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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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Back to Work Anxieties and Schedules
Speaker 1Passenger forgets that he has a grenade in his bag. Oh, the anxieties of going back to work. Gilligan, batman, brady, bunch let's talk All this next on Cabin Pressure, with Sean and Gene Prepare for takeoff hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2This is cabin pressure. What's up everybody? We're in the house you know, I knew it was going to be a little bit different this week. A little bit different, a little bit difference.
Speaker 1You gotta try everything I was. I was trying to think about like I want to do with a bark everybody is that a bro?
Speaker 1no, 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 catch up with life here, trying to get geared up back and getting ready to go back to work and doing all my stuff that I got to do, you know, my, my training and stuff putting needles in my eyes right now doing all this training. That's right. I'm going to see you back on the plane, that's right. Like right. I'm gonna see you back on the plane, that's right. Like, trying to gear it all up and try to get that mode of like doing work and all that stuff. But I just got my schedule for last, last or next month and then, uh, talk about suck. I mean 35 years, doesn't get you especially where we're based at.
Speaker 1Don't get your shit shit, yep, and I was like, for some reason I always have like a. You know, seniority in this business is everything. So, like you, one little bit of seniority makes a huge difference. And there's four months between me and Gary, okay, and uh, between us too, like every month when I need, like I really need something off. And he's got a bid too at the same time, cause he normally takes leaves and stuff and tries to not fly.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1It's like he gets that line and I get shit on like every day. I'm like it's the shit line.
Speaker 2Right. What's even funnier is that you'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 take that thing away from me again.
Speaker 1I know, I know and he knows he's not going to fly one thing, but he got the line that was the you know every other day, fort Lauderdale turns, or you know morning turns, and then I got four day weekends, one days every Friday, saturday, sunday, monday Welcome to the bullshit, yeah. And and then, to top it off, I got evening turns, which is total, like the anticipation, like the anxieties that are already happening before this flying, because I know, flying into Florida during spring, nothing, you're just asking for trouble.
Speaker 1It's backed up, you're like the storms are happening. You know the shit show has already been starting to spread everywhere.
Speaker 2It's two words Sean Jacksonville Center, Right.
Speaker 1You blame everything on Jacksonville Center it is.
Speaker 2Listen, ask Carol, every damn you've been at home healing Right. My ass has been out there flying Right and every day I got that plane out 10, 15 minutes early and we sat out there on the damn runway for 20 freaking minutes because of Jacksonville Center, I know.
Speaker 1It slows it down. I'm not looking forward to it.
Speaker 2It's like it's a big bucket of suck Sean.
Speaker 1A big bucket of suck coming my way, but anyways, and then that's going to give us more to talk about, right?
Speaker 2Yeah, I hope so. At least you're going to be with some crews and you're going to get something said to you.
Creating Stinky Corn: AI-Assisted Storytelling
Speaker 1Yeah, the other thing I've been doing too is that. So my niece has I think I talked about this before where we do a little pen pile thing with my niece and I made up a story for him and all this stuff. Well, this time my niece she's eight years old and she's finally sent us a letter. It took a long time for her to send me a letter. She sent a letter, but she's super into reading and all this stuff.
Speaker 1So I decided that I was going to make up a story because she's like in the harry potter and she loves like unicorns, and so I did this whole little exercise where I put all this shit together and, um, and the one thing that, like her and her sister, does a lot is burp and fart. I can't wait to hear this. So what I did was I went in and I used ChatGPT and assisted me and I put in all these parameters and stuff, and so, between ChatGPT and me, like going back and forth and tweaking like things that I want everything, I'm creating this huge story so like I got a 13 chapter book right now, going on about burping and farting, no, it's actually about this uh, um, unicorn and uh called stinky corn, because my 80 year old niece, one of her big things is that she always has stinky feet and so the unicorn has stinky hooves and so she's in the glittery and all this stuff. She's that girly, girly and all this stuff. So stinky corn's the main character and then there's this whole thing that she has all these side characters and stuff.
Speaker 1So anyways, I've been working on that. That's kind of fun and stuff. You know, getting out all together and my's like it's supposed to be a pen pal thing. I'm like, well, I'm just going to attach this book to it too. Stinky corn, stinky corn. She's going to get a kick out of it.
Speaker 1But I think, the whole family's going to get a kick out of it, because it's funny, because the whole thing was written. I made it friendly, you know, and it's super imaginative.
Speaker 2So I can see it now the adventures of stinky corn, stinky corn yeah, syndicate that.
Speaker 1Yeah, let's make that. I'm all for it. Let's make amusement parks about it. Let's do everything.
Speaker 2Exactly, it's a stinky corn ride, that's right.
Speaker 1I'll have. Yeah, You'll be going around corners and like wish some bad smells in your face and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2Hey, you remember Curious George man. I mean, they had a monkey, why can't they have a stinky?
Speaker 1corn, stinky corn, but who knows, who knows, man, you never know when these things will take you or whatever. But yeah, it's pretty amazing that stuff AI right now is just like for people that don't know and people have not really sat down and used this, which is, millions of people, um, they don't understand like how fast things are moving right now. Like there's so much AI in world right now and so many things that are um happening with AI. If you're not using AI right now 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 stuff going on that you know, you're just not going to. If you, if you wanted to start up a business right now and you don't use AI, I don't think you can get get going.
Speaker 2You know, truthfully, before you actually introduced me to it, I had no idea. I mean, I can understand how people don't, but you're, you're right, though it's amazing. I mean, when you type something in there, the AI, just just what you get back, is amazing.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean. I mean I think like the future, like I'm super excited and maybe I'll be able to live it long enough to experience all this stuff, like when you see these movies, and like the reality of our envisions, our imagination, like those things are all coming to fruition in our, our life's time. You know like we grew up with star trek. Yeah, right, yeah and so and then. So star trek. There's so many things that are in star trek that we saw when we were kids. We were like that would be so cool, you know, to be able to call, you know, from the ground to space and stuff like that.
Speaker 2And and we're doing it today, you know like yeah, but remember the guy that the flying suit that they had that's, that's like nothing now right, I mean all that stuff like, but that was like the, the inception of the vision of these technologies, and that's the.
Speaker 1That's what's so cool about this, this whole experience with ai and stuff. Like you're taking these like very imaginative people and then you're putting it together with a computer and then together there's like it's going in places that we've never even imagined.
Speaker 2So so we can look forward to the adventures of stinky corn. I hope so, man.
Speaker 1Anything, you know me, anything to make a buck? I actually think I thought it was a great idea.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 1We'll see. I thing I thought it was a great idea. Yeah, I don't know. It's pretty funny. We'll see. I'm going to uh, the initial book here is. I'm going to do that and I'm just going to put a. I'm going to try to get an ai cover of stinky corn.
Speaker 2So I'll figure that out when you, when I do it, I'll let you I'm telling you you could have a little adventurous stinky corn right, that'd be something I mean.
Speaker 1Little kids love unicorns oh, yeah, yeah, yeahinky corn with their buggy, he's got a farting belching frog.
Speaker 2Next thing, you know me and you will be wearing stinky corn shirts.
Speaker 1Yeah, and there's a burping farting fairy, and yeah, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2Wait a minute. Did you just sit there and say there's a burping farting fairy?
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm not talking about a flight attendant in a back alley.
Speaker 2So you've got stinky corn and a burping farting fairy. And what's the fairy's name?
Speaker 1Oh, the fairy's name I'm trying to. You're going to ask me that I don't have it off the top of my head I've been thinking about. There's so many different characters in this thing I can't remember I can't wait for this one. You'll get it.
Speaker 2I can't wait. I'm just telling you I can't wait, so what's? Been going on with you. Nothing In the house, though you forgot who our special guest was.
Speaker 1Oh, we got a guest in the house in the studio. It was Bring your Kid to Work Week Okay.
Speaker 2Well, I don't have any kids in the house anymore, so she is my kid.
Speaker 1It's Gemma Gemma's in the house.
Speaker 2Gemma Gemma's in the house. Gemma is my three pound Yorkie. She's actually 3.4 pounds, but she's a girl and girls don't talk about their weight, so she's three pounds. But no she. She came to work with me today.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's cool Gemma's. Gemma's just chilling, relaxing in your lap over there. And you know what? For those of you that are out there that's seen Gemma on our Facebook page, gemma's been out about twice the size she was. Yeah, I mean, she's grown quite a bit.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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.
Television History and Family Dynamics
Speaker 1Absolutely gorgeous. It is beautiful out today and I had like work crap going on Like today's our trip trade day. So we're like trying to get the schedule together and this is going back to work crap again, and so I was stuck inside this morning doing all that crap and I should have been golfing. That's what I should have.
Speaker 2That's the first thing I thought when I came over. Is you and Carol would grow golfing. But anyway, I was at the gym, got my gym workout in and then came home and got my yard work done. So the yard work is done, so that was good. Yeah, beautiful outside though.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was watching the guy cut the lawn today. It was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2Every time we talk about this. See, sean was on a golf course and people cut his lawn Right and I got to do my own shit.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't need to be wasting time If I'm going to be out doing something. I need to be outdoors golfing.
Speaker 2Hey, I got to tell you something, though. This past week we had talked about before you did a class on sitcoms, right?
Speaker 1Yeah, I did. It was actually the history of television is what the class was, which was super, super interesting because it like literally started from the time where tvs first came into the home. You know that commercial like what drove that and the technology behind that and stuff, and then then we literally got into. You know the dynamics of, you know how they started. You know the different first shows because you know how they started. You know the different first shows because you know a lot of TV. A lot of people don't understand that TV started from radio. So, like the radio, everybody in America and the world around you know all over the world used to sit around radios and listen to these shows which were just acted out and it was like the early podcast, right, well, do you?
Speaker 2remember? Okay, do you remember a Christmas story, right when they and he had this super decoder ring and he had, he had to wait for that special message from Annie, or what was?
Speaker 1it yeah.
Speaker 2And then he went in and it was Ovaltine.
Speaker 1Ovaltine Right. Exactly, exactly that was classic man.
Speaker 2It's exactly what you were just talking about yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1So the cool thing about this class was that it kind of like took you through from that beginning all the way to today's world and how much TV has changed. And I know you were like in the back alley recently talking about shows.
Speaker 2right, we were talking about all kinds, if you guys remember I don't know what your age is, but we were talking about a lot of the shows that we used to watch when we were kids with the family Family shows that we used to watch all the time. So what I did was, this past week, anyone that I came across I was like, okay, tell me the show that you used to watch. You used to love the watch. So I thought it'd be kind of fun to talk about some of these old shows that we used to watch as kids.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1You know, the cool thing and going back to this class I took about TV and all this stuff, is that these shows of like over our lifetime has, like you know, evolved. From the beginning, it was this radio shows that were out there that they've tried to make into tv shows, and then they some translated, some didn't, and then some of the you know the dynamics and the um, what would you say, the uh, uh, the, the ethics of life of that time were being portrayed on tv. So you know and I'm not trying to be uh, you know like, talk about racism and all this stuff, but you know, um, it was white men that controlled the TV, so you got a lot of white men programs and then the depictions of anybody else that was not a white person was very bad on TV. And I mean you, if you Google this and look at like some old shows. They actually had to ban a couple of shows and took them off air because they were so bad, you know. I mean like the first show that was, uh, amos and Andy.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And it was about you know these black people, but every black character in the show. They were either a thief, a criminal. You know they were bad, they lied. Yeah, I mean, if you go back and look at it, they actually removed a show from TV because it was so bad. Um, but you know, in today's world you'd be like that wouldn't even happen, like that type of show could not even, you know, get off the ground here because of so much of you know, everybody recognizing and the how the world right now, right, we're becoming a more open world and the laws have changed and it's more equal and all that stuff.
Speaker 2Well, because of those shows we had talked about this. So, because of the shows. Why do you think that it's changed so much as far as the shows go? Yeah, why has it changed? I mean, what changed?
Speaker 1Technology has a big thing to do with it. I mean technology has a big thing to do with it. I mean technology has, like, impacted it. So the invention of tv it came on, so we started off with radios and then we went to tv and tvs came in and we this is our only entertainment device in america. So, like when we grew up as kids, you know, we all mom and dad or whoever went to work, kids went to school we all came home, we ate dinner, sat down, watched our TV shows in the evening. So the evening sitcom became a big, huge thing. And that's what we remember as a kid is the evening sitcoms right?
Speaker 2No, the family.
Brady Bunch Memories and Characters
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, so the family and all that stuff. But then technology starts jumping into that and the internet gets involved and so now the internet took our attention away from that time, so that it was that time suck that just started going in different directions. So now we are able to go into whatever direction we want with our entertainment and so that whole you know nucleus of the family coming home and doing this thing and sitting down and having dinner together and watching the TV show together, it just started dissipating. I mean not to say that it doesn't go on today. I mean there's a lot of people that are out there that that still goes on today. It just depends on your values and how you run your house and all that stuff. But technology has taken us away from all that stuff.
Speaker 2But 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 there that much anymore. I really don't. I don't think it's there. I mean, if you listen to a lot of people talk, I don't think it's there. And I think that we are fortunate in a way. I know that we dealt with different things, of course, but I think we are fortunate in a way that we have that nucleus of family.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know, I think that you know in this last I want to get political and everything here, but in this last election, you know, america's kind of like screamed out here and there's so many religions out there that are driving this to like different beliefs, the core beliefs and core values systems that I think that are are really driving, and there's a starvation and a want in America right now, the wanting to get back to that like to get back to having that what we grew up with. Right, right, you know, like having that core family, that family time, sit down, have dinner and all that stuff. I mean there's a lot of families that just don't sit down and have dinner anymore, unless that's a value in your family that you got to, you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2All right. So when we start going through these shows and we start discussing a little bit on each, we're going to touch a little bit on each of these shows, see if you guys can remember before we actually say some of the answers, and see if you can remember the certain cast members' names, little things that we were talking about, and then I'm going to ask Sean some of these questions and see if he remembers.
Speaker 1Right, I mean, this is just a little walk down memory lane with all these sitcoms and stuff, because this is what we these are the things that we talk in the galley about.
Speaker 2We, you know, we spend our time kind of like when we do have time to talk and you know, chatting about you know like this and just see if one of these shows is what you used to watch too, because all these shows was, it was just examples of different flight attendants, different pilots, that shows that they watched when they grew up, and some of them we knew.
Speaker 1Some of them we, you know, maybe seen, but we really didn't know yeah, like your family didn't watch it, like it wasn't one of your core, shows that your family watched.
Speaker 2Yeah, I knew it was on, but that was about it, sure, so all right, so let's get started. Number one Brady bunch.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1Brady 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 was one of the first big changes in TV that the nuclear family of mom, you know, mom staying at home, dad going to work and all this stuff. All of a sudden, now you've got this, you know divorced family that has now come together and became a family. You know that was kind of like that was like cutting edge right back then. You know like Whoa, you know you're gonna make this a show about two, two divorcees.
Speaker 2You're the best part of the Brady Bunch. What's that? Everybody remembers the Brady Bunch theme right. Here's a story of a lovely lady. That's right, right. I mean, I don't care who you were. You remember the beginning of the Brady Bunch? You could, actually we could probably just sing the whole thing, but we ain't going to. But we could sing the whole thing, okay, so Sean characters go ahead.
Speaker 1You 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 of them, Not a Brady Bunch person. You got Greg, yeah, you got Cindy.
Speaker 2Janet, Mike and Carol.
Speaker 1Janet, Mike and Carol.
Speaker 2Now, do you remember the maid, the maid Alice?
Speaker 1yes, okay.
Speaker 2Folks, here's a couple for you now. Who was Alice's boyfriend, what was his name and what was his job? Sean. Dude tell me Alice's boyfriend's name Sam Job Butcher.
Speaker 1Sam the Butcher. Sam the Butcher.
Speaker 2Sam the Butcher man.
Speaker 1You 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 2I remember that. Okay. Yeah, I think we're going to hear a lot of that too.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 like walking around the. They had a dog.
Speaker 2You know, this is the number one thing that everybody gets wrong. What's that?
Speaker 1The dog, the dog's name, what's it? I have no idea. What's it? Tiger, oh, tiger Dog's name's tiger 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 2Oh yeah, I mean, like I said, brady Bunch was a staple in our house, but there were certain episodes that were hilarious One where Jan always goes Marcia, marcia, Marcia, marcia, marcia.
Speaker 1That's the famous line, yeah.
Speaker 2Jan's head spinning around because he's like doing this crazy scene. But the other one, I remember this was really good. Marsha had got a modeling job, okay, and in a modeling job she was told to lose weight, get her teeth capped, get her hair cut and get breast implants. Now she slapped the person for one of those, sean. Which one was it?
Speaker 1I would think breast implants, implants no it was cutting her hair cutting her hair, marsha's hair.
Speaker 2You don't cut marsha's hair.
Speaker 1You gotta be kidding me first of all, you wouldn't even talk to a gal that's in today's world, like that right, yeah, she used to brush her hair in front of that mirror and tell her how beautiful she was. Remember that yeah, yeah, there was a lot of vanity in that show all right, right man, we're onto the next one. One of the next ones, gilligan's Island. Oh now, gilligan was a definitely a family show, like we all watched Gilligan. I don't think I don't think there was a episode of Gilligan that I didn't watch.
Speaker 2Like.
Gilligan's Island and Happy Days Nostalgia
Speaker 1I remember all kinds of episodes, gilligan, because it was like you even got to repeat, gilligan. You know like, oh yeah, I've seen this, but we would still sit there for 30 minutes and watch a show, right.
Speaker 2Now did you know the original trip was six hours, not three.
Speaker 1No, Because it was a three-hour tour. It was a three-hour tour.
Speaker 2I love those man we always remember right. Sit right back and you hear a tale.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 2The tale of a fateful trip.
Speaker 1See, yeah, one thing I mean, you know, here's the thing too, that that's been lost in this whole, you know, in in sitcoms and family sitting down with sitcoms is that nobody knows that. Like there's no jingles like that anymore. Nope, like you don't, you don't, like nobody remembers a jingle. There's a. Uh, there's a few shows out there that there's like theme songs that we can recognize, but there's nothing that we're like singing along with.
Speaker 2Right, especially if you remember this long.
Speaker 1Right, right.
Speaker 2No way All right, so cast.
Speaker 1Well, you know, there was the captain Right.
Speaker 2No, no, it's not captain.
Speaker 1He's a skipper. Oh the skipper. Yeah, they always referred to him as a skipper, but do you know what his real name was? No, captain Jonas Grumby. Really, that was his real name.
Speaker 2Well, I'm impressed with you. Now, there you go. Just a little impressed, all right, yeah. So then there's a professor, but he still was skipper.
Speaker 1Yeah, he always referred to him like skipper, skipper. You always refer to him like skipper, skipper. So, gilligan, uh the skipper, there's a professor, marianne ginger, you can.
Speaker 2You know, I like a ginger ginger was one of the hottest things.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, everybody liked the ginger, yeah and then uh, and then, of course, uh, thirst, and how the hood and lovey lovey, lovey, lovey lovey yeah, I can. I can never always uh, forget that guy because uh, um, I think I was telling you about when I first got hired. I had that guy that talked like him. That was my roommate Right, like he's always in my head.
Speaker 2Okay, what was the boat?
Speaker 1The boat. Yeah, oh man, that was a good—.
Speaker 2Name of the boat.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2SS.
Speaker 1Minnow.
Speaker 2Yeah, SS Minnow, yeah, SS Minnow. Man, that was right in front of my like a oh yeah, ss Minnow for sure. All right, now we are going to one of the ones that today would be one of the most controversial shows that would be on air. What was that? All in the Family?
Speaker 1Oh, hell, yes, the stuff that was said in that show like I mean first of all to have a show about a white bigot, you know is like you know, like you're like, okay, I don't think that would go over in today's world. No, no, there's too many butthurt people, sean.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I mean I got to you know you got to call it. There's too many butthurt people. Yeah, yeah, I mean they won't find comedy in some things. Some things are just funny.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it was so funny because he was so blatant about who he was and what he was he was just like. This is how it is.
Speaker 2Do you know what Archie did?
Speaker 1What he did.
Speaker 2Yeah, his job.
Speaker 1I thought he was a factory worker, doc worker. A doc worker, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Archie was a doc worker.
Speaker 1Yeah, Archie Edith Yep. The one I always remember is Meathead Michael Michael Yep. Now, I wouldn't remember Michael's name. I would remember him as Meathead. Yeah, that's what RG called him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Gloria, right.
Speaker 2Man, I'm pretty impressed, man, I mean, those are the big ones.
Speaker 1And then the one thing I should so I remember, off the show is that the spinoff of that show is that the Jeffersons came out of that, that the Jeffersons came out of that, and the Jeffersons were a dry cleaner family, they owned a dry cleaner business, whatever that was in the show, and then that ended up spending enough to become Jeffersons.
Speaker 2All right, we're going to get to the Jeffersons on the next one, but right now we're going to stick with this. Having finished up with all in the family, what was Gloria and Mike's child's name?
Speaker 1Their child. Yeah, oh shoot.
Speaker 2Yeah, see, there you go, who knows, you weren't getting away from it.
Speaker 1They were kind of like hippies in the show and stuff like that, so it could have been like Moon Child or something yeah wrong.
Speaker 2It was Joey.
Speaker 1Joey, okay, there you go.
Speaker 2All right, and then one more thing before we leave.
Speaker 1Oh, actually, actually a couple things. What was archie's favorite name for edith? Oh no, I don't, I can't remember her name.
Speaker 2You wouldn't hear it today because he called her a dingbat. Oh, you would not, you would not. My dad used to call his wife a dingbat all the time He'd call us dingbats and stuff.
Speaker 1It's funny how sitcoms and stuff, like the verbiage and the vernacular of the day, comes from sitcoms and stuff, and my dad used to always be like you, dingbat.
Speaker 2Now, do you remember how Edith always called Archie? Oh Archie, oh my gosh, I love that one.
Speaker 1These Archie oh my gosh, I love that one. These are so great.
Speaker 2All right, let's go to the Jeffersons. Jefferson, moving on up, George man, he was like he would be that little dance that he did.
Speaker 1I can mimic that dance, but I do remember him always doing that little shuffle dance, that little shuffle dance.
Speaker 1His feet shuffle yeah yeah, yeah, jefferson's, they were like the cool, so that to me was like the 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 bit of history on this stuff. I did a little bit of history on this stuff. Even in that show they still depicted things that were negative towards black people. In the show Now it was funny and stuff, but they always brought up certain things. They were talking about the KKK. They dropped the N-word in that show.
Speaker 2I remember that Really they did.
Speaker 1Yeah, if you look at reruns and stuff like it's there.
Speaker 2I do remember George making fun of the white guy next door all the time.
Speaker 1Right, and the white guy next door, now that one. So here's an interesting thing about this show too that uh was the big identifier for my family was interracial couple. Those on there, yeah, was on there. Yeah, that's what I said, yeah, I mean. So, like me, I'm an interracial child and uh, you know, growing up in an interracial family like that, uh, that biracial family, you, um, you know that wasn't being represented anywhere and this was the first show that came out with something like that and that was like scandalous, scandalous okay, what was the, the housekeeper's name?
Speaker 2do you remember?
Speaker 1oh, dang it, I don't know, but you know what? Here's a here's a interesting thing about that show that housekeeper, she was like sassy as shit oh, my god, I mean, she was like so funny, um, but I can't remember her freaking name. What was her name?
Speaker 2I can't remember it. I cannot remember it. I can see her face, but I can't remember her name.
Speaker 1So we're both gonna fail yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know her name, but anyways, uh, she was always like she was always giving george shit, like she was like so sassy and white wisecracking and stuff. She was cool. Yeah, so the neighbors, helen and thomas was those interracial couple and like that that you know, for me as a kid that was like like a big, huge deal because I was like, wow, we're actually being represented on TV.
Speaker 2George did not give him a break at all.
Speaker 1No, no, no he never gave him a break. I mean, he was always like it was a show that he was always. You know that that was the opportunity that he could like put down that white man you know, like it was basically what was happening.
Speaker 2But you, you know, like it was basically what was happening. But you know what I loved about that, though again, we, we would just we'd laugh about it. You find humor and stuff. I mean you know, you don't you don't need to get butthurt about everything, but it was funny. I mean I, I thought it was funny. Yeah, I thought jefferson's another interesting thing too, about like.
All in the Family and The Jeffersons
Speaker 1So 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 the world at that time. And that was what was happening the Brady Bunch, that intermixed family coming together. Divorce was a subject, interracial couples were a subject. Now they were starting to get representation of different cultures in TV Blacks, hispanics. One that just popped in my head and I know it's not on our list is Chico and the man. Did you watch Chico and the man?
Speaker 2No, I remember it now that you just said it, but I did not. No, I didn't.
Speaker 1Yeah, so when you started talking about these different subjects, like certain things like so, then they had this Hispanic representation, but with their like you know, their devaluing representation to along with it, because it was controlled by a bunch of white guys. Right, not to say it was all, all racist, but that's just what it was at the time.
Speaker 2But he keeps looking at me like the white guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do, you white guy.
Speaker 1So the interesting that you know as TV kind of goes in time, like all this wild representation of like the real world was happening through TV and so if you really look at it, like this was just the first beginning of like there was any and when we grew up, like you didn't see a gay person on TV ever. No, Right, Nope, that was football Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 2Didn't see it. All right, let's get to the next one now.
Speaker 1Go ahead.
Speaker 2Now this one. I can't comment on this one because I really didn't watch it, but it was one that was said was Maude.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 or anything. I know my mom watched it but it was like you know, she was fun, she was funny, she was sassy and all that stuff. But Mod wasn't one of my things, but it was a big show back then.
Speaker 2Yeah, I remember the show, just didn't watch it All. Right Now this one you did Love Boat oh hey. The love boat Exciting and new. Yeah, climb aboard. Yeah, captain Stewart, we're expecting you, yeah yeah. Not exactly a night singer.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2Singing is not our forte, but you might hear us singing a little bit today, but do we remember the songs though?
Speaker 1But 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 Captain Steuben you got Gopher, gopher, for sure, isaac, isaac, isaac, you know, was the bartender, you know the bartender Doc, oh, doc.
Speaker 2That, doc. Oh, doc, that's right, doc, doc, julie, julie the cruise director, the cruise director, right. I reference julie a lot because whenever I fly on a wide body plane and I'm the load position, I'm usually julie the cruise director out front telling people we're in a hell of a go.
Speaker 1You're calling my ass is usually you're calling out your age to the whole it is, I know, but I still call it all right.
Speaker 2and then the daughter's name, and this is name, and this is the one that kind of stumped me.
Speaker 1Totally clueless, Like I can remember some of the main characters.
Speaker 2And I'm pausing for a minute, so if you guys remembered this and see if it's running through your head before I tell you now that it was Vicky.
Speaker 1Vicky, vicky, vicky.
Speaker 2She didn't have a huge role in the show Nah, she just ran around the damn boat yeah she was always running around the boat.
Speaker 1Like I can imagine just growing up on a boat, right yeah?
Speaker 2Yeah, no, I can't All right this one's kind of fun. I remember this one Fantasy Island De Plane, de Plane, de Plane. We.
Speaker 1De Plane. We're going to get in trouble for that one. Yeah, de Plane. Yeah, mr Rourke.
Speaker 2Mr Rourke, ricardo Maltabon and then we're talking about De Plane, de Plane, yeah, tattoo.
Speaker 1Yeah, Tattoo and all that stuff. That was one of the coolest shows because it was always like a revolving guest that was on. There was always three new guests that came to the island and you couldn't wait. Next week, see who's coming next 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, fantasy island and stuff.
Speaker 1Like they've re like they've reinvented those and made them into like movies and shows over over the time. You time ever since the original show that we grew up and I couldn't tell you one of the actors from any of the remakes and stuff, but definitely it was a popular show to be remade.
Speaker 2All right man Next one. This is one of my favorites Good Times.
Speaker 1Dynamite. 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, these are James Evans Sr and Florinda. Yeah, michael, yeah, michael, thelma, thelma. This is also I don't know what was her.
Speaker 2Janet Penny, penny, penny, yeah, penny yeah. Remember she paid Penny Janet Jackson.
Speaker 1Yeah, janet Jackson was in the show as Penny, and yeah.
Speaker 2And they dealt with a lot of things too, because back then, remember, michael wanted to join a gang and then his dad, james, nah, he made sure that shit wasn't going to happen. But, see that was again. It goes back to the nucleus of the family, because they tried to do that, I mean, and he was in, Right, they're trying to shut down stereotypes too.
Speaker 2Yeah, and he was in a bad location but there ain't no way in hell that his parents was going to let him join that gang. And that was kind of cool because even back then it was like the dad stepped in and said there ain't no way. And that was a pretty intense episode because he told his son how much he loved him.
Speaker 1And even though that you know, this was going on, there ain't no way in hell that he 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 all those.
Speaker 1Like you know it was funny, it had those core values, family values, putting tagged into it, trying to, you know, give proper representation of an american black family, right, right and uh, you know it was. It's just interesting to kind of like think back about that but you know the the best part of that.
Speaker 2It reminds you of james, anything, anytime that that those kids needed to get straightened out. James taking off that damn belt.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, oh yeah, Right.
Speaker 2Reflecting the sign of the time, right yeah, take that belt off. You're getting ass whooped.
Speaker 1Yeah, my parents did give me ass, whooping many a time.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1I'm sure you got some too. Oh, I know.
Speaker 2That's why I said everybody could relate to that, because they got their ass whipped with a belt, right. I mean. You know, it was just something they did.
Speaker 1You didn't think that your parents were abusive, it was just a form of love, and the classic line is what From your parents? This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you. Yeah, it didn't hurt you.
Speaker 2I didn't believe that, Sean, because that shit hurt it did not. I mean, I remember my mom couldn't get the belt fast enough. Do you know? There's Hot Wheel tracks, oh yeah. Them damn things are like three feet long man. She could reach us across the room.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean, and we had— I was beaten with my toys too.
Speaker 2It was just another thing that they could show their love with.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 a Hot Wheel track.
Speaker 2And the track part went across the arm. Trust me, I had one in the back of my legs, but anyway, yeah, it was love yeah. What they call abuse. Now, parents back then called it love, Love right, it's because I love you All. Right. Next one Laverne and Shirley, yeah.
Speaker 1Shamil Shamazo.
Speaker 2Haas and Better Incorporated.
Speaker 1Right, and for the longest time I was like what the hell is that?
Speaker 2What are they saying?
Good Times and Laverne & Shirley
Speaker 1I would say it not knowing anything about these words and stuff and I guess some of these words are Yiddish and all this stuff and they mean some different things and stuff I was like, wow, that is right. But I mean.
Speaker 2You didn't really give a shit, you just sang along with it.
Speaker 1No, no, no. It was a cool. It was like the pump of the show, right, Right, Like as soon as you saw that you're ready for them to dance and hold arms and sing the jingle, right.
Speaker 2All right, real quick. What real quick. What verne's favorite thing to?
Speaker 1eat? Um nope, scooter pies and pepsi. Oh yeah, do you remember the scooter pie?
Speaker 2oh yeah, remember that it was like that crunchy little thing with that spongy thing in the middle, that was nasty.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean it was so scooter pies are kind of like a moon pie. Yeah, some of those people that are out there that wouldn't didn't know what a scooter pie is, but if your, family didn't have no damn money.
Speaker 2That's what you ate, because there's still moon pies in the world. It was cheap ass pies.
Speaker 1Right, I mean it was cheap ass pies.
Speaker 2but okay, so the, the, the little sidekicks that were friends of Laverne and Shirley, lenny and Squiggy.
Speaker 1Oh, there you go, Winnie and Squiggy, yeah, and then they had their other buddy that hung out with them too, carmine.
Speaker 2Oh see, now you remember Carmine. Carmine dated Shirley remember.
Speaker 1No, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 2He's the big ragu.
Speaker 1Yep, that was his name, the big ragu.
Speaker 2All right, man, we are going on to this one. This one I love and I know you already got a story about it. Happy days one. I love. This one you're, and I know you already got a story about it.
Speaker 1Happy days sunday, monday happy days tuesday, wednesday, happy days thursday, friday, happy days saturdays see yeah, I mean you got two old asses happy days is like you know, that was right. There is like a slice of americana and like I remember parents like, oh yeah, back in the 50s this is how it was and all that stuff. It was cool.
Speaker 2And the lead character in the whole thing, the Fonz right, I was just sitting there thinking you know what was really funny. Do you remember Dodgeball, that movie? Yeah, he does that little skit where he runs by and he goes Joanie loves Chachi. Exactly, they brought that back in the dodgeball when he goes Joni loves Chachi.
Speaker 1I mean, the Happy Days was like such a staple in everybody's. I mean I don't know of any family that didn't watch Happy Days.
Speaker 2Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1It was like everybody could relate to it. It didn't matter who you were.
Speaker 2Everybody loved the Fonz.
Speaker 1Yeah, you had Richie Cunningham, joni Potsy Potsy, ralph Yep Al. You know Howard Cunningham, yep. Yeah, all these characters that were like staples in that show, that were just like so good. But here's my story about me running into the Fonz.
Speaker 1I was like sitting in Denver airport one day and I was in the middle of a trip, you know, sitting on some sit time, and you know how Denver airport has all the windows. You know you could sit in the chair, just look out the windows there, look at the sky and all that. And I'm sitting there and I'm just chilling out and some couple like sits down right behind me. You know, back to back to me, and this dude starts talking. And you know, as soon as he opened his mouth it was like instantaneously in my head I'm like, oh shit, that's the Fonz. He's right behind me, henry Winkler, he's behind me. I turn around and I'm like, oh my 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 a picture? And he's like, sure, come on over.
Speaker 2You know you got a picture of the.
Speaker 1Fonz, yeah, me and the Fonz. I'll have to post that on our site.
Speaker 2All right, real quick. So we're going to have to go through these, but Fonzie's girl, the number one girl that he had, do you remember her? No, no, no, all right, you guys See if you remember this one, pinky Tuscadero, oh.
Speaker 1Pinky Tuscadero. Now she was hot Pinky was hot Pinky, like so that Pinky Tuscadero did that. Was that any relation to the Pinky that was in Greece? I don't think so. You don't think so, no.
Speaker 2Because it wasn't her name Pinky Tuscadero, I think that was. Wasn't that a Pinky's or something like that? No, no, no.
Speaker 1The Pink Ladies was the game.
Speaker 2The Pink Ladies, Pink Ladies right, good, all right, we're off to the Beverly Hillbillies.
Speaker 1Beverly. Let me tell you about a story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed, but then one day he was shooting at some coon.
Speaker 2Oh, you did not. Up from the ground came a bubbling crude.
Speaker 1Oil. It is.
Speaker 2Texas tea Texas tea. See, we can sit there and talk about this one forever man, because you had Granny Jethro, ed Ellie Mae.
Speaker 1Granny was the best man. I mean her like always getting after everybody.
Speaker 2Her elixir.
Speaker 1Her elixirs hitting people with a broom. Granny pointing her finger at you.
Speaker 2Alright, ellie Mae she was really good at one thing. What was that being hot Wrestling?
Speaker 1Oh yeah, wrestling, that's right she was a wrestler, that's right. She'd come in in her Daisy Dukes.
Speaker 2And you'd be like okay, let's wrestle. And then okay, here's one too. Is Jethro Jethro, his higher education. Now, do you remember what his higher education was? Oh, I cannot even imagine. Yeah, you'll love this one Cyphering.
Speaker 1Cyphering, Yep cyphering. How is he cyphering? He's that smarty-morty Cyphering.
Speaker 2He added Sean, one, not two. One, not three. Do you remember that? And Remember that? And Jed would go yeah, he's going to be a banker one day. He's really good at adding he's really good, he's really that boy's really good at adding yeah, he's ciphering. That's what Jethro did.
Speaker 1The stereotypes that came out of the hillbilly culture.
Speaker 2I know we could talk about these all day, I mean it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1People probably thought that was really how people were. I mean, I'm, that was really how people were, you know. I mean I'm sure there might be people 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 feel like like when we were kids, like little rascals with a staple, like all those like slap comedy, you know, physical comedy shows were like the staple in our lives. That's what made us laugh.
Speaker 2I love Little Rat. Rascals was unbelievable Just the characters in it. Spanky.
Speaker 1Yeah, spanky Alfalfa.
Speaker 2Darla.
Speaker 1Darla.
Speaker 2Stymie, I love Stymie Little's hat. Stymie had the coolest little hat.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, but the coolest cat in there was Buckwheat.
Speaker 2Buckwheat was the coolest cat, but Buckwheat and Spanky were really cool. Okay, Stimey, though, had a really cool hat, Now something you guys might not have known, but there was a character named Porky, and then also he was replaced by a character. I think his name was Mickey. Now, believe me, this is funny. Do you know who played Mickey?
Speaker 1Mickey. No, I wouldn't have. No, I clue, no clue. Robert Blake Robert.
Speaker 2Blake. Yeah, robert Blake never would have guessed that in a million years, right? No, robert Blake was actually a Mickey replaced. He replaced a Porky in that. But yeah, little Rasp was. I mean, you could talk about them all day, but we got so many things to go through real quick, so welcome back, cotter.
Speaker 1Welcome back.
Speaker 2Welcome back yeah.
Speaker 1All I can do is hear is Horshack's laugh.
Speaker 2You know like oh yeah, but no, no, no, John Travolta, ba, ba, ba ba.
Speaker 1Bob Reno, reno, bob Reno.
Speaker 2Vinnie Bob Reno, you got it. And then you had Freddie boom boom Washington, you got that. And Gabe Carter, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Gabe. But who is the next one? Oh, I don't know who's that.
Speaker 2Seriously.
Speaker 1Yeah, seriously.
Speaker 2You don't remember. Remember Juan Epstein.
Speaker 1Oh, epstein, yeah, Juan Epstein.
Speaker 2Okay, 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 to Mr Cotter about their kid, about their kid, yeah, do you remember? No, seriously.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Epstein's mother. Epstein, I'm serious.
Speaker 1Epstein's mother. Epstein, oh yeah, epstein would come in there and he'd like bring these like notes from mom. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And he would. Always he'd be reading it lip reading, as he's giving it to Mr Cotter and he goes signed Epstein's mother, epstein's mother.
Speaker 1I can't believe you did that, but you know something real quick.
Speaker 2Now, this is what I didn't know about. You know, they weren't going to air actually Welcome Back, conor because there was a busing issue going on back then and this was actually one of the very first interracial classrooms that was televised. And there was this whole busing issue going on in Boston and they thought it was going to be a big problem because they already had protests and everything going on. But they went ahead and they aired the show and actually did a lot of good.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 was happening in a society Like like I could tell you, like my wife she had a direct encounter with that besting thing when they first started integration of students and stuff they started bringing on the, you know, bringing black kids from the inner city of her little town that she was in and bring them to it, and like they had riots and they had like all this big, all this stuff was going on. My wife was like totally oblivious to what was happening. But I mean that all that culture and all that different movement of the whole entire United States was happening at that time. And to start a show like this, where you have an interculture, like all these different races in a classroom, I mean it reflected that we can all get along right, Exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, now we're going to go through a couple of these a little bit faster and we're going to talk about the Muppets. Real quick, just tell me your favorite Muppet.
Speaker 1Muppet Animal, animal, oh no.
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Speaker 2Without a doubt, animal I mean animal I mean blah, blah blah, but you know you had to love Kermit the Frog.
Speaker 1There was. You know there's so many cool characters. I I was looking at the Muppets and like there was like 40, 40 some the Swedish Fest, the Swedish Fest yeah. You got it. I mean, the scooter Beaker was my second one, I mean, but Gonzo was up there too. Like Gonzo was like crazy, crazy man, but all that, all that stuff. Like I loved the Muppets.
Speaker 2The Muppet show was just fantastic. Like I said, you could do a whole show on just some of these.
Speaker 1Yeah, henson was a freaking mastermind when it came to like putting this whole thing together. It was unbelievable. If you ever get a really good chance to watch the history of Jim Henson, it is a super cool. Interesting like how these things came about and the gamble that they took on these Muppets.
Speaker 2I still love animal. Oh yeah, all right, let's go to Sesame street. Sesame street, your favorite one.
Speaker 1Hurry up what's your favorite Uh favorite one? Uh, oscar, the route, for sure. Really, yeah, mine's cookie. I mean cookie like everybody likes cookie.
Speaker 2I love cookie Oscar that's why you love him. It fits right in with you exactly 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 the the group on sesame street. I love Sesame.
Speaker 1Street. It's funny because Sesame Street started first and then Muppets came along after that Right and characters from Sesame Street bled over into the Muppets, Like Big Bird was on the Muppets and Kermit the Frog was on the Muppets.
Speaker 2Snuffleupagus, yeah, the Snuffleupagus that nobody ever seen that was this big, huge, elephant-looking animal that hardly anybody could ever see.
Speaker 1Yeah, he'd come in and Big Bird would be like where is?
Speaker 2he? 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 up and then you can't forget, like the count oh, one, two, three, three, three bats, three bats we've got three bats.
Speaker 1Yeah, I did love the count. I mean it was so easy to like connect with each one of those things. They were like so much fun. And then the songs and stuff. Like you're like, one of the songs that I remember from, uh, sesame street was did you remember that in and out song? There's a song when they're like in oh, that's what the song is all about.
Speaker 1And it was like during the disco era time and so they're like they're like go in the door and then they're in, in in the door if you can see him dancing right now, you're killing me man, google it, you'll see it, you guys will be dancing to it and you guys will be going in and out the door.
Speaker 2All 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 this Now. Who was Samantha's mother's? What was Samantha's mother's name? No, the witch. What was it? Bup, bup, I have no idea. Andorra, andorra, yeah, andorra, the witch.
Speaker 1Yeah, like she was definitely a bad mother-in-law.
Speaker 2Oh, and then you had to mention Uncle Arthur, remember he'd always pop in. Yeah, he's like the squirrely one.
Speaker 1Pop in and he was like wasn't he like a warlock or something?
Speaker 2Yeah, something like that. Yeah, Like a squirrely little warlock. Yeah, mchale's Navy.
Speaker 1I 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 was one show we didn't do, but we did watch gomer pile.
Speaker 1I love gomer pile, yeah, so like gomer pile was like in our repertoire, you know, and all that stuff and uh, it was interesting because uh, um, like all these connections of shows, one of the shows, other shows that were uh connected to where gomer pile came from, was actually the andy griffith show. Yeah, like the pile family was actually in that show and he actually went into the military and became a marine and all that stuff and so he was just that goofy guy that was in the andy griffith show, which was this wholesome, you know show at the time. Um, definitely showing you know a different story, like you know. Here's this father raising his son by himself yeah, and they spun off.
Speaker 1Remember captain kangaroo and mr rogers captain kangaroo, mr rogers, those were like all, all those shows that came around the sesame street time yep and uh. The other thing that was like right along the uh uh lines of rascals was the three Stooges.
Speaker 2Oh my God, Larry Curly and Moe. Larry Curly and Moe.
Speaker 1Yeah, they made all kinds of crazy fun physical comedy. I was just telling my nieces the other day about these and I was like you guys need to watch some of these. I think you guys would love it because they're into that.
Speaker 2You know, like I already told you, they like that barton and farting and belching and all that stuff and, uh, that would be just right up all right before, but now, before we end this, we this would be. This is a perfect ending.
Speaker 1Batman and robin dude batman holds a special place in my heart because when I was a baby and I first like like started, the first time I actually 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, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. You can see this little baby doing this right on the TV. And then I literally backed up and walked across the room to my mom, to the Batman song. That's how I started walking was the Batman song.
Speaker 2You can never, you can never, ever forget G Williker's Batman. G Williker, kapow, Kapow, kapow, kapoom, yeah. And then you had to remember the Riddler, the Joker, the Penguin, and you can't ever forget Catwoman, catwoman man.
Speaker 1Like all those characters were like so cool. I mean I grew up in the Bay Area so when that was all happening, like Adam West would like tour around the Bay Area in the Batmobile and so I got to see it as a little kid and stuff, so that was like super cool. But I mean to compare that to what we see now in the movies and stuff with all the different Patmans we've experienced, it totally is different but it was cool All right, I had reflected, that was so much fun.
Speaker 2I tell you, you know we had to go through that pretty quick and even though it's it's actually taken us a little bit longer, we could have stayed, we could have went like a whole freaking episode just on some of these shows that we did.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, this is the things that we kill time in the back alley like just talking about some of the things that we reflect on in our childhood and how we identified with us and what we did as families compared to other crew members and stuff like that.
Airline Industry Crazy Stories
Speaker 2Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that part. But now, sean, it's time to go around the globe see the crazy shit that went on in the airline industry.
Speaker 1Dude, there's always crazy shit going on, always. Yeah, what's going on All?
Speaker 2right man was charged with a flash grenade in his carry-on bag. What a dumbass.
Speaker 1Unbelievable, really Unbelievable. I mean, why do? Why do people try to take this Like oh, I accidentally forgot my grenade in the freaking, exactly.
Speaker 2Where did I put that damn grenade? Oh yeah. Yeah, it's in my bag, oh yeah there you go All right. Flight bound from Fort Milan, forced to turn back after a passenger's midair tantrum you know what it was over? No, he didn't get his meal choice.
Speaker 1No, he didn't get his meal choice. I've seen that in person.
Speaker 2He didn't get his meal choice. And then he was mad because they wouldn't let him sit in the exit row. So from all of that, because you didn't get your chicken or beef, then you didn't get in the exit row because you didn't pay. So what he did is that he charged at the flight attendants and tried to storm the cockpit. Now that doesn't go over very well.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's going to have a change of lifestyle, for sure.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, he's going to change his outfits too.
Speaker 1He's the one that actually needs that Hot Wheel track.
Speaker 2He should have had that Hot Wheel track smacked up against his head. All right, this one you're going to love. The India passenger urinates on a fellow traveler on a flight to Delhi.
Speaker 1Oh, hell, no. So the India passenger urinates on a fellow traveler on a flight to Delhi, he'll know.
Speaker 2So he got pissed on yeah.
Speaker 1That is unbelievable. There's no way that ain't happening, man, that ain't happening.
Speaker 2All right, this one. The passenger got kicked off the plane for using the bathroom when they're taxiing out.
Speaker 1I'm trying to figure out that, like, how many times have we seen a pastor get up and try to go to the bathroom when we're taxing, you know like? That happens all the time, but to get kicked off?
Speaker 2Yeah, cause he went. He just went inside there and then they, they, they were yelling him to get out and he didn't get out, and then they, they turned back around and they kicked him off the airplane. Yeah, because he had to go pee.
Speaker 1Hey or something else. Obviously he had to be in there for a while.
Speaker 2Did not want to know that part of it, right, okay. A passenger was arrested in Chicago trying to go through security with a loaded gun. There we go. He must have been traveling with a guy with a grenade.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean what the TSA last year says, that we had like 6,700 firearms that were intercepted and 94% of them were loaded.
Speaker 2I mean that's, that's just it doesn't make any sense it just blows your mind when you like.
Speaker 1Start seeing these like statistics done like what is really happening.
Speaker 2Well, especially when someone says that they made a mistake. There's no way, there's no way in in the world that a gun is going to get in there carry-on bag. That's just stupid, no, dumb. All right, but now this last one. This last one we're going to talk about, and it's exactly. It touches on why we're on airplanes. There was an aircraft that caught fire. An engine caught fire, had 200 passengers on it and it was evacuated safely by the flight attendants.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean that's why we're here. That's exactly what we do, that's our business. I know that plane had, like they had a couple exits that had to be blocked because it wasn't functioning right the doors or whatever. Whatever happened, I'm sure will all come out and report, but I mean everybody got off safe. There's a few injuries in this on the slide, because I'm sure people were crazy jumping off the slides, but um, yeah, everything. And that's the reason why we are flight attendants and what we are here to do we're not here for the.
Speaker 2I mean, we give you the peanut or not even peanuts anymore the pretzels and uh and the 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 that was phenomenal. Let's go to the destination.
Speaker 1Destination what's the destination this week?
Anna Maria Island: Florida Gulf Coast Paradise
Speaker 2Destination was a big. My pick was Annemarie Island. Annemarie Island, annemarie Island, man. It is a barrier on the Florida Gulf Coast and it is absolutely gorgeous. Let me tell you something, guys If you really want to go somewhere just to relax and I'm not talking about nightlife, I'm not talking about anything else, just that you want to go, you want some really nice beach, you want some areas to walk around and you want a few places to go eat, but you want it more relaxing than anything. They have white, pristine beaches the prettiest in the United States, without a doubt. I used to. When I was young, sean, I used to go to Emory Island and I used to snorkel down there because they had sand dollars huge sand dollars yeah.
Speaker 2They were right. You know, you'd just go 10, 12 feet out and go down the Gulf.
Speaker 1Coast side of the Florida tends to have a lot more sand dollars, and I don't think I've ever found one on the Atlantic side. No, no.
Speaker 2But again, like I said, I used to go there all the time and get those snorkeling and then the sunsets are absolutely freaking gorgeous man. But then again you have white beaches. It looks like it goes on forever and you just see the sun going down over the water and a couple other things. Cool that you get to do kayak with the dolphins, grouper, which you know. What can you say, grouper's?
Speaker 1I love Grouper.
Speaker 2I mean, it's just Grouper. I mean black and Grouper.
Speaker 1I 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 lives down in florida.
Speaker 2they they know the restaurants to go eat grouper but again, it's not going to be one place for nightlife. Don't sit there and think that, because you're not going to get that, but what you're going to do is that you're going to get a relaxing time on the beach Annamarie Island it's a must-do, must-see. And then a couple of the restaurants Sean, yeah you got to talk about the food.
Speaker 2Yeah Well, I mean, this is basically seafood. I mean we could talk about food all you want, but these restaurants anywhere on the coast 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 the sandbar, and the other one is the Beach House Waterfront Restaurant.
Speaker 1Oh cool, yeah, I mean all those type of like Florida has like tons of those nice little you know fish restaurants. They sit out on the freaking like you know deck and eat your grouper and watch the sunset go down Me and you would kill a black and grouper.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, and a couple of beers. More than that? All right, brother, let's get to the quote.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 to it that is so true because anytime that we're on a plane, we have a situation on a plane.
Speaker 2Right, we have, we all have situations all the time.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, 10 of it is what happens, 90 is how we react to it yeah, what how it's going to develop and where it's going to go is how we react, because we know, as flight attendants, we're trained to defuse situations, we're not trying to escalate anything and something can get out of hand real quick if you took the opposite approach.
Speaker 2Yep, hey you guys. I had a great time this week. I actually had a lot of fun talking about these shows. Yeah, the reminiscing we went down memory lane quite a bit. That was a lot of fun. I know it's a little bit long today, but it was actually a lot of fun. I enjoyed that one. I loved Gemma's now sleeping in my lap, so she's about ready to go home, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Well, it's time for us to go. All right, you guys, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2We'll see you next week. You guys have a great week, see you.
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