# The Mail Is Here! #04 - Best Simpsons Songs, Fake Simpsons Predictions & S37 Guest Stars!

An episode of [Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/995635704), 1 Aug 2025, 56 min.

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This month we reveal all the news that came from this year's Simpsons SDCC panel, as well as discuss our favourite Simpsons songs, interesting Simpsons character designs, a potential Adam Sandler guest appearance, whether The Simpsons Movie deserves the hate from fans and more! If you enjoy this review, please consider supporting us on Patreon for as little as $1 per month at patreon.com/fourfingerdiscount Listen on Spotify - spoti.fi/4fDcSY0 Listen on Apple Podcasts - apple.co/4dgpW3Z CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS: Goin' Down To South Park - spreaker.com/show/goin-down-to-south-park The Movie Guide with Maltin & Davis - themovieguidepodcast.com The One About Friends - spreaker.com/show/the-one-about-friends-podcast Talking Seinfeld - spreaker.com/show/talking-seinfeld SpeaKing Of The Hill - spreaker.com/show/speaking-of-the-hill-a-king-of-the-hill- The Office Talk - spreaker.com/show/the-office-talk-podcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/four-finger-discount-simpsons-podcast--5828977/support.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: To bail Bail is here.
[0:03] Speaker 2: Four Finger discount Ude.
[0:21] Speaker 3: Welcome to four Finger disc at a very special mailbak
[0:23] Speaker 3: episode here for the month of July twenty twenty five.
[0:26] Speaker 1: I Dano and I am guy. Yes, we have reached
[0:28] Speaker 1: the halfway point of the year. Everything's downhill from here.
[0:32] Speaker 1: Things can only get better. I love that song. It's
[0:36] Speaker 1: not a bad song here, it's a good song. Yeah.
[0:37] Speaker 1: It's got a good positive message and you can have
[0:40] Speaker 1: fun and you can what's it? What's it one that
[0:43] Speaker 1: have a good time.
[0:46] Speaker 3: It's got a funky beat and you can dance towards Yeah, okay, yeah, Well,
[0:49] Speaker 3: we're here to answer all of your questions today. They've
[0:51] Speaker 3: been sent through to mailbag at fourth finger discount dot
[0:53] Speaker 3: com dot are you as well as the patrons who
[0:55] Speaker 3: have sent through some questions as well as run through
[0:57] Speaker 3: some Simpsons news. But before that, please, if you're watching
[0:59] Speaker 3: us on YouTube, hit that subscribe, but comment blow tell
[1:01] Speaker 3: us what you think of the show and give us
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[1:10] Speaker 3: let everyone know how much you.
[1:12] Speaker 1: Love this show? Yes, indeed, And in an effort to
[1:15] Speaker 1: boost oe algorithm or just get us more with Boom,
[1:17] Speaker 1: then we go, how's that boom and just just just
[1:20] Speaker 1: ship the recent Oh we love that kid? Yeah?
[1:26] Speaker 2: Hew?
[1:26] Speaker 1: You been anyway? How you been? It's been? You seem stressed,
[1:29] Speaker 1: you seem down. It's the year twenty twenty five. Yeah,
[1:32] Speaker 1: but how can it be stressed? Where this is the
[1:34] Speaker 1: fault mode? You know?
[1:34] Speaker 3: We got the premiere of South Park last week, which
[1:36] Speaker 3: we're going to be doing a review of the premier
[1:39] Speaker 3: episode of South Buck from season twenty seven, the Donald
[1:41] Speaker 3: Trump episode on our Going Down a South pub podcast,
[1:43] Speaker 3: So check that out if you haven't already subscribed to
[1:45] Speaker 3: YouTube channel, it'll be available in a few days. But
[1:48] Speaker 3: that came out last week. It was an absolute massive
[1:50] Speaker 3: f you to the president.
[1:53] Speaker 1: President.
[1:53] Speaker 3: That was pretty fantastic. Not that I want to get
[1:55] Speaker 3: political anything. I thought it was just the way they
[1:56] Speaker 3: did It was an hilarious takedown.
[1:58] Speaker 1: Dan, Do you don't want to get sued?
[1:59] Speaker 3: No? And we got the release of Happy gil More too,
[2:02] Speaker 3: which we're going to be doing a review as well,
[2:04] Speaker 3: exclusively on our YouTube channel, on our Patreon as well.
[2:06] Speaker 3: So look out for that, which I thought was just
[2:09] Speaker 3: a lot of fun. It's all it needed to be.
[2:11] Speaker 3: It's pretty much the best way to wrap it up.
[2:13] Speaker 1: Happy gil More too understood the assignment and delivered.
[2:16] Speaker 3: It did indeed, So yeah, look out for a happy
[2:18] Speaker 3: girl more to review. But yeah, we're be answering your
[2:20] Speaker 3: questions and running through some Simpsons news in just a
[2:23] Speaker 3: few moments. But yeah, hey you doing. You said you're
[2:24] Speaker 3: feeling a bit sad. It's twenty twenty five, but what
[2:26] Speaker 3: have you been.
[2:26] Speaker 1: Up to now? Was your weekend? My weekend was fine,
[2:29] Speaker 1: thank you very much. I spent it with Lovely Louise.
[2:32] Speaker 1: We watch it.
[2:33] Speaker 3: Can I say one thing, Louise, it's your birthday.
[2:36] Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Louis, Happy birthday, the Lovely Louise. Yes. Indeed,
[2:40] Speaker 1: it's the happiest day of the year because of the
[2:43] Speaker 1: day that she came into the world. Do you wish
[2:45] Speaker 1: her love and good will?
[2:47] Speaker 3: Wish her present Joey?
[2:48] Speaker 1: Yes? And the first kiss from this boy? Yes, just
[2:51] Speaker 1: the kiss from this way. We don't know. Sure? A kiss?
[2:53] Speaker 1: What a song?
[2:54] Speaker 3: It's a shame. It's not a vaible on Disney Plus.
[2:55] Speaker 3: But physical media, everybody start craving Dad is still out there.
[2:58] Speaker 1: Indeed, indeed, and we're going to be talking about favorite
[3:00] Speaker 1: Simpson songs as we delve deep into the mailbad that's
[3:03] Speaker 1: one of the mailbag questions. A little teas But yeah,
[3:05] Speaker 1: but no, I'm doing pretty good. We just had a
[3:07] Speaker 1: nice weekend in watch the cats absolutely decimate the ruse.
[3:12] Speaker 1: It was a decimation. It was an absolute pantsing.
[3:15] Speaker 3: Australian rules football. By the way, you doing to start
[3:19] Speaker 3: off with the question, start us with the question, shall
[3:20] Speaker 3: we Oh.
[3:20] Speaker 1: You don't want to hear about the rest of my weekend?
[3:22] Speaker 1: It was fine. We went out for lunch. Would you
[3:23] Speaker 1: have for lunch? The chicken wings? Not chicken wings, but
[3:27] Speaker 1: there was some delightful chicken with cels of their day.
[3:29] Speaker 1: There was some nice veal Ossobuco. This was a Geelong
[3:34] Speaker 1: place called the wood shed. The woodshed. No, maybe a
[3:37] Speaker 1: woodshed sounds like a place always good. No, No, that's
[3:39] Speaker 1: where it gets sent when you're being punished. Because j
[3:43] Speaker 1: the commentator used to say, take them to the woodshed.
[3:47] Speaker 1: That's where you catch a bit of a whip on
[3:49] Speaker 1: the spanking as whoop. It did not go to the woodshed,
[3:52] Speaker 1: went to the Woolshed instead, very nice place, highly recommend it.
[3:55] Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well let's get into our first question,
[3:58] Speaker 3: shall we. It's been SDCC this week, and the Simpsons
[4:02] Speaker 3: creators and riders have been at the Panels and the
[4:04] Speaker 3: Suspen Shenanigan's galore.
[4:06] Speaker 1: You're just throwing around acronyms left and right. It's d CC,
[4:10] Speaker 1: man stands for what does it stand for? Santo San
[4:14] Speaker 1: Diego Comic Con? It does?
[4:15] Speaker 3: Indeed, Yeah, I saw a clip for mac Granny at
[4:17] Speaker 3: I believe it was SDCC or some comic cond of
[4:20] Speaker 3: some kind of thing was SDCC from nineteen ninety and
[4:22] Speaker 3: it's just hims as somewhat fold out table.
[4:25] Speaker 1: Sure, it's like Marly anyone there was a post when
[4:28] Speaker 1: when do you think it really turned?
[4:30] Speaker 3: Was that Marvels andatic INDIVI MCU yeah, Big Bang Theory,
[4:33] Speaker 3: that kind of thing. Yeah, I think it was MCU.
[4:36] Speaker 3: Big Bank Theory capitalized on that, and it's just it
[4:38] Speaker 3: became okay to be a geek.
[4:40] Speaker 1: Okay, So from mid two thousands onwards two thousand and.
[4:44] Speaker 3: Eight, expense started the trend, I think, yeah.
[4:47] Speaker 1: And Spider Man and all that. But yeah, you've got
[4:49] Speaker 1: two thousand and eight you've got Dark Knight nine man.
[4:51] Speaker 1: So yeah, that's I'd say that's when The Tide was
[4:54] Speaker 1: a tournament because.
[4:54] Speaker 3: When Phantom Menace came out, you were still a lusier
[4:56] Speaker 3: if you were excited for it. You know, it's like
[4:58] Speaker 3: Star Wars, like Star War and then by the time
[5:01] Speaker 3: the third one came out, everyone's like, oh, it's not.
[5:03] Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good. Yes, Musta was not Musda was.
[5:09] Speaker 3: But this first question, this got sent through to mailbag
[5:12] Speaker 3: at four finger discount dot com dot au and the
[5:15] Speaker 3: question is this one's from Travis Henderson to celebrate we're
[5:20] Speaker 3: touching on Happy gil More two before to celebrate the
[5:22] Speaker 3: release of Happy gil Moore to which three Simpsons characters
[5:25] Speaker 3: would you love to play a round of golf with? Okay,
[5:28] Speaker 3: there's two parts of this question.
[5:29] Speaker 1: We'll get to.
[5:30] Speaker 3: That's the first part, which three characters would be fun
[5:32] Speaker 3: to play a game of golf with? So it's gonna
[5:34] Speaker 3: be people that are fun to be with but aren't
[5:36] Speaker 3: going to beat you, right. I feel like Lenny would
[5:39] Speaker 3: be one that you'd want to be there because he's
[5:40] Speaker 3: just Lenny would be supportive.
[5:42] Speaker 1: If you did a bad shit, he'd goes don't worry
[5:43] Speaker 1: about it. But do you want to say your others?
[5:47] Speaker 1: Or shall I go?
[5:48] Speaker 3: Oh? I hadn't thought about So I'm gonna go Lenny,
[5:50] Speaker 3: I think because yeah, as I said, I don't want
[5:53] Speaker 3: to be defeated. I'm not a duff Man. He'd bring
[5:55] Speaker 3: he'd bring the drinks, okadaf Man, Lenny, I'm going all
[5:58] Speaker 3: the bar fly.
[6:01] Speaker 1: A very happy Gilmour approach to golfing. Yeah, I gotta say, yeah,
[6:05] Speaker 1: you're making it a fun round.
[6:06] Speaker 3: Yeah. And finally I think of a third one where
[6:09] Speaker 3: you tell me you've clearly got notes.
[6:10] Speaker 1: Yeah. When I say notes, I have three names written. Yeah.
[6:14] Speaker 1: I'll try to expand on that, but I guess I
[6:16] Speaker 1: was thinking more of like an old school country club
[6:19] Speaker 1: golf kind of round Kent Brockman style. Well, yeah, maybe
[6:23] Speaker 1: i'll cross one of these. Actually, yeah, I'm going to
[6:25] Speaker 1: cross out one of these names. Sorry, doctor Hibbitt, because
[6:28] Speaker 1: doctors and golf seem to go together like peaches and cream.
[6:31] Speaker 1: Like he coaching the.
[6:31] Speaker 3: Team, he's been in several episodes where he was playing golf. Yeah,
[6:34] Speaker 3: so that's probably why I was thinking that. Do you
[6:37] Speaker 3: do you know what I what I was saying when
[6:39] Speaker 3: I said, go together like peaches and cream.
[6:40] Speaker 1: Like a coach and a team. I don't have you
[6:42] Speaker 1: ever heard of a television show called perfect match?
[6:45] Speaker 3: I have, yeah, in the Dating show.
[6:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dating show. Yeah, they had the theme song
[6:49] Speaker 1: was like like teachers and cream, like a golf and
[6:52] Speaker 1: so and so it's a perfect match. We were all
[6:54] Speaker 1: singing it back and there. I wasn't conceived yet, that's
[6:59] Speaker 1: what doctor Hibbitt. Sorry, you've been scratched from this one. Instead,
[7:04] Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with ken Brock, but I think he'd
[7:05] Speaker 1: be fun to sort of do the rams with.
[7:08] Speaker 3: You mock the other golfers who are bad too, and
[7:10] Speaker 3: you have and you.
[7:10] Speaker 1: Do it in newsreader voice. It's just there. There's just there.
[7:13] Speaker 1: This guys suck. I mean it has to touch the ear.
[7:15] Speaker 1: Of course. Now we mentioned the pres and dj T
[7:21] Speaker 1: a little earlier. Who well, yeah, over in Scotland playing
[7:25] Speaker 1: golf and.
[7:25] Speaker 3: I've got to make a meme, say Simpsons predicted it
[7:27] Speaker 3: with Smithers and.
[7:28] Speaker 1: Just vagrantly yes, disregarding the rules of the links. Yeah.
[7:37] Speaker 1: So with that in mind, I think I'd like to
[7:39] Speaker 1: have a round with mister Burns. I think, certainly I
[7:41] Speaker 1: just beat the pants off that dad. But it'll be
[7:44] Speaker 1: interesting to see what kind of shenanigans he would get
[7:47] Speaker 1: up to on the course.
[7:48] Speaker 3: Would you beat the pants off of him knowing?
[7:52] Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm playing the long game here. And
[7:54] Speaker 1: I don't just mean golf. I mean like financially and
[7:56] Speaker 1: psychologically and all that. It's like I might let this
[7:59] Speaker 1: guy win. Yeah, I'm a suck up from way back. Yeah,
[8:02] Speaker 1: so it's like, good shot, sir.
[8:04] Speaker 3: I feel you're gonna say there's more to it. But
[8:05] Speaker 3: when I say take the pants off him financial games, that's.
[8:10] Speaker 1: The nineteenth hole. And when I say whole, I mean
[8:13] Speaker 1: nineteenth hole. And I know I think Rainy A. Wolf
[8:16] Speaker 1: Castle would be fun to play golf with the feeling
[8:19] Speaker 1: he would be, you know, showing off those guns. But
[8:21] Speaker 1: I don't think he necessarily had the skill. I'd love
[8:23] Speaker 1: to see him throw a tantrum. Yeah, I think you'd
[8:25] Speaker 1: have a power drive, but it'd be his hit to
[8:27] Speaker 1: miss ratio would be like one in four or something like,
[8:32] Speaker 1: and other times he'd be like shank or just miss.
[8:35] Speaker 3: I'm going to pick a scrapper like Willy, who's someone
[8:37] Speaker 3: who can intimidate people who are slow in front of
[8:38] Speaker 3: us and say.
[8:39] Speaker 1: Get out of the way and stand back. Let's let's
[8:41] Speaker 1: go go through. Willy does seem like the Scottish are
[8:44] Speaker 1: very big on golf. Apparently some of the best courses
[8:46] Speaker 1: in the world can be found in Scotland. Okay, like
[8:49] Speaker 1: Glenn Eel's and s Andrew's fantastic places. I've got to
[8:52] Speaker 1: see them. When I was a little fellow and my
[8:53] Speaker 1: folks were big on golf. But I think golf was
[8:56] Speaker 1: also kind of a scrapper's game in a lot of ways.
[8:58] Speaker 1: I mean, you've got yeah, and he said you're happy
[9:01] Speaker 1: Gilmore types he shooters and you got his happies. That's correct.
[9:04] Speaker 1: So yeah, I think Willie would be actually quite appropriate.
[9:06] Speaker 1: He would be someone who's just an old school he's
[9:10] Speaker 1: probably rough rider golfer.
[9:12] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't take any crap. But yeah, thank
[9:15] Speaker 3: you Travis for that question. Also two parts, so he's
[9:18] Speaker 3: The other part for his question was also why hasn't
[9:21] Speaker 3: Adam Sandler ever appeared on The Simpsons? He seems like
[9:24] Speaker 3: the perfect voice with his Sandler voices, like are you you?
[9:28] Speaker 1: What would I roll?
[9:29] Speaker 3: How could you get Adam Sounder onto the Simpsons if
[9:31] Speaker 3: he was on the Simpsons. What role would he play.
[9:33] Speaker 3: I'm thinking he plays we Always Got the new Kid.
[9:36] Speaker 3: I'm thinking he plays a kid who comes into school,
[9:38] Speaker 3: maybe he gets skipped up or gets kept down, maybe
[9:41] Speaker 3: a kid playing gets kept down from fourth grade or whatever.
[9:45] Speaker 3: And he's funny at them, but he becomes the class
[9:48] Speaker 3: clown and Bart gets annoyed that he's stealing his thunder
[9:51] Speaker 3: not bad.
[9:51] Speaker 1: I kind of liked the idea of him as like
[9:54] Speaker 1: a relative of one of the.
[9:55] Speaker 3: Bullies, okay, or saying, and what happens there, well, you
[10:00] Speaker 3: put him on the spot. I can't see Samla being
[10:01] Speaker 3: a bully.
[10:03] Speaker 1: No, maybe he's like he was a bully, but now
[10:05] Speaker 1: he's reformed, and maybe he's been away a juvie or something,
[10:10] Speaker 1: or even been away at prison or whatever. And he
[10:11] Speaker 1: comes back and he's kind of like doing a bit
[10:13] Speaker 1: of a scared straight on the bullies, like believe me,
[10:16] Speaker 1: you don't want to be behind bus sad voice, yes indeed,
[10:22] Speaker 1: and tries to teach the bullies to tries to steer
[10:24] Speaker 1: them on the right track. But at the same time,
[10:25] Speaker 1: maybe he's got that inner bully still within him that
[10:27] Speaker 1: wants to come to the service. Maybe Bart's will to
[10:30] Speaker 1: see it, wants to make fun of him the whole time,
[10:33] Speaker 1: and by the end the rage Sandler comes out.
[10:37] Speaker 3: I'm thinking of a fun fourth wall breaking gag. Would
[10:40] Speaker 3: be one of the characters mentioned him mayet list It
[10:42] Speaker 3: says Timothy Chalamagne or whatever. Do you know who he is?
[10:44] Speaker 3: And look at the screen. It's like, don't they say it?
[10:47] Speaker 3: Everyone just knows everyone. I think he would be a
[10:52] Speaker 3: fun guest star. I think, Adam sam, why wouldn't you
[10:54] Speaker 3: want to have Sandler in the.
[10:54] Speaker 1: Studio with you? Exactly right?
[10:56] Speaker 3: Yeah, gets Sandler on the Simpsons. Maybe he can even
[10:58] Speaker 3: do a golf parody of some kind. Can you have
[11:01] Speaker 3: a treos of horror themed around golf killing? I know
[11:05] Speaker 3: we'll work it out, but yeah, Adam sound on the
[11:07] Speaker 3: Simpsons would be fun indeed. But I did send you
[11:10] Speaker 3: some news articles, so sure did.
[11:11] Speaker 1: Yes. So what's been happening with SDCC they've been I
[11:15] Speaker 1: noticed their panel was very political. Yes, they are anti Trump.
[11:21] Speaker 3: They are to the point where Matt Granning said the
[11:23] Speaker 3: Simpsons will end when Trump dies or something.
[11:25] Speaker 1: I didn't quite get that joke, more like dancing in
[11:27] Speaker 1: the streets thinking or.
[11:29] Speaker 3: Well because because Matt Groening said, honestly thought thirty six
[11:32] Speaker 3: was where we're going to end it, but no, there's
[11:33] Speaker 3: no end in sight. We're going to keep going. We're
[11:36] Speaker 3: going to keep going until somebody dies, when you know
[11:38] Speaker 3: who dies, and it's like, oh, that's not a very
[11:41] Speaker 3: nice to day positive, I mean, as negative as people
[11:44] Speaker 3: might think about Donald Trump. Don't make jokes about that.
[11:49] Speaker 1: You do that, you're going to break up Tenacious D. Yeah. Yeah,
[11:54] Speaker 1: they never got back together. Did that that was terrible? No? No,
[11:56] Speaker 1: well not yet at least. I mean there's still time.
[11:58] Speaker 3: But they also discussed how recently there was and this
[12:02] Speaker 3: is the thing with animation, it's easy to ai and
[12:05] Speaker 3: fake it. When the CEO got caught cheating on his
[12:08] Speaker 3: wife at the Coldplay concept, there was a fake screenshot
[12:11] Speaker 3: of a Simpsons episode saying the Simpsons predicted it and
[12:14] Speaker 3: it was the guy. It literally looked like just the
[12:16] Speaker 3: same scene. But I think they're looking through like a
[12:17] Speaker 3: submarine window or something on and outside the window. I
[12:20] Speaker 3: don't know what it was anyway, I've seen one with
[12:23] Speaker 3: Skinner and Krabobol. I do know that this was just
[12:25] Speaker 3: it looked like people made mockery ones. Yeah, and people
[12:29] Speaker 3: and news websites didn't fact check it. That has went
[12:32] Speaker 3: oh my god, they've done it again, and all these
[12:34] Speaker 3: news websites shared it, and Matt someone's just kind of
[12:36] Speaker 3: gone to say, look, can we please get back to
[12:39] Speaker 3: the era where people fact checked things, because yes, you
[12:42] Speaker 3: might have seen it shared on social media. Make sure
[12:45] Speaker 3: we did it, because.
[12:45] Speaker 1: It reflects poorly on us as well, because like, why
[12:47] Speaker 1: would we this makes no sense. Why would we have
[12:50] Speaker 1: two carters exactly the same hugging the same way on
[12:53] Speaker 1: a jumbo tron. It's just stupidity.
[12:55] Speaker 3: But news websites now want to be the first ones
[12:57] Speaker 3: to say, oh my god, the Simpsons predicted it.
[12:59] Speaker 1: Yeah, people, just remember what does it? Don't believe none
[13:03] Speaker 1: of what you see and only half of what you're here,
[13:04] Speaker 1: all the other way around either way. Yeah, don't necessarily
[13:07] Speaker 1: trust your eyes and ears. No, do a little research.
[13:09] Speaker 3: But they did reveal some upcoming guests for season thirty seven,
[13:13] Speaker 3: some of them you're.
[13:13] Speaker 1: Going to really like. Indeed, Yeah, some really good names
[13:16] Speaker 1: came through.
[13:17] Speaker 3: We've got Kieran Culkin, Viola Davis. I'm apologize, I don't
[13:21] Speaker 3: know who Viola Davis is, Oscar.
[13:23] Speaker 1: Winner, Fantastic Actor, indeed making a bit of a pivot
[13:27] Speaker 1: into action movie roles in her in her late fifties
[13:30] Speaker 1: early sixties, she was in a movie recently called G
[13:33] Speaker 1: twenty where she played the American President.
[13:35] Speaker 3: As soon as he said Oscar, I'm like, I guarantee
[13:37] Speaker 3: I know who she is now and other than I'm like, yeah,
[13:38] Speaker 3: I know she is yeah.
[13:39] Speaker 1: Yah, yeah, the star of the Woman King. Yeah.
[13:41] Speaker 3: But I saw her in Fences. I believe Bence is
[13:45] Speaker 3: good movie.
[13:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, And she was the other star of I think
[13:47] Speaker 1: it's the TV series How to Get Away with Murder? Okay, Yeah,
[13:50] Speaker 1: been working for ages, broke through now everywhere. Yeah. Virala
[13:55] Speaker 1: Davis absolutely shing a bell, string of bell it. Driselle
[13:58] Speaker 1: was going to be in there, knuckles for the kids
[13:59] Speaker 1: out there. Fantastic voice actor. Did you did you see
[14:02] Speaker 1: the John Favreau's redoing of the Jungle Book? I did,
[14:06] Speaker 1: Holly literally washed it like yesterday. Yeah. And he's Sheer
[14:10] Speaker 1: Khan is he? Yeah, he's probably the best voice performance
[14:13] Speaker 1: in it. And you've got great voice, great voices in it,
[14:16] Speaker 1: like Bill Murray and Christoph Walkan and all that kind
[14:18] Speaker 1: of stuff. Blue isn't Heah? Yeah? But it resemble with
[14:22] Speaker 1: Marvelous in it. So yeah, anytime you can hear that
[14:24] Speaker 1: man's dulcet tones, well it's only second to hearing you know,
[14:27] Speaker 1: guy Davis speak exactly. Yeah. Who else we got? We
[14:30] Speaker 1: got a gentleman named Cole Escola. He's very big on
[14:34] Speaker 1: Broadway at the moment and a play called Oh Mary.
[14:36] Speaker 1: He does a really good bit. I don't know if
[14:38] Speaker 1: it's with Seth. It might be with Colbert, who we
[14:40] Speaker 1: can talk about a little later, because yeah, he's always
[14:43] Speaker 1: in the news. I'm just gonna say it's Cola. Scola
[14:46] Speaker 1: is very gay, but he and when he appears on
[14:49] Speaker 1: Colbert he is dressed quite flamboyantly. He says, I really
[14:52] Speaker 1: want to play straight characters. I've been working on a
[14:54] Speaker 1: straight character and he does the best bro voice. We
[14:56] Speaker 1: should try and find this big, but it's very, very funny,
[14:59] Speaker 1: so I'm looking for to what he does. You got
[15:01] Speaker 1: an actor named Adam Paley. He was on a show
[15:03] Speaker 1: called Happy Endings. That's a bit of a I would
[15:06] Speaker 1: say a friend's knockoff. But you know how you had
[15:08] Speaker 1: friends and then it's like, well, what's going to be
[15:10] Speaker 1: the next friends? It might be how I met your mother?
[15:12] Speaker 1: It might be. I've tried and tried. They've certainly tried
[15:14] Speaker 1: Happy Endings. I think went for a few seasons and
[15:18] Speaker 1: it's got a real cult following, and he's a cast
[15:19] Speaker 1: member that is really really good. Tell me get set
[15:21] Speaker 1: in the message parlor. That's just why would you say that,
[15:25] Speaker 1: Why would you alienate the You're just smutty. They's just
[15:30] Speaker 1: met father and son, Brendan and Dominall Gleason. Yeah, that'll
[15:34] Speaker 1: be good Danny beauty from community. And biggest and best
[15:38] Speaker 1: news possibly the return of Albert Brooks.
[15:40] Speaker 3: He's back, maybe doing somehow. I did a I was
[15:43] Speaker 3: on the Simpsons Index recently just as a quick, little
[15:46] Speaker 3: like last minute thing. They said, you want to come on,
[15:47] Speaker 3: I guess is pulled down. I was like shot And
[15:49] Speaker 3: I had to review a season thirty two episode and
[15:51] Speaker 3: had Albert Brooks and you can just tell again there's
[15:54] Speaker 3: got Albert Brooks in the character meant nothing to the episode.
[15:56] Speaker 3: It's like, can you just fill two minutes of TV
[15:58] Speaker 3: for us?
[15:59] Speaker 1: Please? Please? Rift That's literally all it was.
[16:01] Speaker 3: So hopefully we get more of that because I'm not
[16:03] Speaker 3: going to say no, because Albert Brooks is hilarious. Also,
[16:05] Speaker 3: Glenn howardon, it's always funny. And also Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton,
[16:09] Speaker 3: I didn't see that one. Also during the panel I'm
[16:12] Speaker 3: quoting here, Simpsons producers shared a sneak preview of one
[16:15] Speaker 3: of this year's Treehouse of Horror Halloween segments. Idris Elber,
[16:18] Speaker 3: Michael Keaton, and Viola Davis will be guest starring on
[16:21] Speaker 3: that episode. Yeah, and an opening from guest animators Stan
[16:24] Speaker 3: Kelly from the Onion from Onion, Yes. I feel like
[16:27] Speaker 3: the Trios of Horror episodes of The Simpsons now in
[16:30] Speaker 3: modern times are really the only ones.
[16:31] Speaker 1: People talk about.
[16:33] Speaker 3: A lot of people talked about this season Bart's birthday
[16:35] Speaker 3: because they started off like it was going to be
[16:36] Speaker 3: the end of the Simpsons, and news websites just remembered
[16:38] Speaker 3: it saying the Simpsons just they're finale, when it's like
[16:41] Speaker 3: it wasn't their finale. Treos of Horror gets people talking.
[16:45] Speaker 3: And then the last one, the finale, the actual finale
[16:47] Speaker 3: of the season, was where Marge died, but she didn't
[16:50] Speaker 3: really die. Yes, So, unless unless they can get some
[16:53] Speaker 3: clickbait out of it, people don't talk about Simpsons anymore.
[16:56] Speaker 3: And it's a shame, but it's just where we are
[16:57] Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five. But the treos of horror episodes
[16:59] Speaker 3: see to always get people talking at least oh yeah,
[17:02] Speaker 3: absolute because they're the most fun.
[17:04] Speaker 1: I think. Now, I think people are I would say people.
[17:06] Speaker 3: Are over to seeing basic Simpsons stories, but they just
[17:10] Speaker 3: want to see the Simpsons parodys shit now, I think, right, I.
[17:12] Speaker 1: Think so, yeah, yeah, which is hopefully they can sort
[17:15] Speaker 1: of steer it back in the direction of you know,
[17:18] Speaker 1: this is a story about a family, about a community,
[17:19] Speaker 1: about a town, and all that kind of stuff, and
[17:23] Speaker 1: I don't know, reconnect with the audiences that way, as
[17:25] Speaker 1: opposed to just did a little did do do? And
[17:28] Speaker 1: now in this in this corner, we have so and so.
[17:30] Speaker 1: Now we have Michael Keaton, Now we have by all
[17:32] Speaker 1: the Davis. Now we have so and so. Get back
[17:34] Speaker 1: to the basics, baby, get back to good soul of storytelling. Yeah,
[17:37] Speaker 1: old time hockey.
[17:40] Speaker 3: I will say this though, my kids, who are now
[17:43] Speaker 3: seven and four nearly five, they want to watch the
[17:46] Speaker 3: Simpsons quite a lot now, but they want to watch
[17:49] Speaker 3: modern Simpsons. They like the old Simpsons. I put on,
[17:52] Speaker 3: they sit down and enjoy it. But if they're in
[17:54] Speaker 3: charge of the remote control. They're picking new Simpsons, So
[17:57] Speaker 3: you know what that tells me, don't give the kids
[17:58] Speaker 3: a remote. Of course that that and we're just getting
[18:03] Speaker 3: old and the Simpsons we're complaining about. It's because it's
[18:05] Speaker 3: not made for us anymore.
[18:06] Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we've said this in the past, We'll continue
[18:08] Speaker 1: to say it again. I'm gonna keep saying to like
[18:10] Speaker 1: kill over and then they'll be dancing in the streets.
[18:15] Speaker 3: But yeah, so that's a bit of news there for
[18:17] Speaker 3: season thirty seven. But out of SDCC, Yeah, there's mean
[18:20] Speaker 3: more Simpsons news in a few moments. But let's get
[18:23] Speaker 3: to another question. This one comes from John Looney. If
[18:27] Speaker 3: you were able to use a Simpsons related vehicle for
[18:30] Speaker 3: your daily driver, what vehicle would you choose? I personally
[18:33] Speaker 3: would take Little Bandit, which is Snake's car Premium Dude,
[18:37] Speaker 3: because muscle cars are badass, as he says.
[18:39] Speaker 1: I agree, car. I agree with John on this point.
[18:43] Speaker 1: I had this the other day. I mean, sorry, I
[18:46] Speaker 1: don't want to be all gloomier like sadness is the
[18:48] Speaker 1: default mode these days, but I was driving down the street.
[18:52] Speaker 1: Keep mars out the cars, as you should do when
[18:54] Speaker 1: you're driving. They're all the same they're all the same.
[18:56] Speaker 1: They're all white, gray, or black, and they all look
[18:58] Speaker 1: the same. Yeah. It made me a little blue yeah,
[19:03] Speaker 1: which is not a color you can find in cars.
[19:05] Speaker 3: Then I said it the other day and Nicoly goes,
[19:06] Speaker 3: are you just getting old? I was like, look though,
[19:08] Speaker 3: and she looked and she's like, oh Christ, you're right.
[19:11] Speaker 1: They're all the same.
[19:12] Speaker 3: They're gray, like there are some variants, but she's like,
[19:14] Speaker 3: they're majority gray, white or black and they all look
[19:17] Speaker 3: the same.
[19:17] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very much. So. So yeah, in thinking about
[19:21] Speaker 1: your question, John, I was muscle car. Absolutely. I was
[19:24] Speaker 1: thinking Homer's muscle car from my married Marge, the one
[19:26] Speaker 1: he had to give up.
[19:28] Speaker 3: Which one's that.
[19:29] Speaker 1: It's the one that had the Disco Sucks sticker on
[19:31] Speaker 1: it and it had like the chain mail steering wheel.
[19:35] Speaker 1: He had to give up a car, didn't he. I'm
[19:36] Speaker 1: pretty sure that he had. He had like his muscle car.
[19:39] Speaker 1: And then he realizes Marge is pregnant and he's like, well,
[19:41] Speaker 1: this isn't practical anymore. I'm gonna have to go seventy
[19:44] Speaker 1: sports cars at the one. I think, so yeah, oh
[19:46] Speaker 1: I see it. Yeah, shit with no recuction of the
[19:49] Speaker 1: car at all, because Honestly, it kind of feels like,
[19:52] Speaker 1: again not wanting to be that person who's like everything
[19:54] Speaker 1: was better in the past, but it does feel like
[19:56] Speaker 1: for cars at least, and maybe for a lot of things,
[19:58] Speaker 1: like the seventies was the last gasp of form and function.
[20:02] Speaker 1: This was a car that had some real grunts, some
[20:04] Speaker 1: real oomph under the hood, but also like had Curbs, Baby, Yeah,
[20:10] Speaker 1: Tivin and Simpsons Hit and Run. How did I not
[20:11] Speaker 1: remember this? Yeah, dude, So yeah, that's the kind of
[20:15] Speaker 1: car that I would like. I mean, I was. I've
[20:17] Speaker 1: never really been a huge car guy. I mean neither.
[20:19] Speaker 1: It just gets me from A to B and that's fine,
[20:21] Speaker 1: you know, as long as you know the tires don't
[20:23] Speaker 1: go flat and don't know the engine turns over when
[20:25] Speaker 1: you turn the key, that's all. I'm interesting. Or maybe
[20:27] Speaker 1: even push the button because apparently coached them he had keys.
[20:31] Speaker 1: That scares me.
[20:33] Speaker 3: Well, a friend of ours lost their phone the other
[20:35] Speaker 3: day and they go, I can't turn my car on. Now,
[20:37] Speaker 3: I went, They've got a Tesla. They've got a Tesla
[20:39] Speaker 3: and they can only turn their phone if the doors
[20:41] Speaker 3: only open up, if they have their phone Bluetooth.
[20:43] Speaker 1: I was I was like, what, what's the like we
[20:48] Speaker 1: lost control somewhere. Yeah.
[20:51] Speaker 3: Anyway, I like the idea of Chester lamp Wick's rocket
[20:56] Speaker 3: car that he buys when he sues Itching and Scratchy. Right,
[20:59] Speaker 3: but I've placed sabs is hit and run and that
[21:01] Speaker 3: car explodes after one hit, so it's not a very
[21:04] Speaker 3: strong vehicle for pure speed. The rocker car a lot
[21:08] Speaker 3: of fun. I'm gonna maybe go with. I think it'd
[21:12] Speaker 3: be good to drive around in the snow in the
[21:14] Speaker 3: mister Plower or the plower King.
[21:16] Speaker 1: I must have been. I was thinking of something that
[21:17] Speaker 1: had a bit of size to it, a bit of girth,
[21:20] Speaker 1: and when people yeah, yeah, yeah, and when people when
[21:22] Speaker 1: you drove down the street, people acknowledge you just the
[21:24] Speaker 1: plower King or it's mister plow. You know. How do
[21:27] Speaker 1: you feel when you see someone who's got like advertising
[21:30] Speaker 1: in their cars either are like a soul trade or something.
[21:32] Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind it if it's a ute
[21:34] Speaker 1: or something like that. When it's oh, come unblock your
[21:38] Speaker 1: drains or you know, or I'm a sparky and I'm
[21:40] Speaker 1: sort of advertising myself. Cool, yeah, exactly. If it's more
[21:45] Speaker 1: like a service industry, your power guy here is, you know,
[21:47] Speaker 1: entering the celebricy game. I wouldn't want to be driving
[21:50] Speaker 1: around a car that said Kay Davie a celebrant and sad.
[21:53] Speaker 1: I mean, even though it's probably as good advertising. Were
[21:55] Speaker 1: you like this? Yeah, there's your thumb alphab.
[22:01] Speaker 3: Yes, people out there who are sitting there slamming down
[22:03] Speaker 3: their keyboards saying, how do you possibly not say the
[22:06] Speaker 3: canyon Era yet? Yes, the Canyonary would be very fun
[22:08] Speaker 3: to drive, Like I.
[22:11] Speaker 1: Said, like mister Plowermobile Barnie's answer to that, Yes, indeed,
[22:16] Speaker 1: canyon Neero. Yeah, I probably missung that, but I mean,
[22:19] Speaker 1: you know.
[22:19] Speaker 3: They'd be a tease for one of the Simpsons songs
[22:21] Speaker 3: a little bit later.
[22:22] Speaker 1: Maybe that's a great thing.
[22:25] Speaker 3: But yeah, mister Plower the ployer king that they'd be fine,
[22:27] Speaker 3: I reckon cane Era as well. Four figure discount is
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[23:00] Speaker 3: Mike Stanton, with the Simpsons Movie celebrating its eighteenth anniversary
[23:04] Speaker 3: this week. Congratulations to all those who wor.
[23:07] Speaker 1: In the film.
[23:08] Speaker 3: Do you think the film deserves the hate it receives
[23:10] Speaker 3: from some fans? I personally really enjoy it and watch
[23:13] Speaker 3: it at least once a year. Cheers for the podcast. Hey,
[23:16] Speaker 3: thanks very much, Thank you, Mike. Does the Simpsons Movie
[23:18] Speaker 3: deserve the hate to receipts from fans? Of course, it
[23:20] Speaker 3: doesn't deserve hate. I don't think it deserves hate. I mean, look,
[23:23] Speaker 3: everyone's entitled their opinion or als. If it doesn't work
[23:25] Speaker 3: for you, it doesn't work for you, Ye'll be sure
[23:27] Speaker 3: to back up your opinion with the actual opinions. I
[23:32] Speaker 3: do think the film came out ten years too late.
[23:34] Speaker 3: I think it really If the film came out during
[23:37] Speaker 3: that nineties era, everyone who grew up with the show
[23:40] Speaker 3: would have that nostalgia connection to the movie. And even
[23:42] Speaker 3: if it had flaws like the Simpsons movie does, they
[23:45] Speaker 3: would forgive them more than they do. Because it came
[23:47] Speaker 3: out in season eighteen.
[23:48] Speaker 1: I think you're right in that regard. Coming out at
[23:50] Speaker 1: the time that it did. I won't say it necessarily
[23:53] Speaker 1: felt like a cash grab, but it also didn't necessarily
[23:55] Speaker 1: feel like a celebration of the Simpsons and Springfield and
[23:58] Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I kind of think it did,
[24:01] Speaker 1: but yeah, I can agree. But yeah, if it came
[24:03] Speaker 1: out in the midst of what we traditionally call the
[24:06] Speaker 1: Vintage Simpsons or the Golden Era or something like that,
[24:08] Speaker 1: it would have been, oh my god, this is bursting
[24:11] Speaker 1: with such creativity that we can't limit it to how
[24:15] Speaker 1: many episodes of season or something like that. We've got
[24:17] Speaker 1: to go. We've got to give you more. We've got
[24:19] Speaker 1: so many ideas and so much that we want to express.
[24:22] Speaker 1: I think when you've got a movie that's based on
[24:24] Speaker 1: a TV series, and I'm not talking about like a
[24:27] Speaker 1: TV series that it was on TV for a while,
[24:30] Speaker 1: off the air for a couple of years, people start
[24:31] Speaker 1: thinking about it, let's do a big screen reboot, thinking
[24:34] Speaker 1: like The Fugitive or Mission Impossible or something like that.
[24:36] Speaker 1: I see it yeah, but when you're doing something, it's
[24:39] Speaker 1: like this show is still on the air, but we're
[24:40] Speaker 1: also going to do a movie. Like, you're better be
[24:43] Speaker 1: very careful. I think you really need that gap in between.
[24:47] Speaker 1: It's been off the air for a while, it had
[24:50] Speaker 1: time to miss it. Yeah, we're bringing it back this
[24:52] Speaker 1: time in movie form BD and look, sometimes that can
[24:55] Speaker 1: work absolutely. I mean I was never a huge Sex
[24:58] Speaker 1: in the City guy. But we're going to see the
[25:01] Speaker 1: first movie. I was like, oh, well, they've actually made
[25:04] Speaker 1: this into a movie. It feels like it's got big
[25:06] Speaker 1: screen production values and all that kind of stuff, as
[25:10] Speaker 1: opposed to just it's an episode of Sex and the City.
[25:13] Speaker 1: It's three episodes of Sex and the City sort of
[25:15] Speaker 1: stacked back to back.
[25:16] Speaker 3: I would have been so when the Simpsons movie came
[25:17] Speaker 3: out two thousand and seven, so I would have been
[25:20] Speaker 3: eighteen ish. Well, I mean eighteen ish, I guess eighty
[25:23] Speaker 3: eighteen ish. It still felt like a big deal. It
[25:26] Speaker 3: felt I wasn't generally as excited it would have been
[25:28] Speaker 3: had I been a kid, but it was almost like
[25:30] Speaker 3: a relief of well, finally we're getting a movie, and
[25:33] Speaker 3: there was so much marketing behind it, so I think
[25:36] Speaker 3: just the hype of me being a lifelong Simpsons fan.
[25:39] Speaker 3: At that point in time, a lot of my friends
[25:42] Speaker 3: had just moved on, a lot of Simpsons fans who
[25:44] Speaker 3: grew up with the show hadn't moved on, right, and
[25:46] Speaker 3: I was still sticking true.
[25:47] Speaker 1: At the show.
[25:48] Speaker 3: It felt like, oh, maybe this would be a way
[25:50] Speaker 3: of getting all my friends back onto the Simpsons. And
[25:52] Speaker 3: it felt like it was cool again to talk about
[25:55] Speaker 3: the Simpsons when for a long while I was like,
[25:56] Speaker 3: you're still watching the Simpsons. And now it's like, oh know,
[25:59] Speaker 3: the movie's come. Everyone's going, oh, yeah, I'll go see
[26:01] Speaker 3: the Simpsons movie. And it felt cool to be a
[26:03] Speaker 3: Simpsons fan again. Yeah, and I don't think it's cool
[26:06] Speaker 3: to be a Simpsons fan anymore.
[26:07] Speaker 1: You know, if you're asking people to pay for what
[26:09] Speaker 1: they get for free every week, yeah, you've got You've
[26:11] Speaker 1: really got a certain you've got your work cut out
[26:13] Speaker 1: for it. Plus there's another thing as well. I mean
[26:15] Speaker 1: I'm not really sort of this is leading away from
[26:18] Speaker 1: the Simpsons element. Really shouldn't do sorry about that. But
[26:21] Speaker 1: the way Prestige TV is these days, there's very little
[26:24] Speaker 1: difference between say, an episode of Game of Thrones or
[26:28] Speaker 1: House the Dragon, or and your average sword and sorcery movie.
[26:33] Speaker 3: Stranger Things season five apparently every episode's like two hours
[26:36] Speaker 3: or something. Yeah, streaming has ruined the idea of a
[26:39] Speaker 3: TV show being a movie because essentially our mini movies
[26:41] Speaker 3: now aren't they very much the case because they are.
[26:44] Speaker 3: They're just making the Stranger Thing season five. Every episode
[26:47] Speaker 3: is almost like a movie now, basically so because they
[26:50] Speaker 3: have the capabilities to do so, and Netflix just go
[26:53] Speaker 3: as long as you want to.
[26:53] Speaker 1: Kind of thing. Yeah, I don't think TV shows could
[26:56] Speaker 1: really do it anymore, could they. Bluey's doing it though,
[26:58] Speaker 1: Blue Porpatok kids shows maybe and get Simpsons, Yeah, well
[27:02] Speaker 1: certainly with kids because yeah, I mean I think movies
[27:04] Speaker 1: these days are either huge event kind of deals or
[27:09] Speaker 1: there's something you take the kids to you want to Okay,
[27:12] Speaker 1: the kids still want to watch stuff, but we don't
[27:13] Speaker 1: want to keep them in the house all day and
[27:15] Speaker 1: go to the boos. We'll make it an event. So yeah,
[27:17] Speaker 1: And if you've got a property like Bluey, which I think,
[27:19] Speaker 1: as we were discussing the other day, kind of is that.
[27:22] Speaker 3: It's the closest thing to the Simpsons I think we have.
[27:24] Speaker 1: It is or certainly that show that everyone could watch together.
[27:28] Speaker 3: Yep, exactly right, and Poor Patrol right for example, the
[27:31] Speaker 3: main por Patrol movies, that kind of thing. You go
[27:33] Speaker 3: to the movies and you watch it with the kids,
[27:35] Speaker 3: and you sit in there going, you've just made this
[27:36] Speaker 3: to sell new toys, and that's the idea of kids.
[27:39] Speaker 1: Obviously.
[27:40] Speaker 3: The Blue Movie, though, feels like they're making it because
[27:42] Speaker 3: there is a demand for a Blue movie and you
[27:44] Speaker 3: don't feel like they're going to make it and flog
[27:46] Speaker 3: new toys, new characters. It feels like they're making it
[27:49] Speaker 3: out of the love of the show.
[27:51] Speaker 1: And you've got to put yourselves into a child's mindset
[27:54] Speaker 1: as well, whereas like, Okay, you're watching it home. I
[27:56] Speaker 1: mean the middle of your TV's probably pretty big, probably
[27:59] Speaker 1: got the high definition and all that kind of stuff,
[28:00] Speaker 1: but actually going to somewhere where like the screen is big.
[28:04] Speaker 1: The Blue Movie is going to be massive, Yeah, and
[28:05] Speaker 1: you're going to be in a room full of kids
[28:06] Speaker 1: who are also feeling like Blue bandit. Yeah, you can't wait.
[28:09] Speaker 1: It's going to be massive. Yeah, it's gonna create that
[28:12] Speaker 1: vibe that you and I often talk about when it's like,
[28:16] Speaker 1: what is the magic of the movies. Well, the magic
[28:17] Speaker 1: of the movies is being in a dark room. You're
[28:19] Speaker 1: all having the shared experience with hopefully a story that
[28:24] Speaker 1: really hooks you in. It's got moms that make you
[28:26] Speaker 1: feel great. It's got performances and actors where you go, wow,
[28:28] Speaker 1: I really want to be like that personal Oh God,
[28:31] Speaker 1: that's so cool.
[28:32] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[28:32] Speaker 1: And I get the feeling for quoting it. Yeah, you
[28:35] Speaker 1: work out quoting it.
[28:36] Speaker 3: It becomes a part of your life, the quotes.
[28:38] Speaker 1: It's imprinted in the DNA.
[28:40] Speaker 3: And I feel like as a parent of two small
[28:42] Speaker 3: kids walking out of watching the Blue Movie and walking out,
[28:45] Speaker 3: I feel like we will have experienced something together. Sure,
[28:48] Speaker 3: I'm excited for the Blue Movie. I think as a parent,
[28:49] Speaker 3: what you've seen so many Blue episodes, you're able to
[28:52] Speaker 3: enjoy the show as well. It's not just for kids,
[28:54] Speaker 3: it's for the adults as well. And I think it's
[28:56] Speaker 3: going to be a shared experience that we will remember forever. Oh.
[29:00] Speaker 1: I mean recently on the Movie Guide with Marlton Davis
[29:03] Speaker 1: talked about airplane Slash flying high and I remember seeing
[29:07] Speaker 1: that with my parents when I was a little kid,
[29:09] Speaker 1: and my mom just absolutely cracking up at certain scenes.
[29:12] Speaker 1: In that, and I mean, I've seen my mum love
[29:15] Speaker 1: laugh of course, but I've never seen her like Sorry, Margaret,
[29:20] Speaker 1: maybe it nearly pissed herself laughing because she was enjoying
[29:23] Speaker 1: it so much, and it made me just like, it's
[29:25] Speaker 1: really sweet. I'm so happy that my mum is so
[29:28] Speaker 1: happy about this.
[29:29] Speaker 3: I have Simpson's moments where I remember my dad or
[29:32] Speaker 3: my mum laughing, and I love those jokes because it
[29:35] Speaker 3: literally takes me back to being in the lantern.
[29:37] Speaker 1: With my parents.
[29:37] Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, that's great, But thank you for that question, Mike.
[29:41] Speaker 3: Getting back to John Looney, he also wrote in too
[29:44] Speaker 3: so he had a really long email. I'll read it
[29:46] Speaker 3: out to you here. Oh okay, so he says, here,
[29:49] Speaker 3: this is the mailbager fourfinger discap dot com dot you. So, hey, guys,
[29:52] Speaker 3: my name is John. You can call me Looney. I
[29:54] Speaker 3: have been a patron and listening to your podcast show
[29:56] Speaker 3: for quite some time now.
[29:57] Speaker 1: Thanks John.
[29:58] Speaker 3: It took all this time for me to realize your
[30:00] Speaker 3: mail bank ended with dot au. So I've just been
[30:03] Speaker 3: throwing around my questions at the wind. So I just
[30:05] Speaker 3: had some random comments thoughts that have popped up whilst
[30:07] Speaker 3: listening and I wanted to offer some one Simpsons related question,
[30:10] Speaker 3: of course, which you've already answered a while ago on
[30:12] Speaker 3: the Futurama podcast, which we do exclusively for our patrons,
[30:15] Speaker 3: Tales of Futurama. I believe it was questioned why al
[30:18] Speaker 3: Gore was on the show so much. I believe it
[30:20] Speaker 3: was his niece who wrote for the show, and that's
[30:22] Speaker 3: why he agreed to go on the show so much.
[30:24] Speaker 1: There we go, that's that answer. That's Kristen Gore, I believe.
[30:26] Speaker 1: H Okay.
[30:27] Speaker 3: A while ago, on one of the Random Simpsons podcasts,
[30:30] Speaker 3: it was mentioned how much you guys hate the DVD
[30:32] Speaker 3: releases of The Simpsons with the heads as the shapes
[30:34] Speaker 3: because they don't fit on the shove. It was incredibly frustrating.
[30:37] Speaker 3: I loved that it was a cool design, a fun novelty,
[30:40] Speaker 3: but then you put it on the shelf and you go, oh, no.
[30:44] Speaker 1: My organizational skills out the window.
[30:47] Speaker 3: I remember putting I remember getting my season six DVD.
[30:50] Speaker 3: It was the homerhead was the first one putting on
[30:51] Speaker 3: the schef and going to my sister saying, look at this.
[30:53] Speaker 3: Stacey stays look at me, going why do you care?
[30:58] Speaker 3: This is what's bothering you.
[31:01] Speaker 1: Everybody's got there something like our stack's neat.
[31:05] Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, but it says fun fact. The Simpsons creators
[31:09] Speaker 3: heard the response and they created a website just to
[31:11] Speaker 3: exchange the head versions with a more standard looking season
[31:14] Speaker 3: dvid e case. They released those in stores here as well,
[31:16] Speaker 3: just standards. They looked the same. I bought them all
[31:19] Speaker 3: as well, We're also but they waited until all of
[31:21] Speaker 3: them were released first, so you bought the first ones
[31:24] Speaker 3: and then they re released the boxes.
[31:25] Speaker 1: No flies on those guys.
[31:27] Speaker 3: No, and certain seasons are more rare than others because
[31:30] Speaker 3: of the duel releases. Maybe in the states' mu sure
[31:32] Speaker 3: wherever you're from, but in Australia you can get them
[31:34] Speaker 3: at the up shop. But the interesting part is this
[31:37] Speaker 3: on the website they were beyond sarcastic and almost plain mean,
[31:40] Speaker 3: because when you're filling out the form there were jokes
[31:43] Speaker 3: and stuff calling you for being a cry baby and
[31:45] Speaker 3: a whiner and whatnot, and this ticked off the people
[31:47] Speaker 3: even more than the DVD heads themselves. Just thought that's
[31:49] Speaker 3: a little bit of a fun fact. John, he's a
[31:51] Speaker 3: big physical media guy apparently as well.
[31:54] Speaker 1: You should be. You said, call you. We're going to
[31:57] Speaker 1: call you Looney Looney. You said to do it, so yes,
[32:00] Speaker 1: to do it? Yeah, good points, well made.
[32:02] Speaker 3: I know you guys like the PS one and New
[32:04] Speaker 3: era of the Simpsons games. Well I do, yes, but
[32:06] Speaker 3: I will suggest there are some good Simpsons games worth
[32:08] Speaker 3: playing on the Sega Genesis and some other which is
[32:11] Speaker 3: a Sega Mega Drive is it the Saga and some
[32:14] Speaker 3: other sixteen bit or even eight bit consoles like the Nests. Anyway,
[32:18] Speaker 3: Simpsons question. The Simpsons car question was Looney's. But thank
[32:20] Speaker 3: you all for the great content and continuing to wish
[32:22] Speaker 3: you guys well. Thank you Looney for that email.
[32:24] Speaker 1: Hey Looney, thank you for thank you for the email,
[32:26] Speaker 1: thank you for your wonderful talking once, thank you for
[32:28] Speaker 1: your patronage, and hey, thank you for being a friend.
[32:31] Speaker 3: And this one is from Jess, Hi, Dando guy and
[32:34] Speaker 3: potentially Nicola. Congratulations on the three cats stando. After some
[32:37] Speaker 3: recent Forefinger discount episodes, I thought I'd pass on some
[32:39] Speaker 3: pointers that worked for training our two cats now in
[32:42] Speaker 3: Kitty Heaven. Unfortunately, oh sorry to hear Jess. We had
[32:45] Speaker 3: a spray bottle of water from our local garden center,
[32:48] Speaker 3: so they did something. They weren't supposed to. They got
[32:50] Speaker 3: a spritz of water. It didn't hurt them, but they
[32:52] Speaker 3: didn't like it either. Though it might have taught them
[32:54] Speaker 3: to do the thing. Though it might have just taught
[32:56] Speaker 3: them to do the thing when we went around, as
[32:58] Speaker 3: opposed to when we were around generally hate citrus. So
[33:01] Speaker 3: at Christmas, we painted the lower branches of our Christmas
[33:03] Speaker 3: tree with orange oil. Nicola and I have actually discussed this.
[33:06] Speaker 3: We've gone what about the Christmas tree this year because
[33:08] Speaker 3: the kids.
[33:08] Speaker 1: Usually cover it and stuff? Yeah, what are we going
[33:11] Speaker 1: to do?
[33:11] Speaker 3: Yeah, so she says, he covered the lower branches of
[33:13] Speaker 3: Christmas trees of orange oil. We did this the first
[33:16] Speaker 3: year when they were a few months old, and I
[33:17] Speaker 3: promise you they never went near it. We only needed
[33:19] Speaker 3: to use the orange oil once and they never bothered
[33:21] Speaker 3: going near the Christmas tree again.
[33:22] Speaker 1: Oh, Jesse, you came in just right.
[33:25] Speaker 3: Sorry if you might have already heard these, but I
[33:27] Speaker 3: had good intentions and I swear by this advice. Good luck,
[33:29] Speaker 3: cat Dad. Well, thank you for the email, Jess.
[33:30] Speaker 1: That's great. Jessey had never apologize for having good intentions.
[33:33] Speaker 3: That's like a life hack. Citrus spray citrus all right,
[33:39] Speaker 3: let's get to another question, shall we. So this one
[33:41] Speaker 3: here comes from Rebecca Driver Driver. Yeah, from a visual perspective,
[33:46] Speaker 3: which character do you think has the most interesting design
[33:49] Speaker 3: and which has the most true to character design? That's
[33:52] Speaker 3: a really good question.
[33:53] Speaker 1: Yeah, and one that I was sort of batting my
[33:56] Speaker 1: head over. The one that came to mind immediately for
[33:59] Speaker 1: the opening the first half, this was OTTO an interesting way. Yeah, Yeah,
[34:03] Speaker 1: I mean headphones usually on the long hair. He looks
[34:08] Speaker 1: like a guy.
[34:09] Speaker 3: He looks like someone who would be smoking all day
[34:12] Speaker 3: and listening to heavy air.
[34:13] Speaker 1: Right. It feels like the kind of person that I
[34:15] Speaker 1: may have worked with in the past and again recently. Yeah. Yeah,
[34:20] Speaker 1: I feel like I've encountered one or two real life ottos. So, yeah,
[34:24] Speaker 1: I mean this this character design, I find it very interesting, Rebecca.
[34:28] Speaker 1: I think that covers both halfs of you of your question. Actually,
[34:31] Speaker 1: I find that character design really interesting and also find
[34:33] Speaker 1: it kind of authentic. Look. Sorry to be one size
[34:35] Speaker 1: fits all, but I'm gonna go with OTTO for mine.
[34:38] Speaker 3: I think crazy Cat Baity's pretty spot on from an
[34:40] Speaker 3: interesting perspective. Just the frazzle hair, it's the it's the
[34:44] Speaker 3: the old lady.
[34:45] Speaker 1: Skirt, Yeah, good points. We've got a cat hanging off
[34:47] Speaker 1: her back. One eye look in one way and another.
[34:50] Speaker 1: This may be a very guy coded answer because I
[34:53] Speaker 1: always bring up this person, wise guy, but it's wise guy.
[34:57] Speaker 1: I think wise guys. Wise guy looks like someone you
[35:00] Speaker 1: would run into in like an old school hardware store.
[35:03] Speaker 3: It looks like something you could run into anywhere. That's
[35:05] Speaker 3: the child of the character, isn't it all.
[35:08] Speaker 1: Working in admin in some medium range business or whatever. Yeah,
[35:16] Speaker 1: just a cog in the machine. But yeah, without that cog,
[35:20] Speaker 1: the machine kind of breaks down. I like Barney.
[35:23] Speaker 3: I think Barney really looks like someone who would live
[35:26] Speaker 3: at the bar. You know, he's got the he's got
[35:28] Speaker 3: a few rolls under his eyes, he's got frazzled hair,
[35:31] Speaker 3: he's got the overbite. His stomach's always just hanging out
[35:34] Speaker 3: of his shirt. His shirt never quite fits.
[35:36] Speaker 1: In that well.
[35:36] Speaker 3: So I like the Barney design the most true to
[35:39] Speaker 3: it's probably the most true to character as well. Yeah,
[35:42] Speaker 3: the most interesting. The duff Man ones. I've always liked
[35:44] Speaker 3: the duff Man design. Man's that's a great call, actually, Yeah,
[35:48] Speaker 3: just the suit, the muscles, the hat, the glasses, it's
[35:52] Speaker 3: everything you take away any peak part of that suit
[35:54] Speaker 3: and he doesn't feel like duff Man And it's true.
[35:56] Speaker 3: Yeah anymore, any character designs that seemed to fit the
[36:00] Speaker 3: HM almost interesting just to look at from a visual perspective, interesting,
[36:04] Speaker 3: simple disco stu. Oh yeah, it's an interesting character design.
[36:09] Speaker 1: Kind of like Miss Hoover.
[36:10] Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, in what way you look at Miss Hoover
[36:13] Speaker 3: and I mean maybe this is just me, but you
[36:15] Speaker 3: kind of create a little bit of a backstory for her,
[36:18] Speaker 3: you know, like, wonder what she was like at college.
[36:20] Speaker 3: You know, she was probably Oh, I had dreams of
[36:23] Speaker 3: being a poet or something along those lines, or writing
[36:26] Speaker 3: short stories or whatever. It never quite panned out for
[36:29] Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, well I'm going to take this teaching
[36:31] Speaker 3: gig too, so I can get by while I'm writing
[36:34] Speaker 3: my sonnets or something while I'm putting together my book
[36:36] Speaker 3: of verse. We have discussed on the show that she
[36:38] Speaker 3: feels like her missus Kay in particular, but I feel
[36:40] Speaker 3: like Miss Hoover would just be fun to just hang
[36:42] Speaker 3: out with and just hang shit on.
[36:45] Speaker 1: Other people with. Oh.
[36:46] Speaker 3: She seems bitchy, but not to the point where she's
[36:48] Speaker 3: overly cruel. She just seems like she'd just be a
[36:50] Speaker 3: wise ass.
[36:51] Speaker 1: I think so. I think she's every year there's just
[36:53] Speaker 1: a little bit more bitterness and a little mint sort
[36:55] Speaker 1: of resignation to like, that's not really playing out the
[36:58] Speaker 1: way I hoped. Okay, well, you know, and.
[37:00] Speaker 3: I feel like you could just chin up in some ways,
[37:02] Speaker 3: but also you could be yourself around her as well.
[37:04] Speaker 3: She feels very down to earth. What are we gett
[37:07] Speaker 3: pizza for dinner, my lady? But miss Hoover, Yeah that's
[37:12] Speaker 3: good call. And the design she does, she just looks
[37:15] Speaker 3: there's someone in there who just wants to break out. Yes, yeah,
[37:18] Speaker 3: that's that's a good character design as well. Yeah, good, good,
[37:20] Speaker 3: good answer. All right, This one here comes from Jess Hellman.
[37:25] Speaker 3: What is your favorite Simpsons song? What is your favorite
[37:28] Speaker 3: Simpsons song? She loves the Stonecutter's theme, which is why
[37:31] Speaker 3: I always look forward to hearing you guys do your
[37:32] Speaker 3: shout outs on the podcast. Of course, the patrons of ours,
[37:37] Speaker 3: the top tier supporters, are called Stonecutters, and they get
[37:39] Speaker 3: their names with it on every show. We'll do that
[37:41] Speaker 3: after this question.
[37:42] Speaker 1: Indeed, as if you needed another reason to become a Stonecutter.
[37:46] Speaker 3: Indeed, So, what's your favorite Simpsons.
[37:48] Speaker 1: Look, there really is only one answer to this, and
[37:50] Speaker 1: that's I do believe We're naked by Funky See Funky do.
[37:54] Speaker 3: What do you look for in a Simpsons song? Do
[37:55] Speaker 3: you want to upbeat and loud and crazy or do
[37:58] Speaker 3: you want it sort of more emotional? What do you
[37:59] Speaker 3: want Simpsons song?
[38:00] Speaker 1: Well? Look at varies, of course, doesn't. I mean something
[38:04] Speaker 1: that Simpsons is very very good at is finding that
[38:07] Speaker 1: musical accompaniment to either move the story forward or tell
[38:13] Speaker 1: you a little bit more about the character or a
[38:15] Speaker 1: character situation. So yeah, there are certainly times when it's like, oh,
[38:19] Speaker 1: this is a bit downbeat and a little sort of
[38:21] Speaker 1: not necessarily mellow, but more like, oh, this is making
[38:25] Speaker 1: me a little more emotional than I thought. I don't
[38:28] Speaker 1: mind those, but those are ones that I tend to
[38:31] Speaker 1: maybe respect more than enjoy. The ones that I've written
[38:35] Speaker 1: that I've written down here is my favorites. I really
[38:37] Speaker 1: like Bagged Me a Homer. I think that's I think
[38:39] Speaker 1: that's terrific. That whole episode Colonel Homer is incredible.
[38:42] Speaker 3: That's chocolate Block with great songs. And I don't think I,
[38:45] Speaker 3: as a kid really appreciated. But when we revisited it
[38:47] Speaker 3: for the podcast as an adult and someone who'd been
[38:49] Speaker 3: married as well, and just the storyline in general. That
[38:52] Speaker 3: episode is I still say, one of the most underrated
[38:55] Speaker 3: classic episodes of The Simpsons.
[38:56] Speaker 1: Yeah, the story, the music, everything about it is fantastic
[38:59] Speaker 1: and written by Matt Grainy indeed, and the music works
[39:02] Speaker 1: in concert with the storyline. The songs inform the story
[39:05] Speaker 1: and help it move forward.
[39:06] Speaker 3: Who was Beverly Dangelo known from the Well Vacation movies?
[39:11] Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you played Loretta Lynn.
[39:15] Speaker 3: She did, Actually, that's why they That's what gave her
[39:17] Speaker 3: the idea for.
[39:17] Speaker 1: Yeah, Colemaner's Daughter. Oh hey, no, she might have played
[39:20] Speaker 1: Patsy kleiin she played someone Yeah in Colemner's Daughter, which
[39:23] Speaker 1: was about Lorette in and she sings the songs as well.
[39:26] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Beverly Dangelo is quite the underrated talent. Colonel Homer.
[39:30] Speaker 3: If you have not revisited it in a while, do so.
[39:32] Speaker 1: It's amazing. But bagged me Homer is probably my favorite.
[39:35] Speaker 1: There's a lot of great songs in it, but that's
[39:36] Speaker 1: one that I really enjoy. I tend to like things
[39:38] Speaker 1: are a little more upbeat.
[39:39] Speaker 3: I like what's the one at the end that she sings.
[39:42] Speaker 1: I hope that it was just a lucky shit and
[39:45] Speaker 1: it's like, why am I crying? Look, I'm sorry. There's
[39:50] Speaker 1: a bit of a cliched answer, I know, because it
[39:52] Speaker 1: tends to be almost everyone's favorite. But I'm a big, big,
[39:55] Speaker 1: big fan of the Monorail song. I think, Okay, that
[39:57] Speaker 1: is just so well done for me.
[40:00] Speaker 3: I for a Simpsons song, I want as many characters
[40:03] Speaker 3: involved as possible, and that's one of those.
[40:05] Speaker 1: Yeah, when you get the little call and response and
[40:08] Speaker 1: I won't say it's apex Phil Hartman, but it's close,
[40:12] Speaker 1: it really is. I mean, sorry, my favorite, my favorite
[40:17] Speaker 1: Phil Hartmon moment is always going to be when Skinner
[40:19] Speaker 1: goes into his office said, so, Ron's Julie's around here.
[40:21] Speaker 1: Now you can have this one. It's half full. Well,
[40:24] Speaker 1: why don't just drink out of a toilet. He'll be back. Phil,
[40:30] Speaker 1: We love you when there's so much But yeah, the
[40:33] Speaker 1: Monorail song, I think is just fantastic. I've plaited a
[40:36] Speaker 1: couple of times before we started. It's like, this is
[40:39] Speaker 1: so good in so many ways.
[40:41] Speaker 3: Was such a swimmerly Lanley as well?
[40:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you're getting sold a bill of goods here,
[40:46] Speaker 1: but it's like, I'll allow it. She's so charming.
[40:49] Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and it's so fun because we used to
[40:52] Speaker 3: do Simpson Trivia nights and we had bows that go
[40:54] Speaker 3: who was singing Simpsons songs, and it was the perfect
[40:56] Speaker 3: song to sing in that scenario because he'd go glad
[40:59] Speaker 3: to soughly as a cloud, the ring came up, my
[41:01] Speaker 3: pudding can take my bed. The whole crowds back and
[41:03] Speaker 3: forth with him. Incredible and even.
[41:05] Speaker 1: If you don't know, you can just go monarel monare Ye.
[41:09] Speaker 1: So yeah, definitely bagged me a home and yeah, but
[41:13] Speaker 1: the Monorail song is sort of hiad and shoulders above
[41:15] Speaker 1: everything else as far as I'm concerned, What do you think?
[41:17] Speaker 3: Well, I agree with the great choices. I also, I've
[41:20] Speaker 3: always loved and it's always been my favorite. And it's
[41:23] Speaker 3: not the best song, but it's always my favorite. It's
[41:24] Speaker 3: we put the Spring in Springfield, same element. It's upbeat,
[41:27] Speaker 3: it's fun, it furthers the story and it's just but
[41:31] Speaker 3: it's just so ridiculous. But it includes so many different characters,
[41:33] Speaker 3: but we put the Spring in spring You can't even
[41:37] Speaker 3: smile when you think about the song, and that's what
[41:39] Speaker 3: I like in a Simpsons song. But what are your
[41:41] Speaker 3: thoughts on the ones where they're parroting a classic song.
[41:44] Speaker 3: I like the idea of them doing this because as
[41:46] Speaker 3: a kid watching you might not realize they're parroting something.
[41:49] Speaker 3: A classic one is See My Vest, which is be
[41:53] Speaker 3: Our Guest of Beauty and the Beast.
[41:54] Speaker 1: I like it fine. I was never I was a
[41:58] Speaker 1: little bit too old to sort of catch that wave
[41:59] Speaker 1: of Disney animation. Yeah, I knew it was out there.
[42:03] Speaker 1: I knew that it was really turning things around for Disney,
[42:05] Speaker 1: and I respected it and admired it. At the same time,
[42:07] Speaker 1: It's not like to have for a feel good movie,
[42:10] Speaker 1: I'm going to revisit The Bidding the Beast or Aladdin
[42:13] Speaker 1: or The Lion King. I know people love them. I
[42:16] Speaker 1: kind of like them, so and again with Seeing My Vest,
[42:19] Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I know what you're doing here. It
[42:21] Speaker 1: was good enjoying it, not bad, but yeah, not necessarily
[42:24] Speaker 1: going to be one of one of my favorites.
[42:27] Speaker 3: So I liked it just purely because I liked the song.
[42:29] Speaker 3: I didn't even realize it was be Our Guest when
[42:31] Speaker 3: I was a kid. I'm bidding the beast. This wasn't
[42:33] Speaker 3: on my radar when I was a kid. I just
[42:34] Speaker 3: never really watched it.
[42:35] Speaker 1: But just.
[42:37] Speaker 3: Whenever someone's wearing your vest as a sincespen, you have
[42:39] Speaker 3: to say, sim.
[42:42] Speaker 1: If you're talking parody songs. This came up a little
[42:45] Speaker 1: while ago because I think you put it on line
[42:47] Speaker 1: as part of a meme or something when I was seventeen.
[42:50] Speaker 1: It was a very good I mean that got taken down. Yeah,
[42:55] Speaker 1: but to weave this whole history about Homer abdaining a
[42:59] Speaker 1: fake and all the details of it, because you probably
[43:02] Speaker 1: would have formative memories of like, oh, yeah, when I
[43:06] Speaker 1: was a kid in underage and trying to get my
[43:08] Speaker 1: first beers or whatever, and jump through all these hoops to.
[43:15] Speaker 3: Apparently that's sexual solicitation if you according to facebooks that algorithm.
[43:18] Speaker 3: So don't post that meme everybody.
[43:20] Speaker 1: The algorithm man who knows who knows what it's thinking.
[43:25] Speaker 1: So I enjoyed that one very much, But yeah, I
[43:27] Speaker 1: think it depends on you can admind respect and enjoy
[43:30] Speaker 1: the ingenuity of the Simpsons writing team coming up with, oh,
[43:34] Speaker 1: they're doing a play on this, and also your own
[43:36] Speaker 1: memories of that song the original. It's like, how clever
[43:40] Speaker 1: that they took this thing that I know or that
[43:43] Speaker 1: I love and you put a clock in it. That's great.
[43:46] Speaker 3: I want to acknowledge one that came a little bit
[43:48] Speaker 3: later and the Simpsons Golden Earrum. And when I first
[43:51] Speaker 3: watched this episode, I didn't really have any idea what
[43:53] Speaker 3: was going on, but it's those were.
[43:55] Speaker 1: The day's parody from what's the show?
[43:57] Speaker 3: The show was all in the family and the family,
[43:58] Speaker 3: but everyone always goes by to Michael Jackson still was black.
[44:03] Speaker 1: Those were the days.
[44:04] Speaker 3: And for no reason, here's a pooh And when I
[44:08] Speaker 3: first watched as a kid, I'm going, what is happening here?
[44:11] Speaker 3: And I'm like, I need to redo that again with
[44:14] Speaker 3: more modern times. What's something we could look back on now,
[44:17] Speaker 3: like something Brittany maybe yeah, yeah, yeah. And also I
[44:21] Speaker 3: want to throw a shout out to the episode sounding
[44:24] Speaker 3: the incredible Maggie Roswell as Sharry Bobbins Mary Poppins episode
[44:28] Speaker 3: since the color progalistic XBLA annoy gruntcious. Yes, yes, so
[44:33] Speaker 3: many good songs. That's purely just a parody of Mary Poppins.
[44:36] Speaker 3: But Maggie does such a good job in that song
[44:39] Speaker 3: in that episode. I still remember when Mitch and I
[44:41] Speaker 3: went to one of the comic cons when we first
[44:43] Speaker 3: started doing the podcast, and she was one of the guests,
[44:45] Speaker 3: and she agreed to do a little bit of an interview.
[44:47] Speaker 3: So I was just standing there and she's saying that
[44:49] Speaker 3: it's the American waits the person. I was like, this
[44:53] Speaker 3: is amazing, you know, just here seeing her sing that song.
[44:55] Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, it's the song I've heard so
[44:57] Speaker 3: many times now she's singing in front of me. Yeah,
[44:59] Speaker 3: so to able to make you roswell for that episode as.
[45:01] Speaker 1: Well, a lot of good songs in there. One that's
[45:04] Speaker 1: probably canceled these days.
[45:05] Speaker 3: Yes, all right, there's so many other Simpsons songs, So
[45:10] Speaker 3: please let us know in the comments which are your
[45:11] Speaker 3: favorite Simpsons songs. We love to hear from you, and
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[46:57] Speaker 3: Stephanie Rose, and Ryan Duncan.
[46:59] Speaker 1: Hall of famers. Everyone. All right, so we've gotten to
[47:02] Speaker 1: the page your own group. Now we're going to answer
[47:04] Speaker 1: some of their questions. The first one he comes from
[47:06] Speaker 1: our men, Andrew Swan. He wants to know where the
[47:08] Speaker 1: one about Friends podcast is. It's coming, It's coming. Andy
[47:14] Speaker 1: d says, Given the recent and ongoing situation, what are
[47:17] Speaker 1: your current thoughts on the Facebook at the moment? Are
[47:19] Speaker 1: we sticking with this page? We'll possibly be going to
[47:21] Speaker 1: migrant to discord. Discord would be a good idea. I reckon,
[47:24] Speaker 1: maybe Facebook lift your game, except that we love you all,
[47:28] Speaker 1: hail all, hell uck.
[47:32] Speaker 3: Mike Salter, are you pleasantly surprised by the quality of
[47:35] Speaker 3: season twenty or do you think this season is the
[47:37] Speaker 3: one where the show has actually had an unqualified dropping quality.
[47:40] Speaker 3: It's definitely going down in quality, but it's nowhere near
[47:43] Speaker 3: as bad as I expected.
[47:44] Speaker 1: No, I was. I won't say I was pleasantly surprised.
[47:46] Speaker 1: I willsoy, I was surprised by I mean, maybe we're
[47:49] Speaker 1: Dan and I just sort of glass half full kind
[47:51] Speaker 1: of people were.
[47:52] Speaker 3: Trying to focus on the positive of the episode. We
[47:54] Speaker 3: still do critique them, but yeah, it's one of those
[47:57] Speaker 3: seasons where I've just gone maybe five or so have
[47:59] Speaker 3: just been outright nothing. I wouldn't say, like annoyingly bad.
[48:03] Speaker 1: Nothing's on the.
[48:04] Speaker 3: Level of when Homer Chuck margin the driver's seat, when
[48:06] Speaker 3: you drove things like that. Nothing's made me angry. Just
[48:09] Speaker 3: some of them are just going, oh, this.
[48:10] Speaker 1: Is a struggle to get through. We're like your dad.
[48:13] Speaker 1: We're not mad, We're just disappointed. Were disappointed.
[48:15] Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just like mine. Of course, not Philip Westerby,
[48:22] Speaker 3: would you be up for doing the Bobs Burgers episodes
[48:24] Speaker 3: more regularly every fortnight? Maybe I just can't wait that long.
[48:27] Speaker 3: If we had more supporters on patre and then.
[48:28] Speaker 1: Maybe we would.
[48:29] Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's just a case of we want to
[48:32] Speaker 3: do all these extra shows for you guys on Patreons.
[48:34] Speaker 3: We've got Bobs Burger's Sign, Fowler, King of the Hill, Futurma,
[48:37] Speaker 3: and we alternate them. But the thing is that we
[48:40] Speaker 3: only have so many hours in the week, and if
[48:42] Speaker 3: we had more supporters on Patreon, We're not putting our
[48:45] Speaker 3: hands asking for money. But that's the thing. If we could,
[48:48] Speaker 3: but we aren't doing that. If we could justify not
[48:49] Speaker 3: having to do work elsewhere and focus more so on
[48:52] Speaker 3: doing this, then yes, we would put more time to
[48:54] Speaker 3: doing more Bobb's Burger's podcast. So we ate more supporters
[48:56] Speaker 3: on Patreon, then sure we would.
[48:58] Speaker 1: As I like to say, no Buck Snowbuck Rogers.
[49:00] Speaker 3: Because basically what it would mean is because I'm still
[49:02] Speaker 3: doing all the editing of the podcast, that kind of thing.
[49:04] Speaker 3: So if we had more supporters, I could then pay
[49:06] Speaker 3: people to edit the podcast for me and we could
[49:08] Speaker 3: just focus on recording sending it to editors and getting
[49:11] Speaker 3: it out there. So that would be the dream, But
[49:13] Speaker 3: until we get more supporters on Patreon that way, it's
[49:16] Speaker 3: just not feasible for us at the moment, but we
[49:18] Speaker 3: would love to do it, of course.
[49:19] Speaker 1: Yes, Dan, I showed me how to wed it and
[49:21] Speaker 1: it gave me a nosebleed.
[49:22] Speaker 3: I'm I turned around, he was gone, have onn Alyssa, Catherine,
[49:29] Speaker 3: have you watched the season thirty six episode Women in Shorts?
[49:32] Speaker 1: Wondered what your thoughts are, as it's the closest thing
[49:34] Speaker 1: we've had to twenty two short films about Springfield. I
[49:36] Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good. Ah, I remember it being on.
[49:40] Speaker 3: I think it was just sort of I'd watched an
[49:41] Speaker 3: episode and it kept going into the next one. I
[49:44] Speaker 3: was getting twenty two short films about Springfield vibes. I
[49:48] Speaker 3: can't in good faith give a review on it now
[49:49] Speaker 3: because I can't really recall too much about it. But
[49:51] Speaker 3: it's twenty two short films, but it's all the women
[49:53] Speaker 3: of Springfield. But I will say when I was watching it,
[49:56] Speaker 3: I was enjoying it. So maybe that's something we can
[49:58] Speaker 3: do in the future. We can go back and revisit it.
[50:01] Speaker 3: And do it a review on that one.
[50:03] Speaker 1: All right, Well I've been worded up, so I will
[50:05] Speaker 1: be queuing that episode up and having a look at it.
[50:07] Speaker 3: Yeah, Rachel McLean, are there any season twenty one episodes
[50:10] Speaker 3: you are looking forward to revisiting or they all passed
[50:12] Speaker 3: when you stopped watching the show. I think I'm at
[50:14] Speaker 3: the point now where I stopped watching the show. Yeah,
[50:16] Speaker 3: I think we're There might be ones that pop up
[50:18] Speaker 3: where I go, oh, yeah, I remember seeing this one somewhere,
[50:20] Speaker 3: but I wasn't watching the show week to week.
[50:22] Speaker 1: In a little rewind to me, talking about Disney before
[50:25] Speaker 1: season twenty one is going to be a whole you
[50:29] Speaker 1: because I don't recall any episodes.
[50:31] Speaker 3: Well, here we go Season twenty one. The premiere is
[50:33] Speaker 3: as a homey home of the Whopper. Homer ends up
[50:35] Speaker 3: with a Superheroes physique after he has chosen to appear
[50:38] Speaker 3: in a film based on a character created by cominbook guy.
[50:40] Speaker 3: That's sund That's fun, okay, Bart gets a Z principal.
[50:43] Speaker 3: Skinner fires missus k after she makes a drunken full
[50:45] Speaker 3: of herself and I remember seeing that one, but Skinner
[50:47] Speaker 3: doesn't know that bar Spike to her coffee with alcohol,
[50:49] Speaker 3: so it wasn't her far Bartfield Bag's like, oh my god,
[50:50] Speaker 3: I got it fired. I do remember that one. There
[50:53] Speaker 3: are any that I'm excited for, but there will be
[50:54] Speaker 3: ones where I go, oh yeah, I remember seeing this one.
[50:56] Speaker 1: I'm excited because this is all undiscovered country for me. Yeah.
[50:59] Speaker 3: That is the exciting part about the podcast is we're
[51:01] Speaker 3: now in the era where and I'm sure I'm assuming
[51:04] Speaker 3: a lot of the listeners out there as well and
[51:05] Speaker 3: the viewers going I haven't watched them either, so we're
[51:07] Speaker 3: all going to watch them together. We're all in this both, baby,
[51:10] Speaker 3: strap yourselves in and feel the geez oh yeah. And
[51:13] Speaker 3: the final one here is just Andrew swant' oh reabody.
[51:15] Speaker 3: He wrote, Okay, I'm afraid I must insist you see
[51:18] Speaker 3: my wife she has been most focal on the subject
[51:20] Speaker 3: of the one about friends, whereas the one of our friends.
[51:22] Speaker 3: When are we're going to get the one about friends?
[51:23] Speaker 3: Why aren't we getting the one about friends now?
[51:25] Speaker 1: And so on? So please the one of our friends?
[51:28] Speaker 1: Very good Joe Montagne voice from you. Look, I'm going
[51:31] Speaker 1: to defer this to Dana because.
[51:32] Speaker 3: This is it's coming. It's just basically yeah, you'll find
[51:36] Speaker 3: out why. It has definitely come. We've got two episodes
[51:38] Speaker 3: in the can. We just want to make sure it
[51:39] Speaker 3: can be done on a weekly basically before we launch it.
[51:41] Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to getting it out there. It will
[51:43] Speaker 3: be coming. I promise you. I promise you. It's up
[51:45] Speaker 3: because Nicola and I I do the show with my wife.
[51:47] Speaker 3: We recover where we recover friends. We're up to season
[51:49] Speaker 3: two at the moment, and it's coming back in your
[51:51] Speaker 3: ears and then in front of your eyes as well.
[51:53] Speaker 1: We're gonna be.
[51:53] Speaker 3: Filming the show for YouTube going forward as well.
[51:55] Speaker 1: Wow, hope you guys are.
[51:56] Speaker 3: Enjoying all the video content here on the YouTube channel
[51:58] Speaker 3: at the moment. It's taken a long time to edit up,
[52:00] Speaker 3: but I think you guys appreciate it. Should we go
[52:02] Speaker 3: one more question, mister Davis, just get to another news story?
[52:05] Speaker 1: Well there was the other news story.
[52:06] Speaker 3: Yeah, you take us away. What was the other new story?
[52:08] Speaker 1: Well, the I guess Team Simpsons appeared at what we
[52:13] Speaker 1: were calling sd CC San Diego Comic Con, and they
[52:17] Speaker 1: took a little bit of well, they poked a bit
[52:19] Speaker 1: of fun. I took the mickey the mickey literally, it
[52:25] Speaker 1: was pretty smart out of their corporate overlords at Disney
[52:30] Speaker 1: by all coming out, well, they made the thing, Oh yeah, no,
[52:33] Speaker 1: we're not going to count out to our corporate bosses
[52:35] Speaker 1: or anything like that. And then they all came out
[52:37] Speaker 1: and doctor doom masks.
[52:39] Speaker 3: This is the thing. I feel like the Simpsons creators
[52:41] Speaker 3: and the writers our pal Matt like to think, they're like,
[52:44] Speaker 3: we're not doing what Disney tails like, you're doing exactly.
[52:46] Speaker 1: You're doing exactly even if you think you're kicking your
[52:51] Speaker 1: raging kids on the machine. No, you were paying into
[52:54] Speaker 1: the missiones. Yeah. So and look, with all due respect,
[52:59] Speaker 1: this feels a little sort of daylight and dollar short
[53:02] Speaker 1: in terms of the.
[53:03] Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a year ago to the day San
[53:04] Speaker 3: Diego last year. I saw people reshowing the video on
[53:07] Speaker 3: Twitter like this was so monumental. I'm like, was it
[53:10] Speaker 3: was it? When he took the mask off, I'm like,
[53:13] Speaker 3: I did say one guy that was like the funniest
[53:14] Speaker 3: part of it. This whole thing is that one guy
[53:16] Speaker 3: going Jared Lettle just before he takes the mask. It
[53:20] Speaker 3: felt cool at the time, but to me, it just
[53:22] Speaker 3: felt like, oh, we are pulling out straws very much
[53:27] Speaker 3: smash class emergency, quickly get me our DJ all right,
[53:31] Speaker 3: final a question here from Jet Gerdam. Hello from Los Alamos,
[53:35] Speaker 3: New Mexico. And since I'm writing this at work quite
[53:38] Speaker 3: literally feet away from the set of the movie Oppenheimer.
[53:40] Speaker 1: Wow.
[53:41] Speaker 3: So this was sent thirteenth of June, so not one
[53:44] Speaker 3: of the film was being made, but when they were
[53:46] Speaker 3: where they made it. Yes, we've been casually picking away
[53:49] Speaker 3: at The Muppet Show on Disney Plus with my kids
[53:52] Speaker 3: an episode here and there in the evenings before bed.
[53:55] Speaker 3: We're not watching any in any particular order, mostly just
[53:57] Speaker 3: whatever celebrity name jumps out at me at the moment
[54:00] Speaker 3: during scrolling. That's what I do as well. When'm thinking throw,
[54:02] Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, I know that person. Yes, it's mostly
[54:04] Speaker 3: the youngest child watching with us, nearly eight years old,
[54:07] Speaker 3: but the older kids pop in and out because they
[54:08] Speaker 3: all secretly love the Muppets, whether they want to admit
[54:10] Speaker 3: it or not. It's been a fun trip for me
[54:12] Speaker 3: since various skits are triggering memories for me from when
[54:15] Speaker 3: I watch them as a kid, and the wife and
[54:16] Speaker 3: I get to explain who the various guest stars are
[54:18] Speaker 3: to this generation. I e. Harvey Korman and Liberacci. Watching
[54:23] Speaker 3: Fozzy not recognized Lana Horne last night got me thinking
[54:25] Speaker 3: about how one Brendan Dando once said that he was
[54:28] Speaker 3: literally the world's biggest Muppet fans. And I said, the
[54:30] Speaker 3: world's biggest, all the world's biggest. But you know I'm
[54:32] Speaker 3: a big fan, you hinted. He always says or something
[54:34] Speaker 3: like that. And now I want to know when he's
[54:37] Speaker 3: going to put us one all these silly distractions of Bob's, Burger's,
[54:40] Speaker 3: Gilmore Girl podcasts and other suggestions, and I finally settle
[54:43] Speaker 3: down on his one true passion and give us that
[54:44] Speaker 3: long away toed the Muppet Show podcast Talking Muppets on
[54:47] Speaker 3: the four and on the Feldt Finger Discount Network.
[54:51] Speaker 1: Wow, something sounds like someone's angling for a position on
[54:54] Speaker 1: the board. Well, these are all valid. I would love
[54:58] Speaker 1: to do a Muppets podcast, is all allerget Yeah, by
[55:01] Speaker 1: all means, try and launch it, But we've got so
[55:02] Speaker 1: many other projects on the go we haven't. Someone are
[55:04] Speaker 1: going to have to get thrown over.
[55:06] Speaker 3: Yeah, So you can't keep adding things. Things have to
[55:09] Speaker 3: make way for other things to come in. Indeed, unless
[55:11] Speaker 3: we can just record shit and pay someone to edit
[55:14] Speaker 3: for us, that we could do that.
[55:15] Speaker 1: Then there's fine, there we go. Yeah, you know how
[55:17] Speaker 1: that happens.
[55:18] Speaker 3: Yes, but that is our mail bag slash news episode
[55:21] Speaker 3: for July twenty twenty five, he had four Finger Discount.
[55:24] Speaker 3: Thank you to everybody who was watching us on YouTube
[55:26] Speaker 3: or listening to us in audio podcasts world. Don't forget
[55:28] Speaker 3: to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Revy.
[55:31] Speaker 1: Do you find this show? Subscribed to us on YouTube?
[55:33] Speaker 1: Gives the thumbsut common below. Tell us what your thoughts
[55:35] Speaker 1: are on all the questions to be answered today and
[55:36] Speaker 1: give us your answers.
[55:38] Speaker 3: We'd love to read all those and we will respond
[55:39] Speaker 3: to each and every single one of them, and please
[55:42] Speaker 3: leave us reviews, five star reviews on Apple whereview do
[55:45] Speaker 3: you listen to the show, and we read all of
[55:46] Speaker 3: those as well. The next episode of four Finger Discount,
[55:50] Speaker 3: we shall be going back to season twenty four Women
[55:54] Speaker 3: and a Manicure.
[55:55] Speaker 1: Is that right? Four great women or great women and
[55:58] Speaker 1: an anticure? Yes, it was not.
[56:01] Speaker 3: Great, So look forward to that one guys, mister Davis,
[56:03] Speaker 3: and you find all those incredible listener slash viewers out there.
[56:06] Speaker 1: I just keep listening to two great men in a
[56:08] Speaker 1: podcast

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