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

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording the show on Friday, January 15th, 2020. Brand New Year, Drew, been a couple of years since we last recorded the show.

Did you want to tell the class what you just spent the past week doing?

Well, I, we were supposed to record last Friday and then we sort of hatched this plan because the

COVID numbers in California are soaring and the airports are not a great place to be, so we decided to drive across country from Connecticut to California, which is a good 3,000 miles.

And so we got in late on Tuesday night, and I've just been running around trying to catch up with stuff since.

So yeah, but I'm happy to be here.

Well, I'm just kind of stunned.

I mean, Nancy and I do the thousand mile plus drive from New Hampshire down to Orlando every year or so, but 3,000 miles in January.

Yes. In a car loaded with stuff you hold out of your childhood bedroom right?

Yes correct yes okay along with your wife and your dog and and nobody got stabbed nobody got left by the side of the life everybody

was good and you know the dog was was had a little help from Dr. Feel good

but she was she was great and yeah I mean it was pretty crazy and then you

get into like you know Utah and it's just this craggy kind of like like if the car broke down, who would come get us?

Who would find us?

And what would be left of us when they found us?

These are the questions I'm asking myself, Jim.

Okay, okay. What was the longest travel day?

I think the longest travel day was the last day which was Denver to Los Angeles.

Oh. That was I think 15 hours give or take. So yeah that was a long one and you know

it's weird because you think like oh Las Vegas you'll be able to stop and get something or do something.

And it's just, it was really weird.

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