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Our Favorite 80s Sitcom Characters · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Children of the 80s is brought to you by Q106. 5
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Children of the 80s. I am one
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  Speaker 2: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined, as always,
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  Speaker 2: by the lady who wishes she could have been the
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  Speaker 2: fifth Golden Girl. It's my co-host, Lindsay.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Yes. In fact, I've got my stay
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  Speaker 1: golden Golden Girl picture over here to my left. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's room.
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  Speaker 2: For There's room right next to Sophia that we can
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  Speaker 2: just stick your headshot.
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  Speaker 1: My large noggin could fit right in there.
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  Speaker 2: We can put it right in there. You know, Betty
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  Speaker 2: White's blonde, so you can keep your blonde.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be gray like Maude and Sophia.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you sound over there like you've smoked 100
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  Speaker 2: packs of Lucky's a day for your whole life?
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  Speaker 1: Listen, it ain't easy being 70.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you sound like it. I know. You sound
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  Speaker 2: like you're 70 and you sound like you've smoked about
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  Speaker 2: 70 cartons of cigarettes in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I've been sick for like two straight months. And then
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing yard work. And that's not been good
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  Speaker 1: for my lungs.
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  Speaker 2: No, it gets all the allergens in the air stirred up. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it gets it all worked up. Flying into your lungs.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, I know I don't sound great. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: But that's it. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of lawn care, you made me pressure wash today.
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  Speaker 2: You made me do a bunch of lawn work. You
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  Speaker 2: had me out in the garage working. Have you forgotten
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  Speaker 2: that I only have one kidney?
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  Speaker 1: Have you forgotten that I've got two bad lungs?
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  Speaker 2: No, because you cough in my face every five seconds.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't forget. You get up and pee every
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  Speaker 1: five seconds. I can't forget.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, but yet you work me like a dog.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was in Camden, Siberia.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's Labor Day weekend. You labor on Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're supposed to take a rest from all of
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  Speaker 2: your labor on Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm too old to go into labor, so I'm making
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  Speaker 1: you labor around the house.
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  Speaker 2: I did labor a lot today, and I guess that's
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  Speaker 2: better than you being in labor at this age.
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  Speaker 1: At this age. And it's better than not being able
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  Speaker 1: to labor at all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, I mean, very true. Like, I could be
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  Speaker 2: laid up in bed forever or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Or not even here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I am glad that I am able to labor.
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  Speaker 2: It's a joy. It's a, what do they call that?
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  Speaker 2: A labor of love. There you go. If you say so.
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  Speaker 1: So I came into the podcast room, and when I
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  Speaker 1: sat down, I looked, and there's a big old screw
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  Speaker 1: come off the bottom of my chair laying here in
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  Speaker 1: the floor.
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  Speaker 2: That's because it's a cheap piece of crap.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. I see my dolly chair ain't here yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is not. Did you check in with the
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  Speaker 2: fella and see if he'd sell it for less than $ 600?
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  Speaker 1: No, because I feel like even if she came down,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she would have to come down $ 400 to $ 200,
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  Speaker 1: I think, before I could possibly talk you into it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you got her to get you a
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  Speaker 2: 50% discount, I would agree to it. In a second.
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  Speaker 1: But I highly doubt that that would happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. What did I say to you the
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  Speaker 1: other day?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. As if you made that up and not Wayne Gretzky.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like something I would say.
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  Speaker 2: I do love the fact that you quoted Wayne Gretzky, though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. Well, in all fairness, I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea it was Wayne Gretzky. I thought it was like
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  Speaker 1: Yogi Berra. No.
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  Speaker 2: Yogi says stuff like it gets late early out there.
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  Speaker 2: And when you come to a fork in the road,
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  Speaker 2: take it.
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  Speaker 1: We were sitting on the couch when we weren't laboring outside.
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  Speaker 1: We were taking a little downtime. We were sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the couch today. And I was telling you about a
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  Speaker 1: true crime podcast that I listened to. And I asked
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  Speaker 1: Chad GPT how much money he thought that this podcast made.
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  Speaker 2: So Chad GPT is a he?
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  Speaker 1: In this situation, yes. And he came back and told
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  Speaker 1: me some astronomical number. And so I think that I'm
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  Speaker 1: a few steps closer to convincing you to do a
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  Speaker 1: true crime podcast with me because of those dollar amounts.
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  Speaker 2: If we could make what those people make... If we
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  Speaker 2: could make half of what ChatGPT says those people make.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all in. I mean, I feel like a quarter
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  Speaker 1: and we would be in.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, whatever. Yeah, I am all in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, if you think... that that can happen. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that it can, but if you think that it could,
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  Speaker 2: I'm all in, I'll do a podcast with you on
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  Speaker 2: true crime and we'll, we'll continue to do the children
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  Speaker 2: of the eighties. Cause this is my true passion.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We will never not do children of the eighties. It's,
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  Speaker 1: it's not an either or I'm looking to build the dynasty.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, are you, uh, what? Joan Collins now? Yes, exactly. Dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: You see my shoulder pads.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Um, Yeah, I'm all in if you can
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  Speaker 2: get a quarter of what they're making.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A quarter. I'll take a quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be sitting in my dolly chair while we
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is my dream.
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  Speaker 2: We can get all the dolly chairs you want if
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  Speaker 2: we're going to make that doing a simple little podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: How much research do you think they do?
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're to the point they pay somebody
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  Speaker 1: to do their research. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're talking.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know. But that's When you make, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of million dollars a year off podcasting, you can.
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  Speaker 2: Pay a researcher. I bet they pay a producer, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they do.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to pay a producer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. You've stirred up the congestion.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Here we go. Here comes the emphysema.
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  Speaker 2: So what else?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You showed me a meme type of thing on,
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  Speaker 1: was it Twitter? I don't know. Where'd you find that one?
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  Speaker 1: And we started to talk about it, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: save it for the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear me?
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  Speaker 2: I said get off my lawn now. Get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not happy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like this chair, and I don't like this desk,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't like being here. I'm a grumpy old man.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like everything the way it is now compared
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  Speaker 3: to the way it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So.
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  Speaker 1: But I was equally grumpy about it. So this is not,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not letting you have this as an old man rant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to rant.
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  Speaker 1: We can have an old person rant.
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  Speaker 3: That's quite distinct. I think there's always a lovely feeling
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  Speaker 3: associated with it. It's almost like you pave over all
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  Speaker 3: the trauma with like puppy dogs.
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  Speaker 1: And ice cream. And the 80s was a brutal, brutal
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  Speaker 1: time for people.
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  Speaker 2: It was a.
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  Speaker 1: mess like you know people forget.
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  Speaker 3: That it was like that was a tremendous strife sociopolitical
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  Speaker 3: tensions everywhere you know we're still like pretty fresh off
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  Speaker 3: like a cuban missile crisis which is only like what
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  Speaker 3: 15 20 years before so.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's uh it's a tumultuous.
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  Speaker 3: Period but you look back at it now you're like
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah top gun cocaine like no it was like
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  Speaker 3: a really scary so i think you know i think
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  Speaker 3: when you look back at 2026 and.
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  Speaker 2: Okay so many problems with that So many things that
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  Speaker 2: were not factual.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, who was that?
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  Speaker 2: That was Ryan Reynolds.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds. Somebody, Vanity Fair stopped him.
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  Speaker 2: On a- Variety.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry. Variety. Yeah, step down from Vanity Fair. Stopped
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  Speaker 1: him on a red carpet and asked his thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: why people are so nostalgic about the 1980s.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and first off- The 80s, you would say the
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  Speaker 2: 80s were, not the 80s was.
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  Speaker 1: Did he say the 80s was?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he said the 80s was.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but listen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to pick on that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's don't get petty.
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  Speaker 2: No, I am. I'm getting petty.
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  Speaker 1: No, here. Why did he bring up the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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  Speaker 1: but not Vietnam.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's okay. So that's why I said so many things.
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  Speaker 2: So factually wrong 15 to 20 years before. No, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to say it was 20 years before the
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  Speaker 2: early eighties. Yes, but no 15 years. It was 15
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  Speaker 2: years before Jimmy Carter was elected. Who wasn't in the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: Who was barely president into the eighties and nobody. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Reynolds was talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis in the
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  Speaker 2: 80s other than history teachers.
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  Speaker 1: So my dad served in the Navy during the Cuban
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  Speaker 1: Missile Crisis. Now, he spoke all the time about his
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  Speaker 1: years in the Navy. He never once mentioned that it
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  Speaker 1: was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I found that out
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of his life when I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get some VA benefits on his behalf.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There, it couldn't have been, I mean, it was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. I'm not trying to say that it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: But yet, again, he picked the Cuban Missile Crisis as
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  Speaker 1: something that we weren't able to overcome, yet he totally
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  Speaker 1: laughed out Vietnam conflict. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to point this out. He said the
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  Speaker 2: 80s were a terrible time, a terrifying time. No, they
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  Speaker 2: were not.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't terrified.
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  Speaker 2: I was never terrified. Was there a Cold War going on?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But did we really believe that Russia was going to
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  Speaker 2: end the world by, or I should say the Soviet Union,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what they were back then, the Soviet Union
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  Speaker 2: was going to end the world by nuking us? That's
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  Speaker 2: something that I believe the news tried to scare into us,
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  Speaker 2: but that is not something that we believe, because the
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  Speaker 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, speaking of, proved that the Soviet Union
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  Speaker 2: did not want to in the world because they backed
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  Speaker 2: down when Kennedy put up the blockade. And so that
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  Speaker 2: proved they thought we wanted to end the world. We
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  Speaker 2: thought they wanted to end the world. And John F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy stood tough. As he should have. And we found
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  Speaker 2: out that really nobody wanted to end the world. So
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  Speaker 2: we weren't thinking about the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 80s.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't really thinking about getting nuked in the 80s
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  Speaker 2: unless the media was trying to scare us or they
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  Speaker 2: were putting that the day after on television and trying
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  Speaker 2: to scare us.
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  Speaker 1: We did have the drills in school where we had
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  Speaker 1: to put the book over our heads.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was, again, just stupidity. A book over
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  Speaker 2: your head isn't going to save you from a nuclear blast.
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  Speaker 2: But I would still like to get into how he
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  Speaker 2: said the 80s were a terrible time. It wasn't, okay?
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  Speaker 2: He acted like we're glossing over the bad stuff that
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  Speaker 2: happened in the 80s. Listen, dude. Find me a decade
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  Speaker 2: where bad stuff didn't happen. Bad stuff has always happened.
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  Speaker 2: But the 80s weren't terrible. They weren't awful. You want
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  Speaker 2: to know what was terrible and awful? How about the
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  Speaker 2: 30s when we had a Great Depression that went out
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  Speaker 2: through the whole world and people were starving to death?
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  Speaker 2: Or Hitler started a war and started killing people in
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Europe and then Western Europe? Or how about the 40s?
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  Speaker 2: When the whole world was at war and 110 million
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  Speaker 2: people died and hundreds of millions of people were displaced
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  Speaker 2: and didn't have a place to live. OK, or maybe
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  Speaker 2: the 70s during the Vietnam era or 25 percent housing
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  Speaker 2: crisis where they're charging interest rates at 25 percent. for
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  Speaker 2: you to buy a house. That's horrible. Okay. The eighties
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning, it was still a little rough, but
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  Speaker 2: as we got further into the eighties, it became better
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  Speaker 2: for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because interest rates came down. The economy picked up. We
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  Speaker 2: weren't starving anymore where people started in Africa. Absolutely. That
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  Speaker 2: was horrible. I'm not glossing over that, but listen, we
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  Speaker 2: lived here in America and you lived in Canada and you,
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  Speaker 2: We weren't starving in America or Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds lived in Canada?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's Canadian.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Canadian.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he's Canadian. So the 80s weren't a horrible time.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's glossing over anything. Do we look back on previous
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  Speaker 2: decades with a sense of nostalgia and maybe think that
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  Speaker 2: it was better than it was? Probably, but that's because
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  Speaker 2: we were kids and everybody loves being a kid and
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  Speaker 2: everybody would love to go back and be a kid again.
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  Speaker 2: but the eighties weren't terrible. The eighties were awesome. The
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  Speaker 2: thirties were terrible. The forties were terrible. That's why people
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  Speaker 2: love the fifties. That's why people get nostalgic about the
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  Speaker 2: fifties because the wars were over. People were getting their
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  Speaker 2: houses back. We were rebuilding Europe. Then the sixties came along.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody loved the sixties. And then we got into the
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  Speaker 2: hippie movement and the free love movement and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then we got into the seventies and everything just
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  Speaker 2: kind of went to crap. We had Watergate and we
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  Speaker 2: had the Vietnam war. And we had, like I said, uh,
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  Speaker 2: high interest rates on home loans, gas prices out of control.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was out of control. And then the eighties kind
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  Speaker 2: of got everything back in line. The nineties were great too.
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  Speaker 2: And everything once again changed after nine 11, but that's
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  Speaker 2: why we go back to the eighties and nineties, Ryan Reynolds,
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  Speaker 2: because the world hadn't changed with nine 11, because we
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  Speaker 2: did reach a point of, uh, Everybody doing okay. When
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  Speaker 2: I say everybody, obviously I don't mean everybody. Not everybody
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  Speaker 2: has done okay. But the majority of people had a
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  Speaker 2: great 80s and a great 90s. It was not a
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  Speaker 2: horrible time. And we don't look back and go, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: Top Gun and cocaine, that's what made the 80s great. No.
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  Speaker 2: What made the 80s great is what made the 80s great.
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  Speaker 2: We lived in a world where we weren't thinking about
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  Speaker 2: socioeconomic troubles with the USSR. Ryan Reynolds. We were thinking
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  Speaker 2: about having fun, the fun movies, the video games, the television,
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  Speaker 2: the music, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why we look back on it with good times.
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  Speaker 1: You're done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. You go right ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Children of the eighties with Jim and Lindsay.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I had to get on my Dennis
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  Speaker 2: Miller style rant.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, why do you think he picked that as
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  Speaker 1: his hill to die on?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to be fair to him. And I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes when you're on a red carpet and people
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  Speaker 2: just hit you up with random questions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe you speak without thinking because you feel
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  Speaker 2: the pressure to answer. But I really think that we
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  Speaker 2: should all take the time to think about our answers
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  Speaker 2: before we just go spouting off at the mouth. Because
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  Speaker 2: usually when you go spouting off at the mouth, you
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  Speaker 2: say something that you can't take back. And then you
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  Speaker 2: usually double down on it and you say things like,
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  Speaker 2: the 80s were a horrible time. That it was terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have that.
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  Speaker 4: And I believe that our education, like such as South
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  Speaker 4: Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe
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  Speaker 4: that they should, our education over here in the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and
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  Speaker 1: should Do you think that that was the moment he had?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't quite that bad. But that's exactly what I
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  Speaker 2: thought of when I was saying that he was maybe,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just started spouting off before thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: But again, Vietnam. That never entered his mind. No. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't think about.
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  Speaker 2: We were fresh off Vietnam. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He did not think about the men and boys we
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  Speaker 1: had coming back from Vietnam who were never going to
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  Speaker 1: be the same again.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I giggled because there's a scene from Born on
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  Speaker 1: the Fourth of July that off the air we quote
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  Speaker 1: a lot to each other that's funny, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: appropriate to say on here. So to clarify, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: laughing about Vietnam. I'm laughing about a quote from Tom
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  Speaker 1: Cruise that we like to reference.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: And that poor girl is exactly what I thought about
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: when I said what I said about Ryan Reynolds. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: really think that if he'd given time to think about it,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: it may have been a little bit different.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't... Listen, I don't know that it
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: would have been.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe it wouldn't have been. I don't know.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I don't... If you keep up with some of the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: things that he and Blake Lively have been through in
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I think that he did
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the best he could right there.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: That's about as manly and about as forceful and about
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: as convicted as you'll ever see Ryan Reynolds.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I mean, I don't know anything about him
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: other than he's in the movies. What do you think of.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: His little scar, his little bandana tied around his neck?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe he was trying out for the Flintstones
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: part two and he was Fred wearing the ascot. I know.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: That's what it looked like. Oh my goodness.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: So get Matthew Lillard to be shaggy again for you,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: And I think, let me just say one more thing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: What I wish the angle he had have taken was
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it was the last generation that had the opportunity of
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: pure innocence in their childhood.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And I wish that he had have maybe gone that
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: route instead of.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: The The Cuban Missile Crisis that happened in 1962. I mean,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: that's before the Beatles even came around.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Pre-Beatles. Oh, no, folks.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: He's going down. See, this is what happens when you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: get yourself so worked up.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I feel like I just grew a tumor in my throat.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I did that to you on purpose so I could
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: take the mic.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: We're talking pre-Beatles here. Yeah. Okay. Rock music wasn't even
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: what rock music is. And he's bringing that up as
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: if that's part of the 80s. Or that we hadn't
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: gotten over it yet. Trust me. We had all gotten
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: over it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So I think the children of the 80s, we were
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the last decade of that we were able to just
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: have kind of this pure innocence because we didn't have
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the internet, didn't have cell phones. People weren't tracking us.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: We didn't have flock cameras out there watching our every move.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: But also we had a resilience to us.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: That maybe might be lacking in today's age.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Well, we were talking about that earlier today about how
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: much Emmy always got hurt growing up and then she
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: would stop whatever we were doing. And I was like,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You know, she got hurt a lot. doing stuff that
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: was silly, like walking, right?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Or jumping into a pile of leaves, which we did
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: a thousand times. But, like, when she would get hurt
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: doing something, then that was it. That was the end.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was gone.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: She tried playing soccer at, like, four years old. She
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: got knocked over, and she was basically declared that she
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: hated soccer.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like, I'm never doing that again.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I don't believe that she's gotten hurt one-tenth of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: times that I got hurt growing up by that age.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: But I had resiliency. But, all right, so done with
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: my rant on Ryan Reynolds.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Woo, that was.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I just think, I mean, if I'm being... nice it
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: was ill-informed at best and it was asinine at worst
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: so correct uh that's probably the last i'll talk about
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: ryan reynolds i hope for the rest of my life
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: i hope so i just thought that was i mean
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: i i saw that and i was shocked and i'm
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: like yeah that's none of that's true dude um was
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: there a cold war yes uh was there a little
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: bit of tension there yes did we think about.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It on a I know as children we didn't, but
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure. I don't think our parents or
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: grandparents did either. Do you?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I mean, I think there's always,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: so I think there's always a little bit of worry
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: with parents about the next generation and what kind of
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: world are they going to grow up in. I think
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: that's just natural to be a parent. So maybe there
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: was some worry there, you know, like, well, what if
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: a war starts? But the reality is, is like, It's funny.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, they were not worried
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: as it related to the Cuban Missile Crisis. No.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: But I think they were worried as in what was
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: going to happen between the Russian... The Russia. The Russia.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Now I sound like the girl in the U.S. Americans.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: And the Iraq and such. Poor girl. She was on
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: The Amazing Race.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: She's actually got a sweetheart, but....
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I read a lot of history books and I've always
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: read a lot of history books. Stalin did not trust
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the U.S., especially when we dropped the bomb on Japan
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and he had no idea about it. So, of course,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: he didn't trust us. We didn't trust him because he
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: was a liar. But then it went on from there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And so they thought that we were crazy and we
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: wanted to blow up the world and we thought they
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: were crazy and they wanted to blow up the world.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: And so there was this fear there of not trusting
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the other one and wanting to blow up the world.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: But the reality is, is neither side wanted to blow
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: up the world. So neither side was really going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: use nukes. They just had it as a, so you
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: can't have anything over me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: But I do think that there was probably some worry
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: from our parents about, you know, would this really happen?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Because they were given that information to not trust Russia
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: or not trust the USSR.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I keep calling them Russia. I'm sorry. Soviet Union.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Both of my parents did a lot of reminiscing in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the later years of their lives. Neither mentioned.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Or the Cold War.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: For that matter.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Or having any concern of the Soviet Union coming for us.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: No, no. So I would love to have him on
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the podcast and sit down and talk to him about
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: it and go point by point and be like, okay,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: what'd you mean by this? What'd you mean by this?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: What'd you mean by this? Because I'd like to refute.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: The things you're saying, or at least have some dialogue
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: back and forth. I mean, we won't get them, but
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that's fine. But anyway, anywho.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Anywho.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Are you ready to get to today's show? Because I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: think I'm ready. I've talked enough about Mr. Reynolds.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of the 1980s. We talk about things that were important
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to us as children and what we look back on
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a nostalgia podcast.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: That is correct, and today we are getting nostalgic about
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: 80s TV.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Wow, we haven't focused on 80s TV in a while,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: so I'm glad we're doing this.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: We have not, and I am glad we're doing this too,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: but I've got a little something to say before this.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I know because I'm middle-aged man. Little aged man. Middle
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: aged man. He has powers and knowledge that are far
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: beyond younger than middle aged man.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Caught between 40 and 55. Accruing more interest yet.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Losing his sex drive.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Developing skills and a gut.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Middle-aged man.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I have another nominee for the Middle-Aged Man Hall of Fame.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Bring it on.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: All right. I think you're going to laugh when you
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: hear this, and I think you're going to give it
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: an automatic pass right through, because when I heard it,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I laughed, and I was like, I don't know that there's,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: other than Wilford Brimley, maybe Gene Hackman, I don't know
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: there's a better person that runs with this. One Mr.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Phil Donahue.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: It's his prematurely gray hair.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But we got to let him in.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Because who's going to referee... The conflicts and the fights
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that come up in there.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Because they're all living in there, right?
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: They're all living in there. And you know, all of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: those crazy people, they're going to get into it. And
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: he needs to be the mediator.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Once again, it's just their busts that are living in there.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Just their busts.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: All right. Would you like a woman or would you
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: like me to skip the woman and wait till next week? No,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I want a woman. Mrs. or Ms.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Joan Rivers.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's denied. Oh. She is denied. Here's the reason.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: She lived her life wanting to not grow old. And
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the poor thing died trying to not grow old. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: have to honor her by not allowing her in to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the Middle-Aged Woman Hall of Fame.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It's the Middle Ages Man Hall of Fame. It's just
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the women's wing. I would like to point that out.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I believe that in the year 2026, we can give
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: them more than a wing.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: It's a big wing. And it's only going to grow.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: All right. So why don't you tell the folks what
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: we're doing today?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I want to know who nominated.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, our, our Patrion or our favorite Patrion or Mr.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: John Middleton. He's always got some good ideas.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Both of those. Okay. Well, those were great nominees. Sorry.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I can't let Joan in. She is up there in
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the great beyond grinning ear to ear. I'm happy that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: she didn't make it in.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Happy that she didn't make it in.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So we thought, because we haven't talked a whole lot
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: about 80s TV shows recently, and we were having this
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: conversation the other day, and we always meant when we
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: started the podcast to almost like evenly divide it between movies, TV, music. memories,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: current events, whatever. And sometimes we don't always do that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So this week's episode, we are going back talking about
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: our favorite characters from our favorite eighties sitcoms.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to throw out a sitcom and we're
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: each going to give our favorite character from the show.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: You can only pick one. So we're going to make
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: this a little bit difficult. You can mention your honorable
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: mentions if you want, but we're only going to pick one,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and then you're going to give your justification for that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: And then most likely I'm going to make fun of you,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: and then I'm going to force you to like mine.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: You know, that might be a form of bullying.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It may be. But you know, Ryan Reynolds got me
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: all fired up.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, you know I'm not Ryan Reynolds, right?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: All right, so I've got a list of best 80
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: sitcoms here from, I think, from BuzzFeed, so I'm just
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: going to go through them.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: One through whatever, and then we'll just end it when
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: we get tired of doing this. All right, so the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: first sitcom, of course, they have is your least favorite,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: which is Cheers. So basically there were kind of like
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: two iterations of Cheers, right? There was the first one
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: with Coach and Diane, and then later on it would
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: be Woody and Rebecca taking the place of Coach and Diane.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: So if you want to choose like coach or Diane
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: for the first iteration, and then like Woody or Rebecca
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: or somebody else in the second, that's perfectly fair to do,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I think. But if you want to pick somebody that
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: was in it the whole time, then pick somebody that
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: was in it the whole time.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Okay. So this is actually quite easy for me. I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: can pick somebody from each. What'd you call it? Iteration.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if I use that word, right?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I was just trying to throw out a big word.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Coach.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Coach was your favorite.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Woody part two.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Really? Yes.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Tell me why.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I don't like cheers.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: A fan of cheers. We've tried to go back and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: rewatch it because Jim swears that I just misremember how
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: bad it was.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: We've only watched the first 10 episodes. And again, the
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: first season, it was ranked like number 78 because it
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: was that bad. So we need to get past the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: first season.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: It hasn't gotten any better over the years, but, One
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: bright spot from each time frame is Coach and Woody.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: They would be the only reason for me to continue watching.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Sam is a weird color, and I can't get past that. Like,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: is his liver bad? I don't know. I mean, like, well,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess he was an alcoholic. Maybe his
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: liver was bad. I don't see. Maybe Norm... It's funny.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I can maybe see if somebody picked Norm. I see
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: no redeeming qualities about anyone else in that show.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: What about Cliff?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Cliff's okay.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: But Cliff Clavin's the best. He had wrong facts about everything,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: and he said it with such confidence you made it
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: believe that he was true.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I had somebody last week made reference to Seinfeld, and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: then she said, because you know none of those characters
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: were likable, and I was shocked. Because we watch Seinfeld
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: every day, and I love all of the characters.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, I think they're likable because we watch them
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: from their point of view, but I would say none
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: of those characters were good people inside the show.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean, are you saying, like, they shouldn't
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: be recommended for some kind of, like, good person award?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Well, this is a sitcom to make us laugh.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I get that, but you would say... Like, if you
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: looked at Cheers, right, you would say Woody was a
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: good person, right? Or Frasier was a good person. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: don't know about anybody else. But Woody and Frasier, you
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: would say were good people. Woody was a good person.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Or maybe Coach, right?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Coach was a good person. That's why I'm picking them.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: But you wouldn't say that Kramer or George or Elaine
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: or Jerry were good people.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Kramer was a great person. And he's one of the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: best sitcom characters of all time.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, he absolutely is one of the best. He's one
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: of the... Three or five best sitcom characters of all time.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. But he never worked. You know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: he was. If there was anybody that was a decent
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: person out of the four, it was him.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: But Jerry broke up with girls for shallow reasons. All
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: sorts of crazy reasons. Elaine was very selfish.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And George was neurotic and selfish himself.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And would cheat blind people to do whatever. Jerry stole
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a marble rye from an old lady, right? I mean,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the wrap-up of Seinfeld was so good, people hated it,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: but it was so appropriate.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Because it went through.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: What is it? Apropos. Apropos. Apropos.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Because it went through all the horrible things that they
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: did throughout the series, right? But anyway, back to what
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: we were talking about, cheers.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: So I'm saying I feel that way about cheers. Yes. Yes.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: So what I'm going to say is, and I kind
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: of go back and forth on this a little bit.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I go back and forth between, as a kid, I
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: loved Norm. As I get older, I love Cliff. But
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm actually going to go with Carla.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I knew it.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Being my favorite.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, I could tell by the look on your face
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: where you were going.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: She was so funny and such a smart aleck and
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: so rude.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: That I couldn't help it. She made me laugh all
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. All right.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: So the number two. So that was, according to BuzzFeed,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: the number one sitcom of the 80s. But the numbers
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: two sitcom of the 80s is something that we've talked
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: about a lot here. And you even started out the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: show talking about them. And that is the Golden Girls.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: And so we've talked about who our favorites are, but
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: let's just go ahead and quickly talk about it again.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Who's your favorite?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: So my friend group back in college, we always had this, okay,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: which character are you? And our friend group, if we
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: were living in a house together in Miami, which character
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: were you? They always made me either Dorothy or Rose.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And I was always offended because either you're saying... They said, well,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you're tall, so you're Dorothy. And I'm like, but she
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: kind of looks like a man. Or you're saying I'm
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: a simpleton because I'm Rose. So I was always offended. Now,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit of maturity to me. I'll tell you,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Rose is my favorite.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Okay. Back then and even now, Sophia's my favorite. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: like anybody that's a smart aleck.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: And anybody who's quick-witted and comes with the one-liners. And
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: so Sophia was actually my favorite. So here's one. Number
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: three is one that we haven't really talked a whole
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: lot about.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: And that is A Different World.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I love The Different World.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: As if.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: So it came on after Cosby once they booted Family
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Ties to A New Night.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: As if I had any realm of understanding of the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: black community, the black college-age community of the late 80s
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and early 90s. But, I mean, I sat there every
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: week and watched that show like I was one of them.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Wayne.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's my choice, too.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Gotta be, right? Yeah.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: He was fantastic. Fantastic.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And just the fact he was such a dork and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: he was so nerdy and he had his little flip glasses.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: But then as the show progressed, he ended up getting
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the beauty queen. And so he kind of like turned
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: into the guy all guys would want to be.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I love that progression for him.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: And then he went on to be brilliant in Whiteman
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Can't Jump as Wesley Snipes' sidekick. So yeah, Dwayne Wayne
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: for sure. And in fact, he became such an icon
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: of us in the 80s that you would call Dwayne Wade,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the basketball player Dwayne Wayne.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: When LeBron was down there in Miami.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Here's number four. I can't believe this one's number four,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: but hey, it is what it is. Different strokes.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Different strokes. Okay. Give me a moment. Who would be
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: my favorite?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I can tell you who my favorite was if you
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: want to. Be thinking about it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I think I'm going to go a little off
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the beaten path and I'm going to pick Pearl.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Pearl.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Pearl.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Pearl had epilepsy.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: In the show.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: In the show?
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: In the show.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know that.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: So Arnold and either Arnold and Dudley or Arnold and
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Sam saw a lady, I think, fall over and have
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: a seizure and it freaked them out. But then I
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: guess maybe in order to deal with their being freaked out,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: they started making jokes about it. You know, about handing
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: out some milk and she'll give you a milkshake kind
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of thing. And that upset Pearl. And she came in
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: yelling at them. She got herself worked up. Yeah, because
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: she also had epilepsy. And so she explained to them
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: what epilepsy was and why people shook. And then that
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: allowed them to. It was a very special episode.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, I bet it was.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Of different strokes.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: They did a lot of those.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: They did. And so, what you talk about, Willis, I mean,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: what you're talking about, Lindsay, I mean, the favorite character's Arnold.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Arnold, for sure. It's gotta be.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: It's gotta be Arnold, yeah.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I know, those little cheeks.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: All right. Next, we are going to go with 227.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Jackie.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah. I mean, that's much... Jackie. Much like....
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Sandra. You know how she always talked.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Yes. So it's much like a different world. I feel
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: like there was one person that really stood out that
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: made everyone love them. And for me, it was Jackie.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: What was Marla Gibbs character's name?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, I loved Marla Gibbs too. And everything that she
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: ever did, but yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Mary should be like Mary.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: And then Lester. Oh my gosh, loved that show. Of course,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: let's don't forget Pearl, another Pearl.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, the old lady, right?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: The old lady. She stood in her window and watched
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it all go by.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, yeah.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: She was like any old person, right? They're retired. They
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: don't have much to do, so they watch people. That's
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: what happened to my Meemaw. She got old. They forced
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: her to retire, and all she did was look out
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: her window and make up stories about the people that
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: were out there.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: That's hysterical. Listen to this. She was born July 23, 1909. Wow.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: In St. Louis, Missouri.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: All right. So.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: This next one is Growing Pains. Who was your favorite
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: character on Growing Pains?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Ben. What? Well, you have to understand my age. I
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: kind of thought he was cute.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Ben was a punk. So the only acceptable answers in
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: my mind are either Jason Seaver.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't Chrissy. I can tell you that.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Or Mike Seaver. Why?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Why does it have... I mean.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So it was strictly my age. So I'm looking at
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: it from what little Linz thought, and little Linz thought
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: he was cute.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: So I thought Mike Seaver was cool because he was
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: funny and he was always goofing off and he didn't
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: take school seriously.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: And that was you? That was me, except for I
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: wasn't as cool as Mike Seaver. Not anywhere close. All right.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: So our next one then, Lindsay, is going to be,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: so this show would end in early, like, 84. Okay.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: But it's a holdover from the 70s. Three's Company.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: So Three's Company is one of those shows, if you
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: asked me, I'd be like, I hate that show. And
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: in truth, I've seen every episode. I think I might, like,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: deep down secretly love it. Uh-huh. But you're asking me
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: my favorite character, Mr.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Furley. That is mine, too.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Ah, those big eyeballs.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, Don Knotts was fantastic.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: He wore, speaking of.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: He wore an ascot.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. What were those called?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Ascots.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It's got another name. I can't think, though.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Chokeholders. All right, now we're going to talk about a
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: little family called the Tanners. Now, if I told you
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: we were going to talk about a family called the Tanners,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: what show do you think we're talking about?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Full House.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: No, you would be incorrect. We are talking about ALF.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, of course. America's second favorite Tanner family.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Yes. I mean, could be fourth favorite Tanner family. Like,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: did anybody like Willie Tanner?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: No, nobody liked Willie.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, Alf. Alf is my favorite character.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: There's only one correct answer for this, and it is Alf.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: And better than just Alf, Alf's Feet.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Yes. Is Alf one of the best sitcom characters of
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the 80s? Yes.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: So let's talk about the other Tanners now. The Danny Tanners.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Who is your favorite character on Full House?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: I think it was DJ. She was just like a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: year or so older than me. And I just always
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: kind of wanted to be her and be more like her.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And I could relate to her. If she ever had
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: something happen, an embarrassment or something, I would be like,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, me too. So I could relate to her.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Okay. As a kid, I would have said like Joey.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Was my favorite because of all the characters. But, you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I always thought Danny was a doofus.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: He was.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: And Joey's really cheesy. So I guess I'm going to
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: go with. I don't know. I don't know why I
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: like that show.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You could go with Gibbler.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Okay. That's who I'm going with.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Okay. Gibbler it is.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Because I'm not going with Jesse Kostopoulos for sure. But
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I do like cut it out. Okay, so our next sitcom, again,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: ended early in 83, a holdover from the 70s, Laverne
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: and Shirley.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Who was your favorite character?
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: My favorite character was, it's a tie, it's Lenny and Squiggy.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: My favorite character was Carmine.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: I knew you were going to say the big ragu.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I just knew you were, when you, when you could
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: not remember his name, I knew.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: That you were going with the big ragu. Yes. It
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: took me a second to find it. I thought he
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: was cute.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Um, all right. Next one. One, one of your favorites,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: something that I've seen.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Hold on one second.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. You do this every single freaking time.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: He was only five foot three. Well, I can't put
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: him in my pocket.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: That would have been awkward. All right. This next one
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: is one of your favorites. Again, ended in the early eighties.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: We're talking a little bit of, WKRP in Cincinnati.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love it!
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Great characters on this show.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, jeez!
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Who is your favorite?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: So, picking a favorite would be like picking a favorite
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: child if I had more than one. Um... Oh, jeez, Louise.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to go with.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Dr. Johnny Fever.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: That's exactly... Who I was going with.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: But I don't think you could pick a bad one.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: No, you couldn't. They were all so good.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Les Nesman.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Listen, the Thanksgiving episode with the turkeys falling out of
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: the sky is still one of the best five sitcom
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: episodes of all time.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Venus Flytrap. I mean, so many good ones.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: So good. Okay. The show... That went from the late
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: 70s to the late 80s that I say this is
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: the best show that you could possibly take a nap to.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: The Love Boat.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: The Love Boat.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I never watched The Love Boat enough. I think it's...
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: His name wasn't Goober. Gopher?
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, Gopher.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Gopher. I think Gopher.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: My favorite was Isaac. Isaac was cool. He was the bartender.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: He was just always slick and cool.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can... Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I should have gone
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: with that one. But no, I'm sticking with Goober.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Goober. It's not the Andy Griffith show.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: What about the captain? What was his name?
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Captain Stubing.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: What about Captain Stubing? He was handsome.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: If you say so. I wasn't looking for anybody to
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: be handsome on the love boat.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, there you go.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: So.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Our next sitcom actually started in the late 80s and
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: was really more of a 90s show. But we have
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: talked about it before on this show. We're going to
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: talk about it now. Roseanne.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh. They just weren't very likable to me. I'm
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: going to have to go with George Clooney's character.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: The boyfriend.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: You don't even know what his name is.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Well, because I didn't feel like anybody else was all that.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going with Dan. How can you not like Dan Conner,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: John Goodman?
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I felt bad for Dan. I felt like he was
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, he absolutely was. Poor Dan. But I thought he
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: was funny.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: His life that brought us to the point of the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: TV show was a series of bad decisions.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, for sure. For sure. All right, here's one. Again,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: started the last year of the 70s and then ended
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: in its long run in 1988. We're going to go
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: with the facts of life.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Those characters were each so unique and so perfect on
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: their own. Um, I think, uh, I think it'll always
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: be for me, Joe.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: You know this, we've talked about this before, you know,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: it's Joe.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Mine is also Joe. We can't keep picking the same
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: thing over and over and over again.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Joe reminded me of my aunt Renee.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Um, If I could, I mean, yes, Joe
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: was my favorite. But if I had to go with
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: somebody else, it would be Tootie.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was adorable.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Tootie.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: And she, didn't she skate around in the early episodes?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And I thought that was just so adorable.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: The first year she skated around a lot, but then
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: they took that away because it was kind of a liability.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I bet it was. That's sort of funny to think about.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I can see that. All right.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: We mentioned the replacement in the late 80s after the
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Cosby show. So we're going to go with the original one.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Family ties family ties alex p keaton.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Okay i thought you might go with.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Nick well that's true i loved nick can i amend
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: my answer you can nick now why nick um i
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: thought he was just a lovable doofus yeah i loved
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: it because he was he was clearly almost like a
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I don't want to call him a loser because he was,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: but he was trying to become famous.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: With his art and his art was strange. And we
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: all know how hard it is for an artist to
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: make a living. Uh, cause either people love your stuff
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: or they don't. And if they don't love your stuff,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: then you can't really make a living. Nobody's really paying
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: you for it. And so it was funny to me
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: to watch the parents reaction of their daughter wanting to date, uh,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: basically a starving artist.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Um, But yeah, I would go with Alex P. Keaton.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: He was just Michael J. Fox. We've talked about this
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: a thousand times.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: What about The Wonder Years?
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a tough one. I kind of want to
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: go with for the mom.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Yes. But I might be thinking of me now. Right.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Instead of. So maybe I should pick Winnie.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Winnie.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Because I thought Winnie was sweet.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was sweet. I think the show did such
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: a good job of relating it from Kevin's point of
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: view that I don't know how you couldn't like Kevin.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: But I wouldn't have been surprised if you'd have went
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: with Paul. Paul was so sweet. I loved him, too. Okay.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: So what about another Thursday night show during that massive
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Thursday night lineup? Night Court.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Night Court. Bull.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Bull was your favorite?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: All the way.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Um....
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Because he was dumb and lovable?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was so, like, tall and big and bald.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was just such a unique look to him,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: and he was dumb and lovable.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looked like he would be this big, brutal bailiff.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: But he always had, like, this soft heart, and he
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: would cry.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: You know, John Larroquette won an Emmy four years in
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: a row for a reason. And one is because he's
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: a brilliant actor, but two, because that was a brilliantly
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: written character, and he just portrayed it all. well and
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: so I don't know how you can't go with Dan
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Fielding although you know what I liked Harry as well.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah Harry was great too I.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Liked Marky Post I liked Bull I liked Mac I
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: liked all of them I think they just had great
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: characters but if I had to pick a favorite it's
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: probably Dan Fielding but Bull was a good one Bull
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: was probably my favorite as a kid yes For sure. Um,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: here's another show that started in the seventies and ended
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: in the early to mid eighties. And you, I know
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: for sure that you love this one because we've talked
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: about it before, but who is your favorite character from
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: the Jeffersons?
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: The grandma. Really? Um, George Jefferson's mother. Really?
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Yes. Okay. Um, Again, a bunch of really good characters.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, they were.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Marla Gibbs was great on this, too.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: She was wonderful. I mean, you could just go with
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: George Jefferson. He was fantastic.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's who I got to go with.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: You go with Wheezy.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with picking Wheezy.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's bounce from that to the other Sherman
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Homesley sitcom, which was Amen.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Amen. Again, I would have to go with, what was he?
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Deacon Fry.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Deacon Fry.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: I think anything that Sherman Helms lives in, you almost
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: got to pick him.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: His daughter, she just grated on my nerves.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Thelma?
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I don't blame you for that. All right.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: What about Newhart?
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Newhart. Oh, so many characters. So, so many good ones.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I think if Bob Newhart's involved, you always have to
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: go with Bob Newhart. Okay.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I would go with Larry, of Larry, Daryl, and Daryl.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: I know he was like a bit character, but he
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: was in like every show.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, he was fantastic.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: He was in every show, and he was always like, hi,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: my name's Larry, this is my brother Daryl, and this
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: is my other brother Daryl, which was hilarious.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, yeah.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: And who was the little maintenance guy?
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom Poston.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: He was great.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Is that who you're talking about?
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was fantastic, too. Well, here we go. The
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Cosby Show.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I mean... Listen, I hate saying this. Bill Cosby. Wow.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I thought was the best part of the Cosby show.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: And I just hate that I'm saying that.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. I mean, it's not even a probably.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: But.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: The character of Theo.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure you identified with Theo.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Was so fantastic. No, I love Bill Cosby. I always
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: loved Bill Cosby as a kid. So I liked him.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: But I just think the character of Theo, he was
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: the only son, right, in a house full of women.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: And his dad seemed to be hardest on him.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: And so I just, you know, and Malcolm Jamal Warner
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: was brilliant. God rest his soul. So, yeah, I really
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: like the character of Theo. And his buddy Cockroach.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Cockroach.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: Cockroach.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I was fascinated by the Cosby show because the husband
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: and wife actually loved each other. And that was not
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the case in my house. And so it was almost
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: like fascinating to watch as a child on that level,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: to watch a family be so healthy and normal because
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I came from the opposite of that. Um, and it,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: but sometimes it would, even if I couldn't really put
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: it into words or didn't even know to put it
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: into words that it rubbed me to a little bit
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: where it hurt to see that they, they genuinely liked
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: each other and loved each other and, and acted accordingly.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: That's sad that it hurt.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness. Um, sorry. I could identify with the Cosby
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: show because we had five kids, right? And we had
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: a dad and a mom who loved each other. Um,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: But we were three boys and two girls.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: But I did kind of feel like the Theo. I
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: feel like our dad was a little bit tougher on
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: me as the oldest than he would have been on
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the others.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: We weren't living in that big old row house, that's
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, we were not. And we were not a doctor.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: My dad would go in and try to get good
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: prices on cars like old Cliff would.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: But other than that, that's about where the thing stopped.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: All right, one more. Got one more. And then I
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: got a surprise bonus to throw at you. One that
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: we haven't covered. Who's the boss?
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, Mona. Come on.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Mona's your favorite?
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Mona all the way.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: I would have said as a kid, I would have
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: said Tony.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked him too.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: But looking back on it, it definitely was not Angela.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I could not stand Angela. Nobody liked Angela. I could
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: not stand Jonathan.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Nobody liked Angela. Nobody liked Jonathan. I kind of wanted
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: to be Mona when I grew up. Is that crazy?
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it really is.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, that probably explains a lot about me now.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So I would go with Tony growing up.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Now I would have to see it again. It might
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: be Mona.
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: So we've talked about our favorite characters for sitcoms, but
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: let's talk about some of the characters that were semi regulars.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: But didn't get a lot of airtime. And I'm talking
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: about the, the best friend of the main characters as kids.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: That maybe lived in the neighborhood. Okay. So here are
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: your choices. You can go with, Dudley from different strokes.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: You can go with cockroach from the Cosby show. You
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: can also go with bud from the Cosby show. You
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: can go with Skippy from family ties, or you can
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: go with boner from growing pains.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm picking my favorite.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Yes. Pick your favorite out of those five.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Hands down. This is the easiest thing I've ever picked
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: in all of my life. I loved Bood.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Now, did you love Bood because of the way Rudy
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: said Bood or because.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Just their little relationship. And I'll speak softly so that
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: we're not overheard, but Emmy has her own little Bood.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, she does.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: And it's just so cute to watch.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: But she won't invite him over like Rudy invited Bood over.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: She thinks that I'm going to embarrass her and that
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: you're going to embarrass her.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, so he's not allowed over. But... I just
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: loved their little friendship, and it just cracked me up
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: that she just decided his name was Bud.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: So I'm actually, I didn't like him on the show,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: but when I look back on it now, I'm actually
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: going to go with Skippy. Skippy may have provided more
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: laughs per minute than anybody else because of his crush
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: on Mallory.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: And because she wanted nothing to do with him.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was sweet.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: And so I think I'm going to go with Skippy,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: but who would I, you know, Skippy wasn't an idiot.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Boner was an idiot on growing pains.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Dudley was a good friend.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Dudley was a good friend, but ain't nobody picking Dudley.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: So, Why aren't you picking Dudley?
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody picking Dudley. There's so many better options.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dudley was a good friend. Cockroach was a good friend,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: but boy, Cockroach, he got it from old Cliff too,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: didn't he?
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Yes. So Theo and Cockroach.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, so he treated Cockroach like just one of
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: his own. Mm-hmm. Yes, he did. Nothing wrong with that.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: No, no, but he gave it to him, yeah. All right, well.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: This was fun. This was fun. I enjoyed doing this.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: We want to know who are your favorite characters out
• 57:08
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• 57:12
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• 57:14
  Speaker 2: we not mention that you would have thrown in there?
• 57:16
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• 57:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sticking with my answer of Carla for Cheers.
• 57:23
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• 57:59
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• 58:11
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• 58:32
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• 58:33
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• 58:34
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• 58:35
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• 58:38
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• 58:41
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• 58:52
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• 58:55
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• 58:58
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• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, and one other thing that we want to plug.
• 59:02
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• 59:04
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• 59:06
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• 59:11
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• 59:13
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• 59:18
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• 59:26
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• 59:29
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• 59:31
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• 59:32
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• 59:32
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• 59:35
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• 59:39
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