Speaker 1: Hey, how's it going, How you feeling, and how you doing?
Speaker 1: It's another episode of Nerd Deficence and it's me your
Speaker 1: host if you anyway, and sitting across from me, as
Speaker 1: always is Danny Fernandez. Yes, and today we are joined
Speaker 1: by one of our good friends, very esteemed guests. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm always like, the weird thing about you know, working
Speaker 1: in this industry is you get to become friends with
Speaker 1: people who you thought were cool way before you even
Speaker 1: met them and find out the losers. Yes, yes, just
Speaker 1: like yeah. That voice you hear is none other than
Speaker 1: Malcolm Barrett. How are you doing? Hey? This is one
Speaker 1: of the most professional podcasts. Thank you. And I've been
Speaker 1: on a number of podcasts. I know we somehow, some
Speaker 1: way this week is set up, and it really I
Speaker 1: like when we have people who have been on krilling
Speaker 1: it come on this where it's like, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we got snacks, we got catered food, some of these
Speaker 1: parmesan Chris. Because I've been I think three fridges. I
Speaker 1: even told Malcolm, Hey, if you don't find the drink
Speaker 1: that you want in this fridge, we have one upstairs
Speaker 1: has even more drinks. Yeah, Um, Malcolm, so people would
Speaker 1: know you from literally everything. I feel like you've been
Speaker 1: on every show ever. Um, you're an actor, a writer,
Speaker 1: so you said, sometimes a rapper, now a play, right,
Speaker 1: But is this your you've done the play? Is this
Speaker 1: your first play that you've written full length? Place? Okay,
Speaker 1: I've written a couple of short plays. Um. I had
Speaker 1: my own theater company years ago in New York. Um,
Speaker 1: and now I have a second one. Them artistic director
Speaker 1: of Ammal Theater were devoted to diversity. Um, we have
Speaker 1: you know, women and people of color at the top
Speaker 1: making decisions. I think that's real diversity. When you just
Speaker 1: hire a guy, it's not really like you know, just
Speaker 1: like one thing they're like, hey, like what's crazy is
Speaker 1: like all these like um, I'm gonna talk about my
Speaker 1: own industry, but all these like networks they do these
Speaker 1: things where they have these like diversity initiatives and they're
Speaker 1: like we're gonna get to the bottom of this and
Speaker 1: you'll be able to speak to HR and this and
Speaker 1: that and blah blah blah. And it's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know this, it's the best diversity initiative. Hire a
Speaker 1: person of color to do the job that you're hiring
Speaker 1: white people to do. That's that's my diversity initiative. Anyway, Malcolm,
Speaker 1: what do you think that people Because we were talking
Speaker 1: about what people come up to you the most about.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like now it's timeless or does it?
Speaker 1: Because does your timeless family was like legit, like they
Speaker 1: are so hardcore standing for you guys. Yeah they are.
Speaker 1: They are. Um They're lovely and scary, which is how
Speaker 1: all relationships should be. UM there, Yeah, it's really it's definitely. UM.
Speaker 1: What's the name of the show timeless? Timeless is uh
Speaker 1: because I think, you know, I'm one of those people
Speaker 1: where you probably like, you know, it's weird to talk
Speaker 1: about my own career like this, but you've like seen
Speaker 1: in random places and things, and I've I've worked pretty
Speaker 1: regularly since like oh three or something like that. UM
Speaker 1: in the TV game and and so I think and
Speaker 1: so not. Like I was telling Iffy and tell both
Speaker 1: of you guys beforehand, it was like, okay, like usually
Speaker 1: I can tell my Sonny in Philadelphia crowd, I can
Speaker 1: tell like better better there's better off to mostly better
Speaker 1: off Ted Sunny in Philadelphia, the People's UM and Timeless
Speaker 1: people's only Black people know me from People's UM sunny
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia is usually jock white dudes and and Iffy.
Speaker 1: Look I was, I was right. I love I love that.
Speaker 1: That was my my episode. Um, Charlie Day, who I
Speaker 1: met because I did a show called Louis Uh the
Speaker 1: first Louis not the not the Bad Louis h Yeah
Speaker 1: yeah Louis Guzman. Yeah y um, so that's how we met.
Speaker 1: But yeah, mostly now it's now it's Um, it's timeless
Speaker 1: because because because it's family, it's a family show, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Which I didn't really even
Speaker 1: realize in my head. Um, but now it will be
Speaker 1: like whole white families being like, is it you rufus?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: it's really awkward. Luckily I'm bringing Rufus back. I'm ringing
Speaker 1: rufe is bad. We've been starting our podcast by asking
Speaker 1: people what they're geeking out about. Um, Malcolm, can you
Speaker 1: tell us what you're geeking out about? What am I
Speaker 1: seeking out about? Um? I'm I'm really into watching I'm
Speaker 1: a TV guy. So I've been watching Black Summer and
Speaker 1: Barry Um Bill Hayter. It's just very funny and weird. UM,
Speaker 1: and my new My new nerd hobby is, uh, these
Speaker 1: like collectible figures and things like that and like one
Speaker 1: sixth and all these things. So I got a couple
Speaker 1: like I got Planet Hulk Ragnarock one and it's pretty big.
Speaker 1: And I have um Infinity Gauntlet and Red Hood and
Speaker 1: my boy made me some a couple of cows, some
Speaker 1: Batman cow. So that's my new thing, is like putting
Speaker 1: grown up toys in my office. Like my office is
Speaker 1: just it's just like there's papers and a credenza. Because
Speaker 1: I'm an adult man. I just wanted to own something
Speaker 1: that that had that many syllables, uh and and just
Speaker 1: really stuff like that. And comics, just random comics there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I it's funny you said office because I had them
Speaker 1: in my room for a little bit. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: I can't look at you when I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: the deed. Yeah, I can't. Punisher, Punisher just looking at me.
Speaker 1: We're making eye contact. How you're thinking about? Yeah, John Burnthal,
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm peaking out about. We just had
Speaker 1: the met gala. I love that some people didn't know
Speaker 1: what camp was because that was the theme. I thought
Speaker 1: that was really it was really weird. To see people
Speaker 1: just dress really nicely. Yeah, Like I was like, well
Speaker 1: that's do you give me your tickets? Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: deserve to be there. It's funny too, because I've always
Speaker 1: like gauge different levels of career where I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to be in like a movie, and
Speaker 1: I was or I just want to be in and
Speaker 1: it's like I want to be invited to that. How
Speaker 1: do you get like, wow, those people are at a
Speaker 1: different level. Those are a different level. I realized I'm
Speaker 1: not a met Gala dude. Just I mean, it might happen.
Speaker 1: I just I don't see it. Like I bought jeans
Speaker 1: the other day. That was a big deal. Look at
Speaker 1: these blue jeans or you could do that Chadwick flex
Speaker 1: of like thanks for the invite at a blast, but
Speaker 1: I'm on setly. I think Rihanna did that too. She
Speaker 1: was working. Where is she? That's like I'm on set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan's showed up. You know, he looked good.
Speaker 1: Like I always find it interesting when guys find the
Speaker 1: best way to play it safe. Yeah, it's like like
Speaker 1: there's something on here, there's someone that's text that's like
Speaker 1: when I know when when I'm gonna be ready, When
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I'm gonna turn out. I know I'm not ready,
Speaker 1: only because I would have showed up dressed as Yogi Bear.
Speaker 1: I did not get what camp was about, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't see what this has to do. Have a
Speaker 1: little Yeah. I think that would have been funny if
Speaker 1: like a camp, Yeah, you would have had a little
Speaker 1: boy scout vest dress boy from up Yeah, like like
Speaker 1: everyone would have been like, you know, he missed the mark,
Speaker 1: but he he nailed it. I would love it if
Speaker 1: you went as a girl scout and just like handed
Speaker 1: out someone that would see that, see, that's why you're
Speaker 1: too good at this, because that would actually be on board.
Speaker 1: That would be that would be yeah, that would go
Speaker 1: what the kids called viral. So the camp is a
Speaker 1: drag queen thing. No, okay, I just was going based
Speaker 1: off Ana it is. It is heavy. I don't know
Speaker 1: who would you say create a camp. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's an aesthetic that definitely goes back to like inspired
Speaker 1: by drag queens for sure. Yeah yeah, And I think, um,
Speaker 1: but it's just like over the top, this acceptance of
Speaker 1: like I think they're trying to go against traditional art
Speaker 1: by being like completely over the top. It's almost like
Speaker 1: making fun of yourself. Okay, there's a show a great
Speaker 1: John Waters. Somebody like included a quote about what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a Simpsons episode where John Waters guest
Speaker 1: stars and any and they're like, camp is like ridiculously
Speaker 1: ludicrous or ludicously Yeah, ridiculous or or something to that effect.
Speaker 1: But it's always it's always like a sort of tongue
Speaker 1: and cheek winking, another extravagant sort of thing. Oh and
Speaker 1: then I would have had to just show up naked,
Speaker 1: like I don't know how tongue in cheek that is.
Speaker 1: There are some cheeks involved. Um, so the hallmark of
Speaker 1: camp is the spirit of extravagance. Oh yeah, we will
Speaker 1: bleep you, okay, dope are uh And you know, the
Speaker 1: thing that I obviously was seeking out about was Spider
Speaker 1: Man Far from Home. I wanted to say homecoming. H
Speaker 1: And it's so funny because it's such a good trailer,
Speaker 1: and you know, like, I'm gonna just go out with
Speaker 1: the theory that I think isn't even that much of
Speaker 1: a theory is m masterials bamboozling everybody obviously he's one
Speaker 1: of you. You're gonna show me a Spider Man trailer
Speaker 1: where one of his most prolific villains is an ally
Speaker 1: and they're fighting this no name elemental beast like you
Speaker 1: it Mysterial has bamboozled him and Nick Fury and into
Speaker 1: thinking there's a multiverse, and then the post credit scene
Speaker 1: is going to be a real multiverse, Like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I guess it doesn't exist post credit
Speaker 1: there's a multiverse. I could definitely see that. I think
Speaker 1: they're definitely setting up that Mysterious like his whole thing
Speaker 1: is he's an illusionist, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So like he's clearly just like faking good. He's he's
Speaker 1: done this and they're gonna turn over and veil himself
Speaker 1: as a villain. I think they said that that. I
Speaker 1: think that fight is actually from a cover of one
Speaker 1: of the Spiderman magazines of Mysterial versus the Water Monster
Speaker 1: or Water Guy or something like that from back in
Speaker 1: a day, So it's like a direct callback. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I think it's gonna be a whole thing.
Speaker 1: And I just I'm still young enough in watching these
Speaker 1: universes that I'm amazed that we've gotten to the point
Speaker 1: where seeing the sort of eight spider leg Spider Man
Speaker 1: suit like that, like that is a commonplace thing. You
Speaker 1: don't even think about there, Like here's a couple of
Speaker 1: seconds of that suit. You remember it, right, boom boom,
Speaker 1: and we're in not de Noir. When you see him
Speaker 1: in the old Black Yeah, it's gonna be spidy porn.
Speaker 1: That's That's what it seems like. They're just going over
Speaker 1: the top. They're like Mary Jane already knows, let's go
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, the fact that they're able to put
Speaker 1: that many suits into one movie, Like you have three
Speaker 1: different Spider Man suits in one movie, at least just
Speaker 1: from the trailer alone, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: it's the most advanced suits they got, you know, at
Speaker 1: least two out of three of them, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think jumping off into the Spider Verse coming off
Speaker 1: of that, where like you could literally see each one
Speaker 1: of those characters having them. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think that they are. Also it's like if you
Speaker 1: talk in multiverse, I'm just gonna say, I think we
Speaker 1: might see Miles. I think we might see for sure,
Speaker 1: we're talking multi versus already and they're said, They're said,
Speaker 1: are you totally I think so? I mean you got
Speaker 1: the Prowler in the in the cartoon. Plus you had
Speaker 1: Donald Glover as the Prowler in the last Spider Man one,
Speaker 1: So I mean they're they're setting up for his identity
Speaker 1: to be a little bit on a cinema it all in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially with that multiverse from Avengers, like they said
Speaker 1: the Vengers in games set up of multiverse, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And the fact when they when I
Speaker 1: heard it in Spider Man, I was like, oh, like
Speaker 1: we might really do this, Like you might really start
Speaker 1: getting these newer versions of the comics like after a
Speaker 1: new fifth too and stuff like that. Yeah, okay, I'm ready. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but today we're talking about Street Sharks. About sharks. That's
Speaker 1: the second time I've done that transition, you know, And
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just be straight up off rip. Street
Speaker 1: Sharks I liked better than Ninja Turtles. Are you I'm
Speaker 1: a California kids. Are you're talking about a blading group
Speaker 1: of you know, like because because like they are I
Speaker 1: will say half Canadian, but like you know, Ninja Turms
Speaker 1: was so New York heavy that like having the Street Sharks,
Speaker 1: and it had a lot of like, you know, l
Speaker 1: a aesthetics because you know, you had the Blades. They
Speaker 1: liked burgers, not pizza. You're you're a rocket power kid,
Speaker 1: you remember, Yeah, So I was I'm in it. I
Speaker 1: was like, let's go. I had the Street Sharks and
Speaker 1: then they brought in the Killer Whale, which was a
Speaker 1: black guy, and I was like, yes, let's go. You're
Speaker 1: making this formul love that that has been your esthetic
Speaker 1: now for like the rest of your life. It was
Speaker 1: just like a buffed out dude tongue exactly. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Street Sharks is an American Canadian animated series about
Speaker 1: the adventures of crime fighting half man half sharks. I
Speaker 1: would say they're arguably most sharks, the sharks that are
Speaker 1: out of the water. Oh yeah, but actually I just
Speaker 1: pause you one more time before you read the rest
Speaker 1: of him. I have revisited it since I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and this is definitely a kid if he loved this.
Speaker 1: And now, to for lack of a better phrase and
Speaker 1: actually the best pun, this is a show that has
Speaker 1: jumped the sharks from the beginning. I was waiting to
Speaker 1: say that I wanted it so bad, Like from the beginning,
Speaker 1: built this in. I built the whole materials around this
Speaker 1: one joke. I can't do the jomp no more. Malcolm,
Speaker 1: when you when you said that you were up for
Speaker 1: Street Sharks, why did this pop into your head? Because
Speaker 1: I love eighties and nineties cartoons. So I love battle Cats,
Speaker 1: I love what is it? Uh? I love battle Toads
Speaker 1: or what was it was boom Cats or whatever the
Speaker 1: hell those things were. I can't remember. There was like
Speaker 1: the Mecca, like the Mecca Ninja Cats. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all those like weird things X Men, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: biker mice from Mars. I love that show. That was
Speaker 1: weird boy. Yeah, I just love these weird I thought
Speaker 1: the animation was all weird and fun and like, I
Speaker 1: feel like those shows either went super dark or rewatching
Speaker 1: Street Sharks went super environmental, like like the big thing
Speaker 1: Free Willy, all of you stop polluting the ocean coming out. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a whole thing about New Captain Planet. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a whole nuclear weapons arc. Slowly going to get that
Speaker 1: into the kid's head. Yeah, it's talking about the Cold War. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like really weird, But I love Street Sharks because
Speaker 1: I don't know, I loved eighties and nineties and not
Speaker 1: ones from the nineties. I just loved how preposterous these cartoons.
Speaker 1: Like I just feel like, I feel like SpongeBob is
Speaker 1: like relatively normal as a cartoon. It's like undersea creatures.
Speaker 1: They were giving them names and faces, like it's just
Speaker 1: a starfish. But like all of Street Sharks is about
Speaker 1: these super cool nineties X game kids who turned in
Speaker 1: the Shark Outlaws sharks like who keep getting framed, which
Speaker 1: which is apparently amazingly easy to frame a bunch of
Speaker 1: anthropomorphic sharks, because I feel like once you see an
Speaker 1: anthropomorphic shark and something happens, you could just be like
Speaker 1: the sharks didn't Like probably sharks probably did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's oh my gosh, But I feel like it's also
Speaker 1: I really wanted to revisit it because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's the joke that you have, Like everyone kind of
Speaker 1: knows Street Sharks, but like, I don't know that you
Speaker 1: could And I think I can come close now, but
Speaker 1: I dare you to name all four Street Sharks. Well,
Speaker 1: I cheated, I don't go off the top top. Alright,
Speaker 1: I'm moving the phone away Ripster. There's ripster whose real
Speaker 1: name is I don't know, I don't know. It's really
Speaker 1: John okay John Bolton. Was there one called bite? No? No,
Speaker 1: okay no, but there is a one word now, uh blade?
Speaker 1: All right, let's just go. There's a jab right, there's
Speaker 1: a ripster. There's uh not tsunami, h not Shamo. Just
Speaker 1: just think of where we're at in this show. What
Speaker 1: would they call Shamo? It was god damn, it was
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on its ripster, ripster, jab streets at
Speaker 1: k blades and then Killer Camu or something like that
Speaker 1: was his first name, Big big, what is it big
Speaker 1: slam big slam mood was not Shamo slam Oo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh man, Yeah no that was that was that was crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's basically uh. It follows the university professor named
Speaker 1: Dr Robert Bolton and his partner Dr Luther Paradigm. Which
Speaker 1: is funny in all these shows, even in Mega Man,
Speaker 1: it always seems like every scientist has a counterpart who's
Speaker 1: just bad that you never caught on up until the
Speaker 1: moment you try to do the big here a bit.
Speaker 1: It's true. There's always like one good scientists, one diet
Speaker 1: scientists and they're best friends for yeah, uh you know
Speaker 1: it's but they create a machine known as the gene Slammer.
Speaker 1: None of the scientists. Yeah. So so this this show
Speaker 1: was an embodiment of that moment in the early odds
Speaker 1: when everything had to be extreme. You had Extreme Dorito's
Speaker 1: Extreme Clean deodorant. This is this is like the most
Speaker 1: nineties show. And that's why I said it really took
Speaker 1: all of the anthropomorphic animals shows and they're like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna jump the shot literally. Uh but then um, you know,
Speaker 1: uh he he It was hybrid. He was doing a
Speaker 1: hybrid experiment, turning aquatic animals into like anthropomorphic hybrids, combining
Speaker 1: their DNAs with humans. And uh, obviously Robert Bolton needed
Speaker 1: to stop. Yeah, he had to stop Paradigm from using
Speaker 1: the machine for personal power. I don't know what other
Speaker 1: reason you'd use the machine. Um and then uh then
Speaker 1: both and has turned into a monster and he escapes
Speaker 1: and Paradigm gives Bolton's four sons, John, Bobby and Coupe
Speaker 1: and Clint the likenesses of four different sharks, and when
Speaker 1: Dr Paradigm captures their friend Bends, the resulting street sharks
Speaker 1: rescue him and combined Paradigm with the Piranhadin. Yes, uh
Speaker 1: Dr Parana, Yeah, Parana paranoid by other characters, and and
Speaker 1: and so uh Dr Paradigm. It creates a variety of
Speaker 1: monsters to destroy the Street Sharks while trying to persuade
Speaker 1: the inhabitants of their native metropolis of Fission City to
Speaker 1: imprison them. And uh so then a few uh ended
Speaker 1: up becoming friends with the Street Sharks, which we got
Speaker 1: our brother who ended up becoming moby Lick Yeah rock
Speaker 1: in Manta man Um. And then eventually as it got
Speaker 1: later into the series, we got the Dino Vengers. From
Speaker 1: that series, it was yeah, the extreme Dinosaurs, oh man,
Speaker 1: And I remember that one because that one they were
Speaker 1: in a they're trying to prevent uh the other dinosaurs
Speaker 1: from creating global warming. Yeah, the Raptors bad rap. So
Speaker 1: they ran from to seven and the creators were David
Speaker 1: Siegel and Joe Galiani. I thought there was a female creator,
Speaker 1: you know, and she wasn't credited. Um, but yeah, so
Speaker 1: what I guess what was your favorite? What was the
Speaker 1: shark that you gravitated towards the most? My favorite shark,
Speaker 1: even though I can never remember his name was Killer.
Speaker 1: I like blades. I like trees because just because he
Speaker 1: had rollerblades and they would sometimes not be there and
Speaker 1: then sometimes automatically be there, um, which is like one
Speaker 1: of those weird cartoon conventions were only like they would
Speaker 1: just skip out, like someone didn't pay the money that
Speaker 1: day for like those couple of frames. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I liked him just because he was he was rollerblading.
Speaker 1: That was literally it. But then but then it was weird.
Speaker 1: Is they clearly got so I was looking up the
Speaker 1: first season, it's like three episodes or something like that,
Speaker 1: and in the second season they like extend. But what's
Speaker 1: great is they clearly got a memo because two big
Speaker 1: things change, which is that um, the opening song changed,
Speaker 1: because the opening song used to sound like Mr. Sandman
Speaker 1: or some old sort of nineteen fifties before people had rights,
Speaker 1: so it was like it was like they fight, they fight, um,
Speaker 1: and then they just sort of updated it until it
Speaker 1: was like more sort of like a California, you know,
Speaker 1: surf tempo song. Um. And also Ripster suddenly had powers,
Speaker 1: like he suddenly had like tele telekinetic or sort of
Speaker 1: psych powers that only came into play for I think
Speaker 1: literally one episode, like I think they gave it to
Speaker 1: him and then forgotten was like, how did they get
Speaker 1: that power? Would we give that shark giant sharks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't need to tell the future. Yeah, no, that
Speaker 1: that was the fun thing about it. My favorites were
Speaker 1: both jab and um Ripster and those were because those
Speaker 1: were the darker. Those were the darker, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: that definitely was an initiative thing, like they definitely were like,
Speaker 1: let's create some dark ones because I've never seen sharks.
Speaker 1: If He color that was the color scheme for these sharks,
Speaker 1: was like, oh if He and uh Steph Curry those
Speaker 1: those were the two sharks. But I was here for it.
Speaker 1: And then they then they brought my man's moby licking.
Speaker 1: I was very happy. Well, and then they had the
Speaker 1: black chick scientist at the beginning Lena, which was cool. Well,
Speaker 1: this is something, but I think her brother gets on
Speaker 1: drugs or something, you know, I bet they were trying
Speaker 1: to get in one of those Saturday storylines, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Hey, what I found these in your bedroom?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to like one of those ps is
Speaker 1: that they did happened Like her brother Malik is taking
Speaker 1: like drug like muscle enhancing pills. Talk to um also
Speaker 1: if he inspired and then and then uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they find out and then it's like a whole thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's very weird. They super fleshed out the
Speaker 1: personalities of each of these characters, which I want to
Speaker 1: get into, but we have to take a quick break,
Speaker 1: not pop back into Street Sharks right after this Street
Speaker 1: Sharks and we're back. We're still here, joined by Malcolm So.
Speaker 1: The first one up of the Street Sharks Ripster John Bolton.
Speaker 1: I love that they have like regular names, regular names.
Speaker 1: And what's great is they suddenly adapt their new names,
Speaker 1: like while they're chilling like um Ben, suddenly he's like, man,
Speaker 1: you really ripped it. You're a bit of a ripster.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, ripster. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is the interesting thing. Why would they change their for
Speaker 1: all intends of purposes? We're the same person. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna call you. They have to get a new driver's
Speaker 1: license and all of that. You could just show up
Speaker 1: as a shark named John Bolton. Let's talk about how
Speaker 1: bad that home life was. This is a single father
Speaker 1: of four children, and this father is also a scientist,
Speaker 1: so he's not at home. No, noot sharks. Let me
Speaker 1: really get let me really get into the meat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet, I bet somebody's trying. Somebody's trying to reboot
Speaker 1: all of these. All I could think when I once
Speaker 1: I saw them going into space, all I could think
Speaker 1: of is like, we literally have like a raccoon in space,
Speaker 1: a raccoon for the elites, a raccoon and a track
Speaker 1: a train in space. I was like, we could definitely
Speaker 1: have sharks in space. Yea, Like why is that? Like, now,
Speaker 1: that's not as weird as it seems, but you know,
Speaker 1: you've seen that one like weird crocodile hurricane movie that's
Speaker 1: coming out, and the crawl is what it's called. And
Speaker 1: the funny thing about it is, at first, like when
Speaker 1: I first started the trailer, I'm like, Okay, this is dumb.
Speaker 1: By the end of the trailer, your boy was sold.
Speaker 1: I was like, let's go, let's crawl. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we can have sharks and stuff. There's like seven
Speaker 1: shark nadoes. Yeah, oh my gosh, you know, and you
Speaker 1: know what, pretty great, pretty good time and you're just
Speaker 1: want to get stoned and watch something funny with your friends. Look,
Speaker 1: it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's always there's
Speaker 1: always that dip because there's always like when a movie
Speaker 1: is like pretty bad because you know, they earnestly tried
Speaker 1: and it just didn't work out, you know, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts in here, you know, we
Speaker 1: need we're not trying to dog anyone up. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you make something bad and it's like genuinely funny. But
Speaker 1: then like when people lean into that where it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna be bad, then it's never as
Speaker 1: funny good, yeah, because it's like like there's something about
Speaker 1: like honest, like it's just like a fake fall and
Speaker 1: an actual fault. Like if I see someone trip and
Speaker 1: it's funny, you know, but if someone like tries to
Speaker 1: fake trip to make me laugh, it's you just see
Speaker 1: the you see the attempt to fall Street Sharks. How
Speaker 1: do you I want to adapt that? I want that
Speaker 1: to be a thing I was having when Ninja Turtles
Speaker 1: came out. They made that work. Yeah, the original Ninja Turtles. Man,
Speaker 1: they're bringing uh yeah. But I think that might also
Speaker 1: be because we watch it with an air of nostalgia
Speaker 1: in a way that like maybe the younger general. I
Speaker 1: try to show my niece some videos when I was
Speaker 1: visiting with her, and it was just like she just
Speaker 1: doesn't gravitate towards them the same way that she does
Speaker 1: hurt her newer like Mowanna she'll relate to. She doesn't
Speaker 1: like the older Disney movies as much. I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you go back to Eastman and you show Little Boys,
Speaker 1: that's Eastman, Little Boys and little Girls. I'm little girls
Speaker 1: like violence too, uh. But like he was one of
Speaker 1: the creators of the Teenage Mutant the comics when it
Speaker 1: was like straight, when it was not for kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I loved it. I was like, this is it. But
Speaker 1: I feel like it's very like Edge Lordie, and I
Speaker 1: feel like people would be still be into that. But
Speaker 1: like I feel like the original t m NT that
Speaker 1: we grew up on, that we that was better quote unquote,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, there's like an air of nostalgia for it.
Speaker 1: So we have Ripster, who is the smartest, the leader,
Speaker 1: and the oldest of the four brothers, who enjoys creating inventions.
Speaker 1: He has taken up most of his knowledge and skills
Speaker 1: from his father. He's also added this an avid pool player,
Speaker 1: he's a pool shark and the Wow Wow. In the
Speaker 1: first episode of the show, John rides a motorbike. When
Speaker 1: transformed into Ripster, he becomes a great white shark, able
Speaker 1: to bite through steel as well as having extrasensory ability.
Speaker 1: Like you were saying, yeah, it's interesting that they wanted
Speaker 1: to flesh. I just imagined someone they came with. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's a shark and they're like, yes, but like,
Speaker 1: what is his what is his motivation? What is his obstacles?
Speaker 1: There's scenes where he's playing pool and I don't understand
Speaker 1: how it's moving the plot and it's amazing, Like because
Speaker 1: they clearly came up with a word play before they
Speaker 1: came up with the scene. They're like, he's a pool
Speaker 1: shark genius right the scene. I want to take one
Speaker 1: moment to correct myself. I do a quick Google search.
Speaker 1: There are iffy colored sharks. They're out there. I don't
Speaker 1: want to erase any of our brothers. Sharks has already
Speaker 1: tweeted to me because they tweeted before it got to
Speaker 1: this part of the podcast. Does work? No, people people
Speaker 1: like will They're like, when they finished the end of
Speaker 1: the episode, they'll tweet and they're like, oh, never mind,
Speaker 1: you clear to that. Never mind I listened to twenty
Speaker 1: seconds later. Yeah, you just gotta wait. Well, lots of
Speaker 1: times I like to you google what I say. I
Speaker 1: like this because I'm usually on podcasts where they don't
Speaker 1: care about actual information, not survive. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: because we're that was a piece of the Parmjohn Crisp,
Speaker 1: I'm having a ball over. You don't understands my best life.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, well you know stuff, Media, now, I
Speaker 1: heart media has has been known for getting there if
Speaker 1: the zacts shipped straight. So when you're held to the
Speaker 1: same standard, you know, I was gonna say, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna like call out specific podcast networks. But
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to start no beefs, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to just no, Zigler, I'm coming at your neck,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, chopping you right in the neck. Zigler.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, by the way, jab Clint Bolton is the
Speaker 1: lazy is the laziest of the street show they have
Speaker 1: to do, but enjoys boxing sport. Yeah, and he won
Speaker 1: the race at the beginning of the episode, and he
Speaker 1: appears to have some talent with mechanics and when he's
Speaker 1: transformed into jab he becomes a scalloped hammer head shark
Speaker 1: and uses his head as a battering ram. But then
Speaker 1: we have Streaks. It's pronounced really weird because it's got
Speaker 1: to exce at the end of something. It streaks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next we have Streaks, which is Robert Bobby Bolton Jr.
Speaker 1: Is a level headed, cool, and self proclaimed ladies man.
Speaker 1: That is not something that you. That is a that
Speaker 1: is a title that is given to you, not what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. He's always but these two things don't
Speaker 1: go hand in hand. He's well, actually he's a self
Speaker 1: proclaimed ladies man, and he's always shown wearing roller blades
Speaker 1: um so that yeah, and appears to enjoy parachuting and
Speaker 1: snowboarding and later plays drums professionally. Wow, I know exactly
Speaker 1: who this person is. When transformed into Streaks, he becomes
Speaker 1: a tiger Shore, named after the purple streaks on his body.
Speaker 1: In the toy line, he was originally called Blades for
Speaker 1: his skills as a roller blader. So something that we
Speaker 1: talked about Malcolm and our teenage mutant in De Turtle
Speaker 1: episode was that they were largely the show was created
Speaker 1: to sell toys, and we brought that up about um,
Speaker 1: several other of these eighties and nineties series. To me,
Speaker 1: it helps ground everyone where they're like, not my teenage
Speaker 1: mut the art and I'm like, but my show, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, but your show was created to sell to Like,
Speaker 1: you know, let's I still think it's great, and I
Speaker 1: still think it's funny and awesome, but like, let's take
Speaker 1: it down or not. It's no, it's always funny when
Speaker 1: people don't realize, like all of these cartoons for for toys, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, their their marketability. They had
Speaker 1: to prove that how are they going to sell ads? Um.
Speaker 1: That was a conversation again that my man Rod Serling
Speaker 1: had uh talking about you know how you have to
Speaker 1: kind of please that even though you're creating art. It's like,
Speaker 1: how are we going to please our ad sales at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. That's how you make shows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we all remember those really cool Twilight Zone toys.
Speaker 1: Next up, Big Slim also Streets or Streets is Streaks
Speaker 1: or whatever. He's played by what was it, what's the
Speaker 1: last letter X Streaks? Yeah, Um, someone's going to correct us.
Speaker 1: Someone is it Streets? Yeah, I think it's Streaks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's played by dude from Book of Mormon. Really yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: who's on that Don Cheetle show now? Yeah Andrews? Yes, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do not know that storied career. Yeah, he's guy
Speaker 1: he's been acting on since he was like fifteen or something. Um,
Speaker 1: Big Slim Move and Dr Robert Bolton are both voiced
Speaker 1: by d Kevin Williams. Yeah, I'm gonna. I just want
Speaker 1: you to read that last sentence on Streaks again. Oh.
Speaker 1: In the toy line, he was originally called Blades give
Speaker 1: me my money, y'all. I want you all to read
Speaker 1: one When I was laughed away from the mic Blade, No,
Speaker 1: I think you said Wheels. I said no because because
Speaker 1: I had the Streaks toy and I had the Lobster.
Speaker 1: So so that's why I said Blade instead of Streaks,
Speaker 1: because that was what my toys said. You were laughed.
Speaker 1: I was laughed away from the mic, but I just
Speaker 1: felt good inside. You know you can laugh at man. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cooper Bolt so Big slim O Coop Bolton is the
Speaker 1: strongest and youngest of the four. He's also a football player, yes,
Speaker 1: in high school. In the first episode, he uses a skateboard.
Speaker 1: When transformed into Big slim Oo, he becomes a whale shark,
Speaker 1: and his most prominent maneuver is the seismic slam, in
Speaker 1: which he may shake or crack the ground with his fist.
Speaker 1: Sounds kind of like Hulk, but yeah, and that was
Speaker 1: a real cool move. Which, by the way, this is
Speaker 1: a great point time to mention that there was a
Speaker 1: lot of collateral damage within the street Sharks and what
Speaker 1: they did when they would dive into the asphalt and
Speaker 1: create these just streaks. We can have it on these streets,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what to do in to the
Speaker 1: public workers here. Like also I want to say, you know,
Speaker 1: no offense to all my coups, Bobbies, Clint's and John's,
Speaker 1: but that that's not a name I think a scientist
Speaker 1: was gonna go for, Like this is someone who's about
Speaker 1: to have a legacy frat sons yea to Clinton, Yeah, Cope,
Speaker 1: Coop a Man, Coop oh Man. And then we have
Speaker 1: Dr Robert Bolton. Uh. I just love that Bolton was
Speaker 1: the last name they went with. H They didn't go
Speaker 1: deep with like Paradigm Parade was like you're like yeah,
Speaker 1: but Bolton you know that. You gotta a university professor
Speaker 1: and the father of the Bolton Bros. Who invented the
Speaker 1: gene manipulation device for peaceful uses. Once again, what is
Speaker 1: the peaceful years for that? I don't know, but the
Speaker 1: same thing ass. So I look at this as Jurassic Park,
Speaker 1: which they ended up addressing that because originally it was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: we want to create these creatures or recreate these creatures,
Speaker 1: and then eventually it's like what happens when it's in
Speaker 1: the wrong hand and they actually try to turn them
Speaker 1: into weapons. So I was glad that they finally because
Speaker 1: at first it's like, oh, they're killing us, and then
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we could use them to kill So
Speaker 1: I'm glad that in the franchise they finally address that.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I think that that is comparable is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to create. I want to see what I
Speaker 1: can create, what kind of um, you know, creature can
Speaker 1: I create with this d n A. And then it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: but of course there's somebody that's going to use it
Speaker 1: for bad and it's your buddy who's evil. You've been
Speaker 1: doing science with fresh friend years. That's Bud who has
Speaker 1: science it up with yeah, uh yeah, and then uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much so afterward he is only ever represented
Speaker 1: by a shadow cast on the wall. I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: So what happens is very in the very first episode,
Speaker 1: he tries to stop his best friend slash Matt scientist
Speaker 1: buddy paradigm um, and then I think he gets hit
Speaker 1: with the stuff he gets hit with, like some genetic stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he just you just know, he looks horrible. That's
Speaker 1: all you really know. And then you like see him
Speaker 1: in the shadows for like two and a half years.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a missed opportunity to talk about acceptance.
Speaker 1: It does, right, Yeah, you never see him. He's arrested.
Speaker 1: He's like he's like the good version of Dr Claw,
Speaker 1: Like you kind of almost see him, and he never
Speaker 1: really do. He helps some people out, and it's great
Speaker 1: is he sends them helpful emails throughout the show, but
Speaker 1: it's the nineties, so it's like the first time they're
Speaker 1: depicting emails in a cartoon. And my favorite is like
Speaker 1: there's a giant She's like, I have an email and
Speaker 1: it's like a giant envelope on the screen and she
Speaker 1: goes an email at this time of night, like like
Speaker 1: an email at seven thirty. That's insane. That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: So then we have Curtain Thomas Bolton, who's an ancestor
Speaker 1: of the protagonist who was encountered in the episode Sir
Speaker 1: Shark a Lot. He is the target of Paradigms time
Speaker 1: travel excursion to destroy the Bolton family. And I go
Speaker 1: back in time, which every cartoon anthropomorphic show does. They
Speaker 1: always have to go back in time. Yeah, you get
Speaker 1: you definitely want to go back in time. I mean
Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles did that? What movie number three? Third one?
Speaker 1: Sir shark a Lot. I love their need to be relevant.
Speaker 1: I played with my brother. There's the trivia game that
Speaker 1: you can play on Amazon Echo. It's like a music trivia.
Speaker 1: You can just like Echo play or Alexa play whatever
Speaker 1: like music trivia, and when you win around or when
Speaker 1: you win a question, she'll be like lit And then
Speaker 1: she'll be like stay woke. I'm like what who wrote this?
Speaker 1: Not kidding? You? Go play your music trivia game on
Speaker 1: Alexa and she'll be like, uh cool a for something
Speaker 1: like that, Like those are her words. Somebody totally hype eat.
Speaker 1: I just can't believe the one that was like they
Speaker 1: woke in her robotic voice. Let's dip into you know
Speaker 1: our man's Doctor Luther Paradigm. You know your voice by J.
Speaker 1: Michael Lee. He's the main antagonist. He was also a professor.
Speaker 1: He had a metal eye patching kind of gives it away.
Speaker 1: Just these evil scientists just hanging out with you. Well,
Speaker 1: and then he wears. Then he winds up wearing this
Speaker 1: like big metal outfit to like defend. And I must
Speaker 1: say there is a plot hole in uh Street Sharks,
Speaker 1: which which is that he's like he's like first he's
Speaker 1: on a good side and they're bad, and then like
Speaker 1: but then he like beats up a cop or two
Speaker 1: or something like that, and then like and he goes
Speaker 1: into hiding and you'd think he'd be the bad guy
Speaker 1: from on, but he's not. They're like, you know, they're like,
Speaker 1: he's got to come back. He's looting the nose. How
Speaker 1: to stop the Street Sharks because all the episodes are connected,
Speaker 1: like twenty four you know what I mean, Like you'd
Speaker 1: end the next episode would be so he beat up
Speaker 1: the cop and the cops, a lot of the cops.
Speaker 1: I guess they forgot what they weren't cops. They might
Speaker 1: have been military or something like that. Which it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: now we still need you. We look these these like
Speaker 1: roads have been jacked. After we waited all you could
Speaker 1: beat up more of us. It was really a municipal show.
Speaker 1: The show was about municipalities. Yeah, and then uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently you know, Dr Paradise even goes on to create
Speaker 1: uh and he injects himself with iguana DNA, which was
Speaker 1: given to him by the raptors, and uh, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. He thought it was going to be the
Speaker 1: loss of raptor DNA. And then he became dr Iguana
Speaker 1: Zoid and he said, and he helped out the raptors anyway,
Speaker 1: hoping that they will actually give him the loss of
Speaker 1: raptor DNA. That's like the second to last episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then by Shark Apocalypse Now, which is the finale,
Speaker 1: that's series finale, the dr Iguana Zoid is apprehended by
Speaker 1: the street Sharks. You know, really heavy movie for a
Speaker 1: kids show. That's a great reference. Yeah, Apocalypse Now. Kids
Speaker 1: love Apocalypse movie. They you know, they really love movies
Speaker 1: about Vietnam. They're just drinking them all in and so
Speaker 1: your guy Moby Lick Jets. His name was Jets Taylor, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, his first name was Jets. That's amazing,
Speaker 1: like not Jet, but like his parents wanted him to
Speaker 1: be a football player. Is a good friend of the
Speaker 1: Bolton Brothers and Ben's. Under Dr Paradigms mind Control, Jets
Speaker 1: is combined with a killer whale by Dr Paradigm in
Speaker 1: order to make his latest CVI it, which is a
Speaker 1: bad guy becoming moby Lick. I mean that, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the best name for a kid's but
Speaker 1: sure because they already wasted big slim guy who's not
Speaker 1: a killer. Honestly, Moby Dick probably would have been worse.
Speaker 1: So he later broke free of Doctor Paradigms Mind Control
Speaker 1: and became an ally of the Street Sharks. Moby Dick
Speaker 1: has a long tongue, which is the source of his name,
Speaker 1: great strength, and the ability to inhale water and expel
Speaker 1: it through his blow hole, and later demonstrated the ability
Speaker 1: to communicate with other killer whales. In Shark Hunt, it
Speaker 1: is revealed that Moby became an eco conservationist. I love
Speaker 1: that in the Everglades National Park they needed to be like,
Speaker 1: how can we educate these kids? I loved it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're deep were I mean, something was going on. We're
Speaker 1: really pushing the conservationist movement. What happened, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We stopped we need it more now. We stopped after
Speaker 1: friend two or whatever. Yeah, they're like stopped cutting the trees.
Speaker 1: And then it was like you know what, um, we're
Speaker 1: just not going to give this, you know, buy some
Speaker 1: more toys. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. They were doing these
Speaker 1: like t V shows about you know, saving the environment
Speaker 1: and recycling and using them to sell plastic toys. We
Speaker 1: were playing the game all along. We fell for the trap.
Speaker 1: We fell for the trap. We're gonna go deep into
Speaker 1: some of the villains after this and you know, talk
Speaker 1: about some of our favorite episodes. It seems like I
Speaker 1: had a short run as a kid. I remember it
Speaker 1: being much longer, but as but that's because you watched
Speaker 1: the same episode twenty times and you're like, yeah it's
Speaker 1: it's a new one or something. Oh yeah, that is
Speaker 1: a short run. I'm gonna go back and watch them
Speaker 1: one now. But we'll get into that after these messages
Speaker 1: and we're back, and yeah, you were right, there were
Speaker 1: only forty episodes. There was only three seasons. I guess
Speaker 1: it is pretty cool though that it had such a
Speaker 1: big impact that, like, I feel everyone our age and
Speaker 1: maybe the generation after an above No Street Sharks, I
Speaker 1: feel like every street Sharks like not as intensely as
Speaker 1: they know Ninja turtles, but they like, no, they're sharks
Speaker 1: that were on the street. They're anthropomorphic, you know, Calabunga sharks.
Speaker 1: And I guess there was there was also we didn't
Speaker 1: mention this a direct to video feature film. Have you
Speaker 1: seen that? Yes, as they do on VHS. Direct to
Speaker 1: video feature film of the Street Sharks with all Oh
Speaker 1: No all season one episode Shark Bait, Shark Bite, and
Speaker 1: Shark Storm that were combined into one titled The Gene
Speaker 1: Slamming Begins. It was then followed by two episode movies
Speaker 1: using episodes from season two. One was Shark Quests with
Speaker 1: two episodes Shark Quest and Loan Shark, and the other
Speaker 1: was Shark and Roll with two episodes. This sounds like,
Speaker 1: is this a movie direct to video feature film? It
Speaker 1: sounds like they're just combining the episodes. Sometimes they repackage it.
Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like. By the way, I Love
Speaker 1: I loved I Love Street Sharks because they were all
Speaker 1: pretty cool about turning into sharks, like there was no
Speaker 1: traumatic They're like yeah, yeah, they're like well, if you
Speaker 1: think about it, if you like think of like nineties
Speaker 1: high school kids, if you don't do it, shark, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, jawsome, that's literally what happened. They were
Speaker 1: like they were like all right, like they didn't care.
Speaker 1: And also it was like around they also were like
Speaker 1: hitting on women the episode, which is like the women
Speaker 1: were really attracted to them. When you think about how
Speaker 1: terrifying this would look, because even if you have to
Speaker 1: the the head to body ratio on the Street Sharks,
Speaker 1: I don't want to understand that anatomy. No, I completely get.
Speaker 1: It's why everybody was in love with the Lost in
Speaker 1: Space robot because they're like, oh, I just want something
Speaker 1: that's not the men that I'm around. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: That's like the joke that I see all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, what you're not, like, you're not the
Speaker 1: human man that I have to deal with all the time. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'll take you. I mean you're gonna get ghosted just
Speaker 1: by a man who's a shark. Can you imagine you
Speaker 1: wake up, you go to sleep with a shark. Can
Speaker 1: you wake up and it's a regular man? You're like, no,
Speaker 1: where was the or you wake up and it's like
Speaker 1: sharks in the ground, it's through the ground. Didn't I
Speaker 1: see butthole? Oh there's um there. I watched this of
Speaker 1: the toys. I watched this commercial vin Diesel. Yeah was
Speaker 1: that where he's yea yeah, yeah. That was also a
Speaker 1: period where we were comfortable with anthropomorphic animals and people
Speaker 1: having sex like Howard the Duck style. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, where are we going? I didn't know,
Speaker 1: you know, with this new lion king. That's all I
Speaker 1: see on my time. It's not all I see, but
Speaker 1: it's a lot of what I see on my time,
Speaker 1: like some sexy. One thing I remember is uh ripsters boots,
Speaker 1: these boots that he was my man like. He looked
Speaker 1: like he was turned up. What's even scarier is people
Speaker 1: have a live action fan art of what they would
Speaker 1: look like in real life. Is scarily arousing. Scarily I
Speaker 1: was going to use a different edity have tix pack abs.
Speaker 1: It kind of looked like thor but with a shark head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very comfortable, yes, or as Danny would say, sexy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think the Internet is also embraced that fully.
Speaker 1: I mean we're in a weird time. Yeah. But what
Speaker 1: was interesting about the Street Sharks is they weren't shy
Speaker 1: about completely leaning into the fact that they were in
Speaker 1: direct opposition of the Ninja Turtles. So that's why they
Speaker 1: were in the burgers because there's literally a scene where
Speaker 1: they're like, pizza, give me a burger, which, like who
Speaker 1: says that person with taste buds chooses one of the
Speaker 1: those are like apples and oranges, literally disgusted by pizza,
Speaker 1: but totally for a burger. Yeah, you you like a both.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. See, and we're gonna find some weird nerd
Speaker 1: fan that are going to be like not if he
Speaker 1: actually I hate pizza and I think I don't be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with you. They're a
Speaker 1: direct competition. They had like a fake beeB up and
Speaker 1: ruck steady. Yeah, it was. It was so funny. And
Speaker 1: what's funny is I was on the Street Shark side.
Speaker 1: I was drinking it off. I was like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: like they don't need weapons, they go under the asphalt.
Speaker 1: I love that. It's like a Biggie pock thing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it was. I know. But teenage muting turtles
Speaker 1: still kicking Street Sharks rested. True, But I bet it
Speaker 1: will come back. And I also probably in ten years
Speaker 1: will have a live action version. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see me. If it is, you will see my name
Speaker 1: in the credits some shape or form. I could see
Speaker 1: you as a street if that means I have to
Speaker 1: be a p a. My name is going to be
Speaker 1: in the post. I can't see his mobi lick. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We can't forget about Roxy. You can't forget about Rocks,
Speaker 1: who are the only female Street Sharks, and you know
Speaker 1: that because she has eyelashes and is pink um. Every
Speaker 1: time that you have a female character, you know, she
Speaker 1: has the big lipstick. She's wearing a bikini top right here.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I don't even know about Roxy. Is
Speaker 1: that really end? I think so it's when they really
Speaker 1: went into the Street Sharks m c U. Because Roxy
Speaker 1: is like the big problem with a lot of especially
Speaker 1: nineties just anything where it's like you gotta give them
Speaker 1: breast and lipstick, like it just looks bad. But the
Speaker 1: fact that the picture and it's very un comfortable. I
Speaker 1: don't have the same that Danny had. What it was
Speaker 1: just kidding. I mean I did have a crush. There
Speaker 1: are several cartoon characters I had a crush on um
Speaker 1: one of which is Max from a Goofy movie. Huge crush.
Speaker 1: I know there are people out there listening that all.
Speaker 1: So I had a crush on him, and I weirdly
Speaker 1: also had a crush on Jack Skellington from A Nightmare
Speaker 1: Before Christmas. Cool. He dressed well right, and he has
Speaker 1: a deep, low, like sexy voice. I think it's the voice.
Speaker 1: I think it's because a lot of these are animated,
Speaker 1: so I think it's the voice. The voice of them.
Speaker 1: Max had a really cute voice. It was the voice
Speaker 1: of like somebody that I would date my age or whatever,
Speaker 1: even though he was in high school and I was
Speaker 1: in elementary school. I'm sure I had a crush on
Speaker 1: every female cartoon Yeah, like Lola Bunny. How many guys
Speaker 1: crush on Lola Bunny, Rock Sand from a Goofy movie.
Speaker 1: I want to go back and really look into the
Speaker 1: fashion of each and every one of these street sharks,
Speaker 1: because I think it's something that we glossed over that
Speaker 1: is truly truly unique. So like like I said, for Ripster,
Speaker 1: he had a belt, buckle, jeans and some like straight
Speaker 1: up bant the boots like which you know, if you're
Speaker 1: not Latin next you just don't know. I'm sorry, if
Speaker 1: you don't know, you you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. That's straight cool style. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the boots he's kicking with. And then you have yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right. Uh look I grew up in Compton, like
Speaker 1: in like Dorothea Flats neighborhood, which they really weren't messing
Speaker 1: with black people, but you know we get along when
Speaker 1: we got along, uh because of Puerto Ricans. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well that was what's so interesting. This is night once
Speaker 1: again another one of our because like growing up like
Speaker 1: my my like Latin X community was Salvadorians, Guatemalans and Mexicans,
Speaker 1: like I'm sure they would probably Puerto Ricans, definitely Cubans,
Speaker 1: but like like like it's crazy to see like where
Speaker 1: the like capitals are, Like the Nigerian capital is Houston,
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's where all the Nigerians be at and
Speaker 1: I'm surprised my dad didn't move there. So it's like
Speaker 1: interesting to see where people of color just kind of
Speaker 1: gravitate towards and they're like, yeah, this is our spot.
Speaker 1: Mine was my families from San Diego and so Chula
Speaker 1: Vista Mexican and the San Antonio, Mexican and it was
Speaker 1: just Mexican. That was that was us. We just gravitated
Speaker 1: words where which what um let me get the name
Speaker 1: of them all streaks? Which one was Streaks. That's the Rollerblader. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my man is in rollerblades at all times, Like I
Speaker 1: think that's something we glossed over that and in every
Speaker 1: scene you look at Streaks, he's in rollerblade. We don't
Speaker 1: talk about how this is just how he has especially
Speaker 1: made rollerblades for himself. There was Giant Sharks. How he's
Speaker 1: running with everyone and fighting and he has blades on
Speaker 1: the like and he's got neon green shorts that are
Speaker 1: ripped and it's like, what is going on? I like that.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, he can't, like it has to be unbuttoned.
Speaker 1: It would be unrealistic if it was buttoned all the way.
Speaker 1: But he is in blades all the time. That that
Speaker 1: we will stick to at all times. Then we have
Speaker 1: Big Slam, who's you know, just to remind us that
Speaker 1: he's a football player, is always wearing the bottoms always
Speaker 1: once again another all of these pieces of clothing. It
Speaker 1: looks like he's in spring training. Yes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: But it was like, but that was like nineties cartoon,
Speaker 1: whereas like your personality and status in high school, that's
Speaker 1: your costume, that's who you are. Yeah, you're always you're
Speaker 1: the jock, so you're always going to be wearing And
Speaker 1: then the hammer Head was wearing like wrestling pants. I
Speaker 1: don't know what those look like straight up. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: gave up by that point, everyone had so much personalities
Speaker 1: and my man uh jab just had like Sean Michael's
Speaker 1: walkout tights. Yeah. And so then they crossed over with
Speaker 1: Dino Vengers, which ended up being their spinoff series. That's
Speaker 1: when I feel like they were heavily trying to sell
Speaker 1: toys during that because it was like then they started
Speaker 1: using flying machines and all these things, which I felt
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of toys for at that time,
Speaker 1: Like you were just adding stuff to the street Smart
Speaker 1: street Shark toys, yeah, you know, yeah, because there were
Speaker 1: those like I don't even know, not nerve, but they
Speaker 1: were like those um yeah, yeah, yeah, the spinners. No, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: we're saying, would shoot it and it wouldn't spin off.
Speaker 1: Um yeah. So diner dino Vengers were a military unit,
Speaker 1: so their veterans from the inhabited dinosaurs allied with the
Speaker 1: street Sharks once ordered. I thought they were at odds
Speaker 1: with them. At some times there were at odds with
Speaker 1: the Raptors, Like basically the Raptors came down the guy
Speaker 1: Bad Rap. That's another guy that they named. I love
Speaker 1: the way they named people on this show. Like literally,
Speaker 1: Bins comes in, He's like, Rap, that's a bad rap,
Speaker 1: and Rap goes bad Rap. I like that. Literally half
Speaker 1: the character is a trope that that hate and love
Speaker 1: and they'll never get old to me. And someone's saying something,
Speaker 1: Who's like yeah, like like even if we go back
Speaker 1: to solo, huh, you don't know your last name yourself?
Speaker 1: So love I love it, but I love that bad
Speaker 1: Rap ideally would already have a name. And then hears
Speaker 1: him called he's like, yeah, bad Rap, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So the dino Vengers are T bone um Staggs, which
Speaker 1: is a stegasaurus and T Bone is a Tryanosaurus rex
Speaker 1: bulls eye spelled with a Z, so you know he's cool.
Speaker 1: And Spike, which is a triceratops. Yes, yes, they all
Speaker 1: come down after. I think Manto Man we haven't talked about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a flying dinosaur like alien specimen. Yeah. So Manti
Speaker 1: Man combs with bad Rap and so he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you where you're from, and then he realizes
Speaker 1: he's bad, and then bad Rap brings all these other
Speaker 1: raptors down, and so then it becomes the bad Rap
Speaker 1: the raptors versus the what are they the dino the
Speaker 1: dino cop. I feel like this has more multiverse exploration
Speaker 1: than Teenage Met Ninja Turtles. It does. Like the last
Speaker 1: the last six episodes are like in space. Well that's
Speaker 1: what's so funny, is like, yeah, like every in that era,
Speaker 1: you know there was, it was. It was a big
Speaker 1: time for crossovers, because let's not talk about we can't
Speaker 1: talk about crossovers and not talk about the biggest a
Speaker 1: crossover of our lifetime, the Battle Toads and Double Dragon,
Speaker 1: Like did that happen? You're gonna say Teenage Turtles in
Speaker 1: Power Rangers? Oh, that did happen. But no, I remember
Speaker 1: it was Battle Toes and it was a video game
Speaker 1: Battle Toes Double Dragon, and it was so hard. Was
Speaker 1: the worst. I hated that game because I feel like
Speaker 1: we all died at that part where you're on that
Speaker 1: little hove craft and you have to avoid the rocks
Speaker 1: or whatever. I gotta move up and down in your
Speaker 1: time that and you died every time. I hated that game.
Speaker 1: That's how it felt about Lion King. I. I got
Speaker 1: it rented from Hollywood Video and there's that jump that
Speaker 1: Simba had to make and I just, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: kept dying and I had to give it back. Remember
Speaker 1: when we used to like rent video games. That was
Speaker 1: the best. Aladdin, Yeah, that one was a fun one.
Speaker 1: I didn't have problems with that one. But Lion King.
Speaker 1: I never got past that first jump. I did download
Speaker 1: the game the emulator as an adult and beat that
Speaker 1: part just for myself, but we're out of you, and
Speaker 1: you know, I just had to go back and do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, you had a lot of crossovers. I
Speaker 1: totally did forget that. You did have the Ninja turt
Speaker 1: Power Rangers episode. When you think about it, that was
Speaker 1: a huge effort when you think of what Power Rangers were,
Speaker 1: which was just action scenes imported from Super Sentai shows,
Speaker 1: So they really did have to like commit to that too.
Speaker 1: Like break did they have live action Ninja Turtles? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they teamed up with the Power Rangers, so and
Speaker 1: that had to be like a venture, which I'm sure
Speaker 1: we can look in some future episode we do about
Speaker 1: Power Rangers before watching Ninja Turtles. But yeah, these So
Speaker 1: the way the Power Rangers works is they get all
Speaker 1: the action scenes from the Sentai show in Japan and
Speaker 1: then they shoot all the American scenes around that and
Speaker 1: they link up. So for them to take an American
Speaker 1: property like Ninja Turtles means that they had to like
Speaker 1: go out and independently shoot this stuff. So they had
Speaker 1: to do a new thing. Yeah, this is Malcolm experiencing
Speaker 1: what it looks like for the first time. His mouth
Speaker 1: is a gate, he's not speaking. Eight minutes of silence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it was great. I remember that was you you
Speaker 1: know what that did? Uh? That is ultimate gonna be
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm gonna have to look at that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a matter of fact, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: take the time to find out exactly because there's no
Speaker 1: way they would have had shell shocked. Shell Shocked is
Speaker 1: the fourth episode of Power Rangers in Space. It is
Speaker 1: the crossover with Ninja Turtles the next mutation. So this
Speaker 1: was wow. So it was a cross over Ninja Turtle's
Speaker 1: next mutation. So that was a show. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess we should talk about our favorite street Shark moments
Speaker 1: where we wrap this up. Yeah, I mean I already
Speaker 1: said minds a million times was moby Lick, And it
Speaker 1: is one of those like to be corny for two seconds.
Speaker 1: It is one of those like representation matters because yeah,
Speaker 1: I had the Black Sharks for you know, the self
Speaker 1: proclaiming black Sharks, but then you always knew that if
Speaker 1: that they were these four white kids who like turn it.
Speaker 1: So like seeing this, like black kids show up and
Speaker 1: be moby lick and it's so funny. How like in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, it's the silliest, dumbest thing.
Speaker 1: But like for me was a big moment. Uh just
Speaker 1: seeing this, you know, they're like they added a black kid,
Speaker 1: so you know that's you know, just think about that,
Speaker 1: it seems dumb. I'm like, I'm sure, like all my
Speaker 1: someone who is not black who watched streets Arks? That
Speaker 1: was nothing. It was just this other new character. But
Speaker 1: for for little wife's out there, they're like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: could be a street shark now, No, I dug that.
Speaker 1: I dug that. What about you? I mean you you
Speaker 1: the one who seen it the most recently since you
Speaker 1: jump back in. Um my favorite oh, my favorite moment.
Speaker 1: This is really weird because I like obscure stuff. My
Speaker 1: favorite moment is there's a scene where Bin's who's there
Speaker 1: sort of who drives the thing? He's there sort of
Speaker 1: Kato Kalin slash friend and he's literally driving, and there's
Speaker 1: just a scene where this woman gets surprised and scared
Speaker 1: by these sharks twice in like ten seconds, like literally
Speaker 1: she's like and then like she walks along and then
Speaker 1: the car stops so she looks at him, goes walks away.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. Yeah, it's really weird moment. But I
Speaker 1: I love that there too. That I the episodes just
Speaker 1: to piggyback on you saying like that they had to
Speaker 1: touch cultural issues, um and societal issues. There's one called
Speaker 1: Cave Sharks that air where Doctor Paradigm announces the Wolverine
Speaker 1: peds essentially wolverines as a solution to the pollution problems. Um,
Speaker 1: he's like Thanos up in here. Um. And then there's
Speaker 1: another one where they're called Rebel Sharks and also is
Speaker 1: season three, so this was their final final season. Responding
Speaker 1: to a letter from a boy whose country has been
Speaker 1: taken over by a dictator, the Street Sharks free the
Speaker 1: boy's dad and topple the evil dictator. Yeah, the Street
Speaker 1: Sharks are doing at all social justice warriors. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not just petty little street sharks. They they the Avengers.
Speaker 1: They started working with the President, which is like hilarious,
Speaker 1: like because that's how the Dinald the Space ones came
Speaker 1: is that the President was like, hey, we're getting something
Speaker 1: space and they were like we'll handle it, Mr President,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. They're like aliens are coming sin Street Sharks.
Speaker 1: The Street Sharks are a bottle part to American history.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say this is with pleasure that I
Speaker 1: give this metal bandor dou Rister jab Streaks and uh
Speaker 1: moby lick rest in Peace. Two. That's a really good Nixon,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, I appreciate it if
Speaker 1: he as someone who has had their impressions be loved
Speaker 1: on here. Actually, nobody has ever written me that they
Speaker 1: don't love my impressions. That's your best impression. Um No,
Speaker 1: my joke impression is a Jimmy Stewart one. Just um
Speaker 1: from Um. It's a wonderful life obviously. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Jusus petals, jusus petals. Clarence, Clarence, I want
Speaker 1: to live, Clarence. Everybody loves it, nobody hates it. Not
Speaker 1: a single person has anything to say. I thought you'd
Speaker 1: do the It's your house, Mrs Marianne and yours and
Speaker 1: yours Clarence, Clarence. Please, Um, I think we're good here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? Malcolm Man? Why don't you
Speaker 1: go ahead and tell people how to see that dope
Speaker 1: play you're about to say. Mostly people will find me
Speaker 1: at home, but if I leave that place, Uh, they
Speaker 1: might find me at the Pico Playhouse. They can go
Speaker 1: to Ammal Theater dot com. The play is running. It's
Speaker 1: called Brain Problems. I wrote it a minute, along with
Speaker 1: most of the with a lot of the company. Running
Speaker 1: until May nineteenth, Friday through Sunday, Fridays at Saturdays at
Speaker 1: eight seven pm on Sunday. It's fun. Yeah, can you
Speaker 1: tell people a little it about what it's about. So
Speaker 1: um based on a friend of mine who was going
Speaker 1: through things that he was going through. It's a play
Speaker 1: about a sort of cynical man who's diagnosed with a
Speaker 1: life threatening ailment who coapes by retuning into his imagination.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of based on a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: who actually had arterial m venice malformation or two of them,
Speaker 1: which are basically swelling in a brain. And so I
Speaker 1: wrote this sort of my best way to relate and
Speaker 1: understand to that, And it's sort of drama um, and
Speaker 1: it's basically what it's like to be inside somebody's head
Speaker 1: for the course of an hour. I basically use the
Speaker 1: the idea of what it's like, you know, if you
Speaker 1: ever have a conversation with somebody and there's like a
Speaker 1: million ideas that roll through your head um at any
Speaker 1: given time that aren't just that conversation. That's kind of
Speaker 1: the play toppled with the idea of you're sort of
Speaker 1: losing your head in a certain extent because of confusion
Speaker 1: or memory loss or dreams and things like that. And
Speaker 1: so it sort of combines what that means as a
Speaker 1: regular person, and what that means with someone who's suffering
Speaker 1: from my threatening illness and how they deal with it.
Speaker 1: And so I use that as an excuse to just
Speaker 1: sort of have fun and show every piece of weird
Speaker 1: thing in my own cranium and put that on stage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you send us a link to that, we can
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