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Then you offer to take me fishing, and like a stumblebump chump, I
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dared to hope, but you shattered my dreams like a toff tall boy in
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a bar brawl, and you jammed a jagged neck right up my heart spot.
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I guess I just wasn't meant to be happy, or handsome or anything.
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Really, what a deep tormented soul. Four Finger Discount dude. Welcome
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to forfigure this gap, the podcast where we're all a little bit touched in
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the head. This week where hits review episode h b F one nine.
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It is mon Lisa, I am Dando and I am guy, and yes,
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it's pleasure to be talking about an episode that is slightly better than the
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previous episode Gi Doe, which neither Dan Do or I enjoyed all that much.
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This one I kind of enjoyed a bit. Yeah, well, when
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you think about how bad last ones was, it would have to be pretty
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horrific to get worse than that. This last week was an absolute, absolute
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shit show. Was a gi annoyed grunt GI dope the official say annoyed grunt?
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I really do. I think that's a shitty gimmick that I will not
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play into it. Okay, yes, but yeah that was That was not
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good last week, but thankfully this week was. It was definitely much much
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better. I there's something about Mo right. I feel like, as a
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kid, I didn't really appreciate Mo. He's just this grumbly old man.
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The older I get, the more I relate to him, I feel like,
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what did I write down? The more life beats you down, the
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more you relate to Mo most like he's the guy who represents that part of
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you, which, whether you want to admit to it or not, is
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a small part of you somewhere that resents the part that goes what could have
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been? You know? Oh yes, he's like you know that part of
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you that going like just if only I had done that, or if only
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I'd reached my dreams of this. I mean, I am. I love
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my life at the moment, getting to talk about the Simpsons for a living
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and working with yourself and married to kids. I could not complain. I'm
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in my perfect place. There's also a part of you that goes, no,
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what about it become a footballer or what have I been a major movie
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star or something? You know. Everyone, yes, does think about the
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road not traveled or the card's not quite falling away in certain certain situations.
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But look, I think both you and I are fairly happy fellows, fairly
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content with our with our lives. Dando seems downright stoked with his. I'm
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pretty happy with my You should be as well, sir. I am indeed,
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I am indeed. But yes, MO does speak to all of us,
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or speak for all of us in some way. Yeah, I never
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you just to look forward to the mo Ones when I was, like I
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said, when I was a kid. But now whenever I see there's most
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centric one coming up, I'm like, I know, I'm gonna like this.
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Yeah, even if the wheels do seem to be spinning a little bit.
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I mean, MO is kind of a little bit one note as a
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character. Ah, Jesus, babe, I hate my life and I never
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I hate everything else. You know, it's like which is entertaining to some
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degree. I mean, I don't think you're going to have too many mole
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episodes or too many most centric episodes per season, but I think you're right.
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When he's front and center in an episode, it's usually going to be
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something something entertaining. Yeah, And normally with Lisa episodes and kind of like
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I'm touching go of Lisa. No. Sometimes I feel like I've said this
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before in the podcast, that the writer's sort of voice their own sort of
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griefs through to this eight year old, which can become really really annoying.
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Like last week she said something about, you know, the man coming to
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try and take over the regional power, and just it's horseshit. It's a
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little inconsistent. Yeah, yeah, I mean what Sometimes she's ready to be
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fronting the United Nations like Grete Tunberg, and sometimes she's a little girl who
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likes ponies. I'm not saying these two things can't coexist, but you can't
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keep going back and forth all the time though. No, you've got to
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find a way to integrate those two things a little better. I mean personally,
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I think, yeah, the idea of someone who is very smart,
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kind of precocious, but also a child, No, I think that definitely
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exists. Yeah, but you just have to find a way to not oscillate
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too wildly between one and the other. Yeah. But I don't know.
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I thought this episode actually did not too bad a job with that. I
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mean, I think Lisa, they pushed it to extremes a bit. Lisa
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is clearly smart enough to recognize, oh, this guy might actually have hidden
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depths that other people aren't seeing, and also enough of a child to well,
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I think any person would probably be upset if, like, Hey,
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this person's taking credit for all my work and you know, all the stuff
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that I did to help them out. But it felt like a very childish
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and I don't mean that in a bad way, a very childlike response to
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betrayal, even though you know Lisa's probably had a heart dragged around plenty of
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times by either members of her family or members of the Springfield community. Plus,
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like you were saying earlier with Mo, he's one of those characters where
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it's very easy to not like him because he's such a horrible person at the
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best of times, right, But they did a great job here of establishing
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sympathy for Mo in a way that felt real and put Home aside. For
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the majority of the episode, I thought he was an absolute he was just
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annoying in this whole episode of just being a dick most of the time,
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blah blah blah. But I thought the way he didn't deliberately forget about mon
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I can buy into how that all happened. He was trying to remember,
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he was trying to remember, and then something else came up, which he
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just assumed was what he was supposed to remember because he couldn't be he couldn't
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remember, right, So don't forget what he forgot. And I thought you
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felt so sorry for Mo because he said he goes I don't normally care about
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my birthdays, but someone's finally said I was trying to make an effort for
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me. You know, sometimes we just like someone cares, like I'm really
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excited for this, and when they let you down. Sometimes like sometimes you
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invite you have a birthday party and then you know, the final hour or
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two before the party, you're just waiting for those oh I'm so so I'm
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not feeling well. It always happened when you're a parent, right, and
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anyone who's a parent that can can totally relate to this. Holy's third birthday
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party was last weekend. Right, we invited about twenty people. About fourteen
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ended up showing up. Of the kids right or the last minute on Sunday.
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Oh, they've worked up with an I infection, they've worked up sick.
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I'm like, oh, I looked quite fine on Monday morning when're dropping
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off a daycare though, like the next day, you know what I mean.
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I'm just like, it just happens. People just stay. Kids are
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a great excuse for Canceler's not going to a party. But it's just like
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there's always disappointment. People are no damn good and I'm one of them.
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I mean, I times have used my kids to not go to an event,
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and that's the good thing. But a child's birthday party, make the
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fucking effort, absolutely. I mean, look, before we hit record on
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today's episode and I were talking about very well, I think I was mainly
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talking about various occasions of it coming. I'm like, ah, God,
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this is always death. Did you see the mem I put up recently actually
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created by the man who I had on last week so or this week's fortuna
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extra Jack nishlar right. The meme started with Bart sneaking out the top right
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and said me at fifteen, sneaking out of home to go get waste in
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the field somewhere. The next one was Molloyd twickling his must have seen me
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at thirty five thinking the way to get out of the Oh, dear,
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you've never related to a meet more at all? Now, Sorry, I'm
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sorry tracking a bit here, but yeah, Lloyd was voiced by Kat sam
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Neil Sam. Yeah, he's traveling at the moment. He was on Australian
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Story, which shows here in Australia on the ABC. It's a bit of
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a documentary program. They sort of focus on as the toll, just one
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story per episode, and they featured Sam Neil. First of all, Sam
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Neil's like close to eighty's seventy six years old and shit is it that?
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Yeah? And I suppose he was old in fucking Jurrassic Park. He felt
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old to like four year old me. Yeah, I'm saying I'm worried about
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thirty more guys right now. Very good I'm not saying I'm worrying about the
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state of my relationship, but I've watched Beckham, the Beckham documentary with Yeah,
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and then we're watching this this thing on Sam Neil and a couple of
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times like wow, these are good looking roaster. I'm like, oh damn.
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Having said that, I was on he's talking about Beckham. She thought
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Beckham was very nickle. Looked at Beckham, She's like, what happened to
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his face? Like, She's like, his face doesn't move, And I'm
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like, you should see, Victoria. Neither of their faces move when they
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speak anymore. It's just like their eyes don't move anywhere. Like the mouth
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moves, but nothing else. It's like when Conan used to do that fucking
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sportsnegger thinks of the mouth, his mouth, His face doesn't move, mate.
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No, there's no emotion in their faces anymore. Oh, there's plenty
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of emotion in Sam Neil's face, even though he is I believe seventy six
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years old. But he's just got the silver Fox then going on or not
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mostly struggling with chemo. Well, yeah, he's he's bounced back from it
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apparently, but yes, he's taking a very I'd say a good attitude towards
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life and death. I mean he's saying, look, I've got this cancer
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is eventually going to bump me off. I'm on this drug at the moment
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working. I'm not afraid of death, but I'd like to sort of stick
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around from my grand gets a little longer and I've got some things I'd like
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to do. And I'm like, damn, Sam, Now you're the fucking
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coolest. Yeah, people shout out to Sam Neil, who Yes, we're
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you a bit surly. You know, back when you first started, he
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Gremins one. Did he listened to that one? Yeah? I listened to
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that one after all? Right now, I didn't even mean to do this
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silky segue like you did before when we shifted from Bruce Willis into you know
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What's not bad? Did But there's a bit in this episode where you know
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they're hiding under the table. Yeah, scuttling, Yeah, doing all the
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crab scuttling to avoid mo and the music. I'm like, that's Pee Wee
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music. I'm pretty sure that's music. Wasn't a Big Adventure? Was it?
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It sounded like it's certainly. Honestly, they mentioned references on the wiki
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page. There's no reference to it on the unless Danny Elfman. It sounded
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like Simpsons when he did the intro, obviously, but Danny elfmanes didn't it.
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It sounded and distinctly Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Is it a xylophone that
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he uses? Danny Effan's like a lot of thing that Danny Elfman uses.
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That guy's in the news recently. Oh, but I'd say the worst thing
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is whenever they sort of talking about Danny Elfman's alleged sexual misconduct, they're always
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using these recent pictures of him where he's doing live performances. And Danny Elffan's
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like in his late sixties, but he's obviously been trying to keep it tight.
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Shure, he's like thirty one years old. Life's just been rough to
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him. That could work his life. But it's you know, Danny with
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that. You know, if this was a positive news story about Danny Elfman
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keeping it real, it's like, Wow, Danny's looking good for his la
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He's been like I think Danny might be the kind of guy whips his shirt
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off at any time for any reason, and you know, consent be damned.
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Look we enough to talk about that. You know where to go?
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Forget myself? Like who started my own here? And the answer is the
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side of justice. I am looking up here pee Wee Slash, the Simpsons,
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Peas Big Adventure, and I can't find anything pee wee music. Maybe
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Become a supporter of as on Patreon anyway. But so this one here,
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So I had a lot of guest stars writers, right, I'm in
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two minds of it because they were fine, but I'm like, they didn't
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really add anything to the story. Not really, No, I mean,
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for me, they did because a least one of them was one of my
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favorite writers. No, Michael Shabn Okay, cool, I love that guy.
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I mean. And four, let's see the Amazing Adventures is the big
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one, right, Yeah, he He won the Pulza or the Penn Award
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for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, which sort of like
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a it's a very loose retelling of the story of I think it's is it
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Seagull and Shooster who make your grand Superman? Maybe? I think I'm sure
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you'd be right. Yeah, yeah, like I think. Don't look at
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I know I'm right, given down to the year. Dare you try to
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verify me? But I remember reading. I mean when I was a pretentious
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little UNI student. I think back in either eighty eight, eighty nine,
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ninety or so, his debut novel came out, called The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
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Picked up read it, loved it, thought this might be my guy,
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This could be one of my guys, and read a few more of
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his books, Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, a lot of a
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lot of great short stories. Yeah, he's a really prolific guy. I
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went actually saw him live. He came to Melbourne a few years ago.
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Yeah, yeah, I was actually like the guy in the episode of By
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the Way. More a comment than a question, thank you for being such
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a genius. It was like, sit down, you suck. But honestly,
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if I'm the room with the guy that can say thanks for these books,
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man, they're great. So I was glad to see him. This
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guy, it's like another one of these doing the jerk off testion, But
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no, I was very happy to see him. But also, yeah,
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guys like Tom Wolf, Jonathan Franzen, I know, I noticed that they
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put Pinsion in with his question mark bag on his head. Didn't actually say
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anything this time around, but I dug that whole kind of thing, and
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that the man who kisses boys, so girls kiss boys, of course,
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that's what It's still one of my favorite girls, Lisa, boys kiss girls.
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That is like the the line that just epitomized Marge as thought process right
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everych because she thinks Lisa's made a genuine mistake. Absolutely sorry, I started
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rabbiting on about all the show that I'm into. What was it? We're
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just talking about the guest stars, how it was more of just cameos than
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sort of further in the story. Yeah, they were. It's almost like
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the story was a reason to get them into the show, and that's sometimes
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the case. And I think we've talked about episodes where it's been like,
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I think it's absolutely necessary to have this person in, and how much are
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they adding to the You're getting them in for name value, and I'm not
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sure. I don't think you're getting these guys in for I think they're getting
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these guys in because the people who write the show wanted them on the show.
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I imagine that would be the case. You'd probably have a bunch of
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like now no eight year olds going oh my god, friends in friends,
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but you know, a bunch of Harvard geeks like, oh my god,
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Jonathan Frands, it's coming in. What if I can get them to say
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my copy of you know the corrections in saying that that. The people who
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grew up with the show by this point would almost be graduating for UNI.
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So it's like this came out in where in two thousand and six, I
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was finishing high school, so we were of the age where we'd probably appreciate
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these guest stars. So it's like, I wonder by this point whether they're
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writing, like who were they writing the show for. Originally they were writing
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the show. They always said to be writing it for ourselves, so it's
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like, no, you're writing there for a kid audience. I think,
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Yeah, Initially, I wonder if they were still rutning it for a kid
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audience, or whether they're writing it for the kids who were once kids who
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are now. I guess by this point it feels like they're writing the show
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for themselves. By this point, though, I wonder if it's a one
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for me, one for them kind of thing. It's like, look,
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we'll do an episode that's you know, heavy on anti war yeah, or
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heavy on dumb one liners and obvious sight gags and all that kind of stuff,
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and then every once in a while, we'll do one where it looks
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like your nose good needs the corrections. Ah, he's referencing Johnathan Transit's novel.
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Honestly, the guest star that really felt like a gimmick and that didn't
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add much. The thing was the great J. K. Simmons is doing
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his Ja Jonah Jameson from Sam Raimi's Spider Man movies. It was literally just
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being him. He really was, and it's like, I gain, I
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mean, I don't know. I mean, the Spider Man movies were,
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of course popular. When did Spider Man two come out? That was like
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two I want to say, two thousand and five, five, Yes,
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okay, because because this, yeah, Spider Man, I'm looking up here
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Sam Raimi Spider Man trilogy, which is like still to this day. Probably
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it's not the most critically like acclaimed, but I think it's the most popular,
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right, It's the one everyone remembers, Like my mum, she probably
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doesn't remember the new ones, but she remembers the original ones because they were
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like, there weren't many superhero movies out at the time, so it stood
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out more. Where now it's like Spider Man just blends him with all the
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other fucking Avenger movies and everything else. Now I think prior to prior to
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Iron Man in like four by the way, oh okay, two and seven
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was three, which, yeah, that's where the wheels fall off a bit,
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because oh Samman, right, it was with Sandman and Venom and what's
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that it's the guy's name from Deden Stacey that played Sam Thomas Hayden Church.
20:48
She was actually really good casting. He looked a hell of a lot like
20:51
the Sandman from the comics. He's he's the heel in George of the Jungle
20:55
and Alien Holly do not like that man. They love it when he falls
20:57
over an elephant elephant poop. He's one of those guys that you kind of
21:02
you see him in a lot of things, but it was never like the
21:03
main star, never really broke through, I think, but Deddon Stacey was.
21:07
He was ned. But like that show didn't succeed, you know it
21:11
did, all right, I mean it was around for a few seasons,
21:12
two seasons only two seasons. Yeah. I just remember him on this Guy's
21:17
because he looks kind of grumbling, looks like he might not be that bright.
21:22
He looks yeah, I mean, he kind of looks like he played
21:23
the dumb jock. But then I remember seeing him on Deaden Stage Gun.
21:27
I think he did like a Jerry Lewis in Personations only this guy's kind of
21:32
weird and nend and Stacy here two seasons ninety ninety five sitcom. Yeah,
21:37
because it was Deborah Messing, wasn't it. She was Yeah then she oh
21:42
hey Grace and she was off to the races. Yeah. Yeah. Because
21:47
funny when in the early two thousands, prior to wine Man, prior to
21:49
the MCU sort of getting it getting the ball rolling, I mean, what
21:53
do you have. You had the Spider Man movies, X Men and the
21:56
X Men movies essentially, and you had the Batman once you begin very kid
22:00
friendly. By the nineties, well there was a I mean, you didn't
22:03
really have a Batman movie until Batman begins in two thousand, because last time
22:07
was ninety seven. Yeah, so in two thousand, So its been five
22:11
years between Spider Man one and you Batman movie and look out a few others,
22:14
but I mean the ones that didn't really go anywhere, like the ben
22:17
Affleck Daredevil. They made two Fantastic Four movies that Yeah, they were very
22:22
popular again though, because they weren't many. Yeah, and you look at
22:26
those now, like, oh my god, you were so early two thousands.
22:27
I mean, they've got a lot of new metal on the soundtrack and
22:30
the you know, the special effects are like you're still working out the kings
22:33
of that CG. I actually like, oh, I remember Jessica alber It's
22:40
like, oh, before he was Captain America, Chris Evans was the human
22:42
Torch. Okay, yeah, yeah, have you seen the early nineties Fantastic
22:45
Four? Never have It's like, so when he turns into the things like
22:49
look at me, it's like the fucking most horrific thing ever I've got a
22:55
story for it, right. I noticed the twoing guys the last d two
22:57
before we get into the review of the episode. But I used to work
23:00
with a guy when I was at Ford. Glenn was his name, right,
23:03
but he was they used to call him, and it's not nice,
23:07
but he used to He used to work the night shift in the what was
23:10
it called the basement, cleaning out all the scrap or the or the they
23:14
just call it. It was some fucking weird name. Anyways, it was
23:17
like all the scrap that used to ge chopped off on the in the press
23:18
machine. Have you talked about that in the past? So you had to
23:21
did you have to go down and do that one? I thought about that,
23:22
right. But the story is he is a big track. He is
23:25
a big nerd, and everyone at FOD was like, oh no, fucking
23:27
gosh, man, this used to make fun of this guy. But I
23:29
was always like talking to him about Star Trek and Star Wars and things like
23:32
that, and needs to love it, right, just like you know,
23:34
everyone's a human being, everyone's just as equal. So I'm just talking to
23:37
this guy because everyone used to hang shit on him. Anyways, talking about
23:40
there was once a Fantastic Four movie that never got released, Like how I
23:42
used to talk. I would give anything to a seat to see that movie.
23:45
I'm like, pretty sure it's on YouTube. He's like, no,
23:48
I've checked. I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's on YouTube. I got
23:52
my phone out and I Fann like straight away, and he was like,
23:53
I can't believe. He was like, he was like shaking. He was
23:56
like, I've waited so long to watch this. And he went on a
23:59
break and watched the whole movie. I sent him the link and he's like,
24:03
I'm taking my break and he sat in the room for the whole time.
24:07
I just watched the whole movie. I'm like, oh fucking came and
24:08
you go into I'll work your shift foray. I'll cover it. God bless
24:11
Glenn. You go watch this movie. I'll work doubles hard. I don't
24:14
give a shit, you know. I was just like, so I went
24:15
on that dawn. I'm like, I've made that man's day. You really
24:18
haven't. You've made my day by telling me that story. That's lovely.
24:22
He was just like, Oh waited so long to watch this. I've been
24:26
singing the praises of YouTube for a while now. But I mean, honestly,
24:30
you'll find so much stuff on there that you think has just been absolutely
24:33
lost to the sands of time. It's impossible now to think of something that
24:37
isn't on YouTube. Like, if something's not available on YouTube, it must
24:40
be pretty fucking hard to find. But I mean, you know, I've
24:44
thrown down decent money to get like, oh yeah, oh I love this
24:47
Italian horror movie from the nineteen eighties and now it's on four K. Well,
24:49
oh yeah, I'll get it from our pals of Amazon or whatever,
24:52
friends of the show Amazon. Oh this four K RiPP has also been uploaded
25:02
to YouTube, and you know, no one's going to spend all their days
25:04
sort of like, hm, oh you have a blue this without my permission
25:07
take it down? Well, I could have just watched it on YouTube,
25:11
and it now just like and it's not a good state to be in.
25:15
I know. We always talk up the the idea of physical media, right,
25:18
and I love it. And we'll talk about Fine Destination recently, how
25:19
it's going to buy the blue rays because they want the commentaries and things like
25:22
that, and we're talking about the fog because I'm like, oh, the
25:25
fog commentary. I've got on four K and I looked at like, oh,
25:26
it's on YouTube, so I would have bought this movie I podocast wanted
25:30
on four K. I didn't own it already, but you know, I
25:33
now buy things for the commentary. But all the commentary are now on YouTube,
25:34
so I'm like, I can just stream it and play comment tear on
25:37
my phone. Yeah, even special features are all on YouTube now. Everything's
25:45
on everything. Yeah, I mean, sorry, we are still side track
25:48
and we're going to talk about Moe and a Lisa soon folks. But episode
25:52
we will talk about it. It wasn't it. Yeah, this is gonna
25:55
be very nerdy. I was looking for the DVD or the Blu ray of
26:00
Texas chains Will Massacre three has apparently had like a pretty good documentary on the
26:04
disc about, oh, you know, this movie had a tough time getting
26:07
made and then it had a tough time getting released because they made a really
26:11
gory version and it was like, oh no, we can't release this,
26:15
it's too gory. I'm like, oh, I'd be really interested in watching
26:18
that, But discs, you know, cost a shit ton I've done.
26:22
If I'm that invested in it that I want to do that, Like Oh,
26:25
well, I guess I've never seen this documentary YouTube. Oh there it
26:30
is in all it's glory. So I watched it the other night and I'm
26:32
like, okay, cool, I'm great and spend twenty five dollars on this.
26:33
Correct, So it's much in the way that Bobby Hill says, I'm
26:41
now like you. It's worth checking out our Speaking of the Hill podcast just
26:45
for pass and what are you talking about it? Because which is morphed into
26:51
all that shows? Now, just as Daniel will always mention that, I'll
26:55
give you my fine it right now, I'm going to film you. So
26:56
put up on our Patreon page of you saying hey, anyway, here we
26:59
go this, so basically patrons, so all right, I'm recording guy right
27:03
now, don't do it? What are you talking about? So, yeah,
27:07
I got the hands now you know guys, Now you know I'm filmed
27:10
myself. Now, now you know what we're talking about. What I'm laughing
27:12
at every single time because also when I do Zoidberger to do that, but
27:17
also when Dando would mention fruit pads, that's he would do the little jazz
27:22
hands, I'll do jazz hands. I'll tenn his off. So yeah,
27:26
now you know what it's like in the studio. There we go, So
27:29
that'll go up in the Patreon group. Tell your friend we should do more
27:32
of those. See, I hate technology when I've got to do like RSS
27:37
feeds and things like that, I don't understand. But when you get to
27:41
do things like that, it's like, oh, modern technology. Yeah,
27:41
wonder, let's get into our favorite moment, shall we. Let's or if
27:47
I ended your segue or your sidetrack. No, that's it. YouTube is
27:52
killing physical media. My favorite all right, my favorite moments, I had
27:57
a few. I watched the play on words in this one here, so
28:00
I like the you know, you never take me alive Grim Reaper like that
28:03
moment? I what mo and Tal? Yes, yeah, I've written a
28:08
good one, March. Yeah. What I liked is they didn't play it
28:12
up or anything like that. It just happened. Yeah, it just happened.
28:15
But I'd like the Grim Reaper gag is what please go on with what
28:18
you were enjoying though? Oh, basically the Grim gag, but just that
28:22
with the Mow and teal because normally by season eighteen you must expected Marj you
28:26
go, oh nice work, March right, put a sticker on a hand
28:30
or something like that, like sort of just go how funny was that joke?
28:33
Guys? It's just like, no, that was a good joke.
28:34
You missed it, too bad? Too bad. It's one thing. I
28:37
yeah, one of the things I didn't like about this episode was and it
28:41
was early on and they didn't I don't think they did it too much.
28:42
It was like, stop over explaining the jokes, guys. Yeah, I
28:45
mean the whole anything of one. Yeah, yeah, when Grandpa Simpson was
28:49
of a Hitler thing, yeah yeah, when he was throwing the jablin in
28:52
the nineteen thirty six Olympics and instead he hits the assassin. He yeah,
28:57
it almost killed Hitler. But see the assassin that was going to kill Hitler.
29:02
I was like, you don't need to say it while it's actually happening.
29:04
It's a pretty good visual gag of you know, the guy next to
29:07
Hitler pulling out a gun about to shoot Hitler and he gets hit by a
29:11
jab on. It's like the kids, I guess, kids what you may
29:12
not get it, though, I guess it was the whole And I went
29:15
at dinner with Hitler and we laughed about it afterwards. I was like,
29:18
yeah, that's yeah, I didn't it didn't need to throw that in there,
29:19
the joke being just he killed the assassin. Yeah. So I guess
29:23
that's the main one that sort of leapt out of me as well. But
29:26
they're doing that a bit like they certainly did it with g I No,
29:29
I mean, you know, we please don't even talk about that episode.
29:32
It's not sorry, that was my mistake. I Also, my other thing
29:34
that I've got here is Millhouse calling Mos tell him I'm not here. I
29:40
just got a kick out of that because that's usually Homer Millhouse callings one.
29:47
Yeah. So Release is at Mo's and she's showing Mo that he's been published,
29:51
and at the end he's like, oh, hey here, you going
29:52
on your house? Tell him I'm not here. That's the end of the
29:55
scene. Oh god, I missed that, bitch. Yeah, I'm just
29:56
like, I'm just gonna gonna be laughing at it. Uh, do you
30:03
have any other that's all my favorites. Yeah, what I enjoy I thought
30:07
this episode did something very well in nailing the very fragile writer's ego. Well,
30:14
I guess I'm inspired by my pale Jonathan friends and fans. Oh I
30:18
guess I'm inspired by lb ok new you meant to see me a very nice
30:23
guy. No in the episode, obviously, I'm not sure if he's how
30:29
he's well regarded or not. Peram sure they wouldn't make this joke if he
30:32
wasn't. Yeah, but I think friends and got in trouble ish because you
30:37
remember Oprah's book Club, how that was like a big deal. Oprah Winfrey
30:41
would do this thing where it's like my book of the summer is this I
30:45
spom She'd be like free cards for everybody pass we're getting canceled for thath No,
30:56
but like you go to Oprah's, it's like, guess you got to
31:00
deare guys, Oh this ship, we get free ship imagine on the next
31:03
day and it is like you are getting fruit past as low. She introduced
31:10
it as I'll take it, but apparently it might have been the corrections by
31:17
Jonathan Franzen. It was chosen as like Oprah's book Club selection and it gives
31:22
you a real bump, you know, like her lock of the Week kind
31:25
of thing. Yeah, pretty much. It's like, yeah, some things
31:26
I'm into this week, and it's like this book's really good, and you
31:29
know, if you know, you get on the show and you talk about
31:32
it and yeah, it's generally wow, more people are going to buy your
31:36
book as a result, and it would be better promotion at that time,
31:38
at time number one New York Times bestseller or Oprah saying by this book,
31:41
O s Yeah, I might be mistaken about this, and she may not
31:48
have chosen all she may or friends and may just have said, uh,
31:52
yeah, look getting chosen for Oprah's Book Club. It's yeah, it's kind
31:56
of a market You're not a serious writer or something like that, which is
31:59
weird because you know, plenty of serious writers got picked a z Oprah's Pick
32:01
of the month. Yeah, and a lot of people are like Jonathan Fans
32:05
and you're a snub. Probably it is, wouldn't you be? Yeah?
32:09
Correct, But yeah, I think they nailed the whole writer's ego thing very
32:15
well. Also the fact that writers, or at least grad students are free
32:17
loaders because they'll just snap up free bread. That's meant for the ducks.
32:22
When you're talking about you being pretentious grad student before I was like, I
32:25
was met to meet enjoyed. Did you steal free brand? Oh yeah,
32:30
Miga rain noodles, water, life saving when you got no money, oh
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It was Heather and Salad now that is Heather's just one person. Oh,
34:20
the wrong person. God damn it, that's true. And of course
34:22
Sally Hayward. Yes, apologies to Heather and to Sally Hayward. All right,
34:27
hit me with your first tribute question. Oh okay, then what was
34:30
Grandpa's number in Berlin? Oh? Sure, no, idea seven ten,
34:37
seven ten. My question is how many events were there at the Senior Olympics.
34:42
Oh, you'll be you'll be turning this age in twenty thirty one.
34:46
H on, No, that's not right. Twenty forty one, okay,
34:51
so seventy two, seventy two, yes, hey, I was like,
34:57
I was like, what, guy's not this old? What's my mass is
34:59
all wrong? Guys? Old, it's not that all right? What's the
35:02
next one? Who was bumped from American poetry perspectives in favor of mo on
35:10
the phone? But now, who was it? It's the great African American
35:14
writer Maya Angelou? Okay? Were they putting on an offensive random accent on
35:17
the phone because they didn't guess voices themselves? No, I'm guessing. I
35:22
don't know who would have done that. I reckon it might have been Hankers
35:24
Area, probably the King of the King of Offense. And I've only got
35:30
two questions here. My final one is what was coming up? So the
35:32
first day, when Moe was getting his award, I said, writers on
35:35
writing. The next day, I said, tomorrow is Janitors on janetin correct?
35:38
Yes, gol Verdale had laughter on tape? From which class? At?
35:45
Which university? Was it eighty seven? Correct? At? I don't
35:51
know where, Temple Universe, Temple University or hit me one warm. We'll
35:53
get into our review of the episode. Okay, Then what was airing on
35:58
Channel sixty two, according to was poem That's the one I didn't write down.
36:04
That was Adult Desires, Adult Designs. Why did you not write that
36:07
down? In said of Bloody in House check out, because I I missed
36:10
the second one. I was like, I can't be bother going back.
36:13
I missed the first one, and I was like, I remember the second
36:15
one, And by the time I got to the one, like, do
36:15
the second one remember? Channels? Oh? Yeah, they're literally gonna become
36:20
a thing of the past. You mean you mean like Channel seven and Channel
36:23
nine. Who watches that ship anymore? Not that many? Yeah? Like
36:27
it's like you stream what you want on Netflix or even you go to like
36:30
the I guess the channel ten app or whatever. But it's like I can't
36:32
recall the last time I watched something in real time live on free day a
36:36
television except for like in a sporting event. Well, yeah, I mean
36:37
that Strange Story episode that I mentioned starring a friend of the pod Sam Neil.
36:44
Yeah, I've missed it on the ab scene, like, oh,
36:46
I watch it on ivie. Addicted to convenience people, there's no fear of
36:51
missing something anymore now, is there? As there shouldn't be. Well,
36:53
but I mean you could you could listen to this episode of four Finger discandt
36:57
anytime. I guess that could be one way of just guaranteeing viewers at that
37:00
point in time, saying we ain't gonna repeat, repeat this ever. But
37:04
then it's just like someone's just gonna rip it put on YouTube. That is
37:07
correct, Like you're never gonna you're never gonna miss something's been on TV now,
37:10
you'll always be able to watch it somewhere. That is true. Interesting
37:14
times we live in. Do you feel like there's going to be a time
37:16
in say, fifteen twenty years from now where people will go on YouTube and
37:20
be nostalgic for the commercials that are on TV right now, or do you
37:22
think there are kids that there going? Do kids still know what commercials are?
37:25
I don't know if they do. I don't think they do. I
37:28
think they're more like I mean, I'm finding more and more people are making
37:31
fun of the ads that are on podcasts. Yeah, like you know,
37:36
do you you? Yeah, they they'll rip against Blue Apron or I think
37:39
Rage Shadow Legends is the current big one. A lot of it's some like
37:45
game you play on your phone like it's Yeah, at least a couple of
37:50
podcasts lately've been talking about Yeah, broad togar By, Rage Shadow Legends,
37:52
like and subscribe. It's like, oh poor old Raide or sportsback gel response,
38:00
I spend all your money, I'm nothing responsible, that's yeah. I
38:02
mean, I'd say the bulk of the ads that I've seen recently have been
38:06
it's all betting agency. Are all betting ads, yeah, betting or booze.
38:08
Yeah, because like you said, I mean, the main thing you
38:10
watch on free to wear TV is sport, and the main things the advertised
38:14
during sporting events are betting ads, betting and booze. The booze ads used
38:17
to be awesome. That VB jingle is one of the all time great.
38:22
Yeah, it's fantastic. Matter of fact, I kind of now was the
38:27
guy that voiced that commercial? What a commercial? Nothing, nothing, nothing
38:30
more Australian just put Honestly, listeners, you've never heard the VB jingle?
38:34
I think we did in our Top ten TV Jingles podcast we did ages ago.
38:37
Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's just all these classics watching the beat chopping
38:44
some wood. But then he's like with the blue heeling next to him worked
38:47
over first top nice cold beer. Yeah, and then the other one was
38:52
the last, like there's that one, and then as the this ad is
38:55
but he remember that one for cop draft. And then there was the the
39:00
tongue. What the drink was? But it had satisfaction. What was that
39:04
drink? It was like a light beer or something wasn't was it? Okay?
39:07
Yeah, it was just so fact that song satisfaction. What a weird
39:12
song. Anyway, it was a tongue that would come to life and everyone
39:15
was just like have you seen the ad with the tongue? And then there
39:16
was the Bundleboe with the Bears, the Polar Bears, the poly bears.
39:20
Yeah, it was actually all I remember my ex BOFE named her ginger cat
39:24
Bundy Bear. Oh really, okay, yeah, he sort of looked like
39:28
a nice He looked like a nice class of rum with his with his orange
39:30
coating. And there's now Funko pops for it. That's the Bundy's the it's
39:35
the Coca Cola Polar Bear. Oh yeah, that was a big deal.
39:37
It was a big deal. Yeah, it was indeed. And then they
39:39
somehow incorporated Santa Claus as their mascot for a while. Didn't Coca Cola invent
39:44
Santa Claus or what we think of a Santa Claus? Did they? I
39:46
mean there's always this trading card set that was like Coca Cola trading card set,
39:51
and it was like all different versions of Santa Claus. Yeah. I
39:52
mean there's of course the myth of Father Christmas and Saint Nick and I mean
39:55
Santa Claus is real, but they created the idea that the image of it
40:00
that is correct, young listener, Santa Claus is indeed real. Yeah,
40:02
but I don't know if it's one of those conspiracy theories when you know,
40:06
you why does that did Coca Cola and the first thing that came out was
40:08
invents Sanda. Well, that's because they're listening to me. That's because your
40:12
computer's listenings you wire. The same just happened the other day, you know,
40:15
when I was over with Lou when we were talking about something, and
40:21
yeah, the next thing was like, I've never got an ad for this
40:22
before, and now I got ads for it's one hundred percent. Yeah.
40:24
So I says Coca Cola did not create Santa Claus, of course, because
40:28
he is a real person, but co Cold created the image what we considered
40:31
to be Santa Claus. And how it looks. I mean maybe the maybe
40:34
the guy created Coca has seen Santa. This may won't be the case.
40:37
I mean, that's why that's why they make cocky Cola red. Yeah.
40:40
And plus, you know, I'm guessing that the actual Santa probably dresses like
40:45
a nice navy blue three piece suit and no hat. But they thought,
40:51
well, you know, I want to keep a low profile. Guys,
40:52
can you maybe do the opposite. It's like, how about we give you
40:54
a nice red suit with white fur and a hat. You see what color
40:59
we are where that it's good for the brand. This all makes sense,
41:06
kids, will love it. Trust me, I love it. I think
41:10
this is the way it's actually shaken out. Okay, how do we get
41:15
him too that detour? I don't know TV jingles, ads ads. Oh
41:22
yeah, yeah, and it was before that watching TV channels. Yeah,
41:25
in in house, in house checkout, and it's like, yeah, remember
41:29
commercials. That's something like that. I can't remember. You made a little
41:31
bit of a leap. Let's let's get into our review. Yes, So
41:36
at the forty two minute mark, as we record this divisional air. It
41:40
was November nineteen, two thousand and six. It was written by Matt Warburton,
41:44
directed by Mark Kirkland, and guest stars all the people that we listed
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earlier. So the episode kicks off with Homer waking up to various don't forget
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reminders around the house on his belly. He gets a little street on his
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finger. He's actually written in backwards on his stomach, which is quite ingender
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in geniusive and genius together intentive. He and Maggie coughs up that don't forge,
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which turns into don't forget, and then Marge says we're going to the
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Senior Olympics, and Homer thinks, oh shit, Okay, that's what it
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was, and he goes limp, kids do this. Holly has just learnt
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the whole. I don't want to go. It just goes limp, and
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I'm like, kid, damn, this is what you have to do when
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you don't want to, when you want to pull them a lawyer. It's
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like, this is the thing, what's the what's your situation where you would
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love to just go? And limpho just just not going or not doing this,
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you mean other than the recording this podcast? Exactly right? Yeah,
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he laughs. Look, I don't give himself a pat on the bag or
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two of him, but I think my timing just then was fucking ammackic.
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He laughed so hard at the cover his mouth. Normally I'm laughing at other
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people's jokes, want to do that, but this time I was like,
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give yourself a little random love to gay. You earned it. But yes,
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he don't look at all sad. He's got that. I've got backups.
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Get me g Grint. You're there. That milk is the movie,
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Get the Gringo. You should look up a poster and get the Grinter.
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But yeah, so the family drags him out and then we hear him leaving
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the messages. Oh, I hope you didn't forget that today's a big day.
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I sure, I'm looking forward to my birthday fishing trip. Well,
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I see you soon. This is my big day waiting feeling the kind of
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fragile more a birthday boy listening for your car. Just feel genuinely sad for
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me? You do, yeah, because like everyone deserves a happy day at
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least once at least once a year. Yeah, that's one thing about the
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order I get, Like the birthdays don't feel that important. It feels like
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it just feels like people don't make as big of a deal for my birthday,
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which I can't understand the order I get right because when you're a kid,
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everyone's like, oh my god's your birthday. You go to school once
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it's happy birthday. I want to get a couple of text with my mum
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and my sister. Like this year my birthday, no one texts me.
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I was like, ah, well, it's no big deal, I guess,
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but it's not kind of sound. I'm like, not a single sol
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out there thought about me on my birthday, scept my mom must have std
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I not did I send you a message or anything like that? Via you.
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Actually you may have Facebook messaged me. Actually maybe you did, yeah,
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but no one else, Like I had no text or anything. I'm
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just like, people write message on your Facebook ball and stuff, and I
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guess that's the new text message. I think it is. Yeah, yeah,
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I mean for a while, you know, with Facebook, and when
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I first started using it, back when Facebook was a thing, I was
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like, oh, someone says birthday, and you know, I people I
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didn't even really know, but you just sort of, you know, You're
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a bit like bloody Pokemon. Their day got to catch them all, got
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to get new friends. And I was like, happy birthday someone so well
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I've never met in real life. I've never really had a conversation with a
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DMAs or anything like that. And it wasn't out of some kind of oh
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maybe this person's feeling lang lets wish and maybe birthday. I think was more
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like you had to a little bit, and then when you receive those you
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felt you had to go through each individual one and like it and comment.
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Now everyone goes thanks everybody for the messages yesterday and moves on. That's what
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I do now. Absolutely, I don't think I actually I don't think I've
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read that this year. People don't even read them. I read them absolutely.
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I'm like, okay, you're on the good list, You're you're in
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the cool book. Well, so I wake up on roll wake up.
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It was about it used to be when you wake up on your birthday you
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had all these messages on your wall, always all these people, right,
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I don't roll wake up like, I don't know whatever time. And I
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checked at at like eleven, I was like, oh, four people a
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bit in my wall. Cool. Clearly no one cares about hit anymore.
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But I think you can also tell the degree of friendship or affection you have
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for a certain person by you might happy birthday so and so or happy birthday
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say and so ex. I always make the effort to text them if I've
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got their number, because it just it feels more special than just the message
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on the Facebook wall. I've got friends that I grew up with who will
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call yeah, which is great. Very Apparently pee Wee Herman was like a
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legend for sending people birthday messages like you never missed the birthday, so I
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heard. Yeah, big fans of Peewee. If you've got friends out there
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and say birthday, make sure you message them. Don't just post on their
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walls, send them a fucking message or call them. Yes, don't be
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like guy, because I know how it feels. It's not nice indeed,
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but they arrive at the Senior Olympics. Grandpa. He mentioned the flashback from
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nineteen thirty six when he's doing Javelin killed the assasin that was going to kill
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Hitler. Then he went out and had dinner with Hitler, which was just
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whatever. Jasper's lighting the flame with the electric to what are those chairs called?
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Just like a stair chair? Yeah, Miss Lisa, check out our
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Gremlins review. Yeah, make sure you do that. We need to do
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more movie reviews. I think, yes, laps with them recently we have
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Yeah, what's the last time. The last time we did was Peewee?
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Wasn't it? Was it that well ago? I think so cheapest creepers.
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Yeah, we need to do these way more often. Yeah. Lisa has
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aligned composition book and her assignment for school is to interview somebody interesting from Springfield.
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That was gonna be one of my trivia questions as well. I do
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have that under trivia highlight pen can you remember at least three of the people
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I could read the names off my notes, So could I taken in terms
47:10
Millhouse's dad, Comptroller Atkins? Do you know who that is? Can you
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remember that? So that's the guy vaguely when Lisa cheats on her test,
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and he's kind of like the guy that comes in to give him the big
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check for them because she has such a good style. Yeah, so he's
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that guy, kind of like the superintendent Charmers with the brown beard. We
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also have guilt, very tall man and squeaky voiced teen who they named last
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week. Yes, indeed, why didn't you say, mister Friedman? And
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then Lenny suggests that you can do about him because he clicks what other fucking
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odds? Absolute ads, alcohol ads, Oh my god. I think it
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was George mcmanam who was talking about this the other but we mentioned the song
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something, we mentioned Candy Andy Moore and then he's like, I'm here their
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knees, I'm gonna listen to it. I'm sorry, George, that's exactly
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how it sounds. Do you say they dead? George? He may even
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gave me the enemy like that. He's a lovely gentleman who sent me gifts.
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I arrived to gifts at Nicholas's family's house because he lived in the UK
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wrestling found much like myself and sent me a sign photo of jungle Boy Jack
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Perry, Lute Perry's son, even a video message. He paid for a
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video message, George, take back that quirky voice. Sorry about that,
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dude, but he mentioned the other day. It's like, hey, you
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guys mentioned Candy Bye and Manny Moore. I hadn't heard that in age as
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I played it. Then a day later I watched the movie and man Candy
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by Mandy Moore was on it. I said, as we always say,
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mate, the Unified Theory or four finger discount, which got a little laugh
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emerge, which made me happy for like five seconds. But you love it
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when you're in mid conversation with somebody. Obviously this isn't the equation here,
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but when you're in a conversation with somebody and you know when they're done with
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the conversation because they just react to what you've written. Oh, yes,
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that's the that's the new way of saying I'm done. I had this with
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with my nephew Rory James last Actually we were sort of talking about some stuff
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and it's like I can't talk any more. Dudes. So I'm just gonna
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get thumbs up on that last comment. I just on the comment itself.
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Yeah, yeah, because I'm like, okay, guys, done to give
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you the thumbs up guys. But yeah, I don't know. Is it
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rude though, I don't think it is. I mean I think people just
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now know. Yeah, I think ignoring it's probably more rude. Yeah.
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It's impossible to ignore now though, because people can tell when you've read the
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message. So if you ignore now, then you're definitely a rude prick.
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Oh yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna say that. Sometimes people you see
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the reddit, they start writing a comment and then never and then there's never
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write back. They sort of deleep that you're clear that we're gonna write something,
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deleted what they're going to say because they said, like so and so
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was writing and then that goes away and then a comment never appears, and
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it's like, so, not only did you see the message, you're going
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to respond? Decided no? But anyway, getting back, So, yeah,
49:55
we're talking about Lenny. He suggests the absolute ads and he only has
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one. Then we get the old Jewish guy. Those absolute adds were pretty
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cool though. They were cool. Yeah, I mean I think it was.
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It was cheap hipster wallpaper in the It was in the nineties and two
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thousands, early two thousands. Yeah, when you could just rip him off
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the back page of a magazine, remember magazine, and have them all over
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your wall. If you want to see magazines, go to guy's house.
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They're all in plastic containers in the back room. Mint condition. That's true.
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Seemed to be settled an eBay. Probably never have Luisa's kids ever been
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to your house? I think Felix has been once, Okay, or maybe
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Isaac. Mum, don't ever take me back there. Please get a smelled
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of cat Wei in despair. Mummy really saying this guy this guy so yes,
50:53
basically about old Jewish guy. He's doing the diving, use this loose
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skin to fly around, and molment has replacement legs and just a bunch of
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visual gags. Yeah yeah, nice. Rocky the Bullwinkle, Yeah, Rocky
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the Bullwinkle. I'm like, what now, Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Yes,
51:10
shout out with the music and all that. But Willie here, he's
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starting to range. He puts on his rain poncho, which looks like the
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Grim Reaper's coat and what is it? No coat? What does he wear?
51:21
The Grim Reaper? A cloak, yeah, the cloak of some kind.
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Yeah, chases Grandpa because Grandpa is losing all the races and everything,
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all the events, and he's got because Grandpa drops his teeth, so he
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chases up to him give him back his teeth. Grandpa gets scared, thinks
51:30
it's actual, really the Grim Reaper, and he wins the race and he
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offers Bart the soul because he sols fresh. And now, at first I
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like the gag of Willy the Grim Reaper, of being second on the podium,
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and of course we were chasing Grandpa. Yeah, but then I went
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back and washed it and he didn't cross the finish line with Grandpa. The
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old Jewish guy who was in third cross the finish line with Grandpa. So
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I'm like, shouldn't he be in the second psision? I've never been happier,
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hippie Craper. So they arrive home and March has a line here which
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no one acknowledges. She's I wonder if the dog thought about us whilst were
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all gone? What if they do cats, I don't think give two ships
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about us at all, even when we're unless we're feeding them. They don't
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care. I don't know. I mean when I got back from overseas,
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basically it was pretty happy to see them, was he really? Yeah?
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Although, how does the catch they having this litt rub it against you?
52:22
I guess yes, yeah, you get your ankles get rubbed up against a
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lot. That's what you do when Louise gets home after a week and leave
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my ankles alone. You're widow, don't guarantee me. But they Yeah,
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they arrive home. This is my homo season. Oh shit, I was
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supposed to go to most fishing trip and I didn't mind the Oh home's home.
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Oh, it's just his car because they're hiding. They go in the
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backyard. Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me. I feel so
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damn longely. Won't someone kill me? I'm ready wore. He's looking in
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the windows, and I was like, this is actually super creepy. Imagine
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being in your house and the guy is waiting for you and he knows you
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inside, just keeps like peeking inside to see you there, And I'm like,
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there's not a way to live. Like, can you imagine that someone
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been outside your house just peeking in? You're trying to hide from all.
53:19
It's kind of like when you know, because almost one of those people who
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I don't like to turn people away, but like people come to the door
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and they're trying to sell you something. I'm like, just pretend you're not
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here, and then Jet barks. I'm like, Jet, shut the fuck
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up, and they hear me telling Jet to shut up, and Ali's like,
53:30
who's at the dog? I'm like, as, but yes, Mo's
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outside. They're trying to scuggle around and not having to acknowledge the fact that
53:42
home forgot him because you would feel terrible. You're a puss bag? Whoa
53:46
march? Whould you piss off? It's for you, puss bag? Who'd
53:52
you piss off? And I was like, just felt like we've heard bitch
53:55
a couple of times in The Simpsons, but like pissed a like a word
54:00
you wouldn't hear all that often. Have we ever heard on the Simpsons?
54:02
I don't think, So who'd you piss off? I'm gonna Frank Yak piss
54:06
yeah, because because they don't have Season eighteen or Frank Yak. So it
54:10
has been, it will be, it has been said before it appear in
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here, So I'll type piss um so March here, Oh yeah, March
54:19
is in the frying game. How much money did you piss away on this?
54:22
When he when he it seems inappropriate. It does seem in appropriate,
54:25
okay? And oh yeah in Haberpaloozer, Peter Frampton, so that Peter Frad
54:31
doesn't say it, but he's like, oh my god, that Eddie Sandwich
54:34
man, he's going to be pissed off. So they have said it a
54:36
couple of times. I'll take that back, just but just feels like a
54:37
word you wouldn't hear all that often. Well, mister Burns is George Carlin's
54:43
learning about the seven words you can't say on television. I'm pretty sure the
54:45
piss was one of them, was it? Yeah? Okay, but that
54:46
was also recorded when oh that's true the weekend at Burns's when Hoamand has the
54:52
marijuana. I told you I pissed it away. But this is the thing.
54:55
Pissing something away sounds different to pissed off. Yes, yeah, yeah,
55:00
I mean apparently, I'm I might begetting this wrong, so disregard,
55:04
but it might be probably. You know, if a movie is getting raised
55:09
or something, you'd get a harsher rating if you said, boy, I
55:14
really got fucked hard last night as opposed to fuck off, which kind of
55:17
makes sense, said Lisa. Sorry, Pickle, I know you still believe
55:24
in Santa. So Lisa is, why wouldn't he Santa's rude us Christ?
55:30
No one do? You got no kids? Kids? Guess what we're gonna
55:36
go live with anyone else? You gonna live with Santa? Luck? It's
55:43
that way and I'm pointing south, take the long way. So Lisa is
55:52
she's taken it back by Moe's letter and a deep tormented soul. I mean,
55:55
that's obviously hitchik. And she goes to scene and she says she wants
55:58
to write her report on him. He thinks that's going to make him having
56:00
the best birthday ever ever. But the dog choos on his arm. Bird
56:05
it's still in the top three. Yeah. Then the birds eggs, yeah,
56:07
top ten, top ten. So now they're walking to Moe's apartment at
56:10
the Regent Hotel with the buzziest sign in town, buzziest neon sign in town,
56:15
and home is sitting on his vibrating massage chair, which is full of
56:17
cockroaches and a list. It then sees the fragments on the fridge. So
56:22
mo has just been like writing random shit on the fridge. I guess,
56:24
yeah, writing just little fragments of thoughts on post it notes. Yeah,
56:29
Christmas. I was at the Christmas pageant once and mum showed it with a
56:31
new boyfriend. He called me, Steve. What you got here is poetry?
56:37
O mos a poet. He has the soul flood your wings. It's
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tea time, and put your conjunction clote the princess of Lollipop lan go.
56:52
He locks you eleven and popery seriously. Oh, I think you have a
57:00
gift. Thanks Homer. I love you man, You love a man.
57:06
One of my favorite since the moments of all time hit Lesy's bookie book.
57:09
Yeah, this is the ship version of that. This is the ship version
57:13
of that. Yes, yeah, this is the yeah, the crap twelve
57:17
inch remix. Yeah, because that is like about being a nerd right with
57:22
bart. But this is like saying, oh, you have emotions. It's
57:25
just I don't know, oh, you love a man. Whatever. This
57:30
probably slayed in the writer's room in two thousand and six, but now it's
57:32
just like whatever. It's like my notes Normally, I like Homer poking fun,
57:37
but this time it sucked. Yep. And then Lisa realizes, you
57:40
know, this could be a poem, says, we make a great team,
57:44
and then she takes Mode to school to read out one of his poems
57:46
and no one gets it. Pilastinees now at the family dinner, and Lisa
57:50
says she's going to send his poem to the American Poetry Perspectives, the magazine
57:54
I'm assuming I guess, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, And Homer's
57:57
annoyed we can't speak that name in their house because they didn't publish my wrapping
58:00
Tomato palm. And I'm just like, what the fuck is this? This
58:02
isn't even a joke, no, Like, it's just I don't get it.
58:06
It's it's kind of sad how they've dropped the ball regarding Homer, but
58:09
sometimes they don't. Sometimes they do, like more times than not they do
58:14
now. But sometimes you just like, I think you can clear you clearly
58:16
still know how to write, Homer if you want to, even with the
58:19
bad gags. It's kind of like, oh, I think I see where
58:22
you're coming from. Or you're like, well, even like we said,
58:24
well, you know, Homer poking fun. It's like, oh, they've
58:28
worked in the past, and it's like, yeah, but work in the
58:30
past for that reason, and you're doing it for this reason, which is
58:34
you know you're you're playing the song, but you're playing the notes all wrong.
58:37
Well, my question would be, if they handed me this, would
58:39
say, how does this joke here at the end of this scene further the
58:43
story in any way or compliment the story in any way. If it's not
58:45
complimenting the story, why is it here? And it doesn't, so fuck
58:49
off with this shit? Well, top oss. But then we get ja
58:53
Jonah Jemison, don't we we do? Yeah? I don't think does he
58:55
ever actually call j Jonah Jamison or just but he is as that on the
59:00
wiki page. Oh okay, chief, we just got a submission from a
59:05
brilliant poet no one's ever heard of. Huh huh genius. Pay him nothing
59:10
and running on the cover. Stop the presence, send my wife some flowers
59:15
and bring me in advil. What do you mean you don't work for me?
59:15
You're hired. Now that you're hired, you're fired now that you don't
59:17
work care we can be friends. Now that we're friends. I'll come you
59:20
never call some friend. You are God, I love this business. I
59:22
guess it would have felt relevant at the time. Oh yeah, absolutely,
59:24
I mean I still kind of feel relevant actual. He's still doing the films
59:28
he is. He was in what was the last one? No Way Home,
59:30
No Way Home? I think, yeah, and it was was no
59:34
Way Home? What was the second one? European Vacation homecoming Far from Home?
59:39
No Way Far from Home? That's right, ye, right, yeah,
59:40
Because I mean I think JK. Simmons had been working for a while.
59:45
He'd been on Laura order we learn Palmer, that's ours? He says,
59:49
what do we learn Palmer? That's our? Bit on our that's correct.
59:52
He was on oz and oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, he's
59:55
terrifying your eyes. Oh god, yeah, I'm too scared to watch ours.
1:00:01
Really. Oh yeah, just like the line that stays with me.
1:00:05
I'm certain it was. I was because we used to watch it all the
1:00:07
time. It was like ship of my deck, of a Blood of my
1:00:09
Knife, And I'm like, oh man, what about a third option?
1:00:19
Oh yeah, so yeah. But Slas, I'm like, oh god,
1:00:22
I was talking about re listening to Tabler gets the Stabler out indeed, but
1:00:28
stables in Rippon shape. Yeah, I mean going if I was in Christopher
1:00:31
Maloney shape, I'll be like, check it out guys and leaders, but
1:00:35
most of the guys. But I was listening to tell guys get an ad
1:00:42
for girls. Do will tell us this later? No, I was listening
1:00:46
to some podcast. Well, the episode we did with with Charlie claud Be
1:00:50
honest, I was gonna say. It wasn't the what's the one you always
1:00:52
quote the Rewatchables? Oh no, that's a different podcast. But now the
1:00:59
podcast we did with Charlie Lawson when we talked about Last Temptation of Homer,
1:01:01
and I think we were saying if we went to what would we be if
1:01:05
we went to prison? And I think both Charlie and I were like,
1:01:07
oh no, we'd be punks, would be passed around like a packet of
1:01:10
smokes. I'm too pretty. So Lisa shows that he's published, He goes
1:01:17
to most and shows him all the barflies. I can't believe it. And
1:01:20
then he gets a phone call and it's from Tom Wolf. He's been invited
1:01:22
to the Wordloaf Festival in Vermont, which is a take off of that's a
1:01:27
real goodquition. What is it is? That the Breadloaf Festival or something.
1:01:30
Never look Wordloaf. That's a conference. Yeah, based on the real life
1:01:34
Breadloaf Writer's Conference. I did not know that was a real thing. No,
1:01:37
No, I mean Vermond is lovely. I mean I've never been,
1:01:39
but everything I've seen it was like that would be a nice place to go,
1:01:44
particularly during autumn. I think, yeah, looked like the place to
1:01:46
go. The place that seems to be the is now Oregon. Well according
1:01:51
to Ashower, but yes, Portland, Oregon seems to be like everyone's like,
1:01:57
oh, because that's where Bill locally is from. Oh okay, yeah,
1:02:00
like Paul Laurian, it's the place to be. Yeah, Bill,
1:02:04
shout you a tasty cheat tasty sandwiches from from you as fast food outlets.
1:02:12
But I'm just reading here in the wikipation of interesting stuff. So the episode
1:02:14
guest stars Tom Wolf, who says has once said that The Simpsons is the
1:02:16
only show of any sort that he watches on television or at the time when
1:02:21
it went. That's one way of getting on the show, isn't it.
1:02:25
Jonathan Franzen, do you think I named checked the Rewatchables all the time?
1:02:30
Yes, Shabroon recorded their lines together gor Vidale, who admitted that he was
1:02:34
not a regular watcher of the show. In one version of the script,
1:02:37
it says Wolf, Chebron, Shavon, Shaven shaven, sorry shaven, and
1:02:40
Franz and were all killed by a giant boulder, and although they recorded the
1:02:44
lines for this part of the episode, it was cut from the final version.
1:02:46
You would love festival. You mean all the great American writers know you
1:02:52
have to go. Yeah, well, okay, all right, but only
1:02:54
if you come. Huh. I wouldn't have none of this, would out
1:02:58
you? Kid? Hello, No, I'm not here. They then arrive
1:03:05
in Vermont. It's a family trip with a family bartender, and we get
1:03:07
home. I drink driving because that's apparently funny. We learned nothing from Codependence
1:03:13
Day. Then we get troopers from Rhode Island cops in every show we review.
1:03:17
So yeah, he's like, I'm from Rhode Island. We're a small
1:03:21
state, will be up for big tickets. I'm like, why does it
1:03:23
want hat Island? Why are you picking on Roe? But yes, home?
1:03:28
Has he been a not arrested, but he's been attended to ticketed,
1:03:31
Yes, ticketed by the troopers. So then bart moxall the writers little Da
1:03:36
Vinci code shade here being thrown. Probably true. They probably did sell one
1:03:38
hundred million copies. Oh god, yeah, look the damn Brown books sold
1:03:42
the shu the Vincy code. How many copies sold? Let's have a look.
1:03:47
Eighty million copies. We just saw a shit Look when they have his
1:03:52
book sales about two thousand, two thousand and three was out sold only by
1:03:55
what do you reckon another Bible? No? Jk Ailings, Harry Potter and
1:04:00
The Order of the Phoenix. Ah okay, But they enter and they see
1:04:02
Tom Wolf, the man who's used more exclamation points than any other writer in
1:04:06
America. It's true. I wish he did the John lovetzt there. It
1:04:11
would have been better. But mo, then he ruins Jo Tom Wolf's jacket
1:04:14
as he's talking him up with their Tom Wolf very well known for wearing just
1:04:17
a white suit pretty much anything. Is that. That's his trademark, So
1:04:20
ruining that would not be fun. No, No, although I imagine he's
1:04:25
probably got a closet all of them. Makes joke that everyone enjoys. And
1:04:29
then I love the He says some of the lines of satisfying as a new
1:04:32
pair of socks on a wet hike. I was like, that would be
1:04:34
very satisfying. Oh absolutely, But nobody can believe that he didn't write the
1:04:41
title himself because he comes out clean and he's like, wait a minute,
1:04:44
I need to change this here. Because before that, though, Gorvidale arrives
1:04:46
and says, I didn't do the titles either. I stold those ideas,
1:04:49
so they kick him out. He got the title for bir I look at
1:04:54
the wrapper. I thought that was very funny, but he leaves Lisa hi
1:05:01
and dry. He says that he wrote it just him, and everyone goes
1:05:03
out to the hay ride. They're all having fun outside, and Lisa's I
1:05:08
did like that, getting down to what is it black eyed peas? Yeah,
1:05:11
let's get it started, or or let's get our word, yes,
1:05:15
which is I can't. I wonder if people still say that now. I
1:05:19
can imagine they don't, and I just find it hard to believe that at
1:05:24
any point in the world that felt okay to say in that term and in
1:05:28
all honesty, let's get it started. Is more better, is more fun?
1:05:32
Yes, It's like let's get ship faced drug, let's get it started.
1:05:36
It's fun for everybody. Everybody going to enjoy this kid's talking. Take
1:05:40
it. Let's dad it started. Hit how many uncool teachers have been made
1:05:45
cool by you know, rocking into the start of the squad. Let's get
1:05:47
it started. Wow, missus sewn so is going to be a fantastic I've
1:05:51
got a whole new love of learning. I don't know, maybe this never
1:05:55
happened. That happens every year. It happens every but anyway, good use
1:06:00
of the black eyed peas, particularly among these stuff shirts. It must be
1:06:03
nerve wracking for a teacher when they're just getting a new class, Like that
1:06:05
first ten minutes is so pivotal. Oh yeah, you've got it's yeah,
1:06:10
like the prison yard, You've got to establish dominance. I mean it's the
1:06:13
first ten minutes of a new of a date as well. It's like I've
1:06:15
got to impress. You've got to establish dominance there. Yeah yeah, oh
1:06:19
boy, wait a minute, that came out wrong. But yeah, it's
1:06:23
like you've got to metaphorically punch the most naughty student in the face. I'm
1:06:30
not taking any guff's. Like when I said the other day is like I
1:06:33
might do it. Why because I told you so? Why because I'm the
1:06:36
fucking boss. That's why he's like, he's giving you his chips. You've
1:06:47
been to KFC and he gives you like half his chips. I gotta I
1:06:51
gotta pay tribute to the big Man, to the big Gap. And this
1:07:01
is us. Oh man, sorry, that's really funny. I'm pressing the
1:07:15
hell out of myself today. Allie goes to eat like some popcorn chicken looks
1:07:18
at me, you want it, doesn't say so trembling the popcorn chickens going
1:07:26
everywhere. That's right, Big Daddy gets Big Daddy gets his DIDs on the
1:07:32
pop chicken. This is what Hoby's done to him though she's broaken him down.
1:07:36
Holly walks up, She's like, I want to sit there. Alic's
1:07:40
like, well he's learned a vae. The ladies are always right. Okay,
1:07:53
m introduce her panel, Jonathan Franzen, Michael's Shabon, and Mo whoa
1:07:59
clear water swanky. Now we all open the floor to fawning praise and obvious
1:08:04
questions. Well, yeah, first of all, I'd like to thank all
1:08:09
of you for your brilliant work. Yes, yes, My question is who
1:08:15
are your biggest influences. I'd have to say my good friend Jonathan Fransen,
1:08:19
I thought his novel of the Corrections needed none shape. Well, in turn,
1:08:26
I'd have to say my biggest influence is Albert Camue. You were supposed
1:08:30
to say me, I blurbed you. Yeah, and it looks real sweet
1:08:33
on my dust jacket. How do you like me now? Friend Zone?
1:08:40
Mo? Who inspired you to become a writer? Jack Kerouac, Charles Mukowski,
1:08:44
Me, Tom Wolf? Well, I don't know. The only book
1:08:46
I ever read was Super Hounds, The Ultimate Greyhound Betting System. So any
1:08:51
of you wet naps write that? Mistress says Lack. It must be some
1:08:59
person to be in this very room who believed in you when no one else
1:09:02
did. Oh yeah, I get what you're getting at Nope, But how
1:09:09
can you now now he's answered your question? I declaire of this panel,
1:09:13
dismissed, Like I deserve acknowledgement, I said, dismissed. This is where
1:09:18
she kind of felt annoying at this point. It's like, I feel sorry
1:09:23
for you, Lisa, but it's not going to come, so just get
1:09:25
over it. Ye. Look, it's just life. Just guilty of him,
1:09:28
that's life, kid. But the family are going this is actually awesome.
1:09:30
This is one's reminded me of you. So the family were going vermonting,
1:09:35
Lisa, wouldn't be a great company. Well, thanks for the heads
1:09:38
up. We'll see you when we get back. It is always good when
1:09:44
someone gives you one out. Yes, well, well, thank you for
1:09:46
the heads up, but you stay here. So the then drives through the
1:09:49
house, of course, because he's a new idiot, and they exchange insurance
1:09:53
infron and he hasn't got any list. Then she's fankally didn't mind that.
1:09:58
Let's exchange your insurance information. I have none. That's actually pretty fun deliver
1:10:02
that, Lisa. Mean, while I was feeding the birds at the park,
1:10:10
grad students are trying to pick up the scraps, all the crumbs,
1:10:12
and not until they've greanded three thousand papers. They had to eat the proper
1:10:15
meal more than ask so for help, which is you're heartless joke, Well,
1:10:18
where'd that come from? My actions? And may as well. So
1:10:25
then he starts getting it. It was he's in the water for some reason,
1:10:27
I can't remember why. He was laying out his poem blown the water,
1:10:30
and they blow into the water and the duck start eating. Yes,
1:10:32
and then he starts shooting the geese because he doesn't want to lose his fight.
1:10:35
The family arrive home and they're quite sweet. They've got Lisa, Moe
1:10:40
and Lisa bears, and they don't worry it's not made of real bears because
1:10:43
she starts crying, just the fur and the noses. But then Homer and
1:10:45
Bart get angry at the fact that Moe has made them, made their daughter
1:10:48
and their sister cry. I'm like, you can't go from like being sympathetic
1:10:53
to like, from an idiot to sympathetic like this. It just it's it's
1:10:56
so disjointed, the Homer. But it's now whose evening is going to be
1:11:00
a water best new poet? And Wolf wants to all the mashed potatoes.
1:11:03
Now, is there a gag that I miss just because it's white, like
1:11:05
white suits and white potato. No, I think it's more just, you
1:11:09
know, apparently events like this. Stephen King wrote about it in one of
1:11:14
his books. How you know, writers generally don't make a lot of money,
1:11:17
so if they're invited to events like this when you take home of the
1:11:21
soaps in my hotel, oh yeah, it's very much taken on the soaps
1:11:24
and you know, go wild at the buffet. One of the things I
1:11:28
really remember. I think it was in his novel The Tommy Knockets. Like
1:11:30
every writer knows. You take you know, you take two pairs of shoes
1:11:35
and you get them both shined by the by the by room service or something
1:11:40
like that. You know, you get all your dry cleaning done with,
1:11:42
like oh yeah, ride this gravy train while you can. I always when
1:11:45
I go to an oil you neat place, fill up my plate and then
1:11:47
take that shit, don't Oh yeah? Am I wrong for doing so?
1:11:50
Some people like some people like really do that, And I'm like, pay
1:11:54
thirty eight dollars for this fucking meal. I'm gonna be taking them a few
1:11:56
armies or you can, yeah, before you leave. It's what they say.
1:12:04
I didn't wor byo beast for bring your own bag. I always go,
1:12:09
can I take this home for my dog? Do you think there's less
1:12:12
shame in asking for the doggie bag these days? Did you? Were you
1:12:15
ever sort of like I used? I said, I used to use the
1:12:16
excuse it was for my dog, And it wasn't for my dogg it was
1:12:18
for me. So it's like it's kind of like when you return a night
1:12:20
and I'm like, oh my wife bought this once you brought the wrong one.
1:12:23
It's like they don't believe me. But I always feel guilt, But
1:12:27
now I don't care this. This feels like now this is part of part
1:12:30
of the deal. I guess well, cost of living's going up. They're
1:12:31
like, yeah, we're gonna charge me with this a man, and you
1:12:33
know I'm not gonna eat it all now I'm going to eat something that later.
1:12:36
Yeah, unless its I was just the other day, what did I
1:12:40
have had it? I ordered a parme of all things. I haven't had
1:12:42
Pubbly for ages, but I went to the Sphinx for Holy Birthday the family
1:12:45
party, party, and the party were so big that I actually couldn't finish
1:12:47
it. So I just took half of it home. And I'm just like
1:12:49
this should used to feel weird asking for this, but now it just doesn't.
1:12:53
It's like, yeah, sure was bringing and it'd be a container.
1:12:55
I'm like, oh, contains a bag anymore? Just wrap it up and
1:12:59
napkin. But it may make him shame most like, nan, take it
1:13:01
out, or you can eat us rapuh up and nacins and put it in
1:13:02
her handbag. She'd be walking out like marjor with the fucking candy. But
1:13:09
Moe reads out he's he's now newly written poems alabatic capacity and the various channels
1:13:15
and yeah, not going good at all. But Lisa interrupts and he says,
1:13:18
well, she's an interrupt She just walks in, I guess, and
1:13:20
he sees her she's all sad. Oh, by the way, sorry you
1:13:24
mentioned the garlic mash potatoes. I too would be like Tom Wolf and just
1:13:26
like if you got spare garlic mashed potatoes if you don't want to on my
1:13:29
way, because when I make mash I tend to throw a bit of garl
1:13:32
Again, it was like, oh, yeah, I put calig in everything
1:13:34
that. Yeah, yeah, But Luke called me out the other night and
1:13:36
said you were garlicn't say that? And then some you said at that end
1:13:43
of the couch, by which I mean the other couch, speaking of Jet.
1:13:47
Right, he's got some gut issues at the moment, so Jet usually
1:13:51
when he farts, right, he's on the couch. It's almost stinks.
1:13:54
Right, you're sitting next beyond the couch yesterday and I was just giving him
1:13:57
some cuddles. He's in the middle of the couch. Normally his fart's just
1:13:59
like right last night, for the first time ever in my life, he
1:14:01
just goes, oh my god. I was like, are you fucking He
1:14:06
ran scared himself. That was like your animals ever far like genuinely fighted like
1:14:14
that. I know. It was right next to me. It's just a
1:14:16
really long and yeah. And usually you were able to sort of like,
1:14:20
you know, blame it on the dog. Well, you're definitely gonna blame
1:14:25
because that was definitely rude. Niggla was excuse me, like it was a
1:14:30
dog. It was a dog. That was a dog. No, but
1:14:35
oh god, an animal fart is just like the word and honestly, like
1:14:42
to quote what we're talking aboutarlier fog, Oh god, yeah, I mean
1:14:45
lose dog RAFFI will do them occasionally. He did one of the other nights.
1:14:47
How are you producing this smell? Yeah, I mean this is literally
1:14:50
burning well it's not literally, but it is figuratively burning the hairs out of
1:14:54
my nostrils. Basically did the same when I first got it, and he
1:14:57
did a fart that was so bad it woke me up from a deep s.
1:15:00
He said this, I was like, what the fuck, Oh my
1:15:02
god, you know, what I got a different poemp for you. Oh
1:15:12
to Lisa, pointy headed mini muse, more friend than I deserved. You
1:15:17
pulled me from the dirt and made meet a beautiful flower that I am.
1:15:23
But some flowers can stab you in the back, for which I should send
1:15:26
you flowers, which I will, but they were closed. You'll be getting
1:15:30
them tomorrow. Oh Lisa, if you could just forgive me, you would
1:15:33
make me the happiest man in Vermont, except for those two dudes I saw
1:15:38
getting hitched. Not my thing, but I wish him Well, that's not
1:15:41
a bad gay jo No, because I mean I think Vermont was probably one
1:15:45
of the saying it's a bad thing. No, no, I mean,
1:15:48
not my thing. But yeah, I wish I'm all the best. Yeah,
1:15:50
yeah, I mean, but I think Vermont was might be one of
1:15:53
the few states in the in the States that at the time there was a
1:15:56
low on gay marriage. Well, yeah, didn't have a restriction on it.
1:15:59
So but that's a nice little bit of social commentary. I guess the
1:16:01
show it's not from me, but anyhow, he's an alline. Nonetheless,
1:16:04
Homer and Bart then try pouring syrup on tomorrow, but it's going down so
1:16:08
slow. It's a bit of a carry shout out yep, And I just
1:16:12
like that would to make you feel better if this hit me? Not now?
1:16:15
So he steps aside. He's made up with Lisa. They go regional
1:16:17
duck bowling? Is that shooting duck? I don't know what? Lisa says,
1:16:20
let's do it, And I was like, what is regional duck bowling?
1:16:23
Let's google that regional duck bowling, duck pin bowling, the origin of
1:16:28
duck. I see this is duck pin bowling, is said duck pin?
1:16:30
Does he? I just think that's I thought there's a regional duck bowling.
1:16:31
And I'm suming like one of those things that it's it's a smaller just a
1:16:35
smaller version of bowling. Yeah, and it's probably outside or something. Yeah
1:16:39
anyway, but yes, because it wouldn't be hidden. It's not like ten
1:16:42
pins. But they're probably like Dan, it's got us some lovely Star Wars
1:16:46
plastic mugs for us to quench our thirst while we while we talk. I
1:16:50
imagine they're about that size. I'd imagine so too. All right, and
1:16:54
over the credits we have Homer tastes. Are we still recording? But I
1:16:57
remember recording all those time that we have, we've got had timing the car.
1:17:00
Let's get through this. So Homer over the credits his tastest in the
1:17:01
syrup, and someone says touched in the head, is he yep, which
1:17:05
pretty much just sums up where Homer is at this point. Touched in the
1:17:08
head, is it? It's almost like that's that shouldn't be where he is
1:17:13
touched in the head. I don't know. But the thing of it is,
1:17:15
I mean, Homer being all kind of like wine connoisseur about maple syrup.
1:17:19
Is that I think that's actually pretty funny gag. Yes, And I
1:17:23
mean it's one that it would sort of play during vintage Simpsons and no one
1:17:27
would sort of It's like with the chili. Yeah, everyone would sort of
1:17:30
play along with it, like I mean not they say he carved it with
1:17:33
a bigger spoon. I mean maybe sort of. Yeah, the waiter would
1:17:36
go like, oh fine whatever. No one sort of go oh, he's
1:17:40
an idiot. Right. As the sound, I feel like Dan Castlenetta for
1:17:44
this role. This part here just improved a bunch of various shit and that
1:17:46
is animated to the sounds he was making. Okay, I don't know.
1:17:49
I actually thought it was not a bad gag, but yeah, but that
1:17:54
touched in their head? Is it? It's like, well, that's the
1:17:55
fucking point of that. What do we learn, Bomber? That's what you
1:17:59
learn from the episode to Davis that if you attend word loaf, the first
1:18:03
ten rows may get wit. Okay? Is it what I said? That
1:18:06
was a one of the signs? Okay? I learned that. What did
1:18:12
I learn? What's something that's off? That was one of our side notes
1:18:14
today that I learned. She learned about Colin and Santa Clause. I genuinely
1:18:19
learned things episode. I personally, I was very happy to learn the story
1:18:27
of Glenn and how you just made his day, week, month, maybe
1:18:31
year. It was the shaking of the hand nozzles, handing him the phone.
1:18:35
He was like, it can't be. This is only Grayer. We've
1:18:43
talked a bit, We're talked about so many things in this episode that I
1:18:45
learn plenty, yes, indeed plenty forward your names will be all right.
1:18:50
It is time now for the Guy Davis New Name Championship here for season eighteen.
1:18:56
The current leader board stands at this in first position, and we have
1:19:00
Luke McKay on six points in second position. We have a two way time
1:19:03
with Kyl muldoon and Philip Jay Hawkins both on five and various people on three
1:19:09
points as well. But yes, take it away with to day. So
1:19:11
what do we go this week? Bad luck for you, various people and
1:19:13
I get your names, right, o michllaneous. One point goes to poetry
1:19:19
in motions. Oh, Luke, McKay's clawing further away. He's now in
1:19:24
seven points. Nice one, Luke. But let's see who gets two points
1:19:28
for poet Moriot? Not bad that ooh newby too. Season eighteen's leaderboard.
1:19:33
It is Fergus. Jeff's on you. You assume he's Irish or Scottish or
1:19:41
whatever. That accent I deliberately did a bad accent that can't be placed.
1:19:46
That's the story. It's better than George your enemy. Sorry George. But
1:19:54
three points go to I like this one a lot, Lisa versus versus versus,
1:20:01
Lisa versus Mo. Not. That's really good that someone say it's clever.
1:20:08
I wonder who who done it? You know what? That's exciting because
1:20:11
that pushes clever Cale to first position. Well clever Carl Mulder Carl Maldner's now
1:20:15
in eight points in first position. Luke McKay on seven. He thought he'd
1:20:18
claw further away, but Kyle the threw bun appeal and the Blue Blues tortoshell
1:20:24
and he's hit the front. So Cayle Olduner first on eight, Luke McKay
1:20:27
on seven points and second, and Philip Jay Hawkins outright third, now in
1:20:30
fifth on five points. Alright, alrighty, let's do this mail bag,
1:20:34
shall we? Mail Bag? I hang on mail bag? Mail bag is
1:20:43
here? This one here, Simpson's mail bak at gmail dot com comes from
1:20:47
Michael Palmt's bit of a long one. Let's's get through this one, he
1:20:49
says, Hei, hello, Dane guy. I thought i'd finally write into
1:20:53
the podcast after many months. I'll write a letter. I'll write a little
1:20:56
letter just like home. I waenting from mister t at the mail at the
1:20:59
mall. So I'm running to you by the sea from Portugal, where I'm
1:21:01
on holiday. At the moment, I was catching up and listening to a
1:21:03
million Dollar Aby on Monday. During the day, you mentioned that the fish
1:21:08
and chip shops near you were closed on Mondays, and a friend told you
1:21:10
it was because they were collecting stock. I thought this made sense, but
1:21:14
at the same time strange because in Scotland they are always open on Mondays,
1:21:16
getting deliveries regularly, I assume. However, when I went to look for
1:21:20
a restaurant in Portugal that Monday night, nearly all of the restaurants were closed.
1:21:25
At this point, I thought Dane's friend was right, because we had
1:21:27
discussion. This is way back in like July. He said this through in
1:21:29
July. However, after speaking with some of the locals here in Portugal,
1:21:31
they explained that at all the restaurants they are extremely busy on Friday to Sunday,
1:21:35
so they close on Monday to give them time to clean up and sells
1:21:39
back on track, which makes sense. Also, I thought i'd throw out
1:21:42
this question to you both at the moment. I'm really into music, so
1:21:44
I wondered who you thought would be some of the Simpsons characters favorite artists or
1:21:46
album's past and present. We have had some mentions in the show, but
1:21:49
it would be fun to assign one artist or album to a character. For
1:21:53
example, Mo he thinks would be The Cure or something something more gloomy sounding.
1:21:57
Marge Barry Manilow she thinks they would be much his favorite Edna Krabapple with
1:22:00
Britney spears of Rihanna something to make it feel sexy or empowered. Comen book
1:22:04
guy Rush, he's getting into the dystopian sci fi lyrics, and he just
1:22:09
says he keep up all the good work and all the best to the whole
1:22:11
Forefinger Scamp family, which has grown so much over the years thanks to the
1:22:13
hard work. And although I'm not always enjoying watching the Simpsons episodes as much,
1:22:17
I still love checking out the episodes and listening along with you guys in
1:22:19
your reviews. So thank you so much, Michael Plummer. And he also
1:22:23
points out guys legendary tangents. Oh, Michael's my new favorite guy. He's
1:22:29
from Glasgow, Scotland, so he would probably sound like Fergus, even if
1:22:33
Fergus sounds like no Scotman Scotsman ever, Michael, thank you for that lovely
1:22:39
missive from Portugal. I hope you having a fantastic time. I think Portugal
1:22:43
does sound very, very nice. Let's throw it. Let's throughout some names.
1:22:45
So Lenny, who's Lenny listening to? Probably whatever Karl's listening to,
1:22:48
Yes, and trying to feel cool. I feel like Carl he is definitely
1:22:53
he don't want a stereotype that do you no? But he Carl would be
1:22:56
like a soul or R and B guy. Yeah, like Isaac Hayes in
1:23:01
Hot Buttered Soul. He'd be listening to Salty Balls the Balls. But if
1:23:08
Lenny was just by himself, not listening to what car's listening to, I
1:23:10
feel like he'd be like a very eighties I reckon Lenny. I feel that
1:23:13
I felt the song Lenny feels called to is like push it to the limit.
1:23:16
Oh, how many kids in the how many people in the eighties and
1:23:18
people and they put that song on when they got into the car and felt
1:23:20
like absolutely to the limit? Lemmit, they have that in the South Park,
1:23:27
don't they? I mean maybe I think I think it's coming up in
1:23:29
the South Okay, soon you throw another character. You throw a character to
1:23:32
me though, for some reason, the first one that came to mind was
1:23:34
Martin Prince. Martin Prince, who was Martin Prince listening to? So this
1:23:38
is to say his nineties kid? I think, but I think he'd be
1:23:40
listening to classical. Yeah, he would be, wouldn't he. I can
1:23:44
imagine him being a Beatles fan. Do you think he'd be the kind of
1:23:45
Beatles fan who would sort of he'd be picking out the deep cuts, Yes,
1:23:50
like the White album retakes and we'll do one more. Who is we'll
1:23:58
get the war his characters. Who do you think Smithers listens to? That's
1:24:02
an interesting one. M Again, we don't want a stereotype, but everyone
1:24:06
on Simpsons is a stereotype. True, Okay, I want to say someone
1:24:12
like Dusty Springfield or Carol King or something. Carol King is a good one.
1:24:15
Yeah, yeah, I can buy Carol King. The Carpenters maybe,
1:24:19
Yeah, Carpenters if you're listening to like Rainy Days and Mondays or get Me
1:24:25
Down or as I've mentioned in this show before, my mom's favorite song ever
1:24:29
is Please Miss the Postman. And I watched that video you said where she
1:24:31
just shows it on the drums in the great Yeah, shout at Karen Carpenter.
1:24:36
I would do a couple of Malbay questions from the patrons as well.
1:24:39
First one here, David, what do you like maple syrup? Yeah?
1:24:42
It might. It has to be on pancakes, though I can't have on
1:24:44
anything else. I have done that thing where It's like chicken and waffles and
1:24:50
I'm making waffles put them in maple syrup on top of that. Not bad
1:24:54
at all. Remember when our Canadian buddy sent us that gift, it was
1:24:58
so awesome, it was so rad Thank you, Pat Right, Thank you
1:25:03
very much, Pat Right and Canadian well yesterday, said she. I was
1:25:06
like, what a couple of packet of chips. It was like a giant
1:25:10
fucking box. And we Dan and I both got a bunch of stuff.
1:25:14
We ate and drank all of it, and maple srup was part of that
1:25:18
package, and it was really nice. Maple soup is good stuff. I
1:25:21
do enjoy it. Glenn Gomez, what do you do to remind you of
1:25:25
something? It's got to be the phone now, because the phone, the
1:25:27
phone is are what thing I've always got with me. Lou gave me this
1:25:30
the other night because I was like, Lou's very much the social director of
1:25:33
our particular unit. And you know, she was saying, oh, the
1:25:36
models are playing at the Barm Club and you hit here in Geelong, and
1:25:40
I'm like, do you want to go? Say yeah, let's go do
1:25:42
that. So I'm like, okay, So this is on that night and
1:25:45
then so and so I was on that and then we're doing this. You
1:25:47
know, have you put any of these in your phone? I'm like,
1:25:49
I don't really use the phone on that much. To use your phone.
1:25:53
I'm like, yes, ma'am. So now I've got a whole bunch of
1:25:57
stuff in my phone, and now I've got to do them my lay by
1:26:00
the way, just as I do when I'm doing what are you talking about?
1:26:04
When I do mylloy? I'm twisted a little anyway, But yeah,
1:26:11
I now now it's the phone I religiously buy like a diary at the start
1:26:15
of every year, you know, between boxing day and news like, I've
1:26:19
got a bad dary and I'm going to get myself organized. And then that's
1:26:21
why I gave you the book for the notes. Was you obviously filled up?
1:26:24
Have you mispleased? I'm very very close to finishing. Okay, yeah,
1:26:32
final one here. This is actually a good point, Brian Hughes.
1:26:34
Did you notice how this episode is basically the same as please Home. I
1:26:36
don't hammer them with a male taking credit for the hard work of a female.
1:26:41
Wow, hugh'sy well, well well spotted, mate, I don't notice
1:26:45
it. I hope it's not Hughsy I sent you that video. We've got
1:26:49
like two minutes stuff on this card, so we'll skim through it. But
1:26:51
Hughsey Dave. Hugh's a comedian, right is comedian. That was like the
1:26:58
most unfunny version that episode of that show I've ever seen. It is a
1:27:00
hot take whatever. There was hard chat, hard chat. Yeah, before
1:27:04
there was hard quiz with the Tom Gleason and he's not for funny. He
1:27:10
popped up in a clip of that Mass singer Think it was on like have
1:27:13
you been paying attention? You're just like, oh, this is scary.
1:27:15
And I was like, ah, be funnier, more funny. And and
1:27:20
as as I wrote back to to Dan Do when he sent me that clip,
1:27:25
I'm no fan of Dave Gleeson and Hughes. He made Gleason look like
1:27:28
fucking letterman. That's Tom Gleason, by the way, he said, Dave
1:27:32
Gleason, who is a famous musician. I'm creating a frequently passed away Actually
1:27:38
not Dave Gleason of the another member of the Screaming Day, No, Dave
1:27:41
Gleason passed away. Are you sure you looked it up? Wise? I
1:27:44
did the outro here were running out of time. Thank you so much,
1:27:45
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1:28:01
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I Scream of Margie with the Light Blue Hair. Mister Davis, any final
1:28:08
words for those amazing listeners out there. I'm trying to google Dave Gleason dead
1:28:11
and it's not coming up. Hang on, Dave Gleeson did so? How
1:28:15
do you spell Dave Gleason? Do you want me to do it for you?
1:28:16
Do you want to do it for you? Why have I got this
1:28:19
up? This sounds like my mom. Dave Gleason is not dead. I
1:28:24
want to see guy Docent googling. See he can he can use the phone.
1:28:29
Dave Gleason not dead. Paul was seen unfortunately passed away. Rest in
1:28:32
peace. Paul sh