Welcome to another episode of my personal podcast, Ned knows.

Today I'm talking to the creator of Paws and Tales, Dave Carl.

Well, thanks for being with me today, Dave.

It's a pleasure to be here, Ned.

So, because I'm me, I happen to know that you have written the first ever Paws and Tales book.

Tell me more about that.

I'd love to. It's called The Overcomers.

And reading this book will be like reading maybe five regular episodes.

The club is in the middle of a big new adventure, and there are new characters we enter.

Yes, fascinating, Dave. I have it, though, by good authority, that this book centers around

Ned and how he saves the day for everyone. Well, it's, no, that's not what the book is about.

It is significantly about the struggle against evil that lurks high up in

Wild Mountain. If anything, I'd have to say it centers around Stacy. What? I gave you really good

notes when you were writing this. What happened to all my great ideas? Well, mostly, I didn't read

them. There was a lot of notes, Ned.

In the book I did write, we meet Smidge, a badger who really wants to become someone who will make a difference.

And he meets up with Crockett, a genuine overcomer, who begins to teach him how to survive in the woods and how to take care of the miners digging for gold in the

tunnels of Wild Mountain. Ned knows what this book was supposed to be about. In those notes you

did not read, Ned inherits a million dollars, but he does not let anyone know about it,

and he sneaks around and secretly helps those needs and uses all kinds of really neat gadgets to fight crime.

I did read that part of the notes, but in this first pause and tales book, The Overcomers,

we follow the club as they begin a new adventure and we see how Crockett battles bandits and the evil

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