Maggie's crying. She's not crying. She's celebrating her independence. Don't crash that
party. One hug can't hurt, Yes it can. Hugs are drugs,
and your daughter's an addict. I guess it's time to let my little girl
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this week we hit the review episode three of season nineteen. It is not
Midnight Towboy. It is midnight towboy. I'm Dano and I am guy,
And yes, I'm looking across at a very uh oh, no watery gentleman,
a very misty eyed fellow, because this is the episode that may well.
This is an episode that made Dando gray. He cries at the drop
of the hat these days. Umm, I, on a hand, had
no soul. I felt nothing at all. You didn't like this one.
I liked it fine. There were bits that that I enjoyed. Certainly,
there were a few little green lines on my notes here, because there were
bits that I enjoyed. But did it strike me as deeply and for family
as it did you? I'm not sure. But then again, I'm a
solo artist, man, I'm rolling alone through as well. You could have
little baby guys out there somewhere, but I think it is more than likely.
I think it's an episode that you need to really be a parent and
live through the moment of them finding the independence to truly appreciate that bee pop
because I think the b PLoP with Marge and Maggie was better than the a
plot in this episode. I just thought, and I'm watching this going this
just has a woman's touch, with a mother's touch to it, I should
say, And it was. It was Stephanie Gillis al Jeane's wife who wrote
this episode. Al Jane's wife here saying yes, al Jane's wife. She
did such a great job with this episode. I just thought there were so
many elements to it and the ending. We always say here on this show,
when you hit the landing, it leaves you happy. You sort of
think the episodes is better than what it did. Sometimes you can have a
good episode has a really crappy ending and the endything wasn't as good as I
thought it was. This one here for me stuck the landing and I thought
it was just so sweet. It wasn't on the do it for her levels.
But I'll tell you what I was getting there. I thought, when
when when she says that but drugs are drugs, hugs a drug and she
says, shouldn't say it, but she goes to pacified slash dummy in her
mouth and gives her that big squeeze. I thought that was beautiful. I
thought it was one of my favorite endings in a long time. I'm glad
you felt that way. I'm very happy that you're you know that you conjuct
emotions for you. I'm feeling good for you in that regard because we brought
in the counselor for the trying to get them to go to sleep and things
like that, my kids, Holly and Alliott, and I was how Marge
approached this. That was very much me. It was almost like I was
watching myself. I never I didn't near in the groin obviously, but they
they came in and it was just the I know what's best for your kid,
and I've gotten my notes. There's one of my fa I'll spoil one
of my favorite moments here because the line of all the cancelors are available day
and night because they don't have families of their own, and none of these
people had their own kids. But yet they're experts on how to raise children,
yet they're never raised children. Not all of them obviously, but the
ones that we hired, and they her mentality was let them cry it out,
And I'm like, you know what, I'm not going to do.
Let my child just cry it out. I know it worked to an extent
in this episode. Sometimes it does work for people, but it's hard and
sitting there listening to your child cry. I know you have to be a
little bit tough, but you've got to find that balance between them finding their
independence and still nurturing them because you can't just be crawns let them cry out.
Some parents choose to do that, and it probably works for them.
I couldn't do it. So I've really related to margin this episode as a
result. Okay, the one I can say why you appreciated this episode more
because well, yeah, look, all these experiences that you're talking about are
you know, one hundred percent foreign to me. Anytime my baby starts crying,
I'm out of there. But but also Marge having to come to terms
with the child being independent. Now, so I wake up and Elliott will
make you his own breakfast and put the TV on and things and I think
you don't really need me, and then I go, wait a minute.
Your bag's not packed. You know, you haven't flushed the toilet properly,
you haven't done this, you haven't made your bed, you haven't. Ah,
you still need me because you're still it's still an animal. My work
here is not done. No, exactly. So they you need to let
them think they're being not let them think, but let them be themselves and
let them be a little bit independent, but also make them aware you aren't
quite ready to take on the world yet. Yeah. Look, I imagine,
yes, that there is a it's a fairly difficult time for parents because
you understand that well, no, you brought them into this world. You're
responsible for just about everything that your babies. Yeah, they need so much
from you, and to have that reduced ever so slightly pretty much every single
day. Yeah, there's going to be a feeling about that. I imagine
that's going to be ongoing, probably for the rest of your life. Yeah.
Yeah, your kids will always be your kids. That's why I thought
this the ending here of Maggie's still saying, I am you know, I'm
still have to look after myself in other ways now, but I'll always need
to hope for my mum. And that's just thought was just the perfect way
to end this story. I thought it was just so sweet. Okay,
then, like I said, I'm very glad that you got that out of
that. I was personally looking at this going I'm not really buying Maggie breaking
out of the house and riding sands little help like a horse to track down
Homer. Oh, she's done this since the start of the show, though
she's always been you know, when Homer alone, I think it's season three,
season four, I see them three. I think when Marge goes surround
Chevlaxo and Maggie goes looking for her Right, granted, she's just a baby
going for a wander looking for her mum, but she's still getting out of
the house and going to do things. I liked the montage of her Sands
walt to help. I guess the circumstances surround the episode. Surrounding specific incidents
within an episode will have something to do with how you take those moments and
how you not how you feel about them. I was like, Okay,
this is happening. I guess when just being an oblivious dumb jerk to this.
I think I'd rather take this for you the lesser of two evils,
then let's call it that. Yeah, I just but I really really liked
this episode. I liked the a plot as well. Well. What I
will say though, is that, well, what I liked about it was
the fact that I can buy Homer as a toe driver. He was good
at his job. And the thing I didn't like was that we didn't really
get a resolution to the story because because Maggie breaks them out, Louis knows
where he lives. Louis doesn't come and try and resolve. Hey, come
back, I still know you still owe me money or whatever for going on
my territory. But also Springfield broke into chaos and there's no resolution to that.
The last thing we see is the train go through the city and the
blimp and it's a pirate ship. But then that's it. Like that,
we don't have Springfield go wait, we do need order. It was just
they break out into chaos and that's that's the last we see of it.
Why wasn't Springfield chaotic before Homer started doing his toe job. That's true.
Yeah, they allude to Chief Wigham Ah gave that fatman. Sorry, I'm
mixing up my voices. Basically got to be Quimby say about Wigham, just
if I wanted everything to be ordered and structured, I wouldn't have hired this
guy to be the police chief, right, he said, Hey, look,
Ralph, the man knows that his name or whatever it is. Yeah.
Right. I didn't actually think of the element either. It's just they
break into chaos all of a sudden because Homer wasn't giving them tickets, but
so that they broke out because it's because maybe you playing Devil's advocate ding Ninding
as you say, Homer showed them what it is like to actually have some
sort of structure and not illegally park. And then once they saw someone else
doing it again, they went, hey, wait a minute, because it
was more of a spiteful wasn't it. It was very Oh, if you're
doing it, I'm going to do it, and then everyone that's going to
chain reaction. Yeah, but still I thought we needed a resolution to it.
Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean I think it's something that it's the
main story of the episode. Yeah, that The Simpsons has maybe dropped the
ball on in recent episodes, maybe even recent seasons. It's like, we
don't so much end as we stop. I really liked Matt Dylan as Louis,
though loved Matt Dylan is Louis. When I first heard that voice,
I'm like, that's familiar, Mat Dylan. H this is how you use
a guest star, you know, as we've said, you don't have Hey,
look it's Matt Dylan. It's just him playing a role. And you
get to the in credit and go, oh shit, that was Matt Dylon.
That's the best guest start of me. Yeah, of course by this
stage, because what year are we talking in there? What two thousand and
seven? This would have been two thousand and seven. Yeah, yeah,
I mean Matt Dylan's one of those guys who's been around since what the early
eighties or whatever, been in some big movies. Is a name that people
automatically recognize. For the most part. I wouldn't say he's never never been
like a megastar on the the level of say Tom Cruise or like some of
his contemporaries, like even like Rob Lowe or someone like that, but he's
someone who's always been around. It is always very very dependable, will occasionally
break out and make you realize I woned about that guy. Yeah, he's
really good and he's been good in everything. The first time I saw him
as a kid. You remember how many a nineties kid was there's something about
mary. Yes, exactly right. So every once, every once in a
while, every few years or so, he'll being in something a high profile
and like, oh yeah, this guy, yeah, yeah, always delivers.
But I was thinking about this when you know, watching him in this
episode, it's like, I don't really know anything about Matt Dillon his life.
I don't know he's married and he has kids. That's true. He
just seems like he's someone's friend. Yeah, but he's a guy who worked
constantly always, you know, gives you the good story. Would you like
to know would you like to know him? I would like to, or
maybe I wouldn't. Maybe the well, I'm going to look it up.
You look it up. How do you think he is. I think he's
going to be somewhere like sixty two now he's sixty. Yes, he has
brothers and sisters. Well, we all know about Kevin d Okay, Johnny
Drama. Oh so I didn't realize he was dating Diaz during the ear of
the Something about Mary was he his partners with Kaptain Diaz for three years ninety
five to ninety eight. The dude keeps it life profile. I like that,
and it says here Roberta Mastro Michelle. I don't know her forty seven
years. She sounds like a resident of Guido Town or what. Yeah,
I'm not too sure she's really She's an actress known for nine. She was
in nine The Tourist as well. Anyway, he was dating her until this
year, so maybe they've just split up, or maybe he's still dating her.
I'm not too sure, but that he's been dating her since it says
here twenty fourteenth, the last ten years, so I don't think he has
kids. The upshot of this is, oh, he was wild things,
of course, and he was wild things. He doesn't need to get married.
He had the threesome witham that's going to keep him busy for the rest
of his life. That he was dating Karon Diaz, Molly mat you scamp,
but in two thousand and seven. I don't think it's necessarily going to
draw in the punters. If they say this week on The Simpsons, it's
bad down, they'll be like, okay, and He's definitely the kind of
guy that you can tell people who work on the show with love. Oh
yeah, we're getting let's get Ma Dylan in. That'd be cool. Let's
get a role for him. And I thought he just played Lully so well,
he really did. I really liked this new town of the Springfield universe
that's obviously close enough to be well, it's on the border obviously Shelbyville.
It felt like it'd been there forever. I really liked the parody of them
all being you know, you just your typical yo yo. Yeah, yeah,
what was it? It's called it Guido. I mean it's Gweedo on
the name Gweydopolis, Guidopolis. Yeah. So, Also, Louis apparently is
dressed similar to Steve Randall played by Tom Cruise from the movie The Outsiders,
which also started at Dylan. It was Dallas in that. Oh God,
for joy, my favorite. Did you have any favorite moments in the episode?
I've written down here Props to Matt Dylan. I mean, I'd just
like the way he delivered lines like that murder murder, murder, suicide.
Well that was fantastic. It also where he was talking about the various nicknames
that he had the cars and Homo side. Those were pretty funny. I
went to the mudflaps. That's still two sexy for my wife. You do
one silhouette and odds forever. I just like the initial note sexy young thing,
average body, Homer body, just as you got a bit of a
teary moment, a sentimental moment out of the ending. Yeah, I did
like when Lee, when Maggie rescued Homer home was to pee you back and
returning your news. Yes again, Homer was a good father. And this
you think, how can you go from Homer being that joke with mister Burns
and the plane two episodes ago to this where he goes, oh wait a
bit, that's Lisa's nose. I was like, see you still know how
to write in to be a good father? What are you doing? You
know that's such a good line. You're hitting the target every once in a
while. It just annoys me that you think you obviously still know how to
write it, So why do you take the easy way out? And remember
when it was on the plane, he's he's a joke to Flannders here studios,
it's Homer, you idiots, And I think, what well, I'm
sad to say we got a bit of that in this episode. I mean
I wrote this down twice. Stop spelling out jokes. Yeah it happens more
than once in this episode. Yeah, I'm getting that just by looking at
the screen. It works for everybody. You don't have to, you know,
nudge me in the ribs and go do you get it? I did
like Moe's line of because you know how we don't like side J malt tout
side J malt oh fitter tickets. Huh yeah, we now you get nothing.
I was like, thank you, Moe speaking for all of us.
Anything else you enjoyed, or I's got the counselor the councilors avaiable day and
night because I have no families. And just the ending, I thought,
I thought this was one of the better endings we've had in a long time.
I really really liked the ending of this of making in march. Next
question, you there eating the beast? All right, it is trivia time,
mister Davis. My first question for you, what are the three shades
of white that my mode reads out? I see you're reading off a list,
so I will always check my notes, unlike you. Eggshell Malibar Ivory
and Mediterranean ekrew as. That was also one of mad questions. Let me
ask you one though. At the toga party being held at the Simpsons House,
who else was there? There was not a Simpsons, Vember and Millhouse.
Ralph. I watched it going How old are they? Sort of like
part of the gang? Now Ralph and Milhouse is randomly there? What's going
on? Anyway? It doesn't matter. My next question is where is mister
T going to be playing in the Lion King? Oh? See where?
I just saw the rest of the I just saw that mister T was the
line king. This is at the Capitol City Playhouse. Okay, hey,
how long has Ogdenbill been been without milk? Oh? Was it seventy three?
It was since nineteen seventy three? What was the radio dial that Louis
had on before he turns it off? Because how do you expect you to
know? This? Was it close up and he turned it off? I
looked away at that. It was eighty seven point nine. Okay, then
great, while we're doing that thing, then you probably already get this.
But what was the vanity plate? D ui guy? No? Different one?
That was Lenny's. That Lenny's one. I wasn't going to add that,
but the other one for Louis. Was it? Well, when Homer
went to pick up the car that was in actually in Guidopolis, but he
thought it was in Springfield and tickets it had started with I didn't it.
It was iHeart something, so I says I love something. It wasn't.
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Indeed, all right, so let's get into a review of Midnight Towboy,
shall we? Right, let's do it. The original air date of Midnight
Towboy was October seventh, two thousand and seven. Production code jab F two
one, written by as we said, Stephanie Gillis, the wife of Al
Jean, and directed by Matthew Nastak. I feel like he's directing a lot
of episodes lately of Matthew. Yeah, I didn't we should start calling al
Jeane the husband of Stemini Gillis. We should have right in this episode of
course, Matt Dylan, of course, as louis the couch gag the family
is. I thought it was one of the better couch gags. Very creative.
They're building them out of Lego home originally has hair, takes off the
hair and puts there. I thought it was good, not too bad.
Yeah, there's a Lego episode of the Simpsons, but cgi'd Lego. It's
all stop motion, so Lego movie, Lego movie, Lego. I remember
it being all right, Yeah, it's just something different. Yeah. So
the episode kicks off with what was a kick off with this the Davis as
I get up trying to put to make in the bed. Yes, that's
right, Marge trying to put make it to bed, and she just will
not have it, and I resually go here straight away relatable. Every night
you planned the kids, you have to as a parent. You'll learn.
You gotta give them half an hour warning. I won't learn. I'm not
doing this. You got to go all right, So we're putting a bed
at seven thirty, ten to seven, Hey, kids, all right,
just let you know you can finish watching this, finish doing that. We
gotta bush our teeth, get ready for bed. We're gonna go to bed
in half an hour. Give them ten minute warning again, ten minutes later,
remind him again, ten minutes later, remind we get it right,
don't forget ten minutes going to bed, get to bedtime? What what do
you mean in bedtime? You've been getting warnings forever, kid like, and
then it's just and now they've worked it out my kids, So, Holynally,
if you ever watch this, I'm onto you. They get to bed,
they get to bed, and then they go I've got a ship.
That's exact words, that's actually but it's like I've got to do a poo.
I'm all right, then I'm gonna do a poo too. I'm like,
I asked you, if you want to go to the toilet, guess
what you're gonna sleep in it? I asked them, every night before you
get a bed, to go toilet. No, no, no, no
no. Literally, the second we walk out of that room, we sit
it in the chair in the land room. Its nesting into our couch whatever
we're going to watch them SVU or whatever we're gonna nest in will fortune,
whatever it is we're gonna watch. It's very extreme example wheel of SVU.
And then we hear this pit a pat on the hallway floor, like,
what are you doing? I just got a pooh? I literally asked your
kid, I asked your kid. That's their thing. Now, or it's
I heard something at the door. I thought I heard someone knock at the
door. I'm like, no, you didn't. You're getting played. They
are gaming the system because they think they they think they're falling it. That's
the best part. And you think I don't have anything? Yeah, how
can I quash this youthful engine in imagination? But Maggie, she won't go
to bed here. She's got just in Timberwolf with her. Holly has an
entire bed of stuff animals, and she gets to bed every night and goes,
I'm gonna take this one and this one and this one. Then she
wakes up middle the night and goes where I'm like, it's on the pile
of toys, and then your bed. Get up and get a kid.
But yes, Maggie won't go down home. And the kids that are up
partying. You're taking parenting dips from Mo. Grab that one kid, Yeah,
Homer and the kids are partying. This is what happens. So kids
go to bed, But why are you guys? Allie's new thing is why
do your mummy get to stay up? Because we're grown ups. That means
we get to stay up, grown up, stay up. He's like,
oh, okay, makes sense checks out. You've got to have the argument.
Yes, I'm a big fan of your your half hour ten minutes.
You have to warn them, Oh absolutely yeah. I mean, of course,
have no kids, but my hypothetic kids. I mean, you know
you read parenting advice. I'm like, I like the idea, the well
you've given a half hour warning with ten minute brackets. I was always like,
yeah, I got to give them the five to ten minute warnings,
like right, we're at the door in ten minutes. If you're not,
yeah, yeah, you get left. Yeah. You can't just say right,
you're going to bed, because then it's just fiasco. It's just World
War three, whatever you want to call it. It's just chaos. It's
fucking it's pirate ships and fucking blimps and it it's World War Z. But
in this case, the Z doesn't say for zombies. It's yeah, yeah,
okay, it's pretty happy with that. That's pretty good nothing. So
they questioning why why, or Maggie says why do you get a bit?
She doesn't say, but she's she's saying that through her eyes. And the
kids are up partying with Homer and Ralph and millhouse very much like animal house.
Then she says, I want to bottle's another thing like the kids like,
I'm first and you too. Good water, So Maggie she goes get
a bottle of water, bottle of milk. Sorry, She jumps from hom
onto March. March therefore to drop the bottle and Home cries over spill builder,
which I thought was quite funny. Well, yes, but this is
where I said the first time. Stop spelling out jokes. It's spilt milk.
Just have him cried. You don't necessarily have him have him say spilled
milk. I mean, just allow us to add two and two and come
up with you. Remember there are kids watching the show too, and that's
that's where you kids, You're throwing the adults of bone by letting them say
he's crying over spilled milk, and you necessarily watching the kids will look around
it and going, wow, the kids, how do I get to stay
up late? I know what you're saying. I think you just need to
tone it down a little bit with your critiquing. I mean, you're more
than more than able to go for it and crucify it. I'm here,
I'm here to critique you can crucify this. But I didn't think it was
too bad considering what I have not yet begun to crucify. Okay, considering
the ship that we've had lately, I thought this was not But the teens
have all bought their milk because apparently in this era, that's when everyone was
doing the diet coke and the mentos thing with the people have been doing that
forever though, But the urban legend about pop rocks and coke. But this
it became like a viral insidet at that time, wasn't it remember doing it?
Every generation learns, Yeah, to be a dumber. Yeah, it's
funny. Now. I found myself getting older because I realized I'm getting older
because I will say, oh, that's just a sample from a song from
years ago. When I hear a new song that's a original, and I
look back and go a lot of the songs that I liked when I was
a kid, also samples from songs twenty it's been happening forever. It's a
it's a tough thing. It's a tough beat when that happens, because part
of you is like you want to tell the kids listen to the original.
It's the best and it's like, no, it's cicklical, and I hated
it when adults was saying me, you should be listening there really good stuff.
Well yeah, bing Crosby is good, thanks dad. I just don't
like it when they cover a song and it's just the same song with just
like a techno beat, because they've just covered stumbling in Oh yeah, terrible.
It's just the same fucking song. It's the same song with Yeah,
it's the same thing you've done. You've done nothing creative here, you've done
nothing. We get. Just play the vision because the visional is a fucking
banger. Just play the hits. Just play the hits, great classic hits.
I love time in great song, fine song, fine song, great
song. We'll agree to disagree. I've actually interviewed Susy Quatra before Lovely Lady,
have you? Yes, I had her in the studio. Pulsive am
here in Geelong like a London that's easy. Quatrocab on. But he goes
to Pinky Tascadera, goes to the quickie mark to get some milk, but
it's all been purchased by the teenage as we said, because they're combining milk
mentos and a lot of scrapings to make shitty jet packs. Yeah, it
works, but not quiet. Yeah, should you're a parent, as you've
spent the last half hour reminding me, would babies just drink regular milk or
do you have to get them like formula? Oh? It depends on the
age of Maggie. What is Makey's age? So you wouldn't give him regular
milk until their stomach can handle it. So it's either breast milk or formula
until a certain age. I'm not sure what the age is, maybe like
eighteen months of his Yes, Yeah, it just seems like they're using regular
ass cow milk because my margs wouldn't be britt I think. Yeah, it
does feel that way, doesn't it. Yeah, because they're just gone to
the quick amount to buy it. It's not formula. Yeah. Yeah.
Whenever people are talking about, oh, you've got to give the baby a
button, I'm like, I'm pretty sure you're not giving them. Oh make
devon now in front of the pod. How old is maybe? I think
she's like two. Maybe at this point I'm not too sure she might be
old enough for regular milk. Well, she's walking, but you know,
she's Simpsons Walking. Yeah, I think I can buy at this age.
Probably milk will be fine. Okay, yeah, all right, we'll clear
that up. Yes, anyway, I'm now given this episode an extra stuff.
He goes to Moe's to get some milk. He's only got paint though,
Homa drinks it and because it's white, it's gonna cost him. Then
Lisa suggests go on a website to try and solve this cleaning. Baby,
I like this is why because it very much felt like my mum when she
goes near a phone or a computer screen with that one. Mom, not
go af keep going, but the blue ones are that's the jewel bar.
You've opened, work closing, don't say this, stop cooking, don't go
there. Why are you buying a freezer? Don't click the corner you bought
it, you click the card. If you're so smart, you do it.
Hmmm cry. What does that stand for? Creative responses for infant egg?
You loving oohed you love it. They come to your home to help
you raise independent, self actualized children. The counselors can come day and night
because they have no families themselves. Okay, you'll sign up. You just
bought another freezer. Well maybe I wanted another freezer. Could you relate in
this exp what's Margaret Mary log with a phone or a computer? Well,
not with the phone. And she's she's big on the iPad because it allows
her to watch various streaming services and take photographs. Is she very much?
She's got a pattern of how she opens up absent. If something else pops
up, it's game over kind of, I'll find out, I'll find it
with my name before she passed god w rest of So she think she knew,
turn on the TV, do this, do this, do this.
But if like accidentally she pushed like the HDMI button whatever, it went to
a different, different source, it was done. Finish. That's pretty good
with the iPad. But she has limited options on that. I mean there
have been occasions where I've had to go over and say, Okay, now
you've got this, I'm gonna log you down. Then i'm gonna log you
back. Oh you're a genius, and yeah, I am all right.
You just have all the Sky News podcasts all line up for it. And
that's very got a need. I need to get her on ticket Masters so
she could go see Tucker Carlson. I can't believe that's out. The other
night, Tucker Carlson and Clive Palmer in conversations like, well, you might
as well just shoot me now. But I get I. Yes, it
is very very relatable, even to well, even someone of your age.
I mean you're probably looking at the internet pop ups. Yes, you know
what I hate the most with pop ups? It's the ones where you go
into a website and they don't load for about three seconds, and you're about
to click on something, and then they bumped him down because the banner pops
up and then he cook the banner and you're like, you motherfucker. I
didn't want this. No, I specifically requested the opposite. I trusted you
Internet. I trusted I didn't my margins. I don't want to bother my
Internet with my problems. Yeah, but but fixes it quickly. And then
they say here, the counselors can come day or not, because they don't
have any families for themselves. I'm like, that's exactly how I felt as
well. Then Homo goes for a drive looking for some milk. He eventually
arrives in Greedopolis. Yeah, and look at the mookie mart. What's the
lady's name Angelica, get over here doesn't mean nothing. Yes, but I
got some milk field right here. But I didn't like this that we so
you were saying, break out, That explained the joke. This was very
much explained the joke. Oholy, you were going to point to your crutch.
You didn't need to say that. You did not know it ruined the
joke. I thought by doing that, and just it was funny in itself.
It's like, ah, yeah, we all thought that too, that
was the joke. He didn't have to explain that to me. But Homer
then gets told because he's parked outside the bank, and then he ends up
giving home a ride to the impound and yeah, so basically he realizes here
that he is the boss. Louis his own boss. He can work whenever
he wants. Is sometimes you want to go to work. And I like
the I don't know it's sexist thing over eyeball in the highway. Honeys.
I love the word. I use the word honey's all the time. I'm
like, what a honey? I do think it's a nice way. In
my opinion, it's a polite way saying. It's a respectful way to objectify
you know what I mean, it's just like, well, what a honey?
You know, well, I think the same with saying what a hunk?
Don't you reckon? Because what a hunk is objectifying a man? Oh
absolutely, it is so what I always feel completely objectivey referred to as such,
exactly right. So when someone honks their horn says what a hunk,
you should feel the same way a woman would feel when they say what a
honey. I mean, so you're pro cat calling. I just wish I
could wolf whistle. I just can't do it. Can you wolf whistle?
Oh? Absolutely not, you can't do it. Now. I've always been
a fairly human whistle. I've been I've been jealous my whole life of people
who can do the finger one oh yeah, oh, particularly the one hand
time. Oh, man, like you are a hunk, you go to
a party and you need some order, and someone and just bust that that
and you're like, oh, I wish I could do that, damn it.
Yeah. But anytime that happens, of course, that person is gonna
get bodily fluids on the hamburger. Someone whistling at a party or a restaurant
or something like that. I don't know. But when it's like you get
attention, it's like right time of the cake. Everyone listened. No's just
and everyone stops. What's that? Sam? That was a pretty good while.
That's just a normous That's just a whistle. Do you know how I
do? You know how? I learned to whistle by practicing the intro to
patients from Guns and Roses because I try to do it, and I did
the whole thing. I was just practice when I was a kid, and
that's how I trained myself to change the tone to my whistle. Thanks the
Axle Rose, you did at least one thing right, one thing. He
went up the rail for a while. It seems you've got his life back
on track. No, that's good. I think I think I know about
as much about Axl Rose I do about Mandellen. I went and saw Guns
and Roses last year. Last year they're touring again as the original band.
Is he still were in the Dreadlocks? No, No, he's misbarides.
No, he's he's got through his mid life crisis and he just seems to
have He was doing charity ship like in Australia. I'm like a rose doing
charity. What is happening? Here. He always seemed like not a softie,
but he seems like he had a good heart. Yes, even though
he was that kind of thing. Now, if he reminded me of people
that I grew up with. I grew up in Cryer in or Lane,
and they're rough as bags, but you know that'd always be there for you
if he needed them, but you always wanted them on your side and on
the other side. I'm gonna start to using the term rough as bags.
Heard that before, never heard it roughest guts, rough as bags, I
know, rough as gud. Rough as bags is the plat way of saying.
It's like the honey's roughest guts. I feel like I'm getting a terrific
education. Yeah, you learn a lot when you grew up in Cryer,
I believe me. But he ends up getting to the to the impound and
there's already a lot of people. There's a wine line, as he calls
them, and Crusty's once he's blow or he's blow better still be in the
glove box. When he gets there and he's like, oh my god,
you people miss ball. There's nothing can do about it. You're like God.
Then he offers Homer flatbed friend's job for five hundred dollars for the truck.
It's pretty cheap for a truck. Well, Loui's actually doing good bye
homie. Yeah, and then he changes the mudflaps, as we've already discussed,
threatens him though, saying you say, out of this territory, and
you're like, okay, well that's going to come into play at some point
down the track. That's the driver. I just remember two rules. One
stick to Springfield. If I catch you on my turf, I'll rip off
your head, vomit down your neck, pull out your heart, show it
to your head, then shove them both down your neck. Hall to which
I previously alluded, there are two l's and eluded rule number two. Always
keep your hook pointed out right. What happens if I pointed this way,
Oh, hello, hello captain hook. Oh spoil spoils. Oh you're no
fun? And what do you think of they always have your hook pointed out
gag Oh, I said, you're making it very difficult to defend these gay
jokes that the Simpsons keeps doing. Yes, it felt very two thousand and
seven. I just watched this going. There's clearly no diversity in the writer's
room. It's very evident when you watch these episodes of The Simpsons, there's
no one in there who's either a diverse enough from the LGBTQ plus community,
or there's no one in the white writer's room who feels like they can stand
up and say this probably shouldn't go into the show. I would say that's
the case. There's always the again Devil's advocate ding ding Ding argument of like,
well, we're including everybody and making fun of everybody, and you know
this isn't really making this is sledging gay people. It's just having gay people
in a joke and making a joke about that kind of thing. Well,
it was very much like the in the nineties. Remember it was if you
had an earring in your right ear, that meant you were gay. Left
ear was okay. A lot of my friends had it in their left ears,
like you're right here because that means you gay. And I was like,
okay, sure if that's There's this great Alpiacino movie called Cruising Have you
ever heard of this one made in the early eighties, where there's a string
of serial murders in a sub section of the gay community, guys who are
into sort of s and M and heavy leather and all this kind of stuff,
and they all sort of look like Albacina, who's this cop? And
so I'm going to send you deep undercover in this community. And Alpiacina is
supposedly straight, although when he's exposed to this world, he's like, no,
man' just don't have feelings. Sounds like a movie that's probably should get
talked about a lot more of these days. It feels pretty progressive. It
kind of it is in a lot of ways, and it's also very much
of its time in a lot of way. Okay, but there's a great
scene where Pacino goes to this particular shop and he's saying, what's the there
with all these bandannas he goes, all right, if you wear a blue
bandana in your left hand pocket, it means this. If you wear in
your right pocket, it means this. Yellow ones, brown ones, red
ones, et cetera. And they all have different codes. I'm going to
go home and think about it, but that's I would surprise me. It's
a little bit of a play on that. It's like you've got to have
your hook turned out words otherwise or inwards inwards means that you're on that side.
Yes, okay, always make sure it's outwards. That's all it has
to do. I just know I'll be interested to hear of anyone who was
gay, whether they were not necessarily offended by. But I think it's funny
because you brought up that it's offensive so much as this is kind of tired.
It does feel old hat, doesn't it. Yeah, yeah, just
having them again spell it out so much like, oh you're and I found
all that kind of business. I mean, just have a car sort of
pulling up, playing house music, playing and playing the camp be oh you
voice, you know. Yeah, that's a bit kind of don't overdo it.
It's because they've just they've had a couple of episodes. They had the
episode if you must do it, don't overdo it homosphobia, because I also
had the heart stuff coming through, had the all albums and John Waters is
very campy in himself right of course. But you also had the episode where
had he came out and she got married, and they kind of ruined it
there with the actually being a male pretending to be a female. It was
a male, wasn't it a male pretend to be a female. But Adam's
apple, wasn't it that? It? Yeah, pretty sure it was a
male pretending to be a female or something like that. I don't know,
but still you've shown that, and I'm pretty sure is where Paddy goes.
No, No, I'm not going to marry you because I like chicks or
whatever. You've shown. You've shown the progressiveness of the writer's room that you
can be progressive, but then you go back to this stuff again. It
feels like with women it's one thing, but the male dominated writers room still
see that as funny in two thousand and seven, which is not a shame.
It's just sort of know, it's eye opening when you go back and
revisit the episodes and go ah, at the time, probably wouldn't stood out
so much, but in twenty twenty four it really stands out because I never
I never saw The Simpsons as a show that was so heavy on the not
anti gay jokes, but just the what would you call these lazy gay jokes?
Yeah, and there's a lot of them, I want to ock.
In the last three seasons, it's probably one in every two or three episodes.
Absolutely we're pointed it out. Yeah, every single and We're not doing
this to be like finger wagging soules or anything like that. I've just never
realized it at the time. How many they were? Yeah, and they
are. They are lazy yep. But yeah, moving on, So the
Homer has got his first home. He breaks off the the what do they
call the bumpo and everything, the Toba axle whatever. I don't nothing about
cars. I shoed to just build them. That's it. That's great news
for anyone driving a forward and for it is no longer a business. Have
you driven a forward? Likely? No? This next scene was kind of
I'm not too sure about this. So he takes the rich Texans car.
He says he's got po pogonophobia whatever it is where he's afraid of mustaches and
beards. Actual condition, let's find out. I will google that right now.
Is that I feel like you can't make that up right, overwhelming fear
of worry about beards. Yeah, so it's a real thing. But then
he the woman's got everything in it? Does it really does? Yeah?
He goes into the Santa School to call a cab and then shoots some Santas
because he's afraid of the beer years and I thought, I don't know about
that. I wasn't necessarily all that concern. I wasn't concerned. I was
kids watching. But Bart is now skating. I like this, So I
actually, really I really liked the end of this scene because it could have
gone two ways. Right, So he's having a great time, faster,
more dangerous, slams to stop sign because how he's doing the right thing stop
sign, but he hits his head. He's laying there and Homer Tones looks
at him and I've got I have my hand on the keyboard, read the
type. If he fucking leaves Bart on the road, I'm done. And
then Bart wakes up start laughing. They both laugh, and I was like,
oh, okay, okay. Well played as almost like Stephanie was like,
see, this is what the guys would have done with Homer. But
I made you, I fooled you. But I just like that they're both
okay. So it's all good. But it feels like we're at that point
Tho where it feels like, were you expecting Homy to drive off? No?
I wasn't. I was okay. Yeah. Now having said this,
we've just spent a little while talking about the writer's room, and saying,
oh, the guys are responsible for this laimemark gay joke, but they're also
crediting Stephanie with this thing. Okay, can we have can we have it
both ways? Would stephan is Stephanie gillis responsible for that, for that lazy
gay joke? Maybe possibly think about it. Yeah, there you go.
I'm just asking questions. I'm Alex Jones. Whilst Sephanie name is on the
episode right, as Carolyn Amine always says to me when we're talking about her
episode, she writes the episode and they are their Yeah, absolutely this was
this. It's a writer's room, but the person gets their name that she
writes the spec Now I am well aware. I mean, just again as
we are regular segment on the show, what guys saw on Twitter? But
believe it's how old are you? Fuck man? X? Never going to
call it X, fuck you? Whel Kingdom of the Planet of Apes is
out. Everyone's tilling apes. Everyone's going ape at the moment and justify poppin
apes. But they were talking about stop the plane of the Apes. I
want to get off and either two things. Yeah, the two minute thing
there and I think it was Josh Weinstein or Winstein. He probably does want
to have a pronounced Like Harvey's saying, here's here's a case for writer's room
because we all put a lot of ideas and this this is not one person,
This is not even a handful of it. There's a lot of people.
He literally says, one person could not have written this. One person
could not have written this, exactly right. So yeah, the point all
the ideas bouts because we're talking about how Stephanie would have had her names on
the on the on the episodes of Writer. But it's a writer's room,
and you feel like writer's rooms are becoming a dying art now though there's not
having him in. It's like someone who writes something, they'll send it an
email of this person. I'll add their little contribution. But having a you
can't you can't manufacture the energy of being in a writer's room. I've never
been a part of one, but I can just imagine the ideas being thrown
around. It's like yes, no, and just writing everything down and feeling
the atmosphere and feeling the energy that's coming from absolutely collaboration creat stuff or just
creates a good mood that's conducive to creating stuff. I mean I remember them
when we were working in the call it the marketing department of of pop culture.
You know, there was the room that had you me our power role,
and you know and Alex Pwell all these people, and when we sort
of got on a roll when we should have been working work. That's true,
but if someone told a good joke, it would invariably sort of create
a bit of a snowball effect where you know, everyone would end up laughing
because everyone was sort of like more atlandish in the next wasn't it not necessarily
wanting to top each other? But it's like it's very much like the Parker
and Stone thing of like it's not and then it's therefore and butt like oh
but also this, you know, that's it. I get that. I
get the feeling. That's what a great writer's room is like, where just
ideas beget great ideas, beget great ideas, be get great ideas and occasionally
dad ideas. We're just like you all feel confident enough and safe enough to
go. That's not it? Not what about though? Yeah not that but
this yeah, now people at home. S man here came of one of
the greatest marketing campaigns that popcorch has ever seen called turn down for what?
But how many times did I do something? Turned down for what? Until
we got turned down for what? Many many times? But one hit it
was? It worked, didn't you have the was it? The who was?
The davidly hoff Is what you said had a fairly limited range. But
with then that range, George Lougas, give me a call. Actually no,
Kathleen Kennedy, give me a call. Turn last word into Star Wars
reference. Well, I was the one suggested that Brindon Dando called his first
son Lando nearly. I nearly got Marlin over the line. I know Nicholas,
like n I just can't do it. Marlon Dando? What he would
have been a stud? That's it. And it became to some overweight alcoholic
mess. Look my boy, what would he say though? Look at the
massacre my breakfast? Did someone say gipsy? Oh boy, we were worth
it just for that right? It would it would have been in a day.
Now we were up to Santa School. Santa School, Yeah, but
bart skating and skating yea yeah, yes, So now the counselor is at
Marge's house and I really like this. The demonstraatet care or just all these
buzzwords and terms of everything right. And that's how it felt like when she
came, I'll never forget. When she goes, I know he's crying,
but just leave you, and I'm thinking I'm not gonna know, and she
goes, I want to go in there. She goes, no, you
can't go in there, and I'm like, I know i'm paying you,
but you're actually in my fucking house and I'm going to do what I want
to do. And we have to find that balance of let him cry a
little bit. And then but what we found was with alliot crying, is
he go in there, don't cuddle him everything, just sort of like put
him on the back, make him away that you're still here, and then
go outside. And eventually that is assured. That's the thing. Yeah,
I just like that now you're fee to live like a human being. And
then she hears Maggie, and I just thought this was just so me.
She's not crying, she's celebrating your independence. And I was like, hugs
of drugs. Your daughter's like, shut up, that's not how it is.
But march kicker on the crutch and entering, I think you should have
been more angry about that, but I liked that. Marjor's like goes in
there and it turns out it has worked. Now she says here, I'm
pretty sure as I am okay on the blocks, which apparently is a reference
to my mother the carjacker when Marge's mum was writing the letters in the newspaper,
remember the first letter of every sentence. Yeah, So Homer is now
towing Artie pye. I thought you might have appreciated it. You're in the
sky now, my demand. Yes, until he throws the wrench into the
propeller blaze and caused it to crash, and he draps me away home.
Is now buying a round of lobster politans at Moe's well because he's got Toto
that he's looking to blow them. Yes, and then he overhears Leny saying
he's been parking at the front for eighty one minutes, which is past the
one hour mark, so he tows Lenny's car away. Maggie then climbs into
her own chair, gets herself a banana. Marchin just notices his oh you've
helped yourself. Oh okay, andeminates I like where this story is going,
very relatable. Where have you been March. When you're married to a midnight
toe boy, you might not see him for days on end. I don't
want to live like that. Hey, when you married a man who would,
years later, with a warning, become a tow truck driver, you
knew what the deal would eventually be. Well, no one's disputing there,
but he's Toad Skinner's car. He's now in a chair with a stick,
which a bit silly one. Yeah, Flanners here rocks up, causing Toma.
Homer's just route to him for no apparent reason. But Homer has he
towed the Sunday school bus with the kids still involved, so Homer's there to
pay. Flanders had to pay the bill. Now everyone's throwing darts at home.
They all hate him because he's towing all their cars away. I think
it is no other tow drivers in Springfield. It's asking him, don't,
don't, don't do the wrong thing. That's how going to make some big
leaps. Yeah, Agnes has a plan known because she's married three Tojo's in
the past. And this is where side show. Malt Is roundly is nervous,
doesn't want to come close, so she says she might gum him and
I was like, oh my, I was like, oh what, and
he might like it. Then they paint the fake disabled park on the road
and they change the billboard to say he's still in Springfield and they're gonna be
playing a trick on Homer. But Mel wants to get out of the because
he's got theater tickets and Mo rips them up. You got nothing. Marge
then watches Maggie with her own baby book, putting her hair in there and
things like that, and she she has the sack of potatoes because she thinks
they're neat. That's like, oh, okay, well that's nice. Yeah,
it's a little callback. Homer then sees the trap and if my life
were a teleplay, this would be the end of act two. I don't
mind breaking the fourth wall. I thought that was pretty funny because they paid
off at the end. So Louis sees him hits him an end of at
two, put me down your loading, Okay, I'm warning him, Wow,
I'll kill you. You've done all right, buddy, that I don't
well, this reminds me of you know, when he's like must kill Mode
throws him into the trapdoor and he uses the JOm bon Jovi Bust, which
is very much like Batman, very much like Batman. You're right, Yeah,
who doesn't use John bun Jovi? No, who does he use?
Who does he use? I'm guessing it's like them. It's either something US
sixties, some man bust, trapdoor, some Roman general or the mayor of
Gotham City. It is uh Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Yes, that's Batman.
Apparently Shakespeareeah, there is Shakespeare. I just rewatched his sixties Batman. I've
got him on Blu Ray do you now? Well? Oh, speaking of
little I heard you. I heard you went wild on Marketplace the other day.
So much physical media, but inside scoop for all you are physical media
fans out there, Jemi High fans me Jemi High fight believe either next week
or the week after, depending on when you listen to this. So we're
recording from the fourteenth, so it'll be last week maybe or the second last
week of May in twenty twenty four. Buy one, get one free on
offical media box sets. Anything interesting? Okay? Then they had the twenty
percent sales. Well I fell for it like a sucker because you didn't know
about the boy and get one free. No, you do have you opened
them? One of them yes, the other one no, return it and
then you get it for free next time. Wow. When you go to
buy the next one, say I just want to return this. By the
way, I want to buy it again, please, they can't say no,
I've done it before many times I returned something and then paid less money
for it. Well, that sounds like a good plan. Yeah. I
was like, I'll have my money back, thanks, and now I want
it for free and they're like, oh, good scam man, we didn't
see this. I love our little scams. It is good to beat the
system. It is good to beat when it seems like the systems have to
beat us up on the regular bit buy one, get one free. Yeah,
I'm going to be buying me some box sets. Okay, you get
some. Yes. I got The Ocean's Trilogy on four K. Do you
don't own it on Blu ray? I did? But the four k A
upgrades and it does. I believe me. I'm a cheapskate. I went
online and I said, okay, worth it to upgrade, and people who's
opinion I respect and trust said they look better, they sound better. I
just can't see that enough of a difference to justify buying them again. If
if I own them on Blu Ray, I'll buy them on four cap.
But it've already owned, unless it's a movie like Jaws or something like that,
where I just have to own every copy of it, every version of
it. Well, Oceans is like that for me. I love the ocean
of the movies. So the other drivers are all down in the trap door,
have all been kept there. They are actually a capella group. They've
been practicing. They're sitting under the ball work, which kind of goes nowhere,
it really does. Homer then looks out the window and he's sort of
he's trapped there now. I did like though that they planted earlier on.
Stephanie thought ahead and went, Okay, marg is going to be worried,
why hasn't home he come home yet? Because he told her earlier on there
may be some times why I don't come home for a couple of nights,
but don't you worry about me. So at least she covered the Oh,
will you just cover your tracks at least make an effort, you know what
I mean when you cover your button. Yeah, So everyone is now illegally
parking, just cutting into each other, Yeah, I get where this was
coming from, was like, oh, okay, it descends into anarchy.
I would have liked it was a little bit based in reality, where you
know how it always is when I just need one thing, I'm only going
to be five minutes, so you don't pay for parking, or you park
in the so the handicaps, taxi zone or something all the taxi zone or
whatever, or the loading zone, and that way sort of is that that's
the roots of anarchy. And I would have been like, if everyone was
saying I just need one thing or I'm just gotta go do this, it'll
be two minutes, and that sets the ball rolling, which is like,
oh no, yeah, it's parking chaos in Springfield. So it's more this
is out of spite, isn't it. It is, yeah, which also
works, but it's a small change that would have made me feel so much
happier. And of course this is what they should be thinking about. Well,
the Sensu's right, it's room at all times. I don't mind if
you do this, though, just give it a payoff. Because there was
no payoff to it. I think we didn't explain this behavior. There was
no sort of repercussions. No, no, the only payoff was just escalation.
And that's it. The last thing we see is the train going through
this. Well, there was no It just felt like you didn't need to
have that at all. Really, it didn't. It didn't. It didn't
need to have Springfield breaking into anarchy at all because you open up a new
story thread that just was left open. Yeah, I don't understand why they
brought then maybe he's a deleted scene or something. I'm not too sure.
But Homer then calls Lisa. Is his one phone call. Don't call the
police. Oh no, forgot, It's a ransom call, isn't it.
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, don't call the police or I will kill me
goodbye forever. And I thought, okay, Springfield and break breaking, the
cast of the ship, the Blimp of the Trainers we discussed earlier than homes
telling stories of Transformers and Shrek three. Taking the mickey out of Shrek three.
Sometimes he speaks Medieval times, sometimes he speaks today times. Reminds me
of your favorite quote from Cable Guy with the PEPSI. That's right, there
was no cutlor in medieval times, so there's no cutlery out medieval times.
Yes, but and millhouse and no cutting ways out of the the Bible.
Sorry to see which words I can say. I didn't really get this.
He just calls them a dumb ass whore. Is it just their way of
swearing having swearing on because it doesn't go anywhere that No, one doesn't doesn't.
No, it's just there. For one scene, Marge is worried at
home. It's been a couple of days since he's been there. Maggie over
here, so she goes to rescue Homer. She takes Sanders little helper,
how she found him, how she knew he was in Guidopolis. I'm not
too sure about that. Actually, yeah, I think we needed a bit
if you're going to be steering into this not necessarily fantasy. She holds something
in front of the dog's face to say, I was wondering about if is
there a scent? Bit? Maybe I missed that. I'm not too sure
when I was writing my notes, because that would at least offer some sort
of explanation. I did not see it either, but I was also looking
away from the screen. Yes, let's assume they did. Let's let's give
these guys a benefit of the debt. I was liking the Et Moon parody
as they walked with you would yeah, big et fan. Of course they
arrive at Guidopolis, how she sees Thomas's face on the moon and mean another
gay line here, that's yeah. Basically Homer says, I'm in charge,
so I'll be able to decide how far we can go with each other without
being gay. There's love making them taking them me yet of gay gays.
But Maggie attaches the truck to the bars, smash is it out? And
then that's how they get free and that's the end of Louis. That's the
end of the Matt Damon plot subplot, but it's Maddylant Damon. Yeah,
I'll tell you interview Matt Didylan once he did I did call me bro,
bro. What was the reference? Is that? How you doing, bro?
Or what was it? I think we must have had a bad connection
or I sort of said something with a weird inflection goes, oh you we
restrained? Yeah, goes sound american bro come to you. But hearing Matt
Dylan call me bro one of those moments. It's always nice when you feel
like you're their friend, or when they when they're clever enough to make you
feel that way. Yes, they are actors. Yes, Maggie, you
did all this, and you pay you back. I'm returning your notes.
You know, would you beg you know? Oh wait, least knows.
But I really, as you mentioned earlier, really liked the way ended.
So Homer returns Maggie's nose as a payment for saving him. Very sweet,
a very sweet gesture. Yeap, Yes, I liked theole. So that's
Lisa's nose. I thought, well done. So Marge then says that she's
moved on. Maggie. Don't worry, I've moved on with the potatoes now.
Maggie says, I'm not having any of that. She punches the potato
bag. She just wants a hug. Are you sure? Because hugs a
drug puts a dummy in her mouth, and that's it. That's it.
I've got here. A beautiful ending, I think. For me, the
way it ended really made me feel like the episode overall was really good.
When you break things down, every episode of Simpson is gonna have it's weird,
what the fuck moments. This one had a lot less than what we've
had previously this season, so there's definitely the best one of the season so
far. Well, Daddy Dando thinks this, Yeah, look it was I
I think it was perfectly It was perfectly fine. You like this better than
the Homer of Seville. You start that episode by going, do we have
to talk about this one? And on before that we had fucking the one
with Stephen Colbert as the It is the best episode so far, yeah,
by a long margin in my opinion. But I really really liked this episode
of Midnight Toe Boy. The b plot for me, as I said,
was a lot more enjoyable related just because you said in the first one,
I think that the had more laughs. But I enjoyed overall the margin and
Maggie plot. And it's a story that I'm surprised I haven't already done so
far, because it's just it's one of the classic parts of parenting is seeing
your kids grow up. And it's an episode the Reason of Carolyn and Meine
where I interviewed it for it. I can't remember what it was called,
but it excased me. I apologies Carolyn, but it's the one where March
has come to terms with the fact that Bart isn't her little boy anymore.
Oh yes, And it has an incredible ending, very similar to this,
and it just feels like the March Stories. Now it's weird. Never used
to really like the March episodes. The March Stories seem to have the best
endings in my opinion of the when Bart is the shoplifter this episode here,
as well as the urban moaning Lisa, which she says to Lisa, if
you want to be sad, be sad, I'll be here for you.
March. Good character, just not written well all the time. You're a
big softy down Yeah, I have a big softie probab. We love you
for it. What do we learn, Bom? What'd you learn from the
episode with Davis? Okay, what I didn't learn? How far you can
go without being game? Would you like to know more? He's confused,
Like, I don't have to say you say that the meme of Johnny Rico
has got desire to know more intensifies. It's great. I learned that you
should always have your hawk pointing outwards or inwards, whatever flows you boat,
whatever gets you through the night, as Lendon would say, Indeed, indeed
we both went for the for the low hanging fruit, so to speak.
Oh sorry, that's a worthy of the Simpsons Writing Room from forward, your
names will be all right. It's time for the Guy Davis New Name Championship
that currently the board stands at this mister Davis in first position. We have
Adam Wolhouse, phil Hawkins Philip Jay Hawkins because he's in first position, as
well as Kyle Muldoon clever, Kyle Heath Apple be in second position now on
three points. Heath that would be on two points, and Matt Collins on
one point. Hit me? Do we only refer to Philip Jay Hawkins with
the jay when he lugging well I said that in the last episode. Yeah,
position, Then we show him his proper respect, so he gets the
one two three this week, mister Davis. Okay. One point goes to
small Time Hooks. Oh, that goes through her first time ever on the
leaderboard. I think it's Rage Beasley Beasley, well done, McKim no relation.
Probably Rach Beasley, well done. One point, Rage, very nice
to have you, congratulations on joining the leaderboard and joining the New Name Challenge.
Two points goes to hook Wine and Stinker Wine with a w H.
I'm assuming that is correct. You stinker wine? Should they stinker or sinkerk
stinker. Yeah, yeah, you was thinking pretty sure we you said it
off the air. Yeah, every time we here see the word stinker,
your stinker? What was that? What was the production company for that?
That's David E. Kelly isn't the maker of Ally McBeal and Boston Legals?
And that one is okay? So that would be Clever Kyle. Clever Carle
is now in first position. That can it in from three points to five
points? Well, Clever Kyle very well now, but three points goes to
toe life. That is another new b Jared Hornby. There we go.
We've got two new people on the lid of what I like this. We
got a competition, yes, all about it. Yeah, So Jared Hornby
with the three points there, which means we have Clever Kyle on five points
in the first position we have Adam Moorehouse, Jared Hornby and Phil Hawkins and
second position Phil all right, a serious moment, Yeah, on four finger
discount. We're talking about the new name channels we pointed out last week or
even the week before that. Yeah, some of you are very eager.
You go right for it, and we appreciate that, but we must stipulate
two entries per person. You know more than that, but some people are
putting in like ten entries and it was just getting way out of hands.
So you've got two entries, and always look to see what other people have
written as well, because if they've written it and you write it writ after
them, then it's completely just it's null and void. So you have to
have two original ones to get in to make sure yours don't get copied.
Yes, and if you do submit more than two, we're only going to
pick the first two that you do. Yes, And unfortunately, what's happened
this week is I'm going to name it Fergus Chef's right, Gus guy,
like your fifth one that you put in there. But we have to follow
the rules and make it fair for everybody. You're number five, which was
what Reap, What your Toe? What your Toe, would have got the
three points this week, but unfortunately you had four other names before it,
which means we couldn't use it. Yeah, Fergus, we don't make the
rules, except we really make the rules. We really do make the rules.
Yeah, and in this case we got all a buye bye. Sorry
man, it's really good. Don't get me wrong. You're capable of good
stuff, So keep so many the names, but only two maketual lugan one,
two, three, four five. Yes, so it was the fifth
one that you put in there. Fergus apologies, you would have gotten the
leader board this week three points. But everybody pay attention to the rules two
per person to keep it fair and make sure you don't copy. Look look
what everyone else is written first, so you don't copy as well, because
we don't want your name to be the same as someone that wins. And
you go, well, what didn't mine get it because he came second.
So look what's been on there, and only put two in that way,
it's all fair for everybody. Now focus. We are sorry for naming names
and making an example out of you, but for example, it was a
great name and it's a shame we couldn't get a point. But that's why
it didn't get a point. Yeah, but at the same time, you're
also getting your name said out a lot on the podcast, which is something
the people pay top dollar for, and you reput your toe. That's why
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That's a hell of the sales pitch. All right. Time for the
mail bags A Davis mail bag. First question here from Keith Nedham. I
just want to be the first to say that I'm not do JP. There
you go. That's not a question, Keith, but there you go.
Andrew JP says, aside from the wonderful John bon Jovi, who's your favorite
Italian American celebrity goalie? Isino Italian American? I believe he is? Yeah,
Baina is a good one. You have to be out there, wouldn't
he Sinatra? Okay? Is Matt Dylan or do you just playing Italian?
If he is he's doing it really well. Let's have a look an American
actor. Let's see where he was born? Though, where do you reckon
he was born? Joys? Probably not? It feels like a New York.
He was raised in New York. Yes, okay by Mary Allen and
Paul Dylon, a portrait painter and sales manager for toy bear manufacturer Union Camp.
So we go. He's not Italian? Okay, let's go with the
the the obvious choices like Bacino and Sinatra and Rachel McLean. Have you ever
had your car toad for doing something wrong? Have you had your cart toad
at all? I have? Really? Yes? What did you do wrong?
Well? I parked in a disabled zone in front of a fire hydrant
and parking No, I was working a place in Melbourne. Uh, and
you chase after it? I honestly thought that my car had been stolen?
Really? Yeah, I would think that as well. Yeah, I parked
in a Yeah what do you call it? A clearing zone or a loading
zone? But do they leave a thing behind us? Say you've been robbed
by night burglar? So how do you know? How do you? I
think you just have to twig and realize oh, I parked in the place
where they say they'll tell your car if you are there at a certain time.
Okay, yeah, so I was in I think Hawthorne. I came
out, there's my car? Where the funk is it? I literally said,
dude, where's my cat? And this, and then stole the hell
and then I'd be freaking out. Yeah, look up the signs. I
think they might have told it. So then you start doing your online research.
It's like, okay, who would I call the vine if my car's
actually been toed? Here's my license, Oh, here's my my my Regione
number. Whatever. Yeah, we've taken your car. It's gonna cost you
three hundred bucks or whatever. You you stinker, your stinker. And then
on top of that, there's you know, the fine, but there's also,
yeah, the money to Luckily, I had a really good i'dn't been
working there long. I was sort of like a contractor. Yeah, and
I said, oh, I come and sit down, we'll make your coffee,
and okay, look a lord at you and uber all this kind of
stuff, and you know, you can go get it. Are really nice
about it. But honestly, yeah, my car was toired. That was
the first and only time. It's never happening again. I'm keeping on the
signs because holy shit, that was really stressful. Oh yeah, walking in
in your car dost not being some ofs. You walk out and you can't
re where you parked. That's stress full enough. Oh yeah, and I've
had I've had that too. I did it last week. I was thinking
I parked my car here like I would have backed my house on it,
that my car was part here, but it was the next level left.
I'm thinking, Am I Am I so out of touch? No, it's
the chicken. It's the parking lot that is. It is the children who
are wrong. It's the children. Wholluck drive me crazy. I can't come
my short term memory, mate, Shot. I can't tell you what I
did yesterday. I can tell you anything from like nineteen ninety four through to
like two thousand and one yesterday. Nah, seriously, think about short term
memory. Shot. We did record some episodes, but recorded in an episode.
We did a South Bargin. Yes. Oh great episode by the way,
we did well. It was it happens you hit the fan hit the
fan. Yes. Anyway, if you do like South Park, check out
going down to South Park available on all your podcast streaming services, right,
miss Davis. That has been our review of Midnight toe Boy. Next week
we're going to be reviewing the episode Cold I don't want to know why the
cage Bird sings, Missus Davis. Any final words for those incredible supporters out
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