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Press play and step through a time portal to the 1990s—sports dynasties on every screen, movie tie-ins on your soda cup, sitcoms that rewired comedy, and a Monday night where wrestling made the whole country pick a side. We hand the reins to our manager, Fiddy, and bring a lively panel together to relive the decade that shaped how we watch, listen, and eat.

We kick off with the big question: were the 90s the true peak of sports dominance? From Jordan’s Bulls to Gretzky and Lemieux, home run chases, and quarterbacks who defined eras, we tally the legends and ask if a decade could ever stack stars like that again. Then it’s straight into the booth with John Madden and Pat Summerall—why their chemistry felt effortless and how their calls still echo in our heads. On the big screen, we revisit the Batman hype machine, the marketing that swallowed whole summers, and the films we still stop to watch—Heat, Forrest Gump, Mallrats, Billy Madison, Tombstone, Friday, and more.

TV gets a full tour: 90210’s taboo-breaking storylines, the TGIF routine, Seinfeld vs Friends, Fresh Prince, Married with Children, X-Files, Nickelodeon game shows, and the eerie charm of Are You Afraid of the Dark? We fire up the Monday Night Wars—WWF vs WCW, the NWO invasion, ECW chaos, and the Attitude Era’s lightning-in-a-bottle energy that made pay-per-views must-see. Music rounds out the culture shift: grunge and alt-rock, hip-hop’s canon from Biggie and Tupac to Outkast and Wu-Tang, pop’s boy band takeover, Hootie’s singalongs, and TRL’s daily decider that turned tastes into a scoreboard.

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SPEAKER_01 (09:04):
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That being said, this episode isgoing to be a little bit
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Uh, we have a special episodetoday.
Uh, we're gonna be talking allabout all the things 90s and

(10:11):
everything that goes along withthat.
And with this special episodelike that, we had to bring on a
special host, and everybodyknows him.
I am actually going to give thereins over to the wonderful
manager of the podcast, JohnnyFitti Falcone.
Fiddy, take it away.

SPEAKER_00 (10:27):
Thanks, Bono.
Well, everyone, today we have agreat episode.
We're gonna talk about allthings 1990s, man.
One of the greatest decadesever, if not the greatest decade
ever.
And by the end of this show, ifyou didn't think it was the
greatest decade, at the endyou're gonna say, wow, I wish I
lived in the 90s or I grew up inthe 90s, because we have six
outstanding topics of sports,movies, TV, culture, music, and

(10:52):
food.
We're gonna be breaking downwith a great, great panel of
guests who are gonna talk aboutall things with their personal
experiences with the 1990s.
So, guys, when our intro here,you're gonna give your name.
Would you rather eat an orangeor an apple?
And how old were you when the1990s began and ended?
So I'll start.
Everybody knows me.

(11:13):
This is Fitty.
I would rather eat an apple thanan orange, just because you can
have an apple with peanutbutter, a lot of protein in
there.
Uh, it's great energy, has somesugar in there for you.
It's really awesome.
And then when the 90s began, Iwas three.
When the 90s ended, I was 13.
So, Bono, we'll kick it over toyou for uh your intro.

SPEAKER_01 (11:34):
Yeah, everyone knows me.
Mike Bono, host of the showhere.
Um Apple or Orange?
I I like both of them.
I would have to go I'd have togo orange because I can't bite
into an apple anymore.
I I've had something that I haveto cut it up like a child, and
that just frustrates me.
Um I do uh I do like it withpeanut butter or caramel as

(11:55):
another good thing, but I had togo orange just on the sheer
convenience for me.
Uh when the 90s started, I wasone, and when it ended, I was
nine years old.

SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
Okay.
How about uh you, Dave?
We'll go to you next.

SPEAKER_02 (12:10):
Yeah, so uh Dave Frank, uh Apple or Orange.
Uh I'm an apple, like the fineuh apples grown in western
Pennsylvania while I attemptedto harvest whitetails over the
last two weeks.
Um, as far as how old was I whenthe 90s began?
I was nine, and uh when thenineties ended, I was 19, which

(12:30):
makes me in the 90s aficionadoand perfect for uh tonight's
podcast.

SPEAKER_03 (12:35):
Okay, let's go to you next, Matt.
Uh Matt Oldmore.
Uh I would take an orangebecause I'm kind of getting sick
of apples because I've had anapple a day since the 90s.
Uh when the 90s started, I was14, and when it ended, I was 24.
So uh a little bit differentperspective, I think, than some

(12:56):
of you guys.

SPEAKER_00 (12:58):
Okay, and last but not least, a vampire coach, Mr.

SPEAKER_04 (13:02):
aka vampire coach, Mr.
Mr.
Ask you, as you already know.
Uh let me get that good old, youknow what I'm saying, an apple a
day, keep a doctor away.
Uh when the 90s started, I waswhat, 14, 15?
When it ended, I was what, 25?
Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 (13:22):
And as you can see, so we have some different ages
in here.
All right, we're gonna talkabout all our experiences.
But guys, we're gonna kick itoff with this question.
The 1990s was dominated byathletes and teams such as Mike
Tyson in boxing, Wayne Gretzkyin hockey, the Denver Broncos,
the Dallas Cowboys, and theBuffalo Bills in the NFL, Sammy
Sosa, Mark McGuire, and the kidKen Griffey Jr.

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in the MLB, and the Bulls'dominance in the NBA.
Will we ever see such a decadelike this across all sports
spectrums ever again?
Bono, let's start with you.

SPEAKER_01 (13:57):
Absolutely not.
Um, I I don't think so.
There were some dominantathletes in that decade.
And you left out one, and I'mI'm really upset that you left
out uh Mari Lemieux.
We're not we're just not we'rejust gonna leave the big guy out
of it.
Uh you're from PA, uh Fiddy.
How you how how are we gonnaleave my man Lemieux out of

(14:17):
that?

SPEAKER_00 (14:18):
Uh I can't I can't name all the great athletes.
I'm just having to name some.

SPEAKER_01 (14:22):
Yeah.
But um, yeah, there's justthere's just never gonna be a a
decade, in my opinion, that'sgonna dominate with across all
sports, not just having one inone major sport.
Across all major sports, therewas dominant athletes on every
team.

SPEAKER_00 (14:41):
Okay, Dave, how about you?
What's what's your thoughts onthis?

SPEAKER_02 (14:45):
Yeah, I mean, I I think you you go back to the old
TV cartoon, the Pro Stars, andyou had Wayne Gretzky, you had
Bo Jackson, you had MichaelJordan, you had not only did you
have superstars, you had guysthat could play other sports.
Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, youknow, even Michael Jordan went
and played baseball for a while.
Um, just simply the fact thatthese guys were not only the

(15:05):
superstars and the greatest ofall time in their own sports,
these guys were so good theycould play other sports too.
Um, legendary, um you know,we'll we'll never see this
again.
We might go back to the 70s and60s and have some stuff like
this too, but never like the 90suh ever again.

SPEAKER_03 (15:22):
Okay, Matt, what are your thoughts?
Yeah, you know, I I kind ofagree with both of them.
Uh, you're never gonna get thepersonalities.
Also, you know, uh, you know,you were kind of replaced
Michael Jordan with the ShequelO'Neal there in the 90s.
The personalities just keptgetting bigger, and Charles
Barkley when you're talkingbasketball.
But uh I hope not, and I hopepeople don't forget about them

(15:43):
because uh all those uh baseballand football cards I got in my
parents' uh closet still uh I'mhoping uh I don't think they're
gonna pay for my kids' college,but they're still there.

SPEAKER_00 (15:54):
You know what?
And and I was when I was goingthrough all this, I'm just we're
gonna go to you next, but I wasgoing through it, so I'm like,
wow, I'm like, I'm thinkingabout the NFL.
Like Peyton Manning came in theNFL, you got Dan Marino, you had
Jim Kelly, you had John Elway,like you had Troy Aikman.
You're talking about some of themost historic quarterbacks in
the NFL history all playing atthat time.

(16:15):
Kobe comes into the league,Larry Bird just retires, you
know, uh Magic Johnson stillplaying, right?
You have Mario Lemieux, you haveuh Yammer Jagger, you have um
Patrick Waugh or Waugh Gretzky,Wah, yeah.
Wah, yeah, you know, and Gretzkygoing on.
You have all these great people,you know, with it.

(16:36):
But Mr.
You know, what are you sayingabout the 90s?
Will we ever see a decade likethis in sports ever again?

SPEAKER_04 (16:43):
Most the 90s most definitely was a uh, I mean, it
was it was a unique era for sureacross all sports and
entertainment.
You know, uh you had guys thatwas playing, I mean, that could
have played two sports, youknow, basketball, football,
baseball.
I mean, and you know, you hadtrack, but uh, I don't know,

(17:07):
man.
I don't I don't think so.
You know, you would say, uh, youknow, with as time keep going
on, you would think that theremight be, you know, maybe
another era.
If it is, we'll all part, Imean, be gone.
I don't ever seen in mylifetime, I think.
Um, but you know, things havechanged so drastically.
You know, I mean the today'sathletes, you know, it's hard if

(17:31):
it's it's hard if uh to figureout what's in their what's in
their brains, man.
You know, it's hard to figureout what the what what they
want.
Because, you know, a lot of yougotta think about, you think
about the 90s, think about justthe athletes, right?
Them them them them people wereathletes.
Nobody wasn't nobody reallycared about, you know what I'm
saying, shoe deals and andstarting their own clothing line

(17:53):
and and wanting, you know,saying this is my favorite
special type of pencil and hats.
These mothers care, these, youknow, these people, these guys
are looking at socks and shoesand draws.
Back then, we just we just play,they just play sports.
They wanted to dominate thatthat sport.
And you know, today athletes,they mind is all on water.

(18:13):
I mean, that's it's just closed,it's in and out.
You know, sure, you know, so no,probably not.
If we do, I'll be gone.
That's for sure.

SPEAKER_00 (18:24):
Okay.
Well, guys, because we're allfootball uh fans on here, a lot
of us are our current coaches orformer coaches.
Let's talk about this, right?
The NFL best play-by-play teamwas the legend himself, John
Madden, former coach of theOakland Raiders, and Pat
Summerall.
And anyone who grew up in the90s should remember these guys
from their legendary games andwham bam and the Treduncan and

(18:47):
everything else that went alongwith John Madden.
Was this the best tandem ofannouncers ever in all of
sports, John Madden and PatSummerall?
Bon, all let's start with you.

SPEAKER_01 (18:58):
Oh, that's a tough one.
Um Yeah, I think so.
I mean, there's there's justnever been a tandem like those
that everybody wanted to listento.
Everybody enjoyed their call togame.
I I can't tell you how manytimes I'm watching a game and I
see like Chris Collinsworth comeon, and I can hear the

(19:20):
collective of America be like,oh, we gotta deal with this guy
again, like just being a hater.
And like you, you never had thatwith Madden.
Yeah, he was he was a Pittsburghhater, but he was a fair
announcer.
Um, but just the catchphrasesthat you get uh with them that
still people are trying to andquoting today, yeah, Madden and

(19:40):
Summerall, like they're that'stop tier when it comes to
announcers, uh, that everyonelook forward to their calls.
Yeah, there's no way there'sgonna be anyone better than
them.

SPEAKER_00 (19:50):
Okay.
Dave, what are you saying aboutPat Summerall and John Madden?

SPEAKER_02 (19:54):
Yeah, so I mean, maybe recognizable simply
because of the video gamefranchise that went along with
it.
However, you know, Summerall wasa little bit of a soak, Madden
was a little bit kitschy.
I think you can take Al Michaelsand go with just about any one
of his uh broadcast partnersover the years, and I would take

(20:15):
Michaels, and that's simplybecause Michaels worked with
Madden.
Michael's worked with all ofthese guys.
He he is the the utility knifethat works for everything, man.
He's the Swiss Army knife ofannouncers, he's even made
Bono's guy, Collinsworth,palatable nowadays.
And so I'm gonna go withMichaels and anybody over Madden
and Summerall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (20:34):
Okay.
All right.
You know what I was I was funnytoo, because like when I was
coming up with the topics forthis, I just happened to stumble
across like the 1993 or 1994like NFC Championship game,
Cowboys, 49ers, and likeSummerall and Madden are on
that.
And I'm like, like I canremember that, and that was 31

(20:58):
years ago, like it wasyesterday, listening to those
guys though play like in sloppyCandlestate Park in the mud, you
know, out in San Francisco, andand just Madden and Summerall
just just announcing it.
It was just so funny, it wasjust like so nostalgic.
But uh, Matt, what are yousaying about uh Summerall and
Madden?

SPEAKER_03 (21:16):
Yeah, I mean, I would say they're the most
iconic.
Um, you know, it's funny becauseyou're talking and I could just
close my eyes.
And if I think about basketballin the 90s, I think you know,
Marv Albert, you know, if youthink baseball in the 90s, Bob
Costas always did the games,usually with Joe Buck, and you
just close your eyes, you canjust think of them doing the
game.
And I think of Summer All Imaddoing a you know, four o'clock

(21:39):
game, never a one o'clock game,usually the afternoon game.
Um, but they did, you know,going through it.
Um, they kind of got a littlebit long in the tooth, at least
for me and some people, becauseuh, like Dave said, uh, you
know, they got a little bit tookitschy, I think he said, but
uh, you know, uh started leaningon the telestrator a little bit

(22:01):
too much at the end and uh goingoff tangent, but still iconic.

SPEAKER_00 (22:06):
Okay, Mr.
What are you saying about theseguys?

SPEAKER_04 (22:10):
They most definitely was a an iconic, unique brand.
I love them.
And I think the the one thingwith John what made us so uh
recognizable is you know, youknow, it was genuine.
Everything he said, it justseemed genuine, you know.
It wasn't like uh, you know,like he was being instructed or

(22:30):
you know, he had to say certainthings.
I think that I think that's whatmade commentators different and
stand out, you know, from uhfrom other people.
So I don't think so.
Uh it was most definitely aunique bunch because a lot of
times, again, like you saidearlier, you know, you turn into
watching the game, but you getcaught up in in the actual
commentating of the game.

(22:51):
I mean, how many times do peopleactually get caught up in the
commentating and not the actualgame?

SPEAKER_01 (22:55):
You know, now I I'll I'll mute it anymore and just
not listen to the commentatorsafter a while.
Like it's that's it's to thepoint now where I just can't
stand this.
I went I have a journalismdegree and a broadcast degree.
That's that's what I wanted todo.
And like I'm I'm muting itbecause it's like just shut up.

(23:16):
Like, I what are we talkingabout here?
Like, and that you know, the thecatchphrases with uh man boom,
you know, you you got that andyou know everything like that
too as well.
But yeah, nobody muted their TVsback in the 90s.
No, nobody, nope.

SPEAKER_00 (23:31):
So continuing on the 90s here, guys, let's flip to
movies.
So if I'm not mistaken, Davetalked about this on the Arnold
Schwarzenegger episode that wedid, but let's kind of dive into
this a little bit more.
So the original Batman seriesbrought us three out of the four
original films in the 90s, withBatman Returns in 1992, Batman

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Forever in 1995, and Batman andRobin in 1997.
During the time these movieswere uh hyped up everywhere,
with McDonald's being such ahuge supporter of the movies,
along with the singer Sealbringing us the hit song from
the 95 movie.
So, guys, taking away the firstBatman, let's talk about two,

(24:15):
three, and four with MichaelKeaton as one Batman, uh Val
Kilmer, rest in peace as theother Batman, and George Clooney
as the other Batman.
Let's talk about this though.
The movies itself, okay, andeverything that surrounded it,
all the hype, the music, theMcDonald's, the advertisement.
What are your thoughts aboutthat, those Batmans from the

(24:36):
90s?
Mr.
Let's start with you on this.

SPEAKER_04 (24:39):
Man, the first one's the best one, man.
Everything else, man, you canjust go ahead and just trash it.
If it wasn't for the if itwasn't for the crazy joker in
that one, which one was thecrazy joker to do after that?

SPEAKER_00 (24:51):
That was the first one, like in 88.

SPEAKER_04 (24:54):
Yeah, yeah, 88.
And then what was the what wasthe guy, the other joker, and
the one that the guy that died,they ended up dying.
The Joker, you know what I'msaying?
He played Joker.

SPEAKER_00 (25:03):
Oh, Heath Ledger in the new one.

SPEAKER_04 (25:05):
That was that was in the 2000s though, was that?
That was in way in the 2000s.
Dark Knight, yeah.
Oh, okay, okay.
Well, there, there you go.
And any any the anything else inbetween sucked.
Okay.
Just go back and just just bringme Superman or or I don't know,
man.
Something else.
I mean, all them other ones wasjust whack.
Because I didn't know I didn'teven see them.

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I started washing them and thenI just cut it off.
Come on, uh, Pony, or whoever hewas, whoever man, they couldn't
get me play that.

SPEAKER_00 (25:38):
Well, now we know we're Mr.
Stam's on that, but uh uh Matt,let's go to you for this.

SPEAKER_03 (25:44):
Yeah, um, boy, that's a tough question because
you know, I think I'm same ageas Mr.
on this one.
I gotta be honest with you.
I saw the first Batman withMichael Keaton.
I don't even think I saw theother ones.
Um, I don't even think I everwalked.
I don't even think I saw them.
I mean, you know, I said I was14 in 1990 and 24 in 1999.

(26:06):
I was into way other stuff thanplaying with Batman toys.
I can tell you that much.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (26:14):
Okay, hey, you know what?
That that's fair.
Now, Dave, you talked about thiswith how bad Schwarzenegger was
with Mr.
Freeze in Batman Forever.
But Dave, what are your thoughtsof those three Batmans and all
the hype around them in the 90s?

SPEAKER_02 (26:26):
So Pittsburgh's own Michael Keaton was uh, you know,
the the second Batman.
And, you know, when you thinkabout it, there were some
redeeming qualities from it as asequel.
The fact that you had DannyDeVito as the penguin, and of
course the highlight of thesecond Batman movie, which would
be Catwoman in the cat suit,Michelle Pfeiffer, um, you know,

(26:49):
of a list of very, very subparmovies by standards of Batman,
Batman begins that would belater, the original Batman that
Mr.
Mr.
said what was the the the themoney one and to begin.
You know, the the MichellePfeiffer in the cat suit saved
the second one, so I think youknow it'd have to go with 1992's
Batman uh two.

SPEAKER_01 (27:10):
Okay.
Bono, what are you saying aboutthis?
Uh I mean, Keaton obviously isthe best Batman.
Like, can we just can we allagree on that one that Keaton is
the best Batman uh around?
Um but oh man, uh yeah, Mr.
Freeze ruined it for me forBatman Forever in

(27:31):
Schwarzenegger.
It was just it was terrible.
Uh, but you're not wrong.
Catwoman, come on now.
How how we how are we not gonnatalk about that and act like
that's not the best one?
Like that didn't just geteverybody in the 90s into Batman
for that reason.

SPEAKER_00 (27:49):
You know, I I was when I was thinking about this,
and those are probably like wasprobably arguably the most
iconic series because it had themost hype behind it, right?
Like if you think about it,McDonald's had all those like
collectible cups that were like99 cents.
Yes, McDonald's used to actuallysell collectible cups for
everyone who didn't know in the90s.

(28:11):
I think people still have them,you know.
Um, Dave has them, I think.
You know, Seal was involved init.
You had George Clooney likegetting into acting, right?
Leaving ER.
For people that don't know,George Clooney was in ER and
just started acting.
And like his first couple movieswere like that Batman movie and
From Dusk Till Dawn, which we'lltalk about here in a little bit.

(28:32):
But you had Val Kilmer likealmost in his prime as well,
coming off the hit movie Heat.
Um, so you know it was veryinteresting.
I think the hype behind him wasreally cool, but unfortunately,
some of them weren't very good.
But Jim Carrey, prime Jim Carreywas regular.
So um, but guys, that leads meto the second part of this one
for the movies, right?

(28:53):
Some of the outstanding moviesthat came out in the 90s,
unbelievable.
Uh The Godfather Three, Heat,Any Given Sunday, The Program,
all the Disney movies.
That came out, Beauty and theBeast, Aladdin, uh, everything
that came out with uh withthose.
You had the movie like The Saintwith Val Kilmer, you had uh
Pierce Bronson in um double eye,you know, or sorry, Goldeneye

(29:17):
007 movies, James Bond.
You had a ton, a ton of greatmovies that came out, casino,
um, a lot of great movies.
So, you know, I want to get youropinions.
You know, what are some of yourfavorite movies during that time
frame in the 90s, you know, thatcame out?
And I'll let you kind of ponderthis because you all have the
pondering look on your faceright now.

(29:40):
So I would say probably one ofmy favorite movies, um, probably
my favorite movie from the 90shas to be the movie Heat.
If people never seen that, it'sabout 30 years old.
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, thesecond movie they have ever done
together outside of Godfather 2,but the first time they started
side by side.
So I would say uh Heat, AlPacino, Robert De Niro, Val

(30:02):
Kilmer was in that, TomSizemore, West Sudai from Last
of the Mohicans, another 90smovie.
Um, you had McKelty Williamsonin that.
Uh, you had Dennis Thurlbert, Ithink that was his name.
That used to be the old AfLakcommercial guy, the guy with the
real deep voice.
Um, you had Ashley Judd in thatas well.

(30:26):
You had a young Natalie Portmanin that, and who can forget Tone
Lok was in that movie, too.
So uh Heat was probably myfavorite, probably second
favorite from the 90s, any givenSunday.
Another outstanding cast.
Al Pacino, the birth of uh JamieFoxx really as an actor, Cameron
Diaz, who can forget WarrenMoon, Dick Buckus, Terrell Owens

(30:49):
was in that, Bill Bellamy, uhCharlton Heston, Jim Brown,
Lawrence Taylor, Dennis Quaid,LL Cool J.
Who Can Forget That movie?
Probably two of my favoriteBono, though, what were you some
of your favorites from the 90s?

SPEAKER_01 (31:04):
Man, this is still just a tough one for me.
I but we were talking about thisbefore we started rolling, and
I've been trying to think sincethen um to pick a favorite.
I mean, I was a big AustinPowers guy growing up.
I I loved the Austin Powersmovies.
Uh big comedy guy shocker, thecomedians into comedies.
Uh, but all those uh Heats is agreat one.

(31:29):
Uh there.
All the Disney movies, mainlynow, because I have a new bit
about Disney songs uh that is inthe set list too as well.
And I was a big Disney guygrowing up uh watching all
those.
My parents still have the VHStapes for the those of you that
are too young to know what thoseare, Google it.
Uh I'm not gonna explain what aVHS tape is to to everybody out

(31:53):
there, but uh the Austin Powersseries for me uh in the 90s is
what really stands out.
Mike Myers in that, just playinguh all that.
You get Vern Troyer in there tooas well, mini me.
Um it just his range as anactor, um, and what he was able
to do playing multiple roleroles and um making it

(32:17):
believable that it was adifferent person playing those
roles back in that time, uh forme, and just the sheer slapstick
comedy that was in it, and justthe the the one-liner jokes that
were so I don't want to sayhidden, but if you weren't
looking for them, you you youyou'd miss them.

(32:39):
Uh, people still quote today andstuff like that.
You know, it for me it's gottabe Austin Powers.

SPEAKER_00 (32:45):
Okay.
Dave, what would you say?
What are some of your favoritemovies from the 90s?

SPEAKER_02 (32:49):
Okay, so I've broken it into categories, and I'm
gonna hit you hard and fast withthem, and everybody's gonna
shake their head.
Oh, yeah.
First of all, when you'reflipping through the channels
and you see it, you stop.
It is the Shawshank Redemption.
Yeah.
Uh bombed in the theater.
This absolutely just killed itafterwards.
If you're staying in that kindof same category, um Forrest

(33:09):
Gump was unbelievable as amovie, and everybody was all
about it.
It had uh it made you laugh, itmade you cry, it was a little
bit of everything.
If you're looking at actionflicks, um, you know, Bruce
Willis is uh in Armageddon umwas fantastic, but we're gonna
double down with Bruce WillisDie Hard with a Vengeance, Die
Hard 3 was maybe one of myall-time favorite movies.

(33:31):
It was hilarious.
They blew stuff up, it wasexactly what you were looking
for in movies.
And with Bono, I love thecomedies of the 90s.
Uh I uh just full on to behonest with you.
You know, you're you're ingetting into those late 90s, you
have varsity blues, and you haveAmerican Pie, but perhaps my
favorite, and it's a little bitof an indie cut, is Kevin
Smith's Mall rats.

(33:51):
Like it's just an unbelievable,uh, funny movie, and it spawned
kind of Kevin Smith's career.
It was the first movie he made.
Um the 90s just you still had alittle bit of an innocence that
occurred before September 11th.
And I feel like after September11th, everybody had to make
these movies that were just soover the top.
And we've gotten to the pointnow where people don't even

(34:11):
really make funny moviesanymore.
And that, my friends, isdepressing.

SPEAKER_01 (34:16):
Yeah, okay.
You know, you know what, let mepiggyback off that, uh, Dave.
When you know, you mentionedForrest Gump.
I can't believe I forgot thatmovie, Forrest Gump.
They gave us the best villain inever it ever in Jenny.
If and it I will fight people tothe death that she is the best
villain in all of cinema.
Um, we're not gonna get intothat rant about how she just

(34:37):
strung Forrest along for theentirety of that movie.
Um, and then yeah.
But you know what?
You're right there with the theydon't make movies like they did
in the 90s.
Like there were so many in therethat you you said I honestly
couldn't remember if varsityblues happened in the 90s or if
that was in the early 2000s.
Like, you know, I was trying tothink back if that was in the

(34:59):
90s or not, but varsity blues isdefinitely, definitely, I I
still quote Tweeter in thatmovie to this day.
My wife and I talk in moviequotes, and varsity blues is
just like top tier for moviesthat we quote for sure.
Uh, but yeah, just you the theforest cup one, uh Jenny is the

(35:22):
definitely the best villain inall of movies.

SPEAKER_00 (35:27):
All right, Matt, what do you say?

SPEAKER_03 (35:28):
What are some of your favorite movies from the
90s?
Well, uh we'll start uh youknow, hanging around in high
school.
Um, these are all movies that Iactually probably still have
memorized line for line.
But high school, we were eitherwatching Clerks, which was
actually Kevin Smith's firstfilm, uh we watch that about
every night, Clerks, uh Days theConfused.
Uh we watch that I got thatabout memorized, and then

(35:49):
Tombstone from the early 90s,and then of course uh laying
around on college on dirtycouches and uh having leftover
food and beer.
Uh we I definitely still haveBilly Madison and Happy Gilmore
memorized all Billy Madison.
Yeah, so those are probably myfour go-tos even now.
Um, I just watched them so somany times.

(36:12):
Um, but yeah, those are mine.
Okay, Mister, what are yousaying?

SPEAKER_04 (36:19):
The first two are casino.
Casino is one of them uh withginger.
And uh we have to have anotherconversation about the
significance of ginger in thatmovie and who she relates to in
real life, okay.
Uh the other one is uhGodfather.
Uh I mean I'm sorry, not not uhnot Godfather, but um Bahip.

(36:42):
Uh those are uh probably two ofmy top ones.
But man, listen, you guys areforgetting about two other
movies.
And I have to say, you know, uhyou can't not go wrong with
Friday.
What are you talking about, man?
Friday.
You know what I'm saying?
Friday, and then one of theother ones, though, and you guys
probably haven't seen it.

(37:04):
Maybe one day you guys will, butwe used to watch it all the
time.
It was always on repeat, and itis Menace to Society.

SPEAKER_00 (37:13):
Yes, uh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm gonna we have
one brother here on the podcast.
Right long time I watched Menaceto Society.
Oh great movie, great movieFriday, too.
How could you forget that?

SPEAKER_04 (37:30):
How do we forget Friday?
Who D boo?
That's right.

SPEAKER_01 (37:36):
You can get five in your day off stealing boxes.
What you building a clubhouse,right?
Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 (37:41):
You know, it's and it's funny when you when you're
mentioning these, right?
And we're talking about them.
I'm sure people are floodingback memories, people don't
remember that.
But it was so cool to go to themovies in the 90s, like it was
so cool.
It was to get your ticket, likeit was an event to rent movies
on VHS, like and you're at themovie store trying to like look
at the back of the movie,reading the you know, reading

(38:04):
the the synopsis of it.

SPEAKER_01 (38:05):
So man, um it was it was Blackbuster where everybody
was going.

SPEAKER_00 (38:10):
The red movies like Hollywood video.
It was so awesome, probably andjust just so so awesome.
So uh moving off of movies,though, let's talk about another
subject, guys, and that's TV.
Now, um I remember Dave was onthe TV uh episode, and we kind
of talked about this a whileback, but the 1990s brought us a

(38:30):
huge variety of TV shows, andprobably the most well-known
that was probably transcendingat the time because of what they
covered was Beverly Hills 90210.
It dealt with things of teenpregnancy, drug abuse,
alcoholism, racism, ageism, um,divorce, moving away, friends,

(38:50):
family, and so forth.
Um, and sadly, a few of thoseactors and actresses have passed
away today from that that show.
But um, you know, what are yourguys' thoughts on this show?
I think it was one of the mosttranscending shows um that ever
came out from 89 until 2000.
Um, and did it brought us a lotof a lot of things, mental
health um as well in there.

(39:12):
So, and just growing up as ateenager.
So, um, Bono, what what wereyour thoughts about Beverly
Hills 90210?
Did you watch it?
Were you a fan of it?
What do what do you want to uhtalk about with this?

SPEAKER_01 (39:24):
I didn't watch it during the 90s as much as you
know, you you still find old TVshows today to to kind of go
back and watch it.
And watching it now, youmentioned it there.
It goes over a lot of big topicsthat you know I think it brought
to the light, you know, whatneeded to be talked about with

(39:46):
all those issues that were goingon that weren't as I don't want
to say they weren't as prevalentas they are today.
It's just we get informationquicker and easier today.
Everybody has a computerbasically in their pocket with
their phones where you can getthat, and everybody's recording

(40:06):
everything nowadays to where youget to see those.
But 90210 just kind of kind ofstarted the conversation uh with
these issues and gettingeveryone to to be aware that
they're out there that to getthe people that the help that
they needed, and just justshowing how people grew up then.

(40:26):
You know, it's it's nostalgic towatch today.
I didn't really watch it toomuch then.
Um being you know the age that Iwas being anywhere from one to
nine years old, uh, you know,not not a lot that I was
watching then, other than youknow, Saturday morning cartoons,
you know, being at that agerange, which who who could

(40:47):
forget those if we're if we'regonna talk about uh TV and oh
don't worry, don't worry becausewe we've got more TV stuff.
We better work.
We better, Fanny.
We're we're uh I brought youover the toe.
We better get to that.

SPEAKER_00 (40:59):
Um this is strictly just Beverly Hills 90210 right
now.

SPEAKER_01 (41:02):
Beverly is like watching it now, you know.
I appreciate it more now than Iprobably would have back then.

SPEAKER_02 (41:09):
Okay.
Dave, what about you?
I think you can make an argumentthat Beverly Hills 90210 is
singularly responsible for thedownfall of America.
Um the the the seriousness andthe the total lack of of humor
and humility that it thatexisted in 90210 and its its

(41:31):
counterpart Melrose Place iswhat's gonna lead you to to all
of a sudden get these realserious dramas like the Dawson
on Dawson's Creek and Party ofFive and all those sorts of
things.
And then those spawn all of thereal world and the the sort of
real serious reality TV shows.
And then you get The Bachelorand you get all this other crap
out there where people aretaking themselves entirely too

(41:54):
seriously.
And I have a real seriousproblem with uh uh a total lack
of creativity where everybody'sjust trying to reach for the
lowest common denominator of howmuch something can bleed or how
many people can get AIDS or getmurdered or or graze anatomy or
whatever, to the point now wheretelevision is almost
unwatchable.
Thank you, 90210.

SPEAKER_00 (42:16):
Okay, so Dave was not a fan of 90210 in the 90s.
Uh Matt, can you uh can youbring us back from that?

SPEAKER_03 (42:22):
Yeah, well, uh actually I've never seen 90210,
and I said that when I was youngthat I'd never watch it.
Uh, the only two things Iremember and can tell you about
90210 was um me and my group ofguy friends absolutely hated it
because all the girls liked it,and that's coming right off of
them having a crush on everybodyon New Kids on the Block.

(42:43):
So we didn't like Luke Perry oranybody uh on the show.
And then um the other thing is Iremember I think that's the one
that Kelly Kapowski was on,right?
Uh I think she was on there fora little bit at the end, or was
she on Melrose Play?
Yeah, it was okay.
Yeah, I remember trying to watchit because Kelly Kapowski, she

(43:03):
was my first crush, you know,and uh uh Tiffany Ambertheson is
her name, I guess.
But uh uh tried to watch it.
My crush really didn't, my lovedidn't go that far.
So uh never really saw it, neverhad a desire to.
Uh just was jealous because allthe girls loved Luke Perry, and
I wasn't Luke Perry.

SPEAKER_00 (43:21):
Okay.
And you know, rest in peace.
Luke Perry unfortunately passedaway a few years ago.
So, Mr.
You were on that uh TV episodeas well when we talked about
this.
But what are your thoughts on,you know, thinking back to the
90s with Beverly Hills 902 andno?

SPEAKER_04 (43:34):
Yeah, I'll tell you what, man.
Hey, you know, Matt and Frank,they kind of you know said it,
you you know, uh the down thedownfall.
Downfall and fancy.
I mean, it most definitelybrought some things to light as
far as uh uh situation issuesthat people were that people

(43:55):
were going through.
Um the only thing about 90210that we would watch it was
because we you know we weretrying to get to Hollywood.
And so that's the only I mean Imean, you know, that that's the
only reason why, you know whatI'm saying?
We watch it, and we know it's areality show or you know, a TV
show, but you know, I tell youback in the day, people people

(44:17):
used to start writing 90210because they were trying to, you
know, you know, they were tryingto get to the get to Hollywood.
But that was the only reason whywe watched it, because we just,
you know, we wanted to get getout there to Cali.

SPEAKER_00 (44:29):
You know, and I and I and it it was definitely a
very, I think we'd all agree ifwe remember back.
It was it was a verycontroversial show because of
those topics that nobody wastalking about before with that.
So um, but I was always a bigfan of that.
Now, guys, this is gonna be kindof like the one we just talked
about with the movies.
Now, I'm only gonna list a fewshows, but please let's talk

(44:50):
about all the ones you love,though.
The 1990s brought us such greatshows, like The Dinosaurs, Step
by Step, Fool House, FamilyMatters, Sister Sister, the
Jamie Foxx Show, The Way andBrothers show.
What are some of your favoriteshows from the 90s?
And I'll start here um and letyou guys think about it.

(45:11):
Um, I loved, I love thedinosaurs, Jim Henson's The
Dinosaurs.
Um, people don't know it's uhnot the mama, I'm the baby,
gotta love me.
Um, you know, the voice at Elmofor Baby Sinclair there.
Probably had the saddest endingof a TV series probably in
history.
I don't know if you guys everremember that that ending of
that, but people don't know.

(45:32):
Dinosaurs on four seasons aboutdinosaurs, all this stuff.
Da-da-da-da-da.
Whatever last episode, um,because of what the boss did
that created the like nuclearfallout and the sun was blocked
and all this stuff, and itstarts snowing, and the ice age
happened.
And the very last part, babySinclair asked his parents, he

(45:54):
said, What do you think's gonnahappen to us?
And it kind of like faded out ofthe house, and the ice age
happened, and that was the endof the dinosaur.
So saddest ending ever, but lovethe dinosaurs, loved Fool House,
love Family Matters, TGI or TGIFwas awesome, um, you know, to
watch on Friday nights.
But Mr.
Let's start with you.
What are some of your favoriteshows from the 90s?

SPEAKER_04 (46:15):
Some of my favorite shows was um Say by the Belling
Color.
In Living Color, yes, and uh,and then here's one, you know
what I'm saying?
Because you always gotta haveone where you kind of you know
say it's out there in the deepend, and I washed the heck out
of Beavis and Butthead.

SPEAKER_00 (46:34):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Beavis and Butthead.
Who can forget?
Who can forget that?
Um Matt, how about you?
What were some of your favorite?

SPEAKER_03 (46:42):
Well, uh I got some that I still watch today.
Um, Seinfeld, of course.
I was a Seinfeld guy.
If you were to ask me Seinfeldof Friends, I hated friends, but
everybody loves Seinfeld backthen.
That was my age group.
Um, I had in my bachelor padbefore I got married a whole
room in my house dedicated toSimpson stuff.
So, you know, that was right myage.

(47:04):
Uh the Simpsons, uh that wasappointment viewing.
Um, probably my eclectic show.
Uh, as Mr.
said, um, I always loved theshow Quantum Leap when I was
younger.
Uh Quantum Leap.
Yeah, that's from the 90s.
Um, and that's really about it.
That's all I could really thinkof.
I'm sure there's good, you knowwhat I liked, but I think it

(47:26):
still qualifies as 90s becauseit ended early with Cheers.
I always loved Cheers, and Ithink it ran into the 90s a
little bit there at thebeginning.
But that that I used to lovethat show too.
But um, once we started gettingon later into the 90s, I don't
know, my knowledge reallystarted to drop off because I
don't know, just wasn't a sitcomguy or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 (47:48):
Sure, sure.
You know, and and one I forgot,and if people were younger, they
probably remember this.
But like, Are You Afraid of theDark on Nick at night?
That was like oh yeah, like fora children's show, if you go
back and watch it, you're like,How did I watch this?
This was actually liketerrifying clowns coming out of
the faces in the closet, eatingpeople, the world ending, like,

(48:10):
and who lets their kids juststart a fire in the woods to
tell ghost stories and then justput it out?
I mean, who does that?
I mean, now granted it was the90s, it was a whole different,
you know, whole different place,but uh but yeah, but uh Gabe,
how about you on this question?

SPEAKER_02 (48:27):
Well, you know, you just you talked about creepy,
and it made me think of uhUnsolved Mysteries was one that
was um unbelievable with RobertStack.
Um Cops, you know, was one ofthe original uh um reality TV
shows that just you know youcouldn't stop watching.
Um Matt mentioned Cheers.
If you mentioned Cheers, youalso couldn't appreciate

(48:49):
Frasier, which was fantasticduring the 90s.
He stole Seinfeld, Mr.
Mister, you got to save by thebell one.
But I'm gonna throw two morecomedy uh uh uh sitcoms out
there.
Uh, one is The Fresh Prince ofBel Air.
Um, I think you know, in later.
Years.
Will Smith kind of got a littlebit uh off kilder, but Fresh
Prince of Bel Air was absolutelyappointment watching.

(49:10):
Um, add to that, uh, Marriedwith Children.
Al Bundy was everybody's dad,and all of a sudden we're
sitting there now and we're inour 40s and we're going, oh my
gosh, I I identify with all thestuff on this show.
And Al Bundy in Polk eyefootball, four touchdowns,
married with children.

SPEAKER_00 (49:31):
And and but Bono, before we go to you, I want to
throw this out, and this is justone I forgot.
People remember this.
You mentioned Al Bundy is thethe uh actor Ed O'Neill from
Modern Family at Youngstown,Ohio.
Um, he played in the movie UmLittle Giants with Rick Moranis
from the 90s.
Who can forget that?
John Madden's in it pulling upon the Madden bus, uh helping

(49:54):
the team out.
When you talk about John Maddenand movies, and Ed O'Neal there
has tie it all in.
But Bono, where were some ofyour favorite uh shows from the
90s?

SPEAKER_01 (50:02):
Man, everyone took a lot of the good ones.
Uh, Matt, I I might actuallyfight you on the Friends thing,
uh, for sure.
I'm a huge Friends fan.
Uh my wife and I absolutely loveFriends.
Uh I was a big Seinfeld guy too,though.
I can't I can't say that Iwasn't.
I liked both of those.
Um I'm trying to remember.
Everybody loves Raymond.

(50:23):
There, I think that came out inthe 90s.
I was a big Everybody LovesRaymond guy.
Um also uh going back to that,the Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Is the reason I'm probably stillafraid of the dark as as a
36-year-old man.
Um is because that that thatshow, yeah, looking back at it,
it's just like what what thehell were we thinking?

(50:45):
Letting kids watch this shit.
Uh oh man.
Going back on the X-Files wasanother one in there.
Um to Nickelodeon, like some ofthe like uh the global guts, you
know, the the the competitionshows, uh Legends of the Hidden
Temple, you know, you had thosethere too as well.

(51:06):
Um, I always wanted to be onthose shows.
Like I I I can remember like itwas yesterday sitting there, be
like, yeah, man, I'm gonna be II can beat this obstacle course
right now, like, you know, andthinking that.
Uh loved all of that.
Obviously, you have all the theSaturday morning cartoons.
I mentioned that a little bitinto the first question there.

(51:28):
Uh big big bugs bunny guy myselfuh watching those uh growing up
in the Looney Tunes.
Um but yeah, Friends was anotherone.
I mean, I still quote it to thisday, and it's to the point where
I can quote the bloopers onthose two as well.
Um as much as I can the show.

(51:51):
Uh but Friends was another one Istill watch to this day.
Uh, if it's on, I always findmyself changing it to that
channel and watching the rerunsof it.
Um but yeah, um Mr.
You mentioned it, Beebas andButthead.
I mean, how can you not loveBeebas and the fact that they're
they brought it back now andlike they're making new Beebus
and Butthead episodes just showsyou how much the 90s had

(52:14):
television in a stranglehold.
Um one that's not talked about,um TRL.

SPEAKER_00 (52:23):
Don't get too far ahead, man.
We got we got all this stuffcovered.
Don't you worry to be got itcovered.
Just saying.

SPEAKER_01 (52:30):
I can remember after school being like, ah, shit,
it's TRL time.
You know, when when MTV wasactually music television, um,
and they played music videos andnot reality shows, um, and
everything like that on therenow.
But yeah, there's just I mean, Icould go on all day about it.

SPEAKER_00 (52:47):
Don't worry, Bono.
Fitty fitty got you covered,man.
Fitty green through on there.

SPEAKER_01 (52:51):
I figured you did, cuz I figured you did.
But yeah, those are those aresome of the ones I like.

SPEAKER_00 (52:56):
So that kind of leads me into the next one,
guys.
And this is gonna be reallycool.
Now it's we I I labeled thisculture because it it was like
culture in the 1990s.
Okay, and there's two ones, twodifferent questions here.
People may not believe thisthough, but back in the 90s, the
WWF and WCW were two differentwrestling organizations, which
have now merged into the WWE,the multi-trillion dollar

(53:18):
corporation that it is.
But they had a huge rivalry inpop culture, not just wrestling,
pop culture.
People debated WCW and WWF for along time.
You had wrestling iconsswitching over and back and
forth who came up through there,like Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker,
Goldberg, uh, Macho Man RandySavage, Ultimate Warrior, Bam

(53:39):
Bam Bigelow, Bret Hart, OwenHart, rest in peace, Owen Hart,
Scott Hall, otherwise known asRazor Ramone, Diesel, um who's
known as Kevin Nash.
You had um the death of Andrethe Giant, though, during that
time, but you had Sid Vicious,Stone Cold Steve Austin, uh, you

(54:00):
had a lot of great guys, ShawnMichaels.
So, guys, you know, what do youremember fondly about that era
of uh, you know, of professionalwrestling, whether it's
professional wrestlers you wantto talk about or some of you
know your greatest memories?
I think for me, um, I likedwatching both.
I'd go back and forth everyMonday night and watch both.

(54:21):
Probably my favorite memory fromWCW is when Goldberg beat
Hollywood Hogan to win the WCWheavyweight championship, and
people were throwing things inthe ring.
Um, as he's like winning it, heputs them in a jackhammer and
slams them down, and the wayGoldberg would come out uh into
the fireworks every time he'dget introduced.
And I would say probably in the90s, you know, with WWF, it was

(54:44):
like, you know, the end of HulkHogan in the WWF, but how they
transitioned to like Stone ColdSteve Austin, Shawn Michaels,
and Brad Hart, that's when theysent The Undertaker being the
new face of it was prettyunbelievable.
And who can forget SummerSlam1992 in Great Britain and

(55:05):
SummerSlam 1993 or four?
Matt, you're the wrestlingexpert here, though.
The one they had at Caesar'sPalace, uh and and and when they
had that when Hulk Hogan slammedYoko Zuna.
So, Matt, you're the wrestlingexpert here.
Let's start with you about this.

SPEAKER_03 (55:21):
Well, I'll let the other guys talk about the two
major promotions.
I gotta tell you, my one of mysome of my favorite memories,
not just of the 90s, butoverall, was we used to go to
the Golden Dome at CCBC.
I don't know if that's close towhere you grew up there, Johnny,
but uh over in Beaver County.
And uh we were uh such regularsat the ECW shows in the early

(55:44):
mid-90s that uh uh used to usedto be Taz.
If you remember Taz, he became acommentator.
We'd show up there and we wereon a first name basis with him.
Um we were, yeah, my friends andI, we were extreme ECW uh fans,
uh was right when in our agedemographic uh followed all

(56:04):
those guys through because youget guys that would come through
the ranks to ECW, go to the bigtwo, then they or some left the
big two and would come back, andthey just you know, a a 17 to
22-year-old uh young man, theECW is right in their
wheelhouse.
And I think, you know, WWF uhstole a lot of not stole, but

(56:25):
you know, took a lot of thatstuff.
Um, you know, that's where SteveAustin kind of refined his
personality and uh some of mybest memories uh that, you know,
then when it wasn't footballseason, we'd all go somewhere
get wings and drink beer andwatch the Monday Night Wars.
And uh, you know, that was funin college.
So yeah, I'm gonna defer to theother guys.
I can talk wrestling here for anhour, but go ahead, guys.

SPEAKER_00 (56:49):
Okay, Mr.
How about you?
What do you remember?
What do you remember fondlyabout the 90s with those guys?

SPEAKER_04 (56:54):
Man, you know, my favorite, my favorite off time
wrestlers is uh, you know whatI'm saying, the late and
absolutely Randy Savage, MachoMan.
That's my favorite one.

SPEAKER_05 (57:04):
Uh I tell you.

SPEAKER_04 (57:10):
We ain't gonna get started though.
But no, that's my that's myfavorite one, man.
Uh Macho Man, but you know, himand and come on, man.
You got Elizabeth.
You can't come on, Macho Man andElizabeth.
That's all you need, man.

SPEAKER_00 (57:24):
And snapping into snapping into a slim gym.

SPEAKER_04 (57:28):
Snapping into a slim gym.

SPEAKER_00 (57:30):
But you know, rest in peace, uh, Macho Man and um,
you know, Miss Elizabeth.
They we you know definitely welost them uh too young, too
young for all of us fans.
So um Bono, what about you?
What do you remember from the90s with the wrestling as a
little boy?

SPEAKER_01 (57:44):
I remember the attitude era getting started
with D Generation X, uh, TripleH, the Road Dog, Jesse James,
Shawn Michaels, uh X-Pac, Chinain there, getting the women's
going uh too as well.
Uh The Rock kind of trying tostart to make his his run with
Stone Cold and everything likethat.

(58:07):
Was a big Undertaker fan uh tooas well.
Uh just thought it was cool.
He was creepy, you know, thedead man walking, everything
like that, all that.
But um yeah, the at the attitudeerror is what stands out for me.
You know, you had the the thewar with them with WCW and the

(58:28):
WWF at the time, you know, goingback and forth and them just
just being menaces and justwanting to to cause chaos.
I I I thought it was great.
It was great for the sport.
They were starting to to lose itwith, you know, two different
promotions going on at once,people flip-flopping going back

(58:49):
and forth.
Um really really brought tolight the you know the
entertainment factor of of uhprofessional wrestling to a
point where I would love to seeif they could even do it and
bring the attitude error backand and try to make that in the
WWE, but I I just don't thinkthey they have the the faces to

(59:13):
be able to do it.
It's to the point now that we'relike there's such a pop if you
watch any clips of the WWE now.
If they bring back like a a roaddog, Jesse James, uh Billy
Badass, you know, Billy Gunn,and then having these guys come
back, Shawn Michaels comes back,the Crow Jups pops, the the

(59:34):
Hardy Boys, uh the Dudleybrothers, you know, uh bringing
a Mick Foley with the just theabsolute psycho that that band
was, and just getting beaten allthe time, and then getting the
hardcore matches, bringing thataspect to it.
I mean, it was just it was adifferent era uh of of

(59:54):
wrestling.
And one I loved, I stillremember my uncle who like had
the the satellite dish backthen, and he could get the
pay-per-views and going up tohis house and uh sitting there
and just watching every match onpay-per-view.
He would order for order themfor me all the time, and it it
was just it was just great.
I can't like like Matt, I couldgo on forever about about

(01:00:17):
wrestling here too as well.
So I'll let somebody else talk.

SPEAKER_00 (01:00:21):
Dave, what do you gotta say about the Monday night
wars back in the day?

SPEAKER_02 (01:00:24):
I'm allowed to hijack the screen for just a
second, Fiddy.
Got you.

SPEAKER_00 (01:00:28):
Um yeah, Bonnels controlling.

SPEAKER_02 (01:00:30):
Got you.
Okay.
Uh so in 2025, uh, my buddy isuh uh getting married, and our
shirts that we had for his hisstag and drag party were GWO
shirts in the style of NWObecause in WCW you the NWO was

(01:00:52):
just unbelievable.
Um I I don't know how to sharethis, but just uh um the the the
February of 2020 had anopportunity to meet Scott Hall.
Um he came to Erie, he was uhsigning autographs, and this was
like two weeks before COVIDhappened, and then you know
Scott would end up passing awaya couple of years ago.

(01:01:14):
Um you know, um the the ultimatebad guy, man, hit the hall and
Nash were were unbelievable.
Um and I'm a little offendedthat Matt would think for one
second that we weren't all aboutECW too, whether it was Al Snow,
New Jack going through thetables, the Dudley boys before
they came to WWE, like ECW, youknow, we didn't have any any

(01:01:36):
rich uncle paying for it on asatellite dish.
We had one of those cheaterboxes that you put in there and
you got all the channels andnobody talked about it.
It's kind of like now oh,everybody uses the streams to
steal all the sports channelsthat they don't have.
Yeah, well, we had the cheaterboxes back in the day, and
that's how we got ECW, ECW, ECW.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:56):
Yeah, no, we had the cheater boxes too, man.
Like that don't act like I'm youknow just out here with rich
uncles.
Like it was just we had thecheater boxes for what he wanted
out.

SPEAKER_00 (01:02:08):
A lot of a lot of good times with that.
So, guys, um Bono kind of hit inon this, and I want to I want to
go to it next.
Um, you know, MTV used to be allabout music videos uh and the
real world, where they when theywhen they started with their
shows.
But most people don't knowBeavis and Butthead were really
made to watch music videos andkind of make fun of them during

(01:02:29):
that time.
So guys, just want I just wantto know like were you a Beavis
and Butthead fan as they un uhevolved into their new show or
sorry, into their own show.
Um I was a huge Beavis andButthead fan.
I thought it was hilarious.
Uh, Mr.
How about you?
Were you a fan of the Beavis andButthead show?

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:45):
Oh man, I yeah, I loved it.
I mean, we we watched everyepisode, I don't know how many
times.
I mean, that thing was gonnarepeat, especially when I got
older and will be in the office,you know.
Um, but I love I love it, man.
Beavis and Butthead, I mean thecoach, you know, you know, now I
don't know if any of you guysare still playing game or are a

(01:03:06):
gamer, but I'm still a heavygamer.
Um and in Call of Duty, theyactually have both for their
skins, those characters, beusing a butt head and a coach.
Um, so you can play play as themon Call of Duty, and just in
case, you know, you and you guysyou know think you're good and
want to play me.
You know, we can play all of me.

SPEAKER_00 (01:03:26):
Okay.
Um, and one oh that reminded mewhen you said another great show
from the 90s that's got thrownto us out, Coach with Craig T.
Nelson.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:33):
Yeah, so great show.

SPEAKER_00 (01:03:35):
But uh, but Matt, were you a fan of Beavis and
Butthead?

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:38):
Um a little bit, you know what?
I actually bought some cassettesfrom songs that were on there.
And the one memory I do have wasI think it was a pretty heavy
song uh by Danzig that Beavisand Butthead like made fun of or
liked.
I can't remember, but it made iton our uh weight room playlist.

(01:04:00):
Uh somebody got the cassette andthey were like, oh, where's that
from?
And you know, there's a bunch ofsongs actually from Beavis and
Butthead on our uh you know,weightlifting uh soundtrack
there, but uh never reallywatched it for the cartoon
aspect, but they had some goodmusic on there and didn't see in
the normal rotation.

SPEAKER_00 (01:04:18):
So okay, okay, Dave, how about you?

SPEAKER_02 (01:04:21):
Yeah, yeah.
So uh my cousin and I went asBeavis and Butthead for
Halloween four consecutiveyears.
Um we were pretty big.
Yeah, yeah, we were pretty bigfans.
Uh um and you know, just to addto that, Fitty, you know, a show
that we forgot about that was aspin-off from Beavis and
Butthead, and that of course isKing of the Hill.

(01:04:42):
Um, you know, that that was uhanother piece to add to just the
that puzzle.

SPEAKER_00 (01:04:48):
Yeah, and you know, another one that reminded me off
of that because it wascartoonish and it came out with
football celebrity deat matchwhen it used to come out during
the Super Bowl.
Um, people can find that MillsLane was the referee, but uh not
going back on the TV shows, youknow, and rehash and all that
was just a thought.
But Ubono, you did you likeBeavis and Butthead?

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:07):
Loved Beavis and Butthead, you know, the
everything, you know, everyone Iam Gonorial, you know, every
everybody, you know, the thequotes that come from that.
I'm a I'm a huge Beavis andButthead fan.
When they brought it back, likeI I was I was brought right back
to the 90s when they broughtback Beavis and Butthead.
I was shocked that they wereable to do it, and I'm so happy
that it's back.

SPEAKER_00 (01:05:27):
Absolutely.
Now, guys, it leads me into thenext one.
Let's talk about some music,right?
So the music of the 1990s wassimply amazing.
You had a bunch of differentvarieties.
You had the rap battles of Beakyand Tupac, you had Madonna,
Mariah Carey, Nirvana, The SpiceGirls, Green Day, Hootie and the
Blowfish, you had the Birth ofthe Boy Bands with InSync and

(01:05:48):
Backstreet Boys in the battlesthat they had.
Um, you had GovCourth KeithSweat, you had LSG, you had
Brian McKnight, you had a lot ofdifferent great music artists
out there.
So who are some of just you knowa few of your um favorite
artists, you know, from the 90s?
Um, if you could, you know, justthrow them out there for the
guests, maybe they would like tohear that.

(01:06:09):
But I would say probably some ofmine.
Um, and looking back at it now,especially I really big Hootie
and the Blowfish, love uh DariusRucker.
Yeah.
So definitely Hootie and theBlowfish.
Um, you know, I didn't like himat the time.
Looking back though, backstreetboys did have some good songs.
I will say that.
Um Vertical Horizon was prettycool.

(01:06:29):
Uh, you know, Aslo, EverythingUh You Want as well, you know,
was a great song with them.
Um and then also, of course, Iwas a I was the Tupac and Biggie
guy too.
But uh a lot of good, a lot ofgood stuff back then.
But Bono, what about you?
What were some of his uh, youknow, as a little kid, even
though you were, but what wassome of your you know more go-to
music back then?

SPEAKER_01 (01:06:50):
You know what?
It it depended on the genre.
I mean, I could listen toanybody.
Hootie Nebelovish is a greatone, Darius Rucker now, uh, end
of the country singing everybodyloves Hootie.
Um going into like boy bands,you know.
I mean, it it BSP for life, man.
Backstreet Boys, you know, forsure.
Um, on that one.
One that doesn't get as much.

(01:07:12):
I I get a lot of hate for thisone.
If you're going into like thethe rock and roll genre, you
know, you obviously you had thepunk with Green Day, Simple
Plan, uh, all those in there.
But I get a lot of hate forbeing a Creed fan.
Um, I absolutely loved Creed.
And um I I still listen to toCreed and Nickelback to this

(01:07:33):
day.
Um, I'll I'll fight any I'llfight anybody to the death about
Nickelback.
Anyone that says that they'rethey're garbage, you don't know
anything about music um at all.
And but you know, there'sthere's so many iconic bands um
that it's it's hard to naildown.
But I mean I listened to likealmost anything.
You know, you had I mean a bigMM fan, uh obviously Tupac and

(01:07:58):
and all them and Biggie and justthat that whole rap battle there
was just you know nostalgic, andyou know, it it it brought to
light a lot of things with that.
But yeah, I I was more into theinto the rock and roll that I
mean I s I still listen to it.
I mean, I know it's going backto the 80s, but my my dad was

(01:08:19):
always listening to the 80s hairmetal.
Um, so all those bands that werestill making music in the 90s,
uh, listened to to all them.
But I would have to say my toptwo for me is Creed Nickelback.

SPEAKER_00 (01:08:34):
Okay.
What about you, Dave?

SPEAKER_02 (01:08:35):
What are you saying on this?
Well, you know, the great thingabout the 1990s was it wasn't
like the 70s and 80s where youhad to just associate with
whatever kind of music youlistened to.
Oh, you were a metalhead or youwere, you know, a pop guy or
whatever.
The nineties were cool because II'm gonna speak for everybody
here on the panel.
We liked a variety of music.

(01:08:56):
You know, and and you alwayswere looking for that next great
deep cut for something.
So for me it was uh a band likeThe Offspring, or it was You
know, I kind of got into altrock with Weezer.
Um, you know, I had DaveMatthews first band, and of
course, crack review from Hootiewas kind of just that's
quintessential nine stuff.
Blues Traveler with Hook wasunbelievable.

(01:09:16):
Then you know, you flip it andyou, you know, okay, so Biggie
and Pac in the G-Funk era withDre and Snoop was so important.
But, you know, if you reallystarted listening and you got
into Outcast, and then you you,you know, for for some of us, it
was uh, you know, Wu Tang is forthe people, man.
So it was uh I mean that waswhat the 90s were all about,

(01:09:36):
man.
And and if you weren't listeningto good music, you know, people
judged you by it.
But what people didn't judge youby is what kind of music you
liked.
You can like rap, you can likealternative, you can like
anything, and great music wascoming out all the time.

SPEAKER_00 (01:09:50):
For sure.
Matt, what about you with yoursome of your favorite music from
the 90s?

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:54):
Um, yeah, I kind of stayed the course with the hair
metal 80s bands all the waythrough the 90s, but I I gotta
give a shout out to uh my uhroommates and my college
football players there.
We uh moved in and you had anair hairband guy and myself, you
had uh the world's biggestGeorge Strait fan, the world's
biggest Garth Brooks fan, theworld's biggest Tupac fan, and

(01:10:18):
uh somebody uh I don't know whathe was a fan of, but they really
opened my eyes to some of the,like uh Dave said, some of the
great music coming out.
But uh I always felt at my age Igot it kind of ripped off a
little bit because you know Iwent to school, my freshman year
with my boat shoes and my pegpants, and thought my IOU
sweatshirt was gonna be cool,and then grunge hits, and then

(01:10:39):
everybody's wearing flannelshirts and you can't long hair
and you can't tell guys fromgirls because of the grunge
scene.
I go to college, I come back,and then the Backstreet Boys and
Britney Spears hit, and I'mlike, what what happened?
You know, so it was kind of ahuge shift in culture and music
there when I was uh doing my ownthing in college.
But I don't know, that's mylittle story, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 (01:11:02):
What about you, Mister?

SPEAKER_04 (01:11:04):
You know, I had a uh like you know I listened to a
lot of different type of music.
I mean, all different type ofmusic, but that's but the two
that I used to always listen to,especially during football, it
was always um it was always boneclubs and Tupac.
Uh always bone clubs and Tupac.

(01:11:26):
You can never go around him.
It was just all day long.
Um and you know, and during mytime, and you guys would know
too, the whole East Coast, WestCoast thing.
And so the only East Coast thingthat I would ever, ever play or
ever will put in is uh wasWu-Tang.

(01:11:48):
You can't go wrong, you couldn'tgo wrong Wu Tang no matter what,
man.
That whole East Coast, WestCoast, Midwest type battle that
was going on, and especiallywhen I was at school, that's all
it was.
All they played was East, East,just East Coast, East Coast,
East Coast music.
I don't care what it was.
It was all about East Coast.
So yeah, East Coast, but thenyou had a go-go, the go-go

(01:12:09):
music, the go-go band, uh, whichI which I like and enjoy too,
though.
The go-go is is good.
Check that out.
That's that deep Baltimore,Maryland, whatever they want,
they want to call themselves.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12:21):
Okay.
Next question on the music one,guys.
And this is just really justlike a simple yes or no.
Um, I just want to see what youguys think.
But TRL, otherwise known asTotal Request Life, came out in
1998, 27 years ago with CarsonDaly.
Um, did you watch this when itwhen it was out when it first
started?
Just a simple yes or no.

(01:12:42):
But I would say yes, I was ahuge fan.
Uh Bonnell, what about you?
Absolutely, yes.
Okay, Dave.

SPEAKER_02 (01:12:49):
Yeah, I mean, it it was either that or or sports
center, whatever was just on inthe background.
Okay, Matt?
No.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12:56):
No, Mr.

SPEAKER_04 (01:12:58):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (01:12:59):
No, okay, and that's kind of like I think it just
depended on our ages and andwhere people were kind of at
with that.
So, guys, rounding out the lasttopic of the six here about all
things 90s, and I hope everyoneis loving the flashbacks to the
greatest decade ever.
Let's talk about food.
McDonald's of the 1990s was avibe, and I think anyone can

(01:13:20):
agree with that.
Play areas, great happy meals,uh, you had all those cool toys
that came with them, birthdayparties, the characters like
Ronald McDonald and Hamburglar,collectible cups like with the
Batman series, you know,Garfield and many others, and so
much more.
Um, you know, what are some ofyour greatest memories?
Or, you know, what was yourgo-to meal, whatever you want to

(01:13:42):
talk about with the old schoolMcDonald's?
And I would say because I waslike a little kid, I loved the
Happy Meals.
Man, the Happy Mills, the toysthat came in those Happy Meals
were so awesome.
Like you had like race cars andyou had the action figures.
Granted, they were smaller andcheaper, but it was a lot, a lot

(01:14:03):
of fun always getting a happymeal.
Um, but my go-to meal in the90s, I as a young kid, I loved
me a chicken McNugget HappyMeal.
That was my jam.
So, Mister, what are you sayingabout McDonald's in the 90s with
the vibe?

SPEAKER_04 (01:14:18):
Man, suck, man.
I never I hate McDonald's.
Suck.

SPEAKER_00 (01:14:22):
McDonald's never got down with it in the 90s.

SPEAKER_04 (01:14:24):
Roy Rogers.

SPEAKER_00 (01:14:26):
Roy Rogers of all things.
All right, don't hold thatthought for the next question.
Matt, let's go to you.
McDonald's in the 90s.

SPEAKER_03 (01:14:35):
Well, uh, two things.
I liked and it was short-lived.
I loved the double styrofoamMcDulti.
I don't know if any of you guysremember that.
The hot side was hot and thecool side was hot.
Looks like it was cool.
About that.
Uh, I loved that, but it wasalways, I can't focus on the
dinner because the bigbreakfast, and I think they
still have it, but the bigbreakfast for McDonald's, that

(01:14:55):
was it, man.
And it was the pancakes and thesausage and everything else.
Uh so yeah, that those that wasmy go-to if it was breakfast
time.
Okay, Dave?

SPEAKER_02 (01:15:06):
Yeah, so so one thing that that is still
excellent to agree with Matt isall things McDonald's breakfasts
are still solid.
I hate how much I love it.
Um, the one thing thatMcDonald's did in the 90s that
was great, that isn't greatanymore, is the Big Mac.
Um, they used to do the two fortwo or two for three deal or
whatever, and they were actuallyreally, really good.

(01:15:26):
And um, you know, I got into aburger eating contest in high
school in 1997, and I ate 12 BigMacs in one sitting.
Um I'm not gonna say that I'mproud of it, but I'm not gonna
say I'm not proud of it either.
Uh, the Big Mac R.I.P.
It's nowhere near as good as itused to be.

SPEAKER_00 (01:15:45):
Okay, and you know, shout out to Dave Frank, ate 12
Big Macs in one sitting.
If I ate two, I would be in painfor three days.
So the Big Mac ain't no ain't nojoke.
But Bob 1990s McDonald's.

SPEAKER_01 (01:15:59):
1990s McDonald's slapped.
It was awesome.
I remember having birthdayparties with the ball pits and
stuff like that there.
Like you had yeah, the play areawas was awesome.
That you mentioned it, Freddy,the toys that you got in the
Happy Meals, you you couldn'twait to see what you got.
Um, yeah, chicken McNugget HappyMeal was the go-to uh for me.

(01:16:24):
That I then I got a little bitolder, went to the the double
cheeseburger.
I never in the 90s nevergraduated to the Big Mac.
Um, although I don't think Icould ever eat 12.
I mean, if I ate 12 of anythingin McDonald's, I'd be down for
three to five business days umfor sure.
Um but yeah, shout out to you, DFrank, for that one.

(01:16:47):
That that's that's anaccomplishment in and of itself.
But yeah, I I remember havingbirthday parties at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_00 (01:16:53):
Yeah, McDonald's was a uh a vibe.
And um, I think this was maybethe 90s.
I think I'm gonna throw thisout.
Someone might have to fact-checkme when we move on to the next
question.
But the uh the McRib, loved theMcRib when it came out.
Who can forget the McRib and agreat shamrock shake, which they
still have today?
Even though I swear to god,whenever you go to McDonald's,

(01:17:15):
whether it was in the 90s ornow, somehow the ice cream
machine's always broken.
It's always broken.

SPEAKER_01 (01:17:23):
Somebody said, I saw this off Facebook just to pick
it back up to McDonald's thing.
They're like, they they showedMcDonald's in the 90s to it now,
and it's like, why doesMcDonald's now look like a
50-year-old divorced dad fromthe Midwest versus what it was
just a happy-go-lucky,everything was colorful, and you
had the ball pits and the playarea, Ronald McDonald's, the

(01:17:45):
hamburger.
Now it's just all gray, and youhave the little red and yellow,
and that's it in there.
But yeah, that that's my yeah.
McDonald's now is it's that'sthe perfect analogy.
It's a divorced dad.

SPEAKER_00 (01:17:59):
So, and we're gonna go off this last one.
This time we're gonna end theshow.
Mr.
Kind of talked about this withthe Roy Rogers burger.
Well, the Roy Rogers, I'massuming he's gonna say he loves
the burgers from Roy Rogers.
There was a whole lot of popularfood options back in the 1990s.
Some of the most popular ones,of course, were McDonald's.
That's when Olive Garden and RedLobster were a vibe.
Uh, and you only got to go therelike maybe once a year.

(01:18:21):
Who can forget Shoney's, theoriginal Pizza Hut with the
brick interior and the saladbar?
Um, and pizza was so coolbecause of the Ninja Turtle
movies that also came out in the90s.
Taco Bell, TGI Fridays, LoneStar Steakhouse.
We'll throw in Roy Rogers, hismistress said that, but there is
a ton of different ones.

(01:18:42):
And even the flame uh broiled umhamburger from Burger King as
well.
So, what were some of yourfavorite restaurants, guys, back
from in the 1990s?
And I'll start being a littlekid, you know, I loved
McDonald's, I loved Pizza Hut.
Shoney's was cool.
I liked Shoney's.
And you know, go to like OliveGarden or Red Lobster like once

(01:19:03):
a year because like it was it'smore expensive back then.
Um, and it was like almost likea treat to go to.
Um, but those are probably moremy favorites.
Never really got into Taco Belluntil I got a little bit older.
Um, but those are probably mycouple.
But um, Bono, what were some ofyour favorite, you know,
restaurants as a little kid inthe 90s to go to?

SPEAKER_01 (01:19:21):
Well, obviously, I mean we talked about McDonald's
was there.
Um, you you mentioned it, youknow, we had the Olive Garden in
uh Red Lobster.
That was that was a specialtreat, you know, special event
was going on.
Somebody was graduating,somebody something was
happening, you know.
Um we got to go out, splurge alittle bit because it was more

(01:19:43):
expensive back then than it isnow.
Um I I gotta say, Mr.
I never I've never eaten RoyRogers.
Um, I've heard it's phenomenal.
Uh so uh I'll take your word forit.
Uh you've never steered me wrongyet, Mister.
So I'm I'm uh I'm gonna rollwith you on that one.
Um but um TGI Fridays was wasone that we would we would go to

(01:20:09):
a lot, but yeah, it was it wasmore or less um McDonald's, and
you had your special events withthe Red Lobster and the Olive
Garden.
And uh every now and again wethrow a Burger King in there
just to mix it up.
But yeah, those those were thethe ones that for me Okay, Dave,
what are you saying on this?

SPEAKER_02 (01:20:28):
Uh so uh you know Taco Bell with the Chalupas man
was just unbelievable.
Um you could get a whole sack oftacos for 10 bucks, and you and
all your friends could eat.
It was unbelievable.
If you're talking about a coupleof of more regional places, if
you grew up in and aroundPittsburgh, um treat for us was
going to King's.

(01:20:49):
Um that that was just uh uhKing's and Eaton Park.
Those are some places that werejust uh you know kind of cool.
Um and the the the last one, andthis is a little disappointing
because I just heard they'reclosing 650 stores, but that's
Denny's man.
The Grand Slam breakfast, umDenny's was legit.
If you're talking fast food 90s,uh uh Denny's was all it.

(01:21:11):
Oh, okay.
I I almost forgot.
Um Ponderosa.
Um you know, all you can eatbuffet, Ponderosa.
If you have Ponderosa on there,you don't you're ready to roll.

SPEAKER_00 (01:21:24):
No, Ponder Ponderosa.
I think there's only like Imean, there's literally only a
few ponderosas left in theUnited States.
Um, there's one on Butler.
Yeah, the the that didn't knowdidn't know that one.
But Matt, what do you say aboutyour favorite 90s restaurants?

SPEAKER_03 (01:21:40):
You know, being in rural Columbiana County here, we
didn't have a lot of choices,but uh Dave took my uh medium,
medium kind of choice ofPonderosa.
Used to always go there, couldnever get any entree, but you
know what?
They had the salad bar, that'swhat I was stuck with.
Um, you know, McDonald's.
Uh we had on the way to mygrandparents' house, they had
uh, I don't know if anybody evenremembers this, but it's called

(01:22:03):
Burger Chef.
And uh, I think Hardy's boughtthem out.
That's a lot of the Hardy's foodnow.
Uh, but you know, for a treat,um, you know, like the like uh
Bonna said, TGI Fridays, ourtreat was always Chi Cheese
because you got that was one ofthe few places back then you got
the free chips and salsa.
So, you know, my my brother andI were told, hey, you know, fill

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up on these here and uh you knowwe'll get you a soda.
So that was our treat back then,Chi Cheese.
I think they got a raw deal andkind of missed Chi Chi's, even
though even though I don't Idon't know if I had anything
other than chips and salsa therein my life, but uh miss them.
Yeah, Chi Chi's was a Chi Chi'swas a vibe, Mr.

SPEAKER_00 (01:22:43):
How about you on this?

SPEAKER_04 (01:22:45):
Yeah, man, Chi Chi was Chi Chi was one we used to
go to all time.
I used to go and get that Texasnachos.
It was huge, it wasunbelievable.
Uh but a Chi Chi's, like uhRiley's, uh, you know, uh
Arby's, um, you know, butPonderosa, man, we had one right
down the street from the school,from the high school.
And let me tell you something,we tore that place up, man.

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We we used to just eat, I mean,some some of the meaning guys
from the football team, uh, butwe love that Ponderosa.
Um, it was like you said,there's only a few of them.
I know they had one still in theColumbus.
I don't know if they closed downyet.
But another one, though, um, wewould go to be Long John, Long
John Silver, when it was realgood.

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Long John Silver, baby.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:31):
Yeah.
Now you get the Long Jones andthe AW mixed in one, you know,
whatever.
Like if they're still around,it's Long Jones and AW for sure.
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 (01:23:40):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of good restaurants back then.
Yeah, I think you guys reallyhit uh hit the now on the on the
head there with all thosebecause some of those I
completely forgot about too.
But Bo Jangles was another one,man.

SPEAKER_04 (01:23:53):
We seen it.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:54):
They just opened up a Bojangles in Zanesville, where
I'm where I'm at now.
There's there's a Bojangles deadass.
Like they they just opened itup, and everyone is losing their
minds over.

SPEAKER_04 (01:24:05):
Oh, spicy chicken biscuit, spicy sweet tea.
Unbelievable.
Yes, oh man, yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 (01:24:13):
Mr.
is gonna be there tonight,heading back into the mister.

SPEAKER_04 (01:24:19):
We got a spot for you right here, man.
Oh, yes, sir.
That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_00 (01:24:23):
So, well, guys, thank you so much for coming on
and you know, reminiscing aboutthe 90s.
I hope all the listeners outthere who lived through the 90s,
you know, shared in a lot of thespecial memories we just talked
about.
And there's so many more thatyou can go into.
And I hope you can have your own90s discussion with your
friends.
For the people that didn't growup in the 90s, you know, I hope
this was a little bit ofenlightenment into what the 90s

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was, probably the greatestdecade ever.
I think anybody can agree withwhat all the things we talked
about, not that the otherdecades weren't great, but just
the culture and the food and TVand all the transcending things
that happened in the 90s.
And we all grew up in the 90s,so it was even better for us,
right?
Because, you know, there's fivespecial guys on this podcast.
Shout out to Bono for letting mehost this week's episode of the

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Ride Home Rants podcast aboutthe all things 1990 show.
I'd like to thank Bono, Mr.
Matt, and Dave for coming onwith me and reminiscing for the
past hour and a half or so aboutthis.
So, as always, if you enjoyedthis show, be a friend and tell
a friend.
And if you didn't enjoy it, tellthem anyways.
I bet they like it just becauseyou didn't.
This is Fitty signing off, andwe will see you next week.