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Speaker 1: Too Much Information is a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of Too Much Information,

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Speaker 1: the show that brings you the secret history and behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes facts behind your favorite movies, music, TV shows,

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Speaker 1: and more. We are your cavemen of culture, your troglodytes

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Speaker 1: of trivia, your loincloth wearing leaders of little loan entertainment stories.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jordan Runtug and I'm Alex Eagle, and

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Speaker 1: today we are talking about the flint Stones. Perhaps you've

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Speaker 1: heard of them. They are a modern Stone Age family.

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Speaker 1: Heard of them town of ben Rock, it says here, yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: In addition to being our evolutionary ancestors, they're also the

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Speaker 1: originators or progenitors whenever the right word is of the

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Speaker 1: animated sitcom. Before you had the Griffins and co Ho

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Speaker 1: Hog or the Simpsons in Springfield, you had the flint

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Speaker 1: Stones in Bedrock. Usually the Simpsons did it first, but

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Speaker 1: in this case it was the flint Stones. Truly one

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Speaker 1: of the most irish not to mention enduring animation properties

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Speaker 1: of all time, spawning over ten spinoff series, twelve television specials,

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Speaker 1: five made for TV films, to live action movies. Too

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Speaker 1: theme parks, a live stage show, and some vitamins and syrial,

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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about. Hi, I go, what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on this show? None? Just just an absence of thought.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Happy, yeah, just just happy to be

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Speaker 1: spending basking in the warm glow of your smile. Just

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Speaker 1: here so I don't get fine. Both teams played hard,

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Speaker 1: my man, good night, God bless It wasn't that the

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Speaker 1: respects the rest shed Wallace thing. I'm not. I forget

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Speaker 1: who said I'm just here side and get fine. But

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Speaker 1: Rashid Wallace is famous. Thing was saying both teams played hard.

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Speaker 1: Every time he was asked a question. Both teams played hard,

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Speaker 1: my man, God blessing, good night. Um yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't Shawn Lynch, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch said, I'm just seriously don't get fine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, don't know, dude. I I think my biggest

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Speaker 1: memories of this are just like watching it on TV,

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Speaker 1: like relatives houses, like when there was just like nothing

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Speaker 1: else on. I don't have any that's the appropriate level.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any particular nostalgia for it. I think

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Speaker 1: the most fondness I have about it is um the

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Speaker 1: movie from the because that came out when we were

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you you like your fan, your

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Speaker 1: guy you I see being more of a Jetsons guy.

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Speaker 1: I liked them both well. I mean, the flu Stones

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Speaker 1: for all my love of Kitch and mid century Americana,

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Speaker 1: way to watch. I mean, to me, it's up there

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Speaker 1: with like the Rudolph Christmas Special, Like it's the time

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Speaker 1: The thing that kind of took me aback when I

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Speaker 1: was researching this episode was how clever a show it is,

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Speaker 1: especially considering that it pioneered the animated sitcom to begin with,

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Speaker 1: so there really was no precedent. But all the stupid

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Speaker 1: jokes about, you know, the cavemen puns and all the

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Speaker 1: ways that they would have modern amenities done in cave

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Speaker 1: men times. It was even the stupid car that he

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Speaker 1: just drives with his feet like stuff like that. It's

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Speaker 1: it's that stuff is legitimately funny to me. And also

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Speaker 1: all the guests they'd have, which we talk about. I

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Speaker 1: mean they got Tony Curtis on and like and Margaret

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Speaker 1: and a lot of great rock puns. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I said, that's fun to me. And also, as we'll

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's there's more here. I mean, the story

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Speaker 1: crazier than I remember them being. Is he the family

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Speaker 1: guy the Simpsons where the old fish patriarch has like

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Speaker 1: poured cement into a pelican like first home improvement project,

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Speaker 1: Jackie Gleason and Whole Cogan without further ado. There's everything

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Speaker 1: you didn't know about the Flintstones, You know, buddy, Twis

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Speaker 1: Hall Coogan sues you. The flint Stone series began in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty and became the crown jewel of the Hanna

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Speaker 1: Barbera Animation Studios, and now most people have at least

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Speaker 1: a passing familiarity with Hannah Barbera. They are famous for

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Speaker 1: TV mainstays like Scooby Doo, The Smurfs, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Quest. The studio was founded by William Hannah and

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Speaker 1: Joseph Barbera, who first achieved success working at MGM on

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Speaker 1: the Tom and Jerry cartoons before striking out on their own,

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Speaker 1: He had stuff like Huckleberry Hound and Quick Drawma Grawl

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Speaker 1: Although these shows were marginally successful, they didn't have the

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Speaker 1: children and adults. So by the late fifties they wanted

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's a holdover from a different time.

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Speaker 1: Hannah supposedly just blurts out, let's do it in a

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Speaker 1: the idea. They drew up some preliminary sketches, and according

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Speaker 1: to Joseph Barbera, everything fell perfectly into its place, and

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Speaker 1: it proved fairly easy to take contemporary life and throw

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Speaker 1: it back into the Stone Age with some design flourishes

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Speaker 1: and rock ponds, lots of rock ponds. As you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the working title of the show was The Flagstones, which

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Speaker 1: comic strip High and Lowest, and they also toyed with

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Speaker 1: Joseph Barbera talks about going to New York City to

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Speaker 1: He'd be doing this ninety minute presentation upwards of five

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Speaker 1: love to know that backstory. The head of Cartoon Network

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Speaker 1: Isn't good? Yeah, it's cute, It's like, yeah, it's very early,

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Speaker 1: traditional sitcoms. The influences on the show were also more

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Speaker 1: At least six episodes are nearly identical to classic Laurel

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Speaker 1: and Hardy films. Everything is interesting to me because there's

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Speaker 1: a guy named Ed Benedict who would later create Yogi

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Speaker 1: Bear and do like consultant work when Johnny Quest launched

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Speaker 1: Avery short. I just love how so much of animation

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Speaker 1: history is um like littered with laziness. They're just like

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Speaker 1: and they do. It's like all the Disney stuff where

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Speaker 1: it's like, isn't at the end of Beauty and the

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Speaker 1: Beast is actually like the same frames of the couple

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Speaker 1: his memoir, which is hilarious called That's not all folks,

423
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: Tangles of wires were scattered all over the floor, and

424
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: chairs and microphones were arranged around my hospital bed. Every

425
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: couple of hours, Joe Barbara would ask if I was

426
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: too tired to carry on, but I insisted on completing

427
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 1: the show, and they recorded this way for nine months,

428
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: knocking out forty episodes. And he goes on the right Thankfully,

429
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: by September, my doctors allowed me to sit up a

430
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: bit elevated by way of a Pulley cable system to

431
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: a semi sitting position. It was no more than a

432
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: few inches difference. But as I laughingly told my colleagues,

433
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: how nice it is to be able to look at

434
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,959
Speaker 1: your faces instead of at the damn ceiling. Incredible, All right,

435
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: talk about dedication to your craft, that's just that's insane.

436
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: Speaking of voice talent, I've dedicated. Speaking of dedicated voice talent.

437
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: Wilmo was voiced by actress Jean vander Pyle from the

438
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: show's beginning until the day she died in Uh Wilma, Um,

439
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: you didn't mess with Wilma, No, you didn't. She would

440
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: go upside friend's head with the old skillet. For all

441
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: their bickering, Jean thought that deep down there was a

442
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: relationship based on love. As she inimitably told the l

443
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: a times in nine, I loved the bum. Sure, Fred

444
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: was a yahoo, and I got mad at him all

445
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: the time, But we really loved each other. Our romance

446
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: was one of the things that made us so popular.

447
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: We were real. She really blending the like speaking as

448
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: there she was all there when she did this, um,

449
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: and then she said, uh, I know I'm going to

450
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: get killed for saying this. But Wilma had a great

451
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: quote housewife wine to her voice. She commanded enough authority

452
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: to run the house, but kept an equal amount of warmth.

453
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: Wilma as a communicator, and a lot of women relate

454
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Speaker 1: to that, at least I know I do. I think

455
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: there's a lot of me in Wilma, And even though

456
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: she's just a cartoon, I think my voice is one

457
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: of the things that made her so human. Pyle was

458
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: the longest surviving member of the show's original cast, which,

459
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: considering that this was the Arab and all of these

460
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: people chained, smoked like chimneys and drank whiskey with breakfast,

461
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: is quite an achievement. Um. Speaking of Friend and Wilma's

462
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: marital life, they actually shared a bed on this show,

463
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: becoming one of the first TV couples to do. The

464
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: very first was a show called Mary Kane Johnny, which

465
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 1: started a couple who were married in real life, and

466
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: it also was the first on TV to depict a

467
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: pregnant woman. It was early. It was incredibly earlier. I

468
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: think it was like or something I don't even think

469
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 1: you can show a pregnant woman in public back then. Yeah,

470
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: if you go back to all of those early black

471
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: and white sitcoms like I Love Lucy, Diffendyke Show, all

472
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: the couples are in twin beds next to each other.

473
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a bed rock joke in here Alah

474
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: Kesha about the flynn Stone sharing a bed, but I

475
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: can't find it, so tweeted us at well WHI we're

476
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: on the subject. I thought it would be fun to

477
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: run down a quick list of prudish TV firsts, and

478
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: many of these are courtesy of the fine folks are Cracked.

479
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty three, I Love Lucy became the first

480
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: show to have a birth as part of the plot.

481
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that you couldn't say the word pregnant,

482
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: she'd say expecting. Almost seventy two percent of homes with

483
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: television sets were two in to watch, which was hilariously

484
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: substantially more than President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inauguration the next day.

485
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: Didn't they also have to? Like she was? She one

486
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: of the first to wear pants on TV. You know,

487
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: I don't know that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, it was

488
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: Lucy old Ball was the first, but Mary Tyler Moore's

489
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: were the ones that really. In nineteen fifty six, the

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00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: Danny Thomas show Make Room for Daddy became the first

491
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: show to kill off a main character to deal with

492
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: an actor deciding to leave the series. It was supposed

493
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: to be Danny Thomas's wife, but she wasn't happy with

494
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: her character changes because the producers were rebranding the show

495
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: and divorce is too shocking at the time, so they

496
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: just opted to kill her. His death is fine. I

497
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: love that. UH. Leave It to Beaver became the first

498
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: show to show it part of a toilet on TV. UH.

499
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: The episode was about the kids buying a pet alligator

500
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,479
Speaker 1: and keeping it in the toilet. Is that the origin

501
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,239
Speaker 1: of the alligator in the sewer urban legend? Maybe? I

502
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a good point. Interesting. The network freaked

503
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: out in forbade showing it, and eventually they compromised by

504
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: shooting it from up high and only showing the tank.

505
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: I just want to add the toilets on television of

506
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: a long fraught history. UM. In nineteen sixty one of

507
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: The Early Tonight Show, host Jack Parr told a joke

508
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: about he just said the words water the water closet,

509
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: and sensors cut the joke out, and like that's what

510
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: we're dealing with, Like he couldn't say the phrase or

511
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: word or whatever it is, water closet, and he was

512
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: so outraged that the next day when he came on

513
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: the show is a very famous story at the time.

514
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: He came out just absolutely in a fury. He started

515
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: to cry on air because he was just so angry,

516
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: and then he walked off the stage and walked off

517
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: in the middle of taping and disappeared for I think

518
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: several weeks, and like no one knew it would be,

519
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: like if it would be like if Colbert or Jimmy

520
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: Fallon just suddenly like walked off the air kind of

521
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: break up, yeah, on air, and then just just flew

522
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: to Like there were rumors that he was in like

523
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: Thailand or something like really crazy. So, yeah, you couldn't

524
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: even say water closet on TV in nineteen sixty and

525
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: then I think the first show at least a story

526
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: like the legend that the first show to actually feature

527
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: the sound of a toilet being flushed was All in

528
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: the Family in nineteen seventy one. Good Lord This Country Um.

529
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: The first interracial kiss is frequently cited as this episode

530
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: of Star Trek between Kirk and Hera, but it was

531
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: actually a few years prior to that, nineteen sixty two,

532
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: during a televised play called You in Your Small Corner.

533
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty four, the soap opera Another World became

534
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: the first show to address abortion, a decade before it

535
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: was a plotline on the All in the Family spin

536
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: off Maud and Chair is widely credited as breaking the

537
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: belly button barrier on TV during the Sunny and Share

538
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: Show in nineteen seventy one. For years before that, I

539
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: think we've talked about this before. The show Network Brass

540
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: forbade Barbara Eden from exposing her navel on I Dream

541
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: of Genie, and also Don Wells and Tina Louise on

542
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: Gilligan's Aisle, and they're required to wear shorts that covered

543
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: them up as well, so that's hilarious. The first openly

544
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: gay character was played by veteran character actor Vincent Chevelli

545
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: on the nineteen seventy two show The Corner Bar and

546
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: the character's name was Peter Panama, and he's pretty offensive

547
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: to modern sensibilities, but still historic. First the first openly

548
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: gay couple were on a episode of the show Hot

549
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: l Baltimore. The episode opened with a mature warning, which

550
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: was rare at the time. The first same sex kiss

551
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: was on an episode of l A Law in a

552
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: year that also featured the first same sex marriage on

553
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: the show Rock Shaft. Actor Richard Roundtree Uh was featured

554
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: in a recurring guest role as the main character's uncle

555
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: who's revealed to have a male partner. Episode of Chicago

556
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: Hope featured a scripted curse uncensored for the first time

557
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: in network television history. Mark Harmon uttered the phrase happens.

558
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: Star Trek was the first show to say hell in

559
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, in the context of Captain Kirk saying

560
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: let's get the hell out of here apparently something gene

561
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: rodden Mary had to fight for. But Charles Rockett did

562
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: drop the old F bomb on Saturday Night Live in one,

563
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: which resulted in him being summarily dismissed. Um. But I

564
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: guess yeah, Chicago Hope probably gets the credit for that

565
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: because it was scripted, not live. And in two thousands seven,

566
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: Candice Kane became one of the first transgender actresses to

567
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: receive a lead role as a transgender character on the

568
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: prime time show Dirty Sexy Money, and a decade later,

569
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: in seventeen, non binary actor Asia Kate Dylan portrayed the

570
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: lead non binary character Taylor Mason on Billions. And speaking

571
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: of TV berths, we got to talk about Baby Pebbles,

572
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: truly one of the cuest cartoon characters of all time.

573
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: Come on the ware, hair is done up with That

574
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: little boat's adorable. And it was at the start of

575
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: the show's third season in nineteen sixty two, the producers

576
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: decided that Fred and Wilmo should have a child, and

577
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: Joseph Barbera told any TV Legends that the plan was

578
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: for the child to be a boy until the Ideal

579
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: Toy Company, which is the company that created the Rubik's

580
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: Cube and a bunch of other big name toys, changed

581
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: his mind because I guess girl dolls sell a lot

582
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: better than boy dolls, at least at the time. And

583
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: Barbara said he got a call from the guy in

584
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: charge of the Flintstones merchandizing he said, Hey, I hear

585
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a baby on the show. I said, yes,

586
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: Barbara talking, he said, is it a boy? Or a girl.

587
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: Barbara said, what else, a boy? A chip off the

588
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: old rock. The merchandise guy says, it's too bad, I

589
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: have these ideal toy people. If it was a girl,

590
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: we could have made a hell of a deal. Barbara said, oh,

591
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: it's a girl. So I sold three million pebbles dolls

592
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: within the first couple of months, which is insane. Um

593
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: this impending flint Stone's birth was worldwide news, which is

594
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: just hard to imagine. Again, this is before JFK was killed.

595
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: This was a simpler time. TV networks around the world

596
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: held contests for viewers to pick the name, sex, and

597
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: even the weight. And the night that woman told Fred

598
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: she was pregnant, that's January three. There was a voice

599
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 1: over at the end of the show that said, that's right, folks,

600
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: the flint Stones are going to have a baby, and

601
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: you can want a trip around the world. All you

602
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: have to do is pick the correct birth weight and

603
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: the winner of Florida Butcher received a round trip plus

604
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars in spending cash, which is like twenty

605
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: tho dollars today, and Hanna Barbera appeared live at the

606
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Speaker 1: end of the show. Immediately after Pebble's birth to announce

607
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: this winner. Pebbles was born on February b C at

608
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: p m. By the way, she weighed six pounds twelve

609
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: ounces and her name comes from Wilbel's maiden name of Pebble,

610
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: which was mysteriously changed to shag Hoople later with no explanation.

611
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: It's like the older brother Chuck from Happy Days, Like

612
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: Richie Cunningham had an older brother for the first couple

613
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: of seasons, and then the older brother they just wrote

614
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: him out and never talked about him again. It's like

615
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: that just thinks on shows like this just changed. She

616
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: went back to her home planet. Yeah, yes, Um. At

617
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: the time of Pebble's birth, Fred said that she was

618
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: quote a Pebble off the old flint Stone, So that's

619
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: that she got her name. Yes, but despite their abundance

620
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: of progen any, things were not all perfect in the

621
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: flint Stone household, or at least that's what one famous

622
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: urban legend would have you believe. There's some people who

623
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: think that Fred had an affair with Barney's wife, Betty Um.

624
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,479
Speaker 1: Fred and Wilmer always seen bickerying through up the show,

625
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: but Fred and Betty were always depicted as conspicuously friendly,

626
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,959
Speaker 1: in fact flirty almost. It would make sense that Fred

627
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: would be attracted to Betty as she was the opposite

628
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: of Wilma, and meanwhile, the same can be said of

629
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: Betty being attracted to Fred, who was a strong and

630
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: forceful man as opposed to the mild mannered Barney. This,

631
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: of course all just a theory, but there is hard

632
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: evidence on the show that Fred Baby a gambling addict,

633
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: something frequently played for laughs. Uh. Any anytime gambling is

634
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: even mentioned, he just starts stuttering. Throughout the show, he

635
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Speaker 1: can be seen playing slot machines poker, lying about it

636
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: to Wilma. There's an episode where he loses his entire

637
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: paycheck on a bet and then tells Wilma they've been robbed. Uh.

638
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: There's a short video on YouTube by high Roller Radio

639
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: TV that goes into detail about Fred's gambling problem in

640
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 1: each season. Um, and you know Fred is not limited

641
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: in his vices. He like drink every now and again,

642
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: end an elbow or two, as they say, take a snoot, fool.

643
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Speaker 1: I don't know what other what other fifties gems can

644
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Speaker 1: I run through here? Um? There's also an episode I

645
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: guess he had a we didn't talk about the Loyal

646
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Speaker 1: Order of the Water Buffaloes. That's like one of the

647
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: only other things I remember from this show is they're

648
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: big cats. They would wear anyway. There's an episode where

649
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: his bowling club, the Loyal Ord of the Water Buffaloes,

650
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: hire some showgirl dancers as entertainment for a party. Anyway.

651
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: In keeping with all of that, there are some surprisingly

652
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: dirty jokes buried in the flint Stones. In one episode,

653
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: Fred and Barney go to a costume maker and Fred

654
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: asks Barney what kind of costume are you going to get? Barney,

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Speaker 1: who is short, replies that he's looking for something that

656
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Speaker 1: will make me look tall, and Fred cracks, how about

657
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: another head? Barney responds, another one? What do I need?

658
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: Three of them? For Get it, because he's got the one,

659
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: and then they and the other one, and then so

660
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: when I'm in the third one. Another time, Fred Barney

661
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: watch sports on TV at the Ladder's house and they

662
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: lose reception. Fred inquires if everything is in working order,

663
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Speaker 1: including asking Barney, how's your antenna? Barney replies with a

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Speaker 1: huge smile, fine, friend, how's yours? I made that sound

665
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Speaker 1: sexual and I mean between them because I was also

666
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: just reading a much of about how people think they're gay.

667
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, anyway, speaking of vices, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not the only less than kid friendly stuff they

669
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Speaker 1: had on the show. The Flintstones used to hawk cigarettes

670
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Speaker 1: with a baked in ad at the end of the show.

671
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Speaker 1: For the first two seasons, the show was sponsored by

672
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Speaker 1: Winston Cigarettes, so the characters would appear in animated commercials

673
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Speaker 1: for them at the end of the episode. This was

674
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Speaker 1: the era when the shows pitch their sponsors products and

675
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: what we're called integrated commercials, where like the stars of

676
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 1: the show would come out and do a whole skit

677
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: involving the product. And there's one black and white spot

678
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: where Barney and Fred are trying to get out of

679
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Speaker 1: yard work. So Barney says, let's take a Winston break,

680
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Speaker 1: and he and Fred go around back and light up,

681
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: and then Wilma and Betty catch them and throw yard

682
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: equipment at them too, which Fred says his famous tagline,

683
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Obviously, it was

684
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: all very normal at the time, but today it's just

685
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: really surreal to see this kid friendly cartoon shielding cigarettes.

686
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: It wasn't until nineteen sixty six, around the time that

687
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Speaker 1: The flint Stones ended, that cautionary labels were included on

688
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: cigarette packs, and then four years later in nineteen seventy

689
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: when cigarette ads were bands from TV and radio altogether.

690
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: But it gets darker. In addition to sneaking adult jokes

691
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: and themes into episodes, The flint Stones also had some

692
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: plot lines that were about as serious as a heart attack.

693
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 1: Case in point, the episode that aired not long after

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Speaker 1: Pebbles was born, which sends the Rubbles into an emotional

695
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: tail spin because they are unable to conceive children, they

696
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: intrude on their neighbors, the flint Stones more often than

697
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: usual after pe his birth, much to the annoyance of Fred,

698
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Speaker 1: who finally throws them out and Wilma goes over to

699
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: the Rubbels and apologizes and realize that they don't on

700
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Speaker 1: Pebbles because they desperately want a child of their own.

701
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: Devastating all around. Uh you see Betty Rubble in tears

702
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: at one point. It's awful. They wish upon a star

703
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: and wake up the next day and discover a baby

704
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: in a basket on their doorstep who they named Bam Bam,

705
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Speaker 1: and that would have been a sweet ending, but we're

706
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: not done with you. The Rubbels nearly lose Bam Bam

707
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: and a custody battle while trying to adopt him officially.

708
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: Instead of the Rubbels instantly getting Bam Bam and a

709
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Speaker 1: fairy tale ending with a star wish, they suffer through

710
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Speaker 1: the court system and nearly lose their child. This is

711
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: a kid's animation show. And when it looks like they

712
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: might not be able to adopt Bambam after all, Barney

713
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: dramatically declares that his life is not worth living and

714
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,479
Speaker 1: heads to the nearest bridge, ties a rope to a rock,

715
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Speaker 1: and threatens to dive in and drown himself. Thankfully, it

716
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: all works out in the end, but Jesus Christ. On

717
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: the historical factoid front, it marked the first time an

718
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Speaker 1: animated television series involved the issue of infertility in an episode.

719
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: That's got to be a shortlist. Yeah, as I say,

720
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: it must be. Uh. And that's not the only time

721
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: they tackled suicide on the flint Stones. There's one episode

722
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: from ninety one that opens with Fred and Barney driving

723
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: over the new George Washington Stone toll bridge. Medium funny

724
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: when they encounter a man standing on the edge of

725
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: the bridge, also with a boulder tied around his neck.

726
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: It turns out it's all an elaborate con man scheme,

727
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: but still dark. Yeah. Um, but you know, move on

728
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: moving into happier climbs. Uh. The cavalcade of guest stars

729
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: who appeared on the flint Stones over the years. There

730
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: was Ann Margaret who's fresh off by by Bertie singing

731
00:41:52,080 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: against her stone age alter ego. And Mark Rock mm hmm, okay,

732
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: just tap the mic after every one of these. Tony

733
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: Curtis appears as movie star Stoney Curtis. Uh. They had

734
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: celebrities who didn't do their own voices but appeared as

735
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: thinly disguised parodies. Ed Sullivan is Ed Sully Stone. Oh,

736
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: come on, they're not even trying. Alfred Hitchcock is Alvin

737
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: Brick Rock. I'll give that one to carry Grant as

738
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: Gary Granite Rock Hudson his rock Quarry. That one doesn't

739
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: even rock pile. I think it was another one. Uh.

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00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,720
Speaker 1: And um, TV lawyer Perry Mason was played as Perry

741
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: Masonry or Mason Knight, which which the two was it

742
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 1: run talk? I think he was on twice. I throw

743
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: that character rather it was on twice they changed it

744
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:53,479
Speaker 1: from good Lord um reference. Wait, we got a better one. Uh.

745
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: They're also references to Jackie Kenner Rock. Come on, yeah,

746
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: that one does not count. That does not count as

747
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: a Jackie Kennedy reference, Clark gravel Clark label. That's fine. Uh,

748
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: Sandy Stone axe plants picture Sandy Kofax. I'll take that.

749
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, these are the people who gave us

750
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: Yogi Bear for Yogi Barra. Uh. The show embraced crossovers

751
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: as well, with Samantha Stevens played by Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched,

752
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: another ABC sitcom, moving into the neighborhood in one episode,

753
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: and the aforementioned Yogi Bear making a cameo in another.

754
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: We cannot talk about the flint Stones crossovers, however, without

755
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: mentioning The Jetsons, a show that was quite obviously inspired

756
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: directly by the success of The flint Stones. Unlike The

757
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: Honeymooners and The flint Stones, Jetsons was pitched as an

758
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: actual rip. Hanna Barbara wanted to strike while the iron

759
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: was hot and opted to just quite simply invert the

760
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: premise of The flint Stones because it was easier than

761
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: coming up with a new idea. It's the flint Stones

762
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: in space. It's die Hard on a plane. Um, it's

763
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: weird because you and I both seem to have thought

764
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: this was like a bigger thing than it was. It

765
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: only aired for one season, twenty four episodes. Uh. It

766
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 1: got rebooted in n but Jetson super Fans, which is

767
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: apparently a cohort of human beings in the this year

768
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: of Our Lord. Uh, do not consider that part of

769
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: the canon. A live action film and television series have

770
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: both been in the works for quite a few years,

771
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: but both of those appear to be trapped in development.

772
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: Help In nine seven there was also the truly brilliant

773
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: crossover bit of synergy with the made for TV mash

774
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: up The Jetson's Meet the flint Stones, in which George

775
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: Jetson's time travel schemes go wrong and the family gets

776
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: sent back to ten thousand BC. That's when you're familiar with, right,

777
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean that's the one that I remember

778
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: actually seeing. I mean, because they are a truly insane

779
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: number of made for TV movies and spinoffs and things like,

780
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: that's the only one that I have direct personal experience with. Well,

781
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 1: let's run them down. There was the short lived Pebbles

782
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: and Bam Bam Show from nine to nineteen seventy two,

783
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: which aged them up to high schoolers and spoofed youth

784
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: culture like hippies and biker gangs. Uh. The voice of

785
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: Pebbles was Sally Struthers, who had to quit when she

786
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: got cast as Gloria on All in the Family. Then

787
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: there was The Flintstones Comedy Hour in nineteen seventy two

788
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: and seventy three, which was essentially an animated sketch comedy

789
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 1: show in the style of the Sunday and Share Comedy Hour,

790
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: shorts and songs and I don't know Socket Rocket to me,

791
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: I could have written for this show. Uh. There was

792
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: the rival series, The New Adventures of Fred and Barney

793
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: that aired in seventy nine and found the guys having

794
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: adventures with werewolves and witches. For some reason, everything's improved

795
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: with werewolves. You take a Jetson's Meet the Wolfman that

796
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: would have ruled. Then there was the Flints Owned Comedy Show,

797
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: which was an anthology comedy show. Six years later and

798
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: eight six you got The flint Stones Kids, which, contrary

799
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: to you thinking it's the actual kids from the original

800
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: show simply d ages Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty has

801
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: Children Muppet Babies. There are a dozen TV specials aired,

802
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: including with flint Stone's Kids Just Say No Special um,

803
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: a couple of holiday specials, in an episode where they

804
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: meet Frank and Stone this Thing On, and another called

805
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: Fred's Final Fling, in which he is mistakenly informed that

806
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: he has twenty four hours to live and wants to

807
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: make the most of the rest of his life. So

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00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: those are all weird, but no flint Stone's related release

809
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 1: is as weird as the two thousand fifteen direct to

810
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: video DVD The flint Stones and w W E. Stone

811
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: Age SmackDown. I feel you gott I feel You've got

812
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: to take this one. This is this is so your wheelhouse.

813
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: Um In there was an attempt to bridge the historically

814
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: at odds fan bases of professional wrestling and the flint Stones.

815
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 1: Uh this historic reaching out to China if you will

816
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: um this rap proche mall Uh. I don't know who

817
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: the hell did this thing? I don't know, I don't know.

818
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: It follows Fred and Barney as they try and uh

819
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: build a wrestling organization. It's called the flint Stones and

820
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: w w E Stone Age SmackDown. This was not a

821
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: fever dream that came out in the heyday of either

822
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: of these organizations. I can't believe this came out. But

823
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: it also features uh. It ends with a massive, massive

824
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: wrestling match, The Royal Rumble the Rock Will Rock Bull

825
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: the Royal rum Rock. No anything there, Yes, and I

826
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: don't um no, I'm I'm developing, I'm pitching um real

827
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: life wrestlers like The Undertaker, Daniel Brian and John Cena.

828
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 1: This is the first new Flintstones production in over fourteen years,

829
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 1: and perhaps, telling me, the first without the original creators. Uh. Oh,

830
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: well they were dead, That's why did they lose the rights.

831
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: I don't know if they lost their rights or just

832
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: whoever was now in charge had some interesting ideas that

833
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: is deeply absurd. Wow shockingly got good reviews as it

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00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: did as you meditate on that. We'll be right back

835
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: with more too much information after these messages. Well, speaking

836
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: of blatant cash grabs, let's talk about the merch. The

837
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: Flintstones have all sorts of product tie ins over the years,

838
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: and aside from toys, the most famous are probably Pebbles,

839
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: cereal and the Flintstones, chewable vitamins. The Pebbles cereals actually

840
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: somewhat historic. It started off with Post cereal brands trying

841
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: to compete with rice Crispies and the best they could

842
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: come up with was sugar Rice Crinkles. Unsurprisingly, with that

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00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 1: name sugar Rice Crinkles, it was failing, and in an

844
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: attempt to boost the sales for children, they licensed the

845
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: flint Stones and rebranded the cereal as Fruity and Chocolate Pebbles. Now,

846
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: characters have been used in advertising, but there's never been

847
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: a branded cereal created around a media character, and there

848
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: were big fears that the Flintstones popularity was going to

849
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: fade and this was all gonna be a massive mistake.

850
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 1: But Fruity and Chocolate Pebbles were both released in the

851
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: nineteen nine and they have been best sellers for Post

852
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: ever since. On the flip side, the cereal got them

853
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: sued by Whole Cogan Uh. Speaking of the w W

854
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: E in May Have there was a Cocoa Pebbles commercial

855
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: where Barney and Fred face off with a wrestler named

856
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: Hulke Boulder, and it ends with Hulk getting his ass

857
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: handed to him by Barney's young son band band who

858
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: you remember is the strongest little boy in the world,

859
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: and so Hulk Boulder loses the match. Hulk Hogan sued

860
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: the Post, saying that they stole his image to promote pebbles,

861
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: and then his reputation had been damaged by the commercials.

862
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: Since you know, we lost to a toddler. I assumed

863
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: that this all would have fallen into parody protection, but

864
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: Hulk claimed that he actually used to use the name

865
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: Hulk Boulder early in his career, until he changed it

866
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: to Hulk Hogan to make it sound more irish. Super

867
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: settled in September. Why that would make you a better

868
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: It's like when they anglicize your name coming over from

869
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: Pallas Island. Yeah, I was like. The immigration guy was like,

870
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: Hulk Boulder, that don't ever play in the States. Your

871
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan now, and a light bulb went off, amazing.

872
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: The suit was settled in September, but the condition that

873
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: the commercial was not rebroadcast. And then there are the

874
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: flint Stones vitamins, which you're actually another rebrand. They were

875
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: originally a chewable vitamin brand called Chalks, which is maybe

876
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: one of the least appealing names I've ever heard for

877
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: something that you eat. Uh. Basically, they were exactly the

878
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: same as the flint Stones vitamins, but without the character

879
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: shapes which came in nineteen. They had all the principles

880
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: in there, including Dino the dog like pet Dinosaur, all

881
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: the principles except Betty and this one on for twenty years,

882
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: this Betty erasure until a grassroots campaign forced Bear Pharmaceutical

883
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: to jump into action and Betty replaced Fred's Car as

884
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 1: one of the vitamin shapes. For two decades they opted

885
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 1: for Fred's Car and not Betty Rubble. I find that

886
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: that that's offensive to make. I had always heard in

887
00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: like Dr John's Bathroom Reader and whatnot. Um that is

888
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: because her waist was too small and she kept breaking

889
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: in half. So you just got all these headless betties.

890
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: Good band name I was going to say, is that

891
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 1: the sequel to black Betty? Oh headless Betty lamb. Wow.

892
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: So the Flintstone vitamins have become hugely successful, helping an

893
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: untold number of kids grow big and strong. I was

894
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: one of them. But apparently these beloved vitamins aren't as

895
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: healthy as we're once believed. This is according to an

896
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: article courtesy of Spoon University, which is not a college

897
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: as a website, who did a deep study into the ingredients.

898
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: The vitamins contain a sweetening agent called sorbidall, which is

899
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: an ingredient usually found and laxatives, meaning children are at

900
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: risk of nausea, stomach cramps, and severe diarrhea if they

901
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: take too many of these Flintstone vitamins. The vitamins also

902
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: have a high percentage of artificial colors and flavors in

903
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: them and contain fructos, another sugar link to obesity and diabetes. Huh,

904
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,720
Speaker 1: all right, Flintstones movie, take Take Me Home, Honey with sugar.

905
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: We're going home, going down swinging. What else you got now?

906
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: So far we've discussed the flint Stones on TV and

907
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,959
Speaker 1: on shelves. Now we need to talk about the flint

908
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: Stones on the big screen. I completely missed this. But

909
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: after The flint Stones were canceled and went off the

910
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: air in nineteen sixty six, they released a full length

911
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: theatrical film as the series finale, called The Man Called

912
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: flint Stone, which was their version of the many James

913
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: Bond spy spoofs that were flooding the market. At the time.

914
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: It's a rip on our man Flint. You know, the

915
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: man called flint Stone. We mentioned our man Flint in

916
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: the Austin Powers episode. Uh in like Flint, it's Austin's

917
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: favorite movie. You'll recall this movie the Man called flint

918
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: Stone was not the big budget feature that this beloved

919
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: franchise deserved. It would take almost thirty years for that

920
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: to happen. Live action adaptation was held up in development

921
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: hell for nearly a decade before it got the green

922
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: light to go into production. And during that time I

923
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: went through two producers, two directors, fourteen screen writers in

924
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: eighteen TV gag writers. Yeah this you didn't mention you,

925
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: you elighted, you glossed over. You issued mentioning that it

926
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: was Joel and Silver. I see a friend or enemy

927
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: of the pod. Yeah he's no Jeffrey Katzenberg. Um, Joel

928
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: Silver originally optioned this. Mitch Markowitz, who wrote a bunch

929
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: of TV as well as Good Morning Vietnam, turned in

930
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: a truly insane draft of this script. In his own words,

931
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: Fred and Barney leave their town during a terrible depression

932
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: and go across the country or whatever the damn prehistoric

933
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: thing is. Looking for jobs, they wind up in trailer parks,

934
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: trying to keep their families together. They exhibit moments of

935
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: heroism and poignancy. Richard Donnered, yes, the very same Superman

936
00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:01,240
Speaker 1: deemed this bizarre grapes of wrath bad land. Terrence Malick

937
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: Fantasia a bridge to damn far and put the kaibash

938
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: on it. As you mentioned, fourteen screenwriters were born at

939
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: least fourteen, Well, who knows thirty five is the other

940
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: number I read attached to this um writer's Lowell Gans

941
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: and babel Loo Mandel, and yes, those are their trade names.

942
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,720
Speaker 1: Took home what Entertainment Weekly reported as a hundred grand

943
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: for two days work. They did a league of their own.

944
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: Well maybe that's why they pulled down a hundred grand

945
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: for two days of Flintstones rewrites. Rick Moranis said this

946
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: thing had about eighteen writers, but he was off by half.

947
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: At least the highest estimate that I found. Thirty five

948
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: writers supposedly worked on this thing, and it had to

949
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: go to arbitration by the writer's guild to straighten out

950
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: all of these credits. Even Steven Spielberg was attest at

951
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: one point, and I guess he was the one who

952
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: suggested John Goodman as Fred after working with him on

953
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: the film Always and prior to that, they will look

954
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: can get other actors, including Chevy Chase, Jim Belushi, and

955
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: Bill Murray, all of whom were deemed too small and

956
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: skinny and they needed somewhat of John Goodman's girth and

957
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: size to get that cartoonish effect. And Danny DeVito was

958
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: rumored to be the first choice to play Barney, but

959
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 1: he turned it down because you know, his gruff voice

960
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: is just you can't make Danny DeVito sound dopey. Barney's

961
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: kind of dopey. But he was apparently the one who

962
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: recommended Rick Moranus for Barney, which is truly the role

963
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: he was born to play. This film was so well cast.

964
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: Goodman has read well well, oh yeah, take yeah. Tell

965
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: us more about what John Goodman felt about playing Red

966
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: flint Stone. Just arguably not a complimentary role. I should

967
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: say John Goodman blessed his heart with utter despair in

968
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 1: his face, utter uh waiting for goodot as existential horror.

969
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: Talking to g Q in twenty nineteen, this is on YouTube,

970
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: he says, they kind of sandbagged me into taking the

971
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: role of Fred Flintstone, apparently on the day of the

972
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: first table read for that Spielberg movie. Always Spielberg's announced

973
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: to the room, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to say

974
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: something before we start. I've found my Fred Flintstone, which

975
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: Goodman said took the wind out of me, adding that

976
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: it was not a role I was looking forward to doing.

977
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: But he did love working with Rick moranis. And though

978
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: he said it was very hot and very sweaty um

979
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: because they were filming in like Monument Valley and stuff

980
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: right like actually out in the desert, he said that

981
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: it was quote fun. All the thought of John Goodman

982
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: being sad, it's like Robin Williams being sad. I don't

983
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 1: I don't like that at all. I don't know why

984
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: I love this detail so much, but I guess Glass

985
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: was banned on the set because all the actors were

986
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: barefoot because they were cave people. This is also the

987
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: last film appearance of Elizabeth Taylor, played Wilma's mother, Pearl

988
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: slag Hoople. She did the odd TV cameo, but spent

989
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,919
Speaker 1: the rest of her life focused on her philanthropy work.

990
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: For her death in eleven strange, very strange, and too

991
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: a legendary film career, but at least this wasn't the

992
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: box office bomb. It earned three hundred and forty two

993
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: million dollars on a budget of forty six million. It's

994
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: really a clever movie. You know. You got Rosy O'donald's Betty,

995
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Parkins is Wilma, and the B fifty two is

996
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 1: handling the theme song under the name the BC fifty twos,

997
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: which is adorable, so all at all pretty cute. Barbara

998
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: never won to turn down an opportunity to talk, said

999
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: that although he was impressed by the film's visuals, he

1000
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: felt the story wasn't as good as I could have

1001
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: made it. Uh. It did pick up two Razzies, one

1002
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: for o'donald and one for the screenplay. M h, that's

1003
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: a bomb, So overall the Flintstones movie del right for itself.

1004
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: The same cannot be said for the faded sequel, two

1005
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: thousand's flint Stones Viva Rock Vegas. Much like the first

1006
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: flint Stones movie, it took years to get this out

1007
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: of development, and by the time they were ready to

1008
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: go in the late nineties, many years after the original,

1009
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: John Goodman said he was too busy with other acting

1010
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: gigs and didn't want to do it, and from then

1011
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: on it was a domino effect. All the original cast

1012
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: pulled out and producers handled this unfortunate situation by making

1013
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: Viva Rock Vegas a prequel and recasting the franchise with

1014
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: a bunch of younger actors, and unfortunately, most of these

1015
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: younger actors were C listers. Guy named Mark Addy took

1016
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: over the role of Fred Flintstone, Stephen Baldwin took on Barney,

1017
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: Kristen Johnson from Third Rock from the Sun played Wilma,

1018
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: and Jankikowski pre Thirty Rock played Betty, a guy named Martiny.

1019
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: You are referring to the full Monty Star BAFTA nominated

1020
00:59:55,720 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: He's English start Robert Barathian from Game Thrones that Mark

1021
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: Addie continue. Yes, So the Flintstones of Eva Rock Vegas

1022
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,919
Speaker 1: became a massive bomb and put it into basically any

1023
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: more flint Stone films being made in the near future.

1024
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: But on the upside, apparently Kristin Stewart's film debut um

1025
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: actually wait a minute, as pebbles, that's what I'm just

1026
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. Ring Toss girl. I don't know.

1027
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,439
Speaker 1: I guess it's like a like truly a walk on part.

1028
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: There was talk of doing another feature length animated flint

1029
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: Stones movie back in with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay

1030
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: executive producing. But I think that's probably died of death

1031
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: because I don't think they're working together anymore, and it's

1032
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: been many years since, so who knows. Yeah. I when

1033
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: I looked that up, the last thing I found was

1034
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 1: and like, I think Deadline, And until very recently there

1035
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: was not a new flint Stones related show on television

1036
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: for close to twenty years, UM, since the TV movie

1037
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: on the Rocks. Getting really tired of these rock puns, Jordan,

1038
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: I can keep doing this? Uh. In two thousand one,

1039
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane, who got his start I

1040
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 1: think on Johnny Bravo on Cartoon Network, Uh, spent years

1041
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: trying to get a reboot together. Even wrote a pilot

1042
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: for Fox, which they rejected, which seems absurd considering the

1043
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: stuff they did Greenlight and from you know, The Cleveland

1044
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: Show and American Dad and whatever that Orville show is. Yeah, yeah,

1045
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: the Orville anyway. That was tentatively announced in two thousand eleven,

1046
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: but in a more recent Reddit a m a he

1047
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: announced that he was giving up on it. Honestly, I

1048
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out a way to find enough differentiation between

1049
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: a modern day Fred Flintstone and Peter Griffin. He said,

1050
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so that's a bummer. But last year they

1051
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: premiered Yabba Daba Dinosaurs, which is a kids show and

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Speaker 1: is the first full length Flintstone related TV show in

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Speaker 1: nineteen years and the first since creators William Hannah and

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Speaker 1: Joseph Barbara died. That was a kids show. But in

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Speaker 1: it was announced that Elizabeth Banks is executive producing and

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Speaker 1: starring in a new animated Flintstone series for adults called Bedrock.

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Speaker 1: Is set twenty years after the original show, just as

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Speaker 1: the Stone Age is giving way to the more enlightened

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Speaker 1: Bronze Age. Fred flint Stone is on the brink of retirement. Pebbles,

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Speaker 1: voiced by Elizabeth Banks, is now in her twenties and

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Speaker 1: starting a career. Uh yeah, Is this the fifth episode

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Speaker 1: in which we've talked about like a decades old property

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Speaker 1: being rebooted for a younger generation. Have we got Legend

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Speaker 1: and Temple all that leg of their own? Yeah? I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm frankly, I'm tired of I want them to Uh

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Speaker 1: I want a gritty flint Stone's reboot. Yeah, if Flintstone

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Speaker 1: where people's lives are in danger on the right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just like Yeah, show me Mr Slate getting gutted by

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Speaker 1: a velociraptor. You know that's now We're now cooking with

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Speaker 1: gas bedrooms. They do the slow lower register piano note

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Speaker 1: rendition of the theme song fades in slow. The producers

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Speaker 1: of the wine comes. They used to call me Fred.

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Speaker 1: These days they just call me flint Bam December, directed

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Speaker 1: by David Fincher. We've pitched so many good ideas on

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Speaker 1: this show. By the way, all verbal contract. If any

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Speaker 1: of these gets made, I'm suing the absolute Joel silver

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Speaker 1: A go ahead, Jordan, take us home, buddy. Yes, as

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Speaker 1: we say at the top of the episode, the real

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Speaker 1: legacy of the show lives on and stuff like Family Guy,

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Speaker 1: and especially the Simpsons, who shattered the record for the

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Speaker 1: longest running animated series many years ago. Still, the Simpsons

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Speaker 1: frequently paid tribute to their prehistoric forebears. During one early episode,

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Speaker 1: Homer Simpson is confronted by the convenience store clerk Apoo

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Speaker 1: with the question, excuse me, sir, you look familiar. Are

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Speaker 1: you on television or something, to which Homer replies, sorry, buddy,

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Speaker 1: you got me confused with Fred flint Stone, and also

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Speaker 1: one of the famous couch gags at the start of

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Speaker 1: every episode features the Simpsons running into the living room

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Speaker 1: only to find the flint Stones already sitting there. I

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Speaker 1: just think this is cute, a sweet nod to the

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Speaker 1: art that came before. Fine, you're a Simpsons guy. What

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Speaker 1: do you think. Maybe I'll go back and watch some

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Speaker 1: flint Stones. Maybe I'll shake myself out of my own

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Speaker 1: bedrock of complacency, of prescription pill induced complacency. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what I hope this show More than anything else, I

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Speaker 1: hope this show encourages people to go back and check

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Speaker 1: out these things that maybe they these pieces of art

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Speaker 1: that they may have forgotten about, and discover that it

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Speaker 1: will still bring you joy and it's better than you remember.

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Speaker 1: I think flint Stones, I kinda take it for granted.

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Speaker 1: It's been around for so long, pick it for granted. Ah,

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Speaker 1: this has been too much. I'm leaving it. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: has been too much. In for Rock Sean, I'm Alex

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Speaker 1: flint Hi flint Stone, goal Al Rock flint Quarry, and

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Speaker 1: I'm Jordan run Talk. We'll catch you next time. Too

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Speaker 1: Much Information was a production of I Heart Radio. The

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Speaker 1: show's executive producers are Noel Brown and Jordan run Talk.

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Speaker 1: The supervising producer is Mike Johns. The show was researched, written,

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Speaker 1: and hosted by Jordan run Talk and Alex Hegel, with

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Speaker 1: original music by Seth Applebaum on the Ghost Funk Orchestra.

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Speaker 1: If you like what you heard, please subscribe and leave

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Speaker 1: visit the I heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever

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