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Show #176 Aaron On Edibles Special · Because Fuck You That's Why Podcast

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Because Fuck You That's Why is a founding member of the Odd Pods Media Network.
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Hey man, welcome to a very surreal episode Because Fuck You That's Why,
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Episode number one seven six. I might add, because this feeling a
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little lonely as I sit here and record this. This is I think my
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first ever bfy TW solo show. And it's not that we couldn't get anybody.
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It's not that we're so unlikable that no one wants to come beyond our
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podcast. No, No, we haven't reached that depth quite yet. We're
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working on it, though. No. As it turns out, Stevie and
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Augie had better things to do than to hang around and do this dopey show
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with me and have me just make fun of them for pretty much an hour
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straight and call it a day while they do literally all the hard work and
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get almost none of the credit. Um. I don't know why they'd turned
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their backs on that. I really don't. Um. It's such a good
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deal for everybody concerned. But they are gone, they disappeared, and nobody's
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seen them since. It's a crying shame that it had to end like this.
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I really really liked them. No, um no, I didn't I
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kidding? Um, of course I liked them. M they're gone. They're
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not They're not disappeared, they're not missing. They're just in some other location
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than our hometown. I can't remember. Were aware, and I'll explain why
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in a moment. Um, I think they went to Pennsylvania. Where's the
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Colorado? I don't. I don't remember. Legitimately AM wiped. It could
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have been Washington, DC for all I know. And maybe they did good
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on them. Um, fight the power and all that. Um, so
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what the hell was I talking about? Oh? Yeah, Um? The
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reason why if I seem to be more out of it than usual, Um,
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there is an explanation for that, I believe it or not. When
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I broached the idea of doing a solo show with Stevie while he and Augie
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were going to be away, um, he suggested, hey, man,
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maybe you should do an Aaron on Edible's episode, And I was like,
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for an hour, um and uh. And for those who don't know,
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for people who aren't Patreon subscribers, Aeron on Edibles is a show that I
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do every once in a while on Patreon. It's a bonus show. It's
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just free stuff for them. As a way of saying thank you, I
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ingest an edible loaded with THHC and I ramble into a microphone for thirty minutes.
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Now there have been zero complaints. It's probably the best way I can
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describe an Aeron Unedibles show, and that's probably not gonna last because of what
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we're doing here. We have two fans that I'm aware of who have listened
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to an Aeron unedible show and liked it, or at least said something about
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it. I can't remember if they both liked it or if they just said
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things about it. One is clearly better than the other. And I completely
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lost my show. I thought, um, uh god, damn it,
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um it's gonna be It's gonna be a long hour. I'm just warning you
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right now. So Steevie said, yeah, you could do you could do
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a full length, like a full hour of Aaron On Edibles. And I
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was like, oh, you've got to be kidding me, Like I barely
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make it to the end of those half hour episodes myself, like I don't
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know what to talk about. I just talk about whatever bullshit. And let
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me tell you, you got fifty five more minutes of this rambling bullshit.
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My apologies. Um, but my friends have abandoned me. Um, no,
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I abandoned them. I just left him on side of the road to
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get picked up like garbage. And that's how you spend a vacation. These
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are some good edibles. I gotta say, I'm feeling pretty good. Um.
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So yeah, I took him edible roughly half an hour ago, made
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sure I was feeling the effects. And now I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
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drugkenly. Chat at you, not drunkenly, drugkenly because that's a word.
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It is. Now you knew what I meant. Um, okay, so
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we're gonna have some fun. I do have a couple of things planned.
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They're they're little things though, because I personally do not expect much out of
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this episode, and I would ask you all listening to lower your expectations as
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well. So I have very little plans. So I'm just gonna I'm just
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gonna talk. Um. Now this is some people know this. I haven't
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made this exactly public. I did post on Facebook about it, and I
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think that's where some of our regular listeners found out. But for everybody to
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listening, UM, I had a publishing contract with a publishing company m to
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publish my upcoming novel thing, which I've been talking about NonStop for six months.
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And I'm surprised you are still listening. Um, but maybe you aren't.
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I don't know. This could just all be in ether. We could
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even lose the file. I'm nope, nope, I'm not gonna not gonna
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curse us like that. It's already happened to us twice. I think I
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forgot what I was even going to say. So if I if I was
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going to inform you of something and I have failed to do so, I
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can only apologize, but it has left my brain entirely. I don't even
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know what I was talking about. Um, I don't know. I think
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I was talking about, you know, what I was going to do for
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this episode, Like so, as I said, I don't have a plan.
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I have a couple of small things. Nowise I'm gonna talk about.
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Oh, I was talking about Dane, that's right, talking about I was
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started the story of my novelman just quickly got off on a stupid tangent.
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Let me start again, but I'll do the quick version. So I had
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a publishing contract with a publishing company and on Monday of last week, I
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learned that said publishing company was bankrupt and was going to close their doors,
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and the upcoming projects that were about to be published were no longer going to
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be published, So that meant I was no longer going to be published now
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they found they found a buyer pretty much right away to I don't know save
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the company or I don't know exactly the full financial deals at details. It's
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none of my business. Well it kind of is, but not really.
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So I was. I was in like pretty deep despair at that point,
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like when I got that news, because we were so close, like a
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week a week away from getting into the marketing phase, which would mean there'd
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only be three weeks left before my book came out. UM, So this
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really felt like we fell at the final hurdle UM and I was. I
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was pretty broken for I'd say a good hour, but it wasn't very long
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because I immediately, and this is something I rarely do, UM when I
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get super emotional, I posted to Facebook, which is not my social media
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of choice, but it's the one where I tend to get the most love.
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For some reason, that doesn't sit well with me. UM. On
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either a social or mental health level. Um, I lost my train athoughtic
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and god damn it, this is gonna be so hard. UM my book
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yes, UH canceled. Uh posted about it on Facebook, and the response
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I got just so quickly and so like immediately, like almost without thinking,
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like a lot of people were like, that sucks, man, but we
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will we will back you up, you know. And they were like,
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let's do a let's do a kickstarter, let's do ah, you know this
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thing, that thing and the other thing. And I was like, I
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I was so overwhelmed with the positive um, not positive reinforcement, but kind
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of you know, um, your friends stepping up to bat for you,
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your family stepping up to bat for you. It just felt really good.
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H And I think that that one two punch, that that that down in
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the deeps U the worst possible feelings and self loathing or what have you.
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And then almost immediately shot too. I am so loved you know. Um.
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And it basically meant that I recovered really quickly, like I didn't.
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I didn't obsess over it, and I didn't fall into many of my depressive
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patterns um except one which was actually not my fault sort of. It was
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it was a request from the closest thing I have to a daughter. She
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gave me money and said go get ice cream. So I indulged that particular
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vice. Um, but only because she told me too, and I'll stick
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to that in court. So UM yeah, I was. I was.
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I was broken, but only for a little while. And then thing was,
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things were almost immediately better. Every everything was much better. Um.
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Like we were like, Okay, yeah, we're just gonna do this thing.
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You can just do this and maybe illegal will have to get involved,
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but you don't have to get too involved in that. That's what lawyers are
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for. Blah blah blah blah blah. And I was like, you know
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what, I think, I'm going to self publish. And self publishing is
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really scary because that means the onus for everything is on me. You know,
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it's not just my book. It's not just me getting cover art from
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a gifted artist and paying them appropriately. It's not just you know what else
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did I do? I just wrote the thing and got the cover. I
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think that's about it. I didn't do anything else. There's there's nothing else
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to add to that. That is, Um, I don't even know what
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I was going to say about that. It's all gone. It's all gone.
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Why does Stevie like this? Why does Aggie like this? I hate
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that. This feels like they were like giant holes in my brain where I
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can't access data. Now it's just gone, it's not there anymore. Um
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fuck, I can't remember what I was talking about. Okay, so um
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okay, book publishing contract failed, that all that junk went to Facebook.
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People were like yeay, um not yeah, they weren't celebrating my book was
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failing. That would have been an entirely opposite reaction. Um no, they
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were. They were like, we got you back. Um, I'm trying
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to speedily get back to where I was. Uh, and it's not working
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because it's just like a car crash. Just immediately get on another tangent entirely.
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This sucks. I gotta do this for an hour. Oh lu I'm
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gonna try and make it so that you're not listening to bitch the whole time.
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But just do yourself a favor to do what I'm doing. And just
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imagine Stevie editing this thing, just laughing his fucking balls off because he's like
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this rookie, this, this, this, this barely experienced with marijuana person
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that I definitely had a term for it's gone again. Uh anyway, so
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uh yeah, So I'm in this weird place where I'm like, all right,
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you know what, I'm gonna self published. Yeah, that's where it
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was. I was gonna self published, didn't didn't know what to do.
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I would suddenly be responsible for everything marketing, editing, the type setting,
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um and sales. I would have to like sell this thing. And that's
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the part that like scared me the most weirdly, because I know my limitations,
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and one of my biggest ones is that I am no good at sales.
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Like, honest to god, I couldn't sell a starving man food,
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like I couldn't sell a drowning man a life preserver like I am. I
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am the worst salesman. Like I don't even advertise this very show as much
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as I should. You know, I don't go around and I tell people,
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hey, listen to my podcast, here's my podcast, here's blah blah
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blah, or even wearing the T shirt like I wear a T shirt like
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once every couple laundry cycles. You know, Like, I know I'm not
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good at this. I know my mind is too scatter brained to stay focused
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on just one thing for that period of time to make a sale or what
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have you. It's just I can't do it. I'm terrible. But if
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I self published, then I'll have to, like it's it's gonna be It's
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gonna be me, it's gonna be any advertising I can pay for, can
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afford to pay for, like, and just campaigning everywhere I can to,
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like, Hey, please check out my book. Please check out my book.
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Please check out my book. And I'm that's I'm still nervous about it,
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Like I still feel like maybe I'm making a mistake here, but I'm
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going to actually continue the story. Now it sounds like I've diverged from it,
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but I'm just kind of explaining my mental state and my emotional state where
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I was at the time. So I was weighing up, do I want
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to self published? What do we want to do? Because when we got
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the initial letter indicating that you know, they were closing their doors, they
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offered it at the same time to release us from our contracts. So I
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was thinking, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna do that. Um, and
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then they got rescued. Um. They they they got into some financial arrangement
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with another company. I can't remember the name of it, but it doesn't
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matter. I would want to. I don't want to give like, you
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know, point fingers at anyone or anything over this UM. But it's an
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entertainment company that UM apparently did work with the publishing company at some point,
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and when they found out that the publishing company was in trouble, UM offered
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to save it, basically by becoming co owner. And props to UM,
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perhaps to this dude, just because I know, I feel like UM,
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the owners of the publishing company that I was working with, like this business
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was their dream. UM. So I don't feel good about what's happened,
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not just for me but also for them. UM. It's horrible, UM.
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And I can't imagine being like thirty years old and having put my heart
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and soul into something and just losing it entirely, just gone. So thankfully
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this guy rescued their company and hopefully he keeps it rescued for a good long
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time. But they sent an email offering to continue publishing the book, and
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guys, I turned them down. I was like, immediately I probably should
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have been like excited, thrilled, like yeah, let's let's keep doing this
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because you were so close. But it's not just this, like there was.
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There was the issue before when they edited some things really poorly, and
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I took them to task over that and they admitted that they'd used an AI
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to do it because they were trying to um, trying to get her responsibilities
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more in the sales focus of things. And now I know why. So
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they were trying to save some time in editing. The problem is they're charging
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for professional editing services, not AI editing services. As I as I kind
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of almost rudely told them, like I was, I don't know, I'm
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not that person. I'm not I'm not mister aggressive doubting everything the partner says.
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Person. No, it just felt wrong and so and I also checked
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out the company that bought now, Like I said, it's very very good
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of him to save this company, to save this couple's work, their life's
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work and whatnot. But I looked at his company and like his social media
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and stuff, he had fewer like followers than I have. And I'm like
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a hermit like I have, like usually like a good average number of followers
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for me is like fifty. But this guy didn't even get that many.
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He had like thirty seven subscribers on YouTube. He had he had like forty
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five followers on Twitter, And I'm sitting here going there's no way like your
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reach unless there's some other part to his business that I don't see. But
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it looked like it was all entertainment. He had nothing like, nobody knew
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this company existed, nobody knew, and he was advertising it like it was
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famous. You know, is like the proud partners of the the twenty two
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seventy five or something like that, which is a comedy group I've never heard
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of and I didn't check into, but I assume they have almost almost the
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same number of followers as the company that's backing him. Who knows. In
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any event, we've hit the twenty minute mark, which is hooray. That
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that means we canna take a break. So I'm gonna go ahead, and
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I'm gonna give you your first break puzzle. Can you figure out what's saying?
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This makes nineteen common household appliance shortened to two letters, the first syllable
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of Monicuma's laugh and addendum to a letter, the British term for lines of
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people. I'll tell you what that all means if you don't figure out yourself
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part two of the Aaron Unedible's episode of BFY tw So before the Break,
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I gave you your first break puzzle, and I asked you what this what
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phrase? These things together make nineteen common household appliance shortened to two letters,
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the first syllable of Monicuma's laugh an addendum to a letter the British term for
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lines of people, well, nineteen is the number of the letter of the
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alphabet S. A common household appliance shortened to two letters is TV. The
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first syllable of Monicuma's laugh is pooh from pooh hoo hoo. An addendum to
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a letter would be a psu, and the British term for lines of people
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is ques as in queue, So that statement is Steve Poop's ques. So
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now that that fund in games is over, UM, let's talk about more
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stuff going on. UM. So I feel like I have. Um.
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I've I've maybe obliquely given the um, given the the the breakdown, the
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the the elevator pitch, as you will, of my novel, but I
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don't think I've talked about it in any real capacity. Um. I haven't
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talked. I've been keeping my cards close to the chest, so to speak,
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because I've given like a small blurb that is probably the same one it's
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going to be on the back of the book, um, which is,
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Uh. Seven strangers wake up in a sealed compound with no memory of how
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they got there. Um. Uh. The a computerized voice informs them that
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they need to complete tasks and that failure or breaking the rules results in a
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strike. The first two strikes induce extreme pain. The third strike is death,
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and as they struggle to survive without turning on each other, they have
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no idea that their their actions and choices could doom humanity or save it.
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And that is practically literally exactly the blurb that's on the back of the book.
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I don't know how I remember it's some of that, UM, but
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I did. And you can tell which parts I knew really really well because
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I stumbled over the ones I didn't. So yeah, that's that's the basic
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setup. The idea came to me from playing Dangan Rompa v three and it
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was the very end of the game. It is the sixth and final chapter,
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when all the mysteries are being laid bare, as it were. U.
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And at some point during that particular chapter, UM, there is a
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right turn, a hard right turn, or maybe a left turn. UM
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that the direction doesn't matter U uh into a twist territory. Um. The
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dang Arompa games have incredible twists that I never saw coming, Like for someone
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who has as burned out on stories as um as anybody could be. I
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guess simply because I feel like I've seen everything there is to see, you
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know, with Avenger's end game that was pretty much it like that, I've
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now seen all the stories, every possible story permutation, um that there could
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be. Um, so so like to have a video game introduce a twist
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that I couldn't predict is extremely rare. To have it happened three times in
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a row the same series, like, it's it's mind boggling, absolutely mind
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boggling. And that is that is that is, I guess a tribute to
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the writing of Dane Ropa. But um, here's the thing, and it's
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one of the funny parts of how this novel got developed. I took away
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the entire like the entire wrong assumption of what what the twist meant. Like
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the twist meant one thing, and I went, oh, so it means
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this complete other thing. Um, not necessarily opposite, but um god,
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I lost it again. I don't know where I was going with that anyway.
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Oh yeah, the the the the twist from Dane robav three and me
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misreading it getting the wrong idea. UM. I did eventually figure out,
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um that I was wrong and that it actually meant something else. Um.
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But when that happened, that initial guess, that initial jumped of logic to
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oh, this is what that means. Um, when I found out that
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wasn't what it meant, I was like, Oh, but it's it's such
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a clever idea, or at least it felt that way to me. UM.
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So I was like, Yeah, let's let's think about this and the
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from this this spark of an idea, of of of something I can't say
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because it's extreme spoiler territory, but the whole, like the big twist at
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the end of my but there is one Um, this is where it came
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from. Was was the wrong twist from a completely different thing. The wrong
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twist is what is the twist in my in my current book. And I
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don't know if that says anything to the quality of the twist or not,
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but I'm not going to ruin it for you in no way, no how,
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I'm not doing it. But I suppose there's no harm in talking a
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little bit about the characters. I'm not going to spoil anything. But if
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you are so inclined that you do not wish to know anything going into my
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book, I completely understand and respect that, and I apologize if I've already
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ruined that for you. But if I haven't, you might be advised to
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stop listening to this podcast and skip ahead to the forty minute mark, which
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will be when I'll go to the next break. So, yes, I
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do have to time this shit exactly or else I will fuck it up.
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So I know, I know what I'm like unedible, So okay, I
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know what I'm like, and I'm like, I need to have this exact
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Um, so fuck you, God damn it, Stevie. Um, so
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he doesn't even have to be here to irritate me. That's fantastic. Um.
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Uh love you, brother. I hope you're having a great vacation.
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Uh so uh and that's the future Stevie. Current Stevie is actually still here.
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This is being recorded before Stevie left for vacation. So, um,
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I'm just having a great time now. Uh just goofling on Stevie. Uh,
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because it's a lovable guy to goof on. Uh. Anyway, Uh
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so so far off track here, Uh it doesn't matter. So anyway,
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Yes, Uh, I'll introduce the the characters of this of this fine,
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this fine uh piece that I'm trying to publish. So let's talk about the
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protagonist. The main character's name is Chris cr I S. And his last
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name is I guess doesn't matter. Yeah, his last name is Chris Thorpe.
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And he is a journalist from Arlington, Virginia. And he is He
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is a smart dude who, thanks to a fairly traumatic event, has difficulty
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trusting people. And when he's thrust into a when he's thrust into a sealed
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compound with six other totally strange people that he has to depend on to survive,
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Uh, it's it's a rough it's a rough thing for him. Um.
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But he is our protagonist. He is inquisitive, he is obviously he's
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a journalist. He's gonna be he's gonna be inquisitive, he's gonna be curious,
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he's gonna explore. Um. And uh. He is based on a
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friend of mine from high school who passed away when we were very young.
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Um. And this was deliberate, like I know, Um, I've written
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things in the past where the main character was me. Uh, this absolutely
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did not happen this time. Um. I wanted this character to be someone
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who very much wasn't me. Uh, someone whom someone who, aside from
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being more physically handsome, just because ladies love a good book, but also
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because he was more of the guy who took manners into his own hands,
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kept up walls, you know, shells around himself, just did not trust
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anybody and would check every single thing just to make sure. And he's I
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really like him. He's a good character. But he is our protagonist.
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And I don't know what else I had to say about that. I think
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that pretty much covers it. I like him. I think he's got away.
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My favorite thing about him is that he's got away with words. Even
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if I say that myself. Some of his quips I really just were tickled
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coming up with because I thought they or genius. And at the same time,
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it felt like it was his genius because I didn't say it, he
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did. Um If that probably sounds weird, but it does feel that way
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when you write that they're they're the one saying these things, not me.
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Um Uh. He is trapped in the in the uh in the compound with
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six other people. Um. The one directly outside of his his door is
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a Lara zeller Um, who is a student at Castle Castleston State College in
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Vermont. Um and uh. She is very mentally uh agile, she is
33:45
clever, she is brilliant. UM, but she's also young and not not
33:55
socially Yeah, I don't want to say gifted. That's not quite what I
34:00
mean. She's just not very socially assertive. So she is a little shy.
34:07
But she also likes really dark jokes. So that's one of the reasons
34:14
why I really like her. UM. But the other thing that I really
34:16
like about her is that she has heterochromia her eyes, and it's complete heterochromia,
34:24
meaning each eye is a separate and distinct color completely and some other person
34:32
in the in the group who finds that rather attractive is Victoria Latimer. She
34:37
is a librarian. She is bisexual. She is she is a yo getter.
34:49
She is feisty. She she when she wants something, she aggressively goes
34:55
to get what she wants, and a large portion of the time what she
35:01
wants is for other people to feel comfortable, safe, maybe confident when she's
35:13
around. Victoria is an extremely supportive person. She will put herself in a
35:21
situation to grant that little gift of confidence. Hey buddy, you got this
35:29
sort of sort of support, but also the emotional intelligence to help people at
35:37
their worst moments, which unfortunately this book has a few of. Let's see.
35:45
Moving on from those three, we have Marin, who is a nurse.
35:53
I'm like, I want to give her full name, but I am
35:59
currently confused it for the person who who who inspired the name choice Maren,
36:06
But I don't want to say her last name on podcast, so I'm just
36:08
gonna skip Marin the character's last name, you'll see it in the book.
36:14
Um. So Marin is um. She is a larger woman. She is
36:20
a plus sized woman. UM. But she is less fat than she is
36:28
strong. Um. She is a big girl, but that's because she's got
36:32
pretty massive muscles. Um. She is partially um. She comes from like
36:40
three characters at once. She's inspired by Soccara from Danan Rompa A little bit
36:47
of my mom, um, and I think that's it really um. And
36:59
she's very tough um. And she's very forward. She's very aggressive. Um.
37:05
She's a natural leader. UM. But she's also she's also kind um
37:13
and gentle when needed. Uh and um but she also uh claims she has
37:21
no friends, um, which is another odd thing. But she's also a
37:24
cat and dog mom. She she has pets at home. UM, so
37:30
that's Marin My is a mechanic from Jonesboro, Tennessee. Uh. An Asian
37:38
girl from a Catholic Asian family. Um that unfortunately are well, I want
37:50
I don't want to get into it. That's spoiler territory really um. But
37:53
she's been living on her own for a while. She has similar trust issues
37:58
to Chris Uh. Um. She is uh, she is smart. Uh,
38:05
she is courageous. She jumps in to assist when she knows she has
38:10
the technical know how to do so. She is very quick to help out.
38:15
Um. And she's based partially on Erica Ish, one of my favorite
38:22
uh comedians, voice artists, uh and just all around human being. Absolutely
38:27
adore Erica Um anyway, so I based a character on her, uh physically
38:32
at least, um Eric does not have a Southern accent. Uh. Uh.
38:38
Then there is Ethan Winters. Ethan Winters is a a logic professor.
38:46
Um. I think technically it's um it's uh what's it called. I don't
38:52
remember the name of the actual like professorship, but uh, it's it's a
38:57
bit more involved than that. But um, he's basically mister logic. He
39:00
is all about logic. He teaches it. He could write AIG code.
39:05
UM. In fact, that's what he did for a living for a while.
39:07
UM. Very very smart man, very very few social graces. UM.
39:14
This guy has Uh. He has never fit in anywhere, or at
39:20
least he's never felt like he fit in. And he claims to have only
39:22
ever had like two real close friends. UM. And he's a UM.
39:30
He's an antagonistic force for most of the game, most of the game,
39:36
most of the novel. UM he is. He is the one who is
39:42
uh. He's really gruff. He's he's insulting sometimes. UM. And he's
39:51
uh he's tough, very tough dude. UM, but he felt he had
39:57
to be UM. And he he believes in logic over emotions, but also
40:05
spirituality is kind of hand in hand with logic for him. And let's see,
40:12
last, but not least, I think I've got everybody else. It's
40:15
Jamie Gamble, a US Air Force pilot who who well, pilot trainee,
40:23
I should say, pilot trainee who loves loves two things high speed and weed.
40:32
Yes, our our Air Force that is a weed aficionado. And you
40:39
can probably guess from the tipper of my voice and the description that this is
40:45
basically based on stev. So that's all the characters in well, the main
40:51
characters at least in my silly book. We've hit the forty minute mark,
40:53
which means it's time for a second break, and so I will give you
40:58
our second break. Puzzle. Put these together to make a saying the proper
41:06
response to a puppy, a karate outfit the second word in a wildly popular
41:12
children's book by Taro Gomi. What a nineteen ninety seven horror film and a
41:17
two thousand and nine to two twenty one British game show have in common?
41:24
What does all that say? What saying does all that make? Well?
41:30
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41:32
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for podcast info, viral social media post and so much more. Welcome back
42:30
if you've just returned from our Second Break. Here's the answer to the second
42:34
break puzzle. The popera response to a puppy is awe. A karate outfit
42:40
is a gee? The second word in a wildly popular children's book by Terror
42:45
Gomi that's Everybody poops. And what a nineteen ninety seven horror film and a
42:51
two thousand nine twenty twenty one British game show have in common. They're both
42:57
cubes. So the saying is augae poops cubes. So um, that's the
43:07
that is the um. That is the current saga of thing. And I've
43:13
also explained who all the characters in it are, or at least I hope
43:15
I did. Um. There there are more characters besides just those, but
43:20
those are the seven main characters. You're with them from most of the book.
43:24
Um. So yeah, that's about it. UM. I don't want
43:31
to talk too much more about the book uh plot, um or any further
43:37
details around the narrative whatsoever. Um, And there's not much of an interesting
43:45
story, or at least I don't feel there is in the books creation you
43:50
know other than I. You know, I got the idea from completely failing
43:53
to understand a completely different plot twist um. But that still tickles me to
44:01
this day. I have had ideas like this, um for most of my
44:10
life, Like even back in high school. I would have an idea,
44:13
Oh, it would be a brilliant movie if this happened, or oh,
44:19
that's an absolutely genius video game idea which should absolutely create that. Oh that's
44:25
an absolutely brilliant play idea you should, And then these things would not get
44:32
done, or they'd get half done. Like I was very good at making
44:37
hazy things like getting halfway through a project than just giving up, which is
44:45
a is a trait I've long tried to get rid of, UM. But
44:52
I I just don't follow I'm not good at following through. I I failed
44:59
to follo all through quite a lot, and I never I thought about writing
45:05
a novel multiple times, many many times. I had an idea for a
45:09
novel or this thing or that thing or the other thing, and it never
45:15
went anywhere. And this is one of the few times I can genuinely say
45:21
in my life, I had a creative idea and I put it into motion,
45:27
and I saw it through to the end, to the point where there
45:31
is an actual physical representation of my story out there in the world. I
45:38
have contributed something to this world. And really, that's a thing that bothers
45:49
me, is that I don't contribute much to this world. I'm not having
45:53
kids. It's it's it's getting a little late for that anyway. Um,
46:00
but it just it just was never on the table. Um. Having kids
46:05
was never going to be a thing, no matter how much I wanted it,
46:09
which I don't know that I really did. Um, So I don't.
46:15
I'm not leaving behind a family legacy. I'm not I'm not a mover
46:22
or a shaker. I'm not making policy or governmental decisions or or even like
46:30
corporation decisions that impact people's lives for years upon years to come. You know,
46:36
then I'm not making that kind of mark on the world. But I
46:38
want to leave something, you know, I want some some proof that I
46:44
existed, that I accomplished something in in a life where I feel like I've
46:52
tried so hard to accomplish things. And this is the first real, real
46:58
accomplishment, the first real thing I'm super fucking proud of, which is that
47:04
I sat down and I just started writing this book. And I did not
47:08
stop until it was done. I mean quite obviously, I took breaks,
47:14
you know, I did other things. I went to work. I still
47:16
have a job. But what I mean is that I never gave up.
47:22
There was a point, there was a point when writing when I did really
47:27
want to give up, and I said, no, I'm seeing this through.
47:30
I don't care. So I stuck at it. And when I got
47:38
stuck, I turned to someone. I asked for help. I reached out
47:43
to a fellow podcaster and glorious human being, Caroline or Caroline or Huela from
47:52
the Ultra Hope Girls and incredible personal friend who has done just so much for
48:00
me that I am beyond grateful, speaking of yeah, this this novel.
48:07
The only time I got stuck and wanted to quit, I reached out to
48:12
Caroline and I said, can you would you mind terribly? I know how
48:16
busy you are, would you mind terribly reading the first eight chapters of my
48:22
book and tell me whether I've even got something here, and to her incredible
48:30
immense credit, she not only said yes, but she asked me to send
48:37
over the book pronto, right away. She couldn't wait to read it.
48:45
And she gave me such incredibly intelligent feedback, Like I instantly knew that I
48:54
had made the right decision there, Like that was running to her asking her
49:00
for help was the smartest move on the board, and I took it,
49:06
you know, so she writes, She writes back, She's like, this
49:13
is great. I am so excited to see where it's going. But here's
49:16
some things that you just might want to take a look at. And she
49:21
she gave me such incredible literary advice that I not only was like, yeah,
49:27
I have to do all these things. I yeah, that's brilliant.
49:30
Why didn't I think of that? You know? And not only did I
49:36
do them, but her advice also inspired me to solve a plot problem I
49:42
was having in my head about how I was going to write the way the
49:47
second act comes out. So you know, her advice was not only incredible
49:53
on a literary level, but just a mental one because or maybe a creative
49:59
one, it inspired that choice that that got me to finish the book and
50:06
From there it was NonStop. I never had another issue again. Everything either
50:12
resolved itself in my mind or I was inspired fairly quickly, and and I
50:20
finished it. And I literally sat and I looked at this three hundred page
50:24
thing, this seventy three thousand word thing. Uh, And I just looked
50:31
at it and I went, I made this. I actually created something that
50:42
is full and complete, and in my opinion, it's good. I really
50:50
like it. I am just praying. The thing that matters most to me
50:58
is that I don't care if everybody doesn't like it. I don't I don't
51:02
care if if, if not everybody jumps on the the Thane bandwagon. I
51:10
just want there to be one person, one person who loves it, who
51:17
absolutely loves it, and it becomes one of their favorite things, even if
51:23
just of the month or of the week. I'm not getting rich off this
51:34
book. Let me just make that absolutely clear. I do not expect to
51:40
be able to just write full time off the back of this book. Is
51:45
it the next great American classic? No, I will tell you that right
51:51
now. Do I think it's good? Hell, yes, I think it's
51:57
great. And I still enjoy reread it even even like almost six seven,
52:05
eight months after I finished it. I have read it. I've read through
52:09
it so many times for editing, type setting purposes. UM, all that
52:15
junk that like you would think I would be so sick of it, and
52:21
weirdly I'm just not. UM. So yeah, that's that's one reason I
52:28
think it's good. Um. All of my beta readers loved it. Um.
52:36
They they all had such brilliant things to say. UM, they were
52:40
so helpful. There were there were several good pieces of advice from my uh
52:47
my cover artist Matt van Rune. Genius that he is, um, and
52:53
that is one hell of a brilliant man. And speaking of which, UM,
52:59
he may have also inspired me to write my book, at least partially
53:04
because he started writing one about a year before I did. He is writing
53:12
a sci fi trilogy, and he's been kind enough to let me read books
53:19
one and two of his trilogy to be a better reader for him. And
53:23
I love his books. I mean, I absolutely love his books, and
53:29
that's the feeling that I want from my book. But he gave me absolutely
53:36
incredibly brilliant advice that I just I literally dropped my jaw and I went,
53:42
why didn't I think of that it was right there like it like just just
53:47
genius things that are just laying there out in the open for anyone to scoop
53:52
up. And Matt is like, hey, buddy, have a little this.
53:54
I apologize. I accidentally touched the microphone there with my hands. I'm
54:00
gesturing like you're going to be able to see it. So yeah, I
54:07
got tons of great feedback from my beta readers, and it all really helped
54:13
push the novel into the state where I'm this exceedingly proud of it. Yeah,
54:22
and yet I'm forthright about the fact that it's not going to change the
54:24
world. It's not going to be I can't imagine it's going to be a
54:29
bestseller. I mean, you can dream, right, it would be super
54:32
nice if it was out of nowhere. But I have much more realistic expectations
54:38
for now. This is basically just a start. I want to keep writing
54:44
and have a stable of books to, you know, to peruse for people
54:50
who come across my stuff in the wild, you know wherever. But um,
55:00
where was that going with that? I didn't expect to make I don't
55:04
expect to make a ton of money from this is partially what I'm saying.
55:07
But it is a start, um. And I know it's not going to
55:13
be you know, the it's not going to be literary. UM, it's
55:17
not gonna be taught in English classes. You know, it's not going to
55:21
be that that level of literature. UM. But I I just want like
55:27
one person to absolutely love it. That's all I'm really asking for, and
55:30
I'm pretty sure I'm going to get that. UM. A lot of my
55:35
friends have already told me that they that they love it. But UM,
55:38
I I reserve judgment on on those claims, just just because I'm not calling
55:45
you a liar. See, UM, I'm just saying, UM, I
55:51
did reach out and ask you and put you in this awkward social position,
55:55
uh to read my novel and tell me what you thought of it, So
56:00
you might have been being nice. That's not what I'm saying. That's not
56:04
what I'm claiming. I'm just, uh, you know, just just throwing
56:07
that thought out there, A bad thought. Uh. So where was I
56:15
I'm lost again? God damn it. Ah, this stuff is killing my
56:21
head, Stevie. Uh. And not that it doesn't hurt or anything.
56:24
I'm just every every time I lose track of where I'm at, I'm just
56:30
immediately mad like God, damn it, it's fucking weed. This stuff sucks.
56:39
Um, I do feel pretty good though, Um so I think,
56:45
Uh, long story short, Um, almost every step of this process has
56:52
been joyous. Like I've I've taken a lot of pleasure in writing the thing.
56:55
I've taken a lot of pleasure in looking up my publishing option, trying
57:00
to figure out what I want to do, throwing out a few letters to
57:05
some publishing companies, getting a bite almost immediately they read my book, they
57:12
like it, they want to publish me. We work together. Working together
57:15
goes great, We get a lot accomplished, The book gets edited successfully and
57:23
is really starting to look good and take shape and everything, and I'm really
57:27
pleased. So yeah, that right up until there, right up until that
57:35
step is is that's That's what I've enjoyed about this whole process, is all
57:42
of that. Any step after that, like the company collapsing and disappearing and
57:47
me maybe you know, deciding to go solo and do my own thing.
57:52
Uh not as happy, not as noteworthy perhaps, but um, shit happens
58:00
in all right. I said I was going to try to get to sixty
58:05
minutes. We're getting close, but I think the rest of the show will
58:09
actually carry me there if I do the outro from this point and I'm really
58:15
starting to lose steam, like you could tell, it just fell apart in
58:19
the middle of that last segment about thing things production. So yeah, this
58:28
has been, I hope not the worst episode of our show you've ever listened
58:32
to. Maybe my uh, you know, lost in the woods, old
58:37
man rambling, shaking fist at cloud. Maybe maybe that entertains you. I
58:44
hope it did. I hope you enjoyed yourself. And if you like this
58:47
stuff and you aren't already a Patreon subscriber of ours, man, it's five
58:53
bucks a month. We're not asking for a lot, you know. If
58:58
ever, if everybody gives a little, then then we can get to doing
59:01
this full time even or or you know, doing bigger and better things with
59:07
you know, with our Patreon support. I've already done some game shows this
59:13
year. I want to do more. Um In any event, I'm already
59:17
rambling. It's it's been almost a full minute. Wow, I'm genuinely impressed.
59:22
I couldn't even get couldn't even get halfway through the outro before I just
59:28
went completely off the rails. God damn it, Stevie, Why do you
59:30
make me do this? Why I thought I thought you're friends? Man?
59:37
Um speaking in which you can follow Stevie, I wouldn't. Um. You
59:42
can follow me at pencil Saron, various places all over the internet, um,
59:46
most social medias except Twitter because Twitter I'm not joining X go fuck yourself,
59:53
musk. Um. Uh. You can follow Aggie at Aggie Doggie zero
1:00:00
eight. And I guess if I'm being fair, if you want to follow
1:00:05
Stevie, you still can. He's he's uh, he's eminently followable. Um,
1:00:09
he's Midnight Smoke one or Midnight smoke oh one. Um. Wherever finds
1:00:15
Stevies your sould just look for the sheen off his bald ass head uh and
1:00:20
you'll know it's him. Uh. You can. You can listen to the
1:00:24
show or check out all the cool things that we're doing on our website,
1:00:29
which is bfy twpod dot com. Uh. You can send us emails at
1:00:35
bfy tow Podcast at gmail dot com. Um. Yeah, some exciting things
1:00:40
coming there. Uh. My novel has an email address. I'm not giving
1:00:45
it out just yet, but I legitimately have an email address for my My,
1:00:50
My, My book and hopefully further books we'll see um but yeah um.
1:00:57
And finally, our Patreon uh subscribers, if you have not seen,
1:01:04
if you have not listened to Aaron on Edibles episodes before, and you listened
1:01:07
all the way to this point, maybe just maybe you'll take some enjoyment in
1:01:13
the host I recommend checking them out, if only to increase the number of
1:01:19
people who have liked that particular stuff from two to three people. So yeah,
1:01:28
and I think that's going to be it. We have hit the hour
1:01:30
mark. It is sixty minutes flat and my nose is starting to fill,
1:01:36
so maybe we should call it. I don't know that I've got anything else.
1:01:40
I think I've covered just about everything, but my weed induced brain will
1:01:45
not confirm that for me. So I'm just going to have a little faith
1:01:51
in myself, which is how I how I finished a novel in the first
1:01:55
place. You know, just believe that you can do it, and and
1:02:01
you can. You absolutely can do it. I did it, and that's
1:02:08
that's that's pretty that's pretty achievable. I'm not saying that's put myself down.
1:02:15
I'm saying, you know, doing it, getting it done is completely achievable.
1:02:22
Man in all things, and I wish you well, especially since you
1:02:25
listen this far um, But in any event, that is going to be
1:02:30
it from me. Why uh fuck, I can't remember why. Sorry,