The Cartridge Family (with Ray O'Leary)
Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)
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4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
We discuss topics like the history behind the episode's original cancellation, it's stance on gun control and the alternate ending that would have made Beatles fan very happy.
Plus we discuss Ray's philosophy work, pitching Simpsons gags to his mother, his earliest memories of the show and more.
Check out Ray's upcoming shows and upcoming tour dates at linktr.ee/rayoleary
*according to Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Bart! |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, I see Bart gets to have a gun. |
| 0:04.5 | You lied to me. |
| 0:06.5 | You promised to get rid of this gun! |
| 0:09.0 | I put it in a safe place, Marge. |
| 0:11.5 | I mean, what are the odds the boy would look in the vegetable crisper? |
| 0:15.5 | How could you? |
| 0:17.5 | Of all the terrible things you've ever done in your life, this is the worst, the most despicable. |
| 0:25.0 | But, Marge, I swear to you, I never thought you'd find out. |
| 0:29.1 | Four-finger discount, dude. |
| 0:31.3 | I see if so... Welcome to 4-Fing-Discount with this week. |
| 0:48.7 | We're heading back to season 9. |
| 0:50.7 | Homer's got a gun. |
| 0:51.4 | It's the cartridge family. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm Dando. |
| 0:52.8 | And I am Guy, and we are joined. Well, oh, would you like me? |
| 0:55.7 | No, you take it away, sir. You take it the reins. Normally you're really good. I can do it. I'll do it. Welcome to the bastion of professionalism that is the four-finger discan network. We are joined today by comedian Ray O'Leary, if in fact that is your real name, Ray, because the internet which never lies to us |
| 1:11.6 | indicates that your real name might be Matthew O'Leary. |
| 1:14.4 | Care to explain, sir? You're doing a, what is it, a principal, Tasmiri? This is going to go down as your worst episode just so you know. To jump the shark at this point, yeah. We've already set the bar pretty like yes but how are you ray |
| 1:28.6 | o'leary how are you ray o'leary yes let's go with ray o'leary i'm great thank you very happy to be |
| 1:33.0 | discussing all things simpsons with you guys i've been a i've been a fan for a long time so i'm |
| 1:37.3 | specifically of you guys and um and yeah your page i've been um deep in the in the various Simpsons Facebook groups for a long time, so I'm excited to be here. It's dangerous getting into those Simpsons groups. You find some super fans in there. Yeah, CompuGlobal, Hypermeganet, Rock Bottom, Tenuous and Obscure Simpsons. I'm in them all. There's no escaping those weeds. Are you in as your real name though, or do you have like an alias in those groups? Yeah, double alias now. Yeah. So there's an international man of mystery. But yeah, yeah, obviously we're here talking about the cartridge family. We're getting to that in just a few moments, though. But you've got some upcoming tour days. We plug those before we get underway today. Yes. Oh, thank you. Yes, yes. |
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