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Ahoy, hoi, everybody, and welcome to talk to the audience where this is always death.

I'm one of your host, Bob Mackey, and I believe the 11th year of a show is when things really start to get good and who is here with me today as always currently morning marge simpson it's henry gilbert yes rip to marge uh rest in power and yes this is our community podcast on this podcast it comes out at the end of the month on patreon the beginning of the month on the free feed in this podcast, we talk about what's happening in the Simpsons world and in our world. And then we spent some time responding to your questions and comments from the most recent round of episodes. And things are happening in the Simpsons world, but we're kind of slowing down between the end of season 36 and the beginning of 37. Do I have those numbers correct? Yes, yeah. Season 37 is the one that is going to premiere. Actually, there still isn't a premiere date that's in part of the news. I thought we'd have this month. Well, last month we took off, not really. We didn't do a talk to the audience. Instead, we did a three-hour anniversary special for a 10th anniversary. So I assumed a lot more news would build up over the last two months. And Henry's producer on this one, and I was surprised to see not a whole lots going on. Of course, there were some monumental things happening in the last two months, but not a lot of Simpson's news to speak up in general.

Yeah, I mean, no new episodes.

Like, there hasn't been anything since the late May finale that we talked about.

And then, like, the biggest news, I'd say that was planned, like good news, was at, like,

two days ago when we're recording this at San Diego Comic Con.

There really has not been a ton since then. But we can start off with the downer of this episode, and it's something that I think

just kind of came and went, and I really think it speaks to people not fully understanding the

impact of this gentleman. Of course, I'm talking about legendary composer Alv Klausen,

who passed away on June 2nd at the age of 84. So if you need to know more about Al Fawson, we've talked about him so much over the past 10 years, but he was major higher in season two. He won two Emmys for the show, for his work on the show. He also wrote the Alph theme song. He did music for the critic. Hans Zimmer did the opening theme. Alph Klassen did the music throughout the show,

and he was let go in season 28 over an alleged decline in quality, although there was a lawsuit

filed by Alff Klausen. It was in age and disability discrimination case, but that was tossed

out of court or settled, I believe, in February 2020. Was it settled or was it just like stricken from the record?

Yeah, you know. You're out of order, Elf. You actually are old. No, I thought it was just

dismissed. I had forgotten the next step of it, but in his obituary, they mentioned that it was

initially dismissed on some grounds, but not all of them, and they were going

to proceed the Alf Claus inside. And then February of 2022 is when Fox Disney ultimately just

settled with him for an undisclosed amount. I see. And yes, Alph Clause and very important to the show.

I think his, just what he added to the show, I don't think we're at a point to fully understand just how important Alph Clauseen was.

But there's a certain texture to the Simpsons.

We've talked about this a lot since Alf left the show.

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