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Speaker 1: a jam pack show for you tonight. Sesame Street is
Speaker 1: trying to spell sorry, don't say. Sloan reads us a
Speaker 1: bedtime story, and good news, interracial marriage might finally be legal,
Speaker 1: which means my parents are about them. So let's do
Speaker 1: this people, Let's go straight into today's headlines. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: kick things off with some big news coming out of Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Now, everyone is still shell shocked by the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade right,
Speaker 1: And although this made conservatives happy because they finally made
Speaker 1: government small enough to fit inside a woman's vagina, everyone
Speaker 1: else was pretty furious. And people were just angry at
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. No, they were pissed at Democrats because
Speaker 1: they didn't quartify Roe v. Wade, and I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, but I haven't said qutify this much in
Speaker 1: my entire life. We just say it like it's normal quartified.
Speaker 1: Did they quartify? You did it in qutified? That should
Speaker 1: have caught it. Did you quartify your Starbucks order? I did? Well.
Speaker 1: It turns out that same Supreme Court ruling that's struck
Speaker 1: down Roe v. Wade it also open the door to
Speaker 1: future rulings that could overturn other rights right things like
Speaker 1: the right to gay marriage, interracial marriage, and contraception, all
Speaker 1: of which are based on the rights of privacy, just
Speaker 1: like Rovie Wade, which is why now Democrats are trying
Speaker 1: to learn their lesson and protect those rights before Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas gets to them. A historic moment on l g B,
Speaker 1: t Q rights, the bill has passed. Nearly fifty House
Speaker 1: Republicans joined all Democrats to write same sex and interracial
Speaker 1: marriage into federal law. The vote comes amid growing concerns
Speaker 1: that a conservative Supreme Court couldn't nullify marriage equality. Still,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty seven Republicans voted against the Respect
Speaker 1: for Marriage Act. Democrats believe that the government has no
Speaker 1: place between you and the person you love. The House
Speaker 1: has officially possible legalizing gay and interracial marriage, which is
Speaker 1: a great victory for because because it, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: it's it's really strange to be diving back into this
Speaker 1: debate that we thought was resolved in all right. That's
Speaker 1: weird that they're like, we're doing it now. What what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Now? What's next? We're gonna start arguing
Speaker 1: about that dress again? Is that what we're doing? Because
Speaker 1: it's over, guys, it's over. We decided a long time ago.
Speaker 1: It's blue and black, all right, and anyone who thinks
Speaker 1: it's white and gold is a Nazi. Yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: it's I'm gonna see those cuts. Nothing in there. Also,
Speaker 1: it's even weirder than fifty seven Republicans voted against this bill.
Speaker 1: You voted again, So you're on the record now against
Speaker 1: interracial marriage. Like, look, I know mixed couples have ruined
Speaker 1: your lives for the past few years, but I think
Speaker 1: it's time to let that go. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what the argument is against gay marriage. What
Speaker 1: what's arguments? You know, when it became legal and conservatives
Speaker 1: all said, oh, America is gonna fall apart when this happens,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it kind of did, but that's not because
Speaker 1: of gay marriage. So the bill past in the House. Okay,
Speaker 1: but there's a chance it might never even reach the
Speaker 1: Senate because, according to one top Democratic senator, the Senate
Speaker 1: has quote more priorities than we have time. And I
Speaker 1: never understand what you don't have time? How long does
Speaker 1: it take? Should gay marriage be legal? Yes? Boom? Votes
Speaker 1: are done? Because that was like, what three seconds? Maybe
Speaker 1: I can do another one. Look at much time I have?
Speaker 1: Should interracial marriage be legal? Boom bam, Yes, there we
Speaker 1: go down. That's two votes. Let's go again. Should interracial
Speaker 1: marriage be mandatory? This one's a little bit harder, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, yeah, let's do it. All the babies
Speaker 1: will be super cute. Done. You see that? Three votes?
Speaker 1: We're in. We don't have the time. And speaking of
Speaker 1: Democrats having messed up priorities, you know how there are
Speaker 1: all these Republican candidates running for office right now who
Speaker 1: believe that the election was stolen from Trump by Italian
Speaker 1: space a lean's hacking the voting machines. Well, some of
Speaker 1: those mega heads are starting to win their nominations, and
Speaker 1: you'll never guess who's helping them out. Another election denier
Speaker 1: has just secured the Republican primary for governor in Maryland.
Speaker 1: Trump backed candidate Dan Cox, known for stoking election fraud
Speaker 1: fears and actually encouraging former President Trump to sees voting machines,
Speaker 1: will face off against the Democratic nominee there in November.
Speaker 1: In an apparent effort to meddle with the Maryland race,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Governors Association paid for this ad touting Dan Cox,
Speaker 1: a pro Trump candidate. This isn't the first time the
Speaker 1: party has worked to choose its own opponent, and Maryland
Speaker 1: isn't the only state where Democrats have done it this year.
Speaker 1: They succeeded in boosting Trump aligned Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: and Darren Bailey in Illinois. They are attempting it in
Speaker 1: Arizona right now with Carrie Lake. They tried unsuccessfully to
Speaker 1: do it in Colorado by giving an assist to election deniers.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Demo crats are actually helping these
Speaker 1: extreme candidates win the nomination because they're assuming that they're
Speaker 1: too crazy to win the general election. Yes, it's a
Speaker 1: plan that has never backfired in the history of America.
Speaker 1: For the last five years. Yeah, I can't see how
Speaker 1: that could go wrong. I look, on the one hand,
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it right. If the classic
Speaker 1: gets some masks by standing next to the ugliest person
Speaker 1: at the boss strategy, I understand that. But the strategy
Speaker 1: assumes that Democrats will run a competent campaign against these people.
Speaker 1: That's a big assumption. I don't know about you, guys.
Speaker 1: Don't trust the Democrats to run a race properly. There's
Speaker 1: the only people who try to shoot fish in a barrel,
Speaker 1: and somehow I end up with the fish shooting them.
Speaker 1: I Neimov got the gun. I thought I had it,
Speaker 1: but Nemov got the gun. Not to mention the stakes
Speaker 1: are so high, think about if this thing backfires, Right,
Speaker 1: Democrats use their money to help crazy Republicans win. They're
Speaker 1: part of the race, and if it backfires, what happens?
Speaker 1: Because right now there's Democrats out there saying, if this
Speaker 1: maniac gets into office, it'll spell the end of democracy
Speaker 1: as we know it. But on the other hand, running
Speaker 1: against him gives me a four point boost in the polls.
Speaker 1: So let's roll the dice. Maybe let's go Democrats. Forget
Speaker 1: at everyone pays attention to politics. Alright, not everyone is
Speaker 1: super informed about who the candidates are. You might be like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's crazy. Everyone will see it. Know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people they just show up and they vote. They'll be like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Republican Democrat. That's what they vote on. Well, this is
Speaker 1: vote based on the name they like best. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you think Barack Obama got elected? A lot
Speaker 1: of people who are like, Yo, this white dude's got
Speaker 1: a crazy ass name. I'm gonna vote for him. Wait what?
Speaker 1: All right? Finally, let's move on from the potential downfall
Speaker 1: of democracy to a more lighthearted story about Sesame Streets.
Speaker 1: They're racist, or at least that's what they're being accused
Speaker 1: of after a video at their theme park went viral.
Speaker 1: A place of inclusion and learning for generations of kids,
Speaker 1: but Sesame Place, the theme park based on characters from
Speaker 1: the iconic children's TV show, is issuing an apology this
Speaker 1: morning after backlash from this video showing two young black
Speaker 1: girls seemingly snubbed by a performer dressed as Rosita at
Speaker 1: the Sesame Place theme park near Philadelphia. Sesame Place initially
Speaker 1: released a statement saying that the costumes characters where sometimes
Speaker 1: make it difficult for them to see, adding the Rosita
Speaker 1: performer did not intentionally ignore the girls, and it's devastated
Speaker 1: about the misunderstanding. But that statement wasn't good enough for
Speaker 1: many on social media who expressed outrage. Now other parents
Speaker 1: are sharing their own videos that they say show similar
Speaker 1: instances of their children being treated rudely compared to others,
Speaker 1: all seeming to show similar bias by characters at the park.
Speaker 1: As a result, Sesame Place has issued a second statement
Speaker 1: saying that they are committed to making this right, adding
Speaker 1: they will conduct training for our employees so they better understand, recognize,
Speaker 1: and deliver an inclusive, equitable, and entertaining experience where ore,
Speaker 1: this is some bullshit. These little girls are getting snubbed
Speaker 1: by Rosida. She's not even a top ten muppet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like if Elmo big Bird snubbs you can, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it, I get the big time. But Rosita I
Speaker 1: was like getting snubbed by Hawki. My man, you should
Speaker 1: be honored to take itself with with me, you rubbing
Speaker 1: hood ass mother. So you're gonna get those kids? It
Speaker 1: just asn't decide though. I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: racism or not, but can we take a step back
Speaker 1: and appreciate how ironic this outrages, because basically what people
Speaker 1: are saying is, why won't this total stranger touch my kids?
Speaker 1: They touched the other kids, touch my kids. Guy in
Speaker 1: a ferry suit that I don't know touch my children.
Speaker 1: You know what got me here is this seting me
Speaker 1: places explanation for this whole thing was was was weird
Speaker 1: because their excuse was that it wasn't racism. It's just
Speaker 1: that the costumes make it hard to see at lower levels,
Speaker 1: but that's where the kids are. Why would you design
Speaker 1: a costume for kids that can't see most kids? These
Speaker 1: guys are like, look, we're more than happy to give
Speaker 1: hugs to any children who are Lebron's height or taller. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean if you can't see at lower levels, what
Speaker 1: happens with they employees in the box like they must
Speaker 1: be so confused every day just going out there like,
Speaker 1: damn no kids again, it's just a bunch of adult
Speaker 1: weirdos all by themselves. What's going on here? There's also
Speaker 1: a disconnect between the things Sessame Place is saying, because
Speaker 1: if this was just an innocent misunderstanding, then why are
Speaker 1: Sesame place is going to add bias training because either
Speaker 1: it was a mistake or it was racism copy both know.
Speaker 1: It feels like, now that's what companies do. They just
Speaker 1: go like, oh, we're gonna do bias training. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's what they say, just to get people off their backs.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a bias training. We're gonna read sometime
Speaker 1: housing codes. Again, we got this five because what are
Speaker 1: they teaching them in the bias training? What is the
Speaker 1: bias training? Hey? Um so, um so you see the
Speaker 1: black kids. Yeah, that's all you have to do is
Speaker 1: see the black kids. All right, that's it for the headlines.
Speaker 1: Before we go to a break, let's check in on
Speaker 1: all the latest social media trends with our very own
Speaker 1: running check. Everybody, good turn. So, so, what's what's happening online? Man? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really? One? Oh? You really? One o? You guys
Speaker 1: really want to know what's trading online? Do you want
Speaker 1: to know what's stupid bullshit it's trending on social media
Speaker 1: that we're all gonna forget about tomorrow, right because it's important,
Speaker 1: it's so important. Alright, alright, let's start with the with
Speaker 1: the toxiccess pool that is Twitter. Alright, what's what's trending
Speaker 1: on Twitter? Surprise me, surprise me? Oh benefit, Oh benefer
Speaker 1: got married again? Benefit merry again. Big deal. People get
Speaker 1: married every day. These guys got married in Vegas. Okay,
Speaker 1: they didn't put any effort if all we know they
Speaker 1: were drunk. Okay, and now, because what to six year
Speaker 1: old drunk people got married by Elvis. Now the whole
Speaker 1: world's gonna talk about it. Oh, I mean they broke
Speaker 1: my heart in the first time. And now you just
Speaker 1: want me to watch just Believe in Love again? Huh?
Speaker 1: Jenny from the Block and Ben Affleck from Dogma like
Speaker 1: the point the place. I'm not getting invested in this again.
Speaker 1: All right, let's just let's just see what's turning on Instagram?
Speaker 1: All right, Instagram? Oh, what's on the Graham? Now, let's
Speaker 1: let's oh wait, let me guess, let me guess what's
Speaker 1: on Instagram? Oh? Is it just the stuff that was
Speaker 1: trending on TikTok two weeks ago? What's the matter, instagram mers?
Speaker 1: You don't have your own ideas? What happened? You ran
Speaker 1: out pictures to your feet in the sand. Why don't
Speaker 1: you take a picture of your book next to your
Speaker 1: avocado toast with some flowers on it. All right, let's
Speaker 1: just go Let's just go straight to the source of
Speaker 1: the arbiter of human culture. Now, that is TikTok, right,
Speaker 1: that's where all our culture comes from. What's trending on
Speaker 1: TikTok these days? Oh, it's this big trend called up
Speaker 1: the put your shoes on challenge. It's where it's where
Speaker 1: it's where a parent tricks their kids into thinking they
Speaker 1: have to help them fight another parent and their kid. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's just watch this clip. But but hang on
Speaker 1: to your final brain cells. Okay, because this one sounds
Speaker 1: dumb as shit. Put your shoes on now, fine, because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go fight this girl, and if her son
Speaker 1: comes out, I need you to fight him. Okay, I
Speaker 1: will be her iyer, I'll be like this. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what I think I changed
Speaker 1: my mind on this one. Okay, because when when I
Speaker 1: first heard about this, I thought it was a terrible
Speaker 1: idea because it's the Internet. But you know what, I
Speaker 1: actually do support child violence. Okay, so I'm all for this.
Speaker 1: But the only bad thing that I can see about
Speaker 1: this challenge is that you don't actually get to see
Speaker 1: the fights. Yo, let's see the fights. Man, commit to
Speaker 1: the bit. Okay, I want to see some blood. Even
Speaker 1: if your kid isn't good at fighting, you as the adult,
Speaker 1: when you're fighting, you can you can use your kid
Speaker 1: as a weapon, right, because that's that's small enough to
Speaker 1: fight with. You've got a skinny kid, you know, just
Speaker 1: toss them like a spear. Right, you got a toddler,
Speaker 1: your cannonball, just cannonball. Then you got twins. You've got twins,
Speaker 1: just connect them by the head, and now you've got
Speaker 1: nun chucks. Right. Okay, Now I know I already know
Speaker 1: people in the comments section. I can already hear them
Speaker 1: just complaining it's a bad parenting. You can't encourage fighting
Speaker 1: with your kids. It's bad parenting. When you know what,
Speaker 1: if your kid is willing to fight for you, no
Speaker 1: questions asked, that means you are a great parent, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Now. On the other hand, if you'll if
Speaker 1: you tell your kid, hey, let's go fight, and your
Speaker 1: kids like, hey, wait a minute, let's hear both sides,
Speaker 1: that means you up right, I mean, look at me,
Speaker 1: look at me. I love my mom, Okay, I love
Speaker 1: my mom. So much, I'd beat the ship off any
Speaker 1: baby for my mom. Right, yeah, I see a baby.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, don't even get out of stroller? Do
Speaker 1: not even get out of stroller? All right? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: mama Chang says, hi bomb, Yeah straight umbilical court your bomb.
Speaker 1: That's right back to you, Trevor, back to me. Are
Speaker 1: you fight babies all day? Come on four months? Anytime? Well,
Speaker 1: good luck with that, Ronney check everybody. Baby doesn't like
Speaker 1: social media? All right? When we come back, don't say
Speaker 1: Sloan had some beat with the cat in the hat.
Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. You can welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show. We we all remember our favorite books
Speaker 1: from when we were kids. I mean, unless you were
Speaker 1: born after two thousand, then we all remember our favorite
Speaker 1: YouTube videos. But those classic children's books had a big
Speaker 1: blind spot that you might have never noticed, and Dulce
Speaker 1: say Sloan points it out in another episode of dul saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: who cares about spot? There are snakes in his house?
Speaker 1: Get out of there. Oh hello, friends, didn't see you.
Speaker 1: They're just doing a little light reading. I know some
Speaker 1: of you might be wondering, who will say, why are
Speaker 1: you reading children's book? And do us say, why are
Speaker 1: you minding a black woman's business? But if you must know,
Speaker 1: I'm reading these kids books because of how important they are.
Speaker 1: The fact is, children's books play a big role in
Speaker 1: shaping our views of adults, whether it's about race, culture
Speaker 1: or proper pooping etiquette. But one of the areas they
Speaker 1: influence kids the most is gender roles. And that's a
Speaker 1: big problem because when it comes to gender, most of
Speaker 1: these books are more outdated than a pair of Janko Jane.
Speaker 1: I mean, why were they so big? We try to
Speaker 1: speak Kevin Harten's in the movie because chances are he's
Speaker 1: already in it. But speaking a little people, this is
Speaker 1: something we should all be paying attention to because by
Speaker 1: the age of seven, children's ideas about what they can
Speaker 1: be when they grow up are already formed. And what
Speaker 1: do you think those ideas are gonna be when they've
Speaker 1: been reading books like this? Dick and Jane the book
Speaker 1: series that almost every first grader was reading in the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties and sixties, and it was notorious for portraying
Speaker 1: stereotypical gender roles. Look at that the dad and the
Speaker 1: brother are up playing with spots, and the mom is
Speaker 1: inside cleaning up spots. I mean, what is that? A
Speaker 1: pun Lapi? Was r Kelly their dinner guest. And look
Speaker 1: at poor Jane and this one. She can't even have
Speaker 1: a little fun without doing some charts. Can a girl
Speaker 1: just roller skate? She has to sweep too, what's next,
Speaker 1: She's gonna have to jump rope while making a sandwich?
Speaker 1: But this leave it to beaver bullshit wasn't just happened
Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties. Even in the nineties, the four
Speaker 1: main jobs women and girls held him picture books were
Speaker 1: scullery maid, daughter, princess, and mother, while men and boys
Speaker 1: got to be things like detective, aircraft inventor, and night
Speaker 1: And let me just say, I've been on date naps
Speaker 1: for a long time now and I've never met an
Speaker 1: aircraft inventor. There's a man claiming that on his profile.
Speaker 1: Chances are the only thing he's invented is dead. And
Speaker 1: it's not just men and women getting boxed in the
Speaker 1: old school careers. These books are teaching them how they're
Speaker 1: supposed to behave in just day to day life. You
Speaker 1: can see this in one of the most famous children
Speaker 1: books of all time, The Cat in the Hat. It
Speaker 1: features a little boy and his sister Sally, and why
Speaker 1: the little boy is a narrator. Sally doesn't get to
Speaker 1: talk at all, he doesn't gonna do anything. She just
Speaker 1: follows her brother around like she's the Grim Reaper and
Speaker 1: he's Joe Biden. The only action she does get to
Speaker 1: do is get tangled up on a kite string, so
Speaker 1: she's not allowed to talk, and she's clumsy. And just
Speaker 1: look at how many books are dedicated to finding wall though,
Speaker 1: but no one is asking where's Wanda and she's amstr
Speaker 1: for twenty years. Now. You think you can escape this
Speaker 1: problem by just reading children's books about animals, but nope.
Speaker 1: Even in those books, the main animal character is male
Speaker 1: way more often than female. So basically, if you want
Speaker 1: kids to learn equal gender representation from animals, you gotta
Speaker 1: take him to the zoo. But good luck with that,
Speaker 1: because then you'll have to explain why these animals are
Speaker 1: in jail. And if stereotypes go all the way to plants,
Speaker 1: just look at the giving tree. The tree is female
Speaker 1: coded and acts as a caregiver to the human male character.
Speaker 1: That motherly tree gave that boy everything. Shade apples even
Speaker 1: would to build a home and what did he do
Speaker 1: to pay her back? Turned her into Keia furniture. And
Speaker 1: while things are starting to improve, they're still a long
Speaker 1: way to go. Just back in the best seller list
Speaker 1: of children's books was still skewing way more male. It
Speaker 1: was like the kids section of Barnes and Nobles was
Speaker 1: curated by Joe Rogan fans. So, even though most of
Speaker 1: the books of the children's library perpetuate these old fashioned
Speaker 1: gender ideas, the good news is the options get better
Speaker 1: every year as authors work hard to break these norms
Speaker 1: and depict women as adventures and scientists or as strong
Speaker 1: and brave. I'm doing my part, and I wrote a
Speaker 1: children's book myself. It's a classic tale, but with the
Speaker 1: female character who breaks gender norms. It's called No Broke
Speaker 1: Dick and Jane by dul Say Sloans. Jane does not
Speaker 1: want Dick. That's broke. Live with your mom. That must
Speaker 1: be a joke. Jane wants no Dick that's in debt.
Speaker 1: No poor ass pete, no broke ass breath. James broke
Speaker 1: Dick days they are no more and got no car.
Speaker 1: Well there's the door. James got no time. She has
Speaker 1: a job. It's not her father, Jude, don't Bob no
Speaker 1: broke Dick for Jane today. James Dick needs its own.
Speaker 1: I R the end. See, it's easy to write children's
Speaker 1: stories that show women can be strong, confident and hold
Speaker 1: romantic partners, to hire financial standards. So let's give our
Speaker 1: children the James they deserve, not the broke Dicks they've
Speaker 1: been getting. Thank you all right, stun because when we
Speaker 1: come back, Jenny Slates will be joining me right there.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dainty Show. My guest tonight is actor,
Speaker 1: writer and comedian Jenny Slates. She's yet to talk about
Speaker 1: her new film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Please
Speaker 1: welcome Jenny Slates. Jennie Slates, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back. I'm I'm so delighted to
Speaker 1: have you back, especially for this project, because you know,
Speaker 1: I had heard nothing about this movie as an idea,
Speaker 1: as a concept. I didn't know about it when it
Speaker 1: went viral. But I was sitting in in in the
Speaker 1: movie theater, I'll never forget this, and you know, they're
Speaker 1: playing all the trailers and it was interesting because all
Speaker 1: the trailers that came over with like action movies. Because
Speaker 1: I think I was watching everything everywhere all at once,
Speaker 1: which you were also in, by the way, right, So
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching the trailers. Trailers is like action movie,
Speaker 1: action movie, action movie, and then the Shell comes on
Speaker 1: and everyone in the movie theater, oh, we instantly fell
Speaker 1: in love. And I remember going what who made this?
Speaker 1: What is this? Who who came up with it? And
Speaker 1: everybody loves its like almost like a d on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1: Everyone is raving about the movie. So first things first, congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you. Secondly, let's let's get into the how behind
Speaker 1: all of this. If someone said to me, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make a movie about a shell with a little like googly,
Speaker 1: I yeah, I'd be like, I don't think this is
Speaker 1: gonna work, and yet it worked. Take it from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Please explain the concept to me, okay, sure? So um,
Speaker 1: I also think you're right, there's absolutely no way to
Speaker 1: pitch this movie. Um. And it's a big vote for like,
Speaker 1: if you have an idea and you're not sure how
Speaker 1: to explain it, maybe just try to find a way
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, And I think so I was
Speaker 1: like doing the voice first. I was with Dean Fleisher
Speaker 1: Camp who I directed this film, and he and I
Speaker 1: were at a wedding and um, we were sharing hotel
Speaker 1: room with like four other people because you were trying
Speaker 1: to save money about twelve years ago. That means it's
Speaker 1: a destination wedding. It was Connecticut, take it or leave it,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what they chose. Yeah. Um, And we
Speaker 1: were sharing a room with a bunch of friends. I
Speaker 1: may have been having some cocktails. You know, We'll never know. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll never know. Um, but it was really squashed in there.
Speaker 1: And I started being like like doing this little voice,
Speaker 1: like being like you guys are like really really stepping
Speaker 1: on me and stuff like that. It's hard to hear,
Speaker 1: but anyway, I love doing it. Um. And Dean was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to make a short film for
Speaker 1: my friends comedy show. Could I interview you in that
Speaker 1: character whatever that is? And I was like yeah, because
Speaker 1: I love I love an interview honestly, yes and a
Speaker 1: body asking me anything for sure, and so um, he
Speaker 1: asked me some questions. The character started to emerge. He
Speaker 1: did the character design. He's stuck a googly eye and
Speaker 1: a shell and you know, glue the shoes and everything,
Speaker 1: and we had this sort of like interview based short
Speaker 1: film that we ended up putting on the internet because
Speaker 1: someone at the comedy show was like, could you put
Speaker 1: this online? I want to show it to my mom um,
Speaker 1: And we just thought this, like these two people might
Speaker 1: see it. And it was a lot more than two people.
Speaker 1: It was more millions, more than two people show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like over thirty six million people. Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I mean at that point the story is not it's
Speaker 1: not done. It's not like it's like, oh, there in
Speaker 1: minutes a movie, because it took you seven years to
Speaker 1: turn this into the feature film. Yeah. Yeah, the film
Speaker 1: itself took seven years. We first started with the audio
Speaker 1: recording and a lot of it was like improvised, and
Speaker 1: then we would write scenes based on the improv of
Speaker 1: and eventually ended up with the script. That took about
Speaker 1: three years, and then we did the live action shoot
Speaker 1: and then the stop motion and it's going. The way
Speaker 1: they move is gorgeous as well as just like a
Speaker 1: little tiny, little like copy steppy, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. It is our Our animation director Kirsten
Speaker 1: Lapoor made like such beautiful animation. It's not super smooth,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just really enough that like you could
Speaker 1: almost see it out of the corner of your eye.
Speaker 1: Can I see what I love about this story? First
Speaker 1: of all, there are very few original movies that you
Speaker 1: watch these days, right, moves will be like, oh, the
Speaker 1: sequel of the sequel of the sequel, or the prequel
Speaker 1: before the sequel. Right, you've got to get the prequel
Speaker 1: and um, and then the spinoff and then the spinoff
Speaker 1: to the sequel prequel. But but this is it's such
Speaker 1: an original idea and it's it's surprisingly heart wrenching. I
Speaker 1: never thought I would watch a movie where obviously you laughing.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna laugh because the shell, you know,
Speaker 1: with the eye. But then but then this moment where
Speaker 1: I'm just like the show it's it's a really emotional story.
Speaker 1: Read that you've told it's a feel good story as well. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. Um, one thing that I'm interested in is
Speaker 1: like how those can exist at once. I know, like
Speaker 1: I certainly live that way that I can experience like
Speaker 1: grief and loss while also trying to live a life
Speaker 1: that feels satisfying on a daily basis. And um, that
Speaker 1: is like one of the things that's built into the
Speaker 1: film and I think, um, I think it is funny,
Speaker 1: and I think also there are a lot of adults
Speaker 1: that end up crying during the movie, which is good.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. Well yeah, and everybody has made noise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's good. I think more adults should be
Speaker 1: crying in more movies. Um. The the stories that I
Speaker 1: feel like you you you like to tell don't just
Speaker 1: involve like voices and you know, in heartwarming issues, but
Speaker 1: it's like there's something that I feel connect your or
Speaker 1: that you're attracted to in telling an adult story to
Speaker 1: kids that's almost secretly going to adults. You know, I
Speaker 1: wonder are you're gonna are you gonna do more of
Speaker 1: this or you're gonna make any you know, do you
Speaker 1: have any dreams for instead of making any kids shows? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, yes I do. And I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I do like stuff like that because I feel like
Speaker 1: children are actually capable of like feeling huge, vibrant and
Speaker 1: and sometimes overwhelming feelings, and it's it's good to like
Speaker 1: give them a space to try that out and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like really strong enough to do this. But also
Speaker 1: there are so many adults who weren't given that opportunity.
Speaker 1: So it's nice for them to see something where they
Speaker 1: see like a young or small thing really making it
Speaker 1: work in that way. But um, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I would really like it if I had my own
Speaker 1: show for children and people. UM, I like, like, I
Speaker 1: think it would be nice. I I like to say,
Speaker 1: somewhere between Pee Wee and Mr Rogers, but with a woman. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to give it to a man. I
Speaker 1: want it to be me. Yeah, yeah, I want. I
Speaker 1: love animation. Um, I've always been a fan of you
Speaker 1: because I love people who do different voices, because like,
Speaker 1: that's what animation is. You've done everything. You know, you've
Speaker 1: done this. You know you did um what you were
Speaker 1: in Um, I want to say it was big Mouth,
Speaker 1: and I want to say it was Utopia as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: And every time your voice changes slightly, when did you
Speaker 1: When did you start doing that? It's like I think
Speaker 1: you've had your whole life? I think, so it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sort of like that's have you. It's like have
Speaker 1: you had this weird mole your whole life or something?
Speaker 1: But you know it's like have you had this? Because
Speaker 1: this is I'll tell you why because I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I've been trying to make a TV
Speaker 1: show like here, like like a mine. So I just
Speaker 1: you know, and then what I was trying to do.
Speaker 1: What I was trying to do is I was hoping
Speaker 1: we could we could do like a little like a
Speaker 1: little scene for my show. I'm gonna because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pitch it because now you showed me how successful it
Speaker 1: could be. I'm gonna so you can you can be um,
Speaker 1: you can be handy the sanitizer um, or you can
Speaker 1: be blue ether the drink thing um, or you can
Speaker 1: be um stand the staple stand. Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: be standing fine, okay, And then um, I'll move these
Speaker 1: so you can see everything clearly. Oh you're doing that. Great.
Speaker 1: I'll go into that shop. I know how cameras work.
Speaker 1: I can be here, where's that where's that thing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: They are getting my back, and then we need these
Speaker 1: ice turning as which which way that's the one, that's
Speaker 1: the one, that's the one, that's the one that's the one. Alright, cool, right, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna figure out what's happening here. They are. Give
Speaker 1: me a place where they are people they're in Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's very specific, very specific, all right, And what are
Speaker 1: they trying to do in Chicago? Go to the circus? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right in Chicago and they trying to go the circus,
Speaker 1: but they conked because why it's hot right now? Car
Speaker 1: broke down? All right? Then trying to go to the circus,
Speaker 1: but the car broke down. All right, all right, I'm okay,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm reading with all right, sto stand, calm down, stand.
Speaker 1: I just need you to calm down for one moment.
Speaker 1: I can't calm down that car. That guy in brown
Speaker 1: rap rap rap. How are we gonna get to the shircage? Now?
Speaker 1: Can I admit something to stand? Oh? Go ahead. I
Speaker 1: broke the car because I don't want to go to
Speaker 1: the circus because I don't want every want to pump
Speaker 1: my darn head? What what? I don't you my dream?
Speaker 1: You know, stall b I'm gonna doing that to me.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that it was your first automobile, first
Speaker 1: of all. Secondly, Stan, you know that whenever we go anywhere,
Speaker 1: people pump my head? Yeah? Yeah? And you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's life, that's life. You're look at you.
Speaker 1: You've been hands as that a boy a few years
Speaker 1: of the pandemic and your attack. You know how a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been sang it back, ha Stan.
Speaker 1: These last few years have been really hard for me.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been pumping my head. They
Speaker 1: don't ask. I've had to read what are you doing? Oy?
Speaker 1: What I ordered? An uber? We don't mature have this
Speaker 1: fight and see we've got me people not tall the shower,
Speaker 1: what shoes on? Is not playing in feelings? La Wi
Speaker 1: don't watch me? You take a kid, We'll don't take
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