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Speaker 1: They always teach us in radio one thought per break.

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Why can't I have a podcast it does the same thing,

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or maybe several podcasts seventeen different subjects and walks of

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life ero net a r r oe dot net. Thank

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you so much for supporting me over the years. So now,

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when you jump into a conversation like we're having today,

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how do you know what voice to go into? Because

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you know how we radio people are. It's got to

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be about the voice. It's got to be about the pitch, volume, tone,

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and delivery.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Absolutely, when I'm being myself, being a person who

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hates the sound of my own voice, I do. I

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do modulate a bit. And I'm also one of those

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untrained swine who doesn't know how to speak from their diaphragm.

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So I'm a full throated person and I guarantee you

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by the time I'm done with doing interviews today, I

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will probably just be curled up with a hot tea

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and hope for the best. But I will say for

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Chuck E Cheese, it ended up being kind of the

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perfect vocal quality, just being able to talk straight from

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the throat. It comes out just right. Although it is,

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you know, a bit of a sacrifice on the physical

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body to be able to emote in such a powerful way.

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Speaker 1: See, people don't understand that, dude, about how much we

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get our body involved and it can mean aching and

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hurting two or three days later.

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Speaker 2: It's true, dude, I don't you know. Obviously, acting can

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put up a sweat. I don't feel like I've gone

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through more of a workout than when I get out

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of the voiceover booth after doing a few episodes of something,

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because you don't have the ability to use your body language,

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or your face or anything else about you except for

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your voice to emote. So you're putting one hundred percent

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of your mental focus and your energy into the tension

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that you're holding in your body as you're as you're

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trying to express yourself exclusively through your voice. So for

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people who are doing broadcasting and radio stuff and doing

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it all day, kudos man, be cause don't I don't

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think that I would have the fortitude to go for

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that long. I just I just go one hundred percent

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for an hour and a half and then I'm spent

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for the rest of the day.

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Speaker 1: Well, they always tell us it's in the breathing. If

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you're not breathing, right, screw it, You're in trouble.

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Speaker 2: That's probably my problem. I just hold my breath for

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hours at a time. I'm like, I'm like the Navy

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Seal of voiceover.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, oh, because I've been in those situations where

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they've had run on sentence upon run on sentence and

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you just sit there looking at your engineer going, really,

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are you who wrote this?

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Speaker 2: Please? Mm hmm. Yeah, clearly it written by Ai because

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AI doesn't breathe.

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Speaker 1: So to take on Chuck E Cheese? First of all,

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why did it take so long for a moment like this,

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because Chuck E Cheese has been a part of my

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entire life?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Yeah, I can't really speak to why

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they waited until this moment, but all I know is

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that they picked the perfect time because this this project.

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I think it was just waiting for the right creatives

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to come along who wanted to bring Chuck E Cheese

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into this universe and not just have it be some

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some character that we know who they just want to

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make an animated thing for. It's a it's a project

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that has been it's been a piece of art that

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has just been bouncing around. I think in in uh

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Zach and John's brains for a while. And and it's

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a it's a bit of a love letter, you know,

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to a to a character like you said, that's been

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around since my childhood as well. It's been a daunting

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thought to take on, you know, doing doing a character

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like this who you know, there's been some animated stuff

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in the past, but it hasn't really gone super in depth,

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and certainly not to this generation. It's been it's been decades,

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you know, since since there's been something like this, and

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it's going a whole different angle this time around. And

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the way that they hit all the notes of this

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project with being something that hits hard at the holidays

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and is an awesome way to kick off the Christmas season.

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And it's a project with a lot of heart, a

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lot of funny stuff and Quippi one liners for the

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adults that's going to fly right over the kids' heads.

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It hits it hits little stuff all the way through

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the through the entire special that it's got something for everybody.

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And then it ends with a gigantic, galactic Christmas earworm

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song that's just going to get stuck in your head

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for the next thirty to thirty five days, so it

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just hits every angle and like I said, perfect way

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to kick off this season. I was honored to be

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a part of it, and just to know that hopefully

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beyond this, it's just the beginning of the expanded Chuck E.

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Cheese universe where he's tackling all of the holidays. And

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what does Chuck E Cheese do for Super Bowl Sunday?

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I don't know, but let's find out, because he's the

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mouse who knows how to party, and he can bring

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a party anywhere to anyone, as we clearly understand, because

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who's ever tried to deliver a surprise Christmas party to Santa?

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A quasi omniscient character who's notoriously hard to surprise. So

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if anybody can do it, it's gonna be Chuck E Cheese.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right, And you know what, you know,

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you were talking about messages for parents and stuff. I

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think one of the clearest one and the one that

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really hit me hard in the heart. Santa is still

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watching you. I'm going, oh my god, he means, what

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do you mean? Right? You know, even as an adult,

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I'm going, You've got to be kidding me. I thought

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I was away from all that action, know, and.

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Speaker 2: Then you start you start going back in your head

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of like oh coal, coal, coal, coal, Oh no, it's

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all coal. So yeah, I think we as parents and

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adults really have to start looking back on our life

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choices and asking ourselves, truly, are we even still on

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the nice list?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know, that's that's the question that Chuck E. Cheese

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is gonna make you ask about yourself.

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Speaker 1: And you know, with him attacking all these different or

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were bringing all the different seasons into the storyline here,

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I can just totally see man Caves taking on a

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Chuck E. Cheese kind of appeal as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I mean have you seen anything of like

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him and his little super cool loft apartment situation above Pesqually's.

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It's my dream place that I would absolutely love to live.

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So if we start heading into a generation of young

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dads in their twenties and thirties who were watching this

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with their kids and going, oh I want that, Yeah,

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I want my Pinterest board absolutely chalk full of Chucky Cheese,

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core man Cave, and I will be I will be

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first in line to hire that interior designer who's like,

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give me Chucky Cheese. Core because when I was watching

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the footage and seeing where they live, I just want

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to live there every day for the rest of my life,

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and I don't want anyone to ever bring me away

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from that place.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Nathan Kress coming

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up next, A Chucky Cheese Christmas. We are back with

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voiceover actor Nathan Kress. My wife is the school teacher,

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so she sits there and listens to music, going Yep, yep,

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this one would work, this one would work. And it's

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one of those things where it's like, I hope to

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God Radio finds this and gets it on as quickly

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as possible to help promote it, because you guys are

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in touch with a sound that is missing from the

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Christmas mix right.

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Speaker 2: Now, absolutely, and I think, what here you want? Do

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you want to know the chrit Sauce arrow. We have

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a positively legendary songwriter, Jeff Berry, who was involved in

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this who if the name doesn't stick out, perhaps Sugar

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Sugar by the Archies, can I'm a Believer by the

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Monkeys might ring about That man is the father of

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John Berry, who was intimately involved in the creation of

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this project, who was there recording with me every single

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day as Chucky, and they all sat down and when

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how are we going to write a classic Christmas banger?

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got that classic, like retro kind of sixties vintage Christmas vibe,

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which is exactly where I sit. Not to say that

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there's nothing wrong with the modern pop songs of Christmas,

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they absolutely have their place, but I think by going

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back a little bit to an older time, bringing back

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that kind of nostalgic, old school Christmas vibe, it just

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hits that perfect Christmas spot. And my wife and it's

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it's multiple layers, right because obviously we remember as Chuck

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E Cheese when we went when we went to Chuck

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E Cheese, it was the band, right, and that I

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have that visual in my head so so clearly. And

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my wife is sitting there. I didn't really tell her

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anything about the project. I just said, it's Chuck E Cheese,

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It's Christmas, and it was a lot of fun. We

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all sat down and we watched it, and I looked

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over when that song comes on and the band is playing,

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my wife was getting emotional because it hit her right

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in the nostalgias. So she you know, she she went

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to Chuck E Cheese. She knows what it's all about.

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they are, they're doing They're doing the thing. But it's

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also this really lastic sounding old school vibe song that

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oh I just can't it hits exactly right, and I've

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been singing it for days. So I look forward to

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everybody else having that earworm in their ears so that

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they can do it with me, so I'm not alone.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing that I when I was talking

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with with with Diane across the street, who's got a

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little five year old and a little four year old,

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and and I told her about this project with Chuck

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E Cheese. The first thing that she did as a

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modern day alpha generation person. She goes, We're going to

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be having a Chuck E Cheese party in our house,

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making our own pizza, and we're gonna be singing these songs.

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I went, oh my God in Heaven, look at the

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way that this is really working into the younger generations.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, And I think that's that's the perfect thing

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because obviously Chuck E Cheese is still very much a thing.

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My kids went to their first Chuck E Cheese birthday

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party not that long ago, and they were obsessed for

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weeks after that. We still have the Chucky Cheese cups

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from the birthday party, and they asked to use them

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dar near daily and they fight over who gets the

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remaining surviving Chuck E Cheese straw. It's part of there's

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something I don't know what it is, but there's something

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about it that just latches on to a kid's imagination

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and whatever it is about that childhood spirit, they just

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resonate with it. So it's still getting kids now and

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then for us as the parents, as the adults, we

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remember what it was like in our own childhoods and

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how it just grabbed us. And now they're taking that

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whole universe, all of those feelings, and they're just absolutely

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blowing this air into it to make it this big, expansive,

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new universe that is ever green and it appeals to

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multiple generations and it becomes a thing that the entire

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family can center itself around because it's something that parents

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loved from their childhood and that kids love going to

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now still. And now you've got this visual thing that

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you can bring into your house. That's got just a

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ton of heart and it's funny, and there's something for

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the adults, there's something for the kids. It's I mean,

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forget me, it's Voiceover Royalty. That is all of my

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cast mates making this thing. So it's just it hits

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all the right notes for kicking off this season and

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I was absolutely honored to be a part of it.

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And I hope it's just the beginning of this thing,

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like you said, where multiple generations are gonna sit down

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for this and it's gonna be this sort of nexus

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of new and old memories and I can't wait. I

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just I'm so excited for everybody to see it.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's not just a Christmas movie because once again

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going back to Diana and Garrick and Hannah, and the

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fact is is that they'll watch this movie all year

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long because kids, it doesn't matter. Kid, Christmas is every

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day to a child, and this is one of those

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Ryan guarantee that in July they're gonna be watching this

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this and they're gonna be singing the song. They're gonna

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be singing it without the dang video. They're gonna be there,

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They're gonna be singing them all the time.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's that's for those subversive rebel types to

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just be like, you know what, Christmas movies are not

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relegated to November first and beyond. Yep, you can you

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can whip out the old Christmas spirit any time. And

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you know what, that's a great point because can I

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say I think that we as parents especially start to

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feel a little bit of that Christmas burnout you know,

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over over the years it can start to happen, and

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it starts as Christmas gears up. It's like I'm excited

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for it, but also I'm pre exhausted at the thought.

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And this this movie was like such a soft launch

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on ramp to the season where it just it made

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me feel so ready for for what's coming in. It's

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funny because that's also like kind of what the storyline

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originally centers on is like Santa experiencing a little bit

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of burnout, and you don't really see that story very often,

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and so it's a it's a tough problem, right like

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how do you I mean, he's father Christmas, what happens?

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How how does how does a person fix Santa Claus's burnout?

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So you know, no, no natural human person is going

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to be able to pull that off. It's going to

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have to be the literal original party animal. It's got

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to be Chucky. He's the only one. Yeah. So so

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it's a it's a really it. There's there's some there's

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some fun kind of parallels to it in a way

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that I it it hit me emotionally in a way

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that ultimately, by the time I was done, I felt very,

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very ready and excited for the season. And I think

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you can feel that in Jaly Man. So, uh, there's

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there's nothing there's nothing wrong with a little holiday touch

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up in the middle of the summer. And this is

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that movie.

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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I love movies like this because,

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in all honesty, it connects the generations in the way

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that sure, Santa Claus is having a rough time, but

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in a child's eyes, you know, their grandparents to them,

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you know, that's like almost Santa Claus's pretty close to it.

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But when grandma and Grandpa are not having a good day,

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what they're learning from this story, they can go up

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to them and say, hey, and it's something they learned

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from Chuck E Cheese because they because there's a tool

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here inside this storyline that helps all generations have a

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great day, not just a moment, but a great day.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Era, what a point. That's a that's a whole

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other layer to this thing where you know that that

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is sort of the idea is Chuck E. Cheese has

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this indomitable spirit yes where even when everybody else is down,

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he's the one to say, Okay, there.

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Speaker 3: Is always always hope, yep, and there's always going to

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be a way to turn this day around and insert

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some energy and insert a good party into the situation.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing a good party can't fix. And that's something

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that everybody has the power to inject into their day,

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into the people around them. And I think that that's

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something like you know, you see it, you see in

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your workplace, like there's always just that person who has

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that infectious energy and spirit and they're the ones who

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keep the day alive and and that's that's sort of

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chucky for everybody, you know. And and I think that

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that's something that that people remember from their childhoods is like,

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oh my gosh, it may have been a hard week,

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but we have a Chuck E. Cheese birthday to go

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to this weekend. And that's that's that's something that you

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cling to baby so uh so and and and I

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think you're so right. That is an inspirational thing that

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anybody can take from. That is, you know, for those

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who refuse to give up and to see the bright

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side and to be that optimistic person and bolster themselves

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and be back up to their to their friends and

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family and loved ones. Anybody can do that, and especially kids.

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My kids have brought me out of a funk yep,

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you know, when when they bring their their life and

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vitality and energy to a situation where I'm absolutely burned out.

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So that's so true. That's an absolutely great point, and

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that is exactly what he does. And I'm probably gonna

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steal that erro just so you know.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're documenting this in some sort of journal

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because you've got a collection of artists that are coming

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together here to make this even possible as it continues

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to grow forward. Because we talked about the music, and

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we're in this age where AI technology is taking over

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the music. Because I'm not over this this breaking RUSS

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band at all yet, and yet you're talking about music

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and working with the legends of the sounds that that

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I had as a kid with with a belief with

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with the Monkey Song, and it's and it's like, God,

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this is what it's all about. It's about passing the

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past forward into the modern age, and you're doing it

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with Chuck E Cheese here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And that's why it was. It was a

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kind of daunting undertaking when I saw that come across

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my desk. You know, I got the I got the

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email saying hey, here's a voiceover audition for Chuck E

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Cheese Love, And you better believe that caught my eye

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because you know, that's a little bit daunting that hasn't

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really been been done and to be if you would

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have told five year old me at my Chuck E.

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Cheese birthday, which was you know, in my family, the

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big birthdays were the five It was five, ten, and fifteen,

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and the right of passage as a five year old

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going into big kid territory was the pilgrimage to Chuck E. Cheese.

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If you had told me at five that this character

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in front of you is going, you're gonna You're gonna

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be him one day, I would have peeped my pants

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even faster than I did on that day coming home

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from Chuck E Cheese because I forgot to go potty

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before I went into the car because I was too

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busy having a good time. I think I would have

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I would have went potty from nerves at that point

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because it's it's big man. But the the the cool

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part of that is the people who are making this,

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Zack and Zack and John, who, like I said, they

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they love this property so much, they love this this

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character set and this world. They're they're treating it with

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the utmost respect. This isn't just some thing that we're

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trying to make. This is this is something big and

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they want to absolutely do it justice and being able

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to be a part of that and try to bring

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as much real true character work, not just wi whiz

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whiz bang ooh lah animation stimul uh. Make it, make

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it as big and zany and cartoony as possible, but

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actually look at it from an acting standpoint, What what

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can we do to pull up people's heartstrings a little

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bit and not just make some cartoon, Make make something

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that people are going to resonate with and feel. It

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was an honor and I just can't wait to have

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people have people see that.

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Speaker 1: Please come back to this show anytime in the future, Nathan.

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The door is always going to be open for you.

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Speaker 2: Sir Era, I appreciate you having me. Thank you. I'm

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looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today? Okay, Sir.

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Speaker 2: I will do my darnedst and you as well. Thank

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you for having me.