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Hey everybody, welcome to Four Finger Discount. I am Brendan Danner, joined out now by Guy Davis.

Hello, everybody. And we are lucky to be joined today by The Man who has just written the best Simpsons book ever apparently. It's Alan Siegel. How you doing, Alan? I'm great. Thanks for having me, guys. And I say apparently, it is. I just read it this morning, a lot of it this morning, and yeah, It's fantastic.

It delves into a lot of the Simpsons history that we've touched on many times in the past,

but I feel like you've found a way to find new. a lot of it this morning and yeah it's fantastic it delves into a lot of the simpsons history that we've

touched on many times in the past but i feel like you've found a way to find new information which

is great yeah it's funny i've wanted to write a book about the simpsons for like 10 years now and i

could never quite figure out the angle you know like because the show is like an institution

especially in the States, really

all over the world. And it just was too big. It was like too big to, to try to bite off. But just

focusing on the 90s is what I really settled on. Because I sort of was like, this is what we talk

about. It's what we quote. It's really like what the show, what the greatness of the show and the

joy of it is. And so that's really what I wanted to focus on. It's also really give us an insight

into the people who, I guess, shaped the show and shaped its voice very early on. I mean, I really

came away from, from reading it with a greater knowledge and even more of a greater appreciation

of guys like Meyer and Swartz Weller,

Sam Simon, all those people. I mean, yeah, you really capture their personalities very, very

vividly, I think. Thanks. Yeah, I feel like I could have written a whole book on Meyer and

Swartzwellner. I had so much material on them. Like my editor at one point was like, why is this in here? I mean, I had like a whole long digression about the script that George Meyer wrote for David Letterman. And it was like a James Bond parody and the Simpsons writers would like steal jokes from it. And, you know, and Meyer basically, like, oh, it was funny, but, you know, Austin Powers did it better.

Like, this is stuff that's like catnip for me.

Oh, yeah.

It's hard to, like, excise, you know, it's kill your darlings, right?

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