EP128: Butch Hartman Drew My Childhood and Harvard's President Believed Books, Not Schooling, Were the Key To Education
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, meet Butch Hartman, creator of Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, and so much more and hear how he went from the snowy shores of Michigan to the sunny coast of SoCal; and Jon Elfner helps tell the story behind Harvard president Charles Eliot's claim that "all a man needs for a good education is a 5-foot bookshelf" and what came to be known as "The Harvard Classics."
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00:00 - Butch Hartman Drew My Childhood
23:00 - Harvard's President Believed Books, Not Schooling, Were the Key To Education
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, |
| 0:16.5 | including your stories. Send them to OurAmericanstories.com. Again, go to Our Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:21.2 | Again, go to Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:23.6 | As far as animators and visionaries go, Walt Disney is probably the most recognizable name in that space. |
| 0:30.2 | But to kids who grew up in the late 90s or early 2000s, some of the members of this staff, |
| 0:36.4 | another name brings back a flood of memories. |
| 0:39.3 | Butch Hartman created two of the most well-known cartoons of the last two decades, fairly odd |
| 0:44.7 | parents and Danny Phantom. |
| 0:47.5 | Here's Butch to tell us his story and how we went from the snowy shores of Michigan to the |
| 0:53.2 | sunny coast of southern California. |
| 0:59.1 | One of my very first memories, I remember I was in a kindergarten and our teacher, I'll never forget, her name was Mrs. Shelley. |
| 1:06.2 | And Mrs. Shelley asked all the students to draw a picture of her. |
| 1:09.8 | And I thought, okay, well, I was like a kid. I drew a picture of her. And I thought, okay, well, it's like a kid. |
| 1:11.6 | I drew a picture of her and just forgot about it. And then she started making a huge deal out of my |
| 1:18.1 | picture. Oh my gosh, this is the best picture I've ever seen. And, you know, she was raving about it |
| 1:22.6 | and basically humiliated all the other kids, I think. But she's like, I'm putting this up on the wall. This is just amazing. And she put my picture up on the wall and I never forget. |
| 1:30.1 | And I thought, wow, drawing is a real great way to get attention from adults. |
| 1:34.1 | So I thought, if I could just keep drawing and get attention from adults, because you're a kid, |
| 1:38.0 | right? You want all the attention. So I thought, I'm just going to keep drawing stuff. |
| 1:41.3 | So I just started drawing and drawing. |
| 1:53.3 | Before I knew it, I really liked it and I really realized that I had kind of a, maybe a little bit of a skill for it, and just started training myself and growing up. |
| 1:58.7 | And I loved Saturday morning cartoons. A lot of us today, maybe some of the older folks remember Saturday morning cartoons. |
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