Shaun
Host
00:00
This is Off To Off Topic, a show where two men with the attention spans of a squirrel try and fail to stay on topic with today's subject. Where will their oral meanderings take us? Well, stick around and listen, because today's Off To Off Topic topic is…. In the first half of our show on Mr T, we discussed his upbringing in the south side of Chicago, his possible hatred of trees, where he got his iconic gold chains, the bizarre Mad Max A-team connection and finally how he landed his role in Rocky III. To continue our story in 1984, Mr T was just starting his run as BA Bracus in the A-team. Now the media saturation begins With Mr T stocking an all time high. Everyone wants a piece of him. First up animation studio Ruby Spears, come calling Every here they make… no, but I know the cartoon that they made, so…. 

00:50
Yep, they did other cartoons, though that you'll probably remember. I remember them anyways Thundar, the Barbarian, sektars and the Centurions. 

Nate
Host
00:59
I know of them. I've never seen any of them. 

Shaun
Host
01:01
Thundar, I believe, was kind of like a… who was it? Wildcats, battlecat, thundercats, knockoff, I believe. Sektars, I remember, was these guys that kind of wore like Centurion outfits but they rode bugs, which I pretty sure that's what it was, which I thought was pretty cool at the time. It was very much a toyatic cartoon. Soldiers are knights riding bugs. Kids will love this. Kids like bugs and also the Centurions, which I vaguely remember. I think that was just another kind of knockoff of Conan the Barbarian or whatnot. But these were not top tier cartoons, these were the dregs that you saw in between Hannah and Barbara. 

Nate
Host
01:38
Oh, I immediately pictured the start of Cartoon Network. Remember when Cartoon Network started, that's all it had. They had a couple… Eventually they had some Dexter's Laboratory and think how puff girls. Yeah, I mean, when they first came on it was all… it was just like cartoon, cartoon show and… OG space ghost, not space ghost ghost, of course, like they're airing original space ghost and yes, Speed buggy and stuff like that. 

Shaun
Host
02:08
So it worked. 

Nate
Host
02:09
You know they did that. They got some interest and they started making their own stuff. And fair enough, yeah. 

Shaun
Host
02:15
You were talking like Late Night. Black and White was one of the early things they did. It was old cartoons from the 20s and 30s. The old cartoons that they'd set to house music and transit music. Oh, yes, yeah, and they only showed it like 1.32.30 in the morning. 

Nate
Host
02:28
We know who you are, we know why you're watching this. 

Shaun
Host
02:31
Yeah, I could be wrong, but I think that did predate an old swim and a bunch of their original stuff. 

Nate
Host
02:37
Well, probably their original stuff. Absolutely, I believe it. I was thinking like predating their stuff that, like the old 50s and 60s that they were playing that no one heard about. 

Shaun
Host
02:45
Oh, no, no, no. Ruby Spears came calling with an idea of a cartoon, and their idea was going to feature Mr T you guessed it Driving a van, a van full of teenage gymnasts going around and solving crimes. To be precise, my gymnast. It was a gymnast. 

Nate
Host
03:01
I'm not known for their investigative abilities. 

Shaun
Host
03:06
No, but they are known for being able to like somersault over walls and get into places and letting Mr T be like hup, hup up them over onto roofs and stuff. I think that's all it really was about being like, how are we going to get all these kids to be like super athletic and be able to jump over rivers and stuff and swim a bunch? I know we'll make them gymnasts, but then again I also have no idea. Maybe it's just an excuse. From all the way to the same track suit. 

Nate
Host
03:31
We need one body type, and then we'll slap heads. 

Shaun
Host
03:37
Pretty much. Yeah, what kind of body type is this? It's not a football player, let's say gymnast. You can tell he's based off of Scooby Doo. They're just like hey, kids like this idea. Just throw a bunch of people in a van and have them solve mysteries, and it was very, very much obviously the basis for the awesome show Mike Tyson's Mystery Tour. 

Nate
Host
03:57
Yeah, that's what, honestly, I was thinking about that. 

Shaun
Host
04:00
I did watch a little bit of that show, and is it good? No, but I'm guessing, probably because they invested a lot of money in the Mr T name and everything and hiring him, the animation did seem a little bit better than the jank of the time. It feels like they put a little more effort into it, kind of one of those hey, if anything was going to take off for us, we should probably do this. But it didn't. 

Nate
Host
04:22
Yeah, I couldn't imagine that I mean again, especially with the quality they had. I know you said it was a little bit better than normal, but better than their original. 

Shaun
Host
04:32
Well, let's say, if the average Hannah Barbera and Ruby Spear stuff from the time back then was a free and the cartoon rating of good cartooning, good animation, this is probably about a four and a half or a five. It's not that much better, but it is better, but not nearly as good as like the upcoming DuckTales era that we will be envisioning, where animation really took off in the Saturday morning cartoon department. 

Nate
Host
04:57
I like DuckTales. 

Shaun
Host
04:59
I like DuckTales too. It is quite good. I do have the problem with it being a burnout, because I watched every episode like five times because it was the only thing on while I was getting ready for school. Oh yeah, see, I believe I like DuckTales, followed by Rescue Rangers, followed by Darkwing Duck, followed by it, kind of varied depending on the years, but Darkwing Duck is the best. 

05:18
I did like Darkwing Duck. It also seemed like it was kind of the one that was more aged towards, like the older kids in that group. It seemed to have more adult jokes in it than a lot of them. 

Nate
Host
05:29
Yeah, it would mean it was clearly just trying to rip off Batman. 

Shaun
Host
05:33
Oh, very much so, but still really good, I loved it. 

Nate
Host
05:36
So I never really like, I never really got the whole like watch pad. You know it's like. Oh well, you know, remember him from DuckTales, so yeah, like oh yeah, I guess we'll bring him in Yep. 

Shaun
Host
05:49
Yeah, I know, it's just like they had to have some sort of crossover going there. Oh yeah, fintan Quackchill showed up there too. It's Gizmo Duck. Yeah, I sure did, didn't you Yep Quite a Gizmo Dictators show kind of later in the series I think Gizmo Duck. 

Nate
Host
06:03
Oh stupid. 

Shaun
Host
06:04
I did not get it. Yeah, I, that's because he was a very obvious robo-cop. No, I don't know. 

Nate
Host
06:12
I thought it was stupid. I mean, I was just like, oh, he's a dumb character. I was just like that's just dumb. 

Shaun
Host
06:19
Yeah, I remember he kind of was a day ex machina for the series too. He was like, hey, we don't know where to go, we'll just have Gizmo Duck show up and summon his little armor. 

Nate
Host
06:27
And we'll have that villain whose electro was not electro. 

Shaun
Host
06:32
So the show actually managed to make it two years and 30 episodes, which was kind of surprising to me. But the most important thing this show did is it is famous for giving voice actor and actor Phil Lamar his first gig. You might recognize that name, phil Lamar, that is, and voice acting Giggs. He was the voice of Hermes Conrad from Futurama and a few other voices there, samurai Jack Kit Fisto on Clone Wars, like most of the guys out fosters home for imaginary friends yeah, the list goes on. He was also on Mad TV and that's where I got mad TV. 

Nate
Host
07:07
He was also the guy who got shot in the face on Pulp Fiction right. Oh yeah, I think he was actually. I knew I was like no, no, no, I wasn't disputing the people you were reading off, were you know from him? But yeah. I know the name from somewhere else and sure enough, it was from Mad TV. 

Shaun
Host
07:26
Yeah, yeah, I recognize him because I don't know. I just read a lot of credits, I guess on cartoons, because he is in a lot of cartoons. I didn't know that. Oh, you didn't really. Oh, yeah, look up. His 1984 also saw the release of the Mr T breakfast cereal that was based on the cartoon we just talked about. The Captain Crunchy Knockoff had an impressive nine year run before it was pulled off the store shelves. It nine years, that's not bad for breakfast cereal that's based off of a flash in the pan cartoon. 

Nate
Host
07:51
I feel yeah, I'm surprised it lasted long and I, honestly, I've never had it. Have you. 

Shaun
Host
07:56
Neither did I. No, I described it as a sugary version of Captain Crunch. 

Nate
Host
08:00
I mean sure that's all they're really doing. I mean, most likely it might just just be Captain Crunch, if they just changed the. 

Shaun
Host
08:07
It probably was. 

Nate
Host
08:07
It took the Captain Crunch and made it to Mr T's and then, or whatever they had. 

Shaun
Host
08:11
Yeah, I don't even feel if they are shaped in T's. I think there's actually kind of just shaped in Captain Crunchy shape. Yeah, I think it might have been like the old movie. 

Nate
Host
08:20
We'll change the box, and that's it. 

Shaun
Host
08:21
Yep, actually now I'm curious. I'm gonna pop up and see what the actual shape of the cereal looks like. No, no, it was actually little too much. Yeah, I think that looks like teas, kind of lazily made teas, sort of like their extruder machine broke somewhere along the way and they're just like. 

Nate
Host
08:42
Yeah, good enough. 

Shaun
Host
08:43
Good enough, Look at this. Yeah right the kids, they won't care. 

Nate
Host
08:49
They're just like sugar. No, no, no, no. 

Shaun
Host
08:52
The Mr T cereal also had some bit rolls in Hollywood as well. It was an acting cereal, nate. It starred in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, the 1992 comedy Boomerang, stranger Things, season 3, episode 7, the 2018 Transformers movie Bumblebee and Rules of Engagement, season 5, episode 16. That all had guest appearances by that cereal. Not a bad acting career for sugary breakfast cereal now, is it? 

Nate
Host
09:17
Why would that? I mean, I get that the 80s, you know, the Boomerang movies from the 80s, are fair enough, but this is, I don't remember this. 

Shaun
Host
09:24
Pee Wee's Big Adventure man. That makes sense. It was in the 80s to show Pee Wee was a childlike man eating his breakfast. What is the deal with? 

Nate
Host
09:31
Pee Wee, because he's not a kid, he's not a man and everyone seems to put up with his BS. We watched the most recent one and Joe Magnell whatever his name is and he met Pee Wee and they became best friends and he's like let me invite you. And Joe Mandalorian is playing himself. So, anyway, he runs into the Pee Wee and he's like come to my birthday party. And Pee Wee is like well, I've never left this small town which, by the way, he rules. He rules a small town because he dear I'm assuming his every morning routine because you know all the Pee Wee movies he wakes up and there's some big gold uh, root goldware machine, you know wakes him up and I mean this is his morning routine. He literally like skateboards through people's houses and steals their breakfast as they're eating at their table and they're like hi, pee. 

Shaun
Host
10:22
Wee. 

Nate
Host
10:23
Like what is happening. There was no one stopping this man. 

Shaun
Host
10:29
Everybody just sitting right at breakfast. All of a sudden here it's not thunk at the door, it's like junior, did you forget to open the door for when Pee Wee rolls? 

Nate
Host
10:36
through at 7 in the morning. No, no, I didn't forget. I did it on purpose because fuck Pee Wee, yeah right. 

Shaun
Host
10:42
Fuck that dude. He took my last piece of peanut butter toast yesterday. 

Nate
Host
10:46
He took my last bit of peanut butter toast and fuck my girlfriend. That's right. 

Shaun
Host
10:51
Yeah, I don't tell that that weedy gave me fucking sucks. So that was the newest one. I haven't actually seen it. It's on Netflix. I mean again, it's definitely has moments, it's dumb as shit, but it's like the other Pee Wee movies where you're like this is stupid. 

Nate
Host
11:08
Yeah, I mean the best part is that the girls I love too. He goes to this um, like house of snakes or something and he's terrified of snakes and they go in there and it took a lot of the fakes snake you've ever seen. Is there a screams and it screams like so high pitch, like glass breaks. It's hilarious, it's stupid. It's hilarious. 

Shaun
Host
11:28
Yeah, yeah, that's one of those where you laugh at it and then afterwards you're like I kind of feel bad. Yeah you have that. But whatever, and as far as Pee Wee Herman I know, originally it was a standup comedy character Paul Rubens did that had. That was kind of it was supposed to be like a child in a man's body who is a pervert and it was kind of like dark pervy humor. 

Nate
Host
11:51
I'm thinking you might be right. 

Shaun
Host
11:52
I've no idea, oh really. Oh, okay, you don't know about that, because, yeah, I know it was part of Paul. 

Nate
Host
11:57
Rubens standup routine. I knew that I did. 

Shaun
Host
12:00
Okay, because you can actually see a Pee Wee Herman doing coke with Tommy Chong, and one that's each. 

Nate
Host
12:04
Oh yeah, like as Pee Wee, yeah. 

Shaun
Host
12:07
I mean, he's not. No, he's not as Pee Wee but as Paul Rubens and he's dressed exactly like Pee Wee, Herman, and he's looking and I think he even does a kind of thing. But basically he's just sitting at a table with Tommy Chong and he kind of gives him his eyes like huh, and Tommy's like what, and Paul Rubens looks like hey, hey, points out a table at both going to table and you start hearing sniffing left or right and then they get up and their noses are all white. Because that's I guess that's what you did back in the 70s and early 80s. You just invited strangers do cocaine under a table with you. It was a simpler time. I'm sitting at the bar and some dudes just like hey, you want to go to the table and do some coke with me. I'm probably going to say no because that's just sort of odd. 

Nate
Host
12:49
Yeah, no, man, I'm not going to do all that. 

Shaun
Host
12:51
Moving on from the breakfast cereal that Mr T probably had very, very little involvement with. 

Nate
Host
12:56
Or didn't you know what happened? Like what are these? 

Shaun
Host
12:59
What are these six? 

Nate
Host
13:00
for. 

Shaun
Host
13:02
Mr T talking to his kid. Be like why am I on that box of breakfast cereal? 

Nate
Host
13:06
He gets all mad. What's sick fuck for my. 

Shaun
Host
13:10
I'm going to sue them. Dad, you were just talking about this the other day. He's like Krusty the clown, where he's just endorsed so many things he just can't even remember. 

Nate
Host
13:19
Oh, that's what those checks are for. 

Shaun
Host
13:21
Yeah, so in 1984, he released a kids rap album, as was the style of the time. Because, I don't know, I feel like everybody who was, you know, big and big with kids are popular with the kids they had to release some sort of rap album. 

Nate
Host
13:36
I believe this football he's the least one that yeah, yeah like. Super Bowl Shuffle. I absolutely blame the Super Bowl. Super Bowl Shuffle Fuck this. 

Shaun
Host
13:45
Yeah, I actually. This came out before the Super Bowl Shuffle by a year. 

Nate
Host
13:50
I still blame the Super Bowl Shuffle. 

Shaun
Host
13:52
I would still to, because I mean blame the Chicago Bears and Chicago. You know who else came from Chicago, mr T. 

Nate
Host
13:59
Who did start the whole thing, because there was a mean, every so often a rap. I mean they've kind of stopped doing that. I know the Bart man was the last one to do it, but I remember the. 

Shaun
Host
14:07
Oh God. Well, actually I was just about to bring up the Bart man in just a moment, because have you listened to the Bart man song recently, Not recently. 

Nate
Host
14:15
Oh my God, so you remember it. 

Shaun
Host
14:18
Everybody. Do the Bart man. Do the Bart man if you can, can't Bart? 

14:20
man, I knew all the words. It was awful, okay, yeah, yes, it was awful. Did you know? That song is like six minutes long, nate. Oh, wow, yeah, it is. Because a long time ago somebody was like hey, I remember this, I'll just pop it on and the song goes and goes and goes. It's like four times longer than it has to be. It is just mind numbingly bad. And almost most of it is just literally like the background singers doing like, do what you can do, the Bart man man, do what you can do the Bart man man. And Bart Simpson just saying the occasional like weird lingo, like don't have a cow man over the top, but that's like a good two thirds of the song, oh, it's bad. But as far as who got the celebrity rapping thing going, I don't know much like the Bart man song. 

15:04
The 1984 kids rap album had several songs that are far too long. The shortest song of all these is four and a half minutes, which far too long, and the longest one clocks into five minutes 12 seconds. And they have fun titles like Mr T's commandment Don't talk to strangers. The toughest man in the world, mr T. Mr T Parentheses, he was made for love. Damn the one and only. Yeah, right, mr T. Mr T, he was made for love, hey children gather around. 

Nate
Host
15:37
Let's sing our favorite song. 

Shaun
Host
15:39
This one's for the mother's, listening in as he puts all like this velvet smoking jacket next to the piano. Hello ladies, put the kids to bed. It's time for Mr T Do the same to you. 

Nate
Host
15:52
Don't worry, ladies, I'll be gentle, but I won't. 

Shaun
Host
15:59
The one and only Mr T. No dope, no drugs, which kind of sounds like a knockoff of no woman, no cry, or something like that. 

Nate
Host
16:06
Oh man, what if it was? What if it was literally like beat for beat, no woman, no cry. 

Shaun
Host
16:12
That'd be so awesome. And you think the meaning of the song is no dope, no drugs, in a good way, but no, it's like sad, it's like I've got no dope. 

Nate
Host
16:20
I've got no drugs. It's a moment. 

Shaun
Host
16:22
No dope, no drugs, which is even better because the next song is you got to go through it which could be about withdrawals. 

Nate
Host
16:32
But although shakes you can't get in the toilet, these are wraps, though. Right, these wraps are these wraps? These were wraps? Yeah, each and every one of them. To start with, I'm Mr T. I'm here to say, as you go on. 

Shaun
Host
16:47
I listened to a couple of them but I was just like jumping around the song. But I don't believe they did, although this almost sounds like a date with Mr T, kind of, if you go to the toughest man in the world, followed by Mr T, mr T, mr T he was made for love followed by the one and only Mr T, followed by no dope, no drugs, followed by you got to go through it. It's a very interesting date with Mr T too. 

Nate
Host
17:12
Mr T, you got on my hair. I have a day later. 

Shaun
Host
17:23
Oh, kids are listening. Just, oh, my God, you used to be like what is? 

Nate
Host
17:25
that my wife's going to kill me. 

Shaun
Host
17:28
And the bonus track I ain't paying no child support, right, yeah, yeah, but it's exactly what you think. It's just positive messages for kids. It's just yeah, there we go and about the round. The same time, too, mr T also released Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool, which was a self-help video for kids. This one didn't have so much rapping, but it did have some music in it. This video actually was kind of notable for having early appearances of Ice T, the new edition and Fergie in it. It had breakdancing and rapping and a song about losing your mother, with real mom singing backup. Wow, yeah, yeah. Help children with the grieving of losing a mother, because when your mother dies, the first thing you think is Mr T, I need help. 

Nate
Host
18:19
So I mean, were they real moms? Like what do you mean? Like legit mothers? We always hire mothers. The mothers must convey. 

Shaun
Host
18:26
Yeah, apparently that's what the actual box ad said was and a special song dedicated to mothers, sung by mothers. And you know honestly, it probably was a lie, but they did. I saw a clip of the video and all the moms were wearing mom clothes? 

Nate
Host
18:40
That was even my question. Is mom clothes or is it, you know, sequined dresses or sexy ladies or something? 

Shaun
Host
18:48
Yeah, yeah, it's not like they're singing and giving birth at the same time, so I can't really vouch for whether they were actual mothers or not. 

Nate
Host
18:54
Yeah like where a real mother is to have a background like a recording of their going through labor as producer. 

Shaun
Host
19:02
And the producer's like hey, man, when it gets to the breakdown, if you can start crowning the child at that moment, come on lady crown on the beat yeah. That sounds like a song we could write crowning on the beat. Crowning on the beat. 

Nate
Host
19:19
We could write it, but you will have soul credits. Ha ha. 

Shaun
Host
19:26
That was the mistake that cost Nate millions of dollars in the long run. It's like a motherfucker. I never would have guessed he was showing up a lot on TV, guest appearances too at this time, mr T, that being being on different strokes silver spoons, a lot of dairy commercials and showing up with Nancy Reagan and sitting in her lap, or she was sitting in his lap. 

Nate
Host
19:46
Oh, man, that's that. I prefer the original one, she's sitting in her lap. She's like oh my God, my bones, yeah, my Reagan just in her black. 

Shaun
Host
19:56
I'm oddly aroused by this mother. 

Nate
Host
20:00
I'm being deservedly murdered. No. 

Shaun
Host
20:03
He was seen out, he didn't know what was going on. 

Nate
Host
20:06
Man, I mean going off a little, a little tangent. I the dare program. I mean again. I know I've told you before, but I only remember the dare program was a cop coming in showing us a closed box full of like pipes and one of them was a toilet and I just Wow, druggies have a sense of humor. 

Shaun
Host
20:27
They might be my kind of people. 

Nate
Host
20:28
Yeah, I just remember going oh cool, look at this. I mean, as everyone, as anyone knows like that sounds said, that is not work. 

Shaun
Host
20:37
But yeah, dare did not work and at least in town I grew up and when dare came by and has shown all drug paraphernalia and stuff, most of the students reaction was like, yeah, I see my parents using that on daily. What this? This is nothing new. But yeah, dare, dare was very much not taken seriously by anybody I remember in school not one, well, maybe like a couple of the really goody goody kids, but even then they might just been looking for good grades. Yeah, the year is 1985. And yes, all this has happened by the year of 1985. He went from being like a nobody and say in nineteen, ninety or nineteen, seventy seven, and one of the biggest guys in the world in less than 10 years. That's pretty impressive in my mind. 

Nate
Host
21:16
Yeah, I mean that's a pretty good run. 

Shaun
Host
21:18
Yeah, especially for back then. I mean, you can kind of do I feel like you can do it faster now with YouTube and this and that, but you know, back in the days it was a harder nut to crack in. And the top three networks are the only three networks. 

Nate
Host
21:29
Yeah, I mean, they're pretty back there. I hear they're pretty brutal Because, again, they only. You have a certain amount of time to the day and there's only three networks. 

Shaun
Host
21:39
You know it needs the work or it's gone. And nowadays, if like ABC or NBC needs more time to air, they'll just start up a new network. Right, we'll come up with NBC three, because we need more channels out there. 

Nate
Host
21:52
Everybody needs more channels. 

Shaun
Host
21:54
So yeah, 1985 and Vince McMahon of the then WWF is starting up a little thing called WrestleMania and wants as much star power as he can get for the event, because he knows this could be a make or break thing, not for just for him, but kind of in wrestling in general. I mean, wrestling wouldn't have gone away if this failed, but it might not have hit full stride and become you know that in the daily lexicon of people as it did in the 80s, because I don't know, you weren't like a huge wrestling fan back in the day, but it was definitely a smaller, more what was the key? 

Nate
Host
22:25
that was a big wrestling fan up until the. I don't know when I started, but do you know when I stopped? When Ultimate Warrior beat Hulk Hogan for the title and I actually walked down to our local video store and I rented the VHS for it because we didn't have cable. We didn't have it so it obviously happened wide prior. So we went back to my friend's house we watched the whole thing. I remember getting all sad. Was that for? 

Shaun
Host
22:55
I believe that's WrestleMania four, I think so, or five. It was one of the earlier ones. I was a big, I was a Hulk Hogan to win. 

Nate
Host
23:04
Let's make that clear. I enjoyed wrestling but yeah, macho man Right, macho man was you, weren't basing your whole life around people kind of thing. I actually like old war. My guy was Macho man and I like. 

Shaun
Host
23:20
Yeah, Ultimate Warrior is always just a little over the top for me, kind of. I mean, he's fine whatever he sees your thing, but yeah, I don't know. Just a little too. Yeah To Coke field, I guess. 

Nate
Host
23:30
Well and then especially what happens that later on in his life, where he became a super right wing nut job, oh, yeah. It's like okay, dude, you know thank. 

Shaun
Host
23:40
Oh man, I wonder if his website still, because there are some of the more insane babblings I've ever seen on there. The warrior speaks, I think is what it's called. 

Nate
Host
23:47
Thanks for coming. 

Shaun
Host
23:48
Yeah, he talked everything in third person, like hard in third person, and he referred himself as the warrior, or at least he used to. The warrior has a lot on his mind and when you're a warrior like, the warrior is living a warrior lifestyle. Because he actually changed his name to the warrior, I believe, because when he was in I'm pretty sure I'm right on this, because when he was in WWF and everybody started migrating over to the WCW back during the, you know, apparently he wanted to go to WCW. However, vince McMahon is like I own the name, the ultimate warrior, screw you. He's like well, I'll just change my name to the warrior legally. And he did that and you know he couldn't be the ultimate warrior anymore, but he could be the warrior. 

Nate
Host
24:30
And I was watching, like I'd stopped watching wrestling for quite a while and then I picked it up like I might. But at the time best friend and roommate we. He was on the wrestling and so he was in WCW wrestling and so I got back into the WCW wrestling. It was just after Hulk Hogan became NWO. He like turned heel. That's that's about where I started watching. Oh, wow, that's interesting. 

Shaun
Host
24:56
Yeah, that was actually about when I started watching. 

Nate
Host
24:58
WCW2. And then Ultimate Warrior came out and of course they have their history and you know, just warrior, whatever. And then of course I think it was actually the warrior, yeah, and then he became an anti-NWO. It was his own thing, OWN yeah. 

Shaun
Host
25:17
But the thing was like I just picture like a whole room full of writers at like three in the morning trying to figure that out. 

Nate
Host
25:23
Oh, man, it was one warrior nation and he was there for a couple of followers that almost immediately left and ultimately the name was literally one warrior nation, because it was just him and it was a joke and I don't know. I just remember it falling hard on his face. 

Shaun
Host
25:43
Yeah, yeah, he kind of just went off into obscurity after that, yeah. 

Nate
Host
25:48
And good riddance. You know I mean I hate that we're living at a time where politics can affect how you like a certain celebrity or not, but that's just where we are. So, whatever, yeah, I live in the world, I'm in. 

Shaun
Host
26:03
Well, I mean, it's not like he has a lot of redeeming values outside of Right, it's? 

Nate
Host
26:06
not like he's like oh, did he also save children? 

Shaun
Host
26:09
No, yeah right, it's not like he's been donating kidneys his entire life, you monster. Apparently, he can respawn kidneys. 

Nate
Host
26:16
He may be a right-wing nut job, but every penny he makes goes to planting trees. 

Shaun
Host
26:21
Well, yeah, right, then maybe you could separate the artist from the art or something like that, but in this case no. 

Nate
Host
26:27
Yeah. 

Shaun
Host
26:28
And you know who is actually my biggest, who I liked the most during the LWF days Rowdy Roddy Piper. 

Nate
Host
26:34
I liked him too. I really did. I did too, and they live he was pretty good in that. I mean, he was actually he was good in they live. Yeah, I mean, let's be real, it was no Oscars given out in that movie, but it was, it was good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Shaun
Host
26:47
Yeah, and for the time it kind of had a twist going for it, sort of like, oh, where's this going? And also the main actor does not live through the movie either. 

Nate
Host
26:56
That's true. I appreciate any movie that's willing to kill off their main character. 

Shaun
Host
27:00
Actually me too. I was just about to say that I kind of like the. I mean it had sort of a good ending they got what they wanted but also kind of had depressing ending and like hey, people had to make sacrifices. And then also they never actually said that humanity won. I mean they could immediately lost that war. Right, I mean they came on. Yeah, the end of it is basically just, he just revealed them all. We don't know what happened after that. 

Nate
Host
27:20
I mean, because they have their fingers on everything. 

Shaun
Host
27:22
So yeah, I mean it could have actually been a worse thing for him to do that. Now they're just like well, the gigs up, let's just round them up and put them into camps yeah, camps, yep. And everybody just hates Roddy Piper. From that day on, we had it Okay. At least we're ignorant to what was going on to us. Now we're hooked up to milking machines and it's just awful. Yep. 

27:41
Just as God intended, god also intended WrestleMania one to go off without a hitch. 

27:45
So Vince McMahon hired Mr T to team up with Hulk Hogan and the main event was going to be those two versus rowdy Roddy Piper and Mr Wonderful Paul Orndorf, who are were two of the biggest heels. So we got Hulk Hogan, the biggest face or biggest good guy in all of wrestling, teaming up with Mr T, a beloved character on TV, going against two very hated wrestlers Roddy, roddy Piper, mr Wonderful. So WrestleMania the hype for WrestleMania is getting bigger and bigger. Mr T and Hulk Hogan tour relentlessly this entire time, going on places like SNL late night shows, and they're actually pretty good together doing promos and this and that. Some of them seem kind of set up where they get angry with interviews and this and that, but it's a pretty good time and that also helps build up Mr T's stock in Hollywood, because one thing that Hulk Hogan is good at is he is good at talking off the cuff and, you know, giving interviews and that's something that kind of picked up with Mr Rubbed off on Mr T a little bit while this was going on. 

Nate
Host
28:41
So he was like it was a schooling. I'm sure Mr T had to pull, or Hogan pulled the sides like okay, look man, let me give you the ropes. 

Shaun
Host
28:49
Yep, and if you watch the interviews, hulk Hogan does do the vast majority of the talking in them and stuff that makes sense. 

Nate
Host
28:56
Yeah, like you just said, you have, you've got this guy who's so focused on he's been an entertainment forever and, like you said, it is a lot of off the cuff stuff and then suddenly it's like you got this guy who's like oh, I, yeah, I'm a bouncer, I'm, I can think of my feet. 

Shaun
Host
29:12
However, yeah, I mean he's good in some situations, but not necessarily being interviewed with David Letterman. The touring hyped up WrestleMania enough for over 19,000 to be in attendance and over a million paper, paper, paper, paper, paper. The pay per view buys. That should work. Biggest wrestling event at the time we're gonna say why not this role with it? Yeah, why not? So in a way, mr T you could say he was pretty big on a Influency wrestling and the way it was today, because he was big named, that helped sell seats and help bring a WrestleMania into the limelight. Yeah, wrestlemania. 

29:48
One person, yeah, one person that was not really happy with Mr T being involved in WrestleMania Roddy Piper. You see, piper was a seasoned vet in the wrestling world and he didn't like the fact that Mr T wasn't a wrestler who paid his dues and only got on the show due to his looks and popularity. Jesus Christ, it was just like the other guy. Yep, sound familiar. It would be awesome to have a sit down and talk between George Pappard and Roddy Piper over a bottle of scotch, just bitching about. 

Nate
Host
30:13
And again and again, just like the other guy. Fair enough. But I think you know, I think any reasonable person would also recognize Mr T is not here to stay. You know Mr T is not going to be a wrestler, you're not going to be fighting him 10 years from now. 

Shaun
Host
30:29
Yeah. 

Nate
Host
30:29
Tell you're not going to be fighting him a few months from now. He's here while he's hot and then he's to go away. 

Shaun
Host
30:33
Right, mr T is not here to take your job. He's not here to apply for the next Oscar-winning role against George Pappard, and he's not here to win the titles away from Piper. He took her job. He just yeah. That's actually what was exactly what he did. He took her job. 

Nate
Host
30:47
I mean, again, he's a Hollywood actor, you know, and he's just coming in to put butts in seats and then he's going away. Just he's a hired guy. Yeah, your anger is wasted. 

Shaun
Host
31:01
Yes, that's exactly who it is. Both of them are probably just angry people overall. Oh, as you say. Now, first of Mr T controversy. 

31:09
Remember back in 1976, that story about him going to town on trees until they made him stop, that we talked about. 

31:15
Maybe he hates trees, yes? Well, here's another instance it might back that up where the tree-hating side of Mr T once again rears its ugly head, this time in the town of Lake Forest, illinois. So Mr T, with his mind, decided to purchase a large plot of property in a heavily wooded area of Lake Forest Illinois and immediately went to cutting down all the trees on the property. Well, not all of them, but over a hundred trees on the property right off the bat. All totally cut down over a hundred old growth trees, much to the anger of the neighbors, who even dubbed it the Lake Forest Chainsaw Massacre, making comments of like why would you buy property here just to cut down the trees? Mr T claimed it was because he had bad allergies and needed the trees gone for the pollen. But personally I think back in the day a tree said something not so nice about his mom and he's really had it out for trees since then. One of them famous Chicago shit talking trees. I'm guessing that he's just a dick. 

Nate
Host
32:11
Yeah, could be. I admit I am by no means like Mr Environmental. I definitely. You know I'm not strapped myself to any foliage, but I do. I will admit it does kind of irritate me when people cut trees down, yeah, yeah, well, when they don't need to. 

Shaun
Host
32:28
Yes Fair. 

Nate
Host
32:29
When they don't need to. Like there absolutely is a case to be. You know, okay, these trees are too tall or there's your crowd and undergrowth, like you know, we can't. These ones are talking shit about my mom Right, things like that. But like the other day we were walking through the neighborhood and these people cut down a tree just because they, oh, and the thing is, they cut it down but they still have the stump in the yard. So I was like dude, I don't know, it just bothers me. Our yard has several trees. I'm like I mean, we're renting, so it's not like I have any choice to knock them down or not, but I wouldn't knock them down even if I could. 

Shaun
Host
33:02
Yeah, unless they're like growing into your septic lines or something like that. 

Nate
Host
33:05
Well, again then that you're starting about like, yeah, that's yeah, that's a necessity. Yeah, that's not like I'm a dick and I want to do it. That's like well, shit. 

Shaun
Host
33:15
This tree incident with Mr T actually made national news too. I remember back in the day I actually mainly remember it because my dad was big into trees and gardening and he had a real fit over this. Oh yeah, he did. 

Nate
Host
33:28
He had the fact. 

Shaun
Host
33:28
Oh, he hated it. Yeah, I think he just wanted more of a reason to complain about a black person, though. Well, to be perfectly honest, I can't believe that sounds. But if only he was white. Yeah, yeah. Then my dad goes on just immediately, starts cutting down trees, for no reason, because he would do that too. But these are my trees, I'm so mad chopped up. 

Nate
Host
33:47
Yeah, Yep pretty much. 

Shaun
Host
33:50
Cutting down them trees wasn't against the law or legal in any way. So the only real fallout from this was the city wound up putting in ordinances to prevent homeowners from doing the same thing again from then on out. So if you live in a lake, forest, ill noise, and you want to cut down tree and can't, you can blame mr T for that. Damn you, mrt, damn you. How dare, although I will say that may Be this was a bad idea, because maybe those trees had a little bit of connections or some high-powered friends, because this was the same year that the 18 got cancelled. Do you think some of those trees might have had some connections? They made some calls. 

Nate
Host
34:26
Yep, what's the great find to the pencils. 

Shaun
Host
34:28
Yeah, yep, the famous gold, gold steam strain of trees. They're very powerful in Hollywood, that's right. That's a chew joke. Yes, it is, that's very bad. So also here's kind of messed up. The A team did not make it to a hundred episodes, which gets you that sweet, sweet, sweet syndication bonus that makes you a ton of money after the show goes off the air. They only made it to 98 episodes. 

Nate
Host
34:53
Oh, that's crap. 

Shaun
Host
34:54
Yep and I. This stuff has to happen on purpose because a couple more examples Gilligan's Island that only made it to 98 episodes. Partridge family 96 episodes. 

Nate
Host
35:06
Well, but here's the thing like yeah, sweet, sweet Distribution, but they did. I mean, a team still plays today, and so does gilligan's actor. 

Shaun
Host
35:15
Yeah, but the producers are the only ones that make money off of it, not the act. 

Nate
Host
35:18
I would. I wasn't aware of that. 

Shaun
Host
35:20
I wasn't aware that the actors get the only way that actors get anything more than maybe just like a penny per showing or a fraction of Penny, as if it makes a syndication which is a hundred episodes. Otherwise, all the higher ups get pocket all the money. Oh, that's all they ask crap, I mean I. So that's why the Gilligan's Island crew like made minimum wage off of Gilligan's Island for having one of the most famous shows. 

Nate
Host
35:40
Yeah, that's crap. I I've heard of something like that too, like Hollywood does that. I'm Listen to Kevin Smith talk about what like he got clerks or dogma or something like that. I think it was dogma and he ended up having to sue the Weissner's because they're like they didn't get enough money and he was. He remembered saying him going well, I Was so worried to talk about Harvey and stuff because I'm suing them and they just didn't even care. They're like oh yeah, here I hear you suing us. Oh well, huh yeah. 

Shaun
Host
36:11
I guess they'll just put on the stack of a hundred other lawsuits we have. 

Nate
Host
36:14
Yeah it's like they knew it wasn't unpersonal, was all with the money. They're like yeah, we fucked you over and you're suing us to get us to get it back. Yeah, sure, okay, that's how it works. 

Shaun
Host
36:22
So and yep, because they actually have lawyers that will sit down and be like hey, we can fuck this guy over, get sued, pay them off and still wind up right, right and never mind, you know all the, you know rape, but it was awesome, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what eventually got Kevin Smith the rape. 

Nate
Host
36:38
No, not Kevin Smith. Why is that? 

Shaun
Host
36:42
Well, Kevin Smith really wanted the clerks to be made. 

Nate
Host
36:46
Either you're making or I'm gonna do it. You do the others, oh god. 

Shaun
Host
36:50
No, yep, so yep. That's unfortunately that a team guys didn't really make any money off the a team outside of what they made while they're working on it. 

Nate
Host
36:57
That's bullshit. 

Shaun
Host
36:59
Yep, I completely agree. Mr T's popularity would never be so big as it was with the a team, but he would be back in the saddle really quick. With the 1988 show T and T, you played a boxer, t as Turner framed for a crime he didn't commit. A spunky female lawyer named Amy Taylor, who springs him up, springs him from jail and they team up and become T and T, the crime fighting duo. Yay, as you can guess, it's about as cheesy as you'd expect. I could be watching a lot of it, I mean so I mean. 

Nate
Host
37:30
So I mean I'm assuming you know they're trying to get away from 18 and sounds like some like fighters, not exactly a weapons expert, so what? What's the hook? I mean it's just. 

Shaun
Host
37:41
A spunky female lawyer with a tough inner city boxer teaming together and fighting crime. A spunky, so she's a lawyer. 

Nate
Host
37:48
So she's not. 

Shaun
Host
37:49
She's a young inexperienced lawyer who springs. 

Nate
Host
37:51
Uh, it's just, he's a T from, so she's employing a convict. I mean, I mean not, not even a convict, escaped convict. 

Shaun
Host
38:00
No, I mean, she springs him legally, she gets him off the. 

Nate
Host
38:04
Yeah, okay. No, she's not young spunky, female lawyer like song through the jail bar. I'm gonna like she arranged it. You know she arranged like a crack team. People come out there and killed all the guards and you escape. 

Shaun
Host
38:15
Except this time, except this spunky female lawyer drives the van. 

Nate
Host
38:20
Right. It's like he just strolls into police station to help question someone. It's like um, Is anybody gonna arrest? 

Shaun
Host
38:25
him. 

Nate
Host
38:25
He's right there. 

Shaun
Host
38:27
Like no, no, no, he broke out illegally, you know. 

Nate
Host
38:30
I mean, you can't confuse it for anyone else. He has a fucking T for a haircut. How many like? I'll look through my. I'll look through all my profiles, but I don't think I'll find many T's for haircuts. 

Shaun
Host
38:46
As you can spec it. Just yeah, uh, the first episode they did go to Chinatown to investigate a crime and that had all sorts of fun, casual racism that you'd expect for the late 80s. Oh oh yeah, it was Straight up hey, we're gonna go to Chinatown gong noise, and then you know, Uh yeah. 

Nate
Host
39:03
I mean Fucking gi joe was like super racist, lord knows like prime time tv shows. 

Shaun
Host
39:10
Stuff like the kids were racist. Things aimed at adults were even worse, right, oh my god, uh, season two. They even had a teenage orphan joined the crime fighting team. I assume also escaped from yes, escape, escape from a norfnish. So they're going on the lamb drive right now. They just need to get gymnast and a talking dog into the mix, damn straight. Uh, that show lasted three seasons and 66 episodes a little bit longer than I would have figured, but still not long enough for that Sweet, sweet syndication 66 episodes. 

39:44
It lasted that long it lasted that long, oh my god right. 

Nate
Host
39:49
What was the board of viewership on something like that? I mean, we could find out, but we're not going to. Yeah. 

Shaun
Host
39:54
It was. It wasn't a network show, it was a syndicated. So it just kind of got uh tooled around to various small in networks like um, I want to say the flame family channel had it for a hot. 

Nate
Host
40:04
I thought I thought syndicated meant rerun, so that means I mean, it's not a rerun. Well, they're gonna run. 

Shaun
Host
40:09
There. Well, there's two different. Syndication actually means that you're selling it to. Let me look at the actual definitions in syndication. As far as I know, syndication means you did not get a network to pick it up. You're producing that individually from a network and then you're selling it to various networks. 

Nate
Host
40:27
Okay, it's like piecemeal instead of like the main line. Yes, okay, I like to say what net so much? I thought I assume syndication meant reruns. 

Shaun
Host
40:38
Nope, because there's syndicated TV shows. So much Doing, doing, doing. 

Nate
Host
40:42
So reruns are syndicated. But not syndicated does not mean reruns, right, let's see If it's a rerun that's syndicated. But if it's syndicated, okay, Basically, if you really want the stupid version of syndication. 

Shaun
Host
40:55
It can be shown on more than one network or one source is one. 

Nate
Host
40:58
Okay, so it's not not married to like Fox. 

Shaun
Host
41:01
Yes, Okay, exactly so. If you want the actual technical thing, the act of selling newspaper or magazine articles, photographs, television shows, etc. To other organizations so that they can be published or shown in several places, or an instance of this, a syndication company, yeah, I keep a. 

Nate
Host
41:17
You know I'm starting to want to get watched more in modern family. I mean I could at any time it's. You know I have the ability to, but also I just don't. Really I don't want to, but I do Because, like, for some reason, tiktok keeps on shoving clips in my face and you know, and some of the clips I've seen are pretty funny, so I'll watch them. Okay, I'm done now and I'll move on like a few few swipes. 

Shaun
Host
41:36
Later there's another fucking clip, like Jesus Christ man, it's been on the air for a long time and I mean, yeah, when you're plotting out the best parts of a show, it's pretty easy for every clip to seem like a banger. I guess, yeah, oh yeah, because. 

Nate
Host
41:48
I think I've watched an episode. It was fun. I followed the first couple of episodes. It's fine. I mean I like I laughed there, the you know fun was had, but I wasn't like. 

Shaun
Host
41:57
Oh, my God this is. 

Nate
Host
41:58
You know, I must watch every episode. 

Shaun
Host
42:00
Yeah, I can say that kind of like Parks and Rec where it's like, hey, this is always funny clips, but it's almost always Ron Swanson clips, and if you really want that, just watch a bunch of Ron Swanson clips. If you watch, you get a whole lot of yeah. 

Nate
Host
42:11
Yeah, I think I watched the first couple of episodes. It was fine. Just like that. It's fine. 

Shaun
Host
42:16
I don't hate it, I'm not gonna say it's bad. Yeah, somebody talked me into watching Parks and Rec first like five seasons, like yeah, all right. It kind of what every show does, where it's like the first two seasons are kind of rough, then like seasons three through six are really good and then after that it's everybody's having kids and dating. Yeah, it's like everybody's got in this show has to be in a relationship somehow. 

Nate
Host
42:43
Another thing I actually kind of I want to take talks is someone like critiquing 7th heaven. Remember that show. 

Shaun
Host
42:52
Yes, I do. 

Nate
Host
42:53
Well, not really critiquing, just making fun of it. There was this one clip where you know the past the pastor's the dad and he's like to have this talk with his wife. Is she like very dramatic when she goes like I smoked pot once and you get this look at his face like she had murdered, she slept in someone else. It's like, come on, man. 

Shaun
Host
43:12
His jaw drops and dramatic zoom in on the face. 

Nate
Host
43:17
I thought it was one where she let. He suspected this girl wasn't a gang or something, and so, like he didn't even talk to her about it, he just straight to her parents and said she's in the gang. She gets her ass kicked and gets into the hospital and no one looks at the pastor going. You were extremely irresponsible. I can't believe you did that. My daughter almost died. What the fuck are you doing? No, everyone just like oh, here comes that good man. 

43:41
He came by like stuck in the no one asked him to get involved. He just inserted himself in the situation, but they no one asked him. I've also fallen into the worst movie ever with Steven Seagal TikTok starting to show me those two. It's just like Steve was a guy. I mean, dude doesn't get up and he gets a movie ever. 

Shaun
Host
44:02
Which one of them? Because there's like all of them, all of them. 

Nate
Host
44:04
Yeah, every single one. It's. It's this kind of like the title, but every single one. You got me on that stuff. Yeah, it's just like every single one. 

Shaun
Host
44:12
It's just like all the movies are bad there's like, and they jump over his voice in a lot of them too, because he just started mumbles, it's mumbles. 

Nate
Host
44:20
It's not even good. And then there was one where, like his body double did like a walk at the stairs and they didn't even attempt to hide it wasn't him. 

Shaun
Host
44:29
Oh yeah, totally yeah, they'll use a body double for him, even just jogging lightly across the room. 

Nate
Host
44:34
Yeah Well, like the guy said, he apparently doesn't want to run on camera because he does look stupid. 

Shaun
Host
44:39
Well, yeah, I remember when he was young and thin and could run, everybody made fun of him. 

Nate
Host
44:42
So I mean, there's still a part of me that I have. I have a soft spot in my heart for Steven Seagal, because, purely for under siege you know, that's the first movie I saw him in. It was amazing, all that limb snapping, goodness, all that lives. And then there was one more. He did that one. He didn't understand these two, but that was under siege two was the train, wasn't it? Yes, it was a train one. So I saw under siege one, under siege two. And then there was a couple of the ones I saw, like there was one where I don't know the name of it, but it was going to be an Eskimo and see Alaska from oil companies. 

Shaun
Host
45:18
Yeah, I was that one. That was awful because the end of it literally had like this 15 minute lecture on climate change and stuff. 

Nate
Host
45:26
There was one where he went against like Haitian drug lords and, you know, like a voodoo guy, but turns out was twins. There was that one and a couple of them. I mean there are other lower ones. The one I actually saw in the movie theater was under siege, and so that's why I have a. But outside of that, like once you get past that, they get older, just like, oh yeah, he's a piece of shit. 

Shaun
Host
45:46
Yeah, there was a point after like under siege two or what now, where he was big enough that he just said I'm only going to recall my own shots if you hire me. So that's why I started getting less jobs. 

Nate
Host
45:55
And all the jobs he did get, he's just like center attention of everything and you should hear I mean, you probably have, but you should listen to S&L stories about him. Just the cast. 

Shaun
Host
46:06
I have. 

Nate
Host
46:07
Yeah, he is universally, just like, without a question, the worst guest they've ever had. And I think Al Franken tells a story where basically the Steven Seagal, his idea of a skit, was basically he was a rapist. Oh, yep. 

Shaun
Host
46:21
I remember that one. 

Nate
Host
46:23
Yeah, like there's no, no jug, no punchline. 

Shaun
Host
46:26
Yeah, he was like a therapist trying to talk a chicken having sex with them or something like that. Yeah, and they're like why is this going to be funny? He's like it will be. 

Nate
Host
46:32
Trust me Like, uh, so, and I mean I've heard bad things about, you know, several people, just a Bieber, probably this one, and I mean. But some of those people, like some of them were like give him a pass, go and look. You know, everyone has their bad times. Everyone has bad days. I'm like the experience and S&L was awful. However, that doesn't necessarily mean he's a bad person, Whereas Steven Seagal, though, like no, no, no, no, no, he's a bad person. Yeah, he had a bad experience in the snow and he's a bad person. 

Shaun
Host
47:01
There's a reason he hides out in Russia most of the time nowadays, right, yeah, anyway, mr T. In 1993, he played a bearded lady in the movie Freak, which I believe was a movie about a circus site show of freaks. But I remember that because it was kind of like a surprise bug. Mr Manly, mr T is playing a woman, even though it was literally just Mr T with a beard on and I don't think he like acted, he was just him being a bearded fool. 

Nate
Host
47:29
Yeah, he's like a background character. They pass by. He's like lips, you know, flexing, and that's it. 

Shaun
Host
47:35
Yeah, if you see the pictures of it, it literally just looks like Mr T kind of like, in a slightly more colorful outfit with a longer beard. It's like I'm playing a woman in this All right, on top of playing a bearded lady in the movie Freak. In 1993, also saw the comic book Mr T and the T-Force, produced by Now Comics, got released. That only lasted a year before it was canceled, and an ad for the comic. He states he's fighting a war against topical issues of the time like drug abuse, family problems, racism, child molestation, corrupt politicians and rapey priests and gerrymandering. Yeah, he goes to all the. At the end he's like all right, kids, here's the more boring stuff. At least let me the tax code. All right, all right. First, before we go, you gotta learn how Bill becomes a law. Are we going to watch Schoolhouse Rock? No, no, no, no, nothing that fun. 

Nate
Host
48:29
This man evaluated property to look more expensive than a shinobin. 

Shaun
Host
48:32
No, right Now. Here's why a flat tax is not a good idea. Kids, anyway, yeah, but as you can see, obviously that comic only lasted a year, which was not long enough for him to solve all these problems. Is, all those world problems are still quite around. 

Nate
Host
48:50
Are you saying a comic like a comic book? 

Shaun
Host
48:52
Yes, comic book. 

Nate
Host
48:52
Okay, okay. 

Shaun
Host
48:53
That's why it's produced by Now Comics. 

Nate
Host
48:55
Yeah, I don't know, for some reason I still picture. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know my mom. My mom is somewhere else, your wallet is somewhere else. My mind was somewhere else. I thought for some reason I was thinking a cartoon, the TV show, like no, nothing makes sense. I'm pretty sure he said comic. 

Shaun
Host
49:09
Yep, he did say comic Yep, all right. And now comes 1995, the year tragedy strikes Mr T. He was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer called T cell lymphoma. Mr T even joked about the coincidence of him getting T cell lymphoma, stating can you imagine that Cancer with my name on it Personalized cancer. So he took that and got stride at least Personalized cancer. But was this a coincidence, or was this part of something bigger and more arcane, possibly? Allow me to explain my theory on how I believe this coincidence came to be Nate. 

49:44
We need to travel back to 1970 and Lawrence Tarot's 18th birthday. When Lawrence was wandering around his apartment complex, stressed, beyond stressed, on how to provide for his family, suddenly a shadowy figure in a trench coat emerges and says he has a deal for Lawrence. Young man, I can give you everything you want. I will ensure you can provide for your mother and family without worry, but for a price. But you see, lawrence stopped listening after hearing that he could provide for his mother who had worked so hard to do the same for him. So he happily agreed to this deal. And upon hearing the agreement, the stranger said unto him very well, you shall now gain the power of the T the power of confidence, personality and marketability. Thus, henceforth you will be known as Mr T. 

50:25
Suddenly, in a Sailor Moon-esque transformation, young Lawrence gained 25 pounds of solid muscle, gained the confidence and fighting skills to become badass and became Mr T. Remember, though, the stranger finished the T giveth, but the T also taketh, and he slinked back into the shadows with a sinister chuckle. Still blinded by the joy of being able to provide, mr T ignored the weird man's words, and for many years it was good. The T did giveth, as was said, until 1995, when it became time for the T to takeeth away in the form of T cell lymphoma. Naturally, being the badass he is, he defeated cancer with his signature move. He picked up that cancer and chucked it on top of a fire hydrant, defeating it and continuing to live. But now the T no longer giveth and his career in Hollywood starts to dry up, and we don't see nearly as much of Mr T as we once did. 

Nate
Host
51:14
Fucking T cell virus, dude Yup. 

Shaun
Host
51:15
You let him fucking. 

Nate
Host
51:16
What if, oh man, there has to be a mod, a residual somewhere, maybe only one person to have it? I feel like the T cell virus turns everyone into Mr T. You manage the city full of Mr T's, kind of like the Doofus Mers episode from Phineas and Fer, where everyone turns into Doofus Mers. Everyone turns into Mr T. It's like, oh my god, it's the T virus. 

Shaun
Host
51:36
You're just quartered without your revolver and all of a sudden just through the door. I pay the fool. I pay the fool Instead of like moaning. They're just like fool, fool. 

Nate
Host
51:46
Meanwhile, the real Mr T is like. I say more than that. Yeah, right, I mean I say a lot of things. Why just that? 

Shaun
Host
51:54
I am more than just a catchphrase. How have you know you son of bitches? Even better, maybe the T cell maybe that was the first chance or attempt to make a zombie was with Mr T? Yup, the T cell Turns out. Umbrella was around a long time. They're the ones backing out of the A team Umbrella. 

Nate
Host
52:12
Yeah, that would be best of us. Well no, we tried to make a zombie. 

Shaun
Host
52:18
It turns out we just almost killed a famous celebrity. 

Nate
Host
52:21
If it was Umbrella, they would not be missing it every shot. Like they would be mowing people down right and left and actually that would be how they fire their employees. They'd be like, hey, go to that set over there and they just wipe them out for no reason. 

Shaun
Host
52:33
In 2006,. 80s nostalgia was on the rise and TV Land gave him a reality show named I pity the fool. He was basically a life coach, going around motivating people and giving pep talks. It only lasted six episodes. He also did a pretty successful World of Warcraft night elf campaign. That lasted for a short bit, introduced him to a generation of younger kids and did the 2011 or 2009 appearance cloud you with the chance of meatballs, where you played a police officer. 

Nate
Host
52:58
I vaguely remember the commercial you talk about the commercial right, where he's like playing knife at the top. Did he actually play or was he one of those things like oh yeah? 

Shaun
Host
53:05
I play. Supposedly, blizzard claimed that everybody who was in those ads had a character and played more than X amount of hours. That's what Blizzard says. Whether that's true or not, that's what they said. Yeah, might do how all YouTubers claim that they love shade rad rad, shade Raid shadow legends. 

Nate
Host
53:21
Oh my God, dude, raid shadow legends Go fuck itself. I just I get so many ads on ticked on Raid shadow legends, or. Or. My favorite is, like everyone said, this game doesn't really exist. I'm like dude, of course it exists, there's just who cares? Just shut up. 

Shaun
Host
53:36
Leave me alone. 2011. He hosted a clip show titled World's Craziest Fools lasted 20 episodes over two seasons. We cam footage of dumb people doing dumb, dumb stuff. There's a lot of shows around that time doing the same thing, so he just kind of hopped on that bandwagon. 

Nate
Host
53:53
Oh yeah, kara Turbacay. K Wilson told us we'll talk about that. How you just like basically be a nice Tosh for 20. 

Shaun
Host
54:02
Yeah, 2017 was his last big television appearance on Dancing with the Stars, where he and Kim Johnson were eliminated in week four, placing 10th overall. After that, it's mostly been commercials and voice bits, here and there, if anything. He is active on Twitter, though, and spends most of his time enjoying retirement and doing a lot of cherry work for his church. So there we have the story of Mr T Jin X icon and apparently a bit of a badass. When he's not dropping people on fire hydrants, he's chopping down trees or kicking cancer's ass. Any questions or statements? 

Nate
Host
54:32
You know for a minute there, like I thought you were just gonna say he did with Kim, jill and Gail. I mean, like I said, I remember I think I had a toy of once which has gone forever, but I remember having a toy with him once. 

Shaun
Host
54:48
You don't go to bed with it every night anymore. No, not anymore. 

Nate
Host
54:51
And I remember, I mean honestly, just I can't. When I think of him, I think of the A team. I know he does so many other things, but just like the A team, he'll always be A team. 

Shaun
Host
55:00
And oh yeah, that's what he'll always be remembered for. 

Nate
Host
55:02
It is really sad. I mean I see him now and first of all like hey, where's your T? You know. And then you know, where are your gold chains? Of course he's like you know a thousand now. So it just really sucks seeing people from your youth that are old now. I mean that happens. 

Shaun
Host
55:17
Like every time you look in a mirror, Nate, every time you look in a mirror, like right now, my back hurts, my lower back hurts. 

Nate
Host
55:23
I'm like, oh shit, this sucks. And especially when I see my kids and like you guys are so fucking young Shit, how dare you have a problem free childhoods, like all children do. 

55:33
Well, you suffer the same thing. You might not have kids, your own kids. Look at you, we're going to fuck a school. So you see, like you're like oh man, you stand up too fast. You're like, oh man, my knees, whatever. You look around to see this fucking little, you know 10 year old asshole who's like look at me, I did a somersault and I fell down. I popped right back at me. It kept on going. Like you, son of a bitch, I'll steal your youth. 

Shaun
Host
55:58
This is where the ending jingle goes. This is where the ending jingle goes. This is where the ending jingle goes. I don't know if we need one, I don't know if we'll get one, but if we do, then here is where it goes.