Welcome to the Ralph Report with Ralph Garman.

Hey everybody, welcome to the Ralph Report for a Monday.

It is the 2nd of April.

So good to be back with you.

Thanks so much, by the way, everybody, for being very supportive of me taking a few days off last

week and go and spending some time with the family we went skiing as you know

more on that in just a moment but it was great for you guys to be so supportive and say,

yeah, go do, spend some time with your kid during spring break. We'll be here when you get back and sure enough,

look at you. There you you are and I know you enjoy

the interview with Brian Lynch as well that I was playing all last week and got a

lot of great feedback and why not Brian is a terrific guy and a huge talent and a great

interview so I'm glad you guys all enjoyed that good one this week as well.

It's kind of cool we're doing back-to-back writers last week as I mentioned Brian Lynch

terrific screenwriter great success in animation and this week is going to be one of the greats in television.

All week long, you'll be hearing my interview with David Mandel.

David, if you don't recognize the name,

was a writer right out of Harvard with the National Lampoon went to

Saturday Night Live then went to Seinfeld then curb your

enthusiasm then clerks the animated series then curbs the

the animated series with our buddy Kevin Smith and now is the showrunner on

on VE as if that isn't enough. That's quite a run in television.

He's a great guy, fascinating guy,

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