TalKing of the Hill - Hank's Unmentionable Problem
Added 2019-04-12 19:46:41 +0000 UTCIt's toilet time for TalKing of the Hill as Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head roots show in an episode entirely devoted to Hank's pooping problems. But thanks to co-creator Greg Daniels, this story about all things scatalogical has a surprising amount of heart to it, and of course a lot of laughs at Hank's increasing levels of constipation-related embarrassment. So load up on at least three kinds of steak as we journey deep into Hank's clogged guts on this week's podcast!
Comments
Henry’s right, Bob. Enemas ARE where it’s at.
Rico Casanova
2021-07-31 20:27:08 +0000 UTCBob, Hank: White gravy is meatless, at least by default. It's vegetarian, but not vegan, though in biscuits and gravy there's usually sausage added. White gravy is made by creating a roux (a mixture of flour and fat, usually butter), then thinning it out using milk. It's the best kind. Also Hank, as much as it pains me to say it, your dad's dead right about bbq. There are a few cuts of beef that bbq pretty well, such as the aforementioned brisket, but pork is the ideal meat for slow smoking because it has an inherently milder flavor and richer marbling meaning it's not only going to absorb more of the flavoring elements in the smoke and it will meld together better. Pork butt (shoulder) also has a thick fat cap on it so it will self baste and create a really amazing crust as it cooks. Bottom line, I could give up red meat and I'm willing to eat non-animal protein hamburgers, but there's no way to fake the magic that is pulled pork so I can never go vegetarian.
Ron Sterling
2019-04-27 22:16:49 +0000 UTCConfusion is an integral ingredient of the chicken fried steak. But you're right, I guess I should have dropped the 'ton'.
John Harrison
2019-04-16 20:00:44 +0000 UTCCalling it a "beef pork cutlet" throws it into even more confusion
nina matsumoto
2019-04-16 17:55:31 +0000 UTCIt might help Bob understand chicken fried steak a bit more if it was put into Japanse terms: it's beef tonkatsu.
John Harrison
2019-04-15 22:44:24 +0000 UTCI still hate going to the doctor even as a mid-30s guy who has always had health insurance. Last summer I forced myself to go, partly to make my wife feel better, about a lump that had appeared under my arm. Roughly a thousand dollars later and I found out it was just a clogged hair follicle. That's one reason why Americans hate going to the doctor, no matter what the diagnoses or the insurance it still costs a ton of money and time. This country's healthcare sucks. And as someone who recently had surgery that came with an opiate prescription afterwards: take the fiber pills! I was given oxy and told it could mess up that whole business down there, but after a couple of days I didn't feel bloated or anything so I didn't worry. Then I had the worst BM of my life and loaded up on those pills and things went much better. So anyone in the same situation as me for the first time, just take the poop pills and thank me later.
Joe Hodgson
2019-04-15 19:34:34 +0000 UTCRelated to Henry's story about passing out while getting blood drawn, my partner has been going to the same doctor office since they where a teenager and they passed one ONE time so now it's in thier chart to force them to lie down whenever anything needle adjacent happens.
DrKarate
2019-04-14 04:26:47 +0000 UTCWith all the scat talk in this episode, I'm going to chime in a bit on my feelings of sharing BM issues with others. Due to a variety of factors (my sense of humor/ taste in media, physical lack of a gag reflex, and anxiety which often physically manifests in uncomfortable cramps/ loose BMs) I've never had much issue in talking about my poop habits/issues/stories with pretty much anyone. This isn't to say I don't relate to or understand the episode at all given that I'm a human who realizes people (and is friends with others who have) different levels of sensitivity for these things, so it's super interesting to see Hank's constipation dealt with in this level of frankness. I won't just blabber about my scatology with whomever I'm around, as I try to get a sense of a person's humor & comfortability with bodily functions before I get in territory that would otherwise be gross or weird, but if they're game, I'm always 100% game. -- This is a bizarre comment to have made on a podcast post about King of the Hill, but REGARDLESS, great episode as always, Hank & Bob -- Also, speaking of people putting off going to the doctor so they don't have confirmation of something wrong with them, my friend lived with a hernia for 3 or 4 years because he was worried it would turn out to be a tumor and then got it all dealt with in like 2-3 months once he finally decided to stop chickening out about it, and only told us around them which ASTOUNDED us
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2019-04-14 01:22:10 +0000 UTCGreat episode, guys. It can be so difficult to talk about potentially embarassing health issues like these with humour and sensitivity. On the closing scene with Hank talking about nudity, it feels like he should be encouraging people to take better care of themselves (see a doctor, etc) but the swerve is that he wants to apologise to people, like himself, who are more concerned with seeing bare skin on television.
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2019-04-13 08:07:12 +0000 UTCAnother great episode. I’m glad Ryan’s passing motivated Henry to see a doctor about his own health. I remember seeing posts from GB community members following his passing of similar realizations that they needed to go see a doctor and stop putting it off. It still sucks, but it’s a silver lining.
Brian Hortin
2019-04-13 05:31:39 +0000 UTCI always really liked the very well observed thing in the doctor’s voice in this one - very calm and reassuring but also somehow condescending? Also, I am a woman so a doctor has never asked me to take off just my pants, but they do usually ask you to strip down and then put on one of those paper gowns which is the absolute most terrible thing in the universe, especially when you just have to sit there and wait for almost 20 minutes in what is essentially a paper bag. My doctors always knock on the door before they come in, and I know it’s because they want to make sure they don’t walk in on me changing, but I never know what to say - like “come in?” They’re gonna come in anyway. Usually I panic and just say something like “hello?!” It’s the worst
Anna Mansager
2019-04-12 23:35:58 +0000 UTCBwahha
Frank Grimes
2019-04-12 19:48:39 +0000 UTC
