Full Transcript for Never Alone: Why We Still Need to Laugh—Then & Now (Episode 35)

00:02:32.270 Yep 00:02:33.449 --> 00:02:35.669 was, it was incredibly entertaining for the time. 00:02:35.669 --> 00:02:36.150 People... 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:41.120 I-i-i-it was date night or must-see TV to coin a phrase, 00:02:41.556 --> 00:02:42.016 Yeah 00:02:42.060 --> 00:02:42.860 For the time. 00:02:43.431 --> 00:02:43.890 Right 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:51.860 It started off, with an open- with an monologue, and everybody looked forward to the monologue'cause it was it was funny. 00:02:52.590 --> 00:02:55.680 Unfortunately, at the time, as opposed to to today, 00:02:56.085 --> 00:02:56.495 Mhm 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:03.610 11:30, if you weren't in, in your seat or in, in bed, watching TV, you missed it 00:03:04.338 --> 00:03:05.038 That's right. 00:03:05.918 --> 00:03:06.747 There was no, 00:03:07.004 --> 00:03:07.264 But, 00:03:07.407 --> 00:03:09.518 rewind or anything back then, no. 00:03:12.151 --> 00:03:12.510 Nothing. 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:13.770 They didn't even have videotape. 00:03:13.911 --> 00:03:15.320 It w- it was all live. 00:03:15.895 --> 00:03:24.665 Believe they ca-- they, they-- videotape was a, was, an advent of things like much, m- much later. 00:03:25.513 --> 00:03:25.823 Yeah. 00:03:25.906 --> 00:03:29.105 That I can look up, but it was just something I, I was thinking of. 00:03:29.116 --> 00:03:32.165 But know, Steve Allen at the time with his glasses like mine. 00:03:32.295 --> 00:03:32.695 See? 00:03:33.086 --> 00:03:34.795 He was a handsome guy that could, 00:03:34.859 --> 00:03:35.408 Like you. 00:03:35.586 --> 00:03:44.235 Re- read-- could read a script s- he c- he could read a, joke monologue script and get a f- get a few yucks, for, after a ver-- a very busy day. 00:03:45.026 --> 00:03:46.316 It was Monday through Friday, 00:03:46.963 --> 00:03:48.443 Угу 00:03:49.116 --> 00:03:50.925 you know, eleven thirty to twelve thirty. 00:03:52.086 --> 00:03:57.765 And a- after that everybody went to bed and talked about it, over the water cooler the the next day. 00:03:58.645 --> 00:03:59.854 Yeah, at the office or whatever. 00:03:59.985 --> 00:04:00.506 last night?" 00:04:01.155 --> 00:04:02.405 Yeah, it was a big deal. 00:04:02.504 --> 00:04:06.794 So when you did the monologue, okay, you talked about how it was live. 00:04:07.634 --> 00:04:10.314 Didn't they film it back, wasn't it filmed back then? 00:04:10.724 --> 00:04:12.895 What kind of film would they have used, do you know? 00:04:14.860 --> 00:04:16.079 I think it was just live. 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:17.529 I clicked it off by right now. 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:18.100 Give me a second. 00:04:18.149 --> 00:04:18.470 It's a 00:04:18.555 --> 00:04:18.964 Yeah. 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:19.800 It's a 00:04:19.805 --> 00:04:20.095 Yep. 00:04:20.209 --> 00:04:20.800 question. 00:04:21.295 --> 00:04:26.355 Anything we don't know, we can Google or ChatGPT, right? 00:04:27.250 --> 00:04:28.029 Write a new chat. 00:04:28.029 --> 00:04:28.319 Yeah 00:04:32.730 --> 00:04:35.028 Yeah, I mean, It was so different back then. 00:04:35.028 --> 00:04:47.867 And even back then, television was only on, Alan, while you're looking this up I can say this, until usually, like, 12:00 at night, and after that a bu- a big bullseye came on the TV and it was done until the morning. 00:04:49.168 --> 00:04:50.478 There was no late night TV after- 00:04:51.245 --> 00:04:53.024 You would get the, the national anthem, 00:04:54.262 --> 00:04:55.201 That's right, the national anthem 00:04:55.415 --> 00:04:58.495 go ex- right? 00:04:58.985 --> 00:05:06.074 Or i- in the morning there was light one candle or whatever the thing was, crisp darkness or something or other. 00:05:06.904 --> 00:05:07.324 Okay. 00:05:07.754 --> 00:05:11.286 When Did 00:05:12.507 --> 00:05:12.797 up. 00:05:14.735 --> 00:05:17.036 When did TV start videotaping? 00:05:19.355 --> 00:05:20.146 Videotaping 00:05:20.524 --> 00:05:22.584 Oh gosh, I think that was in the'60s, Alan. 00:05:22.754 --> 00:05:24.355 Correct me if I'm wrong, okay? 00:05:24.814 --> 00:05:25.714 I'm guessing the'60s 00:05:29.382 --> 00:05:38.379 I never really see is thinking Television networks began using videotape commercially in 1956. 00:05:38.892 --> 00:05:39.793 Oh, 56 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.810 videotape, television was almost entirely broadcast live, like I said. 00:05:44.310 --> 00:05:44.821 Okay 00:05:44.850 --> 00:06:04.009 want- wanted to delay a show for a different time zone, such as broadcasting a live TV show, a live New York show three hours on the West Coast, they had to record a TV monitor onto 16 millimeter film, a process called Kinescope, which produced grainy, poor quality picture and sound. 00:06:04.449 --> 00:06:06.459 That must've been really great to see on the 00:06:06.509 --> 00:06:06.910 Yeah. 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:07.480 Yeah. 00:06:07.499 --> 00:06:08.699 West Coast at the time. 00:06:10.379 --> 00:06:10.790 Yeah 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:12.189 1956 was... 00:06:12.829 --> 00:06:15.119 But okay milestones. 00:06:15.939 --> 00:06:18.858 The Ampex Corporation, we've all heard of Ampex. 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:20.798 It was video... 00:06:20.798 --> 00:06:36.788 it was all kinds of, audio tape and video tape And then it was 1956, and NBC and ABC adopted technology shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and daytime soap operas began switching from live performances to tape recordings. 00:06:37.559 --> 00:06:39.649 was in between'57 and'58 00:06:40.410 --> 00:06:40.769 Okay. 00:06:40.829 --> 00:06:43.000 Well, h- let me just talk for a second about that. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.069 Let me int- address that. 00:06:44.379 --> 00:06:48.750 I was thinking of the'60s, because I remember watching The Twilight Zone. 00:06:49.259 --> 00:07:00.689 I think that was the one, the main one that I was watching, and I remember how some things looked like they were filmed, and then all of a sudden some of the episodes looked like they were, videotaped. 00:07:01.060 --> 00:07:08.889

And I often wondered about that, but I didn't realize that it went all the way back to 1956 when they first started videotaping. 00:07:08.899 --> 00:07:15.250 That's interesting, television is incredibly interesting because everybody watches it, right? 00:07:15.689 --> 00:07:26.209 So, what about All right, so you have the late night talk shows, but you also mentioned the social and political impact, of 1960 when John F. 00:07:26.209 --> 00:07:29.759 Kennedy, I believe, was on Jack Parr's show. 00:07:29.939 --> 00:07:33.740 Jack Parr was one of the hosts back then during 1960. 00:07:34.790 --> 00:07:39.579 He had a separate show from like, Steve Allen, but those were two separate shows, correct? 00:07:41.543 --> 00:07:47.892 Jack Parr and the it was all The Tonight Show Jack Pa Steve Jack Parr took over for Steve Allen 00:07:48.430 --> 00:07:48.910 I see. 00:07:48.910 --> 00:07:50.540 Okay, so it was the same show. 00:07:51.089 --> 00:07:52.069 Okay, same show. 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:52.620 Okay. 00:07:53.319 --> 00:08:00.750 But tell us what you know about or, maybe even did some research on the 1960 appearance of John F. 00:08:00.750 --> 00:08:03.180 Kennedy on The Jack Paar Show. 00:08:03.230 --> 00:08:04.399 Do you remember anything? 00:08:04.660 --> 00:08:06.779 Did you happen to look up, anything about that? 00:08:09.197 --> 00:08:25.744 Not really but i it is before my time But it was very controversial f f from what I I I Jack Parker did not want did not people at the time did not want to burn half the audience if they were to take a a political view or support you know 00:08:26.043 --> 00:08:27.144 particular candidate. 00:08:27.154 --> 00:08:27.694 side 00:08:27.913 --> 00:08:28.244 Yeah 00:08:28.435 --> 00:08:34.174 Right But John Kennedy was such a goodlooking guy and so photogenic that got viewers 00:08:36.292 --> 00:08:36.721 Wow. 00:08:36.802 --> 00:08:37.322 Okay 00:08:37.331 --> 00:08:39.961 name of the game e eyeballs and products right 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.190 There you go, okay, so then 00:08:44.294 --> 00:08:45.054 Right 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:55.120 after that, I wanted to talk a little bit about 1962 and this era that went all the way to 1992, and that was with Johnny Carson, correct? 00:08:56.875 --> 00:08:58.315 S sixtytwo to seventyfive 00:08:59.309 --> 00:08:59.909 Okay. 00:09:00.539 --> 00:09:01.149 Oh, that's right. 00:09:01.149 --> 00:09:03.679 He's, he sh- he signed off in'75, didn't he? 00:09:05.557 --> 00:09:08.476 'Cause John, I knew Johnny Carson was on there for 30 years, wasn't he? 00:09:11.614 --> 00:09:12.254 Let me see 00:09:14.125 --> 00:09:16.414 And he was a really good talk show co-host. 00:09:16.414 --> 00:09:20.455 I really li- I remember liking him a lot and looking forward to it, even though I was young 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:29.529 J when did J Ch when did Johnny Carson 00:09:34.375 --> 00:09:36.105 We don't wanna do too much with ChatGPT. 00:09:37.673 --> 00:10:08.681 end No I it wanna be accurate right Searching the web Thirty yeah 1992 But 1992 1972 to 1992 is thir 30 years exactly But the but it was ooverlapped at the time with CCarson DDavid Letterman came in to in the mid'80s or late 80s really sstir stirred up the the the airwaves with hhis his brand of humor and entertainment 00:10:09.514 --> 00:10:11.894 Okay, so now you had two talk show hosts. 00:10:12.053 --> 00:10:13.563 With Too Late, hold on. 00:10:13.724 --> 00:10:14.504 With Too Late 00:10:14.552 --> 00:10:17.783 he was our C he was our CBA he was our CBS at the time 00:10:19.077 --> 00:10:20.398 Okay, so but then it broke. 00:10:20.462 --> 00:10:20.482 to 00:10:21.368 --> 00:10:22.717 Okay, I'm trying to just say something. 00:10:22.727 --> 00:10:23.107 Hold on. 00:10:23.418 --> 00:10:27.477 So then it broke off into two separate Tonight Shows at that point. 00:10:27.477 --> 00:10:29.707 Before that, there was just one, correct? 00:10:31.562 --> 00:10:33.962 The Tonight Show and then the Late Show 00:10:34.591 --> 00:10:35.062 Mhm 00:10:35.153 --> 00:10:37.952 one it's this person there Dick Cavett also 00:10:38.173 --> 00:10:38.384 right. 00:10:38.384 --> 00:10:39.533 I remember him too, yeah. 00:10:39.863 --> 00:10:41.572 So you had three of them b- back then. 00:10:41.581 --> 00:10:44.493 was more political He was more political 00:10:45.450 --> 00:10:48.350 Yeah, things started to really, things started to really shift. 00:10:48.830 --> 00:10:51.990 Okay, so now today, let's talk about for today for a minute. 00:10:52.379 --> 00:10:55.309 How many different talk show and late night shows are there? 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:02.259 Well the the good thing about today is you don't have to wait up till 1130 to watch him 00:11:03.063 --> 00:11:03.453 Yeah. 00:11:03.504 --> 00:11:04.234 Yeah, that's true 00:11:04.278 --> 00:11:12.859 li like like myself I wait till the next morning and I catch I just catch the monologue I if there's an interesting guest it's somewhere on YouTube and 00:11:13.083 --> 00:11:13.553 Okay 00:11:13.558 --> 00:11:14.469 easy to find on YouTube 00:11:15.615 --> 00:11:16.046 Yep 00:11:16.828 --> 00:11:29.129 you know at 730 in the morning I'll get up and I have three late night shows that the maybe four including s some some stuff on on Comedy Central like Jon Stewart or something that I'll catch the next morning 00:11:30.042 --> 00:11:32.162 Yeah, but how many different ones are there? 00:11:32.162 --> 00:11:32.782 Do you know? 00:11:32.831 --> 00:11:34.552 Do you have to, do you have to Google that? 00:11:36.400 --> 00:11:53.801 No but I can probably co come off the top of my head I got Seth Meyers is one Stephen Colbert is no longer here and CBS doesn't have a talk show anymore ABC is Jimmy Kimmel and CBS doesn't have one NBC yeah with Jimmy Fallon 00:11:54.658 --> 00:11:55.837 Okay, that's five 00:11:57.938 --> 00:12:05.688 That's at least five then you have the Comedy Centrals and I think they're Fox might have something but there's no

way I know anything about that 00:12:06.408 --> 00:12:06.947 Okay. 00:12:07.057 --> 00:12:08.077 But other people might. 00:12:09.828 --> 00:12:11.058 The other people might 00:12:11.398 --> 00:12:11.827 Yeah 00:12:11.928 --> 00:12:18.479 they don't re I don't think they do have conservative comedians on there but I don't think they have a They have like the five or something like that I'm thinking of 00:12:18.984 --> 00:12:20.193 And The Gutfeld Show 00:12:20.239 --> 00:12:23.869 sure if that's on late That's probably on late late at night 00:12:23.948 --> 00:12:24.269 yeah. 00:12:24.340 --> 00:12:24.840 assume 00:12:25.359 --> 00:12:25.668 Yep 00:12:25.980 --> 00:12:27.629 it's probably on on YouTube 00:12:28.732 --> 00:12:30.812 Yeah, I think it is on YouTube now that I think of it. 00:12:31.307 --> 00:12:32.248 Of course it is 00:12:32.482 --> 00:12:32.763 yeah 00:12:33.207 --> 00:12:34.177 not that I look for it 00:12:34.941 --> 00:12:43.380 But you know, the pro- progression of it is just really interesting to me because it just, it started out just kind of like jokes. 00:12:43.701 --> 00:12:45.350 Do you remember Groucho Marx? 00:12:45.350 --> 00:12:47.291 Didn't he have a show originally too? 00:12:47.910 --> 00:12:48.081 I I 00:12:48.149 --> 00:12:49.070 what was that about? 00:12:49.171 --> 00:12:50.370 I brought that up earlier 00:12:51.192 --> 00:12:51.631 Yeah 00:12:52.280 --> 00:12:56.500 It was more of a game show than a talk show but he was he was very funny obviously 00:12:57.014 --> 00:12:58.323 Do you remember the name of his show? 00:13:01.092 --> 00:13:02.013 You Bet Your Life 00:13:02.485 --> 00:13:03.586 Yeah, You Bet Your Life. 00:13:03.586 --> 00:13:04.225 Yeah, you got it. 00:13:04.566 --> 00:13:05.495 Yeah, good memory. 00:13:05.785 --> 00:13:06.086 Yep. 00:13:06.395 --> 00:13:08.875 It was You Bet Your Life, and you're right, it was- 00:13:09.352 --> 00:13:10.883 I watched it on YouTube a lot also 00:13:11.868 --> 00:13:12.288 Yeah. 00:13:12.738 --> 00:13:13.207 Okay. 00:13:13.597 --> 00:13:14.258 I do too. 00:13:14.437 --> 00:13:16.597 And the other thing is, there was, he was a funny guy. 00:13:16.607 --> 00:13:19.807 They, everybody was, had comedy and there was a lot of humor. 00:13:20.107 --> 00:13:23.467 And back then, you had, war going on around us. 00:13:23.467 --> 00:13:33.207 We had the Cold War, then the Vietnam War, and a lot of this stuff kind of took you away from the problems that were surrounding, our country and things that we were going through back then. 00:13:33.577 --> 00:13:35.298 Today it's the same thing. 00:13:35.307 --> 00:13:44.368 You can watch people and listen to them and kinda laugh, in between, hearing all the, the nice reports that we get to hear on the television. 00:13:47.195 --> 00:13:51.504 They help comedy they help put things in conte in to in context 00:13:51.912 --> 00:13:53.052 In perspective Yeah. 00:13:53.581 --> 00:13:53.902 Yeah 00:14:11.148 --> 00:14:11.317 Yeah. 00:14:11.317 --> 00:14:13.018 that's what Greg Gutfeld Show does. 00:14:13.018 --> 00:14:14.158 It, it makes fun of things. 00:14:14.548 --> 00:14:34.817 But so, so do the rest of them, I think it's interesting, I think it's interesting because on Netflix now there's a show called Hacks, and it's featuring Jean Smart, and I believe it used to be on HBO and Max, and it started in 2021 and ended in 2026, so there's five seasons of it. 00:14:35.258 --> 00:14:47.168 But she actually is playing the role of a stand-up comedian, and the stand-up comedian's name was Deborah Vance who eventually achieves her dream of landing her own late night talk show. 00:14:47.918 --> 00:14:58.798 It's fictitious, but she had a great time, filming that, and I would k- encourage our viewers to check it out on now Netflix, and it's called, like I said, Hacks. 00:14:59.128 --> 00:15:05.408 And like I said, it used to be on HBO and Max, but now it's airing on Netflix, all five seasons. 00:15:06.817 --> 00:15:08.327 That's what I had learned. 00:15:09.488 --> 00:15:10.217 What do you mean no? 00:15:10.238 --> 00:15:11.067 He's shaking his head. 00:15:11.989 --> 00:15:12.308 It's on HBO 00:15:12.327 --> 00:15:14.368 It was on N- Okay. 00:15:14.368 --> 00:15:14.988 Our other brother- 00:15:14.990 --> 00:15:15.270 it's 00:15:15.427 --> 00:15:15.618 Lance. 00:15:17.961 --> 00:15:20.360 Our other brother Lance told me it's on Netflix. 00:15:21.880 --> 00:15:22.750 Lance knows. 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:25.990 he was mistaken But 00:15:26.091 --> 00:15:27.081 He's not Google. 00:15:29.791 --> 00:15:30.630 He's not Google. 00:15:30.630 --> 00:15:33.221 All right, so are you still s- you said it's still on HBO? 00:15:33.301 --> 00:15:42.120 S It was probably a takeoff on Miller actually had a Stephanie Miller a actually had a latenight talk show on I think it was I it was on what's her name's O 00:15:42.323 --> 00:15:42.573 What's your 00:15:42.850 --> 00:15:44.640 It was on the O Oprah's network 00:15:45.923 --> 00:15:46.504 Oh, okay. 00:15:46.504 --> 00:15:46.844 Yeah. 00:15:46.943 --> 00:15:47.394 Oh 00:15:49.019 --> 00:15:49.889 O for Oprah. 00:15:53.067 --> 00:15:58.207 I think this hacks might be a take off on Stephanie Miller's talk show on o on Oprah 00:15:58.995 --> 00:15:59.544 Could be. 00:16:01.004 --> 00:16:04.668 Yeah Oprah's show was called Hope. 00:16:04.734 --> 00:16:10.422 was very f I had no idea 19 Hold on 00:16:12.144 --> 00:16:12.903 Anyway I s- 00:16:13.427 --> 00:16:14.898 That that's how she got her start 00:16:15.980 --> 00:16:16.370 Yeah 00:16:16.908 --> 00:16:31.076 it was a nationally syndicated 60minute late night talk okay Yeah SSteffi Miller started in 1995 00:16:31.736 --> 00:16:32.226 Okay. 00:16:32.496 --> 00:16:33.356 And how long was she on? 00:16:33.806 --> 00:16:36.336 daily sixtyminute late night comedy talk What's that 00:16:36.846 --> 00:16:37.807 How long was she on? 00:16:38.216 --> 00:16:53.316 It It was very shortlived It became a stepping

stone for in her career She returned to rradio shortly after that led to the launch of her cccurrent highly successful political talk program The Steffi Miller Show in 2004 00:16:54.510 --> 00:16:57.120 Can you say that a little, can you say that a little clearer, Alan? 00:16:58.436 --> 00:17:00.115 the sorry 00:17:00.835 --> 00:17:02.044 And that's why you're talking to an audience. 00:17:02.245 --> 00:17:16.425 While the ni the 1995 TV show was shortlived it became a stepping stone in her career She returned to radio shortly after which eventually led to the launch of her current highly successful political talk program The Steffi Miller Show in 2004 00:17:18.894 --> 00:17:20.125 Okay, so I'm gonna say something. 00:17:20.125 --> 00:17:20.775 Okay, you ready? 00:17:21.224 --> 00:17:21.684 Listen. 00:17:22.455 --> 00:17:22.645 what's that 00:17:23.545 --> 00:17:25.454 So for, this is for our viewers, okay? 00:17:26.105 --> 00:17:31.464 Alan is a grandfather and he spends lots of times with his grandchildren, and when he's reading, you can tell. 00:17:35.345 --> 00:17:41.615 I can just hear you going,"In Charlotte's Web, little Charlotte 00:17:42.364 --> 00:17:46.733 Eh she did 13 weeks and roughly 65 episodes 00:17:47.500 --> 00:17:48.020 Okay. 00:17:48.124 --> 00:17:48.864 of episodes 00:17:49.681 --> 00:17:50.510 It, yeah. 00:17:50.941 --> 00:17:51.790 Hey, my app- 00:17:51.864 --> 00:17:51.913 I 00:17:51.963 --> 00:17:54.773 my episodes are up to 35, I think. 00:17:54.773 --> 00:17:55.763 I'm catching up to her. 00:17:57.854 --> 00:17:58.354 I know, wow. 00:18:00.644 --> 00:18:01.344 Right on. 00:18:01.411 --> 00:18:03.191 there nobody starts at the top 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:04.869 No 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:08.320 very well we're enjoying what we're enjoying what we're doing This is 00:18:08.458 --> 00:18:09.317 I absolutely 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.050 the the audience llearns just like we 00:18:12.101 --> 00:18:13.631 as long as you talk slow enough. 00:18:15.807 --> 00:18:17.748 Right I have to talk slow enough 00:18:17.778 --> 00:18:20.298 and look at the camera, and look at the c- look at the camera. 00:18:20.498 --> 00:18:20.698 Look at the c- 00:18:20.721 --> 00:18:21.580 camera Very 00:18:21.582 --> 00:18:22.382 my goodness. 00:18:22.612 --> 00:18:29.321 Anyway, so, we've covered some of the people that are in late night talks, talks th- their shows. 00:18:30.061 --> 00:18:31.711 None of us can talk tonight, but whatever. 00:18:32.291 --> 00:18:34.422 Here we are talking about a talk show and we can't talk. 00:18:35.882 --> 00:18:46.152 Anyway it goes back to 1954, and it's still going on today, do you think that some of the talk show I have to ask you a question. 00:18:46.471 --> 00:18:56.652 Do you think some of the talk show hosts that are on today find it more challenging because of the times we're in and because of all the streaming that's going on and all the different things? 00:18:56.652 --> 00:19:01.392 I mean, television has expanded s- to a place that I can't keep track of. 00:19:01.991 --> 00:19:07.082 I have a s- movie script that I'm waiting to, be able to produce, and I don't know where to put it. 00:19:07.132 --> 00:19:09.541 It's j- it's like everything is all over the place. 00:19:09.761 --> 00:19:11.211 There's so many choices, 00:19:11.491 --> 00:19:21.771 the content is limit limitless There's al There's a billion ways to to to to present or take show your take on a any particular subject 00:19:22.239 --> 00:19:22.578 Yeah. 00:19:22.592 --> 00:19:23.642 it's it's unlimited 00:19:24.489 --> 00:19:26.479 Your brain cannot com- compute it all. 00:19:26.528 --> 00:19:27.098 You can't. 00:19:29.888 --> 00:19:42.078 Think of how, the Allens, th- listen, think of how far we've come since the early 1960s when you used to watch TV with me when we were little, and you had one or two shows, to watch. 00:19:42.318 --> 00:19:50.328 Our mother would watch Jack LaLanne exercising one minute, and then we would watch Romper Room, and that was the end of it until the soap opera came on later. 00:19:50.669 --> 00:19:51.578 And tha- and that was it. 00:19:51.588 --> 00:19:59.348 There was, like, t- maybe two or three channels, and then after that it just kept expanding and expanding to what we have today. 00:19:59.788 --> 00:20:01.838 I think that we have too much television. 00:20:01.838 --> 00:20:02.669 I think there's too much... 00:20:02.808 --> 00:20:06.318 I mean, sometimes I'll scroll through it and I'll be like, I get confused. 00:20:06.318 --> 00:20:12.358 It's kind of like shopping in a big, huge, sh- grocery store where you don't know where the peas are anymore, what do you think? 00:20:13.935 --> 00:20:19.425 Not to chchange the subject or veer off a little bit but I was watching YouTube believe it or not 00:20:19.699 --> 00:20:20.169 Yeah 00:20:21.665 --> 00:20:38.121 Go ahead And the subject wa the subject was Gone With the Wind And after watching a and after watching particular YouTube do I wanna watch Gone With the Wind I've never I never sat down to watch this It's a fourhour movie 00:20:38.364 --> 00:20:38.743 Yeah 00:20:38.820 --> 00:20:41.090 Who has the time or the patience to do something like that 00:20:41.377 --> 00:20:42.728 Well, let me tell you about that. 00:20:42.758 --> 00:20:45.478 Let me just tell you what happened with that when I was a teenager. 00:20:46.778 --> 00:20:50.577 They had a filming of Gone With the Wind back in 1976. 00:20:50.968 --> 00:20:55.817 It was featured in the movie theaters, and it was a big deal to go on a date, which I did. 00:20:56.107 --> 00:21:03.188 I went on a double date with my friend Debbie, and we went with two guys and we were probably 15 at the time, maybe 16. 00:21:03.657 --> 00:21:05.548 And they featured Gone With the Wind. 00:21:05.548 --> 00:21:12.667 It was a four-hour thing, and it was wonderful because they had intermission where you came, you got up, and you had refreshments. 00:21:12.978 -->

00:21:16.478 Went to the bathroom, whatever you had to do, and then you came and watched the movie again. 00:21:16.647 --> 00:21:21.887 For some reason back then, we had, the attention span, and it was great. 00:21:21.948 --> 00:21:28.698 It was a beautiful, re-showing of that movie'cause originally it, it obviously aired in the 1930s in the theater. 00:21:28.788 --> 00:21:29.428 You know what I mean? 00:21:30.238 --> 00:21:31.228 And it was in color. 00:21:31.228 --> 00:21:33.788 They colorized it, which was a huge deal 00:21:36.313 --> 00:21:40.423 It was it was fil it was filmed in Technicolor It w 00:21:41.109 --> 00:21:42.539 Back in the 1930s? 00:21:43.012 --> 00:21:45.123 Huh Adjusted for inflation 00:21:45.634 --> 00:21:46.054 Mhm 00:21:46.182 --> 00:21:48.583 the most it's the highest grossing film of all time 00:21:49.137 --> 00:21:49.478 Yeah. 00:21:49.917 --> 00:21:52.018 Oh, it was a great movie, it was a great movie. 00:21:52.018 --> 00:21:53.008 It had a lot of life- 00:21:53.035 --> 00:21:53.505 will spend for 00:21:56.076 --> 00:21:59.855 You should watch it because I'll tell you, there was a lot of life lessons in it, Alan. 00:22:00.016 --> 00:22:05.066 No, there was a lot of life lessons in it, and you could learn from things that were created back then. 00:22:05.066 --> 00:22:15.316 You can learn from some things today, but today there's a lot of sarcasm, and I would like to see a little bit more life lessons in shows that we watch. 00:22:15.476 --> 00:22:17.415 That's what I'm drawn toward, yeah. 00:22:18.548 --> 00:22:21.239 speaking of sarcasm, what about that guy, Ren Butler? 00:22:21.439 --> 00:22:22.759 He was pretty sarcastic, wasn't he? 00:22:23.650 --> 00:22:24.450 Oh, in the movie? 00:22:26.313 --> 00:22:26.563 Huh? 00:22:27.104 --> 00:22:28.263 I thought you said you didn't see it 00:22:30.721 --> 00:22:36.651 He he, this, this guy's going go through the movie like, scene by scene. 00:22:37.090 --> 00:22:44.951 I only, he-- I only watched part one until they got to the Battle of Gettysburg, and then after that then he has this big thing called Sherman. 00:22:45.020 --> 00:22:45.901 Now, whatever. 00:22:45.911 --> 00:22:50.601 Anyway, I'm looking forward to actually s-sitting th- sitting through that 00:22:51.647 --> 00:23:03.667 Well, I'll tell you, his famous line, Rhett Butler, which was, played by, Clark Gable his famous line was at the end of the movie where he said,"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." He was famous for that line. 00:23:03.667 --> 00:23:04.288 That was a huge scene. 00:23:04.315 --> 00:23:05.214 of famous lines 00:23:05.218 --> 00:23:05.448 Yeah. 00:23:05.928 --> 00:23:06.278 Yeah. 00:23:06.708 --> 00:23:12.057 Yeah, but that was the biggest one, and everybody was like,"Wow, he got her back." Everybody was like,"Revenge," 00:23:12.107 --> 00:23:13.067 and he swore 00:23:13.817 --> 00:23:15.116 And he swore, yeah. 00:23:16.136 --> 00:23:16.487 Yep 00:23:17.854 --> 00:23:22.114 He u- used a four-letter word was, it was only three letters. 00:23:24.814 --> 00:23:25.094 I don't... 00:23:25.401 --> 00:23:26.191 what was the word? 00:23:28.465 --> 00:23:29.336 I don't give a damn 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:31.080 Oh, that's right. 00:23:31.080 --> 00:23:31.810 Yeah, that's right. 00:23:32.101 --> 00:23:33.921 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Yeah. 00:23:34.740 --> 00:23:36.401 I didn't think of that as a swear. 00:23:38.171 --> 00:23:39.931 I didn't think of that as a swear because, 00:23:40.256 --> 00:23:40.675 it was 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.090 oh my God, that's like nothing today. 00:23:45.310 --> 00:23:46.361 Damn, ooh. 00:23:47.681 --> 00:23:48.510 What did you say? 00:23:49.385 --> 00:23:49.816 See? 00:23:53.070 --> 00:24:15.921 Well, anyway I hope you have a chance to catch that movie'cause it was wonderful, but I wanted to go revert back to the late night talk show thing because I have always enjoyed, when I wanted to stay up late as an adult, like when my son was really little and wanted to have some time to myself, it was always late at night watching a talk show, and my favorite talk show host was Johnny Carson. 00:24:16.530 --> 00:24:17.851 He was very funny. 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:35.840 He had a lot of good talent on there, and he just, made, comedy rich, he just had such beautiful dialogue and ideas, and he brought, some really nice people on that were, they had some nice humor, rather than dirty. 00:24:35.925 --> 00:24:35.945 li- 00:24:38.990 --> 00:24:40.101 He wasn't making fun of 00:24:40.301 --> 00:24:40.632 he, 00:24:40.780 --> 00:24:41.080 really 00:24:41.362 --> 00:24:44.521 he, he, he, he, he, he, he could get edgy. 00:24:45.282 --> 00:24:45.653 Yeah. 00:24:46.153 --> 00:24:47.682 But I don't remember him 00:24:47.902 --> 00:24:51.892 He He he, he, had, he, he had some very famous comedians on, like S- 00:24:52.088 --> 00:24:52.479 Yeah 00:24:52.882 --> 00:24:55.622 and, Rich Little and 00:24:55.721 --> 00:24:56.791 Remember Buddy Hackett? 00:24:56.957 --> 00:24:57.826 Pryor. 00:24:59.396 --> 00:25:00.277 He had'em all on. 00:25:00.376 --> 00:25:01.406 The, the whole the, the, what... 00:25:01.646 --> 00:25:14.926 he, what, he had a famous line I think I didn't read his book, but I remem- I heard a line from his book that, more people saw him between their feet than probably anybody else in, in history. 00:25:15.852 --> 00:25:16.692 Well, what do you mean by that? 00:25:17.166 --> 00:25:19.346 Well, they were lying in bed and the 00:25:19.473 --> 00:25:20.223 Oh. 00:25:20.426 --> 00:25:20.846 were scre- 00:25:21.703 --> 00:25:23.104 Watching between their feet. 00:25:23.926 --> 00:25:24.957 Their feet, yeah 00:25:25.842 --> 00:25:26.632 I didn't understand this. 00:25:26.632 --> 00:25:29.912 It's good that you explained it, because if I don't understand it, who else wouldn't understand it? 00:25:30.318 --> 00:25:30.578 Yeah. 00:25:30.642 --> 00:25:31.932 Probably not anybody else. 00:25:32.701 -->

00:25:33.402 It's just me. 00:25:35.201 --> 00:25:35.682 Wow. 00:25:35.821 --> 00:25:36.461 Watch me trick or treat. 00:25:36.893 --> 00:25:46.272 Y- you know know, quarter to 12:00 at night after the news, e- everybody's lying in bed, propped up with pillows, against the, the backboard, the headboard, 00:25:47.723 --> 00:25:47.763 Was that before recliners? 00:25:47.763 --> 00:25:47.804 Was that before recliners? 00:25:47.804 --> 00:25:47.834 'Cause I watch 00:25:48.113 --> 00:25:49.573 T- watching Johnny Carson. 00:25:51.123 --> 00:25:51.803 Well, 00:25:52.814 --> 00:25:54.094 in a recliner, not in the bed. 00:25:55.743 --> 00:25:56.693 Hurts my neck. 00:25:56.913 --> 00:25:58.252 Well right? 00:25:58.644 --> 00:26:00.104 I can't get the right pillow ever 00:26:00.202 --> 00:26:00.813 people were young. 00:26:02.333 --> 00:26:02.643 Right. 00:26:02.643 --> 00:26:03.603 People were younger then. 00:26:04.986 --> 00:26:05.596 That's true. 00:26:05.596 --> 00:26:08.945 Now that we're older, now we have to really sit very very... 00:26:09.586 --> 00:26:10.905 What's the word I'm looking for? 00:26:11.165 --> 00:26:16.955 We have to fi- sit very deliberately because otherwise the neck hurts, the back hurts, the feet, everything. 00:26:16.955 --> 00:26:18.385 We can't look through our feet anymore. 00:26:18.415 --> 00:26:18.816 Pretty good. 00:26:19.215 --> 00:26:20.236 Yeah, the posture. 00:26:20.297 --> 00:26:20.767 No 00:26:21.145 --> 00:26:21.655 You try to... 00:26:21.705 --> 00:26:25.195 I tried to lay in bed and do that, and I was like,"Oh my God, my neck hurts. 00:26:25.476 --> 00:26:26.286 I'm getting a crick. 00:26:26.286 --> 00:26:31.165 I'm getting whiplash." It was awful, never mind, I couldn't get to the point where I was looking through my feet. 00:26:34.746 --> 00:26:35.776 It wasn't working out. 00:26:36.090 --> 00:26:41.192 But, you know know, you know, working parents, in their mid, mid-30s, You could see them do it. 00:26:41.192 --> 00:26:46.342 In late 20s to, to mid-30s they could do that, 00:26:47.919 --> 00:26:48.378 Yeah. 00:26:48.481 --> 00:26:49.221 it every night. 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:49.828 Mm-hmm. 00:26:49.951 --> 00:26:51.301 It was must-see TV. 00:26:51.342 --> 00:27:02.201 It was s-s-something to do, so- something to gather around, and, when the kids were asleep, you could get a little racy with Johnny Carson a-a-and his jokes 00:27:02.547 --> 00:27:07.547 When we had Jack Parr on and, Steve Allen, how long were those shows? 00:27:07.547 --> 00:27:08.386 Were they an hour? 00:27:08.386 --> 00:27:09.406 Were they an hour and a half? 00:27:09.406 --> 00:27:11.317 I mean, how late did they stay on? 00:27:11.346 --> 00:27:14.355 b-, I believe historically it's al- always been an hour 00:27:15.457 --> 00:27:16.346 An hour, okay. 00:27:16.676 --> 00:27:19.547 And now say you watch Jimmy Kimmel, how long is it? 00:27:21.362 --> 00:27:21.672 To know 00:27:22.315 --> 00:27:23.375 An hour, okay. 00:27:23.404 --> 00:27:23.903

Seems longer sometimes. 00:27:23.903 --> 00:27:24.684 Maybe it's'cause I'm 00:27:24.721 --> 00:27:25.071 Mm-hmm. 00:27:26.035 --> 00:27:26.894 looking through my feet. 00:27:28.561 --> 00:27:29.281 Right? 00:27:29.505 --> 00:27:30.414 Falling asleep. 00:27:30.654 --> 00:27:32.125 I don't stay awake for it anymore 00:27:32.132 --> 00:27:34.342 you watch it live, which nobody does, 00:27:34.540 --> 00:27:34.990 Yeah 00:27:35.501 --> 00:27:35.642 Have 00:27:35.714 --> 00:27:36.285 I do. 00:27:36.311 --> 00:27:36.882 and stuff. 00:27:36.984 --> 00:27:37.375 do. 00:27:38.194 --> 00:27:39.285 I wanna be authentic. 00:27:39.451 --> 00:27:41.741 You, you, you know, right, right? 00:27:41.761 --> 00:27:43.501 You might get the authentic realism 00:27:44.398 --> 00:27:51.608 I wanna tell my friends I stayed up late and I watched Jimmy Kimmel, or I watched Gutfeld, or I watched whoever, right? 00:27:53.109 --> 00:27:53.569 Right 00:27:54.788 --> 00:27:56.528 Yeah, I like Seth Meyers too. 00:27:56.528 --> 00:27:58.368 He's funny, he's one of my favorites 00:28:00.544 --> 00:28:04.463 And it and everybody knows now that very... 00:28:04.473 --> 00:28:09.483 they get a decent audience, live, but really nobody watches it live. 00:28:10.874 --> 00:28:11.433 You know what I mean? 00:28:12.115 --> 00:28:12.545 I do. 00:28:13.784 --> 00:28:15.723 everybody makes their money off off of YouTube 00:28:17.192 --> 00:28:17.633 I'm there. 00:28:17.633 --> 00:28:18.583 You're with me right now. 00:28:18.583 --> 00:28:19.093 We're on YouTube. 00:28:21.211 --> 00:28:21.751 right? 00:28:21.833 --> 00:28:22.613 acting it out. 00:28:22.643 --> 00:28:23.442 We're on YouTube. 00:28:23.522 --> 00:28:24.103 We're doing it. 00:28:24.392 --> 00:28:24.892 amazing 00:28:25.393 --> 00:28:25.833 Yeah. 00:28:26.623 --> 00:28:27.333 And you know something? 00:28:27.333 --> 00:28:28.883 It's not even that late at night yet. 00:28:29.063 --> 00:28:30.762 Maybe we should do this around 11:30. 00:28:30.762 --> 00:28:31.893 We might have a little bit of a... 00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:33.180 Yeah, 11:30. 00:28:33.732 --> 00:28:34.103 Yeah. 00:28:34.643 --> 00:28:36.722 If we do it around 11:30, we might be funnier. 00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:40.160 Our own little monologue. 00:28:40.682 --> 00:28:41.133 Yeah. 00:28:41.212 --> 00:28:41.542 Yeah. 00:28:41.789 --> 00:28:48.123 in the future, y- you could put a monologue, y- it just, it set it up like a late night talk show 00:28:49.518 --> 00:28:50.877 I think we kind of did that tonight. 00:28:51.178 --> 00:28:52.488 All right, come up with a monologue. 00:28:52.498 --> 00:28:56.518 Give me an example of how I would do a monologue. 00:28:56.782 --> 00:28:57.663 A monologue? 00:28:57.928 --> 00:29:00.067 How I would do a monologue based on what my- 00:29:00.272 --> 00:29:02.803 You talk about the, y- you talk about the events of the day, 00:29:03.786 --> 00:29:04.895 Oh, okay. 00:29:04.895 --> 00:29:05.165 All right. 00:29:05.165 --> 00:29:06.205 Here's

my monologue. 00:29:06.205 --> 00:29:07.226 Here's my monologue, okay? 00:29:07.465 --> 00:29:11.546 I got up, I had breakfast, I did some stretching. 00:29:11.996 --> 00:29:13.685 I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you the events of the day. 00:29:13.685 --> 00:29:13.816 Listen. 00:29:14.455 --> 00:29:15.266 Okay, a- and I go... 00:29:15.266 --> 00:29:16.256 No wait, it gets better. 00:29:16.336 --> 00:29:16.705 Okay? 00:29:17.185 --> 00:29:32.465 I went to the fitness center, then my neighbors moved in next door, and then they came to fix my roof, and then I took a nap, and then I prepared for this podcast, and then my husband brought me a nice little gluten-free sub from Jersey Mike's. 00:29:32.806 --> 00:29:36.036 So that was the events of the day in my world. 00:29:36.286 --> 00:29:39.395 In somebody else's world, h- God knows. 00:29:40.155 --> 00:29:41.905 What was your, what were the events of your day? 00:29:43.393 --> 00:29:47.702 Wha- what would be did, did anything funny happen, dur- during that? 00:29:47.972 --> 00:29:49.643 Did you stub your toe or something? 00:29:49.643 --> 00:29:50.873 Or, you know, 00:29:50.885 --> 00:29:52.506 I stub my toe it would not be funny, 00:29:52.593 --> 00:29:52.942 did... 00:29:53.806 --> 00:29:56.986 Oh yeah, okay, and then v- I talked to a lot of different people. 00:29:57.002 --> 00:29:57.532 or something? 00:29:58.056 --> 00:29:59.286 No, Penny wasn't here today. 00:29:59.286 --> 00:30:00.145 She's getting groomed. 00:30:00.465 --> 00:30:01.855 So, that's my dog. 00:30:02.246 --> 00:30:05.276 Anyway, so no, I talked to a couple of funny friends. 00:30:05.276 --> 00:30:06.605 We laughed our heads off. 00:30:07.026 --> 00:30:14.046 We were making fun of other situations and, trying to figure out some other people that we just couldn't understand, and it became funny. 00:30:14.266 --> 00:30:17.395 So, yeah, there was a lot of funny events that happened today. 00:30:17.455 --> 00:30:19.385 It just in conversations with other people. 00:30:19.816 --> 00:30:31.986 I went to the fitness center and the s- the same guy is there all the time, and he likes to talk to me, and I try to pretend I have my earbuds in because I wanna exercise and this guy's hocking me a chinook the whole time. 00:30:32.536 --> 00:30:37.326 And I'm like I'm here to exercise," and he's like,"Oh, okay." He keeps talking. 00:30:39.105 --> 00:30:40.026 What do you do with that? 00:30:41.575 --> 00:30:47.519 So, so, so, so you can write a whole script know, like that, a- and do that a- like a, like an intro to the, to the podcast 00:30:48.196 --> 00:30:48.817 Oh, okay. 00:30:49.156 --> 00:30:50.086 I'll have to remember that. 00:30:50.747 --> 00:30:51.777 The events of the day. 00:30:51.787 --> 00:30:53.696 So every day is kind of different. 00:30:53.876 --> 00:30:55.636 Those were some of the events of the day. 00:30:55.636 --> 00:31:00.217 It g- it was quite busy, but that was the gist of it, in between trying to work. 00:31:00.237 --> 00:31:01.807 But we live in a community. 00:31:01.876 --> 00:31:08.666 I live in a camping club, and there's lots of action around here, lots of things to do, lots of people, lots of interesting people. 00:31:09.017 --> 00:31:14.396 I could come up with a monologue just on, based on the people that I meet, some of them are very funny 00:31:14.862 --> 00:31:17.011 And that and that could lead into the podcast. 00:31:17.682 --> 00:31:19.432 Okay, well stay tuned, viewers. 00:31:21.011 --> 00:31:22.241 A five-minute monologue 00:31:22.863 --> 00:31:24.042 Okay, I think I just did it. 00:31:24.991 --> 00:31:26.511 Mm-hmm. 00:31:26.561 --> 00:31:28.112 It he- it helps break the ice. 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:30.631 Okay, well we should have done it in the beginning 00:31:32.092 --> 00:31:36.632 While you did that, you did a slight monologue when you do the introduction 00:31:36.871 --> 00:31:37.191 Yeah. 00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:42.621 Well anyway, that's it for, that, that's probably it for tonight. 00:31:42.701 --> 00:31:49.911 I don't wanna keep our viewers too long, but I wanna thank people for viewing with us and talking with us and listening with us. 00:31:50.401 --> 00:32:01.520 If you got anything out of this particular episode segment, if you could like, share and comment, we would like to hear your comments, especially on this segment,'cause we got a little silly. 00:32:01.961 --> 00:32:11.451 But you know, talking about late night talk show was fun for us because we en- we've enjoyed that, and our parents enjoyed it, and it's been around a long time. 00:32:11.810 --> 00:32:20.131 And we would encourage you to, do some watching of it, whether you watch it late at night like I do, or you watch it, on YouTube in the morning like Alan does. 00:32:20.441 --> 00:32:25.270 There's a lot of great shows out there, and we need to laugh, and a lot of them are very funny. 00:32:25.861 --> 00:32:30.441 So, we wanna thank you for joining us, and we'll see you in the next segment. 00:32:30.550 --> 00:32:34.711 In the meantime, watch those late night talk shows and keep laughing. 00:32:35.401 --> 00:32:36.320 Bye-bye for now.