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, entertainer writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this week's

show on Sunday, October 24th. I've actually been down in Orlando since Tuesday, recording a brand

new bunch of walk-around shows with Lentesta, and once Aaron finishes editing these, they'll

become available to band camp subscribers. Where is you? Drew, once again, you get to do so much

cool stuff out in LA. So inside of just a couple of days, you got to sit down with Enrico

Casarosa, the director of Luca. Yep. How did that interview go? It was great. The festival season

and award season is upon us, Jim. So it was really great to just sit down with him. We chatted

for about 30 minutes, and it'll be an upcoming issue of the rap's magazine for award season.

So look for that. I'm sure I'll send you a hard copy, Jim, when it comes out, but got a lot of

great details out of him, and it was just lovely to see him, because we interviewed him on the show

over Zoom, and he and I go back and forth on Twitter a lot, but it was just nice to kind of

see him in the flesh and get to chat about this amazing movie, which I still am just madly in love with.

I was laboring under the mistake of there is a Luca-inspired short,

Chao Alberto, is that correct? Yes. Okay, coming up on Disney Plus on November 12th,

and I sought that Enrico had actually directed this, but you corrected time mistake, right?

Yeah, he did not direct it. I'm sure he produced it, but it was directed by McKinna Harris,

who was a story artist, I believe, on the feature. And yeah, we should reach out to Pixar and

have McKinna on and talk about the short. It'll be a big part of Disney Plus Day,

which I know you and I are just fiendishly awaiting a couple weeks. I have already got my special

hat ready, Drew. Yeah, if I survive fandom, I can survive Disney Plus Day, so yeah. But you didn't

just get to do that, you got to see Belle, which you were up at the up on Lancashire, but the

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