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Speaker 1: but I did want to bring in our guest this
Speaker 1: week we're talking about Pixar and she was actually on
Speaker 1: our our Haunted Mansion episode. As she is the Queen
Speaker 1: of Disney. It is Sabina Graves. Hey, everyone, thanks for
Speaker 1: calling me the Queen of Disney like that. There many
Speaker 1: There should be more Disney queens have um speaking of
Speaker 1: who is your favorite Disney Princess, Sabina, it's Bell that
Speaker 1: yeah you are. We're in goll right now. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite things about her for the Disney Princess panel
Speaker 1: I did last year that um Pedro Haara, who's a
Speaker 1: voice of Bell, was on and that she was talking
Speaker 1: about it was like this woman who was like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to marry you. I just want to
Speaker 1: read my books, like get out of here. Like it
Speaker 1: was so funny to have this princess that was like
Speaker 1: actively turning down, you know, not to not to go
Speaker 1: after Ariel who I adore, but was chasing after a prince,
Speaker 1: but um for her to be she was captured. She felt,
Speaker 1: you know, Belle was captured and eventually fell in love
Speaker 1: but to have this suitor and her be like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good, I'm not going to be your wife,
Speaker 1: like l O L to that. I like how it
Speaker 1: takes a look at a toxic masculinity and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the beast grows out of it. And then
Speaker 1: Gaston does not, even though he's seen as like you know,
Speaker 1: the town hero and stuff like that, and spoiler spoilers, spoiler,
Speaker 1: he has a bit it's like twenty something Plussier spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: But yeah, today we are covering Pixar. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: just go, like, what is everyone's favorite Pixar movie before
Speaker 1: we I hop into it? What a what a good question?
Speaker 1: I definitely say ahead. I was gonna say Sebina probably
Speaker 1: has one rage. I had like a tie between Wally
Speaker 1: and Coco, uh while he was my long time just
Speaker 1: favorite Pixar film. You know, it's such a simple, like
Speaker 1: like simple story that is told through like you know,
Speaker 1: this space and um the commentary about like protecting our planet,
Speaker 1: but also just the beauty in um like the exploration
Speaker 1: of these emotion and through robots that you know, like
Speaker 1: robots don't have emotions, but you know, Whilely and Eve
Speaker 1: are so expressive and uh effective in uh, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing a future we don't want to have, but also
Speaker 1: seeing the importance of what is worth fighting for in life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, it's so hard because they've done so many
Speaker 1: just refreshing I'd say, I'd say before I would have
Speaker 1: probably set the Toy Story series that probably would have
Speaker 1: been mine to Toy Story for I felt was really strong.
Speaker 1: But I think it I think you're right. I think
Speaker 1: it's coca Cocoa is just so there's just so much
Speaker 1: more flavor uh in that movie than than uh than
Speaker 1: than in the other ones. And it and it's and
Speaker 1: I hope it's something they take note of because I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just in general, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the like very I guess you would say, like legend
Speaker 1: esque movies are so eurocentric, you know your braves and
Speaker 1: even um you know, uh, what's the what's the one
Speaker 1: is that's not sorry because Pixar and Disney or so
Speaker 1: neck and neck that I get afraid of like confusing
Speaker 1: the two. But yeah, for them, whenever they step out
Speaker 1: and like use like a cultural voice, it just makes
Speaker 1: it so much stronger. Ratitui with the French, you know, yeah, mine,
Speaker 1: um are both of those. I would say Coco is
Speaker 1: so representative obviously of my heritage that it was so anytime, Honestly,
Speaker 1: anytime I feel bad as a creator, like my voice
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, I'm not doing enough for like I'm not
Speaker 1: supposed to be here, or anytime I'm just feeling really down,
Speaker 1: I'll watch it and be like hell, yeah, well through tears,
Speaker 1: then I'll go and want to write. But Toy Story,
Speaker 1: um was so groundbreaking at the time, like just to
Speaker 1: have that type of animation style and the humor it was.
Speaker 1: It's really funny and something that I think adults enjoyed
Speaker 1: as well. It had a lot of adults like inside
Speaker 1: jokes that I wouldn't have gotten until I was older. So,
Speaker 1: um yeah, Mine's definitely both of those two. Nemo is great.
Speaker 1: I love how movies like Nemo and Toy Story informed
Speaker 1: our senses of humor. I would say in very many ways.
Speaker 1: You know, we like, uh, he touched the butt, you know.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the start of Pixar. Pixar Animation
Speaker 1: Studios is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California,
Speaker 1: and a part of the Walt Disney Studios group. The
Speaker 1: studio has earned twenties seven Academy Awards honestly thought it
Speaker 1: was more than that, but eight Golden Globes, three Grammy Awards,
Speaker 1: along with many other awards and acknowledgements. It's best known
Speaker 1: for c g I animated feature films created with photo
Speaker 1: realistic render Man, its own implementation of the industry standard
Speaker 1: render Man image rendering application programming interface used to generate
Speaker 1: high quality images. So Pixar actually began back in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine as the graphics group part of the computer
Speaker 1: division of Lucasfilm, before it was acquired by Apple Computer
Speaker 1: co founder Steve Jobs in nineteen eight six. The Walt
Speaker 1: Disney Company bought Pixar in two thousand and six at
Speaker 1: a valuation of seven point four billion dollars. The transaction
Speaker 1: made Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney. A lot of
Speaker 1: big names in there, from it being with Lucasfilm to
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs, just people that were at the forefront also
Speaker 1: of this type of technology in film, definitely, and it's
Speaker 1: all these people who kind of knew each other coming up.
Speaker 1: So because I know that last setter had left Disney
Speaker 1: when he had met up with Steve Jobs and it
Speaker 1: Captain Roll in the early days of Pixar and that
Speaker 1: they had set up to do some computer science stuff
Speaker 1: ended up doing, you know, more of commuter animation for commercials,
Speaker 1: and from there that kind of like snowballed into let's
Speaker 1: make some short films in this style, which led to
Speaker 1: Toy Story. And so now kind of like what you
Speaker 1: were saying, if he is at their neck and neck
Speaker 1: what what um so Walt Disney Animation Studios is in Burbank, California. However,
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell the difference between the two because
Speaker 1: it used to be three D animation, right, and then
Speaker 1: the two D animation. So Toy Story was coming out
Speaker 1: when say they were still making Partisan the Frog or
Speaker 1: Pocahonas which was several years before, or Mulan, you know,
Speaker 1: they it was easy to differentiate between what was Pixar
Speaker 1: and what was Disney or Walt Disney animation. Um now,
Speaker 1: Mowanna is Walt Disney Animation. Frozen is Walt Disney Animation.
Speaker 1: Ralph A lot of people will say, like, oh, your
Speaker 1: Pixar character, I'm not I'm not. Ralph is not Pixar,
Speaker 1: that's all. But it's very confusing now that they're using
Speaker 1: three D animation. I would I would have said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have said that that was Pixar. That's why
Speaker 1: I had to catch myself when I was saying the
Speaker 1: Eurocentric because in my head, uh, frozen his Pixar, Because
Speaker 1: you're right, it used to be that Pixar did all
Speaker 1: the three D animation and then Walt Disney Animation did
Speaker 1: the two D and now it's just they just do
Speaker 1: what they do. It gets so confusing because there was
Speaker 1: a point in time where Disney separately was trying to
Speaker 1: do computer animation than Pixar, so they did Chicken Little
Speaker 1: Meet the Robinson. To Meet the Robinson is actually one
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies. It's not Disney. It is Disney,
Speaker 1: but it has like the Pixar touch. They had some
Speaker 1: of the story trust from Pixar come in and try
Speaker 1: to kind of like, uh, fix that movie. Um, and
Speaker 1: I love it for all it's imperfections, honestly. Um. But
Speaker 1: it's based around one of my favorite Disney quotes, which
Speaker 1: just keep moving forward, and that I take that with
Speaker 1: me everywhere in my just like keep moving forward, keep
Speaker 1: moving past things, working through it and stuff. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: So after those two films and then like Tangled and
Speaker 1: like Too Onward. Basically, I guess it's like now it's
Speaker 1: like there's it's just this big missimatch of like CG
Speaker 1: feels like Pixar, but it's some some of its Pixar,
Speaker 1: some of it's Disney. Um and uh yeah, I know
Speaker 1: for a while it was very eurocentric and uh I
Speaker 1: really like how with Onward, With Onward Pixar trying to
Speaker 1: make a hero centric movie but with blue people. So
Speaker 1: you know, we all know Pixar is this like huge
Speaker 1: success and big you know, part of Disney history. But
Speaker 1: I mean at first, I think one of the first
Speaker 1: things is that it was they worked with Disney, but
Speaker 1: they kind of because now technically Disney owns it, right,
Speaker 1: but before it was like they were their own entity
Speaker 1: and they and you know it c G I isn't
Speaker 1: cheap and so uh so, like you know, they're the
Speaker 1: first big con sept really, which was Toy Story. Uh
Speaker 1: was was was kind of just touch and go, like
Speaker 1: it wasn't the it was it wasn't like like we
Speaker 1: look back and we're like, oh, yeah, that's a smash
Speaker 1: hit of course, but getting it onto the screen was
Speaker 1: was a challenge. I mean, despite uh the total income
Speaker 1: from the projects before, they continue to lose money and jobs.
Speaker 1: And as the chairman of the board and now at
Speaker 1: the time of this full owner, uh, they like yes,
Speaker 1: Steve Yes, Steve Jobs was considering selling it. Uh and
Speaker 1: as late as it was, they were still trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what they're gonna do. They're trying to sell
Speaker 1: it to like Hallmark, Uh to Microsoft co founder Paul Allen,
Speaker 1: or Oracle, which what is that world Oracle makes like
Speaker 1: Java that you that you use online and they do
Speaker 1: a lot of cloud servers now, but you know, what
Speaker 1: is the world in which they over Pixar or Hallmark? Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean they would make those movies a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But yeah. But so it was only after learning that
Speaker 1: from the New York critics that Toy Story was probably
Speaker 1: going to be a hit and confirming uh that Disney
Speaker 1: was going to distribute it in the Christmas season, that
Speaker 1: they decided to give Pixar one more chance, and for
Speaker 1: the first time, uh, he was taking us. Jobs was
Speaker 1: taking active leadership in the company and made himself CEO,
Speaker 1: and Toy Story then went on a gross more than
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy three million worldwide. Uh. And that's
Speaker 1: when Pixar held its first initial public offering, which was
Speaker 1: in November twenty nine, and it exceeded Netscape. Uh. Y'all
Speaker 1: remember Netscape of the biggest I p O of the year,
Speaker 1: and only the first half hour of trading, Pixar stock
Speaker 1: shot up from twenty two dollars to forty five dollars. Man,
Speaker 1: if I could have no, I mean, I was a child,
Speaker 1: put money in back then delaying trading because of unmatched
Speaker 1: by orders. Shares climbed up to forty nine dollars before
Speaker 1: closing at the day at thirty nine. Which, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's always funny because like, of course now you're thinking, man,
Speaker 1: I wish, But if you were like this animation studio
Speaker 1: that's kind of new, you're you probably like, no, I'm good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the crazy things though, is that during this time,
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs pulled, you know, some of the main people
Speaker 1: at Pixar side and was like, you know, I make computers.
Speaker 1: You that computer reaches your doorstep, it's good for three
Speaker 1: to five years. You have the potential to make things
Speaker 1: that will be um, you know, immortal, that will just
Speaker 1: go on and you know, open the hearts of like
Speaker 1: families over the world, and that's essentially what pis are
Speaker 1: ended up becoming. Yeah, so in the nineties and two thousands,
Speaker 1: they gradually developed the Pixar brain Trust, which if you're
Speaker 1: a Disney person you've heard this quite a bit. I
Speaker 1: think actually before do you remember Sabina the short that
Speaker 1: they showed of this gosh what it was like before
Speaker 1: a movie maybe Finding Nemo. It was like they showed, um,
Speaker 1: some of the created the directors sitting around a table
Speaker 1: and they were talking about how they essentially at this
Speaker 1: one meeting came up with what would eventually be toy
Speaker 1: Story and um monsters E and do you remember that
Speaker 1: I'll have to send up. Yeah, I don't exactly remember
Speaker 1: which one it was in front of, but I loved
Speaker 1: when like movie studios would do that like behind the
Speaker 1: scenes before the movie to kind of get you, like
Speaker 1: interested in like this is how we make things. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I know, like the brain Trust was originally
Speaker 1: composed of the original filmmakers, you know, laster On Rich, Dr.
Speaker 1: Santon and Joe ramp who was their story supervisor. Um.
Speaker 1: But they basically all came together to you know, imagine
Speaker 1: the house that Pixar would become. And I think that
Speaker 1: it's definitely like originated by some of those conversations they
Speaker 1: had early on with Steve Jobs about what they could
Speaker 1: do as filmmakers. We have to take a really quick
Speaker 1: break and then we're gonna hop back into more about
Speaker 1: Pixar right after this, and we are back, we are
Speaker 1: still talking about Pixar. And before mommy and Daddy got married,
Speaker 1: they had a bit of a feud together Disney and Pixar.
Speaker 1: Oh they had been married, they had entanglement. Pixar Pier
Speaker 1: is in Disney's California Adventure at Disneyland across a little
Speaker 1: across the way from Disneyland, proper um, and it is filled.
Speaker 1: I was there before. I mean I was there before
Speaker 1: it was Pixar Pier. To be honest, um, I was
Speaker 1: there before California Adventure existed. But um um it is
Speaker 1: a great It has our favorite place to drink, which
Speaker 1: and I go we drink just go a drink fair
Speaker 1: and which is the Lamp Light, which is a restaurant.
Speaker 1: It's okay. So here's the thing I'm explaining to Pixar
Speaker 1: fans who haven't been there, because it is really great.
Speaker 1: So it overlooks a Peer which has the Screaming the
Speaker 1: Incredible and Credit Coaster has formerly known as Screaming then
Speaker 1: Credit Coaster. Um. But it overlooks the water and the
Speaker 1: Mickey Ferris Wheel and they have it's just decked out
Speaker 1: in Pixar everything. So it has the toy story Ball
Speaker 1: sorry if that has an official name. I forgot the
Speaker 1: Pixar pal around, but it still has the Mickey face. Um.
Speaker 1: But my favorite thing about lamp Light the actual places
Speaker 1: that it's all decked out and picks our stuff. Everything
Speaker 1: is Pixar. Like all the drinks, like for the adults,
Speaker 1: they have like monsters inc Like drinks. Yes, they have
Speaker 1: drinks that like cold drink drink alcohol that like they
Speaker 1: put something in it bubbles and you drink it and
Speaker 1: can get you drunk. Um. I just love it because
Speaker 1: it's my two favorite things. I sound like an alcoholic.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I love being an adult and
Speaker 1: having the money to buy Pixar things like Disney things,
Speaker 1: but also having fun with my adult friends. Um. And
Speaker 1: so they have a ton of quotes and artwork, Like
Speaker 1: they have a lot of art Pixar art inside the restaurant.
Speaker 1: It's really just beautiful and I adore it. Um. But
Speaker 1: Pixar Pierre has a lot of the games, like Toy
Speaker 1: Story Games, Monsters Inc. Um they now have Coco stuff
Speaker 1: in there. They have an entire Coco mural actually there,
Speaker 1: so it's uh, yeah, did I do it? Justice Sabina.
Speaker 1: So the Monsters Inc. Crede is actually separated from Pixar Pier,
Speaker 1: but that was there before Pixar p Here happened. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love all the murals and yeah, the Lamplight
Speaker 1: Lounge is so much fun to go to with friends
Speaker 1: because we're having all these fun fizzy drinks that are
Speaker 1: like very you know, on brand for Pixar, but we're
Speaker 1: surrounded by you know, original art from the studios that
Speaker 1: is stuff from pre production. On the walls. They have
Speaker 1: those quotes. They also have like the crew shirts that
Speaker 1: people get from working on the productions that are like
Speaker 1: way cooler than some of the stuff we have that
Speaker 1: I'm like looking at they have. They had at one point,
Speaker 1: I think a Coco shirt that was a Day of
Speaker 1: the Dead um skull but it was styled like Sid's
Speaker 1: shirt from Toy Story And yeah, that is so rad.
Speaker 1: When I need one. I need one of those in
Speaker 1: my life. I think one of my friends actually got
Speaker 1: one from going to Pixar Um. But yeah, like and
Speaker 1: you're just like hanging out having drinks and having yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: watching it get built out was wild too, because yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember early the biggest Pixar kind of footprint that
Speaker 1: you had in California Screaming or California Adventure. Sorry was
Speaker 1: the Bugs Life. But then you had the things where
Speaker 1: they did a full remodel. I think I was working
Speaker 1: I was working at Disneyland at the time, but they
Speaker 1: fully remodeled uh, California Adventure to look like um uh
Speaker 1: car the carthe Circle, And that's when they started to
Speaker 1: add in the Pixar Land. And one of the biggest
Speaker 1: kind of turnouts that came and probably is my favorite
Speaker 1: part of that is going to be the cars Land
Speaker 1: because the ride is like pretty pretty cool, but they
Speaker 1: like those cone the cone like chili. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: is undefeated. Uh, probably my favorite. But yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is that, uh and you know y'all
Speaker 1: talking about the drink, but that was the biggest piece
Speaker 1: of trivia, is that that was the only place you
Speaker 1: can drink in Disneyland because the only in the two
Speaker 1: combined parts, because outside of that, the only place you
Speaker 1: can drink in Disneyland was Club thirty three. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's changed Disney Yeah, uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like in in part now it's yeah, Paris Cantina a
Speaker 1: galaxy also, you can those drinks are very overrated. Oh really,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. I've heard people say the other just because
Speaker 1: people like the tingly Mouth one I have. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any I haven't been the galaxies Edge. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I need the tingly Mouth drink. Going back to the
Speaker 1: Cars Ride in cars Land, the Cars Ride is my
Speaker 1: favorite Cars movie. Yeah, oh wait, what can you? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry say that again. The Car's Ride is my favorite
Speaker 1: Cars movie. Okay, Okay, I was lost. I thought you
Speaker 1: were saying like that's your No. I thought you were
Speaker 1: saying that that's your favorite Okay, I understand you now.
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying that Cars was your favorite
Speaker 1: Pixar movie. And I was like, ma'am, why, ma'am, why
Speaker 1: are you on this? It's great. No, it's just like
Speaker 1: you're going through like, um, you know the what's it
Speaker 1: called the Ornament of the Radiator Spring's going through Radiator Springs.
Speaker 1: But the ride is just so much fun. Like I
Speaker 1: liken it to the Pandora ride at Disney World where
Speaker 1: that is also my favorite Avatar movie is that ride. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just like they made some really great high
Speaker 1: concept throw rights for some of the biggest I P
Speaker 1: s you know, and some of the other ones they
Speaker 1: kind of just slap the I P on the ride,
Speaker 1: like the incredi Coaster. Um. But yes, you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, I think cars Land was like the biggest
Speaker 1: like sign for people to redirect them to California Adventure
Speaker 1: because my girl, California Adventure was not doing good. It was.
Speaker 1: It was definitely high mid for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: The biggest highlight for a lot of people I spoke
Speaker 1: to where was the soaring over because you've got the
Speaker 1: smells blown at you. Um. But yeah, you could. I
Speaker 1: could do a whole episode just on Disney Park culture
Speaker 1: because that's a whole underworld that I knew all too well,
Speaker 1: got angry at times about and just it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a whole thing. I may be involved with something
Speaker 1: like that. Actually, yeah, about the theme parks with with
Speaker 1: a with a mutual friend of everyone here. Yeah, um yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, like definitely with the I p of Pixar
Speaker 1: moving to Disney's Coffee Adventure, it opened up new avenues
Speaker 1: for these worlds that we've always wanted to be a
Speaker 1: part of. Two be places we can go to. Like
Speaker 1: now there's a whole ride based on Inside Out called
Speaker 1: Emotional Whirlwind, which is a re skin of a ride
Speaker 1: from A Bug's Land, but it's still cute because you
Speaker 1: get like the sound effects of like the orbs spinning
Speaker 1: and like you're on this ride where you're you're on
Speaker 1: an Emotional Whirlwind. Well, speaking of A Bug's Life, which
Speaker 1: was the second film Pixar's second film, A Bug's Life, UM,
Speaker 1: almost all subsequent Pixar feature films that were shown in
Speaker 1: theaters had an original short film shown before it. UM.
Speaker 1: And so now you can actually one of my favorite
Speaker 1: things on Disney. Plus you can go and watch all
Speaker 1: of the shorts. And also they're just constantly coming out
Speaker 1: with new shorts. I think it's a great way, aside
Speaker 1: from some of them being Academy Award winning, but it's
Speaker 1: a great way for a lot of these artists to
Speaker 1: kind of get their foot in the door, get their
Speaker 1: name out there, that's kind of there. Um. I got
Speaker 1: to see, not that Ralph was the same obviously it's
Speaker 1: at Walt Disney Animation, but I got to see the
Speaker 1: process of how you get promoted to getting to direct,
Speaker 1: like moving from lead story moving from storyboard artists to
Speaker 1: lead storyboard artist to director. Really fascinating. Um, a lot
Speaker 1: of the people they're been working there for a decade plus. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, So Pixar began producing shorts in the nineteen eighties. Actually,
Speaker 1: the first shorts were made while Pixar was still a
Speaker 1: computer hardware company, when John Lassetter was the only professional
Speaker 1: animator in the company's small animation department, starting with Gary's
Speaker 1: Game or Jerry's Game. After Pixar had converted into an
Speaker 1: animation studio. All later shorts have been produced with a
Speaker 1: larger crew and budget, and then are made four c
Speaker 1: g I shorts produced for the TV series Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: The shorts illustrate different weights in directions starring Luxo Jr.
Speaker 1: You don't know Luxo Jr. That is the lamp and
Speaker 1: Luxo light and heavy surprise, up and down in front
Speaker 1: and back. Um, so what are some of y'all's um
Speaker 1: do you have any shorts that stand out to you. Uh,
Speaker 1: they were definitely because that used to be one of
Speaker 1: my favorite parts of Pixar movies or the shorts that
Speaker 1: came up before it. Um, I want to be late
Speaker 1: to the movies. Yeah, you just wanted to catch some
Speaker 1: of those early early joints. I mean, mine, what what
Speaker 1: being is? The one with a guy playing chess with himself?
Speaker 1: Wasn't that game? Oh? Yeah, so yes, so I have Yes,
Speaker 1: you are absolutely correct. My recent favorite everyone should go
Speaker 1: watch is Out. I actually shared it all my Insta stories.
Speaker 1: We can link it, you can go watch it right now. Um.
Speaker 1: It is I think their first main queer story short
Speaker 1: story short about a guy who's afraid to come out
Speaker 1: to his family. It's great and in the traditional Pixar style. Um,
Speaker 1: very heartwarming and has great build They're just really great
Speaker 1: at doing that. There's magical nous to it, there's a
Speaker 1: magical component to it. So sorry, that's part of their
Speaker 1: Spark Shorts series. I should say that Sparks shorts differently
Speaker 1: just there I have been so great, you know, with
Speaker 1: Out by Bobby Rubio, which is a Filipinos Filipino story, um,
Speaker 1: and also about by Donmi she um which won the
Speaker 1: Academy Award in and also made me very hungry. Uh.
Speaker 1: I love the ones that you know incorporate the different
Speaker 1: flavors of everyone's backgrounds and stuff, and even going back
Speaker 1: to other shorts before, like Sparks shorts. Uh, Sanjay Super
Speaker 1: Team was one of my favorites. I think that one
Speaker 1: was before The Good Dinosaur, and that was about Sanjay
Speaker 1: Petel kind of growing up on a show like Power
Speaker 1: Rangers and basically extending himself to see people that look
Speaker 1: like him be a like mashup of his culture and
Speaker 1: the Power Rangers and how like that would look like
Speaker 1: in his imagination. Like that made me cry so much. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because we want to see more
Speaker 1: consistent films with more inclusion behind the helm of these
Speaker 1: big movie these, but with the shorts you definitely like,
Speaker 1: I guess you know, like you said, that became the
Speaker 1: testing grounds for people to get moved to the next level.
Speaker 1: Someone that we should note that we haven't said yet
Speaker 1: is Brad bird Um as being someone who has definitely
Speaker 1: had a large role in shaping Pixar. Obviously is the
Speaker 1: director of The Incredibles, which too many people is along
Speaker 1: with Toy Story, one of the most iconic Pixar films. Uh.
Speaker 1: Something that I think took fourteen years I believe for
Speaker 1: a sequel is that people were writing brad Bird, they
Speaker 1: were like would you will you do it? We were
Speaker 1: like getting all these cars sequels and meanwhile like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Incredible stands where like where where it's our sequel?
Speaker 1: You left us hanging like why are there cars to
Speaker 1: right now? Where is Incredibles too? Like over the years
Speaker 1: and that those which is We're finally answered a few
Speaker 1: years back with The Incredible. Well. I see a very
Speaker 1: um controversial question here from superproducer Joel Monique, which says
Speaker 1: some believe that The Incredibles is one of the greatest
Speaker 1: superhero stories ever told. Do you agree or disagree? Looks
Speaker 1: like she's trying to abit us if he what do
Speaker 1: you think about Incredibles? I think it's I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty solid. I mean, you know, there are while there
Speaker 1: are like family superhero stories told, they're always like superhero
Speaker 1: as family, and I feel like, uh, the Incredibles or
Speaker 1: family as superheroes, which is a different, uh similar but
Speaker 1: different kind of I think spin on it. So I
Speaker 1: think it definitely can sit at the table, but the
Speaker 1: greatest is definitely it's gonna be hard to top All
Speaker 1: Star Superman for me. I think spiritually, an interesting thing
Speaker 1: that has happened with pop culture is taking The Incredibles
Speaker 1: for example, is that The Incredibles is seen as a
Speaker 1: spiritual sort of reimagining of beloved stories like Fantastic Four
Speaker 1: and like the X Men, Like, oh, they did some
Speaker 1: of these things we've seen in the comics in this
Speaker 1: film way better than some of those films at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, like the Jessica Alba Fantastic four movie or
Speaker 1: Slash Chris Chris Evans or like you know, some of
Speaker 1: those X Men movies. People were like, we're seeing some
Speaker 1: of these things we liked about these properties in The Incredibles,
Speaker 1: and they're pulling it off. This should be I like
Speaker 1: this idea of like spiritual sort of like reimaginings and
Speaker 1: reboots that are like really good at uh, distilling some
Speaker 1: of these stories that we love and the core of
Speaker 1: what they mean to us and instead of just remaking it.
Speaker 1: Like one of my examples that I kind of point
Speaker 1: to all the time is the fandom of the opera
Speaker 1: um Amazing Book, all the adaptations like kind of like
Speaker 1: try to tackle like just certain beats of it and
Speaker 1: then like the mask and he's disfigured. And but there's
Speaker 1: a movie called The Fantom of Paradise by Diploma that
Speaker 1: just takes the core of the message behind the fan
Speaker 1: of the opera and is the most faithful adaptation. And
Speaker 1: I'm tying this back to Pixar because, um, you have
Speaker 1: Hunt for the Wilder People, which was directed by tycho
Speaker 1: I t D. That is basically a spiritual like adaptation
Speaker 1: of Pixar's UP that actually kind of think is a
Speaker 1: bit more effective than UP. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: all have seen Hunt for the Wilder People, but it
Speaker 1: is basically the story of a like grumpy old man
Speaker 1: who has to take in a young kid and they
Speaker 1: go on an adventure in the woods, uh, in the
Speaker 1: jungles of New Zealand, and basically it's it's it's up
Speaker 1: but like very raunchy and hilarious and heartfelt. Um it
Speaker 1: hits all those emotional beats of a Pixar story. Um
Speaker 1: that you know, I think honestly draws from the d
Speaker 1: n a of what has made these movies stand apart
Speaker 1: from Disney movies and What I mean by that is
Speaker 1: that Pixar films are about asking questions about the human condition.
Speaker 1: And before then with other Disney movies, we're doing you know,
Speaker 1: things about like I want to like I want to
Speaker 1: meet the love of my life, or you know, like
Speaker 1: these very like eurocentric stories that were about those, like
Speaker 1: fairy tales and stuff. Pixar kind of helped break ground
Speaker 1: in separating itself from that, which is why I think
Speaker 1: it stands as its own entity. What I was going
Speaker 1: to say that I do enjoy about Brad Bird's work
Speaker 1: is he clearly is influenced by this mid century, modern,
Speaker 1: post World War two type of feel like he had
Speaker 1: that in The Iron Giant, which he directed um and
Speaker 1: definitely in The Incredibles. If you look at the architecture,
Speaker 1: the hairstyles, the wardrobe, and so I find that really fascinating.
Speaker 1: It's all very like that mixed with today's technology. I
Speaker 1: always am. I always think that's really cool because it
Speaker 1: reminds me of some of my other favorite things like
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone, you know, or just like that period of
Speaker 1: time where it's very sleek. But they were also super
Speaker 1: into aliens and you know, possible spaceships and whatnot. And
Speaker 1: so I find that really cool that he kind of
Speaker 1: just like has centered in on that hime period, those
Speaker 1: timeless touchstones that get carried on through pop culture of
Speaker 1: things that like we you know, grew up on, but
Speaker 1: then like also look back and they're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: because like the Twilight Zone. One of the things I
Speaker 1: noticed about like movies that Pete Doctor did um was
Speaker 1: that after Pixar for a time had some of their
Speaker 1: storytellers kind of um take care of the Ghibbli films.
Speaker 1: When Disney acquired that for a while they were in
Speaker 1: charge of sort of restructuring them, slash casting the voice
Speaker 1: actors for American audiences or I guess English speaking audiences.
Speaker 1: UM that after they worked on movies like How's Moving Castle?
Speaker 1: For example, Uh, you got movies like Up and Monsters, Inc.
Speaker 1: And if you notice in Up, there's you know, the
Speaker 1: moving house and moves very similarly to how House Moving
Speaker 1: Castle moves in that film, the same thing with the
Speaker 1: doors inside Hell's Castle. They kind of lead to other
Speaker 1: portals in other worlds. That is basically the you know,
Speaker 1: that's where they got I feel like heavy inspiration for
Speaker 1: the Doors and Monsters, Inc. That lead to other kids houses.
Speaker 1: So you kind of see how all these like giant
Speaker 1: touchstones of pop culture kind of all influenced one another
Speaker 1: and carried those things. It's incredible. We have to take
Speaker 1: another really quick break and then we're gonna have Sabina
Speaker 1: talk to us about the Pixar Theory, which will blow
Speaker 1: your mind. Right after this and we are back, Sabina,
Speaker 1: would you like to talk to people about the Pixar theory? Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like the ground from It's always sunny, of
Speaker 1: like there's all these things that have you know, kind
Speaker 1: of consistently popped back up in Pixar films. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure how it started, but for me, I
Speaker 1: think I started hearing about it when people started saying
Speaker 1: that the Witch and Brave is Boo and that she's
Speaker 1: time traveling to find Sully. How did this? And it's
Speaker 1: the whole theory. The theory is created by Um John Negroni.
Speaker 1: He basically put all of the Pixar films into a
Speaker 1: massive timeline that he calls the Pixar Theory, and it
Speaker 1: spans I think sixty five million years, Like it starts
Speaker 1: at the Good Dinosaur essentially, and it makes its way
Speaker 1: onto like onward, but that basically at some point, like
Speaker 1: humans get wiped out, humans developed superpowers that like you know,
Speaker 1: in Up, when Months is trying to like create like
Speaker 1: you know, give dogs like sentients or voices or whatever, like,
Speaker 1: he stumbles upon something that leads to the Incredibles having superpowers.
Speaker 1: It's a lot um, but it's a really fun thing
Speaker 1: to dig into if you're into that thing. And Pixar
Speaker 1: hasn't entirely rejected this idea. UM. I thought that, like
Speaker 1: you know, it would kind of fall apart at movies
Speaker 1: like Coco and Inside Out, um, But actually, like one
Speaker 1: of the things I saw recently was if you noticed
Speaker 1: when someone is forgotten in the Land of the Dead
Speaker 1: and Coco, they shimmer in like the same color that
Speaker 1: the forgotten Memories and Inside Out shimmer when they're gone.
Speaker 1: And that's really upsetting to me. But but it's also
Speaker 1: you know, like you kind of see these little details
Speaker 1: that kind of like informed that, yeah, this is all
Speaker 1: like the same place. Um. Along those lines of thinking,
Speaker 1: one of my personal theories is that being Bong lives,
Speaker 1: and I think it would tie into the Pixar theory
Speaker 1: because I firmly believe that the Being Bong that we
Speaker 1: saw die in Inside Out or be forgotten an inside Out,
Speaker 1: it was just like a mental avatar for Riley's monster
Speaker 1: from Monsters Inc. I think that Being Bong is a
Speaker 1: comedian who you know, was probably collecting Riley's laughter, and
Speaker 1: he is probably somewhere at in Monsters at Work. Like
Speaker 1: I am fingers crossed that he shows up in that
Speaker 1: Pixar show of you know, the changeover from collecting children's
Speaker 1: screams to collecting their laughter, and that we see Being
Speaker 1: Bong return and be glorious and amazing and not dead.
Speaker 1: I do see something here. It says you remember Merida
Speaker 1: opening doors, and I'm saying that right right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you remember Merida opening doors in the Witch constantly disappearing.
Speaker 1: It's because those doors are made the same way from Monsters, Inc.
Speaker 1: They transport across time, and that's why Mereda couldn't find
Speaker 1: the Witch later in the movie. And then there was
Speaker 1: also obviously this little wood carving of Solely that you
Speaker 1: see for a brief second in the workshop. Now I
Speaker 1: appreciate this. I definitely think they all live in the
Speaker 1: same world. But I think that's just because Pixar and
Speaker 1: Disney in general loves to do Easter eggs, So I
Speaker 1: think that that's why you'll see like in Toy Story,
Speaker 1: You'll see in Cocoa, like some things from Toy Story,
Speaker 1: and you know, you'll see little Easter eggs throughout Disney. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like how some of them were like, oh, the cars,
Speaker 1: cars talk and have sentience because the emotions have moved
Speaker 1: into them. What it's it's crazy and there's like there's
Speaker 1: a whole machine human uprising, and like have they built
Speaker 1: out a timeline because it's it's a whole time. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: there's a whole book now, Like it's literally its own podcast. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the problem is the podcast that just breaks down the theory,
Speaker 1: which is basically like just picks our conspiracy theories, so
Speaker 1: it has its own universe conspiracy. I would say, I
Speaker 1: mean why not? And you know the cool thing is
Speaker 1: like Pixar didn't just you know, stick to Pixar. I mean,
Speaker 1: creative heads from Pixar were consulted to fine tune the
Speaker 1: script in the two thousand eleven live action filmed The Muppets. Uh.
Speaker 1: They helped with story development on the Jungle Book as
Speaker 1: well as provide suggestions for the films, like in credit sequences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that goes to show how, uh, there
Speaker 1: was a big storytelling shift from just retelling mythology that
Speaker 1: we've grown up with in those timeless self but to
Speaker 1: also just ask what we're experiencing now, Like these questions
Speaker 1: of does this story need to be told? What about
Speaker 1: this story will tell us and inform us about the
Speaker 1: life we're living in the life in the places that
Speaker 1: we want to go to. UM and then being able
Speaker 1: to go in and kind of like you know, infuse
Speaker 1: all these other things around them with this tenant is
Speaker 1: kind of I think what's made you know, the fabric
Speaker 1: of film and like animated films like Richer contributed to that.
Speaker 1: UM because like now you have I don't know any
Speaker 1: if you've experienced part of this, but like when you
Speaker 1: go into different rooms and get notes from like fellow creatives,
Speaker 1: like that became a big thing with Pixar. So Pixar
Speaker 1: Story Trust would go to Disney give critiques or ideas
Speaker 1: for those films, and then Disney people go to Pixar
Speaker 1: to screen their films and give story notes and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll become that. Yeah. So even though Ralph was at
Speaker 1: Walt Disney Animation, they still went to Pixar to show
Speaker 1: the executives there the movie and then get notes kind
Speaker 1: of like a focus group. Uh. And then they would
Speaker 1: cut scenes which I haven't seen and want to see,
Speaker 1: maybe it's in the extra things or whatever, but Pixar
Speaker 1: would be like, now, go ahead and cut this, and uh.
Speaker 1: So that still does happen even though they're technically separate,
Speaker 1: they are separate animation studios. Um. So another thing that
Speaker 1: we left out was that both former and current uh
Speaker 1: Pixar folks, both former and current Pixar animators, were recruited
Speaker 1: for traditional hand drawn animated sequence for the film Mary
Speaker 1: Poppins Returns. I also know that isn't um. Oh no,
Speaker 1: that's not Pixar. I was about to say, Howard um
Speaker 1: the guys that did, Uh, isn't there Brad Burt, No,
Speaker 1: it is picked Brad Bird is working on something right
Speaker 1: now right, that's that's um live action and animation. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's he's master and he did, you know, with
Speaker 1: Mission Impossible film and did a tomorrow Land which was Disney,
Speaker 1: which also kind of like brought him and like damon
Speaker 1: Linda after other which ironically, I recently watched Watchman and
Speaker 1: there is a thing in Tomorrowland, like a like a
Speaker 1: memory sort of or but that the main character goes
Speaker 1: to that found new life in Watchman, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh Tomorrowland reference, uh because Linda lof Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he and lindelof like right stuff together. They've done tomar
Speaker 1: Land and I can not remember what the thing he
Speaker 1: is working on right now. Is hinted at it just
Speaker 1: a tiny bit, but I do think it's like a
Speaker 1: combination of both of those. Pixar representatives have also assisted
Speaker 1: in the English localization of Studio Ghibli films, mainly those
Speaker 1: from Hyao Miyazaki, and like Sabina was saying, they developed
Speaker 1: a live action hidden camera reality show titled Pixar in
Speaker 1: Real Life for Disney Plus. So you can watch that
Speaker 1: out on Disney Plus right now. So Pixar in Your
Speaker 1: Life is basically taking characters from Pixar movies and just
Speaker 1: throwing them in like real life environments for strangers to
Speaker 1: stumble upon. People have stumbled upon, like the emotional dashboard.
Speaker 1: They've stumbled across dash from The Incredibles and no one
Speaker 1: actually really got me, like some of some of them
Speaker 1: were kind of like, Okay, this is cute. But the
Speaker 1: Dash one, they had a kid at a block corner
Speaker 1: like adults and be like, hey, can you time me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run around this block in five seconds? And
Speaker 1: they would time him and he would run one direction
Speaker 1: and then he would just appear magically from the other
Speaker 1: direction and be like, oh, how many seconds was that?
Speaker 1: And they'd be like, oh, it's nine seconds. But they'd
Speaker 1: also be like, how did this child just get around
Speaker 1: this entire block in nine seconds? Um? But it was
Speaker 1: identical twins spoiler alert that we're pretending to be the
Speaker 1: character and it's adorable. Well, like you said, there's entire
Speaker 1: podcast on Pixar because there's so many films. Their latest film,
Speaker 1: by the way, which we mentioned, is Onward, So that's
Speaker 1: the last Pixar film to come out. It dropped March
Speaker 1: and then kind of didn't really get to be in
Speaker 1: theaters because of the pandemic, so they moved it to
Speaker 1: Disney Plus pretty quickly. I was shocked at how touched
Speaker 1: I was by this film. I really didn't think I
Speaker 1: would be, but they did it. They have a way
Speaker 1: of getting you with parental They know that we all
Speaker 1: have parental issues in our lives and they just really
Speaker 1: know how to capitalize on that. Um, if you have
Speaker 1: you seen Onward not yet, Oh you should watch it.
Speaker 1: If you have, if you're like busy tonight or tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you should watch it and then get back to us.
Speaker 1: I think you would like it super super down. Oh
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about the big thing. The moments that
Speaker 1: picked the movies have made us cry every moment. Every moment. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: we will give a shout out to Randy Newman, who
Speaker 1: I think set the stage for Toy Story. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think Toy Story would be the same without
Speaker 1: Randy Newman. Just a lot of iconic UH songs. But
Speaker 1: also he did the music for Cars we have to
Speaker 1: talk about. Michael Chino did the music for The Incredibles,
Speaker 1: also rad a Tui but contrected by Brad Bird and Up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they all at the stage, like with Michael j.
Speaker 1: Keino's music for for Up and Co and Coco. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we've talked about this on other episodes, but Brad
Speaker 1: Bird has been very um adamant that these are animated films,
Speaker 1: they're not kids films, and so I think he really
Speaker 1: doesn't like when people tweet at him about like, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't say that you make kids films, and he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't. I make animated films, and so they're family
Speaker 1: films for sure, but it should be for every member
Speaker 1: of the family. And I do think that they do
Speaker 1: that great. Like I was saying, there were jokes that
Speaker 1: my parents got in toy story that I didn't understand
Speaker 1: until I was older. It still was very much like
Speaker 1: you know, I had a woody doll, my brother had
Speaker 1: a buzz light ear, so it was still something that
Speaker 1: we latched onto, but also that adults could enjoy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you know, And I think that's I think
Speaker 1: we've talked about this song one of our many episodes.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of like the makings of a good
Speaker 1: uh film is a good I guess animated film is it?
Speaker 1: Should everyone should like it. I think really focusing on
Speaker 1: that word family film, like family isn't just the kids.
Speaker 1: Family is the parents and all that. And that's the difference.
Speaker 1: You know, We'll watch a film uh and it'll and
Speaker 1: I would classify it as a quote unquote kids film
Speaker 1: because I'm like, yeah, I mean, I get why kids
Speaker 1: would enjoy this, but for me net And then you'll
Speaker 1: watch a film and you're like, oh, no, Naomi can
Speaker 1: watch this, but I can want Even if Naomi wasn't here,
Speaker 1: I'd be watching this, which is a lot of not
Speaker 1: a lot. I'd say every Pixar, even cars. That's always
Speaker 1: the discussion whenever. It's so funny. I've meant to mention
Speaker 1: this earlier, but when the discussion of Pixar movies come up,
Speaker 1: they always say, even cars. I don't know what it
Speaker 1: is about cars, but people do not really enjoy it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's about community too though, because it's you know,
Speaker 1: let McQueen was all about like being the winner and
Speaker 1: like being number one or whatever, and he had to
Speaker 1: be humbled down to embrace the community around him that
Speaker 1: would uplift him to succeed again. And like how the
Speaker 1: people around you are like the most important. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: cars is my favorite cars. I think that we did it.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about we can't get into all
Speaker 1: twenty two movies, but we at least said their names.
Speaker 1: Most of them are actually sequels. As I'm looking through this,
Speaker 1: a good portion of this makeup is this, like you know,
Speaker 1: cars three toy Story three, four Monsters at the second
Speaker 1: Monster Zinc Like they have a lot of sequels in here,
Speaker 1: Finding Dory going along with Finding Nemo, so Incredibles to uh,
Speaker 1: they definitely have that in the bank, making things that
Speaker 1: they're able to make for a decade. You know. The
Speaker 1: first Toy Story came out and the last Toy Story,
Speaker 1: which I can guarantee will not be the last last
Speaker 1: even if they think that it is, um, but Toy
Speaker 1: Story four came out in twenty nineteen, so yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that is ah, that is a long run. Yeah, dude.
Speaker 1: As we were talking about scenes that made you cry
Speaker 1: with Toy Story four, when I knew that they were
Speaker 1: retiring these characters, I was just like also fascinating because
Speaker 1: it was the same year that this final Star Wars
Speaker 1: came out and they were like, we're retiring these characters.
Speaker 1: You'll never see them again, um. And so when I
Speaker 1: was watching Toy Story four, I was like, this is chill.
Speaker 1: I won't cry until the end. I know they're going
Speaker 1: to be gone. In the end, something's gonna happen, they're
Speaker 1: gonna send us off, but I won't cry until the end.
Speaker 1: The first five minutes of Toy Story for why and
Speaker 1: how dare you? Um? I was just like, no, they
Speaker 1: got me the first how could they did it again?
Speaker 1: They did it again. I'll give I don't want to
Speaker 1: give anything away. But it was between Woody and bo Peep.
Speaker 1: It was a moment between bo Peep and Woody and
Speaker 1: I was like, why did you do this? There was
Speaker 1: it was that was so brutal. It's so weird because
Speaker 1: like some of these fixtre movies recently are kind of
Speaker 1: way too real, because you know, that was like say
Speaker 1: goodbye to your old friends and then you know, obviously
Speaker 1: Coco was like how to say goodbye to your loved
Speaker 1: ones and deal with death not being a final resting place.
Speaker 1: They could you know, you will see them on the
Speaker 1: other side. And then they had to drop the trailer
Speaker 1: for slul like you always you're possibly incoming death. I'm
Speaker 1: like mine, I don't know if I'm ready for this movie.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to come out. I think last week.
Speaker 1: Oh um, I forgot to say check out my friend
Speaker 1: Roy Wood Jr. Starring and soul. Um. He's just so
Speaker 1: roy for those that Jamie Fox is playing the lead
Speaker 1: and soul but the character looks exactly like Roywood. Jr.
Speaker 1: And so he's just been like running along with that joke. Um,
Speaker 1: so check it out. I hope that he is at
Speaker 1: the premiere. At least I think you should be invited
Speaker 1: to the Yeah, when they borrowed his face, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like you gotta at least get an invite. Well,
Speaker 1: a bunch of the animators follow him too, so I
Speaker 1: want to be like get that, get that picks our money?
Speaker 1: Roy Um. Sabina, where can everyone find you? Everyone can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at Sabina has no R. I
Speaker 1: do many things. I'm a filmmaker and I am a
Speaker 1: story coordinator for the Something Scary podcast and channel on YouTube,
Speaker 1: and that's that we are snarl Old. I write the
Speaker 1: spooky things for everyone, um and yeah, like and anything
Speaker 1: I do will be on that platform. And my Instagram
Speaker 1: is at that Lady Graves, that Lady Graves. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: at Ms Danny Fernandez and all the things. Yes, next
Speaker 1: week will be our last episode, but don't worry. We
Speaker 1: have a bunch of things planned and we'll be talking
Speaker 1: to some great people and having a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So just remember keep it fun. You know, we're not dying.
Speaker 1: We're not going to end Up in soul An Inside Out.
Speaker 1: This isn't the first ten minutes of up or toy
Speaker 1: Story for literally any of those films or finding Nemo.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, Iffe, what about you? Yeah yeah, if you wait, Twitter, Instagram,
Speaker 1: if he's on twitch, you know, uh yeah, just come
Speaker 1: see me on Twitch. We'll be playing video games, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: Thank you again, super producer Joel for popping in and
Speaker 1: uh and for working with us, Zach mckebar, engineer Jacquies
Speaker 1: Neil who's been doing of the editing. And we will
Speaker 1: catch you next week for our final week. Until then,
Speaker 1: stay nerdy, Stay nerdy, m asstssssss