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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Kohala Moon, a podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. Today, we have a very special mini episode
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Speaker 1: coming at you right from sleep HQ, where I have
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Speaker 1: some amazing news to share.
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Speaker 2: Can I get a drum roll? Please? I am very
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Speaker 2: happy to share.
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Speaker 1: That Kohala Moon has reached a whopping twenty five million
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Speaker 1: downloads and that's thanks to you, each and every one
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Speaker 1: of our amazing listeners. In celebration of reaching this marvelous milestone,
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Speaker 1: we asked our Supercast listeners to send in a voice
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Speaker 1: recording of their favorite thing about Kohala Moon. So this
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Speaker 1: episode is over to you Koala Kids now. If if
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Speaker 1: you aren't already and want to get community updates from
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Speaker 1: me and the team, subscribe via supercast and follow us
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Speaker 1: on social media at Koalakids dot fm so you don't
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Speaker 1: miss a thing. These are both links in our show notes.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait any longer to hear what you all said,
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Speaker 1: so let's get into your messages first, beginning with Zoe
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Speaker 1: M Sailor, Janelle and Rosemary Joy.
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Speaker 3: Hi.
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Speaker 4: My name is Zoe, and I think my favorite thing
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Speaker 4: about Koala Moon is how all the characters are really optimistic,
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Speaker 4: so it makes me want to be happier in the
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Speaker 4: morning when I wake up.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: My favorite thing about Kohala Moon is like how creative
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Speaker 6: the characters are, Like a Ryan and Caswell they had
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Speaker 6: to go to the moon to get dream.
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Speaker 2: Dust from a port of water. That's just super.
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Speaker 6: Creative and it's awesome, perfect for going to bed. And
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Speaker 6: the narrator has like a soothing voice. It's like the
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Speaker 6: perfect story. I listen to it like every night.
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Speaker 7: I am Rosemary, and my favorite character is Bellows, a
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Speaker 7: painter saurus, and I like that character because I think
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Speaker 7: it would be fun to write a painter saurus.
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Speaker 1: I have to say, Rosemie, I think you might be right.
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Speaker 1: It would be so much fun to ride a painter saurus.
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Speaker 1: And that story was inspired by our listener, Hendrix, who
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Speaker 1: we were here from. In just a second now, we
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Speaker 1: had so many messages shouting out a certain duo.
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Speaker 2: Can you guess who they are? I'll give you some clues.
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Speaker 1: They are fairy, they go on loads of adventures, and
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Speaker 1: they're extremely partial to Graw. That's right, it's Hector and Sonny.
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Speaker 1: Thank you to Hendrix. Taylor Wilton, Alexis, Georgia, Rose, Sennon, Cantwell, Kara, Mira, Rhiannon, Lacey, Rose, Alice, Ziggi, Maya,
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Speaker 1: and last but not least, Felix and his dad Lance
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Speaker 1: for sending in your.
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Speaker 2: Responses, take it away, Hendrix.
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Speaker 3: My favorite fing be.
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Speaker 7: For al It helps me follow ship.
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Speaker 6: My favorite active he in Cherioxity.
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Speaker 3: Hi.
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Speaker 6: I'm Wixes from nap And New Zealand and my favorite
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Speaker 6: characters are Sonny and Hictor because I love jogs and
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Speaker 6: they do such wild adventures.
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Speaker 4: I like Hector and Tony.
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Speaker 3: Star is the best, especially Hector and Sonny in Dreamland. Hello.
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Speaker 8: My name is Sennon.
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Speaker 3: I'm nine years old.
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Speaker 9: My favorite thing about the podcast is the Hector and
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Speaker 9: Sunny episodes.
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Speaker 8: Hello.
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Speaker 6: My name is Carla, and I like it when Hat
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Speaker 6: turn sunny meet different people like the Jupiter Twins and
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Speaker 6: Potato and Beans. The world is skating dining cats.
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Speaker 8: Hi.
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Speaker 5: My name is Vara and my favorite stories are the
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Speaker 5: Hector and Sunny ones, especially not like the Kitten and
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Speaker 5: all your other stories. I always fall asleep in one part.
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Speaker 5: I love all your animal stories.
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Speaker 3: Star.
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Speaker 6: I like the Hector and Sunny stories. Hi, my name's
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Speaker 6: Lafy and Lady's pardon and I'm fired and I love
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Speaker 6: her and Sonny because they're the best. And I'm all
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Speaker 6: on grown benches and I do someone calling in every
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Speaker 6: night and every day and it's so fun and I
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Speaker 6: just love them and thank you, Worby. I just love
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Speaker 6: them so much.
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Speaker 9: By Hi, I'm Alice in Virginia and my favorite characters
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Speaker 9: are Hector and Sonny. Bye.
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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm ziggy. I love your stories.
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Speaker 8: My favorite one is Hector and Sonny Stories.
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Speaker 3: My favorite named Jake and Hector and Sandy. And my
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Speaker 3: favorite epithade is clips I think spelled.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, peeling suy Grave. Tell me what do you
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Speaker 10: like the most about Koala Moon?
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Speaker 9: Well, when Hector and Sonny went to New York City
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Speaker 9: that was pretty funny.
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Speaker 10: And what did you like the most about when Hector
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Speaker 10: and Sonny went to New York City.
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Speaker 9: Like because they ate a giant bone that that was
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Speaker 9: holding on to the statue of nib bloody get it.
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Speaker 2: Never let you get it. I get it to York City,
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Speaker 2: to York City.
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Speaker 10: Now, how often do you listen to Kohala Moon every night?
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Speaker 10: Every night? And how long have you been listening to
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Speaker 10: Kohala Moon my whole life, your whole life, do you think?
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Speaker 3: And how old are you?
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Speaker 10: How long have you been this whole life? Six? You're six,
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Speaker 10: So you've been listening to for six years? Maybe not
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Speaker 10: quite six years? Definitely a long time, way back when
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Speaker 10: Kohala Moon was called Do you remember what it was
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Speaker 10: called before?
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Speaker 9: Cocoast Sleep?
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Speaker 10: And what else do you like about Kohala mood? What
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Speaker 10: do you think about Abby?
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Speaker 9: Well, she is a very good person that can make
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Speaker 9: the voice, because that that's really good. How she could
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Speaker 9: do that like Specially's voice.
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Speaker 10: She makes all different voices, don't she? And what happens
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Speaker 10: when you listen to Koala Moon every night?
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Speaker 2: Well, the story and then what happens?
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Speaker 9: Ah, I fall aslate, You fall aslate?
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Speaker 3: Thanks Felix.
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Speaker 10: Say hi to Abby and Hector and Sonny.
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Speaker 9: Hi, Ex and Sonny and Coco Bye.
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Speaker 1: Wow, a lot of love for Hector and Sonny in
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Speaker 1: New York City. There it was a crazy adventure, wasn't it.
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Speaker 1: Next we have a listener all the way from Finland, Alma,
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Speaker 1: who is also a fan of our fairy friends.
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Speaker 2: And this is what Alma has to say.
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Speaker 8: Hi, my name is Sharma, I'm from Finland, and I'm
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Speaker 8: totally sure. And my favorite thing about Kohala Moon is
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Speaker 8: Hickton shunning when they go on all of them adventures.
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Speaker 8: And I'm not able to leap very easily if I
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Speaker 8: don't listen to Kerala Moon, because always when I listen
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Speaker 8: to Kalamon, I've uh fall a SEPs almost Italy. I
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Speaker 8: love all of the episodes, even though Hector and Nny
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Speaker 8: are my favorite, and Hector and Johnny are my favorite
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Speaker 8: because we have two dogs shit home and they're so
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Speaker 8: funo of them, even though they don't go on adventures
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Speaker 8: like hect and Sonny, or maybe they do without us knowing,
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Speaker 8: but I.
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Speaker 2: Think they don't go.
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Speaker 8: But still I love all of the episodes, and I
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Speaker 8: love everything about Koalamn so textually listening.
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Speaker 1: To this bye, thank you so much, Alma, And you
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Speaker 1: never know your dogs might go exploring, just like Hector
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Speaker 1: and Sonny. Our k nine friends are sometimes smarter than
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Speaker 1: they let on to be. But what about our feline
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Speaker 1: friends Potato and Beans.
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Speaker 2: They got a couple of shout outs.
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Speaker 1: Too from our listeners, Megan, Beady and Phoenix. Hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: you could say they'll be feline Good about that? Get
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Speaker 1: it okay, take it away, Megan.
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Speaker 6: My favorite part about Kuala Moon is Potato and bean
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Speaker 6: Steiner because they always make me laugh. I love Kualam
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Speaker 6: Moroan because potato and moons are always going on interesting
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Speaker 6: advredges and it makes me splift off to sleep in
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Speaker 6: five minutes. I love it also because coca is in
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Speaker 6: this little heart and I love it so much it
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Speaker 6: always makes me go to sleep.
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Speaker 2: From Phoenix.
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Speaker 1: Next up, we have a message from Mazie who wrote
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Speaker 1: and to My favorite thing about Koala Moon is how
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Speaker 1: your voices are so smoothing and calm, and how happy
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Speaker 1: and fun it is to hear your stories and meditations.
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Speaker 1: My favorite one is Hector and Sonny. They have amazing adventures.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Maizie. In fact, Hector and Sonny
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Speaker 1: have just arrived at Koala Moon HQ to join me,
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Speaker 1: and they wanted.
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Speaker 2: To say a few quick words. Come on in guys.
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Speaker 2: Oh let me just lower the microphone for you there, Sonny, Okay,
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Speaker 2: you're on. Thanks Abby.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: all the love and for listening to mine and Hector's adventures.
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Speaker 1: I can't quite believe how many people know about what
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Speaker 1: we get up to, and I'll pass over to Hector. Hey, Sonny,
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Speaker 1: you could say we're over the Koala Moon about it,
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Speaker 1: but thank you all so much for being super fans.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of super fans, our.
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Speaker 1: Next messages come from Willow and Sydney, Joey b Matilda
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Speaker 1: and Gideon Blake and finally O Ryan, so let's hear
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Speaker 1: from them.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, who those names were? Thirsty work, I'm off for
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Speaker 2: some gravy. Bye everyone, Hi.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, Coco we wanna add?
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Speaker 11: Oh?
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Speaker 3: What's our favourite things for cocoa? Sleep is and mine
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Speaker 3: is your voy Oi songs? Happy?
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Speaker 2: And what's yours?
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Speaker 3: My favorite thing about Kohala Moon is Sira the panda. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: all right, thanks girls, sleep, bye, bye bye.
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Speaker 9: My favorite thing about Koala Moon is listening to the stories.
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Speaker 5: What do you like about Koala Moon?
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Speaker 12: I like that sleep, I like that it always ends
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Speaker 12: up happiness, like stories with Watchie and a pizza plants.
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Speaker 6: I like Coolamonas because it makes me fall asleep. My
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Speaker 6: favorite chapter is super Shar Do you.
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Speaker 11: Have any second favorite characters?
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Speaker 3: Supers and super Dampa.
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Speaker 12: Why do you like them?
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Speaker 3: R Superman?
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Speaker 1: Oh, guys, such a great selection there, we had Munchie
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Speaker 1: the Raccoon, Super Soul and his super Grandpa.
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Speaker 2: And Kira the Panda.
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Speaker 1: Of course you will know that Kira is Coco's cousin,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think it will come as a surprise
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Speaker 1: to you that Coco also got some love. So our
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Speaker 1: final messages come in from Freddy, Iris and sarahen Aj
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Speaker 1: and last, but certainly not least, Clara and Abby.
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Speaker 11: Are you guys gonna say what you like about the stories?
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Speaker 8: I like the.
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Speaker 2: Sabbie SERI, Yeah, that was pretty cool.
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Speaker 11: And is there one of the characters that you think
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Speaker 11: is the best, Like I like Zenda pufferfish.
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Speaker 2: You love Cocoa? Why do you like? What's the animal?
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Speaker 2: Is Cocoa?
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Speaker 9: So?
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Speaker 2: Is he from Australia? I don't know? Is it from
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Speaker 2: Sleepy Forest? What do you what story?
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Speaker 3: Do you like?
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Speaker 11: A Sarah story? Used to like Talking Vegetables quite a lot.
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Speaker 11: I liked it because, Oh, you love Zella Glocklin.
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Speaker 1: Don't you?
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Speaker 11: She's fun?
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Speaker 9: But now I don't really mind.
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Speaker 11: You don't know, you don't mind who the writer is.
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Speaker 11: I think I like Abby's voice quite a lot. She's
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Speaker 11: got lovely voice. I like Sleepy Forest. I would love
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Speaker 11: to go there.
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Speaker 2: One time met too. Yeah, go for a walk in
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Speaker 2: the snow like that other bear does one time. All right,
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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, love you.
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Speaker 9: Oh.
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Speaker 4: My name is Zodra and I really like the story
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Speaker 4: Peanut Barbara Duo and my favorite character will be Coco.
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Speaker 6: Hi. I'm Krela and I'm six years old and I
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Speaker 6: live in Virginia and my favorite episode is Sunny Days.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for making it.
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Speaker 9: Hi.
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Speaker 5: My name is Abby.
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Speaker 2: I am eight years old.
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Speaker 6: I live in Virginia and I really like Cocoa and
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Speaker 6: his auntie Shirley because they go on such amazing adventures.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for making the podcast.
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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Clara and Abby, thank you for listening
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Speaker 1: to the podcast. And how sweet that our producer.
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Speaker 2: And writer Susannah got a shout out.
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Speaker 1: The show wouldn't be possible without her and other fantastic
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Speaker 1: writers Alicia, Luke and Jane And I think that rounds
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Speaker 1: up all your guys' messages. That is so fun hearing
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Speaker 1: from you. It is so cool that you tune in
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Speaker 1: from all over the world. We had New Zealand, America, Finland, Australia,
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Speaker 1: Canada and here in the UK. We really do have
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Speaker 1: friends everywhere, and don't forget. If you want to be
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Speaker 1: involved in more opportunities like this in the future, subscribe
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Speaker 1: on supercast and follow us on social media at Koala
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Speaker 1: Kids dot fm. Ah that's enough excitement for one day.
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Speaker 1: I'm tired out. Fancy joining me for a bedtime story?
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Speaker 1: I'll see you there