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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Today, we are talking children's TV characters. Who is the GOAT?
I actually was a PBS kid when I was growing up. Okay. And I watched a lot of Arthur.
Arthur.
His whole campaign of reading more, it really affected me. I was in the library all the time because of him.
And look at you now.
Look at that.
It paid off. I have a character who I did not grow up with at all. It's Peppa Pig. I love Peppa Pig's attitude. Listen, listen. I'll explain why. I have a personal connection. Because I have been taking Spanish tutoring for the past year and a half.
One of the things that was suggested to me when I was like starting off was that I should watch children's programming to kind of like, you know, get into, you know. And so I started watching Peppa Cerdo on YouTube. Yeah.
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