Life, death, and pooping... this episode has it all! Author and podcaster John Paul Scotto joins the Yep boys to crack open one of King of the Hill’s strangest early episodes—where Hank’s stubborn bowels just might kill him.

We talk about:

• How Hank’s constipation isn’t just physical, it’s emotional
• ALL the fluids
• Why this is probably the least “funny” episode so far… and why that’s actually brilliant
• Being made to decay and sucked by trees
• Peggy turning into Hank’s overbearing caretaker (with a little too much Megamucil)
• Doctor's attitudes
• Bobby being the only Hill with a healthy relationship to reality
• The genuinely tender moment that finally gets Hank’s plumbing moving again

It’s an awkward, oddly sweet look at marriage, privacy, and trying to keep the people you love alive—even if you have to sneak laxatives into their ice cream. (Sorry, Hank.)

John Paul Scotto's website: https://jpscotto.com/

"Look at me Longer" by John Paul Scotto: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/594-look-at-me-longer

How I've Read Podcast: https://jpscotto.com/podcast/

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