Some More News - This Arnold Schwarzenegger TV Movie From 1980 Explains Everything Wrong With America
Episode Date: June 3, 2026Hi. On today's episode, we look at a YouTube copy of the 1980 TV movie "The Jayne Mansfield Story" starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, including commercials, and reveal how it e...xplains everything wrong with the United States in 2026. Seriously, that's what this episode is.Watch the original broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUI9PwT3eMMHosted by Cody JohnstonExecutive Producer - Katy StollDirected by Will GordhWritten by David Christopher BellProduced by Jonathan HarrisEdited by Gregg MellerPost-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John ConwayResearcher - Marco Siler-GonzalesGraphics by Clint DeNiscoHead Writer - David Christopher BellPATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#somemorenews #arnoldschwarzenegger #TheJayneMansfieldStoryUpgrade your wallet today! Get up to 40% off @Ridge during their Father’s Day Sale when you go to https://www.Ridge.com/SMN #RidgepodDon't let a rough next day keep you on the sidelines—drink Pre-Alcohol to stay ahead of the game and make the most of every sunny Saturday. Go to https://zbiotics.com/MORENEWS to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use code MORENEWS at checkout.This year, skip breaking a sweat AND breaking the bank. Get this new customer offer and your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at https://mintmobile.com/morenews – Upfront payment of $45 required (equivalent to $15/mo.). Limited time new customer offer for first 3 months only. Speeds may slow above 50GB on Unlimited plan. Taxes & fees extra. See MINT MOBILE for details.DripDrop is offering our audience 20% off your first order. Go to https://dripdrop.com and use promo code morenews.Pluto TV. Stream Now. Pay Never.Chapters:0:00 - Introduction4:03 - The 1980 TV Movie "The Jayne Mansfield Story" Starring Loni Anderson And Arnold Schwarzenegger13:50 - The Slop Has Always Been Here20:49 - The Tragedy Of Jayne Mansfield28:35 - Advertising in the 80’s: It’s the same but different40:42 - “Vote Republican For A Change.”54:39 - We’re Making The Same Mistakes We Did in 1980See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Everybody calm down.
We're gonna talk about the 1980 TV movie,
The Jane Mansfield Story, starring Lonnie Anderson,
and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yes, we have to.
No, you can't skip this video.
It's illegal not to watch it.
And yes, I know, I know you haven't seen the 1980 TV movie,
the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You may not even know who Jane Mansfield is.
That's fine.
She's the lady in that boob picture.
Also, calm down, okay?
Just take a few breaths, like and subscribe to our channel.
It really help us out.
We're actually gonna need it after this.
Look, I don't know why this is happening any more than you do.
Like, as in any of this, the papers fall.
They're blank, but I can read them anyway somehow.
I go, oh, wow-wee!
I run out of papers, but I can't leave.
And then from somewhere, there's just more papers and so on.
We usually don't show it, but here, see, oh,
Oh, I'm out of papers.
I'm out of paper.
I can't explain it.
There's no escape, it's just happening, okay?
Because we're not just going to talk
about the 1980 TV movie the Jane Mansfield story
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
but specifically this YouTube copy
of the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger, brought to us
by the Museum of Classic Chicago Television,
whatever that is, but thank you for your service.
Because this YouTube
copy of the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger
happens to be the original debut broadcast on CBS with ads as it appeared in Detroit on,
think about this, October 29th, 1980, which is six days before the 1980 election during
which America got Reagan fever, which is similar to Trump fever, although I guess that's just COVID.
So that makes this copy of the Jane Mansfield story,
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
a sort of time capsule, a two-hour chunk of entertainment
showing a simpler time in America before social media,
before AI slop, before all this stuff that sucks.
We weren't always trapped inside this giant fishbowl of fear
and distraction and propaganda.
So I figured it would be fun to just, you know, check it out.
Open the time chest and see what sort of treasure is inside.
Let's watch the first, I don't know, 10 or so seconds.
For fun, jump in that old time machine, put on your fancy steampunk hats,
and have ourselves a jaunt.
Let's a go!
A two-day-old baby was found dead in a Taylor Garbage dumpster, that story at 11.
Alright, well, you're all mad at me now.
I can feel that. Sorry. I'll say it.
Sorry. Bad start.
I wish you could skip this video, but you can't.
Trump passed a law saying you have to watch it.
Also, I didn't want to tell you this right away, but here's some news.
This copy of the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger
is the most important 80s TV movie to watch if you want to understand
everything that's gone wrong with America.
Not just back then, but right now, I have found,
through not watching any other 80s TV movie,
but the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
that the key to America's darkness is in the 1980 TV movie,
The Jane Mansfield Story, starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Is my ear bleeding?
Everything wrong with America is in this copy of the 1980 TV movie,
The Jane Mansfield Story, starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It's best that you don't ask too many questions.
Think of it like smoking weed.
Don't fight it, go with the flow.
If you see a cop, just immediately freak out and run
because they know you're high!
You gotta go!
They know!
Yes, we are going to talk about this YouTube copy
of the 1980 TV movie, The Jane Mansfield Story,
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
That is this episode.
But mainly, we're gonna talk about each of the different ad breaks
between the movie itself.
But, surprisingly, we're also going to talk about the movie.
Ha ha! All right! Movies!
It's hard not to acknowledge that, for example, this is a movie from 1980 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger pre-terminator in which he plays a dramatic part and in fact is the narrator of the film.
It's not good. We love Arnold, but
You know, I don't even know you anymore. You're not the same chain and merit
What are you talking about? Well, all I need is an angle. I mean, just one one more
really good spread in Playboy.
Playboy.
It's not good.
But again, this isn't really about the 1980 TV movie
the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It's about the spaces between the 1980 TV movie
The Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The notes not played.
The ads that would, one imagines,
be playing everywhere in America during this time.
This time being right before Reagan was elected president
In a landslide sounds regular and not weird.
For real, some of them will be regular and not weird.
Like the first one.
These new granola clusters are a delicious, sweet, chewy treat.
But I like them because they're 100% natural, made with things like honey, oats,
natural sugars with no additives or preservatives.
Hey, candy lovers, something new granola clusters.
Granola's answer to candy.
My answer to candy.
See?
It's fine. Not a single dumpster baby there.
Just a corporation pretending their product is healthy because it's natural.
We've been doing that forever and still do it and it'll be a thing that always is.
So why are we even doing this video?
Is there something sinister about these granola clusters?
Or maybe a metaphor I can shoehorn in at the end or something.
Stick around to find out.
I'm not going to play every ad in this video is my point.
Sometimes I'll want to, but I won't.
And a lot of them seem innocent enough
until we start to notice some patterns.
For example, in the first ad break,
we get multiple commercials aimed at a certain demographic
that perhaps, of which most of us aren't really a part.
This wine always takes me back to the lake.
And that tiny island we used to sail to
for those great picnic lunches with Lake Country Wine.
And I'll never forget those parties.
Great food and Lake Country Wine.
Light, fruity wines that made everything taste better.
Guess what I'm thinking about.
Is it, uh, Lake Country Wine, you MoneyWod?
The only wine that comes in a giant salad dressing bottle.
For the record, I do not believe Lake Country Wine was an expensive brand.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
And yet it was marketing.
to people who routinely take their boats to island parties,
or to people who think they're the kind of person
who might one day take a boat to an island party.
It appears to be made by the wine company Taylor,
which wouldn't you know it, had just been bought out
by the Coca-Cola Company in 1977,
in what is described as a corporate takeover
of a family business.
Because it's 1980, baby!
It's like watching the middle of invasion
of the body snatchers.
Not everyone,
has been enveloped into the great Unicorp just yet,
so we're actually going to see some unfamiliar brands.
But most notably, we're going to see a lot of ads
that want to associate themselves with the upper class
and fancy lifestyles.
Right before this, there's a whisk commercial
centered on a family at the tennis club.
You know how you're always getting collar-stained
while you're doing a quick match with the boss
down at the Golden Racket?
And throughout, we will see everyday products
placed on ornate pedestals in elegant rooms, as if to attain them is to also attain wealth and
status. Almost every ad will feature a big suburban house and just sort of assume that middle
class life is the baseline, which is a stark difference from today, where advertising to the current
adult generation is far more focused on their lack of wealth. We're poor now is my point,
more than before. If being poor was money, we'd be rich. And,
You can really feel it when watching this broadcast aimed at the same demographic in the 80s.
As we get into the next ad break, we continue to see this difference, such as a mascara ad
where everyone is on a yacht.
But with that discrepancy, we also start to spot similarities.
Because I don't know if you know this, but advertising is and always has been a little unhinged
in a way that's not unlike the slop we see today.
Exhibit A.
That there is a slice a bite.
PEP up a livelier party.
Cheese adds a slice a bite.
That there is an ad for cheese.
Which cheese?
Nope, you idiot.
Just cheese.
The idea of cheese.
And how it will make your food obtain brief moments of sentience
and squirm about like a frightened worm on a lab table.
Delicious.
Delicious. You might remember how we used to do more ads for cheese the concept, much like we did
Got Milk Ads. There's actually something called the Agricultural Marketing Service, which exists
to just advertise on behalf of American farms. And during this time, at the end of the 70s,
we actually had too much cheese in America. What I mean is that Jimmy Carter had just bailed
out a struggling dairy industry, resulting in a surplus of milk production.
which the government then purchased and processed into cheese.
Government cheese!
A phrase you might have heard.
Cheese that the government just had.
They didn't know what to do with it,
and in fact, one official had suggested they just dump it in the ocean.
It took like a year after this broadcast of the Jane Mansfield story
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger for Reagan to do the obvious.
Just give it to needy people.
But only after left-wing groups pushed him to do it, pointing out his cuts to the food stamp program
while also hoarding surplus cheese.
It's just so obvious in retrospect, and we have to assume to reasonable people at the time
that if we produce too much of something, there's no reason not to just give it to people who need it,
especially, but not only when the other option is dump it in the ocean.
I point this out because we are currently in a similar situation where farms are overproducing.
But going back to this ad for cheese and dairy marketing throughout the years,
the government ultimately went in a different direction.
In 1983, Reagan signed the Dairy Production Stabilization Act,
specifically to appease a group of Republicans in need of re-election as well as the dairy lobby.
This act included the creation of a dairy promotion program that would go on,
to work closely with corporations in order to push products like cheese on the consumer.
Presumably, so we never have to give away free cheese ever again.
And boy, we sure did start eating more cheese.
And for good reason.
A.
Yum!
And two, the dairy promotion program is why, for example, Domino's Pizza exists in our school cafeterias.
It is the reason why, no.
No joke, the Taco Bell Cantina double steak cascadias even exist.
Cheese!
We injected it into everything, turning all the food into a wriggling nightmare.
Speaking of wriggling nightmares, here is an ad from the 90s that is a direct result of the dairy promotion program.
Do you really think this is the right thing for us to be doing, Yvonne?
What will people think?
Let them talk.
Dono, Dono, Yvonne.
Yvonne.
It's wrong, isn't it?
But it feels so right.
Then it's a deal?
Yes, we eat our pizza the wrong way.
Crust first.
He buried her on his golf course.
Again, to be clear, that is not an ad from the 1980 TV movie
The Jane Mansfield Story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But that sexy Donald Trump ad was made possible
thanks to the Dairy Promotion Program encouraging the invention of stuffed crust pizza.
And therefore, causing that ad to again.
causing that ad to exist.
You can draw a direct line from that cheese ad
to Reagan, to that Trump ad, to Trump using his pop culture celebrity
to become president.
Am I saying we should blame cheese for authoritarianism?
Yes. Is it still delicious?
Obviously, cheese, watch it, it's a yumber.
Anyway, this ad would be soon followed by another one
with a familiar slop sheen, but of a different variety.
Mrs. Lee, I'm going to convince you
that one pain reliever is different from all
these others. Oh, you'll never do that. Okay, watch. Two regular tablets, 650 milligrams. These
other pain relievers also, 650 milligrams, 650 milligrams. You see, they're all the same.
Look, 800 milligrams. Annison. Addison has more pain reliever. More pain reliever and a special
combination of ingredients. I'm going to try Anison. Get the Anison difference.
Fun fact, that special combination of ingredients is, in fact,
aspirin and caffeine.
That's by their own admission.
Also, cancer and kidney failure.
At the time.
And to be F&B,
Aniston wasn't the only medicine
that had the ingredient fanacetin,
which was being removed that same year.
But, wow, the ad, that is slop.
The guy's like,
I'm going to convince you that one of these painkillers
is different.
And she's like, well, I doubt it.
Nothing could ever be different from something else.
And then he just puts down boxes where one of the boxes says something different, and she's like,
wow, I can't believe it.
Such wizardry!
Like it's a game show or something?
It just gives me that TikTok vibe where an ad tries to disguise itself as like a prank video
or someone being randomly approached on the street.
Also, I'm pretty sure the reason this Aniston ad is so weird is because just a few years
earlier, they got in trouble for falsely advertising that their product that had the aspirin
and caffeine in it was also a stress reliever.
Oh, my, oh, oh, my stress is so relieved.
See, basically, there are a bunch of painkillers, and most of them are the same product,
but they had to find ways to pretend they were better.
Anison, one of the oldest of these products, has a long history of pretending they were
something other than aspirin, likely because aspirin is actually cheap to buy.
They aren't the first, but one of the pioneers of getting rich simply by slapping a brand on something ordinary.
Like putting your name on bland steak.
I bring up Trump only because there's a 1988 Atlantic article about Aniston where the reporter calls the former CEO of the company who speaks exactly like our current president, saying, quote,
I don't talk to prostitutes before hanging up on them.
None of that is in this dipshit Aniston ad, but it's all bubbly.
under the surface.
There's sort of a crossroads here.
A point of American glee caked over tales of corporate malpractice and the overproduction
of goods that could, in theory, push into a new era of accountability, regulations, and
public assistance.
But didn't.
And instead, it's foreshadowing an era of government-mandated commercialism and corporate takeovers,
this deep darkness festering, creeping up like a spider under your pillow.
It's like watching the months before 9-11 knowing that America was hurtling toward a sickness
to which there was no cure.
Hey everybody, guess what's up?
They up the fresh and fresh in a day of the fresh.
About the fresh, about the fresh, how they up in...
With new flavor waves for more refreshing flavor through the gum.
Truly Dark Times.
Okay, maybe I'm being dramatic.
This is our third ad break in the broadcast of the 1980 TV.
movie, the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
An ad for a gum called Freshen Up, which I guess existed.
According to the scholars at snack history.com, it was discontinued not long ago,
and most notably did an ad in the 70s where they compared their product to committing suicide by cop.
I'm only a little bit exaggerating there.
You not sure me.
Aunty, Sheriff, I didn't know the gum was loaded.
You didn't know freshen up was loaded with flavor.
Specifically, the cop from Dukes of Hazard.
Yet, somehow, that's still better than their previous
It Comes in Your Mouth campaign.
Hey, what do you love about freshen of gum?
Okay, everyone calm down.
We're having some fun with this discontinued gum.
Nothing scary about gum.
Oh, but also, sorry, around the time of that ad,
the magnesium stearate dust in this gum,
ignited and killed six factory workers.
So the gum was loaded after all.
Sorry, I'm so sorry.
I don't know for sure if that's why they moved away from the hole.
This gum will squirt and or go off like a gun angle.
But, you know, the company was cleared of wrongdoing
because while they knew the chemical was dangerous,
they were trying to phase it out.
You can't stop making gum entirely, though, I guess.
Fresh and forward.
Again, it's a crossroads moment.
The late 70s weren't a great time, for many reasons.
We were coming off of a recession after all,
but there are a lot of artifacts here that point to a version of America
that could have addressed the current problems
and led us to a better situation.
Like, the very next ad for Chicken of the Sea
is actually themed around the fact
that they are regulated by the government,
although they do that in a very creepy way.
My tuna casserole is approved by the U.S. government.
Huh. Maybe I don't say it like that.
They make it real cutesy saying that mermaids like their tuna,
because I guess mermaids hate tuna and want them to die,
along with the dolphins that were ostensibly used as bait.
You see, encircling pods of dolphins to catch tuna
was a commercial practice that, when exposed, led to boycotts,
as well as regulations requiring things like those dolphin safe labels
that are notably missing from that chicken of the sea commercial,
because the whole Dolphin Safe thing didn't come until the late 80s.
That future label being, as others have pointed out, oddly specific.
Like, what of, you know, other sea creatures?
Best not to think about it.
Or the lawsuit that happened back in 2019 about how these brands aren't actually Dolphins Safe.
Or the lawsuit before that lawsuit,
where the three biggest tuna brands pleaded guilty to criminal conspirators,
in a price-fixing scandal.
Because I guess tuna is a weird monopoly now.
One tuna!
And eventually, no dolphins.
But back to this ad from one of the companies
implicated in all that stuff I just said.
There was this will-they-won't-they
with the idea of regulation during this time,
and you can feel the Reagan of it all creeping in.
Because at this point, we need to mention
the actual movie playing around these ads.
ads, which if you don't recall is the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Because I don't know if you know this, but Jane Mansfield died young and quite
tragically, as depicted in the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Fucking, yikes. Basically, her head was crushed when the car she was a passenger in,
collided with, and went underneath the back of a tractor trailer. A real final destination,
situation. Someone should put like a bar or something to prevent that from happening. Oh wait,
they did. It's literally called the Mansfield bar. Jane Mansfield's death was a famous example of a
lack of and then push for a much needed safety regulation. As an aside, stronger Mansfield bars
weren't officially mandated until the 90s and that was after pushback from the trucking industry.
So she died in a car she wasn't driving due to the lack of a
a certain simple safety measure.
And what's fascinating is that this movie, the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger, seems to want to imply that her death was kind of her fault,
or rather, a lot of the film is spent on everyone's concerns that Mansfield is too focused
on her flailing career and not spending enough time on her family.
But you haven't done a film in Hollywood in years.
Besides, you don't have to work anymore.
I can take care of us.
I run my business investment from my peer.
But I am a movie star, that's what I do.
Well, maybe it's time to stop for a while.
Boy, he's trying.
There are a lot of scenes like this of people telling her to stop working and to stop having ambition.
And it's hard to tell if the movie knows that that's unfair.
And then, in the end, she dies on her way to a gig.
The film appears to treat that as a result of her choices in life
and the fact that she acts unseen.
safe in cars.
I don't have to be careful.
I am the toast of Hollywood.
Oh, I want some more champagne.
Baby stop and get me another bottle of champagne.
Please come down.
I don't ever want to come down.
I wish the whole city of Dallas could see me now.
Oh, how do you have stanged up there?
Odd film.
Might be a bad and stupid movie?
I don't mean to dump on it too much, I guess.
I just think it's interesting that this biopic
wanted to give some meaning to her
and decided to link it to the fact that she was out working late, when the reality is that her death wasn't even close to being her fault.
It was an undeserved death partially due to a lack of regulations that the film treats as a personal responsibility issue
before showing us this slasher movie zoom in of her screaming face moments before she's killed.
Hey, gross! And so you see how this all feels like it's leading to something, right?
because it's actually going to get grosser and weirder.
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Do not, you don't know, you don't know the jingle?
I did it how it goes.
This isn't a piano.
Well, it's this again.
Yes, we're here.
We're back and we're still talking about the 1980 TV movie,
The Jane Mansfield Story, starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
That hasn't changed.
Still not sure why we're doing it.
Maybe we're mad at you.
Maybe we wanted to hurt you.
I don't know.
Was it a bet?
Are we winning a bet right now?
Did we lose a bet?
Well, whatever the case, we don't have a choice.
We've come too far.
We're already on still the third ad break out of seven.
There are seven ad breaks in this 1980 TV movie,
The Jane Mansfield Story, starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
and we're going to talk about all of them, I guess.
Seems stupid, whatever.
Anyway, ad break three had that exploding jizz gum, if you recall.
And to be fair, and that other thing,
a lot of these ads aren't sinister on their face.
They just give hints of what was happening during this time.
In some ways, they are vastly different from what we see today,
and in other ways are exactly the same.
You may have noticed, for example, the presence of jingles.
For you kids, commercials used to make up whole little fun songs for their products.
It was an entire now extinct industry that during the time of this 80s broadcast
was already getting a little stale.
Almost every commercial we've shown and how,
haven't shown has a jingle.
That gum that doesn't exist anymore
had at least three different jingles.
They probably had a fourth one too
that hopefully isn't set at a location
that makes it some sort of dark harbinger.
Wow!
Sit down, Krebs.
Sorry, Teach.
I didn't know the gum was loaded.
You didn't know fresh and up was loaded with flavor.
He didn't know the gum was loaded.
But who expected all this taste?
He didn't know.
Didn't know.
The dumb was so dead.
At least it wasn't about squirting, I guess.
Anyway, it's post-Dawn Draper-era slop at this point.
The final nail would come a few years later,
when Michael Jackson was asked to do a jingle for a Pepsi ad,
but instead opted to just do a weird owl version of Billy Jean.
We can't play it here for obvious reasons,
but instead of Billy Gene is not my lover, it's,
You're the Pepsi Generation.
And then it ends with Cheers the Pepsi Way.
instead of all the Billy Jean stuff.
It's terrible.
It fucking sucked.
Which, of course, made Pepsi very happy.
And surprisingly, a lot of musical artists were absolutely tickled pink with selling out.
To quote Madonna, who also partnered with Pepsi during the release of Like a Prayer,
I like the challenge of merging art and commerce.
As far as I'm concerned, making a video is also a commercial.
The Pepsi spot is a great and different way to expose the record.
So there you have it.
Much like how we killed voice actors today by just giving those roles to Chris Pratt,
we killed the jingle industry because rich artists wanted to double-dip.
Rich people cutting corners to get more rich, so it's different, but also the same.
Otherwise known as capitalism, and it's not the only example you'll notice.
Like, there are several ads for just objects.
There's an ad for a plate and an ad for a raincoat, and it's
It's kind of this quaint reminder that the world wasn't always run by four companies, and
a fucking dinnerware set could afford and benefit from airtime.
But at the same time, this is exactly like Instagram ads today, where you can get a targeted
ad for a Cat Bowl or Star Trek themed fleshlight that I don't know, looks like Quark's
ear.
It's different, but the same.
But this is where the ads themselves start feeling a little sinister.
As you keep watching, you begin to feel
a little like you're on TikTok flipping through slop.
Complete with millennial pause.
How do you just color your hair when you can soft color it?
Fun!
Also, that's from a later ad break.
But beyond that, like TikTok,
it's this constant barrage of tonal and messaging shifts
where you're being told about unspeakable crimes one second
and then being sold McDonald's the next.
Literally.
She was the first woman to charge her husband with Brie.
I just don't see what she.
You have to make such a big deal about it.
The real story behind the headlines will surprise you.
Rape and Marriage, the write-out case,
Thursday at 9, 8 Central and Mountain.
Tomorrow on CBS.
Introducing McDonald's new McChicken sandwich,
a delicious new sandwich at a McDonald's kind of price.
So much to process from less than 20 seconds.
That McChicken looks huge!
What happened to the McChicken folks?
Yes, that was Linda Hamilton,
eventual star of the Terminator, Terminator 2 Judgment Day,
and Terminator Dark Fee.
which also starred Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 1980 TV movie The Jane Mansfield Story
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And yes, that was also Mickey Rourke, future co-star of the Expendables, which also co-starred
Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 1980 TV movie The Jane Mansfield Story starring
Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And yes, that movie was called Rape and Marriage, like a fun little play on the Frank
Sinatra song Love and Marriage.
And is in fact about a true instance.
of marital rape.
And while that ad played before a McDonald's ad,
the ad that played before it was this.
Your magic's in the air,
and I know you won't play fair,
but then you make me dare, you scoundrel,
you're such a scoundrel,
wicked, wicked scoundrel.
Scoundrel, the magical new fragrance from Revlon.
You, you're my scoundrel, you.
Beware, there's magic in the air.
Scoundrel by Reflon.
Okay, so in the span of like a minute,
we get a perfume ad about a scoundrel who's so obsessed with a woman
that he sees her everywhere,
set to a tune that is even more clearly aping Frank Sinatra,
then to an ad for a movie about marital rape
that is also somehow playing off of Frank Sinatra
to the brand new McChicken.
And you can't help but think about Donald Trump,
a man who has been accused of marital rape, and who also loves him some Frank Sinatra.
The kind of person that scoundrel ad feels built for.
And you think about that right-wing, trad wife movement that wants to take us back before
this point, when things like marital rape were legal, where this slice of television from
1980 is still too progressive for some of the conservatives today.
It's all just swimming around in these ads, tainting them, before they cut to a
newsbreak to tell us this.
A big loss for Chrysler, the story at 11.
Oh, thank God it's not about the dumpster baby.
I was white knuckling that for a second.
Also, what's that Hudson's thing?
What's Hudson?
That a guy?
Yeah.
So, Chrysler was losing money, it turns out,
which was significant at the time
because they had just received a bailout months earlier.
This is the first hint we see in the video of a gas crisis
that was happening at this time,
and earlier in the 70s.
Every American car company had specialized in gas-guzzling muscle cars, much like how we love our big special trucks today.
But as gas prices went up, people started moving towards smaller foreign-made cars.
There was, of course, Japan. We can observe that Japan became seen as a corporate threat in such historical texts as Back to the Future Part 2 and die hard.
But anyway, Chrysler got the bailout and eventually bounced back.
back before failing once again during the 2007 recession and getting another bailout.
Except that time, it didn't work, in part because Chrysler was still relying on selling vehicles
that ate a lot of gas.
They hadn't learned any lesson from before.
And after getting billions from the government, the company was bought out by Fiat, a foreign
company known for tiny cars in 2014.
Anyway, none of that is mentioned in that news break, probably because most of the
if it happened decades in the future.
But as we get further into the 1980 TV movie,
the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger,
we're gonna hear more about gas prices during this time.
A concern around foreign oil.
Another crossroads moment here for car companies and America,
followed by a deliberate effort not to learn from any mistakes.
Just a country circling this drain,
never caring to reach for a life preserver,
as it plummets deeper,
and deeper into the eddy's current
and into the icy depths,
which is, I guess, where we are now,
crushed at the bottom, no hope to survive.
Open to jar, a pizza quick sauce,
and open your own pizzeria.
New ragu pizza quick sauce turns bread into pizzeria fresh pizza.
Oh my god, that looks so good.
Holy shit, did you fucking hear that?
Ragu pizza sauce that turns any bread into pizza?
Like even, like, are communion wafer's bread?
There's a priest in the ad.
Like, like the family brought a priest they found
over to check out this ragu.
Maybe we can ask him.
He's probably dead now.
It's an old priest.
Like seeing a dog in a black and white picture.
What was I talking about before?
Open a jar.
A pizza quick sauce.
Pepperoni, mushroom.
Traditional sausage.
Sausage?
Like, you don't even need to add toppings.
It's in the sauce.
Do they not still make that?
Maybe I can buy a jar on eBay.
I'm gonna drink the old jar of sauce.
This is an ad break for, by the way.
I actually have no sinister twist about the ragu quick pizza sauce.
But I didn't look for anything either.
I don't know.
Maybe it's made with lead.
Who gives a shit?
It looks delicious.
This ad break is actually not terrible if we're like rating them.
There's an ad for the film The Stuntman,
which had Peter O'Toole, so that's pretty.
pretty rad. It's worth noting the sheen of middle to upper class marketing that's still there.
A conditioner ad where the lady appears to be in some kind of luxury orgy space.
There's a Mazda ad where the people getting the car live in a castle of sorts, but are
notably happy about the mileage the car gets, because Mazda, unlike Chrysler, apparently knew
that was a concern. And we are, in fact, reminded of that reality and a lot of reality at the second
news break. An investigation is underway tonight in Taylor where a two-day-old baby has been found
dead and discarded in a garbage dumpster. Iran's parliament will hold open debate tomorrow on the fate
of America's hostages. Parliament debated today, then recessed without making any decisions
on the hostages. The presidential candidates wasted no time getting back on the campaign trail
after last night's debate. And Chrysler Corporation has reported a third quarter loss of $490 million.
More news tonight at 11 o'clock. Shucks. The baby's back. Can't all
Abu-ragu pizza sauces, but this is the first real glimpse at what is happening in the world
during this time.
Most notably, the upcoming presidential election and the Iran hostage crisis.
And until this moment, the Republican Party has been a mere whisper in the darkness of these ads,
a faint odor in the air, like the moments before a lightning strike.
You can just feel the vibes are off.
And then we hit ad break five, and the great inky eye opens.
Danisher.
You can make magic you know.
Better taste makes the Danish Dainishur.
With the magic a pop and fresh stone.
Okay, not quite yet.
Danisher?
It's Dainisher?
That feels racist.
Why does he sound like that?
Sounds like he smokes.
Okay, just play the next one.
Congressman, I think we're running out of gas.
It's not as if the Democrat Congress didn't have a warning.
The last three presidents warned them.
Congressman, we are running out of gas.
But the Democrats who have controlled
controlled Congress for 25 years, ignored them.
They just went blindly down the road.
Hey, we're out of gas!
The Democrats are out of gas.
Vote Republican for a change.
Hell yeah, we got there.
After over an hour of buttering us up
with stories of dead babies and ragu sauce
and rape and marriage and scoundrels,
the GOP has made their move.
This is one of two political ads
during the 1980 TV movie The Jane Man's
Field story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, both of which encourage us to vote
Republican for a change.
There are zero ads for Democrats, and you're probably wondering what this whole out of gas thing is.
Well, as I keep saying, we had an oil crisis at the time, or rather, we thought we did.
In reality, the oil supply had only dipped a few percentage points, and what actually created
the problem was the panic buying from consumers, as well as gas companies raising
prices in anticipation of a shortage. We weren't running out of gas as the ad states. Obviously,
there were issues in the Middle East, more on that in a bit, and Carter did do some stuff to cause
the price of gas to rise. Specifically, he deregulated gas prices a year earlier with the stated
goal to wean Americans off of foreign oil, saying, and I quote, our national strength is
dangerously dependent on a thin line of oil tankers, stretching halfway around the earth,
originating in the Middle East and around the Persian Gulf,
one of the most unstable regions in the world.
Oh wow, he was right there, huh?
Not saying it was good to deregulate gas prices and let the corporations go wild,
but Carter, on multiple occasions,
seemed to know that what is happening right now in America
was going to keep happening unless we stopped relying on oil.
He put solar panels on the White House roof, again,
as a way to move us away from oil.
those solar panels would be torn off by Reagan in the coming years.
Of course.
God, he sucked.
Because just like Chrysler never deviating from their gas-guzzling cars,
America has and will continue to insist on oil, the GOP especially.
But here they are telling us to vote for them for a change
and stoking panic about a gas shortage caused by panic over gas shortages.
As a weird aside, the actor playing the,
Democrat in that video is named Ed Steffy, and he considered himself a Wendell Wilkie Republican,
according to one interview.
Wendell Wilkie was a presidential candidate who changed parties from Democrat to Republican
to run against FDR before embracing Roosevelt's politics and even proposing a new third
moderate party that would bring them together.
Not saying Wendell Wilkie was a good person, whatever, just pointing out that the actor in this
80s ad supported a moderate version of the GOP that would be absolutely hated by the
modern right wing. And I think that's fun to point out. Fun's the wrong word. Hey, did you know
that earlier in the year before the airing of the 1980 TV movie, the Jane Mansfield story, starring
Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Texas governor, John Connolly, went to Iran
in secret in order to persuade them not to release the hostages until after the presidential
election? That's a real thing that happened. He did it on behalf of
Bill Casey, Ronald Reagan's campaign manager at the time.
I repeat, Ronald Reagan secretly delayed the release
of American hostages in order to make his political opponent
look bad so that he could win the presidential election.
And he succeeded.
And then he got to live out an entire legacy
and not go to jail.
Dennis Quaid played him in a movie about how great he is.
Was it a good movie?
No.
But I don't have a movie where Dennis Quaid plays me.
So, I mean, I'd be lucky to get Randall Quaid.
So this is all tied together, right?
The GOP ad, leveraging outrage over gas prices,
blaming the Democrats, the barrage of news about this Iran hostage crisis,
all leading up to the 1980 election.
The GOP snaking their way into power, using fear and propaganda and lies,
all seen in this 1980 TV movie, the Jane Mansfield story,
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This crossroads in America, where we are,
tricked into taking the wrong path, and we never get back.
Whisper to me.
If you want to capture someone's attention, whisper.
Whisper to me.
If you want to capture someone's attention, whisper with nuance.
Nuance, as soft and as provocative as a whisper.
Nuisance lasts and lasts, and like a whisper, is impossible to resist.
Whispered to me.
Once by Cody, when you want to capture someone's attention.
Everyone else saw that ad, right?
I didn't just make that in my brain.
Did they say it's by Cody?
Did I make that perfume and forget?
You see how the more you watch it, the more you lose your mind?
Like social media and TikTok are worse,
but it's just a slightly faster version of this, right?
I'll show you.
Brace yourselves.
I'm going to play nearly a minute from the sixth ad,
break of this broadcast of the 1980 TV movie The Jane Mansfield Story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold
Swarton Hickert. We love you. We need you. We feed you. We'll school again. This is the Democrat
commemorative dollar. It commemorates the 25 years that the Democrats have controlled our Congress
and our economy. It commemorates 25 years of reckless spending. Since the Democrats got control
of Congress, spending has increased 700 percent.
and taxes have increased 700%.
And what is that dollar worth today?
36 cents.
Vote Republican for a change.
A two-day-old baby was found dead in a Taylor garbage dumpster.
That story at 11.
Cute cats.
Vote Republican?
Dead baby?
It's just Twitter, right?
The constant stream of adorable and abominable used to lubricate the propaganda in between.
It makes you realize what Robocop was so on about.
Assuming you didn't already know.
Fear and slop and ads and fear and what the fuck even is this.
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It makes you realize why we're all so fucked up.
Our parents just sat and watched this while we as kids also sat and watched this.
And then we act shocked about the stuff our kids
are watching now, as if that isn't just an extension of this tradition.
It's just...
In watching this 1980 TV movie, The Arnold Anderson Story, starring Lonnie Mansfield and
Jane Schwarzenegger, I couldn't help but feel the parallels to the media landscape
that led to and continue to plague the Trump era.
The ads, the slop, the commercialism, the Middle East and the gas crisis, the feeling
like after Obama, we had a chance to continue down a certain path and decided to
regress instead. And it makes me wonder what there is to learn about this copy of the
1980 TV movie the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger
that could perhaps apply today. But then there was an ad for The Awakening starring
Charlton Heston and I forgot everything again.
They thought they have buried her forever. The Awakening. What is that about? Why haven't
I seen that? Synopsis says it's a guy.
who's daughter gets possessed by an Egyptian queen?
Is that not also the plot of Lee Kronin's the mummy?
Why don't they just remake The Awakening instead?
Are we stuck in a time loop?
We should go to one more actual ad break so I can watch The Awakening,
and then we'll solve this mystery once and for all.
After the break, we're gonna tell you why we're all here.
Watching this video, not on Earth.
You catch your eye from across the art gallery.
the art gallery. She gives you a furtive look and wanders over to a painting by some young,
new, abstract artist. But then she stops, puts down her champagney glass, and turns back,
because she's just recognized that you're potentially saving hundreds of dollars a month on your
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largest 5G network. And oh, yeah, you get to keep your same phone and number. It's all yours.
Don't let anyone take it away from you. You link arms and leave together. Isn't your husband,
the artist, we're here celebrating? You ask. But then she replies, almost at a whisper.
The wireless plan! The wireless plan! Tell me more!
You step out into the rain and give the lady what you.
she wants, which is you saying, to get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to
mintmobile.com slash more news. That's mintmobile.com slash more news. Cut your wireless bill to 15
bucks a month at mintmobile.com slash more news. That's it. There's no catch. And then you
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access, fees and restrictions apply, see MintMobil for details.
At this point, you're in a taxi, really giving it to this married broad, giving information about MintMobile to her, respectfully.
Then you go to, I don't know, Chili's, and you say, thanks for the advice.
I mean, you're welcome for the advice about the phone, the phone plan stuff.
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Mike Newell.
The director of The Awakening is Mike Newell.
He did a Harry Potter, Donnie Brasco, and Pushing Tin.
Mike Newell.
Director of Mona Lisa's smile.
Just pulls scripts out of a bag and makes that script, I guess.
Also I watched it, it's boring.
There's not a single mummy in it.
It's all vibes and incest.
There's incest in the film, more than you'd expect.
Was this anything?
This episode?
The Awakening trailer was in the seventh ad break, by the way.
So we did it!
We got through the entirety of this copy of the 1980 TV movie,
the Jane Mansfield Story starring Lonnie Anderson,
and Arnold Schwarzenegger, we can all walk away and never speak about this again.
Except, here's some more news.
More news right at the end, which isn't actually the end.
And that's the more news!
This isn't over!
After the credits roll for the 1980 TV movie, The Jane Mansfield Story,
starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, this YouTube video continues for another,
No Foolin.
10 minutes!
We get 10 bonus minutes of this broadcast from October 20,
29th, 1980, 10 beautiful minutes that actually encapsulates everything we just looked at.
And in fact, now that I say it out loud, we didn't need to watch everything before it.
Yeah.
Damn.
We really didn't need to watch this whole thing.
That would have been ideal.
How did I even find this video?
Of the 1980 TV movie, The Jane Mansfield Story starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Whatever.
So the movie ends and we get a trailer for the movie.
movie Love at First Bite, which is about Dracula in New York.
Should have just called it Dracula in New York.
And then here comes rape and marriage one more time for an encore.
I bring it up because it's sandwiched between Dracula preying on city dames and then this
extremely important ad for Star magazine.
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In this week's star, discover Mary Tyler Moore's secret agony over the death of her
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Also in the star Caroline Kennedy's shattered romance.
An exclusive interview with Sophia Loren,
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and a doctor's guide to marital bliss.
I'll show you how to be your own marriage counselor.
Plus, Lori Brady's hot new horoscope for winter.
Holy tonal shifts, Batman!
And Robin, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger from the 1980 TV movie,
The Jane Mansfield Story, starring Lonnie Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Way to do a ska segue from Mary Tyler Moore's Secret Dead Son
to a guy who will teach you to be your own marriage.
counselor, right after the story of rape and marriage.
Then Hudson's again?
It's a pillow place, I guess.
Oh, it's a department store.
We used to have those before they all became Target anyway.
As I said before, such slop, such scams, such capitalism, all these contradictory ideas,
using Sinatra to push perfume and then talk about rape in the same 30 seconds, where we
seemingly sensationalize human tragedy in the scandalous tabloid way, zoom in on Jane Mansfield
as she screams for her life without really talking about what we're really talking about,
without thinking about what is actually going wrong here.
Like, you know why people put their baby in a dumpster?
Probably because they were assaulted, or maybe they're homeless, or both.
They do it because they are someone backed into a corner and don't have support.
During the same time this was broadcasting in the city of Detroit,
the local Republican Party was refusing to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment
while pushing harsher food stamp requirements, zero aid to migrants, and less support for health care and abortion access.
But when this video transitions into the actual dumpster baby news story, they don't mention any of that.
They just interviewed this guy.
We are checking the complexes now to find out if anybody was pregnant in the area here and was
appeared to deliver a baby recently.
That's a cop!
Are we certain he's not one of those?
second city guys on his way to improv class.
Because if so, great job, buddy.
If not, fuck you, pig.
So yeah, they're just gonna try to arrest anyone
who was pregnant and leave it at that.
They certainly weren't going to explore the reasons why it happened
so it can be prevented because that's the theme.
Not learning from mistakes sprinkled with an aura
of general hostility toward women at the time.
As I mentioned, all the stuff with Mansfield.
But what I haven't mentioned is that rape and marriage movie,
well, as they say, it's based on a true.
story about the first man charged with marital rape in the United States.
And while I haven't seen that movie, I went ahead and looked that up to discover that the
man it's based on was, in fact, acquitted of those charges.
He got away with it.
And then, in a grotesque epilogue, he would go on to assault two more women about 40 years
later, right around Donald Trump's first presidential victory, actually.
Another rapist, now president, who went on to deregulate and gut our government, including
safety regulations for truck drivers.
The kind of thing that could lead to an accident,
not unlike the one in the 1980 TV movie,
the Jane Mansfield story starring Lonnie Anderson
and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
We just didn't even try to learn or grow.
And watching this broadcast, it's almost like a beautiful punchline
that it ends with a minutes-long Reagan ad,
where he outlines his plans for America.
This is a man whose time has come,
a man whose principles have been familiar to Americans
for 30 years.
a man whose accomplishments make him the natural choice for president of the United States.
A man who believes that the decline of America must be halted and can be halted.
One, I will institute an immediate freeze on all federal hiring.
That'll help us to start slowing down the growth of the federal bureaucracy,
a single greatest cause of inflation in America today.
Two, I will order that every example of waste and inefficiency in government be eliminated,
in as orderly a manner as possible.
This will take great determination on the part of the President.
Well, I intend to be very determined.
Three, we won't just stop with the waste and inefficiencies we find.
Why not get the benefit of a fresh outside look at things?
What I'll do is call in the best minds from industry and from labor from many sectors
and ask them to volunteer their time as a service to our country.
Their assignment will be to go over the entire federal government with a fine-tooth comb,
and tell us where additional examples of waste are.
Oh good, he's gonna ask industry outsiders
to look for waste in our government,
a sort of department of government,
efficiency, sweet dickish lord.
He actually called it the Grace Commission.
It was led by a fucking chemical company CEO
with a history of no shit, hiring a Nazi chemist
as a company consultant.
So a Nazi adjacent rich guy looking for waste in our government.
Slightly better than an open Nazi rich guy.
In fact, the Grace Commission was somewhat ignored,
some suggestions used, but ultimately bogged down
with obvious conflicts of interest and scrutiny
over the numbers not adding up.
In other words, Reagan, who specifically said
he wanted to drain the swamp, created an early version of Doge,
and everyone was like, nah, that's really stupid, let's not do that.
After all, it's such an obvious con,
a way to sneak in corporate interests under the guys,
of something being healthy for us.
Like trying to claim your granola cluster is good for you.
See, I did it!
I did the callback!
This is all to say that today, with Trump,
we didn't just not learn from our mistakes in the 80s.
We even did some of the mistakes we didn't do.
Extra mistakes!
And it's all here.
All in this two-hour broadcast,
the most important broadcast for understanding
the pickle we're currently in.
Carter, the one-term president,
became a one-term president in part because he moved away from New Deal politics in a flaccid appeal to the center.
He was conservative enough that he easily teed up Reagan to ride in on a wave of propaganda.
Man, what if he got those hostages out before the election?
What would, can you imagine?
But it all feels very similar to what happened with Biden.
There's all the propaganda and desensitization, oil crisis connected to the Middle East,
never breaking away from gas.
I mean, Carter could barely introduce that idea before it was snuffed out.
In a way, it's comforting to know that not much has changed.
Until you realize that's exactly the problem.
What this two hours of television really tells us in the tone and the ads and the news
is that America is far more right-wing than I think most people realize.
That our normal baseline view of this country has been conservative for a very long time.
And any idea that we're moving to the left is actually a push toward the center.
It's partly why the Democrats appear to be held to different higher standards than Republicans.
They are, for some reason, expected to make their case to Americans far more than the GOP.
Well, can they appeal to Middle America?
The news always asks.
Meanwhile, conservatives are simply the norm.
And in a way, I guess that's correct.
After decades of us and our parents and their parents watching and absorbing this slop,
you realize why someone like Donald Trump was inevitable.
He's a scoundrel after all.
It's all in there.
And I guess the ultimate lesson we need to learn is that we need to identify this stuff,
these patterns as they happen instead of after the fact.
So many people are acting like Trump was only a bad president in retrospect,
as if people didn't warn them.
And they will do that with the next bad choice, too.
We're always kind of standing at these crossroads, right?
We always have a chance to change that course, perhaps in the upcoming midterms, just throwing that out.
Maybe, ultimately, I just think it's interesting that all of that can be seen in this one copy of the 1980 TV movie The Jane Mansfield story, starring someone.
Who was that?
Where? Where am I?
Am I at work?
What am I doing?
Did I just record something?
Is it...
Who's the...
What am I...
What do I do?
What do I say?
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