Happy New Year, everybody. I am Bob Mackie, one of your hosts. And I think Farquad was the original short

King who is here with me today. Hey, I'm a believer I could leave this podcast if I tried. It's Henry Gilbert.

It's very legally bound to stay your Henry. And just like last year, we're giving you a little New Year's bonus.

You're not going to be hearing your regular schedule talking something's episode. Instead, you're going to be getting one of our

What a cartoon movie mega size podcasts. That's right. If you saw on the free feed last year when we took the first week of January

off, that was for the Iron Giant podcast. And this is no less of a monolithic movie that we're covering this week or this time.

That's right. In April of 2021, very long ago, we covered the movie Shrek for its 20th anniversary. It's been affecting pop culture or

Infecting pop culture for 20 whole years. And we covered it in detail. We covered the history of it. And we went blow by blow

through the movie tons of clips. All the stuff you like from our podcast. Oh, yes. Yeah. And we, I mean, if you love it, it focuses

on the main character of What a Cartoon movie as well. Jeffrey Katzenberg. We can't escape talking about in most of them.

Yes, he is. He is the third chair on What a Cartoon. And you know, it's fun too, because I just hit me now that we are at

April 2001 in the Simpsons timeline of covering season 12 right now. So we're actually lined up pretty well with the premiere of Shrek.

And with Talking Futurama, we're also in spring of 2001. So it's a real truthfully before the bad times era we're talking about here.

And Shrek, Rick represents pre 9-11 epoch as much as anything. The arrogance of America putting that big green monster on the screen.

So yeah, four and a half hours of Shrek talk you're going to be getting here. And that's what we do every month on The What a Cartoon movie.

Yeah, if you like hearing this Megalon podcast, I want to hear more. I think there's maybe 37 other ones you can listen to.

They're all between three to five hours long. Go to patreon.com slash talking Simpsons. Sign up at the $10 level. You get access to the entire What a Cartoon movie catalog.

We've covered so many things over the past three complete years of What a Cartoon. Very, very subjects. Things like walls and grommet,

curse of the wear rabbit, end of Evangelion, beavers and but to do America. So many things going on on that feed.

Tons of Disney movies. I think this was our first Dreamworks movie.

Yes, yeah. And then we, not too long after that, covered the Rotel Dorado. I'm sure we'll cover another Dreamworks either good or ill.

We'll be covering other Dreamworks stuff, too. And if you're a Simpsons fan, that Rotel Dorado ones pretty interesting because we talk about David Silverman's involvement in that.

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