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Hello and welcome to Infinite Prattle . How

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are you ? I hope you're very well . I'm

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very well , thank you . Just sat

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chilling recording some podcasts

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today , trying to be organised and trying to create

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some future ones . So

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yeah , today's episode is

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about things like this . So

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if you recognise this , you

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might want to stick around . You're

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listening to Infinite Prattle With

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your host , stephen . Thanks

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for joining me for unscripted , unedited

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everything . Thank you very much for joining me

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today . That

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intro is probably a little bit misleading . The

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little piece of music that I played you was from a

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lady called Lisa Lockheed and

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that song is called Run With Us and it was actually used as

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the exit theme

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to a cartoon called

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the raccoons . Um , I've

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done a little bit of research . They were not a lot , so there'll be a lot

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of . There'll be quite a lot of um

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. I don't know what year that was or I'm

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not really sure , or I don't know . Probably

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should have researched this , but I've done a little

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bit . I've done a little bit , so you know

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, bear with me , but today's episode

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is about kids tv

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themes and how awesome that they used to

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be , because they did used to be , I think

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, better than

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recent times . There are a couple of

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um examples of

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things that were better , I would say , or not

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better , but on par let's say um

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. So yeah , that one I played you

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in the intro , uh , from a program called the Raccoons

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, and that was . It

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was a strange show and the intro was just

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like a massive . It would happen

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on every single episode . It was like a massive

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exposition of setting

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the scene and it was basically about a group of raccoons

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and dogs as well , I

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think there was some dogs , dogs and

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potentially some other animals and they

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were kind of living in the forest and having their own little adventures

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. Then there was a guy in a big

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castle called cyril sneer and

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his son . He was like a weird pink , almost

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kind of like gonzo , but not um

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, like with a crooked nose

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and stuff , and he

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had son , but his son was kind of friends

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with the raccoons and there was like a bit of a tension there

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and Serial Snare , this weird

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creature thing , had these

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pigs as helpers . It was like the three little

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pigs . It was a bonkers set-up

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, like I remember like kind of what the

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If there was ever like they were

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just at war . I don't think they were . I think the raccoons were

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kind of like trying to live their best life and

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Serial Snare was just after money . Yeah

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, it

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was a bit of a weird one . It was a little

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bit of a weird one , but I used to love it . I used to

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love it and the thing I used to love about it was , as

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with a lot of 80s and early 90s TV

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shows , they just had brilliant themes

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like . The

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themes were just immense and

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the end title

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, run With Us , was such a

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good song and Lisa

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Lockheed was apparently Canadian and that

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song , don't think , did that well for her

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. But it's a brilliant song . Go and listen to it . I've put the

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links in the description , mostly

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for YouTube , I think , because trying

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to find some of these things , trying to find the original versions

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on iTunes and Spotify and stuff , is

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difficult . So I think all the links

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are going to be for YouTube . So go and have a

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listen to them . Do you remember them ? I

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can't gain the demographic

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of my podcast on this . Yeah

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, but there was another song that used to be used in that show called Growing

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Up , and it was used in a lot of montage scenes

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. I remember it being used

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multiple times . It may have just been

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one episode that I saw multiple times

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, and even that that was under Lisa

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Lockheed's song and that was a really , really good

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song , but I think the end titles it

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wasn't her singing it . It

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sounded like a man to me in

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the end titles , or

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a different version of Lisa singing it . I'm

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pretty sure it's a guy singing it in this TV

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show , but that's where it came

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from . It came from Lisa Lockheed and

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another like one of my all time

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favourite , favourite , favourite , favourite . I

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hope I don't get copyright

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struck for any of these . I'm always trying to play like

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short extracts of them , um

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, and I'm gonna link them all below . So hopefully , youtube

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and things will be kind to me . I don't own

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these . These are all copywriters of their respective

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owners and I'm just doing this as a review

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. Oh god , I need

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politics and bureaucracy nowadays . I , um

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, but I'm sure most of you will recognise

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this one . Oh , yes , yes

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, yes , yes . I

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want to play more of it , but I can't because copyright

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. Yeah , but Thundercats

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. Thundercats was

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like an amazing

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TV show . I've watched

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it and I actually liked the reboot of it as well . I didn't mind that and it got kind of scra

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it and I actually like the reboot of it as well , like I didn't mind . Then he got kind of scrapped

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, like I actually liked the reboot , but

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the original was , yes , again a little bit

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weird and , uh , just

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a bit of a strange story . Um

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, but yeah , what a great

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show , what an absolutely great show . And this , this

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is something I actually want to be turned into

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a tv show or a film , like the

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technology they have now , you know , with face scanning

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. Let's not do it like cats , but like

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, but this could be the like

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, one of the most brilliant , freaking

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films , like with the technology they have now

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in computer graphics or you

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know , I don't even mind if it's animated , like make

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a Thundercats film , live

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or live action film , like ah , but

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they have to keep this song . This song is brilliant

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. One of the main reasons kids

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, I think in the 80s , watched these shows

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because they were a bit weird was

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pretty much for the titles

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and the themes . And

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Thundercats is an absolute classic

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for me . Yeah

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, you can't say much more about that

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. I had some sets . And Thundercats is an absolute classic

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for me . Yeah , you can't say much more about that

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. I had some cassettes when I was a kid and , yeah , I just leaked a bit of the next

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one . Oh yeah , terrible , terrible

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queuing . My

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brother would be terribly disappointed in him being

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a DJ and all . But yeah , I had some of the cassettes

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for Thundercats and toys and I've actually got the the

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Lion-O sword on my wall . He

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put batteries in it and it'll

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extend and do the Thundercat call . I

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am five years old . Yes , I don't care Speaking

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of weird TV

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programs like weird cartoons that had you

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can hear my dog pattering in , I think . Hello

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bird , are you okay ? Yes

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, you might hear him start crying in a minute because

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he's in here and he

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can't get up on this chair that I'm sat on , so he cries at

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me . Bless him , his bed's

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on the floor , but he's enjoying the sunshine

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at the moment . My wife's in hospital . She's

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fine , don't worry . She's just had a little

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bit of treatment . She's feeling a bit under the weather . She's

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gone for a blast of IVs and she'll be out soon , but

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he's paddling the house looking for her . Bless

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his little cotton

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socks , as per usual

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. But yeah , talking

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about like 80s children's TV

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cartoons that had some

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of the best music , but

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, but weird

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concept and I can't even remember like

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what this show was really about . I just

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remember watched it , thinking it was cool

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because it was like explosions and battles

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and stuff like that and the epic

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theme tune now this was program called Jason

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the world warriors , a little bit . To get to the actual the

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musical bit

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there's like they were like weird

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. Yeah , it is the main bit . I love the

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lyrics , but

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what a cracking song . They were just like

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. They were all like , as if

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you can imagine , like Rocky's montage . They

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were like such like motivational , kind of like

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ah , like tunage

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, like I could sit and listen to these on my . Well

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, I have done . I've got these on a playlist on

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my phone . Um , because

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they're just epic songs . They're just really really good

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. And um , yeah , and

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they're on tv shows . And jason the wheeled warriors

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was a weird one because he was some

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sort of prince , I think , and he was a king

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or something . I don't know . There's some sort of royalty

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thing going on . I believe they were like space

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, like astronauts I'm

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really describing this terribly but they they

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had spaceships and shit like that . But

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then there was this alien race , um

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, I think it

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was like I think they're called the monster mines or the

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monster mines , I don't know and they were like biomechanical beings . They're called the monster mines or the monster mines , I don't know , and they were like

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biomechanical beings . They were like partly

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made of plants or something . I'll tell

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you what was weird , but they all fought each

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other in like their own machines

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, like cars , with weapons and stuff on , and

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it was just bonkers

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, but it was entertaining

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. As a kid I used to be glued to it . I might

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actually have to watch , see if there's . I might see if there's like an episode

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, like on youtube or on some sort of streaming

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platforms , I can actually go and like listen

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, listen to the theme and like

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watch an episode to see what it actually was about

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. Because , like , I've

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not researched any of these , because I wanted to like tell you

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my actual impression of because if you go watch them , I and

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watch them , I almost don't want to watch it , just in case it's shit . That's

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the problem when you grow up , you go back and watch something

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. I did it with Mac and Me . I think I've said this on a previous

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episode . Mac and Me was

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a great film when I was a kid and

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I thought , oh my god , that's a great film . It's like

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an ET film . It's an absolute , god awful

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movie . It's it's

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pants , absolute pants . It's garbage

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. Terrible

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, absolutely terrible , and I don't , I'm

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sorry , that was my phone

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ringing . It's on . Do not disturb . How the hell

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has my phone rang . Anyway

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, this is going well , this episode invaded

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by dog dad phoning

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me and interrupting um , yeah

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, so , so , yeah , weird

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concept on that program , but I , I , I

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fear going back to watch it . It would like really

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ruin it for me , because would

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it be shit ? Um , and

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again there's , there's another one . Uh

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, that again , and I used to listen to

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this a lot in the car when I first got

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my first car . But

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again , I can't really recall what the concept of the

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show was , but this one's called

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Pole Position and

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this is like so , so

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80s , early 90s , they're

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moving real fast . They're the only ones

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who can get there on time . Amazing

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, amazing , amazing , amazing , amazing . Again

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, I want to listen to the whole thing . It's such a good little tune

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and I'm hoping there's some sort of full

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version somewhere of

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that song because it ends so good . It ends

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so good . Let's see if I can get to the end . Oh

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, oh , hey-oh

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, so good here . Let's see if I can get to the end . Um , you probably think I'm mental

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, but like I grew up on these shows and again it was about driving vehicles and battling

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vehicles and stuff , and it was like I can't even

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think about what it was about , really don't

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. A lot of them had very similar concepts where there was like

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some sort of family-based , like

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crime-fighting business , normally

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with a little robot helper , um

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, because I think jason willwaters had like a little

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robot helper pole position , I think had a little robot

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helper as well . And the next

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one is something I I

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kind of remember watching um

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. I'll just skip it a little bit

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. So this is Mask and again

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vehicle based , like

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good versus

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evil robot as well , turned

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into like a motorbike , weird Into

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like some sort of like what do they call them balance

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bike things . It turned into like one of them , really

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bizarre , but again , theme tune

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, brilliant , and

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mask was something it was more of

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something that my brother watched . I was still

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quite young when that was on , when

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it first came out , at least , anyway . But

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I remember the theme tune and I remember the program

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, but I just don't remember the content again

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, don't remember the storylines . It

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was again something to do with a family of

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racists , I don't

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know , and turned crime fighters again

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. I have no idea . I just remember that it was

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a good program and it had a kick ass theme

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. Is there some correlation

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? Is there some correlation to a program

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like brainwashing a kid ? Because

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it has a good theme , that is a good show because , again

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, I feel like if I went back and watched these shows

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they would not hold up . I feel like , apart

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from thundercats I have watched thundercats as

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an adult and it's very , very good still

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, apart from

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from the insane laughing at the end of every episode

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, which I thought was weird . Anyway , they'd always tell a joke at the

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end of an episode of Thundercats . Generally , Normally

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Snarf would fuck up something or say

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something stupid and then they'd all go and

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that's how the episode would end Pretty

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much every time Bizarre . But

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yeah , like I

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don't know , we're going to move on

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to a 90s one which

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is Captain Planet , as you can tell . And

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again , even this is like funky , kind

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of Rocky , kind

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of Getting the message across , telling you what

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the episode's going to be about . Actually , this is probably better than some

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of the others , because some of the others don't really

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explain what's going on , like it's

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just a song . I

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think Jason Real Warriors probably does . Actually , jason

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Real Warriors , I think , goes through . What

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are the others ? I'm trying to think , actually listening

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to the lyrics Pole

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Position kind of does , maybe , maybe

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thundercats kind

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of does , maybe they do . Oh

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see , didn't really think about this , didn't

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really think that . Uh , question to myself

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through really captain planet

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, like great tv show actually

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I really enjoyed that , but again , I can't remember exactly who

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he fought and there was kind of some sort of

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evil like litter

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villain , I don't know , like guy

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that didn't care about eco-friendliness , basically

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um , and he was always fighting him , um

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, I just always thought it was a bit . I always thought

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, like probably like most people , that the person with heart

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was like the lame one . His ring

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power was rubbish , um

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, but he controlled people's

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minds , was it ? I remember he

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make them love and then change the minds , or something

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like that . But I thought he was like the worst

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. We used to play captain planet when I was at school and

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you , they all got a sign like a power

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. There was earth , wind , water , fire

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, art . No one

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wanted to be hard . Let's face it , like

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now , nowadays , in today's society , probably

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, with all the caring and be kind to everyone , I

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feel like that would be taken quite quickly . Oh , I want to be heart

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, let me be heart . No

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, I want to be fire , I want to be earth , I want to

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destroy stuff , but

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unfortunately Captain Planet has been slightly ruined

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for me , but not at the same time

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. Funny or die

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did . You may have seen these . I've put

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a link again in the description . Funny or die

15:40

did Captain Planet skits . Don

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Cheadle was playing Captain Planet and

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they are hilarious and they

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are for adults . They do have swearing and

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stuff in but it's

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absolutely hilarious . But you kind of I

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now can't actually see the original Captain Planet

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cartoon now without thinking of Don Cheadle saying

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I'm Captain Planet , motherfucker , hilarious , and turn everyone to trees , without thinking of Don

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Cheadle saying I'm Captain Planet , motherfucker because hilarious

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, and turn everyone to trees , tree

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tree . Watch it , it'll make sense . But

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I noticed some of the day . Well , today

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, actually today , when I was trying

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to gather some of these videos together . Obviously , youtube

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and stuff gives you related videos and this is

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one of the related videos and this is something

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I used to watch back in the day , which I thought theme

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tune was was good maybe

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not on par with some of the ones I already spoke about , but

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a really good theme tune that you could sing along to

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and trying to get the lyrics right , and was

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just fun , and I noticed

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that it's been re rebooted . I didn't

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realize , but like a while ago , animaniacs

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and um , yeah , so

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that's been rebooted . Apparently , the video

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on on Warner Brothers Kids , which is which

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is what linked this video in

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it , was two years old , so this

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has been rebooted on Hulu apparently . Um

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, which is amazing . I didn't even know this

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um , but I didn't know notice

17:03

in the beginning of it and I don't I haven't checked actually

17:06

to see if it's on . The original . Animaniacs stars

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in the warner brothers logo and it says animaniacs

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. It actually says uh , steven , presented

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by steven spielberg , or steven spielberg

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presents . Now , is that is

17:18

that thing ? Was that the original thing ? Does he produce

17:20

it like bonkers to ? But

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I noticed they've updated the lyrics in the

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new Animaniacs 1 . And

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this is the sing-along version , so go and listen to it because it's

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quite I

17:33

like what they've done in part of it . They've kept most

17:35

of the lyrics about them escaping and what they do and

17:37

filling in on the backstory , but

17:39

then they talk about . I'm

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not going to tell you . Go and listen to it . Actually , go and listen to

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it . I think you'll be surprised at what

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they thought they could get away with in

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an opening scene

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intro for

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a popular children's cartoon

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. So hats off to them , I think

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. Yeah

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, so , yeah . So that's that's . That's my little

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rundown and you know that's

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not exhaustive . There's there's more and

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more like like

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cartoons out there , like there's , there's

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so many out there that I used to watch as a kid that had

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brilliant , brilliant titles . And

18:19

there's also some that me and my brother used to watch when we were

18:21

a bit older that we used to kind of like-take

18:23

the mick out of on

18:26

children's TV when we were adults , when we

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were 17 , 18 . He's

18:31

a bit older than me , but

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we used to watch . There was

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a program on BBC called I think it was BBC called Green

18:38

Claws and it was about this ogre monster

18:40

that used to like gardening and the theme tune

18:42

was they used to sing songs in between

18:45

it . But the

18:47

theme tune for that was just so catchy and we used to sing

18:49

that and just take the piss out of it . And then there was

18:51

a song in that program called I

18:53

think it was like I like pigs with curly

18:56

tails and we used to like take the piss out of

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it very , very niche , like . You know

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what I mean , but google that green claws . I

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think it was called green clone . On

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itv there's one called wizard aura and

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we used to sing the title to that and it's terrible , it's

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absolutely terrible . It was just so catchy and

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, um yeah , bizarre

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, isn't it ? How , yeah , how , your childhood is brought

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to life by memory of , of

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music , and it's kind of it

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happens throughout life , though . I think like a

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song can trigger a memory from a very specific time

19:25

and you can remember a year very vividly

19:28

, like you can say what happened in the year 2007,

19:30

. But then you go , I have no idea

19:32

, but then you hear a song , go oh , that came out in the year 2007

19:35

because of xyz , and that's

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quite , quite interesting really , how that , how your brain

19:40

links some things together . But

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I'm going to leave it there . So , what TV

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shows , what kids cartoons do you like when

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you were a kid and did they have an

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awesome 80s montage-esque

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kind of theme tune for them ? Because

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I bet they did and I bet they were awesome

19:56

and I bet you can't actually remember what the cartoon was about . I'm

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going to leave it there . Thank you very much for listening . If

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