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Ahoy, hoy, everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons, where we check our local listings. I'm one of your host, The Man Who Steels Two Minutes from Every Episode, Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of The Simpsons, who is here with me today, as always. Often partnered with Home Improvement Reruns, it's Henry Gilbert. And who are our special guests on the line? I'm Nick, now airing five days a week.

And I'm Joe from the Found Footage Festival, and I am so smart SMRT.

And this week's episode is a little something we're calling syndication the sweetest plum.

The Sins in the Foxx. Starting September 19th on Fox 29.

And yes, we're breaking format.

And joining us once again are the guys from the Found Footage Fest, Joe Pickett and Nick Pruer.

They were last on together to talk about the Auto Show from season three.

Welcome back to the show, Joe.

Good to be back.

Love it here.

Thanks for having us.

Yes, you guys are about to go on tour and we thought, what a perfect time to have on the guys from Found Footage Fest for an episode that's all about things people remember watching from ancient VHS's.

Yeah, I mean, I remember, we still find these, by the way, at thrift stores, like tapes of Simpsons episodes from syndication.

That made it so much easier to just, like, have a tape going,

set it for that hour it aired. So yeah, a lot of times we find tapes. And now, of course, the commercials are the valuable part of those. In our family, we had a Simpsons tape because that night of TV, there was a lot of good stuff on. You had, was it funny some videos was competing up against it. The Cosby Show for a while was competing against it.

I mean, it was always set up against it. The Cosby Show for a while was competing against it.

I mean, it was always set up against, you know, other good shows.

So you had to record it.

So a lot of people did.

And the Simpsons first entered syndication on September 19, 1994.

And as always, Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real world history.

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