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S12E010: Mixing Art, Medicine and Technology with Iltopia Studios founder Steven Christian · Blerd’s Eyeview

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  We all just want to have the opportunity to do great, meaningful work.
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  May Angelous said very wisely, people will forget, They will forget what you
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  said. People will forget, they will forget what you did, But people
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  will never forget the way you made them feel. To all who have been
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  on this journey with me and supported the films in which I've had the privilege
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  to play, it is my profound honor to have been able to make you
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  see and feel through my work. Thank you for sharing this moment with me.
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  And still I say the best is yet to come. In the sky,
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  it's a bird. It's a plane flying high. Y'all emerged through the
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  flames. Have no fear from here to stand back, meddling, Then activate
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  the name the super Black. In the sky, it's a bird, it's
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  a plane flying high. Y'all emerged through the flames. Have no fear from
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  here to stand back medling. Then activate the name of super black. Uh,
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  imagine that a future that's super black. Long as your skin brown,
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  your superpowers intact? What would your powers be? Just hope it ain't super
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  wack facial manipulation. Create a portal that's black, Maybe just super sped time
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  travel to run it back, or she manipulation to keep my spirit intact as
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  I encountered evens the world face demons, the world makes I needed the world
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  of state rest in peace to Chad which get killed on the Black Panthers told
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  us white lives still them all for that? Black answers? Who can DC
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  prayer lead to a civil war? It ain't no justice league, what's the
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  need to be civil war? Propels like the Jugger Niles plane, no stopping
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  this? The world in grave danger? Who can stop through your apocalypse?
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  That killed all the heroes? The new ones don't really care. But if
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  you need me, put your fist up in the end. Yeah. In
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  the sky, it's a bird. It's a plane flying high Yat emerged through
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  the flames. Have no fear from here, will stand back Melan, Then
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  activate the name of super Black. In the sky it's a bird. It's
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  a plane flying high Yat emerged through the flames. Have no fear from here,
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  will stand back Melan. Then activate the name is super Black. Hey
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  everybody, it's Thursday and it is your man on the wall, Chris Fiery,
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  Thank you for tuning in to Blurred's eye view. If this is your
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  first time here and you're watching this on ig Hello everybody out there, thank
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  you for checking this out. Show your love on the YouTube channel, go
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  over there and hit the notification bell to subscribe button. All that great stuff.
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  For those who have turned tuned in. At the beginning, you caught
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  the last maybe thirty seconds or so of the speech that the Queen herself,
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  Angela Batsett, had gave for her She had gave up. She was given
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  an honorary Oscar for her achievements in her work. We'll be getting into why
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  we feel that way about a lot of stuff on that one later, but
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  mind you, I will say that the pro in this whole thing is not
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  only that she's been recognized, but it's also the fact that we got the
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  speech. She gave us a nice fifteen minute speech. So you will be
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  seeing the full speech on the YouTube channel and as well as the website,
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  so tune in for that. Without further ado, let's start. Just get
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  the ship wrapped up and going, Lady mandalor Hello, everybody, how are
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  you doing this evening? What's going on? What's going on? Called?
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  Hey, Hey Nicole, what's going Hey Chloe, what's going on? What's
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  going on, how you feeling. I feel good. I had a nice
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  meditative session just before we came on, and I actually feel very relaxed.
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  That's that's that's Black people talk for sleep. No like I have a whole
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  I got my whole stage and my candle's burning and oh okay, I recant
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  my statement. I appreciate it. I took the time to take care of
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  myself on a Thursday night. I tend to do like twenty minutes before the
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  show. No, no, it's or eat or nothing like it. None,
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  no, no, oh, you figure I do ten hour work days
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  and then whatever Aaron's I'm running in and then producing the show. So right
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  right, so so some kind of way I learned something. I learned something
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  from Bruce Wayne. I you know. No, I'm gonna figure out how
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  to get all I needed to get done within that allotted period of daylight time.
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  I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep
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  like the just and small children. I refuse. I am not a morning
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  person. If you can't tell I will, I will break you. So
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  if you wake me up a minute before I was supposed to wake up,
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  I was, I don't know if you caught it. But like before the
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  show, I played the queen's speech. Yeah, the only queen we recognized.
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  When I looked at I was like, oh, it's actually not five
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  minutes, it's fifteen minutes. He gave me. No who's cutting her off?
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  There was there was new. So I'm glad that in the retrospect that
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  she's got this award. I'm glad we got the speech right, because I
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  mean, she exudes she exudes royalty, hence the name we gave her.
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  You know, it's just just you know, but now we we're gonna get
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  into it. We're gonna talk about it because I have words, collective,
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  actual thought out. She's not She's not the only one that received an Honerator
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  that night. It's her term. Mel Brooks received one, too, weird
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  because I like his work and I'm cute he's he's literally like knocking on the
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  door and what are y'all doing over there? Got his Tony's, He's gotten
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  his whatever the other awards are like it is, Can we move on because
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  we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk It needs to be talked about
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  because if y'all here for for last year, for the the non dub that
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  was snubbed. Uh, yeah, we're gonna talk about it. We're watching
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  What's happening, we'll speaking of Well, we're gonna talk about what happened the
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  queen. Okay, okay, okay, Yeah, we're gonna talk about how
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  do we not we? Uh? Does that make him? I believe so.
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  I don't think he's got an oscar. I don't think he's gotten other
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  than the honorary but the actual Yeah, I don't know how. Yeah,
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  I love I like mel Brooks. He's a comedy daddy. But no,
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  it was just the fact that, yeah, it's the fact of the matter
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  that you know, we gave him a look, we gave him the collective
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  look. We just like, let's celebrate because it's her and until she gives
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  the call, we write it dawn. But yeah, what's going on?
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  Will nothing? If y'all want to hear about how good God is real quick.
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  I had to leave my last job with very specific timing. Won't go
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  into the details, little legal reason, but they were upset because they only
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  got a week notice, a whole week, I know. But old job
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  was just like, hey, where's will He did such a great job this
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  year? He deserves a reward, and so they had to like call me
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  and be like, hey, so, like, what's your mailing information so
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  these people can give you your award or whatever. I'm like, Oh,
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  oh, I didn't think you'd hear from me so soon, did you.
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  Oh I didn't think you never have to deal with me again. Huh Oh
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  Jesus name, It's amazing how these people want to give flowers after the fact
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  to be fair. Like, I was a contractor, so it's like the
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  place I worked for they loved me. The contracting people were just like,
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  but the place I worked for, they want to give me award. And
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  the contractors had to like, you know, listen to my lovely voice.
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  They had to hear this great smirk as they had to you know, damn,
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  I guess you were good at your job. Huh. So, Uh,
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  we have a special guest with us tonight. This brother. It's massively
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  accomplished. Number one, he's a blurred Uh. He's he's a doctor.
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  He's a die. He has an m d pH D. I believe he's
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  going for Uh he's going to talk about it and uh he's created a little
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  app and I don't want to say a little let me take that. Bet.
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  He's created a VR app. He he has undertaken the and taken the
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  time and succeeded in creating something that very few others have done without a massive
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  team behind them. Yeah. Uh, Stephen Christian, come on board.
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  What is going on right? Oh you're muted, baby, It happens to
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  everybody. There's there's a button underneath uh in your you're in the show thing,
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  it'll stay mute. Okay, there you have to you have to do
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  full screen and then you can unmute yourself if you let me give you this
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  because I was reading your bio and and my god half yes, given appreciated
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  white white impressive. Quite so there's a couple of disclaimers. I don't have
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  my m d yet, but I am an m d pH d student,
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  and so talk to me a couple of years later, and that's still still
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  pending. But pre doctor, pre doctor, that's all. Yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, yeah. They call it the baby doctors. We're like baby
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  doctor right now. Uh so, tell tell the people about your background because
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  this this is something, this is something. Yeah, I mean it's like
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  where do you want to start? But uh, for the most part,
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  I mean, like in a nutshell, Like I know, I describe it,
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  I get I like to challenge myself that that's kind of the best way
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  that I could describe it. I am originally from Sacramento, California, but
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  like my family is from like the Bay Area and stuff, so you know,
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  Richmond, California and the Sacramento, like the northern California area is mainly
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  like where I grew up up. And I come from a pretty you know,
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  robust like football and baseball family, and so you know, in high
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  school, it was just like trying to get to the league, trying to
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  get some money, you know, try to try to do what you're supposed
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  to do, right, Like you know, growing up in the nineties early
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  two thousands, black kids just like you get a scholarship, you go to
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  college, you sort of do that thing. And so, you know,
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  I was fortunate enough to kind of funny, I I was like smart in
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  high school, and I was also like one of the fastest guys coming out
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  of California at that point. And so going into my senior year, like
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  I was actually one of Jim Harbaugh's like first commits at Stanford. And so
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  if you're like familiar with you know the recent you know game that happened and
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  all that stuff. You know, I you know, I was, I
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  was one of his original commits when he got to Stanford and stuff like that.
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  But you know, for one reason or another, I did not want
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  to play for Jim Harball. You know, for reasons I will not you
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  know, a harp one. But uh, you know it just you know,
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  it didn't sit I like, like I would say, like, just
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  google how Richard Sherman feels about Jim Harbaugh and you can get an understanding of
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  you know, because when I committed there, that was right when Richard Sherman
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  was moved from from receiver to to defensive back. And so when I would
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  go up to when I would go up to Stanford, they'd be like,
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  Okay, you're sort of like the prototype of what we're looking for when we're
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  bringing you in and stuff like that. So, you know, aside from
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  the point like that that like you know, didn't really work out there.
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  Ended up playing at Hawaii at the end of like the Jim Jones era and
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  going into you know, the McMackin era, and uh ended up having two
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  hip surgeries while I was there, and so the uh, you know,
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  it was it was a it was an interesting experience. It's uh, you
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  know, because I was, you know, in one way or another.
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  It's it, you know, sort of stuck just living in Hawaii, trying
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  to you know, figure out life and stuff like that. And I think
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  after my second hip surgery, you know, I wasn't sure if I was
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  going to be playing anymore, and so I essentially decided to like and this
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  is back when like Borders Books was still a thing, right, Like I
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  was, you know, like like that was that was the high school hangout
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  for me. Border's Books was still a thing, and I was just like,
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  I want to create like the next Boon Dogs or I want to like
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  create Boon Dogs and like my own image and stuff. Like I was like,
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  I was a big fan of Aaron McGruder. You know, I have
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  all the comic strips, you know, I watched all the shows like from
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  high school up and then and this was before I think season three came out,
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  and so it was just like there was nothing, like there was nothing
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  for like black people to like watch, you know, It's just sort of
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  the end of the headway. And so I just started to like get into
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  get into comics. Get into animation, get into you know, just sort
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  of like storytelling. And I was, you know, as I was recovering
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  from hip surgery, I just got you know, hired at the school newspaper.
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  I was getting published like three times a week, and so, you
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  know, I just started to just like grind it out, grind it out,
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  trying to figure it out, you know what, like what my purpose
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  was out outside of being like an athlete, because that was pretty much that's
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  why I was at school, and I couldn't do that anymore, right,
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  and so and so after that ended up like graduating, I had two years
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  of eligibility left. I was hard headed as usual, and I was like,
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  screw it, you know, I I have a you know, I
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  have a chip on my shoulder, and I still want to keep playing.
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  And so after two hit surgeries, I ended up graduating school, transferring to
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  Oregon State, getting in a master's program, and then I ended up starting
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  at Oregon State. You know, for my like first two years or like
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  you know, my remaining two years that I was that I was playing football,
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  and so I was kind of like I like quickly became an Oregonian and
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  uh and you know, by far was like the best experience of my life.
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  And not only because I was like playing in the Pac twelve, you
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  know, rip, but I got to play with a lot of great people.
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  And because I was in a grad program, I was giving a lot
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  more liberties as a student athlete to like explore things outside of like just what
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  they want you to do, because I already had my degree and I had
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  two years and so and so I got to do art shows, I got
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  to you know, I got to work with different organizations angle that whole student
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  athlete thing. I mean, like back then, we couldn't get paid,
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  and so like I like it was a lot of you know, finangling around
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  all the different stuff that like the NC double A like forced you to do
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  and forced you to do and and one of those was just like if there
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  was money involved, I had to literally like leave the building. It was
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  just like if they're like coming to see my work and stuff, and so,
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  you know, like that was sort of like a very formative experience that
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  you know, sort of allowed me to flore a lot of things off the
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  field. And then you know, when I decided to retire from playing football,
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  then I ended up just like spending a year to just like make a
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  documentary about like the business of college athletics, and that, you know,
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  that gave me an interesting taste of like you know, what to expect for,
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  like you know, entertainment and Hollywood and stuff, and you know,
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  I ended up, you know, getting I got the opportunity to like screen
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  it in movie theaters, it got picked up by Hulu, and it was
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  just like sort of like the thing after another just started to happen. And
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  then after all that stuff happened, I like, you know, sort of
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  like reality set in and it was just like, okay, student athlete.
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  You know, I have this body of work, I have passion, but
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  I have no work experience and I have no internship experience. I'm no longer
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  a student. So with the master's degree, I was pretty much unhirable.
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  And so I was just like, well do like you know, like what
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  the heck, like how do you do it? Like what do you do
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  with this? Right? Like? So you know, it's like I had
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  an IMDb page, but I couldn't get hired on an entry level job because
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  they weren't going to pay me enough. Uh, you know, like I
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  didn't have the experience for a master's degree. Uh, and I was,
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  you know, I was just overqualified for entry level position. So it was
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  just like just this like it's just like and I understand everyone, yeah right
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  now, Like its just it just sucked. And so and so one of
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  the things like so like my cousin, he he was he ended up having
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  a really successful career uh at Denver as a tight end. And during that
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  time, he was like in l A and he had this like creative agency
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  and I was like, okay, dude, you know I need to get
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  on a creative agency. I angle that blah blah. That never happened.
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  They didn't hire me. But what they did do is they they gave me
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  like one piece of advice. And the advice was that I have a variety
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  of different skills that I you know, was sort of you know, making
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  different things here and there, but like they weren't necessarily acted. And so
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  the best thing that I could do, and their opinion was put all that
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  stuff into one project. And you know, if you do that, then
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  it will give people a good idea of what skills you have. And so
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  that like really launched that like really stuck with me as I like move forward.
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  One I'll still saw to that I still didn't get a job, and
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  so I was just like dude, right, But like the big thing was
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  that like it it narrowed my focus on to Okay, if I do something,
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  I'm going to put all my skills towards it and it will eventually get
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  me a job. Right. And so what people see of my work now
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  is quite literally just that project. And that project is Island Fever. It
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  started off as a webcomic, and I, you know, I had you
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  know, years and years and years of like newspaper comics. Then from there
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  I moved into animation. Interestingly enough, I ended up getting to like exploring
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  more of the tech stuff because whenever I would do conventions, you could go
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  to a convention, you could be like, oh, yeah, I'm an
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  animator. But normally conventions don't have freaking uh, they don't have internet,
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  and so if you say, oh yeah, I'm an animator, all they're
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  they're gonna be like, oh yeah, let me see your stuff, you
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  know, and then you try to send them a YouTube video or whatever.
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  Don't have any Internet or whatever. So then I'm sitting here, you know,
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  looking at people that got stickers and books and all that stuff, and
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  I'm saying I'm an animator, but ain't nobody seeming none in my animation?
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  Right? And so it's just like it was just like tough in that way.
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  And so, you know, as I started to get, you know,
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  further deeper and deeper into the stuff, trying to still get a job,
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  right, but still like working on my stuff and building out sort of
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  like an IP, like an early uh, you know, early iteration of
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  an IP, it was just like, okay, well, you know I
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  have tons of comics, a web comics. Let's just put those into print.
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  So now I have books to sell, and so now you know,
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  I'm going out. People were like, oh, yeah, your your characters
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  are cute. What if you had stickers, what if you had magnets?
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  Well those are really easy and cheap to make. So I now I got
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  a whole line of stickers. Now I got a whole line of postcards.
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  Now I got a whole line of that. And then it was just like
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  okay, well I have all this you know, sort of animation on YouTube.
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  I'm an animator, tried and true, like you know, comics and
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  stuff. I could crank those out because it's significantly less drawing than animating like
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  it just it just is just numbers just are not on my side when it
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  comes to animation, but they are when it comes to uh, when it
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  comes to freaking you know, comics and stuff. And so I was like,
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  you know, but what if I can take those, you know,
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  take those stories that I would normally animate, you know, have them storyboarded
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  out, turn those into comics, and then integrate the animation instead of putting
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  it on YouTube, I can put those into the book. And that idea
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  I sort of stuck with, and that, you know, I pretty much
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  spent you know, into twenty nineteen, twenty twenty twenty twenty one just sort
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  of developing what that looked like. And then and then after you know,
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  a couple of months. Initially it just like I just put the first demo
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  of the app out, and you know, I was an ar developer,
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  and I you know, and I was sort of exploring that space. And
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  I think when it came to that, like that was the most liberating thing
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  because normally, when you're working on projects, you're like, Okay, you
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  know, like dang, if I had this team or if I had this
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  I could do all this stuff with it. Quite literally every time I come
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  out with the book, I could add all the animation I want, I
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  could add all the music I want, I could add button interactions, I
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  could add all those different things that I would normally do. And the best
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  part about it is that, you know, I could generate revenue from it.
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  And so not only not only can I you know, not only can
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  I make money off of my my books and my stories, but I could
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  also make money off of my animation. And I think that is one of
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  the things that really stuck with me, because if you really think about it,
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  how do you make money off of animation? Like you got you gotta
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  get on with the studio, and if you get on with the studio,
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  or you have a poppy YouTube channel, which is really hard to do,
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  like it just it's really hard, like you know, and so you know
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  the that that stuff sort of like carried me through like the pandemic, and
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  mind you, in the backdrop, I'm still like all this time, I'm
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  like trying to get into medical school. After I didn't get hired, I
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  ended up going to UH ended up going doing a post back at Portland State
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  and then you know, did that for two years and then for like the
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  remaining four years following that post back, I just pretty much, you know,
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  took the MCAT twice, you know, did all my prerecs, volunteering
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  at the hospital and all that stuff. And uh. And then I eventually
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  got into got into school, I think, yeah and so and so then
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  it was just like okay, well now I'm a medical student. And then
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  you know, because of the pandemic are emerging technology VR. They were like
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  that's sort of like the saving grace of like in medical technology at this point.
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  So everybody was like, man, we need to do this and do
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  that with tech and all that stuff. And I'm just sitting here like,
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  well, dang, you know, like all the stuff that I was doing,
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  I was just kind of just doing on the side, and it just
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  sort of like happened to like integrate in this interesting way and now it's sought
• 24:03
  after. But when I was applying to medical school, there was like this
• 24:06
  is this is a distraction, this is this, this is that, like
• 24:08
  we don't think you're focused and all that stuff, and once you get in
• 24:11
  it's a completely different It's it's like it's completely different and so and so,
• 24:18
  uh, now at least you know, I'm like you know, studying for
• 24:22
  my board, my first board exam, and I am like animating on the
• 24:27
  side and working on a few projects for a couple of clients and working on
• 24:33
  island fever and trying to launch you know, the many books and there's no
• 24:42
  way, there's no way, there's no way, there's no way. Just
• 24:48
  I'm studying to get my vet tech license, fucking finally whatever. Doing just
• 24:53
  that by itself is in undating. You were going for your boards, while
• 25:00
  you're building an AR program, while you're doing side jobs, while you're might
• 25:07
  know, well, I will say that, like they all happen in waves,
• 25:11
  right, like so it's it's not like I'm well, I am,
• 25:15
  I do juggle a lot of stuff, but like, yes, it happens
• 25:19
  in waves. And like there's there's a there's a lot to say about doing
• 25:25
  the little bit every day towards a towards an angle. And I think that,
• 25:30
  you know, at least to manage and navigate the constant stress that I'm
• 25:36
  constantly under. You know, I really stick to that because it uh,
• 25:41
  it all works out in the end, you know it just and so not
• 25:48
  a tiger and a shark and a beer and I got behind you with my
• 25:53
  toes. It's fine, this is fine. It's fine. This man is
• 26:00
  juggling chainsaws while giving us string theory and saying, it's cool. We're gonna
• 26:04
  get this the wild workout. So sir, let me read. Let me
• 26:10
  read his bio for those who are just coming in. Stephen Christian is Nevada's
• 26:15
  first Black American MD PhD candidate. He's an innovative founder of Ultopia Studios,
• 26:21
  blending medicine with art and technology. Blending medicine with art and technology. His
• 26:26
  animations that dress social Justice was supporting his medical journey. With a master's from
• 26:30
  Oregon State, He's a mentor and teacher in Reno, Nevada, contributing to
• 26:34
  nonprofits. Key projects include Island Fever, ar Analog AR headset, Doodle Life
• 26:41
  Platform, and consulting for Unity Learn featured in The Wall Street Journal and more.
• 26:45
  He's also an integrative neuroscience student at the University of Nevada Reno, a
• 26:51
  United a Unity certified instructor, and an ar VR expert, pioneering and merging
• 26:57
  art, tech and health. So not only are you a doctor, but
• 27:06
  my god, it's already in the air. We're putting it in the air
• 27:14
  we're putting in the first off, I need to give you. I need
• 27:17
  to give you this because one of the harder sections of medicine. Okay,
• 27:26
  all right, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna ask, where's the k at?
• 27:30
  Because you all to accomplish all that, sir, I got nothing?
• 27:37
  You know what that at that point? When when do you start practicing?
• 27:41
  So I know what I know what to sign up for? There's a wait
• 27:44
  list, there's a weight list, like it. I hope it's sooner rather
• 27:48
  than later like that. That's like I was looking at because like the fast
• 27:56
  so they just like updated all their stuff and so they're like, oh yeah,
• 28:00
  hurry up and like fill out your faust and all that. I'm looking
• 28:02
  at the numbers. I'm like, huh, that looks bad. But I
• 28:06
  know that won't be that bad once I get like once I start practicing.
• 28:08
  But it is. It's it's to be a to be a physician. It
• 28:14
  is a half a million dollar investment like all that, and so like you
• 28:18
  see every single you see it accumulate over it and uh, but you have
• 28:25
  a greater appreciation for, like you know, the process and everything. Albeit
• 28:30
  you know, I will say that a lot of the stuff I go through
• 28:33
  on a daily basis, I'm just like, huh, black people were involved
• 28:38
  in none of this stuff. Like it's just like it's like that that's a
• 28:45
  costic reminder and uh. And being that like I'm like quite literally like the
• 28:49
  only black person. And if I'm not the only black person, I'm the
• 28:52
  only Black American, right because there's there's a lot of there's a lot of
• 28:57
  immigrants. There's a lot of a lot of African immigrants that often occupy the
• 29:03
  spaces you know that that uh, that black people are in and you know,
• 29:11
  and often you see that just like there's just a lot of like cultural
• 29:14
  differences that make things very isolated and uh. And so you know when I
• 29:18
  do when I'm when I'm you know, sitting here and I'm like, okay,
• 29:22
  you know, I'm gonna you know, work on this project and work
• 29:26
  on this project. Like it's I it ends up working out that way,
• 29:30
  uh, because like it's such an isolating experience that like a lot of the
• 29:36
  things I get to do and a lot of the friends and the stuff that
• 29:38
  I get to do and hang out with, you know, with people and
• 29:41
  stuff like that that's normally like if I go to a convention or you know,
• 29:45
  if I go back home or something like that. But like, for
• 29:47
  the most part, I'm just like, you know, I just bought a
• 29:48
  condo, you know, so I'm a homeowner, and I have two stories,
• 29:52
  and I have a storage unit, and so I got a lot of
• 29:55
  space to just like do me and I just gotta I just gotta pass my
• 29:59
  test and not get in trouble. I want to show your your Kickstarter promo
• 30:10
  just for people to understand what this looks like. And I me and me
• 30:18
  and Lady Mandela already like kind of stuck on words, which is not an
• 30:22
  easy thing to do. But my god, this this is impressive. So
• 30:30
  check this out. Damn I got wow. That is Everybody's on on mute.
• 31:33
  Everybody's on mute. First off, congratulations on on all these endeavors,
• 31:40
  because these, by car are not easy to ask there and the fact that
• 31:51
  you're still moving forward and still pressing on and going after your pH d,
• 31:56
  m D and having this, uh, this arevr comic book. The accomplishments.
• 32:06
  I feel like I'm not doing enough here. I am thinking I'm tired.
• 32:15
  This man has a full on br story book, and I'm sitting here,
• 32:21
  like, you know what, I'm not tired now. I just I
• 32:23
  feel the need to go back to what I was doing just about two minutes
• 32:27
  ago. It's it's very much. I'm like this, this man is about
• 32:35
  to be this man is is about to be a doctor. And he done,
• 32:37
  he done established five different things and in record timing. And like Kira
• 32:44
  said, it's it's inspiring because you can't say spit to that. I mean,
• 32:50
  I want to give me wrong me rosse if I want to give you
• 32:52
  all the credit is dude, it's very rare that we'll see something something that
• 32:57
  that had that aboriginal idea on a kickstarter and then you tell us everything else
• 33:01
  that you're doing, and you're still going through medical school and you're still trying
• 33:06
  to build several different other other innovations that you got going on. Right now,
• 33:10
  I'm like, when do you sleep? He don't. You can't tell
• 33:15
  me you what? Four hours? Oh no, no, no, no,
• 33:22
  Like I like that. So one of the things that you learn as
• 33:28
  a student athlete because I played Division one college football for six years, right,
• 33:34
  so like throughout injuries and all that stuff, and uh, and I
• 33:37
  did that like from when I was seventeen to when I was twenty three.
• 33:42
  Yeah, twenty three, right, so like formative like young adult years,
• 33:45
  right, And so my experience as a young adult is waking up with anxiety
• 33:51
  at five o'clock in the morning for six years, hoping that I don't that
• 33:54
  I'm not late to a meeting because then it's just like it's it's it's it's
• 34:00
  over for you, like at least that day, right. Like so it's
• 34:05
  so like the rest of my twenties after that point really was like trying to
• 34:12
  like navigate what sort of like the non athlete life is. And like once
• 34:19
  I got into medical school, it is like like you quickly learned that,
• 34:22
  like you could spend sixteen hours studying, but like none of that matters if
• 34:27
  you don't go to sleep because you're not going to remember it all and so
• 34:30
  and so it's the like the way I just sort of like approach just like
• 34:36
  education, life, all those things. Because of medical school, it has
• 34:40
  definitely reoriented me towards something that is a lot more sustainable. Hence where I'm
• 34:46
  like, you know, I'll do a little bit of a whole bunch of
• 34:49
  different things every day and if I you know, get myself enough time to
• 34:52
  do it all then then it all works out in the in the end,
• 34:57
  right and know, and that that's I think like last year was definitely a
• 35:02
  testament to that, and you know, hopefully, you know, just sort
• 35:07
  of moving forward, I could just sort of like build off of that because
• 35:10
  you know, it's it's it's stressful, and you know, like there's a
• 35:15
  lot of times where you're just like I don't want to do anything, but
• 35:20
  you have to. And if you just put an hour in, then like
• 35:22
  at least you get somewhere, right, you could the next three hours watch
• 35:25
  an echo or something like you know, you know it's uh, and and
• 35:31
  then just like treating yourself and just being sort of kind to yourself at the
• 35:36
  end of the day, like it's it's you know that that that's just because
• 35:42
  you know, like what else are you going to do? You're just gonna
• 35:45
  you know, like do the stuff that you enjoy, do the stuff that
• 35:46
  you you know that that makes you happy. And if you don't, at
• 35:51
  least do something that's cool that people will talk about. And and I kind
• 35:54
  of just look at it that way, you know, like I could I
• 35:59
  could like kid you not probably out of my school in general, probably you
• 36:04
  know most schools, uh, I am, probably I can. I have
• 36:10
  a lot of cool stuff to talk about within the medical you know, the
• 36:14
  medical field and space, right whether it's whether it's just talking about you know,
• 36:19
  extracurricular stuff, talking about sports, talking about nerdy stuff and animation,
• 36:23
  talking about anime, talking about creative processes, or even talking about research,
• 36:29
  right like, And I think that that just speaks to just like you know,
• 36:34
  I'm a black person, right like we just talked about, right,
• 36:37
  we like to talk about we do, especially still forgetting it right. And
• 36:40
  you will be surprised how that translates when you actually are about that stuff and
• 36:47
  you were, you will be surprised how much of a difference that makes you
• 36:52
  amongst your peers that you know, you know, at some point I just
• 36:58
  started looking at people choose I'm just like those things. I ain't trying to
• 37:01
  talk to you like just like you know, it's like it's like, you
• 37:07
  know, like you might see a couple of easy boosts here and there,
• 37:10
  but you're never going to see any Jordans. And if you do, you
• 37:13
  might see some like teen Jordan's, Like you're gonna see some Hocaus there's some
• 37:16
  weird you know, new balances or whatever. But it's like for twenty you
• 37:21
  know, early twenties and you know, mid twenties, late twenties is like
• 37:23
  at least a shoe game has to be on point. You might be stressed
• 37:27
  out of you know, but like dang, you know, like it's so
• 37:30
  I like I like little things like that, you know, just sort of
• 37:34
  I get a kick out of just to like keep going because it's it's you
• 37:37
  know, you have to find ways to deal with the isolation, and you
• 37:40
  have to find ways to deal with just navigating just to you know, something
• 37:46
  that like you probably you probably know nobody else is doing. And you know,
• 37:51
  at least for me, it's like I'm I'm fortunate enough to you know,
• 37:54
  be personable and you know, be on the internet and do all the
• 37:59
  things that I I like to do, and uh, and connect with people.
• 38:02
  I think that was something that I definitely got better with over the pandemic
• 38:07
  because I couldn't see people and I wasn't really seeing people anyway, but like
• 38:09
  I got to connect with all my friends from you know, all the you
• 38:13
  know, every other place and and and have it be like a baseline and
• 38:16
  and once I started doing that, like, it was uh, you know
• 38:22
  it. It it made the It made the journey a lot more palatable every
• 38:24
  day. And you know, whenever I came out with a new demo,
• 38:28
  whenever I you know, made a new video about stuff, right like the
• 38:30
  video you showed, I'd literally just I'd just be making stuff up here and
• 38:35
  then I just posted on the internet like that that's just what I did.
• 38:37
  And and uh, and it's just good. It feels good to just see
• 38:42
  that, like from this like isolated space, it's well received and and people
• 38:45
  get it. And I think that's really like the big thing because especially in
• 38:49
  tech, like thero was about to come out, and you know, I
• 38:52
  mean, it's cool, it's cool, but like I don't know, I'm
• 38:58
  I'm waiting until that. I'm I'm waiting to see how long it's going to
• 39:00
  take for them to drop the price, because you know, it just like
• 39:04
  it's like, what do you wanna deal with it? You can't play Fortnite
• 39:06
  on it, so it's like what's the point. You know. It's like
• 39:12
  I work in the space, right and it's just like and so I'm always
• 39:16
  sitting here just sort of looking at the outside world. I'm over here.
• 39:20
  I gotta learn pathology. I gotta learn about gout. I gotta learn about
• 39:23
  e T I S. I gotta learn about all that stuff, right,
• 39:25
  I gotta take tests about it, like with it. And then you know,
• 39:29
  once I close the books and you know, I sort of take a
• 39:30
  step back from that. I get to animate and I get to, you
• 39:34
  know, do all these other things that are that are really really fun.
• 39:37
  So our resident editor Too Far It t V says he's an anime loving I
• 39:42
  major who played football in Wisconsin. Dude, when did you play at Wisconsin?
• 39:47
  Like, I want to know, because we played Wisconsin our first game
• 39:50
  and we dethroned you guys, Like yeah, he said, this man,
• 39:58
  he said, this man is preaching. I was like a new species everywhere
• 40:00
  I went in the Midwest. Oh, it's funny. You mentioned earlier that
• 40:07
  you know, you were a fan of the Bulldogs, and it just so
• 40:10
  happens we're good friends with Carl Jones. Yeah, so you never know,
• 40:24
  let me request at you know, I'll be you know, i'll be I'm
• 40:35
  not up in everybody's dens, but I'll just be sending people stuff right like
• 40:38
  it, And that's normally how I like that's normally how I like, you
• 40:43
  know, how I meet people right like me. And if you're familiar with
• 40:45
  tru League, I hope you guys are. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm
• 40:50
  really good friends with Anthony. He was like one of my He's one of
• 40:52
  my like convention buddies. And by virtue of Anthony, like you know,
• 40:57
  got connected with but Chase, I'm and so like everybody that, like everybody
• 41:01
  I know that's like popping that is doing something like they know that I'm going
• 41:06
  to hit them up about like, hey, okay, you know, like
• 41:08
  whenever you're ready, you know, I know you're animating, I know you're
• 41:10
  doing this stuff. Let's make some ar stuff because it's like for me,
• 41:14
  it's just like I'm just trying to put people in at this point because it's
• 41:17
  because like to that point, it's like, you know, the economy of
• 41:22
  like the animation industry, for all its greatness and everything, there are very
• 41:27
  little opportunities for like the opportunities for you to actually make a living gractually generate
• 41:34
  revenue within animation is you know, very restricted to you know, just a
• 41:40
  few options, and a lot of that stuff is not client like it's not
• 41:44
  customer facing, and so like the scalability of it. You know, it's
• 41:47
  really easy for somebody to make a killing off of stickers. But you know,
• 41:52
  if you were to just take a little bit of that, you know,
• 41:54
  a little bit of what you would do for animation, integrate that into
• 41:59
  you know, a physical product or whatever, and uh and just build an
• 42:02
  experience around it, because that's pretty much all this is, just building out
• 42:06
  experiences it. You know, like there's just avenues for it, because it's
• 42:09
  not like we're all you know, like we're on the gig economy at this
• 42:14
  point, and so it's like, you know, it's not like you you
• 42:16
  gotta, you gotta you know, I mean, if you're lucky to have
• 42:20
  a pension, you know, like you might have a pension, you might
• 42:22
  have you know, a savings, all these different things. But like a
• 42:24
  lot of us, you know, we're we're going you know, project to
• 42:28
  project. We we might have a you know, a stable income, but
• 42:30
  then we have something on the side, we've got something else on the side.
• 42:35
  We still have our dreams and hopes. It's all those three. So
• 42:37
  it's like, you know, you never know what's going to happen, but
• 42:40
  you know, uh, I I like, like when you're on app when
• 42:46
  when you're on an app store, you're you're in a whole different ballgame.
• 42:52
  And and there's a lot to say for being on an app store, even
• 42:57
  if you are even if your app is just to show some pictures moving,
• 43:04
  like that's a feet in and of itself. There's not a lot of black
• 43:07
  people in the app store. Like it just it just it's it's so it's
• 43:10
  it's like, you know, would you would you rather have you know,
• 43:15
  ten thousand followers or would you have rather have ten thousand app downloads? It's
• 43:19
  like, you know, it just it just like it just it just you
• 43:22
  know, just from my experience of the things that I've explored and the insights
• 43:28
  that I've gotten from it, it's it's a lot of stuff that it's like,
• 43:30
  you know, the bar is very low, but like to even like
• 43:35
  and even to like get around to like doing it, you know, it
• 43:37
  took me maybe like two weeks to like make app and put on the app
• 43:39
  store, Like the first iteration of island fever took me maybe no, no,
• 43:44
  I take you like a month, like a month and like one hundred
• 43:47
  and ten dollars that's you know, it's driven, like it's you know,
• 43:53
  now people pay me to do it, and so that's a that's a fun
• 43:57
  thing, but it's it's a but to say, like to be on an
• 44:00
  app store and to be able to be an artist and to be able to
• 44:04
  sort of understand you know, the work and show people and have it to
• 44:08
  go over their head or get some level of admiration or whatever. Like if
• 44:14
  it doesn't do anything, at least it makes an impression and h and you
• 44:19
  know, I'm now I could just be like, oh, yeah, I'm
• 44:21
  the dude that like makes ar stuff. That's a medical school and people were
• 44:24
  like, oh, I know exactly what you're talking about. I have a
• 44:28
  have a couple comments in the crowd. So Elizabeth Collins says he's preaching for
• 44:32
  real. She's a micro biology public health major. She's also a lab technician
• 44:37
  who likes drawn anime. So this shit is interesting. Uh tofar I states
• 44:42
  he is D three. He was not in the big leagues Concordia Wisconsin Conference
• 44:45
  Champs freshman year, so though he did get UH student doctor Chad over on
• 44:53
  Ig. He says opportunities are definitely slim and animation you almost have to know
• 44:58
  someone to get in the door. Yes, yes, so uh very honestly,
• 45:05
  do I look like I give a or a ka Nicole or a ka
• 45:07
  whooped you freaking do? Uh? She has a bs in biology and the
• 45:12
  MS and micro biomedical sciences, so it speaks to her as well. So
• 45:17
  like the easiest bag is just going into like making comiction cartoons for like science.
• 45:28
  M hmm. If you're just like I just want to quit make a
• 45:30
  quick buck and just like spend a year doing that, like like the bar
• 45:36
  is so low, like it's it's it's solo, Like if what is the
• 45:42
  there's there's a there's a there's a manga and anime about like the human immune
• 45:50
  system. Oh yeah yeah, cells at work, Cells at work. Yeah,
• 45:58
  Like literally if somebody were just like make their own version of cells at
• 46:00
  work. Mm hmm, like like write your ticket like it it's it's it's
• 46:08
  because it's and and that's one of the things that like I'll be exploring with
• 46:14
  like MYKHD is looking at how like you know you can make health education not
• 46:21
  like medical education, but just like health education just stuff about the human body
• 46:24
  that doesn't require that that's devoid of like the misinformation that like you'll see on
• 46:30
  like the internet with like YouTube and TikTok videos of people that have never read
• 46:36
  a book in their life. Like it just just like like, don't talk
• 46:39
  to me about seams, Like it just high blood If you have high blood
• 46:46
  pressure. The last thing you need is more salt, like like don't don't
• 46:51
  don't talk to me about seas like it just like like what and and but
• 46:55
  like once you understand and like once you because it's all a story at this
• 47:00
  point because like you're not walking around being like oh yeah, blah blah blah,
• 47:04
  you're freaking you know, your hydrostatic pressure is overloaded and so you know
• 47:08
  you got a dema and if you poke your stomach, it's want to have
• 47:12
  a fluid wave. It's like nobody really cares about that. But like if
• 47:15
  you make it compelling and interesting, like people will remember a whole bunch of
• 47:19
  different things and that will help themselves, I mean, to their detriment,
• 47:23
  but like it just you know, it's it's so integrating technology, ar VR,
• 47:30
  animation, black people stuff, and just like integrating that into an experience
• 47:36
  that people can enjoy and learn from and be excited to engage with that that's
• 47:42
  that's kind of you know, it just I'm fortunate enough to be able to
• 47:45
  explore that on an academic level and have it being taken series. You've managed
• 47:51
  to build the bridge that a lot of blurds out there didn't realize could be
• 47:55
  built. M M. I didn't realize it. You don't either. This
• 48:00
  stuff like it is not like I applied to seventy five eighty medical student schools
• 48:07
  and I got rejected by I got I got seventy seventy seventy two medical school
• 48:14
  rejections. Like it's just like this is like the like me at this point,
• 48:19
  it's like I wish you would tell me I can't do something because it's
• 48:22
  like I've done enough to where like I can tell you don't know what you're
• 48:24
  talking about. That's like I don't know what's going to come to, but
• 48:29
  like I know that what you're telling me doesn't make sense to me because the
• 48:32
  stuff that people told me wasn't going to work or the things that people are
• 48:36
  talking about now, it took me a while for people to come around.
• 48:38
  But like, you know, like at this point, it's like, you
• 48:45
  know, being hard headed is kind of like my saving grace at this point,
• 48:49
  I enjoy. I enjoy, and people say you can't do that.
• 48:52
  I'm like, I'm an aries wife, lady mandlord, what were you going
• 48:55
  to ask you? And I think she and I'm me first second, well,
• 49:02
  greal horror. How are you today? I'm good, thank you,
• 49:06
  I'm okay. We we just we just met this man, Like I said,
• 49:13
  when when does his practice start? And when can I sign up?
• 49:16
  Because if he if he's this on point about everything else in life, let
• 49:22
  me know if my kidney's gonna make it, That's all I ask to be
• 49:25
  true. I'm pretty I'm pretty sure that uh, if something happens, I'm
• 49:30
  gonna tell my wife. I said no, no, no, no called
• 49:31
  Steven Stephen. What what did he That's gonna be the marker, that's even
• 49:37
  that's the mark of a good doctor. Know what did he say? No?
• 49:39
  What did what did doctor Stevens say? Don't do look at stay away
• 49:45
  from no. I like, you know, I because I mind you.
• 49:54
  I'm studying for like a medical like like US medical license exam, right,
• 50:00
  and so it's like I take pride in the stuff that I know because I've
• 50:02
  missed a lot of questions and had to deal with a lot of strife just
• 50:06
  to know the stuff. Right. I saw there, and there's this like
• 50:09
  video circulating ground about this dude he has like face tattoos. Not to say
• 50:14
  anything about face tattoos, but like if you have face tattoos, at least
• 50:16
  know what you're talking about, right, Like it just so he was talking
• 50:20
  about like he was just going off about these different things, and one of
• 50:24
  the things that he said was like, the heart isn't they say the heart
• 50:30
  isn't a pump, or they say the heart is a pump, but it's
• 50:31
  not a pump. Your lungs are a pump, and your lungs do this
• 50:35
  and all that. And I was just like, sir, I'm upset that
• 50:40
  you have this much attention for the stuff that you're saying. And I feel
• 50:45
  like it's partly because you're just talking fast and that you got face tattoos.
• 50:49
  Because it just didn't make any sense. And then the worst part about it
• 50:53
  was he had pictures like you had like animations and stuff like that were going
• 50:57
  to it, and it wasn't like it's like it was like somebody like made
• 51:00
  like this sort of like slam smash hit video type of thing. And he
• 51:05
  was just like going off about this. I was like, I respect the
• 51:07
  editing, Like this is like I need to do that. I need to
• 51:10
  get better at that because what you're talking about is trash. Like just just
• 51:16
  like it's just like you know, it just it just like it didn't make
• 51:20
  sense from the beginning to the end. And I was just like, man,
• 51:22
  at least I editing was on point, because like this is like the
• 51:28
  but like the worst part was like my dad sent me the video after I
• 51:30
  sent it, and then I was just like, dude, like like do
• 51:38
  me this. But like as a researcher, I want to see that stuff
• 51:43
  because I want to see what works. And that way, when I when
• 51:47
  I actually go to like actually wanting to do something and I need a reference
• 51:52
  point, I have a reference point to at least latch onto. And now
• 51:57
  it's like, okay, you know, if I'm doing something, I'm want
• 52:00
  to use the essence of this video. I'm going to use the essence of
• 52:02
  what I see here the content, and I'm actually going to make it useful
• 52:07
  and uh, and then I could run a study off of it and stuff
• 52:10
  like that. And I think that's the like to be able to sit there
• 52:13
  and just appreciate what exists and then actually have the ability and the wherewithal to
• 52:22
  actually do something like for the better mint of people and uh and have that
• 52:27
  be taken seriously. Like I think I'm you know, for how all the
• 52:30
  trials and tribulations of my journey, you know, I really just appreciate just
• 52:36
  being able to do that and uh and just sort of like looking at like
• 52:39
  how my parents are and and just people around me, mainly a lot of
• 52:44
  black people around me, and seeing how that isn't really the case for them.
• 52:49
  You know. It's just you know, it just it's it's a you
• 52:52
  know, if I were to say, like where like have I found like
• 52:55
  after my thirty plus years of being going this serve, have I on like
• 53:00
  an avenue where I actually feel like I'll be fulfilled and I can do this
• 53:04
  until I'm seventy five eighty years old. It's like this, this is definitely
• 53:07
  it. Like you know, like, no, NFL didn't work out,
• 53:12
  but okay, I think I think this is I think this is a student
• 53:17
  doctor Chad said he I wish more students would talk about the rejections and the
• 53:22
  roadblocks when trying to pursue degrees and STEM. Thank you for telling the truth.
• 53:27
  It's refreshing for STEM professionals to be transparent. Uh. Elizabeth Collins says,
• 53:32
  my friend is in her residency and yes, during her time in med
• 53:36
  school it was rough. A lot of her moments. It was a lot
• 53:40
  of rough events and emotional times. Yeah, everybody's like on board. It's
• 53:45
  amazing how many, how many science gigs are in the BLUR community. I
• 53:52
  love it. I love it that the medical field I will always be that
• 53:58
  to me is always a big thing to see, to see those still wanting
• 54:00
  to become nurses, doctors, surgeons. I will give you guys all the
• 54:06
  credit in the world because I've seen friends go through medical school. I've seen
• 54:09
  friends go through residencies. I've seen friends go through board exams. Uh.
• 54:15
  Went friend of mine, I'll never forget this. He had to go to
• 54:15
  a rage room amber he got done. I was like, uh, whatever
• 54:20
  you want to do? Just he just set there and said I needed He
• 54:23
  just sat there and said, bro, I just need to break something.
• 54:27
  Okay, we can find we can find a place. Just don't hit me
• 54:32
  like it's it's it's real, Like it's it's it's it's like it's it's like
• 54:39
  it's real. It's not it's not a joke, Like it's not something that
• 54:45
  the hardest part of being in the medical field is exactly what Steven is talking
• 54:51
  about. It's having people that have not done a percentage of a percentage of
• 54:57
  the research and practice and execution and focus on in the field that we're in.
• 55:05
  It's not, it's it's fucking annoying. So annoying. Like the best
• 55:12
  way I can describe it is it feels like it feels like because like you
• 55:20
  could learn the content, understand all those things, right, but when you're
• 55:23
  actually taking a test, it feels like you were like the test that you're
• 55:29
  taking is written in a different language. M h. And it's and like
• 55:36
  the way I could chalk it up to is I was like, I know
• 55:37
  black people did not make these questions, okay, because I like and that
• 55:43
  just to just sort of like, you know, just to just like put
• 55:45
  my wrap my mind around it, because it's like, you know, you
• 55:49
  want me to know these things, and I do know those things, but
• 55:54
  why did you say it that way? Like who talks like that? And
• 56:00
  it's it's you know, and it's so it's so far removed at least like
• 56:04
  the first two years of medical school, because like at least for me,
• 56:06
  like my track is like six seven years. So like I do like my
• 56:10
  first two years of and this is like I'm learning this as I go.
• 56:14
  I didn't know this like prior to her, right, But my first two
• 56:17
  years is just like classroom work. By uh. Then I take a break
• 56:22
  from medical school technically to do like two to three years of research for my
• 56:25
  PhD. And then I do my clinical stuff my last two years. And
• 56:30
  so that that's what my track looks like. And so you know, technically
• 56:34
  I'm like a third of the way through, right, But it's like I
• 56:37
  am counting the days till I'm not looking at a freaking multiple choice test because
• 56:42
  it's the bane of my existence. Like it's like, yeah, I'll sit
• 56:45
  here, I like I will. I will animate a cat scratching his face
• 56:51
  like like at sixty frames per second before I like want to touch it.
• 56:55
  Freaking like multiple choice tests because it's like, you know, it's like I
• 57:00
  read the passage and it's like, Okay, I know what we're talking about.
• 57:01
  Boom boom boom boom boom. And then when they will give me the
• 57:06
  thing that I was thinking about. So I'm like, okay, I'm on
• 57:08
  the right track. And then they'll come out of left field and just be
• 57:12
  like, oh yeah, what would we do next? And then they'll give
• 57:14
  me a whole bunch of just like random stuff that like nobody even talks about,
• 57:16
  and I'm just like, really, like, this is what we're doing
• 57:21
  today. And so it's it's a it's a you know, the fact that
• 57:29
  I can stuff is a blessing because a lot of people just drink and watch
• 57:36
  TV. Like it's just like like it's it's you would be surprised, like
• 57:43
  I'm I'm the one and I'm the one at the school that has the best
• 57:45
  presentations, Like I like people want to be in my projects, like because
• 57:52
  everybody else is like, you know, once again improving is once again proving
• 57:57
  that you know when when when our people are involved, Yeah, yeah,
• 58:00
  a little a little extra because why we have to be twice as good for
• 58:07
  half the goddamn credit. Yeah, and then there's that, then there's that
• 58:12
  so well we always yeah, consistently. Yeah, it's like one And I
• 58:19
  think one of the things that like I'm I'm I mean to terms with is
• 58:23
  uh understanding that the things that come like relatively easy to like people that aren't
• 58:32
  doing as much stuff is it's not an indictment on like my ability to do
• 58:42
  things, even if it like takes longer. I think that that's like just
• 58:45
  on a on a regular basis, because you know, yes, I could
• 58:50
  do all these different things, and like I'm I'm, I do well with
• 58:53
  a lot of things that are not medical school related or at least not like
• 58:59
  multiple choices medical school related. But when it comes down to you know,
• 59:05
  like trying to get a test done or like like getting past your test,
• 59:07
  because that's pretty much what we're what we're you know, what we're judged on
• 59:12
  at this point. You know, I'm just like, dude, I just
• 59:15
  I just need to pass. Just just give me the pee and just let
• 59:17
  me go. Like you know, I ain't trying to get it. I
• 59:21
  ain't trying to get an eighty. I ain't trying to I'm definitely not trying
• 59:23
  to get a ninety because that means that I spent too much time with that
• 59:27
  stuff that I couldn't do with other stuff. Right, Like, it's past
• 59:30
  filled, give me the pee and let me just let me just move on,
• 59:34
  and uh, and it's it's a and and and it can be a
• 59:38
  challenge, right, Like it can be a challenge, especially especially when just
• 59:44
  like things just you know, you don't feel like doing stuff, or your
• 59:46
  tired, you know, it's snows and like all types of stuff, right,
• 59:52
  and so and so being okay with like not being perfect, but also
• 59:57
  being okay with like not being at like the of the pack and just like
• 1:00:00
  barely scooting by it's okay to like, it's okay to do that, and
• 1:00:07
  uh and and and there's nothing wrong with that. And even as a m
• 1:00:13
  D or a pH d or whatever, like it's just like sometimes you just
• 1:00:15
  got to just get by just so you can do the stuff that you enjoy.
• 1:00:19
  And that that's been the challenge, just because it's like you don't always
• 1:00:24
  want to be on edge of like dang, did I did I do this?
• 1:00:28
  Or did I fall shirt? In one way or another, because they
• 1:00:30
  will definitely let you know when you're when you're falling short. It's like email
• 1:00:35
  away, it's like you know, but but it's a but it's all part
• 1:00:39
  of the process. Like it's yeah, that's that's why they call it practicing
• 1:00:45
  medicine because but he knows what they're doing at the time. Don't let you
• 1:00:51
  say that because mind you mind you like it's it's it's a practice. But
• 1:00:57
  like you know, when Tom Brady practices, he's not going to he has
• 1:01:00
  the experience to back up what he's going to do, right, Yeah,
• 1:01:02
  and so it's like I I like, if your risk is hurting, I
• 1:01:08
  could probably have I probably have an idea of why your risk is hurting.
• 1:01:13
  And I could go down a whole bunch of different things of what would cause
• 1:01:16
  it, And after talking to you for like a couple of minutes, I
• 1:01:20
  could probably narrow it down to like a couple of things like like that that's
• 1:01:23
  like, that's what that's what they train us to do. Right, Like
• 1:01:28
  if you're if somebody is walking down the street and they have a big belly
• 1:01:30
  or whatever, I could probably I probably have an idea of what's going on
• 1:01:35
  with the kidneys or their liver like it just like and also the things that
• 1:01:38
  are associated with it that are you know, something they don't want to tell
• 1:01:42
  people. It's like just the body works in a certain way, right and
• 1:01:45
  so and so it's like, yeah, it's a practice, but like in
• 1:01:49
  order for us to get into practicing they're not going to let us practice until
• 1:01:53
  like five six seven years from when we from when we got into medical school
• 1:01:59
  exactly. And so you know that ten thousand hours, You know that ten
• 1:02:02
  thousand hours comes quick, and then it multiplies, you know, before we
• 1:02:07
  even get to practice, and so and so it's it's you know, and
• 1:02:12
  eventually, you know, I'll probably have a series or I'll have a whole
• 1:02:15
  bunch of books done, and I'll have all that because I get stressed out,
• 1:02:17
  and when I get stressed out, I need to make stuff. So
• 1:02:21
  he sponsors, We're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna come back with
• 1:02:27
  you, Steve, and we're gonna come back. We got some news pieces
• 1:02:30
  to talk about, some more some more Star Wars news, and of course
• 1:02:35
  the Queen talk about that and a small review on that. Though, you
• 1:02:39
  know, other than that, we will be right back. Was that hair
• 1:02:45
  longer? Money ain't so paying attention. Last couple of seasons on the show
• 1:02:51
  have been very busy, and just to make navigating that easier for you all,
• 1:02:53
  I've taken it upon myself to go ahead and clean up the channel a
• 1:02:55
  little bit. However, if you are here for just a specific type of
• 1:02:59
  content, or you new he don't want to see what we're about, highly
• 1:03:01
  recommend our playlist section for you. If you want to see us react or
• 1:03:05
  review movies, trailers, video games and whatnot, that's up there. I
• 1:03:07
  get it. Not everybody can sit through a two hour podcasts, so if
• 1:03:10
  you just want to see what the best or funniest bits were from each episode,
• 1:03:14
  that's gonna be our highlight section. If you want to see some of
• 1:03:16
  the cool guests we've had on for interviews up here. If you want to
• 1:03:20
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• 1:03:29
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• 1:04:48
  So we've got to look remember Lady mandelor she's off camera right now. Okay,
• 1:04:56
  So remember we I said that we will be getting the Mandalorian as a
• 1:05:01
  film. Yeah, turns out we're still getting a fourth season and the Mandalorian
• 1:05:09
  and grogul As is being called is being set up to be a trilogy.
• 1:05:13
  Shut then up, Shut the fuck up. Wait wait, okay, wait,
• 1:05:20
  wait a minute, wait, I gotta get wait, let me put
• 1:05:23
  my face on a hold up, there's there's the man Feloney's doing this thing
• 1:05:31
  over there. He is cooking. He's cooking. But now I hope they're
• 1:05:35
  just not just stretching it to its limit and beyond no, not not on
• 1:05:42
  that man's watch. Ain't no, ain't no trilogy and another another. So
• 1:05:46
  let me, let me, let me explain something to you totally. Just
• 1:05:48
  give me two seconds, all right, all right, So what are they
• 1:05:53
  gonna happen. He's gonna be he's gonna have a little baby do something right.
• 1:06:00
  And now he got over here there, so you gotta build up a
• 1:06:02
  king, and so he gotta go in the past with the things. And
• 1:06:05
  that's when the girl with the with the director, she's gonna come in here.
• 1:06:09
  She's gotta come in here. She's gonna do the whole the whole origin
• 1:06:12
  for the Jedi. Okay, so when they do that, he gotta bring
• 1:06:15
  in the baby. He gonna, he gonna, he's gonna bring in somebody
• 1:06:19
  else. I forgot who's the second person. The person's gonna be in the
• 1:06:24
  and and the thing for right now, for the permanent. Okay, okay,
• 1:06:27
  right, follow me, stay lady. Talking like that, I want
• 1:06:30
  a Cuban sandwich. At this point, says that the the West, the
• 1:06:35
  West Indian came out just already. That's not that I'm gonna need you to
• 1:06:44
  not say that, because family, I felt a wave of my ancestors descended.
• 1:06:53
  I'm sorry it's a little West Indian only because maybe it's a little Dominican.
• 1:06:57
  But that's that's a different story anyway, don't do it. So it's
• 1:07:04
  funny that that. Okay, one last thay. Okay, so wait,
• 1:07:08
  okay, So now he got the Baby grogum hmm, okay, he got
• 1:07:12
  the Baby Grogu movie. It's gonna bring everybody together. They're gonna read the
• 1:07:17
  whole thing together, can make a whole new story. We ain't doing the
• 1:07:20
  story, but that's what the whole thing is gonna come. It's gonna come
• 1:07:24
  back. It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be a beautiful I swear it's
• 1:07:29
  so. I'm seriously judging me like Bulan. But yeah, So what I
• 1:07:39
  said in English is he's taking he's finishing off the TV series of Grogu.
• 1:07:45
  They have three full feature length movies that he's going that they're going to be
• 1:07:48
  putting out, So he's finishing off the series. Ahsoka is gonna help ushering
• 1:07:55
  the the prequel for the Jedi moviem. Okay, the prequel to the Jedi
• 1:08:00
  movie is gonna probably kick off the Acolyte or help with the Acolytes and all
• 1:08:05
  that kind of stuff, which is also a prequel to the Jedi in a
• 1:08:09
  way. The other the other movie that they're gonna do where they're bringing Ray
• 1:08:15
  back in, that's gonna be more I think that's more of a future movie.
• 1:08:19
  And then I believe the Grogu movie is going to bring all of that
• 1:08:24
  together. For one mercy, he's doing things that that's his all avenger type
• 1:08:30
  of thing, because that it sounds very much he will he won't be the
• 1:08:36
  only one that's tired. So the Fantastic four production will start this July,
• 1:08:46
  which means we should be getting cast announcements really soon. What you mean they've
• 1:08:54
  they've known for two years. Oh no, they've known the announcement with that
• 1:09:02
  and with that being said, Petro Pascal just dropped out of a movie to
• 1:09:10
  fit in the schedule for Mandalorian and more likely Fantastic for as long as he's
• 1:09:16
  not dropping Outlast of Us, that's all of Us. He didn't. He's
• 1:09:25
  thet they got Plans of Us. He dropped out. The other movie he
• 1:09:29
  dropped out of is like Weapons or something, but he dropped out of it
• 1:09:32
  because he wanted to make what's it called weapons, and yeah, that's what's
• 1:09:36
  called. Yeah, he's dropping out of his movie by Zach Craigor called Weapons
• 1:09:43
  in order to fit both Fantastic For and Last of Us. And this is
• 1:09:45
  just theory, but definitely Last of Us season two into a schedule. We
• 1:09:50
  know that. Wait wait, wait, hold on, hold on, just
• 1:09:53
  real quick, cite your sources, sir. I need to know where where
• 1:09:56
  is this coming from? That deadline? Did we know the Man on the
• 1:10:04
  Wall does not just take rumor lightly? Now? Is it confirmed? Confirmed
• 1:10:13
  that he's it's a fantastic I think it's little literally around the corner of them
• 1:10:16
  announcing something okay at this point is like it's around it's no less around the
• 1:10:25
  corner. It's it's just kind of like, yeah, we're just waiting on
• 1:10:28
  you to say it's pretty much he wanted those Disney checks hit different. The
• 1:10:35
  smallest piece of me doesn't want no more like information Like I'm like, I'm
• 1:10:41
  I'm over, like I don't want to everything, and then going why this
• 1:10:47
  is why I didn't report on anything else on Deadpool because they released something else
• 1:10:53
  and I'm like, I'm not even sharing that because damnit, I want to
• 1:10:55
  see myself. I don't want to see behind the scenes stuff. Don't It's
• 1:11:00
  it's bad. It's ashy, the quoteity on the on the stuff that they
• 1:11:05
  are putting out, like I don't want to see don't give me an on
• 1:11:09
  baked cake. I don't want to eat that. I think you're gonna say
• 1:11:14
  stop sending us to no Kia phone pictures, and I mean it was it's
• 1:11:17
  your typical telephotos video. It's it's it's it's clearly that it's just I'm like,
• 1:11:25
  I'm not getting on this train with you. Ryan, get those people
• 1:11:28
  together, please. This is I would rather share Ryan Reynolds stuff just for
• 1:11:33
  the sake of fear of pure comedy. Youre comedy. So I'm excited.
• 1:11:45
  So, as I stated at the beginning of the show, I played the
• 1:11:50
  fifteen minute speech that the Queen gave h for her honorary asking now, who's
• 1:11:56
  the queen. You'd be a fool to walk in here and not know we're
• 1:12:00
  talking about. But we're talking about Angela Bassett, cinematic sass and you might
• 1:12:05
  want to start getting that clock together. And I'm gonna just let it go
• 1:12:12
  because it's gonna happen. So she gave a riveting fifteen minute speech that was
• 1:12:16
  she was introduced by Regina King, another goddess, call it what it is,
• 1:12:24
  and she the Queen received this honorary oscar, which we're I don't even
• 1:12:31
  think we're on the fence. We're just like, we know her worth,
• 1:12:40
  y'all relate to the party very you know, thank you for the speech,
• 1:12:51
  Queen. We're glad you have your your oscar. And here's the thing I
• 1:12:56
  found out about honorary oscars. They're not always the statue. Sometimes it's a
• 1:13:00
  scroll, sometimes it's a metal yeah, and it's not it's never it's never
• 1:13:06
  televised. It's it's hardly ever televised, and they don't give it out often
• 1:13:14
  because we can fight and the with the just just to maybe make this a
• 1:13:21
  little bit fuck it speaking of it, So the the actual Oscars people have
• 1:13:30
  to vote on. Yeah, her getting this honorary one kind of means a
• 1:13:32
  little bit more because they said, fuck y'all in your votes, this person
• 1:13:36
  deserves it. Yeah, but it's also like, but the people y'all don't
• 1:13:45
  like me, who said who are you? Do? You listen respectfully,
• 1:13:50
  we all were and an oscar and you walk up here and hand me an
• 1:13:55
  oswald. I'm swinging expeditiously. What you mean it's a scroll sometimes on stage
• 1:14:06
  in the style I mean you are like we were just I told you I
• 1:14:17
  was gonna do it accurate. Oh you got to find me a Susie Carmichael
• 1:14:29
  staring in Motherfuckerly. I'm working on that one. I'll read my mind.
• 1:14:33
  I'm actually working on that one that I love so and you're right, you're
• 1:14:42
  right, lady Mandlord. It does mean a little bit more, is just
• 1:14:45
  on base front. It just seems so yeah, like when like when you
• 1:14:56
  know what it's about, you're just like, okay, But it's it's like
• 1:15:00
  bad it's like bad timing, you know what I mean. It's just like
• 1:15:03
  it's a year too. It's literally almost a year to the date, and
• 1:15:08
  it's like you you waited. Like it's the same with the Walk of Fame.
• 1:15:14
  A lot of people didn't know that you generally have to buy your star
• 1:15:16
  to get on there. Yep, yeah, it's not it's not like it's
• 1:15:21
  not like it's not like the collective of people vote to say, hey,
• 1:15:26
  here you are, and then they put your star out, because there's people
• 1:15:29
  who've gotten stars who not who haven't been in the acting game as long as
• 1:15:34
  others, and you're just like wow, like yeah, so that's the crazy
• 1:15:45
  part, buying your own Walk of Fame so others can celebrate you. Yeah.
• 1:15:51
  Party m So for for those Trekki's out there, they're doing a prequel
• 1:15:59
  to Star Trek and the director from and Or is attached. Okay, kind
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  of concern anyway, what do you mean you're concerned? What's the problem as
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  a trek, as a as a tricky that you're doing a prequel to Star
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  Trek If you're trying to do it from an indoor storytelling stuff, storytelling standpoint,
• 1:16:20
  I'm concerned. So first of all, is it a movie or this
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  series movie movie? He's just directing or is he directing and writing. He's
• 1:16:30
  directing. Toby Haynes is directing, Seth Graham Smith, J. J.
• 1:16:33
  Abrams and Bad Robot our producing. Never mind, I'm out why my concerned
• 1:16:40
  level, my concerned level just when concurrent level just went to diddy party status.
• 1:16:45
  Right now we're talking about prequel to the original. I'm assuming. I'm
• 1:16:55
  assuming because they you can tell, like way before the strike that it was
• 1:17:00
  a lot of there was a lot of are they retelling first contact or do
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  they say they just said an origin story. I don't know why they're doing
• 1:17:09
  this, Like you've got we've gotten an urgent story already, story for that
• 1:17:15
  we already like it's not like the other than Anton Yelchin, may you rest
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  in peace. The rest of the cast is still there. This this smells
• 1:17:27
  like we gotta do something before we lose the rights. It sounds like it,
• 1:17:33
  but you don't but why, I'm sorry? And then they still and
• 1:17:39
  they still saying that the sequel to the last one that came out, it's
• 1:17:43
  still an active development. Now it's stuck in Yeah, when you hear when
• 1:17:51
  you hear active development is development health, that's just all that means. It's
• 1:17:57
  stuck, it's not moving, it's it's going to be a problem. I
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  mean, you said it'll be two thousand and sixteen when that came out.
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  We're in twenty twenty four. I mean, don't get me wrong. The
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  Star Trek movie, The Beyond and the reboot work, We're cool. But
• 1:18:14
  you've already with You've already Enterprise. It's a television show that was fine.
• 1:18:19
  You've already First Contact, which was the movie which supposed to be the prequel,
• 1:18:23
  that was fine. Even the one of the original Star Treks covered it.
• 1:18:27
  So it's like, why are we going back and forth time? That's
• 1:18:30
  the part I got questions about it. You're kind of you're beating a dead
• 1:18:33
  horse exactly. And I don't think they understand money. Yeah, when you
• 1:18:42
  I think this is one of them things where Okay, we can look at
• 1:18:46
  Star Wars for example, we've we've often got on the gotten on our collective
• 1:18:53
  horses and said, hey, there is so much story outside the Skywalker clan.
• 1:18:57
  Please tell those stories. It doesn't always have to revolve around Luke Leahan
• 1:19:01
  and Chewy. I mean, granted, love them to death, but it
• 1:19:04
  doesn't have to be this clan. It can be this over here. It
• 1:19:10
  can be it can be and or. Yes, it's a nice tie in.
• 1:19:12
  It could be Rogue one. Yes it's a tie in. But at
• 1:19:15
  the same time, there are different stories, different characters that we would love
• 1:19:19
  for y'all to actually do stories on. It's it's too much universe to not
• 1:19:26
  have something to say. You know what, we don't have to involve this
• 1:19:29
  over here. We can go ahead and have this whole branch or something going
• 1:19:32
  on why all of this was happening, and you could actually give us the
• 1:19:39
  tale of Darth Plaguus, the Lies. It's like, it's like people keep
• 1:19:44
  throwing it in their face and keep surpassing this. I still want the Night
• 1:19:48
  Sisters. I want the Night Sister of the Dark Side. That's what I
• 1:19:53
  want. Thank you. I don't I don't understand absolutely. It's the that
• 1:20:00
  would be so interesting, and I know that people would love that. Why
• 1:20:04
  the rule, Why the rule of two became a thing? It's like I
• 1:20:11
  love that story the r I do, and I don't know if it's considered
• 1:20:15
  so I don't think it is so they they're there. Look, they've been
• 1:20:20
  taking bits and pieces of everything for years now and putting it in. They're
• 1:20:26
  just trying to They're trying to. They're doing the right they're doing the thing
• 1:20:29
  that Marvel can't do. They are taking their time and they're cherry picking things
• 1:20:33
  and not shoeharning stuff in just because people want to see it or it's easier
• 1:20:39
  for them to produce or to develop. I would I would love that night.
• 1:20:45
  I would love the Night of the Public. Honestly, you're probably just
• 1:20:49
  going to find all that stuff in games. Like it's like it's it's like
• 1:20:56
  I would be surprised if you either that or you're going to get something like
• 1:21:00
  Visions, which is still fantastic. Yeah it was it. You'll get like
• 1:21:04
  fifteen minutes, or you'll get like a side storylining in like a video game.
• 1:21:08
  Yeah, like that's then it will be cannon like. But like that
• 1:21:14
  that's they can't they can't deny that it happened because it's you know, because
• 1:21:18
  like because at that point, like you're trying to you're you have enough stuff
• 1:21:23
  to go off of, but with the game, you're really trying to like
• 1:21:28
  fill up space, give people stuff to do and to sort of justify paying
• 1:21:33
  seventy dollars or whatever. Right, It's it's like I would I would expect
• 1:21:41
  that to be more of it. Anything that I hope to get from Star
• 1:21:45
  Wars will either be you know, a short or it will be a side
• 1:21:49
  question. The video game there was it was I can't remember where I seen
• 1:21:55
  it yesterday, but someone said the way the last set of trilogies went should
• 1:22:00
  have went this way, And it actually wasn't bad because it was a better
• 1:22:02
  build up that would have led into probably another another set of you know,
• 1:22:08
  it basically ended with Ray going to the dark side and Finn and Paul basically
• 1:22:14
  getting that Kylo ran and convincing him like, hey, you might need to
• 1:22:16
  come talk to us bro and Luke and Luke not dying, you know,
• 1:22:21
  so you know, just kind of you know, just kind of like one
• 1:22:30
  I'm like, yeah, one flips the other one flips back because redemption,
• 1:22:35
  Yeah, there's a balance, there's redemption. It needed to be done.
• 1:22:39
  So I'm like, actually, that's not bad. And it built Finn up
• 1:22:43
  to be a much better character yep, or a yeah, yeah, have
• 1:22:49
  them both side and actually introduced another hero in the next trilogy. They had
• 1:22:56
  a built, they had a way. There were multiple of egress for them
• 1:23:00
  to go. Yeah, there was. There was agents on the interstate.
• 1:23:03
  They could have taken any time, like, no, that's worth it,
• 1:23:13
  and the destination was not worth it. It's like they were following map quest.
• 1:23:16
  You said we was going to the barbecue. We did, we went.
• 1:23:18
  We went to the worst barbar America. What right? So speaking of
• 1:23:26
  the Ruler too, aall has watched Echo Oh without spoilers, God damn it,
• 1:23:39
  without spoilers, but just enough. How does that sound? It's so
• 1:23:43
  hard. I gotta be I'm gonna be quiet. I don't think you know.
• 1:23:47
  I'm prone to just say just go ahead, just don't hit nothing in
• 1:23:51
  the ship. M hmm. I like it. I mean, Laney,
• 1:24:00
  are you familiar with with Daredevil and Kingpin? And yes, okay, I
• 1:24:06
  need you to really hurry up because we need to talk. The first few
• 1:24:13
  episodes and I saw the first episode. No, I need you to watch
• 1:24:16
  the last episode because we need to talk. I will say this about number
• 1:24:24
  one, uh, Deffrey Jacobs, who actually does the voice of Kri that's
• 1:24:28
  on What If, plays the cousin Bonnie. Yeah, and she's very much
• 1:24:32
  she's very much on board to bring in that character to life. But these
• 1:24:39
  people did a fantastic job. Goddamndes fantastic because I didn't like the fact that,
• 1:24:49
  you know what I was concerned about five episodes. I it was it
• 1:24:57
  wasn't too much. It was just Vincent de Narfio. This this quite intense,
• 1:25:04
  this this quiet intensity that this dude keeps portraying. Yo, Well,
• 1:25:10
  I'm like, that's the song that you need to be worried about when I
• 1:25:14
  do when I do this, always calm and just even at the worst time,
• 1:25:18
  It's like I was hoping we could just eat all I wanted. It's
• 1:25:26
  like I was like, maya, I'm like, yo, that's a yeah,
• 1:25:35
  that's a dad. When he looks at you, like, just do
• 1:25:39
  what I asked you to do. I love the fact that one that you're
• 1:25:46
  using a s l mm hmmm. Oh. The sound the sound design mm
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  hmmm. The sound design was amazing. When they did the digital digital Oh
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  yeah, like wait, it's possible, we could they could do they could
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  might be able to do that. Yeah, it very much, and not
• 1:26:15
  not just one person, then the entire cast. Yeah, they all had
• 1:26:19
  they all the entire cast and then the representation thank you so, So,
• 1:26:28
  why do you think it was a dumping, because it's if it sounds like
• 1:26:30
  it's that intriguing, right then that should have been over time instead of dump.
• 1:26:39
  It depends on I think it depends on what their release dates are looking
• 1:26:44
  like and what they have lined up. That's what I think it depends on.
• 1:26:48
  And wait to finish. I can tell that's so. I can tell
• 1:26:51
  that part. There's a reason for that, but I can't tell you it's
• 1:26:56
  a lily it's a lily pad. It's it's the definitely that m okay,
• 1:27:00
  yeah, Like I don't think it would be I don't think it would be
• 1:27:06
  something that I would be like, Okay, I need to wait till the
• 1:27:10
  next episode comes out next week type of thing, because you know, if
• 1:27:14
  I if I'm comparing it to like, you know, Loki, where it's
• 1:27:16
  like there's like a level of suspense that is always like I like this one
• 1:27:23
  is like I'm a you know, I'm gonna sit here and run through the
• 1:27:27
  episodes and watch them all because because it it it it it's not as much
• 1:27:34
  of a spectacle mm hm as it is like a like walking away from it
• 1:27:41
  like I had a drama. Yeah, it's a drama. Like it's like
• 1:27:44
  I have more appreciation for the characters it was. It was a lot more
• 1:27:46
  character driven, but it wasn't as much spectacle. And uh and I think
• 1:27:53
  the you know, you get your cameos and stuff like that, but it's
• 1:27:57
  like the Car like it was just a very well like written movie or like
• 1:28:01
  a written show. Like it just like casting, even the casting for like
• 1:28:06
  the girl and then the older you know, like her younger self was just
• 1:28:11
  like spot on, Like you couldn't get any better than that. Yeah,
• 1:28:15
  and so but it reminded me of kind of like Jessica Jones. Yeah,
• 1:28:21
  like it's kind of a Jessica Jones. Which, speaking of which, they've
• 1:28:26
  made them cannon every the entire Defenders are now in c u Can yep.
• 1:28:31
  And if everyone was worried about where what happened during the blip, Daredevil was
• 1:28:39
  still there. He was so yeah mm hmm. And King Pitt. It
• 1:28:45
  wasn't so much Kingpinn rising back to power. It's he was just there.
• 1:28:59
  I think we'll finish. I just don't want to drag with me, that's
• 1:29:03
  all. I'm just I'm gonna I'm gonna get myself together and I'll be back.
• 1:29:13
  You know, I kind of like thinking about the description of it.
• 1:29:15
  It's it's the reason why it wouldn't do good as a series. Is the
• 1:29:19
  same reason why you wouldn't want die Hard as a TV series. I don't
• 1:29:26
  know, but it's a good point. We haven't die Hard as a move
• 1:29:36
  as a series. No, if you talk about McClain as a series,
• 1:29:41
  yes, I don't know. Do you really want to playing first movie?
• 1:29:46
  If you broke up the first movie into five episodes, I'm not watching that.
• 1:29:53
  You didn't. Okay, okay, okay, okay, say McLean is
• 1:30:00
  the series that was Moonlighting night right, So since since Safari I said it
• 1:30:17
  and you put it on screen, that's what I was laughing at. It's
• 1:30:20
  like, yo, imagine Daredevil the moment the blip happens and like half the
• 1:30:27
  heartbeats in New York just disappear. Man's must have been going through trying to
• 1:30:31
  figure out what the hell is going on, like I can't imagine absolutely not
• 1:30:39
  terrifying. I'm sure he freaked out a little bit. Uh, I'm sure
• 1:30:45
  he freaked out a little bit. But yeah, for for this series,
• 1:30:51
  even the fight scenes alone that first take. Lord, No, when she
• 1:31:01
  when she okay, I don't want to say when she did the thing with
• 1:31:04
  her foot and oh, boy in the muff, that ship was fined,
• 1:31:09
  like wait until way, you can't go in a bar literally in the mouth.
• 1:31:16
  Wow, it's it's very well put together. I don't know why.
• 1:31:27
  I don't know why we really put stock in the rotten tomatoes or white people
• 1:31:30
  still because let's face it, read it almost runs that ship. And but
• 1:31:38
  they it's it was like, oh, it's at its lowest rating, and
• 1:31:41
  I'm like, look, we're not doing this conversation again. We already know
• 1:31:45
  what the issue is. What you actually sat your tail down and watched this
• 1:31:50
  series. You may not, of course you don't know who she is if
• 1:31:54
  you've never read the comic, And that's fine, but the fact that you're
• 1:31:58
  not invested because it's it's nobody you've seen before, right, because because because
• 1:32:05
  on the audience side, it's a different story, it's a totally different story,
• 1:32:12
  like people are like, yeah, this is good, like this is
• 1:32:15
  good, and that first that first episode and when that scene happens yep,
• 1:32:24
  and and king Pin himself says, not many people can hold their own against
• 1:32:29
  him. Even Matt was like, what the let me get out of it,
• 1:32:35
  let me step back. Yeah, she got good hits on him.
• 1:32:43
  He's like, oh, respect. Yeah, he's like game organized game,
• 1:32:48
  it's it's it's what it is. It is what it is. So this
• 1:32:51
  is one of those series that and the way it ends, because I was
• 1:32:57
  waiting and the way it ends, and I'm spartan, you know what it
• 1:33:00
  is because when he shot me message and I'm like, I could I was
• 1:33:04
  waiting for y'all to finish because I couldn't. I couldn't. I told Obie,
• 1:33:08
  but Obi just stared at me. So I got to tell somebody that
• 1:33:14
  I can actually tell somebody can form complete sentences. OK. I know you
• 1:33:20
  can. I know that you can't talk to daddy, but that daddy needs
• 1:33:24
  adults. I'm trying to think if she shot twice, because first off Kate
• 1:33:30
  Kate causing an explosions in his face, and then Maya shot him. I
• 1:33:36
  can't remember. I have to look back. I can't remember she shot him
• 1:33:40
  twice, but she she did. She said she shot him because you've seen
• 1:33:44
  the look on her face. She was like, we got we gotta watch
• 1:33:49
  it. And finish. I was like, oh damn, I'm stuck.
• 1:34:00
  It was that look like, oh yeah, I didn't double tap. Yeah,
• 1:34:12
  failed to complete the mission, but no great representation. Uh. They
• 1:34:16
  even stated at the at the end of the episode, at the end of
• 1:34:19
  the series, you know, they gave their thanks to the chock Talk tribe
• 1:34:24
  and they're amazing. The actors were amazing, sny language, sound design,
• 1:34:30
  the fight choreography. M h it almost wants you wanting a little bit more,
• 1:34:38
  and we know we're gonna get more from her. The thing between her
• 1:34:45
  and her grandmother d let me. I accidentally cried. I was like,
• 1:34:54
  what is in the emotions? Man, I'm glad it's about to be a
• 1:35:03
  three day weekend to work on Monday. There you go, Jonathan Majors Day,
• 1:35:15
  Major's Day. We are horrible. Uh me, Oh my god,
• 1:35:36
  yes, I think we have let me see we do we do? We
• 1:35:44
  do have a reaction video. We do all right? The ones who lived.
• 1:35:53
  Everyone knows who these people are. If you were okay, this is
• 1:36:00
  the I guess this is the series. Because they were playing with the idea
• 1:36:04
  of being at the television movie Oh yeah, with with Rick Grimes and Macheone,
• 1:36:11
  so we're gonna here's the thing. We're watching it for them. The
• 1:36:19
  series was not bad. I didn't hear bad anything about it. I didn't
• 1:36:23
  hearing the series was not bad. So I kind of gave up. I
• 1:36:30
  can't give up to the original. But oh, everybody gave up on the
• 1:36:32
  original. So the ones that this person, I'm looking for him. I'm
• 1:36:45
  gonna have both. You don't want to go north, not now. My
• 1:37:00
  wife is my choice, my daughter is my choice. My wife is my
• 1:37:06
  choice. It's your phone. You know what it says. The Japanese believe
• 1:37:16
  a little bit longer. Mmmm. Thank you should go and get the way.
• 1:37:26
  Yes, it's the most powableful military on the planet. I'm just gonna
• 1:37:30
  ask you a question, Grimes. Look in your eyes, why are you
• 1:37:34
  here? Do you want to kill or do you want to die? Look
• 1:37:43
  at my eyes, sir, you tell me, mm hmm. It can
• 1:38:26
  make this whole names something. You want to General, I'm doing it.
• 1:38:33
  I'm doing it for the general. I'm doing it for the general. That's
• 1:38:39
  what I said. I just want to watch it like a lot of you.
• 1:38:44
  But am I excited? No? Yeah, okay, okay, I'm
• 1:38:47
  doing it for the general. You know what I'm saying, because like,
• 1:38:51
  it's a it's a story. It was a story We've been waiting to be
• 1:38:58
  told that general. Sorry, Yeah, it's just kind of like, would
• 1:39:01
  y'all hurry up and tell that story? Are you Are you only waiting for
• 1:39:06
  it because it was left unanswered? Are you really waiting to actually see the
• 1:39:11
  story the first one? Yeah, because, like, especially because they dbated
• 1:39:16
  so badly off of the comic at this point, especially with those two characters,
• 1:39:21
  It's is like, all right, this is milking the cow so badly,
• 1:39:29
  is dry and withered, and now you're just milking Yea, it is
• 1:39:39
  mean. And again, I don't know Walking Dead read the comics and everything,
• 1:39:44
  so I'm just like, watch it on on on principle, are away
• 1:39:53
  from the heart of the comic. I don't, I don't, I don't
• 1:39:59
  care. Well, the thing about it is, you want to tell this
• 1:40:04
  far the story, but you're now telling it, what five years later,
• 1:40:10
  You're telling it five years later after the original closure the Walking Dead, So
• 1:40:15
  it's not the same. It's not the same the impact you really it's almost
• 1:40:19
  to the point where you really don't care. You know, Rick got shot
• 1:40:23
  off the bridge and somehow floated up north, but show him season later decided
• 1:40:28
  to go find them, and then we got the original closing in the Walking
• 1:40:30
  Dead. Then you still had Fear of the Walking Dead, and you still
• 1:40:33
  had the other Walking Dead series out there, and now you're the one who
• 1:40:38
  Lives, which really should have been a nice little mini series. It didn't
• 1:40:41
  have to be a whole television series. You could have put this at a
• 1:40:44
  five night You could put it in a five night series and call it quits.
• 1:40:46
  Honestly, I mean when they first announced this some years back, they
• 1:40:51
  were talking about you know TV movie. Yeah, okay, it was trilogy
• 1:40:57
  actually yeah, and give us that, you know, maybe this is that
• 1:41:00
  version of it. I don't know. I mean, I'm going straight with
• 1:41:04
  you, Like I feel the fact that Rick I forgot the act just need
• 1:41:10
  but Andrew Lincoln, I think it's yeah, yeah, he left basically because
• 1:41:15
  like it started to die, the series starts to die, and he was
• 1:41:18
  basically jumping ship. So yo, per him jump ship? Hey when when
• 1:41:24
  did? When did not? Gierra left and I knew she was gonna leave
• 1:41:26
  after Black Panthers, So this was twenty sixteen. Now like when she's when
• 1:41:30
  they were like yeah, she'll be leaving the series, And I said I
• 1:41:32
  was waiting on it. Yeah, you know, but not because at this
• 1:41:38
  point you are literally just taking the concept for those characters. To me,
• 1:41:43
  Now, you that's another series that you can spawn so many different stories,
• 1:41:48
  you know what I'm saying, whether it be brand new stories or whether it
• 1:41:53
  be adaptations from other things, such as for me, y'all need to make
• 1:41:57
  the video game series that's would sell point blank. And I think yeah,
• 1:42:04
  And I think part of the where I fell off with the original season.
• 1:42:08
  With the original run, I get it, you veered away from a lot
• 1:42:12
  of the source material. You just kind of shifted things around, changed some
• 1:42:15
  endings for certain characters. I get it, so you wouldn't be so predictable.
• 1:42:19
  But it was becoming to the point where, like, we know,
• 1:42:24
  if you've read the book, we know how Glenn goes, we know that
• 1:42:28
  weren't we weren't expecting that level of intensity. What would be disappointed if it
• 1:42:36
  didn't happen? To listen that that part. I was more pissed about that
• 1:42:42
  fake out because I remember when still involved, believe that they're going to do
• 1:42:49
  that. I'm like, oh, it's a fake out. Why did you
• 1:42:53
  even especially if like you know that you're building up to his inevitable death that's
• 1:43:00
  just around the corner. And the people that know the comics, they knew
• 1:43:02
  it was around the horns to begin with. So it just it was so
• 1:43:05
  irritating. No, it's worse. It was worse. Remember the episode where
• 1:43:10
  Glenn fell off the trash can and about Okay, I'm sorry you're talking about
• 1:43:15
  that. Yeah, that's the part where I'm just like, you had people
• 1:43:17
  doing science on this science of the it happened. I'm like, sir,
• 1:43:28
  it was bad. So Halo has received a second season. I don't know
• 1:43:34
  why I still like about that. I was, I was, I was,
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  I was halfway six. So I just said, I just chalked up
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  to denial, just like us because as a Halo fan it brings me that
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  does not bring me joy mm hmmm. As a non Halo fan, I
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  was bored so well. So so this this is this is the this is
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  the trailer for the second season of Halo. People have reach. I'll bring
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  you blessings, goodness. I know that I am the instrument of your extension.
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  There m M times events have beyonder control, and in those moments we
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  say what we can. Look at your face. I do not see defeat
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  and I do not see surrender. I will not make a stand. We
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  have something the enemy does not. Oh, I love him though we have
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  a hair out the ballance. I just call it a victory. I said
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  it was because of me, because there's something I did or something you learn,
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  m m m. Just come out with us you already. Maybe that's what's
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  up. You're you're you're you're doing the fall of reach. You're doing the
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  fall of reach way too early. Oh, that's just you're not even doing
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  it properly. That's what made That's what annoys me. So you're not even
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  doing it properly. But that's me. I'm I'm just gonna leave it that.
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  That's just it's the fall of reaches what they're doing. And you still
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  don't have a solidified you have a you don't even have a slidified master chief
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  yet, which by the way, still keep sinking out. His elder got
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  a master chief and they reaching for balls that and somehow booth you know what.
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  Shout out to book, Shout out to a Bookie woodbind though his character
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  is still somehow a lot. I'm getting that, so collector check sir.
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  Wait, evil Dave Chapelle. That's evil Dave Chapelle. Thank you Tofarright.
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  No, Noble Team, right, Noble Team is nowhere to be found.
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  I mean, at least not in the trailer. Yeah, I don't know
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  what y'all talking about. But I mean it's only like thirty seconds of the
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  whole season of a show. I'm not trying to defend it. I don't
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  know nothing about nothing, So play those games I can't like, I'll tell
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  you. I'll put in Mandalorian terms. I'll put in Mandalorians terms for you.
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  Kira, say, for instance, they tried to explain Mando without actually
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  explaining the entire plants history first. Oh yeah, see, that's that's what
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  happens when you got t level frustration. You got right there, the level
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  of frustration and anger right there. So that look, that look that Lady
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  Mandalora had is the same look that Tianna Peis's character Manica Rambo had in the
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  Marbles when she was just like, you know what I'm leaving. It's that
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  same look She's like, I don't have time for this. I don't,
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  Hm, well, I feel like Halo is like Shakespeare for millennials that don't
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  read Shakespeare pretty much like it's it's you know, like it just like it's
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  it's there's there's not enough. I don't think people want to have you played
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  all five Halo games and then and then like the uh and then like the
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  side ones, like the the strategy ones, right Like, I don't think
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  people have the patience for for like I just don't think that like with this
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  right like like it's like I'm if I were to compare this to like Godzilla,
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  but like the monsters of Godzilla right like that you every episode you getting
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  a new monster and some and some wild stuff that just don't exist, and
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  you don't like white Center of the Earth what Like Halo, it's like they're
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  going to sit there and introduce like eight million characters and then they're going to
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  try to have like robust character development with each of them, and then they're
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  gonna like like at the end of the day you're in the game, you're
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  just running around shooting stuff like yeah, pretty much like what like going over
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  over overheat, then you pick up another weapon. Yeah, unless we're talking
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  about the flood, like what we talk about here like that that would have
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  said that car has always kicked me off that they never did the flood story.
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  They've never done the flood story, and that would have been an easy
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  story to tell. But yeah, it's Paramount Africa blood story. It's like
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  that, like there's there's okay, we got we got like the lore of
• 1:50:40
  Halo, right, like the lore of Halo, which goes back at this
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  point a couple of like a couple of decades. Now yeaheah, like it,
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  give us, give us just a mini series that is twelve episodes that
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  is just sort of a either either an adjacent like one main sort of like
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  storyline that's rewritten, or just like, well, Stephen, there actually is
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  one, but it's a YouTube series. Four and until Dawn. That was
• 1:51:15
  good for Halo. It was a it was a nice Halo side story,
• 1:51:19
  and it was well directed. It was six it was six parts. It
• 1:51:24
  was wonderfully done. They could have followed that formula. And you don't have
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  to you know, you have to go the game. You don't have to
• 1:51:29
  go the game storyline. You can literally do your own original story. But
• 1:51:32
  there's so much there's really so much lore in Halo that you can really tell
• 1:51:39
  a great story without having a Hollywood is said so in other words, in
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  other words, this is Spartan's theory on that. That's that's that's that's Spartans
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  theory. That's that's how it feels. That's me because like this is all
• 1:52:00
  just pretty much just like this is sorry, this is you know sorry.
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  They say, uh, we're gonna take a quick break, We're gonna come
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  back for the wrap up, and uh stay tuned, like just stay tuned
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  what is talking about this? What even is that Spider Man a psychopath wielding
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  powers? He has no right to puss out James not now? Is this
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  a battles Doug showing up on CBT? Did Jesus come back and get stuck
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  halfway through? How does nobody have answers on this? It has been sitting
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  here knowing an untouched for months like a Christmas tree. We might as well
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  hang on a MINSI pages of its the covi A chords. Everybody got they
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  knows up on Wikanda business, but nobody has answers on this. I don't
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  even need like an official news report. Send a single TikTok star with the
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  ship. How is nobody investigating this? What the fuck? Wrap up protocol
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  initiative? Captain? Oh, it's that special time now where we have to
• 1:54:59
  doct ship and start this thing over again and go into the weekend. But
• 1:55:02
  we could not do with all that without our special guest, Stephen Christian of
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  Kiltopia Studios. My God, thank you for stopping through this. Yeah,
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  I appreciate it. Yeah, that's that's right. My friends will my friends
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  are urging me because this is sort of a like an inside joke that like
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  not many people know about. But if you go to YouTube and you type
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  in this, this is literally if you have ever heard of anything coming from
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  left field, out of nowhere, this will take the cake, right,
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  I mark my words. If you go to YouTube, I then Pokemon Twork
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  Team. Yeah, welcome, you said king, exactly what I said.
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  Pokemon Twork Team. You can do it. One work team, Pokemon Twork
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  Team. Yes, are you urging you because they are the Pokemon team?
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  No, because it's like a lot of the people, like a lot of
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  my early followers, like I've gained was because I made the series, just
• 1:56:20
  like when I like my first animated series on YouTube was this, and it
• 1:56:27
  has taken on my life in its own to where it has its own subreddit,
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  and so it just sort of it continues to exist whether I like it
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  or not, and so and so yeah, yeah, what what happens what
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  you do when you're young? Hey, what can I say? And so
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  that's always like my icebreaker for every everything, Like, so this is where
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  everybody can find you, right Oltopia studios as well as your other studios or
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  just l Topia. Uh, I think the okay, but at will Topia
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  and uh and uh if you if you just go to YouTube and type in
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  Pokemon twitch team, you'll find you'll find my YouTube channel. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:57:21
  we do horror hot. Yeah. If anybody that's watching is going to
• 1:57:33
  be at the Black Comic Arts Festival. I think that's the BECALF in San
• 1:57:39
  Francisco, And so I will be there on Saturday and or no Sunday and
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  Monday this weekend. And so okay cool because I know that's a that's a
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  big that's a big convention for for MLK weekend. And so I'm going to
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  send you information on a couple of people. Uh. One is Blurred Station,
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  which we're a part of as well. Another is nine B Collective who
• 1:58:08
  are good friends with them over at Phil Boute and those guys, and of
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  course and look at and Carl Jones. Look at that just one degree off
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  from storm Read and maybe just one degree off from Lake. Like just just
• 1:58:26
  we need you on here, Lisa. You root for everybody black, right,
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  okay? Uh, Lady mandelor talk to the people. I just watched
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  that whole video. I'm so glad to see you've come so far. Oh
• 1:58:51
  wow, Okay, Yeah. I am Lady Mandalor. I am also known
• 1:58:56
  as Room full of Blurds. You can find me on these internets over at
• 1:59:00
  Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and fan base. I also have a podcast
• 1:59:08
  called Room full of Words where I just started doing a comic book reading club.
• 1:59:13
  So we have our first two comics listed. They are based on the
• 1:59:17
  origins of Storm. It's only two comics that you need to read by the
• 1:59:20
  Sunday, so please get on that. You can go to my channel to
• 1:59:25
  find out what those two comics are. I also do a little bit of,
• 1:59:30
  if not a lot of it now of voice work, and I'm very
• 1:59:32
  proud of that and I'm on Good God Talk story to me. Coming soon
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  will be I will be voicing the Gray on Midnight Comics when they released their
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  stuff and a few I got a job as Ahsoka for somebody, but it's
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  an independent thing, so I'm very excited about that. I don't know if
• 1:59:54
  I can talk about it, but I'm going to talk about it tonight because
• 1:59:56
  I am really pumped about that. It is, it's fun and it is
• 2:00:01
  now ten o'clock. My life went off. I'm gonna hand it over to
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  somebody else. Also the algorithm. There you go, Lanny, talk to
• 2:00:12
  the people. Give me a second. I want to showlders people first.
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  That's in the case of y'all don't know what he's talking about about. Ye
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  oh lord, it's not coming on, it's not it's on. And then
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  it's that one too, nick Nicki Minaj makes an appearance. You know I
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  didn't get no one. Yeah, you just made my day. And also,
• 2:00:45
  if I ever had a horrible day, I am definitely going to just
• 2:00:49
  put that on of anyone else that I know is having a horrible day,
• 2:00:54
  I'm definitely going to let them see that because that's right there. It's so
• 2:00:58
  many that black hole to our culture. There's so many different ways. Let's
• 2:01:02
  go. I'm sorry, I just had to. I just had everyone.
• 2:01:05
  They need to see that. My name is Lady. I am geek by
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  Heart. I am Laslie's at least one half peek by Heart. Me and
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  my husband run peep by Heart. You can find us at our YouTube channel
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  that is titled Geek by Her. You can find us on I G and
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  TikTok at geek Bark we talked about a lot of different days, trailer reaction.
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  I love talking about horror. We are also getting streaming. I am
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  streaming Hardware Segency on Wednesdays and Saturdays at seven thirty. This Saturday should be
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  a Honday thirty actually because yeah, and my husband is Streamingay that's right,
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  Obi, you know it. I forgot righting wrong. There we go.
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  God a ward righting wrong on Fridays and Sundays around six so catches streaming,
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  so to us we love the company. And yeah, because because because because
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  we'll be watching always leave spartan. So I set it up so eloquently.
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  I don't be doing nothing, man, this boy will be watching the cinema
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  Assassin. I like to talk movies and TV and especially things sound design and
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  sound engineering. So if that sounds cool to you, reach out to me
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  at Mayhem Media. That's m A Y E H E M Media. Don't
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  matter what site you on, they all the same. Steven, thank you
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  for coming through. I don't know how I happen to pun your page,
• 2:02:43
  but I was like, this is somethe we need to talk to, and
• 2:02:45
  I was ten percent proven true. This was a great conversation. Really appreciate
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  your time. I am your editor in chief at blurzoyview dot org. I'm
• 2:02:58
  a writer for a purefandom dot I am a sound designer for a bunch of
• 2:03:02
  people that reach out to me and ask me to do stuff, and I'll
• 2:03:08
  eventually create content for myself one day. That being said, life is hard.
• 2:03:15
  Adulting sucks. Life be lifing. So within that, make sure,
• 2:03:20
  please, please please always take care of your mental health. Take your meds,
• 2:03:25
  take your PTO, take your time, take a deep breath, and
• 2:03:28
  take care of yourself and each other. Mm hmm. True words, true
• 2:03:32
  words, true words always wants to talk right now so much? Yes,
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  as he's as he wants to. Oh, now you want to be quiet?
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  Okay? With that being said, guys, I am blackbos Or for
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  self and all the socials. I usually do reviews on everything that I read
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  that I watch, including gym stuff because I try to keep in shape.
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  I never go with podcast to my own ride, How My How the Proper
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  Got Here? In my political podcast every Wednesday at seven pm Central time.
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  Uh my video game podcast called get Bit also every Friday at seven pm Central
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  time. Both podcasts can be found where a podcast can be seen or heard.
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  Oh, you see mom, and now you want to talk friends.
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  He saw, he saw mom, and I me he turned to a chatterbox.
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  I'm not Oh you can say mama's name, but we want daddy quiet.
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  Oh, don't look at me now. That also, that also means,
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  guys, please check out words. I'm you dot or because I usually
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  do the wrestling column there. Why because wrestling is real and people are fake
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  shopping mister Kinny for that one. Also, guys, again, I'm all
• 2:04:45
  about unity, about sharing things of that nature. Please thank you for bearing
• 2:04:49
  with me. Guys, I know I do not sound. I kind of
• 2:04:51
  sound like Froggy from Little Rascals right now, So come over a cold So
• 2:04:55
  I apologize. Uh, but again I saw three simple rules in life at
• 2:04:59
  same to be done costplans, the same rules that you do in life.
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  Number one, respect the cosplayer all times. Number two, Uh, wash
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  your ass before going to anything. Nobody likes to smell funk before you actually
• 2:05:11
  show up at any given engagement. As long as soap and things are easily
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  accessible, so should they be. And number three is the same rule that
• 2:05:16
  I have for myself and have from everyone else in a world. Like this,
• 2:05:20
  guys, it is easier. It's okay to be nice, to be
• 2:05:24
  kind, don't be a dick, and we'll all be cool right home.
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  Don't do that because when he said that, I had I had space coast
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  to coast flashbacks. You stay now, but oh we did have his first
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  taste of fried chicken. Now he's like, oh, I can't get no
• 2:05:44
  more. It's a wrap. It's a wrap that man is done for.
• 2:05:48
  Uh, I am your man, Chrispheary, the man on the wall.
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  Thank you for tuning in. Thank you to the people out there in I
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  g steal for the algorithm. But anyway, thank you for showing your support.
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  Thank you for showing your love and watching it. Steven my gud m
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  M. Keep doing it like your prove your your You're the base model of
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  what it means to just get up and just do it. Just get up,
• 2:06:16
  do that thing and it'll accomplish yourself, even if it doesn't look like
• 2:06:20
  it's a lot. Like you said, take that hour out, do something
• 2:06:25
  for that hour and then go do whatever and when you look back, it'll
• 2:06:30
  be done. So appreciate, appreciate you bringing art, science, nerdiness and
• 2:06:36
  technology altogether. That's a dope concept, and I don't think a lot of
• 2:06:42
  people realize how how fluent it is, especially in the Blurred community. So
• 2:06:47
  I appreciate you. You that makes you a staple in this community because you're
• 2:06:51
  doing something that many people haven't thought about before, and you found a new
• 2:06:57
  and you found a medium to do it. So I appreciate your This conversation
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  you don't. Blurred created content POC creative content, whether it's manga, anime,
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  that's coming out Issue one that's ran by that's being hosted by Demetrius Hope.
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  That's another series. So shout out to those people, big thing. Shout
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  I want to thank the crew. We always do what we gotta do.
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  We always handle our business. We was always a blast. It's a
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  good two hours to kind of get our minds off of the bs, which
• 2:08:22
  is called adulting, and yet still manage adult team on this show. So
• 2:08:28
  remember to educate yourself and others, entertain yourself and others, and most of
• 2:08:33
  all, encourage yourself and others. You can catch us live every Tuesday and
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  Thursday, eight pm Eastern on on YouTube, Twitch and now igh. I
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  hope y'all have fun, because I definitely did so until Tuesday when we see
• 2:08:52
  y'all again. Take it easy and like Spartan said, don't be a dick.
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  Everybody show show you okay.