Talking Simpsons - Bill Oakley Interview Spectacular
Talking Simpsons
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🗓️ 8 February 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We’re breaking format, but for the best reason of all! Simpsons veteran, writer, executive producer, and awesome guy, Bill Oakley talked with us for an entire hour this week! He tells us about the switch between seasons 4 and 5, his philosophy for writing the characters, episodes he wish they’d made and so much more! We’re more excited than Al Gore to present this one to y’all…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Talking Simpsons is brought to you by Audible and you listeners can go to |
| 0:06.4 | Audible Trial.com slash Laser Time and get started with a free 30-day trial and get a free audiobook. product. Ahoy, everybody and welcome to a very special episode of Talking Simpsons. |
| 0:36.3 | This is the Lazertine Podcast Network's chronological exploration of the Simpsons. |
| 0:40.8 | I am your host, as always, Bob Mackieie who else is here with me today |
| 0:43.4 | Henry Gilbert hi Christopher chronologically breaking |
| 0:47.1 | Antista a very special episode a first for us yes it's something I always |
| 0:51.9 | lamented that we the Simpsons gets a |
| 0:54.4 | summer off and we never do. There's no break in between seasons. In between |
| 0:59.8 | seasons for us. We just start up immediately and it's nice to have some breathing room with an amazing special thing that we got to do. |
| 1:06.0 | That's right and if you didn't see what episode you're listening to this is our very special interview with Bill Oakley who graciously agreed to talk to us for an hour and it's especially meaningful to me |
| 1:14.0 | because Bill and Josh his writing partner wrote my favorite episodes ran my |
| 1:17.4 | favorite seasons and wrote my favorite episode who shot Mr Burns part |
| 1:20.1 | one so just getting to talk to him asking questions he He probably hasn't answered before was a treat and I think the interview went astoundingly well. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, I was super duper excited for it. |
| 1:29.0 | Shout out to Eric Nagel. Oh, thank you Eric. |
| 1:32.0 | The best friend of the show we've ever had. |
| 1:33.2 | He set us up with this. |
| 1:34.3 | So thank you very much, Eric. |
| 1:35.5 | If you're listening, we really appreciate it. |
| 1:37.7 | When we started this, I dream, it would be a dream |
| 1:40.4 | to speak with any Simpson's writer for it and they are you know they're they're on |
| 1:45.6 | Twitter you can find them but it's not an easy thing just to get them to talk with you |
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