My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 223 - BEING A NERD IN THE 90’s WITH CLEM AND MIKE FOX

Episode Date: August 5, 2022

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Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners. You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Yeah, just stupid boys making basement noise in the basement, noise in the basement. Just stupid boys making basement noise in the basement. Yeah, yeah. Hello and welcome back to My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports and 3C. It is Robbie Fox, it is Clem, and it is my brother, Mike Fox, back on the podcast yet again. And we're going to do an episode with the same topic we did with kfc and brendan years ago like when the podcast first started three years ago we did an episode called being

a nerd in the 90s and we just talked about all the stuff they loved in the 90s it was very specific to them the weird computer games they were into like king's dragon king's dungeon some shit like that put some respect king's quest yeah i'm sierra will' name. We did King's Quest. We did a lot of 90s hip hop. Now I've got my brother on, I've got Clem on, and we're going to get their perspective on being a nerd in the 90s. Go through some of the favorite movies, favorite trends, favorite, you know, we'll talk wrestling because I mean, wrestling in the 1990s was wrestling at its peak basically. Before we get into that though, whether you live in a state where marijuana is legal or not, 3C now offers federally legal dispensary grade Delta 9 THC products that deliver straight to

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get you high, so please use it responsibly. You must be 21 or older to purchase. Get 5% off all 3Chi's premium THC products by going to 3chi.com. That's the number 3, C-H-I. was going to be back as Batman. We saw on set pictures of him in the Batsuit. He looked basically the same he did in the 80s movies, which is crazy because he's 70 now but i guess you only show that much of a person and then there you go um but it's canceled they're like we're not putting it out on hbo max we're not putting it out in theaters we filmed it we spent 90 million dollars on it and it's just we're gonna put it in a trash can forget it ever happened very strange i've never seen that happen ever um people are obviously calling for them to release the movie hashtag release the batgirl movie now it's the new release the snyder cut i am on the side of that because i would like to see it i read like a little plot synopsis leak on what it was supposed to be sounded cool sounded like a simple batgirl movie to me someone said batman like has to go to cambodia or something because they're tracking his flights and he needs to like get out of the country for a bit and she goes on a whole media tour for him which

i thought sounded funny um just very strange though back girl canceled some other things canceled they said uh they were going to make a supergirl movie not happening anymore but james gunn was like everyone chill out peacemaker season two is still going to happen which clem like you said right before we started recording yeah no shit oh you think that's an old part of my take bit right there yeah if peacemaker that that would have been the only news i cared about because i personally don't know much about back girl had no clue there was anything back girl being made however i am with the bat boys right here and these guys know a lot more about bat than i do so uh you guys tell me should i be upset or whatever i also how does this impact the batman shows that we spent a long time talking about robby but we were excited about not excited about like are those things just dead

now are they going somewhere else there's hbo those are all safe i think those i think the matt reeves batman stuff is safe i think he's one of the guys with the keys to the kingdom right now where they're like, we're not going to cancel your shit. But the DCEU stuff, they call it, with like Batfleck and Keaton, it's a mess. Admittedly, it's a mess. With the Ezra Miller shit too, like that movie's still coming out with Ezra Miller.

Who wants to see that at this point with that weirdo? This is how I think of it in barstool terms. When you hear that podcasts are going to start getting canceled or like pared down it's like anything with big cat kfc like there's certain people like that's not getting touched those people are fine i feel like anything james gunn matt reeves those things are fine if it has george r martin anywhere in the executive producers those things are fine so that's that's how i'm gonna see it as a casual fan here but you guys tell me you know what i should like do you care about that girl getting canceled those things are fine so that's that's how i'm gonna see it as a casual fan here but you guys tell me you know what i should like do you care about back girl getting canceled

no and what i'm wondering is because the immediate outrage and shock and hashtags that start you know release back girl i'm wondering if if this is of on purpose. If they're throwing the hook in the water for everybody. Because I gotta be honest, I didn't even know there was a Batgirl movie being made. And maybe that was their problem. Maybe there wasn't enough hype. And they said, how do we get some hype going so people know about this? Well,

tell them it's cancelled and it's not coming out. It's, you know, maybe it's a bit of a marketing ploy. I don't hate that conspiracy theory because like you said like campaigns like this happen we got ugly sonic changed into good sonic the internet did that that's a great fucking conspiracy i mean can you i could see like a market person be like all right we know the snyder cut and we they brought back morbius seven fucking times because of these idiots on the internet that i'm just picturing like ben affleck from goodwill hunting when he

wants the retainer like he kicks his feet up on the desk and he's like tell him it's canceled tell them they can't have it yeah yeah tell them they can't have it yeah this movie i was like looking forward to it because i like batgirl but also with the trepidation of like i know dc it doesn't have the best track record so it's like kind of looking forward to it in the terms of i hope it's good i hope they nailed batgirl because i feel like if you do nail batgirl it could be a good movie there's some really good comics out there good cartoons um but now that they take it took it away i'm like show me this movie. I want to see it. Yeah. I'm going to go on Twitter here, see if there is a hashtag trending where it's like

bring back the bat or something like that. I've seen Lights Camera Barstool has been using hashtag release the Batgirl movie, which I thought just release Batgirl would be shorter, but maybe it's just like, what, is Batgirl locked up, you know? I kind of want it to be as long as humanly possible.

Hashtag release the Batgirl movie and do not move all this WB stuff to WB just so then it's the whole 280 character limit on Twitter. Well, that's the other thing they're saying. HBO Max might be folded into Discovery Plus, which seems like a horrible idea to me. The HBO Max brand, I feel like Discovery plus should fold into that i i mean me and mike have a lot of the same streaming services i know that because we share the passwords for them and oh don't let the authorities know what's going on here i enjoy those passwords man i can't

have them yet i was gonna say of all of them i think hbo max might have the best selection and the best interface like i love h HBO Max as a streaming service, and it's one of the ones that I go to the most. So if they take that away, I'm going to be pissed. They came from my WWE Network first and then HBO Max. I was going to say, you mean to tell me you don't love searching for your WrestleMania by season on Peacock? Do they do that? No.

If you want to watch WrestleMania 6 six you have to go to wrestlemania season six episode one oh my god they've had they've had control of it for like two years and they haven't changed it people ever every time are like what i'm going to king of the ring season six episode three to watch king of the ring 97 or something clem i knew i could get him riled up he wears his buttons on his chest like Vader, man. I'm just going to push that one right now. Let me just tell you. So I'm coming from the other side of this.

And by the way, shout out to everyone who uses D-Shared streaming services. I've been paid for Netflix once my entire life. Back when it was a DVD service, Mama Clem was on Netflix from day one, basically. Actually, we just got Amazon Prime finally. We finally stopped leech day one basically i actually we just got amazon prime finally we finally stopped leeching off of that amazon prime that's like i feel like one of the first ones you get so you don't have it for the free shipping we have it for the free shipping

now and now that we have gotten into the boys which by the way everyone in the basement who was telling me get into the boys thank you from the bottom of my heart and for anyone in the basement that has not started the boys yet watch it right this minute pause the episode leave five star review all that good stuff subscribe on youtube and then go watch the boys because i saw the director had said um i don't understand what the problem with tv is where these people make you know slow building up for a season you could make every episode fun action-packed and have an entire like story i didn't know what he was talking about every episode of the boys is better than basically every episode of anything ever because every episode is a 10 out of 10 so i'm sorry i

got sidetracked however i told you you would love that we told you you nailed it it's just it's superheroes in real life it's like superheroes with insurance policies they have egos they're assholes they're kind of reminds you Peacemaker in some ways, right? Yes. And I made the reference opposite. When Peacemaker came out, I was like, it's kind of like DC, the boys, like Suicide Squad mixed with the boys. You could kind of, like, make the comparisons there.

Exactly. Perfect way to put it. However, let me just say this. On the other side, this is a Podfather thing. On Podfathers, we have a thing called Content Corner where we all share what we're watching for people that may want to kind of get into the same thing. Kid stuff or adult stuff, whatever it may be. Our boy chaps die hard.

Discovery plus fan die hard. And I'm like, chaps, what's on discovery plus. I'm thinking we talking shark week. We got some cool planet earth stuff, right? He's like, no, Clem. I like to watch a thousand pound sisters. And it's these people that are, you know, twice the size of my ass. And they're just, and they're the size of my ass and they're

just and they're washing themselves with a rag and they're dealing with all this shit you know they're like all right i'm gonna start dieting only have like five pies of pizza night which like hey if that's your thing that's your thing it's just weird and to have that kind of get mish-moshed with like i want to watch the new batman shit is just gonna be a very so i'm looking at the shows here thousand pound sisters um 90 day fiance that just feels be a very so i'm looking at the shows here thousand pounds sisters um 90 day fiance that just feels like a very weird thing sister watches that oh we have a lady fox getting into this stuff so there is some there is some weird ass shit there was one where it's like i think it's people who have some sort of like mental problems and they like they date each

other which is a nice thing it just feels weird to put that on television so discovery plus man's like beating in the faces to other people with mental problems we're getting into a weird place when we get into discovery plus just in general i'm just saying that right now so i don't know how i feel about all this stuff going on and i don't know how the wb network's involved i didn't even know the wb network was still on that's a 90s thing right there right that was a big thing back in the day. It's a good transition. Before we get into our topic for this episode, being a nerd in the 90s, let me tell everyone about Whatnot. Whatnot is actually a very cool app. We've been talking about it in the office. And if you haven't heard of it, it's a live stream auction app where you

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Go check out the Barstool auctions. I even heard rumors, rumors, I don't even know if I'm allowed to say this, but I'm going to say it, that some old jerseys are going to be auctioned off on there. Barstool-related jerseys. Possibly even jerseys of myself and Clem. So keep an eye on Whatnot for that. Now let's get into our topic for the episode. Growing up a nerd

in the 90s. This was suggested to me by my brother. I said, that's a great idea. We didn't have an episode for this week. We talked about that last week. So we called this a grab bag episode. And I kind of feel like this is a great grab bag topic. So I have listed down movies, cartoons, television shows, wrestling as a whole, toys, hobbies, and trends. Where do you think we should start here? I'll go cartoons. Start with Clem, dog. Clem, because I think maybe you got me by a few years, Clem.

What was it like coming into figuring out all this cool stuff that was going on and what you were into and what really, you know, grabbed your attention? Yeah. You're coming into the nineties when you're eight years old, Clem. Is that right? That is correct. Old man, Clem popping in little, little, little shit. I wasn't even known as Clem back then.

I wasn't known until Clem until high school. It's the weirdest thing that I kind of just adopted this name that people like, if I tell them I have more than one name let alone what my other name is they get very upset at me like we don't want to hear it yeah we have to bleep it out we put clips out of my name happens to get mentioned uh the funny thing and i i had the um old the old kfc and brendan episode is episode 11 i looked it. That episode was fucking awesome. And it spoke a lot of the shit that I got into. And I'm kind of wedged in between super producer BC and KFC in terms of age.

And I think I'm perfect for that because I think a lot of stuff Brendan loved, Kevin got into, and that made him like the closet nerd that he is today. King's Quest, we're dealing with floppy disks, which, I mean, there was a time where I was like, oh, I can't believe people don't know what floppy disks are there's these little hard these little 3.5 inch disks kids don't even know that kids don't even know what dvds are these days i'm like shaking my fist at a cloud as i say this it's crazy but king's quest was a game it was like a role-playing game you walked to all these little spots on like it was a graphical game and you'd be like open door and then they would open door and you would just have to kind of figure this

stuff out on your own. It was so goddamn stupid, but it was like no YouTube tutorials. Yeah. And it was just so much fun, right? My kids now they'll just watch YouTube. They'll watch someone play for two hours with like, you know, crazy voice and talks like this and they could do it forever. So that was kind of the thing that I guess is like the nerdiest thing i was into at a pretty young age and i got into role-playing games pretty

young too i was into fantasy star 2 on the sega genesis that was one of my first like introductions and to that to this day that game holds up just about as well fantasy star 2 final fantasy 7 a few years later those are two of the two games that got me into the nerdy side of, I guess, video games. And that wasn't as crazy as King's Quest where you were just typing shit in. But at that point, I was into sports and I kind of could hang out with all the different cliques in the high school. The jocks I could talk sports with, the nerds I could talk this stuff or whatever the comic stuff with. Wrestling, the wrestling group. I think wrestling kind of brought us all together too right i think sports entertainment at its absolute peak which i had a weird thing with wrestling where i was heavy into

it during the hogan era he left i guess he went to wcw probably a year after i got out and then i got back in right as stone cold was kind of ascending like a rocket to the moon so i kind of missed the bret hart era the wwf as i call it but those two eras that kind of like linked everyone together and we're doing crutch chops to our teachers and saying suck it and stick it up your candy ass and stuff like that so that's kind of just beginning and end of the 90s and wrestling yes exactly that's kind of what it was and i think in the mid the middle part there was a lot of hip hop and a lot of like playing Madden and just, you know, sitting in my room, that kind of stuff. I was going to say you referenced Sega. Was there a lot of like inviting your friends over and having two controllers and going to war on like NHL 94 and stuff? Oh, yeah. Yep. We would play Madden seasons, make up Madden teams and just like, you know, overnight sleepovers where you're just trying to like get through a season and stuff like that. And as a young kid, I would host Madden tournaments at my house where everyone, like there was no money, you know, up for grabs or anything, but it was

kind of just like a respect thing. And, uh, this like, it's, it's, it's funny. Like I can talk about this shit forever, man. But like my dad wasn't a big sports fan growing up. He, he was a Yankees fan when he was younger, hated Steinbrenner. So got kind of out of baseball. He's a music guy. He's a drummer. You know that Bob.

So a fellow, he's still like, we'll, we'll do some gigs to this day, basically. And that would be fun to go see your dad. Let's get Papa Clem. Like playing, like that'd be a blast.

Can you do backup drums at a punk? Can he do like, there's something he's back. Frankie can do like a drum battle. Like God, smack. Papa Clem just coming down from a fucking like the rafters with like smoke going off and light shows um and but it was one of those things like i just loved looking at like stat books so i kind of got into sports just looking at baseball stats and just loving it it was something it's probably the way kids look at boobs the first time very

nerdy way to get into sports right yeah yeah it's the way kids look at boobs and playboy and say i like that it's that but for like baseball nerds and uh with that i would then say hey let's play some madden in my house or this is even more nerdy as i think about it i would have madden seasons where everyone would choose a team i'd simulate the games write down who won the games and then bring it in each like week to school be like all right you're the falcons you lost to the bangles 42 to 27 yesterday and i kept standing it was just one of those weird things i just loved people are cheering my team won i love the idea that i don't think i'm on the spectrum but as i say a lot of this stuff i feel like i might have dabbled on the spectrum at some point i'm not sure what the spectrum even is to be

honest with you but as i'm just kind of piecing together my childhood i feel like I might've dabbled on the spectrum at some point. I'm not sure what the spectrum even is, to be honest with you. But as I'm just kind of piecing together my childhood, I feel like that's the kind of stuff that looking back now might've been. You are reminding me of Tommy smokes. With him doing that, him writing down in a notebook, like every result, every play, how he played and all of that. Mike, where does that take you off of? Like, I'm trying to think back to like, now I was also a nins kid myself and i spent two full years in the 90s um but i don't really remember like diapers i assume you were you were

inviting your friends over doing the same thing video game wise but probably for like mortal combat and wwf no mercy more than madden you know what um was huge. Obviously, it was like the first system for me that I got for a birthday where, you know, it was a huge leap from Nintendo to Sega in terms of graphics and the games available and all that. And it's so funny that we're talking about this now because my son's got a Nintendo Switch and it's got a lot of old game apps full of old console games. There's a Sega Genesis app, and we were looking through it just earlier tonight, and there's a game, Streets of Rage 2. It was the game that came with the Sega when I got it for my birthday. And I was excited to see it, and I wanted to share it with my son because, you know, nostalgia factor, I thought it was great. And I'm like,

let's check this out. This came with my Sega streets of rage too. And it's, it's not as great as I remember it. It's very slow moving and like, you can accidentally hit your own partner and cause them health damage. And I'm like, Luke's, you know, yelling at me. He's like, did you just cause me health damage? Sorry. I didn't know you could do that. I forgot. It's been a long time. And then he beat up one of the guys and they dropped their knife and he

picked it up and he's like, Ooh, I could stab. And I'm like, Oh no, it's not what you should be doing right now. But yeah, Sonic, obviously Sonic came with a lot of, I think of the first generation sega packages so sonic was huge sonic 2 was was huge um madden 94 i remember being huge oh there it is yeah the people on the youtube i never knew what a shadow box was but i happen to have i got this i got john madden football for christmas the year i got uh genesis it was probably the third uh game i opened i didn't know even know who john madden was back

then i just had no clue and i thought it was joe montana i'm like who is this john madden guy little did i know that and that is like the reason i became like a diehard football fan is because madden was so much fun as an announcer. The video game was so fucking great. And I bought a shadow box. I just happen to still have the game from, oh God, 1990. I'm so old. I'm so goddamn old. That's a piece to a legend, John Madden. That also fits into a topic that I was going to ask a question

that I was going to ask that Mike suggested. He was going to say, what is the most 90s thing you own? And do you still own it? That's pretty damn 90s still owning the cartridge of the game that you could blow into mike what would that be for you uh i think i have two that i should mention i think the most 90s thing i still have is my original email address it's an aol email address yeah right before we went live what do people say when you're like you know mike fox at aol.like are they just like he still doesn't have venmo he's like paypal me

i'm like dude i love that that's fucking great man like stay out of this fucking i stay out of the internet weeds as long as that's like our boy this is why you and trent are such good friends rob because he's still like yahoo till his core there's a lot of like fox like it's funny that you know that trent is still a yahoo email address one of my favorite parts of trent's email address i won't uh reveal it i won't dox him there's a typo in his email address he misspelled his name on his own email address that's so good never changed it he was like it's fine by me people do they give me you know they give me that you still use an aol email it's just like yeah nothing's wrong with it it's works it's never not worked you know who else uses an email

i get email you know who else uses an aol one eli manning or at least he did a few years ago there was this whole thing about uh like some memorabilia scandal and they were showing his emails it was like eli manning at aol.com and i'm like i love my guy eli still rocks ao that's such an eli manning move so mike were you that's i mean that is the other thing i think i i saved it because i'm like i should save this because this is going to be like an artifact one day i'm going to to show my children. They're going to think I'm 100 years old. I have on CD now, that's what I call music, volume one. No, you got number one?

I had number one. I got it for Christmas one year when it first came out. That is as 90s as it gets. That's what I call music, number one. Do you know any of the songs that are on it? Yeah. I think my favorite song on it, I was fly away by lenny kravitz yeah um but there's like hansen's mbop um pretty sure there's a spice girl song on there uh barbie girl by aqua is on there um another great song called the way by a band called Fastball is on there.

Never skip Fastball when it comes on my iPod. Yeah, great 90s track. Number one song on that mic, the first song, can you tell me what it is? Because if you can't, I'm going to sing it to you. Is it a Janet Jackson song? I heard from a friend today and she said you were. Oh, I'm sorry. It's Together Again.

That's again. There's Together Again by Janet Jackson. It's Together Again. That's a different... That's again. There's Together Again by Janet Jackson. Is that number one? That's number one. As Long As You Love Me, Backstreet Boys, number two. And then The Way, Fastball. This is an unbelievable album. This is probably like five years worth of awesome shit

that they just waited because it was the first album. The first one, yeah, they had the big selection. Yeah. Sex and Candy. They're still putting those out, by the way. it up recently like they're still i think they're up to like they're in the hundreds now it's like now that's what they call music 147 i have it's under it's under 100 if you could tell me i was gonna see if you guys could guess it yep 92 i'm gonna guess like 99 gretzky 82 82, 82 and 83, however, is coming out August 5th.

So it comes out today, right? This week or the day that this comes out. We are going head to head. Go get the new now. That's what I call music. Go to your local Best Buy or Sam Ash and pick it up today. You can't go to Sam Goody. Oh, yeah.

Sam Goody. That's what I meant to say, not Sam Ash. That's another thing is we were buying physical music back then. What was your go-to spots growing up to buy like CDs, tapes, when you probably first were getting into music and shit? Yeah, it was cassette tapes. It was the first cassette tape I ever bought, and it's one of my favorite albums to this day,

Get a Grip by Aerosmith. Yeah, that was my first CD, or it might have been my second CD, but that was the first one I fell in loveith yeah that was my first cd or might have been my second cd but that was the first one i fell in love with that was my first concert unbelievable and the cow's udder has it's the cow's udder is pierced you know my parents saw the cover of the cassette they were like oh great this is great it's getting into that damn rock and roll music and it's like writing your face robbie you know a guy the guy who helped produce it or like don't you know someone mike knows someone that wrote living on the edge the guy who wrote living on the edge with them mark hudson yeah mark hudson wrote living on the edge and a couple

other tracks on that record and wound up producing the next i think two arrow smith records um yeah produced a lot of ringo star too, my guy over here. That's a great first album. Mine was, I think my first album was The Chronic by Dr. Dre, which is why my parents were like, oh, he's getting into the hip hop. The older kids have gotten him into the gangster rap in the suburbs. I think my first single, I believe, was Janet Jackson, Escapade. So, I mean, singles and CDs.

And remember, you would get the flip side and you'd listen to the other side. It was never that good on the single, right? The B-sides. Yeah, the B-sides and stuff like that. And I wasn't allowed to buy albums that had a parental advisory sticker on the cover. So eventually I figured out, you know, life hack. I would carefully remove the price tag from the outside of the plastic and stick the price tag over where the parental advisory sticker was. We did that at the wall. The wall was a CD store and you would get a sticker

if you got it from the wall. And if you broke your CD, you could just bring it back. So you put the wall sticker where it says you bought it from the wall over the parental advisory that was our way of doing it like just kids just want to hear some curse words just some good innocent front right mikey yet if my kids said that what the fuck do you think you were doing i'd say more curse words than the entire album if i caught him that's why as parents we have to like check ourselves and be like we were kind of little punks in our own right back in the day and rob these cds we were buying some good we're like 20 a pop that's great not cheap man and that's when you look at now like the album charts and you're like how did so and so sell so many cds that make so much money back then it's like well they were all 20 bucks a pop and

you had to buy the physical thing it wasn't you could stream your favorite song i feel like one song you got to buy the whole cd to hear it that's like mind mind blowing to me. My first CDs very much a growing up in the two thousands thing were CDs that Mike burned me off iTunes. That was just like Robbie's rock. I still have them in my car and it would be just like, here are the tracks you've got to learn. Almost like, I feel like you did almost chronologically from like twisted sister to like blink one 82 or Lincoln park or whoever was out at that point and my version of the parental advisory sticker was by Robbie's Rock 3 when he was putting Slipknot on there he just wouldn't write the Slipknot songs on the front of the thing and my mom wouldn't know

that's a good brother man that's a good older brother introducing you to Slipknot and then not writing it yes some would say great older brother. Some would say introducing a five or six-year-old to Slipknot isn't the best idea. Alright, we've heard Robbie's. Mike, can I hear your impersonation of your mom finding out that you put Slipknot on Robbie's suit? You want to know what? That ain't

right. Okay. Oh, that's a classic mom of Fox. That ain't right. That ain't right. He doesn't need to be listening to that. Oh, I love the basement. Classic mom of mama fox all right and now i want to talk television shows cartoons normal television shows what were the all-timers for you clem uh so number one if you're talking you know you're saying tv shows and cartoons the number one number one with a bullet favorite show of my life when it was humming at its absolute peak is the simpsons the simpsons was a the simpsons coming on tv was a like staple of the clemenza kid i've said the name they don't the

club household excuse me i don't want people to think i'm i'm clung that's my name clun the club kids it would be me my sister my brother they'd gather up into my room and for 8 to 8 30 Simpsons were on NFL a lot of people say when the NFL is over or you hear the 60 minutes tick tock that's the moment that you know school is coming for me it was the and it's like god damn Tomorrow's school Simpsons at its absolute best is the best TV show of all time. I seasons one through eight. I think you go up to 12 is where it's still at its powers. But I think three to eight is where you're looking at. Just if you just want to eat the cream of the Oreo cookie, that is the absolute best of the best.

And I can still watch to this day and absolutely fucking laugh my ass off at it so that was the number one show with me so claim let me ask you who did you think shot mr burns i would have bet my life savings actually i would responsibly bet on the barstool sports book that it was homer i thought it was homer i thought i you know i'm a chalk guy i'm not too bright i don't really look too deep into it. That was a moment, Mike. I mean, that summer of who shot Mr. Burns, and they kind of did it. I think Dallas, right, is who shot JR.

They like patterned it after that. Oh, is that? Simpsons didn't really like make that up, that concept? But we can call in all summer and vote for who you thought it was. Did you call in, Mike? Yeah. I mean, everyone called up and just over and over again said,

you know, I think it's this person or that person because you were entered in some kind of a raffle or, or contest to, you know, be chosen. If you guessed right and they chose your name and you guessed right, you were,

it was like prize money or something involved. Right. Yeah. There was, I I'm trying to think cause that, I mean mean that's just what you did back in the day there wasn't no there was really if there was internet it was very primitive at that time so you called up 800 numbers maybe a 900 number or two if you could like sneak it and you would remember uh like the soda pop or the soda top like it's like you know you want to whatever

that was basically the extent of like how you got like entertainment back then so yeah calling up those numbers was like a big thing and did you vote on it and that's how they decided who did it or did the writers just decide that spoiler alert maggie killed mr maggie right which is a hell of a twist from just the outside looking in until you see how it all goes down it makes a little more sense i love that i love the whole idea of like who killed so and so they did it on the family guy years later but it was more of like a stewie finally kills lois thing i think it was like for their hundredth episode and then they went through it i actually had the simpsons box sets on dvd a lot of them for a long time i went through them and i got really into the simpsons. Just as you were saying the prize money thing, too.

It reminds me. I watched so much guts, double dare legends of the hidden temple. But the reruns, obviously, I wasn't around when it was on TV. And when they would show like we're giving away all expenses paid trip to Nickelodeon Studios or whatever. And they would show the whole outdoor every time. Be like, oh Oh my God, imagine I could win that. And like,

I think it was like closed by the time I was even watching it to the point where it's just a ridiculous pipe dream. But that is one of the nineties things I think of, like in terms of that feels very nineties to me, legends of the hidden temple. Totally. Mike, were you a big,

like if you were to choose one Nickelodeon game show, what would you choose? There's a lot. I mean, Nick arcade was always a good one. Guts, obviously. I was a double dare guy. I love the nose picking.

I love the obstacle. I said, my one thing at Barstool, I'm going to get us to run the obstacle course one day. That's all I want to do. And then I can fucking leave, get a real job, whatever the fuck. But I loved it. Like Robbie said, the trip to Space Camp was like, oh, my God, If they win a trip to Space Camp, that would be the coolest thing ever. So that was mine. But I don't know.

Did you have like one that was more so in the lead? Yeah, Double Dare. I was a Double Dare guy for sure. The questions were easy enough too, right? Like you could get the questions right as a kid too, which was nice. Yeah, I'd watch Guts. And I didn't want to be one of the other two dudes that didn't make it up the aggro crag yeah yeah and i'd watch legends of the hidden temple and nobody ever made it through that

shit like i can count on one hand how many times i saw somebody finish yeah yeah final uh you know maze of legends you know they're bringing that back for adults they're doing an adult version of legends of the hidden temple i blogged about that for 600 pound people yes discovery plus coming uh soon on discovery plus i'm trying to i feel like i blogged that like five years ago and i'm still waiting to see it i'm dying to see adults just maybe they're doing it like squid game style so it's going to take a while like it's going to be intense people are dying mike when I say like cartoons or TV shows from the 90s, what comes to mind for you? You know, obviously wrestling, Saturday morning superstars. That was like, Clem, when you said like you kind of bailed on the Bret Hart era, that was my bread and butter.

That's what I had, man, because like I was just sort of coming off, you know getting into uh wwf in the 90s and the 80s and 90s and like like you said hulk was gone warrior was gone they had the steroid trial and all these big monster guys had to you know go underground like obi-wan letting the juice drain out of their systems. So we had Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon and like these, you know, not roided out monster guys, but great wrestlers. And yeah, that was something. And then looking back at the Hogan Warrior era through like, you look at what looks the most interesting on the VHS shelf at the mom and pop store yeah yeah um and the figures man I mean the mom mama fox will tell you I was a very easy kid to watch when I was a boy because you would sit me down in front of the tv put on some wrestling

with my ring and my figures and I was all set for a little while. The other things were the Ninja Turtles cartoon. It was a big Turtles kid for sure. And X-Men, the animated series for sure. We've talked about that a lot on this podcast. I can still hear that song in my heart, man. Are you happy it's coming back? Are you like stoked for it and get the kids into it too? I am because my son got into the original series.

Even before it was on Disney+, he got into it. Real into it too. He started asking for the toys, and I was just like, oh, no. That's not like I go to Target and pick up a Sentinel. I'm going to have to scour eBay for this shit. Whatnot.com. We got to get them on Whatnot. Oh, there you go.

Whatnot, yeah. They're not cheap trust me i was looking them up i went on like etsy or something and i was like oh that's gonna be uh like i'm gonna have to really i'm going to make a decision if i want to buy how many sentinels did we get him he had he had an army he wanted an army of sentinels and i'm just like i'm gonna have to take out a second mortgage to get this army of sentinels in the house he had six of them at one point six six of the old school 90s x-men sentinels and they were pretty badass too like the purple and pink looking sentinels and there's a picture and he lined them all up in front of the x-men once and he put all of their right fists up in the air like that and i was like no don't put all their right fists up in the air

please we can never let him and aj meet each other or else there's gonna be a legitimate problem No! Don't put all the right bits up in here, please. We can never let him and AJ meet each other, or else there's going to be a legitimate problem. Those things are real bad. And Batman the Animated Series, obviously. That was another big one. And the toys. The toys were great for all the shows and movies we had. I feel like not only were the toys great, but i think i spoke about this in one of the batman commentaries we did everything wasn't released as as a collectible so like adults

weren't running to kb toys and toys r us and just like buying out stock knowing they were going right to ebay with it eventually for you know a huge markup so it was easy to get cool shit you know and and and collect the whole set it wasn't this like scour the earth and pay markup on aftermarket sites for stuff also this goes this goes for everything but like the internet of course makes things way easier you get things ordered to your house it's there in one day or whatever but there is something to going to a toy store not seeing the toy you want going to the next toy store seeing it on the shelf and it's like yes this is the greatest day of my life they had it in stock like i think about that with wrestling figures all the time mama fox being the saint she is would drive you know stop to stop until we found whatever we needed that like is completely

removed like do kids even have that anymore or is it just the hunt the hunt was the hunt was the exciting like it's the chase rob you can you can uh back me up on this the best part of a of a rock and roll gig is that maybe five to ten seconds that you're just walking out onto the stage totally and you're like the anticipation oh yeah you know the hunt it's it's all you know the sears toy catalog that used to come in the mail before christmas time just yeah flip right to the action figure section rob i'm not going to the you gotta get at this store robert running out of gas here that's my mama fox i'm i've been mama fox one time but i i feel like i've known her my whole life just based on hearing the impressions toys and comic books she would do it both for she's the absolute best so there i blogged

it the other day that they're bringing toys r us back and all the macy's which just feels like it's like one inoperable disease for another it's like m Macy's are going to die soon, so I'm not going to get too attached. However, I've brought my kids to Kohl's, and it's like, all right, you guys can get something in the toy section for each other for Christmas. And I wanted to blow my brains out after five minutes. I couldn't imagine taking kids to a Toys R Us where the entire store, they're just begging you to buy it all. So it's something that I'm not used to in this world, but I do feel, I still remember it. Like you said,

Mike, like just seeing the toy you were looking for. It's there. Same kind of goes with a blockbuster or the movie you've been waiting for, for three weeks or the hell, the WrestleMania. I want to watch WrestleMania, you know,

five, but I just can't get it. It's that some kid keeps renting it out. Just being able to see that it was, it was just as much about the chase as it was about, you the life's a journey not a destination as they said and get a grip once upon a time right nice callback that's my favorite that was my favorite song amazing it was and not only seeing the the toy you wanted on the shelf but at toys r us if you were going for a specific video game the the ticket in the envelope because the video games weren't on

the shelves or even in the glass case they were in a separate booth in the front of the toys r us you had to go to the aisle and get a ticket out of an envelope under the picture of the game cover so if under that game cover the envelope was empty you weren't getting that game they were sold out that's a completely foreign idea to me get a ticket pick up a ticket for a video game that yeah that's you've lost me i could still see the little red message and it's like sorry like needs to restock but yeah you have to go outside and open up your pack of candy cigarettes to unwind and then you go in the front where all the people who were waiting for their tickets and you're like what did this could get and it's it could be a bike could be a video game right it

could be you know sonic the hedgehog 3 you never knew what was coming out and it was like those kids they're they probably had a birthday or they saved their money up whatever it was yeah exactly they're jeffrey dollars just in hushed tones as everyone watched. And I do feel like I still remember for me, at least the, and granted I was getting older, like the whole toy thing kind of died and I'm not, I don't want to piss off prequel, Stan, Fran, whatever you want to say, but the prequels, they went so hard after the toys. Cause they were trying to recreate the magic of the original trilogy in terms of the, the toys, the, the rarity of it, you know, the, the crazy collectors.

I remember going after toys and my friend was like, if your barcode ends with an over three five, that's just super rare Darth mall. And I was like, Oh my God, I'm going to be a millionaire. So you're chasing these toys to then keep in a box. No offense, Jeff D low. I know that's what he does. And it's like, I just want to play with the toys. And at this point I'm trying to like, make, make money on it. I kind of was the same way.

Mike, were you into cards? Like I was into X-Men cards, but I was really into like basketball and baseball cards as a kid growing up. So it was kind of like gambling. That toys became gambling for me more than just collecting. You know what I mean? Yeah, we had all sorts of sports cards. We used to trade them at lunchtime, you know, at school. And I got into

x-men cards i have that's another another thing that's a real 90s thing that i still have a 94 marvel complete set there's 150 cards and like 18 special cards that were sort of like holographic on the back and uh i got the whole set of those and i spent probably an entire summer going like you said going from comic book shop to card store to just search for what i didn't have and what i had left and um yeah yeah and and once in a while you know you would trade away a card that you you looking back like you got out of school and you immediately regret trading that jenny griffin j junior card or whatever it was and you're like why did i do that i don't even like jeff bagwell that's a meal for life as a

mets fan is that also how you sort of like learned superheroes back then both of you really like through cards because you don't have learned more through the cards through the books right yeah same here 100 i think brennan clancy mentioned it too that i love that x-men card set and i don't know what year that i think i just had the x-men set but it could have been the whole marvel i just looked it up the 94th set and there's a 91 set and i would just the card had it would always have great artwork on it obviously and then the back it would like it would either have like a bio of the person or sometimes i remember the power is like seven out of ten you know dexterity i didn't the fuck dexterity man i was like oh man this guy's really good though he's really dexterous and that's the

kind of shit you just but it was like something just like with the baseball stats i just inherently loved and that definitely did like the toys were great i had an archangel toy for x-men i probably read one book with archangel in it. I don't know if he was even in the cartoon at that point. I probably read it, and I had his card though, I know. And I fucking just loved that toy. I played with it non-stop, and it's the toy. It was the comic

cards, which I have somewhere as well. I have to find it in this house. I know I have that complete set somewhere. All right, Clem, I gotta bring you back here. Oh, there it is. There it is. This is one of my son's Sentinel toys because he got so into the X-Men series

that he wanted all the old stuff. And also he loves the heels. Like he roots for the bad guys. So of course the Sentinels are his favorite thing. And that's why, again, we have to keep them separate because AJ has about seven Bowser toys and he just loves Bowser. I'm like, this is-

Bowser is, yeah, his guy as well. Oh, there's the OG Wolverine. You got to be watching on YouTube. If you're listening on the podcast feed, this is a good YouTube episode. Mike, let me see the claws go in and out. Let me see the claws go in and out. They go in and out. Nah, it's busted.

Oh, no. I could push them, but they, yeah. The Gambit action. Gambit with the cape, the the plastic cape reminiscent of old kenner toys and in the star wars era there's no doubt in my mind feige is going to nail gambit because they didn't really nail gambit in the movies they nailed him in the cartoon though and our boy cyclops is always my favorite in the movies they made him a bit of a bitch uh my wife's exact word she goes cyclops is a pansy so every time i see in the movies he's a

pansy not in the comic books though yeah it's kind of a cuck i believe would be the new word to this like like wolverine would just fuck a bit of a cuck yeah just watch while wolverine would like flirt with her right in front of his face and be like do something about it take your pussy ass sunglasses off one more night on 90s toys clem back me up on this mcdonald's happy meal toys were legit in the 90s they were good they were fucking and they they could make the rotation of regular toys which is not easy to say for a free toy exactly and our kids now they'll get them and you'll get maybe one a month or one month where you have a run where, so it's, it's kind of funny. This just happened here.

That's why I say it. There was a Marvel. I don't know what movie it was for. It might've been Avengers or something like that. And the kids got a Scarlet witch and there's a Hulk and they're still in the rotation of the toys. All the other ones are sitting in a plastic, in a landfill somewhere,

few miles down the road, I'm sure. But all the other, that's the only set of mcdonald's toys and angie actually said he goes where's my hulk doll and that's kind of his whole toy is the mcdonald's toy so uh back in the day those shits were even the glasses you get like the collectible glasses we think we call it forever ones yep yep so and there were time there were rare occasions where maybe you were doing mcdonald's right before or right after like a movie theater

trip and once in a great while the stars would align and you would get the happy meal toy of the movie you were just either at or going to and it's like you know xbox gives you achievements for certain tasks that was a 90s kid achievement day get Get the Happy Meal toy of the movie you're going to or have just been to. We had a whole bin in our basement when I was growing up of the hand-me-down Happy Meal toys. And it was a big bin, too. It was like I remember so many Disney ones. We had toys for every single Disney movie. And they were all Happy Meal toys.

And they were all good, too. Some of them were like stuffed animals. Some of them were like finger puppets. Others were actual action figures. I remember we had a Peter Pan one in particular where it was like every piece of the, every toy from the Happy Meal was a big piece of the pirate ship and you could put together a pirate ship this big with a Peter Pan and a Captain Hook and it's like a full play set that you were getting through your Chicken McNuggets and French fries fries it's crazy it's like a legit legit play set so i

could definitely attest to that and like all the hand-me-downs um that's the thing too like you it would make you like sometimes you feel like you had to complete the set which this day oh yeah there's really not much there was actually a thor one floor 11 thunder where they like put this on your uh you know phone or like tablet and you can play like a game and Thor 11 Thunder where they like put this on your uh you know phone or like tablet and you can play like a game and it looked like a uh like Guitar Hero it was the dumbest shit I've ever seen I was so excited to show the kids and they're like uh what can I just play with the toy and I'm like yeah you know get out of here but that's the kind of quality even I'm sure Mike did you have like I still remember they'd have like chicken nugget

toys where they would have like the McDonald's food or the characters. I almost said to Robbie, there's a handful of things in that Happy Meal toy bin, like rubber chicken nuggets, but the face has worn off because I put them in a ladder match against my Undertaker figure. Talking about movies, talking about going to movies, Happy movies happy meal toys movies like that when you look back at the 90s what were like the big movies that you looked forward to the most that delivered that hit and then if there were ones that disappointed you i guess that as well but when you look back like what are the ones where you're like that's a fucking 90s movie right there do you have one mike over the top of your Yeah, not that I was looking forward to because I didn't know much about it. I was just – we got taken and it changed my world.

It was Jurassic Park. Great one. I just knew it was a dinosaur movie. And up until that point, the only dinosaur movie I had ever seen was The Land Before Time. So I was just like, we're going to a dinosaur movie? Okay, fine. But then it's like Jurassic Park was mind-blowing in terms of special effects and couldn't believe what you were seeing.

You were a dinosaur for Halloween that year, right? I was Dilophosaurus, the one that spit all that shit at Newman out in the fucking rainforest. Yeah, I was... I'll send you a picture. I'll put it in the podcast. Alright, Mike, no spitting on people right now.

Get some candy from these people. Don't spit at them at them yeah and the next year showing up to school you know it was like jurassic park folders jurassic park trapper keeper jurassic park you know i had the toys it was like that was a big one when you said 90s movies robbie the two that was the first one that came into my head because it was just like a monstrous moment just because he's like spielberg intended yeah pun intended and like at this point like entertainment tonight like just the shit my parents would want or my mama watch you know like or whatever the entertainment news shows it was like this shit looks like dinosaurs it's crazy and it was kind of like we feel like we evolved like five steps it's like the first time you see hgtv yeah yeah you're like how did we go from color tv to five steps it's like the first time you see hgtv yeah yeah

you're like how did we go from color tv to being able to see like sweat pouring down people's heads it still doesn't make sense to me all these years later and i mean biggie make dough like jurassic park it just made so much money and the kids watched it the other day i was sleeping i wasn't feeling good but my seven-year-old and my four-year-old watched it and they weren't like too scared i thought it was scarier i think my wife fast forward the goat scene there's a couple scenes you have to be smart about you know clever girl there are some things that can kind of scare kids it holds up so well though it's such a good movie to this day and it's so like compact almost like it feels so quick when you watch it now it goes by like that and you're like oh what a great little movie we just put up

yep till this day till this day that Till this day. That's Jurassic Park. Still holds up. And I never realized this. Someone tweeted about it a few years ago, I feel. They were the ones that brought Super Size to McDonald's. That was the whole, it was like Jurassic. It was like Dino Size, I think, as they were saying Super Size. So the Super Size was born from that,

which obviously put McDonald's on a whole other path. And then Super Size B kind of killed it. But that was the thing that introduced that. I hate that they killed it. Because I never got to order a supersized meal i would like don't take that away from me i could look at me i could go for a supersized meal bob fox might have made weight if he had supersized in his life it would have been a lot easier god knows he had the toys right you guys are going i would love a supersized big mac meal just when i'm real hungry the giant coke i watched that in health class in seventh grade and i was like this looks great what are you talking about oh they were showing supersized

in health class we did watch it yeah miss miss provenzano who uh mike had as well yeah i don't miss provenzano that's a good teacher she was actually a great teacher yeah all the students liked her i love it any other movies come to mind for you club mine mine was uh this was a movie that i thought was going to be good but i still remember like i was in india again i was a neighbor with older kids and i remember going to him when i was like they're like three or four years old they weren't like i was hanging out with people 10 years older than me or anything but i remember being like i don't care what anyone says the lion king was fucking awesome and i like it was just one of those things i was like i'm standing on this corner i remember even like the older kids were like what are you talking like

this little baby and then like a few days later like yo the lion king like you know like it's one of those movies it's one of those things that kind of john come on yeah yeah the music was great it was was great from top to bottom the characters were wonderful i mean like there was i still can't i still fast forward past the scene i have no problem admitting that at all i don't want to see that i don't need to see it he's he just is sleeping that's all he's doing and then somebody comes back and he's still sleeping somewhere i don't know did you guys see the remake of the lion king i did not i'm happy i didn't yeah i it was you know everyone talked about it like oh my god that's gonna awesome. And there is really no emotion on any of the animals' faces.

They're all like just kind of they look like real animals, which makes it a bit strange. I was just going to say you couldn't really animate those cute little faces. No, it's not nearly as cute. You're like, oh, that's a lion. It could rip my face off. Siegfried and Roy. Siegfried and Roy? Siegmund and Roy?

Siegfried. Siegfried. Siegfried and Roy. Yeah. roy sigmund and roy sigfried sigfried and roy yeah and i will say like i don't feel like hakuna matata has the same oomph about it when there's real life animals instead of like cartoons did you guys ever see lion king one and a half oh yeah i like that a lot you know what's crazy is ken jack has a vhs collection on his desk now it's his new thing he's collecting like classic vhs's so i looked up top selling vhs's of all time it is crazy but lion king one and a half and i think uh aladdin 2 the return of jafar

two straight to vhs movies are like in the top 15 tops we had we had a return of jafar we definitely had return of jafar because i remember that one and i remember i think mama Fox got me Lion King one and a half for Valentine's Day one year. She would always put together a little like almost like an Easter basket, but for Valentine's Day. And I think that was in there one year. It was just crazy to me that these like straight to VHS movies were they sold like 15 million copies. I was like, holy shit. That's like really impressive. I just looked it up.

That came out in 2004. Like that's the time of the DVD. And this is including like, it's just V8 straight VHS sales, right? Yep. That's not. And did you,

I don't know if you saw it. I happened to be in the office on Tuesday. Ken Jack got himself a TV, the TV with the VHS included. And it's like eight inches big. It's tiny. It has like, you have to like hit the buttons.

It's like a little wonky. It has its quirks, which I love about it. And I'm like, dude, you can just watch VHS and he threw on an Indiana Jones. I know he had Raiders on. It was,

I didn't tell him yet. I told him I bought him a mystery one. I'll reveal what the VHS is to the, my most basement listeners. Nobody tell Ken Jack, cause it'll be at the office in a few days. He didn't have the first star Wars. I was like,

dude, you're starting a VHS collection. You got Spaceballs, but you don't have Star Wars. So I got him the original. It was like nine bucks on eBay. The original Star Wars. It's a must. Obviously, we're talking original.

We're not doing special editions here, right? No, no. We're not having, you know, all the. I think it would actually be, it might be harder to get a special edition on VHS. I don't know. That was a big 90s moment when they released a special edition yeah i actually have our star wars vhs tapes behind me that was like one of the few things i saved from hurricane sandy uh i was like vhs tapes we don't need those but

the star wars that we grew up on we need the star wars vhs sacred jedi text oh i took that and i took, and I took WWF's most unusual matches. My first wrestling VHS. First ladder match ever. Shawn Michaels versus Bret Hart for the Intercontinental Championship. That's right. And I talked to Bret Hart about it, and surprise, surprise, he was pretty bitter about the WWF

stealing his lady on that one. I have to admit this, too, and I think I've admitted it in the basement in the past, but I'm around, you know, friends and family here, the, the star Wars.

When they re-released, I guess, did they release it in the theaters first? And then they released the special editions or the special editions. And they went to the theaters before the prequels. Do you remember Mike, how that went with the order of that?

The, they, they released the special editions into theaters first and then a VHS set okay I think I watched I never was into this is the crazy thing I was into Star Wars when I was young it's just like I would watch a minute of it like usually like the battle of Hoth would be on

and I'm like I don't know what the fuck's going on in this thing I wasn't into Star Wars until they released not the special editions but they had released a VHS trilogy set along into star wars until they released not the special editions but they had released a vhs trilogy set along with in 95 kenner toys got the rights to start making power they were called power of the force figures so they released a trilogy vhs set and somebody got me that for christmas along with no those are the special editions. These are special. Yeah. But they released the new Kenner figures along with that VHS set.

And that, for me, somebody got me, you know, the tapes for Christmas and a couple of the figures. And then I was down the rabbit hole and, you know, never looked back. Yeah. Those are classic covers right there. I believe those are Drew Struzan ones. So good. Also, always confusing, Return of of the Jedi what's up with those Lightsaber colors they actually corrected him on that

But on the original poster They have those lightsaber colors flipped Vader has blue Which made people think like is Luke going to the dark side Again like We were always crazy nerds Even back then they just didn't have reddit and twitter And stuff for us to post our stuff

Maybe a message board or two that was really it but i it's funny and i know the covers you're talking the the vhs that's what it was my brother was into him he got the movies and i was like all right let me check these out and then you know i was just like ra back in fucking 78 being like holy shit that's what everyone's talking and i was i mean i was hooked from the minute i got goosebumps just think about the minute that crawl went up and then I was in the theater. I was buying the toys. I was so incredibly excited for the prequels. I was so excited.

Like, like it was, I didn't even have to wait. Like I wasn't waiting for these for, you know, 15 years or whatever it was to get there. But just like the few years that I got into star wars to when they came out i felt like i it was my life was going to be complete seeing them and then i left the theater being like they just talked about taxation without representation for like two hours but like i was in history class i was so let down by it all no offense prequel stan friend but man like that that was like a whole... You let down immediately. Mike, were you let down immediately or did you like the prequels when they came out?

I was a little older too. We'll just preface with that because it's more of a kid's movie. No, I was a little let down for sure because it felt like Clem said, this doesn't feel like Star Wars. What are they talking about? It's kind of the vibe. Double lightsaber blade, you know very cool yeah um and then they killed darth maul what what is happening

where are we going from here i thought that was going to be like the new vader he was going to be the guy in every movie they were trying to get out should have been you know he just got halved and it's over yeah we know who should have been you imagine little mike in box going to the theater and they're like no not jar jar and then so angry and he's chopping people up it would have been incredible and made all the disappointment of that first movie just wash away i want them to do like you know how marvel did the what if cartoon show i want them to do it darth jar Jar cartoon episode just just so we could see that that that would be funny let me i think episode one has aged gracefully though like i've gone back since i've had kids of my own two better than two for sure yeah and three of course i think three is just a straight up good movie. Let me hit another ad read before we continue here for HelloFresh,

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If you like the shorts, I'm going to keep making those. The rock and roll stories, I'm doing some nerd ones. I might even do, I thought about it today, the same type of vibe as the rock and roll stories, but for old UFC stories and maybe wrestling stories. I think there's a lot that are crazy stories that I could fit in under a minute while you're scrolling. Maybe you learned something new. All right. The last thing I want to talk about nineties wise is hobbies and trends. Did you fall into any nineties trends looking back and hobby wise? Like what was the hangout spot for you guys? Were you going to the baseball field to hang out? That is kind of what it was for me and my friends.

We're going to the arcade. Clem, were you going to the roller rink? Talking Stranger Things. Like, what was the hobbies, the trends for you during the 90s? First of all, the roller rink is coming back. For people who didn't listen to our Stranger Things episode, I predicted it. What did I say?

2030. Roller rinks will be making a comeback. There will be articles about the comeback of the roller rink and the arcade, which is part of the roller rink The arcade I hope does make a comeback The arcade is the best come on Arcades were big for me I'm in the burbs So I'm sure people that are closer to cities

There might be different things But for me growing up man KFC says this all the time about our age range At least for me and Mike We're kind of the greatest generation Where we remember life before the internet and life after the internet. We know what it's like just to play with toys and kind of the thing we would do growing up in my neighborhood.

Again, I had a good group of kids, a little couple older, a couple younger. We would just go out, ride our bikes out in the neighborhood and then just play baseball, basketball, football, whatever it may be until you went home for dinner, go back out, play manhunt at night, come back and then start fresh the next morning. I can't even fathom having that much energy to just wake up in the morning, let alone do that full day worth of stuff now. But man, we just lived like, it was like, it was the fucking, whatever the American dream is supposed to be, at least for kids. I lived it because it was the fucking best. And we, you know, as you got older, go on the internet, you're, you're, you're fucking

chatting with going to chat rooms, soiling your soul that way, saving money on those, on those CDs. Cause once Naps, the reason Napster fucking hit is because I got burned by so many $20 CDs that sucked. Cause one single was good. I still remember Montel Jordan. I bought a Montel Jordan CD. I was like, this thing fucking stinks other than whatever.

I think Get It On Tonight was like the one good song on it. I just heard it on the radio the other day. I go, oh, you fucking tricked me with this, Montel. But I was like, fuck it. Napster, I will. Napster followed by LimeWare, all that kind of stuff. But before the internet came in, ruined my brain, turned me into the smut blogger I've become. I kind of became Vader.

That was my Anakin to Vader moment was the internet. Before that, man, it was just outside on your brain. We spent so much money at Sam Goody that we were all full on willing to give our home family computers cancer from wire to wire eventually. It's going to go bad eventually. I don't care. I can't go back to Sam Goody again. There's no more money for it. What about you, Mike, in terms of what was the spot for you to hang out in the 90s um yeah the baseball fields were a big spot yeah and um you know like clem said you know he described it to a t you know baseball wiffle ball somebody's pool during the day you know you get lucky on a hot day the the ice cream truck could go by. You'd break your tooth on a gumball eye from a total pop, you know,

of course, rest in peace to the Choco Taco too soon. Mike, what was your go-to? What was your go-to? The WWF wrestling bar. Yep. Number one to this day. If they could kill the WWF wrestling bar, they could have killed the Choco Taco. I just talked to my mom. I was at lunch with her yesterday randomly. And she goes, we used to do a, we used to ride bikes in the Bronx river parkway, me and my family. It would, they shut it down on Sundays. You can take like a,

a ride like seven miles down and you'd stop at the ice cream and halfway. And she goes, you would always eat a choco taco. I'm like, shit, it goes back that far. And WWF pop, I have number one in my all time power rankings. Number two is choco taco. So I'm right with you,y i definitely um you know the same thing after dinner back out after dark to play manhunt and couldn't even fathom nowadays sending my kids out in the dark to just go play manhunt just go hide where anywhere you want in town in the dark it's insane yeah but um trends i definitely we definitely fell into some i knew i i tried to hop on some trends just because you didn't want to be the only kid

you know showing up to seventh grade without a yo mega fireball yo-yo a yo-yo was a trend at one point yeah it was the cool thing to have a yo-yo everyone be outside on the playground just you know i don't know why people gotta get the youtube just to see mike do that on the youtube that was an incredible one right there hogs i had pogs um it was a stupid game that was not a whole lot of fun but we we bought tons of them. More fun to collect the pogs than to play the game, correct? Yeah, I guess. And the Slammers, people will go, look at this Slammer. Who's got a spinner?

Oh, it looks like a saw blade. Ooh, I wonder if that would cut you. You know, just kids being kids, being stupid. Did you have JNCO jeans at any point? I did have JNCO jeans. You did? at any point i did have janko jeans and and uh it was a it was a hot topic in the in the household about where on my waist i would actually be wearing them and i used to have to prove that i had to have them up then of course like any other kid as soon as you get to school you you

know pull them down and you think you're in a snoop dog video i was gonna say what was the inspiration for you to get the janko jeans was it it like Snoop Dogg? No, it was just, you know, it was, it was that thing. It was just what was the thing to have. You had parachute pants, right? We grew up wearing a lot of Tommy Hilfiger because our aunt worked for Tommy Hilfiger and was able to get us a lot of good clothes at probably little or no cost. We had a Tommy Hilfiger Game Boy, Clem. Our Game Boy was Tommy Hilfiger brand. That is some fancy fucking shit right there.

That's Jersey right there. That's Jersey. I love the back of the story we're getting to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love the Mike Hagenko jeans. That's incredible though. books you know that was a trend that everyone you know had their favorite goosebumps books eventually got into a show was that a 90s thing or was that later the show the show was never as popular as the books yeah

i remember the show having an episode that really freaked me and i think it i think it freaked step out when it came out and then it freaked me out years later where the girl puts the mask on and halloween and it sticks to her face and she can't get the mask off oh creepy times yeah shout out are you afraid of the dark was another thing we weren't supposed to watch are you afraid of the dark on saturday nights you know you had snick on and you know, we stayed up and watched them anyway. And our sister was, you know, like crying herself to sleep every night, you know, that's, that's being a kid. We, you know, we just, we were like Clem said, we were kind of the last generation to like, know that when the street lights started coming on, it was, it was time to start heading home soon. Yeah. And instead now we just stay up with the little lights on our computer.

So three in the morning, like God did not intend to happen. And that's why all our brains are fucking cooked right now. Yeah. Clem, did you have any trends that you hopped on? Yeah. So I'm trying to think like I was,

I was almost like someone that would not do something if I thought it was becoming too trend. I don't know if I was a hipster in that regard. Sounds like you were a little hipster Clem. I just – I remember I used to love Dave. I remember loving Dave Matthews' band, for example. I remember I was in on them very early. I saw a show with them with my dad who loved the drummer there.

Cardi B, yeah. Yeah. And then I remember it became a thing. It was like a year or two later. I was like, I saw 18 Dave concerts. Oh, I saw 20 gigs. And I'm just like, oh, man. This isave yeah yeah matthews fans there's nothing they love more than being like oh yeah i love dave yeah when did you see dave you see the set list dave

played the other night yeah and yeah that drove me crazy and i never wanted to like the thing is especially in school and it's probably still the case these days you whatever you wore you were branded as that so if you wore airwalks you were whatever you wore, you were branded as that. So if you were airwalks, you were a skater, you were a quote unquote freak. If you were the Stussy, if you were Massimo, I still remember all those kinds of brands. And again, I was a big sports fan. So I just, the one thing I guess I would do is I'd always have like a good pair of shoes. Like I was,

I hated the bulls because I was a Knicks fan and Jordan would break my goddamn heart every year. I'd have the bandwagon bulls fans taunting me. So I get like, you know, a nice pair of fans taunting me so i get like you know a nice pair of pennies or a nice pair you know the grand hills or whatever it was so that would be one thing like jansport i feel like jansport was like you know you get a couple key key chains on there you get from spencer bring it into school composition notebooks yep yep five star like that's the fancy shit you know you get the five star you're fucking i don't even know what the big do kids even use notebooks i have a kid're fucking, I don't even know what the big,

do kids even use notebooks? I have a kid in third grade. I don't even know. They probably just give them an iPad. They're like, here, take this. Someone told me once, my friend Dom said to me once that my tattoos look like the first page of a composition notebook of an artist just went crazy. And I was like, that's the best compliment you could ever give me. That's awesome.

Do you think tattoos will be digital by the time like our kids are older? And they're like, wow, Robbie has like the analog tattoos. Probably. They're just going to scan an image onto your arm somehow. And it's a gif. And it's just like we just invented gif tattoos live on the podcast. This is probably the greatest. Like I think of Moana, how Maui's got the tattoo that like runs around on his back.

Imagine that. You could have like a living tattoo, like a Tamagotchi tattoo you gotta feed it and stuff tamagotchis that was i i got into the tamagotchi game i got one just because like it i got obsessed with like i was like i don't know what this is i'm a little too old for but i just wanted to try it so tamagotchis and like you said with pogs too if like trading a card was bad i could never do pogs because then if you lose it because they slammed it and your pod gets flipped over that person keeps it i would be like i wouldn't want to lose my favorite pogs i had a whole set it's i have the whole simpsons collector

set of pogs because again i was a big simp do you still have it uh yeah it's somewhere i i it's in like a giant memory box for full of a bunch of shit i probably spent way too much money on that's just sitting gathering dust right now that's one of those items that i would say is one of the most 90s items you own oh god your complete set of simpsons pogs like yeah i mean it's so dated that the simpsons made a pog jokes about pog joke about alf in pog form and now it's like completely done a full circle here the one other thing that i could think of that i guess would be it's very 90s ish and i had it and i smelt it the other day at a carnival was polo sport polo sport was my cologne and yes it was my first cologne i wore probably way too much and just like it now i can feel the awkward hormones in my body as i'm looking at girls that i had a crush on at a date at a dancer

and yeah anytime there was a school dance you you know what? Probably an extra 16, 17 sprays would be good for this. You would go into the gymnasium, and your eyes would start burning from the cologne and mint gum smell in the air. Yes. Minto Burst. Minto Burst or Winter Fresh because those were pretty new at the time. It was revolutionary, those two gums right there. We had our gum in crystal flavor form. What about Gator Gum? that's a 90s thing to me yes gator gum quenching gum

i would eat like an entire pack me like all right instead of just drinking water today i'm gonna eat an entire thing of gum terrible idea we we were gum that would come in baseball cards oh yeah that shit that'll like break your your teeth these days if you try to i think doug's ate one pretty recently and it just like made his stomach hurt and it like crumbled in his mouth cotton candy uh cotton candy flavored bubble yum is like the 90s gum yes was that still like it blue and pink was that like a blue and pink color right yeah big time oh i like cotton candy flavor stuff that's one of those artificial flavors that i think is better than the thing it's based on real cotton candy is a bit too messy in the show

yeah i like water i like fake watermelon stuff more than real watermelon doesn't have enough watermelon oh unbelievable all right here's one i don't i don't think Robbie's going to be able to jump in on this, but I think you might be able to. 90s crushes, like celebrity, like TV show and movie girl crushes. The Pink Power Ranger? I like this. Pink Power Ranger. Pink Power Ranger on the list for sure. I mean, the number one for me,

I feel like it's going to be number one for probably 70% of the people listening, if not more. And it's, I mean, our boy KFC, he made his like blogging bones on this one back in the day. Kelly Kapowski, she was the absolute number one. The only flaw of Kelly Kapowski. She had one flaw. That motherfucker Jeff was such a scumbag. And I'll never forgive her for breaking Zach Morris's heart. And I don't know what happened in the canon of saved by the bell.

I feel like they got married. I hope they got kids. Maybe they got divorced. I don't know, but I'll always have like, it just solely Kelly Kapowski, just a little bit that she just did Zach dirty like that. And Hey, the heart wants what the heart wants, but that just broke my heart. That was a little warning for everybody. Yes. You got why you have it, right? Is Kelly Kapowski Danielle Fishel?

No. That's a sure angle from Boy Meets World. Topanga, gotcha. Topanga was a little young for me. Boy Meets World, I was a couple years out of it, but Tiffany Amber Thiessen was Kelly Kapowski. Boy Meets World, how about the WWF episode of that? That's like one

of the most 90s pictures ever just like vader in boy meets world oh i love crossover shit like that and kind of uh this was another thing i was going to bring with tv tgif like tgif was a i want to i want to rob i hope this is okay that i dedicate this episode on your behalf it is your show but i want to dedicate this episode to anyone who's still wondering what happened to judy winslow yes what does tgif explain oh my god bob don't say this to me i don't know i have no idea what you're talking about i can't believe we've made it this long before you just say who's judy you're looking for judy blue or something yeah tgif was uh thank god it's Friday. It's the Friday night lineup on ABC. You had a full house. You had family matters. You had a step by step.

And then the fourth show would be the fourth, the nine 30 timeframe cause it's, it was marketed towards, you know, say seven to 10, 12 year olds. So like nine 30, you're getting to the point where it was usually a little rob that was a punishment in our house if you fucked up it was like no tgif like like in like hushed tones it's like did you hear what happened to matt no murder somebody the first i think it was the first ever um the block this might have been a little young

for you the i me and reeks actually during the pandemic we did a thing i think we called it barstool tgif and we just did like a kind of a show where we would just pop around the internet and like we just talked about tgif for the first episode we didn't really know what else to talk about perfect strangers was in the first set of the um did you were perfect strangers in your realm it was full house was was an absolute lock that was my favorite show growing up yeah other than you know other than simpsons family matters loved it step by step loved it but perfect strangers i was a little young for it but i just liked watching like baki bartakamas the dance of joy this means nothing to you robbie you have no idea what i'm talking about right now, but Mike,

did you at least have a little perfect strangers in your life? I did. And funny enough, I met one of those dudes when I was very young. What were the main characters, Balky and who else? Cousin Larry. Cousin Larry. So I met cousin Larry cause he was in a Broadway show at the time with Nathan Lane, going back to our line.

We were all in an elevator together because my family works in uh the broadway industry for many years so i would meet people sometimes if i'd like going to work with dad and they were doing a show together and we were all in this elevator together and my dad says hey you know who that is and i looked to my left and it's cousin larry and i was just like oh yeah i watch your show and he's like okay and he hey, you know who that is? And I look to my left, and it's Cousin Larry. And I was just like, oh, yeah, I watch your show. And he's like, okay. And he goes, you know who that is? And I look to my right, and it's Nathan Lane.

And he looks down at me, and he says, hi, Hakuna Matata. Oh, come on. What an intro to a kid. That's incredible. I just watched Nathan Lane. That's fucked up that you said that. Rob, going back to what I said, part of the TGIF lineup was Family Matters, the show with Urkel. Of course. The Urkel show by the end, basically.

Right. And the youngest daughter was named Judy. And at one point, she just went up the stairs to her room and never came back down ever again at any future seasons. And they never talked about it. She was just gone. Yeah. Treat her like Chris Benoit. Crazy.

That's nuts. There was a whole lot of rumors about what happened to her too. It's like a more extreme version of when they swapped the aunt on Fresh Prince. Just different actress. But instead, they were like, this character doesn't exist anymore, and we're not going to reference it. Yep. It's fucked up. They did the Batgirl.

They were like, nope, we're not doing it. Cancel. Pour out a flaming moe for Judy Winslow. I never know what happened to her. There was rumors that, like, I mean, she was young and they're like did she become a porn star when she got older there was a thing where they if they wanted to do a reboot the cast demanded that judy gets written back into the show it it was wild it was wild she just disappeared one day it was like that's another thing 90s urban myths right like that oh yeah kell from keenan and kell died that uh marilyn monroe or maryland manson removed the rib right

uh what are what are like the other 90s that when ultimate warrior came back it was a different ultimate warrior the original one had died in a motorcycle accident or something you know that one's basically the paul is dead one that they just put on ultimate warrior they're like hey where's faceband which not to make this a beatles thing but i always think John looks so unbelievably different from the beginning to the end of the Beatles. Paul looks pretty much the same. He may be a slightly different haircut. He grew a beard by the end, but like, it's crazy that Paul was the one they stuck that weird conspiracy on and not John. He went from like a little pudgy face, like had a nice haircut,

like he is up there. And then he went to massive beard and he almost looks like Charles Manson, but like just crazy but i digress that's you know a different different thing for a different time bob did you ever see the simpsons episode when paul mccartney's on i did and there's a ringo one as well yeah yes the simpsons had like the paul mccartney one is why lisa is vegetarian right yeah that's one of that's in my top 10 i love that episode him and him and linda are in it together yeah then they end with maybe i'm amazed as the pig's flying of them. That's in my top 10. I love that episode together. Yeah. Then they end with,

maybe I'm amazed as the pigs flying through the air. It's a, it's a 10 out of 10 episode. It's, it's, it's incredible. 10 out of 10 song. That's one of the great songs of all time.

Yes. That's how I learned about that song. To be honest with you. I was like, Oh, I like that song. I'm going to go on Napster and steal it right out of John. I'm taking money out of,

out of Paul McCartney's fucking pocket. Lars Ulrich is going to try to get this podcast removed from the, from the charts after mentioning Napster so much. All right. I think we've covered a lot of the, the 90 stuff. Was there anything we missed that you guys wanted to bring up in this episode?

I just want to say picture Rob picture a time. When you're turning on the radio and hearing Mariah carries all I want to say, Rob, picture a time when you're turning on the radio and hearing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas for the first time ever. It had to be a transcendent moment. It was. You had the poster on your wall, right? I did have the poster on my wall because when Mom got the CD, I couldn't stop looking at that album cover with Mariah Carey in that little Mrs. Santa suit in the snow. And eventually dad just bought me the poster. He's just like, here's the poster, put it up in your room and stop taking mom's CD. What were the other posters on your wall in the nineties? Do you remember the other posters?

Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. I had the Mariah Carey, uh, Christmas album poster. I had Pamela Anderson in the Baywatch bathing suit poster um that had to be on like 70 of kids in the 90s uh walls but like i had nerd stuff too like i had when batman forever came out i had each of the character posters up on the wall at some point um any band stuff like rock and roll posters yeah and um I had a lot of weird stuff that was just like popular at the time. Like not weird stuff, but like I had Nirvana up on the wall for a while. I had the prodigy up on the wall. Prodigy got a spot on the wall.

Yeah. That was one of the first CDs. That was one of the first CDs I figured out. I could just put this price tag sticker over the parental CD. I'm in business here. I'm up at the counter. My palms are sweating. I'm like, they're going to know.

They're going to fucking arrest me if you're trying to do this. The Prodigy opened up for Oasis at Nebworth. A little underrated fact for you there. Oasis. I remember calling it What's the Story of Morning Glory when it came out. It was just like, this is incredible. Hearing Wonderwall for the first time. Wow. Don't look back in anger. Champagne Supernova for the first time. Wow. music awards shows mtv the grammys american music awards they were just full of bands rock bands most just playing you know pearl jam red hot chili peppers green day oasis smashing pumpkins

metallica bush uh you know you could i could go on forever it was just full of real music being played live and then you know one or two or maybe three pop stars or like you know diva singers but that was like it's like flipped now it's like we'll get the token pop star on the show and now it's like we'll get the token rock band on the show they barely even do nowadays they barely even get one rock act and same thing with saturday night live there was always great bands on saturday night live and and saturday night live itself in the 90s was just i mean it was relentless in terms of you know adam sandler and chris farley and why people still watch the reputation had in the 90s yeah yeah it was a good time clem i'm getting a little

choked up it was the best Mike It was the fucking best And you just said it with MTV Even like spring break you just watch your bands And girls in bikinis running around And then TRL was Yeah Rob didn't really talk about it So much of

The 90s Were spent just watching MTV music videos all day long, just hoping to see that one video you were really hoping to see, just glued to it. And like Clem said, then they would do spring break and you knew they would have the stage set up on the beach, singled out. They started doing shows and singled out. I've watched the Blink-18 82 spring break show a hundred times. It's such a real world. And that's like part of the reason I got my base because Mark Hoppus has

that seafoam green base on the spring break show. Even the challenge that was the birth of the challenge was real world and road rules would just kind of, they'd mash them together. Then you got the challenge out of that, which I obviously loved. And then for me, it was.

Beavis and butthead. And if there was a video you wanted to see you for under the vcr hit records you'd have it for your you know for the future same with the radio hit record if there was a song that just came out and you weren't able to get it on single and my my childhood was 37 was mtv 39 was espn and it would be sports center to mtv sports and maybe price is right if i was home from school watch that for you know an hour and that was that was it and then kind of like the internet now i don't even watch tv i just i'm on my phone i'm on social media whatever i want i'll follow or i'll find online it really was like i don't know man i i definitely i like i've always felt it's great and i i saw there was a theory that like the world, I mean, the world clearly changed on nine 11 and like the,

you have the wars in Iraq and it's like, we kind of did have it like so perfect there. And then kind of that little Nirvana just ended. And then the world kind of went to this really shitty direction. So it's like, we really did have it there. It just stayed there, man. You grew up in this shit. And I just hope my kids, like my kids have just grown up with the pandemic and all these weird things the last couple of years. And I'm like like i really hope we can kind of turn it

around for them because i don't know man i really think the new 90s make make the 2030s the new 90s there we go bob i fucking love it i'm getting my kid a pair of jinkos that's it uncle bob said it was okay uncle clem said you're wearing these to school on the first day i love that mike brought it up to the horny posters i can still hear spencer's the clack of as you're going through the posters the poster rack yeah i would have i would have some good shit i had like little penny i'd have it was a lot of sports posters you know knicks mets giants if they were anywhere near good some sometimes i'd have like a fold out from a good comic book or like a video game I got and slapped out on the wall. That was the other thing.

Yeah. Magazine. Magazine came with them. Oh, magazine, mad magazine, sports illustrated for kids. I got a lot of posters out of that. You know, like WWF and and sports illustrated for kids always had like you know centerfold posters to pull out and got tons of those wwe magazine i used to have like a subscription to growing up and they used to have such cool posters like cool photo shoots ray

mysterio jumping up with all different masks on the undertaker all smoke in a graveyard and stuff i feel like my all my walls were my posters sucked because I grew up in the bread hard era. Like the coolest poster they had was Brett and a jean jacket, like reflecting. That's the thing. Mike, you came up during that era and it got like,

again, I was a little older, but like once it was like, there was like doink and doink got like a little dark, which made him a little cooler, but it got a little. With the, with the slowed down entrance theme.

Yeah. Yeah. It got really dark. But I remember the gobbledygooker. That was when I was like, all right, I think it's time to grow up from this wrestling thing for a little bit. But Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels. I mean, I missed a lot of good shit.

Yokozuna was kind of rising up. You missed some like good pure matches over the character stuff. And Clem, none of my friends nobody i know basically watched wwf when i was watching it but then really said stone cold took off and it became cultural it became something everybody had to watch and talk about at school on tuesday morning and i remember feeling like you guys didn't put in the time I put in the time. I've been there since WrestleMania six, watching it all. You guys think it's cool.

Now I've been in there the whole time. I've been in this game. We had two nineties hipsters then between the two of you. My, my daughter during the pandemic, she, I was watching, like,

I was just kind of like, just trying to get something on that was, so I got the free, I think they gave away free WWE network. Right, Rob. So then I turned it on and she just like caught it in the corner of her eye and she's like what is this and she was just like entertaining people going crazy stone cold was probably saying stuff he shouldn't be saying in front of at that point a five-year-old but she's just like it's

just one of those things that it just hit with everybody and i had stuff for the wrestling fans and that stuff for the you know the Rock was on an electric level. We didn't even realize what he was as a star. Had sex for the boys like us, right? That had the hormones running through your bodies with sable and everything. That was a Stacey Keebler poster. That was one of mine.

Jenny McCarthy was up in lingerie. That was a very awkward time when my parents are like, oh, he's getting old. That's when I've learned this at a young age. When the son has the door locked, I'm going to not even knock just he'll come out whenever he's ready. That's what I learned from growing up in the nineties. All right. I think we covered it all. We did about 90 minutes here and my computer, I realized I didn't plug my computer in before this where I'm down to 5%. So let's wrap this up before the entire episode is lost forever because that would

be a true uh a true tragedy going down here this episode would become a 90s myth we would have to put the episode on a floppy disk you know um make sure you like the video if you haven't already subscribe on youtube on spotify and apple it really does help and all that so make sure you subscribe i hope if you were a 90s kid you enjoyed this episode and got some nostalgia for it YouTube on Spotify and Apple. It really does help and all that. So make sure you subscribe. I hope if you were a nineties kid, you enjoyed this episode and got some nostalgia for it. And if you weren't a nineties kid, I hope you learned a thing or two about what it was like to grow up a nerd in the nineties today.

So thank you to Clem. Thank you to Mike. And we will see you next week for another grab bag episode because we got no shows right now. So I don't know what next week is going to be, but it's going to be another surprise episode. So make sure you tune in for it.