[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to friendly competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my co host and best friend, Cody Lena. We discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to 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. We decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use when we decide he steps foot on the boat?
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, do you want to tell him what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Absolutely.
We hope your super bowl party was nice. The party was bumping. Hey, with the ipio. Thank you. I need your help on this one. Wait, what? I hope your super bowl party was nice. The party was bumping.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Okay, that's not me. There is not a single soul on earth that when you were like, I hope your party was nice. I hope your party was bumping, that anyone was like, oh, clearly this is a reference to who let the dogs out.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: But the site.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: You're like, and the party was bumping. Yeah, I know exactly what to do there, but you did not set me up for success.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: Try it again. Let's try it again. Let's try it again.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: This is maybe the worst alleyoup in history.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: All right, shut up, Nick. We'll edit all this. Want. Lead me in again. Let me in again. Just bring me in. We'll cut that out and post. We'll do it again. We'll do the good take. Okay?
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Sure. Although I know you edit these, and I think you just want me to look like an asshole, but sure.
You want to tell them what we're talking about today, Cody?
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Absolutely. We hope your super bowl party was nice. The party was.
That's.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: Honestly, it kind of feels like I'm supposed to just do the a and.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: That feels like then you want me.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: To go yippee, and then the response is on you.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: But if the response is on me, I can't do and everybody must have it on ball.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Why can't I have it?
[00:02:08] Speaker B: Because I don't trust you to pick up the ball and run with it. If you would have taken it at.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Yippee I-O-I think I would have known. Actually, I don't think I know what the full lyrics are. Okay, one more time, I will take over the a, ya, and the yippee.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: I o.
Edit all this out. Okay.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Totally gone.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: Totally gone.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Totally gone. And again, one more time. Okay, Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Absolutely. Well, your super bowl party was nice. The party was bumping.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: Hey, ip I o never.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Everybody was having a ball.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Absolutely. We're talking about dogs. No, wait, what's the next.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Oh, we're not done.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Finish it until the fellas start to name Colin.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Oh, never mind.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: I forgot.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: This song is about calling and the.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Girls respond to the call.
That's the song. Is that what you want me to do?
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I forgot that the whole point of the song is that they are making fun of women.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: No, this actually is about men fighting. It looks like.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: I thought they were calling the women dog.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: I'm reading the lyrics here and it's about these guys being like, hey, stop stepping on my dick. And then the other guys are like, we're not going to fight. And then the girls are like, oh, you're going to look like a bitch in front of us, girls. And then the guys fight. That's the gist of what's happening here.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: That's fair. I feel like that feels like after a publicist was given to them, this feels very post publicist.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: We're going to have to punch up these lyrics a little bit mainstream. Yeah.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: It also was the theme song for the rugrats, so I'm pretty sure being like, hey, let's call women dogs in this song.
We're going to need to change what that originally meant anyway.
So why don't we just say it's about men fighting?
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah. When I was in nine or ten years old, I was on a basketball team that played, like, on those junior teams.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: And our team always came out to who let the dogs out?
[00:04:02] Speaker A: How could you not?
[00:04:04] Speaker B: I just don't.
I don't think my life's ever been better, is what I'm trying to say.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Do you know what I appreciate is the pipeline to who let the dogs out to then DMX being your at walkout music as you get older. It's a perfect handoff. Both very dog based, because who doesn't Love? Just Xcon, give it to you, wait for you to get it on your own.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Let's go.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: And as a nine year old, you cannot come out to that song. It's too powerful.
The children cannot handle x going to give it to you as a song that they are meant to walk out to. It's so strong.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: It's so strong. I love watching, like, nine year olds coming out to cover their face, being hard as fuck, like, oh, you want to fuck with us?
[00:04:50] Speaker A: It's like, kind of. Yeah, I think we can fight these kids. I think they're.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Okay. If you walk out to who let the dogs out? You are a young basketball team. That's fine. If you come out to Xo and give it to you, you are allowed to catch hands.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: You're asking for think we. I think where we messed up as a society and TMTM. This is my new movie idea. What if we gave kids Mountain Dew?
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Okay, then horrible idea. I love it. Right?
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Exactly. Then played x go and give it to you.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Oh my God.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: And then it's a dark room, right? It's a super dark room. They've been chugging mountain Dew all day. They hear the song. The door opens. Afghanistan.
And we just let these little fuckers high on Mountain Dew. And we just let them run our wars. Like, we're like, get in there, boys.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: Fuck it. Replace the Mountain Dew with PCP.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: And these kids.
And then when they go to sleep, we put them back in their beds, right? Put them back in their beds so when they wake up, they're like, I had the craziest dream.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: All right, Nick. Okay, we kidnapped kids, right?
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Give them a bunch of them. Just let them tell you right now.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: I don't even think we have to kidnap. I think we do this in reverse. I say we don't kidnap these kids, but we work with local foster organizations and then this is how we provide these. And then when we put them in homes, they're like, oh, my whole life is different. It's actually like a really inspirational thing that we're doing. But maybe that home is government agents who are watching them in case we do want to turn them back into spies.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Got it. I love it.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: I don't see the problem.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: I mean, that's basically the plot of Halo. They take these kids and make them into military killing machines.
If you really want to dig into the plot of Halo, why did Halo.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Feel the need for deep lore?
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Why?
[00:06:39] Speaker A: It was a fun game where we killed aliens and we're getting it back for humanity. The game needed nothing more. But they're like, do you want to.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: Know what's kind of fucked up? They kidnapped all these kids and forced them into be genetic monsters. Okay, thanks, sale.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: That helps me really play out the pathos of master chief.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Fuck, man. Yeah. That's what we're talking about today.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: It really feels like someone did not when they were like, hey, there's a lot of money on the table right now. Halo's big. We got, let's do a book. Tie in. Let's do a book. Obviously we're going to do that.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Got it.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: All right, Jefferson, you're on it. Go for it. Jefferson's like, next meeting. Hey, I was so inspired. I wrote the book. Great. Send it to publishing. Do you want to read it?
[00:07:22] Speaker B: It's pretty avant.
They're like, no, Jefferson, we were looking at the book. It looks like you got a bunch of nine year olds smoking PCP. Yeah.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: How else are you going to make them violent? You got to train these little warriors from the beginning.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. And nothing scarier than a nine year old who's on a PCp bender.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: And we have airpods just blasting x. Going to give it to you.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Okay. These kids don't have any concept of addiction and stuff. They're just kids, right? Right. So you give them PCP for about a week, get them really good and juiced up, and then you take it away after a couple of days of it being gone, say, hey, I need you to kill this man. And if you kill this man, you get your precious juice back, because we call the PCP juice.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: And then they'll kill that man for.
[00:08:05] Speaker A: The juice easily, no questions asked.
I think you could talk it out of them, too.
Yeah, you kind of messed up, but you could just be like, when the kid's like, hey, did I kill someone when I was, like, nine years old? You're like, I don't think so. No, you had a bad dream. You talked about a lot.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Yeah, you kept talking about your juice dreams. We never figured out what that meant.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: But no. As long as the kid only kills, like, one person or within one day.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: If you're the kid, fast forward. You're 34, you're on betterhelp trying to get. Finally trying to get your life back together. And you're talking to your therapist and you're like, I just keep having this vivid dream where I killed a man for juice.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Is that common? Actually, there's been a surge in adults with a similar dream, actually, I'm going to play something for you, and I just want to tell me if it resonates with you.
Start shaking.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: I need juice.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: We got that dog in us, Cody.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: We got the dog in us today.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: We got that dog in us. And that's what we're here to talk about, folks, is those dogs in pop culture. And here we are in group a, where we have the number one seed, Snoopy. Once again, these lists are given to our. This list actually was created by Catherine.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: A full Catherine list, not in the way in which she mostly ghost writes. Most of the lists this is all her and a good one.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: You can tell when the quality of the list is good that we didn't have a hand on it.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we had no hand on this ball. This is literally all sent. But we sent her list to the bracketologist. They kicked it back to us with their rankings. So we have the number one seed, Snoopy, though, which, I mean, talk about. That's a classic pick.
This is the duke of pop culture dogs, right?
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: Perennial favorite.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: He gets his own calendar every year. There's a snoopy calendar.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: There's enough Snoopy content. He does 365 day calendars. You got?
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Yeah, bro.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: We're about to talk about dogs that I don't think could maybe fill up twelve months on their own. Snoopy handles 365 day calendars all on his own. The merch he moves is wild. Going up against 16 seed. Courage, cowardly dog, if I didn't already say that. And then we have the eight seed wishbone from the wishbone television series going up against the nine seed, lassie. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Snoopy versus courage, the cowardly dog. Nick. I have memories of snoopy wearing a chef's hat, making all this food, cooking it up good. And it makes me wonder, if one of these dogs came up to you in a chef hat, would you eat the food? It is a dog wearing a chef. What can dogs cook? Can we get a culinary dog up in there? If Sandler walks up to you wearing a chef hat and drops a plate in front of you, are you eating?
[00:10:59] Speaker A: I want to say.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: It.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: Okay, here's the thing. I think we need to remember, because I think a lot of us are like, oh, your dog's just using their big, clumsy paws and just knocking stuff into a bowl. So you have, like, a random assortment of stuff. No, we're obviously not talking about eating that. I'm saying if Sandler came to me and had a sandwich, a ham and cheese sandwich on a plate, I'd have to.
But a, why would it be bad if it's all the ingredients? I know. My assumption is it would be. But why do I think that? Do we think animals know about condiments? Do we think he understands mayo?
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Absolutely not.
Okay, let's put it this way. If there was a sandwich on a plate and your dog stepped on the sandwich, would you eat the sandwich?
[00:11:46] Speaker A: I would like not to. In a world where I don't.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: They got paws. They got big, meaty paws. He's not washing these things. He's walking around on them.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: No.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: I guess for some reason, the act of lightly making it didn't really bother me. But if he puts one full paw, if when I see the sandwich, there's just a big paw mark in it. Now I don't want it. Because you're right. I know where he steps. I watch where he steps quite frequently in his own shit.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: That's fair. I have a second question to separate these two.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Yeah, of course.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Okay. Whose life is worse because courage has to spend every day fighting off demons for a man who hates him and a woman who is so ignorant, she doesn't see the horrors that are constantly around her. The cthulhuian level of horrors that are constantly attacking this house. And then Snoopy has to wake up every day and just be around Charlie.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: Brown and just watch this kid just constantly, just constantly. Just whiffing on life.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Like 54 year old kid miserable.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: I mean, I think at the end of the day, Snoopy, we see him, he likes to kick it back a little bit. He gets on top of that dog house and he's rocket. It feels like he's in a good spot, good place. Maybe it's just. Do you ever wonder if the scene before that's him just being so frustrated by Charlie's just, is he naive? Is he dumb? What is it about Charlie Brown where you're like, I don't necessarily think you are a good faith actor in all of this?
[00:13:16] Speaker B: I think what's happening is Snoopy probably the wisest, one of the smartest dogs to ever live, to ever grace this beautiful green orb. He has to watch Charlie Brown live a sentient human life knowing that that soul that Charlie Brown has should belong to him. Snoopy could take over that position and live that life better, achieve so much more. But he can't because of these damn paws. So he's trapped in the dog's body while he gets to watch the most useless human who's ever lived just stumble through beat. That's it.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: I think what's hard is watching Charlie Brown and being like, you would be the most easily red pilled person I've ever met. You know what I'm saying? Like, Charlie Brown hears about men's rights once and he's like, all in all.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Dude, he's got Andrew Tate tattoo on his has.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: All around him are people who are going to live really incredible and fulfilling lives. And Charlie Brown is just going to be stuck in that same town in Ohio. I don't know if it takes place in Ohio, but it know it does. It feels like it got. He's got his friend who's clearly a savant at piano at the age of, what, four?
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, these five kids, whatever they are.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Like six years old, seven years old, and he's clearly a savant and is just like, yep. I can just plan symphonies. It's fine. It's whatever.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Lucy at the same age, is already running a successful psychiatry business.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Yep. So we know where she's taking. I mean, that's only going to build upon itself.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Dude, Charlie Brown can't even compete with Woodstock, the fucking bird.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Yeah, Woodstock's probably looking at him, too. Like, we could just get in that body, dude. I would love if there's a side series where it's like Snoopy trying to, like Snoopy. And Woodstock is just going into the occult and just trying to figure out how to replace their soul in his body.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Every episode is just a different way that they're trying to take over him. They do the soul replacement. They try to do mind control. They try a ratatouille.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Come on. There's got to be one of these ways we can. This dude is going to live a sad, pathetic life if we don't get a hand on this ball. You know what I'm saying?
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Take over for him. Charlie Brown's incompetent is the moral of.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: The story, but at the same time, you have courage. Who is living the worst?
Very. It's impressive and inspiring in the way in which he continuously saves that family, keeps everyone safe and protected. And obviously, it's ironic that he's. Or how do you feel about cowardly dog?
[00:15:46] Speaker B: How do you feel about that show? Do you watch it?
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Oh, man. Because for me, how long it's been. It's been almost four years since I think we talked about courage because we've done a best 90s cartoon. Go back. That's like series one stuff. Get back. You got to scroll for a while on Spotify, but you'll find it, I think my opinion at the time, and it never really has changed because I sound like I've ever watched more. It never hit.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: It never hit. Here's why I think I finally put my finger on why I don't like to watch the show. Because I don't want to watch courage for 22 minutes. Just go.
He makes that sound the whole fucking time. How would he even watch this show? He's just constantly going off with gibberish.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
The needless cruelty of the master of the owner. I always hated that.
[00:16:36] Speaker B: Yeah, nothing like that. And that lady is so dumb.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: It never just gelled. It never hit for me in that way. I remember as a kid feeling like, oh, maybe I'm just too young. Maybe I'm just missing something here. But then as I got older, I was like, I think it's just dumb.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: I think it's bad.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: I think it's just bad for I hope that there's someone out there who got something from it and maybe learned that even when you're at your most scared, that's when you have to be your most brave. I hope that for you, but it ain't me. It ain't me.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Also, when monsters are attacking, don't just run around going, it's like, what? Not helpful? No, not helpful in the situation. You're just pissing me off. Stop. I'm ready. We got to lock in the red Baron, dude.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: Yeah. God, we haven't even talked about this guy. This cat can fly. This dog can fly. Sorry. All right, next up, we've got the eight seed wishbone going up against the nine seed lassie. Cody, I'm here to ask you a question. How much of popular, like, the greats, the great pieces of literature do you think you know? Or you assume you read it, but if you really studied your heart, you'd be like, oh, I did just watch that episode of Wishbone.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: I think Wishbone got me through so many english literature classes that I didn't even know. How would this dog handle this situation?
[00:18:04] Speaker A: I'm telling you right now, I've never read great expectations, but I'm very confident. I know that storyline.
I'm good. Don't worry about me. I got great expectations down. I saw Wishbone.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: I also just like the concept of the show. Like, okay, we're going to redo all shit. We're going to do Shakespeare. We're going to do old man in the sea. We're going to do Robin Hood. It was like, oh, awesome. Yeah. Teach kids about the cool. Yeah, yeah. You're going to act opposite a I if we do Shakespeare. Like, I'm going to be. Yeah. And Wishbone's gonna be the dog. Yeah. So you want me to look at the dog like, I want to bang that dog. Yeah.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: We're going to need that.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: We're going to need that.
[00:18:42] Speaker A: We're going to need that edit. You're going to have to give your all. And I don't remember this part completely. Was it always like, the same cast?
Whoever the owner of Wishbone is is always going to have a part in the greater when they're doing the story. Breakout.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: No. Recollection. Of that. Okay.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: I want to believe that has to be the case, because that's the only way I feel like, as an actor or like that that dog can be comfortable and get such great performances out of it.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Hey, get some really good performance out of that dog. It's got to be treats, too.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: But maybe then, on the flip side, though, I feel like maybe you'd almost burn out. And they're like, yeah, we got to refresh this cast every episode because these.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: People no longer excited.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: People are having trouble.
Could you imagine? What sucks now is, like, if we ever rebooted wishbone, it would just be a CGI dog, and it would be bullshit.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: It wouldn't be like, what if we reboot Lassie? If we reboot Lassie now, to make Lassie interesting, we're going to have to have Lassie talking. We're going to need some inner monologue of this dog.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think we got any.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Of that in the original well.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: No, that was the beauty of Lassie was that even though it couldn't talk, we all could communicate with. Everyone understood what Lassie was saying.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: All right, so in my understanding of Lassie, every episode of Lassie is this. The dog is out, like, doing dog stuff, and it sees a kid in a well, and then it runs to its owner and barks, and they go, oh, fuck, there's a kid in the well. And then they go, save the kid from the well. Yeah, if the dog is so good. Okay. If I had a dog that was an excellent dog, I don't think I'd want it just wandering around the town all day, every day, alone. Well, I want it near me to play fet.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: Okay, so it's a sheepdog. So it's meant to roam. That's its best life is itself roaming and being out there in the fields. I don't know how much.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I think we had different standards back in the day, and I don't want to watch an episode of Lassie. It doesn't sound interesting in any way. And I think if you went back in time and turned Lassie off, the kids would be like, oh, no, we're watching our favorite dog. And I was like, hey, you stupid piece of shit. I got a better dog. And I put in wishbone. They'd never talk about Lassie Again.
[00:20:47] Speaker A: Can we talk about how pretty Lassie is? Like, that's a beautiful dog. That's a dog. There's only so many dogs I would actually try to listen to if I felt like it was talking to me, right?
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: If you have a golden doodle trying to talk to me, I'm like, you're an idiot. Stop it. I don't want to hear from you. You look pretentious, and I hate Lassie.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Doesn't even have a sword, Nick.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: I think it could.
I think that was lazy writing to not give it a sword.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: Do you think if we rebooted Lassie and gave it a gun, is that anything?
[00:21:19] Speaker A: I mean, it's more american, and everyone wants to believe Lassie. You know what's crazy, though, is so I'm looking at Lassie right now in my head, I really thought Lassie was like a. A. Like a golden retriever.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Oh, no. She's a collie, baby.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: She's a collie. She's a rough collie.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Dang. Ain't nothing rough on the eyes about that dog, though.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: She's in these streets. She's here to kick some ass.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Holy shit. According to independent Lassie dog breed, at risk of dying out. Okay, I'm voting for not Lassie. Okay? But the problem is, we got to get out here. We got to save this dog. Everybody needs to get out here and write your congressman.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: That is wild. That we would. That it's coming.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Can you imagine telling somebody in the Lassie dog is going to go away.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Did everyone not get a Lassie dog?
[00:22:04] Speaker B: I thought, oh, got one in the. We realized that they're not. Okay. Once you get a Lassie dog. If I have a dog like that, okay, and I have it for its whole lifetime, and not one time does it warn me about a kid in a well, why did I even get this fucking dog?
[00:22:17] Speaker A: Oh, you think that's the problem, is that you were promised maybe one of the most intelligent could potentially save the lives of your children or the neighborhood.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: My dog. It's not even running for city council.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Yeah, that really does feel like it.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: Never.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: Why didn't it take that next step? Lassie, the town loves you. Right? And also, let's be clear. There are plenty of dogmares. Sillily enough, in America, we have dogmares. So, Lassie, why didn't you have the ambition to run for? Is it because Lassie was a woman?
[00:22:52] Speaker B: Oh, my God. And they wouldn't let her run.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: They wouldn't let a woman run. There's no way. I don't care. In the 1940s, we're not letting real women. You think we're letting dog women?
[00:23:02] Speaker B: If you're Elassi's publicist, you got to get this dog on the ballot. Because even if just the people who directly were.
Whose kids were directly saved by this dog vote, you win.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: I've seen the town.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: There's like, 40 people in it, right? Yeah.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: It can't be that big of a town.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: Why do we kid every week?
It's not the same kid.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: This is one of those things where it's like, if you really look at this town, you're like, what is happening in this? Like, there's clearly, like, a murderer in this town who keeps trying to.
[00:23:31] Speaker B: We gotta watch the whole Lassie series and look back. There's one guy in this town, I assume it's a man who's throwing kids in wells, and he's like, oh, I would have had this one if it wasn't for that damn dog.
[00:23:41] Speaker A: Figure out whoever Lassie is the most uncomfortable with throughout the series and be like, yo, why'd you not solve this mystery? Probably was the mayor.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: It probably was.
[00:23:50] Speaker A: It was probably the mayor.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Fuck yeah, dude. And that's why he wouldn't let the dog run. He wouldn't change the city ordinance.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: They didn't have the old airbud, the old legal team of argument, that old legal argument of, do the rules say a dog can't run for mayor?
[00:24:08] Speaker B: I got to lock in Wishbone, dude. This dog taught me about life, love, and the old man in the.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Wish. Don't you wish that? Why don't we do?
I feel like they always reboot the dumbest shit. They're like, hey, remember this from your childhood? Wouldn't you want this? And we're always like, no, I wouldn't want that. But if you were like, hey, Wishbone's coming back, and we're starting off on Hemingway.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
If there's a single person on earth that can make old man in the sea interesting for even a second, it.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: Is this dog we're going to tackle all of the great, all of the best adult.
Let's get him into. As I lay dying grapes of wrath, have him kill the guy at the end, dude.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: It's just the whole time he's just walking around on a boat in the jungle. It's just a boring ass version of the heart of darkness. It's like, God damn it, I hate this show. I'd watch it, though.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: I love that we're almost proving that. It's like, why all these books are terrible? Because the second you add a dog protagonist, this doesn't even make sense. Why would the dog do that? That's not good fiction. This is for every writer out there.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: If.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: When you think of your novel and when you think about if it were to be wishboned, how boring would it actually be now? You know, go do some rewrites. Okay.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: You got to punch it up. You got to punch it up. Got to do better than would you be, though. Okay, Nick, how pissed would you be? You're getting arrested by the cops, right?
You had this great plan. You're like, there's no way anyone could ever catch me. And like, well, we've got the greatest detective of all on earth. And every head turns and you just see a dog over there. And you're like, I got fucking got by a dog. A dog got me. Are you kidding? Serious.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: I do think that has to be that moment for self reflection.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: I have no doubt in my mind that a dog could outsmart an entire police force. I want to make that absolutely clear.
[00:26:08] Speaker A: I think that's what I would point out to them is what I would try to, in my best efforts in that moment, be like.
So to be clear, though, the dog did it, right? None of you had a hand on that? Yeah, because you guys suck. Yeah, I thought so. That sounds about right.
Okay, so here, this is a head in the heart conversation, Cody. Right? Because my heart is on wishbone. This dog essentially raised me right.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:34] Speaker A: I think to this day, I am still chasing that high of second grade. And the teacher rolls in the movie with the. With the television on it, the VCR under it, and then she pops it in and it's wishbone because we just read Charlote's web. So now we get to watch the wishbone version of this story.
Like, serious. There's no better feeling for 30 minutes, that teacher is recovering from a hangover, and I'm having the best time of my life.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: I understand what you're saying, and I love that. But here's the thing. I could buy a snoopy shirt right now. I could buy a snoopy mug, snoopy sunglasses. I could go to camp Snoopy. I could go to Snoopy.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Well, no, you can't, because we got rid of that.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Okay. But there never was a camp wishbone. That's fair.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: No, I agree with you. I'm just letting you know for all my.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: Is a worldwide brand. If I went to Uzbekistan, they recognized Snoopy. I don't know if they got wishbone there.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Dog Snoopy was out here, was making slushies for us with his little ice slushy thing that never.
He's out. He's been out here for us.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: I remember some sort of dry ass gum that had Snoopy's face on it when I was a kid.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Oh, the things they would put Snoopy on. It doesn't matter.
He is iconic. Which is funny, because I don't even think I really liked the peanuts.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: No one did.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: That's one of those shows where every time someone always wants to watch the Christmas special or the Halloween one or whatever, right? And I'm like, yeah, let's do it. Of course, I always have a good feeling. And then it's while I'm going through it that I'm like, was this good?
[00:28:17] Speaker B: My brother had one of the greatest burns of all time, and I wish I could take credit for it, but it was my brother. We were watching some peanuts. It was either Christmas or thanksgiving thing with our family. And my aunt was like, oh, that's some good old fashioned humor. While she was watching, she literally said some boomer shit like that. And my brother, who was like, ten at the time, went, oh, this is funny.
Yes. Got him.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't understand that this was comedic.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: It changed the whole.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: I thought this was just a sad story about these.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: It's about this big pumpkin that made everybody, oh, I gotta lock at Snoopy, dude. I would love to play with the wishbone space. I love what Wishbone did for the community. I love what he did for literature. He's out here with greats like Bill Nye, okay, Beekman's world. I put them all on the same level, but Snoopy's different. Snoopy's a brand.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: It's so I, like I said, this is ahead in the heart. And I think I got.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: If you had to get a tattoo of one of these, which one you get?
[00:29:18] Speaker A: I mean, realistically, I would get wishbone because I feel like more people would be down for.
It'd be a better conversation starter.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: I disagree, because I think if you got the wishbone tattoo, people like, oh, you must have had a can I?
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Fair enough. Fair enough. But here's the do. And I do feel like this is why I'm going to move Snoopy on. Because I feel like the peanuts online community is immense.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: And they have time. Yeah.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: And they got time to tear us down and point out all of the. Because I remember I worked with a woman who had a sleeve tattoo of just peanuts character.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: Nick, that is the most unhinged thing I've ever heard in my entire.
Is that might be the hardest woman who's ever lived.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: She was a chef. Knife skills on point.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: Knife skills on point.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: It was when I was in catering and she was a chef and she had a sleeve tatoo and she didn't have a lot besides having a full sleeve. That's her only tattoos. The one thing she wanted to make sure was on her body forever was all of the characters from the Peanuts cartoon.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: Oh, my.
What?
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Like, when people say Disney characters, you're like, I guess there's a lot of Disney characters. Okay, I can see. But, like, this woman was like, I want Lucy. I want peppermint Patty. I want Charlie, I want Dusty. Whatever his name. The dusty one.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Linus dusty. Pig pen is his name. Let's lock. I'm lucky. And Snoopy, I don't know. Linus piano boy.
[00:30:52] Speaker A: Oh, Linus piano boy. Okay, thank you. Yeah. So I think out of fear, honestly, and respect for that woman, I'm with you.
[00:31:01] Speaker B: Fear and respect, that drives most of our decisions.
[00:31:04] Speaker A: I think it's the only way we should most of the time, not just, oh, I didn't really like that song, so I guess it doesn't. I didn't like it. I don't care that it was a number one hit single for months at a time. I just don't like it. Yeah, I think maybe we should use a little fear and a little respect in our decision making process. Still haven't gotten a music episode, have you guys? Have you? Never will years. So anyway, all right, I'm with you, Snoopy. Group a champion. Thank you all so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want to watch your boys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend, wherever you're listening to us, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that. Subscribe and give us those five stars.
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[00:31:58] Speaker A: As always, 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's going to be it for us, folks. But Group B coming up on Wednesday. But until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: And I'm Cody Lena. See you on the boat.
