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BREAKING NEWS: A new Simpsons Movie is coming! · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Speaker 1: Four Finger discounted.
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Speaker 2: Breaking news, mister Davis, breaking news, broke everything down, broke
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Speaker 2: the internet this morning.
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Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, it wasn't Kim Kardashian, remember her breaking
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Speaker 1: the internet? It was news of what's.
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Speaker 2: The new Sisters Me be coming out? Finally, finally they
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Speaker 2: lied to us. They lied to us through a chalkbaor gag.
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Speaker 1: Well or did they I mean the cat Well, sorry,
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Speaker 1: the blackball gag or the chalkball gag was eerily prophetic. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we were not wait twenty years as indeed, but they
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Speaker 1: did weigh twenty yd They lied to us through chalkpak. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: they misdirected us. Let's say, let's not accuse people of
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Speaker 1: deceit or lying like a poo You lied to him
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Speaker 1: through song. Well you're just throwing out references think of past.
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Speaker 1: But yes, indeed, we woke up this morning here in
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Speaker 1: to discover that a new Simpsons movie is on the way.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be called the Simpsons Movie too, the
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Speaker 2: Simpsons sequel. What do you think they're going to call
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Speaker 2: this movie?
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Speaker 1: I think they wouldn't be that lacking in the imagination.
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Speaker 1: They go the Simpsons Movie two, the Simpsons Movie something
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Speaker 1: we don't really get numbers, or do we get numbers anymore.
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Speaker 1: We occasionally do, but that's usually with announcements, you know,
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Speaker 1: like when Disney will say we've got new product coming up,
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Speaker 1: and it'll be like Toy Story five, Incredibles three and
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Speaker 1: all that. But I think a lot of the times
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Speaker 1: you'll be finding that, you know, they'll come up with
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Speaker 1: new titles or subtitles like all the Mission Impossible movies,
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Speaker 1: for instance, or were like Ghost Protocol or Rogue Nation
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Speaker 1: or The Final Reckoning or you know, fast than the
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Speaker 1: Furious became, well they had numbers for a while, but
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Speaker 1: they also became the Fate of the Furious and all
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So hopefully they do a bit
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Speaker 1: of wordplay. We would expect as much from the makers
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Speaker 1: of The Simpsons, wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: We would indeed, yes. And I'll tell you what, I'm
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Speaker 2: really excited. It's been, as I said, twenty years since
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Speaker 2: the first movie. I did see an interesting tweet that
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Speaker 2: said more time will transpire between the two Simpsons movies
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Speaker 2: than between the show start and the original Simpsons movie.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, because it was season eighteen. That's not at
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Speaker 2: all sobering. Twenty years between sequels. That's a long time.
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Speaker 2: I'm just sitting here thinking, I wonder if what are
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Speaker 2: I gonna do?
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Speaker 1: Because my grit were the first Simpsons movie was that.
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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed the first half an hour because I've
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Speaker 2: always said on the podcast, I'm a big fan of
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Speaker 2: when they incorporate as many characters as possible town based stories,
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Speaker 2: and that's what the first movie felt like. For the
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Speaker 2: first half an hour. A lot of Simpsons characters were involved.
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Speaker 2: Then they left the dome, and once they left the
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Speaker 2: dome and it almost felt like Springfield became forgotten. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: just the thought got back to and cut back to
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Speaker 2: and cut back to my way, that's what's going on
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Speaker 2: in the dome. But it's a margin Homer crisis, I
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Speaker 2: think for the Simpsons movie too, or it sounds sun
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Speaker 2: that the Simpsons movie too. The Simpsons sequel, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to call it that. Let's not have a margin Homer
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Speaker 2: crisis story.
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Speaker 1: We don't need those anymore.
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Speaker 2: We've had thirty plus years of that. Let's think of
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Speaker 2: something original. Another grit was always you brought in this
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Speaker 2: villain that nobody really cared about, still voiced by Albert Brooks.
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Speaker 2: Everyone saying should have brought back side show Bob or
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Speaker 2: Hank Scorpio.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I've forgotten even the name of the
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Speaker 1: of the of the villain rough something right, Russ Cargill was, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Hank Scorbio in name on Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The more I think about it, I don't know whether
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Speaker 2: Hank Scorpio would have been a good idea. It would
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Speaker 2: have been good for the hardcore fans, but as Matt
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Speaker 2: Salmon and algef said, since you can't just appeal to
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Speaker 2: the hard course, you've got to appeal to a widespread audience,
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Speaker 2: and they would have. They were worried that if you
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Speaker 2: introduced Hank Scorpio there would have been his expectation from
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Speaker 2: the writers that you know this guy, so I don't
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Speaker 2: to explain to who he is, which is why the
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Speaker 2: way with Russ car Gill, I still wish they had
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Speaker 2: in Corporate I missed.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, I think it's about as much work introducing a
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Speaker 1: new villain as it is reintroducing an old one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, the fact that Hanks Godby is a
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Speaker 1: pretty loved character or a pretty well.
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Speaker 2: He appeared in one episode though well true, but he's
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Speaker 2: very profound Well.
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Speaker 1: Having said that. I mean, if he's only got one
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Speaker 1: episode worth a backstory, it can't be that difficult to
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Speaker 1: reintroduce him and give him motivation to be part of
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Speaker 1: this news story. I think they kind of dropped the
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Speaker 1: ball in all one. So I mean, it's great getting
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Speaker 1: out of Brooks back, and you know he always delivers. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think of Simpson's meme culture though, with the social media,
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Speaker 2: I think now you could bring back a hang scorpio
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Speaker 2: and even the casual person will go, oh, yes, that
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Speaker 2: guy from the Simpsons because it's just been so all
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Speaker 2: over social media for so long.
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Speaker 1: Now, or even just make a jogo if you don't
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Speaker 1: know who this character is. Yeah, like you know, some
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Speaker 1: people go.
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Speaker 2: Who what, Yeah, have a quick flashback when that came.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, have a quick flashback and the everyone goes,
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Speaker 1: oh that guy. Yeah. I think that will work great.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, but let's not even talk about that because
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Speaker 1: that's an old movie and this is a new This.
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Speaker 2: Is the new one here. So what do you think
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Speaker 2: that could be a story? As I was saying, I
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Speaker 2: think they need to steer away from it being a
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Speaker 2: margin Homer crisis story.
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Speaker 1: I think they very much have to do that. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe not have Homer margin with the vocals, and for
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Speaker 1: various reasons, not just because I'm not saying that their
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Speaker 1: story is played out. Remember this, this is called the Simpsons.
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Speaker 1: It is about the Simpsons, but it's also expanded to
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Speaker 1: become about Springfield and the wider community. Yeah. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to quote a social media friend of mine who wasn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily scathing about this, but they well they said, this
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Speaker 1: is going to be the fucking Irishman. You know that
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Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese movie where they d aged you know, de
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Speaker 1: Niro and Pacino and all that, but it also looked like,
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Speaker 1: you know, Robert de Niro is kicking the hell out
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Speaker 1: of someone as his thirty year old self, and it
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Speaker 1: looks like that's a seventy year old man kicking someone
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Speaker 1: outside everyone is one hundred and fifty years old. In well,
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Speaker 1: in terms of like we've talked about this before with
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Speaker 1: Dancy's voice, but certainly with Julie Cabnet's Boye. Much love
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Speaker 1: and respect to Julie Kabnah, but her voice sounds like gradmar. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So whether you know they do some digital trickery or
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Speaker 1: something like that to sort of spruce things up, but
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think having them as the center, it's
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Speaker 1: too much wear and tear and it's going to be
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Speaker 1: too noticeable. Now you can work around that absolutely. What
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Speaker 1: I was thinking was, yeah, the two thousand and seven
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Speaker 1: movie was kind of like a disaster movie in a
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Speaker 1: lot of ways. It used disaster movie tropes, like with
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Speaker 1: the dome and everything like that. They were popular I
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Speaker 1: think in the in the two thousands. I'm wondering what's
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Speaker 1: sort of popular now, and I.
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Speaker 2: Don't know what is popular now, but I wouldn't even
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Speaker 2: say superhero movies are popular now because you think this
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Speaker 2: is what I think. They also need to steer away
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Speaker 2: from trying to be relevant relevant in that point in
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Speaker 2: time and saying that no sort of current pop culture
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Speaker 2: references and things like that, because people watching it twenty
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Speaker 2: years later will have no idea what's going on. I
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Speaker 2: don't think they need to try and be cool. They
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Speaker 2: need to try and be the Simpsons again. Go back
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Speaker 2: to gold Near. What made it so good was that
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Speaker 2: you didn't it didn't try and feel like where the
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Speaker 2: cool new thing at this point in time. It was
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Speaker 2: just will make culture references that were forever references, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, And yeah, the people who love us will come
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Speaker 1: to us, and if it's good, other people will as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what I was thinking was, I know they've already done
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Speaker 1: like a mad Mad Mad Mad World parody on an
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Speaker 1: episode of the show. But I mean the Giant Tea,
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Speaker 1: the Giant t I'm a big fan of just something
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Speaker 1: where everyone is involved and everyone is sort of working
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Speaker 1: towards a common goal. They've all got their subplots within
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Speaker 1: the big plot. So something like your movie Rat Race,
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Speaker 1: which you enjoy, right, That's exactly what I was thinking of,
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Speaker 1: or even like this, even like the Canniball Run. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, there's something on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the country, we have to go do it. One of
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Speaker 1: my favorite cartoons when I was going out was Wacky
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Speaker 1: Races Adorre. It was it just a race.
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Speaker 2: Every single day, shenanigans and.
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Speaker 1: Shenanigans would happen, you know, and there was always the villain,
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Speaker 1: you know, dictatic always yeah, but you never know who
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Speaker 1: would win, you know. I would always throw a bone
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Speaker 1: to everyone who was involved in the Wacky Races, but
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Speaker 1: everyone had this sort of subplot. So I think if
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Speaker 1: you make it a road movie or something, a race
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Speaker 1: road movie, true. I do think.
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Speaker 2: I think me personally, I would prefer it's kept in Springfield.
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Speaker 2: I think you just need to try and keep it
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Speaker 2: as Springfield based as possible. Don't try and incorporate all
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Speaker 2: these like Russ Cargill and the government and all this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Like I don't want the government. I just want Springfield. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I want a Springfield based story.
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Speaker 1: I think you can keep Springfield in the show. I
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Speaker 1: think I think for this episode, you take the people
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Speaker 1: of Springfield and you put them on the road, and
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Speaker 1: you take them to be these other places. Now, whether
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Speaker 1: it's cities and towns that have been created by the
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Speaker 1: show like Ogden, Capitol City, Capital City, all that kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Yeah, take us somewhere we haven't been before,
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Speaker 1: but take us there with in familiar company, you know,
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Speaker 1: and make them kind of fish out of water, you know,
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Speaker 1: not just a Simpsons family, but you know, and have
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Speaker 1: have wacky team ups have you know, mow and well
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Speaker 1: there's a very unimagined wacky team. But yeah, put Lenny
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Speaker 1: cale Moe in a car together.
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Speaker 2: Most in a Poo's gone now it doesn't exist anymore apparently,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, that's shock.
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Speaker 1: Bring back the popular imagine.
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Speaker 2: They put a poo on the poster for a Simpsons sequel,
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Speaker 2: I think people would go batshit crazy for it.
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Speaker 1: We'll just hav him sort of like leaning in from
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Speaker 1: the side. He's back fantastic. So that's that's my suggestion.
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Speaker 1: I think get them out and seeing America or the
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Speaker 1: Simpsons version of America. Yeah, I think that. Yeah, put
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Speaker 1: Springfield on the road.
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Speaker 2: Do you think I say format bending like a twenty
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Speaker 2: two short films kind of vibe could work for a movie.
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Speaker 2: I think it needs to have an overall story like
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Speaker 2: that that's not a bunch of into twiny stories as
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Speaker 2: I said, I.
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Speaker 1: Think you need one big story and substories within the story. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: something that's happening to everybody and everybody's reaction to it.
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Speaker 2: Why has it turns out that this is the final
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Speaker 2: episode no one knows about until I actually watch it.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, so this is this is the this is
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Speaker 2: the grand Final, but no one knows the grand finale.
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Speaker 1: Hope not. I can't see it being in that case,
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Speaker 1: I don't think. So it was coming out.
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Speaker 2: So it's coming out in twenty twenty seven, four days
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Speaker 2: before the twenty year anniversary of the original film. Now
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Speaker 2: they've canceled a Marvel film to splice this in a
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Speaker 2: Marvel product or Was this always going to be the
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Speaker 2: sins this movie? And they just called it the Marvel
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Speaker 2: unnamed project so no one would guess, so they can
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Speaker 2: make the big anounced.
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Speaker 1: Look, that's very top secretive review. That's very I don't
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Speaker 1: know I would do that.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't want news leaking that this is coming out.
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Speaker 2: I will want to I would want to control the narrative.
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Speaker 2: I want to announce it and have no one because
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Speaker 2: no one had any idea this was coming. No one
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Speaker 2: had any idea this was coming.
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Speaker 1: We don't know much at this stage. We are I
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Speaker 1: just found out that this maybe what three hours ago?
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Speaker 1: He woke up and yeah, check my email.
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Speaker 2: Oh I couldn't believe.
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Speaker 1: Well, this can't be real. So all we really know
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Speaker 1: is that there's a proposed release date of July twenty three,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, and this was originally slated for an
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Speaker 1: untitled Marvel project or product.
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Speaker 2: Now there's no Marvel film between Doomsday and what's the
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Speaker 2: next one?
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Speaker 1: Was a secret war something like that? Yeah, this isn't
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Speaker 1: between that. How much has Marve Marvel been de valued
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Speaker 1: that this supposedly big comeback of the Avengers. We can't
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Speaker 1: even really remember the titles of We're not really giving
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Speaker 1: a fuck.
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Speaker 2: It It ended with Endgame, man like Endgame was the
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Speaker 2: n It did end with then game.
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Speaker 1: You need yeah, you need to take Sorry, I'm just
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Speaker 1: repeating myself here, but you need to take three or
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Speaker 1: four years. Let everybody go. You know, greet was those
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Speaker 1: Morbile movies. Twenty years. Have we seen me do his
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Speaker 1: mobile movies? Toga and then you come back? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can throw anything in our suckers and we'll be Marvel. Yeah. No, man,
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Speaker 1: that's what they're doing with the Simpsons twenty years since.
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Speaker 2: So when they make this movie, who do you think
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Speaker 2: they need to have in mind? I've always said with
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Speaker 2: the original, I wish I had more of the hardcore
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Speaker 2: fans in mind, because I am like a hardcore fan.
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Speaker 2: I'm I'm a fan of the show. I grew up
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Speaker 2: with the show, and I felt that they appealed too
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Speaker 2: much to common viewers and the casual viewer who might
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Speaker 2: not have been watching the show at that point. I
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Speaker 2: think with this one here, you can take the punt
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Speaker 2: and know that the people who are going to go
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Speaker 2: see this are Simpsons fans appeal to them. Still have
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Speaker 2: that casual audience in mind, but really don't go overboard,
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Speaker 2: but go more for we want to make the movie
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Speaker 2: that Simpsons fans want.
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Speaker 1: I honestly think you can put chocolate in the peanut butter,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, these are smart. How many times
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Speaker 1: have we said in recent episodes, certainly when we're talking
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Speaker 1: about classic episodes, when we've had our guests on, like
11:48
Speaker 1: Ed Cavali or Nina or or Daniel or those people,
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Speaker 1: how much we sort of respect My holy shit, they're
11:55
Speaker 1: geniuses who make this. When we did Arenyview with Alan Seagull,
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Speaker 1: for instance, and you're talking about the incredible brain these people. Now, Look,
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Speaker 1: a lot of these people aren't still uninvolved, but I'm
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Speaker 1: getting the people who are working on the Simpson now
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Speaker 1: are no dummies. And the people they'll get for the
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Speaker 1: movie will divisional ones back. That's what they did for
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Speaker 1: the first movie. Yeah. Yea very very clever, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure they'll be able to fold in ways. It's like,
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Speaker 1: this is a movie that's going to appeal to a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. We're going to make a big screen
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Speaker 1: spectacle that's going to appeal to a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: and within that we can include not even just Easter.
12:23
Speaker 1: I mean we can involve jokes and storylines and bits
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Speaker 1: and pieces of all sizes. Three people will get that,
12:29
Speaker 1: but the three people who'll get that joke will fucking
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Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, thirty percent of the population or the
12:35
Speaker 1: audience will get that and they're that's hilarious. And it's
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Speaker 1: also a call back to that episode that I remember.
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Speaker 1: I think you can have all of it, I think,
12:42
Speaker 1: and particularly when you work in a movie. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it's going to be that much longer
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Speaker 1: than ninety minutes. I don't think they'll go the whole
12:49
Speaker 1: two and a half hour round that everybody's going these days.
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Speaker 1: But still, that's three episodes back to back, four episodes
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Speaker 1: back to back. Really Yeah, so no, I think you
12:58
Speaker 1: can do that. Well, hopefully they can do that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just think I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: worry that they're going to try and be too modernize
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Speaker 2: Simpsons and go, well, the kids, the kids are gonna watching.
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Speaker 2: We need to make a movie that the kids are
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Speaker 2: going to enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we need to get we need to throwing celebrity cameos,
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Speaker 1: we need to throw it up to the minute references
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Speaker 1: all that. Well, let's not forget. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: show business we're talking about it. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 1: think Fox and Disney and all the people associated with this,
13:21
Speaker 1: they're not doing it just to like, hey, Simpsons fans,
13:24
Speaker 1: we know you've been loyal over the year. He will
13:26
Speaker 1: throw your bone. No, they want as many people through
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Speaker 1: the door as possible.
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Speaker 2: They didn't feel like peak Simpsons did that though. It didn't
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Speaker 2: feel like they were getting guest cameos on just to
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Speaker 2: say look who we've got. It felt like we're getting
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Speaker 2: guest stars on, but they were playing characters.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, but the Simpsons name or the Simpsons brand
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Speaker 1: had enough clad by that says like, well you'll show up.
13:43
Speaker 1: I just well that stage it was cool.
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Speaker 2: Well see here they can. The first movie was this
13:50
Speaker 2: is our first film, right, They threw it out there.
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Speaker 2: We got what we got, And I do feel I'm
13:54
Speaker 2: saying it fell for Cliff is too harsh, Like I
13:57
Speaker 2: always say, once they left the Domate falla the Cliff
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Speaker 2: a bit and it got to be better to Towards
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Speaker 2: the end the Homer epiphany moment, it was just like,
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Speaker 2: what are we doing? Here dragged on forever. Hopefully they
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Speaker 2: can watch that and listen, because they do. They do
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Speaker 2: listen to their fans and go, what didn't they like?
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Speaker 1: What did they like?
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Speaker 2: Let's tweak it and hopefully we can give something more
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Speaker 2: of what the Simpsons fans want. But what is a
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Speaker 2: Simpsons fan in twenty twenty five?
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Speaker 1: Is it me? Or is it kids? Well? To quote
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Speaker 1: the the girl from the from the taco Ed, why
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Speaker 1: can't we have both? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Why can't we have both? But I do think a
14:25
Speaker 2: lot of people who were watching the Simpsons movie, the
14:28
Speaker 2: original one, aren't watching the Simpsons anymore.
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Speaker 1: I just sent you a little a little graph little
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Speaker 1: pie shop because you know, people are starting meming and uh,
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Speaker 1: stuff like crazy to see this one. What people remember
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Speaker 1: from the Simpsons movie, it's like little little wedges of
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Speaker 1: the pie saying the ending, the plot, the funny parts,
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Speaker 1: the mostly big part is Spider Pig. Spider Pig. That's true. Yeah,
15:13
Speaker 1: well that's true.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all over the commercials obviously. But I
15:15
Speaker 2: did put a post out on the page saying, it's
15:17
Speaker 2: hard to explain to my kids why this was so big,
15:21
Speaker 2: and I never really got it. I never really thought
15:23
Speaker 2: Spider Pig was all that funny. I liked the Harry
15:25
Speaker 2: Popper gag more than the Spider p the spider big thing.
15:28
Speaker 2: I think Mike Reese wrote that, and I think he
15:30
Speaker 2: sort of wrote it as it's like, as a bit silly,
15:32
Speaker 2: and it just exploded and it became this big thing.
15:34
Speaker 2: Was it just that moment where it's just one of
15:36
Speaker 2: those things where everyone knows it so we can sort
15:39
Speaker 2: of quote and go.
15:40
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Sort of
15:42
Speaker 1: that's it's riding the way with something that was very
15:44
Speaker 1: very popular at the time. I mean, yeah, the Spider
15:46
Speaker 1: Man movies were pretty huge. Yeah, and yeah everyone well,
15:50
Speaker 1: certainly the NCU wasn't a thing. Yeah, no, no, but
15:53
Speaker 1: a spider Man. Sam spiders were and Spider Man's been
15:57
Speaker 1: a you know, perennially popular character for goodness now how long.
16:00
Speaker 1: And you know you're dealing with a generation X older
16:04
Speaker 1: millennial millennial audience as well that would remember from Saturday
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Speaker 1: Morning cartoons Spider Man Spider Man, which is the fucking
16:10
Speaker 1: catchy tune by itself. So you know, you throw a
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Speaker 1: pig into that, you have Homer doors, put a clock
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Speaker 1: in it, put an oink in it.
16:17
Speaker 2: One thing. I will see you touched on this earlier,
16:19
Speaker 2: I will say, I hope they don't introduce characters who
16:24
Speaker 2: are random original characters who are never going to see again.
16:27
Speaker 2: Like Colin was the boy that Lisa fell in love with.
16:29
Speaker 2: We never saw him again. Russ Cargill, we never saw
16:32
Speaker 2: him again. Don't bring in characters if you have no
16:35
Speaker 2: plan going forward with them. Just use the established universe
16:38
Speaker 2: that you've got.
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Speaker 1: Where I agree with you is, yeah, make it. This
16:43
Speaker 1: has to be the for the fans in the sense
16:44
Speaker 1: of like, make use of what you've got and celebrate
16:47
Speaker 1: what you've got. That's it. Yeah. Yeah, So if you
16:51
Speaker 1: must have a villain, use your existing villain, make make burns.
16:55
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say, make Burns the
16:56
Speaker 1: mastermind of the race. It's like, oh, I'm dang Smithers,
16:59
Speaker 1: and I've got my fortune somewhere across the terrible Burns
17:02
Speaker 1: in personation, sorry, on the other side of the country.
17:06
Speaker 1: Someone could go get it. Yeah, and blah blah blah
17:08
Speaker 1: blah blah. That's YadA YadA, YadA. Yeah, Hey, invite me
17:11
Speaker 1: to the writers room, guys, because you'll get more gold
17:14
Speaker 1: like that. What's step two? Stuff happens in the middle.
17:18
Speaker 2: This is the chance to make mister Burns feel like
17:19
Speaker 2: a villain again, feel like an evil super villain.
17:22
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then that way you can fold Smithers into
17:25
Speaker 1: as well. He's got to be on the road to
17:26
Speaker 1: someone like you're going to be and ears on the
17:28
Speaker 1: rude Smithers. So he goes out there and he's like
17:31
Speaker 1: his little melibou Stacey cars. I like that.
17:33
Speaker 2: It's running itself, not very well, but still we're getting there.
17:39
Speaker 1: I'm clearly invested in my opinion, in my idea here,
17:42
Speaker 1: but I mean you've clearly you've got probably a good
17:44
Speaker 1: one as well.
17:44
Speaker 2: Ah. No, I actually don't mind the idea of what
17:47
Speaker 2: I think that'd just be a fun episode at least.
17:49
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but I mean if you do it sort
17:51
Speaker 1: of like almost in Fast and Furious style, or you
17:55
Speaker 1: put in nods like the way Fast and Furious sort
17:58
Speaker 1: of operates with its car chase of things like that,
18:00
Speaker 1: I mean it's got to also be a movie. It's
18:02
Speaker 1: got to be bigger than a TV episode, doesn't it.
18:05
Speaker 1: And I mean I'm feel like a spectacle, not just
18:08
Speaker 1: in terms of story, but in terms of well, I
18:12
Speaker 1: could easily wait three weeks and it's going to be
18:14
Speaker 1: on streaming anyways, like no, get people to reasona to leave.
18:16
Speaker 2: The houseeah, And they're gonna have key moments because I
18:17
Speaker 2: remember when the original one came out, they said someone's
18:19
Speaker 2: going to die. It tended to be doctor Nikuhn don't
18:21
Speaker 2: get getting brought back anyway. And then you had Bart,
18:25
Speaker 2: you saw his wiener, you saw his wien, which was
18:27
Speaker 2: like a big talking point, like, oh my god, a
18:29
Speaker 2: couple if they did that, what do you think would
18:31
Speaker 2: be a shocking moment in twenty twenty five for a
18:33
Speaker 2: Simpsons movie to do a swear word baby, which I
18:37
Speaker 2: don't think they need. No, I don't know, the Simpsons
18:39
Speaker 2: don't need to go down that.
18:40
Speaker 1: No, you have to be clever with that.
18:43
Speaker 2: I wonder if this is where you kill a grandpa
18:47
Speaker 2: or something.
18:48
Speaker 1: Possibly yeah, oh you actually yeah, going back to mister Burns,
18:52
Speaker 1: you actually bump him off or something and you know, no, no, having.
18:57
Speaker 2: Just feel easy, doesn't it. Part of the joke is
19:00
Speaker 2: only somebody. Part of the joke is that these old
19:02
Speaker 2: characters just keep going on and on. So yeah, if
19:05
Speaker 2: you were going to bump someone off, it would have
19:07
Speaker 2: to be someone unexpected, and don't mark it as someone's
19:11
Speaker 2: gonna die. Yeah no, just haven't happened because haven't mean something.
19:15
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no. My idea as well is run dry
19:20
Speaker 1: unfortunately in terms of that.
19:21
Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm really excited for it. It's been twenty years.
19:24
Speaker 2: I told the kids this morning, and they were real
19:26
Speaker 2: expcause they'd ran to the Simpsons. Now they're looking forward
19:28
Speaker 2: to it. I said the same year as the Blue Movie.
19:29
Speaker 2: I think the Blue Movie comes out in tween twenty seven.
19:31
Speaker 2: I was like, which one do you want to see?
19:32
Speaker 2: More Bluey or the Simpsons. They were like Simpsons. I
19:35
Speaker 2: was like, Bluey, blooey. I'm trying to keep dad happy.
19:40
Speaker 2: I wonder if this is their way of going quickly.
19:42
Speaker 2: Bluey's becoming the number one show. Sure the kids are watching.
19:45
Speaker 2: They're gonna movie coming out, Simpsons movie, well counteract it.
19:48
Speaker 2: But I'm sure this has been in the works for
19:51
Speaker 2: some time.
19:51
Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah, we tend to poke fun at big corporation, like,
19:56
Speaker 1: oh god, they're flying by the Sea of the Pants.
19:57
Speaker 1: I don't with the name. They're generally run by pretty
19:59
Speaker 1: inten leg.
20:00
Speaker 2: And pretty savvy people, and they would be putting a
20:03
Speaker 2: lot of plans in place now. The Simpsons staff not
20:06
Speaker 2: burning themselves out, so we're going right Wait, look, extra
20:08
Speaker 2: teams not working double workloads, because that's what happened with
20:12
Speaker 2: season eighteen nineteen was the show quality really dipped for
20:15
Speaker 2: a while because I was too hard working on the
20:17
Speaker 2: Simpsons movie. So I'll have two separate teams going. But yeah,
20:21
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what is going to be leaked things.
20:23
Speaker 2: So all we know not right now, is that it's
20:24
Speaker 2: coming out July twenty third, twenty twenty seven. It's going
20:28
Speaker 2: to be coming in between the two Marvel films. We
20:30
Speaker 2: don't really know anything at all, do It's just to
20:31
Speaker 2: release the poster on Twitter this morning, and it's just
20:34
Speaker 2: basically the same as this front cover here the of
20:37
Speaker 2: the movie with the doughnut being removed from the Simpsons movie.
20:40
Speaker 1: Whether the homies coming back for sec seconds? Yes, that's
20:42
Speaker 1: what I said. Yeah, but donut when the sprinkles on
20:44
Speaker 1: are all a little number two.
20:46
Speaker 2: I've got my Simpsons blu ray here. Originally saw it.
20:49
Speaker 2: We got before America. Can you believe it the original
20:51
Speaker 2: Simpsons movie? That's right? Yeah, so ten am screening nine
20:54
Speaker 2: dollars for a film, so that still feels I thought
20:58
Speaker 2: it'd be more than that less and that we always
21:01
Speaker 2: say the movie's cost so much now and I'm like,
21:03
Speaker 2: I paid fifteen dollars for that much more expensive. But
21:06
Speaker 2: this is twenty years ago and I've paid nine dollars.
21:08
Speaker 1: I was about to say, we used to be a
21:09
Speaker 1: proper country. We never worked.
21:13
Speaker 2: But yeah, I am very excited for this film. Let
21:15
Speaker 2: us know in the comments what you guys think could
21:17
Speaker 2: be the potential plot of the Simpsons sequel, which is
21:19
Speaker 2: what we're going to be calling here at four fig
21:21
Speaker 2: A discant for now, but we just figured this was
21:23
Speaker 2: worthy of some breaking news because this is probably the
21:24
Speaker 2: biggest Simpsons news in a long time.
21:27
Speaker 1: It is. Indeed, Yes, it was certainly the most most
21:32
Speaker 1: breaking show business this morning. I mean, I thought the
21:34
Speaker 1: breakup of Nicole and Keith was going to be the
21:37
Speaker 1: big news. Unfortunately split up. Apparently they've been living apart
21:41
Speaker 1: for some time.
21:42
Speaker 2: Then you, oh, well, we are compared it out in
21:45
Speaker 2: the Simpsons movie. That's not going to Keith and Nicole
21:48
Speaker 2: crisis story in the Simpsons sequel.
21:50
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be that's going to be
21:51
Speaker 1: old news by the time tomorrow. Let alone.
21:54
Speaker 2: That's the problem though, when they try and do pop
21:56
Speaker 2: culture references and things that are current when they're making
21:58
Speaker 2: the movie, is by the time the movie comes out,
21:59
Speaker 2: it's it's.
22:00
Speaker 1: Old new, yes exactly. So let's not do that. Let's
22:02
Speaker 1: just focus on Springfield. Tell tell a good funny story,
22:05
Speaker 1: crate some gags.
22:06
Speaker 2: As I said, though, guys, make sure your comment below
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Speaker 2: and tell us what you think could be in the
22:09
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