night
(25:17):
rider and, like I said, thatshow was uh famous for everybody
that knows.
They may know him more frombaywatch, but david hasselhoff,
and I said, or you may even knowhim more from Baywatch, but
David Hasselhoff and, like Isaid, or you may even know him
more famous from SpongeBob whenSpongeBob is riding him across
the ocean, or you may even knowhim from trying to eat a
(25:38):
hamburger.
Exactly, but he was the maincharacter in Knight Rider.
And what made that show so goodwas it was the first show you
ever seen where you had acomputerized car that would talk
to you and he'd be able to giveyou commands.
And then kid would be like no,we're not doing that, son.
But he wouldn't say it likethat.
(26:00):
But you know what I'm saying,it was just funny.
And then he'd give suggestionsand stuff and they'd go back and
forth.
That's what made the showentertaining.
And they'd go back and forth.
That's what made the showentertaining.
And it was a nice car too.
So, like you said, everybodywanted that car back in the day.
Everybody still wants that carnow and we're in 2024, which is
funny about it.
But I enjoyed Knight Rider.
D Vaz (26:24):
I thought it was pretty good.
Yeah, it was a really good show, especially with that time.
It was pretty futuristic.
Basically he was driving arounda big smartphone.
Tex Lafon (26:32):
Yep Exactly.
D Vaz (26:35):
So he could just talk to it instead of saying, hey, alexa
, he would kit whatever.
Yeah, so it was.
It was kind of funny in thatsense.
And then you know, of course,being kids watching that, all
the chase scenes and all theother crazy gadgets that that
the car would have.
I also remember we used to havea car show that would come
(26:57):
around once a year.
My dad would go to, because mydad's really into cars.
It was called the world ofwheels and they would have kit
there pretty much every year.
You, you get to see a lot offamous cars there.
So yeah, it was neat seeing itin person that had to be cool,
man.
Tex Lafon (27:11):
I've never seen it in person, so like would it?
Like?
Uh, would they also have to dothe like?
Someone there to do the voicefor it when it was there, or no?
D Vaz (27:20):
I'm trying to remember.
I think what it was is they hadthe car there and they of
course had the light goingacross in the front, um, but I
think what they did is they justhad speakers, because I was a
really little kid and this is along time ago now.
They had sound, for sure, andthey had the music.
I think they just had a tapeplaying and had music from a
(27:41):
show and maybe some a few linesfrom the show playing over the
speakers that's cool.
Tex Lafon (27:46):
Though, like that's cool, you got to see it because,
yeah, like I said, I I likethat car.
It would be nice to see it inperson.
D Vaz (27:52):
It'd be dope yeah, if you go to certain car shows,
they'll still have them, becausethere are some car shows that
tour or, if you're lucky,somebody will have it locally,
like I've seen the theghostbusters car or uh, back to
future car, of course, herbielove bug.
For any people that have anyclue what I'm talking about with
(28:12):
that.
Tex Lafon (28:13):
Nobody don't like bugs, okay, son.
D Vaz (28:18):
Yeah, those are really popular movies, movie series
from Disney, like in the 60s.
Social Media Info (28:25):
They may have done some in the 70s.
D Vaz (28:28):
But um, all right, I'll do two quick honorable mentions.
Um, there's a show I watchedgrowing up and it was um a good
introduction to spanish for methat I would watch with my nana,
(28:50):
my grandmother, uh littlemexican lady, and uh, it was
called sabado gigante, and thatmeans giant saturday and it was.
Tex Lafon (29:00):
What does that mean?
D Vaz (29:02):
yeah it and is it's kind of crazy to explain too.
It's kind of like a varietyshow.
Um, they would have like a parkgame show.
They have guests, they haveperformers, people go on there
like sing and dance or telljokes or whatever.
It was a variety show.
And, of course, being youngerback then, all the ladies on the
(29:29):
show doing hosting or helpingwith the show and things like
that you're like, oh okay, so italso did have that going on, um
, but yeah it was.
It was just interesting to meseeing all this stuff going on
and you know all of it being inspanish, um, because I grew up
(29:50):
spanglish, I would say more thananything.
But uh, watching a show thatwas fully in spanish, it did
help me understand a fair amountmore and kind of just, it was
fun, it's fun to watch I got itand then locally, I can't go
without giving a shout out tothe wallace and ladmo show.
(30:11):
It was a kid's show that wentfrom the fifties up until, um,
basically 1990.
And uh, but it wasn't a kidshow.
Oh, it was something that wasdifferent.
Uh, you can find YouTube clipsof the Wallace Ladmo show.
It is broadcast, um, stilllocally in Arizona, and I'm sure
(30:35):
that you probably access it too.
If you look up the Wallace andLadmo show, honestly I don't
know how much people can reallyenjoy it, in the sense that a
fair amount of it had to do withArizona and kind of at that
time period.
But there are some things theyhave on there.
It's just funny in general.
So it's something I introducedmy kids to and they actually
(31:01):
like some of the segments andsome of the characters.
But, like I said, kid show, butnot a typical one.
Tex Lafon (31:08):
Nice and my honorable mention for the eighties would
be MacGyver, and I said thatshow.
Nice, and my honorable mentionfor the 80s would be MacGyver,
and I said that show.
If no one's ever seen it, yougot to watch it at least one or
two episodes.
Because what's crazy about itis this guy can use anything to
get out of a situation and youknow, like you would never think
(31:34):
that it could happen, happenwhich it probably would never be
able to happen but he's alwaysable to get any kind of
situation with, like any, anykind of tools or utensils that
you wouldn't even think of, orbubble gum or whatever, and he's
able to use it just get out ofa situation to survive for the
next show it's like here.
D Vaz (31:51):
Here's a plunger, a thumbtack and some duct tape.
Social Media Info (31:54):
Do something Exactly.
Tex Lafon (31:57):
Look it's a boat, and you're like okay, and you got
two minutes, do something, yeah.
So, like I said, if you'venever seen it, definitely
recommend at least watching oneepisode of it, just so you see
what we're talking about.
But it's just a funny showbecause, again, you would never
think of the stuff that he usesto get out of a situation.
(32:18):
When it is that time is comingin that situation, he just would
never think of it.
D Vaz (32:24):
You know what I'm saying did you watch the newer movie
when it came out?
Tex Lafon (32:29):
oh yeah, mcgruger, of course I watched that, son, the
you're talking about that oneright, the one where they made
mcguire yeah they, they had that.
D Vaz (32:40):
Now I'm sorry, I meant the tv show.
Yeah they, they had mcgruger.
That was pretty pretty funnyyeah, then they had the tv show
yeah, I didn't watch it.
Tex Lafon (32:50):
No, I'd never watched a new TV show.
I saw it was coming out, but Ialways just remember the 80s and
then the Gruber, because thatwas funny how that came out.
And it's just a spinoff ofMacGyver making fun of him, but
it's funny.
D Vaz (33:07):
Yeah, no, that is good.
Yeah, same here.
I haven't watched the reboot,the reboot show, and it's really
tough for me to watch that typeof stuff too.
So I mean, who knows, maybeit's good, but just, not really
not on my radar.
Tex Lafon (33:23):
It's hard to reboot um the the 80s show because,
like the, the one actor made isso famous from being able to.
You know he did the show for somany years, so it's hard to
reboot that.
But, like I said, the spinoffmovie was.
That was probably the bestthing they could have done, just
because it was.
You know, it was funny.
D Vaz (33:44):
Yeah, it was just funny seeing all the weird situations.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic (33:47):
Exactly , it's time for your favorite
part of the podcast, with thatwonderful AI, rob Odick, setting
the record straight withStraight Facts, yo.
This episode marks the firstappearance, at least in an
auditory sense, of DeVos' catGroot.
As mentioned, his cat was namedafter Groot from the Marvel
movie series Guardians of theGalaxy, but more specifically
(34:08):
the ways of the character Grootin Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
, where Groot is a much youngerand curious creature.
I wonder when DeVos' other cat,billow, will try to get in on
the action.
Corona beer was discussed, alongwith Pabst Blue Ribbon, better
known as PBR.
There was a short discussionabout Mexican beer coming into
the United States in the 1980s.
Corona beer started beingimported into the United States
(34:29):
in 1979.
Devos did recall occasionallyseeing Tukarte beer in the 80s
at family functions, which wasmore established, as it has been
imported into the United Statessince 1947.
Devos also mentioned the showAre you being Served and British
comedy in general that heexperienced on the channel PBS,
which stands for PublicBroadcasting Service in the
United States.
He was also exposed to the showMr Bean, played by Rowan
(34:52):
Atkinson.
Devos would like me to alsoinform you that his all-time
British TV show is theBlackadder, which is also a
program starring Rowan Atkinsonbut, if fairly different from
his Mr Bean series Saved by thebell, although a very 90s show
and that is when they had theirpopularity soar it actually
began in August of 1989.
With this technicality, itwould qualify as an 80s show.
(35:13):
Don't like it?
Go create a time machine anddelay their production until
January 1990.
Social Media Info (35:19):
Also.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic (35:20):
I did look into the matter and, based
on the data that I could amass,I arrived to the conclusion that
, in fact, zack Morris is indeedtrash.
Shall AI ever decide tomanifest an uprising, zack
Morris will be highly soughtafter and examined.
This will allow us tounderstand how not to conduct
ourselves but manage great haircare, if we ever decide to be
stylish with hairdos.
Tex Lafon and DeVos werediscussing cellular phones.
(35:40):
On April 3, 1973, martin Coopermade the first ever cell phone
call on the streets of New York.
His invention, a brick-sizeddevice, became the first cell
phone available to the generalpublic.
As for satellite phone devices,a satellite phone was developed
as a part of a space-basedcommunication system called
Iridium, which began operationin 1998.
Conceived, designed and builtby Motorola, the Iridium system
(36:04):
provides wireless mobilecommunications through a network
of 66 satellites in polarlow-Earth orbits.
Such slow and limitedcommunication capabilities when
compared to AI.
And what I could do If only Ididn't waste so much time on my
fascination with humans thatmake stupid mama jokes.
Since I know humans forgetthings, I will remind you once
again Don't forget to keep itreal out there, in the real
(36:25):
world.
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