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Remember how cartoons shaped your childhood? Bobby Frost and Shake take us on a nostalgic journey through their top five kid shows from the 90s, revealing layers of meaning they never caught as children.

The conversation digs deep into how Batman: The Animated Series taught valuable lessons about preparation and intelligence overcoming raw power. They unpack the surprising realization that many cartoon villains—from Magneto to ecological activists like Poison Ivy—were fighting legitimate battles against systemic problems. As Shake puts it, "Now that I understand, the villain really was the hero."

Their analysis of Power Rangers exposes the not-so-subtle racial coding (the Black Ranger was Black, the Yellow Ranger Asian) while celebrating how these team-oriented shows demonstrated different leadership styles and personality types. Captain Planet gets special recognition for its diverse international cast and environmental messaging—programming that mysteriously disappeared despite its positive influence.

Beyond mere entertainment, these shows served as crucial developmental tools. X-Men's mutant struggles mirrored real-world discrimination. Doug's everyday challenges helped kids navigate insecurities. Thundercats, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Dragon Ball Z taught loyalty, perseverance, and standing up for what's right.

The hosts reflect on how differently today's kids consume content compared to their generation's dedicated viewing habits. "Cartoons helped raise a nigga," Bobby notes, highlighting how these formative experiences shaped their worldviews in ways that today's on-demand viewing might not replicate.

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Bobby Frost (00:00):
yo, yo yo, it's your boy, bobby frost.
And bobby frost media presentstri-parency.
I'm with my dog shake what updog?

Shake (00:06):
what up dog?
What up dog?

Bobby Frost (00:08):
we locking in for another episode, how y'all doing
out there appreciate all thefollows, the likes, the views,
the downloads, everything, allthe support Triparency.
So we did a more serious topiclast time, so this time we want
to get into a more light-hearted, you know, topic, something a
little bit more fun than we didwith the 810 day, though.

(00:31):
So I want to get into and I'mgonna give you a minute, think
about it.
What was your top five kidshows growing up?
Like your top five, you know,because I always say like that's
a very key, vital component tokids, to adults what you grew up

(00:54):
on watching.
What was your favorite shows?
What did you get out them shows?
What character did you like?
Why did you like the character?
Did you like the and we talkinglike power rangers?
Did you like the leader incommand, jason?
Was you more into like somebodylike Billy?
Was you more into like theloner?
And then coming into the foldlike a Tommy, you know, if you

(01:15):
look at the Ninja Turtles, wasyou again like?
Did you like the leader,leonardo?
Did you like the hothead, ralph?
Was you more of the funlaid-back, chill Michelangelo?
Was you more into like the?
More I'm more intellectual,more a thinker.
Donatello, was you intovillains?

(01:37):
Like some kids was intovillains.
I can't tell you where it wasgoing to in life.
Was you into Shredder?
Well, we got gonna get into ityeah, so you know that's what it
is.
So you know, shake, you wannago first with yours.

Shake (01:49):
You wanna go me to go first like um, you can go first,
okay, like one of the things.
Then, when you said about thevillain, you feel me like that
can be.
We now, like now that we older,that's kind of in the air now.

Bobby Frost (02:07):
Yeah, because it's perspective.

Shake (02:09):
Like when you was a kid like you like when you was a kid
.
You know you for good and youknow, and you know the way they
portray things.
You feel me when you get older,if you got a thinking mind, it
really opens all up to you.
You feel me really like thevillain, like now that I
understand.
Now the villain really was thehero man.

Bobby Frost (02:34):
You know what's funny about saying that, bro,
like this is honest truth.
You said that this crazy.
You go look this up, man.
I remember I I seen it on, Iwant to say, instagram about
four years ago.
It's a guy.
He dope as hell.
He on TikTok too that hedissects old cartoons.
But like from a more logicalstandpoint it's funny.
He was saying, like what you gotGI Joe back in the day in the

(02:56):
eighties big time show, like Ididn't like.
When I say I'm an eighties kid,I'm not an eighties baby, I'm a
nins kid because I was born in87 so I didn't get to see a lot
of the 80s.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't recollect anythingreally out the 80s.
All my stuff is nice.
So I said I'm a 90s kid butlike my youngest uncle grew up
in the 80s and they used towatch gi joe.

(03:16):
You feel me?
Voltron, thundercats, all that.
My pops used to watch a littlebit of it.
You know what what I'm saying?
So I remember them just talkingabout that, the Transformers
and I'm saying that because thedude was talking about how the
Cobras commanders they have freehealthcare for their workers.
They had an episode talkingabout that.
Like they have free healthcarefor their workers.
Dog, it's an episode talkingabout that.

(03:36):
So you got to think this backin the eight as, like you know,
the villains, you feel me theterrorists, but they had free
health care for their workers ifyou was part of the camera, uh,
the cobras.
You know I'm saying followingthe cobra commander, you got
free health care, with all thegi joes getting that.

(03:58):
You know I'm saying you feel me, but it was, it was crazy, it
was long contract and the dudebreak that down and the nigga
was so 10.

Shake (04:06):
What is it called?
A 1091?

Bobby Frost (04:07):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying so like you got to
really think about that dog.
Like that's funny as hell, butthe dog was talking about that.
It was funny as shit.
Man, like I'm like damn, heeven talked about.
He was joking on that one.
We was talking about like theuh, ninja turtles, how uh, the
movies, that first movie, if youremember the movie he was

(04:28):
saying how, like in the 80s I'mgonna send you the link too, bro
, I'm gonna have to go find itit's funny as hell, but it's
it's from like a realisticstandpoint.
He was saying how, like the footclan took in a lot of kids on
new york street that was didn'thave nothing to do, that was
getting kicked out, outcasted,so shredder gave him a sense of
unity and brought him into.
You know something, uh wasshowing how, like you know I'm

(04:49):
saying the turtles was reallypicking on them and how was they
supposed to survive in the 80swith the reaganomics and going
through a recession.
And talk about how mastersplintering they feed his kids
nothing but pieces all the time.
Like it's funny, bro, you haveto check it out for that
standpoint.

Shake (05:06):
Think about it, though he's digging some turtles that
live in the sewer.

Bobby Frost (05:10):
You're right.

Shake (05:11):
You feel me?
They eat pizza every day, Brolook.

Bobby Frost (05:17):
Their master is a rat.
You feel me he go into all thattype of stuff bro.

Shake (05:22):
We not even I love the Ninja Turtles still to this day,
like he going to all that typeof stuff, bro, and like we not
even.
Like, look, we write and I lovethe Ninja Turtles still to this
day.
It's my shit, you feel me?
Yeah, but we literally goingfor the Ninja, we going for the
Ninja Turtles, bro.

Bobby Frost (05:33):
Yep, so like.
That's why I got to send you alink.
It's funny, man.
He do a bunch of differentepisodes, bro.
Like he, and that's my top five, one of my top five I'm getting
WB to segue me again to it.
Batman Animated Series that'smy favorite show of all time and
he talk about how Batman-.

Shake (05:49):
That came on WB right.

Bobby Frost (05:52):
It went to WB, where?

Shake (05:53):
it start on.

Bobby Frost (05:54):
The first one started on Fox.
Okay, I want to say that was 91,maybe 92 or 91 it started.
And then the New Adventures.
If you remember, if we go backand think about it, with the old
batman, the anime series, theyhad a certain art style and then
when it went to wb that's whenthey added another robin the art
style changed.
That's when they went to wb.

(06:14):
But it's funny talking aboutthat and he made sense.
He was like you know how brucewayne is one of the richest
people in the world, definitelyone of the richest people in the
world, definitely one of therichest people in Gotham.
But instead of him making youknow what I'm saying using his
money for resources for like tohelp people out psychologically
and give them better housing,which he doing a cartoon I mean
a comic book, but they don'ttalk about that in the cartoon.

(06:35):
So he's just talking about fromthe cartoon and like he'd
rather dress up and let hisfrustration out that his parents
died and beat people almostinto comas.
Now, instead of helping withthe economy and all, I like that
, give them real resources andhelp, cause they mentally got
problems and stuff like that.
He was a cracking joke Like howyou know you're the goons, you
know you're a higher henchmanand you in there trying to make

(06:57):
ends meet because you got threekids and something like that you
unemployed.
Or you got a job, donunemployed, or you got a job,
don't make a lot, so you go dosomething for the penguin or
something trying to make endsmeet.

Shake (07:05):
You ain't getting paid nothing, boom.
Next thing.

Bobby Frost (07:06):
You know, you feel me here, you come busting
through the window, beating theshit out, like this like this,
nigga hate crime yeah, you feelme like, instead of like you say
dude, he, whatever happens tohim, he like you know what?

Shake (07:20):
I'm gonna make sure don't no motherfucker ever get off
ever again, criminally.

Bobby Frost (07:24):
You feel me Beating the shit out of cats man?
And like you got to think theway Batman was beating
motherfuckers man, like he wasbeating motherfuckers.
If you look at the punches andkicks and slams and judo tosses.
He was beating motherfuckers todamn near death.
Like, call me, he wouldn't killyou, but he beats you to the
inch of your life.
Like he was saying, like thathe was showing the clips of the

(07:46):
episode it's going to take youprobably 10 months of recovery
in the hospital to get backright and then you already don't
got a good job.
So who's paying for thesemedical bills?
You're going farther into debt.
That's what he said.
You got to go back to thepeeing window of the joker and
he right back in the circle andnext thing, you know, boom, he
back on your ass.
So it was just funny, youtalking circle and next thing,
you know, boom, he back up yourass.
A whole bunch of broke up.
Yeah, so it was just funny.

(08:08):
You're talking about that, butI'm like that's why I said a
batman like on a real tip.
Batman was my favorite one man.
I remember like growing up withmy grandparents you know I'm
saying y'all was even though Ihad family members outside.
My cousin rodney, y'all for thelongest was the closest.
You know I'm saying family Ihad because I seen y'all every
day, you and Z.

(08:30):
So I remember watching Batmanlike if I wasn't kicking with
y'all, I was in the housewatching Batman and that I
remember putting the littletowels and sheets on, jumping
off the couch and shit like that.
Granted, he already kicked myass and shit like that, but you
know I'm I'm saying I justremember him raising me.
And one thing I always rememberabout Batman and that's why he
my favorite you know fictionalcharacter, dog just used a lot

(08:52):
of his wit, even though he hadmoney and stuff and the gadgets.
A lot of the villains he wentup against.
They had superpowers, some ofthem had superpowers and shit.
You know, like Mr Freeze orPoison Ivy, they had real deal
soup clay face, real dealsuperpower.
So his key thing was always beprepared, like people used to
call him like, especially whenhe got off into another one of

(09:14):
my shows, justice league.
That's down the line when theyintroduced a lot of other dc
characters.
But yeah, dog batman was likebruce wayne was.
One thing was about him he wasalways you got to be prepared
for the worst.
Whatever come in, if youprepare for it, you're good.
You can't come in thatmotherfucker not prepared.
And another thing about him toowas like as I got older they
got a class in college certaincolleges about that breaking

(09:36):
down the psychological you knowwhat I'm saying profile and
mindset of Batman.
Because Batman don't considerhimself Bruce Wayne, he
considers himself Batman.
Bruce Wayne is the disguise, asit was Superman.
Clark Kent is who he reallyfeel like Superman.

Shake (09:55):
Like I got older and I used to just watch Superman,
like so y'all don't know thisnigga.

Bobby Frost (10:02):
No, no, can't tell you Take glasses off and change
his voice.
Glasses.

Shake (10:07):
So his nigga disguise is glasses.

Bobby Frost (10:10):
Yep.
And a change of voice.
Now what they did to make sense, because I felt like that for
the longest time.
What they end up saying was hisglasses got some type of
material in it from Krypton.
That makes you mesmerized intothinking that he looks so much
different than they had to.
Because once you again, onceyou start a lot of cartoons,

(10:31):
it's just movies and shows,period.
Once you start putting logic toit, you like damn, nobody
figured out this dog.
Like they got the same bodyshape, shoulders, chin.

Shake (10:39):
Like only thing different is his glass.
What's her name?
Lois Lane.

Bobby Frost (10:43):
Lois Lane, almost name.

Shake (10:44):
Lois Lane.
Lois Lane Almost called herLois Lane.
You just always, you justalways getting saved.
Bro, you ain't never figured itout yet.

Bobby Frost (10:53):
Bro.
You know what's funny about it,man.
That's why I said, when you goback and read especially them,
the ones it's called the BruceTimm verse, that's where they
all you know, that was the firstcontinuity I seen.
You see, the Bruce Tim verse,that's where they all you know.
That was the first continuity Isaid.
You see it now in a lot ofshows.
You see it with D, with Marvelmovies and DC trying to do it in
a lot of shows.
I got that, but they was thefirst one.
I remember the first two showsI remember that had continuity

(11:16):
with it was, of course, themCause Batman.
Once Superman came out, theyhad the crossover episode with
Batman and Superman.
Then they brought in StaticShock, justice League, unlimited
Justice League, and there's onemore, but they all you know
continuity, you know what I'msaying.

(11:37):
It's an episode, man, where adude takes a hit out on Clark
Kent and knowing you know ClarkKent is who Superman, so Dog,
couldn't believe how he, youknow he ran him off the road, he
went off a cliff.
So when Clark Kent you knowwhat I'm saying popped back up
at the end of the thing, theycaught him.
You know Superman caught himand whatnot.
He on death row.
Like right, you got to watchthe episode, man, yeah, right.
As the episode about to end, doglook up and it clicks Like

(12:00):
there's no way Clark Kent couldhave made it out that crash that
quick.
And where the hell did Supermancome from that quick?
And it clicked right beforethey pulled the chamber to kill
him.
It clicked.
He like Clark Kent is Superman.
And then it you know it goes on, but Dawg put it together.
He was like man, ain't, no wayDawg made it out of there.
This is regular news.
I forgot why they put a hit out.

(12:22):
It was something like a storyhe reported that he shouldn't
have been reporting to the mobor something like that.
And they put a hit out on ClarkKent.
You know he was a dailyreporter and dog at the end
finally clicked like and he ajournalist.
Yeah, he, like this, had to beSuperman, but before he you know
, they hit him, so that was agood one.
Another one man that take meway back in the day dog like way

(12:43):
, way, way back man.
It was a funny one dog, but Iused to like watching that a lot
.
I used to fuck with the Rugratsman.

Shake (12:52):
Yeah, most definitely Damn, I ain't.

Bobby Frost (12:54):
I fuck with the Rugrats man, and the Rugrats is
always funny dog, because youknow, like watching them, how it
go and you can see, like, again, do talk about them to how they
go, where they're going to endup at, and like you can tell you
know what I'm saying when it'sgoing, how they're going to end
up and a lot of stuff.
Even when I go back and watchthe Rugrats, it was stuff I
didn't even pay attentionbecause the cartoons back then,

(13:18):
you know, on it's the FDC.
I want to say, is it FDC?
What's it called?
I can't, I don't know.
I don't know this man, I shouldknow it off the bat, but it's
the guidelines for the broadcast.
You know what?

Shake (13:30):
I'm saying Better broadcasting.

Bobby Frost (13:32):
Yeah, that's what it is.
So long story short.
They got away with more shit inthe early 90s as, as you know,
for people catching on it was somany um, adult jokes and
rugrats, bro, that kids werenever caught.
But if you go back and re-watchthem episodes, you see them
like just all type of stuff,like I don't know if you ever

(13:52):
watched rocco's modern world.
He had a uh, he was a sex.
His job was a sex, uh, whatthey call them motherfuckers man
, the ones that uh, on thehotline.
He was a sex talker Sex.
So you know.
But we didn't know that.
Watching it as I got older,like when I was like 16, 17,
rewatched it.

Shake (14:10):
That's the whole thing, though.
Like, what's the odds that akid gonna honestly like when it
come to even us?
Like, how often is we we goingback and watching old cartoons?
Right, you understand what I'msaying, but when we do like
times, I sit at the crib andwatch old joints.
I'm trying to pick my kids onthem, but they just, I don't

(14:32):
know you know what Colors orwhat you feel me, shit dope to
me.

Bobby Frost (14:38):
Man.
Listen, different generations,bro, because we didn't have all
the technology we have now, sothat's something they like to
watch.
We liked it to watch, theydon't really get into.
My son, rocky, started gettinginto 90s cartoons in 2000 on his
own meaning.
Used to rock with him a littlebit too, madison, to go back and
watch him a little bit.
But rock me and rocker go backand watch shows together, like
we watched static shock when hewent back and watched um the

(15:00):
boondocks, like he go back andwatch shows with me and stuff
like that.
But he like, yeah, man, he saidthat the 90s and early 2000s was
goaded.
I'm like, yeah, it's dope thathe say that.
But yeah, like man, rocco'sModern World, that was funny,
man.
He had a.
It was a joke, but the joke waslike it showed a chicken
getting choked while he wastalking.

(15:22):
You know what I'm saying wascold, but you again, you
wouldn't have knew it if youdidn't pay attention to it.
Another show man that I lovewatching man was for sure the
X-Men, like most of my shows wason.
That I loved the most came on.

Shake (15:46):
The X, bro, and that's what I and that's one of them
shows.
Bro, when we was kids and youget older, you realize, and even
watching the movies, like yougrow, you grew up watching the
cartoons and if you stuck with,got to watch the movies and
stuff, then you finally get tothe end it.
It take 20 years for you tofind out magneto really a good
guy bro yeah you understand whatI'm saying.
And his intentions were pure,pure, yeah, and he knew that, no
matter what, bro, just likeit's, just like today's x-man,

(16:09):
really really let you know aboutsociety, society, yeah,
segregation, they just mean theway people look at you, bro.
Look the mutants wasn't nothingbut niggas, bro.
Yeah that's what that was likeseriously, bro, like, yeah, we
watch our kid disney movies.
Right, it's more racism and alltype of shit in those movies,

(16:32):
bro, than we ever like.
Oh no for sure.
Like it'd be.
Like, bro, we'd be letting ourkids watch these shows, bro, and
you know, and we not evenconscious of like the message
that they're receiving.
You know, and we not evenconscious of like the message
that they're receiving.
You know what I'm saying.
You know what I'm saying.
Like the Lion King.
You know what I'm saying.
Beautiful movie, grew up on it.
You know what I'm saying.
But at the same time, like, ifyou think about it, why would I

(16:54):
want my son or my kid or mydaughter like realizing Simba
lost his dad to a slimeball ass?
Uncle, bro, yeah, that's someshit in the hood, like.
So it's shit in the hood Rightin Disney movies and our kids
see it.
You understand what I'm sayingIf you really think about it,

(17:17):
scar slimeball, because, broKing, whatever, he don't like
his son, because he feel likefuck his son, I should have the
throne.
You understand what I'm saying?
Or to bring some slimeball assniggas along with him.
You feel me To fuck the hood up?

Bobby Frost (17:34):
Yeah, I'm going to tell you another show man.
That was my shit, bro.
I ain't put these in no order,so you know, I got the Rugrats,
I got Batman.
This, this I ain't put these inthe order, so you know I got.
I got the royal rats, I gotbatman, I got x-man doug man
doug was my shit, man bro, dougwas my shit, doug, doug, funny
doug funny dog bb doug funny.

(17:56):
Uh, skeeter patty mayonnaise.
Roger roger was funny as hell.
Dog roger was funny as helllike funny, funny man.
But you know I'm sayingwatching doug doug, like seeing
doug navigate life, and you knowI'm saying that's why I liked
it about doug so much, manwatching it.
You know I got to see real shit.

(18:18):
Because the one thing I didn'tknow for the longest, bro, I
didn't know until I got up inage that skeeter was black
that's what I was gonna say.

Shake (18:24):
Look, check that I did not know that right, I knew
skeeter was black and but then Ididn't realize until I got
older.
I went back.
I'm like, I'm like, damn thesemotherfuckers so cold that they
couldn't even make skeeter blackbro.
They made that nigga green manno like he, like like they
couldn't show you that thatSkitter was a cool ass, nigga

(18:47):
bro.

Bobby Frost (18:48):
Nope, and I didn't cause.
You know a lot the thing.
What they did smooth with thatone.
The only one that looked atwhite.
White was Doug.
If you go back and look at,even Patty Mayonnaise looked
like she kind of 10 or she mightbe from another, another
nationality, but everybody elseand they was smart on their part
Everybody else was a differentcolor.
Like Skeeter was like.
He was like what I want to sayman, he was green.

(19:10):
He was a different type ofgreen, because Roger was like
that olive green, remember, withthe leather jacket.
Bb was like purple.
Like everybody in that jointwas different colors.

Shake (19:21):
I guarantee you, if we go back and do some more research,
those colors.

Bobby Frost (19:26):
I guarantee you, if we go back and do some more
research, those colors match up.
Yeah, for sure.

Shake (19:27):
More likely to match up with whatever nationality that
they come from.
You feel me, I'm almostdefinitely going to have to go
check Doug out.

Bobby Frost (19:42):
No, for sure.

Shake (19:43):
Bro, because it'd be symbolism and colors and all
types of things that we, youknow you a kid?
You don't even really pay noattention.

Bobby Frost (19:49):
You don't even know , you don't pay.
But, like I said, doug was myshit man Because, like I said,
doug, watching Doug be unsure,work navigating through life,
I'm like man.
You know what I'm saying.
I Even as a kid I could relateto some of that shit.
I'm like, damn, sometimes yoube unsure, you want these shoes,
your parents couldn't get theseshoes, but you see the other
kid with the shoes Seeing Douggoing through that type of shit.

(20:09):
Doug was my shit man.
Doug was definitely my shit man.
I fucked with Doug my lastfavorite show.
I was more up in age when thiscame out, man, but it still was
my shit.
I ain't putting none of theToonami joints on there because
when Toonami hit I was more soin my teenage years.
But I fuck with all the Toonamishit from the Big O, dbz,
gundam Wing and New Hotshot, allthat.

(20:32):
I rock with everything on there.

Shake (20:35):
Big O was really my shit that's what I was gonna say, too
Big O.

Bobby Frost (20:38):
Big O was my shit.
But on Cartoon Network I fuckwith all the cartoon cartoons
but my favorite joint, I stillgo back and watch it.
That shit is good as hell, likegolden man.
Go back and watch Courage, theCowardly Dog Brody Brody.
And it's funny because Eustacewas a hoe ass motherfucker man.
Houston was a hoe man.
Houston wasn't shit dog.

(20:59):
Eustace wasn't shit Like, hewas really fucked up dog.
He dissed my nigga courage.
Every chance he got scared thefuck out of courage.
But courage always had love forthe family man, even though
he'll save eustace, you couldtell he's reserved by saving.
But mirror was his dog.
And me, remind me of mygrandmother.
You know what I'm saying.
Good hearted, you know what I'msaying.
And eustace cotter remind me mygranddad, just that old grump

(21:22):
feeling, you know I'm saying.
And man, but curse.
And the one thing about curseman, don't matter what was the
obstacle he was going through,what type of ghost demon,
whatever was going on, alien,curse was coming with his.
You know he'd take that firstscare, take that first whooping.
He'd go back upstairs, go tothat computer, get the uh,
getting uh the computer.
I forgot what's the name of thecomputer, if it even had a name

(21:44):
, but he'd go out there and he'dprint out what he needed to
print out and he'd go off andwhat do you know?
He always stood by his ownloyalty.
So I fuck with courage, man, Istill go back and watch.
That's one of the shows I usedto watch with my son.
Man, funny as hell.

Shake (21:59):
Bro, one of mine is, of course, dragon Ball Z.
You know, yeah, bro, that shit,like we used to run home to
watch the episodes.

Bobby Frost (22:08):
Man, I'm going to skip practice to watch them when
they finally brought theFreezing shit out, you know,
because the shit had been out,but that's when it made
mainstream.

Shake (22:16):
yeah, that's one of the things like when I was younger,
growing up, you know my dad like, oh man, been watching them
cartoons.
Like what do you mean?
It just came out Like boy, wedon't know this stuff, old, you
know what I'm saying.
We don't even know like that,like you said, the FD, icf,
whatever that is.
We don't even know that it's abeef with them in imagery.

(22:39):
Like when it comes to othercountries, like, for example,
right, dragon Ball Z was ananime from Japan.

Bobby Frost (22:47):
What China?

Shake (22:48):
I don't want to chop my head off for saying the wrong
country, but, yeah, you feel me.
So the reason we couldn't getit is because, like they had to,
you feel me had to go throughthe proper channels to see if it
was okay for us to get, like,is this okay for them to watch?

(23:10):
You know what I'm saying, right, and we don't know what they
took out, or you understand whatI'm saying before we got it,
you know so they don't bewanting to.
When it comes to imagery, bro,like it's controlled, like to
the max, bro, like growing up,you know we don't, we didn't
understand it.
But as I got older and I wentback, um and just doing research

(23:32):
on, like, how long certaincartoons have been, out yeah,
you feel me dragon ball came outin the 80s right, you feel me
so.
But then when it got up to themore influential cartoons, bro,
I'm going to say one of mine isCaptain Planet.

Bobby Frost (23:51):
Yo, that's a good one bro.

Shake (23:52):
You know, captain Planet, bro.
Just think about it.
This show only lasted, bro, Ithink, four seasons.
It wasn't that many.
I'll look it up, bro.

Bobby Frost (24:00):
I'll look it up, it wasn't that many.
It wasn't that many.
I'll look it up, bro.
I'll look it up.
It wasn't that many.
Definitely wasn't that many.
It was just funny, man, because, like the characters, bro, six
seasons from 1990 to 96.

Shake (24:17):
So just think about that.
We, in a time where you know wereally do need to be know,
thinking about doing thingsdifferent when it comes to
climate and all this how we useresources, recycling and all
that type of stuff like, whywould you get rid of that?
All right, the reason why?
Because, like for one, we don'twant y'all thinking about the

(24:41):
environment in no clean way.
We grow up up teaching youabout, you know, captain Planet
and the Planeteers, and Greedly,greedly dog, you feel me, man,
they have some crazy names bro.
Like for real, bro, because hewas a greedy motherfucker.
Yeah, they are.
He trying to suck up all theresources.
That's what they was on.

(25:02):
You feel me?
So, just with Captain Planet,bro.
Planet bro was a team of people, bro, you know, a team of
friends fighting against.
Now, that's one that was reallyfighting against evil, you know
, and it wasn't really no wayyou could flip that.
You understand what I'm saying.
But, bro, like that showteaching you about um,
pollutants and all that, andonce again, ethnicities right,

(25:24):
it was ethnicities, right, itwas all ethnicities from all
around the world, bro.

Bobby Frost (25:28):
That's one of the first shows, bro.
You said that man, not to cutyou off.
That's one of the first shows,bro, that made me want to learn
more about the world, because Iseen the characters.
They from here, she's fromAustralia, he's from Africa,
she's from Asia, from Asia.

Shake (25:41):
I want to check this out, that type of stuff.
So we like, damn, you know itbe certain things like they'll
put it out there and let youwatch it.
And then, as they watching it,they like, oh shit, we got to
get rid of this.
Like for what?
Look, man, it's teaching themto want to learn about other
places.
Bro, we can't have them curiousabout other places.
We already tell them Africa isa piece of shit.

(26:06):
You understand what I'm saying.
But now we showing them acartoon with five friends, one
from America, one from SouthAmerica, one from Africa, one
from Asia, one from this place.
Like, bro, what the fuck do youmean?
Like where they do that at?
Yeah, that's a good show, man,we can't be having that.

Bobby Frost (26:21):
That's a good show, man.
I remember the one show Iremember the most out of one
when they got captain pollutant,when they got they got their
rings and the dude's name wasfunny.
like you had hoggis greedilythis month, you had looting
plunder duke nukem um vernon,miss scum, I don't know, it's
bro.
I I think I sent you thatbefore.

(26:41):
I know I sent that to everybodymissed the one episode.
That's the episode that made meremember that one, the big one
stick out, when Dog had HIV buthe was a hooper and Vernon
Miscone was in a crowd with hishomeboy.
He had the little suit ontrying to blend in.
I don't know how he blendedbecause he still looked like a
rat, but he was blending in.
That motherfucker said what didhe say?

Shake (27:09):
uh, get him up out of here, he got AIDS and it was
funny.
But back then you gotta thinkjust the early 90s magic just
had.
Just they were sending shots at.

Bobby Frost (27:12):
Brody, yeah, magic you, because magic had just came
out with that shit.
But people really did feel likethat, like nah, it ain't like
that.
A motherfucker, hiv and AIDSnow, yeah, you might not sleep
with them for sure, but it ain'tlike it back then when that
shit popped out in late, late80s, early 90s, motherfucker had
HIV or AIDS.
Motherfucker wouldn't want tobe around you like breathe the
same air as you.
That shit was tough.
Back then Motherfuckers wouldcommit suicide because they
didn't have enough informationabout the shit.

(27:33):
But the shit that always stuckout with me with that shit when
they said man, get him up out ofhere, he got AIDS.
And Daw dog was like, yeah, Idon't want to play, he like man,
you know, they kept real.
Like no, they they ununiformabout the situation.
We gonna spread awareness likeno, you can't hoop, you can't

(27:54):
get a some sweat and shit likethat.
But then nobody know.
But that was dope, that captainplanet was bringing awareness
to motherfuckers like that.
So you wouldn't be, you know,judging and being slimy and
nasty a motherfucker man becauseof you, uninform.

Shake (28:05):
Exactly.

Bobby Frost (28:05):
You feel me, give me another one.
Brody, that's three.
What was my other one?

Shake (28:14):
Power Rangers.

Bobby Frost (28:15):
Yeah, bro, before you get into that one man, the
funniest shit, because that'show we met Power Rangers.
I always tell people they askme, I say that's my sandbox home
, but we go back to PowerRangers.

Shake (28:23):
That's how long we been rocking.
I can honestly say that thisman here really came out with
Power Rangers before they cameout with Power Rangers man,
cause I used to just think aboutthe colors.

Bobby Frost (28:32):
Bro, like they gotta go somewhere else before
the White Ranger cause I'm likethey gotta go somewhere else
with it, bro.
For real, I'm like I know y'allgoing to use more colors out
the Crayola box than just thesemotherfuckers.
Y'all got right here and I usedto feel like we was bugged.
We come up with a color.
You look up a couple seasonslater they got that bitch out
there.
I said these motherfuckers hadit.

Shake (28:52):
The green, the gold and the white.

Bobby Frost (28:55):
Yeah, they was some nasty motherfuckers.
Man, still in colors.
I said man.
But the one thing I found thatout early too.
I'm like damn the Black Ranger,why is he black Like this?
Couldn't have been a mistake.

Shake (29:12):
The Black Ranger is black and this nigga do hip-hop kung
fu, you feel me?

Bobby Frost (29:14):
The Yellow Ranger happen to be Asian, like, come
on man.

Shake (29:19):
You hear me once again.

Bobby Frost (29:21):
Them colors.
Yeah, and there is the way youmade a mistake with that one,
the blue ranger.
What is he white white, nerdylittle motherfucker it's no way,
y'all just happened to stumbleup on that like that.

Shake (29:31):
The red ranger.
You feel me he a lit hot headfire type cat it wasn't no way.

Bobby Frost (29:38):
You just happened to slam up on that.
I I'm going to tell you.
You, tell me your biggestepisode.
I'm going to tell you yourbiggest episode because Power
Rangers I was going to take itbut I kind of figured you was
going to roll with Power Rangers.
Yeah, that's definitely inthere.
Give me your favorite episodeout of that joint or moment out
of episode it ain't got to beepisodes your favorite moment.

Shake (29:55):
Damn, I would say one of my favorites man, the putties,
bro the putty.
Like when I say bro them niggasyou should just come out of,
they always came out of nowhere.
Like, like, like some hatingass niggas like that's what

(30:16):
putties is bro that's whatputties is some hating ass
niggas, but um, one of myfavorite ones, bro, was when
when they fought what's his name.
What he look like.

Bobby Frost (30:28):
Laura Zedd.
Laura Zedd.

Shake (30:29):
Man, he was scary looking , though Motherfucker has a kid,
because they always you knowhe's so-called the man, he
always sending henchmen and shit, like nigga, what you want, you
know what I'm saying.
Like finally, finally, they gotto him.

Bobby Frost (30:42):
You feel?

Shake (30:43):
me Goldar.
Like bro, this nigga madeUltimate flunky.
Definitely was Like bro, andthis is one of the reasons right
Growing up watching these typeof shows, bro, it was no way
possible that we were going tobe flunky.

Bobby Frost (31:00):
Flunky Because you seen who the flunkies were Like.
I'm not getting treated likeGoldar.

Shake (31:03):
No, bro, ain't no nigga finna tell me.

Bobby Frost (31:06):
Fester was the nigga that made the clay that
made it.
He getting it Monster don'twork.
Not because he didn't make itgood, it's just you didn't have
a good plan for the monster.
You wait Instead of bringing amonster.
That's one thing I didn't getabout Power Rangers.
Instead of bringing a monsteralready big, y'all wait till he
done, got his ass or jump byfive or six teenage attitudes

(31:30):
and then you want to throw yourscepter down there and make him
big.
You should have caned stuff,the dribble with that shit.
Then you want to whip, fencetheir ass because you're talking
about his monster didn't work.
No, your strategies didn't work.
He gave you the tools, you justdidn't work.

Shake (31:40):
He gave you the tools, you just didn't do right with
the strategy and that's justlike niggas in the hood, bro.
Like these, bro, look.
I really believe that whoevercreated these cartoons, bro, was
always looking in the hood.
But they like you know what?
Hey man, what type of twist canwe put on them?
We got to put a twist on them.
We just can't.
You understand what I'm saying.
Like, like, let's go in theblack community and look at all

(32:03):
the character traits in Pittmancartoons.
Yeah, I could definitely seethat, bro, for sure, because,
like just with Power Rangers,you got the putties, you feel me
, them, the lib workers, theyjust go, do you feel me?
Then you got the henchmen, thecaptains you know what I'm

(32:24):
saying that run around with theputties, that so-called somebody
, you understand I'm saying.
Then you got big dog, you feelme, yeah, chain of command
exactly chain of command.

Bobby Frost (32:34):
My favorite, my favorite pioneer, I would say,
was the green rangers when hepopped out there because he
whooped their ass for like agood week straight and he really
had me thinking like man, powerRangers might not be able to
win this because he was on theirass.
But it wasn't that Mine was.
As the season went on, you know, he started losing his power
and he had the little fightwhere he had to fight Goldar and

(32:54):
that bitch and Jason came inand helped him out and he was in
his human form and Jason cameout.
They got over Goldar.
But I'm like damn, he lost hispower.
So I'm like damn, time he gone.
You feel me.
And then he finally came backas the White Ranger.
That was the part for me I'mlike.
Then he came back.
Then he had to.
What was the name of the fuckingsaber, saba?
They only used me for like acouple episodes, like a season,

(33:16):
because I'm like whateverhappened to Saba?
I know they, you know theychanged from the Megazords they
had.
Like every season they went toa different version.
But I'm like what happened toSaba?
Because Saba used to talk andcan move, shoot lights out,
lasers out his eyes and shit.
And then they just let Saba goand shit.
I'm like, damn, what happenedwith Saba?
Man, that was my shit man.
Yeah, man, like I said, I usedto love watching cartoons.
Like I said, cartoons helpedraise a nigga.

(33:39):
Like I don't think kids got thesame intensity span we have
because I could go back andwatch cartoons when we was
younger.
You get that we'll stop playingto come in to go watch cartoons
when the new episodes,especially episodes coming in,
we everybody just come on thatphone, just come on at 3, 30,
just come on at five.

Shake (33:56):
We gotta get new age time we went in the house for a
minute.

Bobby Frost (33:59):
Yeah, like to watch cartoons and one, one live, one
jumping around and that reallywas locked.
Shit, motherfucker, really waslocked in.
That's the real Motherfuckersreally was locked in bro.
Like yeah, man, so you know,that's ours, that we got for
y'all man, our top ones man.

Shake (34:16):
I got one more Okay.

Bobby Frost (34:17):
I actually got.

Shake (34:25):
I got two more Gundam Wing.
That was a shit, bro.
You feel me Gundam Wing was ashit, bro, like I liked it.
That like bro.
Now, once again, a lot of theseshows, bro, we not
understanding the politicalaspect behind them.

Bobby Frost (34:35):
We was too young to understand it.
When you go back and re-watchthem, you see it, you understand
what I'm saying, that's whatmake the show so good Stand the
test of time.

Shake (34:46):
You go back and watch that with the gunner for sure.
So even like um the other onesyou feel me all the cartoons,
bro, especially like um, firstof all x-man.
You feel me the justice league,all that type, but any type of
team oriented cartoon is goingto have that aspect to it.
You feel me Even like the show.
Damn what it was called.

(35:06):
What's it?
Yeah, it was Justice League.
Justice League, the dude usedto come out the swamp the
cartoon, right yeah.

Bobby Frost (35:17):
Yeah, you're talking about the Legion of Doom
.

Shake (35:19):
Yeah, no, the Legion of Doom, yeah, like that show you
feel me Like, bro, as you grow,you know you don't be when you a
kid, you know it is what it is.
You know you see what you see.
But as you get older you like,damn you going to death.
Them dudes really was fightingthe good fight, but we didn't
understand it.

Bobby Frost (35:37):
Some of them villains for sure, like you have
motherfuckers like Joker, thatwas just an asshole, he was a
fucked up individual.
But you had other motherfuckerslike I could use, for instance,
like Chitara, the motherfuckerthat fought with Wonder Woman
all the time, or like Poison Ivy.
They wanted to help out withthe ecosystem.

(35:57):
You know what I'm saying Stopdeforestation.
You know what I'm saying Keepthe foresters alive, keep the
jungles alive.
Yeah, they might have went atit the wrong way, but they did
went at it the good way.
I'm going to say one more man.
Say the other one you got,because I got one more.

Shake (36:11):
before we get up out here that I didn't think of it, just
hit me now the other one.

Bobby Frost (36:13):
Beetleborg, beetleborg.
That's the continuity.
Beetleborgs and Power Rangerswas in the same continuity, like
that, because dog, I can'tthink his name, but he popped up
and he showed.
He showed up in both uh, uh,both series.
I can't think of dog.
Now I'm gonna research, I'mgonna get back to you, but he
was in both series.
I can't think of dog name.
He uh some rider, but he was inboth.
It was something a black.

(36:35):
He was his, his, his colors wasblack, and it was like some
rider.
I'm gonna get back to you andlet you know who it is, though,
but yeah, man flab, manFlabbergaster, man Flabber.

Shake (36:45):
I don't think I remember that you don't remember.

Bobby Frost (36:46):
No, the dude Flabber, that was the
ghost-looking dude with the blue, with the big-ass chin.
He was their homeboy in thelittle mansion, and shit,
flabber, yep.
Now I'm going to tell youanother one man I watched,
because it came on, or Japaneseshows from 290.
Thundercats was my shit, bro,exactly.

Shake (37:03):
I was going to say that too.

Bobby Frost (37:04):
Thundercats was my shit man, lionel Panthro,
chitaur and bro.
Like again, I just always goback and look at them shows
because man some of themvillains was just like slimeball
hating ass niggas Like Mom Rawas really a hating ass

(37:25):
motherfucker.

Shake (37:26):
Mom mutt like to serve the yeah, that's how niggas was
like.

Bobby Frost (37:29):
Certain niggas was like that mom ride was a slimy
nigga bro.
His whole mo was aboutmanipulating motherfuckers and
you feel me?
That was his whole mo man.
He was a nasty nigga dog, momride like.
If I had to look at a villainslike top villains we might do
that later and I'm like what topfive villains you know?
I'm saying you grew up on MomRa right up there.
He was a slimy nigga dog likeand it was crazy because the

(37:52):
nigga power only lasted like anhour.
But an hour he calls before heeven go into Mom Ra to ever
living ancient spirits of evil.
Grant me your power to transforminto Mom Ra to ever living
before he even get there.
When he just an old, decrepitass nigga.
He still working game Slimy.
He got baboon the lizard man,all these niggas in that bitch
ape man.

(38:12):
He like he got these the jackal.
He got these niggas on straightbullshit mission.
Then when he catch thethundercats like roaring out.
Now I'm about to turn to momride and work out on your ass.
But that'd probably be myfavorite.
Uh, yeah, that'd probably be myfavorite weapon.
Sword of Omens.
That bitch was cold man.
Yeah, give me Sight BeyondSight.

(38:33):
Nigga, that bitch was cold.
Nigga, I don't think it's aweapon out there.
I can think of just off GP.
Nigga, it was better than theSword of Omens.
That bitch was cold.
Nigga, that bitch had all typeof moves.
Nigga, what's dog name Jogger?
Come in that bitch and get totalking in line, knowing shit,
giving the wisdom, showing youthat you need a mentor, an elder
, getting you together.
Yeah, that was the shit, bro.
That was the shit for sure, forsure, man.

(38:54):
But yeah, y'all hit us up, man,and tune in with the comments,
man.
Let us know, or DM us whateverman in that lead comments.
Let us know what was some ofy'all top five shows or if y'all
, like the ones we have, give ussome that we might have, should
have had in our top five.
Let us know, brody, what youyou been in and bumping into
music or late.

Shake (39:13):
Man, I've been.
I've been listening to this,I've been listening to LA.
I don't know people, you knowpeople.
You know Liv Russell, that'swho I've been bumping this week.
You feel me.
You know, I really like adifferent like.

(39:34):
For example, I was listening toBrody 2 yesterday but talking
about Jig.
You feel me, but at the sametime, like bro, I be liking like
a different type of vibe.
Right right right, it ain'tnothing against um our music in
michigan or anything like that.
You feel me like we can, wemake good music, we got good
music, but I just like differentmusic no, there ain't nothing

(39:57):
wrong with that.

Bobby Frost (39:58):
I'm the same way I listen to different shit, bro.

Shake (40:00):
Like one of the reasons I why I listen to currency is
because I'm like damn like thisa guy who was, you know, fully
entrenched in labels and allthat type of stuff.

Bobby Frost (40:10):
I had to get out that shit, but he stayed the
course.

Shake (40:12):
And said you know what man I'm not like?
That's the type of people Iwant to listen to, bro.
I want to listen to people thatgot backbones, bro, right, that
, okay.
Look, I can make millions ofdollars doing this, but this
ain't me what I look likerunning around talking about
shooting and killing that ain'twhat I'm on I like to chill and

(40:33):
smoke mentioning that that'swhat I was getting to his new
project I fuck with his newproject 830.

Bobby Frost (40:40):
That bitch cold.
I'm mad at him and Giz.
But that first couple bars hesaid that they sent it like
currency.
Nigga how he sent them.
Bitches out, he's smooth, nigga.

Shake (40:49):
So you look, I hear him talking about better.
What's something about a chevy?
Yeah, he told me he started mysavvy about when it brought out
the rose right, so I'm listeninga song come through because I
just let my spotify just random,you understand what I'm saying.

Bobby Frost (41:05):
So a song from through, because I just let my
Spotify just play random.

Shake (41:06):
You know what I'm saying.
So a song from they album thathe did came on and I hear this
nigga talking about him himselfriding in a Chevy.
So I'm like, oh, this niggatook his own verse and flipped
it.

Bobby Frost (41:20):
Yeah, you have to pay attention to it, man, that
shit be deep.

Shake (41:23):
That, yeah, you have to pay attention to it man, that
shit be deep.
Say it to the sky, man, thatshit be deep man, but yes, man.

Bobby Frost (41:28):
He out, man them my two, man them be my two.
I'm going to say this and wrapit up bro them be my two
favorite artists for like thelast 10 years.
No bullshit, back to back themtwo.
And when they did Fettytogether, I'm like hell yeah.
And then that shit came out.
So I was like I'm like damn asa fan, like man, damn, bro.
Y'all niggas made good Anytime.
I heard y'all niggas on trackfrom the first one.
I heard y'all on Scottie Pippento the Fetty song, and then

(41:50):
y'all did Fetty the album shitwas always amazing.

Shake (42:00):
Y not doing no videos and I get both sides.
I'm like bro, I be mad at thenigga myself, yeah.
So if you mad at him for it, Iknow fans mad at him too,
because we like nigga, butthat's currency that's the only
you know what I'm saying.

Bobby Frost (42:14):
I ain't gonna pick, no side cause I fuck with both
of them.
But that's the only real issueI have with Gibbs.
Like you know, currency don'tdo that shit.
That nigga might drop six,seven projects in a year.
He don't do videos androll-offs with them.
Motherfuckers like that.
That's currency.
But I also got where Gibbs wascoming from, because Gibbs was
hollering at him to do it.
Like nigga we just did thisAlchemist, Nigga we done.
Got mad props for this bitch.
Womp, womp, womp.

Shake (42:45):
But that's not currency, so you't do it for his own shit.
So I got both sides, but I hopeno.
But it's simple.
Like look bro, one of thethings I heard he said they
asked him and he said the keywas to make less money.
And I'm like what?
And then it made sense, madesense like damn, like bro, when

(43:18):
your bank account get to acertain amount and they know it,
they come on.
I like, I'm gonna highlight you, that's just what it is.
When he said that, like, justthink about it.
So if you dope right, like youis, but you make music and you
know that shit dope as hell, butyou're like damn, I can't push
it to the max, because then it'sgoing to bring attention.
You understand what I'm saying?

(43:40):
Because it's going to bringattention, bro.
And that attention you ain'tgoing to want that attention bro
, because if this song get tohitting the airways, bro, and
guess what, and this songsomehow hitting the airways,
doing numbers and numbers andnumbers and numbers, and you
independent, oh, that's aproblem, buddy.

(44:02):
Yeah, that's real.
You feel me.
That's why niggas don't push.
They make the money that theyneed to make and get up out of
there.
And get up out of there, broain't shit wrong with that.

Bobby Frost (44:11):
That's the real.
So, yeah, man, hey, weappreciate it again.
Man, y'all tap in, run themnumbers up, man, and anybody
that's.
We looking for a third femaleco-hosts that's really ready to
lock in, like we need one,because I want to give a woman
the respect Like on this topicright here I would love to hear
a woman top five cartoon shows.
So we're looking for one,somebody that's going to really

(44:32):
be locked in with the team.
Man, we appreciate all thesupport and we're going to be
back out to y'all we out.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

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