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 and attainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this week show on Saturday, January 14, 2023, the start of the Martin Luther King Day weekend.

It was 30 years ago, this year, on November 2, 1983, that then President Ronald Reagan signed the bill that made the third Monday of January of

Federal holiday and observance of the late civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King. I mean, talking to me wrong, that was cool and well deserved, but what was not cool was how long it took my home state, New Hampshire, to finally get around to recognizing this federal holiday?

Care to guess how many years that took?

Oh, God. I think I've actually heard you say this on another show and it actually absolutely ensured me to the core, but how many years Jim?

17. We didn't get around to recognizing this till the year 2000. I'm not sure if that indicates that a lot of people here who live here in New Hampshire are, what were racist?

Can't remember. It's 23 years ago now. Maybe it's just that the people in New Hampshire don't like the federal government telling them what to do.

Take a three day weekend, January or go hell no. I mean, after all, we are the only state in the unit that has a law on the books that says that adults are not required to wear seatbelt when they're in a car.

So that puts a whole new spin on live for your die.

I feel very lucky, Jim, to be recording this podcast with the last man to ever be walked off of World of Motion.

Did you ask if you could walk through World of Motion? Cause that would be my other explanation.

Oh, no, no, no, I'd say the end. We were on the load ramp going in. They were people in the attraction when it broke down that last time.

So there were people who did get walked off. I was just not lucky enough to be the, but speaking of lucky enough, can you tell the nice folks how you spent the last two nights?

Well, it's a very Hollywood thing, but yes, yes, it's very, very cool.

Well, you know, on Thursday night, they had an amazing thing that was put on by the American cinema tech.

And it was John Williams and Steven Spielberg in conversation about their 50 years, 50 years, Jim, of collaborations.

And it was really wonderful. They went through clips of a bunch of the movies. They excluded some, sorry, sorry hook fans out there. They did not talk about it.

Hopefully this, there is video of this that I hope they will, they will put online because it was really an amazing, amazing conversation.

And you know, he's 90 like this is, I don't know how many more of these they're going to be, but it was really special and, you know, obviously super emotional and great.

And then last night I went to a great toast for all of the kind of nominees from Universal, including our friends at Bad Guys and Puss and Boots.

So that was really nice. A lot of really great people were there, including Mr. Spielberg again. So he and I are just on the same schedule, Jim.

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