Iconic TV Shows That Shaped Us

Carol and Stacy chat about summer plans, family time, and a recent trip to Knoxville for a ball, then introduce their topic: favorite TV shows they watched as kids, especially in summer, when there were only a few channels and no ability to record. They invite listeners to share favorite TV memories.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Hey everybody, welcome to Start It List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy and I'm Carol. And we are excited to be here today with you guys.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Hope everybody's doing well, enjoying their summer break. Or so if you're on break. Yeah. Whatever you're doing in the summer, enjoying the at least somewhat pleasant weather.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Yesterday was beautiful. It was probably our best day yet.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Yeah, it was breezy, low humidity, the sun, and it wasn't too hot. It was gorgeous. It was perfect.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

I went and laid at the pool for a little while and until it got to be too peoply. And then I made a swift exit to the house.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Okay. I had a nice little corner to nice little corner.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

I was all the way in the back, away from the kid area. And then people started honing in on my area. And I was like, yeah, it's time to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah. Yeah. I remember those days. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

I was considered still on vacation yesterday because we were in Knoxville all weekend for the Perry's aviation, military aviation ball. And we had a great time. Got to get dressed up. My feet were murdered in the process, of course. And I had to wear a real short. But you looked cute. Well, thank you. Um, and so I was just like yesterday, I was like, okay, we're still on vacation. So I took the day, but back in business today, I got things to do, things to accomplish. So back at it.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yes, and my whole all three of my children are home at the moment with my grandson. That's kind of a rarity. Yeah. Um, my daughter that travels, um, she's in for a little while. And okay, we haven't talked in a bit. I didn't know she'd made it home. No. Oh, yeah, she's home for a little while, or she's leaving Thursday, actually. So, but it's it's kind of, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is kind of unusual to have them all together. So that's nice. But they're and your shirt's cute, you got on. They told me not to thank you. They told me not to plan anything tonight because they wanna they just said don't plan anything at five o'clock. And I'm like, okay, well, do I need to will I need to be like go get ready to go somewhere? And they said, nope. So I don't know what's in store, but I'm excited.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Oh, well, uh next next time we film, you're gonna have to tell us how it what happens.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

Share what they yeah, I know it's very very sweet of them. So I love that. Either that or they're gonna just surprise, like pie me in the face or something. It might not be something. It'll be something. I don't know. I don't know what it yeah, it will love that, yeah. But yeah, y'all uh you got lots of cool pictures, and like I said, you looked really pretty and had on cute shoes and a matching purse.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

And I'm gonna take that old gig on the cryos and wear it for formal nights. I get two uses out of it. Oh, for sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

Anyways, well, and I don't not sure if we're gonna be filming next week. I'll be out of town. So yeah, we might not. I mean, I can still film. No, you're gonna go enjoy your vacation.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

But I could film on the porch or something, but I mean, if you were desperately bored, I'm sure you'll you'll be very busy having fun. I'm sure our listeners can live one week without us.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

No, I don't know. Well, let's talk about uh what we're our to this week's topic. We have been chit-chatting and we literally have started a list. I have it written right here. Yeah. Yep, right there she is. I'm holding mine up in front of the screen. Starting a list. Tell them about it, Carol. Well, we were talking on the phone, and I said, Oh my word. I said I was flipping through the channels trying to find something, and something popped up that I remember watching when I was a little girl, and I said, Girl, we have got to talk about all the great TV shows we remember watching in the summer when we were little, and so we started making a list and it got longer and longer. And at this point, we feel like we have a three-part series.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Well, there's a lot of different kinds of TV, and Carol had mentioned we talked about sitcoms, and then you brought up game shows, and I'm like, oh my gosh, that'll have to be a whole separate because game shows really had their moment, you guys. Back in the 70s and 80s, game shows were it, but we're gonna talk about that another time, so you'll have to tune back in. But we were yes, definitely. I've always really liked to watch TV. Now I'm not now I do, but um, you know, back when kids you only had three or four channels, so you just caught it when it was on, right? There was no recording of things, literally, yeah, and you just you knew what time things came on and all that, you couldn't go back and watch it once it had happened. And I've always loved just if it's a show, I really like sort of imagining what it would be like to live the life of the characters or you know, fantasy of that kind of stuff and all that. So I've always loved TV. I still love TV. Now you can binge watch TV, but yeah, we're gonna talk about some of our favorite shows, mainly when we were kids.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Right. And I think it started obviously it started with Sesame Street and all the favorite moments from Sesame Street growing up when we were really little, but then later on, I'd say, you know, upper elementary school, middle school, and high school, I it seems like we would either get off the bus or I would get picked up from school or basketball practice or whatever it was. And we come home, and I think from three to four o'clock, there would be either two 30-minute shows or a one-hour episode. And I think they called it after school matinees or something. And I always loved Zoom. There was a show called Zoom. And it had it was like a grown-up Sesame Street, and it had these little kids, and they would do a dance and a song, and they'd introduce themselves, but then they would do a craft or a cool funny, and they would teach you things. And I always remember trying something I had seen on Zoom. It was kind of like our first TikTok or something. Yeah, oh, that's a great way to look at it. Yeah, yeah, they would teach you how to they would say they they taught you how to speak in pig Latin. They would do a whole segment on pig Latin. I forgot pig Latin had a moment too, didn't it? Uh-huh. And I'd always try to do pig Latin. I never was able to perfect it. But little little cool things from Zoom. What was something you remember watching after school?

SPEAKER_01 7:31

I can remember coming home after school, and we usually at least a couple days a week when I was little, would you know have dance later on in the evening, but I'd have time to catch a couple shows and there would be reruns because I wasn't watching it when it was first out, but the reruns of the Brady Bunch. I mean, I was slightly obsessed with the Brady Bunch. And yes, and we were just seeing like reruns of it, but they would have it on in the afternoon. Like you said, there'd be like two 30-minute episodes, and I mean the Brady Bunch was my jam. I loved it. I don't know why, I just did.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

It was well, because they I think we wanted to have two or three or four sisters or brothers. We wanted to have the cool house they had, even though our house was perfectly fine. I mean, yeah, I think that you remember like in the Yeah, the fashion and the food and the events. And I think some of the reasons we were felt so connected to it was some of the things they would do the episodes about were things we were going through as middle schoolers. Like, you know, somebody would get a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and then they'd break up with them, and then the sister was in the bedroom crying, and everybody gathered around and had a party for her or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

You know, I don't remember how I'm just saying it's when I was watching this. It was, I think I was probably in elementary school, but I remember I liked when I was fascinated that they had a housekeeper. I'm like, they have a housekeeper that is there all the time. She was cooking their dinner. Alice. Yes. I loved their family.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Yeah. But she was like a she was also like their therap family therapist. Yes. You know, she was she was family, but she was the housekeeper. But uh I can remember some of the funniest episodes were uh yeah, they had turf for grass and they show the backyard and they'd be in the backyard. Yep, they'd be shooting basketball or throwing the football. And the one I remember was Marsha, not Marsha, Jan. She was the pretty sister, quote unquote. She had this long blonde hair, and she was very cute and very smart, and she was trying out for cheerleading, and the boys were in the backyard throwing the football. Well, one of them clocked her in the face with the football and it broke her nose, and her nose swelled up, and she was having to go try out for cheerleading with this.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

Of course, it looked they made it look ridiculous, but I just remember that being so like, oh my word, like oh Marcia's nose or Jan's nose is you know, I love their you know the boys had the room with the bunk beds, I thought that was cool, and the girls had the super girly room, and then they had the bathroom. I mean, you got to see every detail of their house. The dad had his little office where he did his work, you know. Um, anyways, one he was an architect. I think he was an architect, so I guess they had money, but yeah, then I liked it when it got later on in the years, you know, then they started, they'd perform and they'd have those 70s bell bottom outfits on. I don't know, anyways. But yeah, that was one of my top shows when I was younger. And then we got a lot of reruns back then of stuff that maybe had already played. Maybe it was actually showing, and I just don't remember it.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

I don't know. I I liked I love to watch the electric company too. That was similar to Zoom. Was it the electric company where they did the arms? That was which group did that? I think so. They did some kind of song.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

And they would like do their arms like this, and I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Oh no, that's Zoom. Okay. That was Zoom. I did, I did learn how to here. Yes, like why I did learn how to do that one, yeah, and it made it look like your arms were bending or something. Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, they would do like an optical, yeah. That was Zoom. Electric Company, my favorite part was where they would they would face each other in a silhouette, like turn to your left right now. Yes. Turn to your left and now and then look at now, okay, and then now I'm facing you. Okay, so they would do that, and they would look at and they would and they would go. I would say the beginning of the word and you would finish it and then you would say it together. So they'd I remember that now. They'd go together.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

You are you are deep off in the CBS shows.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

I well, channel eight. I mean Nashville WDCN. That was one of our three channels.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

Yep. Two, four, five, and eight.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Um love happy days. Yes. I wanted to be, I wanted to date the Fonz. He was always the cool.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Okay, if y'all are too young to know what happy days is, it was in the was it in the 50s? Did it take place in the 50s? Set it was set in the 50s, but yeah. And it was this family, and it had um the mom and the dad, and they were this the brother and the sister. And then they had this guy, Alf uh The Cunningham. The Cunningham's Al uh Arthur Fonsarelli lived above their garage in like an apartment. Yeah, Henry Winkler played his played the Bonds, his name was Arthur Fonzarelli, who was like a motorcycle cool dude. They all hung out at that restaurant. What was the name of the restaurant they hung out at Arnold's? Arnold's, that's right. They all hung out at Arnold's and um and then that show had a spin-off, Joni loves Chachi, but it didn't do well.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Yeah, it wasn't good. But Joni was the Joni Cunningham was so Fonzie and Richie were the were the best friends, and Richie Cunningham's family was straight-laced and by the book, and then Fonzie was a little on the edge.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

But it it it worked, it was very funny. And Johnny, the little sister, was in love with Fonzie her whole life, you know, and and idolized him. But yeah, Fonz would just walk in a room and all the girls would run to him and he would like snap his finger and the or or elbow the uh jukebox and it would automatically start playing. You know, just like he just had the mightest touch.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Yeah, it was a good wholesome show. And then I feel like around the same time we had Laverne and Shirley, and they were two ladies that lived in Shamil, Shmazel, where did they, you know, and they did the beginning. They worked in a beer bottling plant, didn't they?

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Yeah, they worked at a beer bottling plant. Wasn't it Milwaukee? Yeah.

unknown 15:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

And they lived in a sort of like not Schlotsky's apartment, and then they had their friends, Lenny and Squiggy.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Yeah, who were kind of off the chain. But I think Lenny and Squiggy were related to Fonzie. It was like a spin-off of Happy Days.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Yes. Laverne always had her big L on her shirt.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Uh-huh. They and they uh would just get into shenanigans, and it was just really it was again wholesome and funny. And it was it was a 30-minute sitcom. Loved it, and that was similar to Alice. Alice, I think, was a little more serious. She was a waitress, and literally that's all I know about it. She just was a waiting. I remember that show. I just don't remember a ton about it. Yeah, I just I don't either, but I when we got a little bit there and watched it.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

When we got a little bit older, now I mean I was still like upper elementary, early middle school, the hour-long TV shows became more popular. And probably I had top two. Love boat and Dukes of Hazard. And mainly because I was in love with John Schneider when he was on Dukes of Hazard.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

He was a cutie.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

But Love Boat blonde hair was I I love the Love Boat, and every time they'd get on and they'd, you know, um they'd sail off. And I remember the they'd always talk about the Lido deck, and I'm like, man, the Lido deck must be a lot of fun. They're always going to the Lido deck.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

They always went to Puerto Vallarta. I feel like they never went anywhere but Puerto Vallarta.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

I always remember there was always the the plot was always centered around a guest, like one of the passengers on the boat. Something would happen. And then and then the the side plot would be the what was going on between the crew, you know.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

There were a lot of famous people that guest starred on there. Like they always had like famous people as guest stars and stuff. And I don't remember how long it was on, but I that was probably one of my very favorites. Yeah I'd watch it today if it were.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

I know, and it had a theme song that was famous. Yeah, it did.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

All the shows for you young ones out there in the 80s and before, maybe, all had theme songs that became very popular. And honestly, since Friends, I don't know of a TV show that's had a popular theme song, but we all knew the words to you know all of them. The love boat, boat, one will be making another run.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Yeah, you knew the yeah, and it was yeah, it was uh, and you would find yourself out in the yard playing, and you'd run around and go, let's play love boat. Oh yeah, like you would pretend you would pretend play love boat, you'd sing the song. Yeah, you did. I would do that.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

Um let's go play love boat after this. That sounds fun.

unknown 18:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

And back to Dooms of Hazard, it was crazy. That show was nuts, but I loved it because I was, you know, thought John Schneider was good looking. And then they had the they had the crazy, what was the boss hog. He drove that big white uh car with the orange on the front. They did trip the general lead.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

The general lead was some race car, and it would go do or something.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

It would fly through the air. Oh, and the doors didn't open, so they were always jumping in through the window.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Uh-huh. They said it was it was always jumping, jumping ramps or jumping a ramp and going off of a roof or something, and then you just jump out of the window and I had posted the John Schneider in my room. And that's where the term, those of you that don't know, Daisy Duke's came from because Daisy Duke was one of the characters, and she was a hot little trick. Yeah, she was a hot little trick, and she ran around with her cheekies hanging out of her shorty shorts. Her short shorts. So we're going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

What was the okay? So there was, you know, the Duke, the Duke boys, or yeah, the Duke Boys, right? Then Daisy. Then they lived with like their uncle or something, the older man with the beard. I don't remember. And then we had Boston. I don't remember. And then the goofy police officer, I can't think of his name. He was real. Um, I don't know. And we had somebody in Mount Juliet back in the day had a car that they'd painted like the General Lee. And you know, if we saw it, we'd be like, ooh, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah. There's a Duke's hazard car. Yeah. Uh the other, the other show that had a famous, besides you were saying about friends, but was Cheers. I had a famous song. Yeah. You know, and that was about a group of people that always hung out at this one bar called Cheers.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

Where everybody knows your name, you know. Where everybody knows your name. And they're always glad you came. I could go on and on. We went to Cheers when we went to Boston when I was uh getting out of college. They'd all say, Hey Norm, or whatever. Norm was always there, the mailman guy, Ted dancing, the lady bartender. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Yeah, and then they had a they were in love with each other, and then then they broke up, and I don't know. It was it was a cute show. I enjoyed it. These were shows that you could watch with the whole family. Right, but you but we felt cool because then we'd go back to to seventh grade and go, do you watch cheers? Like we've really done something. Oh, yeah, okay. Oh, she watched cheers.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

You know, I mean we yeah, we would uh Okay, this is a sidebar to TV shows, but it just popped into my brain. And y'all don't know about this, you younger people out there, but our fans of our age or ish will remember this. Now, you might when we got a little bit older, I don't remember, maybe middle school, we got cable came along, right? And so you got more channels, and of course, it was a big deal. To have it because it was probably expensive and all this stuff. Well, we didn't have smart TVs, okay. You know, you had the box that it came with, and that's how you change the channel. But you would buy or subscribe to your TV guide. Do you remember the TV guide, the little books? My grandparents always had them.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

It had a list of what was going to be on TV and what time. And what channel. It was also in the Nashville, it was also in the Nashville banner and the Tennessean, the newspapers. You could go to the TV section, and my parents would cut it out, and we'd cut it out. And because I'd be like, when is Brady Bunch coming on? And then you finally you memorize it. It's 3 30 every afternoon.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

But like, you know, if there was a movie of the week. That was a big deal. The movie of the week, or we had something called after school specials, and it would be a a movie geared towards that's younger people.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Yes, yes. After school specials would be sometimes like things like the Waltons. I love I did love the Waltons and Little House on the Prairie.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Oh, I loved Little House on the Prairie. Yeah. Loved Little House on the Prairie. We would play Little House on the Prairie at my grandparents' house because she would have dress-up clothes and then lots of fun. She had a big backyard and a little building. So we would play Little House on the Prairie.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Oh, I love that. Maybe that's where it started all the um all the farm to table ideas, you know. People see that. Way back from that. Yeah, rough life.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

It was a very dramatic show. Um, but I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

It was.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Um, so around that same time, there was this huge craze. We watched a show called Dallas. I don't even know what that show was about. It was just about that family, the Ewings. It right?

SPEAKER_00 24:07

It they owned, they were they were the oil tycoons. They owned all the yeah, they were big oil tycoons. Well, it was a big and they lived in a place called South Fork. It was a big yep, and it was a big ranch, and they had ranch hands, and they had housekeepers, and they had everything. And there was it was the rich uncle and his wife. Was he married? I think so. I can't remember. Anyway, all right, and then the the brother and his daughter, and she was sassy and pretty much Lucy. Yeah, the blonde. Yes, Lucy Ewing. Yeah, is that Bobby's daughter? Was that Bobby? Bobby, Bobby was the brother. Okay, JR was the older brother, and uh, I think there was an old grandfather because I can remember him saying I can't remember. Daddy's not gonna be happy.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

Yeah, but one year, y'all, it there was a big you would TV shows back then, and they do it now, but it's like when you stream a a season of something now, it might be a year and a half before it comes back. It takes forever to get season two, right? But back then you would end your TV season, and a few months later, season two would start back up. And well, one end of the season one year, JR ended up getting shot. And I mean, the biggest thing it was all over my who shot JR?

SPEAKER_00 25:41

I mean, I mean, bumper stickers came out, t-shirts came out. I think there was a billboard somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

There were articles in the magazines about it.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Newspaper or yeah, the people magazine went crazy. Who shot JR? And uh, I don't even remember who ended up shooting him. I think it was I think it was his brother or s or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

I think we could watch it if I found it somewhere. It's probably straight somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Lord. I just remember it being a big deal. And like the whole family got involved. It was kind of like it was kind of like the it was bigger news than the national news. Oh yeah, it was ridiculous. It was the very first, I would say, viral event ever from a TV show, fictional TV show. It was insane, but anyway, it came on every Friday night. And the reason I know it came on every Friday night is I was young, I was too young to there was some reason why I was staying home on Friday nights, but whatever it was, I think my brother was going off to the Yeah, we weren't old enough to be out running around yet. No, and so I every Friday night I would want to watch Dallas, and I think I watched it, watched it with my mother.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

Well, we would all sit in the living room with our popcorn and watch TV together, and yeah, then you had to argue over who's gonna get up and change the channel because you didn't have remote controls.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

After Dallas, uh, I liked Fantasy Island, and it was with uh Ricardo Montaubon, and he had a little servant or a helper or a whatever. I don't know what he he was his assistant. Yes, his assistant. And he would um they lived on this island, and people would come to the island by prop plane, and the guy would run out to the shore and go, the plane, the plane, and he'd run back to tell him they're here, they're here, you know.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

And so we just that was a thing, and that show scared me a little bit sometimes because I they it was always couples and they flew in on that plane that landed in the water, remember? I don't know what those are called, yeah. And then some weird junk would happen on this island. It would be I'm sure it wasn't nearly as scary as I'm remembering it in my brain, but it was weird, or there would be like uh not a not a uh oh, what is the funny ape that runs around in the in the woods?

SPEAKER_00 28:22

I don't know. A Sasquatch. Oh it would be like a Sasquatch, it would just be something random, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

It would be something kind of scared me sometimes. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

Yeah, but they would be like enjoying a swim, and then like Loch Ness monster would come up and rear its head, and then they'd all run back to the hut and tell them what happened, and they would say, We have checked with all of our safety people on the island, and there is no problem, you know. But it was it really was there were some mysterious things happening.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Well, just for time's sake, we have eight minutes, so we're okay, but just to give you an update that show has now made me think of one that you and I hadn't talked about that I loved, and that was Gilligan's Island. Oh, my heart. I loved Gilligan's Island, y'all. If you didn't get to see Gilligan's Island, man, you missed out.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Please go back. I wanted to be Mary Ann so badly.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

But here's I I want to be Thurston Howe the third or whatever him and his wife.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Well, the funny thing is, my brother and I used to argue, and he would call me Mary Ann, and it would make me so mad. Now, my middle name is Ann, but we'd be riding in the car, and he'd go, he'd say something ugly like, Shut up, Mary Ann. And I'm like, oh, and I look around and I can't think of anything better to call. And we passed by, we were on the interstate, and I looked over and I saw a hotel, and I said, You shut up, Howard Johnson's. And I'm like, Whoa, wow, you really got him. I got him good. So from that point on, I called him Howard. He called me Mary Ann. It was just our jab. That's that show had a famous on two.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Um, it was the night long ago. Uh all I remember is a three-hour tour, a three-hour tour.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

And then there was one night then, yeah. And basically, these these group of people shipwrecked on an island, and there was a millionaire couple and a movie star and a captain and his shipmate. Who was the country girl? And a professor. Was that the country girl? Yeah, with the movie star's name. Ginger. Ginger. Did you name your daughter after her? No, no, I did not. But uh, yeah, she was and what kills my soul to this day, she's on a deserted island the entire time, however many years it was on television.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Her hair and makeup looked like she had just come out of the when she's shipwrecked, you know, she brought all her stuff with her, and their cloak always looked really nice and yeah, she wore ball gowns on the island.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

It was ridiculous. And then Gilles and funny though. Yeah. But I always wanted a the professor, you know, always had somehow found a radio. I guess lying in the bushes, and he was always tuning it and trying to get Mayday, Mayday, and it was always crackling and staticky and shoot. But it is it was a the most wonderful childhood.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

I love Gilligan's Island, yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

And if I'm not mistaken, it was truly filmed on the location was this little area in Hawaii. Oh, really? I feel like, yeah, that there it where they found it, you know. Interesting. You can go and just see it, and it's like literally like that's it. It's just this little strip area. Of course, the rest was probably on a set, but I don't know. I just know it was a glorious time to be little, and man, the themes of the movies and shows were wholesome.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

I spent hours trying to wiggle my nose like the witch on Bewitched. Hours. You know how I mean it was all just you know, she could yeah, it made that noise and her nose would wiggle. Um, and then I also thought wanted to know why these the girls on Facts of Life. They were just they none of them had parents. No, they they're in a boarding school. They lived in the boarding school with Mrs. what was her name?

SPEAKER_00 33:04

I don't know, but she was like their house mom or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 33:08

Oh, that's gonna drive me nuts. Comment if you remember the lady's name on who their like house mom was. But I remember thinking, man, all these girls are just chilling in this boarding school. Nobody's paying any attention to them. They're all they have is Mrs. Oh, it's gonna get on my nerves. I'm gonna have to look it up.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Um I love that too. Well, my if I had to pick an all-time favorite, like I could almost cry thinking about it because I don't know why, but this is probably my all-time favorite, and this is showing my age, is the Annie Griffiths show. Oh, my parents love that show. The lessons and the way, then little Richie Cunningham, you know, and of course it wasn't Richie Cunningham on the on that show.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

I think mom and dad have re-watched that somewhere. It must be streaming all the episodes somewhere, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

Yeah, you can watch it right now, but it is just so precious. And the store the storylines and the lessons that he as a single dad taught that little boy, and you know, it was always uh and it was hilarious, and the characters were hilarious, but yeah, I didn't watch that a ton. I don't know why, but I didn't. Well, they are funny.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

Well, I hope that our listeners have enjoyed our trip down memory lane for the TV shows because now I'm gonna go find something to watch on TV. But I'm glad you reminded us that you won't be here next week. I forgot you're gonna be living it up at the beach. Well, you could be living your best life, girl.

SPEAKER_00 34:48

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SPEAKER_00 35:14

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SPEAKER_01 35:32

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