Sample Our Patreon-Exclusive Interviews With Simpsons Legends!
Talking Simpsons
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🗓️ 19 May 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Are you still not a supporter at Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons??? Lemme tell you, you're missing out on so much exclusive stuff, including our very in-depth interviews with Simpsons legends. To give you a taste of what you're missing, here are big chunks of our three most recent interviews out of the many currently available on the Patreon. That includes:
Mike Scully - We chat with the season 9-12 showrunner about working on the series during seasons some fans found controversial!
Dan Greaney - He's worked on the show for two decades and created the word "embiggen," so he has much to share about the writers' room!
David Silverman - One of the most important figures in Simpsons history, this legendary animator takes us through his work on the shows formative shorts all the way to his episode in 2018!
If you enjoy these, listen to the full interviews for all of them at Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons for as little as $5 a month!! (And you get way more than just those interview for your payment!)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | An interview with Lord Michaels. Hi, hoe, listener Reno. |
| 0:17.0 | It's Henry Gilbert here with a special surprise on the old free feed. |
| 0:20.7 | So look, I know that we brag and promote and all the time tell you guys about all the cool |
| 0:25.8 | interviews on Patreon, but we never really share them with you because they're exclusive to the |
| 0:31.4 | Patreon. Well, we decided to give you a little preview |
| 0:34.9 | podcast of three of our most recent interviews |
| 0:37.9 | that you folks are missing out on if you're not |
| 0:40.2 | signed up at patreon.com |
| 0:42.1 | slash talking Simpsons. |
| 0:44.0 | Why just in the last four months we chat with folks like Mike Sculli, |
| 0:48.0 | who had been an executive producer on the Simpsons from season 9 through 13 |
| 0:52.0 | but has been working on the show consistently since at least 1995. |
| 0:57.0 | We also interviewed Dan Graney, who's been working on the Simpsons for 20 plus years as well and invented words like Embigan. |
| 1:05.0 | Last but not least our most recent interview is with David Silverman. |
| 1:10.0 | If you don't know David Silverman is, he is one of the Mount Rushmore of Simpson's creative |
| 1:15.4 | forces. |
| 1:16.4 | He has been working on the show since the shorts, since it began. |
| 1:21.0 | He has been a director on the show, an animator for the show from the beginning. |
| 1:25.2 | So many of the drawings and art you love on that show was all Mr Silverman and under his guidance. And we talked to all of them about their work on the show it's really great |
| 1:36.9 | So we're gonna start with this clip from our Mike Scully interview which includes Bob and me apologizing to Mr. Sculli for maybe not |
| 1:46.5 | being the nicest of Simpson fans about his work back 20-ish years ago. Well, yeah, it was kind of unprecedented at the time for you to do four seasons after all the ones before you had done two, at least in the fan community was thought like, oh, that's never happened before. |
| 2:10.0 | Was it seen internally as a big deal or was it just like the Mike's doing a good job? He'll just keep going. |
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