Season 19 Preview: Krofft Supershows, “Airplane,” Preppies and so much MORE
Michelle Newman 0:00
Welcome, everyone, to one of your favorite short episodes of this podcast, the one where you get to find out what's ahead in the new season. I'm not lying here, many of you tell us it's your favorite, and we really love it too. We really love these season preview episodes. So, grab your snack of choice. I'm, of course, grabbing a ding dong. Carolyn, what are you grabbing?
Carolyn Cochrane 0:21
You know, I'm gonna grab some Sara Lee pound cake, and I'm gonna eat it right out of the tin, and maybe even frozen still.
Michelle Newman 0:27
Yes, come from the fridge or the freezer.
Carolyn Cochrane 0:30
Yeah, probably the freezer, and it's just sewn right in.
Michelle Newman 0:33
Okay, Kristen,
Kristin Nilsen 0:34
I think my treat is going to be a little envelope of butted meats, and I'm just gonna eat it right out of the package.
Michelle Newman 0:40
Gross. I'm glad I'm so glad we're not in the same room, and we do this virtually, so I don't just smell it all right. Well, everyone, settle back into your scratchy plaid sofa, or maybe it's floral, pretty floral pattern, some avocado green, mustard yellow. It could be plaid with
Kristin Nilsen 0:57
some floral on it too. I bet you those existed. There might be a colonial scene on the pillows with like some horses with a stagecoach of some kind. There might be,
Michelle Newman 1:07
and the arms, the arms of the sofa could even be like a carved wood, like a shiny, like they're kind of waxy. Someone in my family had one of those, and I used to take my fingernail and scratch it along the wooden armrest, and all the wax would come off. That's so bad. All the
Kristin Nilsen 1:25
pledge. Yeah.
Michelle Newman 1:26
All right. Well, we are about to pull the curtain back on season 19. The sound effects, that's so crazy. All right, so let's just get right into it, shall we? All right, so you all know how much we love to take a particular year and dive deep into it, be it with music or our own memories. And next week we will be kicking things off with a tribute to the summer of 1980 We're talking all the things you loved and remembered, the movies, the music, what was on TV, the books you read, the toys you played with, and the pop culture events that were making the news.
Carolyn Cochrane 2:09
I am so excited about that. That is going to be so much fun. Yeah, I've been waiting for us to chat about that stuff, and that was an iconic summer for me after my freshman year of high school. So,
Michelle Newman 2:20
well, and I think that's what's cool. 1980 was a good year for us to pick, because one thing I love about when we pick these years, we're all different ages, right? We're all like different ages, stages in our lives, but also 1980 I mean, that's such a distinction, but I mean very literally it is a distinction between the two decades, Michelle, but I just mean I just really feel, and probably for all of us, for one reason or another, it really was a line, like a dividing line, and a lot of things going on in our lives. So it'll be really fun to not only talk about what was happening globally in the summer of 1980 pop culture wise, but what was happening, who we all were,
Carolyn Cochrane 3:01
yeah,
Michelle Newman 3:01
and what we were enjoying and loving and doing coming
Kristin Nilsen 3:05
of age in some way. In 1980 we were all transitioning in some way, and just like you said, that turning of the decade, it's the first one we remember, right? For sure, big deal. There were lots of specials on TV about the 1980s are here, and we just.. I remember not even like it felt surreal. Like, what do you mean the 1980s I've only known the 70s my whole life, which felt like a weird thing to even grapple with.
Carolyn Cochrane 3:36
Think about, like, how we have to write the date on all of our school papers, and so, for our entire school career, it's been 1970 something, and so now it's going to be a whole new number, yeah. Well, and
Michelle Newman 3:49
also go back and like whisper into all of our ears, like you don't, you can't even imagine the impact this decade is going to have, not just on your own life, but on pop culture history for the rest of your life, like that's crazy. So, anyway, that's coming at you next week, and we're super excited about that episode.
Carolyn Cochrane 4:10
Really fun. That's when I always learn different things about you guys that I didn't know before. Yeah, Michelle or Kristen will drop this little nugget. How did I not know that about you? So, yeah, stay tuned, that'll be really fun. And then after that, later in the season, we are going to be having an episode that I'm really excited about, where we sit down with Greg Evigin. You guys remember, we've chatted with Greg once, but do
Michelle Newman 4:33
I remember?
Carolyn Cochrane 4:34
That's right. If you don't, I have a big crush. I have a big crush on
Michelle Newman 4:38
current Greg Evigand, FYI.
Carolyn Cochrane 4:40
They probably remember your crush on Greg Evigin more than they remember us even chatting with Greg Evigin. Anyway, this episode is going to be so fun because he has a new album out, you guys, and it is not what you might think when you think Greg Evigin and BJ and the Bear, and when we chatted with. Greg, a few days ago, it was amazing to learn just about this whole other side of him, and he really reminded us that some of our favorite Gen X stars have creative lives that go far beyond what we grew up watching them doing or listening to them singing, and in this episode, we're not only going to talk for a while with Greg, we also are going to chat about the surprising second acts, the hidden talents, and the lifelong passions of some of our favorite celebrities that we grew up with, and it's not just music, they, it's art, it's just unexpected reinventions that we're going to explore, and
Kristin Nilsen 5:36
Reno's sport owners of sports teams are probably so confused right now, because they're like, wait a minute, what? Greg, yes, we're talking BJ and the Bear album, which might, yes, he made an album, the BJ and the Bear made an album, he was BJ Bear, the
Carolyn Cochrane 5:53
Bear didn't make the album, just
Kristin Nilsen 5:56
he's no longer with us, the chimp is not, yeah, listen to our listen to our listen to our first episode with Greg Avigin, where we had to broach the topic of what happened to the ship. We like to imagine
Michelle Newman 6:09
he's still happily running around ship
Kristin Nilsen 6:13
retirement home. Yeah, that's
Michelle Newman 6:15
right too. Like one thing I loved about our conversation, this most recent conversation with Greg Avigan. Besides that, we got to look at him on our computer screens, like it was so surprising, like it was. And this is what I think we're with the other former celebrities, or whatever, if they're still acting, but the other celebrities we're going to be talking about. It's really surprising, and it really makes you, you just kind of stop and go, oh, wow, there's so much more to them than what we might have thought. Besides, we said it last time we talked with Greg, we're saying it again this time, and we're gonna say it, you know, you're gonna hear it when you listen to this episode. Nicest guy ever, so
Kristin Nilsen 6:57
really genuine, oh, so
Michelle Newman 6:59
nice. Yeah, yeah, we love
Carolyn Cochrane 7:01
him. It's a great conversation, and we'll look forward to sharing that with you guys.
Kristin Nilsen 7:06
So, then the episode that comes after that is going to coincide with I just love this. This is, this is going to be around the Fourth of July, and somebody pointed out to me recently that it will be on a Saturday. Tell me if these lyrics mean anything to you. Saturday in the park, I think it was the fourth of July. So we will be having the Chicago song Saturday in the park, I think it was the fourth of July. It only happens like once every 922 years or something. I don't know what the actual number is, but it does like Haley's Comet. Yeah, it's like Haley's Comet, so because we will be this will be the episode that coincides with july 4, we decided that it would be a good time to address the fact that so many of our listeners were alive and have happy memories of that most important event, the bicentennial, July 4, 1717 July of 1976 was such a big deal for so many of the people who are listening to this podcast, they got us ready, the world got us ready for at least a year in advance, whether it was through school curriculum or on TV or with entertainment, I mean Schoolhouse Rock exists pretty much because of the Fourth of July, the bicentennial that we all remember. We know the preamble, we know about the shot heard round the world, that was all in anticipation of the bicentennial. We all had tricorne hats. I mean, come on.
Michelle Newman 8:34
And if some of you are listening right now, going, yeah, you guys already did that, you're not wrong, and that we did an episode about the year 1976 and the television shows that premiered, and the great toys that were popular, etc. etc. No, no, no, you guys, we're focusing on just July 4, and everything bicentennial related, and you're correct, we touch on it in that episode, absolutely. And so we might repeat ourselves, we don't know, but we're also excited to get your stories about what you remember about the bicentennial, bicentennial, and what you did to celebrate. It
Kristin Nilsen 9:15
turns out there was so much that you won't even remember once we start triggering your memory. Oh, yeah, that's right. You Campbell's soup cans, and they had the little Betsy Ross. Like, how do we even know about Betsy Ross? I don't think they teach kids about Betsy Ross anymore. That's just us, because it was the bicentennial who made the flag. You got to know, because it's the bicentennial. There were so many things to buy, so everything was red, white, and collect a pair of red, white, and blue plaid blue jeans, because of the bison. I want them
Michelle Newman 9:43
again.
Kristin Nilsen 9:44
I do too. We're all
Carolyn Cochrane 9:46
in. It was just like great, all in. So I am really excited about that episode, and to do some of my little rabbit hole digging, because I think, yeah,
Michelle Newman 9:55
okay. About every other season, or every few seasons, we like to add. Add another episode to a series that is always a listener favorite, and that is a series called On Your FM Dial, and then we put in a year from the 80s or AM Gold, and then that's a year from the 70s when AM Radio was king, and then each of us chooses three songs that were released in that chosen year that meant something to us in one way or another, a song I don't know, it could be a song that brings back a certain memory or that has a good story attached to it, or maybe it's just a song you loved during that year. There's really no rules, but what is so fun about these episodes, kind of like I just mentioned in the summer of 1980 about picking a year, so we, yeah, what's so fun, besides all the great music we unearth, is that all three of us were at were different ages and at different stages of our lives during whatever year we chose, so the stories behind our song choices are all so fun and so varied, and we're bringing it back, guys, in season 19, and we are going back to 1978 and oh my lord, that was a stellar year for music.
Kristin Nilsen 11:12
It's so, how will we choose? How well would we choose, because we only get three choices each. How will I choose three songs. I've
Michelle Newman 11:22
been listening to the Hot 100 You know, you can just go on Amazon Music, and you can type in, like, Top Songs, 1978 and you get, like, the top 100 songs. Just listen to it on Shuffle. You guys, almost every song, you're like, I love that song,
Kristin Nilsen 11:35
yeah?
Michelle Newman 11:36
Or not just, I love that song, but a memory comes back in your head of something. So I can't wait to hear yours. I have a list of about six that I'm trying to narrow down to three right now, but yeah, we love that one, and we love that you all listening love it, and that it prompts you to think about the way these songs from a certain year are attached to memories that you have,
Kristin Nilsen 12:01
these episodes always get really, really long. It doesn't seem like it's very complicated. It doesn't seem like that we would have much to talk about when you're only talking about nine songs. How long can it take? We just can't stop is the problem. We can't stop,
Michelle Newman 12:15
because you can't just choose three, because then we also all come with like a runners-up list of like 10, and even though we're just like saying it, one of us will say a song, and then the other two will be like, oh yes, guess what happened when that song, or whatever. So I think it's really fun, though, and I think it's really fun. We know it's really fun for our listeners too, you know. We imagine you all driving along in your cars, or on your walks, or doing your laundry, shouting out at us, too, right?
Carolyn Cochrane 12:41
Yeah,
Kristin Nilsen 12:42
same. I roller skated to that song too. Oh, this is prime roller skating time. That's where I'm going with my list,
Michelle Newman 12:50
because I can't - not,
Carolyn Cochrane 12:51
I'm a little bit - I'll be honest, trepidatious about this year, because this is the year that we moved from Texas to New Jersey, so I'm going to have a lot of pangs from a lot of the songs from like any song pretty much I heard after I knew we were moving I found out we were moving probably April of my seventh grade year and so for the rest of that school year and then that summer till we moved in August any song that was playing during that time it's going to be super bittersweet and interesting, so I haven't listened to any yet, and it will be really interesting to see what what feelings kind of come up organically when I hear some of that music.
Michelle Newman 13:35
Well, and we've done AM Gold 1977 and 1979 so we've bookmarked this year. Yeah, so some of those songs Carolyn probably were still playing in 78 I don't know. Do we set this will be cut? Do we set it has to be released during that year, or it has to be
Kristin Nilsen 13:53
seen, or just according to us when you know we heard it during that time, because at that time things could have been released in in 1977 but it didn't hit the charts until 1970 right? So you can interpret it however you choose, it doesn't,
Michelle Newman 14:07
yeah. Now, after after this season's installment of this, we'll, we will have done 7778 and 79
Kristin Nilsen 14:15
This will be the these episodes in general are the epitome of that reminiscence bump that we talk about all the time, we just talked about it in our light episode about the the reset, the red mine was retro reset, the playlist that we made that were our medicine, our medicinal playlist, and just like you said, Carolyn, all of those songs are going to be attached to feelings that you had in 1978 and you carry those with you into 2026 it's just so fascinating to me.
Carolyn Cochrane 14:45
Yeah, that's going to be a good one, but I will have my box Kleenex handy with everything. Just, yeah, you
Kristin Nilsen 14:49
know, okay. After AM Gold, 1978 we're.. this is a very interesting topic, and this one came up very organically. We get our ideas from a lot of places, sometimes. There are things that exist on a list and have been sitting there for a long time. Sometimes we get requests from listeners. This one came up organically in conversation when we were talking about a couple of TV shows. We are there was a very important thing that happened in TV history at a certain moment in time, right around the early 90s, and that was that Gen Xers started adulting on TV. There were TV shows that were aimed directly at one demographic, and it was us. Before that, TV shows tended to be directed at the whole family. The show would be about a family, the show would be about a soap opera, about an entire town, the entire town of Pine Valley, or whatever, this for the first time it was one tiny sliver of a demographic, and it was us, and it was as we were starting to become adults, and so we have some TV shows that were very important to us, because of, again, we're all different ages, because of what we were doing at the moment that that TV show was released, and it was speaking directly to us,
Michelle Newman 16:05
we'll be talking about shows from about what, 1994 to 1997 1992
Kristin Nilsen 16:09
to 1997 Okay, yeah, like early 90s, early to mid 90s is what we're talking when a lot of us were coming of age, either we're all transitioning into something big that is beyond adolescence.
Carolyn Cochrane 16:24
Oh, yeah, that's going to be a good
Michelle Newman 16:27
one. Okay, I have a question for you guys. In what 1985 movie did Chevy Chase play an investigative reporter who goes flat undercover to track the. let me finish the question. She's
Carolyn Cochrane 16:46
disqualified. Thank you. I already
Michelle Newman 16:49
see, I already see how this this episode. Another question, are you talking? You skipped me. I'm to.. I know I'm not. I'm just.. I was setting it up with this. Oh, got it. I was setting it up with us. Oh, sorry. Okay, keep going. Okay, I'm gonna start again. Okay, please. There are different questions.
Kristin Nilsen 17:06
What if I know I have to wait until you're done talking? It's not Jeopardy. So, Jeopardy rules. You have to ring in graduation rules. Wait till
Carolyn Cochrane 17:16
all the names have been said before. Graduation
Kristin Nilsen 17:19
rules, okay? Not Jeopardy rules. I'll raise my hand.
Michelle Newman 17:22
Okay. Okay. In the minute work song, Down Under, a man smiled and gave him what to eat. Kristen,
Kristin Nilsen 17:30
a Vegemite sandwich. A
Michelle Newman 17:31
Vegemite sandwich. Okay, I have one more question. Name the two main couples on the 60s cartoon The Flintstones. Craig, Carolyn.
Carolyn Cochrane 17:40
Oh, that would be the Rubbles. Yes, and that would be the Flintstones. Perfect, that's excellent. Like, I was thinking, and Melvyn listeners, if
Michelle Newman 17:50
you two knew the answers to the questions and were shouting them out before I finished reading them, like Christian did, you're gonna love this next episode that we have in season 19. We are playing a game, and it's an actual game. It's called Mind the Gap, and it's a great game to play. It's like trivia from all different generations, and it's a great game to play with several generations. Truly, pull it out during the holidays and play it with everyone in the room, from great grandma down to your, you know, Gen Z kid. But we love this game, and we haven't played a game in a hot second here, and so we're going to be playing this one. I have one more that I love this game, and I love the challenge cards. You guys ready for your challenge?
Kristin Nilsen 18:34
All right,
Michelle Newman 18:34
I have to hum something.
Carolyn Cochrane 18:36
Oh,
Michelle Newman 18:37
and it's going to be a song, or jingle, or theme song.
Kristin Nilsen 18:41
Okay,
Michelle Newman 18:42
now I think of it. Now I have to say, okay, Kristen
Kristin Nilsen 18:57
theme song to cheers. You want
Michelle Newman 18:59
to be way of people. correct. Okay, so that's going to be fun. We're going to do basically just kind of.. well, Kristen and I have the cards, Carolyn doesn't, so yeah.
Carolyn Cochrane 19:10
And we need to have the rules very much spelled out, maybe sent out ahead of time, so we can all study the rules, so we follow the rules. Well, speaking of quizzes, I'm excited for this upcoming episode, where I'm going to quiz Kristin and Michelle about TV weddings. Now, you might remember we have an episode about TV weddings, and we're going to encore that, but I want to see one, what they remember, if they remember about some of the things we talked about, and I'm also going to throw in some questions just about 80s weddings in general, and 90s weddings, like, you know, maybe. Well, how much the average wedding cost, and some fun little facts. Because that's when
Kristin Nilsen 19:49
we all got married, right?
Carolyn Cochrane 19:50
That's right, the 80s and the 90s. I was 99 and you guys were both.. I was
Michelle Newman 19:55
94 That sounds like that's how old you guys were when I. One, when I got married, we got married in 1993 So, yeah,
Carolyn Cochrane 20:03
okay, yeah. So I'm gonna give you a fun, some fun little facts, and ask you guys some fun questions before we encore that episode about our favorite TV weddings, and we're doing this, listeners, because I am the first of the three of us to be the mother of a bride or groom, my daughter is getting married, and I'm so excited for the wedding, but listeners, I gotta tell you, I think I'm more excited to be with Michelle and Kristen. There have been very few times where we've been together where we could sing at stuff of our lungs and dance, but nobody's watching, and so, yeah, and I'm still on the fence, I think. After we record this episode today, right now, I'm going to see, do we want to do any little choreographed something, something at the reception, so listeners, people listen out to see what if and what we do at the wedding, but
Michelle Newman 20:59
say less, say less. You know the answer. I mean, I will come with a costume if needed. I know you will, Maggie. Maggie, I hope you're not listening. Just said to me,
Kristin Nilsen 21:12
he said something about we were start over, Kristen. We were talking about Saturday night, Saturday Night Fever, and he said, well, of course, you know the choreography to that little dance floor piece when he does his solo. I was like, no, I don't. I actually don't know that. I don't know, that's not a thing people generally do. But then I was like, but why wouldn't we learn it?
Carolyn Cochrane 21:35
Wow,
Kristin Nilsen 21:36
can't we all be John Travolta? We should all be John Travolta at least once in our lives.
Carolyn Cochrane 21:41
Well, listeners, you might remember from way back in the beginning, I don't have any dance chops or skills or whatever, and you know, Krista and Michelle, just as I've said many times, will just drop these ball change step deshas French words, I don't even know what they mean. Yeah, those things I've always said I would be the lead singer, and they would be the backup ones, because they would do all the dances, and I would just have to band there with the microphone, so we'll figure something out, and just stay tuned. Who knows? Yeah,
Kristin Nilsen 22:17
we're gonna put mom out front, the mother of the bride goes out front, maybe the backup dancers. Okay, so the next one after that is something that we actually told you was coming last season. So bear with us, people. It could be that all of this is going to change too. This is not a contract or anything. Things come up and we change our schedule, or a new topic will drop in our laps and we shuttle something off to the next season, so we were going to talk about this last time, we've put it over into this time, which is great, because it gives you more, you more time to send us your stories about your parents and their Gen X style parenting. The next episode will be Gen X parenting style stories, you know, the kind, like, how did you break into your house? Because everybody was at work, and you left your key at home, and nobody was there, was nobody to call, there was nobody, like, you just sort of took care of things on your own, and when you broke a window to get in, and your mom came home, and nobody really cared, it's there, it was, it was distinctly different. You all remember the story. I've told this 10,000 times about how my parents left my brother and I in a diner at a casino in Reno, so they could go play blackjack. I was seven and he was four, and that was normal. There was nothing right with them. I
Michelle Newman 23:34
did it. I'm right with you. I'm surprised we didn't like, actually, we should go back and think. Did we make a little friend back then, like in your memory. Are you like there was this little brown-haired girl and her older sister who were also sitting on the step with the Smoky Casino? Yeah, by themselves while their parents gambled. That was you.
Kristin Nilsen 23:53
Let's just totally say that.
Carolyn Cochrane 23:55
That's the great. We have gotten so much mileage out of that story, though. I mean, the greatest story with our Tony to Neil look alike, and all that.
Kristin Nilsen 24:04
So we want to hear stories from you. We know that you have them too, because this is the way parents were doing things. Our stories are not special, everybody has the same thing. And just to be clear, like we're talking about the, the, let me, how do I put this, we're not talking about your sad stories of neglect. We're talking about the hilarious things that we look back in retrospect and go, Mom, what were you doing wrong? Like, what's going on? Just the things that all of our parents did that we thought was normal at the time, exactly. And the pendulum swung, and now we're horrified by it. Let's,
Michelle Newman 24:42
let's make sure to keep it light, people, with your stories. We don't need it. Your trauma, this isn't trauma dump. No, it's not true. This is going to be the stories that are light that you're not scarred by. We know we all have those too, but yes, different, different podcast. Our Gen
Kristin Nilsen 25:00
X traumas. Yes,
Carolyn Cochrane 25:02
I'm excited. I already reached out to my mom, and I said, maybe you can be a little guest on with me, Mom, and we can chat about some of my memories of some of your questionable Gen X parenting skits. It's funny, we
Kristin Nilsen 25:15
talked about that a couple of days ago. Should we ask our parents about it? And so Carolyn's going to talk to Lillian, see what Lillian has to say. I'm not talking to Linda, because Linda has also swung her pendulum, has also swung, and every time I come to her with a story like this, she'll be like, I did not, I would never, I would never have done that. I kept an eagle eye on you kids, I'm like, oh, it would have
Michelle Newman 25:40
depended for me, my mom. It would have depended what I brought up with her. Some she would get very sensitive and touchy about, but some things she would laugh and go, "Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely. You know, I do think she would deny that I held her mixed drinks driving around in the car, that she handed me the vodka tonic to hold to it in slosh, and that is 100% accurate, though, because I, my sister, also can corroborate that.
Kristin Nilsen 26:05
I was there's one line we have to make sure that you tell this story again in the episode, Michelle, because I just repeated this to Mike, and he just about lost his teeth when we were talking about the dinners that we would make for each other when we were at home alone, because our parents were yucking, or maybe they were out. Who knows? And you know, we were, we were seven, so we were too old for a babysitter. And you talked about making your mom dinner when she came home, and it would be an avocado filled with salsa, and then what, a gin and tonic? Yeah, yeah, you would have, you would mix your mom's drink for when she came. Oh, absolutely, we got
Michelle Newman 26:40
to, she expected it, and free toes, for some reason it was free toes,
Kristin Nilsen 26:46
avocado salsa, take the
Michelle Newman 26:49
pit out, and it makes it perfect, salsa bowl, but it's actually a pretty pro tip, right? Like that is a pretty, if you just want some, like little, like do-it-yourself guac, but for one,
Kristin Nilsen 26:59
ka tonic, don't forget the vodka tonic, don't forget the vodka tonic, children's your stories.
Carolyn Cochrane 27:09
Yes, we look forward to hearing those and knowing that we weren't alone. That's the best part of all this, dude. Like, you too, that's so great. Well, listeners, you better get ready to break out those boat shoes and your Lacoste polos, because we are doing an episode that I have been probably waiting for since day one to do. We're going to take a deep dive into the official preppy handbook and that unmistakably preppy esthetic that kind of ruled part of the 80s. It was a lifestyle that was both tongue in cheek, and for some I'm not mentioning any names, but for some aspirational, because full disclosure, you guys, this was my bible, not just for the 80s, I think it was on my shelf, quick to refer to pretty much through the 90s, maybe like through Mary's life, like, oh, what should I name my dog? Like, I know it's gonna be bad. Kristen's gonna make fun of me. It's just gonna be a hoot and a half, but I am so excited, and I know there are listeners out there. Claire, I'm looking at you. I feel like that can totally relate to some of my feelings about that book, and that whole time in our
Kristin Nilsen 28:21
well, and this will be so interesting, because all three of us at this time were in different regions of the country. Well, this is true. Now, on the East Coast, I was in the Midwest, Michelle, you were somewhere on the West Coast, on the left side, where it
Carolyn Cochrane 28:38
would be really uncomfortable to wear a fair isle sweater with a turtleneck underneath, and will you know, kilt or something.
Kristin Nilsen 28:44
And I'm fascinated to know how that will differ, how our opinions, or how we utilize the book, how we view the book. How does it change based on where you grew up? Yeah, that was, you were kind of in the thick of it, Carolyn,
Carolyn Cochrane 28:56
right? I mean, or at least
Kristin Nilsen 28:57
adjacent, you were adjacent, yeah. I mean, it wasn't, it
Carolyn Cochrane 29:00
was from, yeah, again, aspirational is probably the best way to describe how that whole era and that book affect me. So, well, we'll hear about it, and just let's not make fun of people, okay? Everybody, let's just say now, because it's real.
Michelle Newman 29:16
We don't do that anyway. Yeah. No. All right. Well, we've been saying we'd have a conversation about this movie for years, and surely we're gonna finally have it in season 19. Yes, we are. And don't call me Shirley. That's right, everyone. We're talking about one of the hits of the summer of 1980 Spoiler alert for that upcoming episode, Airplane. You know, we've mentioned scenes from Airplane many times over the past 200 I don't know, 60 plus episodes, but we're finally going to hop aboard that plane. Don't worry, we're not going to eat the fish, and I cannot wait. I expect lots of hilarity. And actually I kind of expect this episode to go off the rails, and that's okay, because of what we're going to be talking about, like it is so ridiculous. I'm really excited to rewatch it before we record this episode, because I bet it's
Kristin Nilsen 30:13
been
Michelle Newman 30:14
10 plus 15 plus years since I've seen it, except for, you know, you always see clips, like you always see the landing, you know, like with the blow up pilot and all that kind of stuff on different things, I'm excited to watch it. I'm excited to talk about it with you guys, to talk about just all the goofiness and the one liners, and just really celebrate it.
Kristin Nilsen 30:33
I learned so much. A lot of you don't play a guitar while you have an
Michelle Newman 30:39
IV in someone was someone sitting next to you with an IV,
Kristin Nilsen 30:42
I learned that blow job was,
Carolyn Cochrane 30:44
and every time you like looked up it was somebody else you knew from a show, like yeah, talk about it was like Love Boat on Speed or something, yeah, it's gonna be
Michelle Newman 30:53
a fun and funny silly conversation, so if you're a fan of Airplane, don't miss that
Kristin Nilsen 30:59
one, okay, and last but not least, here's another episode that we talked about before we even started this podcast, almost six years ago. And finally, now the time has come, and this is going to be a big one. It's so big it's going to take up two episodes, and that is that we are going to finally be celebrating the Croft Super Show. We've talked about Saturday morning cartoons before, but this deserves its own episode. It deserves two episodes all by itself. And for some people, it wasn't on Saturday morning; it would have come more in the afternoon. For a lot of us, the Croft Super Show was something that felt a little bit more grown up than Saturday morning cartoons. It felt like we were watching something for not quite grown-ups. It was a little irreverent, it was funny, and it was not baby-ish, and we felt like we were, and it was a little psychedelic, so we felt like we were just a tad, just a tad psychedelic. And so, in our first, in our first episode, we're going to do a deep dive on who the Croft brothers were, and what they created, and what the origin of this wackadoodle show was. Where did this come from? It was unlike anything we had ever seen before. How did they do it, and how did they get the go-ahead to do it there? And nobody copied them either. Nobody, I don't think. Anyway, there's nothing, because it was too crafty, it was so crafty that no one could even imagine making something to compete with it, and then the second part of the episode will be a top 10 list of your favorite shows on the Croft Super Show, so we need to hear from you again, so be watching that on our social media channels, we're going to be asking you, what was the Croft Super Show, the show within a show that you would not miss,
Michelle Newman 32:47
and it's really timely. This episode, sadly, is right, because Sid, Sid just recently passed away, and I feel so sad about that, because he was a fan of our social media page. He, he many times liked posts, especially I usually around Halloween, or maybe not even around Halloween, I'll always do a Witchy Poo post. He always loved that one. He liked many of our posts that didn't have anything to do with a craft show. He commented on posts before, and we always meant to have him on, and we actually reached out at one point, and he said yes, but then we just, we couldn't, we couldn't make it happen, we couldn't get it together. So it was really sad to just see, just a few weeks ago, when we're recording this episode, it was just a few weeks ago that Sid passed away happily. He passed away from what we understand peacefully, right? Like in a sleep, so just what a tremendous man, and we do actually know a few people personally who knew him and just couldn't speak more highly of him as a human, just the nicest, nicest guy. So we'll pay a little bit of a tribute to him for sure.
Kristin Nilsen 33:56
Well, and that's that's how this really came to be. We've been, it had been on the list for six years, but because of his death, it needed a tribute. We always intended to have this show be a tribute, but now it was time was of the essence. We needed to make sure that we heralded these people and what they created and what that meant to us as a generation, because again, there's.. it didn't even.. that style of show never popped up again. It never really popped up again, unless you're talking something like Mystery Science, wait, Mystery Science Theater 3000 Mystery People, help me, what is it called with the little puppets? Okay, never mind, it doesn't matter, but for children, nothing like that popped up ever again. So we're super excited to do this, this one, I cannot wait, and I can't hear, I can't wait to hear what your, what your favorite shows were, too. So that's it. Maybe we'll find out.
Michelle Newman 34:45
We reserve the right to remove one of these episodes at any time
Speaker 1 34:51
calls, just because we're
Michelle Newman 34:53
tired.
Kristin Nilsen 34:54
We don't have a boded. We don't. We can change one out. We can change one. Out, yeah. Season 19 is going to be a banger. It's going to be a great summer. 20, this will be all coming out in the summer of 2026 and our dates are lining up just perfectly to cover your entire summer. And that last preppy handbook episode should be your back to school episode, which, for some reason, pleases me a lot. Oh my
Michelle Newman 35:17
god, get out your Eastland, you know, yeah, all your top siders, and tie those little, those little knots just the right way.
Kristin Nilsen 35:26
So, thank you so much for listening today. Thank you for anticipating these episodes with us. Thank you for being excited about what we have to say. We really appreciate you, and we look forward to sharing it all with you in season 19.
Michelle Newman 35:37
And to everyone supporting us on Patreon, thank you. Your generosity keeps the lights on and the memories rolling. Because of you, we get to keep revisiting the songs, movies, and cultural touchstones that helped raise us. It means more than we can say that you choose to spend your time and just a little bit of your money keeping this Gen X conversation alive. We're so grateful, and today we are giving a shout out to these patrons. Our newest patron, Ron. Welcome. Hi,
Carolyn Cochrane 36:07
Ron. Hi, Ron.
Michelle Newman 36:08
How you doing? Thanks for supporting us on Patreon. We have Nancy, Clint, Carol with me, Carrie, Sherry, or Sherry, C H E R I. My neighbors spelled that way, but she's Sheree, so you could be Cherie or Sherry. Maybe you're my neighbor, Christina, Carolyn, Diane, Sherry, Mike, Tracy, Stella, Jennifer, Erica, Lisa, Natalie, Nina, Gail, Melissa, and Elizabeth. That's just a very small part of our Patreon supporters, so thank you so, so much. If you also want to keep these conversations going, consider supporting us on Patreon. You get some extra content, bonus stuff, sneak peeks - it's really fun. Go to patreon.com and just search for Pop Culture Preservation Society.
Carolyn Cochrane 36:54
We like to think that we are kind of your trapper keeper for pop culture, right? We are a little bit overstuffed, just kind of slightly, but at the same time organized. Thank you, Michelle. And so, if you love us like we think you do, we would like for you to let other people know about us. You can review us on whatever podcast platform you listen, you can give us stars, you can just spread the word and just tell everybody what fun you have when you listen, and it just, it's kind of like you're slipping a little note in our locker that just says I like you a lot, keep going, and we will. Yeah, so thank you, guys. Love to get notes,
Michelle Newman 37:33
I loved to get notes. So thank you. So send us a note, you guys.
Kristin Nilsen 37:37
It really is, I mean, this is no joke. The number one way that our listenership grows is when you tell people about it. We, when we meet listeners in the wild, nine times out of 10, they are with another person, and they will say about that this person, "Oh, this is my friend Jane. I just told her about your podcast, now she's been listening. And that person's a super fan. It's this is how we grow. It's super, super important, and we thank you.
Michelle Newman 38:02
And if you've already told all your friends in real life, and you're like, "Well, now who do I tell? I know, go on wherever you listen, like Carolyn said, and type out a review as if you're telling a friend why they should listen to the Pop Culture Protection Society, because those help a ton. Yeah,
Kristin Nilsen 38:18
in the meantime, everybody, please raise your glasses for a toast, courtesy of the Cast of Three's Company. Two good times,
Michelle Newman 38:25
two Happy Days,
Carolyn Cochrane 38:26
Two Little House on the Prairie.
Unknown Speaker 38:29
Cheers.