Interview with Christopher Stapleton on Alvin and the Chipmunks

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IT'S THE CHICKEN POP POD! This isn't Chicken

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Mike, and today I am joined once again by Kevin,

I was going to say Ultimate Solo, Optimus Solo,

Thompson, and our special guest for not the second

week in the row, but the second episode in the

fifties here on Tooncast, Christopher Stapleton

from Chicken Pop Pod, hello guys. What's up,

buddy? Oh, the ceiling, thank God. Today we're

going to be talking about Alvin and the Chipmunks.

There's not really that much going on, so I'm

just going to get right into this. And I know

Kevin doesn't have a script, because... No, I

got it for this. I got your history lesson. How

fucking time you did some work on this show.

Class is in session. I got things. Basically,

this is the extended Hitcher lesson that's probably

the longest one I've done on Tooncast, but bear

with me. But basically, we're going all the way

back to 1954 with a guy named Ross Bagdazarian

Sr. And basically, at the time, he was a struggling

actor slash kind of dabbled in different things.

If you're a Hitchcock fan, you might have seen

him. He played the struggling songwriter in the

1954 classic, Rear Window. Basically, Mr. Bagdazarian

was at the point where he was ready to chuck

it all in and give up on his dream. He decided

to give it one more go. He changed his professional

name to, you might recognize this, David Saville.

He had basically a little dialect video titled,

Come On In My House, that he penned for Rosemary

Clooney in the early fifties. It became a top

ten hit. and basically convinced him that his

future lay in novelty songs, which led to him

basically putting every dime he had of his savings

into a home tape recording unit. In 1957, the

composer's Witch Doctor, which hopefully you're

familiar with, basically turned into another

smash. And obviously part of the charm of Witch

Doctor is that he was experimenting with speed

it up. It always sounds weird, but he sped up

voices. accomplished by recording at 16 RPM,

then replaying at 33 and a third. One thing led

to another, including him basically recording

multiple tracks in his own voice to create a

harmony in this sped up version. And credit his

kids, though, for saving us, because there's

a songwriter's children who suggested that the

high -pitched results sounded like a bunch of

singing chipmunks, which influenced him to call

them shit monks instead of his original idea,

which was the butterflies. You there? I think

we lost Kevin. Oh man. Yep, call dropped. Okay,

so, um, yeah, well we're still recording, but

uh... Hi, this is Kevin Thompson, I can't come

to the phone right now, but if you'll leave me

a name and... Let's try this one more time before

I do that. I bet his battery went dead. Well,

that's me. Yeah, you dropped. Yeah, I've never

had that happen before. I have no clue, because

we were here this whole time. Where did you leave

off, do you remember? I thought I said something

about the butterflies, but I don't know if that

got over or not. I'll have to check it in the

editing. Why don't you take it from the top of

that, though? Take it from the whole top of the

history lesson? No, no, no, no. From the top

of the butterfly thing. If you went back to where

the kids thought of it. OK. Yeah. All right.

Just start it right now? Yeah. OK. Basically,

we can thank his children because it was the

songwriter's children who suggested that the

high pitch result sounded like a bunch of singing

chipmunks, which influenced him to call them

chipmunks instead of what he originally was going

to go with, which would have been the butterflies.

Thanks God for his kids. Basically, that led

to some more songs and Alvin and the Chipmunks

were launched on a career which would reach 38

million sales, 11 gold records, and five Grammy

Awards. So what do you do next? Well, of course,

you try to make a cartoon out of it. And that

was basically in the early 60s when we had a

cartoon called The Alvin Show, which obviously

was not as successful as what we are covering

today, which is Alvin and the Chipmunks. But

Alvin and the Chipmunks actually came in the

credit not Roth, Begg, Nazarian, Sr., but his

son, who basically, after his senior's death,

gave up his career in law and took it upon himself

in 1977 to revitalize the Chipmunks. Most people

were skeptical and he had trouble finding people

to back him up, but luckily he found two people

that were pretty key people to back him up. One

was NBC TV head Fred Silverman, and the other

was an actress singer named Janice Carmen, who

basically had formed a production company with

Bags of Air Engineering and ultimately became

his wife, as well as voicing half of the voices

on Alvin and the Chipmunks. Other than that,

we had basically a Chipmunk Christmas, which

was a special that aired in 1981, which led to

the ultimate Alvin and the Chipmunk series in

1983. Some changes that went along with it. Chuck

Jones redrafted the original Chipmunk designs,

resulting in a more cuddly appearance. And of

course, Alvin Simon and Theodore would no longer

sing ballads or folk songs, but would instead

reemerge as rock concert artists. as you would

expect in the 80s. And then, of course, Janis

Carmen created three female counterparts to the

Chipmunks to make sure that they were equal rights

and all that type of stuff, which gave us the

Chipettes. Lasted seven first -round seasons,

and get this played to an average weekly audience

of 10 million people. So that does it for your

extended history lesson. Michael, what do you

remember about Alvin and the Chipmunks? The songs.

Honestly, I mean, I remember watching the cartoon,

but it wasn't... I don't hate Alvin and the Chipmunks

at all. I really don't. It's just one of those

things where I was busy in the 80s. I didn't

have time for three Chipmunks, or six Chipmunks,

or whatever, because I was too busy with He -Man,

and Voltron, and Transformers, and Thundercats,

and... Mask... You should have made time. What?

You should have made time. Well, I mean, I've

caught like some of the specials and stuff over

the years, I'm sure. I've caught it in syndication.

It's a good show. I've seen episodes of it. It's

just, it's not something that's a vivid memory

in my mind. Like, you know, if you told me, you

know, if you asked me to, you know, reference

a G1 Transformers episode, I could do so in a

minute. You know, where, you know, Alvin and

the Chipmunks, I would actually have to look

crap up and actually do work. And I'm a lazy

geek and I don't do work. We know shut up Kevin.

I didn't work than you do on this podcast Anyways

Chris, what about you? It's actually I made time

Thank you very much. I loved it man. It's a huge

part of my childhood. I was the perfect age I

grew up with the the chipmunks and I I absolutely

love them is big part of my childhood lots of

memories and so I'm a big fan still And it is

something I'm brain -watching my daughter to

love too. She obsesses, believe me, she obsesses

over the chipmunks. What's her favorite out of

the three? I don't know that she really has one.

She's all over the place. She loves them equally.

Oh boy. Yeah, you have a story that we'll bring

up a little bit later, probably when we get down

to the legacy segment about some Chipmunk merchandise

that someone generously sent you. Yep. Yep. Going

into the characters and voice - I don't care

about my damn memories. Oh, wait. Didn't you

have me say your damn memories? That extended

history lesson kind of threw me off. Plus, you're

a white copper kid, so there's another strike

against you. Ouch. I just wanted to point out,

as far as memories go, and this is why I said

that you should have made time, basically because

I think most of us can agree that you don't really

remember much from when you were one and a half,

maybe two years old, and remember most stuff

like that. I was born in 1981 and this show started

in 1983. So basically from the time that I was

able to remember my childhood, this was on. I

mean this was on from 1983 to 1990 as first run.

We're not talking about like repeats and stuff

like that. new shows, new seasons, 83 to 90.

So this is basically my entire childhood. It

was on at some point. This is why I think I remember

it because regardless of whether I was a Transformer

fan in the mid -80s or a Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtle fan in the late 80s, at some point around

there, in between this or in between that, this

was on. And so I remember big time. I remember

I'm a huge music fan as far as, I shouldn't say

huge music fan because it makes it sound like

I have a lot of CDs and I like actual music,

but I like cheesy cartoon music and stuff like

that. That's why he likes the Silverhawks theme

ladies and gentlemen. He's never going to give

up on that. It's something about their damn voices

I just absolutely love. I don't know, I think

they could have done anything in those voices

and I probably would have liked it. Definitely

one of my favorite 80s cartoons. There, you can

move on now. Well, you know, it's funny. You

say they could do anything with their voices

and you would like it. I wonder if there were

ever any Thundercats outtakes for Chipmunks.

That'd be funny if there were. Yeah, it would

be very funny. All right, moving on to the voice

actors and characters segment. There's basically

three chipmunks. There's Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.

Alvin is the leader. Simon is the tallest brother.

Simon is the intelligent realist. And Theodore

is the youngest brother. Theodore is the cute,

innocent butterball of the group. That's what

it says in the thing. Sorry. Chris, who did you

have? How did you most like the three main characters?

Believe it or not, Theodore was my, the Butterball

was my favorite. So I actually had Theodore slippers.

I call them house shoes, but I get laughed at

when I call them that, but that's what I call

them. What do you call them? They're slippers.

Are you with me? Yeah. Alright, whatever. I get

it. So I had his little face, his head, you know,

his decapitated melon on the top of your toe

there. I had a Theodore, a stuffed Theodore,

and I remember going to see Alvin and the Chipmunks

live, so people in costume. It wasn't on ice,

it was on stage. And it was absolutely tremendous,

huge part of my childhood, big memory for me.

And I got sort of one of those pennant things,

so it's Theodore like on a dowel rod. And so

he's eating grapes. And for whatever reason,

he never ate grapes. No. But yeah, so he's trying

to lose weight on this one. So I had tons of

Theodore's stuff. I think I empathized with him.

So there you go. Well, I wonder if anybody served

butterball chipmunk at Thanksgiving. Come on.

Next to the Reynoki. What about you, Kevin? Out

of these first three, who was your favorite,

or who did you most relate to? It had to be Alvin.

I don't know. I mean, I could see... I liked

parts of all of them, which is I think one of

the charms of the show is they all have characteristics

that... you can relate to or you knew someone

that could relate to you. It's easy to accept

these characters, they seem very real, but I

was always kind of a smart -ass, kind of happy

kid when I was growing up, I guess. So I gotta

say, Alvin was probably my favorite. See, you

know, I kind of agree that there's good things

about all three of them. So, I don't know, it

might just be that I like them as a group when

they're doing the whole concert thing more than

the individual adventures. But that's just me.

And then of course there's the female counterparts,

the Chipettes. Oh Christ. The Chipmunks female

counterparts and sometimes off and on girlfriends.

You have Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor. Brittany

is the leader of the Chipettes and Eleanor's

counterparts. Janetta Simon's counterpart, and

Eleanor is Theodore's counterpart. Um, oh wow.

If I get this - this connection right, Theodore

and Eleanor Roosevelt. Ahhhh. Oh damn, uh, I

didn't like any of these bitches. Oh, come on.

I didn't like any of them. I see, I like them

and I think they did an excellent job of, I mean,

it made the cartoon so good that they had this

group playing off of the boys and kind of doing

their different thing. And even that you had

each one paired up because, you know, kind of

you can relate to that as far as like when you're

getting involved in first relationships, this

or that. That being said, you know, I might have

been the cocky jackass when I was a kid, but

I didn't want my girlfriend to be that. So my

favorite girl would have been Jeanette. which

was, I believe, the one that was matched up with

Simon. Simon, yeah. I mean, I would agree with

you on that point, though, Kevin, as far as,

you know, you have to have, you know, them as

a group, you know, in line with the boys was

alright, but the three of them as individuals,

if they had their own show, it would be just

virtually panned. It, no. Um, no. Go ahead. Whatever

works. Go ahead, what? I don't know, who wants

to go next? I don't know. You're hating on the

Chipbats, man. What do you want me to say? Well,

I don't know, who was your favorite? Oh, dude.

I had a thing for Jeanette. I did, and I don't

know why. I don't know if it was kind of the

librarian thing or the tussled hair. Yeah, I

don't know why, which is a little weird to say.

Sometimes librarians turn into dominatrices.

I have a thing for a two -foot -tall chipmunk.

I don't know. I was totally into her. Okay, and

then you had David, quote -unquote, Dave Seville,

the chipmunk's adoptive father, songwriter, and

manager. Dave's patience is tested nearly every

day by Alvin, usually to be fine to where he

yells, Alvin! You also had Miss Beatrice Miller,

who was the kindly absent -minded adoptive mother

of the Chipmunks. Lily, the Chipmunks, Rossini

Puppy, who they then adopted from the shelter

following the death of their original pet, Cookie

Chomper III, a kitten. Vinnie, the Chipmunks'

birth mother. Wow, that's a horrible name. Hey,

I'm your mama! I'm a beanie! Come over here,

Chipmunks! I'm over here! What the hell is a

ute? She lost him in a poker game to Dave Seville.

That's what happened. Wow. That's the true story.

Okay, out of the supporting characters here,

Kevin, who did you like? Oh, I mean, I didn't

necessarily like any of the supporting characters.

I liked all the main characters so much. I mean,

to me... Well, I mean, I guess Dave would be

a main character and... And the, and the, and

Miller, uh, Beatrice would be a main character,

but I mean, outside of the original six. I, I

think, I, I don't know, when I think of Dave

Seville or, or, you know, any, or, uh, Beatrice

or whatever, to me, that's the same as the nanny

on Muppet Babies. Um, it, it's the same as, oh,

I had another one in my head a second ago, but

I can't think of it now, but. Grammy? Or not

Grammy? Oh, what's her name? Oh, geez. I was

thinking of John Arbuckle from Garfield. They're

kind of like the adult bringing that aspect into

the show, but when I was a kid, I didn't focus

on Dave at all. I was ready for the chipmunks

and the chipettes and the rest of it kind of

flew over my head, I think. I wasn't ready to

be talked to or taken into the adult aspect of

the show. It's like when you're a kid. parents

or whoever the teachers yell at you. You don't

kind of just let it go in one ear and out the

other, don't you? Yeah. But I do think it's interesting

that it was kind of off topic, but it just kind

of popped into my head that Theodore is one of

those characters that it seems like we can't

make up our minds on if a male or a female is

going to voice him over the course of his career.

Because you had you have Ross Begg, DeVarian

Sr. do him in the Alvin show, then you have Janice

Carmen do him in this. In the live action films

you have one person providing the voice and one

person providing the singing voice. I think Janice

Carmen provided the singing voice and a male

provided the speaking voice. He's just one of

those characters that it seems like is all over

the place as far as male and female voices and

you don't get that a lot. these days, it doesn't

seem like so. I think it was Jesse McCartney,

wasn't it, in the movie? Jesse McCartney does

the voice, but it must have been something with

the rights, because Bagenzarian and Carmen do

all the singing voices in both movies, but then

they brought in all different actors to do the

actual voices. I just thought it was kind of

interesting that male and female voice actors

have voiced Theodore over the years. Speaking

of the voice actors, We have Ross Bagg -Jazarian

Jr. playing Alvin, Simon, Dave, Harry, and other

various voices. Janice Croman as Theodore, Brittany,

Jeanette, and Eleanor. Dottie Goodman as Miss

Miller. Thomas H. Watkins as Uncle Adventure

Willie. Lou the dog in numerous incidentals.

Sherwood Bell was the Chipmunk song vocal artist

in Rainy Haze. Rose, the Chipette song vocal

artist. Annecy Cartwright is in this show. She

shows up before the Simpsons. I think this is

the first cartoon I've seen her in before the

Simpsons. She's also in one other one and it's...

Now I'm going to freaking punch myself. I'll

do it. I just put it up behind the voice actors

and her voice, you could tell. You could call

it with Bart Simpson before Bart Simpson existed.

I'll try to think of it before the end of the

show. All these other additional voices are just

incidentals. I don't know what else they could

have done. Of course, there's one name on here

that he can pretty much do anything, so he would

be listed as an additional voice, which is Frank

Walker. Imagine that. They both did a show together.

Yeah, exactly. June Foray did an additional voice.

It's just loaded with temp. Tresk Neal. Yeah,

Tresk Neal, yeah. Rick B's wife, Julie McWhorter

B's. Yeah, Bill Scott was on this. B .J. Ward.

There's just a ton of people that worked on the

show, and it was just great. I think Kevin's

extended history lesson pretty much was the entire

production note. So I'll skip past that, so I

don't read shit twice. So going into, or, um,

we're already talking about favorite characters.

Who's your all's favorite voice, Kevin, as far

as the, whatever, like, difference in the voices?

Um, god, it's so hard. Um, well, I think, I like

Dave's voice. Even though I like the chipmunks

and the chippets as characters, I like Dave's

voice as the overlying one. It seemed like it

fit really well. Without going back and listening

to each one specifically right after the other,

it would be hard for me to pick any of the other

ones. I don't know. Chris, what do you think

on that one? If you ever heard an interview with

Ross Bagdasarian, that's Dave. That's his voice.

He sounds exactly like Dave Seville. I guess

that's kind of like Seth MacFarlane with Brian.

It's just his voice. I like that. I think he's

great. He's a great character. I'm going to be

controversial. I'm going to say Miss Miller.

She was crazy. She was loopy. This old senile

woman, I loved the voice acting. I loved the

character. She was a blast. Especially if you

see the Chipmunk Adventure movie. She's a blast.

Wasn't that the movie where they found each other

or something? Wasn't that when they introduced

the Chipmunks to the Chipettes? No, that I don't

know there was some episode. I don't know the

cartoon where at first it was just the three

boys and then there was a two -part episode or

there was an extended episode or something where

the boys meet the girls and then they Go to find

something. I don't remember Yeah, they met the

girls during the 80s series. Okay. Yeah, it's

a couple years into the series or a year or two.

Okay See, going into the behind -the -scenes

segment, as I said before, just to list off some

of the directors and writers and stuff. Charles

A. Nichols, John Kimball, and Don Spencer were

some of the writers. Obviously, Ross by Desiree

Jr. was a director. I don't recognize anybody

else other than that. Oh, Bez Dixon! So there

we go, he wrote on... Transformers and G .I.

Joe, which Transformers is better than G .I.

Joe. You're crazy. No, I'm not. You're Miss Miller

crazy. No, I'm not. All right. Going into the

actual show, as far as the actual network run,

the series made its debut on September 17th,

1983 on NBC, originally under the name Alvin

and the Chipmunks. It was animated by Ruby Spirits

Productions beginning with the 1988 -89 season.

The series was renamed to simply The Chipmunks

and produced switched to Deke Enterprises for

the remainder of the series run, with the exception

of five episodes produced for the syndication

package by Mark Holley slash Will Swenson, which

aired on NBC in the fall of 1988 and the 1988

Writers Guild of America strike caused production

on the Deke episodes to be delayed. There was

a writer's strike in 88? Wow. Yep, there was.

It's kind of hard to believe that Roger Rabbit

got done. Let's see. For its final season in

1990, the series was renamed again this time

The Chipmunks Go To The Movies, as all the episodes

in this season are spoofs or popular Hollywood

movies. Chris, remind us what the basic plot

of each episode was. Wasn't it just Alvin getting

in trouble and then they had to go get him out

of trouble or something? Pretty much. I mean,

I think family conflict between the Chipmunks.

There's often like Alvin having a crush on a

girl. There was one episode where Alvin and Dave...

Dave was dating Alvin's teacher and Alvin was

competing with Dave over the love of his teacher.

So some complex storylines there. 90210 stuff.

So yeah, it was mostly just kind of inter -family

conflict. That was it. Nothing too heavy. All

right, going into the music segment here. The

series of music was done by Dean Elliott. This

is Dr. Wiley, and I will destroy Mega Man while

listening to Tooncast! So what did you guys...

Everybody loves the theme song to Chipmunks.

How did it hit you guys? Kevin, you go first.

I mean, I would definitely say it's one of the

top ten theme songs for the 80s, which it should

be because basically Chipmunks are, you know,

that's what made the franchise, that's what made

this whole thing work. the singing and the song

quality. It's just a great song. It introduces

everybody. It gives you the gist of it. It's

pretty catchy. I don't really think it's as good

as Gummy Bears or Heathclerk or Mysteriously

the Gold, but it's definitely along with DuckTales

and a few like that. It's one of the best theme

songs from the 80s in my opinion. Yeah, I would

tend to agree. What about you, Chris? Yeah, I'd

echo that I liked it. I even liked the the the

90s chipmunks at the movies Thing song too, so

they did a good job. I mean they did a great

job with the music overall I think so it's a

great theme song Yes, yes very much, so it's

very very catchy and it's like once you get into

your head You can't get it out of your head Not

copper kid thank God anyways going into the legacy

segment here I believe this is listed on the

IGN list I don't know where it is it's somewhere

it wasn't in the wiki when I got the wiki for

the show but as far as the home media release

some of the VHS's and DVD releases have the title

card and others do not No news yet on a possible

future single season DVD sets of the show's eight

complete seasons. Chris, what do you have on

DVD of this show? Is it just individual episodes?

Each, each, I've bought probably 10 DVDs and

each DVD has probably four or five episodes on

it. The way it got started was, the first one

I got was the Christmas special on DVD. And that

had the Chuck Jones Christmas special. And then

it also had a few other tie -ins for the 80s

series Christmas. And then they started releasing

kind of holiday -specific DVDs like that. And

then they started releasing themes. I know they

piggybacked on the release of the Star Trek movie

with their Star Trek spoof of chipmunks for the

movies. So a lot of those. I've got the chipmunk

adventure on DVD, so I got to boatload. They

did have a DVD release called The Alva Edition,

which is two disc, probably 12 to 16 episodes,

something like that. So that's probably the biggest

set that they've released. That's cool. Don't

you have some fan story about a piece of Chipmunks

merchandise, Chris? I do. You know, my daughter,

we rented the live action, Alvin the Chipmunks,

from a couple years ago. She loved it. So when

the Squeakable came out, we're like, OK, we'll

take her to see it. She loved it. McDonald's

piggybacked on that and had the little toys that

were just kind of little statues, statuette type

things and they play music or they say something.

And so we were going to McDonald's getting those

and we happened to miss the first week, which

was the Alvin toy. Then every week was a different

one. So we had everybody else, including two

Jeanettes, one for her, one for me. So we missed

Alvin and so I was kind of bummed and I'm a collector

myself so I mean that's stressing me out that

we're missing the key component to this whole

set. So this is the power of Twitter and podcasting

in general. I just jumped on Twitter and I said

hey we need Alvin if anybody wants to help us

out and somebody just jumped right on it. fan

of Chicken Papad and she mailed me next day from

Sacramento California Alvin to complete my daughter's

set. So pretty awesome and she did all that on

her own dime so very kind of her and so I was

very appreciative so kind of neat. Very cool.

Okay, so I don't think we're going to do any

promos this week. I may put them after the outro,

because we kind of need to get this rolling here.

So, final thoughts on Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Kevin, you can go first. Well, I kind of said

it already, but I think the music was great throughout

the show. I like the playing off of the Chipettes

versus the Chipmunks. I think there's something

for everybody in here in one of the characters

that you can find at least to relate to a little

bit. I just think it was one of those great cartoons

that you could watch over and over again, and

it was basically on my entire childhood, so I

saw it off and on throughout my childhood. And

like I said before, it's something about those

damn voices I just love. I love the songs. I

remember having this cassette. way back in the

day that had songs like Witch Doctor and other

Chipmunk songs, and I love those, I love the

cartoon, and even though I break all my rules

by saying this because I hate almost all live

action remakes of cartoons from my childhood,

this is one of them where I actually like. I

stumbled upon it, the first one on, I don't know

if it was on demand or on TV somewhere, I somehow

watched it on TV. I didn't see it in the theater,

but I watched it on TV, and I was like, man,

this is pretty good, and I got sucked into it.

I watched the whole thing. I haven't seen the

squeakle yet, but I'm sure I'm going to like

that as much, especially since the Chipmunks

look even better than they did in the cartoon

version. But basically, I like everything that's

album in the Chipmunks. I like everything that

has that voice, and it's just quality stuff,

and you should check it out if you have never

seen it before. Yeah, I gotta say, We didn't

really talk about the movies, but I would much

rather see Jason Lee as Dave than Steve Carell.

I would rather see my sock as Dave than Jason

Lee. He's awful. He's got a new series coming

out, and everything he's ever done, everything

he will ever do, he's always going to be Earl.

And that's him. He was Bodie and Banky before

Earl. It's still Earl, though. Oh, Mike, I got

to bring this up too. I'm sorry to interrupt.

I just remembered the Nancy Cartwright role before

she was Larry Crimson, and it was bright eyes

on Pound Puppies. Oh, yeah. That's right. That's

right. Great cartoon, by the way. That's right.

So it was so long ago, I barely remember it.

Alright, plug time. Kevin, what's going on over

at Behind the Voice Actors? Just lots of voice

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them out or And Chris, what's going on with the

chicken nuggets over there at Chicken Pop Pod?

We are cranking them out weekly. We got a lot

going on with Chicken Pop Pod. We're also doing

comics. a spin -off that's on YouTube called

CPP Comics. We do a wrestling podcast called

The Folding Chair. So you can catch all that

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