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00:00People in Meridian are all backward, and they just want to keep doing the same things, the

00:07same way, forever and ever.

00:09Oh, I love that, a little taste of this show from MEC West, and we have the creators here

00:15with us, Dave Gallagher and Noah Gallagher, you may see a resemblance, this is a father

00:20and son team.

00:21I love this.

00:22Welcome to the show.

00:24This is so fun.

00:25I loved what we just saw.

00:26So tell us about it.

00:27What is that, and how do people watch it?

00:29It's called MEC West, it's a story about the Wild West, but we add robots, so it's an independent

00:35animated show.

00:36Okay, I love it.

00:37And you brought one of the robots here, I don't know if you can see it.

00:40Which one is featured right here?

00:41This is Six.

00:42Six?

00:43Okay, well it's all animated, but you got the real life thing right here.

00:47I love it.

00:48Okay, so tell me how this came together.

00:49How did this, hey, I'm going to work with my son on this, and do this big project.

00:53Well, it's associated with a school, an animation school here in Utah.

00:57So this was made, headquartered in Utah.

01:00We have a lot of students, and they make great work, and we decided to sort of put it together

01:05into a show.

01:07It's amazing.

01:08All that talent.

01:09I think it's amazing when people learn about animation, and how much work goes into that

01:12kind of a project.

01:13So much.

01:14Noah, did you always know about this, or what was your exposure to the world of animation?

01:18Yeah, I grew up in the world of animation, because my dad worked on animated films when

01:23I was growing up.

01:24Wow.

01:25Films like Ice Age and Rio.

01:26Oh my goodness.

01:27Wow.

01:28How cool.

01:29Yeah.

01:30Yeah.

01:31Well, we should find out a little bit more about all that.

01:32Tell us about some of your experience, and how that lends to this beautiful masterpiece.

01:36Well, we were running the school, and the students were doing great work, and we decided

01:43to make this story.

01:44It's about this young girl, Pearl, and she finds this mysterious new mech comes into

01:49town.

01:50Wow.

01:51And the other people in town, they don't really like mechs very much, but she really loves

01:54them.

01:55She treats them like pets.

01:56Okay.

01:57Yeah.

01:58And the first episode is now out.

01:59Yes.

02:00On YouTube.

02:01On YouTube.

02:02You can watch it for free on YouTube.

02:03Wow.

02:04Just search Mech West on YouTube.

02:05Okay.

02:06And you can see it.

02:07You know, we see all these big pictures, these big motion pictures with Utah as, you know,

02:08one of the main characters, and we see it right here in your animation.

02:12Exactly.

02:13Amazing.

02:14Yeah.

02:15How did you decide for that kind of a setting and backdrop?

02:16Oh, we just love the Southwest, you know, and I feel like it's not a setting that you

02:21see a lot.

02:22Right.

02:23And certainly in animation, you don't really see Western things, and we don't see like

02:26robots that look like they were designed in the 1800s.

02:29Yeah.

02:30It's pretty remarkable.

02:31So we hear about, you know, these big motion picture houses sponsoring these kind of movies.

02:37How is this one coming to be?

02:39Yeah.

02:40It's very different.

02:41You know, we don't have this sort of enormous backing that normally you would pour millions

02:45and millions of dollars in first, and so this is more of a trickle, and we're fan supported.

02:50Oh, how amazing.

02:51So this is all crowdfunding, a big campaign.

02:54Oh, a big part of it, yeah.

02:56Wow.

02:57Well, that's pretty interesting.

02:58How do you get people involved, or how do you tell people about what you're doing?

03:00Yeah.

03:01I mean, that's the challenge of being an indie project, you know, there's just pros and cons

03:06to being traditional versus indie, but with indie, yeah, we just send it out there and

03:11kind of hope people like it, hope we reach the right people, and so far we've been reaching

03:16a lot of people who seem to like it.

03:18And the comments are very favorable.

03:19The people who are watching love it.

03:21So we hope it really just takes off from there, Utah's own.

03:25How do people get involved, and how do they jump in kind of on the ground level and try

03:29to support you guys?

03:30Well, watching and commenting, sharing, that's number one for now.

03:36And we hope to do more crowdfunding campaigns in the future, and we're going to sell some

03:42merchandise and things like that.

03:43Oh, look at this.

03:44Okay, show us what you've got right here.

03:45Yeah, we have a couple toys here of some characters from the show.

03:49So you draw these, and then they become reality.

03:52That's really cool.

03:53Exactly.

03:54Big team involved, but yeah.

03:56And Noah's one of the writers.

03:57That's so neat.

03:58Oh, I love it.

03:59And so this all just kind of comes to be in real life form right here.

04:03So these are some of the things that are out there, and you can support the project.

04:06And somebody should just look it up by going MECHWEST, M-E-C-H-W-E-S-T, and you can find

04:13out more there.

04:14All right.

04:15Thank you so much.

04:16Thank you so much, Dave and Noah Gallagher.

04:17We appreciate you guys coming in.

04:20All right.

04:21We wish them the best success.

04:22And again, check them out if you can.

04:23Here's a look at sports.

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