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Aging Like a Fine Wine - The Laurence Gartel Interview
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May 7, 2024
Join Caren for an inspiring and dynamic conversation with the legendary Laurence Gartel, known as the Father of Digital Art. From creating the first digital art for Forbes magazine to designing the official Grammy statue, Laurence’s extraordinary story will inspire and entertain you. The iconic art world figure pushes boundaries and shares his passion for doing the impossible and following one’s bliss. With his unparalleled energy and creativity, Laurence Gartel proves that aging is indeed like a fine wine. #GARTEL #aginglikeafinewine #fatherofdigitalart Click https://www.uncorked.online/napa-guide for your complimentary copy of The Ultimate Napa Travel Guide
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to life Uncorked today's segment
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we are calling aging like a fine wine I
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have with me today Lawrence gartell
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known as the father of digital art he's
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an international icon in the art world
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and he's been cranking out worldclass
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digital art since the 70s even teaching
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Andy warl to use the computer to make
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album covers for blondie back in the day
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and without further Ado the official the
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real live in person Lawrence cartel hey
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Lawrence hey hey heyy hey hey hey hey
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Karen hi so great to be here with you
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and so joyous to be on your show today
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and uh you know every day feels like a
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new day I have to tell you something
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that's the idea it's not like sitting
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around and you know thinking about the
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past it's always about in venting the
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future right and what's next right what
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coming up Never Growing Up basically you
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know being is that your trick you're
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never growing up correct okay well
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that's awesome because everyone who's
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watching this right now wants to know
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how you're not going to grow up so let's
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take you back just a little bit um and
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talk a little bit about your journey
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getting to where you are today and I
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know you could go on for hours because
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you are quite accomplished but list some
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some highlights well you know first of
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all you the iconic things that I've made
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that people have seen the front cover of
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Forbes Magazine in 1989 the first
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digital art ever for that publication it
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was about Reuters Reuters going to
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computers to to uh disseminate knowledge
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it actually started much earlier with
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carrier pigeons that went across Enemy
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Lines and they were delivering messages
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in their beaks and now they're doing it
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with computer
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uh crazy time so you know that was a
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major major and I signed the I signed
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the cover they've never had an artist
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sign the cover of the magazine before so
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that was Monumental and that was
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1989 wow and after that I did my uh
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absolute ad for absolute vodka that was
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on 100 million magazines three wow
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magazines so amazing the most the most
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known add the longest running in the
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history of the campaign from 1991 to
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2001 when it was on the back cover of
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art forum and of course that was during
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911 so this was a really tremendous uh
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tremendous thing and it's and it's
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beautiful and it's beautiful thank you
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so a lot of people ask like how did they
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pick something where the bottle is
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unreadable and I said well you know if
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you drink enough vodka that's what
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happens and I went oh my God that's
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brilliant and the background is all like
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wobbly and strange I said well if you
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drinking a vodka that's how you feel
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there you go so it's about sight it's
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about it it's all the sensitivities that
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one has that is all in this particular
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ad amazing amazing back of Art in
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America art forms soube wired New York
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Magazine Scientific American art bite
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really it was Absol wow wow you also did
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something with the Grammys I'm just
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going to stop with you right now yes you
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can I was the official artist of the
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57th annual Grammys they saw my work and
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they said we don't want Photoshop we
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want you to actually uh wrap the
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official Grammy statue so that's what I
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did it was the poster the invitation the
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VIP tickets and if you go to LA Live at
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the Grammy Museum you will see the
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statue on the third floor and one of my
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students who is celebrating his 50th
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birthday from Brazil went there and
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surprised me and he made a video of The
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Statue he just sent it to me it's
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absolutely marvelous but you know to
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talk about it without seeing it so I
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have a poster behind
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me I'll just take it off the
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wall and uh
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wow that it
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wow it's
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gorgeous it's gorgeous that's that's all
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I can say so Lawrence I mean obviously
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and I know there's so many more things
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that you have uh created uh but I I
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guess the question that I my viewers
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want to know is what drives you at this
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stage of Life what keeps you going well
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I'll tell you I have something sitting
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here right here which is unbelievable
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because I had somebody here the other
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day okay and I told him that on my uh
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living room table as a child at 8 years
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old there were several books
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on the table this was one of them this
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is the actual book that I read when I
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was eight and it's renois Sean van go
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Miro and all of this mon man I looked at
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this and I said you know what it's
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breathtaking it takes my breath away
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right I am going to be one of the
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greatest artists that ever lived now
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that is about a 99 .9 possibility but
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you know what I'm going to go for it
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because that's what it's that's what
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it's all about so are you saying do the
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impossible right and so you're driven
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literally by doing the impossible and
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just watch me right I'm GNA do this well
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I'm gonna show you something
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Karen this is
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called the story of art LA Story de look
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at the people on the cover wow
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you got van go you got
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Modigliani you got the winged angel you
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got
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belli and what do you think and Lawrence
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gartell I'm going Lawrence gartell is
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the last page of art history
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wow wow here here he is okay Mission
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fulfilled wow Mission fulfilled Karen
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this is impossible
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wow right there you know what welld
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deserved congratulations you are amongst
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the Masters because you are one of the
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Masters that's amazing Lawrence very
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impressive not 25 years after my death
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no in my lifetime in your lifetime many
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years ago this didn't come out yesterday
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so what so clearly you are doing what
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you want to do when you want to do it
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and as much as you want to do just
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talking to you we know that you are
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you're full of so many amazing things I
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didn't want to say full of it because
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that would not be appropriate um but
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what what would you just say to somebody
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if they said Mr gartell I want here I am
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on in the last stage the next stage of
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my life and I want to do something
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different what do you want to tell them
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no you do what you want to do you do
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what you love you follow your bliss you
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follow your passion you do what what
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makes you happy that's what this is all
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about this was never pleasing anybody
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else other than
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myself um when Coca-Cola hired me to do
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the uh art for the Olympics uh they gave
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me cart blanch you do what you want to
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do they had seven attorneys look at the
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artwork and not art directors just to
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make sure that it was okay and I broke
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every rule in the book I had coke with
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the word cocacola uh I changed things up
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I cut things up whatever and they loved
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all of it and what they did with that
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is that they gave it to their lienes so
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it it became uh uh wall clocks pencils
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uh towel beach whatever it and they use
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it for their promotion their marketing
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merchandising everything that you could
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think of so one of the things that I'm
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fascinated about with you and I know
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you've got some sitting over there
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you're not it's not just artwork on a
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wall or in a book you do well these are
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these are from a company called shashibo
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right right
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and basically it's it's like a Rubik's
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Cube that is even like more crazy and
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you've got some beautiful examples here
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I I was I shouldn't have opened this up
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because I'm never going to be able to
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close it now wow look at these and
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there's like seven I like to wear I like
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to wear it as a bracelet myself there
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you go okay well then me too yeah yeah
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they according to the instructions it
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says that there are 70 different
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different shapes correct so these can be
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found on Amazon guys uh you can go also
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find them um with Lawrence as well these
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are these are very cool and by the way
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they might be make very cool gifts for
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your your child life at any time at any
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time so this leads me really to the last
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the last question well let me just say
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that they're they're in 3,100 Walmart
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stores they're in 2,000 Target stores
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they're in every Barnes in Noble in the
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country so you can find these pretty
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much anywhere in 3500 independent stores
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as well but these are the specialty yeah
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cubes only at Walmart how about that
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only you can't get these two cubes there
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are four of them you can't find them
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anywhere else except except for Walmart
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okay so you heard it here first guys
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there's some specialty uh cubes that you
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can get over that you can get at at
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Walmart Walmart I really want I do want
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to know though what is next for you
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because I can't I can't even imagine
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there's something that's not even
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checked off on your list at Point well I
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don't have a list I I invent it as I go
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along I mean there's nothing that like I
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want to do no but I will tell you when I
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was a child I played with Matchbox cars
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and I had friends come over we played
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with these cars for hours well you know
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what at after the age of 60
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someone suggested you know what gartell
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you need your own diecast car these are
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coming this week oh my gosh they are
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limited edition there's only aund I'm
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sorry there's only 500 of these cars
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they're
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$149 95 cents where do they find those
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Lawrence uh well you know they would
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probably contact me at the moment
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because we're not really selling them
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there's only 500 and 165 of these are
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already spoken for so they can contact
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you over on your website right if they
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contact me they can contact me through
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Instagram they can contact me uh you
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know really direct at gartell
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aol.com that's the way we do have a we
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do have a website for this but
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uh you know I would know specifically uh
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from this uh thing if you if they
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contacted me direct I love that car I
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want one you know that's the way to do I
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will have I will put that in the notes
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um and also I want to just mention
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because I would be remiss if I didn't
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say that you have some other things you
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showed me some pictures of may I say it
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tennis shoes yeah actually that website
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is on my I just uh announced it
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yesterday it's on my Facebook page it's
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on your Facebook page okay so the
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Facebook page got guys go to g a r t l l
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yes it's not spelled how you would think
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really how about they just type my name
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and then look and see but here oh my
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gosh here they are here they are there's
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only again this there's only one 100
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pairs of each design there's three
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designs they're 495 okay so people need
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to be reaching out to you you've got
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some amazing cool cool stuff out there
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and one last thing I do want to mention
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you have a documentary coming out yes I
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do yes you do in April if I'm not
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mistaken yes the fellow is gonna gonna
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shoot it from Italy he's coming here
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he's shooting it and we're gonna talk to
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friends and and Associates colleagues
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but really I just when I just spoke to
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him recently goes I don't care about any
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of that I want the passion what is and I
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said I'm going to be asked those
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questions about 10 minutes there you go
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what is driving you to all of this he
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asked the same thing you did Karen he
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wants to try to express that in the film
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I swear to God well you know what
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Lawrence we're gonna send him a copy of
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this and he'll be able to see you in
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action as well here Lawrence you are
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amazing I don't know how anyone can sit
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and watch you and not be inspired to go
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do their best work you are an inspiring
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person and for those of you who are just
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tuning in right now we are talking to
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Lawrence
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he is aging like a fine wine a really
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fine wine I might add um you can check
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him out at at his website he's while
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while he's going to get something out
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make sure you check him out at gartel
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museum. weebly.com that's speaking about
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a fine wine what about a fine Lawrence
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gartel rum
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oh now that is coming out very very very
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soon you heard it here I've never
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announced it at any time because I don't
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like to talk about things that aren't
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like on the Shelf but you said aging
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like a fine one say he's aging like a
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fine rum rum limited edition again
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Lawrence do they can they contact you at
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any one of these places and say where
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can I find these yes because then we can
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Le them to the website of the
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distributor because you know
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unfortunately you can't sell you know
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alcohol you right so I'm gonna drop just
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a hint so Lauren um you and I are
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working on a project together and um all
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of you are going to be able to see you
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can actually go and uh online and pick
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up an original Lawrence gartel maybe
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even signed how cool that I want to
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thank everyone for tuning in today you
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have a choice as to where you spend your
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time and you chose to spend it with
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Lawrence and I today Lawrence you are
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awesome everyone go out give somebody an
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awesome day and we'll see you next time
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bye everyone yeah thank you
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