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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast part of the Volume

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network. I am Chad Millman of the Action Network Today.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined as always by my cost my companion, my

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Speaker 1: compadre might BFF professional better Signmon Hunter els Imon.

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Speaker 2: Chad, what a show we have today, brother dude.

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Speaker 1: We got very special guests for a very special show.

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Speaker 1: We like to figure out on this show what is

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Speaker 1: going to happen in the future. I don't think any

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Speaker 1: medium has been better at predicting what is going to

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Speaker 1: happen in the future than The Simpsons, which now only

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Speaker 1: is that the longest running scripted primetime show in American

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Speaker 1: television history, it has been epically successful in predicting the

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Speaker 1: most outrageous things, from voting scandals, which one of our

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Speaker 1: guests predicted many many years ago, to Olympic curling gold,

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Speaker 1: whether it's sports, whether it's politics, whether it's polluted waters

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Speaker 1: and three eyed fishes. The Simpsons have been predicting it

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Speaker 1: for years, so I wanted to dig in on how

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Speaker 1: they do it. Here to discuss it. Two fellas happen

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Speaker 1: to be brothers. Both have worked on The Simpsons, one

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Speaker 1: still does. They are industry veterans, Canadian Royalty, one of

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Speaker 1: them has He's directed one of the best documentaries on

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Speaker 1: Canadian sense of humor in history. It's a pretty long list,

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Speaker 1: but they are fantastic looking duo. Rob Cone is a

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Speaker 1: close buddy. He's been writing and directing his way through

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Speaker 1: Hollywood for years on some of the biggest and best

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Speaker 1: shows you've all watched, including The Simpsons, Wonder Years, Big Bang,

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Speaker 1: my personal favorite, Somebody Somewhere, which made every top ten

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Speaker 1: list of the best shows last year. He also won

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Speaker 1: an Emmy for his work on The Ben Stiller Show.

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Speaker 1: If you're a Simpson super fan, he was the screenwriter

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Speaker 1: of one of the shows most beloved episode, Flaming Mo's

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Speaker 1: season three. His brother, Joel has been with The Simpsons

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Speaker 1: for almost thirty years. He's an executive producer of the show.

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Speaker 1: He's written nearly forty episodes, some of which we are

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Speaker 1: going to talk about today because they presaged some of

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Speaker 1: the most outrageous moments literally in history, including a very

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Speaker 1: special ar tree House of Horrors episode that are still

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Speaker 1: relevant today. Like me, Joel is an author, which is

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Speaker 1: the hardest thing to do, much harder than a long

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Speaker 1: successful career in Hollywood. His delightful book How to Lose

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Speaker 1: a Marathon is available wherever books are sold. The Boys,

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Speaker 1: the Coen Brothers have a new animated show. It's Hilarious

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Speaker 1: Super Team Canada, produced with Will Arnette. He also does

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Speaker 1: a podcast. People may have heard of it. It's available

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Speaker 1: on CraveTV and on YouTube. Fellas, it's been a long preamble,

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Speaker 1: I apologize, but you've been around forever and there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff you've been doing, so welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Rob When the Way to the World has got you

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Speaker 3: down and you want to end your life, bills to pay,

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Speaker 3: a dead end job, and problems with the wife, but

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Speaker 3: don't throw in the tower, because there's a place right

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Speaker 3: down the block where you can drink your misery away.

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Speaker 4: That flame.

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Speaker 3: When the.

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Speaker 5: Conform you by happiness, it is just a flaming go away.

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Speaker 5: Happiness is just a flaming move away.

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Speaker 4: Say hello, Hello, Chad, this is the sound of my

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Speaker 4: impressed voice.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Joel, can you be equally impressed?

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Speaker 6: It would be hard to match that level of enthusiasm,

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Speaker 6: but hello as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, I got to ask, first off, Joel, you've

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Speaker 1: been there forever at this point, why does this keep happening?

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Speaker 1: How do you guys continue to predict the future.

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Speaker 6: We're getting into it right now.

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Speaker 1: Let's just do it.

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Speaker 6: Let's just want to hear it. Let me tell everyone

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Speaker 6: the sad truth, and then I will try to salvage

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Speaker 6: it with a little bit of hope at the end.

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Speaker 6: How about that. So most of the time when people

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Speaker 6: say Simpsons predicted it, what has happened is the Simpsons

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Speaker 6: on something that has already happened. But the world travels

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Speaker 6: in cycles. So one of the things that people talk

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Speaker 6: about recently or semi recently is Simpsons predicted COVID. And

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Speaker 6: cycle of life that looks like there's a prediction. Add

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Speaker 6: of course the fact that it happened. The third thing

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Speaker 6: these things. Simpsons predicted the fire. Well, we have eight

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Speaker 6: hundred episodes. Shockingly, we have had one with a fire

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Speaker 6: those are the bumbers. The good news is the Dave

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Speaker 6: I started the day after this aired. But one of

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Speaker 6: our writers, Dan Graney, who Rob knows certainly, was writing

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Speaker 6: Johnny Depp. Then he thought, no, no, that's too viable. It

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Speaker 6: has to be the most ridiculous, idiotic name you could

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Speaker 6: that was in two thousand that aired, So that was

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Speaker 6: a clear prediction. And as you've mentioned with all the

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Speaker 6: last thing, I say, with eight hundred episodes, we occasionally

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I know Simon is a he's a Halloween

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Speaker 1: special lover. And Joel, that's one of your many specialties.

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Speaker 1: The sports angle on this and I know someone wants

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Speaker 1: in The Simpsons. But the sports angle is fascinating to

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Speaker 1: me because everyone in that room is clearly a sports fan,

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Speaker 1: and you guys have predicted so many things. You know,

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Speaker 1: as I used to run USP in the magazine and

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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, I think you guys did FIFA corruption

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Speaker 1: a FIFA corruption and a year later that's happening, right,

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Speaker 1: And so where does the sports fandom come in to

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Speaker 6: Tons and tons of sports fans. I wouldn'tay everybody's a

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Speaker 6: just like anything else in society, trickles in for predictions.

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Speaker 6: But like FIFA corruption, I probably could have told you

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Speaker 6: in nineteen eighty three that there was FIFA corruption, right,

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Speaker 6: so shocking. So Anya, we just do a lot of

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Speaker 6: sports fans. I guess is a half answer to the

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Speaker 6: full question, Senate, would you like to yeah.

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Speaker 4: Rob it?

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Speaker 2: Rob In my mind you grew up in the greatest

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Speaker 2: generation of comedy and friend, not talking to Marria, I'm

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Speaker 2: talking Canadian comedy. You had Jim Carrey nor McDonald and

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Speaker 2: even before that. You know, it's a bunch of legends

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Speaker 2: the greatest comedic minds ever. What made that little pocket

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Speaker 2: of people that put themselves out there in a unique way.

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Speaker 2: What do you think makes Canada produce these heavyweight comedy styles.

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Speaker 4: Well, you're giving me if there's more than a one

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Speaker 4: hundred percent, you're giving me more than that credit or

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Speaker 4: something that I really didn't do, because I agree with you.

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Speaker 4: You know, every country mostly has their own unique sense

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Speaker 4: the way they make TV shows. But I do agree

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Speaker 4: million theories, but I think it's really because we're stuck

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Speaker 4: but we're also naval gazers to a degree, and that

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Speaker 4: internalized thought process creates this weird mish mash that is

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Speaker 4: this observational comedy. And there's no real theory, but I

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Speaker 4: SCTV is the greatest sketch show and sketch group of

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Speaker 4: They're good, but they're never going to be that level.

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Speaker 4: And I think so much of it is just being

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Speaker 4: insane because you have terrible weather and you're stuck inside

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Speaker 4: of get this distorted, passive, aggressive style of comedy. So

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Speaker 4: I think that's why Canada has created that. And then

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Speaker 4: that's connected to you. But their view on things is

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Speaker 4: what's led to the Canadian style of comedy.

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Speaker 2: And I love the old theory of the cold and

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Speaker 2: the harsh weather, just like in England. When you come

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Speaker 2: over here, it makes you need to laugh about life.

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Speaker 2: And that's why, you know, I always joke I go

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Speaker 2: to England. And I've had that with Canadians, Like I've

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Speaker 2: had a lot of friends who've come down here and

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Speaker 2: I feel like, what you're talking about, they just don't know.

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Speaker 2: They're just so different, especially to Americans, even though you

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Speaker 2: know they are not even that far away. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love you know, Mike Myers talks about it. Where

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Speaker 2: just like really funny, but they don't know they're being funny.

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Speaker 2: There's you know, throw these type of things in and yeah,

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Speaker 2: for someone like you, I just thought it was interesting

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Speaker 2: where you really grew up in the perfect.

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Speaker 4: I love Spade, but name your second favorite Arizona comic check.

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Speaker 6: But just to throw one last thing, Sorry, Chad, I

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Speaker 1: I want to know how we get into the Gracie

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Speaker 4: It's a substantial I'm happy to ask. It's a substantial investment.

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Speaker 2: Let's say Chad knows my favorite competitions in America attacks

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Speaker 4: So yes, exactly right now, do.

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Speaker 1: It's not around anymore. We actually tried to buy it

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Speaker 6: You may have predicted it. The part I took of

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Speaker 2: I do have a Simpson question that you know this

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Speaker 2: in all this new comedy. So yeah, I just had

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Speaker 2: to ask that question because that's like, as a south

436
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Speaker 2: Park man, I always wondered, Okay, the south Park and

437
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 2: Simpsons is actually cool. So I love to hear that

438
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Speaker 2: you guys are actually you guys like you to.

439
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Speaker 6: We love those guys. And Bill Hayter's been a voice

440
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Speaker 6: on the show a bunch of times and is amazing incredible.

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Speaker 1: Is there a South Park Simpson's Family Guy pool that

442
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Speaker 1: exists and so maybe we can start one?

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Speaker 6: Well, forgive me, Rob, I'm talking more than I should,

444
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Speaker 6: but we do this thing at the Simpsons, which is

445
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Speaker 6: equally sad. But we do a fantasy football league for

446
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 6: summer box office, so we auction off movies. You can.

447
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Speaker 6: We have one hundred dollars fictional money, and you bid

448
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 6: on the movies that we divide into lots, and big

449
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 6: movies get split into thirds or quarters or half, depending

450
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Speaker 6: on how big we think they are. But that idea

451
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 6: is internal to the Simpsons, has been going on for

452
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Speaker 6: twenty years. But then I've heard that Family Guy and

453
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Speaker 6: maybe South Park have taken on that idea and have

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Speaker 6: done it themselves.

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Speaker 1: Internally, I feel like, you guys are much bigger gamblers

456
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Speaker 1: than I had any sense of it before, And now

457
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Speaker 1: I understand. Like when I'm hanging out with Rob and

458
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: it's the middle of the football season and I'm staying

459
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Speaker 1: at his house and I land at you know, seven

460
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Speaker 1: o'clock and it's ten o'clock East Coast time, and I'm

461
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Speaker 1: at his house and I'm having dinner and I'm falling asleep,

462
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Speaker 1: but he keeps asking me questions about who I like

463
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Speaker 1: for the weekend. It's all starting to make sense now.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 4: I also when when Rad Chad shows up and stays

466
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Speaker 4: at his Hollywood mansion, We're so excited that you're here,

467
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Speaker 4: but also you know everything, So whether it's the fantasy

468
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Speaker 4: pool that win or just some insane situation like what's

469
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Speaker 4: happening with Aaron Rodgers, now like it's you are honestly

470
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Speaker 4: the only person that I feel can make sense of

471
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Speaker 4: a lot of ridiculous situations. So like Dak Prescott, you go,

472
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Speaker 4: why aren't the Cowboys drafting X Y? Do they really like?

473
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Speaker 6: Dak?

474
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Speaker 4: Like You're the only guy I can go to to

475
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Speaker 4: get the answers. But at the same time, there's all

476
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Speaker 4: this weekly drama where you go, you wonder like the

477
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Speaker 4: Bengals a few years ago when they were hot, It's like,

478
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Speaker 4: do you think they can keep the heat on and

479
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Speaker 4: get to the super Bowl and win it? Because it's

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00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 4: so out of the blue that you're talking about the

481
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Speaker 4: Bengals and the super Bowl. So you are the guy

482
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Speaker 4: that I go to for everything. And sometimes it's connected

483
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Speaker 4: to the fantasy League that Joel and Iron, and sometimes it.

484
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Speaker 1: Isn't Simon's here that I am the guy.

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Speaker 4: He's the guy I was gonna ask Bob.

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Speaker 2: Is Chad the best house guf guest ever? Is it

487
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Speaker 2: like he eats barely anything, maybe uses the bathroom twice.

488
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Speaker 2: Bets made him perfect every morning after he weeks up.

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Speaker 2: He's just easy going?

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Speaker 4: Is We love it when Chad is here? Our son

491
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Speaker 4: loves Chad. They we have photo documentation of them partying

492
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Speaker 4: for years and years and years. But when Rad Chad

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Speaker 4: is in town, we are very, very very excited.

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Speaker 2: Now Chad only takes three beers and he's in bed

495
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Speaker 2: by nine pm.

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Speaker 6: It's it's good, so true.

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Speaker 4: We love it.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys? Do you guys? Have you guys thought

499
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Speaker 1: about Super Bowl futures already? Is there a Gracie films

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Speaker 1: pool that takes advantage of Super Bowl futures. Joel, do

501
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Speaker 1: you have a position that you've taken that you would

502
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Speaker 1: like to share.

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Speaker 6: I hate the season long bats. I need the quick hits,

504
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Speaker 6: like I hate thinking like, oh, will the Giants win

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Speaker 6: more or less than nine games a year? So no,

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Speaker 6: I don't. There's no future discussion. I'm sure again, like

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Speaker 6: I said, we could all talk about which teams we

508
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Speaker 6: think will be back this year, but I've I have

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Speaker 6: no official financial position, all right.

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Speaker 4: Also, the Simpsons, and like every writer's room that I've

511
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 4: ever been, they're certainly a handful of rabbit gamblers, one

512
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 4: or two that have a big problem. But you're sitting

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Speaker 4: in a room forever and you've got phones now before

514
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 4: you didn't have phones, and people are then naturally check

515
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Speaker 4: out scores or they're going to do online gambling, and

516
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 4: so that just leads to filling in the gaps between

517
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Speaker 4: pitching on a story where you start talking about gambling

518
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Speaker 4: and football season especially. But I just think it's only increased.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and everyone's got a runner now, right, even if

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Speaker 2: you're in a state that doesn't have it. You know

521
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Speaker 2: a guy in the state that does that can do

522
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Speaker 2: something for you? And I was gonna say, if you're

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Speaker 2: gonna make one futures bet Joe, are you in.

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Speaker 6: La for work? Yeah? Yep, dude.

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Speaker 2: Throw throw a little either on the rams of the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers, get get involved in California a little

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Speaker 2: bit and.

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Speaker 6: Do a band. I don't have the patience. I need it.

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Speaker 6: I need it Bath. I was gonna say you better

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Speaker 6: and forget it better and forget it. People bet like

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Speaker 6: on stuff like what time the show runner will let

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Speaker 6: us leave. We'll bet on if someone has to go

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Speaker 6: out of the room and prepare like ten jokes for

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Speaker 6: one spot in the script, we will bet on which

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Speaker 6: of the ten. We bet the other day on a

536
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Speaker 6: guy we work with this loves to get tattoos, And

537
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Speaker 6: someone came in and presented five tattoos, only one of

538
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Speaker 6: which was real, and we bet on which tattoo was

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Speaker 6: the real one. The answer he got it on his wrist.

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Speaker 6: It says no les because he lost his rolelex, so

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Speaker 6: it says no Lex on.

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Speaker 1: His When you were doing the he did a Treehouse

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00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: of Horrors episode where Homer went to vote. It was

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama John McCain. This presage a lot of freaking chaos.

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Speaker 1: Explain what happened in the episode and obviously how it

546
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Speaker 1: predicted more and more chaos in the voting world.

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Speaker 6: Well, I hate to keep going back. I think it's

548
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Speaker 6: just like you see these trends that are obvious, right

549
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 6: where like obviously you know jerrymandering of voting districts and stuff,

550
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Speaker 6: and you can just tell there's going to be voting

551
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 6: chaos in our future, and you know, people restricting people's

552
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Speaker 6: rights to votes and all that stuff. So all that

553
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 6: stuff was bubbling, I believe with that one and with

554
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Speaker 6: many other times, like it takes nine months to make

555
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Speaker 6: an episode of The Simpsons, so a lot of times

556
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Speaker 6: we don't do really topical stuff. But I think in

557
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Speaker 6: that case we literally held it or prepared like multiple

558
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Speaker 6: versions and then just slotted in the most likely one

559
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Speaker 6: at the last minute of who was going to be

560
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Speaker 6: on the ballot. We've done that a few times where

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Speaker 6: we just because we can't risk it to the very

562
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Speaker 6: last minute. So I mean, again, I guess I'm answering

563
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Speaker 6: my first question. It was just that idea that all

564
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Speaker 6: that stuff was in the water already, that idea of

565
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Speaker 6: what will happen to elections in voting chaos, we probably

566
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Speaker 6: got a little bit lucky. But then just even if

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Speaker 6: you're talking about sipping names on the ballot, I think

568
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Speaker 6: that was just literally waiting till the Friday before it

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Speaker 6: aired on the Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then since then, of course, there have been

571
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Speaker 1: nearly billion dollars in payments.

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Speaker 6: For the.

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Speaker 1: Libel of voting machine irregularities. Some nice job nailed that one.

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Speaker 6: And I've made like half of that billion, so it's

575
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Speaker 6: worked out pretty well for me.

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Speaker 1: But I also feel like when you're doing these things,

577
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Speaker 1: it's almost like you're sitting in the room and when

578
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Speaker 1: you're not betting on tattoos and jokes and you know

579
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: your NFL pools, you're sitting there and you're thinking. And

580
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: this feels very much in line with how comedy writers

581
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Speaker 1: would think. What is the worst thing, the darkest thing,

582
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Speaker 1: the most outrageous thing that can happen, and let's write

583
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Speaker 1: that into existence? Is that ever the framework for the

584
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Speaker 1: starting or a starting point for an episode or a conversation?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Rob, you want to answer that, you've guessed, Well.

586
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Speaker 4: I'll let Jole answer the specific Simpsons things, but I'll

587
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 4: give you two very fast examples that I witnessed Back

588
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Speaker 4: in the wild times of the late nineties and early

589
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Speaker 4: two thousands, there were two different well known television shows

590
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Speaker 4: that they would make very serious bets, one of which

591
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 4: was could a PA eat five cans? The large cans

592
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Speaker 4: of Heinz Binzel you know story. So it's like when

593
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Speaker 4: you go to the market, there's the Hines big beans,

594
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 4: and then there's the super Family size. So they started

595
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 4: throwing cash on the table if the PA could eat

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Speaker 4: these cans of beans. So cutting to the chase, the

597
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 4: PA did it. They weren't doing any work. It took hours,

598
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Speaker 4: and the PA was choking down and people kept throwing

599
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Speaker 4: more money on it, and I think on the table

600
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Speaker 4: was like twenty five thousand dollars in cash, which is

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Speaker 4: why they had that their pocket is crazy. So now

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Speaker 4: the PA, he wanted to win because he was gonna

603
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Speaker 4: get a big cut. And then somebody, after the PAD

604
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 4: got the last spoonful of beans down, said I'm going

605
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Speaker 4: to double the pot if he doesn't crap his pants

606
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 4: in the next hour, and the PA literally ran outside

607
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Speaker 4: and ran towards a hill near Warner Brothers Studios where

608
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Speaker 4: this was happening. He had to go to the bathroom

609
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 4: so badly. He wasn't even thinking where's the bathroom. He

610
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 4: just ran straight towards a hill and ed machine gun

611
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 4: diarrhea all over this hill. But then the next argument

612
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Speaker 4: was does that count because he was off property? Like

613
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Speaker 4: there was such depravity going on with this, it was

614
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Speaker 4: like does it count? Somebody has to go up the

615
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Speaker 4: hill to make sure it's his diarrhea. So there's levels

616
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Speaker 4: and levels of insanity. And then the other.

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Speaker 6: Story is a beautiful tree grows on that hill, thanks

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Speaker 6: for that dirhea that we all.

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Speaker 4: Have a mighty diarrhea oak. Yeah, And so then the

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Speaker 4: the last one in one sentence is there was a

621
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Speaker 4: room that I was in where the showrunner had a

622
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Speaker 4: problem with some powdered medication that he enjoyed inhaling, and

623
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Speaker 4: people made bets on which part of his body would

624
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Speaker 4: fall off first, and it was a lot of money,

625
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Speaker 4: and the winner was his septum. So they go dark

626
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Speaker 4: and make a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was actually saying, like first for an episode

628
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Speaker 1: for ideas.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so sorry, just edit those oats.

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Speaker 6: It to you, you know, if you can get to

631
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Speaker 6: a funny, dark place, like yeah, we all sometimes think

632
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Speaker 6: of where do you end up? But then we gotta

633
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 6: have to kind of get there in a funny dark way.

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00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 6: So yeah, sometimes thinking of a bleak, you know, apocalyptic nightmare.

635
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Speaker 6: If as long as we can get there in an interesting,

636
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Speaker 6: funny way, We've done that many many times.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is like a very similar simon you were

638
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: saying it before, Like there is a mindset and a

639
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: sort of character trait where gamblers and comedy writers live

640
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: in a very dark space. Like the bigger the risk,

641
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: the less your expectation is that you will succeed, the

642
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: more you are planning that the other side of this

643
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: is going to be miserable, and you're willing to live

644
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: in that misery. Comedy writing is as big a risk

645
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: as betting. Like Rob, you go down from Canada, You're

646
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: not thinking, I'm going to end up having this beautiful

647
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: life here thing and I just want to be funny.

648
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 4: I've never thought I could be funny. But yes, I

649
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 4: think it's a risk because you're you are deciding when

650
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 4: to speak, and if you speak, you hope what you

651
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 4: say is received well and is funny, and otherwise you

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Speaker 4: shut down. But then you in your head, you're like

653
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 4: you can't be quite too long because I'm gonna get fired,

654
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 4: so I need to speak again, and then you just

655
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 4: the cycle continues, and yeah, it has its own challenges.

656
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Rob's nail It two where you don't

657
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 2: even know what's funny until you actually say it, or

658
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: and like give other people's reactions to it, right, Because

659
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: that's that's the challenging part with comedy. It's it's all subjective.

660
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 2: And yes, as someone that does love dark comedy, you know,

661
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: I'll laugh at really easy, lame jokes all the time,

662
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: Like even jokes that miss are some of my favorite jokes.

663
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, it is all random, and

664
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: you know, I view it as you know, we were

665
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: talking a little about here with the Simpsons. It's like

666
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 2: I would love what's the highest rate you guys ever got?

667
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 6: Do you ever get?

668
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 4: Like was it?

669
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 3: Why?

670
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: Fourteen? Like what's what's the limit you can push it?

671
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: Now that we have presidents cursing on national television, Like

672
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: is there a limit?

673
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 6: Now there's a I don't even know what ratings are anymore,

674
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 6: like like ratings are anymore. But you know, we're sort

675
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 6: of bound a little bit by the constraints of the

676
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 6: show that it's established over forty years or thirty years,

677
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 6: but we've you know, we've stretched as society's appetite for

678
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 6: all that stuff is stretched. But like we had an

679
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 6: episode once where March said BFD like big fucking deal

680
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 6: and Fox bleeped the F like just the letter F

681
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 6: was offensive in that in that context. So and then

682
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 6: we're doing an episode now with like a we've been

683
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 6: told we can't show Homer's butt anymore, and like, you know,

684
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 6: stuff like that. So like the world is changing and

685
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 6: we're just kind of dodging, and you know, it's always

686
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 6: lawyers trying to protect themselves. But I don't know what

687
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 6: the ratings are anymore, and no one seems to care.

688
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: Also, right right, my last time this question, it's it's

689
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 2: a stupid conspiracy plot for the pig. What is it

690
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 2: deal with that fucking pig? Is there something deep behind

691
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 2: it or is it just spider pig walking on the ceiling.

692
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 6: That is one of the things that I think has

693
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 6: shocked everybody so much that it talk about a pig

694
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 6: with some of someone's digestive problems. There's a perfect play

695
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 6: into that. But yeah, in the movie, they just put

696
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 6: the pig and then like that spider pig joke. I

697
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 6: think if you when you heard that pitch, it sounds

698
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 6: like that's a pretty easy lame joke, but that has

699
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 6: like registered and resonated so strong that everybody spider pig

700
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 6: and people love spider pig. And in the writer's room

701
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 6: there's a spider pig hanging from the ceiling, and like

702
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 6: that's just one of those things where you just didn't

703
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 6: know how big it would be and it seemed like

704
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 6: a pretty easy half joke to start with. But whatever

705
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 6: reason people love that and the deal with it is

706
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 6: just we don't know. And but God bless it.

707
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: You know, this makes total sense now, simon the way

708
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: you just described it. I feel like being in a

709
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: writer's room, Rob and Joel. It's a little bit like

710
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: you're chasing you know, you lose a bet? All right,

711
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: How quickly can I get the next jer joke out

712
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: there to see if I can get the win versus?

713
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 6: All right?

714
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: Do I hold back? Do I want to keep my

715
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: powder dry? Do I need to build my bank roll?

716
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: Like when you're in the room, Joe, you start, is

717
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 1: there that anxiety that sweat, that energy that you feel

718
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: that is very similar oh yeah.

719
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 6: Like what Rob said was you could have been talking

720
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 6: about me. Like I didn't speak for the first six months,

721
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 6: and then I was told if I don't start talking,

722
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 6: I'm going to be fired because you're so nervous. And

723
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 6: then at some point you have to pitch, which is

724
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,479
Speaker 6: just really exposing yourself pretty raw, and it's a laugh

725
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 6: or it's not a laugh. But then you quickly just

726
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 6: realize that everybody next to you is doing the same

727
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 6: thing over and over and over again. So you know,

728
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 6: we're all sort of gambling where the stakes are pretty

729
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 6: low unless you get on a really really bad streak

730
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 6: where you don't have anything in for maybe a year,

731
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 6: and then you get fired. But yeah, you've got to

732
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 6: just keep throwing stuff out there. But I was very

733
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 6: intimidated at the beginning.

734
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: My favorite Larry David's story in SNL is that he

735
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 2: kept getting the shit taking off the board, and every

736
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: day he'd go and they'd take it off. He goes

737
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 2: another great day at the office, perfect, just perfect. I

738
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 2: love that story. Just he lived for failure and that's

739
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 2: why you know he's one of the greatest comedic minds

740
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 2: ever lived.

741
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's all like the same with gambling.

742
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 4: Like you said, it's especially if you're on a live

743
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: action show that has an audience. To me, the highest

744
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 4: pressure is when you're shooting in front of the audience

745
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 4: on a Friday night and you're on the floor in

746
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 4: a joke tanks. You have seconds to rush over to

747
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 4: the showrunner and pitch a fix while the showrunner and

748
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 4: the cast and the crew are there and the audience.

749
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 4: And the worst thing is if you're pitch tanks because

750
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 4: especially if it gets to the actors and it sucks,

751
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 4: it's like you cannot find a corner small enough to

752
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 4: hide in, but you got to go back and stick

753
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 4: your face in the wood chipper again the next time

754
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 4: it happens. So it's really that's part of the fun

755
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 4: of it. But at the same time, it's like, this

756
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 4: is my opening. I've got to make it, and it's

757
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 4: better to try than to be silent.

758
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: Well do you remember, for both of you the first

759
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: time sitting in this kind of environment when you had

760
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: a pitch or a joke and it worked and you

761
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: felt that rush like, Okay, I've got one on the board.

762
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Speaker 6: Joe, you first, like I said, I really went the

763
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 6: first few months without talking and then I was told

764
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 6: I have to start pitching, So I can't even tell

765
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 6: you the first joke I got on the show. We

766
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 6: used to do this thing where we'd send people off.

767
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 6: Everyone get stuck on, like, we can't find a joke here,

768
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 6: so you idiot, go write ten or thirty and come

769
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 6: back and pitch them to us and hopefully one will fit.

770
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 6: So I was that guy. And the setup was that

771
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 6: Marge was mad at Homer and he said, what do

772
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 6: I do to fix this? And someone said take her

773
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 6: to dinner or maybe a show. And then my joke was,

774
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 6: what about Benny Hannah? Where dinner is the show? And

775
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 6: that was the joke that got on the show, and

776
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 6: that broke my broke the eye.

777
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: So that was thirty years later.

778
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 6: You're still with that joke. Shockingly, I'm still here.

779
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,959
Speaker 4: I know legacy joke.

780
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 6: I know what about you.

781
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 4: I would say as far as being on staff of

782
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 4: a show, it was probably the Ben Stiller show. We

783
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 4: wanted to We were on the Fox network and they

784
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 4: absolutely hated our guts and we hated them. So we

785
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 4: were doing sort of a parody of a shitty Fox show,

786
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 4: and I wanted to be introduced by the crappiest mascot ever.

787
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 4: So it was somebody in a ratty Fox costume and

788
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 4: Ben was like, well, what do we call this guy?

789
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 4: And the worst joke ever, I said, what if we

790
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 4: call him Foxy? The Fox Network Fox? And then I

791
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 4: realized that the words came out of my mouth that

792
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 4: is the hackiest pitch of all time. And Ben just

793
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 4: fell over laughing, and in my mind I was like,

794
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 4: why are you laughing? That's terrible, But then I just

795
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 4: shut my mouth and let him enjoy it and sort

796
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 4: of had one moment of comfort where it felt like, Okay,

797
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 4: that one was a winner for whatever reason.

798
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: Rob, I want you to tell people and this is

799
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: my last sort of inside Simpson's prediction because this one

800
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: is so outrageous. It can't just be Joel like this

801
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: had already happened. So it was in the ether and

802
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: we just played off it. There's no way possible. Rob,

803
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: you are the inspiration for the artwork for Milhouse. Explain

804
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: what happened and how that came to be, because Milhouse

805
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: has one of the greatest predictions in Simpson's history.

806
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 4: Well, I cannot claim any credit for this, but the

807
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 4: quick version of the story was back when the show started,

808
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 4: they wanted to use an animation company to save money,

809
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 4: and so they were waiting for the designs. The designs

810
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 4: came back horribly and they needed to restart them, but

811
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 4: they wanted to send references so they could copy the

812
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 4: exact look they did want. So one of the amazing

813
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 4: writers on the show called me in one day and

814
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,760
Speaker 4: he said, I want to show you something. He showed

815
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 4: me a drawing of Millhouse and he goes, this is you.

816
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 4: And because of the way that I look, and I

817
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 4: would wear shorts and a T shirt all the time,

818
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 4: and how Gian knows, he explained that they had been

819
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 4: taking photos of real people and sending those to Korea

820
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 4: so that they couldn't screw up the artwork. That they

821
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 4: just would mimic the photos and make that character. So

822
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 4: I was delighted that that happened. I get zero money

823
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 4: from it. But they just took images of actual people

824
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 4: and they were doing it to save the animation process

825
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 4: because they were so far behind. And then as a

826
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 4: tag to that, if you look at the early Simpsons

827
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 4: episodes of the artwork on the fridge that is supposed

828
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 4: to be of the kids is the horrible animation that

829
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 4: the Koreans are sending back because it looks like a

830
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 4: terrible kids drawing.

831
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: All right, So in twenty ten, Milhouse predicts who's going

832
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: to win the Nobel Prize, and what I can only

833
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: imagine was a very high stakes pool at school for

834
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: Milhouse and Homer. He predicted I can't even say the

835
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: guy's name, Banked Holmstrom from MIT as the winner of

836
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 1: the two thousand prize of the twenty ten Nobel Prize.

837
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: He also had in his pool Ben Faringa as a

838
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: possible winner in twenty ten. In twenty sixteen, Joel, both

839
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: of them won the no Bel Prize for their respective fields.

840
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: Explain yourself.

841
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 6: You'll see a gun approach from off screen as I

842
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 6: start talking again. This is that they're aside from gamblers,

843
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 6: the other thing the Simpsons is famous for is a

844
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 6: lot of nerds and super smart people. And my guess is,

845
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 6: because I can't recall any of this, that these people

846
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 6: literally researched who are the leading candidates, just like I'm

847
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 6: sure Simon would, and like the odds and looked forward

848
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 6: on who's I don't know what the prizes were for

849
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 6: chemistry or literature or whatever, but I'm sure, they researched

850
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 6: these guys and who are the leading candidates or working

851
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 6: on developments, and took a swing. And again the names

852
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 6: are so obscure to morons like me that it sounds

853
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 6: funny when it's on TV regardless. And then I didn't

854
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 6: until this moment even though that they'd actually won. So

855
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 6: I have got some bets to collect myself. You deny,

856
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 6: There's a lot of a lot of stuff happens here,

857
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 6: and I just you can't keep trying of everything, you know.

858
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: That's like Simon when we were betting on the Pope

859
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: and we came so close because we had it like

860
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: all figured out that it was going to be someone

861
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: who wasn't of the top five candidates, who sort of

862
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: had the right profile, and instead of the guy from Chicago,

863
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: we went with the guy from France and we were

864
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: right there.

865
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 4: We could have written a Simpsons episode. Yeah, how could

866
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 4: you not pick the guy from Chicago?

867
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: I know, I felt terrible about it after it happened,

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Speaker 1: and we've discussed it aggressively.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Our claim to fame is though we did Luckily the

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Speaker 2: guy we had on didn't mention his name, so we

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Speaker 2: weren't a total loss, but it was just it was

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Speaker 2: right there for me and Chat we totally missed on it.

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Speaker 1: I got very locked in on the guy from France.

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Speaker 1: I got locked in. I felt like a I just did.

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Speaker 1: I never thought it would be an American, but I

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Speaker 1: thought everything the American had was the right profile. And

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Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be one of the guys who

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Speaker 1: went in, because it's never the person that everybody thinks

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Speaker 1: has the shortest odds as they go into the conclave.

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Speaker 1: So to me, it had to be someone who was

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Speaker 1: in Europe, had experience working in communities where immigration and

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Speaker 1: immigrants were a big factor, who could help expand the church,

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Speaker 1: and this guy in France because immigration in France was

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Speaker 1: a lot of it was Africans moving to France, and

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Speaker 1: so he had connections to the African community. Like Robbi

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Speaker 1: went deep and I just didn't see the dude with

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Speaker 1: the background in Peru getting into that spot.

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Speaker 6: You know, a lot of the cardinals were making calls

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Speaker 6: from inside the Vatican tipping off better. It's like you

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Speaker 6: guys on the outside, so it's kind of think, next,

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Speaker 6: here's the color of the smoke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't I didn't get any of those calls

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Speaker 1: Joel amazingly so yeah, Joe Cone, Rob Cone, Super Team Canada.

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