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Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast
Episode 1: “Get Confident, Stupid!”
Welcome to the Eat The Pudding fan podcast, where Michael and Ian explore the Simpsons universe in all its colourful and cromulent forms. This is the first episode: “Get Confident, Stupid!”.
In this opening episode, we talk about what we plan to unleash on an unsuspecting world in our new podcast venture and about the regular and occasional features that will be included in our twice-monthly episodes.
To kick things off, we pay a long-due revisit to the first series, complete with its wonky animation, quaint storylines and Homer sounding like Walter Matthau on sedatives. And this month’s Spotlight On Springfield shines a light on Troy McLure, who you may know from obvious jokes that we already made in the preview …
If you would like to send us a voice message to include in the show, we have set up a special page on SpeakPipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/EatThePudding. All you have to do is click on the link, record your message and press send.
You can also contact us:
By mail at [email protected]
On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast
Or at our private Bluesky accounts:
@ianwinick.bsky.social
@mocca1976.bsky.social
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Podcast credits:
Compiled and presented by Ian Winick and Michael J. Smith
Intro music: Hear My Pod
Music by Alf Clausen (originally “See My Vest” with lyrics by Michael Scully)
New lyrics by Ian and Michael
Performed by Randy Woods (with Kevin Brown as “Smithers”)
https://www.youtube.com/@RandyWoodsBand
Outro music: We Put The Spring In Springfield
Music by Alf Clausen (originally with lyrics by Ken Keeler)
Performed by Liam Smith
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lKSRgrzhbaw4KYhrfjuyn?si=SX4cn5uMQ6uAulhFqMZkFQ
Piano interludes courtesy of Pank: You will find his podcast “Bang! 101 (More) Songs About Nuclear War from the 1980s” at @bangpodcast.bsky.social
Cover art drawing by Pierre Breton ([email protected]).
Check out his Little Darwin comic here: https://www.instagram.com/littledarwin1816/
Big thanks to all of the above and to Ciarán Moffatt and Captain Spreadsheet for technical (and moral) support.
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