Interview with Mike Reiss

Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Former showrunner and writer Mike Reiss joins us to discuss working during the show's golden era, his hatred of The Critic, as well as his new book 'Springfield Confidential'. SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR EXCLUSIVE CONTENT at patreon.com/fourfingerdiscount ORDER 'SPRINGFIELD CONFIDENTIAL' HERE

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mike Reese. I've been writing for The Simpsons for 30 years and you're listening to Four Finger Discount.
0:06.7	Four Finger Discount, dude.
0:29.9	Welcome to Fourfinger Discount and this week I'm incredibly excited because we have a very special episode for the listeners, don't we, Mitch?
0:36.0	We do. Normally when we say that, it means that we were too lazy to do any work and we're banging on something that we did three years ago.
0:40.7	But today, we have been lucky enough to interview Mike Reese.
0:43.2	One of the most humble men I've ever spoken to.
0:44.8	And so happy.
0:48.0	And just a really, really beautiful guy.
0:50.8	Mike's one of those people that, I can call him Mike now.
0:51.7	We're tight.
0:57.1	Mike's one of those guys that you speak to and you believe in all the good in the world.
1:01.9	Like, it's just suddenly everything's optimistic and you feel happier.
1:08.1	Like I noticed myself about 40 minutes into the interview just really starting to smile a lot. And I was thinking, this sounds like this guy is smiling a lot.
1:11.1	And it's fucking night in the morning where it is.
1:12.9	I don't smile until one in the afternoon at the earliest.
1:15.7	And that's a good day.
1:16.6	He's just released his Springfield Confidential book.
1:18.7	He could have put out a book about anything and everyone would have gotten around him.
1:21.1	Because he's just one of those people.
1:22.2	He just gravitate towards.
1:23.4	And he's a genuinely good writer. It's so hilarious, the book. We will, obviously, it's covered a bit in the interview, but...
1:30.0	Our book is doomed.
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