Ride Home Rants
Ride Home Rants
Remote Control Wars: The Shows We Love, Hate, and Can't Stop Talking About
Six passionate fans of television gather around the virtual table for a hilarious, nostalgic journey through decades of TV history. Host Fiddy guides this roundtable exploration of what makes certain shows endure in our collective memory while others fade away despite critical acclaim.
The conversation opens with a playful debate about Monopoly versus Scrabble before diving into the shows that defined different eras. Miste reminisces about 80s classics like "A Different World," while others champion everything from "Andy Griffith" to "The Sopranos." What emerges is a fascinating look at how television reflects our values and cultural moments across generations.
When the topic turns to "Beverly Hills 90210," the group unpacks how this teen drama revolutionized television by tackling previously taboo subjects like HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse. As Dave astutely observes, this trailblazing approach may have inadvertently launched television's ongoing quest for increasingly shocking content—for better or worse.
Personal connections make this discussion especially rich. Rusty reveals his great-uncle was one of the original writers for "Jeopardy!" while Chris explains why "Jersey Shore" felt like a harmful caricature of Italian-Americans. These personal insights transform typical TV talk into something more meaningful about representation and cultural impact.
The animated smackdown between "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons" divides the room, while universally panned shows like "Jersey Shore" unite them in creative condemnation (with descriptions ranging from "fatalian" to "diabolical"). Throughout it all runs a current of genuine appreciation for how television brings us together, shapes our perspectives, and provides the shared cultural references that connect us.
Join this lively conversation about the shows we've loved, hated, and can't stop talking about—and maybe rethink your own television favorites along the
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is your special guest, host Fitty, and today we bring you an excellent roundtable and some very, very special guests all coming back to talk all things TV shows. Before we get started into the show, make sure you keep all the sponsors in the pre-roll and the post roll. A lot of them are small business owners. They're great supporters of the show and make sure you're checking them out, taking a couple minutes out of your day when you're scrolling through social media to see what they have going on. So a lot of great sponsors, from clothing to golf to beards, so a lot of cool things that we have with those sponsors. The sponsors are the ones that make this show go and, of course, our great roundtable of guests contributing to the show Make the Show Go Round.
Speaker 1:So, without further ado, we're going to talk all things TV shows today. Another roundtable. It should be interesting when we go through this. We're looking forward to everyone's answers here for the topics and the questions we're going to go. So I'm going to let the guys introduce themselves. Guys, you're going to say your name uh, what car do you currently drive? And then is monopoly or scrabble a better game, so we're gonna start with probably the most well-known guest that's been on our round tables.
Speaker 2:Mister, take it away mr, mr, ask you, aka the vampire coach, as everybody know me, um got a 2006 porch cayenne still driving hard, 242,000 miles and still counting. And Monopoly is most definitely the game of the night man, okay, okay, I respect it's.
Speaker 1:242,000 miles, that's awesome. So the GO Mike, you're up next.
Speaker 3:Hello, mike Worrell here. Um, I still drive my 2013 and Pala Chevy and Pala Uh Fitty. You've seen that car probably before, parked at the Gresham Inn hotel. Um, only 115,000 miles on it. I'll drive it to the wheels fall off and, uh, and I'll agree with Mr, I'll go with Monopoly, okay.
Speaker 1:Dave.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so my name's Dave Frank and I drive a 2016 Ford F-150 in perhaps the least surprising automobile for a high school offensive line coach. It just rolled over 100,000 miles on my Canadian fishing trip last week, and so it's time to turn it in. I'm going to upgrade to a new yeah, 2024 F-150 this week. Okay, and is Monopoly or Scrabble better? Board game, yeah. So I actually don't like either of those questions. I prefer the game of life. I think it's a way better move.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we'll throw this out there before we go to our next guest. I actually do have the Family Guy version of Life. I got that in college many years ago now probably 17, 18 years ago. It's a great game, especially if you ever get a chance to play it. It's very comical. So, rusty, we're going to go to you next.
Speaker 5:Hey, my name is Rusty Bliss. I'm driving a 2024 Kia Sportage. I need the SUV room to haul all the softball crap around, at least for a couple more years. Board game Scrabble Opens up doors for a little more creativity than Monopoly does. Scrabble opens up doors for a little more creativity than Monopoly does, but you could go either way with it, okay.
Speaker 6:Alexander. Hey, my name's Alexander. I'm driving a Toyota CHR 2022, ready to trade it in, looking to get my first pickup truck. Thinking about going midsize. Thinking about either Tacoma or Colorado, so not sure. Still thinking about that. As far as board games go, I'm going with Monopoly, because I can't spell with a damn. I hate it. So Scrabble is out, Monopoly is in 100%.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, and probably that's why you're a two-time graduate in psychology and not English, right? Good one, right.
Speaker 6:Exactly.
Speaker 1:You know we come with the good one-liners here on the Ride Home Ranch Show.
Speaker 7:You know, we got to keep it a little bit, uh, a little bit loose for everyone. And then, uh, chris, hey, all it's christopher marscoe. Uh, drive a 2016 chevy silverado with dents and scratches and rust and the whole nine yards, but it's paid off, so we're gonna ride that until the wheels fall off. We got another hundred hundred fifty thousand in store, so we'll be around a little bit. And then, uh, I'm a little bit of a nerd, so I I could do a number in scrabble. That's kind of my, my secret, uh, my secret game. If they're beating me and everything else, I just pull out scrabble and then it's on okay I drive a?
Speaker 1:um, I drive a 2024 chevy trax. I actually had to trade in my Corolla a couple years ago First car I ever had in 2010. Got it after I graduated and drove it to 2023. Had that thing rebuilt, loved that Corolla. Had to trade it in though I was dealing with some issues with the exhaust and stuff like that, so, but I love that car. Had about 240,000 miles on it Um, really loved it. Um, you know, it was with me like 36% of my life or something like that. So there's definitely some uh, some meaning behind that with the car and you know, it was definitely like a sentimental thing.
Speaker 1:Um, I don't like monopoly. I think it's too hard, I think it takes forever to play. But give me a game of Scrabble, let me get a cup of coffee and I'll bang out playing at like 8 30 at night, just sipping away and, and, uh, trying to get some uh, triple letter words there. So, um, but we're not here to talk about board games, although, mike, this could be a good one for the future. We could do a board game round table. It could be a lot of fun. So, but we're going to go into the show here, so we're gonna go mr mike, dave rusty, alexander and chris with the answers. So first one, we're gonna kind of throw it off right off the bat what is your favorite tv show of all time, mister?
Speaker 2:favorite tv show of all time, holy cow. Man, that's a. You know what. That's the excellent question right there, big dog, because you know I really don't watch too many TV shows, man. But if I had, I'll tell you what. Though, but if I had to pick one, one that's coming to my mind, man, some of the old ones from the 1980s man, the 80s and 90s man, like a different world man, different world, different strokes, you know that whole little area, man loved it. Man. The Bill Conti show, man, you know all them shows from back then, man, you know love them.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, how about you?
Speaker 3:Mike Hands down for me? It them Okay, okay. How about you? Mike Hands down? For me, it's a second, but my all-time is the Andy Griffith Show, followed closely by Happy Days and with Ron Howard, both those shows and two of the greatest TV shows of all time, ronnie Howard Okay, okay, dave. What about you? Two of the greatest TV shows of all time Ronnie Howard.
Speaker 4:Okay, dave, what about you? I think it's kind of a complicated question and, by the way, your board game podcast is, I think, a little bit of a risk.
Speaker 1:That was a good one.
Speaker 4:That was a good one. So, you know, I think the show that I watch more frequently than anything else is Jeopardy. But if we're pulling for greatest show of all time, for me it's a combination. It's either Rescue Me was on FX with Dennis Leary or, you know, the Sopranos man. I think it's really hard to beat.
Speaker 1:Okay, how about you, rusty?
Speaker 5:Let's date myself. Let's go back to the 70s. I, like you know, mr, said I don't really watch a lot of TV. But let's go back to the 70s when we were trapped in that childhood thing and watching it and it's going to be Happy Days was a good one. That sparked a few memories. But let's go to the primetime stuff, maybe Chips.
Speaker 5:Oh, okay, you know John and Ponch got into some shit that you know the Highway Patrol don't even mess with anymore. So I mean any way to turn some. And as the show went on and on and on, the storylines got crazier. But yeah, the OG, a couple of those episodes back in the 70s, those seasons, that was good primetime stuff for a kid to watch. Okay, okay, how about you, Alexander.
Speaker 6:Let's see, I'm going to probably go with. I know it's going to be a random one, but for me I can just sit down and watch it anytime it's on television, if I'm at background noise, but I'm going to go with. Everybody Knows Raymond, okay, I mean it's just Hilarious. It's just got that. Yeah, it's got that hilarious feel. It's just the way how Robert looks when Raymond says something silly about him and talks about him. He just has that stone-faced look like I just want to beat you up or whatever, and it catches me off guard every time. But yeah, everybody loves Raymond. Probably be my top show, okay. And how about you, marsco?
Speaker 7:It brought up a good point. We're counting Sopranos. He's an Italian, it's got to be Sopranos. I didn't have Sopranos on my list. I was thinking more. You know, weeknight TV, I'm a big Seinfeld guy, a little cliche, but I just I find the humor dry, sometimes funny nonetheless, and you know, growing up I really liked Looney Tunes, waking up on a weekend morning watching Looney Tunes, and they don't really make anything like that anymore. You can't blow people up anymore. Their bill spins around. That's kind of cool in a timeless way too. Hey, philly.
Speaker 1:I'll say mine is Go ahead, mister.
Speaker 2:No, I was going to say one more. If I can say that I can watch time and time is freaking Miami Vice. That's probably time it's freaking Miami Vice. That's probably my all-time Miami Vice, the best-dressed guy ever Don Johnson.
Speaker 1:He was a trendsetter with the apparel. That's a good one. I would probably say. Miami Vice is up there for me and it's bringing me back to like the nostalgia of like the early 90s and being like five and six years old and watching it. I nostalgia of like the early nineties and being like five and six years old and watching it. Um, I'd probably say the dinosaurs. Jim Henson did it. Um, not, people may not remember it, but that's like a nostalgic thing for me.
Speaker 1:But I love the dinosaurs, um, not the mama, people that don't know. Elmo did baby Sinclair's voice. The same guy that did Elmo's did baby Sinclair. So, uh, really, really, uh love that, uh, so, so, yeah, the dinosaurs for me. So we're gonna go back to mister on this, um, and just really, this is just yes or no, but if you want to elaborate, you can. Uh, do you like the show jeopardy yeah, yeah, I do, man.
Speaker 2:You know I like to make you think keep doing your p's and q's, man, so I don't yeah how about you, mike?
Speaker 3:No, I'm not saying I hate it. My wife watches it every night. But I don't have to. I go to another room. So I'll just say no.
Speaker 1:Dave kind of brought this up already. But, dave, do you like Jeopardy, or how much do you love Jeopardy? You're on mute, dave.
Speaker 4:It's a bucket list item For me to be on Jeopardy someday. I'm super excited about it, in fact, one of the little known facts. Besides drinking copious amounts of beer, our coaching staff is phenomenally well versed in Jeopardy. We come up with a drinking game of Jeopardy you get one right, you get to give out a drink. You get one wrong, you have to take a drink. And yeah, it's a little stimulation in the knowledge for something off the gridiron okay, how about you?
Speaker 5:rusty um. What are we talking about for my daughter? Yeah, jeopardy.
Speaker 1:Do you like, oh like you're so loving.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, jeopardy's awesome, and I got a family story to go to with jeopardy. So so anybody familiar with Ohio University? Oh yeah, oh, yeah, okay, the Communications and Broadcasting School is named after my great uncle, archie Greer, who was one of the original writers of the original Jeopardy and he taught guys I don't know if the Ohio guys remember Dale Solly from Channel 8, who passed away when he was working for a news station in Washington DC. Joe Tate was a student of Uncle Archie's and worked with him later on back in the day. Everybody loves Joe Tate. But yeah, jeopardy the original one of course I never saw it I'm not that old but as it made its way through the 80s and the 90s with Alex Trebek, it was great. It got a little bit watered down later on, but you know it had a hell of a run and it's still going, no matter who they put in that spot. But yeah, I like it. I mean it got comical sometimes too, but it was a good show. Okay, how about you, alexander?
Speaker 6:I like it. I especially like it when the college students are on there just to see you know how they be picking their brains and they just know so much at a young age. So I definitely love, like the special editions, you know, when Jeopardy airs.
Speaker 7:Okay, how about you, chris? Yeah, so I mentioned earlier I'm a little bit of a nerd. That gives me an opportunity with whoever I'm in the room with, to show off a little bit Kind of show how well versed I am In things. My Bubby, when I was over at my grandma's house Growing up, it was always on the television and I learned to love it growing up and I don't know, I find great value in watching. I feel like it helps keep me sharp.
Speaker 1:Okay, I love Jeopardy. I was a huge fan and still am, though, of Alex Trebek, you know. Rest in peace. I actually read his autobiography as well, before he died that he wrote. So I really, really love that. And you know, fun fact, people don't know the guy that says this is Jeopardy Johnny, whatever his name is, but he's like 97 years old and he still works doing that. So there's a little fun fact about that. But I really liked Alex Trebek. I don't know if the Jeopardy fans remember this or not, but after he was diagnosed with cancer, he was on the show and or hosting the show, of course, and one of the contestants for the final round for Final Jeopardy. Instead of writing the answer hosting the show, of course, and one of the contestants for the final round for final jeopardy um, instead of writing the answer, he wrote we love you, alex, on that.
Speaker 1:And uh, I remember that got a little emotional on the uh on the screen. So if no one's ever seen that, I would highly encourage you to youtube that. I think it was a very sincere gesture. So rest in peace, alex trebek. We always will love you for Jeopardy. So going back to Mister on this one and I'm kind of curious because this is a newer show it actually wasn't on cable. You know, of course, it was on Paramount and then went to CBS a little bit later. But did you watch the show Yellowstone with Kevin Costner when it was on?
Speaker 2:Nah, I never watched it. Okay, with Kevin Costner when it was on. Nah, I never watched it Okay.
Speaker 1:How about you, Mike?
Speaker 3:I watched a few episodes my wife loves it and some of my friends but I just haven't watched the full series to even have much of an opinion. A couple of episodes I watched I liked, but that's about it. Okay, how about you, Dave?
Speaker 4:Well, look, mike, it's sitting in my queue. I've seen a couple episodes and you know, in theory I think I should like it. I'm a pretty basic suburban white dad, so I mean I'll get to it eventually. We need another coach, we're caught up.
Speaker 5:Okay, rusty, just haven't had time. I mean, between work and the kids and sports, they have not had time to watch really anything. Okay, alexander.
Speaker 6:I've heard about it. My friends say it's good, but I just haven't got a chance to take a look at it. But it's definitely on my watch list.
Speaker 7:Okay, chris. No, nothing about it Does. It take place in Yellowstone Park, so I'm a huge fan of Yellowstone. That'd be my best guess.
Speaker 1:I have no clue. So, uh, I'm a huge fan of yellowstone. I have no clue. Yeah, so it was.
Speaker 1:Kevin costner was a the largest land owner um in uh, the show and his property butted up with yellowstone. But he owned, like it was something crazy like 30 000 acres or something like that. He was a cattle rancher but he had four kids um in it and they tried to control the ranch and there was a lot of conflicts and just think of like the godfather but on a ranch, and that's like the best way I can describe the show. And they had two spinoffs of that especially. The one I want to bring up is 1883.
Speaker 1:Tim McGraw was in that with his wife Faith Hill. It was really outstanding. It really tied into that. And then 1922 was another prequel to that. That just finished.
Speaker 1:So if nobody's had a chance to watch Yellowstone, it is great, the acting is phenomenal. Kevin Costner played a really, really great part in that. But I definitely would say it's like the Godfather, but being on a ranch, there are definitely some cutthroat people out there. So if you like people getting beaten up and shady deals and all types of crazy stuff, yellowstone's the way you want to go. So the next one I want to ask and I'm kind of curious to hear everybody's answers on this but what is the most overrated TV show that you can remember? So what is that one that you just thought, personally, was overrated? Now let everybody think about this and I'll start it and I'm going to say and we'll get into this later because this is a topic, but I'm going to say it was the Jersey Shore. I think that was the worst, most overrated TV show ever to hit MTV. So, mister, what is the most overrated tv show in your opinion?
Speaker 1:probably 90210 man, oh boy, oh boy, um, how about you, mike? Mike, you're on mute I'm not sure overrated.
Speaker 3:You're asking was a show lauded as being tremendous.
Speaker 1:Whatever you want to say, the show that was on it was lauded as being great.
Speaker 3:Whatever you think, what TV show kind of stands out that you thought was overrated? I know this show is regarded as one of the greatest ever, but growing up, I'm older than most people on this panel but a lot of guys and people watch. But I grown up, I'm older than most people on this panel but, um, every a lot of guys and people watch. My buddies watch mash and I could never get into it. I just I love the mash, the movie, but I just could never get into the um.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:How about you, dave, go along with Mike, like the one that I'm supposed to like and I'm supposed to think is just awesome all the time, gosh, you know I think it's funny. Like the one that I'm supposed to like and I'm supposed to think is just awesome all the time. Gosh, you know, I think it's funny. But the Office, I just I don't see it, as I think that there's other shows that are its peers, that are just as funny or funnier, and people just go nuts for the Office.
Speaker 1:OK, how about you, Rusty? What are you saying?
Speaker 5:The Office is so bad that it's what you get to watch for free on airlines. Now it's running on the loop. No, TV back in the 70s and 80s wasn't too bad. They didn't hype a whole lot of stuff up. It kind of was more organic, it caught on and it's built in cult followings. But some of the newer stuff, like people used to say Friends was overrated, Friends was funny and for me, traveling so much when I was trapped in hotel rooms I was kind of stuck watching this crap. Big Bang Theory was one that was really overrated. It was, I mean, if you really sit down and watched it, it was pretty stupid. I mean all the hype behind it. I mean, okay, I understand you got to push it and promote it, but man, it was just, it was stupid.
Speaker 6:Alexander, what are you saying? Probably say the Kardashians and like I didn't watch it. But it's like you just read and hear so much about it and just advertise it. But like I didn't watch it. But it's like you just read and hear so much about it and just advertise it, but like I don't care, I don't care about you know, her, the family, not to be mean, but I'm just like wow, like why do I know so much about it? I've never watched the episode, like I just don't care for it. So that's overrated to me. Okay, how about you, chris?
Speaker 7:Yeah, fitty, you took mine. Jersey Shore was right around. You know, when I was in high school, spirit weeks for homecoming were Thursday, thursday and all that jazz, and I just I couldn't. It was poking a little too much fun at Italian Americans for me, made us seem all like a bunch of bozos, so I was not too keen on the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1:Okay, now this next question I'm really curious to hear, because some of us would have been kids growing up watching it. Some of us would have been maybe too young, chris. Some of us definitely just don't like the show, as Mr initiated the conversation about it. But Beverly Hills 90210 is lauded as a show that was trendsetting for its time. It talked about dealing with HIV and AIDS. It talked about alcoholism. It talked about drug abuse. It talked about teen pregnancy. It talked about a lot of different things sports. It talked about how life intertwines with a lot of everyday stuff. So, in your opinion, was Beverly Hills 90210 a trend-setting show? I'm going to say yes, and I really did like that show a lot. But, mister, what are you saying?
Speaker 2:You made some good points with that because it did do that. You know, when you go back to that whole little era with the Beverly Hills 90 to 1-0. Some of the other shows they had on MTV I can't name right now but it was a trend setter at that time with, you know, with different shows coming up talking about you know, just the life of a high school student. You know saying going into college or whatnot, and then just the different things that kids was going student. You know, saying going into college and whatnot, and then just the different things that kids was going through you know during that time period. And so you know, and you look at the shows today, you know I'm trying to think of, you know, a show right now that can compare to that type of show. It's kind of hard but but yeah, it was a trendsetter okay, mike, what are you saying about it?
Speaker 3:okay, fitty, I I don't know if I ever watched one episode of that. And once I started recruiting hitting the road, I really didn't watch sitcom tv after about 1990 or 92. So all I watched was like soprano stuff on hbo, kirby enthusiasm shows like that and movies I so coach was the last sitcom I remember like wanting to watch. After that, the last 30 some years I haven't haven't watched any like network sitcom tv. So I can't really answer, but I I believe whatever you're saying, finny.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, that's perfectly fine Before. I go on to Dave. I will say Coach with Craig T Nelson is definitely one of the more underrated shows ever. Anybody who's a sports person or a football coach that was so, so comical, with those guys Very far-fetched on certain things, but the Minnesota State team it was just. It was hilarious. So, dave, we're going to go to you now. What are you saying about Beverly Hills 90210? Was it trendsetting?
Speaker 4:Trendsetting, yes, but I think in a bad way. I think what it started to do is to open up the door for TV shows to think that they had to push the envelope further and further and further, and so that to the point where you got to TV shows that were just, you know, putting stuff out there for shock value. You was in the same era as real world, when they had Pedro Zamora on there and they had the whole AIDS conversation with him as a gay roommate on the real world, and then, like, like, it just seemed like every show had to one up the next one with how shock value it was. Now, that being said, rip shannon doherty.
Speaker 1:She's a real one yeah, yeah, she just passed away and so did um the gentleman that played, uh, dylan, which I'm um, jason priestly. No, j no, jason Priestley was somebody else, it was Luke Perry. Luke Perry, yeah, but Rusty, what about you? Was 90210 trendsetting?
Speaker 5:It was trendsetting, it's when you saw a lot of the push, of a lot of social issues either way, and they kind of did it both sides. You had the teenage side of it with the 90210, which led to the older version, and the spinoff of freaking 90210, which was melrose place, which was, you know, probably the only. The coolest part of it was probably the guitar riff at the beginning of it.
Speaker 5:That was, that, was it that was it, heather locklear next well, yeah, I know heather locklear was hot, as I think she did like nine shows at one time throughout this span of the 80s and 90s. I mean she was doing she was doing dynasty and tj hooker at the same time in the 80s. I mean she and she was banging tommy lee. I mean it was cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah. All right, alexander. What are you saying about Beverly Hills and Isle 2 and 0?
Speaker 6:Yeah, definitely think it was transcendent. Definitely think it paved the way for a lot of these shows to start speaking about those topics and to be more comfortable about it as well. So, yeah, it's definitely in the archives of being a historic television show.
Speaker 1:Okay, Chris, I know you're a little bit young for it, but what are your thoughts?
Speaker 7:So I had a class where we covered some of this stuff and we talked about that a little bit. I do think it was trendsetting because, like many guests have said, it kind of opened the door to talk about some of these things in a way that hadn't necessarily been done at that point in time, and I think Dave and Alexander made a great point. Obviously, I'm sure it wasn't the only show, but that seemed to be like the first pillar of okay. Now I think we could open it up and get a little crazy with things and over time nothing stopped that and that's why you get some of the craziness you have today. But for the time yeah, I mean that's it caught people's attention and that shock factors. You know, that kind of turns people on. You want to see whether it's a train wreck or you fall in love with it. So I think, for being at that time, it was Trent's set.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, next one. We'll have a little bit of fun with this. Um, we'll see what everybody thinks, so, uh. So you just got to say the name of which one is better Family Guy or the Simpsons. And I'm going to say Family Guy, mister.
Speaker 2:Samson.
Speaker 3:Mike, I'll say Simpsons, even though I only watched a few episodes of each. It was around that time frame when I Was done with sitcom TV. Okay, dave.
Speaker 4:South Park thanks.
Speaker 1:I'm with you. I knew that was coming from the, from the show we did way back in the winter. So, rusty, what about you Simpsons or Family Guy?
Speaker 5:The Simpsons. Okay, alexander.
Speaker 6:Man, should we explain or we just got to?
Speaker 1:say it. You just got to say which one you think is better. Okay.
Speaker 6:Oh man, I don't know, probably Family Guy.
Speaker 1:Okay, how about youris family guy? Okay, I would say they're, they're both and being the host, I can kind of go on a rant here. I think they're both unique in their own way. You know, simpsons has been on a long time I think it's the the longest running tv show of all time. We're very close to it. And you know the family guy, the family guy I mean Seth MacFarlane has really done a fantastic job with that from, you know, 1998 or 99 till now, for 25, 26 years.
Speaker 1:And the thing about family guy would say is they hold no punches back. Everyone is fair game in that, whether it's, you know, stuff that's political, comical, making fun of you know historical figures, whatever it may be. But one thing I'll say too is they've had a lot of famous people do the voices on Family Guy. I mean you had Adam West, you have Mila Kunis, you've had on Adam Carolla, you've had on Tom Brady, you know, and the list can go on and on and on with with Family Guy on that. So one of the next ones I want to Talk to you about Is Law Order, and one of the longest Running TV shows as well, and they've had a couple Spin-offs from there. And Law Order SVU Is still going strong After 27 years. So, mister, are you a fan of Law Order SVU?
Speaker 2:Man which one of them got iced tea in it. That one got iced tea in it. That, that's the one I'm with.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. How about you, Mike?
Speaker 3:Am I a fan of Law Order? Yeah, no, but my mom passed away recently in Worcester Ohio. She watched reruns of it from when I was visiting all day, all morning, all day. On some channel carried the old reruns she watched every day.
Speaker 1:Okay, how about you, Dave?
Speaker 4:I'm sorry, was this a question about overrated television shows?
Speaker 1:You're not a fan of Law Order SVU.
Speaker 4:So I'm a fan of Mariska Hargitay. Other than that, yeah Say her name again. It's too episodic, mariska Hargitay.
Speaker 1:She has a great, great name. Great name, yeah, how about?
Speaker 4:you go ahead. Oh, just far too episodic, far too like. Oh yes, I can guess who the killer is in the first like four minutes. It's like watching a pirate game. I know what's going to happen.
Speaker 5:All right, what do you got Rusty about? Law Order SVU, it's one that when it, when it was new, it was fresh, it was, it was, it was cool and was fun to watch, but it gets to the point where you're starting to repeat some of the stuff. It is kind of neat, though, how they will try and play off of current events and current some big cases. They change a lot of it, obviously, but you know what the case is, you know what the plot is, so in that instance it's OK. Like Mike said, my grandmother did the same thing. She always had it on all day long. And you wonder and I would always joke and ask her, how many of these did you solve yet? And that was the running joke. But as it gets going on and on, these things keep going the creativity tends to go into the tank.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. How about you, Alexander?
Speaker 6:That's good. It's good. They definitely got some good, a couple of good episodes where you sit down and you be like, okay, I didn't know it was going to turn out to be that way, because sometimes the beginning is just completely different from the end. So, yeah, I think that it has a good spot where it's at, in its and its continuality and stuff.
Speaker 7:So, yeah, I like it okay and chris round us out on this it's all right if I catch it when it's on, I'll watch a little bit of it. It's not appointment viewing for me. I'm kind of intrigued by the whole, you know, solving mystery crimes and whatnot. Um, I do agree. Uh, like dave, I feel like if you were accustomed to those a little bit, you could kind of have your finger on the pulse and solve it pretty early on. But I don't know, I'm just intrigued with solving crimes and whatnot. So that's where it gets me for, you know, 10, 15 minutes at a pop, but nothing. That was appointment viewing.
Speaker 1:Okay, we had two topics left we're going to talk about. So A lot of us will remember this from the 80s. Chris, unfortunately probably you Won't, but you may know about it. So are you a fan of the cartoon GI Joe and I'm Pretty sure all of us have seen that at Some point, you know? And who doesn't love the, the intro, and they scream go Joe on it. So, mister, we're gonna we. They scream go joe on it. So, um, mister, we're gonna. We're gonna start with you on this. So did you like gi joe when it was on?
Speaker 2:yeah, I did, man, I watched it, man, I did, I watched it. But uh, you know, I was always, you know, saying one what was? It was a cobra. Yeah, I think it was. Yeah, I was always one Cobra to kill everybody.
Speaker 1:Okay, Mike, how about you on that?
Speaker 3:Did you say the 80s GI Joe? Wasn't that on in the 60s too? I mean it might have been.
Speaker 1:I remember from the 80s.
Speaker 3:Okay, I don't recollect seeing it that often. I was more of a Flintstones and Jetsons guy, but I'm sure it was good Okay the Jetsons throwback right there, Dave.
Speaker 1:What about you with GI Joe?
Speaker 4:Yeah. So here's why I love GI Joe. Gi Joe was one of those cartoons that made it cool and it didn't matter. They had white guys and black guys and whoever even knew what snake eyes was underneath that mask. It was a little bit like watching the Chappelle show man. It was like everybody got down with it. So I don't think you know. If you grew up in the 80s, you know everybody wanted that big aircraft carrier, the USS Flag, and none of us could afford it because we were all poor and it was unbelievable. Absolutely Ten out of 10 recommend. I wish my kids had something like that to watch down. So there's how to train your whatever stuff.
Speaker 1:Rusty how about you.
Speaker 5:It was cool. It was cool, I mean I. I kind of grew up mostly in the seventies. The eighties was where we launched on to other things. But yeah, it was, it was cool.
Speaker 1:Okay, alexander.
Speaker 6:Yeah, alexander. Yeah, man, cobra wasn't nothing to mess with, like. Anyways, they was there. They was the real deal for GI Joe man, so they had to bring the A-game. So it was definitely a good cartoon back then. Okay, and, chris.
Speaker 7:This is the first question. I feel like you aged me out Fitty. I'm just not not too familiar. I had gi joe action figures growing up. Those were really cool. There is a spin-off of that show, but I'm just gonna blow hot air answering this.
Speaker 1:I got no clue okay, and the last question. You just have to say one word to describe this show. Just one word, and it is what is the best word to describe this show? Just one word, and it is what is the best word to describe Jersey Shore? Now, I'm going to start this and I'm going to say fatalion, and people may not know what fatalion means, and it means fake Italians. They're fatalians. So, mister, we're going to go to you. What's one word to describe Jersey Shore? Mister, we're going to go to you.
Speaker 2:What's one word to describe?
Speaker 4:Jersey.
Speaker 2:Shore. One word to describe what was it Jersey Shore, jersey Shore, yep, jersey Shore. Oh my gosh, unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Okay, how about you, mike?
Speaker 3:Unspectacular Dave.
Speaker 4:Italians.
Speaker 6:Rusty garbage, okay, alexander man, I forgot what I was going to say. That was funny, dismissive, okay. And Chris man, I forgot what I was going to say Because that was funny, dismissive, okay, and Chris.
Speaker 1:Diabolical, diabolical. That was a good one. That was a good one to end this with, but we're not quite done yet. Everyone tuning into the show today, because we have Fitty's Six pack of questions coming up when each guest Gets one random question from yours truly here. So we're going to start with you, mister. Okay, alright, is John Elway, or was John Elway a better quarterback than Ben Roethlisberger? Yes, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Okay, Freaking A Mike. We're going to go to you next, Mike. Who's the greatest basketball coach of all time taking Red Auerbach out of the equation? Who is the greatest basketball coach of all time taking Red out of the equation? Are you?
Speaker 3:saying Red Auerbach was ahead of his time. Is that why he can't be?
Speaker 1:considered Well, he has the most championships at that time with what he did. So who are you saying besides him? Are you saying NBA, college, anything NBA?
Speaker 3:NBA. Well, phil Jackson's won the most titles, but you going with Phil? I mean, he coached the greatest players too. I don't know. There's a lot of good coaches out there. You know how I feel about this.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 3:That's why I wanted to throw it at you. Dave we're going to go ahead, mike. No, go ahead, mike. You're all about titles and championships, so I'll go with Phil for you.
Speaker 1:Okay, I would say Pat Riley, cause he took three teams to the NBA finals. But hey, who am I? I'm just the host of the ride home rant show. All right, dave. Next question is for you If you had to pick one drink for the rest of your life to drink, and it was only that drink what do you pick? Fear, okay, okay, rusty your. Your question is when is it appropriate for a man to strictly grow a mustache? How old should he be?
Speaker 5:oh my god, as soon as he can start growing it, grow it.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, alexander. Which is a worse state to live in, oklahoma or Arizona?
Speaker 6:Well, I was just in Oklahoma with my dad. For about four or five months I was in Lawton, oklahoma. It was pretty flat land, small town. So I don't know too much About Arizona, I just know it's very hot, so Go.
Speaker 1:Arizona. Okay, Chris, you're going to round this out On this one. How much money would you pay To watch me fight LeBron James In a boxing match?
Speaker 7:Could I be like courtside?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 7:I'd pay a thousand for that. That'd be entertaining. Let me ask you how long do you think that would last For him? About 30 seconds.
Speaker 1:Okay so. I don't you know he's gonna Flop on you anyway.
Speaker 1:The phantom punch. Hey, you know what, as long as you get a win, that's all that matters. So Right, but thank you guys so much For being a part of this, this round table. We had a lot of fun Talking all things TV shows Going back Talking about MASH, to Family Guy, to what's the most Overrated show of all time and trendsetting shows like Jeopardy and Beverly Hills 90210. Dave Alexander, mr Mike, rusty and Chris, thank you so much for being here today and bringing some laughs and some humor to this episode. As always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend and tell a friend, and if you didn't, tell them anyways, because I bet they like it, just because you didn't. This is Fitty signing off and we will see you next week. See you, be good.
