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kids, so kids might have a little piece of it as they grow up? i think it means so much. and of course, when sesame street came along, it was revolutionary because oh, there were some terrific shows and captain kangaroo and romper room and things like that that were aimed at kids and trying to sort of, you know, inspire them to play and be thoughtful and those kinds of things. but they were super gentle. they skewed very young. and when they got jim henson involved with sesame street, here was somebody who wanted to be funny. he wanted to be entertaining. he wanted to use his puppets in that way and didn t necessarily think of himself as an educator, but he had a great heart. but he had been in the commercial business for 15 years. and he used a lot of the sensibilities of selling ideas which he had learned to do, didn t particularly love doing

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