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Hey everybody. Welcome to the Writing Room podcast. I'm so glad that you're here.

This is a fun time for us to introduce you to people that are just rocking our lives with the books that they're writing,

the things that they're making. And we've got Mike Naraki with us today. You may know him

as Larry the cucumber from Veggie Tales. And I bet, Mike, you probably get that all the time.

But the more important thing I want to talk about is Dead Sea Squirrels.

I want to talk about new things that you've got coming out.

So along with my co-host, Kim, here, we're just so delighted to be with you today.

Well, Bob, Kim, thank you so much for having me on.

I'm thrilled to be here.

Yeah.

Tell us a little bit about who you are and some of your background.

Before we jumped on, I have to tell you I brought grandson number one on to just hear Mike for a second.

And he was just blue his mind because he's like, that's what we did you cover.

So thank you for your kindnessness. So tell us a

little bit for people that haven't been exposed to you, Mike. What is it that you're about and some of

the history of how you've gotten to what you're doing right now? Yeah, yeah. Well, man,

if I back up way back, you know, I went to college thinking I was going to be a pediatrician.

I wanted to do that. I did pre-med. I was a bio major, picked up history as a second major just because

I love that as well. Working my way through college, I worked in video post-production where another

friend of mine, Phil Vischer, also worked. He and I had done some

performing together, some puppetry, you know, back in the mid-80s. We were in Chicago as

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