My friend Lauren Uchalik is the co-founder of the Motor City Comedy Festival. Her dad Dave is a pretty big local musician too playing in the 80s punk band The Mutants and currently the party band The Polish Muslims. I was curious how growing up with a parent who's an artist may have affected the entertainment Lauren watched as a child.

She tells me about how the animated movie All Dog's Go To Heaven backed up what she was learning in Sunday School, and how the campiness of Pee Wee Herman became a family tradition.

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Unlike Dave Uchalik, I'm a failed musician. The intro music for this podcast is from my old band Exploded Toad. The song is called "He's Me" that our drummer Rob Bentley wrote about me. Rob is a parent now too and graciously gave me permission to use this song as the intro.