Springfield Up (S18E13)

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CHACUOZI is just for our dogs. This week we hit to review episode J
A B F A zero seven. It is Springfield. Up, I am
danu, I am guying. Oh, you've just put a smile of a
no ill thinking about to jet the dog in a jacuzzie. I think,
I mean hopefully enjoying it a lot more than Sanders little helped it did.
Not enjoying it and all cruelty. My top thing of this episode, or
just that scene in particular, is like killing dolphins and not looking after the
dog. I don't like this at all. No, I'm not sure the
Simpsons are taking to wealth all that well, but it seems like the kind
of things that rich people would do. It does, yeah, well,
behind behind every fortune is a great crime, as you say. But I'm
sure that Jack would have a very nice time in a in a in a
hot tub, I hope. So I'm picturing he hates bath, So he
hates bu I think he's had a proper bath in like a year. He
refused, I can tell he just refuses to get in the shower, just
hates it. But you get to the beach or whatever. He's fine because
he's in control. Natural dog. Yeah, I know what it is about
dogs. I love swimming, but its getting clean. He hates getting cleaned.
It's like Alliott, just throw him into the ocean. Well, the
thing is, we've worked it out and we've cracked the coat, and how
to get him into the bath is just go crazy with the bubble bath.
There's ship loads of bubbles in there. He'll stay in there for an hour.
He just loves it. Won't get out of the bath. He cracks
the ships to get out. Up until now it's just been like, dude,
dangle lollies over the bath and have him like dive in for it in
order to get him in there. But now he's actually bathing, which is
good. This is what Lobly Louise does to me to have a shower.
Yeah, helf over the bar, you know what I mean? Actual snickers
do that when I want to knock nickel off. What's that sneakers? Because
that well exactly it's choffle the nuts. But how you do it? Anyway,
I'm doing all right, Yes, feeling pretty good about life. Amazon
updates. So basically you tell me off air, right, So I think
it was on going down to South Pike. I think it was yes,
talking about the recent shenanigans that have been going down with Amazon and how you
you're going for the triple the triple threat, aren't you the Triple Crown or
Triple threat? On four figured discap? Oh, that's right, it's triple
threat. But the ups the The basic story this was I placed an order
on Amazon during Black Friday, summer Monday for a nice pair of jeans,
and I don't know, Amazon tracking usually pretty good, but they were saying,
oh, we're not sure when this is going to arrive. It might
arrived by this date, but maybe not. And I wasn't getting updates or
anything like. That's just dawned me though. You didn't give much time Black
the twenty first, that's true, that's true. I think I maybe waited
like a day, was waited four days. Well, we talked about as
well delivering. You just were positively orgasmic about they're gonna bring it up our
house next day. It happened today, like I literally ordered something last night
as I was going to bed, order something last night, and it came
on Shome today. So there you go. You know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, but anyway, I'd ordered these genes. They didn't arrive on
time, and I'm getting the feeling I don't know if these are lost in
the system or whatever. Yeah, but let's contact one of our friends at
Amazon HQ and see what we can find out. The very helpful person said,
oh, look, really sorry about that. Yeah, we seem to
have lost track of it. Tell you what, We'll refound your money.
And because the genes have gone up in priced since you ordered them, here's
a thirty dollars gift card. Doesn't make sense to me, No to me,
but I'm gonna roll with it. Apologize to who's hearing this story for
the second time. If you've listened to this podcast, it was just as
fascinating. It's the gift that keeps on giving. But here's the update.
Yeah, yeah, I'd received an update not from Amazon for the astraya post
saying your thing's a arriving, And I'm like, damn, you know,
got the money back, free money, got a gift got on top of
that, and I might be getting the item that I ordered. Jeff may
have paid you to have these jeans. That's correct. Jeff might be paying
to clothe me. But then I'm, like I said on the other podcast,
I'm like Zuckerberg at the end of the Social airp and I'm just refreshing,
refreshing. Where is it? It's just us in life now, just
refreshing, refreshing. It really is, because you can get that it's on
its way, but it needs to switch over to it's coming today. It's
like it's like Christmas every day. Yeah, so actually it's specially be coming
today, is it? Well? No, No, that was the other
day, wasn't it. It was Tuesday? No. No, Another package
arrived because I've ordered something else, but this one said oh, you'll be
getting this on the twelfth, And again with the tracking, it was like,
yeah, it's not saying that it's it's it's you never got it.
Yeah. Yeah, so I've received this other package. I mean, and
I saw the guy coming. I said, that looks small. But anyways,
I and I'm like, this is a book that I was really looking
forward to as well. I'm like, it's pretty good, I guess,
but now I don't know. It's it's a adds a little bit of spice
steel, it springs a little bit of salt and pepper on the everyday existence
that you know there's a package out there with my name on it. I
may get it, I may not, you know, I mean, one
of these days I'll just be sitting around the house going wearing the same old
pants and then knock, knock, knock, he's appearing new pitts that I'd
forgotten all the pet You has the door, that man not wearing no pets.
I think you've been waiting for these. I am misplaced in my pants.
I'm just going to answer the door in the tower from there to grocery
grocery bags. I'm mixed up. You know, we'll have to speak.
I'm all wearing a towel and I've misplaced my pants. Both both top quality
gags. But that's the upshot triple threat. You a double feature I am,
indeed I am. I'm a double feature creature in that I've got almost
everything I ordered from our favorite online retailer, friend of the pot of Amazon.
But but they did at least give you money. They did. You're
gonna get a freaking gift card you were hoping to get from their serve.
Maybe this was it it as well there because the universe works itself out,
mate. It's a self regulating or we did. We're giving Amazon a lot
of airtime, recent lot. It consumes your life, mate, and yours
to some degree. I buy some stuff and then I go outside new pants.
I would we would to a sanitary party on the weekend. I did.
Yes, a friend of the Lovely Luids and a friend of mine.
If I'm going to be saying this, I had her. She's of a
certain age, more my age than your age. Fit. There's a subtle
clue in there, anyone who wants to pick it up. But yeah,
Karlie, very nice person, through a very nice party which was Zenadu themed
because she loved the movie when she was growing up. And then she'll we
watched it and went ooh, it was great. Because her husband, Mitchell,
I think, is a top guy, not Mitch Grint. Also we
see he's the top guy, so he's not either defended. The movie,
guys are gonna be so much fun. By the way, next movie,
guys, we're gonna be all in the same room. I just feel like
the vibe would be better and I make the editing fucking easier. Jesus Christ.
The connection issues between yourself, myself and him. Sometimes it's all over
the shop. It certainly is. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's
easy when there's two people, even when you're not in the same room.
But yeah, wrangling three distinct voices, particularly when one of them is me
and one of them is Mitch. Yeah, that's that's an ask. But
it looks like you guys have voted for the patrons. By the way,
I you're a supporter of ours on patroon, you get to vote for what
movie view review for movie Guys. It looks like it's going to be jingle
all the way. I am in shock, which was not half which was
not But look, because I said to me, I'm like, I'm looking
forward to going back and just poking fun at the ridiculousness of the film.
You know, I don't want to sort of, you know, shove my
hand too much and sign up and get the Movie Guys podcast because it'll be
fun. Just you know, there was this stage where we were basically ignoring
the fact that the most well built man on the planet. We'd sort of
run out of scenarios where he's like he's a killer robot from the future,
or he's you know, coming to the Barbari and he's like, he's an
average guy in suburbia who wants to get a toy for his kids, like
that was his choice, onsuming you absolutely like, I'm not buying this kindergarten
cop. He's still kind of like a tough guy net though, wasn't he
Yeah, yeah, kidding, Udon copp. The comedy is that you know
he's hard, but he's also you know, looking after kids, whereas this
is gonna like you're watching it like this could be anyone. They're trying,
you're trying to act his. It's almost like, you know, it's a
Jamie Jamie I remember, like Jamie runs off annoys, Jamie come back,
you know, I think it again. We're sort of jumping ahead. I
think it would be It would be hilarious if Phil, like Great Phil happened
and Arnold had sort of swapped rolls because Jamie and Arnold being like because yeah,
and then Arnold's sort of being the the uber manho is kind of like
your wives cookies. But yeah, that would be hilarious but also very kind
of like cliche. It'd be tough guy being the one that's swinging the wife
where I just feel like Phil Harton was just so perfectly made for that role.
Though that's true. I mean, yeah, there's a great joy in
the fact that Arnold is kind of in that Phil is kind of one upping
the old alpha male and just the cuddle of his wife and the Yeah.
All right, so that enough talking about that, because we could talk about
Jim all the way and you never know what scrooged or what else. I
chose Miraicle on thirty fourth straight. Could could be a late comer. Yeah,
or when you're closing the pole to Sorrow you go all the ways of
like fifty four percent. Come on, see this guy there in the back
anyway, but we'll do that. How did we get to talking about that
about Mitch and movie guy? Oh yeah, Carly's just a refresh party,
such a pressure memory. We were talking about the party that I'd ended on
the weekend Carl's husband, Mitch got his head. I wanted to do for
the first only it sucks. It's not a good movie. It's like I
wish I had an animal and a lot of people in the crab go.
It's not a great movie. But yeah, we're all having kind of fun
and he also blew his wife's birth month because I mean that they're they were
holding a party like six months later. Oh okay, yeah, and he
said, why was she doing that? I think she wanted to have it
outside, okay, because I've got a fairly nice place and they set up
the garden very nicely because it's like a monumental age. So you're having it
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. Oh you know when
when Galli had her birthday in Junior heard us like Joly and then he talked
about a date that they hadn'ts like, we don't have been going out for
a few months we were married. It's just like, oh, Mitch,
because everyone loves Mitch's a top guy. And then Gai made a very sweet
speech. So well, no, that was good. It was a very
it was a very nice time, except I was getting eaten a live by
mosquitos. Oh yeah, and I was next to a nice fellow. But
he was constantly saying, yeah, Mosquitos never bothered me. Oh they never
talk about it, like, yeah, well they're treating motherfucking says the buffet
Nicola. When she gets a bit of my mosquito, she like flares right
up, like I'm talking like, you know, giant cookie shaped. Oh
but you know, they just go, yeah, she's led you to everything,
that woman, I led you to everything except you Exceptano's good eleven.
So yeah, that was my weekend. How have you been? Hasn't been
well again? So that's why I think we mentioned last week. That's why
we recorded a week a day later. Maybe we didn't say on the actual
show, but Jet wasn't well last it was he and that's correct. I
took him so our man Michael bout the vet right. We love this guy,
so I took him to front of the pod. I took him to
the vet right, and the Vet was like, all right, it's going
to cost you know, for the first injection that he needs for his authorise.
Sixty seven dollars is going to come back for the first four weeks,
but it's gonna be one hundred and ten dollars for the first three times.
On top of that, because we have the page to be seen, so
it's going to be about, you know, nearly two hundred dollars a pop,
so about six hundred bucks for the first three weeks, but then after
that it's only going to be about sixty seven dollars each for each injection.
I was like, okay, cool, the time's going to be six hundred
bucks for three weeks. Caught up Michael's vett, He's like, yeah,
just cut. He's in his receptions, is like, yep, you'll bring
the injection meeting on Sunday. I'm like, cool, get there there for
about an hour waiting for my turn because there's lots of people there obviously.
Well, he's like the doctor's borders of Pets. Yeah, and everyone comes
to see him at his at his van. Yeah. Yeah, So he
comes there and it sounds shunk, but I'm telling you, like, it's
the greatest thing. Guess the jet no appearance fee of course, because he's
the man. How much you reckon you charge me? I'm fifteen dollars,
I was gonna say twenty Yeah, so unpleasantly said even more pleasant, fifteen
dollars. What can we get this guy for Christmas? I have to give
him something, right, Let's do something for me because he literally it's going
to cost me sixty dollars where it would have cost me to the eight hundred
you had the vet. That's mental, right, A good vet is worth
their weight in motherfucking platinum. Yeah, so let's shout out to all the
good vets out there, particularly a man Michael for looking after Jet as well
as he is. Because I'm like, you're taking a breakut of Christmas because
he goes, you have to come each week up for the next month before
you have to get for the first month, you have to have a weekly
and then it's every three months for these injections. Right, He's like,
I'll wait this a week. I'm like, what a fucking legend. He's
even coming like Christmas week? Does he have like a big white beard and
a red suit. It's kind of like a little bit bushy than yours,
kind of but not a big redsuit. But he's He's just a legend.
I'm in love with this guy. He sounds fantastic. Yeah yeah, what
a good man. Yeah yeah, So I highly recommend if you ever in
the Geelong area you need a vet. Michael Bell seven from seven am avalon
Raceway in his absolute fucking legend sounds sketchy. We know it's not, though,
trust Michael, it is not. So that was my weekend. I
was just just back on the men. Now he's got him. Literally,
he went to the vet, right, because he had this little little spell.
Went to the vet. He was and he recovered. She gave him
these tablets right for like the painkillers, and they were the wrong tablets,
and she gave him ointment. Right, this is the kicker. I took
him to the vet. She gave him ointment for his eyes because he conjunctivitis.
Right. The cream was human cream they can just get from the chemist.
She changed me four times. What it can gefin? I did obviously
look at She put a big giant sticker over it that says, you know,
for animal use only keep out of rich your children over the actual guide
for I've given this to kids three years and over, please use it like
this. It was human cream from the chemist. Excuse me. She changed
me seventy dollars for it, and it's like twenty three dollars at the chemist.
I think you need to who do you contact these days scams like this?
I was like, what, Nicholas like, this is the cream that
I used? And I was like, no, no, it says for
animal saw. She ripped the sticker off. She's like, that's the same.
She got the box out for Nicholas used. Yeah, she got the
box out of the pantries, like it's the same one. I'm like,
are you fucking kidding me? They just cream, They could just go and
bite themselves from the chemist conduct the worst. The painkillers made him completely dehydrated
and he couldn't sit still. And he was like, oh, I was
up to like five am one night because he couldn't sit still in his pant
and he's moving around. He's restless, and Michael said, he goes,
oh, you should shouldn't give you those. He didn't need those at all,
he would have been fine. I'm like, so I paid all this
money for nothing. I know, I sound like conspiracy theorist about vets.
I know there's probably a million, no probably this is what. There's five
percent of vets. Probably no good, this is one of them. Yeah,
exactly. I'm not saying that bad again. No, but but that
was my weekend. Besides that, that's just been fucking hot, and I've
just been trying to keep cool. Certainly has been there. Yeah, I
mean I was watching the car and I caught a glimpse of herself in the
in the rearview mirror. I'm like, oh my god, I'm literally melting.
The elephant man sweating like Rogerie. But it was incredible. How about
that movie terrify me as a kid, The Elephant Man. It was just
on TV when I was flicking through once and it's like that scene came in
and I was like, I didn't realize as a kid that he wasn't he
was wearing makeup and shots. That's what the guy looked like. Just get
the funk out of me. I'm sure I've told the story about you know,
my folks taking me see The Elephant Man at the cinema when I was
about like ten or eleven years old. If you did, I don't remember.
Oh, stay cheapest spring for that. We'll get to it, and
we'll get it a little while after. You know, Dan to one guy
just sort of, you know, talked ship. Yeah. I would have
been, yeah, about ten or eleven years old, and Bob and Margaret
were either trying to expand my artistic horizons or more likely too cheap to spring
for a sit up. So what's his name? John? The guy played
him John, John hurt John hurts it. Yeah, he had the alien
come out of his chest. Yeah, in alien. So we went to
see The Elephant Man. At what point were you just like, well,
I mean, because that was what you call a sense the kid and means
i'd cry the drop of a hat. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean
I still but I think at that stage I was kind of like, I
think Bob was a bit worried actually, because I'd be like they'd have that
you know, little harp seals and how they sort of clubbed them to get
that's sad ship that said. I remember saying that was just like, oh,
that's so sad, and I got really emotional about it at the point
where I was like, even, I know this is embarrassing, but I
can't stop. But yeah. We went to see The Elephant Man, and
you know, I was budding film nerd and all that kind of stuff and
realized, wow, this is really quite well made and moving and all this.
But you know, they're treating the Elepha Man like shit. They're treating
that poor bastard really badly. And there's a point in it which I'm sure
you remember. He's set up shop at the hospital. Everyone's reading him very
nicely, very respectfully. But the circus that used to where he was the
attraction, Yeah, yeah, they find him and like the guy who used
to just treat him terribly, comes in and tries to you know, brings
in a couple of street walkers, and they basically have a party in the
Elephant Man's room and he's built this lovely modelist church and they just fucking smash
it. They try to make him drink and everyone's just like, oh,
he's so ugly. And I'm like, this is the worst fucking thing I've
ever seen. Because I hold the mirror in front of his basically he's never
seen him because at the hospital they covered him the mirror. We see his
screens when he sees himself. Yeah, I was like, oh my god.
I mean, Elephant Man is like legitimately one of I mean, I
remember thinking I walked out of that's him going, I'm different from when I
walked in, because I thought this is an incredible work of art and it
makes me feel things I've never felt more. But the same time was also,
this is traumatizing because he knew it was like partially true. Ye yeah
yeah. Directed by David Lynch, one of the great filmmakers of all time.
So sorry that story went on for a little bit, but stay tuned
for the med guys Elephant Man. That'll be a fun one. It was
like, can we do space jam with Lebron? The general theme is movies
that fucked You up? But Springfield ups. Honestly, I went into this
having slight memories of it. I remember being like a different concept. But
I feel like from the get go it adorned to me that this has to
be treated as a non canon episode. Yeah, because margin Homer met at
high school, right or they started dating in high school, like you never
saw much for the first time until suddenly to the way we was right then
they broke sort of like the reck condit and had they had their first kiss
at camp. I guess they didn't remember the kiss. They didn't know who
they were, So that was at the way we weren't this one here they're
just at the same school. Yeah, it's almost just like taking It's like,
we want to do this concept of the UP series and just do it
in Springfield, and they're just which is it's a pretty fun idea. Yeah.
Yeah. So, I mean I don't blame them from breaking from Cannon
or continuity or anything like that. That's not cannon, but it's just you
have to you can't be annoyed at these things. It's just like I just
chewed it as non canon. You know, I think where we were thirteen
episodes into season eighteen, We've got a lot of episodes under the belt here.
So I think at this stage, if you're in for the long haul,
you're probably going, Okay, I'm going to accept this, this,
this, this, and this about life in Springfield and life for the Simpson
family. I'm going to hold these is as as gospel as canon. Anything
else. We can sort of play a bit fast and loose with I's yeah,
yeah, So, and like I said, when you've got a concept
like let's revisit these characters every eight years and see how their lives are changed
and all that kind of stuff. Have you seen a series that it's based
on I have. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure if they still
make them. The guy that made he passed away. Yeah, he was
a very good filmmaker. Who Yeah, he passed away a few years ago,
I think, and wonder belief it was he passed away? Was it
two thousand and one? The feeling was somewhere in the twenty tens. Michael
had passed away in twenty twenty one, Okay, so oh yeah, yeah,
So it was very recent Yeah, now I've seen a few of them
because yeah, his series was the Seven Up series. He started with a
group of English school children sixty four at the age of seven. Yeah,
so they made it to sixty four or sixty three, So the first film
was titled Seven Up. Yeah, so the first one was in sixty four,
So in sixty four, that's when he started filming them. Yeah,
what I forgot when I forgot when I sort of checked out of them.
But there was a really moving one. It was maybe around thirty five,
ye, because we've got forty two up in ninety eight with that been it,
maybe yeah, but I certainly remember the thirty five one because I think
this was the one that really stuck with me because there was a little boy
named Neil who was kind of like, not the breakout star of it,
but he was like this very precocious little boy, but very charming. I
was like, Oh, this kid, could you know, not this the
other kids. Oh, this kid could really be someone. You know,
He's got that little spark about him. And by the time we reached thirty
he clearly had some mental health issues and then he was living in a van
all this kind of stuff, and you know he had great potential, but
you know, the demon sort of got the best of him in some way.
You can have all the potential in the world, but you need the
right direction of people around you. Yeah, but everyone sort of rallied around
him up to see him in thirty five ars, and I think he got
a bit of help, I believe, So I hope that's the case.
But I do remember that everyone's kind of like, oh, it was just
lovable. I'm sorry this has happened to him, but you know, hopefully
he can find his way. So thirty five Up was in ninety one.
Yeah, yeah, I think first of all, it's just a really interesting
social experiment. Australia has done a similar thing, really. Yeah. The
filmmaker Gillian Armstrong who made my brilliant career and she made a terrific version of
Little Women in the nineties. She did a similar thing with maybe a trio
of friends from Sydney, sort of catching them at a very young age and
then in their teenage years early adults. I want to say, one of
them is called smokes and Lollies. Okay, yeah, but I've only seen
bits and pieces of those as well. But I mean, yeah, I
just think it's a fascinating experiment. There's a quote that I think appted based
on his movies on, based his movies on, which was, you know,
show me the child at seven, and I'll show you the man,
I'll show you the person and he wanted to see. Is that actually the
case? So you're right, by the way, Smokes and Lollies was in
nineteen seventy six. Okay, great, Yeah, And I don't know how
many Jillian Armstrong made, but I think there was more. It's certainly more
than one. That was just the menu of a canteen at the school.
Six. Wasn't it very good? Oh? Dear spring filled up? Yeah?
I mean, like you said, I liked the concept of it.
It was interesting. I'd never heard of this up series. I just thought
that it sort of didn't couldn't work out what it was going to be.
But are you going to be just taking the piss out of this or you're
going to start trying it? Because it was almost like by the end it
is like, no, you gotta treat this like it's cannon and all that.
All the people around Springfield are saying, oh, no, you know,
we we love Homer. He's got a great lif blah blahlah. I'm
like, yeah, but none of the first half makes sense if you're gonna
treat this last half like it's cannon. Yeah, And it sort of became
a how you Homer realizing he's got a great life story, And I was
like, I don't need this shit. Just just go full full blown with
the concept. Yeah, here's the thing about it. They could have even
I would have appreciated, like, treat like I said, treat like non
cannon and show this that the family and the people in Springfield when they're older
and what they're doing when you jump ahead even for what happened to Homer when
he's sixty four, you know what I mean? That kind of keep going
with it. Not a bad idea. Actually, that would have been more
interesting to me. Yeah, what you're talking about with the the end part
where what's his name, Desmond Declan Desbert, Yeah, Eric Gidel, Yeah,
Eric Idle, it's just call on Merry Idol. Cuts together that little
super supercut of everybody likes Homer or everyone sort of everyone envies Home or likes
Homer, or you can see what he's got going for him. Yeah,
I was like, this is a nice ending. I'm not sure I'm buying
it in the context of this whole thing, but there were bits and pieces
in that little super cup where it's like, well, this is nice.
I like that very much, and we'll get to that when we get to
favorite moments as well. So I thought they've wrapped it up pretty well.
You know, it was like a Christmas present. It's like I can sort
of tell what's in here, but you know you've done You've done an admirable
job of trying to wrap it neatly. And it's a slight little nitpick.
I get this listeners, but I was appreciated if they tried to have put
on like kid voices when they were eight. I'm like, comic book Guy
just sounds like comic book guy when he's eight, and sounds like because they
did it with Lenny, Yeah, Lenny had sort of like a childish yeah,
yeah, yeah. I mean Frank just sounded like Frank and ad middally,
these are distinctive voices, so they're going to sound kind of similar,
and I guess they need to do that for I don't know certain members of
the audience who are like, who's that character? But yeah, you're right.
I mean, it would have been good if they'd sort of pitched them
a little bit higher or something like that. Yeah, but I could have.
Yeah, I'm watching his I don't care about this story at all.
I just wish they just kept going with a treater like it were watching the
actual documentary. Yeah, my favorite What were you favorite moments from the episode?
If you hadn't he I had surprisingly a few. We know what surprised
me because I came out of this and I've watched it twice. Right,
I'm like, Okay, I watch it last timement. Maybe I'm tired of
watching it agains today I'm just like, I have nothing against this, but
I'm just like, I'm just not really feeling it. Maybe this is something
not quite landing for me. And then alter the reviews, and all the
reviews were praising how some people saying that one of the best episodes of the
season. I was like, really, I wouldn't go quite that far.
But having said that, I mean, given that I've liked a lot of
it, I'm getting the feeling that the episode might be less than some of
its parts. You sort of walk away down That was okay, I guess,
But then there's a lot of bits I brought. One thing I did
agree with in retrospect was that someone was saying the jokes were coming thick and
fast, and I was like, they really were. I guess there's a
lot of I guess, so a lot of episodes now aren't necessarily joke heavy.
One it felt like gag heavy, that's true. I mean, it
did feel like it felt like maybe the writers were a little bit galvanized by
Eric girls coming to play. These guys are probably nerds who are like Mundy
Bata, so it's like we better show them that we can play at the
big boys table, yea, or the big kids table. So yeah,
there were a lot of this good like one liners or bits or whatever.
And among that was like Homer's on the couch and say, you better not
cut to me eight years later because that would be a devastating edit. It's
like, so yeah, I mean, that's as an edit to yourself,
you know, it's like the joy of a very precise edit that sort of
shows up someone who's really good. I dug that we got a crazy cat
lady origin. I like that. That's one of my favorite moments. I
was like, normally don't like when they give origin stories, but I'm like,
this one just came out of nowhere and got me. And I also
like to discost one as well, because you thought it was a sea captain.
That's the thing I wrote down here. Well the seacpt young sea captain
is kind of hunk. Yeah then, oh yeah, I like those two.
They just came out of nowhere, and I guess they're now canon IFN
know this episode is non cannon, but I'm just like, don't I felt
like they felt believable. Yeah, absolutely, this woman who had everything going
for and then she just got burnt out and doing too much and she became
a crazy cat lady. I liked Home as many side hustles. But when
Margins were talking about he's got his garage man play, he's got his playdough
theater and already come what erotic carving. Yeah, so I thought that was
a bit of a bit of a kick. Was not wrong. Return is
a really good title. I don't quite get it. I don't quite get
it, but it's good. It's like you're being on there. And also
when Homer is singing a song about Lady Satan and using the term Belzie boobs
is pretty good. I appreciated that, although I thought that was went on
forever after and this is the shortest episode in the history of the show.
Really, Yeah, it's nice because it didn't feel that's short of Simpsons episode
of all time at nineteen minutes and forty nine seconds and I'm like, well
the last three minutes with his him going set. Yeah, my lead I
wrote up for the Bels and Booms was like, oh, so you're just
riffing. Yes, so now it's just down an Eric going roll tape.
Yeah, but I think Yeah, one of my favorite moments was when is
it during that super cut where Lisa's saying you touched you went tighter than anyone
and no monsters have gotten me yet, Like, very sweet, that is
something you would want to hear from your daughter. Yes, it's like you
always get me saved from monsters. I'm almost sort of tearing I'm thinking about
It's like, that's a really sweet thing to hear. And just even like
bar it's like because when dad's got no job, he spends more time with
me. I'm like, oh that is very sweet. Yeah, he's reaching
anything. Oh what's it going to do? And it's like oh it's a
little hair ruffle. Yeah, I think it put the bey on his head
and I was like, that would have really taken away the man. Don't
do it. Yeah, don't do the season eighteen thing. Yeah, don't
do what Donnie don't does. So yeah, I liked all those a lot.
What did you eat? You've basically got you spoil all my Yeah,
sorry man, next question you there eating the beast. It is, of
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with your first question. What is on Homer's favorite pjs? Ah, it's
eight pairs of the peanut, butter and jelly correct. Yep. My first
question is when home is doing? Is one man band in the garage?
There's a sign above the door. What is it? It's Main Street?
Main Street? Yes? Uh. The old man ointment that Declin finds in
the house is what no idea? What is it? It is bull moose
elbow salve. I could use some of that on my elbows because I'm constantly
editing and like my elbows on the on the table and it's like because the
other day Hollies like Awi, I'm like, what happened to your arm?
And I was like, oh shit, I look at a monster. What
was the name of crazy cat? Lady's cat? Oh, I want to
say Percy, but that's not it. No, nothing like that at all.
Actually, well, it's kind of like a word you'd say to somebody.
It's like they've pissed you off. You don't calling them a name.
It's usually to a kids like hey, get over here, buster, Buster,
Yes, like a little shithead old ship, get over here, buster.
Umm. Can you name the two hounds that that Smither's name checks when
he's going to go pick them up? Minston and ah, fuck me and
my no shadows Shadow of course, because I should have because that was my
NaN's dogs Shadow and Winston doesn't like Witster's to sit in the front be getting
along. Yes, my next question is what are the directions for the grandfather
clock? Oh god, there's so many Yes. Using the suspension string above
the pendulum leader, hang the pendulum on the pendulum guide. There's another moment
where felt without Dragon a network, where Smith's going, ah, yeah,
I'm like, you guys are killing time, really killing under twenty minutes.
What the fore finger discount was able to keep it so brief? Yeah?
All right, one last question for you. What time is the Quimby massage
appointment? Eight am, eight thirty, eight thirty damn, it can be
eight thirty every day. He's cheap, that's correct. And my final one
here is what on Lenny's checks he's got butterflies stiflies? Correct? Yeah.
I thought they kind of did Lenny dirty here, but they also sort of
pointed out that he is kind of boring. Yes, yeah, and you
haven't really been doing anything with him for like a decade. Now, that's
true. I mean, what do you primarily remember the two things you think
you remember about Lenny while I do at least on his relationship to Carl.
And secondly, don't tell anybody how I live. Yeah, and things haven't
going in his eye? That Oh that's one. And see the one is
his max what I did I did out of alcohol and anger? No,
that's that was someone else. No that it sounds like, no, no,
maybe it was him. Yeah, because he's walking past the guy with
the giant hand. Yeah, yeah he was. Yeah. I think you're
right. Yeah, it's got because that I like doing Lenny's voice well,
going up in like the gold in the nineties, Lenny felt like the normal
person and out of all the bar flives is like, I think I'm the
Lenny, but he's like the shoulder of someone to cry. I'm going to
cry on. He's the most reasonable person. He's not a drunk. He
seems like a nice person. He doesn't seem like he's got that many demons
to drown at the bar. And I like hanging out at the bar with
my buddies. It's like you rock up to her places like, oh,
Lenny's here. Fuck yeah, I have a great time, you know.
Norm Now now as they treat him like he's an annoying widow. Yeah,
and even even Carl is kind of like, yeah, why am I hanging
out with you? It's like this is not good. We don't like it,
so now I don't like it. So. The original air day of
Springfield Up was February eighteenth, two thousand and seven. It was written by
Matt Warburton and directed by Chucked Sheets and of course guests that Eric Idol as
Declan Desmond, I often have to chuck sheets. Yeah, you may wonder
why how haven't you change the bed sheets in your bed? Honestly, I
am trying to do it fortnightly. Yeah, I do it if you've got
the time to do it, but I'm probably doing it monthly. So we
have kids and dogs sleeping in the bed with this, so it's like we
have to change. I have me in my bed. I have to do
it really frequently. But I was very much of a mind like one week
towns, one week sheets, one week towns one week sheets, and it's
like these towns could use a wash man. These sits are fun. That's
like me where I'm buying like because it happens with pepsi max. Right,
So one week it's a Safeway's on special and one week at Coals, one
week at will worsts do you need to pour figure discut on more tips on
how to beat the system goes down? And I both do this with the
occasional side trick to wealdi. Yeah, and the beauty thing is on Shannon
Avenue that Coals and Wills are relatively close, so I'll go here for this
ship and here for that ship. Oh yeah, I've always maken the list
where it's like C and W C W Network imagine people, these fucking old
bitties. You're clipping coupons too. The answer is I missed couponsa howlets as
a kid was getting the Hungry Jacks fucking vouchers in the mail mate, and
my name would take us down on a school holidays. We walk down a
Hungry Jacks and get out fucking two woppers for three dollars. Oh yeah,
now it's two woppers for like ten or twelve. They're like, what is
happening here, Well, you gotta get the app you gotta get Yeah,
there was no vouchers. All they do do vouchers still, but it's one
sheet. Used to be it used to be the booklet. The way it
used to be was because hung Ja vouches in the mail the other day.
I couldnt believe. It was just like a flashback, right, but it's
just like a one sheet and yet to like cut them out right used to
be a booklet and you flick through it and be like three of the same
thing, through the same thing, through the same thing. But like those
those vouchers there, if you used it, it was like they took it
and you never got to use it again. So I was like, oh,
we're gonna use it today. I really want those poppers. I'll do
it, but today now it's just like I want to use I don't even
actually punt off the vouchers anymore. I'm just like, yeah, I want
to use that vouchers, Like yep, sure, cool, anything else you
want. The don't even asked for it anymore, isn't the great Well your
hand over a vouchel somewhere and they're like, it's right, yeah, it's
like powder, the people solid, we're all in this together. You've got
a couple more days on that one. You can use it again if you
want to, Like, oh well, yeah, right now, thank you.
But the episode kicks off with Declan Desmond and he's at the school playgrounds,
all broken and worn down and suppressing, and he says the thirty two
years ago he interviewed the school children of Springfield, and it cuts to the
black and white. Everything's intact and looking fresh, and these children around the
gamut of society, rich and poor, black and white. He'll grow into
his looks and forever hideous. My dad was a circus freak, but my
mom don't remember which one. I like to think it was a little bit
of all of them love mode sort of front on smile. Yeah. I
just love that he's like, yeah, my mom married a circus freak or
whatever, my dad was a circus freak. I one doesn't know which one.
I love a little bit of all of them. He's so cheerful.
Yeah, but that I really like. Win this episode. Yeah yeah,
I mean you didn't get a whole lot of him. But it wasn't horrible
in anyway, was he No, No, he was really sweet when Declan
showed up at the bar that time, and the gag about you know,
oh, like that's a scrambled porn channel, that's a shoe add But the
bit we had the various photos of mo throughout the years, apparently that's a
take on the appearance of Michael Jackson or something. Oh okay, apparently those
Michael Jackson's wearing similar shit. Maybe I I saw the Okay, I saw
the twenty four one where he's got the shades on. Yeah he looks pretty
cool. Yeah, but he says, yeah, you watch his documentary.
You can watch their dreams of like Muffins in the Rain and his calls it
growing up Springfield, And so everyone here is this what it was like in
the seventies everything that people want to do when they grow up. His roadbot
related not really, no, no, but I think I think there was
a stage in the seventies, probably post Star Wars actually, where it's kind
of like, oh, we can have roubuts you know, you'd watch There
was a TV show called The Curiosity Show. Have you ever heard of that?
I never heard of it. It was kind of like sayings for kids.
Have it on Channel nine in the afternoons. It's kind of like,
yeah, over and get to this, how we can get the wacky races
or you know, get smart. But it'd be like, here's what's going
to happen in the future, and you could be part of it and occasionally
have like some very makeshift robot on or whatever. I remember robot was when
I was a kid. And also computers were starting to sort of gather a
little bit of speed a computer and Willy Wonka, Oh yeah, that's right,
the giant fucking thing. So yeah, I mean, I won't necessarily,
I don't necessarily think it was kind of like we're all going to be
working with or for robots in the future, but there was certainly a little
bit of like the future is underway and it's going to be fun as were
in the future, as opposed to now, which is going I said you
a link last night. Did you watch that Frank Sinatra singing. I haven't
had a chance to yet because I'm like, I know you don't watch the
links that I send to you, but I still send them anyway. It's
kind of like I know someone sending out a Christmas card and I'm never going
to open it. It's like a letter from prison. It's the guy's seen
it. It never responds or gives like a thumbs up, and I'm like,
he's not gonna look at that. Think I looked at the time you're
saying it was something like twelve thirty and I was editing. Yeah, I
was probably in bed. Saw it was one where around. But your Twitter,
like five minutes prior, hashtag about to watch fucking Big Trouble Little China.
This is completely un But sometimes it's like I'm about to go to better
like two am, and guys like hashtag you about to watch this, and
I'm like, why are you up? Why are you watching this now?
No kids? But I sent you a link to AI Where is My Mind?
By the Pixies. I was blown away by how real it sounds.
And I'm like, I see, I'm all for AI. You know,
I'm all about it. You know, I know you're scared of it.
But like getting to hear this guy cover this person, I'm like, it's
fucking cool man that that. Look. There's a Freddie Mercury quote right where
he says, I don't care what you do with my music, just don't
make it boring. It's a very good point by Freddy. So like,
I don't feel bad watching Freddie Mercury AI covers because it's like you wouldn't care.
That's true because he's dead. Yeah, I just feel like at this
stage, I'm sort of like I'm running very fast to keep ahead of AI.
If I can just make it till you know, I'm sixty five or
something, I'm going to play it now. You can listen to it through
the headphones, the face nay thing. Just quickly, all right, okay,
with your feet on your head on the mine, try this straight and
spin it. Yeah, your head with coloms. But there's nothing in it
in your last yourself. Where is mine? Mine? Where is mine mine?
Where is mine? Well? Yeah, in the water see it's I'm
watching his face as I showed him, and he's like, I don't want
to say that it's good because it scares me a little bit. But that
sounds fucking bang on, like Frank Sinatra, right, and and the arrangement
arrangements everything. Yeah, that's that's pretty good. I think it's probably the
best AI cover thing I've ever seen a line. And here's the thing,
here's the thing. We're at this stage now, you know, it just
started. Imagine what's going to be like in like two years when Elliott's my
age. Can you imagine what it's gonna be like? Well, do you
think there'll be such a I don't care for real, dad, I want
AI Dad. Do you think people will actually like the the art of acting,
will have an existing more or do you think they'll just scan someone's face
and make movies with it. Yeah? I mean, I think the Actors'
Union and the Writers' Union really fought tooth and claw this time around. It's
going to mean nothing in twenty years, and don't reckon. I don't think
it is. But then I honestly think that they're thinking about themselves and like
their life span and how they're going to make their money, but that it's
like that's a future generation problem. Yeah, it is. It is.
Everything's becoming so much more interactive now that Yeah, it's it's going to reach.
It's going like Netflix and it's like Netflix games and shit like alix o
yea, let's like choose your own adventure and it's kind of ship and they're
like, what is happening? Yeah, I mean I think games are to
say this generation Sayen and gen Z and whatever generation comes there, which I
think it's been called Generation Alpha. Games are to them what movies were to
us. You know, it's like, wow, we get to watch these
cool looking people do stories and it's like, well, they get to actually
be in the story and dictated according to how I please. And by the
way, I get to have a love scene with the Sidney Sweeney like okay,
looks like you win, kidn I'm just stroking it to Michelle Favor,
I think you won. Striking. Now, there was a kid in this
scene here, by the way, when all the table is drawing or whatever,
who looked like Art GARFUNKL. Did you see him? He was at
the end of the table. Yeah, we've seen that kid before. Were
like in early episodes with the curly hair. I thought it was not a
kid in early episodes, because this is meant to be kids. Oh that's
true. Yeah, you're thinking of Lewis, I think, But is this
I thought it might have been the guy who was at the like the the
end of the prom or whatever. He was like the class clown. Who
was that Guy's right? I love that guy. But Lenny here is very
dull. He's got a birthday dinosaur cake and everyone that's a fine cake.
Lennie, I'll say yes. And he said he didn't watch any more film
on the Kid after that. Barney Carr wishes for well peace, Barney wishes
for World war and that'd be much cooler. And then Homer wishes he's gonna
be richer than anybody when he's older. He's gon to own a FOOTBA team
and a baseball team and make them, no, a football team and a
basketball team and make them play play baseball. Yeah not, I like Michael
Jordan. No. Now, Clancy Wigham's time to wait. Tune into the
movie guys. We can hear a space jam. Yes, Space Jam review.
It was a lot of fun, so Clancy Wigan by the way,
if you're a top tier supporter of ours on pageon, you get to watch
us through the show live. That's true. Watch a guy pick his nose,
bang bang bang freeze Robert Freeze, bang bang bang. It's too bad.
Please just put one in my brain. Okay, bang, thank you.
And I didn't get this whole. It was just so awkward when he
was like put one in my brain, when like he's playing and I was
like, he's a kid. It was really weird hearing your kids say this.
It's just it was odd. Maybe feel uncomfortable, Okay. I just
didn't think it was all that funny. It wasn't funny at all. It
was just weird. He then becomes hall monitor and then he sees attention birders
both to jail bird, and then he gets accepted into police academy at the
age of twenty four. What did I tell you about points towards you?
And then he gives good back rub to the sergeant whoever that was. It
also shoots the cameraman and shoots the cameraman by accidents, and then at thirty
four at thirty two, sorry, he has massages way too Chief of Police
by giving Quimby back moms massaged his way, yes, and lou then makes
fun of his pants and yeah, not all that funny again, No,
I mean there's a lot of like you saw how that was going to end
as well as well, I can't make funny. There's a lot of obvious
stuff in this. It just felt like an episode that again we say there's
a lot the idea was great and there were some good moments, but it's
just like it felt like again it's four fifty five when I go home in
five, Yeah, just just go of anything best idea wins. Yeah,
too busy with the movie now, Homers turned for age eight and he says
he's gonna have a mansion to pinball table with infinity quarters and eight pairs of
P and J pajamas. Did you say P and J PB and J PP
and J Yeah. Yeah. Brief side bub, I was at Geelong Institution
the Barman Club not long ago seeing a band from the end he's called the
Models. You've mentioned this three times now on the podcast that you went and
saw this band. Okay, then was a big event. We're a friend
of the part of the Models. But they've got a pool table and I
was like, oh, I can't remember last time I played pool at a
pub, but in this is how long it's been. It used to be
you'd put your coin down when you were the next one to play, about
to say it's got the card swiping thing. Ah. So I'm like,
so how do I go next? And I could see some guy across the
across the table. No, and me and another guy were going to play
next, and we were like, we said to the people were playing,
Oh, I guess we're next. I couldn't see a chalkboard to put your
name over it in the la but I saw some guy who was eyeing the
table, and I thought, we didn't have to have that discussion. I
don't I don't know if I want to have a discussion with you about who's
next. But anyway, we ended up playing. By the way, it
cost a lot to play a game of pool, because I'm like, three
bucks wasn't two bucks anymore. I will never forget. Remember the Nash right
before it became the the National Hotel, when it was the Good Nash was
a sticky carpet with the best dim sims in Geelong. Correct, Yeah,
they had a pool table in their Remember it was like we want to play
pool. On Saturday night at the National played pool. The famous nash pool
table was broken, and she still wanted to play pool in there. Right.
I remember there was this guy there and he looked like he was he
was a classic pool shark shit teeth, you know. He was just like
a hustler, right, and there was four two dollar coins there by the
way. I'm glad you said pool shark because so many people get this wrong.
It is pool shark and card sharp. Yeah, some people say card
shark. Why would you do that? Yeah, when you're just playing wrong?
Why would I say something so wrong and yet so wrong? But this
pool shark he was he was playing against this other guy and there's four two
dollar coins on there, right, and his friend he was playing with a
little bit shady as well. And then I'm thinking, okay, one fourth
in the line, So I put a two dollar coin in. I wait
my turn. I come back and it's down to two digitalar coins. But
this guy and these two guys are still playing, and I was like,
what's going on? Like they just put like five two dollar coins down and
it's like taking over the table for like an hour. I'm like, you
can I actually do that that's against the fucking rules. You can't put your
own stall coins down and say I'm next, next, next, next,
next. I was like, I'm not gonna challenge because he looks fucking crazy,
but I'll never forget that god guy who played pool at the mast.
But apparently he just he's one of those guys where it's just like he looked
crazy enough where he just did it and he knew no one's gonna question it.
Yeah, always go with your gut on that, on that, on
those times. Yeah, by the way, I started really well at this
pool game and Lou was very impressed, and then Gary, who was playing
with just kick my ass. I'm pretty good at pool, Like, it's
one of my talents where I'm just like because I grew always grew up with
a pool table at home, so it's one of those things where I'm like,
no one expects you to be good at pool, you know, we're
always like everyone's kind of like okay at Paul, But when you're pretty good
at Paul, it's kind of like, damn. It's something which I can
be good and then sometimes I can be average. It's like with bowling.
Yeah, I'm still I'm lucky to crack one hundred in bowling. I'm just
no good at it. Well we had fun, though, didn't we.
Yeah we are. You came, that's right, got our old work,
Yeah, I've got drunk ass. Yeah, speaking of our old work.
So our old employer, the actual man himself, yes, came to my
thirtieth birthday party and challenged me to a camp pool and I pantsed him.
That had I beat him a super as well. After you been metaphorical answer
for a few years. All right, we now will turn you to Springfield
up before we get in trouble. Yes, but you know, the whole
squeaky toy thing, it's just it's just annoying. That's rare. About twenty
four Hun is now selling manure. I actually love this should be one of
my favorite moments. Hey, the manure dealership is just one of the things
I got going. I also have a sweet gig as an infomercial question asker.
I know it's super clean cleans, but does it scrub? I know,
super clean cleans, but does it scrub? I wouldn't mind being one
of those sweet but that don't exist any more informercials, do they? I
don't think so. No, I was cricket clean cleans, but does it
Scrub's got the Kissinger glasses and Kissinger apparently apparently, then you's got a garage
band where it's just him and open castic caricatures. Then if I had a
peanut of hope in the Crackerjack box of dispaand I'm like, March seems like
she's someone who's with it. And I know she loves Homer, but if
she apparently knew Hi from when he was a kid, she probably should have
realized this ain't the horse to bat on. No, that's true. It
is an ongoing mystery of the Simpsons. They try and explain it here,
and we say, at least he try to explain it. But she's like,
you know, I just love him. And I'm like, that's fine,
but but why we know that love can sometimes be irrational. Yeah,
but it's got to have some foundation in reality. Are you too considering children?
Kids? No way, You'll never see a cup rug rats tying me
down. You better not put this shot after the one where I said I
won't to have kids. That would be a devastating edit. Homer, your
life is nothing to be ashamed of. You've got a loving family and a
steady job at a nuclear power plant. You're not English Breakfast, but you're
not Lapsang Soushong either. Oh yeah, chake with me. In eight years,
doctor who, I'll be kicking your ass with a solid gold boot.
Hmm. What's changed for me since the last time I saw you? Only
everything? I can't believe it. Homer Simpson a bloody millionaire? Why do
your sound so shocked? This is her fifth take? I like that that
pisce take of just filmmaking it, or like you know, reality Tavo where
it's like, but why are you fake pretending like you're shock? You knew
this was happening. Yeah, we've gone through this three times. I feel
that's what it would be like, going to like a sitcom and watching a
scene and then so on Fox up the line and you go to like laugh
again at the same jokes two a three times. Absolutely. Yeah. I
wonder that they probably just get the audio off the audience from the first take.
You'd have to assume, right. I think there's got to be a
bit of mixing going on, absolutely, because I don't know how many times
I can pretend to laugh at the same joke no. I think often it's
done more for the benefit of the cast than anything else, just to get
you know, them vibing off the energy of a live audience, rather than
just let's record people laughing, you know. I mean, I'm sure there's
a lot of genuine stuff that's used, but all right, let's use a
bit from take one and a bit from take three and oh you can hear
that? What does you think it was? Might have been Bill Hicks,
who he recorded like a one of his standard shows. And there's a woman
in the audiges with the most distinctive laugh, and it's like, well,
we've got to keep that clearly. Now. We come out from commercial and
Bartley's on their jet skis and bart uses the dolphins blowholes a cup hold her
and it's like, oh, that's a bit gross. Marge is proud.
She's so proud that her chest might burst and out the word chest. And
I was like, that's none of this was funny to me. Nah,
I mean I was more intrigued, but it's like, Okay, how how
has this happened? Yeah, and then we got to the condoment pen,
which, honestly, it sounds like a pretty good idea good idea, and
apparently that is a reference to Monty Python. Okay, so see declent Desmond
played by Eric Idol as him if he can use the condiment pen on his
fish and chips, to which Homer replies, you can use it to put
horse radish on your dead mother for all I care. This is the reference.
Sorry, that that joke there. This is a reference to a Monty
Python sketch in which John Cleese takes his mother to undertakers, who suggests various
means of disposing of the body, finally suggesting cannibalism. Horse radish is suggested
as a seasoning. Oh okay, it's Monty Python for it. Yeah,
but I reckon that would have to that's too, it's too much of a
coincidence for that to not be a reference, right, Oh no, absolutely,
that's a yeah, that's one of the nerds saying I remember that skitz
it jun Cliff, he wrote it in description the there. You know we
did something like that with Buddy. I know you did when you used to
interview people before you like recorded, would you used to start with saying I
know you hears every time it like I'm just I'm a huge fan or thank
you so much for doing this, And at what point did you realize,
don't do that anymore. I didn't do it all. Oh, I never
stopped doing it. I mean I didn't do it all the time. If
someone had done, if I was interviewing someone for a piece of word that
I really admired, I would say before it was like, I thought you
were just great. I thought you were really really good. I mean,
you're trying to do it too often during the actual interview itself, but you
didn't let him know. It's like, really respect what you did there,
or you try to without being too wanky about it, and obviously being very
wanky about it. I mean, you're actually winking them. If it was
someone that you really respected and whose work you knew, you'd try to not
go for the because you tried to do it, Tarantina, Remember, I
did absolutely, and he was like, yeah, I have nightmares over it.
We're not best. What was his quote that he said? What did
he say to you? He just said something, Oh, that was a
good one, because you tried to make an obscure reference, didn't you.
Yeah. It's a movie that he that I really like growing up, called
Fandango It's an early Kevin Costna movie. And I remember reading an early interview
with Tarantino where he said he was really into it as well. I'm like,
I think we might be the only two people in the word who liked
this movie. So yeah, sort of gave it a shout and he was
like, Yeah, that's a good one. That's it, And that was
it. He was gonna say, we just become best friends building bunk beds.
It's that time for Frank. He's going to be a rocket scientist to
Mars. He has his cloaking device from the Bullies. Another was just went
on for ages and there was no sort of payoff. Yeah, did he
say he invented the eight month after pill? Yes, I thought it was
okay, discovered and cured Frank Frick's disease. But he's never talked to a
girl. So he's built a time machine called the Corona Track, which apparently
looks like the actual time looks like the time machine from the Time Machine,
Yeah, the sixties adaptation of the Time Machine. Yeap. He goes back
in time and then it gets hit by car before we can warn the little
young version of himself. Then young Kyle takes it which the payoff is pointless,
is nothing, there's nothing to it. Yeah, I was like,
oh, okay, this is going to be at least lead to something,
and no, it's just like, oh that happened earlier in the episode to
humorous effect. Not really, it's Alanor at age eight, she's going to
be a lawyer and a doctor. By twenty four, she'd graduated from Harvard
Medical and Yale Law. But by thirty two, shoes burnt out, wasn't
she She wasn't there? One glass of wine with Buster had probably turned into
far too many. She's throwing her Yale degree out us. I believe,
yes, and a cat, But I just I just really liked love that
that I written saw. Yeah that was good. And yeah, just a
really quick gag. Yep, Marge. Now Marge's turn. Apparently she wanted
to be a photographer I have ever seen. I think Marge wants to be
a lot of things that never came to fruition, probably due to Homer.
I'm watch a minute here, but I'm surprised at in tapping to the painting,
the artist side of things, she wasn't be an artist. Yeah,
yeah, I mean, because I've already seen that I don't know, I
guess, but they keep bringing up these artistic or creative ambitions and endeavors that
never really sort of go anywhere, and they sort of makes it feel bad
for her, so it doesn't it. Yeah, the only difference in the
last eight years has been I met home and I'm like, eh, Jess
rocks it with this skull tattoo. I must have been. I did find
it funny though all the paper headline, newspaper headlines, my favorite boy brings
them up for everything, typing class tragedy. She later flung to Next County,
but she's now working at the department store and is where we get the
birth of Disco Stu. Not the Sea Captain, but they were playing it
upore because even sound like the Sea Captain, didn't he really, Yes,
I need one. What I'd say is fatal for my captain's license. Hmm,
coming right up. Mind, if they turn on a little music,
it's done sable, not a good stew looks disco music and the world welcomed
disco Stew. Yeah, this is the episode where I was like, ah,
this is not fun. I need to work full time to support Homer's
venture rock music and erotic etching, and I was like, well, this
isn't funny, it's just depressing. It's hitting too close. I hope for
Dando because Nicolas like, I've got to work extra hard bank. Well there's
bud game. That's not true. But now Declan, He's asked, why
do you have old man medicine in your in your medical cabinet? And this
weinster Bans arrives and god it his summer home. And I'm like, is
this not just his mansions and wears his place? I'm not. That's the
thing was He's always at home in Springfield during winter, so why is this
now he's home? Why is that a summer home in Springfield? Yeah?
It was weird. Yeah, I mean, and that could be well,
I can't think, I'm off the top of my head, but I imagine
that could be a funny gag if you sort of took it and strung it
out. I was like, why do you have a summer home? But
it was four fifty five guys, see, oh that's true. I got
to pick at the kids. Yeah, Homer then come up with commercial offers.
But he's like, you can be him, just don't leave marks.
And I was like, that's not a funny line either. No, was
there. I guess there was a point where they thought Homer being a shit
father was funny. He's always been like, I don't know what's the what's
the term, not a shit father. He's always been, always been frustraight,
frustrated and sort of like Choking's one. Choking was like a visual gad
that just kept in the show for whatever reason, right, And yeah,
but the idea of like you can beat him, and I'm like, no,
no, And then in the next scene you expect us to now go,
oh, isn't he great? Home is a great person. He's got
everything he wants in life. And have all the people saying, you know,
Homah does this for me and he tucks me in at night and it's
great having daddy around. It's like, yeah, but you've two minutes earlier
you had Homer say you can beat him, just don't leave Marx, I
can I'm cutting the show too much, like and when I'm sort of trying
to come up with situations where that kind of works, where Home is so
desperate that he'll say anything to sort of get off the hook. Yeah,
but I don't know that's putting a lot of faith in in the show.
And I don't know if it's Burns at this episode. If it's funny,
I'll go with it. This is it wasn't funny, That's what I was
like. Whatever, Yeah, I mean it wasn't like it wasn't offender was
like it was. It was never funny, So what was the point?
You know? Yeah, I mean just and it whispering loud in the quiet,
po loud or that kind of Yeah, that kind of ship. I'm
not I'm not into that. But you know, Homer's sort of stead of
getting so just with a ookie phone you can beat him, but just don't
show them, you know what I mean? Colorbool doing the collar Smithers is
in the Grandfather Clock. But again a gag that's just dragged out a bit
too much. Forever. Yeah, Burns has released the hounds, but they're
still in his winter house. So this is what they had the summer house
gags. They can say winterhouse. I guess his winter house because he's always
there. A Christmas time in Springfild where we have a Christmas Simpsons episode,
he's at his house. That's the thing. If it's on like this isn't
can though. I guess if it's on the other side of a hill or
something where it's kind of like, okay, it gets you know, it's
east facing himself, gets a sunrise or something like that. I don't know.
But then it just cuts to everyone getting along talking about getting the vending
machine contracts from the Kremlin, Like what again? Yeah, it's a gag
in name only. It's like, oh, you know, while we're waiting
for the hand, while we're waiting to release the hounds. Oh, everyone's
forgotten why they were actually angry to each other. Now they're just getting along
famously. Oh the hounds are here trying to release the hands. Yeah,
relases them and chases the family away, and that's it. It's a geno.
It's a gag in name only. Yeah. But then he says,
I've got two questions for Homer. Why lie and lies? Lies? Why?
And he's just trying to get the answer from home. Why did you
lie to me? It's like it's pretty obvious he's same as anyone with love
because they're embarrassed and they want to pretend that they're rich. This isn't it.
Don't know. I thought the last five minutes was a bit bit of
nothing, nothing really, but we got the montage of him chasing after Homer,
so he's got He runs into the tree house, he runs into the
house on fire, and then he runs. He gets out of the car
when he's driving and Grandpas still in the car. Hey, I'm ready from
my segment. Lenny, who is exciting to hear from you? Did you
ever try that new shamboo? No? Never, did I want to watch
me pay my cable bill. I got checked with butterflies on him. I
am interesting, No you're not. Not only are you pointing out how lame
Lenny is, but then you have Lenny at the end of it go,
I am interesting, No you're not. I'm like, we get the joke.
Neither Dando nor I are fans of that particular thing, and we're guessing
that a lot of you listening I'm probably fans of that either. So just
in case you didn't realize, these are the jokes folk. Yes, Homer
says he did it because nothing's changing his life in the last eight years.
That's why he did it. Marj then kicks him out because he went to
a lot of trouble to try and impress you, and I love him so
I'm standing by and I'm like, okay, yeah, that's great. I'm
probably more team Declan. Declan's now at Moe's. What's the matter at Declan?
Cop give you a ticket for talking like a fruit. It's the oddest
thing. I actually feel affection for these knuckle dragging sub monkeys. I feel
sorry for Homer Simpson. What he been sipping cuckoo juice almost got it made.
He's married to one hell of a woman. All I got is this
porn channel. I'm too cheap to de scramble. That's an ad for shoe
inserts. What I've been writing creepy letters to that? But what you said
about Homer, it's It's given me a brilliant idea, an action movie where
I played a pope who kills a president. No, that's a terrible idea.
Yeah, I know it is stupid. I think it could work,
though I even got a title Pontiff No Return. I came up with it,
but I don't really get it. This is where Declin gets the idea,
and he invites Homer to his editing bay, and you see a little
Clippi from Ain't no Mountain. A blind man climbs Everest which was like,
what the fuck was this? So apparently this was a piss take of something.
The movie A Blind Man Climbs Man Everest is a reference to Eric wine
Man Wine Mayo, a real blind person who climbed up Mount Everest on May
twenty fifth, two thousand and one. He also completed the Seventh Summits in
September two thousand and two, joining one hundred and fifty Mountain. He's at
the time who had accomplished that feat, but as the only climber who was
blind, I'm like, okay, so it's a reference to something, but
why was it in this episode? I have no idea shout out to Eric,
Wow, great work, good work, man, but yeah, more
power to you. Then he shows Homer everyone talking him up, but margin
arrived. Don't kill the foreign man, so I wasn't going to All the
knives fallout and he's realized he's been living his best life. You know,
you're my real dream come true and I lived my life with you every day
and I'm just like, yes, why did it become this? Sixty four
you're at home. I just I don't know, just content with life.
Gets to an old age and realize, you know, what I am happy,
didn't need this forced bullshit. Yeah, I have him at fifty eight
and sorry, so fifty seven, fifty fifty six. Yeah, I have
him in variation Shenanigans at those ages then but very briefly, and then have
him at sixty four. It all kind of worked out in the in the
end, in the in the balance, you could even get dark and go
to like deathbed Homer and having to sort of like realizing how happy his life
has been, how lucky he is, and I'm like that would mean something.
I think so yeah, because this whole like you said, this whole
thing just felt so force of everyone going home is a great guy, he's
got you know, and it's just like huh what. But Homer then tries
the mixing board if he wants to make a demo tape for setting You're my
lady. I'm guessing that this this resonated with Dando, like this is probably
like guy touching a mixing boy, like, don't touch it. Oh my
god. It's just like sometimes we'll be doing over zoom or whatever and guy,
what am I PUSH's like don't oh jesus, Guy's gone, Mike's not
connecting. I'm gonna push the green, but it makes airhorn sounds where where
you love that sound? Taking you're my lady, dick me with your pitchforking
taking, you're my lady. Take me with your bitch farking Oh that no,
yeah, your girl smothering me with your beetled boots because I'm a rock
and roll hero with the mode. It tackle made a bye. You called
a Plaine Moby, your plain moby during the song that we have young Carl
appearing and then disappearing. That was the payoff. That was it. Yeah,
that's it. That's all a really shitty ending to this episode. I
think it's just because the entire like last five minutes, I was like,
this is how I would have done it. I wasn't like paid attention towards
happening. But yeah, when you do pay attention, you don't get much
either. No, because it ends with a whimper and not a bang.
Yeah that is right, which I think is what as you always say,
if you leave with the bang, even the episode, if it's shit,
you feel different about it. Stick the landing. Yeah, you usually walk
out pretty happy with this. This was just kind of like a yeah,
wet fart. What do we learn, Bomber, Did you learn anything from
this episode with the Davis don't leave your muffins out in the rain? Apparently?
Yeah? Have you ever done that? I was trying to visualize.
I'm like, would that happened? I guess so well. I mean I
think any pastry left out in the rain is probably not gonna it's gonna come
off worse for wear. Are you a muffin man? I do know the
muffin. I always get disappointed when I have a muffin on. I look
at it, I'm like, that's a big muffin, and it's like,
oh, it's just the top, that's big, you know what, they're
like massive? You eat the top and you're like, oh, it's just
a regular's age murfin. That's true. Yeah, I'm trying to think of
like the pastry. I mean, I'm probably more a donut guy than a
than a muffin guy. I do. I found these croissants at a place
in Geelong. I have to drive across town to get one, but of
a Saturday, more than forty five minutes away from the Royal Marble Showground,
I'll never live that down. And justifiably, it was like there was a
place I used to go that was close by, and it's like, oh,
it's not just an almond croissant, it's got pistachio in it. I
love it. FA's And then they discontinued that. I'm like, oh,
goddamn, I think you may have mentioned because it was it on Madre not
far from here. Yeah. Yeah, but they don't do them anymore.
Ask why there's a lack of lack of popular demand. I'm like, much
like me on the podcast. So yeah, they just stopped making them.
But then went to this other place in Belmont High Street. Lou and I
went there for a coffee one morning and it's like, is that that there
has that got pistachie on it? Yes, and raspberry. I'm like,
I'll take six. So every once in a while. How much is popular
demand? Oh? Cool? Yeah? Putting on various? Do you have
the guys at you tell how old I am? I actually hung up the
phone as I got a fucking landline. I mean he still does have a
landline, right, I don't have a landline and I haven't had one living
in this house. You have to have one, though, an actual phone
number to connect to the internet. So You've still got a home phone number,
but just to have a phone that's correct. I was like, is
anyone actually calling landlines anymore? I mean a lot of peopleho still have landline,
Margaret Mary, Yeah, my Nan needs to sell up the landline.
That's the last time I actually went down and passed away. It sounds more
but I know. But like, I just took a photo of NaN's focus.
She has everyone's on There was a speed dial on the phone and she'd
written down everyone's name on the spell. I'm like, I'm gonna take a
photo of this because I'm just like, this is just a nice memory of
Nan. It really is. Yeah, And honestly, in the eighties and
maybe even in the nine as you thought that speed doll thing was just the
coolest thing that it was. Though I don't have to pench in all seven
numbers. I just have the prins word. Yeah, it's pretty neat.
What did you learn from this episode? I didn't learn anything, but as
a better way to end this, what I did learn is that we got
a question that, when unanswered, that I really want to know the answer
to does super clean? Does it just claim? Does it scrub? We
never found out we never found out. No, does it actually scrub?
That is the question I want answered. Get your buddy Matts want on.
Yeah, Matt, I told you not to Cale see that this are a
cool bill ugly and he's gonna want to talk about burgers. From a forward,
your names will be all right. It is the Guy Davis New Name
Championship. The current leaderboard stands at this mister Davis. In first position,
we have Philip Jay Hawkins on thirteen points. In second position we have Kyle
muldoon and Luke McKay on eleven points. And in third position we have Heath
Applebee and Justin Williams on six. Take it away? What a race?
Okay? One point goes to Homer Simpson. This isn't your life? Oh
that is Luke McKay, which means that he is now outright second on twelve
points. I want Luke. Currently, let's see what happens when we give
two points to Ope you menory now ooh, so this is our main man
from the mailbag, Andrew JP, Andrew Jpe. We're crossing the streams here.
He's crossing over the into the new name segment. Now, holy shit,
he's coming. He's coming for you. Wow, he's coming for it
all. Yes, So that's his first points on the new name Lidleboard.
So Andrew JP had two points, what so wild couting out, Well done
mate, but three points goes to life as we don't it man. I
feel like this guy's just he's cracked the matrix. He just knows how to
do it. It's Philip J. Hawgans the Hawk, he just knows what
to do. He's like, how can I we do into the title?
I'd like to think that I've shaken it up a bit and we're not giving
you know, dough titles their props all the time, but this time around
it earned it and well it was our man, Philip J. He's now
outright first on sixteen points and Luke McKay second on twelve. So's four points
clear. Now there's still like nine episodes left, that is correct, We've
got a little way to go, YEA plenty plenty of how many three twenty
seven points worth of three pointers out there? So Luke mcain get to working.
I mean, I mean Carl and everyone else. Yeah, carlm Oldun's
on eleven points in third position. I mean that would be in justin Williams
both on six and fourth. That's only ten points behind. He can easily
catch up to him. We've got a lot of time up as sleeve.
We've got a lot of new names to, you know, add to the
leaderboard. Yes, so put your thinking caps on and folks, all he
has to do is get three points for the next like ten weeks or nine
weeks, and you're going to win. That's not impossible happen. It's not
impossible. It's just really improbable. Bail is here, all right, mail
bag for Springfield up. All right, So first question comes from Andrew JP.
What Andrew JP says? Didn't we just hear from that guy? What's
your favorite Monty Python sketch? His is for Yorkshireman? Never seen him?
Yeah, I've seen which is the one that has John Clears getting chopped up
as the like the guy and armor. Oh the holy Grail, Holy Grass.
I've seen that one a long time ago and I was like, yeah,
because there's the shows. Yeah, there's the episodes of the TV giant
foot that comes down and squashed and sit like that. Yeah. I never
got it when I was younger, and I just haven't made the effort to
go back and revisit it. I was like, this is what everyone's going
on about. Yeah, I think it appears to a certain type of humor,
a certain type of person out a certain type of age as well,
and that I was like thirteen fourteen, Yeah, and it becomes your your
touchstone for humor. And I mean, I've got friends who are really into
Yeah. I think it happens with the English English humor a lot. It's
very sort of distinctive. I've got friend who are really into the Goodies.
I'm like, I just can't get it. It's not my thing, and
the Goonies not. It's either a Goodies person or a Goonies person. I
think I respect Montypath more than I enjoyed that. Having said that, there's
a sketch that they did where I think you've got a bunch of people sort
of talking about how tough their childhoods were, and the stories are just getting
more and more outlandish. And I had Mars in the snow, no shoes
with my hands cut off and all the kind of stuff, and it see,
it's getting more and more adiction because that's just what your dad's are like,
you know very much what Barefoot across six paddocks covered in snow and you're
like, no, you didn't. So it's got that foundation reality, which
I really enjoyed. But and there was one, isn't it oneas someone's a
name Dick something. It could I'm either cock or Dick or something as a
Munti python sketch. I can't remember. It sounds very Munti path and that.
But the movies I enjoy a bit more. Monty Path on Holy Grail
is actually pretty funny. But yeah, I think it also attracts a type
of person who, yeah, much like the sentence or any sort of any
comedy that really makes an impact. A lot of the gags become part of
your own vocabulary and they could have become shorthand. But occasionally we'll find someone
who's just like, the biggest dikest is the one, oh that's from yeah,
from Life of Brian. Yeah, that's right. You know that a
lot of it's pretty not basic humor, but it's like, you know,
it's funny walks and funny voices and all that kind of stuff. Which it
was a wattle. It was a wattle when Yeah, But I like that
one from Money Bython, and I like the movies. I mean, The
Men of Your Life is a good one, and Holy Grail is pretty good
too. Fergus Jeff says, technically The Four Yorkshiremen was performed by John Clice,
Garrett Graham, Chapman and others on a TV show preceding Monty Python's existence.
But I will say that's one of my favorites too. Hey, there
we go. I'm saying you're wrong, Andrew JP, but you're fucking wrong.
Fergus Jeff says, you can't get a point in the new Name challenge
and be right in the mail bag entry. Come on, man, this
is one for you. Do you have a favorite documentarian? His is Louis
Therow Louis Yeah. And Alex Gibney. Alex Gibney is very good. Yeah,
he's a recent guy. You'll see his name and a lot of doc
os. Yeah. I like Louis threw a lot. Can I put on
your hard hats. I'm got to drop a name. It's a name,
that's Aora. The giant feed are coming down. I think I wrote this
on Facebook at the time I finished the interview. We were talking about interviews
before. But I've finished the interview and instaly got onto Facebook and I said,
it's always nice when an interview subject says they've never been asked that question
before. It was great, that doesn't it. Oh yeah, it's even
better when it's Louis th U. I love when they say that's a good
question and you know they mean it. You can tell, you really can't
tell, because yeah, I mean I've interviewed enough people say that's a good
questions like you're killing time to come up with the answer, but you can
tell. It's like, that's that's good, that's a good question. I'm
gon'n anked that before, or I haven't you folded that into the line of
questioning. Really well, it's good, isn't it. Yeah. I used
to strive on getting them. I'll be like every interagram, I want to
try and get them with either like a piece of knowledge that it's like how
the fuck do you know that? Or and time they're impressed by the other
time they're just like, how the fuck do you know that? Yeah?
I mean, well, like we were saying earlier, you know, when
i'd have interviewing someone that i'd respect or whatever, it was always nice.
It's just throwing a bit like you know, I've seen that movie that you
know, not many people liked on not many people someone, I actually thought
it was pretty good. I mean I would never lie about that, but
it was always good to sort of throw in, yeah, i've seen you
work well. When I was on k Rock, It's one of the reasons
I was to get really frustrated because I took it so seriously my interviews,
right, not because I was trying to be like a serious interview, but
it's like people who I be on there with then ask questions like, oh,
so you got a new album coming and tell us all about it.
I'm like, that's sort of a question. That's just you doing fucking no
work and just get expecting them to do all the work for you. You
might as well just read the pressure. Yeah. My theory was I lose
by the motto of having said that, I mean, you have to do
one or two of those questions. I think, No, you have to
take into a people. My motto is, never ask a question you already
know the answer to, because you're going to get a response that people have
already heard a million times before. Right. So what I would do is
I would listen to and read previous interviews by this person, and I would
look at what they've answered, work that answer into the question, and then
base a new question off of the answer I've already given. That's a good
way as long as you can get get the basic info out that. Yeah,
you've got to get the information there, but of magnif you can add
stuff on top of that, yeah, yeah, you've done you You've done
your job, because what you're doing then is you're informing the listener of ship
that they might need to know an actual answer in the past and information,
but also asking the interviewee a question they might never been asked before. They
haven't been asked before, and they're going to get a new answer. Listen
is gonna get a new answer they've never heard before. You've got to give
them point a and then point a plus one. Yeah, but you said
when you made this album that you really didn't like track three because of this,
and then basically new questions of that. Don't just say so you didn't
like track three and then have them say why again, like exam, I
just I just used to ship me. I'm like, Oh, you're fucking
lazy. Why are you taking so serious? I'm like, because I'm because
I care. Yeah, I don't want to be sitting here in twenty years
doing the same ship like you're going to be. Oh yeah, absolutely no.
That was something I always too, Yeah, extremely seriously when I was
when I was the interviewing people. Anyway, it's great to get that.
Yeah, that's a good question, kind of a kind of feedback. Yeah.
So I think those are both very good, very good documentarians, And
I'm trying to think, Oh, I would add to the add of the
equation. There's a guy called Frederick Wiseman who's been around forever and done a
whole bunch of stuff on a whole bunch of topics, really sort of mundane
stuff, but it always sort of digs between the service in a really subtle
way, And like, I'm really learning a lot about door to door salesman
and what would actually be like to be a door to door salesman in the
in the nineteen seventies in America. It sounds mundane, but yeah, it's
often really kind of fascinating. Andrew Kelly says, if you could give some
advice to a younger version of yourself outside of investing in X y Z,
what would it be. Oh, it's always invested. I would say I
say this to Aliott a lot. Now, I'm like, when you go
to school, mate, enjoy school because there's going to be times of school
where you're not liking and you think it you want to because he always says
I want to be old. I'm like, enjoy being a kid. Enjoy
having no responsibilities. That's what I would say. I'm like, just embrace
everything about how good your life is right now. Great. Not everyone has
a great childhood, but Elliott's going it pretty good. Right. It's just
like, you have no responsibilities. Just fucking enjoy yourself because when you get
older, you're going to look upter shit yourself and it's nowhere near as fun.
That's a very very good point. Something I would say to younger guy
was this may sound awfully wanky. You're cooler than you think you are.
Yeah, yeah, I was riddled with self doubt. I still am.
Yeah, I'm finding that I'm I'm finding it less and less. I think
I'm done. Really, I don't have a lot of time left, so
you know, why be an idiot. You've got a good lady by your
side. Now, well, that's correct, I mean everything's coming up guard
really why have you got to complain about it? Greatly? By your side,
you know, you're doing what you enjoy when it comes to like you
said editing, but you' also podcasting for a living complain Yeah yeah, yeah.
But when I was a kid, it was very kind of uptight about
so many things. And yeah, I'll run into people to worry about it.
You shouldn't have to worry about it. Absolutely absolutely, I'll run into
people from there and say, oh, you were so good. I'm like,
really, well. One thing I'll say to me, why didn't we
make out? Then? Yeah, that's true. One thing I'll say to
my kids when they're in high school, right, I'll say to them,
Look, as long as you get in getting by and you're still learning,
you're not disrupting the class. I don't give a fuck, right, Like,
just try, but don't stress if you don't get a great score if
you try it, because nothing fucking matters until like year twelve, you know,
like if you fail an examine your nine, it doesn't matter, you
know what I mean? Like, and I used to get stress out about
oh I've got to get an A and it's like, why did I let
myself get consumed by this and none of it mattered, you know. Yeah,
I mean you've got to understand what matters exactly. Just just work out
like what's going to get you buy and then just as long as you're trying,
right, you know what I mean, like put in the effort,
don't fuck about try and just enjoy yourself. Yeah. Absolutely. This one
here is from Kirsty Hodgkinson. She says, what would younger dan to a
guy think about being podcasts? I mean, younger Dante. If you told
eight year old and hey, you're going to earn a living by talking about
the Simpsons, I'm like, I have found my dream job. No,
oh, look it's pretty neat. I mean there's actually a video of me
on a home video somewhere in this house coming I think's in the garage of
someone saying to me, what are gonna be when you're old? I'm like,
I'm going to find a way to make money from the Simpsons? And
I fucking did. I don't know it. Yeah, I've mentioned this on
the on the show in the past, but I mean, you know,
when I was about ten years old, my mate JP would sort of make
radio show you said this, Yeah, you don't have him anymore. Nah,
Yeah, the tape of me somewhere when I was four doing it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I mean one of the other things,
and I'm sure I've talked about this. In grade five, I had this
teacher, mister Davies. He was a preck. I did not like that
guy, and he did not like either. One. I said, you're
going to mount to nothing. No, no one ever said I. Man
wouldn't amount nothing except me. But one thing he did that was very valid
and very worthwhile. On a Friday afternoon, after lunch we wouldn't have classes
so much, he would do this thing called Radio five GS. We were
in grade five at the time, and it was basically we would have put
together a radio show. I don't think we'd record it or anything like that,
but you know, just do it. Yeah. We're like, Okay,
you're the announcer, lead us into the news. What else are we
going to have in this? You know, what's this hour long block of
recording. We're gonna have news? What else are we gonna have? We're
gonna have reviews, We're going to have interviews with farafor said, yeah,
what are we going to have? And yeah, me being a little ham
I was like, I'll be the ideas. Yeah, you know, and
I was the one who sort was driving. I was the host, and
I really really enjoyed it. And I mean, I'm always yeah, I
haven't done a lot of radio in my life. I've done a bit,
but there's a lot. There's a fairly sort of Hammy show busy streak in
the Davison and Rossa that's my mother's maiden name. Good dad was a born
show man, wasn't he. He was a big old ham Bobby Davis,
God bless him. And yeah, to be able to I don't want to
get too emotional, but to be able to do this with you on the
regular, to have people listening to it and seemingly enjoying, that's the thing.
When people say how much I enjoy it's like, oh shit, this
actually means something. It's it's an absolute privilege, it's an absolute honor.
I mean, I'm I'm I can't thank you enough for bringing me into this.
We were bombarded with emails. I'm probably twelve. It's a lot of
people saying, can go come back to the South type podcast next week?
Is No, I've got to get my teeth done. There going away.
People just love it. I mean, you've been around here now nearly as
long as Mitch has. Oh my god, because Mitch was me left in
tweent so he wasn't out for five years. You started this in tweeny,
so you're better year off. Okay. Yeah, so it's almost like we've
well, hopefully you know, one more year. We don't new Man,
don't bring me yokos into that situation. But no, I'm seriously, I
mean, this is this is something that I really really enjoy doing, something
that I think I would have wanted to do, yeah, all my life.
And no, it's just an honor to be part of it. Man.
It's just funny how the universe just worked extu us Like Mitche was getting
sick of doing the show and then you just rocked up a popcort and you're
like, Hi, I'm gay David. I know everything about movies and television.
That's like, hm, why is he talking about Trey Parker. That's
right, Tom, That's just think they could have sat me next to Roland,
Yeah, which would have been nice as well. Yes, but it's
all worked out. Indeed. Yeah, he shot out to Roland. I
hope you're listening. Yes, share to Rolling. We even give shares to
Rolling in like the Friends podcasts. Nicola loves him as well. We didn't
get rolled on the podcast. We really do do it. Let's make it
happen. Let's make it happen. Yeah, it could be like a very
special Christmas episode or something. Why not. Yeah, we imagine listeners out
there that you will fall in love with Roland just as just as we have.
He will be the next host. You'll get rid of me, Dead
may Own Green be the guy in Roland Show. Final question, Harrison mcclul
did you ever see someone you knew from high school going to go on to
turn out completely different to what you were expecting them to do? So going
from a loser to a big success or going from gifted bride to having a
down for et cetera. Umm m, I'm just trying to think. I
don't really know. I was thinking about this the other day. I really
know many people from who went to high school with I tried to find some
recently and I'm like there was, actually there was one person the other day
I sent to Nicol. I'm like, this chick here was like the chick
everyone wanted to be with. You know, she was like the hot one.
You know, everyone just want to be want to be her boyfriend,
blah blah blah, and like year nine, year ten, and then shot
moved schools and everyone's like, oh, wonder what happened to And I looked
it up and I'm like, oh, oh my, in what way?
I mean did we? And no, in just a conspiracy theorist incredibly obese
okay changes the profile three times a day on Facebook. Just I was like,
Wow, you were like the it girl. I knew someone like that.
It's a story I was too sad to tell. So I don't know
if I'm it really is actually, so I won't go I won't go too
deep into it. But yes, I mean, look, I think the
bulk of the people that I knew and hung around with in high school,
I would say that we've changed that none of us have changed all that much.
I mean, of course we've changed, because you know, we've got
plenty of miles on the meter. But I haven't seen too many radical one
to eighty degree shifts. I mean, people change, but they not that
many changed that radically, to the best of my knowledge, last of my
experience. Shall we say I was. I felt pretty good about myself recently.
I went to a Woolworths around here, and when I wasn't, I
dropped out of UNI right because I started working at Ford and I sorted I
dropped out of Union. I was like, I'm going to get a full
time job, just work right. I wasn't enjoying Union. I was just
like, it's a waste of time and money. And then I remember when
I did it. There was this guy that made fun of me for dropping
out. Oh yeah, the drop out. You saw me out in towns
like, oh it's the dropout a yeah, and everyone's like, you're forging
to drop out? What a prick. I saw this guy and it was
stuck in shells at fucking wool Worst, and I was like, fuck you.
We are not here to disparage on its labor. Of course, if
you're going to be a dick. Yes it was. It was me going
back and beating up the bully. You're Superman Superman too, but yeah,
if you're gonna play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. That's why I
always loved the end of never Inenning story where he's like there's a falco the
big dog thing that he was sitting on that used to fly around with because
you get bullied a lot. The Sebastian kid and he's like, focus,
what do you want to do? Is like let's go back and get those
bullies like like scared to share these bullies and stuff. And I'm like,
something was really good about the eighties, you know, you'd have that where
it was okay for bullies to get the come up with this even though there
were kids is like fucking kids, Yeah, whereas these days it's kind of
like, how about some reconciliation. Yeah, how about we know, how
about we work it out? I mediations Like, no, that bully needs
to get his fucking ass kid. Oh good times. All right, all
right, that's the end of Springfield Up. I hope you guys enjoyed our
review. We're gonna came up to an hour, but we were going to
try and keep this said before and yeah, we sort of started getting emotional
and reminiscent, and this weepens when you start the podcast at the forty five
minute mark. That is the shortestod of The Simpsons, the longest episode of
four Fingered disc gap. All right, next episode of the Simpsons is yocal
Cords, and I started watching it last night. Now apparently it's Lisa trying
to teach the Sparkler children, right. I watched like the first like ten
minutes of it, and I was like, Okay, this feels like a
more the proper episode of The Simpsons. So I enjoyed the first ten minutes
more than I enjoyed this episode, maybe because I was tired. I'm not
too sure, but I didn't really get to the clearest part yet. So
we'll be back in next week to yes, talk all things Spuckler. But
by the way, guys, was going to be doing another Christmas show coming
up in a couple of weeks as well, close at Christmas time, so
we won't be I'm gonna get a schedule. We hang on one second,
Yes, Dando has sort of threatened me. I'm back at the schedule.
Half of these have already recorded, so it's all good, guys, like
that looks like a lot of recording like it won't be and a lot of
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