Brad Strickland

Yeah.

'Cause, uh, I mean even... 'Cause that often happens when, you know, popular writers pass away, especially I think with children's writers.

They're able to...

That intellectual property, people are sometimes, many times able to take over and do new things with and, um-

Um, but I just don't know, and I was too nervous to reach out to them [laughs] to a- you know, I don't know.

It just depends on the writer.

Some, some writers are very open to, um, saying, "Hey, yeah, it's okay.

Fine, you know, use my characters.