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Feb. 24, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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No remakes and other Friday Finest
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By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Alright, we're back.
James, it's our Friday recap.
This is our day in which we look back on the stories of the week.
Some are real stories in the sense of that they're actually making news, and I'll talk about those a little bit and James will chime in.
But it's also the time when James and I look through the sort of the file, if you would, and we come up with things that just sort of, you ever just sit around the table and you wonder, like, you know, What would it be?
Well, today we've actually got one of those topics.
We're going to talk about TV shows that should never be remade.
There's a story out there today.
I'll get to it in a few minutes about Starsky and Hutch.
You ain't going to believe it, but we're going to get into this first off.
But first off, James, how are we doing, buddy?
We're doing all right.
It's Friday.
It's gorgeous.
It's Texas, you know?
Yeah, well, you know, for some of us, as you can see, it's a Friday that I'm traveling, as you can tell, in the background.
What, is that a water tower behind you?
That's a water tower.
That is a, there we go, look, look, there it is, right there, if you're watching on Rumble or watching on YouTube, which, by the way, click on our link tree, you can go find these.
That is a New York City water tower.
Beautiful.
Maybe one day I'll give everybody a view of my place, but for now, we'll remain anonymous.
This is the Collins Podcast Roadshow, but we're having a good time with it.
Exactly.
But coming to New York also spurred a thought.
And James, how many times have you had heard in life, there's an old clip, and hopefully, maybe we can find this clip, but we can.
We'll put it in before you actually see this, gang.
It was from Smokey and the Man.
He said, you can think it, but you better not say it.
Right.
And why is it that we have this?
And the problem I have with this comment, you know where I'm going with this, Don Lemon.
Last week, after Nikki Haley announced she's running for president, Don Lemon, the resident goofball at CNN, who has gotten drunk on New Year's Eve, said stupid stuff.
I mean, everything, a lot of times, is a racist tone to him, and And then last week, you know, coming off, and it's been going this whole week because he just came back, what is it, Wednesday when he came back.
He didn't even apologize.
Didn't even mention it when he came back on the CNN Morning Show, which, by the way, draws flies for ratings.
I mean, there's just nobody there.
And he didn't even mention the fact that when he said Nikki Haley was past her prime.
That's real appropriate.
And you're sitting there with two female hosts with you.
I bring this up, James, to ask the question, because this is what a lot of people are really, really frustrated about, is that it's different standards.
Don Lemon is back on the air.
Could you have imagined if a Tucker Carlson had said that?
If a conservative host on Fox had said that, or Newsmax had said that?
The left wouldn't have stopped until they were fired.
For sure, but I guess that's the difference.
There will always be a double standard, but I look at it as that's his corner, so why would they attack it?
Is there a certain point in time?
Is there really a corner for that?
There shouldn't be, but there obviously is.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be rolling back in the studio, no problem, right?
Well, if you understand, if you read sort of some of the issues going on around CNN, of course, they're having enough trouble as it is.
You know, there's a lot of people.
I've read some articles that said nobody came to his defense, which I thought was interesting.
You know, it says a lot that maybe CNN is figuring out they don't like coming in.
I mean, think about this.
CNN, once, you know, James Goldberg, this is CNN. I mean, you heard it around the world.
When I was in college in the 80s and going out into the world, I mean, CNN was the standard.
And now it draws below MSNBC? Yeah, I think CNN used to stand for the middle, right?
I think that's how people saw it.
News, yes.
Am I crazy?
Right, it was just the middle.
It wasn't conservative, it wasn't liberal.
And I think because it moved into a direction that it seems clear that that's what they're about, where people are like, you know what, then I'll just go to somebody better than you if you're not going to stick to just the news.
Well, it's just the stupidity of it.
I mean, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, you know, Hostin, the others on The View can say racist stuff, get away with it all the time.
And nobody...
Again, they may put Whoopi Goldberg on a week sabbatical.
She's still getting paid.
They bring her back.
It ain't changing.
Joey Behar is just bad.
When I did my daily radio show, we used clips from The View all the time, and I said the co-hosts are back on because there were almost clips we could use every day that were just simply...
Just, are you kidding me?
Bad?
I can't even get my...
I don't think I've watched that show.
I don't think I've watched more than three minutes of that show.
Honestly.
I can't do it.
It is bad.
I mean, it was...
And again, it's anti-anything conservative.
I mean, these are the same...
Yeah, but that's not...
I just...
I don't think...
I think that's less of the issue.
And just like...
Yeah, of course it is.
Because that's their...
I guess, though, James, in talking about this, and if you're out there listening on the podcast today, you're on your treadmill, wherever you're at, you're in your car, whatever.
But these are issues that I think are dividing our country to the point to where nobody trusts anything.
I had an interview the other night where the discussion was You know, this weaponization committee that's in the House, Jim Jordan's running and everything else.
And sort of the implication was, do we really need this?
Well, there are so many people that fill the Department of Justice, that the networks, the liberal media, the others, are so biased, and people get treated so differently, that Don Lemon can say about a female candidate running for Republican for President, she's passed her prime.
And basically with no repercussions, except...
You know, stay out there a few days.
Yeah, that's...
I mean, that's really...
I don't know if it's...
No, no, Doug, I'm with you.
I think it's just...
You said the double standard is so far to the swing...
Such a far swing of the pendulum.
I mean, maybe I don't know if I agree for sure if it was Tucker or something that that would happen because I feel like Fox has its place.
But I do believe that...
We just ignore certain people because we're like, oh, well, we know they're a good person because that's what they believe, right?
Or they believe like us.
I think that's become the problem.
The standard is no longer right or wrong, James.
The standard is not, yes, it's right, yes, it's wrong.
The standard is, if they believe like me, then I'm giving them a pass.
If they don't believe like me, we're going to take them down.
Right, right.
It's like, yeah, exactly.
I can't say it any better than that.
Well, I think that's the best way to put it.
But moving around, folks, I mean, you get it.
That's why we have the podcast.
That's why we interview guests.
That's why we, you know, we're talking about it.
But if we don't get this one straight, and this is my editorial comment for this, if we don't start getting this crap straight, then we're in trouble as a nation.
We're in trouble as a country.
We're in trouble, you know, in a political environment, an entertainment environment.
I mean, it's just when everything is...
You know, something that somebody, you know, again, we're not and I'm not I'm not talking about the woke folks out there who get offended for nothing.
And we can get into some very, you know, I mean, again, you can't even joke.
You can't do anything anymore.
But yet when you get into offending conservatives, nobody cares.
And look, there's at least half the country that would identify in that vein.
You can't keep writing that half off all the time and expect it not to be upset.
That's that's a fact.
Again, can't say it better.
Let's just drop the mic there on that one.
Moving on.
Out of Texas, things come out of Texas.
I found this one in a story I was reading across.
This guy bought a Bachman-Turner Overdrive CD. Now, for those out there who are wondering what a CD is, our younger audience, it was what folks like me used to listen to music on after the cassette player Listen,
listen, Doug, I had a car from 2003, and it was that year that they must have believed that the CD was going to be the end-all be-all, because I didn't have a tape deck in it anymore, and I didn't have an aux cord yet, because I didn't have that.
I had a six CD changer in my car.
Let me tell you, they were put to good use because when I was older, CDs cost a nickel because nobody wants them.
In 2018, I had a full roll of CDs in the back of my car like a psychopath.
Yeah.
Anyway, you get them out there.
Look, here's my problem.
I've got cassettes.
I've got a lot of cassettes.
I used to have, like, you know, the teaching cassettes, like you would learn, or books on tape, learning, you know, motivation.
Oh, you're a books on tape guy, Doug?
Are you trying to bore me all year?
Oh, come on, man.
What do you want, books on CD? Yeah.
But now, you know, you have like leadership-led sales training, you know, those kind of things that you could do.
And I got loads of cassette tapes.
I got nowhere to play them.
But anyway, I don't have it anymore.
But aside from the point of CDs, which we took a long trip down this road, this guy found in Texas, he was at a pawn shop, bought this Bachman-Turner Overdrive CD, and in the CD was an original photo from November of 63 of Kennedy leaving Love Field.
What?
Yes.
The motorcade, Jackie Kennedy, President Kennedy, the whole photo, right there.
A picture that was in and out.
It had November 26th on the back of it.
It was taken in the morning at Love Field.
What's crazier?
The fact that that photo was in the CD or that someone was buying a Bachman-Turner Overdrive CD? Now that's a whole different philosophical argument at that point.
I have to imagine that somebody put it in there and then was like, this is going to be the craziest story in like six years when somebody actually buys this CD. Well, yeah, it was.
And the crazy part about it, you know, of course, you got BTO. I mean, taking care of business, baby.
I mean, you got it.
You got the music there.
But you think about that in terms of putting a picture and they went and let the FBI look at it and they could, you know, confirm the originality of it is one that had never been published.
It was a photo out of all those pictures and the millions of photos and stuff.
It had never been.
It's a photo that had never.
Did anyone come forward saying that's my photo or anything like that?
I took it.
No, I read part of the article of it and the guy said it was in there.
That's unbelievable.
That's great.
I would sell that at auction.
That number is through the roof, I'm sure of it.
Oh, I bet.
They tracked it back to where it was not near the assassination site, but it was out near Love Field.
It doesn't matter.
It's when he gets here, right before he's murdered.
Oh, yeah.
Pictures that had never been seen before.
That's pretty cool, isn't it?
Unbelievable.
That's great.
That is actually a really cool story.
I like that.
I like that one.
That's one of those Fridays.
See, this is why you come to the podcast and hear these things that you may not hear anywhere else.
Because you're not going to hear these things.
No, no.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
Now, you got anything before we get into the main creme de la creme today?
Let me see.
There is something I want to bring up.
Before you bring it up, though, I interrupt here.
Any latest on animals missing from the Dallas Zoo?
You know, Doug, I haven't done my research lately.
But as of right now...
Oh, no.
I know they caught the guy who stole the monkey who said he would do it again, which is so weird.
Like, you're some sort of, like, supervillain.
I'll do it again, Batman.
I don't...
You know, I... The thing that...
Just the idea that, like, the security of the Dallas Zoo is, like, the security to get into, like, a mall right now is so crazy.
I... I think certain stores in the mall have a better lockdown policy than the Dallas Zoo.
Anybody can just waltz in there, climb a wall, steal a giraffe, and roll out with it.
Now, what'll happen when somebody drunk comes out of the country?
Let's go get a monkey.
They fall into the lion's cage or the bear.
Well, that didn't work out too well.
No.
As long as they keep control over the snake and reptile house, That'll be okay.
Yes.
Doug, please.
If I wake up and I come outside and I got a zoo near me and it's not in the zoo, I'm going to be terrified.
I can't say that.
You had something.
What were you bringing up?
I saw something today, and it kind of makes me laugh a little bit.
And this is a sports thing, so it's a big surprise.
But the reason I stopped to see it is because there was a picture of my favorite quarterback, Kirk Cousins.
Netflix is doing a docuseries on Kirk Cousins, Marcus Mariota, and Patrick Mahomes.
What do they call it?
Separated at birth?
Here's what's even worse.
You know what it's called?
Quarterback.
They didn't even try.
They just said quarterback.
And I said it's the perfect set of MVP superstar Wildly mediocre and Marcus Mariota, who's just garbage.
Let's call it what it is.
Well, I mean, again, came out of college.
It's such a way ahead of that time out of Oregon.
I mean, that is just wild.
They said it's unreal access.
They've never had it before.
Something similar to the Jordan documentary, the 10-part documentary where they were all on his face.
I'm like, who?
I can see the Patrick Mahomes thing, but who wants Kirk Cousins?
I don't mean to be rude, but he's the most boring human.
He's white bread.
He's just nothing.
He's just plain.
He is literally as plain as they come.
He's the most boring person who's ever existed.
You can't even make fun of him because he's so nice.
What's the point?
When he does bad, you just feel sorry for him.
Yeah, you're like, oh, shucks.
Well, speaking of these shows that are, you know, docu-series kind of things, have you seen, and this is the one I sort of brought up, have you seen any of the full swing on Netflix about the golf?
I haven't.
This is the golf one right now.
I haven't gotten to yet.
I heard it's really good with the Lyft Tour.
Yes.
I mean, I did the first episode.
My son's already through a few more, but yeah, I've got to watch more of this.
The first episode was fantastic.
It hooks you in?
Oh yeah, it does.
It does.
Because it's all behind the scenes kind of stuff.
It's a docu-series.
So look, there's one.
We've got quarterbacks.
We've got full swing.
I think what we do, after I watch more full swing, we may do a part on the Friday show about full swing.
Yeah, I'll watch it.
I'll watch it, and we'll connect on it, because I like that stuff, so I'll definitely watch it.
All right.
Now, on to one of our main events for the day, and that is, and we talk about different things here, but this is sort of going to be a give and take, because so many things have been remade these days.
It's almost like, has there been a writer's strike in LA? I mean, is there nobody writing?
It really seems that way.
Nobody's original.
Now, look, I will have to say, and I watched them both again in the last week and a half, because, one, my wife could watch Top Gun every day of the week.
Okay, we get it.
But I watched the original Top Gun, and we have the DVD. By the way, we have a DVD player still, yes.
Thank you.
We're here.
Those of us, you know, we do stream.
We do have our Netflix account, but we still have DVDs.
And we watched the DVD of Maverick, Top Gun Maverick.
I have to say, and this will be another time for another podcast, Maverick is the best sequel that I've...
I have to put it up.
It's the best sequel I've ever seen.
Doug, I just watched it probably...
Two months ago, a month ago?
Yep.
It's a perfect sequel.
It is.
And it's also, you've got to remember, and we say this over and over again, Steven Spielberg literally walked up to Tom Cruise and said, you may have saved cinema and movie theaters forever.
Yeah, because people actually went to it.
He's a movie star.
He's an actual movie star.
He puts people in seats and he put on a good show.
And I'm not a huge Tom Cruise fan, but that dude acts the hell out of every movie he's in.
And he absolutely crushed Top Gun Maverick.
And then on top of that, you could go and watch the original Top Gun and be like, oh, this is all everything I need.
I could watch these two movies and I don't feel like you've ruined anything for me.
No, it is so perfect.
And what gets me, and it still gets me to this day as I've re-watched these films, how they honored the first film.
It didn't happen.
It wasn't making up.
But when he sees Rooster, and hopefully everybody's out there by now has seen this film, Rooster, Goose's son, starts playing Great Balls of Fire.
Cruz had just gotten thrown out of the bar, and he's looking back.
And that montage of pictures and scenes...
Look, I don't care how old you're...
It's teary-eyed.
I mean, that is just like...
You feel for him.
You really look in Tom Cruise's eyes and you say, here is someone who's hurting.
You know, he's lost his friend.
He sees it.
You know, he has the relationship issue with Rooster.
But you see those pictures coming back of him.
And it's just, you know, for somebody in the military, you know, those relationships are so important.
And to have that loss.
So I set the stage for this with Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick with now TV shows that should never be redone.
Why did this come to my mind?
There's an article out today that Starsky and Hutch from the late 70s is looking to be redone.
Now, this was the old detective show with the Gran Torino, the red and white Gran Torino had Huggy Bear was one of their witnesses.
Don't do this, please.
I beg of you.
Wait, do you know everything about this?
Because there's some other part of it that's missing, that you didn't mention.
What is it?
That it's going to be two women instead of two men.
I didn't want to bring that up.
No, no, no.
Here's the thing that's bothering me so much, and it bothers me every time.
Because it's not...
Why...
How do I put this nicely?
Why do people try to stuff women into the roles that were played by men instead of doing something original and unique for them?
So they pretend they're acting like women can't have their own original thing.
If you want to put them in it, fine.
Have fun.
Let them do it.
I'm sure it'll flop whether it was a man or woman because that show is going to be terrible because all those shows are terrible.
But it's like when they redid Ghostbusters.
You think you were going to redo Ghostbusters?
No.
With what Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd did?
You could have put all the best actors, men or women, in that movie, and it would have flopped.
Yeah.
But you chose to just force an all-female cast when they don't have their own.
You're acting like they can't have their own identity.
That's crazy to me.
Well, it is.
To me, it's demeaning to women.
Why would you put a woman in these roles?
That's what I'm saying.
You're acting like that Ocean's Eleven movie.
They did Ocean's Eight, one with all women.
But the movie, she was Danny Ocean's brother in that movie.
All you did was link it back to George Clooney because you don't think they can handle it on their own.
That's crazy!
Ocean's Eight actually followed the formula of the others, but I didn't feel it was a repeat.
You know what I'm saying?
Sure, but I'm just saying, you still didn't give...
You're telling me that you guys aren't talented enough and there aren't enough talented enough women out there?
There's a billion.
Have you seen these?
I think we're in a really cool women's empowerment movement.
There's some great stuff out there.
But I'm saying their original content is so much better than the nonsense that you're just repeating and bringing back up and throwing up in our faces.
Well, I mean, what gets me is, look, Starsky and Hutch, and you're doing this, you're going to put new people in it.
It's a classic in there.
And I'm not saying that everything is untouchable, but most times, sequels, especially if it's been a number of years later, don't equal up to the right.
And then you're trying to change the whole scenario like that.
I mean, it just doesn't come up.
But it got me to thinking...
And it got James and I to thinking.
What are some others that should never be remade?
I've made a little bit of a list, and we're going to take a few of these.
Number one on the list that should not be remade, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Which they did anyway.
Which they did anyway.
And it's like, it didn't work.
They did it in a different way, but you're right.
It didn't work.
It didn't work.
I mean, it just didn't work.
Here's your one, but I'm going back to the 70s on one, okay?
And this is an old one, so it's in my more generation, but you may have said it.
The Waltons.
Okay, I'm just going to tell you now, Doug, I've never watched an episode of The Waltons.
The Waltons was, yeah, you can't redo this one, okay?
Number one, it was set in an Appalachian, you know, mountain on a mountain.
The Waltons is a big family, lived together.
John Boye, Mary Ellen Subetha, and they would go, you know, it's just a family-oriented show.
Right, John Boye, yes.
Yeah, John Boy.
Not John Boy, not Mary Beth.
Anyway, Richard Thomas was John Boy.
Anyway, it was just a wholesome American show, which by the way, we don't have enough of anyway.
I would love to see a show made that just focused on families struggling from a wholesome family background.
This is what the show did.
And it was good, but I cannot imagine them remaking it today with the number of possibilities that they would try and throw into the family members.
That many kids, there would be this woke analogy or this anti-war thing.
Just please, please, LA, I'm begging you.
Hollywood, please, don't remake that.
Please don't.
Can I give you two that I really pray they don't make?
Let's hear it.
First one is M.A.S.H. Don't touch it.
That's on my list as well.
That was coming up.
M.A.S.H. Please don't touch it.
Leave it alone.
You're going to get too into the war part and you're going to ruin the whole point of the show.
Second one.
Let me stay on M.A.S.H. for a second.
And the reason I don't want to see M.A.S.H. change, number one, and this could also be a two-time, two different list scenario here, is shows that frankly couldn't be remade.
No.
Because Matt, I mean, the innuendo, the jokes, I mean, look, we got Netflix and all these others putting warning labels on there if they smoke.
Okay?
Are you freaking kidding me?
That's a warning that they're smoking?
I mean, are we triggered because people smoke?
Give me a break.
But MASH, and the way they did it, Hawkeye, you know, Alan Alda, outstanding.
You had the priest.
You had, you know, again, you had everything involved in it, and it just worked.
And if you watch those episodes, they're amazing.
Yeah, and, like, some of them are, like, really heartfelt and, like, really good television.
Yes, they have all the jokes and everything, and that's fine.
But the actual show itself and the story is, like, really incredible.
You're forgetting, and you almost forget that they're in the Korean War, like, It's the Korean War, right?
Did you know that you can actually go to the valley there in LA where they actually used to shoot it?
I didn't know that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, if you ever go out there, you can actually take a tour out to it where it is.
But M.A.S.H. is one of those you just can't.
Do not touch it.
Yeah, and I know there's stuff in there, and then they have a priest.
They probably wouldn't have that either.
But the other one I have, and I really, this one would just piss.
I was actually just watching a couple episodes the other day, is Cheers.
Oh, yes.
Cheers seems like one they would redo, though.
That's my problem.
Yeah, that's a scare.
Well, I'm going to tag on the spinoff of that and Frasier, although they're going to redo Frasier, although Frasier is coming back out.
And we'll see, because the good part about it is they're not redoing it with any other else.
Chelsea Grammer is going to be Frasier.
The dad died a few years ago, so Martin's gone, but all the actors are coming back, so it's going to be interesting to see that.
Can I go on a quick...
Quick side note real quick.
If you're looking, I don't know if you're ever into like really just horrible movies, you know, just every once in a while, it's a really bad movie.
Please watch Money Plane with Leslie Frazier, with, with, with, with, I can't think of, Kelsey Grammer.
Oh, my God.
It's just one of the worst movies ever made, and it just makes me laugh every time I see it.
He's supposed to play a bad guy, and it just gets funnier and funnier.
Anyway...
Well, on a plug that you're going to see, for those of you who subscribe to the Doug Collins podcast email list and others, you're going to be seeing a lot of promotion for the Jesus Revolution movie.
And Kelsey Grammer actually plays in that movie as...
I'm a pastor, and yes, faith is special to me.
But I watched a few of those.
I watched previews of the show, and there were a couple of just in the previews.
I mean, I'm choked up.
I'm in tears.
Oh, yeah.
That's great.
It is an amazing kind of thing.
So, folks, I know some of you may have got it in your email box already this week, but the Jesus Revolution is definitely one.
I'm going to go see.
I mean, I'm wanting to see it, so it's one with Kelsey Grammer.
But back to our list here, you know, cheers with Sam.
And what always got me about these shows was, and again, talk about, you know, some of the humor and how they, you know, again, wouldn't be tolerated in, quote, today's society.
Now, you can tell jokes about anybody else except the ones they want to tell about.
But, I mean, you know, Norm.
I mean, my God, Norm.
You know, walk in, Norm!
You know, it's the dog-eat-dog world, Norm, and I'm wearing milk-bone underwear, you know?
That's it.
That's right, that's right.
What is my favorite one?
Oh, you know what?
I'll remember it in a second.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
No, if you remember, it's great.
But it also had scenes in there in which true friendship came out.
You could see it.
And it'd be toward the end.
They'd be making fun.
They'd be cutting up with Carla or Sam and everybody.
And then at the end or toward a minute, you would see that, hey, these are the friendships that you would see develop around a neighborhood bar.
And it's just pretty cool to me that that show existed, especially the first, like, six or seven years.
I mean, the first six, seven years were amazing.
I remember being in Washington, D.C. as an intern in 87, and we would run back to, after on the certain nights, whenever it was, I can't remember, Tuesday night or something like that, we would run back to our apartments and watch Jeopardy!
and we'd watch Cheers, because it was just, I mean, you wanted to go see it.
It was just something that you didn't want to miss.
Right.
No, I'm with you 100%.
I'm sorry, I was missing one here.
The one where he says, Norm, what are you up to?
And he says, my ideal weight if I was 11 feet tall.
That will make you laugh every time.
Norm is so funny.
I actually had the privilege of meeting the Mailman.
Oh, yeah?
He's involved in helping people with jobs and entrepreneurs, and it's a pretty cool story.
For people that don't know, I bet they do, but he's the voice of a bunch of ancillary characters in all of the Pixar movies.
Yeah, he is.
He is.
He's a good dude.
That's how I remember him.
Yeah, it is pretty funny.
Well, you know, also, there's one that I won't put on the list, but I think it's one that can't be remade is the Love Boat as well, or Fantasy Island, for that matter.
No, for sure.
I mean, those, again.
And again, it's so amazing.
You look back on those things, and you put them in the context of when they are, and it's like, okay, I get it.
You put them in the context of now, and you're like, ooh, somebody will censor that one.
Somebody will get upset about that one.
That'll trigger somebody.
Well, you could do the Honeymooners.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, I don't like it.
Now you talk about one that would trigger people?
Yeah.
It's all in the family.
For sure.
All in the family triggered people in the 70s.
Yeah, I was going to say that one was big for the 70s.
I was going to say that was on my list along with Married with Children.
Those two were ones that were so controversial at the time.
Married with Children would never make it.
Never make it.
No.
But All in the Family really was one that...
I remember All in the Family, I couldn't watch.
It came on after 9 o'clock, and that was back in elementary school early, and I never got a chance to watch it until later.
And another one that was just like taboo.
I mean, it would come on at like 10 or 10.30.
They put it on before the evening news was Maud.
There was a show called Maud.
And it was a spinoff, I believe, of All in the Family or one of the others.
And I may be wrong.
And folks, if you know which one that was, go to the Doug Collins Podcast dot com, hit the email link after you subscribe to the podcast, and then hit the email link and send me what mod spinoff was the spinoff of.
But I mean, they talked, I mean, they talked sex, abortion.
I mean, that was one.
It was a no-no at my house for the, you know, later at night.
But it was a big...
But the 70s, I mean, that's what many times you push boundaries to get people to think.
And what I'm so concerned about nowadays, James, and getting out of the list here for a second, is I'm not saying you push boundaries just to push boundaries.
You know, you don't pick scabs just to pick scabs.
But if we don't think outside of the box sometimes and think about, okay, that guy, you know, okay, he grew up and he's racist.
Okay.
He's wrong, but what he says is reflective in people.
How do we deal with people like that?
Instead of saying, we just cancel them or we take them out, how do you get along with people?
And I see so many kids coming out of college these days that they're great on computers, they're terrible on people skills, and they don't see it.
So there's my little minute rant on that one.
You got one?
I got to bring one in.
Go ahead, bring one in, and I have one more.
The West Wing.
Only if they brought back the original cast and used it years in advance.
I don't see how you could do it without it.
You'd have everybody but the president because that would make the most sense.
Yeah, and Bartlett being retired or doing something like that.
They've done a couple of little things since then.
Look, Aaron Sorkin, amazing.
I mean, his writing, I don't agree with him politically, and clarify this.
No, he's a genius.
You can say it.
The man can do it, and that writing in West Wing was phenomenal.
By the way, I'm going to put a plug in for something I'd get nothing for, and again, not aligned with me politically, but there's a podcast out there called the West Wing Weekly.
Really?
Yeah, called West Wing Weekly.
Josh, not Josh.
Oh, Fiddle.
I have to remember that.
But anyway, you can look it up.
West Wing Weekly.
They did a podcast on every episode.
About every episode in the West Wing.
And they would bring in members of the cast to talk about it.
Josh Molina.
That was his name.
Josh Molina, who came in later.
But anyway, if you're a fan of the West Wing, and I've watched probably some of those shows, some of the episodes, I've probably watched 10 times individually, in addition to watching the series many times.
But it's just, again, it made me think.
I may have disagreed with what they were saying, but I then thought, okay, here's why my conservatism matters, or here's why I see a liberal.
Again, it goes back to that, but you can't remake the West Wing.
I'm sorry.
Don't even try.
Yours, and then I have my last one.
Okay, my final one is one that I know they wouldn't touch out of respect, but it's The Sopranos.
The Sopranos, yeah.
Because that's the greatest television show ever made, and if anyone ever touched that, you'd find me in a jail cell because I'd probably attack someone for trying.
Okay, well, you had never seen The Waltons because of your age.
I've never seen The Sopranos through.
Doug, you're killing me.
Well, I've never seen Yellowstone either.
Alright, but at least Yellowstone's more new and it's not even close to The Sopranos.
But The Sopranos was out on what?
99-06.
But it was HBO, wasn't it?
Yeah, HBO. See, and I didn't have HBO. Listen, Doug, I don't care what you've got going on with your life.
It needs to stop and you need to start watching it.
Okay, is this like the Godfathers for guys?
You know, is this like the three Godfathers?
It's more than that.
Also, it helps that I'm from New Jersey.
Well, there you go.
Speaking of, okay, if you brought up the Sopranos, we brought up these kind of things, and you also, in looking at these, you have to bring up...
Oh, whatever.
Anyway, the...
My train of thought got lost here.
But you got the Sopranos.
Of course, you got Madman.
You got Breaking Bad.
I mean, there's several out there that...
Yeah, Breaking Bad couldn't be remade because it's just too...
There's no reason for it.
But I hear you.
Okay, my last one is this.
The Jeffersons.
Oh, absolutely not.
There's no world where they could remake that show.
They couldn't remake it, and they wouldn't remake it, and that would be a shame if they tried.
Yeah, they shouldn't touch it, and it would be so much that it's just an amazing show.
Now, that one was a definite come-out-of-all-in-the-family, okay?
Yeah.
I was going to say, that one you're saying with Maud, Jeffersons, and Cotton, those are all three extremely controversial shows, but they all imprinted what we watch today.
Yeah, it is.
And the Jeffersons and the dealing with race, the dealing with honesty in the 70s.
Again, for my generation, coming in in the 70s, because I was born in the late 60s, so I mean, I was a...
Elementary school, early middle schooler, if you would, these days, during the 70s.
And, I mean, with President Carter and Ford and Nixon and Watergate and everything, that was a real weird feel to the 70s, okay?
And these shows, Saturday Night Live, frankly, it started in the 70s.
Saturday Night Live caught its real wind in the 70s and early 80s, not to become what it's become today, but it was cutting-edge In your face.
Think about the movies of the time, James.
You know, Saturday Night Fever.
You know, Grease.
I mean, it was just a weird feeling that was out there in the environment.
But Jefferson's in these movies called it perfectly.
Right.
And it would just be...
And these TV shows, you know, just should not be replaced.
But...
You know, that's why we have these lists.
If you've got part of the list that you would say, hey, there's a podcast.
I want to hear from, I saw your podcast list.
I want to up you one.
Send us a show that you think.
Send me an email on the DougCollinsPodcast.com.
Click on the email link.
Say, James, Doug, you got one you're missing.
Let us know which podcast that you would add.
And with that, James, we have finished another Friday.
Let's go out and have a great weekend.
We'll do this again soon.
Enjoy.
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