Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Chewing It.

I'm Kevin Heffernan.

On behalf of Steve Lemmy, thanks for joining us.

This week, we're joined by our friend Mark Swanheart, otherwise known as Swanee.

And Swanee is an amazing story.

Grew up as a kid in Pittsburgh, a, coal mining town, son of a coal miner.

And as a little kid, his dad decided that he should, uh, take ballet lessons in order to be

better at sports, like football and basketball and stuff like that. And so he starts doing dance classes

as a little kid and never looks back. He goes on to become a professional dancer, one of the

top choreographers in the business. He went on to do, you know, huge stage shows and film and TV. He's the creative director

for the X Factor now. And he's worked with us on our movies. And it's really a cool,

kind of a Billy Elliott, you know, type story. And the guy is at the top of his profession now and we'll talk about

all the things he's done and all the great people he's worked with and funny because actually

we were done talking to him and we turned off the mics and then we started talking off Mike

about how he had just choreographed the last Rolling

Stones tour he's out there choreographing with the stones and uh we're like what the hell

we doing turn the mics back on and so we turned the mics back on and talked a little bit about

him choreographing the stones and uh so if you get to the end there talked a little bit about him choreographing the Stones.

And so if you get to the end, there's a little thing on the end tacked on to the end of the end before we talk about the stones.

So don't turn it off before we talk about that because it's funny.

Anyway, our buddy Swanee, super talented guy, super great guy. and I think you're really going to like to hear his story.

So, enjoy, enjoy.

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