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Speaker 1: I am very kind of I would say excited about

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to learn. Because Kristen Princeatta is here.

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Speaker 1: She is the mom of Cocoa Melon, which I had

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Speaker 1: to her because because I gotta learn what's going on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: say things I would normally say because this is a family,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If there's one thing those kids

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Speaker 1: are addicted to you, it's coo and I am I

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Speaker 1: am so very sorry to everyone. Wait, guys, Kristen Prince

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Speaker 1: So we talk a lot about fandoms and nerdum nerd ums,

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Speaker 1: but fandoms too, right, and you know how I hear voices.

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Speaker 1: Today Kristen is going to tell us all about her

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Speaker 1: role in the empire that is Coco Melon. I would say, oh,

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Speaker 1: a part of this growing empire that's just seen unprecedented movement.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty again it's coming as a neo Fhi. I

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Speaker 1: knew nothing about this. I have no children. It's wonderful,

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Speaker 1: She's like, oh, like a million views or something. People

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Speaker 1: either absolutely know what it is or they have no idea. Well,

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, And when I first came on, there was

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Speaker 1: is the number one, and number two is Coco Melon.

423
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 1: Number two on the internet machine, it's Coco Melon, which

424
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Speaker 1: is which is now? When you started? I how long

425
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 1: did it take before you realized, wait a second, we've

426
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: got something here? Yeah? Um, I'd probably say maybe, excuse me,

427
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: like three or four years in that I'd say so

428
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 1: maybe a little because it was like a slow climb.

429
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,199
Speaker 1: And then I felt like it was like overnight that

430
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,959
Speaker 1: new media became the new thing for kids, like cable

431
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: was no longer the thing, and it was them looking

432
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 1: up things on YouTube and Netflix. And how did you

433
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 1: see that? I'm curious, how did you feel that? Yeah,

434
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: that's the funny thing, um YouTube I noticed just from

435
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,640
Speaker 1: like popping on. I don't watch the videos all the time,

436
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 1: believe it or not. You know, I don't have kids yet,

437
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 1: and so I record them. I send them along. You know,

438
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: you probably hear the songs more than I do. Um,

439
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 1: And I just you know, started popping on and going oh,

440
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: oh wow, oh wow. And then I remember once, uh

441
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: noticing or seeing an article someone sent me that it

442
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: got pushed onto Netflix, and I actually didn't even know.

443
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,160
Speaker 1: I was like, oh okay, Um, so that happened, and

444
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: it just this stuff happened so fast, it happens overnight.

445
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: And um. But I think it's because kids are trigger happy.

446
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: They just pressed play, you know, over and over. And

447
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: you know it's also because yes, they love that repetition,

448
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: and the parents are eager and exactly you're very eager

449
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,719
Speaker 1: to make your kid happy and watch something that's safe.

450
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,239
Speaker 1: What Coco Milon I think provides is that feeling of

451
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: like a safe family environment and so like a lot

452
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: of things are not like that anymore, Like when when

453
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 1: I was coming up, or like when when t j

454
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: af was around and he was in boy Meat's world,

455
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: or like when we did KP like there was a

456
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: push for things not to be so edgy or like

457
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: tackling big problems some morals of this. I mean, granted,

458
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: on t JF, you guys had very special episodes and stuff,

459
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: but for the most part, it was always like at

460
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: the end of it, it was like a happy right,

461
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: no matter what happened in the beginning or throughout, and

462
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: then it would end with that, you know, and you

463
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: knew that you could sit your kids down with you

464
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: and watch I mean certain age kids, but Koco Melon

465
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 1: is for really young and yeah, what I feel like

466
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: they're doing a good job with Coco Melon and just

467
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: a lot of the kids shows these days. Um, it's

468
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 1: trying to bring in as real life experiences as they

469
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: can that kids experience. Ye, you know, my kid was

470
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 1: going to go to my kid was going to go

471
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: to their first day of school, and we watched the

472
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: first day of school and it was helping them kind

473
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: of mentally prepare through song and then oh my goodness,

474
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: we sing all sorts of songs from Cocoa Melon as

475
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: sort of mantras though to the trial. So it's like

476
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, like one to buckle my shoe, but

477
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: now It's like it's their songs brushing their teeth, like

478
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 1: there surely brushing your teeth, and I instantly would brush

479
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: my teeth. She did actually work like a charm and

480
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: might I add that she is beautiful a Sicilian lady.

481
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 1: I am Sicilian. My kids think that. I don't think

482
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: that they animated the mom to be to look like you.

483
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: Right stop, Well, can I just preface you know, I

484
00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: got my makeup professionally done today. But that's the funny thing.

485
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: A lot of times they'll have sorry off topic a

486
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 1: little bit, but I'm trying. Parents will say on TikTok,

487
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: they'll be like, um to say a lot of things

488
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: on TikTok. They'll they'll say, she always looks so perfect

489
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: and like put together, like they never show her and

490
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: a messy bunner sweatpants. I'm like, well that's what I'm

491
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: wearing when I'm recording. If it helps r I'm like,

492
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 1: no makeup like sweatpants recording, and then she looks perfect

493
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: and beautiful. Well, I will say that my kids think

494
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 1: that I kind of look like her, and they'll be like, mommy,

495
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: that's you, and I'm like, that is mommy. Sometimes I'm

496
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: like I even told my husband, I go, hey, Brendan,

497
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: the kids think I look like the cocomelon mom. Yes.

498
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, cool, He's like, that's the first

499
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: of that guy. He doesn't think that he looks like

500
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: the dad though, And let's just bring up the dad

501
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: because some people think he's problems. Let me let me

502
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: say something here. I know about none of this world.

503
00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: And all day she's been a questions like, She's like,

504
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: we got to bring up the dad. And I'm like, well,

505
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: what's about the dad. She's like, we'll get there, we'll

506
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: get there, but we got to talk about the dad.

507
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: So what's up with the dad? On Coco Melon? Is

508
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: something going on that I don't know? It was just

509
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: something kind of unfair about the fact that like the mom,

510
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: like everyone loves the mom. She's just like sweet, how

511
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: can you not love her? And then there's this weird

512
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: well the dads. It depends when it comes to is

513
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: that what it is is the dad creepy? Like so no,

514
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: it's not that the dad is creepy, of course, and

515
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: you don't even need to say any of that stuff

516
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: because we want you to keep your job. But the

517
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 1: dad is not creepy. He just creeps around and he's like, hey, guys,

518
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: he goes like this, so be like she'll be like

519
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: with the baby. I say. She's like, she'll be with

520
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: the baby, the JJ baby, and she'll be like, brush

521
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: your teeth and he's like, you got a brush? Just

522
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: occasionally pops in and it just goes back and watches football.

523
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 1: I like, I'm just like the Coco melon world is

524
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: almost very it's very poetic. It's kind of like a

525
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: common area on the American domestic like dynamics. Okay, Like

526
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: if you really want to take a look at it,

527
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: and why people are reacting to it so viscerally is

528
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: because you know, there's a mom, there's a dad, there's

529
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: these three kids. They live in a nice house. Everything

530
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: is bright and white, and there's you know, there's the

531
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: there's the part of Cocomelon that is that's anamorphic or

532
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: whatever and anthropomorphic, like there's animals that talk to idn't right,

533
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: But then that magical part of it. But like you

534
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: were saying, it's that once they became a greater and

535
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: greater empire, they realized that they needed to lean into

536
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: this domestic kind of nuclear to make it relatable but

537
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: it's a traditional family structure currently, very traditional. They I'm

538
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: very proud of the direction it's going with all the

539
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: different characters they're bringing in and other ethnicities, and they're

540
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: even voicing the voice of artists with ethnicities coincide, which

541
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: I think is fantastic. That's showing that the traditional life

542
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: is not the only life out there where happiness is

543
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: going to right, which is great, which is necessary in

544
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: this Dan, Yes, and and you'll see soon. And I

545
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: don't know what I can and can't say, but they're

546
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: gonna start branching out the families more like with the

547
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: kids at school, with their families and their parents, and

548
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: it will always be traditional. They have teachers and stuff,

549
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: they have all sorts of different people. Yeah, yeah, Now

550
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: as somebody, Okay, so now I'm gonna ask both of

551
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: you because you're both so excited. Um, somebody who's never

552
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: seen Coco Melon, pitch me the show. What's the show?

553
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: What is Coco Melon? Um? Are you tired? And do

554
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: your kids like bright colors? That's the pitch. Looking on

555
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: Coco Melon, it will be good to go for at

556
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: least learning how to brush your teeth, learning how to share.

557
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 1: So it's essentially all the little all the books that

558
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: my mom used to read me growing up, Dick and Jane, Like,

559
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: it's like Jane and Dick in in in song forms.

560
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: On a cheesy note, it kind of like what is

561
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: nice about it is? I feel like it just provides

562
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: their animation in general, provides safe space for kids to

563
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: explore the emotion, their emotions, their feelings or experiences through

564
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: characters and like, you know, an adult might lose their job,

565
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: a kid might lose their toy. Obviously different things, but

566
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: the feelings are just as real. And like Coco Melon

567
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: tries to do the best they can with showcasing those

568
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: scenarios where maybe they lost their toy, or they didn't

569
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: see their friend, or they're moving. I think there's an

570
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: episode where they're moving and you know, so I was like, Okay,

571
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: they're getting deeper with it. They know they have a

572
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: range of not just surface anymore because the kids can't.

573
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: I think the thing is is that we treat our

574
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: children differently than generations before. We're we're honoring kids, big feelings,

575
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: they're called and Coco Melon is honoring that in song form,

576
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: Like you know, the first day of school is is

577
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: very daunting to a child. So you need to communicate

578
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: with them, and the best way to do that if

579
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: they're already kind of sitting down in the home is

580
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: to like sit there and watch it with them. I

581
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: connect with my kids legit during My Old Stones with

582
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: her character's voice and and and they don't give trophies

583
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: to people for coming in like ninth, right, what do

584
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: you mean, Like that's the kid, that's the thing. Now,

585
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: it's like you came in ninth and you didn't you

586
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: ran into the wrong base. Here's a trophies for everybody, right,

587
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: They coco melon rules. Man, I don't think so. I

588
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: don't think they would. I think that they they're going

589
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: to be like, here's how you cope with not winning

590
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: exactly your friend, because they did perfect Okay, Yeah, no, no,

591
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: there isn't an overcaudling. In fact, like like the mom

592
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,719
Speaker 1: character is very nurturing when the baby and the kids

593
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: are fighting. The language that they're using in the in

594
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: the lyrics of the songs are also sort of reaffirming

595
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: this type of parenting structure that's happening right now. That's

596
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: like parenting. Yeah, this is how you brush your teeth,

597
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: Like it's like let me show you how to do it.

598
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's just very different than like Looney Tunes. Like, honestly,

599
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 1: when we grew up, we we had to know at

600
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: an early age that when a when a cartoon character

601
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: was flattened by an anvil, that he was going to

602
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: get popped back up. And it was like that was

603
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: like for that was our Coco melon was like Looney Tunes.

604
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 1: I remember that so interesting. My parents were making dinner

605
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 1: and I was watching. But I don't I don't think

606
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes was trying to teach you anything necessary anything

607
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: you say that, because recently I was trying to think, like,

608
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: what was the Coco melon when we were little, because

609
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: I think we're in a similar millennial. Wouldn't have been

610
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: something like Arnie, I get it again. It also depends

611
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: on how old you are, and I'm not going to ask,

612
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: but being it was like yeah, I mean, I would

613
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: say it would be the equivalent of like Sesame Street,

614
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: which is still around. Yes, yeah, but I animated, but

615
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: it's exclusively animated, and um it's it's I wouldn't actually

616
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: technically call Coco melon. I'm sorry, maybe I disagree, but

617
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it educational. Sure. Interesting what I'm saying,

618
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I would rather put on Sesame Street to

619
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: do what Sesame Street does. What Coco Melon is a

620
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: safe space for the child to just be entertained, right

621
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: it is? Is that a mom way of saying you

622
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: can put it on and know that your kid is

623
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: going to be distracted so you can do other things?

624
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: Well yeah, just I mean being honest, you know, it's

625
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: they're not going to go hard themselves and break their

626
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: arms like they did in the eighties, and a lot

627
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: with those broken armis yes, But I mean that's what

628
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: it is. That's the question is it is Coco Melon

629
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: being made for the children or is it being made

630
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: for the parents. Well that's why the viewser is high

631
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: because there it's what do you think? Well, you know,

632
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot for the parents. You know. However,

633
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: I get I get very mixed reviews. I get people

634
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: who just, oh, thank you so much, you save my

635
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: household every day. I love you. And then I get like,

636
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, I'll respect, but I can't stand hearing

637
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: your voice day in my house. But understand, but they're

638
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: nice to you. So everyone across the board has been

639
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: very like kind. Oh yes, nobody's trying to take down

640
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: because even on on on TikTok, they'll do lots and

641
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: lots they'll say, play this this beginning almost like the

642
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: k impossible ring tone. They've got like a ring tony

643
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Oh yes, in the beginning, it's so

644
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: it's like it goes right. And so they have like

645
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: the quick like audio sample of it, and they say

646
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: play this and watch what your kid does, and the

647
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: kids come running down challenge. Yes, yeah, it's very funny.

648
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: It is funny. However, I will say it is for

649
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: the parents and kind of on a cheeseier note though too.

650
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: What's really like warmed my heart is when I'll hear

651
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: I've actually heard this quite a bit parents saying like,

652
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, thank you so much. You know, my

653
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: daughter son has auditory and speech issues and this has

654
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: tremendously helped them to yeah, improve their speech and through

655
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: the songs. And because I think the music is part

656
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: of it. To like music, is that other language that's

657
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: woven in. Um, yeah, kids relate to tempo of it

658
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: is at a very what would you call like a

659
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 1: mid tempo. It is a mid temple it's not too fast.

660
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: It's it's not like some of those songs are just

661
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: like frat chance that you're just like, no, I don't

662
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: want to like this show. We should people on the podcast,

663
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: but I can't. It's it is just such a different

664
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: world when you have kids and when you don't have kids,

665
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: because there's are things I never my wife and I

666
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: will never ever look at each other and go like

667
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: I can't hear that Popatrol song, you know, like it

668
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: will never happen. It won't happen. So it's but here's

669
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: what I would say about something like Coco Melon or

670
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: any of the other stuff going on in relation to

671
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: children's programming, especially or all programming. I guess I'm in

672
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: this day and age with everything we're going through, especially

673
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: in this country, everything that's going on, how divided we feel,

674
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: everything that's happening. Something that's just nice is great. Yeah,

675
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: that's all it is. It's just nice, and there's nothing

676
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: wrong with just being nice. People pick it apart or

677
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: even I do, well, I don't have kids, But you

678
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: know what, if it's just nice, than who cares. If

679
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: it's a good thing, it's a good thing. Let's just

680
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: let it's a good it's a nice little song that's kids, right,

681
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: And you know, there's also some criticism and I guess

682
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: this isn't just for Coco Melon. However, I have heard

683
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: it geared more towards Coco Melon of like the danger

684
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: of them being so addicted to the colors and them

685
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 1: and like too much TV. And you know, I'm also like, oh, yeah,

686
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: there should be moderation. You know, well the compilations that

687
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: they make, they know, well, Okay, so I've said this

688
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: before and I'm gonna say it again, and I think

689
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: the third time i'm gonna say it is really when

690
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: it's going to sound. Um, can we get more into

691
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: the Craigslist so, because what we want to talk about

692
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: is it is pretty amazing the evolution of Coco Melon,

693
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: where you literally got cast off of singing Twinkle Twinkle

694
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: Little Star on your phone to off of a Craigslist

695
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 1: ad recording on this strange man's basement that you met

696
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: on Craigslist is a wonderful guy, but still first on

697
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: creditlist now in some guys basement and and recording to

698
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: now it's the second most watched thing on YouTube and

699
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: she's basically anywhere anywhere yeah, which is basically because as

700
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: I was, but that's no idea. So I was told

701
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: by one Disney executive not too long ago that kids

702
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: don't watch anything anymore except on YouTube like it is.

703
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: Was like, was she like, wow, this is a real problem.

704
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: Well it was a problem because what she said was

705
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: she said, it's the the evolution has come so quickly

706
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: that the other thing is that, you know, she said,

707
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: took a whole group of young people from twelve to fifteen,

708
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: I think it wasn't even might have been even been

709
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: younger ten to fifteen, and we showed them our biggest

710
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: movie of all time, which was only what ten years ago,

711
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: high school musical, and they had so she said, they all,

712
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: they said, everybody, all the kids have changed so much

713
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 1: that nobody's watching the same stuff. It's all going to YouTube,

714
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: and it's all for if it's younger kids. It's all

715
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: kind of content like this, which you can form content um,

716
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: which is good but also bad. It is you are

717
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: making you know, it's maybe not holding the attention spans,

718
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: So attention spans are getting shorter. It's bright, it's flashy,

719
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: it's quick. But the thing that's unique about you as

720
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: opposed to maybe some of the other people on the show,

721
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: even like you said, because there's turnover with the kids,

722
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: is that you've been able to watch this evolution from

723
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: the beginning. Yeah, you ever, you are in a very

724
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: unique perspective. Yeah, I actually just realized recently. I don't

725
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: mean that's any kind of conceited way, but I'm the

726
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: longest standing person. That's great because it's gotten bought out,

727
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: so Jay's con and you know, he's the one who

728
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: hired me. And then you're there longer than the creator

729
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: of the show. And I don't see how or why

730
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: they would ever want to want to replace you, but

731
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: only because your voice to me is a very specific voice,

732
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: like I as the mom, see myself in her. That's

733
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: what that's what it's supposed to do. That's that's the point,

734
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: do you Selena? And when you hear the mom you're like, oh,

735
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: this is mommy, I'm mommy. Warms my heart. There is

736
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: so seeing the growth of the show. Do you think

737
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: that the pandemic had anything to do? All kids are home,

738
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: all parents are home. Everybody's kind of together now in

739
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 1: one space for a at this point an infinite amount

740
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: of time. It's finite but we still you know, and

741
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: also no school and how do you entertain your kids?

742
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: Think that had something to do with the leap that

743
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: has happened with the show. Yeah, well, honestly, I think

744
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: the lead, like the big leap happened a little before

745
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: that happened before the pandemic, but I definitely think it

746
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: expedited even going even faster and like going from millions

747
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: to billions, like it definitely be billions billions. The way

748
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: that YouTube works is that once it's it's a spillover effect.

749
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: It's like, once you start to get the millions, then

750
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: you're probably going to end up getting the billions. The

751
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: way that the algorithm works is that it rewards views, right,

752
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: so then more of the same people that are tuning

753
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: into it will be served your videos versus the competitors videos.

754
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: So then they're in a binge. They're in a binge

755
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: watch all of the videos, and then they do these

756
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: really smart things on these channels where they do compilations

757
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes forty minutes, them all back to back,

758
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: and they're all back to back to that, and then

759
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: they run ads throughout so they can monetize because for

760
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: the most part, there's no paid advertising during Coco Melon.

761
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: It's just based on viewership, right. And now Coco Melon

762
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: does have like toys and stuff, and you were saying,

763
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: you're actually in some of the toys, and some of

764
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: the toys they just copy paste. They just take the

765
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: existing audio so they don't make you re record. They

766
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: kind of bought you out as a buyout contracts exactly, Yeah,

767
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: buyout contracts. And actually same goes for like you might know,

768
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: Coco Melons also on Spotify and it's on Netflix, and

769
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: back in the day, they used to copy paste the

770
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: music from YouTube and then just those videos back back

771
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: on Netflix and pull that music for the Spotify songs.

772
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: But now it's completely separate, so there's music just for

773
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: Spotify and then just for the Netflix videos, which are

774
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: now different from the videos on YouTube. Why is that

775
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: they need a clean record? It's a great question. I

776
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: don't know. I think they're just trying to expand and expanded,

777
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: that's what. And it's it's just more content. More is

778
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: more is more. But technically they're rerecording you for Spotify

779
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: because they don't want to copy paste that. So well,

780
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: they're doing all new. They have me redo some songs

781
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: that I maybe recorded like three years ago, um, and

782
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 1: then they just want like a fresh take of it. Um.

783
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: But Spotify they have also told me they wanted to

784
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: kind of be its own style, a little bit more

785
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: party music, upbeat. So you'll find some more. We're gonna

786
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: get the Coco Melon remix coming out soon, Coco Melon

787
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: featuring Trap Trap version. There was like a wrap something

788
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: they had me do once. I was actually really excited.

789
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: Well I don't even remember, but I just remember being like, oh,

790
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: this is fun. Like her, I actually get really excited

791
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: about like spoken parts, just like flat spoken acting parts

792
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: and rapping because all the time are you doing do

793
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: you want to do voice work? What I was just

794
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: going to get is that if you had your druthers,

795
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: is that what you're gonna do? Do Do you want to

796
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: do more animated work? Well, you're inspiring me just by

797
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: saying that, because short answer yes, And it's funny because

798
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 1: again it's not what I went into. I was in music,

799
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: that was my thing, and then it kind of went

800
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: into Coco Melon and then all of a sudden, my

801
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: voice was being inserted into this character because it was

802
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: just kind of a voice before that. And then she

803
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 1: started having spoken lines, and that's when I started really

804
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: having fun with all of that. And I it's funny.

805
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: I get almost more excited when they send me spoken

806
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: content because it's just so fun and like there's a

807
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: little less like well, I don't want to say less

808
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: technique involved. Acting is all its own technique, but like

809
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: less precision involved in terms of like you know, hitting notes,

810
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: and it's just different than what you do. Different, yes,

811
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: but I will say, like, honest, I feel underqualified in

812
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: terms of like jumping on voiceover jobs right now, Like

813
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: I want to take some legit classes. You know, Well,

814
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: I think you're saying that because you have such respect

815
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: for what the voice can do. Yeah, but I do

816
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: think you just go for it. Like one thing I

817
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: think that we've seen in all of the people that

818
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: we know is that you make bold choices with your

819
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: voice and your acting and then you go for it.

820
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: And I mean, but no, where's do you have any

821
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: voice over acting classes? I remember that when we do

822
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: panels at Comic consed a couple. Sure there are, I mean, yeah,

823
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: there there are plenty of great teachers out there, but

824
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: I'm out there. There's a ton out there. But I mean,

825
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: if you know, if you want to figure out how

826
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: to become a voice over actor. D Bradley Baker's who

827
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: were just talking about not too long ago, who's one

828
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: of the best in the business, has a website about it.

829
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: Steve Bloom, who's a great guy and a wonderful teacher. Um,

830
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: he also does a lot of zoom stuff. I've been

831
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: on his his show before, in his classes before. So yeah,

832
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: there's plenty of things to do out there. But I

833
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: think any any actor voice over, uh, any teacher, voice

834
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: over wise or anything else, is going to tell you

835
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: that it's all about acting. So you can do as

836
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: many funny voices as you want. If you can't act,

837
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Um. So it's you know you you are.

838
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: People forget that it's called it's a voice actor. So

839
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: the acting is the most important part. And the other

840
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: thing is most of the people that we talked to

841
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: and friends of ours are people that did that set

842
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: out to become voice actors. That's happening more and more

843
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: now because the animation is becoming so popular. But people

844
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: set out to be on camera actors or singers or

845
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: opera or something, and they fall into this world and

846
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: they go this is a phenomenal world. I think it

847
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: does make me excited. Why do you like? Why do

848
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: you like it? I'm curious? What what's is? It? It

849
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: a magical world? Like obviously, yes, you can see the

850
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: effect of you being a part of it, right, Well,

851
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I mean, being in something like you're in,

852
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: You're you're touching the lives of hundreds of millions of

853
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: kids and parents too. But I mean the parents are

854
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: kind of they become parents, they're they're the kids. You're

855
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: molding an entire generation of kids. That's got to be

856
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Well, and it's funny, and I appreciate you

857
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: both like saying all that. I really do appreciate it

858
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: because sometimes, you know, I'll have one of those crises

859
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting there going, what am I doing in

860
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: the world? Does it matter? You know kind of thing?

861
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: I just sing? You know. But then you know, I'll

862
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: hear those stories from parents about how it's helping their

863
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: kids with speech and auditory issues and helping them learn

864
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: their colors, and you know, and it, yeah, it is

865
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: heartwarming to be reminded of that. So thank you. But

866
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: I would love to explore more of the true voice

867
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: over world. It's just most of all of the acting

868
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: I've done in my life has been intertwined with music.

869
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: I haven't done much like straight just acting without music

870
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: being part of it. Um. And I just respect the

871
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 1: acting world and actors so much that I would never

872
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: be one to say like, oh, yeah, I'm a professional actor,

873
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: because you absolutely are. Well, I think it's time this

874
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: is gonna be her first class then well no, well

875
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: first I was going to jump into the personal stuff first.

876
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: Want to get a little more about you and like

877
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: what was important. So one of the things we love

878
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: to find out is what is important to you when

879
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: you were growing up? What was your Coco Melton when

880
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: you were growing up? What could you not miss? What

881
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: animated series did you love? What cartoon were you like?

882
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: This is just this is my jam right here. Okay,

883
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 1: Well side note, I was gonna say, Mr Rodgers, not

884
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: an animated Hey, Mr Rodgers, totally hugely important, hugely important.

885
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: Time you changes sweater just that justice soft something about that? Yes, um,

886
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: but animated I mean primarily Disney, Like I grew up

887
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: with Disney as my university and it's where I learned

888
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: all the important life lessons. Thank you both by the way,

889
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: but um yeah, I'm trying to think really little, which

890
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: ones were around when we were like really little obviously,

891
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: like all the Disney like Princess movies all of that.

892
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: What's your favorite? But gotta be bad? It's actually is bell.

893
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: You can ask my parents, you can cross that it

894
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: was well, yes, um, but I guess a little bit older.

895
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: I really did, like like Proud Family on Disney Channel

896
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: and Kim Possible. Um, okay, it needs to be rebooted

897
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: though it does. And my initials are KP. Yes, I

898
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: could sing, you could sing the new uh please? That

899
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: would be awesome and we get to look at you though,

900
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: what's up? KPE? Can I get that on replay to

901
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: just keep for myself doing that? Um? But no, I

902
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: mean really Kim Possible too, And like, as Jesus, it

903
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: sounds like it really was an empowering show, like it

904
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: really this is a full social moment for it is

905
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: that KP inspired this KP that's now inspiring my babies. Yes, well,

906
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: and they're just in our genera, our generation, like we're old.

907
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: But you know, when we were younger, there wasn't as

908
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: much of that, like female empowerment and you know, that's

909
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: really evolved over the years, and now the Disney movies

910
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: are like really getting it right, like you know, you

911
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: don't need a prince, you know, it's not what it's

912
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: about it. They've changed the topics of conversation. Yes, yes,

913
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: as well they should. Yeah, I mean I think that's great.

914
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: Well how many how many movies should you do about

915
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 1: finding the ones you love? I mean that's just boring.

916
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: That's a pretty important thing, though, finding your one if

917
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: you can. I mean not everybody does, so yourself thinks

918
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: probably the most important. Yes, and I but going back

919
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: to kind of what you were saying, like, I think

920
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: just the magical thing about animation is that it triggers

921
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: the imagination, like no matter what age it does, it's

922
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: like no matter how old you are, um, and so

923
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: it was a huge part of like me developing creativity

924
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: is a kid, Like I feel like I watched animation,

925
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: like even into my younger team years. Watch it all

926
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 1: the time. You go to like what do you watch?

927
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 1: Like every week? Do how much animation do you watch?

928
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: I watch and watch every new especially so d C.

929
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: It's so funny because the DC superhero movies that are

930
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: live action are not nearly as good as DC's animated movies,

931
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: which you mean, like do do in Patrol? Like what

932
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: Doom Patrol? Doom Patrol, Doom Patrol. You haven't seen it.

933
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: It's a live action show. No, I mean no, I

934
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: mean like all the kind of animated great DC stuff

935
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: that comes out, all the Justice Leagues, Justice League Darks,

936
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: all the kind of Catwoman's, all the Harley Quinn's, all

937
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,919
Speaker 1: the stuff that's out there, like I love I watch

938
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: that stuff all the time. And yeah, both, I mean

939
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: there's times I will turn on Batman the animated series,

940
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: I will turn on Justice League. I will turn I'm

941
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: a big DC fan when it comes to animation. I'm

942
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: big Marvel fan too, But I was going to say,

943
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: like Marvel type stuff like Marvel too, you know I was,

944
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: I was, you know, Peter quill I was star Lord

945
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: for five years on Guardians of the Galaxy, so I was.

946
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: I loved the Marvel universe as well, but the DC

947
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: universe of me has always been my you know, my

948
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: go to since I was a kid. So watching all

949
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: that you have a history hugely important amation and going

950
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: back to what you said, triggering your imagination, but it

951
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: also brings you right, there's something Pavlovian about it where

952
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: it brings you right back to child hood. So like

953
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: when we meet our fans every they always like they

954
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: when they quote unquote fan Girl or fan Boy, it's

955
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: like they become kids again. Is a perfect word. It's

956
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: a feeling of safety. Is wonderful and it's it's and

957
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't take They say that there's there's three cents

958
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: that take you back to childhood quicker than any other smells.

959
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: It's Plato, peanut butter and crayons. They're designated sense. Yeah, no, no,

960
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: this is actually when you smell them as an adult,

961
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: when you smell either Plato, your old factory sense is

962
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 1: and it kind of brings you right back to child

963
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: Plato and to Boost and you're there's a safety to it.

964
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: I get that sometimes visually. I mean I deal with anxiety.

965
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: I've talked about this for Delta for twenties my years.

966
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,760
Speaker 1: So anything that relaxes me is something that I hold

967
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: close to me. And animation has always been one of

968
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: those things where I can turn it on and it

969
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: just it's comfort for me. Um So the idea that

970
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: you are doing that for an entire generation of kids

971
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 1: in the billions of views there because when I know

972
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 1: that my child is sitting someplace safe for a certain

973
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: amount of time because they're really only about three minute

974
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: videos and learning something, well it's some of them, but

975
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 1: even just like that, it's not that they're learning something

976
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: wrong or like they're just it's just like you said,

977
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: it's just nice you can I can tell you that

978
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: my anxiety level in the middle of the day is

979
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: pretty high if I'm exclusively watching the kids and very

980
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: tired or whatever. Right, and and this is why this

981
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: is kind of relatable, and so I'm very anxious. I'm like, okay, fine,

982
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: let's just get the launched the YouTube. I'm in the house, like,

983
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: and then you can deal with my anxiety. Like that

984
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: is a legit. Think about it. How many things anything

985
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: out there, I can genuinely affect somebody that is eighteen

986
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: months old and somebody that has twenty eight or thirty

987
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: years old. Very few things can hit those two markets.

988
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: See what you're saying. It took me to say, yeah, yeah, yeah,

989
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like, it's you're affecting

990
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: the kids and you're affecting the parents. Um, it's and

991
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: then there's people like me that I didn't know anything

992
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: about it. It's a whole the longer that you guys

993
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: stay in and then the more and more mainstream, you're

994
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: gonna web out. I don't think it's going anywhere. Okay,

995
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: so what's the future. And you know, you were wondering

996
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: a lot about the trajectory. So yeah, if I kind

997
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: of went really fast with it, Yeah, Craigslist post saying

998
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: Twinkle star with the phone, and then you know, it

999
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 1: was just these kind of videos on YouTube. To be honest,

1000
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: at the beginning, I didn't even really tell many people

1001
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: about it because I just you know, graduated with my

1002
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: opera degree and I'm singing Twinkle twinkled professionally. No one's

1003
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: going to watch that. Um. And then it grew traction,

1004
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years later, and then literally

1005
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: like overnight is when it blew up. Um. And then

1006
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: so now it's on Netflix, Spot Fi, and they have

1007
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: more ideas and things that are gonna be happening. I

1008
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: can tell you, how do you know that? Did they

1009
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: bring you into the confirmation? Why did they do that?

1010
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: Why did I tell you fun little? You know? Because

1011
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: they like you obviously, But she's remote. How do you guys,

1012
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: because usually when I would find out stuff about our show, um,

1013
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: I'd have to be there, like you know how like

1014
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: Mark's also, so they'd hand us a letter or something

1015
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: like that. This was there was no because there was

1016
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: nothing on the YouTube. It was actually they just emailed

1017
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,439
Speaker 1: me the other day like, hey, we want to set

1018
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: up Hey, Kathie, we want to set up another zoom

1019
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: meeting just to like audio check in, just check in

1020
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: talk about things in the future of Cocamel and where

1021
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: things are going. Oh, that's great that you're kept in

1022
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: the loop for everything they are. Actually ever since the acquisition,

1023
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: you know, it's I've been kept in the loop about

1024
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: more things and where you wanting ps to go. Yeah,

1025
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: which is nice. But I do also find out about

1026
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:55,479
Speaker 1: some things they just happened. But I did recently learn

1027
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: that I have a name, which I don't think I

1028
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: can say yet because I don't know Melon just mom

1029
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: for really long, And then they sent me showed me

1030
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: like a storyboard now of all the characters and their

1031
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: actual names and like things about them and what they

1032
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: like to do in their hobbies. I'm like, wow, it

1033
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 1: would be good time for you to get those classes

1034
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: in because maybe they'll start to really start to build

1035
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: it out and have an actual show with less music.

1036
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: You know, who knows what they're going to start? Well,

1037
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: And I know I can say this because it has

1038
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: been publicized there is a show another because Coco Melon

1039
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: is on Netflix already, and then there's going to be

1040
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: Coco Melon Lane, which is even more of us been

1041
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: off of Coco Melon. And to be totally honest, I

1042
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: actually don't know my part in it yet, so but

1043
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: they have you have, It's been in articles, so I

1044
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: know I can talk about it. Um. But yeah, they're

1045
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: just going in lots of different directions and they're so

1046
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: smart to do that. They are they have they have

1047
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: to strike it. I mean, the thing I've learned about

1048
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: content creation for yourself, right is that like you have

1049
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: to like make the bold choices, but then you have

1050
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 1: to strike while the iron's hot and if you know,

1051
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: and you also have to pivot. Like you know, us

1052
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: doing this podcast isn't something that you know, a year

1053
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: ago was on the books, but like we we we

1054
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: do the deep digging into the analytics or we just

1055
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: we we were just talking about it. We're like this

1056
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: would be just the analytics all that stuff. I don't

1057
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: know anything about that. I was like, you know, would

1058
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: be cool is talking to all our voice over friends.

1059
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so many people already, right,

1060
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, you get to call all our buddies and

1061
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So that's very very cool. Okay, So

1062
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: I have a question. Then, yes, um, you said you

1063
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: graduated with an opera degree, so you get to pick

1064
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: what you sing and the venue. Where are you and

1065
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: what are you singing? Like that, like if it's opera specific,

1066
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 1: anything you want, anywhere in the world you want. You

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00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: get to fill an auditorium, a stadium, anywhere you want.

1068
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: What are you singing? And where are you? Okay, oh,

1069
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: auditoriums to I had to really think about that, Like

1070
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: outdoor would be cool. Okay, let's say for the sake

1071
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: of time, because I really have to think about this,

1072
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: but let's say Hollywood Bowl just like Broadway Disney. I

1073
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: love that, and this is right, Like I feel like

1074
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: we're the same person. I love that. You're a gorgeous,

1075
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: gorgeous voice. Oh my god, and you are you You're

1076
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 1: a soprano. I'm a soprano. Which which side? Which side?

1077
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 1: Do you like? Color Tour I'm just like a good, old,

1078
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 1: boring lyric soprano. So there's like color tour soprano, which

1079
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: is like that, that's like the really fast moving kind

1080
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: of singing. There's like dramatic soprano, which is like think

1081
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 1: like brun Hilda horns. Like, isn't soprano just a a

1082
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: tone of singing? It is talking about the range that

1083
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: you sit in when you sing. Yes, although metso sopranos

1084
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: can sing freakishly high too, but they just tend to

1085
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: have like beef ear sounding voices. Because I was told

1086
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a I'm a bad singer. We need

1087
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: a whole another podcast on the stigma bad singing because

1088
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: everyone can sing. I can wrap. The Naked Mole rap

1089
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: was pretty great. Yeah, make of all round. But okay,

1090
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: so now here's my question. But that's where I live.

1091
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: Is like the Disney I mean, I'm told I sound

1092
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 1: like a princess on the ride home. I'm guessing though,

1093
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be sitting there and you're gonna be like, no, no, no,

1094
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: no oh, that's not what I want to say. It's

1095
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: going to be the Roman Coliseum. I dig it, I

1096
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: see it. It's very on brand. Oh and by the way,

1097
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: if you didn't know, I'm just gonna throw a little

1098
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: shout out to some friends. There is a Disney Princess

1099
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: concert series that's kind of traveling right now, um, and

1100
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: it's with Susan Egan and it's on Lisa under Pole

1101
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: and um a couple other really amazing ladies. And they're

1102
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: just about I think they just finished Austin and they're

1103
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: bopping around the whole country. So if you're interested in

1104
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: that kind of something you'd want to do, yes, absolutely,

1105
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: like they're doing this whole and it's it's really wonderful. Well,

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00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: thank you for mentioning that. I mean, yes, I feel

1107
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 1: like I live in this kind of hybrid world where

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00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 1: I was trained classically, but I've also always saying contemporary,

1109
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 1: and like, at the end of the day, if I

1110
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: sing pop music, I sound like a classical singer singing

1111
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: pop music. And if I singing classical, I sing I

1112
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: sound like a classical singer that can sing pop. So

1113
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: that's why I love the musical theater kind of world,

1114
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: because this is perfect hybrid that kind of Broadway. Is

1115
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: that something that you're interested in. I love Broadway. The

1116
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: whole world of it like what you did with all

1117
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: on Broadway. I don't know if I have the mentally

1118
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: emotional capacity for to like handle those demands of performance.

1119
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: You know, thanks, um, but just being realistic, like it's

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00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, um, But I that is a

1121
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: part of the world. I thought about going at one

1122
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: point and it didn't quite go there. But musical theater, Broadway,

1123
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: love love well, so is it a fear? I'm curious

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00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: that is that what makes you would say like, I'm

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00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: not sure I could do it. I think it's more

1126
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: of a if we're getting deep now, but I don't

1127
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like it's more of like a

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Speaker 1: I've never quite known where I fit because I'm not

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00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: just an opera singer and I'm not just a pop singer.

1130
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm this really interesting hybrid in between, you know what

1131
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: I mean, and and well that's why musical theater is great.

1132
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: But I think it took me time. It's kind of

1133
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, journeys are like this, And so I went

1134
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: to opera out because I had that kind of voice.

1135
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: But then I really realized I sounded a little more

1136
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: princessy musical theater and was like, oh, that's where my

1137
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: voice lives okay, um, But I didn't go into it early,

1138
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: Like I didn't do the whole like stage life thing

1139
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: as a teenager and going into college like people got

1140
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: their degrees in um because the school I went to

1141
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: Kelstate Fullerton, I got my opera degree in the music department,

1142
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: and then there was the theater department where you could

1143
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: get your musical theater degree, and that was a whole

1144
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: like different things. Your triple threat dancing acting, acting comes first, dancing, singing,

1145
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: where I was just music music, singing, singing, singing. So

1146
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, I've just felt I guess underqualified

1147
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: in a way. But I'm trying to, I don't know,

1148
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: trying to not feel that way. You're help, but it's

1149
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: like you say that you feel like there's this stigma

1150
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,040
Speaker 1: against certain techniques and the way that people sound and

1151
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: they sing and stuff like that. Like it it's like that,

1152
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: But it's a good point. You can do anything that

1153
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: you choose to do in the future, you know, Like

1154
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: I agree, I were a big supporters of you in

1155
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: in all of the growth that hopefully that Coco Melon

1156
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: will give you And should we do the thing we should? Absolutely,

1157
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: But I have one more question just very quickly. He

1158
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: started off by saying he didn't even know coconn't for

1159
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: I am vamping because I'm learning about Coco Melon. But

1160
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: I also want to see her. I want to see

1161
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: kp on Broadway. So here's the thing. Because we are

1162
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: we are, I hear voices, and we talk a lot

1163
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: about animation. So forget about singing for a second. You

1164
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: can be any animated character you want. You can play

1165
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: any role you want in a great animated series. Who

1166
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 1: do you play? And why? Oh? I knew these questions

1167
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: are gonna come, and I was gonna freak out. Um

1168
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: any and of like an exist off anything existing, anything

1169
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: you want, like a character that exists already, whatever you

1170
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: want doesn't exist, whatever you want? I mm hmm, Okay,

1171
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: this is just where my brain went. But what, like

1172
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: would if Kimpossible I had like a cousin, but like

1173
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: I definitely would want it to be like a woman

1174
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: empowerment kind of thing. I would like that Kim Possible

1175
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: as a cousin, Kim Possible as a cousin Who's but like,

1176
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: like on Broadway, we both sort of saved the world,

1177
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: but in different ways. I like because what I'm trying

1178
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: to remember kimpossible. It wasn't a specific thing. She just

1179
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: like saved the world from everything. She just had no fear.

1180
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: She had no fear, and that he had fear, but

1181
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: he was always there to back her upright, and he

1182
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: would conquer. He was the he was the conquered. Yeah,

1183
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: yeah right, but I could see that because I just

1184
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: I do feel like I relate so much to KP.

1185
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: And I promise I'm not just saying that just because

1186
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: it's it's for you. KP is for me and I

1187
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 1: you know, I still have a couple of friends compossible

1188
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: and I am not the compossible. She is the compossible,

1189
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: the one and only. Take it Remake, Make remake. Okay,

1190
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: we do have one of the fun thing that we do,

1191
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's evolving as our show evolved, So

1192
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: eventually this will be fully interactive, but we're not quite

1193
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: there yet. So what we're doing is um Eventually, kids

1194
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 1: especially will be calling in and be able to speak

1195
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: to their favorite voiceover talent and send in pictures of

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01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: characters they've drawn, and the voiceover actors get to put

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01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: a voice to. That's what I'm thinking too, So we

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01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: UM we called around and UM Christie I think her

1199
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: name is Christy went to her social media platforms and

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01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: kids and other people sent in some drawings and we

1201
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: would love you to pick one or two and if

1202
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: you'd like to do the voice or sing a little

1203
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 1: song in the character's voice, yes, a little different than

1204
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: you want to put you on the spot. Good challenge.

1205
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: So we're gonna make you blindly pick picking and there's

1206
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: a name at the top, and then there's an age maybe,

1207
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: and we're gonna you're gonna have to show everybody looks

1208
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: like the same person. Oh my gosh, that's so funny.

1209
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: A twelve years old? So that one from Aubrey who's twelve?

1210
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: Can we show the camera? Oh? This one? So when

1211
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: you see that character, do you And again you don't

1212
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 1: have to sing if you just want to do a voice.

1213
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: Practice of the practice is good because the mom's like

1214
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: the one thing I got in my pocket. That there

1215
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: you go. I guarantee your pocket is different than that.

1216
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: And we give her a backstory and does the cat

1217
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: have a name? We've been naming them after whoever drew them.

1218
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: So I think that's are This is Aubrey the Cat.

1219
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:00,080
Speaker 1: I love Aubrey the Cat. How would Aubrey sound you

1220
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 1: like Aubrey the cat would sound a little bit like this.

1221
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: I don't know why I gave her an accent, though

1222
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: he has one. Now we're going to go with And

1223
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:12,439
Speaker 1: I just had my breakfast, and you know, I'm talking

1224
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: to my dog friends, but they're being a little weird.

1225
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: So I came back home and took a nap. There

1226
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: you go. What if Aubrey sang Twinkle Twinkle? Can Aubrey

1227
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: sing Twinkle Twinkle in Aubrey's voice? There you go? Where

1228
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 1: the heck accent? I feel like I love it. I

1229
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: really hope it's not offensive. From Okay, okay, Twinkle Twinkle,

1230
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: little Star? How I wonder would you cat? This is

1231
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: my voice over training right now? That's good. That's good.

1232
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: We loved well that we have fifty two more for you.

1233
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: We're kading, weading, were kidding. So has been great. We

1234
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: kind of hit so cocoa melon, small little show, hopefully

1235
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: going to take off maybe by the next hundred billion.

1236
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: May well. Actually no, I've learned. I've learned so much.

1237
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: I've learned that kids love it, that I still don't

1238
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: want children, um, and that the shows a juggernaut. But

1239
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: if you forget how to tie your shoes or brush

1240
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: your teeth. You know, I will be sending will a

1241
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: lot of links. You will have to block my number again.

1242
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 1: Good animation and good morals and something that's just fun.

1243
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: I'm happy, it's very happy. There's nothing wrong with that.

1244
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 1: That's a wonderful thing. So I will be part of

1245
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: the population of your audience. That's is thank you for

1246
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: all that you do. And um, I look forward to

1247
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: seeing how it all grows for you, and I think

1248
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: good things will happen. I do all right. So Kpe,

1249
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: which is now officially what I'm gonna be calling you

1250
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: from the number two, She's number two. UM. Where where

1251
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: if people want to follow you, they want to find

1252
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: out what you're doing, where can they Where can they

1253
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: hitch up? Yes? On TikTok you can find me at

1254
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: Coco Melon Mom. I love that stole that name on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: It's just my boring old name, Kristen Princeotta. UM and

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Speaker 1: I am on cameo as well, if you know what

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Speaker 1: cameo is. Um where you can hire me to like

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Speaker 1: sing Happy Birthday or your kid's favorite Coco Melon song

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Speaker 1: for them for the birthday or something in a video

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Speaker 1: and that is cameo dot com slash Coco Melon mom. Nice. Okay,

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Speaker 1: very quickly, what is your favorite Coco Melon song? We

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Speaker 1: gotta ends in your head if I'm literally running through

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Speaker 1: seven songs in my head right this exact moment, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep talking toil. What was your favorite one record?

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Speaker 1: Was that easier? Oh? If you want to record? We didn't?

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Speaker 1: Did it? Cost a song recently that I really liked?

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of fun. Okay, we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: say the Pasta song. We're going to say that, and

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, how stereotypical is this? Because the Pasta

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Speaker 1: I loved it because it was like a song. It's

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Speaker 1: like an original song and it's not like cool a

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Speaker 1: remake the you know what, Yes, let's eat Pasta. Let's

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Speaker 1: go eat and watch. It's not always more than likely

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Speaker 1: we will be eating noodles because my girls only eat noodles,

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Speaker 1: and we will be watching that Pasta song tonight. Thanks ya. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: there you go. I think Cocomelon might take off. I

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Speaker 1: see it having a future, and you guys are royalty

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Speaker 1: to me. So thank you for all the life lessons

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Speaker 1: I grew up with and I mean, well, you're paying

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Speaker 1: certainly paying that forward, aren't you too? An entire generation

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Speaker 1: of kids watching your show. So thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for coming on here. Rest your voice because you seem

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Speaker 1: to use it a lot, and KP, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for coming in. Yes, thank you so much, you guys,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I Hear Voices assocted by Wilfrid l and

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Speaker 1: Gristie Garls and Romano, produced by Elizabeth Joy Windham and

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Speaker 1: executive produced by Brendan Rooney and Wilfredell. Our sound engineer

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Speaker 1: and editor is Elizabe Joy Window and our video editor

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Speaker 1: is at Guardo Gamba. And that was my announcer voice.

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Speaker 1: Some side effects of listening to I Hear Voices are

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Speaker 1: sore abs from larity falling down the Coco melon rabbit hole,

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Speaker 1: sneezing due to mass nostalgia, and hugs follow I Hear Voices.

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Speaker 1: Where Ever you listen to podcasts, you don't miss any

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Speaker 1: of the amazing voices. Be sure to follow us on

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Speaker 1: the Internet. What