Welcome to Goop Tales, Behind the Story.

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

Now, if you're new to the podcast, and this is your first time listening to an episode,

you might want to go back and listen to episode 81, which is the Mads aboard the luxury

gand train in Australia. The behind-the-story series was designed to accompany the regular story episodes for Goop Tales

and just give more information about the places the goops travel to and how I get inspiration

for these places.

For example, while writing the story for episode 81, Madame and Matt Adam and the luxury

GAN train, I ended up doing some research on the Australian Outback and on the GAN luxury train

and just wildlife in the area. If you want to find out what I learned,

you're in the right spot because I am going to share with you. And if you haven't already

listened to episode 81, why don't you pause this, go listen to it right now. Otherwise,

you might be in for some spoilers.

If you have listened to it, let me just refresh your memory and remind you of the sort of trouble that Madam and Mad Adam got themselves into in Australia.

In episode 81, it is focused on the Mad Twins, called The Mads.

And they're named Madam and Mad Adam.

And they end up in Darwin, Australia, which is at the edge of the Australian Outback.

They meet a really friendly kangaroo called Kippa, and they become friends with Kipper.

He sneaks them aboard a luxury liner, which is a luxury train called the Gamp.

Kipper has been doing this for many, many years,

so he knows all the ins and outs.

There are some outs, which include being chased by Jasper.

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