#8 Crossing the Streams with Ron Lippitt and Howard Rosner

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All right. Cory, Thank you for that amazing introduction. I'm Jeff Dwoskin. And welcome to episode eight, the ocho of the Jeff Dwoskin show. So interesting thing happened to the Dwoskin household this week, we were getting some quotes for some stuff to do around the house. And this guy was looking at our porch. So we said, hey, look around what else might be wrong with our house? It's an older house. So we looked at the chimney. And he says, This is this chimney is a mess. Look at it, this is moved here. And that's there and water must have got there and blah, blah, blah. He goes, whoever did this was the worst job I've ever seen. Worse job. Horrible. So he said, Oh, get us a quote, fix it, save our lives. So my wife ends up looking up the old receipts from a decade ago. It turns out it was the same company that was telling me how bad it was. They were the ones that did it 10 years ago. And then it was just excuse after excuse of why Oh, blah, blah, nothing. All the excuses. None of them came up. While they were originally destroying the other company they didn't realize was themselves and then offered to give me like $50 off. Ridiculous. We will not be using that company. If you can't even stand behind the work. You did that. You just told me it was horrible. How can I trust you? How can I trust you to do it? Right this next time? I can't. I can't do that.

Got some fun guests for you today. A little something different this episode. myself. My friend Ron lippitt. My friend Howard Rosner, we're gonna do a little segment called crossing the streams. We're gonna recommend tons of great stuff that you should be streaming while you're stuck at home doing nothing. It's gonna be a lot of fun. One show we will not be recommending is Tiger King, because I'm sure by this point, you've either seen it or not seen it. I would like to say there's lots of lessons from the tiger king that you can apply to business. Sales down. Blame Carole Baskin. Forgot to finish that crucial research. It's doing an hour. Blame Carole Baskin Taibo in an email that went out to 10 million prospects. Blame Carole Baskin. In business it's it's easy to be successful when armed with the right tools. So I hope that's, that's helpful. And that segment was brought to you by this week's sponsor, sardine oil. It's not just for Carole Baskin anymore. got somebody you need to make disappear, sardine oil. Wink, wink. All right, grab your pens, grab your paper. Alright.

Welcome to a new segment of the show, crossing the streams with my TV friends Howard Rosner and Ron Lippitt. Welcome, guys.

Ron Lippitt 3:10

Hey, thanks, right. Yeah.

Jeff Dwoskin 3:12

Hey, guys. Introduce yourselves real quick Ron, introduce yourself. And then Howard, introduce yourself to the audience.

Ron Lippitt 3:18

So hey, guys, I'm Ron lip it a Jeff. You know, I've been friends for I don't know how many years now. But I will say this. The thing I most respect about you is how you are always on top of what's best out there in the media world. Right. So super excited about partaking in my own history of watching TV shows, and been doing it for years, though, on airplanes mostly. So happy to be part of this conversation.

Jeff Dwoskin 3:40

Great to have you, Howard.

Howard Rosner 3:42

I Jeff Jeff. And I have Jeff and I've been friends on going on 40 years, believe it or not. I'm also an avid TV watcher, not only on planes, but on my couch and member number 22. of the who's the boss fan club.

Jeff Dwoskin 3:57

So as you can see, I only brought in the best of the best in terms of experts. Howard's mistaken about the 40 years because it my bio clearly states. I'm only 32 years old. Anyway. So, guys, so what do you we're all stuck at home. And we're just really got nothing to do but watch TV. So it's been a great time to catch up. On all the great stuff. I've got a subscription to pretty much almost everything so wide range, how we would select number one on your list.

Howard Rosner 4:28

So the number one thing that I watched a show that's about a decade old, but it's kind of one of my go toos the way a lot of people go to the office as their go to just to rewatch or watch a show called Party Down. That was on Starz is one of the funniest Shows of All Time. They did two seasons. It's Adam Scott who's been on Parks and Rec and all kinds of things. Lizzy Caplan. The first season for most of it was Jane Lynch and then she actually left to go do Glee. Jennifer Coolidge did the Rest of the first season. And then the second season that character got replaced by Megan Mullally. I think it's Megan Mullally's funniest work. She's hysterical. And it's all these other folks that touched on a bunch of Paul Rudd movies. Because Paul Rudd was one of the executive producers of the show and creators. It is one of the funniest Shows of All Time, you can still get it. I think on Netflix, it's hysterical. It's about a catering company, made up of wannabe actors and comedians in Hollywood. And this is how they make money because they're very minimally working. The Steve Guttenburg's birthday party episode, in season two is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on television. It's It's amazing.

Jeff Dwoskin 5:40

Ryan, have you seen that? I haven't seen it.

Ron Lippitt 5:42

I haven't seen it. And actually, I'm actually taking notes for us. So thank you for that one. That's

Jeff Dwoskin 5:47

just a side note. I met Steve Guttenberg once anyway. I do want to say a show that nobody should watch is Space Force on Netflix with Steve Carrell. It is a collection of some of the finest actors and the worst show ever I couldn't even get to the end of Episode Two who's it horrible now now? Yeah, turned it off immediately. We are you watching Ron.

Ron Lippitt 6:14

So I suffer from some of your listeners probably suffer from the same thing where you're watching multiple things at the same time. And you try and pace yourself across multiple shows. The ones that the one that has my attention right now for the most part is the series remake of Das Boot that's on Hulu. I seem to find myself really into these foreign made series that are English subtitles. And this is actually it was the rights of it was bought by Hulu. It was actually I think produced by by the sky network in in the UK. But it is a fantastic if you're into the whole war thing the stars Tom flusher the guy who played jack and Hagar on Game of Thrones, and he is a fantastic dark character. In this series that I will tell you every episode leaves you exhausted trying to get through it and to understand what's going to happen in the next episode. So it's, it is one that I highly recommend if you're looking for something a little lighter. My cousin Robb got me on to another foreign show this one on Netflix, called Samurai Gourmet. And I don't know if you've ever heard of this one or not. Never,

Howard Rosner 7:24

john Belushi Saturday,

Ron Lippitt 7:26

it is it is a completely quirky show Japanese English subtitled that is about a corporate guy in the very first weeks of his retirement, he's lived his entire life sheltered in a corporate Japanese life. And he has he's experiencing his first moments of culture through food. He's such a diminished corporate guy, that he can only have these true virtual experiences of food by becoming this counter character of a samurai. And so this is what the show was about as a man experiencing life for the first time outside of his diminished life as a samurai. It's a fantastic hilarious show. The one of the things I love about it, is that it's each episodes only 22 minutes long.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:11

I lived with Howie and many, many days he would dress a samurai was he was not uncommon.

Howard Rosner 8:18

That said those are the days that I dressed.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:22

The show that I just watched that was amazing. It's it was just it was a documentary three part documentary was on Hulu, but it was from the History Channel. It was called the food that built America. So good talks about all the food Titans Heinz Hershey, the Kellogg brothers, McDonald brothers, Colonel from Kentucky Fried Chicken. It gives the whole history of how all these food companies, Birdseye invented everything that we now just take for granted. And like for example, Heinz, Heinz invented the assembly line, right so like, everyone thinks like Henry Ford is now Henry Ford adapted it from Heinz. It was originally built to capitalize on creating ketchup Kellogg and Battle Creek, Michigan, Dr. Kellogg invented cereal to help his patients. And then his brother saw the opportunity of it being a mass produced million dollar thing. And one of the people who was a patient at the Kellogg Institute was Post and Post, stole the recipe created great nights. And then later after he died, his daughter Marjorie Post started the concept of buying up other food companies and that created the concept of general foods so it wasn't just cereal, and she actually built Mar a Lago, which we all hear about a lot in the news. That's her place. She built it. And like so it was just but it just talks about all these things. It's so good. It's just mesmerizing. I I can't

Ron Lippitt 9:54

have you noticed that some of the new the newly produced documentaries, especially on the three Big networks, Amazon and Netflix are really well designed and way more impactful since perhaps in the in the last, I'd say 24 months than they ever had been.

Howard Rosner 10:10

Because documentaries, I think documentaries were, you know, it's kind of a like an off subject for somebody who is quote, unquote, more serious about things. Now with streaming, it's become, you know, you don't have to seek out documentaries the way you did. They're there for you. There's a great two part documentary. It's on epics, but you can stream epics through Apple TV. It's called Laurel Canyon, there's a movie by the same name, which is a romantic comedy. That is not that Laurel Canyon is an area in the LA area, where during the 60s and early 70s, the entire music scene of the United States, all of these people lived in the canyon and hung out with each other. The Mamas and the Papas, love Crosby, Stills and Nash and young the Eagles eventually, Jackson Browne. They all lived in the same area. And just this documentary has still photos of Joni Mitchell playing guitar, while this young kid named Eric Clapton is just sitting there listening to her mesmerised eventually learned some things from her, while David Crosby and Graham Nash are just kind of hanging out in the background. It's amazing that all this incredible music all came from people that were living in the same subdivision.

Jeff Dwoskin 11:31

I didn't I don't know if it was that was the one I started watching with Jacob Dylan babila. So he did he did one on Laurel Canyon. Also they did a whole concert a different take on it. But it's the same the same story as fat fascinates, right I've I have amazon fire and so it's like it just shows tons of stuff. And yet so I get sucked into the some of the one off documentaries. Like there was a great one on the Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie, and the making of that I happen to have I get on VHS. I bought it at a comic con years ago. It's horrible, but it tells the whole story of how they had to make it to keep the rights. But the actors in the movie really thought this was their big break. This was going to be the thing that really made it for that they had no self awareness of how horrible and low budge and just you know they basically made it to put it on the shelf. But there's just so many great like documentaries out there stuff that people just there was I watched a whole one on making a Star Trek The Next Generation fascinating

Ron Lippitt 12:31

and bunch of them out there at you know if you're really twisted, I don't know if either of you have Apple TV, but with Apple TV, not to make a commercial for Apple. But I will say the homescreen crosses all of the networks. So it's not just Apple programming. It has on your home screen all you know, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, every network show that it knows that you have come to like and then it has predictive analytics as to the shows that you might like all across the network. So if you like documentaries, Apple TV does a great job of making recommendations for you across the entire spectrum. It can basically ruin your life because I have now sitting in front of you all the options.

Howard Rosner 13:11

I would be terrified to see the predictive analytics on your Apple TV.

Ron Lippitt 13:15

It's ridiculous.

Howard Rosner 13:16

Speaking of documentaries, another one of the shows that I think is absolutely hysterical three seasons of a show called documentary now, which was created by Bill Hader, Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers. Basically, each episode is a spoof of a real famous documentary. So there's one that's a take off of vice documentaries. There's a one one that said take off of the Eagles, the famous Eagles documentary, there's one that's a take off of the war room about the clinton election, and Armisen hater, and then other great actors and actresses that are spoofing the documentaries. The two part one that's a take off of the Eagles documentary. It's called gentle and soft, and it's about a band called The Blue Gene committee. It's absolutely hysterical. Set in Chicago, and hater and Armisen are doing these horrible Chicago accents. It's a great episode, but there's been three seasons of that and that's a great shift.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:15

All right. Oh, go ahead. You got one

Ron Lippitt 14:17

guy. That's just gonna say that Eagles documentary might go down is one of the best documentaries ever, ever made.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:27

The history of the ego the

Ron Lippitt 14:28

history. That's Yeah, yeah. And my favorite part of that entire documentary and I watched every minute of it is Glenn Frye saying to Don Felder, as soon as we get off the stage, I am going to kick your ass.

That was the last time they ever played together.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:45

Downtown Don Felder. I saw him a concert like a year ago he opened for I think, Steve Miller band. He was like the opener for the opener. His backdrop was Hotel California. It was literally the day. I'll tell you why it was if you look at it, it was a day. per day after going for I died to all down Felder's saying was really Eagle song except for heavy metal, which is the only other song he had. did mention Glenn fry death. I mean, that's how much he hates to invite you see every one of his songs. He's got the Hotel California, he wrote the riff, and he didn't mention it at all. It was.

Ron Lippitt 15:23

That's uncomfortable. That's perfect. That's amazing.

Jeff Dwoskin 15:25

All right, guys. I think this was an excellent first episode of Christ in the streams. We've given people so much. Great stuff to watch. So exciting. Ron, where can people find you on Twitter or Facebook?

Ron Lippitt 15:37

So I'm at Ron lippitt. On Twitter, Facebook, Ron lippitt, straight straight and narrow and Instagram. I'm also run live at one word, so easy to get a

Jeff Dwoskin 15:47

rise? How can people get a hold of you ask questions about some of those shows you brought up?

Howard Rosner 15:53

I'm pleased do I encourage the feedback. It's Howard Rosner, not to be confused with Dr. Howard Ross are also at Michigan on both Instagram and Facebook. please reach out. I'm available to answer all your queries on television. Do not

Jeff Dwoskin 16:11

reach out to either. Alright, so thank you guys very much. This has been crossing the streams. And we'll catch you next time. All right, that was awesome. I hope you really enjoyed that. Lots of great suggestions. Hope you wrote some of them down, check them out. Tweet me at at Jeff Dwoskin show. Tell me what you thought about some of the suggestions can't wait to hear.

Now, if we get back to the Twitter, hashtag Roundup, you know, we love them. It's a great app, lots of fun hashtags, so you can play with the community every day, all day. So there was a game recently, hashtag my ultimate streaming service has from hangover tags. It's a Saturday morning game, my ultimate streaming service. You can see how that ties into the show. Very clever. Very clever. Alright. So what would your streaming service have? AJ Stark, with Twitter user says? Heard streaming service would have an alternate ending to Game of Thrones. I think a lot of us would sign up for that one. That's something we all need. Nathan says his streaming service would have all five seasons of the Muppet Show. Oh, if anything's gonna get me to switch from Disney plus to Nathan's streaming service. It's all five seasons of the original Muppet Show. How do they not have it? How do they not have it? user baby carrot says would she would add is a binge system that doesn't interrupt your binge eating to ask you. Are you still watching this? Brilliant. It's a brilliant feature that's totally needed. But I think Lord Byron has one of the best streaming service ideas. It's just 24 hours of thighmaster Sham while ginzu knives infomercials over and over again. Right. Those are some great entries for that hashtag. Hope you enjoyed that. Check out hashtag roundup play along, and you'll end up on a future show. Yeah. How cool is that? All right. Well, that's it. That's the end of episode eight. Thanks for joining us. Follow us on Twitter at Jeff Dwoskin show. Check us out on the podcast places tell your friends subscribe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. See you next time.

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