Cobra Kai Diversity, Baywatch, and Toxic 90s Sitcom Lessons

• 1:26:53Asians didn't need a sitcom version because they're doing great and don't need nine roommates to remember to buy milk.
• 1:27:13Seeing yourself reflected on TV is maybe the worst thing in the world—Dennis Franz made you think you could be a fat racist cop, Beverly Hills 90210 made you think you could play a teenager at 35.
• 1:27:37Reality TV created a cycle: people grow up watching reality shows, get onto reality shows, have kids, get diabetes, and nobody knows how it ends.
• 1:28:15Tim and Ben toured a high-end apartment building in Century City to see what luxury marketing looks like.
• 1:29:03The realtor led with complimentary breakfast as the main selling point, as if treating a fat person—eggs, bacon, bagels, and lox to come after COVID ends.
• 1:29:55Ben was offered a gym and lap pool tour while Tim got shown a screening room where he could lock himself away from good-looking people outside.
• 1:30:26The apartment complex features a butler service that brings food directly to your unit so you don't have to be seen storming downstairs like an angry rhinoceros.
• 1:31:30A.A. Gill, a Scottish travel writer for the Sunday Times and Vanity Fair, wrote a brilliant article called 'Condos of the Living Dead' about high-end apartment marketing.
• 1:33:15Gill described salespeople selling a lifestyle of brushed steel and marble in apartments with hundred-thousand-dollar kitchens that no one will ever toast more than a bagel in.
• 1:35:26Steve Bing, a screenwriter and producer who hung out with Bill Clinton and Rob Lowe, jumped to his death from a building at 10,000 Santa Monica because he was broke.
• 1:35:53Tim speculates that Steve Bing may have called Bill Clinton about their shared bad deeds before his suicide.

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