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that I was. When I was a kid, I got

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Speaker 2: I wasn't always a stool pup, but when I.

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filled man bus. I remember roll the man times and

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picks themba lo.

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Speaker 4: It feels like someone.

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Speaker 5: That shot me their tame fuck off of.

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Speaker 2: My ard.

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Speaker 3: Right done your ass side.

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Speaker 2: Go where no scene down?

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Speaker 6: Bob me rolla live.

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Speaker 2: I rhyn you mass side go where no scene down? Now, boy,

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roll up live.

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Speaker 2: I was yet still be numb fool. When I was

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still young, all I cared out round one girls, but they.

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Speaker 1: Didn't like my pimples. I used to be.

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Speaker 2: Sun just a wool before day.

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Speaker 1: They used to wear.

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Speaker 2: You fants be me of my milk money taken. When

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I was growing up, I remember all the van times

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and pick them along. It feels like someone is shoping

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the same my longs of my hog. I ride done

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Speaker 2: Done mass side call win no sea down, no bomb

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Speaker 2: A boy and my father used to look down at

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me and say, what god hell is even?

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Speaker 7: Then go outside and cut some grass.

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Speaker 3: Why don't you go kids a girl? You stupid loser.

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Hys I call way no scene down, Bob.

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Speaker 1: Roll up line.

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Speaker 8: The Commander, don't get supreme Leada maxill Cobby.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, here we go. It is that time again,

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our final Matt Connorton Unleashed of the Year twenty twenty four.

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Today is Saturday, December twenty eight, twenty twenty four, and

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we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five

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point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire, and I am

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not alone. I have a little bit of a surprise.

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Speaker 9: Da Good morning, suntime return.

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Speaker 4: Where have you been. I've been everywhere.

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Speaker 10: No, I've had a few prior engagements to do a

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blast few weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yes that is true. Yes, been very busy with events.

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Speaker 10: Which has been fun for me to get to go

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out and work with a lot not work, but just

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be together with a lot of like small business people.

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I got to go to the Great North if you

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don't know the Great North here in the great city.

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Speaker 4: Of Manchester, Great North. The Outworks is.

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Speaker 9: An amazing place to go to.

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Speaker 10: They are an amazing small business here in the Granite

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State that makes incredible beers and needs. And they had

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a big craft bear and there were all these amazing

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individual artists and there was one guy that had like

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they were like scary scary dolls almost, but I don't know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, A lot of great stuff there though.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, but they kind of look like Crampis. It was

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like Crampis beats elf on the shelf. Yeah, it was

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a lot of fun and I really enjoyed. I got

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to hang out with the Sister Witch Company and meet

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a lot of great people there and a lot more artisans.

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Speaker 9: So, yes, I had a great holidays. You have a good,

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Speaker 9: It makes you feel weird. Then you got it in

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Speaker 11: But that's it's not you really lower to talk louder.

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Speaker 4: Oh you sound much better? Do you sound better to

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Speaker 4: Excellent? Excellent. So yeah, so you mentioned so sorry hear

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Speaker 11: So eventually I'm working on something called Adam's World and

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it is a television a child a children's television show

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celebrating your diversity. Okay, so did you know that one

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out of thirty six children in the United States has

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autism or a form of or on the spectrum.

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that they've gotten much better at identifying autism than they

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Speaker 11: So we have Adam, who's my son, and he is autistic, nonverbal,

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and there is absolutely zero representation. And I'm noticing that

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my kid's autistic nonverbal. I thought I was the only one.

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Speaker 11: Speech at all, okay, wow, But he understands everything and

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Speaker 11: Yeah, that face like, what's going on?

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Speaker 4: That's great. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. I saw on your

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Speaker 4: What is that process?

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Speaker 11: Basically, it's just what I'm doing right now. I'm this

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pitching it. That almost sounds like more challenging than making

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Speaker 11: Yeah, but luckily there's a hole in media that hasn't

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been filled yet. Yeah, So Hopefully I'll get a bunch

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Speaker 4: Yeah, is this an idea that you've had for a while.

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Speaker 11: So at first it was like, you know, something I

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a lost cause. And children, you know, you can help

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them question reality, question where they come from and why

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things are the way they are. There's still hope for

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they're gone, they're gone.

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and especially you know after a major death, you know,

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it really helps heal the hearts. Yeah.

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cartoon project or I know you've done you know you're

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the idea that every uh so, will every episode be

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characters can go so fast she time travels. Yeah, no,

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the market for that, right, there's a.

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readjust myself here. Yeah, they have something close, and I

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think there's a show called Attorney Wu Okay, that's on Netflix. Yeah,

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it comes to law, so that the law is kind

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of like her superhuman power. Yeah, you know, she can

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recite things really fast, and that's the way the autistmic

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world works. But it just wasn't as fun.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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solve everything like Matt Locke right? And it just disconjoined?

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in a time where you've got, if you think about it,

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and I'm sure you've thought about this, if you were

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doing this thirty years ago, or actually even twenty years ago,

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the possibilities in terms of where you could go with it,

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where you could take it and pitch it to Yeah,

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we're very limited. But now we live in a time

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because of streaming, you know, I mean Netflix has a

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million different shows, and you know, you've got all these

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streaming services. You could even you know, put it you

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could put it yourself on YouTube and you know, go

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with that strategy You've got so many different options, so

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it's kind of like from your perspective, I don't know

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if you're thinking about it this way, but I would

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imagine it's kind of like, well, you know, something will

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work out, you know what I mean, Eventually something will

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work out with this because you know there's so many

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different options.

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I want to eventually bring in other characters based on

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real children, and that's something I want to do eventually

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where we could do sweepstakes to get written in to

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the show, like someone who did something awesome and neuro divergent,

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you know, we'll write you in the show.

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don't know, because I think that means more than just autism,

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right or does it?

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so yeah, it is autism. Just you know, you're just

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neuro diversion. You're you can't you have sensory overload. Okay,

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that happens, and you know I think I have that too,

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and you know I don't a lot of people do

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when they go into crowds all of a sudden, they

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just feel like overwhelmed, right, yeah, and you know I

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can relate to that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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spectrum obviously, and you know the ways that autism, the

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ways that they're able to identify autism, they've gotten much

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better at it, which I I often will point out

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to people. You know, there's people with their weird conspiracy

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theories about it all.

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Speaker 11: And vaccines cause autism.

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Speaker 4: That's the big one.

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Speaker 11: That's the big one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, honestly, we don't know all that.

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Speaker 11: When when my son got diagnosed as a mother, I

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took it hard because I thought it was something I did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, no, that makes sense.

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Speaker 11: He is a brilliant, smart kid and he loves his

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song Adam's World. Yeah yeah, so he's like that's mine. Yeah,

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you know, but I want to bring it to other

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children who need that, you know, like I want to

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do kind of like a resurgence of like I'm actually

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talking to some of the old Hannah Barbara guys.

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Speaker 4: Really oh wow, whoever's.

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Speaker 11: Left, you know, And it's great because they have that

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childlike spark still even though they're older, and they're like,

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oh my god, I could do something with this, I

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could do something with this, you know, and it's just,

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you know, it puts a smile on my face versus

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what I was doing before, which was turning me into

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a monster too un unsubscribe. Yeah, so this is so

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much more fun.

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to do politics on the show, and we stopped that

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and now we keep that separate from what we do

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here at w M and H. And from a mental

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health perspective, I do think it benefited me.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, because these little prejudices start happening, and you know,

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it's it's not a good look, and I think that

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we need to get back to humanity and less of this.

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He did this, but he did this, but he did

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this enough of that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah enough? Yeah, absolutely absolutely I agree. Do you find

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that in terms of well, how old is Adam?

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Speaker 11: Adam is? He just turned nine on December twenty fourth, Okay,

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so happy birthday at him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Happy birthday Atam. Over the course of these nine years,

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do you think that. I mean, what's your experience been

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still a lot to learn about autism? Is there still

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a lot that they don't know?

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Speaker 11: Or I had to tell you the truth? We're learning

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with the kids.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So luckily he goes to I'm going to do

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a shout out to Nottingham West Elementary School because they

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go above and beyond for my kid.

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Speaker 11: I mean, it's the state pace ward. It's not a

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private school. So but they go above and beyond help children.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Like now he gets into trouble now, yeah, with his

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tablet look goose, you know, yeah, gets dirty, you know,

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gets into things.

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you know, because public schools get a bad rap.

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Speaker 11: They do get a bad rap, they really do. But

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let's just say I was cautiously optimistic, Uh huh, but

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now totally blown away.

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it's you know, it's a challenge you know, having an

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autistic is thatam your only child?

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well it was really crazy. So I was missing for

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a year and a half and I was caregiving to

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my mother taking care of my autistic kid, so I

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had like zero time to myself. Yeah, and you know,

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when she was sick and he was at school or

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she was asleep, I would do these little animation things. Yeah,

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and it just sort of kind of grew from there.

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Speaker 4: Okay, like you know I could do this, I could

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do this, and you done anything like that before on

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your you know, you mentioned you had dated some animators.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, well we used to do like more adult versions

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Speaker 11: This is my first time ever doing children's television, so

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: So that goes to show you and doing something right.

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help help, so I need to do one polished pilot

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and that's gonna be our vehicle to you know, shoot

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to the top. I'm actually I got in touch with

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the CEO of New Balance because I was thinking about

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doing product tie ins and since Zoe's sneakers light Up,

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which she's about the time travel. I thought that might

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be something that we can kind of team up on.

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I haven't gotten response, but an official response yet, but yeah,

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it is, and it's you know, everybody knows someone with autism,

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so I just styled it could be a good tie

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in and for autism awareness months, you know, we'll have

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a special brand sneakers that happen to look just like

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Zoe's in.

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Speaker 4: The show Excellent. When is When is Autism Awareness Month?

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Speaker 11: June?

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Speaker 4: June? Okay, okay, yeah, I didn't even know there was. Well, no,

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it makes sense that actually, I think I do remember

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hearing that there was an autism Awareness month.

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Speaker 11: There's there's an awareness month for everything. I think there's

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a peanut butter holiday too.

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Speaker 4: And well as as there should be. When was how

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soon was uh Adam diagnosed after he was born? Because

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obviously you.

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Speaker 11: Don't you don't know right away, right he was three

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three okay, heat wasn't babbling.

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Speaker 4: Okay, And that's what I've read is one of the

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one of the first indicators where you really kind of

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figure out that there's there's something here as if they're not,

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and he.

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Speaker 11: Would have like these attacks like panic attacks. He's trying

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to talk, talk to me and tell me things. Yeah,

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and he started pulling his hair out.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow.

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Speaker 11: So that's when we got him help, okay, because it started,

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you know, he started just being aggressive toward him like

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he like almost like I hate myself. Oh yeah, you know,

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or I don't want to say I hate myself. That's horrible.

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Speaker 4: But that frustrates that.

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Speaker 11: He was frustrated. So when we got him help, yeah,

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they we got him diagnosed, and sure enough, he was

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a textbook So he's got ADHD and you know autism. Yeah,

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but he's shocked his attack though he could see the

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wheel spinning. He just can't talk or he'll just pull

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his tongue, you know, little things like that and it

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breaks your heart.

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Speaker 4: Does does he learn very fast? Yeah? Yeah, I don't know.

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If you know doctor Kevin. He's a Nashua doctor, Kevin

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ross Emory. He's been on the show and he he's

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done a lot of work in add and ADHD and

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he's written some books about it. And actually one of

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the books he's written it's called Managing the Gift, and

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it's about how he calls it a gift because you know,

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add or ADHD. It's like, uh, there are ways that

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you can use at your advantage. For example, a lot

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of very successful entrepreneurs you know, have that or they're

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on the spectrum. Yeah, you know, so there are ways to.

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Speaker 11: Talking to the to the experts. So yeah, leave me

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00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,079
his name, that'll be great a lot of I talked

476
00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:07,519
to someone who's his name is Ellen Armie and he

477
00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:11,559
is the head of an organization for autistic children. He

478
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,839
put me in touch with someone named Elaine Hall who

479
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,519
was a a list acting coach and she eventually had

480
00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:23,559
a kid with autism and she started using those methods

481
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,640
acting methods. Yeah, and it started to work and he

482
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,519
got out of his shell using you know, the ad

483
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,440
L stuff, and you know, it really worked out. So

484
00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:33,720
now she's kind of like a big deal now in

485
00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:37,400
the autism community. And you know, she just happened to

486
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,400
have an autistic kid and who knew, right, you know.

487
00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:42,920
So I am been emailing back and forth and a

488
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,799
lot of people are you know, just they're excited about

489
00:26:44,839 --> 00:26:47,920
the project because we need something positive in this world. Yes,

490
00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:51,720
So like at least I do as a creator, you know,

491
00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:54,119
like you want to you know, go home and say,

492
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,640
you know, what I did my job, and I actually

493
00:26:56,839 --> 00:27:00,799
went as far as contacting someone named head A Nasty

494
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:06,559
who was one of the head animators of the of Ductails.

495
00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 4: Yeah.

496
00:27:08,079 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 11: However, I was like googling him like a weird fan,

497
00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:14,400
you know, like who the hell looks for old animators

498
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,480
from back in the day, right right, And I was like, Okay,

499
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,519
I got his name, I got his number. Cool and

500
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,880
the link next to him right after on Google it

501
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,880
was a goalfund me and I click on it and

502
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:33,160
he's in hospice and I'm like, ah, it's terrible. So

503
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,880
uh yeah, but I've been talking to the old guys though.

504
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:36,319
Speaker 3: Yeah.

505
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,079
Speaker 11: It makes it more fun because once I get them excited,

506
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,640
I could see their wheels turning, like oh, I've done

507
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,599
this and that and this and that. So it's just

508
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:44,160
really great.

509
00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. Sometimes you know, all it takes is one person

510
00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:49,119
to give you just a little bit of information or

511
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,240
an idea and you just never know.

512
00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 11: Yeah, And it really is like being a showrunner really

513
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,640
is like being in a band. You need your guitar player,

514
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,640
you need your drummer, you need your bassis, do you

515
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,279
need your lead singer? Get together and make music and

516
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,000
if one of you guys is off. The whole band

517
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,720
is off, right, So I am putting together a band

518
00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:07,160
right now.

519
00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:12,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. What have you been doing anything

520
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,640
else in terms of creative stuff or or have you

521
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,119
been solely focused on on the series.

522
00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 11: Well, I was doing another kind of puppet show, but

523
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,400
we can't talk about that. Oh, that was just for

524
00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:25,039
fun though, I was testing.

525
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 4: The Yeah, that's for Matt Connor to unsheathed. That's a

526
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:30,799
very different show.

527
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:31,839
Speaker 11: That's a very different show.

528
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,039
Speaker 4: Yes, and it's it's not available on FM radio.

529
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 11: But but yes, let's stick to the kids.

530
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I was curious because you've done a lot,

531
00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:44,599
you know, a lot of radio, a lot of radio

532
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,160
back in La especially, and right, and and what else

533
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,559
it seems like you've done You've done a lot of

534
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:50,759
voiceover work too, right.

535
00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 11: Yes, so I turn them out, just turn them out,

536
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:55,799
like whenever comes my way.

537
00:28:56,039 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 4: I need this, you know. Yeah.

538
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,559
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I've been surviving on that.

539
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well you've got a lot of experience. And uh,

540
00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:07,359
how how long have you been in New Hamphire?

541
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: Now?

542
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 4: Has it been ten years? No, it's been six, it's

543
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:10,440
been six.

544
00:29:11,119 --> 00:29:13,839
Speaker 11: I'm acclimated, you know, like, no before I used to

545
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,720
be such a wuss, and like now it's like I'm

546
00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:20,079
walking around with T shirt and shorts and checking my

547
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,559
mail and snowing outside, you know, like I'll come a

548
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:24,000
long way.

549
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 4: Yeah. John Hopwood is who introduced.

550
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 11: Us, right, yes, all right, whatever happened to Hoppy?

551
00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,839
Speaker 4: I think he's around, Uh, Jenny, didn't the Hammers say

552
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,519
that John? They recently had had he was with him,

553
00:29:38,599 --> 00:29:41,119
he was back in Manchester. I thought so. I thought

554
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:41,519
I heard that.

555
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 9: But he hasn't reached out to us yet.

556
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 4: He's very mysterious, that John Hopway. He's a mysterious character.

557
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:55,160
But that's right, that's how we met, Yeah, John, Okay, okay, Yeah,

558
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:57,240
so you've you've grown too, You've grown to like it here?

559
00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 11: Yes, And I enjoy driving again thanks to New Hampshire

560
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,920
because in La, stopping stop literally I had like these

561
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,960
these big thighs of muscle in my abs because it

562
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,000
will stop it, stop it.

563
00:30:09,279 --> 00:30:11,799
Speaker 4: Yeah oh yeah, and here you could just.

564
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,759
Speaker 11: Kind of like put put it and you're cool.

565
00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

566
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't think I'm spoiled. I don't want to

567
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,400
drive in California.

568
00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:21,119
Speaker 4: Right right now, that's understandable. Well, you know the winters

569
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,759
here too, have gotten easier, so that probably helps change

570
00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:27,920
because I grew up here, and uh, the winters are

571
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,440
definitely easier than when I was a kid.

572
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 11: I keep hearing that.

573
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, Oh it's yeah, there's no getting it's

574
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,240
not subtle. No, it's not as subtle as some people

575
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,480
pretend it is. It's it's very obvious. And and I

576
00:30:39,559 --> 00:30:43,240
remember my dad's telling me that the winters are easier

577
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,799
here than when he was a kid, like he noticed

578
00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:46,759
in the in the eighties. Yeah, he said, oh, the

579
00:30:46,759 --> 00:30:48,359
winter's here seemed to be easier than when I was

580
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:48,640
a kid.

581
00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 11: So no, but there's still a real possibility if you

582
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,720
don't have the right gear, you could freeze to death.

583
00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:54,759
Speaker 4: Oh sure, Oh yeah.

584
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 11: We don't want to give off like we're like the

585
00:30:56,559 --> 00:30:57,839
New Florida, right.

586
00:30:58,039 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 4: No, No, we're a long way from that. And I

587
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,799
don't want to get to that because I know what

588
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,000
that means, because I am concerned, But in the moment,

589
00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:06,480
I enjoy it.

590
00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 13: Geez.

591
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,359
Speaker 4: We had one winter here was it, I think twenty

592
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,160
seventeen where winter just didn't show up at all, Like

593
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,480
it barely snowed and it never got cold. It was incredible.

594
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 11: Yeah, but it created a lot of sleet. I need

595
00:31:17,319 --> 00:31:18,000
to appreciate that.

596
00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:21,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Sleet's not good. Sleet's not good.

597
00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:23,559
Speaker 11: I found a new use for kitty litter because it's sleep.

598
00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:28,599
Oh yeah, yeah, what to just put the floor? Yeah,

599
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,319
to get traction with your wheels? Okay, yeah, yeah, no,

600
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:32,839
I didn't know that until I moved here.

601
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, does anyone from the West Coast come out

602
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:36,599
to visit you?

603
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 11: Yes? I recently had my both my sisters come.

604
00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:42,599
Speaker 4: Oh excellent, excellent. Do they do when they get here?

605
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,039
Are they like? It's cold here? What do you do?

606
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,279
Speaker 11: The first thing my sister said was where are all

607
00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:47,359
the homeless people?

608
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:47,839
Speaker 2: Oh?

609
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 11: Really, Well they're in LA from LA, and it's like

610
00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:54,480
Mad Max over there by comparison. Oh yeah, they were like,

611
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,279
where are the homeless people? I'm like Manchester?

612
00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I mean it's definitely a problem here, but

613
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:00,720
probably nothing like l A.

614
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: Right.

615
00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 4: I mean you see the picture it looks.

616
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,119
Speaker 11: Like posts apocalyptic now. Yeah, it's it's pretty sad.

617
00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:06,519
Speaker 14: Yeah.

618
00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 4: Do you get back out there to visit?

619
00:32:09,599 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: Not really? No.

620
00:32:10,559 --> 00:32:14,039
Speaker 11: Yeah, the mom's thing was pretty rough, and I don't

621
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:15,039
think I'm going to be going.

622
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,039
Speaker 4: Back for what Yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense.

623
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,160
Have you been uh, so you've been working on the

624
00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:28,640
U on the cartoon. Are you doing that by yourself?

625
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,599
And I mean obviously you're you know, you're trying to

626
00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:32,799
get other people involved, but so far as anyone like

627
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,119
fully involved in the animation or anything, or are you

628
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,119
literally doing this all?

629
00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,599
Speaker 11: I'm doing this all on my own as of now.

630
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,599
But they tell me be patient because after the holidays, Yeah,

631
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,039
we're gonna work.

632
00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll work, We'll work it out. Yeah.

633
00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 11: So, I I mean, the the stuff I have on

634
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,960
my website, you know, on grasigotto dot com is basically

635
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,480
just like what I would give to the networks is

636
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,680
basically it's kind of like a tasting a visual thing

637
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,440
that it's not the solid end product.

638
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: Okay, so no, it looks really good though, And you know,

639
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:08,799
as someone who so I have no I've always been

640
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,440
fascinated by animation in the sense that I'm kind of

641
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,640
fascinated by anything that I know that I can't do, Like,

642
00:33:14,839 --> 00:33:18,559
I have no visual artistic ability whatsoever. I can't draw,

643
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,359
Like if you ask me to draw a person, I

644
00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:22,039
could draw you a stick figure. That's the best I

645
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:24,519
could do. I look at Jenny's artwork and I'm amazed

646
00:33:24,599 --> 00:33:27,279
or the macromea that she does, because it's amazing to

647
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,480
me because my brain, I always say this, my brain

648
00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:33,200
can't do the math. Like with the macroma that's geometry.

649
00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:37,200
My brain can't do the geometry. So I'm always, you know,

650
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:39,400
really interested when I look at things that I can't do,

651
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:41,920
like animation. Like like I look at you know, I

652
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,039
watched the clip on your website and it's like, how

653
00:33:44,119 --> 00:33:46,240
do you even how do you even draw that? Like

654
00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:49,160
because my brain wouldn't be able to figure it out,

655
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:49,720
you know what I mean?

656
00:33:49,839 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 11: Well, the kids. I used my son's face as a model, Okay,

657
00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:57,039
so I got a picture of him when he was seven, Okay,

658
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,799
and you know, but I didn't mock up there, kind

659
00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:02,880
of change it up a bit and yeah, and then

660
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,119
I got uh, I'd lost so much time playing with

661
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,559
animation tools, you know, like the actual like drawing, because

662
00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:13,239
I used to doodle a lot. I'm an oil painter. Okay,

663
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,880
So that was just like the natural progression. And there's

664
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,440
some magic that happens when you get the lip sync going,

665
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,400
and then you get the voice, and then you get

666
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,000
the background music, and when that you get that that trifecta.

667
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,760
They're alive, they're ave.

668
00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 4: Yeah. Do you I mean, do you do you use

669
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:39,000
software to forgive my ignorance? But no, just very curious,

670
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,920
like do you use software to help you create the

671
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,000
scenes or are you Are you doing it like old school?

672
00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:47,519
Like are you actually hand drawing everything?

673
00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:50,199
Speaker 11: No, I'm not hand drawing anything. I actually I've been

674
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,760
using AI kind of help out and you know, people

675
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,000
go boo, but it's it's the cats out of the bag.

676
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,840
It's here, yes, and they're snow avoiding it right right.

677
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,480
I think a friend I pointed out a car commercial

678
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,960
was like blatantly easing AI. Sure, So basically AI has

679
00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:08,599
enabled me become ten people instead of one.

680
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:09,079
Speaker 15: Yeah.

681
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 11: Yeah, So the scripts are mine though, the ideas are mine,

682
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:19,320
but they're simply it's like having an assistant that's on speed. Right,

683
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,320
So like the second I want something, Bam, I got it. Okay, cool,

684
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,119
and I'll just incorporate that. So it's like mixing. It's

685
00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:27,880
like mixing a stew. You get all the ingredients from

686
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,440
you know, television shows. I can say Ducktails where they

687
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,039
time travel and they teach kids how to think, you know,

688
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,039
get it, get a little bit of that, you get

689
00:35:36,039 --> 00:35:37,920
a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Yeah,

690
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,320
and you just kind of make a stew and it's

691
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,800
something completely brand new. Yeah, that's something that's really awesome.

692
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,480
I even wrote the theme song.

693
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,199
Speaker 4: Oh did okay? Okay, very cool. That's awesome. That's awesome.

694
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,320
The other characters, because there's there's two other characters that

695
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,119
I saw on the website. Yes, are those based on

696
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,000
on real kids or are those just completely yeah, made up?

697
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:00,440
They are?

698
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 11: So I did, I did know. I do know some

699
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:08,039
a kid who's obsessed with numbers, obsessed, you know, like

700
00:36:08,119 --> 00:36:10,239
how many like things that you wouldn't even think about,

701
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,280
like how many teeth are in a mouth or you know,

702
00:36:13,519 --> 00:36:16,440
just Okay, that's kind of quirky, but that could work

703
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,440
for the show because they need to calculate speed time

704
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,840
to get and you know, how to get from point

705
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,840
A to point B, you know, so they're going to

706
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:30,880
need math to learn numbers. Adam's internal dialogue is he

707
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:36,599
upsolds everything, but you know he has a super dome

708
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:41,039
that kind of teaches you what everything means. Yeah, so

709
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,159
it's like a superdome kind of like a third eye

710
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,480
kind of situation. Happening where he's projecting you know what

711
00:36:46,599 --> 00:36:50,039
he's getting and you know, so it's great. So I

712
00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:52,239
got the trio so far, and you know they're going

713
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,920
to get into adventures and you know, we're even talking

714
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,159
about like possibly having them grow up eventually. Well, they're

715
00:36:58,159 --> 00:37:01,400
in the fourth grade now, my powers are getting stronger,

716
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,239
you know, and maybe it could lead up to something different.

717
00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 4: Like e That's a cool concept too, because I'm trying

718
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,119
to think. I'm trying to think, is there another cartoon

719
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,639
or another animated show where where the characters actually do

720
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,559
grow up? And I feel like there must be something.

721
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 11: Self Park did it?

722
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: Oh?

723
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:21,599
Speaker 4: Did they?

724
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 11: And The Simpsons?

725
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 4: Did they? I haven't watched either of those in so long.

726
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's a couple of episodes where you know, they're

727
00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:30,039
all grown up.

728
00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, but not but not over a span

729
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,440
of time where they got older.

730
00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 11: And right, yeah yeah, or maybe I mean things are open.

731
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,199
I mean, maybe they can get out of their animation

732
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,599
bodies and become full right, you know, action motion, you

733
00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:48,719
know characters right, right, But I like that.

734
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 4: I like that idea though. Yeah, you know, they go

735
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,360
from one grade to the next, and and what to.

736
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,079
Speaker 11: Expect and you know, teachers are new. Teachers are scary,

737
00:37:58,599 --> 00:38:02,039
selftitute teachers are kind of but I don't really know, right,

738
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,440
you know, yeah, you know, or we get into that

739
00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:06,920
and all those little things matter when you're autistic. Yeah,

740
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,280
any little change is like, you know, detrimentally.

741
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean even for you know, for anybody. Yeah,

742
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,519
those things matter. So yeah, so I would imagine for

743
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,039
an autistic child, I can see where that would really

744
00:38:17,079 --> 00:38:18,239
be some heavy stuff to deal with.

745
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,119
Speaker 11: Yeah, And it was an honest question to myself, like,

746
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,239
you know, am I gonna continue one with the division

747
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,599
of people? Or am I going to make something that's

748
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:27,880
going to help? Of course?

749
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:33,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think that's Uh, I think that's fantastic. Yeah,

750
00:38:33,599 --> 00:38:36,360
so in the new year, you expect things will really

751
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,039
start moving with it. Yeah, what's kind of your what's

752
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:41,880
what's kind of your dream? Uh Like, where would you

753
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,920
most like to see it? Like Netflix? Or where would

754
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,239
you most like to see this, lamb.

755
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,039
Speaker 11: I would love to see it anywhere. Really, it's just

756
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,519
long as uh you know, it gives children and identity.

757
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you mentioned PBS, which seems like a

758
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:55,320
perfect fit.

759
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,559
Speaker 11: It is a perfect fit. There's always Netflix or is Hulu.

760
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,920
I have an agent working on it. So basically we're

761
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,639
trying to create like some kind of a bidding situation

762
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:10,400
January to where it lands. It's as soon as January.

763
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 4: Oh that's exciting.

764
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 11: Yeah, it is exciting, except for Hanka got in the way.

765
00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:20,000
So so my Jewish animaters are down for the count

766
00:39:20,599 --> 00:39:25,199
and you know, my Christian friends are like, we're not

767
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,039
working until January second. Yeah, so it's like, okay, I

768
00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:32,400
lost you both. Great, So it's just me for now.

769
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,159
There are the holidays. I get it, and you know,

770
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,360
I'm a showrunner, so I'm just constantly working, working, working

771
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:40,039
through the holidays.

772
00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:42,519
Speaker 4: By the way, for people who don't know what's a showrunner.

773
00:39:42,599 --> 00:39:45,519
Speaker 11: A show runner is someone who is creating a show

774
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,400
and the person who has the actual vision, the overall vision.

775
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,480
So it's basically like being the CEO of a company.

776
00:39:55,119 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 2: You know.

777
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,679
Speaker 11: So, but we're all moving working vital parts to the show.

778
00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 4: It's a very it's it's kind of a literal term

779
00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:05,320
show runner. You literally are running a show. I feel like,

780
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,400
and you would know, having with with your experience and

781
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,119
having been in LA I feel like I didn't always

782
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:15,320
hear that term. I feel like I started hearing the

783
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,800
term showrunner like twenty years ago and then and then

784
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,079
before that, it was always producer or something. But I

785
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,800
feel like the Am I right about that? Or is

786
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,000
that just my weird perception?

787
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 11: No, I don't know. I think because you know, everybody's

788
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:30,800
I don't know, I honestly can't answer that.

789
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 4: I feel like it's a newer term.

790
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,639
Speaker 11: It's I've always heard showrunner because it was kind of

791
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,239
like going back to the circus, you know, like you're

792
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,559
the showrunner of the circus.

793
00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

794
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 11: I think I think it was kind of being facetious

795
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,000
and it just kind of stuck.

796
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

797
00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:47,559
Speaker 11: Or I'm the you know, the I'm the person in

798
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,480
charge of this, you know, show.

799
00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 4: What Uh so you've got? Do you have other projects

800
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,840
that you're thinking about doing in addition to this? Or

801
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,159
you're completely focused.

802
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 11: On I'm completely hyper focused on this one. Yeah, that's

803
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,440
the way it has to be for each project. Otherwise

804
00:41:02,519 --> 00:41:04,920
you're spread on teeth in and people see right through it,

805
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,360
especially the audience when you're half asking anything, you know, like,

806
00:41:08,679 --> 00:41:10,239
you know, they're pretty intelligent enough.

807
00:41:10,119 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 4: To pick that up, right of course, of course, Well,

808
00:41:13,599 --> 00:41:16,360
very cool, very cool. Now we should mention too though,

809
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,880
Like you said, you know, you take things that come

810
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,000
your way. So you are available for voiceover work and

811
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:25,199
things like oh absolutely, yeah yeah, and how how can

812
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:26,039
people find you for that?

813
00:41:26,639 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 11: Go to graciegotto dot com, send me an email and

814
00:41:31,199 --> 00:41:32,760
we will talk consultation.

815
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 4: Hum what you want?

816
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 11: You know, pretty affordable.

817
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:37,519
Speaker 4: What's the strangest one you've had?

818
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:38,039
Speaker 5: Oh?

819
00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 11: God, the first one is the one that traumatized me. Was, uh,

820
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:46,320
moan my IP?

821
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 4: Is that something we can I'm very curious now is

822
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,639
that something we can explain on a Saturday morning?

823
00:41:55,679 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 5: No?

824
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 4: Okay, but it was something some sort.

825
00:41:58,760 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 11: Of moan my IP.

826
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 4: Okay.

827
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 11: I did some voiceover for that. I haven't admitted to that.

828
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 4: Oh wow, ever does that? Does that still exist?

829
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,639
Speaker 11: I don't know. I haven't checked. It's been years.

830
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna check. Here at

831
00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:15,400
the station's computer.

832
00:42:16,519 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 11: And I did the voiceover of this clown killer thriller.

833
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

834
00:42:23,159 --> 00:42:27,519
Speaker 11: Yeah, so basically I am uh screaming for my life yeah,

835
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:33,199
as this clown is undressing me. Okay, so that was

836
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,320
probably the grossest voiceover.

837
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:36,079
Speaker 4: Wow.

838
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't even know if that was used. Yeah,

839
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:41,519
but I got paid for it.

840
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 4: Oh that's cool. Yeah, yeah, but.

841
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean voiceovers can go from anything from like

842
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,719
jingles to you know, radio stations like point three, you know,

843
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,000
fl So it really depends. And I noticed that when

844
00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:59,280
a cast, they like people who have broadcasting experience because

845
00:42:59,519 --> 00:43:02,880
actors can't fake that. Yeah, so it's like that's why

846
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,079
they go with the newscasters in film, you know, the

847
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,360
newscasters whoever's available.

848
00:43:07,079 --> 00:43:12,079
Speaker 4: Right, right, No, it makes sense, that makes sense. Have

849
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,039
you done any that I would have heard, like any

850
00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:17,440
that are like really like like mainstream commercials or anything.

851
00:43:19,559 --> 00:43:21,559
Speaker 11: That I can think of that's still around.

852
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just funny to think about it.

853
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,079
I may have heard your voice somewhere before.

854
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 11: I probably before we met you, probably, I don't know.

855
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:32,280
There is a lot.

856
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 4: There's a lot if you ever had to say no

857
00:43:34,559 --> 00:43:36,559
to something like somebody comes to you with a voiceover

858
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,320
project and it's just too weird.

859
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,519
Speaker 11: No, it's all about making copy work. But the only

860
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:48,760
time I've said no is when they're too demanding and

861
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,800
they want me to charge less. So it's like practically

862
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,000
like you know, fifty cents an hour kind of thing.

863
00:43:55,199 --> 00:43:58,280
Oh yeah, it's like no, dude, you're like, well, we're

864
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,639
going to go somewhere else, like bye, yeah, get you

865
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:01,719
pay for right exactly?

866
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,199
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, wow that's wild.

867
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 11: So please, please, please, whoever's listening, go to Graciecotto dot

868
00:44:09,559 --> 00:44:12,679
com or please donate some money to Kickstarter so we

869
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,559
can get that episode going. So we now is g

870
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R A c I E g.

871
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 9: A t O dot com?

872
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 4: You got it?

873
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:24,159
Speaker 9: I want to make sure people know how to spell it.

874
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:29,079
G A c I E g A t O dot com?

875
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 4: Got it? Yeah?

876
00:44:31,119 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 10: Well, and Merriam actually was just asking about spelling it.

877
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,840
One of our listeners who's actually a paraprofessional herself and

878
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,239
very active in the autism community.

879
00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 11: Oh, send me an email. Let's talk.

880
00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 9: Absolutely, you hear that, Miriam, she'd like to talk. We'll

881
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,320
make sure that. I will make sure.

882
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,079
Speaker 11: Actually, I'm just trying to get everybody involved, parents to educators,

883
00:44:53,159 --> 00:44:58,039
entertainment industry. It's amazing how many high ranking entertainment industry

884
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,840
executives have children with autism.

885
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 9: True, so it touches many families. Yeah, many, many families.

886
00:45:06,519 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 4: And it's interesting too to think about how many people

887
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:09,199
don't realize.

888
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 11: It, right, you know, and you know, why not make

889
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,840
a Saturday Morning cartoon to make them feel better.

890
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,559
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's awesome.

891
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 11: I really do.

892
00:45:17,119 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 4: I think that's No, I think that's fantastic. Well, Gracie,

893
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,760
I'm really glad you came in today. It's wonderful to

894
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:22,039
see you.

895
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 11: Good to see you, and Jen, good to see you.

896
00:45:25,679 --> 00:45:27,119
Speaker 4: We might won't hold you to it.

897
00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:28,559
Speaker 9: I don't have to wait for over a year the

898
00:45:28,599 --> 00:45:29,400
next time to come back.

899
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 11: No, that was a crazy circumstance.

900
00:45:31,519 --> 00:45:32,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's understandable.

901
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 9: But we love to have you. We love to see you,

902
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:36,960
and I know our listeners love you.

903
00:45:37,039 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 11: Hopefully, next month, I'm going to get the I'm gonna

904
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,559
get the call and I'm gonna say, guess what, guys,

905
00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:43,079
I got green lit. I got green lit.

906
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we definitely have to have you back

907
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:46,880
and then definitely, and you know, I.

908
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,159
Speaker 11: Do want to promote New Hampshire in New England. And

909
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,440
I mean the whole story takes place there, they go

910
00:45:51,519 --> 00:45:54,320
to school, and the backdrop. I made sure that it

911
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:55,639
was like typical New England.

912
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it look it looks like that.

913
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,599
Speaker 11: And what I watched, yeah, that's kind of what I'm

914
00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:03,440
presenting to is a little bit of a New Hampshire Pride,

915
00:46:03,559 --> 00:46:04,119
so to speak.

916
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, no, I think that's I think that's awesome.

917
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,960
And Gracie Gato, thank you so much, thank you for

918
00:46:10,079 --> 00:46:13,199
having me absolutely And if you're listening live on Saturday morning,

919
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,199
coming up, coming up in the second hour, we have

920
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,440
our friend Isaac Sierra a k A True rhymes a

921
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k A truth. I'm never sure what to call him

922
00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:23,880
because he has so many different names, but he'll be

923
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,679
joining us so sick around plenty more to come.

924
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 16: I am.

925
00:47:06,119 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: My name is Shemry.

926
00:47:08,599 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 8: I play in the Band's the greatest stamp of rock group.

927
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: All across the land.

928
00:47:17,159 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 2: Were a bunch of scumbags and we don't get a

929
00:47:21,199 --> 00:47:26,079
damn human fish. So you see it's what we are

930
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:31,639
to damn. All you've gotten to say is show me

931
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,039
the rock and roll.

932
00:47:33,639 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: Take it from me.

933
00:47:35,039 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 2: You will see. I'm Jerry and Roll.

934
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Speaker 3: Sc dem.

935
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: The worst kind of leg ball luna the world, and

936
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we didn't get bunch of morelands.

937
00:47:58,119 --> 00:48:00,639
Speaker 2: The two will land most her.

938
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:18,079
Speaker 7: Let me introduce you who remembers my man. The hardness

939
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:24,079
walking test was from here to child. We are the

940
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:30,760
coolest and we are the best. We don't act like losers.

941
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,079
Like like see stopiers.

942
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,519
Speaker 3: Turn up the power Jared Villas.

943
00:48:39,079 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 2: So ain't not there personal, It's just out in a

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find about some feelings.

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just want to know there's a raisy way out. There's

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no short time out. There's so rasy way out. Jimmy, Jimmy,

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I don't want to pass afy you. I don't want

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to drag you down butt m feeling like a friendon's

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con stranger by by Yeah? Why why by s? Why by?

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I got by y'all? Why by I got out? By way?

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Why I'm bad?

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Speaker 16: I got out?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Why use album?

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Speaker 3: There is a way see way out. There's no showing

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cot there is a razy way out house. Jimmy kid,

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this is so easy way I'll say, why why show

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God's so easy way? Kimmy kiddy ship we get wee

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st't doing doing as true nod it's somethings. I was like,

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b a bot so busybout not ask him about that cheese.

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I just want to know why this is so easy way?

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Speaker 1: Wise?

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Speaker 3: I why show God that's so easy way?

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Speaker 2: I m.

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Speaker 5: I saw wise?

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Speaker 3: I why up so good? I saw my wise?

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Speaker 16: I got wise, I got wise.

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Speaker 1: I want dont