August 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Averagetrav and Foodie Mike C. kick off the episode with a joke about their "sponsors," which turns out to be just themselves, and a comedic bit about a "witch" in Foodie Mike C.'s basement. They then discuss Leonardo DiCaprio's dating habits and their podcast's longevity. A brief segment is dedicated to the drink of the day: Crown Apple with Alani Nu Witches Brew 🍎, which they rave about for its delicious caramel apple flavor.
This week's Retro Rewind is sponsored by the Regent Theater and includes several deep dives into pop culture history.
Windows 95: Averagetrav talks about the monumental launch of Windows 95, a "cultural earthquake" that had a marketing budget of $300 million. The launch featured the Empire State Building lit up in Windows colors and the licensed use of the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" as its theme song. They recall a time when people would line up for software releases, a phenomenon now mostly reserved for video games and concert tickets.
Street Fighter II Turbo (SNES): The hosts revisit the summer of 1993 and the intense 16-bit console war. Street Fighter II Turbo was a huge system seller for the Super Nintendo, selling 4.1 million copies. Foodie Mike C. mentions his favorite character, Blanka. They also discuss other iconic characters like Ryu, Ken, E. Honda, Chun-Li, and Guile.
Madden 2000 & the Madden Curse: Averagetrav discusses the cover athlete for Madden 2000, legendary Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders. He shares a personal story about seeing Sanders' autograph on a library card from their shared middle school. They debate whether Sanders succumbed to the infamous Madden Curse after he suddenly retired from the NFL before the season began.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The summer of 1988 saw the first wave of TMNT action figures from Playmates hit store shelves. The hosts reminisce about the original ten toys: April, Splinter, Donnie, Mikey, Raph, Leo, Bebop, Rocksteady, Shredder, and the Foot Clan. These toys generated an estimated $1.1 billion in sales between 1988 and 1992.
WCW and The Shockmaster: The hosts talk about the hilariously disastrous WCW debut of wrestler Fred Ottman in 1993, who was introduced as "The Shockmaster." He was supposed to crash through a wall but tripped and his glittery stormtrooper helmet fell off in an unscripted, live television moment.
Music & Movies: The discussion briefly touches on the 1995 song "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal, which was the theme for Batman Forever, and how it dethroned TLC's "Waterfalls" from the number one spot.
This week's quiz is about wrestling history. Before becoming the infamous Shockmaster, Fred Ottman had a successful run in WWF under two other gimmicks. The four options are:
The Berserker and Skinner
Earthquake and the Big Boss Man
Akeem and the One Man Gang
Tugboat and Typhoon
Foodie Mike C. shares some exciting new opportunities, including cooking for NBA player Grady Dick's charity golf tournament and a potential gig cooking for the band Bring Me The Horizon. He also talks about a possible appearance on a "hot ones" style podcast called Live Local.
Foodie Mike C. introduces a new segment called "Stream Sniping," where he goes onto Twitch and finds small streamers with few or no followers to give them a financial boost and encouragement. He explains this is his positive take on the term, which is usually used for cheating by watching a live stream to gain an advantage in a game.
Don't forget to wish Foodie Mike C. a happy birthday on August 22nd.
The Regent Theater is hosting an event for Star Wars Episode III on August 28th. Tickets are only $6, and a combo with a souvenir cup is $15.
Check out the hosts' Dude Robe content, where they're trying to get shorts from the company.
For more content, you can find the podcast on YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
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I told you I'm cool with us getting famous.
Yeah. But I am not going to dress like
a lady and we just I just added something else to it.
Anymore. Again.
And I I just added something else to it.
I'm not going to act like Jesus.We should make a list.
We should make a list of stuff that traveled.
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Not do. Won't be a lady, won't be Jesus.
I feel like it's. Pretty good little list.
The cool thing to me though, is you, like I literally said like
you should do this naked and youit wasn't like, no, I'm not
going to do that. I was like, I'm not going to be.
Jesus, yes. I'll get my Dick out, but I
mean. How famous are we talking?
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You told me what you want to see
and I'm just going to put it out.
There. Oh yeah, you better get a.
You better get a we're. Going to get some creeps on this
one. I was going to say you better
get a really long lens, but thatwould mean it's really tiny, so.
Yeah. I'm going to.
I think we should move on. Tell you what, today's drink is
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fantastic. Oh my gosh, dude.
Stupid good. Wow, OK, these cups are sweet.
Where'd they come from? My wife, she got it from me for.
Was this a? Father's Day, maybe?
Was this one of those? Yeah, yeah.
For my. Birthday.
I think it was like man crate. Yeah.
But yeah, super cool. So good.
Great year. But anyways, yeah, this is Crown
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apple. Crown Apple with the new Witch's
brew Alani, which is like a caramel apple.
Man, I feel like you can tell this is alcohol.
There's no chance that you can tell that there is crown in this
and there is a. Lot.
I mean. I put a lot in here.
I mean, you're not, you're stillnot cut water.
No. We're way.
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We're not doing that anymore. That was one time and one time
only, folks. Just like no, never mind.
I don't know where he was going.I don't know where he was
headed. Yeah, we've got this has got
witch's bruh Aulani in it. Pretty tasty.
Oh man, if you guys haven't had Witch's Bru Aulani, check this
out on our TikTok shop because it is delicious, so good and
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I've bought. More than I care to, I admit.
Me too, when I walked up to the counter I saw their eyes get
big. I bought so much.
Also, my Dick was out. You said that about you.
Oh, OK, moving on. What?
Let's let's get into a little bit of retro.
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Oh, first of all, I'm average draft.
That's true. I'm 40.
No, not yet. Not yet. 40 Mike C over there.
Not yet. You got a week.
Is the 22nd. It's next Friday, next Friday.
So by the time they listen to this, I'm like days away.
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Days away so wish foodie Mike CAHappy Birthday on the 22nd of
August, 40 years old. Dang, what?
An old man can't believe how oldyou are.
I know. I got a long way so I get to 40.
Yeah. I'm already 40, all right.
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Retro Rewind powered by the Regent Theatre.
Fantastic Four is what he's showing right now.
Hell yeah, I just went and saw it.
Loved it. Two sideways thumbs it was.
Pretty cool, I liked it. I was just not super impressed.
I thought it was a flimsy topic.I thought it was bad
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babysitting. Spoiler alerts.
You know, like bait and baby bait and switch.
Come on guys, we can do better. You're not.
Going to put your real ass baby in there.
They did though, and it's like. Honda had to, but.
How's he even breathing in that freaking thing?
First of all, like there was no you're going to.
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Believe that they could move thewhole fucking earth, but they
can't they. Couldn't.
They damn well could, but you'retelling me like, oh they can't
make a fucking carriage that hasoxygen for a baby?
No, get fucked. It didn't have any hoses in it.
It didn't have any holes in it. Yeah, this is like supposed to
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be the strongest baby in the fucking Yeah, no.
Kidding. Freaking you don't.
Have to poke fucking ox in your hole?
Talking about acting like you're.
Jesus, what the fuck was that? I don't know, that was real
weird. The witch is back.
Oh my. Fucking silence.
(05:10):
Oh. Shit.
Oh fuck. Wow, it's getting wild down
here. We got people wanting to be in
the audience and stuff now. I like to start selling tickets.
We should. We'll post them up on
Ticketmaster. I don't know, maybe we'll talk
about some more Fantastic Four later, but I wasn't impressed.
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Anyway. No matter what, you might be
impressed, so go check out Fantastic Four at the Regent
Theatre if. Nothing else.
Get some popcorn. Go get some to go popcorn.
I walked in there the other night to get the cups for the Oh
yeah, you didn't even bring thatdown here.
We got to, we got to announce that still again, I'm going.
To do a lot of fucking editing. Yeah, we got.
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We're doing the event on the 28th of August.
I hate you. He knows it now.
So episode 3, we're going to watch the movie.
It's 6 bucks for a ticket. That's the same price tickets
were back in 2005, so that's crazy cheap.
We're going to do combo for 15 bucks.
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You get an old school from 2005 cup with one of three characters
on it and a large popcorn. Or you can just buy as many cups
as you want for 10 bucks if you don't want popcorn.
These things are like. Selling for like 30 or
something. Oh.
Yeah, for sure. And if.
Nothing else. Get a cup and then sell it on
eBay for like $30. It's why.
I wouldn't though, because thesethings are super cool.
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You don't need, you're not gonnafind, you're really not gonna
find them for 10 bucks anywhere else.
So you should hang on to it 'cause I think that they're
pretty sweet. So Jerry, just.
Needs to put these bitches on eBay.
That's what he needs to do. I think he's, I think what he's
doing is better. So I agree.
Check out the check out Come down to Wellington on August
28th and watch Star Wars Episode3.
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Get a sweet cup, get some popcorn.
You know what? I'm actually making a little bit
of stuff for it. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
So I'm not, I'm not selling food, but I'm gonna help Jerry,
like, make his food even better.Put some.
Sweet bacon stuff on top of the.I've got a few things, a few
things I'm working on, but one of them that I will do that was
wildly popular for me was my ilote dog.
So I'm going to make some delicious ilote.
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We're going to put it on top of a hot dog.
I'm going to do like some caramel do.
Some more food championship. Something with bacon.
Let's go pump that up. Shit, yeah, we we can get into
that here in a little bit, but World Food Championships coming
up and I got to figure some shitout because I don't know what
I'm doing. You never stopped me before,
though. You're going to have.
To move some stuff around in this one.
(07:45):
This is a fucking shit show. Yeah, let's.
Let's get back on track. Yeah, OK, let's get into August
24th, 1995, the day that lives in infamy.
No, not really. But Microsoft didn't just
release a piece of software, they orchestrated A cultural
earthquake. The launch of Windows 95 was an
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unprecedented global media event.
Guess how much the budget was for this freaking thing for
marketing? $48. $48 Bob you're way low $300
million that they put in to theyput this thing on the Empire
State Building with the the the windows logo colors.
(08:30):
It was in rolling the The Rolling Stones Start Me up was
the the licensed official theme music, which they probably paid
them $200 million to use. That freaking thing.
How fucking? Long did it take them to even
make their money back. I don't know.
And I feel like this thing was probably like 200 bucks, but so
Windows 95, it introduced core concepts, you know, like the
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Windows button, the taskbar plugand play.
And it really was trying to simplify the computer from the
Windows side. So they had people.
I remember back then people werestanding outside forever at Best
Buy to to get in line to do this.
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Like that stuff doesn't happen except for like buying rock
tickets and freaking video gamesnow.
So this is wild. People wanted Windows 95 like
crazy and it's iconic. I mean you look at that Windows
95 logo with like the trailing. I feel like that was the first
one I actually like. Remember, as far as Windows
goes, it's like yeah 90. Five, it was a fixture in homes
and schools and offices, and so it kind of bridged the gap
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between the home computer and the office computer, and it was
really the first one that I remember being a big deal for
getting on the Internet. 1998 was the bigger one.
It was more connected, but Windows 95 was definitely where
I was getting on AOL for the first time and racking up a big
phone build that my parents didn't expect.
(09:57):
Do you know what? I hope there's so many times I'm
like, fuck Windows. Yeah, I'm a Mac guy.
I hope someday, like this thing takes off and we're like
sponsored by like Windows or whatever, you know, Microsoft.
I'm like, yeah, Mike, you know, just started this big Microsoft
guy. Note Sell out Mikey, don't do it
I. Won't I'll still be like,
they're our main sponsors. Those guys.
Pictures. Really wish Apple would sponsor
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us. Yeah, let's let's go all the way
back to the summer of 1993. I'll do it.
The 16 bit console war between Nintendo and Sega was at its
peak. Capcom delivered a killer blow
with the Super on the Super Nintendo in North America with
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Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Hell yeah.
This was not just another port from the arcade phenomenon
Street Fighter Two. This was its own thing and it
became a massive system seller for Nintendo and it was a must
have cartridge. If you had a Nintendo, Super
Nintendo back then, 4.1 million of these things were sold like
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that's massive for being for back then.
So that's. A lot of money.
It is a lot of money because I mean, this game was probably 30
or 40 bucks. Damn.
So you can do that math and yeah, that's.
I could, but I won't. Do you?
Did you play Street Fighter? I did.
I used to use the Brazilian monster guy and just like
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electrocute people and it alwayspissed everybody off.
It's his. Name.
Baraka maybe or something. Yeah, I want to say it is like
Baraka. Barack Obama something.
But yeah, I remember just like crouching down and just using
like this electricity and you touch him like you're getting
fucked on it. So it's like, go ahead.
For sure. So yeah, Ryu, you had Blanca.
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That was his name E Honda in Bison.
Like that was the dude with likethe purple robe.
This game super cool. Street Fighter was fun.
What was E Honda? It was E Honda, the guy.
Honda was loud. He had the Japanese dude.
No, that was the Indian guy. Yeah, What's his name?
Gosh, I haven't played this gamein so long.
(12:07):
I'm. Just making shit up at this
point. Dang it, I can't even remember
his name at all and the internet's not.
Hopefully somebody, hopefully somebody just figures it out.
Somebody will tell us we had a big we had a big battle this
week on where did Doug? Oh yeah, dudes, I used to on a
Nicktoons. Like it's on the fucking screen.
(12:27):
Like I see it like. It was.
It debuted in 1999. Bro as a Nicktoon like I.
Remember watching on Disney and like, yeah, maybe the fucking
later, like but anyways. So yeah, it was true.
But I do appreciate people getting on there.
Even if you're on like tribe wrongly, just fucking go back
and forth. But also just on this out there,
do a fucking Google search and it's amazing the information you
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can find. Not always right though.
It's not always you're not. You don't always get the all the
good information from Google. It's not always right.
Oh, Speaking of Street Fighter E, Honda was the Yokozuna
looking cofo and then and was the guy with the red.
The American. Yeah, the American guy, Chin Lee
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Chun Li was the chick. She had those eyes, though.
Oh. Man.
God, what? I mean you and then you had Gaul
Gaul Gaul G, how do you some? Stuff right there.
GUHLLGUILL. The fuck?
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It was gile. It was Gile.
What the fuck do you? Remember him?
Yeah, he was like the shaved head, like the yeah, that guy,
the Air Force or something. Like the fucker was always
around jets, I think. Yeah, Yeah, I was like, what the
fuck? Are you saying I could not
figure that out man think. I had a fucking stroke for you,
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I. I also had one.
That could have got weird. Always could get weird this.
Fucking witch is back. Let's talk a little bit of
Madden. OK.
The 2000 game, they went back toJohn Madden.
(14:18):
I don't know why, but in the background, knee.
Amazing. Yeah.
From our town, yeah. Crazy.
Barry Sanders. I played on his field.
Yeah, Barry Sanders football field.
I have a quick story about BarrySanders.
I went to the same middle schoolthat he went to and I went to
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the library one time and I checked out a football library
book. And you know, back in our day,
we had to sign the card. We had to pull the card out of
the library book and sign it. He had.
He signed the library card. You didn't.
Steal that thing. I tried, they caught me and took
it and replaced the card. So that sucked, but how?
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Crazy. Would that have been like, yeah,
I got Barry Sanders signature inmiddle school.
Like wow I. Definitely tried, didn't.
So he was on the cover but not really.
Like he's in the background, but.
Not enough to curse him. Well, let's find out.
OK, so the most electrifying, beloved player in the in the
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league's history, Detroit running back Barry Sanders, was
on this one at the peak it felt like it was at the peak of his
greatness. Did Barry Sanders succumb to the
Madden curse in 2000? No.
No, you would be wrong Sir, because before the season even
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started he suddenly retired fromthe NFL and never came back.
Is that the curse though? Sounds like he was trying to
avoid. He's like I ain't snapping my
leg. He's like, I'm out, I am done.
I don't know, you could take it for what you want, but I feel
like he retired from the league and that does make it part of
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the curse. My buddy Tim, big Lions fan,
always been a big Lions fan. Oh yeah, Timmy.
Larry Sanders. So I'm sure that was like the
worst day of his life. It was weird being back then,
seeing that, like it was like hewas so good.
Why would he retire? I mean, the Lions were.
He's on the cover of Madden. He's like, no.
Yeah, he's like, no. Did you see what happened to
Garrison Hurst? I'm out.
Yeah, I'm not doing that. He's like take down, take down
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Madden. That's fine.
Take him down. Well.
Got him. Eventually got him.
Yeah. All right.
Let's go even further back, the summer of 1988.
Three Three. A cultural phenomenon was born
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in the sewers, the first wave ofthe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
action figures by Playmates hit store shelves, and the world of
children's entertainment was never the same.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesanimated series debuted in
December of 1987, and the toys followed a couple months later.
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So we had April, Splinter, Donnie, Mikey, RAF, Leo.
Bebop. Bebop, Rocksteady and Shredder,
12345678910. 10. Toys.
I remember having these. I had these exact toys.
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I, I, I'm trying to, I know I had a, a few of those.
And what's crazy is they actually have, the Ninja Turtles
are at like McDonald's right now.
You get a happy meal like. There with like a Hello Kitty or
something. I I do remember at my dad's
house, we had like the ooze van.Do you remember that one?
The van that like, I want to sayhad like ooze barrels or
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something and pizzas or something?
Yeah. No, it was the manhole covers,
right That she. Oh was it covers?
At the front I. Don't know why I thought it was
a pizza like I remember a pizza,but anyways, yeah, that van,
that van was pretty sick. That van was sweet dude.
Yeah, super cool. I saw somebody modded one of
those at and made it into an ES.So cool.
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People do crazy shit. Crazy.
Stuff so I can I only name 9? Do you know what the 10th 1 was?
The 10th toy. No huh.
Uh, what'd? We leave out the foot.
The Foot Clan, OK. So these things made from 1988
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to 1992, an estimated $1.1 billion with AB.
That's wild, dude. Like that's so much money for
these toys. And these dudes, Eastman and
Laird, they just like came up with this thing on the back of
napkins at the beginning, like they were, you know how?
The fuck that even happened though.
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Like how you I? Mean there's a whole document,
there's a whole documentary of it on on Netflix if you want to.
Maybe I need to check it out because it sounds like somebody
as high as fuck. Oh yeah, dude, it was weird.
And they didn't like, they didn't even have at those
original drawings. Didn't didn't even have the
turtles like differentiated in any way with different colors.
Like they were just all it was just four turtles drawn with no
like, way to tell them apart. For if he had this rhino and put
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him in a sports bra, sounds pretty fucking hot.
I don't know. I mean, it worked.
He's a super bad guy. I mean, you could also, you
know, have a freaking boar with leather pants on.
Or a brain inside of a robot. Yeah, there's some weirdness
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happening. I like it.
It's awesome, I love it. Match my freak.
All right, let's move on August 18th.
Yeah. Dude, so funny if you remember
this, like if this is one of those, if you know, you know,
moments like 1993, August 18th professional wrestling.
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You know, this, it is so carefully crafted.
Wrestling is like when we were kids, we didn't even know it was
fake. Like we thought it was real,
right? And.
Real to me, damn it. Yeah, that's right.
And so I've actually been like aSide Story.
I've been watch, I watched the WWE Unreal documentary on
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Netflix. If you've seen like Quarterback
on Netflix, you haven't seen thedocumentary, the football.
So those documentaries are just so good.
They're so well done. But this like goes way behind
the scenes on all the stuff thatgoes on behind the scenes in
wrestling. And so, but when we were kids,
this was real and we thought it was real.
Like, it, it didn't come out that all this stuff was was not
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actually happening. And so this is hilarious.
We had in WCW, Ric Flair had a talk show on WCW and so he was
talking to a couple of other wrestlers, Sting and Davey Boy
Smith. Do you remember what DB Boy
Smith's nickname was? I don't know that name.
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You don't know that name. If I told you that he hung out
with Bret Hart and Owen Hart andJim Nighthart, would that ring a
bell? Oh, he's a blue blazer.
OK. He was the British Bulldog.
Oh shit, OK now. You know.
That guy, yeah. That guy, he had a ponytail.
He was real buff. He talked British.
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Real buff. Real buff.
Yeah. OK, so he's talking to Sting and
Davey Boy Smith, and they're hyping up this mystery partner,
like, so big, right? Like they're trying to this,
like this is the guy that's going to come in and just smoke
everybody and they say that he'sgoing to be shocking.
And they say it's the shock master.
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And they pan over to this wall and this dude, this big dude
just completely falls through this wall, falls to the ground.
He's got this this Stormtrooper helmet that they painted purple
and it's. Like on purpose?
On purpose. He was, This was supposed to be
like a big deal, right? He was supposed to bust through
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that thing like a super mean Kool-aid man, but instead he
tripped, fell through the wall, his helmet fell off on the floor
and rolled. He picks it up and he's like
adjusts himself and they're likeholy crap, what just.
This was live. It was live on TV.
I bet kill me. Just take me aback and shoot.
Yes. And so the the audience was
stunned. The guys on the set were
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stunned. You hear Ric Flair just go.
He fell on his ass on live TV and they did not cuss on the air
back then and so he. Shock Master gets up and he just
like. Yeah, that's the beginning of
the shocker. I can't.
So he fell and then he gets up and they continue on with the
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promo like nothing happened. But it was the biggest failure
and super funny. And if you remember this, it's
so funny. And so we'll we'll post a
picture of the shock master so you can remember him.
Do you see the picture? You don't remember?
That at all? No.
Dude, so funny. So this week's cartridge
Conundrum is not a game. It's about this happening back
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then. So here's this week's cartridge
Cartridge Conundrum. It's time we're talking
wrestling history. The wrestler Fred Ottman is
formally known for his disastrous WCWW as the Shock
Master. However, before that glitter
glitter, before that glitter E blunder, he had a much more
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successful run in WWF under two other gimmicks.
What were they, the Berserker and Skinner Earthquake and the
big boss man Hakeem and the one man gang or Tugboat and Typhoon?
Let us know in the comments which one Fred Ottman was of
those four choices. And you win a big prize?
(24:04):
Not really. We have nothing to give you.
We don't. Even have a sponsor anymore?
So we're at the bottom of the barrel.
So that was that. I like it.
It's a good one. That was funny.
Like I went back and watched that whole segment and I just,
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it brought me back to watching that and I was like, holy crap,
dude, that was such. AI need to see it because that
sounds pretty ridiculous. That was.
It it is the most ridiculous thing that you've ever seen
because he just falls, tumbles and it's a big dude and that
that helmet just falls off and it's funny.
This sounds pretty cool. All right, 1995, Don't Go
Chasing Waterfalls was the number one song.
We talked about it, but Batman Forever came out and Seal came
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out with this song and it was big dude, like just.
That Batman Forever though, thatwas pretty crazy.
That was a wild movie. I agree, but this song you can
get like the cool thing is I watched this video preparing for
this and like they show a lot ofthe movie in the video.
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I was like, Dang, I need to go back and watch that whole thing
because that was a good movie. But this song, everybody, this
was everywhere. If you for if you were from here
in Wichita, KKRD was the stationthat you listen to if that this
would have been on. And I remember just listening to
KC Kasem's Top 40 and recording that crap on a tape so that I
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could listen to it in the car later.
And the crazy, the one of the wildest things that I that has
happened in my kind of work career is I was a huge KKRD kid.
Like I listened to KKRDA ton as a kid when I came to work where
I work now. I found out that the owner of my
company owned KKRD back when I was a kid.
(25:58):
That's. Why it's?
Super weird. So kind of cool, but so yeah, we
had CEO kiss from a rose was that they knocked don't go
chasing waterfalls off the top of the list. 1995 And this
movie's cool. Like, I want to go back and
watch it because I think I want to remember Batman Forever
because it was completely different than the stuff we had
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seen from, like, Tim Burton and very different.
Yeah, so different. So.
But you said that was like the the weirdest thing that's
happened to you at work. It was a weird.
That was weird. Yeah.
Like I just kind of hearing that.
Pretty pretty fucking exciting job you got there, but hey at.
Least I have a job. What does that mean?
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I don't know. The fuck does that mean?
I don't know take. It for what you want.
So my job, my job isn't very exciting either.
I was just hanging out with a fucking NBA player last week,
but no big deal. Sorry, can't all hang out with
famous people. I just I I just know people that
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owned radio stations. He's like this.
Guy on the radio station. I fucking saw Turkey outside the
other day. Pretty crazy.
Did you hear that? No, I.
Think the fucking witch is back.Oh.
My gosh dude. Anyways, this is going to be a
reoccurring thing. So it's weird how how life just
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does weird shit. Like I got involved with the
Ronald McDonald House charities and I I want to say I've done
like 3 years now, but I was at this event and sitting at the
wrong tables like I shouldn't beat different tables.
And then we realized that later me and my wife and then we sit
at this table and they start talking about Grady Dick who's
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from Wichita. Dude was like in high school and
was like named like Gatorade to athlete of the year or something
crazy like that and went and played one year at KU and then
went ahead and went on up to Toronto.
So he plays for the Raptors. Dude's like hanging out with
Drake and stuff now. But anyways the.
Raptors do. Yeah, I guess.
But I'm hanging out at this table and I'm sitting there like
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with his parents and I didn't know it, You know, they start
talking about how they, they hadlike jerseys and stuff.
They signed and they were donating.
She sat. Down at the wrong table.
A couple times, yeah. And this is what happened
because you sat at the wrong table.
Exactly. Yeah.
So I'm sitting there and, you know, he hears my stuff.
And he's like, oh, man, so you're a chef and you've been on
TV and all that. He's like, yeah, man, You know,
I saw. I got to talking with them.
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I was like, man, I'd love to do something with your son
sometime. And he's like, man, that's cool.
He's like, let me get your number.
And I was like, OK. And I didn't think anything of
it, you know what I mean? And it's honestly been, like a
year or two since anything. And then he, like, calls me out
of the blue and he's like, hey, man, like Grady's coming in.
He's got this, like, charity golf tournament thing.
He's like, would you want to like, come cook for us?
So I was like, yeah, yeah, I will.
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I'll go do that. It's like I said, it's just wild
how just random stuff like this will happen.
I know. So go out there, go to this
beautiful house. And, I mean, everything was just
insane. They had a musician out there
and he was just absolutely killing it.
And everyone kept saying too, he's like, man, you guys are
such a good team. Like you guys need to hang out
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and start doing more stuff together.
So I was like, I'm down if he is, you know what I mean?
So he like. You and the.
The musician, yeah, they're like, man, your food's good.
Like he's he's great at what he does.
Like you guys just need to do events together.
So that's. Cool, I.
Was like, yeah, man. So, you know, I added him and he
added me and everything. So who knows, maybe we'll start
doing more events together. But it was just cool getting to
go and hang out. And it's wild that this dude is
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still so young because like, he was in college one year, you
know, I mean, and then got called up.
What is he? Is he?
In his early 20s, still I. Wanna say he's like 2324 or
something like that yeah you know multi millionaire, you know
I mean. I saw a picture of you and him
and Dang he's tall dude. Bro, he was in like flats.
I was in like my tall boy boots trying to look good, you know
what I mean? Even then, it's like, I'm still
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like, bro, yeah, he's super tall, dude, but super friendly.
And it's funny that like all of his siblings, you know, they're
like tall too. The mom's pretty tall.
She played basketball as well. But they're all super nice
people. And the weirdest thing, like the
Sisha come up was talking to me and she's like, yeah, I work for
like Google, you know, like we have a house in like New York
and do stuff in Miami as well. I'm like, that's pretty cool.
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And she's like, well, what's interesting is I heard like
you're in the casting for Chopped.
And I was like, yeah, you know, I had some calls or whatever.
And then she's like, well, it's crazy.
She's like a really good friend of mine is the producer for
Chopped. She's like, so I told her, you
know, like, how is your food's good and your fun and personal,
whatever. And she's like, and she told me
she's going to be looking for you, like your, your
information. So I was like, dude, like how
how weird, you know what I mean,to go have all this in the
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works. So yeah, we'll see.
Actually, I had my kids say like, did you ever hear from
Chopton? Like, not yet, but you know.
Those things take so long, man. It does and I'm kind of worried
because like my September is pretty booked and like some
really crazy stuff could be happening here soon.
I know I have some events, some more travel chef stuff, and then
I'm looking at maybe cooking forBring Me, Bring Me the Horizon.
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That's weird to say, but everybody.
Gets tongue tied sometimes. Yeah, so that's crazy.
And then like the next day, you know, it's like I might be going
to going to Napa to cook in a Michelin restaurant and learn
some really cool stuff. So I'm worried they're going to
get a hold of me. Like, yeah, man, just come out
in September and. Beginning of September looks
good like. Yeah, it's like, let me let me
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figure this out real quick. But yeah, man, I'm, I don't
know, I'm excited. I'm ready to see what's going to
happen. And like I said, every time I
feel like or say like it can't get any better than this,
something just weird comes out of nowhere and then.
Didn't you get something? Aren't you going on a podcast to
do some stuff too? Like Come.
On that's, yeah, I'm so scared about that.
There's a podcast out of Wichitaand it's like, I think it's
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called Live Local, but it's essentially hot ones.
So they want me to come eat wings and they want to like talk
to me about like my life and what's going on and everything.
But oh Lord, I need to like juststart loading up on Pepcid and
stuff because that's going to get rough.
Drink that milk. Dude, I'm, I'm not super.
I mean, I'm excited to do it, but I'm not excited to do it.
You handle heat OK, though. I mean, you think you're going
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to be all right? Yeah, I just don't get hot.
I just. Don't want to have heartburn in
the middle afterwards dying, youknow what I mean?
Like, yeah, I'm sure I can handle it OK, but I guess we'll
see. He told me.
He's like, I usually eat a lot of bread the morning of and I'm
like. Oh yeah, that's.
Good idea work. Yeah, soak up that.
Yeah. So we'll, we'll see that it'll,
it'll be fun, but we'll see how bad it hurts, I guess.
(32:22):
Yeah, so let's shout out Dude Robe.
We got some some new Dude Robe content for you.
We are looking to get some shorts from these guys and
there's a real big reason why because.
Real big. There it is, because somebody
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feels like dude robe is the onlything he can wear.
If I got dude robes on him, I'm not wearing anything else.
It isn't. We have to get some pants on
you, bud, because it's getting embarrassing.
It's. Turning into a real.
Problem turning into a big problem, a big little problem, a
big little problem and we reallywe really got to get these
shorts. So we're going to, we'll be
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posting some Dewdrop content andtrying to, you know, let us know
if this is good or bad, but we think it's funny, so.
Check it out, It'll it'll be allright.
So Speaking of sniping people. Yeah, what is this all about?
I, I thought it'd be fun to do something new and I think it's
something that I'm going to try to keep recreating.
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But I, I, I called this little segment stream sniping and I
talked to my kids about like, dude, it doesn't stream sniping.
And I'm like, shut up. I know what it is, but what I do
is I'm just going onto streams like I'm going to Twitch and I'm
finding people that have like nofollowers, nothing, you know
what I mean? And just jumping in there kind
of just talking to them a littlebit.
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And that alone is like gets themamped.
You're like, oh man, yeah, hey, how's it going?
Thanks for hopping in here. So then I I just drop like 2025
bucks away. What booty Mike?
Thanks bro Chat 1000 bits. Oh my gosh, I appreciate it
dude. Like, are you kidding me?
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You know what I mean? Like people get excited over
that. So I'm going to start sharing
videos of just my my stream sniping.
And I thought it'd be cool though, if people that are
listening have somebody like that in their life, you know
what I mean? Like if your kid does this, you
know what I mean? And they don't have any
followers or they need a boost, man.
It's like start tagging their stuff in here and then maybe we
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can go and and hit them up to just to give them a little
encouragement. But I think it's fun though.
It's cool seeing people's reactions and I, I hope like
that dude finished and was like,man, I made like $20 today.
Even if it's 20 bucks, like dude, I'm just playing video
games and somebody hopped on andyou know what I mean?
Like, so I don't know, just havethat encouragement, man.
So. What is actual stream sniping?
So like, let's say you're watching Ninja play live and you
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happen to get in on his lobby orwhatever.
Then you can see where he's at and you go and kill him.
He talks. About that crap all the time.
I've never heard him call that before, but yeah, I've seen
where he's like, they're, they're cheating.
Like they know where I am because they're watching the
screen. Yeah, dude.
It'll be in a Bush and someone will come right to it and just
work him over. I've.
Seen that? So yeah, I'm just kind of, you
know, taking my little play on it.
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But yeah, if you know somebody, like I said, it'll be fun to
just make their day for super cool a minute.
Yeah, yeah, that's cool, man. Go this thing.
Go check us out on TikTok at Cartridge Inquest.
Go check us out on YouTube at Cartridge Inquest Spotify.
(35:31):
Go subscribe on Spotify. This thing will come, this
whole, the full episode will come to you every Tuesday.
Just it'll just be there waitingon you if you go.
I might be naked. Maybe I I got nothing for that
because I know the truth and it did not set me free.
(35:59):
Just made you hungry. Booze.
Drop that mic. Yeah, I don't like that.
Got it. So check us.
Out on a Grande shirt. Check us out on the socials.
Check us out on YouTube and spotand Spotify.
Apple, you can you can do it on Apple if you want.
I would rather you do it on Spotify, but do wear whatever do
(36:20):
you Boo Boo fuck you Windows andyeah.
Keep it rad. Keep it rad and peace out.
I told you I'm cool with us getting famous.
Yeah. But I am not going to dress like
a lady and we just I just added something else to it.
Anymore. Again.
And I I just added something else to it.
I'm not going to act like Jesus.We should make a list.
We should make a list of stuff that traveled.
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Not do. Won't be a lady, won't be Jesus.
I feel like it's. Pretty good little list.
The cool thing to me though, is you, like I literally said like
you should do this naked and youit wasn't like, no, I'm not
going to do that. I was like, I'm not going to be.
Jesus, yes. I'll get my Dick out, but I
mean. How famous are we talking?
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You told me what you want to see
and I'm just going to put it out.
There. Oh yeah, you better get a.
You better get a we're. Going to get some creeps on this
one. I was going to say you better
get a really long lens, but thatwould mean it's really tiny, so.
Yeah. I'm going to.
I think we should move on. Tell you what, today's drink is
(01:20):
fantastic. Oh my gosh, dude.
Stupid good. Wow, OK, these cups are sweet.
Where'd they come from? My wife, she got it from me for.
Was this a? Father's Day, maybe?
Was this one of those? Yeah, yeah.
For my. Birthday.
I think it was like man crate. Yeah.
But yeah, super cool. So good.
Great year. But anyways, yeah, this is Crown
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apple. Crown Apple with the new Witch's
brew Alani, which is like a caramel apple.
Man, I feel like you can tell this is alcohol.
There's no chance that you can tell that there is crown in this
and there is a. Lot.
I mean. I put a lot in here.
I mean, you're not, you're stillnot cut water.
No. We're way.
(02:01):
We're not doing that anymore. That was one time and one time
only, folks. Just like no, never mind.
I don't know where he was going.I don't know where he was
headed. Yeah, we've got this has got
witch's bruh Aulani in it. Pretty tasty.
Oh man, if you guys haven't had Witch's Bru Aulani, check this
out on our TikTok shop because it is delicious, so good and
(02:26):
I've bought. More than I care to, I admit.
Me too, when I walked up to the counter I saw their eyes get
big. I bought so much.
Also, my Dick was out. You said that about you.
Oh, OK, moving on. What?
Let's let's get into a little bit of retro.
(02:48):
Oh, first of all, I'm average draft.
That's true. I'm 40.
No, not yet. Not yet. 40 Mike C over there.
Not yet. You got a week.
Is the 22nd. It's next Friday, next Friday.
So by the time they listen to this, I'm like days away.
(03:11):
Days away so wish foodie Mike CAHappy Birthday on the 22nd of
August, 40 years old. Dang, what?
An old man can't believe how oldyou are.
I know. I got a long way so I get to 40.
Yeah. I'm already 40, all right.
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Retro Rewind powered by the Regent Theatre.
Fantastic Four is what he's showing right now.
Hell yeah, I just went and saw it.
Loved it. Two sideways thumbs it was.
Pretty cool, I liked it. I was just not super impressed.
I thought it was a flimsy topic.I thought it was bad
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babysitting. Spoiler alerts.
You know, like bait and baby bait and switch.
Come on guys, we can do better. You're not.
Going to put your real ass baby in there.
They did though, and it's like. Honda had to, but.
How's he even breathing in that freaking thing?
First of all, like there was no you're going to.
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Believe that they could move thewhole fucking earth, but they
can't they. Couldn't.
They damn well could, but you'retelling me like, oh they can't
make a fucking carriage that hasoxygen for a baby?
No, get fucked. It didn't have any hoses in it.
It didn't have any holes in it. Yeah, this is like supposed to
(04:39):
be the strongest baby in the fucking Yeah, no.
Kidding. Freaking you don't.
Have to poke fucking ox in your hole?
Talking about acting like you're.
Jesus, what the fuck was that? I don't know, that was real
weird. The witch is back.
Oh my. Fucking silence.
(05:10):
Oh. Shit.
Oh fuck. Wow, it's getting wild down
here. We got people wanting to be in
the audience and stuff now. I like to start selling tickets.
We should. We'll post them up on
Ticketmaster. I don't know, maybe we'll talk
about some more Fantastic Four later, but I wasn't impressed.
(05:32):
Anyway. No matter what, you might be
impressed, so go check out Fantastic Four at the Regent
Theatre if. Nothing else.
Get some popcorn. Go get some to go popcorn.
I walked in there the other night to get the cups for the Oh
yeah, you didn't even bring thatdown here.
We got to, we got to announce that still again, I'm going.
To do a lot of fucking editing. Yeah, we got.
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We're doing the event on the 28th of August.
I hate you. He knows it now.
So episode 3, we're going to watch the movie.
It's 6 bucks for a ticket. That's the same price tickets
were back in 2005, so that's crazy cheap.
We're going to do combo for 15 bucks.
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You get an old school from 2005 cup with one of three characters
on it and a large popcorn. Or you can just buy as many cups
as you want for 10 bucks if you don't want popcorn.
These things are like. Selling for like 30 or
something. Oh.
Yeah, for sure. And if.
Nothing else. Get a cup and then sell it on
eBay for like $30. It's why.
I wouldn't though, because thesethings are super cool.
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You don't need, you're not gonnafind, you're really not gonna
find them for 10 bucks anywhere else.
So you should hang on to it 'cause I think that they're
pretty sweet. So Jerry, just.
Needs to put these bitches on eBay.
That's what he needs to do. I think he's, I think what he's
doing is better. So I agree.
Check out the check out Come down to Wellington on August
28th and watch Star Wars Episode3.
(07:00):
Get a sweet cup, get some popcorn.
You know what? I'm actually making a little bit
of stuff for it. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
So I'm not, I'm not selling food, but I'm gonna help Jerry,
like, make his food even better.Put some.
Sweet bacon stuff on top of the.I've got a few things, a few
things I'm working on, but one of them that I will do that was
wildly popular for me was my ilote dog.
So I'm going to make some delicious ilote.
(07:23):
We're going to put it on top of a hot dog.
I'm going to do like some caramel do.
Some more food championship. Something with bacon.
Let's go pump that up. Shit, yeah, we we can get into
that here in a little bit, but World Food Championships coming
up and I got to figure some shitout because I don't know what
I'm doing. You never stopped me before,
though. You're going to have.
To move some stuff around in this one.
(07:45):
This is a fucking shit show. Yeah, let's.
Let's get back on track. Yeah, OK, let's get into August
24th, 1995, the day that lives in infamy.
No, not really. But Microsoft didn't just
release a piece of software, they orchestrated A cultural
earthquake. The launch of Windows 95 was an
(08:06):
unprecedented global media event.
Guess how much the budget was for this freaking thing for
marketing? $48. $48 Bob you're way low $300
million that they put in to theyput this thing on the Empire
State Building with the the the windows logo colors.
(08:30):
It was in rolling the The Rolling Stones Start Me up was
the the licensed official theme music, which they probably paid
them $200 million to use. That freaking thing.
How fucking? Long did it take them to even
make their money back. I don't know.
And I feel like this thing was probably like 200 bucks, but so
Windows 95, it introduced core concepts, you know, like the
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Windows button, the taskbar plugand play.
And it really was trying to simplify the computer from the
Windows side. So they had people.
I remember back then people werestanding outside forever at Best
Buy to to get in line to do this.
(09:14):
Like that stuff doesn't happen except for like buying rock
tickets and freaking video gamesnow.
So this is wild. People wanted Windows 95 like
crazy and it's iconic. I mean you look at that Windows
95 logo with like the trailing. I feel like that was the first
one I actually like. Remember, as far as Windows
goes, it's like yeah 90. Five, it was a fixture in homes
and schools and offices, and so it kind of bridged the gap
(09:36):
between the home computer and the office computer, and it was
really the first one that I remember being a big deal for
getting on the Internet. 1998 was the bigger one.
It was more connected, but Windows 95 was definitely where
I was getting on AOL for the first time and racking up a big
phone build that my parents didn't expect.
(09:57):
Do you know what? I hope there's so many times I'm
like, fuck Windows. Yeah, I'm a Mac guy.
I hope someday, like this thing takes off and we're like
sponsored by like Windows or whatever, you know, Microsoft.
I'm like, yeah, Mike, you know, just started this big Microsoft
guy. Note Sell out Mikey, don't do it
I. Won't I'll still be like,
they're our main sponsors. Those guys.
Pictures. Really wish Apple would sponsor
(10:19):
us. Yeah, let's let's go all the way
back to the summer of 1993. I'll do it.
The 16 bit console war between Nintendo and Sega was at its
peak. Capcom delivered a killer blow
with the Super on the Super Nintendo in North America with
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Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Hell yeah.
This was not just another port from the arcade phenomenon
Street Fighter Two. This was its own thing and it
became a massive system seller for Nintendo and it was a must
have cartridge. If you had a Nintendo, Super
Nintendo back then, 4.1 million of these things were sold like
(11:02):
that's massive for being for back then.
So that's. A lot of money.
It is a lot of money because I mean, this game was probably 30
or 40 bucks. Damn.
So you can do that math and yeah, that's.
I could, but I won't. Do you?
Did you play Street Fighter? I did.
I used to use the Brazilian monster guy and just like
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electrocute people and it alwayspissed everybody off.
It's his. Name.
Baraka maybe or something. Yeah, I want to say it is like
Baraka. Barack Obama something.
But yeah, I remember just like crouching down and just using
like this electricity and you touch him like you're getting
fucked on it. So it's like, go ahead.
For sure. So yeah, Ryu, you had Blanca.
(11:47):
That was his name E Honda in Bison.
Like that was the dude with likethe purple robe.
This game super cool. Street Fighter was fun.
What was E Honda? It was E Honda, the guy.
Honda was loud. He had the Japanese dude.
No, that was the Indian guy. Yeah, What's his name?
Gosh, I haven't played this gamein so long.
(12:07):
I'm. Just making shit up at this
point. Dang it, I can't even remember
his name at all and the internet's not.
Hopefully somebody, hopefully somebody just figures it out.
Somebody will tell us we had a big we had a big battle this
week on where did Doug? Oh yeah, dudes, I used to on a
Nicktoons. Like it's on the fucking screen.
(12:27):
Like I see it like. It was.
It debuted in 1999. Bro as a Nicktoon like I.
Remember watching on Disney and like, yeah, maybe the fucking
later, like but anyways. So yeah, it was true.
But I do appreciate people getting on there.
Even if you're on like tribe wrongly, just fucking go back
and forth. But also just on this out there,
do a fucking Google search and it's amazing the information you
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can find. Not always right though.
It's not always you're not. You don't always get the all the
good information from Google. It's not always right.
Oh, Speaking of Street Fighter E, Honda was the Yokozuna
looking cofo and then and was the guy with the red.
The American. Yeah, the American guy, Chin Lee
(13:11):
Chun Li was the chick. She had those eyes, though.
Oh. Man.
God, what? I mean you and then you had Gaul
Gaul Gaul G, how do you some? Stuff right there.
GUHLLGUILL. The fuck?
(13:34):
It was gile. It was Gile.
What the fuck do you? Remember him?
Yeah, he was like the shaved head, like the yeah, that guy,
the Air Force or something. Like the fucker was always
around jets, I think. Yeah, Yeah, I was like, what the
fuck? Are you saying I could not
figure that out man think. I had a fucking stroke for you,
(13:55):
I. I also had one.
That could have got weird. Always could get weird this.
Fucking witch is back. Let's talk a little bit of
Madden. OK.
The 2000 game, they went back toJohn Madden.
(14:18):
I don't know why, but in the background, knee.
Amazing. Yeah.
From our town, yeah. Crazy.
Barry Sanders. I played on his field.
Yeah, Barry Sanders football field.
I have a quick story about BarrySanders.
I went to the same middle schoolthat he went to and I went to
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the library one time and I checked out a football library
book. And you know, back in our day,
we had to sign the card. We had to pull the card out of
the library book and sign it. He had.
He signed the library card. You didn't.
Steal that thing. I tried, they caught me and took
it and replaced the card. So that sucked, but how?
(15:03):
Crazy. Would that have been like, yeah,
I got Barry Sanders signature inmiddle school.
Like wow I. Definitely tried, didn't.
So he was on the cover but not really.
Like he's in the background, but.
Not enough to curse him. Well, let's find out.
OK, so the most electrifying, beloved player in the in the
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league's history, Detroit running back Barry Sanders, was
on this one at the peak it felt like it was at the peak of his
greatness. Did Barry Sanders succumb to the
Madden curse in 2000? No.
No, you would be wrong Sir, because before the season even
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started he suddenly retired fromthe NFL and never came back.
Is that the curse though? Sounds like he was trying to
avoid. He's like I ain't snapping my
leg. He's like, I'm out, I am done.
I don't know, you could take it for what you want, but I feel
like he retired from the league and that does make it part of
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the curse. My buddy Tim, big Lions fan,
always been a big Lions fan. Oh yeah, Timmy.
Larry Sanders. So I'm sure that was like the
worst day of his life. It was weird being back then,
seeing that, like it was like hewas so good.
Why would he retire? I mean, the Lions were.
He's on the cover of Madden. He's like, no.
Yeah, he's like, no. Did you see what happened to
Garrison Hurst? I'm out.
Yeah, I'm not doing that. He's like take down, take down
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Madden. That's fine.
Take him down. Well.
Got him. Eventually got him.
Yeah. All right.
Let's go even further back, the summer of 1988.
Three Three. A cultural phenomenon was born
(16:49):
in the sewers, the first wave ofthe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
action figures by Playmates hit store shelves, and the world of
children's entertainment was never the same.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesanimated series debuted in
December of 1987, and the toys followed a couple months later.
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So we had April, Splinter, Donnie, Mikey, RAF, Leo.
Bebop. Bebop, Rocksteady and Shredder,
12345678910. 10. Toys.
I remember having these. I had these exact toys.
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I, I, I'm trying to, I know I had a, a few of those.
And what's crazy is they actually have, the Ninja Turtles
are at like McDonald's right now.
You get a happy meal like. There with like a Hello Kitty or
something. I I do remember at my dad's
house, we had like the ooze van.Do you remember that one?
The van that like, I want to sayhad like ooze barrels or
(17:56):
something and pizzas or something?
Yeah. No, it was the manhole covers,
right That she. Oh was it covers?
At the front I. Don't know why I thought it was
a pizza like I remember a pizza,but anyways, yeah, that van,
that van was pretty sick. That van was sweet dude.
Yeah, super cool. I saw somebody modded one of
those at and made it into an ES.So cool.
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People do crazy shit. Crazy.
Stuff so I can I only name 9? Do you know what the 10th 1 was?
The 10th toy. No huh.
Uh, what'd? We leave out the foot.
The Foot Clan, OK. So these things made from 1988
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to 1992, an estimated $1.1 billion with AB.
That's wild, dude. Like that's so much money for
these toys. And these dudes, Eastman and
Laird, they just like came up with this thing on the back of
napkins at the beginning, like they were, you know how?
The fuck that even happened though.
(18:59):
Like how you I? Mean there's a whole document,
there's a whole documentary of it on on Netflix if you want to.
Maybe I need to check it out because it sounds like somebody
as high as fuck. Oh yeah, dude, it was weird.
And they didn't like, they didn't even have at those
original drawings. Didn't didn't even have the
turtles like differentiated in any way with different colors.
Like they were just all it was just four turtles drawn with no
like, way to tell them apart. For if he had this rhino and put
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him in a sports bra, sounds pretty fucking hot.
I don't know. I mean, it worked.
He's a super bad guy. I mean, you could also, you
know, have a freaking boar with leather pants on.
Or a brain inside of a robot. Yeah, there's some weirdness
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happening. I like it.
It's awesome, I love it. Match my freak.
All right, let's move on August 18th.
Yeah. Dude, so funny if you remember
this, like if this is one of those, if you know, you know,
moments like 1993, August 18th professional wrestling.
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You know, this, it is so carefully crafted.
Wrestling is like when we were kids, we didn't even know it was
fake. Like we thought it was real,
right? And.
Real to me, damn it. Yeah, that's right.
And so I've actually been like aSide Story.
I've been watch, I watched the WWE Unreal documentary on
(20:25):
Netflix. If you've seen like Quarterback
on Netflix, you haven't seen thedocumentary, the football.
So those documentaries are just so good.
They're so well done. But this like goes way behind
the scenes on all the stuff thatgoes on behind the scenes in
wrestling. And so, but when we were kids,
this was real and we thought it was real.
Like, it, it didn't come out that all this stuff was was not
(20:45):
actually happening. And so this is hilarious.
We had in WCW, Ric Flair had a talk show on WCW and so he was
talking to a couple of other wrestlers, Sting and Davey Boy
Smith. Do you remember what DB Boy
Smith's nickname was? I don't know that name.
(21:07):
You don't know that name. If I told you that he hung out
with Bret Hart and Owen Hart andJim Nighthart, would that ring a
bell? Oh, he's a blue blazer.
OK. He was the British Bulldog.
Oh shit, OK now. You know.
That guy, yeah. That guy, he had a ponytail.
He was real buff. He talked British.
(21:28):
Real buff. Real buff.
Yeah. OK, so he's talking to Sting and
Davey Boy Smith, and they're hyping up this mystery partner,
like, so big, right? Like they're trying to this,
like this is the guy that's going to come in and just smoke
everybody and they say that he'sgoing to be shocking.
And they say it's the shock master.
(21:48):
And they pan over to this wall and this dude, this big dude
just completely falls through this wall, falls to the ground.
He's got this this Stormtrooper helmet that they painted purple
and it's. Like on purpose?
On purpose. He was, This was supposed to be
like a big deal, right? He was supposed to bust through
(22:09):
that thing like a super mean Kool-aid man, but instead he
tripped, fell through the wall, his helmet fell off on the floor
and rolled. He picks it up and he's like
adjusts himself and they're likeholy crap, what just.
This was live. It was live on TV.
I bet kill me. Just take me aback and shoot.
Yes. And so the the audience was
stunned. The guys on the set were
(22:31):
stunned. You hear Ric Flair just go.
He fell on his ass on live TV and they did not cuss on the air
back then and so he. Shock Master gets up and he just
like. Yeah, that's the beginning of
the shocker. I can't.
So he fell and then he gets up and they continue on with the
(22:53):
promo like nothing happened. But it was the biggest failure
and super funny. And if you remember this, it's
so funny. And so we'll we'll post a
picture of the shock master so you can remember him.
Do you see the picture? You don't remember?
That at all? No.
Dude, so funny. So this week's cartridge
Conundrum is not a game. It's about this happening back
(23:16):
then. So here's this week's cartridge
Cartridge Conundrum. It's time we're talking
wrestling history. The wrestler Fred Ottman is
formally known for his disastrous WCWW as the Shock
Master. However, before that glitter
glitter, before that glitter E blunder, he had a much more
(23:41):
successful run in WWF under two other gimmicks.
What were they, the Berserker and Skinner Earthquake and the
big boss man Hakeem and the one man gang or Tugboat and Typhoon?
Let us know in the comments which one Fred Ottman was of
those four choices. And you win a big prize?
(24:04):
Not really. We have nothing to give you.
We don't. Even have a sponsor anymore?
So we're at the bottom of the barrel.
So that was that. I like it.
It's a good one. That was funny.
Like I went back and watched that whole segment and I just,
(24:24):
it brought me back to watching that and I was like, holy crap,
dude, that was such. AI need to see it because that
sounds pretty ridiculous. That was.
It it is the most ridiculous thing that you've ever seen
because he just falls, tumbles and it's a big dude and that
that helmet just falls off and it's funny.
This sounds pretty cool. All right, 1995, Don't Go
Chasing Waterfalls was the number one song.
We talked about it, but Batman Forever came out and Seal came
(24:53):
out with this song and it was big dude, like just.
That Batman Forever though, thatwas pretty crazy.
That was a wild movie. I agree, but this song you can
get like the cool thing is I watched this video preparing for
this and like they show a lot ofthe movie in the video.
(25:13):
I was like, Dang, I need to go back and watch that whole thing
because that was a good movie. But this song, everybody, this
was everywhere. If you for if you were from here
in Wichita, KKRD was the stationthat you listen to if that this
would have been on. And I remember just listening to
KC Kasem's Top 40 and recording that crap on a tape so that I
(25:35):
could listen to it in the car later.
And the crazy, the one of the wildest things that I that has
happened in my kind of work career is I was a huge KKRD kid.
Like I listened to KKRDA ton as a kid when I came to work where
I work now. I found out that the owner of my
company owned KKRD back when I was a kid.
(25:58):
That's. Why it's?
Super weird. So kind of cool, but so yeah, we
had CEO kiss from a rose was that they knocked don't go
chasing waterfalls off the top of the list. 1995 And this
movie's cool. Like, I want to go back and
watch it because I think I want to remember Batman Forever
because it was completely different than the stuff we had
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seen from, like, Tim Burton and very different.
Yeah, so different. So.
But you said that was like the the weirdest thing that's
happened to you at work. It was a weird.
That was weird. Yeah.
Like I just kind of hearing that.
Pretty pretty fucking exciting job you got there, but hey at.
Least I have a job. What does that mean?
(26:39):
I don't know. The fuck does that mean?
I don't know take. It for what you want.
So my job, my job isn't very exciting either.
I was just hanging out with a fucking NBA player last week,
but no big deal. Sorry, can't all hang out with
famous people. I just I I just know people that
(26:59):
owned radio stations. He's like this.
Guy on the radio station. I fucking saw Turkey outside the
other day. Pretty crazy.
Did you hear that? No, I.
Think the fucking witch is back.Oh.
My gosh dude. Anyways, this is going to be a
reoccurring thing. So it's weird how how life just
(27:21):
does weird shit. Like I got involved with the
Ronald McDonald House charities and I I want to say I've done
like 3 years now, but I was at this event and sitting at the
wrong tables like I shouldn't beat different tables.
And then we realized that later me and my wife and then we sit
at this table and they start talking about Grady Dick who's
(27:42):
from Wichita. Dude was like in high school and
was like named like Gatorade to athlete of the year or something
crazy like that and went and played one year at KU and then
went ahead and went on up to Toronto.
So he plays for the Raptors. Dude's like hanging out with
Drake and stuff now. But anyways the.
Raptors do. Yeah, I guess.
But I'm hanging out at this table and I'm sitting there like
(28:04):
with his parents and I didn't know it, You know, they start
talking about how they, they hadlike jerseys and stuff.
They signed and they were donating.
She sat. Down at the wrong table.
A couple times, yeah. And this is what happened
because you sat at the wrong table.
Exactly. Yeah.
So I'm sitting there and, you know, he hears my stuff.
And he's like, oh, man, so you're a chef and you've been on
TV and all that. He's like, yeah, man, You know,
I saw. I got to talking with them.
(28:25):
I was like, man, I'd love to do something with your son
sometime. And he's like, man, that's cool.
He's like, let me get your number.
And I was like, OK. And I didn't think anything of
it, you know what I mean? And it's honestly been, like a
year or two since anything. And then he, like, calls me out
of the blue and he's like, hey, man, like Grady's coming in.
He's got this, like, charity golf tournament thing.
He's like, would you want to like, come cook for us?
So I was like, yeah, yeah, I will.
(28:45):
I'll go do that. It's like I said, it's just wild
how just random stuff like this will happen.
I know. So go out there, go to this
beautiful house. And, I mean, everything was just
insane. They had a musician out there
and he was just absolutely killing it.
And everyone kept saying too, he's like, man, you guys are
such a good team. Like you guys need to hang out
(29:06):
and start doing more stuff together.
So I was like, I'm down if he is, you know what I mean?
So he like. You and the.
The musician, yeah, they're like, man, your food's good.
Like he's he's great at what he does.
Like you guys just need to do events together.
So that's. Cool, I.
Was like, yeah, man. So, you know, I added him and he
added me and everything. So who knows, maybe we'll start
doing more events together. But it was just cool getting to
go and hang out. And it's wild that this dude is
(29:27):
still so young because like, he was in college one year, you
know, I mean, and then got called up.
What is he? Is he?
In his early 20s, still I. Wanna say he's like 2324 or
something like that yeah you know multi millionaire, you know
I mean. I saw a picture of you and him
and Dang he's tall dude. Bro, he was in like flats.
I was in like my tall boy boots trying to look good, you know
what I mean? Even then, it's like, I'm still
(29:48):
like, bro, yeah, he's super tall, dude, but super friendly.
And it's funny that like all of his siblings, you know, they're
like tall too. The mom's pretty tall.
She played basketball as well. But they're all super nice
people. And the weirdest thing, like the
Sisha come up was talking to me and she's like, yeah, I work for
like Google, you know, like we have a house in like New York
and do stuff in Miami as well. I'm like, that's pretty cool.
(30:08):
And she's like, well, what's interesting is I heard like
you're in the casting for Chopped.
And I was like, yeah, you know, I had some calls or whatever.
And then she's like, well, it's crazy.
She's like a really good friend of mine is the producer for
Chopped. She's like, so I told her, you
know, like, how is your food's good and your fun and personal,
whatever. And she's like, and she told me
she's going to be looking for you, like your, your
information. So I was like, dude, like how
how weird, you know what I mean,to go have all this in the
(30:31):
works. So yeah, we'll see.
Actually, I had my kids say like, did you ever hear from
Chopton? Like, not yet, but you know.
Those things take so long, man. It does and I'm kind of worried
because like my September is pretty booked and like some
really crazy stuff could be happening here soon.
I know I have some events, some more travel chef stuff, and then
I'm looking at maybe cooking forBring Me, Bring Me the Horizon.
(30:55):
That's weird to say, but everybody.
Gets tongue tied sometimes. Yeah, so that's crazy.
And then like the next day, you know, it's like I might be going
to going to Napa to cook in a Michelin restaurant and learn
some really cool stuff. So I'm worried they're going to
get a hold of me. Like, yeah, man, just come out
in September and. Beginning of September looks
good like. Yeah, it's like, let me let me
(31:16):
figure this out real quick. But yeah, man, I'm, I don't
know, I'm excited. I'm ready to see what's going to
happen. And like I said, every time I
feel like or say like it can't get any better than this,
something just weird comes out of nowhere and then.
Didn't you get something? Aren't you going on a podcast to
do some stuff too? Like Come.
On that's, yeah, I'm so scared about that.
There's a podcast out of Wichitaand it's like, I think it's
(31:39):
called Live Local, but it's essentially hot ones.
So they want me to come eat wings and they want to like talk
to me about like my life and what's going on and everything.
But oh Lord, I need to like juststart loading up on Pepcid and
stuff because that's going to get rough.
Drink that milk. Dude, I'm, I'm not super.
I mean, I'm excited to do it, but I'm not excited to do it.
You handle heat OK, though. I mean, you think you're going
(32:01):
to be all right? Yeah, I just don't get hot.
I just. Don't want to have heartburn in
the middle afterwards dying, youknow what I mean?
Like, yeah, I'm sure I can handle it OK, but I guess we'll
see. He told me.
He's like, I usually eat a lot of bread the morning of and I'm
like. Oh yeah, that's.
Good idea work. Yeah, soak up that.
Yeah. So we'll, we'll see that it'll,
it'll be fun, but we'll see how bad it hurts, I guess.
(32:22):
Yeah, so let's shout out Dude Robe.
We got some some new Dude Robe content for you.
We are looking to get some shorts from these guys and
there's a real big reason why because.
Real big. There it is, because somebody
(32:44):
feels like dude robe is the onlything he can wear.
If I got dude robes on him, I'm not wearing anything else.
It isn't. We have to get some pants on
you, bud, because it's getting embarrassing.
It's. Turning into a real.
Problem turning into a big problem, a big little problem, a
big little problem and we reallywe really got to get these
shorts. So we're going to, we'll be
(33:06):
posting some Dewdrop content andtrying to, you know, let us know
if this is good or bad, but we think it's funny, so.
Check it out, It'll it'll be allright.
So Speaking of sniping people. Yeah, what is this all about?
I, I thought it'd be fun to do something new and I think it's
something that I'm going to try to keep recreating.
(33:27):
But I, I, I called this little segment stream sniping and I
talked to my kids about like, dude, it doesn't stream sniping.
And I'm like, shut up. I know what it is, but what I do
is I'm just going onto streams like I'm going to Twitch and I'm
finding people that have like nofollowers, nothing, you know
what I mean? And just jumping in there kind
of just talking to them a littlebit.
(33:47):
And that alone is like gets themamped.
You're like, oh man, yeah, hey, how's it going?
Thanks for hopping in here. So then I I just drop like 2025
bucks away. What booty Mike?
Thanks bro Chat 1000 bits. Oh my gosh, I appreciate it
dude. Like, are you kidding me?
(34:08):
You know what I mean? Like people get excited over
that. So I'm going to start sharing
videos of just my my stream sniping.
And I thought it'd be cool though, if people that are
listening have somebody like that in their life, you know
what I mean? Like if your kid does this, you
know what I mean? And they don't have any
followers or they need a boost, man.
It's like start tagging their stuff in here and then maybe we
(34:29):
can go and and hit them up to just to give them a little
encouragement. But I think it's fun though.
It's cool seeing people's reactions and I, I hope like
that dude finished and was like,man, I made like $20 today.
Even if it's 20 bucks, like dude, I'm just playing video
games and somebody hopped on andyou know what I mean?
Like, so I don't know, just havethat encouragement, man.
So. What is actual stream sniping?
So like, let's say you're watching Ninja play live and you
(34:51):
happen to get in on his lobby orwhatever.
Then you can see where he's at and you go and kill him.
He talks. About that crap all the time.
I've never heard him call that before, but yeah, I've seen
where he's like, they're, they're cheating.
Like they know where I am because they're watching the
screen. Yeah, dude.
It'll be in a Bush and someone will come right to it and just
work him over. I've.
Seen that? So yeah, I'm just kind of, you
know, taking my little play on it.
(35:11):
But yeah, if you know somebody, like I said, it'll be fun to
just make their day for super cool a minute.
Yeah, yeah, that's cool, man. Go this thing.
Go check us out on TikTok at Cartridge Inquest.
Go check us out on YouTube at Cartridge Inquest Spotify.
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Go subscribe on Spotify. This thing will come, this
whole, the full episode will come to you every Tuesday.
Just it'll just be there waitingon you if you go.
I might be naked. Maybe I I got nothing for that
because I know the truth and it did not set me free.
(35:59):
Just made you hungry. Booze.
Drop that mic. Yeah, I don't like that.
Got it. So check us.
Out on a Grande shirt. Check us out on the socials.
Check us out on YouTube and spotand Spotify.
Apple, you can you can do it on Apple if you want.
I would rather you do it on Spotify, but do wear whatever do
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you Boo Boo fuck you Windows andyeah.
Keep it rad. Keep it rad and peace out.
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