So I have a problem, which is that this is a family show. I have students who listen. I know I have parents and teachers that listen in and then they want to share stuff with their kids.

Plus, it's an elevated subject. I know I like to mess around a little bit and I'd be kind of a dorky dweeb, but classical literature is an important and elevated topic,

and so we should treat it with some respect, and therefore, I don't really swear on this

podcast. I'm going to say bad words. We talk about serious stuff. We deal with literature that has

major themes, sometimes adult themes in it, but I don't want to make it hard for parents and their kids to

listen along. So I don't want to say bad and dirty words if I can absolutely help it. But this

time around, this week, there's this one line from this one movie that is really perfect as an introduction to the episode. And I was like,

I really want to say, I really want to quote this famous line. Maybe you know which line I'm

talking about. It's spoken by Samuel L. Jackson. And the movie it's from is called Snakes on a

plane. And I was like, that's the perfect opening line.

But I just, I don't, I don't know.

I don't want to swear on the podcast.

And I also kind of don't like bleeping things out.

You know, I don't like saying bad words and then just putting a bleep over them

because that feels like a cop out.

Then I remembered my favorite show, one of my favorite shows from the last several years,

called The Good Place, has this running gag where the characters are in an afterlife. It's supposed

to be very squeaky clean. It's maybe heaven. They don't yet know. But one of the jokes is

that you can't, it's physically impossible to swear in the afterlife. And every time you try, your words get replaced with a different word.

And so that's what I'm going to do.

I figured I'm going to quote Samuel L. Jackson from snakes on a plane,

as if Samuel L. Jackson were in the good place.

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