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Hello, everybody and welcome to Talking Simpsons, the podcast that corks your cry hole.

I'm your host, India's answer to Brian Dennyhy, Bob Mackie, and this is our Chronological

Exploration of the Simpsons, who is here with me as always.

Okay, jug monkeys, it's Henry Gilbert, and who is our special guest on the line?

Hey, it's The Real Gyms from The Land of YouTube, and this week's episode is,

Jaws Wired Shuts, This week's episode originally aired on January 27th, 2002,

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

Oh boy, Bobby, at the State of the Union address, George W. Bush coins the term

axis of evil for North Korea, Iran, and Iraq.

The Rams and the Patriots win their respective playoffs and they're going to the Super Bowl,

and the 2002 Count of Monte Cristo film is released in theaters.

That's the one starring Jim Cavizel, and perfectly sane man, but no weird beliefs.

This is before playing Jesus Christ drove him crazy.

It did, yeah, I think.

Or maybe he always was.

Maybe I do think when you play Jesus in a movie and everybody worships you for like four

months of filming something, probably.

And then on top of that, you're acting in a broke old tongue for a crazy person like Mel Gibson.

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