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Manga Talk: Orb On the Movements of the Earth volume 1-2 · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up y'all, and welcome back to Danny to Talk.
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I'm your host Robert, and today today I'm going to be talking
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about Orb on the movements of the Earth Omnibus One.
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Now this omnibus covers volumes one and two of the series and
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the physical versions is published by 7 CS and the story
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and art is done by Uoto. Now this series as far as like
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it, it recently released here in English but in Japan it finished
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maybe like a year or two ago I believe it was about 8 volumes
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total I think like 70 something chapters.
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So not so not a super super long series though the chapters are
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I'll say little meaty. It was what, 12 chapters total
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between volumes one and two in this so decent size, about 6
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chapters per volume. But yeah, so it's a couple of
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things with this series that I kind of want to touch on.
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So first of all, I more so want to touch on some of the kind of
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ideas and themes of this, more so than just the series itself.
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But for context, the series itself basically follows, or at
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least it starts off by following this young man named Rafael who
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lives in a time, this is what, the 15th century Europe.
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So it's basically during a time where basically a time where I
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would not want to live in. But the story basically follows
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around him studying astrology and things of that nature and
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kind of doing what is seen as heresy or heretical research and
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to the truth of how the stars and the planets orbit and all
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that stuff. Because this is back during the
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time to where religion and different stuff kind of led
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everybody to thinking like no, the the Earth is the center of
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everything and yadda yadda yadda.
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And if you think otherwise or say anything differently, then
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you will be seen as a heretic and you will be severely
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punished and or killed. And so that that is definitely
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one thing that kind of I had to kind of like steal myself going
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into it because like right off the bat they start off with like
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some like fingernail pulling and bludgeon it like some some some
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little bit of brutal stuff to see, you know, drawn out in
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panels and stuff, whatever. So at first I was like man, what
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am I getting into? I thought, this is about like a
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guy researching the stars or whatever.
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But you know, I still myself and I dove into it and I kind of
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slowly chipped away at it over the course of a few days because
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this is one of these. This is one of the one of those
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reads to where it's not necessarily like one of like the
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best favorite things I've ever read, but it definitely is one
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of those ones that gave me some things to think about.
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And so in the context of the story, it kind of makes you
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think about basically like how far will you go for something
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that you believe in. So whether it be your beliefs,
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whether it be religious stuff or just things of how the world and
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life works and things of that nature, sharing your ideas and
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things like that. How far will you go, even if it
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might be seen as taboo or heresy or whatever, to push forward or
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will, you know, shy away from that stuff or keep a secret, Do
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it in, you know, in in, in the cover of darkness, whatever.
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And so this story kind of kind of reiterates that thing that
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that I love from another series that I enjoy, One Piece, the
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theme of inherited will. Because I feel like a lot of
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times, you know, different people across history.
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I feel like sometimes there are those people who, yes, they they
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might not single handedly do everything 100% by themselves,
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but they have an idea or something they want to see
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changed and they're able to make it happen within their lifetime.
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Or they're they're able, they're able to live and see things
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change or the end result, so to speak.
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But then there are also people I feel like or just somebody to
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kind of help push the thought along like like, hey, you heard
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this from somebody else or somebody passed down this
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knowledge to you. You add in your part or you do
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what you can. And then whether it be just
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because, hey, you, you know, you died naturally of old age or
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whatever, or you get captured and killed or whatever.
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Well, you do what you can to, you know, preserve the notes
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that you got and what you added on to it and then pass it on to
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the next person or whatever. And that's kind of what this
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story does to where it kind of starts off with an old friend of
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Rafael's father gets out of prison.
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He was seen as a heretic for studying basically a lot of like
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astrology stuff, whatever. And the idea of you know, how
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the stars move and yadda yadda yadda and he comes to live with
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Rafael and his family, whatever. And he pretty much immediately
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notices the boys wonder for astronomy and researching the
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stars and stuff, whatever. And it's also kind of like a
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wake up call for Rafael. And and I kind of feel like
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sometimes we have those moments in life to where we have an idea
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or something that we feel like, man, this, this feels like this
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is actually what should be going on or whatever.
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And sometimes it takes somebody crazy or seemingly crazy and
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unexpected coming out of nowhere to kind of like give us that
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jolt, that shock to wake us up. We're like, no, you're you're on
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the right path. Like, you're not crazy for
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thinking this or whatever. Like, keep going, keep pushing
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in this direction. But like I said, not not
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everybody kind of gets to see those ideas finished.
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Whatever. And so that's kind of just like
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a reoccurring theme of the story.
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It's just these people trying to research and prove like, no,
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yes, you know, the everything doesn't, everything doesn't
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orbit around Earth. They orbit around the sun and
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things move differently and yada, yada, yada.
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You know, stuff that's like a little bit of easier and common
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knowledge now in 2023 versus back in the 15th century, you
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know, and stuff like that. So but, but yeah, like I said,
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it, it, it, it just kind of just like I said, just that really
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makes you think of who all or people over the years, over the
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annals of history that have been on both sides of this to where
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it's like, OK, hey, they had an idea, they put it out there,
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they worked on it and boom, they got to present the result
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themselves. And then you have other people
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because of whether it be the times or health reasons or just
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whatever. Or they just didn't have the
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proper tools or or access or whatever to to truly get their
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ideas off the ground. Cause a lot of times it's like
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sometimes you're just trying to do things ahead of your time and
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and kind of like a funny thing kind of just Speaking of like
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technology and gaming really quickly.
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Whatever. How like in 2013 Microsoft and
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Xbox you know with the Xbox One trying to push this like oh
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digital future and you know streaming.
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No use games and all that that that initial message and how
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they presented it at first, whatever.
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For one the messaging was not what people were ready for at
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the time but also to the way they presented the information.
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It was like oh wait you're trying to take away my games or
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I can't share a game you know just different stuff whatever.
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Well, now here we go, you know 10 years later and it's like
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majority of a lot of people are streaming and going digital with
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their game library and different stuff like that or whatever.
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But like I said, it's just they presented things at a time when
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the general population weren't really ready or or in that
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mindset versus now we're streaming majority of stuff, TV
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shows, movies, games, etcetera, etcetera.
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And so yeah, sometimes it's the same thing with people to where
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it's like, yo, I got this idea and it's super awesome and what
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I was like, dude, you were tripping.
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That is insane. You know, whatever.
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And then it's like now it could be decades, centuries later it's
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like, Oh yeah, electricity. Yeah, you know, so, so yeah.
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So like I said, it it it it just this, this book just gave me a
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lot of things like that to kind of think about and reflect on,
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you know, for for just a lot of just like general life stuff.
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So if that's something that you're kind of interested in,
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like I said, just more like ideas and themes, this might be
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something worth picking up and taking a look at.
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And also something very interesting that I kind of just
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forgot because like we get so many series announced all the
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time this a lot of times I forget or whatever.
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But apparently summer of last year there was announced that
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there was actually going to be an anime adaptation of this
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coming. No no date or year at the
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moment, but at some point there's anime in the works for
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for this series or on the movements of the earth and it's
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going to be done by studio my house.
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Well, guess what studio My house is working on currently?
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Free Beyond Journey's End. So and seeing seeing what they
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are currently doing with the anime adaptation of Free Run,
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that has been fantastic. So I was like, man.
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So if if this is if Orb is one of the next things that they're
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going to be working on potentially after Free Run, then
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I'm like, man, maybe maybe I'll wait and experience the rest of
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the series through the anime. Because that's kind of what I
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did with Free Run to where I had read this first volume think
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over a year ago at this point and of course I loved what I
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read of this. But you know I just cuz just cuz
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as y'all see behind me in the video I have like it's too much
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stuff to read. So sometimes I don't get back to
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things as quickly as I would hope or whatever.
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But when I heard it was anime I was like I'll wait and see and
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then after they those first four episodes where they adapted this
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whole first volume it's been awesome just getting to watch
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and experience it fresh and and in the unknown.
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So maybe I might do something with Orb, but but yeah, so
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anywho, like I said and and just kind of just closing thoughts
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like I said this this just kind of just really made me just kind
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of just think back and reflect on things like that.
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And even with stuff myself of like ideas I have or whatever or
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different things of like, you know, there there is even just
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like just like general family information or things or family
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recipes and stuff, they kind of get passed on, you know, down to
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the next person. And then a lot of times with
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like different ideas and stuff we have, whether it be like me
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with the podcast and content creation and stuff or just ideas
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for work, whatever. And it's like, you know, is this
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something that I will act on and do and create and put out there
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and get to see the end result? Or this is something I might
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make a note of, put away, and then my son will discover, you
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know, years after, years after I'm gone or whatever, Like, oh,
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my dad had this idea, whatever. Now in, you know, 2131, I don't
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know, you know, a future generation member will make it
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come true or whatever. So but yeah so that is pretty
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much like I said my kind of just overall thoughts on the ideas
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and things surrounding or upon the on the movements of the
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earth. But like I said a pretty
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interesting read and like I said just kind of getting to see the
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passage of time and the different characters and and
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also kind of like how because of the subject matter where they
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have their information stored at would probably only get
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discovered. Of course it can still happen by
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super happenstance, whatever. But for the most part, you're
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not going to discover the, the safe box, whatever that they
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have on this mountain unless you head to astrology and you
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realize like, oh, these landmarks line up in a way like
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a certain celestial sign. They kind of, you know, point
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your curiosity in that direction.
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So that's also another kind of like just like interesting thing
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that I like that like I said just would make sense.
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But like I said, just like another reminder of like why I'm
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happy I'm living in modern times regarding even with all the
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crazy stuff we have now. But just even like you know,
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like hey, I want to, I want to try swimming.
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Swimming, you're not a fish kill them, you know or or just you
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know just just crazy nonsense like that.
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So menu that's going to do it for this one.
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Let me know what y'all thought. Like I said, if you've read it,
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let me know your thoughts on this.
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And if you haven't, are you interested in checking this out
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or or or wait, will you maybe wait for the eventual anime,
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whenever that might happen, in a year or a couple years?
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Whatever. So, but as always, you can find
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games, and I'll catch you on the next one.
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Y'all be easy. Peace.