Episode 57: Street Sharks

like yeah. That voice you hear is none other than Malcolm Barrett. How are you doing? Hey? This is one of the most professional podcasts. Thank you. And I've been on a number of podcasts. I know we somehow, some way this week is set up, and it really I like when we have people who have been on krilling it come on this where it's like, yeah, oh yeah, we got snacks, we got catered food, some of these

parmesan Chris. Because I've been I think three fridges. I even told Malcolm, Hey, if you don't find the drink that you want in this fridge, we have one upstairs has even more drinks. Yeah, Um, Malcolm, so people would know you from literally everything. I feel like you've been on every show ever. Um, you're an actor, a writer, so you said, sometimes a rapper, now a play, right, But is this your you've done the play? Is this your first play that you've written full length? Place? Okay,

I've written a couple of short plays. Um. I had my own theater company years ago in New York. Um, and now I have a second one. Them artistic director of Ammal Theater were devoted to diversity. Um, we have you know, women and people of color at the top

making decisions. I think that's real diversity. When you just hire a guy, it's not really like you know, just like one thing they're like, hey, like what's crazy is like all these like um, I'm gonna talk about my own industry, but all these like networks they do these things where they have these like diversity initiatives and they're like we're gonna get to the bottom of this and you'll be able to speak to HR and this and that and blah blah blah. And it's just like, hey,

you know this, it's the best diversity initiative. Hire a person of color to do the job that you're hiring white people to do. That's that's my diversity initiative. Anyway, Malcolm, what do you think that people Because we were talking about what people come up to you the most about. Do you feel like now it's timeless or does it? Because does your timeless family was like legit, like they are so hardcore standing for you guys. Yeah they are. They are. Um They're lovely and scary, which is how

all relationships should be. UM there, Yeah, it's really it's definitely. UM. What's the name of the show timeless? Timeless is uh because I think, you know, I'm one of those people where you probably like, you know, it's weird to talk about my own career like this, but you've like seen in random places and things, and I've I've worked pretty regularly since like oh three or something like that. UM in the TV game and and so I think and

so not. Like I was telling Iffy and tell both of you guys beforehand, it was like, okay, like usually I can tell my Sonny in Philadelphia crowd, I can tell like better better there's better off to mostly better off Ted Sunny in Philadelphia, the People's UM and Timeless people's only Black people know me from People's UM sunny in Philadelphia is usually jock white dudes and and Iffy. Look I was, I was right. I love I love that.

That was my my episode. Um, Charlie Day, who I met because I did a show called Louis Uh the first Louis not the not the Bad Louis h Yeah yeah Louis Guzman. Yeah y um, so that's how we met. But yeah, mostly now it's now it's Um, it's timeless because because because it's family, it's a family show, do you know what I mean? Which I didn't really even realize in my head. Um, but now it will be like whole white families being like, is it you rufus? You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah, it's really

it's really awkward. Luckily I'm bringing Rufus back. I'm ringing rufe is bad. We've been starting our podcast by asking people what they're geeking out about. Um, Malcolm, can you tell us what you're geeking out about? What am I seeking out about? Um? I'm I'm really into watching I'm a TV guy. So I've been watching Black Summer and Barry Um Bill Hayter. It's just very funny and weird. UM, and my new My new nerd hobby is, uh, these like collectible figures and things like that and like one

sixth and all these things. So I got a couple like I got Planet Hulk Ragnarock one and it's pretty big. And I have um Infinity Gauntlet and Red Hood and my boy made me some a couple of cows, some Batman cow. So that's my new thing, is like putting grown up toys in my office. Like my office is just it's just like there's papers and a credenza. Because I'm an adult man. I just wanted to own something that that had that many syllables, uh and and just

really stuff like that. And comics, just random comics there. Yeah. I it's funny you said office because I had them in my room for a little bit. I'm like, nah, I can't look at you when I'm trying to do the deed. Yeah, I can't. Punisher, Punisher just looking at me. We're making eye contact. How you're thinking about? Yeah, John Burnthal, the thing that I'm peaking out about. We just had the met gala. I love that some people didn't know what camp was because that was the theme. I thought

that was really it was really weird. To see people just dress really nicely. Yeah, Like I was like, well that's do you give me your tickets? Okay, you don't deserve to be there. It's funny too, because I've always like gauge different levels of career where I'm like, oh, yeah, I just want to be in like a movie, and I was or I just want to be in and it's like I want to be invited to that. How do you get like, wow, those people are at a different level. Those are a different level. I realized I'm

not a met Gala dude. Just I mean, it might happen. I just I don't see it. Like I bought jeans the other day. That was a big deal. Look at these blue jeans or you could do that Chadwick flex of like thanks for the invite at a blast, but I'm on setly. I think Rihanna did that too. She was working. Where is she? That's like I'm on set. Yeah, Michael B. Jordan's showed up. You know, he looked good. Like I always find it interesting when guys find the

best way to play it safe. Yeah, it's like like there's something on here, there's someone that's text that's like when I know when when I'm gonna be ready, When I'm ready, I'm gonna turn out. I know I'm not ready, only because I would have showed up dressed as Yogi Bear. I did not get what camp was about, and I'm like, okay, I don't see what this has to do. Have a

little Yeah. I think that would have been funny if like a camp, Yeah, you would have had a little boy scout vest dress boy from up Yeah, like like everyone would have been like, you know, he missed the mark, but he he nailed it. I would love it if you went as a girl scout and just like handed out someone that would see that, see, that's why you're too good at this, because that would actually be on board. That would be that would be yeah, that would go

what the kids called viral. So the camp is a drag queen thing. No, okay, I just was going based off Ana it is. It is heavy. I don't know who would you say create a camp. I feel like it's an aesthetic that definitely goes back to like inspired by drag queens for sure. Yeah yeah, And I think, um, but it's just like over the top, this acceptance of like I think they're trying to go against traditional art by being like completely over the top. It's almost like

making fun of yourself. Okay, there's a show a great John Waters. Somebody like included a quote about what it was. Yeah, there's a there's a Simpsons episode where John Waters guest stars and any and they're like, camp is like ridiculously ludicrous or ludicously Yeah, ridiculous or or something to that effect. But it's always it's always like a sort of tongue

and cheek winking, another extravagant sort of thing. Oh and then I would have had to just show up naked, like I don't know how tongue in cheek that is. There are some cheeks involved. Um, so the hallmark of camp is the spirit of extravagance. Oh yeah, we will bleep you, okay, dope are uh And you know, the thing that I obviously was seeking out about was Spider

Man Far from Home. I wanted to say homecoming. H And it's so funny because it's such a good trailer, and you know, like, I'm gonna just go out with the theory that I think isn't even that much of a theory is m masterials bamboozling everybody obviously he's one

of you. You're gonna show me a Spider Man trailer where one of his most prolific villains is an ally and they're fighting this no name elemental beast like you it Mysterial has bamboozled him and Nick Fury and into thinking there's a multiverse, and then the post credit scene is going to be a real multiverse, Like it's gonna be like, oh, I guess it doesn't exist post credit

there's a multiverse. I could definitely see that. I think they're definitely setting up that Mysterious like his whole thing is he's an illusionist, do you know what I mean? So like he's clearly just like faking good. He's he's done this and they're gonna turn over and veil himself as a villain. I think they said that that. I think that fight is actually from a cover of one of the Spiderman magazines of Mysterial versus the Water Monster or Water Guy or something like that from back in

a day, So it's like a direct callback. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I think it's gonna be a whole thing. And I just I'm still young enough in watching these universes that I'm amazed that we've gotten to the point where seeing the sort of eight spider leg Spider Man suit like that, like that is a commonplace thing. You don't even think about there, Like here's a couple of seconds of that suit. You remember it, right, boom boom,

and we're in not de Noir. When you see him in the old Black Yeah, it's gonna be spidy porn. That's That's what it seems like. They're just going over the top. They're like Mary Jane already knows, let's go into it. Yeah, the fact that they're able to put that many suits into one movie, Like you have three different Spider Man suits in one movie, at least just from the trailer alone, you know what I mean. And it's the most advanced suits they got, you know, at

least two out of three of them, you know. And I think jumping off into the Spider Verse coming off of that, where like you could literally see each one of those characters having them. Yeah, you know what I mean. I think that they are. Also it's like if you talk in multiverse, I'm just gonna say, I think we might see Miles. I think we might see for sure, we're talking multi versus already and they're said, They're said, are you totally I think so? I mean you got

the Prowler in the in the cartoon. Plus you had Donald Glover as the Prowler in the last Spider Man one, So I mean they're they're setting up for his identity to be a little bit on a cinema it all in. Yeah, and especially with that multiverse from Avengers, like they said the Vengers in games set up of multiverse, you know

what I mean. And the fact when they when I heard it in Spider Man, I was like, oh, like we might really do this, Like you might really start getting these newer versions of the comics like after a new fifth too and stuff like that. Yeah, okay, I'm ready. Yeah, but today we're talking about Street Sharks. About sharks. That's the second time I've done that transition, you know, And and I'm gonna just be straight up off rip. Street Sharks I liked better than Ninja Turtles. Are you I'm

a California kids. Are you're talking about a blading group of you know, like because because like they are I will say half Canadian, but like you know, Ninja Turms was so New York heavy that like having the Street Sharks, and it had a lot of like, you know, l a aesthetics because you know, you had the Blades. They liked burgers, not pizza. You're you're a rocket power kid, you remember, Yeah, So I was I'm in it. I

was like, let's go. I had the Street Sharks and then they brought in the Killer Whale, which was a black guy, and I was like, yes, let's go. You're making this formul love that that has been your esthetic now for like the rest of your life. It was just like a buffed out dude tongue exactly. Wow. Okay, So Street Sharks is an American Canadian animated series about the adventures of crime fighting half man half sharks. I would say they're arguably most sharks, the sharks that are

out of the water. Oh yeah, but actually I just pause you one more time before you read the rest of him. I have revisited it since I was a kid, and this is definitely a kid if he loved this. And now, to for lack of a better phrase and actually the best pun, this is a show that has jumped the sharks from the beginning. I was waiting to say that I wanted it so bad, Like from the beginning, built this in. I built the whole materials around this

one joke. I can't do the jomp no more. Malcolm, when you when you said that you were up for Street Sharks, why did this pop into your head? Because I love eighties and nineties cartoons. So I love battle Cats, I love what is it? Uh? I love battle Toads or what was it was boom Cats or whatever the hell those things were. I can't remember. There was like the Mecca, like the Mecca Ninja Cats. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was all those like weird things X Men, Mike, Yeah,

biker mice from Mars. I love that show. That was weird boy. Yeah, I just love these weird I thought the animation was all weird and fun and like, I feel like those shows either went super dark or rewatching Street Sharks went super environmental, like like the big thing Free Willy, all of you stop polluting the ocean coming out. Yeah. Yeah, there's a whole thing about New Captain Planet. Yeah, there's a whole nuclear weapons arc. Slowly going to get that

into the kid's head. Yeah, it's talking about the Cold War. Yeah, it's like really weird, But I love Street Sharks because I don't know, I loved eighties and nineties and not ones from the nineties. I just loved how preposterous these cartoons. Like I just feel like, I feel like SpongeBob is like relatively normal as a cartoon. It's like undersea creatures. They were giving them names and faces, like it's just

a starfish. But like all of Street Sharks is about these super cool nineties X game kids who turned in the Shark Outlaws sharks like who keep getting framed, which which is apparently amazingly easy to frame a bunch of anthropomorphic sharks, because I feel like once you see an anthropomorphic shark and something happens, you could just be like

the sharks didn't Like probably sharks probably did that. Yeah, it's oh my gosh, But I feel like it's also I really wanted to revisit it because I feel like it's the joke that you have, Like everyone kind of knows Street Sharks, but like, I don't know that you could And I think I can come close now, but I dare you to name all four Street Sharks. Well, I cheated, I don't go off the top top. Alright, I'm moving the phone away Ripster. There's ripster whose real

name is I don't know, I don't know. It's really John okay John Bolton. Was there one called bite? No? No, okay no, but there is a one word now, uh blade? All right, let's just go. There's a jab right, there's a ripster. There's uh not tsunami, h not Shamo. Just just think of where we're at in this show. What

would they call Shamo? It was god damn, it was hold on, hold on its ripster, ripster, jab streets at k blades and then Killer Camu or something like that was his first name, Big big, what is it big slam big slam mood was not Shamo slam Oo. Yeah, oh man, Yeah no that was that was that was crazy. Yeah, it's it's basically uh. It follows the university professor named

Dr Robert Bolton and his partner Dr Luther Paradigm. Which is funny in all these shows, even in Mega Man, it always seems like every scientist has a counterpart who's just bad that you never caught on up until the moment you try to do the big here a bit. It's true. There's always like one good scientists, one diet scientists and they're best friends for yeah, uh you know it's but they create a machine known as the gene Slammer.

None of the scientists. Yeah. So so this this show was an embodiment of that moment in the early odds when everything had to be extreme. You had Extreme Dorito's Extreme Clean deodorant. This is this is like the most nineties show. And that's why I said it really took all of the anthropomorphic animals shows and they're like, we're gonna jump the shot literally. Uh but then um, you know,

uh he he It was hybrid. He was doing a hybrid experiment, turning aquatic animals into like anthropomorphic hybrids, combining their DNAs with humans. And uh, obviously Robert Bolton needed to stop. Yeah, he had to stop Paradigm from using the machine for personal power. I don't know what other

reason you'd use the machine. Um and then uh then both and has turned into a monster and he escapes and Paradigm gives Bolton's four sons, John, Bobby and Coupe and Clint the likenesses of four different sharks, and when Dr Paradigm captures their friend Bends, the resulting street sharks rescue him and combined Paradigm with the Piranhadin. Yes, uh Dr Parana, Yeah, Parana paranoid by other characters, and and

and so uh Dr Paradigm. It creates a variety of monsters to destroy the Street Sharks while trying to persuade the inhabitants of their native metropolis of Fission City to imprison them. And uh so then a few uh ended up becoming friends with the Street Sharks, which we got our brother who ended up becoming moby Lick Yeah rock in Manta man Um. And then eventually as it got

later into the series, we got the Dino Vengers. From that series, it was yeah, the extreme Dinosaurs, oh man, And I remember that one because that one they were in a they're trying to prevent uh the other dinosaurs from creating global warming. Yeah, the Raptors bad rap. So they ran from to seven and the creators were David Siegel and Joe Galiani. I thought there was a female creator, you know, and she wasn't credited. Um, but yeah, so what I guess what was your favorite? What was the

shark that you gravitated towards the most? My favorite shark, even though I can never remember his name was Killer. I like blades. I like trees because just because he had rollerblades and they would sometimes not be there and then sometimes automatically be there, um, which is like one of those weird cartoon conventions were only like they would just skip out, like someone didn't pay the money that

day for like those couple of frames. Um. But yeah, I liked him just because he was he was rollerblading. That was literally it. But then but then it was weird. Is they clearly got so I was looking up the first season, it's like three episodes or something like that,

and in the second season they like extend. But what's great is they clearly got a memo because two big things change, which is that um, the opening song changed, because the opening song used to sound like Mr. Sandman or some old sort of nineteen fifties before people had rights, so it was like it was like they fight, they fight, um, and then they just sort of updated it until it was like more sort of like a California, you know,

surf tempo song. Um. And also Ripster suddenly had powers, like he suddenly had like tele telekinetic or sort of psych powers that only came into play for I think literally one episode, like I think they gave it to him and then forgotten was like, how did they get that power? Would we give that shark giant sharks? Yeah, they don't need to tell the future. Yeah, no, that that was the fun thing about it. My favorites were both jab and um Ripster and those were because those

were the darker. Those were the darker, which, by the way, that definitely was an initiative thing, like they definitely were like, let's create some dark ones because I've never seen sharks. If He color that was the color scheme for these sharks, was like, oh if He and uh Steph Curry those those were the two sharks. But I was here for it. And then they then they brought my man's moby licking. I was very happy. Well, and then they had the

black chick scientist at the beginning Lena, which was cool. Well, this is something, but I think her brother gets on drugs or something, you know, I bet they were trying to get in one of those Saturday storylines, you know, like the Hey, what I found these in your bedroom? I just wanted to like one of those ps is that they did happened Like her brother Malik is taking

like drug like muscle enhancing pills. Talk to um also if he inspired and then and then uh yeah, I think they find out and then it's like a whole thing. But yeah, it's very weird. They super fleshed out the personalities of each of these characters, which I want to get into, but we have to take a quick break, not pop back into Street Sharks right after this Street Sharks and we're back. We're still here, joined by Malcolm So. The first one up of the Street Sharks Ripster John Bolton.

I love that they have like regular names, regular names. And what's great is they suddenly adapt their new names, like while they're chilling like um Ben, suddenly he's like, man, you really ripped it. You're a bit of a ripster. He's like, yeah, ripster. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, that is the interesting thing. Why would they change their for all intends of purposes? We're the same person. I'm not gonna call you. They have to get a new driver's license and all of that. You could just show up

as a shark named John Bolton. Let's talk about how bad that home life was. This is a single father of four children, and this father is also a scientist, so he's not at home. No, noot sharks. Let me really get let me really get into the meat. Yeah, I bet, I bet somebody's trying. Somebody's trying to reboot

all of these. All I could think when I once I saw them going into space, all I could think of is like, we literally have like a raccoon in space, a raccoon for the elites, a raccoon and a track a train in space. I was like, we could definitely have sharks in space. Yea, Like why is that? Like, now, that's not as weird as it seems, but you know, you've seen that one like weird crocodile hurricane movie that's

coming out, and the crawl is what it's called. And the funny thing about it is, at first, like when I first started the trailer, I'm like, Okay, this is dumb. By the end of the trailer, your boy was sold. I was like, let's go, let's crawl. So yeah, I think we can have sharks and stuff. There's like seven shark nadoes. Yeah, oh my gosh, you know, and you know what, pretty great, pretty good time and you're just

want to get stoned and watch something funny with your friends. Look, it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's always there's always that dip because there's always like when a movie is like pretty bad because you know, they earnestly tried and it just didn't work out, you know, and there's a lot of moving parts in here, you know, we need we're not trying to dog anyone up. But sometimes

you make something bad and it's like genuinely funny. But then like when people lean into that where it's like, all right, we're gonna be bad, then it's never as funny good, yeah, because it's like like there's something about like honest, like it's just like a fake fall and an actual fault. Like if I see someone trip and it's funny, you know, but if someone like tries to fake trip to make me laugh, it's you just see the you see the attempt to fall Street Sharks. How

do you I want to adapt that? I want that to be a thing I was having when Ninja Turtles came out. They made that work. Yeah, the original Ninja Turtles. Man, they're bringing uh yeah. But I think that might also be because we watch it with an air of nostalgia in a way that like maybe the younger general. I try to show my niece some videos when I was visiting with her, and it was just like she just doesn't gravitate towards them the same way that she does

hurt her newer like Mowanna she'll relate to. She doesn't like the older Disney movies as much. I feel like, if you go back to Eastman and you show Little Boys, that's Eastman, Little Boys and little Girls. I'm little girls like violence too, uh. But like he was one of the creators of the Teenage Mutant the comics when it was like straight, when it was not for kids. Yeah, I loved it. I was like, this is it. But I feel like it's very like Edge Lordie, and I

feel like people would be still be into that. But like I feel like the original t m NT that we grew up on, that we that was better quote unquote, I think, yeah, there's like an air of nostalgia for it. So we have Ripster, who is the smartest, the leader, and the oldest of the four brothers, who enjoys creating inventions. He has taken up most of his knowledge and skills from his father. He's also added this an avid pool player, he's a pool shark and the Wow Wow. In the

first episode of the show, John rides a motorbike. When transformed into Ripster, he becomes a great white shark, able to bite through steel as well as having extrasensory ability. Like you were saying, yeah, it's interesting that they wanted to flesh. I just imagined someone they came with. Okay, so he's a shark and they're like, yes, but like, what is his what is his motivation? What is his obstacles?

There's scenes where he's playing pool and I don't understand how it's moving the plot and it's amazing, Like because they clearly came up with a word play before they came up with the scene. They're like, he's a pool shark genius right the scene. I want to take one moment to correct myself. I do a quick Google search. There are iffy colored sharks. They're out there. I don't want to erase any of our brothers. Sharks has already tweeted to me because they tweeted before it got to

this part of the podcast. Does work? No, people people like will They're like, when they finished the end of the episode, they'll tweet and they're like, oh, never mind, you clear to that. Never mind I listened to twenty seconds later. Yeah, you just gotta wait. Well, lots of times I like to you google what I say. I like this because I'm usually on podcasts where they don't care about actual information, not survive. Yeah, and you know, because we're that was a piece of the Parmjohn Crisp,

I'm having a ball over. You don't understands my best life. But yeah, no, well you know stuff, Media, now, I heart media has has been known for getting there if the zacts shipped straight. So when you're held to the same standard, you know, I was gonna say, yeah, yeah, I was gonna like call out specific podcast networks. But I ain't trying to start no beefs, no, no, no, I'm trying to just no, Zigler, I'm coming at your neck, That's what I'm saying, chopping you right in the neck. Zigler.

Happy birthday, by the way, jab Clint Bolton is the lazy is the laziest of the street show they have to do, but enjoys boxing sport. Yeah, and he won the race at the beginning of the episode, and he appears to have some talent with mechanics and when he's transformed into jab he becomes a scalloped hammer head shark and uses his head as a battering ram. But then we have Streaks. It's pronounced really weird because it's got to exce at the end of something. It streaks. Yeah.

Next we have Streaks, which is Robert Bobby Bolton Jr. Is a level headed, cool, and self proclaimed ladies man. That is not something that you. That is a that is a title that is given to you, not what. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to tell you. He's always but these two things don't go hand in hand. He's well, actually he's a self proclaimed ladies man, and he's always shown wearing roller blades um so that yeah, and appears to enjoy parachuting and

snowboarding and later plays drums professionally. Wow, I know exactly who this person is. When transformed into Streaks, he becomes a tiger Shore, named after the purple streaks on his body. In the toy line, he was originally called Blades for his skills as a roller blader. So something that we talked about Malcolm and our teenage mutant in De Turtle episode was that they were largely the show was created to sell toys, and we brought that up about um,

several other of these eighties and nineties series. To me, it helps ground everyone where they're like, not my teenage mut the art and I'm like, but my show, And I'm like, but your show was created to sell to Like, you know, let's I still think it's great, and I still think it's funny and awesome, but like, let's take it down or not. It's no, it's always funny when people don't realize, like all of these cartoons for for toys, yeah, you know what I mean, their their marketability. They had

to prove that how are they going to sell ads? Um. That was a conversation again that my man Rod Serling had uh talking about you know how you have to kind of please that even though you're creating art. It's like, how are we going to please our ad sales at the end of the day. That's how you make shows. Yeah, and we all remember those really cool Twilight Zone toys. Next up, Big Slim also Streets or Streets is Streaks or whatever. He's played by what was it, what's the

last letter X Streaks? Yeah, Um, someone's going to correct us. Someone is it Streets? Yeah, I think it's Streaks. Yeah. He's played by dude from Book of Mormon. Really yeah yeah, who's on that Don Cheetle show now? Yeah Andrews? Yes, okay, yeah, we do not know that storied career. Yeah, he's guy he's been acting on since he was like fifteen or something. Um, Big Slim Move and Dr Robert Bolton are both voiced by d Kevin Williams. Yeah, I'm gonna. I just want

you to read that last sentence on Streaks again. Oh. In the toy line, he was originally called Blades give me my money, y'all. I want you all to read one When I was laughed away from the mic Blade, No, I think you said Wheels. I said no because because I had the Streaks toy and I had the Lobster. So so that's why I said Blade instead of Streaks, because that was what my toys said. You were laughed. I was laughed away from the mic, but I just

felt good inside. You know you can laugh at man. Uh. Cooper Bolt so Big slim O Coop Bolton is the strongest and youngest of the four. He's also a football player, yes, in high school. In the first episode, he uses a skateboard. When transformed into Big slim Oo, he becomes a whale shark, and his most prominent maneuver is the seismic slam, in which he may shake or crack the ground with his fist. Sounds kind of like Hulk, but yeah, and that was

a real cool move. Which, by the way, this is a great point time to mention that there was a lot of collateral damage within the street Sharks and what they did when they would dive into the asphalt and create these just streaks. We can have it on these streets, Like I don't know what to do in to the

public workers here. Like also I want to say, you know, no offense to all my coups, Bobbies, Clint's and John's, but that that's not a name I think a scientist was gonna go for, Like this is someone who's about to have a legacy frat sons yea to Clinton, Yeah, Cope, Coop a Man, Coop oh Man. And then we have Dr Robert Bolton. Uh. I just love that Bolton was the last name they went with. H They didn't go deep with like Paradigm Parade was like you're like yeah,

but Bolton you know that. You gotta a university professor and the father of the Bolton Bros. Who invented the gene manipulation device for peaceful uses. Once again, what is the peaceful years for that? I don't know, but the

same thing ass. So I look at this as Jurassic Park, which they ended up addressing that because originally it was like, Oh, we want to create these creatures or recreate these creatures, and then eventually it's like what happens when it's in the wrong hand and they actually try to turn them

into weapons. So I was glad that they finally because at first it's like, oh, they're killing us, and then it's like, oh, we could use them to kill So I'm glad that in the franchise they finally address that. But anyways, I think that that is comparable is like, oh, I want to create. I want to see what I can create, what kind of um, you know, creature can I create with this d n A. And then it's like, oh, but of course there's somebody that's going to use it

for bad and it's your buddy who's evil. You've been doing science with fresh friend years. That's Bud who has science it up with yeah, uh yeah, and then uh yeah, it's pretty much so afterward he is only ever represented by a shadow cast on the wall. I don't remember that. So what happens is very in the very first episode, he tries to stop his best friend slash Matt scientist buddy paradigm um, and then I think he gets hit with the stuff he gets hit with, like some genetic stuff. Yeah,

and he just you just know, he looks horrible. That's all you really know. And then you like see him in the shadows for like two and a half years. It sounds like a missed opportunity to talk about acceptance. It does, right, Yeah, you never see him. He's arrested. He's like he's like the good version of Dr Claw, Like you kind of almost see him, and he never

really do. He helps some people out, and it's great is he sends them helpful emails throughout the show, but it's the nineties, so it's like the first time they're depicting emails in a cartoon. And my favorite is like there's a giant She's like, I have an email and it's like a giant envelope on the screen and she goes an email at this time of night, like like an email at seven thirty. That's insane. That's my favorite.

So then we have Curtain Thomas Bolton, who's an ancestor of the protagonist who was encountered in the episode Sir Shark a Lot. He is the target of Paradigms time travel excursion to destroy the Bolton family. And I go back in time, which every cartoon anthropomorphic show does. They always have to go back in time. Yeah, you get you definitely want to go back in time. I mean Ninja Turtles did that? What movie number three? Third one? Sir shark a Lot. I love their need to be relevant.

I played with my brother. There's the trivia game that you can play on Amazon Echo. It's like a music trivia. You can just like Echo play or Alexa play whatever like music trivia, and when you win around or when you win a question, she'll be like lit And then she'll be like stay woke. I'm like what who wrote this? Not kidding? You? Go play your music trivia game on Alexa and she'll be like, uh cool a for something like that, Like those are her words. Somebody totally hype eat.

I just can't believe the one that was like they woke in her robotic voice. Let's dip into you know our man's Doctor Luther Paradigm. You know your voice by J. Michael Lee. He's the main antagonist. He was also a professor. He had a metal eye patching kind of gives it away. Just these evil scientists just hanging out with you. Well, and then he wears. Then he winds up wearing this

like big metal outfit to like defend. And I must say there is a plot hole in uh Street Sharks, which which is that he's like he's like first he's on a good side and they're bad, and then like but then he like beats up a cop or two or something like that, and then like and he goes into hiding and you'd think he'd be the bad guy from on, but he's not. They're like, you know, they're like,

he's got to come back. He's looting the nose. How to stop the Street Sharks because all the episodes are connected, like twenty four you know what I mean, Like you'd end the next episode would be so he beat up the cop and the cops, a lot of the cops. I guess they forgot what they weren't cops. They might have been military or something like that. Which it's like, yeah, now we still need you. We look these these like roads have been jacked. After we waited all you could

beat up more of us. It was really a municipal show. The show was about municipalities. Yeah, and then uh, yeah, apparently you know, Dr Paradise even goes on to create uh and he injects himself with iguana DNA, which was given to him by the raptors, and uh, and it wasn't. It wasn't. He thought it was going to be the loss of raptor DNA. And then he became dr Iguana Zoid and he said, and he helped out the raptors anyway, hoping that they will actually give him the loss of

raptor DNA. That's like the second to last episode. Yeah, and then by Shark Apocalypse Now, which is the finale, that's series finale, the dr Iguana Zoid is apprehended by the street Sharks. You know, really heavy movie for a kids show. That's a great reference. Yeah, Apocalypse Now. Kids love Apocalypse movie. They you know, they really love movies about Vietnam. They're just drinking them all in and so your guy Moby Lick Jets. His name was Jets Taylor, which,

by the way, his first name was Jets. That's amazing, like not Jet, but like his parents wanted him to be a football player. Is a good friend of the Bolton Brothers and Ben's. Under Dr Paradigms mind Control, Jets is combined with a killer whale by Dr Paradigm in order to make his latest CVI it, which is a bad guy becoming moby Lick. I mean that, I don't know if that's the best name for a kid's but sure because they already wasted big slim guy who's not

a killer. Honestly, Moby Dick probably would have been worse. So he later broke free of Doctor Paradigms Mind Control and became an ally of the Street Sharks. Moby Dick has a long tongue, which is the source of his name, great strength, and the ability to inhale water and expel it through his blow hole, and later demonstrated the ability to communicate with other killer whales. In Shark Hunt, it

is revealed that Moby became an eco conservationist. I love that in the Everglades National Park they needed to be like, how can we educate these kids? I loved it. Oh yeah, we're deep were I mean, something was going on. We're really pushing the conservationist movement. What happened, I don't know. We stopped we need it more now. We stopped after friend two or whatever. Yeah, they're like stopped cutting the trees.

And then it was like you know what, um, we're just not going to give this, you know, buy some more toys. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. They were doing these like t V shows about you know, saving the environment and recycling and using them to sell plastic toys. We were playing the game all along. We fell for the trap. We fell for the trap. We're gonna go deep into some of the villains after this and you know, talk about some of our favorite episodes. It seems like I

had a short run as a kid. I remember it being much longer, but as but that's because you watched the same episode twenty times and you're like, yeah it's it's a new one or something. Oh yeah, that is a short run. I'm gonna go back and watch them one now. But we'll get into that after these messages and we're back, and yeah, you were right, there were

only forty episodes. There was only three seasons. I guess it is pretty cool though that it had such a big impact that, like, I feel everyone our age and maybe the generation after an above No Street Sharks, I feel like every street Sharks like not as intensely as they know Ninja turtles, but they like, no, they're sharks that were on the street. They're anthropomorphic, you know, Calabunga sharks. And I guess there was there was also we didn't

mention this a direct to video feature film. Have you seen that? Yes, as they do on VHS. Direct to video feature film of the Street Sharks with all Oh No all season one episode Shark Bait, Shark Bite, and Shark Storm that were combined into one titled The Gene Slamming Begins. It was then followed by two episode movies using episodes from season two. One was Shark Quests with two episodes Shark Quest and Loan Shark, and the other was Shark and Roll with two episodes. This sounds like,

is this a movie direct to video feature film? It sounds like they're just combining the episodes. Sometimes they repackage it. That's what it sounds like. By the way, I Love I loved I Love Street Sharks because they were all pretty cool about turning into sharks, like there was no traumatic They're like yeah, yeah, they're like well, if you think about it, if you like think of like nineties high school kids, if you don't do it, shark, you'd

be like, yeah, jawsome, that's literally what happened. They were like they were like all right, like they didn't care. And also it was like around they also were like hitting on women the episode, which is like the women were really attracted to them. When you think about how terrifying this would look, because even if you have to the the head to body ratio on the Street Sharks, I don't want to understand that anatomy. No, I completely get.

It's why everybody was in love with the Lost in Space robot because they're like, oh, I just want something that's not the men that I'm around. I'm not kidding. That's like the joke that I see all the time. It's like, oh, what you're not, like, you're not the human man that I have to deal with all the time. Sure, I'll take you. I mean you're gonna get ghosted just by a man who's a shark. Can you imagine you wake up, you go to sleep with a shark. Can

you wake up and it's a regular man? You're like, no, where was the or you wake up and it's like sharks in the ground, it's through the ground. Didn't I see butthole? Oh there's um there. I watched this of the toys. I watched this commercial vin Diesel. Yeah was that where he's yea yeah, yeah. That was also a period where we were comfortable with anthropomorphic animals and people having sex like Howard the Duck style. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I was like, where are we going? I didn't know,

you know, with this new lion king. That's all I see on my time. It's not all I see, but it's a lot of what I see on my time, like some sexy. One thing I remember is uh ripsters boots, these boots that he was my man like. He looked like he was turned up. What's even scarier is people have a live action fan art of what they would look like in real life. Is scarily arousing. Scarily I was going to use a different edity have tix pack abs. It kind of looked like thor but with a shark head. Yeah,

it's very comfortable, yes, or as Danny would say, sexy. Yeah. I think I think the Internet is also embraced that fully. I mean we're in a weird time. Yeah. But what was interesting about the Street Sharks is they weren't shy about completely leaning into the fact that they were in

direct opposition of the Ninja Turtles. So that's why they were in the burgers because there's literally a scene where they're like, pizza, give me a burger, which, like who says that person with taste buds chooses one of the those are like apples and oranges, literally disgusted by pizza, but totally for a burger. Yeah, you you like a both. I'm sorry. See, and we're gonna find some weird nerd fan that are going to be like not if he actually I hate pizza and I think I don't be like,

I don't know what to do with you. They're a direct competition. They had like a fake beeB up and ruck steady. Yeah, it was. It was so funny. And what's funny is I was on the Street Shark side. I was drinking it off. I was like, hell, yeah, like they don't need weapons, they go under the asphalt. I love that. It's like a Biggie pock thing. Oh yeah, that's what it was. I know. But teenage muting turtles still kicking Street Sharks rested. True, But I bet it

will come back. And I also probably in ten years will have a live action version. I don't want to see me. If it is, you will see my name in the credits some shape or form. I could see you as a street if that means I have to be a p a. My name is going to be in the post. I can't see his mobi lick. Oh yeah, yeah. We can't forget about Roxy. You can't forget about Rocks, who are the only female Street Sharks, and you know

that because she has eyelashes and is pink um. Every time that you have a female character, you know, she has the big lipstick. She's wearing a bikini top right here. Oh my gosh, I don't even know about Roxy. Is that really end? I think so it's when they really went into the Street Sharks m c U. Because Roxy is like the big problem with a lot of especially nineties just anything where it's like you gotta give them breast and lipstick, like it just looks bad. But the

fact that the picture and it's very un comfortable. I don't have the same that Danny had. What it was just kidding. I mean I did have a crush. There are several cartoon characters I had a crush on um one of which is Max from a Goofy movie. Huge crush. I know there are people out there listening that all. So I had a crush on him, and I weirdly also had a crush on Jack Skellington from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Cool. He dressed well right, and he has

a deep, low, like sexy voice. I think it's the voice. I think it's because a lot of these are animated, so I think it's the voice. The voice of them. Max had a really cute voice. It was the voice of like somebody that I would date my age or whatever, even though he was in high school and I was in elementary school. I'm sure I had a crush on every female cartoon Yeah, like Lola Bunny. How many guys crush on Lola Bunny, Rock Sand from a Goofy movie.

I want to go back and really look into the fashion of each and every one of these street sharks, because I think it's something that we glossed over that is truly truly unique. So like like I said, for Ripster, he had a belt, buckle, jeans and some like straight up bant the boots like which you know, if you're not Latin next you just don't know. I'm sorry, if you don't know, you you know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. That's straight cool style. Anyway,

that's the boots he's kicking with. And then you have yeah, okay, all right. Uh look I grew up in Compton, like in like Dorothea Flats neighborhood, which they really weren't messing with black people, but you know we get along when we got along, uh because of Puerto Ricans. So yeah,

well that was what's so interesting. This is night once again another one of our because like growing up like my my like Latin X community was Salvadorians, Guatemalans and Mexicans, like I'm sure they would probably Puerto Ricans, definitely Cubans, but like like like it's crazy to see like where the like capitals are, Like the Nigerian capital is Houston, like yeah, that's where all the Nigerians be at and

I'm surprised my dad didn't move there. So it's like interesting to see where people of color just kind of gravitate towards and they're like, yeah, this is our spot. Mine was my families from San Diego and so Chula Vista Mexican and the San Antonio, Mexican and it was just Mexican. That was that was us. We just gravitated words where which what um let me get the name

of them all streaks? Which one was Streaks. That's the Rollerblader. Yeah, my man is in rollerblades at all times, Like I think that's something we glossed over that and in every scene you look at Streaks, he's in rollerblade. We don't talk about how this is just how he has especially made rollerblades for himself. There was Giant Sharks. How he's running with everyone and fighting and he has blades on the like and he's got neon green shorts that are

ripped and it's like, what is going on? I like that. They're like, well, he can't, like it has to be unbuttoned. It would be unrealistic if it was buttoned all the way. But he is in blades all the time. That that we will stick to at all times. Then we have Big Slam, who's you know, just to remind us that he's a football player, is always wearing the bottoms always once again another all of these pieces of clothing. It looks like he's in spring training. Yes, oh my gosh.

But it was like, but that was like nineties cartoon, whereas like your personality and status in high school, that's your costume, that's who you are. Yeah, you're always you're the jock, so you're always going to be wearing And then the hammer Head was wearing like wrestling pants. I don't know what those look like straight up. Yeah, they gave up by that point, everyone had so much personalities and my man uh jab just had like Sean Michael's

walkout tights. Yeah. And so then they crossed over with Dino Vengers, which ended up being their spinoff series. That's when I feel like they were heavily trying to sell toys during that because it was like then they started using flying machines and all these things, which I felt like there was a lot of toys for at that time, Like you were just adding stuff to the street Smart street Shark toys, yeah, you know, yeah, because there were those like I don't even know, not nerve, but they

were like those um yeah, yeah, yeah, the spinners. No, yeah, exactly, we're saying, would shoot it and it wouldn't spin off. Um yeah. So diner dino Vengers were a military unit, so their veterans from the inhabited dinosaurs allied with the street Sharks once ordered. I thought they were at odds with them. At some times there were at odds with the Raptors, Like basically the Raptors came down the guy Bad Rap. That's another guy that they named. I love

the way they named people on this show. Like literally, Bins comes in, He's like, Rap, that's a bad rap, and Rap goes bad Rap. I like that. Literally half the character is a trope that that hate and love and they'll never get old to me. And someone's saying something, Who's like yeah, like like even if we go back to solo, huh, you don't know your last name yourself? So love I love it, but I love that bad

Rap ideally would already have a name. And then hears him called he's like, yeah, bad Rap, Oh my god. So the dino Vengers are T bone um Staggs, which is a stegasaurus and T Bone is a Tryanosaurus rex bulls eye spelled with a Z, so you know he's cool. And Spike, which is a triceratops. Yes, yes, they all come down after. I think Manto Man we haven't talked about. Yeah,

he's a flying dinosaur like alien specimen. Yeah. So Manti Man combs with bad Rap and so he's like, I'm gonna show you where you're from, and then he realizes he's bad, and then bad Rap brings all these other raptors down, and so then it becomes the bad Rap the raptors versus the what are they the dino the dino cop. I feel like this has more multiverse exploration than Teenage Met Ninja Turtles. It does. Like the last

the last six episodes are like in space. Well that's what's so funny, is like, yeah, like every in that era, you know there was, it was. It was a big time for crossovers, because let's not talk about we can't talk about crossovers and not talk about the biggest a crossover of our lifetime, the Battle Toads and Double Dragon, Like did that happen? You're gonna say Teenage Turtles in Power Rangers? Oh, that did happen. But no, I remember it was Battle Toes and it was a video game

Battle Toes Double Dragon, and it was so hard. Was the worst. I hated that game because I feel like we all died at that part where you're on that little hove craft and you have to avoid the rocks or whatever. I gotta move up and down in your time that and you died every time. I hated that game. That's how it felt about Lion King. I. I got it rented from Hollywood Video and there's that jump that Simba had to make and I just, yeah, I just kept dying and I had to give it back. Remember

when we used to like rent video games. That was the best. Aladdin, Yeah, that one was a fun one. I didn't have problems with that one. But Lion King. I never got past that first jump. I did download the game the emulator as an adult and beat that part just for myself, but we're out of you, and you know, I just had to go back and do it. But yeah, no, you had a lot of crossovers. I totally did forget that. You did have the Ninja turt

Power Rangers episode. When you think about it, that was a huge effort when you think of what Power Rangers were, which was just action scenes imported from Super Sentai shows, So they really did have to like commit to that too. Like break did they have live action Ninja Turtles? Yeah, yeah, and they teamed up with the Power Rangers, so and that had to be like a venture, which I'm sure we can look in some future episode we do about

Power Rangers before watching Ninja Turtles. But yeah, these So the way the Power Rangers works is they get all the action scenes from the Sentai show in Japan and then they shoot all the American scenes around that and they link up. So for them to take an American property like Ninja Turtles means that they had to like go out and independently shoot this stuff. So they had to do a new thing. Yeah, this is Malcolm experiencing what it looks like for the first time. His mouth

is a gate, he's not speaking. Eight minutes of silence. Yeah, it's it was great. I remember that was you you know what that did? Uh? That is ultimate gonna be I don't know, I'm gonna have to look at that, right. Yeah. I mean, as a matter of fact, I'm gonna just take the time to find out exactly because there's no way they would have had shell shocked. Shell Shocked is the fourth episode of Power Rangers in Space. It is the crossover with Ninja Turtles the next mutation. So this

was wow. So it was a cross over Ninja Turtle's next mutation. So that was a show. So yeah, I guess we should talk about our favorite street Shark moments where we wrap this up. Yeah, I mean I already said minds a million times was moby Lick, And it is one of those like to be corny for two seconds.

It is one of those like representation matters because yeah, I had the Black Sharks for you know, the self proclaiming black Sharks, but then you always knew that if that they were these four white kids who like turn it. So like seeing this, like black kids show up and be moby lick and it's so funny. How like in the grand scheme of things, it's the silliest, dumbest thing.

But like for me was a big moment. Uh just seeing this, you know, they're like they added a black kid, so you know that's you know, just think about that, it seems dumb. I'm like, I'm sure, like all my someone who is not black who watched streets Arks? That was nothing. It was just this other new character. But for for little wife's out there, they're like, yeah, I could be a street shark now, No, I dug that.

I dug that. What about you? I mean you you the one who seen it the most recently since you jump back in. Um my favorite oh, my favorite moment. This is really weird because I like obscure stuff. My favorite moment is there's a scene where Bin's who's there

sort of who drives the thing? He's there sort of Kato Kalin slash friend and he's literally driving, and there's just a scene where this woman gets surprised and scared by these sharks twice in like ten seconds, like literally she's like and then like she walks along and then the car stops so she looks at him, goes walks away. It's really weird. Yeah, it's really weird moment. But I I love that there too. That I the episodes just to piggyback on you saying like that they had to

touch cultural issues, um and societal issues. There's one called Cave Sharks that air where Doctor Paradigm announces the Wolverine peds essentially wolverines as a solution to the pollution problems. Um, he's like Thanos up in here. Um. And then there's another one where they're called Rebel Sharks and also is season three, so this was their final final season. Responding to a letter from a boy whose country has been taken over by a dictator, the Street Sharks free the

boy's dad and topple the evil dictator. Yeah, the Street Sharks are doing at all social justice warriors. Yes, yeah, they're not just petty little street sharks. They they the Avengers. They started working with the President, which is like hilarious, like because that's how the Dinald the Space ones came is that the President was like, hey, we're getting something space and they were like we'll handle it, Mr President, which is amazing. They're like aliens are coming sin Street Sharks.

The Street Sharks are a bottle part to American history. And I gotta say this is with pleasure that I give this metal bandor dou Rister jab Streaks and uh moby lick rest in Peace. Two. That's a really good Nixon, you know what, you know what, I appreciate it if he as someone who has had their impressions be loved on here. Actually, nobody has ever written me that they don't love my impressions. That's your best impression. Um No, my joke impression is a Jimmy Stewart one. Just um

from Um. It's a wonderful life obviously. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Jusus petals, jusus petals. Clarence, Clarence, I want to live, Clarence. Everybody loves it, nobody hates it. Not a single person has anything to say. I thought you'd do the It's your house, Mrs Marianne and yours and yours Clarence, Clarence. Please, Um, I think we're good here. Yeah, where can people find you? Malcolm Man? Why don't you go ahead and tell people how to see that dope

play you're about to say. Mostly people will find me at home, but if I leave that place, Uh, they might find me at the Pico Playhouse. They can go to Ammal Theater dot com. The play is running. It's called Brain Problems. I wrote it a minute, along with most of the with a lot of the company. Running until May nineteenth, Friday through Sunday, Fridays at Saturdays at eight seven pm on Sunday. It's fun. Yeah, can you

tell people a little it about what it's about. So um based on a friend of mine who was going through things that he was going through. It's a play about a sort of cynical man who's diagnosed with a life threatening ailment who coapes by retuning into his imagination. So it's kind of based on a buddy of mine who actually had arterial m venice malformation or two of them,

which are basically swelling in a brain. And so I wrote this sort of my best way to relate and understand to that, And it's sort of drama um, and it's basically what it's like to be inside somebody's head for the course of an hour. I basically use the the idea of what it's like, you know, if you ever have a conversation with somebody and there's like a million ideas that roll through your head um at any

given time that aren't just that conversation. That's kind of the play toppled with the idea of you're sort of losing your head in a certain extent because of confusion or memory loss or dreams and things like that. And so it sort of combines what that means as a regular person, and what that means with someone who's suffering from my threatening illness and how they deal with it. And so I use that as an excuse to just sort of have fun and show every piece of weird

thing in my own cranium and put that on stage. Yeah, if you send us a link to that, we can include it in the show notes. People can go there and buy tickets. Um, I'm at ms Danny Fernandez. Check out our t public sited t public dot com, slash and a deficent. We have a ton of shirts up there. We have wrestling shirts, we have Marvel shirts, we have our shirts of our faces. If you get one, sent us a picture of it because we love sharing it

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