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Speaker 1: Hi there. My name is Seth McElroy and I'm with publishing.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for Clifton. That's that's hey, Hey Clifton. You

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Speaker 1: sent us a copy of a children's book called The

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Speaker 1: Puppy and and a lot of us here at the

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Speaker 1: publishing company fell in love with it. Are you serious?

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Speaker 1: I am? Congratulations, man, I think we want to publish it. Oh. Man,

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Speaker 1: you know I've been waiting. I've been waiting for this forever. Well,

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Speaker 1: we think it could be a big hit. There is

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Speaker 1: one thing I wanted to talk with you about, though.

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Speaker 1: What's that? Well, if there is any way to put

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Speaker 1: a little more death into it, that would be great.

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Speaker 1: Did you say death? No? I said death? D E

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Speaker 1: A T H Yes, like yes? Like are you talking

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Speaker 1: about like as as him being killed? Yeah, that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. We do a lot of customer

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Speaker 1: tracking here at our company, and the thought of literary

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Speaker 1: death has been trending up big time. With children ages

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Speaker 1: four to seven. So if we could get some more

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Speaker 1: death in your story, I think it'd be golden. I don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. I mean, this is this is

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Speaker 1: a fairy tale children's book I'm going to put here.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. You have a puppy in

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Speaker 1: your story, right, yes, Well at the end when you

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Speaker 1: show him rolling around in the grass, embarking and stuff. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: we would have him do the same thing, just dangerously

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Speaker 1: close to an edge of a cliff. No way am

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Speaker 1: I gonna make it. This is a I mean a

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Speaker 1: children's book. I mean, there's just no way I want

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Speaker 1: to make a puppy roll off a cliff. Are you crazy?

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Speaker 1: I understand, I understand your concern, but we wouldn't show

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Speaker 1: anything graphic. It just puts the thought in your head like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, is this puppy gonna die or will

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Speaker 1: he live? And that's powerful stuff. You can't deny that.

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Speaker 1: What kind of sick thing is this? I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: twisting the whole tale. This is supposed to be a

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Speaker 1: You know, we don't want to change the essence of

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Speaker 1: your book. We just want to add a little bit

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Speaker 1: of death to it. This is a children's book. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're willing to work with you on this. Now. You

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Speaker 1: know there's that one part of your book where the

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Speaker 1: puppy meets a bear on a path. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 1: that part, but you know I don't want him to die. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've got a few ideas. Let me just brainstorm with

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Speaker 1: you for a second. Let's just say, in the background,

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Speaker 1: you see like a runaway bus coming at them. What

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Speaker 1: the are you talking about? You know, I do not

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Speaker 1: want any animals dying. This is a children's book, for

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Speaker 1: God's sake. Well, you won't actually see the animals dying,

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Speaker 1: but it just puts the thought in your head. It's

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Speaker 1: mysterious and intrigue. It's a crazy man. I you know

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Speaker 1: I did us for the right reasons, and you guys

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Speaker 1: are twisted. I mean, what if I'm sorry to stop

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Speaker 1: you again, but I'm just thinking here, what if the

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Speaker 1: bear and the puppy meet on that path and then

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Speaker 1: there's one picture of the bear just about to maul

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Speaker 1: the puppy. That's it, man, I'm done. I'm not working

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Speaker 1: with you. Well, sir, but we really liked your story.

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Speaker 1: Why wantn't you want to work with us? We are

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Speaker 1: a large publisher because you want all the animals and

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Speaker 1: my story to die. That's why they don't have to die?

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Speaker 1: Can they Maybe they can just get seriously injured? Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, Oh what could have morbid? You know? I

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Speaker 1: want out, man, I'm up done, Man, I'm not working

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Speaker 1: with you. You can't be done because this is actually

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Speaker 1: a prank phone call? Are you what? This is actually

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Speaker 1: Jewel from Brook and Jewel in the morning doing a

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Speaker 1: phone tap on you. Oh my lord, your wife Patrise

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Speaker 1: set you up. Oh god, she said, you submitted a

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Speaker 1: kid's book to a bunch of publishers and want to

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Speaker 1: me to mess with you. She did. Yeah, I actually

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Speaker 1: read your whole book in order to get ready to

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Speaker 1: hear this phone call. Did ad you like my book?

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Speaker 1: I liked it a lot. I just think it needs

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Speaker 1: like a little bit more depth, just like a scouch

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Speaker 1: A little pinch of death. Week up every morning with

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Speaker 1: Jubal phone taps weekday mornings. On the twenties, ninety two

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Speaker 1: point five