Cartoons We Grew Up On

The smell of cereal. The hum of a console TV. That rush when the theme song hits and you know the next 22 minutes will live rent-free in your head for decades. We crack open our memory vault and sort through the cartoons that shaped us, from the slapstick genius of Looney Tunes to the sly satire of Rocky and Bullwinkle and the delightful weird science of Pinky and the Brain. Along the way, we confess the hot takes: rooting for Wile E. Coyote, rolling our eyes at Tweety, and realizing some gags didn’t age well at all.

Our tour isn’t just a nostalgia lap. We trace the DNA of animated storytelling—voice performance, timing, quotability—and how it evolved into modern hits like Family Guy, Phineas and Ferb, and Rick and Morty. Why does Foghorn Leghorn still kill? What makes a character timeless versus tiresome? And how did Saturday morning TV culture teach a generation to love serialized worlds before streaming ever existed? Expect trivia detours, local-station shoutouts, and the moments that turned background noise into lifelong favorites.

Then we pivot to a high-energy wrestling breakdown, where the same rules of great storytelling apply. We recap Elimination Chamber, debate booking choices, and spotlight the beats that actually moved the crowd: the LA Knight swerve, Gunther’s clinic, and the winding road to WrestleMania. It’s all one craft at heart—stakes, characters, and payoffs that feel earned.

Hit play, relive the classics, and tell us your undisputed top three cartoon characters. If you’re new here, follow and subscribe; if you’re a regular, drop a review and share this with the friend who can still quote Foghorn line for line. Which show from your childhood truly holds up today?

Transcript

Old Intro And Best-Of Setup

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The Beer Brothers proudly present the best stuff.

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I was not ready.

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About the best of everything. From the mundane to the ridiculous. Just three buddies sitting around the card table talking about things that absolutely matter to no one.

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Going back nearly four years, that was our original intro. I figured we did pull out the old school intro because uh we are going to do a little bit of a best of episode uh tonight. I actually had a voice back then. What the heck, man? Yeah, how about that? Yeah, that's good.

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That's what that's what happens when you get older.

Defining The Cartoon Challenge

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That's what happens. So uh it is you know March. The best of. Yeah, the March 4th, 2026, just so you're aware that we are not, you know, back from when we first started doing this this podcast. But we are doing a best of tonight. We're gonna do all kinds of different things, but we're going to do a best of cartoon characters, uh, both from our childhood. If we want to bring it to the modern day, we absolutely they have cartoons when you were a child.

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Yeah, not flipbooks. I mean, no, I are we are we didn't you ever see Steamboat Mickey? Are we limiting this to TV? I believe that was Steamboat Willie. Was there kind of radio? Was there radio cartoons at that point? Are we talking about the flip books? No talkings.

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So so yeah, we're gonna do that. We're probably gonna talk about some current events because uh the world has changed a little bit. Uh uh just just in the uh just in the uh, you know, I I guess hold on, I got something to say. Okay, what what what is it that you want to say? Hold on. Let me let me see if it's the same thing I want to say. No. Let's see. Is it this? What's happening? Hold on, it's this. Was that it? Was that what you wanted to say?

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That's I mean, but is it worth it?

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Are you wrong? Nope. I got nothing. Are you wrong? Actually, all I want to say was whoa. That's that's pretty good.

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That's fair. You know what I want to say? Vote for me. Also reasonable.

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We're getting close to election season.

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It's time to vote for me. Oh, well, thank goodness. All right. All right, all right, so um, this is not this is not a break challenge.

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Real quick, since you brought that up, did you see the guy that goes on Wheel of Fortune always wants to buy an eye, got beat last night?

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No. Damn Crenshaw got beat. I don't know who that is. He only has one eye. Oh god. That's so bad. He wears a patch. Even even Gunther didn't like that.

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That was even an election reference, too.

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So yeah, and we also have uh just maybe a tiny, tiny little bit of of pro wrestling to mention, too. So um but anyway, favorite cartoon characters of all time.

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So this is from our childhood.

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This is I think from our childhood. Now we can at the end, we can talk about some modern day weapons.

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I'm I don't know that I'm gonna know any of yours.

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Yeah.

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Well nobody was alive back then. Well, I'll talk to you. You can just make things up. Nobody ever knew.

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I'll move up to the 60s. How's that? I was not alive. Way before me. Okay, how about the 70s? I was alive in the 70s. All right, so let's get it. Let's hear one. All right, Chris, you start a side. No, no, no. No, yes, you have to.

Hong Kong Phooey And 70s Picks

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I introduced I'll get I'll get one. Okay, I'll get one. I'll start it off. Yep. One that I really liked when I was young was Hong Kong Fui. I liked Hong Kong Fui.

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Kong Fui. Number one super guy.

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Because I took karate when I was little. I always liked dogs. I mean, it was, I mean, it's an obscure, more of an obscure. But you know what's funny?

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I always did like that. That's what that was. That was when it was as good as it got.

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So uh this question. I think this is right, but I may it may be wrong. The voice of Hong Kong Pui was Scatman Cruthers. I have no idea. I don't know who that is.

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I could see. Oh, you've seen the movie The Shining.

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Yeah, Google that. I'm pretty sure that that's accurate.

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Hong Kong.

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Yeah, I think that's true. Um, yeah, he he was pretty great. Didn't he like uh sleep in a filing cabinet or something? Or how he changed in one to become Hong Kong Fooia?

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Yeah, the show aired on ABC and featured the voice talents of Sketman Group. There you go. Let's go. All right. That's pretty good.

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Yeah, it's the little thing.

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So I like that one.

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Yeah. Um, were you a Captain Caveman guy? Yeah, Captain.

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I always like it. Loved it. And and the other one that came out about that same time was Greepy. Oh, Greepy. Hello, Biggly Biggly.

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So I I liked all of those. I liked all of those.

Looney Tunes Favorites And Quotes

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Yeah. Saturday mornings were legit in childhood. Um there were a couple of different channels that had Looney Tunes on. Uh Looney Tunes were on CBS, but Looney Tunes uh the Daffy Duck Show was also on uh NBC. So um of the Looney Tune characters, did you all have a favorite? Uh yes. I did as well. I did.

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I was an Elmer Fudd guy. Yeah? Yeah. I could see that. Yeah. Because he just was hunting rabbits.

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You you have a little bit of a resemblance. You Wascally Rabbit. You got you know the hair comic sweat. Yes, that's right.

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I like that. Actually, I also like Foghorn Leghorn.

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That was gonna be mine. I love Foggy.

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Uh when he had uh Chicken Little with him, was that little fella's name?

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Oh yeah. Um uh I don't remember. So Foghorn Leghorn had some of the best lines in of any cartoon character.

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Uh I say son. I say son.

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Here you go. I'll give you one. Um, this boy's about uh this boy's about as bright as Paul Reveal's Ride, Little Light in the Belfry. That's it. It reminds me of Paul Reveal's Ride, Little Light in the Belfry. And uh now that boy's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

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What do you think about this? Cartoons back then made you think, right?

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Yeah. I liked um there were there were two that you all haven't mentioned from that group that I liked. I liked Marvin the Martian. Oh yeah.

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Oh, this is so concerning.

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And um I also liked um the the skunks. What was the guy? Peppy Le Pew Pepe Le Pew, yeah.

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So he's all about it. I got a I got a problem with Pepe Le Pew.

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Uh pervert. Rapist! He was a rapist.

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Pepe Le Epstein.

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I mean, seriously, the poor cat was getting raped in public.

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Was Peppy Le Pew in the Epstein files? I think you're not Peppa. Have you seen, speaking of the Epstein files? I'm not trying to get off topic. You've seen the video of Bill Clinton looking at the picture with smiling American beauty. It's like such good times.

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It's like it's just like yesterday.

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Look, I told you the most charismatic man I've ever met in my life, not close. Yeah. No, you got it. I mean not close.

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Yep. So did you have any cartoon characters that you didn't like? Because I hold on.

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I I really like this is funny because um, besides the Flintstones and the Jetsons, which I really liked, I didn't care for the Jetsons at that moment. It was unique. I really, really, really, really liked Rocky and Bullwinkle. Oh, I love Rocky and Bullwinkle. Unbelievable. Yes. Because you had all the other ones went along with it, right?

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Yeah. Um so can I just interrupt that for one second just to say when I first started teaching, I had when I was a student, I had a 40s. Yeah. I had a I had a teacher that in when I was in high school that used to ask us bonus questions on it on the history test, and he would ask Rocky and Bullinkle questions.

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Nice.

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And I carried that forward. I took that with me, stole it from Mr. Hobbs, and did that as a as a young teacher, uh, just for something fun for the kids. And they, of course, back then they didn't so they started to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle because they knew I would ask the trivia questions. You want one? You want a trivia question? Yeah, here. I got you. Ready? What university did Rocky attend?

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What's the matter you?

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That's right, baby.

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What's the matter you?

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And what was Rocky's full real name? Rocky J. Squirrel. Rocket J. Squirrel.

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Oh, it's close.

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Yes, you're very, very close.

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I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle, but I also loved the little, again, the cartoons that went along with it, like um Mr. Peabody and my boy Sherman. Yep. Absolutely. Love those. Quiet You. Um, I like when they had the twisted fairy tales or uh fractured fairy tales. How about Dudley Doorright?

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Nell and Snively Whiplash.

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Snively Whiplash.

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There was a song about Dudley Durack. He writing that post.

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Do you know what year? Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

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I don't know any of those things, Charlie.

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Must have been a really big hat. What year did that start? Do you know? Probably like 66. That's uh Google that.

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19 seriously, yeah. Was it really? Yeah. It was about the Cold War.

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It was the Russian was notorious uh and um Boris and Natasha. Natasha, and it was about the Cold War.

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And Mr. Big. Mr. Big.

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Were you did you like the Flintstones?

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I did. I did. Um too.

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Who did you like better? Fred or Barney? I like Fred. What about Wilma or Betty?

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Well, I wasn't a big fan of Wilma. Wilma was, you know, really whiny, yeah, naggy.

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Uh I like Fred because he had a great outlook on everything. Now very similar to me.

Rocky And Bullwinkle Deep Dive

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Y'all know that the Flintstones was a direct copy of what famous TV show. Exactly. The Honeymooners. Correct. It was a direct ripoff of Ralph Cramden and Ed Norton. I want to show you something. Ralph was Fred, Ed Norton was Barney, you know, the Nagy one was was Cramden's wife, Alice. You know, one of these days, Alice. Yeah. What was the name of the Martian on the Flintstones? Oh, uh uh, hold on a second. This is good. Yeah, no, no, yeah. I I've got it. Uh I can see him there. Um it because it really Hey Dumdum. It really kind of jumped the shark, I think, when that terrible. Yeah. Hey Dum Dum. Um that's what he called Fred. Um, I'm I'm dying a slow death here. Um I can't remember. This is Great Ray Kazoo. Yeah, the great kazoo. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's right. And he was a like a little British voiced Oh, come on, dum-dum. Yeah, right.

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Did you all ever watch this? Is a little bit newer. It's not new, new by any means, but a little bit newer from those cartoons. Uh cartoon called Pinky and the Brain. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are we gonna do today, Brain?

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The same thing we do every day. That was pretty good. Try to take over the world. I thought that was pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 11:19

That was really clever. Yeah. Um, yeah, it was good. I want to go back to the ones that I did not care for, either characters or cartoons. Okay. Uh, character-wise, I wanted Wiley Coyote to eat the Roadrunner every single time. I hate it. Could not agree more. Hated the Roadrunner and I hated Tweety Bird. I wanted Sylvester just to eat that.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

I wanted the old lady just to choke Tweety out. But you know what? I didn't care for Tom either. I wanted, I wanted Jerry, excuse me. I didn't care for Jerry. I wanted Tom to just Yeah, Tom, I agree. Tom was Poor guy. Yeah. And the Bulldog beat him up all the time. Yeah. Nonsense.

SPEAKER_04 11:55

I did not like Jerry at all. And then later, and then later Jerry and and and Tom became friends. I never saw that part. Yeah, those were just stupid. There was no, you know. Um what about Scooby-Doo?

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Were you a Scooby-Doo guy? I love Scooby-Doo. Yeah. It used to scare me when I was little. I used to watch it on at three o'clock in the afternoon. This is before I started school. This is when I was a little bitty. You had TV? On WXIX. I used to save my grandparents. No, I would save my grandparents.

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Mommy, they had many cheap. Mommy, can you put on Tom and Jerry in this one?

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And they had Hannah and Barbera come to the house for the birthday party. My grandparents had a console television. You know, I was the remote, had 12 channels, but we got uh 12 channels?

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You know how many channels I had grown up, little one!

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I had one. We had uh channel three was uh WSBZ. Right. No, that's where Captain Mr. Cartoon was right. Yep, WXIX out of Cincinnati. Hi Cartooners!

SPEAKER_04 12:56

That's channel five. There's three here. Oh, five was WLWT. Yep, 19 was WXIX. 19 was the same, but it was showed up on channel three. I got you. I got you. That's your fancy TV though. That's right. Yeah, Mr. Cartoon. Oh, speaking of Mr.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Cartoon, USA Network always had Cartoon Express, but we never had USA, so I didn't know that.

Flintstones, Jetsons, And Trivia

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Okay, I I I'll throw a couple more at you. Um how about the hair bear bunch? Do you remember them? No. That was a that was a that was a really strange.

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No disrespect, but anything dealing with hair, I have no recollection.

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You used to could.

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I used to could. Um other ones that I did not care for. Richie Rich. I hated Richie Rich. Yeah, yeah. What's his dog's name? I don't know because I couldn't get past Ricky Rich Richie Rich.

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Let me ask you if you like this one.

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Okay. Did you like He-Man? So I was never a humongous. I like Thundar the Barbarian. By the power of Castle Gray Squirrel.

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Gray Squirrel? Gray Squirrel. Oh, yeah. By the way, my buddy's.

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It's the Kentucky version, the power of the Gray Squirrel.

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I think my buddy the uh the Luckett brothers, I think they like Shira as opposed to He-Man. That was the girl's version of He-Man that came out.

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So, what about Thundar the Barbarian? Did you ever watch that one? Never heard it. Oh, that was a really good one. Thundar. Thundar and uh Thundercats. Thundar and Princess Ariel was her name. And it wasn't like the Disney Ariel. What channel are you watching? And Thundar's Thundar's faithful companion, Ookla the mock. Now, is that the great Kamola? So Ukla was like Chewbacca. Okay. But okay, the people who created it, they went to UCLA and so they couldn't come up with a name, so they called it Ookla, like UCLA. Oh yeah.

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Witty, witty, again.

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And that was a really good. I've got those on DVDs to this day. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. So not this guy. Hoarder. Yeah. Sounds like a hoarding issue. Yeah. Well, um, so let's see, are we are we missing what about the Super Friends? No one mentioned the Super Friends.

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You know what? Another Cincinnati connection.

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Okay. Oh, yes, that's right. Superfriends.

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Hall of Justice is the uh the museum of uh what um uh um um uh something in history in Cincinnati. I don't know. And it's actually was the original, help me out, the family that built it.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

It looks just like an old is it the Museum of Science and Trucking?

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Something like that. The Carnegie's the Crosley family built. Looks like the Crosley Radio. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's the Crosley family. So the Hall of Justice is in Cincinnati. And I always have to know when you would see Wonder Woman fly her invisible jet, why could you see her flying the jet? Why could you see the jet? If it's invisible, why do they show you the outline of it? Why wouldn't she just be sitting here driving just and nothing? Um I don't know. Those are any questions at all. Alright, trivia question. I never watched it. The Wonder Twins. You don't know the Wonder Twins? Wonder Twin powers activate. Form of um uh a birthday balloon! The first guy was always an ice. I love carpet. He was an ice something. Ice? The sub one was always an animal. Okay. Foremost form, you know, yes. Form of an ice urinal. Okay. An ice urinal? Wow. And foremost.

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Is that the urinal that only ice agents use? Right.

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Form of a giraffe. Exactly. Um or twins was good. Aquaman was pretty cool. All right, what about the Smurfs? They came out Saturday mornings, man. Never never was. I gotta know though.

SPEAKER_04 16:40

Was there more than one just Smurfette? No, she was the only female Smurf.

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Wow.

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That's smurf tacular.

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Not not for not for everybody else. Not for her.

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What was the what was the villain's name?

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Gargamel.

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Yep.

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Gar Gargoyle?

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Gargamel. Gargamel.

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And his cat's name was?

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No idea. I got no idea. Yeah, I can't remember. It's been a while. Um but uh yeah, so okay. How about how about you on this? There's no way you're gonna know this one. What about the uh Laugh Olympics?

SPEAKER_01 17:18

I do remember that.

Super Friends And Saturday TV Culture

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What about Penelope Pit Stop? I have no idea what you're talking about now. Okay. No, no. I got nothing.

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No.

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All right, as we move forward into a little bit more modern times with cartoons. Are there any of these newish cartoons that you all watched?

SPEAKER_01 17:36

Family Guy is amazing.

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It truly is. I mean, the the latest cartoon I've kind of watched was back when I was in college, Beavis and Budhead. Oh, that's fantastic. I mean, that's awesome. Uh the one where they go steal the guy's golf balls. Title. And and he I mean, and they sell them. I mean, that's awesome. So good. Mike Judge is awesome. Title.

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Um the great corn. I am Cornholio.

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Take me to your bunghole. No, I need Tippi for my bunghole.

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So there was uh there was one that was when when our kids were little, we sometimes had to watch cartoons. And one that Ava used to watch, yeah that I liked, was on the Disney, I think it was Disney. Um yeah, it was Disney because it Phineas and Ferb. Do you guys remember that one? Oh, I knew that.

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I don't know that I ever watched it.

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And Doofenschmurz. Doofenschmurt, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Yeah, Doofenschmurz.

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Doofenschmurt's Evil Incorporated. I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

What about Fairly Odd Parents?

SPEAKER_04 18:43

I never watched that.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

It was weird. The kids watched it at L.

SPEAKER_04 18:46

Now there's an there's one that's been on for probably, I don't know, 10 years now or so that's called The Simpsons? No. Uh that it's on Adult Swim, and oh my god, it is so clever and funny. American Dead? No. Oh uh it is it's called Rick and Morty.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Oh, I know Rick and Morty. I know who it is. They have Seshuan sauce.

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Oh yeah. Golly.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Never watched it, but I know about Seshuan.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

Absolutely hilarious and uh very clever. So I mean, I've never watched this, but one that's out right now that's really popular is one called Has Been Hotel. Oh, I don't even never I I don't know anything about it. It's really, really popular. Um and one of Hallie's voice coaches who was or uh singing coaches and acting coaches is a lady named Christina Alabado who is in Ming Girls. She's one of the voice characters of it, and she goes to all of these comic-cons and stuff. But the show is but the show is so popular that they have the panels to where they're in front of like a thousand people and they ask them questions and stuff. These voiceovers. What's her name again? Christina Alabato is her name. Yes. She was um Domo. Yeah, it's but I've never watched Has Been Hotel. Never heard of it. Um yeah, it's it's it's it's one of those animes, I think is what they're called.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Oh, that's that Japanese stuff. You know what's bad? Turn on the TV on Saturday morning. I remember being a kid getting up early. Yep. And, you know, like 6 30, 7 o'clock, it's cartoons until like 11.

SPEAKER_04 20:24

Well, uh, can I correct you on one thing? At 6 30, it was Agra Country starring Ed Johnson.

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I loved it.

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So I've never even heard of it.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

Yeah, I've never watched one second of it. But I just know about it because she goes to all those comic concerts too. But cartoons are really popular now.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

Cartoons will be on until like 11 o'clock, right? Turn on the television on Saturday morning now. There are no cartoons. It's infomercials up until about eight, and then after that it's news and just normal programs. Golf. Sweet.

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Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Oh, we got a nice uh we got a nice uh 2023 Honda coming through here. Sweet. Whoa, look at that. Got a sunroof. Look at that. Oh, look at Jim in there doing it. Oh, yeah, it's great. Come on, Dan. See you over here.

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Yes. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

It's so bad. Sweet! That's what I like to call. Sweet!

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Sweet!

SPEAKER_01 21:21

When it was coming on, it showed up, it showed a set of discs going through a field picking up dirt. That looks like something you would watch.

SPEAKER_04 21:27

Ed Johnson, agricountry, every Saturday morning. When did Bob Ross come on? Uh the Bob Ross channel, by the way, is on in this house on a 24-7 loop, and Carrie's losing her mind. What she's not a happy tree.

SPEAKER_03 21:42

When it was in prime, when did he come on?

SPEAKER_04 21:44

Yeah, it was Saturday afternoons, like at like three or four in the afternoon. Happy little trees.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

I just wanted him to lose his mind and destroy the canvas one time.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

This thing sucks.

SPEAKER_04 22:01

Carrie's really unhappy with me right now with me watching Perry Mason and Bob Ross.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

You are 108 Dlaimer? I mean, seriously.

SPEAKER_04 22:09

I'm embracing the biggest. You know what?

SPEAKER_01 22:10

You went from the Olympics to and for dessert, it's called the Twilight Zone.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

Yes. Oh, come on now. Yeah. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight. You know what sucks?

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Come on. You know what sucks? If they had not removed the cigarette from Rod Serling's hands while he's doing that, I'd have watched it. But now they've removed the cigarette to make him more politically correct, and it's terrible.

SPEAKER_04 22:37

Yeah, you gotta watch him on DVD and you just, you know, you you get JD loves the Twilight's. Hey, I just saw something. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

I just saw something here real quick.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

We have to say a little uh a little uh God bless our troops. Throw this yes, absolutely 1,000. Something I want to throw out there real quick. I just saw that there was a death, and I'd like to say uh best wishes for our father, son, and coach Lou Holtz.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Yep, he died today. He did. Yeah. Which always reminds me of Catholics versus convicts. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

You know the thing with Lou Holtz is he was really good at what he did. He was, he was, this is a theorist. Now stop. He was cruel. He was Jamie would not appreciate this portion of the he was, and this is no joke, he carried a briefcase everywhere he went, and he was a magician, and he was an amazing magician, but very few people know that. I didn't know that. Yes, read it up.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

He brought a national title to Notre Dame. He did.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

And Ryan Day called his butt out a couple of years ago. You remember that? I do remember that. When he was like, but he said off off the listen to this.

SPEAKER_05 23:41

He was where's Lou Holtz? Question our toughness. You're gonna pick a fight with an 86-year-old.

SPEAKER_03 23:48

You know, all you gotta do is Jim Harbaugh, question Ryan Day's toughness. That's all he took.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

That's all it took. Yeah. I gotta tell you, I knew uh I knew somebody whose grandfather was a football coach and used to go to the um That reminds me of something my grandfather used to grandfather used to say.

SPEAKER_04 24:07

I'll hold that for another episode.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Hey, Michael Sutton, while you're out there, what did his grandfather used to say? And can you tell me what a let's see, hmm? A tropical fruit. I'm confused.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

Yeah, something along those lines. Yeah. Anyhow, um UK reminds me of something that my first grade teacher used to say. Oh, is that it? Little old lady.

Modern Toons: Family Guy To Rick And Morty

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Yeah, okay. Back when UK uh used to have uh coaches seminars. This is back when uh Bear Bryant was UK's football coach and Adolph Rupp was the basketball coach, they'd bring in all these coaches and have these coaches' camps and seminars. Well, of course, everybody would go to Bear Bryant's and then as soon as Adolph Rupp started, everybody'd leave, right? And go immediately over to Adolph Rupp because he was the guy. And uh Lou Holtz was up there uh with a buddy of mine's grandfather who was a coach. And uh he said that Lou Holtz was just so enamored when it came to Bear Bryant and how he did and how he handled his students and all that that he tried to emulate that. And uh later in life, when they asked Lou Holtz about, you know, who he looked up to and all that, he said that he admired Bear Bryant for what he did on the on the field. But he decided to do things differently off the field than Bear Bryant did. And I think Lou Holtz was was probably a really good guy, yeah, even though he had been at Notre Dame.

SPEAKER_04 25:25

Well, uh seriously. Yeah, that's uh Godspeed Lou Holtz. Uh join a conference Notre Dame. Yeah. Um God bless our troops. Uh we are praying for you all every day. Out take politics out of everything. We've got to support our troops no matter what the situation. And uh yeah, uh it's a strange world, crazy world that we're living in.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

I'm glad you left the the extreme left there and came over and and joined the rest of us realists and said, Yeah, we need to do the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So shout out to Rick Mellon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:58

Uh so um Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. Yeah. So uh what what else? I think we we might want to just briefly mention a little wrestling. Uh, we had a really good Elimination Chamber. I I would say pretty good overall. I thought the ending was really good for Elimination Chamber. Pretty good. It that part was nice. Did Bob Backlund win this time? Bob Backlund's a man. Uh, we had a thank God we had Cody Rhodes, did not win. However, he's gonna be the title holder. Unbelievable. Yeah, so afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

We called the ladies. Yep. When Rhea dropped the tag team title, you knew she was swinging. Yep. Yep. Uh I still hate the result of the women's intercontinental championship match. Yeah, it's just bad. And A. G. Lee's terrible. Yeah, bad. Uh and Becky Lynch has to win sometime. Yep. Um, and then the men's, you know.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

It didn't go as what I predicted. You thought LA Knight was going to win. I thought LA Knight was going to win.

SPEAKER_03 27:03

I thought Cody Rhodes was going to win.

SPEAKER_04 27:04

God forbid we give LA Knight any push whatsoever.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

No, yeah, that's not going to happen. Um I can't complain about Randy Orton. Yeah, that's fantastic.

SPEAKER_04 27:13

Yeah, he's he's good to go. Uh, if if LA Knight couldn't win, that's who I was hoping.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

Seth Rollins is back, Chris. Really? Now, you didn't did you watch the intro to Raw like I asked you to? No, it's okay to say no. I did not. Okay. So here's what happens, okay? Yep. So the vision comes out. Yep. And it's uh it's Logan Paul, Austin Theory, and Paul Heyman, because the other two guys are hurt. I am. My name is Paul Heyman. Same thing. So all these masked guys start coming out. Logan Paul starts chasing after one. You're talking like Nacho Libres? No. The men in black mask who've been causing disruption. Austin Theory goes after one, so at least Paul Heyman in the ring by himself.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

But Austin Theory was in a black mask for a while.

Saturday Mornings Then Versus Now

SPEAKER_03 28:02

He was. Okay. But now Paul Heyman's in the ring by himself. And a masked man comes down the aisle, and he's Paul Heyman's trying to talk to him. Seth Rollins comes in the ring in a mask, hits Paul Heyman in the back with a chair, then stomps him, and then the next thing you know, they got they're taking Paul Heyman out to put him in an ambulance to go get him. Yep. Austin Theory and Logan Paul are there helping him put him in an ambulance. He's got bloody nose and everything. Yeah. They're going, they say they got to go get the car to follow the ambulance. They shut the ambulance door. Guess who's driving the ambulance? L A Knight. Yeah. He rolls out with the ambulance with a fine. No. Well, he hates the vision. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

All right, good.

SPEAKER_03 28:46

All right. So it was a lot. It's like the old attitude. It was a lot like the attitude era for a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

And and Raw had one of after that, my next favorite segment of Raw was Gunther versus Dragon Lee. He destroyed that guy. I mean, literally just beat him to death. I mean, if you would have seen that, you'd have been like, wow. Dragon Lee and Nacho Libre.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Yes. And he took his mask off and everything. Oh, you're not supposed to do that. You're not supposed to do that.

SPEAKER_04 29:14

That's a no-no.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

Oh, I didn't know that. And he was putting him in a sleep road, just like, screw it, take the mask off, put him in sleep road, and he tapped out.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

Yep. And then they put it through a towel in the ring to cover his face up. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

But we know what it looks like. But then the worst thing that happened was Dirty Dom lost the Intercontinental title to Pinta.

SPEAKER_04 29:36

You like Pinta. I hate him. You like how he walks. I'm down. I'm down with Dirty Dom losing. I'm not a hate Dirty Domingo.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

I love me some Dirty Dominic.

SPEAKER_04 29:45

But I'm not down with him losing to Pinta.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

How's he a Guerrero? He's not. He's not.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

He's Ray Mysterio's son, but he always wants Eddie Guerrero to be his father. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

Because he I thought he was part of the Guerrero. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

But uh but he's Liv Morgan's boyfriend.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

But he really truly is in real life the son of Ray Mysterio. Yes. Yes. They look nothing alike.

SPEAKER_04 30:09

Well, one's one's a little taller than a little taller on the radio.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

He's got a little longer hair.

SPEAKER_04 30:15

It seemed a little taller on the radio. Well, you know, if Ray Mysterio wasn't a deadbeat dad, I mean, let's just call it what it is. Deadbeat. I've heard that. So we're on the road to WrestleMania. We are. And so now this year. We've got back in Vegas.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

You can't sell tickets to it. Nope. They're struggling selling tickets. Yep. Because it's an insult. There's no storylines. No. I mean, it's it's just a rerun of everything.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

And it's super expensive. Who's your tag team right now? Who's your big tag teams? Besides the Usos?

SPEAKER_03 30:48

It's it. I mean, I mean, the big match right now is Roman Reigns and CM Punk. You know what they need.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Look. Oh, you didn't know?

SPEAKER_04 30:58

Look, here's here's the issue to me. All right. You've got talent like Gunther. Gunther. The ring. Who right now doesn't even have a WrestleMania match lined up. Correct. That's pretty bad. Well, I mean, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_03 31:15

I saw on Twitter again today that they're pushing uh Brock Lesnar and Elba Fennon again. No, LA Knight again. LA Night. It's not Oba Fennett. It should be Oba. Yeah. But they're saying him driving that ambulance and Paul Heyman and Paul Heyman's association with Brock Lesnar is starting that storyline.

unknown 31:34

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

But we're there's no way they're gonna put LA Knight over him.

Wrestling Recap: Elimination Chamber

SPEAKER_04 31:38

Right. No way. And so then you're gonna have Cody Rhodes win this Friday. Yeah. And then he's gonna go against Randy Orton. And he'll go against Randy Orton. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Question is, they're coming in May, are we going?

SPEAKER_04 31:49

Oh, I told you I was in. It's Friday night. I didn't look at it. What's the date? Uh like the 16th, something like that. Yeah, I think I think that works. I think that works. As long as it's not the uh the following one is like graduation eve and all that stuff. That's probably not good. I don't have anybody graduating in schedule.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

I do. Yep. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Weather. Yep. Crazy. Pooring down rain.

SPEAKER_04 32:17

Yep. What so what else is going on in the world? Anything else that we missed that we haven't talked about? Elections are weird. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

I think pretty much what's going on in the Middle East is in the Epstein Files and uh why I mean it's a legitimate question.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

It's not being political. Why did it's political? Yeah, why? It's political. Why I mean the US government hasn't come out with one definitive thing about why they did this. Yeah, and it keeps changing.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Actually they did. No, it just it keeps changing. They came out yesterday and said because they were gonna attack us if we didn't attack them. Oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Then they came out as well. Did they have the capability of hitting us? No. That's the other problem. They also said that they would not say that they wouldn't have a nuclear weapon. They were using nuclear power for their people.

SPEAKER_04 33:14

It was look, it was That's all I've heard is we're gonna get rid of the nukes. Okay, we did that. Uh no, Israel was going to attack. We needed to attack first before they hit us after Israel did it. That was one reason. I agree. Uh, you know, then it's uh well the regime change. We need to make sure, you know. What whatever it is, there there could have been a little bit of a unified message. Uh I know, you know, like it like I said, uh I got a bigger problem. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

What about Venezuela? Who runs that place now?

SPEAKER_03 33:47

Marco Rubio. I mean think about it.

SPEAKER_01 33:51

No, but think about it. We've moved on from Venezuela, we just completely forgot that. Yeah. Well. And then the Ayatollah, we blew the Ayatollah Rock and Rolla. I just remembered that. Was that uh Chris Jericho? No, no, it was set uh Benoit. Wasn't it Chris Benoit?

SPEAKER_04 34:07

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

He said he was the Ayatollah Rock and Roller? No. Uh I don't think so. We have to Google that. Anyhow, but now we forgot about Venezuela. Now we're in Iran. They try to go and elect somebody else who they thought his uh Kamei's son was gonna do it, and then we blew them up.

SPEAKER_04 34:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

Well I don't I don't even pretend to know what's going on or why or anything else, but at the end of the day. At least you knew what you had with the first people. Who knows what could happen this time.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Yeah, I read I read something that happens sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Yeah. Uh the devil you know.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

You know. Um I uh I don't think there's it's just one of those things that no matter what happens, it's going to be unstable.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

There's not going to be Chris Jericho said he was the ayatollah of rock and roll.

SPEAKER_04 34:54

That makes that makes sense. Yeah. But uh oh yeah, like okay, I a friend of mine, I'm not gonna say who it is, is uh that their child is uh overseas right now on a college trip on an island that got bombed by Iranian drones uh yesterday. And they closed the airspace and they closed the airport and they're struggling to figure out how they're gonna get home because it's an island. They can't, you know, take a train to somewhere else in Europe to get on a plane. Oh, I just feel terrible for them. Awful. Yeah, it's not good. I don't need it. And we don't have any candy tonight either.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

What's that about?

SPEAKER_04 35:48

Well uh by the way, when are you getting your voice back?

SPEAKER_00 35:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

I'd say about uh, I don't know, September 08. I mean, uh it's uh 20, 21. I have an ET appointment on Friday morning.

SPEAKER_04 36:04

Are they going to scrape your vocal cords?

Storylines, RAW Moments, And WrestleMania

SPEAKER_01 36:06

Just the left one.

SPEAKER_04 36:09

It's better.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

It's getting better. I mean, it's just not constant, right?

SPEAKER_05 36:16

I don't care what I'd call it better. Wait, I got paid all the choice to take the measles for me.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

Do you know what made my day today?

unknown 36:26

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 36:28

Seeing the good aquatic city Lima Ohio.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

It was good to see home country.

SPEAKER_04 36:38

I shared that picture with Pride. That was one of the companies they were prideful about. We built this aquatic center in Lima, Ohio.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

And do you know when I was going through the airport, what I did? What's that? Somebody had another sweatshirt and it said OH. I let him get mad and I went, Oh, oh.