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Homer The Great (revisited) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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  Who controls outreash crowd, who keeps electric system down? We do? We
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  go? Who is let this soft dumb baps? Who keeps some Martians on
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  their rafts? We we Who holds back the electric car? Who may see
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  new bird offside? We do? We do off steak fishoved their sight?
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  Who rigged every up your night? We do we four finger discounted. Welcome
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  to four figure discount, the very first podcast of us. Here at the
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  four figure discount I worked for twenty twenty four and we're here with a bang.
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  We're very, very excited because today we're going to be reviewing a classic
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  episode all the way from season six of The Simpsons. It is Home of
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  the Great. I am Dano and I am guy here with Dando the Great.
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  It's trying to be very nice to be back here for another year,
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  twenty twenty four. Man, I mean, just saying these year names is
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  starting to do my head in my way. Well, I grew up in
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  the seventies and eighties, and of course they were being a little nerd.
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  I was watching sci fi movies or even seeing posters of science fiction movies,
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  and they're always talking about the future, of the far flung future. And
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  you know Blade Runner was twenty nineteen. I'm like, I'll never see that
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  Wow flaning cos that's that movie Soil and Green. Yeah, it's like the
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  year is twenty twenty two, the Earth basically sucks. I'm like, oh
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  boy, that's that's the good. That's in the future too, twenty fifteen
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  flying skateboards and a three D shark and everything. But the one that struck
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  me this year there's a sort of classy cult B sci fi movie called A
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  Boy and His Dog, and it's got a great post of taglines like the
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  year is twenty twenty four a future you'll probably live to see. The future
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  sucks in that one, as well as like, oh god, I'm still
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  here. Well, I started watching T two yesterday, right. I bought
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  it on four K because JB had their sale. By the way, I'm
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  back on the physical media bandwagon. Yeah. I was like, because Nicol
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  and I were looking for movies to watch on Netflix, and I was like,
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  I'm gonna get a blue ray out and put it in, and we
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  put in Deja Vu, oh, which i'd see it'd never opened. I
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  was like, then's a Washington Zel. It seems like's gonna be good movie.
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  Rebat. The description seems like it's right about Allie. We loved it,
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  and I was like, oh, there's all these special features I can
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  watch as well. I was like, that's right. You can hear what
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  director Attorney Scott has to say about this movie while the movie's playing. I
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  was like, oh, I missed this. And then now I've been going
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  through and having I bought up a Blu rays because I like seven dollars each
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  now because they're trying to clear them out at JBI. I find I'm like
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  audio commentary, audio commentary, and the kids love the idea now, the
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  novelty of opening it up, putting the disc in, they love it.
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  I'm just like, I'm right back on the bandwagon again, hooray after you
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  gave away or sold so many of them. I gave away a shitload of
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  my Blu rays and dvdies to my sister's boyfriend, like many many before.
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  I met Nicola right back now, and I'm like it makes my heart.
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  I just can't. I don't want to think about it. It's like heartbreaking.
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  I'm just like, what is he doing with them? Is he taking
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  care of them? If you watching them? Haven't you? But yeah,
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  so watching Tea too, and it's like, this is the nineteen ninety seven
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  and I was like when the world like ended, and I was like,
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  oh shit, I didn't realize they like James Cameron, this came out and
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  what ninety one? You could have planned a little bit further in or do
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  you think the fact that was close enough made it feel more like hitting home?
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  I think I think that's the second. I think the ladder. Absolutely,
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  yeah, Okay, it's like, look at it's not too far off.
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  Clean up your act. But yeah, but you say twenty twenty four
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  like it's reminding you of just oh yeah, I'm excited to be the best
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  Christmas period. I'm excited for twenty twenty four. Like I've got so many
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  ideas for this show and just I'm ready to go. Well cool, because
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  I've got a few ideas as well. I doubt they'll be as good as
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  yours, but still, well, we'll throw them out there and we'll just
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  keep providing wonderful, wonderful content for the four Fingered Discount family. Yeah,
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  exactly right. So every month and now at least once a month, we're
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  going to be revisiting a classic episode of the show. So this week obviously
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  help me the great probably make it the first podcast of every month, we'll
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  be revisiting a classic. We're also got a bunch of great guest lined up
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  for future episodes as well, joining us to review classic episode is going to
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  be how of the Good Time? Of course, don't forget. We also
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  do Going Down a south Park, which have just entered season four, and
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  boy is it becoming the south Park that I remember. I was looking at
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  the titles of their lives in season four It's like, oh, okay,
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  yes, we are getting into strange new places or areas that you might consider
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  controversial. Yeah. Yeah, So the first I want, the first episode
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  I believe, is the Two Theories Tat's two thousand, which we're going to
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  be we're recording chat we record this one actually, so if you like south
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  Park, check out that as well, plus all the exclusive shows we do
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  on our Patreon Talking someone Fowl speaking of the Hill tells a few drama and
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  the movie guys, but homely great? Right, So is there any other
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  way to describe his episode? But just great? It's just like it is
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  just perfection. It's pretty good. It's one of the best episodes of all
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  time. But yeah, look, certainly it is. I mean there's it's
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  got all the hallmarks of what we call vintage Simpsons or classic Simpsons. Absolutely,
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  and it's smack dab in that period of like I guess we call it
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  the Golden Age, don't we got h Golden Era? Absolutely? I mean,
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  you know, it's got home. We're in in a strange situation that,
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  of course he rebels in too much and eventually sucks up. He learns
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  a valuable life lesson. By the very end of it, You've got a
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  fantastic guest. I love the episodes that incorporate as many characters as possible,
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  and what they do here, they don't just do that, they do it
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  in a way that you've never seen before. Like, yeah, characters that
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  you would normally see engaging with each other, like for example, Hermann principal,
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  Skinner, doctor Hibbitt, and Wigham characters they don't normally see together,
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  but they're hanging out in this secret society. But I love the way they
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  poke fun at the Freemasons, but just secret society in general, and how
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  thick are they can be. They're like, this isn't working for us anymore.
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  Let's change. Change our club. Well, yeah, I mean I'm
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  always sucker for secret societies. I mean, and particularly ones that either hold
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  the reigns of power or train people to hold the reins of power, or
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  you know, like, all right, you're going to be helping us run
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  the show eventually, so come on board. We'll show you how the world
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  actually works. Because I don't know, I think people we're all becoming more
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  and more conspiracy theorists as time goes by. I'm certainly not well maybe not
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  conspiracy theorists, but I think you know, you're starting maybe people start to
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  say, it's like there's a lot of really rich people who seem to be
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  controlling things, but they seem to have a lot more sway over things,
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  and it seems to be a point of view that's becoming more and more.
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  I'm going to sort of, you know, leak into your social media cas.
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  You just have to watch one video, as we've always said, you
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  know, watched one thing on on YouTube, or click on one link on
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  on x formerly known as Twitter. Who calls it that's what conspiracy theorists do.
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  They watch videos on social media and they get they fall down the rabbit
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  hole. Oh so it's just me. But you know, I mean when
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  someone like like Elon Musk buys something like Twitter and says I'm going to rename
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  it X and all this kind of I mean, that's essentially what we were
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  just saying. It's like, I don't like the way this is working,
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  so I'm going to take it and I'm going to change it. I think
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  it was the fact that it was working. It was just like I wanted
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  to make it my own. Well, let's think it was working. It
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  was working just fine. It just wasn't work for him, and he had
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  had the means to sort of say, well, how about I buy your
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  precious new toy and turn it into and now it's all made, you can
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  play with it occasionally. Just a rich guy with power essentially, And but
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  we're seeing more and more of those, and they seem to becoming more and
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  more heroic to a lot of people. I mean, I'm surprised at how
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  many people like, really dig someone like Musk and say that guy's hero I
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  mean, you've got just as many people saying it's a douche. But I
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  don't know. I think in a world, in a world where you know,
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  it seems like some things are going off the rails we look to there's
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  got to be someone pulling the strings behind it, all right, it can't
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  be all chaotic. So that's I think that's the appeal of something like or
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  that lies at the base of the appeal of someone like Home of the Great.
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  It's like, probably is some organization that's you know, someone's got to
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  know something right or all just idiots overall, just idiots like the stone cut.
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  Also the Homer twist I think was a really fun one as well,
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  with him being the chosen one. A lot of the way they planted the
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  seed earlier in the episode where most like and it's being foretold that there's a
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  chosen one, I was like, a whatever. And then I remember watching
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  this as a kid, going I didn't see that coming. I think when
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  you're a little kids watching that, you're I mean, that's something that might
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  slip by you. But I mean the more sort of stories you hear,
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  the more TV you watch or movies you watch or whatever, it's like a
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  plan to to seed there or it's like, oh, that's as we say.
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  You know Chekhov's gun. You know you're introduced in the first act,
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  that's going off on the third so it's nice to see that Homer becomes a
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  chose one. But yeah, but I like that that's not that's a midpoint
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  sort of turn or a midpoint revelation, and then you know, you've got
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  a bit to play with it once he's got that, and that sort of
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  sets up the valuable lesson as well that you know, yeah, it's fun
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  to have power, but you know, having too many yes men around,
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  you're having, you know, everyone at your beck and call can eventually become
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  I don't know, kind of dull, kind of like the Michael Jackson theory
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  where it's like he could have anything he ever want to, just go shopping
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  and go, I want that, I want that, I want that,
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  and he was so unfulfilled with life, which is why it basically he got
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  addicted to painkillers because he just wants to numb the pain of just it was
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  like people say that you can money can't buy everything, but it's like people
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  who don't have money go, oh, yeah, it's easy for you to
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  say that, but it's like you people who have money, and it's like
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  they're not happy. That's true. I mean a lot of them anyway,
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  Well, yeah, here's that's what they do with the money. That is
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  true. His stories about people who you know, win absurd amounts of money
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  in a lottery and they either blow it all really quickly or so like not
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  as heavy as they do it. It was I was looking on Facebook today
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  and time zones are funny. Everyone is celebrating New Years at different times,
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  or you know, they're entering twenty twenty four at a slightly different time.
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  And this person, I know, she was a journalist in Sydney, but
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  she was originally from the UK and she decided to quit Sydney go back to
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  where she grew up and she also works in the media. So I was
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  like, a times are precarious. But she's saying, look, I'm not
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  making nearly as much as I used to. I still sort of working things
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  out, but having a lot less has made things so much simpler, you
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  know, I made life so much easier for me and give me a lot
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  more clarity and focus in life. Now, maybe that's her just being class
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  hut full, but honestly, it makes a lot of sense to me because
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  we've talked a lot in the past about you know, having too many options
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  and how it can sort of going on Netflix. Yeah, exactly. It's
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  been an hour flicking trying to find something. Yeah, spending ten minutes flicking
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  three years, three or four kas. But the thing is, I've said
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  to Nicol yesterday, what I like now with the kids is they put the
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  disk in, they sit there and they watch the movie. It used to
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  be the remotes in their hand. They knew they had to push one button.
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  They can have the entire library at their disposal. Now it's they understand
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  you put the disk in, you have to watch the whole disk, and
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  then you take it out. I told him that once it's in, you're
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  gonna watch the whole thing. And they sit there and they watch the whole
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  thing. Their attention span is improving because they're not flicking. That's great maintain
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  that hopefully physical media. Man. It also gives me two hour break during
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  the day when I'm watching the kids. Over the fucking school holidays, Man,
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  it's been hectic. How much longer is that when they go back to
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  Ali start school for the first time in three weeks? I want to say
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  it is and I'm like, I'm like nervous about it. Of course,
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  he's not a little dude anymore. He's like he's going to school and he's
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  going to be going every day, and I just hope he doesn't get bullied.
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  And it's just cats in the cradle man. Yeah, Like, I
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  just don't know. I don't think I'm going to cry, but I hope
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  maybe I will. It probably will, It probably will, but I don't
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  know. It's like I'm try to prepare him for it, but I just
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  sort of prepare myself for it as well. That's very much the case.
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  I mean, look, yes, says the man with no kids, but
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  you know I've been around enough for enough families where yeah, it's very much
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  a common thing that, yeah, you're worried about them, but you're also
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  worried about yourself because you know, you're separating what has been a part of
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  yourself from yourself. Yeah, Because sometimes it's like over the holidays here,
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  it's just been watching two kids all the time because Nicholas been doing some work
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  and it's just those two kids together all day. They get along, they
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  know, they say that each other's best friend, but sometimes they've just had
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  enough of each other, right, And I'm just like, ah, fucking
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  our kids. And then I see like a thing on Facebook where it's like
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  cherish the moments when their children. I'm like, oh, that's right,
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  my children come back, come to the children, old please you in the
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  mantle. But yeah, I absolutely adore this episode, and I thought Patrick
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  Stewart was just like so great. I was about to say, old mate,
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  Pat stew rocks up, and this is a really good performance for well.
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  I think the main reason is he's very much steer steering into the Patrick
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  Stewart at all meme shuet. Yeah, it's got that lovely it's just got
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  that wonderful stentory in the voice of his that makes it oh, okay,
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  Yeah, this guy is definitely you want someone running the show or steering the
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  ship of the Stonecutters. But he also puts just enough sort of pompousness on
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  it to make you realize this guy's a bit of a clown. And also
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  they give him a lot of deflating gags as well. I mean, the
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  whole we control the world and we review the world's secrets. Let's oket drunk
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  and play ping pong. I was wonder if I paused because I was one
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  of I was going to blow one of my trivia okay, because I want
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  to do well with my trivia questions. But it's like to note we have
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  ribs. It's like all these wonderful and pa, I was going to bring
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  that up. That's just that bit from the Lane. I rewatched it,
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  and it's not that like the actual bitch, yeah, the actual bit like
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  Melanie's like he played it up like I watched his, like Salt and Papa,
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  and I'm like, I was expecting Salt and Papa. You're exaggerated for
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  comic effect. What a guy. Oh but yeah, no, Patrick's it
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  was a fantastic Yeah, a fantastic guest star. You're right. And getting
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  him to say battling of the swallow Ass with paddles, that's more like it's
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  she's delivery is like, now, I never really got into Next Generation.
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  I mean I've never really been much of it. I want to. I've
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  wanted to get into Star Trek. I've just never bothered to. Really,
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  There's something about it just doesn't captivate me. Like you look at Star Wars
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  and it's like, you know, you've got your droids and your spaceships,
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  and I know that you get that in Star Trek, but it's like it
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  looks like the grown up version of Star Wars. When I was kid,
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  I was like, this looks like boring Star Wars. This looks like diplomacy.
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  This is the exploration and works. Man, you didn't have any lazy
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  bitch. What's going on? Yeah? What's happening? Yeah? Yeah.
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  Now, before we get into our review of the episode in our favorite most
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  trivia and whatnot, we've got a few things here. So when this episode
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  originally aired, right, the number one movie at the US box office was
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  Dumb and Dumber. Okay. The number one song in the US Billboard charts
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  was on Bended Knee by Boys to Men and who also had another ten spot
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  with I'll Make Love to You, So it seems Boys to Men were right
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  up there in nineteen ninety five was the beginning in the end? Yeah.
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  January eighth, ninety five was when this episode and I love how the running
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  the spectrum of black I'm gonna get down on Bendney? Why am I?
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  Why am I doing? Drodric Tadam, I don't know boys to Men and
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  proposed marriage to you by the way, I'll move live to you do you?
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  And the number one song in the UK was cutt Nyie Joe. I
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  read next, Oh, my god. The difference on Bended Knee and Cotton
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  Night Joe. Oh god, I was night climbing at that stage, and
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  you know, Cott Night Joe like a bit of a hodown on the dance
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  floor. It was kind of ridiculous. Yeah, but you going into it,
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  had a good time, had a few drinks, Yes, got gotten
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  Cotton Eye Joe. Where do you come from? Where do you go?
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  Miss? These questions will never be answered. I love that song when I
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  was a kid, though, And the number the top of the the New
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  York Times bestseller list was politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner. I
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  have never heard of that, I know, but January eighth, nine twenty
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  five, that's what was number one around the world. When episode Fantastic didn't
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  look up what was tops in Australia? Well, do people really care about
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  Australia? We do. The other thing is I couldn't find anything on Australia.
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  Probably not. Do you find Aria charts? I guess I could find
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  ARI chart. Should do it? No? I do it? Next episode,
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  We'll do it. Yes. But yeah, Dumb and Dumbell was number
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  one at the US box office, and it'd been number one for like five
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  straight weeks. It was it was a different time. It was a monster.
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  Yeah, my favorite al right, favorite moments from the episode, mister
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  davis favorite moments, Well, I think I mentioned old mate Pat Stewart.
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  Yes, did very very well. I was a big fan of just the
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  opening with the plumber. Yes. I don't think I've had bad plumber experiences.
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  I had many bad trading experience. Well. I remember I had the
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  guy who was trying to like change our hot water system and he's like,
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  it's gonna be have to be done today. It's going to cost you like
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  five grand. And what was his name? Was it Bruce or Bruce,
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  Yes, and he was just like, no, tell me to go away.
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  He hero Bruce, f that guy off, and I'll come and do
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  it for two and a half or literally half the price. And I was
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  like, holy ship, and we've had no issues with the sins. Nice
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  one, Bruce. I would argue that water comes through fast than it ever
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  had before. Yeah, Bruce, Yeah, he is no stern lecture plumbing.
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  I just love that guy. And they're filling his pipe. I could
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  pipe. I thought that was great. Put a pan down there. I
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  was a big fan of Lenny's secret voice, and it's a secret. Yeah.
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  I don't know if Lenny's voice in these earlier episodes seems different to his
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  later voice. It's more nasally, I think, yeah, which, and
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  I don't know, I just like it a lot more. I mean,
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  Harry's sheer I was just got older. I guess, I guess. Yeah.
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  You listen to his characters now and you're like, oh boy, he
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  listened to a few voices and now I was like, bully, Yeah,
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  but yeah, it's a secret. That's fantastic. I love to pay off
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  with the Carl drinking the frown shut up. Also, I love that he
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  was in the pocket a big egg. Yes, that's one of the gags
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  that still to this day, I never quite understand the egg cancel gag.
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  And this is a guy and an exit running away. I really kid going
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  I don't get this, and teenager, I'm like, I don't get this.
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  As a thirty five field, still I get this. There's big tobacco,
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  there's big farmer, and there's also big egg. It's just it's just
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  a silly John Swartswater gig. It really is, it really is. But
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  if we're going to favorite moments, we're not just talking favorite moments of the
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  episode. There's one of my favorite Simpsons moments of all to you, and
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  I just love this gag so much. It is just wonderful. And it's
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  you know, Lisa trying to word Homer up about you know, going power
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  mad and quite a bit of Shakespeare, and it was like, beware the
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  eyes of March. What's same as reponse? No, No, I'm sorry.
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  That's just a perfect and I just love that so much. It's like
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  so built up. I mean yeah, I mean it's from God. I'm
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  probably going to misquote my Shakespeare, but I'm pretty sure it's from Macbeth.
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  And you know, it's a very portentous line and leads to the downfall of
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  our titular anti hero. It's deployed. It's like why should I so yeah,
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  I mean, that's that's one of one of my favorite Simpsons moments of
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  all time. And honestly, it wasn't until they were sitting on the couch
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  and I literally sort of did the fist because you mentioned that moment so many
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  times. I guess this has met your most quoted line. It's about of
• 19:47
  all time. It probably is. I think when Dan and I first met,
• 19:51
  you know, we started talking about the Simpsons and we may have gone
• 19:55
  It may have been the actual IDEs of March, which is like is it
• 19:56
  the first of March or the third of the Yeah, that's right, yeah,
• 20:00
  something like that. And that was that date. And I say,
• 20:03
  you're one of my favorites, this fu girl. Yeah you oh man,
• 20:11
  I just said, I teach you how to use photo shout. It doesn't
• 20:14
  make his burty? All right? What did you? What were your face?
• 20:18
  Well you've covered both a couple of minds. But I also just love
• 20:21
  going down the slide and just a reaction. Somebody get the jaws alive?
• 20:26
  Well, is there anything more humiliated than mean caught in a tube? I
• 20:30
  went down a slide at McDonald's recently and I literally go halfway down. I
• 20:36
  was like, I'm not stuck, but it's just awkward. I like,
• 20:40
  manoeved my way down. Your body's not little enough that it can yeah,
• 20:44
  because I had like call on my lap and I got to a point where
• 20:47
  going down I had to lay down to my back and then she just sort
• 20:49
  of got stuck in my legs and was sort of like tangled, and I
• 20:51
  was like, holy you go save yourself trying to kick her out. Yeah,
• 20:56
  so going through I'm at that point now in my life where I get
• 20:59
  to playground and I'm like, should I go in there? I should?
• 21:02
  I will I be able to get out because but I was a kid,
• 21:03
  I was just like go for it. When I was a teenager, you
• 21:06
  go for it. Now I'm just like, I can get it, wait
• 21:07
  for it. But I assess the assess the situation. Should I be going
• 21:12
  in there? And so I hate tight spaces. So if I ever get
• 21:15
  caught in they thing like that, I just instantly have like a panic attack.
• 21:18
  I think I've discussed I discussed on my way back from England when I
• 21:21
  was on the elevator and it didn't work. The doors closed, it open,
• 21:23
  and I just had like an instant meltdown. I was just like I
• 21:26
  didn't scream, but I was just like I could feel my heart race,
• 21:27
  So I was almost having a Have you ever had a panic attack? Yes?
• 21:30
  Yeah, terrifying. Oh yeah, you feel so helpless? Absolutely?
• 21:36
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean you've got I've been doing a bit of research
• 21:38
  on brain chemistry and all this kind of stuff lately, and I'm probably fucking
• 21:42
  all this up. But you know you're getting something. I think it's cortisol
• 21:45
  messes with your brain as well, but yeah, you feel your heart racing
• 21:48
  and all this kind of business. Oh god, nothing worse than your just
• 21:52
  that loss of control. It's like when you're on a smaller scale when you
• 21:56
  feel your pockets and you think you've lost your phone or something, and that
• 21:59
  instant feeling of look, worrying, concerned if you feel it in your chest
• 22:02
  and then you feel it it's in the back pocket, in the relief.
• 22:04
  But then yeah, I mean, oh god, I had that on Christmas
• 22:07
  Day. Yeah, because you couldn't find your presents. Joke, Santa no,
• 22:14
  no, I did pretty well in the present stake. I think we
• 22:17
  both put our little hauls up on the patrons page. And yes, yeah,
• 22:21
  I've got a thief and guy the record there it is with my with
• 22:25
  my collection of records. I got the Wiggles, Best of Albums, Matchbox
• 22:30
  twenty, yourself or someone like you, because we're going to see them in
• 22:32
  a month or so for real. Yeah, nice, nice, But Lou's
• 22:37
  coming over to pick me up. We're going down to my sister's place.
• 22:40
  I'm balancing. I'd made macaroni and cheese and it was fresh out of the
• 22:44
  oven. So I'm trying to balance it on this tray. It's getting a
• 22:47
  little slightly, it started to rain. I'm trying to balance that. I've
• 22:52
  also got just an envelope with a card and a present in it for my
• 22:57
  for my nephew. Yeah, and then the door closed behind me, and
• 23:02
  I'm like, oh, well that's fine, I didn't I didn't snip it.
• 23:04
  Oh it's snipped. Oh I'm locked out. My keys are inside.
• 23:08
  And then I get outside and I'm waiting for it, and I'm like,
• 23:11
  well, I work this out when I get home, gat back in and
• 23:14
  then footpath is slippery. I'm trying to sort of balance and honestly, the
• 23:18
  mac and cheese in the tray, it came so close and I'm like,
• 23:22
  I can't grab this thing because it's fucking scolding hot. So I've got it,
• 23:26
  honestly got it looked like bloody he's sirked as lay or some ship.
• 23:29
  But it almost went into the fucking garden. If that had happened, what
• 23:33
  would you have done? Any thinking we'll just give it up on Christmas Day?
• 23:36
  I would have just cried. I literally would have like burst in their
• 23:37
  tears. Lou would have come to an industry with like mac and hot mac
• 23:42
  and cheese dripping from my head and go quiss me. Luckily it all worked
• 23:48
  out me and and then well, of course Lou's got to key on my
• 23:52
  place. It's in the mid in my handbag. Don't worry about it,
• 23:56
  like this is all good. We get to talking about that. Oh yeah,
• 23:59
  because because Christmas Morning was kind of a band of the day. Luckily,
• 24:04
  the mac and cheese was big hit was a big here. Yeah yeah.
• 24:07
  He said it wasn't going to be your standard mac and cheese. It
• 24:08
  was going to be elite mac and cheese. That sort of Yeah. I
• 24:11
  mean, I'm going to start calling this person friend of the pod. Recipe
• 24:15
  Tin Eats is a site on a YouTube channel just as sort of good basic
• 24:21
  recipes, but they've got a little bit of flair to them. And Lou's
• 24:23
  got the cookbook and I was looking on the side as one of that she
• 24:27
  does mac and cheese. It's got interesting cheeses in it and you know,
• 24:30
  not too fancy but looks pretty. I love blending cheeses. Oh it's so
• 24:33
  exciting. She was like, you could use regular chedable. Why don't you
• 24:37
  try gru Yeah, And I'm like, oh, remember that it's stink.
• 24:41
  It's like it does stink to make but one very nice in the mouth though,
• 24:45
  yeah, yeah yeah, And like we went out from on newars E
• 24:47
  parties and Christmas parts and all these dips and stuff and all these cheese and
• 24:49
  I'm like, we're gonna have that cheese and that cheese and that cheese on
• 24:52
  the one cracker and no one's going to stop me. What's your favorite cheese?
• 24:56
  By the way, Oh golly, I'm look, I'm a bit of
• 25:00
  a basic bitch, but like a nice came and beer or yeah, yeah,
• 25:03
  bre for me, but I forget. One of our friends went on
• 25:06
  a date and apparently she said to me, we're going out for dinner,
• 25:08
  and she says, what's your favorite cheese? And what do you think?
• 25:11
  The guy said, singles tasty. It's like tasty is great? Yeah,
• 25:21
  this when a date. You're trying to impress the girl, she says,
• 25:22
  and you can tell that she's like a kind of sewer of cheese. What's
• 25:25
  your favorite cheese? Don't say tasty? What do we have a dinner?
• 25:29
  Sausages and veg and that could be Yeah, you could be fantastic gourmet sausages,
• 25:36
  you know, and perfectly, you know, mashed potato with truffle oil
• 25:40
  and beautiful baby peas and little potato skins in there. Oh man, that
• 25:45
  sounds really nice. That's how Marge makes it, with a little skin in
• 25:47
  the potato. I do that, do you? This doesn't do that?
• 25:51
  You just start doing that? I reckon. I always saw as a kid
• 25:52
  that it would The gag was that it would taste bad. But no,
• 25:56
  I tasted it once at a restaurant. I'm like the skins. You're the
• 25:59
  skins now. Sadly, I am let's see how well we go this.
• 26:04
  But I am off carbs for the early years, for the immediate time being.
• 26:10
  New year, New guy, New year, new guy. I mean,
• 26:11
  I've been out, been out walking, I've got my flash new watch.
• 26:15
  How did your macis thing last? Do you do that for a while?
• 26:18
  Right? Yeah? But then I fell off the wagon. I fell
• 26:19
  at the wagon hunt. You know, so I thought have recorded record sales
• 26:27
  a half of three twenty three. I bove you know, because you get
• 26:36
  the app, and you know you think I had some notifications off. I'm
• 26:41
  a raising it. I'm taking it off the phone because it's like, you
• 26:44
  know, if I oh and extra points, then you know I can get
• 26:47
  a free apple pie almost every time. Oh my god, what a five
• 26:51
  dollar deal for two cheeseburgers and the small meal. That sounds fantastic, just
• 26:53
  what I need for my midnight stack. So I'm eating it, and I'm
• 26:56
  eating it late. This is no good, especially for a man my advanced
• 27:00
  dage. Yeah, but we on New Year's even not nickol and I did
• 27:03
  well, like we're gonna try and eat healthy for like to our anniversary,
• 27:06
  which is in the middle of feb right, like try and go off the
• 27:08
  major junk foods, my pizza or whatever like that. But then let's just
• 27:11
  get KFC. And I was like eleven forty five at night. I was
• 27:15
  just getting sliders and popcorn, chicken and all this shit. And I'm just
• 27:18
  like, it's anything better than just eating shit food late at night. Oh
• 27:21
  No, there's nothing better. Oh mate, it was. It was just
• 27:23
  awesome sitting there watching the New year in is eating KFC. Why do you
• 27:26
  think I was doing it? Yeah, so yeah, but not doing that
• 27:30
  anymore? So yeah, okay, So yeah, unfortunately massed potato off the
• 27:33
  table for the time being likewise, I much potato off the carbs. Yeah,
• 27:37
  it's all yeah, potato, potato passed and rice that's the main one.
• 27:41
  But that seems like carbs are such a big thing to just eliminate.
• 27:44
  Like for someone like me, I can go. I can do that,
• 27:48
  but like you said, once you fall off the wagon, I fall off
• 27:49
  at hard. Yes I've learnt now for me, for someone with my mentality,
• 27:52
  I need to just reduce things. So I'm like once a week or
• 27:57
  you know, don't completely remove, because once I comp remove something, once
• 28:00
  I allow myself to have it again, I just go hard. Well yeah,
• 28:03
  so I mean I'm looking at I mean, what I'm trying is and
• 28:07
  listeners, you may know something about this called the keto just essentially you know
• 28:11
  it's zero carbs, ero, sugar, all that kind of stuff, and
• 28:17
  yeah, heavier on the good fats, I suppose the saturated fats, a
• 28:21
  lot of a lot of green leafy vegetables, all that kind of stuff.
• 28:23
  Like looking at it, going I can actually pull this off. I mean,
• 28:26
  you know, I can get myself a couple of nice chicken dice,
• 28:27
  marinate and put them on the grill, Like I hate chicken. THI is
• 28:30
  my healthy days like chicken thighs like bad for you. So I'm like,
• 28:33
  I hate chicken Thi's I'm away was a chicken breast. My chicken brests so
• 28:36
  expensive. Chicken dies are much the same. Yeah expensive now I think I
• 28:40
  think they used to be. Was working the dallies out like the cheap The
• 28:41
  year is twenty twenty four. Everything is expensive looking podcasts. Be a patron.
• 28:45
  We went out to go and get I like to go sipmoking some stuff
• 28:48
  at dinner last night. Right, I bought like some some foil and some
• 28:52
  clean wrap, which just a couple of extures like that, and it's like
• 28:53
  that'd be sixty seven dollars please, And I was like what what what O
• 28:59
  look at the bus and I'm like how Yeah, it's insane. I mean
• 29:03
  I received a couple of nice gift cards from various Yeah well well in addition
• 29:10
  to the lovely Amazon one that have you used it yet? No? No?
• 29:11
  Yeah, you get turned it into extra money. Remember that's the deal.
• 29:17
  I realized the gift came with like a disclaimer, but also got like
• 29:22
  they basically just called like the f post card or the perfect card where it's
• 29:25
  like you take it anywhere. But my mentality is like, wh do just
• 29:27
  put them cashing the card? Why go through the trouble of buying this f
• 29:30
  post card? Just money in the card money to me, I'm far more
• 29:33
  excited. I get a fifty dollars note in my hand. I'm like,
• 29:36
  it's fifty dollars. Unfortunately cash is no longer king. I mean I did
• 29:38
  that, would lose kids. They all got. I got a nice pineapple
• 29:41
  each and yeah, exciting, it is nice. I got the Amazon gift
• 29:47
  and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but these other just
• 29:52
  regular gift cards. You can use them just about anywhere anywhere you use their
• 29:56
  post and I'm like, I think I'm using these of the Supermarke you can
• 30:00
  can okay, yeah, because they won't let you use I tried to just
• 30:03
  after paid to their supermarket and like, oh man, for real, Yeah,
• 30:07
  they'dn't let me. Oh that sucks. I was like, I wonder
• 30:11
  if I could just after pay this. I can imagine so many people do
• 30:12
  a huge shop and it it's never paid. I think they do yeah,
• 30:15
  or paid off on the never never y they call it. Yeah. I
• 30:18
  mean, I've got to look at my it's been a little one since I
• 30:22
  looked at my after pay thing because now I'm too scared to look at it
• 30:23
  Christmas time. I panic. I'm like, I can't do it. I
• 30:26
  know I went too crazy, and I know I just prefer to put my
• 30:30
  head in the sand. I bought a couple of things just as not even
• 30:33
  on Boxing Day sales. They had pre Boxing day Boxing day sales. You
• 30:37
  know, so I box testiles started in August, didn't they forget like Friday?
• 30:45
  That's what suckers? Uh yeah, but no, I'm gonna have to
• 30:49
  look out a look at it and go, Okay, No, I think
• 30:52
  I can pull this up before the before the end of January or whatever,
• 30:55
  so we'll see how it goes. But I mean with some of these,
• 30:59
  I'm like, yeah, we're gonna be using these gift cards just to get
• 31:03
  stuff from the supermarket, foil and cling rap and whatever. But good luck
• 31:07
  with you, no carbs and say there we go, Thank you very much.
• 31:08
  Yes, hopefully the audience here they'll keep you on track because you have
• 31:11
  to, you know, tell the audience I failed. I hate carbs.
• 31:15
  So this podcast will keep you keep your going. This is the account you're
• 31:18
  gonna be all my accountability buddies. So we're gonna what we're gonna be doing
• 31:21
  at the start of every podcast going forward. We're gonna have a carb counter
• 31:23
  and you're gonna tell us how many carbs you've can chew. Well, that's
• 31:26
  the thing I mean. On my fancy new Samsung Galaxy Watch, gifted me
• 31:30
  by the lovely Louise. Yeah, it does all manner of things which I
• 31:33
  have yet to install right now. I just tell the time on it and
• 31:36
  occasionally use the stop watch and also the stress meter. I love that the
• 31:40
  watches. They can do anything. It's like, tell me the time and
• 31:41
  stop watch that's all I need. I can change my what I'm listening to
• 31:47
  on YouTube music or something like that. But it does have a stress meter,
• 31:49
  and the first few times I was used like you're in the red I'm
• 31:52
  like the what I'm sitting here jacket? They're increasing these stresses all right,
• 32:00
  trivia time, mister Davis. But of course it means we also need to
• 32:14
  what a fitting episode. Holy, that's very appropriate. What a way to
• 32:21
  start tweage twenty four by reading that the names of our incredible top tier supporters,
• 32:24
  our Stonecutters. We have Katie g Andrews, Jordan Moulman, Richie Jonathan
• 32:30
  Rossy, Zach Pruitt, Stephen Roberts, Sewn Dvi, Pete Anderson, Andrew
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• 32:46
  Massado, Declan Phoenix, Brian McCoy, Kirsty Hodgkinson, Josh Hellier and Logan
• 32:52
  b Thank you for being our beloved Stonecutters. Thank you for being and our
• 32:55
  friends exactly right saying that, did you see I posted on the page because
• 32:59
  what our friend Ginger one of our top two supporters our Stonecutters. She says
• 33:02
  she's love us to do a Golden Ghirst podcast, and I'm like, I'd
• 33:06
  love to review like an episode or two. Yeah, it's just so I
• 33:07
  can say I host, thank thank you for being a pod. Well,
• 33:10
  let's do it. Let's do it sometime this month. I think this year
• 33:13
  what we're going to be doing is just tackling shows that we haven't tackled.
• 33:15
  Before. Yeah, we'll do a few stand alone and based on your response,
• 33:21
  we may move forward, or we may just throw it on the heap.
• 33:22
  Yeah, well one should I'd like to start doing. And we've said
• 33:25
  this before, is just revealing, like the pilot episode of a show.
• 33:29
  Yes, like just you know, once a month, we'll just go and
• 33:30
  find a pilot of a classic fresh Prince bal Air from the Sun or thirty
• 33:35
  Rock or anything like that, just review the pilot. Scrubs, Scrubs.
• 33:37
  I've never said I've never watched Scrubs. Now I believe it's on Disney Plus.
• 33:42
  I think, yeah, yeah, great themes on the themes song,
• 33:44
  Oh yeah, good show. I was really into Scrubs for a very long
• 33:46
  time. I remember when I was in high school, my friends were either
• 33:50
  obsessed with Scrubs or they've never seen it. It's like it wasn't just like
• 33:53
  you were just like a casual view, like either love Scrubs or you just
• 33:57
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• 34:22
  Beast. My first question for you, mister Davis, is this, how
• 34:27
  many people were already on Homer's lists before he added stern lecture plumbing, So
• 34:31
  I would have had to slow it down and count the more. Well I
• 34:34
  didn't do that, but I'm going to say twenty three. No, so
• 34:39
  we had the bill of rights Grandpa. Now it was written Grandpa, right,
• 34:44
  and normally Grandpa has written Grandpa in the Simpsons is really weird like over
• 34:46
  them. Yeah, but it was written gr n Dpa, fat free Land
• 34:52
  Gravity, Emmy's Darwin love this throwback here the Hastree wol the water slide that
• 34:58
  you got stack. Oh yes, yeah, a little bit of a call
• 35:00
  back there, Billy Crystal. There goes one of my trigger questions. Oh
• 35:02
  okay, God Sola flex the boy. Oh so eleven yes, and twelve
• 35:09
  was stern lecture? Okay? Then well cross that question of my list,
• 35:15
  which former Oscar host was on Homer's revenge list Krystal instead. What is Lenny's
• 35:21
  license plate number? Oh, I've got that as well. It is h
• 35:24
  A two nine EAG. That is correct. Well done, you you get
• 35:28
  a point. Who did Homer stalk for digging up his garden? Oh,
• 35:31
  Charles Carrolt, Yes, somebody did something? Did I mentioned ribs earlier?
• 35:40
  Which anniversary of the stonecutters are they celebrating with the devouring of ribs? It's
• 35:45
  like fifteen hundredths or something. It is indeed the fifteen hundred Yeah. What
• 35:50
  was the last name of the other Homer who was allowed into the club?
• 35:52
  Damn it? I wanted to I wanted to rewind and check this out because
• 35:55
  that was a great little callback. Yeah it was. That was a really
• 35:59
  good gag. I want I want to say glumpkin, but that glumplet yeah,
• 36:02
  polto yeah, globe lit. Except that sounded a bit too much like
• 36:07
  blunkin' don't urban dictionary that. Oh, okay, I won't do that.
• 36:10
  I don't know what that means. Should I not do it? It's sounds
• 36:13
  a bit gruss Okay, Mmm, what type of monkeys are hanging with Homer?
• 36:20
  Very end? It starts with C, doesn't it. It does color
• 36:24
  colone. Now, what is that colobus? Colobus? I canna say colonial?
• 36:28
  It's a colonial. What number is mister Burns? Mister Burns is number
• 36:31
  twenty nine, Lennin Carl we're fourteen fifteen, right, Carl was twelve,
• 36:36
  Lenny was fourteen fourteen twelve. Okay, and my last question for you,
• 36:40
  it's pretty obvious, but name the four international members or four main members?
• 36:45
  Shit, nah, you've got me. I remember. George Bush is the
• 36:47
  one that's like he's like the one that sort of like level headed, is
• 36:50
  like, how man, we just see Yeah this first literally know two seasons
• 36:53
  later, no, no, the next season he's going to be moving across
• 36:55
  the road from the Homer correct having a fight. Now, who are the
• 36:58
  other ones? I can't remember? Okay, George Bush Senior, Yeah,
• 37:00
  George H. W. Bush. You got mister T. That's mister T.
• 37:04
  Yeah, Jack Nicholson, and I'm assuming this is all Reddenbucker, the
• 37:07
  popcorn magnate. Okay. There was one who I was just like, I
• 37:13
  don't know who you are, but obviously somebody Yeah, that's Awvil. I'm
• 37:15
  pretty sure it was very Swartzworlder of this episode in the sense of that some
• 37:19
  of the references, like Charles was a child's it's like kids will never get
• 37:23
  that. And then as an adult thirty five, I still don't really know.
• 37:25
  I have to look it up, but it's like, but that's very
• 37:28
  Swartsworlder. That's the thing. He's he's either a news anchor or a news
• 37:30
  reporter in the US. Yeah, he used to be like a news reporter.
• 37:34
  Yeah yeah, yeah, but it's just very he loves his old timey
• 37:37
  references. Yeah yeah. But the actual story for this episode came about when
• 37:42
  when David Merkin was driving home from a rewrite they were doing and he heard
• 37:45
  a religious radio show without talking about freemasonry, and he was like, I
• 37:49
  don't have the time to do this, but who's the perfect person to write
• 37:51
  this? Sworts what another? And you watch it knowing that Swartzwater wrote it,
• 37:54
  and you're like, I can really see this now. He has a
• 37:57
  real sort of like no, how would you of what his style? Like
• 38:00
  I said, he loves his old timey stuff. He loves his gags that
• 38:05
  don't like the egg gag for example, Yeah, that's a swat spot.
• 38:07
  I guess you could almost say it's a cod O'Brien kind of gag as well.
• 38:10
  It's kind of yeah, esoteric, a little unusual. Yeah, sort
• 38:15
  of the joke is that it doesn't make sense. It's like, if you
• 38:21
  get it, you get it. Yeah, But I think he's also enough
• 38:24
  of a comedy technician that he'll design the lines that you know, it's funny
• 38:30
  even if you don't know the reference. Yeah. That's what I love about
• 38:34
  these Simpsons compared to like Season eighteen, is that they don't doumb it down
• 38:37
  for you. Yeah, It's like they just they expect you to know what
• 38:39
  they're going for, and if you don't, too bad, you have to
• 38:42
  look at yourself. I mean, they could easily replace a name that you
• 38:46
  don't necessarily know or a reference that you wouldn't necessarily immediately get, but the
• 38:51
  gag surrounding it is strong enough that you'll go, oh, this is a
• 38:53
  gag, you know. And of course you've got Dan and Julian all these
• 38:58
  other people sort of at the peak of the well they not the peak of
• 39:00
  their powers, but you know, they're they're really good comedy performers as well.
• 39:05
  They know how to put the right spin on it, so yeah,
• 39:07
  even go, well somebody had something, did something. Just even adding that
• 39:13
  bit to it, it's kind of like, Okay, we know that Homer
• 39:15
  is kind of like a stalker and a conspiracy theorist. He's it bleeds into
• 39:21
  the story as well. You know he's going to be of course, he's
• 39:23
  going to be wanted to be part of this secret group. Well, Hope
• 39:27
  was the perfect candidate for this story. Well yeah, well, and I
• 39:30
  like the way they sort of said up at the start as well. And
• 39:31
  then you know, he never got to be part of a club. You
• 39:36
  know, no one wants him to be part of their club. Why don't
• 39:37
  people like me? Why doesn't Why doesn't anybody want me around? And you
• 39:40
  know, it's having forever and it's got it's got multiple build ups, and
• 39:44
  it's got a lovely payoff at the end because you know, you know,
• 39:47
  you get wholesomeness and the Simpsons who would I who knew? Who saw that
• 39:52
  coming? I mean, but that's a really really just a sweet payoff,
• 39:57
  A lovely one, isn't it. I thing that you don't really see coming.
• 40:00
  Yeah, And like the fact that that's where because they plan the seats
• 40:05
  for that ending throughout the entire episode, but still it sort of still catches
• 40:07
  you off guards. And the other thing is, I mean, we've been
• 40:10
  talking a lot about teen episode, well episodes of the teenage years for the
• 40:16
  sentence and how they'll go for this kind of ending where it's like we love
• 40:22
  you and you know you're you know, you're part of this team and all
• 40:24
  this kind of stuff. Invariably in the in the lead up to that,
• 40:28
  throughout the episode, Home has done shit to know, yeh, fuck up
• 40:31
  his family or insult or disregard or disrespect Marge or whatever. This isn't that.
• 40:37
  No, No, I mean he's not. He's not a bad guy.
• 40:40
  Throughout this episode, he means he just gets a bit drunk on power
• 40:43
  and realizes that, oh, it's not doing anything for me, you know.
• 40:46
  He's not like, well, I've got a real family now in the
• 40:50
  Stone Gutters, I don't need you. I mean, event if he did
• 40:52
  that, yeah, it would be horrible, Like eighteen he would do that,
• 40:55
  Yeah, yeah, I mean he would choose them over his family.
• 40:58
  He would Yeah, yeah, I've got to I've got a real family,
• 41:00
  people who really respect me and all this kind of stuff. And he he
• 41:02
  clearly loves his family in this one. And but the ending though that sometimes
• 41:07
  in season eighteen and whatnot, They'll give you that nice moment and I'll suck
• 41:09
  it up with some stupid gag at the end. This one he had that
• 41:13
  had a moment, but it wasn't stupid. No, all right, that's
• 41:15
  Lisa's turned. I think marg you're going to say stop, that's enough,
• 41:20
  No, Lis, that that's backs great paddling as well. That's great Simpsons.
• 41:25
  And it's like it's sentimental and it's earned it, but it's also we're
• 41:30
  a bit we're a bit cheeky about the family dynamic. We also recognize that
• 41:34
  sometimes it can be dysfunctional and fucked up. It's actually my favorite moments.
• 41:36
  I just love how much Bart was given it taking this opportunity. Plus we
• 41:42
  mentioned it earlier as well, also missed my favorite moments and going outside to
• 41:45
  stock. The visual of the stock like is in his head is like this
• 41:50
  is working. Yes, I need I need a ye, it's a different
• 41:55
  word for no, just your storm. It works is stock. My final
• 42:00
  question for you is what is the hand that Homer has According to Carl in
• 42:05
  Poker, Oh yeah, it's the royal Samplo. Yes, yeah, that's
• 42:08
  why I haven't realizes. Oh this isn't as good as a cracked up to
• 42:12
  be. Yeah. All right, So the original air day of Homer the
• 42:15
  Great was January eighth, nineteen ninety five, written by as we said,
• 42:19
  John Swartzwolder and directed by Jim Read and guest Iron Patrick Stewart. Chot board
• 42:22
  gag chot board gags. Yeah, I know, back adding just kidding doesn't
• 42:28
  make it okay to insult the principle and the cash gag is the living room
• 42:31
  is modeled after mc ashes eshes is it esher esha? Yeah, relativity.
• 42:36
  So the episode kicks off with stern lecture plumbing, I told you not to
• 42:39
  flush that. I love here. I don't think they do it anymore,
• 42:43
  but it used to be whenever they would go into the basement, you would
• 42:45
  see the big giant head that mister Burns gave but from the blood feud.
• 42:49
  I think it was where it donates blood and save mister Burns. They don't
• 42:52
  do it anymore, but it was always nice that they had that little call
• 42:53
  back every time lay the basement. It's like because it's like, what did
• 42:57
  the family do with their head? They put it into the basement. How
• 42:59
  they get into the basement, you know, but it's there, But then
• 43:00
  how do they get it out shoulder anymore? Who knows? But yeah,
• 43:05
  so he's basically no help at all in right of me of the guy who
• 43:07
  just wanted to sum me up a river and the cats down there she's swimming
• 43:12
  around. It's going to take them two to three weeks with the past to
• 43:14
  arrive. As he said, if I owed him today, which I won't,
• 43:19
  it call the very nineties thing, by the way, I know,
• 43:23
  right, tell him to put a pan down there. It didn't work.
• 43:25
  Then Homer is stuck in a traffic jam, and yeah, I'm terrible traffic
• 43:30
  jams. I hate traffic jams. I know I'm part of the problem by
• 43:32
  being in the traffic jam. Yeah, just still you feel like the only
• 43:36
  one is what are you guys doing? I need to get here? If
• 43:40
  we all just drove really quickly, yeah, get to where we needed to
• 43:44
  go. That's going on. But there's an accident. Who caused the accident,
• 43:46
  it's your man, It is only pie no longer in the sky.
• 43:52
  Yeah, but they're always happy to the arney pie. But although this he
• 43:55
  was relatively even tempered as the usual times we see him. Homer has then
• 44:00
  parked directly behind the house. Now this is one of those gags where I
• 44:02
  feel like, if this happened in season eighteen, I'd like grill it for
• 44:06
  continuity. But there's maybe the more I go back and reviews at these old
• 44:09
  ones, I'm like, Oh, they've been doing this ship since day dot.
• 44:12
  Yeah, you know, it's like, ah, maybe I should just
• 44:14
  go with something sometimes. But the Linear and car they've got great parks right
• 44:21
  next to the power plants. Hey, how come you guys got such great
• 44:28
  parking places. It's a secret shut up home. And then breaks his stool.
• 44:34
  I like, this can save budget stool, factory sec. So he's
• 44:37
  not only got the budget stall, he's got the he's got the what do
• 44:40
  you call it, the factory sec, the shoddy one here, the runt
• 44:45
  of the art of the litter. But he's that's it. You've made the
• 44:49
  list. And Linear and Carbo have good chairs. And then we get the
• 44:52
  first glimpse at the stonecutter slash logo slash ring when they put the ring into
• 44:58
  the into the coal machine. That's right, Hey, you guys want to
• 45:06
  go balling tonight, what Betsy, Yeah, we got things to dope,
• 45:10
  Like what it's a secret? Shut up now. This took me back.
• 45:17
  So a dinner now and home is annoyed. You know, he says on
• 45:20
  Wednesday night, they're always doing something, says the Conspiracy. Wednesday Night for
• 45:23
  me growing up was bowling night. Oh for my dad. My dad used
• 45:27
  to be in an inner league team, and every Wednesday night we'd go watch
• 45:29
  my dad and my uncle Darren, and they'd always get like a third guy
• 45:31
  from where they worked. It was like one year it was a guy called
• 45:35
  Chad, next year is a guy called Scottie. And every time they're just
• 45:37
  like this guy can't do it anymore, that they'd bail out, but like
• 45:40
  they would win the tournament. And I'm like the very few times when I
• 45:44
  was a kid, I looked after my dad and be like wow, Like
• 45:46
  I used to watch a bowl and I'm like, I got three strikes in
• 45:50
  a row. That's fine. I mean, not that weird necessarily make fun
• 45:54
  of bowling, but you know it's like, well, that's a that's a
• 45:57
  game, not a sport. Noting like that, but watching someone who's really
• 46:00
  good at bowling, that's d I love watching bowling. It's one of those
• 46:06
  sports that I just loved a lot of darts, Yeah, just like when
• 46:07
  they get right into it, but like when the with the with the striking,
• 46:12
  the bowling ride. I love when you look at the guy for a
• 46:13
  gutter ball and that last minute it's like, yeah, how do you do
• 46:16
  that? Are you some fucking master of physics? Yeah? I guess at
• 46:21
  the end and goes strike and you're like, how did you make a spin
• 46:23
  at the end? And I think I think a lot of these of course,
• 46:30
  yeah, of course women can do dots and bullying, but generally it's
• 46:34
  you see dudes doing it, or maybe I'm just watching dudes do it.
• 46:39
  But the things that the things that really leap out at me when yeah,
• 46:44
  I'll see footage of it, is that you know, they realize, oh,
• 46:46
  maybe people aren't taking this seriously, and they get like a real sort
• 46:50
  of bragadocio as a result, they get really cocky, they really showman Like
• 46:53
  one of my favorite but dants is very much character driven. Darts is extremely
• 46:58
  It was like there was some guy he's like a big fat brett, yeah
• 47:02
  you know, and he's sort of lining up and he's He's like, he's
• 47:05
  a fucking assess. I know the guy. You mean, he's the best
• 47:07
  in the world, basically. I don't know if I hope it is,
• 47:09
  but he says, you know, before he throws the day, he's like,
• 47:14
  who's in charge? Me or a devil? I reckon it's me.
• 47:17
  I think it's probably Peter Wright or Phil Taylor, Phil Taylor. I'm not
• 47:21
  sure the guy, but my dad loves those guys. But he looked like
• 47:23
  someone who like redirect his mail to the pub. Yeah, because that's where
• 47:29
  he lives. Yeah. Yeah, but they are gods in that room.
• 47:32
  Yeah, I mean, honestly, it was like looking like Steve like pick
• 47:40
  Stephen Sagol or something. He's like, oh god, I'm not talking about
• 47:45
  that. Steven's talking about under siege. Yeah, I'm talking about above the
• 47:49
  law here, just like, oh my god, don't mess with this guy.
• 47:52
  Yeah. Yeah, it's just they're so cocky, but they're probably just
• 47:55
  lovely people. They're playing it. They're playing it because there's always a heal
• 47:58
  in a baby face. That's right. Yeah, it's both proby wrestling.
• 48:01
  We've talked about The Iron Four, haven't we that movie? The I haven't
• 48:04
  watched it yet, but yeah, but apparently it's just fucking like so depressing.
• 48:07
  I was reading a bit about the Van Erkson just like, oh my
• 48:10
  god, yeah that story. I've watched the actual documentary about them that the
• 48:13
  WW put out years and years ago, and it's just like, oh,
• 48:15
  man, yeah, not sure them up for this. No, but that
• 48:20
  on aw a couple of weeks ago in their hometown, and a couple of
• 48:23
  the a W wrestlers are actually in the movie. It's like, a,
• 48:25
  yeah, the story is just too sad for this podcast. Let's not talk
• 48:30
  about it. Let's let's move on to It was funny Ship, which is
• 48:34
  home of the great But yeah, so Homer basically thinks it a conspiracy and
• 48:37
  bar suggests they could be part of the Kennedy assassination. I thought this is
• 48:40
  gonna be the moment where he's like, I was just subscribed to your newsletter.
• 48:44
  But it wasn't. I thought that was this moment here. But Marche,
• 48:45
  there's no more stalking. I mentioned Corrol, Well something did. I
• 48:50
  don't want you stalking anyone tonight. Oh okay, it your own way,
• 48:53
  March. I'll be back in a minute. I'm going outside too, stuck
• 49:02
  Lenny and Carl. On paper, this probably wouldn't read funny, but Dan
• 49:09
  saying to Stock, that's what just makes it that that hits it home.
• 49:15
  But then, how clever was this? The Yellow drip Road was not a
• 49:20
  bad move. And it's one of those moments where he's like, it looks
• 49:23
  like he's barking up the Rahm bush, Like you know, he has a
• 49:25
  funny one line. I'm very rarely has funny one liners like that, but
• 49:29
  yeah, perfectly follow the Yellow Drip Road and eventually finds as when he refers
• 49:34
  to it their secret hiding place. Even as he's walking in, Homer tries
• 49:37
  to enter, and it's very much like Grandpa entering the Burl Scouts. That's
• 49:42
  one of my favorite gifts of all time. Oh yeah, straight, like
• 49:46
  realizing there's some dreadful no winner given somewhere and lie that nope, walking walk
• 49:54
  but he's on the roof. He thinks he's going to get away with it.
• 49:57
  They don't know, they're none the wiser, and it shatters and he
• 49:59
  falls in. I love this. There's like you must pay the ultimate price,
• 50:01
  Yes, the ultimate price, get out of here. Yeah, it's
• 50:05
  just throwing it Alecan drunk. Yeah, but I just love the Hibbitt Moe
• 50:08
  Skinner Wigham home and all hanging out and it's like, oh this is this
• 50:10
  is different. But now Homer he barges into the tea room and Lenny and
• 50:15
  Carla and he says he saw some some weird, strange, sick, twisted,
• 50:17
  eerie Guila's evil stuff and he wants in it. And Lenny then let's
• 50:22
  as sleep and oh, you can't be this stone Cutters. It's too exclusive.
• 50:23
  That's a nice secret organization we had once. There's any two ways of
• 50:27
  game membership, which were can you remember, Ah, yeah, you have
• 50:30
  to either save well be the sun of a stone cutter, or save the
• 50:34
  life of a stone cutter, which tries to do He tries to do.
• 50:37
  Yes, that could have killed you by cholesterol, as Lennie said, not
• 50:40
  yet proven conclusively that they actually raise a level of serram cholesterol in human bloodstream.
• 50:45
  And the A cancel creep got to him too, A gig, a
• 50:47
  gag. When I was the kid, I was like, I guess it
• 50:50
  is FURNI an egg, but I just never I never quite got it.
• 50:54
  I think it's one of those things where have I put it on the page
• 50:57
  right now. And why the only one that was confused by this. I've
• 50:59
  got to everyone as a kid was confused by this gig. We'll feel free
• 51:02
  to do that. Put something up on the page. I did a thing
• 51:06
  I noticed here that I've never noticed before was Lenny waving him off. I
• 51:09
  never noticed Lenny do in the way now, Homer, But no, I'm
• 51:15
  in bed and Hobad just wants to know why nobody likes him. Oh,
• 51:19
  yeah, everyone likes You're a great person. Well they're stupid idiots. Don't
• 51:22
  let mean their crapit club for jokes. Then we get the flashback of the
• 51:23
  no Homer's club, And as you were saying earlier, it's a nice setup
• 51:27
  to explain why Hommer would feel this way, or he's always felt like he's
• 51:30
  been left out. Hey Balie, Hey jolly, come on in. There's
• 51:37
  platy of room. Sorry that you, Hober ain't it? But you letting
• 51:42
  Homer Clumplet look it has no home burds. We're allowed to have one.
• 51:51
  They felt so left joke. Kids can be so cruel. We care face
• 51:55
  more. That's basically been my life for the last two weeks, except it's
• 52:02
  been wholly hitting Elliott. Oh my god, Oh my god. Sometimes I
• 52:06
  just like, I just grow a set and punch your back. Mate.
• 52:12
  I'm just like, She's like, Dad, like what he's touching me.
• 52:15
  I'm like, we'll just move. She's she's following me. I'm like,
• 52:20
  oh my Holly, okay Dad. A minute later, Dad, I'm like,
• 52:24
  oh my god. Children. Then I said, I see the meme
• 52:29
  Cherish moments, Cherish moments. One day they won't be hitting each other.
• 52:35
  Precious memories. Wants to get into the club, but he know it's absolutely
• 52:38
  nothing about them, and then Grandpa keeps trying to say I'm a member.
• 52:42
  I'm not listening to him, and Bart says, remember their self. Hypnosis
• 52:44
  classes even done done hypnosis before. Have you ever done it? No?
• 52:47
  I never have. I've always been too scared because I'm like, my brain
• 52:52
  says that it's all fake, right, But like I feel like if I
• 52:55
  do it, and I realized that I'm actually hypnotized, my whole world.
• 52:59
  But just that you get when we're done recording this episode, which may take
• 53:02
  a very long time. We're enjoying talking, but we're going to be recording
• 53:07
  an episode of Going down to South Park. Yeah, as we said that
• 53:09
  tooth fairy Tat's two thousand, where Kyle has his first existential crunch, says,
• 53:15
  I imagine, Yeah, every kid who watched the Matrix. Yeah,
• 53:19
  I don't trust my brain enough that if someone started messing around with it,
• 53:22
  or like I'm going to turn a key in there, It's like, no,
• 53:25
  you don't want to do that, because I've been piling a lot of
• 53:29
  stuff behind that door. I don't want it out. Yeah. Yeah,
• 53:31
  it's like my back once I went to that was it the chiropractor? I
• 53:35
  think it was once he tracks my back once. My back's ever been the
• 53:37
  same in a bad way, in a bad way, repeat business exactly right.
• 53:43
  Oh, you're going to need me to fix that at least once a
• 53:45
  week. Yeah. Num by the Sclen Cottage, Grandpa, Oh sure,
• 53:50
  let's see. I'm an elk a mationon a communist owned the president of the
• 53:57
  Gain Lesbian Alliance for some reason. Ah, here it is dust stone cutters.
• 54:02
  This is it? Wait, chicken in they have to let me join
• 54:06
  if I miss done of a member. Oh take this communist one too,
• 54:09
  Hope. Then arrives with Grandpa basically uses him saying the I'm a son of
• 54:13
  a member. He gonna let me in and say okay, and he says
• 54:15
  he's going to be initiated when number one gets here and he mocks number one.
• 54:19
  It's not very much Season eighteen Homer a bit. Yeah, I mean
• 54:23
  yeah, he's been doing a lot of ooh. So it's usually like saying
• 54:28
  you're fruity. It's usually these days, isn't it. Yeah? But they
• 54:31
  call each other by their number here and they outreped mister Burns. That's it,
• 54:35
  might he claim the ladder. And then number one arrives and is the
• 54:39
  arrival of Patrick Stewart. And of course Patricks Drewitt was referred to as number
• 54:44
  one on the Star Treks and Next Generation, or he wasn't it was the
• 54:46
  other way around. He called his Did he call Ryker number one? I
• 54:51
  thought he called Richer number one? Hang on, I could be wrong here.
• 54:53
  I could be wrong here. Like I think I said at the very
• 54:55
  start, I should start watching Star Trek the Next Generation, And here I
• 54:59
  am of saying, and this is what they say on DNG. The name
• 55:02
  of Stewart's character is the reference to his series Stature Generation, which at the
• 55:06
  time had recently ended a seventy year one in which number one is a nickname
• 55:08
  used by Captain him Patrick shoot Captain Pericard for his first officer, William t
• 55:15
  Ryker. Oh okay, we could easily erase all that and make it sound
• 55:20
  like a chump, or we could keep it and people would realize that guys
• 55:24
  indeed fallible. Would you like to redo it? No, No, I'm
• 55:27
  happy to keep it. This is part of my thing for twenty twenty four.
• 55:31
  It's like own your mistakes. Yes, that's the thing that don't try
• 55:35
  and high But that's why I love I want to start doing this show live
• 55:37
  where people can listen to us doing the show. Locals like, what's this
• 55:39
  live? Did you fuck up? You meant to do it? Yes,
• 55:43
  but we'd get canceled. That's true. But basically this is where moe plants
• 55:49
  are seed for the chosen one. Nice little teas there and he has to
• 55:52
  do the leap of faith, the five story plunge, which turns out to
• 55:53
  actually be a five story plange to do it again. My blindfold came off
• 55:58
  of what a great gag. Then crossing the desert, the Unblinking Eye,
• 56:01
  the wreck of the Hesperus, the paddling of the swollen ass. I know,
• 56:05
  smacking someone in the ass. I would never hit my kids, right,
• 56:07
  but you see people get hitting on the ass of the paddle. I
• 56:12
  was never hitter either. It must fucking be so painful because sometimes you sit
• 56:15
  on a bike for too long you get up in your ashes, like,
• 56:16
  absolutely, is this caning? But imagine getting smacked with a paddle on the
• 56:20
  ass? No thanks? Did you ever get smacked? Yes? Absolutely,
• 56:24
  wow, we did, Like I can't imagine, not by my folks.
• 56:27
  I don't recall I was at school, that's right, Yeah, because you
• 56:30
  did get strap around the wrist there, never got it on the maybe once
• 56:32
  on the wrist, like they got the cane on the fingers. And I'm
• 56:35
  like, I can't believe that was the thing. I can't blame nuts.
• 56:37
  That's crazy, right, And you go to school and get caned, Yeah,
• 56:40
  that's mental. That is kind of medieval. Yeah. By the time
• 56:45
  I was at school, I mean, they still had corporate punishment, but
• 56:50
  it wasn't quite as extreme as it used to be. And yeah, certainly
• 56:52
  in certain schools they let you know whose boss. But allowing someone else to
• 56:59
  hit your child, this is not not in a million years while down there,
• 57:01
  Oh, I used to go it in loco parentis you know, where
• 57:05
  whereby the teacher had could assume the role of the parent. And by this
• 57:09
  sacred parchment, I swear that if I revealed the secrets to the stonecutters,
• 57:15
  may my stomach become loaded and my head be plucked up All but three years.
• 57:20
  I think you should have to take a different oath. Everyone takes the
• 57:22
  same oath. Welcome to the club number nine hundred and eight. You have
• 57:27
  joined the sacred order of the stone Cutters, who, since ancient times have
• 57:31
  split the rocks of ignorance that obscure the light of knowledge and truth. Now
• 57:36
  let's all get drunk and play ping pong's. That's that's great Swartz world as
• 57:42
  well. It's great writing that, you know. I mean it sounds like,
• 57:44
  oh, well, the stone cutters actually probably had noble ambitions to begin
• 57:47
  with, and it just degenerated into a boy's fraternity. Yeah, were you
• 57:51
  part of a frat at school? Uh? No, not really? I
• 57:53
  mean, does astray really have frets? The sound? Only you were too
• 57:58
  at the private school. I thought maybe at private school they might No,
• 58:00
  no, no, no, I mean certainly, I mean just add clicks
• 58:02
  of like they had the cool kids. Yeah yeah, but nothing really cool
• 58:06
  official. If there was something official, it was so you know, exclusive
• 58:09
  that I didn't even hear about it. The plumber then says, it's still
• 58:14
  going to be a couple of weeks. They do the secret handshake and fixes
• 58:15
  it immediately, just one scroup. Also, they just wearing T shirts.
• 58:19
  Yes, that's right. Yeah, he gets the shortcut to work. Now.
• 58:22
  I would love the shortcut. How amazing would that be? It's just
• 58:24
  like, I mean, we look at these you were saying earlier, start
• 58:29
  like, we look at these secret societies and these rich privilege. Its like,
• 58:31
  but if you were in there, how amazing would it be? Like
• 58:36
  if you had the power, you'd be like, look at these peasants.
• 58:38
  It's kind of like when you buy a drop the Q card at like amusement
• 58:43
  park. It's like, well, that's funny. I mean, we're living
• 58:47
  in a very inclusive age where you know, exclusive is kind of like why
• 58:53
  don't you want everybody to be part of your of your wonderful team or whatever,
• 58:57
  because it's important to strive to be better than everybody else. But I
• 59:00
  mean I remember and you probably do to I mean, I think it was
• 59:04
  an American Express. I had their Their tagline was like membership has its privileges.
• 59:07
  It's like, okah, does you want to hear talking sci fi?
• 59:10
  Motherfucker? But it's fine. I mean, I was. I was watching
• 59:15
  some documentary on Netflix. I think it was about you know, Abercrombie and
• 59:19
  Fitch, the clothing label that's very preppy and all that kind of stuff,
• 59:23
  and they had all these people going, yeah, they were really selling this
• 59:28
  whole exclusive thing, and I didn't feel like part of It's like, do
• 59:31
  you not know how marketing works since day dot? If you've made it like
• 59:37
  this is not for everybody, but it could be for you. You know,
• 59:39
  you could be part of this, of this inner circle provided you buy
• 59:44
  this, you know, three hundred dollars fucking sweatshirt or whatever. This is
• 59:47
  how is how you get sold shit everywhere you go to buy something out you
• 59:52
  part Join the club, Join the club, Join the club, Join the
• 59:54
  JB Perks Club, join this absolutely, or even if it's not even necessarily
• 1:00:00
  join a particular club. I mean, just watching that for pepsi or coke
• 1:00:06
  or whatever. It's like these guys are all having a great time, you
• 1:00:08
  know, they're eating that delicious looking pizza and they are all laughing. It's
• 1:00:12
  a beautiful ladies. Just love them. And guess what, you know you
• 1:00:15
  can have that too if your order a pepsi. Yeah. And you never
• 1:00:16
  see fat people that to take away fast food like ad So it's just like
• 1:00:20
  hot people pretending to eat this giant bag and they always eat it weird.
• 1:00:22
  Never they eat burgers and commercials. They're holding two hands and they bring it
• 1:00:25
  like towards them yet and a get it. And it's like I'm holding this
• 1:00:29
  with like my index thing and my thumb and these guys couldn't hold it with
• 1:00:31
  two hands. Is there anything? There is plenty thing more disappointing. But
• 1:00:36
  how disappointing is it when you go to a fast food place and you order
• 1:00:40
  I don't off the menu and you get home and it's like this was just
• 1:00:44
  slapped together with no love at all. Oh yeah, looking back in my
• 1:00:47
  McDonald's days, like last year, last week, I was last week?
• 1:00:52
  Actually, no, no, when was the last time I had it?
• 1:00:53
  It was, well, it was a few weeks ago. But I was
• 1:00:57
  noticing because I'm the kind of guy who will open up his called pand with
• 1:01:00
  cheese and like sneak sneaker your fries and there oh really, oh yeah that
• 1:01:02
  worth it. It's pretty tasty, okay, but it's like this has the
• 1:01:07
  quarter pound of patty and it has the cheese, but where's the where's the
• 1:01:12
  sauce. They're gonna a bit, you know, not too heavy on the
• 1:01:16
  sauce and make us ketchup taste different. It does. It does. So
• 1:01:21
  when I was like, it might be time for us to say goodbye until
• 1:01:27
  they they will getch you back somehow. They will not you know how they
• 1:01:30
  got me back. How they get points are nearly expiring. If you don't
• 1:01:35
  come back, your points that you spent all this money and they're going to
• 1:01:37
  expire. And I'm like, ah, ship one last cheese worker, It'll
• 1:01:40
  be yeah, no, I will not go back. There's where Homer is.
• 1:01:45
  Basically he's got the shortcut to work. You know, you get all
• 1:01:46
  the exclusive stuff. But still he has the park in the same parking space.
• 1:01:50
  He got the roll, but glide to himself to work to the front
• 1:01:53
  door. He's got his new chair. Jealous, Well, no, with
• 1:01:58
  the exact yeah it is. Then they give me secret membership pack and it's
• 1:02:04
  got the sticker for getting no tickets. I think it was they get my
• 1:02:07
  tickets. This the paramedics won't steal your wallet when telling you. And also
• 1:02:12
  here's the new number. Don't call nine one anymore. He's the real number
• 1:02:14
  nine one two. How many people do you think tried to call that?
• 1:02:16
  After this episode? God Homer is reading secret world history, so he's now
• 1:02:23
  becoming conspiracy theories. Basically, he's just buying into their their fake history.
• 1:02:27
  Lisa doesn't think that the Founding fathers were stonecutters. Here's what really happened at
• 1:02:30
  something the Declaration of Independence they're going to part ofock Twas seventeen ninety nine.
• 1:02:36
  And also here's how David Crockett really died. Must be a margin, says
• 1:02:40
  I love this. The you know who just cold with the secret wink wink
• 1:02:45
  at the you know What. It's like the most unsecret secret club of all
• 1:02:49
  time. But then we get the of course the we Do song, which
• 1:02:52
  apparently wasn't in the original script for Matt Groening requests that it get put in
• 1:02:57
  there, and it got nominated for Most Outstanding Original Lyrics or something I did
• 1:03:00
  have in my notes somewhere. It was not for them, I mean for
• 1:03:02
  most outstanding original music lyrics, and it lost to Ordinary Miracles from Bubba Streisan,
• 1:03:07
  the concept which I do not know. I could not say, I
• 1:03:10
  could not sing lyric one of Ordinary Miracles. If you put a loaded gun
• 1:03:15
  to my head, Please don't put a loaded gun to my head. Did
• 1:03:16
  Steve Guttenberg deserve this? My only role that I know him of. The
• 1:03:22
  then role I know him from is short Circuit. Okay, love Circuit.
• 1:03:25
  He's a little bit of do do eighties history. Yeah, yeah, I
• 1:03:30
  mean Steve good move was sort of on the rise as a pure likable young
• 1:03:37
  leading man. He was in a few good movies and all that kind of
• 1:03:38
  stuff. Then around eighty four is in Police Academy, which was a big
• 1:03:40
  hit. Of course. Yes, yeah, so he's a lead in that,
• 1:03:44
  and it was like, oh yeah, he's a handsome, affable,
• 1:03:45
  well built, likable guy, not threatening in any way. He's very much
• 1:03:50
  you know, he'd be on the cover of one of Lisa's teen magazines,
• 1:03:53
  non threatening stars or whatever. And then he had a really good run of
• 1:03:58
  just like choosing or being chosen four movies that just did really well that weren't
• 1:04:02
  necessarily good. Agent good agent, I guess, because I mean he was
• 1:04:06
  in Cocoon, which was a huge hit, Short Circuit, The Three Men
• 1:04:11
  and a Baby, and he was in a few Police Academy movies as well,
• 1:04:15
  So he was just in the public eye constantly, and everyone was kind
• 1:04:17
  of like, I don't really know any Steve Gutenberg fans, But at the
• 1:04:20
  same time, I don't know, he's not hurting anybody. He just seemed
• 1:04:25
  like a really goofy, likable guy, and that was what you needed in
• 1:04:30
  eighties, you know, sort of high concepts comedies and rom coms and you
• 1:04:35
  know, genre movies. So he was the perfect candidate for this game then
• 1:04:39
  pretty much who made him a start? I love the way he just sort
• 1:04:42
  of goes. I mean, and I think by this time, this is
• 1:04:45
  the year. So they're doing this in ninety four. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:04:48
  the bloom's coming off the rose a little bit. He's still doing stuff,
• 1:04:54
  but he's not that young hottie anymore. No, not really. But
• 1:04:57
  yeah, it's purely understand and I'll probably fit it's nicely into the rhyme scheme
• 1:05:01
  as well. Look, as far as I'm gonna tell, he's still acting.
• 1:05:04
  Every once in a while he was on it. I can't see you
• 1:05:08
  for so long. I get the feeling he probably is getting nice residuals from
• 1:05:14
  all the hit movies he was in, hopefully invested his money wise, then
• 1:05:17
  he still pops up and stuff every once in a while. There's a great
• 1:05:20
  show called Party Down. You ever heard of that. No, it's about
• 1:05:24
  this crew of like cater waiters, you know. They they all work at
• 1:05:29
  sort of various events around LA and they're all like, would be right as
• 1:05:31
  actors all this kind of stuff. And one episode they're doing a catered party
• 1:05:36
  at Steve Gutenberg's house and they get the all the guests get the day wrong
• 1:05:43
  and no one shows up. So the crew just sort of ends up hanging
• 1:05:45
  out with Steve Gutenberg and like he's cool, but he's also like, you
• 1:05:49
  know, I'm Steve Gutenberg, right and you know, and check out my
• 1:05:51
  place. And he's got a bit of an ego and him still thinks he
• 1:05:54
  can sort of, you know, attract the hottie and the crew and all
• 1:05:57
  that kind of stuff. It was playing it up, yeah, and it
• 1:06:00
  was a really good sort of tongue in cheek. Yeah. Look, I
• 1:06:02
  know that people think I'm a little bit of a gag. But also,
• 1:06:05
  you know, people did like me for a very long time and probably for
• 1:06:08
  a good reason, remember when. Yeah, pretty much. So, I
• 1:06:12
  mean, if you go back and you look at these movies from the eighties
• 1:06:14
  been particularly yeah, Police Academy and I mean Police Academy has not aged well
• 1:06:18
  at all. Really, Oh, it's got a lot of just those really
• 1:06:21
  sort of dumb I'm not trying to excuse anything, but casually racist, casually
• 1:06:27
  sexist, dumbly offensive, not necessarily going for the throat kind of gigs,
• 1:06:31
  but just like that's a bit sort of racy or whatever. I mean,
• 1:06:35
  Yeah, I get the Field Simpsons two thousand and six, but he's you
• 1:06:41
  know, he's very very charming. You know, he's incredibly charming in Cocun.
• 1:06:44
  Just you know, a nice, likable guy. So yeah, I
• 1:06:47
  did Tom Haykstakey's spot I Reckon. So yeah, it's like, oh,
• 1:06:51
  we've got a guy who can do this and act. But yeah, but
• 1:06:56
  you actually put a bit of a bit of a curve on it, and
• 1:06:59
  yeah, you're right. Act. I mean it's like I've said this before,
• 1:07:02
  It's like, why are we putting up with Lindsay Low And when we've
• 1:07:05
  got Emma Stone who can do all this and more. Yeah, you respect
• 1:07:11
  them, Lindsay Lowan, Sorry, you know, but I mean I remember
• 1:07:15
  when you know, super Bad came out and then the emmastone sort of broke
• 1:07:17
  out. I'm like, oh okay, yeah, yeah, no, I
• 1:07:19
  was in love with her when that movie came out, justifiably so. But
• 1:07:26
  they're commemorating their fifteen hundredth anniversary by having ribs. How many? It's a
• 1:07:30
  bib. He doesn't embarrass some stuff. Oh, by the way, just
• 1:07:32
  one other thing about the We Do song, I mean, yeah, something
• 1:07:35
  that really works about it. Besides the fact that it's catchy and you know,
• 1:07:39
  you can do everyone can sing along to that, it just points out
• 1:07:43
  so many things that it was like, why is this the case? I
• 1:07:45
  mean, like we were talking about Steve Good. Yeah. But also it's
• 1:07:49
  like America just take on the metric system. Why did the meme? I
• 1:07:54
  put up no which ones meme? Yeah, not metric system. But it's
• 1:07:59
  the dates. So they did the dates differently. Oh that's right. Yeah,
• 1:08:01
  it's like it's it's one two three one two three. No I think
• 1:08:09
  it was. No, it doesn't. But this is the thing I was
• 1:08:12
  getting so many inboxes from people saying you should have put the tag ont have
• 1:08:15
  a saying no, it doesn't because I was otherwise you can't understand it.
• 1:08:17
  And I was like, I have enough faith in my followers to get the
• 1:08:19
  gag without dumbing it down for them. Yes, we're we're not the Simpsons.
• 1:08:27
  Yeah, but I mean, like I was one day I was in
• 1:08:28
  America. It's like, I can't see. I'm to do the maths of
• 1:08:30
  like, okay, so we're going twenty five miles an hour, that's so's
• 1:08:32
  okay, it's a hundred degrees outside. What the fuck? I've never leave
• 1:08:36
  the house. I was a kid the Sandlot and this one point, like
• 1:08:41
  it's one hundred and fifty degrees outside, I'm like, yeah, how are
• 1:08:45
  you not dead? Yeah? The world explode. But yeah, it's just
• 1:08:47
  it doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, but stuff like that with America.
• 1:08:51
  Of course, all due respect and love to American friends, but I
• 1:08:54
  mean, yeah, last time was there was like, okay, so this
• 1:08:56
  is the price of this snikets. Yeah, in the supermarket, put a
• 1:09:00
  tax in the price, tax in the price. I was infuriated. I
• 1:09:04
  had like a one dollar note or whatever, it was I was enough to
• 1:09:06
  buy this chocolate and he was like, it was a dollar six and I
• 1:09:09
  was like, I don't have a dollar six. I've got a dollar that's
• 1:09:12
  it's like ninety cents. He's like, but attack and I was like,
• 1:09:14
  no, no, no, that's not it. And particularly if you've got,
• 1:09:18
  you know, your last few bits of actual American money, it's like,
• 1:09:23
  well, I don't want to put this in the charity been at the
• 1:09:24
  airport. I want to spend on this stickers. And then the guy there
• 1:09:28
  bagging my grosses into a garb into a paper bag next to the guy that's
• 1:09:30
  putting it through, and I'm expected to give him money, and I'm like,
• 1:09:33
  huh, that's your job. That's your job, mister walters the employers.
• 1:09:39
  Yeah, but yeah, so he needs to beer and he grabs the
• 1:09:45
  sacred parchment and he just keeps going, doesn't he. That's that's great,
• 1:09:50
  Len, he's just fubber gasses. Woman. No, you can stop doing
• 1:09:55
  that. Oh Jesus, oh god, yeah, putting in his ear like
• 1:09:59
  I was fantas Yeah, so he gets kicked out, even the stone cut
• 1:10:01
  of underwear. Now you like this reference, won't you? Indeed? Yes,
• 1:10:04
  because they burn it in the Ark of the Covenant. Yes, and
• 1:10:09
  all the ghosts come I was always like, from Indiana Jones, by the
• 1:10:14
  way, for those other way from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost.
• 1:10:16
  Yeah, I do love how the ghost come out. I was always
• 1:10:19
  thinking, is it because of is it the arc or is it because Homer's
• 1:10:23
  underpants it is grist? I think it's both. Yeah, yeah, but
• 1:10:27
  they you know, I've learned my lesson. He keeps banging on it.
• 1:10:30
  And they touched the stone of shame. Good the mark. Oh, it's
• 1:10:45
  just a birthmark. And I'll thank you not to stare. He's stacked chosen
• 1:10:48
  one. You are the chosen one whom the Sacred Parchment prophesied would lead us
• 1:10:58
  to glory. Now from the top of Mom's springfield for the coronation, Remove
• 1:11:04
  the stone of Shame, attach the stone of triumph. This is the thing
• 1:11:16
  though, I'm watching this going. So this came out nine to ninety five,
• 1:11:19
  and the movie Up came out, and I want to say, like
• 1:11:21
  two thousand and nine, two thousand and eight, right, and in that
• 1:11:25
  movie they put the cone of Shame on the dog. I'm like, rhymes
• 1:11:30
  of stone of shame cone of shame. So I wonder if that was just
• 1:11:36
  their little way of er they shout out a tribute, tribute or just or
• 1:11:41
  just the theft, got the straight up theft. But we always say to
• 1:11:44
  Jet when he used to be naughty, he used to have the cone,
• 1:11:47
  said when he was like, have an operation so it doesn't nibble the wound
• 1:11:50
  or whatever, And like, Jet, you want the kind of shame.
• 1:11:53
  He's like, I don't. I don't want the shame. I would be
• 1:11:56
  good. But Homer's now enjoying being the chosen one. This is apparently another
• 1:11:59
  reference. It is indeed, this is where he runs out and or justeah
• 1:12:04
  before the crowd of all these people. Yeah, that's a bit from a
• 1:12:08
  movie called The Last Emperor, came out in nineteen eighty seven. I think
• 1:12:10
  it one best picture. And yeah, I mean that image of the little
• 1:12:15
  boy because it's the story of the last Emperor of China before China became all
• 1:12:19
  communist, and yeah, this little boy was, yeah, basically put into
• 1:12:27
  this huge position of power as a literal child, and he sort of runs
• 1:12:30
  out in front of all these people who were basically bowing to him, and
• 1:12:32
  he's sort of playing back to the crowd. I don't know if I was
• 1:12:35
  just at the right age or if it really was shown a lot in like,
• 1:12:40
  you know, as examples of Hollywood culture around in the late eighties or
• 1:12:43
  whatever. But yeah, it's always on TV. Wizard of Oz was always
• 1:12:45
  on TV. It's an image that's really vivid in my mind, and it
• 1:12:47
  sort of exemplifies the late eighties to me. Just yeah, little boy read
• 1:12:54
  big red curtains running into this crowd. Yeah, from the Last Emperor.
• 1:12:57
  I love here that when I was like, meant to note, never do
• 1:13:00
  this. It would be amazing to had this kind of power. Though Oh
• 1:13:04
  goodness, yea, it makes people bow down all the time. But so
• 1:13:08
  he's enjoying beak, being that the chosen on getting paid on the couch,
• 1:13:11
  like he said, Oh god, and we get your favorite moment. Well,
• 1:13:15
  we know Lisa's trying to word him up. She's clearly pretty clever about
• 1:13:18
  you know, the perils of power. Tries to throw a little Shakespeare's way,
• 1:13:25
  but no. Homo suggests get a bunch of monkeys ressed up and renat
• 1:13:29
  the Civil War, which we get at the end. Almost Then he suggests
• 1:13:32
  that he should use his resources to help others, and then he and it's
• 1:13:35
  a home. It does here he goes, and we should do this.
• 1:13:38
  He's got mad with power like that, which guy Schweitzer? That's yeah,
• 1:13:45
  I mean, oh another reference with kids. You're like what, Yeah.
• 1:13:48
  And the more the more they learn about Albert Schweitz was like, yeah,
• 1:13:51
  this guy may have seemed like he was doing some good things, he was
• 1:13:54
  also terribly terribly racist. Then the Stonecutter's Daycare Center license pending grand opening,
• 1:14:02
  Moe get stuck on the slide, get the jaws of life burns. He's
• 1:14:04
  having a little feed with the kid on the swing. You feel the little
• 1:14:08
  urchin. And they paint the building a beautiful sky blue. And the graffiti
• 1:14:12
  was just all different version of the word graffiti. I did say graffiti by
• 1:14:15
  graffiti and I saw an albato on there? Or was there only of usat
• 1:14:18
  the word graffiti, different different fonts. Yeah. The helicopter crashes home and
• 1:14:24
  then says he's now spiritually fulfilled. It's beginning of a better world for all
• 1:14:28
  of us. Cuts the moat. We gotta kill him. And then they
• 1:14:32
  go to the stone Cutter World Council before they act irrationally, and they always
• 1:14:35
  say killing. What does George would suggest that take his voice? Bucks,
• 1:14:42
  But as long as their stone cutters, he's going to control our lives.
• 1:14:45
  And then cut to wait a minute, Baskin Robbins is now an abandoned store
• 1:14:48
  and it's the ancient mystic society of no Hommers. What a callback. You
• 1:14:54
  can't just keep hanging out with these globus monkeys. Somebody's going to get Paris
• 1:15:00
  nights. Oh, merge, kids, I missed my club. You know
• 1:15:08
  you are a member of a very exclusive club, the Black Panthers. No,
• 1:15:13
  the Family Simpson, which has just five members, and only two of
• 1:15:18
  those members have special rings. Yeah, I meant our wedding rings, you
• 1:15:28
  know, Marge, You're right. The Simpson family is the best possible club
• 1:15:33
  I could belong to. This club better be worth it, all right,
• 1:15:45
  all right, it's Leasa's term. Just a great heart felt ending, it
• 1:15:48
  isn't it, which felt somewhat rushed, But then and then it also wasn't
• 1:15:54
  He went from Homber being in charge to having nothing within aspects of like naughety
• 1:15:58
  seconds. That's for the third acted felt like it had regular first act,
• 1:16:00
  long second act, condensed third act. Yeah, but got everything we needed
• 1:16:06
  to, yeah, to get gave us everything we wanted, and you go
• 1:16:11
  to the very end, you get the gracing, and you do here Carl
• 1:16:15
  saying shut up, Oh really, you do stick around for the gracing.
• 1:16:17
  You never picked up on that one. A nice little hidden gill. Easter
• 1:16:20
  eggs, love the Easter eggs. Now. I would love to know what
• 1:16:24
  actual Freemasons think of this episode. Good point, he didn't have one of
• 1:16:27
  our patrons. He did say he was a free Mason. And I've just
• 1:16:30
  seen the message here saying that he would have volunteer to come into the show
• 1:16:32
  to talk about my goodness. But maybe in a future episode. But I
• 1:16:35
  would love to hear you, guys right in Simpson's mailbag at gmail dot com.
• 1:16:39
  If you're part of a secret society of some kind, let us know
• 1:16:42
  what's it like to have the power. If you could be part of any
• 1:16:45
  secret society, what you what power you would you want to have? Oh?
• 1:16:47
  Man, I would. I would love the power of free shopping,
• 1:16:51
  like like food shopping. I'd love to be able to go to the supermarket
• 1:16:56
  enough to worry about spending four hundred dollars. Well that's true, man,
• 1:16:59
  Given them you've got hungry, hungry children and all that kind of and they're
• 1:17:01
  getting bigger and bigger, bigger onli ate four fucking bowls of neutrograph for breakfast
• 1:17:06
  yesterday, four balls. He's going to be a little monster. Holy shit.
• 1:17:10
  Yeah, I mean, I'm saying that with with Lou's youngest son who
• 1:17:14
  was hitting the teenageers and just growing hair and devouring were animals. That's what
• 1:17:18
  we are. That's pretty much it. But you know, he'd had dinner
• 1:17:20
  the other night that he came over and he was sort of picking bits of
• 1:17:24
  our dinner, and then he got like sitting on the couch and watching that
• 1:17:27
  god awful Netflix movie Rebel Moon. Oh yeah, no good, no good.
• 1:17:30
  I saw someone say it's Star Wars, but it's just a bad Star
• 1:17:31
  Wars. It's a bad Star Wars. Uh. He's already eating a bunch,
• 1:17:38
  but he's like got to the gon to the cupboard and got three things
• 1:17:42
  of burger rings and twisties or whatever. Last time I had three of these,
• 1:17:45
  I was sick in the morning. I said, why are you doing
• 1:17:46
  it? But he devoured him and he was fine. I had burger rings
• 1:17:53
  for the first time in like ten years. Last week because a friend of
• 1:17:56
  mine came from America who actually brought me this record here. It is,
• 1:18:00
  oh my Starship Troopers all the way from America. It is the Blood and
• 1:18:03
  Bug Juice Marble Vinyl. Wow, I know right, Oh my god,
• 1:18:08
  how fucking cool is that? God? Damn? Yeah, So shout out
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  to Matt Blom Mat. But as at present to him, we got him
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  a magnet of the four of us because he's part of my groom's party and
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  all of us who are part of my grooms party with they're hanging out that
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  day when he came to visit us again, a little magnet to put in
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  his fridgets back in America. We also made him an Australian care package.
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  So I had burger rings, twisties, Tim TAM's all that kind of shit
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  in there. And yeah, obviously I brought two backs of burger rings,
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  one for me, one for the kids, and the kids loved them.
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  I remember burger rings. I was a kid. They'd give me ulcers in
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  the mouth. I think I might have had something similar, which is why
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  I was never all that big on them. Yeah, used to eat it
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  was like cheesels. I loved burger rings there. Yeah, I ate it.
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  I was like, listen of the kids loved the burger rings. Yeah,
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  no ulcers for them, which's good. The next generation, the next
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  generation. But anyway, all right, guys, this has been our review
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  of Home with a Great As we said each and every month, now the
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  first podcast of the month, you can expect a classic review, no particular
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  order, but it's gonna maybe will suggest to the patrons that can vote one
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  and more. That's well. If you're a supporter of ours on Patreon,
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  month for the Movie Guys podcast along with Mitch. This month is going to
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  be a water themed one. I'm thinking it's going to be Jaws. Looks
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  like it's going to be the one. It's all right by me. Yes,
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  Jaws is probably one. It is one of the greatest movies of all
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  time. Right, do you think it's top ten greatest of all time?
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  I would certainly put it in the top twenty five, twenty five. What
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  do you think? What is your top three? Top of your head?
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  This always changes its Star Wars up there. Yeah, absolutely, it's certainly
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  my top ten. Years ago, I was commissioned by the Geelong Advertiser.
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  The paper down here is when they still had money. They still were based
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  on seal. Yeah, that's great to write like a top one hundred movies,
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  like insert thing and how long does that take to put together? It
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  took me a few weeks. Yeah. I sort of broke it down to
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  categories and all that kind of thing and had my top top ten. What
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  do I put in there? And Star Wars was definitely, and Their Raiders
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  was in there. I can't remember if I put Godfather one and two and
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  I'll count them as like one movie. Maybe what is your usual number one?
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  Though you must my very well, it varies. I mean my number
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  one for that one was actually it's called seven Samurai, so Japanese movie from
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  the fifties, which is actually what rebelmon ripples. What a wanker? You
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  say that? And then you watch seven Samurai, which is like a template
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  for modern action movies. The Magnificent Seven is a remake of it. There's
• 1:20:33
  been a Bugs Life as a remake of it. There's so many and so
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  many other movies. I've sort of used it as oh, okay, yeah,
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  this is how you do it, this is how you you know,
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  you bring together a cool group of characters. You give them a common cause.
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  Some of them are really into it, some of them less. So
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  they've all got opportunities for redemption they'veken or heroism or whatever. It's fantastic.
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  And I know it sounds wanky to say, oh, it's a Japanese movie
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  from the fifties, but you know it is fucking boss. Okay, it's
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  really good. Look maybe among Generation X types like myself, where the kind
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  of people who go this is actually really good. But look, Star Wars
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  certainly in there. If if we're doing my top three, I'm assuming white
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  men can't jump. Oh absolutely, that's somewhere in the top good movie.
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  I'm gonna say Raiders, Star Wars, and Godfather one and two on and
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  two. Okay, yeah, I did pick up Godfather's on Blu Ray as
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  well. You should never seen them? Haven't you never seen them? Take
• 1:21:25
  take a little time. I looked at the other three and I was like,
• 1:21:27
  guys, said, don't bother didn't Father? If you like the first
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  two, I'll lend you three. Okay, yeah, because three is not
• 1:21:35
  bad, but it just suffers by virtue of not being as good as one
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  and two. I really bought up on Home and I was like, wait
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  a minute, guys, said he had this. I'm just gonna borrow guys.
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  You can, by the way, Deficts to remind me your peewee David's
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