So I saw this in the news. It was on people.com. Even though this has nothing to do with people, it has to do with cartoons. And here was the headline. Burger King confirms rumors about SpongeBob Squarepants menu and when fans can get their hands on it. Special menu is time for the theatrical release of the SpongeBob movie Search for Squarepants.
Not the most original title, but I understand that children’s cartoons have been around for years. Obviously, Sesame Street is still a thing. Sesame Street was a cartoon when I was young, when a lot of you were young. I mean, when did Sesame Street start in the seventies? I mean, I was at, I remember watching Sesame Street when I was, I don’t know, five or six.
So that was early eighties. So I mean, it’s been around forever, over 50 years right now. The reason I know about SpongeBob Squarepants is because this was a thing when my niece and nephew who are now both in college. Were growing up and when I was babysitting, they used to watch Sponge Bob Squarepants, sponge Bob Squarepants.
I remember I used to, I used to know the theme song, something about who is the, who lives in a Something under the sea, in Under the Sea. I used to know this whole song. Now I’m totally blanking on it. Yeah. Anyway, it’s just funny to me that it’s still a thing. Like I thought maybe after a while, you know, it would have a 10 year run, 15 year run, but apparently they’re still doing it ’cause they’re making a freaking movie.
This has to be more than what this is. This can’t be the first SpongeBob movie. It’s been out for. SpongeBob has been a thing for 20 years. Right? This can’t be their first movie. The SpongeBob movie searched for Squarepants. Anyway. Burger King is debuting their menu on December 2nd. The Instagram account snack later has what you can buy.
SpongeBob’s, crabby whopper pirate’s, frozen pineapple float, Mr. K crab’s, cheesy bacon tots, Patrick’s star shortcake pie, and. King Jr. Meal Toys. This is, so the movie comes out December 19th. It came out in 1999. So yeah, Olivia, my niece was born in 2004. My nephew Nicholas was oh seven. Yeah. So yeah, this was right up their alley.
They were watching it all the time. I’m really bummed that I can’t remember that damn theme song now. I used to sing it with him every time it came on. Now I don’t remember it. Crap. Something that lives in the thing under the sea. Sponge Bob square pants, and then something, something porous as he spuds Bobs square pants and Patrick was the starfish.
Anyway. They’ve got food coming Burger King on December 2nd in case you want to get SpongeBob’s Crabby Whopper special Pineapple Box for King Jr. Meal and Bikini bottom bundle.
I dunno why that story caught my attention, but it did.
So December 2nd. For any of you that have children that are watching that right now, just know you can get ’em some. SpongeBob shit at Burger King starting next month.
And finally, I wanna point out a couple emails that I got from you guys. I don’t have any back to the future facts for you today, even though I could, but there’s three things I wanna point out. Two emails and one thing that I purchased yesterday. Which also has to go hand in hand with this podcast.
Number one. I got an email over the weekend and I just felt like this is exactly, I mean, I read you the email last week, which I thought was unbelievable that somebody who took his then girlfriend the day after back to the future, came out in 1985. He’s now married to her, their 40 year anniversary’s coming up.
But because he heard me talking about it, he took her to the re-release and planned a 1980s date around it, and I just thought that was so cool to hear. Well, I had somebody email me this on Saturday night, Steve. I brought my son, who is 15 to see the movie for the 40th anniversary. He absolutely loved it.
Just thought I’d share because it’s rare that my teenager likes the same movie as me. Again, I’m bringing families together. People like, I don’t know. Look, nobody’s gonna like it. I understand that. If you’re watching it for the first time, 40 years after it came out. Yeah, it’s not, it’s still one of the best movies ever made, but I understand if you don’t like it as much as me.
But to hear that a 15-year-old watched it for the first time this weekend and absolutely loved it, it is a real hard movie to not like, like, I don’t know anybody that sat through back to the Future and said it was, eh, whatever. I, I’m sure people have that are watching it for the first time 40 years later, but you just gotta put yourself back.
And even if you were born past that, you gotta watch the movie through the eye of 1985 and you just have to understand how big of a deal it was. We had never really seen time travel before. I mean, this movie literally set the stage for any sort of time, jumps you see in television shows and movies. It all came from how Back to the Future did it, because we know time travel isn’t real.
For those that don’t know, it’s not real. So you have to have rules that are set in place. And back to the Future was the movie that basically established those rules. There have been time travel movies since then. There have been time travel TV shows since then that haven’t used Back to the Future Rules, but I think back to the future, set it to where it’s like, if it was real, this makes the most sense about how if you were to able to go back in time, you could change the course of history of things happening and events happening.
You could really screw things up if you interfere with things like Marty interfered in his parents meeting. But everything about that movie fits together. It’s just perfect. I had someone else this weekend say that they were watching for the first time this weekend, and they’re watching all three. Last time I checked, they were in the middle of Back to the Future, part two.
Their comment was they got a couple things wrong about hoverboards and flying cars. Yes, they did. But there is a litany of things in Back to the Future two, which maybe will be tomorrow’s back to the future fact of the day. The amount of things when they started filming back to the Future two was 1988.
It was released in 1989. The amount of things that they got right about the future. Pretty incredible when you think about it. You gotta remember there was no internet back. There wasn’t even, I mean, computers weren’t even a major thing in 1989. People had them, but it was almost like 1955 and having two TVs, or even having one TV in 1955.
If you had a computer in 1989, people considered you rich. And so to not have computers and this movie just kind of predicted where we would be in 2015. There are so many things in that movie that you’re not thinking of that were just like, oh, wow. Because it’s just second nature to us now. But they basically predicted FaceTime.
Any sort of like Skype, being able to visually talk to somebody on a phone or on a screen. We hadn’t seen that in a movie before until back to the future. Like that’s a huge thing. There were so many others. I’ll make the list for you if you want. And then the other thing is, I don’t know if you remember about probably four or five years back, I had a guy on the podcast named Brad Gilmore.
He hosts a Back to the Future Podcast. He wrote a book that I read, I I bought on Amazon to support him. I read it and I had him on to talk about it, and it was basically like an oral history back to the future. Well, Brad wrote another book that came out about six months ago called Why We Love Back to the Future.
And I knew about it, but I never got around to it. And then I saw something on Instagram this weekend and I said, you know what? I’m gonna support Brad again. And I bought it. It’s 200 pages. It’s an easy read. I just got it yesterday. I’ll probably finish it in three or four hours once I sit down to read it, and Brad’s gonna come on the podcast.
I texted him yesterday. I was like, Hey man, just bought your book. Let me finish it. And I wanna have you on the podcast to talk about it because I’ve been immersed in Back to the Future stuff. Obviously over the last couple weeks, we’re gonna launch the Patreon channel and do a live watch, a live viewing of Back to the Future once the Patreon channel does launch.
So I want to have Brad on. Let me finish the book, but it’s called Why We Love Back to the Future. The author’s name is Brad Gilmore. You can Google Reality. Steve, Brad Gilmore. If you wanna listen to the first podcast we did, I think it was during COVID, I’m pretty sure it was around that time. And then you want to listen to any Back to the Future Related podcast?
He’s got one. It’s called The Back to the Future Podcast by Brad Gilmore. So he’s got episodes, he’s had former. Actors and actresses from the movie on. He’s had producers and writers from the movie on. So good podcast. I remember listening to a couple episodes back then. I haven’t listened in a while, but.
He’s got that if you wanna listen to it. But if you wanna get the book, it was like 12 bucks on Amazon. It’s 208 pages. Looks like a pretty fast read here. And it’s called Why We Love Back To The Future, 40 Years of Fandom, flux Capacitors and Timeless Adventures. So gonna have Brad on, I think next week on the Weekly podcast, but just wanted to share that ’cause I got that book yesterday, ordered it Sunday, came yesterday.
Gotta, gotta love Amazon. Anyway, thank you all for listening. Really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcast. Also rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now if you wanna check that out. Again, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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