Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 408 – the one we like to call “Comes before 409”.
This week on the show: skip the first ten minutes; throw something on the ice; disturbing accuracy; Ghostbusters obsessives; picky job description; Quark; can Mork and Mindy be fixed; debacle; poor Shelley Duvall; Westworld vs. Jurassic Park; governmental scolding; sauce gold; MacDonalds fun; wacky White Spot update; best burger; weight loss; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; party ghost; sophisticated kids; breast coma; ready for reunion; and, finally, robot Dave.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: What is something you enjoyed as a child that was rather sophisticated for your age?
Sub-question: What was a show that made it awkward for your family?
The first episode of Quark which we were surprised to learn was created by Buck Henry. Please be warned: 1970’s sensibilities ahoy!
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Yes, the original Westworld movie had sex robots. If you watched it on a regular TV channel, they may have cut the scene with Richard Benjamin making out with a naked brothel bot. FYI: According to measuringwealth.com, that $1000 a day admission from 1973 would be $5,650 U.S. today or $7485.09. Too rich for my blood…which would be splattered all over the place after the robots overrode their programming which THEY ALWAYS DO.
Dave makes great pies. I’d like to see him demonstrate his pastry method.
$7485.09 Canadian.
Much like David mentioned, I picked up on the Marx Brothers sometime in the fifth grade too, which wasn’t a common thing for other kids to be interested in. This did catch the attention a year later of my sixth grade teacher, who was also a Marx fan and gave us both a common bond that I’ll never forget. The next year when I had my first art class in both seventh and eighth grades, my teacher was an older woman who also thought it was fun and interesting to use the Marx Brothers as my subject matter for a few art projects. So I was in good company all the way back to the beginning of my young Marxism.
As for Monty Python, they were broadcast on Sunday nights from our local Public Broadcasting channel and Dallas was the very first market to feature Python in the states. I saw a documentary a few years back about Monty Python and of all people, Luke Wilson was interviewed for the documentary. Luke and Owen Wilson were raised in Dallas and their father was the program manager during the early to mid 70’s for our PBS channel. Their father was single handedly instrumental in bringing Python to the Dallas market first but only after getting the rest of board to agree to it. He said he had to find the funniest material and show the board clips to get them to agree, he spent an entire weekend watching Python sketches to find what worked best. It worked and once Monty Python was being broadcast in Dallas, the word got out and all the larger markets followed like wildfire.
Hi David and Ian!
I was 9 years old when I bought my first Beatles album – Sgt. Peppers – with my own money. It was from another, older kid, but I had to have it, so I gladly gave up the dough. I was an avid fan since I first heard Meet the Beatles at age 7. When I look back, that seems pretty young! I still have that first purchase, and all their other records as well, many of them the UK versions (but purchased in Brazil, where I lived as a kid).
As for embarrassing stuff watched with parents, probably Monty Python. My sister and I loved the show, but so did our stepdad…and we had the one TV in the house problem. Some of those sketches were kind of embarrassing for those of us in middle school to watch with him. But we absolutely couldn’t miss the shows, right? Besides, he never seemed to notice our cringing, because he was too busy laughing at it all. He was a great, fun man!