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Join Caren for an inspiring and dynamic episode of Aging Like a Fine Wine. This week’s guest is 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.
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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 Warhol how to use the computer to
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make album covers for blondie back in
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the day
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and without further Ado the official the
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real life in person Lawrence cartel hey
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Lawrence hey hey hey hey hey hey Karen
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hi so great to be here with you and so
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joyous to be on your show today and uh
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you know every day feels like a new day
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I have to tell you something that's the
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idea it's not like sitting around and
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you know thinking about the past it's
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always about inventing the future right
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and what's next right what coming up
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Never Growing Up basically you know
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being is that your trick you're never
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growing up correct okay well that's
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awesome because everyone who's watching
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this right now wants to know how you're
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not going to grow up so let's take you
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back just a little bit um and talk a
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little bit about your journey getting to
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where you are today and I know you could
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go on for hours because you are quite
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accomplished but listen some highlights
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well you know first of all you the
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iconic things that I've made that people
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have seen the front 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 computers uh crazy time so you know
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that was a major major and I signed the
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I signed the cover they've never had an
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artist sign the cover of the magazine
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before so that was Monumental and that
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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 a 100 million magazines three wow
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magazines so amazing the most the most
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known ad 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 asked like how did
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they 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 back ground is all
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like wobbly and strange I said well if
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you're drinking a vodka that's how you
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feel there you go so it's about sight
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it's about it it's all the sensitivities
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that one has that is all in this
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particular ad so amazing amazing back of
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Art in America art form soube wired New
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York Magazine Scientific American art
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bite really it was Absol wow wow you
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also did something with the Grammys I'm
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just gonna with you right now yes you
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can I was official artist of the 57th
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annual Grammys they saw my work and they
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said we don't want Photoshop we want you
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to actually uh wrap the official Grammy
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statue so that's what I did it was the
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poster the invitation the VIP tickets
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and if you go to LA Live at the Grammy
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Museum you will see the statue on the
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third floor and one of my students who
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was celebrating his 50th birthday from
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Brazil went there and surprised me and
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he made made a video of The Statue he
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just sent it to me it's absolutely
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marvelous but you know to talk about it
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without seeing it so I have a poster
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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 on the
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table this was one of them this is the
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actual book
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that I read when I was eight and it's
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renois Sean van go Miro wow and all of
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this Mona man I looked at this and I
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said you know what it's breathtaking it
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takes my breath away right I am going to
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be one of the greatest artists that ever
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lived now that is about a
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99.9 possibility but you know what I'm
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going to go for it because that's what
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it's that's what it's all about so are
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you saying the impossible right and so
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you're driven literally by doing the
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impossible and just watch me right I'm
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gonna do this well I'm gonna show you
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something
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Karen this is
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called the story of art LA Story de Arte
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look at the people on the cover wow you
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got van go you got Modigliani
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you got the winged angel you got
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belli and what do you think and Lawrence
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gartell I'm going Lawrence Cortel is the
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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
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impossible wow right there you know what
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well-deserved congratulations you are
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amongst the Masters because you are one
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of the Masters that's amazing Lawrence
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very not 25 years after my death no in
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my lifetime in your lifetime many years
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ago this didn't come out yesterday so
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what so clearly you are doing what you
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want to do when you want to do it and as
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much as you want to do just talking to
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you we know that you are you're full of
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so many amazing things I didn't want to
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say full of it because that would not be
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appropriate um but what what what would
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you just say to somebody if they said Mr
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gartell I want here I am in the last
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stage the next stage of my life and I
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want to do something different what do
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you want to tell them no you do what you
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want to do you do what you love you
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follow your bliss you follow your
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passion you do what what makes you happy
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that's what this is all about this was
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never pleasing anybody else other than
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myself um when coca colola hired me to
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do the uh art for the Olympics uh they
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gave me cart blanch you do what you want
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to do they had seven attorneys look at
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the artwork and not art directors just
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to make sure that it was okay and I
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broke every rule in the book I had coke
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with the word cocacola uh I changed
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things up I cut things up whatever and
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they loved all of it and what they did
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with that is that they gave it to their
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lies so it it became uh uh wall clocks
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pencils uh towel beach whatever and they
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use it 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 they
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according to the instructions it says
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that there are 70 different different
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shapes correct yes so these can be found
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on Amazon guys uh you can go also find
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them um with Lawrence as well these are
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these are very cool and by the way they
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might be make very cool gifts for your
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your child life at any time at anytime
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so this leads me really to the last the
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last question well let me just say that
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there there're in 3100 Walmart stores
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there're in 2,000 Target stores they're
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in every Barnes & Noble in the country
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so you can find these pretty much
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anywhere in 3500 independent stores as
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well but these are the specialty yeah
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cubes only at Walmart how about
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that 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 really want I do want to
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know though what is next for you because
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I can't I can't even imagine there's
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something that's not even checked off on
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your list at this point w I don't have a
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list I I invent it as I go along
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I mean there's nothing that like I want
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to do no but I will tell you when I was
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a child I played with Matchbox cars and
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I had friends come over we played with
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these cars for hours well you know what
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at after the age of 60
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someone suggested you know what cartel
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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 five 500 of these
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cars they're
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$149.95 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 Faceook Facebook
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page it's on your Facebook page okay so
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the Facebook page guys go to g a r t e l
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l yes it's not spelled how you would
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think really how about they just type my
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name in and 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 100 pairs
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of each design there's three designs
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they're 495 okay so people need to be
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reaching out to you you've got some
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amazing cool cool stuff out there and
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one 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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re he goes I don't care about any of
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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 in about 10 minutes there you
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go 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 going to send him a copy
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of 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 gartell he is aging like a fine
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wine a really fine wine I might D um you
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can check him out at at his website he's
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while while he's going to get something
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out make sure you check him out at
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gartel museum. weebly.com this speaking
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about a fine wine what about a fine
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Lawrence gartell 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 ROM ROM 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 yes because then we can Le
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them to the website of the distributor
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because you know unfortunately you can't
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sell you know
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alcohol so I'm gonna drop just a hint so
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Lauren um you and I are working on a
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project together and um all of you are
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going to be able to see where you can
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actually go and uh online and pick up
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an original Lawrence gartell maybe even
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signed how cool is that I want to thank
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everyone for tuning in today you have a
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choice as to where you spend your time
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and you chose to spend it with Lawrence
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and I today Lawrence you are awesome
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everyone go out give somebody an awesome
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day and we'll see you next time bye
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everyone yeah thank you
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