Hello everyone and welcome to a special interview before this week's regularly scheduled Zeldicast.

My name is Andy Spateri, and I am fortunate enough to be joined by my friend and Zelda Dungeon

executive editor, Cora Burton, on this day. What's up, Cora? How are you?

Great. Thanks for having me. This is so exciting. I've been having a good day, although it sounds like the weather's very different from you. I live in the southern United States, so of course we're chilling at 80 degrees in humid.

Well, one thing deserves the opposite, so we are hanging out in minus 10 and super snowy. So there we go.

The weather is a wild thing, but hey, I'm not going to complain about it.

What we are here today to talk about is a very, very special event that we have coming up in about a week's time as you're probably all listening to this

Saturday, April 11th and Sunday, April the 12th. It is the Marlowe Means Fun Marathon happening,

which I am very excited about because Cora, I'm working on that Saturday actually and I get

to watch this as I'm plugging away at work.

So this is going to be a fun one for me.

We wanted to take a couple of minutes here and we wanted to talk about this marathon and some of the background behind it,

what you, the listener, can do to participate and to engage in the cause that it is for

and just tell the story of Marlow.

So let's, why don't we start off right at the beginning here, Cora?

And maybe, you know, we should tell people this, this can be an emotional topic.

It can be a heavy topic.

But I think it's going to be such a worthwhile

topic. This has, you know, obviously something that has touched many, many people in their lives.

So let's flip it over to you, Cori. And maybe you can give us the background about the Marlo

Means Fun Marathon and how the Genesis for the idea came about.

I appreciate it so much.

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