I heartily endorse this event or product. Aoy, everybody, welcome to Talking Simpsons brought to you by the Nostalgia Licensing Corporation.

I'm your host Bob Mackie, a Tr with the energy of a hobo and this is our

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

Henry Gilbert also known as the Southern Dandy that's what I've heard. Who else? Kid Presentable,

Capilie. And today's episode is The Homer They Fall.

Hey dude, he's ragging on your cord. Today's episode aired on November 10th, 1996, and as always Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical

day in real world history.

Oh my God! Oh boy, Bobby, the Discovery Kids channel debuts on cable.

Black Street's no diggity is at the top of the Billboard Top 100.

And, believe it or not, two days before this episode aired,

Evander Holyfield gets a T. K.O. victory over Mike Tyson

in a decade long awaited fight.

I'm more interested in this, the Discovery Kids channel.

And then a year later, Mike Tyson would bite his ears off.

Yep, he definitely would do that.

We'll talk about that right during this episode. But Discovery

Kids Channel, thanks to Channel Drift that it's called, I'm guessing it's where they offload Dog

the Bounty Hunter episodes or some sort of Fear Factor marathon.

My parents didn't have a fancy enough cable package to go

up to the Discovery Kids level, but also it seemed like learning.

I don't want to do that. The Learning Channel just became the Freaks channel. I mean it's an old joke but no one to learn.

I miss liking cable because back in the day I would listen I would watch the history channel and

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