Podcast: The Ride - Christmas With Alan Thicke and The Ninja Turtles

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

We start with an infamous number from the 1990 Walt Disney World Christmas Parade then journey through the musical stylings of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and actor/singer Alan Thicke! Merry Christmas from all of us at Podcast: The Ride! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F1901o3oHQQ McGruff 3: A Very McGruffy Christmas Episode up at The Second Gate Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FOREVER! DOG! Warning! The following year-end holiday special features appearances by the Toronto Blue Jays, Dr. Ian Garvin, Captain Crunch, Kat McPhee and her father-aged husband David Foster, Danny Aiello as Papa, and our musical stars, Alan Thicke and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In dazzling audio and video, it's a very podcast, The Ride. It's a podcast about theme parks hosted by we three kings of boring your partners when you tell them about the show.

I'm Scott Gardner. There's Mike Carlson. Yes. People say go off, King, when we start telling them about, I don't know, Randy Gerber or the new ride system coming soon to Universal Japan's Donkey Kong Land. How many times have there been those partner conversations where like, OK, I've wrapped my head around that you listen to this theme park podcast, but how come everything you tell me about it is not about theme parks?

Why are there stories about Randy Gerber? Who is Randy Gerber? Well, the show exists in a universe where everyone on the planet is deeply aware of Randy Gerber lore. Yeah, well that's, I think the partner, if they're a good partner, they are at least paying attention that these topics seem to be off topic

for the premise of the podcast, if at least paying attention that these topics seem to be off topic for the premise of the podcast. Sure. They're paying attention. Yeah. Yeah. But in a way, it's like it's all usurped it as the topic. Yeah.

Jason Sheridan, a jolly. Oh, yeah. Jolly old elf. Jolly old elf. I say this partially because you are wearing a green stocking cap just when I turned to. Yeah, I this was actually when I was doing this sleepy time bear for the holiday party. It was in a two pack. It was a red one and a green one.

Brett, can I get that image I sent you? Oh, and this is a good time to point out this is a video episode. It's a video episode. We haven't done this in a while. A little special thing for everybody for the end of the year. A holiday special. You can find this on the Forever Dog YouTube. And Jason, we just pulled up

where we've encountered an immediate error. There's a big Q on it. That's what Jason wanted to show us. He wanted to show us that we're approaching the storm. The truth. Yeah, the storm is coming. Jason's big reveal at the end of the year is that he's a Q guy now. There it is. This kind of put me over the edge of buying this sleeping cap package.

This insane looking old man wearing it. So wait, when you say put you over the edge, it meant you're like, I have to have it now that I saw this older man? It's a very, we're looking at a very Benny Hill type, like leery, that's how I read it as a like, ooh, hummina hummina kind of old man. But I don't mean to apply the sexual nature to him. He's really just like, he's excited about having both red and green stocking caps. Yeah. So it also looks a lot like almost like a pirate if it didn't have the big ball at the end of it.

It would be very pirate style. He's the old guy on the pirate ship. Yeah. So you used this guy, Jason, as your style icon. Yeah, as my guiding light, as my North Star, if you will. Beautiful. Well, there is the first use of the visuals, which I think will come into play. And again, go to the Forever Dog YouTube channel to check this out.

Thought it'd be fun to do at the end of the year, especially because it's going to be a very clip oriented show. And beyond that, everybody's dressed in their holiday finest. That's right. Jason's cap has been covered. I am wearing, I've got a Santa hat. I've got a light up Christmas light necklace or something, which I got from this weird thing I went to with Eva last night.

I can't, okay. Frosty's Christmas bar. I was saying to her, I will never remember what this is despite being at it right now. I think because it was called Frosty. This is in Hollywood. It's on Hollywood Boulevard. Called Frosty's,

but there's no presence of Frosty in it. You never meet a Frosty. You do meet the Grinch. Even I met the Grinch, so I'm still reeling from that this morning. It seemed like there was a lot of Grinch stuff. There's a walk-around Grinch, but also the drinks are named after the Grinch. So I'm still reeling from that this morning. It seemed like there was a lot of Grinch stuff. Like there's a walk around Grinch, but also the drinks are named after the Grinch. So it feels like they wanted to maybe call it something Grinch related because there's so much Grinch stuff.

But they were worried about a lawsuit. That might be right. Yes. Yeah. So it's a little off. And maybe they do say it out loud, but it's more about like, you know, you can't copyright a green fuzzy room. That's the thing they have is a green fuzzy hallway. Oh, yeah.

That's really Grinch-like. Yeah, yeah. Yes. It's like being inside his, well, not his, I don't know if he's furry on the inside. It's at least like being in the Grinch's butt crack. You think, oh, okay. Right. In the crack, you think it's fully Grinch fur.

I guess. At least some of it. Or maybe, or does the fur. Unless it's like he's like a baboon. Oh, yeah. Wait, there'd be fur. I guess some of it. Or does the fur... Unless it's like he's like a baboon. Oh, yeah. Wait, there'd be spots, I guess. Maybe it's like you're being squeezed between the Grinch's legs.

That's what it's like. Okay. Yeah. You think the Grinch is baboon? Do you think he has the big red ass like a baboon? Well, we do see his butt, I guess, now that I'm thinking about it. So I guess he doesn't have a red baboon ass. we do see his butt i guess now that i'm thinking about it so i guess he

doesn't have a red baboon ass do you see his butt does he turn around in the jim carrey movie you see his little bottom yeah he's not wearing kind of has a little like duck tail i guess you see a lot of it but i don't i can't imagine there's a part in this film where he like spreads yeah i don't think you know what's really going on deep in there. Yeah, yeah. I'm so glad I brought this up. Really glad. Yeah, can we add it in me saying seat instead of ass because it's Christmas time?

I should have said his little seat. Okay, yeah. So is there a part in The Grinch where The Grinch spreads his seat so you can see his little seat hole? Hole, hole, hole. I don't think, I don't remember it. If it was in there, I don't remember it if it was in there i don't remember it is what i'm saying um i want to point out one more thing about my wardrobe and i i told everybody let's all dress like a little holiday and i was like do i have a good holiday sweater

and i i think i do it's like a red and black sweater but beyond that what it is is this is an official part this is an official employee sweater of my beloved Fry's Electronics, which was given to me by listener Eric. Awesome, generous listener who we had in Vegas who gave us all this awesome stuff. Thank you, Eric. A highlight of the year in general, meeting so many great folks, people who came to our who traveled to our live shows. I want to thank everybody who did that. And Eric, it fits great. Perfect excuse to wear it.

Mike, you're wearing something that brings us into the topic. Yeah, I have my Ninja Turtle Christmas sweatshirt on. It's got all four of the brothers and they have Santa hats on and they just look very jolly. I think I forgot that that's a way to refer to them as the brothers. They're four brothers. Yeah, wait. Yeah, they are.

I never think about that. They are part of the same. They're the same. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Are they though? Do we know? Were they just four baby turtles who were around each other?

I don't remember if there's a specific canon that says all four of the baby turtles were related but they're all raised as brothers you know if people were adopted they're still brothers that's true okay okay yes absolutely uh uh you know depending on what turtle i mean like the original ninja turtles figures all four of them had different colors, shades of green. They were all different greens? Yeah. Interesting. But not in the movie, they all are sort of the same color. So you're saying that when they started to produce

some of these things such as a straight to video Christmas special, maybe it made more sense to just like, hey, make eight suits and paint them all and we will put different masks on them. And that is how we will accomplish this video. It's possible some things were practical.

Like also practical was initially the turtles were all red bandanas. They all wore four red bandanas in the cart and the comic. And then I think it was like Playmates toys or the cartoon or like how a kid's gonna tell these turtles apart and they're like I don't know four different color bandanas and they're like yeah right fine that was not even a full meeting to figure that out

so I'm just saying you probably different continuity has different answers exactly if they were all four related technically one of my one of my friends of my grandmother many years ago was really into making ceramics yeah like as a hobby and she gave she made ninja turtle ornaments one year and my brother got the red bandana which is rafael uh and i got the yellow bandana which is not real but even back then i knew uh you just tell a kindly old lady thank you was it not even close

to orange no the thing is yeah i think it was supposed to be orange is maybe but it's pretty much yellow this is a cut one that's rembrandt yeah that's pretty much yellow. That's a cut one. That's Rembrandt. Yeah, that's pretty good. There is somebody who wears the yellow now, I believe, in the comics. I believe the character's name is Jennica, and we're going to cut this out if I'm wrong so no one will ever hear it. But also, on the original arcade machine,

Michelangelo's bandana was much more yellow than it was orange, and it did bother me. Oh, okay. It was very annoying to me as a kid. So maybe it's a pseudo-Michaelangelo. So this lady maybe went to a bowling alley and saw the Ninja Turtles arcade

and she was like, what colors are the four brothers? And she was like, ah, yellow. Got it. So maybe she was right. That seems likely, yes. Based on physical media, that's a place she could go. 30 years ago, where was she going to see the turtles? She doesn't have the internet. That's a place she could go 30 years ago. Where was she going to see the turtles? She doesn't have the

internet. That's true. You know, she's not film is not in theaters at that moment. What's she going to do but go to the local bowling alley? She was having right down the colors having a Paul mall and a Tom Collins and looking up turtles, but dirty turtles arcade, dirty turtles, arcade

cabinets. Yeah, you're cabinets yeah. You're right about Jennica by the way. Thank god. So no need to. Because I'm behind them all my newer turtle comics. Oh boy well yeah well I think we're all very 90s focused in our turtle awareness the basics the brothers

as we say and what we're doing today so we've you know we've done this kind of thing for the holidays here and there. And I always enjoy doing it. I think in the first year of the show, we did kind of a pile of clips from Christmas specials. We did a live show that was of that nature. And that's kind of what we're doing here. But maybe a little bit more guided, a guided meditation on all things surrounding and centering on a very special moment. Something I think that came up

the very first year that we did this. One of, I think, the best things that ever happened in a Disney World Christmas special. This is from, we're going to talk about something from the 1990 Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade, which is a special performance of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, led by the Ninja Turtles, who are all the brothers are all led in this performance by the great Alan Thicke. This is it's I'm sure we talked about it in the first year.

Maybe we've covered this nine times. I think we propose this is one of the greatest moments in Disney World history when we discussed Disney World 50. It is. And I stand by that. It got trounced in ultimately the poll by you tugging yourself with your mom while Gloria Estefan, while filming a Gloria Estefan music video. Yeah.

So that's ultimately number one. But I don't think it was in there. They got votes. Yeah. So yeah. No, it's ultimately number one. But I don't think it was in there. They got votes. Yeah. So, yeah. No, it's the most exciting. Obviously, we're a men of a certain age, as I said on our episode when we were talking to Trevor Zammett, who runs the Ninja Turtles line at GUN. Men of a certain age.

We were talking to a Turtles person. Specifically, a formative time in our childhoods. Yeah. Seeing the Ninja Turtles at MGM Studios. Yeah. Was insane. Yeah. Something we still, we have not actually done an episode about is whatever.

I don't actually know what the show was at Disney MGM Studios when the turtles entered that incredible fold. When you see that photo. Oh, my God. It's Little Mermaid and Eric and the dinosaurs and whoever else was in that. That big group, the Muppets. I mean, it would have been a stellar lineup without the Ninja Turtles. And then that just pushes it over the edge. It's a cascade of nostalgia at that point.

And we did two very recent attractions. So now it's time to go way back yeah 23 years we did it we covered things from this decade 33 years what am i saying now we're yeah now we're back on our shit back to the 90s uh before we do that though you know we're cozy in our christmas sweaters and christmas. I also threw out if you guys wanted to provide any sort of holiday snack, not to the listeners, obviously, although, you know what, let's curate it. You can get whatever you want at home. Jason has selected something and you could go buy this and follow along with us. So you're experiencing what we're experiencing clip wise and taste wise.

And I believe you brought something that came up in a second gate recently. The one, the normal Today Show episode. Yeah. Today Cafe. These are Goldfish Limited Edition Elf. It's the 20th anniversary of Elf. Right now, these are maple syrup grams. Wow, okay.

And the thing is, these taste pretty good if you like maple, but I ate about six of them, and I have not been able to stop smelling maple on my hands. Oh, so you're saying it permanently stains your hands with maple. Yeah, you really got to scrub your hands. Well, I did notice, we started recording and before we started recording, you reached into the bag and got some snacks and then were licking your fingers immediately after. Well, I was trying to get it off. That was less about savoring the taste and more about like I have electronics to operate. Yeah, yeah.

So we're all screwed then. All right. You know what? Maybe I'll try to I'll take mine with my left hand. Yeah. I'll leave a clean hand for laptop. I don't want know what? Maybe I'll take mine with my left hand. Yeah. I'll leave a clean hand for laptop. I don't want this. Now I don't want this.

I'm scared now. You've turned me off to them. We can take a bathroom break to scrub our little grabbers. Oh, my God. Jason calling our hands our grabbers, too. It's a real creepy Christmas so far. Please, butts are seats and hands are little grabbers. Little grabbers.

The way I'd been eating these at home was I was pouring them into a rocks glass and then drinking them essentially. And then I would forget. Oh, by drinking, I see. You drank the crack. Yeah, just sipping. Huh? You drank the anniversary goldfish dessert crackers. Baked graham snacks celebrating a classic holiday film.

Wow. Wait, when did Elf come out? He said it's 20 years. 20 years ago. Winter 2003. It was 2003, not 2002? I don't know. Wait, let's see.

Oh, wait. I think maybe you're right. Okay. I want to make sure they were correct on their- They're not going to put out Goldfish limited edition crackers unless it's a 20th anniversary, okay? Or Hallmark cards. Yeah, they sure they were correct on their- They're not going to put out Goldfish limited edition crackers unless it's a 20th anniversary, okay? Or Hallmark cards. I'm doing it for a 21st. Who gives a- we're all- Elf is dead to us at 21.

Yeah, who gives a shit? We love it. All right, you know what? I'm going to pop these. I'll weigh in on these. Now that I know the risks of eating them, I'll do it mid-clip, and I'll try to do it away from the mic so anyways we're going to micro target focus on this moment do you want my special oh wait oh there's another snack I didn't realize oh my god I'm sorry to neglect Christmas crunch family size so matter of fact captain crunches

Christmas crunch wow he's in a scarf uh there's fun holiday shapes uh what do we got there we got trees we got hats um this is uh this is quite festive i'm really excited so i got bowls here uh we got the whole thing ready to go uh where can listeners find these particular snacks are they at your local target Target or CVS or something? Or must they consult DealVibes to attract the snacks? I did not get any DealVibes things that I could quickly get procure. So I think these are just

normally at a Target. This is a family size. That was the only option. If we want to just rip through this family size box over the next hour and a half, that's fine. We can. It seems like a lot, but I don't know. Luckily, we'll have plastic spoons here so we don't have to get the Christmas

Crunch stained on our little grabbers. So that's good. I was okay so far, but the grabbers were not so active, I would say. I tried to go for the palm. And my palm... No, I smell a little bit. I smell a little on the palm. Yeah. might also be

the open bag Mike don't forget your maple there's gonna be hold on hold on I'm scared of the maple now because I don't want like I feel like dogs in the neighborhood are gonna chase me it's a good thing where this is our last one for the year because if you get if you get mauled right after

we record this it'll be tougher to keep going vitamin D milk too so we'll be getting rich vitamins nutritious vitamins do you want to camera wise are you being blocked by the box or and are maybe you comfortably comfortable being I don't know

Brett am I being blocked by this Christmas crunch box oh no we gotta adjust the camera for it alright we gotta wind it up our thanks to Brett Boehm at Forever Dog and everybody at Forever Dog especially for getting a video one going here

is this all stuff that we leave in I was gonna say hey it's Brett everybody Brett's here we could leave it in we could not leave it in see how it plays it's up to us I suppose leave some cut some well you know distribute your spoons and all

well we'll cut this we'll come back with some clips wow we're back we have our bowls these are so much fun I'll try to tip it toward the camera look how much fun. I'll try to tip it toward the camera. Look how much fun. It's not just the boring yellowish beige of typical Captain Crunch. Right.

So it's not the normal crunch berries with blue and purple. It's red and green. Yeah. Yeah. So this is great. We're doing something the listeners hate, which is eating on microphone. Maybe I won't touch it again for a minute. And we're going to do some clips, something else people might hate because it's audio.

We'll make it work for audio, too. It'll be fine. Okay. Oh, yes, go ahead. I'm going to have, I just spooned out one of these goldfish. And the maple, the smell is insane. It is like a yankee candle it is yeah it is like a candle store at the mall during christmas time rolled away from the mic only like christmas crunch condensed into one goldfish and i'll eat it without touching my little grabbers wow so it

was so it would it's it smells a little crazy when you spooned out the fish. It's like, oh my God. Did you eat a whole bag of these before? I haven't finished the first bag yet. You see, I did a Target pickup and they duplicated some of the stuff. So I ended up with like two razors, two chocolate chip cookies, two elf things. Whoa, and a partridge in a pear tree. Two Lemmy Rinse. Two what? Oh, Lemmy Rinse. two elf uh whoa and a partridge in a bear tree two lemmy rinse two what oh let me rinse it's uh you it's a dishwasher uh you put it in with the the you know soap uh the detergent powder

if you have hard water and it helps not get white stains the lem's called Lemmy Rinse? It's called Lemmy Rinse. There's a whole line of Lemmy Rinse. Really? Okay. Maybe we need that. Is there a cute character or anything? Or is it just pretty functional? No, unfortunately not.

Or at least that I can say. Well, Lemmy Rinse, you're banned from the show. You don't qualify for more discussion. All right. Let's get into this moment, this performance that we like so much. And by the way, as with many great things that we talk about and are aware of on the show, I want to thank Doug Jones for bringing this to our attention. We're using the clip of it that he pulled for Everything is Terrible and on his channel, Oh My 80s.

So thanks, Doug. Merry Christmas to you. So to set the scene a little bit this is from the 1990 walt disney world very merry christmas parade uh some of the other things happening on that particular parade uh urkel gets a special sneak preview of splash mountain uh jeffrey katzenberg a young uh on the way up jeff Jeffrey Katzenberg introduces a preview of the rescuers down under. Lee Greenwood sings a tribute to our soldiers in the Gulf. We get a little behind-the-scenes preview of the Super Bowl halftime show for that year, which is being produced by Disney.

They did like a It's a Small World themed halftime show culminating in a performance by New Kids on the Block. Do they do the song or do they do their own songs? I think I'd have to watch. We got to watch it. This has occurred to me as something we should maybe. Actually, listeners have said maybe tackling the Super Bowl halftime shows that were produced by the Walt Disney Company might be a fun thing to do. I agree. Super Bowl week.

So we'll talk about that. Now, as with many Disney holiday specials, of course, you've got Joan London and you've got Regis Philbin, who you you think of as the ultimate Disney parade host. But he's not the host. He's not up in the booth. He's relegated to like man on the street bits really stealing the show i would say to where it's like clear in the near future they're gonna have to make a change make regis the main guy uh and i feel like nobody else really they you know they tried they they

tried to go down a generation uh melissa joan hart and ben savage and i think the audience uh spit it out they revolted yeah yeah yeah two maple-y of goldfish grams. I will not be eating another goldfish. No. Yeah, the two might be my maple intake for the day is maybe set. But anyway, why is Regis not hosting this thing? Well,

there's somebody occupying the chair who's occupied the chair for a couple years up to that point. And that is Alan Thicke. Alan Thicke, you probably know best as the dad, Jason Seaver, I believe, on the late 80s ABC sitcom Growing Pains, a Canadian performer. You might also know him as the father of Robin Thicke, who was on The Masked Singer. He was on the Disney Christmas special this very year, in fact.

So there is still a thick presence at Disney. There's a very thick presence for the Disney holiday specials to this day. Yeah, he sang an altered version of his popular song. It's called Duck. Wait, fuck. I forgot the joke I song is called duck. Oh, wait, fuck. I forgot that joke.

I was going to make. Oh, I'm so curious. Can we get there? Blurred lines joke. Duck line. I was going to say duck lines and surrounded by all the duck, the ducks.

Duck lines. I thought it was better. Do you mean like when ducks walk in a line? Well, like, yeah. So it's like Donald, Daisy, Huey,

Dewey, Louie. It's not, you weren't,'s like Donald, Daisy, Huey, Dewey, Louie. It's not. You weren't going for turd lines, like a bunch of real ducks in the park, all left turds on the ground. Oh, that's good. And he's following with a broom and cleaning them up. That's more thoughtful. Here's another one that Disney would not allow.

A little joke about the theme parks. Long lines. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, they don't want to hear lines at all. I hate these long lines. Yeah. Uh-huh. No, yeah well they don't want your lines at all long lines yeah uh-huh no they yeah they wouldn't refer to it i think the whole calling them cues is a workaround right and having to think of them that way yeah uh sorry i do have to correct myself the company

is called lemme shine i was using the rinse let me shine rinse so hard water out there look at the lemme shine new sponsor pocket you have an uno out there, look at the Lemmingshine. New sponsor, Boggit. You have an unofficial. Sometimes there's unpaid sponsors. Coupon code SHAREDIN20 for 20% off. It goes right to your account. Every time you use it, I get $20. I was wondering why you brought it up.

I get it now. Okay. You just get an extra one when you go to Target. That's the perk. Yeah, I just keep getting it. Two. My water could be twice as hard and it would work. You just get an extra one when you go to Target. That's the perk. Yeah, I just keep getting it. My water could be twice as hard and it would work. So anyway, just a little reminder about Alan Thicke.

And he's like, you know, he's this very like kind of like a cheesy, like, you know, cocky kind of like born to be on tv kind of fella uh very dad energy usually clad in sweaters and kind of like uh 80s puffy hair looks a lot like my father at the time and he's mainly up in the booth tossing out one-liners very dad i'd say his style is very dad joke right it's a dad vibe and i think he's maybe uh i think he's around 40 uh at this time uh not sure the exact age um but anyway uh there's a break in the broadcast they go back uh to the booth and he is he's missing and unfortunately it's not regis doesn't rush in to fill the empty chair not yet uh we find out very quickly why he's missing. Let's go to the first clip, Brett. Alan Ninja Turtles won to see how this thing kicked off.

And I'm afraid I'm all alone right now. Alan Thicke has temporarily disappeared, but I suspect he might reappear where we least expect him very, very soon because we've got a great show planned for the remainder of the morning. In fact, right now, I think I hear some familiar dudes rolling in on Main Street, USA. That's where I would least expect him to be with dudes. Yeah. Oh my. It looks like the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles and look who's joined the party. Let's see a familiar van. They're in the party wagon. They're in the turtle van. Wow. It's a little different than I remember it.

Oh, it's decorated for Christmas. The snowman on your right. That's why. There we go. April is there too. April is just winding her up. She doesn't get to be part of it. Right.

He's making the list, man. He's checking it twice. He knows who's cool, who's not, and you're nice. Santa Claus is coming to town. Santa Claus is coming to town. He sees you eat your pizza. He sees you hit the street. He knows if you've been there

So be good and keep it neat You better watch out, dude I'm talking about your mood You better not shout, don't pout Freak out I know that like the back of my head. That's right up there with the like the Splash Mountain. Well, you know, it is a thrill when you go down.

You know, that's got that got some viral love a couple of years ago. And I just want to make sure that this one is getting its proper. Oh, yeah. Do because that's and I need to get it out of my brain because it'll be there forever. You better not shout. Don't pout. Freak out. What else to say for people just listening?

I mean, you're getting a lot of martial arts influenced dancing, a lot of kicks involved. A lot of kicks. I think they're doing great. The suits are a very pleasant, cartoony variety of turtle suits, I would say. It's the cartoon version. Yeah, more so. I mean, there were so many different suits around this time. They were not on the same page maybe with what the turtles should look like in real life.

Obviously, the Jim Henson suits from the first two movies were expensive and perhaps not worth traveling down to Disney World and break them. And then not be able to use them for – They're for the movies. These have to be functional. Yeah. Out on the streets, meeting the folks. But then there's also the couple different suits they use for the Coming Out of Our Shells tour, which are a little better than that, but also creepier than that. Also, you have the possibility that the mouths get stuck. So if you just decide that you're going to have mouths that don't move at all, then maybe you're covered.

Yeah. There was an auction I saw a few years ago of the Leonardo costume for the third Turtles movie. And due to its rotting nature, the mouth was slowly peeling back and the teeth just looked bigger and bigger. Oh, those teeth that's always that's kind of a choice that has to be made about physical manifestations of the turtles how they have teeth you go and they're very toothy if you were to take away the skin

on their like beaks their snoots you can see their full big teeth i find it impossible to call these snoots turtles have snoots don't, don't you think? I guess so. Look, I struggle with snoot to begin with as opposed to snout. But you have to have the little nose, don't you? I don't know if these are snoots. More like a nubbin. A nubbin? A nubbin.

You don't think that works? I know what it is. I'm just saying. Yeah. It's a cute word. A nub? A nub. The turtle's a nub.

They smell out of their nub. How do you's nubbin additional nipple occurring in mammals third nipple how hey all right now you have some things to answer for like a little nub a little pump i think you were trying to discreetly you're slipping in your product placements and you're slipping in slipping in my nipple synonyms third nipples and and in england a nubbin is a word that i won't say in front of oh okay uh in front of easily bodied out parties nice but you look up snoot and the definition of snoot is a person's nose so that is a pretty wide ranging we all have snoot that's what it says it says and then here's

an example a remark that might warrant a good smack in the snoot. So. Does anyone here have, we all have snoots, does anyone here have a nubbin? Confess to the audience, do you have a nubbin? Under these sweaters. I don't have mutant in my name. You know, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, they could have any number of

nubbins. He's not answering the question. He's not answering, actually. Deflecting, deflecting. Alright, my whole back's covered in nipples. Alright, it's out. That's not answering, actually. All right, my whole back's covered in nipples. Yeah, all right, it's out. That's for Patreon only. Yeah. The other thing to mention visually is the manner in which Alan is dressed. Leather jacket, sunglasses, red shirt.

He himself, it's not quite martial arts, but just kind of a lot of like a lot of fist pumps and points and looking cool uh um i you know it's in my head it's always like was he trying to be the terminator is that what it is but then i think i saw it somewhere else point out oh maybe he's trying to look like michael knight from night right that was the those are the two things i thought okay it was michael Knight or it was the Terminator. Yeah, I want to be the Terminator. I want to look like the Terminator. Can you help me out?

Give me a little Terminator. Give me some term. Shorten it. I'm familiar with that term. So he looks cool. Great new lyrics. Great new rap lyrics. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They've improved on their original. I think genuinely so because I have kind of a bone to pick with this song this year because I put on the Beach Boys version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town with my son in the car and just played it. Didn't think about it anymore. Then looked back when we were done with the drive and he he is, like, about to just burst into tears. Wow, really? I think what came out of his mouth, I think it was, like, Santa says don't cry. And then he cried and cried and cried. Basically, the song is that Santa is watching you, so don't cry.

And we had already communicated to him that crying is a great way to express yourself and work through your feelings right yeah now a song is telling him that santa says no no no right it's kind of a bad message cry yeah yeah and he's listening very intently i guess to the lyrics yes yeah more than absorbing it yeah yeah yeah um because these are like instructions yeah he's hearing this for the first that is That is like, that's like a PSA. That's like the president came on the radio. Right. And issued this to him.

Do not pout. Listen, three-year-old, don't ever pout. He's got like a notepad out. He's like, all right, here, okay, let me, I'm going to take a note to myself what I'm doing to get my presence this year. All right, what did the Beach Boys say? What? Yeah. Yeah.

His newly favorite band that's working out spectacularly for me by the way uh um uh for him i don't know if it'll make him so relatable oh it's apparently making him sob and control yeah yeah that was that was a bad meeting of uh of beach boys and my son uh so yeah well luckily santa wrote him a letter and said it is okay to cry. Okay. And you're a good boy and you'll get plenty of presents. I'm going to cry talking about this very kind letter that we got.

That Santa sent. Yeah, that Santa sent. That was Brian Wilson singing a made-up song that is not an official statement from Santa Claus, from my perspective. Did Santa get that in the mail that night or was it like later? Maybe I think we, I think it took a few days to find the right stationary. I'm sorry. What am I saying?

I'm saying he had to find the right stationary. Yeah. Was he, have you shown him this one? Cause I feel like if I was a little kid and really processing, I don't think I owned in on the phrase, be good and keep it neat. Good and keep it neat good and keep it neat what

does that mean it's a little softer i'd say than you then be good for goodness sake keep it neat cool yeah be good for goodness sake feels like an exasperated mother yeah i could be good for goodness sake oh my god and that's the the most that the mother is willing to swear right exactly um yeah no i think it softens it. Wait, I'm missing one of the lines. You better watch out, dude. I'm talking about your mood. They don't say don't cry.

Yeah, that's true. So it solves my problem. It's a cool rap. It doesn't say this thing that made my son cry. And Alan Thicke's bringing the heat. Let's see a little bit more. Santa Claus is coming to town. Santa Claus is coming. The news all around. Santa Claus is coming. He's bringing the heat. Let's see a little bit more.

Almost pick him up, but don't. Yeah, he just leans back slightly. They support. It's like it's a quarter of a trust fall yeah april's got her camera out now and she's crouched she's like taking a video yeah sometimes they go to her perspective also the camera's doing a lot of like spinning around and tilted um it's great actually it's so much I think they did it like they just told every camera spin and spin. Uh, it's great. It's energy. I like the arrangement.

Um, I, I, I think it's in keeping with the character of the theme song of the show. Like, doesn't it feel like a, like, you know, completely in the musical, the sound font, a word I just learned. Yes. And the sound font of the theme song. The high energy, sort word I just learned. Yes. It's in the sound font of the theme song. The high energy, sort of the rapid lyrics. But then kind of the orchestral. Which, you know, you're a little bit in like James Bond territory.

Like stepping down. Yeah. Half step steps down in the song. I don't think there's anything. Sometimes you will see these things that like miss the character of the property. Yeah. I think this is right on the money. I got no complaints here. This is on brand. mean you know growing up it was sort of a mixed

bag sometimes if you would get real world like versions that were accurate like mario for instance of course the movie which left everybody confused and upset a lot of us upset or the uh this was a second gate right where we talked about mr belvedere's yes which is a little i love it but it's a little ha ha oh yes oh yes don't mess around he's playing mr belvedere was playing king koopa yeah yeah uh in an ice capades show yeah which is koopa paratroopa oh right luigi had a cannon yeah yeah they all explode the koopas yes now that was so great more accurate than the movie yes it was much much closer and closer to the spirit of the eventual of the movie from yes this year last when the hell that movie come out that was this year was it this year yeah probably hard to um so yeah so this so this yeah the turtle van looks like the

turtle van i mean they never had like a turtle van in the first three movies. Yeah. So there was still the iconography from the cartoon and the comics that I wanted in the movies. But yeah, we're seeing it here. Yeah, it's April. She never wore the yellow jumpsuit in the movies either. That's right. Wow.

We didn't get some of that iconic stuff. This is the truest live action version of the Ninja Turtles. I think so. Yeah. April's not wearing the yellow jumpsuit in the shells tour either. Wow. Wow. So this is like one of the only live action.

They got it right. It's really all about what we're learning in general. It's all about either shades of yellow or being careful about shades of yellow that are not accurate. Right. The turtles have to mind their yellows to be on the money or not. Yeah, yeah. Now, obviously, it takes a leap by adding Alan Thicke dressed like Michael Knight, but I think it improves it.

I wish he was in. They should have added him to the movies after this, too. I think, well, I've said this on the show before. I wish that so many movies that we liked when we were kids, like, had that Land Before Time style 10 sequels. Yeah, sure. Because then that gives you room for a Turtles directed, which maybe we'll talk about things that were directed to VHS for Turtles. But Turtles meet up with Alan Thicke in a movie. There's less pressure on it to perform at the box office.

It's just a VHS you could go get at the library. You keep it cheap. All the money goes to him and his songwriting royalties. That's where you put the pain. It could be a full musical. It could have been a full, thick musical with the turtles. This is the type of thing

I may be happy about AI creating in the next 50 years. If you could put into a prompt Ninja Turtles movie released in 1993 starring Alan Thicke with original songs in the style of Alan Thicke, and you could pump out something that felt right, pretty good argument for AI, I think. It's not taking a job away from anyone necessarily. Right. Because how is this ever going to exist?

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. So it's not you're saying it's not the future of entertainment. It's the future of past entertainment. Yes. Like I, you know, back to the future. But they meet Alan Thicke. Back to the Future 7, released in 1995, starring Alan Thicke, Michael J. Fox, and Christopher Lloyd. Wow. Is he a character or is he just himself?

He's himself. You know what? Oh, no, he's Napoleon. They travel back and they meet Napoleon, played by Alan Th by alan thick and then they have to fix a problem or something whoa whoa what's this fancy space carriage we got uh i don't know what be this devilry uh yeah that sounds good can you help in my war efforts and in the ai you have to specify this movie is bad this movie is bad make sure it's bad 1995 ellen thick napoleon raps yeah for sure that's a good and then ai is like i'm sorry you're you're saying that would

be bad worse than bulworth rap yeah if if we could maybe that's a fun uh online X prompt, which put in your like series of words you want of like a directed VHS sequel of a popular movie with, it doesn't have to be Ellen Thicke, but you can add anyone you want. Batman forever to more chase Meridian and neckline goes down like 5% more. Okay. Not anything, not anything.

Nothing crazy. Don't go nuts. AI. Don't be too, not anything. Nothing crazy. Yeah, yeah. Don't go nuts AI. Don't be too, don't be dirty here. Right. Yes. That's great. Yeah.

Yeah. Stuff like that is what we want. Well, I think that there is a way in this episode that we can kind of like fuzz together these things and make it feel like there was more Alan Thicke Ninja Turtles. Sure. Granted, this is via separate pieces, but I think all told, it'll end up feeling like we got to experience

a bunch more of them. And I'll tell you why. At this point in the show, you might be wondering, how is there going to be an entire episode out of this one performance? And of course, there is a plan. We have a plan.

What we're going to do now is figure out how we got to this point by looking both forward and backward and viewing analyzing the separate discographies of both artists involved in this great performance both the ninja turtles the brothers as i can't stop calling them they're the four, yeah. And Alan Thicke. We're going to view their separate musical bodies of work and discover how they were able to come together for this great Christmas moment. Right.

So we're going to bounce back and forth a little bit. We've got some turtle clips, and we've got some Alan Thicke clips. Full disclosure, this is a phd thesis that i have been wanting to deliver for years now i think we were close to doing it last year yeah and then we had to celebrate avatar it was the uh it was it was you know a way of water season it was felice navidad yeah but does anyone even remember a character name for that movie uh made more move more money in 2023 alone than disney's other movies that's true almost everything else they released uh uh okay so uh now i have to

i gotta contain myself i have to calm down as i finally get to go into this uh um the alan thick discography. Do you guys feel like you've seen any of what I'm about to show or can you not place any other Alan Thicke musical number? I know a little bit, but I really don't actually know a lot.

Okay, great. I'm so excited to educate you because if you enjoy that, if you enjoy that Santa Claus performance and there's a lack of irony there, I think. I think there's a sincerity. There is just diving in. Alan Thicke is a comedian and a comedic actor who has musical abilities.

You know, he was a songwriter. I'll get into that a little bit. But I basically I think a lot of comedians feel like they have to like, OK, I want to sing and stuff, but I got to couch that in a little bit. I have to seem like removed or like it's a little bit funny or something. Not Alan Thicke. He just dives in full throttle. I'm a singer songwriter. You're going to love it. You're going to be entertained.

I'm going to dazzle you. And I think it's something that we need a little bit more of. songwriter you're gonna love it you're gonna be entertained i'm gonna dazzle you uh and i i think um it's something that we need a little bit more of i think the um it's uh you're seeing the lines get that's good ironically yes i am heading towards the statement i think the lines are getting maybe blurred again okay uh by the fact that jimmy fallon this year has a legit a not comedy christmas song with megan trainer right yeah but that said that's not so much to my liking my megan trainer thoughts have been said on the show i guess my jimmy fallon thoughts have been said before on the show but i guess i like it as a i'm like okay we're heading somewhere good here yeah the host of the tonight show is just making not

comedy music and it's not the socially accepted show tunes track that Neil Patrick I or Sir Seth MacFarlane you're right that is why do we yes what are those again these blurred I hate these blurred lines yeah why yeah

why do we allow crooning huh does that is it maybe maybe that just harkens back to like rat pack era where that's that was the deal you sang in that style and then you'd be in a a sloppy comedy sketch as well yeah yeah and look uh prompt a the ai prompt jay leno 1996 christmas album of original songs. Oh, man. Sings Baby It's Cold Outside. All original songs.

Oh, I thought he was going to sing it to like a Studebaker or something. That can be your AI prompt. Okay. Yeah. Well, that's it. I mean, my Santa is a Studebaker. All the Tonight Jaws. It's reindeer is its

gas tank. Is that what Jay Leno's singing would sound like? Yeah, maybe. That's a hard prompt to do. Only I could do it. Right, right. Cracked engine block on Christmas Eve. Mm-hmm. Do you think any of those cars, does he have to deal with hard water

on any of his cars well I gotta watch out for that mineral build up you know it's harmless on dishes but it leaves unsightly white stains probably applies to a car somewhere well he should use lemmy wash lemmy shine

you Mr. Leno need lemmy shine okay so you know that's the thing. Alan Thicke does kind of come from this tradition. He's like a variety show guy. Did you know, Mike, that he, one of his first jobs was writing for a Paul Lind special? I actually did not know that.

I only recently found that out. Actually, he was on a podcast that you like a lot. I know the Gilbert Gottfried podcast. And he talks about some of the things we're going to talk about. haven't heard that one uh yeah he he uh talks about paul lind gilbert uh has some questions and accusations of mr lind that are oh there's been some stories that paint paul lind is a terrible person on the gilbert godfrey podcast i won't i won't go into those now he's fishing with alan gives him nothing but i do feel like Alan is, you know, I don't want to like lure you away from. I know Paul Lind is your true love in this area. But I do think that that Thicke brings Paul Lindism into the 80s in a big way. Yeah. In terms of this sincerity and like, is this is it funny? Is it legit good? Is it hokey? How what is the level on which I'm enjoying this all i know is i'm enjoying it a lot um so a kind of known fact about alan thick before he was known as a tv performer he wrote for norman lear

shows and then uh mr lear just passed away and he uh employed him to write some theme songs alan thick wrote the theme songs to different strokes and facts of life. So that's a pretty major pedigree. Those are iconic songs. So as he gets this like sitcom stardom from Growing Pains, he's asked to host things. And you really get the feeling that he, on day one, he's like, well, you know, I could sing. I'd love to sing something.

In fact, I'll do one better. I'd love to write you something. Can I write you something? I wrote Facts of Life, you know. So there's all of these things that have original Alan Thicke songs, which again, do your covers or whatever. But originality is what we want because really that's where you get like the true essence of the person. And with all that said, I am so excited to share. Brett, can you pull up?

Oh, I'm excited to ask for you to pull up a clip. Sweaty and hot one. So this is from one of the great events ever televised, the 1988 Crystal Light National Aerobics Championship. Alan was the host of an aerobics championship. This entire event is 80s to the power of 80s. It's so bonkers. It's spandex unitards and pink and purple and turquoise and zebra print.

And the set is like neon trapezoids. It's so good. This special is kind of known. There's viral clips from it in its own fashion. I recommend watching any of it all of it but this special is the basis of a key and peel sketch called aerobics meltdown where Clint Howard is putting up cue cards that telling these aerobics people that your wife and child are in the hospital but he has to keep doing aerobics uh which is a great sketch i actually

hadn't seen it really uh um until recently but uh um alan thick hosted the thing uh uh opening monologue with like all aerobics oriented jokes like uh you know the dinosaurs had two basic food groups men and women uh i'm sorry wait i didn't explain the lead up. I should have said the lead up first. Why dinosaurs came into the picture. Alright, here's a joke. Jogging began when the caveman spotted his first dinosaur. Sprinting began when the dinosaur spotted his

first caveman. Then the follow up. Dinosaurs had two basic food groups, men and women. Okay. You're getting thick one-liners. But then more than halfway into the special, almost like they were trying to bury it or something, there is a big musical number where he's surrounded by aerobics dancers. Uh-oh.

And he does this original song, Sweaty and Hot. Here's Alan Thicke. I'm like a cool windbreaker. Pop scholar. Yeah. Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger. the gym I'm up and ironing when I'm done You're gonna beg me to have some big time fun Oh, darling, I work my body out just for you And he's just kind of like stepping back and forth while the aerobics people do the heavy lifting. Yeah, he's up on a platform.

I know I'm not still 24 But I have had my 24. I think you're keeping up. I have had my nights. And I have plenty more. Plenty more. Spectacular. Cardiovascular. Ready or not.

I'm coming. What are we thinking? Spectacular. Cardiovascular. Ready or not. I love the song if this was available on every karaoke machine I would never do another song I'd be sweaty and hot every time this aerobics love song uh but what do you guys think I mean his outfit lets deconstruct all of it. He's got like a cool windbreaker on, collar popped, sleeves rolled up, gray slacks, and then puffy white sneakers. Yeah.

He really reminds me of my friend's dad growing up too. Like it is, he really has like, your dad just got up here and is singing a pop song. Exactly. If my dad at 40 or 41 was just confident and like, yeah, I'll do one. Yeah. You know, hey, the kids will love it. Also, fashion being circular, going in cycles.

Cyclical. Cyclical. This is all very cool again. It would cost thousands of dollars. I love this jacket. I love that. It's almost like it's not as far as, it's like one

step down from Vanilla Ice, Andrew Dice Clay. It was like big in the shoulders. Although I'd like that too. I'd wear an Andrew Dice Clay jacket. Would I pull it off? I don't think so. Does Alan pull this off? I don't know. It's like he shouldn't

but he just charges in with confidence. What's interesting about this performance and this song is you're seeing more vulnerability from him than I'm used to. Oh, because he's admitting that he's like, I'm a thinking man, and I don't have the Schwarzenegger Nick. He's saying, and look, let me try to clean this up. He's saying he can't bone like a 24 year old anymore.

It is all a metaphor for that. He still has good nights. And a lot of them ahead. And I'll have plenty more. Yeah. But even in his performance, I feel there's a vulnerability whether he's meaning to do it or not. He looks, if you watch the video, he seems like

you can see his bashfulness, his shyness yeah it's not full-on cocky like he comes off in almost every interview where he seems like uh will ferrell's robert goulet or something he is like that absolutely i haven't warmed up the i haven't even warmed up the pipes god i've been like there's been something i mean i've been thinking he's a little troy mcclury yeah but then that't quite, that doesn't like satisfy the smooths because he's a little more laid back than Troy. Like Robert Goulet was not, I don't think was more like Will Ferrell's Robert Goulet than Robert Goulet was. Than actual Robert Goulet? Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, yeah. And just to confirm, it's been a while since I've seen it. The premise of Growing Pains was that the parents were little ex-hippies, little crunchy, and Kirk Cameron was a Republican. No, this is Family Ties. That's Family Ties. The premise of Growing Pains is not something that I know because I don't care. I only care about Alan Thicke's musical numbers. Oh, okay, great. I literally know nothing.

I know it launched Leonardo DiCaprio. He was their cousin, Oliver. Brett, can we pull up Sweating Hot 2, in which there's a little bridge breakdown part. If you thought he was vulnerable before. Here we go. Here we see. He gets real soft.

Real soft. I've been working on my Deltoid. I got my bicep up real good. Real soft. You've got the cutest little gluteus. I've got the cutest little gluteus. And for the listener, he's making these coy eyes. He's bouncing back and forth. I've got the cutest little gluteus i no concern with is this good or cool i don't know he thinks that's cool i mean i think he thinks it's funny and cool i

think so and i think he thinks that the songwriting is is is very clever something i think about a lot of what i'll play here there's like a um there's like a Christopher Guest sort of thing about it. Or like, often he's doing these songs that are like what Martin Short makes fun of. Where like, it's almost like it doesn't exist in reality so much. These kind of like showbiz hams

with these like overly written how clever my lyrics are. And that's like exactly what he did. Yes, but then it's like couched because it wouldn't be as, I bet you wouldn't like it nearly as much if it wasn't couched in the production of the 80s. Oh yeah. That's,

you know what? I think that is like, yeah, this same sensibility in the 60s or whatever. I don't care. There's parts of this that I think are like legit good. We'll hear one later that I'm like, yes,

that is completely my musical taste Alan you have nailed it is that one he also just lists off various muscles yeah what did he miss all of his songs after this point were very muscle based I'm working on a seven

pack my quads are today worked them too hard last night We're very muscle-based. I'm working on a seven-pack. Yeah. My quads are today. Worked them too hard last night. Let's see a little finale if we could, Brett. Let's go to sweaty and hot three just to make sure we close it out. And here he's kind of, you can tell he's like getting winded. He doesn't have it like these aerobics folks do. How old is he, 40 or so here?

I think 40 or so. This gives me hope, by the way. As you head into the age. Yeah, you could be a thick. Yeah, I think so. It's what I want to be. It's what I'm actively seeking he collapses to flirt with some of the backup dancers let's be honest can i collapse on you you mind if i need to do the collapse gag you might uh this guy he got around for sure uh

robin tells a story about like uh waking up one morning going downstairs to the kitchen and then and then gloria steinem is in the house he went out with gloria steinem i think he also by the way uh when robin's music was blowing out when isn't it? By the way, now that we've seen this, isn't it insane that he had a son that people considered like sexy and cool for at least a brief time? You're just saying the chances of it happening after you see this performance, you would say, oh, this is kind of low. You just think like the family wouldn't have it. Maybe. Yeah. Inherent cheesiness, which there is.

Obviously, Robin Thicke thick time has not been kind to that song yeah in multiple ways but there was a minute where like you know he's really cool and hot sure robin thick and during that time there was a soundbite where he had a song called sex therapy i don't know that offhand but uh alan said you know i love robin's music you know uh my my wife and i play uh sex therapy while we're doing it. It's fucking weird. Really weird. At least it wasn't his birth mother, so it's only half weird.

It's only half really disturbing. It's just a woman whose husband is putting on her own stepson's music while they have sex. That is so disturbing. It's a little odd. You know he was furious about his son. He was so jealous.

Because he got everything that he actually. Exactly, the full legitimacy. I had to be a clown. I had to clown around to please the people. I was with the Ninja Turtles. I couldn't just flash my baby blues. Robin didn't have to be on some stupid variety show pretending to be excited about people in costumes.

You got to chase the models around emily what's her name the hottest babe in the game and she was all his uh um okay so oh and then also but he he remains that's the thing he's very proud of this thing i found an interview where he talked about this special they said let's talk a little about the song. He said, I was particularly proud of the song I wrote for that occasion, only because I think I'm the only person in history to have rhymed the word cardiovascular in a rock tempo song. A rock tempo. One of those rock tempo songs. You can do it slow, but try doing it fast. And do aerobics at the same time. Can't be done.

Wow. So that's that. In the interest of giving equal time fairness, I think we should bounce back and forth between Alan and his duet partners, the Ninja Turtles. And for this, we talk a little bit about this Ninja Turtles Christmas special. Can you tell us anything about that, Mike? Well, it looks

like there were a couple just VHS released. I'm not actually sure if it aired anywhere. There's all this stuff that is just like I've discovered this in the last couple of years. And it's viewed many thousands of times. So it's not like, oh, my God, I covered it or anything. Yeah, yeah. But there are there's something called like Turtle Tunes is one VHS.

And I don't know Turtle Tunes. Yeah, I actually didn't know until I started looking back into the the turtle Christmas but this is like a half hour tape with original songs and you know twists on the old favorites with like what like rock around the clock yeah I think a lot of that's maybe I'm rock around the shredders corpse.

I'm mixing. I'm mixing up turtle tunes because turtle tunes a lot of like just taking the melody from Farmer in the Dell and changing the lyrics. The Farmer in the Dell, dude. Yeah. Totally plants. Totally awesome crops. There's a there's one in the in the other turtles tunes where they're like on a carousel and that's set to like farmer and the dell but it's new lyrics about how much they

like riding the carousel but these are like skip to my loo dude these are like super cheap looking rushed out vhs things i'm sure to capitalize on i I was very confused. I thought I knew about some of these turtles Christmas songs, but I thought they were from the stretch of the cheaper Saban TV show from later. But no, they're weirdly they're from 94. So they're between the movies and the much cheaper Saban show. They exist completely on their own. So I'm sorry, the tape is, I believe, We Wish You a Turtle Christmas. Yes, yes, yes.

And yeah, it's like I was trying to figure out if maybe like the Splinter costume was reused from the shells, the Coming Out of Our Shells Tour. Their live tour, yeah. Which is, it looks similar. The turtle costumes themselves look similar, but I still think they're like different, but maybe I'm wrong. And yeah, these are quick, these are quick tapes. I guess in a way, like trying to have some turtle live

action content after they stopped making the movies in 93. Just keep something out there. But they are, they're bad, but there's enjoyable things about them. Well, they didn't have Alan. They didn't have Alan. They should have hired me. You don't hire me and you get junk. Yeah.

I don't know if they could have afforded Alan necessarily, but it's an interesting. You pony up that facts of life money and you get me. There's still, there's so much turtle stuff around this time. Like I'm shocked that I didn't have this because I was a, I was obsessed with turtles up until like a later than most of the average kid. And when I say later, I mean until this age right now. I was going to say was.

But I mean, did I say this before? We found a like an old home movie where I'm where my mom is like the camera's off. She thinks she's talking to a neighbor about how I don't know anything about sex and I don't like i'm not interested in any of that or like girls but i'm still into those ninja turtle toys and now when is this from like fourth fifth grade or something well well i don't

know that you well sure i hear you but i mean like is she reading like she's reading headlines about like the kids today yeah she's not saying the fourth graders are doing it. Right. But not my good boy. She's probably saying, yeah, there's something I don't know what the first part of that conversation was. But then it's like, oh, yeah, it's not even into girls or anything. He's not into any of that. He's still into those.

I think she says he's still into those Ninja Turtle toys. Well, I'm glad she got practice saying that sentence because she got to say it again i assume up through like age 20 yeah yeah no a longer probably yeah but uh yeah i didn't know i didn't know what these were wow there's even a thing we haven't and there's no time to do it but there's like this weird like video made it by

like some transit authority using similar suits i think whoa like there's just so many weird little things that popped up here and there with the turtles. Let's keep going with turtles. Yeah. We'll find more turtle stuff. What do you want to get a hit of here? That's a good question. We got some Christmas things, but you call your shots.

Maybe I'll just do this. This isn't necessarily Christmas, but they like made up a new theme song for these two videos. Brett, the stuff I sent you, Brett, the Turtles won, if we could play that. And it's interesting. I wonder if, I wonder practically why they would not just use the original with the Chuck Lorre written original.

Because it's the logo. And it is the logo. They don't want to pay Chuck anymore. If Chuck was maybe commanding a large fee or something, I don't know. But yeah, play it whenever. But it's like, yeah. We're the Turtles and we're on the lookout. For a friend in need, that's what they had to explain that they're singing.

Yeah. That's why they needed it. I guess you're right. You're right. Good point. Getting the origin story in here kind of. Yeah, making some real turtles be in some goo. Yeah. This might be the coming out of the show.

You laugh? They laugh. That's interesting. I got to find out more about these guys who laugh. Oh. gotta find out more about these guys who laugh so yeah that's that's the gist of it right if you could roll into the second clip actually now that i'm thinking about it i think maybe scott you have this as well they come so so the voice acting on this one is very interesting too because they lean heavily into the turtles are all like new yorkers which is oh yeah they don't always but

then but this is a baffling first choice for this first song. Oh, boy. And I don't know, did you see this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Decorating a Christmas tree. They're decorating a Christmas tree. They look scary. These are scary-looking costumes.

Well, yeah, I was saying there's the possibility, when you have open mouths, it's really possible that the mouths can just remain open. Yeah. And the gums are already receding on these teeth. Yeah. As they're using them. The rot you were describing on the auction item

has begun as soon as these were built. This is pre-rotted. They have gums. Yeah. Turtles have gums. So yeah, play this and we'll see what decisions the people making this made. Hey kids, what do you think?

Do we need more lights? We need more lights. They're coming. They're coming. You didn't give us time to answer. Hey kids, how about hoping think? Do we need more lights? We need more lights! You didn't give us time to answer. Hey kids, we're the turtles! Oh, I didn't know about that. There's so much teeth, listeners. There's so much turtle teeth. Yeah.

Their mouths are chattering too, like a little set of fake teeth or whatever you call those. Yeah, that's enough. I mean, you get the gist. So this is immediately, this is the first thing in the whole special. Yo, kids, what are you decorating the Christmas tree? Do we got enough lights or no? It's a me. Cut to Jamaican accent.

Yeah, man. Reggae. Reggae man. Adrian Brody's reggae man. That's made an appearance. Maybe that's where Adrian Brody got it. Yeah. So that's the start of the special.

Wow. And I don't know. Yeah. Nowhere to go but down from there. Yeah. That's a pretty high, a pretty bold choice to start. the special. Wow. And I don't know. Yeah. Nowhere to go but down from there. Yeah. That's a pretty high, a pretty bold choice to start. And then, yeah. Yeah.

Why? It's kind of unprompted. Why do you need to do island voices, Mon? Yeah. That's not the song. That's not how the song is generally. Yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah. That's the start of the special. I think my premise at the beginning was going to be that showing how these two titans both brought something different and great to the table. But now I'm finding that because this happened after that performance, they needed – Thick was the fifth Beatle. Yes, I think that's right. But yeah, these songs are not on the level of Pizza Power or... Fantastic coming out of our shells. Yeah, yeah.

Which were also done before. Yes. They were ruined after. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why even try anymore? We'll never reach his level. And there are better songs in the special than that, but... Well, we'll get to, you know, we'll build to what i think is the crown jewel sure yeah the song but let me really prove the legitimacy of mr thick

uh with this one uh um if let's just uh you know let's let's ready the theme song of alan thick's early 80s talk show thick of the night if we can pull up thick of the night one so you know we said a lot about how like he's corny he's got a dad energy he's not cool he's not sexy but important context for alan thick in america is that he arrived on a wave of there is a cool guy coming from canada he is gonna hit the late night scene. He's going to rock your socks. And he's not old man Carson with his golf swing. This is a rock and roll talk show host. Get ready to meet this guy.

This seems like kind of what the energy was before he came on the air. I mean, already, like, everything's just late night. The Tonight Show. He's the first one bold enough to get his name in there, the brilliant pun or something thick of the night. He incorporates that very famous phrase we all use. Yeah, of course. We'll always talk about, well, it's just, you know, it's so late. I'm in the thick of the night.

It's like the humidity that Jason and I love so much. The thickness of night. Yeah. So when it's night in Florida and you're leaving a Canoodles piano bar or whatever, what is it called? Jelly Rolls? Jelly Rolls. Was there ever anything called something similar to Canoodles? Canoodles on property at the Walt Disney Resort? Yeah, down the walkway at the boardwalk, there was Spoodles. That's what I'm thinking.

The Italian restaurant. Spoodles is not Canoodles. That's what I'm thinking. The Italian restaurant. Spoodles is not canoodles. Canoodles is not jelly rolls. Mediterranean Italian. Yeah. Anyways, that's when you're in the thick of the night. But so Alan comes in with this wave and this hype. And, you know, this guy might take Carson down. This was kind of the feeling at the time and it starts with the song

because we know Johnny's theme that's all we knew was what a talk show theme could be Letterman's on at this point but it's just kind of like generic blues rock still instrumental Alan is like no we are

yanking the talk show theme into the 80s we're doing it with vocals my vocals here is the theme song to 1983's Thick of the Night No, I don't leave the light on I'm gonna roll all the night Straightly, fully, right on Out of control all the night Be the neon burning through my brain Make me a cyborg

superstar Get in the mood and it won't matter who you are Running in the thick of the night Under the city lights Kind of this laid back jazz. That's your dad's music. Dad's music had no keyboards. I don't know if I don't know the context of if they played that entire song or not.

They should have. Yeah. I mean, like, I'm of two minds here. One, that is a very silly thing to do. That's a very silly meathead-y vibe of the theme song of what ultimately is a show where, like, tonight we got conservative columnist Wally George. Richard Belzer joins us tonight. I don't think the show justifies its own grit. But so I feel on one hand that way on the other hand

i love this song this is so up my musical alley i like like i've listened to that legitimately just because i want to hear it uh am i insane is that is that the lamest thing you've ever heard no the lamest thing i've ever heard no on this we've done this show we've covered are you kidding me i couldn't even imagine what the lamest thing we've ever said on the show is no no this song is fun that's good it's uh i'm trying to think what it reminds me of i can't think of it off the top of my head but is there something very similar that that it reminds me i know there's like i think there's an early bon jovi song that has some of that that's the real part that the chorus part with the the like ascending and descending it's got a little bit of Papa don't preach in there am I crazy well he does it's got I think it's doesn't say Papa the Papa don't leave

there is it mama I don't remember leave the light on of course we're you know I'm much more fan of Papa Knows What's Best For You the response song oh boy how have we never played that

believe Danny Aiello Danny Aiello played Madonna's dad in the Papa Don't Preach video and then he was unhappy

with how it came out and the message that it sent so he made his own song Papa Papa Just Wants What's

Best For You or Knows What's Best For You he just wants you to do what he he wants you to do uh that is a really funny song you know how when you're in the biggest pop stars uh the biggest pop star in the world's music video and then you write a fuck you response i shouldn't have done it I thought they'd include my moral and message in the video,

but they cut all of that. I left my notes. In favor of the music. I left my notes for her. Oh, it's like Ed Asner was in a Lady Gaga music video and he wrote a song called, What's With Those Crazy Get-Ups? Oh, AI prompt.

No. If Ed Asner had appeared, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, his song, his song, Meat Ain't Clothes. You know, that's on display at the Park MGM, the Little Lady Gaga's store and exhibit. That meat was taxidermied in Burbank. Really? Wow. They saved the meat?

And you go see it in Vegas? No, they had to preserve it for the dress. The preserving process was done in Burbank. She was not wearing loose meat. She was not wearing fresh, loose meat. No. I think it was preserved so it wasn't rotted. Jason, you hearing that it wasn't loose, fresh meat,

does that kind of like there's no Santa Claus? Yeah. It would be very funny if someone wore like stinking game to a red carpet. Stinking game. Well, there's still a chance. Somebody's got to sit next to her. I don't know what awards it was, but now like Christopher Plummer is sitting next to her. It's like all the Oppenheimer actors showed up for the London premiere and then the clock struck midnight and they all left because the actor strike kicked in.

If they all put on their stinking meat outfits and walked out. I like how you're calling them the stinking meat. The stinking meat outfits. Stinking meat. Yeah. The stinking meat outfits. When you've got a premiere that you're coordinating. Boss makes a dollar.

I make a dime. This stinks. Brett, can we play? I have to play the other part too, Thick of the Night 2, because most talk show themes don't have lyrics about being like a sidewalk superstar. Oh, wow. He says that? That was in the, yeah, make me a sidewalk superstar. But then also most talk show themes don't have bridges, bridges uh-huh so here's the the midpoint of thick of the night great There's a little magic.

Leave a little love. There's some nice little plunks, like little synth plunks in that bridge too. I love it. I love all of it. Fly me over heaven on a midnight moonbeam. That's what's in my heart. That's what I feel inside alan uh got it out of me this by the way this song this theme song is a collaboration with my literal favorite 70s

80s obsession musicians jay graydon who played the guitar solo on steely dance peg and david foster uh listeners might know david foster he was the producer of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You. But he's maybe better known now for who he's married to. He used to be married to Yolanda Hadid from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, a mother of Gigi and Bella. If you've ever seen a guy, just a very cocky older man being interviewed in front of a piano with 16 Grammys on top. That's David Foster. He now is married to Cat McPhee from the show Smash. Oh, yeah.

That old guy. Yep. You got it. Who she's married to now. And they were on the parade float. I was so happy to see them on the Thanksgiving parade. Voice in Luminous, The Story of Us, Catherine Fee. Really? Yes, I just learned this.

The new Epcot show. Wow, wow. You finally said something musical that excites Jason. I just learned this. I haven't watched the show yet and I have no idea why she is a voice actor in it

or what her Disney connection is. I mean, she's a wonderful voice, very talented. I think an American Idol alumni. But I think a lot of people are kind of creeped out by the fact that she is 39 and he is 74. And they are married. It is a bigger age gap than me and my father.

Sure. And so, yeah. Yes, if you, like Jason, have seen like, oh, that lady with the nice pipes. And why is that old man playing piano? Anyway, I could do I could probably do a called shot episode about David Foster. If I I got to really consider what's my birthday called shot. David Foster is a big candidate obsessed with David Foster.

But really quick, a non comedic point. The people who made that. So if you thought the thick of the night song was good, you know how sometimes there's these like Twitter things like 10 movies to know me or 10 albums. I can boil it down to one song. It is a song by the people who made that, a band called Airplay. And the song is called Nothing You Can Do About It. If you want to understand Scott Gardner, listen to Nothing You Can Do About It. That's all I have to say.

Highly recommend. One of the best in the genre of yacht AOR. understand scott gardner listen to nothing you can do about it that's all i have to say highly recommend one of the best uh in the genre of yacht aor uh and thick was right there with him he was running in the thick of the night with champions of the game is it was maybe the problem with alan and in this song that like i feel like late night talk shows, have we had an actual truly cool host? Arsenio. Yes. At the time. Arsenio was cool.

You're right. Arsenio, who was on Thick of the Night a lot as a, I think, network going, maybe somebody else could go in there. Yeah. Somebody who's also cool, like you, Alan. And then several years later, he becomes the real guy who actually shook who's I mean Letterman was like cool but not cool Chevy Chevy but was Chevy cool by that point oh yeah he came out and missed basketball shots before his monologue which mainly consisted of him sticking his tongue out

and making faces what year did Chevy become not cool? 1978? Yeah. It was not, I don't think he made it out of the 80s cool. That's what I, yeah. Because the last thing I really love of him is, well, I mean, Andy, I like the, I like Christmas Vacation too, but.

Yeah. He's, he's a goofy dad, you know, by the time, and that's, that's what you like him for. You don't, nobody thinks he's cool. Has anybody, he was cool for a few years. years yeah he was the original drummer for steely dan so you bet he was cool isn't that weird yes uh uh has anyone lost their cool that fast in the history of show business well from being the like that like that there was no model for the hot snl star because snl was new he's the first weekend update anchor he's like there's never been there was no model for the hot SNL star because SNL was new.

He's the first week of data anchor. He's like, there's never been. There's no there's never been that this breakout. Right. And I don't think people on TV were below 30 very often. That's true. Yeah, that's true. It's just interesting because like it really like there's no who's the coolest late night host that's been around in the last so many years?

Corden. Yeah, he might be right. Technically. I think actually, yes. Mathematically. Well, Craig Ferguson maybe is cool, like kind of cool, but he's goofy. I wouldn't say like cool. Joan Rivers was always funny.

Was she ever cool? No, she was already sort of like of another genre. I'm not saying- If your definition of cool is hanging out at the Playboy Mansion in the 2010s, then we got to give it to our bud, Bill Maher. That's true. You're right. That wasn't what I was considering cool, but it's interesting because maybe some of it is like late night. It's like, hey, here I am.

I'm the coolest guy and people like no thank you like there's something about that turns you off the guy has to be a little cheesy i think there are people who think that jimmy fallon is cool i don't know sure yeah even alan himself on gilbert's podcast is like he he's he regrets things like this this theme song and doing the legitimate attempting legitimate music because he's like uh you know like i should have been goofier with it i should have been more moved now jimmy fallon he understands it you know he does it all for comedy but that was before he blurred the lines with megan trainer right did alan thick hear like idiot boyfriend and stuff on jimmy fallon's like comedy album

from 2005 or whatever he might have there oh yeah young buck he's cooler than me and so is my son but only them at least i'm still number three he sounds wistful on this interview though like he really regrets you know by the way just confirm kirk cameron was on growing pains but he was a troublemaker michael j fox was the young republican i just meant i meant michael j Fox was the young Republican on Family Ties. I meant Michael J. Fox was the conservative. I knew they were not on the same show. That was the Wikipedia description. It was examining the shifting culture from the liberalism of the 60s to the conservatism of the 80s. I didn't watch either of those.

No, no. I also like Family Ties for theme song and closing theme. Yeah, yeah. Cool Sacks closing theme. Good theme song. Actually, let's tie it all together. Brett, can you pull up a clip called NHL Awards? These things just keep coming.

There was another thing in the same era, 1988. Alan Thicke hosts something called the NHL Awards, and he does a musical tribute to Canada. And you will understand why I'm bringing it. He will reference something that Jason just mentioned. For the listener, he is performing in front of a bunch of people with placards that are all turning around and forming different words or forming, in this case, the Canadian flag, the maple leaf. Of course.

So here's this song. Ooh, got some chest hair going. Oh, yeah. Because in Canada, we are family. And then all the signs become the big word A. And then he does a little. What? Michael Fox is our peewee Herman. And he makes a little, he puts his hand down like to illustrate a short person.

Michael Fox is oureewee Herman. What does that mean? Not Michael J. Fox? No, he means Michael J. Fox. He means fellow Canadian Michael J. Fox. He ran out of room in the line. I've just never really put them in the same category. No.

Peewee Herman's a fictional character. Yeah, yeah. I don't think it's that short. I don't know how short Paul Reyes was. He might be on the shorter side, but it's just that they're both short. Shorter guys? We're weird up here. America, you love Pee Wee Herman, but ours is Michael Fox, the guy who dresses normal and acts normal.

Uh-huh. Really weird line. Charming guy. Magic Johnson has moves or something something but so does gretz love these songs they're all like they really remind me of like especially there's the guffman music but then there's uh the songs that katherine o'hara and eugene levy sing in uh best in show about their dogs yes this is like big budget versions of those songs. There's a specific kind of quote unquote cleverness that you have to put in if you're parodying something like this. That it's like kind of clever, but it definitely feels like grandma would be like, oh, how clever.

You never laugh. You just go, ah. It's not a laugh. It's not a laugh. You shake your finger. You do a happy wag at the song. But this one has even less cleverness, I think, than the last one. Now, there is a big bombastic finale here, but I think we should take a little turtle break.

Yeah. Can we get a quick hit? Unless you've got something else, Mike. Can we get a hit of, I believe the file is Turtles, 12 Days of Christmas. Yeah. Splinter has arrived. We're jumping around in the order of the tape, but you got to have Splinter singing.

Yes. That's one of the best parts of coming out of our shells is how he talks in the old men's style, but then, I'm skipping. He sings like Alan Thicke. Skipping stones. Yeah.

We'll get back to Alan Thicke singing an up-tempo love song to Fiber soon enough. This does really look like this does really look like the Shells tour. This might be the same. Maybe they borrowed this one. Maybe it is the Turtles as well.

Yeah. As I've said before, the making of and the actual performance have different suits for that tour for some reason. Confusingly, yeah.

Different outfits as well. What does Splinter get up to here? On the 11th day of Christmas the turtles gave to me eleven pairs of sneakers, ten yellow yo-yos, nine narrow neckties, eight chopsticks, seven silk kimonos, six frisbees, five video

games, four manhole covers, three skateboards, two comic books, four manhole covers from the city. People are falling in all Christmas season. This is the 12th. Possible that's just one take and he did forget. Made him. Let's make a joke out of it whoa wait i thought it was a line uh yeah splinter totally stole four manhole covers

the city's gonna have to totally pay for new ones people kids might fall in there they can fall in and visit us they do which is what happens actually kids are visiting them at the end of this great it's the only way we can make friends brett can you pull up my turtles five i think they're the whole premise of the special is they're looking for a gift for splinter two comic books was real stocking stuffers back then they cost like a dollar and they at the time and one of the books you're saying you cheaped out well i'm saying now it's like four or five bucks a comic well the market is like a dollar 25 50 um the uh they hold up

that my beloved uh archie published ninja turtle adventures comics oh Oh, yeah. As well, which I've said is maybe the most important work of fiction that I ever read in my entire life is these 70 issues of this comic. So, yeah, whenever you want. I think this is the right clip, hopefully. So kids are drumming. Kids are just drumming on garbage cans and oil drums or something. Oh, well well this is the top

this is gotta get a gift yeah I meant to get the other one but oh well gotta get a gift gotta get a gift gotta get a gift for splinter gotta get a gift

for splinter I hate shopping in the winter but do you get the ninja master who has everything? Oh, baby. Gotta get a gift. Gotta get a gift. Gotta get a gift.

Mouth wide open. They cannot do how many syllables are in this song. This is where we're supposed to play this thing. And I screwed up my numbers. Oh, that's fine. We gotta get a gift. Oh, baby. This kid's on rollerblades.

There's some dancing. There's some choreography here. A lot of... One of them's got a dynamic white scarf on. Winter's not athletic, he says. Winter! Winter's not athletic, he says. A bowling ball, ice skates. You guys are perfect.

Oh, oh. Gotta get a gift, gotta get a gift, gotta get a gift. He changed his name, maybe? Kind of. They got more nasal. Yeah, so. Gotta get a gift, gotta get a gift. Look, Splinter can kick ass. So saying he's not athletic, I mean, he's an older rat at this point.

He's a teenage assholes nothing kicks ass if he has to yeah okay they're ninjas they can break into any shop they want to get any item uh brett put up seven real quick sorry uh but yeah the uh sorry i'm on a roll here or hopefully i'm right about the numbers now i've screwed it completely what is the explanation from michelangelo having uh charles lindbergh white aviator scarf on oh uh when you say a white scarf do you think charles lindbergh no old-timey aviators always wear those long white i know but it looks like a white no i know what you're saying i don't know take your pick i hear you but i just say it's funny that you thought that immediately just with a white scarf.

That's all. Look, I'm 80s centric. Jason is 20s centric. Yeah. That's what I mean. That's what I'm saying. You either wear a big white scarf if you're flying across the Atlantic or you're going to an old timey Hollywood premiere.

You know what? That's going to help you in the sky, protect from all that wind. Yeah. One thin scarf. One thin scarf. The start of this, they actually find the grave rob, Charles Lindbergh's grave, and they steal his famous white scarf. That's actually, I didn't play that clip. Oh, okay.

That's why Michelangelo has his scarf on. Because it's brutal. He looks bad. Yeah. That is as rotted as a corpse can be. He's decomposed. When did he die? Oh, he stinks, dude.

Yeah, he's been dead for 100 years. What'd you think? Yeah, so play this whenever... I think this is the right one, but maybe it's not. Who cares? Please, dude! I'm on the cover, man! Six! Well, yeah, I guess you could. Get seven. I want one.

I like that happening, Ralph. This is very arty. Jump cuts. Yeah, cinema verite. I don't think so. Totally bodacious! This is very arty. Jump cuts. Yeah, cinema verite. Got ties there. Totally bodacious! So this is the gift wrap. Here we go.

This is why they wrap Spinner's presents. It's Christmas Eve and all my friends are here. Wrapping up presents, it happens once a year. I do my best when I'm wrapping my gifts. I take a lot of pride when I put the gift inside of the realize those two words are the same. Yeah, I think so. I kind of like the shot, too. I like the zooms in and out constantly. Back and forth, back and forth.

Big backlight. Just blasting your eyes. It feels like the ooze from which they came. Yeah. This is the best directing in the special, yes. They tried to slap hands with each other, but it was hard. Yeah, they're kind of awkward, three fingers. They're little grabbers, is that the phrase?

They're little grabbers, yeah. But with the low quality video also, it looks like there's only two different colors for the bandanas. It looks like just red and blue. But that's the rap rap, so I kind of like rap rap, honestly. It's not the best

song I've ever heard. You know, I overlooked it. I didn't even deliver this as a clip. But now that you've put it in front of me, it's kind of got some, you know, it's got some late 80s. Yeah, yeah. Smart, minimal. So it's an outdated kind of rap. It's a little repetitive. You guys are playing it too.

And they have a few too many teeth. Sure. Oh, yeah. You really got a good view of the teeth here. If you want to see their teeth, watch Rap Rap. And you get to see real good close-ups of their little grabbers rubbing on each other's little grabbers. They keep flashing shots of them slapping threes. Not safe for work. Grabber little grabbers. Like, they keep flashing shots of them, like, slapping threes.

Not safe for work. Grabber on grabber action. So, turtle grabbers. Turtle grabbers. You gotta go to the video for that. That's on the floor of YouTube. Receding gum lines and grabbers. No nubbin' shots.

No nubbin' shots in this. Did Ugly Sonic have worse teeth than the turtles here? I can't remember his original teeth. I think that seeing Ugly Sonic's teeth in the digital clarity made it worse in a way. Yeah, maybe that's right.

The VHS fuzz literally softens just how many teeth are jammed into right into sonic's mouth so those are the best songs in the special those are the best songs that you're gonna get in this special yes that's there's nothing the nothing nearly as good as any of these alan thick 80s songs i guess we i didn't mean to pit them against each other but i guess that's what's what's ended up happening well but we also, this is a, we're not putting up the best turtle songs. No, no, no, because we've covered the best turtle songs.

I wanted to do some Christmas stuff. I'm just saying, give them some credit for better songs. They tried to do Christmas songs, but again, without Alan, I don't know if they put in their best effort. I'm going to play one more thing here. And this is a whole can of worms. We maybe don't have time to get into the whole thing.

But can we please pull up the clip? Skydome one. This is where, as I've done this YouTube archaeology over the years, this was the point where I realized, oh, my God, if Alan Thicke is singing in it, it's one of the best things that's ever been on TV. And this is no exception. I've seen this suggested by listeners as a full episode, and it could be, so I'll try to keep it brief. But this is from a special called The Opening of Sky Dome, a Celebration.

Sky Dome is not something from Ninja Turtles. It's not where Shredder operates. It's not a Technodrome. No, no, no, it's not Sky Drome. Sky Dome is now called Rogers Center. It's the Toronto Stadium where the Blue Jays play. It's at the base of CN Tower, opened in 1989 with this spectacular special. Clearly the pride of Toronto, the pride of Canada, which we know Alan is so fond of, his native home with that great

song that we heard earlier. Who else could host such a celebration? This entire thing is so up our alley that it's two hours of sloppy live television celebrating an now, we've got a dome and it has a roof. I mean, you've got something so specific, something almost as specific as aerobics and Schwarzenegger necks or Michael Fox being R.P. Wee Herman. There's only one lyricist who can thread that needle. It's Alan Thicke, but he's joined by a special guest, another Canadian royalty member. Let's play this. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Alan Thicke and Miss Andrea Martin. Wow.

Is that 100,000 people in there? I think there are 100,000. Yes, for the listeners, the scope of this is so great. Black tie, red dress for her. The world's largest retractable ceiling. Black tie, red dress for her. That was a bell. Better than Skyfall. Make that a gel.

Oh my god. What's on your face? He grabbed her full chin. You're not going anywhere. We got a skydome to open. Now, approximately 1,000 women in their 40s run out in silver sparkly jumpsuits and leggings. There's so many. So many people, yeah. Just filling the entire arena floor.

We'll have some good times here. Some really good times here. entire arena floor. The scope. Wow. As you stare at this frame, isn't it? Am I right? It's a thousand people. It's an army of silver dancers. Probably. Yeah. It's a lot. Wow. As you stare at this frame. Am I right? It's a thousand people. It's an army of silver dancers.

Probably, yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. It's bigger than some Super Bowl halftime shows. Yeah, really. Especially back then. They were not as many of those things. The scope was not as big.

This is gigantic. What is that stage even? Like that stage is something crazy. Yeah, there's ramps. I think it allows like motorcycle stunts to happen later because again, this is jam-packed. There's stunts.

We gotta do this. Maybe we do the entire thing. Well, in that case, should I not say how it ends? Say how it ends. I mean, I don't want to, oh, I'm so torn. Do I bury?

There's two hours of material. Maybe. Hey, it's up to you. Okay. I have gifts for you. We can end with that. Oh, well, that sounds nice. Okay, you know what?

Then I won't say, maybe we do have to more fully address this thing. Let's get one more little hit though. Let's play Skydome 2 because this opening number alone could be its own episode because there's a bunch of like skits and numbers essentially.

And of course, we're dealing with, you know, this is a this is an arena. We have to talk about baseball and football and all the sports that are going to be played here through the majesty of song. So here is a musical number about an arena roof sung by football guys. Yes. When drums are falling at the door. When that doesn't mean the game will have to be postponed. You got to watch the video. All we have to do is let the roof slide in. Let the roof slide in.

Let the roof slide in? Let the roof slide in? Let the roof slide in. Not let the sunshine in. Let the roof. I apologize. It was baseball. It was baseball, guys. It was baseball, guys.

I was wondering if you were like, oh, my God, Scott, no. I've been close with such mistakes before. I'm just proud I got Blue Jays right. I thought they said said let the roof sun in they could this will just be a good tease for something in 2024 because the story

of how this plays out is spectacular Alan Thicke shined on this project he gave him a thick amount of luck. And as he did on everything, I can't think of a better, you know, it's certainly been a gift to me to get to go through all these Alan things. I hope it's a gift to you. I hope. Yeah. Joy to the world, they say.

And what's the best way I can bring joy to this world than with the music of Alan Thicke, I say. Alan Thicke. And I also, to tie it back in to our full, the duet partners, I just think there's Christmas songs and Christmas moments, TV special moments especially, that are a little played out. We've seen Bing Crosby and David Bowie together a number of times. And, you know, that that's held up as like, well, it's this multigenerational duet, unexpected, you know, like unexpected bedfellows for the holidays. And if they can get together and briefly pretend they don't hate each other, kind of, although you can see it on their faces, you know, then there can be harmony in this world. Forget them. They're in the past. The greatest meeting of minds for the holidays, I say Alan Thicke and the Ninja Turtles.

I was so happy to talk about it and grow the family tree, the Christmas family tree that comes out of that musical number. I think, yes, I completely agree. I have such fondness for this. I want to say you're welcome to the audience who thought maybe we were talking a little more about MGM Studios and then realized that it was like getting one of those Cadbury eggs, maybe. And it's actually just an Alan Thicke episode locked inside.

With a chocolate Ninja Turtle shell. Hey, we got turtles in there, too. We got turtles Christmas. I think it's great. We can examine the MGM Studios installation. Yeah, we'll do that another time, of course. Well, now there's some. We got Sky Dome.

The list is growing of what we can do next year. And we're looking forward to next year a lot. But I guess, and I apologize, I don't have gifts ready. No, it's okay. I just had some things I just wanted have gifts ready no it's okay I just had I had some things I just wanted to quickly give out on the air here Jason I got this for you that is a large box

I saw it in the back of your car earlier when you gave me a ride it looks like Michael did a bit of a wrap wrap he did a wrap wrap I was running very late so that's a really poorly wrapped giant box god this is better than i do it okay and i actually i got myself a fun a fun thing too that i wrapped as well and i'll open it up i just wanted i didn't want to be left out opening up a gift in case

this is like a pleasant asmr yeah let's do jason you go first i think is it let's be careful how close we go well that might be awful. I think it depends. I'm not going terribly close. I am a professional. If Forever Dog wants to do an ASMR show with Jason, I think he would be interested if we can broker that deal perhaps. Now, run your little grabbers. Jason's going to be eating maple cookies on the mic.

It's Magneto's helmet. I got Jason a full-size Magneto's helmet that he can wear if he wants. He doesn't have to wear it. Maybe I should have given it to him at the start so he could have worn it all show. I have a question. Yeah. Where did you find that? Where did I find it?

Where did you find the helmet? Well, it's a Marvel Legends release in conjunction with Disney Plus' new X-Men 97. I did not. My question is because I noticed that there were a lot of fancy helmets available on Deal Vibes, the embattled Twitter account. It's possible Magneto, I did get,

look, I did not, this retailed for $100. I did not spend $100. I spent much less on it and it is because one of my accounts told me about the discount. Well, thank God you didn't get that account into the mess with the Minotaur. Yes. Few.

So, yeah. So, anyway, it might have been Deal Vibes. I don't actually remember. It could have been Deal Vibes. It was some account that I follow that has deals on helmets. I couldn't tell you what it is. And I did a lot. I don't want to get into it, too. With coupons and discounts and red card, I got that thing at such a good price.

Oh, I love it. That makes it that much sweeter. It's so sweet. And I said, this is- Jason's request is not expensive gifts. It's gifts where the most money possible was saved in the acquisition of the gift. I knew he would appreciate that aspect as well. But he's going to be wearing this helmet a lot i have a feeling around the house can you get it on before no there's too much packaging i was gonna say if

you can get it on before the end of the episode i'll try to get i'll get a picture though i'm sure there will be a marvel episode next year where that will need to have jason wear the magneto helmet yes and where starts, he has it on. Wow, it's Magneto. Then we say one thing to Jason and he goes, what? Because he can't hear anything. Repeat that louder, human. Scott, I got you.

Whoa. The Avatar way of water visual dictionary. This you will now know what everything in Avatar is called. Oh, wow. And an explanation for jeez can anyone even name what the fruit baskets are called in avatar yes i can they're pandoran fruit baskets yeah i guess that's kind of instinctual yeah can you can anyone even name the knives in avatar why yes k bar mk13 combat knives damn it that's gonna look there's gonna

be a lot more avatar coming soon. There's some sort of experience coming to Disneyland. They keep saying experience. There's an experience. It's not necessarily an attraction or a ride. It's an experience, but we'll need to know. And you're going to be our expert with this book.

Do you think they could get props for in the movie and recreations of sets? Hey, Jason, I don't want to speculate because that would just kind of ruin the fun for people going into these six years. There's a full spread of both showing the full bodies of both Captain Mick Scoresby and Dr. Ian Garvin. There you go. Yeah. The two mean whale hunters.

Well, Garvin isn't mean, right? What's that? Jermaine is not mean. He's conflicted. He's conflicted. Yeah, but he goes along with it. You know, if he was really nice, he wouldn't have the job to begin with. Yeah.

So, and then I got myself something, you know, because we're in the turtle spirit, so I, you know, obviously I know... What's that? Oh, yeah. Okay. And we're in the turtle spirit, and, you know, I just got myself a little something that... You seem surprised. What what what is this that's not a turtle thing that's a power ranger power rangers what is what kind of animal is that it's a mighty morphin

what it says mighty morphin mighty minotaur whoa mike do you need to drop that do you need to throw it down i don't know if you can i'm worried about you holding a little minotaur what now i have a little minotaur that i need to display and have in your home are you sure we're happy to take that off your hands mike i think i need to keep it whatever happened whoa it Whoa. It's like you need to live with it as the ultimate test of your metal. Yeah. I wonder if the person who got this and replaced what I had in the package got this on some sort of a deal Twitter where it was only $11 marked down from its original 30-something price.

You are saying that deal vibes themselves offered a deal on a minotaur i think so yeah that's what i'm saying well the heralds that is 2023 came to a perfect close didn't it it really did perfect almost perfect yeah wow wow we we fused Minotaurs and Deal vibes in a way where, like Alan Thicke and the Ninja Turtles, they're inseparable now. You want to get that baby out of the box? Or do you keep that in the box? You want to bust him out? Well, there's no window. There's no packaging window.

So there's no point. So there's no point in keeping it in the box. Okay. Unless you're going to resell it. But no, I don't think. You had so much venom in your voice when you said that. Well, I don't like that they got rid of the packaging windows for a lot of toys. But they've, I think, corrected that a lot in a lot of different releases.

You call him out? Yeah, he's coming out. Geez. Let's meet him. Unboxing Minotaur video. An audio unboxing. NSFW unboxing. Okay, well, you work on that maybe away from the microphone,

and while I wrap things up, I believe with that tie together you have survived podcast the ride for 2023 this is the last main feed of the year uh and i can't think of a better way to do it than watching a big pile of clips with you guys boy that's a lot is very loud um sorry there he is my god wow what do you think he is are you scared yes Wow. What do you think? There he is. Are you scared? Yes. He's large. But your hand isn't trembling. Your grabbers aren't trembling one bit.

Well, my grabbers, I'm projecting confidence like Alan Thickwood, but I'm terrified inside. If you give him a goldfish cookie, he'll smell like maple all the year long. Forever. Oh, yeah, yeah. Have him devour some of the have him stick his neck into that maple just like buddy the elf yeah go to town on some christmas crunches um well uh he's beautiful welcome to i welcome your new addition to your family mike thank you um and uh let me do uh while you play with him and grab him and get accustomed to him.

Uh, let me say thank you listeners for everything all year for supporting the show, for your episode suggestions, for coming to the live shows, for giving us stuff for a fry sweater. If you travel for these things, thank you so much. Thanks for sending love to Jason with everything he's got going on. Uh, much appreciated. Thanks to Brett Bolum for producing this video episode for nudging cameras because Captain Crunchboxes were in the way. Thanks Joe and Wes

and everyone at Forever Dog. We are now going to take a long winter's nap. We're going to do a hiatus on the main feed. We're going to do three weeks. Might sound a little bit long, but keep in mind that is in the service of prepping a lengthy daily series

that will be coming as soon in 2024 as we can manage so remember that's on the way and if you don't want us to disappear for the holiday break if you want the PTR fun to keep going new episodes will be coming to the second gate where we just did McGruff 3

a very McGruffy Christmas you can only hear that there and our VIP tier Club 3 where we have did McGruff 3, a very McGruffy Christmas. You can only hear that there. And our VIP tier Club 3, where we have one more little tropical holiday treat next week, mon. As the turtles would say, or that episode's subject. You will find all of that at patreon.com slash podcasttheride. So that's our business. How's it going? Are you handling him with your little grabbers?

My little grabbers are examined and helping to examine him. I will say this. He does not have a furry seat. Okay. It's just skin. Okay. You want to check for nubbins? Well,

actually he does have them. How many? Can you tell? He's got two nipple. He has two, the minotaur. But is it only the, I forget,

is only the extra one a nubbin? Is the, I don't, I forget too. He certainly has a snoot. Well, may your holidays be rosy and wonderful

with dreams, with visions of nubbins and snoots dancing in your head. From all of us at Podcast the Ride, happy holidays. Went into it a at Podcast the Ride, happy holidays. Went into it a little thick there.

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