Show Notes
Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero Thursday means the Visitor's Table, and the visitor's chair is filled. Lobster Bob comes home to the Trading Post with a Land Tour card: the Sahara Desert, the Erg Chebbi dunes and the camel treks. Lobster Bob gives your hero the whole wonder in three true things. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, stretching across the top of Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Most of it is not sand at all, but at Erg Chebbi the sand wins, with dunes arou...
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Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero Sunday night, heroes. Lights Out: the quietest mission of the whole week. You know the one rule: Lights Out only begins when you are already in bed. Pyjamas on, teeth done, lights down low. Tonight's goodnight story is a true one: how Pvt. Jeff, the Squad's head chef, closes the busiest, warmest kitchen on the whole base. Three things, every night, in the same order: the long wooden bench wiped until it shines, tomorrow's bread tucked under its cloth to ris...
Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero Saturday, heroes: training day. Hero Training is the show you do not listen to: the show you DO. This week, the very first drill of the morning: the Wake Drill, led by Uncle Jamie himself. Four stations, same order every morning: Eyes and Breath, Sit and Feet, Stand and Light, and the Duvet. Two and a half minutes, the audio is the clock, and at every station you answer with the same word: AWAKE. Your dinner-table fact: astronauts on the International Space...
Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero Fall in, heroes: it's Friday, and that means camp day. First visit of the season: Discovery Camp, the camp where heroes learn how to learn. Today the briefing belongs to Pvt. Ace, and it's the one he was born to give. School said he couldn't remember anything. Then he found the hooks. Three of them, tested live: 1: The Story Method (your brain is terrible at lists and BRILLIANT at stories) 2: The Memory Palace (over two thousand years old, invented ...
Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero Cpt. JT Peg takes a diary down from the Hero HQ shelf, and this one belongs to Pvt. Nurse Nicky, Camp Medic of Recharge Camp. Hero HQ sends her to the Australian Outback with a box of little wellbeing guides for a cattle station near Alice Springs, a farm so big you cannot see across it. She visits the Alice Springs School of the Air, the biggest classroom in the world, learns to make damper in the coals of a campfire, and finds out what it means to boil th...
Message Hero HQ and say hello, hero Sgt. Peck opens the Trading Post for the first time, and the first card on the table belongs to Uncle Jamie: How to Start a Morning Routine. Yesterday your hero met the boy who was hopeless at mornings. Today Uncle Jamie gives them the rest of it: the whole skill in three steps. Pick your three. Same three, same order, every morning, so one job pulls the next along like a little train. Lay out your armour the night before. And if the train comes off the rai...