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Childhood Cartoons That Shaped Us

• Bobby Frost • Season 3 • Episode 77

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Remember how cartoons shaped your childhood? Bobby Frost and Shake take us on a nostalgic journey through their top five kid shows from the 90s, revealing layers of meaning they never caught as children.

The conversation digs deep into how Batman: The Animated Series taught valuable lessons about preparation and intelligence overcoming raw power. They unpack the surprising realization that many cartoon villains—from Magneto to ecological activists like Poison Ivy—were fighting legitimate battles against systemic problems. As Shake puts it, "Now that I understand, the villain really was the hero."

Their analysis of Power Rangers exposes the not-so-subtle racial coding (the Black Ranger was Black, the Yellow Ranger Asian) while celebrating how these team-oriented shows demonstrated different leadership styles and personality types. Captain Planet gets special recognition for its diverse international cast and environmental messaging—programming that mysteriously disappeared despite its positive influence.

Beyond mere entertainment, these shows served as crucial developmental tools. X-Men's mutant struggles mirrored real-world discrimination. Doug's everyday challenges helped kids navigate insecurities. Thundercats, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Dragon Ball Z taught loyalty, perseverance, and standing up for what's right.

The hosts reflect on how differently today's kids consume content compared to their generation's dedicated viewing habits. "Cartoons helped raise a nigga," Bobby notes, highlighting how these formative experiences shaped their worldviews in ways that today's on-demand viewing might not replicate.

Want to join the conversation? The Triparency team is seeking a female co-host to bring her perspective to these discussions. Drop us a line with your top five childhood shows and let's continue unpacking the surprising depth behind the cartoons that raised us. Hit the link below to show support. It's greatly appreciated

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Bobby Frost:

yo, yo yo, it's your boy, bobby frost. And bobby frost media presents tri-parency. I'm with my dog shake what up dog?

Shake:

what up dog? What up dog?

Bobby Frost:

we locking in for another episode, how y'all doing out there appreciate all the follows, the likes, the views, the downloads, everything, all the support Triparency. So we did a more serious topic last time, so this time we want to get into a more light-hearted, you know, topic, something a little bit more fun than we did with the 810 day, though. So I want to get into and I'm gonna give you a minute, think about it. What was your top five kid shows growing up? Like your top five, you know, because I always say like that's a very key, vital component to kids, to adults what you grew up on watching.

Bobby Frost:

What was your favorite shows? What did you get out them shows? What character did you like? Why did you like the character? Did you like the and we talking like power rangers? Did you like the leader in command, jason? Was you more into like somebody like Billy? Was you more into like the loner? And then coming into the fold like a Tommy, you know, if you look at the Ninja Turtles, was you again like? Did you like the leader, leonardo? Did you like the hothead, ralph? Was you more of the fun laid-back, chill Michelangelo? Was you more into like the? More I'm more intellectual, more a thinker. Donatello, was you into villains? Like some kids was into villains. I can't tell you where it was going to in life. Was you into Shredder?

Bobby Frost:

Well, we got gonna get into it yeah, so you know that's what it is. So you know, shake, you wanna go first with yours.

Shake:

You wanna go me to go first like um, you can go first, okay, like one of the things. Then, when you said about the villain, you feel me like that can be. We now, like now that we older, that's kind of in the air now.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, because it's perspective.

Shake:

Like when you was a kid like you like when you was a kid. You know you for good and you know, and you know the way they portray things. You feel me when you get older, if you got a thinking mind, it really opens all up to you. You feel me really like the villain, like now that I understand. Now the villain really was the hero man.

Bobby Frost:

You know what's funny about saying that, bro, like this is honest truth. You said that this crazy. You go look this up, man. I remember I I seen it on, I want to say, instagram about four years ago. It's a guy. He dope as hell. He on TikTok too that he dissects old cartoons. But like from a more logical standpoint it's funny.

Bobby Frost:

He was saying, like what you got GI Joe back in the day in the eighties big time show, like I didn't like. When I say I'm an eighties kid, I'm not an eighties baby, I'm a nins kid because I was born in 87 so I didn't get to see a lot of the 80s. You know what I'm saying. I don't recollect anything really out the 80s. All my stuff is nice. So I said I'm a 90s kid but like my youngest uncle grew up in the 80s and they used to watch gi joe.

Bobby Frost:

You feel me? Voltron, thundercats, all that. My pops used to watch a little bit of it. You know what what I'm saying? So I remember them just talking about that, the Transformers and I'm saying that because the dude was talking about how the Cobras commanders they have free healthcare for their workers. They had an episode talking about that. Like they have free healthcare for their workers. Dog, it's an episode talking about that. So you got to think this back in the eight as, like you know, the villains, you feel me the terrorists, but they had free health care for their workers if you was part of the camera, uh, the cobras. You know I'm saying following the cobra commander, you got free health care, with all the gi joes getting that. You know I'm saying you feel me, but it was, it was crazy, it was long contract and the dude break that down and the nigga was so 10.

Shake:

What is it called? A 1091?

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, you know what I'm saying so like you got to really think about that dog. Like that's funny as hell, but the dog was talking about that. It was funny as shit. Man, like I'm like damn, he even talked about. He was joking on that one. We was talking about like the uh, ninja turtles, how uh, the movies, that first movie, if you remember the movie he was saying how, like in the 80s I'm gonna send you the link too, bro, I'm gonna have to go find it it's funny as hell, but it's it's from like a realistic standpoint.

Bobby Frost:

He was saying how, like the foot clan took in a lot of kids on new york street that was didn't have nothing to do, that was getting kicked out, outcasted, so shredder gave him a sense of unity and brought him into. You know something, uh was showing how, like you know I'm saying the turtles was really picking on them and how was they supposed to survive in the 80s with the reaganomics and going through a recession. And talk about how master splintering they feed his kids nothing but pieces all the time. Like it's funny, bro, you have to check it out for that standpoint.

Shake:

Think about it, though he's digging some turtles that live in the sewer.

Bobby Frost:

You're right.

Shake:

You feel me? They eat pizza every day, Bro look.

Bobby Frost:

Their master is a rat. You feel me he go into all that type of stuff bro.

Shake:

We not even I love the Ninja Turtles still to this day, like he going to all that type of stuff, bro, and like we not even. Like, look, we write and I love the Ninja Turtles still to this day. It's my shit, you feel me? Yeah, but we literally going for the Ninja, we going for the Ninja Turtles, bro.

Bobby Frost:

Yep, so like. That's why I got to send you a link. It's funny, man. He do a bunch of different episodes, bro. Like he, and that's my top five, one of my top five I'm getting WB to segue me again to it. Batman Animated Series that's my favorite show of all time and he talk about how Batman-.

Shake:

That came on WB right.

Bobby Frost:

It went to WB, where?

Shake:

it start on.

Bobby Frost:

The first one started on Fox.

Bobby Frost:

Okay, I want to say that was 91, maybe 92 or 91 it started. And then the New Adventures. If you remember, if we go back and think about it, with the old batman, the anime series, they had a certain art style and then when it went to wb that's when they added another robin the art style changed. That's when they went to wb.

Bobby Frost:

But it's funny talking about that and he made sense.

Bobby Frost:

He was like you know how bruce wayne is one of the richest people in the world, definitely one of the richest people in the world, definitely one of the richest people in Gotham.

Bobby Frost:

But instead of him making you know what I'm saying using his money for resources for like to help people out psychologically and give them better housing, which he doing a cartoon I mean a comic book, but they don't talk about that in the cartoon. So he's just talking about from the cartoon and like he'd rather dress up and let his frustration out that his parents died and beat people almost into comas. Now, instead of helping with the economy and all, I like that, give them real resources and help, cause they mentally got problems and stuff like that. He was a cracking joke Like how you know you're the goons, you know you're a higher henchman and you in there trying to make ends meet because you got three kids and something like that you unemployed. Or you got a job, don unemployed, or you got a job, don't make a lot, so you go do something for the penguin or something trying to make ends meet.

Shake:

You ain't getting paid nothing, boom. Next thing.

Bobby Frost:

You know, you feel me here, you come busting through the window, beating the shit out, like this like this, nigga hate crime yeah, you feel me like, instead of like you say dude, he, whatever happens to him, he like you know what?

Shake:

I'm gonna make sure don't no motherfucker ever get off ever again, criminally.

Bobby Frost:

You feel me Beating the shit out of cats man? And like you got to think the way Batman was beating motherfuckers man, like he was beating motherfuckers. If you look at the punches and kicks and slams and judo tosses. He was beating motherfuckers to damn near death. Like, call me, he wouldn't kill you, but he beats you to the inch of your life. Like he was saying, like that he was showing the clips of the episode it's going to take you probably 10 months of recovery in the hospital to get back right and then you already don't got a good job. So who's paying for these medical bills? You're going farther into debt. That's what he said. You got to go back to the peeing window of the joker and he right back in the circle and next thing, you know, boom, he back on your ass. So it was just funny, you talking circle and next thing, you know, boom, he back up your ass. A whole bunch of broke up. Yeah, so it was just funny. You're talking about that, but I'm like that's why I said a batman like on a real tip.

Bobby Frost:

Batman was my favorite one man. I remember like growing up with my grandparents you know I'm saying y'all was even though I had family members outside. My cousin rodney, y'all for the longest was the closest. You know I'm saying family I had because I seen y'all every day, you and Z. So I remember watching Batman like if I wasn't kicking with y'all, I was in the house watching Batman and that I remember putting the little towels and sheets on, jumping off the couch and shit like that. Granted, he already kicked my ass and shit like that, but you know I'm I'm saying I just remember him raising me.

Bobby Frost:

And one thing I always remember about Batman and that's why he my favorite you know fictional character, dog just used a lot of his wit, even though he had money and stuff and the gadgets. A lot of the villains he went up against. They had superpowers, some of them had superpowers and shit. You know, like Mr Freeze or Poison Ivy, they had real deal soup clay face, real deal superpower. So his key thing was always be prepared, like people used to call him like, especially when he got off into another one of my shows, justice league. That's down the line when they introduced a lot of other dc characters.

Bobby Frost:

But yeah, dog batman was like bruce wayne was. One thing was about him he was always you got to be prepared for the worst. Whatever come in, if you prepare for it, you're good. You can't come in that motherfucker not prepared. And another thing about him too was like as I got older they got a class in college certain colleges about that breaking down the psychological you know what I'm saying profile and mindset of Batman. Because Batman don't consider himself Bruce Wayne, he considers himself Batman. Bruce Wayne is the disguise, as it was Superman. Clark Kent is who he really feel like Superman.

Shake:

Like I got older and I used to just watch Superman, like so y'all don't know this nigga.

Bobby Frost:

No, no, can't tell you Take glasses off and change his voice. Glasses.

Shake:

So his nigga disguise is glasses.

Bobby Frost:

Yep. And a change of voice. Now what they did to make sense, because I felt like that for the longest time. What they end up saying was his glasses got some type of material in it from Krypton. That makes you mesmerized into thinking that he looks so much different than they had to. Because once you again, once you start a lot of cartoons, it's just movies and shows, period. Once you start putting logic to it, you like damn, nobody figured out this dog. Like they got the same body shape, shoulders, chin.

Shake:

Like only thing different is his glass. What's her name? Lois Lane.

Bobby Frost:

Lois Lane, almost name.

Shake:

Lois Lane. Lois Lane Almost called her Lois Lane. You just always, you just always getting saved. Bro, you ain't never figured it out yet.

Bobby Frost:

Bro. You know what's funny about it, man. That's why I said, when you go back and read especially them, the ones it's called the Bruce Timm verse, that's where they all you know, that was the first continuity I seen. You see, the Bruce Tim verse, that's where they all you know. That was the first continuity I said. You see it now in a lot of shows. You see it with D, with Marvel movies and DC trying to do it in a lot of shows. I got that, but they was the first one. I remember the first two shows I remember that had continuity with it was, of course, them Cause Batman. Once Superman came out, they had the crossover episode with Batman and Superman. Then they brought in Static Shock, justice League, unlimited Justice League, and there's one more, but they all you know continuity, you know what I'm saying.

Bobby Frost:

It's an episode, man, where a dude takes a hit out on Clark Kent and knowing you know Clark Kent is who Superman, so Dog, couldn't believe how he, you know he ran him off the road, he went off a cliff. So when Clark Kent you know what I'm saying popped back up at the end of the thing, they caught him. You know Superman caught him and whatnot. He on death row. Like right, you got to watch the episode, man, yeah, right.

Bobby Frost:

As the episode about to end, dog look up and it clicks Like there's no way Clark Kent could have made it out that crash that quick. And where the hell did Superman come from that quick? And it clicked right before they pulled the chamber to kill him. It clicked. He like Clark Kent is Superman. And then it you know it goes on, but Dawg put it together. He was like man, ain't, no way Dawg made it out of there. This is regular news. I forgot why they put a hit out. It was something like a story he reported that he shouldn't have been reporting to the mob or something like that. And they put a hit out on Clark Kent. You know he was a daily reporter and dog at the end finally clicked like and he a journalist.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, he, like this, had to be Superman, but before he you know, they hit him, so that was a good one. Another one man that take me way back in the day dog like way, way, way back man. It was a funny one dog, but I used to like watching that a lot. I used to fuck with the Rugrats man.

Shake:

Yeah, most definitely Damn, I ain't.

Bobby Frost:

I fuck with the Rugrats man, and the Rugrats is always funny dog, because you know, like watching them, how it go and you can see, like, again, do talk about them to how they go, where they're going to end up at, and like you can tell you know what I'm saying when it's going, how they're going to end up and a lot of stuff. Even when I go back and watch the Rugrats, it was stuff I didn't even pay attention because the cartoons back then, you know, on it's the FDC. I want to say, is it FDC? What's it called? I can't, I don't know. I don't know this man, I should know it off the bat, but it's the guidelines for the broadcast. You know what?

Shake:

I'm saying Better broadcasting.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, that's what it is. So long story short. They got away with more shit in the early 90s as, as you know, for people catching on it was so many um, adult jokes and rugrats, bro, that kids were never caught. But if you go back and re-watch them episodes, you see them like just all type of stuff, like I don't know if you ever watched rocco's modern world. He had a uh, he was a sex. His job was a sex, uh, what they call them motherfuckers man, the ones that uh, on the hotline. He was a sex talker Sex. So you know. But we didn't know that. Watching it as I got older, like when I was like 16, 17, rewatched it.

Shake:

That's the whole thing, though. Like, what's the odds that a kid gonna honestly like when it come to even us? Like, how often is we we going back and watching old cartoons? Right, you understand what I'm saying, but when we do like times, I sit at the crib and watch old joints. I'm trying to pick my kids on them, but they just, I don't know you know what Colors or what you feel me, shit dope to me.

Bobby Frost:

Man. Listen, different generations, bro, because we didn't have all the technology we have now, so that's something they like to watch. We liked it to watch, they don't really get into. My son, rocky, started getting into 90s cartoons in 2000 on his own meaning. Used to rock with him a little bit too, madison, to go back and watch him a little bit. But rock me and rocker go back and watch shows together, like we watched static shock when he went back and watched um the boondocks, like he go back and watch shows with me and stuff like that.

Bobby Frost:

But he like, yeah, man, he said that the 90s and early 2000s was goaded. I'm like, yeah, it's dope that he say that. But yeah, like man, rocco's Modern World, that was funny, man. He had a. It was a joke, but the joke was like it showed a chicken getting choked while he was talking. You know what I'm saying was cold, but you again, you wouldn't have knew it if you didn't pay attention to it. Another show man that I love watching man was for sure the X-Men, like most of my shows was on. That I loved the most came on.

Shake:

The X, bro, and that's what I and that's one of them shows. Bro, when we was kids and you get older, you realize, and even watching the movies, like you grow, you grew up watching the cartoons and if you stuck with, got to watch the movies and stuff, then you finally get to the end it. It take 20 years for you to find out magneto really a good guy bro yeah you understand what I'm saying.

Shake:

And his intentions were pure, pure, yeah, and he knew that, no matter what, bro, just like it's, just like today's x-man, really really let you know about society, society, yeah, segregation, they just mean the way people look at you, bro. Look the mutants wasn't nothing but niggas, bro.

Shake:

Yeah that's what that was like seriously, bro, like, yeah, we watch our kid disney movies. Right, it's more racism and all type of shit in those movies, bro, than we ever like. Oh no for sure. Like it'd be. Like, bro, we'd be letting our kids watch these shows, bro, and you know, and we not even conscious of like the message that they're receiving. You know, and we not even conscious of like the message that they're receiving. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. Like the Lion King. You know what I'm saying. Beautiful movie, grew up on it. You know what I'm saying. But at the same time, like, if you think about it, why would I want my son or my kid or my daughter like realizing Simba lost his dad to a slimeball ass? Uncle, bro, yeah, that's some shit in the hood, like. So it's shit in the hood Right in Disney movies and our kids see it.

Shake:

You understand what I'm saying If you really think about it, scar slimeball, because, bro King, whatever, he don't like his son, because he feel like fuck his son, I should have the throne. You understand what I'm saying? Or to bring some slimeball ass niggas along with him. You feel me To fuck the hood up?

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, I'm going to tell you another show man. That was my shit, bro. I ain't put these in no order, so you know, I got the Rugrats, I got Batman. This, this I ain't put these in the order, so you know I got. I got the royal rats, I got batman, I got x-man doug man doug was my shit, man bro, doug was my shit, doug, doug, funny doug funny dog bb doug funny.

Bobby Frost:

Uh, skeeter patty mayonnaise. Roger roger was funny as hell. Dog roger was funny as hell like funny, funny man. But you know I'm saying watching doug doug, like seeing doug navigate life, and you know I'm saying that's why I liked it about doug so much, man watching it. You know I got to see real shit. Because the one thing I didn't know for the longest, bro, I didn't know until I got up in age that skeeter was black that's what I was gonna say.

Shake:

Look, check that I did not know that right, I knew skeeter was black and but then I didn't realize until I got older. I went back. I'm like, I'm like, damn these motherfuckers so cold that they couldn't even make skeeter black bro. They made that nigga green man no like he, like like they couldn't show you that that Skitter was a cool ass, nigga bro.

Bobby Frost:

Nope, and I didn't cause. You know a lot the thing. What they did smooth with that one. The only one that looked at white. White was Doug. If you go back and look at, even Patty Mayonnaise looked like she kind of 10 or she might be from another, another nationality, but everybody else and they was smart on their part Everybody else was a different color. Like Skeeter was like. He was like what I want to say man, he was green. He was a different type of green, because Roger was like that olive green, remember, with the leather jacket. Bb was like purple. Like everybody in that joint was different colors.

Shake:

I guarantee you, if we go back and do some more research, those colors.

Bobby Frost:

I guarantee you, if we go back and do some more research, those colors match up. Yeah, for sure.

Shake:

More likely to match up with whatever nationality that they come from. You feel me, I'm almost definitely going to have to go check Doug out.

Bobby Frost:

No, for sure.

Shake:

Bro, because it'd be symbolism and colors and all types of things that we, you know you a kid? You don't even really pay no attention.

Bobby Frost:

You don't even know, you don't pay. But, like I said, doug was my shit man Because, like I said, doug, watching Doug be unsure, work navigating through life, I'm like man. You know what I'm saying. I Even as a kid I could relate to some of that shit. I'm like, damn, sometimes you be unsure, you want these shoes, your parents couldn't get these shoes, but you see the other kid with the shoes Seeing Doug going through that type of shit. Doug was my shit man. Doug was definitely my shit man. I fucked with Doug my last favorite show. I was more up in age when this came out, man, but it still was my shit. I ain't putting none of the Toonami joints on there because when Toonami hit I was more so in my teenage years. But I fuck with all the Toonami shit from the Big O, dbz, gundam Wing and New Hotshot, all that. I rock with everything on there.

Shake:

Big O was really my shit that's what I was gonna say, too Big O.

Bobby Frost:

Big O was my shit. But on Cartoon Network I fuck with all the cartoon cartoons but my favorite joint, I still go back and watch it. That shit is good as hell, like golden man. Go back and watch Courage, the Cowardly Dog Brody Brody. And it's funny because Eustace was a hoe ass motherfucker man. Houston was a hoe man. Houston wasn't shit dog. Eustace wasn't shit Like, he was really fucked up dog.

Bobby Frost:

He dissed my nigga courage. Every chance he got scared the fuck out of courage. But courage always had love for the family man, even though he'll save eustace, you could tell he's reserved by saving. But mirror was his dog. And me, remind me of my grandmother. You know what I'm saying. Good hearted, you know what I'm saying. And eustace cotter remind me my granddad, just that old grump feeling, you know I'm saying.

Bobby Frost:

And man, but curse. And the one thing about curse man, don't matter what was the obstacle he was going through, what type of ghost demon, whatever was going on, alien, curse was coming with his. You know he'd take that first scare, take that first whooping. He'd go back upstairs, go to that computer, get the uh, getting uh the computer. I forgot what's the name of the computer, if it even had a name, but he'd go out there and he'd print out what he needed to print out and he'd go off and what do you know? He always stood by his own loyalty. So I fuck with courage, man, I still go back and watch. That's one of the shows I used to watch with my son. Man, funny as hell.

Shake:

Bro, one of mine is, of course, dragon Ball Z. You know, yeah, bro, that shit, like we used to run home to watch the episodes.

Bobby Frost:

Man, I'm going to skip practice to watch them when they finally brought the Freezing shit out, you know, because the shit had been out, but that's when it made mainstream.

Shake:

yeah, that's one of the things like when I was younger, growing up, you know my dad like, oh man, been watching them cartoons. Like what do you mean? It just came out Like boy, we don't know this stuff, old, you know what I'm saying. We don't even know like that, like you said, the FD, icf, whatever that is. We don't even know that it's a beef with them in imagery. Like when it comes to other countries, like, for example, right, dragon Ball Z was an anime from Japan.

Bobby Frost:

What China?

Shake:

I don't want to chop my head off for saying the wrong country, but, yeah, you feel me. So the reason we couldn't get it is because, like they had to, you feel me had to go through the proper channels to see if it was okay for us to get, like, is this okay for them to watch? You know what I'm saying, right, and we don't know what they took out, or you understand what I'm saying before we got it, you know so they don't be wanting to. When it comes to imagery, bro, like it's controlled, like to the max, bro, like growing up, you know we don't, we didn't understand it. But as I got older and I went back, um and just doing research on, like, how long certain cartoons have been, out yeah, you feel me dragon ball came out in the 80s right, you feel me so.

Shake:

But then when it got up to the more influential cartoons, bro, I'm going to say one of mine is Captain Planet.

Bobby Frost:

Yo, that's a good one bro.

Shake:

You know, captain Planet, bro. Just think about it. This show only lasted, bro, I think, four seasons. It wasn't that many. I'll look it up, bro.

Bobby Frost:

I'll look it up, it wasn't that many. It wasn't that many. I'll look it up, bro. I'll look it up. It wasn't that many. Definitely wasn't that many. It was just funny, man, because, like the characters, bro, six seasons from 1990 to 96.

Shake:

So just think about that. We, in a time where you know we really do need to be know, thinking about doing things different when it comes to climate and all this how we use resources, recycling and all that type of stuff like, why would you get rid of that? All right, the reason why? Because, like for one, we don't want y'all thinking about the environment in no clean way. We grow up up teaching you about, you know, captain Planet and the Planeteers, and Greedly, greedly dog, you feel me, man, they have some crazy names bro.

Shake:

Like for real, bro, because he was a greedy motherfucker. Yeah, they are. He trying to suck up all the resources. That's what they was on. You feel me? So, just with Captain Planet, bro. Planet bro was a team of people, bro, you know, a team of friends fighting against. Now, that's one that was really fighting against evil, you know, and it wasn't really no way you could flip that. You understand what I'm saying. But, bro, like that show teaching you about um, pollutants and all that, and once again, ethnicities right, it was ethnicities, right, it was all ethnicities from all around the world, bro.

Bobby Frost:

That's one of the first shows, bro. You said that man, not to cut you off. That's one of the first shows, bro, that made me want to learn more about the world, because I seen the characters. They from here, she's from Australia, he's from Africa, she's from Asia, from Asia.

Shake:

I want to check this out, that type of stuff. So we like, damn, you know it be certain things like they'll put it out there and let you watch it. And then, as they watching it, they like, oh shit, we got to get rid of this. Like for what? Look, man, it's teaching them to want to learn about other places. Bro, we can't have them curious about other places. We already tell them Africa is a piece of shit. You understand what I'm saying. But now we showing them a cartoon with five friends, one from America, one from South America, one from Africa, one from Asia, one from this place. Like, bro, what the fuck do you mean? Like where they do that at? Yeah, that's a good show, man, we can't be having that.

Bobby Frost:

That's a good show, man. I remember the one show I remember the most out of one when they got captain pollutant, when they got they got their rings and the dude's name was funny.

Bobby Frost:

like you had hoggis greedily this month, you had looting plunder duke nukem um vernon, miss scum, I don't know, it's bro. I I think I sent you that before. I know I sent that to everybody missed the one episode. That's the episode that made me remember that one, the big one stick out, when Dog had HIV but he was a hooper and Vernon Miscone was in a crowd with his homeboy. He had the little suit on trying to blend in. I don't know how he blended because he still looked like a rat, but he was blending in. That motherfucker said what did he say?

Shake:

uh, get him up out of here, he got AIDS and it was funny. But back then you gotta think just the early 90s magic just had. Just they were sending shots at.

Bobby Frost:

Brody, yeah, magic you, because magic had just came out with that shit. But people really did feel like that, like nah, it ain't like that. A motherfucker, hiv and AIDS now, yeah, you might not sleep with them for sure, but it ain't like it back then when that shit popped out in late, late 80s, early 90s, motherfucker had HIV or AIDS. Motherfucker wouldn't want to be around you like breathe the same air as you. That shit was tough. Back then Motherfuckers would commit suicide because they didn't have enough information about the shit.

Bobby Frost:

But the shit that always stuck out with me with that shit when they said man, get him up out of here, he got AIDS. And Daw dog was like, yeah, I don't want to play, he like man, you know, they kept real. Like no, they they ununiform about the situation. We gonna spread awareness like no, you can't hoop, you can't get a some sweat and shit like that. But then nobody know. But that was dope, that captain planet was bringing awareness to motherfuckers like that. So you wouldn't be, you know, judging and being slimy and nasty a motherfucker man because of you, uninform.

Shake:

Exactly.

Bobby Frost:

You feel me, give me another one. Brody, that's three. What was my other one?

Shake:

Power Rangers.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, bro, before you get into that one man, the funniest shit, because that's how we met Power Rangers. I always tell people they ask me, I say that's my sandbox home, but we go back to Power Rangers.

Shake:

That's how long we been rocking. I can honestly say that this man here really came out with Power Rangers before they came out with Power Rangers man, cause I used to just think about the colors.

Bobby Frost:

Bro, like they gotta go somewhere else before the White Ranger cause I'm like they gotta go somewhere else with it, bro. For real, I'm like I know y'all going to use more colors out the Crayola box than just these motherfuckers. Y'all got right here and I used to feel like we was bugged. We come up with a color. You look up a couple seasons later they got that bitch out there. I said these motherfuckers had it.

Shake:

The green, the gold and the white.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, they was some nasty motherfuckers. Man, still in colors. I said man. But the one thing I found that out early too. I'm like damn the Black Ranger, why is he black Like this? Couldn't have been a mistake.

Shake:

The Black Ranger is black and this nigga do hip-hop kung fu, you feel me?

Bobby Frost:

The Yellow Ranger happen to be Asian, like, come on man.

Shake:

You hear me once again.

Bobby Frost:

Them colors. Yeah, and there is the way you made a mistake with that one, the blue ranger. What is he white white, nerdy little motherfucker it's no way, y'all just happened to stumble up on that like that.

Shake:

The red ranger. You feel me he a lit hot head fire type cat it wasn't no way.

Bobby Frost:

You just happened to slam up on that. I I'm going to tell you. You, tell me your biggest episode. I'm going to tell you your biggest episode because Power Rangers I was going to take it but I kind of figured you was going to roll with Power Rangers. Yeah, that's definitely in there. Give me your favorite episode out of that joint or moment out of episode it ain't got to be episodes your favorite moment.

Shake:

Damn, I would say one of my favorites man, the putties, bro the putty. Like when I say bro them niggas you should just come out of, they always came out of nowhere. Like, like, like some hating ass niggas like that's what putties is bro that's what putties is some hating ass niggas, but um, one of my favorite ones, bro, was when when they fought what's his name. What he look like.

Bobby Frost:

Laura Zedd. Laura Zedd.

Shake:

Man, he was scary looking, though Motherfucker has a kid, because they always you know he's so-called the man, he always sending henchmen and shit, like nigga, what you want, you know what I'm saying. Like finally, finally, they got to him.

Bobby Frost:

You feel?

Shake:

me Goldar. Like bro, this nigga made Ultimate flunky. Definitely was Like bro, and this is one of the reasons right Growing up watching these type of shows, bro, it was no way possible that we were going to be flunky.

Bobby Frost:

Flunky Because you seen who the flunkies were Like. I'm not getting treated like Goldar.

Shake:

No, bro, ain't no nigga finna tell me.

Bobby Frost:

Fester was the nigga that made the clay that made it. He getting it Monster don't work. Not because he didn't make it good, it's just you didn't have a good plan for the monster. You wait Instead of bringing a monster. That's one thing I didn't get about Power Rangers. Instead of bringing a monster already big, y'all wait till he done, got his ass or jump by five or six teenage attitudes and then you want to throw your scepter down there and make him big. You should have caned stuff, the dribble with that shit. Then you want to whip, fence their ass because you're talking about his monster didn't work. No, your strategies didn't work. He gave you the tools, you just didn't work.

Shake:

He gave you the tools, you just didn't do right with the strategy and that's just like niggas in the hood, bro. Like these, bro, look. I really believe that whoever created these cartoons, bro, was always looking in the hood. But they like you know what? Hey man, what type of twist can we put on them? We got to put a twist on them. We just can't. You understand what I'm saying. Like, like, let's go in the black community and look at all the character traits in Pittman cartoons.

Shake:

Yeah, I could definitely see that, bro, for sure, because, like just with Power Rangers, you got the putties, you feel me, them, the lib workers, they just go, do you feel me? Then you got the henchmen, the captains you know what I'm saying that run around with the putties, that so-called somebody, you understand I'm saying. Then you got big dog, you feel me, yeah, chain of command exactly chain of command.

Bobby Frost:

My favorite, my favorite pioneer, I would say, was the green rangers when he popped out there because he whooped their ass for like a good week straight and he really had me thinking like man, power Rangers might not be able to win this because he was on their ass. But it wasn't that Mine was. As the season went on, you know, he started losing his power and he had the little fight where he had to fight Goldar and that bitch and Jason came in and helped him out and he was in his human form and Jason came out. They got over Goldar. But I'm like damn, he lost his power. So I'm like damn, time he gone. You feel me. And then he finally came back as the White Ranger. That was the part for me I'm like. Then he came back. Then he had to.

Bobby Frost:

What was the name of the fucking saber, saba? They only used me for like a couple episodes, like a season, because I'm like whatever happened to Saba? I know they, you know they changed from the Megazords they had. Like every season they went to a different version. But I'm like what happened to Saba? Because Saba used to talk and can move, shoot lights out, lasers out his eyes and shit. And then they just let Saba go and shit. I'm like, damn, what happened with Saba? Man, that was my shit man. Yeah, man, like I said, I used to love watching cartoons. Like I said, cartoons helped raise a nigga. Like I don't think kids got the same intensity span we have because I could go back and watch cartoons when we was younger. You get that we'll stop playing to come in to go watch cartoons when the new episodes, especially episodes coming in, we everybody just come on that phone, just come on at 3, 30, just come on at five.

Shake:

We gotta get new age time we went in the house for a minute.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, like to watch cartoons and one, one live, one jumping around and that really was locked. Shit, motherfucker, really was locked in. That's the real Motherfuckers really was locked in bro. Like yeah, man, so you know, that's ours, that we got for y'all man, our top ones man.

Shake:

I got one more Okay.

Bobby Frost:

I actually got.

Shake:

I got two more Gundam Wing. That was a shit, bro. You feel me Gundam Wing was a shit, bro, like I liked it. That like bro. Now, once again, a lot of these shows, bro, we not understanding the political aspect behind them.

Bobby Frost:

We was too young to understand it. When you go back and re-watch them, you see it, you understand what I'm saying, that's what make the show so good Stand the test of time.

Shake:

You go back and watch that with the gunner for sure. So even like um the other ones you feel me all the cartoons, bro, especially like um, first of all x-man. You feel me the justice league, all that type, but any type of team oriented cartoon is going to have that aspect to it. You feel me Even like the show. Damn what it was called. What's it? Yeah, it was Justice League. Justice League, the dude used to come out the swamp the cartoon, right yeah.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, you're talking about the Legion of Doom.

Shake:

Yeah, no, the Legion of Doom, yeah, like that show you feel me Like, bro, as you grow, you know you don't be when you a kid, you know it is what it is. You know you see what you see. But as you get older you like, damn you going to death. Them dudes really was fighting the good fight, but we didn't understand it.

Bobby Frost:

Some of them villains for sure, like you have motherfuckers like Joker, that was just an asshole, he was a fucked up individual. But you had other motherfuckers like I could use, for instance, like Chitara, the motherfucker that fought with Wonder Woman all the time, or like Poison Ivy. They wanted to help out with the ecosystem. You know what I'm saying Stop deforestation. You know what I'm saying Keep the foresters alive, keep the jungles alive. Yeah, they might have went at it the wrong way, but they did went at it the good way. I'm going to say one more man. Say the other one you got, because I got one more.

Shake:

before we get up out here that I didn't think of it, just hit me now the other one.

Bobby Frost:

Beetleborg, beetleborg. That's the continuity. Beetleborgs and Power Rangers was in the same continuity, like that, because dog, I can't think his name, but he popped up and he showed. He showed up in both uh, uh, both series. I can't think of dog. Now I'm gonna research, I'm gonna get back to you, but he was in both series. I can't think of dog name. He uh some rider, but he was in both. It was something a black. He was his, his, his colors was black, and it was like some rider. I'm gonna get back to you and let you know who it is, though, but yeah, man flab, man Flabbergaster, man Flabber.

Shake:

I don't think I remember that you don't remember.

Bobby Frost:

No, the dude Flabber, that was the ghost-looking dude with the blue, with the big-ass chin. He was their homeboy in the little mansion, and shit, flabber, yep. Now I'm going to tell you another one man I watched, because it came on, or Japanese shows from 290. Thundercats was my shit, bro, exactly.

Shake:

I was going to say that too.

Bobby Frost:

Thundercats was my shit man, lionel Panthro, chitaur and bro. Like again, I just always go back and look at them shows because man some of them villains was just like slimeball hating ass niggas Like Mom Ra was really a hating ass motherfucker.

Shake:

Mom mutt like to serve the yeah, that's how niggas was like.

Bobby Frost:

Certain niggas was like that mom ride was a slimy nigga bro. His whole mo was about manipulating motherfuckers and you feel me? That was his whole mo man. He was a nasty nigga dog, mom ride like. If I had to look at a villains like top villains we might do that later and I'm like what top five villains you know? I'm saying you grew up on Mom Ra right up there. He was a slimy nigga dog like and it was crazy because the nigga power only lasted like an hour. But an hour he calls before he even go into Mom Ra to ever living ancient spirits of evil.

Bobby Frost:

Grant me your power to transform into Mom Ra to ever living before he even get there. When he just an old, decrepit ass nigga. He still working game Slimy. He got baboon the lizard man, all these niggas in that bitch ape man. He like he got these the jackal. He got these niggas on straight bullshit mission. Then when he catch the thundercats like roaring out. Now I'm about to turn to mom ride and work out on your ass. But that'd probably be my favorite. Uh, yeah, that'd probably be my favorite weapon.

Bobby Frost:

Sword of Omens. That bitch was cold man. Yeah, give me Sight Beyond Sight. Nigga, that bitch was cold. Nigga, I don't think it's a weapon out there. I can think of just off GP. Nigga, it was better than the Sword of Omens. That bitch was cold. Nigga, that bitch had all type of moves. Nigga, what's dog name Jogger? Come in that bitch and get to talking in line, knowing shit, giving the wisdom, showing you that you need a mentor, an elder, getting you together. Yeah, that was the shit, bro. That was the shit for sure, for sure, man. But yeah, y'all hit us up, man, and tune in with the comments, man. Let us know, or DM us whatever man in that lead comments. Let us know what was some of y'all top five shows or if y'all, like the ones we have, give us some that we might have, should have had in our top five. Let us know, brody, what you you been in and bumping into music or late.

Shake:

Man, I've been. I've been listening to this, I've been listening to LA. I don't know people, you know people. You know Liv Russell, that's who I've been bumping this week. You feel me. You know, I really like a different like. For example, I was listening to Brody 2 yesterday but talking about Jig. You feel me, but at the same time, like bro, I be liking like a different type of vibe.

Shake:

Right right right, it ain't nothing against um our music in michigan or anything like that. You feel me like we can, we make good music, we got good music, but I just like different music no, there ain't nothing wrong with that.

Bobby Frost:

I'm the same way I listen to different shit, bro.

Shake:

Like one of the reasons I why I listen to currency is because I'm like damn like this a guy who was, you know, fully entrenched in labels and all that type of stuff.

Bobby Frost:

I had to get out that shit, but he stayed the course.

Shake:

And said you know what man I'm not like? That's the type of people I want to listen to, bro. I want to listen to people that got backbones, bro, right, that, okay. Look, I can make millions of dollars doing this, but this ain't me what I look like running around talking about shooting and killing that ain't what I'm on I like to chill and smoke mentioning that that's what I was getting to his new project I fuck with his new project 830.

Bobby Frost:

That bitch cold. I'm mad at him and Giz. But that first couple bars he said that they sent it like currency. Nigga how he sent them. Bitches out, he's smooth, nigga.

Shake:

So you look, I hear him talking about better. What's something about a chevy? Yeah, he told me he started my savvy about when it brought out the rose right, so I'm listening a song come through because I just let my spotify just random, you understand what I'm saying.

Bobby Frost:

So a song from through, because I just let my Spotify just play random.

Shake:

You know what I'm saying. So a song from they album that he did came on and I hear this nigga talking about him himself riding in a Chevy. So I'm like, oh, this nigga took his own verse and flipped it.

Bobby Frost:

Yeah, you have to pay attention to it, man, that shit be deep.

Shake:

That, yeah, you have to pay attention to it man, that shit be deep. Say it to the sky, man, that shit be deep man, but yes, man.

Bobby Frost:

He out, man them my two, man them be my two. I'm going to say this and wrap it up bro them be my two favorite artists for like the last 10 years. No bullshit, back to back them two. And when they did Fetty together, I'm like hell yeah. And then that shit came out. So I was like I'm like damn as a fan, like man, damn, bro. Y'all niggas made good Anytime. I heard y'all niggas on track from the first one. I heard y'all on Scottie Pippen to the Fetty song, and then y'all did Fetty the album shit was always amazing.

Shake:

Y not doing no videos and I get both sides. I'm like bro, I be mad at the nigga myself, yeah. So if you mad at him for it, I know fans mad at him too, because we like nigga, but that's currency that's the only you know what I'm saying.

Bobby Frost:

I ain't gonna pick, no side cause I fuck with both of them. But that's the only real issue I have with Gibbs. Like you know, currency don't do that shit. That nigga might drop six, seven projects in a year. He don't do videos and roll-offs with them. Motherfuckers like that. That's currency. But I also got where Gibbs was coming from, because Gibbs was hollering at him to do it. Like nigga we just did this Alchemist, Nigga we done. Got mad props for this bitch. Womp, womp, womp.

Shake:

But that's not currency, so you't do it for his own shit. So I got both sides, but I hope no. But it's simple. Like look bro, one of the things I heard he said they asked him and he said the key was to make less money. And I'm like what? And then it made sense, made sense like damn, like bro, when your bank account get to a certain amount and they know it, they come on. I like, I'm gonna highlight you, that's just what it is. When he said that, like, just think about it.

Shake:

So if you dope right, like you is, but you make music and you know that shit dope as hell, but you're like damn, I can't push it to the max, because then it's going to bring attention. You understand what I'm saying? Because it's going to bring attention, bro. And that attention you ain't going to want that attention bro, because if this song get to hitting the airways, bro, and guess what, and this song somehow hitting the airways, doing numbers and numbers and numbers and numbers, and you independent, oh, that's a problem, buddy. Yeah, that's real. You feel me. That's why niggas don't push. They make the money that they need to make and get up out of there. And get up out of there, bro ain't shit wrong with that.

Bobby Frost:

That's the real. So, yeah, man, hey, we appreciate it again. Man, y'all tap in, run them numbers up, man, and anybody that's. We looking for a third female co-hosts that's really ready to lock in, like we need one, because I want to give a woman the respect Like on this topic right here I would love to hear a woman top five cartoon shows. So we're looking for one, somebody that's going to really be locked in with the team. Man, we appreciate all the support and we're going to be back out to y'all we out.

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