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Hey big guy.
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Tandoy rum hamster dispenser.
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Dig it.
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Great call.
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One thing, uh, you've been tapping on that for about 20 minutes now.
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Uh, might be time to pump the brakes.
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Or, you know, at least kind of let me have it.
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Welcome to the Tiki Go Go Tiny Tiki Talk Show.
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I'm your host, Trevor Kelly.
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Uh, before we get to today's guest, I want to give a shout out to Tiki Tony.
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Thanks to his kindness, I am now the proud owner of Dongoroa.
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That's right.
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This little guy has not been put to use yet.
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I am saving myself for Tiki Agogo 2027.
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But that kickoff ceremony is gonna be ridonculous.
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So, thanks for that, Tony.
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I circumcise, that's interesting.
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Uh let's get into it.
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Our guest today has done some amazing artwork for everyone from Disney to Warner Brothers to Victoria's Secret.
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Odds are if you're in a tiki bar, you're gonna spot someone wearing one of its killer pieces of clothing.
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Let's bring out the fantastic Jeff Granito.
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Uh, well, thanks for joining.
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Welcome.
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Thank you.
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First off, before we start, uh, I have to uh every time I see you, I think I give you the same compliment.
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Uh, your glasses game is just always strong.
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Oh, thank you.
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You know what?
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I'm gonna be honest.
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I feel like I need to like find some a new one.
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I'm kind of getting I'm kind of getting tired of these ones.
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I'm looking for a new one, yeah.
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May I recommend.
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Uh gosh, are you are you a glasses salesman person now?
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This is this is actually the whole ruse of the show.
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I get a cut, I get a cut on Z-Lul.
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Very nice.
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The Rubens, always my favorite.
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Nice.
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I like those.
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I don't know if my face is too round for those, though.
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I think you could pull it off.
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Uh well, thanks for doing this.
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Love the the background.
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Slightly distracted by the uh the uh the statue behind you, but uh I'll work through it.
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No, this is not a safe for work environment.
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Uh no, it's it's totally fine.
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No, reminds me of my honeymoon.
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Uh wow.
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What can you say?
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Enough said.
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Uh I guess a question I had out the gate is did you make it down to Florida a lot?
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In-laws are from Florida, got married in Florida.
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Oh.
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Um they moved since, but I've spent a fair deal of time in Florida.
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My son was in Florida for two one year.
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He was in Florida.
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So I I love Florida.
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So if I whenever I can get out there, I'm going.
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So this is exciting.
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I'm excited to go.
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Oh, so you you're you're making it out to Tiki.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Amazing.
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Do you hit any of the uh the parks when you're out there?
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Let's just put this way.
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I'll go to Animal Kingdom or Epcot, maybe.
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There you go.
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Animal Kingdom, one of the best.
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It's awesome.
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I love that lounge area.
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I could just go to that lounge area, the adventures lounge.
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I don't know what it's called.
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Oh, yeah.
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Go on the the one ride with the Yeti.
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Oh, okay.
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Do the animal ride and then go to the lounge.
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That's all I need to do.
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The Yeti ride, uh, it took me out almost at Animal Kingdom.
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I didn't like I'm such a baby when it comes to that.
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The second I turn 35, the equilibrium just you know what?
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Me too.
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And I are we on are we taping right now?
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Yeah, we are.
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Okay, well, might as well tell you.
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When I on my 30 something birthday, we went to uh SeaWorld to go to celebrate my birthday.
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You know what took me out?
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Abby's Sea Star Spin.
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What is this?
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It's like it's the kid ride.
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I was with my kids who are small, they wanted to go on like the teacups type ride, and that was when I decided that I can't do rides anymore.
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And so I was puking all the rest of the day because of Abby.
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You know, Abby's the Sesame Street character, Abby's is what took me out.
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That's fair.
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Uh speaking of puking all day, you ever done the uh the drinking around the world at Epcot?
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We did a little bit when last time I was there for Epcot uh festival, we did a little drinking, which was fun.
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Yeah, so that that might be interesting, not around the world.
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I can't do around the world.
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No, that's crazy.
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No, but I could do, you know, I'll eat too.
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I'll get the pop the caramel popcorn in Germany, okay, ice cream in Paris, and then mixed drinks and sweets and drinks.
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That's uh that's a solid game plan.
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Yeah, maybe I'll do that.
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I don't know.
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Uh, I mean there's gonna be plenty of all of that at Tikia Gogo.
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So that's that's the trend.
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Yeah, totally.
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Yeah.
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So if I'm going out there, I want to that's the thing.
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The go-go is the the main focus.
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Yes.
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Speaking of of Disney as a former jungle cruise skipper, uh, your pun game is on point.
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Oh, thanks.
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That's impressive.
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I yeah, I was I was I was combing through your your Instagram right before this, and uh the the Slea Rum Shack uh was just oh thank you.
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I'm gonna be honest, that took years really in my brain because I knew I wanted to do something with you know inspired by slea shacks for a while, sleep, yeah, slea stacks for a while, and um it took a while, and that happens often.
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Like I I know I want to do something, and then it just like percolates for a long time, and then somehow I got it.
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Yeah, I was gonna ask, is that like a 2 a.m.
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thing?
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Is that a couple of my ties, or is it just you have like a germ of an idea and you hold on to it for a long time?
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That's pretty much what it is.
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But most of the things that I end up doing, I've had a sitting around uh in my computer in like my ideas files for a while, and then uh something hits here, and I'll be working on something else, but like, oh that would work for this little germ I had over here of an idea, and then I'll put them together.
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That's awesome.
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Uh is there anything that is has been sitting in the idea folder that you're like, I want to get to that, it just hasn't hasn't percolated enough yet.
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I can't tell you what because until it formulates, it's just a piece of crap until it comes together, you know.
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And then it still may be a piece of crap, but we hope.
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At least it's a fully formed piece of crap.
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I'm also uh big fan of the uh the holiday work that you do.
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The uh you clearly are uh a rankin' bass uh fan.
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Yeah, aficionado.
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Before I knew what it was, really yeah claymation was like my everything growing up.
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I love claymation, and you know, that was before I you didn't have Instagram, I didn't know anybody who liked it besides myself, you know.
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Yeah, um nobody knew anything, and I remember there was a time, this is like a core memory when I was very young.
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We were on vacation over Easter, which happens to be my favorite holiday, and there was a claymation Easter special.
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Oh, and um, I saw it and it was like a fever dream.
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No one had ever heard of it before, no one had ever seen it before.
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Anyone I've talked to, they didn't know, but it like lived in my mind like did I dream it, whatever.
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And it's real, it really is.
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And I don't really know any more about once the reality that I could I figured out at one point in time it was real, then it kind of left, whatever.
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It wasn't a holiday favorite for a reason, let's put it that way.
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Okay, I was gonna say, speaking of fever dreams, uh, there is one I wanted to recommend to you.
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What's that?
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It's called it's like have you ever seen the the Rudolph Frosty team up one?
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Yes.
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Like it's like the Avengers of Rankin Bass.
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Yes, I have seen that.
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I have it at least I can't picture the whole thing.
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It's it's basically uh they team up, there's this evil wizard, and uh at the end of it, Frosty's family melts and dies for a second.
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Well, that's awesome.
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Just a real holiday tree.
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That's awesome.
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Well, uh, I I I guess um speaking of fantasy animals, uh, we're we're gonna throw up your uh your fantastic tikia gogo poster.
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First off, gorgeous.
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Oh, thanks.
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Is there like a a color mood that pops into your head immediately when it comes to like certain subjects?
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Like once you've kind of like honed in on what this is gonna feel like.
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It's not the first thing.
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The first thing is just doing uh ideas, you know, drawing little ideas of things that I like.
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And then um I knew what I wanted to do, but you know, Florida has such a color palette.
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Oh yeah, it can't use everywhere, you gotta use it when you can.
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And so this was the opportunity to use some corals, um, turquoise.
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So I was excited to use that.
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Usually the color comes in like there's like two, there's one step.
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So the ideas, the concepting, and then the color, and then the finish.
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Yeah, I mean, like, and so when you're going through the ideas, that's when you come up with like, and and we'll zoom in on him right here the uh the crocodile drinking a mai tie.
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Yeah, the crocodile drinking the mai tie was the first thing I did.
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Because I knew I knew right away I was I wanted to do an alligator or crocodile.
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Is it a crocodile or an alligator?
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I never know.
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You told me it was a crocodile, so I'm going with that.
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I know crocodiles prefer Mai Tis, and alligators are more of a corona, and it's definitely crocodile.
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And um, I knew I wanted to do that, and I wanted to have that feel, so that was the first thing.
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Yeah, and also I wanted to give a shout out to the orangeo, uh, my favorite animal on the poster.
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Oh, thank you.
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Yeah, when I was talking with them when they started what they wanted, um, I you know, I always like to ask what people are looking for, and they thought it would be cool to have a reference to orange bird, and I'm thinking, yeah, an orange bird, but Florida.
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Yeah.
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Oranjingo.
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Beautiful.
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Yeah, no, I was wondering if it if that was lightly inspired by the uh that orange bird from uh Disney World.
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Absolutely, but you know, an updated version, an ownable version.
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Let's say that's right, a legally distinct version.
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That's exactly right.
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Speaking of orange ingos, we're gonna take a second and we're gonna throw to a commercial break from our sponsor, and we'll be right back.
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Since 1925, the Alden family has raised something a little different.
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We hand select only the best sun-ripened, perfect orange.
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Load them up in my grandfather's truck, then gently pressed.
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Sunfeather groove, the one with the pink pulp.
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Oh my god, that is awesome.
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That's so sad.
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That is awesome.
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I love it.
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It's I love how twisted it is.
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It's awesome.
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They're tasty, you know.
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Yeah, the you knew drawing it.
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This is a tasty creature.
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I never I didn't ever imagine crushing it for its juice.
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I never that was never that was never part of my story, but it's gross and I love it.
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Well, I'm glad you love it.
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See, this is this is why you this is why you do what you do, and this is why I'm on this end of things.
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Because I just see it and I go, Well, you have to crush it, right?
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Oh my god.
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Awesome.
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I love it.
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I'm glad.
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Uh well, before we let you go, uh, because this is the tiny tiki talk, so I don't want to I don't want to take up your whole day.
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I did want to mention and uh ask how it came to fruition uh the QA panel you got with the Polynesiac tiki TomTom coming up.
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How's that come to fruition?
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He wrote me and said, You're gonna be there, so let's do it.
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There you go.
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And I'm excited.
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Anything you want to tease to the uh the uh the the audience?
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A little sneak peek, maybe something you're gonna talk about, or is it just gonna be a good old time?
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I don't know what he's gonna ask me, first of all.
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Okay, second of all, I'm not like super jump at every opportunity to talk in front of a large group of people, so it's gonna be rare.
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This is a rare opportunity, yes.
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There you go, and I think unscripted, so I think it's like he's not gonna ask you about crushing your uh your characters though.
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I can guarantee that.
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So you got that out of the way.
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Perfect.
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Well, thank you for being the one to get that out of the way for me.
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Happy to do it anytime.
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Well, cool.
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Thank you so much for taking the time.
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Um, and uh, I can't wait to see you when you go go to Tikia Go Go.
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Thank you so much.
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Me too.
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I'm super excited.
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Can't wait.
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Absolutely.
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Jeff Granito, everybody.
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Okay, you asked me how to take you out.
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I don't know.
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I want something different, but I don't know what.
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Okay.
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One of my options.
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You could probably do almost anything you want.
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Okay.
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Oh, okay.
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Awesome.
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I want to be eaten by uh Godzilla.
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You want to be eaten by Godzilla?
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Yeah, done deal.
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Okay, awesome.
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No way.
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Can you do that?
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No, that's awesome.
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Okay.
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I think I could.
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Now, here, let's let's get specific.
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Is there a specific kind era of Godzilla that you would prefer?
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Um, early like B movie Godzilla.
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Where he where he's like fighting wacky shit, yes, sliding on his tail.
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Yes, done.
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Godzilla's doing his murder jig.
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Doing the murder jig, Granito.
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Look out.
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Granito, no! Oh no.
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Oh well.
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Ask and ye shall receive.
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Hope you enjoyed getting eaten by a Showa era Godzilla, Jeff Granito.
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And thanks for stopping by the show.
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Um, word on the street is the jet setter pass is sold out.
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But fear not, there are still some adventurer passes available.
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Stop by tikiagogoevent.com to get yours today.
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I would do it sooner rather than later, because we haven't even announced uh uh uh it's just the surface of the cool stuff coming your way next year.
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Uh but anyway, thanks for stopping by the Tiki A Gogo Tiny Tiki Talk Show.
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I'm Trevor Kelly.
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You cats have a fantastic evening.
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You all deserve it.
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Hey big guy.
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Tandoy rum hamster dispenser.
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Dig it.
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Great call.
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One thing, uh, you've been tapping on that for about 20 minutes now.
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Uh, might be time to pump the brakes.
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Or, you know, at least kind of let me have it.
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Welcome to the Tiki Go Go Tiny Tiki Talk Show.
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I'm your host, Trevor Kelly.
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Uh, before we get to today's guest, I want to give a shout out to Tiki Tony.
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Thanks to his kindness, I am now the proud owner of Dongoroa.
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That's right.
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This little guy has not been put to use yet.
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I am saving myself for Tiki Agogo 2027.
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But that kickoff ceremony is gonna be ridonculous.
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So, thanks for that, Tony.
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I circumcise, that's interesting.
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Uh let's get into it.
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Our guest today has done some amazing artwork for everyone from Disney to Warner Brothers to Victoria's Secret.
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Odds are if you're in a tiki bar, you're gonna spot someone wearing one of its killer pieces of clothing.
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Let's bring out the fantastic Jeff Granito.
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Uh, well, thanks for joining.
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Welcome.
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Thank you.
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First off, before we start, uh, I have to uh every time I see you, I think I give you the same compliment.
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Uh, your glasses game is just always strong.
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Oh, thank you.
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You know what?
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I'm gonna be honest.
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I feel like I need to like find some a new one.
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I'm kind of getting I'm kind of getting tired of these ones.
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I'm looking for a new one, yeah.
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May I recommend.
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Uh gosh, are you are you a glasses salesman person now?
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This is this is actually the whole ruse of the show.
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I get a cut, I get a cut on Z-Lul.
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Very nice.
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The Rubens, always my favorite.
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Nice.
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I like those.
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I don't know if my face is too round for those, though.
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I think you could pull it off.
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Uh well, thanks for doing this.
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Love the the background.
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Slightly distracted by the uh the uh the statue behind you, but uh I'll work through it.
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No, this is not a safe for work environment.
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Uh no, it's it's totally fine.
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No, reminds me of my honeymoon.
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Uh wow.
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What can you say?
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Enough said.
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Uh I guess a question I had out the gate is did you make it down to Florida a lot?
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In-laws are from Florida, got married in Florida.
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Oh.
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Um they moved since, but I've spent a fair deal of time in Florida.
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My son was in Florida for two one year.
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He was in Florida.
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So I I love Florida.
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So if I whenever I can get out there, I'm going.
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So this is exciting.
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I'm excited to go.
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Oh, so you you're you're making it out to Tiki.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Amazing.
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Do you hit any of the uh the parks when you're out there?
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Let's just put this way.
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I'll go to Animal Kingdom or Epcot, maybe.
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There you go.
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Animal Kingdom, one of the best.
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It's awesome.
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I love that lounge area.
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I could just go to that lounge area, the adventures lounge.
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I don't know what it's called.
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Oh, yeah.
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Go on the the one ride with the Yeti.
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Oh, okay.
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Do the animal ride and then go to the lounge.
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That's all I need to do.
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The Yeti ride, uh, it took me out almost at Animal Kingdom.
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I didn't like I'm such a baby when it comes to that.
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The second I turn 35, the equilibrium just you know what?
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Me too.
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And I are we on are we taping right now?
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Yeah, we are.
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Okay, well, might as well tell you.
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When I on my 30 something birthday, we went to uh SeaWorld to go to celebrate my birthday.
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You know what took me out?
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Abby's Sea Star Spin.
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What is this?
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It's like it's the kid ride.
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I was with my kids who are small, they wanted to go on like the teacups type ride, and that was when I decided that I can't do rides anymore.
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And so I was puking all the rest of the day because of Abby.
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You know, Abby's the Sesame Street character, Abby's is what took me out.
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That's fair.
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Uh speaking of puking all day, you ever done the uh the drinking around the world at Epcot?
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We did a little bit when last time I was there for Epcot uh festival, we did a little drinking, which was fun.
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Yeah, so that that might be interesting, not around the world.
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I can't do around the world.
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No, that's crazy.
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No, but I could do, you know, I'll eat too.
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I'll get the pop the caramel popcorn in Germany, okay, ice cream in Paris, and then mixed drinks and sweets and drinks.
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That's uh that's a solid game plan.
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Yeah, maybe I'll do that.
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I don't know.
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Uh, I mean there's gonna be plenty of all of that at Tikia Gogo.
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So that's that's the trend.
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Yeah, totally.
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Yeah.
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So if I'm going out there, I want to that's the thing.
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The go-go is the the main focus.
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Yes.
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Speaking of of Disney as a former jungle cruise skipper, uh, your pun game is on point.
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Oh, thanks.
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That's impressive.
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I yeah, I was I was I was combing through your your Instagram right before this, and uh the the Slea Rum Shack uh was just oh thank you.
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I'm gonna be honest, that took years really in my brain because I knew I wanted to do something with you know inspired by slea shacks for a while, sleep, yeah, slea stacks for a while, and um it took a while, and that happens often.
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Like I I know I want to do something, and then it just like percolates for a long time, and then somehow I got it.
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Yeah, I was gonna ask, is that like a 2 a.m.
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thing?
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Is that a couple of my ties, or is it just you have like a germ of an idea and you hold on to it for a long time?
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That's pretty much what it is.
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But most of the things that I end up doing, I've had a sitting around uh in my computer in like my ideas files for a while, and then uh something hits here, and I'll be working on something else, but like, oh that would work for this little germ I had over here of an idea, and then I'll put them together.
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That's awesome.
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Uh is there anything that is has been sitting in the idea folder that you're like, I want to get to that, it just hasn't hasn't percolated enough yet.
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I can't tell you what because until it formulates, it's just a piece of crap until it comes together, you know.
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And then it still may be a piece of crap, but we hope.
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At least it's a fully formed piece of crap.
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I'm also uh big fan of the uh the holiday work that you do.
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The uh you clearly are uh a rankin' bass uh fan.
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Yeah, aficionado.
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Before I knew what it was, really yeah claymation was like my everything growing up.
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I love claymation, and you know, that was before I you didn't have Instagram, I didn't know anybody who liked it besides myself, you know.
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Yeah, um nobody knew anything, and I remember there was a time, this is like a core memory when I was very young.
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We were on vacation over Easter, which happens to be my favorite holiday, and there was a claymation Easter special.
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Oh, and um, I saw it and it was like a fever dream.
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No one had ever heard of it before, no one had ever seen it before.
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Anyone I've talked to, they didn't know, but it like lived in my mind like did I dream it, whatever.
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And it's real, it really is.
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And I don't really know any more about once the reality that I could I figured out at one point in time it was real, then it kind of left, whatever.
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It wasn't a holiday favorite for a reason, let's put it that way.
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Okay, I was gonna say, speaking of fever dreams, uh, there is one I wanted to recommend to you.
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What's that?
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It's called it's like have you ever seen the the Rudolph Frosty team up one?
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Yes.
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Like it's like the Avengers of Rankin Bass.
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Yes, I have seen that.
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I have it at least I can't picture the whole thing.
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It's it's basically uh they team up, there's this evil wizard, and uh at the end of it, Frosty's family melts and dies for a second.
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Well, that's awesome.
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Just a real holiday tree.
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That's awesome.
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Well, uh, I I I guess um speaking of fantasy animals, uh, we're we're gonna throw up your uh your fantastic tikia gogo poster.
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First off, gorgeous.
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Oh, thanks.
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Is there like a a color mood that pops into your head immediately when it comes to like certain subjects?
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Like once you've kind of like honed in on what this is gonna feel like.
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It's not the first thing.
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The first thing is just doing uh ideas, you know, drawing little ideas of things that I like.
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And then um I knew what I wanted to do, but you know, Florida has such a color palette.
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Oh yeah, it can't use everywhere, you gotta use it when you can.
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And so this was the opportunity to use some corals, um, turquoise.
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So I was excited to use that.
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Usually the color comes in like there's like two, there's one step.
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So the ideas, the concepting, and then the color, and then the finish.
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Yeah, I mean, like, and so when you're going through the ideas, that's when you come up with like, and and we'll zoom in on him right here the uh the crocodile drinking a mai tie.
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Yeah, the crocodile drinking the mai tie was the first thing I did.
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Because I knew I knew right away I was I wanted to do an alligator or crocodile.
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Is it a crocodile or an alligator?
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I never know.
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You told me it was a crocodile, so I'm going with that.
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I know crocodiles prefer Mai Tis, and alligators are more of a corona, and it's definitely crocodile.
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And um, I knew I wanted to do that, and I wanted to have that feel, so that was the first thing.
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Yeah, and also I wanted to give a shout out to the orangeo, uh, my favorite animal on the poster.
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Oh, thank you.
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Yeah, when I was talking with them when they started what they wanted, um, I you know, I always like to ask what people are looking for, and they thought it would be cool to have a reference to orange bird, and I'm thinking, yeah, an orange bird, but Florida.
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Yeah.
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Oranjingo.
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Beautiful.
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Yeah, no, I was wondering if it if that was lightly inspired by the uh that orange bird from uh Disney World.
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Absolutely, but you know, an updated version, an ownable version.
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Let's say that's right, a legally distinct version.
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That's exactly right.
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Speaking of orange ingos, we're gonna take a second and we're gonna throw to a commercial break from our sponsor, and we'll be right back.
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Sunfeather groove, the one with the pink pulp.
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Oh my god, that is awesome.
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That's so sad.
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That is awesome.
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I love it.
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It's I love how twisted it is.
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It's awesome.
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They're tasty, you know.
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Yeah, the you knew drawing it.
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This is a tasty creature.
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I never I didn't ever imagine crushing it for its juice.
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I never that was never that was never part of my story, but it's gross and I love it.
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Well, I'm glad you love it.
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See, this is this is why you this is why you do what you do, and this is why I'm on this end of things.
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Because I just see it and I go, Well, you have to crush it, right?
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Oh my god.
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Awesome.
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I love it.
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I'm glad.
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Uh well, before we let you go, uh, because this is the tiny tiki talk, so I don't want to I don't want to take up your whole day.
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I did want to mention and uh ask how it came to fruition uh the QA panel you got with the Polynesiac tiki TomTom coming up.
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How's that come to fruition?
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He wrote me and said, You're gonna be there, so let's do it.
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There you go.
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And I'm excited.
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Anything you want to tease to the uh the uh the the audience?
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A little sneak peek, maybe something you're gonna talk about, or is it just gonna be a good old time?
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I don't know what he's gonna ask me, first of all.
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Okay, second of all, I'm not like super jump at every opportunity to talk in front of a large group of people, so it's gonna be rare.
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This is a rare opportunity, yes.
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There you go, and I think unscripted, so I think it's like he's not gonna ask you about crushing your uh your characters though.
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I can guarantee that.
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So you got that out of the way.
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Perfect.
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Well, thank you for being the one to get that out of the way for me.
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Happy to do it anytime.
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Well, cool.
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Thank you so much for taking the time.
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Um, and uh, I can't wait to see you when you go go to Tikia Go Go.
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Thank you so much.
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Me too.
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I'm super excited.
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Can't wait.
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Absolutely.
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Jeff Granito, everybody.
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Okay, you asked me how to take you out.
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I don't know.
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I want something different, but I don't know what.
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Okay.
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One of my options.
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You could probably do almost anything you want.
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Okay.
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Oh, okay.
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Awesome.
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I want to be eaten by uh Godzilla.
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You want to be eaten by Godzilla?
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Yeah, done deal.
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Okay, awesome.
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No way.
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Can you do that?
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No, that's awesome.
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Okay.
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I think I could.
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Now, here, let's let's get specific.
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Is there a specific kind era of Godzilla that you would prefer?
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Um, early like B movie Godzilla.
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Where he where he's like fighting wacky shit, yes, sliding on his tail.
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Yes, done.
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Godzilla's doing his murder jig.
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Doing the murder jig, Granito.
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Look out.
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Granito, no! Oh no.
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Oh well.
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Ask and ye shall receive.
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Hope you enjoyed getting eaten by a Showa era Godzilla, Jeff Granito.
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And thanks for stopping by the show.
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Um, word on the street is the jet setter pass is sold out.
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But fear not, there are still some adventurer passes available.
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Stop by tikiagogoevent.com to get yours today.
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I would do it sooner rather than later, because we haven't even announced uh uh uh it's just the surface of the cool stuff coming your way next year.
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Uh but anyway, thanks for stopping by the Tiki A Gogo Tiny Tiki Talk Show.
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I'm Trevor Kelly.
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You cats have a fantastic evening.
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You all deserve it.
