And I see a lot of fun from teaching kids about shapes to helping young ones discovered solar system.

Pancake manner makes learning a whole lot of fun.

The popular YouTube channel utilizes puppets to provide highly important information in a highly engaging way.

In other words, as I mentioned, it's a lot of fun.

How much fun are people having more than 19 million viewers worldwide and joining us to talk about pancake manner?

Ladies and gentlemen, Billie Reed, the creator of this exciting you to channel and his friend Zach.

Zach.

Hey, How's it going?

Nice meet you.

Nice to meet you as well.

You okay?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good.

Good.

Do you mind if I talked to Billy for a second?

Okay.

Okay.

Thanks.

And then we'll talkto.

Really?

This is awesome.

Congratulations, buddy.

This is really great.

And the reason you're here too.

Let's informed of yours.

First of all, about pancake manner.

Then we'll talk about Geek Week on YouTube.

So for those people, obviously 19 million views, that's nothing to sneeze at.

But there may be some people who may not be exactly familiar, right?

Well, packing matter is a musical video.

Siri's it basically look at it like all rock meets Fraggle Rock.

Perfect.

Yeah, that's a great pitch right there.

I buy that in the room on dhe.

Then when you when you put together individual episodes and whatnot, what do you do?

You try to focus on, uh, a cz we watching?

Learning about the solar system, per se.

But not only what do you focus on, but how do you get your ideas and inspirations to?

Well, my collaborator, Reb Stevenson, and I just sit down.

I think they're so cool ideas that we would have wanted to see when we were kids, you know?

And that's just basically how it happens.

I sit down and write a song and you start working the visuals.

That's amazing.

And, um, how long does it take to put something together in terms of, um, well, a sickness?

Or it depends.

Sometimes we get lots of kids involved.

Those those videos could take a couple weeks, but generally maybe about a week we can have for video.

And are you in red responsible for not only the idea, the concept of the music as well Do you perform music as Well, yeah.

I write all the songs for every video.

Yeah, okay.

Exact.

What's your favorite part about being on TV?

Um, seeing the fan videos?

Oh, yeah.

So they make their own versions of kids all around the world, like in Turkey.

What?

Yeah.

And have you been to Turkey?

Um, have, uh no, no.

Would you like to go right?

That is really great to have that worldwide appeal.

That's fantastic.

I mean, when you think about it like that, shows like this, of course, with the Children's television workshop have created with Sesame Street over the over the years.

I mean, they have touched a lot of people, not only here in North America, but worldwide.

Yeah, talk a little bit about your inspiration.

How you got into this time?

I mean, I was raised like most kids with Jim Henson, Muppet Show, Sesame Street, huge influences, but also one of my you know, my big influence.

Grampa was pop songs, pop rock songs on the radio, you know, and that's what we're trying to do with these songs are trying to write music that parents can also enjoy.

There you go right.

And that's important to you see a lot of animated films doing that these days of theaters where they despicable.

Me, too.

And all those sure types of films where they try to make it something for everyone.

Is that a challenge in and of itself?

Um, no, it's It's I think it comes naturally for us.

Yeah, um, we're trying to entertain ourselves first, and, you know, hopefully have people like that.

What came after?

Step to what's after step two?

Step one.

You pour it step to you.

Flip it.

Yeah.

And then is there a step three?

Stack it.

That's how I like my pancakes.

Hey, is it hard for you to see yourself working there a little bit?

Yeah.

Yeah, I know you keep looking away.

You're a shy guy.

Yeah.

Now, do you want to tell me about Zack?

You want tell me about Geek Week and what happened there?

That's exciting.

He could tell you.

Okay.

I want to tell him.

Yeah, well, YouTube invited us to be part of this thing called Geek Week.

So all week long, we've been showing geeky videos, you know, superhero videos.

We made a video about superheroes.

We did one as you saw earlier about planet and we're really honored to be has to be part of that.

Zach, we're gonna encourage people to go and check out the video online about superheroes.

Give us an idea of what that's about.

Well, well, it's me at the beginning, and I'm just a normal kid.

Yeah, and then I become a superhero.

Really?

Yeah.

You wanna give away Superpower?

No.

Okay, watch the video.

Exactly.

That's what we're doing.

We're encouraging people to go, um, and Billy in terms of what you want to do.

Going forward pancake manner.

Like what?

We just want to grow this and continue it online.

There's more characters that we have in the work.

So right now we have two characters and hopefully in the next year, you'll see one or two more characters.

It's fantastic.

Did you ever speaking of Jim Henson office?

He's passed away many years ago, but did you ever think about working for them once upon a time?

Yeah, definitely.

If they approached me today, I wouldn't hesitate.

I would love to work of those people educated Jim Henson with fraud course, the new Muppets movie coming out.

But you would take Zack with you.

Of course.

Where you go, he goes right.

All right.

Good to meet you, buddy.

Firm handshake.

Have a great summer.

You have a good summer so far.

All right.

Yeah.

Very cool.

Really good to me.

Thank you.

Appreciate your time.

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