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

I am one of your host, Bob Mackie, hoping to join Al Jean in in showrunner valhalla and who is here with me today as always still working on unlocking the five guns of mo and fortnight henry gilbert and yes welcome to talk to the audience this is our community podcast it launches at the end of the month on patreon the beginning of the month on the free feed and in this podcast we talk about what's happening in the Simpsons world, what's happening in our neck of the woods. And then we respond to your questions and comments from the last round of episodes. And there is a lot going on in terms of showrunners leaving, writers dying, and new episodes premiering. And did somebody say, Fortnite crossovers? I know. There's even more news than last month, I would say. And we already were talking about, boy, it's like no Simpsons news happens until the season premiere, basically. And then it's just like news, news, news all the time. Now it's all the news. And by the way, I have come down with a slight case of vacation poisoning. So this is why I might sound a little huskier than normal. So we're

going to keep pushing through this and I am feeling a little bit better. So if you're wondering, what's wrong with Bob? Did he become like a grizzled detective or something? Is he trying to solve his own murder? Not yet. It's funny. You came back from Japan, but not Osaka, so it can't be the Osaka flu, which I should have said is what I came down with when I came back.

Yes, Henry got the Osaka flu. which I should have said is what I came down with when I came back.

Yes, Henry got the Osaka flu. It's true. It really happened. So yes, season 37 continues rolling out with some episodes that are good and bad. I will say men behaving manly is not very good. I think most people did not like this episode. This one is about male influencers.

It's very confused and also has like a very short plot about a world with just women that is very

similar to the 1996 Duckman episode, Exile in Guyville, although that episode is all about that

and this episode dedicates maybe 90 seconds to that premise and Albert Brooks returns for

the first time since season 32's yokel hero now Henry you're probably thinking the same thing I am

king of the hill handled this much better in their recent episode about this same kind of idea like

the manliness camp you know going to the camp seeing what being a man is all about and then you find out

there are ulterior motives behind these kind of things. Here, it seems like someone just saw the idea of one of these and thought, oh, what if Homer and Bart went to one? And they didn't really investigate anything more because based on what I watch, it's like, no, this camp, even though the Albert Book's character is a little twisted, this camp was good for them.

And it made them into better men.

And like the wives were very happy with the results.

It was a very strange conclusion here.

Yes.

I thought of that Duckman episode too just because it felt like the viewpoint of this was like frozen from 30 years ago because it didn't seem to understand what male influencers really are about.

Like the King of the Hill episode did understand that the Manosphere, despite even if on the surface,

they're like, no, men need to be helped. There's a male loneliness crisis. Let's talk to them.

If you dig even just slightly beneath the exterior, you figure out most of them are all peddling the same blame women and blame the pusifying of society type stuff that comes

through in that King of the Hill episode. But this definitely seems to take the side that Albert

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