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podcast. Hey, I'm your host, Hector Navarro. Welcome to the

podcast. My guest today, I am very excited to talk to. He is an artist, a

director, a writer, a character designer, a storyboard artist, and everything in between.

And he's been the executive producer of the current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Show, the show that just premiered its 100th episode, The Power Inside Her,

on Nickelodeon. The show that's been called The Best Incarnation of the Turtles Ever.

And that compliment was from Kevin Eastman, who along with Peter Laird created the Ninja Turtles himself, so it is nothing to scoff at.

Our guest has been bringing you one of the funniest, slickest, most action-packed, most emotionally epic animated shows of all time so let's talk to

sero meelli Amazing! This is like a full-on geek explosion! I say this every once in a while to our game. on Geek Explosion!

I say this every once in a while to our guests,

but I'm going to try not to geek out on you too hard.

Okay, cool.

And talking about my own love of the turtles

goes back to being a kid. I was born and raised in San Diego

California and I you realize years later I think there was something subconscious in the turtles

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