Welcome to Goop Tales, Behind the Story.

I'm Maria Kalinchini, and I'm the founder and creator of Goop Tales.

If you're new to Goop Tales, and this is your first time listening to an episode,

you might want to go back one episode and listen to

episode 83. That's the 83rd goop tale because the behind the story series was designed to

accompany the regular story episodes and just give more factual information about the places, the real

places in the world that the goops traveled to and how I get my inspiration for each story.

For example, while writing the story for episode 83, Fixum and the Red Sand Dunes of Saudi Arabia,

of course I had to end up researching about Saudi Arabia, about deserts, and about sandcats.

I want to tell you all about what I learned and how it inspired me to put some of these facts or this information into episode 83.

If you haven't already listened to episode 83, just pause this and go listen to it.

Otherwise, you might be in for some spoilers.

And if you have listened to episode 83, I'm just going to

refresh your memory and just remind you of the kind of trouble that Fixum got himself into.

Episode 83 was Fixum and the Red Sand Dunes of Saudi Arabia.

In that episode, Little Fixum, who has the power of focus and just loves to fix things.

Well, he got so busy fixing a tiny toy dune buggy.

They didn't need fixing, but he couldn't resist.

He got so busy doing that that he got swept away to Saudi Arabia into the red sand dunes.

There, he met a very cute sandcat called Paca.

Fixum ended up becoming friends with Paca because he didn't know what to do in the desert.

First he spent a day riding his dune buggy around and having the best time, but at night he started to feel a little bit lonely and lost, and that's when he met Paca. And Paca ends up

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