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This is the Laser Time Podcast Network's chronological exploration of The Simpsons. I am your host Bob Mackie who else is here with me today.

Christopher Lazy Spurman Tista. Henry Tempura Hatchback Gilbert.

And today's episode is Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes, which aired at the late date of August 27th,

1992, a weird summer episode.

Exactly.

And we find about Homer's fascination with that drinking bird but what happened on

August 27th 1992 in history Chris? Oh you wouldn't believe in Hurricane Andrew ravages through South Florida

President Bush dispatches 5,000 soldiers and 300 million in relief Murphy Brown

wins the Emmy for Best Comedy and Clint Eastwood's unforgiven is number one at the box office. She won the Emmy for Best Comedy's was unforgiven as number one at the box office.

Wow, she won the Emmy for the episode

where she had a child, I'm guessing, probably.

It was the third season finale abortion, I thought.

I mean, Dan Quayle made fun of her in the

run up to in that election so and we'll see a parody of that of that episode soon a

very specific parody of Murphy Brown but, didn't you survive Hurricane Andrew?

I did, but were you in Florida at that point?

No, I wouldn't be moving there until the episode, Lisa Beauty Queen.

I'm happy I got to talk about it with our buddy Mike Drucker on the episode of

Laser Time because he was from that area and there was a water park every kid

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