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This introductory episode of Red Panda Report is going to be asking the question, why should
you listen to Red Panda Adventures? I'm going to tell you why I'm listening to Red Panda
Adventures as well, but why should you? Basically, it's fun, it's entertaining, it's a very
well done story, the characterization is very good. I think I'll be nice and I won't
say a criticism that I have of something that happens in the audio recording at one point
and it lasts for a very long time, but you can pick it out if you want or you can ask
me if that's the thing that... If you found the thing that I didn't like in the audio
recording, but the audio production is very well done with the exception of one thing
and it's just, it's fabulous. If you want to be entertained for, not 120 hours, if you
want to be entertained for 60 hours, 50 hours, I'm not sure what it would be, then check
out those books, or sorry, check out the Red Panda Adventure episodes on Dakota Ring Theater
and if you want to be entertained even more, then you can check out the audiobooks or you
can read them yourself with your own eyes on paper if you want to or on an e-reader.
However you want to do it, I'm not going to tell you what to do with that. So that's why
you should, it's entertaining, it's good stuff. If you like, I don't know, anything, if you
like the Christian Bale Batman, if you like the Sam Raimi Spider-Man, if you like, I don't
know, the, I was going to say the lame Fantastic Four, which Fantastic Four is it? I don't
know, I don't know, I was too young, so I saw the Chris Evans one and I didn't know
what to think of it. I didn't know what to think. I liked it overall, but you know, I
don't know, I haven't watched it recently so I couldn't say it, but anyway, but like
basically if you're alive and you like superhero stuff, you should like Red Panda. I mean,
if you like Dick Tracy at all, if you like, I can't think of anybody else, but like, yeah,
anything basically, if you like just good stories, that's what you'll get from Red
Panda Adventures. And unlike this, which is random and off the cuff, it's very well measured
and very professionally done and it's quite the polished jewel, I guess you could say,
quite the polished jewel for your ears. Yes, you heard it right here folks. That's what
it is, a jewel for your ears. And why am I doing it? I'm doing it for fun because it's
going to be a blast to go back in. And honestly, it's taken me so long for many reasons that
we can discuss at a later date, if you like, to get back into this that I have wanted to
go back and listen so much. And in fact, I think I did listen to like the first four
episodes and I said, no, I have to stop myself. I have to prep. I have to get everything ready
so that I can have a smooth launch and then just never stop releasing the episodes until
I'm a hundred percent done with them. And that is what I plan to do. But anyway, I'm
doing it for fun. I'm doing it to learn the craft. And I don't know explicitly that I
will learn the craft from listening to this, but I'm hoping with me analyzing it and thinking
about it in the future and the fact that I did all the books and then I skimmed episodes.
I don't know how I did that, but somehow I made a timeline fitting in the books with
how the episodes were laid out. Sorry. I fit the books into the timeline of the Red Pan
Adventure audio series or radio show, whatever you want to call it. Technically not radio,
but whatever. But anyway, I did that and I, it's because I listened to all the books back
to back a while ago. And I, as I was, as after I did that, I basically was able to just see
into the timeline of the 120 episodes and figure out where all that stuff fit. And I
did a little bit of like Wiki work and, and you know, skimming episodes and things like
that, but I was able to do it in pretty much like a couple hours worth of time, which was
kind of cool, but oh, that's another idea. Anyway, I think if I pay attention closely
to those audio books, again, I can learn how to write the shadow type novels. If I listen
carefully to the audio dramas, I can figure out, you know, the one level of thing I can
figure out is storytelling, just storytelling, setting things up, paying them off as the
story proceeds. You know, maybe how characters are introduced, how they're handled, because
you get a bunch of characters who are introduced and you don't know if they're going to be
like, every character basically could have come back and been something more than they
were, but a lot of them didn't. A select few, I can think of like, like Doc Rocket, I'm
going to say Chronopolis, the Genie, not Tom Tomorrow. Tom Tomorrow never goes anywhere
and he goes back into the future. What am I thinking? Oh, John Doe, the Colonel, I'll
say that, just the Colonel, because I don't want to give spoilers. I don't know why I'm
not, why I'm trying to avoid spoiling this because whatever, but anyway. But yeah, there's
like select characters who were introduced and who were developed and who were fleshed
out that they could have not been. And then there were some surprise characters who were
introduced towards the end that I didn't expect coming. And I don't know that I disliked how
they were handled. I just was very surprised with them. Oh, and then I forgot, well, the
one guy, I won't mention him at all. But like, I have very fond memories of it and I remember
being shocked and I remember like almost crying at the end of one episode and I was like,
man, like how is this show going to keep going? And then it did. And I was very satisfied
with everything that happened around that. And anyway, so I want to do it for the craft.
So I'm hoping that going through and the way I'm pacing myself as I'm approaching this
project, I will have time to listen to enjoy for entertainment and fully digest. Maybe
I'll even listen to it for fun and then listen to it a second time to go through and kind
of cut it up and divide it and figure out the guts of it so I can understand that and
integrate it into my process or at least towards developing my process so I can be a better
writer. I also would be interested in doing audio dramas as well. In fact, one of my characters,
I have explicitly like a strong idea for what to do for him and then that character I plan
on going on and having books for him, having him in pulp novels actually, which I'm getting
into Decoder Ring Theater, introduced me to or reminded me about like the shadow pulps
and it got me to do research and I realized that the shadow started off in actual, I'm
sorry, I misspoke, the shadow show, the radio show, but then it got me to realize that there
were actually shadow pulp books that were the inception of the Genesis of the shadow
originally, and that's something I want to dive into as well. So anyway, that's what
it's for. It's for fun, it's for craft, and I think I'll just do that. I'll listen for
fun and then I'll listen a second time for craft and just go ahead and do that. I think
that'll be very much well worth my time. Like I said, I am going off the cuff right now,
so please forgive any fumbles in my speech. But anyway, that does it for now. That's the
end of this introduction episode. Check out the other introductory episodes as we get
closer to the launch of Red Panda Report. This is MJ signing out.
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