Nicole’s International House of Hijinks

Nobody warned us that menopause could look like this: 3 a.m. wakeups, brain fog that steals your words mid sentence, and a “frozen shoulder” that makes taking off a T shirt feel like a full contact sport. We start from that real place, laughing because we have to, and comparing notes in the way only two Gen X best friends can.

Then we whip the conversation into culture and chaos: the temptation of Rocky Horror on Broadway, the dread and thrill of New York driving, and a frank talk about separating art from the artist when a performance hits but the person behind it comes with controversy. From there, we get serious about everyday infrastructure, why the USPS should be treated as a public service, and why airport lines keep getting worse when staffing and training are treated like optional expenses.

After the ranting, we settle into pure nostalgia with a curated list of childhood TV shows that still live in our heads: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Barney Miller, The Benny Hill Show, Hee Haw, and Taxi. Along the way we share surprising facts, representation wins, and the strange comfort of rewatching old series now that streaming and even single show “channels” make it easier than ever.

Subscribe for more Gen X nostalgia, pop culture commentary, and real talk about midlife, then share the episode and leave a review. What TV show from your childhood still feels like home?

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:04

Two best friends from talking fast We're mixing to our cage We're having a blast teenage dreams beyond screens It was all bad for me like you know it's like whatever Together forever Ever never never laughing cherry or scoring forever We'll take you back like whatever Welcome to Like Whatever a podcast for by and about Gen X.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

I'm Nicole and this is my BFFF Heather. Hello So I'm gonna start this episode by letting everyone know that I'm exhausted. She is, and my brain is not functioning well today. Yes. I haven't been able to sleep because following along with this little menopause thing of ours. Menopause. I have a thing known as prison shoulder.

SPEAKER_03 1:01

Good times.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

Yeah, yeah. So um, yeah, it's it's super painful. Yeah. Um a few days ago I couldn't put my hand on my hip. Um today I'm struggling with that. And there are very few positions that are comfortable to fall asleep in. So I find a comfortable spot, but I'm a tosser and a turner. So I end up in an uncomfortable spot and I end up awake. So those of you that have um Apple watches and track your sleep, those little orange spikes are all over my sleep pattern. Like, seriously, I'm awake like every three seconds. And it's starting to catch up with me. Yes. I was even at work today meeting with students, and I have this spiel I use every time I meet with them, and I could not remember what I was supposed to say. And they're all looking at me like, Are you drunk, lady? Like, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_03 1:53

It's it's it's amazing what happens to your body.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Yeah. Brain fog is a problem. Yes, headaches, especially when you're tired. Yeah, it's like your whole body shuts down, and it's like I I really don't understand why no one told us any of this. I know. I mean, I knew my mom got angry. But I knew and I knew she got flash hot flashes because that was brutal. But none of this other, like nobody the itchy ear. I'm still going on about the itchy ear. It's the worst thing possible. So worst.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

It might it's just actually an itch down in my jaw right now. Yes, like it like between my jaw and my ear.

SPEAKER_03 2:38

It's it's unbelievable what happens. So it's no wonder like we're all cranky and just ready to kill someone. And then you throw that we're Gen X in top of it and we're already hateful bitches. Yes. It's just like they really should have they should be in the brochure. Yes. Yeah. Because you know, the whole time, just graphic content, I guess, for all those you can't handle it. You know, when you knew menopause was coming, you were looking forward to fucking menopause because you're like, yes, no more cramps, no more periods, I don't have to deal with it. Yep. Bullshit. It's all a pack of lies. This is all gift wrapped in some kind of nonsense. It's nonsense. It really is. You wake up at I was we were talking about this before. You wake up at three. I wake up at 3 a.m. on the nose every morning. I am one of those people that when I go, it takes me literally 27 seconds to fall asleep once my head hits the pillow. I'm out, I'm gone, I'm done. I have slept through fire alarms, I have slept through Holocaust and Armageddon and everything. I've literally slept through the fire alarm going off within four feet of me. Slept through it. And now I wake up at 3 a.m. every day.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Yeah, and I don't look at the clock because I'm awake 57 times a night, but I'm gonna start checking now. Yeah, I'm telling you, it's gonna be 3 a.m. See if there's a 3 a.m. sneaking in there anywhere. But yeah, I'm tired. But anyway, besides that, because nobody cares. Oh right, I have two things. First of all, I just saw yesterday Rocky Horror is on Broadway. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_03 4:35

I did not know that, but I did see something, and maybe it was AI, but I don't know that they're redoing it. No, me either.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

But it is on Broadway. Uh I looked up tickets, and the first ones that I looked at were for like upcoming dates soon, and they were like 180 bucks a piece. I was like, ooh. But if I went out some months like into the summer, you can get mezzanine seats for like 70 bucks. Wow. So I might be making you go. Oh Lord, you're driving, right? Yeah, I love driving in New York.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

I hate I I've been to New York one time, it did not go well.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

That's crazy. You've only been once.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

Yeah, I didn't. I said I would never go back. So for you, I would, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

And for Rocky Hore on Broadway, we talked about how fun it would be to see live.

SPEAKER_03 5:22

In my defense, I went to New York in the 90s. So did I. When it was da I know, but I'm just saying, in my defense, it was very dangerous in the 90s, not like it is now.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

It was so shit. My dad used to take me back in the 80s. Well, back when there were triple X rated everywhere and had to drive and Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

Nah. I'm from Delaware, you know?

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Yeah. I'm from Delaware, but my dad is from North Jersey and hung out in New York and he taught me how to drive. I can drive in Philly. Yeah. But that's it.

SPEAKER_03 6:02

Well, Philly makes me nervous though. That's funny. I love driving in Philly. That's my favorite thing. Mostly because you get to be an asshole.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

Yeah. I think that's what I like about driving in New York. I you have to be aggressive. Yeah. Like you have to put the pedal to the metal and just go for it. Like, or else you're just going to sit there staring at yourself all day long. That's the way it is in Philly. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But they're meaner in Philly, I think. The New York? I don't know. So I was gonna do this week's episode. I was thinking so I watched one battle after another again this week. And it's so good. You haven't watched it yet? I have watched it. Yeah, I like it. I didn't. Really?

SPEAKER_03 6:52

Look, I don't like movies I gotta pay attention to. Oh, you gotta pay attention. Yeah. And it's almost three hours. Yeah, and it's too long. I like I like my movies to have dinosaurs, robots, and very little plot. I like things to explode. I need it to keep my attention.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Okay. I got you.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

I just I can't, I don't know. I can sit and watch, I can binge watch a TV show for like 24 straight hours. I don't know what it is about a movie that I can't do it. I don't know why. Okay. I need excitement in my movies. So what did you think about Sean Penn's character? I thought it was a little uh nuts.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

I thought I loved his character and I thought he did such an amazing job at it. So I was watching it, I was like, maybe I'll do Sean Penn this week for the script. I know he's got some controversy, but you know, maybe. So I finished watching the movie and I looked it up and it's a long list. Yeah. And a lot of it I couldn't turn a blind eye to at all. Um, I mean, we all know he beat Madonna, which is bad enough. But I mean rubbing elbows with bad foreign leaders and like lots and lots of things. I was like, all right, so I won't do that. But I will say, that being said, I'm glad he got an Oscar for that part because separating the art from the artist, he was perfect for that movie.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

I did think he did a good job, but yeah, from what I paid attention to.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

Yes. From what I could actually pay attention to. Yeah. He cracked me up, man. It was funny. I don't have anything other than support your local post office. Write to your congressman and tell him we need the post office. But because it's a service and not a business. I know. And you would not expect the military to make money. And I don't know if anybody knows how much we're dumping into the military currently, that you can't just whoop whoop, you know, send a dollar or two to the post office, but maybe write to your congressperson and say, hey, let's bail the post office house, because this is fucking bullshit. That they're gonna run out of money by October. I even heard it on NPR, so it's look, I'm not trying to get in trouble, but when you hire a former board member of FedEx to be your postmaster general, feel like something shady is about to happen. So call your congressperson and tell them to bail the post office out because it should be a service and not a money-making business. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

You're so right on that. And while we're on the topic of stuff like that, shout out to anyone working in an airport. Yes, you guys are saints. I don't know how you're doing it. Yeah, it's nuts. I mean, it is on the news every single night. And have you seen these lines? Yes. At Philadelphia Airport, they're three stories deep. Yeah. It's it's they're winding them through the whole entire airport. And it's bullshit because you know there's money. Of course there is.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

And paying people to do their jobs shouldn't be held up because you two want to cry about stuff and nobody wants to get along and do anything. So and then send a nice in there. Like, what the fuck are they gonna do? Oh, because you knew that was coming. They're just standing there, they've just been waiting for it. And they're getting paid. Yes. They're not trained as TSA agents, they can't work, they can't alleviate anything. They're simply standing there looking intimidating. That's all. Yeah. They're just there to well, the National Guard will be going in soon, so and it still won't happen, I think.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

That's what happened to the the last time the post office was on strike in like the 80s, 70s or 80s, they had to send the National Guard in to do the job, and I think they did it for like three days, and they're like, Yeah, no. No. Nope. Just pay those people because we're not doing this anymore. And then they're talking about now, they're talking about for the next census coming up, making us do it because like I got nothing better to do than knock on your door when you're not gonna fucking answer it to tell me how many people live in your damn house. This is a horrendous never mind, never mind the fact that a postal worker was just stabbed to death yesterday. It's just insane. So you can't ask people to go. I had the cops called on me like two weeks ago because I stole somebody's check. I didn't, meanwhile. He didn't put his foreword in. We I shouldn't have to ask you how many people live in your damn house. So yeah. Stop whining about it.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

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SPEAKER_03 12:22

Quick shout out to uh Pat. Thank you, Pat. We got the I didn't email you back, but I got the I got the the um yes, I got it.

unknown 12:31

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

And I want to shout out uh free nights and weekends hitting 10,000 downloads. Did you see this? Ooh, go you. That's impressive. One day we'll be all grown up just like you. I don't know. Maybe not. All right. So let's uh fuck around and find out about shows Nicole grew up on. Uh my references this week are Britannica.com, and I had to go with wikipedia.com because some of these shows are really kind of out there and apparently nobody on the internet cares to write write anything about them. So about that. So sticking with the TV theme, um, as last week we did Heather did talk shows.

SPEAKER_03 13:18

Oh yeah. I was like, what did we do last week?

SPEAKER_01 13:21

I wanted to do some shows that I remember watching as a kid, um, and I have fond memories of. So here we go. I hope this sparks some memories in some of you as well. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

I loved the Smothers Brothers. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

I know they were so funny. Is an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by The Smothers Brothers that aired on CBS from February 5th, 1967 to April 20th, 1969. And you may be wondering, isn't this a little bit early for Gen X? Although I guess not. Are we 65 days? I think we're 65, yeah. Yeah, I thought so. But um, it did reboot in 75, but we'll get to that. Um and I feel like I watched it like I watch in the 80s.

SPEAKER_03 14:08

I want to say it was probably on I want to say it was like on Nick at night or something. It must have been syndication. That's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

All right. The series was a major success, especially considering it was scheduled against the major NBC television series Bonanza with content that appealed to contemporary youth viewership with daring political satire, humor, and significant popular music performances such as Buffalo Springfield, Pete Seeger, The Beatles, and The Who. Despite this success, continual conflicts with network executives over content led to the show being abruptly pulled from its schedule in violation of the Smothers Contract in 1969. The evolution of the comedy hour was unique to a medium that was fearful of change. The show debuted in the winter of 1967 as a slightly hip version of the typical comedy variety show of its era. But within weeks, it rapidly evolved into a program that extended the boundaries of what was considered permissible in television satire. The roster of writers and performers included Hal Goldman and Al Gordon, who had written the Jack Benny program, Jim Stafford, Steve Martin, uh-huh, Don Novello, Rob Reiner, Lorenzo Music, uh perennial presidential candidate Pat Paulson, uh Bob Einstein, and Lee French. Um the series showcased new musical artists that other comedy variety shows rarely gave airtime to due to the nature of their music or their political affiliations. George Harrison, Joan Baez, Buffalo Springfield, Cass Elliott, Harry Belafonte, Cream, The Who, Donovan the Doors, Janice Ian, Yank Barry, Jefferson Airplane, Peter Paul and Mary, Spanky and Our Gang, Steppenwolf, Simon and Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Hello People, Pete Seeger, and Ike and Tina Turner were showcased during the latter years of the show, despite the advertiser-sensitive nature of their music. She thought it was a long list. Um, in 1968, the show broadcast several promotional films, later known as music videos, for the Beatles songs Hey Jude and Revolution, and several songs of the Bee Gees. Before a rally crowd at the Los Angeles Forum, Jimi Hendrix dedicated I Don't Live Today to the Smothers Brothers, as heard on the Jimi Hendrix box set. The show became both popular and controversial for those same references to youth culture and the issues that both interested and affected this particular target audience. Whereas most older and more conservative audiences were turning and tuning into shows such as The Western Bonanza, the younger, more liberal generation, ages 15 to 25, were watching The Smothers more socially relevant humor. However, despite the reputation both brothers earned, Tom Smothers later acknowledged in 2006 that he was in reality the little bit looser of the two brothers, stating that he and Dick still disagree about everything, and even describing Dick as more conservative politically and very pragmatic. Yeah, I wouldn't discuss that. With some local stations making their own deletions of current controversial sketches or comments, the continuing problems over the show reached a boiling point after CBS showed a rerun on March 9, 1969. The network explained the decision by stating that because that week's episode did not arrive in time to be previewed, it would not be shown. In that program, Joan Baez paid tribute to her then husband Dick Harris, who was entering jail after refusing military service, while comedian Jackie Mason made a joke about children playing Doctor. When the show finally did air three weeks later, the network allowed Baez to state that her husband was in prison, but edited out the reason.

unknown 18:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

It's funny you go back and read this stuff and you're like, it's just same shit, different day. Like it just a different time period. Network CEO and president William S. Paley abruptly canceled the show on April 4th, 1969, citing the Smothers' failure to meet the contractual pre-air delivery dates required for local affiliate screening. Another of the network's presidents, Robert Woods, stated that it became evident that the brothers were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by CBS. He-Hall replaced the Smothers Brothers that summer. I remember He-Hall. I love that paragraph. They didn't meet the criteria of taste, so they replaced it with Hee-Hall. This cancellation led the brothers to file a breach of contract suit against the network. On April 6, 1973, after four years of litigation, a federal court ruled in favor of the Smothers and ordered CBS to pay them$776,300, which is the equivalent of$5.63 million today. Good lord. Yeah. And in 1975, the duo returned to television hosting The Tamer and unsuccessful The Smothers Brothers show that aired on NBC. It only lasted one season. The show won the Emmy Award that year for outstanding writing for comedy, variety, or music. The show uh the story of its cancellation is the subject of a 2002 documentary film Smothered, The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Oh. I know. We have another documentary to go look up.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Do I feel like I should probably Google this before I open my mouth? But did they have something to do with the Beach Boys? Wasn't there something going on with the Beach Boys and the Smothers Brothers?

SPEAKER_01 19:56

I don't know, because there was a lot more information than that. I cut out a lot of what I found. And I don't remember seeing anything about that. I don't know why I think that. I just figured you'd cut it.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

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SPEAKER_03 21:02

I Googled it. They shared a drag car, which was not even what I would have expected.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

That does sound like something that your dad would have watched. That's true. Maybe that's why it sticks out in your brain.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

You're not wrong. Surfers and dragster cars. And the smother. My dad liked the smothered brothers, too.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Yeah. So that's probably why it sticks out in your brain.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

It was so weird when I I guess I was like, that was not what I expected.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

All right, moving on. Barney Miller.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Yeah, hey.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Yay. Is an American sitcom television series set in a New York City police department police station on East 6th Street in Greenwich Village, which is lower Manhattan. The series was broadcast on ABC from January 23rd, 1975 to May 20th, 1982. It was created by Andy Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Former characters, former character actor Noam Pitlick directed 102 of the 170 episodes. It spawned a spin-off series, uh Fish, that ran from February 5th, 1977 to May 18th, 1978, focusing on the character Philip K. Fish. I don't remember that one. Yeah, I don't either, but it only ran for a year. Oh. And that's probably why. I was four and you were.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

I know, but I remember about Barney Miller. True. I don't remember it well, but like when I close my mind's eye, I can see the uh precinct.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Yes, exactly. Uh Barney Miller takes place almost entirely within the confines of the detective squad room and Captain Barney Miller's adjoining office of New York City's fictional 12th precinct, located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. A typical episode featured the detectives of the 12th bringing in several complainants or suspects to the squad room. Usually there were two or three separate subplots in a given episode with various officers dealing with various crimes. Uh, rarely, about once a year, an episode would feature one or more of the detectives outside of the walls of the precinct, either on a stakeout or at their homes. Captain Barney Miller was an affable, personable senior officer who tries to maintain a sense of order while his detectives process a noisy parade of unusual criminals and victims. He reasons with the various complainants to effect a successful conclusion or compromise. Barney is noted around the squad room for his compassion, dedication, and diplomacy, but he does have to cope with the personal problems of his squad. His marriage is troubled. Both husband and wife love each other, but Mrs. Miller constantly worries for Barney's safety in dangerous police situations and agitates him for him to leave his job and move somewhere else. Production of Barney Miller deliberately resembled a theatrical stage play. Scenes rarely strayed from the precinct station squad room with its prominent open barred holding cell and Miller's adjoining office. The room was said to be on the second or third floor, depending on the episode. Clutter was plentiful, and much of it seemed immobile over the years, including a coat hanging on a clothes rack near Harris's desk. A handful of episodes, fewer than a dozen out of 170, were partially or fully set in other locations, including a stakeout location, a hospital room, an undercover operation, a jail, a hotel room, and the apartments of Barney, Chano, Fish, and Wojo. The DNA story uh in the DNA story, we finally see the inside of the men's room. Thank goodness. Barney Miller tended to obey two of the three classical unities of drama: unity of place and unity of time. The third unity, unity of action, was not followed since each episode had multiple subplots. Barney Miller was one of the few sitcoms of the period that occasionally mentioned the then-current year or allowed the audience to infer the then-current year. When Barney Miller premiered in January 1975, actress Barbara Barry was hired as a regular cast member to play Liz Miller, Barry's wife, uh wise, faithful, and loving wife. She received second billing in the opening credits after Hal Wyndon. During that half season, Barney appeared in seven episodes out of 13. Oh, Barry, not Barney. Um at that time, the premise of the show was to focus on Barney's career as a police captain at the 12th precinct as well as his home life with his wife and children. At the start of the 1975-76 season, when it became evident that storylines at the 12th precinct were taking precedence, Barry went to producer Danny Arnold and asked to be released from the show. In the third season, Barry's character as well as Barney's children were occasionally mentioned but never seen. In the spring of 1978, Barry returned to the series as a guest star, reprising her role as Liz Miller in the episode Quovatus? Sure. Something Latin. In that episode, Barney gets shot on duty but survives his attack virtually unharmed. Liz, upset by the incident and unable to withstand the pressures of being a policeman's wife, gives Barn Barney an ultimatum to either give up his police job so they can move to a safer neighborhood or end their marriage. At the end of the episode, Barney and Liz separate.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Mine did that.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

I tapped it once and the whole thing went. I hate that. Shortly after the premiere of Barney Miller in early 1975, actress Linda Lavin guest starred as Detective Janice Wentworth on the eighth episode Miss Cop. Her character in that installment went over very well with audiences, and Lavin, or is it Lavin? I don't know. Was brought back as a semi-regular for Barney Miller's second year. During that season, a romance began at the 12th Precinct between Detective Wentworth and Detective Wojo. However, at the same time, Lavin had just completed a television pilot for CBS called Alice, which was based on the Academy Award-winning film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The pilot quickly sold to CBS and they included it in their schedule for the 1976-77 season. As a result, Lavin left Barney Miller at the end of the show's second season. Alice ran for nine years on CBS and immediately established Lavin as a television star.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

Why do I not remember Alice? You don't remember Alice? I don't.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

It was like a diner.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

Oh. Oh.

unknown 28:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

Okay. I I don't know why. Isn't that where Kiss My Grits comes from? I don't know why I was thinking everything. It was called Mills Diner, but that's the restaurant that they worked in was called Mills Diner. Just pretend like I didn't say any of the last words. That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Maybe somebody else was thinking the same thing. And you cleared it up then.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Kiss my grit.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

All right. One more thing I found very interesting about Barney Miller. Besides the fact that they went through the whole cast and did a description. They had a very um lots of different nationalities, I guess you would say. Um working there. Uh-huh. Um, so that was cool. But then there's this part as well. Uh Marty Morrison was played by Jack De Leon DeLeon, uh, was an effeminate shoplifter, always getting caught and always trying to plead for clemency from Captain Miller. Both De Leon and his dialogue always played for laughs, and Marty became the first popular guest character in the show. Marty made the most appearances of any recurring character. After several solo appearances, Marty was joined by his more serious friend, Daryl Discoll, who was played by Ray Stewart. These were among the earliest recurring gay characters on American television. Danny Arnold worked closely with the Gay Media Task Force, an activist group that worked on LGBT representation in media in developing the characters. Initially, both characters were presented in a stereotypically effeminate manner, but in later appearances, Daryl began dressing and speaking in a more mainstream fashion, and in the episode The Child Stealers, Daryl disclosed that he had formerly that he was formerly heterosexual, but now divorced. In the same episode, Officer Zatelli, uh the new mailroom clerk who had been keeping his homosexuality secret from everyone except Captain Miller, was angered by hostile remarks and declared, I'm gay. What? I know in the late 70s. I thought I thought that was very impressive. I'm glad I watched Barney Miller now. Yeah. I'm gonna have to go back and watch it.

SPEAKER_03 30:21

I'm sure it's somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Oh yeah, I'm sure. All right, the next one is one that my dad loved.

SPEAKER_03 30:31

We didn't watch this one, so and I won't have any help for you.

SPEAKER_01 30:36

The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV between January 15th, 1955 and May 1st, 1989. The show consisted mainly of sketches, typically by slapstick, mime, parody, and double entendre. At its peak, the Benny Hill show was among the most watched programs in the UK, and the audience reached more than 21 million viewers in 1971. That's all that people with TVs in 1971. In 1972, Hill received a BAFTA television award for best writer, and he was nominated for the BAFTA for best entertainment performance. In the late 1970s, the Thames, that's how you pronounce that, right? The Thames. Thames, yes. Uh, television edited version of the show, directed by Dennis Kirkland, gained a cult following in the United States, where it was broadcast in syndication until 1991. In 1980 and 1981, the show received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Variety Series. In 1989, Thames canceled production of the Benny Hill show in the face of declining ratings and increased production costs. In a 2015 UK poll, the show's theme song was voted number one on the ITV special, The Sound of ITV, the nation's favorite theme tune.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

I'm I'm surprised that we didn't watch the Ben because my dad loves British humor. Like we uh I I probably I have let me try that again. Monty Python was always on. I mean, my family's a big Monty Python.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Yeah. I wonder what it was about it that way.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

And we watched um uh Faulty Towers. Um I'm trying to think of what else we watched a lot of British stuff. So I don't know why we didn't watch Benny Hill.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

I don't know. I don't either. Seems like something your mom would hate. Maybe she wouldn't. Maybe that's why. Uh the Benny Hill show features Benny Hill in various short comedy sketches and occasional extravagant musical performances by artists of the time. Hill appears in many different costumes and portrays a vast array of characters. Slapstick, burlesque, and double entendres are his hallmarks. Um critics accuse the show of sexism and objectification of women, but Hill argued that the female characters kept their dignity while the men who chased them were portrayed as buffoons. Uh the show often uses undercranking and sight gags to create what Hill called live animation employing comedic techniques such as mime and parody. The show typically closes with a sped-up chase scene involving Hill and a and often a few, a crew of scantily clad women, usually with Hill being the one chase due to silly predicaments that he himself caused. Accompanied by the instrumental Yucky Sacks in a send-up on the stereotypical Keystone Cops chase scenes. Do you know the Benny Hill song? I just had it in my head, and I was like, I wonder if that's it. All right. Um Hill also composed and sang powder songs and often entertained his audience with lengthy, high-speed double entendre rhymes and songs which he recited or sang in a single take. During his television career, Hill performed impersonations or parodies of such American celebrities as W. C. Fields, Orson Wells, Kenny Rogers, Marlon Brando, Raymond Burr, uh, and fictional characters that range from the six million dollar man and Starsky and Hutch to the A Team, parodied as the B team, in which he played the roles of both Hannibal and B.A. I pity the fool. As well as Cagney and Lacey. Another signature of the show was the enthusiastic announcer intro. Yes, it's the Benny Hill Show. The announcer was often cast member Henry McGee. From 1975 forward, Hill was often introduced at the start of each show as the lad himself. The show closed with Hill's salute. Thank you for being with us, and we look forward to seeing you all again very, very soon. Until then, bye-bye. In May 1989, Thames Television, head of Light Entertainment, since March 1988, John Howard Davies invited Hill in for a meeting. Having just returned from a Triumphant Cans TV festival, Hill assumed that they were to discuss details of a new series. Instead, Davies informed Hill that his program would discontinue production and that he was dismissing Hill himself. In an episode about Hill from the documentary series Living Famously, Davies stated that there were three reasons why he did so. The audiences were going down, the program was costing a vast amount of money, and Hill was looking a little tired. Excuse me. Yeah. Well then. Despite declining ratings in the UK, the show was still one of Britain's most successful TV exports airing in 97 other countries.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

It went on for a very long time.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

It did. I didn't realize it was on that long. Me either. All right. This was probably my favorite when I was like four. I very much remember this one, yes. Hee-Hall. Is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural Cornfield County as the backdrop. It aired from 1969 to 1993. Again, that's just crazy. I know. I don't remember watching it that late in life. The show was inspired by Rowan and Martin's Laughing, but centered on country music, rural rather than pop culture inspired humor, and with far less topical material. Hosted by country music artists Buck Owens and Roy Clark. For most of its run, the show was equally well known for its corn pone. Corn pone? Yeah. That sounds dirty. Uh humor as for its voluptuous, scantily clad women, the Hee-Hall honeys, in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits. I remember that. Uh yeah. And their little pigtails. Yep, yep. He-Hall's appeal, however, was not limited to rural audiences. It was successful in all of the major markets, including network-based Los Angeles and New York City, as well as Boston and Chicago. Other niche programs, such as the Lawrence Welk Show and Soul Train, which targeted older and black audiences respectively, also rose to prominence in syndication during the era. I saw a clip this week of Rosie Perr's on um Soul Train go in the line. So it was such bad dancing. I mean, I love her.

SPEAKER_03 38:01

You can um go back in time and hit episode 47, Turn This Mother Out, if you want to hear more about Soul Train. Yes, you can.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

And now before we go any further with Hee-Haw, it is time for the music. Da-da-da-da!

SPEAKER_04 38:22

Because I recuer to like we're lucky and through her teenage life. So I guess and freak your soul.

SPEAKER_01 38:32

Alright, so uh today in Nicole's diary, it is April 24th, uh, 1984. And it is a Tuesday. Tuesday. We went back to school. Yes. Last yesterday. Yeah. And I start this one with I had to go to school again today. Unreal. Again, it never ends. You had to. It's just never ending at school.

SPEAKER_03 38:53

Girl, I hear you. But it gets worse, guys.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Today Daphne sat by me on lunch.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

Fucking Daphne. Yeah, yeah. That's special.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

At recess, I made fish for Miss Irwin. I have no idea what that means. It's weird. Yeah. Uh she was my science teacher. When I got home, I did homework.

unknown 39:18

Of course.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

I worked on my report for science. Yeah. After my bath, um, I had popcorn and watched the A-Team. And then I went to bed. Oh. And then I put a whole bunch of Z. Oh, that's sleepy. Yeah, I was sleepy. A sleepy time. I love that the A-Team keeps popping up in there.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

They're there almost as much as Daphne. I did not watch the A-Team. What? I know. I didn't. Oh my god. I don't know why. It was such a good show. I don't know. I don't know. I'm my dad, it would have been right up my dad's out.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

There must have been something else on. He was afraid of flying, so they would drug him every time they threw him in the helicopter.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Yeah. I know. I know all about it. I just I never I don't know. Something else must have been on at the time.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

It must have been up against the Tuesday night in the 80s, so we'll have to find out. Well, I'll I'll I'll uh I'll check. All right. You check and I will continue on with Heehaw. Um Like Laughing, the show minimized production cost by taping all of the recurring sketches for a season in batches, setting up the cornfield set one day, the joke fence on another, etc. At its peak, a season's worth of shows were recorded over the course of two separate week-long shoots and then assembled in the editing suite. Only musical performances were taped with a live audience while a laugh track was added to all other segments. I thought that was pretty interesting because you don't think about that when you're watching the show. You just assume they just filmed a continuous show like Saturday Night Live, you know. But no, they pieced everything together. Did you find it? No. Okay. Uh the series initially ended its run in June 1993 after 25 seasons. That's crazy. It was soon picked up by TNN for reruns. He saw he saw. Oh, geez, I told y'all I was tired. Um and another thing about this frozen shoulder thing while I'm at it, it's not just that I'm not comfortable sleeping. Um, I can't take a shirt off over my head. I can't latch my bra by the back anymore. I have to do the old lady latch it in the front and spin it around thing. Oh, yeah, no. I I yeah. Yeah. Um, accidentally reaching for something without thinking is excruciating. It feels like I've been electrocuted in my shoulder. And then it usually lingers like when it like when you stub your toe and it hurts so bad, and then you just have to stand there because you're like stunned. Yes. That's what it feels like. But anyway, maybe one day I'll quit betching about my shoulder, but it's not today. Not today. No.

SPEAKER_03 42:03

Um, it was Happy Days, oh Magnum PI and Night Rider. Wow. I watched Happy Days. I mean, those weren't like all the like it was over, you know, yeah. But yes, those were I loved Magnum PI.

SPEAKER_01 42:20

Mm-hmm. Yeah, that was a good show. He was so fly. Um he was great, great Danes. Yeah. The fuck with their names. No, I will never remember that. Go on. I just remember his hairy chest. Google is our friend. Hee-Haw is set in Cornfield County, a royal farming community in an unspecific state in the southern United States. The show's sketches mostly center around visits to local businesses in the county and the off-beat characters who live and work there.

SPEAKER_03 42:52

Zeus and Apollo.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

If we would have guessed a couple, we probably would have gotten that. Some of the most popular sketches and segments on Hee-Haw included You Were Gone. You Was Gone. That was my favorite. I still get that song stuck in my head sometimes, and I don't even know why. I never hear it. A comedic weird. A comedic duo featured on the premiere episode. In the first few seasons, the song was performed by Archie Campbell with Gordy Tapp joining on the chorus. In later seasons, a guest star would join Campbell on the chorus, and the guest star's name would often be mentioned somewhere in the song's verse prior to the chorus. On episodes that featured more than one guest star, the sketch was repeated so that all the guest stars had an opportunity to participate. Rarely, a surprise guest star would appear and was not otherwise featured in the episode. The guest star often stood with its back to the camera while holding a pitchfork while Campbell sang the verse while holding a synth scyth. Scythe. Sith scythe. No. Um at the end of the verse, Campbell would nudge the guest star with his elbow and the guest star would spin around to the camera to join the chorus. Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love. You met another and you was gone. Yeah, that's a song that's stuck in my head all the time. Catchy. The would be done as blowing a raspberry. The one who got spat upon during the changed for each show. Following Campbell's death, whole groups and even women would be part of the chorus, with George Lindsay often singing the verse. Occasionally Ronnie Stoneman, uh in her role as Ida Lee Niger, would sometimes sing the verse. Another skit was Corn News. Don Haron uh as Corn radio announcer Charlie Farquarson would spoof the delivery of local news. In later seasons, Corn became C-O-R-V. Heron had performing had been performing the character since 1952 on Canadian television and continued playing Farquarson in many other media venues before, during, and after hee-haw. Another skit was the Moonshiners. Two of the male cast member uh cast members playing lethargic hillbillies lazily told a joke while dozing on the floor near a bunch of moonshine jugs. And Borregard the Wonder Dog with three or four of the Hee-Haw honeys reclining in the background. Like seriously, I watched this show and I loved it so much. But if you were just like 20 reading this, you'd be like, Are you fucking serious right now? Like this was good.

SPEAKER_03 46:00

You know, and you're you're I remember Hee-Haw, but you're saying all this, and I I don't remember most of this. And so then I did some more Googling and it was up against Mash.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Oh you know what? I got the best of both worlds because my dad would watch Hee-Haul and my mom would watch MASH. Yeah. So it was dependent on whose house I was at. Yeah. Yeah. We always watched Mash. Mashes. Ugh. Yeah, my favorite show of all time. I can't even. Another skit, picking and grinning. You remember this one? Kinda, like kind of. Musical interludes with Owens on guitar and Clark on banjo and the entire cast. Uh Owens would say, Well, I'm a pickin', and Clark would say, And I'm a grinnin'. This is easy to do with my Southern Delaware ass. With the duo and sometimes a major guest star such as Johnny Cash sitting between Owens and Clark, dueling by playing guitar and banjo, the instrumental to Cripple Creek, telling jokes and reciting one-liners. The sketch always ended with Clark's banjo solo, each time ending a different comical way. For the first two, the sketch featured only Clark and Owens, and in later seasons, the entire cast participated. When the entire cast began participating, the sketch was introduced by the show's MC, Kathy Baker. This sketch, at first, would always open the second half of the show before alternating with the Hee-Hall Honky Tonk sketch in the later seasons. He-Hall Salutes was two or three times in each episode. He-Hall saluted a selected town or a guest star's hometown and announced its population, which was sometimes altered for levity, at which point the entire cast would then pop up in the cornfield set, shouting Salute! Do you remember that? Nope. Oh, jeez. I know. You didn't watch it. Initially ending with laughter. This was changed in the mid-1970s to applause as a nod toward legitimately saluting Small Town America. He-Haw featured at least two and sometimes three or four guest celebrities each week. While most of the guest stars were country music artists, a wide range of other famous luminaries were featured from actors and actresses to sports stars and politicians. Loretta Lynn was the first guest star of He-Haw and made more guest appearances, 24 to be exact.

SPEAKER_03 48:32

No big surprise there.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

I know. Than any other artist. She also co-hosted the show more than any other guest co-host and therefore appears on more of the DVD releases for retail sale than any other guest star. Tammy Wynette was the second with 20 guest appearances.

SPEAKER_02 48:48

Not a surprise.

SPEAKER_01 48:50

From 1990 to 1992, country megastar Garth Brooks. Appeared on the show four times. In 1992, producer Sam Lovello tried unsuccessfully to contact Brooks because he wanted him for the final show. Brooks then surprised Louvello by showing up at the last minute, ready to don his overalls and perform for the final episode. Elvis Presley was a fan of Hee-Haw and wanted to appear as a guest on the program, but Presley knew his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, would not allow him to do so. Two of the Hee-Haw honeys dated Presley long before they joined the cast, Linda Thompson in the mid-1970s, with whom Presley had a long-term relationship after his divorce from Priscilla, and Diana Goodman shortly afterwards. Shortly after Presley's death, his father, Vernon Presley, made a cameo appearance on the show alongside Thompson and Buck Owens and paid tribute to his late son, noting how much Elvis enjoyed watching the show and introduced one of his favorite gospel songs, which was performed by the Yee Haw Gospel Quartet.

SPEAKER_03 49:54

I don't like Elvis. I'm sorry. Is it because he looks like Trump? There's so many reasons why I don't like Elvis. Have you seen that this week? Yes. Side by side. Hot take. I mean.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

Do you want to say why?

SPEAKER_03 50:14

What was Priscilla like 10?

SPEAKER_01 50:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 50:19

Fifteen.

SPEAKER_01 50:20

Mm-hmm. If that.

SPEAKER_03 50:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

I get it. It was a different time, but I mean.

SPEAKER_01 50:25

They were still children.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

She was a child.

SPEAKER_01 50:28

But different times that doesn't fly.

SPEAKER_03 50:30

No, still children.

SPEAKER_01 50:32

If you were attracted to her, there was something wrong with that.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

I just don't. I don't I didn't I didn't care for his music. I didn't care for his his uh there's a yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:41

Are you a fan of the Beatles? Or not so much, right? Because there tends to be this argument that people either love the Beatles or they love Elvis. But I don't feel like I love either one either.

SPEAKER_03 50:50

I'm not I think I like Beatles songs. They're fine, right? But they also exactly the same to me until the later years. Right. And more so when they broke apart and started making the room. I like Paul McCartney. Yes. Um, I don't know why I never really much cared for John Lennon's music. I preferred Paul McCartney. I think I I don't know if it was just because it was more poppy or like it was your mom's favorite. Oh I had to hear it all the time. Um so I I don't know. I just not not a fan of the Beatles. Not a fan of Elvis. My mom was a fan of the Beatles and not Elvis, so okay. But she was a little too young, probably, too, for Elvis. Probably, yeah. I feel like it's a little bit older, like boom, like an older group of boomers. She's near the end of boomers.

SPEAKER_02 51:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

We're more Elvis and she was more Beatles. Um, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

Yeah, I agree. Um Hee-Haw featured a premiere showcase on commercial television throughout its run for country, bluegrass, gospel, and other styles of American traditional music, featuring hundreds of elite musical performances that were paramount to the success, popularity, and legacy of the series for a broad audience of Southern, rural, and purely music fans alike. Although country music was the primary genre of music uh featured on the show, guest stars and cast members alike also performed music from other genres such as rock and roll, oldies, big band, and pop standards. Louvello also made the claim the show presented what were in real reality the first musical videos. So I now guess we're all arguing over who made the first musical videos.

SPEAKER_03 52:40

For fuck's sake.

SPEAKER_01 52:41

Supposedly the Beatles' first videos were made earlier. Um, Louvello said his videos were conceptualized by having the show's staff go to nearby rural areas and film animals and farms before editing the footage to fit the storyline of a particular song. The video material was a very workable production item for the show, he wrote. It provided picture stories for songs. However, some of our guests felt the videos took attention away from their live performances, which they hoped would promote record sales. If they had a hit song, they didn't want to play it under comic barnyard footage. I don't know why. Who doesn't love comic barnyard footage? Uh the concept's mixed reaction eventually spelled an end to the video concept on Hee-Haw. However, several of co-host Owen's songs include Tall Dark Stranger, Big in Vegas, and I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town. Heard aired on the series and have since aired on uh Great American Country and CMT as part of their classic country music programming blocks. All right, my last one. This I really think this one was probably my favorite. And I can't believe it only ran four years. Like I feel like I watched it forever. So the last one is Taxi. Um, it's an American television situation comedy that aired on the networks ABC for four seasons from 1978 to 1982, and NBC for one season for in 1983, so I guess five years. Um an immediate hit with critics and viewers, Taxi is an ensemble show about taxicab drivers who work for the fictional New York City-based Sunshine Cab Company. The show helped launch the careers of actors Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Tony Danza. And it also introduced actor and comedian Andy Kaufman to a national audience. Yeah. Yeah, there were a lot of big names on the show. There were. And even um, who is the redhead? Um shoot. It starts with an M. Marilyn Shit. Free Nights and Weekends. I just know it. All right, so first, first, we will answer the pressing question here of what her name was, and it was Mary Lou Henner, and shame on me for not remembering that. And then there was also um literally while we were speaking his name. We both get a message on our phone and we're like, what? And we listened to it and we were cracking up.

SPEAKER_03 55:21

We keep beating him to the punch with um So who has the bug in the room now?

unknown 55:27

Huh?

SPEAKER_01 55:28

Yeah, exactly. We literally just said your name, and then that came through. So yeah, whatever free nights and weekends, bring it. East Coast. Yeah, East Coast. Seriously, though, you guys should go listen to him. He's hilarious. Free nights and weekends. Yes. Um, and also I wanted to mention that um Carol Kane also was on that show. Um, who is in my favorite movie, Transvania 6500. I will never give up a chance to say that. Okay, let me see. Where was I? All right, taxi was created by television producers James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, and Ed Weinberger. It was inspired by author Mark Jacobson's New York magazine article, Night Shifting for the Hip Fleet, which profiled taxicab drivers working the night shift at a Greenwich Village taxi garage. The show's main protagonist, Alex Riger, who was played by Judd Hurst, um, considers cab driving to be his profession, whereas the other drivers view it as a temporary job and a way to earn money as they pursue their dreams. The show features an eclectic crew of drivers, old hand Alex Riger, um, aspiring actor Bobby Wheeler, um, single mother Elaine Nardo, who was Mary Lou Henner. And if I had just read down another paragraph, I wouldn't have had to pause and Google it. Um then we wouldn't have had our fun. True, true. True that. Um boxer Tony Bonta, which was Tony Danza.

SPEAKER_03 57:08

Do you think, just quick question. Uh huh. Do you think that Tony Danza has to be named Tony in everything he does because he doesn't remember another name?

SPEAKER_01 57:19

Or because he was also Tony in um the one he did with Judith White. Who's the boss? Yes. Yeah. Probably. Just they probably try to get well, although Tony is such an Italian name and it was so stereotypical for. I mean Vince is a very, very Italian name. That's true. But you're right, maybe they kept saying Vinny and he wouldn't pay any attention. Like, fuck it, just call him Tony.

SPEAKER_03 57:44

No shade to Tony Danza, but no, no.

SPEAKER_01 57:47

And if he would like to reach out and let us know.

SPEAKER_03 57:49

If that was true. Constantly calling for people to reach out. I just never do. I don't know. One day. Oprah's gonna call one day. Don't tease me. I hope she brings Gail King with her. Um she has to. BFF, sit down and do a BFF podcast.

SPEAKER_01 58:08

Um can you pause? My mother just text me.

SPEAKER_00 58:13

No, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

Um, the ex-hippie Reverend Jim, uh, who was played by Christopher Lloyd. Oversee. One of the best characters, I feel like, on TV every yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, overseeing the drivers is cantankerous dispatch Louis De Palma. Another great yes, Danny DeVito. Um, while mild-mannered mechanic Latka Gravas, who was Andy Kaufman, keeps the cabs running. And he was married to Carol Kane.

unknown 58:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:45

Her name was Simca. Simka. They were so cute. They were. Um Hirsch was at the top of the producer's list to play Ryger, but he was initially hesitant, concerned that the commitment would prevent him from appearing in films and stage productions. He instructed his agent to make outrageous demands that he felt the producers would decline, but to his surprise, they agreed. Taxi's opening credits also displayed Hirsch's name before the title of the show, which initially worried him as he was fearful it would make his fellow cast members resentful. And probably wouldn't help with you wanting to get into films and stage production if you're being a little crybaby about all that. Um, the casting of Andy Kaufman caused difficulties over the course of the series. A stand-up comedian known for his unconventional, often radical skits and stunts, Kaufman had little interest in appearing in a situation comedy, but he considered the money he made from the show as a way to fund his other interests. The producers were essentially buying Kaufman's foreign man character that he had developed in comedy clubs, which on the show became the sweet and endearing Latka Gravis character. Kaufman made a number of demands before signing on, including that he work only two days a week, Tuesdays for run-throughs, and Fridays for tapings of the show, and that he received two studio parking spaces, one for him and one for Tony Clifton, Kaufman's obnoxious lounge singer character. Producers agreed to both demands. Lako Garavas was beloved by audiences, but Kaufman was often at odds with his fellow cast members. The biggest flap flap occurred when Kaufman's Tony Clifton character, who was to appear in an episode. Kaufman played the character to the hilt, arriving on set an hour late and harassing his fellow cast members. Hirsch finally had enough walking off the set and demanding that Clifton go or else he would. The producer pulled the plug on the character, but Kaufman begged them to let him come back as Clifton the next day, just so Studio Security could physically throw him out. A typical Kaufman stunt. Once again, the producers agreed. Maybe that's why it only lasted four or five years, because the producers just let them do whatever the hell they wanted. Though still popular after four seasons, the ratings for taxi started to decline, and the ABC and ABC canceled the show after the 1982 season. The cable television company HBO was in talks to acquire the series, but it went to NBC instead. It lasted just one season on NBC, and its final episode aired on July 27, 1983. Taxi ran for 114 episodes and received multiple award nominations and wins over its five seasons. The show garnered 18 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series from 1979 to 81, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Variety series for DeVito in 1981, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a comedy series, Hirsch, uh, in 1981 and 1983. Additionally, Taxi captured four Golden Globe Awards, including Best Television Series from 1971 to 1970 or 81, 1979 to 1981.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:59

And that's that. Those are the shows I watch. I still like I'll I still watch Taxi every now and then now. I don't ever see it. I have a taxi channel on my cable. I don't know. I don't get it. There's like all these channels that are just a specific show. I don't know. I don't I don't honestly don't know if it's the cable or if it's the TV. Like it's called I think it's on the I don't know. I don't know. But it's like there's a Star Trek channel, and there's a taxi channel, and there is a um oh uh Frasier slash Cheers channel. There is uh Seinfeld channel and it only plays there's a there there's a um Adams Family channel. There's hundreds of these channels and they only play that specific show. That's so bizarre. I know, and I don't know if it's cable I don't know if it's my internet or if it's the TV that gives it to me, but one of them does. And so if there's nothing else or if I just want noise in the background, yeah, I'll just put and I I don't know if it's like because I have Ocean City cable, but I don't really have cable. I just have internet. I only pay for internet, so that's why I don't know if it's like the free internet or if it's like I don't know. I don't know. I'll have to look when I get home and see if it's really bizarre. If it's Samsung, 'cause it's Samsung TV. So I don't know if it's like uh I don't know, but it's like all like there's hundreds of them. Hundreds of them. Like every show you could ever possibly think of has its own channel. And then and then it it has to be cable though, because then there's music channels. Like your typical cable music music channel, there's them too. When I tell you there's hundreds of there's like five hundred of these channels, like a hundred of them are like music.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:08

So is this what people have to watch when they're vacationing in Ocean's ID? Maybe, I don't know. It sounds like hotel weird hotel channel.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:17

It really does. Because there's like a law and order channel, and I'm telling you, like, if if you can think of a show, I'll take a picture. When I get home, I'm gonna take a picture of it and show it to you. Because it is like and it's all weird stuff. Like I mean, they're all popular shows. I wanna say there's a mash channel. I don't know, I haven't really looked through them like because there's so many of them that I'm just like, okay, I don't know. Information overload. But I do know there is a taxi channel. Okay. And I have indeed watched the taxi channel. Okay. So maybe if you have a smart TV, maybe you have you have a smart TV, right? I do. Do you have a cable? I have YouTube TV. No, but you so do you but your internet does that come from a cable company or is it from like Verizon? It comes from a cable company. So maybe you have it too. It's where like the over-the-air channels come. Because I have an antenna. So like when I sign on, I know y'all love to know this, but maybe you can look on your own TVs. So when it comes up, it has like a list of my apps, you know. Above that, it has like this channel, like this little app hole that has like channel sixteen, forty seven, all that. And then once you get past all those, it turns into the weird channels. But I used I mean that I have an antenna. To give me my local A B C C B S and a Fox. I didn't even know antennas were still a thing. Yeah. Because you can still get those over the air. NBC is the only one I can't get. And funny that when the go-karts run, all my over the air channels go blurry. Which really sucks in like September and October when I'm trying to watch football. And CBS suddenly goes fuzzy in the middle of the game. Yeah. For however long the go-karts run. Two minutes. Anyway. Fun with go-karts. Um, yeah, that was good. That was good. That was fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:44

Thank you. I enjoyed it. Reminiscing.

unknown 1:06:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:47

I mean, those were like little, little kid shows. Yeah. Like I was under 10. Yeah. When I was watching those shows. So, but I still remember them pretty pretty vividly.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:59

There was this show that was only on like, I don't know, a minute. And I remember it so well, and nobody I have ever spoken to, and it must have only been like one season. Because I've never heard anybody, and I loved it. And it was like Tales of the Golden Monkey or something like that, where the guy flew um water planes. I don't is that what they're called? I don't know. What are they called? They land on water. Yeah. He flew them and he wore like a leather, a brown leather bomber jacket. Like an Indiana, he had an Indiana Jones kind of look.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:39

This is sounding familiar.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:40

Yeah. And he, I don't really remember. I just remember I loved it. And he would, I don't know what he was, I don't know if he was taxiing people or what or where. Or I I don't I can't find it anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:53

You know, another one I should have done, Fantasy Island. That was my jam.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:58

I I remembered it, but I don't think I watched it. I don't think I ever watched it really.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:03

Yeah, most of these shows were, you know, kind of ending as we were even comprehending what TV shows were.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:10

So Yeah, I don't. Must not have been that must have been up against something Dallas or we watched Dallas.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:20

Oh no, I watched Dallas. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:22

That's Friday nights.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:24

The whole family gathered around for who shot JR. Oh. Man. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:31

It was scandal. Scandalous. Scandalous. It was all just a dream. Bobby died and it was all just a dream.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:39

Just a dream. Spoiler alert.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:44

Oh. I didn't tell you who shot JR. Oh. That was like was that like the first like real cliffhanger? We'd have to look. I want to look into that because I wonder if that was like the first time that's a very good question. Like an actual cliffhanger.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:01

Yes, that was a big deal.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:03

A huge deal. Big deal. Hmm. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Anyway. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Um, you can find us anywhere you listen to podcasts. Um you can also find free nights and weekends anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:24

And but he's probably just repeating something we already did. Just kidding. Just kidding. We should listen.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:33

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