[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my coast and best friend, Cody Lena. We discuss various pop culture topics and narrative on truly the best of all time.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before he gets a foot on the boat, we put him into a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use when we decide who steps foot on the boat?
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Call us the humane society because we are overflowing with dogs. And know what? We're going to put some of them down.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: I hate to tell you, but we're one of those.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: And you guys tried. Catherine was like, oh, look at all these beautiful dogs. She sentenced them to death. Had no idea.
Welcome to Thunderdome. We're going to do the best pop culture dog. This is the final four. We got four of these bad boys left. They made it through the last rounds, and now one will remain. It's like the thunderdome of dogs. Allah.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: Beethoven, which one of these do you think if I put a bullet in its fucking brain?
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Jesus. All right, we got to get right this ship right away. We cannot sail down these waters.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: What do you think the prettiest fucking one would be if I just put a gun right up against his stupid mutt head and I just went Kablawi? You know what I'm saying?
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Where did this character come from?
[00:01:35] Speaker A: This guy's got energy.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: He's got a strong vibe. He's strong vibe.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: I don't know if I want him all the time in the show, but every now and again just.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: He sounds like an old New York guy, too. I'm going to come in here. I'm going to catch these dogs. Listen to me. Listen to me. Your dog going to shoot him? Got to do it. It's my aunt.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: It's my aunt.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: We didn't stop Picasso. No one stopped van Gogh. No one's out here trying to stop Banksy from doing his art.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: This is mine.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: Question, Nick. If there was a $1000 reward for catching Banksy and you saw him doing his street art in the middle of the night, you taking that man down.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: I think I would do it for free.
The money's cool, but just being.
I do not care enough about street art and the scene to not want to be the guy who caught Banksy.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Just tackle.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Like. I want that on my Twitter bio. I want that.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah. The guy who took down Banksy.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: I want that good Morning America interview. You know what saying?
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Like, let me offer you one more piece to see if this will change your tune. Okay. Yeah, I'm Banksy.
Okay, so you have a chance to take down Banksy, but it's your friend. You know, I'm going to go to do fucking. I did buildings in Europe. Okay.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: You deface someone's.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Those. Some of those buildings are really old. They love their buildings.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: They bought your painting that one time, and then after they bought it, you shred it right in front of them.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. Like a big naughty man.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: Even though you knew that that would intentionally, then obviously, conversely, raise the price of it. Because now that's what it's about. It's about the fact that it was torn, which, can I just say, so up your own ass, dude.
That's when I got over it. I was like, I don't mind a little stencil artwork here and there. Oh, look at the fun juxtaposition that we have sometimes of these images. But when you did, I put the art in a frame that's actually a shredder. And then I shredded it. And I'm like, oh, no. It's a commentary on capitalism. But really it's the fact that you're just going to make more money.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, what if. Okay, I'm finger painting the side of the Louvre, all right, and you can take me down.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Nick.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Do you do it or not?
[00:03:52] Speaker A: Here's the thing. I kind of love the beauty of finger painting on the lube, though, because that's where art starts. Like, art starts with all of us.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: You're right. You get my vision.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: So now you're so talented, your symbolism, so strong.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: I know. That's what I bring to the table, dude.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: So good.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Okay. Snoopy wouldn't narc Scooby doo. Absolutely would bluey. I think they would not narc if they were a little older. But they're kids, so they don't know what's going on. And then blue narc, 100%. But it's going to be a riddle.
[00:04:29] Speaker A: Well, I think the thing about blue is what happens when it's blue's paint on the blue. Hey, I know you were trying to just help, but you did put a paw print on the Mona Lisa.
I get it. That helped us understand that we needed to go to the Louvre. And that's a very important clue that you gave us to help solve this. But you defaced the Mona Lisa. Blue.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Blue comes dancing into the living room with her food bowl. Hasn't eaten in days. Like, and salt and pepper. Like, no, Blue. He's in jail. You put a paw print on the Mona Lisa. They took Steve to jail.
He's going to die in jail. They tried to lynch him. Do you know what the French are like?
[00:05:08] Speaker A: They are still very pro head stuff.
They were lynching. There was talks of beheading. Bringing that back for this. This is it. We're on our own, Blue.
We're going to go back to the cupboard here and go have a crazy spice. RG. No, Blue. No.
There's nothing you can do. Stop it.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: Stop it.
[00:05:28] Speaker A: With your adorable voice. There's nothing you can do. You ruin this. You ruin this.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: That's the episode I want. Yeah. These cowards on tv. Let's get into the show.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll get it. Well, here we are, folks. We are in the final four here of best pop culture dogs. We have Snoopy, the winner of group a, going up against Blue, the winner of group b. And on the other side of the bracket, we got the group C champion, Scooby Doo, going up against the group D champion, Bluey. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Let's start with Scooby Doo and Bluey. Nick, me and you had a. Bluey was a revelation, this dog. We were all together this weekend. My wife, your wife, big family, sitting on Nick's couch watching Bluey, as adults tend to do, and it just had us all having a good time.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: I just also want to shout out my niece Lila, my wife texted my sister in law to be like, hey, can you ask, what's Lila's favorite recommendation? And we just thought it'd be like, a know. It'd be fun to see from their bangers. I'm now going like, hey, I'm sending her fit pics every morning. Like, yo, what do you think about this go? Do I go with the Jordans, or do you think I hit them with the pumas? Like, what are you thinking?
[00:06:41] Speaker B: I did a fit check right after that. I was like, check my fit. I had my jordans on. I was, like, tight. And she just sent back a picture of a creeper from Minecraft, and I don't know what that means. So, young people on the track, I need you to send us an
[email protected]. Is that a good. I know they explode. Is she saying I'm going to explode because my fit is so good, or was my fit really bad?
[00:07:03] Speaker A: We were all in silence. Like, what does it mean? What could it possibly mean, and then we watched a few more episodes and, yeah, I don't think anything's made me want to have a kid. More like, I've gone to my friend's house and I've held their own children. I taught one of my friends kids how to swim.
I've been around children a lot, and nothing got me more stoked than being like, man, I can't really just be watching Bluey in these streets right now.
You can't, as an adult person just beg, oh, I love Bluey.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: We have to keep some semblance of adulthood. That's why we have to keep with.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: I can't. I'm also not allowed to show my kid the Sopranos, apparently. So it's like, I got to savor bluey. I can't just burn out on Bluey before I even have a kid because then I'm not going to get the chance to watch the good shit now.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Exactly. You got to watch the Sopranos now. And then you just start your tv journey over with the kid completely from scratch. But this time, you force the kid to watch the stuff you want to watch. I'm talking about as soon as I finish bluey, my kid's watching X Men 1997, not the remake. Heard it's pretty good. I'm talking the original. Then we're going to do Batman, the animated series. At this age, I can start Power Rangers over.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: Nick, I'm going to tell you right now, don't do Power Rangers over.
It is, man, you want to talk about heartbreak in a real. Like, I remember because one of the first things Netflix ever had when Netflix was just starting this idea of streaming, there were two shows that I watched repeatedly, pawn stars. And then they had the old school Power Rangers. No way. What is this? How did they find these? In the depths of. Did they dig? Did they excavate?
[00:08:44] Speaker B: They're just streamed versions of old VHS recordings of Nick that Nick made where he tried to cut out the commercials, but he always got the beginning and the end of a couple of them.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: Dude, I wish it had commercial. I would love if certain things from the 90s, if I'm watching a 90s kid show, I want 90s cartoon breaks, too. Or like, ad breaks. Oh, yeah, I'm still here for that. I would love to watch those again.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: Got to have my pops. Hell yeah, I do. Got to have my pops.
[00:09:11] Speaker A: Got to have my pops. Dude, watching Power Rangers was heartbreaking.
That was my first real heartbreak of like, hey, man, you were a dumb kid. You were a dumb kid and you got fooled by lights and mechs, and it's going to get you, and also.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: It'S going to continue to get you even into your old adult age. Yeah, don't worry about it.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: There's better mechs.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: Uncle Cody gets fooled by lights and mechs damn near every day, so it.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Might work for you. It might still be good for you.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: You know what? I don't think Scooby Doo held up. Nick. This show is. Let's just talk logistics. This dog is great. We did learn some things that we weren't sure of before. We learned that everyone can understand the dog.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: I don't know why that is. Yeah. Almost doesn't feel necessary.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: I'd say approximately 40% to 50% of all the sound from the show is laugh track.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: It's such a weird.
Okay, so the question is, Cody, did they just put in a laugh? Did they just grab the one from the Andy Griffith show and just lay it on? Like, great, we'll just steal the laughs from that? Or did they lock people in a room and like, hey, you watch this show and you laugh accordingly.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: What if they only took. Okay. You have to get them into the mood, right? So if someone's laughing, you see me laugh. Someone's like, I know they're laughing at, like, a dog or a cat or a goat or someone getting hit the balls or, like, some funny sort of sparkler accident. I can tell just by the laugh 100% time what's happening.
I could tell in the Scooby that there was dog laughs. I wasn't crime laughs. So I'm thinking they just got some cute dogs running around, or they had somebody from back in the day that, well, who's that guy? Some stand up guy from back in the day, Jerry Seinfeld. Okay.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: He's just doing back in the day. Scooby Doo came out in 1969, just as a reminder. So, Jerry Seinfeld, don't get me wrong. He is an older gentleman, but he's not Don Rickles. Don Rickles is doing stuff. Probably calling people Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson's got words.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Old guys like that. Let's do do. Okay. Seinfeld's not old enough. Bill Burr. How old's he? Is he dead?
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. The guy who's definitively younger than Seinfeld, like, generationally.
No, no, go with.
Hasn't done a. He hasn't definitely released a special last. No, no, go with Bill Burr.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: Okay. Bill Bur. Bill Burr is out there telling all his best dog jokes, and then that's what they're laugh tracking Scooby with.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah, or I like the idea.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: Like you said, I just heard that laugh, and that sounded like a laugh of someone who thinks I'm wrong. So you don't think it's Bill Burt?
[00:11:51] Speaker A: I'm not convinced. It could be Bill Burt mostly of the time thing. Unless he's a Highlander, we have no.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Evidence to say he's not.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: Do you think if you were a Highlander, would you want to get into comedy? If you could live forever?
And you're also apparently constantly waiting for other Highlanders to potentially find you because there can only be one of you.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: I don't think you want to be famous as a Highlander unless everybody knows about Highlanders. And that's, like, your whole. So, like, you go to the show, and you're like, oh, my God, did you see Bill Burr? Yeah, that dude jumped on the stage and tried to cut him with an axe, and Bill Burr pulled a magical sword out of his ass and fought him off. It was awesome. I can't believe they do that every night, and someone's like, that's not every night. He's the Highlander.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm just trying to think of, like, the Highlander.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: The effects were amazing. I caught that axe guy's head. No, that's just his head. Bill Bur's the Highlander. Yeah.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: I like the idea of going to a Highlander's, like, a hacky comedian. His main bit is always like, well, then cut my head off. And then everyone in the audience responds.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: You can.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: And he's like, I know.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: Anytime he's bombing, he just starts fighting people immediately. Okay, wait 1 second. Last question about Highlander. If I kill the Highlander, do I become the Highlander, or do I have to be born a Highlander? I never actually watched.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: My understanding is that it is you are born, that all the Highlanders are searching for each other to eventually be the one Highlander.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: I just want to get in on it.
It's not like blood in, blood out, though. I can't just, like, fucking cut a guy, and now I'm a Highlander.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: You would think so, but I don't believe that's.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: As someone who knows nothing, if you really want to be the toughest person on earth, you should be ready at all times.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: By definition, I think the idea is that you couldn't beat all the Highlanders. Like, you could get lucky and beat one Highlander, but that you couldn't beat them all. So you don't just get to beat.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: That's why they're cowards. If I can get lucky and beat a Highlander, give me the Highlander Powers. Now I'm a Highlander.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: I think they're saying on any given day, a Highlander could beat almost any other Highlander, right. It's like in UFC, right? The top ten guys, generally speaking, are all pretty close to each other. Could probably, on a good day, beat each other. Like anyone could win.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: I'm saying you're an unranked fighter who got lucky.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: That doesn't mean you get to get put into the rankings.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: I understand that. I'm not saying to be put into the rankings. I'm saying if I luck out and kill one of these top ten guys and they have superpowers, I should still get their superpower.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: I don't even know if the Highlander thing gets superpowers. I know nothing about this.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Why did you come on like the expert, then? I'm locking in Bluey. This is bullshit, Nick. You sold me a false bill of goods.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: It's called confidence, folks. Use it. You just saw that, in effect. And for 999, I can do a seminar with you where I'll teach you how you can just act like you know about shit when you clearly don't. That's what I bring to the table. Cody, here's. Okay. I heard what you said, too. And we do need to move on. We need to make a decision. And, Bluey, from a standpoint of cinematic, what they were putting out was truly great television. No bullshit. That was a great show. That was a very fun time. I've yet to seen a bad episode of Bluey. What I'm having troubles with, though, is I just said the word 1969. It is 2024.
As much as I want to go on quality, I could probably just go, Bluey. But on cultural relevance and impact, this dude, they're still putting out scoobs. Like, they can't figure it out.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: There's a new live action cast that are out here making movies still.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Which is why that was. Yeah, 2009, 2010. They just made two. None of those people are famous. Like, we had to use it. We had to use it or lose it. You don't want to lose those Scoob rights.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: He's got new movies out. He's met everyone. He's met John Cena, the Harlem Globetrotters. He met kiss. He met kiss. He's a radical dog.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: Okay. He is.
I think you're right. I think I got lost culture. I think I got lost in the sauce for a second. I think Bluey, right now is a better show, especially the old shows. Not good. But as a force of culture movies. And I still have a lot of memories of. We didn't watch all the old movies. We only watched some of the old episodes. There's some movies from my childhood that still hold a strong place in my heart.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: I would bet that, too. I would bet almost. From a movie standpoint, I almost think he makes more sense.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Does Blue even have a movie?
[00:16:15] Speaker A: I think they're making a Bluey movie right now.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Scooby Doo. I think Bluey, in 20 more years, we can reassess this.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: Brad, I would be more than happy before this show ends if Bluey still kick it. Because that's the problem with pop culture dogs. Do you notice we don't even have paw Patrol on this list, folks? Why is that? Well, a acab. All the time. All the time. Fucking cop.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: All day, every day, dude. Also, they're just. Oh, look at this cute little dog. They're just trying to sniff you, dude. They're trying to.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Paw patrol's on the decline. I know I got a kid in the scene right now. I know what's hot and what's not with five year old and Paw Patrol's dying off, man. Bluey seems like it might have what it takes to stick around and be the long haul. But I got to see it first. I got to see it first. So we're going to move Scooby on then?
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got to be Scooby. You're right. I got lost in the sauce there at Paul.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: I get it. It was far better of a with. With just what we had watched in research. It was far better. I would give that to it anytime. All right, next up, we got Snoopy going up against Blue. Talk about a show that doesn't. Wow, what a terrible. I mean, we said we kind of guessed it when we were talking in group a.
Are these shows supposed to be good? Are the peanuts supposed to be good? And everything would imply.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: No. Here's the thing, okay, that I don't understand.
I feel like Snoopy's transcended the peanuts in a way where I've seen so many Snoopy t shirts, snoopy mugs, snoopy backgrounds, snoopy tattoos, snoopy just doing stuff that. My memory of the show is completely gone. Every episode of the Peanuts that I know is Snoopy in a dog fight. It's Snoopy being a chef. It's Snoopy, like, out solving crimes for some reason. I've got a whole idea of Snoopy in a detective's coat solving murders. And you know what? That show's never existed. But I've seen it.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: I've seen it in one of the episodes that we watch of the Peanuts. Whole episode's awful. Whole episode doesn't even make sense. The show's garbage, but they just have Snoopy surf at points. And you're like, well, that's radical. Yeah, I love his radical surfing.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: He surfs at a baseball game. He surfs through a kitchen. He surfs at a play. I think it's like, what is going on? Anytime anything is wet, he's surfing.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: Yeah. If it's wet, watch your girl, guys, because Snoopy might be surfing on it. You know what?
But, like, so I think to what you're saying where it's like you have all these radical memories of Snoopy, I think that's just what they like. For whatever reason, this sad, sad person, Charles Schultz, Minnesota legend, by the way, shout out to a real.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah, real. To recognize real.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: Yeah. But this was a very sad man who made a very sad show. And it feels like the only note, he made a bad show. And they're like, can you just add, like, a cool dog? He's like, there's not really a need for it. I don't think it's going to make sense.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: The first episode of. Its first episode of Charlie Print, 1969 or some stupid shit. When did that come out? 51.
Dude, they have a whole skateboard choreography scene. These kids are shredding in the 60s, right?
[00:19:18] Speaker A: Did they predict the. Were they a part of the wave? Were they a part of the SoCal? The SoCal. Dog seat, whatever that movie.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Dogtown.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: Dogtown, yeah.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Snoopy is the lord of Dog.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Snoopy is Dogtown.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Snoopy's the lord of Dogtown, dude.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: Dude, that's a cool dog. That's a cool dog. And then we have blue here. Who.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: Blue is the worst part of the show.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: Makes everything go off rails. In a way. You're like, yeah, just.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: It keeps getting in the way. I'm over here trying to learn. Steve's trying to tell me about the menu at his restaurant, and Blue didn't even fucking make dessert, dude. Didn't even plan what the dessert was.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Well, no, he's like, I did plan, but you got to guess. And it's like, Bluey. The restaurant opens today.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Blue. We are running out of time. We got table.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: We haven't even started making the pasta because I'm trying to figure out your clues. Do you understand how inconvenient that is?
[00:20:10] Speaker B: Blue. Blue. Blue. Blue. I just got triple sat, okay? I got a family of two out there. One of them brought their cat. There's a talking cat, and you're going to leave him hanging? You're going to leave the cat hanging? What if he goes and writes a fucking blog? You know how many people are going to read a talking cat's blog? If you're making the blue sound, Nick, for the record, you're noise gated, so it doesn't come. What? That's not fair.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: I was doing a good.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Does mine come through?
[00:20:37] Speaker A: It had been for the most of it.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Damn it. No more sounds. No, that sucks. All right.
Which is very bad. Snoopy is a legend in the game. He's inspired millions and blue. I had fond memories of it, but it turns out it's not good. It's a great show if you're four.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: It turns out also. And this makes sense. And this is on us. This one's fully on us. Hey, watching kids shows high will mess you up a little bit, because you start being like, man, I get why Steve left after three seasons. This dude is the only person. He is the only real thing. Oh, my God. And he's just talking to a green screen. All it. And maybe a director is giving him line reads, but this guy probably cranked out, like, 15 episodes a day and just is like, yeah, just read me the lines, man.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: The only thing real in that whole show was his notebook, his crayon, and the chair.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Everything else is just him prancing in front of a green screen and just.
[00:21:38] Speaker A: Hoping that they're not going to make him look like an asshole when they first did this before. And he's like, great. I'm an actor. I just graduated from college. I got my first role. I'm going to be in this television show for children called Blues Clues. I'm going to be the modern Mr. Rogers. And they're like, yes, exactly. Now step over here. So do you see that red chair right over there in front of the green screen? Yep. That's the set.
[00:22:03] Speaker B: It. That's all of.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Well, Mr. Rogers had, like. Do I have, like, a home, though, that I'm in? Yeah, you will. On the green screen. Do I have anything that I go to? Yeah, no. A mailbox is going to pop in via some graphics afterwards, and that'll be there. Is there, like, another person, maybe, that.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: This is Chris. He'll be doing the line reads of every other character, and we'll edit those in and. Okay, cool. Chris doesn't like you, by the way.
[00:22:28] Speaker A: Yeah, he's weirdly.
Well, he was the runner up, so if you didn't say yes, it was going to be him.
And we told him that, and also.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: We handed him a knife. That's why Steve's always like that. He's always on guard, dude.
He's got his head on his swivel.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what they like. That's the energy they wanted. They wanted a dude who's just a little, like, freaking out, man.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: I'm not getting this dog transcended time, and the show sucked.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's wild. All right, I'm with you. Let's move. Snoopy. Snoopy and Scooby in the, you know, we're here.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Stuck with here.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Nick, what are we stuck with?
[00:23:11] Speaker B: We did our research. We're stuck not with Scooby and Snoopy and these terrible shows. We're stuck with the idea of Scooby and Snoopy.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: These icons in the game that represent hope, talking dogs and radical.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: Again, I think they just do represent the thing that we all want in society, which is just to hang out with our pets in a very meaningful way. And I would love to take Sandler to my job and have him recruit students. You know what I'm saying? Get in there, Sandler. Tell him all about all the benefits of the University of Minnesota. I'd love for that, know.
Or do I want to come home one day and see my dog just surfing in the backyard? Yeah, of course I do, dude. That's all I want.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: I have googled Snoopy surfing and Scooby surfing, and they both shred the human nature. You think? Because we've all seen the YouTube video with the dog on the skateboard.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Is it in our blood that as soon as we see a dog, we got to get them on some sort of radical ride?
[00:24:11] Speaker A: We got it. They just seem like that's all they want to do, is do radical rides. When you see, like, a dog skateboarding or surfing, what's that dog look like? Blissed out, tongues wagging.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Always.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: They're just like, yeah, this is the shit.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: I agree with you 100%. But I also think something fundamentally that we understand know about life, something fundamentally that we understand about the universe, about God, about something huge, groundbreaking, earth shattering, is going to happen. The first time a dog does a kick flip, I don't know what's going to be, but if what's a dog kick flips, we can't be the same.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: That's, like, the next stage of evolution, for sure. You're like, oh, it can happen fast, right? It's like Jurassic park where it's like, oh, no, mother nature finds a way.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Sometimes I'll be eating ice cream, and I just don't like it. Catherine, be like, it's, like, your favorite. It's like, cookie dough ice cream. You love cookie dough ice cream. I was like, I don't know, man. A dog kick flipped.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: What are we doing here, man?
Should they all be kick flipping, then? Is that what the dog want? Is that the perfect. Are we holding dogs back?
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Yes.
From whatever you want to say, the answer is yes.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Yeah, no, we are. They would be doing better off. You ever see a pack of dogs in the streets of Milan and you're like, these dogs got it figured out.
When they send, like, one dog to be like, they're like, all right, hey, you're the cute one. Go get the food. You go get food and you bring it back.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Smarter than we give them credit for.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I love it. I love those videos. That's, like, one of my favorite genres.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Crime dogs.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: Crime dogs. Or, well, dogs that steal for the good of the group. And then they're all just like, scooby.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: Would be better at stealing. I feel like Scooby's lanky is all paused.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah, Scooby's almost too big. If a big dog approaches you like Scooby, you're not going to be as likely a little beagle coming through with a cute little beagle in a hat.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: And he's doing sleight of hand magic.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: With his little parakeet friend.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Who's robbing me blind?
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Who's the one who is in your back pocket grabbing the wallet? And it's just like, let's go, dude. What is it about Snoopy that makes him, do you feel on the Internet, do you feel that Snoopy is the more memed parent?
Some random phrase, but it's an image of a cartoon character saying it like, oh, Mondays again.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: I think the reason Snoopy's such a boomer meme is because everybody has a memory of Scooby Doo from an episode that they liked where he solved the radical crime or the movie with Sarah Michelle Geller. Because we all had a crush on.
You know, there's some Scooby Doo memory movie where we're like, that's. But there's. The Peanuts fucking suck. Bad. It's bad, dude.
Anyone who says they like the Peanuts is either 70 or we're saying it because we don't want to hurt someone's feelings who's 70?
[00:26:58] Speaker A: I almost feel bad for Snoopy that he's stuck.
At least Scooby has a pretty fun gang to hang out with. Overall, it's a fun group. Is there some weird dynamics and some sexual tension that I think he gets caught up in the middle of?
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: And I think he's like, wait, I thought you were with them, but now you're dating her and wait, you're what? But I think he goes with the vibe. I think overall, it is what it is. It do what it do. So almost, for that reason, I want to give it to scoop. I'm like, hey, man, I'm glad that as a dog, you're getting the better life.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I got a lock in. Scooby the man has seen kiss. He's played with the Harlem Globetrotters. He's wrestled with John Cena. He's fought Frankenstein. And this is all documented on video, right?
[00:27:42] Speaker A: We know of these things. We know of his exploits.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: Snoopy. I get the feeling that Snoopy is just imagining being the pilot.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Yeah. That this might just all be in his head.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: That's not a no. Scooby did.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: I understand if he has depressive delusions because he has to spend all his time with Charlie Brown and that guy.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: Me, that would drive me up a wall. So I get it. We get it, by the way, Snoopy. But, yeah, I think I got to go. Scooby as mean. I do love this dog. I just genuinely. And it's, like, such an iconic dog. You just see Scooby and you're like, I bet you if you show most of the world, Scoob, they're like, yeah, I know that guy.
[00:28:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I know that dog. He mean that dog way back.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Shout out to Velma and Daphne for being a lot of people's first crushes.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: Fred.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: And, Fred, for all you gay boys out there, I'm happy for you that you got to have him. Because I don't know if any women were ever attracted to Fred. There's nothing that I find. I don't think a heterosexual woman would find in Fred. Do you know what I'm saying? But I could see, if I were gay, I think I would be like, yeah, that could be a type.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I get it.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Pretty boy, pretty, athletic boy. Yeah. I like my boys preppy.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: They did a good job on that show of making sure the men had no redeeming qualities.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: Yeah, Shaggy's not here for sex. So he's a non sexual object. That doesn't count.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely not. So I guess your only choice is Daphne, Velma or the.
Or the Harlem Gold trotters. Whatever.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: When they show up town, beauty of.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Scooby Doo, they're around a lot. Don't worry about it, Scoob. The Harlem Goat trotters show up fairly often to help out your boy. So. Yeah, I think we're in agreeance here, Scoob, for the win.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: All right, Scoob, you're on the boat. Thank you all so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want about your boys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend. Wherever you're listening to this, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that. Subscribe and give us those five stars, please.
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[00:30:10] Speaker A: We could do anything. We can do anything through.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: All things are possible.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: Exactly. Shout out to Charizard for that intro to our music. You want to hear more of their stuff? Head over to bandcamp. Type in Charizard and replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. Got a new season coming out on Monday. But until then, I've been Nick Carey. And I'm Cody Leno.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: See you on the boat.
