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I'm one of your host, the innocent tourist Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of the Simpsons, who is here with me today as always. Greetings, Wage, donkeys, it's Henry Gilbert. And who is our special guest on the line? Ah, Luke Savage here, and I just sand it down my fingertips to be on this U.S. podcast. And this week's episode is Midnight R.X.

Well,

well, if it isn't my favorite

employee and his spouse,

and these must be children.

Have a ginger root.

This week's episode originally aired on January

16th, 2005, and as always,

Henry will let us know what happened on this mythical day in real world history.

Oh my God.

Happy New Year 2005, folks.

Coach Carter beats Elektra at the box office.

Resident Evil 4 is released on the GameCube, and the Daily Show's America, the book, is number one on the New York Times bestseller list in nonfiction.

I wanted to start with The Daily Show 1 because that does tie us into political commentary of the time.

I had this book, as well as the sequel book, The World, though it was the annotated second printing

of it that I think came out in 06 or late 05, I want to say. I think we all had this book, America the book. And actually, this cost some scandal with a few friends of mine. To save money, they decided to live with a relative while they were in college for a semester instead of staying in the dorms. When this unnamed aunt saw a copy of America of the book, they were

kicked out.

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