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The History of The Big Slappy Hour
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SlappydoodleRegistered S42 Challenge Cup Champion
10-18-2023, 09:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-18-2023, 09:39 PM by Slappydoodle. Edited 2 times in total.)
TLDR: The Big Slappy Hour is about to have it's 200th episode and we invite you to participate via our questions thread
The year 1985. The place, a junior high school in Connecticut. Two seventh graders share a gym class. They know each other, but only a little bit, having met through a mutual friend a month or so earlier. In truth, up to now, they haven't really cared too much for one another. The gym coach allows kids to bring in a cassette tape (an outdated musical conveyor) to play on a boom box (another outdated musical conveyor) while the kids jog. Most kids at this point are bringing in Michael Jackson and Madonna. The taller boy brings in a Suicidal Tendencies tape and plays the song "I Saw Your Mommy (And Your Mommy's Dead)". The gym coach, upon hearing the lyrics, is not amused. The shorter kid, on the other hand, is familiar with the song and band already and very amused. The boy who would someday be known as Slappy is chastised and censured by the coach, but in the process gains a lifelong friend and companion in the boy not yet known as Bonk. Eventually the boys, now more accurately young men, paths divert and they wind up in different parts of the country. They attend institutions of higher learning. They eventually get real jobs and start on the road to adulthood. Through this all they remain tight friends, if only infrequently in contact at points. Eventually both meet wonderful girls and get married, Slappy in a small civil ceremony and Bonk in a larger affair with Slappy serving as best man. They spend almost a decade with one living in Massachusetts and one in NYC. They get together when they can but careers and distance keep them too often separated. In a minor miracle, Bonk has an opportunity to relocate to a different office within his company, twenty minutes away from where Slappy finished high school and where his mother still lived. A few years later Slappy manages to convince his wife to move to that same town where he has many friends and family. Thus, with both now living in the same town for the first time in about two decades, a lifelong friendship is reborn greater and stronger than ever before. Now living less than ten minutes apart, a weekly routine is established wherein Slappy heads over to Bonk's every Friday night after the kids are in bed, to hang out, drink a few beers, smoke a little weed, watch stupid movies and maybe play Risk on the computer. This goes on for a long time until a new element is introduced. HOF GM of the Calgary Dragons, Esa Anrikkanen, the younger brother of one of Bonk and Slappy's oldest and dearest friends, introduces Bonk to the SHL. Bonk soon drags Slappy in as well. Both are immediately hooked. Now, the perpetually poor duo need a way to finance their Challenge Cup dreams. Bonk comes up with an idea. The two of them will do a podcast. These two Luddite children of the 70's and 80's, not even certain exactly what a podcast was or how to go about one, figured how hard could it really be. Thus The Big Slappy Hour was born. The first episode was posted on July 11th, 2015. One hundred and ninety eight more followed over the ensuing eight years. No episode is less than an hour in length. Most run significantly more. Conservatively it has to measure out to more than 260 hours of endless prattling at this point. I'll bet at least thirty or so minutes actually even pertain to the SHL over that time. Our questions thread alone is one hundred pages long. We'd like to warmly welcome any and all of you to help us with episode 200. It will be recorded this Friday night. We always love to see our regulars but especially invite anyone who's ever been curious or even openly disdainful of the pod to jump in. We welcome questions, comments, observations, insults or really anything at all, without regard to relevancy or subject matter. https://simulationhockey.com/showthread.php?tid=53335 ![[Image: nQDbTbM.png]](https://i.imgur.com/nQDbTbM.png) ![[Image: hA5o4UG.png]](https://i.imgur.com/hA5o4UG.png)
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Congrats on 200 episodes boys! I still remember when you had one of the only regular podcasts in the league (maybe even the only one). I'll make sure to tune in for episode 200
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BonkRegistered S25, S37 Challenge Cup Champion and a pretty pretty princess
Additionally our questions thread has reached 100 pages for the 200th episode
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