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Hello, this is the Harboring Light. I'm Mary.
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I give a conservative perspective about the world around me.
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All right, so since it's Friday, it's all about being current. So,
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I'm going to focus on two articles I thought was
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quite interesting.
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Here we go.
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Alright, so, first, what I'm going to focus in on,
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quite interesting. So, I saw an article, and it, Vanity
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Fair again, and it was all about the aspects of
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a news show, right, that has to do with.
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Hold on just a second.
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Oh, man.
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Hold on just a second.
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Okay.
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Alright, so.
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Alright, so, of course, like I was saying about Vanity Fair,
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and it's supposed to be a multi-camera comedy series on
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AMC entitled Happy Jack. And what's also interesting about this
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show is his father, Martin Sheen, is supposed to star
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in the show with him, right? And so, you know,
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for those who know, those who don't know, Martin Sheen
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and Charlie Sheen, relationship, very tumultuous, look, very tongue-tied here, not,
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not a good relationship, let's say that, right, and, um, love,
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which is, you know, you know, if you care to
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go there, and, which would be a really good thing to,
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to do that, to, uh, you know, analyze and talk
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about these issues, especially when it comes to Hollywood, because
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Hollywood is.
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Not as much as it used to be.
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But there's still grounds with the influence of Hollywood and
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media and all these kind of things. And various, not
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in the traditional sense in which Hollywood, was uh influential
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you know when it comes to television movies and so
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forth right it's different now so um you know it'd
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be a good thing uh as far as that to
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to get the conversations going to talk about candidly which
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is nice we're in a age where where that's more
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and more prevalent you know talk.
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About uh the.
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Realistic i would say side dark side that is prevalent, unfortunately,
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a lot in the entertainment business, right? And so it's
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good that Charlie Sheen saw the writing on the wall,
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you know, sooner rather than later or never, right? And so,
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you know, it's a lot of all of that. And
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it's interesting to see how, you know, professionally, it's not
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needless to say that they, you know, Wall Street was
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really good, a really good example of the aspects of
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their professionalism, and how they were able to carry out that,
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especially because that was in the height of the addiction
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and everything else that Charlie Sheen was going through. Both
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of them, I will say, on both ends in that movie,
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they really depicted their roles and their specific characters in
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a authentic way to where it was a really good
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reflection towards a lot of commentary that was going on
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with the 80s, especially when we think about the aspects
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of money and finance and the difference between being affluent
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and being hardworking and hardworking Martin Sheen represented the aspects
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of the assault to the earth, you know, um, which
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I would always say, which I, you know, I never
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understood most, which a quote unquote blue collar jobs are very,
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when you think about it in the grand scheme of things, lucrative, right?
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Because I don't, you know, for instance, men who work
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on the oil rig or, you know, pipeline or stuff
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like that.
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Right.
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Um, They do a lot of skilled labor jobs.
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It's very difficult.
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But at the same time, it's one of those things
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that it takes a certain amount of skill to do.
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Even plumbing and mechanical jobs, all these things, right? It
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takes a specific type of skill, and it's sought after,
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and it's always there. And it's not really told correctly
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that if you have these sort of skills, you'll have
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lifelong skills.
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You'll be able to, you know, do things.
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And there's a lot of pride and honor that comes
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with being able to work with your hands and doing
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all these kind of things. And you get greatly compensated
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for that, right? On the other side, with Charlie Sheen,
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you know, especially at the time of the 80s, the
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80s was all about You know, power moves, going up
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the company ladder, you know, things of that nature, right?
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Another account of that would be more modern, I guess
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you can say, which is odd to say that with
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Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street, right? Anyway, so, you know,
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Charlie Sheen represented the aspects of focusing in on the
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dynamic of the perspective of a young person in the
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80s wanting to be a mover and a shaker, wanting
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it all and all, conquer everything, and be very lucrative
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and successful. And so it would be very interesting to see,
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you know, how everything with their contributions that they have
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shown and their talents as actors And then also with
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the aspects of them being related and then, you know,
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dynamic that they have.
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All these kind of things that will.
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Come out in this show is to be released and done, right? So, um,
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I'm outside, so forgive me for the noise that's going on.
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Um.
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So they're saying it's expected to premiere in 2027, but
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it's not giving the specifics on what month. It's just
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the year for, as we know, right now is 2027.
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And it's interesting to see AMC, you know, specifically, the network,
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they centered themselves around the aspects of, Different realms of drama.
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And some... Some sci-fi. But specifically, drama was the wheelhouse, right?
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And so many different well-renowned and respected and Emmy-nominated shows
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have came out of AMC. Right? So....
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I think this.
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Now, I think that AMC says, you know, the head
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executives or whoever, the writers of this series or whatever.
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Happened, right?
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They said, well, seeing the writing on the wall, well,
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you know, we see that, um, Not focusing on nostalgia,
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not doing that. We can't ride the coattails of that
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that much longer because, in a sense, a lot of
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people are, and it's becoming more and more prevalent now
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to where people aren't buying all the nonsense mentality that
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was being spoon-fed in mainstream media for so long. Being
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subtle about it and then being abrupt and going off
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the cusp to where it doesn't even make any sense
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anymore of something that I look forward to seeing or.
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Anything.
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It's just a whole bunch of money-grabbing tactics. and political
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ideologies that a normal person just wouldn't accept right and
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so they're saying well you know hey that's we got
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to do something else right and so interesting enough Charlie
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Sheen you know, to say, well, you know, let's, let's
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do a comedy show focusing in on him. And, um,
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it's quite interesting because of two and a half men, right?
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So this is in, in something that's, that's new to him,
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you know, of course, even in, in some right with, um, uh,
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Martin Sheen, you know, some, some sense of comedy, some, but, um,
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He was mainly showcased.
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In full-on comedy.
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You can say, you can present that, I guess, argument
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or observation, I would say.
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It's a better word choice here.
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When he was in an episode, I think he was
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in more than one episode, um, Two and a half
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men when he was playing the role of, I'm trying
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to think of her name. She left the show too,
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by the way. A lot of people who were really
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decent in the show left. Anyway, the neurotic next door
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neighbor that was obsessed with Charlie and Martin Sheen played
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her father and it made a whole lot of sense
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of why she is the way that she is right
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okay so uh with two and a half man you
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know when see what's the whole thing with that you
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know first trying to say well hey let's drive up
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martin sheen and focus in on his addiction right oh
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well look at he's just off the cups that's why
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he was quote-unquote fired but Initially, that wasn't the case
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because Charlie Sheen was, you know, at that point in
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his career and everything, he.
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Was sober and he was stable, right?
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And so, unfortunately, there are a lot of people, especially
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in Hollywood, which is the unfortunate case of that, that
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will set up situations where it's easy to fall back
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into your demons, right? And so that's, unfortunately, from what
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I understand, what happened. But he didn't, I don't, you know,
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all of that with Charlie Sheen. But he, you know,
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he got himself back. You know, after a while, he
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got himself back, you know, after everything was settled and
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done and, you know, moving on with Two and a
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Half Men, right? And it was interesting because Chuck Lorre
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is the guy who, um, As I said previously in
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another podcast, I guess you can say for that, you know,
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how NBC used to coin the phrase must-see Thursday or
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must-see TV or something, right? Chuck Lorre had the wheelhouse
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with must-see CBS comedy lineup, right? Where you come from,
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Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly, Mom, all that, right?
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And the thing about Chuck Lorre, when you see his shows,
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especially Big Bang Theory and things like this, they follow
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the pattern of relying heavily on stereotypes, right? There's nothing
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wrong with stereotypes, if you're honest with yourself. Stereotypes typically
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come from something that's inbred from a nature with the
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aspects of survival in nature, right? So, you know, this
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is good, this is bad because of the way it's presented,
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the way it's looked, and, you know, what to move
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or stay away from, right? So that's typically really, you know,
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from my point of view and what I understand about
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stereotypes or, you know, what evolved and, what the evolution
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of stereotypes is kind of coming from. Right.
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And so.
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That's one thing, but it's another thing when you heavily
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try to, um, pigeonhole people and do this goofy, um, uh,
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tactics and don't try to, uh, deviate from something and
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give more death to characters. And that's what Charlie Sheen
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was trying to do, you know, and, um, and be more,
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you know, witty and cunning when it comes to the
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humor and, uh, the development of his character in two
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and a half men. And from what I understand and
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Chuck Lloyd didn't like that. So he tried to, to,
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to do all this risk and, and paint, paint everything
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in his favor and, and, um, you know, edit and, uh,
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corn contour, uh, couture, uh, contour, sorry, contour, um, charging
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to look a certain way. Okay. And so with that said,
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I think what they're trying to do on AMC, especially
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this network is trying to say, well, okay, we, we
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know the talent that these two can bring and the
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dynamic that these two can bring. And, um, they are
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going to do something, um, Probably, you know, you can
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say innovative with the aspects of how comedy and sitcom
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type television is seen in this day and age, right?
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Because between the both of them, they've seen the ebbs
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and flows of the way television in itself.
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Has been presented.
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And the ins and outs, you know, they know that because.
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Martin Sheen is a veteran in some respect. He's still
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relatively young, Charlie Sheen. But he's seen all these changes, right?
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They both have.
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And so having that experience, it will also elevate the
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perspective of what they choose to do when it comes
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to this comedy series. And I think it's going to
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be quite interesting. All right, so, and then talking about, now, there's,
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in the works, you know, on the flip side of this,
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of milking the proverbial dead horse here, or my dead
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cow here, right? Let's make sense of the idiom here.
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All right, so, St.
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Elmo's fire.
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Now, um, now you're saying there's supposed to be, um,
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production and works for making a sequel to the movie.
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Now, again, you know, uh, I, I don't know.
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Uh, I think it's interesting to have, from what I understand,
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to have the original cast in it.
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But at the same time, look....
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There's something to be said about letting things go gracefully
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and moving on and just, you know, not relying heavily
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on what you know.
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Not using.
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Using nostalgia as an excuse to just do something safe
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and not coming up with originality. And I'm sure what
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they're going to talk about and say for the reason
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in this production, you know, trying to tie in loose ends. Oh,
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what would the perspective of, quote-unquote, Santa almost fired these characters.
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to live the lapse of luxury and consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer.
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when John Hughes was still alive, saying in the works
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of a sequel, you could say, to Breakfast Club, and saying, okay,
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this is what their lives is as adults. And I
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Elmo's Fire, they were specifically adults. It was, you know,
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you know, they're adults and they'll figure it out, right?
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So what does that mean when you are locked into.
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how does that translate? And what do you do when
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you're an adult? And then what are your life lessons?
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something like The Breakfast Club, they would have done a
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sequel and what they were. you know, expand on what
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they are doing and how they are, you know, 20,
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I want to continue the conversation. Feel free to reach
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through email, comments through email, and YouTube. All right, so
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this reaches the end of the Hardwood Night. Tune in,
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turn up, and definitely take care. Bye-bye for now.
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I'm going to focus on two articles I thought was
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quite interesting.
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Alright, so, first, what I'm going to focus in on,
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quite interesting. So, I saw an article, and it, Vanity
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Fair again, and it was all about the aspects of
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a news show, right, that has to do with.
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Hold on just a second.
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Alright, so.
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Alright, so, of course, like I was saying about Vanity Fair,
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and it's supposed to be a multi-camera comedy series on
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AMC entitled Happy Jack. And what's also interesting about this
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show is his father, Martin Sheen, is supposed to star
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in the show with him, right? And so, you know,
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for those who know, those who don't know, Martin Sheen
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and Charlie Sheen, relationship, very tumultuous, look, very tongue-tied here, not,
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not a good relationship, let's say that, right, and, um, love,
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which is, you know, you know, if you care to
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go there, and, which would be a really good thing to,
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to do that, to, uh, you know, analyze and talk
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about these issues, especially when it comes to Hollywood, because
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Hollywood is.
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media and all these kind of things. And various, not
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in the traditional sense in which Hollywood, was uh influential
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you know when it comes to television movies and so
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forth right it's different now so um you know it'd
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be a good thing uh as far as that to
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to get the conversations going to talk about candidly which
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is nice we're in a age where where that's more
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and more prevalent you know talk.
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About uh the.
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Realistic i would say side dark side that is prevalent, unfortunately,
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a lot in the entertainment business, right? And so it's
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good that Charlie Sheen saw the writing on the wall,
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you know, sooner rather than later or never, right? And so,
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you know, it's a lot of all of that. And
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it's interesting to see how, you know, professionally, it's not
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needless to say that they, you know, Wall Street was
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really good, a really good example of the aspects of
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their professionalism, and how they were able to carry out that,
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especially because that was in the height of the addiction
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and everything else that Charlie Sheen was going through. Both
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of them, I will say, on both ends in that movie,
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they really depicted their roles and their specific characters in
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a authentic way to where it was a really good
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reflection towards a lot of commentary that was going on
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with the 80s, especially when we think about the aspects
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of money and finance and the difference between being affluent
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and being hardworking and hardworking Martin Sheen represented the aspects
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of the assault to the earth, you know, um, which
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I would always say, which I, you know, I never
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understood most, which a quote unquote blue collar jobs are very,
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when you think about it in the grand scheme of things, lucrative, right?
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on the oil rig or, you know, pipeline or stuff
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like that.
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that it takes a certain amount of skill to do.
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takes a specific type of skill, and it's sought after,
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and it's always there. And it's not really told correctly
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that if you have these sort of skills, you'll have
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lifelong skills.
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with being able to work with your hands and doing
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all these kind of things. And you get greatly compensated
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for that, right? On the other side, with Charlie Sheen,
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the company ladder, you know, things of that nature, right?
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Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street, right? Anyway, so, you know,
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Charlie Sheen represented the aspects of focusing in on the
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dynamic of the perspective of a young person in the
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80s wanting to be a mover and a shaker, wanting
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it all and all, conquer everything, and be very lucrative
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and successful. And so it would be very interesting to see,
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you know, how everything with their contributions that they have
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shown and their talents as actors And then also with
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the aspects of them being related and then, you know,
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dynamic that they have.
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All these kind of things that will.
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Come out in this show is to be released and done, right? So, um,
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I'm outside, so forgive me for the noise that's going on.
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it's not giving the specifics on what month. It's just
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the year for, as we know, right now is 2027.
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they centered themselves around the aspects of, Different realms of drama.
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And some... Some sci-fi. But specifically, drama was the wheelhouse, right?
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And so many different well-renowned and respected and Emmy-nominated shows
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have came out of AMC. Right? So....
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I think this.
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Now, I think that AMC says, you know, the head
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executives or whoever, the writers of this series or whatever.
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Happened, right?
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They said, well, seeing the writing on the wall, well,
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you know, we see that, um, Not focusing on nostalgia,
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not doing that. We can't ride the coattails of that
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that much longer because, in a sense, a lot of
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people are, and it's becoming more and more prevalent now
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to where people aren't buying all the nonsense mentality that
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was being spoon-fed in mainstream media for so long. Being
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subtle about it and then being abrupt and going off
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the cusp to where it doesn't even make any sense
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anymore of something that I look forward to seeing or.
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Anything.
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It's just a whole bunch of money-grabbing tactics. and political
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ideologies that a normal person just wouldn't accept right and
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so they're saying well you know hey that's we got
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to do something else right and so interesting enough Charlie
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Sheen you know, to say, well, you know, let's, let's
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do a comedy show focusing in on him. And, um,
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it's quite interesting because of two and a half men, right?
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you know, of course, even in, in some right with, um, uh,
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Martin Sheen, you know, some, some sense of comedy, some, but, um,
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or observation, I would say.
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When he was in an episode, I think he was
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in more than one episode, um, Two and a half
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men when he was playing the role of, I'm trying
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to think of her name. She left the show too,
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by the way. A lot of people who were really
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decent in the show left. Anyway, the neurotic next door
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neighbor that was obsessed with Charlie and Martin Sheen played
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her father and it made a whole lot of sense
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of why she is the way that she is right
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okay so uh with two and a half man you
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know when see what's the whole thing with that you
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know first trying to say well hey let's drive up
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martin sheen and focus in on his addiction right oh
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well look at he's just off the cups that's why
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he was quote-unquote fired but Initially, that wasn't the case
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because Charlie Sheen was, you know, at that point in
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his career and everything, he.
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Was sober and he was stable, right?
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in Hollywood, which is the unfortunate case of that, that
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will set up situations where it's easy to fall back
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into your demons, right? And so that's, unfortunately, from what
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I understand, what happened. But he didn't, I don't, you know,
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all of that with Charlie Sheen. But he, you know,
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he got himself back. You know, after a while, he
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got himself back, you know, after everything was settled and
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done and, you know, moving on with Two and a
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Half Men, right? And it was interesting because Chuck Lorre
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is the guy who, um, As I said previously in
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another podcast, I guess you can say for that, you know,
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how NBC used to coin the phrase must-see Thursday or
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must-see TV or something, right? Chuck Lorre had the wheelhouse
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with must-see CBS comedy lineup, right? Where you come from,
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Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly, Mom, all that, right?
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especially Big Bang Theory and things like this, they follow
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the pattern of relying heavily on stereotypes, right? There's nothing
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wrong with stereotypes, if you're honest with yourself. Stereotypes typically
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come from something that's inbred from a nature with the
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aspects of survival in nature, right? So, you know, this
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is good, this is bad because of the way it's presented,
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the way it's looked, and, you know, what to move
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or stay away from, right? So that's typically really, you know,
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from my point of view and what I understand about
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stereotypes or, you know, what evolved and, what the evolution
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of stereotypes is kind of coming from. Right.
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That's one thing, but it's another thing when you heavily
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try to, um, pigeonhole people and do this goofy, um, uh,
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tactics and don't try to, uh, deviate from something and
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give more death to characters. And that's what Charlie Sheen
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was trying to do, you know, and, um, and be more,
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you know, witty and cunning when it comes to the
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humor and, uh, the development of his character in two
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and a half men. And from what I understand and
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Chuck Lloyd didn't like that. So he tried to, to,
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to do all this risk and, and paint, paint everything
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in his favor and, and, um, you know, edit and, uh,
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corn contour, uh, couture, uh, contour, sorry, contour, um, charging
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to look a certain way. Okay. And so with that said,
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I think what they're trying to do on AMC, especially
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this network is trying to say, well, okay, we, we
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know the talent that these two can bring and the
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dynamic that these two can bring. And, um, they are
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going to do something, um, Probably, you know, you can
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say innovative with the aspects of how comedy and sitcom
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type television is seen in this day and age, right?
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Because between the both of them, they've seen the ebbs
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and flows of the way television in itself.
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Has been presented.
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And the ins and outs, you know, they know that because.
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Martin Sheen is a veteran in some respect. He's still
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relatively young, Charlie Sheen. But he's seen all these changes, right?
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They both have.
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perspective of what they choose to do when it comes
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to this comedy series. And I think it's going to
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be quite interesting. All right, so, and then talking about, now, there's,
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in the works, you know, on the flip side of this,
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of milking the proverbial dead horse here, or my dead
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cow here, right? Let's make sense of the idiom here.
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All right, so, St.
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Elmo's fire.
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Now, um, now you're saying there's supposed to be, um,
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production and works for making a sequel to the movie.
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Now, again, you know, uh, I, I don't know.
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to have the original cast in it.
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But at the same time, look....
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There's something to be said about letting things go gracefully
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and moving on and just, you know, not relying heavily
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on what you know.
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Not using.
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Using nostalgia as an excuse to just do something safe
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and not coming up with originality. And I'm sure what
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they're going to talk about and say for the reason
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in this production, you know, trying to tie in loose ends. Oh,
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what would the perspective of, quote-unquote, Santa almost fired these characters.
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Some of them were seen as yuppies and all these
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kind of things, which is just perspective. You know, I
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have a specific goal of going to college just to
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make a whole bunch of money, and I just want
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to live the lapse of luxury and consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer, consumer.
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You know, that is the stereotype of a yuppie, right?
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And then they were focusing in on the phases of
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different elements of what that meant to be, to have
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that perspective. And so, I don't know. It's one of
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those things where, which is different with, you know, you
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can argue the same thing, but it never happened with
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The Breakfast Club.
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But... I don't know.
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It's just some things, just leave it alone, you know?
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And that whole heightened, mellow drama stuff.
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That... That kind.
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Of take would work really well in the 80s because,
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you know, that was a time of high antics, cheesiness,
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so to speak, high fashion, everything just heightened, right?
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And now it's kind of, what else is new?
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Because it seems like it would just get washed away
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because it's just kind of that take of what else
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is new is that, you know.
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Past, you know.
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But getting back to an article I was talking about,
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and again from Vanity Fair, with Anthony Michael Hall saying
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when John Hughes was still alive, saying in the works
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of a sequel, you could say, to Breakfast Club, and saying, okay,
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this is what their lives is as adults. And I
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think that would have been quite interesting because it would
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have been something from, you know, what does it mean when,
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and a lot of people can relate to that.
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Elmo's Fire, they were specifically adults. It was, you know,
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it wasn't so much coming of age, but it was, okay, well,
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you know, they're adults and they'll figure it out, right?
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So what does that mean when you are locked into.
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Your identity?
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What was your identity when you were a teenager? And
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how does that translate? And what do you do when
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you're an adult? And then what are your life lessons?
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something like The Breakfast Club, they would have done a
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sequel and what they were. you know, expand on what
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they are doing and how they are, you know, 20,
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30 odd years.
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Later, you know.
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Anyway, those are my takes for keeping current for this week.
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I want to continue the conversation. Feel free to reach
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out to me. Two ways to do this, again, is
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through email, comments through email, and YouTube. All right, so
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this reaches the end of the Hardwood Night. Tune in,
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turn up, and definitely take care. Bye-bye for now.
