Olive, the Other Reindeer

🎄 10 years after The Simpsons debuted, Matt Groening presented this misheard but not forgotten doggie treat from 1999.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. The Making of Olive, the Other Reindeer.  

2. PaRappa the Rapper.  

3. Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride, the first book by Olive creators Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold.  

4. The Goonies II.  

5. Jay Mohr in Camp Wilder.  

6. Famous mondegreens and the stupidest lyric I’ve ever misheard.  

7. Dan Castellaneta’s Postman voice sounds like his Robot Devil.  

8. “You’re no Jack Kennedy.”  

9. Bullwinkle tried to kidnap my baby.  

10. R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me?, formerly U Talkin’ U2 to Me? and currently U Talkin’ Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head?  

11. Michael Stipe on The Adventures of Pete & Pete.  

12. The pope gets a Phillies hat.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Amazon.com Christmas Countdown Commercial, 1999).  

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:  

Santa by the Minute.  
The Christmas Podcasts Podcast.  

“Olive, the Other Reindeer” © 1999 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.  

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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