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Zoomers and Boomers is focused on the evolving Society and Culture each of these Generations has experienced and now mostly share side by side. Each generation will be represented by a participant of each gender to provide balanced and unique insights into the topic of generational contrasts. We will touch on the role of tech, love and friendship, humor, life paths, education, work and purpose, community, fun, and curiosity.
Blaine Benedict moved to Las Vegas nearly 75 years ago from New Jersey at the age of 3. He attended local schools and graduated from the original Las Vegas High School. He then earned a B.S. degree in Agriculture and Environment Science from Rutgers University. He served two years in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer. Returning to Las Vegas with no particular career plans, he began a career in gaming which led to senior positions at both the Dunes Hotel and Binion's Horseshoe. After retiring from gaming, he finally used his degree as an environmental educator and non-profit executive with the Southern Nevada Conservancy. He now stays busy and active as an OLLI at UNLV student.
Fran Smith holds a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in International Relations. Her first career was on Capitol Hill. Her second was in housing development in Honolulu. And her third was non-profit management. After retiring, she returned to her love of learning through OLLI. Since joining OLLI at UNLV, she has chaired the Fundraising Committee, is currently Chair of the Steering Council, and has taught numerous art history classes.
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Blaine Benedict 0:53
Well, good morning everyone. Thank you for tuning in and listening to another program of Boomers and Zoomers, or Zoomers and Boomers, today on Blaine Benedict, along with Fran Smith and Risa and Richard, the two Zoomers, and we're going to have another discussion about these two generations, so I'd like to introduce Fran, and just to say, good morning, and hello.
Fran Smith 1:32
Good morning. Thanks for joining us.
Blaine Benedict 1:34
So we're really excited today. One of the things we decided was that we're going to turn over at least the first part of the program to Risa and Richard, and let them ask us some questions, and we'll field the answers, see what they might think about us, and we'll, we'll take it from there.
Risa Federico 2:04
Thank you, Blaine. So, I am Risa,
Richard Green 2:07
and I'm Richard.
Risa Federico 2:08
And so, first, what I wanted to get us started on was last time Blaine had started off with some fun facts about the Boomer generation, so I cobbled together some fun facts about the Zoomer generation, so we were the years defined kind of ranges, but it's mostly 97 to 2012 We were called digital natives, so that we didn't just, you know, see the internet happen. We grew up with it, that, and cell phones as well, kind of, we're seen as more basic commodities for our generation.
Richard Green 2:45
Sure,
Risa Federico 2:46
we were actually described. I found a fun quote that was, we are more educated, well-behaved, stressed, and depressed compared to other generations. We're big on mental health awareness, big on technology, and then, as we'll see in the next part, we have a very weird vocabulary as well,
Richard Green 3:06
most
Risa Federico 3:07
definitely. So, to roll right in, we put together Richard and I a slang term quiz for our boomers to go through. We did a bit of the older ones, but if we want to later, we can do some of the more newer Gen Z slang terms, but Blaine will start with you first.
Blaine Benedict 3:28
Okay,
Risa Federico 3:29
if I tell you I'm heading out to go get that bread, what am I doing?
Blaine Benedict 3:34
Get the bread, is that what the
Risa Federico 3:35
get? Get that bread.
Blaine Benedict 3:37
Well, I don't probably means go do a chore.
Risa Federico 3:44
Fran, any ideas?
Fran Smith 3:46
Maybe going to the ATM
Risa Federico 3:50
close. So it is to go out and go work hard. So bread is in dough as in
Fran Smith 3:56
money.
Blaine Benedict 3:56
Oh,
Richard Green 3:57
right.
Risa Federico 3:57
It's kind of where that one comes
Richard Green 3:58
from. Oh, that's pretty close. Yeah, it was that money.
Blaine Benedict 4:02
Good job, Fran. Good job.
Risa Federico 4:05
So, if I, Fran, if I call you a goat, what should you be offended or honored?
Fran Smith 4:11
I would be offended, whether I'm supposed to be or not. I don't know.
Risa Federico 4:16
Blaine, any ideas on what goat stands for?
Blaine Benedict 4:19
You've, you've blanked me. I have no idea.
Risa Federico 4:22
It is an acronym, greatest of all time. Oh,
Fran Smith 4:26
thank you.
Risa Federico 4:27
That is Fran and Blaine are the greatest of all time.
Blaine Benedict 4:31
I never heard it abbreviated, so I've always..
Risa Federico 4:35
it was very popular, and they would do pictures of goats as well, along with the word very
Richard Green 4:43
popular in sports and music, especially for athletes, even like Lebron James. Lebron is Lebron and Michael Jordan, usually referred to as like goats.
Blaine Benedict 4:52
Well, we'll use that in class a lot, right? Fran, I
Fran Smith 4:56
thought it was
Risa Federico 4:57
Pierce.
Fran Smith 4:57
I thought it was a source of angora. Well,
Blaine Benedict 5:01
yeah, we'll use that with our peers.
Risa Federico 5:03
Yeah, don't explain it either. All right, Blaine, if I say somebody is being salty, what is their mood?
Blaine Benedict 5:13
I would say they're a bit cranky and aggravated.
Risa Federico 5:18
Friend, anything that on that,
Fran Smith 5:20
I would have thought either snarky or a positive twist on
Risa Federico 5:28
it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's pretty much what you would agree,
Richard Green 5:31
yeah, 100% I would think is like angry in a upset mood. Yep,
Risa Federico 5:36
kind of more passive aggressive, kind of.
Richard Green 5:39
Yeah, oh, 100% yeah.
Risa Federico 5:40
All right. If I say I have some tea to spill, Fran, what am I about to tell you?
Fran Smith 5:48
Gossip,
Blaine Benedict 5:51
gossip. That
Risa Federico 5:52
one's one of my favorite ones to have some tea. That one's always a good one. All right, and then this one's a classic. What does YOLO stand for?
Fran Smith 6:00
Oh, I know that one. You only live once.
Blaine Benedict 6:05
That was new for me. I'm not familiar with that.
Risa Federico 6:08
It was very popular, kind of like a carpe diem sort of thing. You only live once. It got some bad,
Fran Smith 6:14
like if you're about to do, if you're about to do something really risky.
Richard Green 6:18
Yep,
Fran Smith 6:19
you say YOLO.
Richard Green 6:20
Yep, yeah, brand nose. all
Risa Federico 6:25
right. And that is the entire quiz. So I have,
Fran Smith 6:31
are we goats? Yes, yes, absolutely.
Blaine Benedict 6:35
And you don't have any, Richard. You don't have your..
Richard Green 6:38
those were just kind of the ones we came up together. I could throw a bonus one in. This one's definitely very cringy and used more among the newer generations. Do you know what the term Riz means?
Fran Smith 6:51
Riz like R I Z,
Richard Green 6:52
yeah, R I Z Z,
Fran Smith 6:54
R I Z Z.
Richard Green 6:55
Yeah,
Blaine Benedict 6:57
have no
Richard Green 6:58
idea. That's okay. So it's it's a twist on the word charisma. Yes, so it's abbreviated kind of twist on that word for having a charisma,
Fran Smith 7:09
like cred is for credibility,
Risa Federico 7:12
exactly. Yeah, a lot of the slang terms you'll, you'll, they'll pick out or shorten
Fran Smith 7:17
words because you're texting it because you want to shorten everything,
Blaine Benedict 7:23
so what was it exactly,
Richard Green 7:25
having like a charisma, having like a game like talking with the opposite, you know, gendered, having like, you know, charisma in that way,
Risa Federico 7:35
very positive term,
Richard Green 7:37
a positive term, yeah.
Blaine Benedict 7:38
Oh, not like a Scuzz buck,
Richard Green 7:39
no, no, no, no,
Blaine Benedict 7:41
we have some of our own, if you, if you want to.
Richard Green 7:44
Sure, yes,
Blaine Benedict 7:45
get, get educated
Richard Green 7:46
here.
Blaine Benedict 7:48
So, Fran, I mean, if you want to look, there's a couple pages that I, I got. This one is from the trucking industry, which I
Fran Smith 8:00
actually, that makes me feel old. I was really mature, 10 four, good buddy.
Richard Green 8:05
Yeah,
Fran Smith 8:07
if you've seen a Burt Reynolds movie,
Blaine Benedict 8:09
oh yeah. And do
Fran Smith 8:11
you remember who? Oh, do you know? Do you know who Burt Reynolds?
Risa Federico 8:15
I don't, but I should not be considered, because I am not good with famous people.
Fran Smith 8:20
Oh,
Richard Green 8:21
I definitely have heard the name, but can't tell you off the top of my head.
Fran Smith 8:25
He got famous primarily because he did a centerfold, was it in Cosmo or something like that?
Blaine Benedict 8:31
I don't remember,
Fran Smith 8:32
and then then he got, you know, movie roles, so he became a movie star,
Blaine Benedict 8:39
and also from if I say what's your 20
Richard Green 8:45
status, what's your status
Blaine Benedict 8:47
close, or
Risa Federico 8:48
like what's your location,
Blaine Benedict 8:49
what's your location, also from trucking,
Risa Federico 8:53
is that similar to what's your six, or is that something different,
Blaine Benedict 8:56
I don't know
Risa Federico 8:57
what, oh, what's your six, or maybe I am
Fran Smith 9:00
Watergate, I've got your six, okay? Yeah, I've got your back, yeah, that's it's like, you know, there's a clock,
Richard Green 9:08
right?
Fran Smith 9:08
You don't, you may not know this, but there used to be clocks that had hands, and when you go 123456, you're at the back,
Blaine Benedict 9:21
Fran, check with them and see if they know what this one, you know
Fran Smith 9:25
what copacetic means.
Risa Federico 9:28
Heard that word before, but
Blaine Benedict 9:32
it's not a mouthwash.
Risa Federico 9:35
No, it doesn't sound like a mouthwash. That is fair.
Richard Green 9:39
Yeah, I have to throw a towel on that one.
Risa Federico 9:41
Yeah, I couldn't do a definition. I have heard it before.
Fran Smith 9:44
Everything's okay.
Richard Green 9:45
Okay,
Blaine Benedict 9:46
let's check.
Fran Smith 9:48
Go ahead.
Blaine Benedict 9:49
No, you do this. I bet they don't.
Fran Smith 9:51
Boob tube,
Richard Green 9:52
like, like a crop top,
Risa Federico 9:55
maybe, or like a
Fran Smith 9:56
tube shot.
Richard Green 9:57
I'm not sure. Wow,
Fran Smith 9:59
mind is. And I mean, you're too low, that's
Richard Green 10:03
what it kind of sounds like,
Fran Smith 10:04
it's the TV, it's the
Richard Green 10:06
television, it's a television,
Fran Smith 10:08
I didn't realize that was passing, whoa,
Blaine Benedict 10:13
that's amazing,
Fran Smith 10:14
yeah, I thought it was still used,
Richard Green 10:15
I don't really watch TV,
Blaine Benedict 10:18
I don't think TVs in them anymore, I'm afraid. Either TV, that's where they have channels, and they have different programs on, and
Fran Smith 10:26
the school used to be streaming three networks and only three channels, plus PBS.
Blaine Benedict 10:35
I can't believe you, that's like
Fran Smith 10:37
the
Blaine Benedict 10:38
biggest revelation of this of the two programs,
Fran Smith 10:42
I think. So,
Blaine Benedict 10:45
here's one from my past career in the casino business. You know what a five finger discount
Risa Federico 10:55
is? No, nothing comes to mind. Maybe
Richard Green 10:58
it means like free. I'm not necessarily
Blaine Benedict 11:00
sure. Close, it's close, you're on the right, you take something, it's like shoplifting, yes, free, yes,
Risa Federico 11:07
that's funny, I like that one.
Blaine Benedict 11:10
What else do you think, Fran, on some of these
Risa Federico 11:12
grungy, grungy,
Fran Smith 11:14
yeah,
Risa Federico 11:15
isn't that like
Fran Smith 11:16
grungy?
Risa Federico 11:19
Exactly right, doing the hand gesture of what I think
Fran Smith 11:23
it is. Yeah, it's yucky sleaze ball.
Risa Federico 11:28
I mean, that's just a
Wesley Knight 11:30
like,
Risa Federico 11:30
like a sleazy guy, kind of, yeah, like a very negative,
Richard Green 11:34
like a jerk kind of,
Fran Smith 11:36
yeah,
Richard Green 11:36
yeah,
Fran Smith 11:37
yeah. Well, yeah, and in a real, I mean, a much more negative fashion, right?
Richard Green 11:43
Right,
Fran Smith 11:43
sort of like that poster you were talking about, where the guy's hanging over the,
Risa Federico 11:47
oh yeah,
Blaine Benedict 11:51
and Fran, I like this expression here.
Fran Smith 11:53
I think you ought to do that, because I don't know it very well.
Blaine Benedict 11:58
Okay, you ain't just a woofing,
Richard Green 12:01
you're not telling the truth.
Blaine Benedict 12:05
Yeah, very
Risa Federico 12:06
good.
Richard Green 12:06
Yeah,
Blaine Benedict 12:07
very good,
Richard Green 12:08
nice,
Blaine Benedict 12:08
very good. You have any more difficult ones for us? I mean, really
Richard Green 12:14
think. What do you think, Chris? Well, one
Risa Federico 12:15
that I use quite often that I've been trying to teach all the Ollie members that I encounter is girl dinner, so how would each of you describe friend first girl dinner?
Blaine Benedict 12:31
Whoa,
Fran Smith 12:32
it really sounds dirty. No, yeah, it
Risa Federico 12:35
is PG, I promise. Oh,
Blaine Benedict 12:38
girl dinner,
Fran Smith 12:39
what is it like going out to dinner with your, your girlfriend?
Risa Federico 12:44
That's a fair guess. Blaine, any ideas on what girl dinner would look like?
Blaine Benedict 12:48
A dinner where you have to use manners,
Risa Federico 12:52
Blaine, that's so nice. Girl dinner is more described as something that you just cobbled together, not really a meal. It is essentially girl dinner, could range from eating cheese out of the bag to tostitos to slices of bread. It could also be things that aren't actually edible, so like aquarium, aquarium rocks can be girl dinner as a joke.
Fran Smith 13:21
As a former girl, I find that insulting. It is one
Risa Federico 13:26
of my favorites. So, I will say to animate, you know, food, not food-related things. I will say, ah, girl dinner. It could also be going out to eat fast food,
Richard Green 13:36
right?
Blaine Benedict 13:37
So, if, if we're, if we're slanged out to coin a term, I'd really like to have you. If you have any questions or thoughts about boomers, I mean, what, what do you think you can learn from us? You, but you both spend some time around baby boomers and see us in various aspects of our lives, so what do you think? What do we have that we can share with you that you would find most valuable?
Richard Green 14:17
Oh yeah, most definitely. So I did have a question here that I was going to kind of skip ahead to the question, is what's one misconception that Gen Z, our generation, has about your generation, whether that be something that we've thought to be true all this time that's really not, or just something maybe we misunderstood,
Risa Federico 14:37
something that you get a lot from our generation,
Fran Smith 14:41
like we're old, which means we're passe, irrelevant to be dismissed, because we're just so old, we're out of
Richard Green 14:50
it. Oh, is that a common thing? Do you think
Fran Smith 14:52
that's my sense?
Richard Green 14:54
Gotcha,
Blaine Benedict 14:56
and mine too, but not in a, an. Necessarily, a negative way, you know, we've.. it's time for us to breathe easier, if you will, relax a bit. We've had our time on the stage, we've done the.. for the most part, we've done the work that we could do, and if we have any lessons for you, I think it's better if you ask us about how we would handle a situation or approach something or learn something or read something, rather than us tell you
Richard Green 15:33
for sure.
Fran Smith 15:34
I don't know if this is just a Gen Z thing, I think it might be a generation thing, but I think there's some perception that it's time to pass the torch to a new generation, to use a very old quote, and that there have been so many boomers who have been presidents and the country is completely messed up, the boomers have done no favors for the for the government for the country from the government's perspective, and so get out of the way.
Richard Green 16:12
I see, as Blaine was kind of saying, it does kind of lead me into another question I had here about if you could only share one life lesson with the younger generation, what would it be?
Blaine Benedict 16:23
Wow, that's a good one.
Richard Green 16:26
Maybe something that either took you decades to kind of learn yourself, or something maybe even you learned at an early age that you wish you could go back and tell your younger self, or that you could tell someone now.
Fran Smith 16:39
I think maybe that things that seem so important or seriously bad, especially from a bed, it's not that big a deal, and in the overall scheme of life, you know, one source of stress is going to go away, things will change.
Blaine Benedict 17:05
Yeah, one of the things that I've learned recently, and have thought back on my career and life, I think being kind is a real important lesson, especially as you get, you get older, to carry grudges or to have unusual ill feelings towards somebody or something is really not productive. Being kind is is very important, and staying healthy is another one not to over over indulge in various things, and like Fran and I do, is to continue to learn throughout your life. I think that that's a very important thing.
Richard Green 17:56
Oh, most definitely. Those are all really great.
Blaine Benedict 18:00
The other thing, this is slightly off topic, but I wanted to make sure we get this in. So, I was thinking about how I was going to thank you for appearing on these two programs. What I was going to say to you after we've discussed things like slang and the challenges in life, and what the boomers may have not done or not done, and what you're, what you look ahead today. For the first time, I, I got challenged and a bit nervous about AI. So, one of the.. when I was working in the casino industry, had a customer, very kind person, who one day went after he was done visiting Las Vegas, and it was close to my birthday or some special day. He said, "May the wheels of your chariot follow the grooves of the universe. Wow, that's that's very kind. You know what, I can understand what, what that means myself, even back
Richard Green 19:09
then.
Blaine Benedict 19:09
So today I wanted to find out if that quote was attributed to some famous person. So I googled it, and AI came up, and AI talked to me. This is first time I've ever had a response like this. AI replied, that is a beautiful sentiment. Thank you. I wish you the same. May your path be aligned, your journey smooth, and your purpose be in harmony with the cosmos. Now it just is mind-boggling to me that there's some algorithm or system of formulas inside a machine that could respond to my inquiry as to who said that, instead I got. Thank you, and that to me is kind of, well, it's definitely mind-boggling, and in many ways disturbing. So, really, what do you, what do you think about AI as a function of your future?
Richard Green 20:17
And yeah, there's, there's definitely a lot to unravel with AI. What, what, um, what AI specifically was that one that you were using?
Blaine Benedict 20:24
Well, I get on Google
Fran Smith 20:27
Gemini,
Richard Green 20:27
Gemini. Yeah, I see. Yeah, no, there's there's definitely a lot to uncover with it all. There's many companies that are trying to make AIs. There's good ones that have lots of information that is secure, and then there's other ones that information is not as secure, but maybe it's a stronger system. There's definitely a lot as far as it impacting our future generation. I believe that was your question, right? Right? I think it has a lot of pros and cons. I think there's definitely a lot of pros to help us be more informed and just make informed decisions with a lot of things we do. We're definitely the most informed we've ever been as an entire world like together we can have any bit of information at our fingertips, we just have to know what to ask, and as far as cons, I think there's definitely a lot as well. Unfortunately, I think I think it might make us more lazy in some ways. I think it may make us rely on not using critical thinking as much. There's definitely a lot to add. Maybe Risa, if you had some more things you thought about that,
Risa Federico 21:41
yeah. And one thing that, when you were talking, kind of made me think about it. It's that AI, all of them, are really made to be very charismatic, very polite, very kind, very, you know, uplifting, very positive, you know. And I do think that it'll have some interesting effects on how, because a lot of people, and it's kind of human nature, like what's the word, like pack bond with inanimate objects, like we as a team, we were coming into the building today, and I saw one of the little delivery robots, and it's just a little guy, and it's an inanimate object, it's a robot that does its job, but it's also, you know, a little guy, and so I feel like it'll be interesting to see how it's a machine that told you all those things, right, Blaine? You know, it has no thinking it wasn't actually saying thank you, but it's really definitely meant to be very kind, and I know that a lot of people, for better and worse, use it for a lot of mental health sort of stuff, they'll use it for health-related stuff, you know, just somebody to talk to, but it's not actually a somebody, right? And so that's another negative, I think, is kind of.. it infringes a little bit on our human nature of liking things that, and especially because this one talks back to us, right? Like, the little robots don't talk back to you, but this one does, and I would be interested to see how that kind of changes things moving forward.
Blaine Benedict 23:03
I was surprised. This is the first time. Usually, when I Google something, I'll want to know, did Thomas Jefferson say this, or Abraham Lincoln, or who, whomever, this one.. I didn't get an answer like that. I got a conversation with me personally, and it was really mind-boggling, if you will, because this first time it's happened, and I, I had never thought of AI as polite or have any humanistic characteristics, I always thought, okay, it, it has information, that's it, that don't have to search around for information all over the place.
Fran Smith 23:48
You must not use it very much.
Blaine Benedict 23:50
I don't,
Fran Smith 23:52
I use it for my to help me with my syllabus and put my classes together and stuff like that, and it's, it's consistently polite, and it makes me want to be polite back, so even when you know it gets to the point where you know it answers your question, and or provides the information you're looking for, and then it says I can do x, I can do y, I can do is there anything else? Do you want me to do any of those things? And when I'm not ready to do those things, I'll say no. This is great. Thank you very much. It might encourage, you know, polite communication and and positive feedback, even though you know damn well it's a machine, but it's being so nice, you want to be nice back,
Risa Federico 24:51
you can even ask it as well, why is it being nice, and it will tell you that you know it's programmed to be polite and nice, and yeah,
Fran Smith 24:59
I never. Question, why I
Risa Federico 25:01
always say please and thank you, as well. Oh, yeah,
Blaine Benedict 25:04
that's an incredible difference, in addition to knowledge and the workplace since, since Fran and I were your
Richard Green 25:14
ages.
Blaine Benedict 25:15
It's just amazing, and I did look up that, that quote, may the wheels of your chariot follow the grooves of the universe. That's good wishes for you. And thank you for joining our program for the last several months. And there's another quote that is not attributed to anyone in particular, but is very ancient, and may, and it is may the wind always be at your back.
Fran Smith 25:47
That's what I've been thinking.
Blaine Benedict 25:51
And good luck going forward. Is there anything else you would like to to ask us?
Risa Federico 25:57
I have one final fun one that we will try to cram into our remaining time. Favorite childhood TV show or cartoon,
Fran Smith 26:06
Peanuts.
Richard Green 26:07
Oh, nice.
Blaine Benedict 26:08
Well, I liked Howdy Doody. Howdy, do
Risa Federico 26:14
choices, both of you. Ryan is grimacing at that,
Fran Smith 26:17
but I want you to know my father-in-law was Bob Smith, not Buffalo. Bob Smith,
Risa Federico 26:25
Richard. I'll go to you
Richard Green 26:27
then. Um, it's definitely tricky for me. I kind of used to flip between, uh, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel. Those were like the three that I flipped through, as many people our age did when we were younger. Um, if I had to go with my favorite, I'd probably say, like, Sweet Life of Zack and Cody. If you guys know that one, it's a Disney Channel classic. Really good. That's
Risa Federico 26:47
a really
Fran Smith 26:48
good.. and have kids. I didn't have kids. That's
Risa Federico 26:51
a good
Richard Green 26:52
one.
Risa Federico 26:52
Yeah, I would choose. I agonized over this as well, because there's a lot of
Richard Green 26:56
good,
Risa Federico 26:57
but I chose Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Richard Green 26:59
That's a great one. I think that might be my Cartoon Network favorite one.
Risa Federico 27:02
Very good show.
Blaine Benedict 27:05
So, Captain Kangaroo was, he was done, right? And mr. Rogers, by the time you got into TV,
Risa Federico 27:12
yeah. Unfortunately,
Richard Green 27:16
well, I personally watched the Muppets in mr. Rogers with my father. So, but, but I definitely enjoyed watching those two.
Blaine Benedict 27:25
Yeah, Howdy Doody was good.
Richard Green 27:27
Yeah,
Blaine Benedict 27:27
and then what would I think we have time for this. What were.. what were your favorite comedy show? What are your favorite comedy shows? Just pick, pick one. It can be old, you know, older or new.
Richard Green 27:40
Yeah, I don't really have many that come to mind. I mean,
Risa Federico 27:43
SNL is quite funny, you know, right? But they're short, you know, kind of snippets of things, so it definitely has its time and place, especially some of the older ones. I don't watch much of the new stuff anymore, but the older ones were always really funny.
Richard Green 27:57
Yeah, me, me as well. I'd probably just say SNL, that's what comes to mind. They don't really do it like they used to nowadays with all the comedy shows. So,
Risa Federico 28:05
what about you guys?
Fran Smith 28:06
I don't watch comedy because I think it's all male adolescent humor.
Blaine Benedict 28:15
Well, I watch Seinfeld. I love the reruns of Seinfeld, and that's more about take
Fran Smith 28:21
the class, did you take the class in Ollie?
Risa Federico 28:24
There was an Olli class on Seinfeld,
Blaine Benedict 28:27
that it's.. I've seen some of the episodes three and four times, and it's just fantastic. I mean, he remains funny, the things that they talked about like nothing, that's what it's about. A show about nothing is really rings true in a lot of cases. So I also like to watch old westerns. I've been watching a wagon train for the last couple of months.
Risa Federico 28:57
I thought you were gonna say West Wing, which is also a good show. That's
Fran Smith 29:00
not a
Risa Federico 29:00
western, no, but
Fran Smith 29:03
actually that was a really, that was one of the more authentically realistic portrayals of what it's like working in a quasi-political, quasi-governmental environment.
Blaine Benedict 29:20
Thank you both again for joining us. Thank you, Fran. It's been a lot of fun.
Risa Federico 29:25
Thank you, Blaine.
Richard Green 29:26
Thank you so much. I hope
Blaine Benedict 29:27
you got a little something out of
Richard Green 29:29
it
Blaine Benedict 29:30
and feel more comfortable with the boomers.
Richard Green 29:35
Most
Risa Federico 29:36
absolutely,
Music 29:36
we
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