Jonah and Jesse and the King of Darkness
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Maked Up Stories
4 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It's winter and the days in Wanaka are getting shorter . . . until Jesse and Jonah notice they are getting too short. They must find the king of darkness and convince him to embrace the light before Wanaka is plunged into permanent darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, are you guys ready up to be about. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | Can't be about a magical and and, and, |
| 0:06.0 | and, |
| 0:10.0 | and, |
| 0:11.0 | and sort of a day, |
| 0:14.0 | make-up? |
| 0:15.0 | Yes. |
| 0:16.0 | What do you want your make-up to be about? |
| 0:18.0 | Can't be about a magical land and sort of a dark land that wants to take over, but then the |
| 0:30.6 | leader of the dark land realizes it's not actually a good idea to do that. |
| 0:36.6 | Okay, so like a magical dark land and the dark land wants to take over, |
| 0:43.3 | but then the leader of it realizes that that's not a good idea? |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay. |
| 0:48.3 | So, once upon a time, a long time ago, |
| 0:53.3 | there were two brothers named Jonah and Jesse, and they lived |
| 0:59.7 | in Wanaka, New Zealand, with their parents. And one year, they noticed in about May that it was starting to get dark earlier and earlier in the day. |
| 1:18.4 | Over the summer, it wouldn't get dark until really late at night, like at like 9 or 10 p.m. But then by the time May came around, and it was getting |
| 1:31.8 | toward winter in New Zealand, because the seasons in New Zealand are reversed from what they are |
| 1:37.3 | in the northern hemisphere in places like the U.S. and Europe, they noticed it was getting dark really early. So one day they were all going to |
| 1:49.5 | a families and employers appreciation night at the local fire brigade where their mom |
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