Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.

This is Rumbel Strip, I'm Erica Heilman.

Welcome to the movie.

Thank you. There's hand drawings of Marcel on the door.

It's so nice. Somebody is a fan at the theater. It's so funny to be back here.

I just used the bathroom that I had to clean a million times. I feel...

I feel... Yeah, what if you don't like it? That's going to be hard.

Okay, so this is the beginning of the movie.

She should be quiet now.

Hello, my name is Mars, my heart is not the first time I've done that.

My name is Marsel, and I've done that. My name is Marcell and I'm partially a shell as you can see in my body,

but I also have shoes and a face. So I like that about myself and I like myself and I like myself and I have a lot of other great qualities as well.

That's my friend Nick Paley and this is sound from Marcel the Shell with shoes on

which is a movie that Nick wrote with his friends Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny

Slate. Marcel is a one inch tall shell with a googly eye and little plastic shoes and he lives with his grandmother Connie.

The movie's all about Marcel and his human friend trying to find Marcel's long lost Shell family.

It's really the best movie I've ever seen that stars a tiny adorable shell with a can-do

attitude.

It's also hilarious and it's charming and my niece said that she

cried the whole way through the movie. Anyway, Nick Paley is from Vermont and

now he lives in Los Angeles where he writes and directs and edits for TV and film.

I met him or sort of met him when he sent me a recording of himself singing

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