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Fine-tuning with Jim Hill and Drew Taylor.

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Thank you.

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

I'm Jim Hill and before Drew and I get started here, we're running behind schedule here. We should have had a show out quite a while ago. I had the travel. I was out in Ohio for Dayton, Disneyanna. While I was traveling, all of this animation news broke.

So let's bring Drew in now.

Okay, I'm here, I'm here.

So while I'm out in Ohio,

the Walt Disney Company deliberately released this news after the

financial markets had closed on Friday afternoon and this is typically what you do

when you have bad news that you don't necessarily want to be in the spotlight and the news

was that John Lasseter will not be returning to Pixar Animation Studios or Disney for that matter that he's settling into a new

consulting position do I have that right yeah but he will not have an office at either

animation studio

in Burbank, you walk up those stairs.

You've been to it since they've redesigned it.

No, you know, in fact, I... oh okay. The last time I was there,

our friend Amy, Ashley, they were the process of moving her office because she was right next to the

shoot where all of the debris when they were clearing out the

third and fourth floor of the building that all it would go by her office so it's like

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