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>> two years later riper became famous playing michael stiffic. >> why dont you start with your buddy, nixon. >> archie bunkers liberal son in law on all in the family. >> you are a meat head. >> how important was the show in the 70s? >> it was important from a standpoint of breaking the mold. it was a realistic urban show. most of the shows at that time whether it was andy griffith, gomer pyle or petty coat junction, they had a rural quality to it. this was urban life. >> the biggest problem be...

>> nice personal touch on that the president has to reach to people and make the call and connection that is established. it makes you feel good. this is somebody who will continue to do political coverage on the show. kind of nice moment. >> it was also favorable to donald trump. i dont know if he would call if it was a really antitrump show. i wondering like, i have an idea. if sitcoms will be introducing politics into their scripts can it go two ways? can a political show become a sitcom? i h...

Handing down the acts, and you have felt guilt for validating that culture? >> i spent nearly 30 years in the restaurant industry, an industry and culture that has been traditionally pervasively hostile to women. i celebrated that -- it was a very difficult 30 years, and in my first book that made my career, i think i -- i was so proud of having survived that i rom romanticized that culture and celebrated it in a way that i think unintentionally but it validated the worst instincts of meat head ...

But i shave. >> too bad you always lose that argument. what was it about "all in the family" that was so different? >> i wasnt aware it was different. writing out of my own experience. i grew up with father who insisted i was laziest white kid he ever met. >> youre a meat head. >> what? >> dead from the neck up. meat head. >> norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. >> we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our families, up the street, down the street, across from ea...

Teeth and i have to shave. i hate to shave. mornings that i debate with the mirror. should i shave or cut my throat? i shave. >> too bad you always lose that argument. >> what was it about all in the family that was so different than the things that came before? >> i wasnt aware there was anything different. i was writing out of my own experience. i grew up with a father like archie bunker who insisted i was the laziest white kid he ever met. >> you are a meat head. and meat head dead from the n...

Debatesing should i shave or cut my throat, but i shave. >> too bad you always lose that argument. what was it about "all in the family" that was so different? >> i wasnt aware it was different. i was writing out of my own experience. i grew up with father who insisted i was the laziest white kid he ever met. >> youre a meat head. >> what? >> dead from the neck up. meat head. >> norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. >> we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our fa...

Family" that was so different? >> i wasnt aware it was different. i grew up with father who insisted i was laziest white kid he ever met. >> youre a meat head. >> what? >> dead from the neck up. meat lead. >> norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. >> we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our families, up the street, down the street, across from each other. thats how we got to real problems. >> brother to brother talk about the birds and the bees. >> i have to stud...

But what strikes me, when i think back to that, you would tackle these political questions and you had cheaaracters that represented a variety of view points. everyone remembers archie bunker but you had meat head and the activists as well and it seems like you guys incorporated -- the appeal of the show was very broad and that was back in the day when there were four or five channels. when people do political television right now, are they aiming for a more narrow audience than you did? >> well...

Something about the baby boomer politics. george w. bush, bill clinton and barack obama. you would have to go to pyongyang to get farther out on the political map than these guys. theres nothing in common. which brings up a good point about we think things are so polarized in washington. they are head butting. >> a lot baby boomers there. >> they are almost all baby boomers. they love to argue. take all this with a little grain of salt. its archie and meat head. >> would that explain why sometim...

You said this is not a new thing. it is a return of an old thing with extended families living together. >> yes. in some houses, not so pretty, but in a nice house, it can work. >> and it makes for a great sitcom. who can forget the bob crane show? >> who can forget the -- >> remember the bob crane show where they moved back into the garage? >> 18 and over on that one. >> what about meat head and whats her name moving in with archie? without them we would have had a lot of that repatroi. >> a ni...