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Unicorn Blue And The Caradoodle Quest The Great New Summer Kid Read From Carroll Titus · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, because it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely, this kind of a story is for everybody,
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  Speaker 3: it is, right, yeah, And I wanted to and I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to reach everybody because it can have great impact
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  Speaker 3: on how children think about bravery and it's just a
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  Speaker 3: great way to connect with kids.
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  Speaker 1: It is. And to have that bridge going in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: How did you know where to make that turn on
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  Speaker 1: the highway because so many times people will go with
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  Speaker 1: their writing and they get this idea, this is who
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  Speaker 1: I want to be, but then it's not the way
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  Speaker 1: that it ended up. How did you stay straight on it?
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question, Shan Arrow. So I had help.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely had help from my team, very creative type people,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what kept me going really And of course
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  Speaker 3: I pull I pull stories so that it resonates with
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  Speaker 3: the way that I.
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  Speaker 2: Interact with my children.
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  Speaker 3: And they always love these kinds of fun fantasies that
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  Speaker 3: allow them to play another role like a unicorn or
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  Speaker 3: a dragon or fire bird, something something that is unique
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  Speaker 3: and they connect with and can dive into as their personality.
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  Speaker 1: Well, isn't that who we are as children anyway? Because
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  Speaker 1: I remember playing those roles where I pretended to be
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  Speaker 1: something as far as I was concerned, I was a
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  Speaker 1: superhero on my little bicycle with the banana seed and
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  Speaker 1: the and the robar in the back. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: nobody can touch me. I I am the unicorn. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go wherever I want to go.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And this is this is how they connect. And
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  Speaker 3: what we do in the story is we we bring
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  Speaker 3: that that dialogue that children's thought process uh into into light,
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  Speaker 3: but from the perspective of the pet.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a little it's extra.
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  Speaker 3: In niz and innocent and playful because it's a unicorn.
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  Speaker 3: And symbolically we we use the unicorn because it represents innocence, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, deep in in uh in Old English literature.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a beautiful way to connect with the child
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  Speaker 3: because they live it. They're learning how to navigate the world,
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  Speaker 3: just like the unicorn in this story. So should connect
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  Speaker 3: with the character straight off, and they love her.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Carol Titus coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. The name of the book Unicorn Blue and
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  Speaker 1: the Cara Doodle Quest. We are back with author Carol Titus.
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  Speaker 1: My wife is a former she's a retired school teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and Diana cross the street with her two kids, she
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  Speaker 1: is a school teacher. And we all sat here and
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  Speaker 1: we were just so amazed with this because you've got
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  Speaker 1: this creative way of inviting science and thought, and especially
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  Speaker 1: with little Hannah across the street, even though she is
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  Speaker 1: beneath her brother when it comes to where she is
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  Speaker 1: on the map of the family tree, She's still a champion.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I love about this is that no
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  Speaker 1: matter where you are in the family, you are a champion.
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  Speaker 1: You are whatever you do, you are a champion.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: This is all about empowering kids to use they're they're thinking,
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  Speaker 3: like following her on her path, Where is she how
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  Speaker 3: is she interpreting information she's given to solve her class
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  Speaker 3: and what outcomes does she have available?
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  Speaker 2: It really does.
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  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful way to teach kids critical thinking in
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  Speaker 3: a positive, playful way that they can connect with very
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  Speaker 3: very easily. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And it's so funny that that. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I really tapped into immediately was how I
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  Speaker 1: felt like that there was a presence with Celtic law
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  Speaker 1: and legend because there what is it about that era
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  Speaker 1: of storytelling that really draws everybody into it. We think
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  Speaker 1: of law and we're going, oh, yes, oh, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: let me sit down and give me ten minutes, let
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  Speaker 1: me just get into this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, no, the Celtic law.
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  Speaker 3: I pulled that in because that's my background and it's
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  Speaker 3: always the it's always it's been I think the English lit.
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  Speaker 3: Just that's always been my love and I love connecting
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  Speaker 3: with my kids through that and so yeah, So it's
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  Speaker 3: symbolic in Celtic lore to have a unicorn as a
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  Speaker 3: symbol of innocence and untamable strength. It was adopted a
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  Speaker 3: Scotland's national animal.
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  Speaker 2: In the fifteenth century.
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  Speaker 3: So it represents a longstanding crowd and resilient heritage. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what I want to give our kids. Confidence, resilience,
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  Speaker 3: the ability to think through problems we need and know
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  Speaker 3: that they can think through them objectively and a form
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  Speaker 3: rational judgment and make informed decisions.
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  Speaker 1: See, I love that because so many times, what have
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  Speaker 1: we learned the art of delegation. There's times also there
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  Speaker 1: to say I don't need you to delegate this. What
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  Speaker 1: you need to do right now is the work. You
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  Speaker 1: need to figure out what it is that you're delegating
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  Speaker 1: before you can hand.
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  Speaker 2: It off exactly.
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  Speaker 3: No, So that's a lot of times I think could
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  Speaker 3: struggle with their emotions because they don't understand them.
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  Speaker 2: And they're just overloaded with them.
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  Speaker 3: But if you can sit down with them and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's let's try and connect what we're doing
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  Speaker 3: right now to a higher purpose.
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  Speaker 2: And this works with adults, do right.
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  Speaker 3: You need a higher purpose to keep you going through
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  Speaker 3: the hard times and build up your resilience to like, well,
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  Speaker 3: if there's a little blip in the road, I know,
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  Speaker 3: if I continue to do this number one, I'll reach
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  Speaker 3: my goal.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we suggest that people sit.
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  Speaker 3: Down with their kids write down what their you know,
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  Speaker 3: higher goals are, what communities they want to serve, yes,
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, you can chart out a little
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  Speaker 3: action plan for where they can take steps either daily
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  Speaker 3: or week or monthly.
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  Speaker 2: But then they can track.
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  Speaker 3: It and see how little actions have big impacts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I mean we all do that, and it it
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  Speaker 3: just that's what gives you the persistence right to get
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  Speaker 3: through the hard times, Like, well, I'm working towards this
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  Speaker 3: larger goal and I can see we're making.
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  Speaker 1: Impact and I can totally relate with that because I'm
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  Speaker 1: a daily writer. I'm also a defrag writer, and so
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  Speaker 1: when people, you know, they'll talk to me about, well,
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  Speaker 1: when did you start thinking about doing this? And I'll go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's right over there in my writing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it has been so planned out. And that's the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that I've been trying to get to these young
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  Speaker 1: adults is that I've got to figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to get them to plan things out and to let
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  Speaker 1: the process of slowness become that journey. And Carol, I
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  Speaker 1: swear to God, you nail it. You are like the
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  Speaker 1: needle in my haystack.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I wish I had said that. That's very kind.
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  Speaker 3: I am very honored to have you say that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because I know you're a beautiful writer and creative artists,
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  Speaker 3: so that means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's so important to I think, encourage
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  Speaker 3: and inspire the youth to through literature and history, how
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  Speaker 3: you can connect to ancient civilizations, let alone other people.
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's important to have that, and it's I
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  Speaker 3: feel it's lacking in a current curriculum and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's been shown by National Socialist Association of school Boards
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  Speaker 3: that it's very important not to focus on rote skills
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  Speaker 3: like reading a math shorn of any connection to history, literature,
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  Speaker 3: or science, because those are the things that I give
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  Speaker 3: you purpose and inspire people.
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  Speaker 2: So we make sure that we.
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  Speaker 3: Connect those things because that's how we operate right just
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  Speaker 3: in the real world.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just there's not a disconnect.
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  Speaker 3: And again that's that's how we get our resilience and
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  Speaker 3: persistence through the ups and downs that we face day
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  Speaker 3: to day.
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  Speaker 1: Now, for parents and young adults, we have to know
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  Speaker 1: what a Cara doodle quest is because my imagination when
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  Speaker 1: I saw that title, I was like, going, we all
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  Speaker 1: doodle do we make them into characters? Yeah? Yeah, Now
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  Speaker 1: let's write about it. Let's do a paragraph. If we
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  Speaker 1: can do a paragraph, we can do a page. Let's
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  Speaker 1: build upon this exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the fun part.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, kara in in Celtic means friend and dueling
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  Speaker 3: is every child's favorite passion. So we created this Cara
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  Speaker 3: doodal concept, which is a kindred spirit child of a unicorn.
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  Speaker 3: So unicorns will cease to exist if they reveal themselves
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  Speaker 3: to the wrong child. Yeah, so at first unicorn Blue
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  Speaker 3: gets full by a couple of potential care doodles, but
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  Speaker 3: eventually she learns how to focus on character and substance
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  Speaker 3: to find her best best friend.
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  Speaker 1: Carol Man, ten minutes with you is just not enough.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to come back to this show many more
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  Speaker 1: times because I love where your imagination is. You are
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  Speaker 1: a teacher's tool, and I mean it's just one of
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  Speaker 1: those things where and you know, you're an everyday tool.
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  Speaker 1: You're allowing us to believe in the so many different
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  Speaker 1: things because as adults we tend to hang things up,
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  Speaker 1: we forget to be a kid, and you're giving us
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to be that young adult again. You just
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  Speaker 1: happen to have adult choose on.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly exactly uh, and I and I want that that
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  Speaker 3: it's that spirit that comes through that playfulness that uh
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  Speaker 3: just relieves all the limiting thoughts that you have and
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  Speaker 3: let you be successful and your endeavors. So I I
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  Speaker 3: so appreciate your time and love everything you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And I would love, love love to be your guest again.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. Will you be brilliant today? Okay okay YouTube