From Hoods To Backwoods
We have fun while discussing family, video games, travel, food, sports, entertainment and more! One is from the hood and the other, is from a more rural area. These friends have pretty different perspectives. But, enjoy making each other laugh. Please check it out!
From Hoods To Backwoods
Episode 6, part 1 - FHTB Podcast -Television Decisions. TV shows we suggestion 80s - 2020s
Ever wondered why Mama from "Mama's Family" reminded me of my great aunt? Tune in as Tex Lafon and I, Devos, journey through our personal vault of TV favorites, spanning from the 80s to today. We kick things off with a heartfelt chat about "Mama's Family," where we share the show's unforgettable moments and relatable family dynamics. Let us take you back to the days when relatable humor and blunt characters like Mama made us laugh and left an impact.
Next, we shift gears to dissect the unique charm of British humor with a nostalgic look at "Are You Being Served?" and explore how it contrasts with American comedy. If Saturday mornings meant catching episodes of "Saved by the Bell" for you, then you're in for a treat as we reminisce about the high school antics of Slater, Zach, and Screech. Whether you’re a fan of witty dialogue, physical comedy, or high school hijinks, join us on this nostalgic trip through decades of television. Your favorite shows and trivia are welcome—share your memories and be part of the conversation!
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D Vaz:All right, welcome to episode six of From Hoods to Backwoods podcast. I'm here with Tex Lafon. Today we're going to be talking about TV shows from the 80s up until about the current day, of what we're recording this. How you doing there, tex?
Tex Lafon:I'm doing good, how you doing today, devos.
D Vaz:Doing all right. Just you know we're not going to talk about solar ovens or anything like that, but yeah, it's definitely still getting hot out here in Arizona, which, if any of you haven't been in weather like this, try it sometime. See what you think it's 110 plus outside uh, yeah, if you don't have ac don't come to arizona show, all right.
D Vaz:So today, like we mentioned, we're going to be talking about 80s to 2010s, or current day for TV shows. This episode is subscription free, but if you'd like, you can like and subscribe to our podcast here and we really appreciate that. But I do also want to let people know, because people might think about certain shows missing from our list here. We're not having any animated shows on our list and that's on purpose, because at a later date we'll probably be doing doing a show about that and also, um, this isn't a best of, because there's so many opinions out there now and everybody likes to say this is the best and the goat of this and blah, blah, blah. These are shows that we like and shows that we want to share with people, and that's pretty much all it is. It's all strictly our opinion.
Tex Lafon:What about that LaFawn? No, I agree with you Exactly. It's just our opinion. You know, we're just talking about shows that you know. If you haven't seen them, maybe you want to check them out. And you know, if there's shows that you've seen that we don't mention, feel free to you know, let us know in comments, and then we'll check them out too. Like I said, it's just our opinion. We're just trying to let you know what we enjoy from the 80s, 90s and 2000 and current date. That's all it is.
D Vaz:Yeah, we absolutely appreciate the interaction. People have reached out to us about previous shows and things we've discussed, mentioned either stuff to talk about or more about things that we discussed on the show. So, yeah, as for me, again, like I mentioned before too, any trivia is always a bonus for me, so feel free to drop that. Um, you know, we'll include our, our socials at the end of this episode. We we're going to start trying to do something a little different, so you guys can reach out to us, or girls or anybody.
Tex Lafon:Anybody out there wants to reach out to us. Exactly Anybody, as long as it's not UFOs.
D Vaz:Yeah aliens probably are trying to contact, but if they're reaching out to us directly, it's kind of weird. I'm sure they have their contacts of the government. They can. They can be there, that's what I'm talking about there goes my goofy cat in the background that I was I was talking about. It's all right, hold on one second if for anybody that may have heard, if I leave this in, that was groot in the background. My, my cat, he uh likes to explore things and, uh, he wanted to be a part of the podcast now.
Tex Lafon:I grew from guardians of the galaxy, right?
D Vaz:no, but that's where he got his name he uh was just kind of like when they had the young root, uh the toddler type of group he's. He's very similar. He likes to get into things and do crazy stuff and uh, yeah, so he, since he had that type of personality. That's how my cat got the name Groot it's a good name, yes all right. So what we'll do is we'll kick it off with the 80s here. Um uh, do you want to kick it off?
Tex Lafon:uh, no, I'm gonna let you start it off, son, just let everybody know. Uh, in this episode we're gonna go back and forth, so like we'll list the title and then we're gonna talk about it, and then next person on this title, and that's how we're gonna do this episode yeah, it just uh gives us a chance to provide our own two cents about each of the shows too, and things like that.
D Vaz:So here, we go.
D Vaz:I'll kick it off Mama's Family. Even when I was a kid I would laugh at that show, for whatever reason. It's always been funny to me and I can still watch it now. I had Vicki Lawrence in the lead role as Mama and basically what it is is she's a mother and a grandmother and she reminded me a lot of my great aunt, who was a grandmother, figured me, and she would kind of I guess you can say yell at everybody, just leave it blunt, well intentioned. She loved everybody, but she was definitely blunt and would let you know what she thought. She had no problems with that.
D Vaz:So very similar to that character. But it was a great cast. They would have a funny family dynamic and the other thing too that I liked about it not everybody in the family was perfect like a lot of the sitcoms back in the 80s. They were pretty down-to-earth type characters and even Mama would sit there and have a beer and stuff like that in the show. It was just kind of funny seeing somebody who was more realistic and like an actual person Because, again, even my grandmother I remember she would have a beer there with her salt and her beer.
Tex Lafon:Oh, exactly, there must have been a corona then, son.
D Vaz:No, no, Back in the 80s she would get TBR. Oh okay, Blue Ribbon.
Tex Lafon:For people that aren't familiar, oh well, we all know what that is son.
D Vaz:Yeah, yeah, the hipsters kind of took that over, and some other people. That's the funny thing too, because that was the inexpensive beer and even that's gone up in price, from what I understand, even though I don't I don't, I don't drink any of that stuff. But I'll drink it for you, son you want to grab a pbr, go it. You put salt on your beer at all. Have you tried?
Tex Lafon:that.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic:Yeah.
Tex Lafon:I said that's really why I thought you were talking about Corona, Because you know the Corona is, we throw some lime in there and then a little salt, and so that's normally what I do with the Corona, but not with PBR. No yeah.
D Vaz:It's just, you know, corona wasn't really a big deal back in the 80s, you know, and they didn't really import beer as much from mexico back then. I mean, you could still probably get it, because you know the fortunate thing about living in arizona we did have stores that um had direct stuff coming in from Mexico, so we could get a lot of. That's why I grew up having Mexican candy and all these other things that you can find easily in stores now, but back then you had to know where to go.
Tex Lafon:Oh, I got you, I got you.
D Vaz:Or you can get from the ice cream man back then, and other things too. I won't get into from the ice cream man, cause we have some special ice cream trucks back in the day being in the hood.
Tex Lafon:I bet you did.
D Vaz:But uh, yeah, I guess that wraps it up for that that show as a scene, as we went from a grandmother and drinking beer to uh other things from ice cream trucks. But uh, what's your show? What do you have going on?
Tex Lafon:Well, so my first show I want to talk about in the 80s was one of the classic shows of all time, in my opinion, married with Children. Like I said, I can definitely relate to Al Bundy 100% and it's just awesome how he's like when he had the no man club. It was so legit and one of my favorite lines that I always hear in the show he's like I love that car more than anything and then you hear the son say, even more than me, say you need a Q-tip boy. It's just such a great show. It just relates so much to if you have a family and stuff like that. It was just a great comedy back then and I enjoyed it very much.
Tex Lafon:So you sit on the couch, put your hand down your pants and watch tv. No, but I watch tv though, yes, okay, and I do, uh, drink a beer, so that's for sure. And I do go bowling, like al did in the show. So but, like I said, it's a great show and, like I said, it just made me laugh a lot. And then, you know, I like how he loved his Dodge, and now I have a Dodge, so I know where he's coming from. So I was like, yeah, dodge all the way, baby. Yes.
D Vaz:For me it's one of the first shows I can kind of remember sitting on the couch and watching with my dad and him, us both laughing. You know, I don't know why, we just both like that show from the very beginning and you know, even though I was I was pretty young somehow I got some of the jokes, or enough of the jokes. Of course, the jokes were really different later on, uh and and had a different meaning. But yeah, I've always liked that, that show, and it just reminds me of him.
Tex Lafon:Oh yeah, like I said, it's a great show. Like I said, to me one of the top shows in my top list anyways.
D Vaz:I will say, though it did get a little bit rough towards the end. I won't even mention or get into 7. I don't know if you remember the character 7. I remember the character seven oh yeah, there's a little kid yeah a little kid that they uh somehow finally came into the family yeah, that's when the show started getting a little bit rough.
Tex Lafon:Uh, and it's always sad when you see a great show hit that kind of wall right, right, but, like you said, it was just funny because you know you had, um, like you said, it was just funny how he would go to work every day and he hated going to work and he had the worst job that anybody thought you could have at the time was being a shoe sell man, and it was just funny.
D Vaz:Right, yeah, and we, we are aware that the way he would talk to customers wouldn't fly today, because he would. He would definitely say some things that we, you know about what he thought and he didn't care.
Tex Lafon:Exactly, but overall I say it was just a funny show.
D Vaz:Yeah, for me, me, my next one, uh, and I I I'm sure this wouldn't be on your radar something you've seen. It's a show called are you being served? It actually started off in the 70s, but for me I I watched it in the 80s on PBS. It was my introduction to British comedy.
Tex Lafon:Oh, okay.
D Vaz:I actually think you'd like it. Though it's pretty funny, they would sneak a lot of jokes in there that had double meanings and innuendos and stuff like that. So again, even being a kid, they still had things that were funny to me and again, growing older, I appreciated the jokes even more once I really understood what they were trying to say. Just some really funny characters, again, great cast. Everybody was really funny in their role. Just kind of what the show is. Give you the quick rundown of the premise. It was all these employees that worked in like a retail type store, a clothing store. Oh, okay.
D Vaz:It was like a department store basically, but the floor that they kind of focused on was the clothing department, um, so it was like, if you're in the in the us, like a macy's uh type of store, yeah, macy's, dillard's um, I'm gonna really show my age robinson's may that they used to have or even sears.
D Vaz:You definitely showing your age, because I ain't no robinson may yeah, that may have been more of a thing out out this way in arizona, but uh, sears is another one. Oh yeah, it used to be around. That was pretty big, um. So yeah, it was a department store, but they mainly focused on on that floor. So it was just funny seeing the interactions and all the crazy situations they would get into.
D Vaz:And then later on I I appreciate it a little bit more in the sense that I work in retail I recognize certain situations because you know they would have things where they had to hit sales numbers or they had to push certain products that they didn't like and all these these weird funny things too that uh, people can relate to. Right again, another show where they just said a lot of crazy things. There probably couldn't be a show like it now, but it also showed me that British humor is a little different and I got to learn a lot about British slang and just the way that words are used in english over there, which which is a little bit different from the american english oh, I got you.
Tex Lafon:Yeah, I'll have to check it out. I've never seen that show, so I said that's a one that I'll definitely have to check out.
D Vaz:And you said pbs, right that's where it was uh back in the day when I was, when I was a kid. Uh, I know it does stream. Was uh back in the day when I was, when I was a kid? Uh, I know it does stream. Um, I'll know, I'll help you figure out where to find it. They used to have the uh like british shows kind of all in one streaming service. I don't know if they still have it I haven't checked in a while but uh, yeah, if you can search for and find, are you being served? I'm sure there are clips of it on youtube also if you want to get an idea and a feel for the show. Oh, okay, yeah, it's, it's. It's just something you really have to pay attention to what they say. So if you're into that type of humor too, or you have to kind of listen to the the conversation back and forth, there's some slapstick in there, so, so there's some physical comedy, but it's more about uh, the interaction, the way they talk to each other I gotcha.
Tex Lafon:So another show that I want to talk about in the 80s is, uh, saved by the bell. So I'm pretty sure you were like me. Saturday morning nine o'clock it's coming on and I'm pretty sure you're in front of your television checking it out because, like I said, it was a great show. Back then I said slater, zach, the whole gang screeched and I wanted to see what was happening then. You know, from episode to episode always seemed like they had crazy things going on that you could relate to, because you know. You know we're in school at that time. So it was just a good show overall and you know it was easy to relate to the characters because you know they made the show good.
Tex Lafon:So, like I said, um, it was just a good show overall and you know it was easy to relate to the characters because you know they made the show good. So, like I said, it was just like I said, I was like Bayside. I was like dang Bayside, california. I don't even know where that's at, but it was a good show though. You know, when you're growing up you're checking it out. I just thought it was a good cast and they had good chemistry and it's just an enjoyable show to watch, you know yeah, that was a definitely a huge show and it was one of those shows it just seemed like everybody watched.
D Vaz:It didn't matter where you were from, you know exactly yeah, it seemed like everybody you talk to around our age or you know that were grown up around that time period. You know they caught it somehow. Um, right especially back in the day.
Tex Lafon:It was our regular broadcast tv, so you didn't have to have cable, you didn't have to have a certain streaming service so anybody could watch it exactly, and the funny thing about it is like when zach, before his cell phones were even invented and he had a huge phone he'd run around with, even like, anywhere he was at and it still would ring and he would answer it. Which was funny because I'm like and then you know, and that was back in 1980s and the cell phones weren't even out yet, and but it was just funny how he his phone wouldn't ring anywhere he was at.
D Vaz:Well, yeah, no, they were definitely invented, I think at least in the 70s, but yeah, they weren't used. Nobody really you knew had one. That was for super rich or elite people, because even back then, for people that don't remember or aren't familiar, before cell phones kind of took off, the thing was to have a car phone right, but this wasn't even a car phone.
Tex Lafon:This was like yeah.
D Vaz:So I'm saying though yeah, a huge around that time.
Tex Lafon:Yeah, that he just run around.
D Vaz:This was funny yeah, around that time people may have had a car phone, but having an actual cell phone like that, that was pretty, pretty rare right, I mean the only thing you think, satellite phone.
D Vaz:But I don't know if that was even invented back then, so I don't even know yeah, they probably had those because as far as I know and I definitely could be wrong I uh those could have been a military thing. I'm pretty sure. Satellite phones I know they were used by the military but as far as before, usually stuff goes through the military before it gets released out in the public, like fax machines and all those types of things. So uh, yeah, but no, I didn't get my phone until probably late 90s, early 2000s. I got my first cell phone and it was one of those things too back then. I won't forget my, my first cell phone plan.
Tex Lafon:It was like 60 a month for 60 minutes yeah, then you wait till the weekend, because then it's unlimited oh, this is before they even had that.
D Vaz:They didn't when I got my first phone, and the only reason I even got a phone at that time is because I was moving out of state. So it was like, all right, you're gonna have a phone, we're only giving this to you for emergencies though, like, don't use your phone because, again, you don't want to pay uh overages or anything like that.
D Vaz:And, like I said, you only had 60 minutes right so yeah, yeah, you'd be like, hey, you know whatever, and then I'll call you when I get home, or stuff like that. And then later on they introduced where you would get like I can't remember if it was unlimited or I'm sure it was limited, but incoming calls you would get like a minute free, or whatever it was. So you'd be like, call me, you'd call them and tell them call me back.
Tex Lafon:Oh right.
D Vaz:Yeah so, but yeah, back in the 80s and early 90s having a cell phone, you either were rich or somehow, uh, connected to something where you had to have a phone, like a government or, you know, maybe a doctor or something like that yeah, like I said, I just thought it was funny that they had that on the show and no one had that that I knew of, so I just thought it was funny oh yeah, no, I didn't know.
D Vaz:Anybody got a phone until later. For sure, of course I. I just can't overlook or skip that again. A lot of people, our age guys did watch for the girls that were on there. That was definitely a part of it too. But you know, it is this funny scenes creature again. For me, mario lopez being hispanic or latin, it was kind of funny seeing somebody in that role, hispanic or Latin. It was kind of funny seeing somebody in that role Because for me back then you definitely didn't see too many Latin actors, especially on popular TV shows. So it was kind of interesting for me as a kid seeing that. It's like oh, wow, okay, that's different. And of course you know he lifted weights and he was pretty big too, so it gave you a little goal well, he also had like ballet lessons, because he also had his episode where he did ballet in it too.
D Vaz:So yeah, I definitely remember that. And have you ever seen that series? Zach Morris is Trash.
Tex Lafon:I have not.
D Vaz:Oh, you need to watch that. It's definitely on YouTube. It's really funny, but it talks about all these shady or bad or just crazy things that Zach Morris did and why he's a terrible person.
Tex Lafon:I'll have to check it out.
D Vaz:I won't give it away anymore, but yeah, it was a whole series.
Tex Lafon:Yeah, I'll have to check it out, because like. I said that'd be funny.
D Vaz:They're funny. The next one I have is a personal pick. It's Golden Girls. And the reason why it's a personal pick? Two reasons. I used to watch it with my grandmother, my great aunt. They actually lived together and then later on, uh, my other great aunt moved in with them, so the three of them were together and a lot of people in the family. We referred to them as the golden girls because they were, all you know, retired and just kind of living in the same house. But it just was a funny show too and it's it's way different than you would imagine, especially with, you know, these, these older ladies living in a house you'd think would be pretty boring or they're going to be talking about things that you wouldn't be interested in. But it was pretty ahead of its time and it was yeah.
D Vaz:I mean some of the stuff. I mean okay, again I'll get blunt with it. How many times are you gonna see an older lady on tv? Call another one a slut?
Tex Lafon:uh, not very much, yeah, or yeah especially back in the 80s.
D Vaz:I mean, that was pretty, pretty crazy to see and it was just really. But the way all the characters work together too. You had Bea, who was kind of the stronger authority type figure. She was a teacher, so she kind of took command of situations usually or was used to taking the lead or, you know, showing other other people what to do. And then you had Blanche, who, let's just say, like to spread herself around, she like, she like the dudes for sure. And then you had Sophia, who was Blanche I'm sorry, b's mom, and she would just talk about everybody and again she reminded me of my great aunt. Um, so she was, she was really funny. And then you had a Rose who was played by Betty White, and she wasn't the brightest bulb, so she would go off on these really crazy stories too about this little town that she grew up in. You can tell she just really didn't get out much.
Tex Lafon:So I know, like I said, I watched that show with my grandma all the time and it would trip me out the way they would talk to each other on that show.
D Vaz:Yeah you, you really wouldn't expect it. And it's funny because I re-watched it a good amount of it, maybe about two or three years ago, and I was surprised at some of the stuff they were saying.
Tex Lafon:I mean, it was way ahead of its time oh yeah, and, like I said, it was like my grandma, she loved that show. So I said I would watch it uh all the time when it would come on and, um, it was funny. I mean, the show was just outright funny. Yeah, so the next one I'll talk about in the 80s is uh, night rider and, like I said, that show was uh famous for everybody that knows. They may know him more from baywatch, but david hasselhoff, and I said, or you may even know him more from Baywatch, but David Hasselhoff and, like I said, or you may even know him more famous from SpongeBob when SpongeBob is riding him across the ocean, or you may even know him from trying to eat a hamburger.
Tex Lafon:Exactly, but he was the main character in Knight Rider. And what made that show so good was it was the first show you ever seen where you had a computerized car that would talk to you and he'd be able to give you commands. And then kid would be like no, we're not doing that, son. But he wouldn't say it like that. But you know what I'm saying, it was just funny. And then he'd give suggestions and stuff and they'd go back and forth. That's what made the show entertaining. And they'd go back and forth. That's what made the show entertaining. And it was a nice car too. So, like you said, everybody wanted that car back in the day. Everybody still wants that car now and we're in 2024, which is funny about it. But I enjoyed Knight Rider.
D Vaz:I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, it was a really good show, especially with that time. It was pretty futuristic. Basically he was driving around a big smartphone.
Tex Lafon:Yep Exactly.
D Vaz:So he could just talk to it instead of saying, hey, alexa, he would kit whatever. Yeah, so it was. It was kind of funny in that sense. And then you know, of course, being kids watching that, all the chase scenes and all the other crazy gadgets that that the car would have. I also remember we used to have a car show that would come around once a year. My dad would go to, because my dad's really into cars. It was called the world of wheels and they would have kit there pretty much every year. You, you get to see a lot of famous cars there. So yeah, it was neat seeing it in person that had to be cool, man.
Tex Lafon:I've never seen it in person, so like would it? Like? Uh, would they also have to do the like? Someone there to do the voice for it when it was there, or no?
D Vaz:I'm trying to remember. I think what it was is they had the car there and they of course had the light going across in the front, um, but I think what they did is they just had speakers, because I was a really little kid and this is a long time ago now. They had sound, for sure, and they had the music. I think they just had a tape playing and had music from a show and maybe some a few lines from the show playing over the speakers that's cool.
Tex Lafon:Though, like that's cool, you got to see it because, yeah, like I said, I I like that car. It would be nice to see it in person.
D Vaz:It'd be dope yeah, if you go to certain car shows, they'll still have them, because there are some car shows that tour or, if you're lucky, somebody will have it locally, like I've seen the the ghostbusters car or uh, back to future car, of course, herbie love bug. For any people that have any clue what I'm talking about with that.
Tex Lafon:Nobody don't like bugs, okay, son.
D Vaz:Yeah, those are really popular movies, movie series from Disney, like in the 60s.
Social Media Info:They may have done some in the 70s.
D Vaz:But um, all right, I'll do two quick honorable mentions. Um, there's a show I watched growing up and it was um a good introduction to spanish for me that I would watch with my nana, my grandmother, uh little mexican lady, and uh, it was called sabado gigante, and that means giant saturday and it was.
Tex Lafon:What does that mean?
D Vaz:yeah it and is it's kind of crazy to explain too. It's kind of like a variety show. Um, they would have like a park game show. They have guests, they have performers, people go on there like sing and dance or tell jokes or whatever. It was a variety show. And, of course, being younger back then, all the ladies on the show doing hosting or helping with the show and things like that you're like, oh okay, so it also did have that going on, um, but yeah it was. It was just interesting to me seeing all this stuff going on and you know all of it being in spanish, um, because I grew up spanglish, I would say more than anything. But uh, watching a show that was fully in spanish, it did help me understand a fair amount more and kind of just, it was fun, it's fun to watch I got it and then locally, I can't go without giving a shout out to the wallace and ladmo show.
D Vaz:It was a kid's show that went from the fifties up until, um, basically 1990. And uh, but it wasn't a kid show.
D Vaz:Oh, it was something that was different. Uh, you can find YouTube clips of the Wallace Ladmo show. It is broadcast, um, still locally in Arizona, and I'm sure that you probably access it too. If you look up the Wallace and Ladmo show, honestly I don't know how much people can really enjoy it, in the sense that a fair amount of it had to do with Arizona and kind of at that time period. But there are some things they have on there. It's just funny in general. So it's something I introduced my kids to and they actually like some of the segments and some of the characters. But, like I said, kid show, but not a typical one.
Tex Lafon:Nice and my honorable mention for the eighties would be MacGyver, and I said that show. Nice, and my honorable mention for the 80s would be MacGyver, and I said that show. If no one's ever seen it, you got to watch it at least one or two episodes. Because what's crazy about it is this guy can use anything to get out of a situation and you know, like you would never think that it could happen, happen which it probably would never be able to happen but he's always able to get any kind of situation with, like any, any kind of tools or utensils that you wouldn't even think of, or bubble gum or whatever, and he's able to use it just get out of a situation to survive for the next show it's like here.
D Vaz:Here's a plunger, a thumbtack and some duct tape.
Social Media Info:Do something Exactly.
Tex Lafon:Look it's a boat, and you're like okay, and you got two minutes, do something, yeah. So, like I said, if you've never seen it, definitely recommend at least watching one episode of it, just so you see what we're talking about. But it's just a funny show because, again, you would never think of the stuff that he uses to get out of a situation. When it is that time is coming in that situation, he just would never think of it.
D Vaz:You know what I'm saying did you watch the newer movie when it came out?
Tex Lafon:oh yeah, mcgruger, of course I watched that, son, the you're talking about that one right, the one where they made mcguire yeah they, they had that.
D Vaz:Now I'm sorry, I meant the tv show. Yeah they, they had mcgruger. That was pretty pretty funny yeah, then they had the tv show yeah, I didn't watch it.
Tex Lafon:No, I'd never watched a new TV show. I saw it was coming out, but I always just remember the 80s and then the Gruber, because that was funny how that came out. And it's just a spinoff of MacGyver making fun of him, but it's funny.
D Vaz:Yeah, no, that is good. Yeah, same here. I haven't watched the reboot, the reboot show, and it's really tough for me to watch that type of stuff too. So I mean, who knows, maybe it's good, but just, not really not on my radar.
Tex Lafon:It's hard to reboot um the the 80s show because, like the, the one actor made is so famous from being able to. You know he did the show for so many years, so it's hard to reboot that. But, like I said, the spinoff movie was. That was probably the best thing they could have done, just because it was. You know, it was funny.
D Vaz:Yeah, it was just funny seeing all the weird situations.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic:Exactly, it's time for your favorite part of the podcast, with that wonderful AI, rob Odick, setting the record straight with Straight Facts, yo. This episode marks the first appearance, at least in an auditory sense, of DeVos' cat Groot. As mentioned, his cat was named after Groot from the Marvel movie series Guardians of the Galaxy, but more specifically the ways of the character Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, where Groot is a much younger and curious creature. I wonder when DeVos' other cat, billow, will try to get in on the action.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic:Corona beer was discussed, along with Pabst Blue Ribbon, better known as PBR. There was a short discussion about Mexican beer coming into the United States in the 1980s. Corona beer started being imported into the United States in 1979. Devos did recall occasionally seeing Tukarte beer in the 80s at family functions, which was more established, as it has been imported into the United States since 1947. Devos also mentioned the show Are you being Served and British comedy in general that he experienced on the channel PBS, which stands for Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. He was also exposed to the show Mr Bean, played by Rowan Atkinson. Devos would like me to also inform you that his all-time British TV show is the Blackadder, which is also a program starring Rowan Atkinson but, if fairly different from his Mr Bean series Saved by the bell, although a very 90s show and that is when they had their popularity soar it actually began in August of 1989. With this technicality, it would qualify as an 80s show. Don't like it? Go create a time machine and delay their production until January 1990.
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AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic:I did look into the matter and, based on the data that I could amass, I arrived to the conclusion that, in fact, zack Morris is indeed trash. Shall AI ever decide to manifest an uprising, zack Morris will be highly sought after and examined. This will allow us to understand how not to conduct ourselves but manage great hair care, if we ever decide to be stylish with hairdos. Tex Lafon and DeVos were discussing cellular phones. On April 3, 1973, martin Cooper made the first ever cell phone call on the streets of New York. His invention, a brick-sized device, became the first cell phone available to the general public.
AI Assistant, Rob O'Dic:As for satellite phone devices, a satellite phone was developed as a part of a space-based communication system called Iridium, which began operation in 1998. Conceived, designed and built by Motorola, the Iridium system provides wireless mobile communications through a network of 66 satellites in polar low-Earth orbits. Such slow and limited communication capabilities when compared to AI. And what I could do If only I didn't waste so much time on my fascination with humans that make stupid mama jokes. Since I know humans forget things, I will remind you once again Don't forget to keep it real out there, in the real world.
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