Latest / Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast) / Simpsons Shitposting (with Jack Nischler)

Transcript

Simpsons Shitposting (with Jack Nischler) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

0:15
Hello everybody. Dando here for the latest episode of four Fingered discat Exstra.
0:19
Thank you so much for joining me here this week. Today. I am
0:21
very excited because I've got a very out of left field guest. But he's
0:24
a man who I've been wanting to talk to you for quite some time now.
0:28
He is mister Jack Nischler, and he may have sent his name on
0:30
our page because we are constantly crediting him because he's putting out some of the
0:33
best Simpsons memes going around at the moment. He's just an absolute juggnau in
0:37
the Simpsons ship posting world. He has his group through House Simpsons Memes Supergroup.
0:41
Make sure you check out that group and join it. You can find
0:43
a link for that in the description of this pod. But basically, I
0:46
just wanted to talk about, you know, just his thoughts on the Simpsons
0:49
ship posting community in general. We cover his creative process for creating his Simpsons
0:53
memes. We also does bando a bet our love of the show, and
0:55
we talk about his earliest memories of watching the Simpsons, you know, and
0:58
he actually talks about a particul a memory that I couldn't get the smile off
1:02
my face because it's everything we did, you know, growing up in Australia.
1:04
It's a memory that I know every Australian listener is just going to absolutely
1:07
relate to and adore. So like I said, it's an absolute champion Jack.
1:11
Check out his group Thrillouse Simpsons Meme Supergroup and make sure you support him.
1:14
And also, speaking of support, if you love everything we do here
1:17
at Fourth Finger Discount, it would be amazing if you could support us on
1:19
Patreon as well. For as little it's just a single dollar we do goes
1:23
a long way to helping keeping the lights on here at the Fourth Finger Discount
1:26
Network. Some of you may or may not be aware. I quit my
1:27
job last year to pursue this Simpsons podcast network. But we don't just do
1:30
Simpsons here. We cover sign Pope. We were talking Signfeld speaking of the
1:34
heel tales of Futurama, the one about friends going down to South Park and
1:37
so much more so. If you love yourself on nostalgia, check out our
1:40
podcast network. I would really appreciate that. But for now, enough spreaking.
1:42
I think it's time we sit back and enjoy my conversation with the One
1:46
the Only Mister Jack Knishler. It feels like, you know, Simpsons ship
1:56
posting has been going for years now, right, but you're just like this
1:59
name just taking the world by storm and the shit posting world. Like,
2:01
how made this happen? Man? I actually don't know, Like when I
2:07
first started as well, there's no way that I would have envisioned that I've
2:10
without sounding like kind of arrogant, like developed a somewhat reputation in that kind
2:15
of community. Yeah, because really it was just a hobby to start with,
2:19
and then it kind of morphed into its own thing. Did you so
2:22
you were making memes in Simpsons shit posting the main group and then you thought,
2:24
fuck, wait a minute, I'm actually getting a lot of traction.
2:27
I should make my own group. Or because did you start the thrill House
2:29
one yourself? Yeah, so myself, Corona Martin and Ruby's and Eddie formulated
2:35
thrill House. But honestly, when I first started it kind of it started
2:38
from the covid era has something to do while lockdown was going on. We
2:44
all had to find something to do, didn't we. Oh? Man,
2:46
it was crazy and like, honestly, when I look back, I'm like
2:50
I was posting the most generic shit, Like it would just be I'd share
2:53
an image of something that I saw and I'd posted in like obscure Simpson's characters
2:58
or maybe Rancher Overlaxo. And it wasn't really a meme. It was just
3:01
like, you know, someone dressed up as a Simpsons character and I'd share
3:05
that Simpsons related content. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then it just
3:08
morphed into its own little thing, and I started developing kind of like I
3:13
guess a nick a niche of where I'd have like this black label text and
3:17
I would essentially just insert myself as a character. And then before I knew
3:23
it, man, I just took off. And then I started posting in
3:27
Compu Global. Yep, that was my main one. And then I developed
3:30
a friendship with Karna and we got to talking and eventually formed Thrillhouse a few
3:36
years later. But really from something that started, there's just something to quell
3:40
the bottom of lockdown. It's kind of crazy what it turned into. It.
3:45
Are you guys sort of like competition now for Comfort Global or not?
3:47
Because you're both AUSSI based, do you see this competition? I was sort
3:50
of like, you know, supposed to have each other out honestly, man,
3:53
Like, it's kind of weird the politics that happened with like between the
3:59
Simpsons group. This kind of crazy. This is the thing, right,
4:01
I get so many I get so much shit, and I'm just I've just
4:04
just accept it, right because you know, we'd take memes. I always
4:06
try to give credit where I give where I can. But sometimes people a
4:10
lot of the time, people to send us memes and I'm like, who
4:12
made this? Like I don't know, and I'm like, fuck now,
4:14
I'm going to go check the groups and try and find who made this,
4:15
and sometimes I just can't find it. So I'll post up the meme and
4:18
I'm like, if you know who made this, let me know. And
4:20
man, people get angry when you don't give credit for a meme. Yeah,
4:25
yeah, do you know what? They get angry? Ever, as
4:27
well, if you've reposted a meme like Bill say this competition, you know,
4:30
like the Harrison comment, Oh yeah, or repost, I'm like,
4:35
look, everything's been done at this point. Okay, you're reposting an old
4:40
Simpsons clip. You realize this, right, Like, it's already a repost.
4:43
If you repost a meme like say you post a meme to one group,
4:46
there's a whole audience in another group might not have seen it. So
4:50
if you post it to another group and you know, there's a couple of
4:53
people that have already been members of the other group and they see it and
4:57
then they're like repost, I'm like, okay, it's a whole your audience,
5:00
though, Yeah, what's kind of like, you know, I've talked
5:02
to people who work on The Simpsons now and I'm in season thirty five,
5:05
and they'll do a story and someone's like, you already did this in season
5:08
seven. It's like it's fucking twenty years ago. No one remembers that anymore.
5:11
We've done everything. Okay, it's all been done. It's like the
5:15
Obscool Simpsons Characters page. I think it originally started to post obscure characters and
5:20
it's been active for like three years or more maybe. So if someone posts
5:25
something and it doesn't have an obscure character, someone's like, you know,
5:28
in a smartest like, oh, nice obscure character. I'm like, look,
5:31
after two weeks, they're done. Yeah, Like, we don't,
5:34
there's no more to post. Did you make that obscure Simpsons? Oh?
5:39
No? Actually, one of the other ad means of thrill house sheey I
5:43
think is one of the original ones ruby Yeah, okay, cool, Yeah,
5:46
I forget it on at some point as well. What's like, what's
5:48
your process for making the meme? Like, now you're going to make sure
5:50
you get the black the black square or the black red ting with defined well
5:55
you always put certain things into your pictures to date. Yeah, yeah,
5:58
that's the thing is like it's so such a basic format of how I make
6:01
the meme. But with like the black label text, just on aesthetic alone,
6:06
you can kind of tell that it's mine. That's and you sort of
6:10
claim that, now, haven't you. Yeah, I'm not even like I'm
6:14
claiming it. It's just like people know it if you see it, tell
6:17
it's one of my memes. Sure, sure, but yeah, I mean
6:21
there's really no process involved in it. Like they're pretty low effort. There's
6:26
not a whole lot involved. And because you know, you've got the two
6:29
crowds that enjoy kind of like your standard Simpson's mash up where it's two scenes
6:34
blended together, and it's that kind of style of the meme, like hiw
6:39
he edited one, whereas mine are just like a poor Man's meme where I
6:42
just insert some kind of generic reference over a Simpson screenshot. It's almost like
6:46
as a stand up routine, like you know when this happens in real life.
6:50
That's what it is. Man Like I at the end of the day,
6:54
the way that I post memes, it's about the human that I enjoy
6:58
it. And I like that of self referential, not taking yourself too seriously,
7:02
just taking a piece really And yeah, a lot of it's just relatable
7:05
content, like you know, some like just like a workplace scenario or something
7:12
that happened to work, and then you insert out into a meme and people
7:15
can relate to that. And I find that that generates its own audience of
7:18
like the relatability of some of the content, and some people enjoy it and
7:24
some people don't. But that's like, I'm a human is subjective, right,
7:27
So I appreciate the ones where it's like, you know, when I
7:30
was a kid, so you always bust out the space Jam blanket and the
7:33
Batman. I think the Batman Forever poster is it, Yeah, which is
7:36
weird because I don't even really like that movie or much. I mean Nostage
7:42
books. I was a kid, well, hell do you I'm thirty five?
7:44
How do you? I'm so, I'm thirty three. We're about the
7:46
same age. So, like I was a kid and that Batman movie came
7:48
out, so like I was writing the target demo for that movie, so
7:51
I have like a nostalgia for it. But everyone's like, you realize that
7:54
movie shit out. I'm like, I know it's shit, but you know,
7:56
I still liked it because I was a kid. It's my ship.
7:58
Let me enjoy my shit. That's kind of like, you know when you
8:01
talk to kids that watch the new Simpsons, and you know, people from
8:05
like our age, like, oh, it's not as good as back in
8:07
the day, Like, just let us enjoy the new episodes, please,
8:09
because these are our episodes. It's the thing as well. I was only
8:11
talking about the new Simpsons episodes the other day, and like it's not intended
8:18
for us as the people that grew up with it. It's it's brought for
8:22
a new audience. Well, I can't expect. It's kind of like a
8:24
selfish mentality to have the idea that the Simpsons as they started should be catering
8:31
to that original audience. So when they're inserting popcorn for if I'm like watching
8:35
it now some of the pop culture references, I don't know what's going on,
8:39
but it's the same thing as if a new audience was watching some of
8:43
the throwback episodes that we grew up on. They're like, who the fuck's
8:45
Bill Clinton? Exactly? But this is the thing. I was so ad
8:48
the lit I don't know what who Lizzo is. I'm like, who right,
8:52
I'm totally ad the loot now, but she was like on The Simpsons,
8:54
I reckon about a month ago, what's your kind of like peak error
8:58
for for me because I wasn't allowed to watch it till I was six,
9:03
because I got banned from watching because I copied Maggie from treous I want and
9:05
goup the knife out of the kitchen draw and my mum was like, that's
9:07
it for the Simpsons. So for me, I have a nostalgia for like
9:11
season five through maybe ten. I reckon maybe five and five through seven are
9:16
like my favorite seasons. I think what about you? One for me is
9:20
borderline unwatchable just because it's really fine its voice and the animation. Like I'm
9:26
such a I need to dig the aesthetic, so like the animation style for
9:31
me that I really love is kind of like three through to ten, where
9:35
it's slightly imperfect, but it's not as refined as like the high definition that
9:39
we have now. There's that one season where they've got the really big pupils.
9:43
I think it's like season four. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of
9:46
it's bizarre. Yeah yeah, But for me, I think, like aesthetically,
9:50
my favorite season, I reckon it's probably like season like King Sid's Home
9:52
at ear like season seven is. I think that's when they look at the
9:54
season seven. Yeah. Yeah, I like season seven and season eight.
9:58
I really like like the aesthetic of that animation. Yeah, and also like
10:03
in terms of consistently good episodes, like that was a hell of a run
10:07
that went through right, Like you can pretty much put on any episode and
10:11
a Tobanger. Yeah. Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein were the showrunners at that
10:16
point, and you know, Bill Oakley obviously did steam Hams and yeah,
10:20
yeah, I feel like those two guys like they made the best episodes.
10:22
They really like. That was Simpsons fans who somehow made their way into the
10:26
Simpsons writing room and gave us the best episodes. Mm hmm. Yeah with
10:30
you, so with your with your memes. So I'm just assuming you've got
10:33
like a notepad of ideas and just when you find time you make the memes.
10:37
Or is it just the case of you're doing your work and you're like,
10:39
fuck, that's a good idea. You drop everything and you make the
10:41
memes. Like how do you make the memes? You do it on a
10:43
computer on your phone? What do you do? Man, I've got like
10:46
notes in my phone. I can imagine there's just five hundred meme ideas that
10:52
I put in there, and then I just categorized them into a priority of
10:56
oh, this is probably a good one, so it's like top memes,
11:01
and then I'll be like, man, there's times when I'm laying in bed
11:05
trying to go to sleep and I've just got like ideas churning, and then
11:09
I have to reach over to my phone and be, oh, I put
11:11
that in and then I'll think about that the next day and then build on
11:13
that. Yeah, And don't you love it when you pull your phone out?
11:16
We can't do that as well with certain things. I feel like you're
11:18
most creative when you're about to go to sleep, and I love it when
11:20
you wake up next day and you're like, oh, man, I totally
11:22
wuld have forgotten about that idea, but think I put it in my phone
11:24
for sure, because I definitely haven't done it before. I've forgotten to put
11:28
it in and it's just gone into the EGI yeah, and you know there's
11:31
something then and you're like, what was it? Oh, it's weird,
11:33
man, because with the memes as well, like sometimes I'll be like,
11:37
this is going to be a banger and it's like, you know, moderate
11:41
likes at best, and then there's like a throwaway one that I spent thirty
11:43
seconds on and it's a thousand likes. So it's like there's really no gauge
11:48
on what's going to go well or what gets picked up in the algorithm.
11:50
Either that's the thing, it's the algorithm who they push it to. It's
11:54
so fucking weird. Now the algorithm you've got to really you can't work it
11:58
out anymore. And anything, I think it's just a lucky dip these days.
12:00
Well, I used to feel like it was like time of day dependent
12:03
as well, Like I would post it would be like because I used to
12:07
have a thing because I've got a lot of OCD qualities, so there was
12:11
a point where I was religious, Yeah, for sure, religiously posting once
12:16
in the morning and once in the evening, so I do two a day,
12:20
and I felt like that turned ten thirty time frame and then like you
12:24
know, a four thirty five o'clock timeframe seemed to generate the most activity on
12:30
the post. Whereas I have no idea if that's legit, It just it
12:33
was what it was. I used to sort of have the mentality of when
12:37
I was posting things up are most of our followers and at the time it
12:41
was Australian. Now that sort of all around the world. It doesn't really
12:43
make a difference. But I'm like, when are Australians knocking off work when
12:45
they're going to be most likely to be on their phones. That's when I's
12:46
sort of pick in my mind. So it was usually like seven thirty people
12:50
just finished in and they've got their phones out fucking around watching TV or whatever,
12:52
and I feel like seven thirtysu to be a good time for posting meanings.
12:56
But now you just can't pick. It's just whatever. Yeah, especially
13:00
like with the Australian group that I was posting in for a long time,
13:03
that's easier to predict because it's primarily an Australian audience see yeah, yeah,
13:11
whereas now with like Thriller House and even Bought Posting, it's worldwide. Like
13:15
Bought Posting's got I think they just broke over three hundred thousand followers or so
13:20
they're from just everywhere. Man. Yeah, so yeah, there's really no
13:24
gauge on target audience. You just post when you post and see if it
13:28
takes off. I find memes now that get the most reach organically, very
13:33
very very rarely boost the post. Might be a link for one of our
13:35
podcasts, that's the any thing. I'll never boost a meme. But I
13:39
feel like the ones where you've got to click into it to see the full
13:41
picture seem to get more organic reach because it thinks that people are engaging because
13:46
they're clicking into the photo to see the full thing. It's like a three
13:48
panel meme. They generally do better than one you can see the whole image
13:52
without having to click into it to see the bottom, like the screenshot.
13:58
That's interesting because I used to feel kind of converse to that, where if
14:01
it was like a multipanel meme, because I've done I remember only a couple
14:05
of times because they actually take a fair bit of effort. But I've done
14:09
like super meta memes where it's like fifty plus panels and it's pretty much about
14:15
the group itself and group members within that group, like personalities at like regular
14:20
posters, and they take a shitler effort and they get a bit of traction.
14:26
And then if it's like a four panel meme, I feel like people
14:30
are less inclined to click on that as opposed to a single one or a
14:33
double one where it requires no clicks, which is like it kind of highlights
14:37
the laziness of just the average person. It's like, can't be fuck clicking
14:41
on a panel to see how many are there. The best thing is,
14:46
I think, is when you can see there's a third panel, Like people
14:50
post memes, but like you have to actually say there's three panels, because
14:52
they've made the positioned to see if you can see like the top bit of
14:56
the third panel makes people go, well, what is that? What is
14:58
that? And then they'll the curiosity gets the best of them. They're like,
15:01
Okay, let's see the punchline. Yeah, but what was your first
15:07
ship post? Can you remember? Oh man, probably something super whack in
15:11
hindsight, like something real shitty. I actually don't remember what it was.
15:15
It was nervous posting it, were you sort of like, oh, man,
15:16
what if no one likes it? Nah? Not because I didn't even
15:20
have an idea of how it worked. It was just like I didn't give
15:24
a shit about how many likes it was going to generate. You just posted
15:26
out of boredom. And then I know, for me personally, it became
15:31
like you're chasing that dopamine of like the validation of people liking the post,
15:37
especially the more popular they get, and if you're consistently getting a lot of
15:41
likes on a post, it becomes addictive, man, it really does.
15:46
You end up chasing that kind of fucking dopamine here, like, oh,
15:48
let me get that high of people like my shit, people enjoying my content.
15:54
But then at the same time, there's a fair bit of anxiety involved
15:58
with it, which sounds ridiculous because they're just means yeah, but like some
16:03
of them can be quite I guess contentious, and you get people just really
16:07
get in in their feelings and letting you know exactly what they think about something,
16:14
And I kind of feel like that's something to do with the anonymous nature
16:18
of the Internet, where it allows people to speak in a way that they
16:22
wouldn't speak if it was your and iron person. You kind of like that
16:26
road rage mentality where if someone cuts them off in traffic, they're freaking the
16:30
fuck out and they're this out and the third. But if someone stepped in
16:33
front of them in line of the supermarket, they're not going to say shit.
16:34
It's going to wish that they could have said something and then be like,
16:37
dang, I should have said that. If someone steps out of the
16:40
car, then they quickly turned the car around and drop the other direction.
16:41
Yeah, exactly exactly. So it's it's it's very Yeah, it's weird.
16:47
The audience you can get on certain means it's good. I'm gonna be very
16:51
careful with the ones that I post because we try to keep it like we
16:53
try to be like the You've got rock Bottom in all those other pages and
16:56
they dropped the sea bomber light and we're I just like we try to be
17:00
like the family friendly ish version of like as Simpson Ship posting, because it's
17:03
essentially it's the podcast page, but we're posting memes. You try to keep
17:07
it family friendly because we have a lot of sort of like connections with the
17:08
actual show, and I'm like, they're not going to want to be associating
17:11
with me if I'm putting memes up with the sea bomb or to bias memes
17:15
mostly dropped the Sea Bomb and stuff like that. And I know, not
17:17
that I'm against that kind of stuff, it's just we've got to keep our
17:19
image a little bit more squeaky clean than those of like rock Bottom of those
17:22
kind of things. Not on pals of all those guys that run those pages,
17:25
because they're way more popular than we are. But yeah, I just
17:27
I just found it very interesting that, you know, just how crazy ship
17:30
postings has got to this point where people, I don't know, it's almost
17:33
just become like a job for people. It's it's such a community now,
17:37
isn't it. Yeah, I mean, and depending on the group, it
17:41
can be such a fun vibe. It's like a virtual hanging. Because that's
17:45
how I feel we've been able to cultivate. The whole idea with Thrillhouse was
17:49
that we wanted to take essentially everything that we thought was wrong with other groups.
17:56
Because there's pros and cons to eage group. What are they wrongs,
18:00
do you think If you yes, I don't want to go for me like
18:03
if I'm taking my own biases out of it if I look at it.
18:07
Some groups get so political to where three out of four posts are politics based,
18:15
and that's where you're run into the most contention with comments. We avoid
18:19
politics like the plague mate, Oh you got it, man, because like
18:22
it's such a hot issue, especially now with what's going on in the world,
18:26
it's really really hard to like, at the end of the day for
18:29
me memes that are meant to essentially just be for me personally and escape from
18:36
all the extra bullshit, Like I just want to crack a smile and have
18:38
a laugh. I don't want to open up Facebook and see what's going on
18:41
with like Palastine and Iran plastered over a Simpsons thing where it's like, this
18:47
isn't to do with the Simpsons, Like, take your own shit and talk
18:49
about it somewhere else. So I wanted to take the things that, like
18:53
the negative components that I find with other groups, eliminate that, but also
19:00
buy a space where you can have you know, slightly spicier content, slightly
19:03
edgier jokes to where it's not completely you know, g rated content. It's
19:08
not just offensive for the second being offensive either exactly, because that's also like
19:12
cringy, like if someone's just we we get an occasion we're in the group
19:17
where someone's just thinks it's a spicy content, but it's not. You're just
19:21
inserting a shitty opinion under the guise of a Simpson's name, And so we
19:25
put the squash on that quickly. But we want to allow people freedom to
19:29
post what they like, obviously within reason, because some groups want to you
19:33
know, squeaky claim. Some groups go the other side where they get dark
19:36
and then the group gets completely sucked. And we just wanted the middle ground
19:38
where people are free to express opinion, have difference of opinions, but avoid
19:45
just the heavy politics that seem to burn down a lot of other groups.
19:48
Yeah, do you find you have the same regular posters in your group?
19:52
It's funny, man, because each post kind of ends up having like it's
19:56
it's I even know how you articulate it. You get like your top ten
20:02
kind of prevalent posters within that group, Like their are the sort of personalities
20:06
within the group, so you get your standout characters. Has anyone tried to
20:10
copy your your your gimmick of the your gimmick, but you know your style
20:12
of the black with the white font. Has anyone tried to copy that?
20:15
Or as everyone go, oh, that's Jack's, then we better not.
20:18
There's no one that I would ever, There's no one that I would point
20:22
out as being like, oh, they've intentionally started doing this. There's definitely
20:26
been a couple where you can tell, especially with the self referential nature,
20:30
because mind are very like the classic style of the meme that I'll post is
20:37
generally two panels and the first one will be me, etcetera, etcetera,
20:42
bottom panel me, etcetera, etcetera. Yeah, so when I see that,
20:47
it can be like an homage to maybe something that I did. But
20:49
at the end of the day, I don't stay claim to any mean like,
20:52
you can post whatever you want if you take inspiration from that, so
20:56
be it. Like I. Some people get really jealous or like very possessive
21:03
of the style of meme that they post, and then if they see someone
21:06
else try to mimic that, they're like, no, that's my ship.
21:08
What the fuck that means? Man, don't there's Simpsons at the end of
21:12
the day too. We don't own any of it. Yeah, so you're
21:15
free to post whatever you like. Well, so many people from like three
21:18
House were starting to like invade all my posts just running credit Jackniche and I
21:22
was like, oh h to the point where like I haven't posted one of
21:26
your means for like a week. As a result, I'm like, oh
21:29
man, I'm just like even when I wasn't posting your memes, I was
21:32
just posting credit. It's like twenty comments credit Jacknishline. I was like,
21:36
oh guys, leave me alone. I'm a nice guy. There's also like
21:40
a bit of tongue and cheek in like the four finger Dissed Town, you
21:42
know what I mean. It's like if you look at it at face go
21:45
too. It's like, yeah, we kind of yoink memes like credit where
21:48
it's due, but at the end of the day, it's not like we've
21:51
fucking stole the mona Lisa. It's a meme. Well, we always try
21:53
to give credit where we can. But man, so many people I've had
21:56
death threats. I remember one guy I generally said, if you you don't
22:00
give credit to my meme, I'm gonna come with you along and like you
22:02
just went to town. I was like, I just I wrote you looked
22:04
in the comments, I said, who made this? Now that I know
22:07
it's you, I'll put your credit in there and you back, Oh,
22:10
no worries, mate, Yeah thanks. So I sorry. I got a
22:11
bit over the top. But I just get real like defensive when people just
22:15
pinch my memes. I'm like, chill out, dude, do you get
22:18
what kind of the like inboxes do you get? Do you get some crazy
22:22
inboxes? We just get people. People send memes through and their ship house,
22:27
and they get really offended if I don't post them like I'll like sometimes
22:32
I'll just like react to it and with a laughing faces they have they say,
22:34
yep, I acknowledged that I've seen your meme. But I can't post
22:37
everything, right. I'm very very picky with what I post up. Right,
22:41
They've got to I'm gonna be able to. I know what my audience
22:42
likes, and some of the memes that come through and it's like this isn't
22:45
very good, but I still say, oh, yeah, great work,
22:47
blah blah blah, And like three days later I'll say, so you're gonna
22:49
post it, I'll go, oh, maybe we'll see how I've got a
22:52
little bit of a backlog. Well why are you posting it? I'm like,
22:55
oh god, block gone. I can't deal with this, you know
22:57
what I mean. But we get now because the page has sort of gone
23:00
a bit more popular lately, we're getting so many like hello admin, can
23:03
we post on your page? All these fucking fake accounts, which is hard
23:07
to sort of filter between the real accounts and the fake ones these days.
23:10
Yeah, that I was not surprising. We like, I never would have
23:14
envisioned the amount of widows that I've had in my my I don't want to
23:18
say weirdos, but you said no, like honestly, well without being like
23:25
an asshole about it. Like sometimes some people will post some really heinous content,
23:30
give them a warning, be like remove the post, that's fine,
23:36
and then you know they continue to do it, and you pretty much you
23:37
can tell when it's a troll account, it's a fake profile and they're posting
23:44
things with the anonymity of the Internet, and then you you remove that poster
23:49
from the group, and then you just met with the most hillacious dms from
23:56
these people just going in on you. Like some of the not even DM
24:00
sometimes like some of the comments that I get on some of my posts because
24:03
I reference my wife a lot in them. Yeah, obviously some of the
24:08
because of the self referential nature and how I insert myself in the means it
24:12
leads me open for probably a lot more criticism than like the Simpson style mash
24:18
up posts, because they can attack my personality because it's put on showing the
24:23
meme. Could you say it's me me? Yeah? Yeah. But also
24:30
it's satire, like when I'm talking about like nutting in six punts, it's
24:37
not necessarily you know, the actual truth of what's going on. It's satire.
24:41
But I'll have people be like, oh, I feel so for your
24:45
life. Like the other day someone commented They're like, I hope you get
24:49
cheated on, And I literally had to laugh out loud and show my life
24:52
because it was just so unnecessarily harsh. What's crazy is that people writing this
24:57
too are like serious, that's the scary thing. What's going on in your
25:02
life? This upset over a mean man? How many do you take down?
25:07
How often do you have to take one down posts? Yeah, in
25:12
like in the group when it's just like many man like at the moment with
25:17
what's going on. We've had to take down a few because they're quite politically
25:22
driven, and we didn't want to a group to kind of turn into whatevery
25:25
other group does. So we had to run one of those topics where you
25:27
just like it's best to leave it to other people. Not this for sure,
25:30
for sure, And it's such a contentious topic that, I mean,
25:34
no one's going to have the answer, like, no one's going to come
25:37
to a mutual understanding on what's going on. So and they just escalate so
25:44
quick and then before you know it, you're getting so many posts being reported,
25:48
and you know what you're seeing like in mean groups where a trend continues
25:52
for a while and it kind of just beats a dead horse. That's what
25:56
I was going to ask you about that later on. Yeah, about the
25:57
trends, Like do you sort of look at trends or do you sort of
26:00
just think because you your thing is just relating to something's happened in your real
26:04
life, sort of associated with your real life, So you don't really follow
26:07
like the trends of the memes, do you, Because you've got to like
26:08
Boat It's like yeah, because in the boat posting is like you know it
26:14
was the leaves. Recently everyone was doing leaves and I was like, yeah,
26:18
like that was like so popular for like four days. I reckon,
26:22
I don't even know how they start, Like where did Kevin James one come
26:25
from? So the Kevin James won started because it became its own thing outside
26:29
of ship posting. Then they sort of moved it into ship posting. But
26:32
yeah, I don't know how that exploded. It was just like that image
26:33
has been online for so long and people have just decided now it's kind of
26:37
steamed hams, like steam hams. When I was a kid, I didn't
26:41
even find it all that funny. And then when we got like you know,
26:42
when we got hold like twenty five thirty, it's like it just became
26:45
like the meme of all memes, and I'm like, how, I mean,
26:48
who just decided steamed hams was the meaning of all memes? Well,
26:52
the minute and there's a trend of the hidden panel oh yeah in the comment
26:59
one. I don't I don't find that style like personally, again, it's
27:03
subjective. I don't find that style that main funny, but it goes on
27:07
for so long, and then that's what we just try to avoid in the
27:11
group. Like, you know, it's fine if you get in on a
27:14
trend, but you don't want to be looking through a timeline and you've got
27:17
twenty of the exact same joke in a row. Yeah. I try to
27:19
avoid the trend ones and just try to look at ones that is not timeless,
27:22
but go that anyone can relate to this, Even if you're not a
27:25
Simpsons fan, you can probably relate to it. Yeah. Yeah, well
27:27
that's just I just don't get in on the trend one because generally, like
27:32
the trend style memes aren't in my wheelhouse of how I mean anyway, so
27:36
I wouldn't be able to do a relatively good justice to one. I'll leave
27:40
that for the other people who actually are good at that stuff. Do you
27:42
have a favorite of yours? A favorite meme? Yeah, that you've made?
27:48
You Do you have one that you didn't think was going to be that
27:49
poppy and you're like, shit, people really like this one. Yeah.
27:52
There's definitely been a couple of them, but none that I can really think
27:56
of. Is I remember the one that went really well when we put it
27:59
up. People loved it was the one where you're like sneaking out to get
28:03
drunk when you're fifteen and then Malloy twiggling his mustag. Yeah, yeah,
28:07
sneaking out to go back home. Now that was a pisser. Well,
28:11
it's also funny some of the ones that there was one that you guys shared
28:15
as well, where it was a lady talking about, you know, send
28:21
him home in it Ober fed him blah blah blah. Yeah, they got
28:26
a shitload of shares. That was one where that was a throwaway like that
28:32
took what a minute to put together and then that takes off. So just
28:37
like you really don't know what's going to hear and what's going to miss the
28:41
way I gauge now because my wife she was never a Simpsons fan growing up.
28:44
She's from the UK, like it was big in the UK, but
28:45
she just never really watched it. She was from the but they call the
28:48
country in the UK the equivalent of country in the UK. They didn't watch
28:52
much TV or anything. But what I do now is I'll show her and
28:53
mean before I post it, and if she reacts to it, I know,
28:56
well Simpsons fans are going to like this because I liked it, and
28:59
of a nonsense since fan likes it as well, there's probably gonna do really
29:02
well. So that's sort of how I gauge now what I think a post
29:03
is going to do well before I put it up, Like a meme is
29:06
show my wife and she finds it funny, then that's the thing. And
29:07
that's what I did with the sneaking out for a drink because like I think,
29:11
you know, everyone who's in their mid thirties now can totally relate to
29:14
that meme. Yeah, I feel like that's where a lot of my memes
29:18
are going towards as well, just like crossing that thirty threshold and then suddenly
29:22
it becomes a lot more like relatable content of things that you used to be
29:26
able to do maybe in your youth that slightly start to deteriorate as you age.
29:33
I mean, people love the memes where it's always like you know,
29:34
it's happened to you, and people always sort of those memes always do really
29:37
really well well. I just I'm a sucker fan of the nostalgia as well.
29:41
So any of what's my whole podcast network is MAT's all the stuff exactly
29:45
Like if anyone puts in some you know, when you see something, you're
29:48
like, man, I forgot all about that, and it like takes you
29:52
back to a time period. And that's what I enjoy about the memes,
29:56
Like, that's what I enjoy about seeing any kind of stagia references takes you
30:00
back to it such a comforting time in your life. That's why I think
30:03
that's why we just love the Simpsons so much. It's just like you know,
30:07
it was, It's just been there our entire lives. Like you're thirty
30:10
three, the Simpsons has always been around. You know, well what I'm
30:12
sure introduction to it? Do you remember, well, I know how I
30:15
said earlier, how I sort of apparently I saw the Simpsons Trioso one We're
30:21
making it to the Knife out of the Draw, the Bad dream House.
30:22
And I don't remember that at all. I was too young. I was
30:25
like two or three. Someone was like, you can't watch the Simpsons to
30:26
your six. But my earliest memories is going to like video easy and seeing
30:30
like remember those I've got them in here? The I go go one,
30:33
hey, one second, I'll show you might be able to remember these?
30:34
Yeah, do you remember these videotapes? Be able to run from the shop
30:37
for sure? Man? Yeah, the white cover Simpsons collection one so they
30:41
were like, yeah, first time I remember seeing the Simpsons, like they
30:44
look cool, and I were like renting one and I didn't realize i'd rented
30:47
one. And it's like it was a huge deal that I was allowed to
30:48
watch the Simpsons. But that's my earliest memory of the Simpsons as seeing the
30:52
videotapes at Video Easy. What about you? Oh man, I don't remember,
30:56
like I can't pinpoint a specific memory. It's just six PM, week
31:02
night, Channel ten mate. That was. That was the memory. I
31:03
know. We had like a bunch of vhs just recorded off the TV,
31:07
just episodes recorded off the TV. Are they're the best. I've still got
31:10
a couple of mine and it's like, you know, you got something still
31:12
got the ads in it and stuff. It's just so nostalgic. Just do
31:15
you know what I would give to have some of the throwback episodes just to
31:18
watch the ads alone, not even for the Simpsons episodes, but to watch
31:22
the ads. Yeah, oh man, I'd give anything for that, the
31:25
ads in between all the ads of the Simpsons though. Do you mean just
31:27
the ads in between? No, just the ads just like the generic throwback
31:30
like Australia ads. I do it all the time you go on YouTube,
31:33
you type like nineteen ninety five Australian commercials and it's just like you with it,
31:37
Like the commercials like pick apart, pick Apart, rehober that and things
31:41
like that. Man, do you remember how sick the yoga commercials were?
31:44
Holy shit? Man? Yeah, like just mini episodes they were. It
31:48
was like the big bang thing was just like clips and the machine all together.
31:51
It's an actual fucking movie. Like I'll get back to your barrying things
31:53
like that. Yeah, that was sick. Yeah, someone needs to make
31:57
a Yogo based Simpsons me. I think that's one. Think that's one of
32:00
your ideas need to work on. I could tap into that for sure.
32:02
Yeah, because those kind of things people just that you see it and you're
32:07
like, holy shit, that was my childhood. You know. Well.
32:09
The other thing about those tapes too, is I remember going to kmart.
32:14
Do you remember how they'd have kind of the theme tapes were too hot for
32:17
TV or I've got them all behind me here. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
32:21
So it was like four episodes per tape and they were like twenty five bucks
32:25
for a VHS that came out thirty dollars. Yeah, I've still got the
32:29
price tag on my on my VHS. We paid thirty bucks for four episodes,
32:31
mate. For That's the thing, though, man, is that no
32:34
wonder you remember this shit verbatim? Because four episodes for twenty five thirty dollars
32:39
you're watching the funk out of there, like you're spamming that. I said
32:44
to like people who didn't grow up in our ear. It's just like when
32:46
your mom bought you a fucking videotape. You had four tapes and that was
32:50
your summer, and you watch those same fucking movies over and over again.
32:54
Do you know what's so funny? Man? It's like the shot Like the
32:58
shows of my childhood were kind of of the Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park,
33:04
Malcolm in the Middle, and Friends and people. Friends just kind of
33:07
treated like a punchline. Now it's kind of like the nickelback of TV shows
33:10
where it's like, oh, yeah, it's funnier than Friends, blah blah
33:14
blah. I was like that right until I started doing the podcast with my
33:19
wife and I was like, fuck, that's right. I used to really
33:22
liked this show. Why was I shitting on it? It's like I just
33:24
became a sheep? Ah, man, it's like, look, I don't
33:30
know how i'd go watching it as a first time viewer through the lens of
33:34
a thirty three year old, but nostalgia defeats everything, and I grew up
33:39
on it, Like Jennifer Anistill was like my first crash. I remember from
33:43
what she was like with Brad Pitt. Yeah, I remember like having a
33:46
dream that they adopted me. That's how much I just wanted to be involved.
33:52
And then I remember, like, I had this this notebook, and
33:54
I had a stick figure drawing of me and her holding hands and I cut
34:00
out of her head and I'm like, you know, it sounds romantic and
34:04
sweet, but if I saw that image now of like her cut out head,
34:07
I'm like, this is impossibly creepy to look at. Imagine if you
34:09
told her that story in person, she'd be backing through the hedges. Mate,
34:14
Yeah, with shit Homer disappearing. Yeah, there's no why, There's
34:19
no way I would do that. But see Friends for my wife is what
34:22
the Simpsons, I say, was for me. So like my wife,
34:24
she puts Friends on every day. She just watches it on loop from start
34:28
to finish and goes back to the start, right it's just it's her comfort
34:30
food, comfort to me. Right. I found since I started doing the
34:32
podcast, I don't watch The Simpsons anywhere as much as I used to.
34:36
Like the Simpsons just used to always be on in my house. When I
34:38
went to bed, I'd put the commentaries on the dvna's it was just always
34:40
Simpson, Simpsons, Simpsons found Sins. I did the podcast, it almost
34:45
feels like it's become work for me. But it's like I try to dissociate
34:49
from the show now because it's I see there's a bit of work, and
34:52
that's sad because I've got like a five year old and a two year old.
34:54
But what I've started doing now is I've started introducing them to the show,
34:57
to the point where they're now saying, can I watch the Simpsons.
35:00
I'm like, oh, the world's all good again, you know. Well,
35:02
that's almost like why like New Simpsons Cops all the ship it does.
35:07
But I was only talking to my wife yesterday about how I wanted to go
35:12
for as long as I'm alive, because I feel like the day that they
35:15
end, it will be such a bittersweet moment for me, just knowing that
35:17
it's still continuing is like special to me. I don't want it to ever
35:22
end. I don't care how much it diminishes in quality. I don't want
35:27
it to ever stop. I like knowing that it's there. Everyone's the same
35:30
way, everyone in our age is just like, even if you might not
35:32
watch the show as often as you did, just know it's kind of like
35:35
you know your grandma or yeah, yeah, and uncle that you don't see
35:37
it that often. You know it might only seem at Christmas time, but
35:39
just knowing that he's going to be there at Christmas time makes you happy,
35:42
sure, for sure. So yeah, I also hope they never go.
35:45
I do feel like eventually they might just transition to being maybe like a Disney
35:50
Plus exclusive show or something. I don't know. At this point, I
35:52
don't even know how it ended. It'll never be. It never be considered
35:57
a good ending, like you've never ended What's are though. It's such a
36:00
rare It's like you're chasing something that's so impossible to achieve when like you've been
36:05
on a series for as long as that. I don't know how he'd ever
36:07
come up with an ending that's going to satisfy and be unanimously praised. I
36:13
don't mind Al Jean's idea that he put out several years ago now where it
36:15
was like it'll end with them going to watch the school play at Christmas time.
36:21
So basically the show just becomes a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
36:23
I think that's probably the best way, right, because they're stuck in
36:27
a time of anyway. Yeah, and it's the other I like a little
36:31
bit off track, but you know how there's that real elitist view of season
36:37
two to nine. That's all I watch season two Golden era. Yeah,
36:42
yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean if you're not watching season ten to
36:45
even twenty, you're missing out on so much good content. Like season ten
36:50
alone, for me is still peak Simpsons, but even twenty through to thirty,
36:54
they're still like even bad Simpsons is better than a lot of new content.
37:00
Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, compared to some of the ship
37:02
that's out there. Yeah, it's still enjoyable. The only problem that I
37:06
like, the only thing that I slightly struggled with with new New Simpsons,
37:09
it's just some of the voices. Yeah, like March it's becoming man,
37:15
Julie Cavra, it's rough. Nicholas, my wife, she's like, when
37:20
did they replace Marge. I'm like, they haven't. Yeah, I don't
37:27
know. What is your wife? Is she a big Simpsons fan? Like,
37:30
how does she feel about being part of your memes? She, I
37:32
wouldn't say a big Simpsons fan. She definitely enjoys the Simpsons. She's a
37:37
dragon ball Z fan. Okay, to this day, I haven't seen on
37:39
an episode of dragon ball Z, so that's her thing. I'm kind of
37:44
similar. Even though I was the guy that helped launch the Cheese TV facebook
37:47
page, I used to love Cheese TV, so like i'd see it on,
37:50
but I just never got into dragon ball I collected the little discs that
37:53
used to get in the Smith chips, but I never actually watched the show.
37:57
Say with Pokemon, I never really got into like the whole anime thing.
38:00
But I was a cheese TV kid growing up, so like this is
38:02
about this is twenty sixteen. I had on on a podcast, Ryan,
38:07
because you would watch chea TV right back in the day. Sure, sure,
38:09
sure, yeah. I had Ryan on and I was like, uh,
38:13
what it sucks that you can't watch the old episodes and He's like,
38:15
oh, I own pretty much every episode on VHS, just a production tape
38:19
and I was like, excuse me, and he goes, yeah, yeah,
38:22
they just all my back shehd. I'm like, what do you mean.
38:23
He goes, yeah, I've got about five hundred tapes out there,
38:25
and I'm like, send them to me and let's monetize this. Birs.
38:30
We did that and then yeah, it was just like hearing that cheese TV
38:35
theme music. Like you said earlier, it just takes you back sometimes,
38:37
like you think of old TV shows, You're like, I love that show,
38:39
when really you love the theme music that's what you love. Yeah,
38:43
yeah, yeah, for sure. Man. There's like even now there's some
38:46
remember like funny Bones mm hmm, her friends shipped the Shore. That intro
38:52
slaps that ship. The short intro goes harder than it has any right to
38:58
know. I never write what about bad? I remember Babba the Elephant of
39:00
course. Yeah, that's like I put it on the other day and I
39:04
was like, oh my heart. Yeah, like some times I'll just go
39:07
down a rabbit hole just watching the intros to certain shows from my childhood,
39:12
and you just just smile the whole time, don't you. For sure,
39:14
Yeah it's the best, and that's what the Simpsons does. It just makes
39:16
you smile because it reminds you of being a kid, being like eight.
39:20
No, Thursday afternoon, six pm. Your parents are watching the news.
39:22
You're in the other room watching the Simpsons. Funnily enough, man, I
39:25
was saying about, like one of the shows in my childhood was south Park.
39:29
To this day, I have a memory of I had never wanted to
39:34
see something as much as I wanted to see the south Park movie. But
39:37
I was ten when it came out, ye, and it was in the
39:42
theaters the same time as Star Wars episode one, and so my dad and
39:45
my brother went and saw south Park and you did the swift Yeah, no,
39:50
no, I had to go see Star Wars. My loss is kind
39:53
of cool, like, you know, like Darth Maul's got his double savings
39:57
kind So I saw that a few times, but like it eventually turned into
40:02
wearing my dad down until we eventually broke and let me see the movie because
40:08
it was just every day, relentless. I need to see the south Park
40:10
movie movie. Legit, Man, just worring down. I just watched the
40:19
thing. I wasn't allowed to watch it. I wasn't en suposed watch South
40:22
Bike. I used to have to, like had a TV in my room,
40:24
so like nine to thirty Monday nights, I am I'm watching Channel seven,
40:29
SBS, SBS turned Man at a certain time of night too, like
40:34
you don't know what's going to come on? Erotic Tails, mate, Yeah,
40:42
Erotic Tails and Champagne Comedy. They were like the two things that I
40:44
remember well. Champagn Comedy on Channel thirty one that was like a local Victorian
40:47
station where it was just like up and coming comedians, which are always terrible,
40:51
but I remember like it was like we'd have Win Southern Cross, ABC
40:55
and SBS, and then it was like it was like the gab scene Gabble
41:00
Gabbo where it was like channel ten's coming, we have we have fuck olwen
41:06
Ober. So we would get like the idea of a fifth channel was crazy
41:10
when we need the channel? When did you get ten? I thought,
41:14
I just assumed we always had. It was no, no, no,
41:15
no no. I was like fourteen, and we had to go buy a
41:19
set top box to install into the TV so you could get the additional channel.
41:24
And then ten came on and that's when we really got the Simpsons because
41:28
I had a couple like my childhood best friend he had Oz star in his
41:32
room, which was like a game changer. So you stayed there on the
41:36
weekends and you'd have your Fox Simpsons marathons from like nine to midday, nine
41:39
to twelve. Super Simpsons weekends was like the highlight of my childhood. It
41:44
was altimate, man, just like we used to his laying bed. His
41:46
mum would bring us just an infinite loop of vegimiteites and we just spammed the
41:51
symptoms. It was the best. That's like the most ouzzy thing ever,
41:54
like vegemite toes and just spamming The Simpsons every weekend as a mess. So
42:00
yeah, I lived for that. So yeah it was great. Well,
42:04
man, I know it's been fun chatting to you. I know you've got
42:07
work to do, so better let you go. But before we go,
42:07
I've honest that the new thing I sent you the question? Right, did
42:09
you get the question about the marathon? So I'll ask the question like like
42:14
you didn't know, all right, So you don't know this question. So
42:15
it's nineteen ninety eight, you've been giving control of Channel ten. You've actually
42:20
got Channel ten now in Tasmania, and it's Friday night and you're going to
42:23
put together a five episodes Simpsons marathon. What are you putting on? I
42:28
had to actually my OCD brain struggled with this, so I'll preface it with
42:34
My favorite episode of all time is probably the Homer They Fall where he fights
42:39
Tradaic Tatum. Well you're a boxing coach now, right, So it was
42:45
like encompassed everything I liked about The Simpsons. It's season eight, my favorite
42:50
animation, the boxing content. Traderic Tatum is my Instagram handle. I have
42:53
kid presampable tatooed on me. Really, yeah, where is it? It's
42:58
on my calf, so it's a bit hard anyway. Yeah, okay,
43:00
yeah, but that's one of the best of all And finally a kid bo
43:05
Yeah exactly. Man and my wife had like this custom art made for me
43:09
where it's me ring side watching home and get destroyed next to Abe. And
43:15
so that's my favorite episode of all time. The why Can't We Be Friends?
43:17
It is one of my favorite Simpsons gags of all time. Oh yeah,
43:22
the walkout. Yeah, it's just unbelievable, so good. It's so
43:25
good. But I'd have to put cape fear because I feel like you got
43:30
to have like a side show Bob episode. That's the iconic one Home of
43:35
the Great and that kind of encompasses like it's got a musical compartment in it.
43:38
Yep. I think who shot mister Burns? Part one and two has
43:45
to be together. And I think, honestly, Man, that is such
43:47
a fantastic that could have been a movie. It felt like a movie.
43:52
Yeah, I'm too young to remember the mystery of like the Cliffhanger. I'm
43:58
too young. I lived at Man. One of my earliest, one of
44:00
my favorite memories is my sister and I sitting there with a notepad in my
44:04
because my parents were watching something and I remember like part two was coming up,
44:07
so we were going to find out who did it. And we spent
44:09
like all the time in between trying to work out who did it. We
44:13
had our little notepads. We spent over the summer or whatever it was winter
44:15
trying to work out who did it, and rem my parents' room because I
44:17
was watching something in the living room. I was sitting there was so excited.
44:20
I thought it was Smithers. I was. I was certain it was
44:22
Smithers, even though that was obviously never going to be Smithers. But I
44:24
remember sitting there and the genuine excitement and anticipation. It's hard to describe how
44:29
exciting it was. It was just like a major event of your childhood.
44:32
Did you have any idea that it would have been Maggie? No one had
44:37
any idea. No one did. Apparently they've said that there was like one
44:40
guy in like the forums, because the Simpsons showrunners and the writers used to
44:45
bruise all the forums online back when internet was in its early days, and
44:47
there was one guy who said, I reckon it was Maggie and they could
44:51
never find out who it was. And still to this day they've never found
44:52
out who it was. But only one person ever genuinely guessed Maggie and put
44:57
it in a public forum. No one else guessed it carec You remember the
45:00
there's a pretty famous imagery of the odds that's fake. I knew it was
45:05
going to be fake. Yeah, anything that cool is going to be fake.
45:08
I mean it's nice to imagine, though, isn't it. It's just
45:12
like, yeah, apparently that's all fake. Yeah, well shit, forget
45:15
that then. But that's that's what it felt like though, Like it was
45:19
so it was such a big event for kids that you would believe that that
45:22
was genuinely happening because the Simpsons were huge. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
45:25
yeah. I think that's such a great Part one and part two. Springfield
45:30
Files is my favorite. And I'm not even the biggest X Files mark but
45:36
the crossover is so well done. It's in my top five of all time.
45:39
I'm a big sci fi fan. So okay, well man, you
45:44
know when Homer steps off the bus and a violin orchestra is playing, Yeah,
45:47
I was like the most terrified child. I was scared of everything,
45:51
and I remember that scared me. I was like, oh, it was
45:53
kind of creepy. Component in that episode is in the woods have creepy violin
46:00
that X Files music signifies be scared when you were a child. That's like
46:05
in terms of generating a feel, that's one of the best intro songs,
46:10
like the perfectly captured the vibe of the show. The X Files music is
46:15
so good. You know when you go like skip credits, you never skip
46:17
credits for the X Files team Nah nah for sure, or shipped the shore
46:23
or I was going to say you need a Threehouse of Horror one. I
46:29
was going to say probably three House Horror six. I really like the Groundscaper
46:34
Willie Freddy Krueger concept. That was the first new Simpsons I was ever allowed
46:38
to watch after the band ended, And I remember being so excited mentioned this
46:43
last week's show because we did like the most gruesome deathcoltry House of Horror.
46:45
But I remember sitting there. I remember like Homer three D right and now
46:49
advertising a channel of ten, like The Simpsons will be in three D this
46:52
week. So here's like fucking seven year old me sitting there with my red
46:54
and blue glasses on before the show starts, thinking it was going to be
46:58
in three D. But that's not what they meant. But you know,
47:00
like in the nineties, three D meant red and blue glasses. Yeah,
47:04
yeah, for sure, man, I was going to say that, But
47:08
I feel like i'd put in probably twenty two the twenty two short films.
47:13
That's my favorite episode of all time because just think it just signifies Springfield as
47:15
a whole, doesn't it. It just shows you a real insight into the
47:17
Springfield community. It captures everything too. It's the most quotable. Every single
47:24
segment of that is a meme in itself, like the most iconic episode in
47:30
terms of what it produced. But the Steamed Hands alone is the same thing
47:35
pulp fiction. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that being one of my
47:37
favorite movies makes it even better. Yeah. As a kid, though I
47:42
had never seen pop fictions, I was like, I don't know what's going
47:44
on here. It's funny, but I don't get it. And then when
47:45
you get older, you're like, oh shit, this is awesome, funny
47:47
man, because we only we just sat through Twin Peaks and so I'd never
47:53
seen that. And then when it's like the yeah, I never understood that
47:58
referenced but now again, especially where he's like, brilliant, I have no
48:02
idea what's going on. That's how I felt pretty much to the entire duration,
48:06
so very relatable content. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So is
48:09
that your marathon set? That would be my marathon. Yeah, that'd be
48:13
a pretty good marathon. Yeah. There was something about, like it's hard
48:15
to describe to a kid now the idea of a marathon and how exciting it
48:20
was. You know, you're at school, You're like, oh, it's
48:22
gonna be a Simpsons marathon tonight. I can't wait. Like, you get
48:23
your videotap, you put it on long plays so you can take longer.
48:28
You know, you fit all the episodes on the one vhah. Yeah,
48:30
yeah, yeah. Marathons, they're just they're a dying breed, now,
48:31
aren't they. All the people do people's binge watching now binge watches like the
48:35
modern day marathon. Well, that's how I feel about video stores. Man.
48:38
The nothing was more exciting as a young teenager going to the video store
48:45
selecting your perfect five or six movies and then coming home and just like knowing
48:52
that You've got this sick lineup of movies waiting for you. But like as
48:57
much as I'm nostalgic for it, you still wouldn't want to go back to
49:00
that with the accessibility that we have now. Yeah, it's I mean,
49:02
if they opened up a video store now, I'd probably go there, like
49:07
occasionally, just for the nostalgia factor, you know, with people that still
49:09
watch the vhs like they would just like they've gone on blue ray, but
49:14
for the nosnaalgia, they'll watch it on VHS. I'm not I do that
49:17
very sometimes, maybe once or twice a year, because I've got like the
49:21
old VH. I've got like Jaws on VHS and like Dressy Park and stuff,
49:23
and I've got the old box television cause I've got like my old like
49:27
Nintendo Serpa and stuff like Duck Hunt, and they work best with the old
49:30
school TV. So that's why I've got the old school TV. So I'm
49:31
like, and you put it on, you like, how the fuck did
49:35
I ever think this was like good quality? It's like, is it rough?
49:38
I haven't seen vhas quality in forever, man, So is it a
49:40
rock? I mean it's it's not great. And like the TV loud the
49:46
Big Box. Turn it on. It's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
49:52
that's just you can like you put the TV on it and it's almost like
49:53
you can feel that it's on in the room. You can feel the radiation
49:57
in the room. Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah, but a good
50:00
time. But yeah, thank you again, man, I do appreciate you
50:01
coming on to the show and chat some Simpsons ship posting. Well, I
50:05
was going to say, if anyone needs good admins in Simpsons group, lookout
50:07
for Sorker, Ryan at Bought posting, She's Rad's Karna, Martin and Rubys
50:15
and Eddie at thrill House or me. They're the best. They're the best
50:19
ones looking for those ones, they're the best. Well yeah, taking my
50:22
own bias, they're the best. And can you can you give us before
50:23
you go. Give us a tease of an upcoming meme that you're excited for,
50:27
that you've got an idea. I know you planted that yoga idea into
50:30
my brain now, so maybe the yoga one I work credit for that one.
50:35
Yeah for sure. Yeah, we'll figure thiscout