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How Folklore Becomes A Shared Universe For Every Community | Episode 481 · Voices for Voices®

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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So um with us today we we have David Solomon, uh CEO, uh founder uh of his mom of Mythical Creatures Around the World.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh today we're gonna have a conversation uh about mythical creatures around the world, uh some uh maybe a little bit of a shift in in directions.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I don't think it's a complete shift, uh, but it it's more of an add-on than what we had, I guess, in store.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh I'm just gonna turn it over to David, and I want to welcome anybody who's new uh watching uh our our show.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now you now you can take it in around, David.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you for having me back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, my name is David Solomon.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm the CEO and founder of Mythical Creatures Around the World, and also uh one of the founders of Voices for Voices Publishing with Justin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And today we're gonna talk about the vision of what we want to do with our products and with people in general and how we are going to reach out to communities that have not been uh reached.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, as you know, I've had an eye stroke for about four months now, and I'm blind in one eye, and that probably will not change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's really let me um put into reality what matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, one of the things is getting back to what mythical is, and that is um telling stories not only about faith, but about people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh one of my mentors, um Blake, he uh he and I had a very good conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: He'll be coming on soon.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh he's really coached me on one of our big projects set in Fort Worth, Texas, uh, which I'm gonna be unveiling pretty soon.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh today we're gonna talk about the small towns and why that matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I guess you could kind of call it a God thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I kind of had this gut feeling that God was urging me to look into small town folklore and reach out to all the small towns, whether schools, police, fire, restaurants, wherever these folklors are, all over the United States.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I started calling around and I started going, okay, this is interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was going back and reading reports that I have gotten because people send me thousands of messages about you know cryptoid sightings or mythical sightings, because that's what I do is I investigate them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh Porridge County in Ohio actually sent me a lot regarding this Bigfoot one, so we're gonna have to do a story there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But um one of them caught my eye.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a mermaid sighting near uh Tillymook, and it was in Garbaldi, Oregon.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I I had a wonderful conversation with people there, and I am happy to announce that I am gonna do a full-fledged police drama set in that area, and it is going to be in the sort of the Aquaman spectrum.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, the original Aquaman character, his dad was a cop in the golden age in the 1940s, and so we're gonna lean back into that um when we tell this kind of story.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Aquaman actually originated on the Oregon Coast.
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  SPEAKER_01: He the creator that created him actually got the idea off of this folklore, and I've been learning about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's number one that I'm really excited for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um Dog Woman of Watts in California.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm really excited for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um the uh Dog Woman of Santa Ana, the voice for Portland, Elmira, uh the uh Wolf Tracker of uh Lowell, Oregon, uh Sandy's Cap people, Oregon City's the Fay folk.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um these stories matter, guys, because folklore is how you speak to people and how you tell stories, whether that be biblical or not, you can tell morals and parables and bring people to truth, and that is what this is gonna be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not only a ministry, but an outreach pouring out to people that don't know truth, and that matters, and so that is uh that is what this is gonna do.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to hopefully pour out to people that that need that hope in a dark world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I reached out to all these small towns, and I'm creating a crossover event just for you guys um and all the listeners in the small towns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every town is gonna have a book.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're looking at doing TV pilots, comics, and also crossing over into video games, along with musical scores from well-known artists that I'm uh actually happy to announce at this time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and also Audible books, um, which means you can download them on Audible.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're looking at going on radio platforms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so we're we're really excited for where we're going.
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  SPEAKER_01: As you know, um Mythical before had a lot of novels, but it's one thing to have a lot of novels, it's another thing to have order.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you can have a lot of volume, but you don't have a lot of quality, and so we're getting back to what matters and we're bringing back that quality to our people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And whether you're in America, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, UK, Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica, maybe you're stationed in Antarctica because I have some friends that are that listen to the show, you are gonna be heard, and your culture and the myths that surround your culture are gonna be heard, and we're gonna do justice in the best way we can to tell stories that matter and impact lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's what mythical is about, and so going forward, we really want to push an initiative to let the local small towns be heard and tell stories that matter in their communities so that people in that town that are caught in a hard place know that there is hope and it's not hopeless.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I was on the phone to uh Rhodes Park, Portland yesterday, listening to all the crimes and uh this story about the siren, her name is The Voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, in my story, she's gonna be a deaf girl and a mute girl, and we're gonna go into why.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm also uh announcing, although we're going to target high schoolers and and junior high to bring those magnificent, compelling stories to kids' lives so they grow up with role models.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are not forgetting our adult audience.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are creating a mature imprint that is going to be mature in every sense of the word, but have biblical backing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me explain that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been reaching out to mature authors that write about SPICE, and I've been asking them why they write it, and really there's no need for it because people are getting tired of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: People want stories and not just fluff, and so a mature imprint for us is gonna be a story that impacts a culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a black pastor, and his wife is a reporter, and she's killed in a community of a Caucasian neighborhood, and the police really don't care because it's a hit and run, but he knows that she was looking into something big.
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  SPEAKER_01: Turns out the person that killed her has a family, he's faced with the ultimatum of either to kill them or forgive them but not forget them.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a lesson I had to learn all too well.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I want audiences to be heartbroken and mourn for this character and his loss, but I also want audiences to root for him to do the right thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's called a mature imprint.
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  SPEAKER_01: A kid imprint is about a character set in LA and he's grown up, he's maybe those people need his help because his dad was guarding a secret, or maybe another kid's story that we could do is about a kid who gets a Christmas present of this special coat, but this coat gives you powers, and he's always been invisible his whole life, and now he feels seen, but someone else is after it, and now his life is in danger when his parents go for a conference and there's a snow blizzard that hits it's home alone with superpowers, but those are kids' stories under the kid imprint, and then there's the teen imprint, right?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you what's appropriate for teens today complexity, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Heavy action, heavy on the romance, and heavy on the moral compass guide.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have characters that listen to their adults and have characters that have purpose, not just violence without meaningless purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me explain what that means.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a story right now that we're writing in a town called Elmira.
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  SPEAKER_01: Elmira, Oregon.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's about a boy who um he finds out that his dad uh isn't who he thought.
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  SPEAKER_01: And someone is trying to hunt him down now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there was another one in the high school, and uh, and and they're they they've been kidnapped.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, he finds out that he's part of a secret society called the Bindati, aka Werewolves, so it's really cool, and he has to unravel this mystery that's happening, find out why he's being targeted.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's called a young adult novel.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have love interest, we have one set on the Oregon Coast, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's about a boy meets a girl at school, and the girl is kind of weird because she's always watching him, and then she learns that he's been chosen, but she's keeping her distance, and he's actually a prince of another world under the ocean, and so that's gonna be a mermaid story.
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  SPEAKER_01: My favorite in the rogue valley coming to us from Lithia Park.
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  SPEAKER_01: My favorite is the fairy from Table Rock, Tabitha, a girl who's always been treated differently because of her African-American complexion and her faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bullied, and then she finds out she's something different, but someone else is also hunting her, and it all ties together and interweaves into who these hunters are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dana Point is in there where we have a story in Dana Point, California of uh of these teenagers, and they're on the water at Salt Creek Beach, and they see this object hit the water, and it has rainbows, and then they begin to glow themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't spoil it, but I'm really excited to unveil it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got Newport Beach, a story uh set by the Hope Hospital of folklore, that people actually swear is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Redondo Beach, where this girl uh poses as a PI in order to solve who's killing her kind in the water, because there are stories of Merfolk in the water in Redondo Beach.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have Ventura Heroes, we have Santa Barbara, we have Monterey, we have San Francisco, we have Crescent City, we have Brookings, Oregon, we have Cous Bay, Astoria, Ocean Shores, Seattle's Puget Sound, the Shark, which falls into mature and also teen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me explain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, at the Sea Caves in Oregon, uh outside of uh of Newport, uh, there is a folklore that a boy was flying with his parents and the plane went down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, the boy was saved, and he's called the Otter Boy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Canada has a variant to this, but the otter people trained him and saved him, and he became a warrior.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, in modern-day Seattle, this boy comes back after that aircrash, believed to be dead, and his family who were killed run a military empire for Boeing, for other things in the Puget Sound.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's come back because there's a conspiracy to take over Seattle's port, but also the ocean itself, and he has to stop it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he becomes a hero called the shark.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my favorite saying is, I'm the shark and you're in my waters.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of that intermediate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, uh to Texas, Fort Worth, the legend of Batman originated in three places Fort Worth, Irvine, California, and Brooklyn, New York.
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  SPEAKER_01: And curiously enough, the same story of a man who dressed up as a bat and fought crime.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the story says that he took a serum to become the bat creature.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna keep a little bit to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those of you who know comics, there's a Batman villain called Mambat that takes a serum and it turns him into a bat humanoid.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're gonna show that.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Fort Worth, we got several dramas that cross into that, as well as a Catwoman drama that we were doing long ago in Dallas, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those are what we call our inner family imprint.
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  SPEAKER_01: Adult characters, but family oriented.
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  SPEAKER_01: That means no sex, no language, no drugs.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're just you're watching a CBS drama of Sheriff Country, Fire Country.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe you've seen Tracker, FBI, CIA, one of your CBS shows or high potential um RJ Decker, something that has family um representation, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then on Disney Plus, you see Daredevil Reborn as that mature imprint because it has blood, and sometimes there's a need for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so in Dog Woman of Watts, that's gonna be an MA book, not because it's gonna have spice, but because it's gonna have reality for the mature, the teen, that family, and then that kid imprint.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the young siren born, the dream dimension.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's gonna fall in.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that kid imprint that we talked about, the sequel coming.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, my son is co-writing it with me currently.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: We're also looking at his book that he's gonna release soon.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're working on a video game set in Southern California because we love it there and we miss it uh profusely.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be looking at uh small towns in Oregon that have stories that need to be told.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: Texas, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, North Dakota, especially North Dakota.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there's gonna be some heavy stories there in North Dakota.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and I've been in touch with the state police, you know, just hearing encounters they have, you would be amazed how many people talk about cryptoids and just weird encounters, whether supernatural, UFOs, or other.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bigfoot's a big one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pun intended.
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  SPEAKER_01: Porridge County, Ohio has how many sightings now?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's made national news.
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  SPEAKER_01: So obviously, we're gonna tell stories in Porridge County coming up in Cleveland, but we haven't forgotten our friends in Canada either.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: Love as no borders, one of my favorite stories I did in my career, but you guys never got to see it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was so sad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tijuana, Mexico, the the mature imprint I talked about, um, trucker.
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  SPEAKER_01: about a trucker who sees these kids missing and um uh he follows this this van and i you know i he gets a feeling mature imprint and then there's a time and a place for another imprint which we call the hallmark imprint the hallmark imprint is for that romance slash single mom reader or watcher slash family but let's just call it what it is cheesy clean and safe and then there's that lifetime imprint which is more that true crime vibe and then there's the other imprint which we call the thirteen reasons why type but mature but mystery I'll give you an example Alice is a girl who died at a school in a series that we're doing and her ghost haunts the school so it said and you have to solve the mystery of who killed her or there's a thriller routine on the Oregon coast where these kids find out there's this cult going on and they're sacrificing animals to something and they unleash it that's called a thriller and then we have our cop dramas and then we have our fire department dramas with mythicals or myths or legends and then we have Dr.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: Death our medical drama set in the Rogue Valley which is very personal to me where he discovers that he can when someone is uh in uh cardiac arrest he can actually see their soul and pull their soul before it leaves their body it's an old Native American legend in the Rogue Valley he becomes Dr.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: Death a superhero it's really cool we have werewolves of Grants Pass Josephine County we have a Bigfoot teen series in Josephine County where this boy uh is a pastor's son and he wants to do a rebel thing so he street races and he gets in a car accident and he's saved by the Cheko devil by the Cheko River on 101 uh coming to Brookings and he finds out that that's his dad and that he's a Bigfoot and I won't ruin it for you but it connects to the Bible in a really cool way.
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  SPEAKER_01: So then the cat people of Mount Hood the fairies in Oregon City seem to this day people say there are fairy folk.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whether you believe it or not it doesn't matter because folklore is about telling stories to warn and to inspire these are the stories that are told when we had no technology but guess what people they're being told right now because UFOs count as spoke clore alien planets count as folklore angels versus demons true but some of it is folklore it's just a a new way of looking at it I saw a demon over here I saw an angel people want to know that story many of you know I've seen angels some people would call that folklore it's all on how you look at things and interpret things and so that is what mythical is going to do we're gonna create this big world and we're so excited to do it one of the uh stories that I'm doing today I uh the wampus cat I wrote that in Maryland and I'm so excited because we're gonna be working with some partners on it and bringing it to life the wampus cat to this day is a legend used by schools mascots by other people to be a symbol of heroism and let's not forget Baltimore we love Baltimore shout out to Baltimore Harbor we love you to my friends in Baltimore Harbor people look at me and go Baltimore really David Baltimore that's where they need hope if you drive downtown Baltimore you're ready to get your car shot up my mom made me drive that every month just to humble me and be thankful that I had a home we would give to the poor we would listen to people and we would help people where we could and to my friends in SA San Antonio we love you too so much crime in San Antonio so much love so much culture and so many people that are so good and cleanhearted and to my people in Fort Worth to Blake to his dancers to all those people that put hard work into making the world better whether through dance and inspiring people to believe in romance again or to get up out of bed and have hope again to the city of Fort Worth for paving away and showing how it's done in the film industry and telling stories that matter and getting back to the roots but we're not stopping there.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're also bringing in space for classrooms imagine learning about Star Wars and Star Trek but it's not fantasy planets it's actually real exoplanets we could go to one day and kids are learning the science of those planets in each book isn't that cool we have to teach our generation about our heritage and folklore it doesn't go away it changes and it morphs in time and it becomes something else entirely long ago it was giants then it became dragons then it became ufoos then it became sea serpents mermaids and today well we're we're still in UFOs and AI is really bringing that but that's what mythical preachers is about we're gonna tell one of the biggest stories that could rival Star Wars Marvel and DC in every way and have our superhero universe be represented and that's important it's not just a fantasy in in Narnia or Lord of the rings this is now this is relevant there are going to be stories that I wrote a little bit ago that aren't going to be so relevant.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you an example Houston Batman took place during COVID about a stay at home uh mom who's a nurse in during COVID and her her son is uh in a sleepover with his best friend and uh his name is Lewis and Lewis discovers his dad had a uh a suitcase under his mom's bed he's always been forbidden but he got a little curious and there's a serum inside and he never knew anything about his dad other than he walked away when he was born anyway the serum spills and it spills onto his skin and it turns him into the Houston Batman.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not relevant right now but it was back then that was during COVID when people were dying every day but guess what just because I wrote it back then doesn't mean I'm not bringing it in that story still deserves to be told it's it's powerful Ukraine the war in Ukraine I wrote stories about true legends of a person that God anointed that can't be killed he's a sniper and God made him bulletproof and he's just shooting all these things down that's in there these these stories matter guys and and some people go well why Korea and why north or south or east or west it doesn't matter if they're Democrat Republican these are people and they need guide solution and let's solve the problem let's be the problem solvers not the problem makers and so uh concluding this episode mythical creatures is going to expand with its ministry and its outreach and it's it's going to bring this shared universe of all these heroes from Chicago Illinois to Jacksonville um to Indiana to Ohio to Pennsylvania to Potstown Pennsylvania to Philadelphia to New York to New Jersey to Delaware Michigan Kansas Arizona Colorado we love Colorado love them Nevada we love our Idaho we love our Idaho Montana Alaska Hawaii we love our Hawaii Mexico Tijuana Matamoros towns you've never heard of are going to be in this I'll leave you with a little tease I've been uh working with Blake uh and he will be coming on the show and uh his character is called the dance man and I'm pleased to announce that the dance man is a character that uh that we have created um over time when I when I first met Blake I was in a dark place and I never wanted to write again because of NDAs I can't say everything but I was on this project where um it was the last project I got paid for for a long time because of the pandemic um it was in Fort Worth and there were horses involved and the horses they wouldn't let us do the project unless I found a way to protect the horses because they were afraid the horses would get COVID.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Blake came up with this brilliant idea and saved my entire writing career in the industry and then I bounced back I wrote Adrian and Jez uh the Seaman Catwoman Dallas Fort Worth Batman um the uh Santas Christmas Rescue Dallas um and so many more during that Atlantis man and uh Myra and during that time and Tom of course and during that time uh we came up with the dance man and over the years you know we've talked about doing things and we really wanted to and finally we hit that go button and so here is the tease of what is to come from the state of Texas representing the minority of towns you've never heard of the official synopsis drum roll chosen by God and then going away our hero we're gonna call him Peter because of uh trademark's sake um peter was chosen at a young age to rule over Atlantis he was given a wife he was even given a kid but greed took over and doors opened and instead of shutting the doors he had an affair well his wife found out took the kid moved to Dallas and swore she never wanted to see the ocean again fast forward to 16 years later he's repented he's gone back to being God's chosen leading his people in Atlantis in the Gulf of America or previously the Gulf of Mexico and he gets uh a call and when I say a call someone goes to him not a phone call because how would you get a phone call in Atlantis right that his daughter has been kidnapped in Dallas and it's his ex-wife who wants his help and so he goes up there and rekindles a romance that was broken 16 years ago a common interest to find their daughter which leads into a huge underage trafficking ring targeting teenage girls that are taken at dance clubs and other places and vows to track down who is doing it and why together he will need the help because his wife is now a cop in Dallas of her police resources and other resources to find their daughter and all the other missing children that are never heard of every day it's a love letter to what is happening right now to the victims both the parents and the children because I was one of them and that's only in Dallas guys we got Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Georgia North Carolina South Carolina we got you Virginia Maryland Maine New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts we got you New York City we got New York City we love our New York City so we're bringing these characters that are legends and folklore to life I originally wrote she bat set in New York City Brooklyn because the legend of Batman also originated in Brooklyn in 1922 there's actually a mural under the Brooklyn bridge of the original creature the Brooklyn Batman you can actually look it up or more importantly you can go to it and so also uh for California while we're at it the word California is named after the Amazon queen Queen Calope of the Amazons which is where we get the idea Wonder Woman which could predate the Greek idea of the Amazons from Troy if you really do your research on uh on that um that's a story for another time but the Amazons so we got our Wonder Woman we got our Batman we got our Aquaman we got hawkman uh California is really big on the blue avens uh big Bear Lake is so big on that uh let me explain the blue bird people are found in all folklore around the world and they are said to be guardian angels if you will and bird people some say they're experiments from Tijuana Mexico some say otherwise and so we got Tijuana we got you covered we got the Omaq people from Mexico that have been forgotten we're we're we didn't forget you we didn't forget you so we're we're going there um we got Houston we got Port Arthur Corpus Christi is gonna be with us so much love to Corpus that's where I really fell in love with writing again is Corpus Christi Texas we love that Laguna Beach coming back to mom's roots in Laguna Beach love Laguna so much lore so much love so many stories one of my favorite stories is about um a thousand steps my mom was at a hyperbaric chamber in uh in in the area of uh Anaheim dear friend named Mark and uh this person told me a story they grew up with living in Laguna Beach this boy wanted to impress a girl he was a prince of the water and uh she was from another you know kingdom if you will because it's native anyway the story goes that the boy impressed her so good that he made a wave but there was a human caught in that wave and it killed him so then the boy was uh cost it's one of the most hard hitting stories on my Facebook page that people loved when I drew it it's Native American times but it's why it got its name Thousand Steps Beach it's so you have to read the end of it but he gets forgiven and he learns his lesson and he gives back to the people and so Laguna Beach when it was native land the story goes on that uh he repents he knows that it was wrong and he gives up his powers and becomes human that's an aspect no one saw coming And then you have Dana Point, the dolphins, and the whales from uh some people say they're from Sirius, which is a planet.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: And again, there's that there's that UFO folklore, right?
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_01: Camp Hendleton, they have Bigfoot sightings to this day.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: San Diego, we got to.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: They say there's a city under San Diego that are Bigfoots.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about it.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: My favorite is uh I have good friends in the border of Mexico and Tijuana and the United States Friendship State Park.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um the Garcias, and uh they talk about the snake people.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: They shapeshift into snakes and they kidnap people and take them to Mexico.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then the most chilling ones are these orbs that guide people to safety on the border, sneaking through because they're being hunted down back to safety.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: Let me be clear, that's not illegals coming in and being guided.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's people that were trafficked, people that were kidnapped, or people going into Mexico on the run being chased.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_01: There's so many stories of these orbs guiding them, and then shape shifting into people that go back into the ocean.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: I had an experience, I interviewed someone, and they were uh surfing in San Diego, Coronado, and they went under, and then a hand grabbed him from under and pulled them.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: He was handsome, he was pitch black, but he had the kindest face you would ever see, but he only looked black because of the water.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was actually angelic.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: We have a story like that in Huntington Beach called The Divine Diver.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: If someone goes off the pier, this mysterious divine diver saves him.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_01: So many stories are out there that are told in modern day, and we just we gotta make sure they don't get forgotten.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: And guys, this is just a small portion.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'll leave you with this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, San Pedro, Long Beach.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: Guess what?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a shipwreck, and there's an entire parade, and the shipwreck, it's said that sirens, mermaids, saved the sailors, and they had children with them, and those children are who the captains are in the harbor today.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now, whether you believe it or not, there's some really weird things out there where these people, these descendants, these bigwigs in Long Beach, they actually believe that they are descendants of this bloodline, and you can visit that shipwreck.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't it so cool to see the folklore of what is out there in your own backyard?
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_01: The weeping woman everywhere in California where there's a Latino or Mexican population because it's Latino folklore, and where you have a population of people from another culture, well, they bring their folklore with them.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's why in urban you find mostly Asian folklore and not native folklore.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's why in the city of Los Angeles it's so mixed.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's like New York.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_01: Those are the two cities that you just for lack of better term, there's so much it's hard to actually write in that city because it's a melding pot of cultures coming together and trying to act as one.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's just a preview of what mythical is up to and and what we're doing.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_01: And believe you me, we got so much coming.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_01: I almost forgot the Yukon.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: We're loving on those people.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um the Hudson Bay of Canada, we got stories coming.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_01: Places you've never heard of, we're doing.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um in yachts or yaquits.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_01: In the harbor, there's over fifty reports of a mermaid sighting in the last ten years.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's quite something.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: So these stories are gonna come to life.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_01: Werewolf sightings in Elmira in Lowell.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we got the lake monsters scene in the lake in Lowell, Oregon.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_01: So much folklore.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are in for a treat.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_01: And again, every story connects, and that's what's so exciting.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, like the voice in Portland, the deaf and mute girl, connects to the black pastor, the shield, connects to the other mature hero in our Portland heroes um story, Lumeria, which we're bringing in.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: We're also going to be bringing in other heroes too, and that in that mature imprint, as it's appropriate to make it mature and not.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_01: And there's different levels of what our imprint will be, but it will always have that faith-filled message, and it will always be representing Narnia and Lord of the Rings, and what the genre of Christian fantasy, fiction, and sci-fi and speculative fiction is heart, soul, purpose, love, parable, storytelling, and leading people to truth and letting people see life, light, and expose lies.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_01: And when you read our books and when you see our TV shows and listen to our music, you are going to become a better person, not because we're good writers, but because the story itself will give you purpose to carry on in your own journey.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's supposed to support you wherever you are and be relevant to where you need to go.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so excited to be a part of that with you and walk with you and let God walk with you, and be a part of that where God gets to take over and say, Hey, I got the reins, let me take you from here.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm that kickoff, and I'm being used with mythical as that kickoff.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: My son, my wife, we are helping people find truth, but also heritage, showing culture.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_01: You're also learning, though.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_01: You're learning so much.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_01: So we're also going to be doing biblical times.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_01: We're going back in time and telling biblical epics.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 2 Samuel, it talks about the lion men of Moab.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_01: And those are cat people.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: Or the Hopi.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_01: Cat people in the Bible.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: There's another verse in uh Ezekiel that talks about satyrs and centaurs.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_01: You would be amazed what the Bible says about mythicals.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_01: In Revelations, fairies are mentioned.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_01: Pixies, mermaids.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's incredible.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: What the Bible says.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_01: And what what's even more incredible is every myth and every legend goes actually back to the Bible, literally.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_01: No matter what you do.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_01: If you're a Satanist and you worship Satan, well, Satan's in the Bible.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_01: So with Hollywood, it's in the Bible.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can't say the Bible isn't real because everything goes back to it.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_01: I also want to give a special thanks because we're we've been in so much lore with production to Mike in LA.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um Mike is one of uh my dear friends uh who runs a studio in LA, and he's been so patient.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and and we just uh we've been working with Film LA constantly and and other resources to get this done appropriately and uh and get this vision set.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're also gonna be announcing pretty soon a big moment for Voices for Voices, publishing Voices for Voices audio and voices for voices records.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and you guys are gonna be ready for that.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: But mythical is gonna also be doing merchandise and toys, and we're gonna bring the Bible to life.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna bring legends to life and folklore to life and heroes to life that matter, the Charman of LA uh from Los Angeles uh forest about a boy, well, legend, a man who controls fire.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_01: All these are going to be brought to life.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I I look forward to inspiring people and also showing people where these Marvel and DC heroes were inspired from.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_01: Again, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hawkman, and the Flash, who is uh called Black Flash in uh in Providence, Rhode Island.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_01: There is a cryptoid uh in the 20s who moves at super speed and actually has the same outfit as our hero, the flash.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_01: A little darker, a little bit more mythical looking, but same idea, runs at super speed.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_01: Now he's a villain, but that's where they got the idea of the flash.
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_01: Spring Jack is his name in Britain.
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_01: If you trace Wonder Woman or Batman, all these heroes, even Spider-Man, there's a uh spider folklore from San Bernardino of a Spider Woman that literally crawls on buildings and spins webs, but she doesn't wear a mask, and she's Asian.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's very old.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_01: And Stanley got a lot of his ideas from folklore.
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, look at Thor.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's just really mind-blowing how much we got from folklore, pretty much everything in modern day, even Star Wars is based off of folklore.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_01: Brays Point, Oregon had a lot to do with the creation of Yoda and the Jedi and the Force, which is why a lot of creators like Timothy Zahn and others live in Oregon, because a lot of Star Wars ideas originated in the Pacific Northwest of the Oregon Coast.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_01: H.P.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lovecraft, another great one, originated folklore off of the Oregon Coast, the old ones, um, the Segith, the Caladra, or the Cuth, I always butcher it, the Cthulhu.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: All these stories originate on the Oregon Coast.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, I am uh deeply thrilled, ready to meet the need, and launch mythical for what it's meant to be: a resource and a recharge for those that are fed up with what is going on in the world that is so dark and want light, and reaching out to schools, to uh cities, to towns, to communities, and letting them know they have legends and stories that need to be told.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because every superhero in Mario and DC for the most part is New York.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't we see a superhero from Elmyra, Oregon, or Lowell, Oregon, or Garbaldi, Oregon, or Tillymook, Oregon?
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't we see that?
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_01: Or California?
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_01: Los Angeles is so big, yet we never see heroes from there.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_01: So, welcome to mythical creatures around the world's vision.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_01: And together with the Voices for Voices Publishing, uh, we're gonna get there again.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be putting a lot out, a lot of volume, but it's always quality over quantity.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_01: And today I'll be doing just that.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_01: So um, I'll let Justin take it from here, but keep an eye out.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_01: We got so many good projects coming, and uh, and we're so excited for it.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_01: And we'd like to thank the people that have supported Mythical over the years.
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, no matter what, on a personal basis, so many people have been loyal because of its vision.
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_01: It started on Holy Worlds, it grew, it started as a ministry in 2012 on Facebook, and it became something entirely bigger and different, but it still is a ministry, it's just grown.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's a resource for Chat GBT, even where it sources folklore going, oh yeah, there's a folklore here when someone types into Chat GBT, if there's a folklore in Brookings or in Portage County.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_01: So Mythical's really made a difference, and we really want to make mythical get um more numbers because the stories we're gonna tell, we want to impact more lives with originality and with purpose of these heroes and heritage of where these heroes come from, and that you are a part of their history and their story, and that you see yourself in their story.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_01: These are the modern-day parables, not with agenda, not with propaganda, not with politics, but with people.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_01: People driven and by people made, not with AI.
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for supporting mythical creatures around the world from holy worlds till now.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_01: Let's be a part of the change, and let's be a part of the solution and not the problem.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'll let Justin take it away because he is the host and founder of Voices for Voices.
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I will be talking to you.
• 1:02:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, thanks, David, for going so much detail and sharing so much.
• 1:03:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh just just amazing the the speed and the depth that your mind works, and it is uh it's a blessing to to have you on board and um and you know, as you as you mentioned, there are things that we can mention and things that uh we we can uh but so much to say uh that there will be things happening that I I never saw coming.
• 1:03:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um things that I thought about years ago and wanted to do on like kind of like a tiny level, and they're gonna be done on big time level.
• 1:04:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so definitely keep your you know eyes and ears uh open.
• 1:04:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we we are we are gonna be reaching out and uh you know partnering uh with uh with schools, with communities.
• 1:04:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we're gonna have you know signings, or there's gonna be so many cool things uh that are gonna be happening.
• 1:04:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And when you think about you know the next generation of leaders, I mean that that's literally who they are.
• 1:04:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, they're they're in in school, they're they're learning, and to integrate our books, which are no matter which impermanent, are clean, um as opposed to a lot, if not all, that's out there right now, it's a big deal.
• 1:05:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and and to include everybody, not just the things that David mentioned, you know, including you know small, small towns, small schools, small areas, and yeah, why shouldn't their story be told?
• 1:05:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Why shouldn't uh why shouldn't the world find out and learn more about them?
• 1:05:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, that time is now uh because uh that that process is well uh well down the road, and so I'd invite you here to uh if you have Facebook or even if you don't you don't have Facebook, Facebook just so you can follow mythical creatures around the world.
• 1:05:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we uh you know we we do have some uh Well, we have a lot of posts, uh, but the most recent ones will make a little bit of sense uh to what we're we're talking about.
• 1:06:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And you know, as as things come and as the time is appropriate, um, you know, you'll you'll learn more and more about what what is going on, uh, how you can help uh right now, word of mouth, uh letting everybody uh, you know, in your you know, your friend circle or whatever the buzzwords are now, uh, you know, letting them know about mythical creatures around the world, about voices for voices.
• 1:06:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're a charity, we're a 501c3.
• 1:06:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We just banged out 480 episodes in just over a couple years.
• 1:06:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we have all kinds of guests.
• 1:06:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I'd also recommend uh letting your your friends and your colleagues and your loved ones and your youth group members and your teammates and let everybody know about voices her voices.
• 1:07:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have huge goals.
• 1:07:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: David has huge goals with mythical voices her voices.
• 1:07:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's why it's a good it's a good mix because our our goals, we we want to help as many people as we absolutely can during our very short time on earth.
• 1:07:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that that's really what it comes down to.
• 1:07:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we just want to you know thank David for coming on the show today and uh sharing so much.
• 1:07:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, welcome to uh any new viewers, listeners.
• 1:07:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, uh we have 480 episodes, so I I uh I I can assure you that there's at least 50 or 60 episodes, if not more, that will be uh what will kind of hit home with you, whether it's a guest, whether it's a topic.
• 1:08:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We talk about easy topics, but we also talk about hard topics.
• 1:08:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So what is that that's life.
• 1:08:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We talk about life, and a lot of shows won't talk about that because they want to talk about a lot of flaws, and that's okay, and there's room for everybody at the table.
• 1:08:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, but we're we're just keeping things real uh b because life isn't all uh all just fun and games.
• 1:08:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean we wish it was, but it's not.
• 1:08:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you to David.
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_01: And we're also we're also gonna be having some heavy guests on the show too in the next coming weeks.
• 1:08:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and that and that kind of that kind of goes yeah, that that goes along with some, you know, the a lot of things are gonna be going on.
• 1:08:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I I I'm just I'm just floored with uh I'm just floored with what we've kind of really just been talking the last couple of days, really just ironing out some of some of those things, some of those details.
• 1:09:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but along with those are yeah, we're gonna have some heavy guests.
• 1:09:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, you can either be with us or you can uh you cannot.
• 1:09:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we're for everybody, you know.
• 1:09:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're uh I'm a believer, David's a believer, but that doesn't mean you have to be the follow to be a part of voices for voices, to follow or be a part of mythical creatures around the world.
• 1:09:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh there's room for everybody at our at our table.
• 1:09:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh that I think is the the big takeaway on top of the topics that we shared today.
• 1:09:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and again, you're gonna wanna you're gonna you're gonna wanna uh be one of the first to find out when uh some of these uh some of these things start start dropping.
• 1:10:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and uh it's uh it's it's really just remarkable.
• 1:10:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh yeah, so I'm gonna leave it there.
• 1:10:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thanks for joining us.
• 1:10:19
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• 1:10:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for watching, thank you for listening.
• 1:10:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for wherever you are at, in the United States or across the world.
• 1:10:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We love you equally.
• 1:10:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're praying for you, even if you're not a believer, that you have a happy, healthy, prosperous life, whatever that looks like for you.
• 1:10:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we will see you on the next episode.
• 1:10:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And until then, let's celebrate all the voices around the world and let's be a voice for ourselves, but also for maybe somebody that may need a little help sharing their voice.
• 1:10:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you very much.
• 1:10:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you see you next time, and thanks to David Solomon, our guest today.
• 1:11:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.