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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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This introductory episode of Red Panda Report is going to be asking the question, why should

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you listen to Red Panda Adventures? I'm going to tell you why I'm listening to Red Panda

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Adventures as well, but why should you? Basically, it's fun, it's entertaining, it's a very

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well done story, the characterization is very good. I think I'll be nice and I won't

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say a criticism that I have of something that happens in the audio recording at one point

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and it lasts for a very long time, but you can pick it out if you want or you can ask

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me if that's the thing that... If you found the thing that I didn't like in the audio

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recording, but the audio production is very well done with the exception of one thing

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and it's just, it's fabulous. If you want to be entertained for, not 120 hours, if you

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want to be entertained for 60 hours, 50 hours, I'm not sure what it would be, then check

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out those books, or sorry, check out the Red Panda Adventure episodes on Dakota Ring Theater

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and if you want to be entertained even more, then you can check out the audiobooks or you

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can read them yourself with your own eyes on paper if you want to or on an e-reader.

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However you want to do it, I'm not going to tell you what to do with that. So that's why

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you should, it's entertaining, it's good stuff. If you like, I don't know, anything, if you

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like the Christian Bale Batman, if you like the Sam Raimi Spider-Man, if you like, I don't

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know, the, I was going to say the lame Fantastic Four, which Fantastic Four is it? I don't

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know, I don't know, I was too young, so I saw the Chris Evans one and I didn't know

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what to think of it. I didn't know what to think. I liked it overall, but you know, I

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don't know, I haven't watched it recently so I couldn't say it, but anyway, but like

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basically if you're alive and you like superhero stuff, you should like Red Panda. I mean,

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if you like Dick Tracy at all, if you like, I can't think of anybody else, but like, yeah,

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anything basically, if you like just good stories, that's what you'll get from Red

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Panda Adventures. And unlike this, which is random and off the cuff, it's very well measured

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and very professionally done and it's quite the polished jewel, I guess you could say,

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quite the polished jewel for your ears. Yes, you heard it right here folks. That's what

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it is, a jewel for your ears. And why am I doing it? I'm doing it for fun because it's

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going to be a blast to go back in. And honestly, it's taken me so long for many reasons that

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we can discuss at a later date, if you like, to get back into this that I have wanted to

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go back and listen so much. And in fact, I think I did listen to like the first four

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episodes and I said, no, I have to stop myself. I have to prep. I have to get everything ready

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so that I can have a smooth launch and then just never stop releasing the episodes until

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I'm a hundred percent done with them. And that is what I plan to do. But anyway, I'm

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doing it for fun. I'm doing it to learn the craft. And I don't know explicitly that I

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will learn the craft from listening to this, but I'm hoping with me analyzing it and thinking

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about it in the future and the fact that I did all the books and then I skimmed episodes.

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I don't know how I did that, but somehow I made a timeline fitting in the books with

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how the episodes were laid out. Sorry. I fit the books into the timeline of the Red Pan

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Adventure audio series or radio show, whatever you want to call it. Technically not radio,

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but whatever. But anyway, I did that and I, it's because I listened to all the books back

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to back a while ago. And I, as I was, as after I did that, I basically was able to just see

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into the timeline of the 120 episodes and figure out where all that stuff fit. And I

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did a little bit of like Wiki work and, and you know, skimming episodes and things like

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that, but I was able to do it in pretty much like a couple hours worth of time, which was

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kind of cool, but oh, that's another idea. Anyway, I think if I pay attention closely

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to those audio books, again, I can learn how to write the shadow type novels. If I listen

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carefully to the audio dramas, I can figure out, you know, the one level of thing I can

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figure out is storytelling, just storytelling, setting things up, paying them off as the

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story proceeds. You know, maybe how characters are introduced, how they're handled, because

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you get a bunch of characters who are introduced and you don't know if they're going to be

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like, every character basically could have come back and been something more than they

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were, but a lot of them didn't. A select few, I can think of like, like Doc Rocket, I'm

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going to say Chronopolis, the Genie, not Tom Tomorrow. Tom Tomorrow never goes anywhere

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and he goes back into the future. What am I thinking? Oh, John Doe, the Colonel, I'll

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say that, just the Colonel, because I don't want to give spoilers. I don't know why I'm

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not, why I'm trying to avoid spoiling this because whatever, but anyway. But yeah, there's

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like select characters who were introduced and who were developed and who were fleshed

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out that they could have not been. And then there were some surprise characters who were

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introduced towards the end that I didn't expect coming. And I don't know that I disliked how

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they were handled. I just was very surprised with them. Oh, and then I forgot, well, the

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one guy, I won't mention him at all. But like, I have very fond memories of it and I remember

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being shocked and I remember like almost crying at the end of one episode and I was like,

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man, like how is this show going to keep going? And then it did. And I was very satisfied

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with everything that happened around that. And anyway, so I want to do it for the craft.

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So I'm hoping that going through and the way I'm pacing myself as I'm approaching this

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project, I will have time to listen to enjoy for entertainment and fully digest. Maybe

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I'll even listen to it for fun and then listen to it a second time to go through and kind

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of cut it up and divide it and figure out the guts of it so I can understand that and

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integrate it into my process or at least towards developing my process so I can be a better

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writer. I also would be interested in doing audio dramas as well. In fact, one of my characters,

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I have explicitly like a strong idea for what to do for him and then that character I plan

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on going on and having books for him, having him in pulp novels actually, which I'm getting

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into Decoder Ring Theater, introduced me to or reminded me about like the shadow pulps

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and it got me to do research and I realized that the shadow started off in actual, I'm

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sorry, I misspoke, the shadow show, the radio show, but then it got me to realize that there

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were actually shadow pulp books that were the inception of the Genesis of the shadow

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originally, and that's something I want to dive into as well. So anyway, that's what

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it's for. It's for fun, it's for craft, and I think I'll just do that. I'll listen for

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fun and then I'll listen a second time for craft and just go ahead and do that. I think

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that'll be very much well worth my time. Like I said, I am going off the cuff right now,

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so please forgive any fumbles in my speech. But anyway, that does it for now. That's the

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end of this introduction episode. Check out the other introductory episodes as we get

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closer to the launch of Red Panda Report. This is MJ signing out.

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