Historically High - HH 1v1 - 90's Shit

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

Shows, 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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?
Starting point is 00:00:20 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,
Starting point is 00:00:39 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...
Starting point is 00:01:14 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.
Starting point is 00:01:36 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.
Starting point is 00:01:53 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.
Starting point is 00:02:06 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.
Starting point is 00:02:36 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,
Starting point is 00:02:57 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.
Starting point is 00:03:22 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.
Starting point is 00:03:42 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.
Starting point is 00:03:57 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
Starting point is 00:04:13 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
Starting point is 00:04:21 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.
Starting point is 00:04:27 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
Starting point is 00:04:36 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.
Starting point is 00:04:52 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...
Starting point is 00:05:10 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.
Starting point is 00:05:22 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.
Starting point is 00:05:34 So, like, I'm talking the middle cut. If you remember, like... God, like prime time home improvement, Zachary, no, not Zachary Taylor. Jonathan.
Starting point is 00:05:42 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
Starting point is 00:05:52 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.
Starting point is 00:06:00 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.
Starting point is 00:06:10 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
Starting point is 00:06:26 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.
Starting point is 00:06:42 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
Starting point is 00:06:56 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.
Starting point is 00:07:25 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.
Starting point is 00:07:53 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.
Starting point is 00:08:13 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
Starting point is 00:08:28 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.
Starting point is 00:08:42 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.
Starting point is 00:09:01 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.
Starting point is 00:09:24 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.
Starting point is 00:09:49 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?
Starting point is 00:10:07 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.
Starting point is 00:10:24 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.
Starting point is 00:11:14 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.
Starting point is 00:11:39 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
Starting point is 00:12:05 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.
Starting point is 00:12:20 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,
Starting point is 00:12:41 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.
Starting point is 00:13:05 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.
Starting point is 00:13:26 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...
Starting point is 00:13:53 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?
Starting point is 00:14:16 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,
Starting point is 00:14:33 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.
Starting point is 00:14:52 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
Starting point is 00:15:22 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
Starting point is 00:15:45 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
Starting point is 00:16:06 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
Starting point is 00:16:37 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
Starting point is 00:17:17 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.
Starting point is 00:17:31 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.
Starting point is 00:17:54 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
Starting point is 00:18:26 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.
Starting point is 00:18:44 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
Starting point is 00:18:59 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
Starting point is 00:19:15 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.
Starting point is 00:19:31 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.
Starting point is 00:19:59 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
Starting point is 00:20:18 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.
Starting point is 00:20:51 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
Starting point is 00:21:30 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.
Starting point is 00:21:39 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,
Starting point is 00:21:49 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.
Starting point is 00:22:06 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
Starting point is 00:22:38 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
Starting point is 00:22:49 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,
Starting point is 00:23:00 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
Starting point is 00:23:10 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.
Starting point is 00:23:18 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
Starting point is 00:23:31 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
Starting point is 00:24:04 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.
Starting point is 00:24:26 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
Starting point is 00:24:43 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?
Starting point is 00:25:02 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?
Starting point is 00:25:23 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
Starting point is 00:25:39 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
Starting point is 00:25:56 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
Starting point is 00:26:13 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
Starting point is 00:26:29 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
Starting point is 00:26:45 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
Starting point is 00:27:00 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,
Starting point is 00:27:33 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,
Starting point is 00:27:49 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.
Starting point is 00:28:04 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
Starting point is 00:28:24 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
Starting point is 00:28:54 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,
Starting point is 00:29:10 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,
Starting point is 00:29:26 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
Starting point is 00:30:08 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
Starting point is 00:30:39 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.
Starting point is 00:31:00 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?
Starting point is 00:31:10 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.
Starting point is 00:31:41 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
Starting point is 00:32:09 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
Starting point is 00:32:34 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
Starting point is 00:32:51 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.
Starting point is 00:33:16 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
Starting point is 00:33:28 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,
Starting point is 00:33:42 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,
Starting point is 00:33:56 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.
Starting point is 00:34:12 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
Starting point is 00:34:43 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,
Starting point is 00:35:06 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.
Starting point is 00:35:22 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.
Starting point is 00:35:42 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.
Starting point is 00:36:04 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.
Starting point is 00:36:30 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.
Starting point is 00:36:52 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.
Starting point is 00:37:15 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.
Starting point is 00:37:24 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.
Starting point is 00:37:37 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
Starting point is 00:37:59 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,
Starting point is 00:38:27 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.
Starting point is 00:38:59 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,
Starting point is 00:39:19 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.
Starting point is 00:39:53 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.
Starting point is 00:40:12 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.
Starting point is 00:40:36 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.
Starting point is 00:40:56 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.
Starting point is 00:41:11 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...
Starting point is 00:41:30 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
Starting point is 00:41:55 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,
Starting point is 00:42:08 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,
Starting point is 00:42:20 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.
Starting point is 00:42:31 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
Starting point is 00:42:42 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.
Starting point is 00:42:54 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.
Starting point is 00:43:06 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
Starting point is 00:43:45 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.
Starting point is 00:44:14 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
Starting point is 00:44:27 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
Starting point is 00:44:45 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.
Starting point is 00:45:04 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
Starting point is 00:45:33 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.
Starting point is 00:45:56 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.
Starting point is 00:46:09 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
Starting point is 00:46:22 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
Starting point is 00:46:37 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,
Starting point is 00:46:50 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.
Starting point is 00:47:07 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.
Starting point is 00:47:25 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
Starting point is 00:47:50 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
Starting point is 00:48:06 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.
Starting point is 00:48:23 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.
Starting point is 00:48:36 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
Starting point is 00:48:53 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
Starting point is 00:49:09 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.
Starting point is 00:49:22 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
Starting point is 00:49:31 after bathroom break. That's cool. Okay. All right. Back with our final category, which is best 90s TV theme. This theme song. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:49:48 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.
Starting point is 00:50:06 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
Starting point is 00:50:39 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,
Starting point is 00:51:14 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.
Starting point is 00:51:33 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.
Starting point is 00:52:02 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
Starting point is 00:52:22 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?
Starting point is 00:52:40 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.
Starting point is 00:53:01 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.
Starting point is 00:53:30 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...
Starting point is 00:54:02 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
Starting point is 00:54:24 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
Starting point is 00:54:39 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.
Starting point is 00:55:01 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.
Starting point is 00:55:45 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.
Starting point is 00:56:17 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,
Starting point is 00:56:41 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
Starting point is 00:56:56 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
Starting point is 00:57:12 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.
Starting point is 00:57:24 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.
Starting point is 00:57:39 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.
Starting point is 00:58:20 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.
Starting point is 00:58:43 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.
Starting point is 00:58:55 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.
Starting point is 00:59:10 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.
Starting point is 00:59:26 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.
Starting point is 00:59:49 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.
Starting point is 01:00:04 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.
Starting point is 01:00:17 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.
Starting point is 01:00:26 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.
Starting point is 01:00:33 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.
Starting point is 01:00:44 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?
Starting point is 01:01:02 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.
Starting point is 01:01:20 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
Starting point is 01:01:36 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
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