kids and for the black kids, we were not seeing a lot of people of color but we saw you and you were our friend. i want to get your take, first, just on the fight that we've seen. we just had an asian american muppet that was introduced to ""sesame street"," all of that has apd on "sesame street," what do you make of the fight about this adorable new asian american muppet? >> i just can't understand it. i can't fathom why it's difficult. i wish it had come on sooner. i think that when we had roosevelt franklin on the show, i refer to him as the roosevelt franklin syndrome, he was the first black puppet. and didn't fulfill the dreams, too street, not street enough, too hip-hop, not hip-hop enough. they cut the puppet because