BONUS: Simpsons Scoops (w/ Matt Selman)

Summary

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Staying Alive with Jon Gabrus & Adam Pally

BONUS: Simpsons Scoops (with Matt Selman)

Release Date: June 9, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this bonus episode, Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally are joined by Matt Selman—longtime executive producer and writer for The Simpsons—for a playful yet insightful dive into the creative process behind the iconic series. They discuss comedy writing, producing in the age of AI, the enduring cultural impact of The Simpsons, and share inside stories about the theme park ride and upcoming movie plans. The conversation is freewheeling, honest, and full of irreverent fun typical of the “Staying Alive” podcast, while occasionally offering real nuggets for comedy and TV fans.

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Key Topics & Insights

1. Navigating Creative Notes in Comedy Writing

Timestamps: 00:59–04:00

• The team recounts pitching jokes involving public domain IPs. An example: wanting to use “Winnie the Lube,” a risqué Winnie the Pooh gag, but settling on “Skinny the Pooh,” a joke about GLP-1 drugs and body image, after executive producer Matt Groening’s redirection.
  • “If someone gives you a note and feels bad, you can either make a stink about it and be obnoxious or say, okay, I’m gonna try to think of something funny that works with the note.” —Adam Pally (01:46)
• Discussion on writer and actor defensiveness:
  • Good creatives aren’t defensive about notes—they explore new solutions (02:25–03:33).
  • “The best writers… are the ones that are non-defensive, and they’re like, it’s not personal, this note. I just have to think of another way around it.” —Devin Tory Bryant (03:22)
• Consensus: “Skinny the Pooh” ended up as a preferred, funnier option.

2. The Simpsons and the “Predictions” Phenomenon

Timestamps: 04:10–06:50

• Adam Pally expresses mixed feelings about the widespread internet idea that The Simpsons can “predict the future”:
  • “I like it for [the publicity], I don’t like that the world believes in dumb, dumb magic.” —Adam Pally (04:32)
  • Concerns over AI-generated fakes fueling “prediction” rumors (e.g., Baltimore bridge crash joke hoax).
  • “People’s desire to believe in nonsense and magical bullshit is so strong in 2026...” —Adam Pally (05:23)

3. Simpsons Movie Sequel & New Directions

Timestamps: 06:57–08:00, 17:14–18:14

• Matt Selman teases work underway for another Simpsons movie:
  • “We are working on another Simpsons movie and I really hope it’s great. I really believe in it.” —Adam Pally (07:05)
  • The new film is aimed at both long-time fans and a new, streamer-raised generation.
• Cultural legacy: kids and teens now have nostalgia for The Simpsons due to pandemic streaming binges.

4. The Simpsons Ride: Theme Park Lore

Timestamps: 07:41–11:53

• Deep dive into Universal Studios’ Simpsons ride:
  • Matt Warburton credited as the “ride master.”
  • Discussion of updating vs. preserving the ride (“probably going to stay the same... nuts and bolts of the ride are probably going to stay the same” — Adam Pally, 10:01).
  • Ideas being explored for “Halloween-ifying” the ride for Universal Horror Nights.
  • Memorable anecdote about the writers’ nauseating “test ride” after eating Doc Brown’s fried chicken:
    • “We had giant, free, all you can eat Doc Brown fried chicken meal. Then incredibly rough, not fixed at all, Simpsons ride. And we were throwing up.” —Adam Pally (11:44)
  • Secret tip: peaceful upstairs room at Krusty Burger for a break.

5. Favorite Simpsons Characters & Writing for the Show

Timestamps: 12:09–14:16

• Gabrus asks: “Do you have a favorite character?”
  • Matt: “I just love Homer. I know it’s a bad, boring answer.” (12:35)
  • Emotional significance of Homer as a comedic and cultural touchstone.
  • “Alphabet” poster with Simpsons characters for every letter discussed.
  • The show’s power to bridge generations through layered, reference-filled humor; Gabrus notes he learned about pop culture from the show’s jokes.

6. Simpsons in the Age of AI & YouTube “Abridged” Episodes

Timestamps: 14:16–17:04

• Conversation about how a new generation of kids consumes The Simpsons:
  • Devin’s son watches “abridged” AI-narrated Simpsons recaps on YouTube, digesting entire episodes in six minutes.
    • “It’s wild. He’ll tell me stuff that have happened on episodes that I’ve obviously never [seen], from seasons that are in between.” —Devin Tory Bryant (15:21)
  • Mixed feelings: It’s “distressing” (Adam Pally, 15:17), but ultimately “good for business.”
  • Debate over cultural trade-offs: Speed-watching exists, but “it’s better than not doing it at all.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The best ones [actors or writers] are the ones that can do it instantly. But that’s how the relationship is.”
  —Devin Tory Bryant (02:41)

• “We’re not gonna out Family Guy or South Park… our show shouldn’t be that dirty.”
  —Adam Pally (03:58)

• “The sort of Occam’s Razor of what so clearly happened is… not that people hate what’s true and real, and they want to believe magic.”
  —Adam Pally (04:39)

• “I want to jam Duffman into as many episodes as possible.”
  —Jon Gabrus (12:25)

• “We’re so fortunate… we can make a show that dads and kids can watch together.”
  —Adam Pally (13:08)

• “The Simpsons taught me so much about movies and TV, right? Things that I eventually would be in love with on my own.”
  —Jon Gabrus (13:36)

• “If you’re not going to be exercising or being healthy in legitimate ways, you’re still loving these characters.”
  —Adam Pally (16:07)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [00:59] — Writers’ room note-taking & “Winnie the Lube”/“Skinny the Pooh” anecdote
• [04:13] — The Simpsons "Prediction" internet meme
• [07:04] — Simpsons movie sequel teased
• [07:41–11:53] — Deep-dive on Simpsons Ride and theme park memories
• [12:09] — Discussion of favorite Simpsons characters
• [14:16] — How kids now watch "abridged" Simpsons via AI recaps
• [17:14] — Thoughts on the new movie, COVID-era viewers, and the show's new young audience

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Tone & Style

• Casual, self-deprecating, and playful
• “Grossly forthcoming” honesty about the industry and the show’s legacy
• Heavy with Simpsons and comedy writer “inside baseball,” but accessible thanks to relatable anecdotes

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For New Listeners

This episode is a must-listen for Simpsons fans who crave a behind-the-scenes peek, writers and comedians who appreciate craft talk, and pop culture obsessives curious about the intersection of legacy TV, fandom, and evolving media habits. The banter is brisk, the references fly, and the story about nearly puking at Universal Studios is alone worth the play.

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Transcript

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[John Gabris]

Bonus clip.

[Adam Pali]

So we were trying to do. I'm sorry to interrupt. No, we were trying to do a joke about how a joke about how when brands go into IP goes in the public domain, anyone can do what they want. So like, and we're doing comedy hold ups of that on the show and we had one of it was called Winnie the Lube. It was like a sexual Winnie the Pooh sex lube. And Matt Groening was like, no, this is a children's show. Don't have the bear in a, you know, like a leatherman vest with the hat for Winnie the Lou. But come on, Matt, it's funny. He's like, it's a kids show. Like, well, not a kids show but it's a kids watch. Like kids do watch it. We want kids to watch it. So the compromise was Skinny the Pooh and it's like a super GLP one sagged out, that's fine. Sagged out. I mean, that's a good master class young comedy writers there. If someone gives you a note and feels bad, you can either make a stink about it and be obnoxious or say, okay, I'm gonna try to think of something funny that works with the note and maybe, maybe I'll like that.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah, maybe you'll beat it.

[Adam Pali]

Don't say no before you've tried to like write.

[John Gabris]

It's the wrong idea to think that there's only one good.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

But that's the defensive thing that I, I get frustrated with a lot in writers is like as an actor, sure. Our job is to not be defensive. Right?

[Adam Pali]

Right.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

The actors you hate working with the most are the ones that do it. And then you go, could you do this? And they go, I was doing this.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And you're like, I don't. Can you, you know What? I mean, the actors you like working with are the ones that go, sure, let's do it again. Try.

[Adam Pali]

Right?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And then it's either good or not. The best ones are the ones that can do it instantly. But that's how the relationship is. When an actor sometimes goes, can I

[Adam Pali]

ask you about this?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

The response is like, what?

[John Gabris]

Yeah, those are funny moments. Because you, like.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

You're like, well, I just wanted to know because, like, the joke may. It's like, there's a room upstairs of 15 writers, pal. This is the way, you know? And you're like, but why are you defensive? If I. It's like, it's. I feel like that's the same way

[Adam Pali]

that person is, like, processing their trauma on you.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Exactly.

[Adam Pali]

But like, having been told what to do a thousand times.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Exactly. But I feel the same way. The best writers, right, are the ones that are non defensive, and they're like, it's not personal, this note. I just have to kind of think of another way around it, you know,

[John Gabris]

like, what's the note behind the note?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

What's the note? But it's a. You know, it's. Sometimes a note is. Well, everything is subjective.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Right.

[Adam Pali]

Sometimes a note is good, sometimes it's bad. But before you, like, dig in, have fun fucking around trying to figure out. And now I like Skinny the Pooh.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

I like Winnie the Lube also. I mean. Yeah.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I think Skinny the Pooh beats Winnie the Loo.

[Adam Pali]

There you go.

[John Gabris]

I think it does too. I think it's more on the rhyming.

[Adam Pali]

Right.

[John Gabris]

It hits a little harder.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah. And then you don't have the potential downside of, like, people thinking the show is, like, dirty. Like, our show shouldn't be that dirty. Like, if we have Family Guy in South park who are so funny and can take it every which way.

[Commercial Narrator]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

We're not gonna out them. Them speaking about that, how do you

[Devin Tory Bryant]

feel about this thing that's happening all the time with, like, Simpsons Predict the Future?

[Adam Pali]

Well, I love it and hate it.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah. I would assume that you would. I would. That's why I asked the question. Because knowing you, I feel like you would be like, this is not something I want to look at.

[Adam Pali]

I know.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

It's pressure.

[Adam Pali]

It's good for business.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Right.

[Adam Pali]

So. So that I like it for that I don't like it that the world believes in dumb, dumb magic.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

You don't. Like, people believe that you know what's gonna happen.

[Adam Pali]

Right. And that the. The sort of Occam's Razor of what so clearly happened is not that people hate. Hate what's true and real, and they want to believe magic over what's true and real. That's like, a bummer. And it's also a bummer that now AI People can make any prediction come true because they can create a fake. Like, when the. The. The boat crashed into the bridge in Baltimore, there was a terrible AI homer with, like, 16 fingers piloting the boat into the bridge in Baltimore. And everyone was like, how do they do it? Like, this is so clearly not from the show.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Right.

[Adam Pali]

Like, there was never an episode where Homer specifically piloted the exact same boat in the exact same bridge in the exact same Baltimore. Like, you just. People's. People's desire to believe in nonsense and magical bullshit is so strong in 2026 that you. It's just.

[John Gabris]

It's just.

[Adam Pali]

It's a bummer.

[John Gabris]

It's a little easier than what reality is, I guess, for some people. But, like, in reality, the Simpsons have just had such an insane output that there's enough chances that you can find something that lines up. You just have so much. So many jokes.

[Adam Pali]

They act like there's a section of the show. We're like, all right, we've had some fun today. Now let's say some predictions. Yeah, right. Let's just, hey, Homer, what's going to happen tomorrow? He's like, I don't know. Maybe this boat will crash into that bridge, and this is what it would look like.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Well, we should draw it up just in case.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah, I got. Someone said, like, I don't know. Whatever. There was one about. They're always saying we've predicted the death of famous people and, like.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Right.

[Adam Pali]

We do not show famous people being killed on the show.

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Adam Pali]

That's like. That's insane.

[John Gabris]

Have famous cameos.

[Adam Pali]

So.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah, I don't remember.

[Adam Pali]

You lived. You were on the show. You lived.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I'm still around.

[Adam Pali]

You're still here.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I don't remember.

[Adam Pali]

You were not, like, in a coffin.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I don't remember the Kobe Bryant helicopter episode.

[Adam Pali]

Oh, my God. I'm sure that exists.

[John Gabris]

That went down.

[Adam Pali]

I'm sure that exists.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Just like the copter.

[Adam Pali]

I'm sure that exists with, like, Homer is driving it, like, do, do, do.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah, no, it's this. It's Autumn school bus.

[Adam Pali]

And I like to get black, though, so. But there is a. We are working on another Simpsons movie.

[John Gabris]

Hell, yeah.

[Adam Pali]

And I really hope it's great. I really believe in it. I really think it's funny.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And is it about the podcaster?

[Adam Pali]

It's a little bit about A certain manosphere podcast.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yes.

[Commercial Narrator]

Oh, yeah.

[John Gabris]

We should let you know now. Adam, you're the star of the Simpsons movie.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I've already spent the money, but like,

[Adam Pali]

you know, I just feel like there's ways to like make the movie and the show's zeitgeist come together that I'm excited about.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

That's amazing.

[Adam Pali]

Fingers crossed.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Can I see another?

[Adam Pali]

Sure.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Just. Fan question.

[Adam Pali]

Sure.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I won't, I won't do all my thousands of things, but I'm going to do one too. So you could do one. Yeah, there's too many. Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

But.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

But the, the ride.

[Adam Pali]

The ride. Oh, I love talking about the ride.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I love the ride. Right?

[Adam Pali]

I love the ride.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

The ride is joke filled, joke packed.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah. Well, you know that, that's. We all worked on it.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

There's a fantastic writer, you know, Matt Warburton.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah, I remember he was like, Warburton was doing it.

[Adam Pali]

He was like the war. He was war was the ride master. Like, he, he loves rides, he loves imagineering, he loves theme parks. So I mean, we all worked on it. Al Jean worked on it. Jim Brooks and Matt Green, we all worked on it. But Matt Warb, like just threw himself into it with like reckless abandon.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

It's amazing. And I was wondering, do you. What's the like, update version? Because I was there like three years ago and it was. Everything was holding up. But my thought now, like you were saying we're getting into 2026 and Simpsons predict the future and stuff and there's like so much new Simpsons lore. Do you. Have you guys thought about like adding or like doing more? And they've. And they're building so much in that area on the park. Like, what's the, what's the plan?

[Adam Pali]

Well, you know, there's like some big macro conversation between Disney and Universal that figures out like the 10 year plans for this shit that I don't even, I don't know about. I think it's going to be there for a long time. I hope it is because I think it's the fantastic kind of hub for Universal Hollywood.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I love it.

[Adam Pali]

And I. Then I love the, the food court.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

The donuts.

[Adam Pali]

The donuts. There's. There's this little upstairs room that's like the Palm with like kind of charact sketches on the wall. It's like a kind of. If you need a moment of peace at Universal, there's this very peaceful little side upstairs room from Krusty Burger that you can go to.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Pali]

And we actually just had a great meeting with the universal people where people had to pretend to laugh at what I was saying and where we were like something we've never done, which is insane. Which is Halloween Eyes it for Halloween. Right?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Oh, for the horror nights.

[Adam Pali]

We've been talking about it for years. We never did it. So, like, horror nights are their biggest thing.

[John Gabris]

And you guys, Halloween is our biggest thing.

[Adam Pali]

So the fact that we haven't done that. So we have a lot of fun ideas for Halloweenifying the Simpsons experience. I mean, like, everything has to have a huge lead time. So there'll be 27 will be the best version of that.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Right?

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Adam Pali]

There'll be hopes. Don't be mad. Universal. I love you. This is a spoiler. It's all going to be great. Where if we have some fun, great ideas for 26 Universal Horror Nights for Simpsons. That's good. The. The ride itself is. It's hard to change the technology like, of the graphics. And the graphics are sort of out of date. But the experience is still great and the jokes are still good. It has surprises. And so I just feel like the nuts and bolts of the ride are probably going to stay the same. Maybe we could screw with the pre show a little bit.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

But the experience is going to grow.

[Adam Pali]

I mean, I feel like we have really good meetings about adding fun and scariness and Simpsoniness and silliness around the outside of the ride. And particularly for Halloween. I mean, once we. When we were building it, they take you on like a rough draft of it, like before it's done. And so before we went on the kind of rough draft of the ride, they gave us a big free meal at then Doc Brown's fried chicken, which is actually the best. I love the Doc Bounds fried chicken. But on the bone, on the bone. Chicken is like KFC plus, Right. It's that pressure cooked, really fun fast food, delicious chicken. I love it. And so we had giant free all you can eat Doc Brown fried chicken meal. Then incredibly rough, not fixed at all. Simpsons ride. And we were throwing up. So. And like people had like heads. It was such a dis. And it might have. I don't know if they were trying to. If they were doing it to f with us. Respect. Universal super respect. Giving them too many notes or whatever. But like, we were just. It was such a disaster.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

That's how they canceled throwback.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

But also they fed us and they put us on a ride.

[Adam Pali]

Doc Brown. Doc Brown doesn't care about fried chicken. Like, no, he's too busy. He doesn't even eat.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I've Never.

[Adam Pali]

You have to tell him, doc. Slow down. Have a sandwich. He's like, no, I'm working on my science.

[John Gabris]

Is it Cletus?

[Adam Pali]

Not unless it's Cletus's.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Not unless it's fried chicken.

[John Gabris]

The slack, jarred yokel. My Simpsons. My Simpsons fan question I need to ask is.

[Adam Pali]

Sure.

[John Gabris]

Do you have a favorite character?

[Adam Pali]

Do I have a favorite character in the wide universe?

[John Gabris]

This is something I always want to ask Simpsons writers or who their favorite person to write for.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

That's what I was gonna jam Duff.

[John Gabris]

I want to jam Duffman into as many episodes as possible.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Or who do you find yourself pitching for most?

[Adam Pali]

Oh, guys, I'm so old now. I mean, I just love homework. I know it's a bad, boring answer.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

That's, like, emotional to me. That. That makes me feel good. I don't want to cry that he said cry a little bit. It's like, yeah, it should be Homer.

[John Gabris]

I mean, Homer is the best. Like, he's. He stood the test of time.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

The Simpsons has. Has this. You know, like, I have a poster in my. In my son's room since he's born of the Alphabet, and each letter is a different Simpsons character. That's amazing. Yeah, right? But Homer is the funniest character. He's the eight. He's the. He's the floor. He's like, how, you know, you're watching,

[Adam Pali]

you know, and, like, we're just. We're so fortunate that, like, we can make a show that, like, dads and kids can watch together and not just, I'm making you watch my old thing. No, I'm watching making you watch my new thing. It's. They both. There's old and new of the same thing.

[John Gabris]

This was already true in the 90s when I was watching it because, like, I would be like, dad, what's Bart's costume? He's like, that's Clockwork orange. I'm like, can I watch that? And he's like, that's cool.

[Commercial Narrator]

Yeah, probably.

[John Gabris]

Like, I talk about this a lot. The Simpsons taught me so much about movies and tv, right? Things that I eventually would be in love with on my own.

[Adam Pali]

Right? Like the way Mad magazine taught me. Exactly. I didn't know what, like, Rosemary's baby was, right?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

But I read the bad.

[John Gabris]

Like Letterman always said, Boutros Boutros. Golly. And I had no idea what that reference was, right? Like, something stuck in my head. Then the Simpsons I, like, eventually, like, retroactively learned. I'm like, oh, what's happening in this? My dad's like, this is Cape Fear. It's a. It's a Martin Scorsese movie. You would like it. And I'm like, okay, cool. That's what.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah. And I hope our kid viewers now, when we do something deep, cut to some weird piece of culture, have curiosity about it and want to learn.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And I will say, I will tell you. I will. I don't know how you're gonna feel about this, but I will tell you

[Adam Pali]

that I've got a pretty tough skin at this point.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Well, yeah, this is a weird one because I feel weird about it because my son so. So my young. My. My kids are all Simpsons fans, but my son, my youngest, Drake, he really caught on good. Like, and. But it happened young. Right. So he was like maybe 6, and he really started to love it. And there's so many episodes. And he didn't. He wasn't watching it the way that I used to watch it when I found it when I was 13, which was like, comedically. He watched it because he was like, this is an adult cartoon in a way. So he needed to get it quicker. And so he started watching these things on YouTube, which are abridged Simpsons shows that are narrated by AI and then stopped for, like, funny jokes.

[Adam Pali]

Sure.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And you can do like a full episode in, like, six minutes.

[Adam Pali]

Oh, that is distressing.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I know. I knew.

[Adam Pali]

I love it. I kind of.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

But. But I got to tell you, he's. He can reference. It's wild. Like, he'll tell me stuff that have happened on episodes that I've obviously never from season. From seasons that are in between, you know.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And he'll be like, oh, that's from.

[Adam Pali]

Like, was he happy when you were on the show?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Oh, it was the biggest.

[Adam Pali]

That's good.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

We have a picture of my character. Nagel sent me a picture. It's in his room. Of my character and people. There have been several people that are like, which Simpsons character he's been in one episode.

[Adam Pali]

So, I mean, I guess that is an unfortunate product of modern craziness. But I. I am going to throw that also in the kind of good for business.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

Pile, which is there are a lot of episodes. If you're young and you process thing in this broken computery way.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

It's better than not doing it at all. Or I mean, I guess exercise, kids, exercise is the best thing you should be doing and not watching TV at all. That's our right. Start young, our friends. But, like, if you're not going to be exercising or being healthy and legitimate Ways, you know, you're, you're still loving these characters.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

And you know what the flip side of that is? Which is good. Which you reminded me of like on the way back from New Zealand, the WI fi went out. We only had our iPad and we have the movie on the iPad. And he watched the movie twice on the flight in a different way than he was watching throughout the trip. The abridged versions of the Simpson. I think it was like, it's like the movie was the, the, the thesis, the. Not the like the center of it and he could focus on it and he could get the jokes and he could like even at 8, like you know, understand stuff. But then, then he would went back to the abridged to just kind of

[Adam Pali]

like find a little bit of my fat has been showing for the whole thing. Can we start over?

[John Gabris]

Yeah. Can we just go take it from the top?

[Adam Pali]

Can we just go.

[John Gabris]

So what do you do to stay alive?

[Devin Tory Bryant]

We definitely didn't start with that.

[Adam Pali]

The. It's weird but like look, movies are hard and you never know what you've got until you put it in front of a kind of an audience and then you know. But this movie we're working on now, it's so in my mind it's so much for the Disney streamer kid streamer audience we found during COVID and now even have nostalgia towards the show because they're older teenagers. Like like I really want to make a movie that these guys like in addition to like the 50 year old burned out Simpson dorks being on this

[John Gabris]

air so long that you have teen, late teens, kids who have nostalgia for the Simpsons like I do at my mid-40s from when I was.

[Adam Pali]

They watched it in. They binged it in Covid and. And now it's eight years later and they, you know, they, it's like Minions to them, right? No.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Yeah.

[Adam Pali]

Or Minecraft. Like you know, you can't.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Anyway, it is culturally comforting.

[Adam Pali]

Yeah. And like. And I'm excited. I hope we can deliver something cool because I have a lot of crazy ideas.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

I really don't doubt that. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. You have been listening to Staying Alive with John Gabris and Adam Pali. A Smartless media production in association with Sirius xm.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Produced by Devin Tory Bryant and Anne Harris. Engineered and edited by Devin Tory Bryant who also wrote the music.

[John Gabris]

Associate producer and video producer is Matty McCann. Social media producer Tommy Galgano.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Assistant engineer Kyle McGraw. Special thanks to Jared O' Connell at SiriusXM.

[John Gabris]

Executive producers are John Gabris. Ooh me. Adam Pali Ooh, you will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Richard Courson, and Bernie Kaminski. Do us a favor. Just rate and review the podcast. It actually helps.

[Devin Tory Bryant]

Just so everyone knows we do not have a discord.

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