[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, to those various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Or as we'd like to call it, the boat. Before we step foot on the boat, we put them 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.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Absolutely.
If you want to gatekeep something in your life, if you want to make sure people can't get a hold of it, this is the bracket for you. We're going to figure out what is the best big, fictional pop culture dog in this group. These are the guardian dogs. These dogs all have something they represent and protect sacredly with a holy vow that they made to God and Satan in some cases.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: Yeah, man. If that's not the actual lore behind Clifford, it's like, yeah, that's a hellhound.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Oh, are you telling me a giant, blood red dog doesn't have something to do with the devil, Nick?
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. It's like, think it through, okay? I'm not the stupid one. You see how dumb you sound thinking it's not?
[00:01:26] Speaker B: This was a ritual gone either really wrong or incredibly right.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: Right, exactly. So here we have, folks. We are in group D. So that means group a, b, and C have already happened. Go listen to find out who those champions are before we get to the final four. But here we are in Group D, where we have the three seed Clifford going up against the 14 seed, the beast from the sand lot. And then we have a matchup between the 6th seed bluey, and then going up against the eleven seed gidget, which was the name of the taco bell dog. Cody. Yes. Where do you want to start?
[00:02:03] Speaker B: I'll start with Clifford and the beast. Nick, when you were a kid and you were watching sandlot for the first time, and they were describing the beast in your mind's eye as this innocent child. What's bigger, Clifford or the Beast? Because Clifford. Yeah, Clifford's a huge, giant red dog. Maybe in real life, size wise, Clifford's bigger, but the beast looms over you like a dark menace, instilling fear and violence in your heart. I don't look at Clifford and get never I.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: Right. That's the thing is, they made a Clifford movie like a live action, but they did try to make it look as much like Clifford as possible. And I will say they did a great job of not making me afraid of this giant even.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: It's a kids movie. I'm not even scared of this thing. But sandlot, they did the opposite. They made me terrified of this dog.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Terrified. Well, and the thing is, right now, in a. I live on my neighborhood. We have a straight up high wooden fence, like six, seven foot wooden fence where there is not one, but two dogs that burst through and scrape under the ground. And their snouts come through the gate a little bit. Sandler, when I'm walking them, those two, I'm waiting for the day that they break through. And Sandler and I go on a San Latian run through the neighborhood.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: As we're wearing your good shoes, bro.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: Got to make sure I got them pf flyers on. You know what I'm saying?
Got to have the flyers because they are coming for that ass, dude.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: Telly Anne's like, nick, what? You putting on the flyers today? Yeah, I was walking the dog the other day, and I saw a crack in that one fence.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: So it's loose.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: It's coming.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: It's going to be sooner than it won't be. You know what I'm saying? So it is. Man, if that isn't the story of every dog, though, when you're a kid and there's just that dog in the neighborhood, right? That no matter what, is just Henry and is just going to bark at everything. I mean, it's the reason why we have beware of dog signs, right? I'm not saying sandlot started that. But you learned via the sandlot. You're like, hey, they probably mean seen a Clifford.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Might be three tons, but I've seen rotweilers, shih tzus, chihuahuas that are bigger than Clifford.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Oh, right.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Clifford doesn't have that presence. Yeah, he's something to look at when he walks into a room, but he's soft as hell.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Isn't that what's fun about him, though, is that he is just as adorable. Like, outside of the logistics of feeding it daily, which is probably humans, they don't like to talk about it.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: Well, that's how you get the red fur. They don't tell you that the only way that there's a chemical that humans make, that when you eat them, it gives you blood red fur.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: What if you were just in, like, I let you know to use the bathroom? What if you let Clifford out and then slowly, over the course of a few weeks, you're like, a lot less people in the neighborhood, a lot of funerals. I've been noticing people.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: Lots of missing people.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Missing people in the neighborhood.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Cliff. Clifford. That ain't you, is it, big boy?
[00:04:59] Speaker A: He's just like, I'm a dog, dude.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: I'm just a big, fluffy dog.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: And everyone in the neighborhood. There's like, one person in your neighborhood. Like, it's the fucking dog. Everyone's like, no.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Hi, I'm Clifford. I crave human Clifford. That's the Clifford in my head. How he. Yeah, how's your Clifford?
[00:05:18] Speaker A: My Clifford? I do a little more. Hey, guys, I'm Clifford.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: How are you doing?
[00:05:23] Speaker A: I crave human flesh.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Okay, that's good.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: So it's similar. I go gravelier, though.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: Yeah, mine's like, a little bit. Oh, my God.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: I don't know how, through the powers of Satan, I managed to get this physique. But, golly, I'm a big dog.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Where is that book when it's like, when Satan comes back for his dog and he's like, that's mine. Obviously.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Clifford, too. Hell's back.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: It's like, what?
It becomes that scene in Airbud where they're like, all right, who are you going to go to, Clifford?
You're going to go to me?
[00:05:57] Speaker B: You're going to go to me or the king of the underworld, Satan, you got to go to the king of the underworld, dude.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Well, it's more space. I mean, that's the reality. It's like, at what point are you living out of house and home because you're trying to keep this massive dog?
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah, this dog deserves a better life. What are you trying to keep it in New York City?
[00:06:16] Speaker A: That's always been ridiculous.
Immediately get out to the suburbs. But even then, what do you.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Hey, hey. There's already a big dog in New York City, and his name's Dodger. Okay? Need to calm down.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Clipper, get that weak shit out of here, dude.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: Get that weak shit out of.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: What could you imagine, though, if someone lived out in South Dakota? Right?
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Okay, wait. Yeah, I can imagine it.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: You can imagine South Dakota. Got it.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Good.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Okay, cool. So you're living in South Dakota. So I know it's challenging, because who the fuck would but imagine you are?
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Big step for me to take. But I'm there.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Isn't there something about, like, if you knew someone who had truly, like, a ten foot tall dog and it just roamed around their property out in the rural farming area, but someone just, oh, yeah, I got this giant ass dog. It feels like you're like, oh, I didn't know dogs could get that big. But sure, I guess there's something about he needs to be within the context of a smaller world, because the second he's just on a farm, I'm like, oh, that's pretty crazy, but all right, well, at least he has the space to be here. And sounds like he just eats out of the same trough as the cows.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: He's living his life out here. Yeah, that's a situation. It's fine. But when you have to walk the dog three times a day to get its exercise, that's not okay. The traffic problems alone because of.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Do I remember seeing a scene in the Clifford movie where he does pee on something? Oh, my.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Hey, Nick. Is it so funny?
[00:07:40] Speaker A: It's so funny, dude. It's so funny.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: It's probably so much piss.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: It's so much. And it just, like, breaks through. I think it bursts, like a window or something.
People get peed on because I don't think we're allowed to show that. But the implication is someone about to be covered in piss.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: There was somebody watching that movie that was just about to finish, but since they didn't show the person get peed on, they just didn't. That's sad for them.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: I was so close.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Why would you do this? He just wanted a bust in a children's movie. Who are we to take it away from him?
[00:08:12] Speaker A: One star just cock teases you until.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: With all this, one star just talks about piss play but doesn't actually do any of it.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Some bullshit, dude.
I'm kind of torn here because I like. Oh, you're torn movie. I like the movie, but I'm like, clifford is iconic, right?
[00:08:32] Speaker B: If I have to watch one of these movies, I'm picking sandlot all every time. But as far as, like, dogs in the popular zeitgeist. I got to go. Clifford.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: That's not even his name. Isn't even beast, I don't think, is it? It's like, you want to know what I love?
[00:08:46] Speaker A: What I love about the sandlot movie is that all of those guys, all they do now, anyone who is in the cast of Sandlot, all they do during the summer is just go to minor league baseball games and are just treated like celebrities. They go to minor league games. The one guy says, you're killing me, smalls. And then they just sign autographs.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: It's fantastic. That's the level of fame I want this show to get to. I want to get it so big that we can go to that twins minor league team, whatever that's called and just be celebrities there, right?
[00:09:14] Speaker A: And just like free hot dogs in a booth.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Yes, free hot dogs and free beer. That's all I want.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: They pay for a semi decent hotel and we just get to ride out like kings for a day. Dude, that's all.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: A semidecent hotel. As long as it doesn't have bedbugs. Let's go.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Let's go. All right, but I think we got to move Clifford on, right?
[00:09:30] Speaker B: Yeah, we got to move Clifford on. He's a big red dog.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: All right, and next up, we have the 6th seed, Bluey, going up against the eleven seed, Gidget. Now, I know, Cody, you are not aware of this dog, Bluey.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: I'm aware of the show, but I've never seen it. I've never played in the space.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: Dude, it is so good.
So I have a niece, right? And that's it. Bluey is number one, right?
That's the top. And I think the thing that anyone who, you know who has to watch Bluey for children, the one thing they're going to tell you is like, this feels like the first time a show respects you as an adult as well as there to help teach your kids things.
Like, actively is a sitcom, that you're like, what is going on in this universe? There are adults who straight up are like, I think two of the parents are cheating on each other and have provided evidence via a TikTok video that I saw that was almost undisputable. You're like, I think they are cheating. I think the one mom is going stepping out on one of the other parents.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Would they tackle that in the show?
[00:10:38] Speaker A: The thing about it is, Cody, they might. That's the level at which Bluey is operating on such a high frequency that I feel like maybe some writer is like, I really want to get to. How do we explain to a child, not only is a divorce going to happen, but one of your parents cheated on the other and is no longer in love with them. How do we, via a children's show, help them process?
I think it's all good intention. I think it truly is that great intention. I love that for a show.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: I love the energy, oh, my God.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: The slow burn that they're giving you of. Like, those two are hooking up, like, behind the scenes.
Because I think what they had is what may have been just like a slip of whoever, the people doing the audio, whoever's recording the voice is one time when he's clearly supposed to be talking about his wife, he calls out the mom of another character.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: As, like, how beautiful she is. Here's the deal.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: You can edit that.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: They didn't miss that on purpose, right? Do you want to believe they're like, well, maybe just across the way. They're like, yeah, that sounds about right. Like they're being lit. But it's like, no, these people care and are intentional. These are clues. You need to pick this stuff up. This is a smart enough show. It's treating you smartly. Treat it smartly.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Okay. I respect that. And I love that. I love that this show treats also respect.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Australian accent the whole time. It's wonderful. It's so peaceful, and it really does have this australian vibe of, like, oh, man, what's the worst that could happen here, mate?
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Here's the thing I'm talking about, though. This is great. I love that the show treats important issues well and respects kids intelligence because kids are smarter than we give them credit for. Love that. Love to see that. But gidget truly gets to the core of the human condition. Yokiero. Taco Bell. I want Taco Bell all the time. There's no point in my life where that sentence doesn't apply because even if I'm not hungry, someone's like, hey, you want to go to Taco Bell? I'm not going to say no. Or do you want something from, hey, I'm going to Taco Bell. Can I pick you something up if I'm not hungry? I still want a Baja blast. I want to get blasted all the time.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: All the time, dude.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: And that's the minimum. If you put a crunch wrap in front of me, I'm going to eat it.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: You know what's very funny to me about these two picks right here is that these are so specific to your generation, right? There's us who know Gidget, love Gidget. Then there's everyone else who doesn't, right? There's, like, all the kids that are younger than us. Don't get it. Wouldn't get it. In the same way that Bluey, for a bunch of young kids, this is their gidget, right? Except that he's not hawking delicious Taco Bell at them.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: Yeah, he should be. If Bluey has an episode where he's just trying to trick his family into getting Taco Bell, then I'm in, then I'm there. I'm actually honestly probably going Bluey anyway. But Gidget's very important.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: But no, here's the. I think it's hard to emphasize to people how powerful Gidget was. Like, for some reason, this tiny Chihuahua. When he sold us Taco Bell, it catapults Taco Bell to a premier fast food establishment. What was once just like, maybe your town had a Taco bell, maybe it didn't. Now, you needed to have a Taco Bell because you got a yokiro.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: What?
[00:13:48] Speaker A: That dog is yokiroing. You know what I'm saying?
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah. This was a revolution of the times, man. I don't know why this ad cap took off like it did, but holy shit.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: I'm telling you, I remember this so vividly, Cody, that I know it's not a dream. It is not like something fake that my brain is making up. I remember going clothes shopping for school, right? It's that time of the year. I'm about to go school shopping. I'm at Target. There are, and I'm not kidding you, basically only three shirts you can buy. This is 1990 819 99. There are only three shirts. There are either nwo t shirts.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. And all. We got them in red, we got them in white. We got the lwo colors, but that's what we got.
We got taz t shirts. Taz is doing whatever he wants.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Whatever he wants. Smoking a cigar for some reason. Dude, I had a Taz t shirt. This isn't a joke where his body was in, like, the tornado form, but his head wasn't, and one arm was coming out of the tornado, and he was drinking a beer. Why?
[00:14:55] Speaker A: It's 100%. The third type of t shirt you could buy were t shirts that had gidget on it and saying. Just spewing his catchphrases, right? Like, that was it. Those are the only three t shirts that target was like, should we diversify the t shirt section and maybe include other superheroes or anything that, like nothing else?
We tried Superman. He ain't moving numbers like this.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: He ain't moving Taz numbers. You think Batman's gonna touch taco Bell dog numbers? No.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Get out of here. Dude. Dude. Not a damn dude.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Yokiro. Taco Bell was the movement of a whole economy. When we talked about, the lot of people were like, oh, that was great. It was the Internet boom. Everyone was making a lot of money in the United States. And that's partially true. We were making a lot of money. It was a boom. But it wasn't because of the Internet. It was because Taco Bell also, and.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: This is just because we were in South Dakota. I didn't even know what this thing was. The first time I saw, like, there weren't Chihuahuas yet. In my opinion. I know that there were obviously not.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: In this neighborhood, partner.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: And I have to believe that because people wanted to get Chihuahuas because of this dog proliferation of Chihuahuas across America, going from, know, southern California to the rest of the United States can be looked at because of this dog, man, this is tough. Actually, there's a part of me who understands that Bluey is the moment. Bluey is currently that dog. He got that dog in him, right?
[00:16:33] Speaker B: He's got the dog in him.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: This dog. And to be clear, I bought those t shirts. There are photos of young Nicholas with this t shirt.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: This dog.
If you send me that picture, I can make it the COVID picture for just this episode.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: I will dig. I promise. Talk. Let me talk to Rhonda.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: Gidget was a movement. It was a time that will never be reached again. Actually, I think it could have been the pinnacle of human achievement. But I still got to go with Bluey, man. This kid, he's out here teaching adults and children and possibly an affair storyline like, hey, Nick, where can I stream Bluey? I'm about to get caught up.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: It is just for free on YouTube. If you YouTube Bluey channel dog, you can just watch Bluey. It's going on all the time for free, I believe. Besides probably commercials.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Let's go. So I'm not getting in. Bluey, where are you at? I understand that gidget was the pinnacle of human achievement, but I don't know if we'll ever get to that point again.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: I don't want to be dumb, want. I want to just know. Of course it's blue. But that is completely underselling the movement that this dog.
I truly don't know. If Taco Bell gets as big as it does, right. I want to believe maybe they'd figure something else out.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: They had demolition man unlock that movie. They were ready for it.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: Okay, but that's the. That's like late 80s, early 90s. So that's the last thing that we find out about them. Why did they quit, too, by the way?
I understand that things get old and die out. Were we sick of this dog? Is that what happened?
[00:18:14] Speaker B: We must have gotten great. No, I don't think we got sick. I think Taco Bell, because clearly the smartest people in the world at Taco Bell, geniuses, they should be running all government.
They took it away from us because they knew that we, us humans, we'd overuse it and get sick of it. So they didn't even let us get sick of it. They said, no, you want Taco Bell, that is for certain. And now we must protect Gidget from you.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: I hate that. I hate that. I do.
I just don't want to believe that. I feel like we could have kept going. Gidget died in 2009. So this dog, the taco Bell commercials air from 1997 to July 2000. He had time on his clock, man.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Wow. I'm reading here. Did you see the cause of death for this dog? Drowned in money.
I think that's the only dog that's ever done that.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: I think what it was is he was like, I'm for sure doing a Scrooge McDuck. Like, I'm jumping in for sure. Gidget. Gidget, that's a cartoon. You're a real dog. I don't think you can. He's like, I got this. And jumped. I see. I see why. Apparently, the latino community felt this was an incredibly offensive stereotype. All right, I'll move on Bluey, then. So far, the Australians seem pretty down.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: All right. They're down to clown. They don't seem offended by Bluey.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: Yeah, no, everyone else seems.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Do you think they could make a turn that would just piss off all of Australia? One episode comes out and it just raw dogs. Australia hard. Everyone's cheating on everyone. They just start throwing shrimp on barbies. I don't know.
They're all actually kangaroos and masks. Literally.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: A dingo steals one of their babies. And it's confusing because it's like, it's actual cousin. They're like, wait, that's my cousin Dingo. That's my baby dingo.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: You stole my baby. One of them, I can't do australian.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: One of them just says, like, steve Irwin deserved it.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Just breaks the fourth wall completely. Everything goes. It's like a film noir. Everyone pauses, freezes in frame. Bluey steps forward, looks dead through the camera, dead into your eyes and say, steve Irwin deserved it. That fuck that takes a best step back. And they just take off right where they left off.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: Yep. They're like, wait, what? Why would you do Bluey? But why Bluey? Please don't.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: Please. Oh, my God. Most popular boy name in Australia. Okay, here's what we do. We do that scene. It's Oliver. So we do that scene. I exactly just said, except Bluey, pause, steps forward. He goes, Steve Owman deserved it because of you, Oliver. And then he steps back, back into the scene. Every Oliver's be watching going like, what did I do?
[00:20:48] Speaker A: What did I.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: What did I do? Who's Steve Irwin? I'm four.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I will say I appreciate that. Because you're looking up, like, names. Okay, how much is this impacting? I do think for the most part, they did a good job of giving dog names so people wouldn't name their freaking people after. Unlike Game of Thrones, where people are like, daenerys is a real name. Like, it's not.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Don't do that.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: That's not a real name. The bluey names. You have bingo. You have Bandit, you have chili, you have muffin socks. Those seem to be our main characters.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'm looking at the most popular name in Australia. So when Bluey steps forward and looks into the camera, he reaches into the soul of the children.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Wait, isn't it is. I'm sure this is, like, day one conspiracy for fans. So, like, please. I understand. This is our first real interaction with it. Dad's name is Bandit. So Bluey is the child and Bandit is his father. Bandit and Chili are his mom. Are the parents that's got Bandit as a male dog in.
Are we. Is he the dingo Bandit?
[00:21:53] Speaker B: No, he's been taking dingo babies and raising them as dog.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: That's all Bluey is. He's just a dingo.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Dingo that's been kidnapped. Do they tackle adoption in Bluey? They should, because dingo technically adopted in a think.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: And I guarantee you, I know for a fact. I know I don't know enough about this, but I'm telling you, the things that they cover, it wouldn't surprise me if there were because it's also Australia. So Australia is pretty cool. So I think there's like a queer family. Like, there's two moms that have a dog or whatever, and everyone's cool about it.
Here's what you need to know about Bluey that might be too powerful for you. Bluey is so beloved by society, but apparently is too leftist for people, which is. But that Rob Schneider has made his own Bluey knockoff completely rips off the animation. But it's about a chinchilla, and it's on some far right Disney plus service called Lockheed. Hell, yeah. That's how powerful Bluey is to society. That we had to knock him off and make a conservative, bland ass bullshit.
Because in the story.
So Bluey's dad, Bandit, is mostly like, I think he has some kind of job, but he's clearly more of like a stay at home father. And the mom is like a doctor. And the whole thing, Rob show, like, the first line is like, teaches traditional family values. Like, the dad runs the family.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Fuck you.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: You're just like, how mad. You're sitting there watching Bluey, a children's show that just shows what one of. There are many families where the woman makes more than the husband. Shout out, my own family. Yeah, like straight up. And someone saw that, got so pissed off about it that they're can't be. What are the kids going to think out? We can't be raising our kids on this. Let's make a knockoff with Rob Schneider.
That's going to get to the core of what America needs right now.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Hey, dude, with big name actors like Rob Schneider, you're going to make a splash in the industry. Nick Clifford never did anything for me. You talking about blue leagues meant more to my heart than Clifford ever did. All I got was, this dog is big and red. I never understood what was the big.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Appeal of this does feel. It kind of feels kind of one note, doesn't it?
[00:24:27] Speaker B: Big red dog.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: That it's just big red dog. And that it's going to cause a mess, mayhem, havoc. You're not going to believe the situations that he finds himself in. That's for sure.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: Chase the mailman.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah, except for, oh, maybe all of them because, oh, guess what? Oh, he can't go into the pool because he's not big enough. Also, he's a dog.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Dogs can't go in the pool.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: Dogs can't go in the pool. This isn't about being mad. This isn't, like, discrimination against Clifford. It's all dogs. We treated them all like this.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah, no pool.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: And honestly, dude, okay, except that is going to suck because, you know, once, eventually it reaches public domain and we can use Clifford. That horror movie is going to be bad. Yeah, that's true, because it's right. Know, I was kind of excited when someone's like, we're going to do a Winnie the Pooh horror movie. You're like, oh, was it good?
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Have you seen it, honey?
[00:25:18] Speaker A: No, it's trash. I never saw it, but I read all. Everyone was like, yeah, this wasn't it. The cool thing you could have done with imaginary friends and multiple personalities? No, we skipped over all of that and just were like, this guy kills in a pooh mask. Isn't that creepy? And we can't get sued for it. You're like, great, here's.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: I'm thinking of it now from just a life perspective, right?
[00:25:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: If we lock in Bluey, which is what I'm leaning to do, I think I'm going to lock in Bluey. That means I have to start watching Bluey to do my research. And once I get my foot in the door, I can binge the whole thing. Nick, I just got to get Catherine in. It's hard to get her to watch kids shows. She's not into.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: Think this a, do I believe in Bluey to this extent? I definitely do. I think that there's a chance that she would easily go down that road with you. I think it's like, perfect background. I think you're going to be impressed. I think it could be the one that's like, oh, damn. Honestly, I just hope it's not too powerful that you aren't like, we have one of these little rugrats watching this show with us.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it's going to change my whole life perspective, but we'll never know until I watch it. That'll be part of my research. If we don't release a final four, it's because I had a kid. I'm a dad now.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Cody got Catherine pregnant, and now we got to raise this kid. Now I got to raise this kid.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: Actually, we'll definitely have a show then, because I'm going to need you guys to give me some money.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Yeah, right. That Patreon we've talked about previously, that's real now.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: That's very real. Very real.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: I'm down to move Bluey on. I think he's the new heir to the throne right now. The dog throne. I think he at least deserves to be in the conversation with all the other great dogs right now.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, you got to get your time in the sun, maybe. Now let's see if you've ran with the dogs. Now let's see if you can run with the big dogs. You know what I'm saying?
[00:27:07] Speaker A: The big dog.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Yeah. This final four is stacked. This is all timers. If you make it through here, this gauntlet.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: Yeah, we got it. We definitely nailed it here for this final four. And if you want to go listen to the final four that's going to come out on Friday, if you want to know how we got there, go back and listen to Group A, Group B, and Group C. But thank you.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: All, especially Group B. Don't miss Group B.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: Don't miss that one. But thank you so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. What 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.
[00:27:42] Speaker B: Absolutely. Follow us on all of our social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Just look up at friendly comp pot. If you have an idea for a whole 16 team tournament, you'd like to see us do what kind of Tom Foolery Clifford could get into, since he's such a big dog. Email us to
[email protected]. And it's good. We'll do it just like this season.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: Where my wife sent in, 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. Got a new episode coming out on Friday. Until then, I've been Nick Carey. And I'm Cody Lena.
[00:28:16] Speaker B: See you on the boat.
