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So many of our favors to watch. Well, look, now they're being.
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Bashed. I guess that's what we should
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expect. On the Bullied Nostalgia
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Podcast, Hello to everyone on the Internet.
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This is the Bullied Nostalgia Podcast, the podcast no one has
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ever heard of that somehow hit 50 episodes.
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That's right. Today's episode, we are going to
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be talking about some cartoons we watch together, but we'll
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also be talking about the podcast as a whole and looking
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back a little bit on the experience that we've had over
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the last four years. As mentioned, we wanted to do
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something different to celebrate this milestone, so we bought
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several hours of Saturday morning cartoons on VHS and
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watched them together. But who is we and what is the
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Bullied Nostalgia Podcast? Well, if you're asking those
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questions, I don't know how you found this episode, but welcome.
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I'm Timothy Nesbitt and I'm joined by my brother Jonathan.
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Looking great at 50. Looking great at 50 and my two
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kids. Chance.
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That's me. And Kai.
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Hi. Gross and together we rewatch
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old movies and TV shows from our youth and see if they hold up as
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adults. 50 episodes you guys, that is wild.
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It's like more episodes than Stranger Things.
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No. Why are people not talking about
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us like they're talking about Stranger Things?
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Do you think people have conspiracy theories about our
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podcast? Isn't the 50th episode and we're
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lying to you? So statistically half of all
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podcasts don't make it to their third episode.
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So. This is what they would call sad
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we haven't gained. One new listener since 25 but
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we're still going. 90% of all podcasts quit before they
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reached their 50th episode, so we are a rare breed.
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We fall into less than 10% of podcasts that are still going at
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50 episodes. What do you guys think sets us
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apart? Foolishness.
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Amateurish capabilities. The T-shirts that we won't stop
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making. All right, you Downers.
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I think it's because we enjoy each other so much.
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We're having so much fun. And our fearless leader Tim
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keeps us going. He.
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Keeps dragging us back. For another episode, I don't
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feel dragged. I delightfully prance into the
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next episode. That might also be because a lot
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of this is my. Yeah.
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Dancing kind of have to keep suffering.
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I don't know what I'll do if I have to watch one more Land
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Before Time movie. I have to watch them by myself.
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It's bad, you guys. Look, if I appear on the news,
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it's not my fault. It's John's fault.
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If you end up on the news. Yeah, for whatever happens after
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I watch the next Land Before Time movie.
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What would that have to be to be on the news?
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I don't know. Really big.
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Pomegranate. OK, context you guys.
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So we were playing a board game over Christmas.
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I won't go into detail on what the game is, but essentially you
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have to get people to guess how likely something is.
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And so the whole point of the question was that something had
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to end up on the news. And John's answer was a
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pomegranate the size of a basketball, it was supposed.
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To be 80% likely. No, I don't think that'd be an
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8. You were up at the top, John.
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It was. Yeah, you put it, man.
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You can't back out now. Well.
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That wouldn't make international news, but that would be front
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page on. That is true.
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OK, yes, nostalgia definitely hits different after 50.
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We have a few episodes left in this season, but if anyone wants
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to give us feedback or ideas that will affect the future of
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this podcast or even just let us know where you're at, you can
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send an e-mail to bulliedpod@gmail.com.
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We also have a merch store that you can find by searching
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Bulliedpod on redbubble.com and I recently added a mug that Kai
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requested that says World's Best Mug.
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I want that mug. You're searching it right now.
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Do you drink things out of mugs, Kai?
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Nope, I genuinely couldn't tell you the last time I did.
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He's been saving himself for the world's best one.
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Yeah. Tim whenever I go into red
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bubble and type bullied nostalgia, it gives me T-shirts
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with rustic steam engine trains. Just write bullied pod one word.
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OK, well if you put bullied space nostalgia, you get these
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rustic trained T-shirts. I'm curious.
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I'm looking this up. Oh, my goodness, Kai, you work
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my time aggressively. Yeah, we can hear your
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keystrokes. Kai.
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John, I look you up. Yeah.
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There's six bullied nostalgia shirts and then one steam engine
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and then. There's 4 steam engine shirts.
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Tim, do you have like a steam engine side hustling?
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Well, I'm not going to tell you about it on this episode, that's
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for sure. Wait for the Thomas the Train
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Engine episode. Oh my goodness, Thomas the Train
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would be such a boring episode. Oh, I think we have to do it.
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That shows the worst. Grandma used to record that for
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us, right? I know she just, it's kind of
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British, isn't? Yeah, bless her heart.
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She was like, oh, they'll like this.
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And it's like, no. I'm laughing thinking about
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making fun of that. John, did you see Bullet Train?
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No, no I didn't. Chance loves that movie and
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there is a lot of Thomas references in that movie.
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It's a good one. I do love that movie.
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I watched it just recently again actually.
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So last year in one of our episodes when I got Spotify
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Wrapped, I mentioned that it felt like our podcast growth had
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stalled, but the stats said otherwise.
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Well, it's that time of the year that Spotify Wrapped is out
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again, and it has a lot to say. Once again, these are just
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Spotify statistics. This does not reflect how we're
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doing on iheart or on Apple or any of the other dozen places
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where a podcast can be found. But some fun statistics are in
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the year 2025, we've had a 58% increase in audience.
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We've had a 999% increase in new audience, a 22% increase in
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followers and a 42% increase in listening time from the previous
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year. That's a lot of positive
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metrics. 2 positive. Hi.
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Why are you going to be doubting?
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What was that? What was that?
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Hi, why are you going to be doubting?
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Sometimes the mouth and the brain.
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Someone calling him Sean. Why?
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You got to be having a stroke. The top countries that listen to
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our podcast #1 is Canada #2 is the US of a #3 is the UK #4 is
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Ukraine and #5 is Spain. Fans listen to our podcast 78%
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longer than other podcasts. Is that 'cause we make longer
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podcasts? No.
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I. Infected you because I haven't
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downloaded any other podcasts on mom's phone.
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Can you imagine? Mom is listening?
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That's funny. Nana, do you like our podcast?
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So some other fun just statistics stuff is that.
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Struggling to talk today. We had a poll up that let people
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vote for their favorite episode of our podcast.
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It was a head to head format so essentially 2 episodes would pop
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up and you'd pick your favorite between the two.
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Keep in mind the newest episodes were not included in the poll.
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We had a total of 2967 votes cast.
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Wow, how many votes was per person?
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I remember doing a lot of votes. There were fifty in a run.
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OK, so divide that number by 50 chance.
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Kai really wants to get down to the brass tacks, are you?
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Here. What are you doing over there?
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I don't know you. Said we're Nana.
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Do you like our podcast and then what's happening with you?
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What did your keyboard sound like again?
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So. I have mic monitoring on all the
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time but I can't have it on right now because it cuts off my
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yelling. Yelling is very important for
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your audio. It is.
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So Tim, I want to hear about this face off and now land
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before time was #1. OK, I'm just gonna read out the
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top ones in order of favorite episodes.
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In first place, we have 3 ninjas.
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Nice. In second place, Double Dragon.
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Eric is at the top. That's true.
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In 3rd place descendants in fourth place land before time
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50. Yeah, in 5th place, Descendants
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2. In 6th place, The Nutcracker
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Prince. Interesting.
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In 7th place Dougal. Wrong.
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Wrong that. Episode was really fun to.
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Me, yeah, it just. Wasn't fun to watch.
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The movie sucks, but it's a good episode.
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In 8th place, Quest for Camelot. In 9th place, Ninja Turtles 2,
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The Secret of the Use, which reaffirms that people like me
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saying please please, a moment to reflect.
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They would if you ever said that you had a phone recording
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directly into the mic. And in 10th place, Spaceballs.
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And I've noticed a little bit of a pattern.
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All of our talk episodes are either really funny guests or
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bullying chants specifically. Well, we bullied John in
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Nutcracker. That's fair.
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I find it hard to believe that only one land before a Time
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movie made it in the top 20. Nope.
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Something that I did find interesting about this rating.
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If you look at the top ten, season one has three episodes
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represented. Season 2 has three episodes
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represented. Season 3 has three episodes
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represented. Season 4, at the time of this
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poll, only had one episode represented.
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But that seems to imply that there's a consistent level of
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quality season to season, which I think is a really cool
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realization. Or we can never break our
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barrier of only having three good episodes.
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That's right, only three good ones per season.
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Where the heck was Ernest scared?
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Like clearly I needed to do. This.
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Quiz. Multiple times it's true, our
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listeners got it wrong. What is Ernest?
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Not. The top 20.
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Not like was it season 4? No, it was season 3 and John is
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the only one who loved that episode.
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Don't let him rewrite history, hey?
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Wasn't it? It had like the milk, no?
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Not a really good episode. I'll have to trust your word for
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it because I honestly don't. Remember chances like half
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asleep and not putting up with this BS.
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Something else that I thought would be fun to look back at is
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to see which of the movies and TV shows that we have looked at
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on our podcast have been the highest rated and lowest rated
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movies in the world. So using Rotten Tomatoes scores,
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I've pulled a list of the worst rated movies that we've done on
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this podcast, keeping in mind that a lot of the things that
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we've done on the podcast do not have Rotten Tomatoes scores.
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For instance, the majority of the Land Before Time sequels are
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not on Rotten Tomatoes. So the fifth worst rated movie
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that we have done on Rotten Tomatoes is Ace Ventura 2 which
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has a 23%. Number 4 is Superman 4 with 16%.
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Does anyone want to venture a guess at what the first three
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spots are for worst movies that we've done on this podcast?
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Doogle Listen on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Google's definitely up there. Doogle is number 2 with 9%.
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Google is a cult following for being so terrible.
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That's right. No, it's on.
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There, I'm actually going to fill in the gap in between.
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I'm going to tell you guys, number 3 is Double Dragon with
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12%. What do you guys think is the
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worst movie that we have done on this podcast with 7% on Rotten
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Tomatoes has to? Appeal to nobody.
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I think one time too is in the selection people thought.
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They were going to be good. You fools, it's Christmas in
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Wonderland, am I right? Well, it could be the.
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Answer is spy hard. Yeah, I see that.
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What? That's a classic.
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It's so funny hearing that. It's my hard knowing that movie
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just got a sequel. Well, it didn't.
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The new movie was the Naked Gun sequels, which Spy Hard was
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trying to cash in on. John, how do you feel about
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mobilizing your bots and all your loved ones to force that
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episode onto our podcast now knowing it is worse than Dougal
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on Rotten Tomatoes? I forgot that that was the one
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we voted for. I just figured we all wanted to
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watch. All wanted it so bad.
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Watch Speed Razor, I like that movie.
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We voted for. You meant you voted for.
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He meant we as in him and the. Conglomerate of bots who share
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his consciousness. I was told I was allowed to vote
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once. I voted once.
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I borrowed my dad's phone and voted once with his.
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I borrowed my wife's phone and voted once with hers.
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Anyone who would have voted for Spy Heart, it's so consensually
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with their own knowledge of it. Once again a reminder, John, 7%
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of people on Earth like that movie.
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No 7% of 2020 critics detached from what real humans want?
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Sure, sure. Can you check the audience
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score? Look it up, you got the
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keyboard, it's your job now I'm looking.
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It up and bounce it to the. World, it's 31%.
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That is correct. Wow that's shocking.
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How many bots did you use for that?
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Yeah. OK, so these are less fun than
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the worst episodes, but looking at the five best reviewed movies
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that we've done on this podcast coming in #5 with an 80% is
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goldeneye #4 with 88 percent is Spaceballs.
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Does anyone want to venture a guess at what the top three best
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reviewed movies are that we've done on this podcast?
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Humanji up there. Nope.
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No, Jumanji was like a 50 we talked about it on.
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There it was like a 60 some. Right.
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I feel like I remember witches being rated pretty high.
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That is correct. Witches is the number one
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highest reviewed film we have done on this podcast with a 94%.
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That feels really good. I know Dad's getting ready to
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the joke, so I'm just going to say is one of them descendants?
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Descendants is #3 at 90%. I knew it would be.
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And John's over there laughing. But follow that bird is number 2
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at 92%. Oh, that's not right.
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Laughing anymore? It's.
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A good movie. I did want to share the top
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reviewed 5 because they are less fun than the worst reviewed, but
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I knew it was an opportunity to grief both of you which I had to
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take. I'm happy.
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So which is weird in this podcast.
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Yeah, Kai, you can turn off your yell function.
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So we still haven't even talked about this Saturday morning.
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Saturday morning. I think about Saturday morning.
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Yeah, my brain just shut off for a second.
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Yeah. So we're going to chat about
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that stuff right away. I just thought one more thing
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that I would tell us about this kind of fun.
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We've joked a little bit about how in this podcast we sometimes
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inadvertently land on something that is going to become famous
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or re famous after we tackle it on the podcast.
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So there are five things that have projects in the works right
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away will be coming out soon that maybe just maybe Hollywood
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can thank our podcast for in the end of this year.
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In 2026 we will have another Jumanji movie.
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You can't take claim for that one.
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I think they were on the fence if they were going to follow it
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up with a sequel and then we just kind of pushed them over
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there. Well, hold on, these four guys
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from Canada. Doing the same I think.
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We have to do. Now one living in sex myth.
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Do you know how competitive the podcast market is there there's.
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Three people, I think. There is also another Ninja
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Turtles movie coming out in 2027, There is a sequel to
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Spaceballs coming out in 2027. The next Descendants movie
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Wicked Wonderland will be out later this year.
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And lastly in 2025 Funko Pops announced pre-orders for a line
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of Land Before Time bobbleheads. John what?
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Funko Pop going. Under that is also true, so
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we'll see if those actually. Funko pops going under.
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Lots of people buy Funko Pops. Unfortunately, every store
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stocks millions of Funko Pops. They feel like they've made far
20:35
too many obscure characters. They should have started with
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Land Before Time, obviously. OK, well that was my fun look
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back at the last 49 episodes. It's one of those things where
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Gosh kind of made a joke that he didn't think we were going to
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make it past three episodes, but legitimately it didn't look like
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we were going to make it past four.
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Like I think the 4th episode was Batman and then the fifth one
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chance Kai and I recorded Fast and the Furious 35 without John
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and that. Was a beautiful experience that.
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Was a bad experience and it was like, OK, well it was a fun run
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while I last did so. Kai was joking, but really it
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was pretty accurate. It blows my mind to think that
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we have 50 episodes at this point.
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So I guess I want to say thank you to you 3 for putting up with
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me and this podcast for that long.
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And to our listeners who have tuned in for that many episodes
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or skipped some of them. You know what I mean?
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Tuned in for most. It blows my mind that we're
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still growing. Spotify Rapped has said that
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essentially as many people as were listening to us last year,
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that many new people found us again this year.
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Obviously not nearly that many stuck around, but that means
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that we're still growing. And who knows, if we do another
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50 episodes, maybe we'll have more than 10 listeners to say.
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Yeah, I want to take this moment to acknowledge Tim.
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Tim, you are the one who started this.
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You're the one who records, edits, posts every episode.
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And makes our T-shirts. As.
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Much as you tried to recruit me, I have not participated.
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So. You heard us cats together.
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You even bought AVCR and AVHS for the episode we're recording
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right now. This podcast exists because of
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you. It's your intentionality that's
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created so many of these fun connections and memories.
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So thank you, Tim. Thanks, John.
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Yeah, I don't think I would have wanted the job of editing all
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this down. I can get through it once and
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that's the recording. Yeah, I have to listen to each
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of these like 4 times and then he chooses to listen to them
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again once he's uploaded them. Well, that's for the metrics.
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Yeah. We.
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Need those. Kylin, I feel like you get a
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behind the scenes look that chance and I don't.
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Anything else you want to share about what your dad gets up to
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over there? It is very odd he put so much
23:31
time into editing them and then he immediately listens to them
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physically. You can force me to do.
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Next level. Thanks, Tim.
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You're welcome. I guess I don't know, sounds
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pretty painful for chance I'm. Glad you do it.
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Podcast for me has been a way that we continue to connect even
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though we live in different places and I've shared this a
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handful of times but still to this day my wife knows when the
24:01
new podcast drops because she hears me laughing in the other
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room. Also thank you Chancing Chi for
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your patience. Has got 100 more movies for my
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childhood or more. We're never watching Speed
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Racer, are we? Never watching clutch powers.
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You can put it up for a vote, but spy hard. 2 might win up the
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nonexistent movie we just watched.
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Spy Hard again to watch. We're going to get to recording
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and be like, wait a second, this.
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Is just spy hard 2 inspired 1 again?
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I do really appreciate that it is a way that we get to still
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spend time together, even distance.
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By having a reason to come together, it means that we're
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making time for each other. If people are looking for a
24:52
secret sauce or a secret reason why we still do it, I think at
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the end of the day, that is really it is.
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It's an excuse for me to hang out with you guys.
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OK, so let's talk about some we get.
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To talk about the mall clown, we.
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Do get to talk about the mall clown.
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That's right. So to catch up listeners on what
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we did, as John inferred, I bought a VHS tape that was
25:21
essentially a recorded block of Saturday morning cartoons.
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And then when the VCR that I had didn't work, I meant I also had
25:30
to buy a VCR. But we got together and we
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watched some cartoons. There were some funny
25:38
commercials and stuff that Kai definitely wants to talk about.
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But essentially the shows that came on were King Arthur and the
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Knights of Justice, Captain Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog, Free
25:53
Willy. Sonic the Hedgehog.
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And reboot. Is that what we want to do?
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Do we want to like go in order or what do you guys want to talk
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about? Some of these I want to talk
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about. More than others.
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So I just say whatever we fancy. Maybe I don't know if this
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helps, but to just even say what are Saturday morning cartoons in
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the world of streaming and the previously cable TV?
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Like what is a Saturday morning cartoon?
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Sure. So back in the day.
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Back in a lot. Yeah, when we had to walk uphill
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both ways, the block of cartoons that networks purchased were
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relegated to Saturday mornings when kids didn't have school.
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It would be a long standing habitual viewing experience for
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kids to wake up first thing in the morning on Saturday and
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TuneIn and watch their cartoons. Overtime networks would develop
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that would do cartoons all the time, like Cartoon Network or
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Teletune. And a lot of these big networks
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also owned those or would see that they would be moving all
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the cartoons to be watchable at any time of day.
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And so they would eventually dissolve Saturday morning
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cartoons and replace it with sports.
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So it's something that's been gone now for quite some time.
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Chance and Kai, I honestly don't even know if you guys were alive
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when Saturday morning cartoons were a thing.
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But for the longest time, that was your cartoon block.
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And you knew that if you woke up on a Saturday morning, you could
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catch all the best shows or several good shows, then have to
27:37
watch Littlest Hobo and then more good shows after.
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So in this case, we got some shows that we were very familiar
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with and some shows that we weren't as familiar with.
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I don't think any of us had seen King Arthur and the Knights of
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Justice before. It was a bunch of football
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players that time traveled back to the Knights of the Round and
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they became King Arthur and all those famous Knights.
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And I mean, I have no nostalgia for this show, so I don't have a
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lot to talk about. Does anybody have anything that
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they want to say? It was weird up with Merlin.
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Was he just regular Merlin? I just thought it was really
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funny that it was just like. Oh yeah?
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What's up, dude bro? Merlin dude bro.
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Merlin. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, I would need dog poop moments just out of nowhere.
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And he was like, Merlin, don't kiss me on the cheek.
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What? Nobody was talking about kissing
28:46
you on the cheek. You just decided that that what
28:50
was happening. The other episode of TV that I
28:54
really have nothing that I want to talk about is tragically
28:57
reboot, because coincidentally the.
29:01
Exact same episode. I'm so infuriated by that.
29:04
When we did an episode based on reboot three years ago now, John
29:10
picked an episode where they turned the graphics down to be
29:14
really bad. I said in that episode I would
29:17
never watch that again, and lo and behold, we get one episode
29:22
on this VHS tape and it's that terrible episode.
29:26
Not only that, that is the final thing we get to watch that day.
29:31
That is true. We just.
29:32
Have to sit through it for no point.
29:35
When it said Next up reboot I was like oh wouldn't it be funny
29:38
if it was that stupid one we watched before?
29:41
And of course, it had to be all right, John.
29:45
You referenced it in an episode earlier this season.
29:49
Tell us about the Free Willy cartoon.
29:55
So earlier in the season we recorded Free Willy Show about
30:01
an orca slash killer whale and it's good friend.
30:05
What's Willy's human friend's name?
30:08
Is it Jesse so? The only difference between the
30:12
live action movie and the cartoon is that Jesse can
30:17
telepathically communicate with animals.
30:20
And also there's like robots and stuff, so.
30:24
No, no, no, the only. Difference.
30:27
Yeah, I seem to remember there being cyborgs in the original
30:32
movies. But anyways, this episode we got
30:37
to meet a giant eel. That was like irradiated by a
30:41
meteor or something or other radioactive chemicals.
30:46
So just like in the movie. We see this in another show that
30:50
we watched but trying to get some environmental messages into
30:55
kids programming. What show was that?
30:59
It might have something to do with Captain Planet.
31:03
He's a hero. Gonna take pollution down to 0.
31:08
Anyways, so this episode was about this giant Yale, who was
31:13
unfortunately made big by. You got the big kind of
31:17
pollution, which is really sad to see.
31:20
You hate to see a big eel that got the big juice.
31:23
The. Big juice.
31:25
You mean I could be. Never mind.
31:28
OK, moving up. Are you gonna?
31:30
Say. No, I thought, I thought you
31:33
were promoting steroids for a second.
31:36
Maybe I could have muscles, too. That's all I got on Free Willy.
31:39
Michael Jackson didn't even make an appearance.
31:42
Which is so sad because he played the orca in the other
31:45
movie so. You imagine the first movie was
31:53
inhumane, They couldn't get an orca, so every time Jessie's
31:57
just riding on Michael Jacksons back.
32:04
Willie Smoke opens up and at the back you can see Michaels.
32:11
Can you imagine? Here's a voice on the whale.
32:16
So John already mentioned we got Captain Planet a hero.
32:20
He's a hero. Captain Planet was gonna make an
32:23
appearance on this podcast at some point. 100% that was gonna
32:27
happen. So we got it out of the way here
32:30
and we had an episode where the kids fly around the world and
32:35
kidnap animals. Chance and Kai.
32:37
Had you guys ever seen Captain Planet before?
32:39
I had not I'm. Sure I have, baby.
32:42
It's perpetuated media so much that I've just threw osmosis.
32:46
Simply seen an episode. Sure there.
32:49
Is a set of characters from different regions that are
32:52
supposed to be, well, that a person from wherever would
32:55
identify with. But it was really strange
32:59
because the guy who was the American Wheeler, his character
33:02
was just that he was really annoying.
33:05
He was like the magic school bus.
33:07
What's the guy's name? The kid.
33:09
Yeah, it's funny that you should say that because you can pull up
33:12
some memes. Each of the Planeteers has a
33:16
member of the Magic School Bus that looks exactly like a
33:20
younger version of them. So the main cast of the Magic
33:24
School Bus is the same cast as in Captain Planet.
33:29
Yeah. I'm looking at fan theories that
33:32
Magic School Bus and Captain Planet have a shared universe.
33:36
Captain Planet is actually the bus.
33:37
Which villain does Miss Frizzle become?
33:41
Is she not Gaia? God of the Universe.
33:43
Nice try, She's that. Sorry God of anti pollution
33:47
propaganda. Thank you.
33:48
So for those who aren't familiar, Captain Planet is
33:51
about Mother Earth gathering a kid from each continent giving
33:56
them a power ring with some kind of elemental power.
33:59
When they combine all their they create a superhero called
34:04
Captain Planet whose blue skinned with green hair and they
34:08
go and stop pollution and environmental haters.
34:12
Bye, guys. So Captain Planet is meant to be
34:15
an avatar of the Earth, and the Earth is covered by mostly
34:19
water, which is presumably what his skin is supposed to be.
34:23
But that's why enemies or bad guys can hurt Captain Planet
34:27
with pollution. They are leveraging the strength
34:30
of the the Earth, but the Earth is fragile as well.
34:33
And so all of its propaganda that's meant to teach kids that
34:38
the Earth needs us as much as we need it, when Captain Planet
34:43
will come to their aid and help them when they need it,
34:46
Sometimes he needs them too. And then also sometimes the
34:50
episode's just about kidnapping animals.
34:53
That guy in that one, wasn't he making plastic water bottles?
34:57
How dare he? I'm imagining Adam West Batman
35:00
where everything's like pow bam and whatever and it's just
35:04
Captain Planet fighting a billowing thing of smoke.
35:07
Back and forth that vlog he does say in this episode, just call
35:11
me an old blowhard, no? I won't.
35:17
No, I won't. I refuse.
35:20
Tom Cruise was the original voice for Captain Planet, but he
35:24
dropped out after six episodes they rerecorded.
35:28
This episode felt weird because the objective of the episode was
35:32
never met. Yeah, like we need to get all
35:35
these animals back to their natural locations, and then they
35:38
didn't do that. I can't imagine that we're going
35:41
to come back to Captain Planet in a future episode, so I just
35:44
thought I'd share this funny anecdote.
35:46
I watched the Captain Planet episode a couple years back and
35:50
it's about this guy who's illiterate and one of the bad
35:55
guys tricks him into pesticide all over the crops.
36:01
He's got a whole warehouse full of toxic waste and they say
36:06
poisonous with a skull and crossbones on them.
36:09
But he takes a sticker of a happy apple and he sticks it
36:13
over the skull and crossbones so it says poison with this happy
36:18
apple. Later on the sticker comes off
36:21
and he's like Oh no it's poisonous.
36:24
Supposed to give you this messaging at the end like learn
36:27
how to read, stay in school, don't be an idiot who pours
36:30
chemicals on trees. But the bad guy could have put a
36:34
sticker over the word poisonous too, like.
36:38
The real problem is happy apples.
36:40
The real problem is that bad guy didn't have a printer that was
36:43
big enough to cover up the lettering too I guess.
36:47
Remember, kids never trust labels.
36:49
The toys for Captain Planet I guess had to be manufactured
36:52
using recycled and Earth friendly materials.
36:55
Oh, I did not even consider that.
36:58
That's pretty cool, actually. Yeah.
37:00
In a world where micro plastics are going to kill all of us,
37:04
it's nice to know that at. Least the captain.
37:06
Planet Toys didn't kill us. None of you eat them all.
37:09
If you eat the toys, those are macro plastics, not macro
37:13
plastics. And the last cartoon that we
37:17
watched was Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog.
37:22
Has a kicking theme song, although in retrospect is not
37:27
nearly as cool as I remembered it.
37:30
I don't know if you guys felt the same way, but in my head
37:33
cannon it was like a rock ballad.
37:36
I knew all the words to the song, but listening to it is
37:40
kind of folky. Like.
37:42
Someone on a banjo while this song is playing.
37:45
Not nearly as cool as my 8 year old brain has told me that it
37:50
was. But it is a good reminder that
37:52
he's the fastest thing alive. I never seen this episode, it
37:59
was about other Dragons in the world.
38:02
Yeah, I was glad that I had never seen this.
38:04
Before had you seen any episodes, Kai?
38:07
I'd seen the episodes of the other Sonic TV show that came
38:11
out around the same time. I'd not seen any of this show.
38:14
OK, yeah, this one. I'm sure that this show has some
38:17
better episodes, but boy am I wishing I saw the other Sonic
38:21
show you wish. Really.
38:23
You like the other Sonic show more?
38:25
I prefer the idea of the other Sonic show over that stupid
38:29
dragon. Oh.
38:31
Chili dogs. Hey kids, remember, don't do
38:33
drugs. Chili dogs.
38:35
I did not enjoy anything related to that stupid dragon.
38:39
It was that. So for our listeners in the
38:42
early 90s, Mario ruled the world.
38:45
There were statistics that Mario was more recognizable to Kids
38:52
Christ than Jesus or Mickey Mouse.
38:55
He was everywhere. And so when Sega started trying
39:00
to take over the market, they wanted to flood it with images
39:06
of Sonic the Hedgehog. Which means that they let 2
39:09
rival cartoon companies make completely different cartoons at
39:16
the same time just in an effort to see what stuck.
39:20
One of them was a very goofy slapstick show and the other one
39:25
was a very dark post apocalyptic one.
39:29
The post apocalyptic 1 was the one that John and I grew up with
39:33
and the one that we watched the episode of recently.
39:36
The content of this one was weird.
39:39
It was about finding Dragons out in the world and the dragon
39:43
character of the cast is very annoying on a good day.
39:47
So certainly not one of the better episodes, but but I would
39:51
take this show over the other show any day of the week.
39:55
You don't like scratching grounder?
39:57
I don't have issues with specific bad guys.
39:59
I don't like Doctor Robotnik or Doctor Robotnik's mom.
40:04
I do have an issue with Doctor Robotnik's mom, yes.
40:07
What personal grievances? You wouldn't hear me saying that
40:11
behind her back. She listens to the podcast,
40:14
she'll hear it. I think there was an episode of
40:17
the other Sonic the Hedgehog show where they kidnapped Sonic
40:20
the Hedgehog and whenever Child Protective Services would show
40:24
up they would make the prison look like a bedroom and I'm
40:27
getting flashbacks to that right now.
40:30
Yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog was really weird early on because
40:33
all they knew was they had a video game about a blue thing
40:37
that ran fast. In the original Sonic Bible,
40:40
Robotnik was his dad and all kinds of weird messiness Sonic
40:47
went to. Drum circles and hung out with
40:49
moms who knit. Yeah.
40:51
That's straight from the Sonic Bible.
40:53
That is true. Also, Robotnik was used with an
40:56
egg and that's why he's Doctor Eggman.
40:58
Also true. John, do you have any feelings
41:02
about the Sonic episode we watched?
41:04
It just got me excited about Sonics groupies.
41:07
I hadn't seen them in a really long time.
41:10
Yeah, actually, our readers would not know this, but growing
41:13
up my dad would often get us the old Archie Sonic cartoons.
41:18
And so I grew up with those for a long time.
41:20
And so it was cool to. See characters.
41:23
The Acorn. Acorn.
41:25
The big seal whose name's Elude. Roder, Roboni.
41:29
Roboni. Antoine, who was I think my
41:32
favorite character. Yeah, it was cool to see them.
41:35
I like shows will come out like Sonic Boom which do really well,
41:38
but they kind of stick to the troop of Sonic Knuckles Amy, so
41:42
it was cool to see them again. Did anybody want to talk about
41:46
the stuff that we watched that wasn't a cartoon?
41:48
Yes, I do. The first.
41:50
Ad I want to talk about was this thing called Auction 95.
41:54
With a name like that, you would assume it's an auction in the
41:58
year 1995. I say you would assume because
42:02
we still don't know what it is. The advertisement itself was
42:06
people running on the beach, nonsensical video footage.
42:11
You could have told me that those were ads for anything.
42:14
Yeah, our advertisements were made for locals, so we would get
42:18
things like kids specs, which we didn't exist.
42:23
It is not on the Internet. Kids specs sounds like the
42:25
coolest thing ever went out of business and I could tell you
42:28
nothing else about it. Well, any place where you can
42:31
get your eyewear, your glasses, but also it's got a carnival and
42:35
stuff. It's.
42:36
An arcade. Coolest idea ever.
42:38
Because optometrist. Anything mixed with an arcade is
42:41
better. Sorry to all of our optometrist
42:43
listeners. I didn't mean about the people,
42:45
I meant the building. Our viewership goes down to 0.
42:49
Turns out all along all of our listeners were optometrists.
42:54
Oh, the Eggo ad. There is an ad where this kid
42:56
really wants to get an Eggo waffle.
42:58
So what he does is he rotates A skyscraper 45° so that the Eggo
43:04
waffle will fall out of a window.
43:06
I just miss old commercials. I think they were just so random
43:11
and over the top. We had commercials for Polly
43:15
Pocket. It was Polly Pocket for Barbie.
43:18
At the Lifesavers Gummies commercial.
43:21
That one was a. There's a.
43:22
Commercial for cereal, in which an old lady got really close to
43:26
the camera and it just felt so. 90s in the 90s they were trying
43:30
to make a commercial look cool. They'd zoom up to an old
43:33
person's nostrils. That was just a thing they.
43:35
Did that's what cool people do? 1 ticket to Elmo please.
43:44
Great call back. Great call back.
43:46
Respect. Good.
43:47
Thank you. Thank you.
43:48
It also invites me of back when we used to have to watch
43:51
commercials, you'd watch the same commercials over and over
43:55
and over again in a short period of time.
43:58
I've got on here. It just says make the right
44:01
choice. And I feel like that was
44:03
probably around 40% of the commercials don't do this thing.
44:07
I don't know John, I feel like you could experience another
44:11
viewing session where you just watch the same commercials over
44:14
and over again by maybe trying to watch a video online that
44:19
just tells you about the same Walmart gum commercial.
44:23
Oh my goodness. That was the chipmunk adventure,
44:26
I think. Yeah, if you watch it in the
44:28
website the daily. Chanted on an ad blocker so he
44:31
was safe. We weren't.
44:33
Yeah, I watched it on Internet Archive.
44:35
Kylin, you made reference to kids shouldn't do yes, accuracy.
44:45
Is fear mongering. If you have too many cigarettes,
44:49
you'll get all cold and then your head will explode.
44:53
One of the ads we got beep for beep, we talked about the mall
44:56
demon. We have to.
44:58
We kept getting this ad for the Mill Creek Mall in which it
45:02
would show you the shots of the mall and tell you about the mall
45:06
and then a gesture would sneak on.
45:11
Screen he would materialize next to your son's bed while a child
45:16
is. Asleep.
45:17
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Stephen King, base Pennywise
45:21
the Clown on the Mill Creek demon.
45:24
Yeah, you know on YouTube now for people to find old lost
45:29
footage. So please, if you're out there
45:31
and you're really into lost footage, please find us the Mill
45:33
Creek Mall Demon and anything about kids.
45:37
Max We. Got an?
45:38
Ad that lasted. 15 minutes. It was all about driving safety.
45:43
In my notes it says Club 24. I love Club 24.
45:55
It's. Awesome club 24 was a wild ride.
45:58
Did they start this off doing exercises?
46:01
Which was? Great.
46:03
I think to clarify it was local programming for kids, the
46:07
quality disc. 0. These things were recorded in a
46:11
church basement or something, Yeah.
46:14
No use of any kind of editing software or program.
46:16
The Club 24 video had people doing exercises, but my favorite
46:21
section was this part where they had these puppets, and they did
46:24
not try to disguise the fact that they were controlled by
46:28
adult people at all. And the video would go, let's do
46:31
some safety work. I'm gonna do something, and
46:34
you're gonna tell me what's not right.
46:36
And it lasted so long. But at one point in time, he
46:40
brought in a baby. And it looked like a real.
46:43
Human. Baby for a couple.
46:45
Seconds I've got in my notes here it just says bringing a
46:48
baby to pocket land. It was so good.
46:52
Why do you think it's called Club 24?
46:54
4 hours a day. Ohh yeah.
46:56
I'm at Google club 24. That's a joke.
46:59
Sorry, I can't. Tell if you're typing or falling
47:02
down the stairs. OK, well does anybody have
47:07
anything else they want to add about the Saturday morning
47:10
cartoons? There's a part of me that feels
47:13
like when I was a kid I had so much more thick skinned for
47:15
commercials. Nowadays I'm like, oh, 30
47:18
seconds. I can't bear this.
47:20
But it was like hour or two of watching this.
47:22
I'm like, no, commercials are bad, but this is terrible.
47:25
It's crazy to me you pay for satellite and then half the
47:29
watch time is ads. If you tried to do that today
47:32
you'd get laughed out of the room because it's insane.
47:34
Who would want to? It's only a third of the time.
47:38
Thank you very much. When TiVo came out and you could
47:42
Fast forward through commercials, that was mind
47:45
boggling. Yes, there was a button on
47:48
remote controls that had skipped forward 30 seconds and if you
47:52
double tapped it you could skip forward 2 1/2 minutes so it
47:58
would skip to the end of the commercials.
48:01
That button was a game changer for recorded TV.
48:05
I also feel like Chance was talking about what we could
48:08
tolerate when we were younger. As a kid, I tolerate any show
48:12
that came on TV. If you were watching Saturday
48:15
morning, it didn't matter if there was one good show and then
48:18
four bad shows and then one good show.
48:20
You just kept on trucking through all the bad shows.
48:23
Yeah, let's see. Get YouTube Kids today watching
48:26
Scubby toilet. Kyle, that's primetime.
48:28
What are you talking about? So that is our 50th episode
48:34
celebration. I can't imagine that we'll make
48:37
it another 50, but I couldn't imagine that we would make it to
48:40
this fifty. So who knows what the future has
48:43
in store. We have two more episodes left
48:46
this season and for our keeners who like to watch alongside us
48:51
and be prepped for the next episode.
48:54
Our next episode is a double feature based on the Ewok movies
49:00
Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor.
49:04
Has anyone seen any of these movies?
49:07
We watched the animated Ewok shows.
49:10
Yeah, OK. That is not what this is.
49:13
I don't know. Kylan, unfortunately, is not.
49:16
I have fond memories for some of the stuff in some of these
49:19
movies. John, do you have anything that
49:21
you'd like to warn them about or prep them for before jumping
49:25
into these? Yes, I have some repressed
49:27
nostalgia for giant spiders because of these movies.
49:31
There is a giant fighter and caravan of courage, that is
49:35
true. I find the repressed nostalgia
49:38
title really funny because it implies that it's still
49:41
nostalgia. It's just like you don't want to
49:42
think about that. Can we go back to the good old
49:45
days when I was terrified of fighting?
49:49
All right, lookout for weirdos. Praise Beethoven.
49:52
Praise Beethoven and adventure, Jamie Adventure.
49:58
Sorry this is my. That's allotted.
50:04
This is not breaking. Go for it.
50:06
Grandma. That is what your purpose is
50:10
here. We're getting a lot of work out
50:13
of that witches episode. I mean, it was the best movie
50:17
that we watched or something. It's true.
50:19
Yeah, statistically. Don't forget to breathe.
50:22
Oh my goodness. I don't forget to breathe.
50:27
I forgot to breathe in and out. It happened to me.
50:30
Forget to breathe in and out. Here we go.
50:34
I want to hear that voice clip again because I know that the
50:37
thing that I'm doing sounds nothing like it, but.
50:40
I don't know which direction is the all right.
50:43
Well, I hope we don't hit an iceberg.
50:46
Isn't this episode coming out before the other?
50:49
One no, that's a. Callback now.
50:52
That's a callback now. Chance you're going to give your
50:54
18 lines from that movie.