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From Nickelodeon animation in Burbank, California,

this is the Nickelodeon animation podcast.

Hi, I'm your host Hector Navarro.

Welcome to the podcast.

Today we're going to talk about something absorbent,

something yellow, something porous,

something spongy.

That's right, we're diving deep, deep deep to get to bikini bottom and into the worldwide phenomenon that is sponge bob square pants for this behind the scenes look at the sponge we're talking as supervising producers and showrunners, Vince Waller, and Mark

Checkarelli to have them tell us how the heck they keep things fresh after 10

seasons and 200 episodes. Are you ready, kids? I can't hear you. Guys, thank you so much for coming in this is going to be a lot of fun.

When when you were a kid did you decide I think I want to work in animation where did it start? Well for me even though I was completely enamored with Warner Brothers

cartoons and watching them you know on the three times a day that we had access

to them yeah whatever came up I was just glued to the set whether it was

sniffles or whether you know it was

you know some wild Bob Clampett cartoon with people getting shot in the face

but it never occurred to me at that point that I might actually end up in animation.

I didn't even, I was at that point, you know,

because they were already starting to ship stuff overseas

and they were, you know, everybody was like,

well, they don't even do that here in the States anymore.

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