Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
Dysfunction Junkies
How TV Shows, Movies, and News Events Contributed to Childhood Trauma
What if your favorite childhood shows influenced who you are today? In our latest episode, we unravel the profound effect of television and movies from our formative years on our current mental health, behaviors, and memories. From discussions about restrictive viewing habits that fostered feelings of rebellion, to the analysis of iconic moments in TV history that elicited genuine fear, we explore how media shaped our understanding of dysfunction and trauma.
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, where we may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry
Speaker 2:Hello Junkies. How are you today, Chrisy? Oh, I'm doing just fine, Thank you. Well, today's episode we're going to go and talk about one of Chrisy's favorite things. Yeah, tvs, movies, tv shows and other those media events that may have caused some dysfunction in our life Trauma and dysfunction.
Speaker 3:My favorite and the amount of stuff I watched and was exposed to, I got plenty.
Speaker 2:I know you do, I know you do and actually this is one of the things our listeners really enjoy. I've gotten a lot of feedback from friends just talking to them and they just love your take on the different movies and shows. So hopefully this will be a little fun. Love your take on the different movies and shows, so hopefully this will be a little fun down memory lane on the TV shows to get Chrisy's point of view.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of people out here who don't even know some of this stuff, but I seem to be capable of finding obscure, ridiculous things that you can't believe people spent time producing but I love it.
Speaker 2:no wonder why we grew up the way we did, when some of the stuff that we were exposed to so well, yeah, I mean, you know now I I'm interested.
Speaker 3:Your tv, uh, viewing experience is completely on the other end of what yes, mine was like your parents really tried to make it a point to not let you sit in front of that screen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you had like carte blanche, you could, you had whatever you wanted and you had the cable and you had everything. Where I still had the TV with the antennas that you know. Honestly, there were times we had to go adjust the antennas just to get the regular channels. We didn't have a whole lot. So yeah, I did not have a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2:Cartoons I remember watching as a kid, but only for like maybe an hour or two. And then my other memories of watching TV were when I got home from school. There was like an hour, maybe in an hour and a half, from when I got home to when my dad would get home from work. So I was definitely a latchkey kid so I would watch a little bit TV and we had this thing called money movie here and it was a. They'd show a movie and you could like try to win money if they called your phone number or whatever. So like I remember watching that and then a little bit like, oh, maybe at nighttime if there was something special you know, like if the Wizard of Oz was on, like you know, would watch that show. But not a whole lot of TV until my almost high school years, right.
Speaker 3:Well, I do remember the money movie, but I only remember, that is, if I happen to be at my grandmother's house. Okay, during that time period, Okay. And she wasn't really getting cable either. Yeah, I mean she was a really getting cable either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was a widow. That's why she was watching money movies. Yeah, because she just got the regular channels.
Speaker 3:And I'd be like what is this all about? This is the one of the crappiest movies I've ever seen. I'm like, don't you? Then you ask don't you have cable? What's?
Speaker 2:going. What is this why?
Speaker 3:are you still? You're purposely watching this?
Speaker 2:so for those of you that are not familiar, because because not from our is it Money Movie, you know, and you get so excited, especially if they picture, like the first three numbers that were your number or whatever. Right yeah, money Movie never called us.
Speaker 3:Oh, I know, I seem to recall the trivia was really lousy.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't even know that. It was about the movie you were watching at that moment. It was some random movie and they showed like a second of it if you can name this movie. Yeah, well, it was all blurry. Yeah, because there was like no technical advances and you didn't even try to make this look good and it's really old. Yes, yeah, they were really. Yeah, who?
Speaker 2:the hell won those money? I don't know, probably nobody. They were probably calling somebody in the studio.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but yeah, so Money Movie was a thing. Now, one thing is, at one point we did get some kind of cable like closer to, I don't know, maybe seventh grade or something, and Nickelodeon was like starting to be a thing. And oh my mom, no, no, no, that was banned. If I was caught watching Nickelodeon then I was going to get like a punishment, I was going to get something taken away, I was going to get grounded. Nickelodeon was like that was like Satan television.
Speaker 3:We don't have any information on what offended her so much.
Speaker 2:I do not know, but I just know that Nickelodeon was evil in her mind and I was not allowed. If she caught me watching that it was trouble.
Speaker 3:So well, I remember Nickelodeon very fondly because it was a big cable thing.
Speaker 3:I loved all the shows on there and watched them. Yeah, you can't do that on television and dump the slime on people or water. There was a really I was actually probably a little too old by the time this was airing, but Pinwheel was it and it was sort of like a wannabe Sesame Street and I can still hear the theme song. I'm not going to sing it, but you can Google it and find it on YouTube but it was sort of like it had puppets and it had like little skits. But it was sort of like it had puppets and it had like little skits. It was sort of, but it was not the real deal. I mean, I am a Sesame Street, that is the thing that from our generation.
Speaker 3:That is the show, and they had some other shows on there. A lot of it was some things that were not made in this country, like that you Can't Do that on Television. I think was actually a Canadian show and there was a couple other ones that I think were from England that I would watch. And then towards the mid to late 80s, I remember Nickelodeon morphed into this Nick at Night Nick at Night yeah, which showed old TV shows, yes, which I was a big fan of.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:And would watch like Laugh laughing on there and some other type shows like that from like the 50s and 60s. So yeah, I'm really curious as to why your mom was so she definitely didn't like the one with the slime.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't know why, but that show definitely offended her. But yeah, so my my tv experiences is not as you know. I didn't, like I said, I didn't watch my first horror movie until I came to your house and you made me watch Children of the Corn.
Speaker 3:And I feel bad about that because I really wish. I would have shown you something a little bit better. I don't mean to crap all over Children of the Corn but as far as the horror genre goes, there were many other ones I could have picked other than that. So TV goes.
Speaker 3:There are some things that stay with me forever yes and I do reference some things from it when I in situations where I feel it relevant. Yeah, one of them, and I don't know how many people, even our age, would remember this because, again, they probably shouldn't have been watching this, but it was terrifying what was that it? Was called sybil and it was with uh sally field and it was before smoky and the band and before it was after she was gidget, I believe in the 60s. Okay, little surfer girl, yeah and then she uh decided to do this serious.
Speaker 2:It was a made for tv type thing I vaguely remember like I know I've watched it, but I'm sure as you're talking I'll remember more.
Speaker 3:Well, it's got a lot of flashbacks in it. To be honest, she was horribly abused by her mother, right, her mother did horrible things to her, tied her up to the piano and then sat and played the piano and the little girl had to go to the bathroom and wouldn't let her. And she was playing and she told her she had to hold it. Oh no, well, eventually the little girl could hold it. So you see this little girl going all over the floor. I think she kicked her down the steps.
Speaker 2:Why is it about these movies? About letting kids pee themselves on the floor?
Speaker 1:Because that other movie.
Speaker 3:The.
Speaker 2:Exorcist. That Exorcist movie had the thing about the kid peeing too.
Speaker 3:Well, there was another movie. I don't remember it as well, my husband will tell you about it. My oldest sister would bring this up every once in a while because it was just crazy. I don't know that much and I won't spend a lot of time talking about it because I don't remember watching it. But there was another one where this boy used to pee the bed and the mom would shake the sheets up and she would hang his sheets up so everybody could see.
Speaker 2:Nick, you know, it Wasn't that the true story of Michael Landon?
Speaker 1:No, it was Michael Landon played the older version of it was somebody that ended up being a runner in the Olympics. Yes yes, I think Michael Landon produced it, but he ended up being the grown man version.
Speaker 3:Okay, the younger guy.
Speaker 1:It was Lance Kerwin version. Okay, younger guy was lance kirwan.
Speaker 2:He used to be on a show called james at 15 in the late.
Speaker 1:I remember that show though. I remember that movie, yeah, so lance kirwan played him younger but okay the guy was a bedwetter, but clear into clear into his teens, right, and I can't remember the name of the, it was a made for tv it was a made for tv, but I think michael landon was behind I didn't even know michael landon was involved yes, but I know Lance Kerwin was, because he was also in another traumatizing movie that I'm going to get into in a little bit.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh.
Speaker 3:Called Salem's Lot, oh God. But to finish up on Sybil, sybil, so Sally Phil is now an adult trying to live on her own, the mother's dead, long gone. But she has these flashbacks because she's going to a therapist. Okay, which is good. Yeah, she's trying to work this. She has, like, multiple personalities because of this.
Speaker 3:Because of it and her mother used to lock her in this box and she was always remembering the color purple. This might be another reason why the purple color was freaking me out early in my relationship with my husband. But she would scribble. It was a purple crayon she was locked in there with and she would scribble with this purple crayon. But yeah, so Sybil was just horrible. Sybil's mom was horrible. Talking about a mental health standpoint, because we do try to promote being healthy. The Loneliest Runner.
Speaker 3:DJ Nick provided us with the name of the show Loneliest Runner. But, Sybil Purple, the mother, and I think the mother even did like some horrible, like physical things to her that made her incapable of having children as an adult, so she couldn't even have kids. The mother was obviously suffering.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:From some horrible mental distress. We only deal with Sybil's Right. Need to be helped, yes, and I guess in a way, I kind of look at it just because we all try to be way more aware of people who need to be helped. Yes, with things through therapy, through whatever we really want to see that be a positive thing, right, and this just didn't really address that issue at all, which, okay, I get, and I think, the mother's generation because of an older woman. They really made her, the woman who played her, look terrifying. Oh god, it wasn't just like some sweet little you know, she looked like. The only thing I think of is in the movie psycho, when you finally get to see norman bates mom, who he's been maintaining, and she's got that crazy tight hair with the bun in the back and it's like gray and rolled up. I mean, this is what the woman had, that same hairdo and it was just terrifying. So the woman actually was more or less portrayed as a monster.
Speaker 3:Yeah, which now that when I was little it was just terrifying it was like a monster movie to me right, right, and because there was a little kid, she was being tortured and right treated cruelly, uh, and nobody was helping her, and then obviously had issues to the point where I guess people just thought this was such a heavy movie for sally field. She ended up that's how she ended up doing smoky and the bandit, she always said because she wanted people to think she was cute because, people were remembering her from Sybil.
Speaker 3:Sybil? Oh geez, not that she wasn't, but it was just she was getting typecasted. It was very distressing to see a character being tortured like this.
Speaker 2:I didn't even remember that she was. Oh my God, I know I'm sorry. That's like another show where we talk about fun wastes of time.
Speaker 3:My husband will tell you that's a waste of time. I think it's a classic how can you Smoking the band?
Speaker 2:Oh, I know, God, I know.
Speaker 3:That's a movie. You sit down with your dad. My dad watched that all the time and he don't burn run-ins, though. So anyhow, Sy, you know, as a parent you're like, oh, you know, you're so afraid and you don't want to do anything wrong with your kids and I don't know. A couple of times I make a joke and be like I don't want to turn into Sybil's mom, oh my God, and like generally people don't know because we're older parents, so we're in groups of people who are younger than us and they don't get that and they're like what who's even ask?
Speaker 1:Don't look it up.
Speaker 3:Don't look it up the other thing I brought up, which Lance Kerwin was in, and also David Soul, you and these names Salem's Lot, the original one. I think they redid it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, was Salem's Lot the one about? No, that was Pet Sematary I was thinking.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a movie which is awful and terrifying.
Speaker 3:So Salem's Lot refreshed my memory on that. Salem's Lot was a town where they had vampires.
Speaker 2:I guess. Oh, it was a vampire movie.
Speaker 3:That people were all of a sudden like dying who probably shouldn't have been, because I think they were attacked by a vampire I'm not even exactly sure, because it was just totally freaked me out. And when I see they still on social media, this picture will pop up, because obviously I'm not the only person who was traumatized by this.
Speaker 1:There is a picture.
Speaker 2:And I think, did I send it to you? You probably did. Did you finally see it? You probably did. It's a kid. Oh, yes, you did Floating yes you did yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3:Through the fog? Yes, at his friend's window. Yes, he's a ghost slash vampire and he's just horrific looking in the face. He's got the pale. They make him look like a vampire floating ghost a corpse and he's coming at the window slowly and he's like you're talking me out look in your eyes the freaking picture is and it'll pop up every once in a while and it's nightmarish.
Speaker 3:It's like oh my god, anybody who looks up the floating kid from salem's lot, oh my god it's like. And james mason was in it too. I think he, like, was in charge of the vampire that was killing everybody. There was another actor in there, lewis. He used to be in a lot of clint eastwood movies that were fun, and in fact I think his daughter is juliet lewis, the I know all of this useless information like who's on first and why and who cares.
Speaker 3:So Salem's Lot, yes, traumatic, and the Sybil thing because it was in the 70s, although Salem's Lot was late 70s but Sybil, I think, was more mid. I was pretty little and you're probably wondering if you know that movie and you know about when it was out, why were you watching?
Speaker 3:that why was I watching that? Right? How did this happen? Right, because it was probably before we had cable, probably, and I can only guess that my mom, I was playing and my mom fell asleep on the couch, as she often did, oh, and just left the TV on. I was 1970s. Oh 1970s yeah, I would have been four years old and mom probably fell asleep. Was.
Speaker 1:Sybil riding the big wheel. No, she wishes, she wishes she was living a horrible life.
Speaker 3:She really didn't even know what a big wheel was, yeah, so my mom would generally fall asleep and the TV would still be on and I'd be sitting there playing and I'd be like hello, hello, we're just going to keep this on. Okay, we'll keep it on. Let me growing up, but I guess in a good I don't know, not in a good way, I don't want to say it's good to be traumatized, but as you get older, if you can put it in a fun perspective and be like, oh my God, I saw this and it freaked me out when I was little, yeah. But then news events yes, now tell me about. Do you remember some of the news events from when we were really young?
Speaker 2:Yes, so when I was in grade school, two things I remember watching on the TV One was good, one was not. So I was in eighth, no, seventh, seventh grade I think it was, and my sister oldest sister was living in California and she was on the prices right, and she actually won all the whole thing to the showcase showdown. Yes, I, we remember finding out what day it was going to be on TV. So I remember the teacher. I don't know how to, I probably told the teacher, I don't know, but anyways, the teacher brought a tv into the room and I remember her strategically placing it in front of the door so that if anybody walked down the hallway they couldn't really see into the classroom because they were looking at the back of the tv.
Speaker 3:Okay, and we watched.
Speaker 2:We watched the Price is Right in the Showcase Showdown so I could see it. Because you know, that was kind of before, like VCRs were just kind of coming into a thing you know Right. You know, if we didn't watch it live, you weren't ever going to see it. So I remember that was a good memory of TV watching, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was really cool. Every once in a while when you see those old blooper shows, you know where they'll show bloopers on TV. That episode that my sister was on is actually on one of the bloopers, because they were the part of the set they were doing. They had these big things. It was all about stuff in the one. What do you call them? The girls, the models, you know, kept falling onto this thing and so it made a bloopers reel.
Speaker 2:So that's every once in a while you'll see if you watch these things. So that was a good. The bad was probably either that same year or the year later seventh or eighth grade, I can't remember which is when the Challenger exploded because we were going to watch it live for science class about the.
Speaker 2:Challenger and we watched that live and I remember like not understanding what was happening, like I just wasn't getting it. But I just remember my teacher breaking down and crying and they hurried up and shut the tv off like it was such a big event, you know. And it wasn't until later that night where I got home that I think I finally made probably my parents talked to me about it but I finally like understood what really had happened right.
Speaker 3:I think that that's true, for a lot of people were watching that they just didn't understand what they just saw right when there was no discussion at that, probably because it was just so shocking at that moment they didn't even know how to address it. Follow through with it, yeah yeah, no, I, I do remember that, going back real quick though to your sister, I bet you could find that episode oh, I'm sure I probably could if you like, you could watch the whole episode yeah thank god for like youtube and yeah, all those things yes, yeah, the challenger was.
Speaker 3:Did you watch it in school?
Speaker 2:is that how you saw it?
Speaker 3:too. Guess what you were homesick I was. I don't know if I was sick, I was off. You know what's ironic about that? What I remember? I was home, not at school. Don't remember being sick, but maybe I was watching. I dream of genie, oh, which is about an astronaut oh my gosh, I used to love that show yeah, I was one of my faves watching. You know jr yeah prior to being jr yeah, and the genie, uh, barbara eden yeah, I used to love to watch that.
Speaker 1:I was probably initially agitated.
Speaker 3:They were showing this because I think it might have interrupted. I dream of genie. Uh, barbara eden. Yeah, I used to love to watch that. I was probably initially agitated. They were showing this because I think it might have interrupted. I dream of genie, probably, and I don't think I had the con the the idea of what had just occurred either yeah and nobody was around because you were home alone I was home, no adult supervision.
Speaker 3:What's happening? Something happened, somebody blew up. What happened? Oh my god it. It was horrible and yeah, it's terrible. And even to watch the stories about that now. Terrible tragedy, terrible. One of the earlier ones I remember only because I was watching, obviously, way more tv than you anyhow, so the chances of me seeing something horrible happening on live TV or being shown much higher odds for me was in the early 80s, the assassination of Anwar Sadat. That he was the president of Egypt. What's funny is we just lost a president over the last month or so.
Speaker 1:President Carter.
Speaker 3:President Carter, I think, was involved in working with him and, uh, they were trying to establish peace. Okay, because Jimmy Carter was known as, yes, a peace bringing people together. So, yeah, no, that's him and what he was. What the president.
Speaker 2:DJ next bringing up the picture, trying to help prompt my memory here former president of Egypt yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Assassinated October 6th 1981.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I remember being at my aunt's house, because it was in the afternoon that I think it happened, and I was waiting for my mom to pick me up Watching TV. Of course, obviously not when they have the tree and the tinsel skewing my view, which I talked about in an early episode. So it was October, so I could see everything Full view, and they showed this, and that was very terrifying to me because I was, first of all, not even 10 years old, right, and somebody literally got murdered Wow, I mean, I would have to imagine it's probably how people felt, although I was not alive during the Kennedy assassination, right, and you didn't actually see the Kennedy assassination live on TV, yeah, but you saw the clips killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, yeah, in real time, wow, so that was just like terrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I do remember that and it was very traumatizing. And the other thing too, although it wasn't as traumatizing, was when Reagan was shot at.
Speaker 2:You're right, I do remember that. Yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 3:Probably because it was just chaotic, yeah, and they pushed him into a car, yes, and then I think the initial reports came out that he was okay, but we didn't they didn't want to tell everybody that it was fairly serious, yeah, and he was lucky that he survived that. And that other gentleman who was hit by a bullet, whose life was never the same, james brady, I believe they?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, I think that sounds familiar.
Speaker 3:Cause I think that's one of the laws that they put into place for trying to work with gun control.
Speaker 1:Gun control was the Brady law Cause he, he really got he was.
Speaker 3:It was horrible. So yeah, those, those events were.
Speaker 2:The other event I remember is when there was that string of where they they would take the planes hostage. You know like they would cap the. I think it was somewhere in the mid-east or somewhere where they would hijack a plane, or there was, there was plane, there was something with a plane. I'm vaguely remembering it so, because I do remember for the longest time I was afraid to go on a plane right, you know not that this is way before 9-11.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, way before then, yeah it was like something about hijacking a plane, and I remember seeing the video of the plane on the runway and they were talking about it and stuff.
Speaker 3:But I wonder if you were watching news reports about the Olympics, because that was actually, I believe, the 72 Olympics. So we were just born, but they took Olympic athletes as hostages. I remember hearing about that, but I don't think.
Speaker 2:I think what I'm thinking.
Speaker 3:The Olympics were in Munich that year and the athletes I think were representing Israel. They ended up getting they were going to free them supposedly and they got them out on the runway in a plane and then I think that they ended up killing all of them. Anyhow, it was horrible, but you may have seen some news, even though it might have been at a later date, where they were discussing here it is.
Speaker 2:The TWA flight 847 was a flight from Cairo to San Diego, and on the morning of June 14th it was hijacked after taking off from Athens.
Speaker 3:What year was?
Speaker 2:that 1985.
Speaker 3:Oh, june 14une 14th, 19th that's the one I'm thinking now.
Speaker 2:You remember something I don't remember seeing that, yeah, it was, yeah, this twa flight. It was hijacked soon after taking off from athens and the hijackers demanded the release of 700, 700 shia muslims from israel custody.
Speaker 2:So I knew it had something to do with that over there yeah yeah, that one I do remember because that made me, because that would have been yeah, see, this would have been 85. And that would have been around the time where we were flying to California because of my nephew. That was from the episode where I was saying my sister traumatized me with her home birth.
Speaker 1:Was the same time and I was terrified about flying.
Speaker 3:Yes, uh-huh, oh, geez, yeah no, that one, obviously I didn't. I don't remember that one. But the other thing too is it's not so much with the uh on marsadot one, but I remember with the reagan assassination attempt. They did like replay it like over and over again and I do remember they did a skit, kind of making fun of that.
Speaker 3:Oh gosh, on saturday night live oh well, there you go because they just kept playing it over and over again and it was with eddie murphy. Somebody tried to assassinate him. He was doing his butt, but we character and the joke was they just kept playing the same thing and you just see him wave and then they'd throw him down in the car and then they'd like slow it down. Oh my gosh, pretty funny. But you know, thank God Ronald Reagan was able to survive that. And very scary and you don't want to see any kind of violence like that. But these are things that we kind of remember when we were little. Yeah, they definitely affect you.
Speaker 3:Obviously, the Salem's Lot thing didn't affect me enough. I didn't stay away from things that were going to totally freak me out. Maybe I was just so freaked out. I was like I know what my mission is at this point in my life. It is to make other people freak out. So I'm going to show them horrible things and watch their reactions. And that's why you made me watch Children of the Corn. Yeah that. And my other friend, the exorcist, used to tell her she'd have a sleepover and I'd say don't let your feet or hands hang over the bed. There's something under there it could get you. Keep your hands in the bed.
Speaker 2:I know, is this the same one who you broke her fingers all the time?
Speaker 3:That's it, well, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, no, I didn't do it on purpose. I know Poor thing.
Speaker 2:And we still sometimes touch base.
Speaker 3:So thank you for still wanting to, once in a while, throw me a quick message. Yeah, I mean we being of the TV era, tv air, I mean just watching horrible things and the stuff that came up once we were adults yeah, were even more horrible, unfortunately. But, uh, and I can't imagine what the people felt when they were watching the events unfold around president kennedy's yes, death and, uh, the emotions that went through that. So I mean, yeah, I mean these things do shape us and they stay with you. I mean I can't ever forget it and for a long time I was able to, before social media became such a big thing. Yeah, and they have these images, right, because you realize you're not the only one who obviously was affected by this. Yes, but you do kind of block it out, but it would be mentioned and you'd be like, oh my God. I just remember some kid floating out the window and then all of a sudden you see it and you're like, yes, oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker 2:But what are about some of the funny things that you remember? Like, I remember this one commercial and I swear I'm like the only person that remembers it, and it was some kind of like Listerine commercial or whatever. And the guy walks into the bathroom and he's, you know, just got out of bed. He's got the bedhead and he's standing in front of his sink and his mirror and he stretches. He's like oh, and as he's yawning, his reflection in the mirror says look at your mouth, ralph.
Speaker 3:I remember this, I do. Yes, it's like his other self. He's trying to like give him a pep talk about how his breath stays. Yes, oh, my God, chrissy, you're the first person I've said that to that remembers that. Well, you had to prompt me. But, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But when he's stressed, and so anytime somebody yawns really big, I go look at your mouth, ralph, like it's just like it comes out and no one gets it and they're like, huh what? And I'll be like you know the commercial. No, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:So thank you. Yes, no, classic commercials are fun if you have any sort of appreciation for that, and of course you can run decade commercials that were popular, and I do love to do that, especially around the holidays. The christmas commercials we grew up with are almost as memorable to me as those lovely shows where we were leaving children on roofs and everything. I find I have an affection for that. On a kind of fun note, there was a miniseries that was out there that I kind of got in trouble for because I discussed it during school.
Speaker 3:My teacher heard me talking to another student about it and I probably shouldn't have been watching it. But again, no parent was telling me watch.
Speaker 3:it was a mini series, uh, called the thorn birds, okay, based on a book, if you know what that is about, it's a about a family in australia or new zealand, I can't remember but but basically a little girl. She's the only girl in a family of boys on this they called it. It's not a plantation there, but it's a large farm type thing that they do in Australia. I apologize, I don't mean to offend Australians. I'm not sure what you would call that, but I believe the name of it I remember the name of it was called Draghita. I think I remember the name of it. It was called Dragheta, I think, or whatever. But it's.
Speaker 2:That was 19. I'm looking it up, so it was on. Abc miniseries 1983.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I remember I was in fifth grade and I was 11. Now remember everybody that I went to a Catholic grade school.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:And if you know anything about the book or the miniseries, it ends up being where a young girl admires a priest who's kind of taken him, her, under his wing, because she's kind of ignored by her family, because she's a in a family full of boys and the boys are at that time considered more valuable, yeah, for what they can offer a family.
Speaker 3:So she's kind of just pushed to the side and she really admires this priest and loves him, oh, and doesn't really understand that she can't have him in that way. Little girl thing, sweet, you know, oh, I'll marry you one day, father.
Speaker 3:So and so and she does become a woman and this guy is still hanging around this family. Oh God, a priest, you know, he's very ambitious. He ends up the one woman who likes to try to corrupt him, played by barbara stanwick. She kind of plays into this and sort of puts him in places that tempts him. She's sort of like the devil, okay, and he's supposed to be like the angel right and she's really good at it.
Speaker 3:And and this was on tv, oh yeah, made for tv. It's in the richard chamberlain rain. Rachel Ward yeah, barbara.
Speaker 2:Stanley. So what did you say at school that got you in trouble?
Speaker 3:I was talking to my fellow.
Speaker 3:You were just talking about it, I was turned around, probably when I shouldn't have been turned around first of all, which obviously incited the teacher to come over and probably tell me and she probably stood there long enough to hear me I was like, yeah, there's this movie I was watching last night and the the girl. They ended up. They ended up having sex the priest and and she had his kid and then the kid. I'm not gonna ruin it for you. It's basically about, uh, children all seem to be. We're in this horrible rotation of that. We all end up paying for our parents sins and then our kids pay for our sins. It's like this ever, never-ending cycle.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:But she heard me talking to them. How many?
Speaker 2:rosaries, did they make you?
Speaker 3:say she scolded me she wasn't a nun but a teacher in a Catholic school, of course and found it very offensive. She said you need to stop talking about that, turn around, she goes. I can't believe your parents allow you to watch that. I was just like well, you know, there's nothing else on, and parents.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I wonder if your parents ever got called into a parent-teacher conference about that. Did your mom ever say anything?
Speaker 3:No, I don't think so. They would go to the parent-teacher night, yeah, and they always heard the same thing. Chrissy's very bright and smart, but she just doesn't apply herself. But if you would have quizzed me on TV stuff, I would have been acing it. What happened on the thorn birds today? Yes, I do remember getting scolded harshly by the teacher for discussing the thorn birds with a fellow student in a Catholic school. Just didn't feel that there was any reason. That was inappropriate.
Speaker 2:Why is that inappropriate?
Speaker 3:inappropriate, it could happen, right all kinds of things could happen.
Speaker 3:No wonder why if you want to give the author of the actual book some credit mccullough colleen, colleen mccullough yeah, oh yeah 1977, and let me tell you what the book is a little bit better than the movie because the book had some tasty parts in it and I remember being in high school and I had the book, because of course I had to have the book, because I watched the movie and I knew all the pages that you wanted to read which were very descriptive about certain relations, and we would sit in the cafeteria and read them and laugh, and laugh to the point where we were obnoxious.
Speaker 3:I think my girlfriend actually spit chocolate milk across the room and hit other girls in the face and we we all ducked under the table because we didn't want to get in a fight. But oh my god, yeah, the book is wonderful so yeah, thank you for that calling mccullough and whoever produced. Uh, the lovely thorn Birds, you can get it, I think, for free out there if anybody wants to sit and waste Maybe. I think it's probably six hours, Six hours of my life. Yeah, Now my parents never thought anything was wrong with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know that they ever watched it, see, and this is why I guess my parents completely sheltered me.
Speaker 3:And you're probably better for it.
Speaker 2:It's okay I make up for lost time because, see, after we record all these I gotta go back and watch all. I gotta google all this stuff. So I knew what we talked about.
Speaker 3:Yes, so your parents thought they were saving you.
Speaker 2:It was just waiting for me to get and tell you you need to watch this yeah I on my list. I my list. This weekend I'm going to go watch the Poseidon, which we talked about before, so now I'll have to add the thorn burns to it.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, wait till we're getting closer to when things are going to get nicer out. So maybe wait until it gets cold again.
Speaker 2:You don't want to waste any quality time I won't, because I need to get my ass out there for that marathon. I gotta start. Yeah, we can't distract, you can't distract no running yeah, carrie's running for me.
Speaker 3:Everybody, I am I.
Speaker 2:I made the cut. I'm in the airy marathon. So september I think it's seventh, I think it is oh, we're very excited, so we'll I can't wait, we'll see.
Speaker 2:I need to get to the gym well, we want to know what movies or commercials or TV series that you were watching as a kid that has affected you as an adult Doesn't have to always be negative, doesn't? It could be good, it could be like you know my look at your mouth, ralph commercial. Yeah, but oh, you know what the best commercial was? I know I'm backtracking now the one where it was for, like, burger King or something, and it was like the Russian women come to a fashion show and they would come out in a burlap sack and it'd be like don't, don't, don't day wear, and they'd go back off stage and then they'd come back don't, don't, don't evening wear. And it was all Burger King.
Speaker 3:No, I'll have to look that up.
Speaker 2:What does it have to do with burgers? Because they were saying something about what's different or whatever, because these were all I don't know. I just remember seeing the women.
Speaker 3:Well, commercials were very important.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:And they needed to have good production value because they were important and you couldn't change the channel. No, or you couldn't change the channel.
Speaker 2:No, you couldn't fast forward through commercials. Control it Right. You're stuck, like you can now. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because now people bring up a commercial to me and I'm like I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:The only commercials now, right now, that I absolutely love are the I said, the progressive commercial about Don't Become your Parents. Yes, because I tease my husband all the time that the inspiration for those commercials is my husband so the sylvia fashion show is actually wendy's not. Oh, it's wendy's, it was wendy's, it's. So be fashion, okay?
Speaker 1:oh my gosh it was a faster.
Speaker 2:You're very quick at yes, good, thank god yes, but yeah, that's uh, I forget what we were talking about now well you're with the commercials about you're becoming your parents oh, becoming your parents.
Speaker 2:That's right. Yeah, so my husband we tease my husband all the time because it's the thing If he passes somebody in the store that has, you know, bright purple hair, he'll be like start tapping me, did you see it? Did you see it? Yes, I saw it. Yes, you don't need to draw attention, you know, but he is the inspiration, so I love him. That's the current one.
Speaker 2:But most of the time I don't watch commercials because if I watch anything it's going to be on recorded and I fast forward through. But yeah, we want your listener feedback on what commercials, movies or whatever.
Speaker 3:Now.
Speaker 2:TV shows from the past or present news events. Yes, so bring it on and we'll post clips of some of these things that we have been talking about on our Facebook page we can put the floating kid.
Speaker 3:Oh, the floating kid, everybody's going to have a nightmare. Thanks to me, oh no.
Speaker 2:All right, everybody. Well, thank you again for listening. We've enjoyed spending this last roughly what half hour or so with you and we look forward to seeing you next week. Yes, Bye-bye, Bye Bye.
