Best TV Shows of ALL Time

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Firm Hi Elvis represents fifteen minute Morning Show. It is
the fifty minute morning Show podcast. Here we are with

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one empty microphone sponsored by Nike. How you look at that?
Gandhi will be joining us in a moment. But there's
Froggy high Frog. Hello, they're scary. What are you doing? Scary?
I'm putting something in Gandhi's chair. Okay, it's like she's

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here with this. Hello. There's Scotty b if to control Scotty.
There's Danielle, and there's a Dave Brody, and there's Garrett,
and there's a straight Nate. Hello, And here we are.
I'm the host of Duran Welcome. So um, I wasn't
here for the fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast yesterday. Anything
good come from that mess? Well, we ended it with

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the problem we had with the oven, the Brody putting
his sausage. Were you a part of this conversation? Yeah,
I heard he put his his chicken patty on the
grill and his oily patty. It was unanimous that Brodie
was in the wrong to do so okay, well, but
Brodie said it wouldn't have mattered what he did, he
would have been in the wrong. It wasn't unanimous. Scary

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agreed with me. No, then he recanted. I remember correctly,
I did recant. Happen. Happened also down to a fight
because I was trying to get to take off his mask. Yeah. Uh,
you know what you did say something earlier than kind
of I was a little uneasy with Scary. Yeah, when
Nate wasn't sitting there, we were talking about the mask.

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You looked over towards where he sits, you and you
you said these words, you went this poor guy. Well,
I feel I don't feel bad because, like you know,
he got he got COVID back like two weeks ago
now and it's day twelve of him wearing a mask.
You kind of you kind of mask shaming a little bit. No,
I feel and I feel bad because no, no, no,
you we were definitely mask shaming. I want to Yeah,

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I am at this point, Yeah, because quite honestly, I
think it's ridiculous. I think it's a like lionus in
a security blanket at this point, serving no purpose. It's
We're fifteen days in and I want to see your face.
I miss it. I missed your face. I missed you
by the way that that time gets longer every time,
scary mention. And I just it's like, it's been three

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years since you've been wearing a mask. This is dumb.
This is dumb. It'll come off tomorrow. And it's people
that say the word dumb and you make them feel
bad about it. I think that that's kind of fucked up.
And well, let me readerate my opinion. It is my
opinion that it is. I think it's dumb person. Okay,
that that really all right? Oh, Gundy, sorry you missed.

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Uh scary calling Nate dumb for wearing your mask. Scary
and I have like gone at it about this topic
for an hour and a half at dinner one day.
It's just, you know, we can't go down this pass.
We don't we we don't agree with each other. We're
on opposite sides of this disagree. I'm not gonna get
into specifics, but launching from that conversation, Scary and I

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got into a conversation that was very opinionated like this,
and I said, my opinion based on what I thought
was you know, science, and he said, you know what
I think? And I said, Scary. We're friends let's keep
it that way. Don't tell me what you think. And
I walked out of the studio. Well, but to be fair,
you should hear what he has to think. If you're
gonna tell him what you think you would, it shouldn't

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be one sided. It isn't what I think. I was
telling Scary what experts think, and he's like, well, you
know I think differently, But Scary, Scary, it's the way.
It's the way you shame. Look, no one has called
you dumb for not believing in masking, but you called him.
I'm dumb. You see what I'm saying. It's not even
your argument is a little more negative and a little

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more something Scary did today. We were talking about the
greatest TV show of all time, Right, Gandhi and I
are the same frame of mind, were like, Sopranos probably
the best show ever made. So then Scary and Brodie
bring in their suggestions, which they're totally entitled to. However,
Scary uses the argument of I took a mass communications
course in college. It said that all in the family

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is it? Well, which university was that? Which college? Oh
God known for all the Sopranos. That was my argument.
So he and Brody Brodie was trying to tell me
it's mash Scary was trying to tell me it's the stuff.
And I said, when you guys decided these things, or
when these things were decided by critics, a lot of

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these TV shows weren't even out yet, So I think
if you were to reassess, things would probably change and
be different. Now. I think, yes, we've had twenty years
removed of TV that have gone on since I took
those courses. So on I lost my logo. Continue. All

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I was saying was that there was a reason why
a group of shows were listed, and you know why
they were critically acclaimed. And again I'm taking my personal
feelings out of it, but they like, for instance, I
love Lucy, one of the most groundbreaking TV shows of
all time because it introduced the three cameras set up
for television. Look at something, but look at something scary.
What year did you take these courses? Who? Okay now?

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And so the people who are teaching those courses were
how old at that time? At that time, Oh my goodness,
it was my parents generation. Yeah, they're probably now in
these seventies. So so the critics you're talking about, you
know versus the critics of today. I mean three generation,
four generations different, so you can see why there's a difference.
My mind is open. I'm sure that there's a whole grouping.

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If this class was being taught today, other shows would
be on that list. Well, Elvis and I could play
Devil's advocate. So I had said I thought Mash was
one of the greatest shows, and I said Sopranos in
my mind, it's like Top twenty, right, And Gandhi's thought
was and correct me if I'm wrong, was that Mash
is really old, and that for it's time, it was great,
but a lot has come since then where it may

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not be considered a top show. Well, Sopranos is fifteen
years old, so by that logic, there's fifteen years of
shows that are better or newer in a lot of
people's minds. So there's another thing to consider is these
shows from I Love Lucy to Mash to Sopranos versus now,
when you have eight thousand more ways of getting content,

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So you have eight thousand more ways of getting different
types of content and writing and producing and directing, it's
a horfferent world. Now back, I Love Lucy there were
three networks that were available. That's you didn't have any streaming,
you had nothing else. I love Lucy, you know my
huge fans. So I'm not I'm not dissy, and I'm
not trying to take away from groundbreaking because of course

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things that started, you know, back whenever they started, they
were groundbreaking. They were very different than anything that we
have now. So ground groundbreaking is one thing. But to
say something is the best show, I think that that's
a totally different words an opinion. So you're right, Yes,
I'm with you on that. Yeah, but you could say
the same about like sports, Like Babe Ruth is considered
one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He's

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not in physical shape, he could have survived in today's game,
but he's still considered He's still considered one of the
greatest hitters of all time, even though today's bad players
are probably better than he would be ushed told be
considered a groundbreaking player, no, I think. I think if
you're the greatest at like Muhammad Ali was the greatest

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in his era. But to say there's been boxers since
Muhammad Ali doesn't take away from the fact that Muhammad
Ali may be the greatest boxer of all time simply
because he did it fifty years ago doesn't take that away,
is what was my point was. I think the goat
conversation is just stupid at the end of the day
because there's never going to be an answer. It's everybody's opinion,
but everybody wants to force that unless unless you're Tom Brady,

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then you're just or unless you went to Brooklyn College.
That's like, that's like the World Council on All Things goat. Well,
they don't teach the difference between accountable. But for TV shows,

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couldn't you just go buy ratings? Couldn't that prove it?
That changes over time because there used to be three networks,
so everybody was watching the same stuff, and those numbers
are gonna be way higher than now when you have
Netflix and all of these. HBO didn't have ratings really,
so yes, and what Mash got seventy million people to
watch the finale and like compared to that now, like

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I have to match, nobody watches TV the way they
used to see greatest s however, well, so there's that,
But seriously, Denver Pizza, Mr Bean might be up there
for san I don't know about you. Yeah, I used
to give Daniel such crap over Mr Bean. She would
come in here, Oh my god, Mr Bean movie. I'm like,

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oh lord, shorts that used to be on PBS. We're funny.
The Mr Bean thing when he was in the little
car and at the amusement parking the diaper flew in
his face with oh my god, it's very funny. How
do you compare that to all in the family? Okay,
watership moment that covered racism and politics and all this

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and a and a bigot on TV and and you
know what you're talking about. You're talking about making social
comment versus just being entertained. I mean, there's there's room
for all of it, right, that's true. That's true. Sometimes
you don't want to think you want to watch a
Mr Bean show, And that's usually me. I love that stuff,
not thinking. Yeah, I like funny, like slapstick things. But

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you know, all kidding a side, when was the last
time scary watch television? He doesn't want television. I watch
sl studied it, studied it. Started asking his favorite shows.
He doesn't watch anything. It's all in the textbook. It's
all that anyway. So there's that, as you can tell
we're all kind of testy today. We had a testy show.
We put some thoughts out there that people disagreed with,

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and it was great. I just like sitting back and
just lighting the fire and watching watching the fireworks go well.
The food fight continues to this moment on the text
messages that we're having earlier on the radio. You know,
it just goes to show that you know, everyone has
their opinion, and you can't really always always believe it
people's opinion according to your opinion. You know it, you

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have athing you like, it's no big deal. But I
hope you'd never really discount someone else's opinion because they
may actually have an opinion that could be worth listening to.
I gotta tell you something. I think that I might
be able to go down to a medium. This shirt
is a large and it's big. How much have you lost,
like twelve pounds? Great, that's great, you look really really good, right,

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But I've never I've ever won a medium shirt in
my life. I don't think very excited. I mean your
hand back to your hand to have worn a medium, right,
You didn't automatically go from a small to large. I
don't think from small to extra large, that you can
be a fat kid and then a fat toddler, the teenager.
Husky the word husky, yeah, husky. They don't use the

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word husky anymore for kids. Partly, that's all the family
jolly jolly. When I was a kid, vertically enhanced, it
was it was the Husky department. I used to shop
in the hut, the huskies on floor and Sanders Huskies

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on four floor. Yeah, they may up to the fourth
floor to burn off some of the weight. It was
actually it was less pieces of clothing, but they had
used more cloth space. There's that husky was always more money.
Why was washing hand for more material? Fats a cereal?

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Now I'm saying, don't matter. Don't you gotta pay more money?
It makes sense they didn't teach that in Brooklyn com
Like I buy kids shoes, they shouldn't be the same
the same price as adult shoes. They're they're usually not.

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There's double the fabric and like a triple X, and
there isn't a small so it's pretty much too small
shirts exactly when we buy t shirts to give away,
you know, I think it's what double x the price
goes up cost large. Okay, I didn't know. I'm pretty
sure Brooklyn Boys dot big Cartel dot com are double
X shirts are more money than the lodging small. Oh

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my god, we're gonna get a bill for that. Brodie. Hey, look,
this has been a lot of fun shows like this.
Are we done? We're done? Sure, Okay, we're done. Well,
uh goodbye bye love you mean it. M The fifteen

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