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Welcome back to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation, news, and commentary.

I'm entertainer writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the interest, can regularly read over on the rap and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies you can listen to on the Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast.

Well, he and I are recording this week's episode on Saturday, December 28th. That said, this fine tuning, Drew, is supposed to go

live on, I think we just mentioned, December 31st, our very last show for 2024. Do you and

Katie have anything special planned for our New Year's Eve?

No, no. I think we're going over to a friend's house to hang out for a little bit, and then we'll be back to ring in the new year and make sure the dog isn't too spooked by any fireworks.

That's really our main job. Yeah.

That is a gig when you own a K-9 in L.A.

That said, I have to, I have to say say that Katie is braver than I am because as we were pre-gaming this week's show,

you mentioned that she had just taken her sister down to Anaheim on the Saturday after Christmas to Disneyland. And given the crowds that they will encounter at every step of the way,

they might as well have gone to Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Yeah.

There's a reason I'm here talking to you, Jim, and not at Disneyland today.

But, yeah, I think they're having a good time so far, but yeah, they said that the crowds

are insane today.

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