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- 0:18Speaker 1: Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
- 0:21Speaker 1: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
- 0:23Speaker 1: by the lady who wishes that the March Madness Tournament
- 0:27Speaker 1: never existed so she wouldn't have to be put through
- 0:30Speaker 1: these podcasts. It's my co host, Lindsay.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not the most wonderful time of the year.
- 0:36Speaker 1: It is the greatest time of the year. You have
- 0:38Speaker 1: baseball starting, you have the NCAA Tournament, Masters hockey seasons
- 0:44Speaker 1: in full force. It's just you know, I just survived
- 0:47Speaker 1: football season. Yeah, and now you get to jump right
- 0:52Speaker 1: into March Madness.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Yep, here we go. But guess what, lucky me.
- 0:56Speaker 1: What we're not doing it alone.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Well that's the only good part here.
- 1:01Speaker 1: So we have three guests. Let me introduce them all
- 1:04Speaker 1: the way from the State of Cheese and Beer. It's
- 1:10Speaker 1: our buddy James from Bad Movies Rule James. How you
- 1:12Speaker 1: doing great?
- 1:14Speaker 3: And I'm enjoying a spotted cow right now, which you
- 1:16Speaker 3: only get in Wisconsin.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Well, there you go, here you go.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Wait, okay, wait, what's a spotted cow?
- 1:22Speaker 3: All see, it's a new Glarius beer that people drive
- 1:26Speaker 3: to Wisconsin to get because they don't sell it out
- 1:28Speaker 3: of state. It's delicious.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Ow okay, yes, and.
- 1:32Speaker 3: We just gave him a free commercial and I'm totally
- 1:33Speaker 3: fine with it.
- 1:37Speaker 4: Well.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Also joining us from your rival state, the state of
- 1:44Speaker 1: the Land of ten Thousand Lakes. It's our buddy Brad
- 1:47Speaker 1: from Pop Culture Yearbook Hell.
- 1:50Speaker 4: And I can vouch everything he just said. One of
- 1:52Speaker 4: the there's not a lot of good about Wisconsin, but
- 1:54Speaker 4: one of the better things is a spotted cow. And
- 1:56Speaker 4: I just had one on tap the other day when
- 1:57Speaker 4: I was in Eau Claire. Wow, come on, man, oh Claire.
- 2:03Speaker 4: Isn't that where your godfather grew her father's from Claire?
- 2:07Speaker 2: Oh?
- 2:07Speaker 4: Wow?
- 2:09Speaker 1: And then finally all the way from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
- 2:15Speaker 1: the Keystone State, it's our buddy Justin from pop Culture Reflections, Justin.
- 2:20Speaker 1: How you doing good?
- 2:22Speaker 5: I'm good. It's cold up here. I don't have any
- 2:26Speaker 5: any beer related to cows or otherwise, but I'm happy
- 2:29Speaker 5: to be here.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Do you have some snow right now?
- 2:32Speaker 5: I do have some snow. Yes, I don't have as
- 2:34Speaker 5: much snow as the New England States and Jersey aside
- 2:36Speaker 5: of me, but we have snow.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Well, Justin, you are joining Brad tonight in a very
- 2:43Speaker 1: special club. As far as I know, you two are
- 2:47Speaker 1: the only members. So let me give you a little
- 2:49Speaker 1: something here.
- 2:50Speaker 6: Listen, welcome to the Five Timers Club.
- 2:56Speaker 4: So we're here to present you with your very own
- 2:58Speaker 4: five Timers jacket.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Congratulators.
- 3:03Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't realize that tonight.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Yeah, justin James, so funny.
- 3:14Speaker 4: That would be a good price.
- 3:18Speaker 1: So before we get started here about what we're doing,
- 3:21Speaker 1: I just I have to bring something up because James,
- 3:23Speaker 1: you brought it up the other day to me and
- 3:25Speaker 1: said thank you, and Brad proving that Minnesota and Wisconsin
- 3:30Speaker 1: can get along. Brad said it last week as well.
- 3:34Speaker 1: Neither both of you were on my side. Neither one
- 3:36Speaker 1: of you get the Blues Brothers.
- 3:37Speaker 3: No, I was so happy when I heard you say
- 3:40Speaker 3: that in the episode because I've always felt like an outsider,
- 3:43Speaker 3: like I should get this and I don't. I don't
- 3:46Speaker 3: get it.
- 3:47Speaker 4: I was shocked when you said it because I thought
- 3:49Speaker 4: you were a fan. But it made me happy too.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I am not justin what about you?
- 3:55Speaker 5: No, never really appealed to me.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Oh look, look, five of us we're in solidarity tonight,
- 4:03Speaker 1: and I'll go a step further and even say, I
- 4:05Speaker 1: don't get the Jim Belushi thing either.
- 4:07Speaker 3: I've never seen him as this comedic genius that he's
- 4:09Speaker 3: touted on.
- 4:10Speaker 5: I'm with you. I'm with you on it.
- 4:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I he's good at Animal House, but I don't know.
- 4:17Speaker 4: Seems very overrated to me. But I'm a little younger
- 4:19Speaker 4: from when he was Diggs, so who knows.
- 4:22Speaker 1: You know, Yeah I didn't. I wasn't there in that heyday.
- 4:25Speaker 1: But but yeah, I don't really get it either. So hey,
- 4:29Speaker 1: what a great way to start off the show. And
- 4:32Speaker 1: he can't get better.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Than the Like I know, Canadians have had a hard week,
- 4:38Speaker 3: so I don't want to be hard on dan Aykroy,
- 4:40Speaker 3: another Canadian I just lost to the US at hockey.
- 4:43Speaker 3: We're gonna rename it ice football. I know they're not
- 4:45Speaker 3: happy about that, but gotta be nice to him.
- 4:50Speaker 1: We can't get any better than this. I think we
- 4:51Speaker 1: should get end the show right here. It's a perfect show.
- 4:55Speaker 5: Bye, folks.
- 4:57Speaker 4: That's all, folks.
- 4:58Speaker 1: For those of you that don't know. Year, in honor
- 5:00Speaker 1: of March Madness, we did a sixty four bracket TV
- 5:07Speaker 1: theme song tournament and.
- 5:08Speaker 2: It lasted sixty four episode.
- 5:11Speaker 1: It was pretty long, we're going to make this season
- 5:14Speaker 1: a lot shorter because we're going to go through three
- 5:16Speaker 1: rounds tonight. But the winner, of course, was Cheers, as
- 5:20Speaker 1: we all knew. I have a feeling I know what
- 5:23Speaker 1: the winner is going to be this year, but I'm
- 5:24Speaker 1: not going to say it out loud. I'll write it
- 5:26Speaker 1: down for you, Lindsey, and you can look at it
- 5:28Speaker 1: after the show. But I didn't think I asked you
- 5:34Speaker 1: guys for four picks for the top four seeds, and
- 5:39Speaker 1: everybody kept coming back with at least one of the
- 5:41Speaker 1: same thing. And I'm not going to say what it was,
- 5:43Speaker 1: but I was shocked because I was like, man, I
- 5:45Speaker 1: love that, but I didn't think that other people did,
- 5:48Speaker 1: and they do, so it's pretty cool. But what we'll
- 5:50Speaker 1: be doing, guys, is we have a one bracket. We
- 5:53Speaker 1: have sixteen cartoon theme songs. That's our thing this year.
- 5:59Speaker 1: We're doing cartoon theme songs and we're gonna vote on
- 6:03Speaker 1: those in the first round. We'll listen to the songs,
- 6:06Speaker 1: we'll talk about them, we'll vote in the first round,
- 6:08Speaker 1: and then second and third round will just be pretty
- 6:10Speaker 1: quick votes and your justification and all that. But before
- 6:14Speaker 1: we get to that, if just looking over the bracket.
- 6:18Speaker 1: What are some of your thoughts and we'll go youngest
- 6:23Speaker 1: to oldest, So I'll start justin you go first.
- 6:26Speaker 5: So when you approached me about this, I was kind
- 6:29Speaker 5: of excited at first about the idea because I loved
- 6:32Speaker 5: cartoons as a kid. Now, I was born in eighty one,
- 6:34Speaker 5: so some of the early eighties didn't really appeal to me,
- 6:37Speaker 5: but late eighties and then some of those that ran
- 6:39Speaker 5: in syndication or whatever. I was a big part of
- 6:42Speaker 5: my childhood growing up. But I've told the story on
- 6:44Speaker 5: my show. Was a big horror kid too, so after
- 6:47Speaker 5: a while I stopped watching cartoons. So it was funny
- 6:50Speaker 5: before we hit record when Brad was talking about he
- 6:52Speaker 5: hasn't seen a lot of these, I kind of feel
- 6:55Speaker 5: the same. There are some of these I have seen,
- 6:56Speaker 5: maybe even an episode.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Here and there, but.
- 7:01Speaker 5: A lot of them I either haven't seen or maybe
- 7:03Speaker 5: are just somewhat familiar with. But so I think more
- 7:07Speaker 5: than anything, I was taken aback by the list and
- 7:10Speaker 5: not really being as familiar with them as what I
- 7:12Speaker 5: thought it was going to be coming into this.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Yeah, well, in fairness, you know, there were a lot
- 7:18Speaker 1: of cartoons in the eighties and a lot of us
- 7:21Speaker 1: did not watch all of them, and I'm included, and
- 7:25Speaker 1: I'm the oldest one on this panel. And there are
- 7:27Speaker 1: a bunch on this list that I didn't watch that
- 7:30Speaker 1: I just had to listen to the song and go, okay,
- 7:32Speaker 1: I think I might remember this, but I didn't really
- 7:35Speaker 1: watch it. So James' thoughts.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's seated pretty well. There's some that
- 7:42Speaker 3: I'm very happy to see on here. I think there's
- 7:45Speaker 3: going to be at least a couple of upsets, and
- 7:49Speaker 3: specifically there's one that I thought, well, for sure, he
- 7:52Speaker 3: won't have this one on here, this is too deep
- 7:54Speaker 3: of a cut, But here it is today, So I'm
- 7:57Speaker 3: very excited.
- 7:58Speaker 4: All right.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Well, when we get to that, you'll have to let
- 8:00Speaker 1: me know what the deep cut was. But I'm glad
- 8:02Speaker 1: to hear that. Lindsey, you are next in the on
- 8:06Speaker 1: the age thing here.
- 8:07Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous about this episode.
- 8:10Speaker 7: I hate to look like the verbial girl of the group,
- 8:15Speaker 7: but I feel like these are boy centric cartoons and
- 8:19Speaker 7: I just don't know a lot about them.
- 8:22Speaker 2: I'm gonna limp my way through and do the best
- 8:24Speaker 2: I can.
- 8:25Speaker 1: So we have some girl centric cartoons on here. You
- 8:30Speaker 1: do realize that, right.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Not many we have.
- 8:33Speaker 1: They were the ones I watched, and you know what,
- 8:38Speaker 1: here's what's funny. One of them actually got votes and
- 8:41Speaker 1: is a seeded song here. So, uh, Brad, what what
- 8:46Speaker 1: are your thoughts?
- 8:48Speaker 4: First of all, I guess I'm pretty old, huh for
- 8:50Speaker 4: going in age order, Greth?
- 8:52Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you are the second oldest. I am the oldest.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Yeah a long shot.
- 8:57Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you, can you tell us did
- 8:59Speaker 4: you see these your or how did you do the seeding?
- 9:01Speaker 4: That's what I'd like to know first.
- 9:03Speaker 1: So what I did was there are twelve people that
- 9:05Speaker 1: I reached out to and I said, give me four
- 9:09Speaker 1: songs that you think should be the top four seeds.
- 9:13Speaker 1: And so everybody, or most everybody sent stuff in. And
- 9:18Speaker 1: what I did was I took the votes and I
- 9:20Speaker 1: seeded them like they would in the NCAA tournaments. Whoever
- 9:23Speaker 1: had the most votes was the number one seed, two seeds,
- 9:25Speaker 1: so on, and then I tried to even those out
- 9:29Speaker 1: in the four different brackets. And so that's how we
- 9:35Speaker 1: did the seeding. And then from there I had to
- 9:38Speaker 1: find a way to split up the rest and so
- 9:41Speaker 1: I tried to take cartoons that were somewhat alike, like
- 9:44Speaker 1: this is technically the aliens and Robots region, even though
- 9:48Speaker 1: we don't have aliens and robots in the top four
- 9:51Speaker 1: seeds because they were you know, seated. And then each
- 9:56Speaker 1: of the other brackets had the same thing, where I
- 9:59Speaker 1: just tried to make them somewhat similar to find a
- 10:02Speaker 1: way too, you know.
- 10:05Speaker 3: So then can I ask one more question? If this
- 10:08Speaker 3: is the alien and robot region, where's Transformers? Well, Transformers,
- 10:13Speaker 3: Transformers is a top four seed and I could not
- 10:16Speaker 3: fit it into this bracket because I think it was
- 10:20Speaker 3: you know, it was one of the higher seeds.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Gotcha, those are aliens and robots. Yes, so I would
- 10:26Speaker 1: have loved to have gotten it here. But the way
- 10:30Speaker 1: I did the top four seeds or the top sixteen seeds,
- 10:32Speaker 1: I just went across the board and then back like
- 10:35Speaker 1: a snake draft, and so Transformers did not make it
- 10:39Speaker 1: over here.
- 10:41Speaker 4: All right. Well, my reaction to the seeding here is
- 10:44Speaker 4: I think you did a fine job, which I know
- 10:46Speaker 4: you would because you're always, you know, very analytical about things,
- 10:50Speaker 4: especially at that bottom of the list. I think the
- 10:52Speaker 4: last few were definitely the lowest seeds were right where
- 10:55Speaker 4: they belonged. There was one song that I thought was
- 10:59Speaker 4: maybe underseat and one that I thought was overseated. But
- 11:02Speaker 4: that's about it. It was pretty pretty good.
- 11:04Speaker 1: And I'm assuming that you will let me know when
- 11:09Speaker 1: we get.
- 11:09Speaker 4: To that probably. I mean, I'm not supposed to use
- 11:12Speaker 4: names right now, I'm guessing, but yeah, or shall I Well, why.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Don't you just go right ahead, just jump on it.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Well, the one I thought was a little underseated that
- 11:23Speaker 4: really caught me when I was listening was Defenders of
- 11:25Speaker 4: the Earth. Okay, And the one that I thought was
- 11:29Speaker 4: pretty terrible and was ranked way too high with super Friends. Oh,
- 11:34Speaker 4: I'm gonna get in trouble already here, but.
- 11:36Speaker 1: You are hurting my heart with the super Friends. The
- 11:39Speaker 1: super Friends didn't get a vote, that's why they're seated
- 11:42Speaker 1: where they are. And Defenders of the Earth. Is that
- 11:45Speaker 1: what you said? Yeah, they did not get a vote,
- 11:47Speaker 1: so that's why they're seated where they are.
- 11:52Speaker 6: Are.
- 11:52Speaker 4: Overall, very good. Seems seemed very accurate from my opinion. Anyway.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. Are you guys ready to get
- 12:00Speaker 1: to it? Absolutely all right, James. I love the fact
- 12:04Speaker 1: that you're on here this year because when I invited
- 12:06Speaker 1: you and said, hey, would you be interested in this,
- 12:08Speaker 1: and you said yes, I would as long as you
- 12:11Speaker 1: don't mind that I argue this like it's the most
- 12:14Speaker 1: important decision that's ever been made.
- 12:17Speaker 4: Guilty.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Yeah, So I love that. So I'm ready to hear
- 12:21Speaker 1: the fireworks.
- 12:22Speaker 3: So I just apologize in advance. I really like all
- 12:24Speaker 3: of you.
- 12:24Speaker 4: It's not personal, and I will probably just back down
- 12:29Speaker 4: to whatever you say because my opinions aren't going to
- 12:31Speaker 4: be that strong tonight.
- 12:34Speaker 5: I concur.
- 12:36Speaker 1: Oh, Justin, come on, you've got to have strong opinions.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I wish I did, but you're gonna hear all about it.
- 12:41Speaker 1: I just don't connect to a lot of this, so
- 12:43Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try to have fun with it.
- 12:45Speaker 5: I'll do what I do.
- 12:46Speaker 4: After hearing last years, I'm sure both me and Justin
- 12:48Speaker 4: will have some pretty strong opinions at some point come out,
- 12:50Speaker 4: of course.
- 12:52Speaker 1: All right, So here we go. Our first match up
- 12:54Speaker 1: is the one seed versus the sixteen seed. Our one
- 12:58Speaker 1: seed is GI Joe and our sixteen seed is Centurions.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Here is g I Joe.
- 13:07Speaker 6: You Joe'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble.
- 13:13Speaker 3: G I Joe is.
- 13:14Speaker 5: There G I Joe.
- 13:16Speaker 1: G I Joe is there.
- 13:20Speaker 5: G I Joe against Cobra of the enemy, fighting to.
- 13:24Speaker 8: Save the day.
- 13:25Speaker 3: He never can suck.
- 13:26Speaker 1: He's always there fighting for freedom over London here. G okay,
- 13:36Speaker 1: G I Joe. Who watched G I Joe? Anybody?
- 13:41Speaker 3: I did?
- 13:42Speaker 4: All right?
- 13:43Speaker 3: It was a big, a big eighties cartoon. But I
- 13:46Speaker 3: was not a big G I Joe.
- 13:47Speaker 1: Kid in either, all right, justin Uh, why don't you
- 13:51Speaker 1: tell me your thoughts on G I Joe.
- 13:52Speaker 5: Well, let me preface it by saying, uh, I wasn't
- 13:55Speaker 5: kidding when Lindsey talked about these being male centric shows.
- 13:59Speaker 5: I've talked on my show a lot about I didn't
- 14:01Speaker 5: really have a father figure. I don't mean to go deep. Everybody,
- 14:04Speaker 5: calm down. I'm not gonna get this all depressive in here.
- 14:08Speaker 5: But listen. I so I was always like into like
- 14:12Speaker 5: Hannah Barbera and like the more you know, fun fantasy
- 14:15Speaker 5: type flicks, you know, characters, whether it be the smurf
- 14:19Speaker 5: stuff like that. That was just my wheelhouse as a kid.
- 14:22Speaker 5: So a lot of these I didn't watch. However, whatever
- 14:24Speaker 5: it was about G I Joe, I did connect with
- 14:26Speaker 5: this one. There's a couple action cartoons in this list
- 14:30Speaker 5: that I did watch, and this was one of them.
- 14:32Speaker 5: There was something I liked about the characters that kind
- 14:34Speaker 5: of dug the whole real American heroes versus Cobra thing.
- 14:38Speaker 5: I was kind of all in, and I remember as
- 14:39Speaker 5: a kid really loving the theme song, so I thought,
- 14:43Speaker 5: and I'm pretty sure this was one I sent to you, Jim,
- 14:46Speaker 5: And then again I hadn't listened to it and forever,
- 14:48Speaker 5: so listening back to it, it's quite cheesy. It's obviously
- 14:53Speaker 5: it's identifiable. It takes me right back to that time.
- 14:56Speaker 5: But I would say when it comes to theme songs
- 14:59Speaker 5: happening at the number one seed, it seems a little
- 15:02Speaker 5: high to me for the song because I just didn't
- 15:04Speaker 5: think it was that great. Great in hindsight, but overall
- 15:08Speaker 5: it's still very identifiable. It's it's one of those ones
- 15:12Speaker 5: that has to be I think in the argument for
- 15:15Speaker 5: this era at least, it's just not. It just doesn't
- 15:17Speaker 5: hold up well for me.
- 15:18Speaker 4: That's what I'll say about that.
- 15:20Speaker 1: Okay, James, you said you didn't really watch GI Joe.
- 15:24Speaker 4: I watched it a little bit.
- 15:25Speaker 3: I dabbled. I was a Joe dabbler. You know, I
- 15:30Speaker 3: was well aware of them. I had a few of
- 15:32Speaker 3: the toys, but I was far more into you know,
- 15:36Speaker 3: the he Man and those types of things that G I.
- 15:40Speaker 3: Joe was like a mid level cartoon. I think it's
- 15:43Speaker 3: a good theme song. It's catchy. Everyone knows, at least
- 15:46Speaker 3: I don't. Again, and people said this earlier, how much
- 15:48Speaker 3: of a song some of these are, But the G
- 15:51Speaker 3: I Joe is iconic.
- 15:53Speaker 4: It's iconic, yeah, rad same, yeah, very iconic, very recognizable.
- 15:59Speaker 4: Side watch much of the show. But like I knew
- 16:02Speaker 4: the song and I know the show. It's one of
- 16:03Speaker 4: those that all my friends either had or played with.
- 16:07Speaker 4: I might have even had one once, I don't know.
- 16:10Speaker 3: So it's pretty good.
- 16:11Speaker 4: It starts a theme with a lot of these songs
- 16:13Speaker 4: where there's a part or in some cases it's the
- 16:16Speaker 4: whole song where it just explains the show to you.
- 16:19Speaker 4: So you've got the GI Joe part, but then it
- 16:21Speaker 4: also tells you what you need to know. And I'd
- 16:24Speaker 4: like that they get through a little quicker here than
- 16:26Speaker 4: some of the other ones. So it's a good mix,
- 16:28Speaker 4: and it's just it's iconic compared to a lot of
- 16:30Speaker 4: the other ones.
- 16:31Speaker 1: So all right, Uh, Lindsey, any thoughts on this If
- 16:36Speaker 1: it was iconic?
- 16:37Speaker 7: I guess I just I guess I slept through it.
- 16:40Speaker 7: I guess I missed it obviously. I mean, I know
- 16:42Speaker 7: what a Gi Joe is, but I never watched the cartoon.
- 16:46Speaker 7: I think preparing for this podcast was the first time
- 16:49Speaker 7: I heard the Gi Joe theme song. I found it
- 16:53Speaker 7: humorous how he's kind of like speaking singing the words,
- 16:58Speaker 7: and he's a little off key and a little off bead,
- 17:00Speaker 7: and so I mean, I guess Gi Joe wasn't a musician.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I'm just happy that you prepared for the podcast, because
- 17:08Speaker 1: I fully expected to get on here and you go, yeah,
- 17:10Speaker 1: I didn't listen to any of these and this is
- 17:12Speaker 1: the first time I'm listening to them.
- 17:13Speaker 2: I've done that before.
- 17:15Speaker 1: So Gi Joe, I'm kind of like James and Brad.
- 17:18Speaker 1: It was on in the background, it was on when
- 17:20Speaker 1: I got off school. I feel like this was more
- 17:23Speaker 1: a show for my brothers. But I did remember the
- 17:26Speaker 1: the theme song. I do think it's one of those earworms.
- 17:29Speaker 1: It just kind of sticks in your head. So I
- 17:33Speaker 1: wasn't a huge fan of the cartoon, but I am
- 17:35Speaker 1: kind of a fan of the song, So we'll see
- 17:38Speaker 1: how the voting goes. Our number sixteen seed Centurions.
- 17:42Speaker 9: In the near future, Doc Terror and his cipher companion
- 17:45Speaker 9: Hacker unleash their courses to conquer Earth. Only one course
- 17:51Speaker 9: can stop this evil, a handful of brave men, especially
- 17:55Speaker 9: created extra brains. They can be transported anywhere.
- 18:00Speaker 6: Q's with incredible.
- 18:01Speaker 8: Assault weapons systems being done from the space station, Skybot
- 18:06Speaker 8: becoming man and machine power extreme.
- 18:12Speaker 1: All right, that one was a little, uh, a little intense.
- 18:17Speaker 1: All right, Lindsay, I'll start with you.
- 18:18Speaker 7: Oh wow, Okay, I never heard of the Centurions. I
- 18:22Speaker 7: did enjoy his booming voice. I felt like that voice
- 18:26Speaker 7: should have been what g I Joe's voice sounded like.
- 18:30Speaker 7: So it told the story and it helped me understand.
- 18:34Speaker 2: But I don't care.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, I'm glad you don't care about your own podcasts?
- 18:42Speaker 2: Do you care about the podcast?
- 18:44Speaker 7: I don't care about the Centurions, all right, Brad.
- 18:50Speaker 4: I'm with Lindsay. I don't care about them either. I've
- 18:52Speaker 4: never heard of this show, and this is the perfect
- 18:55Speaker 4: example of this isn't a song. This is just a
- 18:58Speaker 4: guy talking and you can barely even music behind it, right, yeah,
- 19:03Speaker 4: but there's no singing at any point, and it's this one.
- 19:08Speaker 4: I described this as the T mood G I Joe.
- 19:10Speaker 4: It's just like the crap version and there's nothing there.
- 19:13Speaker 1: So the T move Al James, what do you think
- 19:18Speaker 1: about the T move?
- 19:19Speaker 3: G Come on, there's music in there. You didn't hear?
- 19:25Speaker 3: Like behind the guy's much better voice over, I thought
- 19:28Speaker 3: than the G I Joe guy. I was kind of
- 19:30Speaker 3: getting into this opening. I remember watching it and I'm like,
- 19:32Speaker 3: all right, they got mech suit, so that's cool. Are
- 19:35Speaker 3: those monkeys in the cockpit of a spaceship?
- 19:39Speaker 4: What?
- 19:39Speaker 3: I want to watch this cartoon? I've never heard of
- 19:42Speaker 3: it before, but if the intro is supposed to get
- 19:44Speaker 3: you into it, it did the job. Also, the names are cool.
- 19:49Speaker 3: I just one time in an eighties cartoon want the
- 19:51Speaker 3: guy that's named ace McLeod to be in charge of
- 19:53Speaker 3: like the water stuff and not like he's the flying guy.
- 19:57Speaker 3: His name is ace McLoud, so that's a little on
- 19:59Speaker 3: the nose, But otherwise I thought that thing was pretty
- 20:02Speaker 3: dang good.
- 20:03Speaker 5: All right, justin Yeah. So I didn't know this was
- 20:08Speaker 5: a show either. However, I did have these action figures
- 20:11Speaker 5: and I know this because when I watched the clip,
- 20:14Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my gosh, this was actually a show.
- 20:17Speaker 5: I used to stick shit in their holes.
- 20:21Speaker 4: Not literal shit, but more stuff.
- 20:24Speaker 5: I stuck stuff in their holes, and I don't know
- 20:27Speaker 5: what it was for, but I just found anything I
- 20:28Speaker 5: could find around my room and stuck the things in
- 20:31Speaker 5: the hole. So that was pretty cool.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Okay, okay, where were there what holes?
- 20:35Speaker 3: I've got questions.
- 20:36Speaker 5: If you pay attention to these guys suits, they got
- 20:39Speaker 5: little holes in them. I'm telling you. The action figures
- 20:41Speaker 5: had holes in them. I think you were supposed to
- 20:43Speaker 5: stick weapons in or something, but I just stuck random
- 20:45Speaker 5: stuff in it. It was a lot of fun. That's
- 20:47Speaker 5: all I know about these things. But what I will
- 20:50Speaker 5: say about the theme song, it's stupid.
- 20:51Speaker 4: Move on.
- 20:53Speaker 5: Oh it's not stupid, very stupid. It's it's one. It's
- 20:58Speaker 5: one of many shows here that we're gonna cover that
- 21:01Speaker 5: is just spoken words, like brad it's head.
- 21:04Speaker 4: We are at the same page.
- 21:06Speaker 5: I love it exactly. It just simply introduces the characters
- 21:09Speaker 5: and the concept, and it's like, I can't believe you're
- 21:11Speaker 5: gonna watch the show week after week and have it
- 21:13Speaker 5: explained to you. In the beginning, that's ridiculous, come up
- 21:17Speaker 5: with something better.
- 21:17Speaker 4: Stupid become the opinions that.
- 21:21Speaker 3: There was monkeys in the cockpit.
- 21:25Speaker 5: Yes, but the theme was stupid. They could have just
- 21:27Speaker 5: had no words and just shown me that. Then I'd
- 21:29Speaker 5: have been cool.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Cool with that. So back in the late seventies and
- 21:34Speaker 1: early eighties they did a lot of the explaining over
- 21:37Speaker 1: and over and over again in cartoons, and I'm not
- 21:39Speaker 1: sure why other than.
- 21:42Speaker 5: They must have thought we were stupid.
- 21:43Speaker 1: Well, they probably knew that we were all gonna have
- 21:45Speaker 1: add at some point.
- 21:48Speaker 3: Yep.
- 21:49Speaker 1: I never watched the Centurions. I'm not sure. I'd probably
- 21:52Speaker 1: had heard of them, and that's how they got in
- 21:54Speaker 1: this tournament. But they did this, then nobody nominated it.
- 21:57Speaker 1: Do you know how hard it is to find sixty four?
- 22:00Speaker 4: I had to find sixty four songs, Lindsey.
- 22:03Speaker 1: And this was probably number sixty four, if I'm being honest.
- 22:07Speaker 1: But I dug it a little bit. I mean, I'm
- 22:09Speaker 1: not saying it's the greatest thing ever, but I like
- 22:11Speaker 1: the beginning how he kind of starts trying to get
- 22:14Speaker 1: you pumped up, and then and then it just looks ridiculous.
- 22:17Speaker 1: After that but i'd probably stick random stuff in their
- 22:21Speaker 1: holes too.
- 22:23Speaker 5: It's a lot of fun.
- 22:24Speaker 1: Yahoo, all right, So we need to vote to see
- 22:28Speaker 1: who goes on. So we've got the one seed Gi
- 22:30Speaker 1: Joe versus the sixteen seed Centurions. I'm pretty sure I
- 22:34Speaker 1: know where this is going. But let's take the vote. Brd,
- 22:39Speaker 1: you go first.
- 22:41Speaker 4: This is a good one sixteen because there's no Cinderella
- 22:43Speaker 4: here at GI Joe.
- 22:44Speaker 3: All right, James, Look, GI Joe is the better song,
- 22:50Speaker 3: but I don't think this is the dog walk that
- 22:53Speaker 3: it's being painted as.
- 22:54Speaker 4: But I'm going Gi Joe.
- 22:55Speaker 1: All right, justin I'm assuming.
- 22:58Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, this Centurions theme did not pump me up
- 23:02Speaker 5: G I Joe all the way, Lindsay, I'm.
- 23:04Speaker 7: Going with Centurions because are you nuts? Well, yes, we've
- 23:09Speaker 7: already established that. Here's why g I Joe. He's not
- 23:14Speaker 7: he's not even attempting to sing. He's strictly like he's
- 23:18Speaker 7: pulling a Johnny Cash in his later years.
- 23:20Speaker 2: He's just gonna talk it on home.
- 23:23Speaker 4: An what singing was in the other one?
- 23:25Speaker 3: And he's a.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Little off key.
- 23:27Speaker 1: What about the Gi Joe?
- 23:29Speaker 7: Well, the backup choir, I think, I mean, I don't
- 23:32Speaker 7: like you there one, but I'm gonna go with the
- 23:34Speaker 7: Centurion all right.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Wow, I'm gonna I mean, it's already a foregone conclusion,
- 23:39Speaker 1: but I'm going with g I Joe here as well.
- 23:42Speaker 1: I think, uh, this is one of those games where
- 23:44Speaker 1: the Centurions get their students all fired up because they
- 23:48Speaker 1: stick around for about the first eight minutes of the
- 23:50Speaker 1: first half and then it turns into a blowout. So
- 23:54Speaker 1: we will go Gi Joe to advance to round two,
- 23:58Speaker 1: which brings us to our second match up, our eight
- 24:02Speaker 1: versus nine seed silver Hawks and Battle of the Planets.
- 24:09Speaker 1: Here is silver Hawks. Felt like we had Eddie van
- 24:46Speaker 1: Halen shredding there for a second. Brad, I'll let you
- 24:53Speaker 1: go firstus time. What do you think about silver Hawks?
- 25:00Speaker 4: So I'll go with what I said previously here. Though
- 25:03Speaker 4: I never heard of this one either. The first time
- 25:05Speaker 4: I heard it, I didn't care for it all, although
- 25:07Speaker 4: then it got to that guitar solo and it kind
- 25:09Speaker 4: of slaps it's pretty good. And then I listened to
- 25:12Speaker 4: it again tonight right before I came on, and upon
- 25:14Speaker 4: second listen is better than I thought. So this song's
- 25:16Speaker 4: kind of mediocre. It's kind of in the middle it.
- 25:19Speaker 4: Maybe it'll keep growing on me if I heard it again.
- 25:21Speaker 1: But it is an eight seed.
- 25:23Speaker 3: James, this is a top tier cartoon song. I mean,
- 25:31Speaker 3: you've got yes an absolutely kick ass electric guitar riff,
- 25:35Speaker 3: and the song on a Saturday morning had no business
- 25:38Speaker 3: going that hard. It's so good, great lyrics, They're the
- 25:44Speaker 3: rainbow in the night.
- 25:46Speaker 4: Silverhawks is awesome, awesome.
- 25:51Speaker 7: Well, I got excited when he started quoting the lyrics
- 25:55Speaker 7: because I wanted to quote the lyrics. I feel like James,
- 25:59Speaker 7: James and I we're on the same wavelength here today. Yes,
- 26:03Speaker 7: partly metal, partly real silver Hawks. So when I was
- 26:11Speaker 7: listening to this this afternoon, Gary the podcast Cat.
- 26:15Speaker 2: When I was playing this song, every time it made.
- 26:17Speaker 5: That hawk noise, it was ducking.
- 26:22Speaker 7: There was some some realness about it.
- 26:27Speaker 1: All right, realness. The hawk sound was real because it
- 26:29Speaker 1: scared the cat. The cat knows danger. Uh justin Yeah.
- 26:35Speaker 5: I don't believe I ever watched a single episode of this.
- 26:37Speaker 5: It did look familiar though for some reason. But I
- 26:40Speaker 5: think it's a I think it's a decent theme. I'm
- 26:42Speaker 5: kind of on the same page with Brad, But I
- 26:44Speaker 5: will say the music is very eighties. It's melodic. The
- 26:48Speaker 5: guitar riff is great, like you guys all talked about,
- 26:51Speaker 5: and I will say this, it's music. It's a song,
- 26:54Speaker 5: so I'll take that if nothing else hop out at all.
- 26:57Speaker 3: That's love.
- 26:58Speaker 4: How the guitar part they show the guy playing the guitar,
- 27:01Speaker 4: it really gets you into that there. It's like, Ohcays,
- 27:03Speaker 4: look at this guy, he's shredding.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I don't think I ever saw silver Hawks,
- 27:10Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if I even knew what it was,
- 27:14Speaker 1: but this song's good and the guitar definitely shreds and James,
- 27:19Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think it goes a little hard
- 27:21Speaker 1: for Saturday Morning.
- 27:23Speaker 4: I must be the only one.
- 27:24Speaker 3: I neglected to say it, but I did actually see
- 27:26Speaker 3: this cartoon back in the day, and I did have
- 27:27Speaker 3: some of the toys really didn't stick anything in their holes,
- 27:31Speaker 3: but I played with a normal child.
- 27:33Speaker 1: Yes, all right, it's going up against our nine Seed,
- 27:39Speaker 1: which I'm certain that none of you ever saw this,
- 27:41Speaker 1: but I can tell you when I was like six
- 27:44Speaker 1: years old, this was absolutely my favorite cartoon. So this
- 27:48Speaker 1: is going to be a tough vote for me. This
- 27:49Speaker 1: is Battle of the Planets but who loved the planets.
- 28:19Speaker 8: G fors five incredible young people with superpowers and watching
- 28:26Speaker 8: over them from center Neptune sevens or seven watching warning
- 28:33Speaker 8: against surprise attack by alien galaxies from beyond Space.
- 28:49Speaker 1: That was Battle of the Planets. That show ended in
- 28:52Speaker 1: like nineteen eighty. But I used to come home every
- 28:54Speaker 1: day after school in kindergarten and watch that over and
- 28:58Speaker 1: over and just be fasten. It looked like it was
- 29:01Speaker 1: by the same artist that did Speed Racer. So, Lindz,
- 29:07Speaker 1: I'll let you go first.
- 29:08Speaker 7: I've never heard of it before, but I kind of
- 29:10Speaker 7: got into the music.
- 29:12Speaker 3: Okay.
- 29:12Speaker 7: I appreciated the music and that voiceover. That was a
- 29:17Speaker 7: really good voiceover. So you like the music, you liked
- 29:21Speaker 7: the voiceover?
- 29:21Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 29:22Speaker 2: For some reason, the music reminded me of an early
- 29:27Speaker 2: eighties TV theme song.
- 29:30Speaker 5: Okay, so I might know what it is. I might
- 29:32Speaker 5: know what it is. Oh tell me I have a take,
- 29:36Speaker 5: at least tell me.
- 29:37Speaker 2: If you say what I'm thinking, I well.
- 29:39Speaker 5: Let hear hear me out. First of all, this is
- 29:41Speaker 5: more spoken words drivel. Enough of this, but the music,
- 29:46Speaker 5: all right, tell me if this is what you're thinking of?
- 29:48Speaker 5: This brought to mine immediately American Gladiator music.
- 29:53Speaker 2: Oh that's not what I was thinking.
- 29:55Speaker 3: Good pull.
- 29:56Speaker 5: Yes, instantly that's what I thought of. I was like, oh,
- 30:00Speaker 5: I like this. It reminds me American Gladiator, which I
- 30:02Speaker 5: love that as a kid.
- 30:04Speaker 1: I gotta know what you were thinking.
- 30:06Speaker 3: Then.
- 30:06Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I would get laughed out in the room, but.
- 30:09Speaker 1: People laugh at you all the time.
- 30:11Speaker 4: Love Boat a little different.
- 30:16Speaker 1: I did not see Mel from Mel's Diner giving the
- 30:20Speaker 1: double thumbs.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Up see that coming.
- 30:22Speaker 1: I did not James, what do you got on Battle
- 30:25Speaker 1: of the Planet? Oh, I got thoughts about Battle of
- 30:27Speaker 1: the Planets. First of all, this cartoon really wants to
- 30:31Speaker 1: be Star Wars.
- 30:32Speaker 3: H Yes, they had the slanted text coming in in
- 30:37Speaker 3: the beginning. They're like these people watched over by a
- 30:40Speaker 3: robot that's definitely not R two D two but looks
- 30:44Speaker 3: suspiciously like him. Uh. Look, this song is fine. Yeah,
- 30:48Speaker 3: I agree with justin the spoken word stuff. It's just
- 30:51Speaker 3: not as good.
- 30:52Speaker 10: Uh.
- 30:52Speaker 3: But the music that was there was really good. There
- 30:55Speaker 3: were a couple of moments of the intro that were cool,
- 30:58Speaker 3: but it was more of the visual than the song.
- 31:01Speaker 3: So and I never want I had no knowledge of
- 31:03Speaker 3: Battle of the Planets until today.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Yeah, that that doesn't surprise me that any of you
- 31:09Speaker 1: would would know this. Brad did you were the only
- 31:11Speaker 1: one that would have a chance, but you would have
- 31:13Speaker 1: been really young.
- 31:14Speaker 4: The only reason I know of this show is because
- 31:16Speaker 4: our friend def Dave brought it up when he was
- 31:18Speaker 4: on our show once and he loved it, So I
- 31:21Speaker 4: should have had Dave on here. Yeah, I never heard
- 31:24Speaker 4: I never saw it. I never heard of it.
- 31:26Speaker 3: This one.
- 31:26Speaker 4: So it's very similar to Centurions, and you know what
- 31:29Speaker 4: it is, but I like this one a lot better.
- 31:31Speaker 4: It felt it grabbed my attention a lot more. And
- 31:35Speaker 4: even though it's mostly instrumental and talking, the music in
- 31:38Speaker 4: this one was more emphasized and catchy, I thought than Centurions.
- 31:44Speaker 4: So I did like this one at least a little
- 31:46Speaker 4: bit much more than the other one. Well, that's good.
- 31:49Speaker 1: I already mentioned that it was my favorite show as
- 31:50Speaker 1: a as a kindergartener, so that's really all I have
- 31:53Speaker 1: to say. I really like both songs on here. It's
- 31:56Speaker 1: eight to nine, so that makes sense that I'm having
- 31:59Speaker 1: trouble figuring which one I want to win. But I'll
- 32:01Speaker 1: let you all decide and then I'll probably h if
- 32:04Speaker 1: it's a foregone conclusion. I'll probably vote for the loser.
- 32:07Speaker 1: So Brad, what do you got?
- 32:10Speaker 4: Yeah, I could go back and forth. I actually wrote
- 32:12Speaker 4: down the other day when I did this Battle of
- 32:14Speaker 4: the Planets easy, But then after listening to them tonight
- 32:17Speaker 4: and listening to some of what you guys said, I'm
- 32:20Speaker 4: gonna switch. I'm going silver Hawks because it is more musical,
- 32:23Speaker 4: and that guitar solo got me tonight, and I think
- 32:25Speaker 4: I've heard it more. It would keep growing, whereas Battle
- 32:29Speaker 4: of the Planets isn't gonna get any better. It's just
- 32:31Speaker 4: gonna be what it is.
- 32:32Speaker 7: Lindsey for the lyrics alone, I'm going silver Hawks.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna just go ahead and vote here Battle
- 32:39Speaker 1: of the Planets because I'm pretty sure I know which
- 32:42Speaker 1: waves us going, so justin.
- 32:46Speaker 5: I mean, just for my love of American Gladiator, I
- 32:49Speaker 5: want to go Battle of the Planets, but I can't
- 32:51Speaker 5: deny the guitar riffs, So I'm going.
- 32:52Speaker 4: Silver Hawks and James.
- 32:56Speaker 3: As much as I like the flippy gal in the
- 32:59Speaker 3: opening of Love the Planets, I'm going with the rainbows
- 33:02Speaker 3: in the nights. Give me Silverhawks all day.
- 33:06Speaker 1: I just like the fact that it scared the cat,
- 33:08Speaker 1: because anytime I can scare the cat, that's a good day.
- 33:12Speaker 1: That's a good day. So I'm loving that, all right.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Moving on to our next match up, it is our
- 33:17Speaker 1: number four seed, Inspector Gadget versus our number thirteen seed,
- 33:23Speaker 1: The New Adventures of Flash Gordon. Here is Inspector Gadget.
- 34:12Speaker 1: All right, James, did you watch Inspector Gadget?
- 34:17Speaker 3: Now we're talking? This was my jam. I watched the
- 34:22Speaker 3: crap out of some Inspector Gadget when I was a kid.
- 34:26Speaker 3: I've probably seen every episode. I loved this show. This,
- 34:32Speaker 3: this song is goaded. It fades. Everything else on this
- 34:36Speaker 3: list should have been a number one seed.
- 34:40Speaker 2: Strong words, Lindsey, I agree. I agree one hundred percent.
- 34:44Speaker 7: I loved Inspector Gadget and I loved all of his
- 34:48Speaker 7: little contraptions he had, and I didn't ever think it
- 34:51Speaker 7: would come real where I had my talk watching note book, Come.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Watch Nobody can hear you when you talk on your watch?
- 35:00Speaker 2: Other Kin here?
- 35:03Speaker 1: All right, Justin did you watch Inspector Gadget?
- 35:06Speaker 5: Did I watch Inspector Gadget? I have no idea why
- 35:09Speaker 5: I didn't send this as one of my four to you, Jim,
- 35:12Speaker 5: I think I forgot about it. All the the other
- 35:13Speaker 5: ones I sent you I really care about a lot,
- 35:15Speaker 5: but this, much like James, this was one of my
- 35:18Speaker 5: favorite shows growing up. I love this show so much.
- 35:21Speaker 5: Not only did I watch it on television. I remember
- 35:23Speaker 5: there was a time I was at the video store
- 35:25Speaker 5: and they had like a box set, like a compilation
- 35:27Speaker 5: on VHS with three or four episodes or whatever was
- 35:30Speaker 5: on that. I had to rent those things because I
- 35:32Speaker 5: loved this series so much. And yeah, I'm gonna I'm
- 35:35Speaker 5: gonna show my hand right now. This is the best
- 35:37Speaker 5: song in this entire list, bar no on, hands down
- 35:41Speaker 5: with a bullet number one, this theme song. Not only that,
- 35:45Speaker 5: it's probably easily top five of the eighties cartoon themes,
- 35:49Speaker 5: maybe in even eighties shows period, full stop.
- 35:53Speaker 4: I love it.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Wow, strong words I'm gonna have to say. And normally
- 35:58Speaker 1: i'd let you go first, Brad, but I've got a
- 36:01Speaker 1: little counter here.
- 36:02Speaker 4: I got a spector gadget.
- 36:04Speaker 6: Wow.
- 36:05Speaker 1: But the way it starts out is really boring, and
- 36:10Speaker 1: it's almost like it's trying to sound like the Adams Family.
- 36:13Speaker 4: Or that's what I compared it to, is the Adams Family.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Or something like that. It does get better. I'm not
- 36:19Speaker 1: saying that the whole song is horrible, but just that beginning,
- 36:22Speaker 1: I was like, I can't believe people voted for this
- 36:25Speaker 1: when I first started listening to it, and then when
- 36:26Speaker 1: it got to it, I'm like, Okay, I can see
- 36:28Speaker 1: why this is a seated song because it does get good.
- 36:33Speaker 1: But I wasn't in Inspector Gadget Fan as a kid. Okay, Brad,
- 36:38Speaker 1: speak your piece.
- 36:39Speaker 4: Well, the similarities continue with that comment, because that's exactly
- 36:42Speaker 4: what I wrote down this show I was more aware
- 36:45Speaker 4: of than most of them. I mean, I watched it
- 36:46Speaker 4: here and there. I don't really remember watching it, but
- 36:49Speaker 4: I know that I did. But like Gi Joe, it's
- 36:51Speaker 4: just this is the most recognizable song, and I mean,
- 36:54Speaker 4: you know it and you love it. And when I
- 36:57Speaker 4: said it's like the Adam's Family, that wasn't a bad
- 36:58Speaker 4: thing or anything. That's just what it kind of gave
- 37:00Speaker 4: me the feel of. So not in many lyrics in it.
- 37:05Speaker 4: I thought there was more lyrics, but still you know
- 37:08Speaker 4: the song and you love it, and I love that
- 37:11Speaker 4: it's a little different from all these spoken word aliens whatever,
- 37:16Speaker 4: Like this is more fun.
- 37:17Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't seem quite as serious right as right
- 37:20Speaker 1: the other ones that we've listened to.
- 37:22Speaker 4: I am not for the serious ones.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Yeah, this one is more like, Okay, we know what
- 37:27Speaker 1: we are and we're going to make our song. You
- 37:29Speaker 1: know what we know that we are. So it is
- 37:31Speaker 1: going up against the thirteen Seed, which is the New
- 37:35Speaker 1: Adventures of Flash Gordon.
- 37:53Speaker 11: Blasting off on a desperate mission to save Earth from
- 37:57Speaker 11: the evil plottings of the Tyrannical space a Ming, the Merciless.
- 38:04Speaker 3: Doctor and zarchvn Dale Harden have.
- 38:07Speaker 11: Joined me Flash Gordon on a fantastic journey into.
- 38:12Speaker 3: Worlds where peril and adventure.
- 38:14Speaker 6: Ah wait us.
- 38:19Speaker 1: Not much of a song. There a lot of explosions.
- 38:22Speaker 1: You had Ming the Merciless laugh, which sounded a lot
- 38:25Speaker 1: like Skeletor's laugh on email. Yeah, that's all I gotta
- 38:29Speaker 1: say about that one.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Ran Um.
- 38:34Speaker 4: Yeah, no, not a fan of this one. It's not
- 38:39Speaker 4: the talking again, but it doesn't even feel like there's
- 38:41Speaker 4: enough talking, like it's lacking in something here I found. Yeah,
- 38:47Speaker 4: I finally saw the movie for our show a couple
- 38:49Speaker 4: years ago, and so you know, when you know that
- 38:51Speaker 4: Queen sang the theme song and everything this is just
- 38:55Speaker 4: a big letdown. This this pretty much sucked, so.
- 39:00Speaker 5: Justin it did suck.
- 39:02Speaker 3: I hate it.
- 39:02Speaker 5: This is so stupid, it's so generic. I'm tired of
- 39:05Speaker 5: these spoken word themes. I've had enough, That's all I
- 39:09Speaker 5: got to say. And I don't like Flash Gordon.
- 39:13Speaker 1: James.
- 39:14Speaker 3: This one's over.
- 39:17Speaker 1: Good time, Lindsey.
- 39:20Speaker 2: I can see the appeal for a little boy.
- 39:24Speaker 7: With all of the explosions that would definitely I think
- 39:27Speaker 7: have caught a little guy's attention.
- 39:30Speaker 2: But I mean, come on, all right, next.
- 39:34Speaker 1: Is there anybody voting for Flash Gordon now voting for
- 39:38Speaker 1: jud I don't think we need to hold a vote,
- 39:40Speaker 1: So I do have a question though, Would your vote
- 39:42Speaker 1: have been different had this been the theme song?
- 40:16Speaker 7: Yes, that was Queen singing the version of the theme songs.
- 40:20Speaker 1: Well yeah, yes, obviously that was the biggest blowout by far. Uh.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Now we've got our five seed super Friends versus number
- 40:32Speaker 1: twelve pack Man. Here is super Friends.
- 40:38Speaker 8: You Man, Wonder Woman, Fat Man Man, robbin Man.
- 40:46Speaker 10: What fucking all right?
- 40:49Speaker 3: Up?
- 40:49Speaker 8: Five chee cheap together they are in the world's greatest
- 40:53Speaker 8: also good ever assembled that okay that your truth and
- 40:58Speaker 8: justice for all.
- 41:01Speaker 4: These are us.
- 41:05Speaker 1: So justin this was more spoken word. I'm gonna guess
- 41:09Speaker 1: that you weren't down to be dedicated for truth, peace
- 41:13Speaker 1: and justice.
- 41:16Speaker 5: No, I did watch a little bit of this show
- 41:18Speaker 5: with the superheroes. I had all the action figures, so
- 41:20Speaker 5: I like that. But yeah, again, the theme is super cheesy.
- 41:24Speaker 5: It's insignificant. It does take me back a little bit,
- 41:27Speaker 5: unlike some of these other ones that I didn't watch.
- 41:29Speaker 5: But it's a nothing Burger theme song again, nothing brad.
- 41:35Speaker 3: Uh, diddo blah.
- 41:38Speaker 4: The music is muted, so it doesn't even bring you in.
- 41:41Speaker 4: It's just talking. It's not memorable. The only good thing
- 41:43Speaker 4: about it was it's short.
- 41:46Speaker 1: Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice, James has an opinion on.
- 41:53Speaker 4: Sorry.
- 41:55Speaker 3: Hopefully you guys aren't sad if any of your huge
- 41:59Speaker 3: super Friends fans. But this was about as generic as
- 42:02Speaker 3: generic gets, and honestly, the characters, as iconic as they are,
- 42:07Speaker 3: they deserved way way better than they got. This is
- 42:11Speaker 3: a very bland song.
- 42:13Speaker 4: This is the one I said was way overseated at
- 42:15Speaker 4: the beginning, So now I feel very justified in that.
- 42:18Speaker 1: Well, you can thank your buddy def Day for giving
- 42:20Speaker 1: this one a vote and make it of a feed otherwise.
- 42:22Speaker 4: Yeah, he's always got those weird things he's into.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's got a gimp closet at home.
- 42:34Speaker 4: Oh likes to stick things and holes too.
- 42:36Speaker 3: Wow by one second, Brad.
- 42:42Speaker 2: H okay, I think I watched this as a kid.
- 42:47Speaker 7: What this theme song reminds me of, though, is when
- 42:50Speaker 7: you're at a live concert and the singers need a break,
- 42:54Speaker 7: so then they go around and introduce the band.
- 42:57Speaker 1: That's yeah, all right, so this was like this was
- 43:04Speaker 1: my Saturday Morning cartoon when I was really young. I
- 43:06Speaker 1: love this cartoon, but I agree with James that it
- 43:09Speaker 1: doesn't do those characters. Just as we're looking probably at
- 43:13Speaker 1: an upset here. But let's go ahead and play pac Man.
- 43:49Speaker 1: All right, Lindsey, what'd you think of the pack in
- 43:53Speaker 1: theme song?
- 43:54Speaker 7: I feel like somebody wanted to do this, but they
- 43:59Speaker 7: only had one hundred bucks the most like random. I
- 44:08Speaker 7: feel like they took a hit of acid and then
- 44:11Speaker 7: they tried to write this in and do the animation
- 44:14Speaker 7: for this cartoon.
- 44:15Speaker 2: Just weird. Left me feeling weird.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Already. Somebody top that James.
- 44:25Speaker 3: Uh get Sonic the Hedgehog's lawyers on the phone. That
- 44:29Speaker 3: was an egg headed scientist in the middle of this intro,
- 44:33Speaker 3: I I just thought that was a little bit, a
- 44:35Speaker 3: little bit on the nose. Somebody ripped somebody off there.
- 44:38Speaker 3: But the song itself, it was there was some creepy element.
- 44:42Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys thought it was creepy,
- 44:43Speaker 3: but it had like the and then perk me.
- 44:47Speaker 2: It was weird.
- 44:49Speaker 3: It was weird. It was super weird, and I totally
- 44:53Speaker 3: would have watched it.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Justin it.
- 45:00Speaker 5: I was weird and I loved it. Really, this was
- 45:03Speaker 5: a fun show. I did watch some of this as
- 45:05Speaker 5: a kid, and yes, I love I love that it's weird.
- 45:07Speaker 5: I love that it it represents the game and the
- 45:10Speaker 5: show nicely, unlike a lot of these stupid theme songs
- 45:14Speaker 5: we've covered so far, give me this all day long.
- 45:18Speaker 5: I dug it. I was really into it.
- 45:21Speaker 4: Brand I wouldn't go that far, but I'm on the
- 45:24Speaker 4: same line. Was kind of a lame song. I get
- 45:27Speaker 4: what both James and Lindsay said, but it's unique, and
- 45:30Speaker 4: so many of these songs sound like the same thing
- 45:33Speaker 4: over and over again, and so give me this one
- 45:36Speaker 4: by far over most of them, you know. And I
- 45:39Speaker 4: did like Backband, so so this.
- 45:42Speaker 1: One makes me feel like I'm at an arcade, or
- 45:46Speaker 1: at least some kind of a circus, which I think
- 45:49Speaker 1: is probably what it was going for. So I don't
- 45:53Speaker 1: really recall. I was probably excited when this cartoon came on,
- 45:56Speaker 1: but I don't really recall watching it because I was
- 45:59Speaker 1: a huge pack Man fan. I've told this story to
- 46:01Speaker 1: Lindsay many times, but anytime I could find a spare
- 46:04Speaker 1: quarter anywhere, it immediately went into a pac Man machine
- 46:08Speaker 1: up the street. So it is time to vote super
- 46:14Speaker 1: Friends or pac Man. If I'm picking the cartoon, I'm
- 46:18Speaker 1: picking super Friends. If I'm picking the song, I'm going
- 46:22Speaker 1: with pac Man. Brad, what say you?
- 46:27Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 46:27Speaker 4: Well you always have to have a twelve five upset
- 46:29Speaker 4: in the tournament, right, So this is it. I don't
- 46:31Speaker 4: think it's an upset because pac Man's way better, but
- 46:34Speaker 4: based on the seating, it is pac Man by a
- 46:37Speaker 4: power pillet.
- 46:40Speaker 1: James.
- 46:41Speaker 3: This has more to do with how bad super Friends
- 46:44Speaker 3: is than exactly the pack Man song is. So pac Man, Lindsay.
- 46:50Speaker 7: I mean, I could have gone either way. Honestly, pac Man.
- 46:54Speaker 7: It's just I don't know, I don't I don't like.
- 46:56Speaker 2: It, but I'll vote for it.
- 46:59Speaker 3: You know what.
- 47:00Speaker 1: The song makes me feel like. It makes me feel
- 47:02Speaker 1: like I'm down near the Dumbo right at Disney World,
- 47:05Speaker 1: in that little circus area.
- 47:06Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's got that circus music in the background.
- 47:09Speaker 7: But then he's like, and I don't understand that.
- 47:14Speaker 5: Justin I'm going to real super friends. I'm kidding.
- 47:17Speaker 12: Oh.
- 47:17Speaker 5: I was like, oh man, I love it.
- 47:22Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna have a second round matchup
- 47:26Speaker 1: of pac Man versus Inspector Gadget, So.
- 47:28Speaker 4: Can we just skip through that one?
- 47:30Speaker 1: We will move on to the bottom half of our bracket.
- 47:36Speaker 1: Now here's our number two seed, which to me was shocking,
- 47:40Speaker 1: but it had multiple votes from multiple people and not
- 47:44Speaker 1: all females. So here, our number two seed is Gummy Bears,
- 47:49Speaker 1: and our number fifteen seed is Thunder the Barbarian. Here's
- 47:55Speaker 1: Gummy Bears.
- 48:00Speaker 11: Dashing their courageous and comation, faithful and friendly.
- 48:05Speaker 6: With swowras to shirt arm the forest.
- 48:08Speaker 10: They sing out in chorus, marching along as.
- 48:12Speaker 4: The song is the air.
- 48:14Speaker 5: Gumy Bears as bouncing here and there and everywhere.
- 48:20Speaker 1: You mentioned that's.
- 48:21Speaker 2: Beyond commy man.
- 48:27Speaker 1: Who watched Gummy Bears raise your hands? All right, I'll
- 48:31Speaker 1: start with Justin.
- 48:33Speaker 5: Yeah, this is what little Justin watched as a kid.
- 48:37Speaker 5: I didn't need these superheroes and tights. I didn't need
- 48:40Speaker 5: these you know, action guys in suits that you can
- 48:43Speaker 5: shove stuff in holes. I just needed the Gummy Bears.
- 48:47Speaker 5: The the Gummy Bears property were icons of the eighties.
- 48:50Speaker 5: I don't think you can you can deny that. And
- 48:52Speaker 5: I thought it was a great show. I think it's
- 48:54Speaker 5: a perfect theme for the type of show. It is
- 48:56Speaker 5: so Gummy Bears all the way.
- 48:59Speaker 7: All right, Lindsay, very well done. I love the Gummy Bears.
- 49:04Speaker 7: I still love the theme song. Thanks to the Goldbergs.
- 49:07Speaker 7: I still walk around singing the theme song. But I
- 49:10Speaker 7: think it was it's a Disney thing, and I mean,
- 49:13Speaker 7: and it shows because it was really well done.
- 49:18Speaker 1: All right, Brad, I'll let you go next.
- 49:22Speaker 4: Finally a song, and this sounds like the most Eighties
- 49:25Speaker 4: song in here. It's pretty good. It gives a very
- 49:29Speaker 4: Silver Spoons type vibe like it sounds like it could
- 49:31Speaker 4: be one of those Sunday Night like NBC sitcoms. It
- 49:35Speaker 4: was more like a felt more like a syndicated show.
- 49:39Speaker 4: But I liked it a lot. I like that it's
- 49:41Speaker 4: a song, and it's going to bounce here and there
- 49:43Speaker 4: and into the next round, I think.
- 49:45Speaker 3: James, Yeah, I watched some Nummy Bears, but this actually
- 49:49Speaker 3: was my wife's favorite show growing up, so she's got
- 49:52Speaker 3: more nostalgia for it than I do. That being said,
- 49:55Speaker 3: it's a song that you remember, you forget that you know,
- 50:00Speaker 3: and then as soon as you hear it, like, oh wait,
- 50:01Speaker 3: I know the song, and you start singing along with it.
- 50:03Speaker 3: So good. Great theme song for an eighties cartoon.
- 50:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I never worked Dummy Bears as.
- 50:09Speaker 4: A kid, and it shows.
- 50:11Speaker 1: Yeah, who cares? That's really all I gotta say. Who cares?
- 50:15Speaker 1: But I do agree that it is a I don't know,
- 50:20Speaker 1: it's almost like a Disney song kind of.
- 50:22Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it is a Disney song.
- 50:25Speaker 1: Whatever number fifteen seed Thundar the Barbarian.
- 50:32Speaker 10: Thundar the Barbarian. A year nineteen ninety four, from out
- 50:38Speaker 10: of space comes a runaway currant. It's like between the
- 50:41Speaker 10: Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Man's civilization is
- 50:50Speaker 10: cast in ruin. Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn,
- 50:58Speaker 10: a strange new world right from the old, a world
- 51:01Speaker 10: of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But one man burst
- 51:07Speaker 10: his bond still fight for justice with his companions and
- 51:11Speaker 10: Princess Ario. He pits his strength, his courage, and his
- 51:15Speaker 10: fabulous son sword against those horses of evil.
- 51:24Speaker 1: He's fun Dar the Barbarian. Okay, I need to know.
- 51:28Speaker 1: Had anybody ever heard of this cartoon before?
- 51:31Speaker 3: No? I had.
- 51:34Speaker 1: I didn't watch it, James, you've heard of it? Before
- 51:37Speaker 1: we get to what you think about that song or
- 51:39Speaker 1: theme song or whatever. What if there was another Barbarian cartoon?
- 51:45Speaker 1: What would that have sounded like?
- 51:49Speaker 3: I think if this if they had been if they'd
- 51:51Speaker 3: had a bigger budget, then it would have been more
- 51:53Speaker 3: like a fandah the Barbarian. Let's go.
- 52:01Speaker 1: Oh, so, so you've heard of this? Did you watch it?
- 52:05Speaker 3: Yeah? Look, I this was the one where I came out.
- 52:07Speaker 3: I said, I couldn't believe this deep cut is on
- 52:09Speaker 3: this bracket. I loved this cartoon. It was very very
- 52:15Speaker 3: short lived. Not a lot of people know about it.
- 52:18Speaker 3: That my love of the cartoon does not transfer to
- 52:20Speaker 3: my love of this theme song that doesn't exist. But
- 52:25Speaker 3: it's actually the post apocalyptic setting. There's you know, as
- 52:29Speaker 3: they go through the different episodes, you see like the
- 52:31Speaker 3: remnants of the old civilization and it was just very,
- 52:33Speaker 3: very cool for a kid's show. I thought they went
- 52:37Speaker 3: that extra mile. So check out the cartoon. But yeah,
- 52:40Speaker 3: it's a nothing burger for the for the song.
- 52:43Speaker 1: So I love the fact that they acted like nineteen
- 52:45Speaker 1: ninety four was so far in the future that it
- 52:47Speaker 1: was going to be this dystopian world. Well it was
- 52:50Speaker 1: for this came out in nineteen eighty, so it would
- 52:52Speaker 1: have been, you know, fourteen years away. But yeah, it's ridiculous.
- 52:58Speaker 4: Brad, huh, yeah, you had another talking instrumental. I don't
- 53:03Speaker 4: know how you keep these all straight. Uh if you
- 53:05Speaker 4: ever watched Jebediah Atkinson on Weekend Update.
- 53:08Speaker 5: Next justin, I'm with Brad. I I can't take too
- 53:17Speaker 5: much more of this, Jim, I can't. But anyhow, I
- 53:21Speaker 5: never I didn't know this was a show.
- 53:22Speaker 3: Either.
- 53:22Speaker 5: Looks like a he Man rip off if I'm being honest,
- 53:25Speaker 5: But oh, he looks like but.
- 53:26Speaker 4: It pre date it predates he Man.
- 53:28Speaker 5: Yeah, that's insane. Wow, it predates he Man.
- 53:32Speaker 1: And I meant to say on the last one, pac
- 53:35Speaker 1: Man predates Sonic, So Sonic would have ripped off that
- 53:38Speaker 1: pac Man. What I thought, Lindsey, your thoughts on Thunder
- 53:42Speaker 1: the Barbarians. I got a little something for you. Okay.
- 53:45Speaker 7: He pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous sun
- 53:50Speaker 7: sword against the forces of evil.
- 53:53Speaker 4: What does that mean?
- 53:54Speaker 2: Exactly?
- 53:55Speaker 4: What does that?
- 53:56Speaker 3: It kicks the moonswords ass, That's what it means.
- 53:58Speaker 2: That's all I got.
- 54:01Speaker 1: I would like a sun sword, That's all I gotta say.
- 54:07Speaker 1: I thought this was a cool cartoon when I was
- 54:09Speaker 1: a kid. I remember the Thunder the Barbarian but that's
- 54:11Speaker 1: about all I remember so well.
- 54:14Speaker 4: And I think the guy that does the voiceover. His
- 54:16Speaker 4: voice is terrible too. It's like not He's trying to
- 54:20Speaker 4: sound strong, but it doesn't work.
- 54:22Speaker 1: So that, yeah, I would agree with you on that.
- 54:27Speaker 1: All right, So we got a vote. I'm pretty sure
- 54:32Speaker 1: I know where we're going. Justin Gummy Bears, Lindsey Gummy.
- 54:36Speaker 4: Bears, Brad Gummy Bears, Big Time.
- 54:40Speaker 1: James Gummy Bears, and I will make it a clean sweet.
- 54:45Speaker 1: This one was a blowout. It's not even close. It
- 54:49Speaker 1: was over from the beginning, all right. That moves us
- 54:53Speaker 1: on to our next match up, our seven versus ten Seed.
- 54:57Speaker 1: This is Defenders of the Earth as the seventh Seed
- 55:01Speaker 1: versus Shira the ten Seed here is Defenders of the Earth.
- 55:07Speaker 11: Defenders.
- 55:10Speaker 3: Out of the sky.
- 55:11Speaker 5: His rockets Ignite gets into battle life.
- 55:14Speaker 6: Faster than.
- 55:17Speaker 11: The dango, the hero stocks the beasts call him brother
- 55:21Speaker 11: the gas.
- 55:25Speaker 4: The Defenders master of magic, spells and delusion in these
- 55:33Speaker 4: crumbling here and confusion and drinks. All right, there's a legend,
- 55:42Speaker 4: lindsay going on there?
- 55:43Speaker 1: What going on? Have you ever heard of Defenders of
- 55:46Speaker 1: the Earth.
- 55:47Speaker 2: No, I've never heard of it.
- 55:48Speaker 7: It sounded very similar to some of the other songs
- 55:51Speaker 7: that we've heard here tonight.
- 55:53Speaker 2: A lot of explosions going on.
- 55:56Speaker 1: In fairness, this is a bracket about aliens. So in
- 56:03Speaker 1: the eighties there was a big thing about defending the
- 56:06Speaker 1: Earth against all foreign invaders. So that's why everything sounds
- 56:13Speaker 1: the same.
- 56:14Speaker 7: Okay, Well, if they had a Sun's sword, I might
- 56:17Speaker 7: vote for him, but they don't, all right, Brad thoughts.
- 56:23Speaker 4: So I never heard of this song, show, never done
- 56:25Speaker 4: anything about it. But to me, this is the song
- 56:28Speaker 4: that goes hard. This song rocks, and I love that
- 56:32Speaker 4: it's telling you the story but they're actually singing. It's
- 56:35Speaker 4: got singing verses instead of talking. And then I love
- 56:39Speaker 4: the it's just the whispery part is great. This one
- 56:42Speaker 4: hit me. It's a This is a banger.
- 56:46Speaker 1: You never heard of the television show though.
- 56:49Speaker 4: The card now, I don't know anything about it, all right,
- 56:50Speaker 4: what about you?
- 56:51Speaker 1: Justin?
- 56:52Speaker 5: I do remember watching a little bit of this. I
- 56:54Speaker 5: thought it was a fun show. And this is almost
- 56:56Speaker 5: like a prog rock anthem style theme, which I appreciate
- 57:00Speaker 5: the hell out of.
- 57:00Speaker 4: It's funny.
- 57:01Speaker 5: I'm gonna mention this real quick. I was playing some
- 57:03Speaker 5: of this earlier and my wife heard this one, and
- 57:05Speaker 5: she says, is that Jack Black? Great stuff?
- 57:11Speaker 3: Though I liked it, James, I was literally gonna say
- 57:15Speaker 3: the same thing, man. I think the thing that sets
- 57:18Speaker 3: this apart from these other songs is the lead vocals, right,
- 57:21Speaker 3: and it sounds like Jack say he came from me family,
- 57:25Speaker 3: shot through the sky and it's just it. Yeah, saw
- 57:28Speaker 3: one hundred percent this. I mean, the magician looks kind
- 57:33Speaker 3: of lame, like there's all these cool superheroes and then
- 57:35Speaker 3: this guy does close up magic and that's cool too.
- 57:39Speaker 3: But I thought it was an awesome song.
- 57:42Speaker 2: I love it.
- 57:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was a pretty awesome song too.
- 57:45Speaker 1: I don't remember this cartoon at all, but I believe
- 57:48Speaker 1: Flash Gordon's one of the defenders of the Earth, right,
- 57:50Speaker 1: so I think we I feel like we had two
- 57:53Speaker 1: cartoons with Flash Gordon in it in the eighties, which
- 57:57Speaker 1: I guess you know after the movie flash Orden was
- 58:00Speaker 1: pretty big. I always thought that was like a fifties thing.
- 58:03Speaker 1: But James, you guys have had Flash Gordon on your show, right,
- 58:06Speaker 1: I thought I could score.
- 58:07Speaker 3: I've never we never have. No, we have not done
- 58:10Speaker 3: it yet. I know it's it seems like it's it
- 58:14Speaker 3: should have happened.
- 58:15Speaker 1: That might be three hundred for you. Well, I thought
- 58:18Speaker 1: song kind of rocked? Really yeah, I did, yeah, ber
- 58:22Speaker 1: But you know what, I like this next song too,
- 58:24Speaker 1: So this one's gonna be tough for me. This is
- 58:26Speaker 1: our ten seed Shira.
- 58:38Speaker 6: Where darkness rules. Fight's the champion of life, where hope
- 58:49Speaker 6: seems lost. Their rides threw up at him. Together they
- 58:56Speaker 6: stand ready against the dark Warriors and their leader.
- 59:02Speaker 1: You got terrible Holdren, all right, you're the female. This
- 59:08Speaker 1: is a female song.
- 59:09Speaker 2: Hi, go Okay? I loved Sheira. My only issue with
- 59:14Speaker 2: this is, couldn't we have had a woman sing this
- 59:17Speaker 2: theme song? Why did it have to be a man?
- 59:20Speaker 1: Because it was the eighties.
- 59:22Speaker 2: I know, I love it.
- 59:25Speaker 7: I'm not happy about that part, but I think it's
- 59:27Speaker 7: a great theme song, all right, James thoughts.
- 59:31Speaker 3: I think this one's a little overrated. I know when
- 59:33Speaker 3: I saw it in the bracket I had couldn't even
- 59:35Speaker 3: pull it out of my memory. I watched the show
- 59:37Speaker 3: as a kid, But then in listening to it, I
- 59:40Speaker 3: just it's more of a spoken song again, and I
- 59:44Speaker 3: don't even think the melody and the music is all
- 59:46Speaker 3: that memorable. So I was surprised. I thought when I
- 59:48Speaker 3: turned it on, i'd be like it would come right
- 59:50Speaker 3: back to me, but it didn't.
- 59:53Speaker 1: That's funny because it did for me, and I forgot
- 59:55Speaker 1: about the horns. But it is a little spoken word,
- 59:58Speaker 1: but I like the beginning for sure. Justin uh.
- 1:00:02Speaker 5: Yeah, I love this show and Masters of the Universe
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: as a kid, but I probably loved the action figures
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: even more. I had all of them and the play
- 1:00:09Speaker 5: set and was everything to me. Bought this theme song,
- 1:00:13Speaker 5: like so many of them. It's stupid. I'm tired of
- 1:00:16Speaker 5: spoken word theme songs. They're terrible. No creativity in the eighties.
- 1:00:20Speaker 5: What happened? I thought it was such a creative decade.
- 1:00:23Speaker 5: Maybe not so much in action cartoons.
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: I don't know, rad I agree, Yeah, where's the new
- 1:00:30Speaker 3: wave to change these up?
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: A little bit too much talking? The music is a
- 1:00:35Speaker 4: little more interesting, it's better than some of the others,
- 1:00:37Speaker 4: and at least they sing Shira at the end, so
- 1:00:41Speaker 4: it's got a little bit going for it, but overall
- 1:00:43Speaker 4: pretty stupid.
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: Did you guys all watch this cartoon though?
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: Right?
- 1:00:48Speaker 4: Oh?
- 1:00:49Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: Me? Oh yeah, I mean if you watch he Man,
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: you're watching Sira. Yeah.
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: I agree because I didn't watch too many girl cartoons
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: as a kid, but Sheira was one of them. It
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: was very he Man like. So I think I know
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: where this is going. But let's vote, lindsay who you're
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: voting for? Chira Brad.
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: Defenders got out to an insurmountable lead, and Schira couldn't
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: catch up Defenders big time.
- 1:01:15Speaker 5: Justin Oh yeah, that Defender's song is undeniable.
- 1:01:18Speaker 4: It's awesome.
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Shira and make James break the tie.
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: Ooh, I'm sorry, but I gotta go with the eighties
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: Jack Black Defenders of the Earth.
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the better song.
- 1:01:33Speaker 4: I just wanted to make you break see and I
- 1:01:34Speaker 4: love it even more now because I didn't make the
- 1:01:36Speaker 4: Jack Black connection, but I don't know why not, because
- 1:01:38Speaker 4: it totally is, and now I love it more.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: All right, we are moving down the bracket. Now we've
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: got our three seed versus our fourteen seed. Our three
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: seed is ThunderCats and our fourteen seed is Voltron. Here
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: is ThunderCats.
- 1:02:00Speaker 13: Wher cat Cas.
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: The thunder Cats.
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: Sounded like somebody fall up down a well there. So
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: I have to say I love thumb Cats as a kid.
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: I thought this song was gonna be a little bit
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: better though than I you know, my memory in my
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: memory bank. It was better than what I've heard here.
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: Not that it's bad, I still like it, but I
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: just thought it was gonna blow me away, and it doesn't. James,
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: I saw you making the ThunderCats sword movement.
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I this thing goes so hard. I mean
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: not just now, we're not devoting yet. I will make
- 1:03:28Speaker 3: it a little bit about the show, but just in
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: watching the opening, the animation is is crazy good for
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: what Drivel was often passing for Saturday Morning cartoons. The
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: song itself is great, especially like with it, just like
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: there's like a whisper sing. ThunderCats are loose it's it's
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: it's a great song and the show's even better. It
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: had to scare the crap out of you, bad guy
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: for a five year old, right, like Mamra was terrifying,
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: just good, good, good.
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: Lindsay you're DoD in your head.
- 1:04:01Speaker 7: Yeah, ThunderCats was one of my favorites. So I loved
- 1:04:04Speaker 7: watching ThunderCats. But I also kind of see where you're
- 1:04:07Speaker 7: coming from because I expected it to to I'd be
- 1:04:11Speaker 7: a little better than it was.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Yeah, there was some pretty good guitar in there, but
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: it didn't shred like the one earlier whatever that was.
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: But but yeah, I expect to be a little bit
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: better bread.
- 1:04:24Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you. It was. It's mediocre.
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: It's not bad.
- 1:04:29Speaker 4: It's not as bad as some of the others, but
- 1:04:31Speaker 4: it's just pretty repetitive. It's just ThunderCats over and over.
- 1:04:34Speaker 4: But it is a song and it can't get you going.
- 1:04:36Speaker 4: So it's maybe middle to high middle on the list
- 1:04:39Speaker 4: compared to a lot of the other ones.
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: And you didn't watch ThunderCats.
- 1:04:43Speaker 4: I was watching Looney Tunes or Garfield and that's about it.
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: So for me, ThunderCats came on in the afternoon after school,
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: so I you know, it was like the only thing
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: justin Yeah, this was.
- 1:04:56Speaker 5: One of my favorite cartoons ever. And James brought up
- 1:04:59Speaker 5: such a great point. The animation is incredible. I think
- 1:05:02Speaker 5: it's one of the best animated series of the era.
- 1:05:06Speaker 5: And speaking of action figures, I love the he Man
- 1:05:08Speaker 5: action figures, but the action figures for ThunderCats were out
- 1:05:12Speaker 5: of this world good. I love them so much. I
- 1:05:14Speaker 5: think the theme's really good for what it is, and
- 1:05:17Speaker 5: I think it's the theme a lot of these other
- 1:05:18Speaker 5: action series that we've talked about tonight wish they were,
- 1:05:22Speaker 5: so it works for me. I think it's great music
- 1:05:24Speaker 5: and awesome, awesome visuals.
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: Like James said, all right, it is going up against
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: our fourteen seed Voltron ready.
- 1:05:32Speaker 12: To form, Voltron Activate Interlock, Dina Therms, connected Infracells up
- 1:05:40Speaker 12: Mega Thrusters, are.
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: Go Blest.
- 1:05:44Speaker 4: Farms and.
- 1:06:10Speaker 12: Four Pawns and party oh honshead all right.
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: I feel like there were a lot of things going
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: on with that one. I feel like it starts out
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: with the with the base almost like it's trying to
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: be Queen's Flash Gordon, and then it moves on to
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: some horns where it's trying to sound like maybe Indiana
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: Jones or Star Wars, and then it's really stupid in
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: the middle, and then it tries to bring it back
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: around at the end. So I thought Vultron always ended
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: with Voltron Defenders of the Universe. Is my memory wrong?
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: Anyone?
- 1:06:57Speaker 4: I don't look at me.
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: All right, Maybe my memory is wrong. I'm sure the
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: listening audience will let us know. Justin thoughts on the
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: Vultron song.
- 1:07:09Speaker 5: I thought it would have been better suited for an
- 1:07:11Speaker 5: eighties toy commercial, if I'm being honest with you, not
- 1:07:14Speaker 5: a theme song.
- 1:07:16Speaker 4: Darry.
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: Brad, I'll just say it again, awful, nothing to it.
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: James never watched Vultron. I had a Vultron toy that
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: my parents bought me one time. I think thinking like, oh,
- 1:07:34Speaker 3: this looks like a cool robot, and I would remember
- 1:07:36Speaker 3: going like, what is this garbage and just tossing it
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: aside and never playing with it. So I hate Voltron.
- 1:07:43Speaker 7: Lindsey, Yeah, so I don't know what Vultron is, but
- 1:07:49Speaker 7: I needed it to kind of explain things better because
- 1:07:52Speaker 7: I just heard that it was building legs or arms
- 1:07:56Speaker 7: or ahead or I didn't know what was going on.
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: And if you're going to be a theme song. You
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: got to give me a little bit of direction.
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: Vultron was correct me if I'm wrong, But it was
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: a little bit like Transformers, but in the fact that
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: each of these things could form like one big giant
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: like robot body, whereas Transformers could transform from aliens to
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: cars and buses and whatnot.
- 1:08:20Speaker 4: This seems more like Power Rangers to me.
- 1:08:25Speaker 6: Hm.
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: I never watched Power Rangers, but if anybody wants to
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: chime in on that.
- 1:08:30Speaker 7: I've I watched Power Rangers. I'd never thought of that,
- 1:08:33Speaker 7: but yeah, I can see it all right.
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: I've already written down the Winter because I'm pretty sure
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: I know where this is going, but just didn't. Who
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: do you got?
- 1:08:43Speaker 4: Yeah, I thunder Cats, no doubt, Lindsay ThunderCats, James ThunderCats
- 1:08:50Speaker 4: are on the loose.
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: Brads ThunderCats, all right, and I'm going with Thunder Thunder
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: ThunderCats all right. Our last matchup of the first round,
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: we've got Alf the sixth Seed versus Challenge of the Gobots,
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: another Transformer ripoff, uh with the eleven Seed. Here is
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: Alf Alf the animated series, Gorda.
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: There ain't no one like you in the Bacci race.
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: Just send just go and make a sweet You're the
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: only one that scratch out.
- 1:09:48Speaker 4: The no one like you in this page.
- 1:09:59Speaker 13: You got.
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: Justin you're a huge ALF fan. I'll let you go first.
- 1:10:16Speaker 5: I seen maybe a couple of these episodes, but like
- 1:10:18Speaker 5: I said earlier in the show, I was more about
- 1:10:21Speaker 5: the live action show. I never really cared too much
- 1:10:23Speaker 5: about the animated series.
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: But as far as the song, it's like this barbershop
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: quartet style thing, which is kind of fun, and it
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: definitely stands out from the rest of the group here,
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: So I give it that much for being different.
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: James, I watched a lot of the regular sitcom of ALF.
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: I never watched a single episode of this. The song
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: seems so weird to me. It's like it's a song
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: for a different show. I mean, it's a cool song.
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: I don't know what it has to do with Alf
- 1:10:52Speaker 3: and who I don't know. I totally baffled by this one.
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: Do you think it's a song maybe for an alien?
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: No?
- 1:11:03Speaker 4: I think it's Who's refresh right? Who's Gordon?
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: Gordon? That's his name, Gordon Shumway is Alf's real name.
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: See, I didn't even remember that.
- 1:11:12Speaker 4: I see I was I'm in a safe place you are, James,
- 1:11:14Speaker 4: I'm like, why aren't they saying Alf? What are they
- 1:11:16Speaker 4: singing to?
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: Gordon Shumway was Alf Melmackian name, right.
- 1:11:21Speaker 3: So they're going with a deep cut. You need to
- 1:11:24Speaker 3: know the lore to get the song if you're watching
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: it for the first time. Yeah, I don't know, Brad.
- 1:11:32Speaker 4: I like the song because it's unique. It's a catchy
- 1:11:35Speaker 4: little ditty. It's kind of a fifties vibe. You can
- 1:11:38Speaker 4: clap along, it gets in a good mood, and compared
- 1:11:40Speaker 4: to a lot of the other ones I've flugged through here,
- 1:11:44Speaker 4: this one stands out.
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: So I enjoyed it, Lindsey.
- 1:11:47Speaker 7: It is a cute little song. But I think we're
- 1:11:50Speaker 7: forgetting Alf like to eat cats?
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: Well, that's what they're talking about.
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: Like, so I don't think that they would just be
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: all happy singing about Gordon Gordon because he's gonna try
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: to eat them.
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: You don't think that, uh that certain victims sing songs
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: about Hannibal Lecter.
- 1:12:08Speaker 5: I don't.
- 1:12:08Speaker 7: It's just weird. Yeah, I get Gordon is easier to
- 1:12:13Speaker 7: rhyme with than Alf.
- 1:12:15Speaker 5: But.
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: It's very I don't know, raleg random.
- 1:12:21Speaker 11: I like it.
- 1:12:22Speaker 4: I like the song.
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: It is kind of a fifties barbershop courtet. You know
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: what it reminds me of, Justin. It reminds me of
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: the male version of one of your favorite groups, in Vogue.
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: That's like the male in Vogue.
- 1:12:35Speaker 5: I get that it's got some R and B vibes.
- 1:12:37Speaker 4: Yeah, I get I get.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: Anything about ALF. So I'm a fan, and we're gonna
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: go on to play the piece of crap called Gobots
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: shots all right, thoughts, Lindsey, you go first.
- 1:13:19Speaker 7: I feel like I remember go Bots. I mean, couldn't
- 1:13:23Speaker 7: you buy a go Bot? I think I remember those?
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: Was it like a poor man's Transformer?
- 1:13:29Speaker 4: That's one correct, That's what I had, was a gobot?
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: Really?
- 1:13:34Speaker 7: Yeah, So I am almost liking this better than I
- 1:13:38Speaker 7: liked ALF, because Alf was just confusing me.
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: That's insane.
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: So it's not you.
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: You seem to be insane too.
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: Go ahead, go bots, the go Bots transformers for poor families. Hey,
- 1:13:56Speaker 3: maybe it's because we were poor and I had Gobots
- 1:13:58Speaker 3: and I didn't have transform But uh, it's not a
- 1:14:02Speaker 3: bad song. Gosh, compared to half these, it's a song
- 1:14:05Speaker 3: nobody speaks.
- 1:14:07Speaker 9: Uh.
- 1:14:07Speaker 4: I thought it was good, all right, Brad. Yeah, it's
- 1:14:11Speaker 4: nice and short. It only has one lyric, basically a gobots,
- 1:14:14Speaker 4: but they're singing and it's short and it's not stupid.
- 1:14:17Speaker 4: So it's again kind of that mediocre version. And I
- 1:14:21Speaker 4: didn't hate it.
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: I will admit. It's better than I gave it credit
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: for when I called it a piece of crap.
- 1:14:27Speaker 7: Okay, so if we pull quotes from this episode, it's
- 1:14:30Speaker 7: gonna be at least it wasn't stupid.
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: I didn't hate it, Brad.
- 1:14:35Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a high bar.
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: Well, you've also got a quote I stuck stuff in
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: the holes.
- 1:14:42Speaker 5: That's right, justin I probably tried to stick some of
- 1:14:48Speaker 5: my gobots in those holes too, because I had those
- 1:14:50Speaker 5: two I did not have transformers. Yeah, it's nothing special,
- 1:14:55Speaker 5: but at least it's musical and it's a lot better
- 1:14:56Speaker 5: than most of these. So this is probably the first
- 1:15:00Speaker 5: time where I'm a little on the fence. Which one
- 1:15:02Speaker 5: I'm gonna vote for?
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: All Right, it's the final vote of the first round.
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: It's our sixth seed off the animated series. Versus Challenge
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: of the Gobots. Lindsey, you go first, don't you dare?
- 1:15:15Speaker 3: Do it?
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: Challenge of the Gobot?
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: Oh my God, Yeah, I'm going Alf.
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense, James.
- 1:15:24Speaker 3: It's still fun gobots one hundred percent with a stamp bread.
- 1:15:32Speaker 4: I want to just point out once again that Lindsay
- 1:15:35Speaker 4: and I share an affinity for full body Elf. So
- 1:15:39Speaker 4: remember that, Yes, and I gotta go Alf. It's more fun,
- 1:15:42Speaker 4: it's more unique, give me something different, and justin you get.
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: To break the tie.
- 1:15:50Speaker 5: Okay. So I want to be like James and go
- 1:15:53Speaker 5: with what I think is the better song. And that's
- 1:15:55Speaker 5: tricky because I don't really know which one is the
- 1:15:59Speaker 5: better song. I'm like on the fence here so because
- 1:16:02Speaker 5: I'm not really a big fan of either one, but
- 1:16:05Speaker 5: I do like that Alf is different and I love
- 1:16:07Speaker 5: the character of Alf, so I'm going with Al.
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: Wow.
- 1:16:11Speaker 7: Yes, Jim one, Lindsay zero, that's okay, You'll be on
- 1:16:17Speaker 7: the couch tonight, so it'll be Lindsay one Jim zero.
- 1:16:22Speaker 5: All right.
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: That moves us on to our second round. Here are winners.
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: Our winners are the one seed Gi Joe, which we'll
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: be taking on the eight seed Silverhawks, the four seed
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: Inspector Gadget, which we'll be taking on the twelve seed
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: pac Man, the two seed Gummy Bears advance to face
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: the seven seed Defenders of the Earth, and then three
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: seed ThunderCats versus six seed Alf James. I will let
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: you go first, we have GI Joe versus silver Hawks.
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: I think G I Joe is a nostalgia vote. Whoever
- 1:16:56Speaker 3: put that on their top four, I think it's a
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: weak number one seed, and I think silver Hawks, the
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: rainbows in the night, the electric guitar riff, the high,
- 1:17:06Speaker 3: the high vocals.
- 1:17:07Speaker 4: I'm going silver Hawks.
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: Lindsey oops and giggles, I'm going silver Hawks.
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: Brand.
- 1:17:17Speaker 4: So I had on my original list here Battle of
- 1:17:20Speaker 4: the Planets easily beating silver Hawks, and then I took
- 1:17:23Speaker 4: silver Hawks to beat it, and I'm gonna go with
- 1:17:25Speaker 4: Silverhawks again. It's it's a grower that that song is
- 1:17:29Speaker 4: creeping up. Wow, we have a huge upft just it's
- 1:17:33Speaker 4: growing like that sun sword. Just to make an official
- 1:17:38Speaker 4: It's funny coming into this.
- 1:17:39Speaker 5: I would have thought I would have voted G I
- 1:17:41Speaker 5: Joe because of the nostalgia I have now, But I
- 1:17:43Speaker 5: got I gotta say, can't deny that guitar riff going
- 1:17:46Speaker 5: silver Hawks, not that it matters anyhow, And.
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that G I Joe was one of
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: your four, right it was?
- 1:17:52Speaker 5: Yes, I was dead wrong.
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: You made them the number one seed, so my vote
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: doesn't even matter.
- 1:17:58Speaker 4: So but what would it be?
- 1:18:00Speaker 6: Uh?
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: I think it would be some rocks.
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: Well, I think it's the classic example of it being
- 1:18:05Speaker 3: the song and not the show, because I Gich ten
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: times better show.
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, So now we'll here we are
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: with our four versus twelve seed. Can the pac Man
- 1:18:19Speaker 1: upset continue? Lindsey's shaking her head?
- 1:18:22Speaker 12: No?
- 1:18:23Speaker 8: Uh?
- 1:18:23Speaker 3: What you got?
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: Inspector back Gadget or pac Man?
- 1:18:26Speaker 12: Uh?
- 1:18:27Speaker 7: Inspector Gadget. Inspector Gadget is going to be hard to
- 1:18:31Speaker 7: beat overall, So obviously it's gonna be pac Man, who's
- 1:18:35Speaker 7: over there?
- 1:18:35Speaker 4: Going justin?
- 1:18:41Speaker 5: I said it earlier. I really loved the pac Man theme,
- 1:18:43Speaker 5: but I also said that Inspector Gadget's probably in my
- 1:18:47Speaker 5: top five overall, So I'm going Inspector Gadget.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: It's classic, all right, brand.
- 1:18:54Speaker 4: Pasted over one iconic one with Gi Joe, But I
- 1:18:57Speaker 4: can't do it again. Inspector Gadget. Pac Man is just
- 1:18:59Speaker 4: not quite it's not quite there, And James, it could
- 1:19:04Speaker 4: be going up against the Queen song from Flash Gordon.
- 1:19:06Speaker 4: I'd still pick Inspector.
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: Gadget, and I will also go Inspector Gadget, making that
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: a clean sweep. Our next matchup is our number two
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: seed Gummy Bears versus our number seven seed Defenders of
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: the Earth. I think this is gonna upset some people,
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: but I don't know Lindsay what he got.
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: Well now I'm nervous because it feels like a no brainer.
- 1:19:32Speaker 4: Gummy Bears, Brad, this is by far the hardest one.
- 1:19:37Speaker 4: This could really be the championship in my opinion. I've
- 1:19:41Speaker 4: got him ranked here, so I'm gonna go with my ranking.
- 1:19:44Speaker 4: Gummy Bears is the most Eighties sounding song, and I
- 1:19:46Speaker 4: liked it, but I just Defenders of the Earth. It
- 1:19:49Speaker 4: just it's too good. It's a banger, and you gotta
- 1:19:52Speaker 4: have a banger.
- 1:19:54Speaker 3: I just watched Lindsay's soul Lever Body. It's the hard
- 1:20:00Speaker 3: matchup I want. I would pick Gummy Bears of almost
- 1:20:02Speaker 3: anything else, but I can't do it right here.
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: It never crossed my mind that it was anything Gummy Bears.
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: James Lindsey, I'm so sorry, but I'm going Defenders of
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: the Earth here. Oh yeah, that it rips it straight rips.
- 1:20:21Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Justin.
- 1:20:25Speaker 5: When my wife said Jack Black, she got me, and
- 1:20:28Speaker 5: she's right. Listen, I love the Gummy Bears. I said
- 1:20:32Speaker 5: that earlier, and little Justin would have picked gummy Bears.
- 1:20:35Speaker 5: But by god, this prog rock anthem by Jack Black
- 1:20:40Speaker 5: in the eighties is amazing. I'm going Defenders of the
- 1:20:43Speaker 5: Earth all the way.
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: Well, Defenders of the Earth moves on, then Lindsey, just
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: because I don't want to sleep on the couch, I'm
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: gonna pick gummy Bears.
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: Oh my heart hurts a little bit, all.
- 1:21:00Speaker 4: Right, tough one. That's not fair there. That's that's the matchups,
- 1:21:03Speaker 4: the way they go.
- 1:21:04Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is.
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: And you can blame the people that voted for gummy Bears.
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: Maybe if it hadn't been a two seed but a
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: lower seed, it might have advanced further.
- 1:21:12Speaker 4: It could have been the Cinderella.
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: We have the three seed ThunderCats versus the sixth seed ALF.
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: I'm going to vote first because I might be the
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: only one I'm voting ALF. What I am voting ALF.
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: It's the better song ThunderCats. I enjoyed way more. But
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: I'm going with mail In Vogue.
- 1:21:35Speaker 5: Justin, you're pulling all my heartstrings within vogue, man bought Oh,
- 1:21:41Speaker 5: thank god.
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: Yeah, but I thought I had you with the vote.
- 1:21:45Speaker 4: You almost did.
- 1:21:46Speaker 5: You almost did Jim for a minute. But they're not
- 1:21:50Speaker 5: in Whoever sang the Alt theme is not in vogue.
- 1:21:53Speaker 5: So I'm going ThunderCats because it's awesome.
- 1:21:56Speaker 4: Brad, I think if you pick ALF, you've got a
- 1:22:00Speaker 4: pretty cool, diverse final four here or yeah, final four
- 1:22:04Speaker 4: of this, I'll go on Alf. What Yeah, ALF is different.
- 1:22:08Speaker 4: It's it's different, and it stands out and it brings
- 1:22:10Speaker 4: something new to the table.
- 1:22:13Speaker 3: James, Look, I think ALF should have lost to Gobots.
- 1:22:17Speaker 3: So I'm one hundred percent picking ThunderCats here.
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: Yes, and Lindsay's gonna break my heart by going thunder
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: Look behind you.
- 1:22:27Speaker 4: Alf, But look at his feet, Lindsay, Look at his feet, Look.
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: At his cute little feet.
- 1:22:33Speaker 4: Don't be swayed.
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: No, no, I'm standing strong.
- 1:22:36Speaker 7: ThunderCats brings back some really good, warm nostalgia for me.
- 1:22:41Speaker 7: But plus that weird ALF song, it just doesn't make.
- 1:22:45Speaker 4: Sense, you know what.
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: I'm changing my boat and I'm going Defenders of the Earth.
- 1:22:53Speaker 4: All right.
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: This will be our final vote of the night to
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: get us down to the bottom two. So when we
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: have our finale, we'll have eight theme songs in it.
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: So we have our number eight seed Silverhawks versus our
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: number four seed Inspector Gadget. I'm almost sure I know
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: where this is going, but I'm voting for Silverhawks.
- 1:23:18Speaker 5: Justin Inspector Gadget. I love the guitar riff on Silverhawks,
- 1:23:22Speaker 5: but I gotta go Inspector Gadget.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: Lindsey, Yeah, I agree, I have to go with Inspector Gadget.
- 1:23:32Speaker 4: Brad me too. Silverhawks was my Cinderella, but you gotta
- 1:23:39Speaker 4: have one iconic one in there, and that's got to
- 1:23:41Speaker 4: be Inspector Gadget and James.
- 1:23:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good run. Silverhawks took out g
- 1:23:46Speaker 3: I Joe, so props to them. They can go home
- 1:23:48Speaker 3: feeling like they did a really good job. But it's
- 1:23:50Speaker 3: Inspector Gadget, all right.
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: And then our final matchup of the night is our
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: number seven seed Defenders of the Earth versus our number
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: three seed ThunderCats.
- 1:24:07Speaker 4: James, why me first?
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: I have no idea. Uh, there's my head in my heart, man,
- 1:24:20Speaker 3: I think a ThunderCats and I'm I'm just I have
- 1:24:27Speaker 3: to go gut feeling here because I could probably be
- 1:24:29Speaker 3: pushed either way. But I'm gonna go ThunderCats.
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: Lindsay ThunderCats. I'm gonna go Defenders of the Earth.
- 1:24:39Speaker 5: Justin I I've ThunderCats was one of my four, Jim,
- 1:24:47Speaker 5: but I'm like really like thinking about going Defenders because
- 1:24:50Speaker 5: such a great song. I didn't know the song coming
- 1:24:53Speaker 5: into it.
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: So yeah, I you want to pause, I'll take Brad's vote.
- 1:25:01Speaker 5: Hey, if he wants to break the potential tie, that's fine,
- 1:25:04Speaker 5: But I don't know what do you think?
- 1:25:05Speaker 4: You're right, you're gonna pick it because I'm I am
- 1:25:08Speaker 4: Defenders of the Earth. And it's not even close. That
- 1:25:11Speaker 4: one is just that's the song of the night. It's
- 1:25:14Speaker 4: the pick of destiny.
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: See what he's trying to do there. But one has
- 1:25:21Speaker 3: an insane cool sword and one doesn't.
- 1:25:25Speaker 5: So so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use
- 1:25:30Speaker 5: James logic here. I'm not gonna go with my heart.
- 1:25:33Speaker 5: I'm not gonna go with the series that I love
- 1:25:35Speaker 5: so much. I'm gonna go strictly with the music, with
- 1:25:38Speaker 5: the theme song. I'm going Defenders of the Earth. I
- 1:25:41Speaker 5: can't oh, I can't believe I'm saying it, But I'm
- 1:25:44Speaker 5: going with it justin Jack Black, I don't know. Oh,
- 1:25:56Speaker 5: all right, so this is gonna be fun boy. I
- 1:26:00Speaker 5: have a feeling that social media is gonna blow up.
- 1:26:05Speaker 5: In the Elite Eight, We're gonna have Inspector Gadget versus
- 1:26:10Speaker 5: the seven Seed Defenders of the Earth. They will be
- 1:26:14Speaker 5: fighting it out to see who goes to the Final
- 1:26:16Speaker 5: four on not our next episode, but an episode in
- 1:26:23Speaker 5: the near future.
- 1:26:24Speaker 4: Great matchup.
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: Yeah, that will be a great matchup and it will
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: all depend on the panel that is on that show. So, guys,
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: thank you. James looks devastating. You know what James looks like.
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: He looks like the uh who was it?
- 1:26:41Speaker 3: Brad?
- 1:26:41Speaker 1: You probably will remember this when Bryce Drew hit that
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: miracle shot for val Perezo. Who did they beat?
- 1:26:47Speaker 4: You remember that Mississippi?
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: Yeah, so, so James looks like either one of the
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: Mississippi players, cheerleaders or fans with that face there that
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: he's got. He's just got his hands in his head,
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: and that the Bryce Drew hit that home run throwback shot.
- 1:27:05Speaker 3: I'm not well, Like I said, I could have almost
- 1:27:08Speaker 3: even picked the other one, So I get it. I
- 1:27:10Speaker 3: don't blame anybody, but it just hurts my heart. Like, uh,
- 1:27:13Speaker 3: Lindsay said about Commy Bears that ThunderCats is out yeah,
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: and Defenders of the.
- 1:27:18Speaker 1: Earth not both of them.
- 1:27:19Speaker 7: And I can listen, I can blame all day long.
- 1:27:22Speaker 7: So Jame said he's not gonna blame anybody.
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: Oh I will oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no menopause.
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: Lindsay is not to be messed with.
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: Yeah, she holds a grudge.
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: Well, guys, what do you think? How do you think
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: it played out? I mean, I know we all have
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: votes in it, and I know that there's some disappointment
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: and whatnot, but uh, I'm just curious. What do you
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: think the brand? I'll start with you.
- 1:27:50Speaker 4: Great. I think that, like said, the seating was good
- 1:27:52Speaker 4: and I think it played out very well. I think
- 1:27:54Speaker 4: the biggest surprise would probably have to be just to
- 1:27:57Speaker 4: the to the random listener the g I Joe got
- 1:27:59Speaker 4: beat early on. I mean, I think you would have
- 1:28:02Speaker 4: expected that to go farther. But not being an expert
- 1:28:06Speaker 4: on any of these shows, it was fun to listen
- 1:28:08Speaker 4: to them and make an opinion on the songs without
- 1:28:11Speaker 4: having any bias, and so I had a great time
- 1:28:15Speaker 4: and I think that we made a pretty good choice.
- 1:28:17Speaker 6: There.
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: James thoughts on what transpired here tonight. I think you
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: couldn't ask for anything better. You had a few upsets,
- 1:28:25Speaker 1: you have one that made it all the way through
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: that no one would have guessed. You had some iconic
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: songs that are in their rightful place, like inspector Gadget.
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: So I don't know how you could have asked for
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: anything better.
- 1:28:36Speaker 5: And justin yeah, I mean, coming into this thing, I
- 1:28:41Speaker 5: had two in my top four that I ended up
- 1:28:43Speaker 5: voting against, and I would not have expected that. But
- 1:28:46Speaker 5: this was a lot more fun to debate and talk
- 1:28:48Speaker 5: about than it was to listen to some of this garbage,
- 1:28:51Speaker 5: if I'm being honest with you. Yeah, but yeah, I
- 1:28:53Speaker 5: think there were some great upsets and the fact that
- 1:28:55Speaker 5: I voted for some of them is it's a lot
- 1:28:57Speaker 5: of fun and mind blowing to me.
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really shocked when I look at this bracket.
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: I'm really shocked how it turned out, because I would
- 1:29:04Speaker 1: have swore that g I Joe would be in the
- 1:29:06Speaker 1: final eight, and then I think it could have been
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: any one of the Gummy Bears or ThunderCats or even
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: Defenders of the Earth. But well, I liked alf I
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: would have put off to the final light if it
- 1:29:20Speaker 1: were just up to me. But it's not just up
- 1:29:22Speaker 1: to me, so Lindsey thoughts.
- 1:29:26Speaker 7: Yeah, I just never pictured a world without gummy Bears.
- 1:29:30Speaker 7: I'm just still going back there. You know what, it
- 1:29:33Speaker 7: didn't play out the way I had anticipated.
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: I'll get Emmy to give you one of her packs
- 1:29:38Speaker 1: a gummy if that'll make you feel better. Maybe I
- 1:29:41Speaker 1: don't know, right, guys, I want to thank you so
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: much for joining us and give you an opportunity to
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: plug your show just in Pop Culture Reflections released on Thursdays.
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: Wherever you podcasts go ahead. What do you got coming
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: up here?
- 1:29:56Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:29:57Speaker 5: Thanks a lot for having me. It was very nice
- 1:29:59Speaker 5: to meet both Brad and James tonight finally, so had
- 1:30:02Speaker 5: a great time. But yeah, thanks the show coming up.
- 1:30:06Speaker 5: I have some fun stuff in the upcoming month on
- 1:30:09Speaker 5: the sub series Why We Love with my great co
- 1:30:11Speaker 5: host Kate from down Under, we are going to talk
- 1:30:13Speaker 5: about why we Love the Cure. We are also going
- 1:30:16Speaker 5: to be dropping movie conversations including Fright Night from nineteen
- 1:30:20Speaker 5: eighty five, A Clockwork, Orange, the Prowler, and Teenage Mutant
- 1:30:25Speaker 5: Ninja Turtles two. Seeker to the US for its thirty
- 1:30:27Speaker 5: fifth anniversary, so be on the lookout for all those episodes.
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: Sweet Looking forward to it Brand pop Culture yearbook released
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: on Mondays.
- 1:30:36Speaker 4: That's right. So I don't know when this is coming out,
- 1:30:39Speaker 4: but in April we are going back to nineteen eighty four,
- 1:30:43Speaker 4: so we will have our first episode. Our friend def
- 1:30:46Speaker 4: Dave that we reference will be joining us. But then
- 1:30:48Speaker 4: we're going to talk about the Terminator, and we're going
- 1:30:51Speaker 4: to talk about Beverly Hills Cop, and we're going to
- 1:30:54Speaker 4: talk about a inspired kind of.
- 1:30:57Speaker 3: By you, Jim.
- 1:30:58Speaker 4: We're going to do a long distance dedic cation episode
- 1:31:01Speaker 4: Casey Cason's Style from nineteen eighty four, and you see
- 1:31:05Speaker 4: how that one does, and I just numbers for sure.
- 1:31:08Speaker 4: I just want to plug that. Giff and I are
- 1:31:10Speaker 4: excited about our new season, and we just started a Patreon,
- 1:31:13Speaker 4: so if you're listening and you're interested, you could always
- 1:31:15Speaker 4: go check out that too. We have some extras on there.
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: What year in March do you have?
- 1:31:21Speaker 4: We are doing twenty Well I should have said March.
- 1:31:24Speaker 4: I'm sorry, so March. We're in February. Still, we just
- 1:31:27Speaker 4: wrapped up twenty fifteen. We did a newer year, but
- 1:31:29Speaker 4: now we're going back to nineteen eighty four.
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: We love in nineteen eighty four, James, they're doing Terminator.
- 1:31:34Speaker 3: I love it fantastic. I'm gonna definitely be back to
- 1:31:37Speaker 3: check that one out because of the line, Okay, one
- 1:31:44Speaker 3: of the eight lines, yes of his lines. Yeah, all right, James,
- 1:31:48Speaker 3: Bad Movies Rule, Good Movies Rule. I think you do
- 1:31:51Speaker 3: like Walker, Texas Ranger, and you have like seventy three
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: other podcasts.
- 1:31:56Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got like eight or nine shows at this point.
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you live there now. You probably
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: just gonna cot there in the back.
- 1:32:03Speaker 3: So I'm gonna slide down the table and have dinner
- 1:32:06Speaker 3: after I'm done with this. Yeah. The main show, Bad
- 1:32:08Speaker 3: Movies Rule comes out every Friday. We're not really a
- 1:32:11Speaker 3: movie critics so much as we just riff on movies
- 1:32:14Speaker 3: that have rotten ratings. So if a movie's got a
- 1:32:16Speaker 3: bad rating, that's how it qualifies, and we go scene
- 1:32:18Speaker 3: by scene through them. I got a lot of fun
- 1:32:20Speaker 3: stuff coming up this as far as when we're recording
- 1:32:23Speaker 3: this Friday, Tommy Boy drops believe it or not as
- 1:32:25Speaker 3: a forty percent on Rotten Tomatoes, I know. And then
- 1:32:29Speaker 3: we're doing going back to the eighties doing a little pumpkinhead.
- 1:32:32Speaker 3: We've got some Van Damn movies coming up, and then
- 1:32:34Speaker 3: in March. Towards the end of March, we're gonna be
- 1:32:36Speaker 3: covering the first Transformers movie, the first Shi lah Bow
- 1:32:40Speaker 3: two thousand and seven. I think Transformers flick. So got
- 1:32:43Speaker 3: a lot of fun stuff coming up. And then Yeah,
- 1:32:45Speaker 3: if you are a Walker Texas Ranger fan, that's another
- 1:32:48Speaker 3: free podcast on drops on Wednesdays, wherever platform you're using.
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: We're Watcher Texas Ranger. It's where we watch Walker Texas
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: Ranger and then talk about it. Yeah.
- 1:32:58Speaker 4: Love it.
- 1:32:59Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, audience, go check out these shows. They're all excellent.
- 1:33:05Speaker 1: I am a fan of all three of them. I
- 1:33:07Speaker 1: am subscribed to all three of them. I listened to
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: all three of them regularly. I love them. That's why
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: they're here, huge fans. Lindsey, what you got to say
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: to our.
- 1:33:16Speaker 7: Guests here, Thank y'all so much for joining us tonight.
- 1:33:20Speaker 7: And just so you know, Jim listens to all three
- 1:33:23Speaker 7: in the shower.
- 1:33:25Speaker 4: Oh he's taken extra long showers now he is well.
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: I mean, for James, I come out looking like a
- 1:33:31Speaker 1: prune because they have two and a half to three
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: hour shows.
- 1:33:34Speaker 4: It started with us, so we heard. Now I feel
- 1:33:36Speaker 4: cheated on.
- 1:33:39Speaker 1: This must feel like a walk in the park for James.
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: This is like, oh, this is this is a piece
- 1:33:43Speaker 1: of cake. Listen, we're done already hour and a half. Yeah,
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: So thank you guys, really really appreciate it. Love your
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: shows and folks, go check them out wherever you get
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