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Re: How Pony is Formed: Production and Business Thread

Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:39 am

Wayoshi wrote:I feel one of two issues almost has to occur:

-The writers most qualified to run the show get less episodes than they should
-The new writers get just 1-2 eps that are more likely to feel out of place since they're well outnumbered by the qualified writers


Who's to say that the new writers aren't qualified? They have to start somewhere. And they do have experience in writing other shows.

Writers come and go. The FiM people will eventually get better job offers on other shows and leave. They can't rely on the same five or so writers forever.

Again, I point to Corey Powell, who hit two home runs in a row despite coming three seasons in.
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Postby agradify (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:21 am

Wayoshi wrote:I feel one of two issues almost has to occur:

-The writers most qualified to run the show get less episodes than they should
-The new writers get just 1-2 eps that are more likely to feel out of place since they're well outnumbered by the qualified writers

-The new writers fit snugly in with the old guard and the quality is roughly consistent across all of them.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:31 am

I feel like Powell was a big exception, and she had some experience writing similar-ish shows. Not seeing that here.

I'll stop nitpicking over this to death, but it does make me sad. Part of GF's brilliance is Hirsch keeping everything consistent and overarching, and while pony isn't that type of show, it could use some more consistency in the character interpretations episode to episode. We'll probably lose more of that this season.
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Postby Shadowman (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:18 am

WTF?!?! Removing the best writer we had and add 4 completely new writers to the show? Have Meghan and Jayson lost their minds?! WTF WERE THEY THINKING?!
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Postby Tears (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:37 am

Wayoshi wrote:I feel like Powell was a big exception, and she had some experience writing similar-ish shows. Not seeing that here.

I'll stop nitpicking over this to death, but it does make me sad. Part of GF's brilliance is Hirsch keeping everything consistent and overarching, and while pony isn't that type of show, it could use some more consistency in the character interpretations episode to episode. We'll probably lose more of that this season.


But GF's just in season one though still, right? I'm sure there'll be some turnover between members of the writing team between seasons.

From looking at writing credits on animated shows, including golden age Simpsons, it seems like turnover is pretty high, so I think it's pretty great that pretty much everyone involved in S1 is either still writing, or rotating in and out depending on scheduling. I'm assuming Larson's still involved though.

Williams was added in S2 and Powell in S3... I feel like it would be odder if a show got to its fourth season with only two new writers added to the team since its inception.
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Postby Mordja (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:18 pm

Shadowman wrote:WTF?!?! Removing the best writer we had and add 4 completely new writers to the show? Have Meghan and Jayson lost their minds?! WTF WERE THEY THINKING?!

Calm the fuck down and don't make this into some stupid "McCarthy is fuining my show!" :notthisshitagain:

All of the writers are freelancers and go where the money's good. If Larson isn't, in fact, part of the season 4 writing team then it's likely because he's working on something more lucrative, or that will further his career. And if he actually is absent due to a hiring decision, you can rest assured that it didn't come from those two.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:20 pm

Shadowman wrote:WTF?!?! Removing the best writer we had and add 4 completely new writers to the show? Have Meghan and Jayson lost their minds?! WTF WERE THEY THINKING?!


:gotcha: Sorry, but from what Larson told me, FiM does not have staff writers. They don't have writers working exclusively for one studio/show. FiM operates under freelancers, people who go from one show to another, writing maybe one, or two, or three eps before moving onto other shows.

I'm not sure if McCarthy can 'fire' these freelancers and I doubt she would remove writers. This isn't a matter of favorite writers, it's a matter of stories. Which story should be made into an episode? Not which writers should stay on the show.

With the show's rising popularity, obviously there's going to be new writers who want to pitch a story of theirs.

Maybe Larson's busy with his movie project. Maybe he's short on ideas (which is every writer's nightmare) since you do hear a lot of ideas being shot down in the writer meetings. Or maybe there's so much more better stories from the other vets and new writers that Larson couldn't squeeze in his in this season. Or maybe he's just done with :ponydrugs:

So yeah, I wouldn't blame McCarthy if Larson doesn't return. He's had a good run on FiM for 3 seasons. I think he's the most prolific writer who hasn't screwed up a single episode for me. They're not my favorites but they're usually consistently great and if MMC was his last episode, then he ended with a bang
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Postby doodlesplat (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:38 pm

Not only are the writers freelance and not permanently attached to the production, the story ideas are not permanently attached to any writers either. Unless I've been imagining it wrong the whole time, the story ideas are come up with and decided upon after all the freelance writers for that story meeting are already hired. The story ideas that are shot down are simply not written into scripts; the writers themselves are not shot down.

It goes something like:
Show production: Hey, writer, want to write some episodes for next season?
Freelance writer: Let me check my schedule. Yes okay I'll do it.
Show production: Okay great, you're hired. The story meeting / writer summit where we come up with story ideas for the season is going to be at this date and time. See you there!
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Postby agradify (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:50 pm

Shadowman wrote:WTF?!?! Removing the best writer we had and add 4 completely new writers to the show? Have Meghan and Jayson lost their minds?! WTF WERE THEY THINKING?!

They actually hate the show and are actively trying to sabotage it. Maybe it will even get cancelled! :excite:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:16 pm

Also, cartoon writers don't just bring their personal unique styles and attitudes to every new project. It's not like you can identify an Amy Keating Rogers script from a mile away when you're watching a Samurai Jack or Powerpuff Girls or Care Bears episode.

Adapting their writing style to the universe of the show they're working on, speaking accurately in the voice of the characters and speaking the right dramatic language and delivering jokes at the right pace, is their job. They have to know better than anyone else what makes a given show's texture. If they can't write a "pony" script, they won't have been hired in the first place. I'm inclined to think Williams is the outlier here, not Powell. At least not until we see more data points.

As for people working on cynical/adult shows in the past, remember (as we recently found out) that Polsky specifically chose to work on Pony because he wanted a change in direction after his irreverent South Park type writing career had pigeonholed him into a place he wasn't feeling comfortable being post-9/11.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:18 pm

Headless Horse wrote:As for people working on cynical/adult shows in the past, remember (as we recently found out) that Polsky specifically chose to work on Pony because he wanted a change in direction after his irreverent South Park type writing career had pigeonholed him into a place he wasn't feeling comfortable being post-9/11.

Huh, that's the first I've heard of this. Where did he say this?
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Postby Timber72 (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:22 pm

Wayoshi wrote:I feel one of two issues almost has to occur:

-The writers most qualified to run the show get less episodes than they should
-The new writers get just 1-2 eps that are more likely to feel out of place since they're well outnumbered by the qualified writers


And then you get vet. writers making tons of duds throughout s1-3 and the new writer hit a home run. Anything can happen. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:27 pm

Mr. Big wrote:Huh, that's the first I've heard of this. Where did he say this?


It was in this: http://www.roundstable.com/2013/06/27/p ... otcon-2013 (under the "Convention Guests" section).
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:41 pm

That's interesting. Thanks.

And yeah, like others said, turnovers of writers in cartoons is common in each new season, and FiM is no exception.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:42 pm

This guy..I dunno anymore. https://twitter.com/rblueboy777/status/ ... 4819792896


Anywho back on topic. Interesting lil bit o info about Polskey, I don't blame him at all for wanting to works on something more positive.

And yeah overall still really excited for S4! :allears:
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:57 pm



The first rule of CR is you don't talk about CR. The second rule of CR is you don't link to CR. The third rule of CR is you don't take CR seriously. Look at the wallpaper on his Twitter account. If he applied the impossible standards he now holds for FiM to most of the cartoons there he would hate them. Rocko's Modern Life and Doug sure wouldn't pass muster. The only things you need to know about him is that Faust is his god, the rest of the crew are vandals, and he pans episodes everyone agrees are good. He represents nothing except his vendetta.

SoundMonkey44 wrote:And yeah overall still really excited for S4! :allears:


Yeah, I don't know about all the worrying going on lately. Some fret that season 4 is being rushed or something, others about the inexperienced writers, and I wonder if this was always going on but we're only paying close attention now. Just how troubled and inexperienced was season 1?

I mean, Hasbro knows this is the darn lynchpin of their Hub experiment, there must be serious quality controls in place by now, right?

Actual question: How does one "interview" a writer for a show? Especially an inexperienced one?
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:53 pm


He seems to have a lot of credits on boys' shows. Interesting.

Meanwhile, it looks like Ed Valentine did some work for Sesame Street, which is more interesting to me than his work on Fairly OddParents.
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Postby Shadowman (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:43 pm



I'm simply disgusted. I hate that Chad Rocco and people that see Lauren Faust= God or Jesus. CR is pratically Lauren's Gollum, he make me sick for how much he's idiot.

Anyway....https://twitter.com/M_A_Larson

Confirmed.... Larson left for the S4.... now what?
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:24 pm

Yeah, I figured that Larson had to leave FiM to work on his book.

Oh well :pinkieshrug:
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Postby BartonFink (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:31 pm

Cartoon series in general tend to have revolving writers, writing anything off now is hugely prematue - we're just a bit more into the writers we've seen so far (because they've been good!), so it feels all :flail:



That being said, no Larson is a shame. Hope he can follow up when/if there's a season five. :saddash:
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Postby Nissl (?) » Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:23 pm

I was wondering how he was managing to do both his book and a movie and work on the show. I guess now we have our answer.

Glad to see that much of the pony writing staff is still on good terms with Faust & co., as he mentioned planning to work on Wander Over Yonder. His Twitter answers also suggest that they haven't secretly forged ahead with season 5, and that nobody knows for sure whether they'll be renewed at this point.

Hope his movie actually comes out eventually; I'll check it out if it gets even halfway decent reviews.

The OP has been updated with all of the latest staff info.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:05 am

[quote="[url=http://www.roundstable.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=454840#p454840]Nissl[/

Glad to see that much of the pony writing staff is still on good terms with Faust & co., as he mentioned planning to work on Wander Over Yonder. His Twitter answers also suggest that they haven't secretly forged ahead with season 5, and that nobody knows for sure whether they'll be renewed at this point.

Hope his movie actually comes out eventually; I'll check it out if it gets even halfway decent reviews.

The OP has been updated with all of the latest staff info.[/quote]


At this point I'm going to hazard to guess they won't start working on season 5, if there is a season 5 till halfway through season 4s run, starting to wander if Hasbro has decided to play the short season long season game if they do want the show to be the Hubs long runner, I wouldn't put it past them alternating between 13 & 26 episode seasons until they decide to wrap things up.

Or the mere fact they are just now wrapping up work on S4 may want to give the team room to breath before they start workiing em again. Wouldn't be a bad idea I guess.

Either way considering season 4 hasn't even aired yet it'll probably be some time before Hasbro & DHX start dropping hints on weather there will be a season 5 or not. Maybe around next March. :pinkieshrug:


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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:06 am

BartonFink wrote:Cartoon series in general tend to have revolving writers, writing anything off now is hugely premature - we're just a bit more into the writers we've seen so far (because they've been good!), so it feels all :flail:


Wait, are bronies really :flail: -ing and "writing things off" out there? I've been too busy to take the fandom's temperature today.

Man, did I ever care about or notice the writers on Star Trek or Teen Titans (to pick just two) this way?
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Postby EquestriaGuy (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:45 am

Here's some circumstantial proof of S5.

Claire Corlett was vacationing in Europe while they were recording the finale. Would they really leave the CMC out of the series finale? I seriously doubt it.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:48 am

^ - Unless it did turn out to be the last episode ever, but the writers didn't know it at the time (expecting it to be renewed), so they wrote it as if it's another episode. Not all shows have a "finale" final episode.
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Postby InsertAuthorHere (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:53 am



I already responded to that tweet (mostly because Disney really is treating Gravity Falls like crap and will probably do the same for Faust's new project), but yeah, CR's kind of gone off the deep end. And he apparently blames me for it. Which is admittedly somewhat true, but I was just pointing out how much of an ass he was being and that he needed to calm the hell down. I don't like that some of the nuttier fans are still going at him (especially since the bulk of his rage has dimmed), but he's still an ass and can't quite figure out that it's his attitude, not his opinion, that is turning people away from him.

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Wait, are bronies really :flail: -ing and "writing things off" out there? I've been too busy to take the fandom's temperature today.

Man, did I ever care about or notice the writers on Star Trek or Teen Titans (to pick just two) this way?


It's different with ponies because two different writers can have two radically different interpretations of the same characters and setting. The other two shows you mentioned typically didn't have that problem.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:56 am

EquestriaGuy wrote:Here's some circumstantial proof of S5.

Claire Corlett was vacationing in Europe while they were recording the finale. Would they really leave the CMC out of the series finale? I seriously doubt it.

None of them had any lines in the S3 finale. Assuming that was originally developed as if it were to be the end of the series, it's something to consider.
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Postby Lorce (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:02 am

EquestriaGuy wrote:Here's some circumstantial proof of S5.

Claire Corlett was vacationing in Europe while they were recording the finale. Would they really leave the CMC out of the series finale? I seriously doubt it.

Well, i do hope that's the case, but i wouldn't read that much into it. Pretty sure VAs said a few times they're not always there for the recordings (scheduling conflicts etc) and they give their lines at a later date if they miss one. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:25 am

InsertAuthorHere wrote:It's different with ponies because two different writers can have two radically different interpretations of the same characters and setting. The other two shows you mentioned typically didn't have that problem.

That applies to alot of cartoons, though. I noticed that, in shows that has multiple directors/writers, you can tell apart who did what. Some more noticeable than others, like "Flapjack"; an episode storyboarded by Pen Ward is animated differently than Alex Hirsch's.

If a cartoon is animated in-house and not outsourced, you can even tell apart who ANIMATED what scenes, although you have to have keen eye for that, and it generally only works if the animation is drawn instead of computer generated.
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Postby Cazador del Pantano (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:30 am

Passport Clean wrote:
Wait, are bronies really :flail: -ing and "writing things off" out there? I've been too busy to take the fandom's temperature today.

Man, did I ever care about or notice the writers on Star Trek or Teen Titans (to pick just two) this way?

:pinkieshrug: Here's the reddit thread. It's pretty chill over there.

And this isn't like he got fired or anything. He didn't work on S4 because the rights for his book got bought up and is going to be turned into a movie.
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Postby Chaos Sonic (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:28 am

Shadowman wrote:Confirmed.... Larson left for the S4.... now what?

Now we have a season without Larson. :pinkieshrug: He says he wants to come back for S5 if there is one, so it's no big deal. I mean, I'll miss having episodes from him this season, but we have a lot more Pony this season, which is great. :awesomedash:
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:52 am

InsertAuthorHere wrote:It's different with ponies because two different writers can have two radically different interpretations of the same characters and setting. The other two shows you mentioned typically didn't have that problem.


I would argue that Star Trek: The Next Generation (and to a lesser extend DS9) was actually in a position very similar to FiM. Its greatest strength was its cast and the chemistry of the characters they played. I don't think I really noticed the writer churn back then, although I was passably conversant about certain writers when I needed to be.

I think this (writer dissection) might be the depth of analysis that starts to undermine our enjoyment of a show instead of enhancing it. Perhaps when I watch season 4 I'll try not to notice the writing credit and see how that feels.

Yeah, Larson not being around this time does kind of bite, but we've got AKR and Fullerton* back so I'm not going to fret much.

* Although she does have the weird distinction of having written my favorite episode (Suited For Success) and one of the few I intensely dislike (Baby Cakes).
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:09 pm

DS9 I would say is a very lesser extent since the longer it went on, the tighter it got insofar as continuity and so on.

Basically Ronald Moore is awesome, although he definitely should not due another show about plans until he knows exactly what the plan is. Simply saying THERES A PLAN :twonk: and then realizing OOPS I DONT KNOW WHAT THE PLAN IS LETS INVENT ONE :twonk: results in a weak final season!
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:24 pm

I bet he was counting on it being cancelled prematurely. :smirk:
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Postby Timber72 (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:35 pm

Passport Clean wrote:I think this (writer dissection) might be the depth of analysis that starts to undermine our enjoyment of a show instead of enhancing it. Perhaps when I watch season 4 I'll try not to notice the writing credit and see how that feels.


This is what I do, and I think it honestly does help out. Out of all the super analyzing we do here, talking about writers is the one that still just baffles me due to the inconsistencies of their writing quality/style. The only time I ever pay attention to the writers or even know who they are is when it gets brought up here (like now) in terms of something big, and I go see on wiki if they wrote the episodes I hate or not.

Surprisingly, the big disaster dud episodes are written by all different people, so I don't even bother holding them against anyone. Everyone can make a stinker.
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Postby Nissl (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:55 pm

You guys should avoid looking up our old "let's figure out those writers" thread, I guess. One reason I like to analyze by writer is because I'm interested to see if there are any consistent trends in their writing over time. Another is because it informs my thinking regarding issues with an episode. So many times I see people talk about how a season is going in general and then cite specific strengths and weaknesses that are often tied to writers and carry across seasons.

Where it gets unproductive is when people spend pages talking about the writer before ever seeing the episode.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:18 pm

Just to have it in one place, the season 4 writers that are confirmed are:

Meghan McCarthy
Dave Polsky
Amy Keating Rogers
Core Powell
Charlotte Fullerton
Merriwether Williams
Betsy McGowan
Natasha Levinger
Josh Haber
Scott Sonnenberg
Ed Valentine

Of the 11, only four were there in season 1 (which had 8 writers): McCarthy, Polsky, Keating Rogers, and Fullerton. Even then, Fullerton barely counts because she only did one episode with another (new) writer, and chances are she won't return for season 5.

So yeah, we have gotten to the point that majority of the season 1 writers are no longer on the show.

Just to recap:

Season 1: Eight writers

Season 2: Six writers
1 new (Merriwether Williams)
3 departing (Faust, Polsky, Savino)

Season 3: Seven writers
2 new (Corey Powell, Teddy Antonio)
2 departing (Charlotte Fullerton, Amy Keating Rogers)
1 returning (Dave Polsky)

Season 4: Eleven writers
5 new (McGowan, Levinger, Haver, Sonnenberg, Valentine)
2 departing (M.A. Larson, Teddy Antonio)
2 returning (Charlotte Fullerton, Amy Keating Rogers)
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:17 am

Although, in all honesty, does Teddy really count as a "writer" in the usual sense?
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:20 am

He got a screen credit. That's good enough for me. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:28 am

Personally I think what matters most is just staying true to the spirit of the show, if the writers be it 4 or 12, old or new, can do that. That's all that matters in the end, and yeah not like we went out of our way to see who wrote what episode of a cartoon or dub script of an anime for everything we watched when we were kids. So while ill always be interested to see who's writing for ponies. Ill care more about the actual content of the episode.

As for S4 having so many writers, my guess that as the show has gained more popularity over the years, more writers wanna take a whack at it.

Shame no ones convinced Rebbeca Sugar or Gennedy Tartstokovy to take a crack at it yet. I'd love to see either of them do an episode. :awesomedash: :allears:
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