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🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Howdy, free feed folks! In the spirit of the season, we've decided to gift you this bonus podcast. If you'd like to hear more, and support the Talking Simpsons Network, head on over to our Patreon and sign up. Once you do, you'll unlock 80 episodes of Talking Futurama, as well as the rest of our vast collection of miniseries episodes. Thanks for your attention—now here's the episode description:
Good news, everyone: As a special holiday-style bonus, we're proud to present our interview with Futurama supervising director Peter Avanzino! Listen in as we talk to Peter about his long career in animation, directing on shows like The Simpsons, Duckman, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Disenchantment, and more. Plus, learn all about the secret season of television he worked on that never saw the light of day...
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0:00.0 | Once again, television has given me a reason to live. |
0:11.8 | Good news, everybody. |
0:13.1 | It's a special Talking Futurama interview. |
0:15.7 | I am one of your host, Bob Mackey, wishing you a merry X-Mus. |
0:18.8 | And who is here with me today, as always. |
0:20.9 | While hiding out from Santa Claus, it's Henry Gilbert, greeting you. |
0:24.0 | And yes, we decided to drop a little holiday gift under your tree because way back in September, |
0:29.8 | mid-September, I believe, we interviewed the supervising director of Futurama, Peter Avanzino, |
0:35.5 | and of course, as Fry says, time makes fools of us all. |
0:38.5 | And here we are two months later, finally putting it out there for you all to listen to, |
0:41.9 | and we think you're really going to like it. |
0:43.5 | Yeah, we had an open Monday, so a perfect time to share with everybody. |
0:47.8 | And, you know, you got a holiday break. |
0:49.9 | So a great time to listen to it. And Peter Wa is such a great person to chat with and he is such a |
0:57.0 | giving man with his time and his history in animation that it was such a great time chatting with him. |
1:04.6 | Yes, we've mentioned he is supervising director on Futurama to this day. He began that role |
1:09.4 | with the Comedy Central era, but he has been with Futurama since day one. |
1:13.8 | And of course, he worked on The Simpsons and other shows we like, |
1:16.2 | like Raymond. |
1:17.9 | So he's got a lot of great credits to his name and a lot of great stories to go along |
1:21.2 | with those credits. |
1:22.2 | So without further ado, here is our interview with the great Peter Evan Zina. |
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