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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In Season 1’s most emotionally raw and visually strange episode yet, Hank scrambles to fix Luanne’s heartbreak like she’s a busted carburetor—because he kind of wants his den back. But what starts as a mission of self-interest becomes something much more tender… even if Hank has to eat his feelings to get there.

We also discuss:

• The moment Bill might’ve fallen in love with Peggy

• The debut of Chuck Mangione and how “Feels So Good” became a recurring joke

• Boomhauer’s role as the quiet moral center of the group

• Peggy’s feminist monologue—so intense it was cut for syndication

• Rob crying on an 18-hour car ride because he didn’t ask for a girl’s number

• Ronnie playing video games all summer after getting dumped

• Buckley’s chocolates

• Bobby licking syrup off a plate at midnight while everyone else spirals

This one’s got heart, tears, VHS workout tapes, and possibly the origin of Hank’s unmentionable problem.

🎤 Rob on How I've Read Podcast: https://pod.link/1754449551/episode/7463b20030a235631fa3fcc4edfca236

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Hank has an intricate plan for how he and his hero Willie Nelson will play golf, write songs, and travel together. He’ll just have to make a good first impression…someday. But Bobby ain’t right and flings a golf club into the Red-Headed Stranger’s red head. And he smeared cheese all over Hank’s beloved guitar. And he rammed the riding mower into Hank’s trunk. What the boy needs is a hero, and not some sickly shut-in gamer. Willie takes a break from that IRS hullabaloo to guest star as himself, and the Yep guys are here to talk about that, prized possessions, Peggy’s jealousy, Boomhauer’s most iconic dang ol internet rant, man, and our own heroes.

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Yep is hosted by two longtime King of the Hill fans—native Texan Rob Couch and Adult Swim collaborator Ronnie Neeley. New episodes every other Monday.