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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Tracy, we have an interview today that I have been wanting to do for a very long time at this point.

You've been talking about it for a while. I know. You're probably like, this is never going to happen. But it's it.

Because several months back, Leslie IWorks team reached out to me

and asked if I would be interested in talking to Leslie on the show and the answer was a resounding yes,

I would have wanted to talk to her before that. I think she's amazing. Our schedules, though,

just did not want to cooperate. It became comedic, where it was like,

well, I'm getting back from California on this day. I could do any time after that in the

following week and it would be like, no, then Leslie starts her travel that night. And it would be like,

okay, well, uh, Leslie's going to be back this day.

And I'm like, I will be on a flight to Italy. Like, it just nothing was working. But we finally

wrestled those schedules to the ground. Yeah. I like how it finally worked when I was on vacation.

Perfect time. The timing actually was perfect. Yeah, it was during a week when we were not doing our regular record. We did some recording before you went on vacation. So I had like some freed up time in there and it just, everything came together as it should.

Hooray. If the name IWorks sounds familiar, it's because it's come up on the show before, although

it's been quite a while.

Ub IWorks, Leslie's grandfather, was an animator and cartoonist and director and special

effects artist and many other things, and also famously Walt Disney's partner from his earliest

years in Kansas City. Don IWorks, Leslie's father,

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