Historically High - HH 1v1 - 90's Shit
Episode Date: August 19, 2022Shows, Toys, Athletes, etc. It's Friday and we're playing just the tip with the weekend. What better way to fluff yourself than joining us on a journey back to the distant past.....all the way back ...to the 90's. What that really 30 years ago...? Fuck that makes me feel old. Well while we go and re-evaluate our lives, you just hit play and enjoy the trip back. Support the show Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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God, can you imagine that?
Like, you're named after that guy.
You get up to that level.
Like, what are even the odds of that?
If you're named after him to even be a ball player,
like how much does that impact your decision to be a ball player?
Yeah, well, I mean...
Do you have a kid that does that?
Yeah, it's like a premonition.
You were told earlier on...
You feel like you have to live up to it?
Yeah, I don't know if you have to live up to it,
but if you make it to the major leagues,
that's an accomplishment in and of itself.
Yes.
born to do that. It's crazy how much we have kind of we're out of touch with when we're like,
how did you not catch that or how do you not hit that? Like what skill level and what like
level an echelon that athlete is at? Like compared to like what you're at. Well, you see it
more recently just because there are just sluze of great athletes that have kids now like the
Vlad Guerrero juniors and all the NBA players where their kids are showing up to play is the
Steph Curry with Del Curry, the Michael Thompson and Clay Thompson.
You see that.
So those almost makes sense because you were just born into that.
But if you're some kid who has a dad that's an insurance adjuster and a mom that's...
That was how it was, I think, more so like in the 90s.
Yeah.
You had these guys that were coming up that didn't have...
They were the first generation where sports professionally was almost an option.
Yeah, where the big money contracts came from.
Because like looking back at our OJ,
podcast, he didn't make that much money.
No, but he was kind of the entry level to that.
So they found out that now you're having,
the kids coming up now or even another generation behind
are the children who grew up seeing that that was an option.
That that was something they could do for a profession,
so you've just gotten better.
And now all those kids that didn't grow up like that,
but looked at that as the echelon,
now they're trying to become professional athletes.
They're competing with all those athletes children.
The 90s was fucking crazy, man, which is like,
well, I'm glad we're doing this.
One v1.
That was a great lead-in.
Was it?
Okay.
So this is our one-de-one on 90s shit.
So, Adam, break it down on what we're covering as far as categories for 90s.
90s was such a big, just era and decade that we're going a little bit more with the options this time.
I do want to also put a disclaimer on this, that we're not just like going back and like talking about shit.
We like read about in the 90s.
Like, we're legitimate like 90s kids.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
90s were time.
Yeah.
So we're going to do trend.
We're going to do album,
athlete, toy,
TV show, and TV theme song.
Those things that when you got home from school
at like 3.30 and you turn on the TV,
you just automatically expect to hear that thing.
Did you watch TV in the morning getting ready?
I was a late sleeper,
so I didn't catch a lot in the morning.
morning, but after school, usually you had like 45 minutes between school and practice, or if mom and
dad were getting home at five and you had to go to practice after that, you had a little bit of
time to get your snack in.
Homework didn't matter back in the 90s.
I don't remember doing a lot of 90s homework.
All right.
All right.
So let's start with trend.
What do you think is the best trend from the 90s?
My best trend, and I don't know if this is personal, I'm sure that it had to have had a little
bit of a glow up everywhere.
Um, my 90s trend was bleached hair.
Mm-hmm.
I, I think I, I first bleached like, like, bleach.
Like, like, not, not well bleached.
Like this was just like, yeah.
Orangey, yellowy tint.
Mm-hmm.
You probably did it with peroxide at home.
Yep.
If you had a mom that did hair like I did, she actually went and got like more of the stuff that they use in a salon.
But everybody, I don't know if it was Eminem.
ever bleach your fro?
No.
I,
no,
I never did any natural.
Adam actually had
an afro.
Like,
you wouldn't think of it
like looking at your hair
went shorter,
but I guess is that the point?
Yeah,
it's just so much easier
to control.
Once it gets to
about an inch and a half
long,
the curls start to come.
I was going to say,
you,
it had so much body.
Just the worst
cultural appropriation ever.
All right.
It always seemed like it showed up.
I mean,
I don't know if it was real slim,
shady.
I don't know if it was
Eminem doing it, but everybody either had bleach tips.
You remember that stupid duck's ass that everybody used to do where they would gel it up
and then stick it up in the front?
You would always have that front tips.
Oh, yeah.
So like instead of like, yes, you would like, it almost looks like you put your hand together
and then brought it up.
Uh-huh.
And that tip was always bleach blonde on kids, even if there was no other hair that was bleak blonde.
It was popular, man.
You had Eminem doing it and then you had how many, you had a member like each of the major
boy bands with bleach tips.
Did you?
Yeah, you had, I think, I would Lance Bass from Insane.
think Backstreet Boys would have been who I would have had hair.
There was...
This is...
I can't...
I know.
I'm trying to think.
But yeah, I can think each one.
And then I'm sure it was one of the...
In 98 degrees, Nick Lachet, him and his brother, both of them probably had bleached.
Bleached.
But I think it was a staple...
In one point in time.
There was a...
In boy bands, there was always a mold.
I think that somebody had to fit.
All right.
Mine was hair related, too.
It was the middle part or bull cut.
So, like, I'm talking the middle cut.
If you remember, like...
God,
like prime time home improvement,
Zachary,
no,
not Zachary Taylor.
Jonathan.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
JTT.
That kind,
or the full-on bowl cut,
but you would still have the part
right down,
right down the mill,
as a former rocker
of the bowl cut for many,
many years.
Really?
And it was so easy
because all you do
is take the comb,
that side,
that side and everything.
The middle cut was
the middle part.
Oh my God.
Yeah,
back in the 90s,
a part wasn't just
a woman's error. Men had many
apart.
Wow.
Right. Let's do best album.
Okay.
My best album,
I don't know, I'm sure I listened
to it in the 90s,
but probably
just more after and still to this
day. But
Sublime Studio album, just sublime.
You got Santory on it,
what I got, all
those songs that you could just put the CD
in and play it back to back to back
and everything was just so
solid on the whole entire thing.
It wasn't bad fish. Bad fish was on
another one. But
there's just literally
everything. A pawn shop.
All sorts of just good
music.
And
it's a summer
anthem still, I think.
It's just so good.
And unfortunately, things didn't
go real great for Sublime
afterwards because I think it was
like a few months either before or after Brad Norwell, the lead singer, Odeed and died.
So if it was before, I think they probably knew that they had to get any lead singer and it wasn't going to sound the same.
But that album was just so solid.
All right.
I am going to go with...
Okay, so I'm going to do one that I realized is probably the best 90s album later in life.
And that was the Days to Confuse soundtrack.
know it's cheating sometimes to go with soundtracks, but I think the days and confused soundtrack is so good.
But it also is not technically 90s music. It's music from like the 70s when it was supposed to be.
But that movie's the biggest mind fuck ever. Really?
It feels like you are watching a movie from the 70s.
That, okay. Yes, it really does. The way that everything is done in it, I agree.
If I'm going with my album from the 90s, it's another soundtrack. It's the soundtrack to Armageddon.
I'm unfamiliar with that.
Okay, so you're familiar with the major.
song from Armageddon.
The Aerosmith
don't want to miss the thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This also had Journey on it.
Okay.
It had some additional
Aerosmith, and I love Aerosmith.
It has Zizi Top,
Bob Seeger,
Bon Jovi.
Not always the best
songs of these artists, but
Our Lady Peace.
It was just a solid,
I loved the movie, and so maybe I associate
with that, but
don't want to miss a thing.
It was a banger at high school dances,
and dances for the longest time.
You can get close with your sweetie.
So that's going to go with.
And I know, listen, that's no disrespect to other nights.
That's, you know, Doggy Stahl came out, Pearl Jam, Tann came out, the Chronic came out.
I'm just saying what I listen to.
Yeah, the Chronic is my honorable mention.
I still listen to the Chronic to this day.
Yes, if I'm going back and saying what the best ones were, that definitely makes a list.
But at the time in the 90s, that's what I was listening to.
All right.
Let's go to, see, I feel like best athlete.
Best athlete, there's just a one-one.
See, I stayed away from the, I stayed away from, I think probably like the three biggest ones.
Yeah.
Michael Jordan.
That was the number one that pulled up in.
That goes without saying we don't even need to discuss that.
Who would you say for number two?
My number two has got to be Barry Sanders for me.
Yeah.
And those two are obviously right there.
One that I wanted to sneak in, but I didn't feel right, was Bo Jackson.
Because for me, Bo Jackson's probably my favorite athlete of all time.
But he just did not.
He had his hip injury, and I think it was 91.
Yeah.
So.
I went with someone whose major accomplishments.
The bulk of their career happened in the 90s and their fame.
So who did you pick as yours that you wanted to use your selection?
Dennis Rodman.
Is that who you were going with?
Nope.
But I looked at Dennis.
mine's actually kind of in the same vein, actually.
I went with that because I went with someone who, when you look at them,
just put in prime and then put this person's name.
It will be their picture from the 90s and it'll be all of the stuff that they did in the 90s
when they were at their peak.
Yeah.
Okay, so go a little bit in on Rodman.
Rodman was the king of weird, the king of fun.
And obviously as a kid, excuse me, as a kid in the 90s,
I didn't know all the bad that came with all the good and all the excitement and all the depression and all just the shit that he went through in his life.
But a guy that was an undersized four, he was only like 6-7, maybe 6-8 and could bang down with Sean Bradley whenever he wanted to.
He was going against David Robinson.
All those dudes that were just bigger, stronger, and tougher than him that were going to be able to box him out and grab rebounds.
And the fun thing about Rodman is he was a generational basketball player that I don't think we've ever really seen since.
But what he did outside of the arena of basketball was just...
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Yeah, there's no words.
It's a guy whose exploits outside of what he was the professional at are what he's better known for.
And he was that good of basketball.
That's why he's not as well known for his basketball skills is because,
his exploits outside of basketball were even better than that.
Oh, yeah.
That would be like saying if Michael Jordan was also a better golfer than he is a basketball player.
And then Michael Jordan became known as Bo Jackson.
How many people do you think know Bo Jackson played baseball?
He was a better football player than he was a baseball player.
Yeah.
So he's known for being better at that.
Like Dennis Roddenin fucking was crazy.
Someone that like was at that level, but also had this complete other life that wasn't even related to
basketball.
The guy got married in a fucking wedding dress to Carmen Electra, I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was the king of scraping hot chicks from MTV in the 90s.
From that, I think he did-
He was basketball Pete Davidson.
Yeah, Jenny.
Yes.
Yeah.
I think he got in with Jenny McCarthy for a while.
And then Carmen Electra, him in Carson Daly on, say what, karaoke must have had
some sort of a bond or something like that.
Because every time one of those girls worked for, D. Rod was dating him.
Well, and that's the thing, too.
He kind of had that, like, like, imagine if, like, Prince was dangerous, that, like,
androgynous thing.
So he was, like, this androgynous bad boy that was not a lot.
There weren't a lot of people like that.
I mean, nowadays, you get people, like, that are more akin to that or kind of more just, like, openly out.
But he was just, like, I don't give a fuck.
The guy was getting his hair done before every single game.
It was, there were two things that you tuned in to see during a Bulls game in the 90s,
and it was what Jordan was going to do and what.
hair color Rodman had that night.
I love when you had the patchwork.
The Cheetah was hot.
I had in like second grade, we were supposed to do, like, a report on, like, heroes and, like,
favorite people.
And there were, like, pilots and Amelia Earhart and all that shit.
I pulled a whole section out of Sports Illustrated and put it on a big board of Dennis Rodman
with that cheetah hair.
And my dad was so pissed.
He's like, he is not a good person.
He's a good basketball player, though.
Like, let's, can I just do it on that?
He's like, no, you can't.
for me playing basketball. He just happens to look like this. Yeah, just the craziest dude. And
granted, later on in life, things did get very weird. Somehow him and, uh, Kim Jong-un or like buddies,
and he goes over and does that stuff in North Korea, which is very odd, but...
And again, not that known for that. No? That's how much the other stuff like offsets it. It's
crazy. Yeah. He's my athlete. All right. Kind of like you, I wanted someone that you just
looked at in your like 90s.
I went with Andre Agassi.
Yeah.
Yep.
The hair or lack thereof.
Did you know that was a wig?
Yeah.
Okay.
I thought I knew that, but then like,
I read it and I was like, oh shit,
I, no, I didn't know that.
I was like, of course it is.
If anyone is, okay, so pull out your phone right now,
if you listen to this, pause it if you have to,
go look at Andre Agassizzi.
Andre Agonzie 90s.
And you're going to ask yourself,
first of all, you're going to be impressed.
Secondly, ask yourself this.
Out of the selection of wigs
that you could pick to try to pass off
for not only this.
Man, you're playing tennis in this.
And you're also going to have to wear this
out and about in your daily life.
You don't just pick something like easy to keep
or anything like that. No.
this is like a full on like lions made you go wild yes and he's got the headband it's literally it's like
the epitome in 90s tennis if you're looking at it he lost it did you know he lost a match once it might
have been the french open final because his wig started to come off and he had to like he was trying
to keep it on and he wasn't able to like stretch to balls and stuff like that because of the movement
because he didn't want to lose the wig because he didn't want to lose the wig he was he had this thing
I'll get into his career in a second
but he had this thing where it was looks above all else
he had this like and he got over that later in his career
after he shaved his head and everything
but it was like looks
looks matter the most or your appearance matters the most
but one of the things about him was
so he was born in Vegas
just his upbringing is kind of crazy
like he ended up
not even graduating high school
he turned pro at like
I want to say 18
he was sent at 13 to this famous guy's tennis camp
his dad wrote him a check to pay for it
I was going to say he got there and after watching him for 30 minutes
the guy that ran the camp was like take a check back he's here for free
and he dropped out of school oh ninth grade
dropped out of school in the ninth grade to pursue tennis
he became a professional at I think 16 he competed in his first match
we're wildly like unrich person
like tennis is probably more of a rich person sport like it's a a fancier you don't think of that anymore
because like the williams sisters and you see how they like in the street like it's played a country clubs
one of my favorite um andre agassi stories is he um when he played he was sponsored by nike was it
nike yeah okay well he had a a nike tennis shoe called the nike tech challenge twos and he did
the nike tech challenges that weren't as great but when he had the tennessee tennis shoe you called the nike
the Tech Challenge 2s at Wimbledon, or Wimbledon, when you play at Wimbledon.
Yeah, you have to be all white.
Yes. He was one of the first competitors to have those Nike Tech challenges and have a little
bit, had a colored swoosh on it and ended up getting fine because he had the swoosh color
on there.
Yes, they don't fuck around.
Serena got it.
One of the recent guys, Kyrgos or whatever his name is, seems like not a great guy,
but kind of a fun bad boy.
He was wearing dunks out there pregame.
Like, it's.
They do not fuck around with it.
The British don't fuck around about traditional stuff like that.
So like Wimbledon, everything has to be, not even off white.
Can't have anything like you have to be wearing white.
And I think your logos have to be black or maybe like navy blue.
You might be able to get away with.
But most of these, a lot of these guys that are sponsored for the clothing manufacturers,
I'm sure they make some stuff.
But a lot of them have to have like custom made strictly white stuff to be able to play in.
Specifically for Wimbledon.
But he actually, Agassi actually stopped, didn't play at Wimbledon for like the first
three years he was available to. Two or three years, he was like, I'm not playing it because
I don't like your guys' traditional things that I can't wear it. But he was that good that it didn't
matter. He came back and he ended up winning Wimbledon a couple times, didn't he? Yeah. So, I mean,
he had a pretty good career. I mean, I think nowadays in tennis, and I don't know how many people
are fans of tennis out there, but I enjoy it. Over the last probably like decade, maybe like
decade and a half, fans have been kind of used to like these like certain players just
completely being dominant. Like for the longest time, like I grew up with like Roger
Fetterer. And he just dominated.
Then you had his rivalry with
Rafael Dandal. And then
now this Djokovic guy,
and there's been a few other people, but you get these
stretches where you have these just dominant men's
players. And it also depends on the surface.
But Agassi played
at the same time as Pete Sampras. So theirs was
like a big rivalry. So if one of them
wasn't winning, it was the other one. It kind of vice versa.
They were
so big back in the day that
a, like probably
one of the more famous Bayer rappers
Mac Dre. He
had a song where his lead
in was Andre Macassie and
Street Sampris. Oh really?
Yeah, they crossed over into hip-hop and
rap culture to get name drops on
major rapper songs.
See, the other thing
that's kind of cool about, Agassi, is
he, I think
in like 97,
he actually had
confessed that he was using
crystal meth. He looks like it
though. Well, with the hair,
If you're looking at the hair, you're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
But concerning that the hair wasn't even real, you kind of wonder about that.
But what ended up happening is he went all the way down.
So he was a former number one player before.
He dropped all the way down to number 141.
And they were just like, okay, well, he's done.
He's out of it.
So in like 98, he starts training again.
And then he ends up coming back in like 98 and makes, in 98 goes from 110 to number 6.
in the world. And I think he's
winning a major that year. And they said
and that was the start of the better part of his
career. So I mean, come back in, man.
Ditch that crystal. He ditched that crystal.
Ditch the crystal. He ditched the wig.
Have you seen,
what's the name of, it's a mockumentary. It's on HBO. It's called
Seven Days in Hell. Okay, you need to watch this tonight. I'm not
even kidding. Like, I'll start watching the Orville or whatever.
Anything you want me to watch, you watch this tonight. So it's on
HBO.
And it's a mockumentary, and it actually takes a lot of Pete Sampras's.
So, like, Andy Sandberg plays, like, this Pete Sampras character, but he's the white kid that was adopted by Richard Williams and trained with Serena and Venus.
No way.
Yes, so he's, and so he's the male tennis player, but he's got, like, the Andragsy hair, and he's, like, the bad boy of tennis and everything.
And then the guy that plays from Game of Thrones, Kit Harrington, that played John Snow, he plays, like, this British tennis player, like this up and
coming new hope for the British who's like this completely tennis obsessed guy like his mom
was like overbearing and didn't let him go to even like real school and all he knows how to do
is play tennis so he's like super socially awkward and he has all this staged and it's about this
match they had at Wimbledon where it lasted for seven days because no one could get a break point
and all this crazy shit happens during the match you need to watch it it's hilarious it's got
will Forte is like one of the announcers it's got a whole bunch of like well-known um
It's like actress playing the
Lonely Island guys or whatever?
Yes, it's kind of.
But it's, dude, it's hilarious.
And it's not that long.
It's like an hour long.
That ain't bad.
I recommend it.
Everyone, stop what you're doing.
Go watch that.
It's hilarious.
Except for listening to this.
Don't stop listening to this.
Yes, wait until we're done.
Okay.
So what do you got for Best Toy?
I'm going to go with,
I'm going to go with N64.
Yeah.
I tried to avoid video games
just because it's such an easy one.
But the N64
Well, let's not say it's easy.
It's not the...
Okay, here's the thing I'm talking about.
Is best toy on this one is this was like the centerpiece of your fucking like sleepovers.
Yeah, this to me felt like a branch of the electronics field where the diversion was you were either an N64 person and a Nintendo person before Xbox.
or you were PS1
because it was kind of
they didn't come out
close to each other
but it was one of those things
where it was either N64
or you waited to get
a regular original PlayStation.
See I think the N64
the way it changed the game
and why it was
it's my number one
for 90s toys
is that it allowed you
it was a fucking
sleepover game changer
it allowed you to go
from having a sleepover
with just one buddy
because like you could have
sleepovers with multiple friends
but the logistics,
if you just had the one gaming system
where two of you were playing
and taking turns and swapping out,
all of a set now,
you got four controllers,
you got Golden Eye,
you got Mario Kart.
A lot of sleepovers
revolved around.
A lot of friendships were tested.
Yes.
Some were broken,
the weak ones.
You got to find out
who your friends were
playing Mario Kart.
You got to find out
who that motherfucker was
using those bananas.
You found out
about a lot of people's characters.
GoldenEye,
you were introduced to
a whole other world of like
I know that there were first person shooters before that like there was doom and all that stuff
I think this was the first one that was like against each other wasn't yeah and it was like
the you had the four split screens you could run four controllers off of it it was for screen
peeking first was born and then you had those like you you always knew who that asshole friend was
because they picked odd job because he was shorter yeah so where your gun automatically sat line
of sight was like over odd jobs head if you were like close enough or like something
and so you had that asshole fucking use an odd job
where to the point where you just had to say hey
no one gets odd job. Yeah. We shouldn't have to say this
but we have to tell that one guy. It was when it was
a story before it became like a campaign in the
the one person mode because I can remember you had to save
Natasha out of the jail cell. It was exactly the movie.
It was the exact Golden Eye movie.
And Pierce Brosnan wasn't even a good. He was okay.
He was an okay James Bond.
But he, it was just
that game just reinforced
Golden Night. Golden Knight wasn't even a fantastic
The game was more popular than the movie.
Absolutely. Yes, because the game still gets
played. They're like remastering it or something.
It had
what was it? It was
WCW NWO
Revenge and it was
they did so many WCW games for
the N64 because it was just the
golden time during the
Monday Night Wars between
WF and WCWCW.
Do you remember this? You remember this music?
He's got it'll play it.
Yeah.
What other game had
pause music that was
just hot in the street?
Wait till the Xylmone kicks in.
Yeah. Like how
you put that much into your pause music?
It does
even though I was a PlayStation guy, it
transports me back to
you slept over at least at someone's house
that had you knew how to play
N64, even though you didn't have one.
So not to go into a dark story, but
a friend that I
had in second grade, him and I grew
up together, just
best friends all the time. And I had the
PlayStation and I did the PlayStation game,
so when we'd sleep over at my house, it was always
PlayStation. Um,
he's unfortunately not alive anymore,
but we would spend
nights over at his house on his bunk beds.
And we made sure that we could pull the N64 close
enough to where I could sit up on the top
and he could sit on the bottom and we would
play that shit all night
long and we would go
to Hastings because that was back
when that was the thing we used to have to rent video
games and we would rent something
that he wanted and I would always go wrestling
but we would always end up playing him
all night long and it was
the time of surge when
surge was a real thing was Jolt
Kola still? Yeah that was right with
Surge yeah it was if you wanted like
there were two camps
jolt was for the cola people
if you like to coke and everything
surge was for that mountain dew
if you needed your mountain dew
to have like two or three
times the amount of caffeine it should have
had six to ten ages six
to ten surge was
it was cocaine back then
you could jump on the tramp all day long
it was just it was
what you drank to stay awake and
was that's the first energy drink
what you would consider or was it because
like that's yeah it could have been
I mean, it was the first thing where they're just like, hey, how do we make Mountain Do Better?
What a time to be alive.
Yeah.
That was for not having an N64, but always have one in the field of playing and friends, it was just so key in every single sleepover, like you said.
All right.
What do you got?
I went with a vortex because the vortex was, to me, the epitome of recess in elementary school.
and I don't know if I just hit it the right time,
but elementary school in the 90s,
you would go out and you would play 500,
or you would play football out in the field,
you would pick your teams,
and it would be the game that you would play at the first recess.
I think we had three.
We had first, we had lunch,
and then we had afternoon,
because I'm sure they knew
that we could only handle so much learning.
But you would pick your teams first recess,
you would play first recess,
then you would play the extra long lunch,
and then you would play third recess
and whether it was 500
and you were out there hucking that thing a mile.
I don't know what the science is
behind putting a tail on a football,
but you felt like you could throw that thing.
You could Uncle Rico, you could throw it over the mountains.
It stretched the field.
So I think the progression when, you know, normal football,
then Nerf, that soft spiraled one
and everything that you could just snag with one hand
or if you were bored, you just pick the foam fucking right now.
Yep.
Once it got wet, it was.
ruined because the core would never get rid of the moisture in it because it was just a giant
sponge it would just suck everything up and then they put a fin on the back and made the football
smaller and it was just like got you you had to make the football feel like 30 or 40 yards
longer you could add more and you got to add more friends and everything but like every play
every play was go deep you hear the whistle the the whistle that they think they put on it later
I'll tell you right now I have a whistling vortex football at home I use it for
throwing it for Charlie.
Yeah.
And the reason behind it is simple.
I don't got to put much effort into that thing.
No?
Like this thing is pretty, the fins are all bent.
The nose has been chewed up and everything,
but it's still got the whistles.
But I can sit there and I can put like 50% throw into it.
And the thing is going almost like 40 or 50 yards.
It's the perfect dog toy.
It,
they should just market that as a dog toy now.
Make them a little firmer.
You remember the excitement when you caught a pass,
but it slipped through your hands and you,
just caught it by the tail fin you pinched your hands just fast enough to catch that there there's no better
feeling than knowing that you missed it but you still caught it it's still in your hands oh dude it was just
it was nirvana or those tips it would get tipped up in the air and you would just be and you grab it
by the fin take off running you say 500 dead or alive and you just reach back and throw that thing as high
as far as you can and everybody just immediately falls back as far as you got tired of throwing it by
yourself and you're just like these assholes can't catch anything jackpot dead or alive yes somebody get
me out of this position let me get back in the group let me get back into the scrum and start throwing elbows
to try to catch again oh god yes yeah dude that was elementary school for me growing up it's still
useful it's i still enjoy today it's still being used today what did you have for an honorable mention
um my honorable mention was sock and boppers because sock and boppers to me was like the invention of the
first time where you could actually use
like boxing gloves but
safer yet more dangerous as a kid.
Do your children love beating the shit out of each other?
Are you tired of explaining all in the bruises at the
store? Sock and boppers.
Do you know what CTE is? Because if you don't know what CTE is,
these are the best gift that you can have.
Do you ever think that sock and boppers introduced the
act or sport of casual living room betting on children
fighting? Like if you were like at a barbecue and the kids
out there, like, bust out the sock and boppers.
Put them on the kids.
It's harmless.
Yeah.
They're not going to hurt each other.
My kid has been swinging on me left and right.
I think my kid's tougher than your kid.
Yeah.
You got sock and boppers.
You got the blue ones?
I got the red ones.
After drinking, trying to figure out if your adult hand will fit into the sockum bopper
after the child fighting wasn't entertainment enough.
Yeah, not to mention that was, you would always see, it would always be a movie on not to tip
picks for the next couple, but you'd always see it on America's Funniest Home videos.
There was always some kid that was either getting decked or some dad that wasn't paying attention
that took one right in the junk, which all it did was just make the surface area bigger when you
got hit in the dick.
It's just so phenomenal.
Do you remember the Tiger Electronics Games?
The, like they had the old street fighter.
Yes, they were like maybe like, I don't know, like four or five inches by like six or seven inches.
And it was just a little screen.
black and white screen and it was all linear and it was almost predetermined positions for the guys like
they could but they did have like it was pre-game boy mm-hmm so they did have like street fighter
and they had like metroid and i think they might have had like sonic the hedgehog but those things man
on a road trip if you're just like sitting there can you imagine what a parent looking back me like
that thing it's a freaking like a half inch two inch screen and the guy just moves up and down
inside to side that's all he does you could do three moves four moves with the most but that
thinking back on it that just
triggered being
young and going to my
grandparents' house, they would
always have the
old like 21 like poker
and blackjack ones like that where it was just a little
handheld. I swear to God that's where
I learned how to do math.
I never even thought about that
but that makes so much sense that they would make
adult versions of those as a kid.
But like, yeah, having
like just blackjack or poker
or roulette or
anything like that, that would make perfect sense.
It just happened so much.
And in going into this topic and really researching and pulling it up,
I almost ended up with a white Power Ranger dagger.
Yeah, the white tiger sword.
And like we were talking about.
I believe his name is Saba.
Yeah, it could have been.
And he talked.
Yeah.
It talked at the end.
It had the white blade at the beginning.
that almost led me into buying that.
I almost bought the green one
from the Green Power Ranger, the original one,
the little dagger.
It was, yeah, to summon the Dragon's Lord.
Yeah.
Yeah, you remember these things from being a kid.
How did he play that without his mouth?
The mouth was just metal,
and he would hold that thing up,
and he would play the, you know.
His lips were pursed on his mask
to be able to do it.
Just so many things as a kid
where you see it again, you're like, yeah,
that shit,
we used to go into the store,
I even remember, I think it was the green one,
was the first time,
like one of the first memories of being a kid that I remember,
like being an embarrassment in a store.
I can remember throwing a fit for not giving it
and like trying to slip it into a cart.
My mom being like,
no, bro, this isn't happening today.
And I threw the biggest fit.
And I just remember that look for my mom.
Like, you little son of a bitch,
we're in public and you're pulling this shit right now on me.
You didn't do enough good things at home to deserve this.
We're going to leave right.
now. And it just so formative in my years. I remember so much of that stuff. God, I remember
wanting the morphin thing. The Megasord? No, just the morphin thing attached your belt.
Oh yes. And it had the coins in it and that they flipped them. It's morphing on. Yeah. And then
even like as a teenager and like growing up in my early 20s, they started making those into belt
buckles like nostalgia bell buckles that they sold like the Spencer's and shit. Yeah. Yeah.
At that point, I was old enough that I was like, I can't do this.
I can come back to it now at this age, maybe, but.
In your 20s, it's weird.
In your 30s, it's like, yeah, do this.
It's fashion.
It's current fashion forward when you're in your early 20s, because you're just out there in the wild,
trying to score some prey.
And no one's, you're not going to snag what you're wanting to snag with the Power Rangers
belt buckle.
A guy with a, a guy with the Power Rangers belt buckle isn't getting ass out of the club.
It's just not, it's never going to happen.
He should be, God damn it, but he's not.
Yeah.
You got to respect that.
I don't know how it is these days.
There was a generation that was just missed on me, like Yu-Gi-O and all that shit, where I don't get it.
I'm sure there's a subset that still are into that stuff, like Pokemon and all that.
I get it.
I understand.
I don't understand because I liked it.
I understand because I had things like the Power Rangers that made me understand how much it was to like that.
Yes.
All right.
What do you got for Best TV show?
Just leading into it, just as simple as that, it was Power Rangers.
It was...
Not necessarily.
Watching the show was great.
I remember being a Power Rangers fan club member and getting all the head shots sent to me.
And my parents being nice enough to frame them and put them on my walls.
I remember having the Power Rangers bed set, the bed sheet set.
This was back in the time when unfortunately things got a little bit weird,
but I had a Brett Favre light strike, like over the light switch.
Okay.
A light plate.
And it was right near as well.
Weiner was, which also got weird being that.
But it was either my Brett Farr bed sheet or it was my Power Rangers bed sheet.
You wanted all the toys.
You wanted the Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, the Green Ranger eventually when he got let in.
Yellow and pink being the girls, you always, that was kind of like your first crush.
I remember Kimmy being the pink one.
She was very hot.
Asian persuasion coming in.
You're seeing a yellow Power Ranger.
If you wanted to be mentally stimulated, Trini was your, that was your lane.
Yeah.
she was great. She was absolutely great.
It was just so much fun back then.
And that was like, yeah, I'm going to say it.
I didn't want to say it. I'm going to say it.
For us, that was almost like my first incantation of the token black friend.
Yeah.
Because it wasn't Zach.
It was Zach.
It wasn't Zach.
Yeah, it was Zach, Billy, Jason, Trini, and Kim.
And Jason was the Green Ranger.
No, no, no.
Tommy.
Tommy was Green Ranger.
Tommy was Green Ranger.
Because he ended up being a UFC fighter after that
and trying to do mixed martial arts
and all that goofy shit.
I think he was actually pretty good at it.
Yeah.
I think now he just kind of more leans into the Green Ranger thing
because they've had him back for like,
you know they've been making Power Rangers this whole time.
They've had him back for like several seasons of different iterations.
He's basically like the Iron Man of the Power Rangers.
So he can drop into different ones and everyone's just so fucking excited that it's him.
But unfortunately growing up where we were,
you did have kind of the one black friend intermingled in there
and you saw that in the Power Rangers.
Was there?
Yeah, there was like, I'm trying to think back
because, you know, Angel Grove that they lived in.
Zach was the only person that got real screen time.
So like the most, the people that only got real screen time
were the Power Rangers, Bullke and Skull,
the two like bumwling fucking bullies.
And then like Rita and whoever.
So I think Zach, and I'm sure you saw,
other people in the background, but yeah, they were, I mean, they had representation, but man,
they were really, I think they've done much better in the future. Better, yes. But I think that that was,
but that, that was an introduction for some people. Yeah. And it was for me. And so much into thinking
about the movies that they did and Lord Zed and Balkan Skull being taken aboard the ship outside and
running into, what was the witch lady's name? Rita. She was the witch. Rita, yeah. Yeah,
Hearing her laugh and seeing bulk and skull like meet them.
And last, it's mine or whatever.
Always so good.
And even the movies were enough.
They weren't good movies.
And I'm sure going back and looking at them now,
I've tried to watch them recently.
And it was just that it wasn't compelling enough
to have me continue to watch it.
But it's almost kind of fun to,
I remember the two movies that I remembered were the one that had the Ivan News guy,
the purple guy,
and that took over all the parents and everything.
and that was when their like costumes got like super cool armor upgrades and all that shit
rubber and then there was one that was power rangers turbo and that was like the last time i
watched it was like the ninjas in the forest they had they got like vehicles but that turned
into dinosaurs or something like that i can't remember but that was like the new group where it was
like a different red ranger and i think the only one left at that point was Tommy and he was the
white ranger and he was like the new leader and you just whenever you're it was like
Them doing it was like them doing Save by the Bell the new class.
So it only kept you interested for a little bit.
And then you're just kind of like, okay,
it's not the same Power Rangers I know.
For me, it was a transformative time.
Like you went from Power Rangers into Save by the Bell kind of same high school dynamic,
but they just didn't have superpowers.
It was so weird, man.
Like, I'll jump into my show in a second.
But the amount of stuff that like I as myself,
I don't know, that doesn't make sense.
That statement doesn't make sense.
But that I watched you.
In the 90s, just the scope of the genre was so crazy, like, pre-crazy-ass fucking Kevin Sorbo.
I watched Hercules and Zina.
And, fuck, I think Zina might have given me my first.
That might have been my sexual awakening.
Her and Gabrielle, her little traveling companion always, you know, they never talked about it.
But she had that, it wasn't a boomerang.
It was the circle.
Yeah.
And I can't remember what she called it, but I always remember.
Remember when she would flip it and she'd like,
doing her battle cry and everything.
That was the one that we'd wait at night too.
That might make my dick move.
Yeah.
That's just a nostalgic move.
Have you seen Lucy Lawless?
She must have been like in her 20s doing that show because she's still hot.
Her and Carter, the original Wonder Woman.
Oh, Linda Carter.
Linda Carter.
God, yes.
Smoke.
She's hot.
If she's had any work done, she's planned it beautifully and been to the right people.
I'd like to shake her plastic surgeons.
Yes, but it was like, I would watch that, and I would even watch, like, remember Wings?
Wings was great. Wings was...
USA Network had the...
In that time, during the summer, USA Network had almost a better...
I think it might have the prime lineup because it had...
I'm going to say this one last, because this is going into mine.
Wings, the single guy, had Zena and Hercules, I think.
Yep.
And then it had my choice.
which was American Gladiators.
I tossed around
a lot of other shows
that I really liked,
but American Gladiators
and when did the new one come out?
That was like in 2000.
With Hogan, yeah.
Okay.
So I'm just,
before you get into this,
I'm just going to concede
because American Gladiators
was far better than Power Rangers.
That shit, laser, blazer.
It depends on what Adrian's you are,
I think, doing this.
But like, I like,
I watched both.
And I think,
I mean,
let's just go back on forth,
back and forth on events.
So you had,
it wasn't always,
it wasn't a common man that competed.
No.
They always got someone who had played
some college sports or maybe
kept in shape.
Sterewood were huge back then for them.
But the guys that were,
the normal people competing,
I almost wish it would have been
someone actually kind of normal.
Like you had a guy with some extra pounds on him
that does a desk job,
but you had some guys with some athletic.
The show,
why wouldn't have been entertaining.
at that point though.
No, it was like D2 and D3 athletes.
Yeah.
A normal man would have just been railroaded within a knocked out injured in the first
two events.
They wouldn't have gotten up the treadmill hill.
That's true.
It wouldn't have happened.
That's the last event.
They wouldn't have even gotten past.
No, not even close.
So you had the lineup of, yeah, Nitro, Laser, Titan, Gemini.
Gemini, man, the elder black statesman.
He was like the dad of the group.
he was the one that always got to run the gun when they would do the
assault obstacle court yeah assault yes yes yes yep and then you had the chicks that
were like they were they're just hot they remind me of the wife in napoleon dynamite
the one that ral the one that rico tries starla yes so yes that's right starla and the weird
guy from the drew carry show was her husband yeah dude
dude, all that was so great.
And thinking back, we've talked about it multiple times where if this thing ever blows up and we buy a studio,
we're buying a studio that's far bigger.
And I would love nothing more than to set up that attack all or that attack court where you have the tennis ball gun.
Oh, yeah.
Dude, the tennis ball gun is a dream of mine that I've had for so long.
That was by far my favorite event.
Yes.
It was the coolest thing because you'd never seen.
You're like, that fucking exists.
and then you would be like
the guy had access
so like from the longest range
wasn't it like I'm trying to remember
you had a shoulder blaster like a shoulder rocket launcher
you had one that was like I think a
almost like a cannon that you would aim
behind the thing of glass kind of almost like they had
except the rocket in one shot
then as you got closer you had a slingshot
you had the smaller like almost handgun
when you got a little bit closer
and it was the target above the gladiator
and then once if you did make it past him
by the time you got up to the very base of where he was at,
it gave you the three balls.
And you would just see you guys ducking behind it.
He's trying to chuck them up at the target.
And you think about the big metal balls that they used to cruise around in
where they would have to stop in the smoking targets.
Oh, that one was Atlas.
Atlas Ball.
Yes.
What was the one where they used to have to run around and dunk the balls in the, like,
trash can looking things that used to roll up and down?
Oh, that one was, it was it, there was three of them?
right and both guys got to compete at the same time and was there one or two gladiators there was three
two gladiators three of those little areas and they would try to tackle you and bring you down
before you put it in so you would do that last or they would do the last second shot right before
they were getting tackled or you would do you would see like almost the defensive end move of like
the stretch and the reach around yeah drop it in there and then it always wasn't the no it wasn't
the last one that they did the climb up the mountain
it was the last one they did, I think.
No, so the last one was the Eliminator.
Okay, so that was the Eliminator
where it was a bunch of different stuff
and it was the maze to crawl over.
That was, you had to go up the treadmill,
then it had the little
the hand bike to go across,
then the spinning log
that you had to go across,
then the net up,
then a zip line down
after the zip line.
You had to crawl over the walls.
You had to go crawl over the walls,
and then you had to choose the three doors.
Yeah, that's good.
And behind two of the doors.
there were gladiators
and ready to take you down
I remember them climbing up the wall
and they got like a 10 second head start
and then you'd see the gladiators
start to climb up the wall so much faster
and they had to hit the buzzer at the top
all they had to do was you would see
the guys that you knew were going to win
or the girls that you knew that they were going to win
would run and already be up like five feet
they would run up and get a high grip
and start going and then you would as soon as you would see
someone go and try to just stand on the ground
and reach up and get their footing
you're like that guy's fucking toast
because all the glom
Gladiator did was they knew where the footholds were.
You would see most of them,
80% of the time, unless they were too far to jump,
they would run up, jump off the wall, and just grab an ankle and rip you off the wall.
And there was like, I want to say there was three competitors and there was like two gladiators.
So you would always know that they would.
It was always two competitors, two women and two men.
I thought that was there only one gladiator then?
Because it seemed like they would always go after the week or one first.
Nope.
It was one gladiator assigned to each person,
but they would all go, I think, at the same time.
Dude, that was so good.
The 90s was so good for that kind of shit.
You would have the one where you had to be.
to do the monkey ring swings across and like time it and they would get their legs around you
and then just crank on you.
As soon as you got in that leg grip, you're just done.
Yes.
And then the one, so they did have the pugil stick one where they both stood on the platform.
Still want to do that to this day.
I would pay money to go pugil stick.
Like you and I out there, we could do that shit all fucking day.
And the kids and the wives and everything would just stick behind and probably get bored watching us go up there and climb that shit every single time.
other three that I can remember.
God, I'm just reminded
myself what a great show this was. The one where
you got to swing off and it was
the gladiator on the pedestal and you
were like the human wrecking ball. And you had to
knock them off. And sometimes the gladiators got
fucking launched.
And then there was the one
where it was two gladiators
and two guys and they were all up on
stages surrounding. Remember there was the like
the little thing that hung from the ceiling that had the balls on it?
And they could bounce down and then bounce
up to the balls. And you had to
The higher balls were worth more, and the gladiars were trying to swat the balls out of their hands.
How is that not still a thing?
Like, I'm so excited to just talking about it.
I would watch that shit over and over and over again.
And then Skytrack.
Do you remember Skytrack?
It was where they were hung upside down.
The monkey bars?
No, they were hung upside down on like a...
Remember those old car racing tracks where you just pulled the trigger and the cars would just sip around?
Yeah.
Put that upside down.
So you're hanging from the ceiling, but your cord is on a pulley.
And you would run along the track.
Bear crawls.
bear crawl style upside down.
And then the gladiars would try to
like they would start out just right behind you
and try to like and you have to do turns and everything
like that. God damn great show.
We get Ninja Warrior where there's
none of the fun part. Like it's cool to see
those guys like jump across stuff.
I need someone in front of that guy trying to
drown his ass. You need a foil
every single time. You need somebody trying to get
I need a foil with long
ass silky blonde hair.
Mullets.
Royed the fuck out
in a singlet.
trying to wrestle these guys down.
Yeah, that's,
if we were keeping score here,
you just won with that big.
That's,
it was incredible.
I'm not going to celebrate on that.
I'm going to ask before you go into your,
or before we go into,
we're things.
Actually,
we're going to do honorable mention for TV show
after bathroom break.
That's cool.
Okay.
All right.
Back with our final category,
which is best 90s TV theme.
This theme song.
Yeah,
not that.
This brought me so.
so much back, or so back into the 90s again.
And I'm not even going to tip picks because there's so much.
But the theme song for me, it is me, right?
Is it yours of me?
It depends.
Like, if you, you went first last time, I can go first this time.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Mine is, I'm not sure how relevant this is actually going to be in jog people's memory.
I watched this show kind of peripherally because my mom really liked it.
but there was always something about the theme that like regardless of what I was doing
it just like fucking caught my attention and I would just kind of peek over do you remember the show
Highlander yeah do you remember the fucking theme song by Queen was it Queen it was Queen
they did the theme song for the movie so if anyone's not familiar the movie Highlander
it's kind of like a weird like kind of cult classic movie it's not like super well done but
basically this guy is like a Scottish
the Highlander. He's from the Highlands. He's called the Highlander.
He's this guy in Scotland, Scotland, Scotland, Scotland, and
he's part of like a Scottish clan. He ends up getting killed by this
warrior guy but then comes back to life and discovers that he's a mortal.
And then he runs into Sean Connery playing a Spanish guy
who teaches him, who's also a mortal,
who teaches him that there's actually like a race of immortals
or something throughout the world.
The guy that originally killed him also was immortal
but didn't know that the main guy was immortal.
And the whole point is the immortals try to cut each other's heads off.
And so after this movie, USA Network,
another fucking shout out for USA Network.
Bingo Bango.
Did a Highlander show and they got to keep the theme for TV shows sung by Queen.
And it was called, I'm not going to play it obviously for copyright reasons.
But I want to say,
princes of the universe.
If you've never heard it,
do yourself a favor and go and listen to it because it's fucking excellent.
And it will fire you up.
The theme song was probably actually ended up being better than the show.
But God,
even the show was good,
though,
because there was always something crazy that was going on.
It was not to the level of like a Star Trek special effects look with people,
but they were always running into bards or,
they were always running into bards or different,
like, types of people it seemed like in camps
that always looked different.
There was always something kind of special about them.
It was always because, like,
the whole point of the series was that, like,
the main guy was a cousin of the guy in the movie
and was also immortal.
And it was almost like a serialized,
like, who's the immortal that's going to try to kill him this week?
And then at the end of it,
it would end in a sword fight,
and he used a fucking katana with like a white handle with like a dragon on it or something like that.
It didn't make any sort of sense with being a highlander.
I know.
And at the end of it, they would sword fight and he would end up cutting off the guy's head
because in the immortal world, that's how you absorb their power.
You get what's called the quickening.
And this was where the special effects came in.
It was basically like it almost looked like electricity was flowing around the building and wind would whip around.
And then the electricity would like shock him and flow into him to be like,
I need to absorb the power.
But I just like, I've gone back and watched that show a little bit.
And I'm like, yeah, I could, I could probably get into this if I took the time.
But God, that, that theme song and just Queen just fucking grabs you by the nuts as soon as it jumps.
And it's not even a slow buildup for the song.
It just like puts you right into it.
Yeah, that's, it, I almost feel like Highlander was better than, um,
It wasn't better than Zena, but it was absolutely better than, um, why I went drawing a blank.
Kevin Sorbo.
Oh, Hercules.
It better than Hercules, not as good as Zena.
Yeah.
Like, it just kind of fit that mold where they were sort of similar in a way, but just a...
USA had a niche and it knew what it was doing with it.
Yep.
And then you get into, uh, there was a,
Silk Stockings was also another weird
Like USA show
It would always come on after wrestling
And it was like a thriller
Kind of mild porny
It was like an erotic thriller
Yeah
But USA had a niche it felt like
Where it was a little bit more
Above the threshold of what
Some of the other networks would show
And it kind of played out in Highlander too
Yeah
You would see a little bit more action
And then you would see.
Oh, there was some lovemaking in Highlander.
Yeah.
It was very ahead of its time.
Fantastic.
I'm just going to go with what I've seen for just theme songs.
It was Family Matters for me.
Like Family Matters, just the whole family dynamic that would be introduced in the theme song to it.
You just, you hear all the words going through.
there was a little bit of the theme song was close to family or not family matters it was close to
god was it one of the shows on like around the same time yeah not like a full house or anything
yeah it was it was kind of a full house like it just the the singing of it in the pan shots that
they would take like into the park it was a song that pertained and i i can almost remember every
single word what was it it's a grand tradition
Or no, it's a great in design.
Some people say it's even harder to find.
Well, then there must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls.
It was just so good, man.
Those theme songs, though, like that and Full House and Step by Step.
Yeah, step by step by step said in the song, so it was the title.
But even like Full House and Family Matters, it was like a song about the show without saying it was about the show.
like the characters are being too on the nose.
You were just like, it's about this family dealing with stuff.
And like, it's a new age.
And God, that was such a good fucking show.
That was all my list of 90 shows.
Just because since we've talked about this topic,
I've gone through and watched at least a season plus of family matters
because it just, it transports you back to being a kid so much.
And seeing Carl as a policeman and all the kids.
And like you were talking about, the setup of the singing and it would show,
it would pan to the different kids.
characters and you'd see
They all turned and looked at the camera and like smiled
they were all doing something then they turned and smiled
the camera. Yeah, the studious daughters
would be studying and
the doofy older brother that was
the jog. The younger kid that they ended up
getting rid of at some point or something
because they couldn't get, because grandma became
too popular and needed more screen time but
God, Carl was a fucking saint man.
He was a Chicago
Chicago cop
He not only had
his family which was
his wife Harriet?
Yep.
Okay.
And Harriet worked in the Chicago Tribune downtown.
Did she?
Yeah.
She was an elevator.
She ran an elevator before she ran the security.
Gotcha.
Okay.
And then you had the son and the daughter.
And then you had two daughters.
I know, but they got rid of the youngest one.
And then didn't.
Okay.
Then Harriet's mom lived with them.
No, it was Carl's mom.
Oh, it was Carl's mom.
Okay. The way she talked to him was very mother-in-law, but I guess it also can apply.
And then didn't like Harriet's sister? Because it wasn't Carl's sister. It was Harry's and her kid moved in. God damn Carl.
And you have Eddie the oldest. Estelle was the grandma. Waldo was Eddie's just goofy-ass friend. You had Laura.
Laura, that's right. Okay. And on top of that, you got the horny, nerdy next door neighbor coming over constantly trying to ban your daughter.
Steve Urgel and that I think it was a fiat that he used to drive that had the door that opened in the front
and the stern wheel column and everything.
The three wheeler.
Yep.
Shit was just so great.
And over time, just the way that it morphed into like just random family troubles.
And I loved it.
I never really thought of it back then.
But again, like Power Rangers with the kind of token friend, it was to see another culture's family being built in just the same way
with the same goofy struggles.
You know when you get shows
how they call it like jumping the shark
because like Happy Days, that's where they say happy days
completely blew it.
It was when Fonzie jumped the shark.
Have you ever heard that expression?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Family Matters got ridiculous
and could have jumped the shark,
but I never saw it like that.
Because at the point when Steve
created that chamber and that chemical
to become Stefan or Kel.
Yeah, Stefan, yep.
Yes.
And then all of a sudden he was just charming.
and smooth as fuck and good looking and Laura was just like oh my god when Jaliel white
became Jaliel White instead of Urkel.
Do you think that was something about him?
He's like, guys, you got to throw me a bone and let me just act normal in a portion of this
show.
They're like, ah, season five.
Yeah.
If we make it five seasons, we'll talk.
We'll bring you out of your shell eventually.
But just the fact that that became a thing on a family sitcom that there was a neighbor who
could take a potion or go into a machine that would turn him into this just like stud.
But at no point you were like, oh, nope, that's Steve Urquhart.
he's just really smart.
Yep, he just finally, he bloomed.
It was kind of like the machine was like him going through puberty at that point.
And you saw a lot of it just so much in those family sitcoms back then where you would have,
in home improvement,
you would have the neighbor across the fence,
Wilson.
You'd never see his face,
but he always played such a critical role in it.
He was the sage.
Yeah.
He was the wise old sage across the cedar fence.
Everybody kind of had it.
But Urkel was so much more involved in the family's day to day.
because he was trying to date the daughter.
I think he became like after the,
probably the first season
or after the first few episodes
after they saw his reaction.
If he wasn't already,
like a main character,
they were like,
we got to lean,
lean into Steve.
He's our money maker here.
Yeah,
absolutely.
I guess he got a couple,
I mean,
the common ones to think about
in this situation was friends,
was during the 90s.
Yeah,
no one can hear,
I'll be there for you.
And I like friends,
but you can't hear,
I'll be there for you.
And that,
that's weird because that song
only became popular
because of the show.
But now no one can separate that song from the show.
Yeah, and it also transitioned out of the radio.
Like, it was an actual song who was played, I feel like, where is...
God, man, can you imagine?
Because that band hadn't, and hasn't had a hit since.
I don't think the Rembrandts, I think, is it?
Is that who it was?
Yeah.
And I wonder, though, like, can you imagine how many bands do you think get approached?
Because there's so many shows that get pitched.
I probably have to have, like, a theme and stuff like that.
Everybody does.
How many bands do you think of, like, submitted themes to get picked up?
by a show and all of a sudden this show became
the biggest thing there's ever been at the time
and all of a sudden your one song
is now, has you set for life.
You're synonymous with that for forever.
You're in everybody's house
that has a DVD copy of this show
regardless of your CD is there or not.
You see the Hansons with the one hit wonders
and things like that, but these almost live
on an infany just because of the show
that it's connected to it. We never got a Hanson TV
theme song. That's a shame, right?
Yeah, a big shame, right?
all right man you got anything else
I don't this is great
the 90s were probably
the best decade to me
we're gonna keep revisiting probably the 90s
it's just fun to fucking reminisce and talk about so we'll
we'll think of some more topics for another
another one on one
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