The Resurgence of Nostalgia: A Dive into Classic Television

Welcome to Five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave.

He has gray hair.

He has a gray beard.

He wears glasses like the guy in the artwork.

Oh, and the guy in the artwork is better looking.

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Okay, well, well, welcome back folks to, like they said, another episode of Five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave.

Yeah, it's me, good old Gray Hair Dave, sitting around today on this wet and soggy day here in Central Florida.

Been a wet couple of days, but you know, that's.

You live in Central Florida.

That's what happens.

How's your day going, folks?

I tell you what, I'm doing okay today.

Been kind of a lazy day.

Sorry I haven't been around for a couple weeks, but every once in a while I get tired of podcasting.

And you would say, but Dave, you're only here once a week.

True, in the beginning of this podcast, it was once a day.

And I tell you what, that was at times a large, large pain in the butt.

But I do have to admit I am back and I'm ready to continue on.

I was thinking earlier today, and this is a change of subject, but I wanted to talk to you a little bit about old time TV.

Now when I say old time TV, I'm thinking back in 80s and 90s, maybe some of the late 70s, but her mid to late 70s.

But there was a TV show, TV show called WKRP in Cincinnati.

There was a DJ on there played by Howard Sussman, pretty sure that's his name.

And his character's name was Dr. John Fiva.

And Dr. Fever always called everybody baby.

How you doing, my fellow babies?

What brought that into my head today?

But what I was thinking of old time TV shows this last weekend and Dr. Jonafever just popped into my head.

That was back when the comedies were different.

You could.

Censoring was coming in to choke off good comedy, but it hadn't arrived completely yet.

It was there, but it wasn't yet.

You know what I mean?

They, okay, they couldn't swear, but that's what they were looking for was the cuss words, the double entendres or whatever.

But it wasn't as much of oh shoot, he said what about who but where, you know, and they talked about, about things also that were happening in the world sometimes.

So they would introduce humor and then in that humor introduce a tragedy or something that was happening around the world.

Like there was a, a concert where the, the bleachers collapsed, I think it was.

And it was talked about deeply on that one.

And that's not the only time that's happened.

You go to large events and you always have a chance to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nobody wants that to happen.

And everybody does their very, very best to make sure that it doesn't happen.

But sometimes you can't.

You can't.

You get.

You can't get away from it.

And WKRP was not the only one to talk about it.

I watched a. I get up early in the morning and there's not much on.

So sometimes I'll flip on PBS or something like that and.

And there will be a show called Family Matters on.

Family Matters was set in Chicago back in the 70s or 8, or maybe it was the 90s.

They may have been the late 80s, early 90s, mid-90s.

I'm not sure of the exact time frame, but there was a show on the other day about where one of the character's best friends was shot at school.

So the whole thing was talking about that kind of tragedy and, and trying to help and find ways to keep guns out of schools.

We're still trying to do that today, folks, and it's not working so well.

In some cities, young men are dying because of drugs, because of gangs and those such things.

And as a person who was not involved in those types of things, I don't know what it's like to be involved in those types of things.

And I've been blessed because nobody that I know of has been involved in those types of things or those types of tragedies.

But every time somebody is killed here in Orlando, the first thing I think of is their parents.

Now, I'm sure that a very large part of the reason for me thinking that is the fact that I'm older.

And that's the first thing that comes to my mind is, geez, their parents must be devastated.

Their families, their brothers or sisters, whoever, they're devastated.

It's just.

It's out of control, folks.

And I don't want to be here telling you that I advocate gun control and all these kinds of things because that's not where I'm headed.

What I'm trying to get across today is that in this world where there's some real live crap going on in other countries, there's goofy stuff going on here, and it's serious goofy stuff.

But it doesn't need to be happening, okay?

I want to get.

Now let's change subjects and get off of that, because I don't know.

So let's move on to technology.

If you're a listener to five minutes of gray here, Dave.

I told you that I upgraded my system to a Mac mini M4 with a 16 gig RAM and I got 528 on hard drive and I went out and I bought a dock for it and it gets it up off the gear, off the ground.

There's some air between the dock and the bottom of the Mac Mini so it can breathe.

And it also has an enclosure that I can add up to 8 terabytes of storage if I want to.

So I thought, okay, well let's go in and let's go ahead and add two terabytes to this.

And I added it and I'm positive I got the, the one that they wanted me to get, which was a Samsung 990 Pro.

And I added that and boy, that devil.

When it's plugged in, even when I'm not importing to it or I'm not used, I mean it's being used but it's not being directly used, it gets hot.

And that bothered me.

So I wanted to do some research into that.

But if you're somebody who has a, an external drive that you've made yourself and you've inserted a 990 Pro by Samsung, do me a favor and let me know if it's getting hot on you.

I mean even in an external exclosure.

Because this is enclosed in a capsule, you know, in, in this dock it's not, it doesn't have a fan in there.

It's not powered by anything but the Mac Mini.

But it's.

I have now since unplugged that dock from my Mac Mini and is now just basically a stand.

The only extra thing I was going to get out of it was a couple of USB A ports and I wasn't worried about that.

I wanted to get there to be some space between my desk and the bottom of the Mac Mini so that the fans could work properly and not make noise and it gets the air it needs.

And the, the 2 terabyte was just an afterthought, but I did it and I'm not happy with myself.

I don't know what I'm going to do about it yet, but I'm going to do some research.

So if you know about these things, please give me a shout at five minutes with gray hair Dave at the website.

Five minutes with gray hair Dave.

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Five minutes with gray hair Dave.

You can go to the Contact me page and leave me a message or you know, via an email or you can just tap that Little microphone and leave me an email and the message and I will of course get back to you.

I have received an.

An email on there recently and this is what made me think of this today because it was a very, very nicely worded email from this nice lady or this nice person named Devin, who.

And Devin, if you're out there listening, hey, thanks for the email and yes, I would like to, to have a chat with the person you were talking about.

Where is it?

There it is.

There was a gentleman out there who had heard or she listened to.

They listened to my episode and they're very big into technologies and I wanted to let them know that I'm interested.

So I'm going to email Devin and let their.

Let them know that I am interested in talking with this person.

And if this is something that you wouldn't mind hearing about, I'm going to put.

I'm going to interview this person.

Hopefully, as long as they don't charge for the interview.

Because I don't believe in charging or paying to interview people.

I would never charge somebody to enter to interview me on a podcast and vice versa.

I would never let any.

I would never charge anybody to either a interview them or be on their, on their podcast.

I don't think that that's what it's about.

Now, if you want me to speak at a conference about what I'm talking about, well, that's a different scenario.

That's a speaking gig.

This is a, this is just an interview where we're sitting around talking.

And I would, I would also put that on boomer podcasters because I think it'd be interesting for a lot of baby boomers to understand these things.

You know, what are they getting into?

What do they got?

These types of things are important to baby boomers, you know, as well as gen X, gen Y, gen Z.

Not everybody is a tech person.

That's just the way it is.

Not everybody is.

I like tech.

I enjoy the heck out of it.

And most people allow me to help them when they have problems or questions.

And if they do, I help them.

If, you know, if I can, doesn't mean I always can.

Just means I will always try and help.

But anyway, anyway, that's about all I got for today.

If you know somebody who's interested in starting a podcast, please go ahead and have them get a hold of me over at gray hair productions.com that's G R E Y hair productions dot com.

They can leave me an email and I'll get back with them about, you know, whatever Their concerns are try and help them with whatever they're doing or help them get started completely.

It's, that's what I do there.

And you know, I also do editing for people.

So if you know a podcaster out there who's frustrated or even a video person that's out there doing, you know, TikToks or YouTubes or longer YouTube and you want help or they want help, let me know.

Tell them to go to Gray Hair Productions.

That's what I do.

I edit audio and video, short form video.

I'm not, I'm not the, the movie editor.

I'm just a, you know, a video editor.

I can do, can do that.

But also folks, if you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, doesn't know where to find it, doesn't know what genres are there are out there and please do me a favor and, and let them know what there are.

Show them, Take them by the hand, put it, put the phone in your hand and show them where it is and, and use 5 minutes of gray Hair Dave as an example and have them follow me.

That way they can get me and they could tell others about it.

I'd appreciate that.

Next.

Folks, the weather's been crazy across the country in US and the world is going crazy all around us.

So when you're out and about and you see somebody you don't know, just smile or wave or say hi for no reason at all other than to just say hi.

It'll make their day and it'll turn in turn, it'll make your day too.

So on behalf of Dave here at Gray Hair Productions, I'm going to wish you a great week.

And if you think about it, have fun.

Talk to you soon.

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