Best of the Program | Guest: Bill O'Reilly | 10/25/19

Welcome to the podcast.

Oh, huge show today.

We have Bill O'Reilly on, and he has a really good insight into what's going on with Donald Trump and the impeachment and how to understand how Trump is dealing with all of this pressure that's being put on him by the media and the left.

And we'll get into that.

We also have a crazy clip from Saturday Night Live.

You've seen the stories of kids transitioning.

Wait till you see the way Saturday Night Live was talking about this in the not-so-distant history, uh, because it is uh, it is, it's an incredible clip to hear in today's world.

Uh, and we will talk about Glenn's uh solution

to sleep problems.

He has cracked the code on sleep and he explains each step of it in uh in a detail that you're not gonna want to miss.

That's all today on the podcast.

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All right, I want to take you back into the 1980s.

This is when Phil Hartman was still alive.

This is when Saturday Night Live was still funny and good and reflected

real comedy.

They weren't trying to make any points.

They were just taking crazy stuff and showing you, meh,

this is crazy.

And we're all laughing at this because it's crazy, right?

Here it is with Phil Hartman playing a doctor who is delivering children, and

he continues to deliver only girls.

And the press is there in the hospital as Bill Murray and his wife.

What's her name in this sketch?

Victoria Jackson.

Jackson.

Yeah, shit.

That's the mom.

Bill Murray is the father.

And they have yet another girl.

And this doctor only delivers girls.

And so the other voice that you will hear is the voice of the press.

Yeah, it's a Time magazine reporter, magazine.

Just again, show you how much that's exchanged.

So here it is.

Listen to this.

I love girls.

See, Ted really wants a boy.

This is our eighth try.

We'll try again.

No, no more.

Doctor, will this one need that operation?

Yes, I'm afraid so.

What operation is that, Doctor?

Well,

every now and then,

a little girl is born with a penis intesticles.

And, of course, they have to be removed and reshaped.

It's quite routine.

Five of our seven daughters have had this operation.

Doctor, what percentage of the babies that you deliver need this operation?

Oh, I'd say

48, 49, 50, 51% in that area.

Doctor, here are the reports you want us to.

Oh, thank you, Louise.

Just find out.

Now, this is the nurse and dress.

Clearly a guy with a beard.

Louise had a big date last night.

How'd it go?

Same old problem.

Well, don't worry, Louise.

Mr.

Wright's out there somewhere.

Well, Janet, Ted, I'll be seeing you next week.

Thanks, Doctor.

Goodbye.

Nice to meet you, man.

Bye, Doctor.

Okay, bye-bye.

Hey, Ted, buck up.

A son is a son until he takes a wife.

But a daughter's a daughter all of her life.

God bless you and your work, Dr.

Huffers.

Come on.

Oh, Doctor, I gotta leave early today.

My electrolysis appointment.

Well, of course.

Louise, anything you want.

Thank you, Doctor.

Well,

another little girl.

Can you believe it?

Dr.

Huffertz, can't you see what you're doing here?

I mean, the 48 to 51%,

they're not girls.

They're little boys.

You have mutilated over 2,000 little boys.

Mutilated?

Listen to the music here.

No, they weren't boys.

They were little girls.

Trapped in little boys' bodies.

Holy...

Cow have we changed

listen to the Twilight Zone kind of spooky, pull the face off kind of music in the background.

And the laugh line, the punchline of the joke is their little boys.

Little boys trapped in little girls' bodies.

Or little girls trapped in little boys' bodies.

Sorry, yes.

And then you pointed it out, mutilated.

That's how they referred to it.

And the press had their mouth open.

This woman, if you were watching on the Blaze, you saw that clip and she had her mouth open the whole time.

This is today.

Except nobody is standing there going,

don't you know you're mutilating kids?

It is legitimately, you know, our society has turned into a Saturday Night Live sketch.

That's where we are.

And now Saturday Night Live would never write.

Oh my gosh, no.

Of course not.

No, they would apologize for that sketch.

I would not be surprised.

They wouldn't put it out and force them to apologize for that.

You're right.

They will apologize.

They will apologize.

They'll pull it off all the DVDs.

They'll make sure it's not on the internet.

As soon as this thing gets worded, that this is out there, you know, they're going to do everything they can to come up with.

We're going to post this today.

We want you to post it and demand an apology

from NBC.

Because they will.

They will.

They'll apologize.

Well, they won't apologize to us because they'll know.

But if there was, somebody's got to come up with Mitt Romney, come up with some Twitter handle where you're delecto.

where you are you're a you're a gay Frenchman and you are a transgendered Frenchman, woman,

them, and you demand an apology.

And you demand an apology.

Look, I mean, things do change over 30 years, but I mean, it is it because of the pace that we go at with these news cycles, you lose track of how fast these things do change.

I mean, now that's 30 years ago.

I mean, you know, that's a decent amount of distance, but these things, these were jokes jokes that were made much more recently than that.

And that's just a big example because that is the

Billboard show for the left to mock culture, right?

This is the thing.

The left, not us, not the right.

The left thought was funny back then.

And now we're at the point where if you were to say those things, you'd lose your show.

You're canceled.

That's a cancel culture moment right there.

You're done if you run that sketch today.

No, if Phil Hartman weren't dead, he could lose his job today for doing that 30 years ago.

That's a good point.

You're right.

You're right.

Oh, my gosh.

That is, that's absolutely incredible.

Now, I will say, it wasn't great supporting evidence that the show was funny at the time because it's not exactly a hilarious sketch, but the point is there.

You can see.

I mean, no, it's not funny.

It wasn't as funny then.

It's hysterical today

because that's really what's going on.

That wasn't popular.

It was funny, but it didn't connect to the culture because only a few people were saying something that crazy.

Yeah,

it was too outlandish.

It was too outlandish.

So now you have it, and now it's both tragically sad and hysterical.

It would be hysterical if

people felt comfortable to laugh.

But they don't.

You run that same script

right now, that same thing, and you put that on Saturday Night Live.

I don't think you would have the crowd laugh.

I think you'd have very uncomfortable laughter and you would have

and groaning, and people like looking around, like, is this what is happening?

Oh, if, I mean,

particularly the mutilated line, if you were to say you're mutilating kids by cutting off their genitals and what did I say yesterday, right?

Yesterday on this program, I was talking about genital mutilation.

We have such a problem with genital mutilation that happens in the Middle East, yet this is fine.

Yeah.

This is genital mutilation.

If you called that genital mutilation today,

not only would they,

the whole audience would groan in New York City, but they would also, I bet you'd have three or four people stand up and start screaming and protesting and walking out and rushing the stage.

You know what I mean?

You'd have the moment where they, you know, they only always do this to Democratic presidential candidates when they're not quite liberal enough and they go up and they take their microphones and start speeches.

And then Bernie Sanders just kind of slumps into the background.

That whole thing.

That would happen on Saturday Night Live.

It's crazy.

Okay.

All right.

So

I want to take a break because now we have to take you to Dallas.

Because if you thought that story of the father defending the son was crazy,

it's about to get more crazy.

All right.

So I have some questionable news for you.

I don't want to make a judgment on this, but I would suggest that we all slow down.

Now, there is a gag order.

The guy was supposed to be on with us yesterday.

And it was curious to me that this was happening in Dallas, and he was not on Dallas

radio or Dallas,

you know, a show like ours based in Dallas.

And the first thing that I asked Stu, and he didn't, I didn't even have to finish the sentence.

We both said, Why is this on RT?

If you know anything about RT, that is a Russian news agency.

And that was the one that first brought it out.

And I thought, why is this not on Dallas?

Or Fox News.

Or Fox News first, and then RT picks it up.

How did RT get this story?

It's Russian.

Okay.

So we've been looking into it.

We've been trying to get him on the phone.

We've been trying to get her on the phone.

The attorneys won't come on either.

Now, things changed.

He was supposed to be on with us today, but apparently things changed because there was a gag order put on yesterday in court.

But I want to show you a document that one of our producers, actually one of our producers' wife,

Mike,

his wife has been fascinated by this.

So, Mike's the wife?

No,

modern society is surprising.

There's no question.

So,

and so they've been kind of digging into it and digging into it and went in and got the court documents that are available.

And

this document

is the findings of facts by the court.

Okay, this is not the charges.

These are the things the courts found as findings of facts.

So it goes into they were married on this date, blah, blah, blah.

Respondent induced petitioner into marriage by fraud.

That was her case.

This was a fraudulent marriage from the beginning.

And these are the findings of fact that led the court to go, yep.

Before the marriage, lied to

petitioner about former marriages, lied about former relationships, lied about his education.

Respondent misled petitioner about being a professor by having sent mail sent to him as Professor Younger.

Before the marriage, lied to the petitioner about being a teacher at the University of North Texas.

Before the marriage, respondent lied to petitioner about his service in the Marines.

Lied about his military experience in the Army.

Lied about his prior income and earnings.

Lied about his sources of income, about his debt,

failed to disclose extensive student loans.

He lied about working for a Fortune 500 company, lied about his employment, lied about his unemployment,

lied about not taking unemployment compensation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Then it just keeps going on and on and on.

Then it talks about the petitioner and respondent had two children, James Damon Younger and Jude Daniel Younger, boys born May 7th, 2012.

They're collectively in this document now known as the boys.

Okay, so this couple had two boys.

However,

the wife had two prior children, Zoe and Sidney.

They're called girls in this matter for the court.

Okay, so then it goes into child support that he was in arrears and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Children.

Respondent engaged in inappropriate and hurtful treatment of the girls.

Now, again, these are the

facts and conclusions of the law.

Respondent engaged in inappropriate and hurtful treatment of the girls.

The girls were good, sweet, hard-working, well-mannered children.

Respondent forced the girls to do plank push-ups for extended periods of time while reading the house rules until the girls cried.

Respondent would lock the girls down in their room and remove all their possessions from their rooms and would not let them participate in family activities.

Respondents would put the girls in silent treatment and they could not talk until spoken to for many, many days.

Respondents' actions caused harm to the girls.

One of the girls developed a suicide plan.

The other girl was cutting herself.

Based in large

treatment of the girls, petitioners asked Respondent to move out of the residence.

Both girls improved after he moved out.

Respondent lied to the petitioner about the girls.

The girls had a very good, safe, healthy relationship with the boys.

Respondent failed to co-parent.

Petitioner made attempts, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So we now know, and this is

I hate, I hate this, but every Disney movie is accurate when it comes to the evil stepmother, or you know, they don't ever use the evil stepfather.

But when you bring someone in to your family, it is more likely than not that those kids will be abused in some way or another,

neglected or abused.

The numbers go through the roof on abuse a lot of times.

And it's not always, but a lot of times.

Successing higher than the normal levels.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

If you have a step parent in, especially a guy with girls, the odds of abuse goes through the roof.

Hmm.

That's interesting.

I've never heard that.

But, you know, obviously, it does create a dynamic of family that, you know, it's a massive change.

I mean, I, you know, I had divorce when I was young.

My parents divorced, and it does change a lot of things in your life, right?

I mean, certainly nothing like we're talking about here, but it does get to a point where, you know, you're shaken as a kid and you're trying to figure out, you know, what's going on in the world, right?

So, you know, he said, she said,

but it is not a clear-cut case.

And again,

we should have said this from the day one because we said it to each other.

Why is RT the lead on this story?

We don't know what's going on, but I urge you to

slow down and wait for some more facts on this story.

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We go to Bill O'Reilly, who's got a new book out, The United States of Trump.

If you really want to understand how Trump arrives at the decisions that he does, you want to know why he's calling people human scum, you can read the book and you really will have a different insight into the President of the United States and how he thinks.

Welcome to the program, Mr.

Bill O'Reilly.

I'm going shooting.

I'm going to go shooting, but I've never gone before.

Maybe you can give me some tips, Beck.

Are you serious?

You're going shooting?

No.

Okay.

Not serious.

Thank you for that.

Because here, you live in Texas.

If I went shooting in New York, I would be in the penitentiary.

Would put cuffs on me.

Right.

And I couldn't go.

I have a water gun.

I do.

Cool.

So if anybody tries to attack you in the pool, you can squirt them in the eye.

That's good.

That's right.

Actually, I call them human scum and they flee.

Right.

Okay, so

let me take you first, before I get to the new poll and human scum, let me take you first to

the

skiff and all the things that are happening behind closed doors.

Bill, I don't mean this as a pejorative, but you are old enough to remember the impeachment of Clinton and the impeachment of

Andrew Johnson.

I was there.

No, I wasn't going to say that.

I was going to be nice, but you were there

of Nixon.

And

they had meetings that were not on and hearings that were not on camera at the time.

But I don't remember it feeling like this.

Well, you remember Sam Irvin for the Nixon situation.

He was the folksy North Carolinian who was a senator that brought sanity to the whole So we live obviously a different country now.

And I say that literally.

This United States today, 2019, is not the way it was in the late 60s, early 70s.

There is no civility anymore.

There's no Sam Irvin.

Sam Irvin would be called a bad name now if he were walking around.

So Schiff is a guy.

He is what I call a political assassin.

He's not a congressman.

He gets elected, but his job is to assassinate people, verbally or legally, whatever it is.

It's not to be reasonable.

It's not to search for the truth.

It's not to improve the country.

Everyone should know that.

So Schiff basically says, look, this is a charade.

We, Naski Pelosi, myself, Nadler, everybody, we know there's not going to be any conviction in the Senate, or we know that.

But in conjunction with the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, and CNN, we're going to hoist a scenario on the American people, and that scenario is that this man, President Trump, is quote unquote not fit to serve.

So we're going to get the Russian collusion thing up and running.

Oh, well, it didn't work, but two years, two years of smearing Trump every day.

Now, we got to get something new.

So now we got impeachment, Abuse of power.

I wrote a little mini column in billoreilly.com and said if abuse of power is the standard of impeachment then every single president since Washington could be impeached.

And I gave examples.

Even Abraham Lincoln could have been impeached for suspending habeas corpus.

So anyway, you get a situation where it's all about messaging.

So Chip says, we don't really want everybody to hear and see what the impeachment situation is.

We don't want that because there really isn't anything.

We don't really have a crime here.

So what we're going to do is have secret, secret conversations

in our committee, and then we'll leak them to the New York Times and Washington Post.

And I'll put them on page one.

And there'll be so much damage done that people will either walk away from Trump or he'll implode.

That's another thing that people don't talk about.

They're trying to put so much pressure on Trump that he's going to implode emotionally because we know that we can't beat Trump in the next election as it stands now.

There's not one Democrat in the field that can beat him.

So we got to destroy him before we get to Election Day 2020.

And therein lies the answer to your question.

So

what is the actual motivation?

And I know you just talked about it, but I don't buy that.

If you are on the left, you know that America, 70% of Americans think we're on the verge of civil war.

You know, as

you know, as an American that we are in trouble.

You know, as an American that half of the country wants him impeached, but the other half will say, if you, if you impeach this guy, especially with secret testimony and everything else, it's a banana republic.

And the other half of the country won't stand.

Everything they seem to be doing just seems to be poking people in the eye.

The top two reasons that Americans give for civil war,

violation of the Second Amendment.

They're all over that.

They're actually saying we'll come with cops to your house to take your guns.

The second one is impeachment.

for a president that doesn't look like he should be impeached or if there's secret secret meetings, et cetera, et cetera.

They're riding on both of those.

So they know that.

Is it really just about getting rid of Donald Trump or is this a way to destroy us and head us into civil war?

You know, I'm actually impressed with that analysis, Beck.

Well, usually you would say, I don't know.

I don't deal with theories.

I only do first.

I was going to mock you for saying that I don't agree with you,

but then, as you explained, it's not really a disagreement.

You just want more clarity, and I'm going to give it to you in a moment.

But I am very impressed with that.

Well, thank you.

Because there is another aspect to this, and that aspect is we want to blow this blanken system up in America.

Because we believe it's run by white supremacists, and we want to blow the whole thing sky high.

Nancy Pelosi, does she actually do that?

No, no, no.

Not her.

It's not her.

She's way behind.

This is the New York Times, the pinheads at the academics, in the universities.

They said, here's what they're saying, Beck, just so you and Stu know.

This is behind closed doors.

Not going to ever say in public.

Any country that could elect Donald Trump has to be changed radically and dramatically.

So we're going to blow this system up.

That's why you've seen the rise of the socialists and the rise of people who are saying things that could never have been said four years ago.

Barack Obama would never have have said nearly any of this stuff the Democrats are saying.

Imagine Barack Obama standing on the stage debating John McCain, looking at the camera, going, You know what, John?

I want to give free health care to every illegal alien in the country.

Can you imagine him saying that?

No, they are introducing a bill in the House today on free housing.

Free housing for all Americans.

You're making my point.

Yeah, I know.

They want to blow up the system.

They want to blow it up.

Because, and it happened when Trump got elected.

They were so appalled.

And this is the New York Times even said it.

They even said it.

A columnist of theirs said, We're not going to cover this fairly.

We're not going to try to find that truth out of anything.

We're going to use our power to destroy the man because he's not fit to be president.

And that's the greater good.

And that has been embraced by 90% of the national media.

It's way beyond the daily ridiculous blather on cable news.

It's way beyond that.

It's into sedition.

It's into undermining the Constitution.

That's where it's all going.

And now, I mean, I'm not a paranoid guy.

You know me.

I don't do with conspiracy theories.

I'm basing my stuff on facts.

And

the way I framed the United States of Trump, the book, book was, listen, they hate him.

Here's what they hate, him.

It's not the Republican Party.

It's him that he could do this, that he could get elected without them.

He didn't need the press.

He didn't need the Republican Party.

He didn't need any of it.

He went right to the folks.

That's the theme of the book.

And that's the danger that they see.

And then he justify it by saying the greater good for America is destroying him and the system that allowed him to get power.

All right.

So,

thank you very much.

That's excellent.

Do we need to clap?

I'm not sure how this works.

Okay.

So, so, so, let me, let me go here.

Yes.

What the hell is wrong with the president when he's going on saying never Trumpers are human scum, all this stuff?

What is he doing?

It's emotion.

It's emotion.

Because he has no control of his emotion.

Very little.

You read the book?

Is there a chapter where there is obvious control of his emotions?

No, but that's a reason not to have the football around.

No, but you've got to understand, the guy feels persecuted.

I know, I know, I know.

Okay?

And legitimately so.

He's saying that Mitt Romney to himself, well, probably to his advisor, he's going, Mitt Romney knows this is a charade.

He knows this is all bull.

And he's attacking me anyway.

And he's so angry about that kind of a betrayal.

He sees it as a betrayal.

All right.

That he just blurts.

He blurts like Stu.

He blurts.

All right.

And

does he care?

About unintended consequences?

No.

No, he doesn't.

He's never cared about that.

Bill, can we bring it back to a point you made earlier?

And, you know, look, you wrote the United States of Trump.

You know Trump better than probably anybody in the media, especially from someone who actually will say things that are critical of him.

And you brought up the idea that the Democrats were essentially trying to bait him into destroying his own presidency with outbursts of emotion.

Do you think that's that really possible?

What are the chances of them succeeding?

I'm worried about Donald Trump.

I said that last week with you guys.

I'm worried about the man.

I mean, he has undergone, I've never seen a human being in the public arena undergo what he has of you.

No.

The only one close is Abraham Lincoln.

And all you need to do is look at a picture of Abraham Lincoln when he, in his first inaugural address and a picture two days or three days before he was assassinated.

I mean a period of four years, this man aged

25 years.

Okay?

So that's the kind of pressure that Donald Trump, there has not been one day that Donald Trump has not been accused of something.

And then not only accused, but joyously accused.

All right.

There's no respect for the office of the president now.

There's no respect for the process of the executive branch.

Everything he does is evil and bad.

And I don't think he's got a support system in there, because he never has had, that can put all this in perspective for him.

Well, he also doesn't have a support system around him.

Some of the people that he surrounded himself with are leakers.

So, I mean,

he's got nothing.

He's got nothing.

He's a lot of support.

Look,

everybody listening to us right now, all the tens of millions of people listening to us right now, have had trials in their life, all right, where they have felt abandoned and almost despaired.

If just

step back, think about what you went through, and then magnify it a thousand times.

And that's what Donald Trump is experiencing.

The only therapy and relief he has are these rallies

where he goes and there's adulation directed to him.

All right.

Bill, I'm going to take a quick break, but I just want to leave this section on this.

This is the kind of stuff that usually humbles people and pulls them down to their knees

because that's your only solace.

And I wonder if that is happening at all with this president

because

that's what happened to Abraham Lincoln.

That is exactly what happened to Abraham Lincoln.

Well, Bill, there's a couple of things that

I have found that I find disturbing, and I'm going to talk more about them on Monday.

But we've got

69% of U.S.

households are preparing now for a possible recession.

The numbers in California are crazy.

Nobody's shopping.

Nobody's going out to eat.

I mean, the five worst cities in America are all in California on their spending.

And I love this.

The press are saying, it's because people are worried about the impeachment.

Oh, my gosh, shut up.

That is not what's happening.

But then you also have

a poll that has been released.

It shows about 70%, 67% of Americans believe we are on the edge of civil war.

Well, I've been saying, you know, for years that we're in a domestic civil war, a social civil war.

I wrote a book way back on it called Culture Warrior and predicted it.

I don't believe we're ever going to get in a violent civil war in this country.

I don't think it's going to come to that.

We will have,

I predict, in the next election cycle, individual acts of violence.

You will see fights and things like that outside different rallies, and

that will happen.

So, emotion has overtaken us as a people.

Rational thought not really at the forefront.

President Trump partially responsible for that?

You have to be honest, all right?

Because his reaction to the unfair attacks against him is very emotional.

And so his followers see that, and they justify it the same way that I describe the attacks on the press.

They justify not reporting the truth or seeking the truth by the fact that we have to get that guy out of there.

That's the greater good.

Well, Trump's supporters say the greater good is I'm going to act in a way that is emotional to defend my guy.

So you basically have trouble ahead.

Americans really don't understand, and I'm not being supercilious, word of the day, supercilious, all right?

But they don't really understand the big picture of what's happening here, how the country has been fundamentally damaged by a corrupt media that will not tell you the truth, even if they know it.

They don't understand it.

Trump does viscerally, and he's off the chart furious.

And that's why he's venting, lashing out.

And the lash out,

all right, exacerbates the social civil war.

So let me disagree on one thing.

And I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but I think we would break it down.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

It's not, there's too much to lose.

Americans, even with all of the turbulence in our country today, live well.

Most of us have

unbelievable luxuries that our fathers and mothers and grandparents never dreamed of.

We have our machines, we have our big-screen TVs, we have our luxury automobiles, we have air conditioning, we have everything.

We have a lot to lose.

And so

we also are a group of people that don't realize how much we have.

Well, when you act out in a violent way, people then know that

you've crossed the line.

Okay, so let me give you this scenario: they impeach the president and they take him out, and half the country knows this is bull crap.

It's not going to happen.

If that did happen, then I'd have to revise and say, but that will not happen.

Okay, so let's

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So I find in this situation to where I've found a show

that my entire family will watch.

And then I go to bed and I have cracked the code of sleep.

I am the happiest guy right now.

This show is going to run out of episodes and then we'll go back to fighting on, can we just agree on one thing?

Just one show.

Can we watch one show together?

No, I don't like that one because it's this.

I want to watch that.

Well, I'll watch this.

And pretty soon you're just alone in the room just watching big screen TV and everybody else is on their phones.

You're like, what?

Stop it right now.

That's the way it's designed to be.

This is the problem.

You think you need to watch television with other people.

You need to watch it alone.

Just go in a closet, go into a theater room, go into a man cave, go somewhere else where people aren't, and then turn on the television.

I just want to watch a show with my family.

I love hearing my family laugh.

I love hearing my wife laugh.

She used to laugh so hard at The Office, and we'd watch The Office all the time, and she would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

And then we can't find a show because she's like, oh, that one, that one's, they have a potty mouth.

Well, this is why, by the way, that everyone is just re-watching The Office over and over and over.

It's like the most popular show in America.

Friends is friends.

Friends.

And again, like, eh, friends.

But I mean, The Office is one of the greatest television shows of all time.

And it is one of those things that now is like probably one of the most popular

valuable media sources because they'll pay anything to keep that on Netflix.

And you're sitting here and like Friends.

I would have never thought about having my young kids watching Friends when Friends was on, but society has changed so much.

It's like, oh, the paradise of a G-rated show like Friends.

It's really not even.

No, it's not.

But compared to everything else that's being produced, and I don't know why they all think they have to do it.

Why Why does everyone have to put the F-word in every show?

Why?

Why?

There's only so many words.

Why do you have to show everybody naked hooking up having sex?

Why?

Why?

Is it, I mean,

you know why, right?

You're saying why, but I do know.

I do know.

But do they not understand that there are people out there that don't want that?

We're watching with our families.

Is there

no value?

What shows you trying to watch that are everybody's having sex with your family?

What's

that?

What shows are not having sex with my family what are you talking about i mean what show are you watching with your family my wife is so it's not

okay what is it uh what's the police show uh

new york night barney miller no no no i don't know there's a show that we watch every show we watch as soon as somebody says well damn it let's get on that my wife is like

No, we're not watching this.

They're using bad language.

How many dammits do we need?

Oh my gosh.

Honey, have you seen?

I've had this argument.

Have you seen everything else on television?

If you can't watch this, you can't watch anything.

Well, I'm fine with that.

Let's go read.

Oh, dear.

That's why you need to go back and watch something wholesome, something that can't be questioned, like the Cosby show.

There's something.

We have watched the Cosby show and liked it, and we didn't tell him he was a rapist until after the series, which may have been a mistake.

I don't know.

Because now the one rapist they know, they really like.

That's exactly right.

It's not the one rapist.

Rapists are funny, dad.

So, I mean, we, but we did.

We watched all the I Love Lucies.

We watched all the, you know, old Disney stuff from the 50s.

We watched them all.

And, you know, now they're 12.

Why can't they watch the Sopranos?

And you know the answer to this, of course.

Yes, I do know the answer.

But that's what I feel like every show, the Sopranos used to be like, holy cow.

Almost every show is like that.

Yeah, I mean, I really do believe we're in the golden age of television.

With an exception for families.

Yeah, the shows are fantastic, Pat Grant.

But they do push the envelope.

You know, they don't have to follow any of these rules.

Right.

Now, they do have the Vidangel situation, which I know Pat Gray is a big proponent of, where you can

goes with Netflix and Amazon Prime, and you can go and you can just set it so we don't want swears, we don't want sex.

I got to try that.

Yeah.

He swears by that?

He swears by it.

I mean, he only watches stuff with the Vidangel thing turned on all the time, even for him.

I got to try that.

Because Pat, you know, has self-control, unlike us.

Yeah, I have no self-control.

I mean, I have no self-control.

Like, okay, so one, Gotham, watching Gotham with my son.

Okay, I'd like to skip some of the things, and we do, you know, but it's, because it was dark and it had, you know, dark undertones to it.

We loved it, loved it, until the very last episode.

The worst, and I'm not, I'm not spoiling anything.

If you are, if you haven't gotten to the last episode from last year uh i'm not going to wreck anything don't watch it because it wrecks the entire series really oh it was we were pissed we were so excited for the last because it's the setup the guy's going to become batman now and you were like what the Did you have a whole new group of writers come in and write this?

You're like, oh, yeah, you know, I wrote the whole series.

I'm kind of tired.

Chuck, the janitor, come here.

Why don't you write this one?

It was horrible.

I heard a lot of those complaints about Game of Thrones as well, where they said the last episode was really bad.

Is that not accurate?

I don't think so.

I heard from lots of people who love that series.

Yeah, not as bad as Gotham.

There's no ending to any show series worse than Gotham.

None.

Zero.

You couldn't do it.

What about the one from the 80s sitcom where they actually, in the middle of the sitcom, stopped and said, sorry, guys, we're canceled and the show ended.

What?

Do you know that story?

It was a real sitcom.

I can't remember what the name of it is.

I'll look it up.

But they were in the middle of a normal episode, and then they said, Hey, we got to go.

You mean we have to go on vacation?

No, we have to go.

We're canceled.

Goodbye, everybody.

It just ended.

I kind of like that.

I kind of like it.

I kind of like that.

They should have done that on Game of Thrones.

Yeah.

Winter's coming.

No.

Who's coming?

No, we got canceled.

No, winter's finally here.

That's the whole thing.

Winter's here.

We're done.

Temperature dropped five degrees.

So it's humidity's up.

You should see what

winter comes soon.

It's

in a thousand years from now, but it could be that in 12 years, we're all dead.

Anyway, so

I found what I think,

and

all of the episodes, I am in love with Ricky Gervais.

I am.

He's so good.

He is,

I think,

the most empathetic actor I have ever ever seen on television.

He wrote The Office and starred in The Office, the British one.

And he did this show called Derek that I've been watching.

And there's one character in it in the first season that is an, I mean, a bum alcoholic who is obsessed with sex.

And he is so over the top.

And my wife and I were watching it.

We're like, why is this guy in this?

It's such a great show.

Why is he in this?

And by the time you get to the second season, you realize it's Ricky Gervais's pattern of the way he writes things.

He is looking for redemption.

Ricky Gervais, all of his stories, I really think are about redemption.

People who have gone way

off the road and have found their way back to goodness and kindness and decency.

And this show, he plays a 50-year-old mentally handicapped kid or guy.

And he likes everything.

And he is just, he sees the best in everyone.

And he lives in this nursing home where he kind of lives and kind of works in this nursing home.

And the episode, I think it's...

I'll have to look it up, but it's in the second season.

I think it's like the third episode.

And I'm telling you, it is the perfect television episode.

I've never seen a better episode than that.

Okay, the show's called Derek.

Derek.

Okay.

Yeah, and I wouldn't start here if, you know, if you want to watch it, but if you want to just see one,

I've watched it with my family three times now.

Three times we've watched it.

It's like 22 minutes.

And it is so,

it makes you feel so good.

It's just, you believe in decency.

Let me see if I can find it real quick and tell tell you which episode.

That's interesting.

Because he has another show that he's doing too.

What's the show?

Because you also recommended this one.

Afterlife?

Yeah, Afterlife.

And it's the same thing.

And because of watching that,

I understand Derek.

And Derek came out before.

But I think that's what his deal is.

He is, I think he's really kind.

I don't know.

But his humor seems kind of rough.

But I think he's actually the most empathetic person I've ever seen.

He's

an incredibly talented guy.

Obviously, I mean, just The Office is a world, you know, is a lifetime accomplishment.

I mean, you talk about one of the greatest TV series or episodes of all time.

I would put Diversity Day from The Office in that picture.

There's several ones you could put in there.

But Diversity Day would be there.

The dinner party would have to be in there.

Diversity Day, Dinner Party?

I've never seen it.

Diversity Day was the second episode of The Office.

It was the first one they did originally for the U.S., so it wasn't like a copy of a UK script.

And it's about Michael Scott, you remember, decides to do a Chris Rock routine.

Now, it's not okay for a white guy

to do the Chris Rock.

And they do the thing where they put the note cards on each other's forehead with different races.

And it's such a perfect

description of all the weirdness that goes on with PC, and it's so freaking funny.

How much did Ricky Gervais have to do with the writing for the American series?

He didn't write write a lot of it, but they consulted pretty closely on it.

And, you know,

a lot of people complain about the first season because it was the most awkward and most sarcastic.

And he wasn't a likable figure.

He became more likable in later seasons.

See, but I think that

happens.

I think that's his pattern.

He surrounds himself.

And Derek, he is this

perfect person.

He's just, he's everything, you would love him.

And he's just this perfect person.

And he sees the best in everyone, even though he's had a bad life and everything else.

And he's just, he's happy.

He's just happy.

And he's surrounded by people that are not happy and are less imperfect.

But it's awkward at the, towards the beginning.

And then you realize he's changing their lives.

He's totally changing all of these people.

And it's just really great.

It is for the, if you ever really, if you're ever like down and you're like, I really want to feel good.

Episode six, season two of Derek.

Episode six, season two.

Derek meets the perfect match through his online dating profile.

Loss at the nursing home teaches Derek that it's never too late to make amends.

It's phenomenal.

And look at his acting.

At the last three minutes, the guy is a world-class actor.

World-class.

You love it.

All right.

I gotta watch that.

Derek.

Derek.

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