Talking Simpsons - Talk to the Audience?!? - August 2022

Episode Date: September 7, 2022

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I heartily endorse this event or product. not be canceled by HBO Max and who is here with me today. Hey it's Henry Gilbert. I sadly was the co-star of that upcoming Batgirl film but you're never gonna see it. So you're hanging out with Michael Keaton on the set. He was what a fun guy. I hear he's very nice. Well we'll never see that footage. Anyhow welcome to our community podcast. This post at the end of the month on Patreon, the beginning of the month on the free feed and what we do on this podcast is talk about what's happening in the Simpsons world and what's happening in our world and then we respond to questions and comments from the recent round of episodes and it is a slow news month this month yeah no episodes are airing and uh no new products are being revealed no yeah they didn't we're in between conventions you know San Diego Comic-Con was last month in

July and then next month September is when the new season premieres or late september i think so yeah this uh but there certainly was a lot of non-simpsons related animation news for us to get into a little bit here but yeah as far as simpsons mainly just a tease of something in the future was the biggest news this month that's true yeah yeah so uh let's i guess start with uh semi good news we can work our way to the bad news because uh nothing happening in the world of simpsons a lot has been happening in the world of animation uh none of it good so yes believe it or not folks a new short is coming september 8th which means uh we're going to just miss this on this episode we'll cover it next episode but it's going to be called welcome to the club and what's this about henry uh you know at the time at press time uh they've only teased the the concept

of it they have not even put out images of it uh but the next simpsons disney plus short is welcome to the club apparently centers around lisa and it's about her wanting to be a disney princess but then she is uh pulled over to the dark side and it might be more fun to be a Disney princess, but then she is pulled over to the dark side. And it might be more fun to be bad, she thinks. So it sounds like one where it will be built around the, you know, is Lisa a Disney princess comedy? But then veer off into her hanging out with like Maleficent and Cruella de Vil, I would assume. I can just see the jokes I can see them all in front of me folks but hey I'm glad it's not promoting a specific thing just promoting

the brand uh maybe it'll be funny I'm not a big fan of these shorts and you if you've been listening you know that yeah I respect the work that went into them but I wish they weren't just like promotional objects yeah though again you know I always remind myself that it could be worse. It could be that Trump era stuff of them trying to be funny in that way. I'd rather commercials for Disney Plus properties than Donald Trump small hands orange man jokes. Yeah, yeah. It's a blessing that we get these instead. I mean, this of course is time for everybody's favorite time of the year, Disney Plus Day, all the fun new stuff comes out on disney plus would you be at disney during disney plus day uh well yes this actually i guess this is wait are you going for disney plus day no they're doing

disney plus day around okay listeners i i must admit my my my husband and i we're going to D23. He's always wanted to go. Uh, we, it is like a comic con for Disney fandom run by Disney. I know, I know, but, but there will be a Simpsons panel at it. And I hope to attend that panel and maybe there'll be some fun stuff there. And maybe if I see Carolyn Omine on stage, I can wave at her and be like hey we've dm'd each other occasionally how's it going like but he so yes it is also time for i i actually will be flying to anaheim the day that this uh comes out you can watch on the plane yes yeah i'll download it on my disney plus app and watch it over and over and celebrating your 40th birthday yes i i will be two days into my 40th year this is the final uh talk to the audience of henry's 30s it's true yeah my dirty 30s are gonna be over soon and

yeah it's i i have i have a lot of trips planned around my birthday uh it's we have a it's gonna be i fly to me and my husband fly to chicago see pro wrestling shows and also take in the chicago ambiance and and culture go to the ferris bueller museum yeah uh i i want to actually see the paintings and stuff but i did google which museum is a ferris bueller museum to see that you're gonna put the smiths on spotify and they'll say uh sir please leave yeah you're the fifth person to do this today the smiths are canceled don't you know oh no you're right well morrissey yeah morrissey and he counts uh but yeah and then get back here me and bob are recording a podcast together and i'm getting some dental work and then straight to d23 for a weekend in anaheim and uh but yeah so anyway welcome to the club among among many other things.

But that is the Simpsons thing coming to Disney Plus on September 8th. Just in time for me to be 40. And just a little bit of news about season 34, which is just around the bend here. Matt Selman teased one episode. He says he calls it a crazy conceptual episode that explains how the Simpsons know the future. Lots of crazy stuff in it. and it's coming in season 34. So it should be riffing on the Simpsons predicted it memes, which, by the way, was the concept for our canceled Sketch Fest show. It was canceled because of COVID.

Everything was canceled. Yeah, yeah. It was our mistake doing a show in a city that cared more about covid than other cities back in january now you go to san francisco literally everything is open nobody care even there they don't care if you wear a mask like well no we uh this is skipping ahead but we went to a place that cared about masks because it was full of culture and puppets yeah but but yeah selman it's a cool deadline interview in general the matt selman interview because i think selman's really getting out there as showrunner in in articles like this which is cool like usurping gene gene i do think gene's scaling it back i think this is like his

sun setting retirement here into being you know my long suggested idea that he could end up just being the you know james l brooks not much older than them even maybe this lets gene become the brooks while brooks you know enjoys being a trillionaire or someone on some island somewhere enjoys retirement but yeah the read read the salmon article too because he is very uh nice about sharing credit on stuff like how the emmy nominated episode uh the naked and afraid parody one he says like you know if it wins the quality is because of carolyn omine and uh the as as co-show runner on it and and the writer of the episode he's he's all about sharing the credit he's he seems like a guy, that Matt Selman. He's not nice until he talks to us. Then he will be declared nice.

So our next item here, I will quote Kent Brockman from a future episode. So I guess you could say this barely qualifies as news. But hey, we're desperate for anything to talk about at Simpsons News. Some TikTok kid got a Mr. Burns haircut in what might be child abuse. I can't tell you it's uh the headline to mob let son get get mr burns haircut and so yeah say an 11 sorry a 10 year old boy uh shaved his head into the mr burns style left the sides on and then did the excellent thing let's uh you know and i'll play it so listeners can judge for themselves how good this boy's impression is.

Smithers. That's it. Wow. Yeah, he said, hey, it's a TikTok, you know, and it's up to 7.4 million views. As a former weird kid, now weird adult, I appreciate how weird this kid is. Like this kid born in like 2013 is a Mr. Burns fan. I know. Yeah. adult i appreciate how weird this kid is like this kid born in like 2013 is a mr burns fan i know yeah it's uh hey i i think that shows you that uh bill oakley it said does he worried that the

simpsons for a time not being on digital areas was making it so kids didn't know what simpsons were i hate to say a compliment too much to our corporate overlords of disney plus but i do think it's caused more kids to know what the simpsons are and actually give a shit about them it's it's kind of nice yeah yeah when they're done with bobsburgers the show they prefer yes yeah then uh you know it's just like uh sadly that's the exact amount of time of 30 years like it's like me and you as children in the 90s getting into rocky and bullwinkle you know except rocky and bullwinkle it's like if rocky and bullwinkle never stopped having new episodes for 30 years yeah somehow uh bill scott is that the guy's name yes and bill scott yeah he remained alive dan castellanetic took better care of

himself than all the men who worked well stan freeberg lasted a while june foray lasted a while yeah yeah yeah i i think uh if any of the simpsons actors live as long as june foray well i'll be very happy i'm looking at this tiktok account by the way it's pink underscore nade n-a-d-e all of the uh tiktoks have like a few thousand not bad the one of her kid is like 7.4 million so if you want social media attention have a kid and make it weird yeah make it weird shave their head yeah it feels like one of those things where it's like okay you can have the fun haircut then we shave the rest of it off yeah you gotta go to church i would assume this was just like one evening of a full head

shave and she's like you know how uh back back in the day a friend might shave their mustache off but in the middle they have funny mustaches and then other ones in photos they regret that they thought was a funny mustache this is a wholesome use of tiktok a very evil platform that's killing people and making their and warping their brains so there you have it and uh this is the big news item not simpsons related but it's about animation we cover animation uh the axes are falling in hbo max and lots of things are not only being canceled in production, but being removed. And not just being removed, but also erased from history. Yep, yeah.

It's a real Stalin-style tactics from, is it Alan Zaslav? David Zaslav. David Zaslav. I think there's an animation writer called Alan Zaslav. Yeah, David Zaslav, who, is this a conspiracy theory? Like, he's a Trump guy, and he's, like, also trying to get rid of, like, left-leaning things to focus on a more middle-American

programming style? Is that a conspiracy theory? I've heard that conspiracy. I bet it's not entirely unfounded because certainly the Discovery Channel, the Team Discovery Channel, you had a great, Bob had a great tweet, guys guys about the team

discovery channel that martin was right we all laughed at that it turned out to be the most powerful team imaginable but yeah all the shit that's on discovery channel and true tv and all that it is middle america aimed stuff and it certainly is not cartoons about gay space rocks kissing each other like they're not they that's not the kind of stuff he he greenlit and so yeah i i do think there is a i bet there is a slight political reasoning to what he cuts or not but also it is like bear the the lowest common denominator style stuff too like it just is which is and the cheapest thing you can do, like Discovery Channel. This guy especially, you can search David Zaslav. He's the guy who spearheaded Honey Boo Boo.

Like that, like the shittiest of shits. Oh, that guy, okay. Yeah, which. Well, you know what? The incest elf show did not get canceled. The Game of Thrones thing. Oh, yes, yeah. You know what I saw?

It's okay if you watched. I saw people responding to it. They were all tweeting like they just took medicine. Like, I guess it tasted fine. I don't know. Yeah, I can't. I barely watched Game of Thrones. I watched a bit of season one and then came in with the final season because my husband had watched it all. And he's like, let's watch the final season together.

And I just constantly was saying, like, this show is supposed to be well-written, right? Like, what the hell is this shit? And I can't believe people come back after that to want to watch a prequel show. As much as I like Matt Smith, and Matt Smith's a good actor. I like seeing him and stuff. Well, people came back to Star Wars after its 2019 fumble. Well, yeah, that's true. Yeah, I guess.

This feels no different than that, honestly. I suppose this could, they're hoping it'll be the mandalorian of uh of the song of ice and fire but but yeah all of these things you know in production getting canceled uh also getting removed then we're learning about uh the batman is going to be just dissolved in acid that's insane yeah they're having a funeral screening basically for people in the industry that's what they're calling it yeah it's like after this then we just set the negatives on fire to me regardless of how frivolous a batman movie is that's destroying art like that is evil it's kind of like nazi shit we're tiptoeing towards that line yeah i mean if that that batgirl movie might not be good i don't know maybe but i mean if it's already done just put

that shit out but i guess uh so you know the batgirl live action movie it was supposed to be in this middle road thing like was supposed to look better than the you know cw flash shows but i mean not flash animation i mean like the series the flash uh but it was not supposed to be as high level as you know a as the batman uh that that movie robert pattinson movie that was just out but it ended up costing like 90 million dollars and i think they uh the feeling was like it doesn't it's too much of a uh boy for it's too crazy for boy's town too much of a boy for crazy town kind of middle ground they didn't know what to do with it and then unfortunately thanks to uh the horrors of the american tax code they, as long as it's never seen by anybody

and it gets no profit ever, if they just kill it, they can write off that money on their taxes. And they make way more money not releasing it than releasing it, unfortunately. This is interesting to me personally because I was in an industry where, yes, I was laid off for tax reasons.

And also all of my work was deleted because it was cheaper that way. And I was like, you know, in that industry, I was like, oh, in real show business, that would never happen. But apparently it can happen. No one is safe. No, it's crazy. Like this happened to some of our best bros out there, like Ian Jones Cordy was tweeting about it how his show

okko is now it's still on hulu but it's not on hbo max anymore and not only that but promotional videos and clips that were put on youtube official youtube channels they're being erased and i it could just be as simple as up top somebody says well we can't advertise things that aren't on hbo max anymore delete those videos but ian jones cordy like and others had no heads up on this they got to learn in the news like us which is so disrespectful to creators but uh and you know the scuttlebutt behind the scenes was that cartoon network executives in the middle of this they said please let us give us till monday let us tell our creators so they don't learn it in the news and discovery's like no we got to cut this shit friday right now it's got to get off hbo max

tomorrow morning and they just slashed and yeah i mean if you want uh an interesting guide to what it's like behind the scenes on it too a friend of the show and previous podcast guest slash creator of infinity train owen dennis uh talked all about this in a substack newsletter he wrote so uh so check that out too but yeah that isn't it crazy that the bruce tim bat Batman thing they're like nah let's see like apparently he's being shopped around to other places and you would think like Netflix or whatever will pay money to host it because it's a big name thing but

why would you not want like that's as mainstream as it gets it's a Batman cartoon yeah by the people who made the best one yeah and I'll have to say Henry you have to stop talking about this Venture Brothers movie because they're going to notice they still have it i know i've seen you tweet about it like three or four times like will they cancel this well they will if you keep talking about it okay you have to stop talking about it well the the hopeful note i have on the venture

brothers thing is they did something a month ago they showed a trailer for that Aqua Teen movie. They got Greenlit at the same time, which unsurprisingly is getting finished before the Venture Brothers movie because it's way faster to make an Aqua Teen thing. I forgot about that. If that's still coming out, it would lead one to hope that Venture Brothers and also the Metalocalypse film will stay going. And, you know, also they weren't, I think another thing that might save them is that they weren't announced as HBO Max originals. They were announced as things that will be sold on Blu-ray that will then go to HBO Max. So that might give it multiple profit centers. But yeah, like other shows got killed. Like there was this cool looking show called Driftwood. It was like a 90 minute, basically movie for HBO Max animated movie being made by a lot

of folks who worked on Steven Universe Future and other shows I really love. And that it just got canceled. Like they announced it. They announced it two months ago. I now look back on that as them showing they knew that the discovery was coming in to kill a bunch of shit. And they decided like oh okay then we'll we have to announce this before and maybe then it won't be killed because it's been

announced nope not the case like well we're not getting the steven urkel uh christmas special this year that's right we're not getting did i do that to the holidays i was so looking forward to that they canceled so much it's crazy and all these shows just gone i mean and then another sad bit of it is like you can't get physical media for some of these things like infinity train never got a dvd release okko never really got you can buy some random episodes on dvd yeah yeah it's it's crazy and not to go over everything they cancel but some things i forgot were in production like a a new looney tunes movie and a looney tunes musical movie right right in the style of the revival shorts that was canceled as well yeah man there

was just so much yeah and there it was also like a gumball movie which like gumball's popular why why would they kill this this gumball thing that's that's nuts but i mean i also i mean a silver lining to this uh i don't want to celebrate anything related to this but silver lining i think this shows that warner discovery is divesting themselves of jj abrams who they should not they should not have hired to to that i mean i know people also are saying like you know if they're getting rid of jj abrams i guess too with that conspiracy that they're trying to be more centrist i feel like a black superman movie is not going to happen now i don't think the michael b jordan superman movie right yeah

i don't think that's happening yes again conspiracy theory but uh i've read a little about this guy and i don't like him no he's every executive's awful for sure and you know he's also like a big flesh golem like bob chapek yes yeah he's like a big pink likelem like Bob Chapek. Yes, yeah. He's like a big pink monster. He could at least be a hot zaddy like the guy who took over for Chapek in charge of the parks. I'm stealing a joke from our PTR friends. But yeah, I mean, the Zaslav guy looks like a horrible human being who, again, I think that this is all done also to fuck people out of even small payments. And obviously, animation writers who are not writing under WGA, but instead under the Animation Guild, they don't get residuals anyway. But this screws SAG people out of residuals, some money residuals. And it's just like, wow, this is what?

Our friend Lindsay Kaytai, who congrats to her and Mike Carlson with a new baby. But and I feel bad for her that all this was happening and she was having a baby. But she who wrote for Lindsay K. Tai wrote for Infinity Train. She talked about like this. The amount of tiny residuals on these cartoons has to amount to like nothing, like no money. Like how how how is this saving money it does seem like it's done out of spite like let's delete 200 sesame streets like what why make everything

and i mean you know now before already it's like adult swim is 100 episodes of rick and morty and the only green light shows that look like rick and morty and i i feel like it's only going to get worse yes yeah it's not looking good for the future of entertainment except for podcasting. Everything is just fine. We can assure you. So let's talk about what's happening in our neck of the woods.

And by that, I mean, let's talk about our schedule for September. So our What a Cartoon episode for September will be Garfield and Friends. Yes, I think it's our fourth time covering Garfield in animated form. Is it four? I think it's four.

Yeah, this will be the fourth. Okay, we've done Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and now Garfield and Friends. Yes. And the episode has like five things in it, so there's not just one name. Henry, what are all the segments in that episode? So this is the sixth episode of the third season, but it is specifically, or the 45th total episode it the three main segments are binky gets canceled again orson's diner and flat tired those those are the three uh shorts and it's again the

sixth episode by most episode guides counts the sixth episode of season three and uh very easy to find on archive.org yes yeah yeah i mean you could also there's there's other official places check to be though episode counts are different on all of those like things like some are like i have a few episodes some have every episode and there's some dvds out there but listen that podcast you'll hear my warning to not buy any of the recent dvds of darfield and friends and only buy the old ones they redid that intro they very did a lot of things it's bad bad bad bad but this episode is good good good it's a lot of fun uh and our what a cartoon movie for august will be beavis and butthead do the universe the 2022 paramount

plus movie we did an entire summer of disney renaissance let's wash that taste out of our mouths with some filth some Some recent filth, too. Some TV-14 filth. A very, very funny movie. We're really into the new reboot series, and the movie is great, too. We can't wait to talk about that. And again, if you're on the $5 level or the free level, you can hear the extended free preview.

But if you want to hear the whole thing, you have to be on the $10 level at patreon.com slash TalkingSimpsons. As for what we're doing in October for what what a cartoon movie there is going to be another one of our famous yes no polls uh this one is going to be for the transformers the movie 1986 uh the i think the definitive uh only thing you should ever look at when it comes to transformers of that era pretty much yeah i mean if you're gonna uh watch anything uh you know there's some all right episodes of the show i'd rather watch episodes of transformers than he-man from that same era but yeah it's uh as far as toy commercial things go transformers the movie is like the best

thing i love it is amazing to look at they just put out a fantastic 4k re-release of it that actually has it at the correct aspect ratio which is square it was animated square and then it cropped for theaters to make it widescreen but yeah it's and it also is connected to the simpsons in a in a way too and it's like oh what we're gonna do just some crappy episode of the regular season and then do the movie like no let's cut straight to the movie we did beast wars now let's talk about classic transformers at its best which is the movie which i as a as a child watched eight million times i don't think i've watched it ever oh wow boy i've seen it for a treat i've seen it on the big screen at Castro Theater in 35 millimeter.

That seems almost too good for that movie. But I'm sure the animation is very nice. It is. It is. And we have a special programming note for Talking Simpsons. So the first week of September, you're not going to get a standard Talking Simpsons episode. Instead, you're going to get two new things and then we'll go back to our normal schedule. So what you're going to be getting

is two interviews that week with superstars from the world of TV animation. We did two interviews. We didn't just want to give them away for free. So we're using them to buy ourselves a week off, in quotes, even though I don't know what it's called. You know, all the podcasters are taking the summer off now. What's going on there?

Yeah, I can see this, man. We at least done, you know, it's my birthday. It's Labor Day. We'll take it off to the degree that you will still get two hours of content, except it will be talking with two folks who have a lot to do with either The Simpsons and or Futurama, not to mention way more beyond that. Yes, yes. Very good interviews.

Very eye-opening interviews and they will be the first week if you're on the patreon and the second week of september if you're on the free feed and again we'll be back to our normal schedule right after that so uh don't jump through a window yes yeah it'll be it'll be fun you'll learn so much stuff folks yeah i i think you guys will enjoy and it also you know will get you ready for future podcasts we're doing down the line, too. We seriously did learn a ton from those interviews. It was really eye-opening for me and Bob. And you will, too.

As for personal stuff, what's going on in our lives, what we're playing and watching, not necessarily for podcasting, very busy month for me. I'm sandwiched between two trips because I got back from Canada to see my wife. Three weeks past i go to pax by the way i'm gonna have a pax panel i'll tell you more about that very soon so if you're listening to this on the uh patreon feed i think you can still catch me uh very soon i think if you're on the free feed you might have just missed me so yeah super busy month it just like three weeks of solid work because i have like henry i have two trips coming up i've got a pax trip and another trip to canada and in the middle i'm back here to record with henry and also get dental work so we're having fun with the dentist lately folks yeah

we're boy we're living very similar lives yes it's called uh becoming old and your bones start getting aged even those bones in your mouth they get the most agent of all. But I did play a few games despite being busy. Right before I left, I took like seven months off from playing this game, but I was like, I'm almost at the end. I should beat it. I finished Batman Arkham Origins, which I started for blabbing about Batman. I wanted to play a Batman game. And the ending is kind of bad, and there's never a good final.

The bosses in this game aren't very good, but I did enjoy the entire experience. I think it's unfairly discounted. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like it almost reaches the heights of Arkham City. And I've heard Arkham Knight is a worse game. I think it is. I think it's too overstuffed with things and the story's too big. And also, it has a twist that was, at least to a hardcore Batman fan, was too obvious.

And then they did the J.J. Abrams thing of going like, no, no, no, it's not the twist you think. Then you play the games like, it is a twist, I thought. You guys. And on top of that, the Batmobile sucks. It lost its wheel, I've heard. But Arkham Origins, yeah, I remember really loving it. I think it also got a bad rep because it was the B team of actors. Like, it didn't get the real guys.

It's not by Rocksteady. It's not Rocksteady. They don't include it in those compilations, but it's always like $9 or less. It's easy to play and find. If you want to play a 10-year-old game. People right now are cautiously looking forward to that October release of Gotham Knights, the next Arkham game, which is made by the Arkham Origins people. Did that get delayed even more? release of gotham knights the next arkham game which is made by the arkham origins people that

get delayed even more it did no suicide squad got delayed but they just showed it at gamescom and it still is said to be october i wouldn't put it past them to also just say because literally every game every game has decided they're not coming out this fall they're like man we're not doing it it'll just be all you're gonna play this fall is Call of Duty or God of War Ragnarok. That's two things. Splatoon 3 and Bayonetta 3. Oh, that's right. Yes.

Okay. On Nintendo, they're not running scared of God of War Ragnarok. No. So yeah, I finished that. I started the indie RPG Eastward on the Switch. It's sort of like an Earthbound-like, a very, very gorgeous sprite art. It's super talky. I don't know if i really

like it yet although i am 10 hours in so i'm still playing it must mean something yeah and i have time in my life maybe uh twice a decade for for a muso game a dynasty warriors game the last one i played was dragon quest heroes that's a goodie and that i think was almost seven years ago i think that was a 2015 or 2016 game i think i was working at the a certain website my old website job when i came out yeah so uh because it was on sale and i had the the itch to play another one of these i i picked up a hyrule warriors age of calamity and i thought it was the other hyrule warriors game i forgot there were two on the switch i forgot that also yeah this is the one that came out like during the pandemic it was november of 2020 and it was the perfect game for me to accidentally buy because it is a prequel to breath of the wild it's basically what if we went back in

time to before the apocalypse happened and prevented it so you get to hang out in that world before it collapsed and it's like an alternate timeline thing it's really cool although it does run like absolute ass oh my my kingdom for a switch 2 it's 23 fps on a good day uh but the system's almost six years old they really should just get a switch 2 yeah but yeah if you like those kind of games uh nintendo at oversight there's like all this extra stuff that you normally can't do in these games like crafting and uh they work in a lot of breath of the wild elements it's like i i was really hoping they'd announce breath of the wild 2 because i played 120 hours of that game this year the first one and i finished it for the first time and so yeah this is the perfect game for me right now yeah i think kobe

tecmo is at their best when a publisher makes them try a little harder you know and that definitely that extends to hyrule warriors and also the the dragon the dragon quest heroes games you know the last uh i it's it's not really a musou game but the marvel ultimate alliance 3 they made with the musou team at koei tecmo that's a diablo like or something diablo ish yeah but it is like waves and way it's it's more of an action dungeon crawler yes but that was pretty good and done by the same folks and i have to let know, I rarely play games on my phone. But I have Apple Arcade because I got a new phone and it came with like a year of it. So I've been looking into that. And if you like Hot Shots Golf, if you like Mario Golf, there's a very good golf game.

It's called Clap Hands Golf. H-A-N-Z. Because Clap Hands is the developer that took over for Camelot after the first Hot Shots Golf game. And they've made every Hot Shots Golf since then. They made it was retitled to Everybody's Golf on the PS4. That was a really good golf game. Yeah, because that's what it's called in Japan. Yeah, Mina No Golf.

See, one of the five Japanese words we know. Mina. Mina No Fushigiigi no densetsu. Yes, you may. But yes, it is essentially like that precise of a golf game, but with very good phone controls. With all the options and everything you want from the Hot Shots Golf experience. The core experience has never really changed.

It's just gotten prettier and more user-friendly. And it's a very good version of that i was surprised by how uh much content there is in this in this iphone version of uh clap hands golf it's got a very bad title because it's named after the developer i you know maybe i'll give that a shot because i did play that most recent mario golf game a good deal i'm i am more into i was i remember when the clap hands took over and i always preferred camelot style to clap hands there's just little differences but if you're telling me this game is like that uh do you do click click click to yes oh man then that's it's all about stopping a meter three to five times per hole something about hearing that click just is like it satisfies me so much yeah it's perfect

for a touchscreen too yeah actually i bought that mario golf game i was too depressed to play it oh that's it came out in june 2020 i get it i get it i i played it about i played about a dozen hours and then i just seriously got to a stupid challenge hole of course i was like i just can't goddamn do this stupid challenge. I'm done with this. And I stepped away from it, but I had a fine little time with it. When you really care about someone, you shout it from the mountaintops. So on behalf of Desjardins Insurance, I'm standing 20,000 feet above sea level to tell

our clients that we really care about you. Home and auto insurance personalized to your needs. Weird, I don't remember saying that part. Visit dejaarden.com slash care and get insurance that's really big on care. Did I mention that we care? And also, I want to play more Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak this month, but too busy. That's why I picked up Hyrule Warriors, because I'm very busy, and it's just fun to kill waves of things at the end of the day without really thinking about it. But I want to play more of that next month, and I just downloaded the Splatoon 3 free trial for the Splatfest this weekend as of this recording. And I'm really excited for that game in September.

I'm so psyched for Splatoon 3. That's cool. As for watching stuff, a lot. I'll try to sk for Splatoon 3. That's cool. That's cool. As for watching stuff, a lot. I'll try to skim through it very fast and highlight the things I really like. So, yes, watching more One Piece at the gym. I'm now on to the Enies Lobby arc. That's the last arc I read in the manga. So my plan now is to start the manga from the beginning because it's been about five years.

And read up to and past that part before I get to the end of that arc in the anime. And I might be able to do it because I have a lot of plane rides coming up I guess you can do it on that Shonen Jump app I already bought it all before that which was my mistake alright well that's how I've been reading it I mean I bought a physical

collection of the first 10 books and then and then he announced that Shonen Jump app I was like well I guess I'll just read it this way yeah I spent like $400 on the Mongo digitally before the app came out. I did similar for Dragon Ball as well, and then the app came out. So I feel your pain. So I watched a lot of movies, and I don't want to bore everybody with the entire list because my wife and I watch a lot of movies when we're together in Canada.

I'll skim through it really quick uh I watched The Thing in theaters lucky enough to see it twice in theaters in my life I saw 40th anniversary screening yes it's dual roles I saw also Hal's Moving Castle in theaters I had not seen that movie in 17 years and I think this is the first time I understood what it was about after 20 years had passed it's about helping a wizard dodge the draft yeah that's right he was told like you have to help bomb a rock basically like and he's like no i don't want to exactly exactly this fucks me up i i did like it more this time well and also like he's a fuck boy who's who's taught to clean up his apartment yes exactly and what i learned from letterboxd reviews is that i mean every guy does this and i'm guilty of it too it's like this thing gave me a boner when i was little you got to hear

about it uh women are doing this with how's moving castle like oh when hal uh said that's my girl clean up an aisle me that's what they're saying on letterboxd yeah i didn't realize so it's refreshing to hear that from women every guy's gonna be like oh when i sell vira turkey's done you know uh basically that's funny you know because i remember when that came out i haven't seen it i saw it in theaters new when it like played here in in berkeley i i remember that now defunct theater and i remember hayo miyazaki in interviews was talking about how like this he considered how the first like uh bishonen guy he'd done like he'd never all of his dudes who were leads are like workaday boys like i'm a hard-working boy like

like konan or uh uh patsu but howl is a pretty boy like he's a skinny pretty boy who's a fancy lad yeah yeah it's uh it was good and again it was it was nice to see that female perspective on hal which i was completely unaware of now i'm seeing it everywhere everyone is every woman is horny for hal when that uh towel slips off of hell oh yeah some people entered their womanhood it's true uh i saw the ballad of buster scruggs that's a great movie yeah i didn't know it was like basically the western version of tales from the crypt where it's like every story has like a twist ending and they're all about death. And I was like,

Oh, this is really cool. Why did nobody tell me also, this could have just been like five episodes and it could have been better that way. Yeah. I don't know why. I wonder if they still tried to sell it.

If Netflix tried to sell it to the Cohen says, can we just make this like five episodes of a TV show? And the Cohen said, no, it's a movie. Like, but yeah, the, no, it's a movie. But yeah, I'm still really... It's the opening and ending ones that haunt me the most. And of course, there is a canceled man in the middle of it there.

But he wasn't canceled in James Franco. Oh, you're right. Is he still getting around these days? I mean, he's not canceled enough. He's in that new Castro movie, apparently. He's going to play Castro, which also it's like, can't you hire an actor who both is cuban and not uh canceled like one of a million other actors you could hire yeah but but yeah buster scruggs i mean that that last one the stage coach who

still still scares me it's very good i liked all of them i also watched the rocketeer for the second time in my life just i was curious, like, what's this like? And it is fun, but it is basically, Joe Johnston is like the We Have Steven Spielberg at Home director because he directed this, he directed Jurassic Park 3. He makes, like, Spielberg-likes. Yeah, yeah, Hidalgo and the, that's why he was perfect. He was the first Captain America director

because, like, well, we want a save it private saving private ryan style captain america movie uh he's and he's the senior spellbearer go of that film that's right that's right it's it's interesting and it feels kind of subversive because upon watching this i'm like well he never actually ever gets good at being the rocketeer like he's fucking up constantly. He can always barely control himself. And then at the end, they're like, so, are you going to be the Rocketeer in the future? He's like, no, I'm going to make out with Jennifer Connelly. Get away from me. She's hot as hell. I'm not going to waste my time.

So there's no promise of future adventures. It's just like, no, I'm with Jennifer Connelly now. Get away from me. It's over. As a kid, I was I haven't seen that movie in full since childhood. Same here. Until now. I just remember the trailers that make it look like he's Batman and then as a kid I was so

pissed. He's like, he's in costume, full costume for maybe four minutes that movie it felt like. It's a really cool costume especially the helmet. Sawing Glorious Bastards for the first time. Or Nazi Adventures. Yeah, but this time they die. I have to wonder what

it was like to see this in 2009 thinking oh uh classic movie villains the nazis i love seeing these guys again they're they're classic and now it has a whole different like a set of baggage which is good i think where it's like i kind of like seeing them die even more than i would have in 2009 yeah no i uh it's really cool and it introduced the world of christoph waltz for like those he's so they created a role of like well we need an actor who can perfectly speak five languages and it's all the film is just about language you know and just translating and uh i think my favorite joke in the movie is when the spy looks at the americans and says i know this is stupid before i even ask it but do any of you speak any language other than english yeah a little italian yeah that's what

i figured i mean i saw a bunch of actors in the opening credits i was like oh paul rust what's he going to be like in this movie he doesn't say anything he's like in the lineup in the very beginning and i was like why did he get a credit up front he's there to look jewish i think paul rust isn't even jewish he's like at least his character makes a joke about that in that love show if somebody thinks he's jewish and he's like no i'm not jewish i i have a i have a nose that looks a certain way but i'm not jewish is what his joke is i'm just repeating his joke uh but yeah i mean the the violence that is great also the yeah the even in here even in this movie about world war ii it's really about movies it's always about movies the power of filmmaking yes yeah i also saw uh nope so no

spoilers here uh i didn't really like it and i haven't seen it yet i've liked each of his movies less and less i loved get out i liked us and i just kind of was okay with this one and i feel like it's built uh around a few very strong visual ideas but there's like never any tension uh it's far too long and it just feels kind of listless like i feel like this could have been a great like 80 minute movie but it just really really drags and i kind of don't really get it uh people it's a really polarizing movie some people really love it some people don't like it at all uh it's not as a unanimous thumbs up as uh get out was but it's i i don't think it's bad i just thought it was pretty disappointing from this from this director and writer yeah you know this the the middling stuff i've heard about it too has not

made me rush to see it i think i've heard about it too has not made me rush to see it i think i've i proposed it a couple times to my husband he's like hey let's let's wait for let's wait for streaming let's watch it then yeah yeah you're better off uh i'm almost done let's get through this ace in the hole wait till we do a radio part i talked about it then great movie and i think my lock of the week is a Mads Mikkelsen movie called Another Round. It's a, what country is this from? Denmark? Yes, Denmark.

I think it's Denmark, yeah. Very, very good character drama slash black comedy that is what I consider one of the very few refreshing looks at drinking and alcohol in movies where it's not always bad sometimes drinking makes people more fun and we need to celebrate that because the entire thing is like a bunch of middle-aged men uh read this study saying like people perform better and are easier to get along with if they have a certain blood alcohol content and they try this experiment some one guy doesn't work out very well for no spoilers there. But the rest of them, it's like the movie says, yeah, being drunk is fun. Let's do it.

Come on. And it comes from a culture where the drinking age is 16. So we're not they're not as I don't know. Tied down. Yeah. As Americans. You know, I'd heard the Sloppy Boys are pals of the Sloppy Boys podcast. They said it was really good, too.

I should I should check it out. Also, it'd heard the Sloppy Boys, our pals, the Sloppy Boys podcast. They said it was really good, too. I should check it out. Also, it would be interesting. I've never seen a Mads Mikkelsen movie where he doesn't speak English. It'd be really interesting to see him acting in his native tongue. It is, yeah. Well, like I said earlier, this is like an interesting look at drinking. It's not like, oh, the evils of drinking. Look at it push these people too far. No, it's's like drinking is fun and here's why people do it and if you don't drink

here's a good thing to watch let you know this is why people enjoy drinking and you can drink in moderation and still be an okay person and some people fucking need to have a drink because they're insufferable and uh that's basically all my stuff and then uh other stuff we've been doing and we can talk about this henry we went to the jim henson exhibit yeah at the contemporary jewish museum because frank oz is jewish by the way that's how that was their justification but hey we got to see a bunch of puppets yeah he's a jewish father catholic mother i believe who uh of were able to escape the naz Nazis through a very difficult tale

that is told at the museum. So there's a little like Oz box of stuff with his family that it gets real real. But if you then want to have some colorful fun upstairs, then you get to look at puppets. Yeah.

Hey, there is a Hitler puppet you can look at. Yes. Yeah. Can't photograph. No. Make sure of that. I was a good boy. I could have photographed the hitler puppet no one was watching i know yeah but i i we've

that place was great though yeah the jim henson exhibit like it was full of some very well maintained because uh muppets who you know muppets fall apart if you if you don't uh carefully uh keep them up to date it's like you know your sweater from 60 years ago isn't going to look so good either. And what if you put a sweater in between your hands for 70 hours in front of bright lights? You don't want to see the inside of those puppets. No, no. But yeah, well, like you get welcomed by Kermit. You get to see like the God, there was just so much. I mean, you see Wilkins and waltkins right in

front of us that was so great and the colors that they were yeah because they weren't they were in black and white in those old commercials uh everyone was posting pictures but you can check out mine my instagram is real bob servo and i have a lot of good pictures from that event no my husband i love taking a photo with uh burtonnie. I think that was one of our favorites. That was the closest to crying. I mean, if there was a Gonzo there, I was sad there were no Gonzos. Because if I had to pick my favorite Muppet who I identify with the most, it's probably Gonzo, I think. The little weirdo.

There was no Gonzo. There was no Miss Piggy either, except there were gloves. We did see Piggy's gloves. Yeah, yeah. But Bert and Ernie right up there for me, of course. I also considered it a cautionary tale walking around and thinking like, God, Jim Henson was like 10 years older than me. So go to the doctor, guys, especially if you're a multimillionaire. Don't be a Christian scientist about things.

Again, he didn't die of anything major. It was basically like a staph infection that could have easily been treated if he had gone to the doctor earlier. I mean, too, I guess I don't want to fully blame Christian Science. It also is he was a workaholic who wouldn't stop to go to the doctor. Yeah, I don't think Christian Science had anything to do with it, honestly. I think it was just like he was dying and he didn't want to go to the hospital even after coughing up blood. His wife basically had to force him to go to the hospital. His estranged wife. Yes. Yeah. No, but it was amazing to celebrate his legacy there, but also seeing, you know, when you see Frank Oz,

who's still a very vital man, who's, you know, certainly not young, he was only a few years younger than Jim when he died. And, like, yeah, it's, God, we could have had so much more time with Jim Henson and everything here himself. But that was a great afternoon. And then we went to a pizza place with some very bougie old ladies sitting at a table with us.

I didn't like that. They're being very patronizing. Yes, yeah. I should have called them old mummies. Oh, and yes, if you're going to PAX, and if you're listening to this on the free feed, you already went probably, but I will be doing a Retronauts panel

on Sunday the 4th at 2 o'clock p.m i believe that's in the sphinx theater uh sheraton level 3 uh all the information is on the retronauts uh twitter account i'm sure i'll be retweeting it as the uh panel approaches but we're talking about the history of uh video games based on tv shows it's going to be me uh jeremy of course and a friend of the show mike trucker you've heard him on these podcasts superstar guest yes and he was on our uh talking simpsons panel at pax our last our second to last live show 2019 yes and they didn't accept our one this year no i i'm sad about that maybe next year i mean i'm sure for this being the first full pax west again

or i guess it's just called Pax whatever. Anyway, it's still Pax West. Okay. It used to be Pax Prime. That's the name. But they didn't want to give it like Pax Supremacy. So they just made it like East, West, North and whatever. But yeah, you know, hopefully next year

we'll be accepted for a Talking Simpsons thing. Of course, that did free me up so I could go to a pro wrestling show in Chicago, which I will be doing. But I wish I'm there in spirit. I wish I was there. If we had a Talking Simpsons thing there, I would love to have been on that panel or at the very least attended as well. The Retronauts one.

It sounds like you're going to have a whole lot of fun. It's going to be great. I'm working on it now and I can't wait. So please, if you're going to be at PAX, check it out. And I think it will be live stream. We're we're in the big theater oh that's awesome uh i don't know the details but if you go to pax's twitch account they'll be live streaming all the panels that day so if you tune in at the right time you can find it that's sunday the 4th at 2 p.m pacific that's right pacific the best time zone even though i grew up on the east coast you've you've come to accept the pacific's the best time zone. Even though I grew up on the East Coast. You've come to accept that Pacific's the best.

I love it. The Pacific time zone means I can watch, say, a live wrestling show or the Oscars and just be like, hey, it's 8 o'clock. I have the rest of my night. It's over at 8. That's nice. It means I've lived here for almost 12 years. Whenever I call my mom, she will always say, what time is it there?

Yes. It's always so much fun for your parents to find out what time it is somewhere else uh and uh oh and we saw riff tracks live together too as long as we're saying stuff we did together live yes return of the swamp thing that was great i didn't know about that movie and it was a kind of bad movie that i love it's a bad movie that's trying to be funny but it's worse because it doesn't know how to be funny oh god so they were kind of like doing their own like trauma style movie and uh heather locklear was playing this like bugs bunny style character was always like quipping and doing wisecracks and yeah she can't that's not that's out of her range folks she can be like a stone cold bitch on melrose place she can't do

the kind of things they want her to do in swamp thing but she did have sex with that thing it's so funny to look at and just look at the guy in the swamp thing makeup and go like boy this this probably sucks for this guy and all those kids oh the terrible kid jokes yeah connor uh our friend colin lestoka lestoka wrote on that and they did a great job they i think my favorite joke was the awkwardness of them walking through the bayou and then swamp thing says you know they say the unhappy souls of the slaves of the plantation still haunt this place and then and they're luckily replied like i don't know how anybody could be unhappy living here i was like jesus yeah that got a laugh even though there was no joke yes yeah to follow i mean there was joke to followesus yeah that got a laugh even though there was no joke yes yeah

to follow i mean there was joke to follow but that line got a big laugh because like how what what this is in this movie the the riff that followed it was well i'm not going to start my dates anymore with my slave ghost story but yeah that's the that's the story of my entertainment for the past three weeks uh well i've had some some fun as well in between all of our many podcast recordings. Recently, as far as video games, I've been playing a lot of Yakuza 0. I've never had not played it before. Of Yakuza games I have completed, it's really only six and seven. So now I'm going backwards.

I played a bit of the others uh here and there but zero uh now it's fun to go backwards and i hope i i feel like after this i beat it i think i'll do kwami next just to keep going in uh a timeline order but yeah yakuza zero i'm up to that chapter five it's a lot of fun it's great yeah yeah and they'll speaking of drinking, this happens when I play Yakuza or watch The Sopranos. I see these cool, tough guys have their little whiskey glasses full of like whiskey neats on the rocks. And I'm like, I'll have that. Can whiskey be neat on the rocks?

I thought neat meant without ice. Well, okay then. On the rocks. But the whiskey can't be neat. Like, oh, this is really neat. Yeah. So yeah, it was, but I, so then I then i'm like oh i'll have some whiskey on the rocks too and uh you know one night had a little too much i was like oh time for a third glass that

that wasn't uh how much is going in your glass uh it's like a finger it's like two fingers are you using a jigger yes i use your jigger yes thank you but no thank you uh but yes i uh and i'll say too that mrs hoover is right drambuie is delicious i love what do you what do you mix that with uh just straight drambuie over ice oh that's uh it's got alcohol in it to begin with drambuie yeah drambuie is a whiskey liqueur from uh from uh i believe scotland that it's like whiskey a certain whiskey mixed with herbs and spices and honey and what's uh what whiskey are you drinking uh oh well i'm out of it now i had suntory though okay yeah i was doing because i was like oh it's japanese i gotta have so it's i go between suntory uh some nice suntory whiskey or drambuie yeah it's really nice or sometimes i

have a little baileys i won't lie like yeah which that's more of a grueling i i feel like a yakuza would look down on me for drinking bailey the secret to being a tough guy is you really got to nurse that whiskey that glass has got to last you at least 45 minutes yeah i'm not timing it uh well enough it's more like two it's more like 15 minutes i make that uh also uh you know since we got transformers coming up i and i have game pass now i saw a game i never really would have paid for transformers battlegrounds uh and it's like basically it's kids x-com and i was feeling like playing a kid's x-com uh full of transformer stuff and it was hardly like as challenging i played it on normal difficulty and it was pretty

easy if you've beaten x a recent x-com game you'll fly through this game pretty easy but it was a lot of fun i had a good time with it it's like it's it's a good six out of ten game is what i'd call it like it's a nice nice time and it's full of transformers references for the elderly uh because it's like this game clearly is made for kids large prints yeah well yeah well the audio is played very loud well in that i mean that it's a transformers game clearly made for kids but every cut scene or so well cut scene is is generous uh dialogue sequence they will say a line from the transformers 1986 movie that is just like well there's no reason to say ba weep grana weep niniba unless you're trying to excite an old man playing a transformers video game they're tossing their canes in the air right

now uh but but i if you got game pass it's an easy nine hours and also pretty easy achievements i barely was trying and ended up with 900 out of a thousand uh also i beat uh husband and i did it together beat tmnt shredder's revenge whole lot of fun if you love the old turtles games this one captures it perfectly so pretty so gorgeous like it again made for the over 40 crowd i'm waiting for a holiday sale i think i'll play it once it's like 14.99 yeah again probably wouldn't have paid full price for it but it's on game pass this is turning into a game pass you're stealing from creators henry right out of their pocket you're no worse than david zaz lab no the john i'm kidding I'm sure Microsoft

is paying them fairly to be on Game Pass and of course you know coming soon but me and Bob got some early copies Cow Bunga Collection I followed up Shredder's Revenge with more TMNT Classic it really put me in the mood for some classic TMNT

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And I'm Pikmin Blooming It Up a lot every week. I'm competing with Bob and Nina and other pals to see who can get the most steps in the weekly challenge. I'm writing letters to them so they'll count my elliptical machine steps. That's like 10,000 a day, 10,000 every trip that I'm not getting. They're not being logged properly. I know.

It's not fair, but they want to know where you're walking to, Bob, so they can share that information with some dark party, I'm sure. All right. share that information with some dark party, I'm sure. But all right, as far as watching stuff, my number one movie with a bullet I saw this month, Dragon Ball Super colon superhero. It rules. It is my favorite Dragon Ball thing I have seen in forever. And again, just like other Turtle stuff and Transformers stuff, that's because it is aimed at older millennials very directly.

Yay. The first joke of the movie, it has to do a flashback to explain the Red Ribbon Army to people who maybe don't remember that. The narrator says, some of you may be old enough to remember the Red Ribbon Army. I was like, ha ha. But here's what I love about it. I won't spoil stuff. It does all the things you think a Dragon Ball movie will do, which is there's new villains who appear.

They beat the heroes for a little bit, and then the heroes make a comeback. But it is full of continuity winks for mega fans who, like, a character will say, here's this tiny one piccolo is bad at driving a spaceship and he says sorry i never got my license a reference to one of the best one of the episodes of dbz there ever was and also like you've seen the commercials piccolo and gohan are central to this movie pic Piccolo, I love Piccolo so much. And I saw that Broly movie, the last movie they did.

They always do it where like Vegeta and Goku are the top. Like they're always the best. They're always the main guy. Sometimes you don't want to see Goku and Vegeta save the day and be the central guys. Happens a lot. Superhero doesn't do that. Superhero is also the last thing i love about it is i read that akira toriyama was more involved in this one than previous ones

it is funny it is actually about being funny and jokes and comedy and it was so great to see it in a theater with people and i saw it on imax as as well around here. And people were laughing. I was with an audience of fellow nerds who went in to say that driver's license reference happens. I am cackling like, oh, my God. Other people are laughing, too. And when the big fights happen, you're also hearing other people go like, oh, shit, man. Yeah. It was great. If you can see it in a theater, I would say do it.

It's the number one movie in America. Yeah. People it's it was great. See, if you can see it in the theater, I would say do it. It's the number one movie in America. Yeah, people are into it. I just recently got out of Dragon Ball because I was watching it for months. I was watching Dragon Ball the original from the beginning. I took a break at the beginning of an arc. Now I'm watching a lot of One Piece. So I'm more focused on the new One Piece movie that's out in Japan that will be coming here probably around the fall.

And I will make my wife see it. She would not be opposed to it, but she actually knows nothing about one piece wow and actually i am like 17 years behind on one piece so uh i know comparatively about the same i was what's going on in current one piece you know the one i saw with you uh in the theater across the street also was very uh full of references many that flew right over my head but it was a real like anniversary style celebration that movie i think was called rampage yeah uh that was also good in that it was it had a premise but then it was like you know what have a bunch of cool fights and that's it and the entire movie was just like really cool fights with no real story i also you know normally i am a subs

overdub snob but not with dragon ball like the dragon ball voices in english i have known them for so long that i actually do feel the magical nostalgia of watching them in this movie yeah yeah great uh dubs have grown on me a lot especially with uh movies where animation is really the focus uh and i really enjoyed the house moving castle dub it's uh it's christian bale as hell right before he was batman before he was like the christian bale man and uh who's the the lead actress in it i forget uh someone lady okay all right uh i yeah oh okay so then also movies at home i watched that prey movie on hulu really good really good if you're looking for just uh it it almost feels so small that it would be a TV movie or a TV show,

but conceptually it is a really cool idea of just predators have come to America or the Earth over the decades and centuries. This takes place in, I believeanche nation uh of you know early america well america but you know what i mean the new world and then a predator shows up and how does the predator do against a comanche warriors like it's it's really interesting it does sound very neat yeah it's it's a good time um oh wait back to hell really quick uh lauren bacall is the witch of the waste thank you okay uh blythe danner is like the queen or whatever and uh billy crystal is calcifer the little fire guy i remembered that feed me logs i got i i need to burn here hello he had to you know he added a couple jokes i didn't like i remember hearing that uh but i he

grew on me when i at the beginning I was like, oh, really? It's like Mike Sully walking around. Wait, is it Mike Sully? I'm thinking of the Simpsons. Mike Wazowski. I'm thinking of both the X-Files guy and the Simpsons showrunner, Mike Sully. Mike Wazowski. Mike Wazowski.

I was like, this is some Mike Wazowski energy, but this is why you hire him. Though, you know, as I recall, Miyazaki loved that lauren bacall was a voice in the movie yes yes but anyway sorry you asked i wanted to let you know oh no no thank you bob uh and other movie i saw the rise of the tmnt movie which just if you're a sakuga fan watch it for the amazing animation there's some really really good action in it like they they went above and beyond with this nickelodeon animated movie which shockingly is not on paramount plus but on netflix don't understand it yeah at least in the united states that's that's the case uh and then as far as other tv shows go speaking of paramount plus been watching a ton that new beefs and butthead just

like bob yeah i love that it's weekly i have something to look forward to every week and it is so good uh if you are skeptical i was too even after the movie i was like going into the first episode saying please don't mess this mess this up it's it's all so good and it's like it's true to the nature of the show and the character sorry sorry yeah no no no it's it's really really great and uh and yeah the and you'll hear us obviously we're talking about do the universe but i have a feeling in our do the universe podcast you'll hear us talking about the tv show a bunch too um also speaking of things that are cool i love that everything if as long as it's not on netflix is a weekly release now that's how everything should fucking be like that's how i'm watching she hulk it's a good show it's not just marvel homework i like it

but we're all hypocrites because in 2013 we were like oh all of orange is the new black at once yes what a novel idea yeah and now we're all happy and i i don't blame myself or you but yeah i i think the she all shows good some people don't love that she looks at the camera sometimes and goes like yeah well she doesn't say like uh-oh but there is she is close to saying check please type bits but it's sort of supposed to be like a bad joke it's well here's the thing the showrunner of the show jennifer gow she is the creator of pickle rick and this is a rick and morty ass show. Like in good ways and bad. Mostly good. And again, I love also the actress Tatiana Maslany.

And She-Hulk number three from 1987 or eight is one of the first comics I ever bought. And yes, it's because Spider-Man was on the cover. But it's Spider-Man and She-Hulk teaming up. I've been wanting to read the See a She-Hulk show my whole life. You know, there's straight guys who like She-Hulk. There's gay guys who like she-hulk there it's it's not mutually exclusive i and the show's been good so far i i've been enjoying it okay then what we do in the shadows love love love that show still great especially because my celebrity crush harvey guillen aka guillermo on the show he had some very very very good episodes

including one that uh was very heartfelt and he published an article accompanying it about his own coming out process i did see that yeah it was really great and and and he's also a voice on the new season of the harley quinn show harvey voices nightwing and he's so good as nightwing on that show and i've been really enjoying that harley quinn show but i never want to um compliment it on twitter now because it's like hey i know hbo max is uh making all of my friends jobless but you know this harley quinn show is pretty good maybe you should sign up for hbo max thanks hbo max uh and the same goes for the rehearsal which that just finished its first season it is really great it's really really great if you if you like nathan fielder this

is the level up from nathan for you like it's it's that dang good and uh and so yeah i i would definitely suggest the rehearsal as well and and yes of course i'm watching wrestling all the time and i'm about to go to aew's big show all in what's it called like the big door uh oh wait that was the other one the forbidden door was the one against the japanese performers which i chose not to go to because cm punk was injured well cm punk isn't injured anymore and so and also my favorite guy kenny omega he's coming back too and uh you know what they're about to put out their video game. They're finally showing off the AEW video game, which I'm crossing my fingers will be like the No Mercy virtual pro wrestling

and WCW and WL Revenge games of my childhood. It's all about reliving your childhood right now. Was it your childhood or was it the late 90s? Look, when I say childhood i do mean my 16th birthday party where we stayed up all night playing wcwnw revenge that's when you became a man yeah he has this for his 16th birthday party bob all my pals come over we stay up all night we're either playing wcwnw or revenge or we are watching irresponsible captain tyler oh that's the because i got the full i got

the full box set as a birthday present i didn't watch that until like 2001 or something oh man no i got i uh we we had a good time but it was hard to i was like come on guys let's watch let's watch episode seven let's put in the next tape and they're like no no let's i want to play more wrestling and and i agreed with them but what a good time yeah good times and oh and finally other live show i saw this month comedy bang bang live at the castor theater it's great but it also just made me sad thinking about how the castor theater is in trouble save the castor theater from itself folks support them online check out save the castor theater if you're anybody who cares about movies uh let's move on to talking simpsons comments uh saturdays

of thunder is up first and kat hegberg says i have a photo of my dad holding me as a baby in one arm and holding up a copy of fatherhood in his opposite hand with a big grin on his face and complicated feelings about my dad aside it always used to make me smile but now it just seems sad and icky i wonder how many other cherished family photos are now ruined in a similar manner yes i mean bill cosby made fools of us all he really did just thinking of the thousands of hours i spent watching the cosby show yes yeah i could have saved all that time oh god or so many just cosby related things like uh that it was like fun and kitschy to talk about the you know fat albert stuff and now it's like no no fun you can't talk about fat albert he's what uh what a horrible horrible man yes uh

and i like how the simpsons uh have outlived all of these monsters yeah yeah it's nice it's nice i mean cosby's still alive i won't knock on wood yeah i refuse to absolutely not no it's sad it's sad he's not in prison still. It's really too bad. But Joe Hodgson, also on the same episode, says, I'm often amused by the changing architecture of the Simpsons' house, and to a lesser degree, Springfield as a whole, during these early seasons. I should probably listen to the commentary on this one to see if it's mentioned,

but in all the interior Raj shots in this episode, there's a random staircase to nowhere in the background it looks like they may have accidentally swapped the basement background for the garage in places or it was just something they didn't give any thought to and someone felt that there should be stairs there i suppose they missed an opportunity to retcon it when they had the episode last season, two seasons ago, that took place in the tiny crawl space above the garage. That, I'm pretty sure, any future scenes set in the garage have not included any mystery set of stairs. That set of stairs was there in Itchy and Scratchy in Marge.

It's how Maggie was able to drop something on Homer. Yes, yeah. That's the only reason the stairs were there. Oh, no, she hits him with the mallet. It's for the mallet, yeah. It's for Maggie to crack the mallet on his head. So, yeah, the stairs are there for oh no she hits him with the mallet yeah it's for maggie to crack the mallet on his head so yeah the stairs are there for only that reason but it is supposed to be the garage like and clearly the the background designer looked at the previous episode and they also have like all his bookshelves there for all of his building stuff like yeah and as for

that episode uh that's the one that that episode was like their Christmas one that year. And it really was just Algie noticed. What haven't we done a thing about lore for? And he noticed that there's a window over the garage that's been in the opening scene the entire time. He's like, OK, let's do something about the window over the garage. We need a rumpus room episode immediately. Yes, they haven't done it before the window over the garage. Let's hear about that rumpus room some more. want to know uh moving on to half decent proposal i have curated two comments to show the different sides of john lovitz so mike mariano says uh for

my birthday years ago my family and i went to a comedy club where john lovitz was headlining the two openers were bitter young men making angry jokes about their girlfriends and the second guy singled out one of the few black audience members and we all felt uncomfortable this is bob chiming in it is such a gamble with openers like you want to trust the headliner but maybe he didn't choose them and the last time i saw stand-up comedy unfortunately was uh like almost four years ago we saw brian posain in vancouver and i was like i don't know who these guys are they were fine you don't know what you're walking into with openers yeah you know i saw mulaney here that

was the most recent stand-up i saw and he had two pretty funny openers then i believe him within a month he surprised everybody with quite an opener yes dave chapelle which i certainly would not have been happy about i would have been like i didn't i didn't pay to you know if you want to pay to see Dave Chappelle have a good time you know but I didn't want to that wasn't a value added to your to your nights uh moving on to the rest of Mike's comments uh then John Levitz came out and did a routine that was almost entirely calling himself gay and calling Kevin Nealon gay. I can't say it was very good, but Levitz's juvenile gay jokes were much better than the alternative. So, again, folks, this seems to be or was at least at one point John Levitz's only bit is calling you gay, calling his friends gay. People think he's gay.

Yeah. I mean, that's probably why he did the Harvey Fierstein character as well. He's like, see, everybody calls me gay. let's just let's have more of these gay jokes but i i suppose compared to a bunch of angry nobodies who just go like my fucking bitch girlfriend breaks up you ever have that problem or hey that black guy he's not he knows what that black the black people do this or whatever like yeah that that's uncomfortable for sure i one other opener i went to when i saw hannibal burris a year like four years ago live he had an opener who had some funny jokes about um like dragon ball z and watching dragon ball z stone i was like ah this

guy's for me that's cool and then one of his final jokes was about how maybe you should be allowed to use the R word for mentally handicapped people. And he had a very complicated reasoning for it just to want to get away. I was like, man, I'm not a fan of this joke. It sounds like a Louis C.K. bit, if anything. Yeah, pretty much. This was before the Louis C.K. canceling, I should say. I mean, yes, you also just have openers who are like, well, this is just like the With Nuts version of a famous bit I'm hearing here, like a slightly variation on it.

And also, John Lovitz is not funny, and he's not a comedian. Well, he is a funny actor. I'm not taking that away from him. He can be funny, but he's not a comedian. He's not known as a stand-up. When you really care about someone, you shout it from the mountaintops. So on behalf of Desjardins Insurance, I'm standing 20,000 feet above sea level to tell our clients that we really care about you. Home and auto insurance personalized to your needs.

Weird, I don't remember saying that part. Visit Desjardins.com slash care and get insurance that's really big on care. Did I mention that we care? Norman Benford, his John Lovitz story is, I saw John Lovitz live a week ago and he still has excellent stage presence. His act was surprisingly political, but he stayed pretty much on the fence. He definitely leans left, but seems to cling to some antiquated views on the trans and gay community. But always backtracked to just be nice.

All in all, a very funny evening. And he put on a great and lengthy show, despite suffering from a painful sounding cough the entire time. So it sounds like John Levitz is leaning left, but also dying? It sounds, I i mean he could just have road covet as most comics kind of get that's uh but no i mean that that description also sounds like a comedian over 40 is likely to say look i love everybody but pronouns and then it just turns into them they kind of hedge and go like but hey be nice to trans people but i just don't know about all these pronouns like yeah well he's a comedian over 60 so yeah oh i'm just yeah it

exacerbates with age like over 40 and then every year over 40 you are as a comedian you'll do worse and worse jokes uh about not understanding trans people even if you're a gay comic uh you will still say like look i'm gay but what's with all these like oh there's a third gender now what's the non-binary just like god chill out old rich gay people we just need a critic reboot to save john levitz's life it's uh that's uh it they should fake that's the reality show a fake critic reboot that's really about saving john levvett's life and every he thinks it's real everybody else is an actor around it's an intervention to get him to stop calling

things gay uh moving on to flaming moe's pity party says although uh thanks for helping me discover another joke in the episode despite having seen it dozens of times mo charging a nickel for the love tester means he needs to perform 200,000 tests to break even. By my rough math, that's like 550 people per day for a year. That's really good. So even 30 years later, that love tester is still, he still owes on it. That he sets it to a nickel in 1990. It should be at least be a quarter. Yeah.

That is a great joke. Yeah. It makes it much more unprofitable than I realized. That's very funny. I think I forgot to mention on that episode, if you go to the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco, it's like a giant basically airplane hangar full of vintage arcade machines. And when I say vintage, I mean going back to like the early 1900s and before.

And I swear like 20% of the machines are some variety of love tester they're all and they like spit out a little ticket with like your love horoscope and like your grip strength and everything i mean yeah a lot of them are just like very very cheap uh but i was surprised to see what a burgeoning field love testing once was you know also i i shout out to a regular in the discord and on Twitter, Brian Horton. They shared with us the version. They had some dry ice they'd gotten in a package. And so they used it and their vintage flaming mo glass from Universal Studios to make a purple and alcoholic flaming mo in that glass to show it off to us. And I really appreciate it.

It looked good. Yeah, it looked good. But also on that episode, Oscar Cardoza says, For those who might not know the history, Lean, Purple Drank, is a drink originated in Houston, which started off as cough syrup and liquor. Throughout the years, it basically became codeine, sprite, and Jolly Ranchers. And in the 90ss it became really big

in the hip-hop scene especially due to houston rapper dj screw the effects made you slowed down and contributed to the creation of chopped and screwed style of music that gj that dj screw popularized this episode is always funny to me because basically homer was essentially making lean and that was a huge thing but down here in Houston, the hood already had that recipe. So, yeah. I appreciate that, Oscar, for expanding on the, you know, we just go like, well, yeah, cough syrup plus liquor is a whole thing, isn't it? I've heard about this in the news. Some older boy told me.

Yeah. Yeah. The history of purple drank i mean when i was a teenager and uh friends of mine began robo tripping which is like chugging a bottle of robitussin back when it had that active ingredient in it that made you go insane uh i thought back to flaming mozart like oh were they all robo tripping by the way i never actually did that it just seemed too disgusting or proposition you know my friends never did that Of the baddest of the boys in my friends, they did whippets. That was their thing.

That's what happens when weed is not legal. You get all this other dangerous stuff. If we just had marijuana, we wouldn't be chugging bottles of, like, Dimetap or whatever. Yeah, yeah. But thank you, Oscar, for that story. And, you know, as long as I'm promoting other people's shows too, our guest on the episode, Tim Kalpakis, him and his band, the Sloppy Boys, are going on tour.

Unfortunately, they're coming to Oakland when me and Bob are, like, the weekend of September that we're out of town. We're both out of town and can't make it. I choose to take that personally. But they're also going to vancouver as well uh so yeah sloppy boys uh look up sloppy boys tour but they're in socal sf or oakland vancouver and i think uh like seattle or portland as well so so if you're around there and want to have a fun time with the sloppy boys uh check check it out and this uh next questions are for uh the bart wants what it wants uh comments rather and the first one is from jason

lou who says interesting to hear the gatekeeping used to identify foreigners exist elsewhere growing up in the bay area and around san francisco many natives here get bent out of shape when they hear san fran or frisco to which i as a native say who the hell cares and as a lifetime fan of the warriors i remember a time 80s 90s 2000s when we used to be a joke to the entire nba when reaching the playoffs was an unfathomable accomplishment suffice it to say the past decade has been a miracle thank goodness for steph curry uh my own opinion here i've been living in the bay area for a little over 11 years i learned pretty quickly nobody says san fran nobody says frisco

uh it's just sf yeah it's just it's the quickest way to say that mouthful and uh i guess i only get agitated when people assume i live in San Francisco when it's like a completely different city, like across a body of water. Yeah. I mean, if you live outside, it might as well all be the same. And I understand why. I mean, I don't know, like New York geography. I don't know Manhattan versus like Brooklyn or whatever. But yeah, I get a little testy.

People are like, yeah, you live in San Francisco, right? And I'm like, no, it's a 25 minute train ride. Yeah. It's very far and slightly slightly less uh rent as well yeah no I the only other thing I'd call it is the city though also like it was years and years of me living here before like nobody ever says maybe I've heard somebody say San Fran nobody says Frisco so I never even heard somebody say Frisco to be admonished that you don't say Frisco yeah I don't think I've ever heard Frisco so I never even heard somebody say Frisco to be admonished that you don't say Frisco yeah I don't think I've ever heard Frisco I spoken it was like six years into my living here I think

that I heard somebody say to somebody and you know another rule of San Francisco you don't call it Frisco and I was like wow I've I've never heard of Frisco or that rule before so uh yeah and yeah the Warriors I'll be honest I didn't know we had the warriors basketball team here in this city until they started winning yeah i didn't know either when i moved here and saw warrior stuff i was like what is that the college here and then when they won the championship i'm like oh they're they're a real team okay okay well because it's called golden state so i was like oh state so it's a college team you know well you know the golden state killer really ruined that for everyone oh that's true yeah see this but this is also what

happens like where i grew up there was not an nba team nba was not a big deal like it was arkansas didn't have one i when i lived in atlanta there were the hawks i heard about them and i moved to jacksonville no nba team either like yeah and i wasn't that into the orlando magic we had the cavaliers and a little guy named lebron played for them you mean la china no no and that that's like uh after i stopped caring about basketball is when lebron james played for the calves right well he played for the calves right yeah it was the calves and then he abandoned them for the uh the heat and won the championships there and then came back and won the gold Cavs, and then he abandoned them for the Heat and won the championships there, and then came back and won the gold for the Cavs.

And then after doing that, he's like, see, I'm going to LA. And he left again for the Lakers. So, yes, that's – and I know this thanks to doing research for Space Jam podcast. Oh, yeah, you're right. He briefly played with the Toons, the Toonstars. Yeah, the Toon Squad. Toon Squad, yeah, I knew it was bad. If you don't know that LeBron left, goes to a bunch of different teams, he briefly played with the uh the the tunes the tune stars the tune squad tune squad yeah i knew it was bad if you don't know that lebron left uh goes to a bunch of different teams throughout his

career i'd say five or five to ten jokes in space jam nude legacy don't make any sense to you but also on the bart wads what it wants brie roadie motha says i can't believe i'm about to be this much of a pedant but but at the same time, I feel a duty to be a huge geek about this. It's inaccurate to say that the CN Tower is useless as a building. While it is a dorky tourist attraction, the structure itself has a very practical use. Its antenna, which is a very important part of Toronto broadcasting and communications history. More than 30 TV and radio stations are transmitted through that antenna. Because of its height and its proximity

at the southernmost lowest point in the city, it ensures that people across the city get clear access to a lot of radio and TV. During my 10 plus years in Greektown, I could watch our major conventional stations, CBC, CTV, City, and Global, with just my antenna and no cable package. Clear as a bell.

I was always appreciative of it, but didn't realize just how great it was until I moved to another county in southern Ontario, near Lake Erie, and can't get a single conventional station, even the CBC, through my antenna. I did not add function. I thought it was just like a space needle type structure. Yeah, useless like the space needle is but turns out it actually has uh real benefits to it which that was cool you know i think i'm going to seattle soon i think maybe this time will be the time i actually go in the space needle just to say i did it yeah that i i've been thinking about that more on in general trips i did like you know i've been to Chicago a couple times now and the last time I was in Chicago I saw the bean and got a photo of or the cloud gate it's officially called and I went to a couple things but I didn't go to I don't know what it's called now but the Sears Tower you

know when we were growing up that was the big the tallest building in the world you know oh the tallest building in the world the Sears Tower it no longer is that but i would like to still just see it and so i'm finally that's one of my planned uh things i'm going to be doing in in chicago when i head there at the end of this month yeah i used to think i was too cool for touristy stuff but now i've aged into thinking it's neat yeah well you want to also you know for podcasts it helps of like oh we're talking about a city i've been to i've seen that you know you don't want to be boring and be like i didn't go anywhere i didn't see i've been in the needle yeah uh let's move on to beauty and the beast for what a cartoon movie and harry thornton says an extra cranium command fact uh this is bob stepping in

one of the directors uh i think i think both the directors their first work was a epcot thing called cranium command in case you forget uh moving back to harry's comment cranium command it was one of the earliest projects that future pixar director pete doctor worked on after cal arts and the ride's premise did help inspire his film inside out doctor's also been pitched an inside out epcot ride multiple times but he has refused to do this since it replaced journey into imagination with figment despite the poor reputation of it as an inferior version of the original journey into imagination he still wants disney to keep the figment character around as he's a huge fan of him and would hate to see his own creations overwrite a character he loves well it's just a matter of

time like that i never got to ride real journey Into Imagination. I did ride shitty current Journey, or like six years ago, Journey Into Imagination with Figment. It sucks. I love that the Figment character is this wacky 80s goofball voiced by Billy Barty, but he's not, the ride sucks. And I love Eric Idle too,

and I like hearing Eric Idle sing, but yeah, I'd honestly empty that shit out give figment either make it a new figment ride or just have figment hanging out with the inside out characters you know and instead you just have the inside out emotional merry-go-round or something no it's not the merry-go-round but it has there's something in pixar pier that's branded inside out it's bumper cars i think i think it is yeah some some like uh pier carnival style thing you can also get uh anger hot dogs like red hot angry hot dogs based on uh the the uh angry character from i enjoy the yellow snow because you can pretend you're

eating piss while you're at disney that's right uh and uh mina matsumoto hey i love her hey she's great uh the the very accomplished artist she says my first viewing of this film was much like bob's it was rolled into classroom and played on vhs except it was at japanese school so i saw the jp dubbed version the first though we didn't get through all of it i'm actually not a fan of how disney songs translate japanese uses more syllables than english so they either have to simplify the line significantly thereby losing some nuances or cram in a lot of words sung really fast and i think the and i think the result sounds awkward by the way be my guest in japanese is sung as yokuso uh which I got it yeah I've heard yes oh and an important Simpsons correction that's not Angela Lansbury slash Mrs. Potts in See My Vest but the nanny from 101

Dalmatians it's that's true it is designed she's she's got me there it is designed based on the nanny from 101 Dalmatians which I've've never seen. So I didn't catch that. Yeah, I'll be a classic. You know, I, until I was four, we had a Dalmatian pet,

a dog. And so I, of course loved 101 Dalmatians as a kid, but yeah, I think, uh, I appreciate Nina for, for correcting that one.

Thank you. And, uh, Yoko, so just means hello. Welcome. Yeah. Which,

you know, be my guest, be our guest be our guest that makes it should be you're shy it should be it should just be uh lumiere screaming as soon as bell enters i'd like that it's very nice uh let's move on to smiling friends the episode enchanted forest and bradley winton says gonna be that aussie but it's pronounced melbourne and not melbourne and if you really want to be aussie about it it's melbourne also the first time i heard of michael cusack was his animation uh damo and darren which i thoroughly recommend if you enjoyed bush world it's probably the most accurate representation of bogans in australia i

know you don't want to be a bogan and yes melbourne is pretty open to giving lots of money to the arts it's why marvel uses a lot of vfx studios from there anyway i absolutely agree with you on how this show really is a show for my generation who grew up on newgrounds flash animations but now with a lot less racism yes yeah that's an important that's an important distinction and i i'm i'm glad uh an aussie uh came in here with their knowledge of melbourne uh to help us with that i uh you know it's also funny timing that episode you know is chosen by our our premium patron a week after it came out then surprise smiling friends in brazil like they go to brazil that was so funny yes i don't want to spoil it for anybody

uh it's on the great network hbmx uh you pay them money now to watch it yeah i i'm sure you can also find it on uh you know if you just search the word even though kiss tunes doesn't exist anymore if you just search the name of a series and kiss tunes you'll find a very pop-up riddled website i'm sure that will will show you it uh also on that one uh ben young and says bob the bob the lord of the rings is too long also bob the count of monte cristo is my favorite book count of monte cristo is so long that i am currently 74 through the audiobook and there are 15 hours remaining now i did look up the word counts and dumas is still shorter than the three lord of the rings books combined but given how much of tolkien's song appendices blibbity blue we skip or skim that 100 000 words is probably going to go by quickly

but all kidding aside thanks for the pod boys now uh you're being very disingenuous ben when you're making this argument because uh i will say the kind of monte cristo originally published uh serialized so every chapter is a very digestible little chunklet with a great cliffhanger and that's why i was able to keep going i find lord of the rings very, very long and tedious. And that's just me. That's not the kind of writing I prefer. That's why I like A Count of Monte Cristo. So A Count of Monte Cristo is more like reading, you know, like every Dragon Ball chapter at once, just all in one big book. Basically, yeah.

A serialized thing switched out. Yeah, like he, I was going to make the joke before you said this, but he was writing anime. Right, right. Like he was kind of writing pop culture trash, but now it's, like, beloved literature because it aged. No, I mean, Lord of the Rings, I think, is a much denser, slower book than Count of Monte Cristo, I would bet. Yeah, even though it was written relatively more recently than it. Yeah, and Count of Monte Cristo is all about character and plot action. I don't think Lord of the Rings is really as concerned with those elements and that's what i like in i don't

like world building it just seems too easy to me characters are uh you know they're really just are long for the ride of a of a just showing and they're the plot it's really just about traveling to places and hearing poems about other things like that i was just thinking about this recently because i watched fellowship of the ring again but like the the story had always been how do you do the actual like meeting of the ring because it is so it's just like 17 guys at a at a town meeting going like well i think the ring should be this i think they make it interesting in the movie it's like reading the minutes yes of like your city council meeting uh yeah you guys uh's going to be popular no matter what I say, but I like The Hobbit a lot. I don't like the

Lord of the Rings books, and I have tried to read them, and I've got like two degrees in book reading. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, now the Lord of the Rings have been embraced by the Embracer group. That's right. Isn't that nuts that it just, like, I would have thought Amazon would get it, because they're about to put out the whole billion dollar TV

show of it, but jeez. If they acquire you, the terminology you should use is they have been embraced to a permanent end. They just they just did it for the Crystal Dynamics and all the all the idols Montreal stuff. They keep announcing things. Yeah. What will they embrace next? Will it be you? We will remain independent. I saw.

Yes. Yes. Unless the paycheck is very big and then you'll never hear from me again if it's 100 million dollars like mr burns gets offered by the germans we will do the woohoo dance yeah and then we'll say oh oh the swedish are mad at me we mock the swedish on our podcast let's move on to talky futurama a godfellas and alex says something i only now noticed about the ending god does save the monks by bender learning that you can't count on god for jack bender sets out to rescue the monks had bender not learned the lesson from god the trio might have left them for

dead the final line of god repeating that when you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all isn't just them reiterating the line, but reinforcing it with Bender's action. Now, I agree with you, Alex. I think that is a reading, but I don't think they designed the episode to have a distinct, singular reading. Well, again, it could also just be a super advanced

computer that collided with God who just thinks this stuff the whole time. I like that they leave it nice and vague, but yeah, I could totally see that. And man, man again what a gorgeous episode that was that was such a good one uh sean reilly also says about that episode one of my all-time favorite episodes i love how it has a secret physics thought experiment in it my interpretation i am a scientist but not a physicist is that there isn't really a top speed for a self-propelling spacecraft in a vacuum. And since Bender isn't accelerating initially,

the Planet Express ship would catch up to him eventually, but he actually kind of screws up his chances of being found by decelerating by throwing the swag. So they would have space balls right past them. Ah, right, when they're plaid and go right past them, yeah. I think they point out the issues with the physics on the commentary, all these nerds. Yeah, yeah, they can't not.

I mean, they're full of PhDs around that room. I'll tease that interview coming up, guys. We learned about the funny story of the nerdy way they use calculation to figure out how something is a moon or not yes uh in in the in the old futurama offices very important uh coming up next uh talking of the hill junkie business the bad episode guess what next uh this coming one is very very funny not like this one at all i don't think i said that the next september's episode is life in the fast lane bobby saga where it's a job yeah and uh in future stock for for futurama yes yeah so delete your comment you just left it you said you didn't mention the episodes we just did uh moving on to

junkie business uh very very quick comment from sean riley who says i don't know if this was intentional but twig boy is basically synonymous with straw man. And that's, it could be intentional. I like that as a secret joke by Greg Daniels by letting Mike Judge do these stories. But then let's name him Twig Boy. Wouldn't that be funny? But then he's like, ha, ha, ha. I'm pointing out it's actually a straw man for your argument. I want to believe that.

I could see Greg Daniels being that funny to be like, you know what? If we're going to just make a straw straw man let's call him twig boy like it's uh because you know obviously since our entire lives are arguing on the internet all the time everybody knows what a straw man is now but it was less famous of a of a phrase back then so i i like that sean that's a good one and finally our last comment on the episode uh for the not great episode junkie business nicholas friedrich says just a comment on the episode for the not great episode, Junkie Business. Nicholas Friedrich says, just a comment on carpal tunnels syndrome. While it has been the go-to example of a white collar disability and people have been wrongly mocked for having it. It grew in prominence during the labor movement as a disability of people working in meat packing as demonstrated in the song Carpal tunnel by john o'connor so while no one should be mocked for a disability they have this one is by no means exclusive to office workers and wow that's i did

not know that that's really i mean yeah carpal tunnel is it's mocked as like oh that's you got that from using your mouse too much boo fucking who you know oh you type you type too many letters yeah i know yeah i mean we're at work is work and uh henry and i can say like we have a luxury nerd job we're very very lucky but when we do two podcasts in a day we're done we're all the energy is expended and it's like we dug 30 ditches with our brains with our brains yeah no it uh we are better than a ditch digger no no no no bob's right though work is work and you shouldn't you shouldn't except if you're a manager okay sure there you go okay if you're in management you're scum you're not working but if you're not management work is

working and i yeah i guess our proletarian message is that like don't don't use other examples of work to denigrate another person who works of like same with certainly in the online spaces i've seen people say like oh these baristas are unionizing oh hard work tell that to a ditch digger like fuck off like and and then on top of that with uh with joe biden's better than expected but not good enough uh college credit stuff you've been seeing a lot of conservatives say like oh this is an insult to people who really work not people who went to college yeah it's sad yeah uh by the way i'm happy about that the uh making people mad that are awful and also possibly

getting ten thousand dollars yeah no no it's uh yeah you could always do more yes a democrat could always do more but it also yeah i hate you know you gotta hand you do have to hand it to biden uh he really actually did uh a thing that pissed off republicans and they have a great comeback to it that to see the white house account this is really dating this at time when we record it but to see the white house account do the cool thing that online leftists were saying about like just quote tweeting a critic of it with the amount of money they got in ppp loans for the government it's like that's the perfect dunk it really is yeah and all the hypocrites like took out the

biggest loans that were all forgiven yes for for podcasting i know for podcasting yeah do you hear it do you hear reported by our pals on choppa trap house like prager university like the most useless nothing which also is just run on free fucking handouts from the coke brothers or singular coke i guess now one of them is thankfully dead but and that they needed like oh ppp loans for like for what you think they actually employ an editor at prager you like no way i bet it's not like 20 20 year old college republican lackey is probably editing that for college credit they're not paying an editor they weren't a small business and also they shouldn't exist yeah they also shouldn't exist no no but but yes i i'm actually happy about the student loan forgiveness because i oh this is i

guess news as of uh this month i paid off all my student loans. Congrats. And it was a lot. It was not quite six figures although it was pretty close and it took about 13 years and I was paying a lot towards the end just to get it off my back but I stand to inherit from Uncle Brandon $10,000.

Nice. Maybe. Maybe. Let's see what happens. But so far like I said on Twitter. We're extending this too long. but so far like i said on twitter we're extending this too long i apologize but like i said on twitter i want to go back in time to 2008 and tell myself a joe biden is president b he's less conservative than obama and i still don't understand that no it really doesn't make sense at all i mean yeah i feel like if people had floated this idea during the obama administration and they did uh they would have been told like well that's not serious what you got we have to be we have to be fiscally

responsible blah blah blah all the all the crap you always heard like it does feel like perhaps say a the maybe bernie sanders had something to do with this his popularity he mainstreamed some more ideas that weren't getting uh much attention yes as we like to say on this podcast uh bullying always works especially when you bully politicians yeah and brandon actually listened to the bullying and i do we both thank brandon yes he did do this we'll do a sincere let's go brandon yeah let's go brandon uh but yeah that was talk to the audience thanks for listening folks we have a fun month coming up in september again we're covering uh beefs and butthead do the universe on what a cartoon movie we have new episodes of talking futurama and talking to the hill uh labor day week and uh that's on patreon and the week after that on the free feed we're

doing two interviews instead of one new talking simpsons and i forgot to mention uh little little hint here there is another special episode coming in september as well oh yeah you won't see coming and i swear we might be the only people online to ever cover this subject in as much detail as we did on a podcast we already recorded yep yeah it's it's a really good one i think you folks are really gonna like it and yeah and don't forget it's it's a real uh henry content month this one with garfield and friends followed followed by transformers the movie uh which hey thumbs up or thumbs down on the poll sure you've got the touch folks vote how you want but you know what honestly if it loses uh i'll just do it the next month guys it'll be the next poll i get to you're gonna watch it

anyways don't worry no i think you guys are gonna like it it'll be good but it's up to you to vote yes uh thanks so much for listening folks we'll see you again next month for another episode of Talk to the Audience, and we'll see you then. ... ... ... ... ...

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