226: Reruns
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"But, ladies and gentlemen, public radio listeners everywhere. Now, let us praise famous crap." Okay. And not so famous crap, too. Well, there's a show called "Boy Me It's World." You ever seen it? No. It's great. It's in syndication. Yeah. It's like one of the shows that just went under the radar, you know? Friends, we are not here today to talk about the supposedly good TV programs, the people who think they're smart like to talk about when they talk about TV, we're here to talk about the stuff that makes up so much of TV. We're here to speak of reruns. And not good reruns of that. I'm talking your Mat Locks, you're living singles, your Kate Nellies. There's always that you're hanging right now is, uh, Starly Kaim, one of the producers of our radio program. And I asked her to talk about her relationship to TV because she is the first person I've ever met who actively prefers reruns, like "Boy Me It's World." And it just, like, was on for years that you never knew it, sort of. And now it's just, like, permanently in reruns, you know, and it's on, like, four different channels. Sure. But it's not very good. In fact, is it actually bad? I think so. I mean, it's hard for me to tell at this point, but it's bad, yeah. So if it's bad, why are you watching? It's really very, very, very comforting to watch it. It's comforting because you used to watch it when you were a little kid. No. You never saw it as a kid. No, not that one. But "Boy Me It's World," it's not even, it doesn't even matter that I didn't watch a little kid. Like, it connotes, I can imagine little kids being in, like, really comfortable, carpeted family rooms and, like, laying, like, with their elbows, you know, propped up and watching "Boy Me It's World" and feeling really safe because it's, like, the safest thing in the world. Like, this family is so nuclear, you know, it's just, like, perfect. But it's just, like, it's, like, sound stages and it looks really fake. And the principal is also the kid's neighbor, you know what I mean? Like, he's so... He's just always there. You're always looking out for everyone. Hey, son, how was your day? All right. How was your doing school?
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