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Hey, Grim fans, on Sunday, May 17th, I'm going to be in Syracuse at most, the Museum of Science and Technology for a really special thing.

We're going to be doing a live story event that we are going to record and put out as a new podcast episode. It's going to start at

9.30 in the morning, Sunday, May 17. You can get information by Googling Syracuse Storytelling

Festival Gidwits. You'll find the links. You'll find the tickets. I would love, love, love to see you there.

When I meet kids and grownups who listen to Grim, Grimm, or Grimmist, one of the first

questions I get asked is, how do you do those recordings? Where do you do those recordings?

And then the third question, or sometimes a second and even sometimes the first, is,

how do I get on one of those

recordings? So I'm going to pull back the curtain a little bit and tell you about how it works.

And then, if you stick around at the end of this, I'm going to tell you how you could be on one

very, very soon. There are three ways that we record grim, grimmer, grimest episodes.

The first way is I go into a school, and those schools have always been in New York City, because I live in New York, and so it's easier for me to record a whole season at one of those schools.

Usually one school is in Brooklyn, and then the other school might be in Staten Island or Manhattan, somewhere else.

And I'll go there and I go five times and I record two stories each time I'm there.

And then I go to another school the next day.

If I've been in Brooklyn on Wednesday, for example, I'll go to Staten Island on Thursday, record the same two stories.

That way we've got two recordings with two different groups

of kids for every story. And then when I come home to edit them, I can choose, you know, my favorite

moments from each recording and blend them together to make the episode. And that's how we'll make

10 episodes of a season. Now, during the pandemic, it was a little different. I was recording

them from home because

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