Mailbag: Beyoncé Rips Off Franklin The Turtle

Beyoncé's new country song just hit the top of the charts... but one of our amazing listeners noticed that it is VERY similar to the theme song from Franklin the Turtle. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mailbag. You're you're always a generation away from losing everything.
Every tradition, every social construct. Social constructs aren't automatically bad.
You weirdos right tear it all down on the name
of vaquitydi let's see. I love this from the other Cheryl.

(00:25):
I enjoyed your Wednesday discussion about safetyism, one cause I
think is overlooked when moms really became professional working people.
A lot of moms worked in the past, but in
the nineties, women weren't just entering the workforce to supplement
the family income, but they're rather to have their own
fulfilling careers. These trailblazers were stereotypically Type A folks. I
think they felt guilty about not spending as much time

(00:47):
with their kids as their own mothers had, and made
up for that by making sure their kids were safe
in typical type A fashion. This created a competition between
professional women. Eventually that trickled down to many of your
most families, say mom, specifically, because I haven't observed dads
competing with each other to prove how much they care
about their kids anywhere near as much as I've seen
that behavior and women The other Cheryl, Wow, some really

(01:10):
good insights. We appreciate that. I'll take your word for it.
As a woman, Yeah, that that rings true. I think
gals would be better people to ask than me. Let's see. Okay,
Bob writes, you guys were talking about the new country
Beyonce song Texas Hold Them on Tuesday? Do we have that?
Handy Michael debuted at number one on the Country Hot

(01:32):
one hundred yesterday. Whatever that is? Does she start saying?
All right? Bob says, all right, listen to the theme
song from Franklin the Turtle. It sounds just like it.
Do we have the Franklin the Turtle theme song? Think

(02:00):
the same song? Damn?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Similar?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I don't know. Franklin the Turtle. Is that a cartooner?
It was a series of books, kids books, and they
made a cartoon out of it. Somehow I miss Franklin
the Turtle. Beyonce rips off Franklin the Turtle lawsuits pending.
Good call there, Bob.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
By the way, is uh that is are a different
kind of banjo playing, and that was frailing as opposed
to scrug style.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's important to know that when I play it's flailing. Wow.
So that's how they tried to cover up the obvious plagiarism.
Let's see speaking of audio clips, been in Portland rights.
I'm just curious, where's the Kamala clip that Jack discovered
back when Joe was imbibing in the Rhineland. This is
the most election of our lives? Do we have that, Michael?
You know every election cycle we talk about this is

(02:51):
the most election of our lifetime, Lawrence, This one is,
this one is Wow. What a ninny. She is the
most select selection of our lifetime. There's no getting around it.
There's no arguing. Certainly, let's say go duck yourself, writes
Brian from Santa Rosa. He says, I've been using Duck

(03:11):
duck go as my search engine for five years or more.
It's great, doesn't show ads before the results. Also tells
you who wants to take your information. Other things love it.
You ought to use it. That Beyonce versus Turtle thing
is really interesting, frog or whatever. Franklin's got to get
himself a lawyer, Armstrong and