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So this Kid President video is everywhere right now. If you haven’t seen it, but enjoy awesome, adorable and inspirational things, you should watch it now.

Kid President is obviously the man. His facial expressions, dances, tone—everything. Perfect. But he’s clearly had some great direction and script writing. SoulPancake, the media company behind the video, was founded by Rainn Wilson (aka Dwight), part-time Sisters resident and funny man from NBC’s The Office. According to the website, SoulPancake was “designed to open your mind, challenge your friends, and feel damn good.” So far, so good.

There’s a series of Kid President videos out there, but the pep talk is the best. “Not Cool Robert Frost!”

This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2013.

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Kid President Knows What’s Up

by James Williams, The Source - Bend, Oregon
January 30, 2013

<h1>Kid President Knows What’s Up</h1> <p class="byline">by James Williams, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />January 30, 2013</p> <p>So this <strong>Kid President</strong> video is everywhere right now. If you haven't seen it, but enjoy awesome, adorable and inspirational things, you should watch it now.</p> </p> <p>Kid President is obviously the man. His facial expressions, dances, tone—everything. Perfect. But he's clearly had some great direction and script writing. <a href="http://soulpancake.com/" target="_blank">SoulPancake</a>, the media company behind the video, was founded by <strong>Rainn Wilson</strong> (aka Dwight), part-time Sisters resident and funny man from NBC's <em>The Office.</em> According to the website, SoulPancake was "designed to open your mind, challenge your friends, and feel damn good." So far, so good.</p> <p>There's a series of Kid President videos out there, but the pep talk is the best. "Not Cool Robert Frost!"</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/embed/l-gQLqv9f4o </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/kid-president-knows-whats-up-2215439/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=16587&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/kid-president-knows-whats-up-2215439/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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