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(00:03):
Hello, welcome to ours. First behind the scenes for Our
Way Island adventures on Our WayIsland.
My name is Christy. I'm part of the writing team
here on Our Way Island and I am here with Susie, creator and
head writer for Adventures on Our Way Island.
Hi, Christy. Hi, everyone.
Welcome to our Behind the Scenes.
(00:24):
Yeah, We wanted to record a little quote UN quote bonus
content for our listeners, for people who are curious about
what goes on behind the scenes, our process, how do we create
this podcast? I wanted to start with a little
foundational question. We have been writing for Be Call
on Our Island since what, 2017? But Adventures on Our Island has
(00:49):
been in development for a long time, at least a couple of
years. Could you talk a little bit
about why you wanted to create acompanion podcast for Become On
Our Way Island? Sure, when we started Be Calm on
Our Way Island, almost immediately we started getting
requests for a companion podcast.
Everybody loved the bedtime stories that helped them fall
(01:11):
asleep, but kids also wanted more exciting stories as well.
And in the back of my head, I always had in mind that I would
call it Adventures on Our Way Island.
So it has been in in thought at least since early 2017 as well.
But over the last few years we've actually tried to start
(01:32):
making it happen. It's a lot of work though to
launch an entire podcast, especially a story based podcast
that's written entirely from scratch.
It amounts to writing an entire book every few months.
So it's a lot of work and takes a lot of startup thoughts as to
how you're going to do it and what you're going to do.
(01:55):
What I thought Adventures on OurWay Island would originally be
is very different from what it'sactually turned out to be.
You know, I came on board in early 2023 and I know that the
concept has changed since I was even brought on board.
Can you talk about what you initially envisioned versus what
(02:16):
has kind of come to be? Yes.
So originally Adventures on Our Way Island was going to be
similar to be Calm On Our Way Island in that each story was
going to be a one off story. It would just be more exciting
story with an adventure type theme or something, a mystery,
things like that, rather than a calming story.
So that was the first past thought of what Adventures on
(02:39):
Our Way Island would be. By the time when you were coming
on board Christy, I was thinkingit needed to be a little bit
more of a Serial podcast. And so my thought at that time
was that we would have an adventure story that took place
over the course of an entire week, and there would be
potentially 3 episodes or even 5episodes if I could write fast
(03:04):
enough, where it would be a story arc.
And so every story would start at the beginning of the week,
we'd have however many episodes we had, and it would finish at
the end of the week. And that was what I felt pretty
confident Adventures on Our Way Island was going to be.
When we had time in our scheduleto revisit this and to actually
start putting things into place and putting thought on paper,
(03:26):
that was what I approached Adventures on That Way Island
2025 to be. What ended up happening though,
I realized very quickly is that it would be far better to have a
longer story, to have it be a serial story that to have
characters that had growth and had a bigger arc.
Part of it was because we were gearing this towards slightly
(03:46):
older kids, so we I knew that older kids could grab on to
deeper characters and and remember clues that were dropped
in earlier episodes and have more fun with that.
Very quickly I realized in conceptualizing what this would
be in the year 2025 is a longer story where the characters
(04:07):
actually grow and learn and worktogether and change, and I
thought that would be a far moreinteresting inception of what
this is than a whole bunch of little bitty adventure stories.
Yeah, I'm very excited about what you've told me about where
the story is going. And I, I'm very looking forward
(04:28):
to what you have planned for theoverarching story, but it is
very different from what we weredoing with Be Calm on Our Way
Island. Do you think you could speak a
little more to how the approach to writing is different between
Be Calm, On Our Way Island, The Bedtime Story Podcast, versus
(04:49):
what we're doing now where there's an overarching story
that's hopefully going to last along time?
We hope I'm having fun writing it too.
So becoming our way. Island has one off stories.
We do have recurring characters,but each story starts and
finishes usually within the course of one episode.
The stories are formulaic in that we always start off setting
(05:13):
the scene of where it's taking place.
We start off with who the protagonist of the story is, and
we go through there, I guess, adventure for the day.
Something happened, some inciting incident happens, and
at the end of the story or somewhere within the story,
there's a teaching moment, a learning message.
It could be about sharing or kindness or inclusivity, but
(05:37):
that's kind of the formula for the story.
And we actually do have a template for that.
And the last paragraph, we call it our go to sleep paragraph.
We talk a little more slowly. The character always finds a
wonderful place to lay down and cozy up and they think grateful
thoughts. They take deep dragon breaths to
relax and they fall asleep feeling peaceful and happy.
(06:02):
And that is our formula for become On Our Way island with
the goal being to help little kids learn positive messages,
have relatable characters and fall asleep feeling grateful.
But one more thing I guess I would add about becoming our
island is our protagonist can beanimals.
Our protagonist can be children.Our protagonist can be inanimate
(06:23):
objects, plants, for example. The protagonist changes
frequently within become an our island in adventures on our
island, it's very different. We have our protagonist is
Marie. She has her two best friends, JJ
and Christian, and then we have the characters that are
unfolding around them, but they are always going to be the
(06:45):
center of the story. This is a hero's journey story
and Marie is the hero of the story and her two best friends
are her compatriots in the grandadventure.
It's a very different thing. We don't really focus on
learning messages. We're focusing more on the
characters themselves and the growth and learning that they
are going to experience over time amidst the backdrop of this
(07:09):
wild and crazy adventure that they're just.
Starting on Marie is a central character that you're going to
be following throughout this entire journey.
Can you talk about why you landed on her as your
protagonist for the story? And do you see any of yourself
in Marie? Why I chose Marie well a little
secret I guess behind the scenesis that Marie Duguay was one of
(07:36):
my very first good friends in grade school.
In first grade she was the firstperson I sat next to in the
classroom. We had the 2 desks in pairs and
I thought she would make a good friend and I really admired her.
She was smart, she was funny, she was well spoken, she was
brave. She was things that I felt like
(07:58):
I didn't quite have yet together, and I just thought she
was cool. And so that's why she became my
protagonist. Are you still in contact with
the real Marie? Do you think you'll let her know
that she inspired a main character of a podcast you're
writing? I am not in contact with her she
I think she moved away in early grade school like when we were
(08:19):
maybe in 4th grade ish 5th gradeish.
But I would love it. I would be tickled pink if if
she were to hear this or hear ofthis and contact me.
Same name as I had in grade school so she could find me on
socials for sure. So how is your approach to
writing different between Be Calm on our Way Island and
(08:43):
Adventures on Our Way Island? Quite different.
How it's different is so for Be Calm On Our Way Island, it's a
lot less pressure. You just have to think of a
really simple storyline with oneevent happening and the solution
to the event coming quickly. It's a very gentle story,
(09:03):
there's no big drama to it. It's more about the positive
resolution, the feeling good andfeeling grateful, and the
protagonist learning how to dealwith feelings that are difficult
if they experience that. Usually by taking deep dragon
breaths is how they self soothe.So it's pretty easy to.
(09:26):
For me anyways I I realize stories kind of just come out of
me. Like I've always been story
minded when I was bored in school because the class was
going too slow or the teacher was talking too slowly.
I would literally have a story make being made-up inside my
head at the same time just to pass the time faster.
(09:48):
So stories to me are delightful and they just come.
And so becoming on the island ispretty easy for me to either
think of a childhood memory or think of something I've observed
with one of my nieces or nephews, or just come up with
something that that bothered me as a as a child or or happened
(10:11):
and use that as a starting pointfor whatever story happened
turns on our way island. My approach to writing is very
different. I started off first thinking of
what my main characters would be, and then I started
storyboarding and I actually started outlining what would the
(10:31):
first overarching story, what would the first book, if you
will be however many episodes it's going to be?
What would the chapters look like?
What would the journey look like?
So I had to think very long and hard about the big picture and
the medium picture of the story and get that at least a
(10:54):
framework nailed down and something I felt confident in
before I could actually start writing individual episodes.
And that was very different. It's a little bit scarier, a lot
scarier to write because when you normally write like a full
length book, that manuscript goes as a singular full
(11:16):
manuscript to an editor or a publisher.
And you up until the time you send that off into the universe,
you can go back and change and adjust things.
And I don't have that luxury with this being a podcast.
Once I put each episode out intothe universe, it's locked in.
So I can't go back and change something or add something.
(11:38):
If I decide the story needs to go in a little bit different
direction than what I originallythought or I want to change
something about a character, I can't.
So it, it takes a lot more thought and, and it's a lot
scarier for me to push the publish button and send it off
to you, Christine, for your editing and help and, and, and
(12:00):
just put it out there. But I also think that could be
very exciting because if listeners give us feedback on
things, they like it. I still have the opportunity to
lean into things then that I might not have focused on
otherwise. So it's a much broader approach
to focus on adventures on our way island.
I'm dropping in Easter eggs, I'mdropping in hints, I'm dropping
(12:23):
in things that I don't intend touse until the future and call
back to them. And so in a way, it's a lot more
fun and a lot a lot more heady of an experience to be thinking
in that big of terms. So that's the difference in my
approach. I can tell you from my
experience that our listeners are very attentive to details
(12:47):
and will comment if something contradicts something we've
established before. You mentioned that you were
putting in some Easter eggs. Can you, without spoiling
anything that's coming up, let us in on a little Easter egg
that you might have put in in chapter 1 there.
Is an Easter egg that listeners might notice in the form of a
(13:13):
dragon, so I'd be curious to seehow many people catch it, but
the dragon might pop up in otherepisodes as well.
I did pick up on that. There was a little dragon
mention. We'll see.
I'm excited to see where this other Easter egg goes.
I'm sure Dragon will pop up again soon.
(13:35):
So I have a question for you. We have two very, very distinct
podcasts with very different sounds.
How How would you characterize Alway Island as a whole now that
we have The Calm on Alway Islandand Adventures on Alway Island?
How would you describe the ethosof Alway Island?
(13:58):
The ethos of Alway Island is multi level and multi
generational. Every layer has been created and
is written with thought towards the target audience for that
layer. But as kids listen, say to
(14:22):
become On Our Way Island and hear the happy stories and the
positive messages, when they geta little bit older and are ready
for the adventures, they just make entirely new discoveries
about Our Way Island and what itis and why it's there that they
would never heard about and be calm On Our Way Island.
(14:43):
So as time goes on and more is revealed about the island,
listeners will come to discover that there's so much more to Our
Way Island than just the bedtimestories or even just where the
kids are at in adventures on that way island.
In this moment. There's a huge history around
(15:04):
the island and it's going to be revealed gradually over time.
That's. So exciting.
Well, I have one last sort of fun question for you now.
I've noticed that you have a trio of main characters, Marie,
Christian, and JJ, and they are focusing on solving the mystery
(15:24):
of a mysterious paper. Do you have a favorite mystery
solving team? Perhaps one that inspired this
trio that you're writing about? You know, I don't, I actually
don't I I was a voracious readergrowing up.
(15:45):
I used to read I part of what Marie is that I was as a child
was loving to go to the library and basically every week check
out as many books as I could carry or my dad could help me
carry and dive through them and read through them all in the
week and bring them all back andget new books.
(16:05):
And so I loved a lot of different mystery and adventure
stories. The one story that I think made
a big impression on me as a kid was actually more of a fantasy
story series by an author named Robert Jordan, and it's people
(16:31):
might know it from the TV show on HBO, The Wheel of Time
series. My older sister was reading that
series, and so I picked up the book and it was more dense than
any other story I'd ever read tothat point.
It was like the first book was like 800 pages long in a really
(16:53):
tiny print. And what I loved about it was
the mystery and the adventure ofit.
It was this epic tale with epic characters and amazing
descriptions of scenes and feelings and nuance and Easter
eggs all over the place. And it was so detailed and I
(17:16):
think I think that really changed the course of the type
of storytelling I realized I loved.
It was such a departure from theyoung adult level books that you
read, you know, when you're growing up.
And so I love those type of epicstories.
(17:38):
And I think that that really wasthe biggest inspiration for me
to think bigger when it comes tostorytelling.
Oh wow, that's awesome. I hate to inform you while we're
recording, but they did cancel the TV show.
I know. Well, truth be told, I always
(17:59):
wondered what it, you know, I knew somebody had bought the
rights to it and I always wondered what it would turn out
to be. And I watched the first couple
of episodes and I'm like, this is, it's an, I feel like it's an
impossible story to tell on the screen almost.
I mean, it would take a lot morethought because there's so much
to it. It just felt like they were
(18:21):
taking maybe like 5% of the story and putting it out there
and like 95% was missing. So I didn't actually watch past
the first season so. I guess that makes sense.
Well, I, I really want to thank you for chatting with me and I
want to thank our listeners for being here.
I hope you enjoyed this little behind the scenes look at
(18:44):
adventures on Hawaii Island and at Hawaii Island as a whole.
And if you enjoyed this episode and if you have any questions
that you're curious about, please put them in the comments.
We're hoping to continue this series and give you some more
background as to what we're writing and what we're doing
(19:04):
here on Hawaii islands. So thanks again.
Hope to see you soon. Thank you everyone.
Bye bye.
Hello, welcome to ours. First behind the scenes for Our
Way Island adventures on Our WayIsland.
My name is Christy. I'm part of the writing team
here on Our Way Island and I am here with Susie, creator and
head writer for Adventures on Our Way Island.
Hi, Christy. Hi, everyone.
Welcome to our Behind the Scenes.
(00:24):
Yeah, We wanted to record a little quote UN quote bonus
content for our listeners, for people who are curious about
what goes on behind the scenes, our process, how do we create
this podcast? I wanted to start with a little
foundational question. We have been writing for Be Call
on Our Island since what, 2017? But Adventures on Our Island has
(00:49):
been in development for a long time, at least a couple of
years. Could you talk a little bit
about why you wanted to create acompanion podcast for Become On
Our Way Island? Sure, when we started Be Calm on
Our Way Island, almost immediately we started getting
requests for a companion podcast.
Everybody loved the bedtime stories that helped them fall
(01:11):
asleep, but kids also wanted more exciting stories as well.
And in the back of my head, I always had in mind that I would
call it Adventures on Our Way Island.
So it has been in in thought at least since early 2017 as well.
But over the last few years we've actually tried to start
(01:32):
making it happen. It's a lot of work though to
launch an entire podcast, especially a story based podcast
that's written entirely from scratch.
It amounts to writing an entire book every few months.
So it's a lot of work and takes a lot of startup thoughts as to
how you're going to do it and what you're going to do.
(01:55):
What I thought Adventures on OurWay Island would originally be
is very different from what it'sactually turned out to be.
You know, I came on board in early 2023 and I know that the
concept has changed since I was even brought on board.
Can you talk about what you initially envisioned versus what
(02:16):
has kind of come to be? Yes.
So originally Adventures on Our Way Island was going to be
similar to be Calm On Our Way Island in that each story was
going to be a one off story. It would just be more exciting
story with an adventure type theme or something, a mystery,
things like that, rather than a calming story.
So that was the first past thought of what Adventures on
(02:39):
Our Way Island would be. By the time when you were coming
on board Christy, I was thinkingit needed to be a little bit
more of a Serial podcast. And so my thought at that time
was that we would have an adventure story that took place
over the course of an entire week, and there would be
potentially 3 episodes or even 5episodes if I could write fast
(03:04):
enough, where it would be a story arc.
And so every story would start at the beginning of the week,
we'd have however many episodes we had, and it would finish at
the end of the week. And that was what I felt pretty
confident Adventures on Our Way Island was going to be.
When we had time in our scheduleto revisit this and to actually
start putting things into place and putting thought on paper,
(03:26):
that was what I approached Adventures on That Way Island
2025 to be. What ended up happening though,
I realized very quickly is that it would be far better to have a
longer story, to have it be a serial story that to have
characters that had growth and had a bigger arc.
Part of it was because we were gearing this towards slightly
(03:46):
older kids, so we I knew that older kids could grab on to
deeper characters and and remember clues that were dropped
in earlier episodes and have more fun with that.
Very quickly I realized in conceptualizing what this would
be in the year 2025 is a longer story where the characters
(04:07):
actually grow and learn and worktogether and change, and I
thought that would be a far moreinteresting inception of what
this is than a whole bunch of little bitty adventure stories.
Yeah, I'm very excited about what you've told me about where
the story is going. And I, I'm very looking forward
(04:28):
to what you have planned for theoverarching story, but it is
very different from what we weredoing with Be Calm on Our Way
Island. Do you think you could speak a
little more to how the approach to writing is different between
Be Calm, On Our Way Island, The Bedtime Story Podcast, versus
(04:49):
what we're doing now where there's an overarching story
that's hopefully going to last along time?
We hope I'm having fun writing it too.
So becoming our way. Island has one off stories.
We do have recurring characters,but each story starts and
finishes usually within the course of one episode.
The stories are formulaic in that we always start off setting
(05:13):
the scene of where it's taking place.
We start off with who the protagonist of the story is, and
we go through there, I guess, adventure for the day.
Something happened, some inciting incident happens, and
at the end of the story or somewhere within the story,
there's a teaching moment, a learning message.
It could be about sharing or kindness or inclusivity, but
(05:37):
that's kind of the formula for the story.
And we actually do have a template for that.
And the last paragraph, we call it our go to sleep paragraph.
We talk a little more slowly. The character always finds a
wonderful place to lay down and cozy up and they think grateful
thoughts. They take deep dragon breaths to
relax and they fall asleep feeling peaceful and happy.
(06:02):
And that is our formula for become On Our Way island with
the goal being to help little kids learn positive messages,
have relatable characters and fall asleep feeling grateful.
But one more thing I guess I would add about becoming our
island is our protagonist can beanimals.
Our protagonist can be children.Our protagonist can be inanimate
(06:23):
objects, plants, for example. The protagonist changes
frequently within become an our island in adventures on our
island, it's very different. We have our protagonist is
Marie. She has her two best friends, JJ
and Christian, and then we have the characters that are
unfolding around them, but they are always going to be the
(06:45):
center of the story. This is a hero's journey story
and Marie is the hero of the story and her two best friends
are her compatriots in the grandadventure.
It's a very different thing. We don't really focus on
learning messages. We're focusing more on the
characters themselves and the growth and learning that they
are going to experience over time amidst the backdrop of this
(07:09):
wild and crazy adventure that they're just.
Starting on Marie is a central character that you're going to
be following throughout this entire journey.
Can you talk about why you landed on her as your
protagonist for the story? And do you see any of yourself
in Marie? Why I chose Marie well a little
secret I guess behind the scenesis that Marie Duguay was one of
(07:36):
my very first good friends in grade school.
In first grade she was the firstperson I sat next to in the
classroom. We had the 2 desks in pairs and
I thought she would make a good friend and I really admired her.
She was smart, she was funny, she was well spoken, she was
brave. She was things that I felt like
(07:58):
I didn't quite have yet together, and I just thought she
was cool. And so that's why she became my
protagonist. Are you still in contact with
the real Marie? Do you think you'll let her know
that she inspired a main character of a podcast you're
writing? I am not in contact with her she
I think she moved away in early grade school like when we were
(08:19):
maybe in 4th grade ish 5th gradeish.
But I would love it. I would be tickled pink if if
she were to hear this or hear ofthis and contact me.
Same name as I had in grade school so she could find me on
socials for sure. So how is your approach to
writing different between Be Calm on our Way Island and
(08:43):
Adventures on Our Way Island? Quite different.
How it's different is so for Be Calm On Our Way Island, it's a
lot less pressure. You just have to think of a
really simple storyline with oneevent happening and the solution
to the event coming quickly. It's a very gentle story,
(09:03):
there's no big drama to it. It's more about the positive
resolution, the feeling good andfeeling grateful, and the
protagonist learning how to dealwith feelings that are difficult
if they experience that. Usually by taking deep dragon
breaths is how they self soothe.So it's pretty easy to.
(09:26):
For me anyways I I realize stories kind of just come out of
me. Like I've always been story
minded when I was bored in school because the class was
going too slow or the teacher was talking too slowly.
I would literally have a story make being made-up inside my
head at the same time just to pass the time faster.
(09:48):
So stories to me are delightful and they just come.
And so becoming on the island ispretty easy for me to either
think of a childhood memory or think of something I've observed
with one of my nieces or nephews, or just come up with
something that that bothered me as a as a child or or happened
(10:11):
and use that as a starting pointfor whatever story happened
turns on our way island. My approach to writing is very
different. I started off first thinking of
what my main characters would be, and then I started
storyboarding and I actually started outlining what would the
(10:31):
first overarching story, what would the first book, if you
will be however many episodes it's going to be?
What would the chapters look like?
What would the journey look like?
So I had to think very long and hard about the big picture and
the medium picture of the story and get that at least a
(10:54):
framework nailed down and something I felt confident in
before I could actually start writing individual episodes.
And that was very different. It's a little bit scarier, a lot
scarier to write because when you normally write like a full
length book, that manuscript goes as a singular full
(11:16):
manuscript to an editor or a publisher.
And you up until the time you send that off into the universe,
you can go back and change and adjust things.
And I don't have that luxury with this being a podcast.
Once I put each episode out intothe universe, it's locked in.
So I can't go back and change something or add something.
(11:38):
If I decide the story needs to go in a little bit different
direction than what I originallythought or I want to change
something about a character, I can't.
So it, it takes a lot more thought and, and it's a lot
scarier for me to push the publish button and send it off
to you, Christine, for your editing and help and, and, and
(12:00):
just put it out there. But I also think that could be
very exciting because if listeners give us feedback on
things, they like it. I still have the opportunity to
lean into things then that I might not have focused on
otherwise. So it's a much broader approach
to focus on adventures on our way island.
I'm dropping in Easter eggs, I'mdropping in hints, I'm dropping
(12:23):
in things that I don't intend touse until the future and call
back to them. And so in a way, it's a lot more
fun and a lot a lot more heady of an experience to be thinking
in that big of terms. So that's the difference in my
approach. I can tell you from my
experience that our listeners are very attentive to details
(12:47):
and will comment if something contradicts something we've
established before. You mentioned that you were
putting in some Easter eggs. Can you, without spoiling
anything that's coming up, let us in on a little Easter egg
that you might have put in in chapter 1 there.
Is an Easter egg that listeners might notice in the form of a
(13:13):
dragon, so I'd be curious to seehow many people catch it, but
the dragon might pop up in otherepisodes as well.
I did pick up on that. There was a little dragon
mention. We'll see.
I'm excited to see where this other Easter egg goes.
I'm sure Dragon will pop up again soon.
(13:35):
So I have a question for you. We have two very, very distinct
podcasts with very different sounds.
How How would you characterize Alway Island as a whole now that
we have The Calm on Alway Islandand Adventures on Alway Island?
How would you describe the ethosof Alway Island?
(13:58):
The ethos of Alway Island is multi level and multi
generational. Every layer has been created and
is written with thought towards the target audience for that
layer. But as kids listen, say to
(14:22):
become On Our Way Island and hear the happy stories and the
positive messages, when they geta little bit older and are ready
for the adventures, they just make entirely new discoveries
about Our Way Island and what itis and why it's there that they
would never heard about and be calm On Our Way Island.
(14:43):
So as time goes on and more is revealed about the island,
listeners will come to discover that there's so much more to Our
Way Island than just the bedtimestories or even just where the
kids are at in adventures on that way island.
In this moment. There's a huge history around
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the island and it's going to be revealed gradually over time.
That's. So exciting.
Well, I have one last sort of fun question for you now.
I've noticed that you have a trio of main characters, Marie,
Christian, and JJ, and they are focusing on solving the mystery
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of a mysterious paper. Do you have a favorite mystery
solving team? Perhaps one that inspired this
trio that you're writing about? You know, I don't, I actually
don't I I was a voracious readergrowing up.
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I used to read I part of what Marie is that I was as a child
was loving to go to the library and basically every week check
out as many books as I could carry or my dad could help me
carry and dive through them and read through them all in the
week and bring them all back andget new books.
(16:05):
And so I loved a lot of different mystery and adventure
stories. The one story that I think made
a big impression on me as a kid was actually more of a fantasy
story series by an author named Robert Jordan, and it's people
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might know it from the TV show on HBO, The Wheel of Time
series. My older sister was reading that
series, and so I picked up the book and it was more dense than
any other story I'd ever read tothat point.
It was like the first book was like 800 pages long in a really
(16:53):
tiny print. And what I loved about it was
the mystery and the adventure ofit.
It was this epic tale with epic characters and amazing
descriptions of scenes and feelings and nuance and Easter
eggs all over the place. And it was so detailed and I
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think I think that really changed the course of the type
of storytelling I realized I loved.
It was such a departure from theyoung adult level books that you
read, you know, when you're growing up.
And so I love those type of epicstories.
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And I think that that really wasthe biggest inspiration for me
to think bigger when it comes tostorytelling.
Oh wow, that's awesome. I hate to inform you while we're
recording, but they did cancel the TV show.
I know. Well, truth be told, I always
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wondered what it, you know, I knew somebody had bought the
rights to it and I always wondered what it would turn out
to be. And I watched the first couple
of episodes and I'm like, this is, it's an, I feel like it's an
impossible story to tell on the screen almost.
I mean, it would take a lot morethought because there's so much
to it. It just felt like they were
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taking maybe like 5% of the story and putting it out there
and like 95% was missing. So I didn't actually watch past
the first season so. I guess that makes sense.
Well, I, I really want to thank you for chatting with me and I
want to thank our listeners for being here.
I hope you enjoyed this little behind the scenes look at
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adventures on Hawaii Island and at Hawaii Island as a whole.
And if you enjoyed this episode and if you have any questions
that you're curious about, please put them in the comments.
We're hoping to continue this series and give you some more
background as to what we're writing and what we're doing
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here on Hawaii islands. So thanks again.
Hope to see you soon. Thank you everyone.
Bye bye.
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