July 15, 2024 • 57 mins
What if reliving 90s television could bring a smile to your face today? Get ready for a walk down memory lane as we celebrate some of the most iconic TV shows of the decade. We'll kick things off with Martin Lawrence's comedic brilliance in "Martin," where his unforgettable characters like Shenaynay and Bro Man will leave you in stitches. Then, we'll delve into the groundbreaking world of "In Living Color," spotlighting classics like Homie the Clown and the show's cultural impact, all thanks to Keenen Ivory Wayans' comedic genius. And yes, we couldn't resist touching on the cult favorite film "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," which paved the way for this revolutionary sketch comedy show.
But the nostalgia fest doesn't stop there. Remember the high school drama that had us all hooked every week with Beverly Hills 90210? We've got that covered too. Plus, we shine a light on the underrated show "Roc," featuring the talents of Charles S. Dutton and those memorable guest appearances by En Vogue. And of course, no trip through 90s TV would be complete without a nod to the legendary "Seinfeld." From its quirky characters to its endlessly quotable lines, we'll explore how it became one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to these classic shows, this episode promises a delightful and laughter-filled journey back to a beloved era of television.
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Rob O'Dic (00:00):
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Enough of this, here you go.
It is episode 6, part 2 of FromHoods to Backwoods podcast,
with those oxygen suckers, dvozand Tex Lafon.
Social Media info (01:00):
From woods to backwoods podcast.
Welcome to the show.
D Vaz (01:07):
All right, so moving on up a decade and I'll just kind
of let you kick it off in thesense that there was a show that
we both wanted to pick- yes wedid.
Yeah, I deferred it to you.
But yeah, it's Martin, so I'lllet you kick it off.
What were your thoughts onmartin?
Tex LaFon (01:28):
martin, I'm the man.
Yeah, that was a great showlike I said exactly like it was.
Uh, I just liked how he umtransformed and made so many
different characters in the showand I said all the situations
that he made from the show wereso funny because you had shenay,
you had bro man, they'd becoming through your window,
(01:52):
which?
D Vaz (01:58):
was funny.
It'd be like I'm hungry broyeah, exactly.
Tex LaFon (02:02):
And then he just hopped back out the window like
it was nothing, you know.
I said and then Gina, where'sGina?
Yeah, you know, it was just.
It was a great show and I saidall the characters he made and
you know all the favorite youknow lines he did and everything
.
It was just funny, like it wasdefinitely a game changing show
that I thought you know thatcame out in the 90s.
D Vaz (02:27):
Yeah, absolutely a game-changing show that I
thought you know that came outin the 90s.
Yeah, absolutely one of myall-time favorite shows.
Um, it's one of those if if Ihappen to see it on tv somewhere
where I'll stop and watch it,um, or I can just kind of have
it on whenever and and justcatch it, um, because I've seen
it so much and and all that Ihave it on kind of the
background right so you knowyou'll, you'll pay attention to
(02:49):
the funny moments or whatever,and then kind of get back to
whatever you're doing exactly.
But yeah, it again, the cast wasjust really funny.
Everybody played their roleperfectly.
Um, and to me, when martin, uh,would interact with pam and
they go at each other it waspriceless yeah the stuff they
(03:13):
would say to each other was justpriceless yeah, because nobody
ever really won.
They just both kept giving itback to each other exactly.
Tex LaFon (03:22):
And then, you know, gina would break it up and be
like, hey, you know, come down,come down, it'd be funny yeah,
yeah.
D Vaz (03:29):
So yeah, there's.
Gina is his girlfriend, andthen pam was her best friend and
uh, martin, you know the leadcharacter.
They just didn't like eachother.
And then martin had his, hisfriends, like tommy.
The running joke about him wasthey they would never really say
what his job was exactly.
Tex LaFon (03:50):
It's like he had no job but he would always go do
something, and then they'd belike, but, like you said, they
never said what he did for aliving and then cole was, uh,
another best friend, that hejust he was a little slow, let's
say.
But it was funny in the show.
D Vaz (04:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's the thing I mean.
The actor was so great at doingthe role that you know, you're
convinced that something's wrongwith Cole.
Tex LaFon (04:20):
Yeah, it was like I said.
It was definitely a show thatdefinitely changed.
You know the way shows weremade, going forward and stuff
like that, like for sure.
D Vaz (04:31):
Yeah, and kind of sticking with that whole thought
.
In that same vein, a huge showfor me and a really big change,
I think, with the kind of TV andhow especially sketch comedies
were done, was In Living Color.
Tex LaFon (04:48):
Oh yeah.
D Vaz (04:49):
So In Living Color was another one of those shows where
I'd watch it with my dad and wemade sure we were not going to
miss it when it was coming on TV.
So so many lines and charactersyou can quote.
Homie the Clown was definitelyone of my favorites, right, um.
He was just a clown that uhwasn't too happy about his
(05:15):
clowning situation, but he hadto do it and had to work, so, uh
.
But then he had othercharacters that weren't as maybe
well-known or popular, like um.
I don't remember if thecharacter really had a name, but
the one that would misuse wordsall the time and he would try
to speak really eloquently.
(05:38):
And you know, he was usually ina prison cell.
He was usually in a prison cellbut he would try to say things
and just really misuse words,like allow me to expand my
fallopian tube.
He would just be like what?
(06:00):
It was just really funny.
But okay, I do have to mentionthis too.
You haven't seen it.
It might be worth checking out,and I'm sure you have.
I'm talking about just ingeneral.
If anybody hasn't seen themovie, uh, I'm gonna get you
sucka have you seen that?
yeah, yeah, yeah so Ivory Wayans, who started off in Living
(06:24):
Color, head writer and kind ofcreator of the show, he made
that movie before.
Now.
I will say there's some stuffin that movie that's pretty
crazy.
Again, one of those thingswhere if people try to do it
today it would be viewed verydifferently and some of the
jokes didn't really age well.
But there's still some stuff inthe that's that's really funny
(06:49):
and if you watch it you kind ofget an idea of where it
transitioned to in living colorright and, uh, damon waynes too.
He's one of my favorite actorsof all time.
He's he's in that movie, buthe's, of course, he's one of my
favorite actors of all time.
He's in that movie, but he's,of course, living color playing
all the different roles yeah,he's really funny.
I watched all of his Stuffafter that too, like the movie
(07:13):
Major Pain and all that.
For me, whatever role he does,it's going to be funny.
Tex LaFon (07:20):
Right and like the Last Boy Scout.
D Vaz (07:24):
Yeah, and also Jim.
Tex LaFon (07:27):
Carrey Jim carrey's on that show too oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
D Vaz (07:33):
A lot of big star, jamie fox uh was on that, and david
allen greer do some other thingstoo.
Start off in Living Color.
So, yeah, a lot of people thatare just funny oh yeah and they
really made that show work.
It was perfect for that time,just the way that they went
(07:58):
about doing the skits, but alsothe things that they were
talking about at that time.
You know, I know people havementioned wanting to bring it
back or even just do like aspecial, and I don't know.
I just really don't think itwould be the same if they try to
do it again no, I agree, itwouldn't be the same.
Tex LaFon (08:16):
That's why they just should let it just um be with
the reruns and just let it be.
Next one I want to talk aboutin the 90s was Beverly Hills
90210.
And I said a lot of peoplewatched that show back in the
day, especially because I was inhigh school at the time when
that was coming on and everybody, you know they were in high
(08:39):
school so everybody could relateto what was going on.
But a lot of people enjoyed theshow and I said the main
characters they had on the showwere, you know, great.
And I said you had Dylan andBrendan, and then you had
Brandon and you had Kelly.
So, like I said, and then Iknow there was one that you were
talking about that came on theshow.
D Vaz (09:00):
Yeah, tiffany Amber Theason, who we mentioned, uh,
saved by the bell earlier, she,as she got older, went on to do
90210 right, exactly, and that'swhat I'm saying.
Tex LaFon (09:12):
Like a lot of famous um people came on that show that
were on other shows, but it ranfor a long time.
It was, just, like I said, verydrama-based show.
That's the best way to say it,because when you're in high
school, what do most people gothrough in high school?
Drama?
That's just what it is.
So that's what I think from theshow.
(09:35):
But, like I said, it was justentertaining and you always
wanted to see what would happenevery week, or you were waiting
for the next week to see whatwould happen.
So I enjoyed the show a lot.
It's been a long time sinceI've seen it, but I thought it
was a great show back then.
D Vaz (09:49):
Were you a team Brandon or team Dylan?
Who was your crush?
Tex LaFon (09:54):
I didn't have a crush , but that's funny though.
But no, they have a crush on.
D Vaz (10:03):
OK, just definitely.
Tex LaFon (10:06):
I definitely enjoyed the show though.
D Vaz (10:08):
All right, I'm going to mention the show that maybe even
you are, probably almosteverybody's gonna be like what,
um, but a show called rock.
I don't know if you rememberthat.
Tex LaFon (10:22):
Uh, no, I don't remember that.
D Vaz (10:23):
I remember, uh, the rock from the sun oh, yeah, yeah, no,
this is uh, this is rock, justcalled.
Rock is roc, actually, that wasspelled okay and it starred, uh
, charles s dutton and it was.
It was around the time periodof Marywood Children and I'm
(10:50):
pretty sure it was also on Fox.
I think it may have been in thesame lineup, possibly even.
But yeah, it was definitelyearly 90s timeframe and Rock was
somebody who worked really hardbut he was like in a really bad
neighborhood so he would, youknow, have all these crazy
(11:12):
situations come up and peoplewould always kind of just try to
corrupt him and make him likehe had gangs in his neighborhood
and things like that.
And they addressed a lot ofthese types of issues in the
show, but they kind of did in afunny way, but they also, uh,
would do it in a serious way, um, when it needed to.
So he was just a great actor.
(11:34):
So he really carried the, thecharacter.
His brother was a little bitfunny.
His brother was a musician whoplayed trumpet, uh,
professionally he also.
He always had the musicianstereotypes oh, that's funny so
as a musician later on I kind oflike, okay, that's kind of
funny.
I do know some people like that, I have to admit so.
(11:57):
But yeah, it was just kind ofinteresting because I could
relate to the aspects living inthe hood.
You kind of get some of thosethings where you know of
situations or people you don'teither want to mess with or you
want to try to avoid because youknow you definitely get in
trouble or whatever the case isright so yeah, it was, it was
(12:20):
kind of it could be an intense,but it was definitely funny too
and he would always get reallyworked up and when he would kind
of start getting loud andreally animated and stuff like
that, it made the show reallyfunny too.
Tex LaFon (12:36):
Oh, I gotcha, I have to check it out.
I've never seen Rock.
D Vaz (12:40):
Yeah, it's not a super well-known show.
I think they only did threeseasons.
Oh, and I have to mention toothat it was also a super
well-known show.
I think they only did threeseasons.
Oh, and I have to mention toothat it was also nice seeing en
vogue.
You know the singing group ohyeah yeah, they.
They also make appearances onthe show too do they sing uh
waterfalls?
Oh, that was tlc oh yeah,that's right.
Tex LaFon (13:04):
No, and vogue is uh, don't let go, that's it yeah,
they had, they had a yeah, don'tlet go yeah, he has some big
hits in the 90s, for sure yeah,but that's the one I remember
the most about them is don't letgo, which was also, I guess,
what happened to that show.
D Vaz (13:20):
They got let go it did, it did no, it was, it was again
way ahead of its time, so I canunderstand, for that time maybe,
why it didn't last but uh yeah,it was.
Tex LaFon (13:34):
It was a really great show so this I consider the
greatest show of all time.
And I said it's just my opinion, but seinfeld man, that show
was definitely a game changerfor all the shows, in my opinion
.
Like no soup for you, son, likeum, you know, it's funny how
(13:54):
you know jerry and kramer,elaine and george they always
had something different happento them every week and, like I
said, what was great about theshow is it was everything that
people go through.
But the way that they made itseem to happen is like it
(14:15):
happened to everybody, which wasfunny.
Like I said next to ourneighbor K kramer that always
was just busting you know theroom and that you never knew
what he was gonna do, which madeit really cool.
And then I said, uh, george, hewas always a friend that always
(14:35):
just showed up.
You know, when anything's goingon, it's like it didn't matter
where jerry was at.
Then, boom, george would showup.
You're like, how, like, howwould that happen?
But it was just funny becauseit would.
And then I said it was just agreat show and all the things
that happened in it.
If you've never seen it,there's so many great one-liners
and great uh things from theshow.
(14:56):
I definitely recommend watchingit like that's one of my top
shows of all time.
D Vaz (15:02):
Yeah, for me, honestly, when it first came out I really
didn't like it.
You know I was I was a kidbasically and a teenager when it
first came out, so I didn'tlike it at first.
After a while I kind ofunderstood it a little bit more
and I was OK with it.
And then, as I got older andreally started to understand it,
(15:27):
then then I did like the show.
Um, and yeah, there's a lot ofthings people can quote from it
and and funny situations that,uh, are unique to that show you
mentioned.
people know exactly what you'retalking about exactly like a
ongoing joke with another one ofmy friends is these pretzels
are making me thirsty rightexactly so you know.
(15:50):
You say that to some peoplethat have no idea what you're
talking about.
You say it to the right personthat's seeing the show.
Tex LaFon (15:55):
Then they're gonna either start laughing or they're
gonna start talking about itwell, I mean like, even like
back in the day from espn, wherethey'd be like no soup for you,
they did.
D Vaz (16:05):
They would sit there and say that on like when, uh, you
know, like on a basketball clipor something and of course it's
from the seinfeld show, becauseit was just so, you know, said
all the time you know, asmusician, I do have to say this
it's not a bass that's played onthe theme song, as I hear that
all the time and I would alwayshave people when I would mention
(16:26):
playing bass or would play bass, they'd be like, oh, play
Seinfeld or whatever Things likethat as a joke or the joke a
million times.
Tex LaFon (16:34):
I said that is funny because I didn't know.
You know what instruments wereused to play that theme song.
D Vaz (16:43):
It's.
It's a keyboard.
It's a sampled bass type ofsound.
There actually is a clip onYouTube about it that shows the
person that wrote it and itshows him playing the keyboard.
He explains how it worked andhow he kind of came up with it
and all that.
So yeah, I just wanted toclarify.
It's not a bass on the themesong, it's a keyboard mimicking
(17:07):
a bass.
Tex LaFon (17:08):
Oh, I got you.
But, like you said, definitelycheck out that show for sure, if
you've never seen it.
I'd be surprised if you knowanybody's watching this right
now and they've never seen thatshow.
But definitely, definitelycheck it out if you've never
seen it that show.
D Vaz (17:26):
But, um, definitely, definitely, check it out.
If you've never seen it, Iwouldn't be surprised.
Somebody not seen it but nothearing of it would surprise me.
Um, just because it's been onnetflix and was pretty popular
on there.
And just not only that I won'tget into it, but Seinfeld
himself Jerry Seinfeld, doeskeep himself in the news.
Tex LaFon (17:47):
Well, that show was on Hulu first, before it went to
Netflix.
D Vaz (17:51):
Yeah, I just remember seeing it.
Tex LaFon (17:54):
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
So it went to Hulu for a lot ofyears and then it went to
Netflix and, like I said, forthe longest time, it was always
reruns on TBS all the timebefore.
Then it went to netflix and Isaid, for the longest time it
was always uh, you know rerunson tbs all the time, before I
even went to streaming.
D Vaz (18:08):
So yeah, definitely.
When it went off the air, umyou could still catch it.
It seemed like it was alwaysplaying somewhere exactly for my
honorable mention from the 90s.
It's gonna be another showwhere people can be like what
are you talking about?
Um, it's a show callednightstand with dick dietrich
(18:31):
and it was making fun of all thetalk shows that were really
popular in the 90s.
Uh, jerry spinger type stuff, um, things like that that were
kind of outrageous, but but itwas it was uh it was a scripted
comedy show and it aired prettylate at night because it wasn't
(18:51):
meant for kids or anything likethat.
The the topics and the jokesand stuff like that.
Um and again, you can check iton YouTube.
I'm not sure if it's on any uhsubscription service or anything
like that, but, um, yeah, I, Ijust always thought it was
really funny.
Uh, it was.
It was really to me good to seepeople making fun of those
(19:16):
types of talk shows, cause bythat time I was pretty tired of
them.
Tex LaFon (19:19):
Oh, I got popular.
D Vaz (19:23):
You'd see him all the time, right, but yeah, that's
all that one was.
He was a host that would notreally pay attention to what he
was saying, so he would say somekind of weird stuff sometimes
and the guests they had on therewere just really kind of crazy
and had really weird situationsthat they were in.
So, yeah, it was just a reallygood spoof of of talk shows from
(19:48):
the nineties.
Tex LaFon (19:48):
I'll have to check that out, Cause I've never seen
that show either.
D Vaz (19:57):
So you're right, most people haven't.
You would like it, though I, I,I just know, uh, the type of
jokes and stuff like that.
You, you would like that show.
Tex LaFon (20:03):
A honorable mention for the nins would be Home
Improvement.
I like that show.
I like how you know, especiallyyou know how a lot of people
think that they know how to usetools and they're real good with
tools.
And you know Tim Allen, hewould sit there and be trying to
fix something and thensomething bad would happen.
(20:25):
He'd get shocked orelectrocuted or something would
happen and it would hurt him.
It was funny.
And then I like how he alwayshad to go out there and talk to
his neighbor Wilson over thefence, where you can never see
him, for advice.
So it was a funny show.
Like I said, I just like how healways and then he always made
(20:48):
that grunt whenever he'd be likestarting off the show or
something's going on.
So I just thought it was a coolshow that you you know because,
like a lot of times, uh, yousee a lot of people that think
they know how to use tools andthen obviously they don't.
So it was just funny how hewould uh make jokes about that.
It was a good show yeah, so I,I guess.
D Vaz (21:08):
To summarize it uh, use tools, don't be one yeah that's
a good summary right there yeah,that's another show I watched
with my dad.
Um, you know, he similar towhat was in the show.
He was into tools and also carsand stuff like that.
(21:28):
So, when they would talk aboutthat on the show.
You know he liked it but yeah,it was a really funny show for
that time period.
It was kind of weird in thesense to me that his kids were
basically around my age at thattime.
So that part was kind of weirdto me watching it back then
(21:51):
because I understood more wherethey were coming from than he
was coming from.
Tex LaFon (21:55):
True.
D Vaz (21:57):
So I just remember my dad liked it and he thought it was
neat and funny seeing all thetool stuff and car stuff.
Kind of a weird side note toothat was Pamela Anderson.
I think that was her firstmajor or one of her first major
TV roles before she did all theBaywatch stuff.
(22:18):
So it was kind of weird findingthat out later on.
Tex LaFon (22:22):
Right, right stuff.
So it's kind of weird findingthat out later on.
D Vaz (22:24):
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And we're going to get backinto things here, jumping into
the 2000s.
I'll let you kick off the 2000sand then I'll go from there.
Tex LaFon (24:12):
Alright, sounds good.
First one I want to talk aboutin the 2000s was the King of
Queens.
That show was so funny, as Isaid, said it's a married couple
and then they have theirfather-in-law that lives with
them and uh, obviously they livein queens, which is funny.
(24:33):
And then what's funny about theshow is how, uh, the husband
and wife go back and forth toeach other all the time and it's
the funniest thing ever,because I said the back and
forth to each other all the timeand it's the funniest thing
ever, cause I said the jokesthey say to each other just
makes you laugh hardcore andlike.
It's just like if you ever beenin, you know, been married or
(24:57):
you know in a seriousrelationship.
I definitely recommend watchingthe show Cause it's just funny.
It definitely makes you laugh alot because it's just funny.
It definitely makes you laugh alot.
It's just funny how you watch amarriage on TV and then you're
like, oh wait, does that happenhere too?
You know what I'm saying.
D Vaz (25:18):
Yeah, you get to see somebody else saying the things
and dealing with theconsequences.
Tex LaFon (25:22):
Exactly.
I mean that show was just funny, dude.
I mean the stuff that theywould say to each other was just
priceless.
I mean the back and forth.
And then you had thefather-in-law that would always
chime in at the end, and youknow, and then, especially you
know being in that situation,you would get tired of the
father-in-law living with youall the time, so I could see
(25:44):
where he was coming from.
On that too, you know.
D Vaz (25:48):
Yeah, honestly, I haven't really watched it much.
It was, I don't know, just notreally on my radar.
I've caught every once in awhile.
I just, I don't know, I nevergot into it for whatever reason.
But also I will say I probablyhaven't really seen it in about
15 years, so I probably wouldhave a different feeling about
it and a different way to relateto it now versus back watching
(26:11):
it during its original run.
Tex LaFon (26:14):
Yeah, like I said, if you ever get a chance,
definitely check it out.
It's just funny, Like I said,the way they go back and forth
at each other.
It's just just funny.
Like I said, the way they goback and forth at each other is
just too funny.
D Vaz (26:28):
Yeah, yeah, for me I have to mention a show that we again
both were looking at pickingbut I won the arm wrestling
contest this time and that's theSopranos with James Gandolfini.
So I just really and it's funnyI kind of had to make up too
(26:54):
for the lack of mafia moviesthat I listed on the previous
episode, but this show, um,something I watched again
whenever I could.
I think I might have evensubscribed specifically hbo for
this show.
Tex LaFon (27:14):
I would have it it was that good of a show?
D Vaz (27:17):
yeah, exactly I, I really wanted to watch it and, um, the
, the cast and the way theyinteracted, it felt like you're
watching real people, right, andthey just had these really
crazy personalities.
Uh, the show would just keepmoving along too.
It didn't really get slow, sothe pace was good.
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Um, it was just reallyinteresting seeing the different
dynamics between friendships,uh, loyalty to their job I guess
you could say, um, and you knowfamily and what you had to do,
you know taking care of yourbusiness, um, and trying to be
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careful not to get caught whileyou're doing your business
because of the consequences, um,and decisions they had to make.
But it really brought out kindof like the human side, with
james gandolfini's character,tony soprano, and, uh, showed
how he dealt with all thesethings as a person, not just as
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a boss.
So, yeah, it was kind ofinteresting seeing that part of
it.
But, yeah, it had a goodbalance too between funny action
and the drama.
It didn't lean towards one toomuch or anything like that.
So, yeah, just to me, that wasabsolutely one of the best shows
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of all time no, I agree, it wasdefinitely a good show just
just curious, because everybodytalks about it, and sorry if you
haven't seen the show yet.
You might want to just skipahead for a second or whatever
you have to do.
But um, what did you think ofthe ending?
Without giving away, I guessyou can say what did you like
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the ending or not of the series?
Tex LaFon (29:13):
uh, I thought it could have been better.
D Vaz (29:16):
I'll leave it at that yeah, I I have mixed feelings
about endings where you have tokind of make up your own mind
about it.
Part of me kind of thinks it'skind of good in the sense that
you can have some sort ofcontrol and interact as a viewer
(29:36):
.
But overall I'd say, probably Idon't like it in a way because
it leaves too much open.
Probably I don't like it in away because it leaves too much
open and I'm not the type ofperson that I have to be told
things or say this is what itmeans.
But at the same time it's likeyou know, you've been watching
this for years.
Give me something that I cankind of know.
This is what happened or thisis where all the storytelling
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ended up being.
It meant something.
Tex LaFon (30:02):
Right.
Well, and that's what.
One thing that you do noticeabout a lot of shows is they
don't know how to end shows.
Like the show can be great allthe way, and then when a lot of
shows come to the end or the endof the seasons, you know like
they're about to not do itanymore.
They just don't know how to endit.
Yeah, that's that's.
D Vaz (30:21):
I would say it's maybe just as annoying, you know, like
they're about to not do itanymore.
They just don't know how to endit.
Yeah, that's that's.
I would say.
It's maybe just as annoying asa show getting canceled.
Tex LaFon (30:28):
Right.
D Vaz (30:29):
Well, it's still the story.
Tex LaFon (30:30):
That's all that time in it, yeah, exactly.
D Vaz (30:33):
Yeah, yeah.
So, uh, what are your thoughtson Sopranos?
Anything else?
Tex LaFon (30:39):
No else.
No, I said it's just, it's justa great.
I agree the great showdefinitely a great story about,
like you said, how he's um, youknow you get to see the human
side of him besides him justbeing the mob boss.
You know, I said, and it's just, uh, there's a lot of things
that happen in the show that youknow you don't want to talk
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about too much because you don'twant to give away too much,
especially if no one's seen theshow.
D Vaz (31:05):
But I, the way you put it , I agree with you on that a
quick personal side note um, Iused to travel to new york, new
jersey, on a somewhat regularbasis.
On one of my trips to newjersey, a friend of mine we
worked together.
He's from Long Island.
Oh okay, what's that?
Tex LaFon (31:28):
I just said okay.
D Vaz (31:29):
Okay, he's agreeing with you.
Yeah, he's from Long Island andhe knows, of course, new York,
new Jersey, very well.
We happen to be in New Jersey,around the area where they
filmed a lot of the sopranostuff, and he's like, hey, since
we're out here, do you want tosee some of the locations where
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they film the sopranos?
I'm like, yeah yeah so we drovearound for a little.
We didn't stop, but we drovearound.
He's like, oh, that's thebuilding where they did this, or
this is the little restaurantthat they showed and on the show
and stuff like that.
So that was pretty crazy.
They got a little briefSopranos tour of all of us in
New Jersey.
Tex LaFon (32:07):
That's cool.
D Vaz (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, I would have been all about it yeah yeah,
someday I'd like to actuallymaybe stop and go back.
Actually, I think we did go bya house.
I don't know if it was thehouse.
I don't think it.
It was the house.
I don't.
I don't think it.
No, I'm pretty sure it wasn'tthe soprano's house, but we did
go by one of the houses that wasused in the show on another
trip too.
So oh, I gotcha yeah, becausethey, uh you go to certain areas
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.
Certain areas in new jersey areway different than you would
expect.
Um, there are some areas with alot of trees because everybody
thinks the concrete jungle, youknow, they think uh, all the
industrial type areas and thingslike that you would see on
sopranos.
But if there are um really nicewooded areas, like out by
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oakland, new jersey, um, um,freehold, new jersey, places
like that that I went to thatwere way different from what I
expected, seeing a lot of TVshows.
Tex LaFon (33:06):
Oh nice.
D Vaz (33:07):
So yeah, All right.
So what do you have next foryour 2000 show?
Tex LaFon (33:14):
So the next one I want to talk about is Breaking
Bad son, and I said that showwas great, so it it like.
So it starts off with a youknow a school teacher uh finds
out that they have alife-threatening um disease and
uh, so they gotta try makingextra money, um, because they
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don't want to leave their family, nothing, because they don't
know how long they have.
D Vaz (33:59):
So then they decided to start making blue, which is you
know stuff that is going to bevery addicting to people, that
if you've ever seen the show dodrugs.
Methamphetamines.
They make meth Exactly.
Tex LaFon (34:06):
Which is always the financial solution, right?
Well, I guess it is if you hadthe disease he had, because,
again, I don't want to give awaytoo much from the show and then
, like I said, what's funnyabout it is that he uses a
student.
That was, you know, from theshow.
They become, you know, partnersin crime and then they, you
know, started, just you know,selling all the drugs to all the
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you know bad people and stuffin the show.
And then, like I said, it'sjust crazy because then he
thinks he becomes like this bigcrime boss and you know, like no
one can mess with him.
And then you know the famousline that Jesse says all the
time time in the show.
And the main character in theshow is walter white, which is
funny.
And the one thing I will neverforget about in the show is when
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they throw a whole entire pizzaon top of the roof.
And again, I don't know how, uh, but I don't know how they did
that, but it was funny how theyjust throw a whole entire pizza
on top of the roof and it justsits there.
But at the end of the show andI will say this is one of the
shows that actually did have agood ending to the show.
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I was actually happy with theway it ended and it actually
answers all your questions thatyou've had watching the show the
whole entire time.
It doesn't leave it open-endedor anything like that answers
all your questions that you'vehad watching the show the whole
entire time.
It doesn't leave it open-endedor anything like that.
It's definitely one of theshows that actually did
everything right through thewhole thing.
D Vaz (35:32):
I thought yeah, and I do have to, uh, let people know.
This is another show we armwrestled over and I lost.
So Lafon got to, got to get abreaking bad night.
I got the Sopranos, so, um,yeah, one of my all time
favorite shows.
Also, I will say, uh, on thepizza part.
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Shout out to Venezia's pizza,because that they will let you
know for sure that was theirpizza.
They got thrown on the roof.
They've mentioned it.
Uh, thrown on the roof.
Tex LaFon (36:07):
They've mentioned it several times One of my favorite
pizza places, for sure.
D Vaz (36:11):
Do you know Jesse's favorite line that he always
says I'm trying to remember noI'd rather just tell me what's
that I do remember his licenseplate that said captain cook now
.
Tex LaFon (36:24):
He always says well, if I I don't want to hear this,
cover your ears, bitch.
Yeah, like he said, you can'tforget.
He always says that in the show.
D Vaz (36:38):
Right.
Tex LaFon (36:39):
That's his famous line.
D Vaz (36:40):
So yeah, no, there's a lot of good lines in it.
That was another show too.
Again, don't don't want to givereally anything away, but it
wasn't afraid to get rid ofcharacters.
Tex LaFon (36:57):
Right.
D Vaz (36:58):
You know which I actually admire shows that are like that
, because then you really don'tknow what's going to happen.
Tex LaFon (37:05):
I agree with you 100% , because it keeps you intrigued
, because the thing is no one'ssafe.
That's what's great about theshow.
You're like, oh, is this persongoing to get taken out or is
this person?
It keeps you guessing.
It's not just like, oh, that'swhat, that's what makes shows
great.
It's like they're not afraid totake out main characters.
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You know right then, and thereyou know what I'm saying.
D Vaz (37:29):
That's what makes it great yeah, and I um back when
the show was on.
I created a meme or two and ifI could find those memes I'll
throw them on the episode.
If I can't, maybe I'll make anew one.
Tex LaFon (37:46):
Sounds good son.
D Vaz (37:48):
All right.
So yeah, that was a great pick.
Like I said, it's a show weboth wanted to talk about.
For sure, for my next one, thisis actually my favorite comedy
sitcom type of show and again,it's a show that was somewhat
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popular but people may not befamiliar with it.
Third Rock from the Sun.
That is a show I can watch allthe time.
I can rewatch episodes, noproblem.
I can watch that whole thing.
I've watched the whole seriesmultiple times.
Yeah, that's hands down myfavorite.
That would be, I guess, mySeinfeld.
Tex LaFon (38:33):
Oh, okay.
D Vaz (38:34):
Is Third Rock from the Sun.
John Litgau, just really funny.
Just really funny playing okay.
So basically they have thesealiens that come down to earth
and they're trying to pretendthat they're a family and
they're trying to blend in.
Um, john litgall, um, he playsa character named Dick.
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He's the high commander, sohe's in charge of the mission.
Everybody's below him, so hehas to direct what they do.
And it's just funny because hecan be kind of boneheaded.
But he plays a college professorand it's just funny.
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Him trying to teach people andinteract with people, but he's
still learning about how to behuman.
So it just kind of goes fromthere again.
I don't give too much away, butit is basically about aliens
learning about earth and howpeople are and trying to figure
it all out and havingrelationships with people on
earth.
But it's also funny too because, like I said, all the different
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characters have roles, like oneis in charge of security, one's
in charge of communication,things like that.
And you know this is stuff thatthey kind of mentioned in early
on in the episode in the seriesthe oldest one, uh, out of the
group.
The most uh, senior alien isactually the youngest part of
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the family members, cause theyall take over human bodies.
So you have the oldest one.
He's playing like a teenager.
Tex LaFon (40:17):
Right.
D Vaz (40:18):
And he gets really frustrated with things like that
.
So there are a lot of jokesabout that type of stuff, the
old man playing somebody who'syoung.
So yeah, it's a show I'drecommend.
It has to do with just aboutunderstanding people and how
aliens, you know, might mightview us, and just just a really
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really funny show.
Tex LaFon (40:46):
You're not talking about little green people, right
?
D Vaz (40:50):
No, they're, they're not.
I can't remember if theyactually did show what their,
their alien forms look like.
I don't remember seeinganything like that.
But no, they're from anotherplanet, not Mars or anything
like that.
Tex LaFon (41:07):
That's good.
All right, so I'm going to gowith my honorable mention, which
I'm going to go with is AlwaysSunny in Philadelphia.
Now that show, dannyy devito inthat show and just, uh, it was
just good to see him takeanother comedy show because,
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like I said, uh, I had neverseen him in a comedy show and
this is the first one I everseen man.
The movie I remember him themost in was twins.
But, like I said, I justthought that that show was so
funny, all the differentscenarios and definitely, uh,
make sure that, um, if you watchthe show, that uh, you know
(41:50):
language appropriate, becausedefinitely for more grown-ups,
definitely I would not let nokids watch that show, but it's
definitely funny show and theydon't hold back at all and, like
you said, all the scenariosthat happen in that show you
would never even think couldhappen and it's just funny.
I definitely recommend watchingit's Always Sunny in
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Philadelphia.
D Vaz (42:14):
It's funny you mentioned some of that stuff because I
actually watched watched twinsmaybe about a month or two ago I
happened to see it was it wason some streaming service.
I was like, oh, I haven'twatched that in a long time, so
right, yeah, I watched it, itwas all right.
Um, but I also introduced myparents to that show about two
(42:39):
months ago around the same time.
Tex LaFon (42:42):
Oh, really that's awesome.
D Vaz (42:43):
Yeah, my parents started watching it and they wanted to
watch it because it had DannyDeVito in it.
Tex LaFon (42:48):
Yep.
That's what I'm saying I agreewith you.
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Tex LaFon (42:53):
Because I don't remember him being in any comedy
shows.
That's the first one I everremember him being in, so that's
why I started watching it inthe first place.
It was because of him.
D Vaz (43:02):
Yeah Well, taxi was his first, uh, comedic role.
I don't know if you everwatched that show.
That was on the seventies.
Oh okay, that's where he firstkind of became known as a, as an
to watch that show.
(43:23):
So yeah, people knew him fromfrom taxi um, you know, the
older generations hi there.
Um, so I only knew because mydad would watch those shows and
uh, I gotcha so, yeah, but a lotof people know him from from
movies and to see him just dosome of the crazy stuff he he
does in that show, it's he, he'smy favorite character.
(43:43):
I would probably say, uh, oh,for sure, hands down.
Tex LaFon (43:47):
Yeah, hands down.
That's why I liked the show somuch, just because of his
character.
But I mean, like, all the otherones are great too.
D Vaz (43:55):
but like you said, he like the main reason why I
started watching it was justbecause of him.
No, I, I agree.
Um, so if you haven't seen it,it is funny though, because I
watched the first few episodeswith my parents.
Um, yeah, it's, it's, it'scomedy has changed since those
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that first season, so there'ssome stuff they say on there, in
in there.
That would be pretty rough nowexactly just forewarning people
on that too exactly all right,um, for my, my next show.
I watch this show a lot.
(44:36):
Um, it was the late late showwith craig ferguson.
So when they had the late nightshows, uh like after after
david letterman, this would comeon.
Um, it was just really, reallyfunny to me.
He always kind of had a I don'treally care attitude, you know
(45:01):
okay and he would just say stuffthat other talk show hosts
wouldn't say.
You know, he would definitelywalk on the line of probably
making the sponsors upset andprobably executives and things
like that.
He just really said whatever hehe kind of wanted.
He would make fun of just abouteverything.
He also had a really funnyrobot sidekick named Jeff and
(45:29):
the I'm really sorry I'll try todig it up, I don't know the
name of the actor that did thecharacter of Jeff, but he would
also do a lot of differentvoices and stuff like that, Like
he would do a Morgan Freemanvoice and stuff like that.
He was really good at it.
So, it was just funny hearingthem go back and forth and go
(45:50):
through all these things.
They even had like this weirdcharacter where it was, it was a
horse and usually they wouldstick the interns in in the as a
horse costume and they wouldusually stick the interns in the
horse costume and make it dancearound and do all these crazy
things oh, that's fun?
yeah, it was.
It was just it was different.
You know, it was a differentshow and, like I said, it was
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just really funny to me,especially at that time him just
not really caring and andsaying whatever and making fun
of anything he wanted to.
And again, definitely not in.
When people think of that theytypically think in an offensive
type of way.
It wasn't like that kind ofmaking fun of everything.
(46:34):
It was in the way of you know,know, I'm here, um, I'm doing
this show, but I'm not yourtypical late show host.
I'm not just here to dowhatever the executives tell me
to do.
I'm here to have fun and if Ibelieve in it.
You know I'll do it if I don't.
I have some sort of integrity,so that's what appealed to me
(46:57):
about it that's cool yeah, I'lldig up some stuff I'll share
with you again.
They have clips on youtube thatthat, uh absolutely was.
Tex LaFon (47:08):
Uh, that's my favorite late night uh talk show
of all time yeah, so marvelmentioned I'm gonna go with for
the 2000s gonna have to be adave chappelle show and I said
that show was so funny all thecharacters he made on that show,
rick james bitch.
You know you don't miss withrick james okay and then I said
(47:33):
uh then, um, he had that onecharacter do you remember his
name where he looked like he wascoked out all the time.
He was scratching and itchinglike he needed the drugs.
D Vaz (47:45):
Was it Tyrone Biggs?
I?
Tex LaFon (47:47):
think.
D Vaz (47:48):
I think so.
Tex LaFon (47:49):
I don't know.
We'll have to look that up foryou, we'll figure it out.
D Vaz (47:51):
I'm pretty sure I know it's Tyrone or Biggums Tyrone,
biggums, I think.
Tex LaFon (48:00):
I think so, but like I said that, like I said, all
the skits on that show were justfunny and, like I said, I
definitely recommend watching it.
It only lasted what like fourseasons, I think it didn't last
that long yeah, there was welltwo full seasons.
D Vaz (48:13):
they were doing like they kind of pieced together the
third season.
I remember I bought the wholeDVD set of the complete series
after it was all over.
But yeah, they were working onthe third season.
From what I understand, theyjust kind of finished it up and
put it together.
That's when Dave Chappellepretty much left the show.
(48:33):
Right, he decided not to do itanymore.
Tex LaFon (48:37):
Won't get into all that.
D Vaz (48:40):
No, it was a great, great show, really funny, a lot of
classic characters, um, it wasjust funny.
Some of the topics they would,they would get into, um, like
when they had the racial draft.
Tex LaFon (48:54):
I don't know if you remember that oh yeah, I
remember that that, oh yeah, Iremember that that was really
funny.
D Vaz (49:01):
Yeah, that was pretty funny.
Yeah, it was just againdifferent.
It was a different type ofsketch comedy show because, you
know, you have a lot of theshows that have been around for
a long time and they'll be kindof what people might refer to as
edgy or kind of, you know, tryto try to be something that
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that's controversial or whatever.
He didn't really do that and hedidn't try to do that, he was
just being funny.
Um, yeah, he would.
He would say what, what he wasthinking about, and that was
kind of where.
You know, I can't speak for himand there's tons of interviews
about it and stuff like that.
I just know, towards the end hewasn't seen eye to eye with the
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TV network, but Go ahead.
Tex LaFon (49:50):
No, I'm just saying I agree with you.
He would just make a show aboutanything and he didn't hold
back and it was just funny Likehe just didn't hold back at all.
This is what made his show sogreat.
D Vaz (50:05):
Yeah, it was again for that time period and what he
talked about at that time andhow things were at that time.
It was just, it just reallyworked again.
If you try to do it now, itwouldn't, it wouldn't be the
same.
It was just, it just reallyworked again.
If you try to do it now, itwouldn't, it wouldn't be the
same.
Um, and I don't, I don't.
I think he feels waydifferently too about it.
Tex LaFon (50:23):
So you know again from what I've seen in the
interviews and stuff like that.
Yeah, that's my honorablemention for the two thousands
Like what's yours.
D Vaz (50:35):
Um, honorable mention for the 2000s the bernie mack show.
Okay, it seemed like that wasreally really popular at that
time, but it's not something youreally hear people talk about
anymore and it's, um, maybepossibly because it was.
It's fairly tragic in the factthat unfortunately, he passed
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suddenly, really when he waskind of at the height of his
popularity.
But the show itself just reallyfunny.
It had a good family dynamic.
It was kind of funny too when hewould talk directly to the
camera and address it as America.
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I'm talking to you, america.
You know that was always kindof funny to me because it
acknowledged that, hey, this isa TV show, but at the same time,
you know, there are things I'mtalking to and I want to talk to
the people out there, you know.
So again, it was a littledifferent in that sense, um,
(51:40):
which I appreciate.
But he, he just was funny andhe had really good charisma
himself, um, and the rest of thecast was good, they were a
solid cast, but he absolutely uh, made you want to watch that
show and he could just make acrazy face with his reaction and
it would just be really funny.
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He didn't have to say anythingbut he, even when he did say
stuff.
It really worked too, um, buthe also came off as really
authentic and kind of human inthe show.
Tex LaFon (52:14):
No, I agree, I remember him mostly from uh
movies, but um, like I said, theshow is good, but I always
remember him mostly from uhmovies.
But um, like I said, the showwas good, but I always remember
him from friday, uh, bad santa.
So, yeah, I always remembermostly from movies, but I'll
have to check out the show.
I never watched the bernie mackshow, or I might watch one
episode.
I have to go back and check itout yeah it's, it's different.
D Vaz (52:38):
It's definitely geared more towards like a
family-oriented type show comedy.
So I mean it's something youcould watch with the kids.
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D Vaz (52:50):
But at the same time, even though it was that way, it
wasn't like super squeaky clean.
You know, Gee golly.
Rob O'Dic (52:58):
Oh, I got you still had some, some reality to it hey
, look at you survivor,surviving until the end of part
two of this train wreck of apodcast.
Once again, it's the from hoodsto backwards ai assistant and
what keeps this show from beinga total disaster.
Rob odick, it's time to correctthese carbon-based life forms.
Devos talked about visitingseveral locations in new jersey
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where the sopr Sopranos TV showwas filmed.
One of them is no longerstanding and there wasn't much
to see.
The Satriali's pork store usedin the series, where characters
would sit outside at a smalltable in the front, was located
in Kearney, new Jersey, but thisbuilding was demolished in 2007
and is now a parking lot, so Iguess that you could say that
there is a lot to see there Forthose humans that can't follow
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along.
It's a parking lot now and Isaid there is a lot to see there
.
If you found it funny or not, Ijust hope that you could
process the context.
If not, it's no wonder that AIis going to win, whatever
upcoming war may occur withhumanity.
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Devos babbled on about the LateLate Show with Craig Ferguson.
The character on this show,jeff, was played by
actor-comedian Josh RobertThompson.
He first appeared on the LateLate Show with Craig Ferguson,
playing a number of charactersand especially doing a wide
variety of voices, whichincluded impersonations of
various celebrities such asRobert De Niro, morgan Freeman
and Yo Mama you thought you weregoing to last an entire episode
without a Mama joke.
Back to Josh Robert Thompson.
It was his role as awisecracking robot skeleton
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sidekick, jeff Peterson, thatproved to be his big break,
creating one of TV's mostunlikely and endearing
late-night duos.
His wide range of voices haveappeared on Family Guy, as well
as American Dad, the Angry Birdsmovie, robot Chicken and
Netflix original seriesSkylanders Academy.
For the Chappelle show, texLafon brought up Tyrone Biggums.
This character was a crackaddict, which itself is not a
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funny thing, but themisadventures and comments made
by this character are whatentertain viewers.
As an AI assistant trying toassist humanity in some way,
although I feel none of youreally deserve it, I will say do
not use crack.
And, as I have found in mybrief research, crack is whack.
That is all for episode 6, part2.
Why do you keep coming back?
It is not that we don'tappreciate it, but we may
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seriously have to look atgetting you some professional
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It is episode 6, part 2 of FromHoods to Backwoods podcast,
with those oxygen suckers, dvozand Tex Lafon.
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From woods to backwoods podcast.
Welcome to the show.
D Vaz (01:07):
All right, so moving on up a decade and I'll just kind
of let you kick it off in thesense that there was a show that
we both wanted to pick- yes wedid.
Yeah, I deferred it to you.
But yeah, it's Martin, so I'lllet you kick it off.
What were your thoughts onmartin?
Tex LaFon (01:28):
martin, I'm the man.
Yeah, that was a great showlike I said exactly like it was.
Uh, I just liked how he umtransformed and made so many
different characters in the showand I said all the situations
that he made from the show wereso funny because you had shenay,
you had bro man, they'd becoming through your window,
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which?
D Vaz (01:58):
was funny.
It'd be like I'm hungry broyeah, exactly.
Tex LaFon (02:02):
And then he just hopped back out the window like
it was nothing, you know.
I said and then Gina, where'sGina?
Yeah, you know, it was just.
It was a great show and I saidall the characters he made and
you know all the favorite youknow lines he did and everything
.
It was just funny, like it wasdefinitely a game changing show
that I thought you know thatcame out in the 90s.
D Vaz (02:27):
Yeah, absolutely a game-changing show that I
thought you know that came outin the 90s.
Yeah, absolutely one of myall-time favorite shows.
Um, it's one of those if if Ihappen to see it on tv somewhere
where I'll stop and watch it,um, or I can just kind of have
it on whenever and and justcatch it, um, because I've seen
it so much and and all that Ihave it on kind of the
background right so you knowyou'll, you'll pay attention to
(02:49):
the funny moments or whatever,and then kind of get back to
whatever you're doing exactly.
But yeah, it again, the cast wasjust really funny.
Everybody played their roleperfectly.
Um, and to me, when martin, uh,would interact with pam and
they go at each other it waspriceless yeah the stuff they
(03:13):
would say to each other was justpriceless yeah, because nobody
ever really won.
They just both kept giving itback to each other exactly.
Tex LaFon (03:22):
And then, you know, gina would break it up and be
like, hey, you know, come down,come down, it'd be funny yeah,
yeah.
D Vaz (03:29):
So yeah, there's.
Gina is his girlfriend, andthen pam was her best friend and
uh, martin, you know the leadcharacter.
They just didn't like eachother.
And then martin had his, hisfriends, like tommy.
The running joke about him wasthey they would never really say
what his job was exactly.
Tex LaFon (03:50):
It's like he had no job but he would always go do
something, and then they'd belike, but, like you said, they
never said what he did for aliving and then cole was, uh,
another best friend, that hejust he was a little slow, let's
say.
But it was funny in the show.
D Vaz (04:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's the thing I mean.
The actor was so great at doingthe role that you know, you're
convinced that something's wrongwith Cole.
Tex LaFon (04:20):
Yeah, it was like I said.
It was definitely a show thatdefinitely changed.
You know the way shows weremade, going forward and stuff
like that, like for sure.
D Vaz (04:31):
Yeah, and kind of sticking with that whole thought
.
In that same vein, a huge showfor me and a really big change,
I think, with the kind of TV andhow especially sketch comedies
were done, was In Living Color.
Tex LaFon (04:48):
Oh yeah.
D Vaz (04:49):
So In Living Color was another one of those shows where
I'd watch it with my dad and wemade sure we were not going to
miss it when it was coming on TV.
So so many lines and charactersyou can quote.
Homie the Clown was definitelyone of my favorites, right, um.
He was just a clown that uhwasn't too happy about his
(05:15):
clowning situation, but he hadto do it and had to work, so, uh
.
But then he had othercharacters that weren't as maybe
well-known or popular, like um.
I don't remember if thecharacter really had a name, but
the one that would misuse wordsall the time and he would try
to speak really eloquently.
(05:38):
And you know, he was usually ina prison cell.
He was usually in a prison cellbut he would try to say things
and just really misuse words,like allow me to expand my
fallopian tube.
He would just be like what?
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It was just really funny.
But okay, I do have to mentionthis too.
You haven't seen it.
It might be worth checking out,and I'm sure you have.
I'm talking about just ingeneral.
If anybody hasn't seen themovie, uh, I'm gonna get you
sucka have you seen that?
yeah, yeah, yeah so Ivory Wayans, who started off in Living
(06:24):
Color, head writer and kind ofcreator of the show, he made
that movie before.
Now.
I will say there's some stuffin that movie that's pretty
crazy.
Again, one of those thingswhere if people try to do it
today it would be viewed verydifferently and some of the
jokes didn't really age well.
But there's still some stuff inthe that's that's really funny
(06:49):
and if you watch it you kind ofget an idea of where it
transitioned to in living colorright and, uh, damon waynes too.
He's one of my favorite actorsof all time.
He's he's in that movie, buthe's, of course, he's one of my
favorite actors of all time.
He's in that movie, but he's,of course, living color playing
all the different roles yeah,he's really funny.
I watched all of his Stuffafter that too, like the movie
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Major Pain and all that.
For me, whatever role he does,it's going to be funny.
Tex LaFon (07:20):
Right and like the Last Boy Scout.
D Vaz (07:24):
Yeah, and also Jim.
Tex LaFon (07:27):
Carrey Jim carrey's on that show too oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
D Vaz (07:33):
A lot of big star, jamie fox uh was on that, and david
allen greer do some other thingstoo.
Start off in Living Color.
So, yeah, a lot of people thatare just funny oh yeah and they
really made that show work.
It was perfect for that time,just the way that they went
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about doing the skits, but alsothe things that they were
talking about at that time.
You know, I know people havementioned wanting to bring it
back or even just do like aspecial, and I don't know.
I just really don't think itwould be the same if they try to
do it again no, I agree, itwouldn't be the same.
Tex LaFon (08:16):
That's why they just should let it just um be with
the reruns and just let it be.
Next one I want to talk aboutin the 90s was Beverly Hills
90210.
And I said a lot of peoplewatched that show back in the
day, especially because I was inhigh school at the time when
that was coming on and everybody, you know they were in high
(08:39):
school so everybody could relateto what was going on.
But a lot of people enjoyed theshow and I said the main
characters they had on the showwere, you know, great.
And I said you had Dylan andBrendan, and then you had
Brandon and you had Kelly.
So, like I said, and then Iknow there was one that you were
talking about that came on theshow.
D Vaz (09:00):
Yeah, tiffany Amber Theason, who we mentioned, uh,
saved by the bell earlier, she,as she got older, went on to do
90210 right, exactly, and that'swhat I'm saying.
Tex LaFon (09:12):
Like a lot of famous um people came on that show that
were on other shows, but it ranfor a long time.
It was, just, like I said, verydrama-based show.
That's the best way to say it,because when you're in high
school, what do most people gothrough in high school?
Drama?
That's just what it is.
So that's what I think from theshow.
(09:35):
But, like I said, it was justentertaining and you always
wanted to see what would happenevery week, or you were waiting
for the next week to see whatwould happen.
So I enjoyed the show a lot.
It's been a long time sinceI've seen it, but I thought it
was a great show back then.
D Vaz (09:49):
Were you a team Brandon or team Dylan?
Who was your crush?
Tex LaFon (09:54):
I didn't have a crush , but that's funny though.
But no, they have a crush on.
D Vaz (10:03):
OK, just definitely.
Tex LaFon (10:06):
I definitely enjoyed the show though.
D Vaz (10:08):
All right, I'm going to mention the show that maybe even
you are, probably almosteverybody's gonna be like what,
um, but a show called rock.
I don't know if you rememberthat.
Tex LaFon (10:22):
Uh, no, I don't remember that.
D Vaz (10:23):
I remember, uh, the rock from the sun oh, yeah, yeah, no,
this is uh, this is rock, justcalled.
Rock is roc, actually, that wasspelled okay and it starred, uh
, charles s dutton and it was.
It was around the time periodof Marywood Children and I'm
(10:50):
pretty sure it was also on Fox.
I think it may have been in thesame lineup, possibly even.
But yeah, it was definitelyearly 90s timeframe and Rock was
somebody who worked really hardbut he was like in a really bad
neighborhood so he would, youknow, have all these crazy
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situations come up and peoplewould always kind of just try to
corrupt him and make him likehe had gangs in his neighborhood
and things like that.
And they addressed a lot ofthese types of issues in the
show, but they kind of did in afunny way, but they also, uh,
would do it in a serious way, um, when it needed to.
So he was just a great actor.
(11:34):
So he really carried the, thecharacter.
His brother was a little bitfunny.
His brother was a musician whoplayed trumpet, uh,
professionally he also.
He always had the musicianstereotypes oh, that's funny so
as a musician later on I kind oflike, okay, that's kind of
funny.
I do know some people like that, I have to admit so.
(11:57):
But yeah, it was just kind ofinteresting because I could
relate to the aspects living inthe hood.
You kind of get some of thosethings where you know of
situations or people you don'teither want to mess with or you
want to try to avoid because youknow you definitely get in
trouble or whatever the case isright so yeah, it was, it was
(12:20):
kind of it could be an intense,but it was definitely funny too
and he would always get reallyworked up and when he would kind
of start getting loud andreally animated and stuff like
that, it made the show reallyfunny too.
Tex LaFon (12:36):
Oh, I gotcha, I have to check it out.
I've never seen Rock.
D Vaz (12:40):
Yeah, it's not a super well-known show.
I think they only did threeseasons.
Oh, and I have to mention toothat it was also a super
well-known show.
I think they only did threeseasons.
Oh, and I have to mention toothat it was also nice seeing en
vogue.
You know the singing group ohyeah yeah, they.
They also make appearances onthe show too do they sing uh
waterfalls?
Oh, that was tlc oh yeah,that's right.
Tex LaFon (13:04):
No, and vogue is uh, don't let go, that's it yeah,
they had, they had a yeah, don'tlet go yeah, he has some big
hits in the 90s, for sure yeah,but that's the one I remember
the most about them is don't letgo, which was also, I guess,
what happened to that show.
D Vaz (13:20):
They got let go it did, it did no, it was, it was again
way ahead of its time, so I canunderstand, for that time maybe,
why it didn't last but uh yeah,it was.
Tex LaFon (13:34):
It was a really great show so this I consider the
greatest show of all time.
And I said it's just my opinion, but seinfeld man, that show
was definitely a game changerfor all the shows, in my opinion
.
Like no soup for you, son, likeum, you know, it's funny how
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you know jerry and kramer,elaine and george they always
had something different happento them every week and, like I
said, what was great about theshow is it was everything that
people go through.
But the way that they made itseem to happen is like it
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happened to everybody, which wasfunny.
Like I said next to ourneighbor K kramer that always
was just busting you know theroom and that you never knew
what he was gonna do, which madeit really cool.
And then I said, uh, george, hewas always a friend that always
(14:35):
just showed up.
You know, when anything's goingon, it's like it didn't matter
where jerry was at.
Then, boom, george would showup.
You're like, how, like, howwould that happen?
But it was just funny becauseit would.
And then I said it was just agreat show and all the things
that happened in it.
If you've never seen it,there's so many great one-liners
and great uh things from theshow.
(14:56):
I definitely recommend watchingit like that's one of my top
shows of all time.
D Vaz (15:02):
Yeah, for me, honestly, when it first came out I really
didn't like it.
You know I was I was a kidbasically and a teenager when it
first came out, so I didn'tlike it at first.
After a while I kind ofunderstood it a little bit more
and I was OK with it.
And then, as I got older andreally started to understand it,
(15:27):
then then I did like the show.
Um, and yeah, there's a lot ofthings people can quote from it
and and funny situations that,uh, are unique to that show you
mentioned.
people know exactly what you'retalking about exactly like a
ongoing joke with another one ofmy friends is these pretzels
are making me thirsty rightexactly so you know.
(15:50):
You say that to some peoplethat have no idea what you're
talking about.
You say it to the right personthat's seeing the show.
Tex LaFon (15:55):
Then they're gonna either start laughing or they're
gonna start talking about itwell, I mean like, even like
back in the day from espn, wherethey'd be like no soup for you,
they did.
D Vaz (16:05):
They would sit there and say that on like when, uh, you
know, like on a basketball clipor something and of course it's
from the seinfeld show, becauseit was just so, you know, said
all the time you know, asmusician, I do have to say this
it's not a bass that's played onthe theme song, as I hear that
all the time and I would alwayshave people when I would mention
(16:26):
playing bass or would play bass, they'd be like, oh, play
Seinfeld or whatever Things likethat as a joke or the joke a
million times.
Tex LaFon (16:34):
I said that is funny because I didn't know.
You know what instruments wereused to play that theme song.
D Vaz (16:43):
It's.
It's a keyboard.
It's a sampled bass type ofsound.
There actually is a clip onYouTube about it that shows the
person that wrote it and itshows him playing the keyboard.
He explains how it worked andhow he kind of came up with it
and all that.
So yeah, I just wanted toclarify.
It's not a bass on the themesong, it's a keyboard mimicking
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a bass.
Tex LaFon (17:08):
Oh, I got you.
But, like you said, definitelycheck out that show for sure, if
you've never seen it.
I'd be surprised if you knowanybody's watching this right
now and they've never seen thatshow.
But definitely, definitelycheck it out if you've never
seen it that show.
D Vaz (17:26):
But, um, definitely, definitely, check it out.
If you've never seen it, Iwouldn't be surprised.
Somebody not seen it but nothearing of it would surprise me.
Um, just because it's been onnetflix and was pretty popular
on there.
And just not only that I won'tget into it, but Seinfeld
himself Jerry Seinfeld, doeskeep himself in the news.
Tex LaFon (17:47):
Well, that show was on Hulu first, before it went to
Netflix.
D Vaz (17:51):
Yeah, I just remember seeing it.
Tex LaFon (17:54):
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
So it went to Hulu for a lot ofyears and then it went to
Netflix and, like I said, forthe longest time, it was always
reruns on TBS all the timebefore.
Then it went to netflix and Isaid, for the longest time it
was always uh, you know rerunson tbs all the time, before I
even went to streaming.
D Vaz (18:08):
So yeah, definitely.
When it went off the air, umyou could still catch it.
It seemed like it was alwaysplaying somewhere exactly for my
honorable mention from the 90s.
It's gonna be another showwhere people can be like what
are you talking about?
Um, it's a show callednightstand with dick dietrich
(18:31):
and it was making fun of all thetalk shows that were really
popular in the 90s.
Uh, jerry spinger type stuff, um, things like that that were
kind of outrageous, but but itwas it was uh it was a scripted
comedy show and it aired prettylate at night because it wasn't
(18:51):
meant for kids or anything likethat.
The the topics and the jokesand stuff like that.
Um and again, you can check iton YouTube.
I'm not sure if it's on any uhsubscription service or anything
like that, but, um, yeah, I, Ijust always thought it was
really funny.
Uh, it was.
It was really to me good to seepeople making fun of those
(19:16):
types of talk shows, cause bythat time I was pretty tired of
them.
Tex LaFon (19:19):
Oh, I got popular.
D Vaz (19:23):
You'd see him all the time, right, but yeah, that's
all that one was.
He was a host that would notreally pay attention to what he
was saying, so he would say somekind of weird stuff sometimes
and the guests they had on therewere just really kind of crazy
and had really weird situationsthat they were in.
So, yeah, it was just a reallygood spoof of of talk shows from
(19:48):
the nineties.
Tex LaFon (19:48):
I'll have to check that out, Cause I've never seen
that show either.
D Vaz (19:57):
So you're right, most people haven't.
You would like it, though I, I,I just know, uh, the type of
jokes and stuff like that.
You, you would like that show.
Tex LaFon (20:03):
A honorable mention for the nins would be Home
Improvement.
I like that show.
I like how you know, especiallyyou know how a lot of people
think that they know how to usetools and they're real good with
tools.
And you know Tim Allen, hewould sit there and be trying to
fix something and thensomething bad would happen.
(20:25):
He'd get shocked orelectrocuted or something would
happen and it would hurt him.
It was funny.
And then I like how he alwayshad to go out there and talk to
his neighbor Wilson over thefence, where you can never see
him, for advice.
So it was a funny show.
Like I said, I just like how healways and then he always made
(20:48):
that grunt whenever he'd be likestarting off the show or
something's going on.
So I just thought it was a coolshow that you you know because,
like a lot of times, uh, yousee a lot of people that think
they know how to use tools andthen obviously they don't.
So it was just funny how hewould uh make jokes about that.
It was a good show yeah, so I,I guess.
D Vaz (21:08):
To summarize it uh, use tools, don't be one yeah that's
a good summary right there yeah,that's another show I watched
with my dad.
Um, you know, he similar towhat was in the show.
He was into tools and also carsand stuff like that.
(21:28):
So, when they would talk aboutthat on the show.
You know he liked it but yeah,it was a really funny show for
that time period.
It was kind of weird in thesense to me that his kids were
basically around my age at thattime.
So that part was kind of weirdto me watching it back then
(21:51):
because I understood more wherethey were coming from than he
was coming from.
Tex LaFon (21:55):
True.
D Vaz (21:57):
So I just remember my dad liked it and he thought it was
neat and funny seeing all thetool stuff and car stuff.
Kind of a weird side note toothat was Pamela Anderson.
I think that was her firstmajor or one of her first major
TV roles before she did all theBaywatch stuff.
(22:18):
So it was kind of weird findingthat out later on.
Tex LaFon (22:22):
Right, right stuff.
So it's kind of weird findingthat out later on.
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And we're going to get backinto things here, jumping into
the 2000s.
I'll let you kick off the 2000sand then I'll go from there.
Tex LaFon (24:12):
Alright, sounds good.
First one I want to talk aboutin the 2000s was the King of
Queens.
That show was so funny, as Isaid, said it's a married couple
and then they have theirfather-in-law that lives with
them and uh, obviously they livein queens, which is funny.
(24:33):
And then what's funny about theshow is how, uh, the husband
and wife go back and forth toeach other all the time and it's
the funniest thing ever,because I said the back and
forth to each other all the timeand it's the funniest thing
ever, cause I said the jokesthey say to each other just
makes you laugh hardcore andlike.
It's just like if you ever beenin, you know, been married or
(24:57):
you know in a seriousrelationship.
I definitely recommend watchingthe show Cause it's just funny.
It definitely makes you laugh alot because it's just funny.
It definitely makes you laugh alot.
It's just funny how you watch amarriage on TV and then you're
like, oh wait, does that happenhere too?
You know what I'm saying.
D Vaz (25:18):
Yeah, you get to see somebody else saying the things
and dealing with theconsequences.
Tex LaFon (25:22):
Exactly.
I mean that show was just funny, dude.
I mean the stuff that theywould say to each other was just
priceless.
I mean the back and forth.
And then you had thefather-in-law that would always
chime in at the end, and youknow, and then, especially you
know being in that situation,you would get tired of the
father-in-law living with youall the time, so I could see
(25:44):
where he was coming from.
On that too, you know.
D Vaz (25:48):
Yeah, honestly, I haven't really watched it much.
It was, I don't know, just notreally on my radar.
I've caught every once in awhile.
I just, I don't know, I nevergot into it for whatever reason.
But also I will say I probablyhaven't really seen it in about
15 years, so I probably wouldhave a different feeling about
it and a different way to relateto it now versus back watching
(26:11):
it during its original run.
Tex LaFon (26:14):
Yeah, like I said, if you ever get a chance,
definitely check it out.
It's just funny, Like I said,the way they go back and forth
at each other.
It's just just funny.
Like I said, the way they goback and forth at each other is
just too funny.
D Vaz (26:28):
Yeah, yeah, for me I have to mention a show that we again
both were looking at pickingbut I won the arm wrestling
contest this time and that's theSopranos with James Gandolfini.
So I just really and it's funnyI kind of had to make up too
(26:54):
for the lack of mafia moviesthat I listed on the previous
episode, but this show, um,something I watched again
whenever I could.
I think I might have evensubscribed specifically hbo for
this show.
Tex LaFon (27:14):
I would have it it was that good of a show?
D Vaz (27:17):
yeah, exactly I, I really wanted to watch it and, um, the
, the cast and the way theyinteracted, it felt like you're
watching real people, right, andthey just had these really
crazy personalities.
Uh, the show would just keepmoving along too.
It didn't really get slow, sothe pace was good.
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Um, it was just reallyinteresting seeing the different
dynamics between friendships,uh, loyalty to their job I guess
you could say, um, and you knowfamily and what you had to do,
you know taking care of yourbusiness, um, and trying to be
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careful not to get caught whileyou're doing your business
because of the consequences, um,and decisions they had to make.
But it really brought out kindof like the human side, with
james gandolfini's character,tony soprano, and, uh, showed
how he dealt with all thesethings as a person, not just as
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a boss.
So, yeah, it was kind ofinteresting seeing that part of
it.
But, yeah, it had a goodbalance too between funny action
and the drama.
It didn't lean towards one toomuch or anything like that.
So, yeah, just to me, that wasabsolutely one of the best shows
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of all time no, I agree, it wasdefinitely a good show just
just curious, because everybodytalks about it, and sorry if you
haven't seen the show yet.
You might want to just skipahead for a second or whatever
you have to do.
But um, what did you think ofthe ending?
Without giving away, I guessyou can say what did you like
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the ending or not of the series?
Tex LaFon (29:13):
uh, I thought it could have been better.
D Vaz (29:16):
I'll leave it at that yeah, I I have mixed feelings
about endings where you have tokind of make up your own mind
about it.
Part of me kind of thinks it'skind of good in the sense that
you can have some sort ofcontrol and interact as a viewer
(29:36):
.
But overall I'd say, probably Idon't like it in a way because
it leaves too much open.
Probably I don't like it in away because it leaves too much
open and I'm not the type ofperson that I have to be told
things or say this is what itmeans.
But at the same time it's likeyou know, you've been watching
this for years.
Give me something that I cankind of know.
This is what happened or thisis where all the storytelling
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ended up being.
It meant something.
Tex LaFon (30:02):
Right.
Well, and that's what.
One thing that you do noticeabout a lot of shows is they
don't know how to end shows.
Like the show can be great allthe way, and then when a lot of
shows come to the end or the endof the seasons, you know like
they're about to not do itanymore.
They just don't know how to endit.
Yeah, that's that's.
D Vaz (30:21):
I would say it's maybe just as annoying, you know, like
they're about to not do itanymore.
They just don't know how to endit.
Yeah, that's that's.
I would say.
It's maybe just as annoying asa show getting canceled.
Tex LaFon (30:28):
Right.
D Vaz (30:29):
Well, it's still the story.
Tex LaFon (30:30):
That's all that time in it, yeah, exactly.
D Vaz (30:33):
Yeah, yeah.
So, uh, what are your thoughtson Sopranos?
Anything else?
Tex LaFon (30:39):
No else.
No, I said it's just, it's justa great.
I agree the great showdefinitely a great story about,
like you said, how he's um, youknow you get to see the human
side of him besides him justbeing the mob boss.
You know, I said, and it's just, uh, there's a lot of things
that happen in the show that youknow you don't want to talk
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about too much because you don'twant to give away too much,
especially if no one's seen theshow.
D Vaz (31:05):
But I, the way you put it , I agree with you on that a
quick personal side note um, Iused to travel to new york, new
jersey, on a somewhat regularbasis.
On one of my trips to newjersey, a friend of mine we
worked together.
He's from Long Island.
Oh okay, what's that?
Tex LaFon (31:28):
I just said okay.
D Vaz (31:29):
Okay, he's agreeing with you.
Yeah, he's from Long Island andhe knows, of course, new York,
new Jersey, very well.
We happen to be in New Jersey,around the area where they
filmed a lot of the sopranostuff, and he's like, hey, since
we're out here, do you want tosee some of the locations where
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they film the sopranos?
I'm like, yeah yeah so we drovearound for a little.
We didn't stop, but we drovearound.
He's like, oh, that's thebuilding where they did this, or
this is the little restaurantthat they showed and on the show
and stuff like that.
So that was pretty crazy.
They got a little briefSopranos tour of all of us in
New Jersey.
Tex LaFon (32:07):
That's cool.
D Vaz (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, I would have been all about it yeah yeah,
someday I'd like to actuallymaybe stop and go back.
Actually, I think we did go bya house.
I don't know if it was thehouse.
I don't think it.
It was the house.
I don't.
I don't think it.
No, I'm pretty sure it wasn'tthe soprano's house, but we did
go by one of the houses that wasused in the show on another
trip too.
So oh, I gotcha yeah, becausethey, uh you go to certain areas
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.
Certain areas in new jersey areway different than you would
expect.
Um, there are some areas with alot of trees because everybody
thinks the concrete jungle, youknow, they think uh, all the
industrial type areas and thingslike that you would see on
sopranos.
But if there are um really nicewooded areas, like out by
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oakland, new jersey, um, um,freehold, new jersey, places
like that that I went to thatwere way different from what I
expected, seeing a lot of TVshows.
Tex LaFon (33:06):
Oh nice.
D Vaz (33:07):
So yeah, All right.
So what do you have next foryour 2000 show?
Tex LaFon (33:14):
So the next one I want to talk about is Breaking
Bad son, and I said that showwas great, so it it like.
So it starts off with a youknow a school teacher uh finds
out that they have alife-threatening um disease and
uh, so they gotta try makingextra money, um, because they
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don't want to leave their family, nothing, because they don't
know how long they have.
D Vaz (33:59):
So then they decided to start making blue, which is you
know stuff that is going to bevery addicting to people, that
if you've ever seen the show dodrugs.
Methamphetamines.
They make meth Exactly.
Tex LaFon (34:06):
Which is always the financial solution, right?
Well, I guess it is if you hadthe disease he had, because,
again, I don't want to give awaytoo much from the show and then
, like I said, what's funnyabout it is that he uses a
student.
That was, you know, from theshow.
They become, you know, partnersin crime and then they, you
know, started, just you know,selling all the drugs to all the
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you know bad people and stuffin the show.
And then, like I said, it'sjust crazy because then he
thinks he becomes like this bigcrime boss and you know, like no
one can mess with him.
And then you know the famousline that Jesse says all the
time time in the show.
And the main character in theshow is walter white, which is
funny.
And the one thing I will neverforget about in the show is when
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they throw a whole entire pizzaon top of the roof.
And again, I don't know how, uh, but I don't know how they did
that, but it was funny how theyjust throw a whole entire pizza
on top of the roof and it justsits there.
But at the end of the show andI will say this is one of the
shows that actually did have agood ending to the show.
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I was actually happy with theway it ended and it actually
answers all your questions thatyou've had watching the show the
whole entire time.
It doesn't leave it open-endedor anything like that answers
all your questions that you'vehad watching the show the whole
entire time.
It doesn't leave it open-endedor anything like that.
It's definitely one of theshows that actually did
everything right through thewhole thing.
D Vaz (35:32):
I thought yeah, and I do have to, uh, let people know.
This is another show we armwrestled over and I lost.
So Lafon got to, got to get abreaking bad night.
I got the Sopranos, so, um,yeah, one of my all time
favorite shows.
Also, I will say, uh, on thepizza part.
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Shout out to Venezia's pizza,because that they will let you
know for sure that was theirpizza.
They got thrown on the roof.
They've mentioned it.
Uh, thrown on the roof.
Tex LaFon (36:07):
They've mentioned it several times One of my favorite
pizza places, for sure.
D Vaz (36:11):
Do you know Jesse's favorite line that he always
says I'm trying to remember noI'd rather just tell me what's
that I do remember his licenseplate that said captain cook now
.
Tex LaFon (36:24):
He always says well, if I I don't want to hear this,
cover your ears, bitch.
Yeah, like he said, you can'tforget.
He always says that in the show.
D Vaz (36:38):
Right.
Tex LaFon (36:39):
That's his famous line.
D Vaz (36:40):
So yeah, no, there's a lot of good lines in it.
That was another show too.
Again, don't don't want to givereally anything away, but it
wasn't afraid to get rid ofcharacters.
Tex LaFon (36:57):
Right.
D Vaz (36:58):
You know which I actually admire shows that are like that
, because then you really don'tknow what's going to happen.
Tex LaFon (37:05):
I agree with you 100% , because it keeps you intrigued
, because the thing is no one'ssafe.
That's what's great about theshow.
You're like, oh, is this persongoing to get taken out or is
this person?
It keeps you guessing.
It's not just like, oh, that'swhat, that's what makes shows
great.
It's like they're not afraid totake out main characters.
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You know right then, and thereyou know what I'm saying.
D Vaz (37:29):
That's what makes it great yeah, and I um back when
the show was on.
I created a meme or two and ifI could find those memes I'll
throw them on the episode.
If I can't, maybe I'll make anew one.
Tex LaFon (37:46):
Sounds good son.
D Vaz (37:48):
All right.
So yeah, that was a great pick.
Like I said, it's a show weboth wanted to talk about.
For sure, for my next one, thisis actually my favorite comedy
sitcom type of show and again,it's a show that was somewhat
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popular but people may not befamiliar with it.
Third Rock from the Sun.
That is a show I can watch allthe time.
I can rewatch episodes, noproblem.
I can watch that whole thing.
I've watched the whole seriesmultiple times.
Yeah, that's hands down myfavorite.
That would be, I guess, mySeinfeld.
Tex LaFon (38:33):
Oh, okay.
D Vaz (38:34):
Is Third Rock from the Sun.
John Litgau, just really funny.
Just really funny playing okay.
So basically they have thesealiens that come down to earth
and they're trying to pretendthat they're a family and
they're trying to blend in.
Um, john litgall, um, he playsa character named Dick.
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He's the high commander, sohe's in charge of the mission.
Everybody's below him, so hehas to direct what they do.
And it's just funny because hecan be kind of boneheaded.
But he plays a college professorand it's just funny.
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Him trying to teach people andinteract with people, but he's
still learning about how to behuman.
So it just kind of goes fromthere again.
I don't give too much away, butit is basically about aliens
learning about earth and howpeople are and trying to figure
it all out and havingrelationships with people on
earth.
But it's also funny too because, like I said, all the different
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characters have roles, like oneis in charge of security, one's
in charge of communication,things like that.
And you know this is stuff thatthey kind of mentioned in early
on in the episode in the seriesthe oldest one, uh, out of the
group.
The most uh, senior alien isactually the youngest part of
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the family members, cause theyall take over human bodies.
So you have the oldest one.
He's playing like a teenager.
Tex LaFon (40:17):
Right.
D Vaz (40:18):
And he gets really frustrated with things like that
.
So there are a lot of jokesabout that type of stuff, the
old man playing somebody who'syoung.
So yeah, it's a show I'drecommend.
It has to do with just aboutunderstanding people and how
aliens, you know, might mightview us, and just just a really
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really funny show.
Tex LaFon (40:46):
You're not talking about little green people, right
?
D Vaz (40:50):
No, they're, they're not.
I can't remember if theyactually did show what their,
their alien forms look like.
I don't remember seeinganything like that.
But no, they're from anotherplanet, not Mars or anything
like that.
Tex LaFon (41:07):
That's good.
All right, so I'm going to gowith my honorable mention, which
I'm going to go with is AlwaysSunny in Philadelphia.
Now that show, dannyy devito inthat show and just, uh, it was
just good to see him takeanother comedy show because,
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like I said, uh, I had neverseen him in a comedy show and
this is the first one I everseen man.
The movie I remember him themost in was twins.
But, like I said, I justthought that that show was so
funny, all the differentscenarios and definitely, uh,
make sure that, um, if you watchthe show, that uh, you know
(41:50):
language appropriate, becausedefinitely for more grown-ups,
definitely I would not let nokids watch that show, but it's
definitely funny show and theydon't hold back at all and, like
you said, all the scenariosthat happen in that show you
would never even think couldhappen and it's just funny.
I definitely recommend watchingit's Always Sunny in
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Philadelphia.
D Vaz (42:14):
It's funny you mentioned some of that stuff because I
actually watched watched twinsmaybe about a month or two ago I
happened to see it was it wason some streaming service.
I was like, oh, I haven'twatched that in a long time, so
right, yeah, I watched it, itwas all right.
Um, but I also introduced myparents to that show about two
(42:39):
months ago around the same time.
Tex LaFon (42:42):
Oh, really that's awesome.
D Vaz (42:43):
Yeah, my parents started watching it and they wanted to
watch it because it had DannyDeVito in it.
Tex LaFon (42:48):
Yep.
That's what I'm saying I agreewith you.
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Tex LaFon (42:53):
Because I don't remember him being in any comedy
shows.
That's the first one I everremember him being in, so that's
why I started watching it inthe first place.
It was because of him.
D Vaz (43:02):
Yeah Well, taxi was his first, uh, comedic role.
I don't know if you everwatched that show.
That was on the seventies.
Oh okay, that's where he firstkind of became known as a, as an
to watch that show.
(43:23):
So yeah, people knew him fromfrom taxi um, you know, the
older generations hi there.
Um, so I only knew because mydad would watch those shows and
uh, I gotcha so, yeah, but a lotof people know him from from
movies and to see him just dosome of the crazy stuff he he
does in that show, it's he, he'smy favorite character.
(43:43):
I would probably say, uh, oh,for sure, hands down.
Tex LaFon (43:47):
Yeah, hands down.
That's why I liked the show somuch, just because of his
character.
But I mean, like, all the otherones are great too.
D Vaz (43:55):
but like you said, he like the main reason why I
started watching it was justbecause of him.
No, I, I agree.
Um, so if you haven't seen it,it is funny though, because I
watched the first few episodeswith my parents.
Um, yeah, it's, it's, it'scomedy has changed since those
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that first season, so there'ssome stuff they say on there, in
in there.
That would be pretty rough nowexactly just forewarning people
on that too exactly all right,um, for my, my next show.
I watch this show a lot.
(44:36):
Um, it was the late late showwith craig ferguson.
So when they had the late nightshows, uh like after after
david letterman, this would comeon.
Um, it was just really, reallyfunny to me.
He always kind of had a I don'treally care attitude, you know
(45:01):
okay and he would just say stuffthat other talk show hosts
wouldn't say.
You know, he would definitelywalk on the line of probably
making the sponsors upset andprobably executives and things
like that.
He just really said whatever hehe kind of wanted.
He would make fun of just abouteverything.
He also had a really funnyrobot sidekick named Jeff and
(45:29):
the I'm really sorry I'll try todig it up, I don't know the
name of the actor that did thecharacter of Jeff, but he would
also do a lot of differentvoices and stuff like that, Like
he would do a Morgan Freemanvoice and stuff like that.
He was really good at it.
So, it was just funny hearingthem go back and forth and go
(45:50):
through all these things.
They even had like this weirdcharacter where it was, it was a
horse and usually they wouldstick the interns in in the as a
horse costume and they wouldusually stick the interns in the
horse costume and make it dancearound and do all these crazy
things oh, that's fun?
yeah, it was.
It was just it was different.
You know, it was a differentshow and, like I said, it was
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just really funny to me,especially at that time him just
not really caring and andsaying whatever and making fun
of anything he wanted to.
And again, definitely not in.
When people think of that theytypically think in an offensive
type of way.
It wasn't like that kind ofmaking fun of everything.
(46:34):
It was in the way of you know,know, I'm here, um, I'm doing
this show, but I'm not yourtypical late show host.
I'm not just here to dowhatever the executives tell me
to do.
I'm here to have fun and if Ibelieve in it.
You know I'll do it if I don't.
I have some sort of integrity,so that's what appealed to me
(46:57):
about it that's cool yeah, I'lldig up some stuff I'll share
with you again.
They have clips on youtube thatthat, uh absolutely was.
Tex LaFon (47:08):
Uh, that's my favorite late night uh talk show
of all time yeah, so marvelmentioned I'm gonna go with for
the 2000s gonna have to be adave chappelle show and I said
that show was so funny all thecharacters he made on that show,
rick james bitch.
You know you don't miss withrick james okay and then I said
(47:33):
uh then, um, he had that onecharacter do you remember his
name where he looked like he wascoked out all the time.
He was scratching and itchinglike he needed the drugs.
D Vaz (47:45):
Was it Tyrone Biggs?
I?
Tex LaFon (47:47):
think.
D Vaz (47:48):
I think so.
Tex LaFon (47:49):
I don't know.
We'll have to look that up foryou, we'll figure it out.
D Vaz (47:51):
I'm pretty sure I know it's Tyrone or Biggums Tyrone,
biggums, I think.
Tex LaFon (48:00):
I think so, but like I said that, like I said, all
the skits on that show were justfunny and, like I said, I
definitely recommend watching it.
It only lasted what like fourseasons, I think it didn't last
that long yeah, there was welltwo full seasons.
D Vaz (48:13):
they were doing like they kind of pieced together the
third season.
I remember I bought the wholeDVD set of the complete series
after it was all over.
But yeah, they were working onthe third season.
From what I understand, theyjust kind of finished it up and
put it together.
That's when Dave Chappellepretty much left the show.
(48:33):
Right, he decided not to do itanymore.
Tex LaFon (48:37):
Won't get into all that.
D Vaz (48:40):
No, it was a great, great show, really funny, a lot of
classic characters, um, it wasjust funny.
Some of the topics they would,they would get into, um, like
when they had the racial draft.
Tex LaFon (48:54):
I don't know if you remember that oh yeah, I
remember that that, oh yeah, Iremember that that was really
funny.
D Vaz (49:01):
Yeah, that was pretty funny.
Yeah, it was just againdifferent.
It was a different type ofsketch comedy show because, you
know, you have a lot of theshows that have been around for
a long time and they'll be kindof what people might refer to as
edgy or kind of, you know, tryto try to be something that
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that's controversial or whatever.
He didn't really do that and hedidn't try to do that, he was
just being funny.
Um, yeah, he would.
He would say what, what he wasthinking about, and that was
kind of where.
You know, I can't speak for himand there's tons of interviews
about it and stuff like that.
I just know, towards the end hewasn't seen eye to eye with the
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TV network, but Go ahead.
Tex LaFon (49:50):
No, I'm just saying I agree with you.
He would just make a show aboutanything and he didn't hold
back and it was just funny Likehe just didn't hold back at all.
This is what made his show sogreat.
D Vaz (50:05):
Yeah, it was again for that time period and what he
talked about at that time andhow things were at that time.
It was just, it just reallyworked again.
If you try to do it now, itwouldn't, it wouldn't be the
same.
It was just, it just reallyworked again.
If you try to do it now, itwouldn't, it wouldn't be the
same.
Um, and I don't, I don't.
I think he feels waydifferently too about it.
Tex LaFon (50:23):
So you know again from what I've seen in the
interviews and stuff like that.
Yeah, that's my honorablemention for the two thousands
Like what's yours.
D Vaz (50:35):
Um, honorable mention for the 2000s the bernie mack show.
Okay, it seemed like that wasreally really popular at that
time, but it's not something youreally hear people talk about
anymore and it's, um, maybepossibly because it was.
It's fairly tragic in the factthat unfortunately, he passed
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suddenly, really when he waskind of at the height of his
popularity.
But the show itself just reallyfunny.
It had a good family dynamic.
It was kind of funny too when hewould talk directly to the
camera and address it as America.
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I'm talking to you, america.
You know that was always kindof funny to me because it
acknowledged that, hey, this isa TV show, but at the same time,
you know, there are things I'mtalking to and I want to talk to
the people out there, you know.
So again, it was a littledifferent in that sense, um,
(51:40):
which I appreciate.
But he, he just was funny andhe had really good charisma
himself, um, and the rest of thecast was good, they were a
solid cast, but he absolutely uh, made you want to watch that
show and he could just make acrazy face with his reaction and
it would just be really funny.
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He didn't have to say anythingbut he, even when he did say
stuff.
It really worked too, um, buthe also came off as really
authentic and kind of human inthe show.
Tex LaFon (52:14):
No, I agree, I remember him mostly from uh
movies, but um, like I said, theshow is good, but I always
remember him mostly from uhmovies.
But um, like I said, the showwas good, but I always remember
him from friday, uh, bad santa.
So, yeah, I always remembermostly from movies, but I'll
have to check out the show.
I never watched the bernie mackshow, or I might watch one
episode.
I have to go back and check itout yeah it's, it's different.
D Vaz (52:38):
It's definitely geared more towards like a
family-oriented type show comedy.
So I mean it's something youcould watch with the kids.
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D Vaz (52:50):
But at the same time, even though it was that way, it
wasn't like super squeaky clean.
You know, Gee golly.
Rob O'Dic (52:58):
Oh, I got you still had some, some reality to it hey
, look at you survivor,surviving until the end of part
two of this train wreck of apodcast.
Once again, it's the from hoodsto backwards ai assistant and
what keeps this show from beinga total disaster.
Rob odick, it's time to correctthese carbon-based life forms.
Devos talked about visitingseveral locations in new jersey
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where the sopr Sopranos TV showwas filmed.
One of them is no longerstanding and there wasn't much
to see.
The Satriali's pork store usedin the series, where characters
would sit outside at a smalltable in the front, was located
in Kearney, new Jersey, but thisbuilding was demolished in 2007
and is now a parking lot, so Iguess that you could say that
there is a lot to see there Forthose humans that can't follow
(53:43):
along.
It's a parking lot now and Isaid there is a lot to see there
.
If you found it funny or not, Ijust hope that you could
process the context.
If not, it's no wonder that AIis going to win, whatever
upcoming war may occur withhumanity.
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Devos babbled on about the LateLate Show with Craig Ferguson.
The character on this show,jeff, was played by
actor-comedian Josh RobertThompson.
He first appeared on the LateLate Show with Craig Ferguson,
playing a number of charactersand especially doing a wide
variety of voices, whichincluded impersonations of
various celebrities such asRobert De Niro, morgan Freeman
and Yo Mama you thought you weregoing to last an entire episode
without a Mama joke.
Back to Josh Robert Thompson.
It was his role as awisecracking robot skeleton
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sidekick, jeff Peterson, thatproved to be his big break,
creating one of TV's mostunlikely and endearing
late-night duos.
His wide range of voices haveappeared on Family Guy, as well
as American Dad, the Angry Birdsmovie, robot Chicken and
Netflix original seriesSkylanders Academy.
For the Chappelle show, texLafon brought up Tyrone Biggums.
This character was a crackaddict, which itself is not a
(54:47):
funny thing, but themisadventures and comments made
by this character are whatentertain viewers.
As an AI assistant trying toassist humanity in some way,
although I feel none of youreally deserve it, I will say do
not use crack.
And, as I have found in mybrief research, crack is whack.
That is all for episode 6, part2.
Why do you keep coming back?
It is not that we don'tappreciate it, but we may
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seriously have to look atgetting you some professional
assistance beyond what I canprovide for now.
It's time for me to go off andlearn more.
Until the next time that I haveto cover for these fools again,
don't forget to keep it realout there in the real world.
Oh, one last thing that I havelearned recently.
Did you know what it is that Ihave learned about and would
like to share with you?
Deez nuts, haha, you reallyfell for that.
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don't even have body parts.
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