The first season of Tiny Island Diary starts strong and sweet, like guest William Shipley, a violinist and violin teacher near Boston, MA. I met William a few years ago on Instagram, and we recently discovered our mutual appreciation for #ACNH. 
In this episode, he shares how #ACNH offers safe escape during COVID times, what it was like to celebrate a pandemic birthday on his tiny island, and why Sable is the true OG hustler. I start to realize how popular my villager Sherb really is, and we hear from William how different it is to evaluate Redd's art offerings when your real-life partner is an oil painter and studied fine art in college and pretty much knows every item on Redd's ship. (Busted!)
In prepping for this recording, I watched part of an emulator let's-play of the original Animal Crossing for GameCube, which was the only other game from the series that William has played. And the two sources that William goes to for all things #ACNH are Kang Gaming and RyanFTW (both also on YouTube).
This episode was recorded on Friday, July 17, 2020.