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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 Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and every so often Drew and I wonder, what are we going to talk about each week?

What's going to happen? And this week, there's too much to talk about?

Yeah, that was a very dramatic week in animation news.

There's no other way to describe it.

The startling news breaking that Lee Unkridge

after 25 years is I can

announce that he's leaving Pixar.

Yeah, crazy news dropped on late on a Thursday afternoon,

which is the Jim and I know the de facto time to drop bad news because the press pickup is somewhat less because people have gone home.

By then, especially on the West Coast, or the East Coast, I should I should say so yeah I was completely

caught off guard by this had you heard anything leading up to this

what what's fascinating to me is that again after the fact you always get people who are it's like

oh of course you know about that in fact there I was talking with a family friend

who has ties to Pixar over the weekend and you know it was just talking about yeah everybody's talking about leaving there now and it's just like no I nobody's heard that all right it? It's Pixar, all right?

When I initially reached out to you,

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