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towards failure I'm your host vicarious living subscriber Bob Mackie and this is our

chronological exploration of the Simpsons who else is here with me today

Henry Gilbert and it gets easier every week it really does and who do we have on the line?

I'm I brought that wall from home Adam Johnson and today today's episode is RealT Bites. But there's

The Truth and The Truth. Today's episode aired on December 7th 1997 and as always

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

Oh my God!

Oh boy Bobby! Bob Bell the first Bozo passes away at 75 McDonald's opens its first

restaurant in the Arctic Circle in Finland to be closer to Santa Claus for

Christmas time and Goodwill Hunting debuts in theaters to serve us all them apples.

So Bozo the Clown, important in American history, in the history of clowning, but he's also important

in the origins of Krusty because Bozo, he was a sole

clown and then there were regional Bozo's that would spread their clowning across the country

and host their own kitty cartoon shows. Yeah, put together all the cartoons and local ads they could.

And former and future Simpson showrunner Algene was sat on by a bozo as a child.

Yeah. And the Goodwell Hunting, that was an all right movie at the time. I mean now to hear about it later, I've kind of, I've soured on it a bit because Ben Affleck and the other guy.

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