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🗓️ 25 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The legendary creator of groundbreaking TV sit coms - All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Sons, The Jeffersons, et al, on flying 50 bombing missions in WWII, the joy of comedy and, dare I say, satire.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a really old guy on the podcast today, as usual, but this guy is even |
0:12.3 | older than Norm Ornstein, James Carvel, Elizabeth Drew, Harry Reid, and Anthony Fauci. |
0:20.5 | Norman Lear, the legendary TV comedy writer, producer, |
0:24.9 | creator of groundbreaking sitcoms like the Jeffersons and Maude one day at a time and |
0:30.0 | All in the Family. |
0:31.2 | He joins me. |
0:32.8 | And we are dropping this show on June 25th, 2021, two days before Norman's 99th birthday. |
0:44.0 | Holy crap. |
0:46.1 | So I've got a lot to talk about with Norman, flying 52 missions on a, on the B-17, the Flying flying fortress in World War II writing for a whole |
0:59.3 | bunch of shows the Jack Haley show he did Jack Haley you'll hear him talk about this |
1:05.4 | Jack Haley was the Tin Man I'm just doing this for people younger than me. |
1:12.8 | And then creating iconic hit after iconic hit TV show, |
1:17.8 | starting People for the American Way, |
1:20.5 | which became a favorite target of the Nutcase Christian Wright. |
1:26.4 | The day after 9-11, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blamed 9-11 on the abortionists |
1:34.6 | and the feminists and gays and lesbians and the ACLU, people for the American way, |
1:41.3 | I put my finger in your direction and say, you made this happen. |
1:47.3 | Now, does that make them nutcases? |
1:48.8 | I think so. |
1:50.1 | But how's this? |
1:50.8 | I was watching the 700 Club. |
1:53.9 | This is a few, several years ago. |
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