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JM: You translate that into what Hank and Trash Truck and the other animal characters see.

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Do I need to get more soda? Are my Twizzlers running out? Going to the movies… I remember the sticky floor, the funny carpet, all the crazy movie posters. MK: I remember seeing The Little Mermaid, and that was a pretty amazing experience… seeing this character you can kind of connect to, ‘I remember my dad was drawing her.’ But probably at the time, I was maybe more focused on how much popcorn I have left. Do you remember going to the theater and seeing some of your dad’s movies on the big screen – his characters coming alive – and then translating that into this episode?

It doesn’t matter if you’re a raccoon, a bear, a mouse or a Trash Truck. And I love the fact that everybody can go into the movie. JM: The “Movie Theater” episode is really sweet, and I could tell in watching it how personal the story feels. There’s this blurry line between reality and imagination with kids. And what’s it like for a garbage truck to go to these places with. Simple little things like going to the movie theater… a really big, exciting moment for kids. Those are the things I wanted to create stories about. In a way, I kind of just plagiarized their lives and thought of the things we’ve done together and the things I’ve watched them go through… or memories I had growing up. MK: (laughs) I think my family had a ton of input, even if they didn’t know it. Max Keane JM: And because Henry was the inspiration, how much input did he have on any of the stories for these episodes? I didn’t go and do any recordings of the truck, but our sound designer, Jamey Scott, who was phenomenal and really brought a lot of character to these sounds… I believe he did do some recording on his street of trucks going by.

Those sounds are such an important aspect of the character and how the audience relates to that specific type of truck. Did you go to real garbage trucks and get some of those noises for the show? And I love listening to the truck noises. I love the relationship on the show between Hank and Trash Truck. And they thought there was something there and we should start developing it. After that, I told the idea to Gennie Rim, our producer, and Glen. That night I told him a really long-winded bedtime story about a little boy who’s best friend was a garbage truck, and it got me really excited about this relationship between a little boy and his best friend who is the most amazing thing to him.

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The driver honked the horn, and Henry leaned out of my arms and said, ‘Bye, Trash Truck.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, man!’ This thing is amazing.’ And then as the truck rolled away, it rumbled. I saw it for the first time and I said, ‘Henry, I get it. It pulled up in front of us and grabbed the trash and picked it up really high and dumped it and made all this noise and put the trash can down. As the truck was pulling up, it was like a creature, almost, coming to visit us. And I could see down the road these flashing lights. I don’t think I ever saw a garbage truck until this one morning when I was standing up holding Henry, and it was this cold, foggy morning. Max Keane:And that’s kind of how I got into wanting to make this show – seeing how excited this truck that I pretty much never really saw. I was like, ‘This is a weird obsession.’ And then I went on YouTube and saw that there’s a whole world of little kids who are obsessed with garbage trucks and families who are all supporting it. And I started to feel like, ‘What’s wrong with him?’ (laughs) We’d have to follow the garbage trucks and we’d have to wait on the street until they were out of sight, and he’d have to flip over every garbage can lid if we walked down the street. When my son Henry was one and a half, he was completely obsessed with them. And I love hearing stories about other kids who run to the window, too. It seems like the inspiration for you was your son and his love of garbage trucks. Jackson Murphy: My cousin’s two and a half year old son loves when the garbage truck comes by every week.

Keane, son of Oscar winner Glen Keane ( Dear Basketball, Over The Moon), is excited for audiences to experience this sweet, personal show and read the companion book. Max Keane is the creator of Netflix’s new family friendly animated program Trash Truck, which premieres this Tuesday November 10th.

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