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Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck. Jerry's here too. She's had to step away for a second, but she'll be back, we imagine. And when she gets here, it'll really be stuff you should know.

That's right. I'm excited about this one because it's sort of filed under our tribute series to things we love.

Tribute to your taste. I don't know how you feel, because we didn't even talk about this, but the cartoon from

the funny pages and the books and more, The Far Side by Gary Larson.

Yeah.

It spanned from like fifth or sixth grade to me through the end of college, which is just

kind of crystallizes, to me, the perfect time to be awakened to something like

Gary Larson's sense of humor.

Yeah, for sure.

He definitely, the far side, I should say, definitely helped shape my sense of humor just from

being exposed to that and finding it funny.

You have to kind of find it funny to begin with but once

you do it definitely can especially during formative your help shape your um humor and if you go back

and look at them now they're still great but there's there's something that's just it just had

something before that it's not like it lost it now, but it's just diluted now.

And I was looking around and trying to figure out what the deal is. And the best explanation I

could come up with is that it had such an impact on culture that it actually normalized

and spread that sort of humor so far and wide that it became less,

I guess, humorous in and of itself because it made it, well, normal to be funny in that way.

That people weren't really, nobody was doing anything like Gary Larson was when the far side came out.

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