May 20, 2025 • 52 mins
Which Disney characters did you like the most in the 70s? Here's our rundown on the most iconic in the 70s. Some were from the seventies but others we just enjoyed in the 70s. Anyone like Mickey Mouse? Donald Duck? Herbie the Love Bug?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, bussheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.
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And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
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Do you understand what they're saying?
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I don't know what somebody has on the phone? What
what did Casey in the Sunshine band? What do you say?
Who is who is the guy? Okay that it was
in the background that he told to do whatever?
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Oh Bill, push up the volume.
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Push up the was it Bill Bill Okay, anyway, hey everybody,
welcome to another exciting of the seventies buzz pod Gust. Okay,
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Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, I'm not in Disney now, but I am in
Disney now if you're listening to this. I'm not in
Disney now that I'm recording it, but I'm in Disney
now that you're listening to it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So when you're hearing it, he's in Disney somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So it is going to be is any themed as
you guys can tell. But anyway, hit us up at
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Speaker 2 (02:07):
Next week's episode.
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If you called for this week's episode, we recorded this
a week ago, so we didn't get your phone calls,
so we apologize, but we will mention emails and phone
calls next week.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No we won't.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well yeah, because they're listening to this next week, so
we'll I'm suck. We'll answer them the next two weeks
from tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Okay, so right now, it's May twentieth, but it's truly
my third.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's oh all ye hey kid touch yeah, yeah, how
do you spell that, Uh keep talk, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Nothing? So uh, I'm trying to So we're confused because
we just recorded that. We just had seepus Lives, so
we answered Dave's questions. So we we already answered all
the questions from if you're listening to this two weeks ago,
the comic strip stuff. Yeah, okay, so we so we
(03:17):
really don't have any No, we don't have We don't
have any comments or unless Gretchen calls real quick, which
he's not.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Going on too because we just had a live.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, so okay, Uh hang on, I am searching for something.
So uh got any any new scoop or anything like that?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Any new scoop from an hour ago? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, that we did talk about already on our this
We're on our third podcast for.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The evening, so we're doing Yeah. So like you said,
we're doing seventies bus it's pre recorded. Well, they're all
pre recorded. Can you really pre record something? You either
record it or you don't record it, so it can't
be pre recorded.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, like if we were recording this podcast, but we
wanted to add something that was already recorded to add
to this recording, wouldn't that be pre recorded.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh yeah, that would be I guess your bugs. I
saw that.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Why are you down here? What do they call those cooties?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Cooties?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
My cootie? Is uh your cootie?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Something wrong with your cooties?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Cooties getting close to me?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Don't let him get close to your uh a book?
What are these called?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Uh Google Google cluster? Yeah, so another shout out to
mister Jason Scott on all the goodies we got last
week the TV guides and now we have done a
TV Guide episode. But now that we've got so many
Fall issue TV guides, we may have to do like
a fall TV Guide episode.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, because those are big deals. You know, you always
look forward to that one because that's when all the
new shows came out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Uh gosh, what am I looking for? I'm trying to
find mind? Why can't I find? You?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Know? So the fall episode TV Guide is when the
new season came up. But now that's back when they
did like twenty or they would do twenty six episodes
on a show. Nowadays they do like five, six, seven,
eight on a season. They call a season eight episodes now,
so there's no more fall you know, fall preview TV guys,
(05:28):
they even do TV guides anymore? Uh, that's a good question.
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
If they do, they're in a different shape and size.
I think. I know they changed to like a bigger
size and then, but I don't know if they still.
I doubt it because there's like not really regular TV anymore.
There's streaming services and dish and it's all online and yeah,
(05:58):
but they don't. My guess is they're not.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Maybe it's just maybe it's not a guide. Who knows?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Uh? As in Jiffy Trip they sell the Eno News
and giggle there, Jimmy trip.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh they do.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah. I went to ihop the other day, U and
you know how they have the stand outside moused in
and they got it. What do they call it? The weekend?
What the heck is that going all over there? Sorry? Uh? Uh?
They call it the I think they call it the
Saturday or the weekend paper or anyway, three dollars for
(06:33):
a weekend paper for the Eno News on the weekend
that's a Saturday, because they don't print Sunday anymore. What
do they call it? They call it the Saturdays or Saturdays?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I guess. I guess they're supposed to like stick a
whole bunch of stuff in there. Yeah, it's uh, anyway,
things have changed.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Why. I like the good old days we had back
in the seventies when we had two newspapers, the ened
Morning was it the Morning Eagle, the Enid Morning News
and then the Daily Eagle Daily.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. Yeah, that is kind of crazy thinking that a
town our size.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Put out two papers. Yeah, during the weekday and then.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And those are just our newspapers. Then we were also
getting the Daily Oklahoma and outside newspapers.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So was there there's not that much stuff going on anymore?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, I guess because everything that went on in the
seventies went into print. There was no local news on TV.
There was no I mean, you know, Oklahoma City had
Oklahoma City News, but they didn't really cover Enid. And
then there was no social media. I don't know that
radio really covered any that much local. But you know,
(07:53):
they remember, you know, they used to put wedding announcements,
engagement announcements, when people played cards, had bridge games, but
that was a little further back. But yeah, So so
the newspapers in the sixties I think they filled with
more of that really local bridge club stuff. And then
(08:16):
the newspapers in the eighties, I think started going more
ap and national big stories. But the newspapers in the
seventies was all local and really cool and neat. And
why is that, mister Wheeler, because that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Was the greatest they didn't known to man, Yes it was.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I mean, am just not finding what I'm looking at?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm looking for my all my songs on my maybe
they're not on my phone anymore, songs like all my
Apple songs. Oh oh, here we go, there we go.
You're looking for your Apple songs because I like to
listen to my Apple songs while we're podcasting.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, yeah, let me guess you got a whole genre
of Disney stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well we're doing oh yeah, So if you guys didn't know,
we're doing Disney multitasking. Okay, so let me find my
Let me find my song here and then we'll get
the show going. So tonight we are. Because I am
in Disneyland right now, I may not be able to
find this. We decided, I thought it might be kind
(09:22):
of fun to do iconic and popular Disney characters throughout
the seventies. Now, they could either be characters that became
big and famous in the seventies or you know, like
Mickey Mouse was from way back, but of course he
was super famous in the seventies because he was so
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super famous. So it does include characters that were invented
before the seventies, but we enjoyed them in the seventies.
You know what I'm gonna do. I wonder if I
to do a pause so I can get this show.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Going here in a sec hit the pause button.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh you know, I do have a pause button? Ready,
sat pause?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I thought you said you were gonna pause that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
No, I decided not to. I think I think I
found what I'm looking for. Okay, So tonight it is
a Disney night. But I needed to play a song
before we get Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Somebody's birthday is today.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's your Birthday by Monker and Fasts, and I guess
sm you and the Free Music Archive have their way. Well,
my song in the English language, Happy Birthday to you,
and it's all because.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Of copyright law. Okay, Happy Birthday, Gretchen.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hang on, we can.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I thought you said you were gonna pause.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, I decided not to because I think I've got
everything here, sojav So tonight is iconic Disney characters from
the seventies. So here is a song to get us started.
Are you guys ready?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I thought you said this was a disney.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's somebody's birthday today, whose birthday could have been James
James Taylor.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's scary, curs.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Gay day, blockhead, same, happy birthday?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Do you blockhed? Boom boom? Okay, everybody Gretchen's birthday today.
Happy birthday, Gretchen. I don't know if you're listening. You're
probably listening to this on Wednesday. But we did record,
kind we did kind of record this on your birthday, kindest.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But it's on that episode. It's on this episode for
May the twentieth, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I didn't realize that, you know, I'm a twentieth birthday guy.
December twentieth. Oh yeah, it's always good to have a
birthday on the twentieth, especially when the twentieth lands on
a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, that's that's a good day, like it did today exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So anyway, happy birthday, Blockhead. We would get you James
Taylor tickets, but since you don't like him, there's no
sense in buying your tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. No, so okay, because he's going
to be here in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, we'll go and we'll tell you how bad it was. Whatever. Okay. So,
like we said, Disney characters that we we watch saw
liked in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah. So I was trying to decide who was my
favorite Disney character, and I kept thinking about, like the cartoons,
you know, Mickey Mouse, He's I was never a big
Mickey Mouse fan, Mickey Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck. Hey, I
kind of like Donald Duck.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Then I realized I like the human characters. I was
gonna say, yeah, this includes any any Disney characters. So
there are human characters.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, I think, and I think. I decided my favorite
one was Dexter Riley.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Dexter Riley. Trying to think of which show, which movie
Dexter was on.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, Dexter Riley was in three Disney movies, The Computer
Who Wore Ten?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And There you go. I it was a Russ Russell,
Russell Russell Russell, Russ Russell, Russell, rus Russell, dude, the
Goldie Hawn Husband Dude.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell. Yeah, he was also in
Now You See Him, Now you Don't, and The Strange
Strongest Man in the World.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I love those movies. Oh yeah, he was a good
It was a good he was. He was Disney. I
mean for us growing up, he was like the Disney kid,
Yeah he was.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
He was. Then he was in The Barefoot Executive, which
was in the middle of all those, but he was
a different character. He played Stephen Post in that one.
But that's the one with a monkey.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I bet a lot of younger people that even know
who Kurt Russell is, like have seen Tombstone or something.
I bet they don't even realize how many Disney movies
he was in as a kid. You guys need to
go check out the Kurt Russell Disney movies from me
back in the day. And these were those were like sixties,
weren't they.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No, they were in seventies. Well, The Computer or Tennis
she Was came out in sixty nine, but you know,
we watched it in the seventies. But now you seem
now you don't came out sony two, and The Strongest
Man in the World came out in sony five.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
They were fun.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And what was cool about Enid is our downtown theater.
The Esquire showed all that Disney movies and it was
like easy to get to so you could, like we
could hop on our bikes and it was twenty I
think it was twenty five cents to get in and
not even tell our parents. I mean, I remember going
to some Disney movies, like in the summer, and we
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would just like my mom would be at work and
we would just hop on our bikes and go downtown
and watch a Disney movie in the afternoon. Yeah, and
you leave your bike on the side, You'll leave your
bike on the sidewalk, go in and watch the movie
and then ride your bike back home.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, it just wasn't that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah. Yeah. And they had those always love the taffy
in the thin wide taffy in the strips. Yeah, they
were like pink and like a strawberry.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And it didn't cost like a million dollars to get
popcorn and candy back then. And I know that's where
they make all their profit. Now they don't make money
on movies anymore. It's all concession.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But yeah, as a kid, you could get quite a
bit of.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh, if you had a buck, you were you were
rolling in it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You were gold.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well I'm going to go the opposite direction. I knew
you it with Mickey Mouse, so I was a big
Mickey Mouse fan. He started it all. Of course, he's
the most iconic, well known character from Disney. And you know,
he started out as Steamboat Willie, which is now royalty free,
so even I can make Steamboat Willie T shirts if
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I want. But not only did he was he in
like Walt Disney cartoon movies, but he was in comic books.
I don't know if a lot of people realize that,
but a lot of the Disney characters were in gold
Key comic books, and I've got some of them throughout
the seventies. And then here was one of the iconic
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things I remember from the seventies. Do you remember the
Mickey Mouse phone? Oh yeah, it was super popular in
the seventies and eighties. It came out was produced by
American Telecommunications Corporation in nineteen seventy six, and it was
basically the character Mickey Mouse standing there holding the handset
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handset and you would lift it off of his arm, and.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Arm would go up, yeah, you know, and when you yeah,
his arm was the hanging out point.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I bet I wonder if those are worth any money?
Like in good shape. Like just having the character is
kind of a cool iconic seventies. Anybody got one want
to sell? Let me know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I know where you're going to put it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We'll add it to the collection. I'll put it on
top of something. I'll hang it from the map, the map,
the map. Let's see. Now, I didn't realize this Mickey
was so popular in the seventies. They came back out
with the new Mickey mouse Club in nineteen seventy seven.
It only ran a year, from seventy seven to seventy eight.
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There were twelve Mouseketeers. I've got all of their names here,
and I do not recognize a single one of them.
So they did not get famous like the later Mickey
mouse Club, which was I don't even know what years,
the one with oh, with the famous singers, all those people.
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It's like every famous singer was in the Mickey mouse
Club that we have today. Why can we not think
of any Justin Justin, Christina Aguilera and the other blonde
that's gone crazy? Yeah, baby, one more Brittany Spears Bears Okay, yeah,
I think there was more too, probably oh yeah, yeah,
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well an actor, an actor guy. He was in la Land.
I believe he was a Mouseketeer. And then I remember
and I think I've got an exact copy of the
T shirt. But I remember in the seventies my uncle
always wearing a Mickey Mouse T shirt and it was
a ringer tea, had dark blue ringers and then the
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iconic Mickey Mouse on the front and it was kind
of a blue and I and I've got one now
that's I think an exact copy of the I just
remember my uncle wearing that all the time. So anyway, Yeah,
and then Mini Mouse don't many just wasn't that big
in the seventies. I don't really remember hardly anything with
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Mini Mouse happening much in the seventies. But Donald Duck,
uh like, and I think mainly I remember mostly about
Donald Duck was in the comics. I think I might
even have a Donald Duck comic there in my collection.
But he was in a film called Mickey and the Beanstalk.
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And then do you remember Donald duck orange juice?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, it came out frozen, the little frozen thing and
you'd pop the lid and dump it in and add
water and yeah, so that was pretty popular in the seventies.
Donald Duck Orange Juice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So yeah, so I was in a big I didn't
read a lot of Disney comics. I was always yeah,
Marvel or DC and uh, but those guys, yeah, one
of you know. You know, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Of what, like what what company? I can't I've got
I think I've got some of those two. I'll have
to look. But like the Disney ones were gold Key.
I can't remember who the bugs Bunny. I don't either
what brand anyway, Yeah, I don't remember. Uh, And then
real quick to go with Donald. They spun so characters
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are kind of like sitcoms. They they spin off, and
so from Donald Duck they spun off Huey Louie and
Huey Dewey and Louie. I did read those guys, the
Little the three Little Nephew Ducks. And then there was
Scrooge was it Scrooge mcd Scrooge McDuff. Yeah, he was
in He had his own comics too.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So yeah, I did read those comics.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think Huey, Dewey and Louie had a lot quite
a few comics.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And I liked Richie rich but he's not really a
Disney character, No, Richie.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, now in the seventies, he wasn't he They did
make Richie Rich movies. But did did Disney make those?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I wonder?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't know, Like I don't know. Twenty years ago,
seems like there was a rash of Richie Rich movies.
But I don't remember what company made him. But anyway, Yeah,
Goofy Goofy was also he was in a lot of
comics from gold Key. Did you know that when he
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first came out his name was Dippy Dog?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
No, I didn't know what the heck was he has
anybody ever decided what he is?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, right there, when he first came out, he was
called Dippy Dog. So he is a dog. So he
is a dog that can talk. That's a dog. Well,
Donald can talk and Mickey can talk.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
What about the other Pluto Pluto can't talk.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Well, that's Pluto's the oddity, not Goofy. Goofy fits with
Mickey and Donald. It's Pluto. It's a pet. It's Pluto's
a pet's pet for some reason.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I don't know. Yeah, they changed Dippy Dog to Goofy
in nineteen thirty six, and he became a member of
Mickey mouse gang and considered him a meddler and a pest,
but eventually warmed up to him and he became just
a regular.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So they so in that thirty six era, they apparently
they like to change names of characters. Is that when
they changed Steamboat Willie. No, it would have been earlier,
but they did change the dwarves.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh really, yes, what were they called?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well, Jumpy, Lazy, Puffy, Burpie, Stephie, really, Deafie and Wheezy
really was the original names, you know, but when they
when they came out in thirty seven, So I don't
think they ever published anything with that, but that's what
their original names were. Interesting because they came out in
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thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like so what a lot of people don't know or
realizes a lot of super duper famous Disney movies and
characters were actually books, like Mary Poppins. They were like
like just books, and then Disney came along and turned
them into movies and then they were so popular. You
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almost think that Disney wrote Mary Poppins or snow White or.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
A lot of more. The Brothers Grim those were a
lot of I don't I don't even know that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Huh. So that's interesting about the dwarfs, but yeah, they
were big, I mean other I mean mostly just from
the movie.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
But yeah, and that was the first full length animated movie.
Oh really, snow White and the Seven Doors interesting, I
bet I, I bet I saw that once and haven't
seen it since. I think I saw it once at
the Esquire. It's been a long time, and and I
always got confused with snow White and snow White ate the.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Apple from the mean witch and passed out and had
to get kissed by the prince. So did Cinderella lost
her slipper and then got transformed in the pumpkin and
the carriage back into the pumpkin, and so the Prince
went looking for the girl that matched the slipper. Okay, yeah,
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so she didn't she didn't get poisoned.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So there was a prison. There was a prince in
both of them, correct.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Princess, and pretty much every cartoon back then had a
prince and a princess.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, and I guess even today, like The Snow One, Frozen.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Prousen and Frousen Tea.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Man, I knew every word to that movie because when
Bella was little, we had the thing that you hung
on the back of your seat and the kids could
watch the movie. I didn't. I bet I heard it
fifty times where I ever saw it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
The good thing about it was the music was good.
Yeah in that movie. I mean it wasn't the kind
of music that would irritate you if you had to
listen to.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It a billion times, like someone like Barney.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like Wiggles, Yeah, Barney or Wiggles. Back to gold Key
Comics real quick. Remember Chippendale? And then they also were
on I think they remember we talked about Wonderful World
of Disney. I don't know if they had like little spots,
I don't. I just remember seeing their cartoon too, But
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I can't remember where I saw their cartoon at. Maybe
they were just included in Mickey Mouse movies or something.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Didn't they have a Saturday Morning cartoon? Did they?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I don't know. Maybe that's what I think it did?
Their own Chippendale? Yeah, okay, well there you go, Chi
the Little Chippindale. What were they chipunks? Okay, let's go
say they weren't squirrels?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay. And then another one I believe, Yeah, Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
When did Pooh? He was all right?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But Winnie the Pooh was a book and then Disney
bought the rights and made the movie The Many Adventures
of Winnie Pooh in nineteen seventy seven, and Pooh Tigger Piglet.
They all became super famous. Don't forget e Or e
y Or and mister Owl. Yeah, and so now I
believe almost, if not all, of those characters are royalty free,
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because the royalty ran out on the book, not the movie.
So if you draw Winnie the Pooh, you can draw
what he looked like out of the book, which is
different than what he looks like in the Disney movie.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Did he ever wear pants?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So what's different? I mean I figured maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, in the he it's the style. It's just real,
kind of rough, and it's hard to explain. He just
looks like a bear in the book, whereas in the cartoon,
Disney cartoon, he looks more like a cartoon character, like a.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So But anyway, yeah, so, uh Pooh, I don't know Pooh?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Was I kind of like Pooh Tigger? Media there was
always I don't have the talls me the spring. They
were always fun.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But you can't guess who My second favorite character.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is was was it live? Is it Memoris.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's kind of a you know, it's kind of both.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
No, I probably can't.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It's not cartoon.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Okay, uh, I wonder if it's one on my list.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say Herbie. Oh okay, yeah,
I got a big Yeah, Herbie's on my list.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Herbie was as a kid in the seventies, Herby was
like the bomb.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, and we you know, I wasn't even.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
A big Volkswagen fan, but Herbie was cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh yeah. I remember going to a Herbie, a Herbie movie,
and they had a replica, yeah, out front, sitting out front.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And if you guys have seen my jeep, I've got stripes,
and I went with the number twenty two. But the
front of my jeep, the hood of my jeep kind
of looks like Herbie.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You remember Herbie's number? I do you know why it's
number one?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I do, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Know if everybody else does.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Tell them that was.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Don Drysdale's number. Bill Walsh, the producer of the movie, yep, yeah,
he liked you know what, and and now well Herbie
got his name. I saw a couple of different stories.
Did you did you find one?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I did the Buddy. I got the Buddy Hackett one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Okay, yeah, that was with the Don Drys deal. I
saw something else. I did write it down because I
went with that one. But yeah, Herbie was a sentient,
semi the promorphic beetle. Well he's supposed to be nineteen
sixty three beatle Buddy is actually wasn't. And then another
thing that really always begged me about Herbie? Why was
(29:13):
he alive?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh? Yeah, one of those deals they never really Oh
but they did. Oh they explained why they did. I
guess I forgot.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
See that's they didn't in the movie.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
See, this is the trouble I'm having with my book.
I don't want my book to be a Disney movie.
I don't want I don't want it to be like
a Herbie or a Escape from Which Mountain. No, I
want it to be a Super eight Super eight Stranger Things,
(29:49):
the boys going down the railroad track, stand by me,
stand by me. I want it to be more I saw,
I'm that's yeah. So I'm I'm got to stay away
from the.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
More of a coming of age.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah yeah, more of a realistic coming of age, not
like a gimmicky So I'm trying to I gotta I'm
walking a fine line there because I don't want it
to be gimmicky or I don't want it to be
a comedy at all. So anyway, but.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, so, no, they never explained in the Herbie movies,
and there was a bunch of them why Herbie was
basically alive, why he was sentient. And so I looked
and looked and looked at it, and I found I
believe it was in the nineties. There was a.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
They they there was I.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Don't know if it was a short story or what,
but there's a video out and apparently how they explained
it was was, you know, it's a Volkswagon, it's a
car of the it was a people's car. And after
because they can't they came out in the thirties, before
(31:00):
we joined the war World War two, apparently, and they
don't and they don't say anything about Hitler. They don't.
They never said it was a Hitler car. They just
said it was a it was a car of the
people by the German government. And so apparently the German
government uh tasked this engineer to create the perfect people's car,
(31:29):
and he uh, he was met. He was experimenting with
different types of metal and different alloys and uh, oh,
let me sorry, I'm sorry I say it wrong. After
the war, the Americans come to this German engineer and say,
(31:49):
we want you to build us one of these cars,
and for for whatever reason, they had the impression that
the car was alive. So he's he's making he's trying
to make all these different alloys and all this stuff,
and he accidentally knocks a picture of his wife into
this vat of molten lava.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
And where's this story from.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, I don't know, so I just found I just
found it on the interweb somewhere. And the wife's name
was Elsa, and it was this prize, this this engineer's
prize possession. And then he says, I think that I
don't know if she was live or dead or what.
I didn't say Africa, she was dead. That he loved
her so much that when the picture in the frame
(32:33):
melted into the molten vat of melted metal alloy, that
that gave.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
That so herbie is female.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
But they yeah, I would, I would say so, and
that when he finally took the molten lava and made
the pieces of the car, he realized the car is alive,
but he didn't want the Americans getting it, so we
hit it. And then the Americans come later and say
where's the car? Was the car he goes? He goes, oh,
it's gone. It didn't work, couldn't make it work. So
(33:06):
they leave him alone and then he hides it in.
He says, I can't remember why he sent it away,
maybe to keep it from being stolen or whatever. But
he goes, I hear that a really nice guy, an
American named Jim doug and Douglas, Jim Jim Douglas, Jim
Douglas went up with it and raced it and it
(33:29):
won a lot of racists.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Interesting, don't have to figure out where you got that
story from. Interesting. Yeah, so that story, I don't know
that story. But the story of Herbie. So I always
thought it was Herbie the Lovebug. The movie is actually
The love Bug. There was no Herbie in the original
in the first one. In the title, the title just
(33:53):
called the love Bug. But the title of the movie
originally here's what Here's some of the working titles they
had before they finalized The love Bug, Car Boy Girl,
The Magic Volkesye, The Runaway Wagon, Beatle Bomb, Wonder, beetle Bug, Boom,
(34:16):
and Thunderbug. Those were all names in consideration, and they
finally titled it the love Bug. And then his the
Volkswagen's name was Herbie, and so we kind of all
call it Herbie the Lovebug. So did you know there
(34:38):
is Oh so it was a video, Yeah, the ninety
ninety seven the story of how. I wonder if that
what was It's kind of like wicked. I wonder if
it's just something somebody made up. Yeah, completely unrelated to
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
So that's when I'm assuming, Oh okay, somebody like me
wanted to know. They said, well, we'll just tell the story.
It's a funny little it's a short story. I think
it's maybe five minutes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay, But so like you and I could come up
with our own theory, I've put out a video and
be all over TikTok and get ten million views or exactly. Okay,
Volkswagen the brand would not let Disney use the brand.
So there's supposedly no logos, shields or anything, but there
(35:26):
actually are, I guess in the movie if you look
super duper close. Supposedly there's a shot where a foot
goes down to push one of the pedals and there's
a logo down there by one of the pedals, and
then there's something else somewhere in the car that they're
doing something, and there's like a something in the car.
(35:47):
It's just things that they overlooked that they forgot to
pull out the logo, but basically Volkswagen. So when you
watch Herbie, you won't see any Volkswagen logos on him anywhere.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, and I thought that was weird because what else
could it be. I mean it's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, but it just seemed What seems weird to me
is think of all I mean, everybody knew what it was,
but think of the extra free publicity you would have
got had you left your logos on there.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah. Well, I mean everybody knews Volkswagen. So yeah, it
was kind of a moot point to me either way. Yeah,
just silly. I mean, just throw the name out there
and get some extra pr Yeah, I mean, look at
the merchandising you could have done.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Okay, So when they were so basically they treated the
car almost like an audition for an actor, and they
called they had people bring in a dozen different cars
to audition for the love Bug in The lineup were
a few Toyotas, a TVR, a handful of Volvos, a
(36:46):
an MG, and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Volkswagen
Beetle was chosen as it was the only one that
elicited the crew to reach out and pet it. That's
why they used that car.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Huh, and they went they used a lot of them too.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, And I read somewhere where like number ten was
found in a garage in Pennsylvania and it's been restored
to like it was almost completely original anyway, but it's
like one of the only left restored ones that looks
like it did back in the day.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah, I think I think one an actual show car
sold for like two hundred thousand dollars at auction or
some ridiculous amount.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And there's got I bet there's got to be several,
I mean hundreds, if not a couple thousand.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh replicas, replicas. You know, people didn't what they call those.
They don't call them replicas. They call them like not homage.
But it's like a kind of a tribute tribute car.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Tribute car. Yeah, I know there's a guy here in
Ina that's got a tribute jeep to the year that
was at the second, second or third Jurassic Park or
the jeep had the square and they had that orange color.
He made his jeep look like the Jurassic Party jeep. Anyway, Okay,
so there's Herbie on my list the world's Greatest Athletes.
(38:14):
Oh yeah, which I thought was kind of interesting because
that was all kind of tied in with Bruce Jenner
winning the decathlon and actually being the world's greatest athlete.
And in a way, he kind of looked like Jan
Michael Vince, you know, they kind of in in that seventies.
They kind of looked alike. So it was kind of
(38:35):
cool that. So I'd kind of forgotten John Amos and
Tim Conway were the two coaches that found Nanu, who
was played by Jan Michael. I loved Jan Michael Vince
in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I thought it was strange they didn't have Kurt Russell
do that.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, Kurt Russell mayo. He must have moved on to
other stuff by then. Well year was it was seventies,
seventy three. I guess, well, I don't know why he
didn't do it. Maybe he wasn't old and I don't know.
I mean, I don't know. It's so weird how there
are actors that have passed away that are still talked about,
(39:16):
but you almost never hear anything about Jen Michael Vince. Yeah,
and he was such I don't know, there was just
something he was just to me, he was like the
seventies actor.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, he was cool.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
He just was like I guess he was like who
I wanted to be in the seventies. Yeah, you know,
the the body, the hair, the look, the surfer kind
of eye. But anyway, basically they go off to Africa
and they find him and bring him back and he
goes to college and starts winning all the athletic events.
(39:48):
So the world's greatest athlete?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
What did he go to the same college as Dexter
Riley That I don't know. Was it Meadville College? Think
it was Meadville College. Don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
The stuff that I have doesn't name the college. So
what college did the world's greatest Oh? Here it is, Uh,
let's see, what'd you say, Bedville? Maryville?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
This they they were Amos and Conway were coaches at
Maryville College. Their track team.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
I don't think that was the same as World's Greatest Athlete.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Probably not anyway. Yeah, so World's Greatest Athlete. I thought
that was a good Disney chric. And then I don't
have a whole lot of detail, but Mary Poppins was
pretty famous character, especially for girls in the seventies. Yeah,
(40:44):
I mean I kind of remember probably watching Mary Poppins
when I was a kid, But then when I became
a parent, we got the DVD or something, and my
girls loved it. So I must have seen Mary Poppins
eighty times when my kids were.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
We're little. I don't think I ever want to. I
know I didn't see it at the movies.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I don't know that I did either. I probably saw
it on Wonderful World of Disney or something, whenever they
showed it on Telly on the Telly. And speaking of
the Wonderful World of Disney, the intro with tinker Bell,
tinker Bell was a really famous character in the seventies
just because of her little wand thing at the beginning
(41:35):
of the show. And if you go to Disney World
like we are, when they do they every night they
have a fireworks show and a light show, and then
they have this light that goes from the castle down
this zip line, and I get I think it's supposed
(41:56):
to be tinker Bell zipping zipping off the I can't.
He's something for you real quick. If you haven't ever
been to Disney, or you haven't been in a long time.
When we went with the Girls, I don't know, sixteen,
eighteen years ago or whatever, it was basically the castle
and it has lights shining on it, and then there
(42:18):
was just there's fireworks all around it and music. It
was a fireworks show. Now they've got these projectors that
project images on the castle and make it look completely
different throughout the show. So not only is there fireworks,
but the castle turns into different things by the projection
(42:42):
projections that are projected on it. It's like really bizarre.
It'll not only does it change colors, but it can
change looks. It can be brick and then stone and
then it's kind of crazy. So anyway, what else you
got on your list over there?
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Okay, so we talked about Peter Pan.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, we didn't really talk about Peter Pan. The only
thing I talked about tinker Bell.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Well that's like I got, I got tinker Bell as
my favorite, and I also liked the movie Hook.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, but that wasn't No, no, it wasn't at all.
But I just wanted but the cartoon. Yeah, Peter Pan
was a very cool cartoon.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I thought Pinocchio was extra creepy.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I was never I've never been a huge Pinocchio fan.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You know, it freaked me out when they you know,
they stole the boys and gave him cigars and stuff.
And there's a lot of that stuff, Donkey ears and
a lot of that old stuff, old Disney stuff. It's
you watch it and you just like that, that's kind
of creepy. That's there's just like, is that a inn
(43:51):
window that they're throwing in there? Yeah, you got some creepy. Oh.
But jungle Book Love.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
The Jungle Book had some really great songs. But you
couldn't hardly beat.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Blue Blue Blue, I like my Geira and then Boo.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Maglee, Mowgli and Blue and uh.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, do you know who played uh who is the
voice of the of Junior the Little Elephant.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
I don't, but I was about to say, I think
The Jungle Book is like one of the most unique
best voices. It would be a it would be a
movie you could turn off the picture and enjoy just
because of the voices for every character are really distinct
and good.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah. And the background music it's really good. Clint Howard
really yeah, that's too funny. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
And you remember King Louis. Yeah, okay, one of the
very first public uh uh oh, very first public. Uh
what do you do when you perform performance? Derek's very
first public performance was a thing from may Fate not
(45:09):
may Fate, uh may Fate uh gaslight and they did
a thing down on at Government Springs. It was like
a kid camp. Well yeah yeah, and uh he did
he was King Louis.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Oh really yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
I got on video somewhere. It's great.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, so now I like King Louis too, very cool.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yeah, that was a good one. Now, one of the
big ones for me, and it was because of the Esquire.
I remember I remember going to the Esquire to watch
the Apple Dumpling game. Oh yeah, with Don Naughts and
Tim out So Don Knats and Tim Conway were two
of my favorite Disney characters. It was Don Notts played
Theodore Ogilvie.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
And Tim Conway was Amos Tucker was Bill Bixby, and that.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Bill Bixby was kind of the main guy.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, and he was Russell.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Yeah, so that was fun. Anything anything with Don Knights
and Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, I mean talk about a duo. I just I
remember just laughing my butt off as a kid watching that.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I want to go home and watch her right now.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
And I think that was I'm trying to think. I
took Janet Coca John on a date, on a date
to The Apple Dumpling Gang, and I think that might
have been the first movie that I ever took a
girl by myself on a date to. Was The Apple
(46:36):
Dumpling Gang.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
That would have been.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Well, it may have or Return of the Apple. It
wasn't like the original. It was like either the second
or if there was one after that, but it was
God that had to be. It was probably eighty though,
probably nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
My first was The Poseidon Adventure. I took Kelly McMurtry.
Oh really, yeah to the video.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
I remember I drove Here's what's funny it had I
bet it was about seventy nine or eighty because I
didn't have a car, or if I did have a car,
it was the the Chevy. So I borrowed Kyle's blue Malibu.
Oh yeah, and I drove out and picked her up
in Wacomas, brought her back in and I think we
(47:22):
ate at next door. Then we went downtown and watched
Apple Dumpling Gang and that was really our only date.
And then months later Kyle started dating her after I
had taken her car. Yeah, yeah, she was. She actually dated.
(47:46):
Who did she date? I've asked you about if you
remembered him. It's completely forgot my name. There was a
guy that was like a year younger than us that
lived in Enid in the moved down to Oklahoma City.
He dated not Pat, it was another guy, And I've
asked you is if you remembered him, and I can't remember.
I think you might have said no. Anyway, he date.
(48:08):
That's where I she came on my radar because he
was dating her, and he had a picture of her
and showed must have showed me and Kyle and we
were like, holy moly, she's hot. And then he moved
to the city, so you swooped in. So somehow, I
don't even know how I got hooked up with her.
It may have been through how do you know? I
(48:31):
don't even know how I got hooked up with her anyway,
I just called her. Yeah, It's one of those where.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
You you know, you have the old.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
The phone, the hand phone, and you talked for thirty
minutes or an hour because you were too nervous to
ask her out, and then right before you hung up,
I was like, oh you want to go to be
like what? Oh did you like to go to the movie?
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah, okay? And I'm like, well shit, why didn't ask
an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
To be like okay? Thanks by huh uh?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Yeah? Basically yeah, yeah, yeah that was so Apple Dumbling Gang.
That was a movie we went to.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
But is that the only date you wanted? I think so.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I don't know what I mean. It was fun, It
just I don't know. I don't know why we didn't.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I don't know you Well, probably because you didn't ask
her out. Again, Yeah, probably sat by the phone. I
doubt it every night for days until Kyle swoops it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
I'm trying to think it must have been an emmanual
all connection because I'm trying to figure out how me
and Kyle.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Yeah, because she was in Wacomas.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
The thing was, she was a cheerleader for Wacomas with
Tammy Mugg who Kyle and I both wanted to date.
Kyle dated when I asked her out, she was dating
a guy from Wacomas at the time. And then there
was a couple other girls. Oh then I dated, Oh
Stateon dated Lorie Moore, she was on Wakomas cheerleading. And
(50:07):
then there was another girl named Annette Scuvenec who I
went out with that wasn't a cheerleader, but she hung
out with all of those girls. I don't know. For
some reason, Me, Kyle and Stateton dated almost every girl
at Wacomas at one time or another. I just went
on like one dates with her, but State and Laurie were,
oh yeah, they're hot and heavy for a while.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Anyway, she kill off topic there a little bit. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
If you're listening to this, Michelle, sorry, see them driving
down the highway and Michelle hitting statement, you.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
Didn't tell me you did it all his Walkover's girls
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Okay, you know we're gonna I think we're running out
of town. Okay, I've got some of the Aristo Cats,
the Pete's Dragon, the rescuers, but I think we covered
a lot of the main characters that I really remember.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
For another one I had was from One and One Dalmassions.
You know, Corilla Devilla.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
That's funny because I was gonna mention and for some reason,
that's one of my all time favorite Disney animated movies.
And it's it's kind of one of the worst as
far as quality. Oh yeah, if you look back at it,
the cartoon, the qualities just not there because it was
so early. Yeah, but it just again the characters, the
(51:20):
accents that the people had. I don't know, I just
love I don't know. For some reason, I just love
that movie.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Have you seen the new one with What's Your Face?
Speaker 1 (51:30):
I want to, but I just haven't sat down and
watched it.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
It's pretty dang good.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
That's I think I caught like ten minutes while I
was standing in the living room.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
I mean, it's a lot different. Yeah, but it's it's
pretty good. It's pretty it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
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my third.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's oh all ye hey kid touch yeah, yeah, how
do you spell that, Uh keep talk, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Nothing? So uh, I'm trying to So we're confused because
we just recorded that. We just had seepus Lives, so
we answered Dave's questions. So we we already answered all
the questions from if you're listening to this two weeks ago,
the comic strip stuff. Yeah, okay, so we so we
(03:17):
really don't have any No, we don't have We don't
have any comments or unless Gretchen calls real quick, which
he's not.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Going on too because we just had a live.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, so okay, Uh hang on, I am searching for something.
So uh got any any new scoop or anything like that?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Any new scoop from an hour ago? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, that we did talk about already on our this
We're on our third podcast for.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The evening, so we're doing Yeah. So like you said,
we're doing seventies bus it's pre recorded. Well, they're all
pre recorded. Can you really pre record something? You either
record it or you don't record it, so it can't
be pre recorded.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, like if we were recording this podcast, but we
wanted to add something that was already recorded to add
to this recording, wouldn't that be pre recorded.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh yeah, that would be I guess your bugs. I
saw that.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Why are you down here? What do they call those cooties?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Cooties?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
My cootie? Is uh your cootie?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Something wrong with your cooties?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Cooties getting close to me?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Don't let him get close to your uh a book?
What are these called?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Uh Google Google cluster? Yeah, so another shout out to
mister Jason Scott on all the goodies we got last
week the TV guides and now we have done a
TV Guide episode. But now that we've got so many
Fall issue TV guides, we may have to do like
a fall TV Guide episode.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, because those are big deals. You know, you always
look forward to that one because that's when all the
new shows came out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Uh gosh, what am I looking for? I'm trying to
find mind? Why can't I find? You?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Know? So the fall episode TV Guide is when the
new season came up. But now that's back when they
did like twenty or they would do twenty six episodes
on a show. Nowadays they do like five, six, seven,
eight on a season. They call a season eight episodes now,
so there's no more fall you know, fall preview TV guys,
(05:28):
they even do TV guides anymore? Uh, that's a good question.
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
If they do, they're in a different shape and size.
I think. I know they changed to like a bigger
size and then, but I don't know if they still.
I doubt it because there's like not really regular TV anymore.
There's streaming services and dish and it's all online and yeah,
(05:58):
but they don't. My guess is they're not.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Maybe it's just maybe it's not a guide. Who knows?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Uh? As in Jiffy Trip they sell the Eno News
and giggle there, Jimmy trip.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh they do.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah. I went to ihop the other day, U and
you know how they have the stand outside moused in
and they got it. What do they call it? The weekend?
What the heck is that going all over there? Sorry? Uh? Uh?
They call it the I think they call it the
Saturday or the weekend paper or anyway, three dollars for
(06:33):
a weekend paper for the Eno News on the weekend
that's a Saturday, because they don't print Sunday anymore. What
do they call it? They call it the Saturdays or Saturdays?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I guess. I guess they're supposed to like stick a
whole bunch of stuff in there. Yeah, it's uh, anyway,
things have changed.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Why. I like the good old days we had back
in the seventies when we had two newspapers, the ened
Morning was it the Morning Eagle, the Enid Morning News
and then the Daily Eagle Daily.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. Yeah, that is kind of crazy thinking that a
town our size.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Put out two papers. Yeah, during the weekday and then.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And those are just our newspapers. Then we were also
getting the Daily Oklahoma and outside newspapers.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So was there there's not that much stuff going on anymore?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, I guess because everything that went on in the
seventies went into print. There was no local news on TV.
There was no I mean, you know, Oklahoma City had
Oklahoma City News, but they didn't really cover Enid. And
then there was no social media. I don't know that
radio really covered any that much local. But you know,
(07:53):
they remember, you know, they used to put wedding announcements,
engagement announcements, when people played cards, had bridge games, but
that was a little further back. But yeah, So so
the newspapers in the sixties I think they filled with
more of that really local bridge club stuff. And then
(08:16):
the newspapers in the eighties, I think started going more
ap and national big stories. But the newspapers in the
seventies was all local and really cool and neat. And
why is that, mister Wheeler, because that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Was the greatest they didn't known to man, Yes it was.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I mean, am just not finding what I'm looking at?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm looking for my all my songs on my maybe
they're not on my phone anymore, songs like all my
Apple songs. Oh oh, here we go, there we go.
You're looking for your Apple songs because I like to
listen to my Apple songs while we're podcasting.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, yeah, let me guess you got a whole genre
of Disney stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well we're doing oh yeah, So if you guys didn't know,
we're doing Disney multitasking. Okay, so let me find my
Let me find my song here and then we'll get
the show going. So tonight we are. Because I am
in Disneyland right now, I may not be able to
find this. We decided, I thought it might be kind
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of fun to do iconic and popular Disney characters throughout
the seventies. Now, they could either be characters that became
big and famous in the seventies or you know, like
Mickey Mouse was from way back, but of course he
was super famous in the seventies because he was so
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super famous. So it does include characters that were invented
before the seventies, but we enjoyed them in the seventies.
You know what I'm gonna do. I wonder if I
to do a pause so I can get this show.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Going here in a sec hit the pause button.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh you know, I do have a pause button? Ready,
sat pause?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I thought you said you were gonna pause that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
No, I decided not to. I think I think I
found what I'm looking for. Okay, So tonight it is
a Disney night. But I needed to play a song
before we get Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Somebody's birthday is today.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's your Birthday by Monker and Fasts, and I guess
sm you and the Free Music Archive have their way. Well,
my song in the English language, Happy Birthday to you,
and it's all because.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Of copyright law. Okay, Happy Birthday, Gretchen.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hang on, we can.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I thought you said you were gonna pause.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, I decided not to because I think I've got
everything here, sojav So tonight is iconic Disney characters from
the seventies. So here is a song to get us started.
Are you guys ready?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I thought you said this was a disney.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It's somebody's birthday today, whose birthday could have been James
James Taylor.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's scary, curs.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Gay day, blockhead, same, happy birthday?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Do you blockhed? Boom boom? Okay, everybody Gretchen's birthday today.
Happy birthday, Gretchen. I don't know if you're listening. You're
probably listening to this on Wednesday. But we did record,
kind we did kind of record this on your birthday, kindest.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But it's on that episode. It's on this episode for
May the twentieth, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I didn't realize that, you know, I'm a twentieth birthday guy.
December twentieth. Oh yeah, it's always good to have a
birthday on the twentieth, especially when the twentieth lands on
a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, that's that's a good day, like it did today exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So anyway, happy birthday, Blockhead. We would get you James
Taylor tickets, but since you don't like him, there's no
sense in buying your tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. No, so okay, because he's going
to be here in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, we'll go and we'll tell you how bad it was. Whatever. Okay. So,
like we said, Disney characters that we we watch saw
liked in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah. So I was trying to decide who was my
favorite Disney character, and I kept thinking about, like the cartoons,
you know, Mickey Mouse, He's I was never a big
Mickey Mouse fan, Mickey Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck. Hey, I
kind of like Donald Duck.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Then I realized I like the human characters. I was
gonna say, yeah, this includes any any Disney characters. So
there are human characters.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, I think, and I think. I decided my favorite
one was Dexter Riley.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Dexter Riley. Trying to think of which show, which movie
Dexter was on.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, Dexter Riley was in three Disney movies, The Computer
Who Wore Ten?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And There you go. I it was a Russ Russell,
Russell Russell Russell, Russ Russell, Russell, rus Russell, dude, the
Goldie Hawn Husband Dude.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, Kurt Russell, Kurt Russell. Yeah, he was also in
Now You See Him, Now you Don't, and The Strange
Strongest Man in the World.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I love those movies. Oh yeah, he was a good
It was a good he was. He was Disney. I
mean for us growing up, he was like the Disney kid,
Yeah he was.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
He was. Then he was in The Barefoot Executive, which
was in the middle of all those, but he was
a different character. He played Stephen Post in that one.
But that's the one with a monkey.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I bet a lot of younger people that even know
who Kurt Russell is, like have seen Tombstone or something.
I bet they don't even realize how many Disney movies
he was in as a kid. You guys need to
go check out the Kurt Russell Disney movies from me
back in the day. And these were those were like sixties,
weren't they.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No, they were in seventies. Well, The Computer or Tennis
she Was came out in sixty nine, but you know,
we watched it in the seventies. But now you seem
now you don't came out sony two, and The Strongest
Man in the World came out in sony five.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
They were fun.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And what was cool about Enid is our downtown theater.
The Esquire showed all that Disney movies and it was
like easy to get to so you could, like we
could hop on our bikes and it was twenty I
think it was twenty five cents to get in and
not even tell our parents. I mean, I remember going
to some Disney movies, like in the summer, and we
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would just like my mom would be at work and
we would just hop on our bikes and go downtown
and watch a Disney movie in the afternoon. Yeah, and
you leave your bike on the side, You'll leave your
bike on the sidewalk, go in and watch the movie
and then ride your bike back home.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, it just wasn't that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah. Yeah. And they had those always love the taffy
in the thin wide taffy in the strips. Yeah, they
were like pink and like a strawberry.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And it didn't cost like a million dollars to get
popcorn and candy back then. And I know that's where
they make all their profit. Now they don't make money
on movies anymore. It's all concession.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But yeah, as a kid, you could get quite a
bit of.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh, if you had a buck, you were you were
rolling in it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You were gold.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well I'm going to go the opposite direction. I knew
you it with Mickey Mouse, so I was a big
Mickey Mouse fan. He started it all. Of course, he's
the most iconic, well known character from Disney. And you know,
he started out as Steamboat Willie, which is now royalty free,
so even I can make Steamboat Willie T shirts if
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I want. But not only did he was he in
like Walt Disney cartoon movies, but he was in comic books.
I don't know if a lot of people realize that,
but a lot of the Disney characters were in gold
Key comic books, and I've got some of them throughout
the seventies. And then here was one of the iconic
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things I remember from the seventies. Do you remember the
Mickey Mouse phone? Oh yeah, it was super popular in
the seventies and eighties. It came out was produced by
American Telecommunications Corporation in nineteen seventy six, and it was
basically the character Mickey Mouse standing there holding the handset
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handset and you would lift it off of his arm, and.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Arm would go up, yeah, you know, and when you yeah,
his arm was the hanging out point.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I bet I wonder if those are worth any money?
Like in good shape. Like just having the character is
kind of a cool iconic seventies. Anybody got one want
to sell? Let me know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I know where you're going to put it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We'll add it to the collection. I'll put it on
top of something. I'll hang it from the map, the map,
the map. Let's see. Now, I didn't realize this Mickey
was so popular in the seventies. They came back out
with the new Mickey mouse Club in nineteen seventy seven.
It only ran a year, from seventy seven to seventy eight.
(17:43):
There were twelve Mouseketeers. I've got all of their names here,
and I do not recognize a single one of them.
So they did not get famous like the later Mickey
mouse Club, which was I don't even know what years,
the one with oh, with the famous singers, all those people.
(18:05):
It's like every famous singer was in the Mickey mouse
Club that we have today. Why can we not think
of any Justin Justin, Christina Aguilera and the other blonde
that's gone crazy? Yeah, baby, one more Brittany Spears Bears Okay, yeah,
I think there was more too, probably oh yeah, yeah,
(18:28):
well an actor, an actor guy. He was in la Land.
I believe he was a Mouseketeer. And then I remember
and I think I've got an exact copy of the
T shirt. But I remember in the seventies my uncle
always wearing a Mickey Mouse T shirt and it was
a ringer tea, had dark blue ringers and then the
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iconic Mickey Mouse on the front and it was kind
of a blue and I and I've got one now
that's I think an exact copy of the I just
remember my uncle wearing that all the time. So anyway, Yeah,
and then Mini Mouse don't many just wasn't that big
in the seventies. I don't really remember hardly anything with
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Mini Mouse happening much in the seventies. But Donald Duck,
uh like, and I think mainly I remember mostly about
Donald Duck was in the comics. I think I might
even have a Donald Duck comic there in my collection.
But he was in a film called Mickey and the Beanstalk.
(19:31):
And then do you remember Donald duck orange juice?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, it came out frozen, the little frozen thing and
you'd pop the lid and dump it in and add
water and yeah, so that was pretty popular in the seventies.
Donald Duck Orange Juice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So yeah, so I was in a big I didn't
read a lot of Disney comics. I was always yeah,
Marvel or DC and uh, but those guys, yeah, one
of you know. You know, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Of what, like what what company? I can't I've got
I think I've got some of those two. I'll have
to look. But like the Disney ones were gold Key.
I can't remember who the bugs Bunny. I don't either
what brand anyway, Yeah, I don't remember. Uh, And then
real quick to go with Donald. They spun so characters
(20:30):
are kind of like sitcoms. They they spin off, and
so from Donald Duck they spun off Huey Louie and
Huey Dewey and Louie. I did read those guys, the
Little the three Little Nephew Ducks. And then there was
Scrooge was it Scrooge mcd Scrooge McDuff. Yeah, he was
in He had his own comics too.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So yeah, I did read those comics.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think Huey, Dewey and Louie had a lot quite
a few comics.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And I liked Richie rich but he's not really a
Disney character, No, Richie.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, now in the seventies, he wasn't he They did
make Richie Rich movies. But did did Disney make those?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I wonder?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't know, Like I don't know. Twenty years ago,
seems like there was a rash of Richie Rich movies.
But I don't remember what company made him. But anyway, Yeah,
Goofy Goofy was also he was in a lot of
comics from gold Key. Did you know that when he
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first came out his name was Dippy Dog?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
No, I didn't know what the heck was he has
anybody ever decided what he is?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, right there, when he first came out, he was
called Dippy Dog. So he is a dog. So he
is a dog that can talk. That's a dog. Well,
Donald can talk and Mickey can talk.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
What about the other Pluto Pluto can't talk.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Well, that's Pluto's the oddity, not Goofy. Goofy fits with
Mickey and Donald. It's Pluto. It's a pet. It's Pluto's
a pet's pet for some reason.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I don't know. Yeah, they changed Dippy Dog to Goofy
in nineteen thirty six, and he became a member of
Mickey mouse gang and considered him a meddler and a pest,
but eventually warmed up to him and he became just
a regular.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So they so in that thirty six era, they apparently
they like to change names of characters. Is that when
they changed Steamboat Willie. No, it would have been earlier,
but they did change the dwarves.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh really, yes, what were they called?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well, Jumpy, Lazy, Puffy, Burpie, Stephie, really, Deafie and Wheezy
really was the original names, you know, but when they
when they came out in thirty seven, So I don't
think they ever published anything with that, but that's what
their original names were. Interesting because they came out in
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thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like so what a lot of people don't know or
realizes a lot of super duper famous Disney movies and
characters were actually books, like Mary Poppins. They were like
like just books, and then Disney came along and turned
them into movies and then they were so popular. You
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almost think that Disney wrote Mary Poppins or snow White or.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
A lot of more. The Brothers Grim those were a
lot of I don't I don't even know that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Huh. So that's interesting about the dwarfs, but yeah, they
were big, I mean other I mean mostly just from
the movie.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
But yeah, and that was the first full length animated movie.
Oh really, snow White and the Seven Doors interesting, I
bet I, I bet I saw that once and haven't
seen it since. I think I saw it once at
the Esquire. It's been a long time, and and I
always got confused with snow White and snow White ate the.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Apple from the mean witch and passed out and had
to get kissed by the prince. So did Cinderella lost
her slipper and then got transformed in the pumpkin and
the carriage back into the pumpkin, and so the Prince
went looking for the girl that matched the slipper. Okay, yeah,
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so she didn't she didn't get poisoned.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So there was a prison. There was a prince in
both of them, correct.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Princess, and pretty much every cartoon back then had a
prince and a princess.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, and I guess even today, like The Snow One, Frozen.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Prousen and Frousen Tea.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Man, I knew every word to that movie because when
Bella was little, we had the thing that you hung
on the back of your seat and the kids could
watch the movie. I didn't. I bet I heard it
fifty times where I ever saw it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
The good thing about it was the music was good.
Yeah in that movie. I mean it wasn't the kind
of music that would irritate you if you had to
listen to.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It a billion times, like someone like Barney.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Like Wiggles, Yeah, Barney or Wiggles. Back to gold Key
Comics real quick. Remember Chippendale? And then they also were
on I think they remember we talked about Wonderful World
of Disney. I don't know if they had like little spots,
I don't. I just remember seeing their cartoon too, But
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I can't remember where I saw their cartoon at. Maybe
they were just included in Mickey Mouse movies or something.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Didn't they have a Saturday Morning cartoon? Did they?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I don't know. Maybe that's what I think it did?
Their own Chippendale? Yeah, okay, well there you go, Chi
the Little Chippindale. What were they chipunks? Okay, let's go
say they weren't squirrels?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay. And then another one I believe, Yeah, Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
When did Pooh? He was all right?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But Winnie the Pooh was a book and then Disney
bought the rights and made the movie The Many Adventures
of Winnie Pooh in nineteen seventy seven, and Pooh Tigger Piglet.
They all became super famous. Don't forget e Or e
y Or and mister Owl. Yeah, and so now I
believe almost, if not all, of those characters are royalty free,
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because the royalty ran out on the book, not the movie.
So if you draw Winnie the Pooh, you can draw
what he looked like out of the book, which is
different than what he looks like in the Disney movie.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Did he ever wear pants?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So what's different? I mean I figured maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, in the he it's the style. It's just real,
kind of rough, and it's hard to explain. He just
looks like a bear in the book, whereas in the cartoon,
Disney cartoon, he looks more like a cartoon character, like a.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So But anyway, yeah, so, uh Pooh, I don't know Pooh?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Was I kind of like Pooh Tigger? Media there was
always I don't have the talls me the spring. They
were always fun.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But you can't guess who My second favorite character.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is was was it live? Is it Memoris.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's kind of a you know, it's kind of both.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
No, I probably can't.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It's not cartoon.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Okay, uh, I wonder if it's one on my list.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say Herbie. Oh okay, yeah,
I got a big Yeah, Herbie's on my list.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Herbie was as a kid in the seventies, Herby was
like the bomb.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, and we you know, I wasn't even.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
A big Volkswagen fan, but Herbie was cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh yeah. I remember going to a Herbie, a Herbie movie,
and they had a replica, yeah, out front, sitting out front.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And if you guys have seen my jeep, I've got stripes,
and I went with the number twenty two. But the
front of my jeep, the hood of my jeep kind
of looks like Herbie.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You remember Herbie's number? I do you know why it's
number one?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I do, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Know if everybody else does.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Tell them that was.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Don Drysdale's number. Bill Walsh, the producer of the movie, yep, yeah,
he liked you know what, and and now well Herbie
got his name. I saw a couple of different stories.
Did you did you find one?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I did the Buddy. I got the Buddy Hackett one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Okay, yeah, that was with the Don Drys deal. I
saw something else. I did write it down because I
went with that one. But yeah, Herbie was a sentient,
semi the promorphic beetle. Well he's supposed to be nineteen
sixty three beatle Buddy is actually wasn't. And then another
thing that really always begged me about Herbie? Why was
(29:13):
he alive?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh? Yeah, one of those deals they never really Oh
but they did. Oh they explained why they did. I
guess I forgot.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
See that's they didn't in the movie.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
See, this is the trouble I'm having with my book.
I don't want my book to be a Disney movie.
I don't want I don't want it to be like
a Herbie or a Escape from Which Mountain. No, I
want it to be a Super eight Super eight Stranger Things,
(29:49):
the boys going down the railroad track, stand by me,
stand by me. I want it to be more I saw,
I'm that's yeah. So I'm I'm got to stay away
from the.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
More of a coming of age.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah yeah, more of a realistic coming of age, not
like a gimmicky So I'm trying to I gotta I'm
walking a fine line there because I don't want it
to be gimmicky or I don't want it to be
a comedy at all. So anyway, but.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, so, no, they never explained in the Herbie movies,
and there was a bunch of them why Herbie was
basically alive, why he was sentient. And so I looked
and looked and looked at it, and I found I
believe it was in the nineties. There was a.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
They they there was I.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Don't know if it was a short story or what,
but there's a video out and apparently how they explained
it was was, you know, it's a Volkswagon, it's a
car of the it was a people's car. And after
because they can't they came out in the thirties, before
(31:00):
we joined the war World War two, apparently, and they
don't and they don't say anything about Hitler. They don't.
They never said it was a Hitler car. They just
said it was a it was a car of the
people by the German government. And so apparently the German
government uh tasked this engineer to create the perfect people's car,
(31:29):
and he uh, he was met. He was experimenting with
different types of metal and different alloys and uh, oh,
let me sorry, I'm sorry I say it wrong. After
the war, the Americans come to this German engineer and say,
(31:49):
we want you to build us one of these cars,
and for for whatever reason, they had the impression that
the car was alive. So he's he's making he's trying
to make all these different alloys and all this stuff,
and he accidentally knocks a picture of his wife into
this vat of molten lava.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
And where's this story from.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, I don't know, so I just found I just
found it on the interweb somewhere. And the wife's name
was Elsa, and it was this prize, this this engineer's
prize possession. And then he says, I think that I
don't know if she was live or dead or what.
I didn't say Africa, she was dead. That he loved
her so much that when the picture in the frame
(32:33):
melted into the molten vat of melted metal alloy, that
that gave.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
That so herbie is female.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
But they yeah, I would, I would say so, and
that when he finally took the molten lava and made
the pieces of the car, he realized the car is alive,
but he didn't want the Americans getting it, so we
hit it. And then the Americans come later and say
where's the car? Was the car he goes? He goes, oh,
it's gone. It didn't work, couldn't make it work. So
(33:06):
they leave him alone and then he hides it in.
He says, I can't remember why he sent it away,
maybe to keep it from being stolen or whatever. But
he goes, I hear that a really nice guy, an
American named Jim doug and Douglas, Jim Jim Douglas, Jim
Douglas went up with it and raced it and it
(33:29):
won a lot of racists.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Interesting, don't have to figure out where you got that
story from. Interesting. Yeah, so that story, I don't know
that story. But the story of Herbie. So I always
thought it was Herbie the Lovebug. The movie is actually
The love Bug. There was no Herbie in the original
in the first one. In the title, the title just
(33:53):
called the love Bug. But the title of the movie
originally here's what Here's some of the working titles they
had before they finalized The love Bug, Car Boy Girl,
The Magic Volkesye, The Runaway Wagon, Beatle Bomb, Wonder, beetle Bug, Boom,
(34:16):
and Thunderbug. Those were all names in consideration, and they
finally titled it the love Bug. And then his the
Volkswagen's name was Herbie, and so we kind of all
call it Herbie the Lovebug. So did you know there
(34:38):
is Oh so it was a video, Yeah, the ninety
ninety seven the story of how. I wonder if that
what was It's kind of like wicked. I wonder if
it's just something somebody made up. Yeah, completely unrelated to
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
So that's when I'm assuming, Oh okay, somebody like me
wanted to know. They said, well, we'll just tell the story.
It's a funny little it's a short story. I think
it's maybe five minutes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay, But so like you and I could come up
with our own theory, I've put out a video and
be all over TikTok and get ten million views or exactly. Okay,
Volkswagen the brand would not let Disney use the brand.
So there's supposedly no logos, shields or anything, but there
(35:26):
actually are, I guess in the movie if you look
super duper close. Supposedly there's a shot where a foot
goes down to push one of the pedals and there's
a logo down there by one of the pedals, and
then there's something else somewhere in the car that they're
doing something, and there's like a something in the car.
(35:47):
It's just things that they overlooked that they forgot to
pull out the logo, but basically Volkswagen. So when you
watch Herbie, you won't see any Volkswagen logos on him anywhere.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, and I thought that was weird because what else
could it be. I mean it's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, but it just seemed What seems weird to me
is think of all I mean, everybody knew what it was,
but think of the extra free publicity you would have
got had you left your logos on there.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah. Well, I mean everybody knews Volkswagen. So yeah, it
was kind of a moot point to me either way. Yeah,
just silly. I mean, just throw the name out there
and get some extra pr Yeah, I mean, look at
the merchandising you could have done.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Okay, So when they were so basically they treated the
car almost like an audition for an actor, and they
called they had people bring in a dozen different cars
to audition for the love Bug in The lineup were
a few Toyotas, a TVR, a handful of Volvos, a
(36:46):
an MG, and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Volkswagen
Beetle was chosen as it was the only one that
elicited the crew to reach out and pet it. That's
why they used that car.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Huh, and they went they used a lot of them too.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, And I read somewhere where like number ten was
found in a garage in Pennsylvania and it's been restored
to like it was almost completely original anyway, but it's
like one of the only left restored ones that looks
like it did back in the day.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah, I think I think one an actual show car
sold for like two hundred thousand dollars at auction or
some ridiculous amount.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And there's got I bet there's got to be several,
I mean hundreds, if not a couple thousand.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh replicas, replicas. You know, people didn't what they call those.
They don't call them replicas. They call them like not homage.
But it's like a kind of a tribute tribute car.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Tribute car. Yeah, I know there's a guy here in
Ina that's got a tribute jeep to the year that
was at the second, second or third Jurassic Park or
the jeep had the square and they had that orange color.
He made his jeep look like the Jurassic Party jeep. Anyway, Okay,
so there's Herbie on my list the world's Greatest Athletes.
(38:14):
Oh yeah, which I thought was kind of interesting because
that was all kind of tied in with Bruce Jenner
winning the decathlon and actually being the world's greatest athlete.
And in a way, he kind of looked like Jan
Michael Vince, you know, they kind of in in that seventies.
They kind of looked alike. So it was kind of
(38:35):
cool that. So I'd kind of forgotten John Amos and
Tim Conway were the two coaches that found Nanu, who
was played by Jan Michael. I loved Jan Michael Vince
in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I thought it was strange they didn't have Kurt Russell
do that.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, Kurt Russell mayo. He must have moved on to
other stuff by then. Well year was it was seventies,
seventy three. I guess, well, I don't know why he
didn't do it. Maybe he wasn't old and I don't know.
I mean, I don't know. It's so weird how there
are actors that have passed away that are still talked about,
(39:16):
but you almost never hear anything about Jen Michael Vince. Yeah,
and he was such I don't know, there was just
something he was just to me, he was like the
seventies actor.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, he was cool.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
He just was like I guess he was like who
I wanted to be in the seventies. Yeah, you know,
the the body, the hair, the look, the surfer kind
of eye. But anyway, basically they go off to Africa
and they find him and bring him back and he
goes to college and starts winning all the athletic events.
(39:48):
So the world's greatest athlete?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
What did he go to the same college as Dexter
Riley That I don't know. Was it Meadville College? Think
it was Meadville College. Don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
The stuff that I have doesn't name the college. So
what college did the world's greatest Oh? Here it is, Uh,
let's see, what'd you say, Bedville? Maryville?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
This they they were Amos and Conway were coaches at
Maryville College. Their track team.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
I don't think that was the same as World's Greatest Athlete.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Probably not anyway. Yeah, so World's Greatest Athlete. I thought
that was a good Disney chric. And then I don't
have a whole lot of detail, but Mary Poppins was
pretty famous character, especially for girls in the seventies. Yeah,
(40:44):
I mean I kind of remember probably watching Mary Poppins
when I was a kid, But then when I became
a parent, we got the DVD or something, and my
girls loved it. So I must have seen Mary Poppins
eighty times when my kids were.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
We're little. I don't think I ever want to. I
know I didn't see it at the movies.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I don't know that I did either. I probably saw
it on Wonderful World of Disney or something, whenever they
showed it on Telly on the Telly. And speaking of
the Wonderful World of Disney, the intro with tinker Bell,
tinker Bell was a really famous character in the seventies
just because of her little wand thing at the beginning
(41:35):
of the show. And if you go to Disney World
like we are, when they do they every night they
have a fireworks show and a light show, and then
they have this light that goes from the castle down
this zip line, and I get I think it's supposed
(41:56):
to be tinker Bell zipping zipping off the I can't.
He's something for you real quick. If you haven't ever
been to Disney, or you haven't been in a long time.
When we went with the Girls, I don't know, sixteen,
eighteen years ago or whatever, it was basically the castle
and it has lights shining on it, and then there
(42:18):
was just there's fireworks all around it and music. It
was a fireworks show. Now they've got these projectors that
project images on the castle and make it look completely
different throughout the show. So not only is there fireworks,
but the castle turns into different things by the projection
(42:42):
projections that are projected on it. It's like really bizarre.
It'll not only does it change colors, but it can
change looks. It can be brick and then stone and
then it's kind of crazy. So anyway, what else you
got on your list over there?
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Okay, so we talked about Peter Pan.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Yeah, we didn't really talk about Peter Pan. The only
thing I talked about tinker Bell.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Well that's like I got, I got tinker Bell as
my favorite, and I also liked the movie Hook.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, but that wasn't No, no, it wasn't at all.
But I just wanted but the cartoon. Yeah, Peter Pan
was a very cool cartoon.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I thought Pinocchio was extra creepy.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I was never I've never been a huge Pinocchio fan.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You know, it freaked me out when they you know,
they stole the boys and gave him cigars and stuff.
And there's a lot of that stuff, Donkey ears and
a lot of that old stuff, old Disney stuff. It's
you watch it and you just like that, that's kind
of creepy. That's there's just like, is that a inn
(43:51):
window that they're throwing in there? Yeah, you got some creepy. Oh.
But jungle Book Love.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
The Jungle Book had some really great songs. But you
couldn't hardly beat.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Blue Blue Blue, I like my Geira and then Boo.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Maglee, Mowgli and Blue and uh.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, do you know who played uh who is the
voice of the of Junior the Little Elephant.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
I don't, but I was about to say, I think
The Jungle Book is like one of the most unique
best voices. It would be a it would be a
movie you could turn off the picture and enjoy just
because of the voices for every character are really distinct
and good.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah. And the background music it's really good. Clint Howard
really yeah, that's too funny. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
And you remember King Louis. Yeah, okay, one of the
very first public uh uh oh, very first public. Uh
what do you do when you perform performance? Derek's very
first public performance was a thing from may Fate not
(45:09):
may Fate, uh may Fate uh gaslight and they did
a thing down on at Government Springs. It was like
a kid camp. Well yeah yeah, and uh he did
he was King Louis.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Oh really yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
I got on video somewhere. It's great.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, so now I like King Louis too, very cool.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yeah, that was a good one. Now, one of the
big ones for me, and it was because of the Esquire.
I remember I remember going to the Esquire to watch
the Apple Dumpling game. Oh yeah, with Don Naughts and
Tim out So Don Knats and Tim Conway were two
of my favorite Disney characters. It was Don Notts played
Theodore Ogilvie.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
And Tim Conway was Amos Tucker was Bill Bixby, and that.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Bill Bixby was kind of the main guy.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, and he was Russell.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Yeah, so that was fun. Anything anything with Don Knights
and Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, I mean talk about a duo. I just I
remember just laughing my butt off as a kid watching that.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I want to go home and watch her right now.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
And I think that was I'm trying to think. I
took Janet Coca John on a date, on a date
to The Apple Dumpling Gang, and I think that might
have been the first movie that I ever took a
girl by myself on a date to. Was The Apple
(46:36):
Dumpling Gang.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
That would have been.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Well, it may have or Return of the Apple. It
wasn't like the original. It was like either the second
or if there was one after that, but it was
God that had to be. It was probably eighty though,
probably nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
My first was The Poseidon Adventure. I took Kelly McMurtry.
Oh really, yeah to the video.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
I remember I drove Here's what's funny it had I
bet it was about seventy nine or eighty because I
didn't have a car, or if I did have a car,
it was the the Chevy. So I borrowed Kyle's blue Malibu.
Oh yeah, and I drove out and picked her up
in Wacomas, brought her back in and I think we
(47:22):
ate at next door. Then we went downtown and watched
Apple Dumpling Gang and that was really our only date.
And then months later Kyle started dating her after I
had taken her car. Yeah, yeah, she was. She actually dated.
(47:46):
Who did she date? I've asked you about if you
remembered him. It's completely forgot my name. There was a
guy that was like a year younger than us that
lived in Enid in the moved down to Oklahoma City.
He dated not Pat, it was another guy, And I've
asked you is if you remembered him, and I can't remember.
I think you might have said no. Anyway, he date.
(48:08):
That's where I she came on my radar because he
was dating her, and he had a picture of her
and showed must have showed me and Kyle and we
were like, holy moly, she's hot. And then he moved
to the city, so you swooped in. So somehow, I
don't even know how I got hooked up with her.
It may have been through how do you know? I
(48:31):
don't even know how I got hooked up with her anyway,
I just called her. Yeah, It's one of those where.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
You you know, you have the old.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
The phone, the hand phone, and you talked for thirty
minutes or an hour because you were too nervous to
ask her out, and then right before you hung up,
I was like, oh you want to go to be
like what? Oh did you like to go to the movie?
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah, okay? And I'm like, well shit, why didn't ask
an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
To be like okay? Thanks by huh uh?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Yeah? Basically yeah, yeah, yeah that was so Apple Dumbling Gang.
That was a movie we went to.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
But is that the only date you wanted? I think so.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
I don't know what I mean. It was fun, It
just I don't know. I don't know why we didn't.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I don't know you Well, probably because you didn't ask
her out. Again, Yeah, probably sat by the phone. I
doubt it every night for days until Kyle swoops it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
I'm trying to think it must have been an emmanual
all connection because I'm trying to figure out how me
and Kyle.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Yeah, because she was in Wacomas.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
The thing was, she was a cheerleader for Wacomas with
Tammy Mugg who Kyle and I both wanted to date.
Kyle dated when I asked her out, she was dating
a guy from Wacomas at the time. And then there
was a couple other girls. Oh then I dated, Oh
Stateon dated Lorie Moore, she was on Wakomas cheerleading. And
(50:07):
then there was another girl named Annette Scuvenec who I
went out with that wasn't a cheerleader, but she hung
out with all of those girls. I don't know. For
some reason, Me, Kyle and Stateton dated almost every girl
at Wacomas at one time or another. I just went
on like one dates with her, but State and Laurie were,
oh yeah, they're hot and heavy for a while.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Anyway, she kill off topic there a little bit. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
If you're listening to this, Michelle, sorry, see them driving
down the highway and Michelle hitting statement, you.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
Didn't tell me you did it all his Walkover's girls
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Okay, you know we're gonna I think we're running out
of town. Okay, I've got some of the Aristo Cats,
the Pete's Dragon, the rescuers, but I think we covered
a lot of the main characters that I really remember.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
For another one I had was from One and One Dalmassions.
You know, Corilla Devilla.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
That's funny because I was gonna mention and for some reason,
that's one of my all time favorite Disney animated movies.
And it's it's kind of one of the worst as
far as quality. Oh yeah, if you look back at it,
the cartoon, the qualities just not there because it was
so early. Yeah, but it just again the characters, the
(51:20):
accents that the people had. I don't know, I just
love I don't know. For some reason, I just love
that movie.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Have you seen the new one with What's Your Face?
Speaker 1 (51:30):
I want to, but I just haven't sat down and
watched it.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
It's pretty dang good.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
That's I think I caught like ten minutes while I
was standing in the living room.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
I mean, it's a lot different. Yeah, but it's it's
pretty good. It's pretty it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah. Okay, you guys, hit us up. Tell us what
your favorite Disney character was from the seventies. Hit us
up at five eight oh five for one three eight
five or buzz at buzzidmedia dot com And Gretchen, I
hope you had a wonderful birthday.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Did you get anything cool for?
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Yeah? Tell us what the what? The gifts you got.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
What was she waiting on a big wheel.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Yeah, she's waiting on the big wheel. I hopefull she
was on okay, okay, where you get out of here,
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