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In 2007 I went to Build-a-Bear Workshop and picked out a medium brown bear, with long arms and legs, similar to my proportions, and named him Nick. A name I often used in my work as it was an iteration of my name switching out the R for an N.
THE REAL TOYZ
Over the years, as my little brother was growing up, I would give him nightly improvised "Teddy Bear Stories" starring the boys and various other toys, as they would go on "adventures" and also do mundane stuff like go to the store or eat at a restaurant. Those improvised stories eventually became the inspiration for The Nick and Marty Radio Show (Podcast) and "Nick," as this show is meant to be a fictionalized version of these characters, and their lives after they don't live with me anymore.
A few months later, on Christmas morning, I woke up to see an array of toys including a PSP, a Carolina Panthers football and a sock monkey from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. I didn't think much of him at first, but thought he looked funny and decided to name him Marty, because he had an M sewn to his chest.
Then finally a few years later in 2011, it was Christmas time again, and I got another sock monkey, this time a little orange sock monkey that came attached to a little bag of candy. I decided to name him Andrew, being named after a toy I had called Bad Andy, an orange Muppet mascot from Dominos in the early 2000s (IYKYK).
(The Real Nick, Marty and Andrew)
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