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Walking and talking can be hard enough. Combine that with painting, cooking and fielding phone calls and you have insanity. Or John Kilduff’s Internet show “Let’s Paint TV,” which the Los Angeles artist brings live to Kansas City next week.

Talk about multitasking. Episode titles include “Let’s Paint the Tinman and Perform Open Surgery” and “Let’s Paint, Exercise, Play the Ukulele and Make a BLT.”

Kilduff came up with the idea in 2001 while waiting for a guest (a Saddam Hussein impersonator, no less) for his cable-access comedy show in L.A.

“I still had an exercise bike in the storage room, and I thought visually painting on an exercise bike could be interesting,” Kilduff said. “The rest is history.”

Kilduff, a trained artist specializing in landscapes, decided a treadmill worked better than an exercise bike. He started “Let’s Paint TV,” which he describes as a show about how to paint, mixed with “a show about the creative process, exercise and cooking.”

But the show is more than an ADHD dream. Kilduff uses his extreme multitasking to motivate people to inject more creativity into the everyday. After all, if Kilduff can carve a pumpkin while jogging (and not sustain serious injury), why can’t we?

His show became a YouTube hit (youtube.com/letspainttv) and earlier this year, Kilduff launched his “Embrace Faliare World Tour 09,” taking his setup to Minnesota, New York, Canada and Australia. The tour makes its final stop in Kansas City, taping and webcasting from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Nov. 24 from the Urban Culture Project Space, 21 E. 12th St. Admission is free.

The tapings are open to the public and include special guests, Kilduff painting portraits of members of the audience and preparing a Thanksgiving dinner. A special evening episode and reception is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 20 in the space. Paintings from Kilduff’s Kansas City shows will be displayed at the Project Space through Jan. 2.