i see a triangle over there
i see a circle and i see a lot of fun
from teaching kids about shapes to
helping young ones discover the 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
views worldwide and joining us to talk
about pancake manor ladies and gentlemen
billy reid the creator of this exciting
youtube channel and his friend zach hey
zach hey how's it going nice to meet you
nice to meet you as well you okay yeah
yeah good good uh do you mind if i talk
to billy for a second okay okay thanks
and then we'll talk to you billy this is
awesome congratulations buddy this is uh
really great and the reason you're here
too let's uh inform the viewers first of
all about uh pancake man and 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 pancake matter is a musical video
series and basically look at it like alt
rock meets fraggle rock perfect yeah
that's a great pitch right there i'd buy
that in the room
um and then when you when you
put together uh individual episodes and
whatnot yeah what do you what do you try
to focus on
uh as we were watching you know learning
about the solar system per se but not
only what do you focus on but how do you
get your ideas and inspirations too um
well my collaborator red stevenson and i
just sit down i think what are some 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 the song and then we start
working on the visuals that's amazing
and um how long does it take to put
something together in terms of um well
sort of depends sometimes we get lots of
kids involved those those videos can
take a couple weeks but generally maybe
about a week week and a half per video
and are you and reb responsible for not
only the the the idea the concept but
the music as well do you perform the
music as well yeah i write all the songs
for every video yeah okay hey zach
what's your favorite part about being on
tv hmm
um
seeing the fan videos oh yeah yeah so
they make their own versions of it yeah
kids all around the world
like in turkey what yeah and have you
been to turkey um have i 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 what 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 tip 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
growing up was pop songs pop rock songs
on the radio you know and that's what
we're trying to do with these songs
we're trying to write music that
parents can also enjoy there you go
right and that's important too you see a
lot of animated films uh doing that
these days at theaters where they
despicable me too and all those 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 and hopefully other people
like it as well is that what came after
step two what's after step two step one
you pour it yeah step two you um
flip it yeah and then is there step
three stack it second i love it that's
how i like my pancakes
and hey is it hard for you to see
yourself working there sir uh a little
bit yeah yeah i know you keep looking
away you're a shy guy aren't you
now do you want to tell me about zach
you wanna tell me about um uh geek week
and what happened there that was pretty
exciting he can tell you okay i want me
to tell him yeah okay um well youtube
invited us to be part of this thing
called geek week so all week long
they've been showing geeky videos you
know superhero videos we made a video
about superheroes uh we did one as you
saw earlier about planets and uh we were
really you know honored to be uh asked
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 do you want to give away
your superpower no okay watch the video
exactly yeah that's what we're doing
we're encouraging people to go um and
billy in terms of uh what you want to do
going forward with pancake manor like
yeah we just want to grow this and
continue it online um there's more
characters that we have in the works so
right now we have two characters
and hopefully in the next year you'll
see one or two more characters that's
fantastic did you ever speaking of uh
jim henson obviously uh yeah passed away
many years ago but did you ever think
about working for them once upon a time
yeah uh definitely if they approached me
today i wouldn't hesitate yeah i would
love to work with those people legendary
jim henson with parents of course the
new muppets movie coming out next year
that's very exciting but you would take
zach with you right oh of course
everywhere you go he goes that's right
all right great to meet you buddy firm
handshake have a great summer having a
good summer so far all right yeah very
cool billy good to meet you as well
appreciate your time for more
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