[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. Discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. But we're going to get some 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? We decide he steps foot on the boat.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell him what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah. We're talking about a bunch of musical dogs. And then this piece of shit Balto, he thinks just because he saved the lives of a bunch of kids, he can compete with the music that's in us, the music that's in our soul dog.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: I think only one of these dogs does music.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Beethoven's named after a music guy. Dodger is the music guy. And blue, he's got blues clues. Blues clues. So they all got music in their heart except Balto. What is he? A wolf dog? That's pretty radical.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, if you're a wolf, that's going to be why, man? What is that about wolves? That, like, universe. And I think I will say maybe for a men's perspective, I do not want to pin this on any other gender besides men, but there's something about a wolf that earns the respect of every man. Right?
[00:01:25] Speaker B: Big dog, dude. Every time a man sees a big dog, we're like, hell, yeah. And wolf is just the biggest dog.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: Why are men that lame that when we see a big dog, we're like, I get you.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: I get you, Doug.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: I understand what your life's like. Because I'm a big dog myself.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: I'm also a big dog.
Jeez. Yeah. That's how simple us men are. We truly don't take much, even.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: And I'm telling you right now, I know that there are maybe women who listen to this. Like, not my husband, not the guys I know.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:01:57] Speaker A: They are big dog in front of dude.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Like, put a big dog in front of Beethoven. The whole plot of Beethoven is big dog makes a mess. And I don't know how many young girls loved these movies growing up, but I can tell you how many young.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: Boys, all of them, like, I get it. I'm just like that dog.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: I'm just like that dog. I'm out here trying to play my games, and I make a mess.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Oh, folks, here we are in group B of best pop culture dog shout out to Catherine for the list. We took that list, we sent it to our brachatologist. They kicked it back to us. And here in group B, we've got the four seed blue from blues. Clues going up against the 13 seed Beethoven. And then we have the five seed Balto going up against the twelve seed Dodger from Oliver and company. Cody, start.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Start with Blue and Beethoven. Part of me hates the fact that blue just won't tell you what's on their mind. Right? It's like, hey, blue, just tell me what you want, dude. I'm here to support you. I'm here to help you. But when I really think about it, if this was the best method of communication I could get, I'd play Stu's clues. Stu is my cat. By the.
That's. This is a great way to talk to your pet. They can't use human. It's.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: It's more than anyone else was.
It's like, you're right from the standpoint of a lot of the dogs here. There's like magical dogs that can talk and people can understand them and all of this. But Blue is the closest to, like, this is just a very expressive dog that definitely can help you solve mysteries.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: Definitely.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: We have another dog on this list that is here to solve mysteries. But I would argue Blue is more focused on mysteries than that dog.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Blue's got their head in the game. They've got a story to tell and they're trying their best to tell it.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah. There are other ones who are. Maybe there just for a good time. Blue is here because he's like, we got to figure this out.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: There was one thing and or other.
[00:03:49] Speaker A: Steve's okay.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Is Blue's blood blue? And that's what leaves the blue paw print. How is they leaving blue paw print? My hands are white because I'm a white man. But if I leave a print on a wall, it ain't white.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: Oh, wait a second. You're right. Wait, hold on. I'm going to skip past that because Blue is the one who sets up the Mysteries.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, blue is out. I didn't even think about that.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: That blue is actually more of an instigator.
That might actually get frustrating if every day I just like my dog. I just have to find these paw prints. I'm like, what do you want? What is it?
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Why's my insulin? Where's my insulin, Stu? And there's just a paw print on the insulin bag. It's like, no.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Got to find it.
One of the clues is like, gun photo of JFK library and he just nods at you. It's like, you know what to do.
You know what happens next. My guy.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: So, officer, what happened? Well, ma'am, it appears that the man followed the clues that was left to him by a talking. Well, somewhat talking dog, and he killed the president.
That's one hell of a defense, though.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: It's one of those defenses. If you can collect enough evidence, you might get away with it.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: What if you're Beethoven, the piano man? Okay.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: I was like, we're going to need to be specific because there's a pretty important Beethoven and then a lesser important Beethoven. And I think you know the order.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Okay, the pretty important Beethoven. But what if your number two was this big dog? That has nothing to do with music. Are you a little pissed off?
You come, you seen, have you heard Beethoven? And they're like, the big dog or the music man? The fact that you have to be in that conversation pissed me off so bad.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: You come back from the dead. You're Beethoven, right? You come back to the current year that we're in 2023, and you're just like, I'm so curious about what did music become after what I created? What did it become? You're like, yeah. Well, here's a lot of the hits. Here's the music.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: This is Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: You're going to love Metallica, all great stuff. And he's like, did anyone ever take up the moniker of there? Was there another great artist who, within my music, found themselves and utilized that moniker to create even more great music?
Kind of, in a way.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: There's definitely a legend in the game, the Beethoven game.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: We definitely got you out. We definitely got another one of you.
That name did get popular again. Please show me the artwork created by this Beethoven. Maybe it was in cinema. I understand it was great call.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: Great call on that one. Just got here already making calls like that. Way to go. I see why you were a prodigy.
Also the plot of Beethoven, right? There's two Beethoven movies, at least. And there's one where the big dog makes a mess. And then there's a second one where the big dog makes a mess. So they decide to get more big dogs. Well, I like.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Do you know the actual plot of Beethoven?
[00:06:55] Speaker B: No. Big dog makes mess.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: Big dog make mess. Very important to dog.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Or.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: Well, the reason why family has big dog, right? Is because these dogs were captured by these thieves to give to a veterinarian, who, I'm not kidding, is just trying. He uses dogs and kills them with a gun to show the deadliness of these bullets that he also sells on the side.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus Christ.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: That is the truth.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: There's so many better ways to show how good a bullet is.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: No, this is pretty much it. But it's got to be big dogs, though.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Yeah, because they're more accurate to humans.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: And what's wild is so, once again, this family, like Beethoven, gets out right from the murder factory. Of course he's big because he's big. And once again, Beethoven is a dog who cannot talk. Your crimes are over. But yet this veterinarian is like, I got to get that dog back.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: I got to make sure he can't bring him back to the scene of the crime.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: No, his whole goal is like, that's going to be the prettiest one to blow its brains out. Like, dog, dude, veterinary, your crimes, you're done.
What you're doing is so messed up, but you could still get away with it if you weren't like, I got to go get me that dog back, dude.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: I'm just imagining, like, some fucking classical music playing in the background. He's like, but what would be true? Beauty? Blood of big.
I must reach the pinnacle of my art. Dude, you sell bullets. I sell art, sir.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: It honestly feels more like it's a snuff film thing that they just don't want to highlight that. It's like, oh, this dude films.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: It's so wild that the plot of Beethoven is a dog snuff film that we're trying to get. Wow. I did not know that. I think I'm still locking in blue.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Yeah, because you don't want to continue the thread of dogmer as, like, this was made in 1992. That means the movie was probably written in the late 80s, early 90s. We were like, someone once again read through this. It was like, no notes. Keep going. Yeah. Is this a thing? This isn't a thing that's happening ever. I don't think there are bad veterinarians who are like, I'm out here to fucking blow these dogs brains out.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: But they were like, so why did you get into veterinary medicine? Well, I like to find the right dog to shoot with a gun. And I thought if I was a vet, a lot of dogs would come to me. It's like, what? That's the most buck wild reason to get into veterinary science ever heard. I'm looking at blue. Blue helped a generation of kids learn about JFK.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Right? Solve it, dude.
[00:09:27] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: I wish blue would cover the greater mysteries. Now. I think he's setting apart all these fun little house mysteries of, like, oh, how do we bake cookies? I'll put a spot on the flour and a spot on the chocolate chips and a spot on the sugar, and it's like, there we go. We can make cookies, but let's actually get down to it. Blue, show me your map with the red wires or the red.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: I'm getting rid of blue's clues. Done. I'm starting a show called blues two. It is a collaboration between Cold Case files and blue. And blue is going to take us down a path where we solve cold cases. Let's go.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: Once again, I am ready to bring back the. This is how we need to be rebooting these shows.
I don't just want another blue's clues. I want my adult blue out here solving the greater thing.
You can't tell me the History Channel, with all of its ancient mysteries, can't afford to get blue out there and start trying to piece together these ancient alien mysteries.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: That'd be so good. Here's the thing. These stupid kids don't have nostalgia for blue. I do. I'd watch adult blue's clues. Are you kidding me? We could even call it boo's clues. And blue is trying to teach us how to make special cocktails. I'd watch that. Oh, is there a paw print on the vermouth? What do you think we could mix with vermouth? It's like, I don't know. Blue teach me how to make a.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: Is. What if blue is Q because he's so involved in the mysteries that he's so susceptible?
[00:11:06] Speaker B: Do you think that's what happened? Blues clues. The kids who really love blues coulos needed something. So now instead of blues clues, they're watching Q's clues, and they're just out here trying to grab anything they can. They need something to believe it.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Can I say that honestly, the QAnon conspiracy almost sounds like of two episodes of blues clues that got blended together in some way where it's like, there's a paw print on Hillary Clinton, there's a paw print on the lizard. There's a paw print on eating babies.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: What are these three things all have in common?
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Let's sit down in our thinking chair and think. Yeah, and think.
It's like, let's go, baby.
All right. I mean, I got to lock it. Blue. It's got to be blue.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm with you, big dog. Make mess is a fun man.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: It's a great plot. Not enough movies follow that age old plotline.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: The problem is that we got so into CGI that we forgot about the beauty of having live. Working with live animals and just letting them. Could you imagine how many times they had to reset the set just to have a dog tear through it? Every single Beethoven.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: How's your day on set? I don't understand what's going on. Because I'm a dog. This is the best day of my life.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: I just know that when I run from one treat to the next that every time there's a lot of devastation behind me. But I know everybody cheers. Everyone loves this shit.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm locking in blue. Let's go. Screw this big, dirty dog.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, next up, we've got the five seed Balto going up against the twelve seed Dodger from Oliver and company. I think Balto does represent the only real life dog. Or, like, I guess there's maybe one other, but this is the only one where it's like we have a story about a heroic dog, a real life dog that we then animated and made into a movie.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: Nothing is more inspirational than a dog. People would rather watch a dog save people's lives than a people save people's lives. The only thing people would rather watch is a dog save dog's lives.
If Balta was taking medicine to other dogs.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: Other puppies.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: He's trying to save the other puppies from diphtheria.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: He gives them the vaccine.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: Dr. Balto, this puppy paws, it's so cute. But then, on the other hand, we've got Dodger, who is Billy Joel condensed.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Into a. I mean, so this is what's do it. I had to piece together a few things about.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: So Dodger from Oliver and company, Dodger.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: From Oliver and company. Because I was like, who got who in the game? Right? Because let's face it, between Oliver and company, Lion King, Tarzan, and I feel like I'm still missing one. We had some of the greatest artists of the early 80s make nothing but bangers.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: And I had to look, all dogs go to heaven was another one.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: All dogs go to heaven. Who's the big guy on that?
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Do you remember what? No. Dog boy. The dog guy.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: But I'm just saying, like, you get Billy Joel and Oliver and company. You got Elton John with Lion King, and you get Phil Collins with Tarzan.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Right?
[00:14:25] Speaker A: And I was like, who got who in the game? Because this feels like a competition, to be honest. It doesn't feel just that. It's like, well. Oh, that sounds like a nice thing. Do no. Who, when they found out, they heard, like, can you feel the love? And when someone's like, get me on that shit. I can beat that. Let me in, coach. I can do that. It was, in fact, Oliver and company. Oliver and company is 1988.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It was, like, the first one out they got. So Billy Joel's at, like, the height of his powers right now.
This isn't just some guy off the street. No.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: This isn't a washed up. Because also, and I know Elton John is a legend, and truly, legends never die. They never fade, truly. But you have to think, like, lion King is at Elton John's. A little bit of a lower point for him, right?
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah. He's in a slot. Yeah. Trot. Yeah.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: And it's fine. He's on John. There's peaks and valleys, and he knows that.
But I can only imagine he finds out that Billy Joel just destroyed, made a hit song in an animated movie, and he was like, get me my piano.
Because you can't tell me Billy Joel and Ellen John aren't in competition with each other all the time.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: You can't be that spiritually. They're connected in a way that I think they even tour together, which is the ultimate sign of competition when you're on a co headlining tour. Do you think they want to be co headlining?
[00:15:51] Speaker A: No, they just want to go out every night and show up the other one and just flip flop. Who goes last? Just to really give it to.
Billy Joel just hits piano man so hard when he has to open for Elton John that when he goes back, he just, like, tosses him a bottle of water. He's like, follow that.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Follow that shit, you piece of shit.
[00:16:11] Speaker A: Good luck, rocket man.
These two dudes are all. And then Phil Collins was like, I could do it, too. We're like, shut up.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Shut up.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Phil, although he did read his might be the secret banger, the secret sauce.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: But low key banger, that's true. Okay. Would you rather watch a true story, a partially true story about a dog who got medicine to a bunch of kids, or have Billy Joel sing you about why New York is the best city to live in? And also, he's singing to a cat.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And don't be so afraid, little cat. This place is sick. Yeah, this is dope. All we do is hang out.
We're ruffians.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: Once you feel the rhythm or once you get it down, budy, you can run this town. No, you got to wear the crown. It's like, yeah, let's go. Billy Joel, hit me with it. No, I really thought, I love this movie.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: It's so good. It's funny, though, because I think he maybe only does one song. I thought it was like an Elton John situation where he's really doing all of it. He really did just do. Why should I worry otherwise? It looks like J-A-C. Redford is handling most of the work.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: The movie's so wild, too, because the first song in the movie or second song in the movie is, why should I worry? Right? Yeah. So it's like you get this one sad song about a cat drowning in a box, and all of a sudden you get hit with the most ultimate throwdown banger of all animated movies of all time, and then a bunch of mediocre crap.
[00:17:35] Speaker A: He gets, to be fair, he gets Ruth Pointer. So one of the pointer sisters. He's got Bette Midler out here, dude.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: The cast is stacked. It's a great movie.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Huey Lewis. Huey Lewis is telling us the news.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: It's just Huey Lewis. He left the news at home.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: He did leave the news at home. He was like, I got this, you guys. Don't worry about me.
[00:17:53] Speaker B: The problem with Balto is I watched it once when was was a kid. Yeah. And I never went back to never. It didn't grab my heart. But I watched Oliver and company every.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: Few years probably at least.
I can't not have that song in my head. The second it's reminded, all of a sudden you're like, why should I worry?
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Yeah. When me and Nick were making the list, I heard Nick walk off to go do something with his wife real quick. And from downstairs, I could hear him yelling, why should I worry?
This song lives in us now, dude.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: You want to know what's wild is that they made more baltos. So there's Balto two and a Balto three. And once again, Balto the first is based off of, loosely, a true story. I really wonder how far that dog had to go to get these kids this. Like, was it across the street? Mostly. And they're like, we can make a movie out of this. But then to further fictionalize this character is wild to me. You're like, hey, so what did the dog do later? Oh, it was just a dog. Like, it just lived a dog's life.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Dog stuff. Oh.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: So then we can just make up a movie called Wolf Quest where Balto the wings of change is Balto three. I can only imagine he either gains wings or learns to fly.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: He's got to gain wings, dude. Are you kidding me?
[00:19:10] Speaker A: Do you think the Balto movies always center around him helping kids. And by balto three is, like, getting too old for this shit. I'm tired of helping these damn kids.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: It's just diehard at this point.
Do you think Balto three is also loosely based on the true story of a dog getting winged? Obviously, it wasn't Balto. I'm not so ignorant to think that Balto, the real dog, saved a bunch of kids, then went on to live his life and then get wings. But maybe a dog somewhere got wings, and they chose to add that to.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: I mean, I guess if Balto was always. If that was our avatar for just all dog stories, we just lump it all under Balto, and we're like, no, Balto did it all.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah, so we've got two different dogs. If you have pretty dog story, it's lassie. If you have ugly dog story, it's.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Man, I didn't realize this. Phil Collins is in Balto.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: What?
[00:19:57] Speaker A: But as just. I don't know how much he has to do with the soundtrack, but he's just a voice in wonder. I wonder if he got it mixed up after he heard Lion King. He's like, yo, I got to get an animated movie. Calls his agent. Get me in an animated movie. I got to do it. They're like, all right, there's this movie. Balto, I can get you in.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Perfect.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Let's go. Gets there. He's like, all right. I wrote all these songs, like, oh, we thought you just wanted to be a voice, Phil. We didn't know that you were it because it's crazy. You think that you're on the same level as Billy Joel and.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Oh, okay, I'm ready. Yeah, no, I know. It's my first time. Yeah, I get it. Understand. Okay, so this is Nick. He's going to be doing the other part. Okay. Nick, read me in. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Yeah, I'll be reading cross from you today. So I wrote all these songs. Oh, we don't need the songs. Okay? Just read the lines. All right, Nick, talk me in real quick. Let me just see how I got my voice.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: So the line coming in for you is going to be all right.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: Come here, Balto. Come here, Balto. Yeah, I can feel it coming in.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: The air tonight yeah.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Baltimore. Hold on.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Sorry.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: I've been waiting for this moment for all my life.
Hold on, Phil.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: I'm sorry that I guess no. 1 may be talking. We actually do just need you to do barking, actually, because it's a.
Oh, I'm sorry. It's not like a talking dog thing. It's not a magical dog. This is a real story.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:21:22] Speaker A: I'm sorry.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: I'm really nervous. It's my first time. I understand.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: Okay, so I understand. We'll take it again.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: So here, Balto, come here. Not the song.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: There's no musical necessary. This is not a musical at all.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Got it. Okay. I'm in character now. Good. Okay.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: So come here, Balto.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Come here tonight.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Thank you, Cody. Thank you for not leaving that out there. I'm glad you got to where you needed to be on that. Truly, thank you so much for doing that for all of us.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: I'm glad I was able to get there. It was hard. It was a hard joke. I would have. It took a lot of awkward commitment to get through that one.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: But here we are now at Disney World, right?
[00:22:07] Speaker B: I'm locking in Dodger. Dude, this dog sings songs.
This dog deserves three movies, and he only got one.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: He only got where we're at. Well, honestly, that's Dickens fault. More than their fault, right? Because Dickens only wrote one Oliver Twist.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: Oliver. With even more of a twist.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Oliver Twistier.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: Whoa.
Oliver, two Oliver, clothes off. Whoa. This is wild.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: When Nick was saying he wanted more adult versions of these, I. That's not for me, and I don't need that. Do you want to know what the biggest. I think the biggest twist, one of the biggest twists in my life that made me truly reevaluate everything I thought and felt and was like, I need to change the way I think about things is when they told me blue.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Was a girl, for some reason, I always thought blue was a girl.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: This is when we talk about internalized misogyny. I'm like, well, obviously, blue. It's a blue dog. It's a boy.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: Blue means boy.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Blue means boy. Not only that, he has a friend named Magenta who were all like, yeah, boy dog, girl dog. We did the colors, and then one day they hit us with the like, oh, yeah, blue's a girl. And I was like, got you.
Even girl dogs can be blue, dude.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: That's the beauty of blue. Teaches us that you could be whatever you are. You're not pigeonholed into your appearance. You can get out here and solve mysteries or create mysteries. Not quite sure what blue does.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: Once again. Yeah. It feels like it sets up the mysteries, but then has a heavy hand in solving said mysteries.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: I guess maybe blue.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: Maybe no. Okay, here's the thing. I love Stu. I'm using Stu as a comparison because he's my cat. I don't have a dog, but I love him. But I don't think he's the smartest cat. So I could see him setting up a mystery for me to solve, and by the time I get to solving it, he's forgotten what the mystery is. So it's also him. Like, oh, shit.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: He gets all excited when he finds a clue.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: He's like, check this out.
[00:24:09] Speaker A: That's my paw print, dude. Yeah, it is. What does it mean, buddy?
[00:24:13] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: Keep going, dude.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: It could be anything. We're almost there.
We get to sit in the chair. I remember watching that show and be like, I'm going to fucking sit in.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: That chair so hard, dog.
All I ever wanted was to be the mail, because they open the mail and they show, like, some kids doing some activity, and I was just like, how the fuck does this happen?
That is what I want. Feed it to me. Get me in that television. Obviously, it blends the world. There is a real world.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Damn it. New TMTMtM. We need to start a TikTok channel that. It's just different episodes of blues clues. With the intro, it's like, here's the mail. It never fails. They do the whole song, and then they open up the mailbox. It's just me and you, and they're doing some always sunny in Philadelphia shit. And then it's just back to the a really great. That's a really great story.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: That's a really cool activity. I love you guys.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Exactly. All right.
Where are you at? This? Both of these stories deeply, deeply touched my childhood. Yes. These are foundational core memories for me.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Both of don't. This is not the best criteria, Cody, but we've established it, and I'm kind of going with okay, tattoo.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: I think I'm getting a blue tatoo.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Oh, I think I'm getting artful. Dodger tattoo.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: You think Dodger?
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:34] Speaker A: You think you're doing.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: I mean, Dodger's cool, but I want. I want Dodger in this. I even know the one. I want. I want Dodger sitting on that motorcycle with the sausages trailing behind him in the wind.
He's got the sunglasses deep down on his nose. Sausages in the wind? Are you kidding me?
[00:25:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
That might be my next back tat right there.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: There it is.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: I might get that as a tramp stamp called it. That might be a sick. That's a pretty sick tramp stamp. Damn. But that's the thing, is, we know how much Dodger means to us, right? And how much we love this character because also, can we just talk about how cool this is when you learn what charisma is? I think this is like.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: For kids who were born at the time we were.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Right.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: 89, 90. This is when you learn about charisma because this dog is it. You're like, these kids think they know about the Riz. They don't even know who Dodger is.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought, you know what I'm saying? Go to New York because I couldn't sing and dance like Dodger.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: I don't stand a chance on these streets.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: If this is what it takes to make it here.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: If that's what it takes to be a dog in this city. Yeah. That's what the dogs have to do.
I'm not even cut out for the city. Yeah.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: To me, I think there's something to be said about how iconic blue. Blue is transcended into blue is here to this day. Still, I don't think they've stopped with Blue. I want to shout out what the work they did for cumin, to get cumin in the game, because salt and pepper had a baby and they were like, obviously it's cumin. Of all the spices we could have done. Garlic powder.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: They must have had a second baby because their first kid was Paprika.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: Oh, you're cum. Where is cumin? Fall? Is that one of their children?
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Oh, shit. What if they're. Oh, my God. Every generation of kids growing up, Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper have a different. They have a different kid.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: Cumin is Cinnamon's wife and oregano's mother. Okay, so the whole spice cabinet?
[00:27:35] Speaker B: The whole spice cabinet.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: To be fair, I kind of hope that is what's going on in my spice cabinet. Why wouldn't you all be in there mixing it up? I don't want monogamy in my spice cabinet. That is a molecule at best.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: Can you imagine the meeting? He's sitting there. Okay. Oh, cool. So the dog is helping him solve mysteries and teaching. Yeah, it's cool. So, yeah, we got the dog, and then later on, dad will get his friend Magenta in the whole thing there, and we'll have, like, a whole story between them. Oh, cool. Anything else going on in the house? Yeah, every single spice in the cupboard.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: Is fucking 24/7 excuse me, I think I missed something. So we have the blue dog, the magenta dog. Great. That's going to be a great arc and all that.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:17] Speaker A: And then you mentioned the spice cabinet one more time for me.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: Raw dogging it in there all day, night, ever so rightly. Everything in the spice cabinet is a little wet and raw. It's like, what?
[00:28:29] Speaker A: And when pepper. And when the salt and the pepper get pregnant. Baby's paprika.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Yeah. How, though? And then the rosemary is going to marry the cumin. And then there's also going to raw dog because they can't get condoms in the cupboard. Obviously, you put a lot of cotton in the cupboard. What's going on? What's going on?
[00:28:47] Speaker A: Actually, if you don't mind, I do have a baclore of fiction here, if you want to get into it. I can.
Here's a diagram I've made of the relationship status of everyone within exactly cupboard.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: So the plot synopsis of blues clues is like three pages. Like a three page runner that he uses to describe it. And they're like, so what about the cupboard? He's got like a six novel series written about it.
[00:29:11] Speaker A: All right, here, let me talk you through this.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: There's a lot of stuff. Once we get to the third age, I'm going to really start the third age. Yeah, I'm going to really start boogie. And you're just going to need to keep up on that one.
[00:29:23] Speaker A: Wait until turmeric enters the conversation.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: Okay?
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Wait till turmeric.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: A lot of people have very strong feelings about. A lot of people. How many people? Have you shown this? Yeah, I got a lot in blue. I think Dodger is very important to me and to you, but I'm willing to see, like, my wife had never watched the movie until, like, a year.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: How does someone new just tell me. I don't want to make any assumptions. Someone new coming into Oliver and company.
How did she feel about it, Nick?
[00:29:51] Speaker B: I think crazy, because I love and respect my wife, but I think she prefers Oliver. The regular Oliver twist, like an idiot. What, she would just want to watch.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Like, some BBC Oliver twist?
[00:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah. She'd rather watch a kid being like, can I have some more? Instead of a dog going like, can.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: I say, I think Charles Dickens would prefer to watch Oliver? Could you imagine coming back from the dead? Once again, a lot of people got to come back from the dead to see what happened. But, like, you're Charles Dickens. And you're like. And we're like, hey, we have these things called movies and we've actually turned a lot of your work into movies. Oh, my God. I would love to watch what you all have done with my greatest Oliver Twist.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: Great.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: We show him the BBC one. He's like, yeah, that's pretty.
That's exactly what I did.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: Wow, that's really good. Yeah, that's just like my book. Now. Let me hit you with this. Let me hit you. The remix. Let me hit you. We chopped and screwed it for you. Let me hit you with that one. Let me hit you with this.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: And he's like, that's what I wanted to write.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: My original pitch was a dog, but they said it didn't make any sense.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: I had forethold about the automobile in that book. How did they. This is brilliant. This is art. He's like, so mad that he's like, this is better than anything I've fucking done.
Kill me again.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: I'm out. Exactly.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: I want to say he's gone.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:31:11] Speaker A: Before we kill you, can I show you the Muppets?
[00:31:13] Speaker B: No, I'm not ready. They went to Treasure island. Yeah. The Muppets have been all over this big, beautiful rock. Yeah. All right. I'm lucky. To blue. I think we got to do blue.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we got to bring blue through. So that is it, folks. Group B champion going to blue. And that is it. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. Fun 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 when you can absolutely send us all.
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[00:31:59] Speaker A: As always, shout outs to Charizard for that intro 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. We got a new episode coming out on Monday, but until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
That's good.
