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Speaker 1: Say hi to Arrows so he knows he has you.

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Speaker 2: Hi, hell Loo and good morning. How are you guys

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doing today? How are you fantastic? And I'm very excited

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to share a conversation with you because I gotta tell you,

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I can't be the only adult that's telling you this

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morning that you make me feel like a kid again,

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because I'm so drawn into these characters that it's just

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and I don't know if it's it just reminds me

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of my childhood, but there's just something here that really

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triggers something very positive in my life.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a wonderful to hear.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I think we feel the same way working all this

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stuff every day.

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Speaker 1: It's great to hear from you.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that you put focus on is relationship,

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you know, working together, creating together. And I gotta tell you,

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I really like Dak Dak in the way that you know,

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Daniel was so inspired that he likes to read. And

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I'm going, oh my god, thank you so much for

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saying that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was The special in general, was a great

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opportunity for all of our characters to introduce what's unique

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about them and to really use that to get to

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know each other better and make friends, which is a

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really great lesson to offer kids, I think, going into

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back to school when they're about to meet probably lots

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of new kids in their new classrooms.

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Speaker 2: You guys waste absolutely no time when it comes to

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building up that relationship with Hody, and because I mean,

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everything starts happening so quickly. But the thing is, I

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like it that way because I want to get into

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the storyline and make my way through that story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I think that first.

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Speaker 3: Song especially, you know, Donkey's excited that a new friend's

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coming to the neighborhood. She doesn't know who, and then

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Daniel and Dad Tiger come in on Trolley and Trolley

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is a friend too. Trolie is someone Donkey knows well.

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So she's just so excited to meet Daniel, and we

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know Daniel's excited to meet her too, And yeah, Gramby

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and Dad Tiger kind of go off to fix their

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clock and Daniel and Donkey can just get right into

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it and get to.

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Speaker 1: Know each other.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was really important for us to make this

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episode feel special in lots of different ways, he said.

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Speaker 4: Right away, and get right into it and have Donkey

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and Daniel meat and it feels really natural and hopefully

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viewers at home enjoy seeing that.

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Speaker 1: And that scene is something that you know, we talked

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a lot about the.

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Speaker 4: Entire episode, but we really wanted to get that scene

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just right because it's like the first time that they're meeting.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to feel special, like you said, and also for.

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Speaker 3: The viewers, you know, we might be have Daniel viewers

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watching this episode who don't ordinarily watch Donkey Donkey viewers

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who don't ordinarily watch Daniel, so it actually serves as

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a lovely moment for our audience to get to know

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both characters better too.

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Speaker 2: There's forward motion in the storyline. In other words, they're

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going someplace. The anticipation is there, and then when you

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add trolley into the storyline, all of a sudden, now

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we know how we're going to get there. I mean,

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there's such a great I'm a writer, so therefore, you know,

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it's always about that forward motion and you guys have

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nailed it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Good to hear.

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Speaker 3: Metaphorical and literal, Yeah, Charlie, we knew that they were

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going to go on an adventure because an adventure is

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typical pretty key to Donkey's tony storytelling, and we wanted

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them to be on an adventure that was like safe

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and within the bounds of how Daniel would be on

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Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. So we knew that Trolley is their

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trusted companion on this search for the rambow ball would

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be the perfect the perfect thing to drive this story

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literally as you said.

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Speaker 1: And then it also gave Daniel an.

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Speaker 3: Opportunity to introduce Donkey to things about himself, like his

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ride along.

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Speaker 5: Song right, talk to Donkey, I love about too, giving

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them time to know each other on their own, which

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is something that doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Necessarily happen a lot on Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. It's often

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and grown up or a parent around.

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Speaker 4: But in Donkey Hoty, we do things a little bit

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differently and have Daniel be with Donkey through the whole

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story and to spend that time on the two of them.

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Speaker 2: Please do not move. There's more with Kristin and Chris

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coming up next. We're talking Donkey Hoty and Daniel Tiger.

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We're back with Kristin and Chris Loggins. I got to

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tell you something that really got me and made me

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chuckle like a child, and that is my very first

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guitar that I bought as a teenager was a flying

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V guitar. And guess what you've got feature in this show.

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I saw that flying be it was like, you bet

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they got a flying V in there because they're cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll find a lot of ins in the Donkey

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good set and prop design, like the production design of

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our series overall, a lot of it is very nostalgic,

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like Panda has a big boombox, Donkey has that flying

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being guitar. Yeah, and I have to credit our team

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at Stiphy and our production designer Justin who really has

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that sensibility for bringing childhood memories into the set, production

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design and Donkey.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this question. It's the old

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what came first, the chicken or the egg? Does the

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song come first and you build a story around it,

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or do you build the story and then you have

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to include the music into it.

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Speaker 3: It's very natural, it's both at the same time. The

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way that we script stories is we do start with

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the story, of course, and we work with extremely talented

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writers who are very accustomed to how music can drive storytelling,

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and music driving storytelling is very important to book tigers.

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Speaker 1: Neighborhood and Donkey Hoodie. So as we work with the writers.

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Speaker 3: To develop the script, we are making sure that those

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songs are woman in very naturally, just like the learning

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messages are woman in very naturally.

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Speaker 1: It's not one or the other. It's how this all

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comes together. It gets all together at the same time.

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Speaker 5: But for this episode, we made a conscious creative decision

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to have a talented writer named Jill Kusa Turner, who's

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the head writer on Dakan Tiger's Neighborhood also written many

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Donkey Hote episodes, be.

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Speaker 1: The writer of this episode, so she knows both of

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the world.

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Speaker 4: Very well and now is a great place to be

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starting from is to have part working with us on

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the script, and I think it turned out very well.

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine what you guys are going to be

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doing with the next level of these these two coming together,

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because I mean, the marketing has got to be absolutely incredible.

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The door wide open what you can do for t

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shirts as well as creating a music soundtrack. I like

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the songs. They are sharp and to the point. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think we're thinking about all those things and in

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terms of the composition of those songs.

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Speaker 3: I want to give a shout out to our music

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director Bill Sherman, who works to compose a lot of

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the music, including the reimagined versions of the Fred Rogers

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songs like Look and Listen, which is featured in this story.

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That's a Fred Rogers original song that we reimagined in

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this episode.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I want to give it a ton of

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credit to Bill.

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Speaker 3: And there is Donkey Hoody music available to stream, not

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from this specially yet, but I'm sure it'll be out soon.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I'll tell you bring up Fred's name And I

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was thinking while while I was watching the episode, I

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couldn't help but think of Fred Rogers going. He would

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he would accept this, Yeah, yeah, he would be there,

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he would he would love this. And did you feel

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his presence with the creation of this?

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, we feel like we are building

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on the legacy every day and everything we do so

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because ding both Daniel Tigers Neighborhood and Donkey Hoody are

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reimagined future. We reimagined worlds and characters from mister Rogers.

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That is built into our every day creatively, and yeah,

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I think in terms of us creatively, the teams that

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we work with the writers in the case of Donkey,

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Whody or crew on set in Chicago, everybody takes it

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very seriously and is very honored to be, you know,

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working in with these characters and getting to realize this

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world of Gus.

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Speaker 5: I think you can't help but think about Fred when

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you're working on both of these programs.

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Speaker 1: You know, as Christin said, we're always thinking about.

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Speaker 4: The legacy and his approach to making call intellivision for

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children and families. But I'll also just add, you know,

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as somebody who's coming in from the outside onto the

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Donkey set, I could just feel from the cast and

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crew how special they thought this episode was, and that

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everybody wanted to bring their best work and the best

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care to making this not only to honor Brad Rogers

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at mister Ron's neighborhood, but also beating a Tiger's neighborhood

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to bring us into their world.

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Speaker 1: So that was something that we really appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you guys have got to come back to this

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show anytime in the future. The door is always going

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to be open for you.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. Being love to be back.

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Speaker 2: You guys be brilliant today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you so much. Ro appreciate it. Thank you,