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where this we're here to review episode fifteen of season eighteen. It is Rome
Old and Julie. I am Endo and I am Guy, and we're back
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the tracks. We are back in the Weeds season eighteen. Yeah, things
are moving ahead, and yeah we're back. Maybe we are indeed, Yeah,
back to reviewing weird shit. Indeed, speaking of weird shit, it's
the opposite of weird shit, because we're coming to you from well, we
always recorded Dano's home studio. But I walk in the door and I went,
what go ahead? His own table? Now I kind of do yeah,
I do, actually do and he has rearranged the whole place. I
don't know. Dana's very big on, you know, sharing his life on
social media. Hopefully he'll show you some before and after pictures. I haven't
actually I realized I've shared two posts since August last year. Oh really,
personal account, I ain't work about it. I couldn't give a shit on
name my personal account on my four figure discount page. That's my personal page.
Yew Well tune in listeners or just check in them. But do you'll
see that this place is you know, all the crazy crap on the walls
are still all the crazy crap on the walls, but things have been moved
around. There's a little more room to move, a little room to breathe.
There's gonna be less crazy crap, trustmate, less crazy crab. We're
I think we're all doing a bit of that. In twenty twenty now,
I helped the Lovely Luise out with a bit of decluttering at her place.
She could just feel the literal and metaphoric weight of it coming down on us.
So we took a couple of days between Christmas and year and went wild.
Is she going to come to your place and do the same she was
talking about that. But I'm like, change the subject quick by. Don't
tell anybody how I live, even even with the woman I love. I'm
kind of like, I'm gonna have to do a quick take on this before
you come. We're discussing cobwebs and dust before we really were. As a
guy, I said, I rearranged this room so the desk is now in
a opposite corner. And the way I used to have my corner desk was
that it was sort of sticking into the room. Now I've got it essentially
in the corner, added a new table to extend the desk. It's kind
of a horse now, isn't it. It is, but it's just opened
up the room. But the amount of dust that behind that desk, and
you would have saying that there's like, you know, plenty of dusty your
place. I don't get dust people. You know, I put a figure
on the table here, I guarantee you in two weeks time and to be
just covered in dust. Where does dost come from? A lot of it
is apparently your skin? I know, right, Maybe that's where ghosts.
That's what ghosts actually are, just lingering skin from people of the past.
Yeah, I don't even talk to me about housekeeping. I mean I sort
of swept under the bed recently and do your a combination of having a cat
and be no standards. It was just like, oh my god, so
haiy and revealing. But it feel a bit better when it was all that.
But yeah, there's still a fair bit of stuff that needs to be
decluttered from my place. I'll do a quick run on then. I don't
know if I can talk a little into it or yeah, she would she
want to do you think declutter your place? Or was just like, I'm
kind of going there. I think she has noticed, like you've got a
bit of clutter. I'm like, you say, do you speaking of I've
got some shit that you might want. I was going to offer to you
just in case you wants it. It's like old Empire magazines. Oh quite
possibly. Having said that, I mean, yeah, louis throwing stuff out
and I'm like, well I might take that and that and that and that.
So there we go. Yes, the battle to declutter will never ever,
ever ever be one. My issue of decluttering is I just moved shit
from one room to the next. I'm like, we're gonna hang out in
this room more often lately, I'm going to move all the clutter from this
room to the garage, and then when I want to the garage and move
back into this room often enough, and Nichol doesn't realize it's still here.
The shell game goes on, all right, But we are here to talk
about Romi Old and Julie. Yeah. Really weird episode. An episode that
the story is just so odd that I found it hard to buy into.
Yeah, not one that I could really sort of get all that invested in
either way. That feels like, well, this is just not even not
a placeholder. That's not the right way for it. But it's like being
there done that. We've seen some of them married so many times, and
of all the marriages, this one was probably the least likely to work,
so you just like just get to the how they break up. Yeah,
yeah, I mean and look acknowledging by having the little banner the on the
wedding day where all the other names have been crossed out and all that stuff.
Yeah, it was like you acknowledging that has been done before. Yeah,
and this is perfectly fine to you know, while away a few minutes
with but yeah, not really adding much to the big picture, and you
know, the b plot in terms of like the boxes, and then it's
like, well, well, you know, we all like The Lord of
the Rings. I guess it started good, and by the end I just
thought this is so fucking weird. Like I didn't hate it. I was
just like, they've really just decided nothing needs to make sense anymore. Christ's
dragons and shit, I'm like, what is happening here? Yeah? Yeah,
I mean I don't know. It's just not that everything has to have
stakes or meaning or purpose, although it's good if it does. Yeah,
I was looking, what's the point of this? You could have easily come
up with some other storyline involving backyard forts, you know, and battles.
I mean, you know, have Nelson build one, or you know,
have other people catch onto the scam and have you know, have a story
where people need boxes for some reason but they can't find because all the kids
are still in the boxes to build Fort's good point. Good point, there
we go, fixed it's done, Rather than you know, riff on the
Two Towers. Like I said, everybody loves The Lord of the Rings.
Everybody loves fighting, fighting, and Helm's deep. But man in this case,
this just felt like patting. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's
just yeah, it's not not an episode that you know, I'm going ah
whenness this over. No, No, I didn't dislike it in that sense.
It was just because you know, we've had those episodes where they make
you angry. They're so absolutely you think, why am I even bothering watching
this? This one of us went, it's okay, but it's just I
know, a little too quirky for me, it's too weird. But you
know, I guess you need these episodes from time to time, and there
are people out there who I'm sure are going Romeo and Juliet, that's a
pretty good one. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little underrated if you believe
that. Twenty years later, people aren't talking about often enough Romeo and Juliet.
If you believe this, let us know. We're happy to hear your
opinion on this and and then completely disregard it because there was some stuff that
I did, like wild get two of my favorite moments. Well that's what
that favorite moment segment is for. Yeah. But before we do that,
though, I just wanted to say that Homer was such a piece of shit
in this episode because he had absolutely zero reason to want to split Ape and
somewhere up. I get that it's his dad and his sister in law,
but he's like, I want my father to grow old and be lonely.
And it's just that's true. You never really sort of I mean, other
than his sort of ongoing animosity towards Patty and so on, And Patty does
the same thing as well. I'm like, why is she? I mean,
I kind of get that it's grandpa, but it's still it's weird that
it's his sister inland that's going to be his mum. But it's just like,
it's horrible. Every once in a while, you need someone to just
articulate those things, even if those reasons are petty. Yeah, if you,
you know, have a character say I don't like it because X or
Y, and it's like, well, okay, I guess we can understand
where you're coming from. Even if I don't agree with it. It's still
some degree of motivation that moves the story forward and all that kind of thing.
But yeah, in this case, it was like, yeah, I
hadn't really thought of you just said. It's like, why why are you
going with the breakup. I mean, I guess you, as we said,
have to keep the story moving forward. I mean, I don't think
it wouldn't be as probably I was about to say, as interesting an episode.
It wasn't that interesting an episode, But it wouldn't It wouldn't have anything
moving ahead if you know, there wasn't any conflict or any sort of any
aversion to these two being together, and then don't create a shit conflict.
Good, just think of a better story, because I'm thinking, surely there
was an easier way to get Grandpa to move in than Homer declaimed bankruptcy for
the family because he wanted to turn his basement into a like a man cave.
But then within like three minutes, Grandpa's moved in the met no one
used the man cave anymore. So what was the whole point of him filing
for bankruptcy. We don't hear anything about the bankruptcy like that. Him filing
for bankruptcy has no impact on the story going forward. No as a as
an inciting incident. It's a that's a big deal, five for bankruptcy,
and it should be the family of struggling for the rest of the episode.
Whatever reason for these fucking bankruptcy. But no, nope, forgotten about having
said that. I've gone to jump on my favorite moments. But pretty nice
bachelor, a pretty nice basement pad. Yeah, sucker for a good basement
pad. I'd love to have a basement, I think fantastic. I tried
to turn the garage into that, and we had it going for a while,
but then it got to the point where it was like, we need
somewhere to put shit and part the car and have all the other stuff that
you don't want in the house. We still need here. You need a
storag. Yeah, yeah, everyone needs I said to Nicholas, we have
a build a house and building it's going to be a cinema room slash like
man cave area. How fucking amazing would have been have your own like cinema,
Lois. How many seats would you have in your home cinema? At
least eight? At least eight? Yeah, yeah, Los, always a
cinema room. If we get a house or when we get a house,
yeah, I'm coming. Yeah. The bankruptcy story and just how he was
treated Grandpa and somewhere throughout this, it's just should have right here home with
such a piece of shit. In this, he wasn't to me as aggressively
dickish as he's been in other recent episodes or previous episodes. But still,
yeah, it's it's funny. I mean, revisiting Home of the Great the
way we did recently and looking at home there, it's like, you're a
dummy, and you're impulsive and you're immature. But in ways it I can
certainly relate to, and I guess that a lot of other people can relate
to, whereas in this it's just kind of like, oh, you're just
like any other jerk off sitcom dad, Yeah, the ones that you know
shows supposedly as smart as the Simpsons make fun of yep, And yeah,
it was a little disappointing. It was a little disappointing. Also, it
couldn't quite Another reason I couldn't quite get into the story was that they couldn't
decide for me whether they were actually in love. It's like, why are
someoner going with this guy when like, you know, she suggests sex and
he's like I thought were at the circusly so, And I'm like, wait,
so is he senile? Does he know he's married? It's just don't
play out the senile moments. I get that's that way of sort of establishing
a split between the two, but it's like what it made in the first
place. Surely this shit was there for the I think so. Yeah,
and some are that desperate. Yeah, And I don't think you can really
turn it on, to turn the dial to such a degree that he's going
to wreck the house the way that he does. No. I mean,
I think there are certainly ways where you can address you know, not just
the age difference, but the difference in out to do, the difference in
I guess cognitive ability, and the difference in desires and wants and all that
kind of stuff. I think that would have been too much hard work.
I think it would have been nice to just play out the fact that he
hasn't lived with a woman for like forty years, yes, and go back
to like that nineteen fifties mentality or seventies mentals, whatever was raise sixties mentality.
Have that mentality, have that as the split between the two because he
doesn't know any different. Yeah. Yeah, me not doing it in a
you know, asshole way, an aggressive way, but more like well,
say you do things and saying Grandpa, times have change and have him actually
make it, make an efferent. You know, I just thought that there's
ways around the shitness in this. But anyway, let's get past the shittness,
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favorite moments. Hey, my favorite What did you enjoy the most, mister
Davis? Like I said, pretty nice basement pad. Yeah, it looked
like it had all the all the stuff. That I would kind of enjoy.
Shags have shared carpet, I have shared carpeting, and a Chevy Chase
and goldiehorn in foul play pinball machine. Yes, look pretty rad. I
think my favorite bits were the mainly one liners. I did, like home
saying Tomage, yeah, when she was sort of complaining that that I was
staying with them, why you're telling me he's your father in law? It
was a nice way passing the buck. And also Moe had a great line
when he was sort of trying to break it gently to Homer that he wasn't
that good looking, said yahre in exactly open casket materially yourself, open casket
material. That's good. Have you ever been to an open casket funeral?
I have. I think I'm actually no, they're not very popular in Australia
at all, not really No, I mean, I don't think any move
wants to be actually really reminded of why we're here. Well, plus,
I'm just like, I wouldn't want someone's last memory of me to be seeing
me dead. I know, it's also it's a tradition, it's some some
cultures. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, I mean, not to bring the
mood down or anything like that. I mean I saw my father his dead,
yeah, when when I went in hospital was yeah, yeah, and
he was lying on the bed and there's Bobby, but not at the same
time. Also my my grandmother on my mother's side before the funeral, which
was closed casket, but they had her out the back of the viewing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you can actually see there. I was
like, oh, there's Nana and yeah. I mean it's I must have
been certainly before my before my Nana, because I think I was probably in
my late teens and I don't think I've ever seen a dead body at that
stage. And I was like, what's just going to be, Like,
it's just going to mess me up? And it's like it's Nana, Yeah,
just taking the taking the long sleep. So it is what it is.
I've just never been able to do it. We've had viewings of family
members who are passing my sister's being and things like that, my mum,
and I'm like, it's just not for me, okay, to reach their
own Yeah yeah, I don't think. I don't think it indicates a lack
of respect or love or anything like that. It's just you know, to
each their own something I do like though, was the mister X in this
episode. There's a couple that I really really enjoyed. Tell me about those.
This is my roof my rules. I shouldn't probably that root from him.
That's so stupid, but it just worked for me. Oh, by
the way, one or two more favorites. Yeah, yeah, I thought
the EPR gag at the makeout point was pretty good. That was that wasn't
the car rocking? Yes, we'll get to that when we get to that.
And also, yeah, soundtrack corner. Of course, they've dug into
the soundtrack budget and they paid a little money for Joe Jackson's issue really going
song. Joe Jackson's just fantastic. Yeah. Uh. Lou and I were
driving back from Melbourne not long ago and I was like, I think we're
gonna play a lot of Joe Jackson on this trip. She was like that
that's all right by me. It's just like some of fun. Yeah,
yeah, I mean, well, she loves stepping Out, which is like
it's one of the great going out songs, like, you know, a
good pregame song. But he's got a heap. I really really like Joe
Jackson and this is a fantastic song. I just love the part of that
song where I was like, guys, have my ass. It's just so
catchy. It's oh, it's the best. But I also enjoyed it was
bart when he says dog industries. It's like General General industries or something,
and it says dog. Next question, you there eating the beast? All
right? Trivia, mister Davis. I've only written one question here for some
unknown reason, but I will think of a couple more. So you hit
me of your first question. That's good because I've got like six, Go
do it. Then let's start with the first one. What chapter of the
fiscal Code talks about bankruptcy according to Homer? Ah? Not no idea.
Well, it's unlucky seven thirteen thirteen? Sorry? Seven is lucky, isn't
it? I believe seven is lucky? Which one's snake eyes? That's seven?
Isn't two? I thought Craps was seven. I thought craps if your
roll with seven, it's like unlucky. Well, snake eyes is two?
Because okay, then what is but seven is? I thought seven was something
in like a game at the casino. I don't know exactly where lucky seven
came from. But we're going to throw it out to the wisdom of the
crowd. Let us know, folks, I'll just look it up now,
the wisdom of Google. There's that too, isn't there. I'll tell you
quick aside, what's the deal with the internet. What's the deal with Google?
I went out for dinner and drinks with my school buddies school not long
ago, to the Little Creature's Brewer in Geelong. Had a very nice time
and of course, you know, the place closed, and because we're drunkards,
we decided let's try and find another boat. This was like a Friday
night. I think it was the friday night between Christmas and New Year.
I think there's gotta be some place open. The bar when club was closed.
I mean, that's normally a place that would be open on a Friday
night. This is when you're gonna make your money exactly on holiday speaking making
money, though, we ended up in the gaming room at the Lord of
the Arms hotel, and the pokys and the characters that you found there at
eleven thirty pm on a Friday night during a holiday season. Eleven thirty eight
am on a Thursday that would be equally interesting, but dolls just come in.
There was there's one particular woman that the young man behind the bar was
really nice, but he'd gone off to do something else, and this woman
just came and sort of reached out behind the bar and grabbed this bottle of
wine, pulled us off a drink. She came back and said, He's
like, excuse me, what are you I was going to pay for it.
It's not like I wasn't going to pay for it, just you weren't
here. It's like we're all like we thought we had problems. So yeah,
that was that was very funny. We felt a lot better about ourselves
now. Lucky seven. You're looking up lucky seven, so thanky seven because
you know the reason I say this goes we're in a room for the pokies,
yea, and verily one of them is gonna say lucky seven. So
Lucky seven is a game. Lucky seven is played with seven numbered coasters per
player on a flat surface. The goal of the game is to turn all
seven coasters number side up to accrue the most points. With more than one
player, the coasters are shuffled. Players each choose a coaster and the play
with the highest number starts. Sounds very confusing. He sounds like what,
No, what is the meaning of lucky seven? Likely number seven is even
the basis for many myths and folklore. Agent beliefs from around the world believe
that the seventh son of the seventh Son would be gifted with magical powers both
good and evil. In the Bible's scholars claim that God of the world in
six days and use the seventh day to rest good one. So that's where
seven from. Okay, there we go. For all of you who actually
cared, information is always lou acceptable in Lou of entertainment. My first question
for you is where is the customer service center? Well? Sorry, what
did it used to be there? It was an old cram bookstore. It
was at a real place, cram books, I think. So okay,
yeah, it sounds like a real place out near the near the airport.
Yes, yes, okay. Then according to the posters that Grandpa puts up
in the wreck room, Lilian Gish start in what movie? Ah Um,
it's bee, isn't it? It's two bees? Two bees? Yeah.
Blossoms bay breaking, baking or breaking blossoms, breaking blossoms of breaking broken blossom,
broken blossoms damn close enough. You can see the gears turning there.
It was fantastic. How much does March spend a month on It's five hundred
dollars per month on Total poker dot com. There's a lot of money,
it is. Indeed, you know, hopefully she's getting a decent return ROI
on that one. I doubt it. Fine for bankruptcy, probably not.
Okay, then look an obvious question to ask, but what is the answer
key to test number seven at the DMV? I don't know what is it?
Oh? You remember this bit in the episode? I kind of do.
Okay. Then, yes, they're all firing questions at somewhere as she
takes over the Oh yeah DMV and yeah through yeah, yeah, the answer
key for test number seven, which they've lost is A C D A A
C B B C A. How can I remember that? Ship? This
is what you pause and I write it down. This is this is one
of those things that we do occasionally to trip each other up and be cool,
to have that sort of like vibe at the office place where everyone just
comes to you and like you know that you're just running. You always had
this, you always pop culture? Why why do you think ash sat you
next to me and started this whole journey. Thinks it wasn't Ashes wouldn't exist.
I saw Ash on the weekend. It was because it was good,
and so we're out. Ash, by the way, is the owner of
pop Culture and my former employer. So Nickol and I went out for a
date night on Saturday and I was like, Stacy, my sister, please
come baby, sit the kids. Put in the bed. It's all we
have to do. Maybe maybe change a sheet in that, but you'll be
fine if not, just work about and Nicola, I want to go out
for dinner. So she did that. She did that. We're out and
we're just looking at various places. Nicholas one of those people who wants to
peruse the menu of every place before she decides where she's going to eat.
Understand, Yeah, she goes through Oh yeah, because little Mallet Streets rocking.
Now there's so many places to choose from, that is correct. And
we're just walking around me here, hey Dano, And I was like,
that's the voice of some one I know because everyone was doing this at Popcorn.
It's been growling. Yes, yeah, where'd you end up going for
dinner? We end up the old Eureka. It's now rebounded to more of
a family pub now delicious. It was west End for a while now it's
got a new name on top of that. No, it's just Eureka again.
I was just got they got back to Oh okay, yeah, because
the upstairs they've got bands. Yeah yeah, as they used to back and
downstairs. What I walked in and I was like, I said to Nikola
was so weak, so I went to the toilet. Right, the UK
is an old that's pretty weird. Yeah, so there's an old night club
and it got turned into like a pub. They're trying to make a fancy
called the west End and everyone's like, that's that's the fucking Eureka. And
then that's one thing I've noticed with Geelong. It's like, don't try and
make things fancy. Just refurbish and just call it what it used to be.
I'll give it props. West End was actually pretty nice, although and
it wasn't too fancy. It was just a sort of a mid level gas
strope pub. It was good, yeah, anyway, but it was always
the Eureka and they've I walked in and I'm like, I have not been
in this building since I was about twenty one well when I first met Nikola,
but I knew exactly where the toolets were. It's like it's like it's
just instant. I'm like, I've taken so many piss I walked in.
I'm like, I have taken so many pisces in here, and it's just
the memories came floating back, like the band, the smokers area, and
it's just it's all coming back to me now. It's just nice. But
it was nice just going out having dinner with the lovely Nicola. I'm sure
it was the lovely al reason. I went out for dinner with some friends
to Pistol, a little French restaurant in Velment. But both lou and I
are trying to be good for the new Year because in terms of our food
and take, so it's like we always are for January. Yeah, it's
true. I'm currently doing a bit of Quito thing. It's like new Cubs.
How's that going for it? It's going pretty well. Actually, you
know, this T shirt is not as tight as it was a few days
ago. So I feel like we always bloat over Christmas period, don't we
me? And it's like two weeks later you're going like you don't like,
I'm thinn again. Now bring on the takeaway. That's good. Sure they're
going to have one native damage. It's like, oh no, this is
where the downfall happens. All right, one more question for you. What
does someone suggest they split and he calls her a hussy? Oh, it's
the usual thing that you split, the usual opener for an Australian. What's
the start that we always get? Oh? What is the lets split a
gard That's that's how far I pushed carbs out of my mind. Don't even
hear the word anymore. Where do you think you're gonna? Like? What
do you think we the first carb you have? Oh, it'd either be
like fish and chips or like a burger, So no chips or anything,
even if they're baked. No, man, Yeah, it's it's It wouldn't
work for me because I can't cut things completely act that it's fall straight.
It hits me hard, like when I eat them again, I just go
really bad for it. Understandable. I need to like treat myself at least
once a week. I get you. Yeah, I'm finding ways to do
so in terms of like, well, what can I have that's like a
sweet treat. It's like you're gonna have like that really really dark chocolate.
Yeah. I'm like, well I can have a square of that interest Are
you pretending that you like? It? Was like Willy Wonka? What have
you done you madman? No, it's it's it's good. Yeah, it's
alrighty and final question, Selma suggests that learner drivers could do a three point
turn where it's a particular street. Yeah. I know the moment too that
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Okay, So, the original air day of Romey Old and julieh was March
eleventh, two thousand and seven. The movie's not far from coming out.
They come out in July of two thousand and seven. It was written by
Daniel chun and directed by Nancy Cruz of the episode kicks off with Homer's big
surprise and he guides the one down the stairs aka just lets them fall down
the stairs and he's readonder basement. He's got shagged carpet, the Chevy Chase
foul play pinball machine. As you said, I don't like those old school
pinball machines. I like the ones that have what the nineties late eighties based
ones. Yeah, the ones that's just like, I'm like this a bit
boring. I get where you're coming from, certainly. I mean they've got
videost no like game modes and things like that. You know. Yeah,
my good buddy Sabby Steve the early adopter. He's also a late adopter because
he loves his pinball machines. His buddy Eric has got a shit ton of
pinball machines out of his place at Lara. He's got like maybe I want
to say thirty wow. Yeah, he's got like an actual zeven kids.
Yeah, he's got two doing. He's one of these enthusiasms he works in
like it or something that. So he's clearly going to a ship turn of
disposably. Yea, unless the kids are going hungry. I don't think they
are. Eric's a very good about it, but yeah, he's got a
shit ton of pinball machines. But Steve also has a few, and they're
yeah, mainly those nineties ones like Demolition Man and bram Stokers, Dracula and
all that kind of stuff. Indian Jones is an awesome one startup that generation
another good one. Yeah, So I think I'd be partial to having a
pinball machine if I was going to have like a an arrested development style man
gave. I think it's a nice thing to have. I had the virtual
one for a few years, remember that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and I saw that it's funny because us I pay three and a half
for it, sold it for three and then saw a guy on this is
I had like five years I had saw a guy. The guy bought it
like the next day on fast Face on Michel Sult for five. I've been
three and a half for it. The hustle. But I don't think this
is gonna pay off. No, I know that just reminded me because this
made me he were the balls almost real? There was so many people telling
me that when they'll play my virtual one, like it looks almost real.
The virtual tables are good if you want to have just sort of like a
cost efficient way playing every table. That's correct. Yeah, I mean I
do like the idea of just one of those little tabletop things that's got like
sixty old school games. But Marge then asked, how can you fought it?
And he says he's going to plan, and it's revealed that he's declared
bankruptcy. I don't think I could ever do it. It's just like to
get yourself in that position where you feel like you have to. I think
this would be the court of last resort. Absolutely, yeah, I don't
think i'd be feeling too good about myself for a while. No. No,
And he was saying that he thought it was the cool law we don't
have to pay anything back. But I guess, you know, to the
layman or the dumb ass, it's kind of like, oh, yeah,
okay, well all my debts are forgiven. That's that's good, you know,
stop from scratch. It's like it's like a receborn or do over.
Yeah, just for seven years not telling anybody what you's done. That's the
seven years where you can't get credit or something. You think so. Yeah,
But even after that though, you pretty much If you have declared bankrupt
bankruptcy, good luck getting your homeland. Mister Simpson, do you understand how
bankruptcy works? Yes? I do. Under Chapter thirteen of the Fiscal Code,
an individual whose debts succeed as assets may file for bankruptcy just protecting said
assets. That was the old bankruptcy law. Boom. Under the new law,
you have to pay your creditors everything. But I thought bankruptcy was the
cool law you wanted to dude, don't worry about it. I got this,
mister Simpson. I'm afraid this court must appoint a financial officer to supervise
repayment of your debts. Hmm, permission a Moon, I'll allow it.
He's going through all the different things. Homo's thrown a thousand dollars into local
wishing whiles every single month because he's wishing for more money. Not un funny.
I did like the three subgicsions of Vanity Fair bathroom and do you still
read on the toilet or was it just your phone now? It's really just
my phone now. Yeah. It was like when I used to go before
phones go to my uncle's place. He always had a cool stack of magazines
at the toilet. Was always great. It's like I'm gonna read the same
magazine that I've been written for the every time coming for the last two years,
but always finds something new to read. But Marge has been betting a
five hundred bucks a month on total poker dot com, and Homer says,
I've got a way of saving some money. And he cuts graand far from
the retirement home and takes him away from his house and he saw him doing
five hundred piece jigsaw puzzle, which isn't that much. I've read her pieces.
I'm like, that's like my name needs to love doing chicksaw pieces,
right, Yeah, COVID we got into a bit, you know, but
like she used to do the thousand piece ones that was like the standard,
and she would turn her nose ab a five and she's not wasting my time.
It's for part times. But yeah, I just thought it was quite
mean. Like I know they've always been mean to Grandpa, but it's just
felt just like, ah, so you just tartly when you've seen the sort
of I mean, it's not a very occasionally it's a kind of a warm,
friendly community at the retirement castle. But yeah, just as often it's
he gets stole my soap, gone of business. So but yeah, taking
him out of this familiar environment and one that is comfortable, it's like,
yeah, you kind of suck. He's had to flint stone the car as
well, because you know, I'm gotting your money. Bart Lissa are now
playing ping pong people or table tennis, whatever you want to call it.
But I think it's pretty racists call it ping pong, and Grandpa says it
is his bedroom now and he puts posters up. So sorry, I was
about to do my Wesley stuffs, thinking I don't do that. Is it
kept cool? Keep it cool? I keep it cool with cool? If
I just misspelt keep, I thought maybe that was the actor's name. Oh
well, that's to keep it cool? Is the movie? Is it?
No? No, No, that's that was former President Calvin Coolidge. Oh
okay, then yeah, shows how much I know about former presidents and lilling
gish dish or gishshish in a Broken Blossoms. So Bartley's from How Sad at
the Front and that's the last we see of the man cave son. Yeah,
that's it. Five of bankruptcy because he wants to have this This man
cave and then gets Granpa out of his house and that's the end of that
chapter. Too hard to have. So Bartley says, I said as sad
at the front, and the ass rhymes American Shipping Services not affiliated with the
Human Ass, and they are delivering some complimentary boxes to Flanders, and basically
they ask what's going on here. He explains that the concept of getting the
complementary boxes and how he says, you know, you shouldn't do it,
that's really for adults, really just for adults. It gives him the number
to call just to remind him not to to do it. Marge's then untossing
leftover salad. This seems like something that would be worth doing. It's also
incredibly difficult, incredibly difficult, but like sometimes you get to end of a
barbecue and you're like, I just want tomato, but it's in this salad,
So I just picked the tomato out. I get where you're coming from.
Yeah, I mean I have lost cound of how many times it's like,
well, we didn't finish all this salad. There's a certain amount in
the salad bowls, like the rice salad Christmas time salad. I didn't have
any of this. You didn't try it at all. I didn't. I
she would have noticed too. I'm out of the will yeah, and but
yeah, it's almost a bit of a judgment call and like a little too
much salad to throw out. Okay, we'll put it in the fridge and
it stays for a week and later all you go through it's like a little
bit of avocado. But let us always go sogging and weird. Yeah,
cheery tomato, Yeah, and the rest can just fuck off. What's your
favorite barbecue salad? Mines, I think I just got to the pasta salad
just took the staple. Yeah, Safeway passes in the pre carb in my
pre no carb days, no bit of potato salad can't get wrong with You'll
be back on carbs in two months, I reckon, I will. How
long are you actually give our carbs for forever? That's not gonna fucking work,
well, not forever, but certainly the rest of the year. As
if you ain't eat carbs for a whole year, that's unrealistic. We just
shook hands with shook hands. That's ridiculous, because I wanted to say,
hi, diddend a whole year with that carves. Oh well, that's that.
That seems that's maybe one cheap damn silly in my opinion, it's not
like you can't do it, it's just why would you do that? Silly.
You've gotta treat yourself occasionally because you get to the end of the un
Well, that was the whole year that carbs. Give me, give me,
give me, gimmy and not share it. You have to treat I've
been through it. I'll have a cheat day a month, but certainly for
the first few months at least I'll be like, no, no, let's
just get into ketosis and you know, lose who got you onto it?
Well, Lou is currently doing I guess the Carnival died, which is predominantly
meat. But her brother has also done the Keto diet for a while and
which is yeah, no carbs and all that kind of stuff. How did
he do it for He's been doing it for a few months and he is
just shit shit ton of weight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean,
I don't know. I mean, I'm not so lope. I'm not
Brendan Fraser on the whale here, but at the same time, I would
like to be a little bit leaner and a little bit more energetic. Yeah.
Yeah, And calves are the killer. Oh yeah, I mean yeah,
calves and sugar are out. I've cut sugar at it months ago.
It's just sugar was just the big one for me. Well that's the thing.
I mean. But the occasionally be like, you know, it would
be really nice, would be a twis Yeah, but then you can't,
can you? Well now I can't. That sucks. It would be really
nice. Is this celery sticks some moments? Also not bad? So that's
a prison to me. I know, I'm in a prison on my own
making. You're living in Flander's household. Now, not if you had my
you know, Guacan scrambled egg mix with the with the hot sauce mix.
Did I tell you? I bought the box of like went on Amazon,
not using your gift card yet. But there's this local hot sauce manufacturer and
they were doing the four pack and it was marked down, and I'm like,
I'm getting some of that action, because time to be a hot sauce
guy. Hot sauce guys who were very much a genre, They're very much
they're very much a type of person. It reminds me of like guy Fierra
whatever name. Yeah, yeah, he seems like a hot sauce guy.
I think there's a lot of them, and I'm like, I'll give these
a try, and you know, one of them, it's very ousy that
there's really playing out the auzziness. It was like, may cause anal leakage.
One's called chane or leakage. Yeah, one's called ship the bed all
this kind of stuff. You can just say it's hot. Yes, it's
the average way funny, but yeah, splash onto that on your eggs and
avocas. I burned the ship out of my taste, budder. Now,
I don't want to eat anything hot sauces? Can you have because sauces have
carved in them. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that like ketchup and barbecue sauce
and all that sauce is full of sugar though, well that's the thing,
so yeah, off, you can't he kind of ketchup either to the best
mind standing. Oh man, that's all right, because I'm not sorry for
you. Don't be. When I started in here and start podcasting with my
shirt off, he'd be like, maybe goes under something just way about just
diet and exercise. Just just exercise and eat balanced at the diet. I'm
doing that as well. Yeah, I'm walking four k's a day. Nothing
like untossing I leftover salad. It'll be like, no, whoa, what
the heck are these? Those are my medical samples? Heads off your big
blue button, skik blood, biospinal fluid, blood other phlam, miscellaneous ooze,
miscellaneous ooze. I'm just I'm not sure about that one. That's what
comes out of Like Jet has his weeping eyes sometimes and you look at you'
like, what is this ooze? It looks like what the Ninja turtles like
the secret of the miscellaneous ooze. But they're now in bed and Marge wants
a night out, but home is just not listening at all. Then Grandpa
walks in and he's scarce who wants to sleep across them? I'll do this
everythingle night with Alliot. He just gets to the point that we would just
like just want to start in our bed mate, because we know you're just
gonna come in during the night anyway, Paddy or summer arrive. I was
not too sure. I did like that look at someone who frequently mixes up
Penny in summer, Yes to arrives to watch the kids because basically they don't
trust Grandpa. He didn't defends Grandpa though, you know he got so mad
with Santa didn't bring us presents every year. Then they both are sitting there
just passing the time. The kids are playing stuck on Lemon drops Lemon candy.
Yeah, and that was the close ups. Maybe me uncomfortable, just
gross. Guy rocked up with chew you today and I was like, you
will not be chewing that during this podcast he dropped the M word. What
I say, you said midched it that all, And I must admit I
had forgotten that I was chewing gum. I know what you're wondering, how
come a single woman with so much strong offer is a long on a Saturday
night. I assume you were resting up for bingo tomorrow like me, My
numbers don't get called much these days. You're a kidding, a sweet young
thing like you. That's the first time anyone's ever put an adjective before calling
me a thing. And basically she just gets turned to my grand But I'm
just like, I get it that. You know she's sad, she's lonely
for male attention grandpa. You've known him for how long? Male? Yeah,
it's Freed And they pitched this story as part of that You Never Stop
the Simpsons. Remember that song backing gump Ross at the end that Dan Castlena
wrote, Oh, it's like about a crazy wedding, and it was these
guys in the winning So you've you've gone to one of those ridiculous Look.
The jokes in that episode were, look how crazy we might get. We
went really, you went there? They probably look at him going what.
Yeah? You also get the subtitle on Disney Plus at least erotic moaning moaning?
Oh yeah, what's your favorite subtitle for netlics? Mine is like indistinct
chatter? I like either evocative music, yeap, anyone who decides anyone who's
hard of heroes going, I'm sure it is, yeah, But it's like,
who decides yep, that's evocative? Is it AI that decides? Or
is there someone that decides what top of music? Is that evocative? Do
you guys agree? I go with evocative? Evocative it is? I reckon
it must be the case, although it has to be is going to become
for that shit eventually? Yeah, surely? And talking Bear is it in
my father dad? Do you know what you were kissing? Doyo toyo?
Yeah, I know who I was kissing, and I also know why I'm
a little shaky on un and where, But I got my series. I
never ever want to see that again. Oh the hell with you? I
just might ask that sell a girl out and you can't tell me not to
my roof, my rules? Oh why did I barrel that roof from him?
Wise guy then asks for Bart's company name. He's dropping off some boxes.
He goes to dog Incorporated, and he doesn't know the details about it,
prefers not to know. But Liza's got a suggestion of things to do,
like a list, and he laughs at built a fart, but she
suggest build a fort. Then somewhere and aber on their date, and Abe
suggested they start spending some time together. So someone's like, oh, well,
what does she think they were doing? Yeah, she's like surprised at
this moment. She's like, oh no, no, I didn't. I
didn't mean that. It's like, why you want a date with him then,
especially after you've passed. But she's just they split a garlic bread,
slow down your hussy. Then we get the montage with the song is it
called just? Is she really going out with him? Yeah? Yeah?
Basically as face melts and she puts brings back up. They look at the
Manhattan poster and then she's doing compressions in the car, which is funny.
Went out the beach and just having fun playing in the water. Perhaps was
not a fan at all. They come over and they give him some ship
the garbage barge. She's gona play of his smell. Wasn't all frolicking in
the water. We came up with that gag? Yeah, over is now
annoyed at Mo's This is a really sure scene. Just basically says you're open
casting material. Yeah, word's hurt. And then he runs out and I
was like, what you've been saying mean things his whole episode. Thanks for
stopping by Mo. Yeah, and that's it. Patty suggested a plan and
this is I've got this guy. I would have hated this. I'm looking
with details or the big picture. I shot up blade and usually drunk,
I've got a good feeling about this. I was like, oh the whisper.
I didn't hate it, but at the same time, it's like,
you're over selling this. Yeah, butt Lissa, I've now built that fort.
That's a hell of a a lot of boxes. Pretty cool box foot.
I loved building forts when I was a kid with my sister with the
couch cushions watching rage, so I too was very partial this watching countdown Countdown
that was a Saturn Sunday night, wasn't it. It was Sunday. Well,
it was on a Sunday night, and then they would do the they
would repeat it on the Saturday night, Saturday night. That's cool a week
later basically, yes, and then the new one the next the next one
the next night, just a reminder. That's great. Yeah. I missed
when we older sat her on the TV together at the same time. It
was nice. It was watching things when they when we like when it was
on because you had to. But now Lisa makes parts say the password.
I love my sister. I really like Yardley's laugh there. It's like smug
but cute. Yeah. And the wise guy arrives because it was wise guy
rights like him, yeah yeah, and putting on the British accent a little
bit. Yeah, demands they give it back. Hey, you little brets,
get down from those battlements. Those boxes are for shipping, not for
creating a world of pure imagination. Give them back, not to we're bird
with them. Now begun, I shall go, but I will return with
an army of my brethren, and together we shall take back what is ours,
and hell will rain down upon you. Every year we will come two
more times, and then you have to come to our customer center. It's
near the airport where the old Crown Books used to be. Then Homer and
Patty they're sorting out their their mental images. What they're gonna have to think
of when they're making out to trick Grandpa and Homer's become estevant de la sex
face is that is it did a whisper again? That means I don't know
sex face. I don't think he whispers it, okay, just explains seasons.
Yeah, and he imagines Marge in various costumes and I was like,
what diggedy damn. And then Patty thinks of my love edny kay and I
was like hot, digity damn. Grandpa then sees them as he's walking past.
I thought we really had something. And then someone who arrives. Guy
loves accents, so that will wait for him. That I went from hating
it to love it. Then Homers said, you know, I always tream
my father would die hold him alone. And Grandpa says, not even a
thousand crazy schemes could tear them apart. So he proposes it'll happened very fast.
It's like, now you've been on one day, now you're getting married.
I suppose have been. Vario states, we have the montage. Who
knows how long it's been, but it couldn't have been that long, No,
because Barton and Le's have the fort story going on. Yeah, I
think it's only been a matter but either a week or two weeks. Yeah,
it can't be too much. Yeah, but they're at the wedding and
Homers throwing the rice makes the birds explode. That is one of those open
myths. Does it actually make birds sick? It's one of these things that
people someone someone made that up and then was just like everyone just went with
it. Yeah, or mean, do you throw anything at weddings? Now?
You don't really do rose pedals? I think love flower petals, okay,
but not confetti anymore. No, remember, that's that's not when people
like balloons go. It's like you realize how many birds are gonna die because
they're gonna get one of those balloons pop. The things that are hold in
the air in dropped to the ground and birds eat them from the water.
But yeah, nothing solves everything forever like a wedding, as much as that's
the most marginal line ever. Right, Oh yeah, there's her capacity for
delusion is kind of lovable. Grandpa then takes off his shoes. Lad,
I waited, and then he's got one strip policy. No wife of mine
ever has to work shoes off. Ain't bad either. I love getting home
to take my shoes off. When I used to have to go to work,
take my shoes off, like honestly, sometimes the kids are like feral
I said to Elliott, take your shoes off. He takes your shoes like,
calms him. Damn. It's just like that's why I have to sleep
with my feet out of the blanket. I can't sleep my feet in.
I am all I am always feet out. Yeah, Nicholas, the opposite.
She wears socks under the blanket. I'm like, how much earth do
you do this so you're not burning alive? Big thick bushy socks every night
in bed with her feet under the blankets. That's actually her feet. Let
us know in the comments if you are a feet in your feet out person,
I think most of it has to be feet out, right, I
think especially of a summer Oh absolutely, yeah, it's got to start with
feet out. They'll make their way back and eventually yeah. Yeah. But
someone says here that she knows she's just been offered a promotion at the DMV,
and Grandpa says, I've got a job at pam Am. This is
where we get the whole know, I thought you were at the circus lease
and I'm just like, oh, this is uncomfortable. Uncomfortable someone that gets
home from work. She's back late. Grandpa has told Mim. I think
it's Mim the daughter, right, I think so. Yeah. All various
war stories, but kid versions of them. They to tickle us out with
machine guns or machine hugs and fun throwers. Yeah, she's still a bit
creeped out by it. Button Lisa. Then watching delivery guys all arrive.
Who knew guys in brown shirts could cause so much trouble? And I was
like, why, Yeah, should we even go into it? They knew
what they were talking about. Nelson arrives to help out the kids as they've
been taken on by the delivery guys. The delivery guys or bailgo eventually,
and then they decide, now that they've done that, let's just melt boxing.
I love boxing him palace. That was a good name for it.
Oh yeah, they melt it with the water. But the dragon is still
there. When that dragon arrived, I was like, what is happening here?
Also, this felt like a riff on the two towers, but I
don't really think you had the flying works until the Return of the King.
Apparently meant to be a mismash of the two. That's funny. I guess
I'll allow it. You take off that genius at work T shirt. Summer
is now killing it at work, Selma, walk with me. The new
traffic cones are held up in Harrisburg. Go to the costume store, get
a hundred wizard hats and a bucket of orange paint. I love that we've
lost the answer keeper written test number seven ac DAA CBBC A. You are
what I want to be, Selma. The divider broke and the driver's test
line is mixing with a license renewal line. Hey, re newbies, stay
on your side. You and what line divider is going to make me.
I shaved my legs to the knees for this. One of the workers that
ask for a question looks just like mo after you had that plastic surgery that
time the episode. Yeah, well you're doing that calendar. Yeah. Grappa
then puts Mim to sleep. He's a cup of tea. Basically, it's
just an old man who doesn't know how to operate anything. Oh yes,
he's got a ship down, a new appliances and doesn't know how any of
them work. Yeah. It puts blender on the stove, make slapjacks,
and a CD player which is dated now, but I'm just like, no,
don't do it, especially oh the six six CD player. Yeah,
that's pretty nice. Puts the vhs in the microwave for two hours the runtime
two hours, that's kind of funny, and everything just explodes. Thinks the
hose is the fire brigade. Someone them gives a presentation at work. She
gets mocked for it. Says it's all because she's stressed out, and I'm
like, is it really that bad what she did? Like? She no,
she has made one little slipper. Yeah, Bailey straight, and you
guys know how to fix it. Be easy to fix. But Grandpa then
arrives with Mim, I'm wet and scared and the house hates me. So
she says, oh. The guy says, this is the DMV. We're
about getting things done. So she I've got he quits her job. She
just like walks out. She pulls like a who's the dad in elf that
leaves? Oh, so James car James kn't. Yeah, he just he
basically is like, if you leave now, don't come back, and he
just walks out with his son. This is kind of what moment was,
just like we get things done. She's like, I'm going home and I'm
like, did she just quit her job for Ampa? It's not explained.
That's a good point. Yeah, but anyway they replaced her because like how
we're going to replace her? They put the next window through there, they
decide some and Grandpa the marriage is not going to work. It's like,
you don't think. Grandpa then says that you, Joe, you'll find someone
eventually, and then they have this nice slow dance. But it was kind
of sweet. It was sweet, but it's just but it shouldn't have happened
in the first It makes their relationship going forward, so fucking awkward now true,
yes, because they probably boned. They probably boned, and they think
it's so weird. It's just so weird. But Homer is now dressed in
his costume for Marge and how long is Senor Homer out of town for?
And they're doing't role playing? He flees at the windows, getting it all
wrong, and it's back in his underwear. Where is he? Where is
he? And much I don't think we're doing this right? Yeah? Role
playing? Hey, And that is the end of Remiold and Julie. Like
we said, not a terrible episode, but just a confusing one, an
odd one, a mish mesh, yeah, a grab bag. What do
we learn, Bomber? What'd you learn from the episode? Mister Davis that
Esterbarn is apparently Spanish for Steven. That's exactly what I had By what I
learned, I didn't no idea. I'm like, it makes sense, but
I had no idea. My well, that was my new impression from talking
about this episode. My initial what I learned from this episode was I'm not
the only one who can't tell Patty and somewhere a part yeah true. Yeah.
I also learned that you never trust a man in a brown T shirt
from miss d Forward. Your names will be oh right, mister Davis.
It is time for the New Name Championship, the first New Name Championship of
twenty twenty four. The current leaderboard stands at this in first position were Philip
Jay Hawkins on sixteen points. In second position, we have a two way
time Kyle muldoon and Luke McKay both on eleven. Hit me all right.
One point goes to boxing Day. Boxing Day is our man, Andrew JP.
Has he been on the leaderboard at all this this? I'm not sure.
I don't think we ever hear his name outside of the mailbag. I
don't think we do. Andrew j P. Well done, you're now on
on the lead wor one point, Well done, you're a double threat.
Well done, sir. Two points go to Daddy and Selma. That would
be Philip Jay Hawkins. Good name, it's not bad from the hawk.
Yep, yep. That put him now in seventeen points. He's just gotten
even further away from the from Kyle Clevi Kyle and Luke McKay and who got
three points. Well, let's see if the gap can be closed with this
one. Because three points goes to abe gap very good, and that is
Oh that's clever Kyle. So clever Kyle is now outright second position on fourteen
points. He is only three points behind. Now all right, so hit
me with the leadboard. So it's Philip Jay Hawkins on seventeen. Yes,
it is Kyle Marldoon on fourteen and Luke McKay on eleven. It's a horse
race. It is a horse race, Yes it is. Indeed, all
right, don't forget. You're just gonna be part of you just gonna get
your name right out once to go into the wild card. Even if you
don't win, you get to go into the wild card. But we have
Philip Jay Hawkins seventeen, Carle mile done on fourteen, and we have Luke
McKay on e eleven points. All right, miss, it is time for
the mailbag. Mailbag bail is here. All right, here we go.
First question here from Pat right, our man, co host of the Office
Stop podcast Availble on the four for can Discount network Check it Out. Just
finished season one of the Office, the US version. He says, what's
the biggest age gap you've had while in Simpsons terms snuggling? So I was
eighteen, she was thirty five. What's that seventeen years? Seventeen years?
Okay, you beat me. I'm I was seeing someone. There was about
fifteen years between us. Okay, yeah they were younger, right, yes,
but really yeah? So how long ago? Was this about? Ten
years ago? Yeah? Are we going for the kids? Good for you,
not as in like kids kids. I don't know what you're talking about.
That's awesome, man, good for you a very sweet girl. Yeah,
okay, our next question here, Andrew Swan, who's the weirdest on
screen couple that you found had surprising chemistry? That's a good question for you.
That isn't wrong. You didn't think they were going to have chemistry and
then they somehow mat to pull it off. Doesn't ever have to be a
couple really, just be like a duo, like who's like an action duo
or something. It's like, these two guys are going to work as a
buddy cop, you know what I mean. I'm sure I've dropped the name
Midnight Run many many times over the course of our podcasting career. Fantastic Yeah.
Buddy Action Comedy came out the same cap came out the same week as
Die Hardly came back in nineteen ninety eight, starring the great Robert Denia and
the late great Charles Groden, who you know have fairly different styles, and
you know a lot of people were sort of talked about for the role that
Groden played in this movie where Dania is a bounty hunter and he has to
get this account who has embezzled millions dollars from the mob and get him one
side of the country to the other before he gets killed and everybody's after them.
It's great, great, great, great movie. They were looking at
Robin Williams, they were looking at what year was this, This is eighty
eight, eighty ak. Yeah, they're looking at Share at some stage,
kind of doing a bit of a gender flip on it. They looked at
a whole bunch of actors, and you know, Groden was one of these
guys I've been around forever, very well respected, very well regarded, but
never quite broken through. And Denia said, no, he's the guy.
He's the one we're going with. And even if he wasn't top draw a
box office, and they just had the best fucking chemistry you could. They
really antagonized each other, but you could tell that they were Have you never
seen that? I might be on Netflix. Sorry, it's pretty sure it's
on some streamer, if not my desk, because yeah, it's a it's
a really fantastic movie, and they're so good in it together, just play
off each other so well, and it's not necessarily something you would expect because
yeah, they seem like very very different actors with very very different styles.
But it's just a chocolate and peanut. But you know who doesn't have chemistry?
Nick and I are halfway through halfway through Broken Arrow, right, Ah.
Yeah, it was on Disney Place, and I was like, this
seems like face Off esque nineties action movie, right, Christian Slater and Samantha
Matt Samantha Mathis. She's fucking horrific in that movie. Her acting is so
bad. Yeah, here's something. Yeah, and she bet the president of
the Actors Guild or whatever something like that. But it's very very interesting you
say that, because this is the second time they were in a movie together,
and the first time was in Bona Fardi gen X classic called Pump Up
the Volume. Okay, have you ever heard no Our Pale's friends of the
podcast The Rewatchables on the ring A Network. I was listening to a podcast.
So there's recently where they were talking about and say it embedded podcasting,
because essentially he Christian Slayer is this guy who's moved from New York to this
small town in Arizona. His parents gave him a CBE radio or a Ham
radio setup so he could sort of talk to his friends back home, and
instead he sets up this little pirate radio station where he's just playing with this
cool music and sort of talking about how it sucks, how life sucks,
and soamtth and Methis is the cool girl who sort of falls in love with
him and knowing who he is, and they have just incredible chemistry in that
movie. Wow, because in Broken Arrow they do not. People tend to
like Broken Out. But I'm so disappointed with the movie. I was like,
just be fucking awesome and it's just John Woo's the director, and I'm
like, that's the thing, what's happening here? Because it comes to a
hard target, which is you know who's first American movie, which is pretty
good, the Van Damn movie and Face Off, which is of course just
a masterpiece. And yeah, I remember it because I was like just card
carrying John wu guy. Back in ninety six when it came out, I
was like, oh, I can't wait for this, and Travola's hot off,
you know, whole fiction and then get short Michael Phenomenon I think was
about this time as well. Phenomena was great, but it was a really
a fun movie. It's a very thinly valed scientology. Yeah, but it's
still pretty fun. And yeah, I sort of came out of Broken Our
going not quite it. Yeah, but we're only just the first missile was
just exploded, right, the roleter is having fun. I'm like, I
said to Nicola. She goes, I'm going to bed in a minute to
so you know. And I was like, well, the movie's not finish,
and she's like, no, it's not. And I was like,
miss, I was about to explain it. Of course, it was like
thirteen minutes until miss exposed. Of course it's another finished I'm like, forty
five minutes ago. What the hell is going on here? This is like
when and I were watching Open Home and the other night. Yeah, guys
like, well they're about to, you know, do the first test of
the of the bomb. She's like, well, then that's when we'll wrap
up, right, sort of showed to them. They're still got an how
to go like what Nicholas like, yeah, I'm not both like because we
love like chivolt In like the nineties, like that genre of action flickt from
like John we can't go wrong, right, And I was sitting there and
I think we're about half an hour and I can just sense in the room
like one of us has to say that, And then Nicholas like, she's
terrible, right, I'm like, she's fucking terrible. Yeah, that's too
bad. I like, I mean again, like I think like a lot
of Generation X guys and particularly a certain type of Generation next dude who's like,
because we had to cool good the wind, you skid me. Just
she is the She is the epitome of that in Pump up the Volume.
So it's kind of said that didn't really flesh out for I mean, not
acting wise, but she became the president of the of guilt that consistently.
But it's like Nicola, she says, Christian Slater. I say Christian Slater,
right. I love the guy. I love him right. I just
could not buy him as a top built action star. No no, I
was talking about this with a good buddy of mine online now something like you
describe pump Up the Volume there, right, it reminds me of the kind
of like guy you'd see in like, how's the film that Tarantino made with
him True True? That kind of like that's his that's his avenue. He's
got Slater's got three really good, really defining movies. He's got Heathers,
Pump Up the Volume and True Romance in. There are some okay movies and
some supporting rolls and some stuff, but generally it's kind of like, yeah,
not quite, just not quiet. I'm just like you just you seem
like the guy they get when they could for the big star. And I'm
like, because, yeah, volt I see. Maybe John was like,
I'm gonna turn this guy into a big an action start, but I'm like,
I just can't buy him taking on John ta Volta John de Volter in
that film. She's big, brooding. No. Look, even Slatter is
probably my age. He's probably in his fifties now, yeah, and yeah,
but he still seems like a boy. Yeah. I mean there are
actors of my sort of generation who you're looking at him how as like,
I mean, even ones who still seen relative youth like Ethan Hawk. It's
like, no, you're you're a man, You've been around, you've done
some shit. Yeah, we're a slavey. You sort of look at him
and go you never quite fully grew up, or to me at least,
so yeah, that's why I just couldn't buy him taking on Vaulter. Yeah,
no, you're right. Yeah, it's a shame. I mean,
and she's just there going, what do we do it? Now? I've
got to pump up the volume on DVD in one of those cardboard cases.
I'll bring it over and you can take your pee wee by the way,
excuse you're pee wee? Get home? How many times has Lou said that
to me? All right, let's do one more question, shall we?
I think that was Forever Swanny, That was Andrew Swan, Yes, but
you didn' give them an answer. It was pop up? No, it
was who was Midnight Run? Not Ry? That's right, yeah, Josh,
Hellia Hamilton. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where two people
you know that shouldn't be together because it will end badly get together? Oh?
No, I'm terrible at that kind of thing, though, In terms
of like why don't you set so and so up with so and so.
I just it's like, no, I's not my job. Yeah, I
have no aptitude for this. Yeah I haven't. You said Louise once was
just like set up your friends and it's like I don't want to because it
doesn't work out. It's on you, you know. Oh yeah, I
mean you're vouching for somebody, and never vouch for somebody. Never never vouch
because you don't know what they're I mean you can be very very close friends
with them, but you don't know what they're going to be like in a
romantic capacity. Everyone's different. Everyone is very very everyone is very very different.
Let's go to Harrison mccluy. Did you guys have build a fort or
have a treehouse etctera as a kid. Yeah, well've explained the forts.
Yeah we have. I never had a treehouse. I always wanted a treehouse.
There was a treehouse built at my old house when I was a late
teenager, early twenties. A treehouse is such it like a platform. Yeah,
that's still cool up in this Morton Bay fig tree. That was like
you, Yeah, it's just the climb the tree to get to it.
Though you did the platforms are Sometimes you don't eat a house. Sometimes just
the platforms enough Flanny, and I mean I just know this is when I
was smoking cigarettes, I'd go out there and smoke a Dorry smoking Darry.
I wonder if anyone else outside Australia is what that means. Smoke it Dorry.
It means I was smoking a fact. I mean, wait a minute,
have any sticks? Andrew JP. Final one we didn't get Andrew JP.
We don't get three, Andrew JP. It's not a mail bag without
knowing Andrew JP's message. Thank you Andrew JP for continuing to keep the mail
bag nice and stuffed. If you could marry off two Simpsons side characters,
who would it be? And why? I feel like missus Kay and when
she's gone now Unfortunately she deserved love. She got it with Flanders. Actually
she got it with Flanders. But two side characters? Who are the we
know we did the conspiracy theory one from the more recent episodes like Home are
the great No No no no from the more recent episodes, it SEMs like
a thirty something Oh they did the conspiracy ones? Yeah yeah, and we
and we covered it, didn't we know you? Sure? Yeah? Did
we talk about it on something. I'm pretty sure we talked about it in
some episode. There was the episode where Homer became like the master of the
conspiracy theory and he sort of had this group of people around him and they
were various characters and I'm wondering if but it was oh so and Miss Hoover.
That's when Gil in Miss Hoover. Yes, that's what we did it
on The Sisters Index. I know the one you mean, yeah, okay,
because there was an episode where it's all various conspiracy no conspiracy theories,
but Simpson's theories, and they take the piece out of them. Basically all
the Simpsons predicted this and all that kind of stuff, you know what I
mean. That was a season thirty episode. But we did this one,
which was I believe the first episode of season thirty four. That sounds about
right. Yeah, And but two unlikely characters ended up together and they didn't
stay together. And you're like, oh yeah, because I was thinking,
I mean, if it's Gil and Miss Hoover, that's fine, but I
was thinking maybe Cook then out in the Missover, Who's who's a sidecarage that
you think deserves love? That's never really had it well, I mean Lenny,
Yeah, but he's had it, has an he has he has he
I'm trying to recall, Yeah, what's sure Like they used to say that
he was married one time Homa was calling him or shaving someone's legs and stuff
like that. I mean, I think my go to was always going to
be Mo. Yeah. Had the relationships yeah, given this progressive age that
we're in. I mean, we've seen Smithers with some you know, maybe
I think in the latest seasons he might have Yeah, but that'd be nice
for sure. Already, Well, that is the mail bag for Romeo,
Old and Julie. At the next episode of four Thing a discount we shall
be reviewing. Oh it was Hamarazzi. I remember really enjoying this one.
Hope becomes a paparazzi. I'm a Nazi, so many Nazis, no no
homarazzi. Yeah, basically hoping become poparazzi and just take photos of all the
celebrities. And I think I recall this one. I remember, and I
remember in this being one of the ones where I was like, I know,
some of these episodes of shit, but this one's all right. Yeah,
in that case, can't wait over two weeks ago when Yoko Chords just
blew us away. That's correct. Yes, hopefully let's go into this one
with low expectations and hopefully it comes out with high expectations, unlike say,
Broken Arrow, would you go into with high expectations? Like oh man,
and I'm like, I hate it. It's a couple of things, And
I'm like, I like this genre too much too. If I didn't like
this genre, I'd be ripping this movie to shreds, right, But I'm
just like, I'm just going to pretend, like I mean, I'm just
going to ignore the faults of this movie because I want to like it.
Do you ever watch a movie and go, oh, no, this is
no good, but I'm just gonna roll the punches. Certainly? Yeah,
more times? More times? You said Rebel Moon was really good? Right?
Don't watch Rebel Moon? Apparently? Is that your review? That is
probably my suggestion to you. Do you not watch er? Go in with
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