December 18, 2025 • 14 mins
Maria chats with one of her favorite guests, MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell!
Patrick took a few minutes from his book tour to chat about The Gift of Everything and The Gift of Nothing (20th Anniversary edition with a new cover!) Book Tour, plus all that he's been doing!
Patrick and his wife Karen do so much for charities (check it out HERE) plus
the Shop of " MUTTS stuff" is perfect this time of year!
Patrick has new ideas that he'll be working on so you can count on him returning!
Visit the shop and learn more: MUTTS!
Patrick took a few minutes from his book tour to chat about The Gift of Everything and The Gift of Nothing (20th Anniversary edition with a new cover!) Book Tour, plus all that he's been doing!
Patrick and his wife Karen do so much for charities (check it out HERE) plus
the Shop of " MUTTS stuff" is perfect this time of year!
Patrick has new ideas that he'll be working on so you can count on him returning!
Visit the shop and learn more: MUTTS!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Maria's MutS and Stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What a great idea on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome to Maria's Mutts and Stuff. And with me as
I called him a recurring guest because I love to
chat with him, it is Patrick McDonell of Mutt's Comic
So Patrick, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I agree. How are you happy to be back?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes? Please? So you are busier than busy. I feel
like every time I talk to you, which I think
the most recent time was this time last year when
you had a new book out, and now you have
another book that came out in October and you're now
in the middle of a book tour.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Correct, yes, yes, Actually I'm leaving for San Francisco tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Wow. Okay, wow, And this is much and earle the
Gift of Everything.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, Actually it's two new books. It's the Gift
of Everything and the twentieth anniversary of the Gift of Nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Right, that's right. I saw that on your website out
as a package. So okay, So the Gift of Nothing obviously,
twentieth anniversary came out in two thousand and five. And
now the Gift of Everything. Let's talk a little bit
about that since that's the newer book. So what is
that book about?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Last Thanksgiving, my niece at Thanksgiving dinner made a joke
and said, well you did, you did a book on nothing?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
When are you going to do a book on everything?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And let we laughed at the time, but then the
idea stuck.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
With me and I came up with this news story
for Mooch and the Gift of Everything, and I thought
it was appropriate that it would come out at the
same time as the twentieth anniversary edition with.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The Gift of Everything. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The Gift of Nothing was about Mooch wanting to give
his best friend, Earl the Dog, a gift, but Earl
had a chewey toy and a water bowl and a bed,
and he figured what do you get someone who has everything,
and comes up with the idea to give him nothing.
But the thing is that this crazy, hectic holiday season,
(01:59):
where can you find nothing with all that's going on?
And it's him kind of going on an inward journey
and finding the stillness underneath all the noise and then
gives the best gift you could give someone as your
own presence instead of present. And so for the gift
of every thing. It's Mooch once again is trying to
find the perfect gift, URL, and this time he goes
(02:22):
out in the world and tries to find it. And
what happens is he sort of gets new eyes and
sees the whole world as a gift and that everything
is precious and uh, you know, the astonishing world we
live in, and then Mooch presents that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
As a gift, EURL.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So yeah, it's I think one's an inward book and
one's an outward but.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Ah, that's funny. But it also is you know, it's
very It's something that we probably knew from when we
were children, right, to just be grateful for what you have.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I think kids kids better than us.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We forget all those important things just the way kids naturally,
you know, you know, with much it's all about dogs
and cats and animals. Every little every little kid loves animals.
Realize that there are souls that are no different than
them in terms of living on this planet. And then
somewhere along the line we forget those things.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I think you're right. I think at some point when
we become adults, I think, you know, life experience kind
of makes us jaded and you kind of lose the
simple stuff that you're right as kids. I mean, you're
right because kids always appreciate animals and then as adults
people do terrible things to animals. And it's like, what
happened to you you were a kid who had a
(03:43):
dog or you know what I mean. It's just yeah.
So I'm also I find it so interesting that Bile
your niece making a joke, it kind of like spurred
your You have so much creativity, but it spurred you
to come up with the gift of everything? Is that
the first time that happened? Or does that happen to
you every time? Like you have a book because you
(04:04):
don't have other books? Like, does that is that how
it happens?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I wish it was that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, No, usually you know it's it's I was art
is a form of meditation, you know, you get quiet
and still and the universe, you know, supplies.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You with ideas. So every book that you know, it's funny,
every book I've done, they sort of just happened.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I did a book with the Dali Lama recently, and
who would have thought. I mean, it's still crazy to
say that, right, just the way just the way things
turned out. And you know, I had a friend and
his wife was on the international campaign for Tibet, and
we mentioned maybe doing a book together and then it
then it just happens, right, books kind of magically, the
art is funny, art magically appears.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think with the Gift Nothing was just sort of
a comment.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
But then just the title the Gift of Everything just
you know, inspired me to start thinking along those terms.
And you know, the story just came out of the
blue and I was really happy with it. So, yeah,
you never know where the ideas are going.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
To come from.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah. And also the fact, I mean, and you did
it within you did it like in quick time, right,
because we spoke last year, Right, the Gift of Everything
wasn't happening yet.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, I didn't. It wasn't an idea yet.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, the Gift of Nothing, the first book happened really fast.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I mean, the idea came to me.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I sold it to a Little Brown Publishing and they said, well,
I think I sold it to them in November and
they said, well, you know, the books for next holiday
season are already done. You're gonna have to wait two years.
And as a daily comics storeparty. So I'm used to
doing my work and seeing it in the newspapers a
couple of weeks later. Of course, I did not want
(05:50):
to wait years. Two years, yeah, yeah, so that it
was a Friday afternoon when we had this discussion and
they said, well, if you can get it to us Monday,
we could do it, so that the gift that nothing
was done him a very long week.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
As far as the finished art goes, that was a
weekend book.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh my goodness, I can't. Well that's you because you
are so extremely talented. But that's pretty phenomenal when you
think about it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Wow, that's that's like I never had to do that again.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Right right, So but still, but even for like the
gift of everything, that took a few months for you
or yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know, yeah, yeah, I'm also doing a daily comic strip,
so you have to, yeah, you know, find the time.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To do things.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
But uh, yeah, I would say most most books take
a few months. Right.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But still, that's pretty impressive. I think it's impressive because
you know, you churned it out, and I know because
I follow you, so I see your daily comic strip
and it's like, well, I love Patrick, and it's always
so much fun, and you always have something to give
me and give us, like a thought, like a food
for thought with your comic strip too. So are you so,
(07:00):
I know you're in the middle of the tour and
you're going out to the West Coast after that. Are
you okay? Like, are you still going to do this
book tour or it's onto the next project?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know, I'm going to Santa Rose. I'm actually going
to be speaking at the Charles Schultz Museum.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh nice, Yeah, that's cool, yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
My wife camera are on the board of directors there,
and it's such a wonderful museum. If you ever get
a chance to be in Santa Rose and go see
the Charles M.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Schultz Museum.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then and then next week it's the last stop
on my book tour. I'm going to be in Massachusetts
and the Unlikely Story. It's a bookstore that's owned by
Jeff Kenney, the guy who wrote the.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Wimpy Kids series.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And then and then the holidays, and then I go
back to working, back to normal.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Back to work, meaning on the comic strip.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And I have actually it's funny, I have three book
ideas right now. Wow, I'm not sure which one's going
to be the one I work on immediately, but there's
three ideas I've been playing with and we'll see what happens. A.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That's impressive, and B. I'm not going to pry and
ask you to tell me anything about it, but just
tell me if one of those book ideas did it
come from someone in a conversation like the last book? No, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
With myself, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
But that's good because your thoughts are excellent too. So oh,
it's amazing. You just are amazing, and you just keep
going and you really are like a national treasure. And
I know you're humble and modest about it, but you
really are. Patrick. It's we're so blessed to have you
and your creativity and all that you do for charity
(08:43):
and animals and the environment. So you know, I have
to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's so nice of you to say. I mean, I
tell you truth, I feel blessed. I get to do
what I love to do, and I get.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
To meet so many amazing people like you. You know,
I'm lucky. I hang out mostly with cartoonists.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And animal and animal people, right, and.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
They're they're the two best people on the plant.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I mean, just you know, open the hearts and you
know a lot of love within that realm of the world.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But you know, just for for someone who's listening right now,
who is you know, they're familiar, but they're not sure. Well,
they can go to Mutts dot com and they can.
You have so many great products, by the way, and
it's a great it's such a perfect time of year
for little gifts to stocking stuffers and books and and shirts,
all these different MutS items stuff stuff. It's MutS stuff exactly.
(09:36):
And then you also donate to charity from your sales,
which you know, people need to know that.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, no, that's an important part of it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And also people should know that for free they can
get the Mutch comic in their you know, email to
them every day.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So oh that's true. That's yes.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You can get dot com too if you don't, you know,
if your paper is not running it and if you're
not getting a paper, which is sort of I know.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Nowadays, but you can still get it autch dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I still love newspapers, but I think it's kind of
an old school thing to still love the feel of
a newspaper, but you know, many people see it digitally.
But you can also follow Patrick on Instagram and you
could see the daily comic strip as well. So you're going,
You're going to the West Coast. You're leaving tomorrow. People
can also get the Gift of Everything and the Gift
(10:25):
of Nothing. It's a twentieth anniversary edition. They can get
that as a package on your website. Is there anything
with the Gift of Nothing? That's the twentieth anniversary edition?
Is there anything extra? And it then was in the
first edition back twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's a larger size, and there's a new cover that
I really like.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It came out really nice.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh okay, Like what's different about the cover.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's a whole new drawing.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh oh it's completely new.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh wow, yeah, completely new.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh okay, Well that makes it special, right, it's like
extra spe shoal So.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, and it's bigger than the original one.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
And yeah, it looked good. I'm I'm happy with it.
Had a it was a New York Times bestseller. And
actually there was a We wrote a children's musical that
was performed at the Kennedy Center a few years ago,
and one of the reasons.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm going out.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
West is Marine Theater right now is doing The Gift
and Nothing as a play before the you know, during
the holiday season, so you could see it there.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, that's pretty cool too. Is that the first time
that's happened?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, you know, I tell you it was.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It was so much fun to kind of see your
characters come alive on stage and uh watched the audience
enjoy it. So it was I that doing doing that
play at the Kennedy Center was like the most fun
experience I've had with mons.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I remember you said that, but even still with
the theater, to doing it, I mean, that must be
really really cool, right, I mean, do you stop and
pitch yourself because you're like, wait, I create these characters
and now I'm watching them on stage, like.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And to see a new production of it, you know,
I haven't seen anything. So I'm going on opening night.
M It'll just be exciting to see the new actors
and you'll perform.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It, and yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm sure. I know, like I'm excited and I'm not
I'm not going to see it. I think that's so cool.
That's so cool. I'm sure you're gonna be pinching yourself,
and I'm sure it's gonna blow everybody away how excellent
it is. So I hope, yeah, I think so. I
don't think you have to hope. I think it's definite.
It's a definite. They're gonna be great. So when the
theater company decided to do that, do they reach out
(12:40):
to you? They send you their script? Like, how how
does that process happen?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
No, this one's this one was an easy product. The
actor who played Ozzy at the Kennedy Center is now
at this theater.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh okay, he proposed it and they got in contact.
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I wrote the play with Aaron Posner who is the director,
and the composer was Andy Mitten. And actually Andy's going
to be coming to back to California to see the
play against too, So it should be a fun, a
fun weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh nice, that's excellent. That's exciting, so exciting. Oh, I'm
excited for you, and congratulations. And again for those who
are you're looking for some gifts, you want to get
the gift of everything, in the gift of nothing and
just any of the Mutts stuff as Patrick called it,
please go to Mutts dot com. Patrick, I always appreciate
(13:33):
your time because you are a very busy man doing
your thing, and I'm excited about your three book ideas.
So I have a feeling we're going to be talking
again next year. Is that okay?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I would love that of course.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
All right, well, thank you so much and good luck
with your trip.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Okay, thank you. Take care,
It's Maria's MutS and Stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What a great idea on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Welcome to Maria's Mutts and Stuff. And with me as
I called him a recurring guest because I love to
chat with him, it is Patrick McDonell of Mutt's Comic
So Patrick, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I agree. How are you happy to be back?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes? Please? So you are busier than busy. I feel
like every time I talk to you, which I think
the most recent time was this time last year when
you had a new book out, and now you have
another book that came out in October and you're now
in the middle of a book tour.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Correct, yes, yes, Actually I'm leaving for San Francisco tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Wow. Okay, wow, And this is much and earle the
Gift of Everything.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, Actually it's two new books. It's the Gift
of Everything and the twentieth anniversary of the Gift of Nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Right, that's right. I saw that on your website out
as a package. So okay, So the Gift of Nothing obviously,
twentieth anniversary came out in two thousand and five. And
now the Gift of Everything. Let's talk a little bit
about that since that's the newer book. So what is
that book about?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Last Thanksgiving, my niece at Thanksgiving dinner made a joke
and said, well you did, you did a book on nothing?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
When are you going to do a book on everything?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And let we laughed at the time, but then the
idea stuck.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
With me and I came up with this news story
for Mooch and the Gift of Everything, and I thought
it was appropriate that it would come out at the
same time as the twentieth anniversary edition with.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The Gift of Everything. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The Gift of Nothing was about Mooch wanting to give
his best friend, Earl the Dog, a gift, but Earl
had a chewey toy and a water bowl and a bed,
and he figured what do you get someone who has everything,
and comes up with the idea to give him nothing.
But the thing is that this crazy, hectic holiday season,
(01:59):
where can you find nothing with all that's going on?
And it's him kind of going on an inward journey
and finding the stillness underneath all the noise and then
gives the best gift you could give someone as your
own presence instead of present. And so for the gift
of every thing. It's Mooch once again is trying to
find the perfect gift, URL, and this time he goes
(02:22):
out in the world and tries to find it. And
what happens is he sort of gets new eyes and
sees the whole world as a gift and that everything
is precious and uh, you know, the astonishing world we
live in, and then Mooch presents that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
As a gift, EURL.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So yeah, it's I think one's an inward book and
one's an outward but.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Ah, that's funny. But it also is you know, it's
very It's something that we probably knew from when we
were children, right, to just be grateful for what you have.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I think kids kids better than us.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We forget all those important things just the way kids naturally,
you know, you know, with much it's all about dogs
and cats and animals. Every little every little kid loves animals.
Realize that there are souls that are no different than
them in terms of living on this planet. And then
somewhere along the line we forget those things.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I think you're right. I think at some point when
we become adults, I think, you know, life experience kind
of makes us jaded and you kind of lose the
simple stuff that you're right as kids. I mean, you're
right because kids always appreciate animals and then as adults
people do terrible things to animals. And it's like, what
happened to you you were a kid who had a
(03:43):
dog or you know what I mean. It's just yeah.
So I'm also I find it so interesting that Bile
your niece making a joke, it kind of like spurred
your You have so much creativity, but it spurred you
to come up with the gift of everything? Is that
the first time that happened? Or does that happen to
you every time? Like you have a book because you
(04:04):
don't have other books? Like, does that is that how
it happens?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I wish it was that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, No, usually you know it's it's I was art
is a form of meditation, you know, you get quiet
and still and the universe, you know, supplies.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You with ideas. So every book that you know, it's funny,
every book I've done, they sort of just happened.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I did a book with the Dali Lama recently, and
who would have thought. I mean, it's still crazy to
say that, right, just the way just the way things
turned out. And you know, I had a friend and
his wife was on the international campaign for Tibet, and
we mentioned maybe doing a book together and then it
then it just happens, right, books kind of magically, the
art is funny, art magically appears.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think with the Gift Nothing was just sort of
a comment.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
But then just the title the Gift of Everything just
you know, inspired me to start thinking along those terms.
And you know, the story just came out of the
blue and I was really happy with it. So, yeah,
you never know where the ideas are going.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
To come from.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah. And also the fact, I mean, and you did
it within you did it like in quick time, right,
because we spoke last year, Right, the Gift of Everything
wasn't happening yet.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, I didn't. It wasn't an idea yet.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, the Gift of Nothing, the first book happened really fast.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I mean, the idea came to me.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I sold it to a Little Brown Publishing and they said, well,
I think I sold it to them in November and
they said, well, you know, the books for next holiday
season are already done. You're gonna have to wait two years.
And as a daily comics storeparty. So I'm used to
doing my work and seeing it in the newspapers a
couple of weeks later. Of course, I did not want
(05:50):
to wait years. Two years, yeah, yeah, so that it
was a Friday afternoon when we had this discussion and
they said, well, if you can get it to us Monday,
we could do it, so that the gift that nothing
was done him a very long week.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
As far as the finished art goes, that was a
weekend book.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh my goodness, I can't. Well that's you because you
are so extremely talented. But that's pretty phenomenal when you
think about it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Wow, that's that's like I never had to do that again.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Right right, So but still, but even for like the
gift of everything, that took a few months for you
or yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know, yeah, yeah, I'm also doing a daily comic strip,
so you have to, yeah, you know, find the time.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To do things.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
But uh, yeah, I would say most most books take
a few months. Right.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But still, that's pretty impressive. I think it's impressive because
you know, you churned it out, and I know because
I follow you, so I see your daily comic strip
and it's like, well, I love Patrick, and it's always
so much fun, and you always have something to give
me and give us, like a thought, like a food
for thought with your comic strip too. So are you so,
(07:00):
I know you're in the middle of the tour and
you're going out to the West Coast after that. Are
you okay? Like, are you still going to do this
book tour or it's onto the next project?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know, I'm going to Santa Rose. I'm actually going
to be speaking at the Charles Schultz Museum.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh nice, Yeah, that's cool, yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
My wife camera are on the board of directors there,
and it's such a wonderful museum. If you ever get
a chance to be in Santa Rose and go see
the Charles M.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Schultz Museum.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then and then next week it's the last stop
on my book tour. I'm going to be in Massachusetts
and the Unlikely Story. It's a bookstore that's owned by
Jeff Kenney, the guy who wrote the.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Wimpy Kids series.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And then and then the holidays, and then I go
back to working, back to normal.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Back to work, meaning on the comic strip.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And I have actually it's funny, I have three book
ideas right now. Wow, I'm not sure which one's going
to be the one I work on immediately, but there's
three ideas I've been playing with and we'll see what happens. A.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That's impressive, and B. I'm not going to pry and
ask you to tell me anything about it, but just
tell me if one of those book ideas did it
come from someone in a conversation like the last book? No, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
With myself, all right.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
But that's good because your thoughts are excellent too. So oh,
it's amazing. You just are amazing, and you just keep
going and you really are like a national treasure. And
I know you're humble and modest about it, but you
really are. Patrick. It's we're so blessed to have you
and your creativity and all that you do for charity
(08:43):
and animals and the environment. So you know, I have
to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's so nice of you to say. I mean, I
tell you truth, I feel blessed. I get to do
what I love to do, and I get.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
To meet so many amazing people like you. You know,
I'm lucky. I hang out mostly with cartoonists.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And animal and animal people, right, and.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
They're they're the two best people on the plant.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I mean, just you know, open the hearts and you
know a lot of love within that realm of the world.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But you know, just for for someone who's listening right now,
who is you know, they're familiar, but they're not sure. Well,
they can go to Mutts dot com and they can.
You have so many great products, by the way, and
it's a great it's such a perfect time of year
for little gifts to stocking stuffers and books and and shirts,
all these different MutS items stuff stuff. It's MutS stuff exactly.
(09:36):
And then you also donate to charity from your sales,
which you know, people need to know that.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, no, that's an important part of it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And also people should know that for free they can
get the Mutch comic in their you know, email to
them every day.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So oh that's true. That's yes.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You can get dot com too if you don't, you know,
if your paper is not running it and if you're
not getting a paper, which is sort of I know.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Nowadays, but you can still get it autch dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I still love newspapers, but I think it's kind of
an old school thing to still love the feel of
a newspaper, but you know, many people see it digitally.
But you can also follow Patrick on Instagram and you
could see the daily comic strip as well. So you're going,
You're going to the West Coast. You're leaving tomorrow. People
can also get the Gift of Everything and the Gift
(10:25):
of Nothing. It's a twentieth anniversary edition. They can get
that as a package on your website. Is there anything
with the Gift of Nothing? That's the twentieth anniversary edition?
Is there anything extra? And it then was in the
first edition back twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's a larger size, and there's a new cover that
I really like.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It came out really nice.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh okay, Like what's different about the cover.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's a whole new drawing.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh oh it's completely new.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh wow, yeah, completely new.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh okay, Well that makes it special, right, it's like
extra spe shoal So.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, and it's bigger than the original one.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
And yeah, it looked good. I'm I'm happy with it.
Had a it was a New York Times bestseller. And
actually there was a We wrote a children's musical that
was performed at the Kennedy Center a few years ago,
and one of the reasons.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm going out.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
West is Marine Theater right now is doing The Gift
and Nothing as a play before the you know, during
the holiday season, so you could see it there.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, that's pretty cool too. Is that the first time
that's happened?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, you know, I tell you it was.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It was so much fun to kind of see your
characters come alive on stage and uh watched the audience
enjoy it. So it was I that doing doing that
play at the Kennedy Center was like the most fun
experience I've had with mons.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I remember you said that, but even still with
the theater, to doing it, I mean, that must be
really really cool, right, I mean, do you stop and
pitch yourself because you're like, wait, I create these characters
and now I'm watching them on stage, like.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And to see a new production of it, you know,
I haven't seen anything. So I'm going on opening night.
M It'll just be exciting to see the new actors
and you'll perform.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It, and yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm sure. I know, like I'm excited and I'm not
I'm not going to see it. I think that's so cool.
That's so cool. I'm sure you're gonna be pinching yourself,
and I'm sure it's gonna blow everybody away how excellent
it is. So I hope, yeah, I think so. I
don't think you have to hope. I think it's definite.
It's a definite. They're gonna be great. So when the
theater company decided to do that, do they reach out
(12:40):
to you? They send you their script? Like, how how
does that process happen?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
No, this one's this one was an easy product. The
actor who played Ozzy at the Kennedy Center is now
at this theater.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh okay, he proposed it and they got in contact.
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I wrote the play with Aaron Posner who is the director,
and the composer was Andy Mitten. And actually Andy's going
to be coming to back to California to see the
play against too, So it should be a fun, a
fun weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh nice, that's excellent. That's exciting, so exciting. Oh, I'm
excited for you, and congratulations. And again for those who
are you're looking for some gifts, you want to get
the gift of everything, in the gift of nothing and
just any of the Mutts stuff as Patrick called it,
please go to Mutts dot com. Patrick, I always appreciate
(13:33):
your time because you are a very busy man doing
your thing, and I'm excited about your three book ideas.
So I have a feeling we're going to be talking
again next year. Is that okay?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I would love that of course.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
All right, well, thank you so much and good luck
with your trip.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Okay, thank you. Take care,
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