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Manga Talk: Blue Lock Volume 1 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all and welcome back to Daddy to talk, I'm your host
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  Robert. And today I finally got to
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  experience the hype. That is bluelock volume 1.
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  Now block is a series that I've been hearing about for a little
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  over a year myself. Of course.
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  By now with the time of the recording this there's an anime
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  coming out in October. So of course the I've been
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  everything has just just been building and building and so I
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  am a fan of sports Series. So of course, I love, you know,
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  career girls, basketball IQ. I've been really enjoying a lie
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  she and yeah. So thanks of that nature so, so
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  yeah. So what blue lock?
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  All I really knew about it. Of course, going to it was just
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  like, hey, of course, this is soccer and something about some
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  bunch of people competing for a certain position.
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  But what I didn't expect is basically, I've up from my
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  perspective, this is like a sports, it's like a action
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  psychological type of series, So backing up a little bit, so
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  bluelock fit. The physical version is
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  published by kodansha and the story is written by million
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  ookie, kind of Shiro. And the art is done by yusuke no
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  more. So, yeah.
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  So we're with, with this first volume, A couple of things that
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  just immediately got my attention was the potential.
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  So, actually, no going beyond what I've heard on other
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  people's podcast. And just dinner, General
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  discussions are aligned actually getting a chance to see for
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  myself what this blue lock facility is.
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  So, so I guess let me back up a little bit for, for a general
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  synopsis, for any Is like Robert.
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  What is blue? Doc, you're just talking, you
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  got some is what it is. So blue lock, the series of self
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  basically follows basically it is 300 of the best high school
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  players who get invited to this facility called bluelock and
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  they're basically competing to become the next top Striker
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  because this, this organization is basically trying to And what
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  they feel is the last missing piece so that Japan can win a
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  World Cup. So because basically, they want
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  to go beyond just oh I we qualified and we made it into
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  the conversation or we made it to the, to the playoffs or
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  whatever, sort of speak, it is like, no, we want to actually
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  win. And so, And so, yes.
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  So one, one thing I'll say, is that just like the players in
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  the series, The Way. The Story Goes, we all get
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  pulled in roped into this unexpectedly and quickly.
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  So the main character, let me see.
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  Let me find his name. Yo, vici asagi.
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  Main character here also, on the front cover, of course.
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  So basically, his team was in a match to see who would go to
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  play to play a big match at Nationals.
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  And so he basically has a basically, a huge moment that
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  not many athletes, get a chance to experience.
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  So final seconds, they're down by one point.
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  One another down 120 and so he has a shot at taking a test to
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  try to score on the go, but he's off to the side that oh my
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  teammates open maybe I should pass it to him and he might be
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  able to score. Well he passes it his teammate
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  doesn't score and the other team gets the ball scores and they
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  lose. And so of course he's beat him a
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  spinning himself up of Like man, like what?
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  What if what if I would have been the one to take that shot?
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  And so basically he ends up when he gets home, you know, telling
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  his parents like, hey, we didn't win and I appreciate that.
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  Even though his parents, they have no clue or interest in
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  soccer, but I do like the fact that they are somewhat
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  supportive like hey there, no, they're paying for him to do
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  Sports and stuff. And it's like he wants to do.
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  So will support him but his parents.
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  Give him a hate. This letter, came in the mail
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  for you. And it was an invitation to
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  basically what we later. Find out.
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  What's the blue of the blue like project but it is just so wild.
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  How like all 300 these kids with no additional context, just get
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  invitations to this facility and basically when they get there
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  they are told like hey if you decide to do this then this will
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  be your life from now for the next, I thought things like six
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  months to a year or so I think six months basically 8, you will
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  be living here, whatever you got going on with your personal
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  teams and family, life, whatever is done.
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  And so, of course, the kids are freaking out yelling like, yo,
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  Hey, cuz like, some of the kids will.
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  Hey, my team, we're about to go to Nationals or hey, what about
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  my family yada? Yada yada and the headed got out
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  of the facility. He's basically like, who cares,
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  if, if you were wanting to be the best, This is where you need
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  to be. This is where your focus needs
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  to be at right now because nothing else matters.
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  Like, hey, who cares about your silly High School game?
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  We're trying to win the World Cup.
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  This is bigger than anything else, that that matters right
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  now and so yeah they kind of just get this presentation,
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  whatever. I saw all three hundred, the
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  kids ended up agreeing and going toward our but it's just like
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  for isolation, they take their phone.
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  Lose their wallets everything and it's a hey you were just in
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  this in this facility and you will be training and so they are
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  split up. So the blue lock facility, the
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  way it is split up. And let me see if I can get a
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  good picture to show y'all. So you can kind of see here, how
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  he is explaining how their split up.
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  So you know, one through five and then each alphabet letters
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  like B through Z and so that's how the split up as our main
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  character. He is sent to block five team Z.
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  So he's like second-to-last ranking to.
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  So they all get uniforms and stuff pests out to them whatever
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  and all the uniforms have a letter and the number on it.
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  He is number 2 99. So he is second to dead last in
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  this competition and just seeing the setup of stuff like that of
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  our guy. Hey, no.
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  I like, okay. That, that that's what.
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  That's what made this made me excited to continue to read this
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  in for the potential of this. I've known.
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  Okay. Hey, he is close to the bottom
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  of the barrel of 300 people and he's also in Z so that just goes
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  to show. Okay, the competition of people,
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  he got to go against to reach. The top is going to be something
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  fierce, and that is exciting for me.
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  I like that. For those who might be watching
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  this for the first time have no, no other crew or context of who,
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  I am. So as the channel is called
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  Danny to talk, I am a father of five, most of my kids do Sports
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  and they compete at a very high level.
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  Currently, they do track and basketball and it and they
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  compete at a very high level. And so, Also, myself being a
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  fourth, former athlete growing up, and now likes it with my
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  kids playing sports and stuff. I think that just makes me
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  appreciate series, like, blue lock.
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  And not just the fact of them, you know, going into the various
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  games and aspects of the sport. But what bluelock saying that,
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  hey, we're going to tap into the psychological portion of this
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  and kind of get into the mindset of how these kids These players
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  are going to think and to act and everything going forward.
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  And so, so, yeah. So the other end, this first
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  volume alone, there's already been a couple of like things
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  that they've done to try to like eliminate some of the players
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  and donor down numbers and stuff.
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  The first thing that they did was play a game of tag which is
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  interesting to see. And this like so this first
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  volume alone I am 41. I'm excited for the anime coming
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  out in a few months, just to see.
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  Even just this little small taste, I've gotten to see this
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  animated and best believe. I have to free up some time to
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  to continue to read this. Because like I said, this isn't,
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  you know, this isn't the typical aspect of sports series.
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  Like I said, I am, like I said, I am definitely more.
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  About the psychological realm that this might go especially
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  with, you know, some of some of the characters.
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  And what I'm showing right now in the video, this is all of the
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  11 players in in our main characters Corridor Group by.
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  Yeah. And it's in the volume kind of,
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  is off setting up some, some team competitions.
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  So I'm very curious to see like how that's going to play out
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  with With all these people who pretty much play the same
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  position having to figure out amongst themselves, okay?
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  How to play as a cohesive unit and also just know like hey
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  there's gonna be some times like they explained in this was like
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  there's gonna be some times to worry.
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  Y'all are working together as a team and there's gonna be other
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  times where all look where y'all are competing and so basically
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  every day or every time the competition whatever is an
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  opportunity for you to move up your number.
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  And though the way your Our is also determines the quality of
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  the food that you get. And so saying, what these people
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  in the bottom of Z have it just makes you wonder like, man, like
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  like like like what are the kids at the top of the top.
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  And number one, be what are they eating?
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  But also like what type of monsters or wait.
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  You know as we continue to move forward I also really appreciate
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  shoot. What is her name?
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  The the kind of like the kind of like head lady that is one of
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  the people oh yeah honoree who is kind of a heading up this
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  project like her? And then like I said the kind of
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  crazy guy who is a gym Pacho ego or Eggo him Guy who's actually
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  like leading the the training and stuff whatever.
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  Yeah, so this those two characters alone as well as this
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  other character that kind of shows up towards the end of the
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  volume. Yeah, I'm just very excited to
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  see this but like I say just like the surprise and
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  excitement. I don't know if I could have
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  done it and I don't know how I would react as a parent.
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  Now, if one of my kids got an invitation, if I, hey, we're
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  going to take your kid away from you for six months to go to this
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  crazy. Basketball camp for a track camp
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  or whatever thing to try to train them to be the best of the
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  best. So I don't know how I would
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  react to that. I don't know if I'll be able to,
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  to let my kid. Do it.
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  You know, never. Hey, I won't return to Camp.
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  Sure. But it's like six months the
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  rest of your life, just give it up.
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  I don't know, man. But but we shall see how how
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  this all Progressive. Has.
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  But like I said, this was a very happy to have.
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  Finally been able to read this for myself now.
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  And like I said, I am definitely a believer of all of the great
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  things I have been hearing for months and months did not
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  disappoint. And so yeah, it's going to be
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  exciting times coming up. Like says, as I continue to try
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  to reduce myself and then once the anime drops.
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  So but enough of me rambling, but Thanks for tuning in and
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  listening and you're watching. Make sure to leave your thoughts
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  below. Let me know what you think.
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  Have you checked out blue lock it?
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  If you are, let me know what your thoughts are of the series.
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  And yeah, like I said that season 1 of the anime is coming
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  out in October. So one of many big Bankers
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  coming out later this year. But thanks for watching.
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  And as I always say, treat yourself to something.
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  Nice. By some manga.
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  Watch some anime and TV, play some video games and live your
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  best life and with that your boys out, I'll catch you on the
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  next one. Peace.