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Talking Simpsons - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk With Nina Matsumoto (Patreon)

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2022-09-14 04:00:05
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We're joined again by the fantastic artist Nina Matsumoto as we dive deep into a true classic! Not only do we get to see Burns' retirement after selling out to the very friendly Germans, but we also take a trip to the land of chocolate. Learn all about that plus the Cleveland Browns, how much $100 million is worth now, stock market tips, and tons more. Listen now to a podcast that *is* all smiles and sunshine!

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Steffen Universum

The name of the company is "Zwei Reiche Typen" which means "Two rich guys". Greetings from Germany.

Brian Hortin

I think everything Smithers says about the shampoo is specifically about Johnson’s Baby Shampoo which advertises “no more tears”TM.

Joe Hodgson

An interesting thing about the Browns is that the Cleveland Browns of the era in which this show was made is not the one sold for a billion dollars. It was in 1995 that the then Cleveland Browns were uprooted and moved to Baltimore where they're now known as the Ravens. The NFL wasn't thrilled about it, but still allowed then owner Art Modell to do it as they wanted to keep a franchise in Cleveland. As part of the negotiations, they basically required Modell to forfeit the rights to the Browns IP as part of the move so that they were able to relaunch a version of the Browns again in 1999. And since then the franchise has been rather putrid and is even more of a punching bag now than when this episode was written. Meanwhile, the Ravens have won two Super Bowls and are among the league's most successful and get to count Bill Oakley as a member of their fanbase. Worse than the Browns' record on the field, is their owner who just doesn't seem like a good guy (shocking, I know). They even traded for famous sexual abuser Deshaun Watson this offseason to be their new quarterback. That's gross on its own, but even worse is that they gave him a giant, new, contract and since a suspension for his transgressions were all but guaranteed to follow, they structured his contract in such a way that his base salary is only a million dollars this year. That means he won't lose much money at all as a result of his suspension and the other 229 million dollars on his contract is all his. I feel a bit foolish for never once noticing that Nina describes Sparks! as a graphic novel for young readers. I have a young reader at home who could use some motivation in the form of books and graphic novels that engage him better. Is 7 a good age for Sparks!? And where is the best place to buy to make sure you get the best cut? I suppose even if its not, he could always age into it. And as always, lovely to hear Nina on the podcast especially with such a classic episode.

JJMArtwork

Speaking of kids in breweries, I completely agree that most breweries should remain kid free. That being said, I used to manage several Brewery/Used Book Store taprooms that took pride in being one of the few family friendly spaces that would hold games and events for all ages. The idea was to spend family night with us and party with our local brewing friends. The largest groups of regulars we had were the after school D&D crowds.

ryan

You'll be happy to know that Clevelands baseball team changed their name last year to the "Guardians"

Kat Heagberg

My hometown’s basketball team was briefly called the Gus Mackers. Which is kind of like the Bob Mackeys.

Erin Hardy

I know you said no football comments, but I have to point out that Brownie the Elf is having a pretty big day. First he gets the honor or trending on Twitter due to being painted on the Browns' field, (which is probably the first time a lot of the NFL audience is learning he even exists) and now a Talking Simpsons mention. I have no idea why Cleveland doesn't just license a drawing of a bulldog instead of an elf but, hey.

Kat Heagberg

Also, I only remember Red Dog beer, because in fourth grade my teacher had a shelf of games we could play during indoor recess and would replace any missing pieces with bottle caps. One rainy day my best friend dared me to steal one, and I stole a Red Dog cap, which we both thought was really cool. When I got home, I was wracked with "Marge-Be-Not-Proud" levels of guilt, afraid my mom would find it and know for sure what I'd done since no one at our house drank Red Dog (it didn't occur to me at all that she probably would have just assumed I found it outside on the ground if she did). I hid it in my toybox and checked on it every day that year to make sure I wasn't "discovered." (The trash was too risky because when I'd clean my room I would often throw away artwork I'd made or greeting cards from family members I didn't want, and my mom was super-sentimental, so she'd often check to "rescue" those items). That bottle cap is probably still in that toybox.

Alex Irish

So next week promises a surprise? So we won’t resume season 13 until next month, just to be clear?

F Shackleford

I'm one of those who heard "safe enough", under the impression that Homer is not a very good safety inspector, so he tries to make a show of proactiveness in front of the new bosses, and begins to call out Smitty without anything in mind before deciding he needs to mix up his feedback, going with "safe enough". In hindsight maybe a stretch in logic, but at the time I thought it to be just wacky enough to work. Then again, I'm the guy who thought Frank Grimes was asian, so shows what I know! haha

Robert Flaxman

The Simpsons actually did a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang title reference already, back when it was much newer - the season 17 episode written by Dan Castellaneta and his wife Deb Lacusta, in which Homer is sent to India and Richard Dean Anderson (aka MacGyver) guest stars as himself, was called “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore.” That movie was only about six months old at the time!

SilkiePJ

As the son of a stockbroker, the term "financial advisor" is a more accurate term to describe what the job pertains. Nina is correct that stockbroker's job keep an eye on a person's financial portfolio when it comes to how a person wants to invest or what to buy/sell. The main thing is that you have to be licensed in order to initiate any kind of trade/transferring of funds. Bob & Henry are sort of correct that modern technology allows anyone to keep track of their stocks and portfolio at any time, but those who daytrade aka those who obsessive buy/sell stocks as a form of "gambling" are a different breed of stockbroker in general. That's specific towards brokers who want to make a ton of money, have clients who are obsessive over their accounts, or the super rich who can invest a lot. These days, most people do work with stockbrokers but primarily as a way to invest their money in the form of IRAs. An IRA is basically just another kind of bank account that lets you to save for money for retirement without getting as harmed by taxes. Even people who make under $25k a year can benefit from putting money into an IRA into long term goals barely affected by the market so taxes are easier on them. Personally, I think Homer got scammed by this particular stockbroker who really wanted to make a sale by reminding people they have stock. Brokers make money through the commission of buying/selling/trading and Homer was the only one dumb enough to be willing to put his trust in some guy he never knew. PS: This was a lovely episode, it's always great listening to Nina on the mic, and thanks for shouting out the Bingo Card!

mavrick

I asked my german friend about the company name and she said: well I could imagine it playing at the meme that Germans always walk in a row of two people Like starts in kindergarten when you have to grab a friend and walk side by side when there was a school trip And that we tend to do such stuff. Like neat and orderly. Since Zwei Reihe Typen, translates to two people in a row. But there is also the saying of being only in second row. I think you guys got that too. So always being left behind and never the winner

Renardo Schlegelmilch

Great episode guys! A few thoughts from a German who grew up with this episode in a dubbed version: The two businessmen speak with heavy accents, the skinny one with a Berlin-accent, the other one Bavarian. So in the scene at the bar where Burns speaks German he tries to imitate the Berlin accent, as does Smithers when he repeats the German phrases on tape. - Overall it was weird for us as kids to see this, as it was about the only time our home country was referenced this heavily in American media. We loved it, though we felt a bit insulted as well. - Oh and "Zwei reiche Typen" means "two rich guys"! :)

Aaron Alcott

Tell Me Something Good wasn't Motown.

Parker Thompson

Wow so that thing from season 15 where the squeaky voiced teen jumps off a cliff because they cancelled Futurama is a reference to the Battlestar Galactica thing?

Thad Komorowski

One of the best episodes of the series, for precisely the reason you mentioned: it has one through line and is all about the single story, with two main character arcs dependent on each other. Only the S5 Treehouse got better in terms of Dave Silverman's animation. Hans und Fritz are most certainly ripped from the Katzenjammer Kids, which all of the writers and artists would've grown up seeing. Re: Hogan's Heroes, let's say this for its "longevity" - imagine if instead of just a handful of Warner or Popeye cartoons or Three Stooges shorts where our heroes battle the Nazis they spent the entirety of their WWII filmography doing it. Yes, that's Hogan's Heroes, which stupefyingly still runs for a full hour on MeTV nightly. (In one of the groups I manage, someone implored MeTV to replace it with an hour of Warner cartoons.) Annnd, to bring this back, yes, it was a very good thing they decided not to go with the Japanese angle in this episode, doing the "gotcha, it's this WWII enemy instead!" trick.

Frank Grimes

Unrelated to this episode but a podcast I've started to listen to shouted/promoted you guys (WAC). VGMporium mentioned your black cauldron episode

Alex Forsyth

Who needs loonies and toonies when machines will let you pay with credit cards. Locally here at the University of Waterloo students could pay for snacks at a vending machine with their WAT card(basically a student card with debit card functionality for their food account balance) as far back as the late 90's.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Hi, guys. You mentioned SLH looking mean at the family in the opening couch gag. I believe this is because there's another one in this season where Homer accidentally sits on him, so maybe him being angry is supposed to be a sequel to that? Just a random thought. Love the podcast! 😁

trasparenti

Ever since I was reminded of the "Simpson, eh?" runner I have to admit that I'm disappointed whenever we don't get one in an episode where Burns is reintroduced to Homer - it always makes me laugh. At least we got a "Desperate, eh?"

Ryan Kertai

I believe the English term for tachiyomi would be "window shopping". It's a bit more abstract since it applies to more than just books, but that's how it was taught to me, since I would get caught doing it with comics as a kid.