The Worst of the Best Podcast

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oh reliable ready boy oh boy stand by
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stand by stand by stand by stand by
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stand by this is the worst this is the
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worst the best is
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coming welcome to the worst of the best
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podcast you wanted the best well they
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didn't freaking make
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it so here's what you get from Canada
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Ryan and Reuben
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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all right I'm really excited for today's
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episode Ruben and I we were raised on TV
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yes we have to keep in mind I was born
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in 75 I was born in 77 welcome to the
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worst of the best podcast I'm your host
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Ryan with me as always is my brother
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Ruben today we're we're picking the
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worst of the greatest TV themes of all
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time there you go that's our topic today
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we watched a lot of TV Y and anord
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amount of TV I only say that because I'm
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I'm recollecting how much TV I watch
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when I saw the this list of 25 odd TV
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themes and how many of them I just
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knew and the only way I knew them was
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just by repeat viewings I could tap my
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feet and sing along whatever it might
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have been we didn't have a VCR no we'd
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have to watch this live yeah if we want
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if we wanted a VCR our dad would Rent
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One in a suitcase any of our listeners
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do that rent rent the VCR yeah the big
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suitcase come home with those tapes and
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how exciting that was the plug in the
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VCR and the frustration of watch do you
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remember how old you were when you first
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had the VCR R we own one I think we were
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like in junior high yeah I was 14 I
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never I don't know why I remember the
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age but I remember I was 14 you would
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have been 12 and we owned our first VCR
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at that age and how excited it was to
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record things and watch things later
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fast forward commercials 40 commercials
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well that was a dream and now kids
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nowadays they'll never know what it's
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like have to suffer through commercials
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or to stay up when things are on or
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whatever the case might be Let's uh
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sorry just give me a second here sure
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there you go okay so I'm really excited
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for this one because brings back a lot
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of memories cuz a lot of these TV themes
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are quite frankly from our day and age
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whatever the cut was this is the uh top
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25 TV theme songs of the ' 80s oh this
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was specifically of the 80s my bad
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that's why that's wild I was like why
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are these songs from the ' 80s what what
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a magnificent time the 80s was it's what
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it was the TV theme songs usually had
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lyrics and Jason her brother Jason just
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chimed in thanks Jay thanks for
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listening sorry that again oh yeah the
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lyrics L songs have lyrics yeah tells
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the story you of a man named Brady which
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would didn't make the ' 80s cut cuz it
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was the 70s so here we but they stopped
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that yes they did do that did they they
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don't sing lyrics and songs anymore then
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they started like using songs that were
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previously written like friends right or
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the unbreakable Kimmy schit they kind of
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did oh that was fantastic all right so
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here we go this is an order of I guess
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their order maybe it's I think they did
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do it in their order of what they like
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the what site is this s this is unders
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scopf fire.com so this is whoever wrote
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this article the team to put this
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together put it in order so we're going
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to go in their order from least to
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greatest and we'll pick what we think is
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our overall or the worst of the best TV
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themes and if we didn't watch the show
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enough we're just going to skip it we're
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not going to even listen to it sure we
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watched The Cosby Show we did we did
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like the whole world did we watched
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Cosby what's uh what's he been up to
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what's Bill been up to I haven't quite
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seen him huh is he okay is his health
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okay oh the recording terrible that's
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the recording yeah someone's recording
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off their phone onto the TV but and then
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onto podcast yeah but no lyrics no yeah
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all right I remember this this
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theme all right all right oh Bill he's
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hilarious okay number 24 is Fame the r
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from 82 to 87 I I know Fame I never
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watched it but it's yeah but I wonder if
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the theme song is what I think it is
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Fame you're going to live for is
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that it can't be the worst no
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[Music]
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no beautiful beautiful
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the music
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oh what's that Baseline all right I
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don't want us to get kicked off well
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it's okay we'll be kicked off now uh
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this one I had to do manually Miami Vice
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number I already know I know this one
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off by heart I'm telling you this is
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there's no way in heaven was it Friday
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nights I think so oh I just we're
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listening to the story
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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I love that drum
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there the Ritz and Glam of my I I great
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show great show I don't think that's
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going to pick our worst so far no
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there's no way and there's no way that I
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shouldn't start talking about them all
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but right in this show what we have to
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do is take take the good take the bad we
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take the bad and there you have us the
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worst the best of the i i mumbled that
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yeah you did you messed that up all
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right so we're going have to do this
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manually roed it cuz they're not kicking
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in some of these ones aren't kicking in
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okay let's just do it let's just do it
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let's see how far we can go no no no I
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got I got to s c up here we
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[Music]
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go
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what oh she's singing it I never caught
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that before
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never so she said never yeah she these
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nuances the show keeps on giving all
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these years
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later cro Blair was the hot one right I
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was in love with Joe yeah I think
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everyone was I think she was my my very
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first like TV Crush was Joe where is she
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where's Joe is she even in there she
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must be was she not in the first season
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maybe I think maybe she came in later as
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like the tough kid yeah cuz it's Nancy I
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don't know who Nancy is is like a
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woman's boarding school something like
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that a girls boarding school or
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something yeah anyways poor Nancy so the
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Smurf is number 21 and then we got
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family ties right after so let's do the
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[Music]
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Smurfs easy lyrics to remember yes they
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knew Their audience we watch the Smur
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love
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and we watched Family Ties which is
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funny that we watched Family Ties as
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much as we did because the humor a lot
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of it was the political humor we didn't
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get you know like yeah I don't
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understand about him being
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Republican and he was a Democrat so he
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was a republican yeah he Fox was I had a
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crush on the mother on the mom
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yes marith baxer is that her name yeah
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they will be together for million
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there's Jason B's sister Justine
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bman yeah I love this
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show
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baby
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without what would do Meredith MTH baxer
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I had a crush on
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her I don't know what it is what do you
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want me to say yeah well it is what Love
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Is Love Love Is Love she never wrote
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back Thundercats Thundercats sorry for
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our live listeners but this will be it
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you got to hear the stuff the site that
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gives us the YouTube videos is like
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takes forever to load I don't know why
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that is so yeah Thundercats did you ever
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watch it yes yeah do you remember the
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Thundercat
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Oh I was never really really into it no
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but we it was more of like something I'd
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watch
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[Music]
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they talked about doe a live version I
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think it' be pretty cool if they
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did thund
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[Music]
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Thunder I don't love how long their
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intros were back then like a minute and
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a half eh at all the
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characters I love that Thundercats hole
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at the beginning there look like a
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he-man it's kind of like a basically
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it's a feline He-Man chips I remember
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watching chips when was like four years
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old yeah we watch chips all the time I
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love chips punch what was the guy blond
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hair guy's name do you remember if I
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heard it I would
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know
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[Music]
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ooh where the Baseline
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[Music]
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yeah that's like I don't think I
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appreciate the Baseline as a
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[Music]
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kid oh there we go there
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look how close look how close they're
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driving to each other check this out
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really close it's it's almost if you saw
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two cops driving their bikes down the
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road like
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that did you watch the Remake the movie
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I heard it was terrible yeah I heard it
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was terrible as well I didn't watch it
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all right so People's Court H I already
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know this is a terrible one I I don't
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think it's my worst yet but but we
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watched the show so I have to we have to
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play what for a long time oh People's
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Court I was thinking of Night Court as
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people but yeah of course people Court
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yeah oh yeah yeah here we
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go it's kind of little
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yeah there you go
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wow that's pretty impressive
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[Music]
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yeah
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nice okay I I forgot it was that funky
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to be honest with you all right so let's
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try Night Court I like how they put
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night court and People's Court next to
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each other for the not a baseline they
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really were having a base back in the
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80s these te
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[Music]
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songs Mary Anderson he just died didn't
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he did
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he oh it's all right it's just as I
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remembered just as I remembered oh
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growing people did you watch Growing
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Pains yeah I was listening to an audio
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book recently that made me think of
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Growing Pains the woman kept on using it
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was a
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dated hold on right it was uh probably
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written in the late '70s early ' 80s the
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the book I listening to and she kept on
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talking about how her friend kept on
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making a flub okay okay list but she
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didn't use the word
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flub she goes he kept on making a boner
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every time I look he would make a boner
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he he kept on making a boner
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yeah I'm like lady stop saying this yeah
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and I was laughing and I told my wife
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about it she's like what that was never
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meant that I'm like no that was if you
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made some type of Gaff it was called a
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boner yeah and that was the name of the
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Buddy the and I said yeah there's the
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show Growing Pains there was a character
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whose name was boner yeah and she's like
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there was not yes there was great I you
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know it's funny thank you for bringing
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that up I I forgot forgot about that but
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was boner growing paines or no I thought
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it was um alen Rickman is that no Al
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what's his name Alan thick alen thick
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yeah are you sure I'm pretty sure boner
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was Family Ties boner
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is I I can hear Alan Thick saying boner
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in my head no I can
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hear Michael P Keaton saying boner oh
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you know I my
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memories let me let me Google boner yeah
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well be careful I would recommend
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this way here well we have well while
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you're while you're Googling boner let
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me do groin
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[Music]
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pains okay before you get
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there each yeah that's gr pains
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unfortunately boner committed suicide oh
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man and in Vancouver Birch Columbia
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really yeah and yes he was on growing
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pains he was growing pains he was 41
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same age as me at the time of his
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suicide right eight nine years ago oh
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wow rest in peace boner that's too bad
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it is too bad of course it is he was
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Walter said some guy said that he was in
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a lot of
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pain no sorry that's what it says well
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he was a lot of
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episodes wow anyways yeah that's too bad
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that's too bad of course I didn't ever
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watch St Elsewhere so I'm not going to
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speak to it did you ever watch St
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Elsewhere okay fragle rock
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uh care for I remember thinking I wanted
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to like it and I just never did so I'm
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going to bring up frag Rock the theme
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song because people are going to get mad
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if we don't cuz there's a lot of people
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love fragle rock and I never got into I
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always thought it was like the Twisted
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weird Muppet Show and I never liked it
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but before we do let's he this
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one love this picture Gadget
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[Music]
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Inspector
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Gadget
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woohoo
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inspector yeah I love Inspector Gadget
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okay fun cartoon I watched it probably
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to my teen years quite frankly here is
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the fro Rock theme
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[Music]
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song away worries for another day let
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the music play
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know a fun little song I think that was
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the highlight of the show was the theme
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song quite frankly I appreciate your
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frankness yeah Fall Guy didn't watch so
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I'm not going to speak to that of course
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Transformers man if we actually were
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smart enough to do a show that was the
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best
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of Transformers might be up there what a
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great opening theme song this was here
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we go I never had Optimus Prime no that
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was
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like the the toy nobody did it's like
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$100 when they were out they were like
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$100 Optimus Primes that's a lot of
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money in
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83 lot of money
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now that'd be
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$173 I love this
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starcream starcream man he's the best
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right
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here sry sorry Soundwave I love look at
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that it's awesome I had Soundwave or we
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had sound wave out as cassette tapes and
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they transform it's so cool so hip yeah
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yeah I don't know I just love it I love
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it but all right Transformers we watch
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that all the times kids we watch the CR
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out of that and we saw the the
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Transformers movie in the theaters the
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best one of course is the cartoon way
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better than the Michael Bay films Dallas
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we never watched magn Pi we did watch
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and great great theme song by the way do
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you recall it I will when I hear it yeah
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you will once you hear it you'll be like
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oh yeah oh
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yeah Tom C we still watched Tom so my
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wife and I watched that show Blue Bloods
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on CBS what we watched that show Blue
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Bloods on CBS was good it's good
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yeah there you go look at that just out
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there did you know that he was supposed
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to be in Dan Jones but he couldn't do
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the filming because of this TV show
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really yeah huh I could I could see that
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I could see it yeah we're getting near
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the top 10 here boys so M Pi is great
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gii Joe come on do we even have to play
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it we do but everyone knows this song
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remember the had the new version when
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they did Cobra la la la yeah yeah we how
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much we flipped out when that
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[Music]
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happened yeah this is the this is the
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newer one I'm going to put the newer
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one yeah here we go yeah yeah I love
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that the Cobra Commander screaming
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yeah Tak
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[Music]
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FL that's pretty cool man who is the
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person doing that I
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[Music]
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know and then uh J comes in at the end
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here
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for look at the
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violence I love itan deted to rule the
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[Music]
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world so
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great I have so many fun memories of
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just watching this yeah
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like our brother Dion had the original G
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Jo doll that was like a foot big or
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something like that oh that's awesome
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you know I always tell my kids and
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especially my older boys who can
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understand this we lived in a great time
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of cartoons and movies the ' 80s man
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were just they were it was just awesome
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Night Rider and Grace American hero
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will'll play those two back to back we
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all know Night Rider but we got to
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what's his head David uh Hasselhoff
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Hasselhoff big in Germany he is big in
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Germany so I had a customer do we have a
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moment for this yeah I'm just gave a
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keto by so so I I had a customer she's
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from Germany and summer came and she's
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wearing a tank top and I was surprised
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cuz she's got no arm tattoos that she
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would have a shoulder tattoo from here
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to to there you know stretching across
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and I was like oh nice ink or something
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like that you know and right and oh yeah
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you know I can't do German accent it's
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so and so's a lyric from so and so and I
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forget the guy's name I gave her like a
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quizzical look and she's like you know
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Tina Turner's composer You Germans have
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have quite the reputation and she's like
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we do and I was like
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Nazis like that yeah you kind of
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interrupted me but like yes you do have
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a reputation but I didn't want to go
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that you try to rule the world twice
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Hasselhoff oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah his song Blah Blah Blah help
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Inspire like you know people to break
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down the wall and stuff I'm like really
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like you still listen to Hasselhoff oh
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yeah yeah it's true he's a hero there
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it's crazy he's a hero and this is why
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right here Ruben
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Night Rider a shadowy flight into the
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dangerous world of a man who does not
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exist
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oh so digital yeah digital guys
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oh turn it off Night Rider will
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[Music]
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drive there's the Hof right there look
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at him wow look at that hair beautiful
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he must been like our age at that time
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yeah he would have well he would have
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been younger would have been younger he
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still looks older though yeah it's funny
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when they they're younger than us but
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they look older but they have the style
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that was you know popular then it's got
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this old look to it you know this song
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Don't You Greatest American Hero this is
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a weird this was a weird TV
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[Music]
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show it not I'm Walking on
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Air feel so
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fre basically I've watched this show it
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was just weird that it existed yeah
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basically he was a bumbling hero yeah is
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that the idea yeah okay now we're
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getting to the Heavy Hitters here we're
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almost done boys I mean we almost don't
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have to play this but no it' be a shame
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not to play it so I remember when the
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18am came out our parents were kind of
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ify about us watching the show it's
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Thursday nights at 8:00 it was a school
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night this is back of course we didn't
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have a VCR I think I was in the third
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grade when it came into my and it was
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basically the equivalent of playing
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fortnite tonight like on a late night on
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a school night this is what this was
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like to be able to watch this back then
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sure it' be
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really really good to watch this late at
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[Applause]
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night get that snare drum the military
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you know
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snare I want to hear this one part
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coming up here we know we know what it
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is here we go get a little
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heavier this is where ba Brock starts
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throwing the table around all right and
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okay Dukes of Hazard I love Dukes of
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Hazard I watched it as a kid all the
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time did you I didn't just because of
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the Confederate flag oh wow you were I
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was already woke by then oh wow good for
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you
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the damage these cars went through I
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know I know such a great show
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[Music]
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yeah look at this that car is not
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surviving that
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impact sliding over the hood like that
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epic Superman's Dad
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[Applause]
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yep oh Daisy dudes pretty so you been up
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to I'm not too sure and did you watch
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Golden Girls R like every episode yeah I
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love Golden Girls we're getting we're
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closer to their age than we are to the
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kids in you know what I mean yeah we're
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getting
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older oh yeah I actually forgot what
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it's
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like your heart is true you're a and a
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confid yeah it's all right it fits the
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Gen Betty White was the oldest I believe
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on the show at the time and the the one
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play the old lady was the youngest yes
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and and Betty White's the only one
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that's still living that's crazy and we
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all know this one not this one but
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cheers we watched cheers as well cheers
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it was great it was fun Sam and Diane
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way better than C Ali Norm all those
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nights when You' got no lights the check
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is in the
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mail and your little angel H the cat oh
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it's like a really long intro go where
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everybody knows
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remember the series finale oh yeah yeah
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Sam turn off the lights and they walked
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out hey take off is top his hairpiece
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you took it off
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yes what a brave
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man imagine just people knowing that
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you're bald it's okay to be bald it's
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okay it's okay all right Ruben do you
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have your worst pick yes is is the CP M
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too it's weird how this is like a couple
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episodes in a road the first song or the
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first yeah happened to be yeah it was
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boring it's actually kind of boring the
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the little horror section and of course
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in later years they do the little
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dancing little kind of old man dancing
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just pretends he's playing the trumpet
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or whatever but yeah as music that I
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would actually listen to cuz a lot of
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the songs I would actually listen to
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yeah if this was on your Spotify or
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whatever came on the full version You'
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listen to it and be happy to like Miami
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Vice and like those are great night rer
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one was fun to listen to yeah but yeah
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the the Cosby one yeah what's he up to
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again right did you say do we do want to
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Google that have you heard what's
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happened no I I I haven't he must have a
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Netflix special coming up but a lot of
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these guys have those he must be it must
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be so all right so until we hear from
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Bill Cosby thanks for watching and
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listening yeah remember in front of
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every Silver Lining there's a cloud and
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we're here to help you find that thank
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you
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[Music]
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where did I
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go thanks buddy thank you thank you that
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was fun we had a good time I was looking
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forward to it this week yeah it was good
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good topics sorry for the chaos at the
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beginning oh crazy