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Can I play the piano anymore?

Of course you can't.

Well, I couldn't before.

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Welcome to Forfinger Discount, dude. We're going back to review an iconic episode from season 7 of The Simpsons. It is a fish called summer. I'm Dando. And I am Guy and we are not alone. We are not alone. Indeed. We are joined this week by the showrunner at the time when this episode aired. It is Josh Weinstein, an absolute icon of the Simpsons world. He is just an absolute delight to talk to.

You guys are going to have an absolute ball listening to us.

Just talk about all the, not just this episode in general, but just all the behind the scenes of his time working on The Simpsons, post and pre-Simpsons as well. You will have a bit of fun listening to us, but mostly you'll be listening to Josh. She's got a lot to say, and he's very entertaining saying it.

Yeah.

We've got a lot of, a bit of behind the scenes dish.

Yeah, but a lot of say and he's very entertaining saying it. Yeah. We've got a lot of a bit of behind the scenes dish.

Yeah, but a lot of insight into, yeah, the creation of the show, but also, as listeners of the show, we'll know we're big, big fans of Phil Harmon and we got some great stuff about Phil because this is a very Phil centric episode. It was indeed, yeah. and he touched on how great it was to finally give Phil an episode,

or just give Troy McClure his own episode as well,

and why they wanted to do that. So we'll delve into that. But also just delve into his time at the retreats, which are really, really interesting, some really behind the scene stuff about, I know, just how they were able to get away with certain gags on The Simpsons. and a really interesting story about how he now kind of regrets leaving the Simpsons in the first place which is really interesting

as well so look at for that in our chat here with Josh Winson as we discussed a fish caught

salmon but Josh is one of those guys he and Bill they were a team when they joined the Simpsons

I believe season four but they were the first sort of Simpsons fans to join the writing team. And he really shines through in this interview here where he seems, you can tell he's genuinely excited to discuss his time working on the show. And as a fan, these are the kind of people, like Josh and Bill are like my two favorite people to talk to because they are fans just like you and I. And they, they enjoyed their time working on the show, and they enjoyed making their own version of The Simpsons. And it's just, it was just an absolute fantastic chat, and I'm glad that we finally got a chance to do it. No, it's great doing interviews like this, yeah, just getting a look behind the scenes at how the sausage is made. Sometimes you say you shouldn't do that, but when the sausage is this tasty, who cares how they made it?

Yeah, also just an insight into the karate process in general. I find them really, really illuminating. And when it's, yeah, someone is articulate and forthcoming as Josh, yeah, it's even, even better. Now, at the end of this, so basically we usually do our full run-through of the episode. So we will be doing that, but we talked with Josh. We've got about, you know, two-thirds of the way through me.

We've been going for an hour.

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