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**The Kid Stuff Podcast**

Whether you’re a parent, a kid, a caregiver, someone who aspires to make kid-friendly content, or someone who’s just curious about the creative process, The Kid Stuff Podcast is for you.
Learn how the people who make the stuff that you and your kids love work, how they got where they are, what inspires them, and more.
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Latest Episodes:

Episode 8A - Bite-Sized Aaron Simpson on Discovering Animation Jan 03, 2017

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Animation Producer Aaron Simpson tells us about his earliest experiences making animation.

Episode 7A - Bite-Sized Richard Kissel on Diadectids Jan 02, 2017

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In this bite-sized episode, Dr. Richard Kissel from the Yale Peabody Museum explains why a group of prehistoric animals known as diadectids changed the world in really important ways.

Episode 6A - Bite-Sized Dr. Todd from Jelly of the Month Club Jan 01, 2017

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In this bite-sized episode, Dr. Todd from the SoCal kids' band Jelly of the Month Club tells us about the after-school program they run to teach film and music, Daydreamers Academy. Find them at http://www.thedaydreamersacademy.com/

Episode 12 - Daniel Chong, Creator of "We Bare Bears" Dec 27, 2016

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Daniel Chong spent a lot of time working as a story artist on feature films such as "Inside Out," "Bolt," and "Despicable Me," before turning his web comic "Three Bare Bears" into the current Cartoon Network series "We Bare Bears." Mike had technical issues with this recording, and the audio quality isn't perfect. If you find it too frustrating to listen to, click here to read a pdf of transcript of the full interview. The audio version is about 30 minutes of highlights, hosted by Kid Stuff Kid Sophie. Thanks for listening!

Episode 11 - Harry & Brandy Gold, Talent Agents Dec 20, 2016

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Harry Gold started out as a child actor in New York, doing his first Broadway at the age of twelve. After he moved his family to LA, his daughters also became child actors. Harry soon left acting to become an agent. His daughter Brandy gave up acting at the age of twelve, and soon decided she would follow in her dad's footsteps. They are now both agents at the agency Harry founded over 30 years ago, TalentWorks.

Episode 10 - Sheryl Levine, Casting Director Dec 13, 2016

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Sheryl Levine casts the current Disney Channel shows "Bizaardvark" and "Stuck in the Middle." She started out as an actor in New York, but after college she found that she preferred working with the actors she loves so much to being one of them. She became an agent, then a manager, then found her true calling as a casting director.

Episode 9 - Björn Jeffery Dec 06, 2016

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Björn Jeffery is the co-founder and CEO of Toca Boca, an international company that makes immensely popular apps for kids. Björn tells Mike how the company started, about the importance of listening to kids when making things for kids, and why there are great and not-so-great things about living in either Sweden or the U.S.

Episode 8 - Aaron Simpson Nov 29, 2016

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If you grew up in the 80s, Aaron Simpson's story may be familiar to you, especially if you grew up wanting to make movies.

He'll tell us about the animated shorts he made by co-opting his dad's 8mm camera.

He'll tell us how he switched to making ridiculous live-action videos with his friends once that technology became available… by co-opting his dad's video camera.

And you'll also hear how he made a lot of connections in the animation industry through the blog he published about a new tool called Flash animation.

He met a lot of people that he later went on to work with by interviewing them for his blog.

I'm particularly interested in that part myself.

Episode 7 - Dr. Richard Kissel Nov 22, 2016

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Richard Kissel has been on a pretty direct path his entire life to where he is now as the Director of Public Programs at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Richard tells Mike how he's always been passionate about not only his love for dinosaurs, but about getting other people to love them to by understanding their history and complexity. Mike reads this sentence to Richard from his bio page: "Dr. Kissel's current scientific research focuses on the enigmatic group of Paleozoic tetrapods known as diadectids—the first tetrapods capable of processing a diet of high-fiber terrestrial plants." Mike then challenges Dr. Kissel to explain in a way that would be exciting to a kid what makes diadectids so fascinating, and guess what? He totally does. Visit his and Kelly Kennard's awesome side project at www.oursecrettreehouse.com, and find the Yale Peabody Museum at http://peabody.yale.edu. In case you didn't already know it, this episode is a good place to discover that science is awesome.

Episode 6 - Capt. Dr. Todd Forman Nov 15, 2016

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The "Captain" part of Todd Forman's stage name might be an affect, but the "Doctor" part if 100% true. Mike tries to convince the horn player for the popular family-friendly Jelly of the Month Club band to write a book on time management or personal productivity after hearing that he is not only a professional musician (with Sublime and Sublime with Rome in addition to JOTMC), but also a practicing physician with his own family medicine clinic, a teacher who is deeply passionate about arts education, and a former college baseball and water polo player. Come to think of it, maybe he is actually a captain, and he and Mike just didn't have time to discuss it in this conversation.

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