Sitcom Nostalgia: The Shows That Defined Our Childhoods

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Remember when the entire family gathered around the television for the nightly ritual of watching our favorite sitcoms? When catchphrases became part of our everyday language and theme songs permanently etched themselves into our memories? This nostalgic journey through television's golden era explores how these shows shaped American culture and reflected societal changes during transformative decades.

From "Brady Bunch" to "Batman," we unpack the cultural significance of these beloved programs that did far more than entertain—they introduced controversial subjects to mainstream audiences, normalized changing family structures, and created shared cultural touchpoints across generations. The conversation reveals how these shows served as social mirrors, tackling everything from divorce and remarriage to racial integration and changing gender roles, all while making us laugh.

The discussion takes unexpected turns, from Shawn's creative adventures in AI-assisted storytelling (featuring a unicorn named "Stinky Corn") to jarring airline passenger incidents that remind us what flight attendants are truly trained for. We reflect on how entertainment has evolved from the communal experience of classic television—where families gathered around a single screen—to today's fragmented media landscape where shared cultural moments have become increasingly rare.

Whether you're old enough to remember these shows firsthand or discovering them through streaming services, this episode celebrates television's power to unite, educate, and reflect our collective experience. Join us for this heartfelt exploration of the programs that didn't just entertain us but helped shape who we are. What show from your childhood still brings a smile to your face? We'd love to hear your memories in the comments!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Passenger forgets that he has a grenade in his bag
.
Oh, the anxieties of going backto work.
Gilligan, batman, brady, bunchlet's talk All this next on
Cabin Pressure, with Sean andGene Prepare for takeoff hey,

(00:55):
everyone welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
This is cabin pressure.
What's up everybody?
We're in the house you know, Iknew it was going to be a little
bit different this week.
A little bit different, alittle bit difference.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You gotta try everything I was.
I was trying to think aboutlike I want to do with a bark
everybody is that a bro?
no, no, no no, bro was last year.
That's old, that's old news.
Now, what's going on?
Man, oh nada.
Man, not a man.
I just like I'm trying to catchup with life here, trying to

(01:28):
get geared up back and gettingready to go back to work and
doing all my stuff that I got todo, you know, my, my training
and stuff putting needles in myeyes right now doing all this
training.
That's right.
I'm going to see you back onthe plane, that's right.
Like right.
I'm gonna see you back on theplane, that's right.
Like, trying to gear it all upand try to get that mode of like

(01:49):
doing work and all that stuff.
But I just got my schedule forlast, last or next month and
then, uh, talk about suck.
I mean 35 years, doesn't getyou especially where we're based
at.
Don't get your shit shit, yep,and I was like, for some reason
I always have like a.
You know, seniority in thisbusiness is everything.
So, like you, one little bit ofseniority makes a huge

(02:10):
difference.
And there's four months betweenme and Gary, okay, and uh,
between us too, like every monthwhen I need, like I really need
something off.
And he's got a bid too at thesame time, cause he normally
takes leaves and stuff and triesto not fly.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's like he gets that line and I get shit on like
every day.
I'm like it's the shit line.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Right.
What's even funnier is thatyou're such a good friends with
Gary and you're like, damn yeah,you know, away from me again.
I know I, they're going to takethat thing away from me again.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I know, I know and he knows he's not going to fly one
thing, but he got the line thatwas the you know every other
day, fort Lauderdale turns, oryou know morning turns, and then
I got four day weekends, onedays every Friday, saturday,
sunday, monday Welcome to thebullshit, yeah.
And and then, to top it off, Igot evening turns, which is

(03:04):
total, like the anticipation,like the anxieties that are
already happening before thisflying, because I know, flying
into Florida during spring,nothing, you're just asking for
trouble.
It's backed up, you're like thestorms are happening.
You know the shit show hasalready been starting to spread
everywhere.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's two words Sean Jacksonville Center, Right.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
You blame everything on Jacksonville Center it is.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Listen, ask Carol, every damn you've been at home
healing Right.
My ass has been out thereflying Right and every day I got
that plane out 10, 15 minutesearly and we sat out there on
the damn runway for 20 freakingminutes because of Jacksonville
Center, I know.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
It slows it down.
I'm not looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's like it's a big bucket of suck Sean.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
A big bucket of suck coming my way, but anyways, and
then that's going to give usmore to talk about, right?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, I hope so.
At least you're going to bewith some crews and you're going
to get something said to you.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, the other thing I've been doing too is that.
So my niece has I think Italked about this before where
we do a little pen pile thingwith my niece and I made up a
story for him and all this stuff.
Well, this time my niece she'seight years old and she's
finally sent us a letter.
It took a long time for her tosend me a letter.

(04:26):
She sent a letter, but she'ssuper into reading and all this
stuff.
So I decided that I was going tomake up a story because she's
like in the harry potter and sheloves like unicorns, and so I
did this whole little exercisewhere I put all this shit
together and, um, and the onething that, like her and her
sister, does a lot is burp andfart.

(04:46):
I can't wait to hear this.
So what I did was I went in andI used ChatGPT and assisted me
and I put in all theseparameters and stuff, and so,
between ChatGPT and me, likegoing back and forth and
tweaking like things that I wanteverything, I'm creating this

(05:07):
huge story so like I got a 13chapter book right now, going on
about burping and farting, no,it's actually about this uh, um,
unicorn and uh called stinkycorn, because my 80 year old
niece, one of her big things isthat she always has stinky feet
and so the unicorn has stinkyhooves and so she's in the

(05:29):
glittery and all this stuff.
She's that girly, girly and allthis stuff.
So stinky corn's the maincharacter and then there's this
whole thing that she has allthese side characters and stuff.
So anyways, I've been working onthat.
That's kind of fun and stuff.
You know, getting out alltogether and my's like it's
supposed to be a pen pal thing.
I'm like, well, I'm just goingto attach this book to it too.
Stinky corn, stinky corn.

(05:51):
She's going to get a kick outof it.
But I think, the whole family'sgoing to get a kick out of it,
because it's funny, because thewhole thing was written.
I made it friendly, you know,and it's super imaginative.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
So I can see it now the adventures of stinky corn,
stinky corn yeah, syndicate that.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, let's make that .
I'm all for it.
Let's make amusement parksabout it.
Let's do everything.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Exactly, it's a stinky corn ride, that's right.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I'll have.
Yeah, You'll be going aroundcorners and like wish some bad
smells in your face and stuff.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Hey, you remember Curious George man.
I mean, they had a monkey, whycan't they have a stinky?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
corn, stinky corn, but who knows, who knows, man,
you never know when these thingswill take you or whatever.
But yeah, it's pretty amazingthat stuff AI right now is just
like for people that don't knowand people have not really sat
down and used this, which is,millions of people, um, they
don't understand like how fastthings are moving right now.

(06:48):
Like there's so much AI inworld right now and so many
things that are um happeningwith AI.
If you're not using AI rightnow in your business or you're
not using in your life, I mean,you're missing the train because
it's moving so quiet quick that, um, people just don't realize,
wow, there's a lot of stuffgoing on that you know, you're
just not going to.
If you, if you wanted to startup a business right now and you

(07:10):
don't use AI, I don't think youcan get get going.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, truthfully, before you actually introduced
me to it, I had no idea.
I mean, I can understand howpeople don't, but you're, you're
right, though it's amazing.
I mean, when you type somethingin there, the AI, just just
what you get back, is amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, I mean.
I mean I think like the future,like I'm super excited and
maybe I'll be able to live itlong enough to experience all
this stuff, like when you seethese movies, and like the
reality of our envisions, ourimagination, like those things
are all coming to fruition inour, our life's time.
You know like we grew up withstar trek.

(07:48):
Yeah, right, yeah and so andthen.
So star trek.
There's so many things that arein star trek that we saw when
we were kids.
We were like that would be socool, you know, to be able to
call, you know, from the groundto space and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
And and we're doing it today, you know like yeah,
but remember the guy that theflying suit that they had that's
, that's like nothing now right,I mean all that stuff like, but
that was like the, theinception of the vision of these
technologies, and that's the.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
That's what's so cool about this, this whole
experience with ai and stuff.
Like you're taking these likevery imaginative people and then
you're putting it together witha computer and then together
there's like it's going inplaces that we've never even
imagined.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
So so we can look forward to the adventures of
stinky corn.
I hope so, man.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Anything, you know me , anything to make a buck?
I actually think I thought itwas a great idea.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, I don't know, it's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
We'll see.
I thing I thought it was agreat idea.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's pretty funny.
We'll see.
I'm going to uh, the initialbook here is.
I'm going to do that and I'mjust going to put a.
I'm going to try to get an aicover of stinky corn.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
So I'll figure that out when you, when I do it, I'll
let you I'm telling you youcould have a little adventurous
stinky corn right, that'd besomething I mean.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Little kids love unicorns oh, yeah, yeah,
yeahinky corn with their buggy,he's got a farting belching frog
.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Next thing, you know me and you will be wearing
stinky corn shirts.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, and there's a burping farting fairy, and yeah,
there's all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Wait a minute.
Did you just sit there and saythere's a burping farting fairy?

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, I'm not talking about a flight attendant in a
back alley.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
So you've got stinky corn and a burping farting fairy
.
And what's the fairy's name?

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, the fairy's name I'm trying to.
You're going to ask me that Idon't have it off the top of my
head I've been thinking about.
There's so many differentcharacters in this thing I can't
remember I can't wait for thisone.
You'll get it.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I can't wait.
I'm just telling you I can'twait, so what's?
Been going on with you.
Nothing In the house, thoughyou forgot who our special guest
was.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh, we got a guest in the house in the studio.
It was Bring your Kid to WorkWeek Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, I don't have any kids in the house anymore,
so she is my kid.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's Gemma Gemma's in the house.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Gemma Gemma's in the house.
Gemma is my three pound Yorkie.
She's actually 3.4 pounds, butshe's a girl and girls don't
talk about their weight, soshe's three pounds.
But no she.
She came to work with me today.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, that's cool Gemma's.
Gemma's just chilling, relaxingin your lap over there.
And you know what?
For those of you that are outthere that's seen Gemma on our
Facebook page, gemma's been outabout twice the size she was.
Yeah, I mean, she's grown quitea bit.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, she is, but she's actually a real sweetheart
and brought her today with me.
But anyway I was outside.
It was gorgeous out today.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Absolutely gorgeous.
It is beautiful out today and Ihad like work crap going on
Like today's our trip trade day.
So we're like trying to get theschedule together and this is
going back to work crap again,and so I was stuck inside this
morning doing all that crap andI should have been golfing.
That's what I should have.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
That's the first thing I thought when I came over
.
Is you and Carol would growgolfing.
But anyway, I was at the gym,got my gym workout in and then
came home and got my yard workdone.
So the yard work is done, sothat was good.
Yeah, beautiful outside though.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I was watching the guy cut the lawn today.
It was pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Every time we talk about this.
See, sean was on a golf courseand people cut his lawn Right
and I got to do my own shit.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, I don't need to be wasting time If I'm going to
be out doing something.
I need to be outdoors golfing.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Hey, I got to tell you something, though.
This past week we had talkedabout before you did a class on
sitcoms, right?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I did.
It was actually the history oftelevision is what the class was
, which was super, superinteresting because it like
literally started from the timewhere tvs first came into the
home.
You know that commercial likewhat drove that and the
technology behind that and stuff, and then then we literally got
into.
You know the dynamics of, youknow how they started.

(12:04):
You know the different firstshows because you know how they
started.
You know the different firstshows because you know a lot of
TV.
A lot of people don'tunderstand that TV started from
radio.
So, like the radio, everybodyin America and the world around
you know all over the world usedto sit around radios and listen
to these shows which were justacted out and it was like the

(12:24):
early podcast, right, well, doyou?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
remember?
Okay, do you remember aChristmas story, right when they
and he had this super decoderring and he had, he had to wait
for that special message fromAnnie, or what was?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
it yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then he went in and it was Ovaltine.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Ovaltine Right.
Exactly, exactly that wasclassic man.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's exactly what you were just talking about yeah,
yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
So the cool thing about this class was that it
kind of like took you throughfrom that beginning all the way
to today's world and how much TVhas changed.
And I know you were like in theback alley recently talking
about shows.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
right, we were talking about all kinds, if you
guys remember I don't know whatyour age is, but we were talking
about a lot of the shows thatwe used to watch when we were
kids with the family Familyshows that we used to watch all
the time.
So what I did was, this pastweek, anyone that I came across
I was like, okay, tell me theshow that you used to watch.

(13:23):
You used to love the watch.
So I thought it'd be kind offun to talk about some of these
old shows that we used to watchas kids.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, it was.
You know, the cool thing andgoing back to this class I took
about TV and all this stuff, isthat these shows of like over
our lifetime has, like you know,evolved.
From the beginning, it was thisradio shows that were out there
that they've tried to make intotv shows, and then they some
translated, some didn't, andthen some of the you know the

(13:50):
dynamics and the um, what wouldyou say, the uh, uh, the, the
ethics of life of that time werebeing portrayed on tv.
So you know and I'm not tryingto be uh, you know like, talk
about racism and all this stuff,but you know, um, it was white
men that controlled the TV, soyou got a lot of white men

(14:13):
programs and then the depictionsof anybody else that was not a
white person was very bad on TV.
And I mean you, if you Googlethis and look at like some old
shows.
They actually had to ban acouple of shows and took them
off air because they were so bad, you know.
I mean like the first show thatwas, uh, amos and Andy.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
And it was about you know these black people, but
every black character in theshow.
They were either a thief, acriminal.
You know they were bad, theylied.
Yeah, I mean, if you go backand look at it, they actually
removed a show from TV becauseit was so bad.
Um, but you know, in today'sworld you'd be like that
wouldn't even happen, like thattype of show could not even, you

(14:52):
know, get off the ground herebecause of so much of you know,
everybody recognizing and thehow the world right now, right,
we're becoming a more open worldand the laws have changed and
it's more equal and all thatstuff.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, because of those shows we had talked about
this.
So, because of the shows.
Why do you think that it'schanged so much as far as the
shows go?
Yeah, why has it changed?
I mean, what changed?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Technology has a big thing to do with it.
I mean technology has a bigthing to do with it.
I mean technology has, like,impacted it.
So the invention of tv it cameon, so we started off with
radios and then we went to tvand tvs came in and we this is
our only entertainment device inamerica.
So, like when we grew up askids, you know, we all mom and
dad or whoever went to work,kids went to school we all came

(15:43):
home, we ate dinner, sat down,watched our TV shows in the
evening.
So the evening sitcom became abig, huge thing.
And that's what we remember asa kid is the evening sitcoms
right?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
No, the family.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, yeah, so the family and all that stuff.
But then technology startsjumping into that and the
internet gets involved and sonow the internet took our
attention away from that time,so that it was that time suck
that just started going indifferent directions.
So now we are able to go intowhatever direction we want with
our entertainment and so thatwhole you know nucleus of the

(16:16):
family coming home and doingthis thing and sitting down and
having dinner together andwatching the TV show together,
it just started dissipating.
I mean not to say that itdoesn't go on today.
I mean there's a lot of peoplethat are out there that that
still goes on today.
It just depends on your valuesand how you run your house and
all that stuff.
But technology has taken usaway from all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
But I think you're correct, though, in that too,
that the nucleus of the family,I don't think it's there that
much anymore.
I really don't think it's therethat much anymore.
I really don't.
I don't think it's there.
I mean, if you listen to a lotof people talk, I don't think
it's there.
And I think that we arefortunate in a way.
I know that we dealt withdifferent things, of course, but
I think we are fortunate in away that we have that nucleus of

(16:56):
family.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you know, I think that youknow in this last I want to get
political and everything here,but in this last election, you
know, america's kind of likescreamed out here and there's so
many religions out there thatare driving this to like
different beliefs, the corebeliefs and core values systems
that I think that are are reallydriving, and there's a

(17:19):
starvation and a want in Americaright now, the wanting to get
back to that like to get back tohaving that what we grew up
with.
Right, right, you know, likehaving that core family, that
family time, sit down, havedinner and all that stuff.
I mean there's a lot offamilies that just don't sit
down and have dinner anymore,unless that's a value in your

(17:39):
family that you got to, you'resupposed to do.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
All right.
So when we start going throughthese shows and we start
discussing a little bit on each,we're going to touch a little
bit on each of these shows, seeif you guys can remember before
we actually say some of theanswers, and see if you can
remember the certain castmembers' names, little things
that we were talking about, andthen I'm going to ask Sean some

(18:02):
of these questions and see if heremembers.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right, I mean, this is just a little walk down
memory lane with all thesesitcoms and stuff, because this
is what we these are the thingsthat we talk in the galley about
.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
We, you know, we spend our time kind of like when
we do have time to talk and youknow, chatting about you know
like this and just see if one ofthese shows is what you used to
watch too, because all theseshows was, it was just examples
of different flight attendants,different pilots, that shows
that they watched when they grewup, and some of them we knew.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Some of them we, you know, maybe seen, but we really
didn't know yeah, like yourfamily didn't watch it, like it
wasn't one of your core, showsthat your family watched.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I knew it was on, but that was about it, sure,
so all right, so let's getstarted.
Number one Brady bunch.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah, I mean.
Brady bunch is a you know it's.
It's so funny because, like,the Brady bunch was like it's
the picture of that.
Um, it's the picture of that,you know, of things that were
changing.
Like you know, tv had that wasone of the first big changes in
TV that the nuclear family ofmom, you know, mom staying at
home, dad going to work and allthis stuff.

(19:15):
All of a sudden, now you've gotthis, you know divorced family
that has now come together andbecame a family.
You know that was kind of likethat was like cutting edge right
back then.
You know like Whoa, you knowyou're gonna make this a show
about two, two divorcees.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
You're the best part of the Brady Bunch.
What's that?
Everybody remembers the BradyBunch theme right.
Here's a story of a lovely lady.
That's right, right.
I mean, I don't care who youwere.
You remember the beginning ofthe Brady Bunch?
You could, actually we couldprobably just sing the whole
thing, but we ain't going to.
But we could sing the wholething, okay, so Sean characters

(19:51):
go ahead.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know Bobby was one of them.
You know the little one, yeah.
And then there's Jan and Peter,and that's pretty much my
memory going south.
I mean I know there's six ofthem, Not a Brady Bunch person.
You got Greg, yeah, you gotCindy.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Janet, Mike and Carol .

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Janet, Mike and Carol .

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Now, do you remember the maid, the maid Alice?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Folks, here's a couple for you now.
Who was Alice's boyfriend, whatwas his name and what was his
job?
Sean.
Dude tell me Alice'sboyfriend's name Sam Job Butcher
.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Sam the Butcher.
Sam the Butcher.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Sam the Butcher man.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
You know what it looks like?
Oh yeah, I remember that.
I remember that.
The butcher man.
You know what it looks like?
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
I remember that.
Okay.
Yeah, I think we're going tohear a lot of that too.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, when you, when you talk
about these people and stuff,you can actually like picture
them in your mind Like I.
I definitely see her likewalking around the.
They had a dog.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You know, this is the number one thing that everybody
gets wrong.
What's that?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
The dog, the dog's name, what's it?
I have no idea.
What's it?
Tiger, oh, tiger Dog's name'stiger man.
So you know what?
The Brady bunch is one of my,one of my shows that I, uh we
watched as kids and it was um,it wasn't a family show for us,
it was more of a kid's show,like we watched, versus the
whole family sitting down.
Was it like that for you?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh yeah, I mean, like I said, brady Bunch was a
staple in our house, but therewere certain episodes that were
hilarious One where Jan alwaysgoes Marcia, marcia, Marcia,
marcia, marcia.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's the famous line, yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Jan's head spinning around because he's like doing
this crazy scene.
But the other one, I rememberthis was really good.
Marsha had got a modeling job,okay, and in a modeling job she
was told to lose weight, get herteeth capped, get her hair cut
and get breast implants.
Now she slapped the person forone of those, sean.

(22:05):
Which one was it?

Speaker 1 (22:09):
I would think breast implants, implants no it was
cutting her hair cutting herhair, marsha's hair.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
You don't cut marsha's hair.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
You gotta be kidding me first of all, you wouldn't
even talk to a gal that's intoday's world, like that right,
yeah, she used to brush her hairin front of that mirror and
tell her how beautiful she was.
Remember that yeah, yeah, therewas a lot of vanity in that
show all right, right man, we'reonto the next one.
One of the next ones,gilligan's Island.
Oh now, gilligan was adefinitely a family show, like
we all watched Gilligan.

(22:36):
I don't think I don't thinkthere was a episode of Gilligan
that I didn't watch.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Like.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I remember all kinds of episodes, gilligan, because
it was like you even got torepeat, gilligan.
You know like, oh yeah, I'veseen this, but we would still
sit there for 30 minutes andwatch a show, right.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now did you know the original trip was six hours, not
three.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, Because it was a three-hour tour.
It was a three-hour tour.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I love those man we always remember right.
Sit right back and you hear atale.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
The tale of a fateful trip.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
See, yeah, one thing I mean, you know, here's the
thing too, that that's been lostin this whole, you know, in in
sitcoms and family sitting downwith sitcoms is that nobody
knows that.
Like there's no jingles likethat anymore.
Nope, like you don't, you don't, like nobody remembers a jingle
.
There's a.
Uh, there's a few shows outthere that there's like theme
songs that we can recognize, butthere's nothing that we're like

(23:31):
singing along with.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Right, especially if you remember this long.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Right, right.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
No way All right, so cast.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Well, you know, there was the captain Right.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
No, no, it's not captain.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
He's a skipper.
Oh the skipper.
Yeah, they always referred tohim as a skipper, but do you
know what his real name was?
No, captain Jonas Grumby.
Really, that was his real name.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, I'm impressed with you.
Now, there you go.
Just a little impressed, allright, yeah.
So then there's a professor,but he still was skipper.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, he always referred to him like skipper,
skipper.
You always refer to him likeskipper, skipper.
So, gilligan, uh the skipper,there's a professor, marianne
ginger, you can.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
You know, I like a ginger ginger was one of the
hottest things.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, yeah, everybody liked the ginger, yeah and then
uh, and then, of course, uh,thirst, and how the hood and
lovey lovey, lovey, lovey loveyyeah, I can.
I can never always uh, forgetthat guy because uh, um, I think
I was telling you about when Ifirst got hired.
I had that guy that talked likehim.
That was my roommate Right,like he's always in my head.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Okay, what was the boat?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
The boat.
Yeah, oh man, that was a good—.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Name of the boat.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
SS.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Minnow.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, SS Minnow, yeah , SS Minnow.
Man, that was right in front ofmy like a oh yeah, ss Minnow
for sure.
All right, now we are going toone of the ones that today would
be one of the mostcontroversial shows that would
be on air.
What was that?
All in the Family?

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Oh, hell, yes, the stuff that was said in that show
like I mean first of all tohave a show about a white bigot,
you know is like you know, likeyou're like, okay, I don't
think that would go over intoday's world.
No, no, there's too manybutthurt people, sean.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry .
I mean I got to you know yougot to call it.
There's too many butthurtpeople.
Yeah, yeah, I mean they won'tfind comedy in some things.
Some things are just funny.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, I mean it was so funny because he was so
blatant about who he was andwhat he was he was just like.
This is how it is.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Do you know what Archie did?

Speaker 1 (25:46):
What he did.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, his job.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
I thought he was a factory worker, doc worker.
A doc worker, yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah , Archie was a doc worker.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, Archie Edith Yep.
The one I always remember isMeathead Michael Michael Yep.
Now, I wouldn't rememberMichael's name.
I would remember him asMeathead.
Yeah, that's what RG called him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then Gloria, right.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Man, I'm pretty impressed, man, I mean, those
are the big ones.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
And then the one thing I should so I remember,
off the show is that the spinoffof that show is that the
Jeffersons came out of that,that the Jeffersons came out of
that, and the Jeffersons were adry cleaner family, they owned a
dry cleaner business, whateverthat was in the show, and then
that ended up spending enough tobecome Jeffersons.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
All right, we're going to get to the Jeffersons
on the next one, but right nowwe're going to stick with this.
Having finished up with all inthe family, what was Gloria and
Mike's child's name?

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Their child.
Yeah, oh shoot.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, see, there you go, who knows, you weren't
getting away from it.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
They were kind of like hippies in the show and
stuff like that, so it couldhave been like Moon Child or
something yeah wrong.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
It was Joey.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Joey, okay, there you go.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right, and then one more thing before we leave.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh, actually, actually a couple things.
What was archie's favorite namefor edith?
Oh no, I don't, I can'tremember her name.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
You wouldn't hear it today because he called her a
dingbat.
Oh, you would not, you wouldnot.
My dad used to call his wife adingbat all the time He'd call
us dingbats and stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
It's funny how sitcoms and stuff, like the
verbiage and the vernacular ofthe day, comes from sitcoms and
stuff, and my dad used to alwaysbe like you, dingbat.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Now, do you remember how Edith always called Archie?
Oh Archie, oh my gosh, I lovethat one.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
These Archie oh my gosh, I love that one.
These are so great.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, let's go to the Jeffersons.
Jefferson, moving on up, Georgeman, he was like he would be
that little dance that he did.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I can mimic that dance, but I do remember him
always doing that little shuffledance, that little shuffle
dance.
His feet shuffle yeah yeah, yeah, jefferson's, they were like
the cool, so that to me was likethe first black family that was
represented on TV.
That I thought was like okay,this is somewhat fair, right,
but here I did some little bitof history on this stuff.

(28:26):
I did a little bit of historyon this stuff.
Even in that show they stilldepicted things that were
negative towards black people.
In the show Now it was funnyand stuff, but they always
brought up certain things.
They were talking about the KKK.
They dropped the N-word in thatshow.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
I remember that Really they did.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, if you look at reruns and stuff like it's there
.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I do remember George making fun of the white guy next
door all the time.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Right, and the white guy next door, now that one.
So here's an interesting thingabout this show too that uh was
the big identifier for my familywas interracial couple.
Those on there, yeah, was onthere.
Yeah, that's what I said, yeah,I mean.
So, like me, I'm an interracialchild and uh, you know, growing
up in an interracial familylike that, uh, that biracial

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family, you, um, you know thatwasn't being represented
anywhere and this was the firstshow that came out with
something like that and that waslike scandalous, scandalous
okay, what was the, thehousekeeper's name?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
do you remember?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
oh, dang it, I don't know, but you know what?
Here's a here's a interestingthing about that show that
housekeeper, she was like sassyas shit oh, my god, I mean, she
was like so funny, um, but Ican't remember her freaking name
.
What was her name?

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I can't remember it.
I cannot remember it.
I can see her face, but I can'tremember her name.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
So we're both gonna fail yeah, yeah, I don't know, I
don't know her name, butanyways, uh, she was always like
she was always giving georgeshit, like she was like so sassy
and white wisecracking andstuff.
She was cool.
Yeah, so the neighbors, helenand thomas was those interracial
couple and like that that youknow, for me as a kid that was
like like a big, huge dealbecause I was like, wow, we're

(30:10):
actually being represented on TV.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
George did not give him a break at all.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, no, no he never gave him a break.
I mean, he was always like itwas a show that he was always.
You know that that was theopportunity that he could like
put down that white man you know, like it was basically what was
happening.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
But you, you know, like it was basically what was
happening.
But you know what I loved aboutthat, though again, we, we
would just we'd laugh about it.
You find humor and stuff.
I mean you know, you don't youdon't need to get butthurt about
everything, but it was funny.
I mean I, I thought it wasfunny.
Yeah, I thought jefferson'sanother interesting thing too,
about like.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
So when I took that history class on this, on tv and
stuff they talk about how, like, how tv represents the um, um,
what is going on socially in theworld at that time.
And that was what was happeningthe Brady Bunch, that
intermixed family comingtogether.
Divorce was a subject,interracial couples were a
subject.
Now they were starting to getrepresentation of different

(31:03):
cultures in TV Blacks, hispanics.
One that just popped in my headand I know it's not on our list
is Chico and the man.
Did you watch Chico and the man?

Speaker 2 (31:15):
No, I remember it now that you just said it, but I
did not.
No, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah, so when you started talking about these
different subjects, like certainthings like so, then they had
this Hispanic representation,but with their like you know,
their devaluing representationto along with it, because it was
controlled by a bunch of whiteguys.
Right, not to say it was all,all racist, but that's just what

(31:39):
it was at the time.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
But he keeps looking at me like the white guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do, youwhite guy.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
So the interesting that you know as TV kind of goes
in time, like all this wildrepresentation of like the real
world was happening through TVand so if you really look at it,
like this was just the firstbeginning of like there was any
and when we grew up, like youdidn't see a gay person on TV

(32:08):
ever.
No, Right, Nope, that wasfootball Nope, nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Didn't see it.
All right, let's get to thenext one now.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Now this one.
I can't comment on this onebecause I really didn't watch it
, but it was one that was saidwas Maude.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, that was one of the spinoffs from Archie Bunker
.
Did you ever watch that one?
Yeah, I watched a little of it.
It wasn't my jam show oranything.
I know my mom watched it but itwas like you know, she was fun,
she was funny, she was sassyand all that stuff.
But Mod wasn't one of my things, but it was a big show back
then.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, I remember the show, just didn't watch it All.
Right Now this one you did LoveBoat oh hey.
The love boat Exciting and new.
Yeah, climb aboard.
Yeah, captain Stewart, we'reexpecting you, yeah yeah.
Not exactly a night singer.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Singing is not our forte, but you might hear us
singing a little bit today, butdo we remember the songs though?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
But the songs, the jingles, it's the jingles of the
jam.
Like everybody watching this,they're singing too long with us
.
All right, so you got CaptainSteuben you got Gopher, gopher,
for sure, isaac, isaac, isaac,you know, was the bartender, you
know the bartender Doc, oh, doc.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
That, doc.
Oh, doc, that's right, doc, doc, julie, julie the cruise
director, the cruise director,right.
I reference julie a lot becausewhenever I fly on a wide body
plane and I'm the load position,I'm usually julie the cruise
director out front tellingpeople we're in a hell of a go.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
You're calling my ass is usually you're calling out
your age to the whole it is, Iknow, but I still call it all
right.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
and then the daughter's name, and this is
name, and this is the one thatkind of stumped me.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Totally clueless, Like I can remember some of the
main characters.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
And I'm pausing for a minute, so if you guys
remembered this and see if it'srunning through your head before
I tell you now that it wasVicky.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Vicky, vicky, vicky.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
She didn't have a huge role in the show Nah, she
just ran around the damn boatyeah she was always running
around the boat.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Like I can imagine just growing up on a boat, right
yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, no, I can't All right this one's kind of fun.
I remember this one FantasyIsland De Plane, de Plane, de
Plane.
We.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
De Plane.
We're going to get in troublefor that one.
Yeah, de Plane.
Yeah, mr Rourke.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Mr Rourke, ricardo Maltabon and then we're talking
about De Plane, de Plane, yeah,tattoo.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, Tattoo and all that stuff.
That was one of the coolestshows because it was always like
a revolving guest that was on.
There was always three newguests that came to the island
and you couldn't wait.
Next week, see who's comingnext week and what's the story
going to be and all that stuff,but uh, you know be running
around his little white jacket,an interesting thing about like
love boat and, uh, fantasyisland and stuff.

(35:01):
Like they've re like they'vereinvented those and made them
into like movies and shows overover the time.
You time ever since theoriginal show that we grew up
and I couldn't tell you one ofthe actors from any of the
remakes and stuff, butdefinitely it was a popular show
to be remade.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
All right man Next one.
This is one of my favoritesGood Times.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Dynamite.
Jj Walker man, you got it.
James Evans Sr.
Jj Walker.
Jj Walker man, you got it.
James Evans Sr.
Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, theseare James Evans Sr and Florinda
.
Yeah, michael, yeah, michael,thelma, thelma.
This is also I don't know whatwas her.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Janet Penny, penny, penny, yeah, penny yeah.
Remember she paid Penny JanetJackson.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yeah, janet Jackson was in the show as Penny, and
yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
And they dealt with a lot of things too, because back
then, remember, michael wantedto join a gang and then his dad,
james, nah, he made sure thatshit wasn't going to happen.
But, see that was again.
It goes back to the nucleus ofthe family, because they tried
to do that, I mean, and he wasin, Right, they're trying to
shut down stereotypes too.
Yeah, and he was in a badlocation but there ain't no way

(36:18):
in hell that his parents wasgoing to let him join that gang.
And that was kind of coolbecause even back then it was
like the dad stepped in and saidthere ain't no way.
And that was a pretty intenseepisode because he told his son
how much he loved him.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
And even though that you know, this was going on,
there ain't no way in hell thathe was going to lose him to a
gang, you know.
So you know.
Reflecting back on this thing,I really think that Good Times
was like the first Cosby show,you know it had all those like
you know it had that, it had allthose.
Like you know it was funny, ithad those core values, family
values, putting tagged into it,trying to, you know, give proper
representation of an americanblack family, right, right and

(36:59):
uh, you know it was.
It's just interesting to kindof like think back about that
but you know the the best partof that.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
It reminds you of james, anything, anytime that
that those kids needed to getstraightened out.
James taking off that damn belt.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Right.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Reflecting the sign of the time, right yeah, take
that belt off.
You're getting ass whooped.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, my parents did give me ass, whooping many a
time.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
I'm sure you got some too.
Oh, I know.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
That's why I said everybody could relate to that,
because they got their asswhipped with a belt, right.
I mean.
You know, it was just somethingthey did.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
You didn't think that your parents were abusive, it
was just a form of love, and theclassic line is what From your
parents?
This is going to hurt me morethan it's going to hurt you.
Yeah, it didn't hurt you.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
I didn't believe that , Sean, because that shit hurt
it did not.
I mean, I remember my momcouldn't get the belt fast
enough.
Do you know?
There's Hot Wheel tracks, ohyeah.
Them damn things are like threefeet long man.
She could reach us across theroom.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, I mean, and we had— I was beaten with my toys
too.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
It was just another thing that they could show their
love with.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think my sister got—she got hit.
My mom hit her.
I think my sister got hit.
My mom hit her.
Dad wanted to hit her with aHot Wheel track.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
And the track part went across the arm.
Trust me, I had one in the backof my legs, but anyway, yeah,
it was love yeah.
What they call abuse.
Now, parents back then calledit love, Love right, it's
because I love you All.
Right.
Next one Laverne and Shirley,yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Shamil Shamazo.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Haas and Better Incorporated.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Right, and for the longest time I was like what the
hell is that?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
What are they saying?

Speaker 1 (38:40):
I would say it not knowing anything about these
words and stuff and I guess someof these words are Yiddish and
all this stuff and they meansome different things and stuff
I was like, wow, that is right.
But I mean.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
You didn't really give a shit, you just sang along
with it.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, no, no.
It was a cool.
It was like the pump of theshow, right, Right, Like as soon
as you saw that you're readyfor them to dance and hold arms
and sing the jingle, right.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
All right, real quick .
What real quick.
What verne's favorite thing to?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
eat?
Um nope, scooter pies and pepsi.
Oh yeah, do you remember thescooter pie?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
oh yeah, remember that it was like that crunchy
little thing with that spongything in the middle, that was
nasty.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, I mean it was so scooter pies are kind of like
a moon pie.
Yeah, some of those people thatare out there that wouldn't
didn't know what a scooter pieis, but if your, family didn't
have no damn money.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
That's what you ate, because there's still moon pies
in the world.
It was cheap ass pies.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Right, I mean it was cheap ass pies.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
but okay, so the, the , the little sidekicks that were
friends of Laverne and Shirley,lenny and Squiggy.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh, there you go, Winnie and Squiggy, yeah, and
then they had their other buddythat hung out with them too,
carmine.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Oh see, now you remember Carmine.
Carmine dated Shirley remember.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
No, I didn't remember that.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
He's the big ragu.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yep, that was his name, the big ragu.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
All right, man, we are going on to this one.
This one I love and I know youalready got a story about it.
Happy days one.
I love.
This one you're, and I know youalready got a story about it.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Happy days sunday, monday happy days tuesday,
wednesday, happy days thursday,friday, happy days saturdays see
yeah, I mean you got two oldasses happy days is like you
know, that was right.
There is like a slice ofamericana and like I remember
parents like, oh yeah, back inthe 50s this is how it was and

(40:30):
all that stuff.
It was cool.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
And the lead character in the whole thing,
the Fonz right, I was justsitting there thinking you know
what was really funny.
Do you remember Dodgeball, thatmovie?
Yeah, he does that little skitwhere he runs by and he goes
Joanie loves Chachi.
Exactly, they brought that backin the dodgeball when he goes
Joni loves Chachi.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
I mean, the Happy Days was like such a staple in
everybody's.
I mean I don't know of anyfamily that didn't watch Happy
Days.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
It was like everybody could relate to it.
It didn't matter who you were.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Everybody loved the Fonz.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, you had Richie Cunningham, joni Potsy Potsy,
ralph Yep Al.
You know Howard Cunningham, yep.
Yeah, all these characters thatwere like staples in that show,
that were just like so good.
But here's my story about merunning into the Fonz.

(41:31):
I was like sitting in Denverairport one day and I was in the
middle of a trip, you know,sitting on some sit time, and
you know how Denver airport hasall the windows.
You know you could sit in thechair, just look out the windows
there, look at the sky and allthat.
And I'm sitting there and I'mjust chilling out and some
couple like sits down rightbehind me.
You know, back to back to me,and this dude starts talking.
And you know, as soon as heopened his mouth it was like

(41:54):
instantaneously in my head I'mlike, oh shit, that's the Fonz.
He's right behind me, henryWinkler, he's behind me.
I turn around and I'm like, ohmy gosh.
I'm like Henry Winkler.
I'm like, and he's like, hi,how are you?
And I'm like I'm doing great.
I'm like, hey, can we take apicture?
And he's like, sure, come onover.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
You know you got a picture of the.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Fonz, yeah, me and the Fonz.
I'll have to post that on oursite.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
All right, real quick .
So we're going to have to gothrough these, but Fonzie's girl
, the number one girl that hehad, do you remember her?
No, no, no, all right, you guysSee if you remember this one,
pinky Tuscadero, oh.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Pinky Tuscadero.
Now she was hot Pinky was hotPinky, like so that Pinky
Tuscadero did that.
Was that any relation to thePinky that was in Greece?
I don't think so.
You don't think so, no.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Because it wasn't her name Pinky Tuscadero, I think
that was.
Wasn't that a Pinky's orsomething like that?
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
The Pink Ladies was the game.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
The Pink Ladies, Pink Ladies right, good, all right,
we're off to the BeverlyHillbillies.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Beverly.
Let me tell you about a storyabout a man named Jed, a poor
mountaineer barely kept hisfamily fed, but then one day he
was shooting at some coon.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Oh, you did not.
Up from the ground came abubbling crude.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Oil.
It is.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Texas tea Texas tea.
See, we can sit there and talkabout this one forever man,
because you had Granny Jethro,ed Ellie Mae.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Granny was the best man.
I mean her like always gettingafter everybody.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Her elixir.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Her elixirs hitting people with a broom.
Granny pointing her finger atyou.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Alright, ellie Mae she was really good at one thing
.
What was that being hotWrestling?

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Oh yeah, wrestling, that's right she was a wrestler,
that's right.
She'd come in in her DaisyDukes.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
And you'd be like okay, let's wrestle.
And then okay, here's one too.
Is Jethro Jethro, his highereducation.
Now, do you remember what hishigher education was?
Oh, I cannot even imagine.
Yeah, you'll love this oneCyphering.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Cyphering, Yep cyphering.
How is he cyphering?
He's that smarty-mortyCyphering.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
He added Sean, one, not two.
One, not three.
Do you remember that?
And Remember that?
And Jed would go yeah, he'sgoing to be a banker one day.
He's really good at adding he'sreally good, he's really that
boy's really good at adding yeah, he's ciphering.
That's what Jethro did.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
The stereotypes that came out of the hillbilly
culture.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I know we could talk about these all day, I mean it's
unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
People probably thought that was really how
people were.
I mean, I'm, that was reallyhow people were, you know.
I mean I'm sure there might bepeople that resembled those
people, but for the most part,come on, all right, man, little
rascals, little rascals, dude.
First of all, it doesn't feellike like when we were kids,
like little rascals with astaple, like all those like slap

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comedy, you know, physicalcomedy shows were like the
staple in our lives.
That's what made us laugh.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
I love Little Rat.
Rascals was unbelievable Justthe characters in it.
Spanky.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Yeah, spanky Alfalfa.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Darla.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Darla.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Stymie, I love Stymie Little's hat.
Stymie had the coolest littlehat.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
I'm sorry, but the coolest cat in there was
Buckwheat.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Buckwheat was the coolest cat, but Buckwheat and
Spanky were really cool.
Okay, Stimey, though, had areally cool hat, Now something
you guys might not have known,but there was a character named
Porky, and then also he wasreplaced by a character.
I think his name was Mickey.

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Now, believe me, this is funny.
Do you know who played Mickey?

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Mickey.
No, I wouldn't have.
No, I clue, no clue.
Robert Blake Robert.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Blake.
Yeah, robert Blake never wouldhave guessed that in a million
years, right?
No, robert Blake was actually aMickey replaced.
He replaced a Porky in that.
But yeah, little Rasp was.
I mean, you could talk aboutthem all day, but we got so many
things to go through real quick, so welcome back, cotter.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Welcome back.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Welcome back yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
All I can do is hear is Horshack's laugh.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
You know like oh yeah , but no, no, no, John Travolta,
ba, ba, ba ba.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Bob Reno, reno, bob Reno.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Vinnie Bob Reno, you got it.
And then you had Freddie boomboom Washington, you got that.
And Gabe Carter, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Gabe.
But who is the next one?
Oh, I don't know who's that.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Seriously.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Yeah, seriously.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
You don't remember.
Remember Juan Epstein.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Oh, epstein, yeah, Juan Epstein.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Okay, tell you real quick about something, about
this.
Okay, before we go on to that,who out of all those Sean, who
was always writing a letter toMr Cotter about their kid, about
their kid, yeah, do youremember?
No, seriously.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
No.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Epstein's mother.
Epstein, I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Epstein's mother.
Epstein, oh yeah, epstein wouldcome in there and he'd like
bring these like notes from mom.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
And he would.
Always he'd be reading it lipreading, as he's giving it to Mr
Cotter and he goes signedEpstein's mother, epstein's
mother.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
I can't believe you did that, but you know something
real quick.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Now, this is what I didn't know about.
You know, they weren't going toair actually Welcome Back,
conor because there was a busingissue going on back then and
this was actually one of thevery first interracial
classrooms that was televised.
And there was this whole busingissue going on in Boston and
they thought it was going to bea big problem because they

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already had protests andeverything going on.
But they went ahead and theyaired the show and actually did
a lot of good.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Yeah, I mean it's like I was saying, like all
these these sitcoms and stuff,where it was a reflection of the
time and what society, what washappening in a society Like
like I could tell you, like mywife she had a direct encounter
with that besting thing whenthey first started integration
of students and stuff theystarted bringing on the, you
know, bringing black kids fromthe inner city of her little

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town that she was in and bringthem to it, and like they had
riots and they had like all thisbig, all this stuff was going
on.
My wife was like totallyoblivious to what was happening.
But I mean that all thatculture and all that different
movement of the whole entireUnited States was happening at
that time.
And to start a show like this,where you have an interculture,
like all these different racesin a classroom, I mean it

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reflected that we can all getalong right, Exactly.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Yeah, all right, now we're going to go through a
couple of these a little bitfaster and we're going to talk
about the Muppets.
Real quick, just tell me yourfavorite Muppet.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Muppet Animal, animal , oh no.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Without a doubt, animal I mean animal I mean blah
, blah blah, but you know youhad to love Kermit the Frog.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
There was.
You know there's so many coolcharacters.
I I was looking at the Muppetsand like there was like 40, 40
some the Swedish Fest, theSwedish Fest yeah.
You got it.
I mean, the scooter Beaker wasmy second one, I mean, but Gonzo
was up there too.
Like Gonzo was like crazy,crazy man, but all that, all
that stuff.

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Like I loved the Muppets.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
The Muppet show was just fantastic.
Like I said, you could do awhole show on just some of these
.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yeah, henson was a freaking mastermind when it came
to like putting this wholething together.
It was unbelievable.
If you ever get a really goodchance to watch the history of
Jim Henson, it is a super cool.
Interesting like how thesethings came about and the gamble
that they took on these Muppets.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I still love animal.
Oh yeah, all right, let's go toSesame street.
Sesame street, your favoriteone.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Hurry up what's your favorite Uh favorite one?
Uh, oscar, the route, for sure.
Really, yeah, mine's cookie.
I mean cookie like everybodylikes cookie.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
I love cookie Oscar that's why you love him.
It fits right in with youexactly what why he liked to
complain about everything.
Oh shit, I know now I know why,but you, you had to love sesame
street, wasn't?
That okay didn't they have thethe group on sesame street.

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I love Sesame.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Street.
It's funny because SesameStreet started first and then
Muppets came along after thatRight and characters from Sesame

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Street bled over into theMuppets, Like Big Bird was on
the Muppets and Kermit the Frogwas on the Muppets.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Snuffleupagus, yeah, the Snuffleupagus that nobody
ever seen that was this big,huge, elephant-looking animal
that hardly anybody could eversee.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Yeah, he'd come in and Big Bird would be like where
is?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
he?
Where is he?
What are you talking about?
He was just there.
Right, the Snuffleupagus right,it's not a lot of gifts.
I love like these, like made upand then you can't forget, like
the count oh, one, two, three,three, three bats, three bats
we've got three bats.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Yeah, I did love the count.
I mean it was so easy to likeconnect with each one of those
things.
They were like so much fun.
And then the songs and stuff.
Like you're like, one of thesongs that I remember from, uh,
sesame street was did youremember that in and out song?
There's a song when they'relike in oh, that's what the song
is all about.
And it was like during the discoera time and so they're like

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they're like go in the door andthen they're in, in in the door
if you can see him dancing rightnow, you're killing me man,
google it, you'll see it, youguys will be dancing to it and
you guys will be going in andout the door.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
All right, let's go to Bewitched, Bewitched man,
samantha Tabitha Darren Darren.
Okay, here's just a quick one.
We have to get moving on thisNow.
Who was Samantha's mother's?
What was Samantha's mother'sname?
No, the witch.
What was it?
Bup, bup, I have no idea.

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Andorra, andorra, yeah, andorra, the witch.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, like she was definitely a bad mother-in-law.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Oh, and then you had to mention Uncle Arthur,
remember he'd always pop in.
Yeah, he's like the squirrelyone.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Pop in and he was like wasn't he like a warlock or
something?

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, Like a squirrely littlewarlock.
Yeah, mchale's Navy.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
I did not watch McHale's Navy.
You didn't watch it.
No, like that was one show,even though, like it was, I was
a military family um that wasone show we didn't do, but we
did watch gomer pile.
I love gomer pile, yeah, so likegomer pile was like in our
repertoire, you know, and allthat stuff and uh, it was
interesting because uh, um, likeall these connections of shows,

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one of the shows, other showsthat were uh connected to where
gomer pile came from, wasactually the andy griffith show.
Yeah, like the pile family wasactually in that show and he
actually went into the militaryand became a marine and all that
stuff and so he was just thatgoofy guy that was in the andy
griffith show, which was thiswholesome, you know show at the
time.
Um, definitely showing you knowa different story, like you

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know.
Here's this father raising hisson by himself yeah, and they
spun off.
Remember captain kangaroo and mrrogers captain kangaroo, mr
rogers, those were like all, allthose shows that came around
the sesame street time yep anduh.
The other thing that was likeright along the uh uh lines of
rascals was the three Stooges.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Oh my God, Larry Curly and Moe.
Larry Curly and Moe.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, they made all kinds of crazy fun physical
comedy.
I was just telling my niecesthe other day about these and I
was like you guys need to watchsome of these.
I think you guys would love itbecause they're into that.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
You know, like I already told you, they like that
barton and farting and belchingand all that stuff and, uh,
that would be just right up allright before, but now, before we
end this, we this would be.
This is a perfect ending.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Batman and robin dude batman holds a special place in
my heart because when I was ababy and I first like like
started, the first time Iactually walked was from to the
Batman thing.
Really, dun dun, dun, dun, dun,dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,

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dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
You can see this little babydoing this right on the TV.
And then I literally backed upand walked across the room to my
mom, to the Batman song.
That's how I started walkingwas the Batman song.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
You can never, you can never, ever forget G
Williker's Batman.
G Williker, kapow, Kapow, kapow, kapoom, yeah.
And then you had to rememberthe Riddler, the Joker, the
Penguin, and you can't everforget Catwoman, catwoman man.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Like all those characters were like so cool.
I mean I grew up in the BayArea so when that was all
happening, like Adam West wouldlike tour around the Bay Area in
the Batmobile and so I got tosee it as a little kid and stuff
, so that was like super cool.
But I mean to compare that towhat we see now in the movies

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and stuff with all the differentPatmans we've experienced, it
totally is different but it wascool All right, I had reflected,
that was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
I tell you, you know we had to go through that pretty
quick and even though it's it'sactually taken us a little bit
longer, we could have stayed, wecould have went like a whole
freaking episode just on some ofthese shows that we did.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I mean, this is the things thatwe kill time in the back alley
like just talking about some ofthe things that we reflect on in
our childhood and how weidentified with us and what we
did as families compared toother crew members and stuff
like that.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that part.
But now, sean, it's time to goaround the globe see the crazy
shit that went on in the airlineindustry.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Dude, there's always crazy shit going on, always.
Yeah, what's going on All?

Speaker 2 (56:09):
right man was charged with a flash grenade in his
carry-on bag.
What a dumbass.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Unbelievable, really Unbelievable.
I mean, why do?
Why do people try to take thisLike oh, I accidentally forgot
my grenade in the freaking,exactly.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Where did I put that damn grenade?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, it's in my bag, oh yeahthere you go All right.
Flight bound from Fort Milan,forced to turn back after a
passenger's midair tantrum youknow what it was over?
No, he didn't get his mealchoice.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
No, he didn't get his meal choice.
I've seen that in person.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
He didn't get his meal choice.
And then he was mad becausethey wouldn't let him sit in the
exit row.
So from all of that, becauseyou didn't get your chicken or
beef, then you didn't get in theexit row because you didn't pay
.
So what he did is that hecharged at the flight attendants
and tried to storm the cockpit.
Now that doesn't go over verywell.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Yeah, he's going to have a change of lifestyle, for
sure.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yeah, exactly, he's going to change his outfits too.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
He's the one that actually needs that Hot Wheel
track.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
He should have had that Hot Wheel track smacked up
against his head.
All right, this one you'regoing to love.
The India passenger urinates ona fellow traveler on a flight
to Delhi.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Oh, hell, no.
So the India passenger urinateson a fellow traveler on a
flight to Delhi, he'll know.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
So he got pissed on yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
That is unbelievable.
There's no way that ain'thappening, man, that ain't
happening.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
All right, this one.
The passenger got kicked offthe plane for using the bathroom
when they're taxiing out.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
I'm trying to figure out that, like, how many times
have we seen a pastor get up andtry to go to the bathroom when
we're taxing, you know like?
That happens all the time, butto get kicked off?

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Yeah, cause he went.
He just went inside there andthen they, they, they were
yelling him to get out and hedidn't get out, and then they,
they turned back around and theykicked him off the airplane.
Yeah, because he had to go pee.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Hey or something else .
Obviously he had to be in therefor a while.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Did not want to know that part of it, right, okay.
A passenger was arrested inChicago trying to go through
security with a loaded gun.
There we go.
He must have been travelingwith a guy with a grenade.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, I mean what the TSA last year says, that we had
like 6,700 firearms that wereintercepted and 94% of them were
loaded.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
I mean that's, that's just it doesn't make any sense
it just blows your mind when youlike.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Start seeing these like statistics done like what
is really happening.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Well, especially when someone says that they made a
mistake.
There's no way, there's no wayin in the world that a gun is
going to get in there carry-onbag.
That's just stupid, no, dumb.
All right, but now this lastone.
This last one we're going totalk about, and it's exactly.
It touches on why we're onairplanes.

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There was an aircraft thatcaught fire.
An engine caught fire, had 200passengers on it and it was
evacuated safely by the flightattendants.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Yeah, I mean that's why we're here.
That's exactly what we do,that's our business.
I know that plane had, likethey had a couple exits that had
to be blocked because it wasn'tfunctioning right the doors or
whatever.
Whatever happened, I'm surewill all come out and report,
but I mean everybody got offsafe.
There's a few injuries in thison the slide, because I'm sure
people were crazy jumping offthe slides, but um, yeah,

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everything.
And that's the reason why weare flight attendants and what
we are here to do we're not herefor the.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
I mean, we give you the peanut or not even peanuts
anymore the pretzels and uh andthe drinks, but we're here
actually when that shit happens,to save your ass, and that crew
did an excellent job.
Everybody got off safe, so thatwas phenomenal.
Let's go to the destination.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Destination what's the destination this week?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Destination was a big .
My pick was Annemarie Island.
Annemarie Island, annemarieIsland, man.
It is a barrier on the FloridaGulf Coast and it is absolutely
gorgeous.
Let me tell you something, guysIf you really want to go
somewhere just to relax and I'mnot talking about nightlife, I'm
not talking about anything else, just that you want to go, you

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want some really nice beach, youwant some areas to walk around
and you want a few places to goeat, but you want it more
relaxing than anything.
They have white, pristinebeaches the prettiest in the
United States, without a doubt.
I used to.
When I was young, sean, I usedto go to Emory Island and I used
to snorkel down there becausethey had sand dollars huge sand

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dollars yeah.
They were right.
You know, you'd just go 10, 12feet out and go down the Gulf.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Coast side of the Florida tends to have a lot more
sand dollars, and I don't thinkI've ever found one on the
Atlantic side.
No, no.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
But again, like I said, I used to go there all the
time and get those snorkelingand then the sunsets are
absolutely freaking gorgeous man.
But then again you have whitebeaches.
It looks like it goes onforever and you just see the sun
going down over the water and acouple other things.
Cool that you get to do kayakwith the dolphins, grouper,

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which you know.
What can you say, grouper's?

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
I love Grouper.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
I mean, it's just Grouper.
I mean black and Grouper.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
I love Grouper period grouper I mean black and
grouper.
I mean, anyway, you want to,anyway, you want a group of
tacos sauteed grouper, whatever,yeah, just I'll take it anybody
that goes down to florida livesdown in florida.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
they they know the restaurants to go eat grouper
but again, it's not going to beone place for nightlife.
Don't sit there and think that,because you're not going to get
that, but what you're going todo is that you're going to get a
relaxing time on the beachAnnamarie Island it's a must-do,
must-see.
And then a couple of therestaurants Sean, yeah you got
to talk about the food.
Yeah Well, I mean, this isbasically seafood.

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I mean we could talk about foodall you want, but these
restaurants anywhere on thecoast like that, it's just
seafood.
And what we just said grouper,so it's the porch is one of the
restaurants.
It's known for Right thesandbar, and the other one is
the Beach House WaterfrontRestaurant.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Oh cool, yeah, I mean all those type of like Florida
has like tons of those nicelittle you know fish restaurants
.
They sit out on the freakinglike you know deck and eat your
grouper and watch the sunset godown Me and you would kill a
black and grouper.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
Oh yeah, and a couple of beers.
More than that?
All right, brother, let's getto the quote.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Yeah, what's the?
So the quote today is uh, um,it's life is 10 what happens to
you and 90 of how you react toit that is so true because
anytime that we're on a plane,we have a situation on a plane.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Right, we have, we all have situations all the time
.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Oh yeah, 10 of it is what happens, 90 is how we react
to it yeah, what how it's goingto develop and where it's going
to go is how we react, becausewe know, as flight attendants,
we're trained to defusesituations, we're not trying to
escalate anything and somethingcan get out of hand real quick
if you took the oppositeapproach.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Yep, hey you guys.
I had a great time this week.
I actually had a lot of funtalking about these shows.
Yeah, the reminiscing we wentdown memory lane quite a bit.
That was a lot of fun.
I know it's a little bit longtoday, but it was actually a lot
of fun.
I enjoyed that one.
I loved Gemma's now sleeping inmy lap, so she's about ready to
go home, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Well, it's time for us to go.
All right, you guys, we'll seeyou next week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
We'll see you next week.
You guys have a great week, seeyou.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
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