Welcome to Fine Tuning with Dude Taylor, your one-stop shop bonus to animation news and commentary.

I am Drew's co-host, entertainer writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this show

on Friday, February 19th, 2020. And so I have to ask, given that virtually the entire country

is encased in ice at this point, what temperature is it out in LA right now or?

It's probably 74. I just had a lovely stroll with the dog, Jim. I'm in shorts right now.

And so yeah, not to rub it in your face, but yeah.

All right. Well, February in New England, you're telling yourself winter is almost over,

and you know, and winter is false.

Yeah, we're going. There we go. February is just one sort of continuous kick to the grind.

Before we get started here, when we were finishing up our last show, you were headed out the door

to go to the Beauty and the Beast driving. Oh, yes, that's right. Yeah, that was really, really great.

It was this tiny little sort of setup in Hollywood. There were only 15 cars there.

Jordan, now I'm blanking on his name, the kid that's in all the holiday specials,

the kid who dances and sings. Do you know what I'm talking about? Jim? Okay, he was there,

so I saw he, you know, great CM out and about. But yeah, I mean, the Beauty and the Beast still

totally rules. So it was delightful. And just the film or no shorts or anything, just the film and

was it Mr. Duck steps out. Oh, cool, which I think is a good, that's a good Valentine's day,

double feature. No, that works. It definitely works. Yeah, okay. Well, following up on other news

from last week, did you catch the piece over at Cartoon Brew? I want to say Christmas Airdrie,

the guy who helped get a blue sky up out of the ground was looking back fondly at blue sky and

sort of mourning its loss. That was deadline. I did not read it completely, but I was fascinated by,

I just damning on a chance. Okay, no, you're right over here. How was it? It was a great piece,

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