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She Of Little Faith (S13E06) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Lenny and Carl, you guys are Buddhists?
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 0:04
  Speaker 3: If I didn't have inner peace, I'd completely go psycho
• 0:07
  Speaker 3: on all you guys.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: All the time.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking for a new faith, one that isn't
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: so materialistic.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've come to the right place. Buddhism teaches that
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: suffering is caused by desire.
• 0:20
  Speaker 4: Richard Gere?
• 0:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, the world's most famous Buddhist.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: Well, what about the Dalai Lama?
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  Speaker 6: Who?
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  Speaker 5: You know, the 14th reincarnation of the Buddha Avalokiteshvara.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Who's Buddha?
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  Speaker 3: It's a good thing Buddhism teaches freedom from desire, because
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: I've got the desire to kick your ass.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Gere, I was hoping Buddhism could bring me inner peace.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Or is that just a pipe dream?
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  Speaker 3: We all have dreams. Mine is of a free Tibet.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: That would be so great.
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  Speaker 5: I dream about meatball sandwiches. All you can eat for
• 0:48
  Speaker 5: two bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck. This pamphlet contains the teachings of the Buddha.
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: All things are impermanent and are empty of inherent existence.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Hey Richard, in an officer and a gentleman, did you
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: really do all those sit-ups?
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: I wish.
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  Speaker 3: I did one, and they just showed it a thousand times.
• 1:04
  Speaker 4: Four-finger discount, dude!
• 1:18
  Speaker 6: Welcome to Four-Finger Discount. This week we're here to review
• 1:24
  Speaker 6: the annual Christmas episode... It is She of Little Faith,
• 1:27
  Speaker 6: episode DABF02.
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  Speaker 2: I am Dando. And I am Guy. Look, we should
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: maybe say Merry Christmas, but instead we'll say Namaste, friends,
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: given the whole Buddhism theme of the episode we're about
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: to talk about She of Little Faith. As mentioned, I
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: am Guy. That is Dando. I don't know. Hang on. No.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: That is Dando. Yeah, sideways.
• 1:48
  Speaker 6: Depends which way I put it this week.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: And I think it's a pleasure to be here, but
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: we'd better ask the man himself. Dando, how are you, mate?
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: You doing all right?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing very good. On the weekend, I bought myself
• 1:59
  Speaker 6: this scanner, right? So for the longest time, I've got
• 2:02
  Speaker 6: these fucking shitloads of family albums of old family photos.
• 2:06
  Speaker 6: And everyone keeps saying to me, you're going to scan,
• 2:07
  Speaker 6: you're going to scan. I had this printer scanner combo
• 2:09
  Speaker 6: and it was just no good. So I went to
• 2:12
  Speaker 6: Officeworks and I got a proper scanner on the weekend
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  Speaker 6: and I've just been scanning old photos. I mean, the
• 2:17
  Speaker 6: patrons have been treated as some old school Dando early
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  Speaker 6: 90s photos over the weekend. So I'm very happy because
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: when Nan passed away last May, she had all these
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  Speaker 6: photo albums and it's just been so great just going
• 2:29
  Speaker 6: through and finding all these old photos that I never
• 2:31
  Speaker 6: even knew existed of just memories that I sort of
• 2:34
  Speaker 6: they'll foggy my memory but now that I've seen these
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  Speaker 6: images of it I'm like it did happen that's right
• 2:39
  Speaker 6: and that's what it looked like and yeah so it's
• 2:40
  Speaker 6: just I've been I'm in a good mood because I've
• 2:42
  Speaker 6: just been going through all these old photo albums and
• 2:44
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm like I love the nostalgia just
• 2:45
  Speaker 6: the nostalgia it's almost like Nana's back again you know
• 2:48
  Speaker 6: because she's always old photos of her it's just yeah
• 2:50
  Speaker 6: it's just it's good I don't know sounds silly but
• 2:52
  Speaker 6: I guess but you know just going through old photos
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  Speaker 6: just makes me feel happy.
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: Your weekend sounds sounds very nice indeed I had both
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: highs and lows because, um, the lovely Louise is out
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: of town for the week. She is, uh, interstate.
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: She's on a week long intensity, uh, intensity. And then
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: she's bouncing on a tremopoline, um, a week long intensive, uh,
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: for this course that she's doing up in New South Wales.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I look very, I'm, I'm looking at the camera,
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: but I can see myself looking kind of shifty. Like
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: my eyes are going like this occasionally. So apologies for that.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, Any amateur psychologist or body language experts
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: out there could probably have a bit of a field
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  Speaker 2: day with, like, what's he lying about?
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  Speaker 6: I think he murdered a lovely Louise. Judge Judy would
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  Speaker 6: have a field day with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'd have a field day with Judge Judy. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so the lovely Louise is out of town for the week. We're,
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: of course, communicating via text, and I'm flying up to
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  Speaker 2: see her next Saturday morning. We'll do the drive back
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  Speaker 2: from New South Wales to Victoria for about 10 hours.
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: 10 hours in the car together. Can't wait. But also...
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  Speaker 2: My good friend Natalie had her 50th birthday party. I think, yeah, 50th.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, she's admitting it. So, you know, let's
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  Speaker 2: not play coy about ages. So she had a birthday
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: party on Saturday night, which was fantastic. Had a very,
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: very nice time. Had a few beers. Talked some shit.
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  Speaker 2: Good times all around.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just going back to that. You said 10 hours
• 4:18
  Speaker 6: in the car of Louise. That's got to be make
• 4:19
  Speaker 6: or break. Is that the longest you've been together in
• 4:21
  Speaker 6: a confined space or.
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  Speaker 2: We flew to Bali, but that was like six hours.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah. At least you can sleep on the
• 4:30
  Speaker 6: plane or read a book or whatever. I feel like
• 4:32
  Speaker 6: when you're in a car together, you sort of feel
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  Speaker 6: like you have to at least talk for a part
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  Speaker 6: of it. When you're in a plane, it's just like, yep, right,
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  Speaker 6: lights are down, close my eyes, go to sleep. But
• 4:41
  Speaker 6: in the car, it's like you have to engage. I
• 4:43
  Speaker 6: hate engaging.
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  Speaker 2: I feel no compulsion whatsoever to engage. I think maybe
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: early on in the relationship I did, I was like,
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: Better keep her entertained. She'll find out how boring I am.
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: And now that she sort of knows how boring I am, but,
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: you know, the particular way in which I'm boring, I
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: think she's probably like, yeah, it's good that he's not talking.
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  Speaker 6: But enough about our weekend, Mr. Davis. So we're here
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  Speaker 6: to discuss She of Little Faith. As we said, it's
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: the annual Christmas episode. And I say that because back
• 5:13
  Speaker 6: in the golden era of the show, they didn't do
• 5:15
  Speaker 6: a Christmas special every year. But it seems now they
• 5:18
  Speaker 6: tend to do one every season. We had the Funzo episode.
• 5:22
  Speaker 6: We had Skin and Sense of Snow. Now we've got
• 5:24
  Speaker 6: She of Little Faith. And I say this is the
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  Speaker 6: Christmas episode of the season, but still, I feel like
• 5:28
  Speaker 6: it's not a Christmas episode. It's just an episode kind
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  Speaker 6: of set at Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't feel especially Christmassy. No, not at all.
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that.
• 5:38
  Speaker 6: Not to say that I didn't like it. I just
• 5:40
  Speaker 6: don't really feel you can call this a Christmas episode.
• 5:43
  Speaker 6: Even though the last act does kind of feel Christmassy,
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  Speaker 6: but I feel if you're not going to discuss Christmas
• 5:47
  Speaker 6: until the final act of the episode, you can't call
• 5:49
  Speaker 6: it a Christmas episode.
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: Even if you're going to say all that, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: with that final third and everything, it's like, are they
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: trying to get Christmassy on us? Because, I mean, it
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: just felt very wedged in.
• 6:03
  Speaker 6: It did, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Very unnatural and, yeah, not especially cheerful. It felt like
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: a Christmas episode in August or something.
• 6:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't have a very ho-ho-ho feel to it.
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  Speaker 6: But apparently Algen, the writers, wanted it that way. They
• 6:17
  Speaker 6: wanted to sort of slide into the Christmas angle rather
• 6:21
  Speaker 6: than just a Christmas episode, which, I don't know, I
• 6:24
  Speaker 6: like Christmas, so I feel like I wish it was
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  Speaker 6: more Christmassy.
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Christmas as well, but I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: also think if you're going to do a Christmas episode,
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: do a Christmas episode. Don't try to side-white around it
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: or something like that and then just throw in a
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  Speaker 2: few Christmas sweaters and a tree and ho-ho-ho at the
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: end and expect that to sort of create goodwill on
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: earth and peace on earth and goodwill to all men.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to work. And it didn't work this
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  Speaker 2: time around.
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  Speaker 6: No, definitely not. I still did like it. I thought
• 6:55
  Speaker 6: it was a really nice story, except for the fact
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  Speaker 6: that it pretty much had the exact same template as
• 7:00
  Speaker 6: Lisa the Vegetarian, where she realizes that she wants a
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  Speaker 6: change in her life. And then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 6: they shoehorn a celebrity guest star who suits that particular change.
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  Speaker 6: So we had Paul McCartney in Lisa the Vegetarian with
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  Speaker 6: being a vegan. And then we had Richard Gere here
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  Speaker 6: with being a Buddhist. And they enlightened her at the end.
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  Speaker 2: The most famous Buddhist.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they enlightened her at the end and make her realize,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you've got it all wrong. You can do this.
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  Speaker 6: You can do that. And she goes, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and everyone's happy in the end. Except the difference here is,
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  Speaker 6: at least in this one, she wasn't pushing her beliefs
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  Speaker 6: on everyone else, which is what the story of Lisa
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  Speaker 6: the Vegetarian was. Here, it was more everyone else trying
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  Speaker 6: to pressure her into not being a Buddhist. So it
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  Speaker 6: was sort of reverse roles there. But still, the whole
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  Speaker 6: celebrity cameo angle was exactly the same.
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  Speaker 2: It was very much. And look, I'm very partial to
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  Speaker 2: Richard Gere, so I was happy when he showed up.
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  Speaker 2: I've got no problem with that. Yeah, the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: about everyone seemingly quite desperate to reconvert this one girl,
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  Speaker 2: sort of bring her back to the fold, seemed, I
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: don't know, a little weird to me. I think it's
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: especially weird when you've got a priest outside a window
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: telling a young girl, lick it, lick it.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't even think of it like that.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: That could be read any number of ways. Yeah. I
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: think the problem, and it's not a huge problem, but
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: the issue that I had with this particular episode is
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: one that I have with a fair few of recent episodes.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like it's got a strong sort of
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: central idea. It feels like a few ideas that are
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: sort of mashed together. Yep. And not always successfully. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you get a bunch of ideas that may not
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: seem like they'll work well together, and then all of
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: a sudden, oh, wait a minute, we've put Voltron together. Fantastic.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: This time around, yeah, it just felt like, hmm. I
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: think Richard Gere's got a hole in his schedule. He
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: likes Buddhism. You know, we can talk about Buddha. And
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: we'll also throw some Christmas in there. And reading up
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: on sort of the origins of this episode, I think
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: the writer of it, I'm going to mispronounce his name.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: In fact, I'm going to bypass it completely because Bill something. Sorry.
• 8:57
  Speaker 6: Would you like me to read it out?
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: Please do.
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  Speaker 6: The writer of the episode was Bill Freiberger.
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: I was about to say Feingold.
• 9:08
  Speaker 6: It's either Freiberger or Freiberger. I'm going to say Freiberger.
• 9:11
  Speaker 6: Maybe Freiberger.
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  Speaker 2: F-R-E-I.
• 9:13
  Speaker 6: Freiberger.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: So I was in the neighborhood but still hopelessly, hopelessly lost.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: He made mention that he came up with the opening
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: act about the rockets and everything like that.
• 9:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, a past experience of his from his childhood, yeah.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, it just feels like how
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: can we connect all these things? And yeah, sometimes you
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: can do that successfully and sometimes you can do it
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: in a way that's like, okay, I guess this sticks along.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: This is going to hold together for approximately 24 minutes.
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: Let's get the episode done.
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  Speaker 6: It's just kind of like Lisa. So she turns it
• 9:51
  Speaker 6: back on Christianity because the church sells out to Mr. Burns,
• 9:56
  Speaker 6: but it's because your father blew the church up. So
• 9:59
  Speaker 6: there's not like that is to hey we're just going
• 10:01
  Speaker 6: to start making money they needed money in order to
• 10:03
  Speaker 6: survive and then by the end of the episode does
• 10:07
  Speaker 6: the church just go back to normal again because Burns
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: just gives him the money and he leaves and that's
• 10:10
  Speaker 6: never mentioned again so it's like why is Lisa no
• 10:13
  Speaker 6: longer a Christian she turned her back on the entire
• 10:16
  Speaker 6: religion as a result of something that doesn't actually match
• 10:19
  Speaker 6: her anymore.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: True, but I think she did find a bit more
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: solace and a bit more resonance with Buddhism as opposed
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: to the very vague version of Christianity that the Simpsons
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: seem to practice. I mean, they're just sort of garden
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: variety Christians, but they don't seem to be like a
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: subset of anything. I don't know if they're Catholic. I
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: don't know if they're, I don't think they'd be Church
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: of England. They're not Presbyterian or Lutheran or anything like that.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they are. I mean, I think
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: they're just, they're people who go to church.
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: What did you think of Richard Gere's performance? You said
• 10:48
  Speaker 6: you enjoyed it. I felt his performance a little dull,
• 10:51
  Speaker 6: but maybe that's just who he is. Apparently he was
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: really great to work with, but he just didn't feel
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: like he was giving it all that much.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think the role called for all that
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: much either. I mean, I think he was meant there
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: to be sort of Richard Gere, Buddhism spokesman.
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, true.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: And sort of give off a very sort of calm,
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: peaceful vibe. It's like, Hey, I'm Richard Gere, star of
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: Pretty Woman and Officer of Gentleman, international sex symbol, silver
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: fox before Clooney was a silver fox, all that kind
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: of deal. But hey, I'm not letting it get to
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: me because, you know, I've got the border in my life,
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: so I'm just chill. I think his tone and his
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: approach was appropriate. Yeah, it's not a character part and
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: it's not exactly an advertisement for, Hi, I'm Richard Gere
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: and I'm on The Simpsons this week. It's more like,
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: I'm here to tell you a little bit about Buddha.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: He's a bit like the youth pastor of jokes, you know,
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: like they actually have in this episode. hey, I knew
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: a guy with long hair and some crazy ideas. So
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Richard Gere's the Buddhism version of that. It's like, hey,
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: there's a guy called the Buddha and you might want
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: to check him out. He's actually got an interesting way
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: of looking at the world. And of course, Lisa fell
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: for it. Not fell for it, but you.
• 12:02
  Speaker 7: Know.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: Lisa was very taken with it. And in all honesty, look,
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: I've done a little reading on Buddhism in the past
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: and Zen and a few other sort of belief systems
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: to sort of wrap my head around. And I mean,
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've got the discipline and the frame
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: of mind to go all in on the Buddha, but
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: I certainly think it's an interesting way of viewing the world.
• 12:25
  Speaker 6: His approach to appearing on the show is very similar
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: to Paul McCartney's, where he said that Lisa must remain... Actually, no, no, no.
• 12:31
  Speaker 6: Paul McCartney said that Lisa must remain a vegetarian. Richard
• 12:34
  Speaker 6: Gere said he'll only appear if Buddhism was portrayed correctly
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: and not sort of made fun of. And if he
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: gets to say the words free Tibet, well, he wanted
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: Lisa to say free Tibet, but ended up he being
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: the one say free Tibet. But they did take a
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: similar approach to writing stuff where they wanted to have
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: a bit of a character change with Lisa. And it's
• 12:52
  Speaker 6: good when they introduce something as serious as this, that
• 12:54
  Speaker 6: they actually stick with it. And she's still a Buddhist
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: to this day. It's similar to the vegetarian thing. And
• 12:59
  Speaker 6: I was, I think that's a really, really cool thing.
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, particularly the vegetarian angle as well, because no
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: one really spoke about vegetarianism on TV, particularly on a
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: kid's show in the nineties. And the fact that that
• 13:09
  Speaker 6: was a sort of, A lot of people sort of
• 13:10
  Speaker 6: see that episode as like, they sort of say Lisa
• 13:13
  Speaker 6: Simpson introduced a whole generation of kids to being a
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: vegetarian and being a vegan. And I think they really
• 13:21
  Speaker 6: enjoy writing for the character of Lisa, the writers, because
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: I think they relate to her the most and it
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: sort of comes through.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: I think so. And look, to maybe use an ill-chosen
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: phrase here, writing about Lisa, it puts a little meat
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: on the bone. I mean, she really sort of goes
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: about things in a shallow fashion. Yeah, she takes a
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: moral and a fairly major stance when it comes to
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: not eating meat. Her initial purpose, at least, in sort
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: of seeking out Buddhism is she's pissed off with the
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: commercialisation of modern religion. You know, I mean, these are
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: not super weighty topics, but I mean, they've got a
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: little bit of substance to them. And yeah, I think
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: you're right. I think the writers do respond to that.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Of course, they're going to do a few cheap gags
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: and all that kind of business, but if they can
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: actually base the episode or base the story in something substantial,
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: then it's to the show's benefit, I think. So, yeah,
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised that they say they enjoy writing for Lisa.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: The episode was actually nominated for the Primetime Emmy for
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: what's the award? The Outstanding Animator Program for programming less
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: than an hour. But they lost. They lost to Futurama.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Roswell to Answell, which is one of my favorite
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: Futurama episodes of all time. So it was a good
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: episode to lose to, but it would have been pretty
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: funny being Matt Groening saying, I lost to myself.
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: Hey, my favorite.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: What was your favorite moment from She of Little Faith?
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Well, hang on a sec. Let me just slap these
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: bad boys on because I've got new frames.
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, very sexy.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: The sum of the square root of the remaining two
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: sides of a sausage triangle is equal to the square
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: root of the remaining two sides. Oh, man.
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: I was going to quote that and then realise I couldn't,
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: so I just went with nerd.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I had a couple of little favourite bits. One when
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Lisa was on the God Cam at the new commercial
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: church and they came with the thing pouting Thomas.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: I just liked God Cam.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: God Cam was pretty neat. But patting Thomas and a
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: nice riff on doubting Thomas. Thought that was actually quite funny.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: And also at the end of that scene in the church,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: just where Dan's wailing as Homer and he's sort of
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: doing a lot of, how was that? That's a little much.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Tones it down a bit. I just thought that his
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: muted wails were quite funny. So, yes, I enjoyed that
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: a whole lot. What were your favourite bits from the episode, Mr. Dando?
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Before I get to my favourite moments, can I just say,
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: did you see my chair drop down just then? Were
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: you paying attention to me?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: No, because I'm just looking at myself. I'm not looking
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: at you at all.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: So I actually pushed the button for the chair to
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: go down. I just went, boop. I really liked Ralph
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: and Milhouse as the pony. I thought that was very
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: funny stuff. More sugar, please.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: He was very confident about that. I must admit, it
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: was a nice unexpected gag.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't think there would be a horse
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: in the wrapping, but I didn't think there would be
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: a pantomime horse there. With Ralph and Milhouse. I don't
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: know why Milhouse was so excited. I mean, yeah, well,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I guess every kids are excited about sugar, but Ralph
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: seemed to be the one who was getting all the sugar.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, which is probably why Milhouse is very excited to
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: go get some finally. But I just thought, I feel
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: the writers now see Ralph as a very important character
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: because he appears a lot more often than he used to.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: I think he sort of became that sort of maybe
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: season eight-ish onwards really likeable character. And you say to
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: people now, who's your favourite character? A lot of people
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: say Ralph Wiggum. They just love the little guy. And
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: it was nice to see him appear in this. I
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: also liked Milhouse's eyebrows getting blown off.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's just sadistic.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know. The thing is, though, that the next scene,
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: they'll just back again. I was like, eh. If you're
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: going to go with that, at least have him gone.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: But anyway, it doesn't matter. I just... I enjoyed, the
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: part I enjoyed the most was Ralph and Milhouse. Just the,
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: more sugar, please.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Next question.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: You there, eating the paste.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: Alrighty.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: First question comes from yourself, Mr.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Davis.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Take it away.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Does it now? Okay, then. The commercialized robe that Reverend
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Lovejoy is asked to wear is advertising witch eatery.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: You got me. What is it?
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: It's Fatso's Hash House.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: That's so hashy. That sounds delicious.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it?
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: What's your favorite hash brown? Do you like Macca's hash browns?
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: They're a bit small, so I like them.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Well, then you just order two of them.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: That is true.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Or more.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: We're not all made of money, though, Mr.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Davis. Please, patrons, keep us in hash browns.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Pay us in hash. Yes, pay us in hash. My
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: first question is, what is the last four digits of
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Homer's credit card?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: 0709.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm assuming you've got the whole number written down there.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I did. I figured you might be asked. I thought
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: you were going to ask for the whole thing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: I thought about it and I went, that's just sadistic,
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: as you said earlier with the eyebrows. I won't do that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: That's just mean.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: It's cruel.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: But I knew that. See, the thing about this Zoom
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: call now, the fact that we're broadcasting this on YouTube
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: is that I can tell when you're cheating and looking
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: at your notes.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: See, if we were just doing this over the phone,
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: you could have just gone 0709. Correct, sir. Well done.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: How did you know that? You would have gone, oh, well,
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm just a very smart person. But no,
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: well done. Yes. Just for those playing at home, his
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: number is 5784-3653-4341-0709. How many people, how many viewers do
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: you think went and tried to purchase things with that
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: credit card number after that?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I'd say we're definitely in double figures. I don't think
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: we made triple figures.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, probably not, but there would have been definitely some.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: What's your next question?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Who is the five-time shuttle alternate advertising the toy rocket?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: What's his name? And rank?
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, Chet something, isn't it?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Chet Manor? Chet Manors?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Very close. Oh, you're very... Yep, that's close, but do
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: you know his rank?
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, his rank? No, what is it?
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: No. He's a colonel.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Colonel. I was going to say corporal.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, got it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: How many babies did Nibbles originally have?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Five. No.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: What?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Wouldn't it be eight? Because he's saying goodbye to his
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: five kids, or she already ate three. Or was it
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: saying that he's now down to two?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I thought it was down to two. Okay.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I thought he was saying goodbye to his wife and
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: five babies. Oh, wait, no, because Marge says he's leaving
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: her behind with five babies and Bart then says she
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: already ate three yeah so I took that as eight
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: down to five okay could be taken either way you're
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: correct regardless well done hey thanks alright.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Let's have a look and see what we got here
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I've got one or two more on this page but
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I do have more over the other page I did
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a few this time around Yeah.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: It was a good episode for trivia, I found. I've
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: got like six here.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Indeed. What date is Richard Gere's birthday?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: August something. Is it August?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yes. August.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: For some reason, I've got either August 31st or August 28th.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Is it either of those dates?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: It is one of those dates.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: 28th.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: For the coin. Damn it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: 31st. I don't know why 28th was in my head
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Anyway.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: My next question is, which famous musician has already done
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: enough for the Springfield Church?
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, Bowie.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: Bowie, yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: The late great David Bowie.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: How random. Funny gag, though. He's already done enough for
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: this church.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: What night at the church do they play blackjack?
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: I don't know, but it's either one of seven, so
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say Tuesday.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, you're right.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: I don't know why it gets Tuesday.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The big neon sign at the front says, Tuesday night
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: is blackjack night.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe it's just subconsciously in my mind hearing them
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: say that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Good, well be.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: What is the name of, I want to say Jimbo's
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: mother's boyfriend or Jimbo's stepdad or whatever.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I think Jimbo's mother's boyfriend. Oh, now I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: want to say Chester?
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Chester? No, it's the name of the captain of the
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Iceland hockey team in D2, the Mighty Ducks.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Fuck would I know that?
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: It's a gunner.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I've never seen a Mighty Ducks movie. Never have.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: At all, ever?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: No.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Well, we should do it for Patreon, just for fun.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Probably, yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: I don't care if you shit on the movie. It'd
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: just be fun.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I think by the time
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: it came out, I was probably a bit aged out.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And I was also like, I don't think I like
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Emilio Estevez that much. I mean, I know a lot
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: of people like Emilio. Emilio! But, I mean, he's not
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: done anything wrong to me. But, I mean, it's like,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think Emilio is enough of a draw card
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: for me to watch The Mighty Ducks or D2 The
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Mighty Ducks sequel.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Or D3.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Or D3. Did you know that in Australia, before it
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: was called The Mighty Ducks, it was just called Champions?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I had the video. It was so confusing
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: as a kid because I had the videotape and it
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: was called Champions. And then my mate, for so long
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: when DVDs became a thing, I tried to buy the DVD,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: couldn't find it anywhere. But it's because it was called
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: The Mighty Ducks. It was so confusing for an 11-year-old dando.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Do you know the most confusing titling sequence ever, though?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Get a load of this. First Blood. Rambo First Blood
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Part 2. Rambo 3. Rambo. Rambo Last Blood.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: What about Mad Max? Wasn't it The Road.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Warrior or something? It was renamed the Road Warrior for
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the States.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Here we called it Mad Max 2. So it was
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Max Ferry Road.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Why did they change it to the Road Warrior?
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think Mad Max had actually sort of gained
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of traction in the States. I think they
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: looked at Mad Max 2 and thought, oh, this will
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: do well. I mean, this is actually really well made.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Throwing it to the Americans saying, hey, check out Mad
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Max 2. It's like, where's Mad Max 1? And, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: this is in the sort of the... Not even pre-VHS,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: but it's very early days of home video even. This
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: is the early 80s. So, you know, I think Mad
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Max only played in like grindhouses and drive-ins over in
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the States. So I thought they'd just go with a
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: clean slate. Okay.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Fair enough. Do one more each.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: One more. How much do you pay for all-you-can-eat meatball sandwiches?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: According to Lenny.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: In his dreams? Yes. Is it $ 2?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: $ 2.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: $ 2.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, man, that would be amazing. Unlimited Subway sandwiches.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: We could eat meatball sub.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty damn good. All right, my final question is,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: profits had increased by what percentage at the church?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I think there was one point where I wasn't listening.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I want to say 1,000%.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: 1,073%.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: That's close.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: You were close. Yeah, not bad. Not bad at all.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: All righty, guys, that is trivia. We're going to return
• 24:17
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• 25:29
  Speaker 6: It was written by Bill Freyberger, I want to say. Freyberger?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: If it's burger, let's say fry burger, because... Sounds better.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: It sounds tastier.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: I want to eat that, man. Directed by Stephen Dean Moore,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Chupo gag, I do not have a cereal named after me,
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: and the couch gag is that the couch is a
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: slot machine with the family appearing. The episode kicks off
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: with what, Mr.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Davis? With Rain Delay Theatre. This looks great. I think
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I've told the story in the past about how my
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: good friend Ollie, when we were about 16 or 17...
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: took me to the Boxing Day test at the MCG.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: And for about three hours, I was just so bored
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: because it was cricket. But then it got rained out,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: so we got to go to the movies.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Is that the story where you say you went and
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: saw Rocky afterwards?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: We went and saw Rocky IV.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah. For me, though, I always knew that
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: cricket was getting rained out when Skippy reruns were on
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: at like 2.30 on a Saturday afternoon when the cricket
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: was on.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But having said that, I mean, look, with Rain
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Delay Theatre, I totally would have watched The Planet from
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Outer Space, as they are called.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: How great is that title?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: That's very, very good. But, I mean, a lot of
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: my misspent childhood, you'd do vaguely athletic things on a
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Saturday morning. You'd go run around an oval or play
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: some footy or whatever. And I'm talking, like, very, very young.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: And then you'd come home. Well, I'd come home. This
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: was in the– oh, God. This was a very long
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: time ago. But there'd usually be some black and white
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: science fiction or monster movie on Channel 7 or whatever.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, and I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: was like.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, man, this is rad.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: You know, I've got my little ham sandwich, got a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: little glass of cordial or something.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Earth vs.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: The Flying Saucers is on.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: A ham sandwich.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Ham sandwich.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I think it might have been a toasted ham and
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: cheese sandwich and a glass of cordial.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Good Saturday treat, for sure.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Very, very nice. Yeah, so... Yes, the planet from outer
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: space with its dodgy science and alien dog. Yes, struck
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: a chord with me. Absolutely.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: A male dog.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: A male dog.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: We'll return after these very loud messages. And then we
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: get Chet Manners plugging the Orbit King. I do miss...
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I was thinking about this recently, actually. I do miss
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: TV ads. You know, when they used to sell... during
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: the day when you had a day off school, it'd
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: be like, not you obviously, but like I'd have a
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: day off school in the nineties and they'd say, you know,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: for just $ 39. 99, you can purchase the first six episodes
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: of MASH and then just a monthly fee of $ 70
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: for three episodes after that each month. You know, I just,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: I love those midday TV ads. Just the, what was,
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: what would be like your favorite, like remember the ShamWow?
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: That was a really popular one. It was everywhere. What
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: was your favorite like product they would always try and
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: flog on TV?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I think I was very partial to those tape collections
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: you're talking about.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: It was the only way to get the show back then, yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And you still get those ads now, apparently, because you
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: can't buy the entire series of A Country Practice or
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Carson's Law or.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: A Country Practice is now all on that 7 Plus
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: or whatever it is. I put it on the other
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: day because it was one of my nan's favourite shows.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Like, I.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: I hear that music and I think of school holidays
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: because we always go to Nan's for school holidays. And
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: I put it on and I was just like, ah,
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Nan's house.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Ah, back to Wandon Valley.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I was already parked with those, but they
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: always seemed like very sort of, well, first of all,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the prices seemed obscene.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, the first month was okay. But then after that,
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: you're fucked.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'd say that would be my favorite.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely. So yeah, so he's trying to sell the
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: Yorbit King, but it gets sucked in straight away because
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: of the yaw control.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Hey, Lise, is Dad's credit card number 578-436-5343-4107-09?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: You know it is.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Did you know your parents' credit card number off by heart?
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: He just knows it off by heart.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Well, Nicola knows ours off by heart. I don't know
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: mine off by heart. Do you know yours off by heart?
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, fuck no.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Nicola knows everything. She knows every number. So six to
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: eight weeks later... because that's what it was like back
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: then no fucking express next day delivery like Amazon oh
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: no you had to wait weeks no.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: No there was no Amazon Prime back in the day.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: No no when you order shit like that over the
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: phone when it arrived you forgot that you'd already ordered
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: it it'd be that long you know and then Homer
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: singing Flosset. I did like this. I did like it
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: when Homer sings his own renditions of songs. You must
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: floss it.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: By the way, a quick split-second gag that I wanted
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to give respect to is when Chet Manners is flogging
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: the Orbit Kid or whatever, and I think he eludes
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the fact that he never actually got to fly in
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: the space shuttle. You've got this split-second look of sadness
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: that comes across his face when he says that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: I never noticed it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: It was nice work from the animators. Like, you mean...
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I may not have set foot on the shuttle.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: It would be annoying if you train your whole life
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: to be an astronaut and never actually end up in space.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Would you feel like a failure?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I think you would probably fill your life with all
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: manner of hobbies and the love of family and, you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: service to the community and all that kind of stuff.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: But I bet on your deathbed, you know, two or
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: three seconds before you shuffle off this mortal call and go.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I'd trade it all to go into space just fucking once.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Just once, yeah.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And hopefully your family's not there when you say that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I'd trade all of you for five seconds in the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: great outer space.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: Bart asked Homer for help to build his rocket. He
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: puts in his contact lens. How random was that? I
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: was like, they just want to have people go, oh, wow,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: I didn't know he had contact lenses. It doesn't go anywhere.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of really sort of random throwaway gags and
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: this and a lot of them you know some are
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: fine but some are like don't really see the point
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: of this it's not it's not adding humour and it's
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: not adding structure to the story it's just filigree I
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: think you'd call.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: It Hobart then decides he will help because he thinks
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: he's supporting pie pants and as opposed to science now
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: I've got here what's the thing that Hobart puts on
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: his head what's that dish called Is that a colander? Colander,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: that's it, that's it. I just couldn't think of a name.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: I knew you'd know it. You do love your colander.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: By the way, with pie pants.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: That's the first time in a while we've heard an
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: mmm something, isn't it?
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure he said it last week, didn't he? Oh, okay. Yeah,
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: it's last week. No, no, when was the hunk of
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: hunk of burns in love? Because he's like, mmm, pistol whip. Oh, okay.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Well, consider me corrected and ignorant. Honestly, it felt like
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: such a long time... Since he'd said, mmm, something, because
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: that was his thing.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: I think I said that when he said, mmm, pistol whip.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Two weeks ago. But, yeah, so he's wearing his helmet.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: I do love when he put his various hats. And then,
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: of course, because Homer builds it, it explodes immediately. Milhouse
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: loses his eyebrows.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: My eyebrows!
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: My beautiful eyebrows!
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Over here, Governor.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: The word unblowuppable is thrown around a lot these days,
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: but I think I can say with confidence that... Okay,
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: that shows you what could potentially happen.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: Then Flanders rocket blasts off, and it's perfect as expected
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: because the Flanders are perfect and everything. And they launch it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Where do they launch it from? Ned Eddy Space Center
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: on Cape... Flandrever or something.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just too complicated. Although I did like
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: his use of the term Skyro Technics. I appreciated that.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't even pay attention to that. Milhouse, see that?
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Your control. Lands perfectly in the box. So Homer says,
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: all right, it's time for us to build a good rocket.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: Homer doesn't actually do anything. He just gets the three
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: nerds to come back, which I did appreciate. It was
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: a nice little throwback to Homer Goes to College, having
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: the three nerds return.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I like those nerds a lot. One other thing I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: liked as well is when the nerds show up. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: don't know if it's a... I think it's a specific
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: sort of reference or homage, but I mean, Homer seems
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: to be dressed exactly like Ed Harris from Apollo 13.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: I thought the exact same thing, especially when the ship's
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: taking off and he sort of gives him a hug.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: And I think they were using a whole lot of
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: sort of space movie references in there as well. I
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: think there's a bit of right stuff stuff in there
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: Particularly the directing as well, just the visual, the way, like,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: when Nibbles is walking towards the ship and things like that, yeah.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but Homer with the glasses not unlike these
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and the pocket protector and all that, it's like, pretty
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: sure that's Ed Harris from Apollo 13.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: What a movie, by the way.
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: I would really like to thank you nerds for helping
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: me out.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, and could you stop calling us nerds?
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: Dweep, wonk, spaz, it's all good.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Who wants some astro lemonade?
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: What precisely makes it astro?
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Look, I don't want to start a whole thing with this. Okay,
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: the rocket's ready to go.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Super.
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: Now, if you'll gather around, I'd like to say a
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: few words. All nerds, clear the launch area.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Let's wait in the car.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: I did dig that. All nerds, clear the launch area.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: And then Milhouse walks out with them. Nibbles, I don't know.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: When animals can understand English, I just sort of feel
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: like I don't know whether this is what The Simpsons
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: used to be like. I guess we just have to
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: accept it now.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I thought the whole Nibbles thing was okay,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: but I mean... It was cute, but I was just like, eh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: come on. I'm just not partial to animals being launched
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: into space. I know it sort of moved the space
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: race forward and all that kind of stuff, But the
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: thought of poor old Laika, the Russian space dog being.
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's horrible, that story.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Sent up into space and it's like, you can't bring
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: that dog back and it's not going to chew down
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: on a suicide pill or something like that. Poor thing's
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: just going to starve to death.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: That sucks.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: It doesn't know what's going on. It doesn't understand that
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: you're sending it into space. It's just like, what the
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: hell's going on? Imagine what was going through that poor
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: dog's mind when it was launched into space.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: That's probably exactly what was going through its mind, yes. Yeah,
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: I remember reading about that. For some reason, they do
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: a description for work. Oh, I was doing a description, actually,
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: for Snoopy astronaut pot vinyl for work. And I looked
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: up like of the space dog as a result. And
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: I was like, that's really sad. Yeah. Poor dog.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, the poor dog.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: So Nibbles hits the eject button when Homer offers advice, escapes.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: The rocket crashes into the church, starts the fire. Homer
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: shoots his gun at it. And then that's pretty much
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: setting up what's going to be essentially the story.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: It does. I did like that the rocket had HJS
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: on the side.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Nice bit of branding. Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: It's the worst thing Homer's ever done. Because Marjorie said
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: that so much now, it's lost all meaning. That's a
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: pretty memorable quote. I do remember that one.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, the other thing that I talked
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: a little while ago about, weird throwaway gags. You know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the bum in the gutter or the hobo in the
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: gutter is like, I'm off the hooch now and throws
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: his wine away. And some businessman who I thought was
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Lionel Hutz for a moment.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: No, not at all. Well, Phil's gone now, so.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Well, no, of course. But, I mean, I thought, oh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: It would have been, it would have been like.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, I've got a bottle of vodka and I'm
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: going to jump in the gutter and just, you know, like, what?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: What's this?
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: It's just. Unnecessary.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Did you have like 20 seconds you needed to fill?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: I have convened the church council to see what we
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: should do now.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Fixing this church should be our top priority.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: And I say that as a teenager and the parent
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: of a teenager.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Fixing all that damage is going to be very expensive.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Yes, barring some sort of miracle. All right, we'll help ourselves.
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: Yet again. People, we need some fundraising ideas.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Let's just write to David Bowie again.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: No, he's done enough for this church.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Anyone else?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: I've got the answer. Just let me run this church
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: like a business. It's kind of you to offer, Mr Burns,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: but buzz around towners that you're, well, evil.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's just a skip rope rhyme.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Believe me, the Lord's going to go for this in
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: a big way.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Now, who's with me?
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: Oh, I guess we have no choice.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Excellent. Go!
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, you'll get yours.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: Then he introduces Lindsay Nagel. And what do you think?
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: Don't let the skirt fool you.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Nice little bit of casual sexism. That's the way we
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: rolled in the early 2000s.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: We certainly did. They offer the Reverend the robe covered
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: in sponsors that you mentioned earlier during your trivia. And Mr.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: Burns is very funny here. Too bad. You've already signed
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: the deal. I know he hasn't. Oh, well, we really
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: value your input. Until you sign the deal. Until you
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: sign the deal.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I did like his enthusiasm. It's nice when Boonzy gets
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: enthusiastic about stuff.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Why does Jesus have a lasso?
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: Because he's old, man.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: It looked more like a casino than a church, didn't it?
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Very Vegas-y.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: That's one thing I loved about Vegas was just the
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: big neon signs and everything. Pretty cool. Reminds me of
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: Con Air.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. I've never been to Vegas.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: It's weird.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: That was going to be my plan for my milestone
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: birthday of recent years.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: What was that, your 60th? For those of you playing
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: at home, Guy just gave me the bed.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Dan will probably fuzz that out or something like that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I was going to go to California.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to LA, hire a convertible, drive
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: the Pacific Coast Highway. But one thing I really wanted...
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: to do was drive into Vegas at night from the desert.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: That's what we did. Yeah, I'd love to do that.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I think that'd be great.
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: That's really good. What was your song of choice when
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: you first start hitting the road?
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Actually, this is going to.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: It's not exactly rockin', but it brings to mind California.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I think it's by the band America, or maybe it's
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but it's called Ventura Highway.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: I don't think I know that by name. I might
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: know the song, though.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Ventura Highway in the sunshine.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: I'll look it up after we finish recording. I'm sure
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: I do know it.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: That was certainly going to be the first song that
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I played. I mean, I probably would have come up
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: with some all-American playlist or some very sort of California
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: soft rock, middle-of-the-road 70s kind of deal.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Money changed.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Get your money changed right here in the temple.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: That could not be more blasphemous.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Where's Bart? Do a nice one for grammar.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Fine.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Bart pulling those faces felt very old school to me.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: That felt very like, They have a very early season Bart.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: That's true, yeah. Like little, just mischief Bart, yeah.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: But yeah, so all the new pews are very comfy
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: and whatnot, but Lisa just stubborn. She refuses to like it.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: She's totally against the whole commercialization of the church.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: And Lord, please remember our infirm parishioners, especially Mrs. Glick,
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: who's recovering from hip surgery. And now let us rise and... Um.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Um.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: He's not going to say it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Trust me, he'll say it or I'll bust him down
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: to Thursday night vespers.
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: And thank Crazy Larry, whose big screen TV prices are insane.
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: And now to deliver a special sermon on the sanctity
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: of deliciousness, the Noid.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: Quiet, Lisa.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Everyone in the store is looking at you.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: They should take a good look at themselves and what
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: their church has become.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: Lisa, it's still the same basic message. We've just dressed
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: it up a little.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Like the whore of Babylon?
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: That is a false analogy.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: No, it's not.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: It's apt. Don't you see what Mr Burns has done
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: to this church?
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: He restored it from nave to narthex.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: He supersized the pews for the zaftig believers.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: He put ice in the urinals.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Those are all wonderful things, but they've cost the church
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: its soul. And I, for one, will not be a.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Part of it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: The noid to Australian listeners and Australian viewers on YouTube
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: is the Domino's pizza mascot, I believe, in America.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I think the Noid was supposed to be a bit
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: of a pest. Yes.
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: I'm assuming he never speaks because that's the gag here.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: He gets interrupted before he can speak.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming he must never talk.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Was the Noid ever on Australian TV? I don't think
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: we ever got any.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: I don't think so. But the Noid is Domino's, right?
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: Let me just look it up just to make sure.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I believe so, yeah. And I think the Noid sort
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: of came up to show you, like, there's going to
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: be all manner of obstacles stopping you from getting your
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: pizza on time, and here's the Noid, you know, fucking
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: with the delivery driver.
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: Like he's annoying, yeah.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: The Domino delivery driver is so bloody dedicated to getting
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: you your pizza on time and hot that they'll just
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: outwit the Noid at every turn, apparently.
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Or something else entirely, because I just made that up
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: off the top of my head.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: The Noid hasn't been seen for like four years now.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: I think they sort of phased him out. I think
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: their branding now is not an annoying guy trying to
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: stop you from getting pizza. It's just a Domino.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: It's just a cheap shit pizza.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Sorry, Domino's.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: It's not a good pizza. It's not a good pizza.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: I've had one Domino's pizza in my entire life and
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: maybe it was the alcohol talking, but yeah, it wasn't
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: very good. It, um, Normally, pizza tastes better after a
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: few beers, and this one, I can safely say, did not.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: There's that old line about sex is like pizza. Even
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: when it's bad, it's pretty good. These people have not
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: had Domino's.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: That's exactly right.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Sorry, Domino's. We are willing to take all
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: this back if you want to advertise on Four Finger Discount.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: You can really taste the domino.
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: That's good dominoes.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: That's good pizza. From dominoes. See, we have no shame whatsoever.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: Lisa, where are we up to? I've lost where we're
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: up to again.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Lisa is being a grouch.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: Homer's line, he was great. Lisa, everyone in the store
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: is looking at you. Yeah, she's just annoyed with the
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: commercialization of the church, so she storms out. But Reverend
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: here is great. It's just the same basic message. We've
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: just dressed it up a little bit.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Pretty much. I would probably be the kind of person,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: in a situation that I didn't like, I would probably
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: get on a chair and yell, apt! That's the kind
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: of person I am.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: For no reason, just to yell out the word apt.
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: Apt!
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: This is not apt!
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: Homer doesn't know how to feel, and as you mentioned,
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: you get the various, ooh, sad cries.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Also, let's not forget that working the door at the
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: new church, do you want a stamp so you can
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: come back later? Squee voice team, represent.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: Very good. We come back from commercial, and Lisa is
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: praying for a temple free of corruption, and Marge is
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: interfering here. I feel like Marge is the one that's
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: sort of forcing it down her throat the most. She
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: really doesn't want Lisa to leave And I can understand it.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think Marge is necessarily pro-Christianity or anti-any other religion.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I just think Marge likes the status quo. Yes. I
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: think she just likes.
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: She doesn't like change, yeah.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Fears change, yes.
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: Yes. It was great here. So, Lisa, I still believe
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: in God, whether it's him or her. She's just kidding.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: She's just kidding.
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: Lisa is then looking for a new faith, and Bart
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: makes a few suggestions, like the one about eight human
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: hearts and Methodist Judaism, because you can ka-ching when it's, what, 13?
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: Is that when they get the money? Yeah, 13, yeah.
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: She then goes for a walk. I always appreciate these
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: when they have the little neon signs.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Floating neon signs are great.
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Yep, love it. I always love it when that happens.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: My favourite was just Amish.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: There's those series like Amish Gone Wild or something. I'm
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: not talking about pornography. I'm talking about actual like reality shows.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit.
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: No, never heard of it. That sounds like a great show.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Do you know the phenomenon known as Rumspringer?
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: No.
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, was that the one where they're allowed to like
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: go away for like a weekend or whatever?
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: They're allowed to step out for a year.
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: A year is it? Holy shit.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought, I think it can maybe go up
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: to a year. Maybe you can't go beyond a year. But, yeah,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: if you are born Amish or born into the Amish community,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: you are given the opportunity to say, all right, I'm
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: going to go into the outside world and I'm going to,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: you know, try some of this wacky electricity that I've
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: heard about. Or, you know, I might wear clothes that
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: are neither white nor black, but another colour. So, and
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: if you think, oh, wow, the outside world's for me,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: then you don't have to go back. But I think
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: our friends in the Amish community are kind of like, eh,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: they'll see how crap the outside world is and they'll
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: come back and churn some butter.
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: No.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: So.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: No. Our friends at TLC, broadcaster of such great shows
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: as 90 Day Fiancé.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: Not the 90s hip-hop band.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Not the Chasing Waterfalls gals. They had
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: a show. I've forgotten the name of it, but I
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: think it was something like Amish Gone Wild or whatever.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: That sounds fantastic.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it sound dope? You'd follow kids out on Rumspringer.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: It reminds me of 2001 pay-per-view. Amish Gone Wild. They
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: used to have those specials back when I was a kid,
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: late 90s, early 2000s. Jerry Springer's greatest hits. Pay $ 40
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: for 45 minutes of flesh and nudity and fucking language
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: and all this kind of stuff.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a deal. It does, yeah, yeah. Well, that's
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: the thing. I mean, remember when Big Brother was first on?
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: You had your regular episodes and all that, but then
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: you had Big Brother up late.
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: No, uncut 9.30pm on a Monday. Uncut.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Hot dogs.
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: Up late, hot dog, yeah, yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Hot dogs, I'm not talking about, that's not a euphemism
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: for dicks. Hot dogs was the host.
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: But he was also a dick, so there you go.
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: I also enjoyed the games. You know, they just had
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: the puzzles on the screen to keep you entertained when
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: the people were sleeping in the house. Like, well, fuck,
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: there's nothing happening in the house. Let's just play crosswords.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, man, but I will admit that I did watch
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: me some Big Brother up late. When the show first started,
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed it. I watched it all the time.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Same.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, look, I think a few years down the road,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: we can all admit, we all watched Idol back then.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: We all watched Big Brother.
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: We did, yeah.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Don't say you didn't. You did.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: I remember being furious that Guy Sebastian beat Shannon Oll.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: But let's get back on track.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: The Amish sign has floated past her head, but where
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: does Lisa end up?
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: She ends up at the Springfield Buddhist Temple and Lenny
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: and Carl are there. Carl mentions that if he didn't
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: find Buddhism, he'd be going psycho on everybody. Then Richard
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: Gere arrives and he explains the various Buddhism traits, you know,
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: what they believe in, what they don't. And I don't
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: understand Lenny here not understanding anything about Buddhism. I can
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: kind of understand, I guess, in the sense that maybe
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: he's just there so he's with Carl.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get the feeling he sort of got sold
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: on a bit of like, hey, just come in and
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: sit here and think about nothing and it'll sort of
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: ease your mind or whatever. It's like, yeah, that sounds fine.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of diehard Christians
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: who aren't necessarily up to speed with everything that's.
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: In the Bible.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Or they could name maybe six of the Ten Commandments.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Or how many disciples were there? Twelve?
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: I think there were twelve. They could probably name like
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: eight or something. No, they probably couldn't name eight. I
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: couldn't name four.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: So.
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: You didn't even know how many there were.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going straight to hell.
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: So, look, it may well be the case that there
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: are boarders who are not 100% up to speed with
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: everything about the Bodhi tree and all that kind of business.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's just me playing devil's advocate.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: He gives Lisa the pamphlet, mentions how all things are impermanent,
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: empty of inherent existence, and then we get the little
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: mention to Officer and a Gentleman about the sit-ups. That's
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: one thing at least Richard Gere in this was willing
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: to poke fun at himself. That's what Al Gina said, yeah.
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: That's true. The best celebrity cameos or appearances are the
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: ones where they get it and understand it's okay to
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: make fun of yourself. It's all just a bit of fun,
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: you know?
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. I like Richard Gere a lot.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I saw him in movies when I was
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: growing up. I saw Officer and a Gentleman at the cinema.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Officer and a Gentleman's a really sort of a pretty
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: gnarly movie. It's got that famous final scene where he
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: goes back and rescues Deborah Winger from the factory in
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: his dress whites and all that. There's really a lot
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: of bleak stuff and fairly adult stuff in Officer and
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: a Gentleman.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have been watching it as like a 12-year-old
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: without sort of parental guidance or whatever. But I was like, oh, hey,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: this is good. And there's people dropping the C word.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Someone takes their own life. There's a fair bit of
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: nudity in it. Having said that, it's a really good movie.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: So what was I talking about? No, I like Richard
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Gere a lot. Sorry, I got distracted by the nudity
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: and the C word. I like Richard Gere a lot,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: but he was very sort of– he was very intense
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: in as a young actor, like a lot of young
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: actors are, you see it with everyone from like Brad
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Pitt through to Robert Pattinson. They have to get it
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: out of their system. They have to give these really
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: sort of, in Richard Gere's case, he's sort of like
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: bellowing at someone in an office room.
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: I got nowhere else to go.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: I got nowhere else to go. And after a while,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: he's like, I don't have to work so hard. I'm
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Richard Gere. I can be kind of chill. And that's
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: when he had a bit of a comeback in the
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: early 90s with Pretty Woman and this really good, cop
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: movie called internal affairs that i also recommend but that's
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: also pretty gnarly as well but you know he just
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: got very sort of i don't know if this is
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: around the time that he embraced buddhism or whatever but
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: he just was like yeah i don't have to work
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: so hard and you see that with i think a
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: lot of particularly with male actors and you've seen it
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: with pitt i mean you look at pitt in 12
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: monkeys for instance and then you look him in oceans
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: 11 it's like oh you've calmed down You've chilled out.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: Then you say, what's the point of time in Hollywood?
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: And he's even more chilled out.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Like Robert Pattinson as well. There were a few
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: movies around the time of Twilight where he's like, you're
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: trying too hard, dude. I mean, I appreciate that you
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: sort of want to make a name for yourself and
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: all that, but you're trying a bit too hard. And
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: then I think a few movies down the line, he's like, oh,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: you've relaxed. Oh, that's good. You found it. You found
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: your groove.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: And now he's the Batman.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: And now he's the Batman. Which apparently they've just wrapped
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: filming on.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: I can't wait for that.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I don't know if we should
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: talk about this or talk about it on another episode.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Zack Snyder's Justice League. I watched the whole thing last week.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: They sent me a preview link.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: Let's say that for another show, but in 10 seconds
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: or less, tell us, did Guy Davis like it and
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: does he recommend it?
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: I did, but it's very Zack Snyder. So if you
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: like 300 and you like Watchmen and other stuff that
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: he's done, he's got a very distinctive way of doing
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: things and a very distinctive style. And this movie is
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: all that. I mean, the Justice League where Joss Whedon
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: came in, as I like to call it, the Jostice League. Okay,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: I'm fired. Was no good because it was two movies
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: trying to... It was like an episode of The Simpsons.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: They had different stuff and they tried to smush it together.
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: It was like The Predator. Yeah.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: And it didn't work at all. But this new version,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: it's four hours and it's all very Zack Snyder style.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: And I found myself kind of enjoying it as a result.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: It's very bombastic and over the top and all that,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: but kind of fun. It's so different from the Marvel
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: way of doing things that it's like, oh, you can
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: do other things with superheroes. So we may talk about
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: that somewhere else down the line.
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: You might have to send me the link.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it starts Thursday. It's on Binge. Oh, okay.
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: I have no idea what that is.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I think it's the Foxtel streaming service. Oh, okay.
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: Hopefully I get it then. I'm sure there are other
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: ways of getting it. It sounds like the Shmurrit Bay
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: for me.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: It's four hours of superheroes crashing into shit.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: Four hours?
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: Fuck that. No way.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: It's divided into chapters. You can break it up over
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: a couple of nights. Okay.
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: So. I'll give it a go. Hey, I'm a Buddhist!
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: My Satan sense is tingling.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: Into the root cellar, boys.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: When can we come out?
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: Maybe never.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: Yay!
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: I did like Flanders Satan senses tingling, much like Spidey senses. Ben,
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: do you think Homer is yelling at Lisa? I thought
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: this was going to be your favourite moment, but he's
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: actually yelling at Bart to butter his bacon.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: I did enjoy that, and I'll save my favourite line
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: from that for a little bit later. But, yeah, that
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: whole bit was actually good. I mean, just the sad
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: look on Bart's face when he's got to put butter
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: on his bacon. Oh, dear. Yeah, I know.
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: Bacon up that sausage, boy. It's just like, not even
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: any dialogue. It's just the look of Homer like, you better.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: Lisa then explains that she's now a Buddhist. Homer's... punishment
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: of no more chat rooms for you a it feels
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: very 2001 no more chat rooms because they're not a
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: thing anymore but i guess the modern day chat room
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: is just like a twitter well.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: They predated social media those things yeah yeah it's where
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: you went to find like-minded individuals hey simpson i hear
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: your sister dumped christianity who.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: Cares i'll tell you someone who cares He's got long hair,
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: works as a carpenter, has a lot of crazy ideas
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: about love and brotherhood. His name's Gunner, and he's dating
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: my mom. Sometimes he buys us beer.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I thought Kearney was dating your mom.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: Hey, she came on to me.
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: Get him!
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Ow!
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: I'm so confused by Kearney.
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: That's the gag now. The gag is that it doesn't
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: make any sense. He's got a kid. He hasn't got
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: a kid. He's a teenager. He's an adult. It's meant
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: to be ridiculous.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: He's just a teenager and the parent of a teenager.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: That's not possible.
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: No, no.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: It's meant to be stupid.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay. Just roll with it.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Yes. I appreciate Kearney because of this.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: Lisa's been planting a Bodhi tree. Marge questions. It's very Marge.
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: Is it because a boy at school doesn't like you, Lisa?
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: Is that why you're acting out?
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: It's a very parental thing to say. I mean, this
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: is me, the person with no children, telling the parent this.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: But it strikes me as a very parental thing to
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: say that, yes, you're making radical changes in your belief
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: systems and the way you view the world. Because my
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: heart's broken. Or something along those lines. Although, who knows?
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed the next one even more when she starts praying.
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: That's it. You're going to get a bath tonight. I
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: was like, that is like, exactly. That is a punishment
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: because my kids, like Ellie is two, already hates bath.
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: He loves being in the bath, but it's sort of
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: kind of like me going for a run. Once I'm running,
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: I'm fine. But getting onto that treadmill, I don't want to.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: Burns then has the meeting to discuss the profits. He
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: says they're going up by 1,073%. puff of smoke, you
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: think he's going to bail all the money, but no,
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: he hasn't left in time, so he just chucks him
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: a bunch of money. And that's the end of that story.
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: It's just never mentioned again.
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: It's just like, okay, well, that's the end of that.
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: Now let's move on to the devil daughter.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: We've changed horses midstream, and now it's very much about
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Lisa and her Buddhism.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: And by the way, it's a Christmas episode now, guys.
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: It's all about Christmas.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: It's like 60 minutes into the episode, but it's now
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: a Christmas story. But I think it starts here where
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: he says, you know, Santa doesn't leave presents under the
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Bodhi tree. And I loved this line from the Reverend.
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: You can save more souls with roller skates and Easy
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: Bake Ovens than this 2,000-page sleeping pill. That would have
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: annoyed quite a few viewers, I would imagine. Marge then
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: gets Homer to put the singing angel on Lisa's tree.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: Did you get a kick out of Homer dancing to it?
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, very much. I liked his little dance a whole lot.
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: He was having so much fun. Obviously, it was him
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: doing the barking sound. But yeah, just him dancing to himself.
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: I thought it was really good. Marge then bakes cookies
• 58:44
  Speaker 6: but throws them out because Lisa doesn't celebrate Christmas anymore.
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: And Bart eats them and accidentally eats a dog food lid.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: I would eat those cookies out of that bin.
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, mate. I'd eat anything out of the bin. I
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: don't mind. Yeah, I've got no problem with it. I'm
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: very George Costanza when it comes to that.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, likewise. I mean.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: If they've just gone into the bin, it's fair game.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit discerning. Mostly I'm like, if this
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: hasn't touched too many other rubbish items.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: If it's just on the top, it doesn't matter.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: That's fine. It's no different from a plate, in my opinion. Yeah.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: Listen to us, kids.
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: I think we should rename this from Four Finger Discount
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: to Five Second Rule. This should be the new name
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: of the podcast. Five Second Rule.
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: I like it. We then get, I would say, our
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: Christmas Eve, and the family all sing the carol to
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: try and fool Lisa, try and convert her back, and
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: then they try and fool her with a pony present.
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: And this whole scene, I just got to kick out
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: of it, by pressuring her with Maggie with the candy cane.
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: And now that you mention it, a reverend outside the
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: window saying, lick it, lick it, is a little concerning.
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: I don't look at it that way, but just Ralph.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: I just love that. More sugar, please.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: So happy.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: Well, you do have a present under the tree. I
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: guess no one told Santa you were a Buddhist.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Well, Santa can take it back because I'm not ruled
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: by material design.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: Is that a pony?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 8: I don't know what Santa left you. I just know
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: his name is Clip Clop and he loves sugar.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: Lisa, we love you and we're not trying to put
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: any pressure on you.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Aww.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: Lick it. Lick it.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: No!
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, no!
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: Our daughter's run away on Christmas Eve!
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: More sugar, please!
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 8: Bag's in the kitchen.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: All right!
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: What I did also like about this was that this
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: has been one of those recurring story themes that continues
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: on every Christmas Lisa Wants a Pony. So it makes
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: sense that they would be offering her a pony because
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: that's like the one thing that Lisa wants for Christmas.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: So if we're going to convert it back, it's going
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: to be a pony. She runs away to the Buddhist temple.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: She interrupts them meditating, even though he's about to achieve enlightenment.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: And this is just basically the same as the end
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 6: of Lisa the Vegetarian when she goes into the top
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: of the quickie mart.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: My family tried to trick me into celebrating Christmas.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: You know, we are meditating.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, sorry.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: That's all right. I was only about to achieve enlightenment.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: But who'd want that?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: Who likes short shorts?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: I like short shorts. Those guys are way off. Anyway,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: your family didn't have to trick you. Buddhists respect the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: diversity of other religions, as long as they're based on
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: love and compassion. What? It's true. So why don't you
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: go home? I'm sure your family really misses you.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I can really celebrate Christmas?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: You can celebrate any holiday. And you know... My birthday
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: is August 31st.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll send you an email greeting card.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Sweet.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Now I really should be getting back to my family.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm spending tonight with my stepdaughter, Hannah. I do
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: her hair, then she does mine.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: We're going to go spend Christmas with Mo, you know,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: so we don't have one of his Christmas accidents.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: Hey, you can't do much without this.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: Richard Gere in this, I know I said he was dull,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: but he did come across very cool, like just a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: very down-to-earth cool guy, you know, don't you think? Just
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: very chill.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think so.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: I guess, you know? Is that what he's like in
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: real life? Is he just a chill guy? Apparently.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the thing about Richard Gere, his
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: whole sort of... His free-to-bet stance, because he was very
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: vocal about it. I don't think it's done him any
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: favours because... Really? He's gone on the record and said,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: they won't cast me in Marvel movies because Marvel makes
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of its money out of China. And I've
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: been very anti-China in the past. So, I mean... He says,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: I won't be cast in sort of big blockbusters because
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: they don't like me in China and Hollywood's making a
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: lot of money in China. Luckily, you know, he sort
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: of made his money beforehand so he can basically go,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: see ya. Yeah, I think he's a fairly laid-back individual.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: He certainly strikes me that way. I mean, having said that,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know that many sort of uptight Buddhists, but
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know that many Buddhists.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know a single Buddhist. LAUGHTER So Lisa's very
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: happy by the news. She's going to send Rich a
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 6: birthday e-card. Is that what she says? An e-greeting card
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: or something? Like an email? I think so, yeah. What's
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: the whole deal with doing his hair with his stepdaughter, Hannah?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: Is there a joke there that I'm missing or is
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: it just.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: I think it was probably just like he's got lovely
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: flowing hair or something. Maybe he wanted to give a
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: shout out to his stepdaughter, Hannah or something.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: This next joke, I was just like, we're going to
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: go visit Moe who doesn't have another Christmas accident. I'm like, Whoa. Okay.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but Mo's sort of depression and morose worldview
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: was always very, very funny.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it didn't need the noose. It just felt
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: like I got the joke the first time. You didn't
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: have to hold up a noose. Yeah. The family then
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 6: gathered at home. I've got here. So she says, maybe
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: we should call the police. So wait a minute. So
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: fucking it was Christmas Eve when Lisa ran out the door.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: What the hell has she been doing all night? Because
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: she comes back during the day. And what have the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: family been doing all night? They've been out all night
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: looking for Lisa? Like, what the fuck? Lisa's been out
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: all night?
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: Terrible. I don't know. Or maybe she got back early
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: and didn't tell them? I don't know. I'm just like,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: so Lisa's now asleep in the living room. I'm like,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: when did she get back? Where have they been all night?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: Doesn't matter.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: I did not think about this at all. No.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: She mentions how she's still Buddhist, but she's going to
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: accept their beliefs. And a really nice line from Marge here.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: I'll pray for the both of us. Very Marge. Yeah.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: And then she still wants the pony. And Marge just
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: completely ignores her. And thus is the end of the episode.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: Trying to talk the way out of it, but no dice.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think Lisa's going to be keeping on
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: with that one for a little while. And it all
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: rounds out. with a very harmonious, sitar-heavy rendition of the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Simpsons theme over the closing credits.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: It always feels a little bit more special when they
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: have the outros, a different sort of version of the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: theme music, yeah. But yeah, I thought this was a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: nice story. Kind of jumbled in the sense that the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: whole commercialization of religion just sort of disappeared mid-episode. It
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: was just like, yeah, well, we're done with that, and
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: now it's time for a Christmas story. I was like,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: I don't know. This could have been... an episode without
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: needing to be at Christmas time, I guess, you know?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: I think so, yeah.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: They kind of tied Christmas into it with them trying
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: to use Christmas as a way to sway her back,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: but I don't know. It didn't feel, of all the
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: Christmas episodes, this felt the least Christmassy to me.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Look, I mean, the way you led into
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: this episode of Four Finger Discount talking about that, it's
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: a Christmas episode. I'm like, yeah, I guess it was.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, but... It certainly didn't feel that way to me,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: despite all the Christmas trappings at the very end. I mean,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: if you didn't tell me this was the annual Simpsons
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Christmas episode, I would just say, honestly, when all the
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Christmas stuff sort of started showing up, I really thought,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: are they pulling, like, a psych on Lisa, like a
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: mind game or something? You know, like, guess what? It's
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Christmas already. It's not Christmas. It's August.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: Richard Gere's a triple threat.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so... Yeah, it didn't really feel like very, you know,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: peace on earth and goodwill to all men or anything
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: like that. It just felt like, okay, now it's got
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Christmas in it. Yeah, I mean, look, I didn't dislike
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: this episode. I won't say I was laughing too much.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: I got a few sort of, you know, wry smiles
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: and a few chuckles here and there. And I liked
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: the Buddhism aspect of it. And I liked how it
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: was sort of, you know, not beating her over the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: head with like, this is the best religion. You know,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: everyone should be following this shit. It was more like,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Here's some interesting ideas you might want
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: to check out.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 6: I do think this was the least season 13-y of
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 6: the season so far. There was nothing here... Because the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 6: episodes we've done... Hakaga Burns and Love, I really enjoy.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 6: But I feel like the other ones have sort of
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 6: felt like a bunch of shit that was just thrown
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 6: together and they've tried to sort of make it all work.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 6: This one didn't feel like that as much. At least...
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: You know, you had the rocket, but at least the
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: rocket led to the church burning down. So at least
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 6: all was one continuing story. It wasn't just sort of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: all over the place. I know that we said that
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: the commercialization of church sort of stopped, but at least
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: that sort of merged into the Lisa story with her religion.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 6: So in that sense, it felt a lot more grounded
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 6: than what's become a very wacky era of The Simpsons.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: And I did enjoy the episode. It's just when I
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: read it, it's the Christmas episode. I want Christmas and
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: I didn't get Christmas. Yeah.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: You got a lump of coal in your stocking, essentially.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 6: Yes, but still, I think Richard Gere's performance was... I
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: know I said the word dull, but the more I
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 6: look at the review, the more I drew the review,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 6: it was perfect for what it needed to be. You know,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: he's a Buddhist. So, yeah, a thumbs up. I did
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: enjoy this episode.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: What did we learn, Palmer?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 6: So what did you learn from She of Little Faith, Mr. Davis?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: I learned a lot about Buddhism, actually. Well, not a
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: whole lot, but enough that I would kind of go...
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I should probably read a bit more about it.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: Which means the episode served its purpose.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: It did, yeah. I mean, look, the main thing I
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: took away from Lisa the Vegetarian is the line, this
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: is lamb, not a lamb, which I use all the time.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: What I took away from this episode, I didn't take
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: away any things about vegetarianism or veganism or anything like that. Although,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: in all honesty, one probably should eat less meat. What
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: I learned from this episode was, yeah, just a good
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: sort of entry-level primer on the tenets of Buddhism. And
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: I found that pleasant and intriguing. How about yourself?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 6: I learned that if you ever feel like you have
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 6: too many children, just eat some of them.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Watch out, Holly.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 7: From this day forward, your names will be.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: New names for this week, Sheev. Faithfuls today. But before
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: you do that, let's run through the new name leaderboard.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: I shall just get it up.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: Alrighty.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: So, in third position, we have Andrew Palacati and Keith Nedham.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: In second position, on four points, Mark Boston Burgess. And
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 6: in first position, both on six points, Geroad Harrahill and
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 6: Philip Phil Hawkins. Take it away, sir. What are the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: notable mentions this week?
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: A couple of honourable mentions before we get into Un
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: Deux Trois. One, two, three. I think the appearance of
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: the Buddha and Buddhism in this episode gave a lot
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: of opportunity for good wordplay. And as we've noticed with
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Dave Abbotsmith giving us, I can't believe it's not Buddha.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 6: That's very good. I like it. Yeah.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: And one that I like from our man Neil Parks,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Faith Off 2, Electric Buddha Lou.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: That's very good.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: There's a lot going on there, Neil. Both you and
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Dave are just shy of the 3-2-1, but a terrific,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: honourable effort by the both of you and by everyone
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: else who, of course, supplied new titles. But there can
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: be only three out of that. Who's getting one point?
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you who it is. It's Josh Hedge.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: Josh Hedge. He's now on three points, so he's equal third.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Indeed. Josh Hedge retitled this episode, The Grand Buddha Pest
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Don't Tell.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: Very good indeed. I like it.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good, Josh.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: That's not bad, is it? Now, two points go to
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Geroid Harrahill. Very apt. Richard Geroid Harrahill. Although I'm probably
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: mispronouncing Geroid, so my apologies.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: That's Geroid.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: But Geroid gave us a really good one, actually, and
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: I had to do a little bit of research into this.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: I had to do a bit of sort of Google
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: translating kind of deal, but it was worth it because
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: what he put up on the board was like a
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: little symbol. When I looked that up, it's a symbol
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: for Om, the Buddhism kind of... I don't know, mantra
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: or whatever.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: That's from Across the Universe, a Beatles song, right? Nothing's
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: going to change our world.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That kind of deal. I mean, Gear gave us, oh,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, because as
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Homer says it occasionally.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. Oh, yeah? Yeah.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Gear puts the effort in. You know, props to Gear.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: But he didn't get three points this time around.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: Who did?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: Tell me. I'll tell you who did. Right after this.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: It's June Richards.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, June fucking Richards.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Excuse me?
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 6: Apparently it's June fucking Richards. I believe that's the name. Funky? Fucking.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: June fucking Richards.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: That's their stage name.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: This is new to me.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 6: This is new to me.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 6: We'll get it right. Hang on, hang on. It is
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: the iconic June fucking Richards. That is their name.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: I stand corrected. The iconic June fucking Richards is atop
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: the winner's dais this time around with the simple but
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: effective coulda, shoulda, woulda.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's very good. Well done, June.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: It's not bad, is it? Nice one, June.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: June's are new to the Patreon team, so straight off
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: the bat, there you go. Straight into the... Not quite
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 6: in third position, in fourth position, but three points.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Well done.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 6: Well played.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Announcing a presence with authority... Well done, June. So, yes,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: they are the new titles for this time around for...
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: What's the episode?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: She of Little Faith.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: She of Little Faith. That's right. These ones are so
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: much better that I forgot the original title.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 6: So, in third position, we still have Mark Boston Burgess
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: on four. In second position, Phil Hawkins on six. And
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: Geroad Harrahill, our top leaderboard, on eight points. Still very,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 6: very close. We've got... The Iconic Jew, Funky Richards, Josh Hedge,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: Keith Nedham, and Andrew Palacetti all on three points in
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 6: four positions. So they're all... Everyone's close. So it's very,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: very good. I like it when it's a lot more closer.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 6: All righty, guys. So stick around. It's now time for...
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: The mail!
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: The mail is here!
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Woo!
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: The mail! The mail is here. All right, Mr.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Davis.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: We've got a few questions sent in this week. First
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 6: one here comes from Andrew Palacetti. He seems to be
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: always Andrew Palacetti. He's always first off the rank when
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 6: it comes to the mailbag. He's hanging around for your
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: posts in the Patreon group. He's so curious, Andrew. What
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: do you want to know? His first question is, which
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: famous 80s, 90s era actor would you like to see
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 6: make a comeback? Take it away, Grant Avis.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Look, it's not a tough one to answer, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: my answer for it may seem a bit odd because
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  Speaker 2: they're actually no longer with us. But I was always
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  Speaker 2: hoping that Luke Perry would make a bit of a comeback.
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  Speaker 2: I really dug his style when he was on 90210
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  Speaker 2: back in the day. I liked the movies that he
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: made when, you know, people realised, oh, this guy's got
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  Speaker 2: a bit of presence. And he sort of appeared in
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: weird sort of arty, unexpected projects. I mean, he was
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Oh, okay. Yeah,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: sort of playing the damsel in distress, you know, to
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Christy Swanson's Buffy. And he was really fun in that.
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  Speaker 2: This is a guy who probably could have written his
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: own ticket at that stage and, you know, been in
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  Speaker 2: action movies or whatever. But he's like, oh, no, I'll
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: try a few different things. And then he sort of
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: vanished off the radar for a little while, you know,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: as teen idols tend to do. But when he made
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: his comeback in the show Riverdale, again, it was like
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: I was talking before about that whole actors sort of
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: start to relax as they get a bit older and realise,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: I've got this in the toolkit and this, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to work so hard. You know, I
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: do a little bit and people will come to me.
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  Speaker 2: He was aware of that, I think, and he just
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  Speaker 2: had a good sort of chilled style in Riverdale. And
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: then he had his bit part... in Tarantino's Once Upon
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: a Time in Hollywood. And listeners who have heard you
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: and I and Mitch talking about that movie on previous
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: episodes or previous shows, they'll remember that I was so
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: happy to see Luke Perry land a gig in a
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: Tarantino movie. I just thought that was so rad for him.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: And you heard all the stories behind the scenes about
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: how DiCaprio and Pitt, the biggest stars in the world,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: were all just stoked that Luke Perry was there, and
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: they were a little starstruck. I thought that was just
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  Speaker 2: so neat, and it's a shame that Luke Perry left
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  Speaker 2: us as quickly, as early as he did, because I
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: think he would have aged quite nicely into, you know,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think he would have been a megastar again,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: but I think he would have worked consistently, I think
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: he would have worked with interesting people, and I think
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: he would have had a really neat kind of second act,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: so to speak. So, I don't know, he's the one
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: who sort of leaps out at me, even though he's
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: not really even though he's not here anymore.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: His son is now my favorite pro wrestler. Legitimately junk.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: What is he called?
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 6: Jungle boy, jungle boy, Jack Perry. Fuck me. He's going
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 6: to be a massive star. Oh, it's going to be
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: fucking huge. He's, he's, his entrance theme is now Tarzan boy.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, so the cattle sings along, mate. Holy shit. It's
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: going to be so good. Like he's, he's only like
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: 22 or something, but he's got, he's got Luke's looks
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 6: and he's got Luke sort of, you know how Luke
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: always come across like very mellow, very chill, So he's
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: got very similar traits, but he's a really good pro wrestler.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: He's obviously still young, so he's got room to improve,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 6: but he's going to be a massive star. But he's
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: just such a likable kid. Juggaboy Jack Perry, get on
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: that bandwagon, man. He's going to be huge.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's great. Actually, sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt, but
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: there's one other. I guess 90s was probably his thing,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: and he was in the wilderness for a while, but
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: he's on the way back now, is Wesley Snipes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: He was in comedy recently, wasn't he?
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: He's in Coming to America, the sequel to Coming to America,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: which isn't great.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: I've heard not very good things.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of nostalgia in it that's kind of
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: fun and nice, but the story is really just kind
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: of weak. I spent a fair bit of time on
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: social media the other day talking to like-minded nerds about
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: You know, I wish they'd done this instead. Or, you know,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: here's a way they could have gone. It could have
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: been more interesting. But I think everyone agrees, like, oh,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Wesley Snipes is in it, and he's so awesome. And
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: he really is. He's very, very funny. He works well
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: with Eddie. I mean, it's like, just Netflix, you know,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: this is money lying on the ground. Just make, like,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: five buddy comedies with Eddie Murphy and Wesley Snipes. I
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: will fucking watch all of them. I will upgrade my
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Netflix deal or whatever. Just do that. You know, so.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 6: Money like a grand, I love that.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Wesley Snipes, he's back, baby.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 6: I've just looked at our running time for the card.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: We've got four minutes left. Do we have time to
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: sneak in one more question? Let's do it. Let's try
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 6: and cram one more in, shall we?
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: Let's do it and I'll try to talk so much. Sorry.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 6: Okay, so last question here.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 7: Nora.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 6: Now, is it Nora Cocker or Nora Coker?
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say Coker.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: And she'll probably... get in our faces and say, that
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: is not how you pronounce it. And then she'll be
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: upset because I used that accent.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 6: This is a question you said you might not have
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 6: an answer for, but it's basically, she says, what mostly
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 6: permanent changes to the characters do you think worked best
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: and what didn't? She watched this episode and realized how
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 6: surprised she was that it took until season 13 for
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 6: Lisa to become a Buddhist. She's also a little surprised
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 6: watching season five and six and realizing that Lisa's still
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: not a vegetarian yet. I do agree with that. I
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 6: do think it's kind of jarring when you watch the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: early Simpsons and see her eating meat. It's like, oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: She wasn't a vegetarian until like season seven or season
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: six or whatever. I think the character of Barney becoming
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: sober didn't work. Didn't work.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Likewise. Yeah.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: That's the one for me if you think of ones
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 6: that didn't work that's the one that stands out to
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 6: me because his whole humour came from the fact that
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: he was like the town drunk you know the stereotypical
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: drunk and once you take that aspect away from him
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 6: it's like what has he got.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah he's just a a barfly who doesn't drink.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah and he sort of feels uncomfortable being with his
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: friends it's just like I don't know Yeah. So that
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: for me is the one that I do think Lisa
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: becoming vegetarian is the one that worked the best for sure.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: I am 100% in agreement with you on that. Lisa's
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: changes have worked. Barney's change did not work.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, not at all.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Alrighty, guys.
• 1:19:23
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• 1:19:25
  Speaker 6: we didn't get to too many of them this week,
• 1:19:27
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• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: enjoyed our review of She of Little Faith. Next week,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: we're going to be doing a review on the episode called,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: I believe it's Brawl in the Family. Another episode that
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: I don't have too many memories of. So I believe
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: this is definitely have to have been the time where
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 6: I stopped watching The Simpsons every week because I know
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: I've watched this episode, but I have no recollection of it.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 6: So maybe I've watched these episodes, but I just went, Yeah,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: I don't need to watch that one again. But, you know,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 6: I do look forward to watching it. It's a brawl
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: in the family. I'm not even going to read the synopsis.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 6: I just want to go in fresh and just see
• 1:19:59
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  Speaker 6: But for now, Mr. Davis, any final words for our amazing, beautiful,
• 1:20:40
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• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: These words are more for you, Dando.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: Baking up that sausage, boy.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: That's delightful.