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I'm Hoi Hoi, everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons, the preferred podcast of

Leaning Tower Makers. I'm your host, the 99 cent porno store customer Bob Mackie,

and this is our chronological exploration of the Simpsons. Who is here with me today as always?

Henry Gilbert, and why does anybody do anything?

Exactly, and who is our special guest on the line.

A celebrity boxing superfan, Chris Cabin.

And this week's episode is, Papa's got a brand new badge.

This week's episode originally aired on May 22nd, 2002, and as always, Henry will tell us

what happened on this mythical day in real-world history.

Oh boy, Bobby. The Rosie O'Donnell show comes to an end. In Somnia,

arrives in theaters, and this season finale is aired next to the second and final episode

of Fox's celebrity boxing. Oh boy, I thought we hit that later, but I'd love to talk about that

up front. Apparently, Chris Cabin, huge fan of this. Now, when it came to Pallillo versus Diamond,

who's side, what do you want? I can't help but go for Horshack, like you got to be in his corner

at first. Clearly, the young upstart, I mean, it had to be Diamond. I knew it was going to be Diamond

when I saw them come out, like I was like, oh well, it's over for Horshack, she's done for.

Yeah, but if you go fight was the bigger one to me, I think that was the one where I was like,

oh boy, this, okay, this has to end. We have somebody has to close all this down, please now.

Reading up on this, Joey Butafuko was a late replacement for a John Wayne

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