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I heartily endorse this event or

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product. Ahoy,

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hoy everybody and welcome to Talk to the Audience

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where this is always death. I am one of

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your hosts, the guy who's campaigning for a return

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of the Back to the Future ride, Bob Mackey.

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Who is here with me today as always? The

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creator of Duff McKagan, Henry Gilbert! Yes and

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welcome to our community podcast, this podcast post

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at the end of the month on the

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Patreon, at the beginning of the month on

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the free feed. And in this podcast we

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talk about what's happening in the Simpsons world

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and in our world. And then we respond

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to your questions and comments from the last

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round of episodes. And we are recording this

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one week earlier than normal. Normally we record this the

0:46

day at posts or the day before, but we have

0:48

big plans that we can't tell you about. But you're

0:50

gonna, your hats will be flying off your heads, your

0:53

bow ties will be spinning. I say do not

0:55

wear hats or bow ties until the news comes

0:57

out because we don't want anyone to get hurt.

1:00

It's for your own good, okay? We're doing

1:02

this for your own good. And especially be

1:05

careful you're not under any ventilation shafts as

1:07

well that might suck your hats in. But

1:09

you're never getting those hats back. But this,

1:11

because we're recording this a week early and

1:14

because summer has arrived, there is

1:16

very little Simpsons news to be

1:18

had. Just some rumors, just some

1:20

speculation. Of course last

1:23

month the season 35 wrapped up

1:25

and last month we had a horrifying new

1:28

short. So no new

1:30

episodes this month, thankfully no new shorts this

1:32

month. So we're in the clear when it

1:34

comes to new Simpsons to talk about. But

1:37

I guess there are new Simpsons references

1:39

to talk about because we just

1:41

had a recent interview with Al Jean saying, oh

1:43

you know Simpsons and Bluey, they're the most watched

1:45

things on Disney Plus. We'd love to do a

1:47

crossover. And Bluey has made the

1:49

first move. Because on the

1:52

official Bluey TikTok account, they

1:54

posted basically a Bluey version

1:56

of the Simpsons opening made

1:59

either with... stop-motion or CGI that

2:01

looks like stop-motion and they

2:04

did their own version of the Simpsons theme which

2:06

makes me think they Probably got permission to do

2:08

this. So something might be in the works Yeah,

2:11

it in putting it on the

2:14

their their tick-tock account as well And

2:16

then it's spreading across social media tells

2:18

me like they this is an official

2:21

rollout I mean, I think if I'm

2:23

Algene I would note

2:25

how the some of the biggest reaction

2:27

was just having like a few frames

2:29

of bluey in that short And I

2:31

think he's finally realizing like wait bluey

2:33

is the new hot thing We got

2:35

to jump on bluey and get some

2:37

more, you know relevance from them And

2:39

they I am certain that

2:42

I said it last month if you

2:44

are an Australian animator You must love

2:46

the Simpsons if you're under the age

2:48

of 50 you must love the Simpsons

2:50

I'm seeing a Springfield file style crossover

2:53

where bluey and the gang bluey jr.

2:55

Mrs Bluey they all hang out with

2:57

Homer and March and antics ensue I'm

2:59

guessing and Probably

3:02

they'd have some light jokes about australia. Oh,

3:04

man They got a reference part versus Australia

3:06

when they hang out with each other then

3:08

Oh, I'm sure they will

3:10

in keeping with the show's recent tradition of

3:13

calling back to the classic era I I

3:15

imagine there will be to bias will make

3:17

an appearance or they'll be paying for things

3:19

in dollar I'm calling it

3:21

right here folks Though I guess

3:23

that the flag of the boot kicking the

3:25

bear ass that is certainly too dirty for

3:27

the world of bluey Yes, even

3:29

though it gets rather rye-balled. It's still a

3:31

show for very little children. So Yeah,

3:34

if you want to watch this it's on

3:37

their tick-tock. It's very cute. I'll say it's

3:39

very cute and they're having fun And I

3:41

imagine by mid season 36, we're

3:43

gonna see some bluey couch gag or something like

3:45

that But moving on in

3:48

the rumors and speculation department we've been talking about

3:50

the fate of Springfield

3:52

in these Universal Studios Park for a

3:54

very long time and there are more

3:56

rumors of rumbling because the contract in

3:58

2028 because it was a 20 year

4:00

contract. 2028

4:03

once seemed like a very far time away,

4:06

but now it's four years from now. And

4:08

there is some speculation that's the Simpsons

4:10

world within Universal Studios. I think it's

4:13

just called Springfield, USA. Yeah,

4:15

I think so, yeah. Or maybe you

4:17

can join them as like, it's Krustyland

4:19

plus Springfield, USA, and it's like really

4:21

two zones. In any case, people

4:24

are saying that this is gonna be

4:26

going bye-bye when the contract expires, and

4:29

it will be replaced by 2030 with

4:32

seemingly a Pokemon style

4:34

park. Nothing has been confirmed.

4:36

These are all rumors and speculation, but

4:39

it does seem like there's

4:42

not a lot of value in Disney keeping this

4:44

license going. And honestly, I like

4:46

that part of Universal, but it's getting

4:48

to the point where you can tell it's

4:51

getting older. Things don't look as

4:53

good as they used to. The ride is built

4:55

on the architecture of a ride that was opened

4:57

in 1991. So

5:00

there's a bit of a dated feeling to it

5:02

that I feel like it's gonna cost too much

5:04

to refresh the entire Springfield, so it might be

5:06

best to just get rid of it and bring

5:08

in Pokemon, which by the way, Pokemon much bigger

5:10

than the Simpsons, much wider audience than the Simpsons,

5:13

even though it's 10 years

5:15

younger than the Simpsons. And

5:17

it's one, unlike the Simpsons, that

5:19

they can copy at different parks

5:22

around the world. Like that is

5:24

a downside of Simpsons, that when

5:26

they put all this work into

5:28

building and planning out Simpsons at

5:30

Universal, they can build the Springfield

5:33

stuff fairly similar in Orlando and

5:35

Hollywood, but Osaka

5:37

and Shanghai, for those

5:39

Universal parks, Simpsons is

5:42

not big enough there to warrant taking up

5:44

all of that space. It would not be

5:46

very popular, so they wouldn't do it. So

5:49

that means you get Pokemon,

5:51

that is a global brand that

5:53

you can open in any park

5:55

in the world that Simpsons is

5:57

not. But the rumor I saw...

6:00

recently, which again, this is all like a

6:02

theme park blogger told a

6:04

friend purple monkey dishwasher. But

6:08

some had before been thinking that it

6:10

might be as early as like next

6:12

year they shut it down and get

6:14

an early start on Pokemon. But this

6:16

newest rumor was like, they're going to

6:18

run it out until the expiration in

6:20

2028. So you might

6:23

have more time if you've never been

6:25

to either of the spring fields in

6:27

the, in the U S at Hollywood

6:29

Orlando. You know, you might have a

6:31

little extra time, but don't wait too

6:33

long, uh, for, for the closure date

6:35

whenever that'll get announced. Yeah.

6:37

I mean, I just feel like we were

6:39

lucky in the first place to get a Simpsons theme park

6:42

for 20 years. So I can't be

6:44

too sad that it's going away, but it

6:46

did hit at, you know, peak Simpsons relevancy

6:48

in terms of just how many Simpsons things

6:51

there were the movie, the game, the show

6:53

existing for 15 years. And

6:55

now that's so far in the rear view mirror.

6:58

Uh, it feels kind of a little, a little

7:00

strange when we covered it on podcast, the ride,

7:02

you made this excellent point. I still remember of

7:04

just that it, it is

7:06

dated now. Simpsons doesn't look like

7:09

the ride to Simpsons looks. Yeah.

7:12

It's dated because in the line of who talks

7:14

to you, that instantly makes it dated and

7:18

certain characters have their old voices. And when

7:20

you hear that, you're like, Oh, this is

7:22

old immediately. And then, you know, certain

7:25

characters sound a lot younger than they used

7:27

to as well. So it does feel like

7:29

it's from a different time, but I don't

7:31

know. It's part of getting old, but 2008

7:34

still feels like, Oh, that was yesterday. Right now

7:36

it was, it was a 16 years ago old

7:38

man. And it's time to a bulldozer so Pikachu

7:40

can move in. But will,

7:42

will they get a big presence in

7:44

Disney to make up for this? That

7:47

again, going back to the shorts, that

7:49

feels like Al Jean is, is playing

7:51

ball for that very reason to be

7:53

friendly with Disney when it's time to

7:55

start planning Disney parks. He might already

7:57

be in a bunch of meetings that

7:59

they're like, okay. Hey, here's the plan

8:01

for seven years from now when we

8:03

build Springfield in California Adventure or whatever.

8:06

Hey, frankly, I feel that entire Star Wars land was a

8:08

mistake, so let's just get rid of that. That

8:12

four, in seven

8:14

or eight years, there'll be a four hour video

8:16

on why the Simpsons land fucked up. It's,

8:19

I mean, it's okay if you like

8:21

that Star Wars land and I kind

8:23

of find it interesting, but it's all

8:25

built around the three newer movies which

8:27

nobody really cares about. I think

8:29

we overestimated how much people would care about those. It

8:32

was a huge mistake to open it like

8:34

the same year as Rise of Skywalker and

8:37

they're like, yeah, everybody's gonna love C and

8:39

Ray all of the time here. It's like,

8:41

no, no, people are, it just brings them

8:43

down to see Ray and Finn and Poe

8:46

Dameron. It reminds them of the failure of

8:48

that, at the very least the last movie.

8:50

Yeah, it's kind of like opening a Star

8:52

Wars park the day before the Phantom Menace

8:55

hits theaters. Yeah, and it's in-

8:57

Walk around Jar Jar's. We

9:00

invested so much in our Jar Jar Binks walk

9:02

around and now we find out everybody hates him.

9:05

So yeah, those are some theme park rumors

9:07

and now we have to move on to

9:09

talk about spurious potential lawsuits because

9:12

Guns N' Roses band member Duff

9:14

McKagan, he's been saying this

9:16

in the past, he's saying it again, he's claiming

9:18

that Duff Beer is named after him and

9:20

if you read the story about this,

9:22

he claims that the show contacted him

9:24

in 1988 to

9:27

get permission to use his name Duff. And

9:30

of course, you don't have to do

9:32

much thinking to realize this is all

9:34

bullshit and Jay Kogan is

9:37

on the record saying, no, this never happened.

9:39

I think Macarena even said, no, we never

9:41

contacted him. The simple pun or the simple

9:43

joke is that

9:46

Duff just means your butts and

9:48

Jay Kogan says, quote, Duff is

9:51

a beer for people who sit on their

9:53

fat ass all day. So that's as elaborate

9:55

as it gets. This is not referencing the

9:58

lesser known band member of. and Roses

10:00

the only reason I know about Duff

10:02

McKagan is because the video

10:04

game Mega Man X5 for whatever reason

10:07

in the localization it renamed all the

10:09

robot masters after rock and roll people

10:12

and the whale robot was named Duff McWailing

10:14

and that's the only thing I know about

10:16

this guy so he should be filing a

10:19

lawsuit against Capcom USA exactly

10:21

yes yeah he should be pointing into that the

10:23

his I mean rockers are

10:26

you know they they self mythologize so

10:28

much that it's I guess we shouldn't

10:30

be surprised he is still saying this

10:32

after like more than a decade ago

10:34

this was said publicly and I'm sure

10:37

he's been saying it since 1990 I

10:40

go they named it after me which

10:42

it's like we know the production on

10:44

the Simpsons they would have named Duff

10:46

like Jay Kogan would have named it

10:48

in that writers room in

10:51

1989 which Guns N' Roses was a

10:53

known thing then but you know

10:55

the Simpsons writers in 1989 were

10:58

not the coolest guys who were like

11:00

oh yeah let's name it after this

11:02

GNR member the third most famous GNR

11:04

member yeah I

11:07

it's just that I mean he's also 60

11:09

and it's weird that he still

11:11

wants to be known for his love of

11:13

drinking beer yeah that it's it's sad in

11:16

that way but it's it has been nice

11:18

to see on Twitter even seeing you know

11:20

Jay like Jay Kogan say again yes I've

11:22

said this a million times that Al Jean

11:25

say I was in the room when he

11:27

said it I know why he brought it

11:29

up and Mike Reese agree like at least

11:32

they it's it's more of old man it's

11:34

a bunch of old men telling stories really

11:36

but that this silly

11:38

old rocker thinking it's because Simpsons are like

11:41

you we know you Duff love drinking beer

11:43

and so we're gonna make a thing named

11:45

after you I guess he's he

11:47

was a legendary beer drinker I only know about

11:49

him through Mega Man games and what

11:51

little I know about Guns N Roses but yeah it's

11:53

I like that Jay Kogan brought this up I like

11:56

that he had to address it because I think we

11:58

forget that Duff is a pun It's

12:00

just the word Duff for your butts

12:03

is so antiquated that I

12:05

think we tend to forget everyone is

12:07

drinking aspier You're

12:09

right. It's it's a dirtier

12:11

or sadder joke than it's it's meant to

12:14

be can't get enough that wonderful Duff like

12:16

though I That

12:18

example I think of in

12:20

Mike Reese's book. He brought up a similar one

12:23

where He says

12:25

since the beginning the joke in the opening

12:27

is that it's like the simps Sons

12:30

and it's supposed to be like for a second

12:32

you're supposed to think the name of the show

12:34

is the simps like these Simpletons

12:36

and then it's like sons it comes in

12:38

that's why the clouds reveal in that way

12:40

But it it's never feels like it has

12:43

never felt like that joke to me, but

12:45

that was her intention Yeah, and

12:47

I think even Simpson simpletons I think that's lost

12:49

to where we did we just take it as

12:51

this institution We never questioned the name, but that

12:53

was the intent from the very beginning Yeah,

12:56

I think you know again the

12:59

Duff should say Duff McKagan should be saying

13:01

oh You know I had personalized stationary

13:03

all the time and they stole that in the first

13:05

season of the Simpsons Just get all the season one

13:07

jokes and say that was you Yeah,

13:11

I invented mr. Dandy He's

13:13

based on me. I was

13:16

always having dandy candy and and

13:18

my friend Howard had flowers Yep,

13:21

I would find different avenues. Mr. McKagan

13:24

moving on this is a this new

13:26

stories about us having no news, but

13:29

Sandio comic-con is happening this month. There

13:31

is going to be a Simpsons panel

13:33

obviously and Likely

13:35

teasing the next treehouse of horror and other

13:37

things I believe this is going to be

13:39

more exciting than last year's because the strike

13:42

was happening so We

13:44

couldn't really celebrate television in the same

13:46

way with so many people's jobs and

13:48

livelihoods in jeopardy That's

13:50

right. Yeah, the writers like didn't show up We

13:53

couldn't show up to it and promote it and

13:55

same with the actors so this year You know

13:57

I would think they'll it'll be their usual crew

14:00

Selma and Jean, Stephanie Gillis,

14:02

Carolyn O'Meenay, probably hosted by

14:05

Yardley Smith, and it'll just

14:07

be a fun time going through what's gonna happen.

14:09

No, Matt Groening will definitely be there. He

14:11

loves Comic-Con. If he's not a

14:14

Comic-Con, I would be worried. So

14:16

I would expect that in a

14:19

tease of whatever the treehouse is gonna

14:21

be. They love to reveal the treehouse

14:24

that year. And I

14:26

wonder, will the first

14:28

episode of the season be the treehouse,

14:30

or will they actually get out the

14:32

season premiere before treehouse this year? What's

14:34

it gonna be? And will treehouse air

14:36

before Halloween? We're always asking

14:38

that. Or will it be after the election?

14:40

I feel like they gotta get it out

14:42

before election day, right? I

14:45

have a feeling there's going to be an election-based

14:47

short in there. There kind of has to be

14:49

with this election. Al Jean won't

14:51

let him do it any other way. And

14:53

I bet there'll be new merchandise revealed and stuff

14:55

too there. Yes. Yeah, so look

14:58

forward to that. We'll be reporting on that next month,

15:00

at the end of next month. And if you're gonna be

15:02

at the San Diego Comic-Con, check out

15:05

the Mission Hill 25th Anniversary Show with Bill

15:07

and Josh. They're doing that on July 25th.

15:10

That is a separate admission price. But from what

15:12

I hear, from what Henry's told me, these Mission

15:14

Hill live shows are a lot of fun. They

15:17

always have sells that you can win, things you

15:19

can buy, merch, and you get to watch original

15:22

Mission Hill with the intact music, 4K upscaled with

15:24

the whole audience. And I hear it's great. And

15:27

I think I've been seeing Bill and

15:29

Josh tease that for the San Diego

15:31

show, because they have their SoCal buddies,

15:33

that there might be some surprise guests

15:35

at this one as well. So I

15:37

feel like it might be an even

15:39

better Mission Hill 25th

15:42

Anniversary thing. I'm gonna call it, I'm gonna

15:44

say Brian Posein makes an appearance. There's

15:47

no way Brian Posein isn't in San Diego that

15:49

week too. Same with Scott Menville. He's gotta be

15:51

there for Teen Titans promotion. Brian

15:53

Posein will just be in the audience no matter what, so they

15:55

can pull him up on stage. Well

15:58

he tours a lot, so maybe he'll, yeah. Maybe he'll

16:00

be out of town, but I would think he's

16:02

gonna be at Comic Con for sure, yeah. So

16:04

yeah, that is it when it comes to Simpsons

16:07

News. Slim Pickens this month. Let's

16:09

talk about our news. So first, I

16:11

wouldn't call this bad news, I would

16:13

call it different news, because we are

16:15

taking the first week of July off

16:17

to have a little summer break. We're

16:19

trying to normalize taking two breaks off a

16:22

year, one at the beginning of the year,

16:24

one in the middle of the year, just

16:26

basically giving ourselves two vacation weeks. But we

16:28

have things in the works, so the content

16:30

feeds will never run dry. So I'll explain

16:33

what's going on during that first

16:35

week of July. So for patrons, there will

16:37

be no new podcast for the first week

16:39

of July, which means no new episode of

16:41

What a Cartoon that month. But to tide

16:44

you over, I'm putting a little

16:46

bonus thing in the Patreon feed that we've

16:48

been holding on to for an entire year.

16:50

So there will be something in there for

16:53

you to enjoy during the first

16:55

week of July, never fear. Yes,

16:57

yeah, look forward to that. And plus,

16:59

you'll still have a six hour episode

17:01

of Mulan movie that's a week old

17:03

that maybe you haven't even finished yet.

17:05

Give that a little uptime. The Mulan

17:07

episode is very long. And so for

17:10

non patrons, because we're one week ahead

17:12

on the Patreon, this will be happening

17:14

during week two of July for you.

17:17

And during this week, we're gonna be putting

17:19

some stuff in the free feed to keep

17:21

you busy. There will be an episode of

17:23

both Talking Futurama and Blab and Bapatman, the

17:25

animated series, in the free feed the second

17:27

week of July instead of our normal podcast.

17:29

And that will let you get a sample

17:32

of what's going on on the Patreon at

17:34

patreon.com/Talking Simpsons. And maybe it will encourage you

17:36

to sign up for five bucks to hear

17:38

other episodes just like that. So again, first

17:40

week on the Patreon, there's going to be

17:42

no regular podcast but one bonus thing, second

17:44

week for the free feed, no

17:47

regular podcast, but some bonus stuff in there

17:49

for you. And that'll give us a nice

17:51

little summer break because we're taking a tiny

17:53

bit of time off and we're also accounting

17:55

for some travel we're doing for again, big

17:57

things we can't talk about right now. for

18:00

the good of the show and you're going to be

18:02

still happy that first week of July. Yeah

18:04

and then at the week you're hearing

18:07

this at the end of June or

18:09

early July, keep watching the skis and

18:11

by skis I mean social media because

18:13

you might see some teases for what's

18:16

going on. We're both very excited and

18:18

nervous so thank you for your patience

18:20

and thank you for allowing us to take a

18:22

little bit of time off even though with the

18:24

way things work we will be working that first

18:26

and second week of July. We're just

18:28

taking a week off to catch up a little

18:31

more with the days we'll be losing in June

18:33

that we can't record. Yes yeah

18:35

and I hope you guys enjoy hearing

18:38

the Batman and the Futurama podcast and

18:40

know that there is now Bob just

18:42

did a new count 180 more than

18:44

180 of those

18:48

similar podcasts at your fingertips if you sign

18:50

up at the ad-free five

18:52

dollar level. Very soon we can go

18:54

out and say two hundreds. I'm

18:57

going to enjoy when that happens so thank

18:59

you for your patience once again we appreciate

19:01

your patience and your money and your loyalty.

19:04

So moving on for five dollar

19:06

and up patrons at patreon.com/Talking Simpsons

19:09

there's going to be an episode

19:11

of Talking Futurama all about the

19:13

second Comedy Central episode in Agada

19:15

de Lila a very horny

19:17

episode in which Lila and Zat Brannigan

19:19

are stranded on a planet and they

19:21

basically become Adam and Eve figures although

19:23

it's all a very large and elaborate

19:26

lie concocted by Zap in an episode

19:28

they couldn't make today but we still

19:30

had fun with it. Yeah

19:32

it's a good it's a good time with

19:34

a couple also mysteries in it but yeah

19:36

and a fun and a fun guest star

19:39

I forgot about. I only

19:41

remembered the the nudeness on the planet I'd

19:43

forgotten all the other fun stuff. We recorded

19:45

the episode weeks ago and I forgot the

19:47

guest star until you brought it up to

19:49

me. Yes a fun guest star that's really

19:52

unexpected and then Talking of the

19:54

Hill we're going to be covering Revenge of

19:56

the Ludefisk. It's an episode about a church

19:58

burning to the ground and stinky poo. and

20:00

Mary Tyler Moore is the guest star. Very,

20:02

very funny, a very funny Bobby slash cotton

20:04

episode that we had a lot of fun

20:06

with. Yeah, when I

20:09

was putting together the schedule, it's when

20:11

it hit me that both of the

20:13

July $5 podcasts are

20:17

very biblical. They're ones Adam and Eve

20:19

and one is about a church burning.

20:21

Yeah, so bone up on your Bible

20:23

for this month's Patreon podcast. And then

20:26

on the $10 feed, I have one question for all

20:28

of you. Have you ever heard the

20:30

wolf cry to the blue corn moon? Well,

20:32

I have because I'm doing a lot of

20:34

research on Pocahontas, which is the movie for

20:37

July on the what a cartoon movie tier,

20:40

$10 at patreon.com/Talking Simpsons. We

20:42

are continuing the summer of

20:45

Disney Renaissance by plowing backwards

20:47

and visiting Pocahontas. And then we're gonna

20:50

jump forwards in August to talk about

20:52

Tarzan. But yes, I am reading a

20:54

lot about the actual history of Pocahontas

20:57

and having a lot of fun learning about

21:00

the movie and how it was the most

21:02

prestige of prestige Disney projects, or that at

21:04

least that's how it was perceived internally. Well,

21:07

you know, I'm happy after Pocahontas

21:10

the month after that is Tarzan,

21:12

a film with no strange racial

21:14

subtext that you could read into

21:16

it or anything. It's just a

21:18

normal, normal movie. It's all smooth

21:20

sailing, but Pocahontas, there are

21:22

things to like about it despite its problematic qualities. And

21:24

we're gonna talk a lot about that. Perhaps

21:27

another six hour what a cartoon movie podcast because they're

21:29

all turning into that. But yes, you can get the

21:31

entire thing at the $10 tier at

21:33

patreon.com/Talking Simpsons. If you're on the $5 tier

21:35

or the free feed, you'll get a little

21:38

sample of the history segment. And

21:40

again, the $10 tier has nearly, I think,

21:42

five and a half plus years of what

21:45

a cartoon movie episodes and they're all very,

21:47

very long. And now it's time to talk

21:49

about what we've been playing and watching that's

21:51

unrelated to our programs. And I will tell

21:53

everyone out there, I am among

21:56

the few who have finished Final Fantasy VII

21:58

Rebirth at 104. And

22:00

I think I've been talking about it every month

22:02

since March because I began it on March 10th

22:05

And I think I finished it on June 10th or June

22:07

13th. So it was three months of playing the same game

22:10

I really enjoyed it. I will say

22:12

the last 15 hours made me not enjoy

22:14

it It made me regret

22:16

the time I spent with it. The game does

22:19

not have a very satisfying landing and

22:22

I just had to remind myself look back

22:24

at all the fun you had don't don't

22:26

just single out this final dungeon This

22:28

irritating last boss and only think

22:30

about that don't dwell on that because the rest of

22:32

the game is good I just has a it has

22:34

a problem knowing when to finish and I assumed I

22:37

had fought the last boss and then there were eight

22:39

More so that explains a lot as to what's happening

22:42

in Final Fantasy 7 rebirth Yeah,

22:45

I won't get spoilery here. But yeah, it's like

22:48

It's just like in the first game where

22:50

they had this totally good You

22:53

know just FF adventure and then it is

22:56

such even more than it remake

22:59

it is such a Kingdom

23:02

Hearts ending like it is all

23:04

it's a Kingdom Hearts super duper

23:06

boss fight That's like long cutscenes

23:08

giant boss fight long cutscenes and

23:10

then should you die? You're

23:13

gonna have to watch those cutscenes again and you

23:15

can't skip them. Yeah, I'm not

23:18

gonna give anything away the final boss It's

23:21

very irritating and other people have this problem too.

23:24

I was tweeting about it online. It's

23:26

it's a final boss It's already very hard and

23:29

once you get him down to barely any health

23:32

He doesn't attack and you basically have a 15-second

23:34

window To whittle down his health before

23:36

he launches an unblockable attack that kills you in one

23:38

hit and it took me four tries to get Back

23:40

up to that point again and figure out what to

23:42

do because a lot of it

23:44

is random It's like oh, did you save up these

23:47

attacks or what's your hip? What's your hip points at

23:49

now? Do you have enough to withstand these these other

23:51

things that are happening? It's a lot of it is

23:53

left up the chance and a lot of it is

23:55

having to repeat the battle To get

23:57

the circumstances in the right condition to withstand

24:00

that final 10 seconds. So don't

24:02

like how it ended. I don't know what this third

24:04

game is gonna be, but I'm interested in finding out.

24:08

Hey, you'll know that in the next

24:10

game, if it's just like the first

24:12

two, then you will have 90 hours

24:14

of a really great game and then

24:16

a 10 hour to 20 hour Kingdom

24:18

Hearts finale. For no reason, everyone

24:20

goes back to level one again. They lose all their

24:22

materia, they forget all their skills. I'm

24:25

also playing Pikmin 4. I started that, it came

24:27

out in the midst of moving chaos when I

24:29

was moving internationally. So I just sort of put

24:32

it on the back burner. I was

24:34

waiting for when the time is right and I'm

24:36

really, really enjoying it. I'm

24:38

at the point of the game where basically everything

24:40

is opened up and I understand what the entire

24:42

game will be like, what all the different modes

24:44

are. And it is a lot

24:46

of the core Pikmin stuff I like, but

24:48

also a lot of extra modes that I

24:50

find really build off of the fundamentals of

24:53

Pikmin and don't feel too foreign. The

24:55

night mode is basically a tower defense,

24:58

but it works as

25:00

Pikmin should work. And I

25:02

really enjoy the single player

25:04

versus CPU battles, where it brings back a

25:07

lot of the tension of the first Pikmin

25:09

game in splitting up your duties and trying

25:11

to do things within a certain time

25:14

limit, which the game dropped completely after the

25:16

first one. I like the introduction of that

25:18

in little bursts. It keeps me on my

25:20

toes. It gets you ready

25:22

to be a manager of a Japanese office

25:24

space too. Yeah. I was

25:26

following the Dandori lifestyle before Pikmin 4, but

25:28

now I'm even more devoted. I

25:31

also think that when they added, it

25:34

feels like it is the first true

25:36

Pikmin game and all previous Pikmin games

25:38

were practiced for Pikmin 4. I

25:41

think too that the addition

25:43

of your dog sidekick really

25:46

ups the game because you have

25:48

like, you now have an AI

25:50

pal who will just do the

25:53

little side things for you that really also helps a

25:55

lot with the multitasking, but it's not as good as

25:57

if you did it yourself, but you can tell this.

26:00

Well, could you just move this thing for me? I'll go over

26:02

here with 30 guys. Yeah, it's

26:04

more satisfying than in Pikmin 3 when you had

26:06

three different characters you were swapping between. I

26:09

like having one beast in just me, and it's

26:11

a lot more satisfying that way. And in terms

26:13

of watching stuff, those are the only games I've

26:15

been playing. In terms of watching stuff, I

26:18

am now one of the biggest upload superfans because

26:20

I have just finished season two, and

26:23

it remains pretty good. I will say it's

26:25

not great. I am enjoying it. There

26:27

are a lot of Greg Daniels-y things I like. And

26:30

here's the thing, I knew his son wrote for the

26:32

show. It's one of the things I was reading about

26:34

it when we were covering it, like three or four

26:36

times on Talking in the Hill, just bringing it up.

26:38

Oh, yeah, Owen Daniels writes for the show. And

26:41

there's this one comedic actor in the show. He's

26:44

this redhead, and his role is to

26:46

be constantly humiliated and

26:48

for everyone to find him disgusting. And

26:50

I was thinking, well, why isn't Henry Zabrowski playing this role? It

26:52

feels like it was made for him. And

26:55

the reason is, it's played by Owen Daniels. Greg

26:57

Daniels' son is an actor in the show, and

26:59

I like the fact that, yes, son, you

27:02

will get a role in my show. I know

27:04

that's unfair to other actors, but you will be

27:06

the disgusting pig boy everyone hates. That's

27:10

fair, or that's closer to fair. I

27:12

think that's him recognizing he knows the

27:14

Nepo baby stuff that's going around, and

27:16

rightly that has been thrown at people.

27:18

So, yeah, I guess giving him all

27:21

of the like gross

27:23

dude joke characters, like is he like

27:26

Kevin from The Office then kind of

27:28

guy? I

27:30

guess kind of. He's kind of one of

27:32

those style characters, just one you're supposed to

27:34

find repulsive and one who everyone is irritated

27:37

by. Okay, well, that sounds

27:39

like a better use of his scion

27:41

than the dating reality show that he

27:43

did with his daughter. Right,

27:45

right. I'm more of a fan

27:47

of the son project than the daughter project. So,

27:50

again, I will give my like a halfhearted thumbs

27:52

up to upload, I'm ready to jump into season

27:54

three, which I'm guessing is the last season of

27:56

the show, but it's just interesting to see like

27:59

these under the roof. radar shows that

28:01

he's making that are semi-worthwhile.

28:04

And I've also been watching a very

28:06

under promoted original anime that's on Disney

28:08

Plus, which is Sandland. It

28:11

shockingly went under promoted even though the

28:13

creator died in the spring,

28:15

Akira Toriyama. I figured that'd be a great time

28:17

to say, hey look, it's the last anime he

28:20

worked on. You should watch it, but Disney Plus

28:22

is not interested in advertising any of the anime

28:24

they have. I will say

28:26

it's very good. I never read the original manga, which is only

28:28

one volume. And it's a 13

28:30

episode series. The first six cover that

28:32

one volume of manga, but then the

28:34

last seven are a new story that

28:36

takes place afterwards. I'm really liking it.

28:38

It is like Akira Toriyama's Mad Max

28:40

in a way. It's like cutesy Mad

28:42

Max where they're in a desert world,

28:45

water's a very important resource and they're fighting

28:47

for it. And it is one of

28:49

those anime series that I've seen lately

28:51

that are almost purely CGI, and

28:53

they still use some 2D elements from

28:55

time to time, but the CGI is

28:57

so good that within seconds you

28:59

forget that it is not traditionally hand

29:02

animated. And I don't know why Western

29:04

studios aren't doing the same thing for

29:06

non-feature presentations. Japan really has this on

29:08

lock, and I'm very impressed by what

29:11

they've been doing lately. I

29:13

wonder if it's the same group at

29:15

Funimation doing it that

29:17

did the Dragon Ball Super superhero

29:19

movie that I thought did CGI

29:24

approach to the Toriyama style so

29:26

very well. But

29:28

it's interesting that Sandland's getting, yeah,

29:30

it got its own show and

29:32

also a video game. And

29:35

I remember when Sandland was new as a

29:37

comic because it

29:39

was almost a simultaneously release or close to

29:41

it in the 90s when

29:44

it came out in the US. And it was

29:46

sort of like, oh, the Dragon Ball guy did

29:48

a new thing, but then it kind of came

29:51

and went really quick. I think I read the

29:53

first chapter, but didn't keep

29:55

up with it back in the day and never caught

29:57

up with it. Yeah, we're in the middle of

29:59

a Sandland. and Renaissance and

30:01

there's a new game that's out. The

30:04

anime just came out and I

30:06

guess there was a movie last

30:09

year. So I guess

30:11

there's not a whole lot of Toriyama

30:13

stuff after Dragon Ball. There's this and

30:15

I think it's called Kawa. Oh, okay.

30:17

I had never even heard of that

30:19

one. Yeah, but when Sandland came

30:22

out and I saw it in Borders or whatever,

30:24

I was kind of burned out on Dragon Ball

30:26

and the whole Akira Toriyama look, but now I

30:28

treasure it because there's only so much of it

30:31

and we were getting a little snobbish

30:33

about him at a certain time in history. We

30:35

didn't realize how good we had it. It

30:37

was, we took him for granted. I was

30:40

feeling that the day we're recording this was

30:42

the Nintendo Direct and there was the Dragon

30:44

Quest 3, HD

30:48

2D, or I forget the crazy name for it,

30:50

but the remake of Dragon Quest 3. And

30:53

when Yuji Horii was promoting it, like

30:55

it was the first time he's had

30:58

to promote the Dragon Quest game after

31:00

Toriyama passed away and it was, yeah,

31:02

it was another reminder of the

31:05

hole he's left. Yep, but

31:07

hey, if you've never read Sandland, I imagine

31:09

most people didn't. It's a very

31:11

nice adaptation and I'm looking forward to watching more

31:13

of the new story. As far

31:16

as movies go, I did see

31:18

Furiosa, though there will be a retronauts about

31:20

Mad Max very soon after

31:22

this, or perhaps right before this, where we give

31:24

a lot of Furiosa opinions. It's one of those

31:26

things, I forget if we talked about it, Henry,

31:28

I know you saw it in the last month's

31:30

talk to the audience, but it's one of those

31:32

things where you can't compare it to Fury Road,

31:34

but the movie dares you to compare it to

31:36

Fury Road at every turn, especially when they show

31:38

you clips at the very end of Fury Road.

31:41

And it is George Miller's mistake

31:43

to have made the best action

31:45

movie ever created by humankind

31:48

and then make another one after it because nothing

31:50

can compare to Fury Road and

31:52

then you make something that's directly connected to it.

31:54

So you just can't stop thinking of Fury Road.

31:57

I made the mistake of watching Fury Road again

31:59

the day before. before I saw Furiosa. That

32:02

probably would have made me dislike

32:04

Furiosa more if I'd seen

32:06

Fury Road in fresh memory instead of

32:08

like remembering it as just, you

32:11

know, the one of my

32:13

best times watching any movie in a

32:15

theater. And yeah, but Furiosa is

32:17

totally good. It's a good movie. I'm

32:19

stealing this from the blank check guys, but they

32:22

said, you know, if a person,

32:24

this was their first movie instead of

32:27

George Miller's, you know, most recent of

32:29

the many he's made, this is somebody's

32:31

debut film. You think, I

32:33

can't wait to see what this person's gonna do

32:35

the rest of their career. This is amazing. But

32:37

when it's George Miller, you're like, it's

32:40

good, it's, you know, it's all right. I

32:42

would say it's great. It's just

32:44

not Fury Road. And you can only think of Fury

32:46

Road when you're watching it because it's a prequel. I

32:49

agree. And also that Chris Hemsworth looks like

32:52

the love guru to me. It's distracting. I

32:54

think only you have said that. I've

32:57

seen other people agree with me. I think

32:59

it's his nose, that's crazy fake nose he

33:01

has. I try to never think of

33:03

the love guru, but you can listen to more thoughts

33:05

about Mad Max and Furiosa on that retronauts. Also on

33:08

a big George Miller kick, I watched

33:10

the two Babe movies. I had a great time.

33:13

Babe won a lot of heart, a great

33:15

performance, voice acting performance by Christine Cavanaugh

33:17

as Babe in that first movie. Just

33:20

a very sweet in at times very dark

33:23

movie about a pig learning how to become a

33:26

sheep herder. So I do

33:28

recommend the first Babe, but I had never watched Babe,

33:30

Pig in the City. It was

33:32

Cisco's number one movie the year before he

33:34

died. Cisco and Ebert both love this

33:36

movie, but when it came out in theaters, I was

33:38

16 and I thought I cannot go

33:41

see the Babe sequel. And then when it came

33:43

out on video, when I was 17, I thought

33:45

I'm too ashamed to bring the Babe sequel up

33:47

to the counter to rent it. But now that

33:49

I can just download it in the safety of

33:51

my home, free of judgment, Babe 2 is

33:53

a surreal freak show that many people say

33:56

is better than the first movie. I

33:58

don't think so because it doesn't have as much. heart but

34:00

it is just George Miller getting

34:02

to use the phrase again a

34:04

blank check after the incredible success

34:06

and incredible amount of Oscar nominations

34:08

that the first babe got and

34:10

yeah George Miller before Fury Road

34:12

was the babe and happy feet

34:14

guy before returning to his roots.

34:17

It's funny he got to do you

34:19

know decades of kids movies before well

34:22

that what people would call kids movies

34:24

at the very least and then comes

34:26

back to own the action cinema again

34:31

with Fury Road. But now I

34:33

remember watching babe like in

34:35

class or something like or maybe my younger

34:37

brother rented it but I never saw Pig

34:39

in the City. Yeah not as many puppets

34:41

in Pig in the City which makes me

34:43

think George Miller was just giving himself more

34:45

work to do. He didn't direct the first

34:47

film he produced it he had a big

34:49

hand in it. He did direct the second

34:51

film which is almost all animal actors in

34:53

every scene. He was

34:55

like in his mid 50s directing this it just

34:57

sounds like a nightmare I don't know why he

34:59

would want to do this but it was an

35:01

incredible challenge he pulled it off and it's just

35:03

a fascinating film that bombed miserably. I think we

35:05

all turned our backs on babe we had no

35:07

interest in seeing what the City held for him.

35:10

And I also saw this could be a Henry favorite

35:12

as well I'm not sure have you ever seen noises

35:14

off Henry? No I've always

35:16

wanted to see like a live I've had

35:19

thoughts of seeing a live production of it

35:21

but I've never made it a

35:23

project to do. And I've

35:25

never seen the I think I've seen some

35:27

clips from the film some filmed versions of

35:29

the play maybe but no no no. It's

35:32

fascinating and I have to imagine that when you see

35:34

the live version it's a real stunt show just of

35:37

actorly talents because the premise of this

35:39

is in noises off

35:41

it's a farce about farces where in

35:44

the first part of the play you

35:46

watch the rehearsal of a farce and

35:48

you see how all the actors relate

35:51

to each other who likes who who

35:53

hates who potential problems on the horizon.

35:55

The second time you see the play it

35:58

is the backstage as it's being performed

36:00

for an audience. And you're seeing, well here's

36:02

what's happening backstage. And then you see it

36:04

perform one more time to end the play.

36:07

It's, you're seeing it from the front of the stage

36:09

again, but it's basically everything paying off that was set

36:11

up in the first two acts. You

36:13

know the relationships, you know what can happen backstage, and

36:15

the third act is everything going wrong. But

36:18

when you, the movie version is great. It's by

36:20

Peter Bogdanovich, but I can understand why the live

36:23

version would be so compelling, because you were

36:25

watching actors who have to remember three versions

36:28

of performing the same play, and

36:30

then all of the mistakes they're supposed to make. It

36:33

seems like an incredible exercise in

36:35

acting. Wow, yeah, yeah, I know

36:37

that sounds, that sounds

36:39

like it'd be incredible to see live

36:41

for sure, but I didn't know

36:43

Bogdanovich did the film version of

36:46

it. So that's interesting too. That's

36:48

funny, you watched Targets this

36:50

month as well, but for research purposes

36:52

or last month, and then now you

36:55

watch a totally different Bogdanovich film in

36:57

Noises Off. Yeah, it

36:59

was also a huge bomb. I would love to

37:01

see a live performance, and I'm keeping my eyes

37:03

out for any live performances of this nearby, but

37:06

interesting premise, I will say, high

37:08

concept. And you know, 20 years

37:11

ago I failed as a white weave by not watching Kill

37:13

Bill 1 and 2, but I

37:15

just saw them back to back in theaters

37:17

at the lovely Rio Theater in Vancouver. I

37:20

did really enjoy it. I'm gonna have the basic

37:22

B opinion that the second movie isn't that great,

37:25

because it's answering a bunch of questions. I

37:28

didn't really ask. It's just like, well, what was

37:30

her wedding rehearsal like? It's like, I like when

37:32

you implied things. Why do I have to see

37:34

the entire thing now? And then

37:36

there's a lot with, what's Bill's

37:38

brother's life like? Let's look at that. And

37:40

I thought, well, this is a fun crime story. And

37:44

I just feel like a lot of people, like

37:46

most people, the first movie has all the best

37:48

action. That's where you wanna go. But

37:51

it's also now coming to it all of these

37:53

years later. It was like Quentin

37:55

Tarantino in 2003 was bringing us

37:57

all of these spices that we couldn't access. Like, ooh, look

37:59

at that. this cumin, I'm gonna give you a little

38:01

sample of cumin, but now we can

38:03

just go onto the Criterion channel and watch

38:06

Lady Snowblood and all these things. But I

38:08

can understand how mind-blowing

38:10

this must have been for him to bring

38:12

over recreations of all the things he loved

38:14

to America in this format. Yeah,

38:17

no, I think you definitely have the

38:19

opposite thing that I had of watching,

38:22

seeing this movie many years before I finally

38:25

checked out a lot of the

38:27

source material. And part

38:29

of the experience for me, why I

38:32

do like one more than two as well,

38:35

but the weight in between the

38:37

cliffhanger, it made two very exciting.

38:39

You've been waiting for like, oh,

38:41

is, or, with the

38:43

tease at the end of part one, if

38:46

you're waiting months for that, not a

38:48

whole year, but months for that, it gets

38:50

more exciting. And also I did,

38:53

maybe it's because they write, he

38:56

writes Bill as a comic book nerd and

38:58

he gives him his big monologue, is about

39:01

comic nerd stuff. Like maybe

39:03

that's another reason I really love the

39:05

Bill performance in it, but yeah, I

39:07

like both quite a lot. I

39:09

just found it odd how the bride,

39:11

her name is very irritating. What is the name

39:13

of Uma Thurman's character?

39:16

Beatrix Kiddo. Beatrix Kiddo,

39:18

I hate that for some reason. But she

39:21

has two returned from death moments and I thought,

39:23

well, this should have just been one. It should

39:25

have been the buried alive thing, which is the

39:27

way more compelling return from death moment than waking

39:29

up in a hospital. I heard about

39:32

the great scene where she is buried alive and

39:34

she makes it out and I thought, oh,

39:36

this is how she is disposed of and she's

39:38

going to emerge from the grave and then get

39:40

revenge, but no, that's the second time she's left

39:42

for dead in the movie. I feel like there

39:44

are too many beats that are repeated in the

39:47

one and two. Well, I like

39:49

the reveal of her name as Beatrix Kiddo

39:51

because characters had been, in the first movie

39:53

they say her name and they bleep it

39:55

out. But you learn later

39:57

the line that Lucy

40:00

Lou's character said or any she says is

40:03

sorry be tricks are for kids And

40:05

it's it's a it's a full play

40:07

on her name and same with she

40:09

gets called kiddo by bill And

40:11

that's a reference to her other name But I mean

40:14

it's also like it's a joke name like everybody's name

40:16

in the movie is like this is from brother Bud

40:18

the only man I ever loved like that's why his

40:20

name is bud like also he's a drunk Yeah, all

40:22

the names are stupid for whatever reason that one

40:25

just bothered me because I just kept thinking of

40:27

oh It's a trick serial joke and this is

40:29

this person's name So yeah, I don't

40:31

need to tell you this because you're a nerd listening

40:33

to a podcast, but enjoyable films I

40:36

also for the first time for Pride Month.

40:38

I saw the birdcage for the first time

40:40

I My

40:42

parents loved it. I just never got around to watching

40:44

it until now and once again I

40:46

have the same opinion as everyone else that Irritating

40:49

son should be executed in the film

40:52

and the movie should be about these

40:54

two wonderful men having fun together with

40:56

their silly little houseboy They

40:58

live very fun Happy

41:01

lives that their awful son bruins and

41:03

to like the older you get you

41:05

Totally side with Robin Williams ways like

41:07

you two aren't even 20 yet. You

41:09

should not be getting married. This is

41:11

stupid Yeah, the premise of

41:14

the movie is dead stop being gay for a

41:16

day so I can marry my teenage bride gosh

41:19

Her father wants to murder abortion

41:22

Yes, it's uh I

41:25

really liked it though even though In

41:28

order to get mainstream audiences into this world of

41:30

queer culture. They're like, all right. Here are the

41:32

two normal straights They're irritated by all this gay

41:35

stuff too and they want to shut it down

41:37

just like you and then that that is the

41:39

Mainstreams window into like oh these people aren't so

41:41

bad and it did make me think of how

41:44

this is a very important

41:46

movie This is pre Will and

41:48

Grace. This is just hey gay

41:50

people have relationships. They They

41:53

can be annoying they can be funny. They're just like you

41:55

and me which is something it sounds

41:57

very basic now But people in 1996 really needed to

42:00

hear that. And in his areas

42:02

character like that was a big risk for him

42:04

then like he could have been you know it's

42:06

it ends up being one of the biggest movies

42:08

he's in and it could make

42:10

him forever be like oh this guy's gay like

42:12

this gay actor like Nathan Lane that movie comes

42:15

out and he still has to be he is

42:17

choosing to be in the closet for career safety

42:20

like he even though there's

42:23

have you seen that clip of Robin

42:26

Williams and Nathan Lane on Oprah and Oprah is

42:28

asking Nathan Lane like so are you gay and

42:30

then Robin Williams steamrolls it because he's like and

42:32

fuck you for saying that. I think I have

42:34

seen that in the past but I forgot how

42:36

long it took for Nathan Lane to come out

42:39

whatever it says life but I mean we all

42:41

knew it's it's the brain candy joke dogs know

42:43

it and I do love

42:46

Christine Baranski in that movie too she's so perfect

42:48

is like they don't fully make

42:50

her like evil but I love that they write

42:52

her as like yeah she is a woman who

42:54

never wanted to be a mom who ended up

42:56

pregnant is like yeah you guys can raise him

42:58

I you know I don't hate this kid but

43:01

I'm a I don't want to be a mom

43:03

and that's totally cool. I'm a

43:05

big Baranski booster I also saw I saw

43:07

the TV glow and I

43:09

thought it was very interesting I need to give it

43:12

another watch because some things didn't really connect with me

43:14

that I feel like I'll be able to dig into

43:16

more with another watch but a lot

43:18

of the movie this is pertaining to our listeners is

43:21

about nostalgia for television it's

43:23

about being lonely in the

43:26

90s and finding meaning in television

43:28

shows and in watching

43:30

those weird cult shows with other people

43:32

and recording things on tapes and reading

43:35

episode guides and things like that the

43:37

movie is also a very

43:40

dense trans allegory an

43:43

allegory about transitioning and what happens

43:45

when you don't follow

43:47

your truth and what happens when you stay

43:50

the person you don't want to be etc

43:52

etc I'm not doing that allegory justice with

43:54

my explanation I don't want to give anything

43:56

away but the director is

43:58

trans it's something If I had known

44:00

that ahead of time, I would've identified the allegory

44:02

immediately, but Nina had to tell me, did

44:05

you understand the trans allegory? And I was

44:07

like, oh, yes. But

44:09

then in retrospect, I'm like, oh, I

44:11

was stupid. But as a TV podcaster,

44:14

I was only digging into the 90s

44:17

lonely teen aspect and how so much

44:19

of that I saw in my own

44:21

life of just being weird and being

44:23

way into TV shows in a way

44:25

that nobody else was. I

44:28

have been meaning to watch it myself,

44:30

especially. Every review I see from folks

44:32

is a big thumbs up. And

44:35

it just hit digital, it

44:38

just hit the digital storefront. So I think I'm

44:40

finally gonna watch. I got a couple of flights

44:42

coming up that I'll have time to watch it

44:44

on. So I'm thinking of that. I

44:47

somehow missed him because he has a cameo

44:49

in the movie, but Talking Simpsons guest, Mike

44:51

Morona is in the movie, as is his

44:53

PDP co-star, Danny Tambarelli. Apparently

44:55

Nina saw them. I missed them too. I must've been

44:58

looking down to my popcorn or something. But when we

45:00

had them on the show, I was

45:02

looking at what has he done recently? Oh, this, I saw the

45:04

TV glow thing. I wonder what that is. And now I know

45:06

what it is. So it has the Pete and Pete approval. And

45:09

okay, I've got that aisle. This

45:11

lets me know to keep an eye out for it when

45:13

I finally watch it. And I did wanna mention a few

45:15

things I've been reading comic book wise. I

45:18

finally cracked into the manga Vinland

45:20

Saga, which my library has

45:22

all of in these gigantic anthology

45:25

volumes. I've been reading those. It's

45:27

a story about Vikings. And it reminds me,

45:29

it makes me think that it's a, my

45:32

comparison would be, it's a less violent

45:35

Berserk because it's about a

45:37

much more brutal time that

45:40

starts with our character in the present. And

45:42

then we spend a very, very long time

45:44

in a flashback to see how he got

45:47

to where he is. And

45:49

if certain aspects of Berserk turn you

45:51

off, like the extreme gore and

45:53

all of the sexual violence in that book,

45:55

I know it's not for everybody. I will

45:58

say Vinland Saga. It's not like. G-rated

46:00

or clean people are still being bisected by

46:02

swords. There's just a lot less of that

46:04

It feels a lot less fetishy than it

46:06

can get in berserk at times I've been

46:08

really enjoying it and there is a two

46:10

season anime series The manga is very long

46:12

and I'm wondering what the anime series could

46:14

cover but I'm hearing very good things about

46:16

that series So maybe once I read enough

46:18

of it I'll jump into the anime to

46:20

see what I can watch until I could

46:22

get to potentially spoiled I know I've never

46:24

given vidlin saga look before I'll

46:27

put that on the list You've got to read

46:29

all this berserk book young man. I know they're

46:31

in your room right now I'm looking at him guiltily

46:33

to my right over here. Yes Yeah Now when you

46:35

read those giant books make sure they're crushing your penis

46:37

the entire time because there's no other way to read

46:39

a book That large I need to

46:42

get one of those like library podiums for giant

46:44

books like that in just the center of this

46:46

room You need to steal sneak into

46:48

a church and steal the lectern or something Also

46:53

now Henry will be interested in hearing this because

46:55

of X-Men 97 I was like I

46:57

should read some X-Men comics. So Digitally,

47:00

my library has a ton of anthologies.

47:02

So I got the first real

47:04

X-Men anthology Which covers the reboot

47:07

of X-Men that started in giant-size

47:09

X-Men number one. I am

47:11

enjoying it with some caveats I know it's an older

47:13

comic book style. I know it's a style I'm not

47:15

used to and in the intro

47:18

Chris Claremont writes, you know These early issues

47:20

are kind of overwritten and brother he ain't

47:22

kidding because that narrator can't get his nose

47:24

out of this story I know that is

47:26

the format of Western comics and I sound

47:29

very naive by saying there's a lot of

47:31

narration in these But at

47:33

least where I am now The

47:35

comics seem so insecure about being comics that

47:37

they're kind of reading like picture books Where

47:40

there is a panel where Wolverine is

47:42

like tearing through robots And

47:45

then the narration is like snick snicks Wolverines

47:47

claws tear through the robots. They didn't see

47:49

it coming It's just like well, yeah, the

47:51

drawing is telling me that thank you though

47:53

Well, no, that's that's all

47:55

very true but also and Chris

47:57

Claremont is one of the guiltiest

48:00

overwriters in American

48:02

comics of his time. He also

48:05

is a big part. If

48:08

any one person I think gets credit for why

48:10

everybody loves the X-Men, I think it would be

48:12

Chris Claremont if you have to give it to

48:14

just one guy. His overriding, the joke

48:16

is that somebody is in the

48:20

middle of kicking in the action and then

48:22

they say like 500 words while they're kicking

48:24

a person in the face. I

48:27

think it could be why Americans responded

48:29

so well to manga and why manga

48:31

is outselling American comics by magnitudes every

48:33

month. It's because when I read Vinland

48:35

Saga, again it came like 40 years

48:37

later. It's kind of an unfair comparison.

48:39

But there'll just be a 20 page

48:42

battle. All drawings, no dialogue.

48:44

Maybe like a few little utterances but

48:46

that's it. It reads so smooth, it

48:48

reads so clean. It feels like you

48:50

get one action pose and then eight

48:52

text blocks around it in these early

48:54

X-Men comics. I just find it very

48:57

exhausting at times but very

48:59

cute. I know I read comics in

49:01

the 90s, they weren't all like this but I feel like

49:04

they're starting off here and I hope the

49:06

narration drops off a little. Even Chris

49:08

Claremont admits these are overwritten. I

49:11

think too, especially back then it was

49:13

the editorial edict of if a kid

49:15

takes less than 20

49:19

minutes to read a comic they bought then they

49:21

will feel ripped off and not buy the next

49:23

one. Even if they read it fast and they

49:25

like the art, if it

49:28

takes them longer to read it then

49:30

they feel they got more worth out

49:32

of it. That's why you overload it

49:34

with text. Yeah, I guess

49:36

when you're reading manga, if you're

49:38

in the original audience, you're reading it in a

49:40

giant anthology and once you, it takes

49:42

you five minutes to read one 20 page battle you

49:44

just move on to the next story of the next

49:46

manga series. Yeah, it's all

49:48

part of a giant phone book of stuff

49:50

you purchased instead of a 22 page

49:54

floppy that you paid, well I

49:57

guess in the 80s you would have paid 25 cents for it. But

50:00

by 92, when I started buying comics, you're paying $1.25

50:02

for it. And

50:04

other stuff, real quick, excited about a

50:07

trip I'm taking, and Henry and

50:09

I will cross paths for this thing we can't talk about.

50:11

And then at the end of July, I'm taking a trip

50:14

with my wife to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to soak

50:16

up some Midwestern vibes and a lot of

50:18

Midwestern beer, and also to see the Riff

50:21

Tracks live show in person. So maybe if

50:23

you buy the video version, you'll see me

50:25

in the audience, maybe. Be

50:27

a night off for Bob's laughing

50:30

face. No, I mean, what more

50:32

natural place to see the

50:34

former Mystery Science Theater performers

50:37

live than in Minneapolis? And

50:40

it's the same theater where they would do their

50:43

live shows back when they had a television show

50:45

in the mid to late 90s. So it's a

50:47

real part of Mystery Science Theater history, the state

50:49

theater in Minneapolis. So I'm looking forward to going

50:51

there for that reason as well. But yeah, that

50:54

is my non-Simpsons, non-podcasty stuff.

50:56

Henry, how about you? Well,

50:59

so my month after playing

51:01

gigantic RPGs, I decided to

51:04

get a little more actiony

51:06

and fast. And so I

51:08

finally played controlled and completed

51:10

it. And also did a

51:12

couple of the DLCs that are part of

51:14

the Ultimate Collection. Control is a

51:16

lot of fun. It's more jumpy and

51:18

shooty than Alan Wake. And it was

51:21

fun to be kind of like wild

51:23

and wacky. And also when

51:26

Alan Wake rips off Twin Peaks,

51:28

meanwhile, Control rips off X-Files. And

51:30

so I like the vibe

51:32

of ripping off X-Files. I see.

51:34

I didn't know Control was an X-Files nod.

51:38

Basically, if you shove together Mulder

51:40

and Scully, they are pretty much

51:42

just the main character of Control.

51:45

I'm looking forward to playing that. I will

51:47

eventually. But everyone always says, oh, the part

51:49

with the ashtray. And they refuse to explain

51:51

anymore. That part

51:53

is really cool. Man, that's a cool part. I don't want to

51:55

know. I just want to get to it. But that's all I

51:58

hear about it. And then it turns out. I

52:00

played it for a very good reason

52:02

because the Alan Wake 2 Night Springs

52:04

DLC came out which has allusions to

52:07

control and I wanted to play control

52:09

because it actually teased Alan Wake stuff

52:11

before Alan Wake 2 came out. So

52:13

the Night Springs DLC came out which

52:16

basically works to, they

52:19

made like three 45 minute levels that

52:22

combine into about two to three hours

52:24

of gameplay that are all nice and

52:26

fun, a little side content for the

52:28

world of Alan Wake 2 but it

52:31

is not a continuation of Alan Wake

52:33

2 if that's what you were looking

52:35

for. Yeah, I need

52:37

to get around to playing Alan Wake 2. It came free

52:39

with my video card so one of these days, I know

52:41

it's like also a 30 hour game so it's not a

52:43

short one. You

52:45

know, you can make it 20 if you really, but then

52:48

you also need to watch like a two hour video on

52:50

everything that happened in Alan Wake before. And

52:52

what about that other remedy game that no one

52:54

played, Quantum Break, is that involved anyway? Yes,

52:58

but they don't have, they have

53:00

the rights to control it Alan

53:02

Wake. I believe they share the

53:04

Quantum Break money, they

53:06

share the Quantum Break IP with Microsoft

53:09

so they can only make oblique allusions

53:11

to Quantum Break. That was

53:13

a five dollar purchase recently, Quantum Break and you know maybe

53:15

it's a retirement game I'm not in any hurry to play

53:17

it. I'm just curious as to like what the hell is

53:19

this? I know it's part of it's like

53:22

a TV show you watch. It's very very strange. And

53:24

also I just rewatched, I didn't play it either,

53:26

but I just rewatched like a trailer for it because

53:29

yeah I think it's on Game Pass as well

53:31

so it made me look at it again. And

53:34

it seemed like it was them taking the max

53:36

pain. They're like, well everybody loves Bullet Time and

53:38

Max Pain. What if we did that

53:40

times 20 of slow

53:42

down and rewind and time

53:44

travel-y stuff? Well

53:47

if there's one thing the Finns are good at,

53:49

well they're good at two things, hand-drawn gay porn

53:51

and game design. Sadly

53:54

that still hasn't gotten in Alan

53:56

Wake, the former has not appeared in

53:58

Alan Wake yet. There's no

54:00

Tom of Finland DLC. No,

54:02

it's the Alan Wake world is a

54:05

rather hetero what I mean, there's an occasional

54:07

gay character in there, but it's a pretty

54:09

hetero world. Then

54:12

is for movies. I did

54:14

a lot of it streaming

54:16

at home. I watched Hitman,

54:19

the Glenn Powell, Richard Linkletter

54:21

movie. Totally good. It's a

54:23

very Glenn Powell is good

54:25

at starring in movies. They go like, this

54:27

is nice. This is a nice little time.

54:29

It's a good little time. Maybe this is

54:31

the point, but it seems insane to me

54:33

after decades of Hitman movies.

54:35

There's so many Hitman movies. The movie is

54:38

just called Hitman. Well,

54:41

the movie is about a guy who pretends

54:43

to be a Hitman, and it's mainly about

54:47

a man who did decades of entrapment

54:49

on sad people, pretty much.

54:52

And its point is that there

54:54

aren't Hitman. Hitman don't exist, not that

54:57

you could hire. It's always police entrapment.

55:00

That's what the last podcast on the left says.

55:02

You're not talking to a Hitman. You're talking to

55:04

somebody from the FBI. Hang up the phone. There

55:06

are no real Hitman. Yes, exactly. That's

55:08

the point of the movie. But the real

55:10

point of the movie is Glenn Powell is

55:12

a likable person who gets to play multiple

55:15

types of guys in the movie, and it's

55:17

an acting barrage you get from Glenn Powell.

55:19

Then I also watched the Ron

55:22

Howard documentary, Jim Henson, IDMN.

55:25

And it really is

55:27

like, obviously, if

55:29

you've read the gigantic biography on Jim Henson,

55:36

or watched the very long

55:38

and very detailed Defunctland miniseries,

55:41

there's no reason to watch this to find new

55:43

information. I wanted to watch it to

55:45

see the new interviews with all the people who knew

55:47

him. And it was really touching,

55:50

especially to see it basically was like, can

55:52

they make Frank Oz cry? That's the big

55:54

challenge of the movie. And they could. They

55:56

succeeded. Seems very easy these days. But

55:58

then Frank Oz can make any. anyone cry, it

56:00

seems like anyone he meets immediately starts crying. So

56:02

you were Bert and you're Cookie Monster. And

56:06

also they didn't do the thing I detest

56:08

in modern documentaries where they talk to people

56:10

who never met Jim Henson, who were just

56:13

like a famous guy. Like, you know, let's

56:15

say they talked to Josh Gad, who goes

56:17

like, God, Jim Henson was so important to

56:19

me in childhood. He was so like, they

56:21

don't do any of that mood setting stuff.

56:23

They only talk to people who had worked

56:25

with Jim Henson. Well, I

56:27

have no patience for Ron Howard, especially after

56:29

he whitewashed JD Vance, that disgusting pig man.

56:31

So I will not be watching any future

56:33

Ron Howard productions and I'll spit on him

56:35

in public if I see him. Well,

56:38

and at the end of the movie, they

56:40

have nothing but lies for his last troubled

56:42

months of working with the Disney Company. I'm

56:44

sure. I'm sure. But then I'm sure they

56:46

show you the funeral to be like, well,

56:48

isn't this said? Don't you miss him? Yeah,

56:50

this is a good documentary. And

56:53

and they get a little more into the

56:56

family stuff and how he him and his

56:58

wife were basically separated for like a decade

57:00

or more like they do get a little

57:02

into that. So and how she was his

57:04

mentor. Did they get into that at all?

57:07

A little bit, a little bit. Yeah. OK.

57:09

So but then speaking of Disney, I

57:12

watched Inside Out 2. It's

57:14

it's all right. I had

57:16

complained recently about how I

57:18

didn't know the plot of this movie when I

57:21

had complained recently on a podcast about how every

57:23

cartoon is about having a panic attack. Now, I

57:25

should have realized when a character named

57:27

the emotion anxiety is in the movie that

57:29

it was going to be more of that

57:31

in this movie. So this is Panic Attack,

57:33

the movie. Pretty much

57:35

I it's it's all right. What's

57:38

really funny, though, is because

57:41

they cast everybody who is like in the office

57:43

in Parks and Rec and all that for the

57:45

first movie. Now it's like

57:47

2010 comedy people against 2020

57:50

comedy people in the movie, because

57:52

that's who all the new actors

57:54

are like A.O. Debris and Paul

57:56

Walter Hauser and and Maya

57:58

Hawk. They're the new emotion. who

58:00

are younger and cooler. Yeah, Just

58:02

Okay seems to be the general consensus,

58:04

but it turns out that's all they

58:06

needed for this movie to be a

58:08

hit because it's doing very well. So

58:10

it's sad to see that the Disney

58:12

Pixar initiative of sequel, sequel, sequels is

58:15

actually working. Seemingly it's paying off. It's

58:17

one of the biggest releases of the

58:19

year so far, biggest opening weekends. The

58:22

best part of it to me, this

58:24

is a very light spoiler in the middle

58:26

of the movie, but they go to the

58:28

embodiment of imagination and it is being controlled

58:30

by anxiety, but

58:34

it is imagined as an

58:36

animation studio. And the

58:38

animation studio is being driven by anxiety

58:40

to be ready for all of these

58:42

things and all of the artists

58:44

are miserable. And then they rediscover

58:46

the character joy and they find

58:48

a way to be creative through

58:50

joy instead of anxiety. And the

58:52

animators are making better things. And

58:54

that seemed like a very intentional

58:56

statement by Pixar to me. Yeah,

58:59

I'm just wondering when this story was

59:02

written and what it is reflecting, what

59:05

era they're reflecting with that kind of statement. It also

59:07

seems very Pixar-y to be like, what

59:09

if the brain was a different kind of office?

59:11

We've done the one kind of office. Everything needs

59:13

to be work. Yeah, it

59:16

is absolutely a job. Like everything is

59:18

a job. The emotions driving your brain

59:20

are a job, but you

59:23

can see how they've read updated child

59:25

psychology books than they had when they

59:27

released the film in 2015. So

59:30

there's new child psychology they put onto

59:32

it. And then

59:34

as far as watching it

59:36

home stuff, I've watched the world's end. It's

59:38

totally all right. It's the

59:41

least of the three Cornetto films, I'd say,

59:44

of the Simon Pegg movies. I

59:46

recall when that came out, it was one of the two

59:48

competing bros at the end of the world films. Yes,

59:51

yeah, it's really, it was

59:53

poorly timed. It was basically the British

59:55

versus the American version and

59:58

then I went on the criteria. channel

1:00:00

and watched Oni Baba, which I'd

1:00:03

never seen before. I decided I

1:00:05

wanted to start watching the Hideo

1:00:07

Kojima criterion closet

1:00:09

list, which he picked only classic Japanese

1:00:12

films that he felt people should watch

1:00:14

more, watch. And so I was like,

1:00:16

OK, which do I start with? I'd

1:00:18

never seen Oni Baba. It

1:00:20

is weird and crazy. And

1:00:22

like it is a crazy,

1:00:24

weird, sexual adventure, or not

1:00:27

adventure of psychological terror,

1:00:29

I guess you'd call it. I don't

1:00:31

know. It's very it's very interesting, even

1:00:33

more interesting when I learned that the

1:00:35

lead actress in the movie was the

1:00:37

wife of the director, too, which

1:00:40

adds extra psycho sexual stuff to

1:00:42

it. Yeah, if I could plug

1:00:44

the criterion channel, it's great. You will end up

1:00:46

watching things that you would normally not click on

1:00:48

on another streaming channel just because you're like, what

1:00:50

the hell is this? And why does everyone like

1:00:52

it? OK. They curate

1:00:55

really good like theme months, too. It's a

1:00:57

really great. It's a yeah. Then

1:00:59

for streaming stuff, been watching the new season

1:01:02

of The Boys. It's fun to be current

1:01:04

with the show. Everybody's watching those only eight

1:01:06

episodes a season. And then it's probably going

1:01:08

to be no new boys for another two

1:01:11

years. So it's it's it's it's fleeting. It's

1:01:13

fleeting. And speaking

1:01:15

of fleeting smiling friends, I've been watching that.

1:01:17

It's nearly over. They have one episode left.

1:01:20

I have I've watched like two or three of

1:01:22

them. I haven't gotten too far into it. I

1:01:24

think I'm just going to watch them all in

1:01:26

one 40-minute chunk one night. But I

1:01:29

did see a lot of people were surprised by the Nostalgia

1:01:31

Critic jump scare. And I'm willing to

1:01:33

forgive that because it's like, well, these guys grew

1:01:35

up with him. I don't care. A lot of

1:01:37

people I think people are looking for reasons to

1:01:40

cancel these creators. It just strikes me as like,

1:01:42

well, let them make the first move. Okay, don't

1:01:44

go like looking for the smoking gun. Yeah,

1:01:47

as you cataloged when we covered it for

1:01:49

Weta Cartoon, it's guys in their like late

1:01:51

20s, early 30s who grew up on YouTube

1:01:53

stuff like they they're going to put it's

1:01:55

the equivalent of putting, you know, Mr. Show

1:01:57

guys in Tim and Eric, except these guys.

1:02:00

are younger, so they're putting like they are all,

1:02:02

that's why the Red Letter Media guys are in

1:02:04

the pilot episode, and in the new season too,

1:02:06

the Jay and Rich are in there. Yeah, I

1:02:08

heard Rich Evans is a voice, and he's born

1:02:11

to be a voice actor. No one sounds like

1:02:13

Rich Evans. And well,

1:02:15

isn't that Crash Bandicoot type guy,

1:02:17

Grimbley, isn't he the

1:02:19

best? I love that guy. Ooh, ooh,

1:02:22

ooh. I love the mixed media approach

1:02:24

that show takes with live action and

1:02:26

stop motion, and even the old junky

1:02:29

PS1 graphic characters. And

1:02:31

I've been still staying current with One Piece.

1:02:33

Things are really heating up in the book

1:02:35

this month in the

1:02:37

comics, and if you'd like to hear me

1:02:39

talk all about it, I returned to the

1:02:42

One Piece podcast this month to chat about

1:02:44

it, and it was a lot of fun

1:02:46

to read through it and

1:02:48

make some fun references. And finally,

1:02:50

in the anime town, I finished

1:02:53

the first season of Delicious and

1:02:55

Dungeon, already been renewed for a

1:02:57

second, and it's great, studio trigger,

1:03:00

amazing animation. I love all the

1:03:02

characters. It's a cooking show. It's

1:03:04

a psychological adventure. It's about friendship

1:03:06

and family. It's just great. And

1:03:09

the manga author recently ended the series so she

1:03:11

could play Baldur's Gate 3, and I respect that.

1:03:14

That's bad ass, man. And

1:03:19

previous What a Cartoon Guest song-launch show is

1:03:21

the superstar of the show, as Senshi, still

1:03:23

that great. And yeah, finally,

1:03:25

I'm about to head out to Los Angeles,

1:03:27

first off, to go to Disneyland Pride Night,

1:03:30

which I think is going to be a

1:03:32

lot of fun, and it's part of our

1:03:34

whirlwind trip, for sure. Tell me

1:03:36

which characters are gay when you go there. I got to

1:03:38

know. Well, Bob, as you know,

1:03:40

every Disney live action film has the first

1:03:42

gay character in a Disney live action film.

1:03:45

That's true. I mean, I was

1:03:47

looking up information about this just because

1:03:49

I didn't know what the night entailed,

1:03:51

and I saw Mickey and Minnie are

1:03:53

there. They're being supportive. But

1:03:55

I need to know who are the gay characters

1:03:57

wandering out on their lonesome, and it can't just

1:03:59

be- stitch. Well, I'm definitely,

1:04:02

well, so they gave stitch like a

1:04:04

girlfriend Angel, which I dislike,

1:04:06

but they know Japan loves stitches,

1:04:08

uh, lady stitch. No, Angel's

1:04:10

cute. I don't want to be negative on Angel. She

1:04:12

is cute. I like her. But, uh,

1:04:14

the thing I want to see that

1:04:17

I saw in the videos from last

1:04:19

year that I hope they repeat again

1:04:21

is that Clara Bell

1:04:23

cow was dressed up

1:04:25

big time for it. And she

1:04:27

was serving hunty. But, but

1:04:29

seriously, the person who dressed up as Clara Bell

1:04:31

cow was doing a drag performance as Clara Bell.

1:04:33

And it was all, it seemed like a lot

1:04:36

of fun. That's who I really want to see.

1:04:38

Where is Horace horse caller? What of

1:04:41

him and his sexuality? I don't

1:04:43

think I saw him in any of the

1:04:45

videos, but I'll be keeping an eye out

1:04:47

for Horace and any, and, uh, any of

1:04:49

the evil gays as well. Will, uh, you

1:04:51

know, will Jafar be represented? I wonder. I

1:04:54

want to know. LeFou, I'll keep

1:04:57

an eye out. Well, that is what's going

1:04:59

on with us. Now it's time to talk

1:05:01

about what the comments are saying. And by

1:05:03

the way, we're recording this one a week

1:05:05

earlier, like we said before. So if we

1:05:07

didn't cover something this week, we will cover

1:05:09

it, uh, in the next month's episode. So,

1:05:11

uh, do not fear. So moving on to

1:05:13

talking Simpsons, uh, break my wife, please is

1:05:15

the episode. And Harry Thornton says, Oh,

1:05:18

by the way, I do want to say a

1:05:20

lot of these comments are related to things that

1:05:22

we mentioned in the, uh, opening this day in

1:05:24

history thing, because I feel like that's where most

1:05:26

of the comments are coming from. People are immediately

1:05:28

responding to that and just listening to the show.

1:05:30

So in case you're wondering, like, why are you

1:05:32

talking about the game cube in break

1:05:34

my wife, please? Well, that's the reason why

1:05:36

the day in history stuff. So Harry Thornton

1:05:38

says while Nintendo's E3 2003 conference

1:05:40

was seen as boring and safe at the

1:05:42

time, as recently highlighted by YouTuber RT game,

1:05:44

there is one moment that stands out. Then

1:05:47

Nintendo of America, president George Harrison, Reggie and

1:05:49

his kicking ass line didn't happen until next

1:05:51

year in 2004 addressed

1:05:53

the question of the company making more mature

1:05:55

games. And if they'd evolve with the times,

1:05:57

he assured people that while they would adapt.

1:06:00

Their characters would remain the same and that

1:06:02

Mario will never start shooting hookers and that

1:06:04

Mario will never start shooting hookers things was

1:06:06

in quotes Thank you, Harry. Yeah, we were

1:06:08

coming off of a recent Nintendo direct as

1:06:10

of this recording There was no footage of

1:06:13

Mario shooting sex workers in it. So we're

1:06:15

still safe It's it

1:06:17

hasn't happened yet 20 years later and then

1:06:19

no I mean Yeah we're that Nintendo direct

1:06:21

was just another reminder of like Nintendo

1:06:24

is sticking to the plan and they

1:06:26

are doing what they are good at

1:06:28

and that they Aren't

1:06:30

making like gigantic expensive

1:06:32

games all the time

1:06:34

They are spreading out good ideas in

1:06:37

games that get and they're just releasing

1:06:39

a bunch of stuff and they

1:06:41

compare that to the Microsoft one

1:06:43

I watched last week which I felt was

1:06:45

full of mostly full of games I may

1:06:47

be like, huh? Okay, and then at the

1:06:49

end of it it says oh, it's on

1:06:51

game pass half the time It says this

1:06:53

is on game past. I say well,

1:06:56

I guess maybe I'll try it then. Okay It's

1:07:00

interesting. I really think this is a video

1:07:02

game corner, by the way, Nintendo They're

1:07:04

gonna show off the switch to

1:07:07

at some point in history Maybe

1:07:09

next year's III pseudo III celebration

1:07:11

But I my opinion is they're gonna wait until

1:07:13

the switch is the number one best-selling console of

1:07:16

all time They only have 15 million more to

1:07:18

sell and then I think they're gonna

1:07:20

say okay, that's it We're cashing in and doing the

1:07:22

next one They just want to hit that record first

1:07:24

because now right now they're number three under DS and

1:07:26

PS2. Oh Man

1:07:29

just 15 minute. I didn't know was that close they

1:07:31

I hope they can do it I would be I

1:07:33

mean, they've got a good they have a good year

1:07:35

of Content coming there

1:07:37

our way, but there's no there is

1:07:40

no tiers of the kingdom Level

1:07:42

thing like that feels I accept maybe

1:07:44

Metroid Prime 4 But hey the Ace

1:07:46

Attorney investigations collection is on the same

1:07:49

tier as tears of the kingdom for

1:07:51

me Is is

1:07:53

that the last one that had

1:07:55

not been officially localized is this

1:07:57

yes Wow they're finally closing the gap it was

1:08:00

translated years ago and that translation I hear

1:08:02

is very good I just never got around

1:08:04

to playing it and now I don't have

1:08:06

to so yes Capcom has now officially localized

1:08:08

every Ace Attorney game it is

1:08:10

crazy seeing this the in 2024 they

1:08:13

have another one of these full of

1:08:15

presentations that in you know a 2011

1:08:19

Nintendo Direct half the anime games in

1:08:22

it wouldn't have gotten that feature that

1:08:25

thing it got like that fairy

1:08:27

tale game got a whole trailer

1:08:29

and and the Fantasia Fantasian and

1:08:31

the other one that sounds like

1:08:34

a slur farm farm farm for

1:08:38

Moshia right for Moshia

1:08:40

yeah I made the joke on Twitter didn't the Pope

1:08:42

get in trouble for saying this oh

1:08:46

but also on that episode Chris Russo

1:08:48

says a lot of modern cars still

1:08:50

have the option for cigarette lighter it's

1:08:53

just an option you have to buy

1:08:55

all though it's almost exclusively

1:08:57

in domestic cars so so I haven't

1:08:59

seen one in a new car in

1:09:01

a very long time I'm just thinking

1:09:03

about the ubers I've been in and now

1:09:06

I'm gonna be taking a few ubers in the

1:09:08

coming weeks so I'll

1:09:10

be keeping an eye out when I

1:09:12

take them but yeah I'm just used

1:09:14

to it's just a USB port right

1:09:16

that's that's more useful to people than

1:09:18

lighting a cigarette that's how it should

1:09:21

be the cigarette lighter port always felt dangerous to me

1:09:23

like why am I able to plug my iPod into

1:09:25

this it makes no sense it's a

1:09:27

fire machine you

1:09:29

have you have one wire plugged

1:09:32

into that to get your CD

1:09:34

player running and then no your iPod running and

1:09:37

then a wire from your iPod to

1:09:39

a tape deck that you stick in in to your

1:09:42

to your radio so it'll play the iPod

1:09:44

through the tape deck or you have a

1:09:46

little thing attached to your iPod that basically

1:09:49

turns it into a pirate radio station that

1:09:51

can broadcast only to your Oh

1:09:53

that's nice I didn't have that I only

1:09:55

I only had the wire thing and then

1:09:57

I stopped having a car around that same

1:10:00

time. So moving

1:10:02

on to the front Vance Jericho

1:10:04

says now brace yourself this

1:10:06

may be one of the most obscure bits of

1:10:08

Simpsons trivia but during the Ned Flanders

1:10:10

segment at the end the producers mistakenly left in

1:10:12

a bit of sloppy audio editing for

1:10:14

at least the first airing syndication in

1:10:16

Disney Plus versions of this episode after

1:10:19

Todd says we're not going to church

1:10:21

today you can hear one of the producers

1:10:23

I think Mike Reese again start to say

1:10:25

the word church before Ned starts talking they

1:10:28

apparently caught this for the DVD version cleaned up

1:10:30

the audio there so thank you

1:10:32

Vance Jericho maybe we can go back and

1:10:34

analyze that audio clip that Henry clip I'm

1:10:36

not sure what your source was for that

1:10:38

Henry but I've never noticed this no I

1:10:41

never noticed it too you know I have

1:10:43

it right here I think I can play

1:10:45

it knock that off

1:10:47

you do it's time for church we're not

1:10:49

going to church today oh what

1:10:52

you give me one good reason I heard

1:10:55

it I heard it

1:10:57

too Wow yes Wow

1:10:59

Wow I never noticed that maybe I'm just

1:11:01

too distracted by the colorful images of the

1:11:03

Flanders family but yeah thank you to I

1:11:05

believe that was sorry I just scroll down

1:11:07

in my notes Vance Jericho for pointing that

1:11:09

out yes thank you very much

1:11:12

Vance that's very good I just heard

1:11:14

that church you can

1:11:16

really catch it there man that's that

1:11:18

is maybe the most obscure but

1:11:21

preview for the future guys on

1:11:23

the margin chains episode I found

1:11:25

it even more obscure bit of

1:11:28

Simpsons history that will

1:11:30

be revealing there a deleted character from

1:11:32

a script Patrick McLafferty says on that

1:11:34

same episode I watch way

1:11:37

too much happy days over the

1:11:39

years so I think the episode

1:11:41

might be referencing pinky tusker Darrow

1:11:43

being severely injured in a demolition

1:11:45

derby against the Milachi brothers instead

1:11:47

of a motorcycle accident Homer did

1:11:49

not have his happy days podcast available he

1:11:51

was just going off of memory now we

1:11:53

know it's the

1:11:56

yay Homer should have just started a

1:11:58

happy days podcast at that point But

1:12:00

the I was just seeing that the

1:12:02

happy days again It's it's hard to

1:12:04

find all online and then I saw

1:12:06

and like some DVD sale on Amazon

1:12:09

It's like oh instead of the complete

1:12:11

series of happy days It's just the

1:12:13

first six seasons for $20 and like

1:12:15

one DVD box set Maybe

1:12:17

that's all you need and hey, I'm

1:12:19

looking online. There is a happy days

1:12:22

podcast It is at episode 257 and

1:12:24

it's it's called these days are hours

1:12:26

and It

1:12:28

did it looks like the last episode was in oh

1:12:30

the last episode was last week So it's still running

1:12:33

good Hey good on them and then when they

1:12:35

run out of that, you know It just becomes

1:12:37

a Laverne and Shirley pocket unless maybe they've been

1:12:39

doing like we do with

1:12:41

Futurama They do a Laverne and Shirley each

1:12:43

month and then Joni loves Chachi who knows

1:12:46

and Blanksky's beauties or whatever There's eight happy

1:12:48

day spin-offs folks. We can't go over all

1:12:50

of them here But I

1:12:52

guess you learn more about those in the Laverne and Shirley

1:12:54

in the army Cartoon we did

1:12:56

too you can learn too much frankly moving

1:12:59

on to our what a cartoon for that month

1:13:01

the in humanoids the evil that lies within part

1:13:04

three and David Thompson says this

1:13:06

is a cartoon that I've never heard of I'm not

1:13:08

even sure it was shown in the UK at all

1:13:11

I watched all five parts of the evil that lies within

1:13:13

and it just has a strange unpleasant feeling to it I

1:13:15

don't think it would have appealed to me as a five-year-old

1:13:18

You also mentioned Captain Simeon in the space

1:13:20

monkeys another show I hadn't heard of until

1:13:22

you covered it You mentioned that it was

1:13:24

only available on YouTube through bad VHS rips

1:13:26

but now it's available to stream on to

1:13:28

be and I've also seen a 540

1:13:31

P restoration in a 1080p upscale made by fans

1:13:33

based on the to be stream so it can

1:13:35

now be seen in a reasonable quality And

1:13:38

yes, thank you David Thompson The

1:13:40

news hit within the past couple weeks that

1:13:42

Captain Simeon in the space monkeys Has

1:13:44

been released on to be and now apparently

1:13:47

fans are upscaling themselves So good on them

1:13:49

because when we covered it for what a cartoon in like,

1:13:51

I don't know 2018 2019 There

1:13:54

were only like really fuzzy bad quality

1:13:56

VHS rips and it is a quality

1:13:58

little sci-fi show It's

1:14:00

great that it's finally getting a

1:14:02

chance to be rediscovered on 2B

1:14:04

of all places, which is where

1:14:06

people rediscover things nobody thought they

1:14:08

cared about. And that Captain Simian,

1:14:10

it's too bad, like the creator

1:14:12

passed away in between

1:14:15

when we did the podcast

1:14:17

on it and now, which is too

1:14:19

bad. But yeah, I think it was

1:14:22

a really good show with a promising

1:14:24

idea and to see that they

1:14:26

at least have like VHS masters

1:14:29

as the starting point instead

1:14:31

of just like whatever a kid taped off of

1:14:33

TV in 1996. Like

1:14:35

that's good that it's finally getting a

1:14:38

better version out there. Speaking of

1:14:41

obscure what a cartoon subjects now they only

1:14:43

need to release the original versions of Bucky

1:14:45

O'Hare. Are

1:14:47

those still not out there? I

1:14:49

mean, I feel like the comics have been out

1:14:51

of print for over 20 years and I believe

1:14:54

the version I watched for that episode

1:14:56

was a VHS recording as well. Yeah.

1:15:00

Well, we were lucky with Inhumanoids

1:15:02

that it got a DVD release

1:15:04

first before the copyright

1:15:06

fell into a dark underground

1:15:08

chasm, not unlike where the

1:15:11

Inhumanoids live. I'm

1:15:13

looking at it now. I guess there was a

1:15:15

Bucky O'Hare DVD set, but it's wildly out of

1:15:17

print. So even that made it to DVD in,

1:15:20

I'm guessing like 2000. Oh, it's 2004. Well,

1:15:24

you know, again, we can only hope that

1:15:26

Disney buys more of these things and starts

1:15:28

putting them out there. I want to see

1:15:30

Bucky O'Hare drawn into a new Simpson short.

1:15:32

Look Barge, it's Bucky. Over

1:15:34

here, Bucky. There were a

1:15:36

couple of days where Bucky O'Hare and Bart Simpson were equal

1:15:39

popularity. Yes. One

1:15:41

brief second of crossover. I

1:15:45

only have one comment for Inhumanoids. Can you

1:15:47

move on to talking for your future? I'm

1:15:49

a Henry. Oh, sure.

1:15:51

I'm going to re-birth the first one we did

1:15:53

of the Comedy Central era. Blake R says, I

1:15:56

admittedly don't have a lot of fondness

1:15:58

for the Comedy Central era. It was.

1:16:00

similar to Arrested Development for me in

1:16:02

that perhaps the fight to get more

1:16:04

Futurama for years couldn't quite meet expectations

1:16:06

once it was actually back in a

1:16:08

regular episodic form. I too

1:16:10

scoured the No Homer's Forum daily and felt

1:16:13

a bit of a disconnect with some of

1:16:15

the other members gushing over the new episodes.

1:16:18

There are a few standout episodes I

1:16:20

remember, but to this day I haven't

1:16:22

revisited any of it since it's airing.

1:16:24

It'll be interesting to have them revisited

1:16:27

through the Talking Simpsons Network 14 years

1:16:29

separated. It's been weird to do time,

1:16:32

do the history segments for these and

1:16:34

be like now nostalgic for 2010. It's

1:16:37

effing me up a little. Oh, my late 20s.

1:16:40

Yeah, and I'm enjoying this. We said it before,

1:16:42

and I'm glad people are sticking with the show

1:16:44

and being optimistic like us. It's

1:16:46

interesting to know there are 52 episodes

1:16:50

of a series I love that are basically unknown to me,

1:16:53

and I'm getting a lot of joy out

1:16:55

of watching these new adventures, and I'm sure

1:16:57

there's gonna be some downs and some ups,

1:17:00

but yeah, I'm fascinated just to see what these

1:17:02

even are in the first place. Yeah,

1:17:05

I am lesser known.

1:17:07

It's also after the first season, I

1:17:09

really, sorry, the first Commi Central season,

1:17:11

I really don't know the ones after

1:17:13

that as well either. Like I watched

1:17:15

as we're looking at, as I'm looking

1:17:17

ahead to the other ones, I'm like,

1:17:20

wow, that's, and this is gonna last

1:17:22

four years of our podcast,

1:17:24

and so then after

1:17:26

that we'll have, and

1:17:29

then after that we'll probably have like 40 to

1:17:31

80 episodes of the Hulu seasons to talk about.

1:17:34

Don't worry, we've made plans to do this for the

1:17:36

rest of our lives. It's gonna be okay. So

1:17:39

moving on to Joe Hodgson who says,

1:17:42

the tidbit about how the team got to Anime2D

1:17:44

over 3D had me thinking about the

1:17:46

Disney film 101 Dalmatians. I

1:17:48

don't know if the techniques on display here are

1:17:50

really at all similar. They just sounded to my

1:17:53

ear like they were, but back when DVDs came

1:17:55

loaded with special features, there was a really cool

1:17:57

one on that Disney release about how the studio

1:17:59

used actual models. for Corel Deville's car and then

1:18:02

animated over them sort of like rotoscoping. There

1:18:04

was even archival footage of the model being pulled

1:18:06

through soap shavings to imitate snow for that moment

1:18:08

when she drives up the side of a hill.

1:18:10

It's worth tracking down for anyone interested in such

1:18:12

things. And I can tell you Joe Hodgson, they

1:18:14

were doing this more than a

1:18:16

decade earlier. That came up in my Pinocchio research.

1:18:19

The Stromboli's Cart was

1:18:21

a live-action footage that

1:18:23

they basically traced over to,

1:18:26

you know, portray

1:18:28

just all the dimensionality of it and the weight

1:18:30

of it and have it move accurately. Just like

1:18:32

they were referencing and rotoscoping humans, they were doing

1:18:34

the same thing with inanimate objects. Someday

1:18:37

if we cover 101 Dalmatians, like the

1:18:39

technical aspect is the big draw of

1:18:41

the movie in that it is like,

1:18:43

it's like the Xerox process, the movie,

1:18:45

it's keeping track of all the dots

1:18:48

on all of the, all the spots

1:18:50

on all the different dogs. And also

1:18:52

I was just seeing somebody like

1:18:54

in animation, Twitter share

1:18:56

the pencil test of just the,

1:18:59

the male human lead of the movie

1:19:01

putting on a coat and

1:19:03

them saying like, you know, this is needlessly

1:19:05

showing off how good they are at doing

1:19:07

a guy putting on a coat. And if

1:19:09

you were going to put it in a

1:19:12

3d movie now, they would, you

1:19:14

just be told, can they just be wearing the

1:19:16

coat at the start of the next scene? It's

1:19:18

really hard to put coats on way, way more

1:19:20

difficult. So yeah, I saw that same

1:19:22

piece of footage too. Very, I think it was like, God,

1:19:26

milk call, maybe who did that? It

1:19:28

sounds like that. Or I would bet

1:19:30

milk collar or Frank or Ollie. Those, those

1:19:32

would be my guesses. Yeah. Next up is

1:19:34

talk King of the Hill for dog Dale

1:19:37

afternoon. One we really, really

1:19:39

enjoyed. It's, it's maybe the best Dale

1:19:41

episode and with crazy timing. And so

1:19:43

John Halske says, I love the summation

1:19:45

of Hank Hill that you guys quoted

1:19:48

in this episode. Perhaps another way to

1:19:50

get at the idea is a sentiment

1:19:52

this episode left me with, and I

1:19:54

think is recurring throughout the series. It's

1:19:57

good to be good to others, even with all their

1:19:59

flaws. and not because they'll fix

1:20:01

themselves for you. I really appreciated how

1:20:03

many times Hank and others in the

1:20:06

show come through for each other, even

1:20:08

when their friends, sometimes even their enemies,

1:20:10

are at their worst. He's

1:20:12

referencing the quote that I

1:20:15

read that Robert Evans was

1:20:17

explaining the value of Hank and what King of

1:20:19

the Hill means, and it was in response to that Mr.

1:20:21

Burcham show. By the way, Chappel Trap House

1:20:24

had an amazing episode about Mr. Burcham. If

1:20:26

you're confused or worried as to what Mr.

1:20:28

Burcham is, they have a full breakdown on

1:20:30

their own, basically version of what a cartoon.

1:20:33

That's the Daily Wire cartoon, starring

1:20:35

Adam Acurola as a character he

1:20:37

invented as way back

1:20:39

in the pre-Crank Acres days he was

1:20:42

holding onto Burcham. Right. No,

1:20:44

and it's the guest on that episode

1:20:46

is a previous Talking Simpsons guest, Ben

1:20:48

Clarkson, of the great artist. But

1:20:51

yeah, to hear, I just loved hearing from

1:20:53

that about how it's, you

1:20:55

know, King of the Hill, they felt the

1:20:57

same, that it's like King of the Hill

1:20:59

minus any charm or interesting ideas, but also

1:21:02

that they're like, every voice they get in

1:21:04

it hates to be there and is miserable.

1:21:06

Like they even get Roseanne, and Roseanne isn't

1:21:08

even like fun and crazy. She just like

1:21:10

is bored. Yeah, everyone sounds

1:21:12

like they're at gunpoint. Even Adam Carolla, who's

1:21:15

the title character. Yeah. And

1:21:17

moving on to Cody C, who's talking about targets,

1:21:19

and by the way, side note, Targets is

1:21:22

the Peter Bogdanovich film that is

1:21:24

a loose adaptation of the events of the

1:21:26

Charles Whitman mass killing. So I just want

1:21:28

to throw that context in. So Cody says,

1:21:30

targets is a hell of a film. My

1:21:32

wife and I went to see it at the

1:21:34

Prince Charles cinema in London as a mystery movie.

1:21:36

While I'm an American and grew up in the

1:21:38

times of Columbine onward, and my wife is from

1:21:41

Greece, there is a gap of understanding in a

1:21:43

British audience of what it's like to live in

1:21:45

a world where this is considered normal. There

1:21:48

was some uncomfortable laughter in the cinema while

1:21:50

watching the film, but how this climax plays

1:21:52

out, along with the slightly under the surface

1:21:54

commentary about the concepts of classic macabre horror

1:21:56

being confronted with the perpetrator of what is

1:21:59

essentially senseless murder. I think it

1:22:01

lands just fine even today, and

1:22:03

yeah, I gave targets a Slight

1:22:06

recommend it's very odd in the

1:22:08

way that it's depicting the little

1:22:10

Whitman stuff and also The end

1:22:12

of Boris Karlov's career and how they both kind of come

1:22:14

together in a way that does make sense It's

1:22:16

not the movie you think it's going to be and I

1:22:19

think in that way it is interesting I

1:22:21

think I saw somebody else comment either on that

1:22:23

or maybe it was a social media reply saying

1:22:26

how targets has been brought up by some

1:22:29

Horror movie historians that it's like a

1:22:31

big moment in horror films that it

1:22:34

It's presents a horror movie is just

1:22:36

like a senseless maniac Who's all too

1:22:38

real as opposed to you know a

1:22:40

monster of some kind yeah? Yeah, it

1:22:42

just basically the horror of this could

1:22:45

happen to you and The

1:22:47

person who does it is not a

1:22:49

goblin running down the street screaming It's

1:22:51

just a normal looking guy who you'd

1:22:54

pass by every day or perhaps even

1:22:56

work with I would

1:22:58

think it's definitely different as the

1:23:00

as Cody said to see that

1:23:02

in a theater in London with

1:23:04

a with a British audience who

1:23:06

Does not live under the the

1:23:08

tyranny of loose gun-raught laws of

1:23:10

their country? Well, I might have mentioned

1:23:12

this before but when I go see a movie at

1:23:14

a Canadian movie theater They're not telling me look for

1:23:16

the nearest exit. You're gonna need to know where it

1:23:18

is when the guns start to fly in Yes,

1:23:21

it's no this the safety

1:23:23

rules in the movies like if there's an

1:23:25

emergency look for the lighted exit It just

1:23:27

reminds you like you could be shot at

1:23:29

any moment who knows like yeah Thanks,

1:23:32

I'll kid men And

1:23:35

our final podcast we have comments on for

1:23:37

this month is the what a cartoon movie

1:23:39

for benders big score the Futurama

1:23:42

return film and cool and Co

1:23:45

Vm says the cardboard DVD

1:23:47

box sets are like the bane of my

1:23:49

existence I always wonder if some companies use

1:23:51

them hoping that the rough cardboard packaging will

1:23:54

destroy the discs So that you'll have to

1:23:56

buy another copy in the future when the

1:23:58

desks when the discs are unreadable.

1:24:01

When I got the Steven Universe

1:24:03

Complete series, several of the DVDs

1:24:05

scratched on their first removal from

1:24:07

the sleeve. Yeah, I

1:24:09

think, you know, cynically they're thinking, well, this is cheap. We

1:24:11

don't care what happens next. But I know the next thought

1:24:13

is, ooh, if these things get scratched,

1:24:15

that's a second purchase for us. Though,

1:24:18

you know, now the it's rare

1:24:20

I get a new DVD or

1:24:22

Blu-ray or whatever that is in

1:24:24

one of those cardboard sleeves, it

1:24:26

more is they're just poorly stacked

1:24:28

on, you know, the basically

1:24:31

it's like two discs that are facing each

1:24:33

other that are on the peg, but they

1:24:35

always fall off the peg and they come

1:24:37

out loose. I had a crazy one. I

1:24:40

hadn't opened it. I was rewatching some community

1:24:42

recently. And I bought the community Blu-ray set

1:24:44

that I didn't have before after my husband

1:24:47

and I watched all the community streaming during the

1:24:49

pandemic. We're like, we should own the Blu-ray

1:24:51

set. So we get it. And

1:24:53

then the discs are on

1:24:56

pegs, except they're stacked too deep. So it's

1:24:58

like two discs on top of each other,

1:25:00

two discs on top of each other, then

1:25:02

squeezed facing each other. Yeah, it's like

1:25:04

you have to do disc archaeology. You have to do

1:25:07

a disc dinosaur dig up to find the right one

1:25:09

you want. And the menus

1:25:11

then once you put them in, the menus are so bad, it's

1:25:13

hard to even find any bonus

1:25:15

features. You wouldn't know they bothered putting all

1:25:17

the old DVD bonus features on them if

1:25:20

you didn't dig a little deep in the

1:25:23

very cheap DVD menus. Yeah.

1:25:25

I mean, I think physical media is

1:25:28

now becoming a boutique product, even with

1:25:30

things like movies. So as

1:25:32

we march more forward into this future,

1:25:34

I feel like they are going to be

1:25:36

more durable because they're going to be for disgusting little freaks

1:25:38

like us who want to own a movie we'll watch once

1:25:41

and then put it on our shelves so we can say,

1:25:43

uh, yep. Yup. And hey,

1:25:45

I do that all the time. Yeah.

1:25:49

Just having the movie in your house gives you

1:25:51

power. You gain all the knowledge of the movie.

1:25:53

That's my understanding. Also, when

1:25:55

I watched criterion, when I watched the

1:25:57

only Baba, it was very stable. when

1:26:00

I watch things, anytime I watch

1:26:02

a movie on Disney, Disney

1:26:05

Plus, okay, but Paramount Plus or

1:26:07

HBO Max, oh,

1:26:10

I get that spinning dial, it just kills it

1:26:12

every time, and I just think, God, if I

1:26:14

had a disc, this wouldn't be happening. So we're

1:26:16

gonna move on to the final comment about Bender's

1:26:18

big score, Joe Hodgson, who says, I

1:26:21

was still incredibly stoked and excited for this movie

1:26:23

when it came out, and I definitely was able

1:26:25

to overlook the flaws. That wasn't the case with

1:26:27

the movies that followed. Beast is frustrating because it's

1:26:29

so good for the first half and then it's

1:26:31

so bad and long. Bender's game is just all

1:26:33

over the place and bizarre, well, until the wild

1:26:35

green yonder is perhaps the most boring of them

1:26:37

all, but because it felt like another finale that

1:26:39

has a little weight to it. Good

1:26:41

call on just skipping over them, and I'm interested in

1:26:43

seeing the Comedy Central era again, since I didn't watch

1:26:45

it over and over like I did with the Fox

1:26:48

years. I recall some good stuff and some not so

1:26:50

good stuff, but I'm curious if I was just too

1:26:52

hard on it back when it premiered, or perhaps too

1:26:54

forgiving. And yes, thank you,

1:26:56

Joe. I think mostly everybody is on

1:26:59

board in the same way, and I have

1:27:01

heard nobody saying, I'm leaving this Patreon until

1:27:04

you cover Bender's game. No one has said

1:27:06

that. So people understand, and they know that

1:27:08

essentially we make the rules and we decide

1:27:10

what we'll cover. But for the sake of

1:27:12

our sanity and for the sake of your

1:27:15

enjoyment, we are going to jump

1:27:17

to the Comedy Central ones. If we spent four months

1:27:19

covering Bender's game, you would find out where we lived

1:27:21

and at least kill one of us, I think. Or

1:27:24

if it didn't. Or if

1:27:26

it took over our movie slots for three

1:27:28

more months in a row, then yeah, it

1:27:31

would take forever, and it would preclude us

1:27:33

from doing other movies. And yeah, we watched

1:27:35

them all and told you what we thought,

1:27:37

but yeah, they just

1:27:39

are all not as good

1:27:42

as Bender's Big Score. Yes,

1:27:44

some things are not worth covering, and

1:27:47

I'm glad that you understand and are

1:27:49

on board with what we're doing. So

1:27:51

thank you so much for sticking with

1:27:53

us. And yes, June, slow news month.

1:27:56

Things are picking up soon when it comes to

1:27:58

Comic Con News. We'll be reporting on that. that

1:28:00

next month, but please remember, we are taking the

1:28:02

first week of July off, so thanks

1:28:04

for your patience with that. First week of July for Patreon,

1:28:07

second week of July for free feed, but

1:28:09

as we said before, there will be something

1:28:12

for you to listen to in the meantime,

1:28:14

so please do not despair. And

1:28:16

we are all doing this to give ourselves a

1:28:18

little break and to budget ourselves some travel time

1:28:20

because we're doing something very cool that we can't

1:28:22

wait for you to see. And

1:28:24

see what you will, but we don't know when.

1:28:27

Yes, yeah, look forward to it and look

1:28:29

forward to a big.