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up my nerdish leanings. Look,
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taught us about cool things like nature
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Four finger discount dude, Welcome to
fourfingto Discount of the podcast that's like you

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know whatever. This week we hit
through of You episode three f two two.

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It is the finale of season seven. It's Summer of four foot two.

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I am Dando and I am Guy
and yes we are coming to you

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live from Australia's crub Bucket and the
Age Along and we are very lucky to

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play because we've joined by a man
who I've been falling for a very long

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time in the wrestling podcast saying it's
no sacred I'm a huge wrestling fan and

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this man's without a doubt, one
of the best. But now he's gonna

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be keeping himself very busy as the
new administration coordinator of all a Late Wrestling.

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It's mister Will Washington. How are
you doing so, I'm doing great.

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It is so great to be here
with you guys. I am so

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excited to be We've been trying to
plan this for a while and little things

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have fallen through here and there.
I think people will recall you tweeted about

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summer four foot two like six weeks
ago or something along those lines, and

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we weren't able to make that happen. But we're here now, and yeah,

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I don't find myself hosting many podcasts
anymore, but I think there's always

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going to be a spot in my
heart for dusting off the old microphone and

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getting to talk. Yes, well, it's lucky, as you're saying,

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it's been sort of delayed delay.
I think we're gonna do it originally like

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early March or something, and then
the big announcement a couple of days ago,

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and I was like, this is
a good timing. Yeah, but

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you know, obviously the roles off
fresh and new, so we can't talk

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about you're all in aw what's going
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yeah, just congratulations might Well.
Everyone in the wrestling world is so excited

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for you. You're one of the
good ones and you deserve it. Thank

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you so much. It has been
a whirlwind of emotions, and I will

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say I was truly not expecting to
receive an all lead graphic that even in

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coming in for the job. I
think I may have jokingly said it to

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a few friends, like, hey, you know, Will Washington gets that

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all league graphic and to actually see
it and literally all my family's seen it.

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I've had friends messaging me that have
been like, hey, I just

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saw on the front page of Reddit
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Will Washington is all even. Um
No, it's it's a dream come true,

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and I'm really excited to honestly work
with my favorite wrestling company. It's

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it's yeah, it's a rarity to
honestly going into it. I said this

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directly to Denise sal Sato of all
people, but I said, it is

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a one in a billion shot that
you get to work on your favorite TV

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show. And I mean, like, honestly, would be like, you

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know, there's my other favorite TV
shows, The Simpsons, right, it

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would be like if all of a
sudden I found myself in a in a

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creative role helping the Simpsons be what
I've envisioned it being. And to get

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to do that for professional wrestling is
just a really cool thing. Well,

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Tony aw present, Tony kinds a
very savy man, and obviously when you

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put that all light graphic out,
you know he knows that's going to explode

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social media on the day for today, that he knows what he's doing.

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Yes, of course, yeah,
yeah, there's a there's some science to

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that, and I'll leave it at
that. Yes, yeah, But obviously

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let's touch on for our listeners who
may not know who you are, because

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obviously, when I find with the
wrestling world, when you're a wrestling fan,

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you live in the wrestling bubble.
But if you're not a wrestling fan,

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people might not know who you are. So give us a brief rundown.

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What Will Washington's been doing for the
last eighteen years when it comes to

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the podcasting scene. Yeah, so, you know, wrestling podcasts, I

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hate to say it, are kind
of a diamond done these days, and

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so it feels weird to even say
that I was one of the first wrestling

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podcasters that you know, when you
think about the idea that podcast have only

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existed nineteen years and eighteen years ago, I had this crazy idea that these

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things people are listening to right now, and most of them were about tech.

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At the time, it was like
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news podcaster, but it was mostly, you know, dominated by the tech

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sphere. And at the time,
it was June of two thousand and five.

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My idea was basically just to rip
off what Leo Laporte was doing with

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This Week in Tech and rip off
his entire format and do that for professional

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wrestling, and so I did it. That was what I did, and

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I launched the show called Rocketbuster Radio
at the time, and that show eventually

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morphed into what became RBR Wrestling Talk, and I hosted that show for sixteen

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years, interviewed pretty much a who's
who of professional wrestlers and you know,

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anybody from at Chris Jericho. On
the show RVD, I had Batista while

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he was world champion. That was
whom I interviewed, Tyler Black, who

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later became seth Rawlins, interviewed a
lot of guys. We eventually had a

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little joke that we have the we
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on our show, they would eventually
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up having a nice little origin story
that we always point back to on the

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podcast, so that was always a
cool thing. And then eventually I ended

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up leaving RBR to start grap City, and I ended up pitching grap City

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to Fightful. In the process of
doing that, I joined Ful. I

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became one of the contributors to their
news as well as a host of the

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grab City podcast. I did Day
after Dynamite with them, and then what

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ended up becoming one of my highlights
of the week, I ended up doing

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a show with then South Sato as
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and just wrestling, podcasting came second
nature to me. I have been

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able to break down and dissect and
talk about this stuff for the last eighteen

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years, and it's been I said
recently that nothing has come easier to me

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than that than podcasting. And it's
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podcasted about, because wrestling has definitely
been the primary thing. But I used

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to host a movie review show about
a decade ago called Now Playing Now,

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and yeah, I've been around.
I've been doing this a really really long

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time. Honestly, well, I
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the hottest workingman and podcasting. But
you're we're eating your dust of the mind

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man. Yeah, I mean it's
the drain, right. Obviously your dream

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would have been to earn a living
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dream. Now you've reached the dream
of getting paid to just be a part

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of the wrestling world. It's just
it's incredible. Yeah, and you know

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it's funny. Twelve hours prior to
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and I won't say from who,
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receive an offer to do just that, to make podcasting full time and a

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twelve hour And for about twelve hours
I thought that that's what I was going

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to be doing. And then twelve
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I thought making a full time living
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be true. And then all of
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You get the offer, and then
Aw's like, old my beer,

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I've got you. Yeah exactly.
Oh woll wait, but here you said

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Simpsons is your second favorite show besides
wrestling, of course, whose wrestling is

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a TV show? But like,
what made you choose this episode summer of

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four foot two? This one you
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at the time, you said,
when back in March you were talking a

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little about Lisa, watch Summer of
four foot two for you, um so

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a little story about me. But
before even working and wrestling. Covering wrestling,

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I did a lot of travel.
I traveled to every major pay per

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view, and you know, I've
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World Rumble. I've been to all
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to things is before I leave for
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six episodes of The Simpsons to watch
on a flight. And so right as

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we had done this one, right
when you had approached me, I had

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actually just watched Summer four foot two
on a flight. And I don't remember

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loving that one when I was younger. It wasn't one that really stuck out

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to me. But watching it on
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by the end, and I didn't
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And I know that Lisa episodes,
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rub people the wrong way, and
there's reasons for that, and there's valid

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reasons for that, but this is
one of those Lisa centric episodes that really

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tugs at the strings and really makes
you feel for somebody who has struggled to

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find her place in the world,
struggled to find her place in her world,

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and and it's a great story of
authenticity. And like I said,

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just sitting on that plane and I'm
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to me is like, you're literally
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I know, like you don't understand. It's getting to me though, But

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yeah, and so when you ask
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thought, no. Summer four foot
two, this is an episode I really

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want to talk about because it's it's
got the gags right, Like, we

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know the gags that make this episode
as good as it is. You know

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that everybody's talked about the Dud for
years. We've seen we've seen a smiling

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home or gift. There's so many
different things from this episode that people remember.

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But the heart is really what made
me want talk about this. Yeah,

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definitely. And that's what's great with
The Simpsons is particular episodes like this

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you enjoy it as a kid,
when you grow up and become an adult

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and become a father and things like
that, and you reflect upon when you

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were a kid, it's like,
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so much more relatable the older I
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in particular, Lisa's going through because
you said that Lisa episodes, you know,

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people tend to not not like them. They think she's annoying. But

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in this one, as he says, she's going through something that many of

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us go through when we're growing up. And I love the line where she

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says being myself didn't work. Being
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wasn't meant to have friends. And
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that situation. Oh yeah, for
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go through kind of that impastor syndrome, right where like we think that nobody

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likes to realize and we've got to
do something else for people. And yeah,

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I've been there as a as an
individual, I think everybody's been there.

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And again, maybe I didn't like
this episode of my youth because I

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was still going through that and as
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and see Lisa struggles with it and
her ability to kind of find herself in

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the end, it's it's a great
story. It's funny. I mean every

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particularly when you're a young person or
a teenager. Yeah, every new social

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situation, you think it sort of
provides you with a chance to be a

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blank slate, you know, and
to reinvent yourself. But you can't really

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do that. It's the old saying, no matter where you go, there

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you are. But I mean even
you know, the start of a new

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school year as well, you think, Okay, I've had you know,

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this amount of time to you know, I've changed. You know, I'm

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coming back as the new guy Davis, all, the new Lisa Simpson or

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whatever. But I don't know,
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and attitudes and traits and whatever that
make you who you are. You can

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never really truly reinvent yourself. Yeah, I think this episode two it helps

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you reflect on school holidays of the
past, like some of a vacation for

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you will, you know, making
new friends that you probably were never going

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to see again. That's what happened
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Because this is before social media.
You know, now you can just

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stay in touch. But did you
have moments of your in your childhood where

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you went on a holiday with family
whatever, and you became friends of people

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at the time that you felt like
they're gonna be friends forever. But when

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you left your life, you just
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I didn't really. We didn't take

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vacations too often a kid because we
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money. My dad hated flying,
same and so exactly the same. My

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dad wouldn't get on the planet.
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a vacation for us was like we're
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spend the summer Grandma's Yeah, and
so like you know, those for the

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most part, um, But I
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remember times now that I'm thinking about
it. In hindsight, We're like I

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took like a summer karate class,
and I made friends in that class.

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You know, I thought it was
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vibe on this because we're all power
Rangers fans who love martial arts because it's

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the nineties. And then all of
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again, never see that person again, don't even remember their name, and

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we moved on with life. But
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thing now that I think about it. Speaking to Power Rangers, So you

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sold the new film as well.
I enjoyed it. I'll watched it with

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my son. He enjoyed it as
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The funny thing is my son we
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of it, my son and I, and it came out while he was

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at school, and I was like, I'm just gonna watch this and then

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pretend I've never seen it, and
so I watched it by myself. It's

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all the whole thing. Then he
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I was dead. Can we watch
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yeah, son, I've never seen
this before. And we sat down and

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watched the whole thing, and by
the end, it's it's one of those

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things where like he's asking questions,
but he's asking them in a way where

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he doesn't think I know, And
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readA took over Alpha's body. I
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did look at that pot Rangers genius
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Yeah. When when I first come
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My son, he's four, Tommy. Just guys, that's the old ones.

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You're so excited. But I'm getting
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are you What are your earliest memories
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a kid, What are you some
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I can just remember the show being
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right, Like I remember Butterfinger commercials
and things along those lines. Like I

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just remember bart being like this institution
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was something that was can't miss.
I remember those Thursday nights I had to

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watch it, and you know,
I remember to my brother, I used

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to take the lyrics of the Lisa
her teeth. They're big and greens.

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I make fun of my brother and
I go, Curtis, see they're big

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and green. And that was like
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like Simpsons, I think, honestly, all through my childhood, especially shaped

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my entire sense of humor. I
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a day minimum, make a Simpsons
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understand what I'm referencing in my day
to day life, but it's completely shaped

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my upbringing. It shaped my just
who I am. Like just thinking about

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earliest memories, like I remember watching
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first second season stuff and Doctor Marvil
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All of that I remember or seeing
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it's just been an institution my whole
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that. Um, yeah, you
know, you're in the presence of someone

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cooler or someone who's on your frequency
if you can drop a line and they'll

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they'll pick down what you they'll pick
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it's like a secret handshake in some
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the cool club. Oh yeah,
My My go to is where I will

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grab a spoon and go you call
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look at me like I'm crazy,
then I know, Okay, this isn't

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somebody who's on my frequency. But
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not a knife, that's a spoon, and then I go, so you've

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played knifey spooney before and like that, that's how I know I have absolutely

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gotten on the level of somebody that's
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happening more and more now where people
don't get Simpsons references because obviously we grew

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up with the show, but the
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there's an entire generation of people out
there who didn't necessarily grow up with the

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show. And it's just but that's
just mind boggling to me. I know,

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the Simpsons is life. Isn't it
like what? I haven't ever seen

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it? I'm like, what,
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to me when somebody doesn't know the
Simpsons. And I know I have many

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people in my life who don't know
the Simpsons. So yeah, well my

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wife, my wife, she's you
know, ten days younger than me.

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She's seen less than ten episodes of
The Simpsons in her life. Oh how

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have you stayed married? She's an
incredible lady. Trust me. I kid

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my wife. Like the first time
I showed her steamed hands and she didn't

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laugh. I was so disappointed.
I didn't even see a smile crack.

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Then I just thought, what is
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like I showed my wife because we
do a South Park podcast as well,

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and one of the latest episodes of
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It's the Harry and Egan episode when
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obviously my wife's from the UK,
so big on the Royals, and I

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don't say anything bad about the Royals. I was like, it's just so

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funny, you have to watch it. And she's watching it and she's just

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not have been cracking a smile,
and I'm like, what's going on here?

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Like, how are you not on
the floor laughing? I keep breaking

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up. But the Simpsons, you
think it would be kind of a I

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can't miss proposition though, if you're
showing you know, surely this is going

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to appeal why you're not like,
yeah, you're right. It's a good

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topic to a good topic for a
podcast obviously the Simpsons, because in my

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world anyway, everyone likes the Simpsons
or in some way, so everyone wants

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to talk about the Simpsons. But
but yeah, you're getting back to when

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you first started your podcasting. It's
funny how podcasts has become so saturated now.

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When we started it out, there's
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it feels like there's two thousand.
It's like, it's so hard to stand

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out in the podcast where now,
isn't it? Yeah? It is.

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And I always tell people now and
they ask me my advice of you know,

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how do I stand out in the
wrestling world? How do I stand

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out with the wrestling podcast? And
the thing my biggest piece of advice to

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anybody is that I always say,
you have to bring you right because at

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the end of the day, another
wrestling podcasts and have you And in the

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same sense, the other Simpsons podcast
don't have Dando and guy do they like

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they don't have you guys? They
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of the day, that's how that's
the thing you guys bring to the table

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more than anything else. Was the
thing I used to when we're first doing

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the show to get a guy,
and I was like, I'd cut out

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the personal stories and then the sinens
a guy. Now we want more of

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that. We want to know more
about you and my business. A Simpsons

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showed like, yeah, the Simpsons
is good, but we want to listen

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to you talk about the Simpsons in
your life. You know That's exactly.

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Yeah, that's the biggest lesson I
learned is that, you know, I

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didn't want to be like a news
breaking podcast, right because anybody can do

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that. Too much negativity in that
as well. Yeah, but on the

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other side of that, and that's
not to say that I'm not want to

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believe that there's like anything particular really
special about me. But it's just the

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fact that it's me. That's what
I'm selling here, That's what I'm offering

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because that is the one thing I
know I have to offer that nobody else

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has to offer, is that it's
only one me. Although I did recently

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tell the story of how I got
my new Twitter handle, and that was

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via uh basically stalking somebody else named
will Washington and getting him to give him

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the Twitter handle and it was great
and I have it now. Did you

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also get his lunch money? Uh? No, he was really he was

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kind. Did you hear this story
at all? I haven't heard this episode

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yet not. Yeah, all right, so yeah, I told it on

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my last, the very last podcast
it is. But uh, you know,

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my Twitter handle at the moment is
William rbr Um because I hosted rbr

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forever. But like I I've wanted
the Twitter account will Washington for years I've

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been after that for a very very
long time, and I always check in

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on it, and whoever registered the
account made like two tweets back in twenty

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ten and then just walked away from
the account. And then yeah, and

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it just annoyed me. And I
check in on it maybe like once a

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month for the last like fourteen years, just like I just want this account.

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And so I did some digging and
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account. I found this person's email, and then the process of finding the

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email, I also found a phone
number. And I had gone and gotten

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some advice on you know, how
should I approach this person? Should I

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send him an email? And so
that's what I did. I send no.

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So I started to type out an
email basically just explaining where I'm at

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in my career and how people who
have been trying to tag me and stuff

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constantly tag this account and I could
really use the account that you're not using,

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and that I'll even offer your compensation
for it. And I started to

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type all this out, and I
thought, I wonder what this phone number

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is, like is it a business? Because it was listed publicly, so

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I was like, is it a
business? Whatever? So I was like,

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let me just call it and see
what happens before I send this email.

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And I called it and a guy
answers, this is Will and I'm

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like, oh crap, and I
said, no, this is Will.

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Yeah. I was like, this
guy sound really weird, but my name's

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also Will Washington, and uh,
you're you have a Twitter account and he

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goes, I don't have a Twitter
account and I was like, well that's

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the thing. You're like registered a
Twitter account like fourteen years ago. And

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then like, I haven't really touched
it, but your user name is Will

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Washington and I could really use it. And this was an older guy.

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He was probably sounded like he was
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like, oh, yeah, I'm
never gonna use that if you want to

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take it. And I was like, oh my god, was this that

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easy? Yeah? I was like, the got money. I thought I

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could have called this guy like fourteen
years ago and been fine. And he

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goes, yeah, if you want
to take it. So I walked him

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through transferring the account to me,
did not even transfering the account to transfer

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me the handle, and it took
we were done with that call in less

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than five minutes. Wow. And
the stars of us all aligning for you,

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isn't it right? And so Well's
I was like, is there anything

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I could offer you? And he
goes, I mean, if you want

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to, And so I paid him
fifty bucks and uh, he goes,

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I just made fifty dollars for answering
the phone. This has been the easiest

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fifty dollars I've ever made in my
life for an account I was never going

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to use again. And U And
on the other side of that, I

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got a Twitter handle I've been after
for a long long time. So my

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account is I'm in possession of both
right now, Will Washington is on my

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spare account. But by the time
anybody hears this, I will probably have

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changed to will Washington as my main
handle. How do you do that?

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Do you have to delete the original
one so you can then create I'll make

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yours the new one. How does
it work? Yeah? I have to

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basically change one to change, like
change them at the same time. Yeah,

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And so I'll have two tabs open
changing my Twitter handles and then that's

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it. Yeah, it's all just
all working out for you. It's amazing.

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Everybody wins. Everybody wins, indeed. But let's get back to m

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to some of a four foot two. So I thought this episode here,

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it's quite sad though, in the
sense that Lisa she makes these great friends,

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but going forward she just becomes that
loser again, you know, like

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these these friends never reappear. I
think that's a sad part of the story.

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Yeah, I guess I never really
thought about that. But to be

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fair, the lesson we were supposed
to get out of this was that Lisa

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was comfortable in her own skin going
forward. It didn't really matter about the

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friends necessarily, as long as she
was good just being Lisa. And I

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think as long as we came away
with that and we eat, you know,

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she never really uh can I think
of any other episodes where she went

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through a personality shift in the first
season as moaning Lisa, where she made

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splitting gums and she's just she's just
sad all the time. Remember that one,

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Yeah if you if, We'll be
here for you, and she's just

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like, oh thanks, sim big
Embryce in to kind like that's one of

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my favorite Lisa moments ever. Yeah, oh yeah, it's very good.

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But yeah, just thinking about how, you know, I think she took

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the lesson to heart. As a
character that we never really see her again

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attempt to be someone she's not because
we know that. I mean, that's

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not true. I guess she went
to college and she um, she pretended

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to be a college student. So
I take back everything I just said there

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now, but post like season ten
continuity at the win, yeah, you

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know, not going please well oh
yeah, because actually it's just funny you

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mentioned that, because you know,
Principle on the Pauper is like one of

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the most hated up pisodes of the
show, but it has some of the

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best gags. Like, there are
so many good gags in that episode that

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it is almost worth how much it
broke the continuity of the show to have

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Principal Skinner be arm in Tanzarian.
The fact that we're now reviewing up to

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a season seventeen, I've mellowed a
lot when it comes to continuity. I

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think they've just broken me down by
reviewing these episodes. I mean I used

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to be I used to hate Principle
in the Pauper. Actually, know what,

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when I first watched it, I
was too young to care. I

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remember, I know, when,
as you know, social media became a

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thing. I was like eighteen nineteen
and one's like I asked the worst episode,

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but I remember being like ten when
it came out, and I was

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like, it's fine, It's just
it's just as soon as the episode.

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Why are you getting so angry about
it? Yeah, And I was never

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one of those ones that hated either. But I'm probably about the same age

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body about thirty five now, yeah, okay, and I'm thirty five,

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so that's uh so Yeah, I
remember when that episode hit, and again,

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there's many good gags in it that
that was all I cared about at

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the time, was it made me
laugh, you know those? Yeah,

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that's that has some of my favorite
Ralph moments of uh you know Mishoover,

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which one is oral out of your
mouth, Ralph Mishoover, which one is

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one like this? All of those
are so good, uh and so yeah,

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and then Ralph, like Ralph makes
that episode for me. Ralph and

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his uh his description of Principal Skinner
at the at the assembly the celebration,

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Yeah, the celebration, that's what
it was, at the celebration of Principal

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Skinner. Um. All of it's
very very good. So yeah, sure,

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it completely shatters the idea of principal
skinner being um, you know this

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uptight loser. Uh. And but
on the other side of that, who

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cares? It's funny. Yeah,
that's that's my one ant. Did it

406
00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:56.039
make me laugh? Sure? That's
all. That's all that is. Now,

407
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.880
that's the thing. I think.
There's a very specific personality top the

408
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.880
it's really bunched up, a bad
continuity and that kind of thing. I

409
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:06.839
mean to be fair, and I
just took a job in a w and

410
00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:11.200
that's just all that continuity. Yeah. What else liked about this episode was

411
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:15.960
that has the fantastic emotional core,
but there's some great slapstick comedy in there

412
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:18.440
as well, like we've mentioned obviously, like Homer and the Dude and things

413
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:21.200
like that, but just Homer with
the fireworks in the oven. That was

414
00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:22.079
like Pete comedy for me when I
was a kid. I just thought that

415
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:26.119
was hilarious. Beer. Yeah,
Yeah, that's very very good. Dishwasher

416
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.480
checks it in. Yeah, Yeah, that one's good. Um, there's

417
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.240
some good references in it. Yeah, thinking about you know, Bart on

418
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:37.759
the skateboard and you know, Bart
was always seen as this cool product of

419
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.920
the nineties, and there's certain references
here where like what was it where she

420
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.440
says, don't have a cow man
and Marge just like, Bart, you

421
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.759
haven't said that in years? And
that was true, right, yes,

422
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.920
Like that used to be on all
the Simpsons merchandise for those early nineties,

423
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:55.599
and all of a sudden, you
know, here we hit the mid nineties

424
00:28:55.960 --> 00:29:00.640
and none of that was a part
of Bart's character anymore. And so for

425
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.880
March to actually reference that, hey, you haven't like used your catchphrases in

426
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.079
forever, it's actually great stuff.
I mean, it had been actually like

427
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:11.839
four years since he said it to
the episode, and that's why, Yeah,

428
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:14.359
that's what she said that. But
I also love marg is just seemingly

429
00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:22.400
disdained for the Flanders family because she
was like are you And then just with

430
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:27.000
that with what Ned and it obviously
Ned's coming in with one of them.

431
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.680
It was in this episode. Yeah, yeah, it was honestly a nice

432
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:40.359
departure from who we've known March to
be for her to suddenly have this annoyance

433
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:45.240
and that was great stuff. Um. And then honestly, I think this

434
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:52.119
is probably like peak Millhouse this specific
episode. Uh has you know, we

435
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.599
we already touched on the dud.
Obviously that's that's overdone. But Millhouse just

436
00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.920
being dragged along on this trip,
or a Navy dragon being the tag along

437
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:06.880
on this trip is such a great
gag at every single turn, just popping

438
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:08.480
up. But one of my favorite
lines was, no, they must have

439
00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:17.640
seen you so great, so great, But I thought, I thought they

440
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:19.720
really sort of captured the vibe of
just being on a summer vacation as well.

441
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:23.759
Yeah, particularly because you know,
there weren't many non Simpsons characters in

442
00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:26.839
this episode, just at the very
start. We obviously had Millhouse there to

443
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.319
sort of keep things sort of grounded
a bit, but it was a new

444
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.839
setting and apparently it was based on
Kept cod That's where a lot of the

445
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.359
writers for the show had they visited. That's where they based it on,

446
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:41.079
and the house was the beach house
particular, was based on the then Show

447
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.319
Who runner Josh Weinstein's parents house in
New Hampshire, which writers would visit all

448
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.519
the time when they're doing like riding
camps and things like that. They're going

449
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.400
a trip and all sort of go
there and pitch ideas for the next season,

450
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:52.960
and that's where they's always played board
games. That's where they got the

451
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:57.039
Mystery Date board game idea as well, understandably, So that's a damn us

452
00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:00.119
beach house. It's a very nice
beach house. Yeah, indeed, any

453
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.480
more brain busters. Now we look
to play a game here, Will,

454
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.759
I thought, will we play it
with Will? Will we not? And

455
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:08.880
then I saw that the air date
of this episode, and I thought,

456
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:11.079
I can't pass this up. So
what we do is we say the air

457
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.359
date of this episode and guy here, guys had thirty plus years in in

458
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.640
the film and TV reviewing industry,
so he knows everything there is about film.

459
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.960
But I say to him, what
were the top three films at the

460
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.119
US box office the week that this
episode aired? Right? And I give

461
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.000
him a clue. So you're like
this it aired May nineteenth, nineteen ninety

462
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.359
six. As a wrestling fan,
you know what May nineteenth was? Right?

463
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.200
We can't see that date. We
can't. Yeah, no, you

464
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:42.839
can't see that date. I mean
I was a big Kane found as a

465
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:45.480
kid growing up, but I was
thought so May nineteenth, nineteen ninety six,

466
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.759
ten years exactly before the release of
See No Evil on Hunt two thousand

467
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:55.319
and six. So the top three
films. The cluef for number one is

468
00:31:55.400 --> 00:32:00.799
Disaster The Clufe number two is spy
and the Klouef number three is mammal.

469
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.160
I'll see if will can guess those
first, and if not, the give

470
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:08.720
guy crack so disaster film Spy and
mammal disaster film Twister Twister. Yes,

471
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:14.680
okay, you said spy. Yeah, it's not Golden Eye, is it.

472
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:19.839
No, it's not good guess though, uh ninety six? Mission impossible?

473
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.440
Correct? Well done? Yes,
okay, And what was the third

474
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:29.000
clue? Mammal mammal babe? No, no, no, not babe.

475
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:35.599
More about the water, mammal of
the water. Yeah, but ninety six,

476
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.519
yes, in ninety six, I
know that you're like the back of

477
00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:45.119
my hand, um, mammal of
the water, so that my brain immediately

478
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:50.359
goes to whale. Nope, no, little smoother, little friendlier. You

479
00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:52.079
think of trios of horror like ten
or eleven or whatever, and they tried

480
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.359
to kill all the springfield, these
particular lovable things from the ocean. Okay,

481
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.359
so we are talking dolphin, Yes, dolphin, the most famous dolphin

482
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:08.079
of screen fame. I mean so
Flipper, yeah, people was number three

483
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:13.720
the US box office. Flipper movie. Yeah, yeah, I remember the

484
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:17.160
Flipper movie. But what yeah,
yeah, it's a Twister mission impossible,

485
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:22.039
and Flipper the people who couldn't get
into Twister or mission impossible, I had

486
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:27.000
to go see Flipper. I don't
remember Flipper doing that well, so that

487
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:29.480
was I remember the movie. And
that's why I wasn't thinking that, because

488
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.240
like you were like Mammal of the
Water and I'm thinking, well, Free

489
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:36.519
Willie was ninety three. That came
right, Yeah, like Free Willy two

490
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.200
was street to VHS, so that
couldn't be right. But I think that

491
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:43.880
did come out in ninety six.
But I don't remember Flipper being that successful,

492
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:45.160
but I guess it was. Maybe
it was the first opening weekend or

493
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.920
something. Yeah, I could see
that the world still had Paul Hogan fever

494
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.000
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504
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:36.800
let's get into the room of the
episode. So the original air day of

505
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:38.719
Summer four for two May nineteenth,
ninety ninety six, written by Dan Graeney,

506
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:42.519
directed by Mark Kirkland, and the
couch gag is the one where the

507
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.480
couches a fax machine and the family
come through on the piece of paper.

508
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:50.400
Use three times in season seven that
couch gag really yeah, yeah, I

509
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.599
mean, and there are some repeats
around that point. Yeah. And but

510
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:54.840
in the same season you thought they
would have sort of shaken it up a

511
00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:58.679
bit, right, Oh maybe,
I mean, this was the last episode

512
00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:00.920
of the season, so I imagine, yeah, as you're wrapping up the

513
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.440
season is if there was ever a
time to repeat one at the very end,

514
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:07.320
it's probably it. And this was
when it comes to finalogy. This

515
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.760
was a great one to go out
with, wasn't it. This feels like

516
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:14.360
a season finale, don't you reckon? Yeah, especially when you think about

517
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:17.440
where the episode starts, right,
it starts as we're ending the school here,

518
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:22.000
and in this case, we're ending
the season. And if you were

519
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.800
ever to do a summer vacation type
of EPO, excuse me, a summer

520
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.280
vacation type of episode, I don't
think there's a better opportunity to do it

521
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.960
than at the very end of the
season. Yay, Bart, Summer's almost

522
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.559
here. Which kind of sprinkler do
you like? The one that goes like

523
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:47.320
this, Oh, the one that
goes like this. Oh, hen,

524
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:54.400
there's this one the last day of
school, mill House trying to show some

525
00:35:54.519 --> 00:36:01.480
dignity. This is an iconic gift, this sprinklers icond of I'm gonna say,

526
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:07.280
I am team Yeah, you gotta
be. I wasn't a huge fan

527
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:08.320
of this moment, but looking back
now, I'm just like, it's just

528
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.760
so Millhouse. This moment is I
mean, everything about this moment is Millhouse.

529
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:19.159
Like I said, Millhouse is.
This is peak Millhouse in this episode.

530
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.519
I mean, even in this opening
scene, when you think about everything

531
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.519
about this, well, yeah,
the sprinkler stuff, and then what you're

532
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:31.639
about to get into which was him
running out of the classroom. Up your

533
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:37.360
eyes, bubble, which is what
you wanted to say to all your teach

534
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:42.800
us when you were a kid.
But but yeah, it was weird all

535
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.039
waiting at the start with the ice
cream trucks and everything, like what are

536
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:45.719
they doing at the start of the
school day? But it works for the

537
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:51.000
gag, But Martin's tipped him off. Now we're in the yearbook office and

538
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.559
it says on the door, immortalizing
your awkward phase, and they're going through

539
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:58.360
Retrospectacus, a great title for the
book, and then she opens them up.

540
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.599
I love the way and she slashed
the top book. Because I used

541
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:02.840
to work at a toy place well
constantly opened up boxes, and those first

542
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:06.760
few days I wrecked so many action
figure boxes by cutting the top of the

543
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:09.320
box with a Stanley knife, as
opposed to just you know, because you're

544
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.400
a big collector, you know,
to open up the boxes properly. Oh

545
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.480
yes, definitely that. And I
worked retail, so it was one of

546
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.719
those things where we knew not to
do that. But and then we get

547
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:24.239
a few friends here, like Beasy
and the girl like the smell of benzine,

548
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:28.639
so Lisa has friends that we've never
met before. Who are these kids?

549
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:32.599
Yeah, I mean I think they
wanted to establish that there is a

550
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:39.320
presence for Lisa that even in school, she doesn't necessarily find herself vibing with

551
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:44.119
They do appear once more. They're
not speaking role though. It's the episode

552
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.239
The Old Man and the Lisa where
she helps him do the recycling plant and

553
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:50.199
they're part of the Junior Achievers Club. Just sitting down in the group there.

554
00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:52.480
I got to say, I related
these kids very much. Look at

555
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:59.079
a sub editor by trade, so
layouts and fonts are I would be all

556
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.440
over. There's like a what is
your favorite font, mister Davis. Look,

557
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.800
it's it's very straight up to say, yeah, hell Veedica. But

558
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:12.559
look I'm a Calibri guy. If
i'm if, I'm just writing it on

559
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.960
every day. So yeah, Caulibri
is my is my font of choice?

560
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.639
Shall we say? Alrighty? So
the school has now ended discussing the assassination

561
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.159
of Lincoln. I just love the
stain of teaching from Mishoover. She just

562
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.639
never cares. But you can imagine
this is what it would be like having

563
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:30.039
to teach in Springfield. Oh yeah, Old Ralph, just you know,

564
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.639
hanging on that you got this cliffhanger
about the fate of Lincoln. Go home,

565
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:40.760
Ralph. In the beginning of the
school year, EGP received a colored

566
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:46.840
ticket. I hope everyone still has
theirs. You've joined me, you boss,

567
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:52.000
mister Estes, the publications advisor.
I educate the whole thing. If

568
00:38:52.000 --> 00:39:00.880
you end joining some other loser would
app so quick milking it. Yeah,

569
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.880
just episizing that nobody appreciates all of
her efforts. She thinks she's doing a

570
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:05.760
good thing, but no one seems
to care. And then I thought it

571
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.400
was really sad because when she says, can you sign my yearbook? And

572
00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:10.599
everyone's in a circle and they're passing
it around, She's standing there so excited

573
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:14.639
waiting to receive it. I can
imagine how heartbroken you would have been opening

574
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:16.000
up and getting nothing. But it's
a good setup for the payoff at the

575
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:19.559
end, though, isn't It's really
well up? Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

576
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.960
I think that moment really helps telegraph
a little bit of you know,

577
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:29.599
imprinting that moment in your brain and
giving you the feeling of sadness of what

578
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:34.239
Lisa's feeling in that moment. I
think is really important to really play up

579
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.079
how emotional the ending of the episode
really is. But this episode is really

580
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:42.159
really good at that whole setup payoff
thing, not just in this overriding one,

581
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:45.599
but even just in some of the
gags. I mean this, You

582
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:47.280
get to a bit in them in
just a second where you know, but

583
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.920
signing yearbooks, he's got the got
the queue where he's giving off not personalized

584
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:57.280
messages but just straight a bordographed but
the girls saying, oh, he writes

585
00:39:57.320 --> 00:40:00.559
the way people talk. And then
a little later on you've got the Flanders

586
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:06.719
nowed like he actually wrote did.
I thought it was fantastic, but my

587
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:08.079
favorite of all this And I'm sorry
I'm cutting ahead a little bit, but

588
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:15.599
the whole buying all the traditionally embarrassing
stuff at the James, I'm sorry,

589
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:17.360
not the jam up the little value
me yeah, yeah, and yeah,

590
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:22.039
just a scene or two late with
mine saying I don't know where you got

591
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.360
planning for him up, but can
me out I that joke missed me as

592
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:27.679
a kid, and I watched it. I watched it several years ago.

593
00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:30.119
I was like, that is an
awesome gay you missed it as a kid,

594
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:37.559
and it just hits the Ball's eyes
are grown up. So it's probably

595
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.679
one of my favorite margin lines ever. It is so great. But but

596
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:44.320
Lisa, she doesn't get it.
Actually, I'm being the super nerd that

597
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.440
I am. She opens up and
it lists all of her achievements very very

598
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:49.880
quick blink and you miss a gag. But I wrote out all the things

599
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:52.559
that that she's achieved, so it's
junior overachievement. Most hand raises in a

600
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:58.559
semester seven hundred and sixty three,
most popular student, sister spelling, beak

601
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:06.320
spelling by Queen two, part of
the camera club Head, shutter Bug,

602
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:10.920
tidiest, lockup in brackets, unopposed, student you're most like to get,

603
00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:15.280
student you most like to copy off, and then bathroom timer as well as

604
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:19.880
you mentioned. So yeah, there's
so many hidden, hidden jokes in the

605
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:22.599
Simpsons that when you're kid, obviously
this is before you could freeze frame anything.

606
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:23.440
It's just yeah, I love it. I love that they paid that

607
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.199
much attention as almost like no ahead
of their time. They knew at some

608
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:29.960
point people are gonna be able to
freeze frame this ship and enjoy it.

609
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.079
Omer I'm in a rhubarb of a
pickle of a jam here i was all

610
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.280
set to go off on vacation when
I get called up for jury duty.

611
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.719
Oh, HiT's a carker of a
case. Seems a man drove up onto

612
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:45.480
a traffic allen and hit a decorative
robot full of geraniums. Now they're trying

613
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.599
it as a maritime offense. So
any who, how'd you like to use

614
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:52.800
my beach house free of charge?
I only get two weeks of vacation a

615
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:57.280
year, and you want me to
spend it in your allergy beach out.

616
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:01.480
Well, if it'll seal the deal, I'll take a look at your septic

617
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.840
tank, see if I can get
her humming again. She Flanders, You

618
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:10.440
give a little, you get a
little. Hello, mister brown Ground,

619
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.920
what's your god for me? But
I love that he's offering this like he's

620
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.320
home is doing something for him,
and Homer giving him the wind up during

621
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:23.360
the jury journey story and he says, you know, he'll offer to take

622
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:29.280
septic tank to seal the deal,
and that's just horrific. Yeah, this

623
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.519
is also like it's a very quick
gag, but it is again just the

624
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:37.400
epitome of Homer and ned Flanders and
their relationship and Homer taking and taking and

625
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:44.960
taking and Ned in this case,
like but Homer making it an annoyance that

626
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.079
he has to take from Ned in
this case, and it's it's so great.

627
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.880
But she much says he's sure the
Flanders won't be there, so she

628
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.880
agrees, but he's gonna invite mealhouse. Lisa, she says, invite some

629
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.880
friends as well, but she doesn't
have any. She's packing a suitcase.

630
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:01.320
And this is an another great margin
line, so she says, Gov down,

631
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:05.360
and he's even even he's kissed more
boys than I have girls, Lisa,

632
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:12.840
boys kissing girls, like you can
still do that line in twenty twenty

633
00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:17.320
three and still be funny, you
know, because it's just so much man,

634
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.840
because it's funny as apparent now apparent
I've got a four yearld and a

635
00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.519
two year old. Sometimes, Aliott's
like, you know, it's about wearing

636
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:27.119
dressed, like girls wear dresses,
not boys, And I'm like, how

637
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:29.599
am I supposed to approach this?
Now? I'm supposed to say it's okay

638
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.159
for boys to wear dress, like
like it's it's so new, and I'm

639
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:34.360
just like, you know, you
just wonderwear dude, don't give a ship.

640
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:38.639
Yeah that's been yeah exactly, Yeah, no, because I haven't a

641
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:42.519
those I don't know. I have
an eleven year old, yeah, she's

642
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:45.440
gone on twelve. I have my
daughter will be twelve this year. My

643
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.320
son will be nine in a month, and so yeah, you know those

644
00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:53.440
Yeah, those those topics come up
quite a bit, and you know,

645
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.679
it's obviously a very, very different
approaching it would have been in the nineties.

646
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:04.199
But again I agree with you that
Marge's approach here in general, it's

647
00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:08.400
still it works in twenty twenty three
because it fits who Marge is, just

648
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:14.800
somebody who is wistfully unaware. I
just love them though at nine it's just

649
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:22.360
so savvy about the sex life of
Gormada. But yes, so she decides

650
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:24.599
she's not going to pack anything.
It's very un Lisa. And then another

651
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:28.239
payoffs shiho. She says, a
microscope at the beach? What was I

652
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:30.800
thinking? And then one of the
lines that one of her friends writes in

653
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.039
her book at the end is next
time, bring your microscope, So it's

654
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.159
another playoff there to that. Yeah, so yeah, they're all waiting in

655
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.280
the car or before we actually get
that, though, we get the nice

656
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.960
moment between Marge and Lisa where she
says you know, I always dreamed that

657
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.880
my daughter would be my best friend, and she know we are best friends

658
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:47.480
mom, But sometimes it's going to
be a kid. And as a father

659
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.559
again, I am dreading the day
where I'm no longer cool to my kids.

660
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:54.079
I mean, your kids are nine
and nearly twelve. Have you had

661
00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:58.360
that moment yet where you're no longer
like the best PoCA At the moment,

662
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.880
my kid is my son just wants
to hang out and play Possible with me

663
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.119
old day every day. Or my
son still wants me around and like you

664
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:07.280
know, he's always asked me,
he wants to play, he loves to

665
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.880
wrestle, like that's our thing.
My daughter, on the other hand,

666
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:15.320
has definitely reached the point where she
answers her cell phone and goes, yeah,

667
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.599
my dad's around, I'll have to
call you back, and so definitely

668
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.039
there. Now they Simpsons, your
kids, what did you have you sort

669
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:25.480
of like falc upon them? Or
is it just because I feel like the

670
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:29.480
nine and a twelve year old they
wouldn't have really grown up with the showing

671
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:30.440
because now we don't we get to
pick and choose what we want to watch

672
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.880
when we watch it. Thanks to
streaming, have they discovered the Simpsons or

673
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:38.159
is it just through you? They've
basically watched it through me because there's it's

674
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:43.199
always on in the background. I
can pick my My go to if I'm

675
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:47.119
in a bad mood is if I
can pick any episodes between about seasons three

676
00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:52.679
and season eight, I know I'm
going to be very happy. I know

677
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:58.039
that something's going to improve my mood, and I will spend the rest of

678
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:01.000
the day okay, And so I
do. I there will always be Simpsons

679
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:04.280
on in the background, and so
they know a lot of the gags.

680
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.920
I think if I called my daughter
in the room right now, and I'm

681
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:10.119
not going to do that because past
their bedtime, but she and I could

682
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:15.079
probably do steamed hams back and forth
because they've seen it that many times.

683
00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:19.840
Like if I said, and um, I'm skinner, we'll see more.

684
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:22.000
I made it spite your directions,
my daughter would know where to go.

685
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.440
Superintendent Chalmers, welcome. I hope
you were prepared for an unforgettable lunchon.

686
00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:29.039
It's been so mains now. I
think it's impossible not to know every line

687
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.039
of that episode right of that scene. Yeah, it's funny being yeah with

688
00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:35.119
them getting Luf you're discussing earlier with
Simpsons quote set this use every day.

689
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:37.800
I think it's just become a point
where sometimes you're quoting something you even realize

690
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:38.920
it's from the Simpsons. It's just
becomes such a part of your life.

691
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:42.719
But whatever my wife says, like
Brendan, you're ready, I'm just gonna

692
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.400
put my shoes on, just comes
out. It's just my go to ye

693
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.519
Oh, that's honestly, that's a
genuine gag for me. And now that

694
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:55.039
you mentioned that, that's the thing
I actually do all the time where I'll

695
00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:59.519
be in my underwear and I'm like, all right, ready to go.

696
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:04.639
He's got and whenever you part the
car, you get out. All right.

697
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:08.239
Remember we're in the itchy lot the
way we're parked. Um. But

698
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:12.360
yeah, so they're all waiting in
the car. But Titans, Millhouse is

699
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.920
straps. He's just like Bart's Millhouse's
best friend. But like is Bart a

700
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:23.000
good friend for Millhouse? Thoroughly abusive
relationship, it really is. But Lisa,

701
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:25.840
she's in packing light maybe just getting
stronger. Well, I have been

702
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:31.480
eating more. That is just no, that's an absolutely terrifying moment. I

703
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:36.280
mean that whole the introduction of teen
tween sas yes, when it's like,

704
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:39.440
oh shit, they're on to me. They know I'm not cool, so

705
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:43.280
they can start talking back to it
was like, oh my god, you

706
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.519
know it's all downhill from here.
They always say good bye to Springfield and

707
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:49.719
then everyone barts go out to his
toothbrush and says bye bye, Lisa Simpson.

708
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:51.760
Great set up for the rest of
the episode. So we come back

709
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:57.719
not on the way towag matdas squormwag
Matters, squorm Setport or something on those

710
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:00.239
lots. It's a long name,
but it's based on the Cape Peninsula where

711
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.320
Josh Weinstein's our parents' house was.
As I said, they arrive at the

712
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:06.920
house and I just love that Ned
is just such a planner. All the

713
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.920
posted notes, like the idea that
he has driven down there in the interim

714
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.239
to put these postss notes and driven
back just so they so they have all

715
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:16.800
these they know where everything is in
the house. But yes, Homer taking

716
00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:20.079
the put food and me putting on
his stomach is great, and fill me

717
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:22.719
with water. Bart stealing Todd's piggy
bank. Of course that's what he would

718
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:27.039
do. And Lisa says that she
forgot to pack and she's much like,

719
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:29.679
that's not like you at all,
she said exactly, And I was like,

720
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.880
I forgot to pack two. But
he improvised outside. The kids busted

721
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.800
the very second he leaves the house. I am my favorite Homer for getting

722
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:43.039
his clothes. Moment I think is
when the woman from the Burless House arrives

723
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.960
and she's like, are you wearing
a grocery bag? I have misplaced my

724
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:52.960
parents. Mom. I'm kind of
trying to go for a different look this

725
00:48:52.079 --> 00:49:00.119
year. Okay, how about this
adorable sun shot. It has a Starfisher

726
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:05.440
and the Fanny and it comes with
its peo, mom, come here,

727
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:15.079
bring money. So where do you
want to show off your new hip Pugs,

728
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.360
the Sherbet Sharp, the Candle District, Big Shoe's tap Water Caffie.

729
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.559
Um, if it's okay with you, mom, I'd rather go find some

730
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:32.199
kids. Okay, you'll be my
friend. I'm never never gonna let you

731
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:36.239
get away. What do you think
of the laser design? The new design?

732
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:38.920
It's very nineties? Yeah, but
of course you know when you think

733
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:43.760
about like, as a matter of
fact, Millhouse says it where says,

734
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:49.880
wow, she looks like blossom,
and you know that was obviously a popular

735
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:53.559
part of Monday Nights in the nineties
of people getting to watch their Blossom and

736
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:59.079
Fresh prints back to back, and
those were kind of fashion icons and so

737
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:02.239
yeah, at the time, I
remember thinking that Lisa did look cool.

738
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:06.159
Well, Blossom and Fresh Prince back
to back, Oh my god, what

739
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:08.760
a double feature they used to come
on back to back in the nineties.

740
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:13.960
That was the Monday night lineup was
you got the Fresh Prince of bel Air.

741
00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:15.360
I don't remember which came on first, but I remember they used to

742
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:22.599
have commercials where both Blossom and Will
Smith were um side by side and they

743
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.440
say, hey, check out Blossom, follow up by the Fresh Prince of

744
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:27.840
bel Air. That's awesome. So
that's what America does, right, is

745
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.840
like putting shows in blocks on TV. We don't do. We've never done

746
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:32.159
that really in a show? Have
we got must see TV? Yeah?

747
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:36.519
And they both with the cool dance
numbers? What were your favorite site comes

748
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:39.079
up the nineties? Will? I
mean, I'm a big Fresh Prince guy.

749
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:44.639
I've seen every episode multiple times.
H and I that's another one of

750
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:47.039
my kind of go tos um.
The saying that always gets shed on social

751
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:51.480
media now is when his dad walks
out again like that is just so powerful.

752
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:55.360
Yeah, yeah, it's very powerful. I there's one specific episode of

753
00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:00.840
Married with Children I've seen so many
times that again, and it is just

754
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:05.679
I throw it on and it's oldies
but young ins and it is the episode

755
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.800
where Al can't remember the name of
a song but he knows not even the

756
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:15.840
melody. He knows about three pieces
of it, and it's him and he's

757
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:19.599
like going around it's being the whole
episode asking people. He's like, hey,

758
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:24.159
tell me if you know this song
mm him and everybody's looking at him

759
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:28.880
like he's crazy. And it turns
out the song is Anna by the Beatles,

760
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:34.639
and it's like go with right.
But the thing is nobody knows what

761
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.840
he's talking about this whole episode,
and it gets funnier and funnier as the

762
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.519
whole episode progresses, and he thinks
he's going mad because he cannot remember him.

763
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:46.760
That's one show that I want to
revisit, his Married with Children,

764
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:50.239
because obviously when I was in the
nineties, I wasn't like to watch it

765
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:52.639
was like, you know, too
raunchy. But I mean, you have

766
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:54.199
found on any streaming services. If
I've got the whole collection on David Ay.

767
00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:57.599
I'm gonna bust it that one day
and rewatch it because it's a show

768
00:51:57.639 --> 00:51:59.760
that I guarantee I'm going to enjoy
a lot more. Is a growing up

769
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:01.719
Yeah, probably, Yeah, I
get the feeling. Back in the day,

770
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:05.840
it was kind of like, oh, this is just that that gross

771
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.000
show that sort of deals in an
outrageous seam or of the I rewatched some

772
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:12.679
clips recently. I'm like, Nail
was kind of doing a masterclass in comedy

773
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.440
acting here. He's really really good. I mean, Katie Skulls fantastic as

774
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.159
well. On the rest of the
cast, a solid that I'm like,

775
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:23.199
holy, can't wait, was doing
some really cool stuff here. He was

776
00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:28.800
so good and yeah, his timing
was great, his insults were excellent.

777
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:34.639
Just honestly, again, it's it's
a show that doesn't hold up in a

778
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:37.679
lot of ways. It is very
of the time, but if you can

779
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.599
put yourself in the time when watching
it, it's it's it's very good.

780
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:45.840
And it gave us the let's have
sex, no peg and flushing the toilet.

781
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:52.360
So at Leasta's now looking for friends. She's at the library. She's

782
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:54.000
like, no, you can't go
in there, and she says, these

783
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:57.280
visions, which I always thought was
just a really weird thing, seeing all

784
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:00.480
these visions in the library with the
had had it with a gun and everything

785
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:04.360
like that, and people long stockings. So she races off and she goes

786
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:08.039
to the pier. M I don't
see any kids at all. It's like

787
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:15.440
they ditched me in advance. So
he goes like, I can totally aar.

788
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:25.239
I'm going that only kids are that
and coherent. So my mom tried

789
00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:30.559
to take me to some candle place, but I'm all like, no way,

790
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:37.480
like you know whatever, like you
you, oh whatever? Hey,

791
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:42.599
what's that? Okay, okay,
okay, not your fault. It's a

792
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.039
bird ding. You don't control the
birds. You will Sunday, but not

793
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:52.039
now. Hi. So who's that? Oh? Some kids? Hey?

794
00:53:52.320 --> 00:54:04.119
I like your hat A compliment scanning
for sarcasm. It's clean. Thanks you

795
00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:08.679
guys. Skate try to the cops
always confiscate our boards. Yeah, and

796
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:12.559
you just know they're using them.
Like five minutes later, down at the

797
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.599
station, I think I know a
place you can skate that spiritually deserted,

798
00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:25.679
like you know whatever, horrible said. She takes into the library and this

799
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:29.280
is where we get bot trying to
be cool and but I was just a

800
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:32.960
really shit brother in this episode.
Wasn't he absolutely heightful this time around?

801
00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:37.880
But I think there's a payoff to
that, and so obviously I think in

802
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:43.000
order to get to the point that
they needed to get to, Bart needed

803
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.320
to be turned up just a couple
of notches, because it really makes the

804
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:52.760
payoff worth it, especially when you
know Lisa has the honey ready to dump

805
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:55.599
in his face. Yeah, of
course that was just a great visual,

806
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:58.920
just like she a little bit of
squeeze at the end. But they also

807
00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:00.719
set it up well the stop where
it's like, no but so popular that

808
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.880
even the principal wants he's seen the
chart, so he's used to be in

809
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:06.280
the popular kid. He doesn't.
He doesn't know how to accept the fact

810
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:08.519
that how can Lisa be the popular
one? That's me? But I'm just

811
00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:12.079
poor meal House getting thrown under the
bus with the They must have seen you,

812
00:55:13.039 --> 00:55:16.280
neal House carrying down by the way, We would be remiss if we

813
00:55:16.360 --> 00:55:23.360
didn't shout out that. Erin is
voiced Bygene's favorite Christina Richie Yes, star

814
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:28.079
of Casper and various other movies.
Nine which film which he did Casper,

815
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:30.440
come out, let's test you will
ninety five ninety five done slipped at me,

816
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:36.239
like, what are you doing?
Dando? Dude? Are you sort

817
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:38.559
of like a nineties expert or just
a film expert in general? I'm a

818
00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:43.159
Deed's expert. That's what I'm like
to I based dates around how I remember

819
00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:45.480
anything. I'm like, so,
what was I doing, Like the second

820
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:46.920
week of No. Ninety five?
I was doing this. It's funny because

821
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:51.119
we're doing a trivia recently and wrestling
Vanie'll get this, and I was like,

822
00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:54.440
what day of the week was,
like January fourth, nineteen ninety nine.

823
00:55:54.440 --> 00:55:57.800
I'm like, hmm, I think
I know this because this is the

824
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:02.320
night that Mick Foley one of absolutely
yeah, that's absolutely Monday. Yeah,

825
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:07.320
in same with like, um My, My most famous story, uh that

826
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:14.840
most of my podcast listeners know is
that when somebody asks me what day did

827
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:16.320
you lose your virginity? And I
go, oh easy, it was January

828
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:19.880
seventh, two thousand and two.
So that was a night Triple H returned

829
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:25.079
at Madison Court Garden, and I
know that no matter what I was doing

830
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:31.840
that day, I had to get
home to watch it was. It was

831
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:36.400
must say television. That one wasn't
it? Yeah it was, But just

832
00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:38.679
what a great build up that head
though, with the Beautiful Day and things

833
00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:42.719
like that beautiful day. Yeah,
yeah, very very good. It's funny

834
00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:45.559
how like you hear song Nanders from
Modulok a wrestling primary, Like if I

835
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:50.559
hed my Way, it's like,
well it's seventeen. That does happen.

836
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:53.960
There's nothing else that that song belongs
to. Yeah, it's even still like

837
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.920
if I hear here without you buy
three Doors Down, I'm like, oh

838
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:02.800
man, Eddie Guerrero like that,
that's uh wrestling. Once they get ahold

839
00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:06.039
of a song, you know,
you there's two types of people in the

840
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:09.039
world. If they here bring me
to life by Evanescence, they'll either think

841
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:13.480
of No Way Out two thousand and
three, or they'll think of Daredevil.

842
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:15.960
Um, yeah, dead Devil.
That's right. And I did not think

843
00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:21.079
of dead Dad as much as I
don't want to think of Dad. Devil

844
00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:23.719
making me think of Dad I am. I was saying to Nicola, it's

845
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:28.000
funny how like, because I haven't
watched w W in a very long time,

846
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:30.599
but I can remember word for word
promos from like the early two Like

847
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:35.000
I can remember where for word the
promo for the match between Cactus Jack and

848
00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:39.000
Triple h at the Royal Rumble two
thousand. How can you forget that that

849
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:45.039
is one of the best build up
packages of all time? Yet our demands,

850
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:49.920
why do we have to play this
lazy old game? Because I was

851
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:53.280
the only one in the house,
opened the door for a mystery date,

852
00:57:55.719 --> 00:58:00.920
kept getting a football team. He's
a dreambo. Don't wait to merge.

853
00:58:01.920 --> 00:58:14.159
Okay, but your turn, your
turn? You got the dune. It

854
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:19.599
looks just like your point, dexter. How come Lisa doesn't have to play?

855
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.480
Why does she get to hang out
with her friends? You got friends?

856
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:24.599
You got the dud right here?
Stand up for yourself, point exter.

857
00:58:25.239 --> 00:58:29.559
This visual heat of Homer the dud
moment. It's become a thing.

858
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:34.000
It's hilarious, but I'm like,
I don't quite see the overall. I

859
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:37.639
get it's funny, but it's like, is it that funny? I think

860
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:44.960
I think the humor in it is
from a ship postings as well. Yeah

861
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.199
yeah, but I think more so
like steamed hams, I think is just

862
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:53.920
a genuinely funny written uh thing,
whereas this was more of a why did

863
00:58:53.920 --> 00:59:00.320
they animate Homer like this and uh
and entity of it and just running with

864
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:05.119
it, and you're almost just it's
a thing you're not even fully paying attention

865
00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:07.639
to because there's so much else happening. Right. You have you know,

866
00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:12.320
the laughing h ha haa, he
got the dud, Like there's so much

867
00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:15.639
else happening, But then you have
Homer just giving this really slow smile.

868
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:22.719
And because people isolated that, it
Ben became the thing that you've noticed now

869
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:27.320
when you go look at it.
I didn't notice this all and all the

870
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.800
time I watched it until the internet
really got ahold of it, and now

871
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.440
I can't unsee it. I honestly
think I was just distracted by just the

872
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.159
absolute glee that the Julie Kepnert brings
to that line, if You've got the

873
00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:43.679
Dud, I'm sorry that it's one
of the best markets. Just so happy.

874
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:49.000
But just the whole dynamic between between
Harmer and Madge when they're playing that

875
00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:52.480
game is great. I mean,
I love the they whole vibe this episode.

876
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:54.360
I mean, just him, Oh, you got the football player,

877
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:59.840
He's a dream boat. Don't wait
up much. I think that's so sweet.

878
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:01.360
Uh yeah, but you've got the
data as well, and yeah,

879
01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:05.880
it took really until this episode that
was like, oh, yeah, that

880
01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:08.079
is weird. Yeah, I just
think it's it's funny that Millhouse has been

881
01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:12.800
become a punching bag for Homer as
well. Stand up for yourself, pointdexter.

882
01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:15.719
But lease, it's now down the
rock pool with all the c junk

883
01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:20.639
and she finds a Hemmet crab and
she nearly let's slip here at her true

884
01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:22.920
self, you know, gift from
my favorite crustacean. And she says that

885
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.920
she heard that on Baywatch, which, um, I never watched Baywatch obviously

886
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:30.320
it's too young for it. But
look were you were ever a Baywatch fan.

887
01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:34.960
I wasn't a particular Baywatch fan.
I was more so a fan of

888
01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:38.480
just in general daytime syndicated television or
weekend syndicated television, I should say,

889
01:00:39.280 --> 01:00:45.559
because all of that stuff, Highlander
and even Mortal Kombat Conquest, little things

890
01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:49.320
along those lines, like those shows
that you watched in the middle of the

891
01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:53.119
afternoon that didn't have like the highest
production value, like the reboot of Adam

892
01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:57.360
twelve, like stuff like that.
I love those types of shows. I

893
01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.639
don't know. I liked Hercules and
Zena. I was gonna says, yeah,

894
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:05.559
yeah, and Baywatch fell along those
lines where it was a show that

895
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:08.960
I wouldn't go out of my way
to watch as a kid. That's not

896
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:14.719
true now that I think about it, because look, I was nine and

897
01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:19.239
it was like, I just want
to get any type of glance at boobies

898
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:22.480
I can, and then that was
what bay Watch did for me. So

899
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.360
that but like I I don't know, it wasn't a show that I was

900
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:31.119
that I found engrossing. It wasn't
a show I ever got into visually appealing,

901
01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:34.880
that's all it was. Yeah.
So Himmer then arrived at Little Value

902
01:01:34.920 --> 01:01:37.159
Mount Mart, which is sort of
like the only sort of Springfield esque reference

903
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:39.360
we sort of getting the episode where
it's just to take off of Quickie Mart.

904
01:01:39.559 --> 01:01:42.840
He wants to buy some fireworks,
but yeah, just the pornomag,

905
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:45.480
large box of condoms, bottle of
old Harper, a couple of penis shields,

906
01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:49.519
some of the fireworks, and two
disposable animals. Always like, better

907
01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:52.199
make it too Now, apparently this
is a take off of American Graffiti.

908
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:54.159
Gosh if it is, it's been
a while since I watched American Graffiti,

909
01:01:54.239 --> 01:01:58.440
but I have to go back and
check that out because it's a fantastic movie.

910
01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:02.360
But yeah, if it's a shot
at well, it's one that's slipped

911
01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:05.760
me. Bind sort is that?
So he takes him at the back and

912
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:09.800
he orders himself an M three twenty. Obviously fireworks a band here will obviously,

913
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:13.679
No, they're not banned in the
states. You can just buy them

914
01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:15.719
wherever you want, Is that right? All know, there's a lot of

915
01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:17.239
places that they're band. They're banned
here in Colorado, Okay, so just

916
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:21.400
sight to state. Okay, Yeah, it's a state by state issue because

917
01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:30.320
Colorado is um notoriously dry, and
so because of that, there's always somebody

918
01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:34.760
who I mean the very next state
over. Fireworks are legal. So literally

919
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:38.840
just drive one state and and it's
only a two hour drive, and so

920
01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:43.119
you make that drive, you get
the fireworks you want. But the problem

921
01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:47.519
is, at least multiple times a
year, especially around the Fourth of July,

922
01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:53.440
somebody will set them off in a
field in dry Colorado. The field

923
01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:59.480
catches fire, and then we have
a massive issue here. And so just

924
01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:04.400
for the same of knowing that dry
grass is more flammable, fireworks will probably

925
01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:07.079
never be illegal. Gee, I
don't know what you've got planned for tonight,

926
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:12.320
Homer, but count me out.
That's just iconic. But Bart,

927
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:15.760
he wants Bart to light his fireworks
for him, but he's out of matches,

928
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:16.800
so he tries to use the stove, and yeah, this is just

929
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:20.280
this is another classic moment. This
is I think he didn't Homer in this

930
01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:22.679
episode purely for the comedy, right, because he brings most of comedy in

931
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.519
this episode, don't you think.
But Millhouse and Homer. Yeah, definitely

932
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:30.280
Milhouse and Homer. Millhouse for being
the punching bag, and then Homer just

933
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:34.880
for this year's stupidity. Yeah,
but not stupidity to the point because we're

934
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:37.039
like season seventeen, they really dumped
Homer down by that point. But this

935
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:39.480
is sort of like believable stupidity,
you know. It's like, yeah,

936
01:03:39.639 --> 01:03:45.880
this is Homer thinking he's got the
right idea and then something goes terribly wrong

937
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:52.239
like lighting it on the stove and
then accidentally lighting too much of the falling

938
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:54.559
out of the fuse and then it
falls off. Yeah, and then I

939
01:03:54.639 --> 01:04:01.400
love the cut to Marge mopping it
up, mopping up the subtle payer and

940
01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:05.760
Aaron. He gives Lisa her first
real friend ship bracelet, so she gives

941
01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:10.760
Aaron a cinema dental flush necklace with
a shell that she found earlier, and

942
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:13.920
is now looking through Millhouse's glasses.
And we get here at Millhouse. I

943
01:04:13.960 --> 01:04:15.960
always thought this was Mealhouse about to
get like screwed over. I thought,

944
01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:19.039
because this thing looks dangerous, but
it's just a horseshoe crab, which aren't

945
01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:21.039
dangerous in any way. But when
I was a kid, I thought,

946
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:25.840
Okay, that thing's gonna bite him
or something. They looked terrifying. Yeah,

947
01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:29.440
and I think the idea was,
at least that it was supposed to,

948
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:33.760
because yeah, I can't think of
any other reason to really make that

949
01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:39.239
gag other than I guess it's just
funny. But I think the idea that

950
01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:44.039
Millhouse was in some type of danger
I think was supposed to be some of

951
01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:45.519
that visual gag, which is why
I thought it was odd that those things

952
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:49.039
apparently aren't dangerous in the slightest But
anyway, but Lisa's now having the time

953
01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:50.800
of her life. They're throwing her
up in the air. She's dizzy,

954
01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:54.880
she's nauseous, but she's popular and
unfortunately, but then a Rise of the

955
01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:58.119
yearbook and what I liked about this
was they never hang shit on her.

956
01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:00.760
That it's more confused or like what
you'll teach his pet and she just thinks

957
01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:03.119
that they are instantly going to hate
for it, so she runs off crying,

958
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:06.519
but really she doesn't give him a
chance to explain themselves. Also a

959
01:05:06.599 --> 01:05:11.159
great direction in that in that scene
as well, just the about you know,

960
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:13.760
approaching more and more each time she's
up, each time she's down.

961
01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:16.079
Yeah. Yeah, it's just really
good visuals on the part of the episode

962
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:19.480
the net eating breakfast, and this
is the scene you mentioned earlier will where

963
01:05:19.480 --> 01:05:23.800
you know Bart's being or smug and
Lisa's got the maple syrup and she looks

964
01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:29.159
terrifying here. Yeah, I mean
you know this is you can see that

965
01:05:29.239 --> 01:05:32.559
this is the point where Lisa's realized
she's got nothing and she'll never have anything.

966
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:40.199
And uh mean, yeah, Bart
has this smugness about him because he

967
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:45.039
feels he's accomplished something. He showed
Lisa that she'll never be as cool as

968
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:51.599
him. And yeah this Lisa absolutely
grabbing the honey and in Bart's face,

969
01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:56.400
Yeah, you ruin my life.
You're nothing but me, not all of

970
01:05:56.400 --> 01:06:00.840
it, very very good. Yeah, yeah great there and then of course,

971
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:08.960
the best gag of it all is
us completely forgetting them Millhouse. Oh

972
01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:16.360
boy, Carnival again. I think
Millhouse added so much to this episode.

973
01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:19.559
Yeah, and I never appreciated that
as a kid. But like I'm looking

974
01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:21.800
back in there for the review,
I'm like, man, this episode without

975
01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:28.119
Millhouse is nowhere near it is funny. No, not so there. Now

976
01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:30.719
at the Carnival, they're spraying the
water at the clouds in the spite of

977
01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:32.400
each other. Don't make me get
the Connie. And then they on the

978
01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:35.960
what we called this ride the wrong
with the spitting. That's called the gravitron

979
01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:41.039
here, what's it called in the
States? Um, I don't know.

980
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:44.159
I was just spitting so fast when
the floor comes out, Yeah, yeah,

981
01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:47.360
because I know I have not been
on one and way too sick of

982
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:51.880
I went on that thing. Yeah, I know somebody died on one and

983
01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:57.039
because they like didn't they were too
close to the center I guess when it

984
01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:01.199
started. And then it basically just
like I am them back and so I

985
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:05.519
know the only one we ever had
was removed and never saw it again,

986
01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:11.679
and going I don't know where one
even is. Now, what are your

987
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:14.280
thoughts on just Carnival rise in general, because I wouldn't have a few when

988
01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:15.519
I was younger. But I'm like, I don't think I want my kids

989
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:17.760
going and these things. I don't
trust that guy that just put this in

990
01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:24.079
together like two hours ago. Yeah, I don't know. I love carnival

991
01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:27.039
rides, I'll say that much like
when they show up like that, that

992
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:32.119
idea is something I agree with,
like in the sense of scrolling social media

993
01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:34.480
and seeing them and I'm like,
oh, those things look terrifying. And

994
01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:42.559
then carnival shows up locally and I'm
like, let's go. Yeaha of the

995
01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:44.320
carnival in town. He gets here, kids, take whatever you want,

996
01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:48.079
did me Mimi mimiming, Yeah,
exactly. I think if we're gonna go

997
01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:50.800
to somewhere like six Flags or whatever, you know, somewhere where it's like

998
01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:54.480
than this is what they do for
a living on a day to day basis,

999
01:07:54.519 --> 01:07:56.599
you know, it's like this is
going to be very professional, very

1000
01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:59.159
safe, or that kind of thing. It's not like you're coloring inside the

1001
01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:01.679
lines. You've got to ride an
accountable that just pulled in the Town's like

1002
01:08:02.079 --> 01:08:04.599
I'm kind of taking my life in
my hands here, and that's the point.

1003
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:08.480
That's the thrill. Yeah, and
I don't know, I just don't

1004
01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:13.320
trust those things. But um but
we're now it's about on the dodging cars

1005
01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.719
and no need to bump. Enjoy
the ride. But Bart smashes Lisa too

1006
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:17.239
hard and she falls out, nest
falls in her hair, and this is

1007
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:20.119
where Bart realizes that he's gone a
little bit too far, and she says,

1008
01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:23.720
no, being myself didn't work.
Being someone else didn't work. Maybe

1009
01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:26.439
I'm just not meant to have friends. And she arrives home and you're meant

1010
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:29.359
to believe that they're pranking her because
Lisa's going to freak out when she sees

1011
01:08:29.399 --> 01:08:31.279
this, but it turns out they're
just riding. Lisa rules in shells in

1012
01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:35.279
the car, and um, yeah, I just a beautiful payoff to this

1013
01:08:35.319 --> 01:08:41.880
story, isn't it. It's a
beautiful payoff, and Lisa's reminded that they

1014
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:45.720
like her for who she is.
You really feel for Lisa here, You

1015
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:49.000
really get this feel for it.
Just it made me feel so good because

1016
01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:54.760
you kind of go back to the
moment of the reveal with the yearbook where

1017
01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:58.399
they find out who Lisa really is, and you're right, there was a

1018
01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:01.039
moment of confused. But to the
viewer, we were supposed to be able

1019
01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:06.600
to understanding that they didn't like Lisa
anymore. So it's almost a payoff for

1020
01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:11.760
you, the viewer as well,
not just for Lisa, to get this

1021
01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:15.880
sense of oh, they these are
good kids and they liked Lisa all along

1022
01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:20.960
that it's even said you can't fake
the kind of person you are exactly right.

1023
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:24.439
And so they're on their way home
before we get that, though,

1024
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.159
we get the great path sweet merciful
crop, which I thought it was just

1025
01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:30.199
amazing when I was a kid.
That's a line I still used all the

1026
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:31.359
time. It's just so good.
Yeah, and I'm the say girls were

1027
01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:34.159
picking the shells off the car on
the way home. But give the yearbook,

1028
01:09:34.159 --> 01:09:36.000
he says, I'll show it to
your friends again. And now they've

1029
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:39.399
all signed it, so the lines
that they write, you made a hot

1030
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:43.039
summer very cool. I'll miss you, that's what Aaron says. Dean says,

1031
01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:46.960
I like I like you. You
know this is from Rick. Rick

1032
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:50.039
says without you summers a bummer,
and Ben says, next time, bring

1033
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:53.119
your microscope, which I thought was
a nice little path off too. She

1034
01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:55.000
didn't want to bring the microscope,
like what are you thinking? And it's

1035
01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:58.840
just next time, bring it again, just reiterate and be yourself. And

1036
01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:00.600
Millhouse signed it too. Whenever we
used to have when all went in an

1037
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:03.520
office, you know, a farewell
cap for someone quitting the job. I

1038
01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:06.319
always did this in the corner,
see you in the car, best wishes.

1039
01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:12.399
It's just the go to for me. But behem and then says,

1040
01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:15.359
take one last look at this beautiful
scenery, throws the buzz cola can at

1041
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:17.000
the window, and then the crab
uses it and that's the end of the

1042
01:10:17.079 --> 01:10:20.560
episode. But yeah, what a
what a fantastic twenty two minutes of television,

1043
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:25.560
As was fantastic twenty two minutes,
And I'm glad I picked this one

1044
01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:30.319
again. This was an episode that
before this year I hadn't given much thought

1045
01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:34.239
to, but just rewatching it on
the plane and all of it hit me,

1046
01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:39.880
especially having a daughter who's in middle
school now and going through maybe what

1047
01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:43.439
Lease is going through. Yeah,
yeah, and you know, knowing how

1048
01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:49.560
how much I watched her from time
to time try to emulate kind of other

1049
01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:54.039
kids and other things that she thinks
other kids want her to be. And

1050
01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:56.920
I always have to tell her just
be yourself. But you know, I

1051
01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:01.920
know it's going to take time for
a pre teenager to see. But watching

1052
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:09.079
that now from the perspective of a
parent and now knowing who Lisa, I'm

1053
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.439
there for you. I see what
you're going through. But I promise you

1054
01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:15.399
it's not as bad as you think. It's funny, we go back and

1055
01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:18.520
revisit some episodes from the Golden era
and like the episode where Skinet and could

1056
01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:21.159
Bopple hook up for the first time. Another episode when I was a kid,

1057
01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:24.319
I didn't really think much of,
but as an adult, I'm like,

1058
01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:28.479
this is just beautiful. Yeah,
oh, it's so good. There's

1059
01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.920
two adultso thought that had nothing and
they find everything in each other. Yeah.

1060
01:11:31.119 --> 01:11:33.680
Oh I love that episode so much, and for that very reason.

1061
01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:39.399
Yeah, it's you know, when
you think about how hopeless Edna's been,

1062
01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:43.680
and I mean literally, you know, we just saw a few seasons prior

1063
01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:48.520
with her and Woodrow, and then
of course Seymour has been awfully pathetic the

1064
01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:51.680
entire time. Yeah, these two
find each other and it turns out they

1065
01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:59.520
like making babies. That's the term
also that I realize I've been using since

1066
01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:06.479
I've seen that episode. That's very
much how I've described sex and that's where

1067
01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:09.800
that comes from. Guys. Just
favorite line, just a bet of all

1068
01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:18.880
time, is the baby looked at
you? Yeah, Clancy is one takeaway

1069
01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:28.760
from that whole thing baby looked deail
here? All right, we've a couple

1070
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:31.079
of mail back questions here from our
listeners. Well you have time for a

1071
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:34.680
couple of male bad questions? Sure
at double denim, he says, where

1072
01:12:34.680 --> 01:12:38.760
does this one rate for you?
Guys? In the panteon of Simpsons vacation

1073
01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:42.640
episodes and what else makes your list? Because I guess this is a Simpsons

1074
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.239
go to episode because you think of
Simpsons go to episodes, you think of

1075
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:48.600
particular countries, but versus Australia when
they go to England or Tokyo, Japan.

1076
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:51.760
I guess this is a go to
one, like Simpsons vacation episode.

1077
01:12:53.039 --> 01:13:00.600
Yeah, it's tougher because the vacation
itself isn't necessarily a big part of the

1078
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.000
appeal of this episode. Like you
we talked about Australia, right, Like

1079
01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:09.199
that is obviously one of the best
ones because of all of the gags that

1080
01:13:09.319 --> 01:13:14.239
center around Australia. Yes, and
same with like the City of New York

1081
01:13:14.239 --> 01:13:18.600
for Summer Simpson, same deal right
where it's very much about New York and

1082
01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:23.600
that's what makes it so good.
It's almost like parodying the location. So

1083
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:29.520
like this one doesn't rank highly as
a vacation episode. It's a laser episode.

1084
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:31.439
Yeah, it's a leasa episode.
I don't really consider this too much

1085
01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:35.640
of a vacation episode. So low
on the vacation scale because that's not a

1086
01:13:35.680 --> 01:13:40.920
big part of the appeal of it, but high on the on the heart

1087
01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:45.039
scale for sure. If someone said
to you Lesa's Substitute or Summer four foot

1088
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:46.680
two, what are you going with, I'm going Summer four foot two?

1089
01:13:47.000 --> 01:13:50.880
Same, Yeah, I'm not a
Lesa's substitute. Yeah yeah, So it's

1090
01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:54.399
give one safe. Both great episodes, but this one he comes from.

1091
01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:56.840
Before you do that down I having
said that, I mean, there is

1092
01:13:57.199 --> 01:14:02.760
they really do now this kind of
tone any upmarket coastal town kind of deal.

1093
01:14:02.760 --> 01:14:04.840
I mean, just just the name
of it, first of all,

1094
01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:09.359
is very easy. You know,
it's just a complete amalgam of all these

1095
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:14.920
these coast coastal places. But I
was looking at them, the quaint little

1096
01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:18.520
shops that they have, and that
one's called term for the worst. There's

1097
01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:23.680
the beach combat to the barbershop,
but my favorite was the news standards called

1098
01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:28.520
Gold Things Considered. I mean where
we are if you go down, like

1099
01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:30.600
to say, to a bow and
heads erosion grove down the down the coast

1100
01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:34.760
of Victoria. There are so many
little places like that where you know their

1101
01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:40.439
gift shops or you know you're just
buy a whole lot of beige house accessories

1102
01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:44.520
that I've got like a five percent
markup. It's insane. Yeah, So

1103
01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:47.239
that, yeah, I know it's
a nice and aspect of this episode that

1104
01:14:47.279 --> 01:14:50.279
it really nails that that part of
the world. This Quesion, he comes

1105
01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:53.840
from Adam Moorehouse. He says for
Will in particular, he says, which

1106
01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:56.880
aw wrestler would you love to give
the catchphrase? Or who would be able

1107
01:14:56.880 --> 01:15:00.600
to execute this correctly and use it
efficiently? Sweet mess a full crap?

1108
01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:06.479
Who uh okay? Who could which
aw wrestler could say that and not make

1109
01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:10.640
it come out comedic? No?
See, I'd wanted to be comedic,

1110
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:15.439
but I wanted to be in a
non comedic setting. So that way it

1111
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.880
comes it, the gravity of it
is felt a little bit stronger. So

1112
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:26.840
uh, let me think about this
for a second, uh because, like,

1113
01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:30.199
I know who does comedy the best
along those lines, But I wouldn't

1114
01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:36.479
want it to be somebody who is
commonly delivering comedy. You couldn't have MJFA,

1115
01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:42.920
could you. Yeah, two corny
for him. I think he's too

1116
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:48.479
much of a slick talker for that. Uhmmm. It's got to be somebody

1117
01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:51.239
who you know, because it's got
to happen when they've got a little bit

1118
01:15:51.279 --> 01:15:56.279
of egg on their face. Maybe
that was that was the person I was

1119
01:15:56.279 --> 01:16:00.560
thinking when I said, somebody who's
good at delivering comedy. Um, mirror

1120
01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:03.319
mirrors might go to on that one. Yeah, that actually would be good.

1121
01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:10.119
Yeah, hopefully when we see him
again. But um, but one

1122
01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:12.159
more question for you, This is
the one we ask for everybody. We

1123
01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:14.880
will let you go have have a
nice sleep. I'm sure you're very,

1124
01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:16.880
very tired after the last few days, but it's the question we ask everybody.

1125
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:20.720
It's it's nineteen ninety eight, so
seasons one through nine I finished.

1126
01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:26.000
You've been asked to put together a
five episode Friday night Simpces marathon on Fox.

1127
01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:31.479
What episodes are you choosing? Oh? Okay, so we're gonna throw

1128
01:16:31.560 --> 01:16:36.800
in summer four foot two, we're
gonna throw in, um March Being Not

1129
01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:42.600
Proud, which I know I watched
that one around Christmas every year. That

1130
01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:45.359
is like one of my favorite moments. That's one of my favorite Simpsons endings

1131
01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:49.119
ever. It's just beautiful. Yeah. But honestly, I mean, Dan

1132
01:16:49.239 --> 01:16:59.640
Breker is such an amazing character.
Fish. There's so many good gags in

1133
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:04.560
that one. That is the king
misdirect character. I think he's so good.

1134
01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:08.960
Um So, yeah, we'll say
Marge being not Proud. We will

1135
01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:15.560
say, uh, the Springfield Files. I love that as a sci fi

1136
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:18.000
fan. He can't post that one. It's so good. Yeah, that

1137
01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:23.680
was very good. Uh so what
I've said three so far? Yeah,

1138
01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:26.399
maybe a Trios of Horror? Which
tress of hard would you be putting in

1139
01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:30.439
there? Oh? Um? Five? Yes, that's the best one,

1140
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:34.239
the Sitting Yeah, uh huh,
yes, you've got the Shinning Uh So

1141
01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:39.479
we'll say that Treehouse of Horror.
And then one more because I've referenced it

1142
01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:42.399
like five times in this episode.
We'll say twenty two short films about Springfield.

1143
01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:44.800
That's my favorite episode of all time. It's just gonna bit of everything.

1144
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:47.560
Yeah, I love the stories I
have that incorporate as much of Springfield

1145
01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:49.840
as possible, and that one just
does it the first. I mean,

1146
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:54.039
that's the beauty of The Simpsons in
general, right, is that I can't

1147
01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:59.239
think of another show where there's so
many characters that I care about. There's

1148
01:17:59.279 --> 01:18:02.319
so many characters as I'm invested in. It is such a living, breathing

1149
01:18:02.439 --> 01:18:09.840
universe of just people, and I
haven't gotten that out of many other shows

1150
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:13.119
ever. Do you know? The
idea for twenty two short films came from

1151
01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:16.359
there, originally considering a spinoff show
where it would be episodes based on side

1152
01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:19.960
characters and like their life but like
a spinoffs, like their life away from

1153
01:18:19.960 --> 01:18:23.960
Springfield. How fun would that have
been? That would have been fun.

1154
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:30.520
Also, by the way, I
do go back to the on occasion,

1155
01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:36.279
one of my favorite episodes is the
one hundred and sixty eight. Yeah,

1156
01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:42.079
but part of that is there's one
deleted scene that I love so much that

1157
01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.319
I can't believe didn't make it into
that Treehouse of Horror. But specifically it's

1158
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:53.239
where they recruit Lionel huts and oh
that's okay, the box is empty.

1159
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:57.359
I love that line so much,
and I hate that that's like not actually

1160
01:18:57.399 --> 01:18:59.760
in the episode. You know,
It's funny is we're seeing that episode so

1161
01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:01.439
many times, the one hundred and
thirty eight episodes, but tact of that,

1162
01:19:01.479 --> 01:19:03.840
like when you watch that Trees of
Horror, you just think it's coming,

1163
01:19:03.840 --> 01:19:06.479
but it's not. It's like,
yeah, it's like it's what that's

1164
01:19:06.479 --> 01:19:10.800
so that's not what happens? What
what? Yeah, that's exactly how I

1165
01:19:10.800 --> 01:19:13.760
feel about it. Seem the same
page there, and the same with them

1166
01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:15.159
with the Shinning, Like I don't
think there's any Simpsons fans out there.

1167
01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:17.880
They're called the Shining, the shining. It's the shinning. No, it's

1168
01:19:17.880 --> 01:19:19.760
a shinning. It's just part of
our life. But anyway, well,

1169
01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:23.199
well, thank you so much for
Johnny today. It's been absolute pleasure to

1170
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:25.880
art to talk to you, and
congratulations with your new role in a W

1171
01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:28.720
and all the best with everything going
forward. Thank you for having me.

1172
01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:29.520
I appreciate it.