Crook And Ladder (S18E19)

Am is dad steering from people he's supposed to help. King of Deeves,
we worship you. Ah, he is steering log at me, guys,
I'm stealing five seguyes at once. And speaking of segways, I'm after my
next morally questionable activity. Four finger discount. Dude, welcome to four figure
discount. Your show with Ghindando or with Dan and Guy were hit a review
Crooking Ladder. But we just had a discussion that thirty seconds ago about the
pronunciation whether it should be ghand and guys, let's talk me up the show.
So that's what we're doing. Everything is content. Ah, A good
buddy atue for guys. Conversation about how we to a deli last week.
This is an early indication of how good Crooked Ladder was. Perhaps I didn't
mind it, but yeah, continue, so tell me about what what abit
to bring up? Guy down a Dane and Guy. This is a long
story as money of minor. How long should you say for later in the
show? Oh no, no, actually not that long. Just recently it
was reported that a movie is going to come out, something like a spinoff
of Ferris Bueller's Day Off called I think it's called Vic and Donnie's day off
or something like that. But it's the two guys who they're the valets who
take the Ferrari, you know the scene. Yeah, yeah, and it's
just about their day. And a good buddy of mine on social media said,
well, it's probably not called Vic donni'ess. I should look this up
and find out what it's actually called. But I'll look it up while you
tell me this. But the thing of it is, yes, he pointed
out, and quite brightly. So I think it's like, yeah, if
it's going to be called that, really Sam and Victor day off, Sam
and Victor, Okay, it should be called Victor and Sam's day off because
you need to have the two syllable name at the start. It always flows
better, I think. So we have talked about this in the part when
I first became part of the four Finger discount network and you very graciously said
you gave me top billing. It's like, oh, it's Guy and Dando.
It's like, that's great, I appreciate it. And you know,
in a perfect world, guy always gets top billing. But the other thing
is dand one guy sounds better, and Guy and Dando the end and the
Dando sort of flow into each other and it's all about the flow though.
Yeah, Dando and Guy dan Do and guy Guy and Dando. But this
is the thing that but why does the two syllbols have to be first?
Though? Why? What is the purpose of the two syllables being first?
This is one of those things it's very hard to explain, or not even
hard to explain. Just you gotta feel it. Famous duos Martin and Lewis.
So Tom and Jerry, there you go, Jerry and Tom. No,
it doesn't work, Tom and Jerry. But we're used to hearing Tom
and everyone's used to Burton Ernie. Oh god, damn it. I had
a really good argument and then you just trump it with facts. Any I'm
shouldn't find one, will continue only to find one more just there. But
yeah, so you think that's what it should have been. I still think
given that you are the mover and shaker, the prime driver, the big
hoona of four finger discount productions, you should be in front when I say
ghost. That's why it's going to be Gian Dando. Anyway, though,
Crooked and Ladder, there we go, and thank god we got a new
names challenge coming up. That can provide us with great new names for crooked
ladder? Yes, what was his title of play on? Do you think
is it cloak and dagger? Maybe let's look at the references. Usually says
it in the on the wiki page. Nothing here but the title crooked ladder.
That's the only thing I can think of that sort of sounds vaguely similar,
because crooked ladder. No, I can't think of anything. There's probably
something right there that all the listeners are going, you idiots, this is
what it is. How many times have I said, yeah, I'm terrible
at this. Simpson's mail bag at gmail dot com right in, or you're
a patient abour, just comment let us know what is crooked ladder? A
take off of please do not Snakes and ladders? Wouldn't be would it is
crooked ladder? I think do they even place snakes and ladders in the States
because they tend to call it like shoots and roundabouts or something. No,
that have to play snakes and ladders. It can't be an Australian thing,
snakes and ladders. Maybe it's a UK thing and then we've just incorporated into
our culture. No, No, snakes letters have to be a thing,
snakes and ladders. It was brought to the United Kingdom. It was originated
in India. There you go, United Kingdom. Shoots and ladders. Maybe
that's what they call in the States. Maybe yeah, yeah, who knows.
Anyway, enough about that, because snakes and ladders doesn't necessarily these are
not two things that taste great together, like Dan don't go. Yeah,
it's like, oh, I climb a ladder, but I slide down a
saint also snakes and ladders. It's everywhere you look, gy where you look.
It really is a regret starting his argument, which wasn't even really an
argument anyway. I want to touch Befo. We'll get into your deli story
a little bit later. We'll tease that one. So have it really a
deli store? We all know guys had He's on his health kick at the
moment. The Kido diet is what it's called kiddo essentially. Yes, it's
basically, don'ty calves, don't need sugar. Yes, he spoiled himself last
yesterday? Was it yesterday yesterday? And you'll find out what it was.
What was on this delicious deli sandwich a little bit later in the show.
You're really going to be hanging on on to find out guy had a sandwich?
Yeah, what do you think was on guys sandwich? Spend the next
forty five minutes trying to guess and then play a game with yourself. It's
supposed to play with yourself like it's also a game, yes, suitable,
suitable for one player, but crook and ladder. So you've obviously said that
you didn't really enjoy this one. This is my thoughts on it, right.
I thought this is an episode that another one of those ones where you
go if this had more focus and more of a fleshed out idea that has
a lot of potential. In my opinion, this episode, it's a lot
a lot of potential, but they wasted too much time at the start of
getting to them becoming firefighters. I think this could have been one of those
episodes where kind of like a flashback one, kind of like the b Sharp's
episode where it's just you, guys, don't remember that time that we were
firefighters and it flashes back. I just think that this one here spent like
six seven minutes trying to get them becoming firefighters, and it didn't really make
sense. It's like Maggie wants to pacifire. Then Homer can't sleep and that's
why he takes the tablets, and then he has a crash, and then
then he becomes a firefighter. I'm just like, I felt like half the
episode wash by the time we got to the actual meat of it. Yeah,
and then you quite a really nice sandwich, and then you get to
the end of the episode, and the ending felt so rushed and just out
of nowhere, where it was just Homer telling the kids and that's why we
learned out lesson. That was the end of that story. And I was
like, you didn't start off with Homer telling a story, though, weird
that it ended with Homer retelling the story to the kids, Like this whole
episode has been a story. It was just so bizarre, felt so rushed.
More of the episode should have been focused on the conflict of right and
wrong. Wrong, absolutely so. It should have been mid episode where the
kids see him stealing, and then the last half of the episode, last
act and a half, should have been him having the conflict in his mind
and with the kids, please do the right thing, dad, blah blah
blah. Right. Instead, it was like the last three minutes it really
was. This episode felt just really hastily assembled again out of spare parts.
Yeah, I mean this, Yeah, this first ten to fifteen minutes.
I mean, I'm not sure exactly how long it was before we got to
yeah, the general thrust of the story, but it seemed like age is
that. Honestly, it did seem like half the episode. I like it
when they get an ensemble of characters and put them together doing something two millions
and do before, and I know that they tend to always go They're always
trying to pooh in these things that the pin pals. Remember when they went
to another country to get to the drugs, they went to Mexico, but
that wasn't Canada or Canada, but I went to know the country get to
get the drugs or the medicines and things like. That's always a pooth thrown
in there. But I thought there was definitely a story here that, if
fleshed out properly, was definitely would have been far more enjoyable. Yeah,
I mean, not to do the Monday morning quarterback and think of like this
is how you should have done it, guys, But I mean, I
think I would have preferred this if Yah, Homer becomes part of a volunteer
firefighting team quickly discovers that it's risky work, but you also can get compensated
for it. There's perks there, there are perks to it. But along
the way he realizes, oh, you know, we're looking up, we're
looking after these really rich people and getting nothing for it. Someone else in
the group is like, yeah, we're not getting anything. That's probably going
to be mo who starts pinching stuff. Hom It does it once, you
know, he's like, maybe he needs to get like a new pacifier or
something. He pinches a pacifier because he needs one. Yeah, and like,
oh, well, can get and it escalates, escalates, escalades,
and then he realized, oh no, wait a minute, I'm doing good,
but I'm also doing bad. And in the end, you know,
the moral scales are put back in justice. It does the right thing.
And I say, stealing from burns too. It should have been for it
to feel even more wrong stealing from someone who doesn't deserve it. Yes,
by all means steal from the rich. I mean I'm down for grand lasting
as the next person. But then gets so sort of hooked on it that
you end up taking a little bit from everywhere you go, and then you,
yeah, you maybe took a pacifier from some place, and another baby
starts crying. These are not great ideas. I'm just spitballing. But yeah,
again, it just felt like we got to the when it ended up
went oh, that's the end. This didn't really have an endy. It
was just hey, mo, I think we're doing the wrong thing. Yeah,
you're probably right. Hey it's a clock. And then a poo gets
hurt. Homer saves the day by taking it out of the house. Have
they learned their lesson? It's just I think they have. I haven't learned
a lesson that, and I haven't been taught a lesson either. There's no
repercussions for their actions, it seems, because they've got to deccept. You
know. The kids are looking at home and like Dad's gone bad. Yeah,
because we got to the end. It's almost like they got to the
end and we went wait a minute, they didn't learn that lessons quick throwing
the clip of Homer saying and that's the time. We learned our lesson and
we gave all the stuff to the hoboes, And I was like, what
what good ending is this? And it's not even an ending where it's yeah,
all the hoboes ended up with with stupid artways. If you're going to
have some kind of moral lesson or some kind of moral realignment or balancing,
make sure someone benefits in a you know, in a positive way, as
opposed to we got stuff, we got useless stuff. Speaking of benefits,
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All right, mister Davis, it is now time for favorite moments,
My favorite What were your favorite moments from this episode? I had one or
two. Was that the ending, the closing credits. It was when I
turned it off and started watching something. Speaking of something else, we are
also recording a review today of Futurama the bird Bot of Yes for Tales of
the Future exclussly on our Patreon. But yes, what were your favorite moments?
Favorite moments? I did have some, certainly I did like when the
kids were sad and Homer tries to cover it up with bacon and eggs.
That was actually a good movement. And then the bacon eggs started running and
they all looked sad again, So a good visual gag. I just want
to interject. This episode had a lot of montage. Did you feel that
we had a montage, the zombie montage. We had the sad eyes bit
with the sad eyes in that moment that you're talking about, which you call
a montage. Dare I say the montage kind of of Homer going is it
that? Is it the alarm yet? Or what's that sound? What's that
sound? It's like there was three padding moments. There's a lot of padding,
yeah, in this episode, which didn't was. I feel like you
look at the store and you think this episode shouldn't need padding. I feel
bad in dissing of sledging this episode because but it feels slap dash. It
felt like we made this during the Simpsons movie. We've went at a time.
Yeah, and there's a lot of jokes that aren't necessarily even jokes.
There's a couple of moments where they explained the joke as well, and I
was like, I got that joke. You didn't need to then explain it
to me, or it feels like insert joke here. Yes, Having said
that, I like the idea of nighttime kookiness. That's something I'm always down
for. Lovely Luise, I want a sudden new segment. By the way,
I've got an idea. I just want to say it in case I
forget worst moment ever every episode going forward, we got to pick a worst
moment ever for me, it was mister Burns moment. We picked the right
time to do that. Yeah, not necessarily even with this episode, but
maybe with this season. Actually we've seen some good things this day. There's
nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be. But mister
Burns saying let's croon to that kite, I was like, what in God's
name am I watching right now? Yeah? Patting, yeah, but piller
but not funny. But not funny doesn't add anything to the story. It
was just anyway that's my worst moment ever. I'm sure as we go through
I will find one as well, and then I will interject with guys,
worst moment ever? What else did I enjoy? Long time listeners to the
podcast will know that one of my favorite visual gags either ever is when we're
introduced to shoddy knockoff brands. I'm always been being Sawny Sawny and Sowny's back
baby taken out of VCR with Sawny on it. I immediately thought of you
when I saw it as well. It's amazing how certain things just get stuck
in your head. Yea panaphonic or whatever it is. Yeah, but for
mine is always Thawny. And also when they set up the domino rack or
dominant principle of VHSS and Chud is the fan of chat. I don't mind
Chud, I've never seen it. I do have the soundtrack on vinyl though,
oh my goodness, really yeah yeah, someone will get it out in
a minute, and cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers the cover of the vinyl. I'm
just like this looks cool. This is one of those movies where we mentioned
all the time in the video still we'd walk past you see cop and you're
like one dawn. Yeah, so it's worth watching. It's fine, Okay,
Yeah, it's not going to know what you're going to be going to
be in an eighties horror. Is it low budget? It is low budget,
but it's got one of the wet Bandits in it. Daniel Stern.
Oh shit O, the voice of the Wonder is Yes, indeed in a
very early role. Yes, it's not quite as gruesome and monstrous as you
would you would hope throw bricks at him and said him, let your fine
with the washing makin No. Homeland finally made good on the promise of Chud.
But it's also just a great title, and it's been I guess repurpose
these I do you hear a lot of people seem to it pops up a
lot. It's like, yeah, this Chud. Yeah, but just the
Chud movie you just see referencing and you're like, well, was it was
it? They've said it is it a cold classic? Now I don't think
it's a cold classic, but just the title, it's like with all the
chirt the Chuds came after me. Yeah, it's just such a it's a
terrible title. But also a great title. Yep, okay, what does
CHUD stand for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground? Well that's it. Yeah, cool,
I'm going to be checking it out. Those were my favorite moments, and
on what were your favorite? I enjoyed these two moments because I find now
the more and more I watch these episodes as an adult, as a parent
should say the moments such as Marge saying when the mother makes a decision yes
to stick by it can give sad face have it bag. I was like,
this is me. No, you're not having it. I've said no,
my god. Fine. Also, I really enjoyed the Bink one eighty
two ah, very timely because they're currently in the country. They are now.
I've got a friend of mine who's an obsessive Blink one a two fan.
Right, Apparently it's one eighty two one eight two. Are I'm sure
all the correct way of saying it. I thought it was blink one eighty
two. I've always said one eight two, but apparently it's one eighty two.
I've alway said blink one blink one eighty two. Alwyd I say whatever
Australian say is apparently the wrong way to say it. That's what I've read
on line anyway. He's just like, oh, yeah, they sound terrible
live, but thankfully now they've they AI their voices when you're watching them live,
so it sounds good. And I'm like, wait, thankfully He's like,
yeah, because a least now when you go to their gigs they sound
good. I'm like, hey on, hey, why don't you just stay
home and listen to the record. Yeah. So apparently now they AI.
There's really funny clips online where they forget to turn the AI think off and
when they're trying to talk it sounds like all AI and stuff. So we're
now at a point in society where we want I suppose it's the next that's
the next step up. It's probably better than mimy, though, isn't it.
So See, I wouldn't want to go to a gig and watch my
favorite band mime. But if they can't sing live, but I guess,
I mean, who are we to say they can't do it? I don't
know, it just it just felt odd to me hearing someone want A fans
say, I'm so glad they're now aiing their voice so they sound good when
I watch them live. It's a really tough one. Yes, bands and
musicians can't really make money selling music anymore. No, not really. If
you're going to that's true, make money us and you have to go out
and do it live. Sometimes it's just the thrill of just seeing them being
in the same room, absolutely breathing the same oxygen. But just yeah,
they a their voices now to make him sound better live, because they sound
terrible life And isn't it isn't one of the things about Blink one eighty two
that they're kind of not snotty punks. But they're not. Yeah, because
that's aren't they They're all they're all the small things. Yeah, they have
two rooms in Bain. No, she left me roses by the stead.
At least they're im not subscribing to gender norms. I mean, at least
she's giving him roses, which is nice. They're the one who do you
sounds so old? Are they the one that because I'm not sure if my
good buddy Raf still listens to the show. He does, but he and
I bond because when we were told this story, Actually, yeah, when
we were working in the warehouse at pop Culture, you'd have the you'd have
the radio on and Blick one A two came o Adam song. Adam's song,
which is undoubtely very heart better. I believe it's about a tribute to
a friend who took his own life or something along those lines. But I
was just like, I hate this fucking song. Man, it's so more
than sury Mom. I spilled the jews rap thought this was hilarious, and
we became buds. So whenever we see each other where we go for lunch,
you spill the juice, sury Ma. Actually, when lou and I
went to this concert last weekend, in between acts they had they had this
DJ on, except he sounded like t Bone and Weasel in the morning.
Yeah, all right, I hope you're enjoying here to look at fest of
all. Rebecca go to like fit whipper name like t Bone and Weasels.
I owe my friend Anthony. There's actually a movie called t Bone and Makl
starring The Lake, Gregory Hines and Christopher Lloyd Doc Brown from Back in the
Future. Weasel or t Bone, I think he might be. He seems
like a weasel. I think he might be weasel. But I both thought
this title was so ridiculous. Uh, and we just sort of used it
as shorthand for yeah, just shittyre radio DJs T bone, it's not and
Weasel much like Cooking Ladder nineteen ninety two. Two ex convicts roam the South,
just trying to get by, but can't seem to win it whatever they
try. What the fuck is this? It just sounds depressing. I expected
a comedy between two radio DJs, two ex convicts just trying to get by
in the sound, But doesn't it sound like I tried to cut it as
a stand up comic or whatever. Nah, I'm doing the breakfast radio shift
in some shitty small town airhorn. Yeah. But and this carble Lloyd was
Weezel. By the way, William Weasel Weasler makes sense that Scans and Gregor
Hindes is just straight up tea bone. But this guy was playing songs in
between Spider Bait and the Chats and a Queens of the Stone Age, and
he played never Yeah, I don't play I don't think you played that in
song? Oh no, do they do? I guess this is grilling.
That's damn it. Yeah, blink one they too, Yeah, it's it's
god damn it. Yeah, I've got a bit of recording, got a
bit of recording that and send it around. I guess this is grilling,
which like the content we need. So anyway, this is what my friendships
are based on. It is basically just making fun of Blink one Need too.
I love that, my favorite bink one a youtubes day to that story
which had not even really made a weasel. Whatever we got there in then
we're gonna get him a full full circle and back to crooking land. And
finally for me, next time Maggie does that in the pool, tell quietly,
do not announce it because kids sometimes Ali be like Holly's Pilly and I'm
like, don't tell the fucking room. I wanted to leave the ship in
the corner. Next question, you there eating the Beast trivia, mister Davis,
I'm gonna hit you with my first question, go run. What did
Mo want from Burns? What was he hoping to get? Oh? Complete
something on DVD? Damn it monsters? Oh yeah, damn it a song
I Blink one Day too. By the way, my first question to you
four sheep jump the fence in the ad? What is written on the very
last sheep last one? Is is it like strange lump or something is strange
lump. Yeah, what is it? Mortgage strange lump, secret family family,
And what's the other one mortgage secret family. It's mortgage than something else
that everybody worries about that secret family. That's strange lum car problems, that's
speaking. Yes, yeah, guy's got a broken window. I've got a
chip in my wings. Yeah. Yes. Sleepier causes what according to the
commercial four nappy or whatever, it is unlike Sleippier, which causes this.
Damn it. It's foot fattening and elbow stink. That was okay, gag.
There are moments in this episode. There are moments that I cannot remember
speaking which there's an exhibition at the Springfield Museum. M Do you remember what
it is. They're carrying something in the ah, Yeah, because it's got
a big green jewel, isn't it. Yeah? I know what is it?
It was rare gems of Mesopotamia. That was what. That was actually
one of the moments where they spelled it out for me. I thought you
didn't need that. So Skinner's like, I'm going to look away, now,
look away, and he sees him taking the jam. That's the joke.
But then you have skinna go. Well, you're not making it easy
for me. You don't need to say that. Like the joke is,
oh, you turned away and they're doing it again. That's it. You
don't need to have another joke there. Anyway. My final question, and
we'll get into the review. What jacket did Marge get from wolf Castle?
What movie I shoot your face? Yes? There we go? Did I
have one more questions? Why not hit me one more than we have?
You mentioned bink one two before or one A two? Can you name two
of the other type of pacifier that Homer rings home h thumbstitute is one yes,
and something of synth nip or something synth one nip. You also would
have accepted Kitty cork and ACU teaked. Would you accept the receipt? Suck
on the receipt? All right? So the original edit of Crook and Ladder
was May sixth, two thousand and seven, production co jab F one three,
written by Bill Odenkirk and directed by Lance Kramer. The chop or gag
did get a chop boor gag in this one? Did? Was? I
will not look up what teacher makes still relevant to these days, not even
more so? Even more so. Yeah, and the cash gag the TV
moves aside. It seems to putting through a car wash. Put through a
car wash and get spray with water and hilarity ensues. The episode kicks off
with Marge getting the new issue of Smothering Mother magazine and she learns in here
that is her baby becoming a psackleholic because there are new links to pacify overuse
and low achievement, I like the hogoes of the dummies in their mount then
spells out no future with the building boss, because that's sort of one of
her recurring gags is spelling things out. Usually there used to be that she
would spell things out though and the universe wouldn't realize the viewers would see it.
She takes the pacify from the very first episodes. Isn't you know we're
but the genius. The thing she's actually spelling out is it eCos square maybe
or something? So some mathematic tuation. Yeah, yeah, but she she
takes the pacifierway I'm gonna say ummy, communist, so saying dummy, she
takes the dummy away from Maggie. But Grandpa mentions here that you know,
I've also given up all of the things that I love except for raisins.
Now, raisins make his skin go loose? What was the joke there?
Look, what do raisins do to you? Why did his skin droop when
he was eating raisins? Did he turn into a raisin? Is that meant
to be the joke? Because you're wrinkly? Because raisins are wrinkly? I
can't maybe what the quote unquote joke was. Yeah, but Drew, growing
up does mean giving up everything that makes you happy? Doesn't have to podcasting.
Yes, Well, it's just like sometimes you know when you just you
got things from your child, and it's just like, you're too old for
that. And I'm went, why if it makes me happy? Why am
I too old for it? I come back to that Taylor Swift quote of
if something makes ubody happy? Why are you? Who are the judge?
Quit ragon? Quit ragon wet blanket? But Marge throws out the dummy and
he gets taken away by the garbage man. Maggie, I'm sorry, I
mister pacifier, But when her mother makes a decision, she has to stick
by it. Okay, okay, you can have it back goes to get
when out of the drawer, but the draw is unfortunately empty, so Maggie
is now ruining the house. And Lisa says, why do you take advice
from a Larry Flint magazine? Your man, my man? Larry Yes,
probably best known as a pornographer. Bartie took his porno straw and spun it
into gold. Actually not really. I mean he put out a bunch of
other publications, but he's probably best known as the guy behind Hustler. So
is it kind of like Hugh Hafna making other mags as well? Is the
equivalent? Pretty much? Okay? What's mastheads? Uh? Masts are,
to the best of my understanding, they're the list of people involved in making
the magazine. Ah, because she says quick reading mastheads. Yeah, but
except the way I always viewed it was like the master that was like the
title, that's weird, unless it's the because she's like, I can't,
I won't. It's like, what is it? Because she read in the
masthead that Larry Finn, Well, yeah, I'm gonna look this up.
Because last head must the highest part of a ship's mast. That's not it
the title of a newspaper on magazine at the head of the first or editorial
page. So maybe it says it's the list at the top of the page
that includes the name of editors, writers, and owners. Okay, so
it's it's everyone involved with the making of it. So she's just paying attention
to detail. Basically, Yeah, because I'm reading the fine print. I
think a lot of people who read magazines would not necessarily well, yeah,
it would not necessarily go oh my god. The copy editor on this was
such and such ye home and then arrives with very other pacifiers slash dummies,
Syntho nip Kitty cork was another one's thumps to to acutete bink one need too
and the receipt you did have them in your note didn't look at No,
I didn't look enough. No, cheat, cheat Maggie. She's now crying
NonStop, and Santas Little Helps says the day by giving her a squeaky toy,
and they're gonna get his heart member treated as opposed to see how it
goes, which you know that isn't approach that many pet owners take. We'll
just see how it goes, and it usually ends well. It's great,
but unfortunately the prices that get charged it's hard sometimes to afford that shit everything
costs these days, everything is very very pricing, and some people are taking
advantage of that. I'm not going to say vets. I'm not going to
say all vets. I'm gonna say supermarkets. I'm not gonna say petrol stations.
I'm gonna say drug dealers. So the squeak, though, is unfortunately
keeping Homer up at night. Not anybody else though, And he goes downstairs
to watch TV for a while, sees the ad for Nappian. He need
help from a drug that help us here, meet Nappian. Nappy and activates
your brains napping centers and attacks. Your bodies are wakigens and unlike Sleepier,
it won't cause foot fattening or elbow stink very much like at late night ad,
isn't it? Oh? Do they still exist? Do they still make
ads targeted for people being uplead at night? Because the thing is people coming
coming from work now they're probably waking on Netflix and shit like they're not whacking
on sweed air TV or they're probably just whacking it. Yeah, I'll do
it at work, and so you're doing it right now. This is your
job. It's very much a late twentieth century early twenty first century kind of
thing when people still watch television show they say, watch hot Dogs at night,
watch hot Dogs up late? Yeah, good show. Bora A Big
Brother The latest incarnation just did not even go the whole full episode like four
or that is canceling. Yes, the people are still in the house now.
They haven't been told. It's like that. It's like that Japanese soldier
who was still fighting World War Two? But is the show canceled and they
didn't tell them. I don't. I'm gonna look this up because that would
be fucking hilarious. Imagine anything they do. They're on TV. We can't
tell them. We already paid them. They locked the doors leaving there.
They're now part of the or whatever it is. Dream was it dream World?
Is that what they used to film? It used to be a dream
World? Big Big Brother Australia twenty twenty four because the ratings were terrible,
right, oh yeah, absolutely, Oh it has been canceled And that was
on the ninth of January. They can't still be in the house though they're
not in the house eight weeks later. Where do you think they're going to
come back? It's kind of like the fucking boys when they get locked in
the room by Skinner get their free bikes, they send one over the fence
to try and get to help them. Big Brother. The Australians would probably
been canceled. We're not returned to our screens in twenty twenty four. That's
it was last year. I thought it was this year, Big Brother and
I was Gladiators this year, wasn't it? And that one. Well,
a lot of stuff that we used to rely on is just not doing as
well as it used to. What was called the House of Love this year
apparently diverted from the show's original concept and focused more on love and romance between
the contestants. Weren't they all like young people at the same age, And
it's just like the whole purpose is to have a a broad scale of society.
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to pull that shit of like
it's a social experiment and at least try otherwise you're just doing love Islan in
their house. There was a finale and only garnered one hundred and fifty two
thousand viewers. Lets we have a month monthly downloads. That's crazy. We're
more listeners than they have viewers. Okay, start putting that on the on
the promo sheet that we're sending out to advertise four Big discap more popular than
Big Brother. So they show you got canceled. Oh yeah, yeah,
it was weren't a puppy this year. But Homer takes nappy and thinks it's
not working. Then it's knocks him out and he wakes up and all the
food has been eaten, I believe, out of the fridge, and someone
has tied toy cars to the dog's feet and set up a domino of Homer's
head with Matt grainings down the bottom. With all the VHS tapes. That's
what we get the chat that you mentioned earlier. So this is nighttime cookiness.
It is exactly Yeah. So he says it couldn't been me as was
wearing my special domino setting up knee pads, which he is. And this
is where Lisa mentions here ambient I mean nappy, and so that's their way
of sort of saying this is what we're in case you didn't get it,
it gives you dry mouth, mood swings and nighttime coocuness. Now this mood
swings bit felt like Dan just improvising and then just animating. Animating to him.
It was like, just say, mood swings in various ways, and
Dan, we can you feel it? Can you feel? Thirty seconds?
Forty seconds? This was absolute padding. Yeah, oh yeah, this was
more padding than the Dominic's Domino pads. Yes, yes, exactly. But
he wakes up the next day and he's with John Lennon in bed in the
Rock and Roll Museum. Now they give the guard here the wise guy voice,
but he doesn't look like the wise guys. So odd. It's like
using the White Watch have the wise guy voice. Yeah, yeah, goes
from job to job. Yeah, that's that's what he does. But then
Rod and Todd rock up with Flanders and they asked why I did this,
and they say it says you' confusing drugs with drugs and they run away scared.
I didn't quite get that either, just because they're drugs, prescriptions drugs
versus real drug I'm know that, but it's like they've un away scared.
Now whatever, there's a look we'll like, you know, so far into
the episode and we haven't got to the story yet. There's a lot of
real swing and miss when it comes to the gags and this also, Yes,
this story is taking forever to get going. Yes, it hasn't mentioned
the five hunting yet. So then Homer tells the kids to lock him in
the bedroom from the outside so we can't get out, but just suggest why
it's just quit and he said, you can't. Now, this is an
iconic moment, iconic quote that gets used all the time, and for some
reason in my brain, it came from an earlier episode, like we'd already
had it on. But it's not similar to the twenty dollars can buy many
peanuts line of the oh, I have three kids and no money? Why
can I have no kids in three money? That's really popular with like Simpson's
means and shit like that. Now, so I've heard from you, Yeah,
I don't think I've ever actually seen it, and really, yeah,
in the wild you're telling me it is. It gets used a lot in
memes of parents, like kids, Am I art? When You've got no
money? Like why? People usually say why can I have no insert title
and three money? Yeap. Homer is now a zombie in his room,
bar gets the idea to take advantage of his fat suggestable zombie dad. Are
they go and pick up Millhouse, He gives Millhouse a haircut, and then
Milhouse a twenty twenty starle heck, yes he does, indeed, Yeah,
what is it? Well? I look at those haircuts now and I was
like, during COVID this was kind of a thing, but like, you've
missed the mark. Now we're still doing Why are you still doing it?
It's not funny anymore? Is it ever meant to be funny? I think
it was just meant to be, you know, I'm more of an ivonic
haircut. But now it's just ah, it's like, oh, you're actually
doing this. Yeah, But then we get the zombie montage. I love
the song that gets played during this, it's what is it then? Dirnt?
Is it Frankenstein or Franken? Oh? Is it frank Zion by the
Edgar Winter Group. Yeah that one. Yeah, don't Darn't d Dirt?
Such a cool song. By the way, Millhouse's hair are all these events
are meant to be taking lays over one night shoot. So his hair go
back to an organ. His hair grows back pretty dark. Of course it
does, because it was very important. We had that stupid haircut joke.
It was yes, so yes, he's having the street fight with the four
to twenty guy. Thursday, there is it? What's the drug days of
four? Twenty four twenty is the time of day Thursday the twentieth, is
what it says on this guy's chain. So he's become known as like the
the go to meme for like when it's drug, when it's time to blaze
it. Yeah, but he's wearing the But when did he first appear?
So it's Thursday the twentieth, so be prepared to post this this Simpsons meme
And that's just the picture of him, but it's from a different episodes twenty
and five pranks. The rap he first appears I'm thinking of is that is
that Thursday the twentieth or Thursday the since Thursday the twentieth, that's what he
gold Check, the guy who was fighting in the street fight said the first
chain, it was that guy. Yeah that's callback. Yes, I guess
it's big, I guess. But what are something In the montage, we
get them sliding down Homer on the hill, dressing him up as a woman,
putting him into Mo's and Moe's closer for the night because he's obvious gonna
have his way with Homer. Then they wake him up by smashing his head
into walnuts, my car, millhouse nut meat, and he crashes into the
fire station, spills some chili, and then the fire fighters all slip into
the cage. Question, why would the fire dogs attack the firefighters? It's
not like they're releasing them from prison? Like why why would the dogs want
to attack them? Because they're covered in chili? But why? But why
are they angry at that? It's like they it's like wolves. Yeah it
was, Yeah, they poorly animated. It should be like almost so hungry
and they lick it off. It's a stupid story. Look, why would
they Why would the fire fighting dogs attack the firefighters regardless of the chilly basically
because you know, firefighting dogs usually Dalmatians, the sweetest dog in these dominationis
doesn't make any sense to deal with this episode, you just have the start
of home saying, remember that time when I was a firefighter death bid?
Then we get the new support and the town is now without a fire department.
What do you think of this next moment? Sir? How does it
feel knowing that no one is coming to save you? Well, not as
bad as knowing that somewhere gays, you're marrying each other. That's the real
emergency camp. Once again, crisis has brought out the best of us that
came out of fucking nowhere. It really did. What on earth were they
trying with? This? Just really ham fisted social commentary about Ask anyone about
anything and they'll always just give you their worst opinion on something. You put
a camera or you put a microphone or a camera on someone and instantly they're
going to show the show you them truth zofilter, Yeah, show you their
true self. Violence brings out the best of us. I was just like,
that is so has nothing to the episode nothing, and we just don't
have so many of these throughout the recent episode. Doesn't fit the vibe of
the episode, doesn't fit the theme of the episode. I was just like,
what on earth anyway? So a poo skinner and more than an agree
most says me too. One two, well, I'm I'm not the first
one. Yeah, was actually not a bad game. They then make them
more officially firefighters. Quimby says the firefighters because they were the first four who
turned up Lenny and Carl and Rock as well. I'm like, why can't
we have an extra couple two extras might help in a fire, but no,
they send him away, and millhos most says louds to civilians, we
shot a burn them all on hell, they're their fire chief mode. Homer
is now excited and he's waiting for the fire alarm to go off because he
wants to know, save someone from a fire, who wants to put it
out. Also, you may have noticed that Maggie has a new pacifier in
this story, which I was, Okay, we didn't explain how or why?
No, no, so what was the story? What was said?
It all up at the very start, and then we just decided to ignore
it. What was the that makes me angry? We're almost there, we're
almost halfway through the episode that we haven't We just got to the fire,
Yes, we just got to the fire works or the fire station. They
eventually goes off after all these different home of moments in the shower and the
opera and things like that, and what the hell is that? And he
again, when I come back in to be a soggy, smoky hero,
he says, Mmm, soggy smoky heroes Like that doesn't make any sense because
normally it's He's assuming it's food of some kind. Well, there is the
hero sandwich? Is there? Okay? I apologize that I didn't know that.
What is the hero sandwich? Well, it's basically not the sandwich you
had at the it's not it's all coming together. We didn't we didn't plan
this or did we. But it's generally a big, thick sandwich. And
that's the thing. Because sandwiches have different names in different American cities. It's
called a grinder somewhere or a hogi. I do know hog yeah, but
the hero sandwich. Let's have a Philly cheese steak. Philly cheese steak?
Is that just called Philly cheesteak? The matter where you go though, it
was the only outside of America we call it Philly cheese steak. That's what
it's mostly known as. It could well be the case. What's the difference
between the hero sub grinder and hogi? It all depends on where you live,
says eater dot com, my new favorite site. Even happens in Australia.
You go to Queens and you ask for a potato cake. They have
no idea what you're talking about it. I'll say potatoes scollop. Yeah,
it's like I don't want to scollop going back to Victoria screw. A suber
is at least six inches long, that's what she said. And it's constructed
with a combination of meat, cheese, fixings. Everybody loves fixings and dressing.
Usually serve cold, so like subway, and you don't get your subway
toasted. I haven't had subway in so long. I haven't had subway in
so long either. I used to have every single day when I was at
fours. It's just across the road. And it was the healthy option of
KFC macas and all that. But is it is more healthy's necessarily? How
It's like sushi. Everyone goes, Oh, sushi is healthy. It's healthy.
Yeah, you know, there's rice in there. It will fill you
right, very a lot of killo jewels in those sushi. Indeed, indeed,
hero sandwich you will normally find in New York City, alright, Apparently.
New York Times Herald Tribune columnist Clementine Paddleworth described in said in nineteen thirty
six, it was a sandwich so large you had to be a hero to
eat it. I'm glad I didn't understand the joke was there now? I
know what a hero sandwich is. You had fun and you learned a little
something too. Well, at least you learned a little something March. So
I hope you come back. Just come back alive, Okay, don't tell
me how to do my job. The first place they save is look,
I hate it when that happened. I can see you're just state. I
was like, March shows genuine Sinceeraiity and Home has just been a fucking jerk.
Yeah, and not in a kind of That's also an issue of this
episode. They don't until the very last bit with the poo getting like the
thing falling on all of him, they don't emphasize how fucking dangerous being a
firefighter is. Absolutely yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not wrong in this
episode, let's get throw it. She says, don't come back alive.
Like I said, please come back alive. They save Luigi's. He offers
them a bunch of free food as a result. Is first it's mentioned that
their volunteer is not getting paid. Then they say wolf Castle another line here
that gets explained, so he goes, you're the real deal as opposed to
my movie The Real Deal, which was in fact not the real deal.
You didn't need to say the last bit. I think this is where I
wrote down a lot of not very good jokes or inverted Korma's jokes. But
you could just ended it with as opposed to my movie The Real Deal.
We get it. That's why you said as opposed to that's the joke there.
Allow your listeners or readers or viewers to fill in the blanks and they
will love you forever. Sometimes things need to be explained, but sometimes it's
the best jokes are the ones where you go, ah, now I get
it. What was the one before the real because he mentioned two movies?
What was the one before the Real Deal? Oh? I can't remember because
he said something like oh it's something which turned out out to be something,
or my other movie the Real Deal. Let your brain make that other connections
like oh oh, And it's almost like you came up with the gag yourself
and we put you. Oh. I really love this show. It's like
watching Frasier. I get these jokes. We're not telling you how to do
your job sinceince HQ, but we are in fact telling you how to do
your job. This just yeah, as we've said it earlier in this podcast,
just just felt very much, we're doing a movie, guys, that's
more important than this episode. Let's just slap something out of there. So
yeah, more usually I would do these reviews, and I enjoyed the episodes
more. I'm not hating this episode, but it's just it's pointing out,
yeah, a lot more than usual. But yes, they've saved wolf Castle
and it gives them the jackets and marches very excited to get her jacket,
which is the I shoot your face. I just like the broken I shoot
your face with the lever sleeves though, I mean I like the chi points
to that because I remember I was about let themon jackets, right is what
they call? Yes, Yeah, and I want David Letterman show Letterman jacket.
That would be nice. I don't think. I don't think there are
a piece of apparel that actually ages all that well. I think they've intended
to sort of don't look cool. No, the Wors's Greatest jacket. But
the Simpsons writers and animes or what not, the crew or were given Letterman
jackets when the first episode aired. They were all in. They all went
bowling to watch the first episode when it was on Fox for the first time,
and these jackets are worth a lot of money now you can get Yeah,
way back in the day there was well in Australia we have the TAB
which is off track betting for for horse racing, and I think back in
the late addies they tried to branch out into gaming as well, the Poky
Poky escentually with a company called tab Corp and some real Well, my dad
was a bit of a gambler. He liked to see that. Oh yeah,
not his horse racing didn't he did. Indeed, for some reason,
he ended up like a tab core letterman jacket. It was black or black
with black leather sleeves. Back in eighty eight or eighty nine, I was
like that pretty cool jacket, except it had tab Corp embroidered into over one
breast with like a big tea and tab Corp. And I'm like, this
jack is really good. If this jacket was just basic black, I'd be
happy to straight around and I'd be like be the coolest boy in tan,
except I'd be chilling tab Corp. And I was always looking, always like
can I get a patch? And I put her out? But what sort
of petri put it? What's what's that cigarette? Floaty? You had,
oh, Peter Starvitz. Yeah, yeah, I've tried to find that since
I fear it has lost the time and just my memory. But yeah,
a letnmon jacket. Varsity jackets also, I don't mind a varsity jacket.
I think they're probably the same thing. Yeah, I think they're similar.
Yeah, but yeah, I've always wanted to wear one, but I just
I know that I couldn't pull it off. I think a very few people
could pull it off. I think it's maybe bif Tannan is the one person
who can. You look at them and you're like, you're got to be
a bully. I think you have to be very much a certain shape,
either a big dude or a bully. Yeah, weather Oms. People just
give you this stuff. It's the least they can do after we saved him
from being MELTI faced weirdos. I don't date to do some sort of compensation.
After all, we're volunteers, that's right. Pool people always because we're
heroes. It's even on my business card. I printed him on the back
of my old business cards. See it's different. Then they save mister Burns.
This whole footing into the power lines bit, just whatever, let's croon
I was written here. What the fuck is this? He thinks Smithers didn't
make it, but he did, but he's gonna get pai for the week
because he thought he was dead again. What's happening here anyway? Whatever gives
them nothing? Oh how I hate you and closes the door. And that's
the thing. Them stealing should have come from somebody who didn't deserve to have
the stuff stolen from, so like it should have been. They rescued a
lady and like, oh I liked that that thing as I was saving her
cat. I might take that with me. As opposed to mister Burns treating
them like shit. It's like, as a viewer, you're going, well,
you're treating them like shit, so fuck him. I think it should.
I stand by my earlier position, which is rich people short of fucked
them over for all their hard efforts and all that kind of stuff. So
yeah, it starts with, oh, we're stealing from the rich, it's
fine, and in the end the actually that's the justification because it's not.
It's not because we are volunteers should be. It's only from the rich.
And then they run wild like you said they do. Yes, that's not
what happens. That's not what happened. Most sees the amber. And when
I first watched yourselfought was he know Bernie's house down I thought that myself I
was in through his bedroom or something. But no, he blows into the
room of priceless treasures, do not loots as on the door, and since
the valuables are smoke damaged, they justify it and taking it and then save
Costington's But they still a lot of the stuff because it always vaporized in the
fire, including a high end stereo sized had shoes and some stuff that Homer
wanted. And also the big sea on Costanton. Yeah, there's a toilet
seat and the justifocation here from Costington himself, where you must be telling the
truth to firefighters. I mean a firefighter could tell me anything, I would
believe them. Oh yeah, you guys are actual real life heroes. As
with a lot of episodes, there's a germ of a good idea about how
you trust certain people, or you trust certain figures of authority to do right
by you, and that puts them in a pretty prime position to take advantage
of you. Yeah, but then we get this where obviously we're skinner starts
to realize things aren't exactly how they should be. Here, we're not necessarily
doing the right thing. I think every group needs a nerdy guy, don't
they. That's the thing. I think any group like this and it's probably
good that they only had the four yep. I mean it would have been
good to have Leny Carlin there. But yeah, you need to have the
ring leader. You need to have the person whose conscience gets are better on
that, and you need to have someone in the middle who's like, you
can see both sides. There's an event, but eventually goes to the good
and that's got to be home. You think most of the ring leader,
Oh yeahs the one who definitely feels aggrieved and feels fucked over and it's like,
yeah, we're gonna take these rich snaps roll they get what's a pooh
in this situation? Neutral along for the ride? Yeah, he's just there
to have a good time. Cannot the pool just have a good time.
Who do you think is the you know in heat, the guy with the
long hair, the fucking wild card who's wine grow Yeah, that's smow,
you reckon. I see most of the leader though, there isn't really a
wing grow and this is there. No, but every good heist needs one
of those guys. Like a highest movie, it needs a loose canon who
just fucks everything up for everybody. It's like it'd be a fun role to
play as well. I reckon, Oh, absolutely, have you. I
don't like Dane Cook. I listened to his stuff now and cringe, right,
but he does do a bit on Heat. Have you ever listened to
that? Look up Dane Cook Heat. I listened to it about six months
ago, and I'm like, it's still pretty funny, just talking about how
he like Dank Cook says I want to be part of a heist, and
just he runs through all the characters in Heat, and it's just it's very,
very funny. I'm looking at Dane Cook Heat. No, that's coming
up as twenty one year old wife? Oh is she twenty one? Something
like she's maybe twenty two take a few years months. Uh. He's actually
googling Dane Cook wife as we speak people just to get her actual age.
But skinner, he is pointing out, I'm too sure about this. Things
have crossed the lines. She's twenty four, she's twenty four. He's a
happy one. The mooth threatens him, calls him whole pass and yeah,
there's all it's not bad. They all know. I think even a pooh
here, your next buy is going to be in hell and things like that.
So basically that is they're threatening, they're bulliing. Is that one guys
like, I know, she sure made these guys, and they bully him
into going along with the right. And usually those poor guys get caught up
in it as well and also get or they're the one that weasel on them
when they all get arrested. Eventually, it varies from stories. They usually
get fucked over there and they get beaten up in prison or never, and
it never ends well. The soft guy in these groups, I don't think.
No, they usually end up. Oh they were the best of us,
and they were the first one to get killed in the heist. It
usually makes our protagonists, maybe me, feel some small tinge of conscience.
He looks the other way, but they're still still in the jump from the
museum. Then the alarm goes off and Homer is on his way. He
excited because much his birthday is coming up. I think what you would treasure
most is a gift bought through honest effort, because the integrity, trust exploitation.
They're Golden rule, rule model, serious crime, zero tolerance, the
ten Commandment. Then they drive past the swimming pool, which is as we
mentioned earlier. They're at the front of the family. Next time, don't
we make it? Does that in the pool? Don't say anything or say
it quietly, don't announce it. And they see how we drive past,
and march says what every boy should see their father as a hero. And
they arrive at the Sharper Markup. That's the place we talk about. Yeah,
well, I think there was a chain of stores called the Sharper Image
okay that sold on of crap but high end but marked it up. High
end crap that marked up. It's like I don't really need stuff you'd find
like an executive death like that perpetual wave thing that would go from side to
side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think a lot of stuff like
that. Or eBay killed all of those places, right probably in that killed
so many things. But they steal him stealing. They still they see him
stealing and should say and pooh and moa bowing down king of thieves, We
worship you. And he's stealing five Segways at once, and we cut to
Marge yelling at him, confronting him in the kitchen, all the Segways driving
around on the front lawn at the Simpson's house, and he says, we're
not thieves, were scavengers. I was hoping for a jar Wars reference here,
we didn't get it. Instead we got the beautiful Vulture, the heroic
Taateworn't and America's Sweetheart the Maggot. But March says, kids, come in
here and show your face the face that you had when you saw your father
stealing, and hope it doesn't want to see it at all. Marches,
well, you can make them stop by doing the right thing. Then we
get another song in montage. As we said earlier, was sad Sad Eyes?
Is that the song sad Eyes? I believe it? Yeap a couple
of funny moment. The works station moment wasn't bad either with the dials yep.
But then they're saving a building. I'm short building. It wasn't the
end. They're saving some sort of fire or preventing a fire and home hotels
Mo. They've perverted, yes, their duties as fireman May wants to make
a change. But he sees the sold gold grandfather clock and you know it's
been in his family for for forty seconds. He doesn't want to give it
up. Then what about Naboo? Wait? Wait wait, wait wait,
what about Naboo? Who is dead? I was Ian Coneta? Does this
cut? Why you have just been up bood? Now this whole joke here,
you've just been a pood very early two thousands of like punked and we're
all about pranking people. I thought that year of the Internet was all about
prank videos, wasn't it? Very much so? And then we took it
too far. Now I feel like, do you see many prank videos anymore?
You see sometimes you see like these two guys that do prank videos.
I'm like, really, in twenty twenty four, we're still doing that.
Yeah, you're just fucking annoying people. I think that's been replaced by stunts.
And I don't mean like jack our stunts. I mean more like mister
b style event stunts. Look, I try to avoid mister Beast friend at
the pod, but doesn't he do things like we filled this swimming pool with
a billion jelly babies. Experiments experiments social experiments it's like Mary at vers Side
or Big Brother, your favorite showy eleven booth. He's still an da fance,
absolutely, But maths is kind of like edging edging the lead. You
know what, I really shits me and is it me? Besides that,
the people that film themselves giving homeless people things, Yes, that was terrible
fuck off. Any people come and saying, oh, of course you have
to be negative because you have you look at the positive least his homeless guy's
getting something. I'm like, he could have given it to me without feeling
himself doing it. Oh, but you know, when people see this,
it encourages them to go and do it. Like not fucking doesn't. It
does not. It does not at all. If they wanted to do it,
they would have already done it. Watch this and go, you know
what, I'm going to give one hundred and fifty dollars to this homeless person
for no reason besides the fact that I want to get engagement on my social
media channels. Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna give one hundred and
fifty dollars to someone, give it to your pals guying. And you know
what happens. People watch this and they go and film themselves giving homeless people
shit. That's all it does. That's all it does. Don't fuck off.
There's one guy's like you went into McDonald's and bought like one hundred hamburgers
and handed them all out saying, oh no, we just thought you'd wanted
a hamburger, and people, I'm so thankful, thank you. Think I'm
like, why do you film yourself? Who's this benefit? Who was getting
who probably do to go to cheeseburger? Who was getting the most benefit out
of this? And it ain't the guy getting the cheeseburger. It's the guy
getting the thousands of likes and engagement. It's a result. It's also McDonald's.
That's true as well. Yeah, don't tell me that McDonalds weren't part
of that experiment. Now, I don't believe in nothing. I don't believe
in nothing. Man. We're actually getting to the point where we can't believe
anything we see on TV anymore very much. AI. I'm just like,
have you seen like the Trump things and the like. They're just basically making
fake press conferences now with people just like, really, oh shit, this
looks real. I look at photos now and I'm like, oh, that's
not real. Oh I thought that was real. It's scary. We're in
for some tough sledding, folks. The next political campaign is going to be
just you don't know what to believe expectable from discount to kind of pivot into
conspiracy theories. We're going to be all Alixe Jones. But the problem is,
though, is that even shit that is legit, you're gonna be questioning
it. Oh yeah, that's the worst thing. Yeah, everything's going to
be questioned now, which is scary times. But another about scary times,
let's get into the end of this episode, which is arguably as scary.
But they so he's been you've been a pood and the frame falls on him,
so he sort of gets his come up and his home and then saves
them both. My baby, my baby could do worse than growing up to
a guy like you. And we get my main man there because why not?
And home, and then it cuts on hombit of saying and that's kids
that you know, that's the time we learned our lesson, and we sent
the loop to skid Row and we get the bump of the future on his
segway and I'm like, so you didn't I and this story. Did you
you did not? You ended it? And yes, that was that?
That was that. That was the end of Crook and Ladder. Crook and
Ladder an episode that it was there. And I've read a lot of positive
reviews online. If you enjoy it, more power to you. I thought
this the first time I watched it. I seem to enjoy it more if
it's one of those episodes that the more you review it and critique it,
Yeah, the more you think about it, the yeah, they get this
one's probably enjoyable. You just whack it on. But the more you think,
like you said, it's just yeah, it's always enjoyable when you just
whack it on, lots of lots of flaws. Do you wack on or
whack off? Though I jacket? Do you whack on in order to wack
off? What do you whack on in order to wa? That's good?
I see where you're going with this. I refuse to answer the question.
Take it fifth as the crate Kid number two? What do we learn?
Would you learn for the episode? Mister Davis that one should not take parroting
tips from a publication brought out by a man who also brought you barely Legal
magazine. That is true. I learned that nuts had meat? Oh yeah,
is that true? Is the nut meat? It is fun to say
nut meat. It is fun to say it. But let's I'm going to
a lot of googling this episode, because well, you know, it's better
than talking nut meals nut meat, n meat meaning the part of the nut
that is inside the shell and can be eaten. Wow, there you go,
nut meat meats nuts of meat. I did not know that. From
d forward, your names will be yeah, championship. The current leaderboard stands
at this for season eighteen, we have the following in the first position,
Philip J. Hawkin's on twenty three points in second position, Carl mull doon
on seventeen, and Luke McKay in third on thirteen. Take it away,
got a horse, racfolks. And you know, we've still got a few
episodes left, so it's not a foregone conclusion, not at all. So
let's see what happens with these points that I'm about to read out very very
soon, Like now, okay, sorry, I'm doing all crooked ladder,
not telling, not telling jokes. Run point one point Ron Perlman check him
out on tuned in Yeah, Yeah, we love Bill Pom. We love
Bill Pool. Are you right? Christ? But we do love Bill.
We also love Ron Perlman. I'm sorry about that. One point goes to
Pullman on your Mind, I don't have Oh that's terrible President and something again
plays a good president in Innist he does indeed like Bill Pullman a lot while
You're asleeping very sweet film. One point goes to the Towering in for don't
we always go with the Doze? That is Josh Hell Yeah, well don't
Josh, nice work Josh. Two points goes to Raiders of the Hot Spark.
That's the man, Philip j He's chloring away. Now he's on twenty
five points. Can someone catch up to one of these three points? Let's
find out who gave us Smoky the Bandit. That is Luke McKay three points,
so he's still in third position. But he's now on sixteen points,
so he is still nine points behind Philip j. Look, it's still a
race. It's not quite a fuegone conclusion, as I said, So let's
see how we go here. By the way, Josh Hally that was his
first appearance on the leaderboards. One Josh getting in there wild card entry.
Alrighty, So the current leaderboard now stands at Philip J. Hawkins in first
position on twenty five points, Kyle muldoon seventeen points and second, and Luke
McKay sixteen points in third position. See how we go as we approach the
end of the season. Bail is here. Al right, it is now
time for the male bag. All right, first question, he comes from
our man. You know, you know his name, We all love him.
It's Andrew JP and he says, what were your favorite magazines when you
were growing up? His were Film Ink, Rugby League Week, Inside Edge,
and Nintendo Magazine System. I was big on Disney Adventures. That's the
book I tried to steal. My mum caught me. Remember that. I
remember that story out the TV guide TV Guys. Another one I enjoyed,
The Lights of Kid I enjoyed. There was a magazine called How My Body
Works. Do you know How My Body Works? That series? I do
not. Oh. That was like a It was one of those ones we
had to go that the news agency had to like be on like a not
a list, a subscription service, but you know, you know, like
the earliest form of subscription has to fill out a form and like send it
away and that send you books and shit like that in snale mail. Yes,
yeah, I used to get goosebumps that way. And then eventually Mom
was like, you're still reading these and I was like, I'm getting goosebumps.
You tell me the story. Yeah. I was like, I'm not
necessarily reading these goosebumps, but I've got like twenty of them. Now do
I want to have the whole set? I remember my mum stopped at like
forty two and I was like sixty in the collection. It just bothered me
my whole life. I'm just going to get these last few. But I
just enjoy how my body works. Wrestling magazines. I used to love wrestling
magazines. What about you? What were your go to I was very big
on magazines. My sisters will tell you that from when I was a little
little boy, like tiny, I was reading the TV Week, which was,
like I said, TV Week straight and equivalent of the TV Guide.
It was awesome, man. It was a great man. It's still out
there, by the way. It was genuinely exciting planning what you're gonna watch
for the week. Harley and out so ets On this Saturday. Oh you
know, Oh my god, there's two things on the same channel, or
two things on the same note at the same time. I'm gonna have to
dust off the not even dust off the VCR. But it's like that's going
to be working overtime. Yep, and buy a magazine for me. Yeah.
My film The Jones was satisfied by two American magazines. This is in
the late eighties and early nineties. One was called Premiere and one was called
Movie Line. These were both fantastic. They always had really great articles movie
what a name move One was really good movie and so they were fantastic.
I was always looking for sort of cheat codes on how to become cooler,
smoother, more elegant, more worldly or whatever. So I find myself reading
Gentleman's Quarterly aka GQ, which sort of like a men's interest fashion magazine Esquire
as well, which I am still a subscriber to. It's got really good
journalism and also you know, a lots of ads for belts Country Road Official
sponsors. Very much the case else. One of my favorite mags this is
going way back to the nineties, but it was called Details and it was
very much a generation X Style magazine. It was like a younger version of
SA GQ or Esquire. Here's some cool flanners and here's this band coming the
Seattle. It's kind of cool. They called Nirvana. So this will probably
teach me I thing or two. I still have all these, by the
way, I know there are a lot that I didn't throw out or give
away. So there's at least of the six, maybe eight of those big
plastic containers through my house that I just thought you were getting rid of all
that magazine. Some I did, some I didn't, Okay, Yeah,
but no, I'm keeping those. Yeah, that's what they will. They'll
soak those in light of fluid and light them up. That's what they can
cremate me with. I used to love in high school. Remember Zoom magazine,
I do, just like those lad mags like HM. And it was
like not poor magazines, but close enough where schools couldn't ban them because they
weren't technically poor magazines, but they were close enough. Yeah, there was
a really interesting not quite that. But again, in the early nineties,
Australia brought out this thing called Black and White Magazine and I think only lasted
maybe a dozen episodes. Or a dozen issues. It was very well put
together, you know, great paper, very nice looking magazine. But what
stood it apart was it was like, because this was a very progressive period,
it's like, yeah, we're going to have these high Endustralian celebrities in
various states of undress in kind of the artie nude for yeah photos, this
is a reference and not a lot of people are going to get. I've
forgotten what she was on, but there was an actress named Kim Wilson.
Okay, she actually I think she went out with She wanted to be one
of the last people to see Michael Hutchins before he died. Kim was I'm
looking at it, I remember, yeah, yeah, and she was in
I'm pretty sure she was in one of the issues and it was like came
more from with her shirt on, but it's art. Black and White Magazine
had a giggle with Black and White Magazine. It was black plus white,
Black plus white. Okay, we've got Black and White Magazine, which is
a bi monthly prit magazine for collectors of fine black and white photography. No,
that's not it. Black plus white. Maybe aut Australia to it black
Ye go petorically lead a photography, arts and popular culture magazine, publishing the
show between nety two and two thousand and seven. So he had more than
twelve issues. Oh okay, twelve years. It was launched ninety two and
the final issue was eighty eight issues. So there you go. Okay,
her shirt's off, but you're not seeing anything, so well, that's you've
got to open the magazine. That's the front color. Oh okay. There
was one more thing. I used to cut the Where's Wally books? They
were really really popping when I was a kid. We're going from celebrity,
not just to Wear's Wally and everything on the show. There was an animated
show called The Animals of farthing Wood. I'm sure a lot of the nineties
kids out there would would know what I'm talking about. And if you haven't,
google it and it will unlock a core memory if you're gone, fuck,
I remember this show. I can't believe I haven't thought of it for
thirty years. But The Animals of farving Wood had a magazine as well.
I used to collect a lot of collections when I was killed. I've always
loved collecting, as you can tell. No, all right, we'll go
to the next question, and it comes from our man Glenn Gomez. Have
you ever volunteered to do a job? Hand job, John, There wasn't
so much volunteering as like coerced. No, no, no, no.
I don't know if I've actually volunteered to do anything like this, like volunteer
firefighter or sassage one. I've done a few times. I know. I
remember not long after we started working together, I was going down packing one
day and getting my Saturday morning sausage and who should be behind the grille?
But yeah, Dan or Nick? Do they still do that? I don't
think they do. It's a shame in all honesty. I don't know if
I've volunteered to do this kind of thing, but I have been. I
am generally the kind of person who if I'm working at a place and like,
oh, we could use extra hands to do this, I'll be like,
oh, yeah, happen to help out. So I guess that's my
thing. But didn't you help your brother in law or something, someone's brother
or something who was like a real handy man, but he needed help with
something like tech related and you were able to help him because you mentioned once
how you're like, oh, he can fix anything, but he couldn't fix
this problem, and you fixed it for him. I think that might have
been right. That sounds like something I might have done for Rossi Rossi okay,
Yes, the handiest man on two legs, Yes, okay, final
question, It sounds like a circus freak on two legs, handsy Harrison McClure.
Have you ever nicked something from a workplace? And what was it?
I went forward closed. There were so many tools that I'm just gonna be
left behind and but melted down. They were just like take whatever you want,
and I'm like, I'm probably never gonna use this shit, but I'm
gonna take this new hammer and these allan keys and all these tools, a
whole box full of these tools from Ford and they all have like four gelonging
grades. I'm like, that's a nice little that's an memory, yeah,
memento. Yeah. Yeah. When I was working as a reporter in the
newsroom of the Gelong Advertising, the main newspaper down here. This was back
in the early two thousands when there was still money for newspapers and these like.
We just had a really well stocked stationary cupboard and I would visit that
shit on the regular, like, well, I could use another notepad.
You ever fished the notepads you're using? Doesn't matter. I intend to take
more notes in the future. By the way, free pens. I love
having free pens. If there's a pen to be taken, I will be
taking it. Oh yeah, I can never find one. I've had a
million in this house. I can never find one. I will occasionally.
My mum has a mechanic that she likes to take her car to to get
serviced on the regular, and with the state of Mum's car, it's increasingly
regular. Every time I go down, it's always like, oh, you
all have to sign here. Oh yeah, and no worries I might keep
this. Yeah, of course. I've got like six pens from this place
and they're all they're good pens to so I'm like, yeah, don't trade
in your car, mom. All right. That is our review of Crooked
Ladder. Hope you guys enjoyed it. The next episode of season eighteen we
shall be reviewing Stop on My Dog will Shoot? I remember this is the
one where sat As Little Helper becomes a police dog that scans Okay, let's
check it out and talk about it next time around. We enjoyed the Spuds
Mackenzie whatever it was episode what didn't we where he became the Duff dog.
That's correct. Yeah, so hopefully this one's as good as that. So
stop on, my dog will shoot is the next episode of season eighteen.
We shall be reviewing plenty of exciting guests coming up here on four foring a
discamp. We're not going to announce them in advance. It's going to be
released and startling you. That is correct. If one does come through the
DANDO wants so excited about that because I enjoy their work, okay, and
you're part of it though it's just me talking to them. What old damn,
I'll choke it. I just take you to see his face. Just
show the face, guy, show him the face where we're talking to him,
showing the face with Tom that you won't gonna be part of this.
I talked Lou about it and she was like, oh wow, yeah,
like the first time said this this is actually something. No, that's but
it's gonna be exciting guests. We've got, yeah, plenty of exciting I
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